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January 18, 2021Scott Benner

Type 1 diabetes from a child's perspective

Jaden is eleven years old. In this episode he does an inspired job of describing life with type 1 diabetes.

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Scott Benner 0:00
Hello friends and welcome to Episode 429 of the Juicebox Podcast. Today's show is special. It's with my friend Jaden. Jaden is 11 years old. He's had Type One Diabetes for two years. And in that time, he's had to overcome a couple of different issues. Jaden does a remarkable job of sharing his story, and articulating his feelings. I hope you enjoy listening to our conversation as much as I enjoyed having it.

Today's show is with an 11 year old Jaden and Jaden wanted to come on the podcast after he heard Jonathan on episode 384, after dark bipolar, Jaden has had some issues with depression. And he's had Type One Diabetes for two years. He came on the show today to try to help other people. And he did a magnificent job. Some of you are probably skeptical of guests that are very young. But I implore you to listen to Jaden does a great job of explaining his situation. And even towards the end of the episode has some revelations. It's incredibly worth your time.

Please remember while you're listening that nothing you hear on the Juicebox Podcast should be considered advice, medical or otherwise. Please always consult a physician before making any changes to your healthcare plan or becoming bold with insulin.

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Jaden, how old are you? 1111 Wow, I don't think you're the are you the youngest person maybe to ever be on the show? I'll have to figure that out. I'm not certain you might be. How old were you when you got type one diabetes?

Unknown Speaker 3:35
Nine, nine.

Scott Benner 3:37
So you've been doing this for a couple of years? Yeah. How's it going so far?

Unknown Speaker 3:42
Um, no,

Jaden 3:44
I don't like and it frustrates me and stuff. But, um, before, I wasn't taking very good care of it. But now I'm trying to do better since I heard that. I was going to be on this. And I was trying to do better before but it just always frustrated me. And I've tried to basically as my mom would say, I tried to over come in I tried to like kick its butt and tell Oh, I I tried to like tell it that I'm better.

Scott Benner 4:24
So were you trying to overpower diabetes without taking care of it?

Jaden 4:29
Yes. And I would like sneak snacks and stuff. But I'm now I'm like taking better care of myself and stuff. That's really good news.

Scott Benner 4:40
Well, let's find out a little bit about that stuff before you know when you were a young man of nine. So you get type one diabetes and your How was it explained to you or what's your understanding of it when you get it? Do you remember?

Unknown Speaker 4:56
Oh, wow,

Jaden 4:58
I had to stay in the house. hospital for two weeks and a day. I, I originally went into the hospital because I got hit in the head with a basketball play in a basketball game. And so I just had a really bad headache. And I went to the hospital and I will well that that day I woke up with a red eye and it was also a it was also puffy. So So my parents took me to the hospital, and they said, I had mersa. And then it was like, they said, I had mersa and orbital cellulitis. And it was like, inside and behind my eye. Wow. Yeah. And then, so they

Unknown Speaker 6:00
ended up

Jaden 6:04
like, I still wasn't doing good and stuff. So like one night. I just started wetting the bed bed really bad, which I would like, never really did. And my mom told them to test me and they tested me for like strep throat and stuff. And everything that it really couldn't be. And so

Unknown Speaker 6:33
we told them to

Jaden 6:36
my mom told them to test me for anything else, and they tested me for diabetes. Then it came back, like 500 or something. Yeah, my sugar was like 500. And I just like my mom was outside crying in the hall. And I'm like, go ahead, tell me. And she told me and I started crying. And then

Unknown Speaker 7:04
yeah,

Jaden 7:06
I just cried a bunch. And I just felt like life suck, did everything. And my sister. She came some of the days and so did my dad and my mom. And then I got a bunch of letters from the kids at school. And that kind of made me Cheer up, um, and the people from our church, and, um,

Scott Benner 7:36
she got a lot of support from people and that that definitely helped you feel better.

Jaden 7:40
Yeah. And then there was one lady that was there at the hospital and she was my favorite and all of them. And she played games with me like that. We had a we in there that the hospital supported. I think we had a Wii and the Xbox and a ps4. But my sister didn't get an Xbox till, like, last year. So I didn't know like how to play on the Xbox and stuff. And I didn't really like it. So that crossed out the Xbox and I don't like ps4. So I just played on the week because we have one and Jaden, it's funny, isn't it? You weed in the bed and then you got to play we in the hospital. Exactly, exactly. Right.

Scott Benner 8:29
So was the cellulitis in your I know that you were really little when this happened? But was that a function or part of having undiagnosed diabetes? Did they say Do you remember?

Unknown Speaker 8:40
exactly sure.

Scott Benner 8:41
Okay. I'm not either. So. I mean, I just made a p joke. And I'm 50 so I don't really know a lot about medicine. But okay, so you got to the hospital, they found a number of different issues. That's probably why you were there for so long that the diabetes part of it, but they're also helping you with the cellulitis and that you got hit with the basketball. Did you have a concussion by any chance?

Unknown Speaker 9:04
I think so.

Scott Benner 9:05
What have you learned from this? You gotta keep your hands up and you're playing basketball, right?

Unknown Speaker 9:09
Yeah.

Jaden 9:10
What happened is actually I don't think I had a concussion but

Unknown Speaker 9:15
what happened was

Jaden 9:18
my friend was making well so right before that happened, I lead like a very long shot. It was like the middle or second to middle on the on the other team side, and I shot it and I made it and then my friend tried to do same thing. And I was like talking to one of my ever friends cuz I didn't hear the whistle blow yet like it was well, it was after the game but my friend was making shy and me and my friend were talking about stuff and then my friend shot the ball and hit me in the head. he mistook

Scott Benner 10:04
your head for the hoop. You think I guess your head look like a basketball hoop,

Jaden 10:09
but he's, I don't know, but he was pretty bad at he's pretty bad at basketball. And

Unknown Speaker 10:18
he always, yeah, he

Jaden 10:20
always tries to do shots. He can't make like, he's always short on basketball.

Scott Benner 10:29
But he diagnosed you with Type One Diabetes.

Jaden 10:33
Well, I know I'm fat. I had it before that, but Oh, really? Yeah. That's what she thought. But um, my friend, he felt really bad. And he said, I'm sorry. And I said, It's fine, dude.

Scott Benner 10:48
I imagine. He didn't I imagine at nine years old. He probably felt terrible. Like he probably felt like he hit you in the head, man. You got diabetes?

Unknown Speaker 10:56
Yeah, yeah.

Scott Benner 10:57
Did you get you a good present for your birthday that year at all? Um,

Jaden 11:03
I honestly forget what he I think he got me a big gift basket. As soon as I got home filled with army guys and monster truck, see

Scott Benner 11:12
if it works. And that's a long time ago. That was like 20% of your life ago. It was a really long time ago. So yeah, Jaden, do you have any other health issues that you're dealing with besides the diabetes?

