#1309 I Don't Understand... Arden Two
Scott Benner
Arden and Scott try to figure out how fingernails grow.
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Scott Benner 0:00
OmniPod, Hello friends and welcome back to another episode of The juicebox podcast.
I got a lot of great feedback from the first one, so let's do another I don't understand with my daughter, Arden. Today's topic is that we don't know where fingernails grow from. You're gonna fall into one of two categories, either you don't know, either, and you'll come along for the ride, or you do know, and you're about to think, oh my God, what's wrong with these people? 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. If you have type one diabetes, or are the caregiver of someone with type one and you're a US resident, and I guess you want to help with type one diabetes research, I'm asking you politely and kindly to go to T 1d exchange.org/juicebox, join the registry and complete the survey. That's it. The survey will take you about 10 minutes. This whole thing shouldn't take you that long at all, and it's super easy. They ask you questions. You know the answers to the questions. It's not like they ask you where fingernails grow from. They're just going to ask you questions about diabetes. You're going to answer them. It's going to be very quick and bickety, bam, just like that, you've helped T 1d exchange.org/juice, box.
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Arden Benner 2:18
Hello.
Scott Benner 2:19
We're gonna do another episode of I don't understand
Unknown Speaker 2:24
today. We've decided, I'm sorry. I'm
Arden Benner 2:26
sorry, mom. Like, throw the dog's food. Let
Scott Benner 2:28
me just say something. You have no idea how many times I'm up here, like, recording bumpers for the podcast or something, and I start talking like, hello friends. And then just hear like, from downstairs. I'm like, oh,
Arden Benner 2:40
it's always mom. It's always mom. It's her getting ice or like,
Scott Benner 2:44
oh my god, her digging around in that ice tray.
Arden Benner 2:47
She the way she digs for ice is the way that she tries to pick up popcorn. Like, one of those, she goes like, she's like, fluffing it up. Like, that's gonna change the way it tastes. Every time she does that, I'm just like, why are you fingering the popcorn? There's absolutely no reason you have to be doing that right
Scott Benner 3:07
now. I always make her uncomfortable with that when she whenever she touches something, even if it's like, my wallet on the table, I'm like, don't finger my wallet. She's like, Oh, she
Arden Benner 3:16
but that's, that's her. She's taking it the wrong way, because people can always say, like, why are you fingering my food? Why? It's just, it's just a thing. Yeah,
Scott Benner 3:24
she's dirty in her mouth. Yeah, I gotcha. Yeah.
Arden Benner 3:26
She's like, a little teenage boy.
Scott Benner 3:27
Anyway, when I say, like, Oh, I'm sorry about the noise, people on the other end always say, like, I didn't hear it. But no, I didn't
Arden Benner 3:33
think they would hear it. I just thought it was funny because it sounded like she was dumb with the dog.
Scott Benner 3:37
Like, it's like, it's like, she put food in his bowl, but she dropped it from 40 feet. Yeah, that's what it sounded like. She just like her. I don't that'll make it in there. My shoulder hurts, shoulder. Oh, her. That's probably, yeah, we should make fun of her. She's in pain with her shoulder. She might hear this one day, and it'll hurt her feelings. I think she'll listen. She does not listen to my podcast.
Arden Benner 3:58
No, she will because I'm on it. That's what I'm thinking. Maybe because she loves me more. I
Scott Benner 4:03
came downstairs today, I was like, Kelly, I put out a great episode today. I think you would find it really interesting. Do you think you'll listen to it? She's like, No, no,
Unknown Speaker 4:11
I don't listen to your podcast. You know, I
Scott Benner 4:13
made that podcast just for you, right?
Arden Benner 4:15
I know you did. Hopefully one day I can listen to it. Do you
Scott Benner 4:19
think you'll listen to it after my passing,
Arden Benner 4:20
if you pass before me,
Scott Benner 4:24
all right, what is it today that we don't understand you? Tell me you have the list in front of you. Well, it's your list, but all it says is fingernails. What is that I don't I mean, what is your question? Even?
Arden Benner 4:37
Where are they coming from? Someone? Tell
Unknown Speaker 4:39
me where? Oh,
Scott Benner 4:41
so you're saying they're getting longer, but if I feel behind my cuticle, it's not like they're back there and coming out. Like, well,
Arden Benner 4:49
technically, I do know it's true that, like, back behind your cuticle, a little bit your fingernails, lies there, and it's growing from there. It's growing out.
