913: Elderspeak, Napalm Girl, & Snakebite Savior
The Brain Candy Podcast
Susie Meister PhD & Sarah Rice AMFT
4.6 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2025
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Susie went to a Micky Dolenz of the Monkees concert, and the next day a stranger stopped her at the grocery store to make a comment about something Susie did at the show. We learn why medical professionals and workers at senior facilities are being trained to stop using "elderspeak" with their patients. They say that the baby talk and cutesy language infantilizes older folks and causes greater resistance to care and more anti-psychotic prescriptions. We discuss the Carter family documentary and hear how the stardom of their sons Aaron and Nick contributed to strife, addiction, and death in the family. We talk about a man who intentionally injected himself with snake venom and willingly let snakes bite him hundreds of times with the hope of becoming immune to their poison, and somehow, someway, he actually did it. And he might end up being responsible for creating a universal anti-venom. We debate whether the Pulitzer prize-winning photo of the Vietnam War victim "Napalm Girl," who is running naked after being burned, should be allowed on social media or if it’s pornographic.
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| 0:00.0 | Right before we started we started this episode Sarah got a humongous splinter out of her finger and we were just saying talk about sound yeah it was like |
| 0:23.9 | it's been in there for a minute and then i did i i was one of those i felt it a while back and then i |
| 0:29.4 | knew i couldn't get after it or didn't have the right tools so i said to myself oh i'll just let it |
| 0:34.7 | work itself out you know how you do do that yeah well I uh if I swear I I |
| 0:42.3 | revisited and boop out the splinter came okay good job but congratulations episode |
| 0:49.1 | 913 this is a a great foreboding about... |
| 0:54.3 | Yeah, sounds lucky already. |
| 0:56.1 | It really does. |
| 0:57.4 | Yeah. |
| 0:58.5 | How are you? |
| 0:59.9 | I'm doing real well. |
| 1:02.1 | It's nice. |
| 1:03.2 | Yeah. |
| 1:03.9 | You're always doing real well. |
| 1:05.2 | I know. |
| 1:05.5 | I've been... |
| 1:06.5 | You know why? |
| 1:07.0 | Because I've been spending a lot of time in nature, |
| 1:09.8 | and I've been doing so much gardening. |
| 1:12.5 | And they say that that is good for your mental health. |
| 1:16.7 | Rumor has it. |
| 1:18.0 | The old... |
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