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37. Jurassic Park films · The Book-Watchers

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what are we talking about today? Today we are gonna be talking about
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the live action adaptations of the last two books that we were just reviewing.
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We're gonna be reviewing Jurassic Park, the movie and its sequel, The Lost
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World of Jurassic Park with honorable mentions, with the honorable mention of Durassic Park
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three, and the new Jurassic World series. WHOA. So for these movies,
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I just want to say, the two of us here, we literally
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grew up watching these movies. I mean, yeah, yeah, I like
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when I was a kid. I don't even remember the first two Jurassic Park
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movies coming out in theaters, but I know they did. That's probably because
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they came out in like the mid nineties, and you know what, let's
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look, when did they come out and moved? When? When did did
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they ninety six? Are you seven? Ninety six? Ninety seven? Wow,
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they came out in like really quick come oh no, sorry, durst
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apart. The first one was ninety three, my bad. So the first
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one was ninety three nice, and then the second one was ninety seven work.
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So there was a good four years before the second one came out,
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and then Jurassic Park three came out in two thousand and one. I was
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a child, I know, I remember when that one came out, and
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it was looking back on it, that one was definitely the worst of the
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three. Which one the third one? Oh yeah, because first of all,
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there was no book to go off of. No, that's when they
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went off the right off off the track. Yeah, that's when they decided
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to try to make Jurassic Park its own thing. If anything, Jurassic Park
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three was more of like a Jurassic Park two point one. Yeah, mainly
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because so the Jurassic Park takes place on two separate islands. In the first
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book, it takes place on Ela Newblar, which is several like like several
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miles off the coast of Costa Rica and New Blar is part of an island
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chain that can be found there and the other part the other island is Easlasorna.
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So Easla Newblar was where the park actually was, while eas La Newblar
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was the park was where the dinosaurs were manufactured, so it's where the lab
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was, It's where the dinosaurs were bred and grown and all that all that
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fun stuff. So really, out of these two movies, Jurassic Park number
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Jurassic Park itself was more faithful to the to the novel. There was very
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few differences between the book and the movie, like except for the fact that
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it really covers how Jurassic Park itself had a much larger operation now in the
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In the book, it just kind of underscored how like their operations were.
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It seemed like there was only like a handful of fact of staff that was
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there to run to monitor run the operations of the whole island and also to
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keep an eye on the dinosaurs that were there. Really, they was pretty
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much the movies didn't really cover how there was a lot more to do with
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like the basically how the park was failing like it was not it. Although
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it's a it's a beautiful idea having like this park slash Safari adventure type theme
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park with actual living dinosaurs. It's a beautiful dream. But at the same
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time, John Hammond had no idea what the fuck he was doing because they're
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dealing with an entire species of animals, of animal that went extinct millions of
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years ago, so we have no idea how these animals are going to react
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to this new environment. So that's pretty much what we see in the movie
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too. So like we're introduced to all of the different characters like doctor Alan
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Grants, Ellie I've forgot her name ship, let me come up. Sorry,
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I should have had my notes ready, oh, Ellie Sadler, and
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then of course Ian Malcolm, yeah so. And Alan Grant of course was
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played by was played by Sam Neil. Ellie Sadler was played by Laura Dern.
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Laura Dern, and we all know Jeff Goldblum played Ian Malcolm. Think
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about Ian Malcolm's character in the movie is compared to the book, is that
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Ian Malcolm was less well, he was more of a bad boy type science
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like more of a bad boy type in the movie more than he was in
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the book. I mean, how much of a bad boy can he be?
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E're a mathematician that studies chaos, that studies chaos theory. Fair fair
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like. I mean not saying there aren't any bad boys, like bad boys
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scientists or mathematicians there. But I want to see I want to I want
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to see it before I'll believe it anyway. So these guys are invited to
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Easel Nubar by the eccentric John Hammond to review the park because he wants John
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Hammond wants to show his investors overseas that the park is safe and ready to
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be open to the public. Right. But he just needs Satler, Grant,
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and Malcolm to come in toward the park just to shoot, just to
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see everything he's built and to confirm that it's okay. But the thing is
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that pretty much every single one of them agrees that this is a very dangerous
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thing. It's amazing we have the we're introduced. We have that iconic scene
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where doctor Grant and Satler, they both when they're taking that first toward the
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islands and their dry through that forested area and they come across the herd of
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Bracketosaurus and all the other dinosaurs and you just like just that scene right there
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was like probably like one of the most visually spectacular scenes in the early nineties
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because that scene was pretty like heavily cged, like all the dinosaurs. Like
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even now, like I watched that movie recently and just seeing that that scene,
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yeah, you can tell, like it's all it's the early form of
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CGIO graphics, but it's still it's still good. It aged very well.
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Yeah, they agreed they did a very good job with that. And of
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course it follows the first movie follows the same narrative. John Hammond takes them
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all through a tour of the facilities, the parks. They're given like full
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detailed explanation. How like Hammond was able to discover that it was possible to
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clone these animals from DNA harvested from amber. So like, for those of
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you who don't know, amber is a form of fossilized tree sap and in
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Hammond's case, like some of these amber they theorized that millions of years ago
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and like ancient blood sucking insects like mosquitoes got trapped in the amber after getting
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got after you're consuming some dinosaur blood and that blood got preserved. Sorry,
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my cousin just pulled up and like, my god, his car is like
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loud, Like all I heard was this like scratching, scraping sound. I'm
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like, what the fuck is that? And I looked out the window and
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I could see his car in the driveway, and I'm like, my god,
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James. Anyway, so they're introduced, so like they're shown how like
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using by using thoroughly like innovative genetics, genetic sequencers and extracting technology and all
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that they extracted the DNA from the amber. They were able to repair the
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DNA by splicing compatible DNA from other existing animals with the dinosaur DNA, and
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thus they were able to resurrect the dinosaurs. And the movie really captured like
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really like makes this whole story seems like the whole Jurassic Park operations seemed like
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it's on a bigger scale because the books make it seem it's a lot smaller.
