Josh Clark

And so it was hypothesized that it was in the lateral medulla in humans too.

And finally, I think around 2005, there was basically incontrovertible evidence that came in the form of this fisherman, I believe he might have been Spanish, who had this sneezing fit one day of like about 20 really violent sneezes in a few minutes.

And then all of a sudden, he stopped sneezing and couldn't walk right.

Like his gait was affected, almost like he had a stroke.

And apparently, either he...

caused a lesion on his lateral medulla from the sneezing or that violent sneezing was like an initial symptom of a lesion, kind of like here's your last sneezes ever.

And he went to the doctor and they started testing him and they would do things like put capsaicin in his nose, like red hot chili pepper in his nose, which makes everybody sneeze.

It's like a universal, um,

sternitatory right makes everyone sneeze and it wouldn't make this guy sneeze it would burn his nose and it would make his nose runny but it wouldn't make him sneeze on the other side it would make him sneeze the other nostril but not the right I think and so they found this lesion on his lateral medulla and they said sneezing center welcome to our understanding that's such a bad red hot chili peppers joke that I just sat on through that whole spiel that's very grown up of you

Should I say it?

Sure.

Whoever said we were grownups.

I was just thinking the doctor would do the capsaicin and ask him how he feels.

And he'd say, well, I don't know.

Sometimes I feel like I don't have a partner.

That was pretty good.

Yeah, you know, it's better than fight like a brave.

I don't know.

I'm trying to think of chili pepper songs.

What if the doctor came in wearing nothing but one of those reflector headbands and a sock on his penis?