Speaker 1 4:58
It's growing. Going from there or from the tip? No, it's growing from back more the tip is dead,
Scott Benner 5:05
yeah, deader. Wait right here. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1 5:09
not dead, honey. It's not growing from here. No, it's growing from back here. Okay, figure out grows that way, right?
Scott Benner 5:18
Yes, please don't make fun of me while we're making
Arden Benner 5:21
this. Well, that was crazy.
Scott Benner 5:24
Okay, okay,
Arden Benner 5:26
so it's growing, Jesus Christ, it's growing. It's
Scott Benner 5:31
growing from the back, but my finger side, yes, but, but behind the cuticle and under the skin.
Arden Benner 5:37
I do know that to be true.
Scott Benner 5:38
But how do you know that?
Speaker 1 5:41
I mean no is a strong word. US smart people know things your assumption. No, I know that's true. So it's a thing you heard, yeah, okay, and I know that is true, right? That's fair enough. So, like, when I think of this question, I think of Wolverine,
Scott Benner 5:56
you know, X Men, yeah,
Arden Benner 5:59
but if you cut his claws, they would just like, they're a
Scott Benner 6:03
certain length. You know, his claws are made out of the same metals Captain America's shield. I do know such a thing, okay, so, but my point is that they're inside of his arm and they jut out, yeah. So the growth in my mind is like that, like it's pushing out from inside, yeah, but, yeah, yeah, so, but it's building the nail somewhere, like a 3d like a 3d printer.
Arden Benner 6:26
Well, also same to be said with, like, your hair, yeah?
Unknown Speaker 6:30
Because there's not hair inside my brain,
Arden Benner 6:33
like the follicles are on top and then they grow or whatnot. For some reason that makes more sense to me than the fingernail thing.
Scott Benner 6:39
It seems like the same exact thing to me. I
Arden Benner 6:41
don't know. It feels weird because they're like, hard.
Scott Benner 6:46
That's not what I meant. I meant because it's growing from the base, and there's nothing I know, but it
Arden Benner 6:50
just feels unrealistic, because it's like, when I feel that under my skin, like it's like,
Scott Benner 6:55
you can but like now, so like, when you put us, you put a seed in the ground, and it eventually turns into a plant. Where does even that come from? It's got to be the same process in my fingernails, doesn't it? No, I think you're wrong. There's materials that turn into something else
Arden Benner 7:14
and well, obviously that's how it works, but I just don't understand.
Scott Benner 7:18
Okay, so what is it? We have to find out. What is your question? Where do fingernails grow from? Okay, should we ask?
Arden Benner 7:29
You know, what else? What I think is really interesting, how your teeth are bones,
Scott Benner 7:35
yeah, and they grow too, but if you break a bone, it
Arden Benner 7:38
doesn't grow back. Well, yeah, neither do your teeth.
Scott Benner 7:40
How come a gecko can drop its tail and grow it back again? I know that's like some spider man question. When you think of Wolverine, do you think of mall rats? I don't know what mall rats are. More rats a movie with Kevin Smith, where, at some point in the movie, J Muse pretends to be, they're, they're talking about this blueprint of a robbery. They're a robbery, or they're going to take the hat of a secure I forget exactly, but at some point he at the end, he goes and bickety, bam. And then when I think of Wolverine, I think of the words bickety, bam. No,
Arden Benner 8:16
why would I think of that? Wolverine reminds me of Mickey Mouse.
Unknown Speaker 8:18
Wolverine reminds you have Mickey Mouse the same, like hair.
Arden Benner 8:22
Mickey Mouse doesn't have hair his ears, the way his ears are, like Wolverine's little like this, like his hair, because they have, like, his Wolverines like hair supposed to be, I think, like, like a wolf's ears. I'm pretty sure.
Unknown Speaker 8:33
Okay, it's
Arden Benner 8:34
style. Mickey Mouse
Unknown Speaker 8:35
does not have hair. It has he has ears. What is the top of his head? Though it
Scott Benner 8:39
looks plasticky, it's ears. Wait, hold on. I almost forgot what we were talking about. Okay, I'm good. Now, where do, how do what's the question?
