High Blood Treasure

We Have Concerns

Anthony Carboni/Jeff Cannata

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

4.9 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2018

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

James Harrison, an Australian man whose blood contains a rare antibody that can create a treatment that saves babies' lives, has donated plasma one last time. Harrison, known as "the man with a golden arm," has donated blood and plasma regularly for more than six decades, from age 18 to age 81. The service estimates that over the course of his life, he has helped save some 2.4 million babies. Jeff and Anthony want to try some of that sweet, sweet blood.

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0:00.0	If you're enjoying the show and you'd like to get more, maybe you want to get bonus episodes,
0:03.6	maybe you want to get episodes early, maybe you'd like to join monthly video hangouts with me,
0:08.8	Jeff and other fans of the show. The way to find out how to do that is to go to patreon.com
0:14.3	slash we have concerns.
0:30.6	Oh, he's a pre-fast ship. I mean, I always boil it. Yeah, yeah. He's a pre-fast ship anyway.
0:35.6	Uh, solo, a Star Wars story. Um, one thumbs up and one thumbs medium. Medium for sure.
0:41.7	Yeah. I love it a lot. This is we have concerns. Hi, Jeff. Can I have any car boni? Hello,
0:48.7	concerned citizens. You know, Anthony's been a while since we've done a chronicles of the badass.
0:54.3	That's probably because they never work out in your favor. Well, I think that the record shows
1:00.0	that they sometimes rarely do work out in my favor. Okay. This is our periodic recurring segment where
1:07.4	we take a look at a badass who did something that a regular ass probably wouldn't be able to do.
1:14.3	A castle run. Yeah. In 12 parts. 12 parts. It's a timer distance. That would be, I think it's
1:20.3	distance. Who knows? Yeah. Uh, I think that would be a perfect chronicle of a badass.
1:24.9	A word at real. Mm-hmm. And we, you know, we, there's been some ups and downs in our, in our chronicling
1:31.6	with people you've, you've, you've poked holes in their badassery. I think I've found one that
1:37.4	is above reproach. Well, above reproach, I say, well, if you say it, this is a badass that maybe not
1:44.8	in a traditional sense, maybe not in a, a sense that has been the case with our other chronicles,
1:50.5	where they've done some physical feat or some, uh, some act of survival. This is sort of
1:57.6	obstinate stupidity. Yes. Yes. I would say mostly that. This is a man. Uh, you may have heard of.
2:04.9	This man is named James Harrison. He's an Australian man. And oh, James Harrison from Australia.
2:11.8	Yeah. How is he doing? He is doing nobody is heard of this fucking guy. No. Okay. He's known as
2:17.4	the man with the golden arm. He has, he's the best pitcher that anyone's ever seen. He's seven
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