The Chilluminati Podcast - Episode 54 - Cryptids of Africa
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I wish this podcast aired daily.......a light in my week for sure
Honestly same. I always enjoy the hour when listening to this podcast
you guys need to put links to the videos and photos of the stuff your talking about in the description
yeah fr
Or record the discord screen and show it when necessary so they can keep the placeholder video
@@RaxoFilms Yes,yes, yes!!!
I usually Google what they're talking about
@@manemanera i mostly do that to but sometimes its hard to tell if im looking at the same thing as them
Spiders and other insects/arachnids have a max size due to the way they breathe. They essentially have little holes in their exoskeleton and that takes oxygen into their systems. The reason prehistoric insects etc. were so much bigger was that there was more oxygen in the air. Biggest spider (body size) is a goliath bird eating spider. Legs goes to Laos' giant huntsman. So I don't know about anything being 3ft plus, they'd have to have an entire new way of getting oxygen to their systems.
A less known peice of info is that gravity also has quite the effect on their size. Carapaced animals cannot get that much bigger without having a much more robust internal structure. Even in highly oxygenated environments, terrestrial arthropods can't get much bigger than the goliath bird eater.
@Swilly Billy lol
It could be a crustacean instead of an arachnid. The 4 ft description isnt that far off of a Coconut Crab
I'd thought that too, but when I looked into it further it turns out spiders have much more developed respiratory and circular systems than insects. Apparently, they have crude lungs and even a heart. The problem is that their blood doesn't have any hemoglobin, the protein that bonds to oxygen an transports it around the body. So they're still not effective enough at breathing to sustain a large body.
BUT THEN I REMEMBERED there are some tarantulas that have a protein called hemocyanin, that functions like Hgb but with a few differences: 1) It uses copper as an oxygen binding agent, rather than iron. 2) It's an acellular structure, that just sort of floats around doing it's own thing. 3) It... doesn't work very well? Like, it's very efficient in in higher pressure environments like being underwater so it's great if your a mollusk or crustacean. On land though? It's just not enough to compete with similarly sized vertebrates.
So unfortunately, that's still gonna be a big "No" on giant spiders being a thing.
Exactly because how they breathe and the gravity having it's carapace crushing them under their own weight.
I've known that for years all since biology in school..... but now sitting and eating a snack and having a smoke something just came to me.
A GIANT SPIDER.... no just kidding but the gravity must be the same way back then as it is now right?
So even if there was more oxygen just that wouldn't help.
Their own Weight must have crushed them as the ones now right?
There something more that we are not thinking of.
Maybe their "bone structure" was different, maybe they had more metal in them.
They found a ant now in a piece of amber with a horn made out of metal.... so maybe... just maybe that fucker can be scurrying around in the woods over there :P
Gotta be honest, I looked up that video and I saw nothing, there looked to be some dust moving about on the right hand side maybe, along with a weird cut in the audio suggesting somebody had tampered with it possibly. So ye that is 100% not convincing.
And I love the big game hunter story and how his instinct is always to shoot it. I can imagine him seeing a cat walking through his garden and instantly reaching for the elephant gun before thinking "no... stop shooting everything"
I was just looking for something to listen to in the backround while i play a game. SAVING THE DAY AGAIN BOYS. cant wait to listen in.
Absolutely!
The Chilluminati boys are the background to most, if not all, of my gaming nowadays.
Ecuadorian cryptid almost sounds like a displacer beast, you nailed it saying had a dnd feel, straight out the monster manual 😂
That'd be a sweet metal band name too.
@@TheHatecraft Monster Manual would be all about beautifully horrendous giant creatures from about 300 000 000 BC, from extensive millipedes to whopping lampreys, from humongous dragon-flies to behemoth moths. Approved.
@@karllux-d6gnah bro i meant 'Ecuadorian Cryptid'
@@TheHatecraft Ah, OK. Not bad either.