Arden Benner 8:50
Where do fingernails grow from? Do
Scott Benner 8:52
you think chat GPT right now is like calling the NSA and they're like, there's a guy in New Jersey, and he seems really dumb. I think you should go get him. Where do human fingernails grow from? Yeah, my daughter is 20 years old. I can't even believe it. She was diagnosed with type one diabetes when she was two, and she put her first insulin pump on when she was four. That insulin pump was an OmniPod, and it's been an OmniPod every day since then. That's 16 straight years of wearing OmniPod. It's been a friend to us, and I believe it could be a friend to you. Omnipod.com/juicebox, whether you get the OmniPod dash or the automation that's available with the OmniPod five, you are going to enjoy tubeless insulin pumping. You're going to be able to jump into a shower or a pool or a bathtub without taking off your pump. That's right, you will not have to disconnect to bathe with an OmniPod. You also won't have to disconnect to play a sport or to do anything where a regular tube pump has to come off. Arden has been wearing an OmniPod. For 16 years. She knows other people that wear different pumps, and she has never once asked the question, should I be trying a different pump? Never once omnipod.com/juice box, get a pump that you'll be happy with forever. The podcast is sponsored today by the place where I get my oh gosh, my sheets, my towels, some of my clothing, a lot of the things that I stay warm or comfortable with. Cozy earth.com I'm wearing a pair of cozy Earth joggers right now. I've recently gotten another pair in a different color. I sleep on cozy Earth sheets. They are so comfortable and soft and temperate, temperate meaning I'm never hot or cold, which is really saying something, because my wife loves to turn that giant fan on, but they keep me nice and warm without making me, like, sweaty or moist. You know what I mean? You don't want to be moist while you're sleeping. And then, of course, the waffle towels I use every day to dry off my bits and parts after I've showered. Cozyearth.com use the offer code juice box at checkout to save 40% off of your entire order. I'm not saying 40% off of one item. I'm saying 40% off of everything you put in the cart. Cozyearth.com use the offer code juice box at checkout. They grow from the nail matrix, which is located under the skin at the base of the nail. The nail matrix is the tissue or root. Oh, root under the what? Why'd you say?
Unknown Speaker 11:33
I said seed earlier.
Arden Benner 11:35
All right, keep going under
Scott Benner 11:37
the cuticle at the base of the nail, it is responsible for producing new cells that become the nail plate. As these new cells are produced, they push older cells forward, which causes the nail to grow outward. Nail plate is the hard, visible part of the nail. Okay, so this, it's made up of layers of Do you know calcium? Keratin, a protein keratin
Arden Benner 12:03
like that you put in your hair to make it silky. Yes,
Scott Benner 12:06
just like in the shampoo commercials, what is in the shampoo? It's not ground up fingernails, right?
Arden Benner 12:12
Ew, why would you say that? What's
Scott Benner 12:14
got to be something?
Arden Benner 12:17
Why would it? What would make you think that is true?
Scott Benner 12:20
Because at one point, wasn't soap Well,
Unknown Speaker 12:23
fat or something,
Scott Benner 12:24
I don't know. All right, hold on.
Arden Benner 12:28
Hold on to that thought. Your thought, you hold on to it. Cuticle is
Scott Benner 12:31
the thin layer of skin at the base of the nail, protecting the matrix from infection. When you get a I hate to say this out loud when you get a manicure? Does it hurt when they trim your cuticles? If they cut them? I find it painful, even if they Oh, my God, listen to me now explain to people that I've had a manicure like when they soak them really well it helps, because
Arden Benner 12:58
it like makes them soft. Yes, yeah.
Scott Benner 13:02
Have you ever noticed how weird My nails are?
Arden Benner 13:04
I don't look at your nails.
Scott Benner 13:06
You really don't know. I'm so self conscious about them. You're not aware of how odd My nails are. So weird hands. My hands are weird. They're
Arden Benner 13:12
so sausagey.
Scott Benner 13:14
I do have really big hands. Yeah, okay, my hands are huge, but that's not what we're talking about. I'm talking about that my nails have a white tip. I'm
Arden Benner 13:23
just telling you you have other things you should be insecure about, and your fingernails are not one of them.
Speaker 1 13:31
I look like I have a French manicure. That's what everyone's nails look like. Wait, everyone has a French manicure? Yeah. Why am I? Why are mine so white? Though I think that's healthy.
Scott Benner 13:41
Wait, this is a good thing. Yeah, I think so. We're gonna find out, because I've been worried about this my whole life. No, I
Unknown Speaker 13:47
think that's bothered me since I was a child. Yeah, I
Arden Benner 13:50
think it's been decent parents.
Scott Benner 13:51
I'm gonna explain it to me. The nail bed is the skin underneath the nail plate. So the plates, the hard part on the top, the cuticle, is the thing that protects you from infection, and the bed is that soft skin stuff underneath, it's not really that soft. Oh my gosh. Hold on, it supplies nutrients and support to the nail plate as it grows. How do it do that?
Unknown Speaker 14:13
You lost me a little bit.