Unknown Speaker 11:27
I mean, no.

Unknown Speaker 11:31
I mean, I have

Jaden 11:34
a little I had a little bit of depression. And I still can't do but I had to go to a psych hospital. But because I just there was a couple years ago, I just wasn't, like very good, but I had to go there and they made me take off my vices and stuff.

Scott Benner 11:59
Let me ask you that the way you felt that led to going to the hospital, did you feel that way before the diabetes, or was that after diabetes?

Jaden 12:10
I think I always want to blame it on my diabetes, I think I want to blame everything on my diabetes, but um,

Unknown Speaker 12:21
I think

Jaden 12:22
it was a mixture of that. And I'm adopted, and I never got to see my birth parents or anything. But they're, they just weren't in a good state and stuff. Like, they're into a bunch of nasty stuff. So and a lot of my siblings are but the slash share, I got to talk to my birth sister. Her name is passion. But um, yeah, so that kind of help on leave a little bit of like, pain and stuff in me cuz I just kind of feel I kind of felt abandoned because like, as soon as I was born, like, three hours after I was born, my mom walked out of the hospital to get drugs.

Scott Benner 13:18
I'm sorry. Hey, um, I'm adopted. Did you do that?

Unknown Speaker 13:24
Oh, you're Yeah,

Scott Benner 13:26
yeah, I was adopted when I was. I mean, I was put up for adoption right away when I was born. And I think my parents got me. It probably in the first month or so I had to go to, like, through the foster system, I guess it was like it was 100 years ago. So it was a really long time ago. I think, basically, they took me out of the hospital. And they put me in a cardboard box. And the nice lady came by, and she took care of me for a while. And then I got adopted. I think that's about what happened, I might be wrong. But my parents adopted me. Like I said, in the first number of weeks of my life, and I've always known that I was adopted, I don't remember being told. And I find sometimes when I'm talking to other people who are adopted, that they kind of fall into like one or two different, pretty specific categories. I feel like they either really care that they're adopted, and it's upsetting to them, somehow, or they don't seem to mind at all, or at least say they don't mind. And I'm sure there's other character characteristics around being adopted. But those are the two that I've bumped into the most. And I am I never had that feeling like like, I wish I knew who everyone was and that I could meet people but I understand that you felt that way. Yeah, so you think maybe underlying throughout your very throughout your life, you felt like you just wanted to meet people and why would somebody just leave you? Is that the kind of the feeling

Unknown Speaker 14:59
Yeah.

Jaden 15:01
Like, it just kind of made me, it kind of hurt me like just knowing that someone would do that. Like, if I had a kid, I want to leave them to go get drugs, and stuff.

Scott Benner 15:17
Dude, I can tell you that some of the best lessons that I've learned from my dad who's no longer alive. And this is the man who adopted me. Like it, you hope that you learn from adults what to do, right? Like, you hope that somebody does something. And it's a really great example. And then you just go like, that's how you be a good person, I see it happen every day, my somebody in my family or my life is a good person. And that does happen, you will meet people like that, where you can kind of be aspirational about them. And I met plenty of people along the way who were like that, but they ended up being people I've worked with, or friends that had great traits. And I know this is a weird conversation, maybe. But what I learned to do was to look for the examples and other people that I hoped came from family. Yeah, and so if my family didn't do the things that I thought were very valuable and worth, you know, trying to mimic or be like, I would, you know, do it other ways. I, I used to work with a guy who had a great sense of humor. And I thought that made a lightness about him. And I could see that he had problems in his life, but he never acted like it. And I thought that that's a good way to be. And I had been like that when I was younger. I met people who were very thoughtful. kind, I've met a man who was very giving just a lot of people along the way. And I would just kind of cherry pick, just take the good parts of them and think, well, that's something that I might want to do. But back to my dad, who was my adopted dad, not even my birth dad. He was just, you know, he was fine. But he wasn't a great guy. And what I would do is I would see the things that he did that I didn't think were good. And I would just think Alright, well, there's a good example of how I don't want to act. You know what I mean? And so sometimes people are good examples, in a bad way. Sometimes they do something that makes you think, alright, that's definitely not the way I want to be. And, you know, so sometimes it's just how you look at it. Because you could be sad that they're not the people you want them to be. Or you can, you know, turn and look at your mom, you know, now and say, here's a person who really cares about me is taking care of me, you know? Yeah, it sucks, man. I know. But I can tell you, it's gonna get better. And there'll be times in your life where you'll look back, and you won't even remember feeling like this.

Jaden 17:50
Right? I can even say that my mom cares about me a little too much

Scott Benner 17:56
does she? How come?

Jaden 17:58
He just does like she's all like, she's just taking care of me in it sometimes. Sometimes when she takes care of me, it just gets kind of annoying.

Unknown Speaker 18:12
In a good way.

Scott Benner 18:13
Moms that are good are annoying. Oh, she hugging you too much. You think she knows that.

Unknown Speaker 18:23
But

Scott Benner 18:25
I can tell from the times that your mom has written to me over the years that she really loves you and cares about you. And I think that's terrific. Yeah, good for you, man. Look, you have somebody just like you wanted, you know?

Jaden 18:37
Yeah. And my bike I like came out with my dad. Like, my mom's The one who cares about me. And my sister was the one that grumbles about me. And my dad is the one that as soon as I as soon as he gets home from work or says I used to get off the bus. He's the one that would wrestle with me.

Scott Benner 19:03
Yeah, that's how it goes. Man. That sounds like a good family to me.

Jaden 19:06
Like as soon as I walk in the door, he'll like tackle me.

Scott Benner 19:10
Well tell him to be careful because you don't know how to catch a basketball. I realized the boy threw it at you but that's not the point. Yeah. So interesting. I guess you can you tell me. You said you went for your depression. You went to a hospital? How long were you there?

Jaden 19:28
Oh, I think I was there about

Unknown Speaker 19:32
a week.

Scott Benner 19:33
Okay. And well shorter than the diabetes. That's not bad. Did they teach you like what do you learn there? How do you what do you get out of it? That helps you?

Unknown Speaker 19:46
I mean,

Jaden 19:48
they basically like, do yoga and they're it's kind of weird.

Unknown Speaker 19:54
teach you to relax a little bit.

Jaden 19:56
Yeah, but um, the lady that did the Yoga. She was a little bit of a psycho. She was crazy.

