We are talking about the origin story of the world’s first trillionaire in this week’s episode. That’s right, everyone's favorite rich person to hate Elon Musk! His younger years were pretty difficult and all signs point to those factors contributing to the person we see today. He practices pronatalism too much! He has multiple children to multiple women and hopefully he has decided to stop procreating at his advanced age. 

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No audio issues this time! This has to be our most giggly episode yet! Once those giggle fits start it takes some time for them to calm down. We finally get into deeper descriptions of what Nessie the Loch Ness Monster allegedly looks like and her fellow lake monsters around the world. The mispronunciations are out of control in this episode too!

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First, we need to apologize about the audio issues that happened towards the end of this episode as well as the abrupt end of the episode. We recorded for about 1 hour and 30 minutes and got 58 minutes of audio…sort of. Will’s mic died around 45 minutes and Foennix’s mic died at about 58 minutes so this episode will now be a 2-part episode and part 2 will feature more lake monsters! 

We got the stickers and we got Nessie’s story…pretty much. Will is wearing his wife’s Loch Ness Monster shirt that they got from the Bigfoot and Cryptid festival at the Susquehanna Valley Mall in Selinsgrove, PA last year. The festival will be on August 15th this year and we plan to be there! 

Tangents in the notes?! Yup! So many tangents in this episode, but we did manage to talk about the history of the Loch Ness region and how Christianity was brought into the area allegedly. We touch on some milestone alleged encounters of the Loch Ness Monster through history and up to the modern day. The audio died most of the way through the full description of Nessie herself. 

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The Corpse Walkers are a fascinating piece of history. Respect for the dead and ritual practice turned into an entire industry of work. The idea that a person’s body needed to be returned to their homeland and buried in order for the soul to rest peacefully seems a little crazy to a culture, us, that doesn’t practice it. The body was prepared in multiple ways in order to be ready to travel. We certainly go on plenty of tangents during this episode…as usual.

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Even after two episodes about Data Centers we still don’t think they are necessary in such quantities. I guess we’re going to have to live with them somehow. If the people designing and engineering them could think more about resource efficiency then maybe coping with the festering warts that data centers are wouldn’t be so bad. We get into some ways of how the byproducts of running a data center can help instead of hinder neighborhoods. Or how about everyone just carries around their own personal data centers?!

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Data Centers have evolved in so many different ways since they first became a necessity and nuisance. They have always taken up massive amounts of space and resources and somehow the needs to run them have ever increased as well. The sheer amount of water and electricity it takes to run these places is unimaginable. They use the amount of resources that can sustain a large town or small city. Are they actually necessary though? 

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Here we go, another big corporation origin story! Born from the idea of legally listening to music on the internet, Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon created Spotify. The word is actually a portmanteau of “Spot” and “Identify”. It was a struggle but those guys built something pretty important for the world, but with every Big Corporation problems would soon come. The BIG part tends to come from the corporation stepping on the people they claim to be serving.
 
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Happy 6-7 Day!!! Well it was 6/7 this past week. We dig into the origin of this recent meme/idiom that has inundated society so much that schools have banned students from saying it and doing the motion associated with it. We also get into origin stories of some other idioms involving numbers. We may not be going The Whole Nine Yards with idioms but we certainly had moments where we were on Cloud Nine in this episode. 

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Can you believe at one point mass hysterias were blamed on roving uteruses?? Of course the males in power giving out diagnoses only blamed females for a long time. Eventually males were diagnosed as part of mass hysteria epidemics, but it was still a female dominated ailment according to the patriarchy of the time. A woman started the dancing plague, Nuns acting out in wildly radical ways for around a century, and the Salem witch trials are some major mass hysterical events that appear to be led by women, but there were certainly men holding positions of power that could have been better leaders of people. 

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Welcome to our next cryptid origin story. The origin of the Chupacabra is really recent in the grand scheme of things. The first alleged sighting or encounter was in March of 1995 where 8 sheep were discovered dead. After that, other mysterious livestock deaths were attributed to the same creature. The coining of the term "chupacabra" is credited to the Puerto Rican comedian and radio personality Silverio Pérez, who used the label during a broadcast in 1995 while commenting on the livestock deaths. The name translates literally from the Spanish chupar (to suck) and cabra (goat). 

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