#959 Best of Juicebox: Meet Arden

First aired on Aug 02, 2021: This is Arden's first appearance on the podcast.

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Scott Benner 0:00
Hello friends, welcome to episode 959 of the Juicebox Podcast.

Today's episode first ran on August 2 2021. It was episode 517. And it's called Meet Arden. This is my daughter Arden's first time on the podcast. While you're listening, please remember 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 for becoming bold with insulin, if you love comfortable things like bedsheets, towels, and clothing, go to cozy earth.com. If you don't like spending a lot of money, use the offer code juice box when you check out at cozier thought calm, and you will save 40% off of your entire order. Speaking of saving money, I drink ag one every day, and you could to drink ag one.com forward slash juice box with your first order, you'll get a year's supply of vitamin D, and five free travel packs of ag one.

There are no ads today, but I'm going to use this space here to explain the private and public Facebook groups. So there is a private Facebook group. It's called Juicebox Podcast type one diabetes that has 40,000 members in it. And it like I said is private, but it's also completely free. Now, there is a public page for the podcast. That's called Juicebox Podcast. A lot of you might be thinking I thought it was called bold with insulin. Well it was, but now it's called Juicebox Podcast. So there's a public page where every day you'll get posts about what's on the podcast or stuff like that. And then there's a private group where people are talking and helping each other with diabetes. That's the difference. Them's what they are, etc, and so on. It seems confusing, but it's not public page Juicebox Podcast, private group Juicebox Podcast, type one diabetes, you really should check them out. They're both fantastic. All right, you're about to listen to one of the most popular most downloaded most streamed episodes in the history of the podcast. This is Arden. Hello friends. Welcome to Episode 517 of the Juicebox Podcast.

In August of 2006, our two year old daughter Arden was diagnosed with type one diabetes. Much like all of you, this took us completely by surprise. We didn't know anything about autoimmune issues, even though now with hindsight we can see different ones in my wife's family. I'm adopted, of course, so I don't have any medical knowledge of things like that. But we were blindsided on vacation at the beach at a big family gathering. Our daughter was just wasting away and dying. And suddenly we knew what was happening. I don't think that our life has ever really been the same since then. It's much better in some ways, and there are obvious deficits. Anyway, I'll tell you a little more in a second. But remember, while you're listening that nothing you hear on the Juicebox Podcast should be considered advice, medical or otherwise, please Always consult a physician before making any changes to your health care plan or becoming bold with insulin. This episode of The Juicebox Podcast is sponsored by the Dexcom G six continuous glucose monitor. It is also sponsored by Omni pod makers of the Omni pod dash. You can find out more about the Dexcom and get started@dexcom.com forward slash juicebox. Or to learn about the Omni pod promise and see if you're eligible for a free 30 day trial of the Omni pod dash go to Omni pod.com forward slash juice box. Before we get started, I want to remind you that Arden has just turned 17 That she's never been on a podcast before and that I asked her before we started for one thing I just said please just be honest. Be yourself The goal here with this episode was for you to get to know Arden a little bit. Before we got started with a series, where I'm going to talk to her about things that I'm hoping she'll do for herself and her health. As she gets older and goes off to college, I didn't want you just to not know who she was because Arden has a very sarcastic sense of humor. She's dry, she doesn't have a filter. I know some of you may have expectations of who Arden is. But by the time this is over, you'll know for sure. Hope you enjoy this episode. I really enjoyed sitting with my daughter and making it I have to say that this podcast has afforded me a lot of wonderful things. And to sit down across to my daughter and talk like this is one of them. I hope you enjoy getting to know Arden. I really love talking to her. If I'm being honest, I don't think she ever. But here we go. Alright, we're recording now ask your question again.

Arden Benner 6:01
No, that's not for this and just keep going.

Scott Benner 6:06
I'm going to ask, I'm going to answer you now.

Arden Benner 6:08
No, I don't know. I don't want this used.

Scott Benner 6:15
So if you want to curse, you can curse and it gets beeped out.

Unknown Speaker 6:17
That's stupid. Why would I curse then?

Scott Benner 6:20
People can still tell what you said. Very well. And I'll just so the reason I don't have cursing on the podcast is because children listen, no, they don't. They do. And because it would preclude me from being in certain countries on iTunes. So those are the two reasons. Do you want to introduce yourself?

Arden Benner 6:41
No. You all know who I am, we can proceed

you can drag it out there with the water because I need hours.

Scott Benner 6:53
Alright, so first, let's be honest with people tell them while you're doing the podcast,

Arden Benner 6:58
I need a parking spot at my school and I have no community service hours. And and I you know I should get community service for being alive. But that's not enough. So I'm here.

Scott Benner 7:08
Okay, so we went to your what? We went to the school and we asked them if being on the podcast would count. And they said yes. Yeah,

Arden Benner 7:17
a little bit. Yeah. They said, that's fine. That was very nice to them. They didn't have to do that. Yeah. I mean, Paul didn't have to get community service for being related to me. But that happens. So

Scott Benner 7:24
you're saying when Cole was in high school, he got some community service because his sister had diabetes?

Arden Benner 7:28
Yeah. Which seems, you know, horrible. But whatever.

Scott Benner 7:32
I think maybe his his guidance counselor was just trying to help them out. But

Arden Benner 7:36
you think, why are you talking to me like I'm for?

Scott Benner 7:39
I'm not talking to you like you're for? This is gonna be so strange. So two things. First of all, I've never interviewed somebody face to face before. So it's a little weird for me. Hey, look at the wall. I don't know what you're doing here. But of all the people in our family, you and I talk the most though. Like we're the chattiest of the four. Yeah, right. Okay. So like when we get in the car, and we drive somewhere we talk the whole time.

Arden Benner 8:03
No, but all right.

Scott Benner 8:05
We talked last night, we took Samsung home in the rain.

Arden Benner 8:08
That was a, you know, different scenario. But all right, what scenario was it? You know, breaking laws?

Scott Benner 8:14
Oh, you just driving through some floodwater? It was fine. Okay. So I'm going to, here's my plan for this. It's a very loose plan. We're going to get to know you in this one. Okay, around diabetes. And then we'll talk in future episodes. And I will be you and I will be talking together about the idea of sort of transfer of power, like diabetes power from me. And mom, to you. Right. And that process? Okay, yep. Sounds good. Okay. And on a scale of one to 10? How excited are you to do this about a

Arden Benner 8:54
three? Okay, not at all? Is it that was way higher than I'm actually thinking? So

Scott Benner 9:01
let me ask you about that first thing. Is this just something in general, you wouldn't do? Like if someone else asked you to be on their podcast? You'd be like, I don't want to do that.

Arden Benner 9:09
Yeah, I don't see the point in this. You don't think I have no knowledge about anything? I'm just the name.

Scott Benner 9:15
So this is very interesting. Okay, because everyone who comes on this podcast, I'm seriously everyone later will say to me, Hey, if you don't want to use that episode, I understand. I know, we didn't talk about anything. But I've used every episode that I've ever recorded, with the exception of a couple because of like other personal reasons for people. But the point is, is that everyone share something that's really helpful to other people. So you might not know that you have some good information or something to share. That'll be valuable, but you do. Okay. Yep. All right. So, first serious question. Do you what's the earliest you remember having diabetes

Arden Benner 10:01
Question is that I don't know,

Scott Benner 10:03
what's your first memory of it?

Arden Benner 10:05
I don't know. Do

Scott Benner 10:06
you remember having it when you were two?

Unknown Speaker 10:10
I don't even know what

Scott Benner 10:11
I would think. No, I'm just asking the question. Yeah, I

Arden Benner 10:13
don't know. I remember yesterday, like, I don't understand what type of question this is.

Scott Benner 10:17
Do you remember when you were five? Like, that's kindergarten? Do you remember having diabetes in kindergarten? Yeah, I

Arden Benner 10:23
don't think about it like that.

Scott Benner 10:25
I know. That's what we're trying to get to. I think that you consider diabetes in a much different way than a lot of people do. So that's what we're trying to get to. Okay. You understand what I'm saying? All right. You're combative witness here. You don't have to be combative. Just answer the questions. If you don't know, say, I don't know. It's fine. Here's the question for you that will answer at the end of this episode. Try to think of on this podcast. What word has most frequently came after the word artists? It's art. And and then second word? It those these two words are used most frequently together? One of them being your name? Yeah, I

Arden Benner 11:08
know what it is. What is it? Period? You got it that quickly? Yeah. If someone right now, you have your period right now, you wouldn't ask me that. But no, my period right now.

Scott Benner 11:19
Okay. All right. So let's not ask you about how far back you remember, diabetes instead, let's let's talk about the way you think about it. So in the course of a regular day, when's the first time you think about diabetes?

Arden Benner 11:35
I don't, I don't think about it. Ever. Literally ever. I don't think about it.

Scott Benner 11:41
If I asked you to do word association, I said, Arden is you would never say diabetic. Right? No, but you know, you have diabetes, obviously. Yeah, no, no, I have no idea. But you just don't. You don't see yourself that way.

Arden Benner 12:00
No, I don't see myself that way.

Scott Benner 12:02
So it's not a weird question. Because a lot of people do. Or more importantly, a lot of parents are afraid that that's how their kids are going to see them. All right. So did you know when you were a little kid, and you would come home from school? The first thing I would say to you is what's your blood sugar? No, I have no idea. You don't remember that. So that's a really impactful thing for me. Because it, it took me a little while. But I realized that I wasn't even looking at you. I was just worried about the diabetes. And so I consciously stopped myself from asking about it. And you got home even when there were times when I thought that I thought your blood sugar might be low or that you could be in some sort of trouble or something like that. I would stop myself. I'm sure it wasn't listening to a word you said when I got I think this is important for people to hear. Because I had a lot of anxiety around it at the time. And you now or how old 17 and you have no memory of it whatsoever.

Arden Benner 12:56
Yeah, memory a lot of stuff that happens. So

Scott Benner 12:59
do you remember anything in your life? Like, I don't remember very far back in my life. I'd never have been able to

Unknown Speaker 13:05
fit some pieces. I don't know. Yeah, but you have a very good

Scott Benner 13:09
memory for like, present day stuff.

Arden Benner 13:12
Yeah, yeah. losses, tests and quizzes.

Scott Benner 13:17
Because, like, you'll get up in the morning and have had like a really weird dream or something. And you'll tell me about it in really like specific detail.

Arden Benner 13:25
Yeah, that's probably a psychological thing. Like an issue. I don't have any problems like that.

Unknown Speaker 13:32
Yeah, yeah.

Scott Benner 13:35
You seem like you're gonna be okay. So far.

Arden Benner 13:38
Like, I was like, looking at this timer.

Scott Benner 13:43
Don't look at don't watch that. We're just talking. Trust me, that takes people 15 minutes just to relax. Okay. So, but back to my original question. So when is the first time you'd think about insulin or diabetes? Or do you not even think of it as diabetes? Just think of it as I'm going to eat?

Arden Benner 14:00
Yeah, I don't think diabetes. Okay.

Scott Benner 14:04
How frequently do you think you use the word? Literally, never. I don't think I do either. Like outside of this podcast. I don't think I say diabetes in my personal life. Yeah, such a long word. They could have named it something better. Don't

Unknown Speaker 14:17
you find the beats fair? What you would call it No, no. But what if you're

Arden Benner 14:24
diabetic and you have the fat as your diabetes? That's what lives tells me your friend tells you that if I ever you know get sick, I'm a diabetes. Oh, okay. In the winter, you know, like when you put on weight

Scott Benner 14:39
like so, like like a bear you're gonna go into a cave and hibernate for

Arden Benner 14:42
a while. Everyone gets bigger in the winter died. Okay. So

Scott Benner 14:46
well. So you brought up your friends you brought up live? How much do your friends know about a defect?

Arden Benner 14:55
I know nothing. Nothing. I don't know. They I honestly have no idea. I could not tell you. I don't even know if they know I'm diabetic.

Scott Benner 15:04
I know that they don't appear to have any even general knowledge about it. Yeah. So I think parents listening would then wonder how that happens. Because their concern is that other people might see their children as only like a person with diabetes. But you have a close group of friends and they don't. They don't even understand anything about it. Right? Yeah. Have you ever said to them like, this is my Chivo hypo pan. This is how it works. What that means, so you, so you have no idea what the hell? Okay, so you know, you're carrying glucagon?

Arden Benner 15:35
Yeah, it's in my purse, right? Yeah. Purse, the purse. But you don't know what it's called? The in the package, right? Yes. Yeah. I don't even know how to use that. Okay.

Scott Benner 15:45
Well, now's a good time. They're

Arden Benner 15:46
not gonna think you're a great dad outside of this.

Scott Benner 15:48
Well, I It's a Hypo pen. It's this. Alright. You

Arden Benner 15:52
don't need to teach me right away. Fine. But

Scott Benner 15:54
in front of everybody. This is important. You know, I've showed this to you. Right? Yeah. I

Arden Benner 15:58
just have no recollection of how to use it. Okay, because I won't get in that situation.

Scott Benner 16:03
Well, this is super book. You don't think it'll ever come up? No. You don't think you could have like a mistake or a problem or something that could happen? No, I'm completely fine. You're completely fine. Yeah.

Arden Benner 16:11
I've gotten to 20 before and, you know, strong brain I have. I can keep myself awake. Your brain.

Scott Benner 16:18
Your brain holds up it? Yeah, I'm like, okay, so But seriously, for people listening. I've showed this to you.

Unknown Speaker 16:26
Yeah. cap off.

Arden Benner 16:28
I'm aware. You've showed that to me. Okay.

Scott Benner 16:31
But you didn't remember? No. So this is so this is? I'm very glad you're honest. Okay. I seriously, because I think that that's could be one of those things that people right now are like, Oh, my God. You mean, my kid might not remember this. I explained this to them. It's super important. If

Arden Benner 16:47
your kid is older than 15 when they walk out the door, they're not listening to you. Just so you're aware. I went on my first drive after I got my license mom screaming stuff in my ear. And I was like, Yeah, that sounds good. Okay. You don't know. I was out the door. I don't even know what she was talking about. She told me not to drive into a tornado. And I was like, no.

