Episode 52 - Return pt. 1

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 52 - Return Pt. 1.

In this episode, my terrific guests Phil and Lindsay return to the show to chat with me about:

what types of podcasts they'd host themselves, how to pronounce that thing at the Royal Ontario Museum (Futalognkosaurus?!), To me, it will always be the Subway $5 Foot-long o-saurus, Beloved by Toni Morrison, It by Stephen King, Dracula, The Third Policeman, Vanity Fair, comparing Michael Crichton to your favourite authors, relating to the characters in Jurassic Park, relating Henry Wu's death to "Glenn" from The Walking Dead, (yo, don't click that link unless you know what's coming!), Ellie Sattler as bait, Dr. Henry Wu's hubris, who should have been bait to lure the raptors away, the complexity of ecosystems, who is Ian Malcolm?, a Biblical influence on Western ideology, Crichton's voice via Malcolm, and much more!

The ROM's Futalognkosaurus!

Plus dinosaur news about:

• How Triceratops got its face: An update on the functional evolution of the ceratopsian head (Triceratops horridus)

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

Intro: Buzzsaw Party Boy.  Outro: Chinese Cafe.

The Text:

This week’s text is Return, spanning from pages 317 – 344.

Sixth Iteration – “Systems recovery may prove impossible” (p. 315).

We’ll cover this in part three when there’s a bit more time available to us. 

Synopsis:

This chapter is huge – and so, please allow me to address this in portions, as we scheme to make this a multi-episode chapter. And indeed, it’s as consequential and meaningful as The Tour was, way back when we had to divide that chapter up into three parts.

In this first part: Grant drives back to the Visitor Center via the underground tunnel (p. 317), stashes the kids in the cafeteria at the visitor center, and then heads out to restore power at the generator shed. Meanwhile, Muldoon and Sattler conceive a plot to distract the raptors, ensuring Grant is free to move around.

But the raptors prove to be far more cunning than they could have imagined…

Discussions surround:

Timeline, Feminism, The Lodge, Contrivance in Plot, Park Management and the 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!

Side effects: 

May cause you to become incredibly famous. 

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Thank you!

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