#1175 Arisha Teaches Scott How to Live

Arisha is back (ep 823) to talk about glyphosates, pesticides and more.

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Scott Benner 0:00
Hello friends and welcome to episode 1175 of the Juicebox Podcast.

Orisha is back you originally heard her in Episode 823. There are bugs in your belly. And today we're going to talk about a number of things but we're really going to dig down into glyphosate and non organic fruits and vegetables that have been treated with pesticides and how those things can affect your blood sugar. Please don't forget that nothing you hear on the Juicebox Podcast should be considered advice, medical or otherwise, always consult a physician before making any changes to your health care plan or becoming bold with insulin. If you have type one diabetes, or are the caregiver of someone with type one, please go to T one D exchange.org/juicebox. And fill out the survey when you complete the survey you are helping with type one diabetes research and you're supporting the Juicebox Podcast he won the exchange.org/juicebox If you're looking for a smart, simple way to stay safe online, you can get a 14 day free trial of aura at ora.com/juice Box A you are a.com/juice box or is proactive protection that does more to keep you safe online. Check it out with a free 14 day trial at my link

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Arisha 2:28
Hi, my name is Orisha. And I've had type one diabetes for about nine years. How

Scott Benner 2:34
old are you now? 1414? Are you the same age as the last time I recorded with you or no?

Unknown Speaker 2:39
I was 13

Scott Benner 2:40
Things have changed. I was also younger than I think we maybe not. When did we record

Arisha 2:48
in December like winter break?

Scott Benner 2:50
Oh, I'm still the same way? No, I understand the calendar. Just let me go through it in my head. I am older too. We're both older. Okay. Let me know when my birthday is for people who are interested. And after they hear you talk today they are going to be interested you were on episode 823. That's called there are bugs in your belly. Is that right? Yeah. And we had such a good time that you're coming back on again. Right? Yeah, okay. Yeah, for sure. That tell people why you're not at school right now. Um, because of the podcast, we're making a podcast. Yeah. You are gonna go later today, we can take the whole day off.

Arisha 3:28
I have like, so I only have like three classes in the morning. And then I have lunch at like 10. So I might just go after lunch because I have more classes after lunch anyway.

Scott Benner 3:39
Okay. What grade you in? I'm a freshman freshman in high school. Okay. And your parents are fine with you skipping like they're not at work and think you're at school, right? No, no, they're

Unknown Speaker 3:48
they work from home. Okay,

Scott Benner 3:50
they know all this is happening. Yeah, I now appreciate this is going to you being on twice is going to piss some people off. Let me tell you why. First of all, I don't have people on twice very often. And secondly, I don't have a lot of kids. And then people complain to me, like you should have more kids on. And I always tell them, I think your kids might be boring. So I don't want to do that. But you were terrific last time. So we set it back up to come on again. What do you want to talk about this time?

Arisha 4:15
I feel like we talked a lot about food last time. So we could go like a little more into that. I feel like

Scott Benner 4:22
Do you think there's more good so we talked a lot about how you eat actually. Yeah, as a matter of fact, I almost called your episode, like how we eat however she eats but then we talked about the microbes in your belly. And that was more fun. Let's just remind people just a brief overview like what's your eating style like? So basically,

Arisha 4:43
I like I'm pretty much vegan. And I like so I don't eat dairy and like, I don't really add any red meat like occasionally only fish. But that's the most and then I'm usually like gluten free. Recently we started eating like what's it called? We Just a little though,

Scott Benner 5:01
just started mixing a little bit of wheat.

Arisha 5:03
Yeah, because it's like, not bad for you. I think it's like the glyphosate in it. Like, it's like a weed killer that people use. I think that's like the bad part.

Scott Benner 5:12
Why do you know all about that? Do your parents teach you about that? Or do you learn about it?

Arisha 5:16
Both my parents are like, really? Just in the food and stuff. Okay.

Scott Benner 5:20
Okay. So they're not like making you eat one way. And they're like, busy.

Unknown Speaker 5:25
The whole family like,

Scott Benner 5:27
diet, remind people, how many people in your family?

Unknown Speaker 5:30
My mom, my dad, and my brother, your brother? Your

Scott Benner 5:33
brother is older or younger? He's three. It's definitely younger. Yeah, see? That's where my math is razor sharp. So I see your 14 that kids three, he's only got one number and his age. So yeah, he's got to be younger than you have to age. I remember being incredibly impressed with you while we were talking. And I don't know, I guess at the end, I was like, You should come back with something. And we like that we're doing it. So I appreciate you doing this. I appreciate you skipping school to do it. Education is important. I feel like I should say, but maybe a half a day is not gonna hurt anything. Right? Yeah. What are you really missing?

Arisha 6:10
First Aid. I have AP Stats, I have that I have honors bio, and then ceramic. So like, I feel like you can't really go wrong in something like ceramics. So I think that's fine. And then yeah, we had a test and stats, so I can just make that up. Like, at the end of the day or tomorrow. I

Scott Benner 6:27
think we can call this episode where she's here to make you feel bad about yourself. Did you say AP Stats? Bio, and you'll just make this desktop? It'll be no problem. Yeah,

Arisha 6:36
I don't like that. Like, I feel like this year is a lot harder than last year. Okay. I don't like like school, like all the classes. Like there's so much homework.

Scott Benner 6:46
Is this the first time this isn't the first time you're switching rooms for classes? Is it? No, no, no. So but you went to a different building, I imagine. Oh, yeah.

Arisha 6:55
My school goes from like elementary all the way to like high school in different buildings. So what's

Scott Benner 7:00
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Arisha 8:29
Honestly, it's not that different. Because in my middle school, there's only like two grades. Okay,

Scott Benner 8:33
alright, just seventh and eighth. So

Unknown Speaker 8:35
it's not that big of a deal.

Scott Benner 8:36
And the older kids are not like problematic, not

Arisha 8:39
really because like for like first period, I just have like a lot of seniors in my class seniors and juniors. And they're actually like, really like normal. Explain that. But they're just like, no one really talks. I feel like they're all like kind of quiet. And

Scott Benner 8:54
they don't look at you thinking she's taking a class as a freshman that I'm taking it as a senior. A

Arisha 9:00
lot of people in my school just take those like to get all their math credits. And as a senior just kind of felt like, there was like two other like freshmen in my class, but I don't know them at all. Is

Scott Benner 9:13
your district. Like, do they send a lot of kids to a lot of good colleges?

Unknown Speaker 9:16
I think so. Yeah.

Scott Benner 9:18
Where are you hoping to go?

Arisha 9:19
Probably like LSU. Or like, if not OSU? Like somewhere big? You know?

Scott Benner 9:25
Yeah. So you're Are you sort of in the Midwest? Yeah. And you'd like to go to a big car like, yeah, like bands and football games and 40,000 people and that kind of stuff. What makes that attractive?

Arisha 9:40
I don't know. It's just nice. Like,

Scott Benner 9:42
it seemed fun.

Arisha 9:43
Like, yeah, just seems fun. Because like, I feel like right now, like there's like, we always have like football games on Friday. And like, there's like no time to do anything. I feel like, like you can't go to like because of football games and stuff and then like, so I just feel like it'd be fun in college to do all those things.

Scott Benner 9:59
Okay, well, I think it probably will be. Yeah, I

Arisha 10:03
feel like I'm high school. It's really overrated. I feel like they're all kinda like,

Scott Benner 10:07
high school is overrated. Yeah,

Arisha 10:09
it's really I feel like it's really overrated. I don't think it's that like, great. Like,

Scott Benner 10:14
what did you expect? Like, what did you picture in your mind that didn't end up being?

Arisha 10:18
So basically, out in the high school and the middle school, we have like a loop because they're like, right next to each other. And you can like, drop them off, I thought we would have like a nice little area that we could drop off. And like, I wouldn't have to wait in the line for like, 20 minutes. But like, that's like the first thing and I just feel like it's the exact same like as middle school, except just more work and like classes,

Scott Benner 10:39
and more classes. All right. Yeah. Well, let's remind everybody how you manage what do you what kind of technology do you have?

Arisha 10:45
I have a Dexcom, G six and Omnipod? Five?

Scott Benner 10:49
How are you enjoying the Omnipod? Five?

Arisha 10:51
It's a lot better. I think after a month, it just starts working a lot better than it like, start like started to begin.

Scott Benner 10:57
Yeah. And you eat like, like, high level get up in the morning. Let's just say on a day, you're not skipping school to make a podcast. What would you have for breakfast? Tell people.

Arisha 11:09
It's like this power shake thing. I still drink every day for breakfast.

Scott Benner 11:13
You do everyday? You have the power shake?

Unknown Speaker 11:15
Yeah. Right.