Scott Benner 17:08
So it's interesting, because mom doesn't want you to die generalized. She's just like, Don't crash into anything. That's her worry. And I really am more concerned that you're what's the only thing I said to you when you left? Check your blood sugar. Yeah. And make sure you're I always do that. Yeah, it makes sure your Dexcom is not silenced. Right.

Unknown Speaker 17:26
Yeah, well, I

Arden Benner 17:27
mean, it's kind of just look car. It's not it's gonna last at me. So

Scott Benner 17:30
is it beep really loud when it's on? CarPlay?

Arden Benner 17:33
No, that was alive. But um, but I do use it. So it makes no sound at all.

Scott Benner 17:39
What is it because your phone is muted. Now my phone's not muted? Well, it must be because so this is another interesting thing that we go through all the time. You kids in general, you don't like your phones to make notification sounds? Yeah, cuz of school. Right. But then it stops the Dexcom from making notification sounds to

Arden Benner 17:58
it was making them all day in Buffalo Wild Wings in Buffalo Wild Wings. Yeah. Because like, Ah, so loud.

Scott Benner 18:05
So I think it's important for to, especially while you're driving.

Arden Benner 18:10
Yeah, I'm completely I'll check. I mean, you know, I'm not supposed to go on my phone while driving. But like, I check it. Okay.

Scott Benner 18:17
So you understand, but you understand why though,

Unknown Speaker 18:19
right? Yeah,

Arden Benner 18:20
I'm aware. Okay. Yeah.

Unknown Speaker 18:22
Okay. I'm being like interrogated. We're just talking. Okay. All right. It's not eye contact with me.

Scott Benner 18:33
There's a lot of eye contact. Yeah, it's weird. All right, let me drink some water.

Unknown Speaker 18:37
You want to sing? No.

Scott Benner 18:40
You have such a pretty singing voice though. Okay. Okay, so you don't really identify at all with diabetes, but you're not embarrassed that you have it.

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Arden Benner 22:24
i i don't i don't think about it. Like,

Unknown Speaker 22:27
at all. Yeah,

Scott Benner 22:28
I don't care. Like if somebody at school said no one at school says anything. Right? But if they did, you'd have no trouble being like, yeah, I've diabetes.

Arden Benner 22:37
Yeah, no one. I can say that. Like, I'm aware people at my school are intimidated by me. Um, so I've been told. So no one really approaches me. And if they do, I'm actually very nice person. You're very nice. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I should probably be given metal for that. But, you know, why would

Scott Benner 22:58
these people think you're not approachable? At my school? Yeah.

Arden Benner 23:02
Very quiet. You're quiet? Yeah, I don't, you know, like, I don't talk to talk. Once. when class is over. My headphones are in and I'm out the door.

Scott Benner 23:09
Okay. Are you like serial killer? Quiet? Do you think that I'll talk to you because they're afraid of you

Arden Benner 23:13
know, maybe I'm not maybe that's good.

Scott Benner 23:18
Okay, but hypothetically, if someone came up to you in school and was like, mocked you or tried to make fun of you,

Arden Benner 23:25
I cannot see that happening. Okay. I'm taller than half of the guys at my school. No one's doing that to me.

Scott Benner 23:31
What if a nine foot person came in? Would you? Would you just be like, Yeah, I have diabetes. Leave me alone. I don't care what you think.

Arden Benner 23:37
I wouldn't. I would walk past them. Okay. Yeah, I wouldn't say anything. Okay. Mock me.

Scott Benner 23:43
Do you think? Yeah, like, what if somebody tried to so there was a woman on here once, who shared with me that during the AIDS epidemic, she was younger. And like her friends, like, there were kids at school that would call her like, diet aids or something like that, like make, like really try to come out or about diabetes through like the AIDS thing. But like, if that happened, you wouldn't would you not be upset? I think you would think it was kind of funny.

Arden Benner 24:10
diet aids. That's horrible. I'm gonna new name.

Scott Benner 24:13
I know. I thought so I forget exactly what she said. But when she told me I did think that's like such a bad thing. Like who came up with that? Alright, so do you know your laid back? What? Are you aware that you're a laid back person?

Arden Benner 24:27
Oh, I think there's crazy people in the world. And there's not crazy people in the world. And I don't think I'm crazy. You just think

Scott Benner 24:32
you're not a crazy person. Yeah. Okay. But you don't see that in general that your attitude is relaxed.

Arden Benner 24:38
No, I just I feel normal. Well, yeah, you're you. Yeah.

Scott Benner 24:42
Here's a different way to think of it. When you look at me and you look at Mom, do you see that your personality might be more like mine and like mom's? No, you don't think of it that way.

Arden Benner 24:52
No, I think I work more like mom. You work like mom. Yeah.

Scott Benner 24:55
What about your sense of humor?

Arden Benner 24:58
I'm my own person, Dad. Yeah. Thank you very much. You

Scott Benner 25:00
don't want to identify with me at all in this conversation.

Arden Benner 25:03
Oh, no, as you get older, I don't really want to say that my sense of humor is like yours because it's getting worse. You see, you

Scott Benner 25:09
think my sense of humor is getting worse? Yeah, I

Arden Benner 25:10
think ranking in the family I'm now above you. You're above me in the sense of humor. I think me and the dogs are only one of the dogs actually,

Scott Benner 25:19
mom and Cole are nowhere near

Arden Benner 25:20
Yeah. Wow. It's like, You guys never want them on this. ever put her gas station voice on. She'd be super sweet.

Unknown Speaker 25:32
She'd be really sweet and nice. Yeah, yeah.

Arden Benner 25:36
And then we'd finish and she'd be like, Oh, my God is people.

Unknown Speaker 25:39
And she wouldn't say that. She'd be talking about you about me. Okay, great. Very nice. People. I

Arden Benner 25:45
mean, you. You have a lot of leaping to do on this just kind of comes out to me.

Scott Benner 25:50
I understand. Yeah, I can see you getting more relaxed. So that's good. Okay. All right. Well, I find what you're talking about interesting, because I've spoken to so many people who don't feel this way. And yet, I think that you are tackling it from a common sense approach. As far as I can tell. I don't see why. Why you should identify yourself as a problem, or an issue or a size or height or a hair color or anything like that. So hair color. Yeah. Like if somebody's your hair changes color sometimes. Yeah, I

Arden Benner 26:21
was gonna say.

Scott Benner 26:24
But you don't mean like, I don't think that ain't me. If somebody called you, Blondie and you had blonde hair. I don't know how you can get your feelings hurt by that. So I don't understand. So there's a I'm with you. I don't understand either. But I do know that there are plenty of people who feel that way. And it's very real for them. And it's an issue for them. So I was just wondering about you. So people listening might assume that because you were diagnosed so early in your life, that you really don't have any knowledge of not having diabetes.

Arden Benner 26:55
I literally I don't, I could not tell you. I literally have no knowledge of anything. I don't know. Like, I just don't think about life like that. Yeah, at all.

Scott Benner 27:04
Okay, no, I understand. I hear you. So of the things that you do know, like, let me ask you this question. If I if I if I just disappeared? Right? I just pooped off the powwow. Right? Like the snap happens. Nom gone. Mom's gone. I'm gone. But they keep sending the diabetes supplies to the house called gone. Doesn't matter for this scenario.

Unknown Speaker 27:28
I think it does.

Scott Benner 27:31
You think you can take care of yourself. Okay.

Arden Benner 27:34
Yeah, probably.

Unknown Speaker 27:35
I'll be fine. Yeah.

Scott Benner 27:37
I'm thinking about going away to college. What parts of it?

Arden Benner 27:41
Oh, the only part that I'm gonna up is alarms when I'm sleeping. That's it. That's, that's my only problem. Okay. I do not hear anything at all. And I have a problem if I do hear. I just keep sleeping.

Scott Benner 27:55
So even if you were so even if you were to hear

Arden Benner 27:59
like last night, I was like mid sleep and I was like, Berber rubber. And I was like, Oh, someone will get it. Someone will get it. Yeah, I didn't feel good. I went to bed.

Scott Benner 28:06
Yeah. So you're sure your blood sugar was like too low last night for a couple hours?

Arden Benner 28:10
Yeah, I hear it beep in my room. And then I hear it beeping your room. And I think Whose turn is it? Dad's?

Scott Benner 28:18
Have you ever once gotten up and done something? Oh, yeah. Yeah,

Arden Benner 28:21
well, that I haven't gotten up. I just haven't gone to sleep yet.

Scott Benner 28:25
Okay, so if you think I'm asleep, and you're still awake, yeah. Then you'll do something

Arden Benner 28:30
like all last summer, like when we were like COVID Like we cannot leave the house. I used to call doesn't know this. But I used to like really late at night. I'd be up to like three in the morning and I was like binge watching the Percy Jackson movies. And I would text Kobe that call my blood sugar is so low. Please get me a drumstick and some Tostitos. Like I really don't feel good, this whole thing. And he'd like run downstairs and get them and my blood sugar was completely fine. That's horrible. Yeah, don't stop. I am so glad he doesn't listen to this. Because I want to try that again. No, don't

Scott Benner 28:59
do that. Dad. Come on. I don't know. It seems efficiency. Efficiency for whom? Me. But to my original question, you'll hear I mean,

Arden Benner 29:13
the first couple of times it was low, right? Oh, and then after that, I was like, ah, Ooh, looks like it's working. Okay. All right.

Scott Benner 29:24
So, but wrapped around that idea. I mean, you're thinking of going to college, right? Yes, I can get in. Yeah. So you're not thinking you're going to college somewhere locally, where you'll live here? No. So what are you going to do?

Arden Benner 29:37
I don't understand what your question is. What am I gonna do about what what are you going

Scott Benner 29:40
to do if your blood sugar gets like dangerously low?

Arden Benner 29:44
Take care of it. I don't. This isn't a worry. Like, I don't understand what the big deal is about this.

Scott Benner 29:50
It's interesting. So you don't remember having a

Arden Benner 29:53
seizure? You're gonna say no, but

Scott Benner 29:57
not. You've been using an algorithm for a while now. stops your blood sugar from getting super low. You don't remember, I do

Arden Benner 30:04
remember what it was like without it? Yeah, I'd haven't had it that long. Okay. Yeah, I'll be fine. Yeah. Wait, are we still gonna have it? Pause?

Scott Benner 30:15
Well, so there's a good question, right? What if the, what if it just what if the loop just disappears?

Arden Benner 30:20
That, you know, doesn't seem like it's gonna happen? Okay, why would that white?

Scott Benner 30:25
There's a lot of reasons that could happen.

Arden Benner 30:28
Oh, I think you're wrong about that.

Scott Benner 30:29
It's just people on the internet making a thing. Okay. And it needs like other stuff to work? What if this? What if the company stopped making the stuff?

Arden Benner 30:37
That was that company making money there? Ask them to stop making that.

Scott Benner 30:41
Okay, so you're not worried about losing the algorithm?

Arden Benner 30:44
Everything I I'm such a mellow person, whatever, go with the flow, you'll be okay. We'll be fine.

Scott Benner 30:50
Are you? Do you know that I'm, I'm thinking that you should try the Omnipod five when it comes out? I have no idea what that is. Okay, so Omnipod is gonna have their own algorithm that's gonna come out. And I was thinking we should try that. Because that would take away the orange link. Okay. You just want it to work.

Arden Benner 31:11
I really don't care about any of this, like all this, that this that like, if people who listen to this understand what they're doing and listen to this for like, like the knowledge of diabetes, I don't understand what you're, you're not gonna I could never do that.

Scott Benner 31:26
Okay. Well, but what? So the question is, then, do you realize I forget in the moment, but do you realize that one day, you're going to need to understand that?

Arden Benner 31:40
How this works? Yeah. I think I understand this better than half of these people.

Scott Benner 31:44
You know, any of these people? I

Arden Benner 31:47
know. I don't know them. But you know, but well, but you're used to listen for a reason. No, some people just listened because they like, I don't think that's true.

Scott Benner 31:54
You believe that no one could possibly listen to this because they enjoy it. Do you think they're just getting answers? And that's it?

Arden Benner 32:01
Yeah,

Scott Benner 32:02
I think that's not right.

Arden Benner 32:04
I think you're not right.

Scott Benner 32:08
So let me tell you what they tell me. Okay. All right, is that there? There can be this loneliness that happens. For some people, okay. There can be loneliness that happens where they don't know another person that has type diabetes, like no one else. So if they have a problem, or a fear or something like that, there's no one to talk to, and no one to get answers from. So this can actually serve as like a community for them here because people come on and talk about their diabetes. That's the last thing I want to talk about. You don't want to talk about that. But that's fine. If that's not what you want to talk about. But is it nice to think that if one day you did that, there'd be somewhere you could go to find,

Arden Benner 32:48
you know, because I genuinely don't think I would ever do that in my entire life. You don't think you'd want to talk to other people, like you could all be really nice people. The last thing I want to talk to you about is diabetes. Okay,

Scott Benner 32:58
so you just want to if you met some of these people, you would just want to talk about something different.

Arden Benner 33:02
Yeah, I am not a diabetic warrior, like anyone else. No, no, no.

Scott Benner 33:07
So so you don't I listen. First of all, I find this very interesting. I know this about you. But I mean, we've never said it back and forth to each other. I'm I mean, I was gonna say proud, but I don't think there's anything to be proud of, I think you're just acting like yourself. Like, I think this is how your personality adapts to this situation. I think if, if, if if I had diabetes, I would react differently than you do. And just as everybody else would. But it's, I don't know, it's very interesting, because the algorithm, as an example, is not easy to get set up. Which is one of the reasons why I would like you to go on on the pod five. And I'm hoping I Have My Fingers crossed that it's going to work well for you. Because I don't think you're going to be the kind of person who's going to want to sit down and make an app and upload it on your phone for the rest of your life.

Arden Benner 34:00
And when he was talking about you do though, don't you have make an app?

