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The Book Pile

Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton

The Book Pile

Kellen Erskine and David Vance

Comedy, Arts, Books

4.8598 Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Jurassic Park helped launch a classic American genre -- a park that seems fun but is actually trying to kill you (Westworld, Something Wicked This Way Comes, Disneyland). Plus, Kellen has a fun description of an ankylosaurus, and Dave thinks there should be a scene in Jurassic Park where a velociraptor is on a beach and sees an ancient velociraptor Statue of Liberty, and is like, “You animals!!!” * To buy the book, Jurassic Park, or listen to it free on Audible AND support the podcast, click ...

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, everyone. Jurassic Park is a cautionary tale about the dangers of using dinosaurs for profit.

0:05.3

It's made about $10 billion.

0:10.4

I'm Kellanerskin. I'm a comic, a father, and the first time I read this book, I was 11,

0:17.3

which I don't recommend, because it was also the first time that I read about a person who could

0:23.1

feel their own intestines while they were being consumed by a dinosaur.

0:28.4

Quite the mile marker for any youth.

0:31.8

It literally went from like the hearty boys and the secret of silver cave.

0:42.4

To Nedri and the secret of silver cave to nedri and the secret of the small intestine and i'm david vance as a child i asked a mall santa for a custom-made toy set where dinosaurs

0:49.1

wear medieval armor and live in a castle i'll let you guess how my christmas morning went

0:53.4

jurassic park the book is about a theme park full of dinosaurs juras armor and live in a castle. I'll let you guess how my Christmas morning went.

0:59.6

Jurassic Park, the book, is about a theme park full of dinosaurs. Jurassic Park the movie explains where Mace Windu's arm ended up after Anakin chopped it off. And this is the book pile.

1:07.7

All right, we're doing a special deal today. If you rate and review the book pile and we become super rich,

1:12.9

we'll use the revenue to buy an island and make clones of every size of Kellen,

1:17.5

carnivores and herbivores, that you can pay to come see.

1:20.6

I'm already both right now.

1:22.6

I'm just kidding.

1:23.9

I don't eat herbs.

1:26.1

A listener named The Other other blobfish says,

1:29.6

I just finished Scott Adams' podcast and decided to check out this week's episode of the

1:33.8

bookpile while working remotely for State Farm just to hear both Adams and State Farm referenced

1:39.5

within 30 seconds of one another.

1:42.6

And if you want to know what any of that means, listen to our Atomic Habits episode.

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