Scott Benner 11:16
Is that right with you? Is it is it green? Yeah, it's green. That's very nice. I turn cage you on in the morning when I get up. But it's not. It's your it's like thick.

Arisha 11:25
On the bottom. It's a little thick. But I use like I am the brand that's called period. Because it's like certified non glyphosate free. Not on it's everything's organic. And it has like, I don't even have to give any insulin or anything for it,

Scott Benner 11:39
or their carbs listed on it. And you look at least 60. And you don't have to give anything for it at all. Because it's like really good for you. You think that matters? If it's good for you, then the carbs don't matter? Of course. So you so you're let's just say your blood sugar's 90 And you down that, that drink, your blood sugar does not go up at all. Oh, it goes to like 150. But that's like it. Okay. And then the algorithm gives you insulin. Yeah. So you could Bolus for it. You're saying?

Arisha 12:10
Yeah, like, I don't think it's necessary. Like, sometimes I'll give a unit if it's like 140 or 150. But I just like, it really depends what you put in it. Because I put like power shake in it. And then I put like, the supplements that's called like zinc aid, which gives you like all the nutrients and then biomedic, which gets rid of all the glyphosate in your body.

Scott Benner 12:32
When biomedic does. Yeah, that's really good for us. I can I gotta be honest, I don't want weed killer in my body. I'll write down biomedic and look into it. Yeah, it's from the brand period. Let's be clear, you don't work for them. Your mom's not like a pyramid representative or something like that. Or? No, I'm just kidding. Did your parents listen to your podcast? Yeah. What did they think? They thought it was great. Yeah. Good. I'm glad. That's nice. I like that very much. You're taking a strong stance, you think people should not have weed killer on their foods? Yeah,

Arisha 13:05
because glyphosate is like the number one like cause of cancer. Like I've read it in some studies and stuff. It's like the worst thing for you like,

Scott Benner 13:15
like most people on podcast, I'm gonna get my information from a 14 year old. Because I feel like you've looked into it. If you haven't, you'll tell me. But isn't there a study that says that, like, a huge portion of the population has that in their system when they test for it?

Arisha 13:29
Yeah, because I've when people like eat food, if it's not organic, it like 99%, has glyphosate in it, because they're trying to like kill weed by doing it. And if it's not organic, like there are other things that say that it's gonna be in our soil now for 80 years. So whatever you do, it's like really hard to get out. So,

Scott Benner 13:49
so yeah, this is from The Guardian. The CDC reported that out of 20 310 Urine samples, that's a lot of pee on, taken from a group of Americans intended to be representative of the population. 1885 of them contained detectable traces of glyphosate. That's a lot of people out of 2300

Arisha 14:09
Yeah, because a lot of people don't eat organic, like I feel like so the government has a site that's called Ew, G, okay. And they have something that's called the Dirty Dozen, which has things like kale and like, collard greens, and all of those things. And those are in like corn to like, if you eat corn that's not organic. Like just watch how your blood sugar spikes up.

Scott Benner 14:32
Wow. By the way, you're not wrong about this. And I'm now remembering more and more why we enjoyed talking to you so much while I'm continuing to the site. So ew. g.org Yeah, and I Googled Dirty Dozen. It's the 2023 shoppers guide to pesticides in produce. It's trademarked by the way. I'm just going to click on number one. Oh, no, there's no clicking. It's just the list. Strawberries spinach, kale, collard greens, peaches, pears, nectarines, too. This stuff all has that on it. Yeah,

Arisha 15:03
like you want to eat that like only if it's organic, or you don't want to eat it, especially grapes to like once, I think when we weren't into all this organic stuff, like the highest my blood sugar has ever gone. It's like 540 once and that was because I had grapes and they weren't organic, like, not totally because it went so like.

Scott Benner 15:25
Okay, hold on a second, let's keep looking glyphosate.

Arisha 15:28
There's also the list that's called the clean 15 from ew G,

Scott Benner 15:32
really the clean the clean 15

Arisha 15:36
That's like the foods that you should be able to eat without having them organic and stuff. But I think those are like, like bananas and stuff.

Scott Benner 15:46
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Arisha 18:27
It's not like all around diabetes. It's more about like autoimmune, okay. It's called type one takes. It's on like Spotify and Apple. But I haven't posted in a while but I'll start posting

Scott Benner 18:40
more. Why do you not post you're better at this than I am. You should do that.

Arisha 18:43
I do. I just post like once a week, and I just don't like I have them all, but I just need to like edit them and add an intro and all it's

Scott Benner 18:51
hard is it's a lot of work. I know it's a lot. Type one takes? Yeah. Is it all together is type one one word, I'm trying to find it high. It's like

Arisha 19:01
type with a T capitalized and then just a one. Like the numerical value and then takes with the capitalized t

Scott Benner 19:09
because I have access to all of the available podcasts. Maybe yours. Yeah, I'm just I'm looking on the on the master list here. I never led podcasters come on here. This is a big deal for you. You

Unknown Speaker 19:25
should show up on mine. Oh, I'll

Scott Benner 19:27
do that. That'd be fun. Oh my god. Yeah. You want to do that? Yeah, I'll do that. Is it does it have a website? Yeah,

Arisha 19:34
here I can show it I can see effects like if I show you maybe you'll recognize it. Well, that's one thing.

Scott Benner 19:40
I googled type one takes Apple podcasts and you know I came up what my podcasts came up the way it should be. Oh look like that. Here? No, take your watch me make you jealous. Hey, Rob, while you're editing this take out The dead space where we were looking for her podcast, please. But leave that part in Rob. I got it. on Spotify. I'm gonna follow you on Spotify. Thank you the reality of leaky gut tips on managing your type one diabetes. Look at you. Go crazy. All right, good job. Yeah, you're good at this. You should keep going. Alright, so we don't want glyphosate in our food. What else don't we want to be eating? I feel

Speaker 1 20:27
like everything like Cheerios, Cheerios has glyphosate.

Scott Benner 20:32
Do you really think this one thing? Is that impactful that you just you focus completely on ignoring, avoiding it? Yeah. And I'm gonna get it in everything. If it's not marked organic.

Arisha 20:45
No, there's like, there's this one like, so like, I'm not gonna like hate on Cheerios, but they probably have like a lot. They have like the most glyphosate like in studies and stuff. No kidding. Yeah. Ben

Scott Benner 20:56
and Jerry's ice cream hold on us. I googled what is glyphosate found in glyphosate has also been found in miscellaneous products like Ben and Jerry's ice cream, non organic cotton, nonword tampons, why don't use them, but I know how they work. And I don't think I want weed killer on those either. If I was going to use one, even drinking water, it's found in 75% of air and rain samples. What that hell?

Arisha 21:22
Because it spreads really fast, like,

Scott Benner 21:24
Well, how am I going to avoid it? If it's in the rain? Oh, I

Arisha 21:27
don't know about that. But like, there's like grocery shops linked near to like farms, like even their like organic produce that's near them. Like the glyphosate like travels from, like the glyphosate used in the farm to like, the grocery store, like it's that crazy.

Scott Benner 21:42
I mean, I'm assuming at some point you and your parents ate differently. And then you switched. What was the change that happened when you made the switch, like the food no to your body and your life. So

Arisha 21:53
this was like COVID year, like, when it was everything was kind of out of place, like my blood sugar. So I would eat breakfast. Like I used to drink like chocolate milk for breakfast. This is like bringing up memories. But like, I used to drink like chocolate milk for breakfast and like a muffin. And then I used I was like, 10 Oh my gosh, and I was and then I would go on a bike ride. And I would be to add for three hours, it was just like that it would go to 40. And I would eat lunch, it would just like it was a roller coaster. Like I'm drinking

Scott Benner 22:21
Earl Grey tea that my wife brought back for me from her trip to England. And I'm freaking out that there's glyphosate.

Arisha 22:30
Because in all the other like all these other countries, like in Europe, and India and the UK, but like besides like Canada and the United States, those two countries have like the most in it, because like everywhere else, it's banned. Like you can look at a list at like everything that's banned, like all those.

Scott Benner 22:48
I'm gonna say something that I think I've heard and then you'll tell me if you know about it or not. Okay, they use the glyphosate to kill the weeds. Yes. But it would also kill the plants. So they genetically alter the plants, so that the glyphosate doesn't kill them. Is that right? Yeah. I can't be good either. kind of

Arisha 23:10
know, that. Like, there's like, weed killers like the worst thing though, because it's like, killing weeds. And weeds are like kind of natural. So it's like, kills everything.