Scott Benner 20:05
No, no, no, Jaden those those people are called hippies. They're not. She's not crazy. She's just, you know, she's just living life a different way. That's all. Did she teach you anything that was valuable? Oh,

Jaden 20:20
well, um, she was really crazy. And me and someone else was like laughing at her and we kind of bonded there.

Scott Benner 20:34
You found a friend making fun of the yoga teacher? That's nice.

Jaden 20:36
Yeah, yeah. So that's what I think they're they like Dude, there, they try a setup there. They try and make like, really weird activities to do to try to help to try and make you think you're calming down by it. And then in order to do that, they have to have like a crazy person up there. And then the people laughing bond and make friendships. So you think and that's how they deal with their depression.

Scott Benner 21:07
You think that this lady's so smart that her plan was to irritate you into having a conversation with the person next to you and forming a friendship? Maybe Hey, listen, then if she did that, she's kind of a genius, don't you think?

Unknown Speaker 21:24
Right.

Unknown Speaker 21:25
I guess so.

Scott Benner 21:26
Did I just hear that you're on the pod might be expiring soon.

Unknown Speaker 21:30
Yeah,

Scott Benner 21:30
yeah. That's cool. How long till it's done?

Unknown Speaker 21:33
Like two o'clock, two o'clock.

Scott Benner 21:35
game today. That's what it was done. Right? Yeah. I could probably sing that in my head. It's cool that it tells you when it's almost done, because I would forget sometimes. Yeah, if it didn't. So you said earlier that you have been trying to take better care of yourself. Your diabetes, yes. In in preparation for coming on the podcast.

Jaden 22:03
A little bit of that. And I was also trying to do it before good. But I will say that before, I wasn't trying as hard, okay. But I was just trying to do better. And I'm going to try to work harder even once this is done. And but I just didn't want to come on here with like, an A one seed. It's like eight or nine.

Scott Benner 22:32
There's nothing wrong with that, man, you get into something.

Jaden 22:34
Yeah. But I, my mom always wants me down to be like, she wants me to be in the best condition I can be. So in the future. I can like be healthy and stuff because her dad was a type two, or type one, I forget. But he didn't really take care of himself. And that was part of the well, he just then he just didn't get around very well. He wasn't a good cheap.

Scott Benner 23:09
didn't let me tell you that your health is the most important thing that exists. So nothing else works. If you're not feeling well, you know that you're you haven't been alive that long. But you've you've learned a lot of stuff. And one of those things is when you feel better. You feel better, right?

Jaden 23:25
Yeah, yeah. And also, um, our friend from Florida, he lost his leg because of this. So she just wants me to be the healthiest I can be.

Scott Benner 23:37
Well, that's good advice. Although you can't count examples from Florida because there's something up with those people. And I don't know what it is. But the craziest news stories in the world come out of Florida all the time. Right. Yeah. Have you ever once saw a news story about a boa constrictor like killing an antelope? And you're like, Oh, that must be like, you know, in Africa or something? Like No, no, it's Florida.

Jaden 23:59
Yeah, that happened while we were down there.

Scott Benner 24:03
I was trying to make up something crazy. Jaden. But what is it you saw in Florida?

Jaden 24:07
Well, I mean, we saw some crazy stuff we shot we while we were down there. The newspaper came in like now a gator and a kid almost or something like that.

Scott Benner 24:19
Yeah, that makes your life so much better, doesn't it? Yeah, yeah. Right. Like I mean, at least an alligator ratio. Should we should have like a moment of silence for the kid that got eaten by the alligator. I didn't mean to make you laugh there. I might be like that yoga lady. Was she wearing baggy pants chin?

Jaden 24:40
I'm a little. I mean, they weren't super baggy, but

Scott Benner 24:45
they're flowers on them.

Unknown Speaker 24:46
Yes.

Scott Benner 24:47
What else can I guess? I wish you weren't a tank top. No, no,

Unknown Speaker 24:52
that'd be too crazy,

Scott Benner 24:53
too crazy. It's probably not allowed to be not allowed to do that around the kids. But okay. So, what is it? Do you listen to the podcast?

Jaden 25:03
Um, I mean, my mom will sometimes Listen, I, I mean, I wouldn't I don't do it by myself, but my mom would sometimes listen. And like if she's listening to one in particular that I like maybe like, the one with Jonathan, um, I walked in from school, and I heard her listening to it. And I asked her, can you restart this? And she said, Why? I said, I kind of want to hear it. And she said, Okay. And we were sent to that dinner. And that one was good. And we listened to a couple offers, I forget.

Scott Benner 25:47
But Jane, do you know, it still freaks me out a little bit to think that that somewhere in Ohio, a family's having dinner and listening to the podcast at the same time, it's hard for me not

Unknown Speaker 25:57
a bad thing. Oh, it's

Scott Benner 25:58
a great thing. You should be listening 24 hours a day. And that's not what I'm saying. And on on different devices, too. But my point is that, it's if you ever do something like what I'm doing, you'll find out that your expectation in the beginning isn't that it's going to be as popular and that it's odd. Not odd, but nice and kind of strange to think that at the same time, all over the world, like people are listening, it's it's a little mind bending, I was gonna say something else, but you're too young. But it's just it's a little my unless you like to curse, and it's okay with your mom. And then, you know, I'd like to know what your favorite curses are. But we'll do that at the end. All right, so. But, but so what have you been doing with your diabetes? That's been helping because you're you're a one sees coming down?

Unknown Speaker 26:46
Yeah,

Unknown Speaker 26:47
cool. What are you doing? Um,

Unknown Speaker 26:49
I mean,

Jaden 26:51
I think a little bit. I mean, I think that what started to make me think to try and bring it down and stuff. There's two things this and like, I want to, like, be on this and stuff. And I want to try better. So I wouldn't be giving like, I wouldn't say bad examples, but I wouldn't, I wouldn't be giving a a like, example, that was like my a once he would be 12 or something.

Scott Benner 27:29
Okay, so let's pick that apart for a second. First thing, why did you want to come on the podcast?

Jaden 27:35
I want to help people, I want to maybe get some ideas from other people how to help. I wanted to, um, I want to like, do what my mom told me, I should try to do but she told me I should try be on here. And she said, maybe it would help.

