Chapter 18 - Welcome

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 18 - Welcome

In this episode (stream it here!), my terrific guest Chris McDonald chats with me about: 

Florida State Fairs, Jurassic Park the Ride, 1994, The Land Before Time, dinosaurs, Kaiju films, giant monster movies, Gargantucast, Brendan Steere, Horror, The VelociPastor, sci-fi horror, Michael Crichton, the Horror Genre, Carnosaur, Gojira, Godzilla, nuclear horror, meddling with powers you don't understand, hupia, raptor, Jaws, compys, procompsognathus, Stephen King, taboos, Grant misunderstanding lizard bites, Tina Bowman, John Hammond, Dennis Nedry, dangerous herbivores, Guns, Germs and Steel, zoo control mechanisms, dilophosaurus, Harambe, Tyrannosaurus containment, swimming tyrannosaurs, cloning spinosaurs, Alien: Resurrection, and a lot more!

Plus dinosaur news about:

• The Plantigrade Segnosaurians: Sloth Dinosaurs or Bear Dinosaurs?  

• A new hypothesis of eudromaeosaurian evolution: CT scans assist in testing and constructing morphological characters

Featuring the music of Snale https://snalerock.bandcamp.com/releases 

Intro: Grow Old or Don't.  Outro: Centipede.

The Text:

This week’s text is Welcome, spanning from pages 79 - 80.

Sattler, Gennaro, Grant and Malcolm are suddenly faced with an Apatosaurus that Hammond has cloned, and are stupefied by what this means to reality as they know it. Hammond is proud, and he outlines their itinerary as his guests – and leaves them in the care of Ed Regis. 

Discussions surround:

Responsibility and Safety, Ecological Criticism, Dinosaurs, having a God Complex, Hammond's Dream, Notable omissions, and differences between the novel and the film, and a lot more!

Side effects: 

May compell you to become a podcast guest, and hopefully a podcast guest on the Juras-Sick Park-Cast. 

Find it on iTunes, on Spotify (click here!) or on Podbean (click here).

Thank you!

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.

You can find links to all that baggage in the show notes, or by visiting the schickens.blogpost.com or finding us on Facebook, at Facebook.com/SpringChickenCapers or me, I’m on twitter at @RogersRyan22 or email me at ryansrogers-at-gmail.com. 

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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