Episode 12 - Hammond

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 Vampire-Cat In The Brain. Outro: Hummingbird.

The Text:

This week’s text is Hammond, spanning from pages 58 – 62.

Gennaro represents the investors for Hammond’s resort, who are worried that they will be financially and perhaps criminally liable for problems at the resort, so Gennaro has been instructed to lead a safety inspection with a collection of consultants.

Gennaro is instructed to pull the plug at the slightest provocation. We learn that Gennaro was integral to Hammond’s capital campaign entitled the Pachyderm Portfolio, raising the funds necessary to make Hammond’s dream a reality. The dream was highly speculative, unlikely to succeed – but Hammond in fact tells Gennaro – yes, they’ve achieved the impossible, and they’re going to make a fortune! 

Discussions surround:

Responsibility and safety, Heroes and villains, Hoaxes are omnipresent, the Pachyderm Portfolio, Japan, Hammond's ironic lack of self-awareness, and more!

Corrections: 

In our discussion on Dimetrodon, I said I couldn’t think of other quadrupedal carnivores or theropods, when, of course there were plenty of quadrupedal carnivores – 

A list of carnivorous tetrapods from the Permian include:

• amphibians including the like 20 families of Temnospondyli which were horrifying crocodile-like frog-crocs, that came before amphibians had figured out what the heck they were doing; 
• the Lepospondyli which had those bizarre, arrow-head shaped skulls; 
• the Reptiliomorpha, which were of course lizard-like things before lizards settled down into being just lizards including reptile-like amphibians, and stuff that kind of look like reptiles, if reptiles were a cross between giant bullfrogs and Pitbull terriers; 
• the Sauropsida, which are generally more lizard-like – though not necessarily small, and lived in the desert, the ocean, and everywhere in between, and stuff that were developing more distinctively lizard-y skulls; (these animals would eventually evolve into the dinosaurs and birds we know and love today);
• the Synapsida, which includes pelycosaurs and therapsids (and the therapsids are where the mammals come from, and includes the dimetrodon we were talking about). And there are hordes of stuff that range from right out of your dreams, to right out of your nightmares. 

SO – yes, there were lots of quadrupedal carnivores, that doesn’t make dimetrodon unique, BUT, that doesn’t mean dimetrodon isn’t super cool, because it is! 

Caution: Side effects can be mild, moderate, or severe. Always consult your doctor before listening. 

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