359: Moving Corpses, Chess Diet, & Imaginary Friends
The Brain Candy Podcast
Susie Meister PhD & Sarah Rice AMFT
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 26 September 2019
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
Today we get into a chilling discovery scientists made about corpses. Sarah talks about how climate change has revealed a dead body problem. Susie reveals why chess can causes weight loss, & how chess champs are adapting. Sarah's mind is blown about, get this, toast. We get a follow-up about the controversial "work wife" debate. We find out why Sarah is now into kink. We hear why imaginary friends are going extinct. Plus, we interview Jonathan Mooney about his book, Normal Sucks.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm going out on these dates and everything and they'll like ask me like, oh, so what do you do? And then like I don't know which is the best thing I've ever done. |
| 0:15.0 | Hi Sarah. Can you believe we're still here? That's the new theme of art. Can you believe this? You know, that's really funny because like I'm going out on these dates and everything and they'll like ask me like, oh, so what do you do? And then like I don't know which is worse. |
| 0:31.0 | I'm a therapist or do I like a marriage and family therapist and then the inevitable question is like, oh, so like, you know, right, are you going to be like, you know, whatever. |
| 0:43.0 | Think diagnosed me or blah blah blah. Yeah. Or do I say I'm a podcast host and then I go have to say, but like a real one, not like one word recording my parents' basement, which I've said like 17 times. |
| 0:57.0 | And then they go, they go, oh, well, I mean, like one guy I was like, you know, like a real podcast, like not like not one that I like record my parents' basement because like even that would be cool. |
| 1:07.0 | Oh, that's sweet. Oh my God. But I don't know like a real one because not like everybody has a podcast and I have to be like, we have like hundreds of episodes. We have more and more episodes. |
| 1:19.0 | Right. And we're just as surprised as everyone else. Totally. We're shocked to. We can't believe it either. And as a matter of fact, this is episode 359. |
| 1:28.0 | What was no signs of slowing down on zero speeding bullet train. Look out and get out of the way. Or stop on and enjoy the ride with us. Yeah, just accept it. We're not going to it. Right. We're here. We're sort of queer. |
| 1:44.0 | Get used to it. Welcome to the show everyone. I am a bit under the weather. Oh, so I'm sorry. You just sound like a little throat tickle. Yeah, I don't look at. |
| 1:56.0 | Sarah, it's like my annual thing where I get gross and cough up along and you know, it's changing seasons. Yeah, I guess. |
| 2:08.0 | Seasonal changes. Yeah, do you in every time? So that's like the time of year you get sick is right around now. I think my theory is that it's because Lincoln goes back to school. That was going to be my third. |
| 2:20.0 | I think you're right. By all those little seven year old germs. Yeah, and then you get them. Yeah, then there's an infestation. Yeah, my friend, my friend Dave had it was like dating this girl or it still is, I think. |
| 2:33.0 | And she worked at a preschool or worked as a man, or something like that. And she got an ear infection from the kids that they misdiagnosed as bacterial when it was really fungal. |
| 2:43.0 | And when you like treat something that's a bacterial disease, but it makes it grow even more. Oh, no. So like she got tonight's of the year. She's like having dizzy, but like I had to be hospitalized. |
| 2:56.0 | Come on. From a fricking kid's dirty finger going in her ear. |
| 3:01.0 | That's pretty finger. Is that really how it happened? Well, I don't know. I mean something like that. That's what Dave said. You know, she brought all the kids all the time. Probably some kid lick their finger and stick it in her ear. Oh, God, that's awful. And that's an example of you got to be smarter than your doctor. No joke. And yes. And he like she had to be hospitalized and have her ear drained for like days. And they were saying like, you know, what if she loses her hearing in that year? That's like the worst. So of course the next 48 hours after that. I was convinced I had an ear infection. |
| 3:30.0 | I'm like, Oh, what's this pain? What your turns out just as it? That was bad timing. Real bad timing. I got real catastrophic with my thoughts. I digress. God, you're okay. Yep. Glad she's okay. Right. Is could that have been fatal? Yes. I think so. Right. At least like really damaging to her. Like do some permanent damage there. Yeah. I really get I read this story this morning about the |
| 4:00.0 | about one of the little girl in Texas who got one of those brain eating amoeba. Yeah. I mean, it's just people get it when they swim in fresh water. |
| 4:10.7 | Yeah, its just like why why does this happen? Why are they there? And why are we going in those fucking lakes? My mom's friend. Right? |
| 4:19.6 | Linda, my mom's friend, my mom's friend's daughter got the |
| 4:24.8 | flesh eating bacteria on her leg. |
| 4:27.1 | No, what happened? |
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