Teardrop Explodes once sang “pure joy wins out again”, and whilst gnostic oddity frontman Julian Cope finds joy in stone circles; Iszi Lawrence and Dr David Hone find pure joy in dinosaurs. They have brought us Terrible Lizards, an addition to the podcast fossil record. History pods are a dime to the dozen, – (unlike dinosaur fossils, where only one in a million dino’s became fossils – it’s this kind of fact you will be regaled with). This isn’t narrative history though, this is an episodic interrogation of an expert by an enthusiastic amateur. Iszi asks the questions we would ask. Terrible Lizards is a warm and soothing conversational piece covering your favourite dinosaurs. It’s like having your own personal palaeontologist, with Iszi as our medium.
Here are some facts revealed and questions covered:
Velociraptor’s are not as big as you think. Protoceratops had a big arse. Penn Gillette does not like Jurassic Park. How do you pronounce Diplodocus? If our bones are like a Snickers, were Pterosaurs’ bones like a Crunchie?
The most interesting parts are for me is listening how David uses his expertise on modern day animals to gauge the behaviour of dino’s, best seen in the Spinosaurus episode which features a wonderfully long discussion on whether or not they could swim: comparing them to crocodiles, looking at nasal position, and ultimately arguing that they were probably more like massive herons (“I kill you with my face” (Iszi impersonating a heron)), (I used to live next to a canal and a heron resembles a scraggy dementor).
A good podcast makes you feel as if you have a friend in your pocket, like a smarter, less needy Tamagotchi. If you’re night-feeding babies, this will make 2AM less miserable.
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