#1290 Hello, It's Me

August 27, 2024Scott Benner

Adelle has type 1 diabetes.

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Scott Benner 0:00
Hello friends and welcome back to the juicebox podcast.

On today's show, I'll be speaking with Adele. She is 12 years old and has had type one diabetes for a little under two years. At the time of this recording, Adele has some Hashimotos and eczema in her family, and we're going to talk about that as well as how type one diabetes impacts her life. Please don't forget that nothing you hear on the juicebox podcast should be considered advice medical or otherwise, always consult a physician before making any changes to your health care plan or becoming bold with insulin. Don't forget to save 40% off of your entire order at cozy earth.com All you have to do is use the offer code juicebox at checkout. That's juicebox at checkout to save 40% at cozy earth.com when you place your first order for AG, one with my link, you'll get five free travel packs and a free year supply of vitamin D drink, ag one.com/juice box. If you'd like to save 40% off of your first purchase@hungryroot.com use this link. Hungryroot.com/juice box. That's all you have to do. Hungryroot.com get your food there, let them make it for you. What do you bother them with cooking for what are you a chef, yes. Chef, does anybody watch the bear on Hulu? Thank you? Chef, no. Chef, thank you. Chef, this show is sponsored today by the glucagon that my daughter carries. Jeevo hypo pen. Find out more at gvoke, glucagon.com, forward slash juice box. This episode of the juice box podcast is sponsored by us. Med, us. Med.com/juice, box, or call 888-721-1514, get your supplies the same way we do from us. Med, this episode of the juice box podcast is sponsored by the Eversense CGM, an implantable six month sensor. Is what you get with Eversense, but you get so much more exceptional and consistent accuracy over six months and distinct on body vibe alerts when you're high or low on body vibe alerts. You don't even know what that means. Do you ever sense cgm.com/juice? Cgm.com/juicebox, go find out. Hi, I'm Adele. Adele. How old are you? 1212? You have type one, yes. For how long

Adele 2:34
I've had it since May 20, 2022, so that would have been one year and nine months.

Scott Benner 2:41
Wow. A year and nine months. Were you 10 when you got it? Or had you? Yes, yes. What? Wait, yeah, yeah, okay,

Adele 2:50
oh, yeah. 10 years old, it says

Scott Benner 2:53
you have notes. Yeah,

Adele 2:55
you think of some important information. That's

Scott Benner 2:58
okay. That's good. You, uh, brothers and sisters, yes,

Adele 3:01
I have a sister. Um, she's 10 right now.

Scott Benner 3:04
Does she have any autoimmune stuff? Um, no. Do you have any other autoimmune stuff besides type one?

Adele 3:10
I don't think so. But I know my grandpa and my uncle on my mom's side have eczema, and then my grandma on my dad's side has this thing that I can't present, um, like a pronounce spell it, H, A, S, H, Hashimotos.

Scott Benner 3:27
Yeah, that's, that's an autoimmune issue. That's a thyroid, okay? And who was that? Oh, yeah,

Adele 3:32
my grandma on my dad's side,

Scott Benner 3:34
grandma. Oh, wait a minute, your grandma on your dad's side has Hashimotos, and someone on your mom's side has eczema.

Adele 3:39
Yeah, my grandpa and my uncle. Interesting,

Scott Benner 3:42
interesting not to you, interesting to me, to you. You're just like, I don't want diabetes tell me about so you're old enough to kind of remember this. So did you start feeling sick? Did someone say something to you? How did you get diagnosed?

Adele 3:55
Well, like, I, I went to, like, the bathroom, like, in the middle of the night, like a lot. And my mom, like, was, like, noticing that kind of as, like, one of the symptoms. And she also noticed some other things. I didn't really notice a bunch.

Scott Benner 4:07
So what else did she notice that? You didn't notice that

Adele 4:10
I was, like, eating a lot, very hungry. Yeah. And I losing weight,

Scott Benner 4:17
lost weight, peeing in the middle of the night, a bunch. How long do you think this all went on for before she was like, Hey, we should go talk to a doctor.

Speaker 1 4:25
I'm not really sure you don't remember, like, for maybe, like, a few weeks. Okay,

Scott Benner 4:31
okay, did your teachers notice anything? My

Adele 4:34
I feel I'm not sure if I was diagnosed yet, but my t my fifth grade teacher, she kind of noticed that I was like, kind of like, I think moody ish, but I don't remember if I was that like, if I've diagnosed that time, or if it was before my diagnosis. So

Scott Benner 4:48
if people thought I had diabetes every time I was moody, that would be something, moody ish. I don't know what that means, but it's funny. What makes you want to come on the podcast. So

Adele 4:58
I'm like, very. Way out, like, with my diabetes, I'm not like, kind of like, shy, so I kind of thought like, hey, this seems fun. I want to try it. Okay, so you just

Scott Benner 5:09
want to give it a shot. You want to talk to other people about type one and be open about your diabetes. Yeah, okay, oh, let's do that then. So your mom sees all these issues. Do you go to a doctor, hospital. Where do you head? So we

Adele 5:22
did go to the doctor, but then after that, I went to the hospital, like, I immediately went home, grabbed my stuff, and went to the hospital, like, emergency, and then I stayed for one night. That

Scott Benner 5:34
was it. Yes, do you remember what your blood sugar was do? What do you remember about? Yeah,

Adele 5:38
I have that written down when I went to the hospital, my blood sugar was 407, okay.

Scott Benner 5:44
Do you remember a lot about that time in the hospital? I know it's only a day, but were you scared? Was it confusing?