Dinosaurs still existing in Africa is like something straight out of a pulp fiction novel.
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I wonder if Mathas has ever watched a movie
54 episodes in and the only movie mathas has watched is men in black
Im a simple man, i see a new chilluminati podcast, i give a thumbs up.
One of these days mathas, I’m going to get a Chilluminatti tattoo and tweet it at you. Best fucking podcast ever.
Oh snap, just in time for me to paint up minis. You guys are the best.
The possible real but unidentified animal cryptids are awesome, have a few more episodes like this!
Thanks for Chilluminati episode!
While I love a good cryptid and in my heart of hearts I always want them to exist, I'm always dubious of "living dinosaur" cryptids bc accounts of them always match up with what we *used* to think dinosaurs looked like, and not what we know now from new evidence and better technology. Like, ppl circa 1930 thought large dinosaurs lived in water bc the only frame of reference they had for "big lizards" were crocodiles/alligators, but we know now that T-rex was land-dwelling, so why would Kasai Red live and hunt underwater if its a surviving dinosaur? Now, if an explorer in the 1930s claimed to see a Spinosaur in the water, I'd give that account some credence! Not much, but some!
That’d give them a lot of credence, we didn’t know they were water dwelling for a long time
Can you imagine going to Africa and seeing a giant spider? The horrible trauma of knowing creatures like that exist and could be hiding anywhere around you, I would just drop dead on the spot, my heart were explode.
Perfect for a Sunday night and a J. Thank ya
Yes sirrrr
Thought about this today so happy to see I found what I was looking for.
Valley of the Gwangi is a great movie.
Finally we get to Mokele mbembe! My favourite cryptid!
Regarding Mokele-mbembe: I can recommend the book "Congo Journey" by Redmond O´Henlon. It is mostly a travel report about going up the Congo and through the African jungle but the pretext for undertaking the whole journey is to go looking for the legendary Congo Dinosaur. To set the scene for the insane definitely-no-road-anywhere-around-here trip that follows it opens up with them visiting a "feticheuse" in the slums of Brazzaville to learn their fortunes for the journey.
i live for alex's promos of the patreon
This reminds me of a story about a creature in the bible. It was described to be looking like a dinosaur. A bit weird because I doubt they had found many dinosaur bones yet.
I always hate when people talk abt cryptds and are like this cant possibly just be a unknown species of animal (even tho we discover hundreds of new species every year)
18:30 - RE: Cryptid Media coverage: There was a Chupacabra 'scare' in 2011-12 in Texas that was big for a little while. Also there was the Montauk Monster in 2008. Every time there's a giant squid washed up there's plenty of coverage cuz omg hyooj.
I think it doesn't hit as hard as it used to because there is so much more "news" these days (satirical quotes intended). Back then you got it from the one newspaper in your area and maybe from mail or books, so if your one of three sources of new information said "Africa Crazy-Monster" then that was that. Good luck verifying or disproving it.
I just opened this up to listen to. Without having heard it yet, I hope they cover: mokele-mbembe, popo bawa, kongamato and/or asanbosam. Hope I get a couple right!
Alright, I got done listening and it was an excellent episode! I got two out of four technically, because I'm pretty sure the one-eyed bat demon Mr. Cox mentioned near the end referred to the popo bawa. I would love a look at that creature in a second Africa episode! I had also never heard of the J'Ba FoFi or the Kasai Rex, and they were fascinating topics!
I am also very jealous of Mr. Faciane that he's gotten to see a live secretarybird in a zoo. What a gorgeous animal it is!
Secretary birds look amazing!
There was a tribe of people in the region of tsavo who were exterminated, before they came through to build the railroad. Skinwalkers were supposed to be, originally, blackest magic for desperate times. I think the lions themselves may have been a product of a similar working, like they were influenced and enraged by a departed shaman, their last act tying those lions vengefully to the railroad
I bless the Cryptids down in Africa!
