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We Have Concerns

Leaf of Three, Let it Be

We Have Concerns

Anthony Carboni/Jeff Cannata

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

4.92K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Climate change is having all sorts of unexpected side-effects. One of which has been recorded over the last 14 years by Pesky Pete of Pesky Pete's Poison Ivy Removal. It turns out, poison Ivy, poison oak, and poison sumac love warmer climates and higher carbon dioxide, and have been growing bigger, faster and itchier than ever before. Jeff and Anthony pull out the calamine lotion to discuss this disturbing phenomenon.

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0:00.0

I love Bethesda. I love bugs. I love video games. This is We Have Concerns. Hi, Jeff Canada.

0:20.4

Hi, Anthony Carboni. Hello, Concerned citizens. Anthony, have you ever contracted poison

0:29.3

ivy? No. Come into contact. Never. Not even once. And I think that's very strange because

0:36.3

I lived in I lived in Florida where everything is a deadly plant. I went to summer camp and

0:44.6

listened to no one. I go out into the world with my dog and wherever he runs, I allow

0:51.4

him to. So like, I've and I've never gotten poison ivy. I never have either. I've always

0:58.7

been terrified of it. I've always been hyper aware. You know, they say leafy three let

1:04.1

it be. You know, if there's three leaves, I'm going to get away from it. Yeah, that

1:08.8

was talking about the Beatles lyrics. Yeah. Let it be. Yeah. That was what they got weird.

1:17.7

Everything was about a walrus or a leafy three. Yeah. A war was a good drug years.

1:23.2

Nobody knew what they were talking about. They were they were high and itchy. You know, they

1:28.1

seem like a mediocre band. I'm not a rip off, if I'm honest. Definitely. Definitely. There's

1:38.8

a Nirvana. And then there's everybody else, even earlier. Yeah. I have also never gotten

1:45.0

poison ivy. I don't understand. I've been like you. I've been to many summer camps hiking,

1:50.7

traipsing through things. And I always felt like, but here's the interesting thing. I don't

1:55.9

know if you know this. Only 80% of the population is allergic to poison ivy. So it's possible

2:02.2

that you and I are in that 20% that just don't get real like we have brushed up against it.

2:09.2

But we've never we don't get any symptoms. Well, I am known for my strong constitution.

2:13.9

So that makes sense. There's one thing I know about you. It's that you're you're resilient.

2:19.0

Yeah. I'm immune to most things. He says, COVID Lee. He COVID it. COVID Lee down the stairs.

2:30.5

Yeah. This is a this is a I think a very a pretty significant number of people 20% that don't get

2:38.9

it. But I've certainly seen friends who have gotten poison ivy are poison oak. There's poison ivy.

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