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We Have Concerns

Phantom Phone Menace

We Have Concerns

Anthony Carboni/Jeff Cannata

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

4.92K Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2014

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

A new article about the phenomenon of "phantom" phone notifications - those strange moments when you senses a vibration from your cell phone that didn't actually happen - has Jeff ranting on the crazy thoughts that such sensations evoke, and Anthony hearing voices. Is technology making us crazy, or have alerts been messing with the human mind since the beginning of time? Enjoying the show? Review us on iTunes! It really helps out rating and ranking: [http://bit.ly/wehaveconcerns](http://bit.ly/wehaveconcerns) Anthony on Twitter: [http://twitter.com/acarboni](http://twitter.com/acarboni) Jeff on Twitter: [http://twitter.com/jeffcannata](http://twitter.com/jeffcannata) Article: [http://boingboing.net/2014/08/22/feeling-the-buzz-the-weird-tr.html](http://boingboing.net/2014/08/22/feeling-the-buzz-the-weird-tr.html)

Transcript

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0:00.0

Oh hi guys, so Jeff is off running around the world with his new bride. He just got married.

0:04.8

Tweet your congratulations to him at Jeff Kanata. We have all new episodes while he is gone.

0:09.7

Some of them we recorded in a marathon session before he left and some of them are older episodes that we never ran.

0:15.4

This is one of those older episodes. The reason we didn't run it is because the audio is a little weird.

0:21.0

I hope you guys don't mind. It's not terrible. It's not awful. It's just not up to the new standard that we have.

0:27.6

Hopefully you will enjoy it. Tweet your congratulations to Jeff. Don't tell him that I spent all the money.

0:34.0

Because seriously, like the moment he left I spent all our money.

0:38.0

Because my brain is so in overdrive trying to plan for my trip, it's like, but here are a million things that you should maybe do before your trip because it's a good idea.

1:00.4

While I'm working hard, I might as well give you these three suggestions.

1:04.8

Hey, this doesn't feel like it's killing us. It feels like it's close. Couldn't we add to something that'll kill us?

1:12.6

That'll maybe just push us over the edge and kill us. This is we have concerns. Hi Jeff Kanata.

1:18.0

Hi Anthony Carboni. Let me ask you this question.

1:20.5

Sure.

1:21.0

Has this ever happened to you that special little tender spot on your upper thigh?

1:27.8

Where are we going with this?

1:29.3

Just right of your bathing suit area.

1:32.3

You get a little phantom vibration when your phone's not even in your pocket.

1:38.0

Or maybe you think you're getting a cell phone call. You think you're getting a vibration

1:41.6

on your cell phone. You pull out your phone. Guess what? It's off. It wasn't even.

1:46.0

Or it's not in your pocket. Not even there.

1:47.8

It's all the way across the house.

1:49.5

Yeah.

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