Scott Benner 23:21
I'm not a I wasn't an AP Bio. So I might not get this right. But it feels to me that if you're going to take a seed and genetically alter it, so that weed killer can't hurt it. That's bizarre because now the weeds now the I don't know, let's say corn right now the corns in the field. weeds are growing all around it. The farmer probably drops it from a plane. I don't know how they do it, that everything gets covered. So the weed killer hits the corn, it hits the weeds, it hits the grass, it hits the ground. Everything dies except the corn but the corn still has the weed killer on it. It just it just doesn't kill it. Yeah,

Arisha 23:57
because they've like genetically modified the corn right as well. The court like corn is like the worst thing to eat. That's like not organic because it has so many pesticides, because corn attracts like so many bugs. So that's why like recently we started finding like organic corn Apple foods. No kidding. Yeah, I was like so excited.

Scott Benner 24:18
I mean, you're freaking me out. But I'm gonna pay more attention to this. I think did we talk about this last time?

Unknown Speaker 24:23
We talked about like leaky gut. Yeah,

Scott Benner 24:26
we didn't talk about this though. Right? No, yeah. That's by the way, you want to know the secret? Well, I don't let people come on twice. Why? Because that's too repetitive. No, because I can't remember what I talked about with them. So I can't just the next. People was like, I want to come back. And I'm like, here's what's gonna happen. I'm gonna ask you the same questions and it's gonna be like, and you're gonna be like, You already asked me this. And then I'm gonna have to admit, I don't remember talking to you. It's funny. I make a lot of these. And so they're difficult to remember. You understand? Yeah. What made you start a podcast?

Arisha 24:58
I just feel like there's so Much like misconception about like, all these kinds of things, that a lot of things just need to be like clarified, like a lot of people think that if they just eat low carbs, like their blood sugars will be managed well like that's not true. So

Scott Benner 25:12
if you're having you think if you even if you're low carb, but you're eating kind of non organic stuff that has these glyphosates and other stuff in it, that it's still gonna push your blood sugar up.

Arisha 25:22
Yeah, cuz if you eat salad that has, like, not organic stuff in it. I feel like your blood sugar's gonna rise, like really bad.

Scott Benner 25:29
We should definitely listen to your 14 you know, a lot. Right? Yeah. I mean, you can skip a test and take it the next day and still be okay. I can't do that. I don't know. I didn't pay attention in school. Do you think that's why I didn't do well. I was so surprised when I graduated. I was like, Oh, me, really? That's crazy. I don't think you're probably didn't teach me anything. It was my fault. Mostly. Was it my fault? Most like, can we blame someone else? No. I think we can blame me probably. I did not enjoy going to school. And I was resistant to it. I wish I wasn't I can honestly tell you as an adult. It's one of my biggest regrets is not just taking that part seriously paying attention. And then seeing what that sparked in what I was interested in. I could have like, extended and looked into other things like you are I just I didn't do that. I didn't grow up that way. I grew up like the idea of like, you go to school because the government says you go to school, and my mom will get arrested if I don't go and then go get a job. Like that was kind of how it was raised. But what do you think you want to do? an endocrinologist. You just want to be an endocrinologist? Yeah, that's pretty cool. You think you can do that? Get that accomplished? Yeah, like 100%. Nice. Not hard, right? Just go to school, become a doctor. Now. When you become a doctor? Are you going to talk to people about this stuff? Are you afraid it's gonna freak them out? And they're not going to understand what you're saying? And you're only gonna have 10 minutes to talk to them and they're gonna leave and go like, Oh, my God, my doctor is weird. She said, there's a bug killer on my corn. I

Arisha 27:07
feel like if you can, like, if they like try it themselves, they just like move like no, because, like, you can just see the difference, just like by looking at it by looking at your blood sugars like,

Scott Benner 27:18
Okay, I'm sorry, Arden's blood sugar's a little low. So I'm texting with my wife about it. Here, Arden will appreciate this. She's getting her period. She's eating better. Because her freshman year in college, this is gonna happen to you too, by the way, you're gonna go to this college, this big school, and the food they're going to give you is going to be garbage, alright, it's going to be and it's going to be all just like preservatives, and everything else. And then you're gonna have like, you're gonna have to go find your own food. You have to cook and as a freshman, that's going to be difficult. And on a big campus, you're not gonna have a car, like, what are you going to do about that? You can't cook as a freshman. I mean, where are you getting a kitchen from?

Unknown Speaker 27:59
Oh, CFD, that sounds really bad.

Scott Benner 28:01
You can't be an endocrinologist. Okay, does everybody want to hear Arden? Like wake up from asleep? Because I think calling. I think that's about to happen. Hold on. I'm gonna tell her she ate too much glyphosate. She's trying that she's been doing all nighters for a couple of nights and she's sleeping this morning. Where she's dead. It's been forwarded to an automatic voice message. That didn't go well. We'll try again. Your call has been forwarded to an automatic voice. Well, now what do we do? Future endocrinologist. Let me take a look and see where she's at. She's in a dorm. It's an apartment actually on campus. I can't on campus apartment. She was in a dorm last year. But she moved to on campus housing like this specifically because she wanted to kitchen because she said it was just too hard to Bolus for the food they were giving her. Excuse me, she was using so much insulin. It was like it was not going well. And she said one of the only things she said when she got home was I got to make my own food. Next year. Yeah, sure. I can't keep eating there. She's cooking most days. But there's still times where she's like, you know, like, which after dinner, she's like, I warmed up this or I bought a frozen this and I'm like, Well, okay, but it's still going much better than than the food she was eating at the school. As a matter of fact, I think some of these low blood sugars that she's been having the last couple days. It's partly because she's just been awake for like, way to like, you know, I mean, she's not sleeping. Yeah. And she's working at school. And I think the other thing is, is that as time goes on, I think maybe her settings are a little strong. Yeah, and now she's not eating that same food anymore. Yeah. Alright, so we're gonna try our caller one more time and see if we can wake her up. Yeah, cuz her blood sugar is just it's just keeps drifting down. So if she doesn't answer that As time, you know we do next, Find My iPhone makes terrible noise. So like, I don't know if she's like in the shower. automatic voice message system. Alright, so here we go. So here's one for people who have iPhones find my, and you open it up, and then you go to devices. And then you scroll down to Arden's phone. Then it says play sound off that you push play. And now it's playing a sound on our phone. And I don't know if you've ever done this before. It's like a huge like loud, it's not a great sound. Yeah. Then she's going to wake up and be irritated. And

Speaker 1 30:40
I'm going to text her. What is she studying? Arden's

Scott Benner 30:43
going to fashion school? She's learning how to make clothing. Wow. So said, I've sent her a text, well wait a minute and see if she answers the text. If not, I'll try to call again in a second. Yes, she's learning how to design clothing. She was in high school like you as a freshman, she didn't know what you wanted to do. As a sophomore, I don't think she really had any thoughts. But in COVID, and like her sophomore ish, juniors, like gap in there, she started talking about, she either wanted to go for pre law, or she wanted to make clothing. Those were her two choices. And she just went back and forth about it. And she decided she's like, I really want to go to fashion school and learn how to make clothing. So the really cool thing about Arden that I don't think we talked about is that she was not like an artistic person, meaning she wasn't a person who spent time drawing or painting or anything like that. She'd never sewn anything. Like she didn't know how to sew like she had nothing. When she got to college, her first drawing class was like the first time she tried to draw. Wow, yeah. And she said that the other day, they were doing, they're doing life drawing right now. So she had this project, she had to spend six hours in the lab drawing skeleton, a skeleton. And like, and like removing it and like moving it around drawing it again. And doing all these sketches like she had to she did like, it looks like there's 50 of them on this sheet. And she said that the other day in class, her teacher asked to say it, and then pull it up in the front and use it as an example for everybody in the class. Wow, she was really happy. But no kidding. Like a year and a half ago, I've never tried to draw anything in her life. So it's she's she puts her mind to it. She's going to get it done. You know, I know where to try to call again. Interesting. I'm sorry, this is taking up your time. We'll keep talking but don't worry about it. Okay. Your call has been forwarded. Right? This is not going particularly well.

Unknown Speaker 32:46
Does she have a roommate? Yep. I'm

Scott Benner 32:47
gonna try a roommate now. So now it's gonna start over again with a different with a different 19 year old girl. Now we'll try calling her Hey, aren't as low do you think you'll wake her up? Yeah, thank you. Okay, so let's just assume they're gonna take care of that. And keep going. What changes did you see in your health? Or do you think your parents have talked about with you after like cutting all that out and going completely organic?

Arisha 33:23
So last time, we like talked about this one thing where I went to a functional medicine doctor. And they did all his tests like the before part. And they like said my energy was like a, like a six year old man's energy. Like, because my energy level was really low. How

Scott Benner 33:40
did they test for that? And with bloodwork, though? Like there's not an energy blood test? Did you have like, Do you know what they did? I think it was like urine samples. Okay, so when you made the changes, did you actually fear your feel your energy level rise?

