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Scott Benner 0:00
Hello, friends, it's me, Scott. And I'm sitting here by myself today, getting ready to record, Episode 500 of the Juicebox Podcast.

Hey, everybody, today's show is going to be a little different. It'll be a little shorter, and it'll be just me. But I'm here to celebrate Yay, 500 episodes of the Juicebox Podcast. I think more than celebrate. I'd like to talk a little bit about how this all started. What I've seen happen, changes and improvements and where I think the podcast is going to go. 500 is a fairly significant number for a podcast, and I'm proud of it, even though right now it's later at night and I'm a little tired. So, you know, just imagine me like, I don't know, talking really excited about it. But I'm just gonna kind of mellow out here and chat with you guys for a little bit. I don't usually do this, but for posterity sake. Today is Wednesday, June 23 2001. And I am Scott Benner. This is my podcast. Just in case we talked about anything medical in here. Let me just tell you quickly that I ran music Hold on.

Nothing you here on the Juicebox Podcast should be considered advice, medical or otherwise, always consult a physician before making any changes to your healthcare plan. or becoming bold with insulin. I guess we should start at the beginning. Sometime in August of 2006. Our freshly minted two year old daughter Arden was diagnosed with Type One Diabetes. On August 16 2007, very late one night, I decided to start writing a blog about type one. I called it Arden's day. And I wrote this. I can't sleep I haven't really been able to for about a year now. On August 22. Arden will be a type one diabetic for one year, I'm going to try and relate to all of you what Arden's disease is, how it affects her and how it affects our family. My goal is to give you a glimpse into our life, so that you can better understand type one diabetes, my hope is that the understanding will result in your advocacy. Starting now I'll be updating this site as much as needed. To bring you into all of this as completely as possible. I'll be taking pictures and video as much as possible. I think diabetes is one of those things you need to feel to understand an explanation doesn't just do it justice. It's a much more visceral experience than you may think.

This picture above is from just now at 3am. Arden just called me from her bed. She wanted to lay down with us. I checked her blood glucose. It was good. Well, not really good. Hi, I actually about 120 to 150 points higher than a non diabetics would be. But at 3am it's good for our purposes. Don't worry, this will all start making sense to you soon. That's it. That's what I wrote. I asked people to share the link with everyone that they knew. And then I went to bed, I call that entry decided to share. And that was 14 years ago.

