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We Have Concerns

Mammoth Meatball

We Have Concerns

Anthony Carboni/Jeff Cannata

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

4.92K Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

An Australian company revealed a meatball made of lab-grown cultured meat using the genetic sequence from the long-extinct mammoth. Anthony and Jeff decide whether they'd eat such a thing, and dig into the real purpose behind this headline grabbing stunt - to fire up public debate about sustainability

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0:00.0

The steam deck is the best thing in the world. Don't get a steam deck. This is we have concerns. Hi, Jeff

0:17.8

Kanata. I had to be carbon. Hello concerned citizens. Jeff, one of our very earliest episodes of this

0:25.3

award winning science comedy podcast. Now they haven't tried to take that award from away from us. Yes,

0:32.5

but we wouldn't let them. And they have banned us from ever winning the award again. That's all so true. That's

0:38.6

all so true. But we did invoke the no take back. We did say, uh-uh, no takes these backsees. No

0:47.2

takes it. I might wonder why do they try to take the the award away from us because every story we've

0:52.2

ever reported has been fake. It's all lies. It's all lies. 800 episodes of lies. Yeah, which quite

1:01.5

frequently is impressive in its own right. Listen, you're not creative enough to tell 800 lies

1:07.8

to the depth to the depth and breadth that we've told lies. You can't do it. Cowards. Um, no,

1:15.1

this is we do not tell lies. Oh, I mean, well, I mean, one of us always tells the truth in one of

1:21.2

us always lies. How are you going to figure it out though? You don't know. You don't know. Um,

1:25.6

but no, one of the first episodes we did of this show was about a group that wanted to bring back

1:32.0

the woolly mammoth. Do you remember that? That's right. What is it? Uh-uh, anti extinction? Is that

1:38.1

what it's called? Anti-extinction movement? Yeah. They the the the bringing back e-mammothy movement.

1:44.2

Yeah, yeah, undying. The undead, the undead we call the undead. I think the actual takes these

1:52.6

backsees movement movement. That's right. Yes. Said absolutely not. We evoke takes these backsees

2:00.4

on our on our extinct species. And uh, we're bringing back these species. Yeah. And people have been

2:07.1

trying to uh, to do this for a while. Um, you might remember that in 2019, uh, you could in a,

2:16.4

uh, in a museum, a Dutch museum, I believe you could buy what they called mammoth meat.

2:22.0

That was it was basically an art project. You know, they had very limited numbers of it,

2:25.6

but you could buy mammoth meat. Um, and that was done in a concert with a group called Vau.

2:33.3

Wow. Vau is a very interesting group, Jeff. And I'm going to tell you a little bit more about

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