Episodes

  • 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:

    • Anew stegosaur from the Middle Jurassic of Gansu Province, China (Baiyinosaurus baojiensis)
    • A newLate 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 scrip.

    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 67 - The Encased Mosquito
    Jun 27 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 67 - The Encased Mosquito.

    In this episode (stream is here!), my terrific guest Dr. Mark A. Loewen joins the show to chat with me about:

    the formation of the Rocky Mountains, Laramidia and its connection to Pangea, how Tyrannosaurs and Triceratops benefited from the climatic and geographic changes of the Late Cretaceous, and the new paper on Lokiceratops rangiformis; its discovery, its purchase and new home in Denmark at the Museum of Evolution in Denmark, hyperdiversity of macroherbivorous dinosaurs endemic to particular areas in Larimidia, finding artists to portray the animal, naming new dinosaurs, declaring a new clade albertaceratopsini, naming conventions, centrosaurs in Jurassic Park like styracosaurus, nasutoceratops and sinoceratops, the differences between chasmosaurs and centrosaurs, thinking of dinosaurs like centorsaurines as if they were birds, and how the large cavities in ceratopsian skulls may have impacted their lives, centrosaurine chewing, reverse engineering a chicken, and much more!

    Plus dinosaur news about:
    • Diuqin lechiguanae gen. et sp. nov., a new unenlagiine (Theropoda: Paraves) from the Bajo de la Carpa Formation (Neuquén Group, Upper Cretaceous) of Neuquén Province, Patagonia, Argentina. (Diuqin lechiguanae)
    • Lokiceratops rangiformis gen. et sp. nov. (Ceratopsidae: Centrosaurinae) from the Campanian Judith River Formation of Montana reveals rapid regional radiations and extreme endemism within centrosaurine dinosaurs. (Lokiceratops rangiformis)
    Featuring the music of Snale https://snalerock.bandcamp.com/

    Intro: Sally Ride, and the Outro: Latebloomer.

    The Text:

    This week’s subject is a little review of Loy's Procedure, used as a back-up plan for extracting dinosaur DNA at Jurassic Park.

    Jurassic Park (1993): Sc. 2 "The Encased Mosquito."

    Corrections:

    Side effects:

    May cause you to try and teach a ceratopsian to chew gum.

    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 22 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
  • Episode 64 - Approaching Dark
    Sep 21 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 64 - Approaching Dark.

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

    F35 fighter jets, prospecting in Wyoming, excavating mosasaurs and nodosaurs, taphonomy, how to attack ankylosaurs, which dinosaurs can walk through muck better?, accommodations while in the field, triceratops walking postures, the Glenrock Paleon Museum, sedimentary layers, lumping and splitting species of dinosaurs, then I stammer through a couple questions, dinosaurs transcending geographic boundaries, leaellynasaura (the cutest dinosaur) and meeting Dr. Thomas Rich, dinosaur nicknames, Donatello the Mesozoic Turtle at the Mace Brown Museum, Lord Voldetort, Lord Clive and Lady Stephanie, the ending of Jurassic Park, prospective sequels to Jurassic Park, cloning extinct animals like mammoths, cloning presently endangered species, Jurassic Park: The Lost World, the future of the Juras-Sick Park-Cast, and much more!

    Plus dinosaur news about:

    • A new titanosaurian (Dinosauria: Sauropoda) from the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) Quseir Formation of the Kharga Oasis, Egypt (Igai semkhu)
    • Vectidromeus insularis, a new hypsilophodontid dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous Wessex Formation of the Isle of Wight, England (Vectidromeus insularis)

    Featuring the music of Snale at Bandcamp.com

    Intro: Latebloomer. Outro: Buzzsaw Party Boy.

    The Text:

    This week’s text is Approaching Dark, spanning from pages 395 – 397.

    Synopsis:

    Big helicopters burst through the fog, thundering and wheeling over the landscape, their underbellies heavy with armament, causing the raptors to scatter. The Costa Ricans question the survivors, eager to find who was in charge, but nobody is in charge. The island is bombed and destroyed, as Grant takes a final look back as Isla Nublar, which is a diminishing bright spot in the darkening night.

    Discussions surround:

    Island Layout, Control is a Hoax, Feminism, Almost Paradigm.

    Corrections:

    Side effects:

    May cause you to miss the "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turle phase."

    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 24 mins
  • Episode 63 - The Beach
    Sep 14 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 63 - The Beach.

    In this episode, my terrific guests Dave Rossi and Ethan Ullman from Dave and Ethan's 2000" Weird Al Podcsat 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" TV, and much more!