Unknown Speaker 3:43
And today,

Scott Benner 3:44
in June, we are just about 15 years since Arden was diagnosed with Type One Diabetes. Back then I thought I thought I was doing something like different. You know, I later found out that there was a couple of other diabetes blogs Back then, I think two or three that I can think of that I'm aware of proceeded me on the internet, but I was right there in the beginning of something that now people call the diabetes online community. Pretty cool actually just did this thing because I thought people didn't understand type one very well. And I wanted them to understand it better. I thought this blog would do that. kind of strange thought I think as I look back on it now, but it seemed like the only thing to do. You know, I wasn't a doctor. I didn't know anything special that would help with Type One Diabetes. All I could think was maybe I'd share something and someone would see it. It would change their interpretation of type one. Back then I was thinking about it as advocacy though. wanted somebody to help. I wrote on that blog. A lot for years. And it's slowly grew in popularity. At one point got a million and a half views one year, I think it was about my best year. And from what I heard from people who paid attention to stuff like that, he was one of the most popular type one diabetes, blogs, diabetes blogs, actually in the world. But I never really knew what that meant. Nor did I really care. I just kept trying to write things that I thought people would would understand something that would stick with them. Something that was real. Before long, all these other blogs started popping up. First, there were hundreds and, and there were 1000s. There were so many diabetes blogs. They used to do this thing called diabetes blog week, where there'd be these writing prompts, and everybody would write to the prompts. And one time I did it, and then I started reading other people's posts, and they were also similar. Even mine were fairly similar. And I just thought, well, this is a waste of time, like, why am I doing a thing that everyone else is doing? This is this could be gotten anywhere? Like, why am I doing it? I'm just another voice in a sea of voices. I don't even have diabetes, like, I'll let these other people do it. I stopped. But uh, but not long after I missed it. I really enjoyed writing on the blog. I think it was the first time that I became aware that the blog was helping me. and by extension, it was helping harden. I was working out, you know, the kind of crappy stuff that happens when you're raising a small child with diabetes. In writing, I was finding community in the form of other people who would read it. And come on and say like, how that happens to us, you know, like it felt like sameness was important. But after a while, even that felt like it wasn't enough. And we'd struggled for so long. With a one season the mid to high eights, and spiking blood sugars and crashing blood sugars and art and had a couple of seizures. We just, we didn't know what we were doing, you know. But one day I started to piece it together, I decided to step back from it stop kind of wallowing in diabetes and try to look at it with fresh eyes. And I use the blog for that as writing so I needed something to write about. And you probably heard me say before, but I told Arden's nurse practitioner, I asked her, you know, if I gave you a magic wand, and you can only change one thing about how people see type one diabetes, what would you do? And she said, I'd make them not be afraid of insulin. So I started writing about that. If you were reading it, it probably felt like I was telling you not to be afraid of insulin. But the truth is that back then, I was talking myself out of being afraid of insulin. And it worked. I stopped being afraid. I started using the blog as a conduit for experiences, management experiences. Instead of just like diabetes, the sad and I hate this and you know, all that stuff. Like that was just anybody could have said that, you know, I started getting kind of angry that nobody was trying to make it better. They were just trying to make it okay. which I think has real value. Don't get me wrong. But I guess I just wanted more from it.

So I started figuring things out. If you listen to the show, or if you've been through the pro tip series, you know, how I think about managing diabetes, but I started figuring those things out little by little and writing about them as I had them rock solid in my head. Like once I had an idea down. I knew it would work. I would just boil it down to its simplest form, like its its least common denominator idea so that it would work for as many people as possible, and then I would share it in writing. I did that for forever 789 1011 1213. About eight years into it. The Internet started shift as it does and the way people use it would change and change again. People just stop reading quite as much. And I started a podcast. I call it the Juicebox Podcast, because there were just so many juice boxes around the house. I put up the first episode on January 28 2015. Now what made me think of a podcast, I was on a on a TV show, because I had written a book and the host the hostess told me I was really good at talking to people It stuck with me for a couple of years. But mostly, mostly I chose a podcast because I didn't know what else to do just seemed like the next avenue to reach people that was viable. And I guess to give the situation some fair credit, I used to talk to a lot of people on the phone about their diabetes, one on one, talk to mothers and adults. And, you know, whoever found their way to me, and I do my best to point them in the right direction. But more and more as those phone calls went on, I would think I bet you people would like to listen in on this. This is interesting. I get I we said some things here today that might have been heartwarming or helpful. And so I started a podcast, Episode, zero, it's just a microphone tests like a placeholder. I was working on something to explain the podcast when I got this opportunity to interview this guy named Adam lasher. And he was on American Idol, and he had type one. And that was my first episode was an interview with this guy from American Idol. And then I always think of the podcast is starting after that in Episode Two. But there it was, beginning of 2015. I had a diabetes podcast. As a matter of fact, I had the only diabetes podcast. And just jump right in, started telling the stories of the things that I learned. And I hear a lot of you say that episode three and Episode Four, are really meaningful to you. I was talking to guys about night Scout, I didn't even know what night scout was, you know, it's kind of crazy. By the time I get to Episode 11, and I don't even remember what Episode 11 is about. If I can be completely honest with you, I'd have to go back and listen to it. But I called it bold with insulin. And years later, I started seeing people online talking about being bold with insulin. I thought one day like, that's gotta be me, right? Like, that's not a coincidence or that's not a colloquialism. People don't say that. I've never heard anyone say that before. It's just the title of an episode. And you guys know, I, the way I put titles on these episodes, like, I just added them. And as I'm going through, I look for words that I'm like, Oh, that's interesting. It's not some crazy, well thought out process. But anyway, I just started to see people referring back to the show. In those first years, it's crazy. But like this month, we'll have more downloads or streams. I know if I say download, some of you get confused, but listens, people will listen to this show more this month than they did in the first two years of the podcast combined. This month, we'll have more downloads in 2015 and 2016. combined. That just blows my mind. When people write to me to say that they listened to Episode 11, and it changed their life, or that the podcast has brought them some sort of clarity or happiness or health.

