#999 Arden Returns

Arden returns for her third episode.

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Scott Benner 0:00
Hello friends, and welcome to episode 999 of the Juicebox Podcast

Well today's a special episode for a couple of reasons. First off, it's Arden's returned to the show. This is going to be her third episode. And more obviously, this is the 990/9 episode of The Juicebox Podcast, just a crazy milestone on Monday. For those of you kind of listening in real time, Episode 1000 goes up with the rerelease of the diabetes Pro Tip series, why am I re releasing the Pro Tip series? Well, it's been completely professionally, digitally remastered, the information in the Pro Tip series has always been rock solid. But there were some janky microphones being used back then. But now, through the magic of Wizardry, actually, through the magic of Rob, who is the editor for the podcast. I'll tell you more about Rob later. This stuff just sounds brand new. It's absolutely stunning. And I think you're gonna love it. diabetes Pro Tip series will now run from Episode 1000 to 1026 the entire series all in one place so that you can find it, listen and revisit without having to pick through a podcast that

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Arden Benner 2:59
it's back inspire me.

Scott Benner 3:00
Okay. So we're gonna talk right now that microphone, don't forget. How are you? Alright, yeah. This has become a bit of a tradition with us. Right before you go to college. We record a podcast. It's nice, right? It's very nice. Do you actually think it's nice? What do you think?

Arden Benner 3:27
It's time consuming?

Scott Benner 3:28
Oh, please. Were you busy? Yeah. Are you doing on a pack? That is true. You do have to pack? How come you don't pack sooner?

Arden Benner 3:40
This seems personal.

Scott Benner 3:43
Well, what makes you kind of wait till the end.

Arden Benner 3:46
I'm just stressed that I like I don't know, I just,

Scott Benner 3:49
I don't need the pressure.

Arden Benner 3:51
No, I don't need pressure to pack. But I don't want to pack all my stuff away before I leave. Because what if I need it? Which I know I don't but still.

Scott Benner 4:00
Okay. So the concern is if you pack something up, you'll need it and then you won't be able to get to it. But it's mostly clothing right

Arden Benner 4:08
now. I know. It makes no sense.

Scott Benner 4:12
hollows like I have to check something in some headphones. Want to make sure you sound good. My ears. talk again. Hello. Okay. Your voice. Your voice doesn't come up on the audiogram while we're recording. It's really too deep. I mean, my voice is pretty deep and it comes up but you're louder than me. Maybe I could turn your gain up a little and that would help. Try again. Oh. There it is perfect. Okay, so I've tried to have you on the podcast twice. To talk about things specific.

Arden Benner 4:50
I mean, tried. I was here we I don't

Scott Benner 4:53
think we ever got to the thing we were going to talk about no idea what it is we were talking about. No I know and I'm thinking that's fine. Are we going to happen again tonight, but I'm still going to try at the beginning to get a FaceTime call from cool. I'm gonna get a FaceTime call. Hold on a second, everybody, we'll be right back

and try to answer Okay, take two. We just got started, there was a call. Alright, so the first time you came on, what did we talk about? To remember? No, I don't either. Second time, I kind of remember we talked about. I tried to talk about going to school and what you thought was gonna happen at school with your diabetes. He didn't talk about that much. We talked a little bit about your prom, and then other chit chats. But can I ask a question? Like, I'm actually interviewing you? That's why I'm here. That's why you're here. Okay. So I actually think it's interesting to know. First, going away to college for the first time living by yourself for the first time, what was your experience with your insulin management? Like, what? Is your being serious? Like?

Arden Benner 6:13
No, I'm laughing because I honestly, like, I don't have recollection of this. You don't have recollection of when you went to college? But just like, I'm not, I don't know. I'm not like keeping stats or track of any of that.

Scott Benner 6:26
No, I don't mean that. I just mean, like, was it let me ask more general questions. We dropped you off the first night. Were you nervous to take care of?

Arden Benner 6:34
I do not remember being? I don't even remember sleeping there the first

Scott Benner 6:36
night? Okay. How about in the first couple of weeks, like when?

Arden Benner 6:40
I'm telling you? I don't I don't know. It's all just I just, like, if you ask me about it is I just I don't know, I just went to college.

Scott Benner 6:47
Okay. Well, that's good, though. That's an interesting to know, because you don't have any crazy remembrances or bad experiences.

Unknown Speaker 6:55
That's what I know. Okay.

Scott Benner 6:58
So I know, for us, like one of the concerns we had when you left, that's just not a concern, really. But just one of the moments where you're like, I wonder how this is going to be is that when you are here, and something needs to be done during sleeping hours? A low blood sugar to in the morning, that kind of stuff? You do not wake up for that? Yeah, cuz I know that you're here. And that creates like a comfort. No, it's not a comfort. It's like my brain just shuts off. Because I know, I want to take care of myself for like, a little short period of time. Okay. And but when you got to college, I have to say, from my perspective, I thought you were right on top of it.

Arden Benner 7:34
Yeah. Cuz I go to sleep knowing that no one's taking care of me.

Scott Benner 7:39
So do you sleep differently because of that?

Arden Benner 7:41
Yeah. Can you describe I don't sleep as heavy at school.

Scott Benner 7:45
You don't sleep as heavy at school? Yeah, he is. But that's not on purpose. It just happens. It's interesting. So we basically sent you with we basically set you with a five pound bag of gummy bears. And a bunch of juice boxes. Yeah. And did you use many of them? I don't know how you think you did?

Arden Benner 8:12
I know you were the only one I picked up did I?

Scott Benner 8:15
Yeah. I mean, honestly, I didn't think you went through as much of it as I thought you would. There was only a couple of times while you were gone that in the middle of the night. I had to like call you and wake you up. But for the most part, I thought it went really smoothly, honestly, like very, very smoothly. So you don't remember being nervous about it or concerned or anything like that just kind of integrated into what you were doing. Yeah. Okay. Well, that's good to know. Did you? Do you have any apprehension about telling three people you've never met before about how to help you like on like, day one, you're talking to these new roommates and explaining diabetes to them and glucagon and stuff like that? Did that bother you having to do that? No, not at all. Do you think they had any weirdness about it? Or do you think they dealt with it pretty well?

Arden Benner 9:10
Fine. I don't. I mean, I don't think there's any weirdness. And if there was, I wouldn't care.

Scott Benner 9:18
But, but nobody was like, Oh, this is weird. Or don't tell me about this.

Arden Benner 9:23
That's never happened to me my entire life. I don't think

Scott Benner 9:27
Do you think they really know what to do?

Arden Benner 9:31
I'm like, if I'm having a seizure, yeah. Yeah, they know what to do. They used to do. We just, we would do this thing where randomly, one of my roommates she would be like, she'd like, yell out, just like randomly went like, in the middle of the day or something. She'd be like, it's happening. And then they'd all run into my room and like, pretend I'm having a seizure, and I'd have to get on the ground or whatever. And they would like find the test thing and then like, do it We do it like once a month, like when they do like fire drills at school.

Scott Benner 10:04
It's a good idea. Was that their idea? Yeah.

Arden Benner 10:06
Well, I mean, they thought it was funny. So like, we would do it but also, like, ever. Like, each month a different person would get to like, put the thing like me.

Scott Benner 10:15
Oh, like be the lead person. Yeah. It's like, Did it help? Do you think for them to see that trainer pen for the genotype open?

Arden Benner 10:22
Yeah, probably until you sent me the wrong one. And then we didn't have it. So we were

Scott Benner 10:26
hilarious after the first time we did. You had like the wrong glucagon and one of your drawers. You were carrying hypo pen in your bag. But the needle was in your drawer. I think they would have ripped it open it figured it out.

Arden Benner 10:37
I mean, I'm sure I don't think they would have just stood there been like, oh, nevermind. That's how he taught me. So I guess we'll just leave. Do you

Scott Benner 10:45
think the fire drills will continue in your sophomore year?

Arden Benner 10:49
I don't know. Maybe when I don't have my own room. So it's gonna be different.

Scott Benner 10:55
Two of them, or all three of them value on Dexcom.

Arden Benner 11:01
Two of them because of the one who lives in the room. I feel like names are weird, but the one who lives like next to me would just hear what was happening. So she would just wake up

Scott Benner 11:11
on your phone. Did that happen? Did she ever be like on your phone is beeping?

Arden Benner 11:15
She was asleep? The two of you were better chances I would wake up and she would.

Scott Benner 11:21
Okay. And I don't want to use people's names either. But

Arden Benner 11:26
how do we describe them? Give them fake names.

Scott Benner 11:29
You're gonna give them fake names. Okay, so I'll be I'll bleep out their real names later. Who do you want? What do you want to call? Robin? Robin? Okay. So and what you want to call

Arden Benner 11:43
Jules?

Scott Benner 11:44
Robin angels. And is.

Arden Benner 11:49
M um she's, you pick one

Scott Benner 11:54
row, I get to pick. I'm gonna pick a name. I think she would hate Heather. Okay, so Robin, Jules and Heather. Heather doesn't have Dexcom she's in the room with you. Yeah. Robin just set at 55. Right. Her her. Her only alarm was 55.

Arden Benner 12:11
I didn't do the like, if my blood sugar was high alerts for them.