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Like I said earlier, it was like a lot smaller. But what
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the movie leaves out or like several like key details, like for like the
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fact that some dinosaurs are from the islands, mainly the compies, the little
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Green Chicken like dinosaurs they're based. They're small, like scavenger type dinosaurs.
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They are also known as nest eaters, so they often invade the nests of
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other dinosaurs, eat the eggs, kill the babies, things like that.
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And there was a scene in the book where some of the compies got to
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the mainland of Costa Rica and they like went they had broke gotten into a
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house in a nursery and ate a baby. But we don't talk about that
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here. Oh so I'm not going to talk about it more than just well
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that wasn't in the movie though, yeah, it wasn't. It actually left
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out the fact that, like the copies, the more horror side of things
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wasn't really there anymore. Yeah, it was definitely, I don't know,
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it was definitely more of a child friendly movie, even though we did see
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we did see a t rex eat a few people. And then of course
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the veloci raptors. I think like the one thing that made this movie a
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lot scarier were the velociraptors. Like they did a good job, like they
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made it. They definitely captured how pack oriented the velociraptors are, and you
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know, throughout the whole movie that was like the more menacing threat. Like
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the scene where the velociraptors chase those two kids into that kitchen and they're trying
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to hide from them. That was that was terrifying to me as a kid.
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I was like, oh my god, they're gonna get Oh my god.
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Fair So yeah, even watching watching these movies now is like, man,
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there's so much nostalgia and uh now, like I know my niece and
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nephew both are well my nephew especially, he loves these movies and he loves
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the New Jurassic World movies, so like it. It's definitely like it's definitely
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one of those classic movies. I'm just trying to like remember, like what
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are some differences that like some key differences, like so one thing so before
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okay, you know what, I do remember the differences. But there's like
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I said, there were some scenes that were either left out or changed in
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the movie. There were very few because it was very because the movie was
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very faithful. I will say that John Hammond's character was a lot more pleasant
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than he was in the book. Well, his character was more or less
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the same in the book. He was actually a lot more narcissistic and self
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centered in the book like his grandkids in the movie, Yeah, he took
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he brought them along. The reason why that his grandkids were in the part
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were at the island at the time was pretty much the same. There was
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something going on with her with their parents, so they went to go stay
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with their grandfather for a bit and he brought them to the islands. But
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like while in the movie, the movie he was more than happy to have
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his grandkids there, but in the book it was there was definitely like heavy
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implication that he wasn't entirely thrilled that his grandkids were there with him. Yeah,
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because it was more of a dick. Yeah, he was in general,
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he was more of a dick in general. He didn't exactly care that
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there were issues with the park, like beyond just the fact that like like
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behind the scenes like operational issues and like trying to keep the animals under control
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and keep them team and everything like that. Every time there was an issue,
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he would brush it off and say, well, we can fix it,
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right, or like no, just get it done, or like he
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was definitely doing everything. He was definitely ignoring the issues at hand and was
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more focused and he was just more focused on the results. Like he wanted
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his park working, and he wanted working as soon as possible. You know,
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consequences be damned. And in the book, in the end he ended
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up getting he ended up getting eaten by the Protocompies. Yeah, yep.
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So what happened was is that like he and the others were trying to escape
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from the main complex because of the lost raptors were really like going after them,
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and then he ends up tripping and falling down a hill and Hammond,
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just like in the movie, in the book, he walked with a cane
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and he didn't exactly have the best mobility, and when he fell, he
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injured his hip and his hip and he wasn't able to really get up again
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like climb up the hill. And that's when the compies came and they attacked
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and ate him. So that's it for John Hammond. But in the movie
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they changed his character all around to be more just something like, oh,
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he's an old man with a child like, childish dream, right, Yeah,
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he's just an old man with a childlike dream really just wants to bring
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joy to the world and then towards and then in the end, even though
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like when everything fell apart, he actually felt remorse about everything that happened,
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like like he was sad that his dream wasn't going to go through the way
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he wanted it, but he took he did take responsibility for what happened at
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the island, and like leading into the second book, in the second movie
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in the book, So the second movie in the Lost World, I can
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definitely say that the story, like everything that happens in the Lost World the
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movie is very different from how it happened in the Lost World the book.
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So so for starters in the Lost World the book, they go to Easili
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Sorna, Malcolm doctor Thorne, and a few other and a small team.
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They go there because they're trying to rescue this dumb ass scientist who was like
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so hell bent on discovering a lost world, right world, like an environment,
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a biosphere filled with extinct animals and fauna things like that, right,
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and he believed that he found it and Eli Sorna, but really he just
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he just figured out that it was actually just the manufacturing site for the dinosaurs
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that Engine John Hemman's company created. Now in the book, Engine had completely
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gone bankrupt, no longer existed, a lot of their assets were sold off
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and If anything, the site be as Elisa was was called by the company,
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was forgotten about and the only reason why it was rediscovered was because some
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of their some of their debt, their data had been recovered and that's when
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they it was discovered that there was a site B. But in the movie
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it was completely different because while the book like, there was a rival company
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called I think is Biocynth or something. So Engine's rival company has been trying
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to get a hold of Engine's technology, particularly the genetics technology and the research
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concerning the the engineering of these dinosaurs right and recreating the dinosaurs, because they
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wanted to make their own dinosaurs, so they had several of their several of
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their people were committing acts of or at espionage in order to get ahold of
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this technology and their research. Like in the first book and movie, that's
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what happened. One of Engine's own software developers for the island security systems,
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for one of the island security systems, he ended up shutting down the whole
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island, which is why like that, dinosaurs got out, went on rent,
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the t rexes went on the rampage to the Veloci, raptors attacked people.
