789: Optimism, Pigeon Spy, & Napping on the Job
The Brain Candy Podcast
Susie Meister PhD & Sarah Rice AMFT
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 22 February 2024
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Remember when we were optimistic? Well, we do, so Sarah wanted to find out what makes some people optimistic. Susie thinks she's a realist, but that might be code for "pessimistic." But Susie and Sarah have a crazy role reversal today, and we're wondering if Sarah is becoming less emotive in her menopausal era. We learn why some countries are passing laws to help people get out of work. Susie is wound up about people who become complacent or apathetic about the world and their role in it. We are furious about an influencer who faked her own death and acted like it was for a good cause. The US captured a pigeon it thought was a Chinese spy, but it turned out to be a wrongful conviction. We debate what foods would be good to eat in the shower and we learn about a pastor who ran a crypto scam at church.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello! |
| 0:14.0 | Hi Brainiacs, episode 789, 789. |
| 0:18.0 | Oh, I really do like this. |
| 0:21.0 | Yeah, who wouldn't? |
| 0:22.0 | Sequential numbers are my favorite. |
| 0:24.0 | Like, you know everybody has that time that they look at. |
| 0:26.0 | People are like, oh, 11 11 or you know, whatever. |
| 0:29.0 | I like one, two, three, four. |
| 0:31.0 | Oh. One, two Yeah, 1234. Yeah, 1234. Yeah, that's a great time. Yeah, yeah. So yeah, good look there for there. |
| 0:40.5 | All right. Well, we have high hopes then, everybody. |
| 0:43.2 | Yeah, this better be regular hopes. |
| 0:45.1 | Oh, medium. |
| 0:46.1 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 0:47.1 | Low bar lifestyle. |
| 0:48.1 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 0:49.1 | No, I have a whole bunch of information today. |
| 0:51.0 | I feel like I have like collected a bunch of like fun facts and |
| 0:56.3 | things like that. Oh man so many things where do I want to start? I think last |
| 1:00.4 | episode that I did I was talking about something that I got real |
| 1:04.6 | excited about or was going to talk about the very end of an episode. You teased it. I |
| 1:08.8 | did tease it and you know I hope I didn't oversell it but I feel like it was because we were talking about a specific |
| 1:15.0 | subject that often comes up for us. |
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