Scott Benner 12:15
Right. So they would So in an effort not to bother them in case you went to like 68 or something like that. You don't want their phones beeping? Yeah,

Arden Benner 12:23
it's just like emergency. Okay. Also.

Scott Benner 12:27
Jules Jones also had an a 55 alarm. Yes. Okay. Now that you're gonna be in a room by yourself, do you think you could get Heather to put an alarm on her phone too? Or do you think it still wouldn't wake her up?

Arden Benner 12:40
There's not even a point in that. So. I mean, she'll do it. But like, there's no point.

Scott Benner 12:45
She's not going to hear? No. Okay.

Arden Benner 12:47
No way. All right.

Scott Benner 12:51
When you first got the school we had, like, we went through all these. I was gonna say machinations. I'm not sure if you know that word. But we went through all these things to get set up. And one of the things we were like, well Arden's gonna, like, you know, your school spread out across the big kind of across the town. And we thought, well, what if Ardennes all the way across town, or pod expires, or errors or something? She's gonna have to go all the way home to get insulin. How's that going to happen? So we did work it out with the past, right? Like you could call security at any time.

Arden Benner 13:23
I never did that. You know what I did? I said, I gotta go. And they're like, why? And I'd be like, I got I got a medical problem. And they'd be like, Oh, don't worry about I mean, it. The whole college thing is a joke. If your professor is fine with it, just say I have a medical issue. And if they're a decent human being, they'll say, okay, no big deal. And you just walk out the door.

Scott Benner 13:46
Okay. But we but it's not wrong, right? You could have called a phone number and had security come get you take you to your room waiting for you to change your pump and come back. I mean, they said that, but I probably wouldn't have even tried it. I know you wouldn't have but we did have it set up. Is that right? Yeah. Okay,

Arden Benner 14:02
I started to just drive my car to class though, at a certain point. So I could have just left it right, but

Scott Benner 14:07
you're not trapped. My point is you're not traveling with insulin to class. You're not bringing extra pumps or Dexcom or anything like that with you to class. You'll just go back if you have a problem. Did that ever happen? Yeah, he just went back and changed your stuff. Yeah. Okay,

Arden Benner 14:25
actually have the hiccups. But I'm also we had a situation where my was it? My one of the devices had a battery in it. And the battery stopped working when I left class, or when I left my room. And so the whole thing is like you got to get on the bus. You have to leave about an hour before your class to get to class because it's like a city. So if I had class at three, I'd be like I leave my room at like to get on them. So 215 get there at 245 Class starts at three, my classes are like three hours, three and a half hours long. So I'm there for like, so long, and then get back home. Like you don't get back home like till like five hours after like you leave,

Scott Benner 15:16
right? Um, are you thinking, by the way, have the Reilly link,

Arden Benner 15:19
maybe something's not working and it needed batteries. So we have like, this whole thing set up and I, I could not miss this class. Like, it was like the end of the quarter or something. And I was like, I needed to be this class. Like, like, I actually had to be there for a grade, I couldn't go back. So I was like, What am I going to do? And it was my first quarter at school, too. So I was like, like, what am I going to do? So I called? I called Robin. And I was like, Are you at home? And she was like, Yeah, I'm here. Why? What's up? And I was like, you know, like, my battery sounds working for this and that, like, are they like, do I have any like, I didn't even know if I had them. And she was like, Yeah, you have some here. And Robin Anna, what's her name, Jules are together. And I was like, okay, like, maybe she can take it. But then I remembered that Heather also had class in the same building as me. And I was like, shooting again, on the same buses me as possible. She's still at home, and she can grab them or whatever. So I was like, I need you to like, run downstairs and see if she's still there and try to give her the batteries. But she was like, gone by then. So and I wasn't gonna make her turn around. Like, I'm not going to do that. Like, if anything, I'll just get on the bus and go back. So I'm trying to figure out what to do. New Character in our life. Justin, Justin is one of our friends. And he also has classes. But so I'm running through a list of people. Now I'm like, Who has class here? So Heather is my roommate. And we had just become roommates, like two weeks prior to this because we had a whole roommate situation. And she ended up moving in, but she's gone. I can't get her to do anything. Now. I'm like, Who else is in this building? I texted another friend who I had class with my new drove there. And I was like, Do you have batteries at home? And she's like, No. And I'm like, Oh, my God, so much. I forgot what to do. And then finally, Justin, the new character that we've just introduced. I was like, I texted him and I'm like, Are you at home? And he's like, yes. And I was like, please stay where you are like, what and he had already been like walking to the bus. And thank God Robin. Speedy, ran downstairs and call them as he was getting on the bus and through the through the back, like literally through them the batteries like in the bus. So he got to the building. I ran outside. I grabbed them from him. I was like, thank you so much. And I went into my room and everything. But that was Oh my god. I felt like I was working like on it like a movie. Like I was like trying to get everything. Yeah, it was crazy.

Scott Benner 17:50
I misspoke a moment ago. It's the orange. It was the orange link. It took two AAA batteries. Yes. And I know that's gone because you're not

Arden Benner 17:56
using it. Yeah, that by the way. That was like a week before you gave me something else. It was really helpful. No, it was awesome.

Scott Benner 18:02
Just try it. Yeah. Yeah. So okay, so So I think the point is, is that you had a problem, and you worked it out. That's it. Like,

Arden Benner 18:12
I was trying to tell a story because it's a podcast, but yes, that is,

Scott Benner 18:15
but I'm just for people listening.

Arden Benner 18:17
I'm not coming at you. I'm just saying I'm trying to get listeners. I liked the way you're talking.

Scott Benner 18:21
Don't worry. I'm just saying I'm re encapsulating what you said, because I think people worry that their kids are going to get somewhere and just be like, bummed Fazal, not know, I

Arden Benner 18:31
mean, some of your kids not me, but some of them. I know a couple

Scott Benner 18:37
but you were you were able to kind of like whip it together and do what you needed to do. And you incorporate other people. So speaking of Robin and Jules and Heather, we were able to keep you all together for next year for next year as a sophomore. So we basically had them designated as how would you put it? Like, what is when people Oh, help them? What

Arden Benner 19:02
are those called? Emotional like emotional support people? Yeah, we

Scott Benner 19:05
basically turn them into emotional support people instead of emotional support animals, so we've got them designated by the school as important to your diabetes care. Yeah. And then they were able to stay together with you when you guys move out of freshman housing into sophomore housing. You guys have a bigger apartment now everybody gets their own room. And that's pretty cool. They don't have to wear a vest with like a logo that says don't pat me or anything they do. Would that be great?

Arden Benner 19:28
Can you imagine I'm like actually she doesn't speak to people don't directly don't directly looked at her. Oh, look at her.

Scott Benner 19:36
She's just she's my emotional support person. But anyway, that was really nice to the school to like, do that. It was not a common thing. But one of the reasons we So you moved into an apartment, it's still it's still housing at the school, but it has its own kitchen which is very important. Because an IV I said this on the podcast a number of times, but I want you to talk about a little bit. I think the biggest surprise about you going away to college was how terrible the food was, and how much of an impact it had on your blood sugar and everything. So when we went on the tour, I remember touring the school and going into that cafeteria that freshman captains guys

Arden Benner 20:22
are sitting there and you talk to them. I remember that. Yeah. And I just

Scott Benner 20:25
never thought, Oh, finally, because Cole went to college and Whole Foods situation was bad. Yeah. And

Arden Benner 20:30
mine wasn't bad like that. But it was just unhealthy.

Scott Benner 20:33
Yeah, so it's one of those things where when you look at it, it's like new and clean, and there's a big selection. But when you really stop and eat it every day, it's just fried food and processed food and crappy food. And it took a lot of insulin.

Arden Benner 20:46
Yeah. And so after you eat, you don't feel like you've eaten anything.

Scott Benner 20:50
Because just empty carbs. Yeah, empty calories. Yeah. I can remember you're not gonna remember this. But you were only there a couple of days. And I sent you a text. I was like, aren't you gonna Bolus because your blood sugar was shooting up? And you were like that? I promise. Like, look, I put in so much insulin for this. I counted the carbs, right? Like this whole thing. And you really you had and I missed a massive amount of insulin. I didn't touch the food. And so you use. I mean, I would

Arden Benner 21:18
change my pods more frequently than they weren't making

Scott Benner 21:21
it three days now. Do you think

Arden Benner 21:25
I ate like, twice a day? Like I do three meals a day? There's days where I only eat once a day, because I was like, I don't even I don't even have time to go eat food right now.

Scott Benner 21:35
If you were like a low carb person, could you have eaten in that cafeteria?

Arden Benner 21:39
I don't even know what you would eat there.

Scott Benner 21:41
I don't know. If you were a low carb person. You don't know what you could? I don't even know. Yeah, I make that point to people sometimes. Like if you're gonna think you're gonna, like, raise somebody very low carbon sent him to college, and they're going to eat on campus, it's going to be hard to find items. But anyway, that was really,

Arden Benner 21:57
I don't even I don't know, I think there's one college I heard of that has, like a good dining hall. And it's UMD. Right? Yeah, apparently their food is like, amazing. And that's all I know. There's

Scott Benner 22:08
one in the Northeast Two that has like, great. Bow Dine, maybe. But I mean, it's like a school. I think it was like $80,000 here to go to. So you would think they'd give you a decent piece of fish. You know, in that situation. But I mean, that was tough, because there was a big adjustment. And I can tell you, like from my perspective, not being there was a little hard because I was like, she needs a lot more insulin. And I had to just trust that you were gonna figure it out.

