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:

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.

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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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Episode 62 - Hammond

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 62 - Hammond . In this episode, my terrific guest Dr. Spencer Lucas joins the show to chat with me about: the greatness of New Mexico, reading Jurassic Park, watching Jurassic Park, Sam Neill, rediscovered animals like the Coelocanth, will we discover true extra terrestrials soon?, the UFO Festival in Roswell, NM, the plausibility of Crichton's science fiction, The House Oversight subcommittee's hearing on UFOs , neat details about Tyrannosaurus, field work in New Mexico, the Permian Age, continental Pangea, ancient climates, chaos theory, how to make sense of extinction events, Permian insects and the meganeuran dragonflies, " God had an inordinate fondness for beetles, " cockroaches, giant millipedes, amber deposits, coelophysis, the incredible similarities between Triassic

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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 69 - John Hammond . In this episode ( stream it here !), my terrific guest June Hatfield joins the show to chat with me about: Seattle, the Pacific North West and the Olympic Peninsula, Cray Supercomputers, Olympic National Forests, ancient forests, the "Grunge Scene," the tradition of re-reading Jurassic Park every summer, paperback editions of Jurassic Park, and First Edition of Jurassic Park, changes between different editions of Jurassic Park, writing tension and timing in fiction, Crichton's writing, Dr. Henry Wu, sparing expenses, Robert Muldoon, transportation to and from Isla Nublar, JP's target audience, and much more! Plus dinosaur news about: The First Troodontid from the Upper Cretaceous Baruungoyot Formation of Mongolia (Harenadraco prima) The Phylogenetic Relatio

Episode 32 - Control

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 32 - Control . In this episode, my terrific guest Matt Bufton joins to chat with me about: Flight of the Conchords, Children's programming, podcasting, The Curious Task podcast , The Institute for Liberal Studies , Ottawa, Friedrich Hayek , Chaos Theory, central planning of complex systems, calls for regulation, characters like Ian Malcolm and Alan Grant, Dennis Nedry, Malcolm's criticisms of the park, Crichton's condemnation of government, setting regulations on new technological fields like: the Internet, crypto-currencies, applications of biotech, whatever regulations that govern biotech, they seem to be working?, needless regulations, regulations leading to substandard products and services, John Stossel journalism and scam artists, how to best assemble a team of watchdogs, qu

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