Silence is Golden

We Have Concerns

Anthony Carboni/Jeff Cannata

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4.9 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

New research aims to quality the health effects of silence. It turns out, just a few hours of quiet time per week can have striking benefits. Anthony and Jeff discuss their own relationship with silence, and how this study might motivate them to turn down the volume.

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0:00.0	Yeah, it's just this dude who can't make it to nine feet with a flop tongue.
0:18.1	What a loser.
0:18.9	This is, we have concerns.
0:20.8	Hi, Jeff Kanata. Hi, Anthony
0:22.4	Carboni. Hello, Concerned Citizens. I am going to talk about how I recently went to Japan,
0:27.6	probably for 17 years. It's going to be great for me. I'm going to be one of those people
0:33.0	where for the next 17 years it's going to be like, you know, I went to Japan recently and people are going to be like, wasn't that a decade ago?
0:38.4	Yeah.
0:39.5	And I'll be like, yeah.
0:40.2	Are you going to tell the same stories over and over?
0:42.0	Buddy, I've only got a few.
0:43.5	I've only got a few.
0:44.7	Here they come again. and have not just about Japan, but about a lot of travel in general, is how much quieter
0:56.0	other countries and cultures are than the United States?
1:00.2	We're not a quiet culture.
1:01.9	That's not our bad.
1:02.8	No.
1:03.2	That's not who we are.
1:04.4	It's not really what we do.
1:05.6	In fact, the entire activity that we've chosen to celebrate the fact that we're a country
1:10.2	at all is just to make
1:12.0	stuff blow up as loudly as possible. Yeah, it's that's because that's freedom. That really
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