Arisha 33:55
Oh, yeah. Because like, there's like, I feel like fifth grade and like seventh grade are really different. So like, I feel like I was able to, like manage more. I used to do a lot of sports and like fifth period. And like, for some reason, I was like never good at them. Like I don't even know why. But like in seventh grade, I just caught like really good at them.

Scott Benner 34:11
You just you started to just have more physical energy. Yeah, about mental clarity. Do you have any, like, thoughts about that? Has that changed for you at all?

Arisha 34:21
I don't really feel like that that much. Because then like, when I was like, five, I like five to fifth grade. I was like, completely gluten free. And like, I don't eat junk food and all that kind of stuff. But like occasionally like maybe once or twice, but like not really like regularly or anything. So like, I feel like first to fifth grade. I was like pretty, like, decent, like food wise. But like in sixth grade. It got like bad because of COVID. So I just feel like I've never really had any like, mental like, clarity type thing.

Scott Benner 34:52
Yeah. What's the worst thing you eat in the course of a week? Like that's something that this whole week, like in a week and you're like, oh, I shouldn't I mean that but I did. Oh, I have a picture, a picture of what you ate.

Arisha 35:04
I just don't know what it's called. Okay? It's like these unreal. They're like these peanut butter cups. They have like, they kind of look Yeah, they look like this. That's

Scott Benner 35:14
the worst thing you ate. Yeah.

Arisha 35:18
Or like I chew gum occasionally. Mines like mines like as part I'm free and all so we're good with that

Scott Benner 35:24
aspartame free. Yeah, I'm just letting people know Arden's awakes, take care of herself, and I'm texting her when you're awake. Let's talk. So gum, and a really healthy peanut butter cup.

Arisha 35:36
Yeah, yeah, kinda think. There's these like, I don't really know because I just like for lunch. I usually just eat like a salad or like, oh, there's these things in Costco. They're Owlman tortillas. Okay, from the brand Cha. They're like really good. Like,

Scott Benner 35:56
those. You like almond tortillas?

Arisha 35:59
Yeah, they're not organic, but they're really like, their ingredients are clean. And yeah.

Scott Benner 36:08
Amen. Dessert. No, wait. That's tortoise. It's

Arisha 36:11
from the brim like s i e. T. I think that toast fellow.

Scott Benner 36:16
Turns out. I'm not the first person to Google almond tortillas, Costco. And I si, e t. E. Yes, and almond flour tortillas. And those. Those are good. Yeah,

Arisha 36:28
so we put that until like, my dad makes this little pizza thing. Like, and my brother loves it too. So basically, he just adds like one of them on the bottom. And then he had like the this red sauce. It's just, it's just tomatoes. That's all it is.

Scott Benner 36:44
Are they thin? Like could I rat like because I use a wrap every morning with my egg and some fruit and some protein. Should I try these? You could try

Arisha 36:53
it if you didn't have that much like in the wrap but they also saw like cassava

Scott Benner 36:57
once, okay, what the hell? Is that a word? Yeah,

Arisha 37:01
cassava. It's, it's like a root of something.

Scott Benner 37:05
Okay. I'll check into this. You have

Arisha 37:08
to get that one out whole foods that but like it, but it's a lot bigger too. So like, sometimes I'll just eat one of those for lunch. Would that be like otherwise? Then we put like the forger cheese on them. It's like really good. Like a little pizza.

Scott Benner 37:19
So even when I'm having my little wrap, it's got wheat in it. You're thinking the weeds? Probably not organic. So I'm doing that with that. So I'm trying to eat healthy and I'm still killing myself.

Arisha 37:31
Because the wheat we intend like a problem. There's this one brand. Oh my god, I forgot. It's like, just let me find it. But it's like organic. And if we isn't the problem, it's like the stuff that's been put on the wheat because there's so much glyphosate on the itself. But like cassava is a really good replacement for wheat. If like someone does wheat doesn't suit someone. But other than that, I feel like we it's not that

Scott Benner 37:56
bad. I'm seeing that the company I use for my tortillas has an organic version, but I it's not the ones I buy. Interesting. Okay.

Arisha 38:05
Oh, this is the brand it's called jovial J of the aisle. That's like, because they have that's the we started using because it's glyphosate free, organic, non GMO,

Scott Benner 38:17
jovial foods. All right. Oh, and then but if I eat like you don't eat meat, but you eat fish. Yeah, it's like seafood. Not that much. Like

Arisha 38:27
I'll eat it. Like I don't have anything against it. Like if it's in like if we're making it. I'll eat it.

Scott Benner 38:31
Are you scared of mercury?

Speaker 1 38:33
Not really. Because we get not with not farm raised.

Scott Benner 38:37
Like wild caught. Yeah, well, no, I think there's like, I mean, I think you should just not eat at all because you'll die in a couple of weeks. But at least there won't be any bad stuff in your food. No, I mean, I hear people say all the time not to eat too much shellfish are crustaceans because of mercury and something like that. But I mean, in certain maybe tuna as well. I don't

Arisha 39:02
need to know. I think it's disgusting. I just don't like the way it tastes even like

Scott Benner 39:06
a tuna steak.

Arisha 39:07
I don't just like I don't like certain types of fish. I'm gonna like Feldman. And like, that's the only fish I really like. Asked me like certainly cook. Like if I go out and they're like serving fish. Like, I just don't like it. It

Scott Benner 39:21
says the tuna is very nutritious. It's also high mercury compared to most other fish. Okay. You like salmon? Yeah,

Arisha 39:28
but like more than salmon. I feel like we should. Like shrimp is probably the most thing.

Scott Benner 39:36
Looks like salmon is not too bad for mercury. Swordfish is. I wonder why some are higher than others. Salmon doesn't have much at all it says it's interesting. Like why would one are they all in the same water? All right. Well, you're bumming me out. But you really feel like it has an impact on your blood sugar. So like yeah, Do me a favor. Tell me what you ate yesterday, like the whole day. breakfast to lunch? Yeah. You had your drink in the morning.

Arisha 40:06
Okay, yeah. So, and then I had lunch and for lunch, I had like a salad. I put like a lot of fruits on myself.

Scott Benner 40:14
So fruit on the salad. Yeah,

Arisha 40:16
a lot of fruit. It just tastes better. All right. You made a thumbs up thing.

Scott Benner 40:20
Did it did it again. I'm sorry. I think I was just scratching my face that time. Really? Soon. Fix it. So salad with fruit. Yeah. And organic lettuce, kind of all the fruits organic.

Arisha 40:33
Yeah, cashes some raisins, raisins.

Scott Benner 40:36
And then for lunch for dinner. I

Arisha 40:39
had to yesterday was Monday. Yeah. Okay. So basically, then, so like, my lunch was at 10. So I took like a little snack break in school at like one. And it was like, it's like those like little fruit bars.

Scott Benner 40:53
Little fruit bars. Or snack break? Yeah. All right. And then dinner. I

Arisha 41:00
think yesterday I had mushroom soup. My mom made leaves like dal rotis. Like, lentils. Kind of things. Tell

Scott Benner 41:12
people the mushroom soups. Not creamy. It's but it's thin, right? Like clear. No, it's creamy. It is creamy. Yeah,

Unknown Speaker 41:19
we use the coconut milk.

Scott Benner 41:21
Okay, your mom made cream of mushroom soup with coconut milk? Why she was really good. I bet she does. Why does she have so much free time? What's going on there?

Arisha 41:30
I think she was working. She like makes mush. Like in the fall like around this time. We always like make a lot of soup for a couple of months. So we usually drink like this soup. Or like other soup. It's really easy. We just like put a bunch of things in like a pot, and then it cooks. And you just boil it. It's

Scott Benner 41:47
like not that. Okay, where did she get the mushrooms from? From the grocery store? Yep, from Costco, from Costco. Okay. And they're organic.

Arisha 41:56
Cool. Sounds like a lot of options. If you like trying to look, I

Scott Benner 42:00
have to say Costco does a weird because it's a warehouse. But they do a really good job of like, you know, they have a couple of first of all their business models, they find what people like, and then they knock it off. And then yeah, and then they make their own and they make their own, which oftentimes ends up being better than the thing that I don't want to start ripping off. I'm

Arisha 42:20
only mad. They like have this coconut milk, not coconut milk, coconut water. It was really good because it was like from I think, from Bangladesh or somewhere because it was really sweet. And it was like pink too. And then they just knocked it off because it was doing better than theirs. And then they just added and they just kept they're not like maybe

Scott Benner 42:39
they do that sometimes do they carry to get you excited about it. Then they stopped selling it. Yeah, I know they do that. So you guys go there you shop. You get your fruits and vegetables there. I don't like their bananas. Can I come right out and say at Costco, I don't think does a good job with Ben. Do you know what I mean? They're always kind of green and mushy and like never quite. I don't like them. They're never quite ready.

