978: Grandma's Name, Service Dogs, & Switched at Birth
The Brain Candy Podcast
Susie Meister PhD & Sarah Rice AMFT
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 22 January 2026
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Sarah's outdoor adventures never stop, and this time she ended up in a ski parade! While Susie has resorted to wearing heated apparel inside. Susie shares the story of Andrea Yates, the woman who killed her five children, and the religious beliefs that made her think she should. Susie is worked up about how grandparents now insist on being called all kinds of weird names and Sarah's got a theory about why they don't want to be called "grandma." We discuss the abundance of "service" dogs on planes and the reasons people bend the rules to get their dog on board, and why it's the airlines's fault. And we hear about two babies who were switched at birth and it wasn't discovered until they were two years old, and the moms had to decide whether to switch them back or not! The story is unbelievable, and no matter what, there is no right answer to how to handle it.
00:00 - Sarah's Ski Parade and Susie's Heated Apparel
17:51 - Unpacking the Horrific Andrea Yates Child Drowning Case
23:13 - Examining the Extreme Religious Cult Behind Andrea Yates
30:30 - How Religious Ideology Scaffolds Mental Illness
43:11 - Why Grandparents Resist Being Called 'Grandma'
52:17 - The Airline's Fault for Fake Service Dogs
01:01:34 - The Impossible Choice in a Switched at Birth Case
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, Brain Candy Podcast, episode 978. |
| 0:07.0 | Yes, it is. |
| 0:09.0 | Yes, it is. |
| 0:11.0 | We are here coming at you live in January. |
| 0:15.0 | Hello, Susan Louise and Sarah Louise. |
| 0:19.0 | And Sarah Louise. |
| 0:20.0 | You know what? I'm glad that we're like caught up to before we were like a little bit ahead where we were talking about. Yeah, for the holidays. And we had to kind of do things in the future. And then I didn't remember what we talked about. But now it's nice because it feels like we're, I get to talk about things that are happening right in real life. That is nice. Yeah. Pre-recording isn't ideal. Yes. Well, because I'm not very good at like faking it is, you know. No, but I'll tell you when we enjoy it, the week of Christmas and the week of New Year's. Oh, yes. Yes, we do. Yes, we do. It's like, oh, we can be people. Right. |
| 0:57.3 | And we never take vacations or like go on, take breaks. |
| 1:00.3 | Like, it is kind of crazy when you think about how we're at your service. Many of these we've done over and over. |
| 1:05.2 | We act like it's so hard. |
| 1:08.1 | I know. |
| 1:08.7 | Meanwhile, I'm like, okay, recording with my bestie. It's so fun. I did read something |
| 1:13.8 | slash see something on my Instagram feed that said, uh, seeing your best friend's face has the same |
| 1:21.9 | effect as like, I don't know, something really wonderful. Like, but basically it is really good for you. |
| 1:29.3 | I think so. |
| 1:30.3 | I think that's true. |
| 1:31.3 | Don't you think so? |
| 1:32.2 | I know so. |
| 1:33.4 | Yeah. |
| 1:34.4 | I know so too. |
| 1:35.6 | I was sad recently. |
| 1:37.7 | I don't remember what inspired it, but I was thinking about something that I saw of you. I don't know what it was, but I just was like, man, we used to like record in person. I know. We were talking about that the other day. Yeah. Yeah. That must have been what made me reflect on that. It was so fun. It was so fun. And we didn't even appreciate it. know we didn't we didn't I was just talking about this |
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