I mean, it's just crazy. I don't mean to keep saying that. But I can't believe I'm sitting here right now telling you that this is the 500th episode of the Juicebox Podcast. But but the process that I was going through writing the blog, like having experience, hashing it out, getting it, getting it just right to share.

Unknown Speaker 14:08
And then

Scott Benner 14:10
that process, expanding my knowledge of diabetes. And then having that process expand my knowledge of diabetes, which which directly helps my daughter and my family. It just kept happening. And it doubles over itself after a while like, just think about it. I talk about Type One Diabetes with a different person, three or four days a week. Like you guys don't hear as many as I record every week. So I get to keep having these conversations and these aha moments and figuring things out and fine tuning How to say things and fine tuning how to think about things and having access to conversations with You know, people from different companies knowing about technology and where it's going and like, I know stuff you guys don't know that I'm not allowed to say. There's some cool stuff happening. And I don't just know, it's not like I know and you don't know. And yeah, I'm thinking right now in 2021, about how to talk to you about diabetes in 2022. and beyond. This has just become my profession. It's become a calling. Sometimes I see it as an art.

And it keeps helping my daughter, my family, and hopefully you. I genuinely love making this podcast. Trying to decide, I'm looking here for you. When's the first time Jenny Smith comes on the podcast? No, before I tell you that, it had some pretty impactful conversations in the first like 20 or 30 episodes. Back then, though, 30 episodes was like six months of the podcast, whereas now, I think I put 12 a week a month. Play it had some fairly impactful conversations, right. Some moms would come on and just talk about how things were. But then Henry's mom came on and she had a real problem with it. He's have allergies. And that's when I became very aware of that. Megan's mom talked about celiac disease, and I became more aware of it. Someone came on to talk about, you know, how much anxiety they had around traveling. And I began to realize that that's a real concern for people. When they're more newly diagnosed. We'll Harvard's mom came on and talked about losing her son while he was in college. I think that's when I was hooked on hearing people's conversations for real. Linda Hallberg comes on, and she's just so honest about her son's life. And I thought, people have stories that that other people need to hear. And sometimes I do like, you know, interviews with, you know, racecar drivers that have diabetes, and sometimes they'd be great. And sometimes they wouldn't. But like I had Chris Freeman on, he has type one, he was an Olympian. And, like, there's something about Chris's attitude about diabetes that I really enjoy. Like, there's kind of a no nonsense, take care of yourself feeling from Chris. And I thought, that's cool. I like that. You kind of take little pieces of people as you go, right. Dexcom came on for the first time in 2015, to talk about that. The G five approval, and I think you guys probably just heard, I'm not sure when this will go up, but a day or so ago. Right about a about g7. If it didn't go up, it'll be up very soon. The next really impactful Episode 29. It's just a moment, moment in that conversation with a mother of a child with type one, where she came to the realization that she had gotten comfortable with 200 blood sugars. And we talked about how she got to it the first time how the doctor had set this range. And the first time she left the range, it didn't feel like she went that far. So it wasn't really that big of a deal. And then it kept stretching and expanding. Oh, it's just one to one. It's just 140 it's just 150. You know, the range was to 180. And it's not a big deal if I go to 200. And suddenly, she just realized that one day 200 was the norm and she she had a moment. I could hear her have a moment. And that kind of stuff. It's a it's organic, can't make it up and somebody just jumping on the podcast and telling you it doesn't have the same impact. As someone realizing it in the moment. It doesn't have the same impact as when Episode 33 when a mother realized that she resents diabetes, when we have a kid on who's a teenager who's just really legit good at talking about their life, and you realize that wow, there's some hope here like kids could figure this out. I had a woman on who was 60 and recently diagnosed I didn't know that could happen. And then Jenny comes on. Jenny, Jenny Smith, I meet her for the first time in November of 2015. I have no idea who she is. She's the person It comes on the show. But she likes stuck with me, you know? Then I started catching a little a little good feeling going I could start getting people on. I had Victor Garber on I think in the first week of 2016. Like that guy was in Titanic like, you know Victor Garber, like alias, Titanic. And I'm saying, the man is legit. He's an actor. His Type One Diabetes he's on when we start talking about getting off the roller coaster and Sam fold came on for the first time and I think Sam has been on like two or three times since then.

