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Why do we get goosebumps when we hear nails on a chalkboard? Obviously aliens didn't make the pyramids, but how were they made and what does that teach us about humanity? And what's the story behind nessie and why the queer community loves cryptids?Things we talk about:Egyptian painting of using water to pull a statueVideo of modern people pulling a blockThe famous Nessie photographSupport us with a Max Fun Membership!Join our Discord!Timestamps:(00:00:00) Intro(00:05:59) Goosebumps(00:48:43) Not Alien Pyramids(01:23:13) Nessie and Cryptids(01:50:50) OutroWe also learn about: The bumpies you get on your skinnies, the gem trade can be pretty shitty!, Tom read 5 books for this, ahhhh! oh wait have I got goosebumps? the many and few names for goosebumps, piloerection, I just got objective chills, animal goosebumps, famous geologist and pigeon lover Charles Darwin, “I took a stuffed snake to the monkey house”, porcupine piloerection, gustatory stimuli, grima, it’s not ew it’s euggghh, Easy Lovery by Phil collins, Screaming Ape; Loop. the Head Wizard tm, biomimicry, nails on a chalkboard, Scraping Sounds and Disgusting Noises, (SOUNDBITE OF FINGERNAILS ON CHALKBOARD), so is that better or worse? I guess the kids are listening to screeching sounds for music, prehistoric chalkboard monster, ruining Ella’s spooky cold open, 118 pyramids! you’re both racist! when did the ancient aliens theory stated, von Daniken’s racist conspiracy, the racism in believing only wwhite people could make architecture, plumbobs! moving 5000 pound limestone blocks, the genius post ramp system, it took 100 years to realize the painting was showing how to move stuff with water, Gregory Marouard’s demonstration of moving a block, the Nile used to run right by the Giza pyramids, the mundane power of having a lot of people, 20,000 people to build the great pyramids, the oldest papyrus ever found: the diary of merer, the pyramid builders weren’t slaves, the bent pyramid, the plesiosaur, cryptids that turned out to be real like the thylacinem, fake cryptids, cryptid comes from cryptozoology in the 80s, Nessie swimming down the nile, you gotta try Irn Bru, Columba the Monk’s encounter with nessie from the 565 AD, Columba was a dual class monk cleric, Marmaduke’s hoaxes, hippo leg umbrella, the Nessie-sary search, eDNA, you pee you poop you die, eels in the loch, cryptids and the queer community, cyptids are the people’s mythology, token straight scientist friend.Sources:The Biology of FearDarwin's The Expression of the Emotions in Man and AnimalsPorcupine PiloerectionThe Psychological study of Emotional PiloerectionChills in Different Sensory DomainsThe emotion of GrimaScraping Sounds and Disgusting NoisesNPR Chalkboard TranscriptsPsychoacoustics of a Chilling SoundPsychoacoustics of Chalkboad SqueakingAnatomy of the Ear---Medium Article on the "impossibility" of Giza PyramidsThe great pyramid of GizaPseudoarchaeology and the Racism Behind Ancient AliensTools Used in Ancient Egyptian ConstructionAncient RampsUsing the Nile for blocksSliding Friction on Dry and Wet SandThe Diary of Merer Papyri---Cryptozoology Museum: What is Cryptozoology?National Catholic Register: Story of the Loch Ness MonsterUniversity of Aberdeen: The PictsHighland Pictish Trail: Pictish StonesNew York Times: Loch Ness Fiction is Stranger than TruthLoch Ness Sightings WebsiteScience Focus: eDNA and Loch NessThe Guardian: eDNA and giant eelsDaily Mail: Psychology of Loch Ness Monster BelieversNessie is My Girlfriend! Cryptids and Queer PeopleVox "How the Babadook became the LGBTQ icon we didn’t know we needed"Cryptid Queer Icons