853: Stolen Gold, Science Bodies, & The Contestant
The Brain Candy Podcast
Susie Meister PhD & Sarah Rice AMFT
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 7 October 2024
⏱️ 65 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Fall is in the air, so our resident witch is getting her caldron out and preparing for snowboarding season. Sarah is willing to sacrifice a literal finger if that means not missing another powder season. (She's unwell.) Susie tells us about a 30 for 30 called Stolen Gold about an intellectually disabled paralympic basketball team that won the gold by having almost the entire team fake the disability. We learn how it affected the lives of the people who won fair and square. We discuss the complexities of "fairness" in sports and the consequences it has for trans athletes (such as the athlete in the documentary Mack Wrestles). We talk about a woman who donated her body to science to create a legacy, but then placed a list of demands on the scientists for 15 years. Susie describes the documentary The Contestant about a Japanese reality tv show that tortured its star for 15 months and humiliated him in front of the country of Japan. Plus, an athlete who was injured due to a "hefty sneeze" inspired us to learn about some other surprising injuries endured by athletes.
Listen to more podcasts like this: https://wavepodcastnetwork.com
Read this week's Newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/thebraincandypodcast/immortal-corpse-unusual-injuries-off-road-drivers
Join our Candy Club, shop our merch, sign-up for our free newsletter, & more by visiting The Brain Candy Podcast website: https://www.thebraincandypodcast.com
Connect with us on social media:
BCP Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/braincandypodcast
Susie's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/susiemeister
Sarah's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/imsarahrice
BCP on X: https://www.x.com/braincandypod
Sponsors:
Get 15% off Ned products with code BRAINCANDY at https://helloned.com/BRAINCANDY
Get an exclusive 20% off your first order at https://thrivecausemetics.com/BRAINCANDY
Get 25% off your first month for a limited time at https://ritual.com/BRAINCANDY
This episode is sponsored by/brought to you by BetterHelp. Visit https://www.betterhelp.com/BRAINCANDY today to get 10% off your first month.
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Rain can't. what are you laughing at? |
| 0:15.0 | You were laughing. |
| 0:16.5 | You said you didn't look cute little giggle before we started |
| 0:19.8 | and then it made me giggle. |
| 0:21.0 | What are you talking about |
| 0:22.8 | bring any podcast episode 853 we're giggly we're giggly I am giggly today I'm in a |
| 0:30.5 | good mood it feels like fall does it not? Something happened. It was it |
| 0:37.0 | really was the fall equinox or fall solstice or whatever equinox that's probably Equinox, whatever. |
| 0:43.8 | My brother knows all about it. |
| 0:45.1 | I think you would know, you pagan witch. |
| 0:47.3 | You know what's funny is, I know about the vibes? |
| 0:53.0 | My brother knows about the facts when it comes to like the |
| 0:59.0 | he celebrates not regular holidays. |
| 1:02.0 | He's like he will he will text us forget to text maybe on like |
| 1:05.9 | Christmas and those big holidays but he will every single solstice equinox he, happy start of spring, it's the longest day of the year, whatever he says. |
| 1:16.0 | Like he said, this is the day where it's in Denver on, in a few days, or it just passed it's the exact same hour of sunlight and |
| 1:29.5 | nighttime it's like 12 hours and 12 hours and split perfect. I had no idea your brother was a |
| 1:37.0 | warlock. Yeah I he really is. Mm-hmm it makes sense he's also the one who saw things when he was little, so. |
| 1:45.4 | Does he ever talk about those visions? |
| 1:47.4 | He hasn't talked about them. I should ask him, but I mean when he was younger he would all the time. He talked about the man in the hat who sat at the edge of his bed and he always felt safe |
| 1:56.3 | Hello it is weird how that happens a lot with little kids and how about how years later my brother had not been home in so long I was talking to our next door neighbor came back to visit the house where we grew up was talking the next door neighbor had a kid, this was 20 years later, saw a man in a |
| 2:17.1 | hat on the bed. Same description of the hat, old-timey boiler, like bowler hat. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Susie Meister PhD & Sarah Rice AMFT, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Susie Meister PhD & Sarah Rice AMFT and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.

