IS THIS NORMAL??

Yeah, it was definitely fun and exciting and this. Oh, I met the Rock. He's my buddy now. Dwayne Johnson, dj.

Did you.

My buddy. Hi, everybody. Welcome to the podcast. My name is Stephanie and I'm joined here by my colleague, Dr. Sarah Davis, who is also my mother. Yeah, I wrote down all my roles. Do you want to hear?

I do want to hear.

I'm just, you know, I'm a side hustler these days.

Yeah. Yeah. You get a lot of jobs?

I do have a lot of jobs. I have medical assistant, office manager, recruitment coordinator, podcast host, podcast producer, podcast editor, social media manager, babysitter, dog sitter, travel agent, stylist, and property manager.

That's true. That's a lot of jobs. And most of those are for me.

AKA your personal assistant.

Yeah. Yeah. Huh. You're still gonna keep doing most of those jobs, except for the medical assistant stuff once you go to med school, right?

I don't know. All of a sudden I have all this time on my hand and I'm like, I can do all these other things and I think all my roles might get wiped once I move on to my main role.

Well, who's gonna be my stylist? Okay, well, yeah, that's not really a full time job. I guess it sort of could be. I need all the help I can get.

Well, anyway, guys, we have an announcement. Dr. Davis is leaving us for Europe for.

I got scared for a minute. I'm kicking you off the podcast. God, that would be brutal. That would be brutal. She decided you wanted to be a solo artist?

Yeah, I don't know. So I don't really know what to do when you're gone. Dad offered to step in. Boo. We don't want the other Dr. Davis here.

No, no.

So I don't know, for next week's episode, it might just be me. Solo. We'll have to see.

I think you could do it. I don't know. I could try to call in from Italy.

Oh, we'll see. And then I leave for a long time, so.

Yes, yes. So I don't know. That's gonna be.

We'll keep. There will be some content. Don't worry.

Guys, you guys, you guys, it's all right. You'll find some other things to do. I know you'll miss us, but I really think you'll be okay.

Also, shout out to Jen and Michael for just being great listeners.

Great guests. Great. Well, great house guests, not podcast guests. And great listeners, man. Really passed the quiz.

They did pass the quiz. So shout out to Them. Okay. I think that was everything. Up top. And start moving into our topics today. So I want to talk about. I went to shadow my dad.

It's another one of your jobs.

Yeah, I do have. So I have another role here. I'm helping my dad with his role as the team doctor of one of the UFL teams. So my dad, her husband, Dr. Davis. Our worst podcast guest.

Yes. Yet.

But I was helping him, or not really helping him. I was just shadowing, I guess. But I went to go to one of the ufl. So if you don't know, the UFL is a spring football league, so it's kind of like, I don't know, can compare it to maybe a minor league NFL team, something like that. So, yeah, went and got to have that sports medicine experience, which we wanted dad to talk about on the last.

Podcast he was on, but couldn't get him to do that.

I didn't, so. But I. I like sports medicine. I'm all in.

Tell me what you liked about sports medicine.

I'll tell you what I liked and didn't like. What I did like is I liked how it was, you know, different. It wasn't in a hospital setting or an office setting. We were somewhere else. I liked that the doctors were not at the top of the totem pole either.

You like that?

I just thought it was, like, an interesting experience because I think in the hospital, you have the surgeons are the top, and then you have so many other people, like, like, you know, or the attendings at the top or.

Yeah, it's more of like. Yeah, it's pretty hierarchical.

Yeah, hierarchical. And now, like, we. And I was with some other surgeons and doctors and stuff, and, like, you know, the focus is the team also, really, the head is the trainer is the athletic trainer, and everyone is kind of reporting to them. So I wonder.

I wonder if dad would agree with that. I mean, the trainer is the. Definitely.

Pete agreed with me.

Okay.

Yeah. That's what. Oh, he told me that he was like, I think that trainer is the.

Is really the one in charge. And so it's like the doctor's kind of a consultant for the trainer or something. Okay, interesting.

Yeah. So I like that. Yeah. I thought it was a unique experience, again, just, you know, being out there on the field. I do get what dad says now about hating overtime.

Yeah. You'll find that the sports medicine doctors don't really care if their team wins or loses. A tie is just the very worst.