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It's because this one dumb ass shut down the security systems, thinking that,
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Okay, I'm gonna shut it down for a few minutes so I can
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grab what I need and get the hell off the island, and then the
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security system will unlock itself afterwards. But security system glitched out, so it
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remains permanently locked out. Nobody could get it back in and get the whole
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island back up and running, get the dinosaurs contained again, and the the
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software developer ends up getting eaten by the dilophosaurs. Yeah, that's right what
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he did. And so and that same company in the Lost World in the
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book sent a small team to Cite b to try to grab a few of
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the eggs that the dinosaurs had been laying so that way they can start breeding
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their own dinosaurs because they don't have the research. But they're still living dinosaurs
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there. But that didn't work out. The Lost World the book was actually
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to me, I thought it was pretty lame because it was just so underdone.
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And but the movie it was completely different because so since John Hammond,
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he survived, since he survived in the movies. In the beginning of the
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Lost World, it pretty much starts. It pretty much starts with Ian Malcolm
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heading to Hammond's estate in order to talk with him and himself, and he's
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greeted by some executives from Engen executives that Malcolm really despises because Malcolm tried to
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tell the public about what happened at Drassic Park. But but the Engen executives
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they basically buried him under like a mountain of litigation, of legal jargon and
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whatnot, just to kill just to cover up the event of the of what
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happened at the island. And while we didn't actually see it, but it
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was implied that the that Easilnublar had been completely destroyed by the Costa Rican government.
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We now, while we do see that happen in the in the first
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book, doesn't we don't exactly see that happen in the first movie. So
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there's like wiggle room there for that may lead to the fact that, oh,
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the island is probably still there. Yeah, it's not, and it
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is. So once Malcolm finishes his little pissing contest with the executives, he
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goes to talk to Hammond and Hammond tells him about Site b SO, which
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is eas Lynublar where they manufactured and bred the dinosaurs, and Hammond tells him
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that. He tells him that he had basically commissioned a team to head to
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the island to study the animals in their natural environment before Engine which had been
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completely taken, which had been completely removed from John Hammond's control. He wants
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he wants to basically give these scientists, this small group of scientists to study
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the dinosaurs in a natural environment before Engine either liquidates them or or uses them
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for other purposes. Because Engine still wants to create a Jurassic Park. They
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still want Jurassic Park, but where Hammond wanted something more like, oh,
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just something more natural, in a more natural setting, and more like child
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friendly, and also something that would allow scientists from all over the world to
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study these animals in a natural environment. These Engine, the company and the
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executives that now run it, they want something that's more profitable. So Hammond
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sends convinces Malcolm to go to the island with a small group of other of
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other scientists and videographers to study the animals in there in this new environment.
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Because when Sightbeat was it was shut down. The dinosaurs were allowed to roam
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free. And while Hammond thought that the animals would die off because they're no
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longer getting their proper nutrients and vitamins that the Candlers would have to give them
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to order for them to survive. Because Engine deliberately bred the dinosaurs to be
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dependent off of a certain mineral or a certain protein. I believe it's called
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lysine. It's something it's like a vitamin or like a certain nutrient that the
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dinosaurs need to be constantly getting in their food otherwise that they don't get it
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there, they'll their digestive tracks will break down and they will die. So
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they couldn't they basically they wanted to ensure that the animals couldn't get couldn't survive
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on their own without Engine's direct intervention. But he realized that somehow these dinosaurs
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on Easelnublar had somehow managed to adapt and they are eating. They managed to
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find another source of lycene rich food on the island, so they're thriving,
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and Hammon wants to take advantage of this before Engen comes in and fucks it
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all up again. So Michael, I'm sorry, Malcolm, and this team
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this was actually like probably what made this movie cool was like there was a
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whole team of really smart and really sorry, some shit going on the house.
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But you know, this whole team of just really smart and I'm trying
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to look for the word motivated individuals. They they head to the island,
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they start they going there, they start their mission of for court of studying
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the animals. Malcolm really only goes because his ex girlfriend Sarah Harding had already
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been sent to the island ahead of the expedition team, and he does him
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not wanting anything to do with Hammond or Jurassic Park in general. Aren't the
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dinosaurs ever? Again, he agrees to go to the island just so he
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can get Sarah out of there, his girlfriend out of there. Yeah,
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and another thing about oh, and another thing about Malcolm. Another change that
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they made about the movie from the book was that Malcolm has a daughter.
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In the book, these two kids stow away on their expedition to the island
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to rescue that scientist. But in the movie they see in the book that
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just didn't really make much sense to me, And I think the producers of
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the Lost World movie agreed, so they change it to where like, instead
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of it being these two random kids that stow away on the on the expedition,
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it's just Malcolm's daughter because she wanted to go. She misses her step
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mom and everything, so she decided so she stows away on the expeditionary team.
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They and they only find out they don't find out on until after they
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reached the island, and by that point Malcolm isn't has no luck convincing his
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girlfriend to come back with them. And then but and this is where like
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this is where they start having problems because the team that was going to be
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sent the team that was going to be sent from engine to start collecting the
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animals and start rounding up the animals for their more profitable Jurassic park. They
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arrived, it's a much bigger team and they start going after every dinosaur they
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see. They captured, dozens of animals were introduced to like these big this
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big, well funded force of just poachers and animal handlers, and it causes
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more problems than it solved because the team the injen hired this renowned animal wrangler.
