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.