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We Have Concerns

Suicide Pods and Eating Plastic

We Have Concerns

Anthony Carboni/Jeff Cannata

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4.92K Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

A 3D-printed capsule destined for use in assisted suicide hopes to de-medicalize the process in Switzerland. Jeff and Anthony discuss the idea of choosing when - and how - to die. Then, each American might ingest up to a credit card’s worth of plastic through food and water every week. Anthony and Jeff talk about how this happens and what it might be doing to us.

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0:00.0

I hope my kids and fend for themselves. That's all I'm saying.

0:17.6

This is we have concerns. Hi, Jeff Canada.

0:22.8

Hi, Anthony Cardbroney. Hello, concerned citizens. Anthony. Yes, Jeffrey. It's that time of year again.

0:33.2

It's the time Toyota thought. No, no, it's not Toyota thought. But I understand when you get excited

0:39.3

about Toyota thought. No, it's that time when we need to start thinking once again about death.

0:46.0

Maybe five minutes a day. You got to think about death five minutes a day. Yeah. Well, let us,

0:55.2

dear listener, be a reminder to consider death because our first story this week is all about

1:05.7

when to die, how to die, and what's going on with death.

1:11.3

We got a story submitted to us on our wonderful discord by our friend, A. Tom Linson.

1:21.0

If you want to join that discord head to patreon.com slash we have concerns. It's a buck a month

1:25.7

and it directly supports the show. This story immediately made me think of you, Anthony,

1:32.6

because I've never been able to get out of my head the imagery of your dream. You talk to me

1:40.3

about this all the time. You've done this on the show multiple times, but it's not just on the show.

1:44.9

Like you've spoken to me about this. This has stayed with me, Anthony. This is something that

1:51.6

this is a brain worm that you put into my head that has stayed with me. It is it is a visual metaphor

1:59.3

that your subconscious created that I have that has been accepted into my subconscious. It's

2:07.9

something that really affected me. So I guess yeah, I'll go ahead and say I had a dream when I was

2:15.5

in youth. This was like when I was a teenager. In that dream, everybody had a robot,

2:23.4

floating robot that followed around behind them like a big, like hulking solid robot.

2:29.9

The robot looked like a coffin, right? Well, the robot doesn't look like a coffin. It just follows

2:34.9

you around like a robot. It's almost like it's a very simple like in the dream. I remember it being

2:41.6

like a very simple sort of like the big thick robots in Robotron 64. Like they're very or almost

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