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He's really just a poet. He's just really like a poacher, there's
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no better word for it. This guy agreed to come to the island because
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he wanted to have a chance to hunt some of the dinosaurs, including a
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t rex, so like he so his conditions were like, I just want
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to be able to hunt t rex bring it down, and he wants to
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eat one for whatever reason. I mean, I guess, yeah, to
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try dino meat. Yeah, I guess. I mean, honestly, who
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wouldn't. But still, oh wait, I don't know, I don't know
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if I would want to eat dino meat. Would that even be good?
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Probably not, probably be like super rubbery and gamey. But but beyond that,
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a lot of the dinosaurs were getting captured, and at one point they
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discover the t rex the Tyrannosaurus's nests and including a young a young rex infant,
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and the poacher is like, okay, well we need to lower the
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bowl here like them like mama and papa here. So what they end up
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doing is that they capture the the the baby, and they they chain it
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in a clearing, and they also like I think I'm not sure they don't
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show this part, but I'm pretty sure that they they deliberately broke the infant's
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leg so that way, like so that way they when it's crying out for
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its parents to come, like, you know, help it and save it.
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It will be more convincing. Yeah, So while the poacher and while
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the poachers are waiting for the t Rex to show up, Malcolm and his
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team they infiltrate the camp because because, as it turns out, one of
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the one of the videographer that Hammond hire to document the expedition, turns out
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he was actually one of those what do they call them? They're not it's
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not eco terrorists, but it's like there's another word for him. What do
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you mean, Like like he's like one of those like environ it's an environmentalists
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that will like commit acts of espionage to prevent like certain acts of ecological like
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destruction. M So, like he would say, he's like they would sabotage
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these these guys would like saboage like construction equipment and like things that would be
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used to like for deforestation and you know, spread a pollution things like that.
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An eco warrior I think that's what they're called. Eco warrior sounds about
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right. Yeah, Well, anyway, turns the videographer turned out to be
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an eco warrior eco terrorists but hm, but so, yeah, the reason
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why Hammond actually hired the guy was because if engine actually shows up and starts
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to like interfere with the animal with the animals that guy was basically he was
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supposed to, h he's gonna like he's supposed to like stop them, yeah,
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and not really stop them, but delay them, make it make their
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efforts a lot harder. So, while the poachers are waiting for the t
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rex is to show up to capture the to come get their baby, the
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Malcolm, the eco terrorists and their team, they sneak into the poacher's camps.
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They start they start opening the padlocks for that the captured dinosaurs were in
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and like for one particular cage that they unlocked was that of a tri Sarahtops
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bowl. So the Try Sarahtops and the other dinosaurs got out, started rampaging
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through the poacher camp and cause a lot of mayhem. And when the poachers
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were distracted, Malcolm and his team also managed to go in and rescue the
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baby t Rex and they bring it back to their camp. Which is a
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mistake, right, Like, that's a mistake right then and there, I
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mean, yeah, it is. It's a very big mistake. It was
33:59
one on one. Yep, it was a very big mistake because even though
34:02
they rescue the t rex and they fix up its leg. The mom and
34:07
Papa show up and they completely like fuck up their camp decimated like so,
34:16
like part of their expedition. Some of the equipment they brought were these trailers.
34:22
There's really cool research trailers, right, just like basically like a like,
34:27
oh god, what do you call them? It's like a two two
34:29
sectional RV. Yeah, and they they they fuck it up and they push
34:36
it over a cliff and like you yeah, like you do. And they
34:40
barely survived. They barely make it out of there though, like one of
34:44
them does get ripped in half by the by mom and Papa, Like that
34:49
was a brutal scene. Like my mom actually, like as a kid,
34:51
my mom wouldn't let me watch The Lost World because of that stupid scene.
34:55
I'm like, mom, you let me watch some dude get eaten alive by
34:59
a the loss raptor in the first movie. I don't know why this is
35:01
any different, that's true, but either way, so like, uh so,
35:09
these t rex is, they completely just fuck up the camp and harding
35:17
Malcolm and the ego terrorist I keep forgetting his name, but he was played
35:22
by I think who was he played by? Let me pull up my notes
35:25
again. He's the not Adam Sandler, Vince Vaughn. Oh yeah, yeah,
35:34
yeah yeah, he plays uh Nick von Owen, the eco terrorists slash
35:40
eco warrior. Uh he So those three were trapped in the r V when
35:47
the when the t rex attacked, and uh, the other dude on their
35:55
expedition, I think his name was Peter, he gets ripped in half by
36:00
the by the t rex is and went so harding Malcolm and oh and they
36:09
managed to get out of They were rescued from the RV before it plunges over
36:15
the cliff. And the people who who rescue them are none other than the
36:20
poachers hired by the fucking by fucking Engen. So the people that they just
36:25
the people that they basically just like sabotaged, ended up rescuing rescuing them.
36:35
And the thing is is that they're both they're both parties are in the same
36:37
boat now because they when the dinosaurs were were released and they ramp page through
36:47
their camp, the poachers, they lost their their radio equipment was destroyed,
36:52
so now they can't call for help, and since the RV was pushed over
36:58
the cliff by the t x's, Malcolm's team can't even get a call for
37:02
help either, but since engine has since there's an entire engine team there,
37:09
they revealed that there is a compound on the other side of the island that
37:15
should have working communication equipment. So now both groups have to work together to
37:22
make it across the island pass all the dinosaurs to get to the communication equipment.
