We revisit the Brain Candy episode about animals, and Susie wants Sarah to admit that dogs in clothes are the best thing ever. Sarah thinks dogs only need garments for warmth or saftey. Susie says they need overalls. We discuss why it's silly to be mad about reality tv moments from fifteen years ago, and how the rage is about the accuser not the accused. We learn the three levels of understanding, and the reason our personal narratives change over time. We also discuss our comedy episode and debate cancel culture, "offensive" joke content, and why our comedy tastes have changed over time.

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We revisit the first episode of Brain Candy where we covered behind-the-scenes of the Challenge. We discuss the way our views have changed since then, and why we have a different perspective now. Sarah explains why we've become viewers of the show again rather than cast members of the show, and why that changes how we watch the show. We explore some of the restrictions the shows place on the cast, and why it's not a safety issue, but a footage issue. Sarah explains why she wants to make amends with Johnny, but Susie thinks that won't happen. We learn what it was like when Sarah's boyfriend visited her in Brooklyn, and why her life could've been very different if he had gone through with his plan for the visit. Susie reveals what she regrets about Road Rules Down Under, and why she wishes she could go back in time. Plus, we predict what we think will come of the Challenge and Real World Homecoming in the years ahead.

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We are disucssing our Cults episode and the 2015 Year in Review episode of Brain Candy. We revisit the reasons people are drawn to cults, and perhaps more importantly, why they don't leave. Sarah cringes at our flippancy toward celebrity deaths, and she theorizes that our exposure to death during the pandemic has made her more sensitive to and empathetic about grief. Susie regrets some of the things she's shared over the years about parenting and her son, and wishes she had been more discerning about that. We regret some of the judgments we made about our MTV cast mates. We discuss the ways we keep making the same mistakes over the years, but how we can have more grace about it because we realize we're only human. Plus, we talk about the Kardashians, examining pop culture academically, and we make a bet about the fate of Justin Bieber.

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We're revisiting our first Brain Candy episode on conspiracy theories, and it was a doozy. We brought Sarah's brother on the show to talk about some of his favorite conspiracies, and he had quite a few. We explain why conspiracy theories often include anti-semitic elements and the people who subscribe to them don't even realize they're promoting that ideology. Sarah was vindicated about her belief in aliens since our original Brain Candy episode as the government released previously unknown info about its data on the subject. We check back on Sarah's "favorite" conspiracy theory to see if she still thinks Beyoncé did not carry her first child. We hear why Sarah thinks she knows the biological mother of Fergie's baby. And Susie wants to know why lizard people would ever want to visit Denver. We discuss the strange explanation peope have for the collapse of the World Trade Center towers. And we learn which conspiracies Susie and Sarah still believe in.

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This is probably our most personal episode yet. We continue to realize how we've grown since we started the show, but not in a regretful way, but in a way that makes us thankful for all the lessons we've learned. We talk about how we shouldn't be tricked into thinking a company supports our values if they make a choice we like because their only interest is the bottom line. We revisit a conversation we had about body image and discuss whether we've become more comfortable in our own skin in the last seven years. We hear why Sarah has chosen to wear less makeup and how she performs beauty with a different intention now. Susie reveals why she only recently started to grasp her own insecurities. We discuss plastic surgery and the balance of authenticity while living in a world that values youth and beauty. 

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Today we cover episode 11 of Brain Candy, which was about online dating. We realize how different Sarah was when she was married to her ex and how wrong we were about his "bromance" with Susie's husband Adam. We cover the science behind online dating, and why the apps offer an imperfect solution to a complex problem. Despite their flaws, Sarah keeps having good luck finding partners on apps, and apparently a lot of other people are too. Susie confesses to her judgment of niche communities and how she knows it's wrong, but can't help it sometimes. 

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Sarah is NOT tone deaf, ok? Despite what her brother said and what she believed for 30 years, she actually can hold a tune. But bad news is her ukulele might have caused her divorce. Hear why some people think music is awful and some people think it's heavenly. Susie asks whether she should apologize for her behavior on The Challenge and whether a particularly terrible Facebook post should be acknowledged or not. We hear what the press got wrong about anorexia after Karen Carpenter's death. And we discuss the way celebrities must see the whole world as the enemy.

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Happy (late) Halloween! We should've started with how Susie was wrong about fun size candy bars, but we didn't. Just know, she was wrong, and she admits it. Sarah was wrong about Jeffrey Dahmer--both his personality and his eating habits. But she was right about the pyramids holding an electromagnetic secret. We discuss social media, e-books, and tech addiction, and why we shouldn't have guilt about using our phones. And we say what the Challenge producers got wrong about violence.

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Today we're exploring Brain Candy Episode 7 where we discuss crime and punishment. In the BCP episode, Susie finds out that Sarah is into astrology, and Susie is pretty judge-y about it. Today we find out if she thinks she was wrong about it or not. Her conclusion comes after Sarah insists on reading her "rising sign," "moon" something or other, and some other words that don't mean anything. We also consider why women tend to be drawn to astrology and spirituality in general. Plus, Susie provides more insight about cannibalism (based on our Jeffrey Dahmer discussion) and why she was wrong about Ted Bundy. Plus, we discuss what Sarah got wrong on a Challenge and why we want to talk to Kaitlyn from Real World Brooklyn about her transgender transition and affirming surgery.

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This was the episode we were dreading. We knew we had an episode of Brain Candy that was so bad we had to delete it entirely, but we didn't realize how bad it was until we unearthed this "lost" episode and listened to it again seven years later. Oy. It's bad. We were offensive, small-minded, ignorant, and fatphobic. And we had no idea we were even saying anything shocking. Today we discuss all of the things we got wrong about food, bodies, and fat. We share some of the reasons these prejudices and biases were part of our worldview, the impact of reality tv on our own body image, and the question of whether we should've been cancelled. It's a lot. 

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