Scott Benner 14:14
The nail bed underneath of your nail is adding is giving nutrients to the plate as it's being built. Right cuticle plate bed. You got it so far.
Arden Benner 14:25
We're in a dark room. I don't know what you're doing.
Scott Benner 14:28
Stop it now. There's also something. There's something called a lunilla, the Lula. Oh, is the whitest? The whitish? How I describe myself, the whitish, crescent shaped area at the base of the nail, visible under the nail plate. So it's kind of the fleshier colored part of the like, right in here of the plate, in by the cuticle. Okay,
Arden Benner 14:53
I didn't know, because, isn't it like, if a nail is like, say it's a square like, it's like that, and then it's like that. It
Unknown Speaker 14:59
has. Like it's dark in here. I can't see what you're doing. Shut up. It's it is just
Arden Benner 15:04
flipped me off. He just flipped me off. By the way. Case you were all wondering,
Scott Benner 15:08
it is part of the nail matrix and is sometimes more visible on certain fingers than others. I have seen people whose lungulas are larger than other people's. Why
Arden Benner 15:17
are you looking at this?
Scott Benner 15:19
You don't ever notice that on people's fingers? No, I
Arden Benner 15:21
don't look at people's hands
Scott Benner 15:22
ever. No, you and I have a similar problem with our finger. Don't
Arden Benner 15:29
tell them.
Scott Benner 15:30
I think they know. They know about mine. I
Unknown Speaker 15:32
don't know if they know about yours. Mine's worse than yours.
Scott Benner 15:35
You think your finger, your pointer finger, is bent further
Arden Benner 15:37
than mine is all of my fingers are bent more than yours.
Scott Benner 15:40
Mine, my left. Wait, this is my right, my right. My right pointer finger bends to the right, like towards the middle finger, pretty drastically, but it also twists that way at the same time,
Unknown Speaker 15:56
so it's twisted and bent.
Arden Benner 15:58
Yeah, let's not start with me. Actually. Do you know that I went to the nail salon when I was little, and the woman who worked there told me that I would be a great hand model. And then I told her. I was like, my fingers are a little crooked. She was like, let me see. And she held them up. She goes, Oh, yeah, you couldn't
Unknown Speaker 16:14
do it. Tell people what they said the last time you went to get your nails done.
Scott Benner 16:19
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Arden Benner 17:18
Okay, so I've been at college. Obviously, I go there for like, five months straight. I don't come home, don't see anyone, and I've been taking, what am I taking? It's switched like four times. I feel but in gerano, yeah, okay, which obviously makes you skinny Mini and I come back and I've lost some weight, and it's not like, I like, I hope I wasn't that when I left, but I come back, and I know all the people at the nail salon we live in, like, a pretty small town, and I walk in there, they say hi to me, everything. And there's this guy who works there. I know him very well, because I've been going there since I was a little kid. And he comes over and he always does the nail polish for me, and he's doing it, and he looks at me, he's like, are you okay? Are you healthy? And I was like, yeah, yeah, I'm good. And I was like, That's That was a weird question to ask. Like, he's never asked me, but he's being nice, making sure I'm good at school. And he's like, Are you sure? And I was like, yeah, why? And he was like, you lost a lot of weight. And I was like, Oh, God. And this is where he gets me. He goes, What did he say? He goes at least 20 or 30 pounds. And I thought, all right, well, shut the up. Like I wasn't. I wasn't wearing tight fitting clothing, nothing. I was just like there was wearing just pants and a shirt, and He, God, made me feel like a little fatty pig. I
Scott Benner 18:38
was buying a plant at a, like, a, what do you call that? Like a nursery, and I'm paying and I'm talking to the guy who I've known for years. And we are good. 20 seconds into our, like, back and forth, and he goes, Oh, hey, it's you. What's up? I went, what? Like, we were already been talking, you know what I mean? And he goes, You look so different. And I said, Oh, thank you. I've lost weight. I just preempted him. But thank you, in case he was because, you know, sometimes people are like, do you have have you Are you sick? Like, you know what I mean? Like, that's why I was being asked. Everyone thinks you have cancer when you lose weight, yeah, yeah. So I'm like, I'm like, No, you know, I and I tell people right away. I'm like, I used that drug you might have been hearing about, I've lost like, 50 pounds. He goes, Oh, you look terrific. And I was like, thank you. And he goes, he lost 50 pounds. And I said, he goes, That's not possible. How could you have lost that much weight? And I said, Well, this is my starting weight. And he goes, Oh, my God, you weighed that much. And I said, Yeah. And he goes, I don't see any loose skin on you. And then I realized he's, like, really looking at me, and he goes, Yeah, like, under your arms look good. And he goes, in your double Chin's gone. And I'm like, I thought I didn't need to lose weight. What happened? He was he was so double Chin's gone. It's not bad for a person who lost weight. No, I'm
Arden Benner 19:57
not saying, it's like, I'm just saying, Did
Unknown Speaker 19:59
he actually say? He said that, I swear to God, Oh, I
Arden Benner 20:01
love that. You know me so well. You thought I was still saying it was there. Yeah,
Scott Benner 20:05
I thought, I thought you were making fun of me, for sure.