Arden Benner 22:32
Yeah, like when you didn't trust me on the way home from class on time. You're like, Oh, you're

Unknown Speaker 22:36
gonna know you're getting low. You're really low.

Arden Benner 22:38
i Well, I'm well aware. I'm an adult.

Scott Benner 22:41
It's not so now you. I hope you understand. It's not that I don't trust you. It's not the point. Like Trust has nothing to do with it. You're walking home from class. It's like 730 at night. Your blood sugar's falling really fast. I know how it works. Yeah. And I can't get to you. Yeah, I got it. Like, even if I had to call the cops right, then I wouldn't know where to tell them. You are? Oh, yes, you

Arden Benner 23:02
would. You got you got my location. Oh, I couldn't.

Scott Benner 23:04
Yeah, I guess I could have figured that out. It's still scary. Can you see it's scary.

Arden Benner 23:07
I mean, I did it. But I mean, at some point, come on, like I've had, I've had the disease for enough unknown period of time. Like, I was gonna take care of we

Scott Benner 23:16
adjusted well, mom just sleeps through it. She doesn't if you go you go. But she, but I'm, I'm okay. Actually, I sleep well, when you're at school. I don't have any problems. I actually, I have to say I hear the alarms better when you're not here than I do when you're here. I don't know. Because it feels more important because of the distance. Like because now it's not just me getting up and walking down the hall. It's me having to get you on the phone. And that's, you know, that's scary. Because if I can't get to you, if I can't wake you up, then you got to go start bouncing around to the other girls, and try to wake one of them up to go do it. And that happened like one one time one of them. Like your dad called you have to drink this,

Arden Benner 23:57
I think but it was like, right, I had woken up right? Like they were walking in. But I would always get like text messages and it was like juice juice. I'm like, in the middle of just like class, and I'm doing like ding ding ding ding and my teachers like silence your phones and I'm like, What the heck's going on? Like it's like juice juice. I'm like, it's they're not even like trying to notify me they're just trying to like me. I'm like, like, I know, I know. I know.

Scott Benner 24:23
So your friends are like you're low let's go do something.

Arden Benner 24:26
If I looked up the juice box emoji and like my messages I'd probably have like seven detects.

Scott Benner 24:32
I actually am very hopeful because we just switched your algorithm. I don't think you're going to have as many lows and you didn't have I want to

Arden Benner 24:40
be clear seem to say that sentence quite a lot. I know right?

Scott Benner 24:43
But I don't think you first of all, you didn't have a ton of lows. It wasn't like it wasn't like you spent the whole semester like oh my god, I'm dying.

Arden Benner 24:50
Like what was our amazing when you're about to eat dinner? Why makes dinner better? Low blood sugar makes dinner better. It makes me hungry makes you better had just the food tastes better. No, actually, no, it just makes you more hungry. So it's like, because I'm not really I don't, I don't have like, I'm not like sitting there and I'm like craving eating something. Um, you're not less awesome, really great. I mean something. But I'm not like naturally I'm not like, Oh, I'm so excited to eat dinner. But then when your blood sugar is low, you're like, so excited to eat dinner. Yeah,

Scott Benner 25:22
I got that. So, okay, so overall, good experience. Did diabetes impact negatively your college experience?

Unknown Speaker 25:34
I don't think so.

Scott Benner 25:38
mean, if you're not sitting here thinking it was ruined?

Arden Benner 25:40
I mean, it could have been better without it. But no, not particularly.

Scott Benner 25:47
Okay, that's good. Can you please tell the story of I really hope you'd help. Please tell the story of the British teacher who sees your Omni pod?

Arden Benner 25:58
No, I know why? Because I gotta make a reputation for myself one day. So no, I'm not telling the story because you don't want to do it. Because what if I gotta go back to her and I need something from the source.

Scott Benner 26:10
I think it's lovely. I don't think it's a bad story.

Arden Benner 26:14
I don't think it's like, endearing.

Scott Benner 26:16
I don't know. I just thought it was interesting how I see now I can't tell it. If you should just be brief,

Arden Benner 26:23
then. There's no way to be brief. You just tell the story. You don't

Scott Benner 26:26
okay. But you're so good with her accent.

Arden Benner 26:28
I was I was not going to do we're not gonna do the accent. I was not. Alright.

Scott Benner 26:33
I just so to me the story was, I can talk about it. To me the story is that she sees your pomp. She doesn't know what it is. She inquires about it.

Arden Benner 26:44
No. By the way, after I tell her what it is, she tells me a 15 minute long story about a student she had last year, who was a type one diabetic who designed the whole fashion line for people who have an AMI pod. And I was like, Wait, what are we talking about right now,

Scott Benner 27:04
though, in my mind for humor. The whole story is the first sentence she speaks to you. When she looks at it. She asked me what was wrong with me. But in the accent, it's so much better.

Arden Benner 27:15
The I'm one of the like woman who does our eyebrows asked me that to where we make threaded a couple of weeks ago, she pointed to my arm and she was like, What's wrong with you? And I was like, okay, um, I mean, a couple of things. What were you talking about?

Scott Benner 27:34
By the way, the people who listen know that we get our eyebrows threaded together. Yeah. But you said I have to I have to lay off for a little bit. Yeah, just

Arden Benner 27:41
the person years out a little bit. They made happens to me too. You just have to let them grow in for like a month or two and then go back into shape again.

Scott Benner 27:49
Okay. I'll wait then.

Arden Benner 27:52
Not me. I can just wait like a week. And then I can get my hair grows very

Scott Benner 27:55
so. Very, very quickly. You just call it Arden just colored her hair. And in two days, you could see your roots.

Arden Benner 28:02
Yeah, I like bleach bleach blonde like platinum white. And not you. I don't even think it was two days later. I think it was like 36 hours.

Scott Benner 28:13
It looks like it looked like a little black and was hanging on to each hair on your head. It was that quick. It popped out? Yeah, that's really crazy.

Arden Benner 28:21
Just means we spend more money to get it done. Are you excited?

Scott Benner 28:26
I'm very excited to spend more money to make your hair platinum. Yeah. When you come home, you're here to relax. Like for sure, obviously. But you lose your rhythm on a number of different things. Like your

Arden Benner 28:42
I did two months in the winter to come home and just like, melt into a puddle sleeping bottle. Yeah. Right. And then I get three months in the summer to come home and melt again. So yeah, sorry, I don't have a rhythm.

Scott Benner 29:05
It's so I don't. I do understand because it's a thing that happens to everybody.

Arden Benner 29:10
Also, as I get older, I just don't have the energy to do anything anymore to take care of yourself. Yeah. Like this whole thing that we're doing right now, I bet if you listen to like an interview we did a year ago or two years ago, I was so much more like, upbeat and like, what was that back at you?

Scott Benner 29:33
I don't know. You're, I mean, you're maturing, but

Arden Benner 29:36
I've always been a chore but like I just I can't even so much energy goes into talking. So much energy goes into getting out of bed. So, so much energy goes into taking a shower. I can't do it all

Scott Benner 29:53
at all. So but my question is, is that once a week every time you've come home It's like, it's like you've had a pattern at school like I'm gonna take my tiersen and my T three at this time of night and you do it right.

Arden Benner 30:07
Yeah, every night. I don't think I've like missed the night ever very just like finals week is when I started. I sent you with everything I sent

Scott Benner 30:14
you with vitamins. You took them. I sent you with a basketball you took it I sent you with your terrorists and you TokiToki you die but everything we get home, and it's like you don't remember any of that exists.

Arden Benner 30:23
Oh, no, I know it exists. I know is the thing you're

Scott Benner 30:27
giving away to give yourself a break. Cuz you never you don't ignore your I've never seen you burn out on your diabetes. Like be like

Arden Benner 30:37
that's a life or death situation of vitamins that are gonna kill me. Like, maybe I'm just gonna kill myself today. But let me take my vitamin. So

Scott Benner 30:47
you say you actually do feel like even just you feel burned out from taking the vitamins as an example. Which is so much work. Yeah. But you've never turned that onto your diabetes. I've never seen you like, I'm not bolusing for this or you don't do that.

Arden Benner 31:03
Yeah, I feel like I just had this that's a life or death situation. Do I have to tell you

Scott Benner 31:07
the magnesium helps make poopy. Like, that's not a thing you want to happen down

Arden Benner 31:11
show and I can just not take a poop for today. Okay.

Scott Benner 31:16
But you do have any doubt that we're going to pack your stuff up, send you back and you're going to boom, just jump right back on and have a pattern that you you fall.

Arden Benner 31:24
That's the way things go. Okay. I mean, if I don't then Well, it's nice knowing you.

Scott Benner 31:32
So this is the first time so so far. Every time you've gone to school we've driven you or you've driven with somebody. But this is it like you're going back by yourself in a car by yourself driving all the way to where do I have to tell people you go to school? Remember you were on the podcast one time you're like, tell them I go to Chicago or something like that.

Arden Benner 31:54
Oh, did I let's change it.