Scott Benner 27:59
Yeah, I have to tell you Jaden. I don't know if you realize this or not. But I have a very long standing rule in my life. And I pay very, very close attention to it. I never break my rule, but I break it for you. You're the only one I break my rule for it's a simple little rule, but I do not correspond with children directly. So even like my, my daughter's friends, like my wife will be like, hey, text Arden's friend and ask them like, why do you think I have a 16 year old girl's phone number I do not write because Jane, if things ever gets sideways, you know what I mean? If the man ever comes, I don't want to be seen as texting with kids. You know what I'm saying? Right? Like, I just think people would see that odd, like, but you every once in a while you send me a nice message through your mom's account online. And I'm always happy to talk to you. So yeah, you're the only one I do it with just so you know. Otherwise, you're That's it? Cuz 11 the new 15 really, so we can hang up? Yeah, so you're trying to help people out? Right? And by just I guess, telling them what's happened to you and what you've done. might might help them like, sort of like maybe Jonathan helped you. Is that right? Yeah. It's funny, man. Because some people some adults don't like to listen to interviews with kids. And so like, every time one comes up, I'm there's part of me the part of me that wants the podcast to get downloaded a lot. Like I don't know, kids sometimes don't like but then I realize how helpful it is to people who do want to hear it. And then I stopped thinking about that. So I'm really happy that you're doing this and I'm glad that you had like a goal. Like it doesn't matter to me like a goal to do better is a goal to do better. But then you have to moving forward from here I have a goal that's for you. You know what I mean? Like I'm gonna continue to do this for myself so that I can, you know, be healthier because you must feel better with your blood sugar lowered. No.

Unknown Speaker 30:00
Yeah, I do.

Scott Benner 30:01
What does it feel like when it's hi?

Jaden 30:03
Oh, well, I was about to get that in a minute. The second reason I

Scott Benner 30:09
didn't I didn't mean to rush you. I'm sorry.

Unknown Speaker 30:11
Oh, it's okay. Okay, thanks.

Unknown Speaker 30:12
What's your second?

Jaden 30:13
The second reason I want to do this is because I'm in a car ride. To up to a good name, wasn't it? No. To? Yeah, good name. No, wait,

Scott Benner 30:28
hold on. While you're thinking about that, try not to let that wire up. Because I want to hear what you're really saying. Okay.

Unknown Speaker 30:40
Two.

Unknown Speaker 30:42
Crawford County,

Scott Benner 30:44
you reminded me of my uncle right now, Jade. I have an uncle who is very careful to get all the details in the story, right? Even the details that don't matter to the story. And you just you were just like, we were in the car on our way to? Um, was it Greenville? No. Was it? No, it doesn't matter if you're in the car. You're in the car. Where were you going?

Jaden 31:09
I think it was Crawford County, okay. Something. And in the car, I'd like my sugar was high that morning like to wear it when it read on the sensor. Okay. And, um, it just said hi. And my mom was up the and my dad didn't know where my poker fiend was. So I think it, we found it, but my mom checked it non night before because that was the night that we changed it. And it felt like by the couch, because she fell asleep by it and knocked it over. Gotcha. And But anyway, we left then my dad said try and bring it down with your pump. And I said, Okay, so I gave myself insulin, and we wait a little. And my cousin was with us. So I sat up front, because I wasn't feeling good. I can't sit in the back if I don't feel good. And if I yes, but um, and then I didn't listen often. So and again. Because I still wasn't down. My dad stopped at Tim Hortons. And he said, Eli, Do you want anything? Because that's my cousin's name. And he said, maybe. So he went in, and my dad got something, Eli got something. And I said, Dad, can I have some fun? And he said, okay, you can, but you better not let your sugar go higher. And I said, I'll try not to. So he got me. The drink delight. And we went a little more, and I couldn't drink my drink. Because like, I felt like I was gonna throw up. Cuz you typically do if you're high, I mean, and so I ate the I tried to drink the shake. I mean, the coffee, but I cannot do it. So I said it there. And my dad had to drink it because it was melting. So I'm, like, on the way to a gas station because we were making a pit stop. I threw up in the car. And my dad was like, are you okay? And I said, I think we need to stop up here discuss the issue. And he said, Okay, we'll do that. And yeah, and then I had to get through ecig ketones out by pain. So, um, yeah. And then

Scott Benner 33:59
so you had a really high blood sugar during a car ride with your father who doesn't sound like he's not the main person who helps you with your diabetes, right? He's more Yeah, the wrestling tackling guy. And so and the poker was jammed under the sofa because your mom fell asleep. By the way. This is why you're not supposed to smoke sit laying down because you could fall asleep and burn the house down, except your mom fell asleep and knocked the poker over very similar situation. And so you don't make it. And so and so you're having this obviously, your blood sugar's super high. Was it normally high a lot or is that wasn't common?

Jaden 34:37
Um, it wasn't really common. That was, well, it's typically high. But um, I mean, it's not typically high like, my shoulders like a roller coaster, ooh, all the time. It will go up and down and up and down. But it's typically high but um,

Scott Benner 35:00
Okay, so but this so this is something that you've had to deal with in the past, you just didn't have all the tools to take care of it, you're in the car doesn't make you feel good. Like there's a lot of different problems.

Jaden 35:08
Yeah, but I mean, it's never been like Chi for all day, pretty much. It's just been high for maybe an hour or two at the max guy. And so I wasn't used to it being high all day, and typically shy of kinda, I wouldn't say friend, because I like I knew him when I was growing up, but I was too young to remember it now. But, um, he's been well, not now. But he's in Florida right now, I think. But he has type one diabetes. He's a friend from church. And he's my mom's friend's kid. He's 21 I think 2122. But he has this and he would like me and him talk after church and stuff and

Unknown Speaker 36:14
stuff like that. But, um,

Jaden 36:18
but he said that, like, he was surprised that I didn't feel anything when I was hired. Because like, when I'm high, I don't feel nothing. Except for that day, like, every time I'm high and stuff, like if it was for two hours, one hour, 30 minutes, I wouldn't feel anything. Like it would just feel normal. And I wouldn't feel anything. So he was kind of surprised about that. Because like he said, he always felt something when he was high. And I said, Yeah, it will probably hit me more sooner, though. And as soon like, as soon as I said that, like a couple days after that the car ride happened on white Street. But um, and at the gas station. Yeah. I just didn't feel good at all. And I think up through up again there. And then we ended up going to, I think the next stop we went we went straight to Crawford County. Yeah. But then we, we went to his grave. Crawford's grave. No, Colonel Crawford. That's it. And we went to his grave. And there were a bunch of other tombs there.

Scott Benner 37:51
Jaden. Let me stop you for a second because I'm, I have been since you started talking about this, this part of the story. I have been trying to figure out what Crawford was. And now I'm thinking you were going to visit like, like a historical site with your dad. Your Colonel Crawford. Colonel Crawford?

Jaden 38:11
Yes. And he? He was friends with George Washington.

Scott Benner 38:14
All right, hold on a second. He didn't happen to know Colonel Mustard. Do you think Hold on a second. I just learned that I don't know how to spell Colonel. That was pretty embarrassing. Hold on a second. I got it. I'm on top of things now. Colonel Crawford High School. Oh, isn't Ohio, Colonel Crawford. Today, we're gonna figure this out together. William Crawford. Is that sound right?