Adele 5:52
I remember not getting to eat for like a while. Eventually, they offered me ice chips, and I thought it was gonna be like something that was just ice cubes. And I was kind of disappointed. You thought you were getting

Scott Benner 6:02
something fancy and you got ice in a cup. Yeah, they didn't do the thing. They let you drink with a straw, though, right? Eventually, have you ever had the the sponge, the wet sponge, at the hospital when they won't? Oh, my God, all right. Well, here, listen, I hope this never happens to you, but if you're in the hospital and they want to restrict your fluids, they won't let you drink. They'll put a cup and a sponge on a stick, and you're allowed to wet the sponge and rub it inside of your teeth and your gums to wet your mouth, huh? Not good. Okay. You don't want that. It's not even a fun sponge. It's like, I don't know what a fun sponge would be, but it feels it's not comfortable, and the sticks plastic. It's all very strange. So what you remember about the hospital is more about not being able to eat and stuff like that. You weren't like, Oh, my God, I have diabetes or, well, like,

Adele 6:47
at first when I was in the doctor's office, I was like, Wait, why are you guys talking about this? And then, like, I just started crying. I was very like, sad at the moment,

Scott Benner 6:56
sad because you knew something was wrong, or sad because you were scared. Do you remember,

Adele 7:02
I think it was like, more or less like me being like, kind of like, kind of a bit of both,

Scott Benner 7:07
okay, yeah, just overwhelming,

Unknown Speaker 7:10
yeah. Did

Scott Benner 7:12
your mom cry when you cried? No,

Adele 7:14
she was, like, talking to the doctor. I was kind of just sitting like next to her, like, why are you guys talking about diabetes like I was just hearing a bunch of words being like, thrown around

Scott Benner 7:24
Adele. I know you guys grew up being on camera, so you're very accustomed to it, but I find when I'm looking at you, I wonder what I look like. Do you ever have that feeling you're like, I'm looking at him, he can see me. But what do I look like right now? Do you ever think that? Because then when you look at you, that's not what you look like anymore. Does that make sense? Kind of right? Because if you like, watch, I'm looking at you, but now, if I look at me, you're not seeing me the same way as when I'm looking at you. But I'll never know what. I guess I could take a screenshot. In my mind, I look very different when my head's turned a half an inch one way or the other. I'm sure that's not even true. Did you go to school on camera during covid?

Adele 8:00
Yes, we, I know we did, like, two days at school, and then the other days, like the other group of kids would go in and we would, like,

Speaker 1 8:08
I think we were on Zoom, I don't remember. Yeah, was this before or after your diabetes?

Adele 8:15
Way before that was like, that was like, covid. So, like, two years before, I think, like, 2020, so, yeah,

Scott Benner 8:21
do you remember? Were you sick at all before you were diagnosed? How many viruses? Or,

Adele 8:27
yeah, I didn't have covid. I

Unknown Speaker 8:29
believe you think you had covid. I'm

Adele 8:31
pretty sure I had covid. Like, when, like, part of that stuff was, like, going on,

Scott Benner 8:35
how was it for you? Did you Was it hard on you? Or was it pretty gentle covid, yeah, it was like, more like a cold, or were you like, wow, I'm really sick. I think it

Adele 8:45
was kind of more like a cold. It wasn't super bad. Okay, okay, so

Scott Benner 8:49
you get diagnosed, and it's scary, and you go to the hospital, you're not there too long. You come home, and is it up to you? Do your parents say? Like, are your parents married? Yes, yeah. So are your parents? Like, well, you, you're a big girl. Adele, like, let's get going. Or were they, like, we'll help you. Like, how much, what was the division of work

Adele 9:08
they like, helped me a lot.

Scott Benner 9:09
Do they still, yeah, okay. Do you want them to? Need them to like them to I do kind

Adele 9:17
of like the help. Like, I could do like those stuff on my own, but it's nice to like have some help, yeah.

Scott Benner 9:23
So what do you use? What kind of gear Do you have? So I

Adele 9:29
have the Dexcom g6 and the OmniPod five.

Scott Benner 9:32
OmniPod five, Dexcom g6 you can change your sensor by yourself on your Dexcom. Yes or no, yes, yes.

Adele 9:41
I've had to do my OmniPod a lot of times, because sometimes it was, like, before dance and stuff. So I had to, like, change it real quick, because my mom wasn't

Scott Benner 9:50
home, right? You know how to change your pod. No problem with that. Yeah, counting carbs. Where are you with that? Yeah, I'm pretty good at it. Okay, like, when you're gonna have a meal, do you like slide the control? Or towards your mom and be like, Here, take care of this. Or do you just do it? Sometimes, nice?

Adele 10:04
Yeah? Because sometimes, like, it's kind of annoying to, like, find the carbs, because, like, and I have to wait and stuff and, like, the worst part, honestly, is, like, waiting the 15 minutes, though, yeah, because I

Scott Benner 10:15
know it's next. How do you eat? Do you have, like, a certain style of, like, eating something you like more than other you're a vegetarian, eat a lot of meat? No, I don't think so. Just kind of eat what mom gives you got you, yeah, what's an average, uh, meal at dinner time? Like, what do you have a lot in the house?

Adele 10:33
You like, my mom, like, makes all these like different things. So there's not really, like an average thing, okay, so she's

Scott Benner 10:39
she makes a lot of different variable things. So you give vegetables good cook too nice. That's good. Sometimes people grow up thinking their parents are good cooks. Then they meet somebody who actually is good at cooking, and they go, Oh my god, I thought like this was here. I'll tell you a secret. My wife thought salt and pepper were spices like that was, like, the how exciting food was in her house, you know what I mean? And it wasn't one year at Thanksgiving, their Turkey was so, like, it was so disgusting. And I was like, Oh, it's great, thanks. I picked around it. Then the next year, I said, Can I bring my own Turkey to Thanksgiving? She was like, No, that'll be insulting. I was like, oh, okay, it's terrible. She didn't know the difference until she got moved out. I think it happens to a lot of people. How about your friends? So you weren't in the hospital very long for friends to come visit. But what's it like afterwards? Now, do you have, like, a close group of friends? How would you describe your friendships. This episode of The juicebox podcast is sponsored by the ever since CGM, ever since cgm.com/juicebox, the Eversense CGM is the only long term CGM with six months of real time glucose readings giving you more convenience, confidence and flexibility. And you didn't hear me wrong. I didn't say 14 days, I said six months. So if you're tired of changing your CGM sensor every week, you're tired of it falling off, or the adhesive not lasting as long as it should, or the sensor failing before the time is up. If you're tired of all that, you really owe it to yourself to try the Eversense CGM, ever since cgm.com/juicebox I'm here to tell you that if the hassle of changing your sensors multiple times a month is just more than you want to deal with, if you're tired of things falling off and not sticking, or sticking too much, or having to carry around a whole bunch of extra supplies in case something does fall off, then taking a few minutes to check out. Ever since cgm.com/juicebox might be the right thing for you. When you use my link, you're supporting the production of the podcast and helping to keep it free and plentiful. Ever since cgm.com/ dot com, slash juicebox. If you take insulin or so faucinyas, you are at risk for your blood sugar going too low. You need a safety net when it matters most, be ready with G vo hypo pen. My daughter carries G vo hypo pen everywhere she goes, because it's a ready to use rescue pen for treating very low blood sugar in people with diabetes ages two and above that, I trust low blood sugar emergencies can happen unexpectedly and they demand quick action. Luckily, jivo hypo pen can be administered in two simple steps, even by yourself in certain situations. Show those around you where you store GEVO kypo pen and how to use it. They need to know how to use jivo kypo pen before an emergency situation happens. Learn more about why GEVO kypo Pen is in Arden's diabetes toolkit at gevok, glucagon.com/juicebox, gvoke shouldn't be used if you have a tumor in the gland on the top of your kidneys called a pheochromocytoma, or if you have a tumor in your pancreas called an insulin OMA, visit gvoke, glucagon, com slash, risk for safety information. Diabetes comes with a lot of things to remember, so it's nice when someone takes something off of your plate, us, med has done that for us. When it's time for Arden supplies to be refreshed, we get an email rolls up and in your inbox says, Hi, Arden. This is your friendly reorder email from us. Med. You open up the email, it's a big button that says, Click here to reorder, and you're done. Finally, somebody taking away a responsibility instead of adding one. US med has done that for us. An email arrives, we click on a link, and the next thing you know, your products are at the front door. That simple, US med.com/juice, box, or call 8887211, 514, I never have to wonder if Arden has enough supplies. I click on one link, I open up a box, I put this stuff in the drawer, and we're done. Us. Med carries everything from insulin pumps and diabetes testing supplies to the latest CGM like the libre three and the Dexcom g7 they accept Medicare nationwide, over 800 private insurers, and all you have to do to get started is call 888-721-1514, or go to my link, us, med.com/juicebox, using that number or my link helps to support the production of the juicebox podcast.

