312 - A ’Peake at Chessie

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4.8 • 677 Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2019

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

00:00:00 - Joe brings his friend and historian Kristina Gaddy (@kgadz) onto the show to talk about Chessie, the supposed sea monster of the Chesapeake Bay (bay monster?). She wrote a piece about the history and cultural perception of this cryptid.

00:35:39 - It may not be surprising to hear that as a bona fide icon, Chessie is featured by some local breweries. Kristina is having a beer from RAR brewing that features a little Chessie on every can. Joe argues that his King Kong Cola is an appropriate choice given the theme. And Ryan enjoys a Grampus Smoked Nut Brown Ale from Hellbender Brewing to celebrate a beloved amphibian.

00:42:50 - Kristina also has a new book coming out about the true story of French teenagers resisting the Nazi occupation titled Flowers in the Gutter, available for pre-order now!

00:51:31 - PaleoPOWs are a lot like livestreams; we’re not really sure how they work. This particular PaleoPOW was actually recorded during a Patreon livestream hangout where Ryan began by reading an e-mail from Tommy M. thanking us for his thesis, and then they brought in Patron Sam to help answer a question from RJ about how to decide what science to study when they go back to school.

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0:00.0	All right, everybody.
0:01.2	So for all those here in the live stream right now, welcome.
0:06.4	We are doing our best, but this is kind of a hot mess.
0:09.6	So, sorry for being late, but now Joe and I are going to record the interstitial bits for an upcoming episode.
0:19.2	We just figured out our theme.
0:21.3	And I'm just going to dive into the intro just like I normally would.
0:25.8	From science sort of.com, you're listening to Science Sort of. You're listening to Episode 312. Our theme this week is a peek at Chessie. I'm your host Ryan and joining me to talk about things that are science, things that are sort of science, and things that wish they were. Science is Joe Batwinness.
0:55.4	Hello, everybody.
0:56.9	Hey, Joe. Joe, what is special about tonight?
1:01.4	We are, in the immortal words of guy, I'm forgetting, wow, that really ruins the bit.
1:09.6	Anyway, we're doing it live we're live on
1:11.4	YouTube oh bill o'Reilly bill o'Reilly that guy yeah the guy who's killed killed every famous person
1:17.8	yeah yeah famous sexual harasser and death historian yes exactly sam if it hadn't taken us a half hour to figure out how to just add Joe to the stream
1:29.9	we could have added you too but right now we've got Sam in the live stream hopefully some
1:35.0	other folks will join as we go merrily along but um Joe yes you really uh you really put it
1:41.4	together for this one so why don't you tell us who we're talking to on the show this week?
1:45.4	Okay.
1:45.9	Today, this week, we are talking to Christina Gaddy.
1:50.6	She's a freelance writer and a historian.
1:53.5	And she recently wrote an article in Shore Monthly about Chessie,
1:58.7	the mystical monster of the Chesapeake Bay. So we had a chat with her to talk about her article and about Chessie, the mystical monster of the Chesapeake Bay.
2:01.0	So we had a chat with her to talk about her article and about Chessie because we like cryptids here on Science, sort of.
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