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 71 - Isla Nublar . In this episode ( stream it here !), my terrific guest A.C. Gleason  joins the show to chat with me about: editing texts, adapating the novel into the film, Jaws, Spielberg films, H.P. Lovecraft, Crichton's writing, Crichton's success at writing screenplays, considering what else could have been added or omitted from the text into the film, dinosaurs, velociraptors, smoothly delivering believable science fiction, the Epigraph by Linnaeus, intellectual properties, gaining power and much more! Plus dinosaur news about: A New Theropod Dinosaur from the Callovian Balabansai Formation of Kyrgystan.  (Alpkarakush kyrgyicus) Caletodraco cottardi: A New Furileusaurian Abelisaurid from the Cenomanian Chalk of Normandy.  (Caletodraco cottardi) Featuring the music of...

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 60 - Almost Paradigm . In this episode, my terrific guests Matt Kelly and Matthew Milligan of the Weird Al-gorithm podcast join the show to chat with me about: PeeWee Herman and Paul Reubens, The Bicycle Thieves, Weird Al Yankovich, One Hit Thunder , Wheatus, podcasting, digging through music shops to find Weird Al albums, polkas, Yoda, MacArthur Park, Alapalooza, Off The Deep End, Bohemian Rhapsody v. Bohemian Polka, the punkrock roots of Weird Al, Green Jelly, claymation by Mark Osborne and Scott Nordlund, music videos, Dinosaurs Attack!, Barney the Dinosaur, I Love You, You Hate Me , parody choices, UHF, the Biggest Ball of Twine in Minnesotra, and much more! Plus dinosaur news about: Vectipelta barretti, a new ankylosaurian dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous Wessex Formation of t...

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 45 - The Park . In this episode, my terrific guest Robbie Dorman joins the show to chat with me about: living all over the place, the Edmonton Oilers, how cold is it!?, Underneath , Killer Hockey Mascot , Gritty, Cocaine Bear , Burial , Fallout, ReGrowth , Akira, developing characters, The Simpsons, The Simpsons Show Podcast , Jurassic Park references in The Simpsons, lamenting over Lex in the second half of the novel, adapating Jurassic Park from novel into film, John Hammond, and much more! Plus dinosaur news about: A New Titanosauriform Sauropod with An Unusual Tail from theLower Cretaceous of Northeastern China  (Ruxinia zhui)  Decoupling the skull and skeleton in a Cretaceous bird with unique appendicular morphologies (Cratonavis zhangi) Featuring the music of Snale  h...

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 43 - In The Park . In this episode, my terrific guest Cole Medeiros joins the show to chat with me about: Prequels, San Francisco's seals, Jurassic Park, parasaurolophus and pachycephalosaurus, reconstructing dinosaurs via shrink-wrapping , envisioning an imaginative Jurassic universe, reconciling what's canon between the novel and film universes, adapting the novel on the screen, Michael Crichton's writing style, comparing Nedry's death to Wu's death, what the heck Malcolm was talking about,  home CRISPR kits !, writing prequels, wide open backstories for all the characters, emulating Crichton's writing style, 123 Fake St., check out his website, just like he mentioned in the show! ColeMedeiros.com  and his card game:  Gubs by Gamewright  , hear about his upcoming pre...

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 32 - Control . In this episode, my terrific guest Matt Bufton joins to chat with me about: Flight of the Conchords, Children's programming, podcasting, The Curious Task podcast ,  The Institute for Liberal Studies , Ottawa, Friedrich Hayek , Chaos Theory, central planning of complex systems, calls for regulation, characters like Ian Malcolm and Alan Grant, Dennis Nedry, Malcolm's criticisms of the park, Crichton's condemnation of government, setting regulations on new technological fields like: the Internet, crypto-currencies, applications of biotech, whatever regulations that govern biotech, they seem to be working?, needless regulations, regulations leading to substandard products and services, John Stossel journalism  and scam artists, how to best assemble a team of watchdogs,...

    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 25 - Version 4.4  In this episode, my terrific guest Kristoph Ochs returns to chat with me about: COVID-19, extending sequels beyond their limits, SNALE, the new album, making music videos, the Shrek 2 Soundtrack, naming your kids, song title origins, geek rock, Cat in the Brain , Atom Age Vampire , creative restrictions, The Chronicles of Riddick, Tammy and the T-Rex , synopsis, charades, Denise Richards, Bernie Lomax, Paul Walker, Ellen Dubin, Terry Kiser, Sean Whalen, John Franklin, Stephen Segal, and when the next SNALE album will be out! Plus dinosaur news about: "Osteology of Deinonychus antirrhopus, an unusual theropod from the Lower Cretaceous of Montana".  (1969) Nesting at extreme polar latitudes by non-avian dinosaurs Featuring the music of...