Arden Benner 20:07
Should have I didn't.
Scott Benner 20:09
Okay, hold on a second. So what are we talking about? Cell production, cells. I don't want to get back into this. This is your question. You asked about this cells in the nail matrix, divide and multiply. These new cells produce keratin and become part of the nail plate, and then the outward growth pushes it forward. And now here's growth rate. Fingernails typically grow about how much per month. Uh, oh, per month. Um, what are you thinking about? Centimeters?
Oh, wow. Three millimeters. 1.2 inches. Excuse me, point one. Two inches per month. Nail growth can be influenced by factors such as age, health, nutrition and even the season. And nails tend to grow faster in the summer, also for people listening because it is a diabetes podcast that they might be listening inside of your nails can get weird if your thyroid is messed up. And you can get these pit this pitting in your nails if your iron is low. Don't do that. People need to know stuff like that. You can get these. Do you ever see people with ridges in their nails,
Arden Benner 21:17
like little I don't look at people's hands like that. Well,
Unknown Speaker 21:19
it's a way to figure out your health. I
Scott Benner 21:23
understand why you're upset with me. You don't want to help people get helped by stuff like that. They'll be listening back. I was listening to this guy and his dumb daughter doesn't know anything, and they were talking about fingernails, and I learned that my
Arden Benner 21:37
iron to this beautiful girl and her freaky dad, who looks at people's hands, so however she
Scott Benner 21:41
ends up saying it like you might end up helping her. But here's the real deal, we need to know, where does keratin in shampoo come from?
Arden Benner 21:53
What?
Unknown Speaker 21:54
Why are we looking this up? Oh, because, oh, are
Scott Benner 21:56
you afraid it's gonna ruin shampoo for you? No. Oh, I think it's going to stop. Oh, look at this. Yeah, you're not gonna like this at all. Okay, but
Arden Benner 22:06
tell me, animal
Speaker 1 22:07
derived keratin, sheep wool, that's fine. Kerington is often extracted from you're saying it right?
Scott Benner 22:15
Keratin? I think it's,
Arden Benner 22:16
is it keratin? I think it's cured keratin, not keratin. No. Keratin. No. Keratin. Keratin. That's not what you're saying. You're singing like a you from Philly.
Scott Benner 22:25
It sounds the way it sounds. I don't know what you want from not an excuse I got you out of Philly. Now you have some bastardized northeast version of talking a keratin is often extra. I also can't say the name Carrie. Carrie. Yeah. Can I say it? It sounds different to me when you say it than what I see curry. I think I'm you're saying
Arden Benner 22:46
curry, curry. Yeah, you're saying curry. Like, see you are like, Steph Curry. But
Scott Benner 22:50
when you say say it, Carrie, that sounds like Carrie to me. Carry Yeah,
Arden Benner 22:55
no, your E's and your A's are so wrong. It's unbelievable. You should be humiliated.
Scott Benner 23:02
I am a little humiliated. It's extracted from sheep wool, which is a rich and sustainable source. The wool is processed to break down the keratin protein into a form that can be used into cosmetic products. Now here's another way they get it, from bird feathers.
Arden Benner 23:18
I don't have a problem with any of these
Scott Benner 23:20
chickens are another common source of keratin. They are processed similarly to wool extract, and they it's extracted, okay, cattle hooves and horns. No problem with that. Keratin can also be extracted from the hooves, and I don't care about the explanation, just
Unknown Speaker 23:36
give me them. That was it.
Scott Benner 23:42
There's also plant based keratin. Scientists have developed synthetic keratin, like proteins using biotechnology, which just sounds like you get in scalp cancer. But let's take a look. These alternatives mimic the properties of natural keratin are used in vegan and cruelty free products. Oh, the ones you said you were in no trouble with were cruel, hmm, says they're cruel. I mean, where do you think the hooves from the you think that they just trim the nails to the cows dead? I don't know. After they kill the cow for meat, they lop off the feet and make
Arden Benner 24:13
shampoo with it. Okay, well, it's already dead.
