906: Treasure Hunt, Lucky Lady, & the Tyranny of Whistling
The Brain Candy Podcast
Susie Meister PhD & Sarah Rice AMFT
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2025
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Susie is pumped about a new documentary about a treasure hunt, and we realize we've been on the air so long that we've covered this hunt's beginning, its controversies, the treasure's discovery (???), and now the doc. We learn why it tells us a lot about human psychology, passion, addiction, celebrity, risk-taking, and more. We discuss scholarship on luck, and why sociologists tend to ignore it. We debate whether there even is "luck," why Sarah thinks she's lucky, and how a lot of it is perspective. Susie's hatred of whistling is vindicated by an advice columnist, and we learn why whistling is particularly annoying and frustrating for people in earshot (especially when they live together). Susie reveals why porn addiction is quack science, it's not actually a thing, and what actually determines whether someone thinks they might be one. Plus, we hear some fascinating things about people who are deaf and blind, and why some quirks of the hearing/seeing world show up for people even if they don't have those senses.
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| 0:00.0 | Brain Candy Podcast. |
| 0:14.0 | Oh, hello. |
| 0:15.3 | Episode 906, hello. |
| 0:17.8 | Welcome to the show. |
| 0:19.0 | Welcome. How is Louise? I'm doing great. Hello, welcome the show. Welcome to the show. |
| 0:21.3 | Welcome. |
| 0:23.7 | How is Louise? |
| 0:25.1 | I'm doing great. |
| 0:26.4 | I'm happy. |
| 0:27.8 | That's nice. |
| 0:28.6 | Things are wonderful. |
| 0:31.0 | Are you sad that Powell's ending? |
| 0:32.3 | Yeah, a little bit. But I am happy that I did not go with the veil, because I'm not supporting those |
| 0:39.0 | veil resorts anymore. So I switched over to the icon pass. And they give you early access. |
| 0:47.8 | Like I bought my pass already for next season. Yeah. But they give you access to the mountain |
| 0:53.0 | as soon as you buy it. So I'm going to get to go snowboarding on some new mountains just for the very tail end of the season. |
| 0:59.7 | Oh, okay. |
| 1:00.7 | And it's the same past my brother. |
| 1:02.9 | And the last, I think, April 27th. |
| 1:08.4 | It's creeping up. |
| 1:09.6 | Yeah, it's the last day. |
| 1:11.2 | But they have a big fun, like weekend closing events where they do this thing called a pond |
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