Yeah, I do get. Like I asked Dad, I was like, so you were all in on sports. You love sports and now you work in sports. Did that ruin it for you? And he said, yeah, he does not like sports as much as he used to.

Hmm, interesting.

Yeah, I mean, I agree, like, I like sports and I like medicine, but I don't want to mix work and play.

Yeah, I can see that. I think. Well, and then the other. The number one thing that I happen to hate about sports medicine is that sports games all take place on the weekends after hours. It's like, so you say, oh, okay, that's fine. I'll be the team doctor for this thing. Well, it's always on the weekends. It involves a lot of travel. It's kind of a pain for the spouse of the sports medicine doctor because it's all about me.

It's all about. Always all about the wife. But yeah, I also, there was a lot of standing. Had to stand for a long time.

Oh, that's the worst. Yeah.

I don't think I could be a surgeon because I can't stand for long. It hurts my back also. There's just a lot of testosterone going on. Yeah, like a lot. They're, you know, just like huge dudes and like, just too much. I'm definitely a girl's girl. I am not a guy's girl. I like being surrounded by females and being surrounded by a bunch of athlete men. I don't think I could have a whole career in that.

It's a. It's definitely a different dynamic. That just kind of reminds me of that, you know, during the super bowl when Travis Kelce was screaming at the Chiefs coach and they showed lots of close ups and pictures of his face and he looked all angry and. And then people were saying things like, well, I wouldn't want my daughter dating somebody like that. And I, I personally felt like you can't take the behavior of somebody during a Super bowl game and extrapolate that to, like, what they're going to be out, like on a date, on a dinner date. I mean, it's a very, It's a just, it's a really different place and the behavior is different and the emotions and all of that are just incredibly high. Now, that doesn't mean that those people can't be gentlemen when they're off the field, but when they're on the field, they're not, you know, they're not the person you want to be at dinner with.

Yeah. Your different parts of your brain are being activated.

Yeah. And have to be. I mean, it's. You're getting. You're Pummeling people. You're getting pummeled. You got to be all pumped up, and you can't be, you know, Mr. Polite out there.

Yeah. At the same time. Yeah. It's a rough game. I would never want to date an athlete also, because you just get, you know, you walk out on the field, and then you have all these people that are, you know, cheering for you, and you get that in your head.

And then, like, you think you're all that.

You think you're all that. And I don't know.

Yeah, it's probably not really good for. Yeah, it's just not really good for your whole personality. I don't know.

Yeah.

But I mean, was it, like, fun and exciting? Did you like that part?

Yeah, it was definitely fun and exciting.

And this.

Oh, I met the Rock. He's my buddy now. Dwayne Johnson, dj.

Did you.

My buddy.

Okay. Okay. Did you really meet him?

Yeah, yeah, we were there. The Rock was there.

I met Troy Aikman and Deion Sanders.

Yes. My buddies.

Of course, Stephanie didn't know who they were.

You know, I never claimed to be a fan.

Well, to be fair, I mean, they're, you know, my generation, that's. They haven't. You know, I've been playing for a little while. Troy was playing at UCLA back in my day when he drank out of my water bottle. He drank.

It was out of your water bottle?

It was out of my water bottle one time. It was just at practice.

Why were you there?

I was a student trainer. You didn't know that? Yeah.

Yeah.

I was a student trainer in college. Yeah. It didn't really. It didn't go all that well for me. It was not. It was. I didn't like it. Talk about standing. You go out there at practice and you're standing for hours, and then, you know. And then you had these. You had to carry around these really heavy things of, like, in each hand, like, six big water bottles, and then they would kind of rush off the field, and then you had to hand them a water bottle. And one time Troy drank out of mine, and then he gave it back and he said, thanks.

Oh, I thought you meant. So it was just the water that you were holding? Yeah.

It wasn't your personal water? No, no. It was just the water that. But I handed it to him, and he handed it back to me.

Me and. But that was your job, was to hand him water?

Yes.

That's your claim to fame.

That's my claim to fame. That was my brush with greatness at the Time.

Well, I met him.

Yeah. You had kind of more of an interaction with him than, Than I did.

Yeah. But I would say this opening game, there was a lot of people there. It was the Stallions and the Renegades, and it was a lot more hype around this than probably when the Stallions go to Melbourne, Memphis and are playing a random game.