Scott Benner 24:17
Like that's the argument of the animal side. But, okay, also soy, wheat, corn. Plant proteins from sources like soy, wheat and corn can be hydrolyzed, broken down into smaller molecules to create carton like proteins. These hydrolyzed plant proteins are then used in shampoos and vegan alternatives to animal derived carton. The production process is the carton is extracted from animal byproducts through a process of hydrolysis, hydrolysis, hydraulic hydrolysis. Done. Hydrolysis, hydrolysis.
Arden Benner 24:48
I've heard that word one
Scott Benner 24:49
more time, okay, where the protein is broken down into smaller peptides, amino acids. GLP, one's a peptide.
Unknown Speaker 24:56
Were you trying to say amino acids? Did I not say amino.
Scott Benner 25:01
And because I just having another thought at the same time,
Arden Benner 25:03
the extracted characters that you're like talking so much right now,
Unknown Speaker 25:07
do you want to read? No, I
Arden Benner 25:09
just fear that this is too much reading and we have to talk. Okay,
Scott Benner 25:13
so, so enough of what keratin is. Yeah. I say,
Arden Benner 25:18
like they can wikiHow this. Well, if
Scott Benner 25:21
they can do that, then what do they need? The podcast. For?
Arden Benner 25:23
That's the whole point. Is, we're supposed to talk. We're supposed to be the entertainers. How
Scott Benner 25:26
would I tell a child how fingernails grow?
Arden Benner 25:32
Are you serious? Right now, I
Scott Benner 25:33
want to see if it dumbs it down, because there's part of me that doesn't understand what the matrix is. Oh, it calls it the nail factory, the matrix. I didn't like that. Explain the MIT, the nail matrix in more detail. I know this is going to be I think, I hope somebody finds this interesting, because I kind of do just so hot in here. I Yeah, you gotta take off your sweatshirt? No, okay. Oh my god. We're almost done with this anyway. Let's just tell people that Nell matrix is found beneath the Q. We know that the primary function, we know that the matrix so you
Arden Benner 26:12
know what I'm realizing, yeah, that it didn't dig any deeper. No, not even not that there's not that like, you don't actually have to dig that deep for anything. Nothing's that deep.
Scott Benner 26:24
I see what your point is. You know, like, there's no more to be told about, but, yeah, like, that's
Arden Benner 26:28
just what it is. Well, there is, I mean, I'm sure there's more to it, but that's like, science, that's like, that's getting, like, gets into like, molecules and stuff like that, not just the explanation, yeah, yeah. But for explanations, there's only so much that you can say,
Scott Benner 26:41
Okay, I do have a question. Why is nail fungus so hard to get rid of?
Arden Benner 26:49
Why do you have so much trouble with this?
Scott Benner 26:52
I don't have so I want to just first say, I do not have nail fungus, but I've heard people get it, and it's really difficult to get rid of, like toenail fungus and stuff tough pro so it says that dense keratin, keratin, I don't know how to keratin. You've messed me up now on that.
Arden Benner 27:10
No, you were already messing it up
Scott Benner 27:13
there, protein that is difficult for medications to penetrate. It makes it hard for the antifungal treatments. Oh, it makes sense. Pause,
Arden Benner 27:20
don't me and Cole have too much keratin in our skin, and that's why we get those weird patches.
Scott Benner 27:25
Do I have that too? Is that what, like, old, like, I have some age marks? Is that what age marks are?
Arden Benner 27:30
No, I think you're just old.
Scott Benner 27:34
Wait, wait, can? What's the question? Can too much?
Arden Benner 27:38
It's not a question. It's just like, is that true what I just said,
Scott Benner 27:42
Where do you think you have patches? What is it you've heard?
Arden Benner 27:47
Like, you know, like me and Cole, like, sometimes, like, on our stomachs, we'll get like, darker patches, and we're like, what is that? And then we have to use, like, that special whatever to wipe it off in your belly
Scott Benner 27:56
button. Yeah? Oh, my god, yeah. What is that?
Arden Benner 28:00
It's, I think it's keratin. Probably it's like a build up of keratin.
Scott Benner 28:05
Oh, and like dark spots on their skin though, too. That's
Arden Benner 28:08
probably the same thing, um,
Scott Benner 28:12
small, rough bumps to appear on the skin. Yours isn't rough, arms, thighs, cheeks or buttocks. You ever get on your buttocks? I
Arden Benner 28:18
don't think so. I can't see back there, though.
