Episode 11 of The Grey Area Podcast goes somewhere the show hasn't been before. It starts with a simple question — do you have a personal rule that would sound ridiculous out loud? — and the answers prove that everyone's a little unhinged when nobody's watching. Then Gabe goes back to 13, when a diagnosis with ulcerative colitis took him off the tennis court, put him on steroids, and sent him into eighth grade hoping nobody would notice. He talks about self-advocacy, Big Pharma, and what he wishes he could tell that kid now. Stella goes back to age two — not to say anything, just to sit with the version of herself that was still being built. They get into what they'd create if nobody ever saw it — Gabe reveals he's writing a fiction novel under a pen name, Stella wants to write things she can't attach her name to, and Matt says music. And then the whole thing turns into a books episode: The Fountainhead, Huckleberry Finn during cancel culture, a Czech word that means "the rosy light of the sun on mountains," and why English may never be enough.
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