Scott Benner 34:05
Certainly sat here with me while we've put the loop app onto your phone through that computer? Yeah, I

Arden Benner 34:10
go to sleep on the ground. Like, I'm not part of that. You just lay on the floor with your turn. So you're unaware, I don't even know what your term means. I don't know what I do to contribute to that. I think I put my passcode in. And I don't even know my passcode

Scott Benner 34:26
I'm trying to decide how people listening are feeling right now. If they're if they're like, wow, like you might hate me. Well, they might. I don't think they're gonna hate you. But so listen, if I had to guess I think most adults with type one will hear you and think it's a very relaxed attitude that will take you a very long way with diabetes. And I think some of the parents might be thinking, wow, this is cool, you know, to see that she's not burdened by it. That is probably their biggest worries that their kids are burdened. You know what I mean? Because some people really are, and there's nothing wrong with that. It's just It's how I mean, you're lucky that you don't have like a an anxiety disorder, for instance, because you would feel completely different maybe. So,

Arden Benner 35:04
yeah, I can't I don't know. I can't speak for them.

Unknown Speaker 35:07
I don't know. Of course, the idea. No, I

Scott Benner 35:08
know. I understand. All right. Well,

Arden Benner 35:11
they gave me two other disorders. You know, I'm good.

Scott Benner 35:15
What else you got going on over there?

Arden Benner 35:17
A bunch of stuff. That's why Cole said to me, he goes, You're not wearing a mask anymore. And I was like, I'm vaccinated, and the chances that I get COVID vaccinated with three other autoimmune diseases. I was like, I don't believe in God, but like, he's not doing that.

Scott Benner 35:32
You think you think that you've had your share of tough luck? And yeah, nothing else could happen. Yeah. You know, that's not how COVID works, right?

Arden Benner 35:39
No, I'm aware of, I'm not an idiot, but I am vaccinated. Okay, you should all get vaccinated.

Scott Benner 35:43
So you're vaccinated. And you have one

Arden Benner 35:47
of those celebrities that they like pay to like, be vaccinated. Like they pay them definitely pay those people.

Scott Benner 35:56
Say, what else? You have hypothyroidism? Yeah. And what else? You said three things.

Arden Benner 36:02
Yeah, I do something. I don't even know I have something else. And I don't know what it is. Oh, iron deficiency,

Scott Benner 36:07
iron. Well, no, but we think that's not that.

Arden Benner 36:11
I don't even know what's wrong with me.

Scott Benner 36:13
Right. Yeah. It's because it's so hard to keep up with

Arden Benner 36:16
a lot of blood comes out of me.

Scott Benner 36:20
So I think what we've, what we've kind of landed on for you is that your iron was getting very low. Because your your period was really why are you giggling? It's because I say Arden's period a lot. I've never said it in front of you before. This, you have not while someone else was not was recording to us right now. All right, so fine.

Arden Benner 36:40
Let's feature them. Okay.

Scott Benner 36:42
So you're, you're sort of, I guess people will know this anyway. But you were bleeding for like a really long time every month. Yeah, I still believe but but. But not for 11 or 12 days at a time anymore.

Arden Benner 36:55
No. Yeah, I forgot to take birth control, by the way.

Unknown Speaker 36:59
You forgot it today. Yeah. Oh, today. Yeah.

Arden Benner 37:02
Oops. Ever.

Scott Benner 37:04
So Arden's taking like a low dose of birth control now, which regulated our periods and allowed your iron to come back up.

Arden Benner 37:10
This is time for all the men to just skip the portion like oh my god, no, it's important

Scott Benner 37:14
because because iron issues with people with type one are kind of common, as are like thyroid, celiac stuff like that.

Arden Benner 37:24
So yeah, I know, like 100 people who have iron deficiency, do you really live has it? Okay. Yeah. I'm just told that if you stand up and you're like, seeing whatever, you have i deficiency and that's like, half of my grade apparently.

Scott Benner 37:38
So half of your grade stands up and gets woozy or they're drug addicts. I don't really not sure. So either

Arden Benner 37:45
you're in this generation or doing

Scott Benner 37:47
you think either their iron is low, where they're on the smack. Is that right? Okay. Yeah, whatever floats their boat is heroin big in the high schools. I actually don't know. It's good. You don't do any drugs?

Arden Benner 37:59
I don't do any drugs. I am drug free other than whatever happened insulin I take and all that super

Scott Benner 38:05
interesting. Do you know what your your insulin is called? No, I don't know. But you

Arden Benner 38:10
have to know because you switch it on me. And then you try to mess with my head. But

Scott Benner 38:13
the one so we tried fiasco. Yeah. I hate that. You don't like because it burns? Yeah, but it works really? Well.

Unknown Speaker 38:20
I disagree. Okay.

Scott Benner 38:22
What's the other one called? I don't know. Take your best guess. I don't know. I'll tell you. It begins with an A dad.

Unknown Speaker 38:30
I don't know. You really don't know the brand name. I

Arden Benner 38:32
have no idea what it's called. Alright.

Scott Benner 38:35
So your insolence called a Pietra?

Arden Benner 38:38
I also wasn't aware that it was an omni pod until like two years ago, I thought was AMI

Scott Benner 38:44
he thought it was AMI pod? Yeah.

Arden Benner 38:47
I don't care. Like I'm not looking at the logo on it like this the last thing? Yeah, so apparently, I've been telling everyone I'm wearing the wrong thing. But

Scott Benner 38:55
whenever you didn't know there was an end in it.

Arden Benner 38:57
No, I had no idea I thought was oh, am I? I don't even know what Omni means.

Scott Benner 39:02
I think AMI means one. Yeah,

Arden Benner 39:05
well, they don't teach us at school. So.

Scott Benner 39:09
Okay, do you know what version of the Dexcom you're using? Nope. Come on.

Arden Benner 39:14
I don't know. I literally have no idea

Scott Benner 39:17
G and then a number.

Arden Benner 39:20
Okay, great. Does it matter? Yes. No,

Scott Benner 39:23
just pick a number.

Arden Benner 39:24
No, I'm gonna see I don't want to be part of this. Whatever game we're playing I'm

Scott Benner 39:30
it's not a game. I'm interesting. I'm trying to find out what you what you know, and what you don't know. So you have a Dexcom don't seem to know anything. You know more than you think. So you have a Dexcom G six. Okay, great. Use an omni pod. Omni Omni pod, right?

Arden Benner 39:45
Also, I didn't I heard you say at once and I was like, What the hell is he saying? Oh, you thought I was saying I thought you were saying it wrong. Because you say a lot of things wrong. Like like water is water apparently.

Scott Benner 39:58
Why do you say Water?

Arden Benner 39:59
Water? What or no,

Scott Benner 40:00
say it again? Water water? No. All right, I'm gonna try to copy this time God, water, water. Do it. Please don't do it. Okay, it sounds wrong when I do it. Everything sounds wrong. Okay. On the pod insulin pump Dexcom G six. All right. The in the glucagon is called the G voc hypo pan. I would

Arden Benner 40:21
we I I'm looking at the time I think we talked about that like 20 something minutes ago. I have no recollection of that. Okay,

Scott Benner 40:28
this is good for people to know. All right. I don't know what Yeah, your meter that's called, you know, your meters called the meter. It's called the meter. Yeah. Okay.

Arden Benner 40:37
It's not called anything. It's called hand me that. And if I need someone who doesn't know what it is, like him, you know, like the longer black thing like this and like, no.

Scott Benner 40:48
So that meter is super accurate, the best one you've ever had. But you don't know that. That's fine. I'm not judging you. I'm asking questions. Alright, let's think of all the other stuff that you don't know. Alright, tell people more stuff. Could you give yourself an injection with a needle if you had to?

Arden Benner 41:06
I could write. I will. I choose not to. Yeah,

Scott Benner 41:10
you don't want to? Okay. You're okay. You know how to put your Omnipod on no problem. Yeah, yeah. And you could put a Dexcom on.

Arden Benner 41:19
I'm not flexible like that. I don't know if I can turn

Scott Benner 41:22
because of where you put yours. Yeah, but if you put it somewhere where you could see you would have no trouble.

Arden Benner 41:26
Yeah, maybe? Who knows? Yeah.

Scott Benner 41:27
You put one on me, right.

Unknown Speaker 41:31
Did I don't like kitchen? Yeah, you?

Arden Benner 41:33
I don't know. Like it literally, when that stuff happens. I erase it from my memory. And then I'm often I go watch television. Okay,

Scott Benner 41:39
so is. So being clear. Like I'm trying to find a is is the are the things you do around diabetes? More like wiping your butt? Like, I have no idea what that means? Like, It's stuff you do during the day, but you don't think about it or retain it.

Arden Benner 41:54
No, I think about it when I wipe my ass. No, I

Scott Benner 41:57
don't mean like you're just stabbing around hoping to get to the last part. I'm just saying like later if I said to you, Hey, did you wipe your butt? Today? You go? I don't know.

Arden Benner 42:06
Right? Well, no, I'd say yeah, I think I went my ass.

Scott Benner 42:11
So do you know that your pods getting low on insulin right now?

Unknown Speaker 42:17
Yeah, I do know that. Okay. Why do you know that?

Arden Benner 42:20
Because it popped up on the thing like it was off insulin. Okay. And know what I did? Nothing else to read.

Scott Benner 42:27
Okay. Do you know how long a Dexcom lasts for a week? I

Unknown Speaker 42:33
think 10 days? Yeah. Well,

Arden Benner 42:36
close enough. Whatever, who's counting?

Scott Benner 42:40
Well, I am, because that's how we know when to put the new Dexcom on. Don't just be that you like? Yeah,

Arden Benner 42:46
I guess that's how I know put the new Dexcom on.

Unknown Speaker 42:48
Okay.

Scott Benner 42:49
So let's say for a minute that it's important for you to have a deeper understanding of some of this stuff.

Unknown Speaker 42:54
I disagree, because

Scott Benner 42:57
that's what this conversation is going to be about. So I didn't know what you were going to say today. I had absolutely not one idea in the whole world. I there. I really didn't even think about it. I didn't try to wonder I just thought I'll let you say whatever you're gonna say. I didn't know you're gonna malign all the sponsors at once. But that's fine. That's kind of what malign was, I

Arden Benner 43:18
mean, I didn't know where it I don't know.

Scott Benner 43:24
I don't know what that thing in my bag is I just move it from person to purse. I thought it was an Army.

Arden Benner 43:30
Thanks for saving my life. But like, that's enough.

Scott Benner 43:35
But as you're talking, I started to really feel like just let you say whatever you're gonna say, first of all, which I was always my intention, but then it might be really important for people to hear this. Because I'm now wondering how many adults out there like, I don't know what version of the Dexcom I'm using either. Scott. Like, I wonder how many people just have your feeling about it. And I don't not understand it. You don't even see diabetes as like, a dire medical issue, right?

Arden Benner 44:05
Yeah. I don't I don't see a lot of stuff as a dire medical issue. You know, what I saw as a medical issue and I was thrown up in the car. That was a medical issue that needs to get away from me.

Scott Benner 44:13
You want to tell people about that. Now, that was hard. It's never been on the podcast before.

Arden Benner 44:17
It was horrible. All I know, is I was going 75 and 25. And I still had my permit and I and I was like, Oh, God. That wasn't the worst part. The worst part was that she she threw up. Right? She turned her head towards me. Like that was the way to do it. I tried to put the window down. She didn't like that

Scott Benner 44:37
call and I were in Seattle. Yeah. And mom and you texted you texted me. It felt like it was like two in the morning. My time

Arden Benner 44:47
was 3am. And she looked when she woke me up from my my perfectly nice sleep, by the way.

Scott Benner 44:52
Okay, so maybe it was more so it was 3am here so it was more like midnight where I was. Yeah. And you texted me and you said I think I'm taking mom to the hospital. My

Arden Benner 45:01
mom texted you first. I listened. I didn't know we were going to the hospital till I was like up in the car. Okay. I didn't know it was what I thought she was messing with me. When she woke up to She woke me up and Netflix was still on the TV. So I thought I'd fell asleep for like 15 minutes or something. Okay. And then she was like, we're going to the hospital, and I was like, the hell are you talking? But no, we're not. And then I looked at what time it was. And I was like, Oh, okay. All right. So then, I just got my wisdom teeth out. So that was horrible. Tasted like, throw up in my mouth. Like, oh, my God,

Unknown Speaker 45:35
and you did not have a driver's license. Yeah. No, I did not.

Scott Benner 45:38
And mom was retching and pain. What was it a kidney stone?

Arden Benner 45:42
I don't know. Yeah, it was a stone of some sort. Yeah,

Scott Benner 45:44
she had a kidney stone, apparently. But she didn't know that at the time. Yeah, I

Arden Benner 45:47
thought her appendix was about to burst. That's me. Yeah. Yeah. She's

Scott Benner 45:51
like, I'm in trouble. And I was like,

Arden Benner 45:53
Yeah, it's really nice getting yelled at when you're trying to help someone wishing you? Well, I, I was told to go over the speed limit, which I did. And when we hit a bump, she was like, Oh, my God, what are you doing? And I was like, What? What? But

Scott Benner 46:11
so I think you listen, it's hard for people to see themselves. I've interviewed a ton of people when I'm done talking to them. And they're like, I don't think I said anything valuable. I'm thinking how do you not realize how valuable what you just said was and and similarly here with you? I think that if you wake a lot of 16 year olds at the time, right, you were 16? You're 17 now happy birthday. Yeah. A lot of 16 year olds up out of a dead sleep in the middle of the night and yell Hey, you're driving me to the hospital. And then that but you so here's the part like you've been teasing along and we've been joking a lot and everything but I haven't been I know you. When you left for the hospital. Tell people what you brought with you.

Arden Benner 46:54
Well, first, I got myself a toothbrush. That was the first thing I got on toothpaste. A charger. I got. Oh, I know what I got. I wait. I was carrying a lot of stuff. I like through toothbrush, toothpaste, charger phone, you know, all the things that keep you alive. I went downstairs, I packed some insulin pod blah, blah, blah. Because I had no way of getting home legally. Does not mean I wouldn't have driven home legally. But like, I had no way of getting home so that I brought all that.

