Six Foot Turkey: What Jurassic Park Got Wrong (And Right) About Dinosaurs

Outside/In

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Society & Culture, Documentary, Natural Sciences, Nature, Science

4.7 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Anybody who supports the show RIGHT NOW, during our June 2020 Fund Drive, will be entered to win a $500 Airbnb gift card, and will receive an adorable limited-edition Outside/In axolotl sticker.Click here to donate to Outside/In right now. When the smash-success Jurassic Park first hit theaters in 1993, it inspired a generation of dinophiliacs and helped to usher in a new “golden age of paleontology.” But it also froze the public’s perception of dinosaurs in time, and popularized inaccuracies that people still believe are true today. So what happens when the biggest source of information on a scientific field comes from a fictional monster movie? In this episode, three Jurassic Park super-fans (one paleontologist, and two podcasters) try to sort it all out. Featuring: Gabriel-Philip Santos SUPPORT Outside/In is made possible with listener support. Click here to become a sustaining member of Outside/In. Subscribe to our FREE newsletter. Follow Outside/In on Instagram or Twitter, or join our private discussion group on Facebook LINKSWant to learn more about dinosaurs? Check the publish date before you check it out from the library! And here are some good options: Smithsonian’s The Dinosaur Book (pretty much all of the Smithsonian books are good for younger readers) Want to get a more global perspective of where dinosaurs have been discovered? Check out a dinosaur atlas book. For older readers, or anybody who loves a good coffee table book, check out this entry featuring a number of excellent paleoartists: Dinosaur Art II (Taylor has the first one and loves to show it off). Also: A truly disheartening read about people who think feathered dinosaurs are an attack on masculinity. CREDITS Host: Nate Hegyi Reported and produced by Taylor Quimby Mixer: Taylor Quimby Editing by Rebecca Lavoie, with help from Nate Hegyi and Justine Paradis Rebecca Lavoie is our Executive Producer Music for this episode by Sarah the Illstrumentalist, Pandaraps, Matt Large, Ballpoint, and Valante. Our theme music is by Breakmaster Cylinder. Outside/In is a production of New Hampshire Public Radio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What was your favorite scene from the movie?
0:04.2	It's definitely that part of the beginning, right, when Alan pulls his glasses off and
0:09.3	he's looking out and then...
0:10.9	This is Gabriel Philip Santos, paleontologist, movie buff and self-professed nerd.
0:24.3	When Gabriel saw Jurassic Park in theaters, he was just 4 years old.
0:28.6	And it was so awesome and I was so hyped for the rest of the movie.
0:35.8	And then things changed.
0:36.8	There was that huge tone shift and it became a horror movie.
0:40.3	And I was pretty much like burying it for the most part until the kitchen scene with
0:45.9	the velociraptors.
0:48.1	Unfortunately, I got so scared my mom had to pull me out of the theater at that time.
0:55.2	I just love that you were 4 years old and this is a PG 13 movie.
1:08.9	But even though his mom had to take him out of the theater, even though he was not yet
1:12.7	in kindergarten, Gabriel loved this movie.
1:17.0	That is definitely one of those core memories as they call it for me.
1:21.1	And Gabriel was not alone.
1:22.8	I was obsessed with Jurassic Park when I was a kid, producer Taylor Quimbee still is.
1:27.0	He snuck clips of Jurassic Park into at least two different episodes of Outside In.
1:30.8	If the movie was replayed, would you be able to quote whole sections of it?
1:34.3	My favorite one to say on a regular basis is the Samuel L. Jackson line, hold on to your
1:38.1	butts.
1:39.1	With the cigarette dangling from his mouth.
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