Unknown Speaker 38:43
Uh, I don't know.

Scott Benner 38:44
Okay, so you were off. I see a painting of him. And let me tell you, he looks fancy. Us. I'm not making this up chin. So you and your dad, you're getting this now. You and your father and your cousin went on like a little day trip? To check out like some historical sites?

Jaden 39:07
Yes, it was for my school. We went up to Colonel Colonel village or whatever it's called. And we went to see his tombstone.

Scott Benner 39:19
Gotcha. You didn't throw up on his tombstone. Did you know good job. Wait, hold it together. All right. And you know, though, now what does this story about Colonel Crawford which by the way, Colonel Crawford is a strong contender for the title of your episode. Just so you know. Where Colonel Mustard I haven't decided yet. What What does that have to do with why you wanted to be on the podcast? He's there's two reasons you want to be on the podcast said to help people and then because of something that happened in this story. What happened?

Jaden 39:54
Well, we once it flew up, I felt better and stuff. But um We went to go out to eat after and my sugar was so high and stuff and we then they seem to think that there could be something wrong with my pump. So we just kept going and stuff. And then I said, Wait, what if there's something wrong with my pump and that's it. My dad was like, oh, that could be and I gave myself insulin with the shot and I came down a little but not too much. And I still wasn't feeling good or anything after but we were going to eat at Bob Evans, but then we ate at Taco Bell. I think

Scott Benner 40:40
when for the border.

Jaden 40:42
I got like 767 cheese roll ups,

Scott Benner 40:49
six or seven cheese roll out to try to stay away from the carbs.

Jaden 40:54
I think those have actually a lot of carbs.

Scott Benner 40:56
I don't know that you can get anything at Taco Bell. It doesn't have carbs. Did the pump site end up being bad? You? Did you learn that through injecting or no?

Jaden 41:04
Yeah, we did. And it worked at all. And then we went to Taco Bell. And because like we already gave our cell phones one for Bob Evans. And then we realized is that it was close. So we had to think of a high carb place that we could eat because like pink I gave myself like eight units because I was going to have a piggy pink cake. Like two of them.

Scott Benner 41:31
Piggy what Say that again?

Unknown Speaker 41:33
Hanky Panky cake.

Scott Benner 41:35
pancake. I'm googling Hold on a second. Oh, it's a pancake that looks like a pig.

Jaden 41:40
Yeah. bananas and I chocolate chips. Is it smile? That's cute. Yeah, me. My grandmother passed away. She passed away I think last year or something. But she used to always take us to Bob Evans when we stayed the night, me and my cousin both. And we would always order the piggy pancake. It was our favorite thing to get there.

Scott Benner 42:05
Nice. Now your episode is gonna be called piggy pancake in case you're wondering, hey, listen, I only have two pieces of advice for people. If your blood sugar doesn't move, when you're injecting, you know, when you're putting insulin in with your pump. A quick and easy way to see if your pump site is bad is to inject some insulin with a needle. And because if you put it in like that, and your blood sugar starts to move very quickly, you can assume that maybe the site is starting to fail. That's the one thing I tell people all the time. The second thing I tell people, Jaden is don't eat at Taco Bell. That is not really food. That's not good for you. Listen. Let's take a small sidebar for a second here. Colonel William Crawford was born in Berkeley County, Virginia in 1732. As you said he met George Washington who then was a young surveyor. They taught him a trade and then hired him to do some surveying in western Pennsylvania. Now there's much more information here. Somehow this story ends with in 1927, a stone wall was erected near the site where Colonel Crawford was captured on June 7 1782. They don't know where his body was buried. So I don't know how he went from like, hey, George Washington, what's up to I was captured. But it seems like a very gangster story. There's a battle of Sandusky combined forces in the Shawnee Delaware River. There's a lot of stuff going did you learn about this for school?

Jaden 43:34
Yes, my dad took me since I'm homeschooled. I don't really go on field trips. And the virus is happening at this time, obviously. So the school wouldn't have been able to go on field trips cheaper. So my dad just took me and before we went to Grenada and cut in and that word here,

Scott Benner 43:55
hold on a second. Jaden. I'm getting excited. The volunteers were in search of Native Americans who had captured a group of Moravian missionaries from it's a word that starts with a G and then has an end which

Jaden 44:11
Yeah, grenade and hot and yeah, I

Scott Benner 44:12
think we all know that's not how you spell but good. Aiden Hutton will say and Schoenbrunn villages, well, you had all the salient details while you're telling me this. Good. All right. I'm gonna read this later so that I can understand more about this in my personal time. Anyway, what did you learn from this day? Besides pancakes that look like pigs are more fun than cheese roll ups from Taco Bell? I learned

Unknown Speaker 44:34
that it sucks to be in ketoacidosis

Scott Benner 44:38
There you go. JD that's 100%. Right. It sucks to be in ketoacidosis. You did learn that and so you don't want to feel like that anymore. Is that the point? Yeah, yeah. All right.

Jaden 44:50
And it's like after Jonathan was talking about that, like I tried to be like how he's trying to take care of But and I didn't know I would be like, exactly what happened to him.

Scott Benner 45:06
So but so you're doing better now? Is that right? Like things are just going better for you? What changes have you made that have helped you feel better and help your blood sugar be less roller coaster?

Jaden 45:19
mean? I've tried to take better.

Scott Benner 45:23
Hey, Jaden. Jaden Hold on a second. Our connections gotten bad. So I don't know why. So I'm gonna, can you push stop? Hey, sorry. No, don't be sorry. Hey, listen, James done a great job of telling a story. But the internet connection on your end is getting funky. So I was wondering if we could stop the zoom call and then go back into it again. Yeah. Okay. So just, I'll end the meeting, which will kick you out and then I need you to hit that link and get back to it.

Unknown Speaker 45:52
Okay. Hi, I'm

Scott Benner 45:53
here.

Unknown Speaker 45:56
Can you hear me?

Scott Benner 45:56
I can hear you. Yeah, you're a little clear. Okay, there's a little bit of a noise behind you. I'm not sure if like the heater came on or something like,

Jaden 46:03
yeah, that's my sister one day heater on and I told her. I told her, just try. I might. I'll tell you. I'm gonna go into the living room so you can't hear my mom. My mom said, My sister is trying to act like a fan girl. wearing her juicebox sweatshirt that my mom got her.

Scott Benner 46:29
How old is your sister?

Unknown Speaker 46:30
She's 18. Ah,

Scott Benner 46:33
that's nice. All right, said hello, please.

Unknown Speaker 46:36
God said hello.