Scott Benner 47:26
So you brought all of your diabetes supplies with you? Yeah. And extra stuff. In case you needed it. I think I brought insulin. Yeah, you brought pods? Yeah. You bring a Dexcom transmitter or sensor?

Arden Benner 47:38
Probably. I don't know. I don't know. I was home later that night asleep. So then

Scott Benner 47:43
in a panic situation in the middle of the night. You pulled yourself together and remember to take care of yourself. Yeah. Okay. And make sure you didn't have bad wisdom teeth breath. Yeah,

Arden Benner 47:55
she was still throwing up and I was like, where's the bathroom?

Scott Benner 47:58
to brush my teeth? You even brought a bag for the car from Honda throw up it right.

Arden Benner 48:02
I brought two and she dropped the first one. Thank God, I brought a second one. Oh, my God, that would have been horrible. Because I was not going to come I was gonna make her clean. Get back out there. Go ahead.

Scott Benner 48:11
So you thought to bring two bags? Because you thought she might throw up? Yeah. Okay,

Arden Benner 48:17
I don't do throw up. Right. I will not be a nurse. Oh, also, if you're under the age of 18. Just guilt trip nurses. So easy.

Scott Benner 48:27
How did you get mom help? Tell them?

Arden Benner 48:29
Oh, no, no, I have diabetes. And I have two dogs that my dad's not here. I don't know what to do. I just only why it's so easy. And then just you know, you're fine after that,

Scott Benner 48:37
because they wouldn't come in and help Mom Right? It

Arden Benner 48:39
was too long. Yeah. You guys should probably fix the system.

Unknown Speaker 48:44
I don't think the people listening are in charge of the system. Oh, wow. That was gonna be a nurse.

Scott Benner 48:48
I think one of these people made the matrix or something. I mean, maybe. Would that be odd?

Arden Benner 48:55
It's gotta be like a billionaire. I'm coming for yourself.

Scott Benner 49:02
I think there's a billionaire listening.

Arden Benner 49:03
Maybe what? Well, I don't know how you feel. At least a millionaire. Millionaire listening to this. All right. You're the one who can follow me on Instagram the rest of your data and you're declined.

Scott Benner 49:13
Do you decline a lot of diabetes people who try to find you

Arden Benner 49:17
if I don't? It's only because it says you follow my dad. If it does not say you follow my dad when it pops up. Goodbye. You're gone. Do you

Scott Benner 49:27
remember but you okay, but one of your very good friends. You met because of diabetes?

Arden Benner 49:34
I don't know how I met her.

Scott Benner 49:38
I thought back then you told me you thought she thought that you were me.

Arden Benner 49:42
I don't actually know. I don't remember. All I know is like I have her. I know her. I don't remember how we got in touch with each other long. Have

Scott Benner 49:52
you known each other?

Arden Benner 49:54
I can check.

Unknown Speaker 49:55
Okay, go Good luck.

Arden Benner 49:58
I can check on Snapchat. I have no idea how long I've known her. I added her or she added me or something on Snapchat February 25 2017.

Scott Benner 50:09
That's like four years ago, plus maybe four and a half.

Arden Benner 50:15
But you think it's been longer than that, though?

Scott Benner 50:17
Like, it's because I think you've met on Instagram. You haven't had Snapchat for as long as you've had Instagram. I do want to say hi to her.

Unknown Speaker 50:24
She doesn't listen to this. How do you know?

Arden Benner 50:27
I'm well aware she has not listened to this. Okay. I mean, I don't actually know. But like, I know her. I don't think she knows.

Scott Benner 50:35
Just in case she's listening.

Arden Benner 50:36
Now she's not

Scott Benner 50:40
you know, a lot of people listen to this, right? Yeah, I'm

Arden Benner 50:42
aware. Okay. Wasting your time. Look, clean the dishes. They can clean the dishes and listen to them. I don't think people are really great at multitasking. So they are not these people. I'm just kidding. I don't know most of you. But some of you gotta be bad at it.

Scott Benner 50:57
What? You just think a general portion of the population can't multitask.

Arden Benner 51:01
Yeah, for sure. Especially men. All right. Now I take it back women to some girls are really stupid. You should probably edit all of this

Scott Benner 51:10
out. You think I should just be about anything you say that's controversial.

Arden Benner 51:13
Yeah, like a minute straight is just like I'm not I'm not cursing. I just, you know? Yeah. Pretty blunt.

Scott Benner 51:21
So on online, you're not? There's no identification around diabetes for you. Yeah, no, it's just because you have a very uncommon first name. Probably the people can find you.

Arden Benner 51:31
Which apparently I don't. There's a girl who goes to a school near her girls my name, so follow her.

Scott Benner 51:36
Do you know there's a girl? I think her mom listens. Who has your first name and your last name? And has diabetes. That's crazy, right?

Arden Benner 51:47
She younger than me? I think so. Hmm. So a copier on my hands. Trying to be like me.

Scott Benner 51:55
Do you think she got diabetes on purpose? Yeah, I

Arden Benner 51:57
see what's happening here. Well know that that why don't you get this juice box tattooed on you with my face on it. This? I'm coming to your house and erasing it.

Scott Benner 52:07
Well, we took your face off of it a long time ago when you asked you remember asking. Yeah, I don't want my face out there. Yeah. You remember the thing you said to me? No, I don't want to look like a baby on the internet.

Arden Benner 52:18
Yeah, that's very valid.

Scott Benner 52:20
I didn't think it was invalid. As soon as you told me I took care of it.

Arden Benner 52:23
Well, kind of fast as I could. It was a drawing. But you know,

Scott Benner 52:27
I moved to a draw. And now it's gone. We don't use it for anything anymore. Interesting. It was a very nice picture of you when you were a baby.

Arden Benner 52:34
I bet there's a lot of nice pictures of me. Oh, yeah. You're very photogenic. No.

Scott Benner 52:40
Okay, so you were so you're not identified online at all through that

Arden Benner 52:43
we can get him in any crack my neck

Scott Benner 52:46
once you get closer to the mic.

Unknown Speaker 52:50
Okay, proceed. Okay.

Scott Benner 52:51
You're very cranky.

Arden Benner 52:52
Yeah, that's another problem I have. We found out what result in early death

Unknown Speaker 52:57
can result in early people have a sense of humor? Yeah, they

Scott Benner 53:00
do. You're gonna have to figure out that you're joking. Yeah. We did learn that your cortisol level was higher. I have no idea what that means either. Which is why you're taking magnesium now. Sure. So you're telling me that you think that most kids have this level of understanding?

Arden Benner 53:20
Oh, no, what they understand what am I their mother, you won't generally you should all understand what your kids understand. Sure, they do my job.

Scott Benner 53:27
But you. So it's funny, you're coming off about the way I expected. Like, you're not surprising me at all. Which is partly why these next recordings are going to be like valuable because we are actually going to talk about how to take care of you in the coming recordings. So it'll almost be like diabetes school. That'll be fun, right?

Unknown Speaker 53:47
I don't know how we're gonna do another one of these. Another one, we're gonna do a few more.

Arden Benner 53:51
Actually, at least three because that'll get me up to 15 hours. So

Scott Benner 53:57
well, whether you whether you mean to or not, what you're doing is going to help people.

Arden Benner 54:02
Yeah, I bet I have a very soothing voice. You have a soothing voice. I'm just Kane's very manly.

Scott Benner 54:08
You think you've a manly voice?

Arden Benner 54:09
I do. I have a very deep voice for a girl. Get closer to the microphone and try to get the mic getting get deep. So it doesn't just feel

Scott Benner 54:16
like say something like that really deep voice.

Arden Benner 54:19
Know? What, what? No, I don't want to be the next internet joke. figured it'd be an internet show. One of those people needs to know how to edit.

Scott Benner 54:30
What is your favorite social media app? You don't really care. You

Arden Benner 54:37
know? If you told me I had to delete all social media right now and never use it again. I'd be like, Okay, that's whatever. That's fine.

Scott Benner 54:44
Do you have friends that couldn't do that? That couldn't

Arden Benner 54:47
do that. Oh, um,

Unknown Speaker 54:50
do you think that I'll be okay? I'll be fine without it.

Scott Benner 54:53
You think you would be bored?

Arden Benner 54:56
Um, I'm bored with it.

Unknown Speaker 54:59
So Uh, yeah.

Scott Benner 55:03
Were you bored before COVID? Or has?

Arden Benner 55:05
Yeah, life is very boring in New Jersey. I see why it's a joke in movies to live here.

Scott Benner 55:12
Well, what do you what would you like to be doing?

Arden Benner 55:15
I'd like to be in the city. Doing what? Making money?

Scott Benner 55:18
Oh, you want to be an adult? You want to get a job? Oh, yeah. Let's get out of here. Get going? Yeah. What are you gonna do with your money?

Arden Benner 55:25
I think I'm just too intelligent for this town. You fake? So you're too bright for the people here. Oh, my God, especially people who drive here. The speed limit is 40 donco. 30. Like, come on. You live in Jersey.

Scott Benner 55:36
You don't think that that people basically drive the same everywhere?

Unknown Speaker 55:39
No, I do know.

Scott Benner 55:43
I think at some places.

Arden Benner 55:45
I had to merge today. And I was like, Oh, God. But you were in New Jersey. Right? Yeah, that's why I'm saying it was like, everyone's like a maniac. Wait, have you not merged before? No, I have. But every time I merge, I think, okay. I saw something online. That was like, a lot of people were like, when I merged, I just closed my eyes, which is, you know, probably you probably should have your license. But I mean, I feel that way. But I don't close my eyes.

Scott Benner 56:08
You said you went to wild wings. Yeah, you go to the one out on route one.

Arden Benner 56:12
Yeah. Oh, that

Scott Benner 56:13
is kind of dangerous.

Unknown Speaker 56:15
Yeah, yeah.

Arden Benner 56:16
I did that. Yeah. I'm very special driver.

Unknown Speaker 56:19
You're special driver. Yeah.

Scott Benner 56:21
Which gets you a sticker that says that.

Unknown Speaker 56:25
Okay, well, then I'll

Arden Benner 56:26
get bullied at school. That's how you get bullied at school. Everyone. Tell people you're a special driver. Don't be like, hey, especially if you can't park your car. Oh, my God. Imagine that. And they'll be all over you. Yeah. All right. Okay, another question for me. Yeah, I

Scott Benner 56:41
think we're doing pretty well. Next. Do you have any questions for me? Nope. So that's what I wanted to tell you. Someone online said, I'd like to hear art and ask Scott questions. And I said, I don't think art thinks about me enough to have a question to ask is what's for

Arden Benner 56:58
dinner? And the answer is, I haven't thought about it yet. Or mashed potatoes and chicken. Which I don't want, by the way. Yeah, you're

Scott Benner 57:06
not gonna get that? No, you tell people that you had like a weird thing for a while where you couldn't eat meat.

Arden Benner 57:11
I don't think they care about that. Well, I

Scott Benner 57:13
think people care about that a lot.

Arden Benner 57:14
My mom made hotdogs yesterday. I was like, Oh, that's horrible. So you're still like sent me to a? I couldn't do it. You're still having

Scott Benner 57:20
a weird aversion to some meat. Yeah. We had to get you some low rent Chinese food the other day? Because?

Arden Benner 57:26
Because it didn't actually taste like chicken.

Scott Benner 57:31
Or, like, I can eat this chicken because it doesn't taste like chicken. But that just started happening a couple months ago, right?

Arden Benner 57:38
Yeah, I've lost a couple pounds because of that. You just can't.

Scott Benner 57:42
You'd have no taste for me. Right? Yeah, it's horrible. Just taste like disgusting. And at the beginning of this, you weren't hungry at all for a little while. Yeah.

Arden Benner 57:50
I'm still really don't get that hungry. Yeah, I came that hungry. Yeah. Like when I went to eat today. I was like, I don't really like if you told me like, you can eat but you don't have I just probably wouldn't eat. But I mean, probably good. You know?

Scott Benner 58:05
You don't want to starve.

Arden Benner 58:06
Well, some carrots.

Scott Benner 58:07
So there's a really a great thing that you wouldn't know, right? If you weren't using if you weren't using an algorithm and or if we didn't really know how to handle insulin. You couldn't go for long stretches of time like that without eating. You would have you have ended up having to eat so there have been times when you've gotten up in the morning said I'm not hungry and you haven't eaten till like two or three in the afternoon. Yeah,

Unknown Speaker 58:29
intermittent fasting, everyone. It is intermittent fasting. I lose a couple of pounds, but not on purpose. Really? Yeah, no, that's all.

Scott Benner 58:35
But you understand that keeping your blood sugar stable without eating is something that a lot of people aren't able to do. Right.

Arden Benner 58:44
All right. I don't know. I don't think about them. You don't

Scott Benner 58:47
know that? Yeah, no, I know. That's interesting. So you have if you asked me to step back and see this from a third party perspective,

Arden Benner 58:56
I'm not asking you to do that. But go ahead.

Scott Benner 59:00
wasn't talking about you specifically, it was sort of like the royal we like, let's say now I was moving the conversation. Okay, person. You have to cut me off. And if you're

Arden Benner 59:09
cutting you off, that's how conversation works. Is it? That's what you told me? It is when we had a fight? Yeah.

Scott Benner 59:16
We have to go back and forth. Yeah.

Arden Benner 59:18
Because I was like, let me finish my sentence. And he's like, that's the whole conversation we're starting. Yeah, you guys should be here. That's fun. He's not always sweet. Oh, I

Unknown Speaker 59:27
don't think I'm I don't think oh yeah, but here's a secret.

Arden Benner 59:30
I'm gonna give all the secrets out about you. I'm not going to ask you a question. I'm going to tell them the truth. After he gets off the phone with all of you and answers us. He's so nice to all you and gives you all the information you need or whatever. I'll ask the same exact question. He's like, are you serious? You will know that you didn't Pre-Bolus Oh my god. So.

Scott Benner 59:48
Okay, so I don't talk to you like that. And for the last 15 minutes, you've laid out that you don't really know what you're doing anyway.