Yeah. The other thing that I think is exciting, but would really stress me out is in sports medicine, when there's, you know, an injury or you've got to make a call as to whether somebody can continue playing or not. I mean, I know a lot of it, there's a lot of rules, like, okay, if this, this, this, you have to come out. I mean, a lot of it isn't like, super subjective, but there's still some of that. And I think that would be, you know, there's a lot of pressure on you to keep especially these starters in the game. And I wouldn't, I wouldn't really like that.

I mean. Yeah, there's a lot of other people. You have people. Well, first of all, you had the 60 minute meeting at first. So.

What's a 60 minute meeting? I'll let you know.

So we get there, we get to the stadium, and then we go and meet up with all the medical staff from the other team and our team, all the trainers, the doctors. And then EMS is there too. And you have like, the medical directors, and there's like one guy that was up there kind of like describing different protocols, like, if we have to take the ambulance out, which hospital are they going to? And like, how are we transporting from the field to the ambulance? Like, there's one person in charge of the golf cart. And just kind of seeing all that, just describing different. Like there's different lines on the radio to go to when talking about these, like, emergency situations.

Wow. Yeah. So that stuff is. I mean, I would think, you know, Dad's been doing SMU for so long. I would think that that stuff, like, do they still have to meet about that or do they kind of got it down?

No, I think it's every time you have the 60 minute meeting. I think so. I never knew. Yeah. And I'm not sure if EMS is always there, if that was just for this time, but yeah, and we went around and like introduced ourselves and I had to be like, Stephanie Davis with Dr. Davis, med student.

Yeah. And I heard he never introduced you as his daughter. He just introduced you as the medical student.

Yes, just the medical student like you.

Had just met that day.

I was like, okay, whatever, that's good.

Nobody needs to know that information.

Yeah, I guess. But.

Okay, so the 60 minute meeting and then what happened after that?

A lot of hanging out in the training room, just kind of. Dad also left me multiple times. Like, to go.

Do what?

Well, like, I went after the 16 minute meeting. People were kind of standing around chatting. We saw it, you know, 60 minutes till the game. So the. I like went. I went. And I was like, is there a bathroom? And I was like, I don't remember, I don't know. And then I went and found a bathroom that came out and everyone was gone. So.

So you were lost?

Yeah, but I found my way.

Oh, good.

There's some other instances similar thing. I kind of turn around and he's gone.

So, you know, you gotta pay attention. Sports move fast.

I do say I asked him because I think that my spatial awareness and just like in social awareness is really high.

Okay.

I think in regards to like taking cues about when to. About following him and like when I can just shadowing in general, I. I have seen people talk, doctors talk about how I don't really. Or like third year med students. I've seen how doctors talk about how they don't really care if you know any information. All they want you to be able to do is be able to like, know when to get out of the way and when. And know when to. And I saw an anesthesiologist talking about that. She was like, you can know all the information in the world and answer my questions, but if you, you don't have like general knowledge about when to step in and step away, then like, I'm not gonna like you.

That is really interesting. I have never thought about that. That seems like a.

What do you mean you've never thought.

About that as a med student? I don't know, I feel like that seemed like something like when I was a med student. I just. I don't remember that ever being. Well, I guess, I don't know. It was a long time ago, but.

Now when there's people coming in and they don't know when to leave the room.

Oh, yes. No, right. I never. Similar. Right, right. Yeah. No, no. For having an assist. That makes sense to me, but I never really thought about it as a shadowing med student.

But same thing, though.

Same thing.

And when to ask questions and when.

To just listen and when it's like, okay, no, this is really. This is not any of your business. You need to step away.

Yeah. So I think I have a lot of that okay.

And your spatial awareness, like, how close to be to, like, the doctor.

Yeah, spatial awareness. And I'm talking. And especially the anesthesiologist was talking about, like, in the. Or, just like, spatial awareness about, like. And you don't learn that unless you've been in an OR before and stuff. So I guess you kind of learn it. But I feel like some people just never learn it and never know, like, where to stand.

Yeah, that's true. That's true. Huh. That's very interesting. Oh, maybe you should do a TikTok, like, explaining to students what to do. I guess maybe you don't really know, but. Yeah, people probably need some instruction about that, some rules.

Yeah. Yeah. And if you can't take, like, social cues, then that's difficult.

That's tough. That's tough. Hmm. That's interesting.

Yeah. But anyway, sports medicine, thumbs up, fun time.

