Inventor of Doom

We Have Concerns

Anthony Carboni/Jeff Cannata

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4.9 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Thomas Midgley Jr. may not be a household name, but the inventor is responsible for some of the most world-changing breakthroughs in history. And not in a good way. Anthony and Jeff take a look at the life of man who was part visionary, part carnival barker, and all bad for humanity.

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0:18.8	I've never lost a case this is we have concerns. Hi Jeff Kanata. I'm thinking Carbone. Low concerned citizens Jeff it is very rare that somebody
0:25.1	invents multiple things that change the world, right? That's right. We talk about
0:31.7	people all the you know we think about the geniuses because the geniuses are the names that we know, the people that change the field that do multiple things.
0:40.0	Those are the people, you know, those are the people we remember.
0:43.0	That your Doc Browns.
0:44.6	Your Doc Browns.
0:46.6	You're Rick Moranis from Honey Ice Shrunk The Kids.
0:50.4	Yeah, Wayne Zilinsky.
0:51.9	Yeah, thank you, thank you. Yeah, these are the people that we remember in science.
0:57.6	Probably like is it probably rufous who made the time trap did Rufus make the time traveling phone
1:04.0	booth or was he just assigned it? Rufus was kind of an American Doctor Who right?
1:09.2	Yeah. Where he was just assigned the phone booth. He didn't make it.
1:13.2	You're Egon Spangler.
1:15.2	An Egon Spangler.
1:16.2	Yeah.
1:17.2	These are the people that we remember. The smart monkey from overwatch.
1:22.0	You know?
1:25.0	Winston.
1:27.0	Uh, fuck Activision.
1:30.0	But there are people that have changed the world multiple times whose names we don't even remember.
1:39.1	Yeah. But they've done huge, huge things, changed the course of humanity.
1:46.7	And I want to talk about one of them today that I just learned about.
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