The 2022 Ig-Nobel Prize Winners

We Have Concerns

Anthony Carboni/Jeff Cannata

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4.9 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Established in 1991, the Ig Nobels are a good-natured parody of the Nobel Prizes; they honor "achievements that first make people laugh and then make them think" - a designation that Jeff and Anthony think applies to We Have Concerns as well. So each year, the guys take a look at their favorite award winners. This year, scorpion constipation, frustrating legal jargon, ancient Mayan enemas, and more!

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0:00.0	If 99% of the people that got a motorcycle to die of grandpa, why would the government allow
0:17.9	people to have motorcycles?
0:19.4	And he says they do it to get rid of the stupids.
0:24.4	This is We Have Concerns.
0:26.4	Hi Jeff Kanata.
0:27.4	I am the Nick Cartvoni.
0:28.9	Hello concerned citizens speaking of the stupids.
0:32.2	Anthony, it's that time again.
0:34.2	Oh my stars.
0:35.2	It's pumpkin spice season.
0:37.4	Well yes.
0:38.4	But also, it's our annual celebration here.
0:42.3	We have concerns.
0:44.3	The annual awarding of the Ig Nobel Prizes.
0:50.6	A beautiful time of year.
0:51.6	A time of year when children hang up their stockings and hope to get just weird but pure
0:58.8	reviewed knowledge delivered to them by a strange lab assistant who comes through the
1:06.5	gym at night.
1:07.5	Sneaks into your house under the cover of test tubes and deposits knowledge into your
1:13.8	stocking which you can then read and enjoy.
1:16.7	Don't leave him cookies.
1:18.6	Leave him a sandwich or a gift card.
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