Jaden 46:39
But she had to turn the heater on because she was cold. I say I may have a heater in your room. Right? Yeah,

Scott Benner 46:46
go warm yourself up in another place. Hey, Jaden, that's great. I appreciate you making it sound better. So let me tell me when you're settled, I don't want you to be moving around. But but so you, you went through DK that day. You Colonel DK, I guess. And and it just was something you just didn't want to go through again. And then I asked you about some of the changes you've made that are keeping your blood sugar more stable. So what are you doing now? For your diabetes that you weren't doing a year ago?

Unknown Speaker 47:23
Um, I'm like,

Jaden 47:28
I don't know how to say it. Um, I'd say like on that event kind of scared me. So unlike just not sneaking snacks anymore. I'm

Unknown Speaker 47:44
I mean,

Jaden 47:47
I don't like, I don't do this on purpose. But I free my pump. Like, I know how much stuff is like, my mom says I'm guessing on it. But like, I know how much food is like, we took a test on it and stuff. And like, I absolutely demolished it. You could say Yeah. But like, I know how much like stuff. I know how much insulin to give for stuff. And it just feels like she thinks that I don't know how to do it. And she says I'm guessing through it. And I just like,

Scott Benner 48:35
didn't I tell you a secret? Oh, I'm guessing a lot of the times too. But when I guess and I get it wrong, I guess different than next time?

Jaden 48:45
Yeah, that's what I do. I mean, like, for pizza. If I'm having like free pieces, I know it will affect me hard after. So I do like, so my ratio is like one unit every 10 cards. So I kind of guessed that like each site says about one, one and a half units. And so I do maybe six if and I have about four pieces. I'll do six units and have about four pieces. Because afterwards it will kind of affect me hard. And if I see my sugar trending up, I'll give myself maybe another unit and it will typically at least the highest that we'll go for that is about 200. If if I do it that way, if my mom does it all the time, she's right with it, but I am not trying to be found rude about it, but she's just kind of awful at all.

Scott Benner 49:50
She doesn't get that she doesn't get the numbers, does she use less insulin or more insulin than you use?

Jaden 49:56
Um, She's so funny. Number like, and what the thing I have is weird. Like, if we put in my sugar and stuff, which I typically don't do, because it like it just, it's weird when you put in my sugar, like, if you put in your sugar and it's like 200, it will add in. So it's supposed to add insulin, but like, sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't if it's once, like my mom wants to put it in for 143. And it gave me point two, but if she would put it in for like, 250, and want to give me any insulin at all,

Scott Benner 50:38
you know why that is? I can tell you why. Okay, so if you've had insulin before that, and the pump still thinks that that insulin is active, it doesn't give you more. So there's a setting in your pump called insulin action time. And most doctors set it to like four hours. So if at let's say at 12 o'clock, at noon, you eat some food, and you don't use enough insulin for it, you mess it up somehow and don't get the count, right? And then two hours later, your blood sugar's 140. And you're say to yourself, Well, I would like to give myself some insulin to get this down. And you tell the pump, I'm 140, how much insulin should I have? It's gonna say none, because two hours ago, you gave yourself insulin, you told it, you used enough insulin, and it believes that that insulin is going to stay active in you for four hours. So if you were to have gotten it right at noon, your blood sugar wouldn't be as high. But if you were to, but the pump doesn't let you go back and say, oh, Remember when I told you this thing was 20 carbs, it was probably really 30 carbs. So you just have to, you can override what the pump wants in that situation. If you think you need more insulin, you can just dial it up and give it to yourself.

Jaden 52:08
That's what I do. And my mom always wants to put my sugar in and stuff but I don't know we do it. Because every time we get does that, but now I know.

Scott Benner 52:19
I have to tell you, I imagine that just now when you said that adult people with type one diabetes who are listening are smiling and thinking Jaden starting to get this. So good for you. That's excellent. Tell your mom to be a little bolder, right? Yeah. But so you're learning how to do these things. And listen, man, you're young. I know. It feels like you've been alive forever. But elevens pretty young. And I think if you understand it, this Well, now you're you're Pre-Bolus Singh.

Unknown Speaker 52:50
Yes. Good.

Jaden 52:52
And, and I'm doing a little I mean, it's typically I, I have a hard time waiting to eat food.

Scott Benner 53:03
Don't think about it as waiting to eat food thinking about doing something before you were even going to eat. Yeah, that's

Jaden 53:09
what I do. But like I sometimes my mom typically wants me Wait, wait 25 minutes for 30 minutes. So I just kind of watch a show. If I don't eat it. Like, in five minutes. I typically just watch a show. And that kind of helps like, frame time faster.

Scott Benner 53:28
Do you have to wait 30 minutes to Pre-Bolus Are you trying to bring down a higher number before?

Jaden 53:34
No I to eat? Like, like if I give myself insulin? She typically wants me and we always 20 or 25? If not 30 minutes till I eat. But I think I mean, I would do 20 but not 30 or 25 for stuff.

Scott Benner 53:51
Yeah. I hear you. Listen, here's what I'm going to tell you. What's your agency right now?

Jaden 53:56
Um, I think it's last time we looked at was like, a 7.2. Wow, that's really

Scott Benner 54:04
great.

Jaden 54:04
Your 6.8 and when I was in the hospital, I think it was maybe nine.

Scott Benner 54:11
And that wasn't that long ago. Right?

Unknown Speaker 54:14
Two years ago. Wow.

Scott Benner 54:15
See? You're doing a good job. So you started at a nine? You're down

Jaden 54:19
nine. I think it was a nine I'm not sure though. But my average sugar I know my average sugar like it's when we got my sister It was like 226 maybe and now and that was for like for three weeks or something. And now for like a month is on my average sugars like 171 60

Scott Benner 54:59
Wow. Good for you. You're bringing it down

Jaden 55:01
a couple a couple weeks ago, like the Mall of the month one, the month section was like 124. Wow. So like me and my mom, like we were really proud and stuff.

Scott Benner 55:15
I'm very proud of you as well. That's excellent. Tell your mom. I told her. She did a good job. And so are you. Yeah. Yeah, Listen, man, you're gonna keep doing that. So that number is going to keep as you learn more stuff. And you have more experiences, Bolus and things you'll get better at it. And the blood sugar will keep coming down, you'll start getting it more stable, there'll be less rollercoasters. And before you know it, you'll have an agency that you want. And it'll be easier and easier to do day after day, because you're gonna keep learning how to do it, the real, the real secret you already figured out which is to pay attention to it. And and now you're paying attention. I do have a question about the old you, you know, back in the day, I wondered try to understand taking food and on purpose not giving yourself insulin for what why does he can you explain why that happens or how it feels while you're doing it?