    Plus dinosaur news about:

    • New theropod dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of Japan provides critical implications for the early evolution of ornithomimosaurs (tyrannomimus fukuiensis)
    • Dinosaur Brooding Behavior and the Origin of Flight Feathers (velociraptor nesting)

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

    Intro: Chinese Cafe. Outro: Sally Ride.

    The Text:

    This week’s text is The Beach, spanning from pages 393 – 395.

    Synopsis:

    The nest invaders, Gennaro, Grant and Sattler, follow the velociraptors through subterranean tunnels, out a beach, and upon observing their strange behaviour, Grant is struck with an epiphany, that they are instinctually driven to migrate!

    Discussions surround:

    Humility Before Nature, and The Name Game!

    Corrections:

    Side effects:

    Careful ... things may get weird!

    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 18 mins
  • Episode 62 - Hammond
    Aug 17 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 62 - Hammond.

    In this episode, my terrific guest Dr. Spencer Lucas joins the show to chat with me about:

    the greatness of New Mexico, reading Jurassic Park, watching Jurassic Park, Sam Neill, rediscovered animals like the Coelocanth, will we discover true extra terrestrials soon?, the UFO Festival in Roswell, NM, the plausibility of Crichton's science fiction, The House Oversight subcommittee's hearing on UFOs, neat details about Tyrannosaurus, field work in New Mexico, the Permian Age, continental Pangea, ancient climates, chaos theory, how to make sense of extinction events, Permian insects and the meganeuran dragonflies, "God had an inordinate fondness for beetles," cockroaches, giant millipedes, amber deposits, coelophysis, the incredible similarities between Triassic dinosaurs and birds, eucoelophysis, silesaurids, dinosaur origins, visiting the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, and much more!

    Plus dinosaur news about:

    • New enantiornithine bird from the uppermost Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) of southern Patagonia, Argentina
    • A New Basal Neornithischian Dinosaur from the Phu Kradung Formation (Upper Jurassic) of Northeastern Thailand

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

    Intro: Buzzsaw Partyboy. Outro: Black Licorice.

    The Text:

    This week’s text is Hammond, spanning from pages 390 – 393.

    Synopsis:

    Yo, Hammond dies!

    Discussions surround:

    The Illusion of Control, Island Layout, Timeline, Believe Me, I Know!, Crichton Tropes, Hubris and Hammond's Dream.

    Corrections:

    Side effects:

    May cause you to leave behind non-human biologics!

    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 34 mins
  • Episode 61 - Descent
    Aug 10 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 61 - Descent.

    In this episode, my terrific guest Dr. David Varricchio joins the show to chat with me about:

    fieldwork in Montana, seeing Jurassic Park in 1993 at a private screening held at the Museum of the Rockies, how it impacted Jack Horner's lab, pronouncing Choteau and buttes, excavating dinosaur skeletons, visiting Egg Mountain, orodromeus, volcanoes of Montana and thick ash beds, 'undergroundology,' oryctodromeus and realizing he was excavating a burrow!, Robert Bakker predicting burrowing dinosaurs, how big could burrowing dinosaurs be?, birds we know that burrow, how similar are Troodons and Velociraptors?, the status of the validity of Troodon, comparing steonychosaurus to troodon, toodon nests / egg clutches, egg strength, do troodons have egg teeth?, dromaeosaurid nesting behaviour, and much more!

    Plus dinosaur news about:

    • Furcatoceratops elucidans, a new centrosaurine(Ornithischia: Ceratopsidae) from the upper Campanian Judith River Formation,Montana, USA.
    • A new gigantic titanosaur (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) from the Upper Cretaceous of Northwestern Patagonia,Argentina

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

    Intro: Toucans. Outro: Chinese Cafe.

    The Text:

    This week’s text is Descent, spanning from pages 384 – 390.

    Synopsis:

    Gennaro is forced down the rabbit hole where they land in the raptor nest. It’s filled with dozens of raptors, of various ages. Grant supposes there have been multiple generations born on the island, and then they get to counting the eggs, the egg shells, but are ultimately distracted by the animals’ conspicuous and unusual behaviour: why are they all lining up in this unusual northeast-southwest formation? Then, the raptors are sprint out of the nest and “into the darkness beyond.”

    Discussions surround:

    Timeline, Alice's Adventurees in Wonderland, and Rebirth

    Corrections:

    Side effects:

    May cause you to self-identify as being as Mad as a Hatter.

    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 33 mins