Arden Benner 59:57
If I know sometimes, Okay, listen. I'm a child, if I forget to Pre-Bolus let's let's make even better if there's a bag of chips in front of me. I'm gonna eat them. Okay? Okay, so don't yell at me.

Scott Benner 1:00:09
Do you think you'd get yelled at? Yeah, you don't think I'm just like are you get upset

Arden Benner 1:00:13
when they call you in Pre-Bolus? Oh my god, I'm like a diabetic God. How do you not do that?

Scott Benner 1:00:17
Well, I've never said that. Nor have I ever thought that you should

Arden Benner 1:00:19
have heard calling yourself that I call myself lady Jesus at school.

Scott Benner 1:00:23
I should start calling myself that because you call yourself lady Jesus. Do is this catching on lady Jesus?

Arden Benner 1:00:29
No, no one says we should get that sticker for the car. Lady Jesus. Yeah, if they Oh my god, imagine if they let us color in our parking spots at school. I would just say reserved for Lady Jesus.

Scott Benner 1:00:41
I don't think they're gonna let you do that.

Arden Benner 1:00:43
I know. But they should.

Scott Benner 1:00:44
Anyway, the Pre-Bolus thing is really, really important. Yeah, I'm aware. Okay. So that's when we talk in future episodes. That's what we're going to talk about.

Arden Benner 1:00:56
Oh, that seems so boring. I know. But we're going to do I don't know how the talk like you're not gonna. It's gonna be you talking not me.

Scott Benner 1:01:04
Well, you could just be interactive.

Arden Benner 1:01:08
That's what I'll do. Uh huh.

Scott Benner 1:01:10
Huh. Well, you could also I'll think of questions while we're talking and you'll answer them.

Arden Benner 1:01:14
Why don't you have any questions written down? It seems like you're unprepared. I don't use that's not how I prepare for very messy desk desk. You

Scott Benner 1:01:21
have my desk is really messy. Yeah. Well, do you want to see some people's questions? What some people had questions for? Yeah, I don't want to see them. Well, now you're talking. And you're gonna see them?

Arden Benner 1:01:32
Oh, no, I'm okay. We're almost at one hour, I need to seven minutes left everyone.

Scott Benner 1:01:39
So we're gonna ask what we'll see what people's questions were. And then we will

Arden Benner 1:01:44
let's go a little bit over one hour, he's going to edit some of this out. Okay, I really need this community service. And I really want a parking spot. Well,

Scott Benner 1:01:50
do you think that anything you've done right now will be of service to the community?

Arden Benner 1:01:57
Who needs to know that? So

Scott Benner 1:01:59
I don't think that by the way, I think that what you've talked about for the last hour is really interesting. And I think that a lot of parents will find what you said. Enlightening.

Arden Benner 1:02:11
I think the dumbest question you've asked me is what my favorite social media app is. Really? Yeah, that was horrible. That was a horrible question to ask me my favorite color next time. With nothing to do with anything

Scott Benner 1:02:20
that you didn't like? No, I didn't like you also didn't answer it. Why don't have a favorite favorite. What's your favorite TV show right now? Oh,

Arden Benner 1:02:28
you know, I'm watching Teen Wolf at the moment. And let me just it's a horrible show. I've never seen such horrible acting in my life. But Dylan O'Brien is a good looking man. Some of the keep watching it. Um, and but One Tree Hill is a good show my favorite of all time. I could watch any Marvel movie religiously. Like if you guys are you know on family feud and they asked that question, or Jeopardy or whatever phone a friend. It's me. It's you. That's the one time you get to request me on Instagram. And then what else do I like? I'm a very dystopian lover. Like the hunger This is a lot of bloody Dexcom. So I'm looking at what is going on here. And

Scott Benner 1:03:09
I'm scrolling through the pictures that are on the Facebook page right now looking for a picture that I attached to a to a thing and there have been a couple of people who put bleeders up on there.

Arden Benner 1:03:18
Some of you need to get some better angles on their pictures. Yeah.

Scott Benner 1:03:23
You think you're critiquing people's photography? Yeah, that's horrible.

Arden Benner 1:03:26
I like babies.

Scott Benner 1:03:29
Aren't those kids cute? Those that post is the most part of their names.

Arden Benner 1:03:33
Oh, bad interviewer look, now you don't know dad

Damon right there. twin girls

Scott Benner 1:03:46
are twin girls, but I asked if they named if they named the babies after me.

Arden Benner 1:03:51
That No, that'd be a horrible name. They

Scott Benner 1:03:53
did not. But the mom the mother listed it. So let me find where I said it.

Arden Benner 1:03:59
I'll tell you what I think of the names. Oh, okay. I'm just kidding. I won't do that. I'm sure this will go horribly if I say anything. I'm sure

Scott Benner 1:04:06
they're lovely names. I just don't remember. I'm scrolling whether you guys love this post so much. I can't even find my herd is Hannah and Nicole

Arden Benner 1:04:22
Wait No, it's It's Hannah Nicole is in pink. Yes. I don't know how to say that other name her dasa.

Scott Benner 1:04:28
Hadassah Grady.

Arden Benner 1:04:29
I like that. I like that one better. Katie Yeah, I like that better than Hannah. Okay, I mean no offense to Han or anything but like I'm more of a heavy person.

Scott Benner 1:04:39
I don't think she can take offense to it. All right, looks like she's four four minutes old.

Arden Benner 1:04:42
Which one do you think it is? I think Hannah is

Scott Benner 1:04:45
well that's interesting. Wait don't answer I'm gonna guess so one babies in pink one babies and purple.

Arden Benner 1:04:51
And you're actually that what I didn't even look over here but I did now and now I know who it is. And that's what I was going to say. Okay, Haney looks more badass than Hannah can Thanks, so that's why I picked her.

Scott Benner 1:05:01
She's looking more at the camera has kind of got her hand over her face like yeah, she's

Unknown Speaker 1:05:05
shy. Why are you? Yeah,

Scott Benner 1:05:06
don't Please don't?

Arden Benner 1:05:07
What did those shirts say worth? were you telling your children what they're worth?

Scott Benner 1:05:11
No, I don't think that's what it says. worth something

Unknown Speaker 1:05:13
worth to. I don't know.

Arden Benner 1:05:17
I don't know. I know what I'm gonna be honest. You don't need to tell me. I'm gonna move on with my life now.

Unknown Speaker 1:05:22
You don't want anybody? Okay, call me get back to me find the thing.

Arden Benner 1:05:28
That doesn't look like good food. Something you need to learn how to cook.

Scott Benner 1:05:33
you're critiquing people's food.

Arden Benner 1:05:35
Yeah. Is that a selfie you took? That's horrible that all right.

Scott Benner 1:05:39
I was thanking people for something. Where is this picture at? You guys post so much stuff on this board, which is very cool. But I'm having trouble finding what I'm looking for because of

Arden Benner 1:05:50
that. Reading.

Scott Benner 1:05:51
who's reading? People read your reading? What are you reading right now for school?

Arden Benner 1:05:57
Oh, I didn't start any of that.

Scott Benner 1:05:59
What are you supposed to read for school?

Arden Benner 1:06:00
I don't know what it's called. Do you have the book? Yes, not sir.

Unknown Speaker 1:06:04
You have a book two books.

Arden Benner 1:06:06
You have two books? Yeah. AP Literature. Let's hope that goes well. I took AP Lang I made it. I was also online the whole year. If that means anything,

Scott Benner 1:06:17
tell, listen, while I'm scrolling tell all the parents. If their kids got a good education when they were online,

Arden Benner 1:06:24
they did not. They got really good at cheating. And they're gonna go back to school and take that exam they had to take on the first day of school in an AP class, and they're gonna come home with a zero, and you're just gonna sit down and eat dinner, because everyone else got 02. Except for that one girl who's a kiss ass who didn't cheat the whole year. Like, like no one cheated that

Scott Benner 1:06:45
year. So you're saying a lot of people were cheating while they were online? Yeah, everyone was

Arden Benner 1:06:49
cheating while online. Which was very weird because when I'm in school, I do not cheat. I feel very guilty if I do that. But I had given up I was like, this is a joke, right? I was like, what? Come on?

Scott Benner 1:07:05
How were the teachers that me? Know that look just like me back when I was little. Yeah, the little girl pretended to kiss the fish. Yeah, your child looks like me. Yeah. When you were a little How about that? Right? That looks just like me. So to let me look and see if we have a name.

Arden Benner 1:07:20
That does look like me when I was little. She does look a lot like you. But if that was hard and better, that'd be really weird. Be

Scott Benner 1:07:27
able to grow the other Arden better. This person didn't put her name up. But her mom's name is Megan.

Arden Benner 1:07:32
She's my aunt's name.

Scott Benner 1:07:34
She is your answer.

Arden Benner 1:07:36
We're very connected.

Scott Benner 1:07:37
I don't know it's spelled differently.

Arden Benner 1:07:38
Yeah, I mean, we're not very connected. But she does look a lot like me. Yeah. Okay, we have the same head shape. That's actually what stood out to me was her head.

Scott Benner 1:07:46
What shape is your head?

Arden Benner 1:07:48
I don't know. Whatever that is.

Scott Benner 1:07:52
So you're aware that when you see your head shape on someone else, you know what your head shape? Yeah. But you are not aware. He

Unknown Speaker 1:07:58
did look like oh, no, I'm a Grammy fighting with yourself.

Scott Benner 1:08:02
I'm agreeing with you. Like this kid growing

Arden Benner 1:08:03
up. Deuces.

Unknown Speaker 1:08:04
Yes. Alright, peace.

Scott Benner 1:08:06
Everybody. Has that a gang sign? That's peace.

Arden Benner 1:08:09
Can you find this post? I know. I'm gonna have to leave because we're you know, we have a couple of seconds left Dad.

Scott Benner 1:08:13
Oh, you're staying till we're done. Relax. Hold on.

Arden Benner 1:08:17
Oh my god. He's sitting as

Scott Benner 1:08:19
water. I'm thirsty. Let me do a search for it instead. Oh, you could have done that the whole entire time? I don't know. I'm not great with the internet

Oh, it popped right up. That's embarrassing. I guess I could have just done that. Alright, let's see if people had questions. So let me pull up all the comments.

Arden Benner 1:08:41
Let's not answer the bad questions. Okay. Don't say them out loud because then they'll know their questions bad

Scott Benner 1:08:50
they're gonna think we're making hand signals to each other right now which we're not No I'll make a hand signal. Well, no, you won't make people think you're speaking behind their back. That's not behind their back. I hope it's her the interviews you know, that's what I said.

Arden Benner 1:09:04
Heather? No, no, that's

Scott Benner 1:09:07
not gonna happen

Unknown Speaker 1:09:11
Hold on.

Arden Benner 1:09:13
Oh, pay her yeah, not gain any money for this apparently because it's community service. I feel like I should get paid under the counter but whatever. It's under the table and whatever. I don't work with drugs so I don't know

Scott Benner 1:09:26
when you have a job when you're not paying taxes called under the table not under the counter.

Arden Benner 1:09:31
Whatever. Alright, anyways, Ira no money. This

Scott Benner 1:09:34
person that wondered had you ever been on? Okay, this person asked. Do you know that you're practically a celebrity?

Arden Benner 1:09:40
Me? Yeah. I'm not a celebrity until I'm on the red carpet with Anne Hathaway. I'm not a celebrity.

Scott Benner 1:09:46
Why Anne Hathaway because she's in the best movie ever. The worst product ever. worst problem. Such a good movie.

Arden Benner 1:09:51
Yeah, great movie. I just feel like Anne Hathaway is like, you've made it if you're on the red carpet with her

Unknown Speaker 1:09:58
with her. Yeah.

Scott Benner 1:10:00
But this person's point is that to the people listening to this, you that that that you may be a celebrity. I don't think that I'm not saying you aren't Yeah,

Arden Benner 1:10:11
most people don't know my name in this town. So trust me, I'm not a celebrity.

Scott Benner 1:10:17
Okay, here's their super serious question. Do you realize the impact that you've had on the diabetes community in general and people's health?

Arden Benner 1:10:24
I don't think I've done anything. I think this is all you.

Scott Benner 1:10:28
But do you see that his point? Is that is that without you? I don't have to figure out diabetes.

Arden Benner 1:10:35
That's a her now let's say when I'm trying to read

Scott Benner 1:10:38
a woman with a middle name of Seth.

Arden Benner 1:10:42
Why are you assuming? I mean, there's a man and a woman in the picture. So wait, let me see what the job is. I can figure it out by that they don't give women good jobs. They don't give women good jobs in this generation. Manager. Huh? Manager, this is a man.

Scott Benner 1:11:04
Okay, but be so wait a second, like, let's stop on this one for a second and be super serious. If? Who cares? What if you were the reason that I don't know, I made a widget. Right? We have a little little device that helps people with something. So let's say you were born, and you had, let's make something up specific. Let's say you were born, and you had really fat fingers. So you couldn't pick your nose. And I may, what the hell and I made a little thing for you to pick your nose, but. And then it turned out there were a lot of people with fat fingers that couldn't pick their nose. And we started selling them and help everybody get the boogers out of their nose. Would you be able to see that because of you? These people didn't have boogers in their nose anymore.

Arden Benner 1:11:50
I don't think that would be because of me. They do. Okay, well, then we have different views.

Scott Benner 1:11:54
And they're grateful for it. Okay,

Arden Benner 1:11:57
yeah. All right.

Scott Benner 1:11:58
I think they're also grateful that you don't limit me from talking about you.

Arden Benner 1:12:05
I'm not his mom, I can't do anything about that. So you could

Scott Benner 1:12:08
you could say please don't say my period. But it ends up being really important.

Arden Benner 1:12:12
You're too late, because he's already said it. And I didn't know so.

Scott Benner 1:12:16
But you've never come to me and said please don't say that.

Arden Benner 1:12:20
Yeah, I don't really whatever is happening here. It's just not my world. So whatever. Right?

Scott Benner 1:12:24
I've tried to make that clear to people, but I think some people don't understand. Okay. All right. Let's scroll.