Arisha 43:00
We just like freeze the bananas because like we like make ice cream out of that sometimes. Oh, nice.

Scott Benner 43:06
Yeah, that's good, too. I think it's Yeah,

Arisha 43:09
I like after school. Like when it was really hot for like the first month of school everyday after school. Not every day, but most of the time I would take like they from Costco sells like these cubes of mangoes. So I just put them in the blender like a whole handful. And then I put like coconut cream. And then I blended it and it just tasted like shore but it was so good.

Scott Benner 43:29
You know I'm only eating coconut milk. Yogurt now.

Unknown Speaker 43:32
Really? What brand Oh,

Scott Benner 43:35
I don't hold on. I find out it's really

Unknown Speaker 43:36
some pretty good brands too. Oh, yeah.

Scott Benner 43:40
I need to talk to you more often. I'll probably be healthier if I just talk to you more often. So delicious. Like you I feel like you're so let down by me.

Speaker 1 43:48
I want to I want to know the brand and then like oh, that's what it's called. So delicious. Can I read the ingredients for that? Alright, I'm

Scott Benner 43:54
getting it. Hold on a second.

Unknown Speaker 43:55
Is it the vanilla?

Scott Benner 43:57
I have I do the banana and strawberry. I do vanilla. I do. Keyline

Arisha 44:03
I remember I used to eat this a long time ago. Yeah. Yeah.

Scott Benner 44:09
You got a better one now. Yeah. I assumed I wasn't going to have the right one. That's why I brought it up. Here the thing and this one is

Arisha 44:17
that I'm trying to like rethink find like working. So basically it says that it only has 2% or less than but has like all these been gums. And then it always says that has like natural flavors. That's like not good. You're like

Scott Benner 44:32
what does that mean? It's just not good. Okay, so All right, tell me what brands I should be looking for. Go ahead. I'm drinking out of my water which is I'm sure it's killing me.

Arisha 44:42
There's one brand it's called forger. I just don't like the

Scott Benner 44:45
way that taste. But that is gonna be a problem for me. No, but no, there's the sprint

Arisha 44:50
is really good. It's called cocoa June.

Speaker 1 44:53
This is what it looks like. It tastes really good. And I found it. It's probably one of my favorites. thing

Arisha 45:01
I was obsessed with it for this whole like, week not all I would eat

Scott Benner 45:05
cocoa when am I going to find this at Whole Foods looks like hippies make if there's not even a pictures on the packaging. Alright I'll go to hold on I'm writing this down Whole Foods. Coca June red pepper red not eating that. See this is the problem with hippies lemon dill red pepper this is supposed to be yogurt.

Speaker 1 45:25
Are you looking at the right thing because this just sounds like water and coconut

Scott Benner 45:32
learn more. Oh wait, this is a dip. Nevermind it's not the yogurt. It's like why would you put dual in yogurt? That's funny. But like I got it down mixed berry dark chocolate banana cinnamon vanilla bean. Alright, hold on. I'm gonna go get this today. Where did you tell me Whole Foods? Yeah, it's just over there yesterday. Now I gotta go back. Alright.

Arisha 45:57
We have like, Whole Foods. I'm like, they're like really close to each other.

Scott Benner 46:02
So basically, I'm eating yogurt, an egg and a wrap in the morning. I shouldn't be eating any of it. What about the egg? They don't spray weed killer in the chickens. Do they? Oh God, do they?

Speaker 1 46:12
They inject like karma. Alright, they're

Scott Benner 46:15
organic eggs. Yeah, they're gonna be small. No. Was that good? All right, so I have to go get organic eggs. They're gonna have those at Costco. Right? Yeah, they're gonna cost more thank God dammit. All right, hold on a second. Coach Yun yogurt. Organic eggs. And what the hell was the rap called? Pa 10. I got it. I eat

Arisha 46:43
the rap is like pretty good, though. Like the yogurt. Don't put the yogurt like in there without mixing like salt because it like it's all it's like sweet. A little sweet. Just like a little bit.

Scott Benner 46:54
I gotta put salt in the yogurt. Are you gonna put it in the wrap? No, I'm gonna eat it like I get up. Oh, yeah. Here's what happens. I get up in the morning. I take the athletic greens. I drink that right? Yeah, and I do my things. Right, like a shower. You know what I mean? Stuff like that. Get dressed. And then I have usually a yogurt. And yeah, and I take an egg. I scramble the egg with a little bit of butter. Cheese. This is the butter organic. Probably not let me write down butter. And then you should get

Arisha 47:23
like the vegan butter because theater is just really bad for you like butter and milk. Butter

Speaker 2 47:28
is the best thing in the world. It's the only thing that makes life worth living. What are you talking about? I can't eat butter. God dammit. Are you serious? What kind of what kind of what? Say it again? vegan butter. Yeah, that sounds horrible. Hold on a second. What the hell do you want?

Arisha 47:46
The thing is just don't like, get one with sunflower oil. Because that's like really bad.

Scott Benner 47:53
I don't do oils. That's

Arisha 47:54
what there's oil in the butter for like if you're gonna get vegan butter.

Scott Benner 47:58
Now. Yeah, now I'm confused. Can I just have butter? That's just butter. Oh,

Arisha 48:02
yeah. But like, hell. Yeah, but like the cow like they put stuff in my cow.

Scott Benner 48:08
Oh my god, this is terrible. Okay, hold on a second vegan butter. I'm buying and get like I want you to. I'm not kidding. I'm buying everything that you told me and I'm going to make my breakfast is like this for two weeks. That this is what I'm gonna do. But vegan butter is making me upset. But I'm looking.

Arisha 48:26
Well, you could get grass fed butter. Grass fed cow butter. That might be better. Alright.

Scott Benner 48:31
Alright. That's a good alright, I'll do that. But that also sounds expensive.

Arisha 48:35
I don't think like it's that because the thing and Deacon better is that we'll

Scott Benner 48:39
have a job. You don't know what this stuff cost? Talking about? You don't think is that expensive? Get the hell out of here. What do you find out? How much do you cost? Alright, okay, so wait, that's a Wait, I got butter in the pan. I'll get grass fed butter. And then I was buying my butter at Costco. And Costco has good butter. I know. But you told me not to eat it now. No, no, they

Unknown Speaker 49:06
have like the good grass fed stuff. Yeah, I don't eat dairy. But like I've seen it like, I just like, Look, girl.

Scott Benner 49:12
All right, I'll do that. You're gonna make me broke. Okay, so I'll do that. And then I make the egg. I can put pepper on my egg, right? Yeah, thank you make my egg. I'm gonna wrap it my arm and wrap. Yeah, I'm gonna wrap it's not gonna taste dry. No,

Arisha 49:29
no, no. Okay. And that's like really good. That's like, my favorite. I'm choosing

Scott Benner 49:33
to believe you. And then I would like I have some turkey like I took a turkey bread. Oh, God is the turkey organ. I don't know. I took the tour. I smoked a turkey breasts. So it's like smoky and nice. And then I was cutting that up and mixing that in with my egg and then wrapping it up and that was my breakfast. Okay, so this is not so even though that sounds incredibly healthy. It's not as good as it could be. No, and it's probably not even that healthy. It It's just yeah, that's insane. If I start eating like that, and I lose a bunch of weight, where do you live? I'm going to come to your house and say thank you don't tell me that you shouldn't tell people where you live. Okay, I have my list here. Wraps, butter, organic eggs. Cocoa, June. That's it Whole Foods. And we end up biomedic biomedic. What's it called?

Unknown Speaker 50:23
Here? Yeah.

Scott Benner 50:25
Pure like got it here. This is not a pill. This is or it's a it's a pill. It is. Oh, well, there that sounds easy. Can I get it on Amazon? Or no? Well, that does something bad happened to me. If I do it on Amazon.

Speaker 1 50:38
You probably could buy Holy crap. These are really expensive. No, no, but there's like a lot of them. It's they're $1 apiece. Well, like you're cleansing your body.

Scott Benner 50:49
And how long wait, how long is it going to take? Alright, period. biomedic is the first ever anti GMO supplement that helps protect your gut from glyphosate.

Unknown Speaker 50:58
How much is it? Isn't it only like 3060 tablet

Scott Benner 51:00
60 capsules with at least they're vegan capsules. And but $60 That's $1 apiece. My math is pretty cool. looking on Amazon. Yeah. Should I be looking somewhere else?