Jaden 56:11
I mean, thank you. If my friends were over, like, once my friends were over me, my best friend and his refers. We were playing on my sister's Xbox, cuz she told us we could. She was over at their sister's house. And the boys stayed here. She went over to their sisters. And so she gave us all permission to play on the Xbox, she put the oldest brother in charge. And so he we all took turns playing. And then my friend, which is the medium child, the medium kid added the free. They he went down and got a big bucket of pretzels cuz I mean, we I always liked the pretzels and stuff. So my mom buys them. And he went down and grabbed them. And so he was just eating some and I said, Please don't do this, please don't do this. And he came in with them. And I said, great. You did it. And so I just started eating them and stuff. And like, I kept saying No, Mr. Self, I'll give myself insulin after ate them. And then I fell asleep playing Xbox box. And my friend ended up finishing the bucket and just left it on the floor. And my mom walked in and she said, You ate all these things. And I said, order them to

Scott Benner 57:57
what stops you from giving yourself the insulin when you see the pretzels, like when you see the pretzels. What stops you from going, huh? I'm gonna have some pretzels. Button button button beep I'm gonna eat my pretzels now.

Jaden 58:09
I mean, it's just like when I'm hanging out with friends. And I know the right thing to do. I mean, I'm getting better at it now. But when I used to see friends and I knew the right thing to do, I would always want to try to avoid it. Because when I first got this, even today I I kind of I know everyone says and I know I am still a normal kid. But I'm just, it just to me doesn't feel like I am. It feels like I have this. And this makes me different from everyone else.

Scott Benner 58:48
Can I tell you? Yep, everybody's got something, man. You just don't see it all the time. Everybody has something they're thinking about something they're uncomfortable with something they don't want other people to see or they don't want to be bothered with. And the truth is, is that some people figure out how to deal with those things. And some people don't. But you're starting to figure it out. So my best advice to you would be Don't worry about what other people think. Right? And not as many people are looking at you as you think they are. Right. So it's hard to feel like that. But, you know, the truth is, everyone's got their own life. They don't care about you. You don't I mean, they're not worried about the stuff you're doing around pretzels. And it feels like that to you. It feels like everyone's looking they're gonna bring these pretzels in the room and I have to give myself insulin and no one else does. But the truth is, no one cares. Like, if you feel like they do or they're judging you, and if you and maybe you'll meet somebody one day who really is then that person is not a friend. You know what I mean? Like your friends would want you to be comfortable. they'd want you to be healthy. They wouldn't want to see you get DK or I ended up back in the hospital, they would want good things for you. And and you definitely need to want them for yourself. And Jaden, I gotta tell you, man, you have to worry about yourself. Okay? Your first, your health is first how you feel is first. And you're as normal as anybody, man. You're 100% as normal as anybody, everybody. Everybody's different. And there is no real normal. Like, I mean, what does that mean? Like? What is normal mean? Exactly? You don't I mean, like, for you normal means you have to Pre-Bolus your insulin before you eat. So don't feel weird about that. That's who you are, man. I think you're a great person, why not? Just go ahead and be you, you know?

Unknown Speaker 1:00:45
You know?

Jaden 1:00:47
And also, like, it kind of just bugs me when like, my friends ask, like, what are you doing stuff like, when they're concerned about me, I kind of just wish they would think of me how they used to like, I'm, like, just like, everyone, before I got this would I just not really pay attention to me and stuff, like only my friends, which are, like, there were a couple friends I had at school. And I mean, I was sick, there was a couple, but the only friends I would really talk to school is my neighbor. And my friend's sister. And that would be it. And they would be like, really the only people I would actually like hang out with, like, at recess and stuff. But I'm not saying that I have like no other friends besides them. But those are the people I really only talked to at recess and stuff. And like everyone else kind of avoided me. Everyone told them like, stuff about me and stuff wasn't true. And they just kind of avoided me. And they were like, a lot of them were jerks to me, and I kind of miss being treated like that. I don't miss being treated like a jerk. But I just kind of wish it was like that still. Because I instead of people always been like, caring to me and stuff. Like I like that. But it just seems like they're too worried and stuff.

Scott Benner 1:02:36
I understand. But I think the way to get past that might be for you to just accept that this is how it is and make it normal. Like you ever see somebody, this is going to be a weird example, to ever see somebody wearing clothes that are really strange and weird. And they look super normal and comfortable in them. Like it's their confidence that makes them look good. It's that they're not worried about how other people see them like people, some people just feel comfortable in their own skin. Like, do you know what I mean? Like they just they know who they are. And they're okay with it. And that feeling goes out to the people around you. And then you seem you seem like there's nothing to look at. You're just you're just the way you're supposed to be. And you're always the way you're supposed to be. But you're the one that will make it normal. It's not them. It's not the people on the outside that get to tell you how you feel. You tell them how you feel? And then they'll react that way. Does that make sense? Mm hmm. Yeah. And if you need somebody to treat you like a jerk, I'm sure your sister will do it.

Unknown Speaker 1:03:43
Every day.

Scott Benner 1:03:45
She's handling you don't worry, Jaden, you're doing terrific. It's definitely gonna get better. You're just at the very beginning of this, which is hard to see sometimes. But this is the very, very beginning of this. And as the months and years progress and you get older, you're gonna, you're gonna do really wonderful because you're and I'm telling you right now, man, I'm not going to tell you anything different than I would say to anyone else. If I was talking to an adult, that was three times your age, I would tell them. If they said what you just said, For the last hour, I would tell them, you're going to do well. I can tell. I've talked to a lot of people. And you have what everyone who does well has. And you know what that is? You're trying that really is the core of how people end up doing well with Type One Diabetes. They care. They're paying attention, and they're trying, and it just gets better when you do those things. You're doing it man, you're doing great. Plus you talk to your sister and Linda user Xbox sounds like you got a full supply of pretzels as long as you don't invite that kid over. And you're doing you're doing all right, you know? Yep, plus it. Now Ohio. I guess you Last LeBron, that sucks. But I mean, other than that, is it a decent place to live? Oh, yeah, yeah, you go, what, what, what would make things? Like what? What's your next goal for yourself with your diabetes?

Unknown Speaker 1:05:16
Oh,

Jaden 1:05:16
my next goal is to I'm sure, I mean, get down to at least 5.5 or 5.8 on a one. See?

Scott Benner 1:05:31
That's great. Tell me something about your Dexcom. Where is your high alarm set out? When does it tell you you're getting high?

