Hold On to Your Butts: A Jurassic Park Rewatch Podcast

About Hold On to Your Butts: A Jurassic Park Rewatch Podcast

God creates dinosaurs. God destroys dinosaurs. God created Man. Man created a podcast about dinosaurs. And then, the podcasters just kept going. 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 tackled Indiana Jones because Disney is rebooting it, apparently without Harrison Ford, and we have feelings about that. And now in season three, it's time for our most-maligned franchise yet -- Predator. They've made nine movies, and we're still asking: what the heck even is a Predator?

Publisher

Paul Karolyi and JD Lopez

Category

comedy · tv & film

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

30 Apr 2025

Latest episode

21 Aug 2026

Latest episodes

25 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   21 Aug 2026

   Is Predator: Badlands Still a Predator Movie?

   It all comes down to this. JD and Paul reach the end of What the Hell Are You? A Rewatch of Everything Predator with Predator: Badlands, and Paul's wife Megan joins them for the final hunt. Dan Trachtenberg makes perhaps the strangest creative decision in the entire franchise: this time, the Predator is our protagonist. Does turning Predator into a sympathetic hero finally push the franchise somewhere new, or does it fundamentally misunderstand what made Predator interesting in the first place? JD, Paul and Megan debate whether Badlands still feels like Predator, how much franchises need to evolve to survive, what Dan Trachtenberg has added to Yautja culture, whether the movie borrows a little too freely from Dune, Avatar, Star Wars and Alien, and why Weyland-Yutani may ultimately be the most dangerous predator of all. Plus: Dek's bizarre family dynamics, Elle Fanning playing both sides of the synth divide, James Cameron's surprising influence on the ending, Predator callbacks, sick kills, Paul falling asleep during the movie, and the official final ranking of all nine Predator films. After months of trophy hunts, thermal vision, spine ripping and arguments over whether Predator even has a memorable theme, the season ends here.

2. 

   13 Aug 2026

   Did Animation Make Predator Better? | Hold Onto Your Butts Ep. 23

   JD and Paul take on Predator: Killer of Killers, the animated anthology from Dan Trachtenberg that sends the Predator hunting across centuries of human history. This time, a Viking warrior, a samurai, and a World War II pilot each face their own Yautja hunter before being brought together for a Predator gladiator battle. JD thinks Killer of Killers contains some of the best and most inventive action in the entire franchise. Paul thinks animation might fundamentally prevent him from caring about any of it. So naturally, things get contentious. We break down the three stories, the wildly different Predator designs, the new Yautja Codex and language, the film's animation, its historical settings, the samurai showdown, the aerial Predator battle, the final arena sequence, and what Dan Trachtenberg seems to understand about this franchise that so many previous filmmakers didn't. Subscribe for the final episode of What the Hell Are You? I A Rewatch of Everything Predator.

3. 

   1 Aug 2026

   Did Prey Save the Predator Franchise? | Hold Onto Your Butts Ep. 22

   After six Predator movies, we finally arrive at the one that changed everything. JD and Paul are joined by Mallory Vining (AudiYOOObooks) to break down Prey (2022), the critically acclaimed reboot that breathed new life into the Predator franchise. We discuss why Naru is one of the series' greatest protagonists, how Dan Trachtenberg returned the franchise to its horror roots, and why smaller stakes and smarter storytelling made for the best Predator film since the original.

Who has been a guest on Hold On to Your Butts: A Jurassic Park Rewatch Podcast

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Megan
• Mallory
• Eeland Stribling
• Katie Bowman
• Neyla Pekarek

Reach and audience

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Apple Podcasts (US)

3.3 / 5

4 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 40 / 100

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Quality

68

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

30

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