Episode 36 - Nedry

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 sports franchises inspired by fossils, Utah, Chip Kidd and the Jurassic Park logo, branding and marketing, merchandising, Michael Jordan, Air Jordans, globalization, where you can find Fabric of the Game and much more!

The mascot actor is Ryan Bonne. He doesn't break character. Check this article from Jan. 1996, b/c I don't throw things away that have dinosaurs on them!

The crowded Toronto sports scene of the early 1990s:

The Kings eventually Zinged the Leafs, but not before Wendel Clark tore the shirt off Marty McSorely in a fight. Clark was easily 40 pounds ligher than that mountain of muscle, and the battle is still one of the greatest moments in the Leafs history (in the 55-plus years since they've won a Stanley Cup).

This commemorates the Leafs in the Western Conference finals against the L.A. Kings. Spoiler alert, Leafs didn't win... 

Here two-time World Series Champion coach Cito Gaston rides a blue jay, pursuing the likeness of John Kruk. It used to be they called you a goat when you were thrown to the wolves in blame for blowing it, and Kruk was the goat. Now GOAT means the complete opposite! Times change.

Plus dinosaur news about:

• A comprehensive anatomical and phylogenetic evaluation of Dilophosaurus wetherilli (Dinosauria, Theropoda) with descriptionsof new specimens from the Kayenta Formation of northern Arizona

• Nevadadromeus schmitti (gen. et sp. nov.), a New BasalNeornithischian with Affinities to the Thescelosaurinae, from the UpperCretaceous (Cenomanian) Willow Tank Formation of Southern Nevada

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

Intro: Supergroovy.  Outro: T-Shirts.

The Text:

This week’s text is Nedry, spanning from pages 193 – 197.

Synopsis:

Nedry gets lost in the park looking to meet his man at the east dock, and winds up being horrifically, wonderfully and memorably eaten by a dilophosaurus. 

Discussions surround:

Heroes and Villains, Nedry's plan, Movie Adaptations, similarities and differences with the film, Child of the 80s, Chaos Theory, Horror Story, and The Dinosaurs.

Dilophosaurus!

Smooth-billed ani birds - neat crests on their beaks! Taken during a February 2020 cruise to the Bahamas! Thank god we weren't quarantined on a cruise ship!

Here's a shot of a dilophosaur skeleton from the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology. I may have taken this one, but I don't remember. In any case, I believe I'm the photographer, apologies if it's yours. Circa 2005, while visiting for my cousin's wedding in Calgary.

I want to say this dilophosaur was snapped at that Dinoasur Walk Museum in Tennessee I mentioned, but ... I can't confirm. Taken circa 2006, if it is, though. 

Side effects: 

May cause permanent blindness and evisceration. 

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