Adele 15:39
Yeah, like, a lot of people, like, are always asking, but they're very, like, helpful. Like, they always like, like, I know that I have the nasal like, the best, best squimmy,

Scott Benner 15:52
I don't know. Yeah,

Adele 15:53
they're like, very, like, open to helping me and stuff. And like, if my like, phone beeps, they're like, are you okay? Like, do you need sugar or something? So

Scott Benner 16:02
did you explain it to them, or do you think they're learning it as you go along? You did. Yeah, if you asked me to describe my daughter's friend group, it's these four girls. Like, I know who they are, right off top my head, right? It's always the same girls. Like, do you have that situation?

Adele 16:15
I actually, like, I have a, like, a variety of friends. Like, I'd say I have a pretty big friend group. Okay,

Scott Benner 16:21
so there's some people who are closer in your circle, and some people are a little more on the outside, and they know, they know. Okay, so you tell the close up ones the stuff they need to know

Adele 16:31
really, like, I'll tell, like, anyone, like, a lot of people in my school are, like, always asking me questions. And they're like, they're always asking about, like, why I have two phones,

Scott Benner 16:39
yeah, what do they think? You're like, a drug dealer or something? What do they think?

Adele 16:43
No, no, they're just like, confused. I try to explain my best.

Scott Benner 16:47
Okay, so some your friends have varying understandings of diabetes, but do they know enough? Like, if I looked over and Adele was like, Oh, I don't want to hold on. I just don't want to say this and upset you. You know what could happen if your blood sugar gets really low, right? Yeah, okay, all right. So if your friends looked over and you were on the ground flipping around like a fish, you think they would take out that back swimming and shove it up your nose and give it a tug? Yeah? No kidding, I think so. Yeah, cool. Oh, that's really neat. It's nice that friends like that. You know, do you go to the nurse's office for your adjustments at school? Or do you handle them on your own?

Adele 17:20
I handled them on my own. Last year I did on go to the nurse to, like, pre bolus, but I'm a big girl now. Yeah,

Scott Benner 17:26
you don't need that, right? Yeah, whatever. What would you like people to know like, Okay, I know you've talked to your friends, but do you have a feeling like, when you said you wanted to be open about diabetes? What did that mean to you? Being

Adele 17:39
like, open about, like, diabetes is like, to not be afraid to, like, kind of, like, explain it to people and like, not being, like, trying to hide it or anything,

Scott Benner 17:47
so that that really is, then more about how you feel about it and how you interact with it, like you don't care so much if, if I know about it, you want to make sure that you're comfortable being open about it and talking about it, yeah, okay, why do you not want to hide it? Because, like, I

Adele 18:06
feel like there's really no reason. Like, I feel like, if I hit it, like, it would be like, really weird. Because like, I'd be like, like, people would be like, Hey, why is there a bump in your shirt? And I'd be like, um, no reason, right? So it's like, just easier also to be out about it,

Scott Benner 18:19
yeah. Like, so instead of just changing the subject and walking away or something, you want to be able to say, yeah, it doesn't bother you when somebody says, hey, what's under your shirt there? Yeah, no, no.

Adele 18:32
Like, I'll be fine to be like, Oh, this is my like.

Unknown Speaker 18:35
So are

Scott Benner 18:36
you normally open, or are you, like, willfully trying to make sure that you're not hiding diabetes. Honestly, I'm normally open. Okay, so this goes along with your personality to begin with. All right, gotcha Do I seem very old to you? No, not really, not really excellent. That's good news. I saw somebody recently that said I looked very young, and I've been clinging to that all week, like I just bumped into somebody I hadn't seen in a while. They're like, Oh my God, you look so young. And I was like, thank you. So excited, very, very excited. Actually, you play any sports?

Adele 19:10
Yes, I did do swim team, but that ended like at the February I do dance class, and I'm doing a ballet and I do three clubs, Art Club, International Club, and Baking Club,

Speaker 2 19:22
ooh, I went to baking school, like, I worked in a bakery. I know how to do that. Like, I could make, like, you know, you can make a loaf of bread. I could make 200 loaves of bread, like, literally, all at the same time. I don't know if that's a skill or not.

Adele 19:38
The thing about Baking Club is, though my friends actually, like, started it with, like, our home ec teacher. So that was pretty cool. Like, they kind of started their

Scott Benner 19:46
own club. Yeah, you went to a teacher and said, hey, we'd like to have an after school club. Can you be the person that does it with us? And that teacher said, Yes,

Adele 19:54
yeah. They, um, I wasn't completely part of it, but I did, like, join it after but they, like, they went through like, a lot. But like, I think they started working on it last get it set up.