Unknown Speaker 1:05:38
I think that's maybe 200. Okay, I'll

Scott Benner 1:05:41
tell you what, if you start if you listen to me, okay. Pre-Bolus your meals, right? Yeah, pay attention to the foods you're eating. Meaning, you know, understand that pretzels take a different amount of insulin maybe then grapes do or that, you know, just like you're doing pizza might need more attention than a salad does, right? Like that kind of stuff. Yeah, keep keep paying attention to that. And remember that as you're growing, your basil needs are going to go up. Okay, yeah. And so be kind of flexible. And remember to change your settings when your settings need to be changed. Don't look at your blood sugar for three weeks going, I don't understand why it won't come down. Like give yourself some more insulin where you need to pay attention to how you're growing, keep doing what you're doing, you're going to get that a one C and the fives you absolutely well, and keep an end, as you're doing that have a goal of getting your high alarm on your Dexcom down to 140 by the end of the year. Okay, so the reasoning for that is, if you don't let your blood sugar get high, it won't be high. So when your blood sugar gets to 200, and it beeps, you're like, my blood sugar's 200, then you have to give yourself some insulin right? And you have to give yourself a fair amount to get it to come down. And sometimes you give yourself too much and you get low. But if your Dexcom were to tell you, oh, my blood sugar's 130. The amount, excuse me, you're the first episode I've done this year, I'm not used to talking the the amount of insulin that you would need to make a 130 into a 90 is much less than the amount of insulin, you'd need to make a 200 into a 90. So in short, the sooner you know, your blood sugars going up, the sooner you can do something about it. And when you do something about it at a lower number, you use less insulin. And by using less insulin, you're less likely to cause a low later, and that's where you start making stability. Does that make sense? Yep. All right, man. You're doing Oh, and if

Jaden 1:07:50
if you hear that noise, that's my sister opening up. Closing the garage door. She just

Scott Benner 1:07:56
don't worry about it. It's all good, man. We're done. Anyway. So is there anything left to say that you that you want to say that we haven't talked about?

Unknown Speaker 1:08:03
Um,

Unknown Speaker 1:08:05
I don't think so. I

Unknown Speaker 1:08:06
mean,

Jaden 1:08:07
I've not I know. I'm not really able to just sit down on the floor and talk to someone for about an hour by Phil enjoyed this.

Scott Benner 1:08:15
Well, Jen, I enjoyed it, too. And you did a really great job. Like, seriously, your stories were good. You're thoughtful about how you feel, even though you might not realize that because you're 11 I thought you were really insightful. And I thought you shared a lot of valuable information that other people are going to do. Do well to listen. So. You did exactly what you meant to do, man. Congratulations. Yeah. Good for you. Is it feel weird now that we did it? Yeah. Was it weird? Like you were nervous? Like sometimes you would text me and be like, you'd be like it we're recording and like three weeks? And I'd be like, what is this? I look nice. Jaden. I'm like we are. And were you like nervous as it was coming up or now cuz you did it? Yeah,

Jaden 1:08:56
I was. My mom and dad kept telling me to write like something up like and say, but I kept forgetting. And I'm like,

Unknown Speaker 1:09:06
I don't know what I'm gonna say.

Scott Benner 1:09:08
You did a really good job. And you're Let's remind people as you're going out, you're 11 right? Yeah, yeah. Did you did a great job. Are you kidding me? This was fantastic. I can't believe you were even nervous. You're good at this. And you didn't write anything? Right. We just talked. Oh, I'm great at this. You don't have to worry. I'll take you right through it. I thought we did good here. What do you think we should call the episode?

Unknown Speaker 1:09:34
Um,

Unknown Speaker 1:09:36
I don't know.

Scott Benner 1:09:37
It's hard to pick the titles. But I'll figure it you know

Jaden 1:09:42
what, just for the fun of it. Name it pinky pain, gay.

Scott Benner 1:09:45
I really might make a piggy pancake in case you're like that is really where I was at on that too. Okay, all right. I that might be what I do Jaden. I I really very well may do that. Alright, listen, man. Tell your mom I said Thanks so much for helping get us set up. And I think you're doing terrific. I really do. I wouldn't lie to you. And I think you need to keep doing what you're doing. You know, pay attention here in some of the way we talked about just now. And you you're on your way to doing something really great. I'm proud of you. You came a really long way through a lot of can we can we curse at the end? Jaden? Do you ever curse in Ohio?

Unknown Speaker 1:10:26
Well,

Unknown Speaker 1:10:26
no, I mean, should I Christians, but to Christians, not curse? I mean,

Scott Benner 1:10:34
do we not admit that we curse? Is that the play? Is that how we do it? I don't know. You don't know. Do you ever hear any wrappers around the house?

Unknown Speaker 1:10:42
No, no, really? All right. Well,

Unknown Speaker 1:10:44
my sister.

Unknown Speaker 1:10:46
Do you ever?

Unknown Speaker 1:10:48
Um, if I'm mad?

Scott Benner 1:10:49
Yeah. What's your go to curse? I won't. I'll bleep it out so people can hear. What is it? Ah,

Unknown Speaker 1:10:56
I honestly don't know. I think

Scott Benner 1:11:00
when you get mad you do though.

Unknown Speaker 1:11:02
Uh, yeah. Yeah. Probably. Probably.

Scott Benner 1:11:07
Yeah, it's a good one. Descriptive makes a point. But like, you stub your toe, you

Jaden 1:11:14
know? Oh, no, no, no. I mean, I don't scream a fight. Like, I don't get like say that. If I stub my toe or anything. They're just mad at someone.

Scott Benner 1:11:26
What about when you're walking down the stairs, and you drop something? And you What do you say?

Unknown Speaker 1:11:32
I just say crap.

Unknown Speaker 1:11:33
Yeah, I like and my dad might

Unknown Speaker 1:11:37
also just get mad at me for saying

Unknown Speaker 1:11:41
he doesn't like,

Jaden 1:11:42
Yeah, he doesn't like us using any words that could be like, anywhere close to being the customer. Like no replacement.

Scott Benner 1:11:52
Oh my God. He would not like it here then. I curse like all day long. Jaden. If If I curse on this podcast as much as I curse in my real life. I gotta tell you, I love cursing. I really do. But say that. We heard. What's that?

Unknown Speaker 1:12:09
You're weird?

Scott Benner 1:12:10
Weird. All right. I'm not telling you my favorite curse word. I think it'll kill you.

You were really great, man. This was excellent. Be proud of yourself. You did a wonderful job.

Unknown Speaker 1:12:24
Oh, okay.

Scott Benner 1:12:26
All right. I hope you have a good day. I hope you'll learn something. Yeah. And please tell your family I said hello. And thank you sister for wearing the sweatshirt for the podcast. All right. Okay, see ya. All right, brother. Take care.

Unknown Speaker 1:12:39
You too. Bye.

Scott Benner 1:12:46
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