984: Friends, Communities, and Explosive Extractions
The Brain Candy Podcast
Susie Meister PhD & Sarah Rice AMFT
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2026
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Love is in the air as Valentine’s Day approaches, but while Sarah and Amy are navigating a new romantic milestone, Susie is mostly just finding the whole shift deeply annoying. The duo dives into the social dynamics of the season by dissecting the functional differences between friendship and community, exploring why we need both even if they serve wildly different purposes in our lives. The conversation takes a sharp turn into "fitness cults" as Sarah realizes her old workout routine was less about health and more about a non-religious devotion to a gym leader, before pivoting to a bizarre news story involving a WWI artillery shell and a very delicate emergency room extraction. Naturally, this leads to a candid and hilarious debate over the 69 position; Sarah maintains it is an overrated logistical nightmare, but after Susie’s passionate defense, the pair concludes that Sarah’s distaste is likely just a result of poor execution.
00:00 - New Relationship Dynamics and Valentine's Day Expectations
10:19 - Understanding the Different Needs of Friendship and Community
16:44 - Film Students and the Decline of Attention Spans
24:41 - Manage Your Money and Cancel Subscriptions with Rocket Money
26:46 - The Problem with Grading on a Curve in Academia
30:47 - A Bizarre Emergency Room Visit: Unexploded Artillery Shell
42:07 - Amplify Your Everyday with Thrive Cosmetics and Community Support
44:56 - Sarah and Susie Debate the Logistics of the 69 Position
49:57 - Experiencing Awe: Aquanauts and the Underwater Overview Effect
54:16 - Why Public Dancing is Disappearing and Overcoming Embarrassment
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| 0:00.0 | Hello. |
| 0:05.4 | Hello, hello, hello. |
| 0:07.6 | Oh, man, Galentines. |
| 0:12.5 | Yes. |
| 0:14.4 | I let me tell you something that I have realized since being in a good relationship, |
| 0:20.1 | and this might be being in a relationship with a woman. You tell me, do you remember last Valentine's Day where I |
| 0:26.2 | told you that my girlfriend, we were brand new dating. We were like a month into dating or so, |
| 0:30.9 | two months. You were still in. Honeymoon period. Yeah, two months in, exactly two months. And I told |
| 0:37.4 | you that she had said something along the lines of like, no, I'm not really |
| 0:41.5 | big into Valentine's Day because, like, I want, like, every day, not just to be for a special |
| 0:47.2 | occasion. |
| 0:48.2 | I remember we talked about this and I was like, that is a bullshit. |
| 0:52.9 | And, like, I need some valentine's day |
| 0:56.1 | blah blah blah blah yeah well a year later I'm like no I don't really care about Valentine's |
| 1:02.1 | day because she because every day is Valentine's because it really is like that I know I'm so |
| 1:06.8 | I think this might be lesbians I think because because like, like I got a bunch of bullshit. |
| 1:13.2 | I don't even believe you. |
| 1:14.1 | Like all the things that you'd want for Valentine's Day. |
| 1:17.4 | I got like, you know, with our like all that beautiful thing. |
| 1:21.3 | And I get the handwritten cards and I get like the little art projects. |
| 1:25.6 | I'm like, oh, that it's so sad. |
| 1:28.7 | And I realize how deprived I was in the past for that every day. |
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