podcast started getting a little juice. So people from the jdrf would show up or Bigfoot biomedical wanted to talk about their new pump they were working on. And then Terry came on. Remember, Terry lives on a boat? What a great conversation that was.

I'll never forget when Joan told me that she was raising her daughter son, and that he had type one diabetes. Such a real conversation. And from there, it just built and built you could start to see in the episode 62 unfounded diabetes fear. That was the first time I talked about fear on the podcast. And it was the probably fourth or fifth time that specific ideas about management would come up in episodes. And I started sort of like, in my mind, going like, well, we mentioned something here. That's important. There's this thing here. That's important. There's these management ideas. I think if you put them in this order, they lead to good blood sugars. And they did. I just kept doing the podcast and doing the podcast and having this feeling like I should have Jenny back on. I love talking to Jenny. I love the way Jenny thought about type one diabetes. So I had her back. Forget where what episode I can't remember in the 100 somewhere. Meanwhile, we're talking to all these people who live in with type one. And the fabric of the show is starting to really tighten up and be become something.

Episode 100 I revisited bold with insulin, like I listened to it and talked over it not really over it. But I would I kind of added some commentary to it. Episode 102, a girl came on who was kidnapped in her own car and escaped by using her insulin pump out of the trunk. Crazy. You never hear anybody talk about that. Like no one ever says to me, Hey, you remember the episode where the girl came on. And she was carjacked and thrown in her own trunk. Like I'm amazed every day when somebody doesn't write me about this crazy, crazy, crazy story. So Jenny comes back on in 2017. And we just kind of talked about a one CS episode, said 105. And I just I couldn't shake her from that I was like this, this person has to come back on the show. I keep making the show. Keep making the show for years 2017 2018. And one day, I'm like I am going to I'm going to put all the the ideas from the show together. And I realized that once you start getting into the 100 150 200 episodes of the podcast, yes, I believe if you listen straight through from the beginning, you'll be really good at managing type one just kind of happens. But what about the people who can't make it through all the episodes? I have to put together some like tips, right? So I reached out to Jenny and I said I'm going to make these pro tips. like would you do that? And she was down so we started making a list about what to do. And I'm clicking through all my episodes while I'm talking to you right now and I'm seeing episodes about his he said 149 is he had a car accident she almost died when she had a low blood sugar. So Amazing. Amazing conversation. Really strong young girl. They started interjecting more of my kind of like living concepts like there's an episode called worry is a waste of imagination, which is something I say in my personal life. And I start talking about complications. More people are coming on and talking about their complications. And I'm trying to build this narrative where you can listen to this show and get a full complete understanding of what it's like. like to live with type one. And from so many different perspectives that you are likely to find one that speaks to you.