Scott Benner 20:04
See, you're kind of young, so I'm gonna say something cynical for a second. Does it worry you that teacher didn't have anything better to do after school that they were allowed to? They were able to hang out? No, no, you're so nice. Kind of fun. You're so nice. No, no, I think it's a nice idea. Only adults are laughing at what I just said now, like, like, can you stay after school for free and bake with us some more? I'd be like, I'm busy. But it was, it was very nice of her to her, him, him, him, him. It was very nice of him to do that. That's excellent. Is he younger?

Adele 20:34
He's like, kind of mediocre.

Scott Benner 20:36
Everybody look old to you when you're 12. Not really, I don't think I love this. This is great because sometimes I ask questions you don't know the answers to. It's fun to watch you kind of like, think about it for a second. Adults will just they've been asked the same question so many times that you ask them and they just blurt out the answer that their brain already knows. You're actually thinking about it, which I'm enjoying OmniPod five with dance class. How's that doing for you? Is it keeping your blood sugar pretty stable?

Adele 21:05
Yes, because, like, we use like, activity mode, um, most of the like the time. I believe I know my Anana turns it on. I don't know if my mom turns it on, though, interesting. Like, I'd never, like thought about it. You don't

Scott Benner 21:17
make an adjustment. You're not the one who worries about that adjustment. It's the adult that's with you that does it? Yeah, a

Adele 21:23
little bit more, because I'm not sure if I'm supposed to use it or not. Got it. Okay? Sometimes the OmniPod does, like, get in the way, like, for stretching and stuff. But like, usually it's in a good spot,

Speaker 1 21:34
because, like, sometimes, like, it would just feel weird. Okay, where do you prefer for it to be? Usually, like, on

Adele 21:39
my stomach or legs sometimes, like my arm, like I have my OmniPod on, like this arm right now, sometimes it's a bit weird.

Scott Benner 21:46
So stranger on your arms. For you, a little

Adele 21:49
bit like, I just put this, like a new OmniPod on my arm last night. So

Scott Benner 21:54
okay, how long did you do injections for?

Adele 21:58
Not very long. We got the OmniPod after seven weeks after diagnosis.

Scott Benner 22:04
Oh, okay, so you had, you didn't do injections long at all. Okay, no, did you dislike the injections? Why did you move to a pump so quickly? Because,

Adele 22:14
like, it was, like, available, and it's like, kind of like, like, I think, I think we thought of it as, like, an upgrade. Injections really weren't that bad, though, just like a little poke.

Scott Benner 22:24
Do you know what your a 1c is? Yes,

Adele 22:27
I have the A one history. Oh, yeah. Do you want to know the most? Do you want to know the most recent one? Because there's a lot?

Scott Benner 22:35
Well, tell me the most recent one, then tell me, like, go back like four or five and tell me what it was like a half a year ago or something

Adele 22:43
like that. Okay, so the most recent one is 220, 24 6.3 1128, 2020 2023 6.388 2023 6.85 2320 23 7.0 7.0 so like most of them, were like in the low um, like six points on things. But like that was like one seven and then the two 228 2023 6.2 11, 120, 22 6.37 2020 22 8.25 2020 2216 point zero. So that's actually all of them, yeah,

Scott Benner 23:25
so there was basically an elevated one at your diagnosis. And it looks like you maybe had a honeymoon for a little while, and now you've been figuring out how to use insulin, and you're in the mid sixes.

Adele 23:38
Oh, my, my, A, 1c, I found something that said, March 2024, now, 12 year old, 6/7, grade, A, 1c, 6.3 and then my total total daily insulin, 775, units.

Scott Benner 23:50
So you've been at 6.3 pretty steadily for like, the last nine months. Yeah, that's great. Do you remember having a honeymoon? Was there a time when you all of a sudden needed less insulin? Or is that not a thing that not a thing that you would have known about and your parents

Speaker 1 24:02
would have handled? I feel like my parents would have known that more. Okay, all right,

Scott Benner 24:07
what should adults know about how it feels to have diabetes?

Adele 24:15
Like, if, like, adults were to have diabetes, or just like, kind of what they should know to help me,

Scott Benner 24:19
yeah, as parents, I guess I'm asking you, like, what experiences are you having, or feelings are you having that you're pretty sure your parents don't know about. Sometimes,

Adele 24:30
like, when I'm dizzy or My head hurts, like when my blood sugar is, like, high or low, sometimes I don't, like, always tell them, like,

Scott Benner 24:37
yeah, so you'll keep it to yourself if you're dizzy, sometimes, sometimes,

Adele 24:41
like, if they ask me, I'll tell them, but like,

Scott Benner 24:44
I don't know. Do you know? Why not?

Adele 24:47
Not really any reason. I just like

Scott Benner 24:51
not trying to avoid a conversation about it. No, just you feel dizzy, and it's something you keep to yourself. Yeah. How often does that happen to you?

Adele 24:59
Yeah, well, I know, like, I used to kind of just, like, think, like, if I was dizzy and my blood sugar like, wasn't like, low, I just, like, kind of like, ignore it. But now, like, my mom, like, kind of recently told me that, like, if I am feeling dizzy and my blood sugar is not low, I should still have candy. Is that helping you? Because, like, the um, the Dexcom doesn't catch up to like, um, just like a finger prick.

Scott Benner 25:22
Yeah, I would tell you, if you feel dizzy and your Dexcom doesn't say you're low, you should get your meter out and check your blood sugar. Yeah, okay, and then, but I take what she's saying. She's worried about when you're by yourself, she doesn't want you to ignore

Adele 25:35
sometimes, like I'm sometimes I'm at like, school or dance, so I don't have it. Yeah.

Scott Benner 25:39
I mean, better safe than sorry, right? That I get what I think that's like, I

Adele 25:43
think that's what it's like kind of going for,

Scott Benner 25:45
yeah, yeah. How frequently do you think you're low

Adele 25:48
sometimes, like, some, like, some days, like, not as frequently, but like, recently, it's kind of been a bit frequently. More definitely. Know why? Maybe, like, maybe because of, like, all the exercise or something.

Speaker 1 26:02
What number do you feel low at it differs, like, sometimes

Adele 26:07
under 70, like, maybe like 68 and like under that, I'll feel like a little bit more dizzier, but like a little bit dizzy. But then, like, if it's more in the 50s, I'll feel like, really dizzy. Have you

Scott Benner 26:20
ever gotten to the point where you can't help yourself? Like, been so low,

Adele 26:24
kind of like, yeah. Like, I was like, Oh my gosh, when will the Disney dizziness be over? Yeah?

