What's Your Favorite Dinosaur!? Podcast
Host Nicole Melnyk @mcfancyvonpants on IG interviews people (usually comics, always her friends) about their favorite dinosaur!
What's Your Favorite Dinosaur!? Podcast
01x05 Whats Your Favorite Dinosaur Podcast: Jurassic Episode
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This episode host comedian Nicole Melnyk sits (and sometimes lays) down with cast of Jurassic Park: the Musical at Planet Ant in Hamtramck, MI. Enjoy meeting the cast, talking about dinosaurs and making your dino dreams come dino true.
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SPEAKER_11Yo, thank you for watching! What's your favorite dinosaur? With me, Nicole Melnick, aka your favorite dinosaur. This week, in the most momentous of occasions, we have stumbled upon the most amazing thing in Dino history since dinosaurs have been found for the first time. I'm interviewing for the opportunity of literally a lifetime, unless they get cloned and we do it again, the entire cast of Jurassic Park the Musical at Plant and Theater. Guys, make some noise! Thanks for watching. This is um What's Your Favorite Dinosaur with me and Nicole Melnick, and I am interviewing the cast of Jurassic Park the Musical. These guys, if anybody knows about dinosaurs, it's these guys. And these guys are gonna tell us about dinosaurs. Thanks for coming on my show. Thank you for doing your show.
SPEAKER_03Thanks for having us, Nicole.
SPEAKER_11This was so much fun. Um, an incredible play. Everyone, go around and say your name and maybe your role in the play, or and maybe something fun that you like about yourself. Is that um we want to start here?
SPEAKER_06Sure. Yeah. Um my name is uh RJ Cash, and I play uh Ian Malcolm uh in the in the show. Uh uh Something fun about myself. Um this is like one of my favorite movies. I don't know. It really is. Jurassic Park, yeah. That's awesome! Yeah, big dinosaur fan.
SPEAKER_11That's awesome.
SPEAKER_06Anyways.
SPEAKER_07Uh hi, uh, I'm uh Will Schulak and I play Dennis Nedri. Um what was that question? Something fun about me is that I am somebody who's very fun and gregarious, and I also have a positive relationship with my mother. That's cool.
SPEAKER_09It's beautiful. Hi, I'm Mary Consiglio, and I play Lex Murphy, and I'm gonna laugh at a poop and pee joke.
SPEAKER_08Hi, I'm Naver Nami. I play uh Dr. John Hammond, and I am a newly um discovered uh drag king, and I love it.
SPEAKER_04I mean, that's an exclusive kid. It is checked. You heard it here first, folks. Hi, I'm Jen Horn. I play Dr. Ellie Sattler and the voice of Trexy. Um, and I am an Aquarius uh Aries Rising tourism.
unknownWhoa.
SPEAKER_12Hi, I'm Courtney Kaman, and I play Tim and Clever Girl. And um What? Yeah. Did you not? No. You didn't know that?
SPEAKER_04She transforms.
SPEAKER_12You tra that's wild! Thank you so much. Wow. Thank you so much.
SPEAKER_02I think that speaks for itself. Uh my name is Caitlin Shea, and I play Alan Grant. Uh I don't have a positive relationship with my dad.
SPEAKER_03And that's huge, and that's huge, and that's huge, and that's huge.
SPEAKER_00Um, hi, I'm Brendan McCarthy. I play Robert Muldoon and some other characters. I play the scientist and the dinosaur and the ranger and the lawyer Gennaro. And a fun fact about me is I've got a little dog named Taco.
SPEAKER_01Hi, I'm Wario Catwill, and I play the T-Rex, also known as Trixie. And this is actually my first production ever.
SPEAKER_03Whoa!
SPEAKER_05Which way are you holding? You put it in your mouth and you eat it. Right there. Just eat it.
SPEAKER_10Yeah, the light, the light. You're actually holding it upside down. Just put it in your mouth.
SPEAKER_05Oh, like this. Alright. I'm about to eat it. Right. This is like a flat black jelly bean. Anyway, hey, um, I'm Jake Russell. I put and I play uh black guy number one and black guy number two slash Mr. Arnold slash Samuel Jackson. Um and I want to get in shape and do some wrestling training just so I can learn how to dropkick somebody.
