Episodes

  • Episode 72 - It's a Dinosaur!
    Nov 9 2024
    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 Order, viewing Hammond as specifically coded as a colonizer/Colonialist, drawing some connections between Hammond and Claire Dearing (Bryce Dallas Howard's character in Jurassic World), putting Harry Potter into Critical Theory in podcast form: Witch, Please and the current-running Material Girls podcast, and much more! Find her new book, Clever Girl A smart and incisive exploration of everyone’s favorite dinosaur movie and the female dinosaurs who embody what it means to be angry, monstrous, and free. The Jurassic Park series is one of the most famous and profitable movie franchises of all time — an entire generation of people has never known life without these CGI dinosaurs. The movie spectacle broke film and merchandising records, pioneered special effects, and made Jeff Goldblum into an unlikely sex symbol, and now it has also been re-envisioned as a classic of queer feminist storytelling. In Clever Girl, Hannah McGregor argues that the female-only dinosaurs of Jurassic Park are stand-ins for monstrous women, engineered by men to be intelligent, violent, and adaptive, and whose chaos resists the systems designed to control them. As they run wild through their prison, a profit-driven theme park, they destroy the men and structures who mistakenly believed in their own colonialist and capitalist power, showing the audience what it means to be angry, monstrous, and free. The velociraptors were not just jump scares for children but also revelatory and predatory symbols of feminist rage. Clever girls, indeed. Available at this link: Clever Girl! Plus dinosaur news about: A Spanish saltasauroid titanosaur reveals Europe as a melting pot of endemic and immigrant sauropods in the Late Cretaceous (Qunkasaura pintiquiestra)Coahuilasaurus lipani, a New Kritosaurin Hadrosaurid from the Upper Campanian Cerro Del Pueblo Formation, Northern Mexico (Coahuilasaurus lipani) Featuring the music of Snale https://snalerock.bandcamp.com/ Intro: Chinese Cafe, and the Outro: Death of a Dream. The Text: Nothing this time. Then: Jurassic Park (1993): Sc. 7 "It's a Dinosaur!" David Koepp's first draft, and Malia Scotch-Marmo's rewrite of Michael Crichton's draft of the script. Corrections: To be very clear, Hannah McGregor is one author in the Pop Culture series, in which there are many authors. I was unclear on that, but you don't have to be unclear on it, thanks to this correction! Side effects: May cause you to become a mainstream science denier, and definitely someone who doesn't believe everything they read! Find it on iTunes, on Spotify (click here!) or on Podbean (click here). 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 on Youtube by searching for the “Juras-Sick Park-Cast podcast” or on Tumblr @misterrogers22 or on X 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! #JurassicPark #MichaelCrichton
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    1 hr and 38 mins
  • Episode 71 - Isla Nublar
    Aug 28 2024

    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, 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 Snale https://snalerock.bandcamp.com/

    Intro: Buzzsaw Partyboy, and the Outro: Sleepyhead.

    The Text:

    Stitches and seams in the text.

    Then:

    Jurassic Park (1993): Sc. 6 "Isla Nublar."

    David Koepp's first draft, and Malia Scotch-Marmo's rewrite of Michael Crichton's draft of the script.

    Corrections:

    Side effects:

    May cause you to abbreviate the alphabet into a much easier to digest little ditty.

    Find it on iTunes, on Spotify (click here!) or on Podbean (click here).

    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 on Youtube by searching for the “Juras-Sick Park-Cast podcast” or on Tumblr @misterrogers22 or on X 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!