Scott Benner 31:57
They know where you go. By the way. I mean, I get emails. I just got an email from a lady. I swear to you three days ago. Hey, I hear there's a storm coming. If Arden needs anything. I'm very close to her school.

Arden Benner 32:06
Yeah, because I go to school in Florida. Obviously, so

Scott Benner 32:12
you're gonna make about a 14 hour drive. Not 15 by yourself. Yeah. And so we're gonna, this is the I mean, you're a good driver. And you've driven distances before you drove from school to where Cole is to visit for hours. That's that's four hours of highway driving. You did fine.

Arden Benner 32:33
Yeah, put on my little, my little Arden bento station. yourself, right? It's for you. Yeah.

Scott Benner 32:40
And but what did you bring with you for, like, low blood sugars when you're driving and having to be like 30 minutes into the drive to so 30 minutes into your ride? You got low.

Arden Benner 32:49
I was like, Oh, what did you do? That's how I felt I opened a juice box. And I mean, it wasn't difficult,

Scott Benner 32:59
but it wasn't like some crazy low. You were just drifting? Well, yeah. Okay,

Arden Benner 33:02
so I took care of it. I went, it's a little dizzy up here. But I'm gonna keep driving, and I'll just start to juice. Is that as far? Whoa,

Scott Benner 33:13
do you think you should have pulled over? No. Safety first. But so this is a big one. Like you're gonna make about a six hour drive, you're gonna stop at a friend's house, a family friends, you're gonna spend the night then you're going to probably cleave off the next eight or so hours on another drive? Are you nervous about that at all?

Arden Benner 33:34
No, I'm actually very excited to make my first stop and get food. So you know, like when you go on a long drive, and you make your first stop, and then you get your like bag of food for the rest of the trip. And it's got like your chips and your candy. And sure some, like terrible muffin. I'm so excited to make that trip, but it's gonna be hard to do. Because how am I gonna like, I'm gonna need to put the chip bag in a good spot to place

Scott Benner 34:01
the car. Now we've I think we've highlighted basically the two big scary things about driving across the country by yourself.

Arden Benner 34:09
Right? I honestly I don't know, what are the two big scary things.

Scott Benner 34:12
I mean, the two worst things that we can imagine your blood sugar gets too low and you're by yourself in your car. That's the one thing we're trying to avoid

Arden Benner 34:19
blood sugar. Just don't let it get low and lock your door.

Scott Benner 34:23
Okay. And then the other things easy. We're worried about. I mean, I'm worried about is, you know, human trafficking, assault things like that. Yeah. Like you being by yourself. Should you have a plan like when you get out of a restaurant, you're going to try to look frumpy? You know, wear a hood?

Arden Benner 34:39
Googly googly. To try to look scary. No, you know really,

Speaker 1 34:43
really? Oh, you just really Googly at them. See if that runs them away.

Arden Benner 34:49
Yeah. It by the way. 100% works. I've had 100% success rate with that. tried it on every person I know at school. They all get stuck. And, and it's enough time to do whatever you got to do you want to punch him in the face. You want to run your I take him on the balls. You can do whatever you want Googly, Googly, literally. I mean, there's a, you don't just say the words verbally, verbally. You gotta do the hands and the voice, but it works.

Scott Benner 35:15
So what did we always joke privately? No one if you somebody tried to grab you to like human trafficking, you would just tell them.

Arden Benner 35:22
You're diabetic. But also, we realized that might be terrible, because what if they're like, Oh, perfect. You're gonna run out of insulin, and you'll just be dead. No time. I won't even have to kill you. Oh, enough to kill you. Yeah, wait. So

Scott Benner 35:33
we've gone back and forth on it. Like, do we just say, Hey, I'm going to be too much of a hassle. You don't want me? Or is that a downside? Yeah, we can't decide.

Arden Benner 35:43
I don't know what I would say. Like, do you do you tell them that you're? Do you tell them that like your dad's a sheriff? Or is that like, are you just automatically dead?

Scott Benner 35:54
Say my dad is Liam Neeson? If you take me,

Arden Benner 35:58
I'd be like, I'm like, who's your favorite celebrity? That is my father.

Scott Benner 36:02
Would you like an autograph? Let's go find the phone. I'll call him for you.

Arden Benner 36:06
Like you don't look Spanish. And I'd be like, Well, I'm adopted.

Scott Benner 36:11
I know. Antonio Banderas is my father.

Arden Benner 36:14
That's actually funny story. That's a funny story ever since my kids.

Scott Benner 36:20
I don't know if you know, but Robert Rodriguez. He directed that he originally made a low budget film called El Mariachi and just get real deep. He is my godfather. So I've been at his house multiple times whenever he makes his pizza from scratch. That's the thing I know Robert Rodriguez does. I don't know why I know that because you do it too. That's not why,

Arden Benner 36:40
by the way, haven't had the pizza from scratch in two years.

Scott Benner 36:44
We didn't do that the whole time. You were home didn't do that.

Arden Benner 36:46
I didn't get my lobster mac and cheese.

Scott Benner 36:49
I can make the pizza for you, though.

Arden Benner 36:52
I am here not the lobster mac and cheese. That's all I heard. And that was

Scott Benner 36:56
the thing you dropped on me two days ago. Can you make me lobster mac and cheese before I go?

Arden Benner 37:00
Okay, t minus four days before exit. You can't make lobster mac and cheese. Oh, I know. What are you super busy? I don't

Scott Benner 37:07
even know if first of all, I make a podcast. And I'm very excited. Sorry. It's a lot of work. It's a lot of work. So we did a thing a little late. We switched your algorithm to something else. But it's working well. And I'd like to stick with it. We can always switch back if you don't like it. Do you have enough comfort with it? Or do we need to go over a little just buttons? I'll figure it out. You'll figure it out. Great. Okay, so you have enough comfort with it that we can go along? The last time you so your your years broken up oddly different than other schools really? So you're gonna go back? Start early September? And then would you like

Arden Benner 37:46
me to tell it? Yeah. How

Unknown Speaker 37:47
does that go?

Arden Benner 37:48
Okay, I'll go back. I start classes on the 11th. And then I will come home like a week before maybe four or five days before Thanksgiving. And then I won't end up going back to school until January like sixth or seventh probably. And then I'll be there. And then we'll get a spring break in like March or April at some point, but it's going to be like not even a week long or 10 days, I guess. But it's like, based on how far I am. 10 days is like too much time to just sit in your dorm room but not enough time to go home. So you just don't end up going home you like find something near you. And then I don't end up going back home until June 1. So I'm there for like six months straight. So for

Scott Benner 38:40
the 10 day guy, we can fly you back.

Arden Benner 38:42
I don't know. We'd rather just drive myself back

Scott Benner 38:46
everything you'd lose three days. Three days

Arden Benner 38:48
a day each way. I can do it on one trip.

Unknown Speaker 38:53
I don't know if that's a good idea. Personally, I

Arden Benner 38:55
think it is. Okay. Also, I probably won't do that. I'll probably just stay Yeah,

Scott Benner 39:02
make friends.

Arden Benner 39:03
Well not

Scott Benner 39:07
just work get your work done. Maybe I'll maybe I'll melt into a puddle.

Arden Benner 39:10
Maybe Oh this is good. You know since I'm in Florida. You guys could go on a trip. Go south. Everyone call it power is gonna go home though.

Scott Benner 39:21
Yeah, well, we'll figure out what you could just fly home. It's a cheap there's a really cheap flight from where you are to here. Like like 100 bucks.

Arden Benner 39:30
I don't I just like planes. I don't the airport thing. I hate that little tiny airport. No, it's not the point. It's not planes. I'm fine on the plane. I hate going through security.

Scott Benner 39:43
Alright, this is a pretty small airport. It's still very slow that has nothing didn't we get here locally? You don't have to go to Newark.

Arden Benner 39:49
Why would we be in your Newark? We don't live near New Orleans.

Scott Benner 39:52
I'll tell people where we live. It's a pretty vague description Don't you think Newark Yeah, cuz

Arden Benner 39:58
we live in a Manhattan 100%

Scott Benner 40:04
not where you think. All right. So you're not concerned you're not worried. The first semester went fine. The biggest thing was the food. Now, one of the things we said we were going to do this summer that we 1,000,000% did not do recipes. Yes, like, pull some recipes together.

Arden Benner 40:21
I can find a recipe on the internet and just make something

Scott Benner 40:23
you'll be okay. Cooking for your son.

Arden Benner 40:25
I'm a I mean, you know, men are cool, but I'm a woman I can make myself. This is what we were made for.

Scott Benner 40:34
I was built because it's 1953. You it's different. Because it's all ingredients. You have to figure out the carbs a little differently. Oh,

Arden Benner 40:45
yeah, got it. I'll be fine. You'll be there's a harder thing to face. Okay, good in life.

Scott Benner 40:49
I like that. I think it's good. How are you enjoying school?

