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Episode 51 - 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 51 - Control.

In this episode, my terrific guest Lindsey Kinsella joins the show to chat with me about:

marketing titles internationally, his terrific novel The Lazarus Taxa, The Tanis Site and Dinosaurs: The Last Day / Dinosaur Apocalypse!, imagining living in Late Cretaceous North America, what influence does Jurassic Park play, being inspired to put in the amount of research for the novel that Michael Crichton did, why do kids love dinosaurs?, 65 (2023), time travel, Timeline, Lazarus taxa, Douglas Adams, leptoceratops, imagining dinosaur behaviours and palaeoecosystems, dinosaur diets, where to find the Lazarus Taxa, and much more!

Plus dinosaur news about:

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

Intro: Shelter Dog.  Outro: Buzzsaw Party Boy.

The Text:

This week’s text is Control, spanning from pages 298 – 314.

Synopsis:

While considering what to do with the tranquilized Tyrannosaur and boasting that full control has been restored to Jurassic Park, the auxiliary power runs out. As the power goes out, the waterfall is halted, and the electric door separating Grant from the kids is unlocked and opened.

Arnold and Wu review the system printout and sees that they’ve been running on auxiliary power since they reset the system back at 5:14 a.m. 

Discussions surround:

Doing the Math, Malcolm's History of the Western World, Timeline, Show, don't tell, Crichton Tropes, Contrivances of Plot, Movie Adaptations, Control is a Hoax, Hammond's Dream, and Island Layout.

Corrections:

I said that in Utah there were more than 42 ecosystems now identified in the Mesozoic rocks, but my guest Dr. Jim Kirkland said "more than 30." So, I got that terrifically wrong!

Furthermore, I said that "having $300 million makes things simple," referring to Hammond's Pachyderm Portfolio - but that portfolio generated an incredible $870 million!. My mistake! 

Side effects: 
May cause your Leptoceratops to become a Kleptoceratops!


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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.

You can find links to all that baggage in the show notes, or by visiting the schickens.blogpost.com or finding us on Facebook, at Facebook.com/SpringChickenCapers or me, I’m on twitter at @RogersRyan22 or email me at ryansrogers-at-gmail.com

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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