Arden Benner 1:12:34
I can tell who's older based on the words they use.

Scott Benner 1:12:37
Really? Yeah. Give me Don't say anybody's name. Give me a word that tells me somebody's older.

Arden Benner 1:12:42
Well, no, I can see that. They're gonna know it's them.

Scott Benner 1:12:45
Everyone listening? Well, no, only the person that did okay. Hooray. Hooray. Yeah. Racist. You older or younger than 35. Older. Okay. Do you see any young words?

Arden Benner 1:12:57
I'm not a very fast reader. So hold on. Um, no, not yet.

Scott Benner 1:13:04
Can you verify that you are not sitting in the new chair?

Arden Benner 1:13:09
I was I tried to sit in that. He told me don't move it. So. Yeah, no, trust me. I'm not sending in it.

Scott Benner 1:13:18
See, this person is interested in your perspective, which you've been very free with today. And I think that's excellent.

Unknown Speaker 1:13:24
All right. Okay.

Arden Benner 1:13:27
He's not famous continue.

Scott Benner 1:13:30
Okay, so I'm not famous, and I agree with you. What is he thinks

Arden Benner 1:13:34
he's so cool, because he showed up on that one app when you look up his name. Oh, what was that? I don't know what it's called. It was like it was like a morphing app. Yeah, yeah. Oh,

Scott Benner 1:13:43
like the who? No kidding. There was an app where you could pull up famous people more for your face with them. Yeah. And I was on there as a famous person. Yeah, that was stupid.

Arden Benner 1:13:52
But it was also kind of scary.

Scott Benner 1:13:56
That my face was there. Yeah, I thought so. It took me by surprise.

Arden Benner 1:14:00
Yeah. I shouldn't be there. Apparently. I'm the good one here. I should be getting the money. Actually, technically, I do get the money. I heard a lot of clothes.

Scott Benner 1:14:09
Yeah. Well, you guys support the sponsors. You are you're definitely paying for artists clothing. Yeah, for sure. So but take her question. How

Arden Benner 1:14:15
did you convince me? No, wait, but

Scott Benner 1:14:17
take this question. Okay, but take the word famous out of it.

Arden Benner 1:14:21
Does it have a dad everyone loves?

Scott Benner 1:14:24
Well, everyone doesn't love me. But how does? She just said that's what she said. But why are

Arden Benner 1:14:28
you scrolling past it? I can't read it feel more comfortable? Uncomfortable. What are you 12? I'm gonna read it. I don't know how to answer this question. Like, it doesn't feel different to you that I don't really care if other people like you or not. Okay. Yeah. Well, it's a good answer. Okay. Next,

Scott Benner 1:14:45
I think which so you would say for clarity, you've never walked around and thought, it's cool. My dad has a podcast that people know. I

Arden Benner 1:14:52
actually think it's kind of embarrassing to say it. Okay. Yeah. I don't tell people that you have a podcast if people ask what my parents job is. I tell them People that mom works for a company.

Scott Benner 1:15:03
You don't mention me. Uh,

Arden Benner 1:15:05
you know, everyone kind of knows you have a podcast, right? Okay, so it doesn't come it doesn't like you know, whenever, you know ask that question either

Scott Benner 1:15:16
okay, I'm reading sorry. Some I have to be honest some of you the way you're right. I don't understand what you're talking about this woman is gonna let her daughter listen. Do you think that's a mistake? Or do you think that her daughter will turn to her and be like, I don't know what that glucagon is called either.

Arden Benner 1:15:34
I don't know what her daughter you're asking me questions. I clearly cannot answer

Scott Benner 1:15:38
your interesting you're from you are definitely from a generation that will not generalize about

Unknown Speaker 1:15:43
something. I

Arden Benner 1:15:44
don't believe I connected my generation whatsoever. What

Scott Benner 1:15:47
generation do you connect to?

Arden Benner 1:15:48
I'm gonna, I don't know, but not this one. Because I hate every child and not your children. But everyone I know at my school I'm not fond of

Scott Benner 1:15:57
what does that bother? What bothers you about it?

Arden Benner 1:16:00
They just they worry about the dumbest things. Okay. Like, apparently, let's I'll put this out there. Apparently no one else thought it was funny to make your Instagram account name Ashton Kutcher. Like Kucha. Come on Ashton Kutcher, Ashton Kutcher. That's hilarious, right? I had like five people save. It's funny, and everyone else was like, That's so weird. I was like, You have no personality. But then I did change back because I was like, oh, colleges, look at your social media. And I don't want to be Ashton Kutcher. So

Scott Benner 1:16:32
So in general, you're not happy that people didn't understand the actual Ashton Kutcher. Yeah,

Arden Benner 1:16:36
no one appreciated my cute.

Scott Benner 1:16:39
Well, last night, we're not going to tell people but I made a joke last night in front of your friends that only you got. And none of them didn't get it. Right. This is sweet. This person says that.

Arden Benner 1:16:50
I read that one already. I actually am A Faster Reader, apparently. Because you're taking forever. I

Scott Benner 1:16:54
had read it before as I bring it back up now. So we can speak about this. And

Arden Benner 1:16:57
she calls those crazy. Yeah, do what? Matt is correct, Matt. Matt is correct. I don't think you're crazy. I just think that it's crazy that you're listening to this.

Scott Benner 1:17:07
You so you've so far as we scrolled through. Agreed mostly with Matt. Yes. That's very interesting. That's from Australia. He's got to wait.

Arden Benner 1:17:18
That's my dream accent. Okay. Yeah. You know, everyone asked if you could change one thing about your body, what would it be? Mine was not anything physical. Like, I want a different accent. I do not like, you know, being American.

Scott Benner 1:17:33
Here. Well, my point wasn't about the accent. It was that Matt's got a different sensibility about him. Because there's an Australian sensibility. It's more matter of fact, like you. So maybe you're more Australian than you think.

Arden Benner 1:17:45
Oh, are you saying that? Maybe Chris Hemsworth would like me?

Scott Benner 1:17:49
Yes. Maybe Chris Hemsworth will like okay, all right, people looking forward to it. Okay, here you go. How How accurate is this one?

Arden Benner 1:17:57
That's a lot of reading.

Scott Benner 1:17:58
I imagine her to be very chill and laid back. Are you chill?

Arden Benner 1:18:03
My answer? I don't know how to answer questions about myself.

Scott Benner 1:18:06
It's interesting, isn't it?

Arden Benner 1:18:07
Um, I heard it. Oh, reading reading, relaxing the diabetes and Scott keeps an exterior cool. Oh, he does not keep his cool. Yeah, that's that's gonna be our next episode. Basically makes it look easy. Ninja skills. Yeah, I believe I'm a ninja.

Scott Benner 1:18:27
You believe you're a ninja.

Arden Benner 1:18:28
Basically, I imagined here's a pretty cool girl. I'm with Jessica.

Scott Benner 1:18:31
Yeah. You believe in Jessica. Yeah. All right.

Arden Benner 1:18:36
I think she's younger.

Scott Benner 1:18:38
You think Kate is younger? Because of how she wrote?

Arden Benner 1:18:40
Oh my god. Yeah. I don't think she's young. I think she's younger.

Scott Benner 1:18:46
That's interesting. Kate, is the person who put your name in general hospital. Oh, really? Yeah.

Arden Benner 1:18:53
Maybe she's just like the writing? No,

Scott Benner 1:18:56
you want to thank her? No.

Arden Benner 1:19:02
I mean, okay. Next,

Scott Benner 1:19:07
Okay, what about Tami's idea? This might be really interesting. Would you answer questions

Arden Benner 1:19:14
from children? I don't think I could put up with children. No, I don't. That's I've actually been told that the one job I should not have is a teacher or a nurse.

Scott Benner 1:19:24
We wouldn't bring the children on the No. Oh, wait, what? Yeah, they would just write their question. Oh, yeah.

Arden Benner 1:19:29
I can't just I, this can't be a live talk with children. Like, I'll be like, listen, shut up.

Scott Benner 1:19:36
No, but if so if their kids send questions in would you answer them? But would you answer them like if they said, Hey,

Arden Benner 1:19:42
I don't think kids would understand what I'm saying. Like little children. Wait, how old are we talking? I don't know. Because anyone like under the age of 12. I don't think their brains developed yet. Like where it needs to be to understand what I'm saying. So even 13 year olds, they still have braces. So I don't think

Scott Benner 1:19:59
do you think some people are going to be disappointed after hearing you talk.

Arden Benner 1:20:03
A lot of people are disappointed after they hear me. I don't know what the rest of that even says she's using abbreviations.

Scott Benner 1:20:10
All right, this person is just very excited. Okay, and says Do you think she asked me if I think you're gonna roll your eyes at me while we're doing it? You didn't roll your eyes and they have

Arden Benner 1:20:18
Oh, my eyes on people. Yeah, I just tell them they're being stupid. Okay. All right. Well, that's what these people have me all wrong. Well,

Scott Benner 1:20:29
no, yeah, they you're, you're a one dimensional person to them.

Arden Benner 1:20:35
Oh, no, that means that's not what I'm talking about. What do

Scott Benner 1:20:37
you mean? How do you not know what that means? You you love One Tree Hill. I bet you they say that all the time in that show. What do you want to tell people that you went to a One Tree Hill convention? You

Arden Benner 1:20:45
went to two of them. Thank you very much. Um, the first time I didn't get to meet Sophia Bush, because the tickets were sold out. But I met Chad like James Lafferty, James Lafferty. If your wife is listening to this because I speak let's all talk about this for a second. James Lafferty decided to marry a diabetic. I'm a diabetic. So if he was looking for a diabetic why not me? Literally one more year till everything's legal. Oh my god, you could have waited?

Scott Benner 1:21:12
Well, you didn't put it in your Instagram bio. So how would he know?

Arden Benner 1:21:15
You know, Chad Michael Murray did like my photo though. He did. Yeah. And I don't you know, I don't think he's like the famous enough type to have someone else run it for him. So I think he liked the photo. Cool.

Scott Benner 1:21:25
What's his wife's name?

Arden Benner 1:21:27
I don't like vo I don't really know. It's I don't think she's American. I think she has some foreign name.

Scott Benner 1:21:35
You don't know her name?

Arden Benner 1:21:36
No, she's not. I know.

Unknown Speaker 1:21:38
She likes type one.

Arden Benner 1:21:39
No, it's no it's not time. Like Murray's wife. It's James Lafferty, his wife. Oh, James Lafferty. His wife has type she's more famous than Sean Michael Maria's wife.

Scott Benner 1:21:46
What's what's her name?

Arden Benner 1:21:48
I don't know book of James Lafferty. Much of James Lafferty fiance they just got engaged. I know everything. Oh, speaking of Wait, we should all we should all start a club. But now I'm in with you guys if we start a club, too. Oh, yeah, that's her. Alexandra Park. Could have been me anyways. If we all started club to get me on the One Tree Hill podcast with Bethany Joy Lenz, hilly Burton and Sophia Bush, then Amen. That you could that I'll do for no community serve that service hours.

Scott Benner 1:22:22
Would you really be able to dig in and talk about that show? Oh, I

Arden Benner 1:22:24
know everything about that show. That's probably not good.

Unknown Speaker 1:22:29
What?

Scott Benner 1:22:30
What's your second favorite show?

Arden Benner 1:22:33
I don't know. I'm a Gossip Girl fan. I like you. I can't wait for the season three to come out of you. That's something you probably should let your children watch. Okay. Yeah, I started watching that on a road trip in the car. And I realized that I probably shouldn't watch that in the car with you guys. But I didn't Anyways, um, what else do I like?

Scott Benner 1:22:52
Well, what shows? Have you turned me on to

Arden Benner 1:22:54
new girl? That's a good show. I'm if you don't like New Girl, I believe you don't have a sense of humor. Anybody on here who decides new girls not a good show? stopped listening. You don't deserve to listen. First of all, you can still listen to No, I don't think you can.

Scott Benner 1:23:09
But tell them what we do to mom.

Arden Benner 1:23:14
I don't understand what do we? She just doesn't write to him. We

Scott Benner 1:23:16
have tried twice for Kelly. Three

Arden Benner 1:23:18
times three times. I've started out show over three times for her.

Scott Benner 1:23:22
It's hilarious. And she never laughs Yeah. Mommy likes TV shows with like the word Chicago in it. Even the

Arden Benner 1:23:31
episode if anyone knows what I'm talking about the episode when Jess Nick and the like janitor or whatever. In the apartment, like he tries to have a threesome with them. You probably can't put this up now. I can. Okay. When that happens. It is hilarious. And they start playing that song from Matilda. She did not even crack a smile. I was like what? Yeah, mom's sense of humor is weird. And just starts playing the drums in the air. Yeah. Oh my god. Come on. It Yeah. Anyways, that's they're engaged.

Scott Benner 1:24:01
I see that. Alright, so Alexandra Park has type one diabetes. Yeah, she can come on the show if she wants to.

Arden Benner 1:24:07
I don't think she she she made a book about this. She's got she's got money. So

Scott Benner 1:24:11
let me ask you a question. If that girl came on this podcast, would you co host that episode with me?

Arden Benner 1:24:15
No. So you can tell her I like her husband a lot. And that actually, you know, don't don't make it creepy. We want to get lunch with them or something.

Scott Benner 1:24:24
We don't we don't want to make it creepy. Yeah. Okay. Let's just hope she doesn't listen to this. He looks a lot older than you.

Arden Benner 1:24:29
Yeah, he has a lot of fun. He's almost 40. But now he's in his 30s.

Scott Benner 1:24:35
He's 35 it says yeah, I can tell. You can tell. Yeah, he's he's in his 30s. All right. Well, maybe this will get back to him. That'd be crazy, wouldn't it? Yeah. Okay, wait, here's something interesting. I think New Girl is terrific. You introduced it to me during COVID. Yeah. When we were just like, literally trapped in our house. No, it's amazing.

Arden Benner 1:24:56
I'm getting hot again,

Scott Benner 1:24:57
but you don't like Ted lasso.

