893: Gen Z Lower Case, Brain Break, & Black Genius
The Brain Candy Podcast
Susie Meister PhD & Sarah Rice AMFT
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 3 March 2025
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Sarah is having another medical situation, and this time Susie is blaming all of her wild outlaw habits lately. Susie explains why Gen Z insists on using all lower case letters, and we're wondering if the kids are alright. We discuss the Surviving Black Hawk Down documentary, and the ways the government, society, and media paint a picture of the United States as the "good guy," but often it's just a matter of perspective. We talk about a brain surgeon who describes the ways our brains lie to us about our "selfhood," identity, and free will, and why things may not be what they seem when it comes to how we see ourselves. We hear about the Sly Stone documentary that looks at the idea of "Black genius," and the price Black artists and thinkers can pay because of their incredible talent and the pressures of success. Susie's favorite scams are by the Chinese, but this time, it's not a zoo, it's a tourist attraction that is truly phoning their scam in and it's hilarious. We learn about a child influencer who is making a splash in the restaurant world with his mission to bring honor to the classic mocktail beverage, the Shirley Temple. Plus, we hear why YouTube's branding doesn't really match how people are using its infrastructure.
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, hi. |
| 0:13.1 | Oh, hi. Brain Candy podcast, episode 893, creeping towards episode 900. |
| 0:19.3 | Woo! |
| 0:20.1 | Oh, heck. How you doing today, Susie? Well, better than you. Oh, heck. |
| 0:21.8 | How you doing today, Susie? |
| 0:23.5 | Well, better than you. |
| 0:24.7 | Oh, well. |
| 0:25.4 | I mean, yeah, that's true. |
| 0:27.1 | I say, if it ain't one thing, it's another. |
| 0:29.5 | Susie is referring to fact that I looked like, I say it kind of looked like Quasimodo from |
| 0:35.9 | Hunchback of Notre Dame where he's got like one squinty eye, but it's kind of really big and puffy. |
| 0:40.4 | Yeah. |
| 0:40.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:41.3 | So don't worry. |
| 0:42.9 | She's got a wonky situation. |
| 0:43.8 | It's not pink eye and it's not contagious. |
| 0:46.4 | I just have a stock, like a blocked tear duct that just won't quit. |
| 0:53.0 | And I said to the doctor said, she said it's probably from |
| 0:58.4 | some debris getting in there and it just not being clean. I said, could this be maybe the result of |
| 1:03.4 | sleeping for three days in the back of a truck on a snowboard trip where you didn't wash any of your |
| 1:07.1 | clothes and wore the same thing over and over and she went mm-hmm sarah believe me |
| 1:12.1 | i have been saying this for three days since you told me about it i was like what is she things |
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