Episode 15 - Airport

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 15 - Airport

In this episode, my terrific guest Robbie Dorman chats with me about: 

Burial, Westerns, Chuck Palahniuk, world building, magic, magical moments, mysteries, velociraptors, Malcolm's motivations, corporate malfeasance, Columbia University, science and scientists, Chaos Theory, relating to genre-fiction readers, building tension, movie Alan Grant v. novel Alan Grant, cool scientists, show don't tell, metatextual documentation, House of Leaves, Michael Crichton, The Simpsons Show Podcast, awful episodes of the Simpsons, 

Plus dinosaur news about:

• The Tanis site and end-Cretaceous meteor strike 
• First articulated ornithomimid specimens from the upper Maastrichtian Scollard Formation of Alberta, Canada

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

Intro: T-Shirts. Outro: Sleepyhead.

The Text:

This week’s text is Airport, spanning from pages 69 – 71. 

Dodgson meets his mysterious inside man, going over the details of the plan, showing that there are more nefarious deeds afoot this weekend, during the inspection. 

Discussions surround:

Believe me, I know!, Island layout, Timeline, Dodgson's man, Weighin in, Elaborate security measures, Building a Mystery, and more!

Corrections:

         I was mistaken – I keep crediting Ed Regis with the line “Welcome to Jurassic Park,” which is famously said by Hammond in the film – but in reality, nobody actually says it: quote: The group followed Ed Regis toward the nearest buildings. Over the path, a crude hand-painted sign read: “Welcome to Jurassic Park” (p. 80). It was just a sign. My mistake. 

I said that Dr. Alan Grant was working at the University of Utah, but of course, I was wrong, it is instead University of Denver, in Colorado. That Morrison Formation is tripping me up – the danged thing spans across too many states – that said, of course Grant was not excavating from the Morrison Formation, it was the Two Medicine Formation (probably). 

Side effects: 

May make you feel alert and excited all day, until it's you time, and then you'll feel lousy and worn out. 

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Thank you!

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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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