37:29
And so it's a little tense because, like you know, since they
37:37
since like both are both teams are working for POST, are like supposed to
37:43
be working against each other. Like there's a little bit of tension, but
37:45
it's more it's just more of that like enemy of my enemy, uh my
37:51
friend type of deal or like we're in this together. Yeah whatever, Right,
37:57
they're all trying to get out of the island alive, so trying to
38:00
the hell out there because all the bullshit and like we're done with this shit,
38:04
like fuck this shit on out period. Yeah. And well, there's
38:10
one character in this movie that was introduced that I really fucking hated because like
38:19
he was just this weird type of like confrontational kind of character. Like he
38:22
was just like like he his name was Deater Stark. I think that's what
38:30
his name was. Let me see. Well anyway, so yeah, along
38:37
the way. They's the whole group started losing people because like one guy got
38:43
separated from the group and he gets eaten by the compies. At one point,
38:49
they make camp and the thing is the t rex has followed them and
38:52
attacked the camp. A lot of the team, a lot of their group
38:55
gets eaten by the by the t rexes, and a large number of them
39:04
run like trying to make some run for it to the compound with the to
39:08
the engine compound. But when they do that, they have to go through
39:15
velociraptor territory and it's it was definitely this This scene was definitely one of those
39:24
like oh shit kind of scenes, right because to get to the compound,
39:28
they have to go through like this like flat plane, there's like a lot
39:32
of tall grass. Well, velociraptors make use of that and they stalk the
39:38
group through the tall grass and they start picking off everyone one by one.
39:43
So pretty much everyone from that big poacher group gets eaten by the velociraptor.
39:50
But the velociraptor pack Malcolm and his friends barely make it through alive, and
39:55
they managed to make it to the compound. Vince Vaughn's character Owen. He
40:02
makes it to the communication equipment and it calls for help. But the thing
40:07
is is that Malcolm, his daughter and Harding they're cornered by some velociraptors and
40:15
like they barely escape and it's only by being smart. It's only by being
40:22
smarter than the velociraptors were they able to do it. But you know how
40:27
it is with loci raptors. Yeah, And so they managed to make it
40:32
to the so Owen manages to call in for help. A helicopter comes in.
40:38
They all managed to escape the voci raptors and escape the island. But
40:44
before they before they're carried off the island, the helicopter does a fly by
40:50
over the camp that they had just escaped from, and they see that the
40:54
poachers had managed to capture the managed to capture one of the t rexes as
41:02
well as the baby. So the movie is not just is not yet over.
41:09
They everyone makes it back to the mainland and from there, Malcolm and
41:17
his friends they're really trying to fight Engine to tell him like you need to
41:22
like delay the opening of the park because they really don't know what they're doing.
41:27
They try to go to the authorities, but no one's really listening to
41:30
them, so instead they attend the They decide to attend this rally because engine
41:38
is waiting for the cargo ship with the t rex is to come into port.
41:45
But while but while they're there, the engine guys, they notice that
41:50
the ship carrying the t rexes has gone dark, like they can see it's
41:55
coming into port, but it's there's no one responding to their hit, and
42:00
the ship ends up crashing into the dock. And that's when everyone realizes that
42:07
the crew of the ship are all dead and the t Rex is not only
42:15
awake, but it's completely like going on a rampage. Because so what happened
42:24
was when they had originally sedated the the t Rex, they had used a
42:30
very high dose of sedatives, so much so they weren't sure, so much
42:36
so that they that they had a moment where the thought they thought the t
42:39
Rex was gonna die because it's vitals had pretty much gone flat. So they
42:46
decided to pump the damn thing full of like I think it was like adrenaline
42:51
or something to like counter the sedatives. Yeah, it woke it up,
42:54
and the t Rex ends up ended up going on a rampage. Because it
42:59
was basically like, uh, like it got it was basically coked the fuck
43:08
out, basically, you know. Yeah, So it goes, It goes
43:15
on a rampage through the through the town. I think this was like the
43:20
Port of San Francisco or like San Diego, and like it gets off the
43:29
boat, rampages it likes, terrorizing everybody. Malcolm and his friends have to
43:36
like distract it and try to find a way to get it to fallen back
43:40
to the ship so they can trap it and sedate it again. They've learned
43:45
that the engine had also captured the the baby, and they decide, like,
43:52
well, let's use the baby to lure the dinosaur back to the ship.
43:57
So they go to the new Jurassic Park that was being that was currently
44:01
being built, and they find the baby there. They take it, They
44:06
get they get Mama Bear's attention, and that seems to piss it off even
44:10
more so it ends up chasing them all across the city back to the back
44:16
to the ship, and there they do manage to sedate to sedate it,
44:23
but not before it eats John Hammonds. I believe it was his nephew,
44:29
because all throughout the movie, the nephew was the one that was like organizing
44:31
and leading the poacher expedition, and he ends up getting eaten by the baby
44:38
t Rex and dies, and this is pretty much where it ends. It
44:45
ends with like the ship being sent back to the island so that way the
44:50
dinosaur, that way the t rex can be released again. And it's at
44:55
this point it's implied that the world is now fully aware that there that engine
45:01
had recreated dinosaurs and there's a whole island full of them. Done Dune,
45:06
done, done, done done. The drama, yep, I will say
45:14
the So as far as like how well the movie adaptations did for each book,
45:21
Jurassic Park nailed it. Like, it was very accurate to the book,
45:29
and there was only a few key differences, so mainly things that they
45:35
left out to make it more family friendly and at the same time made it
45:38
a lot better. Yeah. Then also, so like I would definitely give
45:45
Jurassic Park a nine out of ten, I don't give it the full ten
45:51
because there's just a few things that they left out that made Jurassic Park a
45:54
horror Yeah, you know, that made it more horror film. But in
46:01
the end, it still came out to be a very good book, a
46:05
very good movie. Now, as far as like for the Lost World,
46:09
the book itself was so disappointing, I'm sad that I read it, Oh
46:15
damn. But the movie really, like just they really did a lot of
46:22
They took a lot of creative licenses with this movie and just made the story
46:29
a whole lot better, more interesting, and more exciting. So the movie
46:35
did. Like the movie itself is like a definitely definite ten out of ten,
46:40
simply because it took the sheer disappointment that was the book and made it
46:45
into something a lot better. And now that's pretty much it for these two
46:52
books, these two movies. As far as Jurassic Park three, we're not
47:00
really gonna go over that movie, mainly because it wasn't based off a book.