Scott Benner 26:30
And then somebody was helping you, yeah. Okay, swimming. You swam with OmniPod five and Dexcom, yeah. G6 so there's an opportunity that even people who you don't know are now going to see your stuff. Did you find yourself talking to them about it? Did you find that people cared or did they not even mention

Adele 26:50
it? People didn't really mention it much, but like, Yeah,

Scott Benner 26:54
more conversations or not. Not really, not really. Have you ever been bullied or picked on about it.

Adele 27:00
No, no. Sometimes, like, people would kind of make jokes about diabetes, like, even if it's just on, like, YouTube, Pinterest, or, like, just people saying it, I'll get a little bit offended, even though, like, they say, like, kind of you shouldn't be, like, getting offended that.

Scott Benner 27:16
Well, that's interesting. So if, if you see somebody joking about it, it feels offensive to you. Do you, are you actually bothered by it, or do you think you're supposed to be bothered by it?

Adele 27:25
It's like, in between, like, I'm it's not like, I'm gonna like, it's like, I'm a bit bothered by it,

Scott Benner 27:31
kind of, but you don't hold on to it, like you're not mad about it a day later, or something

Adele 27:36
like that. Like, some of the jokes kind of would be like, kind of, like, when people say I'm eating too much sugar, I'm gonna get diabetes. Yeah, like, I sometimes, like, I'm like, I don't think that's how diabetes works, not

Scott Benner 27:49
how I got diabetes. I got it the old fashioned way. My pancreas stopped working. Well, okay, but not upsetting. Like, you know, oh my gosh, I need help, or, like, you're not overwhelmed by it or anything like that. Yeah. Okay. How is it with you have a sister, right? Yes. Okay. Do you guys talk about your diabetes at all? Does it come up? Like, what's the interaction between the two of you? Like, regarding that sometimes, like,

Adele 28:18
she can't it's like, kind of like, annoying. But, like, not really, like, any conversations. Like, she used to, like, kind of ask my mom and me about it, but I think she knows more now,

Scott Benner 28:31
annoying because she's asking questions.

Adele 28:34
No, like, more or less, kind of, like, I It's like, kind of weird, like, it's kind of like, like, sort of embarrassing to me. Like, like, when I'm, like, taking care of my diabetes, like, with my mom, or, like, my sister, but like, then, like, I'm, it's less embarrassing when it's like, it's kind of cool for me, like, when it's people, like, who are not my family, and like,

Scott Benner 28:59
okay, embarrassing because it's taking up time, and everybody's just sort of standing around waiting for this park to be over. Like, do you feel like you're the center of attention?

Adele 29:09
Not necessarily. I don't know. It's kind of hard to explain.

Scott Benner 29:12
Yeah, no, I understand. That's why I'm that's why I'm asking. Because I don't think people would think about stuff like this as frequently you think your sister feels like you get more attention than she does?

Adele 29:22
She has said that before, yeah. She was like, um, you're it's also because, like, I'm the older sister. She's like, she's like, Adele's the older sister. She has diabetes, like, she's spoiled or whatever, but I'm like, I'm really not

Scott Benner 29:37
just have diabetes. Do you Do you ever say anything to her, like, I don't know. Like, why don't you get diabetes, and then you can have all the attention too, and then see, that wouldn't be good, right? Do you feel badly that she feels badly? Or do you feel annoyed that she's I'm

Unknown Speaker 29:53
kind of annoyed

Adele 29:54
because, like, I feel like she's kind of overreacting. I. She doesn't really fully understand either. And to

Scott Benner 30:02
her, it doesn't seem that way. No, no. To you, I'm

Adele 30:07
not totally sure, like, what my sister thinks, like all like about all of it. So you're

Scott Benner 30:11
not totally sure what she I don't I'm not sure what anybody thinks. So you have any questions for me?

Adele 30:16
Not necessarily, like any questions. I don't think,

Scott Benner 30:19
do you know, like, the podcast, I would

Adele 30:22
I, like, I wanted to start listening to it, but, like, I haven't yet, because I, because I went on the app to, like, do it, and then I kind of, like, got confused. Like, I don't know it's a kind of setup, weird.

Scott Benner 30:34
Yeah, I'm not in charge of that part. But do you want to talk about, um, like, what do you want to listen to? Like, management stuff, about, stuff about, stuff about, like, taking care of diabetes. Do you have questions, or did you want to hear people's stories? People's stories, yeah, you don't want to listen to, like, how to bolus for a meal and stuff like that. Sounds kind of boring, right? Yeah, it is a little boring. People's stories. Well, some of them are not age appropriate, and some of them are, some of them are really very much. So that's interesting. Yeah, those podcast apps are, I don't know why they're set up the way they are, but it's just what we're stuck with. If you ever get interested and you want to listen to conversations about managing basal insulin and your diabetes and stuff like that that you might be, you know, looking for more information. There's lists of like the Pro Tip series and and stuff like that that you could listen to. So that should make it a little easier to find the episodes. Okay, all right. What else do we have going on? Do you have worries about the thing on what happened are you? Are you quacking? What is that? Oh, it

Adele 31:35
was just one of my pre so I have these pre bolus alarms for school, and I forgot to turn them off for today?

Scott Benner 31:40
Do you not have school today?

Adele 31:41
No, how come? Because it's parent teacher conferences. Oh,

Scott Benner 31:46
that day where they pretend they're doing something and you get a day off. That's nice. Who cares? They should do that all the time. Do you ever, yeah, exactly. Do you ever think about the future with your diabetes, like, as you get older? Do you have concerns or thoughts about that?

Adele 31:59
I'm just like, a little bit scared to start taking care of all the by myself, because, like, some locations it's hard for me to, like, put on, like, my arms, like, I'd have to be like, and like, I'd be like, struggling, yeah,

Scott Benner 32:11
you'll figure it out. It'll really be okay. It really will be so worried about placement of pods, stuff like that, you're too young to you're not thinking about, like, dating, right? No, no, no, really, are there kids you think are cute? Or are we up to that yet? Or no, maybe, maybe, oh, I see, yeah, don't say their name. It's fine. I think we know who you're talking about. Okay, so, okay, so that's the thing, but not for now. You're more worried about where to put the devices

Adele 32:41
I have, like, seen, like diabetes, like YouTubers. So I know there's like, um, so there's this young, like, young like, so there's a toddler on, like, a middle like, um, um, like, a teenager, I think. And then there's like, an adult. And like the toddler, like her mom, like does, like her stuff, and then the teenager, like her dad helps her. And then like the like, grown adult, like,

Unknown Speaker 33:09
so do you kind of, like,

Adele 33:11
interesting for me to watch?