    #JurassicPark #MichaelCrichton

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    1 hr and 37 mins
  • Episode 70 - The Inside Man
    Aug 14 2024
    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 70 - The Inside Man. In this episode (stream it here!), my terrific guest Dr. Paul Barrett joins the show to chat with me about: how to select which journal to publish in, the new Late Triassic sauropodomorph Musankwa sanyatiensis, the provenance of the holotype fossils, performing fieldwork off a houseboat in Lake Kariba, naming dinosaurs after boats, comparing a houseboat as a laboratory against a trailer for a field lab, interpreting the Pebbly Arkose Formation in which Musankwa was discovered, observing sauropodomorph diversity in the Late Triassic, tectonic shifting during the Late Triassic, surviving the End-Triassic extinction event, supervising PhD students and much more! Plus, be sure to look into Dr. Barrett's new book A History of Dinosaurs in 50 Fossils Dinosaurs have captivated the world since Megalosaurus was the first one named in 1824, and A History of Dinosaurs in 50 Fossils features fifty of the most momentous dinosaur findings from the fossil record. From rare fossil embryos that provide a glimpse into the early stage of dinosaur growth and development, to the claw of a Deinonychus, the dinosaur that served as a template for Jurassic Park’s terrorizing raptors, the book illustrates the enthralling evolutionary history of animals that ruled the Earth for more than 150 million years with 75 full-color illustrations. Each stunning fossil photograph, magnified for optimal detail, includes an entry explaining the importance of the discovery and the fossil’s significance in the larger evolutionary timeline. Themed chapters build off each other to depict a full and incredible story, including content on: the origin and rise of dinosaursan introduction to major groupsbiological characteristics like feeding, behavior, distribution, and locomotionthe first fossil birds, including the legendary feathered dinosaur, Archaeopteryx, considered widely to be the world’s first bird species The book provides insight on what fossils tell us about dinosaur relationships, movement, diet, skin, teeth, and frills, and so much more. A History of Dinosaurs in 50 Fossils compiles centuries’ of the most exciting fossil findings that helped earn dinosaurs an enduring place in the public imagination. This authoritative and visually beautiful book will delight and inspire readers young and old, and help them understand the rise and fall of some of the most amazing creatures to roam Earth. Plus dinosaur news about: The first deep-snouted tyrannosaur from Upper Cretaceous Ganzhou City of southeastern China. (Asiatyrannus xui)Early Cretaceous troodontine troodontid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Ohyamashimo Formation of Japan reveals the early evolution of Troodontinae. (Hypnovenator matsubaraetoheorum) Featuring the music of Snale https://snalerock.bandcamp.com/ Intro: Toucans, and the Outro: Hummingbird. The Text: First, a review of the phone lines in Jurassic Park. Then: Jurassic Park (1993): Sc. 5 "Subterfuge." David Koepp's first draft, and Malia Scotch-Marmo's rewrite of Michael Crichton's draft of the script. Corrections: Side effects: May cause you to forget to celebrate the upcoming release of your terrific guest's new terrific book on dinosaurs, A History of Dinosaurs in 50 Fossils! Find it on iTunes, on Spotify (click here!) or on Podbean (click here). 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 on Youtube by searching for the “Juras-Sick Park-Cast podcast” or on Tumblr @misterrogers22 or on X 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! #JurassicPark #MichaelCrichton
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    1 hr and 49 mins
  • Episode 69 - John Hammond
    Jul 18 2024

    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 69 - John Hammond.

    In this episode (stream it here!), my terrific guest June Hatfield joins the show to chat with me about:

    Seattle, the Pacific North West and the Olympic Peninsula, Cray Supercomputers, Olympic National Forests, ancient forests, the "Grunge Scene," the tradition of re-reading Jurassic Park every summer, paperback editions of Jurassic Park, and First Edition of Jurassic Park, changes between different editions of Jurassic Park, writing tension and timing in fiction, Crichton's writing, Dr. Henry Wu, sparing expenses, Robert Muldoon, transportation to and from Isla Nublar, JP's target audience, and much more!

    Plus dinosaur news about:

    • The First Troodontid from the Upper Cretaceous Baruungoyot Formation of Mongolia (Harenadraco prima)
    • The Phylogenetic Relationships and Evolutionary History of the Armoured Dinosaurs (Ankylosauria, Stegosauria, Nodosauridae)

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

    Intro: Toucans, and the Outro: Hummingbird.

    The Text:

    First, my essay Lex and Big Rex

    "Lex and Big Rex have a symbolic partnership in Jurassic Park, which shows that only after losing a series of father figures can Lex find the strength to face the fear and uncertainty of her parents’ divorce – which is symbolized by the Big Rex."

    Then:

    Jurassic Park (1993): Sc. 4 "Introducing John Hammond."

    David Koepp's first draft, and Malia Scotch-Marmo's rewrite of Michael Crichton's draft of the script.

    Corrections:

    Side effects:

    May cause you to try and pass your failed bread attempts as just an unlevened Kosher product.

    Find it on iTunes, on Spotify (click here!) or on Podbean (click here).

    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 on Youtube by searching for the “Juras-Sick Park-Cast podcast” or on Tumblr @misterrogers22 or on X 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!

    #JurassicPark #MichaelCrichton

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    1 hr and 44 mins
  • Episode 68 - The Badlands
    Jul 4 2024

    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 68 - The Badlands.

    In this episode (stream is here!), my terrific guest "Tom Jurassic" Fishenden returns to the show to chat with me about:

    celebrating summer holidays, memorable dates, audio dramas, Tales From A Jurassic World (TFAJW), Jurassic Park, Jurassic World, fan fiction, season one of TFAJW, books on tape, Biosyn, Lew Dodgson, Season Two of TFAJW, The Lost World, Michael Crichton, voice acting, legacy characters like Howard King, Lex Murphy, dinosaurs, big dinosaurs, and much more!

    Plus dinosaur news about:

    • A new stegosaur from the Middle Jurassic of Gansu Province, China (Baiyinosaurus baojiensis)
    • A new Late Triassic sauropodomorph dinosaur from the Mid-Zambezi Basin, Zimbabwe (Musankwa sanyatiensis)

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

    Intro: Maybe Days, and the Outro: Atom-Age Vampire / Cat in the Brain.

    The Text:

    Jurassic Park (1993): Sc. 3 "The Badlands."

    David Koepp's first draft, and Malia Scotch-Marmo's rewrite of Michael Crichton's draft of the script.

