976: Steve Martin Short, Taco Bell 5k, & Cognitive Dissonance
The Brain Candy Podcast
Susie Meister PhD & Sarah Rice AMFT
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 15 January 2026
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
We're already getting all emotional about coming up on our 1000th episode, and enjoying the fact that all the naysayers were wrong about us being a "showmance." Susie watched the Chevy Chase documentary, and was hoping to find out if he is in fact the a-hole he is often accused of being. Spoiler: he kind of is. We discuss some big news in psychology research, and it turns out maybe everything we thought we knew is wrong? (So what, who cares.) We found out about an ultramarathon that is simultaneously the opposite of our forthcoming (imaginary) flip-flop 5K and also in competition with it. It involves 31 miles and 9 Taco Bell locations.
00:00 - Celebrating 1000 Episodes and Proving Naysayers Wrong
03:36 - Our Steve Martin and Martin Short Dynamic
08:31 - Susie's Winter Woes: No Snow for Skiing
10:15 - Modern, Non-Toxic Cooking with Caraway Cookware
13:20 - Debating the McRib Lawsuit and Food System Issues
18:37 - The Chevy Chase Documentary and White Male Privilege
29:30 - Empowering Your Finances with Rocket Money App
32:37 - Debunking Cognitive Dissonance and Psychology Studies
45:27 - Sarah's Confidence in the Taco Bell 50K Ultramarathon
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| 0:00.0 | Hi. |
| 0:04.0 | Oh, what? |
| 0:06.0 | Brandtani podcast. |
| 0:07.0 | We've been towards. |
| 0:08.0 | You know what? |
| 0:09.0 | 1,000. |
| 0:10.0 | But you look at it as episode 1,000. |
| 0:12.0 | I look at it as a day as you watch it and just tell it. |
| 0:15.0 | It's all I care about. |
| 0:17.0 | It's all I care about. |
| 0:19.0 | It's happening. |
| 0:20.0 | It's, and I feel like I've done a really, really good job in not getting over excited and |
| 0:25.8 | trying to sell you on it in the past six months because a younger, dumber, Sarah would |
| 0:33.4 | have done that. |
| 0:35.6 | What do you think would happen like I get sued? Why? I wouldn't have done that. What do you think would happen? Sarah who didn't know Susie as well. Why? I wouldn't have done that. And just what I don't want to say anybody. I don't need to. The art speaks for itself. It's true. And think about it. I mean, I don't want to like get ahead of ourselves and count our chickens or anything. Right. But a thousand, that's a lot of talking. |
| 0:57.5 | It's so much. |
| 0:58.2 | Oh, my God. |
| 0:59.1 | I mean, it's a lot of talking. |
| 1:01.3 | Because Sarah and I have this running joke about like, we've watched over the last |
| 1:05.8 | 10 years, 11 years, people start podcasts. |
| 1:10.6 | Oh, yeah. |
| 1:11.6 | Oh, we've seen podcasts. |
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