HeyJaredNeurospicy Dialogues
Neurospicy Dialogues is where curiosity and chaos collide - in the best possible way. Hosts Cara Jean Wilson and Kimberly Jürgen spark impromptu conversations about how gloriously complex our brains really are.
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- Sep 21, 2026
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- Jul 6, 2026
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148 Subspace Anomaly (opens the original)
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Kimberly and Cara Jean take the phrase "subspace anomaly" apart at the roots and let it loose on everything else: a possible missing ninth planet, a two-headed flower from Cara Jean's garden, a full tangent through Yogi Bear and Yogi Berra, and a running list of new "sub-" anomalies to use when things are just a little bit off. It sharpens when Kimberly reads an article on five supposed ways to spot a liar (she thinks it was the BBC) and finds herself checking off nearly every one of them. The l
147 Awakening (opens the original)
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Cara brings the word this week, and it comes from a misread: she thought she saw "awakening" in one of her books and it turned out to be somebody's name in cursive. Kimberly's brain goes straight to her Star Wars sleep shirt, Darth Vader's head over the words "there has been an awakening" (but she was wrong, it was Snoke). Next they jump to: rain returning to the Pacific Northwest, a desert that stops looking like a desert for a brief window after a storm, and Kimberly's question for the week. W
146 Time Travel (opens the original)
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Kimberly pulls "time travel" out of the Dino cup and the two of them find the joke sitting inside it right away. For something the entire world agrees is impossible, we spend most of our days doing it. Forward into the what-if. Backward into the what-was. There is an abundance of trainings built to stop us. An episode about time travel keeps circling back to the one destination neither host finds easy to reach, which is right now. Cara's is-this-just-me question is the turn. Her first guided pre
145 Integrate (opens the original)
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The episode makes its own argument from the jump. Kimberly opens fascinated by how differently the two of them choose. Her words were written on the backs of fortune cookies in the Dino cup ages ago and then pulled at random, so the word surprises her too. Cara picks hers on purpose. Both methods came out of who they are, which Cara spots immediately: "Oh, nice usage!" The word is integrate . What follows is post-its and time estimates used as nervous system management, the sunk cost fallacy, an
144 Destiny / Fate (opens the original)
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Kimberly brings two words this week instead of one, with a hyphen between them, and Cara's brain fractures on-air before the intro even happens. Destiny / Fate . Sisters, Kimberly says. Complementary, a little antagonistic and definitely not twins. Cara cannot get past the punctuation. She is stuck on the dash, describing herself as Alice who did not make it through the looking glass and is standing in the middle of it looking at both. From there it runs to agreements made before any of us arriv
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