Arden Benner 40:53
Do you mean last year? Yeah. You know, it's it is what it is? And what is it? Here's the thing that you are will learn once you get older. Oh, you young uns out

Unknown Speaker 41:08
there definitely talking to people who are 20 like 62 years old god

Arden Benner 41:11
yeah. Anyways, um I Love Actually, my cousin said this earlier today. She was like, you're very much a person who likes to romanticize real life and make it like, seem more fun. And like big, because I like to do that. Like, my end goal was like to live in New York City and have a fashion company and like, how I mean, how realistic is I mean, it's going to be realistic. That's the goal. But like, How realistic is this whole thing? You know what I mean? But once you just like, I don't know, like, once you just like live on your own, you realize how simple everything is? Like, life is very boring. Right? Which is so sad. Yep. Wish you all the best. But life is so boring. Like it's just repetitive. And you do the same thing every day. And this and that. So I like to sit outside everyone smile for a couple of hours and just look at the trees. Yeah, but we don't know where I was. What did you ask me?

Scott Benner 42:07
I asked you how you're enjoying school? Oh, you said here's the thing.

Arden Benner 42:10
Oh, right. Right. Right. Yeah, let's get to that. Um, so school is fun. So like, you go to art school in Florida, and totally gonna make them think that and you think it's gonna be like this whole thing? Because like, you see all these videos and like what they show you and it is like that. But it's also like, school. Yeah. And so what

Scott Benner 42:33
social media does, they show you like a bite of the best part of it. And that's not nearly the whole thing. It's a couple of experiences you have over a few months,

Arden Benner 42:42
the best part of school or the I would say the best part of going to my school. It like I'm gonna have like the classes and everything, but it's like, finishing a project. But the feeling you get from that, because like, you don't think you're gonna die. Like you finish it and your whole body's like, Huh? And then just like hanging out with your friends. Not even like not going out with them not like going to places or doing anything just literally sitting in a room together and talking that and finishing projects are probably the best parts of college.

Scott Benner 43:14
But you met that handsome boyfriend though. They're playing movie.

Arden Benner 43:17
Miles Teller. Yes. I know when he heard my name, turned around, looked utterly confused and walked away. So you know, whatever

Scott Benner 43:27
famous people did you meet when you were there.

Arden Benner 43:29
I didn't really meet everyone but he was there. Janelle Monae was there. Jenna Ortega was there. Sydney sweet Sweeney was there. I believe you're sending me I don't know that. What do you do? You can look her up later. Okay. You know Jenna Ortega. That person. She's the Wednesday girl. Yeah, that I got you and you know, Janelle Monae.

Scott Benner 43:49
Janelle Monae is that girl who I think of as being a very pretty kind of light skinned black girl who's got her hair pulled back very tight. Do I have her she wears

Arden Benner 43:57
cool hats. Okay,

Scott Benner 43:59
but I got her about right.

Arden Benner 44:00
You ever seen her at the Met Gala? Like she had about like polka dot looking at one time or something?

Scott Benner 44:06
tellers the the boy from the movie from top gun but also from the drumming

Arden Benner 44:11
whiplash but also from divergent but also not to keep going with that. But um, they were there and Machine Gun Kelly was there really? Yeah, I wasn't part of that. I was busy that does Miles

Scott Benner 44:24
Teller actually handsome in person.

Arden Benner 44:27
Yeah, he looks a little like, why am I hear? Not like, not like, I'm upset that he was here but like, but like he could have been in a hotel bed. You know, but he like went on. He was like telling a speech about apparently like our school was like the first school he like when he first got like, known he like went to our event. And it was like 13 years ago or something. And now he's like back here because he just did a movie with like Tom Cruise and he was like, it's pretty cool. Yeah, so Excellent. All right. He didn't want to acknowledge me hear anything

Scott Benner 45:00
somebody yelled out your name move down on my list. What did what did hold on I can do this what the jewels, the elder Miles Teller,

Arden Benner 45:07
she was like, just non stop, by the way, it just kept happening. And she goes, say, Oh, but I just it was so. And this point I was like I actually I don't want him to say it now. Like I don't even want him to hear it anymore like because one day I want to have a name for myself and he's gonna be like, it's that name that I heard in Georgia. That one's in Florida. And I'm and I don't know, I just he did end up hearing I have it on video, he turns back and he like looked at us and he like laughed, and then he walked away. And then jewels ran outside while he's getting into the car. And she was like, miles, I said and just kept going. And I was like, Oh well, what

Scott Benner 45:55
was? Was there a difficult part about being away from home? Like, did you ever feel homesick?

Arden Benner 46:04
Oh, I missed my room so much. That's doesn't have to do with anything, but I missed my room. That was that was honestly my biggest thing. Yeah, I miss my room. And I miss the ability to just go out whenever you want. And it's not like trouble because I'm in a city. So it's like, like trying to get like if you just want to go out one night at dinner like it is an hour and a half. Wait to just sit somewhere and then nowhere to park. You have to like walk. I mean, you can drive but then you got to pay. But then it's an impossible to find a spot so then you gotta walk within your legs hurt so then you can't wear cute shoes. So then what's the point of going out? And that's like a whole thing. So

Scott Benner 46:42
did you like it when we came and visited?

Arden Benner 46:44
No, I hated it. You mean, I

Scott Benner 46:48
meant was it a nice distraction? Like when we came in for a visit once or twice? I mean, yeah, yeah, it was good. Yeah, because you don't want work. We're not trying to you don't I mean?

Arden Benner 46:58
No, I honestly have no I tried to like, like,

Scott Benner 47:01
ruin your thing and make you feel like we you know, but it was we thought it was nice to come and visit. Although we were in that dirty hotel that one time I did not enjoy that. Yeah. Was like such a nice hotel. And our room was

Arden Benner 47:12
so dirty. And this flirt ends.

Scott Benner 47:14
I got that for free. Yeah, I know. Like my best moment.

Arden Benner 47:19
I know. You probably had a lot of fun doing that. I didn't enjoy it as much as you think it's upsetting. Fun yelling at the guy on the phone, though. But your hotel room?

Scott Benner 47:27
Oh my God. That's what I came down for. Okay, so we can talk about that. So you it was like the, towards the end of that five month stretch?

Arden Benner 47:36
Yeah, like, if I go home in June 1. It was like, probably end of April. Like a parents that or something like that. It was Parents Weekend. And by the way. Not one of my friends knew that was a thing, right? None of us knew Parents Weekend was a thing. And then someone said it. We were like Parents Weekend. So

Scott Benner 47:53
you were getting a little frazzled at the end.

Arden Benner 47:56
I hadn't been home in like five months. Yeah, it was

Scott Benner 47:59
the longest you've ever been away from home. And we were talking to you one night. And mom was like, Hey, you want to go down there and hang out with her for the weekend or something? Because she looks a little like, like electric. You look like somebody plugged you into the wall outlet didn't pull it out right away. Like you were just like, talking about school. And you're like, there's a lot going on about bicycle. I don't know. We just come down. I'll get a hotel room and we'll spend the weekend in a hotel and just chill out and have dinner and just relax and everything like that. Yeah. So we did that. And that was lovely. Except when we got I got there. So I flew down. Arden picked me up at the airport. And then we go to go to the hotel and the hotels like we don't have your reservation. That was upsetting.

Arden Benner 48:40
I thought they were gonna be like April Fool's was really we were sitting in the car just like, um,

Scott Benner 48:46
we've like parked in a parking garage we call them and

Arden Benner 48:49
it was my parking garage at school. Yeah. And everyone heard him yelling.

Scott Benner 48:53
Yes. I held on the phone a lot. Yeah, yeah. The people who listened might not know that I

Arden Benner 48:58
I think he's a terrible person.

Scott Benner 49:00
They might not know that I'm a terrible person. No, I don't yell really much at all anymore. When I was younger anymore. I enjoyed yelling a lot. Let

Arden Benner 49:09
me tell you a story about Scott. And

Scott Benner 49:10
so I whipped it out again on the phone. I was like, it just flew here like from across the country and you don't have a hotel room for me. And, and all you can say is we'd be happy to refund your money. And I was like, No, you're gonna refund my money. I think you helped me I'm sick. I'm gonna end up sleeping in this car. And

Arden Benner 49:30
so then I finessed and found a hotel room, which was so expensive. Oh my god. So it was like it was like when you visit this the spot that I had mysteriously go to school in, but you know, you know the family here. Let me let me just explain. You know, the man who this white man, this white man you see walking down the street and a very nice suit and a good watch. And he's a little ugly, but you know No, he's got money. And his wife is like, was very pretty in high school. And she's walked in next to him and like a pencil dress. And they're about to walk into a hotel and she has a clutch under her hand. That's the type of hotel I got us. And yes,

Scott Benner 50:15
it because it was the only thing left. Yes, it was there was literally one verb. I was in so much trouble. So

Arden Benner 50:22
my school like, moving weekend, Parents Weekend, and when you gotta leave, like you need to book in advance.

Scott Benner 50:31
Right? So I'm stuck. I have to take whatever I can get. I booked the hotel that was maybe like, I don't know, like $250 a night or something like that for for you. And I Yeah, and it was nice. And it was all good. But then we get there and it's not there. Now there's nothing left. We're calling around. We're looking on camera, anything artist like I found a room. But it was. What was it? Like? It was right like $1,000 a night or something? Yeah, something like that. Something absolutely insane. Yeah. And so we booked it because what the hell else was I going to do? And then I screamed at the guy from Expedia. And he paid the difference. So,

Arden Benner 51:07
so basically, you end up even paying really for it.

