Juras-Sick Park-cast

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 37 - Bungalow . In this episode, my terrific guest Melissa Ray joins the show to chat with me about: melding the novel and the film together, differences between the film and the novel, like discussions around feminism, better versions of Ellie and Lex in the film, symbolism in the baseball and baseball mit, daddy issues, carrying baseballs and night vision goggles around, how did Lex and Tim's parents meet?, Ellie is conclusively not dating Alan Grant, and Grant is a childless widower, Sattler's portrayal, black and white symbolizing differences between Malcolm and Hammond in the film, the two "female ends" of the seatbelt in the helicopter ride to Isla Nublar foreshadowing the all-female breeding animals, overanalyzing movies today, John Williams' soundtrack, technologic...

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 36 - Nedry . In this episode, my terrific guest Chris Creamer joins the show to chat with me about: The Fabric of the Game, NHL logos, the Oxford comma, old headlines, the Toronto Maple Leafs, our favourite Maple Leafs games ever, The Best Maple Leafs Game Ever , SportsLogos.net , unpacking the symbolism in sports logos, Dan Brown novels, velociraptors, stegosaurus anatomy, The Far Side , seeing Jurassic Park for the first time, Zellers!, 3-D 20th anniversary screenings of Jurassic Park, The Toronto Raptors NBA franchise, marketing a new franchise, National Basketball Association, The Raptor, and his achilles injury !, The Mighty Ducks, the 2019 NBA Championship Toronto Raptors!, NBA branding, birds are dinosaurs! , ancient mythologies and their associations to dinosaur fossils , other spo...

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 35 - Return . In this episode, my terrific guest Drew Hagen joins the show to chat with me about: Billie goats, lawyers, Donald Gennaro, dying by dinosaurs, different types of compy bites, dinosaur accuracy, dinosaur behaviour, hermaphroditism, dilophosaurs, venoms, juvenile triceratops, sharing the podcast with friends and family, the Jungle River raft escape and the waterfall, plotting chance encounters around the park, seeing Jurassic Park for the first time, the Juras-Sick Park-Cast, John Hammond, Crichton writing believable science fiction, John Arnold's backstory, backstories, female leads in Crichton novels, and a viable, believable new interpretation of the velociraptors that makes the eggs out in the park make WAY more sense, and much more! Plus dinosaur news about: A new massopod...

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 34 - The Main Road . In this episode, my terrific guest ReBecca Hunt-Foster joins the show to chat with me about: State nomenclature, grade school dinosaur units, paleontologist origins stories, Arkansaurus fridayi , ornithomimids, Dr. James H. Quinn, Dinosaur National Monument and its history, deinocheirus, Kimmeridgian Morrison Formation , Moab and Nedcolbertia , all the famous dinosaurs: stegosaurus, apatosaurus, allosaurs, and more!, reading Jurassic Park, Colorado State Fossil Stegosaurus, a baby stegosaurus!, running stegosaurs, the thagomizer, camptosaurus, dryosaurus, sauropods, and more on stegosaurs, their thagomizers, their necks, their tales, injuring allosaurs, describing the Late Jurassic of Utah, Jurassic vegetation and botany, burrowing ornithischians, Oryctodromeus cubicul...