47:06
It was just more of like Wanterbro's Universal trying to take like do something
47:13
different. They wanted to make this into its own story, right, like
47:17
you know, like try to make a franchise out of it. Yeah,
47:21
and they kind of succeeded. Now that the Drastic World series is in full
47:24
swing, I think there's gonna be another Drastic World movie. I'm not entirely
47:29
sure, but there's only three of them currently, and I think the third
47:35
one was lost one of this of this trilogy, as far as I have
47:38
read, they're gonna kind of sit on it for a while and see what
47:43
happens in the future. They kept their statemula is very vague, so there's
47:45
probably not gonna be one coming out for a while, most likely. Yeah,
47:50
I honestly thought that they weren't going to make a third one because the
47:52
second one wasn't that great. I mean, they had so the dry Us
48:00
the World series has its good points and it's bad points, Like I really
48:05
liked the first one, and I really like parts of the second, like
48:08
the the second one, that opening, the God with the bronze. How
48:15
they make you feel so bad for a dinosaur in these movies multiple times,
48:21
multiple different times. It's just irritating. That scene, Oh that that broke
48:27
my heart. And if you and if you watch the movie, you notice
48:29
day I'm talking on the very beginning, just like rolls up there as the
48:34
island's exploding and you're just like, go back, turn this thing around,
48:37
save that point. See, Like it's one of those things, is like
48:40
the it's almost like you know what the bracketosaurs reminds me of It reminds me
48:46
of an elephant. You know, it's big gentle. Okay, they're not
48:51
exactly gentle, but you know, when you think about it, they're pretty
48:53
docile unless you provoke them, and they're stupidly intelligent, like elephants are very
49:01
intelligent. So you know, like you could tell like this that dinosaur was
49:07
intelligent because it knew to go to the dock because it knew, like it
49:10
would, it was gonna die. Yeah, it knew it was gonna die,
49:15
so it tried to get to the dock and it didn't get there in
49:17
time, and it was just like god, damn it, like broken.
49:23
Yeah, I cried. I'm like, why am I crying for fictional fictional
49:29
animal? Like fuck, man, you're given me the fields? And then
49:34
some of and then the whole cloning thing was kind of interesting, but I
49:38
kin whish they woent did other stuff with that idea, But the cloning of
49:44
the humans and stuff too, and or the idea of them trying to use
49:49
the dinosaurs and then also trying to trying to do human cloning and stuff was
49:53
interesting, but like I wanted them to do it some of that differently.
50:00
I like the I like, I like the so drastic world tried to do
50:06
the trouble who tried to do more of a kind of a horror vibe to
50:07
it, And some of the parts, especially with some of these new dinosaurs
50:12
that they created from scratch, like the yeah, the endominous, Yeah,
50:16
the Dominus rex and whatever the other one ones ye didn't even they didn't even
50:22
create an endominus and the and the new book, Oh no, they did.
50:28
It was the locusts they made in Endo Locus or something. Yeah.
50:34
Yeah, they were deliberately going to release them so that way they would consume
50:38
crops at like a highly a high rate and then like release their own vert
50:45
like basically monopolize the food market. Yeah, they're trying. They were trying
50:50
to destroy farms and food just for everyone to look at them like save us,
50:54
save another one. They're the ones that caused the problem the first place.
50:58
Yeah, so they kind of especially with the first two, they kind
51:01
of more of a horror vibe in some scenes, and that I liked.
51:05
I really did like the creep that like, oh shit, we could die
51:08
here today. More of the monster because I mean the draft of Park,
51:14
I mean, I've had people to tell me that they can. They argue
51:15
that the draft of Park films are horror films, but just because they're monster
51:21
films, are like Kaiju because because you get because I guess you could also
51:25
say that by that logic, Godzilla, King Hong, all those are horror
51:31
films and technically, like so here I'll give them. I'll give that argument.
51:38
This the original King Kong and the original Godzilla, those two movies were
51:45
intended to be horror films, yes, but like the ones today are not
51:51
unless you kind of like Shenn Godzilla, Sheinn Godzilla. I would I would
51:54
say it is a horror film, but overall, like just because it's a
52:01
monster does it. I'm actually make the fumble horror film because I would say
52:07
the original Drafts Park is not a horror film at all. It's a sci
52:12
fi film. Maybe a sprinkle of like thriller horror like spikes in there,
52:20
but I mean the only the only real horrifying part about the first movie was
52:25
like the opening scene where the like they're trying to wrastle that that velociraptor into
52:35
the its new into its enclosure, and it attacks and kills one of the
52:42
uh one of the workers. Yeah, that was that part was pretty creepy,
52:46
But other than that, it has elements, But I wasn't considered a
52:51
full on the books. The first book I would consider more of a horror
52:54
novel in a sense compared to the first movie. But Drastic World, I
53:01
think takes the elements that they didn't put in the first one and try to
53:05
apply something like that in those in the rest of World series, and they
53:08
had some degree of success with those, especially with the first two with the
53:14
shot with the scenes with the newly made dinosaurs that they've created from scratch,
53:19
which I was again dumb ways to die a terrible idea. Why fuck around
53:23
with genetics? Don't do that. Don't do that. Yeah, don't give
53:27
a dinosaur and ability to camouflage itself to where even heat signatures can't detect it.