We're on episode 160, I do an episode called diabetes. Fast forward, it was the first time I realized that listening to the show could get you through the process of not understanding diabetes more quickly. It's a big deal to me that you don't have to live for years and struggle for years to get ideas together. That makes sense. Anyway, Jenny comes on at 220. And we start doing the pro tip episodes. And I'm incredibly proud of them. And Jenny's a treasure. And then we started doing defining diabetes. And every once in a while, we take questions from the audience. And I try to mix it up, you know. So that it's not the same thing over and over again, every day, every week, every month. But Jenny's a constant, I'll have Jenny on this show for as long as she will do it. Because she adds a she has a perspective that, that I think plays well against mine, I think it's good for you to listen to. Anyway, if you're still listening, the podcast is important to me. I believe it does a public good. And I'm proud of how it's coalesced. And what I've learned while I'm putting these episodes together and how last week informs this week, which informs next month, which informs how I think about next year and beyond and different ways to help you the people who are listening or entertain you, the people who are listening, or give you a sense of community, or purpose. I don't want you to feel like you're less than or burdened. And when I know that some of you do feel that way. It's heartbreaking. And I know that everyone can't be everyone can't be in the same place, right. And there are going to be some people who are, are so sure that the way things used to be or the way their health is today is the way it's always going to be. But I don't think that's true. I think you could all have this thing, this stability, and comfort and health. I think it's within reach. And this podcast is my best attempt to get it to you. It is really the best thing I can think of. I'm doing it the best way that I can. I think it's possible that if you just listen through, you'll kind of come out the other side with a different perspective, you might come as close to the perspective that I have as you possibly could. Because I'm going to tell you that talking to all of these people having these conversations is it's a gift. It has significantly improved me as a person. It has significantly improved my ability to think about things and see other people's perspectives. Makes me feel hopeful.

Unknown Speaker 28:41
Happy,

Scott Benner 28:43
surrounded. I think it could do that for you too. I know there's hundreds of episodes and nobody has that kind of time. But I think you do. I think you have that kind of time. If that's where you're going to get at the end. If you're going to get to contentment, and health, then I don't see how you don't have time for here to help yourself. So anyway, the podcast is ad supported. First advertiser ever was on the pod. I decided today decided today I decided on Saturday A few days ago, excuse me, that whenever this podcast should end, the last person who's going to be a guest on the podcast is going to be the person who worked it on the pod who said yes to buying ads on the podcast. She's not even add on the pot anymore. I don't think I've ever said her name on here. But I asked her if she would be the last guest whenever that is I don't think it's gonna be for quite some time. But I think she's gonna do it. And on that day we're going to talk about, about taking a chance about putting the idea of helping people first. That'll leap that a blind faith, about just hearing something in someone's voice and believing in them. And I don't know when you'll get that one. I hope it's not till Episode 2000 I think I could do this for 1500 more episodes. But one day, you're gonna hear from Natalie. And Natalie is the whole reason that the podcast exists. Because making a podcast is a full time job. Especially when you put out three episodes a week. There was more that goes into the show than I could ever explain to you or that you could imagine. It is late at night here on a Wednesday. I've been working on the show since 930. This morning. I've recorded an episode, I've edited three of them. I've put down live ads. I've done the computer work of book to show that we're going to record next week about an idea about living that I think applies to diabetes. And I don't know if anybody will, will even think that right away when you say it. But when you see an episode called cost, sunk fallacy, like don't skip it, just because you're like, I don't know what that means. Don't skip that one. Okay. Don't Don't skip any of them. This is all very purposeful.

Anyway, yeah. sunk cost fallacy. What do you hear about that? super interesting. But Natalie takes a takes a flyer on the right, a little leap of faith. And she says that the money the very little bit of money that Omnipod used to pay me to write on their blog many years ago. I don't have to write on their blog anymore. She'll buy ads on a podcast, a podcast that has no one listening to it. And I told her this almost word for word.

