Dog Buttons and Flying.. Cars?

We Have Concerns

Anthony Carboni/Jeff Cannata

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

4.9 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2020

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Bunny the dog has 5 million Tik Tok followers and an array of buttons that let's her talk to them. By pressing a button, she can construct rudimentary sentences that her owner believes constitutes a sophisticated understanding of language. Anthony and Jeff discuss the research into Bunny and other animals, and whether this technique might be used to unlock communication in pets. Then, with over a dozen companies actively working on vertical take off and landing vehicles, is the flying car future actually happening? Jeff and Anthony take a look at the current state of personal air transportation.

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0:00.0	You know, it's a little bit better than it was yesterday. Hey! This is way up concerns! Hi, Jeff Kanada.
0:21.0	Hi, Anthony Cardboney. Hello, concerned citizens. Jeff, what if you had to name my three favorite things
0:32.8	to bring up on this show? My three favorite sorts of topics. How would you distill them down? What do
0:38.7	you think they would be? Three favorite topics on the show. Yeah, get as general as you like.
0:46.0	Staring death in the face. Sure. There's transforming the human body to transcend death. Yes.
0:57.7	And there's dealing with our feelings along the way. Yeah, it's okay. We've focused it on mortality,
1:08.9	which I think is appropriate. I would have said at least one of them for me, I think. And maybe
1:16.2	I just think I bring this up more than I do. Animal intelligence and communication.
1:21.5	Oh, yeah. Now that's a big one. I almost said you're perfect prince as one of the things,
1:28.8	but I didn't. But that would have fallen that category. I think, yes, you love animal intelligence.
1:33.4	I think you're a big believer that animals is almost people. Oh, animals is so close to people.
1:41.4	Animals is just so close to people, Jeff. Yeah. We don't even realize how close to people they are.
1:48.2	Is this another story about how close to people animals is? You bet it is, baby boy.
1:54.4	You know it. This one was put on the discord by I llama. Thank you, I llama. And this is about
2:02.1	bunny the dog. And I've been following bunny the dog on TikTok for quite a while. Jeff TikTok is
2:08.6	an app where people it's a bit like a it started off as something called musically. A lot of kids dance
2:16.4	and lip sync and do all kinds of fun things on it, but it's become so much more Jeff. It's become
2:21.8	so much more as a way for for the Chinese to steal our data. It's become so much more
2:26.5	than a way for weird people to watch underage children dancing. It's very, very, very, it's become
2:34.2	a huge, huge thing. And you can find so much content. As I've gotten older, I have to admit,
2:39.4	I've been less and less a fan of letting the kids dance. You know, just let's let's stop the kids
2:44.3	from dancing. Yeah. I think that's what we do is we get older. You're a list guy. I'm stressed.
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