Arisha 51:12
No, Amazon like always upsells things you should go you should just get it on the website. Okay, cuz they have they get like a lot of coupons and stuff. Somebody

Scott Benner 51:20
says these smelled like fabric softener.

Speaker 1 51:24
They smell they're made out of cellulose or whatever it's called. I

Scott Benner 51:28
don't care. I'm just assuming that's a little tick that wrote that. I'm just gonna read it like, review. I started living with irritable bowel syndrome driving me crazy. Poop time was never consistent. running to the bathroom was getting on my nerves. My poop is so bow. Oh God, what is happening? Wait a minute. This is like such. Alright, ready? I've never done this before. Let's read this review. I don't care if anybody buys these or not. We're still read the review. It's from 2018 It says I'm gonna read it my podcast voice. I thought I would review this product on Amazon. Even though I didn't buy it from Amazon. I purchased directly from purism. Here's what happened to me. I was starting to have the irritable bowel syndrome and it was driving me crazy. Poop time was never consistent and running to the bathroom is getting on my nerves. Are you laughing at me? The the constant worry about whether I was going to poop my pants. I went from running to the bathroom with diarrhea to being constipated. And it was impossible to know what my gut was going to do produce our to our day to day. Well, this product seemed to have fixed all that. I feel like I sell I sell like the guy who sells the tape that he makes a boat out of it. Hello. I had only been taking it for about seven days. I started with one pill in the am and two in the evening. That's $3 a day. By the way, that's not part of her review. That's me talking. The recommended dose is two a day she doesn't care what the recommended dose and by the way, this could be a guy but I figured I would add a little extra in the beginning and after two weeks, I will go to the to a day me when people cannot write maintenance level. At day three or four. I can't remember now I was constantly. Why the hell does it matter if it was day three or four? And why do you have to tell people you can't remember just say a few days and I was consistently having normal daily bowel movements. Hold on, that wasn't the best part. Here comes this is why I'm reading this one. Normally, my poop is so foul. I flush as soon as it leaves my body to try to lessen the offensive odor that I exit the bathroom and close the door as quickly as possible. Now what's happening to this person? One day, I realized I didn't rush to flush. We're making a t shirt that says don't rush to flush and selling it immediately on the website. I couldn't believe I couldn't smell the odor. Alright, ready? Try to imagine this. I asked my roommate who constantly made jokes about my offensive odor to check out the weird smell in the bathroom. He came, sniffed and said and this is a quote. I don't smell anything. It was a joyous day in my life. I looked at him and I said well that's what I thought because I didn't smell anything boy this is unnecessary words. And I just unloaded a big dump this is the moment I knew this was the cause because nothing else in my life had changed. I will use this product as long as it gives those results I'm sorry, curse your kid

All right, listen. I want to say a couple of things. My poop does not smell bad. But I'm gonna try this because this episode is called. I think this is it Sup is called ERISA tells me how to live. You want me to go to their website? I'm going to do it right now. Hold on a second. And I'm actually going to go out and buy all the GMO stuff today that you told me to, then I'm going to start eating that way. So Purium products, by the way, nobody go buy this until we find out if it's good, and then make them buy ads before we do it. So what is, uh, hold on a second? biome? Medic. I got it. It's the same damn price. Hey, put like a loyal customer price, but I am not a loyal

Speaker 1 55:32
customer. You can if you make an account, it's like cheaper. I have to

Scott Benner 55:36
be honest with you. I'm just gonna buy it from Amazon this one time because I'm going to pay the same from them and it's going to come faster from Amazon. Okay, all right. So the first time the smaller No, I'm getting the 60 because the girl says I gotta take three the first

Speaker 1 55:50
day. Maybe just like take two because I started with one. All

Scott Benner 55:54
right. Yeah, I'm not gonna I'll follow that. Alright, hold on by now. Let's make sure it gets shipped to my house so somebody else doesn't like my kid doesn't like open their mail go to hell is this I have to be honest. I'm gonna use my podcast credit card because I feel like this is business playing that to my my a textile you like I was talking to girl on the podcast. I said I was gonna buy this. I feel like it's marketing. But why? Free one day delivery tomorrow? Oh, free delivery tomorrow. I already ordered something else. I bought underwear. So it's gonna ship with my underwear. That's good. I'll put them together. I don't want to waste the box. You know, they mean. You know, it took me a while to find the underwear I wanted to buy. I got three different kinds. So here's what happened. I was wearing this kind of underwear that I liked, and they stopped making it. So then I tried three different brands before I found the kind that I wanted to go with again. But now I'm sold on it. And so I bought eight pairs. It's pretty fancy. Do you have more than eight pairs of underwear? Yeah, yeah, you're a girl. You probably have like 1000 pairs of underwear. Right? Because they're colors and they're cute or whatever the hell I just need. Like, they're all mine are all black. They look exactly the same. I don't care what they look like. All right, I got my marching orders. Cocoa, June, organic eggs, grass fed butter, almond wrap, biome medic. And what am I going to find out after I take these $60 worth of pills? What what's gonna happen to me? You're gonna be like better? How am I going to know? I'm so good now. Oh, my good to know. Like, now I'm better. You'll

Speaker 1 57:32
just like you'll you'll start feeling it. Like how? Tell me how do you like? Do you walk? Like, take a walk outside or like, if I can help it.

Scott Benner 57:47
Like, I make this podcast for you people.

Speaker 1 57:50
You're gonna be more energetic in the podcast.

Scott Benner 57:53
I mean, is that possible? I'm pretty zippy already. And I mean, that might be like a bath. Yeah, right. People would be like, Yo, this girl came on the podcast and ruined the podcast, which gives got all this energy, and now he's irritating. I'm irritating now, but now more irritating. I'm gonna say, alright, I'm doing it. I'm doing what you say. Because you look healthier than I do.

Unknown Speaker 58:13
I think I think it'll benefit you. All right.

Scott Benner 58:16
I'm gonna try. You didn't know you've not mentioned that. I've lost a lot of weight since the last time you saw me. Have you noticed? Not really unbelievable. Are you serious?

Unknown Speaker 58:27
It's been like nine months? I don't remember. Like,

Scott Benner 58:30
I'm 35 pounds lighter than when you saw me last time. You didn't notice at all? No, what the hell am I losing weight for if nobody can tell? It was for my health. I did see a friend yesterday for lunch. Now I'm thinking what I ate was probably killing me. But I saw a friend yesterday for lunch who I hadn't seen in a long time. And when he saw me, he goes, Oh my God, you look like your little brother. Which he was just saying I looked smaller than the last time I saw him because he doesn't actually know my little brother. And I'm adopted. You have a brother? Yeah, but I don't look anything like him. Because I'm adopted. You don't I mean? Yeah. So. All right. Do we have fun? I did. Does it matter if I think it only matters if I have fun? Honestly, here, there's a good podcasting tip for you. I make a podcast that I'd want to listen to. That's all I do. I don't think about here's the secret for anybody listening. I don't think about what you want at all. So I don't put any effort into doing something that I think oh, people will like this. Like I do what I think I would like or what I think would help people. So like, you know, like even like the pro tip stuff. Have you listened that stuff? No. Unbelievable. How do you find this podcast? Your mom listen to it.

Arisha 59:47
Sometimes like my mom's like really busy because of work. That's

Scott Benner 59:50
why she's making soup. Takes a lot of time. Alright, so I'm just gonna make this change here. And then I have a big bag of frozen shrimp. You can make that on a saute that all up. And I'll eat that for dinner this week. And I'll pair it every day. Don't eat it. Not every day like often. And I have my eye on me to say, Can I say something very Caucasian to your My wife has a hydroponic garden where she grows lettuce. So nothing's ever been sprayed on it. Unless, unless Unless my dog walks by and farts on it. And so other than that, like nothing's ever been sprayed on it. And so I'll use that to make my to make salads with I'll mix that with greens with the shrimp. I tried having chicken wings this week. I know you don't eat meat, but I like I over salted it. I started like retaining water. Like suddenly I can't do that. It's very embarrassing. So I won't I won't do that. And Alright, that's it. Am I gonna not? And I'm gonna have to make my own sorbet. Should I not eat sugar?

Speaker 1 1:00:56
Do you eat sugar? White sugar, not white sugar.

Scott Benner 1:00:59
So usually I take like mangoes, you're really making me upset. So usually I take mangoes and I make my own sorbet with it, but you gotta use a little bit of sugar. Or

Speaker 1 1:01:08
you have to like, then use a date put a date and

Scott Benner 1:01:12
a date. That thing that almost killed Indiana Jones. Weathers. Do you know that reference? No, no, there's no way you know that reference. Indiana Jones is a movie with an actor named Harrison Ford. Do you know any of that? I know the movie Park. Okay. In the movie, they tried to poison Indiana Jones by poisoning his dates. But what happens? The monkey eats the dates first. And that's how Indiana knows not to eat them. What do you think of that? You'll never see that movie. So the best movies I've ever seen in my life. You'll never see it. What is your favorite movie? Titanic, though. Wait, the one word Caitlin's like kills that boy in the water?