Scott Benner 28:20
So this isn't that. That's not that. No, I
Arden Benner 28:23
swear it is. Oh, wait,
Scott Benner 28:24
and then there's so it also talks about psoriasis ichthyosis, a group of genetic skin disorders characterized by dry, scaly skin. Yours isn't scaly, so a buildup of keratin can make these things. No, I think I'm right, and psoriasis is an autoimmune condition that accelerates the growth cycle of skin cells. Psoriasis.
Arden Benner 28:44
Kim Kardashian, she's always like, my psoriasis is acting up. Does
Unknown Speaker 28:49
she say that? Yeah,
Arden Benner 28:50
oh my god. Like every episode of the Kardashians, there
Speaker 1 28:53
was a commercial, psoriasis isn't a problem, right, right? But, Kim Kardashian,
Scott Benner 28:59
there was a commercial when I was a kid for something called Gold Bond. And it was like a cream and it would say, Do you know the the like it would, it would, oh, my god. How do they put it? Are
Unknown Speaker 29:12
you gonna mask this thing,
Scott Benner 29:14
Gold Bond? Use your brain. Do you know the dad?
Arden Benner 29:19
I think that chat GGP is going to be the reason that you stop using your brain. It could be, and that's not because it knows everything, no, but it actually doesn't, because it cannot help me with my math homework.
Scott Benner 29:29
I think your problem with your math homework was your teacher. Yeah, right. That was upsetting.
Arden Benner 29:37
That's just, that's just the education system. I'm telling you. That's why I don't understand money.
Scott Benner 29:42
That's in another episode, okay, I think we're done. You understand how nails grow? No, but it's fine. No, the matrix makes the cells and they double and build and they get it.
Arden Benner 29:55
You don't do you do understand? I
Scott Benner 29:57
was proud of myself because I think I understand this. Point? No, I
Arden Benner 30:00
get it. It's just not as deep as I wanted it to be. What
Unknown Speaker 30:02
did you expect was happening? It's like, you know, you
Arden Benner 30:04
know how we're talking about, like, when you travel somewhere and you think it's going to be so much different from where you already are, and it's like, actually not that different at all. That's just how the world works. I think, yeah, disappointing, isn't it? The world is kind of a little disappointing, okay, because it's like, it's so interesting. Like, you every day, like, you're supposed to talk to people and make conversation, but you can only make conversation of what you've done that day. But they're like, I don't want to, like, hear about this over and over and over again, but then it's like, well, that's all I got. Like, that is what we have to talk about. Like, I don't know what to tell you,
Scott Benner 30:37
that's my day. I can talk about this or nothing, yeah. Well, how come people, you know, I woke up this morning because in my dream I was so I had a dream last night that I was trapped in a house with some people that I grew up with, and I forget why we couldn't get out like as I look back on it, now, I know it was this incredibly detailed dream, but I forget almost all the details. So
Arden Benner 30:58
who was in my dream last night? Go ahead. Homelander from the boys. Yeah,
Scott Benner 31:03
was he mean, or did he like you? He actually
Arden Benner 31:05
liked me, which made me feel like I might be a terrible person, but we can get to that in a cycle. Okay,
Scott Benner 31:10
so I woke up because I finally gotten out of the house, right? Like we've been trapped in this house for so long, it felt like we were never gonna get out like we were prisoners. And then there it was. The door was open and I could leave. And I said, Hey,
Speaker 1 31:27
I gotta pee before we go. All right? And I walked back in the house to pee, okay? And then I woke up and I had to pee. Are you acting like that is crazy. I don't think it's crazy. Not crazy at all. That happens to people all the time. How come we don't tell people about that in
Scott Benner 31:39
the middle of the day when they ask how you're doing? And I said, I say,
Arden Benner 31:42
I would tell people about that, but the problem is, if I tell that to mom or call, they're gonna be like, Okay, that's stupid.
Scott Benner 31:47
But we have a weird division in our house, though, because you and I think alike and they think alike. Yeah, yeah. So wait, what was this about homelander?