SPEAKER_11That's a that was awesome. That was the cast. Well, hold on to that because that was incredible, guys. Wasn't that incredible? Um, that's awesome. I'm so glad. But then uh, so on my podcast, we talk about dinosaurs a lot. That's cool that you have seen the movie and liked the movie. Uh the because my thing is I ask people uh on my show on a scale of one dinosaur to five dinosaurs, how much do you like dinosaurs? And it might take too long to ask everybody. Yeah. So we're just gonna do a show of hands and raise your hand if you're a three or uh or above in how much you like dinosaurs. Five being the best. Five being the best. Okay, and then um show of hands if you're a three to zero in dinosaur interest. Get the fuck out of here. I'm right in the middle. No, that's awesome. So my question for you three is why do you hate joy?
SPEAKER_05Oh, shit.
SPEAKER_12I don't hate I just I feel like I'm a strong three. I do feel like this show helped me fall more in love with dinosaurs, but like what is your dinosaur? What is your dinosaur? Well, I think I really like a brachiosaurus. And I was really scared to say that out loud because I thought I was gonna say it wrong. Did they say it right?
SPEAKER_11Yes. No, a lot of the times on my own show, people would be like, you're actually pronouncing that wrong. And I'm like, okay, well, whose fucking show is it? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_12So I like a brachiosaurus. I'm like, wouldn't take a bullet for one, but like I'm a three. Okay. I I actually um no, that was an awesome answer.
SPEAKER_11I meant like, what do you love instead of dinosaurs? Like me and I are watching Jurassic Park. What are you watching? My dog on Furbo. Oh, okay. Yeah. Dogs notoriously descended from dinosaurs. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Um, cool. And you were also who I was a three, too. Yeah, you were a three.
SPEAKER_07Go ahead. Um, I'm okay with dinosaurs. I just think that there are too many of them in our government. Yes. Government by the people for the people, not eight-year-olds shitting themselves.
SPEAKER_11Oh, this was such a politically charged musical for what is Jurassic Park.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, I it's a very like progressive show. I mean, it was a movie in the 90s that is an amazing movie, but like, I mean, Novere can speak to this more obviously, but it's it's really our own twist on it. It is a parody musical. It's so well done. It's so it's so much fun. Like, I I am blessed to be in this cast. Um, and my my favorite uh dinosaur probably is a pterodactyl.
SPEAKER_11Okay. You people love the pterodactyl, dude. Is your favorite disease pneumonia? People go nuts for the silence piece. I pronounced the pet. Yeah, that was awesome. And then uh, so I didn't uh actually ask what your favorite dinosaur was, but I had one.
SPEAKER_07A pterodactyl, sorry.
SPEAKER_11No, um she still had one. Yeah, it I save that for the end. Everyone always doesn't think that I save it for the end. But that's my own fault. The show is coming up. Yeah, it's a little bit of an oversight on my fault.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, it's kind of like it's kind of like uh asking us like who's gonna come at the end of the play, but the title's waiting for Godot. Ooh, okay.
SPEAKER_11Keep that in. Wow, that was awesome. Okay, and then um laughs like a Muppet. That's that's what my car sounds like.
SPEAKER_07So your car sounds like your car sounds like cut chow.
SPEAKER_11Um, and then to the people who love dinosaurs, off-rip, what is a memorable dinosaur from your childhood? Like, what was it that Stegosaurus? Stegosaurus.
SPEAKER_05Thank you. Stegosaurus.
SPEAKER_11From what um from what program? Yeah, who tell me a story about the you know, I call her Steggy.