53:32
Don't do that. That sounds like a dumb idea. Dumb idea,
53:37
because you're gonna give that animal smarts and it's gonna kill everybody it comes across
53:40
and multiply and eventually take out the human race at some point. Like,
53:45
don't do that, dumb ideas. Yeah, like the only way they're going
53:49
to be able to breed, Like the only way they're going to be able
53:52
to like breed a dinosaur is by splicing it with existing If they managed to
53:58
do find it's like existing dinosaur DNA. Well, I mean, like the
54:05
thing about I'm just saying, like if they do end up resurrecting various extinct
54:12
animals, like they're very close to resurrecting the Wooly mammoth. Yeah, well,
54:16
I mean they did. They did breed in the movies, though they
54:21
learned how to they since they cross breed them with frogs and stuff, they
54:24
learned how to a sexually reproduce. Yep, that was the issue with the
54:28
dinosaurs and the course if they do something like that today by splicing it with
54:31
modern with its closest descendant, and they started, Fuck, you're gonna play
54:37
a game, I'll fuck around and find out. That's really all sciences is
54:40
fucking around and find out. And the fact they want to bring back like
54:44
the moly mammoth and stuff like, is that really a smart idea? Though?
54:50
I mean, I don't think the Holy Mammoth would be a hazard to
54:52
humanity, but like that's a stepping stone to something much more catastrophic down lawe.
55:00
That's somebody's like, oh my god, let's bring back the t rex,
55:02
and it's gonna be some chicken abomination because the closest as far as I
55:07
know, the closest relatives, like the t rex is a chicken. Fun
55:13
fact, so it's gonna be a chicken monster because but I know, I
55:20
was just I was thinking the same thing, like like, oh my god,
55:22
if a fucking t rex escapes and I hear it, or they're gonna
55:29
be able to fly and shit, because they're dinosaurs closest relatives outside of Like
55:32
back then, when they first made the movie, they thought it was more
55:36
repti reptilian relation, when reality it's birds. They're more like birds. And
55:43
that's why in the newest films it made the dinosaurs look more, well,
55:45
the newer ones like they get they gave the dinosaurs more than the appearance of
55:51
like birds, some of them obviously, but like, if you start splicing
55:55
them with birds and shit, eventually you're gonna create some big ones that we're
56:00
able, that are able to fly when they weren't before they just had feathers.
56:07
I don't want to walk outside and all of a sudden see a flying
56:08
t rex come at me. Or flying raptor or some ship. No,
56:12
thank you, I'm good. The largest I'm gonna tell you right now,
56:16
the largest flying dinosaur that they that's ever been discovered is the Kates of co
56:22
Walt Lists, the kids of Coaltist. I've never heard of that. The
56:28
Gates all co Walt Liss is like if you google it, I don't know
56:31
what it's wingspan is, but it's huge. It's and it's and those yeah,
56:38
oh that's oh shit huge. It's like a it's like a pelican on
56:45
crack it eats meat. Oh no, it's what's its wingspan? Let me
56:52
see wing span thirty three to thirty six feet No, ma'am, No,
56:57
ma'am. Like there's a diagram of and standing next to a person and like,
57:00
yeah, damn it, it's like standing next to like that. It's
57:05
beak. It's about as long as a car, if not longer. It's
57:09
windspans a little longer than like the some of the big eagles that the Earth
57:15
has had, but it's beak as as long as a human. M Oh
57:21
sweetie, Oh no, we don't need that. We do not need that
57:24
thing flying around. You know what it reminds me of it reminds me of
57:29
a heron, like a stork of some kind as a long does. It's
57:35
like it's like a beak made for skewering, but it's probably like a fisher
57:38
like a it's probably like one of those kind of like fisherman type birds like
57:44
it would mainly eat eat, probably feed more off of like fish or like
57:49
aquatic animals. But hey, the birds bird most birds are carnivorous, so
57:53
like these things eat like me. Because I'm looking at images of let me,
57:59
like little die anosaurs and shit or smaller dinosaurs compared to them, so
58:04
they would it would not be hard for them to slide. Oh look a
58:08
human a source of food cocle. No, No, we don't need to
58:15
start splicing birds with them doing amphibians and reptiles. That was bad enough because
58:22
they learned how to ace actually reproduce in movies, which I'm assuming they probably
58:27
that would probably end up happening in real life. But they did that because
58:31
frogs and shit, some species of frogs and lizards could is actually reproduced.
58:37
They don't need a mate. Birds, I mean, as far as I
58:42
know, I don't think birds could a sexually reproduce. They need maids,
58:45
but like, do you really want them flying in the air? No,
58:50
I don't. Now they were like in some remote, remote regions of the
58:57
world, there's still like rumors and reports of massive birds, like here in
59:04
America. The largest bird species in America is the Californian condor. Those things
59:14
have like a ten foot wingspan. Yeah, so like if something like if
59:21
that thing wanted to, it could probably carry off a small child. But
59:23
since they're since it's a condor, those are like scavengers. Yeah, they
59:28
eat things are already dead, but like if our persons dead on the ground,
59:31
they'll calm down, munch, munch, crunch, crunch, Like,
59:36
well, yeah, a dead person, yep, Oh my god, that
59:40
thing is. I love vultures, but I love that. I think vultures
59:45
are kind of cool in a sense, but like they're terror that's terrifying.
