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 72 - Isla Nublar . In this episode ( stream it here ), my terrific guest Dr.  Hannah McGregor  joins the show to chat with me about: the Stanley Park raccoons, tales about animals out in the wild, the book Clever Girl , podcasts, feminism in Jurassic Park (Spielberg, 1993), the Pop Classics Series by ECW Press , cracking open popular films for cultural analysis, her favourite dinosaur, the Canadian Museum of Nature, Tyrannosaurus lips, Man v. Nature, Bushed by Earle Virney , Man v. Moose/Skunk, Crichton's shortfalls, unpacking the inextricable themes of Jurassic Park, Spielberg's retelling of John Landis's failures while filming the Twighlight Zone (1983) , Pandora's Box, patriarchal cultures, the site of conflict between control and chaos, de-colonization as a New World Ord...

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 63 - The Beach . In this episode ( stream it here! ), my terrific guests Dave Rossi and Ethan Ullman from Dave and Ethan's 2000" Weird Al Podcast join the show to chat with me about: Now That's What I Call Polka!, weirdalpodcast.com , The Lost World: Jurassic Park, major dinosaur fans, reading Jurassic Park, Crichton's employ of hubris, Dippy the Diplodocus , attending Weird Al concerts and the "Al-Induced Haze," becoming a part of the greater Al fandome, being extras in Weird: The Al Yankovich Story, their detailed recap of being extras in the film , being collectors, defining the Yankosaurus (and the Polkaroo), Weird al and Jurassic Park (the film), having fun chatting about Weird Al's Jurassic Park music video, the hilarious graphic violence, Frank's 2000...

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 42 - Control . In this episode, my terrific guests Garret and Sabrina of I Know Dino join the show to chat with me about: cool musuems around the world, visiting Canada, the ROM's Dawn of Life Gallery, reporting on SVP, podcasting, pronouncing dinosaur names, enjoying Jurassic Park the novel and the film, raptors in the kitchen, gallimimus stampeding, Alan Grant's character development, the resounding presence of the film, dinosaurs news!, enantiornithines and siledesauridae and ... seriously, check out Tom Holtz Jr.'s Twitter feed for dinosaur news - it's authoritative!, but also, visit and enjoy I Know Dino , Stegouros elengassen, soft tissues and gut contents, paleopathologies, the Crystal Park Dinosaurs , and much more! Plus dinosaur news about: Early Evolution of Modern Bi...

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 21 - The Tour pt. 1 In this episode, my terrific guests Dave Marshall from Palaeocast , the paleontology podcast , who chat with me about: slagging off Jurassic Park, etymology of chelicerates (claw-horns), requests for the audience to submit sketches of what they think we look like, eurypterids , Merostomata , Xiphosurans, Chasmataspidids , the Ordovician , Silurian and Devonian , teeth like chopsticks (pterygotid large pincers), and their evolution and how new discoveries alter hypotheses, pesky vertebrates, horseshoe crabs are survivors, extinction events, launching podcasts, palaeontology, paleontology, oil rigs, biostratigraphy, aquatic sloths , and sloth Atlantis, teaching Poodles to Fly , documentaries, Prehistoric Planet , Jurassic Park's impact on popular culture,...