731: Roid Rage, Mean Girls, & Sports Scandals
The Brain Candy Podcast
Susie Meister PhD & Sarah Rice AMFT
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 20 July 2023
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Susie is on a serious bender with sports documentaries, which is pretty surprising since she thinks sports should be banned. She's fine with steroids, just not sports. Ok. We discuss the punishment Olympics track and field phenom Marion Jones received for cheating in the Olympics, and why Susie thinks the punishment didn't fit the crime. We compare it to the story of Lance Armstrong, and the reasons he feels somewhat justified for his decision to dope. We talk about the ways it's often the cover-up not the crime that causes the real problems. And we hear how the situation with the American Gladiators sounds very similar to our life experiences on the Challenge including pay, injuries, the lack of agency, and the long-term consequences. We hear what histrionic personality disorder is, and why a popular teen movie is the best way to understand the mysterious illness. We learn why synesthesia is different depending on your age. Plus, we learn why the person who popularized the Wizard of Oz viewing while listening to Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon and smoking pot sort of wishes he'd kept the trick to himself.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm right now, but we'll get some next episode. Hello, friends! Hi! You were like, what |
| 0:16.6 | is she talking about? And I was just saying how I'm going to be getting some wine between |
| 0:22.0 | now and our next episode. And you know, that's nice. Yes, this one will be serious because |
| 0:27.0 | we are sober. Serious. Serious. Just welcome to episode 731, Sarah, Louise, and Susie Louise |
| 0:37.5 | are here. And well, do you have anything you want to say before we, like, what's new in your life? |
| 0:46.2 | What's new in my life? Oh my god! Did you see the hail videos that I posted? Now it's been a minute |
| 0:52.6 | since it's coming out late. But that was insane. Holy shit! End of days. End of days kind of stuff. I'm |
| 1:02.2 | just not, maybe I'm not used to this because I'm from Southern California and like, we don't know |
| 1:05.5 | about weather and that, it's all intense to me. But hail? Like, I remember taking those personality |
| 1:14.2 | quizzes and stuff and there'll be like a, a question on there that'll say like, do you find storms |
| 1:19.0 | exciting? And I'm always like, oh, yeah, a little bit like that was terrifying. Like, yes, |
| 1:27.4 | there's like exciting. For a minute, it was like, oh, this is fun. A little scary. It started |
| 1:32.6 | to get scary when it started taking out the light bulbs in our, like, you know, we've got like |
| 1:38.7 | the Edison bulbs. And then you just hear those like smashing and then it, it busted a hole through |
| 1:44.6 | that we have like adult inflatable pool, busted a hole through that. Like those, it was, and then I |
| 1:51.2 | go outside, maybe you saw the video, with the yoga mat over my head. And I have like my fingers |
| 1:56.2 | just sticking out over the edge and a hail, he's a hail, hit my nail and made my cue call bleed. |
| 2:03.0 | That's terrible because I think if you're not a person who's experienced hail very much, |
| 2:08.7 | I think there's this perception at least in my mind that it's sort of like round and not, |
| 2:16.2 | couldn't cut you. It might hurt if it hits you, but it wouldn't like slice it. I had no idea |
| 2:21.4 | that that was a thing. There's a chance of ice coming down at sharp, maximum velocity. Yeah, |
| 2:29.4 | it's scary as heck. I don't even know how to damage. I remember when we were in our live and I |
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