59:50
That thing is huge. We don't need little dinosaurs. I have wingspan as
59:57
big as that, if not bigger, and then like able to eat a
59:59
person. No thanks, I'm good. I can live my life without that.
1:00:04
So any scientists out there thinking about one and bring back dinosaurs, don't,
1:00:09
don't. Draft. The Parker is literally made as a cautionary tale and
1:00:14
not fucking around with stuff that weren't extinct. Sure, people are wanting to
1:00:19
do the wooly mammoth, and they're even thinking about trying to bring back the
1:00:22
Dodo bird because they so. The Dodo birds is also another thing they're trying
1:00:28
to bring back. They're trying to I guess they're gonna use I think pigeon
1:00:31
d name. I think some species of pigeon or pigeons in general are closely
1:00:37
related to the dodo bird, So I think they're gonna cross breed with the
1:00:42
dodo bird and DNA from the of a dodo bird to like a pigeon and
1:00:49
trying to make the Dodo bird Dodo birds boy mammoth, I guess I think
1:00:55
what the wooly mammoth is a bit much. But that's just me mm hmm
1:01:04
that because you're just asking for something, so yep. Well, anyway,
1:01:17
moral of the story is leave. Let's let's just leave the dinosaurs where they
1:01:22
are. Yeah, yeah, let's leave alone. Let's let's just leave them
1:01:27
alone. I mean it, I think it'd be cool to see a wooly
1:01:30
mammoth, but at the same time, like they went extinct, not only
1:01:37
because of being overhunted by humans back in the day. Yeah, but also
1:01:44
because the thing is that they went extinct around the end of the previous Ice
1:01:47
Age, which was about thirteen thousand years ago. Yeah, so they were
1:01:53
more perfectly adapted to the harsh cold weather of the Ice Age. So now
1:02:02
we're living in an era where like global warmings and is a thing, and
1:02:07
temperatures are really high. The temperatures are rising before they start before they're going
1:02:10
to fall again. Yeah, so is it really beneficial. No, we're
1:02:16
we'd probably be condemning the poor, those poor things to like a to like
1:02:22
an early grave. I mean, God, for God's sakes. Polar bears
1:02:24
are moving inland and breeding with grizzlies. Oh god. Yeah, so eventually
1:02:31
the polar bear is not gonna be a thing anymore. And the other is
1:02:34
the grizzly because they're breeding with polar bears and they're making a new bear.
1:02:39
It's just like that. That just sounds terrifying because the grizzly bear is huge,
1:02:44
but the polar bear is bigger. So can you just imagine the size
1:02:51
of that fucking bear? I know, it's Oh, our polar bear is
1:02:55
like the largest breed of bear, I think so. Yeah, with the
1:03:00
size of a polar bear and the temper of a grizzly Oh, girl,
1:03:05
it's a rap. You can have. You can have Canada, you can
1:03:08
have the northern region of the world. Take it. We don't want it,
1:03:10
we don't need it. Nah. Nah, So that's happening too.
1:03:16
So breeds animals don't why why what are you gonna do? We you?
1:03:25
And so it's like, are we gonna be able to see like man mets
1:03:30
versus moose rampaging each other because I think I think, man, that's are
1:03:37
bigger than a mouse. Oh, they're way bigger. But huh, let's
1:03:43
see here. Apparently it's actually the codiac bear that's the biggest bear species.
1:03:47
But the Kodiak bear. Where's that at. It's like in Oh, it's
1:03:52
like in Canada. It's in Alaska. Okay, So Alaska, Canada,
1:03:58
Kodiak beard. Oh these things? Oh god god, Well, anyway,
1:04:10
thank you for joining us on our segue from dinosaurs to mammoths to bears.
1:04:15
Yeah, we get distracted easily here. Oh. Actually, they're also considered
1:04:21
to be some of the grizzly bear. Okay, so it might be the
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Kodiak bear breeding with the polar bear anyway, oh god, anyway, thank
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you guys for listening today's episode. Don't bring back animals that don't that don't
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need to be brought back. Okay, yeah, I leave them dead.
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They're probably honest, they're probably on this earth somewhere. Amazon has been rumored
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of having dinosaurs for god does how long? So leave them along, leave
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them there. There's like a really remote region of Australia that there's like absolutely
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no civilization because of how remote it is, and there's rumors of their being
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like big lizards there. Now we're not talking about like we're not talking about
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like crocodiles, alligators or whatnot. We're talking about like something like a komodo
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dragon, but bigger. Oh that's nice. Yeah. So I mean,
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if you're if you're from Australia and you happen to be listening to this like
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right in, let us know, because like we're not actually fact checking,
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like this is shit that I've heard on like the Discovery Channel or like eel
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us a house void. Let's know. But until then, tune in next
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week. We will be reviewing hell Bound Hearts. Oh no, yeah,
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yeah, yeah yeah yeah, yea, yeah, yeah, you're right.
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Ah, you're right, Ah, you're right. Yeah. Hell about Heart.
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Yeah. For those of who don't know, that is yep, Hell
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Razor, we'll be diving into the gayness of Clive Barker. And also we
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will be joined by another host as well. Yeah you know them from another
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from some of the other Neonic Void production podcast Bocaclyps Void Annica. It's Tiff
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slash Housekeeper. They'll be joining us for the hell Bound Heart and Hell Razor
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films and they'll be doing housekeeping for us today in that episode as well.
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I know because I'm terrible on it. So until then, Bob