Scott Benner 51:10
I mean, I paid the original, like, whatever I was supposed to pay 250 300 Whatever that was, yeah, I paid that. But then I made them pay the balance of it. Yeah. But I everything works out. Good. Be honest. abusive to the man on the phone? Because he did not want it. Yeah, I

Arden Benner 51:26
mean, like, this is just the job he's got. You're like screaming at him on like a Tuesday afternoon. Yeah,

Scott Benner 51:32
so the best thing I can say, to make this ex because people listen to podcasts pretty much know me, I guess pretty well. That's nice. Are these all your friends? So I don't be there's no reason to be mean. They are my friends. And but I have a couple of like weird superpowers. One of them is I can yell really loud and still make sense. And that throws people off a little bit. I think. So I'm yelling, cursing and making sense. I'm a little ahead in the conversation. And I did badger him into doing it eventually. And he actually did it. I sent him a bill when they refunded me the money. I think we got water is after that. After we yelled at him. We got what arises. Yeah, it's nice. Do you and I say water differently?

Arden Benner 52:20
I say water. You say water water. Like an idiot.

Scott Benner 52:23
I'm trying to say water more. But it sounds weird when I

Arden Benner 52:27
say it like a Brit Wah. Yeah.

Scott Benner 52:29
So when I say what, you know,

Arden Benner 52:31
when British people find someone attractive, they say, Oh, you're fit? They say you're fit. Or I think apparently if you say like you're? You're smart. That's supposed to be like attractive to Okay.

Scott Benner 52:44
Well, when I say water, is that the correct way to say so?

Arden Benner 52:46
It's not that it's actually Water? Water? Yeah, it sounds

Scott Benner 52:50
weird when I say like that. I know it's not. I had a guy with a really thick British accent on this year. He was pretty good. But he was hard to understand. Like I it took me a couple minutes to like, soak him up and like be able to hear him. Yeah, so he also got a good

Arden Benner 53:05
or a bad Brit. Was he a bird that you can listen to? Or Brett you get a headache from No, he was he was terrific. Sometimes they give me headaches. Sometimes they give you actually think they're like the like that and like Australian people.

Scott Benner 53:19
i A lot of people from Australia. Listen to this. Go ahead. Okay,

Arden Benner 53:22
I was kind of compliment them. Go ahead. Alright, that's like my favorite accents. But there's like a certain pitch of British that makes my head ring.

Scott Benner 53:33
What's the difference?

Arden Benner 53:34
I don't know. Like, there's a certain pitch of British and I just like can't like if I'm watching a show. I just can't for too long.

Scott Benner 53:42
Can I call this episode pitch of British? Maybe? Do you know this is going to be the 990/9 episode of the podcast. This is episode 999.

Arden Benner 53:54
It's like the angel numbers as the kids say. Yeah, it's probably an angel number that means something I wouldn't know what it is but I don't think it means anything of your mind. Some people would

Scott Benner 54:07
Okay, let me go back I believe in Angel numbers and if you guys want to diffuse essential oils I think that's good too. You respect angel

Arden Benner 54:15
number and I respect you believe in something you don't believe in Don't be a faker.

Scott Benner 54:21
Whatever I make fun of essential oils, I think people are probably mad.

Arden Benner 54:25
Honestly, I put them on before bed and they do nothing one of them actually smells terrible. But it says it relaxes you but it makes me really upset. I'm like this is terrible. It's supposed to relax me.

Scott Benner 54:42
Alright, well, you seem like everything's okay. The one thing that we got messed up on, was I for sure thought I sent you enough insulin. And then nope, nope. That yeah, but I didn't know about the food. I know how bad it was gonna be So we worked it out, but it but we had to have

Arden Benner 55:06
words over there. But because you know you messed up

Scott Benner 55:09
I mean, I but I did send it if you were eating at home the sentence out it would have been enough if you're eating at home. But it down there it just didn't work out. Yeah, fat ass don't think it's gonna be okay. This time you real? So I guess my real question is do you really think you're gonna cook for yourself?

Arden Benner 55:27
I mean, how are you? Sure hope so. But who knows? It's all in God's hands. Is it? not religious, but this is in God's hands.

Scott Benner 55:39
So you're gonna have to have meals, like food for meals on hand. And at the same time, you might have to supplement it with some of the school's offerings here or there.

Arden Benner 55:49
I don't know what you just said. But I'll just make myself okay. I'm sure I'll figure it out. Maybe I'll go ahead and nice rice bowl, rice bowl. Mom says to me, she goes, we need to get you a steamer. And I was like that. Okay, calm down. I mean, I'm going to college not culinary school.

Scott Benner 56:11
Steam. Are you think of culinary? I think it's just, I mean, just the nice rice steamer.

Arden Benner 56:15
I mean, that seems nice. But it seems like it's over $55 so little too much.

Scott Benner 56:19
You're saying? Yeah. Well, if we sold some of your clothing.

Arden Benner 56:23
I'd rather never ever.

Scott Benner 56:26
I don't think mom's wrong. I think we could get a nice little rice maker be a good idea.

Arden Benner 56:29
I mean, sure. All right. It was gonna be a toaster. Yeah, you need toaster? Actually, I don't know. I don't I feel like jewels, man. I got a toaster. See how quickly I'm come up with these names? Again,

Scott Benner 56:38
I'm fascinated that you were able to give them fake names and use them correctly in these sentences. Yeah, I'm holding on tight,

Arden Benner 56:45
smart people were because that was me and Elon Musk. And Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates. Yeah. And Albert Einstein, you'd be able to do and we're in a room together. It's

Unknown Speaker 56:54
crazy. That's how you do it.

Arden Benner 56:57
circle, a circle. And we just talk and part of the devil about all of it. No, no, no, no, no, no, no.

Scott Benner 57:04
Oh my gosh. Do you recognize how much of your insulin management is handled by an algorithm? Like, do you know that if you weren't running an algorithm, you'd be doing a lot more intensive work with your blood sugar? I mean, yeah, I lived with that one for a while. Yeah. So you, you do see the difference? Do you realize

Arden Benner 57:27
that I've had diabetes longer than you think? Not longer than I think you got it when you were two. I know that. But I'm saying at 17. I understood how it worked prior to this.

Scott Benner 57:37
What can I say something like heartfelt to you. I thought you did a really terrific job while you were there. I know. But I'm telling you now he's seen it. So the fans so other people can hear it. I was really pleased your agency crept up a tiny bit. But it was very respectable. And you were doing an amazing job. And I actually think it's going to come back down now. Because it's back down. Now that you're home. I know you don't know that. But

Arden Benner 58:02
it is. I mean, hope it's doing well. Yeah. You just you don't know, though, right? Send it a greeting card. Yeah, I don't know.

Scott Benner 58:11
How did you like dislike etc? What did you think of moving from a pediatric endocrinologist to an adult there? chronologist.

Arden Benner 58:21
If you didn't just say that to me, and I have no idea that happened. Remember, I have no recollection of this happening. And now I do. I understand. Because I said it. Yeah. But um, yeah, well. I mean, but this is prescriptions. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Awesome.

Scott Benner 58:42
But that's another lucky thing. That you I don't know how aware you are of it. Like a lot of people have trouble when they moved to an adult Endo. And you were able to go to Addy because, you know, she helps with

Arden Benner 58:53
others. They like people who think they know everything or something.

Scott Benner 58:56
There are a lot of bad adult endocrinologist.

Arden Benner 58:59
This is what you do. If you have one, they start talking you go wrong.

Scott Benner 59:03
But what if you're wrong? What if you're the person and you don't know? And they're giving you bad information? You have no idea? They drive your blood sugar's

Arden Benner 59:12
you listen to the Juicebox Podcast. That's right. You listen. You're welcome. Thank you give me a cut of this episode.

Scott Benner 59:21
A cut of the episode. Is that how you think of the episodes? It's just pieces of money? Yes, I don't think of it that way.

Arden Benner 59:27
All right. Well, i

Scott Benner 59:31
i But anyway, I mean, that was very smooth, but we were lucky because we had a really great doctor and she was very cool. She you know, she doesn't even manage type ones. She did this because she knew you already. Yes, I'm aware very nice of her actually. And how much nicer is that going to her and you sit in a nice chair and you chat and she's actually listening to you and they don't rush you out and all that stuff. And I find it

Arden Benner 59:56
really fun. They put a pad of paper and a pen next to you for notes. Right. She has a therapy but you don't actually talk about your feelings. Never been therapy. Can you imagine if after this is over like none like nothing I said picked up.

Scott Benner 1:00:14
I've done that twice so far recorded an episode and nothing did you bang

Arden Benner 1:00:19
your head against the wall.

Scott Benner 1:00:20
It's really infuriating. I also did one where 20 minutes into the conversation, I realized it wasn't recording. And I had to say to the person, stop, stop, stop, stop. Oh my god, I'm so sorry. And we just started over again. And that's weird, because then you have a 20 minute conversation after having a 20 minute conversation and you're trying to rebuild it, but it doesn't come out exactly the same. So it's confusing. And then once you get past the stuff that you talked about, then it starts to flow better. It's interesting how it works, but one time it was a famous person. Victor Garber, I did not

Arden Benner 1:00:58
only famous person I know it's been on this podcast, other than harbor from Wizards of Waverly Place, right, so we're tight. So yeah, yeah, I see you're on the TV a lot.

