#307: The team gushes about their love of dinosaurs and dinosaur related content. Including why dinosaurs have been so popular in media, and how they serve as a cultural touchstone.

Transcript
 
 
Josué Cardona 0:10
Welcome to GT radio on the Geek Therapy network here at Geek Therapy we believe that the best way to understand each other and ourselves is through media we care about, my name is Josué Cardona. And I’m joined by link Keller. 
Link Keller 0:19
What’s up? 
Josué Cardona 0:20
and Lara Taylor 
Lara Taylor 0:22
Hey, 
Josué Cardona 0:23
hey, 
Lara Taylor 0:24
hey, 
Josué Cardona 0:25
Link, you’re up. What do you what are we talking about today? 
Link Keller 0:29
I want to talk about Jurassic Park. But in sort of a circuitous route, I have been watching lots of Docu series on Disney plus, and Netflix, and I have been watching the Netflix series that is titled The movies that made us and the second season came out recently, just a couple of weeks ago, and one of the episodes is about Jurassic Park. And so they talk about how Jurassic Park got made and how Jurassic Park sort of influenced the film industry after it got made. And it’s very cool. And I love Jurassic Park, and I love dinosaurs. And so that’s what I wanted to talk about with you guys. 
Josué Cardona 1:17
Why do you love Jurassic Park? 
Link Keller 1:19
Um, I saw it as a kid and I thought it was really really fucking cool. And I don’t remember if I was already into dinosaurs before that. Or if that movie got me into dinosaurs, um, I feel like I was already into dinosaurs because I was. I definitely didn’t see Jurassic Park. When it came out in 1993. I don’t think I was quite old enough. I saw it later on VHS tape, 
Lara Taylor 1:51
I’m trying to remember how old I was. 
Josué Cardona 1:54
I did see it in theaters. 
Josué Cardona 1:55
Yeah? I definitely saw the third one in theaters. And I remember it like very much like, I remember. Like the the stupid phone sound that they played and then the dinosaur ate the phone then you could hear anyways, I remember that phone noise like jiggling my whole body in the theater seats. That’s very stuck in my head. But yeah, no, I, I thought dinosaurs were cool. As a kid. It was something I was into. I thought they were so neat. And it was always fun to talk about dinosaurs with other people and like, what are your favorite dinosaurs and I watched Land Before Time as a kid. 
Josué Cardona 2:33
I thought this was gonna be a Jurassic Park conversation. 
Link Keller 2:38
It’s dinosaurs kind of dinosaurs it I am going to keep circling back to Jurassic Park. Because I do feel like Jurassic Park is like, a headliner as far as dinosaur stuff and importance to me, 
Josué Cardona 2:51
S-tier dinosaurs content 
Link Keller 2:53
S-tier dinosaurs. Yeah, yeah. So I remember being really into Jurassic Park as a kid I read Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park and the lost world as a as a teen I watched the new the New Jurassic World movies when they came out they’re not new now. But when when they were new, I went and saw them. I was not as into them, but I still enjoyed them because it was still dinosaurs. 
Link Keller 2:56
So, why do you like dinosaurs? 
Link Keller 3:26
They’re cool dude. 
Josué Cardona 3:28
I need more. 
Link Keller 3:29
They’re they’re. 
Lara Taylor 3:30
Who doesn’t like dinosaurs? 
Link Keller 3:32
they ride the they ride the line between being like, regular ass animals on regular ass Planet Earth planet Earth animals. Every we see animals all the time. It’s not a big deal. They’re animals. But then also, they’re kind of like mysterious magical monsters because we only experience them through little pieces of fossils and guesses from paleontologist and archaeologist. And and, you know, if theorizing, like what makes sense based on the tiny little pieces of data we have from millions of years ago and it’s just it’s really cool. It’s it’s somewhere in between, like, very real and also very fantasy. And that feels good to me. I love that. I love that space. That and ambiguity, mmmm dinos. 
Josué Cardona 4:25
I, I I’ve only ever had one imaginary friend my entire life. And it was a dinosaur. And 
Lara Taylor 4:38
people can’t see his face, but it’s great. 
Josué Cardona 4:43
That it was um, no, I believe it was a brontosaurus and it was so large but I but it was because it was so large. It my imaginary friend was able to move through walls and stuff. So basically it was like I would be like Like the head would come through the wall. You know, like it was so large it would like it didn’t fit completely in the room. It was able to do stuff like that. Only only imaginary friend. I remember ever having a big old dinosaur. I think I brought this up before and we tried to connect it to Land Before Time and little foot and all that. But it wasn’t though. Wasn’t Yeah, 
Lara Taylor 5:27
it wasn’t little foot. 
Josué Cardona 5:29
No, there was a lot of dinosaur content. In the 90s 
Lara Taylor 5:35
Absolutely. the last dinosaur a there’s a whole bunch of them for dinosaurs. 
Josué Cardona 5:42
Dinosaurs. 
Lara Taylor 5:43
I have that on? I have that on DVD. 
Josué Cardona 5:46
You have dinosaurs 
Lara Taylor 5:48
on DVD 
Link Keller 5:48
wow 
Lara Taylor 5:50
Yeah, yeah. 
Josué Cardona 5:52
The family 
Lara Taylor 5:53
not the mama and my friends and I would play that at school. Like, not the mama and not the mama. That whole thing we would play Land Before Time as well. And Jurassic Park? 
Josué Cardona 6:05
Yeah. 
Lara Taylor 6:06
I used to have like most of Land Before Time memorized and I’m feel a little sad that I don’t have like I have my Disney movies all memorized. 
Josué Cardona 6:15
Yeah 
Lara Taylor 6:16
but I haven’t watched Land Before Time and and Land Before Time went on and on and on. And we dinosaurs might have gone extinct but Land Before Time certainly did not. 
Josué Cardona 6:28
Humans will go extinct. Like whatever it replaces. Humans will still be making land before time movies. 
Link Keller 6:33
I hope so. 
Josué Cardona 6:35
I really like what you said think about it being like, like I like to joke that my favorite animal is dragons. But I know dragons aren’t real. But the closer they 
Lara Taylor 6:47
but are they? 
Link Keller 6:48
but are they? 
Josué Cardona 6:49
Yeah, yeah, like yeah 
Lara Taylor 6:52
Pterodactyl or whatever they’re called now 
Link Keller 6:56
based on what I’ve learned about dinosaurs in the 90s to what I know about dinosaurs now which I’m regularly learning new things because so it turns out 
Josué Cardona 7:06
the dinosaur experts Yeah, exactly. Turns out 
Link Keller 7:09
a lot of that stuff was like we don’t know and we make guesses and it’s being updated regularly 
Lara Taylor 7:15
like now feathers and bird sounds 
Josué Cardona 7:18
that’s old stuff like 
Link Keller 7:20
It’s like from the 90s to now is like they’ve only gotten more Dragon like in my opinion so like dragons maybe 
Josué Cardona 7:28
I love the like the the critique of the New Jurassic Park movies. It’s like, why don’t they have feathers? We know better now. You don’t have to keep making I but the continuity and stuff and they don’t look as cool. It’s like get out here. So there’s the largest remains that have been found of a dinosaur called a titanosaur is that they call it I went to the display in in New York. A...