    Corrections:

    I looked into 1612 – I have no idea what it has to do with anything. It didn’t ring a bell for Tom because … it doesn’t mean anything to anyone! And I don’t think London Bridge actually collapsed in the Great Fire of 1666 either.

    Side effects:

    May cause you to try and shoe-horn a Wilhelm Scream into the third season of your audio-drama.

    Find it on iTunes, on Spotify (click here!) or on Podbean (click here).

    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 on Youtube by searching for the “Juras-Sick Park-Cast podcast” or on Tumblr @misterrogers22 or on X 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!

    #JurassicPark #MichaelCrichton

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    1 hr and 35 mins
  • Episode 66 - The Iterations
    Jun 20 2024

    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 66 - Iterations.

    In this episode (stream is here!), my terrific guest Rob Luther joins the show to chat with me about:

    podcasting about our passions, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Iterations and fractal curves, challenges in podcasting, the continuing legacy of Michael Crichton, the Turtle Forever podcast, the film Jurassic Park, Crichton's literary ambitions, favourite dinosaurs, hosting guests on a show, teaching, active listening, the 1990 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film, 2023's Mutant Mayhem, and his other show, Retro Junkies podcast, and much more!

    Plus dinosaur news about:

    • Phylogenetic relationships of a new titanosaur (Dinosauria,Sauropoda) from the Upper Cretaceous of Uruguay (Udelartitan celeste)
    • An unexpected early-diverging iguanodontian dinosaur (Ornithischia, Ornithopoda) from the Upper Jurassic of Portugal (Hesperonyx martinhotomasorum)

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

    Intro: The Incredible Monster from the Center of the Earth, and the Outro: Sacrifice to the Inhuman Creature.

    The Text:

    This week’s text is Iterations.

    Jurassic Park (1993): Sc. 1 "Accident at Isla Nublar."

    Corrections:

    I never thanked Michael Crichton, but indeed, he deserves a "thank you." Thanks Michael.

    Rana is not "amphibian DNA," but rather the genus name for common types of frogs.

    There were technically 6 velociraptors shown in Jurassic Park; the three in the pen, the infant in the nursery and the two fossilized ones in Montana. Technically.

    Side effects:

    May cause you to put on your orange bandana when you meant to put on the blue one...

    Find it on iTunes, on Spotify (click here!) or on Podbean (click here).

    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 on Youtube by searching for the “Juras-Sick Park-Cast podcast” or on Tumblr @misterrogers22 or on X at @RogersRyan22 or email me at ryansrogers-at-gmail.com.

    You can find links to all that baggage in the show notes, or by visiting the schickens.blogpost.ca or finding us on Facebook, at Facebook.com/SpringChickenCapers or on Youtube by searching for the “Juras-Sick Park-Cast podcast” or on Tumblr @misterrogers22 or on twitter at @RogersRyan22

    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!

    #JurassicPark #MichaelCrichton

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    1 hr and 28 mins
  • Episode 65 - Epilogue: San Jose
    Sep 28 2023

    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 65 - Epilogue: San Jose.

    In this episode, my terrific guest Dr. Jordan Mallon returns to the show to chat with me about:

    65 million years ago, the end-Cretaceous extinction event, mammals claiming the earth, the Repenomamus (a mammal) eating a psittacosaurus!, the other animals that weren't dinsoaurs, during the Mesozoic, fieldwork results from summer 2023, skin impressions in champsosaurs, charismatic megafauna, microraptors eating mammals, the Canadian Museum of Nature, the styracosaurus holotype, the edmontosaurus which is Canada's oldest dinosaur mount, a huge triceratops skull collected in 1929 from southern Sastachewan, an exceptional pteranodon specimen, Russell's "Dinosauroid" named Herman, the CMN's Open House in Gatineau, QC when the collections are open to the public, Tiktaalik the lobe-finned fish, Dr. Peter Dodson and horned dinosaurs, taking career advice from movies in the 90s, Terminator 2: Judgement Day, the ending to Jurassic Park, and much more!

    Plus dinosaur news about:

    • A New Titanosaurian Sauropod from the Upper Cretaceous of Jiangxi Province, Southern China
    • A new avialan theropod from an emerging Jurassic terrestrial fauna

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

    Intro: Sacrifice to the Inhuman Creature, and Late Bloomer and Outro: Buzzsaw Party Boy.

    The Text:

    This week’s text is Epilogue: San Jose, spanning from pages 397 – 399.

    Synopsis:

    Several days have passed since the InGen Incident, and Costa Rica doesn’t know what to do with the Americans they’ve rescued from Isla Nublar. At a hotel where the Americans are being kept, Dr. Marty Guitierrez visits to speak with Dr. Grant to ask some questions. But the reality is, after what happened at Jurassic Park, nobody is going anywhere anytime soon!

    Discussions surround:

    Cloning dinosaurs, The Ending, the sequels we don't get, and what's so great about dinosaurs.

    Corrections:

    Side effects:

    May turn you into a blubbering mess.

    Find it on iTunes, on Spotify (click here!) or on Podbean (click here).

    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!

    #JurassicPark #MichaelCrichton

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    1 hr and 22 mins