Scott Benner 33:13
Do you search out diabetes content on social media? Yeah, sometimes,

what are you looking for

Speaker 1 33:19
when you're doing that, kind of just like, just seeing other people like and how they handle it.

Scott Benner 33:25
Does it make you feel comfortable that they're okay? Or are you looking for suggestions? Just sometimes,

Adele 33:31
just kind of like, hey, like, they have diabetes too. That's kind of neat. Just looking

Scott Benner 33:35
for somebody who's similar. Do you know anybody in real life who has diabetes? Actually,

Adele 33:39
yes. Fun story. I actually just meant, like, the my crew. Teacher, so crew is, like, this like thing we have, like, in our school. It's pretty new, unique, I think. But like, basically, just like a bunch of kids, and we kind of, like, circle up and talk about stuff. Oh, I thought it was growing teacher, um,

Scott Benner 33:57
I'm sorry, when you row, when you row, it's also called crew. And I thought, Wow, you look young to row, but that's okay. Okay. Now, okay, so tell me more about this. You guys get together and talk, sorry. And

Adele 34:08
then, like, my crew teacher, her, um, her, like, friend, like, so she's a Spanish teacher. And then there's like, a Spanish teacher in the high school. He's a dad also, and he, like, came in one day and like, I told my teacher about like, this podcast. Because, like, I was excited. She was, like, telling him about it. And he was like, um, like, they called me over. And he was like, hey, my my daughter actually just got diagnosed with diabetes, so she's in eighth grade, and I got her like, phone number, and like, kind of started talking. Because, like, I'm like, if she wants to talk about anything, yeah.

Scott Benner 34:41
Oh, that's fantastic. Isn't that nice that you could could meet each other like that? Do you think you'll meet in person one day?

Adele 34:47
Yeah, we were actually just texting her, like, how we should meet someday. Nice. That's

Scott Benner 34:51
excellent. How old is she And how old are you?

Adele 34:53
She's like, in eighth grade, so probably, like, 1314, Oh, you

Scott Benner 34:56
guys are the same age. Then, okay, what do you like doing? In, like, in your free time, not like school, not act, not like planned activities, like dance. But what do you enjoy with your free time?

Adele 35:07
So I like plan stuff with my friends. I go on call with my friends. I play, like, video games, watch stuff. I also hang out with, like my neighbors, because I have some neighbors that are like, kind of like my age, a little bit younger, and then my sister. We all, like, hang out all the time. Do video like, right down the road for me, do video

Scott Benner 35:25
games make your blood sugar go up? No, I don't think so. You don't get that like, crazy excitement.

Adele 35:32
No, no. Sometimes, like, when, when I'm with my friends, like, I was hanging out with my two, like, two of my best friends, and my Nana was like, You guys are making her blood sugar go hide because you guys are, like, so excited, yeah,

Scott Benner 35:44
adrenaline can make it go up this. So what kind of games do you play when you play video games?

Unknown Speaker 35:48
So I

Adele 35:49
play, um, this, like Roblox. It's like an app, like, on my phone. So

Scott Benner 35:54
I know, yeah, I know what it is. That's what you are. Yeah. Are you jealous that I can sit back and go and sit up because my microphone moves, or no, because you're like, all having to sit up. And I'm like, sometimes I sit back. I got a comfy chair. All right, nice. What are your favorite subjects in school? Do you think about college?

Adele 36:14
So like, I do, like, I like Spanish and then science, but I actually do want to be a diabetes educator when I grow up.

Unknown Speaker 36:21
When did you start thinking about that

Adele 36:23
a little bit after I got diagnosed, and, like, more or less last year? Okay, so, yeah, I, like, always talked about it kind of, were

Scott Benner 36:34
you science oriented before that? But like, good at science,

Adele 36:38
and I wasn't really thinking at first, like, I wanted to be, like some sort of Doctor, vet, but, yeah,

Speaker 1 36:44
okay, so it's still in like, the same field,

Scott Benner 36:47
yeah, no, that's great. Well, that's excellent. So you're, you'll be working and thinking about that as you, as you make your way through school, things could change. Maybe they won't. But I was just talking to, I think my interview with a doctor goes up next week. He has type one diabetes, and he's an endocrinologist. And I asked him, would you be an endocrinologist if you didn't have type one diabetes? And he said, I don't think I would be so pretty interesting. You don't know how it'll shape your life. You know, all kinds of different things that could happen along the way.

Adele 37:18
Oh, yeah. I just thought of a question. Oh, um, when we did like, when we were, like, in Florida for the type, like, the touched by type one conference, you know, like the, like, the podcast that was recorded at the end. Yes,

Scott Benner 37:29
what did I ever do with that? Oh, Adele, I did not like the way that audio sounded. So I'm sitting on it. I don't know. You see the room didn't sound very good. I apologize, Yeah, makes sense, yeah. Did you enjoy that day at touch by type one? Yeah,

Adele 37:44
it was kind of like the first taste of, kind of doing a podcast thing.

Scott Benner 37:48
Oh, okay. Did you like it, like when we sat and talked, and even now, like you're, you're enjoying this, yeah? So you were telling somebody you were excited about it, what? What made you like? What? What makes this an exciting thing? Because I do it every day, so I'm not that excited, right? Excited right now. So, like, what? What makes it exciting? Like,

Adele 38:06
a lot of people see it, and how I could kind of like, share, like, my story, and, yeah, kind of like, it's like being it's like a new experience for me.

Scott Benner 38:15
Yeah, oh, I like that. Is it going well? Like, are you having a good time? Yes, yeah. I

Adele 38:21
kind of like, just being, like, ask questions, getting to talk about it and stuff, nice.

Scott Benner 38:25
What if I made this your podcast? What would you ask me? Like, just flip it around for a second. I'm a guy. I make a podcast. I have a daughter. She has diabetes. I have a son. I have a wife. Like, what would you ask me if you had to, like, if you had to drive the conversation,

Adele 38:42
I would probably like, just like, ask, like, about, like, how, like, you take care of her, like,

Scott Benner 38:47
like, kind of, yeah, when she was 12, or now, like, just, like, throughout everything, throughout everything. Well, that's a big question, isn't it? Gosh, we, we've had so many different changes about how things have worked over the years, different technologies. She's a different person. As she grows up, I've got more knowledge, and hopefully as I go on, I get better at it and calm her. I used to be more like, like, I didn't know what I was doing, and then I had to figure out what I was doing, and I would have, like, these big feelings when stuff would happen, like, if a blood sugar, like, was like, crazy, I they said you could see it on my face, like, and I don't do that anymore. Like, I don't get like, oh, like, you know what I mean? Like, like, irritated or annoyed or sad, when you see a number, it's not right. But I used to do that. I don't do that anymore. Nowadays, she's in college. I have not looked at Arden's blood sugar yet today. So it's noon. I haven't looked at it. Let me see it's Oh. Do you want to guess what it is?