Arden Benner 1:25:00
No, I mostly because I think Soccer is the worst sport to exist. And I just I can't. Anything that involves soccer. Needs to be shut off. Yeah. I cannot do soccer. If your kid play soccer like good for them. I don't know if I can be friends with them.

Scott Benner 1:25:16
What about what about when I introduced you to pulp fiction? You didn't like that either?

Arden Benner 1:25:19
No, I didn't like that. I think all those movies like Pulp Fiction Kill Bill. Wait, is it is it Kill Bill? is what it is with the with that girl? Yep. Okay, all of those movies. Everyone's like, Oh, it's a cinematic masterpiece. It's so slow, which like, I can appreciate it to an extent. But like, you gotta like, come on.

Scott Benner 1:25:39
Let's go. There's too much dialogue. There's

Arden Benner 1:25:41
no there's like not enough dialogue or something. There's like too much nothing happening.

Scott Benner 1:25:46
So Black Widow way better than Pulp Fiction?

Arden Benner 1:25:51
Yeah, I also very big black widow fan. I really liked the movie. I would not put that top five though.

Scott Benner 1:25:58
Top five in your in your mind Marvel category or even your Marvel category? Yeah. What are your top five

Arden Benner 1:26:03
Marvel? Oh, wait, we can't do this right now. This is taking me a while. Why? Because I don't know. I think this is so hard. I'm a very big fan of the first Avengers movie. Okay, Thor Ragnarok. Winter Soldier. Endgame. I'm actually a lot of people like infinity war better than endgame but I'm more of an endgame person. Okay, um, I really like Iron Man three. I think that's the best one if you disagree don't know, but I think we should make it clear that Captain America is the rest of the six Avengers you really don't like Captain him. I don't dislike him. But

Unknown Speaker 1:26:38
he's so cheesy. Right? And you didn't like Black Panther? Very much.

Arden Benner 1:26:42
No. Oh, I feel like I'm gonna get a lot. No,

Scott Benner 1:26:44
I don't think you would. You didn't like a lot of people. for that. I don't know why or not liking Black Panther. Yeah, I mean, you don't hate it. No,

Arden Benner 1:26:51
I don't hate it. But I think it's overhyped for sure.

Scott Benner 1:26:53
What about the TV shows? Have they been good? So far? I

Arden Benner 1:26:57
I liked one vision a lot. Loki like slowed down at some point. And they made it like too much. Like, like Talk less or something. I don't know. The Winter Soldier Falcon. I was really lost in what the villain was like. Yeah, what was that? Like? Was she like Irish? I don't know. What was what were the curly hair the curly hair that like the redhead freckle? Yeah, I don't. I don't understand what like where she come from.

Scott Benner 1:27:26
I don't know. So so far. I agree. The one division was pretty good. That's the best one. Yeah. Falcon and Winter Soldier.

Arden Benner 1:27:32
That's my least favorite. I

Scott Benner 1:27:33
wasn't sure what was happening and Loki got

Arden Benner 1:27:35
started good and then got worse. But I think it's because it's supposed to be longer the season supposed to be longer in the middle kind of slow down. I think it was gonna pick back up.

Scott Benner 1:27:43
There was a scene towards the end of the last time we should become like,

Arden Benner 1:27:47
you know those like nerds to do this for fun. We could do this. Oh my god. Yeah,

Scott Benner 1:27:51
we already have microphones. So at the end of Loki, this isn't even diabetic related. Everything. You have diabetes. Okay, whatever. At the end of Loki. There was a scene before they went into the house where they were outside of the whatever. I don't want to give it away for people. You know what I mean? Yeah,

Arden Benner 1:28:08
I don't know what they're doing. Like that guy has so many powers and they're doing nothing with him.

Scott Benner 1:28:11
I kept thinking, did they mean to edit some of this out and they forgot. Like, why is this taking so long? Yeah, it was not. It was a I didn't like it.

Arden Benner 1:28:20
I actually can't wait for Hawkeye. If you dislike Hawkeye. You just don't understand watch age of Voltron again.

Unknown Speaker 1:28:26
He was great. Yeah, yeah, he's legit. Yeah,

Scott Benner 1:28:29
he's got a nice bond with a black widow. Yeah,

Arden Benner 1:28:31
exactly. And if you okay, this is this is this is where I stand. Blackwidow is my favorite Avenger of all time. But she still should have died. I think we should all he had a family. And I know she had she was family with the Avengers. And she had her boo. She didn't have a kid. So you know, she can go she's my favorite. And she can still jump off that cliff.

Scott Benner 1:28:53
Okay. You know, she's suing Disney. Yeah, I

Arden Benner 1:28:56
heard about that. She should. They're doing that thing where they're there. Kevin Feige is on her side. He's helping her. Yeah, they gave him

Scott Benner 1:29:03
contracts where they get pieces of the box office, and then they're releasing the show the movie online where there's no box office, so they don't get paid for that part. Yeah, yeah, they're stealing from them. I

Arden Benner 1:29:13
think. Yeah. That's her last movie. Just give her the money.

Scott Benner 1:29:16
Yeah. Plus, she married that guy with a big head. Yeah. So she's gonna need money to buy hats. Yeah.

Arden Benner 1:29:20
Let's all just hope and pray they get divorced. And she ends up with Chris Evans. Why? Because they're meant to be her and Chris.

Scott Benner 1:29:28
You think Chris Evans and Scarlett Scarlett Johansson should be

Arden Benner 1:29:32
together? Yeah, that's something definitely went on when they were younger. You think so? Yeah.

Scott Benner 1:29:38
Interesting. You liked him in knives out? Right?

Arden Benner 1:29:40
Yeah. I think he's a good actor. I just his character. Like, I want to punch him across the face.

Scott Benner 1:29:47
You don't like So Captain America is too earnest for you. Yeah. Okay.

Arden Benner 1:29:53
All right. That's actually I had to take a quiz at school. That was like your, they give you like 30 I don't know. I don't want to be called like three. The What's the word 30? Like? I don't know, just like things about you, they put them in order. My last one was spirituality. But my second last one was kindness. Kindness fell pretty far down with my first one. It was like I had like sarcasm like humor. Bravery. Like something like, I don't know, like trust, like all that was at the top. Also at the bottom was, was like work like teamwork.

Scott Benner 1:30:30
So, we're gonna wrap this up. Okay. Okay. Let me ask you a question. How much of what you said that it was sarcastic?

Arden Benner 1:30:38
I don't I'm not trying to be sarcastic or I don't think you're trying

Scott Benner 1:30:41
to do anything. I think you're being yourself. Yeah.

Arden Benner 1:30:45
So I don't know. I guess 100 But not 100 An hour and 22

Scott Benner 1:30:50
minutes of it. Think you think you're generally sarcastic?

Arden Benner 1:30:53
Yeah, I'm not a very. I'm a serious person. But like, emotions are my thing. I think you should deal with that. And I'll deal with mine. Okay. Yeah. Like if you're crying. It's not on my shoulder.

Scott Benner 1:31:07
That's a t shirt. If you're crying. It's not on my shoulder. Should copyright that. That's a great idea.

Arden Benner 1:31:12
Yeah, like if my friends are upset. I'm not the person to go to if someone is upset. Don't text me

Scott Benner 1:31:18
know. You get very like analytical about it. Yeah, just like suck it up. You're like this happened. And then she did this. And then that happened. That's reasonable that she's upset now. Let's get past that. Yeah, exactly.

Arden Benner 1:31:28
That's how everyone should think You think everyone should think like you. Yeah.

Scott Benner 1:31:33
Tell me again. What your insulin pumps called.

Arden Benner 1:31:35
It doesn't it doesn't matter. You see what I mean? Doesn't matter.

Scott Benner 1:31:39
I phoned will not stop beeping. Oh my god. It's the dentist office that wants to know how Cole's hygiene experience was today.

Arden Benner 1:31:48
So the dentist believable cause tiptoeing outside the door right now is your him.

Scott Benner 1:31:52
You can hear him outside. Yeah. Alright, so we're gonna get back together and do this again. Oh, great. Okay, um, but we're going to talk specifically about using your insulin. Understanding the Dexcom understanding the G voc understanding the Omni pod, understanding your meter understanding all of it, okay? Because listen to me. Don't get distracted. Now. You're doing great.

Arden Benner 1:32:15
I got distracted, right? Like a squirrel.

Scott Benner 1:32:17
I'm gonna, what we're gonna do is we're gonna have these talks, they might not be this long. Okay, like, we might break them up into little sections. And we're gonna talk about each thing individually. And I'm gonna do my best to tell you everything that I think you need to know. If you were going to just leave right now and take care of yourself.

Arden Benner 1:32:36
Okay, I could leave right now and take care of myself.

Scott Benner 1:32:39
Do you think your agency would be in the mid fives?

Arden Benner 1:32:42
Whatever.

Scott Benner 1:32:45
Do you understand why that's important?

Arden Benner 1:32:49
Yeah, no, I yeah, that's important. Sorry. I was not thinking I was reading this. Okay. We really need to get her on the show reading

Scott Benner 1:32:55
about James Lafferty. So yeah, so I just get this off the screen so you don't get confused by it. There we go.

Arden Benner 1:33:00
That is not a real sight that they have. Or they're not famous enough to be on TMZ No, it's like on but not.com I, you know, don't get them on this because they're gonna hear how poorly I'm talking. And they're not gonna like me, or they're really great people and they're gonna be like, You know what, she's right. I'm gonna do this celebrity. It's fine. Whatever. I had five minutes of

Scott Benner 1:33:19
fame. They're still you're like some of your favorite celebrities, though. What's it? I

Arden Benner 1:33:22
don't know who that woman is?

Scott Benner 1:33:24
Oh, you don't know who is? She's in a show. Alexandra Park. Yeah, she's in the Royals. Do whatever that is. I think that's FX. Is that even famous? That's what I'm saying. I might be more famous than her. Oh.

Arden Benner 1:33:43
Oh, well, she gets one of these on the side. You know, I'm more famous than she's from Australia. Oh, my God.

Scott Benner 1:33:49
Your net. See? She got it. She got him with the accent.

Arden Benner 1:33:54
I told you. You blew it. I told you guys

Scott Benner 1:33:58
all you had to do. She's been in one TV show and what appears to be a very bad shark movie. If I'm guessing

Arden Benner 1:34:04
12 feet deep.

Unknown Speaker 1:34:06
What is 12 feet deep about?

Arden Benner 1:34:08
I'm guessing a shark that oh, she's also in his new show.

Scott Benner 1:34:12
What's his new show?

Arden Benner 1:34:13
He made a show with another guy from One Tree Hill called everybody's doing great. It's

Unknown Speaker 1:34:16
on Hulu. Everyone's just doing great.

Arden Benner 1:34:18
I think I heard it did good. Wait, click on it. Let's see if that's a lie.

Unknown Speaker 1:34:21
I believe you mean I heard it that well, whatever. They don't teach me

Arden Benner 1:34:25
anything. Um I pray to God that the guidance counselor's don't have to listen to this. Can you

Scott Benner 1:34:32
imagine that? Like we are not giving her we're not giving her community service for telling us that the kids in school or what did you say earlier

Arden Benner 1:34:41
when I said drug?

Scott Benner 1:34:45
All right. Anyway.

Arden Benner 1:34:48
You should also get Harper from Wizards of Waverly Place she's also a diabetic. Yeah. What's her name? I'm sure a lot of these celebrities are going to be diabetic and like three years.

Scott Benner 1:34:58
You think people are just getting more diabetes? This because this is type one I know but these type one isn't she Alexandria?

Arden Benner 1:35:04
Yeah, she has she just got she pulled out a book about it. She put out sugar I think that's it sugar high sugar high. Have any of you read it

Scott Benner 1:35:13
unexpected journey of an inexperienced type one.

Arden Benner 1:35:16
Get her on experience her.

Scott Benner 1:35:19
Well, Mister missing something. Check into this book for a second. Where's Amazon when you need it? Verb don't pop into the thing.

Arden Benner 1:35:32
I didn't I turned. Hey,

Unknown Speaker 1:35:36
she just put this book out. Yeah. Get her on.

Scott Benner 1:35:40
Maybe I could.

Arden Benner 1:35:41
I think I could totally do it. I can get them on. Vicki had her come on. No, that was a total lie. But I could try. Riga hit her up on Instagram. I feel like you could use the whole thing. Like we gave you all that money for a photo op just be on the podcast?

Scott Benner 1:35:56
Because you paid to take a picture with her boyfriend who's gonna be your husband? Yeah, exactly.

Arden Benner 1:35:59
Alright, so it seems pretty okay to me. Okay, though. A lot of money for that photo up.

Scott Benner 1:36:07
The show is pretty popular in Australia. Maybe she knows that. It really is.

Arden Benner 1:36:11
What show mine. Oh, this is not a show.

Scott Benner 1:36:14
Yes, it is. No, it's not. What makes this different than anything else.

Arden Benner 1:36:20
Like everything. We're doing this in a room that's painted a horrible color.

Scott Benner 1:36:25
I don't know who picked it. It's mom. It's the spare bedroom color.

Arden Benner 1:36:27
Yeah, Mom's really not good at this stuff.

Scott Benner 1:36:29
Or color picking. Yeah. Okay, so. All right. I really do want to stop. I want you to tell me. No, yeah, you're gonna tell me something. Okay. So look at me in the face. Stop looking at that. I can't look at you in the face. I'm gonna put that away. I'm gonna look at the painting. Okay, look at the painting and listen to me. Okay. What do you think the most important part of managing insulin is? Let's be serious. Like what?

Arden Benner 1:36:57
I do. You're asking me questions I genuinely don't have an answer to

Scott Benner 1:37:00
okay, then why do you think you'd be okay? Taking care of yourself?

Arden Benner 1:37:03
Because it's not that big of a deal.

Scott Benner 1:37:07
What if you eat french fries? What happens if you eat french fries? To myself, but then what happens later? You're more self aware as one actually closed your loop. You close the loop. You close the loop. You're near your phone.

Arden Benner 1:37:21
Now you're closer to it. I can't bend right now.

