It's peak summer blockbuster season.

So we wanted to share one of our favorite blockbuster-inspired episodes.

It all started a couple years ago when our supervising producer Meredith Hadenot went to see the latest Jurassic Park sequel at a drive-in.

And all the giant dinosaur roars were coming out of my car speakers.

And I was like, how do they know what dinosaurs sounded like?

Mm-hmm.

We have an idea of what dinosaurs kind of look like from their fossils and from the skeletons or whatever.

But how would we know what a dinosaur roar was?

Yeah, so I've been looking into it,

and dating back to the first Jurassic Park movie,

it turns out they really didn't know,

and they didn't really care that much.

Jurassic Park wasn't really going for, you know,

what dinosaurs actually sounded like.

They were going for more of a feeling.

So if you think about, you know, that iconic T-Rex sound, it was this huge roar.

And it was actually made by combining a bunch of different animals.

So the basic ones are sort of this low-pitched tiger sound, combined with some other sounds, and actually this baby elephant.

Whoa.

And then other roars through the movies have lions, some donkey screams.

Classic.

They had some dolphin screeches.

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