Liked the vibe. If they could get you a chair, you'd like it better. And no overtime.

And more girls.

More girls. Well, there's like, women's sports. I mean, yeah, dad covers a bunch of women's sports at snu, so.

Yeah, I would like that better.

Yeah, just.

Girl scroll.

Okay. Okay, what else we got?

So next segment, we're gonna call it Is this normal?

Okay.

And we are gonna go through the subreddit r Is this normal? I'm gonna read you some of these things that people put in here. Some of it is kind of like medical advicey. Other stuff people just are asking, like, relationship advice and stuff. But I'll pick out the ones that are more like medical and just people are confused and they go to Reddit and they go to the Internet to see is this normal?

Is this normal?

Okay, this one is titled It Happened Again. It's been a year since this happened to me. I'm so angry. I thought I was safe to yawn. Ever since what happened last time, I yawned. I've been avoiding yawning for almost a year. And my ear got muffled. Everything sounded normal, but when I talked, my voice sounded distorted in one ear. Then I thought it was safe to swallow. Nope, it wasn't. And my ear got more muffled. Then I yawned after an hour and my ear sounded better. And by the time I fell asleep, it was normal. I wake up, my ear was normal, but then I accidentally yawned and now it's back to the start. I yawned again and not. It just feels like a bubble is around in my head. So is this normal? What could it be?

You got station tube dysfunction, girly.

What does that mean?

Yeah, That's. Although I don't know why exactly. It's exacerbating by yawning. Because sometimes you use yawning to resolve it. But there's little tiny station tube that drains from your middle ear into your throat and sometimes that gets clogged and you can. And it's what bothers people, like when they get on a flight.

Yeah, but this happens to me. Like, this happens to me. It happens to everybody.

Yes, yes, absolutely. Yeah. Now, for some people, it is more bothersome than others. And some people get, like, lots of clicking and it really bothers them. But. Yeah, I feel like this person is.

It's happened once in the past year, you know. Yeah. I get clicking in my ear sometimes. You know, everyone kind of gets that and they.

Right.

They yawn weird. Then they'll get a muffle.

Yeah, yeah. So. Right. It is. It's a common thing. Now. It is one of those things that can be. Yeah. Can happen more often or be more bothersome, but anything that happens one time in a year is like, how are you even bothering to post about that?

I mean, at least they're not trying to go to the doctor with it.

Yeah, yeah. But sometimes people do. Sometimes people come in with things and they'll say, oh, I got this. I had this symptom. Well, how long did it last? 5 seconds. Has it come back at all? No, like. Well, I just don't really feel that's gonna. Nothing serious lasts 5 seconds and never comes back.

Yeah, but.

Yeah, that was. That was a fairly dramatic question. It happened again. I thought I was safe.

Okay, so station two dysfunction is your diagnosis.

Station two.

Station two dysfunction.

Yeah. Not station two. There's station three. Station four.

Eustachian tube dysfunction.

Yeah, your Eustachian tube.

Okay, got it. Okay, we have another one. This is from Narrow Eggplant. It's titled I spit everywhere in my sleep. Last night. I must have been having a strange dream because I suddenly spit, which for some reason woke me up. I was still in an uncognitive state. And I spit again in my bed as hard as I could.

Sorry. Okay.

I slowly gained my sense, especially when I lay my head down to it. It feels cold and gross. So I switched my bedsides. It was strange. There seemed to be a lot more saliva on my sheets than there should have been. This is really gross, but I want to know if it's normal.

Okay. I was with her of, like, drooling in your sleep. That's fine. But when she woke up and she was still. Still Spitting or heat. Or heat. Yeah, whatever.

Yeah, yeah. I was still in an uncognitive state and I spit again in my bed.

As hard as I could and then.

It was wet and then they were like this is weird. And then just switched over to the.

Other side of my bed. I would like to know what types of responses do these people get?

0.

Nobody knows what to say.

There's not that many people on this subreddit.

Oh well, you know, I don't even know what to make of that. That sounds like some kind of parents Paris parasomnia or some kind of thing with the sleep. But if you do spit all over your bed, I think it would be good to kind of try to wipe it up a little bit before you go back to sleep.

Maybe they were just tired and they were like what's going on? And maybe I mean like spirit in their bed. Are they sure they didn't like wet their bed?