Scott Benner 1:37:23
You're gonna make me get the phone. Yeah, don't get the phone now you're gonna come off poorly if you don't get the phone now you get the phone. Get the phone. Come on your pants on that's your shirt. You get the phone. My pants don't match my shirt. I'm being punished Hello crime

Arden Benner 1:37:35
get phone a white collar crime. That sounds horrible. No, it

Scott Benner 1:37:39
doesn't. Yeah, it does. Sounds like a crime if I put on there colors that don't go together.

Arden Benner 1:37:45
Yeah, they don't. While you're wearing your Outer Banks pants.

Scott Benner 1:37:51
So if I have shorts on that look like they're for the beach. They're my outer banks pants.

Arden Benner 1:37:56
Yeah, that's the only beach I remember going to when I was little. You don't remember? St. John. Okay, that's completely different. That's like an island.

Scott Benner 1:38:03
Oh, it's an island is just the giant beach. You know?

Arden Benner 1:38:07
Yeah, but it's different. The Outer Banks is not like St. John. No, it's not. Yeah. That's what I did. I know what they're still

Scott Benner 1:38:15
both beaches. They are. Okay. So what do you think the most important thing is somebody you're sweaty? Yeah. Probably shouldn't say no microphone. I don't really edit this.

Arden Benner 1:38:25
Anyone have a good deodorant brand?

Scott Benner 1:38:27
You need to do deodorant? Yeah. Here's doesn't work.

Arden Benner 1:38:31
No, not for not for like smelling purposes, but like sweating purposes,

Scott Benner 1:38:36
you do the antiperspirant? Maybe people will send

Arden Benner 1:38:40
in suggestions. No, don't do that. I'm not gonna read them. Okay,

Scott Benner 1:38:44
so when we talk coming up in these other these other episodes, here's what I feel like we're going to talk about you ready? Yeah, we're going to talk about your basil, and how to get it right and how to change it if you need to. We're going to talk about Pre-Bolus and your meals. We're going to talk about how different foods need different amounts of insulin. We're going to talk about how to handle fat and protein when it makes your blood sugar go up later. Okay, and we're going to talk about other things like how you can help yourself if you're in a real bad situation, I'm not going to be in a bad situation, just in case you are it would be nice to know how to handle it. Right?

Unknown Speaker 1:39:24
I can handle it. Well, what if you passed out right now?

Arden Benner 1:39:27
So you're my next year?

Scott Benner 1:39:29
So your blood say your blood sugar is so steep? You're

Arden Benner 1:39:31
asking me a question. If I pass out, I can't help myself. So it's over.

Scott Benner 1:39:35
What if you knew it was going to what if you could look at your CGM and say to yourself, my blood sugar is falling. I can't stop it. I could do something now to stop myself from passing I'll

Arden Benner 1:39:44
drink a juice or something.

Scott Benner 1:39:45
Right? What if that doesn't work? Juice so you have no context for that? Because it just doesn't happen to you. Yeah. Do you know why it doesn't happen to you? Because I have a diabetic guy next to me. No, that's not why It's because your basil is really well set. You do a really consistently decent job of Pre-Bolus and your meals.

Arden Benner 1:40:07
I don't think we can do another one of these. I can't listen to that for another house. Your settings

Scott Benner 1:40:11
are right. And that's the stuff we're gonna go through next. Okay, are you excited talking to the microphone? No, I'm not excited at all. Actually, that part you're not gonna like, alright, but we're gonna do it anyway. Yeah. I really want to thank you for doing this with me today. Yeah. Would you like to say goodbye to everyone? I would

Arden Benner 1:40:26
just like to say that Haiti grows up to be like, more badass than Hannah. I called it.

Scott Benner 1:40:30
I believe it's Hattie. No, I think it's Haiti. You think they're calling their kid Haiti? Yeah, I believe it's Hattie. I think it's Haiti. Why would you think it's Haiti? Ha TT right. Wasn't a DD it was DD? Yeah, that sounds more like Hatti No, it

Arden Benner 1:40:48
sounds a Haiti to me.

Scott Benner 1:40:49
Haiti is H A TIA. i

Arden Benner 1:40:53
It sounds like Haiti to me.

Scott Benner 1:40:54
Haiti is a country you know that right? Yeah, I'm aware.

Unknown Speaker 1:40:56
Okay. Hold on. Let's see. Alright, so

Scott Benner 1:41:00
I can't believe this is what we got on this is what we're talking about. Hannah Nicole. We're not arguing about how that's pronounced. Ya know how it's pronounced. Hadassah grace.

Arden Benner 1:41:09
Is it Hadassah?

Scott Benner 1:41:10
Yeah, but it's Hattie. Why would someone call their kid Haiti?

Arden Benner 1:41:16
I think it's a cool name. Hate IE. Haiti. Yeah, it's a cool name. Well, that's not

Scott Benner 1:41:20
what they're calling the kid. You should try it. You want them to change the baby's name?

Arden Benner 1:41:25
No, I only change it to just try it out.

Unknown Speaker 1:41:27
for like a week. Yeah.

Arden Benner 1:41:29
She's She responds to it. So I'm gonna tell you I think it's Hattie. I don't know. We're gonna have to ask Chelsea. Is that her name? Her name is Chelsea. Chelsea. Sounds like a character's name.

Scott Benner 1:41:40
I don't know that. She wants her last name. Yeah, we'll see. All right. Well, I'll cut.

Arden Benner 1:41:49
I bet it's fine. That's your kid online. That's a

Scott Benner 1:41:52
private Facebook group. Only the people who are members in there? Oh, well,

Arden Benner 1:41:55
then why don't they just join? Like, I'm getting you more people. Now if you join, you can see children. You get to see the babies. Yeah. It is a really good thing. We can all fight if it's Haiti or whatever it is. It's clearly not Haiti. It should be Haiti. I

Scott Benner 1:42:10
think they should try it. But you see now that it's not. I don't know. I'm still against it. What do you think we should call this episode? Haiti or Hattie? No, it's gonna be called conversation with art. And Part One.

Arden Benner 1:42:27
Oh, no, that's boring. Don't do that. What should we call it? Call it a? I don't know. It's think.

Scott Benner 1:42:33
Do you believe that people have gotten to know you during this? A little bit better?

Arden Benner 1:42:38
No. I think people who don't understand my sense of humor think I'm a real brat right now.

Unknown Speaker 1:42:42
You think they think you're a brat? Yeah.

Scott Benner 1:42:44
Yeah, I would think I would tell you that. I think you.

Arden Benner 1:42:49
A lot of people think that I treat you poorly. Like my parents poorly. Oh, I don't feel like that. Yeah. I don't know. Being white. It's completely different. That's what I've learned. being white. Yeah. Because none of my friends all my friends are like foreign of some sort. Okay, their houses are so much different.

Scott Benner 1:43:06
Okay, hold on a second. Let's go through this one at a time. So you know, you have a lot of Indian friends. Yeah,

Unknown Speaker 1:43:11
Kalyan.

Scott Benner 1:43:12
They all treat their parents differently. Oh, yeah. Yeah. They're much more like reverent of them. Yeah. Especially Filipino. Right. Which, I don't know which one of your friends would be would dare to be harsh against their parents? Don't you don't say their name? I I know who say their background instead? Italian. Okay. That's the that's the besides you. So would you agree. She's

Arden Benner 1:43:39
also the closest to like, she's like, closest to like, I don't know, like, like more Americanized,

Scott Benner 1:43:46
but then people from other countries who are more recent immigrants.

Arden Benner 1:43:52
Know, Like, what I'm saying is I have friends, I will openly curse and come home and say what I think I do not hold back what I believe like, I will tell you what I think. And I've had friends who were like, Oh, I can never say that to my parents.

Scott Benner 1:44:06
But do you think that has anything to do with our background? And not being

Arden Benner 1:44:09
white? Yeah, yeah. 110%

Unknown Speaker 1:44:11
you think it's that? Yeah,

Scott Benner 1:44:13
it's not that Mom and I are just open minded. We let you say what you want. No way. You can move your chair. He's sticking to things Yeah, I

Arden Benner 1:44:22
have a skirt on and I'm sticking I shorts onto this. Hold on.

Scott Benner 1:44:26
I mean, it's okay. Okay, get back on the mic. So you don't think it's because mom and I like consciously raised you to say what you think

Arden Benner 1:44:34
that's part of it? Yeah, we actually actually talked about this last night with living tonge. What do you guys thought about cursing? We're talking about cursing. We were saying how, like, when we were younger, like a lot of like houses would like, do be like, oh, there's a baby in the house like don't curse and I was like, it was meant to really do that. Like we grew up like cursing. It's just part of life just to do it. And then we were just talking about it. Yeah, yeah.

Scott Benner 1:44:56
So I don't so I think if you want to hear something I think seriously I think you should be allowed to speak the way you want to speak, I think you should be able to say what you want to say. I think there have been times in your life where your opinion is not fully formed. But it doesn't mean that it's not your opinion at that moment. It is difficult as a parent sometimes to be, have something thrown in your face. It's hard when you're wrong. And you say something, but I still let you have your opinion. And it's also it's often you're wrong, you're wrong. Often you're right about it. And it's difficult for me, because I'm faced with the idea that I was wrong. And I think some parents don't want to hear that they're wrong. So that's where they you can't

Arden Benner 1:45:37
say, yeah, a lot of you are wrong.

Scott Benner 1:45:41
Well, I'm wrong a lot, right.

Arden Benner 1:45:42
Unless your kids just, you know, really wrong, you know, all the time unless they're going down a bad path. Yeah, you're probably right.

Scott Benner 1:45:51
So you think in general, like day to day stuff, that doesn't involve you becoming a meth dealer? Parents are not understanding what's happening. With kids. Yeah. Oh,

Arden Benner 1:46:03
I don't know. You will not

Scott Benner 1:46:05
generalize. No, you're funny. Okay. You won't generalize. But you do generalize. You're like, I'm not generalizing about people. But white people are definitely like that. Yeah, for sure. And I can definitely say that you can say, Well, okay, I'm not stopping you from saying, let's

Arden Benner 1:46:18
be honest here. The worst, like group of people is white boys. But our white men, but white boys, those are the worst group of people. They're like, the most like, Oh, my God, just like if you punch them in the face once I think they'd be okay. I think they just need a slap in the head.

Scott Benner 1:46:34
Do you think white boys need to be slapped in the head? Why is that? You're from a very diverse place. Like we live in a fairly diverse place.

Arden Benner 1:46:43
Yeah, a lot of white boys who live here look like they have rocks in their head. Like, I think if you just slap them across the face once they might be okay.

Scott Benner 1:46:51
Maybe just make the rocks

Unknown Speaker 1:46:51
into a brain. Yeah. Okay.

Scott Benner 1:46:53
You think that has something to do with their background? Yeah. Why would that be?

Arden Benner 1:46:59
I don't know. Maybe they just have more stupid look on their face. Like, I don't know. Maybe they're more unattractive? Who knows? Dad?

Scott Benner 1:47:07
Do you think that other backgrounds have it more together?

Arden Benner 1:47:12
Yeah, really? Yeah.

Scott Benner 1:47:15
Okay, because they, maybe it's because their parents didn't let them curse and say what they thought.

Arden Benner 1:47:20
I mean, maybe? You know what? I don't know.

Scott Benner 1:47:23
I know. You don't know. I don't know how you started talking about this.

Arden Benner 1:47:26
Oh, neither do I actually,

Unknown Speaker 1:47:27
we were talking about what we're talking about. A Hattie.

Arden Benner 1:47:32
Yeah. Wait, how did we get here? I don't know. Someone comment down below. I'm just getting this isn't YouTube, is it?

Scott Benner 1:47:39
Yes, it's not YouTube. Okay. That's interesting. So when should we get back together and record the other stuff? When would be good for you keeping in

Arden Benner 1:47:48
mind anytime before September 2.

Scott Benner 1:47:51
So we're gonna need to get on the calendar and do this a bunch of times. Yeah. All right. Well, why don't we say goodbye to everybody and then we'll pick some other days.

Arden Benner 1:47:58
Wait, I can't do it on his birthday. You can't do

Scott Benner 1:48:02
take that out of here. You can't say Paul's name. He's a friend.

Arden Benner 1:48:05
We take that out. That was a joke too. So take that out.

Scott Benner 1:48:09
Okay, please. Fine. All right. So we'll, um, we'll pick something up

Arden Benner 1:48:15
here. I definitely can't do it. It won't cause an eye appointment.

Unknown Speaker 1:48:18
If the guy was very busy that day.

Scott Benner 1:48:21
We could do tomorrow. We get it tomorrow and that's his birthday. But we could do tomorrow on Sunday and then we and that we could do tomorrow on Sunday and then maybe finish up next weekend and we'd be done. Just Bert I did off that about disgusting What do you think? We'll do it like that? We'll do a little more tomorrow a little more Sunday. I don't think I can do this again tomorrow. You cannot speaking for today. We're not gonna talk nearly as long Oh yeah.

Arden Benner 1:48:47
What's What's the weather like tomorrow?

Scott Benner 1:48:50
I think it's supposed to be on at tomorrow. Okay,

Arden Benner 1:48:54
well, you only I am going out tomorrow with mom. Okay,

Scott Benner 1:48:56
well we only need an hour

Arden Benner 1:48:57
Yeah. If any of you know how to so I will pay you to do my portfolio what you you want to cheat to get into college? No, I'm not cheating to get into college isn't a little help.

Unknown Speaker 1:49:07
No push. So tell what's finished

Scott Benner 1:49:10
with that that what do you want to do in college? Oh, I don't know. What are you interested in?

Arden Benner 1:49:18
I don't need them to know my whole life story. Okay,

Unknown Speaker 1:49:19
that's okay. Can

Unknown Speaker 1:49:20
you hear that? They're not allowed to know Yeah, okay. All right.

Arden Benner 1:49:23
This is where it gets personal. Yeah, you guys can hear all about my bloody hoo ha but not what you're generally interested in Yeah, I don't want you guys know anything else about my life.

Scott Benner 1:49:35
All right, well, then we'll stop it right here. Thank you for doing this

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