Movie Meltdown - Episode 647
Join us for a prehistoric-packed episode as we welcome special guest "Dino" Don Lessem. He is an author, journalist, and was a scientific advisor for Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park! Not to mention building giant, robotic dinosaurs, befriending Michael Crichton and having a dinosaur named after him!
Then we discuss some of our favorite dinosaurs in movies. And then more specifically... our favorite dinosaurs from the Jurassic Park series of films.
And while we all try to figure out what our dinosaur names would be - we also mention… The Valley of Gwangi, getting a loan from Mark Cuban, the fake dinosaur dig, Troodon, Vince Vaughn, different things about dinosaurs impressed me, fire-breathing stripper dinosaurs, The Golden Age of Dinosaurs, apparently there's a lot of nudity, exotic places, a dinosaur head infested with wasps, paleontologist Jack Horner, an iguana dressed as a dinosaur, we're Disney… this is what we do… we traumatize children, the real Indiana Jones, opening a Mexican restaurant, The Boston Globe, the scavenger hunt for pieces, windshield wiper motors, the movie set is filled with suckups, it's a very 19th century kind of technology, low budget David Attenborough, if you can find the bootleg unedited version I highly recommend it, it's all about funding, lighting the desert in daytime, gorillas, could E.T. happen and where do I get amber?
"I had a great Aunt who took me every Sunday to meet T-Rex… and it was like - love at first sight."
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