886: Swim Lessons, Mouse 2 Dads, & Optimal Stopping Theory
The Brain Candy Podcast
Susie Meister PhD & Sarah Rice AMFT
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 6 February 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Susie got into some trouble (again) and almost got booted from a concert. We hear what Boomerasking is and theorize why it's so common now. Susie tries to figure out why an old clip of Road Rules that she posted was so evocative. We discuss a documentary short film about swimming and consider why it's such a fundamental human skill. We learn about scientists who created mice using the DNA from two males, and why they would want to make people with two dads. Sarah explains what "optimal stopping theory" is and why you should never stick with the first guy you date or the first apartment you look at. We find out scholars are offering $1M to anyone who can decode an ancient language.
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| 0:00.0 | Breakhead. |
| 0:12.0 | Hello. |
| 0:14.9 | Whoa. |
| 0:15.8 | Oh, yeah. |
| 0:17.2 | Oh. |
| 0:19.3 | Episode 886. Hello, world. Hello, everyone. Hello 886. |
| 0:21.8 | Hello, world. |
| 0:23.0 | Hello, everyone. |
| 0:24.1 | Hello, Susie. |
| 0:25.8 | How are you, my dear? |
| 0:27.6 | Oh, good. |
| 0:28.7 | I was telling you off the year, I went out last night with my mother, and we went to this theater for a percussion concert and i almost got kicked out what |
| 0:42.4 | susie you didn't tell say this in in the other part when you're telling me what do you know what do you |
| 0:50.2 | do in you know my policy where if i'm going out i'm going to to go all out. So I always do like front row or as close as I can. And so we did. And it was cool because they were playing their little drums and everything. But then for the next song, the one guy got out an accordion, which of course is percussion. But like, I did not know that. |
| 1:12.7 | Well, you know, piano is percussion. |
| 1:14.8 | Didn't know this. |
| 1:15.9 | Yeah, piano is percussion. |
| 1:17.6 | I guess they do. |
| 1:18.3 | Oh, my gosh. |
| 1:20.7 | We are learning things all the time on the podcast. |
| 1:24.3 | I would have never guessed. |
| 1:25.5 | I would have thought strings. |
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