Adele 39:51
I'm gonna say like 141, 50 1060,

Scott Benner 39:59
i. This is here. That's the last 12 hours of her blood sugar. Oh, that's pretty good. Top line is 120 and the bottom line is 70. That's pretty cool, huh? She was up late working. She stayed up till at least three o'clock in the morning working on a project at school. And it looks like, looks like she got up to 169 and then got it back down pretty quickly, like 169 is the highest blood sugar she's had in the last 24 hours. She's doing well. I have talked to her this week about her diabetes. Not much. To be perfectly honest, I helped more with saying stuff like, Hey, did you go grocery shopping? Do you have food in the house? Like, you know, I know you're busy, but have you checked on this? Like that. That's kind of stuff I've you don't want to have to go out and get fast food, like that kind of stuff. Do you take your vitamins? Like stuff like that. I've been doing I do that stuff. You know, not as much involved anymore. She's very good at counting her own carbs and handling her highs and her lows. I did send her five pounds of gummy bears the other day. Did you know you can buy gummy bears in five pound bags? No, what do you treat your lows with? Like,

Adele 41:14
sometimes, like gummy patches. But the thing we use the most, but we ran out of, are these things called, like, high Chews. They're like, four carbs each, and they just like, they work well,

Scott Benner 41:23
you like those high Chews? Arden uses Albany. This is how you say it. I'm gonna, I'm gonna look it up real quickly so they don't say it wrong. She uses, yeah, Albany's world's best 12 flavored gummy bears. They come in five pound bags. You can get them on Amazon for $15 so she was, she left for college with so she's been gone now, January, February, she's been gone eight weeks since she left last time to go to college. I think, I think she left with half of a bag of these. So, like, probably, like, you know, two pounds of them. And she just uses them a couple at a time. And she also says her roommates hit them pretty hard too. So they get hit by, I think everybody in the there's four girls there. And like, a week ago, she just said, Hey, I'm almost out of gummy bears. That was, like, the most like, contact I had with diabetes for a while, so I sent her more, and I actually think they arrived today. So that was one of the things I've done this week. Yeah. I mean, that's about it. Like, you know, reminding her if she if she seems to forget, but she's pretty good at it by now. So, like, I will tell you this when she was 12, if I would have asked her, What are you worried about? She'd be like issue, I guarantee would have said, I don't know how to get something on the back of my arm by myself. I don't know how to like, you know, I don't know how to do this, I don't know how to do that, and none of that stuff is a problem anymore. So one day, you'll just know how to do all that too. I think I'm pretty sure. What do you understand about diabetes and your health, like, not just your health today, like, not not just not being dizzy, but like, long term, like, as you get older, what, what is your understanding of all this? I'm kind I'm kind of confused. Like, you know, if you eat junky food, you'll gain weight, right? Yeah, you know, if you don't exercise, you'll get stiff. What is it you understand or don't unders? Do you understand about your diabetes and your long term health, like why it's important that your a 1c is a certain number, why you don't want high blood sugars or super lows?

Adele 43:34
Not really understand the a 1c really, but I know most of the stuff. I think so

Scott Benner 43:41
for you, the A 1c is just this idea of a target, and we're trying to get it lower, but somebody doesn't tell you, like, hey, we want your a 1c to be lower, because they don't do that, right? No, it's just a thing you're supposed to do. Okay? Well, Oh, that's interesting. What would happen if you got way too much insulin? Do you know my

Adele 44:03
blood sugar would be going lower because, like, too like, too much insulin, too

Scott Benner 44:09
much insulin. What? What would happen if you didn't stop it from going lower? Do you know

Adele 44:12
I would, like, eventually, like, pass out because, like, yeah,

Scott Benner 44:17
like, you'd have a seizure eventually. What happens if your blood sugars are high for years? I don't really know. That's interesting. Okay, all right, so I'm not your mom, so it's not my job, although your mom's probably gonna send me a note and be like, hey, but they're real. They're real important, long term reasons why you wouldn't want higher or bouncing around up and down, blood sugars, and if, I mean, I'm not your uncle, so I'm not going to tell you, but there is an amount of insulin that could kill you. You know that? No, no, am I the one telling you this? All right, hold on a second. Don't forget. Say it again. Okay, say it so. Oh. Gosh, I'm sorry. All right, hold on. If you had, like, I don't know how much insulin you get during you said, like, 70 units, right? And that's spread out over your entire day. Some of it's basal, some of it covering meals, etc and so on. You get low blood sugar if you have too much insulin. So if you have too much insulin, and you don't have enough like, either like, you know, stress or food to, like, push it back up again. Your blood sugar keeps getting lower. You get dizzy. You eat some food, it goes back up. You understand that. But if you gave yourself, if you gave yourself way too much insulin, and didn't do anything about it, you would get dizzy, pass out. And if somebody didn't do something about it, you're not that would be the end of it. No one's ever told

Adele 45:44
you that before. Um, nobody ever told me that, but I kind of knew it.

Scott Benner 45:48
You knew it. Okay. Well, thank God, because I felt like an Can I curse you're only 12. I felt like for saying that right now. And I was like, Oh my God. But then I could see on your face you were like, I think I know what he's saying. So, so, like, is that a thing you've, like, ever consciously thought about? Like, like, I know why this is important, or is it just the thing you used to kind of out of sight, out of mind? I've

Adele 46:10
never really thought about it because, like, I know how to, like, treat low blood sugars, like, and like, I know like that. I need to have candy. Like, if it's low, yeah, going low, or too much insulin, like, my mom, like, my mom or nana will be like, oh, like, I over, like, I put in too much, like, insulin Here, eat this.

