Hold On to Your Butts: A Jurassic Park Rewatch Podcast
Hold On to Your Butts: A Jurassic Park Rewatch Podcast
Podcast Description
God creates dinosaurs. God destroys dinosaurs. God created Man. Man created a podcast about dinosaurs.
Hold On to Your Butts is a Jurassic Park rewatch podcast about how the biggest show on Earth lost its bite. Join Paul Karolyi and JD Lopez as they revisit the entire Jurassic franchise -- from InGen to BioSyn and Grant to Grady -- ahead of the release of Jurassic World: Rebirth in July 2025. Paul and JD will attempt to figure out if pod can, uhhhhhhhh, find a way.
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Content Themes
The podcast centers on the Jurassic franchise, focusing on particular films while discussing the cultural implications of dinosaurs in society. Examples include in-depth analyses of 'Jurassic World: Dominion' with discussions about the coexistence of humans and dinosaurs, and 'Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom' which features themes of horror and ethics in science. Other topics include the evolution of the franchise, character development, and audience reception.
God creates dinosaurs. God destroys dinosaurs. God created Man. Man created a podcast about dinosaurs.
Hold On to Your Butts started as a Jurassic Park rewatch podcast about how the biggest show on Earth lost its bite. But now that “Rebirth” has been birthed, Paul Karolyi and JD Lopez are revisiting other great franchises that once dominated the cultural landscape and now, well, don’t.
For season two, we’re tackling Indiana Jones because Disney is rebooting it, apparently without Harrison Ford, and we have feelings about that.
In this week’s Hold On to Your Butts, JD and Paul are joined once again by singer, songwriter, and Indiana Jones enthusiast Neyla Pekarek to discuss the final chapter in the franchise, “The Dial of Destiny.” Together, they dig into the legacy of Harrison Ford, argue about the emotional payoff (or lack thereof), the maguffin as a metaphor for aging, and ask: Does this movie justify its own existence?
This episode is filled with heartfelt laughs, nostalgic tangents, and one last question: what do we want from our heroes as they age?
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