Speaker 1 1:01:51
No, like they didn't fit on the like little bed

Scott Benner 1:01:55
the fit fine. I don't want to disagree thing. It was a giant headboard. And she's like, I'm fine. You stay there. You didn't say how many times? Have you seen it? Like four times? Well, it's never occurred to you that it looked like there was enough room for his skinny to climb up there.

Arisha 1:02:13
No, I watched the like thing. Like the MythBusters video thing. And then they talked to the guy who made the movie and he said that, like it was for the writing purpose that he had to die. Yeah,

Scott Benner 1:02:24
I knew we had to kill him. But we need to have a good reason. I don't fit on the thing she's voted on was not a good reason. And he's like, hung there is I guess okay. He froze like a like your bananas before you make ice cream. You freeze the bananas before you make the ice cream. Right? Yeah. And so. I don't know. Arden told me recently. She doesn't think Leo's attractive. Do you think he's cute or no? In that movie? He was young man. Not really. Yeah, right. Then interesting. What's your favorite actor?

Speaker 1 1:02:52
I don't really like I don't know. I like watch TV shows like

Scott Benner 1:02:56
what? Okay, what are you watching?

Speaker 1 1:02:57
Right now? I'm watching House. Oh, I love house. Really? Yeah, everyone's watching Grey's Anatomy. I just can't find it

Scott Benner 1:03:06
anywhere. So I just watched half Grey's Anatomy got dropped from Netflix. It's

Speaker 1 1:03:10
not on Netflix. No kidding. Is it on? Cuz I didn't find it.

Scott Benner 1:03:14
Let me test how long have you been watching House? Okay, how long have you been watching so I'm gonna test you.

Arisha 1:03:19
Like I'm on season. I just started Season Two. Okay, maybe

Scott Benner 1:03:23
I don't know if this is too early or not. But what's the thing? They always guess that it never is? Pneumonia. sarcoidosis. sarcoidosis is the answer. Okay. Seriously, and you know, one day I interviewed somebody and they're like, I had sarcoidosis. And I was like, oh my god, like on the house. And they were they knew the reference. It was crazy. As you're watching it, you will think of me every time somebody goes. It could be sarcoidosis. And then it never is. Never do you like the way he's mean to everybody.

Arisha 1:03:57
I don't know. He's he's kind of stupid in my opinion. Yeah. He's always like, he thinks he's better than everyone else. I mean, he kind of is but like, he really isn't at the same time. Like, yeah,

Scott Benner 1:04:08
I see your whole generations nice. I used to love him. I mean, he was everybody. Meet comfortable. They're gonna roll through a couple of like, other intern doctors as the years go on. Yeah. And then what's your name is on there. The woman who broke Ted lassos heart. What's her name? You know, the guy who's dead last so?

Unknown Speaker 1:04:27
No,

Scott Benner 1:04:29
do you didn't watch that last though?

Unknown Speaker 1:04:31
Like the actor? Yeah.

Scott Benner 1:04:33
What's his name? Jason Sudeikis. No, I don't know who that is. All right. Well, Jason is a Degas married a woman who I think then left him. Anyway, she's on her house. And when I think of her I only think of her as the lady that made Jason to Vegas. Sad, but I don't know. Like maybe it was him who made her sad. Or maybe it was just mutual. I have no idea. I don't look into it. I just liked petal So I wanted him to be happy. That's so stupid. I don't know anything about those people. Alright, so you've been watching House. It's not a bad poll, I would watch house. What did I just finish watching? Oh, Mayor of Kingstown, which I don't think you should watch. That's kind of aggressive.

Unknown Speaker 1:05:20
I watch a manifest that looks good. Well, was

Scott Benner 1:05:22
it manifest manifest? Oh, the one about the plane crash.

Arisha 1:05:27
The one that the plane like disappear for five and a half years?

Scott Benner 1:05:30
And did you ever watch the last? No. Interesting. That was one where a plane crashed on an island. And the island may or may not have had a magic mist monster on it. And a polar bear that never came back. And then there was a button and you had to push the button or something was gonna blow up. Oh, spoiler alert. And then nobody pushed a button and nothing bad happened. That's one of those shows. It's really good. Right up until the end. At the end. You're like, Wait, what the hell? Why have I been watching this? Like, that's your answer. Stop it. Not great at the end. Okay, what else should we talk about? And then we're gonna let you go because you had to go to school? Oh, I don't know. You don't know. Well, do you want to practice interview me? For a couple of minutes, then we'll see if I'm gonna come on your podcast.

Unknown Speaker 1:06:18
I don't know what to say, well,

Scott Benner 1:06:19
how the hell you're gonna make a podcast? You need to be able to talk if you're gonna make a podcast.

Speaker 1 1:06:22
I'll make like a script. No, I always make a skirt. Do you? Yeah. Do

Scott Benner 1:06:27
you read from it? Hmm, can I tell you secret? I've never once prepared to make this podcast.

Arisha 1:06:35
I write like, the introduction. And then like, all these points, then points, like under the points, because then I just forget what to talk about. And then I just go off topic. This is why you don't have any time for anything. Yeah. And then I just like start like, yeah, and then I start talking about like homework in school. Like, it's it's a good thing. I was really off topic.

Scott Benner 1:06:54
Yeah. And he just stay on topic, though. Yeah. All right. I mean, isn't that funny that I just said that, but I didn't do that at all. Alright, just you do whatever you want to do when you're making your podcast. So I I've prepared for the podcast in the past. But, you know, like when I'm making like, well, that's not sure I didn't prepare for that. Say the protests, I made a list of things I wanted to talk about. And then I would make them with Jenny and Jenny would come on. And I'd be like, Jane, let's talk about setting Temp Basal today. And she's like, Alright, and then we would just make an episode. That was my preparation for that. The the Omnipod five Pro Tip series, I actually did prepare significantly for, but that was because I made it along with the company. And they were you know, they were professional. And so I'm actually going to do more stuff with them. About Omnipod five pretty soon, but that's neither here nor there. But most of the time, I just sit down. I get everything set up. I also come whipping in this room, like five minutes before I'm supposed to record I don't even like I just come in, I sit down, I make sure I have a drink. And I'm like, Alright, good. Here we go. Actually, I rub a little bit of Vaseline on my lips. So my lips don't make noise. And then I do it. My pull up my calendar. While I'm logging on. I click on someone's name like tomorrow, I have an interview at noon with a guy named Michael. Tomorrow, I'll sit down until 1155. I'll rush around to get the file set up. I'll open this up, I'll scroll down where it says What's your relationship to diabetes? He's he has type one. And then what do you want to talk about ADHD, anxiety, depression, potential autism, they potential diagnosis of autism specifically in relation to diabetes and my care of it diabetes camp. And then I go, adult type one anxiety, depression, maybe autism, diabetes camp, and then I think I don't want to talk about diabetes camp. And then I close my calendar, and then I say out of the guy. That's it. That is how I prepped for the podcast. Yeah. Now you know, now you all know how to make a great podcast, or at least a pretty good. Okay, so now we get to interview me. I like it. Let's I'll help you set it up together. Ready? What what's the topic you'd be interested in asking me about? Really have one thing in common? Well, obviously like diabetes, but like podcasting, you want to ask a question about making a podcast, right? Oh, yeah. Right. And then why don't you start with that?

Speaker 1 1:09:28
So like, just be like, I don't know. I just felt like hard.

Scott Benner 1:09:32
This was gonna happen if I come on your podcast?

Speaker 1 1:09:34
No, have it already. Like, I need to, like at least write like a couple sentences.