Is it so hard? I feel like that would be a separate section of the bed.

Like I mean if you spit hard like I feel like it would be like it's not like there's that like how much saliva are you?

Right, right.

I guess maybe they're saying that maybe they were spitting before they woke up.

Yeah, yeah. It sounds like they thought they were spitting in their sleep and then they woke up and spit really hard.

You're probably just having a weird dream.

I guess so. I guess so.

Also like I don't remember the last time I like just like spit, you know?

Yeah.

And that's not something you like just do.

That to me is not a super regular thing. I mean, I guess maybe they do chewing tobacco. Well that's true. That could be. But I don't know.

Is this normal? Yes or no?

It is not normal. I mean especially once awake to spit hard in your bed.

Maybe they had like a past partner and they really disliked them and they sleep slept next to them and they're just imagining just like spitting on them.

Well, I guess there are worse things you could do.

I guess so.

Okay. Sorry to.

Is this normal? No. Okay, here's a good one. This is a little bit longer but it's called sleeping during the day. I have never understood that people had to sleep during the day. I 19 year old female am a social worker who either had night morning shifts or day night shifts on a group home. Here I have 13 clients, blah blah blah. Just talking about how that they work in a home and they said the last few days I had shifts from 7am till 4pm 7am to 9pm and today I had a shorter set from 6am to 1pm so, you know, kind of long shifts. After I came home, I was so tired, so I decided to cook some lunch. And then I was just scrolling on my phone. Not long into scrolling, I found myself falling asleep and I actually slept for an hour. Normally I never sleep during the day or feel the need to. I have had more harder days where I felt more tired and didn't need to sleep. Is this my sign of getting old?

She's 19. First of all, like a 19 year old isn't usually like a social worker unless you really went. Because usually they get like a master's in social work. It takes a long time to graduate from college and do all that. Maybe she did all that early. Sorry, that just caught my eye. I was like 19 year old and you're working as a social worker.

Maybe she. It's like a job. Like me, caretaker.

Oh.

I have 13 clients who are severely mentally and physically handicapped.

Wow. But, yeah, I mean, so something that happens to people is if you are awake and working hard for long hours, you get this thing called being tired. And then when you get tired, it makes you fall asleep.

She's 19. It sounds like she's getting really old.

Yeah, it does sound like she's getting old. Yeah. I mean, having to fall asleep during the day, I mean, yeah, I would be like, this is normal. It is normal to be tired, it's normal to fall asleep. It sounds like her previous behavior is not so normal where she's like never tired, kind of up all the time. So. Yeah, I don't think you're getting old. 19 year old.

1 of the comments was, you're not, quote, old until people stop commenting, quote, that's a young age to pass away. Or quote, their death was so unexpected.

That's terrible. Yeah. I used to get people saying all the time, well, you look too young to be a doctor. And they said that. I felt like they said that for a long time and then that kind of dried up. And then just more recently, people have been saying, well, so how much longer are you going to work before you retire?

Quick shift.

Quick shift. Yeah.

Well, I mean you were. I slept today. And you were concerned.

I was concerned. We weren't answering your phone and it was 9 o'.

Clock. I've never ever done that before. But I was tired.

Yeah. Well, what time did you go to bed?

And you were with me last night too. I didn't even drink.

I know, I know.

Yeah.

That's it, we're like, it's not like you were whooping it up and then you should have been home by like 9:30 or something.

Yeah, I went to bed at like.

10 and then slept till 9.

Yeah, I mean I had a long weekend.

Okay, okay. Or you're getting old. Just saying. Great.

Yeah. 19 year old's getting old and I'm old and you're super old.

It's true.

There's all these like weird pictures. My toe is green.

My toe is green. That's not normal.

So we'll say, I think, I don't know, I can't look at the toe picture. So sleeping in the afternoon.

Normal. Normal. Especially when you've been working long hours and you're tired and you happen to fall asleep, that's normal. But it does mean you're sleep deprived. If you are falling asleep like that, you really, if you're getting plenty of rest, you really shouldn't be falling asleep. Like if you find yourself falling asleep in class, that type of stuff, that really should not be happening. If you are getting adequate rest, which when you look around a college classroom and you see all these people nodding off, you can tell that lots of people are not getting adequate rest.

I don't think I've ever been able to just like fall asleep somewhere like that.

