Cupcakes and the Nature of Longing

We Have Concerns

Anthony Carboni/Jeff Cannata

News, Science, Society & Culture, Culture, Comedy, Internet, Pop, Games, Gadgets

4.9 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2014

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

A chain of cupcake stores went out of business and the Internet is FREAKING OUT, MAN. An enterprising eBay user is selling the 'last cupcake' for $250. Jeff and Anthony try to figure out why we cling to the past so much. Special bonus mentions: Potato salad kickstarters and self-administering electric shocks rather than being alone with your own thoughts. Crumbs Cupcakes on eBay: http://ti.me/U5OmVp Humans prefer an electric shock to being left alone with their thoughts: http://bit.ly/1niWMnM Potato Salad Kickstarter: http://kck.st/1oHYBsc

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0:00.0	This is we have concerns. Hi Jeff Canada. Oh, we're calling it that for officially. It's officially. It's
0:23.9	we bought all the URLs in any carbonA e есть been over twenty two dollars, there's no going back 애
0:28.4	That's true. It's invested. We've invested in we have concerns. I like it. Yeah. I feel good about it.
0:33.9	What is your concern? I don't feel 100% about it but you know, I guess
0:38.5	you are not The other. I guess that means it's appropriate. I heard somebody suggests
0:42.8	the ambiguous league gamer duo.
0:45.8	or duo. Yeah, I feel like when we were when we were streaming, somebody had suggested
0:54.1	CNC podcast factory as well. And I feel like I don't want to hitch my wagon to some mid-90s
1:01.5	pop reference star. You know what I mean? Yeah, it's a star that burst briefly into
1:06.9	the scene and faded quickly. It's no longer a star. It's like it's like at least a red dwarf,
1:12.1	probably a black hole waiting to happen. You know, that's not what you want to do. So if
1:16.5	we have concerns, then what is your what is your concern? It's, you know, it's not a concern,
1:20.3	I guess. So I guess maybe it's the wrong title. But there's something that I've been wondering
1:24.5	about. Did you see this thing about crumbs bakery? I don't know. I don't know of crumbs
1:29.6	bakery. I don't know about it either. Okay. But the internet is all up in arms about it.
1:33.3	They're apparently 42 of these bakeries. They're basically those fancy cupcake places.
1:38.9	You know, like $4 cupcakes, $5 cupcakes. Another star that burst on the scene brightly.
1:43.3	Right. Fast. Yeah. You should have invested in cake pop futures. It gets no. So they
1:48.1	closed without any warning. They went, they filed for bankruptcy 42 locations closed.
1:54.1	People everywhere freaking out the last crumbs cupcake is on eBay right now. Current bid $250
2:01.3	by now price $1,000. And it got me got me thinking about that's a lot for a cupcake.
2:08.5	That's like purse brinkle. You know that even if you get one day shipping by the time PayPal
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