Scott Benner 1:01:09
Also, a couple of big like baseball players have been on here. Alright, dollar has been on a couple

Arden Benner 1:01:15
of times. Baby Daddy thing baby daddy guy.

Scott Benner 1:01:19
Chris Freeman's been on a bunch of Olympic athletes very cool. I Oh, no. Wait, I did the shoot. I really liked this girl and I just forgot her name. And now I feel bad.

Speaker 2 1:01:29
What was she when she did Charlotte? What? They that was really broad Charlotte

Scott Benner 1:01:35
jewelry. I don't know who that is. You know her girlfriend is. Remember I did the interview. And then I was like, hey, her after we got done talking her girlfriend came and said hi. And I was like, and I showed you a picture and she you were like, Oh my God. That's the girl from the Olympics that gymnast? You don't remember this?

Arden Benner 1:01:53
I'm sure if I saw another. I didn't remember. Okay, wait, no, it's actually a lot funnier. I didn't. So we scheduled a little insight on my life. I went to the OBGYN while I was home this summer. And we scheduled an appointment for me and my mom did it on the phone because she was also scheduling herself. One. She was just into her number. What is it two birds one stone?

Speaker 1 1:02:16
I thought you're gonna say two holes with one stone? Yeah,

Arden Benner 1:02:21
I mean, that's it. But um, so she's scheduling an appointment, and she keeps telling me that this doctor's name is um, she tells me the doctor's name. And then she was I don't remember. And then I was like, Who is this? Like, doctor? I'm trying to remember her. And she's like, the Indian woman. And I'm like, no way that woman was Indian. I'm like thinking about it. I'm like, she was no way like, I'm really missing something. So it turns out, we actually switched OB GYN like four years ago. And you didn't remember. This woman did surgery on me. I had no recollection. I was thinking of the woman from like, years ago.

Scott Benner 1:03:02
The with a curly kind of Yeah, yeah. No, that is not the number of

Arden Benner 1:03:07
officers a photo of her family in there. Yeah, I could see it in my head. And I was like, no way that woman is Indian. That woman

Scott Benner 1:03:13
is not Indian. She's like Jewish. I think she is for sure.

Arden Benner 1:03:17
Yeah. And I was like, I'm like thinking about it. And I'm like, Am I like really off on something here? Like, do I need to like study

Scott Benner 1:03:23
when you saw I almost Saturday, but when you saw or did you think oh, I know. This lady did that.

Arden Benner 1:03:31
She was in the room. I went oh, but I was also half naked. So I didn't say that. I was like, I know who you are. So I don't I that's. I mean, doctors. They're great. They do a lot and they go to school for a while. But I am not going to remember.

Scott Benner 1:03:47
How did you enjoy your first OB appointment?

Arden Benner 1:03:51
It wasn't fun. I don't recommend it.

Scott Benner 1:03:55
Was it upsetting? Was it unnerving to go to the for the first time?

Arden Benner 1:04:01
Oh, no, you just take your pants off. And you sit there and she goes scoot scoot because you're asked is never allowed enough on the seat. Skirt skirt. She says at least 10 times. And then you finally scoot to the right spot. And then what we'll do you know, some random woman's fingers are in your vagina.

Scott Benner 1:04:20
stuff at random.

Arden Benner 1:04:21
I mean, we don't know each other like that. Right? So yeah.

Scott Benner 1:04:24
Can you tell the story about the about the Oh, the tick tock tick tock aquarium thing.

Arden Benner 1:04:32
So I was on tick tock math and I'm on a lot or anything but I was just you know, stumbled across it one day. And this video came up of a woman and she was like, What is the worst like ad you've ever seen or whatever that like, I don't know, any ad you've ever seen. That's like just kind of terrible. And this woman was saying I'm sure all these people have seen this video because it went viral. But she was saying how there was a billboard put up in her town because an aquarium was coming up So I don't know if anyone has ever been to aquarium but sometimes they do like the little shark tanks with like the small sharks and you do the two finger touch where like you put your to like what is your middle finger in your in your was a pointer pointer finger in the middle and then you put that out and yeah and you just to finger touch the fill your

Scott Benner 1:05:18
thumb in Yeah, like this. You're making a little gun. Yeah, right.

Arden Benner 1:05:22
Well, other things too. And you just to finger touch the fish, very lightly slimy little fish, and whatever. That's it, but the billboard was just showing you that how to do the two finger touch. And it said, Guess what's coming? And we all guessed no one just the sharks. I

Scott Benner 1:05:44
think it's hilarious because it's, it's literally a full size hybrid is so big with this lady's hand. With the two fingers up, it takes up a third

Arden Benner 1:05:55
and then under it was like the aquariums name. And it said something like, let's get wet.

Unknown Speaker 1:06:00
Yes, yeah. It's got to be fake. Don't you think?

Arden Benner 1:06:04
Either someone's a genius or someone is actually an idiot. But either way, genius marketing. Last two weeks ago,

Scott Benner 1:06:11
we've been basically like, saying just what's gone? What's coming and making the two finger thing in the house. Oh, tick tock. It's not just China taking over. It's actually fun.

Arden Benner 1:06:25
Yeah, I love the tick tock. You know, what I love is that after we're done with this, I'm so prepared to eat something. Yeah, get ready for but I don't know what I want.

Scott Benner 1:06:35
This is a bit of problem since you were a child. You deciding what to eat? I don't crave food. It's one of the most annoying parts about you?

Arden Benner 1:06:45
Oh, well. Okay, well, we're gonna start naming all those. I have a couple. Um, let's see, where should we start with you?

Scott Benner 1:06:52
I mean, I don't know where you would even begin. I know where I'd begin. I think being serious. When you so it's really sad when you leave. Like it's it's incredibly that felt so fast. I know. We really should have seen his face when he called. Don't lie to them. It's and Cole has been gone for like nine months now. He's coming back. And yeah, we're all fine here. And you're in at that. It's really sad. And then you're leaving. It's sad. But there's like this little part of my brain that's like, Oh, God, you won't have to do her laundry anymore.

Arden Benner 1:07:23
Like, my laundry is a terrible thing to do. Because I do it now. Not when I'm home because obviously it like turned into a little princess when I'm home. And I just feel like ah, and mild me Jews do my laundry when I need you to feed me and rub me and do my laundry. But also leave me alone. But no, because you know, I have to do my laundry for like nine months of the year too. And it is vicious. I like because there's a lot of stuff. I have to like hang to dry. My whole dorm is like full of my clothes hanging everywhere. And everyone is not like happy with it. But I'm like, hey, just give me 24 hours. Sorry. But now I'll have like a bigger space. So maybe I won't get yelled at it is

Scott Benner 1:08:10
it's the only thing I'm excited about you leaving. That's nice. Because when you were gone, and Cole wasn't here, like mom and I were keeping up with our laundry and putting it away. And it was really like I was like, Oh my God.

Arden Benner 1:08:20
What if it's not that bad? And you're just getting old? Well,

Scott Benner 1:08:22
that's possible too. Because I move slower. You know, I have to wear shoes. When I fold the laundry. I can't stand barefoot. It hurts my heels.

Arden Benner 1:08:29
Actually, that happens to me too. Yeah, but I think oh, no, actually, sometimes wearing shoes hurts my feet more than not wearing shoes.

Scott Benner 1:08:36
I have to wear those ugly slides that you don't like that. I have. Yeah, my bird Crusher slides that are really comfortable by the way. So other ideas before we wrap up? We've talked about doing a we should do a new girl podcast, because the actors are doing it but it's not good. We could do a better job.

Arden Benner 1:08:57
Why would you what if we meet them one day and now they've heard this?

Scott Benner 1:09:00
Well, if they hear this, I want you to know I want to like your podcast but it's just not good. I can't listen to it. And I want to I've never

Arden Benner 1:09:10
I've never listened actually if we're talking about this I want to know as though additional is married, man. Why do you think the builder guy the home renovator was the twin? What makes you wonder about it? It makes me wonder like I mean, she's Zoe Dacian out like maybe she loves him. Oh, well. You could love I mean, I don't think that people have one true love. Okay, so she could find a person. I don't know something about him is off. I definitely know he's committed a weird crime.

Scott Benner 1:09:41
Wait, you can't say that on here. We don't definitely know that he's committed a crime. Oh,

Arden Benner 1:09:45
I we're gonna have to cut that out. Do we know that for sure. No, I don't know that. The look in his eyes.

Scott Benner 1:09:50
So hold on one second. So you're saying By the look in his eyes. You assume he's committed a crime? Yeah, well, yes, that's it. You don't know that he had

Arden Benner 1:09:58
no, no knowledge You should just cut this out for legal purposes.

Scott Benner 1:10:02
I don't know. I think we've cleared it up. Now you're saying that he gives you a crime II vibe.

Arden Benner 1:10:06
A lot of people do and he is one of them. Okay. Well, I mean, to be fair, she could be a sidekick. Like, I could see her doing something like a little devious.

Scott Benner 1:10:16
I mean, what are we talking about the level of like stealing a person or robbing a bank or

Arden Benner 1:10:21
I don't know what it is, but they've done something

Scott Benner 1:10:24
illicit? I don't like to talk about it, but I'm not happy with her plastic surgery.