SPEAKER_02Stegosaurus was the awakening for me. Going to Gay Awakening Play. Steggy. She's got her own protective uh back of plates to keep her keep her safe. Uh, also, just shout out to Cranbrook uh Museum, who had an insane dinosaur exhibit as a kid. Uh went on a field trip and saw Stegosaurus. I was like, okay, that's it. Wow, stegosaurs.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, Stegosaurus um shit. So this is my awakening. Power Rangers was my awakening. When it had the dinosaurs, I was like, that's cool. Yeah. And then I was like, I want to learn more about dinosaurs. And my mama ordered dinosaur magazines for me and shit. And it came with like these um these like little like plastic fossils that you can put together yourself or whatever. I put all them holes together, man. That shit was fun as hell. And the stegosaurs was my favorite. The stegosaur looked cool, like what Katie said, the plates, and they had the little uh spikes on the tail and everything. So so like, because the plates protected the back, but then the but then the uh little spikes, you know what I'm saying, can like, you know, the stegosaur do a little damage, you know what I'm saying? You feel me? You know, I'm uh so like uh yeah, man, damn.
SPEAKER_12I'm getting it.
SPEAKER_05I'm about to cry, man. I'm about to cry. I ain't about to cry. I ain't about to fucking cry. Fuck out of here. But uh yeah, that's my that's pretty much my awakening. Um oh yeah, the dinosaur TV show too was dope too.
SPEAKER_11Oh yeah, yeah, I'm the baby. It's in there. You guys, you nailed it. This was there were so many.
SPEAKER_05You probably I held this wrong. You probably ain't hear none of that shit.
SPEAKER_02I just have to say that the son in dinosaurs, New Vera and I are talking about this earlier today. I loved that that I loved his vibe. He had a uh a varsity jacket and a moha. No, no, no. Oh, the brother. But I did have the pull string baby toy, and you'd pull the string and it's a big thing. Not the mama, but yeah, the brother was cool. Another gay awakening where I was like, oh, I want to be the brother.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, the mom was gay too because you had a moha.
SPEAKER_08The mom was very gay too. Um, I do not have feelings like that towards dinosaurs. Um, I do like dinosaurs. I was a three and above, but for me, Land Before Time, which the reference in the show, um that song, you know, Diana Ross's song and the death of the mom. It's just so typical. But like if you're not drawn in, but I will say that I hated Sarah, the triceratops, because she was a little bitch. Yeah. And I kind of hated uh Littlefoot. Um that's a hot take. I did Spike. Sorry, I did, but I did like Spike and I did like Flucky. And um I just feel like Littlefoot was just like, but you just shut the fuck up, you know what I mean? You're not gonna find this.
SPEAKER_11That's how I feel about Sarah, and everyone loves Triceratopses, and it literally drives me crazy. I'm always rooting for the T-Rex. I'm always rooting for the T-Rex.
SPEAKER_06Yeah. Sharptooth, right? Sharp Tooth.
SPEAKER_11Yeah, but also my that's I always say um BJ, Barney's like cousin. Oh, yeah. The big yellow one. Yeah. Yeah. She's a little slut, you know what I'm saying? When I was a kid, well, I was a kid, she was a kid, we were both kids.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, yeah. It's good.
SPEAKER_11Yeah. You guys are great. Okay, awesome. What? Whoa, that's wild.
SPEAKER_12We'll have a cast viewing party of all the darkness.
SPEAKER_11Marathon. Okay. Oh, wait, this is the part of the show, guys, um, where I ask you. Oh, oh my gosh. These are the questions. Okay, so those are questions that I ask everybody on my show. But you guys are not everybody. This was so cool, and it was so awesome to see you guys do you uh, and it was so cool to see like a little um, and I mean this so affectionately, but a little gay Jurassic Park. Like that. Yeah, you're like, this is what Jurassic Park would have. Dude, I was like trying to figure out how I'm gonna work out the text of my fiance of like, no, it's funny because you wanted to fuck the Velociraptor. Like, that's such a good bit that it got me it, and then um, so my question is you guys I've seen the show, you guys are gonna see the show, you guys are in the show. Is there any role that you would want to play except for the role that you played? Would you guys if you if let's gender let's gender bend the gender bend?
SPEAKER_02I had said we were talking about this last weekend, we were asking this question, and uh Maldoon for sure was a character that you know, short shorts, the whole idea of the character in this show specifically, too, just like is it's it's everyone should get to play Muldoon.
SPEAKER_09It's a very fun, very fun character. Um I want to be Dennis Nedgery. I do. I kind of want to like roll around the stage with the Barbasol, you know?