Oh, and you never fallen asleep in class?

I mean I've like dozed off but I've never been like out we. Where you like can't.

What?

You've fallen asleep in class?

Oh my gosh. Yes. When you, you know, your head and that and then. Yeah, oh yeah, that used to happen all the time. Okay.

This is titled I often eat erasers and paper.

Oh pika.

I've been doing this as a small child. As of right now, I'm 14. Often when I'm sitting in class, I will eat the erasers or shavings or just nibble into the side. I've done this to the point where there's no longer an eraser. I would also tear off the corners of my paper and eat that. But the teachers would get upset with me. So whenever we have a bagged a bag lunch, I rip off a piece and eat it. I've also drunk random things like pen ink. The thing is, is I'm a picky eater when it comes to food. But when it's objects, I will eat. I will eat it even if it tastes extremely bitter.

Ooh, that's not normal. But yeah, it's a condition called pica.

And someone actually commented that.

So yeah, and there are different flaws. Sometimes people would say, like, oh, yeah, when people are anemic or something, and they're kind of craving something, and that would make them eat dirt and other stuff.

Ice, though, being anemic in ice. Like when I was really low on iron and I just wanted to chew on ice all the time. Really? 100%.

And then once your anemia was resolved, you didn't want to do that anymore.

Yeah, I mean, I still like. But yeah, no, I didn't want to chew. I didn't want to chew on ice. Yeah. 100%.

Well, that's a good example of that craving. Like that. Yeah. But, like, in this person's case, I don't think they're getting any nutrients from pen ink. Yeah, no, but, you know, there's.

But at the same time, like, as kids, like, kids nibble on, like, chew on their pencil.

That's true.

And chew on the erasers. I think when it comes to the pen ink, though, or eating the bagged lunch, like, ripping off paper and eating it.

Right. Some of that, really. And she should be kind of growing out of those things at age 14. You know, kids, that the. I do remember eating paper in, like, when I was, like, 10 or 11.

You had pica.

No, I think I just did it for 10 years. I did it, too. Hey, I ate.

I remember when I swallowed 10 rocks.

Oh, yes, you were. You were in a. It was a contest or something, right? Yes, yes.

Me and Claire. Now, I don't remember. Me and Claire were on the playground and we were gonna have a pebble eating contest also because it was in second grade, and we learned in second grade how birds eat rocks to help digestion. So I was like, oh, like, I'll do that, too. So then we were having a pebble eating contest, me and Claire. And Claire ate one pebble. So to win the contest, I only had to eat two pebbles, but instead.

I decided to eat 10 pebbles.

And I remember going back into Mrs. Brooks class and being like, I just ate 10 pebbles. I think they called you guys. They were like, what do we do with this kid?

We didn't come pick her up. We're like, ah, she'll be fine. But. And. Okay, wait. But just to really go through that, nobody else was in the contest.

It was me and Claire.

And then, like, she couldn't go back and eat more pebbles. Like, there was no reason for you to go beyond the two pebbles.

Correct. I don't really remember the actual contest occurring, but yeah, I do remember, like, I think I was Kind of like doing my own thing and just eating the pebbles. And Claire was really struggling to eat one pebble. But I think I missed. I think I missed that part. So I just went for it. Maybe there's people hyping me me up, being like, go, go, go.

So. Huh. So did you feel you got a lot of attention for eating the 10 pebbles?

I kind of ended up being negative attention, which was. I was like, Mrs. Brooks, like, birds do it, so I can do it.

Yeah. That's such a bummer. When something starts off being like, you feel like you're really. People are going to be really excited about this, and then. Then you go too far with 10 pebbles and all of a sudden people are just worried about you.

I don't remember pooping them out, though. I didn't check. That's what I remember them saying. Like, eh, you'll poop it out. You'll be fine.

Yeah, yeah, that is. But I mean, did you rinse off the pebbles at all?

What do you think?

There's no rinsing. Oh my gosh, that's painful. Well, when I was in sixth grade, we ate a worm, but that was part of, like, a survivalness skill thing. Oh, somebody told you to do that? Yeah, like, it was. It was at camp and it was a whole big thing of like, okay, live worm. Yeah, I think so. I think it. I think it was live. I don't know, or very recently dead. But they. They were like, teaching you, like, what things you could eat if you were trying to survive in the mountains and there was no food around. So I mean, like, it made sense to be like, you know, these things are okay, it won't hurt you, and blah, blah. But then it was. We got to. So they had kind of told us all this stuff and then. And we knew this was coming because this was somewhere where our sixth grade went every year. And so we knew it was coming. And. And then. Yeah. And so then they were like, okay, you know, who's going to eat a worm? And my. That. My partner, Lisa Poly the. She was my. My camp partner and she was like.

