Couch Pandas 2026 Spring/Summer -- Pandas Playing Cello #84

It’s Couch Pandas time! Our quarterly pandassation with just Julia and Carmen on the couch–no guest this time–for Spring/Summer 2026! We get into the difference between pain and suffering (turns out they run on totally separate pathways in the brain), and somehow that leads to demons, The Chosen, and a folk theory of the devil as a free-will-obsessed employee God had to fire. Then we get personal: a Codenames game, a dinner-table tray someone couldn't resist "fixing," and what it means to be loved by people who never wanted you to be different. We close out on telepathy, reading the energy of a room before you speak, and a first look at The Synapse — Julia's invite-only women's conference on consciousness, AI, and robotics, happening this October in San Diego. Learn more about The Synapse: https://thesynapse.co/ More about Carmen:   / carmenamedina   More about Julia:   / julia-mossbridge   And here's the (updated) Pandas Playlist! Check it out on Apple Music or Spotify -- Apple (better for artists):   / pandas-playing-cello   Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/40r...