Unknown Speaker 32:17
I said,

Scott Benner 32:19
I'm going to make a podcast about type one diabetes. Its only goal is going to be to help people. And I would like it if you could help me help them. That was it. And she said, Yes. like crazy. Nobody was listening back then. I think that back then 1300 people, I think downloaded the show the first month, 1300 I'm gonna be honest with you, a lot more than 1300 people download the show every day now. But back then, that's what it was. And she got behind it. And because she was behind it, with a little bit of money, I could turn to my wife and say, Hey, this time I'm spending making this podcast like, Look, we have a little bit of money from it, maybe one day, there'll be a little more money from it, like, give me a chance to build it up. I think Dexcom was next. And then from there. I started getting my choice. Like I could ask people to be advertisers. I didn't have to wait for somebody to come to me. And the, the show had real kind of gravitas by then and people wanted to be involved in it. And when that happens, when it funds itself better when it pays my bills better, I'm able to put more time and resources into it. And you guys come along and you're so supportive. You guys started a buy me a coffee page recently, because people just wanted to send a little bit of money, a couple dollars a month was amazing. I never would have expected that. I'm recording this right now on a brand new dedicated computer. My computer was having trouble doing all the things I needed to do plus being the place where a podcast was recorded and I use the money. You guys when you guys go to T one d exchange.org forward slash juicebox and fill out their survey, I get some money every time one of you completes that survey. And I use that money to buy this computer and the monitor that it's on and all kinds of stuff here there's a light so that when we do stuff live, I can see you better. You can see me better, a clearer camera. That's all just to talk to you. I don't use that stuff. If I'm not conversing with the audience in some way. But it came from you It came from your support on the podcast comes back every year because of your support. So Dexcom and G Volk and contour touched by type one touch by type one you organization that that gave me a place to speak in person for the very first time. And then based on what I did there, that day, I got more and more speaking events. And that made me better at this. Every time I do something, I get better at this stuff, every experience builds on to another experience. It's all because of you guys. Because of Natalie, and because of Katie Kirk, who said, I was good at talking to people and because of so many things, so many things that, again, just sort of like are woven into the fabric of what the podcast is. I never thought I would get to 200 episodes, let alone 300, let alone 400. an hour five. And I mean, let's be honest, another 100 is what? Geez, 100 episodes divided by three races. 30, some weeks, right? It's gonna be 600. Before you know what I started this year, or this 2021 I thought gonna hit 3 million downloads in April ish around there. And probably get the 4 million around Christmas, I was my thought. That's how it looked like it was going to me. And now I'm thinking we might get to 4 million September. And that's because you guys share the show with each other. Like, I've never bought an ad, I don't know how to I wouldn't even know how to do that, to be honest. even know where you would do that. I don't have the money to do that. There's a lot of reasons there's no ads, but mostly it's because they're not necessary because you guys just listen to the show and share it with someone else. To it's an incredible kindness. For me, for this tapestry that we're weaving together for my daughter's health. You know, sometimes I just think of the show as a podcast, time capsule, like just this thing that I'm leaving behind for my daughter,

a place where I can take all the conversations that have made me a good dad, and all the conversations that have made me good to taking care of diabetes. All the things that I've learned that make her healthier, help her live her days easier. And I just think there's no way to tell it all to her. I can't get it all into her head. I can leave this thing behind. And maybe this will help. Maybe it'll help you. Maybe in my old age, I'll listen back to it. Maybe my children will get to know me better when I'm gone one day because of this. Or the world or know how much it meant to me that they were healthier than than they are today. Just a little bit right. Just get a little a little better.

Unknown Speaker 38:07
A little easier. But mostly this is this is for you Arden. I didn't know another way to tell you all this stuff.