Baby is one of those movies that isn't the greatest but it's still entertaining to watch
We need more.
a mini episode of the jackalope would be fun. were the idea came from.
david cho had a big thing with Vice trying to find the mokele mbembe
Love these smart fools 💕👽
Great work, 😀
awwww heeeeelll yeaahhh!
Chillooominaughty
I wanna recommend Trey the Explainer's video on Mokelembembe. That is all.
You have to do a part 2
42:40 an Anaconda, in Africa?
Do you think the seals was the 1800’s equivalent of getting batteries for a toy
Whats the intro song? some epic synth work.
U guys needa talk about project golden dragon!!
Its like every time i fall asleep to the muted dulcet tones of a jeffrey dahmer documentary only to be rudely awakend by that sister of the victim yelling in court "JEFFREY I HATE YOU!" every. damn. time!
Grootslang sounds like some good kush
How can a person relax and enjoy the information when there's so .any adverts?
I was hoping to hear about the popobawa but it was at least mentioned in passing (one-eyed bat shapeshifter).
I have to ask though; what is the dividing line between cryptid and folklore? I've always preferred the more fantastical creatures but I'm not sure at what point it's just dismissed as fantasy as opposed to cryptozoological.
I'm pretty sure that panther thing from Ecuador is just the Monkey Bird thing from Pirates of Dark Water.
Oh I forgot about that show!
okay where is that video link
If you wanna talk about the stuff of nightmares look up the south American Goliath birdeater possibly the inspiration for the jba fofi
Do you guys have a email? I could send you a screenshot of the J'ba Fofi from my video. It looks better, I tried to sharpen the quality of the video. Thanks for covering it guys.
Is it a real photo?
There are like 3 Chilluminati podcasts
I chilled with cryptids of Aaaaafricaaaaaa
Its ironic how it took end of the world before you started uploading more often
Can we get 2 episodes per week
Where is the spider video?!
How do you spell the T-Rex first name
Africa is more than cryptid sightings, wheres the mention of tokoloshe or izinyoka?
...wasn't Trex common to the Americas?
First wave for the first time.
For the love of god plz watch internet historians episode on roswell
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Sry to be a downer but theres no way a 4ft spider can exist just not enough oxygen in the atmosphere. I keep tarantulas as a hobby and the largest the biggest can get is 11". People say they have 13" spiders all the time but they never measure up.
Oxygen? I don't keep spiders so could you explain what you mean a bit more, I'm not sure how spiders oxygenate themselves for that matter even but if something evolved to have more efficient lungs, they could assumingly grow larger.
That is only if you would scale it up in size from its current form. Not if it's through evolution.
By your logic no creature bigger then then the smallest life form coult exist :P
And also, tarantulas are not the biggest arachnids on record. So what you are saying only apply to tarantulas in their current form. :)
@@bobban_2 those on record were supposed to have been in periods of higher oxygen concentration, which is the conjectures origin I believe, but I completely agree with you! Evolution could have sorted how to grow past the 11" limit, and we wouldn't understand it till we got to see how they live. And hopefully examine one w/o dissection
Anything with an exoskeleton can't grow that big because of the way it "breathes". Insects have small holes around their bodies where they get oxygen from the air. They cannot suck or blow air out of those holes. This decentralised sistem is very inefficient that's why they need a lot more oxygen in the air to grow bigger like they used to be. Insects evolved from their bigger ancestors, they got traits that helped their species survive, bigger isin't always better.
Ok kids let's go into it. Tarantulas more specifically the T. Blondi is the biggest arachnid alive to date. Talking body weight and mass. Theres is a spider called the giant huntsman spider that can grow up to 12". Also spider breathe through book lungs which are surprisingly inefficient. Unless they get a completely redone respiratory system they can't get bigger. They just cant get enough oxygen in there blood to support themselves. It would be cool thought.
...African crytids and mythology is so dull
Everything is just a reptile that's either a big snake or a bigger snake.