991: Crisis Management, Sistine Chapel Sweat, & Slippery When Wet
The Brain Candy Podcast
Susie Meister PhD & Sarah Rice AMFT
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 9 March 2026
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Susie explains why nearly every human uses a blanket while other animals don't. We discuss the documentary Murder in Glitterball City about a gay couple accused of murdering a man and the ways kink and drugs obscured the crime. We find out why the Sistine Chapel is restoring Michelangelo's The Final Judgement and removing salt from the piece. Susie explains what a crisis manager claims are the keys to making good decisions under pressure and how he's applying them to his own life now that he's in a health crisis. We learn why scientists are confused about why ice is slippery, but don't worry, because Sarah's got a theory...
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10:05 - Unraveling the Mystery: Why Humans Need Blankets
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22:05 - Unpacking the Kink and Crime in Glitterball City
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34:34 - Tourist Sweat and the Sistine Chapel's Restoration
38:42 - Applying Crisis Management to Life's Challenges
49:36 - Unanswered Questions: The Science Behind Slippery Ice
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| 0:00.0 | Hey! |
| 0:03.2 | Oh, I love to have. |
| 0:06.2 | Episode 191, welcome to the show. |
| 0:08.5 | We are creeping towards episode 1,000. |
| 0:13.3 | Can you believe? |
| 0:14.3 | I can't, but I can, obviously. |
| 0:16.8 | My dental hygienist, who I was just talking to Sarah about, who is a doll baby. Shout out to Megan. That's such a dental hygienist, who I was just talking to Sarah about, who was a doll baby. |
| 0:21.7 | Shout out to Megan. |
| 0:23.7 | That's such a dental hygienist name. |
| 0:25.7 | Yeah, it really is. |
| 0:28.6 | She was asking about the podcast, and I was telling her about how we're going to have a 1,000th party in Pittsburgh at the Elks Lodge. |
| 0:41.8 | And she was like, wow, that is a lot of episodes does it feel like it's been a thousand and I was like hmm like yes and no right it doesn't feel like okay |
| 0:50.2 | sorry go ahead go ahead no like well when we listen to the ones, it sounds like it was made in 1984 on a cassette. |
| 0:57.3 | Does it really? |
| 0:58.2 | Well, I think it's improved a lot. |
| 1:00.3 | Okay, the sound quality and everything, and technology. |
| 1:04.0 | And we are better now? |
| 1:05.7 | We are definitely better now, I'm sure. |
| 1:08.4 | Or more comfortable. |
| 1:09.7 | It doesn't, it feels like it's been a lot of time. |
| 1:12.5 | Like I'm aware of how we were little babies when we first started in the dawn of |
| 1:17.6 | podcasting, really. |
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