Giddy Up: How To Love A Parent Who Is Living In A Different Reality
Sickboy
CBC
4.8 • 524 Ratings
🗓️ 31 December 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
It’s been eight years since Marnie first sat down with the fellas, and let’s just say… things haven’t exactly slowed down. Back in 2018, Marnie was a 23-year-old trying to navigate her mother’s sudden and terrifying diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia. Now, at 31, she’s back in the studio to give us the raw, unfiltered update on what happens after the diagnosis. Marnie takes us through the absolute rollercoaster of the last few years. From her mom’s near-death experience involving a ruptured bowel (and the subsequent delusions that the doctors harvested her organs) to the detective work required to figure out why her mom is buying furniture for imaginary tenants. We get deep into the heavy stuff: the crushing anxiety of wondering if you’re going to inherit your parent’s illness, the guilt of moving across the country to save your own sanity, and the weird, heartbreaking reality of "parenting your parent" before you’ve even had kids of your own.
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| 0:46.3 | All right, well, we are very excited because we're sitting down with a past guest, Marnie, welcome back. |
| 0:51.8 | I got to, I got to say, when I say past guests, I mean fucking past guest. We are talking episode 132. Back in January of 2018, the episode was titled |
| 1:02.3 | Something's Wrong with Mom, Paranoid Schizophrenia, which was an episode that followed |
| 1:08.5 | episode 131. These pills are making me crazy ovarian cancer. And then the episode that followed episode 131. |
| 1:12.4 | These pills are making me crazy, |
| 1:13.2 | ovarian cancer. |
| 1:15.3 | And then the episode that followed yours was I had two vaginas. |
| 1:18.4 | Wild times back in 2018. |
| 1:20.7 | Good year. |
| 1:21.4 | Absolutely. |
| 1:23.3 | Chef's kiss of a year. |
| 1:24.9 | I thought we named... |
| 1:25.9 | Ovarian cancer, |
| 1:26.9 | schizophrenia, two vaginas. That's a fucking banger in a year. I thought we named, for some reason. Avarian cancer, schizophrenia, two vaginas. |
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