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_07I think I'd wanna I'd wanna I'd wanna play Lex because I think Lex has some of the funniest funniest lines. Yeah, that would be a fun swap.
SPEAKER_06Uh yeah, a lot of a lot of the characters are fun. I think being John Hammond would be very fun. Yeah, I love John Haman's song, and uh yeah.
SPEAKER_08Um yeah, I said this the other day, but I would want to be Raptor 2 in our show. We have we have Raptor 1 and Raptor 2.
SPEAKER_11So truly do I think that there needs to be a Raptor spin-off of Jurassic Park, the musical. You know what I'm saying? As soon as we get into it. I couldn't, I had no expectations except for like the movie. But when I saw this, I was like, this is how Jurassic Park should be introduced to the kids. And when we the three girl raptors, because it's it was such a good idea, because you're like, oh yeah, they're girl dinosaurs. It's like, of course. But then when they're like sassy and they're all doing their nails because they have claws. It's such a good bit, it's so good, it's hilarious. It's brilliant. I loved it. Um, yeah.
SPEAKER_05Oh my bad. Yeah, no, go interrupt me.
SPEAKER_02Jacob, tell me everything.
SPEAKER_05I want to after after watching Mario's performance, yeah. I want to be a I want to be a hip rolling T-Rex.
SPEAKER_01Oh yeah, yeah, I was waiting for it. I was like, no one wants to be the fucking T-Rex.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, I will I'll be a T-Rex, man. Well, I want the like the moves and everything. The moves that was fun, and I want to fuck some shit up too. So yeah, exactly. I want to chomp on a Jeep.
SPEAKER_11T-Rex all the way, yeah. And you have so much fun playing that role.
SPEAKER_01Yes, yes, I have a lot of fun playing this role. I'm just grateful to be a part of this cast, all of these very talented, funny people. I I don't want to play any other role but this.
SPEAKER_10Hell yeah.
SPEAKER_01So much fun, and yeah, I I can't thank them enough for letting me be a part of this, honestly.
SPEAKER_11You have the most difficult job because you have to do it without words. You have to, you're exclusively using the art of body. You kill it.
SPEAKER_01Oh, thank you. Yeah, it's so much fun. Like the dancing. I really got into it like tonight. I get into it every night, but like tonight, the like second half of the song, I was like, oh yeah, let's do this shit. I I got I got hype as fuck, and you know, I love my my backup dancers, the lady dinos, and it's just scrape.
SPEAKER_11That was so much fun. Awesome. And then I so I gotta just check my notes because I wrote them. Um oh wait, yeah. So this was a musical, and you guys are all you guys all have musical theater backgrounds, right? I presume, or no? No? No. Okay, well then, yeah. Wait, if if this wasn't Jurassic Park the musical, then what musical would it be? What's your what's your musical of choice? What's your drug of musical? Favorite musical? Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Oh, little shampoo!
SPEAKER_09Little Shampoo with dinosaurs is a really good answer. It's my favorite movie. It's my Jurassic Park. What?
SPEAKER_11That's awesome. That's amazing.
SPEAKER_06It's a good one.
SPEAKER_05I don't really fuck with musicals like that.
SPEAKER_03Oh, get out!
SPEAKER_05But have you ever heard this musical called Carmen the Hip Hopper with Beyonce? It was on MTV back in the day. That was the only musical that I watched. Like, that shit came on all the time. Probably watched like 20 times. It was pretty good. If I watched it now, it's probably trash. But that's the musical I like. Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_00I can't peg. I've got way too many favorite musicals. Oh Me and Girls is a great musical. They made it into a musical. Yeah, just stay in your lane. We're talking about musicals right now, okay?
SPEAKER_05I guess not really. And then chapter, fuck y'all.
SPEAKER_00Um, I saw Chad's on Broadway this last year. That was great, along with Death Becomes the Musical, really fun. Uh yeah, we love a good movie musical.
SPEAKER_11We love a good movie musical. It's fun to make it better. And then they go, Oh, you're gonna make it better, and you're like, Yeah, by that we mean a little bit gay. Yes, we're gonna make it better. That's what we said.