Scott Benner 1:09:38
How long will it take you to make this? This these questions? The questions? Like half an hour, okay. Now, most people who come on your podcast are gonna say to you, what are you going to ask me? Here's what happens to me. They go, what are you gonna ask me when I come on? And I go, I have no idea. And they're like, I'm not comfortable with that. And I say, then this is probably not the right podcast for you. So, and then they go okay. And then, but if I was you, I do whatever your process is, right. But if I asked you for the questions in advance, say no, don't let me know the question. Why? Why am I saying that? Because then they're like, more prepared than you want me to be spontaneous? Yeah, you want me to you want me to say the first thing that comes to mind? Not something that I've prepared to make myself sound better. Right? Or you don't want me to say something canned? That I say all the time. So when you get a person in my position, I get asked the same question a lot. And so there is an answer I have, if I need to whip it out real quickly. But you don't want that you want me to just be surprised by what you say? And then just kind of disappear into my mind? And then tell you what it is that I think of your question, like, so don't don't let me know the questions ahead of time. Make sure your headphones are working again. Okay, and your microphone. And then you're gonna have to make some time to edit. And you don't have to go crazy editing, just, you know, if I like, bumped into the microphone like this, edit that out. That kind of stuff. I think I'm gonna have to say to rob, leave that in for a fact. And so I hired an editor recently, is a wonderful gentleman, his child has diabetes, and does a terrific job. But I ended the show for nine years on my own. And then one day, I was just like, I can't I think I'm gonna die. I can't do this anymore. So, so I was able, luckily, to hire an editor, which was nice. You're gonna need to make some money before you do that. All right. You got any sponsors?

Arisha 1:11:41
Not like at the moment? Yeah, only have like two episodes, two

Scott Benner 1:11:45
episodes, you're gonna need more episodes, you're gonna need more downloads. Downloads are how you get the sponsors. Okay.

Unknown Speaker 1:11:52
How many downloads? Do you have?

Scott Benner 1:11:53
Oh, see, right now can

Unknown Speaker 1:11:55
I guess? Can I get? Like? Yeah, what

Scott Benner 1:11:58
do you want? 1000 80,000? Do you think I have 80,000? Downloads? Let me pull up my downloads. I don't want

Unknown Speaker 1:12:04
like per episode, though.

Scott Benner 1:12:05
Not like, oh, per episode. See, the episodes are different. So I'm probably not going to tell you how many downloads my episodes get. Because now there's a reason I'm not but I will tell you some numbers. Okay, so the podcast has been online since 2015. It's nine years old. It has 14 and a half million total downloads. That's a lot. This year in 2023. I'm going to get about 6 million. I think I'm going to reach 6 million this year, just for this year. Last year, I had 4.5 million, so 10 and a half million in the last 24 months. And the other three and a half million it took me seven years to get the first year of the podcast like the entire first year 2015. I had, I don't know the exact number off the top my head, but it was like 26,000 downloads for the whole year. That's a lot. It sounds like a lot, doesn't it? I was very angry when I only had 26,000 downloads at the end of the first year. So and that I was disappointed, disappointed now, I guess back then I was happy. I was like it's working. And people I could see it grow every month. Right. But I was getting like 1300 a month or something like that. Yeah. And so about 25,000 for that year. Now, most days, I get 25,000. And so the weekends aren't as much. And there are some days that are less than others. It's interesting what people skip over. For instance, the after dark stuff, people are very people either love it or don't listen to it. The people who love the after darks love them. And then there are plenty of people like I don't want to hear people like carcere talked about their sex lives or stuff like that. So they stay away from those. If I do stuff for type two, it gets fewer downloads. If I hate to say this, if I do interviews with people who have accents, they don't do as well, that happens. And there's

Arisha 1:14:09
no like funding. I feel like it'd be so much fun doing with with someone who looks like an Australian or British. Oh,

Scott Benner 1:14:14
no, I think it's fantastic. I think some people's ears don't hear it right away and they give up. So they don't want to listen to people with accents. I find if you just listen for a few minutes, you get it like I interviewed a guy earlier this year, who's like British accent was very thick. And there were moments where I was just staring at the table just trying to follow what he was saying because he was talking quickly and I couldn't understand him and then like 10 minutes into it, I could just hear him. It felt like it felt like you know in a movie, where they want you to know that the actors are speaking another language. So for the first couple of minutes, they speak in their native language with subtitles, then all of a sudden the subtitles go away and you hear them in English. Yeah, that's what it felt like when I interviewed him when I do things that are good for people. They don't get downloaded as much. So that's interesting too, when you when you put up content that would be very helpful for someone, not everybody listens. The management stuff is very popular. But mostly people just like to hear interviews with people. People loved your your last interview. Actual Yeah, I got a lot of good feedback about yours actually, the most popular episodes of the podcast are the ones with my daughter, because she barely ever comes on and she's a sarcastic person. So I think people like that. I did a myth episode series this year, that was pretty popular. I remastered the pro tips this year that was popular. And then people just I think, just in general, like the conversations, I But lately, I've been doing a small episode like series with people who have used glucagon to tell their story about why they needed glucagon and what happened when they use it? That's been good. I've gotten a lot of good feedback about that. That's about it, though. So here's the Here are the numbers you need right? To sell an ad, your episode has to get at least 5000 downloads in the first 30 days. Okay. But you, you can only charge something they call a CPM. Podcast CPM. So I'll explain that to you. It's a certain amount of money per 1000. And what is the current CPM right now? I'm going to be honest with you, I charge more money than this. So but this is what most people get for podcasts, a 62nd add on an episode that gets between 1010 1000 downloads on that episode. About $23 per 1000. Oh, no, that's $23. For that for for 1000. To 10,000. Yeah, per 1000. So you could probably make a couple 100 bucks for 10,000 downloads. On most podcasts, I, I charge more than that, that my pocket is is very niche. So it's hard to find people like when you're trying to market to people, you know, it's hard to find people who have diabetes, right? Yeah. So like, let's make a big example. Like, let's say, you know, who Joe Rogan is? No, okay. He's got like, the biggest podcast in the world. Like the biggest one, I don't know what it costs to buy an ad on his podcast, it's probably, I'm guessing $50,000 for a 62nd ad. Like, I'm guessing I have no idea, right? It could be more than that even. But you'll reach millions and millions of people, but you're not going to reach with me. But only 10% of those people are going to have type one diabetes. Right? So if it cost you 50 grand to reach a million people, and only 10% of those people have type one. How many of you reached Not that many, not that many, and you've paid a lot of money for it. I don't charge that much money, obviously. And but everyone you reach with me has type one or love somebody with type one. So it's a good place for people to advertise who have that now I did just meet a new company that I'm very interested in working with. They're making a zero glycemic soda. So like no glycemic impact soda, and they want to advertise on the show. I've just asked them to send me samples. And I'm going to try them and see what I think. And if I like them, then we might start working together. So it took a while to get to that point. You could just do it for fun, too. Yeah. Might be might be better that way. Also, having a successful podcast is incredibly unlikely. So only 86% of all active podcasts, get 130 downloads per episode, or fewer, under 30, or 35. That's 86% of active podcasts only get 136 in episode. So, you know in perspective, I put up an episode this morning, it'll do 3000 downloads in the first 24 hours. And then it will go from 3000 to 5000. Pretty quickly. It will reach probably seven to 9000 in the first 45 days. And then from there, it will never stop growing. And two years from now that episode will have probably 25 or 30,000 downloads on it. And yeah, and that's for every one that I put up. Some of them have much more I have episodes that have 60,000 downloads for one episode. And it's funny because I think people count I think think people think about like YouTube or or tick tock or they're like that's not a lot like I saw a tick tock video with like 800,000 It's not the same thing because you're not interacting with people the same way a tick tock is just you swiping by somebody. It's not you really building any kind of a relationship or even spending time really absorbing information, like do you know I mean, like you have tick tock, you don't do know, you don't look like a kid who is tick tock. So do you have Instagram? Oh, okay. So think back to days. What did you see on Instagram two days ago?

Unknown Speaker 1:20:24
Like my friends hope, okay.

Scott Benner 1:20:25
Okay. That's the extent of what you remember. Right? Yeah. So it's not a great marketing tool. And marketers are figuring that out as time goes forward, that PR companies in the very beginning we're very excited about like, oh, there's an Instagram influencer. And their picture gets like, so many likes and stuff like that. But it really, it's meaningless. So I don't even really focus on my social media very much because I want people to listen to the podcast. I don't care if they like a picture or something like that. That makes sense. Yeah. All right. I say you make your list. No pressure. When you're ready to interview me, let me know and you can interview me for your podcast. Okay. All right. Yeah. All right, Jeff. A good time. Yeah. All right. Go to school and learn something, don't you? Alright, so the next time you come back, I'm gonna have answers about all of this. So don't don't try to interview me for at least 30 days because I'm going to take the pills. Okay. All right. What if my poop starts to smell? That'd be terrible. How does your poop smell?

Unknown Speaker 1:21:27
I don't know. Like nothing.

Scott Benner 1:21:30
Are you sure? Yeah. All right. You fart a lot or No? Not really. Because you eat nice. You never had diarrhea like the lady in the review? No,

Unknown Speaker 1:21:41
only like no, I don't think so.

Scott Benner 1:21:45
Definitely don't tell people if you've had diarrhea, okay. Just it's not a good luck. All right, say goodbye. Bye.

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