   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 22 - The Tour pt. 2 In this episode ( stream it here! ), my terrific guest Danielle Wigle, who chats with me about: Teaching the book in high school, film adaptations, media literacy, the softer more empathetic Hammond, Carrousel of Nations, Windsor festivals, her first time, VHS cassettes, Ellie Sattlers' problematic representation, Laura Dern, Oh Balls!, having an Attenborough, socialist literature, velociratpors are stock dividends, the island is a failure, why Nedry was so upset, the InGen Incident, what if Nedry didn't die?, Samuel L. Jackson as Ray Arnold, Ray vs. John, being hard on Dr. Harding, the electric waterfall, gruesome depictions of death, Hammond's death co-opted in The Lost World, we quote the be-Jesus out of the movie, where does Hammond's wealth co...

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 18 - Welcome In this episode ( stream it here!) , my terrific guest Chris McDonald chats with me about:   Florida State Fairs, Jurassic Park the Ride, 1994, The Land Before Time, dinosaurs, Kaiju films, giant monster movies, Gargantucast , Brendan Steere, Horror, The VelociPastor, sci-fi horror, Michael Crichton, the Horror Genre, Carnosaur, Gojira, Godzilla, nuclear horror, meddling with powers you don't understand, hupia, raptor, Jaws, compys, procompsognathus, Stephen King, taboos, Grant misunderstanding lizard bites, Tina Bowman, John Hammond, Dennis Nedry, dangerous herbivores, Guns, Germs and Steel, zoo control mechanisms, dilophosaurus, Harambe, Tyrannosaurus containment, swimming tyrannosaurs, cloning spinosaurs, Alien: Resurrection, and a lot more! Plus dinosa...

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 13 - Choteau  In this episode, my terrific guest Phil Hore chats with me about:   The X-Men, Australia, the Outback, Alpha Flight, the Australian theatrical release of Jurassic Park, nerds, Matilda, Walzing Matilda, Diamantinasaurus, and Banjo Paterson, Australovenator, Wolverine, sauropod babies and nesting, The Goodies, Triceratops evasive manoeuvers, arctometacarpals on Tyrannosaurs, Land of the Lost, hot tips on how to get the job you want at a museum, type specimens of fish, HMS Beagle and Charles Darwin, HMS Endeavor and Sir Joseph Banks, Dry Store Room No. 1 , cataloguing pubic hair, Dr. Livingston and Tanzania, The inside scoop on Dinosaur Train, real estate in London, unbelievable strokes of circumstance, David Attenborough, The Prehistoric Times, John Hammond's c...

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 12 - Hammond   In this episode, my terrific guest Sullivan Rogers chats with me about:   The Junior Novelization of Jurassic Park, podcasting, doing things wrong, Gail Herman, differences between Spielberg's film adaptation and the junior novelization, wiggling around, frog DNA, Mr. DNA,  dilophosaurus, poison, John Hammond, the electric fences, billionaires, raptors, escaping raptors, being 10 years old at Jurassic Park, being scared of dogs, the Jurassic Park franchise, Tim puking, dimetrodon, amargasaurus, secuirty cameras, and more! Plus dinosaur news about: Yamaceratops juveniles  from the Mongolian desert.  Vectiraptor greeni  from the Ilse of Wight. Featuring the music of Snale  https://snalerock.bandcamp.com/releases   Intro: Atom-Age ...

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 10 - Cowan, Swain and Ross In this episode, my terrific guest Gavin Micahel Booth chats with me about:   Getting his drivers license, watching Jurassic Park, Steven Spielberg films, George Lucas films, theatre-going, Crichton films, science fiction, Mr. DNA and exposition dumps, marketing, 65 Million Years in the Making, movie budgets, Tom Green's career, Jurassic World 4: Ghosts of Mars, Jurassic World Dominion, Ms. Cleo and past lives, Star Wars, Obi-Wan Kenobi, casting, Jeff Goldblum, the musical score, John Williams, child actors, Lego Jurassic Park game, video games, Last Call, and more! You can learn more about my guest Gavin Michael Booth's work and upcoming projects by visiting his website  or search for his social profiles: @GavinMichaelBooth . Plus dinosaur news about...

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 1 - Introduction "The InGen Incident"  In this episode, my terrific guests Phil and Lindsay Longpre chat with me about Jurassic Park the movie, the novel, ecological criticism, John Hammond, the goldrush, bio technology and more! Plus dinosaur news about: Cretaceous croc confractosuchus sauroktonos  (with an unidentified ornithopod) Iberian titanosaur Abditosaurus kuehnei ,  Argentinian abelisaur Guemesia ochoai , and  Iberian spinosaur Iberospinus natarioi . Featuring the music of Snale  https://snalerock.bandcamp.com/releases   Intro: Hummingbird . Outro: Sacrifice to the Inhuman Creature . You can stream this on YouTube, if you wish. The Text: Introduction: “The InGen Incident”           ...