Arden Benner 31:57
Oh, I had a dream last night that homelander was in and I think some of the boys cast was in it, but I remember him being there because I don't know where we were, we were not we were not at home, but I feel like we were definitely like northeast, but as more like city, like, not like New York, kind of like suburbs, I don't know, But I'm in someone's house, and then he just, like, showed up, and I was like, Well, I know, like, he's gonna kill us. And for some reason, like, he thought I had information that I did not have, and I had to be like, I do not have this information. And he, like, fully believed me, because I did not have it, and I, like, was not afraid to tell him that. I was like, I don't have the information you're looking for. And I was like, but I know someone who might so then I took him somewhere. It was like, to a shop or something. I don't know why. And then after we were there, like, we had to fight some bad people. Makes me wonder if they were bad, because I was with homelander. And then after it was over, he like, I was just a normal person, but he like, really, he thought I was really smart, and he trusted me, because I was like, I'm not gonna get killed by you. Like, I'm getting out of this. Situation, because I'm not a part of it. And then we were kind of like,
Scott Benner 33:06
buddies after that. Do you think that in that dream, homelander was college, and you were working your way through it, and it didn't kill you? No, not at all. I think you just made that up. Okay, I
Arden Benner 33:15
was just wondering. I think you might have been in like, I actually think I saved your life. Oh, I
Scott Benner 33:18
was hoping I was gonna be a superhero. But no, no,
Arden Benner 33:20
none of us were superheroes. That hurts. Yeah, and I didn't see him, like laser, anyone or anything, did I?
Unknown Speaker 33:27
I don't know. I think everybody's watching
Scott Benner 33:30
this show that knows what you're talking about. Me should watch it. If they have Amazon Prime to watch it. Well, they should watch it. How weird is it that if you have Amazon Prime, your packages get there sooner, and you get to watch the boys.
Arden Benner 33:43
Yeah, interesting. And upload
Speaker 1 33:45
and upload. Oh, people don't do people know upload. I don't think people know upload. Good
Scott Benner 33:50
show, good show, Amazon Prime, made by the guy who produced the American office.
Speaker 1 33:56
Oh, really, yeah, I didn't know that. What's his name? Greg,
Scott Benner 34:01
something maybe hold on a second.
Arden Benner 34:04
How about Steve Carell gets better looking as time goes on.
Scott Benner 34:09
He does. Let's talk about that. Yeah, is he gray? Now? Yeah, he's gray. Greg Daniels is the guy's name, by the way. He's worked on the US version of the office parks and rec, King of the Hill, and, of course, upload, which is a great show on Amazon Prime, only three seasons. Yeah, I think there's another one coming. There's been two, and there's one more coming, and there's three, and there's another,
Arden Benner 34:35
there's one more coming, or there might be more than that, but it's like, definitely, I think they're making it, for sure. I'm a fan. Yeah, it's really good. And the main guy with Robbie something, chef's kiss. You like him? He's the main character in the duff too, not the main character, but he's the main guy. I've liked him since I was little. Wait. And his cousin is the green arrow,
Speaker 1 34:57
Steven Amel. Amel, oh, it's Robbie Amel. Rob. You know, and when you said chef's kiss, was
Scott Benner 35:02
he in a show called chef's kiss? No, just were you giving him a chef's kiss? I thought that's what you're doing. I thought you were offering it. But then I was like, maybe it's a TV show on the CW, I don't know.
Arden Benner 35:10
No, but you're welcome for the bear, for that recommendation. Oh,
Scott Benner 35:13
the bear. Excellent. We'll have to, like, find a way to talk about television in some of these episodes, if we can. What am I hearing? Is it like scratching? Yeah,
Arden Benner 35:22
something's moving.
Scott Benner 35:24
It's one of the it's one of the chameleons, bugs. They can't get out of where they are. No, it's fine. They're fine. They can't get to you don't
Arden Benner 35:32
know that. It's like, it's it's really loud. It's just moving
Scott Benner 35:35
around. It's fine. It'll stop. They can't get out of there.
Speaker 1 35:39
Come on, you're okay. The chameleons have to eat. No, they don't Sure they do. How are they gonna get big and strong?
Arden Benner 35:46
You'll feed them whenever. But I text you, and I'm like, Hey, can you make breakfast? And you're like, Oh,
Unknown Speaker 35:50
do you think? Oh, my God. Do
Scott Benner 35:52
you think it's a good idea to record yourself telling people that at 20 years old you're texting me, yeah, a couple more days at 19 years old, you're texting me to make you breakfast. I
Arden Benner 36:00
think that makes perfect sense. You only get me in this house for so long.
Speaker 1 36:04
I've had you for 20 years already. No, I go to college. It feels like long enough, and then I come home and I expect you expect for me to make you breakfast every day, but you're also making yourself breakfast and not at the same time. You get up later than me. You should get up later when you asked me to make you breakfast this morning, I had been up for five hours already,
Arden Benner 36:25
Dad, I don't want to talk about it. I had a bad night. I did not feel good. I had cramps.
Scott Benner 36:30
I know I'm sorry. Okay, we're done with this one. I think this was good. Thank you. Goodbye.
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