Welcome to the moth podcast. I'm Michelle Jelowski, a director at the moth and your

host for this episode. Human bodies are amazing, but let's face it, they're also kind of

weird. On the one hand our bodies are this incredibly

resilient collection of bones, organs, arteries, nerves, tendons, the most complex machinery around.

On the other there is hiccups,

goosebumps, wisdom teeth.

Our ears never stop growing, and we're the only species that has chins.

Our bodies can help us out, but they can also do us dirty.

On this episode, two stories that have a little bit of fun with the human anatomy.

First up is Jason Schomer. He told this at a Twin City Story Slam where the theme of the

night was tests.

Here's Jason live at the mall.

She looked at me and said,

see that red light in the corner, just ignore it. And I looked at her and I thought what?

And she looks to be like yeah it's just a video camera it's gonna record you when you sleep.

And I stood there and I to myself, oh my God, you cannot have the Ricky Martin dream tonight.

See, I hadn't really been paying attention when they explained the sleep study for sleep apnea to me and I didn't know that I would be actually recorded while I slept.

I knew that there would be sensors

stuck to my body, but I didn't know that there would be actual video footage.

Now my love for Ricky Martin is the tale as old as time.

Boy sees boy on TV, boy

on TV, boy buys boy's records, boy goes to New York to meet boy at record signing,

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