Episode 40 - 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 40 - Control.

In this episode (stream it here!), my terrific guest Dr. W. Scott Persons IV joins the show to chat with me about:

field trips, othnielia vertebrae, splitting and lumping, The Lance Formation of Wyoming, nodosaurs, ichnofossils, ankylosaur osteoderms, hair-pulling and cringey moments in Jurassic Park, Nedry holding his own entrails, dinosaurs in media, The Land Before Time, incredible technology in the novel, like the fax machine!, studying dinosaur locomotion, the mighty caudofemoralis, comparative anatomy, running hadrosaurus and running tyrannosaurs, can T. rex run 40 mph?, reduced tyrannosaur arms, Yutyrannus arms, tails, spinosaurus tails, leaellynasaura tails, the evolution of feathers, looking for rictal bristles in super-primitive dinosaurs without feathers, injured allosaurus pubes, a detailed description of stegosaur tails, and much more!

Plus dinosaur news about:

• The Double Dinosaur Brain Myth

• Allosaurus Died From Stegosaur Spike to the Crotch, WyomingFossil Shows

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

Intro: Latebloomer.  Outro: Grow Old Or Don't.

The Text:

This week’s text is Control, spanning from pages 218 – 220.

Synopsis:

Harding, Sattler and Gennaro follow the compys through the park, but just as they’re about to discover the compys were scavenging on Dennis Nedry, and find the stolen Jeep with the rocket launchers in it, they are summoned back to the Visitor Centre, so Muldoon can use the jeep. Meanwhile, John Arnold begins his unenviable task of searching through the computer’s code to undo what Dennis Nedry’s done. 

Discussions surround:

God complex, Chaos Theory, and the Island Layout.

Corrections:

The character Dr. Robert Burke from The Lost World (1997) identifies the procompsognathus triassicus correctly. I was entirely mistaken to believe that it was called something else without double-checking the source text. My bad.

I also called The Lost World a 1995 film which The Lost World is not. The novel came out in 1995, the film came out in 1997. 

Side effects: 

May cause you to mythically believe in a second brain in your hips, and tingling in your phantom tail. 

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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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