Scott Benner 46:27
Do you think they know? They do, right? Like, you're probably, probably, yeah, I hope so. All right, so it's a story I just know about this kid who had diabetes for a few years and, all right, well, you know this, so it's okay to tell you the story. So there's this kid, right? And he's got diabetes for a few years, and one day, his mom has to, like, leave the house, and she leaves her the kid's older brother in charge, and they had just given the kid a bunch of insulin, and he was eating. So the mom leaves, and the the slightly older brother is in charge, and the kid doesn't want to finish eating his food. And the and the brother, the other brothers, like, you have to eat this. And the kids like, I don't want it. I'm not hungry. And he's like, You have to eat this. And I guess the the older brother kind of panicked a little bit, and when the kid resisted eating the food one more time, he said, If you don't eat this, you're going to die. And the kid didn't, like no one had ever discussed with him, like, the ramifications of wildly using too much insulin and not, you know, covering it. The kid like, fell apart. Like, you handled it really well just now, but you knew already, like, you know what I mean. But this kid, like, was like having an existential crisis. Like, right? Like somebody just explained something to him that he had no idea about. Then they the family had to wrestle with the idea that the kid felt like they kept that from him. Do you know what I mean? Like that, it was like a important part about his life that nobody shared with him. I don't know you. Seemed like you knew what you were talking about, about diabetes and everything, and I was just like trying to pick around to see what you knew. I definitely regret saying this to you now, because you're not my kid, but I mean, your mom said you could come on, so whatever, you're okay, right? Yeah, yeah, you're not free. You look completely fine, like, I I'm upset now, and you're like, I don't know what you're upset about, but do you talk about your diabetes on social media?

Adele 48:19
I don't really have, like, a ton of social media. I have, like, Snapchat, but like, I don't really talk about that kind of stuff, a ton on there.

Scott Benner 48:28
So it's not like, you're not doing, like, like, here's a picture with my CGM like, you're not, you're just being yourself. You don't necessarily need to be a person who has diabetes. I like,

Adele 48:38
could do that. Like, look, look at this new patch. I could do that, but really, I don't do it much. Yeah. So like my mom, I think, I think, like, my mom has, like, diabetes, like social media stuff, though, does she like on Facebook?

Scott Benner 48:52
My daughter doesn't hide her stuff, but she doesn't, on purpose, share it either. Like, sometimes, like she's in fashion school, so she'll do a lot of, like, get dressed, get ready with me. Videos. You must know what those are, right? Where, like, people put clothes on. Yeah, yeah. I know you're like, yes, old person. I know what it is, but she does that kind of stuff, and she doesn't make any effort to hide her diabetes. She's never, never tries to hide it, actually. But she also wouldn't do that thing where she was like, here, look, this is my insulin pump. You know what I mean? Like, I don't think she wants to be, yeah, famous is the wrong word, but she doesn't want people to know her for her diabetes. She wants you know that is that kind of how you feel about it? Yeah, I'd say so. Like, it's okay if they see it, but you're not going to go out of your way to show it to them. That makes sense. Yeah, yeah. Here's a picture. I wonder if I can show you this. Can I screen share?

All right, ready?

Adele 49:55
I'm I'm not sure if that's a cap on here. Oh yeah, yeah. I see a button. Honestly. It.

Scott Benner 50:00
I'm going to show it to you. Okay, so can you see her? Yeah, okay, so you can see how her pods on her arm, so she's not making any effort not to show it off. It's just like she's not trying to hide it. And you can see that's an outfit she wore to class. So she's not trying to hide it, but she's also not, like, pushing it forward. Does that make sense? Okay? Well, I was like, I'm gonna stop sharing now. That's so weird, because it's like an Instagram thing, and it just keeps repeating over and over again as it repeated the third time. I was like, Oh, my God. All right. Any other questions for me? I don't think so. Have I not asked you anything that I should have is there anything that we should have talked about that I didn't bring up, like, what's on that list over there? I don't think there's really anything else we did. Okay, yeah, did you have fun? Yeah, yeah. Was it less fun than you thought it was gonna be? No, not really. No. That's cool. So it's about what you expected. Yeah. Do you know what I'm doing now? I am gonna go. I'm gonna go have a sandwich, and then I have to drive about two hours to this place where I'm gonna talk to a group of, like, 400 type ones all weekend. Oh, so I'm gonna do a talk this afternoon in about I should probably get going about three and a half hours. I'm gonna give a talk in about three and a half hours, and then do another one tonight, and then a couple tomorrow, and then one on Sunday morning, and then I'll head back home. So I'm there's an event for people with type one diabetes, and I'm one of the speakers. So I have to, I have my bag all packed. It's in my car already. The last thing I was doing today was talking to you before I left. So I appreciate you. Let me move the time. That was nice of you.

Unknown Speaker 51:42
Thank you. Yes, of course. Cool.

Scott Benner 51:45
So do you think you'll let your mom listen to this?

Unknown Speaker 51:47
Of course? Yeah, I

Adele 51:49
don't really think I could stop her either.

Scott Benner 51:51
I mean, you know, I It's a good point. What should we call this episode?

Unknown Speaker 51:54
I don't really know.

Scott Benner 51:56
Well, your name's Adele. We could just call it Hello, that would be good. Hello. It's me. That's not bad. Do you hate

Speaker 1 52:03
that? Honestly, no, no, that's actually kind of neat. You're good with this singer,

Scott Benner 52:08
yeah, your name, yeah, I like how you're like this singer, that woman who has my name,

Adele 52:15
yeah, when I search up my name on Google, that's what pops up.

Scott Benner 52:17
Oh yeah, when I search up my name on Google, nothing comes up. Nobody's name Scott, just nobody. It's like Name a famous Scott. Go ahead.

Speaker 1 52:25
I have an I have an uncle, Scott. He's not famous. Name a famous Scott.

Speaker 1 52:29
I don't know Scott terrible.

Scott Benner 52:32
That's why nobody famous has his name Scott, because it's just a terrible name. Adele, you were lovely. Thank you for doing this. I appreciate this very much. This is a nice chunk out of your your free day. What? What is the rest of Adele's day? Look like?

Adele 52:45
I think we're gonna go to the mall, and I might hang out with my neighbors.

Scott Benner 52:49
Big plans. I'm doing what I just told you. I don't like the food at the place I'm going, though, so the last thing I'm doing is taking food with me. My wife's like, you're gonna insult them. I'm like, I'll hide it in my room. I don't want their food. It's okay. If they hear it, they'll understand. Not you so much, because I'll tell you about it a second. Okay, we're done. I'm gonna stop. Okay, hold on one second, but you stay there.

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