Welcome to the Juras-Sick Park-Cast podcast, the Jurassic Park podcast about Michael Crichton's 1990 novel Jurassic Park, and also not about that, too.
Find the episode webpage at: Episode 8 - The Shore of The Inland Sea
In this episode, my terrific guest Justin Kiley from the Missing Compys podcast chats with me about:
Jurassic Park, Jurassic World Dominion, Michael Crichton, podcasting, cloning people, horror films, returning to the text, militarizing dinosaurs, misusing biotechnology, better villains, Lew Dodgson, black market dinosaurs, ecological criticism, environmental consequences, State of Fear, compies, procompsognathus, escaped dinosaurs, off-site labs, Jurassic Park timelines, Site B, novel Hammond v. film Hammond, Norm Atherton and Atherton Labs, Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom, Maisie and Lockwood, Biosyn, fan theories for Jurassic World Dominion, bad capitalism, park design and layout on Isla Nublar, Ed Regis, writing trilogies v. writing sequels, animal rights, ethics, Ian Malcolm, spinosaurus?
Plus dinosaur news about:
- New Ankylosaurian Cranial Remains From the Lower Cretaceous (Upper Albian) Toolebuc Formation of Queensland, Australia (Ankylosaurus)
- Nest of Juveniles Provides Evidence of Family Structure Among Dinosaurs (Maiasaura)
Featuring the music of Snale https://snalerock.bandcamp.com/releases
Intro: Grow Old Or Don't. Outro: Centipede.
You can stream this episode on YouTube, too.
The Text:
Paleontologist Alan Grant is excavating the first complete skeleton of a baby carnivore in Snakewater Montana, when he’s visited by Bob Morris from the EPA, who has questions about the mysterious goings-on at InGen and the Hammond Foundation, which Grant may know something about. As Morris leaves, Grant receives a call asking to help identify some mysterious remains.
Discussions surround Columbo, Responsibility and Safety, the Portrayal of Women, Chapter Titles, Ecological Criticism, Working Class v. Upper Class, Due Diligence, MacGuffin, and Building a Mystery.
Corrections:
I kept
calling Norman Atherton, William Atherton. My mistake! Hammond’s original
fundraising partner was Norman Atherton!
The unknown animals traveling in a straight line across Costa Rica were escaping the Lysine contingency by eating corn, but more specifically, they are eating “agama beans and soy, and sometimes chickens” which Grant somehow knows are foods rich in lysine (p. 399).
And
while I suggested that there wasn’t quite enough detail given to say they were
conclusively velociraptors – Guitierrez suggests it’s as if they’re migrating –
and the only animal in the book connected to migrating is … the velociraptors!
So, Justin was definitely on to something.
Also, I said that Grant and his team had adopted the tipis used by the Utes instead of the fancy tents, but the book clearly outlines that it’s Blackfoot territory, and they embraced the three-pole style from the Blackfoot.
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The Jura-Sick Park-cast is a part of the Spring Chickens banner of amateur intellectual properties including the Spring Chickens funny pages, Tomb of the Undead graphic novel, the Second Lapse graphic novelettes, The Infantry, and the worst of it all, the King St. Capers.
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Thank you, dearly, for tuning in to the Juras-Sick Park-Cast, the Jurassic Park podcast where we talk about the novel Jurassic Park, and also not that, too. Until next time!
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