Things We Got Wrong

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 a...

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 ackn...

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 abo...

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 al...

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...

Today we have describe why Brain Candy's fourth episode is still missing, making it officially our "lost" episode, and we try to recall what we said in it that was specifically so offensive. It was probably Susie's fault, let's face facts. We revisit our discussion of objectiphilia and discover a study that shows the type of people who are more likely to have this sexual attraction and our minds a...

Episode 5 of Brain Candy featured a debate with a woman named Cassie who does not share our feminist worldview. On today's show, we revisit the episode and talk about whether we should've even had her on the show in the first place. We discuss what we got wrong in approaching the debate and consider whether we were even effective or convincing in sharing our points of view. Susie discusses whether...

Hooray! Brain Candy's spinoff is finally here! In our very first episode of Things We Got Wrong we explain why we're doing this show, what our intentions are, and what people can expect. We begin with a discussion about how cringey it is to listen back to our first episodes (from seven years ago!) and how we've changed since the beginning. Sarah explains how her marriage informed her demeanor and...