The Brain Candy Podcast
Laugh and learn with Susie Meister PhD & Sarah Rice MFT from MTV's The Challenge as they cover psychology, pop culture, human interest, and science, and make everything from The Kardashians to quantum physics accessible to all.
- Update frequency
- every 3 days
- Average duration
- 60 minutes
- Episodes
- 947
- Years Active
- 2015 - 2025
645: Women in Space, Painful Orgasms, & Underwater Stonehenge
Sarah is already getting excited for spOoOoOoOky season and she is going to do an epic, witchy photo shoot in the forest to celebrate. All this forest talk made her think of the ways female hikers an…
01:00:38 |
Mon 05 Sep 2022
644: Pink Jeans, Catfishing, and Violent Art
Today begins with a hilarious story about pink jeans that neither one of us saw coming, but, boy, are we glad it did. And it made us wonder if you keep an array of jeans' sizes or just one size for e…
01:02:42 |
Thu 01 Sep 2022
643: Parasitic Monks, Mountain WiFi, & The Sound of Hell
This episode is freaking great. There, we said it. Sarah received a letter scolding her from her neighborhood HOA and Susie thinks the HOA guy is a serial killer. We hear why a bunch of friars were e…
01:00:29 |
Mon 29 Aug 2022
642: Woodstock 99, Tommy Lee's Wiener, & Dead Parents
Today's episode got real dark, but we still had fun (we know, we're weird). We discuss the aptly titled Trainwreck documentary about Woodstock 99, and we cannot deal with all the people swimming in s…
01:01:18 |
Thu 25 Aug 2022
641: Careful Driver, Dementia, & Volcanic Orgasms
Sarah is hopped up on muscle relaxers for this episode, so that's exciting! Will she be extra jazzed up or super chilled out? We'll find out. Hear why Sarah realized she cannot let herself go without…
00:59:45 |
Mon 22 Aug 2022
640: Butthole Girl, Seat of the Soul, & Near Death Experiences
Susie's kitchen is still being renovated and she had to perform a real life "floor is lava" scenario that was a real hoot (all those Challenge shenanigans really paid off). We discuss the documentary…
01:02:15 |
Thu 18 Aug 2022
639: Horse Girl, Pageantry, & Goldfish Soup
Hear one souvenir Sarah brought home from camp that she did not want. We learn new insight into Sarah's childhood that Susie cannot believe, and it remains mind-boggling that we're still learning new…
01:01:47 |
Mon 15 Aug 2022
638: Silence is Golden, Death Penalty Dress Code, & Pickleball
Susie talks about her birthday and why she has been very emotional about the "passage of time." We discuss Paul Newman and his gorgeousness, but also how no matter how successful you are, your kids c…
00:56:20 |
Thu 11 Aug 2022
637: Comical Bodies, Fancy Feasts, & Candy Shortage
Sarah is back from camp, everyone! And she didn't totally regret going, which is mind-boggling. In fact, I think she liked it?? We hear how it went and why she is now a Care Bear. Susie gets mad abou…
00:58:24 |
Mon 08 Aug 2022
636: Challenge Therapy, Asylum Entertainment, & Sex Doll Overdose
Sarah is about to ship off to camp, and Susie is bitter about it even though it affects her in no way. We hear what really goes on at camp. We describe what therapists call "going home," and discuss …
01:05:02 |
Mon 01 Aug 2022
635: Skittles Scandal, Surviving Nuclear War, & Spotlight Effect
Sarah reveals why her true crime interest is waning despite her love of Law & Order. Susie wants a mosquito genocide. Some people believe Skittles are not fit for human consumption. Sarah is accident…
01:06:12 |
Thu 28 Jul 2022
634: Victoria's Secret, Male Trees, & Magical Thinking
Hear what it was like for Sarah to rewatch Exes II with her boyfriend, and why it gave her a whole new perspective of the show. Susie discusses the Victoria's Secret documentary and how the "fantasy"…
01:06:01 |
Mon 25 Jul 2022
633: Backyard Burial, Gulliver's Hallucinations, & Tennis Scores
Hear why Sarah feels bad about her broccoli theft, but Susie changed her mind about Sarah pulling the stems off. Sarah teaches us why scoring in tennis is so weird, and for some reason Susie is mad a…
00:57:11 |
Thu 21 Jul 2022
632: Girls Gone Wild, Dark Web, & Dead Tattoos
Sarah makes a very good point about parenting, and it might just seal the deal on whether she wants to have kids or not. We discuss the Britney Griner detention in Russia, and Susie is worked up abou…
01:00:49 |
Mon 18 Jul 2022
631: Pain Tunnels, Celibacy, & Dick Hieroglyphics
Today we hear why Sarah loves climbing mountains when she is not on television only, and she describes how she gets through "pain tunnels" during physical exertion. We hear about a study that shows T…
01:01:59 |
Thu 14 Jul 2022
630: Sandwich Architecture, Medieval Times, & Sex Negative
Hear about a documentary Susie watched that made her wonder if she is ableist. The film also made Susie and Sarah have their third fight about the proper way to build a sandwich. We discuss certain c…
01:03:49 |
Mon 11 Jul 2022
629: Croakies, Reverse Deja Vu, & Tetris Trauma
Hear lots of bad news on today's show! But also laugh along with Susie who is apparently losing her mind. We somehow have a long conversation about Croakies, the sunglass strap that really made a fas…
00:58:12 |
Thu 07 Jul 2022
628: Men Are The Worst, Smile Influencer, & Love Curious
Hear Susie talk about how she's had it up to HERE with men. She says that it's hard to find out for sure that you're seen as not a fully formed person, and all the evidence points to men being the pr…
01:00:20 |
Mon 04 Jul 2022
627: Testosterone Babies, T-Rex High Fives, & Thought Worms
Susie is trying to convince Sarah to convert to Judaism. Sarah found out about a 2-year-old who is going through puberty because he had contact with his dad's medication. We learn whether emotions ca…
01:02:09 |
Thu 30 Jun 2022
626: Sarah's Scars, Inherited Trauma, & Rap Pioneers
Sarah's talking about her superpower for seeing colors again, and how she really just loves being good at something. Anything! Susie wants to hear about Sarah's camping adventures. We learn about a s…
01:02:02 |
Mon 27 Jun 2022
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