Scott Benner 38:20
I think everybody else benefits from it. And that's amazing. But it's just really for you. So yeah, that was a bummer. We're nice depends on how you think about I guess 500 episodes, their sponsors, please support them. I guess if you want to buy me a cup of coffee you can on buy me a coffee. Calm? Is that what it is? I don't even know. But mostly Please listen. Subscribe in a podcast app, please. They're all free. There's tons of podcast apps. If you don't know where to find one, go to Juicebox Podcast comm to scroll down a little bit right there, you'll see listen on Apple, podcasts, Spotify, Google amazon music Pandora, there's ways to subscribe through Android phones that will take you to other Android apps. You can ask Amazon Alexa to play the show, you can ask Siri to play the show. There's a million ways to listen. But the best way for me is if you're inside of an app on your phone or on your computer and you've subscribed, that's a big deal to the show. It's a big deal when you leave a good rating, and a well thought out, review wherever you listen. But mostly it's just amazing. If you download listen and share, share, share, share, please share the show with somebody else. All the other stuff you could forget about. Don't buy me a cup of coffee Don't. Don't blah, blah, blah. Don't just share the show with other people. I know that's difficult because where do you find other people with diabetes? Part of the great thing about the show is that it gives you a community that you You can't find anywhere else. But tell your doctor if you're having a great success and your doctors like, how would you do this? Like, I used to joke earlier in the years of the show, like, don't tell anybody you heard on the podcast, they'll think you're crazy. But I don't think that anymore. If your doctor asks you how you figure this out, be like, you know what? It's not. But there's a man who talks to me through my phone. He told me how to Pre-Bolus Crazy, right? Because then the doctor might listen. And they might tell someone else. Because I'm 50 years old. And I won't be able to do this forever. And I want to reach as many people as I can. I want as many people as possible to know that their blood sugar's don't have to bounce up and down. That that doesn't have to be their life, that they aren't alone. And all the other stuff that comes from this thing that I made, that I'm very proud of. Okay. Well, there's no ads on the podcast this week. But please remember to support Dexcom the Contour Next One blood glucose meter on the pod T one D exchange Evo glucagon touched by type one, I think trial that's coming on soon. But we haven't written anything down yet. So I don't have links yet for that. And all the other sponsors, if you have a need for one of these things, all I'm asking is, you click my link, when you check it out, you don't have to buy it, you know. And if you don't ever want to click on it don't, it's fine. But if you have the need, there's links on Juicebox Podcast comm when you go through them, the company's know you came through the podcast. And that we'll have them consider making a podcast ad by for the following year, like that's it right to the exchange, I get a little money every time you finish, you fill out the survey. But for the other stuff. There's no like, every time someone clicks, I make $1 or something like that. It's just, you know, if they see value coming from the podcast, they'll keep or keep buying ads on the podcast, I can't be any more honest than that or any more clear. When the podcast gets ads, it gives me time to work on the podcast and some of the things that I'm working on. I get a little nervous to say out loud, because sometimes people like my ideas a lot and use them for themselves. But some of this stuff, they can't, they can't get in front of me on one of them that I'm excited about that probably won't happen for months and months and months. But it's happening right now somewhere. Because I'm having the diet, the defining diabetes episodes animated, like the little ones that explained like this is the Bolus and there's a short conversation between me and Jenny and having them animated so that you guys can share them more easily with people. And even maybe with children. Jenny and I are going to do a series about questions that kids ask. We're doing a series about variables that impact blood sugar's This is going to go on for years. I love making this podcast. It really is.

It really is a side of my family and my children, it's it really is the great joy of my adult life.

