313: High Fives, Shen Yun Cult, & Snowplow Parenting
The Brain Candy Podcast
Susie Meister PhD & Sarah Rice AMFT
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2019
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Today Sarah reveals the history of the high-five, & it's so cool it blows Susie's mind. We find out whether the Shen Yun dance troupe is a cult. We debate snowplow parenting, & why it's hard to hold our kids accountable. We crack the case on a wite out liquid paper conspiracy theory. Plus, find out why a strange novelty item is washing up on French beaches. Hear why robocalls are going way, some people hate cucumbers, & a follow-up on wasabi.
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| 0:00.0 | I |
| 0:12.0 | Hi Sarah. Well hello there you beautiful angel of morning you it's so good to see you you too as always or I should say as per |
| 0:21.0 | you as per you as episode three one three palindrome today. I like it. Feeling good. I'm so proud of I don't know why I've been reflecting so much on our show, but I am so proud of what we've created me too. So I know that sounds kind of silly because why now? |
| 0:41.2 | I just I've noticed how the brainiacs just keep getting better they keep sending really great stories and you know topic ideas and like we're the best listeners. I love it. Yes. I totally |
| 0:58.2 | know what I'm saying. What is that from snaps? Uh uh legally blonde. Oh right. Oh my gosh this is a perfect way to introduce one of the stories that I have for today. Let's hear it. Would you like to know about the history of the high five? Yes. Right? Sarah. I knew you would be into it. I'm so excited. Okay. So I got week I was inspired by this when landed I were watching some commercial for something. I was like, I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to do it. I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to do it. I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to do it. I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to do it. I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to do it. I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to do it. I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to do it. I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to do it. I |
| 1:28.2 | 'm not sure if I'm going to be able to do it. I'm not sure if I'm going to need that for Update. Fantastic. Alright. I'm just going to be 20. I'm just going to be 20. I will. I'm going to be 20. Hey the |
| 1:29.6 | is just getting forward. I want the |
| 1:53.8 | like, you know, how we can always go to the dictionary for like the history of. |
| 1:57.6 | When do you think the Oxford English dictionary started using the word high five? |
| 2:02.8 | Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. It's got to be 1957. That's so precise. It is so funny. |
| 2:11.9 | 1980. No way. Can you believe that? Right? |
| 2:18.5 | Okay. So there's two stories that that are kind of like people don't know which is which one to. |
| 2:25.5 | Yeah. You know, but, but what do they call it? The conventional wisdom. Yeah. |
| 2:30.5 | The conventional wisdom says that the high five originally occurred between a baseball player named Dusty Baker and Glenn Burke of the Los Angeles Dodgers at Dodgers Stadium in 1977. |
| 2:41.5 | Okay. So it was like the last inning regular season. Yep. And it was big. |
| 2:47.5 | Well, and the story gets so much better. You're going to love this because yeah, we're like a bunch of reasons. |
| 2:52.5 | So, okay. So it's like that. So a journalist, I'm going to read you what a journalist said about the story. |
| 2:59.5 | They said it was a wild triumphant moment and a good omen as the Dodgers headed to the playoffs. |
| 3:03.5 | Burke waiting on deck thrust his hand enthusiastically over his head, agreed his friend at the plate. Baker not knowing what to do. |
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| 3:40.5 | was like, so when I invited him at the door, but in a box, he's like right there, and где were like, go to the basement and have an army and he's like, look. He was like, you see, he's going to go to a basement and he's yeah,achίναι so,場, diver in here. He was like, Chanagon says, look, he's like, you can smell hisistant hand and Syrian, he's crazy, he's saying as you can see, he's saying let's go. |
| 4:07.4 | I five became like a gay culture |
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