Yes, I'll eat a worm.

And I was like, ugh. But then I felt like I had to join in. You know, I felt like you were.

The kid that had to eat the worm.

No, like, anybody who wanted to could do it. Like, they had enough worms for everybody. And so, like, a bunch of people were there and it was like, okay, who's gonna eat. Who's gonna eat a worm? And she was like, I'll do it. Come on, Sarah. She was. I mean, she was a good influence on me and lots of other things. Cause she was like, she. She wasn't afraid of anything. She was just like, come on, let's get in there. Let's, you know, let's play this game. Let's do this. And so it really was. It got me out of my comfort zone, but it got me out of my comfort zone eating a worm. And so then I was just like, okay, I'll do it. And then I was burping worm flavor all afternoon.

Oh, my goodness.

Yes. I had some regrets about the whole thing.

Why were you burping? You had a soda pop or something. And then the worm is coming in.

I don't know. You know what? Probably I swallowed a bunch of air when I swallowed the worm, you know? Cause you're kind of just like, 1, 2, 3, go.

Yeah.

I don't know. But if you ate the worm, your, like, prize was we used to do, like, silk screen T shirt things. Like, you could. Does that mean anything to you? I guess it's just like. It's just like doing a pattern with paint on a T shirt. And we did different ones, but you could get the special worm one if you ate the worm. So we got a silk screed on the worm. But then a similar thing happened where, you know, we were feeling pretty proud of ourselves. All right, we did it. And then later on, people were like, ew, gross. You ate the worm.

They were just jealous.

They were just jealous they didn't get the worm shirt. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know that I really wore the worm shirt very much because it was just, you know, like some of those things that were in the moment, it seems, like, cool. And then later on or like the next day or when you get back from camp, all of a sudden it's not so cool anymore. So anyway. But yeah, I ate the worm. I don't have any regrets.

No. Where'd you eat a worm now? Well, now you know that you can survive on a worm.

I could survive, but I don't know how much nutrition you'd have to eat a lot of them. Yeah, but, you know, I bet they eat those things on naked and afraid.

True, true. But they do.

But, yeah, I would prefer if I'm not ever out in the wilderness starving so that I don't have to eat a worm. But I could do it if I needed to.

There were weird kids on the playground that would just eat a caterpillar. I can't really say that Because I did eat the pebbles, but I wasn't that weird kid that was eating random.

Things or there was always some kid that ate a lot. Paste.

Paste.

What's paste? Oh, gosh. What's paste? Yeah, it's similar to glue, but it came in this jar, like mod podge. I don't know what mod podge is.

Is it glue? Like, is it glue?

Yeah, yeah, it works to glue. So you would paste things on things. Oh, I learned a new word today.

Mod podge.

But paste did. I mean, everybody. Anybody my age who says that they never tried paste is lying. Because it seemed like it would taste good. Like, you kind of smelled it. It had, like, this slight hint of sort of a minty smell, too.

Oh, that was probably right up your alley. You love mint.

I love mint. So, you know, I think everybody tried it, but then you realized it didn't really taste the way it smelled, and then you kind of moved on to other things. But there was always one kid in the class who ate a lot of paste. Maybe they had fika. Yeah, maybe they did. Maybe they did. Or they just liked it, you know?

Well, like, Play doh, too.

Oh, yeah. Everybody ate Play doh, for sure. I remember changing some diapers with some various Play Doh colors coming out the other end. But Play Doh. Play DOH did taste all right. Yeah. Because it was kind of salty. Why was it salty? I would like to know.

That probably has to do with the thing, the way they were making it not to eat.

Yeah. Yeah, but I remember, like.

I remember just, like, kind of sucking on Play doh.

Mm. I could kind of. I can remember the way it tastes.

Oh, yeah, for sure.

For sure. Yeah. Okay. So anyway, but this person, they. You know, I would. I would want to know if they had. I would check them for other disorders. Okay. Okay.

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