Episode 30 - 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 30 - Control.

In this episode, my terrific guests The Past Time Podcast duo Drs. Matt Borths and Adam Pritchard chat with me about:

The Past Time podcast, producing podcasts, reading the novel, Dr. Elizabeth Jones, DNA, cloning, splicing genes, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Jurassic World, gene therapy, eliminating disease, why has no one adapted the river scene?, characterization, emotions and attitudes, the debate between the good and bad products of scientific discovery, what if Ian Malcolm were in Frankenstein, reverse-engineering dinosaurs out of a chicken, mapping the human genome, amphibian DNA, Callovosaurus, cloning unknown animals, Diabloceratops, choosing dinosaurs for your novel, Pteranodon v. Cearradactylus, Dodgson in the Tyrannosaur nest, Grant in the velociraptor nests, dinosaurs wild in the world, taking Bernese pythons seriously, Callovosaurus and much more!

Dr. Matt Borths is curator for the Duke Lemur Center Museum of Natural History in North Carolina and the Lemur Center podcast. 

Dr. Adam Pritchard is Assistant Curator of Paleontology at the Virginia Museum of Natural History, and his VMNH-cast is available at this link as well as his YouTube series Tales of Ancient Life at this link.

Plus dinosaur news about:

• The most complete enantiornithine from North America and a phylogenetic analysis of the Avisauridae

• Intraspecific facial bite marks in tyrannosaurids provideinsight into sexual maturity and evolution of bird-like intersexual display

You can stream this episode on YouTube, too!

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

Intro: Sacrifice to the Inhuman Creature.  Outro: Latebloomer.

The Text:

This week’s text is Control, spanning from pages 149 - 154. 

Synopsis:

Wu, Hammond and Arnold begin to feel some anxieties of the consultants actually recommending that the park be closed for safety reasons, and become leery of Malcolm and Gennaro in particular – while our consultants tour through the sauropod paddock, enjoying the view of Triceratops, Apatosaurus and Hadrosaurs.

Muldoon, on the other hand, has anxieties of the consultants’ actual safety, and preps his Jeep with a rocket launcher just in case – which isn’t much of a vouch of confidence for the park’s safety is it?

At the same time, a large storm coming in jeopardizes the safety of the big supply ship, the Anne B, and since Hammond spared the expense of installing a storm barrier at the docks, this ship must depart early.

Oh, and unbelievably, contrary to everything they’ve been told so far on this tour, Tim spots a rogue velociraptor running amongst the hadrosaurs, and it’s so unbelievable everyone scrambles to find an explanation.

Discussions surround:

Movie adatpations, Control is a Hoax, and the Island Layout.

Corrections:

Side effects: 

May cause you to hear sudden exclamatory warnings while you're trying to drive around unrelated to what's going on around you. 

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