I love making this podcast I love what it does for people gives me a sense of comfort and calm to know that you're all doing so well. Or that you have the chance to do well. And I'm just trying to do my part, you know, to try to make the world a little bit better place this one little this one little small space. So when you hear me cavalierly say support the sponsors and support the show after an ad or, you know, click on my link or stuff like I know that stuff is irritating. Or it can be I try so hard to make it entertaining for years so that it's not but it's all very necessary. Because of this goes away. I go away, this podcast goes away and that I'm just a really chatty cashier at Walmart and there's no more podcast. I have bills and children at home and college to pay for and you know, a car payment and I buy food and stuff like that too. So I know that you all understand that I just come from a generation where it feels very strange to ask you and so that it makes me feel a little odd. But anyway, support the sponsors. I guess I shouldn't be I guess I shouldn't be the word I'm looking for embarrassed by this but you go to buy me coffee by me coffee.com forward slash juice box, you can leave me a couple bucks, or you can become a member, which would make like a could make a small amount or any amount you want, really every month. And that money is just going to come here, and I'm gonna, I'm gonna pay my bills with it. I'm going to send my kids to college. I'm going to pay an animator, I'm going to buy computers. That's what I'll do with your money. If you send it to me, I'll really appreciate it. And I will do it to keep and I will use it to keep myself afloat so that I can keep making this podcast for as long as you want to hear this podcast. Anyway, 500 episodes is absolutely bonkers. 4 million downloads almost that's nuts. I don't really talk about the backroom stuff about the podcast too often. But podcast is right about the 96th percentile of all podcasts on Apple. That doesn't mean anything to most of you. But it does to me as podcast, even though it's a niche podcast, it is heard by a lot of people. And it's just pretty cool. All right. I love you guys. And to all of you kids that Listen, I'm sorry that I curse. Just know that if you weren't listening, it would curse so much more. I love cursing. Alright, everybody, thanks so much for supporting the show, for downloading it subscribing, sharing, however it is that you put yourself behind it. Oh, also, I should say, the the private Facebook group Juicebox Podcast type one diabetes, really, really, I that's a great group. If you're interested in talking about management with other people. I'm super proud of that. Give me another minute. When I was younger, back when I was younger, back when I was writing that blog is what I should have said, I used to pitch to people whenever they were like we want to work with you, I'd like we should build a

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for all the blogs, I wanted there to be. I don't know, like a repository where they all were at. I kept thinking of it that way, you know, and then you realize it, everybody's writing and they all would want, you know, some money or something. It was untenable. You couldn't do it like how do you but but I thought there should be a place online where all the best blogs were curated. And that just never worked out. It was a good idea, by the way people should listen to me. But that's not the point. The point is that didn't work out. What I've come to realize is that the Facebook group is that except it's interactive. Right? Instead of asking a blogger to write something every day someone writes something when it's really meaningful to them. And then other people come in and support that, or add to it. I think it I think it actually even though it's on Facebook, and I know some people like like Facebook, I'm not a big Facebook person myself, but this group, over 12,000 people now 12,000 people with type one diabetes. It's curated conversation about type one. And it's curated by the people who have something to say not by one person who says, you know, let's put in that question, and this one, I don't even moderate it at all. I just let people talk. Sometimes they fight I'm like, people stop fighting. And that's like the end of my moderation. I just I like people to be adults. I like them to work through their ideas, have their thoughts. Let people agree or disagree with them. It's a wonderful spot. If you're on Facebook, I would really look. It's something else. I'm proud of it. It's an odd thing to say because in my heart of hearts, I wish I wasn't on Facebook. I don't even I don't want to be on Facebook. But but it's it's I don't think of it as Facebook. It's a place. Right? Like I guess if I could make my own place online, I would. But um, but even that that's what the podcast is. To me. The podcast is curated ideas about diabetes. And instead of different bloggers coming in every day and writing, I get different humans coming in different people living with diabetes to come in. And they tell their their most passionate stories. Right. So the podcast is almost like a blog, you can hear, etc. Anyway, it's all part of the fabric I was talking about before. So I didn't mean to go backwards there. I just wanted to joke with the kids about cursing and then I was gonna go but then I brought that up. And now I'm really out here. At the beginning when I said this was going to be short, like none of you believe that right? I didn't even believe it. As I was saying I was like this will just be short, and I was like I'm gonna start talking. I'm gonna hit a vibe. And anyway, I love talking. I hope you love listening. If you didn't, we don't really have a podcast. I'll be back soon with another episode of the Juicebox Podcast. Thank you so much for listening. Happy 500th episode. I'll see you 2000