SPEAKER_00Because when we make things better, it means we're making it gay. Yeah, exactly.
SPEAKER_11They go together. Wow, you guys, this is so much fun. Okay, and then uh, so all my questions have to do with dinosaurs. I typically ask um if anybody this I ask people who don't know about dinosaurs, because I think it's a funny question. But I ask if there are any dinosaurs that you feel like you could beat in a fight. But I feel like we just did a whole musical about how we know that we can't win against dinosaurs in a fight.
SPEAKER_04Right, right. Yeah.
SPEAKER_11So I think, folks, don't try to fight dinosaurs. But you oh, you got an answer? Horseback's got an answer.
SPEAKER_07Mitch McConnell.
SPEAKER_11No, okay, that's fair. All right, you can fight one dinosaur. You can fight one dinosaur. Oh, you're killing it, dude. You're so funny. Oh, this is going so good. Okay, and then oh right, that was such a great answer. One of my friends said uh a pterodactyl, but in a in a cage match on ground, and you're like, well, that's just wrestling.
SPEAKER_00Yeah but Yeah, remember the pterodactyl grabbed the babysitter in Jurassic World. Yeah. He's dunking her head in the line. Oh my gosh.
SPEAKER_11Just put her in. That was isn't the isn't the lore that she's somebody in the play, or in the in the play. You know, the play for TVs. Um, she's in the she's connected to the film in some way, and and she was like, kill me in the movie.
SPEAKER_00What?
SPEAKER_11I don't know. She like asked to be I don't know anything about that. You know what I mean? I don't know. I don't know. I play a dinosaur video game. That's how I so I don't even I've seen Jurassic Park maybe a couple of times. Um, but big Jeff Goldblum fan. So that's cool. Yeah, that's uh um did you like him in Wicked? I I loved him in Wicked. He did such a good job. I don't like there's too much CGI in the they like de-aged him by and then I'm like, but you were like practical effects for all of us. And you're like, pick a pick a side, but you regardless. Um wait, okay, so then this is what's your favorite dinosaur? Well, I asked my friends what their favorite dinosaur is. Everything on this show is connected to dinosaurs, about dinosaurs, or in some way transgenically connected to dinosaurs, not just in the way that we all are sharing the same earth. Um, so my question that I ask every guest on the show uh to sort of embody dinosaurs is um I'm gonna put I'm gonna ask you guys it now, is um dinosaur related. Why do you think that we're all here?
SPEAKER_01Whoa, whoa, whoa, that's not hot. I'm gonna have to take a shot at that one. Tennis. Uh why are we all here? I I think we're all here to to love each other and you know, to to really bring something to the world, you know, we're all unique. Everybody has an uh aptitude for something, uh, intelligence, whatever it may be. I believe we're all here to connect and you know, just be one, you know. But anybody else? Anybody else?
SPEAKER_11Top that, losers. What are you here to do? Have a crack at it.
SPEAKER_05No, I think some of us are here to do that. You know, you you you heard the song Human So Stupid. Human So Stupid. To fuck up everything. Humans fucked up every goddamn thing.
SPEAKER_11I agree.
SPEAKER_05They fucked up all this shit, man. Only there's only a few select uh people here that's here to actually love each other. They're all on the stage right now. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03That's so cute.
SPEAKER_05Yeah. That wasn't cute. That was real shit. Nah, that was cute.
SPEAKER_11It was cute. It was real shit. That was cute.
SPEAKER_05Anyway, uh, yeah. I don't even know the answer made sense. Hey, uh, hey, will you edit it? Let me hear it. And then I'll I'll let you know if you're gonna be. And I'll tell you if you cut it or not.
SPEAKER_11Jacob's final cut. It's actually Jacob's podcast, yeah. So that's um well, that was awesome, you guys. Thank you for um being on the show. I have two more questions for you. Don't worry.
SPEAKER_01Um The Pizza is getting cold. Wow.
SPEAKER_11Did I already ask you what dinosaur you would be if you could be any dinosaur?
SPEAKER_01No. She asked, she asked what if we could fight, if we could fight it on the show.
SPEAKER_02No, well, because I said stegosaurus. Oh, wait, did you? Yes, we did, I don't know. We did that?
SPEAKER_11Okay. Um, well then this was this was my there's two more questions to go. And then this question, um Wait, how would it?
SPEAKER_08It's been two questions for a little bit.
SPEAKER_11Oh yeah. It's because numbers aren't real. Um, we have two guys, thank you so much for guys, the cast of Jurassic Park. You know what I'm saying? This is so cool. Thank you for being on my show. Um, two questions to go. The second to last question, my question is uh oh fuck. I fuck how do you go? What's I it's it's a bit. Well, what's your what's your favorite dinosaur's favorite dinosaur? Chapel Roaring. Oh, team, shut team, chat team.
SPEAKER_03We did it.
SPEAKER_11So that was two, and now we have one. And then the last question. Yeah, um, the last question on the podcast, everyone can share the microphone and we're gonna go around and um and say our favorite dinosaurs. I'll start with me. Uh my name's Nicole Malik, I'm the host of the show. My favorite dinosaur is the Carcorontidodontosaurus. He's like a T-Rex, but he's got spikes, and he's a little bit smaller.
SPEAKER_05Uh I already said Stegosaurus earlier, so I'm sticking with that. Stegosaurus with the place and the spike tail and everything.
SPEAKER_12Mario has two mics, it's not fair. Marion has two mics. Make them kiss.
SPEAKER_01My favorite dinosaur is the Mario Saurus, of course. No, I'm joking, I'm fucking around. It's the T-Rex. Clearly, clearly. It has to be the T-Rex, right?
SPEAKER_03It has to be the T-Rex. I hate when people don't like the T-Rex.
SPEAKER_00Um obviously, my favorite is the Velociraptor.
SPEAKER_11Oh, that accent wasn't real that whole time.
unknownNo.
SPEAKER_00Nope, I'm American. I'm from Michigan.
SPEAKER_11I knew it.
SPEAKER_12I fucking knew it this whole time. Um, I also already answered, but I do like a brachiosaurus.
SPEAKER_04I'm sticking with my little Steggyosaurus. Stegosay.
SPEAKER_01Stegosay.
SPEAKER_04When I was little, uh, we would have like a little chant, it would be Pacylocephalosaurus. Paclycephalosaurus, but I don't think that's the actual name of it anymore. I think they keep on changing the dinosaurs, right? Like they all the names keep on, and it's disturbing to me. I think it's like a diplosaurus or something. Oh, yeah, diplosaurus. That one. It's got like the hard head.
SPEAKER_11They all, yeah, they all got reclassified. Yeah, a little bit like Pokemon when they did that. Exactly.
SPEAKER_08It's Diplo. Diplo.
SPEAKER_09Yeah.
SPEAKER_08Um, I'm gonna go with Yoshi from uh Super Mario World.
SPEAKER_09That's a really good line. Yeah, it's a dinosaur. Yeah, that's cool. The OG Yoshi, yep. I will be joining joining my my my brother and pal here, William. And I would say that my favorite dinosaur is a pterodactyl, because I really like birds.
SPEAKER_11Well, a lot of birds come from dinosaurs. That one is me. Okay.
SPEAKER_06Fair, fair, fair, fair. Uh, I think I'd probably say because when I was a kid, I fell in love with the Velociraptors in Jurassic Park. And I know that they're obviously, as we mentioned, much bigger. Uh oh yeah, bigger than uh the actual fossils. Um, so I would say the Utah Raptor. Because that's much closer to that.
SPEAKER_11Because it's just a moment. You can have lots of wives.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, yeah, exactly.
SPEAKER_11You have lots of dinosaur wives. Which he can't because all the Jurassic Park dinosaurs are girls, so he'll have lots of choices of wives to choose from.
SPEAKER_06That's very true. Many, many a wife.
SPEAKER_11Many a wife, a wifeosaurus. Guys, this has been what's your favorite dinosaur with me, Nicole Melligan. Check out the show, check out the show. Check out the show. Check out the show. Check out the show.
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SPEAKER_11Alright, and cut. Thank you so much for doing that, guys.