Arden Benner 1:10:28
What about the golf boys? Cece, though?

Scott Benner 1:10:31
She's still very pretty.

Arden Benner 1:10:32
I wish good things for her. Yes, I do, too. Does Winston do it was them?

Scott Benner 1:10:37
Yeah. Yeah. He's on that podcast, though. It's the three of them. I don't know. It meanders. I apologize. I know I make them just probably people listen to my podcast and think I meander so whatever. But I wanted to like it. I didn't like it. But I never listened. But a rewatch podcasts. I don't like podcasts. A rewatch podcast for new girl would be genius. Like a really good one.

Arden Benner 1:11:02
They did that for One Tree Hill. And by the way, people love it. The three girls they do it. It's called trauma.

Scott Benner 1:11:08
Also, I want to point out that the new girl podcast with those three people is very popular. Yes, I'm not I'm apparently

Arden Benner 1:11:16
so we had this whole conversation because you didn't like I didn't enjoy it. Yes. Who didn't you enjoy on it?

Scott Benner 1:11:21
I don't know. I don't like I don't have a lot of big voice talking. You know what I mean by that she's

Arden Benner 1:11:30
acting while talking.

Scott Benner 1:11:33
Like, if I don't I don't want to be I love new girls so much. And I those people, I am such a fan of that show. I'm not speaking poorly about anybody. But it feels like a bunch of high school cheerleaders know that they're being recorded. And they talk in big voices and they're happy and like, I don't know, I don't it doesn't seem completely real to me.

Arden Benner 1:11:55
Yeah, I don't have a voice to you. You have a you put on a voice when you do a podcast you think I put on a voice you're 100% Put on voice when you do the voice Am I putting on? Like it's like, oh,

Scott Benner 1:12:08
the opens and the closes?

Arden Benner 1:12:10
And the all the way? throughs I don't talk you don't think this is how I talk. This is not how you talk. How do I talk? You don't talk like this? How do I speak? He's a bunch more charismatic with a certain

Scott Benner 1:12:22
word. I'm more charismatic here. That's word that makes sense.

Arden Benner 1:12:25
Um, yeah, but like, Okay, actually, this is a good story. If

Scott Benner 1:12:30
I was like this downstairs, you'd be like, you're not making the podcast right now. Yeah. Okay.

Arden Benner 1:12:34
So anyways, let me tell my story. Just go ahead. Tell your Are you leaving? No, I'm

Scott Benner 1:12:40
just sitting. Okay.

Arden Benner 1:12:41
Um, me and my mother always say how? I'll ask him a question. Like when I finally do ask him a diabetes related question. He will like explain it like, like that. Like, that's, that's what I hear. And then, and then five seconds later, he gets a phone call from someone who's like, needs help with something. And he's like, Oh, yes. Let me tell you step one is to do this. Step two, he's like, written manual about it. And I asked him a question. He's like, Oh, you should know the answer. I don't think you should. 100% you do that to me in mind. So you guys actually, you all say to me like, You're so lucky. Your dad is this guy. No, no, no, no, he does not. He does not treat me the way he treats you lovely people.

Scott Benner 1:13:30
I am definitely nicer to the people that come on the blog. I

Arden Benner 1:13:32
know. I know. I know.

Scott Benner 1:13:37
I was just gonna I didn't know you were gonna tell a story. But I was just gonna tell you that so far the best television show rewatch podcast that I've ever heard. Is West Wing Weekly. I'm sure it is because I'm looking at a poster right now. Well, it's done really well. So anyway, that's neither here nor there.

Arden Benner 1:13:53
See, I can only watch the West Wing because what's his name is attractive. Martin Sheen. No. The attractive one. And not the one you're thinking about Rob Lowe? No. I actually don't find him that attractive. Richard Schiff. Now what? Come on, come

Scott Benner 1:14:09
on Bradley Whitford. Yes. Okay. Yeah, he's great now. Yes, I've

Arden Benner 1:14:13
seen him recently. And he was on that show where he like, I don't like was like that for five seconds at heart.

Scott Benner 1:14:19
Oh, he was he got a nice little NBC sitcom.

Arden Benner 1:14:22
Didn't last Yeah, he's also the dad and Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. He's in that horribly

Scott Benner 1:14:27
depressing show that lady's like

Arden Benner 1:14:30
Handmaid's Tale. All right. And it seemed like a bad guy in it. I didn't watch Handmaid's Tale, so I don't but, uh, he unpopular opinion he's more attractive than Rob Lowe than Rob Lowe. Yes. Interesting. unpopular opinion. Michelle is more attractive than Schmidt.

Scott Benner 1:14:48
You think? Yes. Okay. We talked about this all the time, about the actors for that show.

Arden Benner 1:14:55
Yeah. Also, I just want to put it out there that there are different types of attractiveness in The World Go ahead. And a lot of people are medium ugly. But no, there's no flat who's medium. Jake Johnson is medium ugly,

Scott Benner 1:15:11
but he's more attractive. But in the more handsome guy, more classically handsome guy.

Arden Benner 1:15:15
I'm sure if he wasn't on a television show, he wouldn't be like, I'm sure I'd see him on the street. And I'd be like, Oh, wow, okay. Yeah, keep walking. I'm sure he'd say the same thing, by the way. But it's like the people who are like, they're like, not ugly, but they're not super attractive. But something about them or their personality is attractive. So you find them more attractive. Like I would say that people probably think Tom Holland is medium ugly. I find him very attractive. The people probably think he's medium ugly. Okay. Joe Curie from Stranger Things medium ugly, but I find him attractive. Who's Timothy? Shalini medium ugly. Don't find him attractive.

Scott Benner 1:15:53
Okay. What about that kid who went crazy? And they let him be in a superhero movie and then he went nuts.

Arden Benner 1:15:59
Is he a transfer? Miller? Yes. I don't find him attractive. Okay. So, actually, nevermind.

Scott Benner 1:16:06
Who's the most attractive, famous person for you?

Arden Benner 1:16:09
Though? That's very difficult. I'll just name all them. Okay. Tom Holland, Andrew Garfield, Chad, Michael Murray, Jesse Williams. I mean, let's just Grey's Anatomy tasks. Like I mean, Mark Sloan and Derek Shepherd gotten them all but Jesse Williams top of the list. James Lafferty along with along with Chad Michael Murray. Help me dad. Who else? Oh, Chris Evans. Chris Hemsworth.

Scott Benner 1:16:37
These are very attractive men.

Arden Benner 1:16:39
These are incredibly attractive. Who you don't find attractive when O'Brien very attractive. Okay,

Scott Benner 1:16:45
and there's two guys you don't think are attractive that everybody thinks are attractive. Or they're go ahead made fun of me about one of them the other night?

Arden Benner 1:16:54
George Clooney George Clooney. I don't think George Clooney. Also he's a lot older than me. Right?

Scott Benner 1:16:59
But what if you look at a younger photo of him? No. Oh, Leonardo DiCaprio. Yeah,

Arden Benner 1:17:03
don't find him attractive at all. Never have even young Leo. Everyone's like, ooh, young Leo. I'm like oh,

Scott Benner 1:17:10
but you don't think Brad Pitt's attractive either?

Arden Benner 1:17:12
I don't think he's ugly. But given the chance. No, thanks.

Scott Benner 1:17:16
Interesting. Who's more attractive? The airplane boy?

Arden Benner 1:17:21
Miles taller Miles Teller or bro? He's medium ugly.

Scott Benner 1:17:24
He's medium ugly.

Arden Benner 1:17:25
Yeah. Or who?

Scott Benner 1:17:26
Brad Pitt are miles taller.

Arden Benner 1:17:27
If you have to take one. I'm gonna take my on Stellar. Okay.

Scott Benner 1:17:30
Is there a world where George Clooney beats anybody?

Arden Benner 1:17:33
No. Oh, sure. Yeah. Oh, you know who else I find attractive. Adam Brody do know who that is. Yes. Yeah. Big kind of. Oh, another on Adam Brody pen Bagley Badgley if you know ever, you know I'm talking about and Nate Archibald character Chase crop chance Crawford. He's a what's his name? And he's the deep.

Scott Benner 1:17:56
The deep. Yeah. Oh, on that, boys. Yeah.

Arden Benner 1:17:59
That's how you would know how Yes, but he was in gosl grow when he was like in his 20s.

Scott Benner 1:18:04
Do you think you'd find guys attractive? Who when you were like 14 1516 you saw on television? No, that's not it? No. Okay. Because there's a lot of One Tree Hill people in here. And I don't know how many people even know who those people are.

Arden Benner 1:18:18
Oh, Dad. The whole world knows. Thanks. So yes, I don't think so. If it

Scott Benner 1:18:22
wasn't for you, I wouldn't know that One Tree Hill exists. Yes, you would know what the closest I would know is that the guy from Walking Dead's wife was in One Tree Hill.

Arden Benner 1:18:31
Jeffrey, Dean Morgan and Halliburton. Please use their names there. But okay, yeah, it's okay.

Scott Benner 1:18:38
So you know, when you come home, and mom says, Did you miss me and you say I missed my room. You break her heart when you say that, right?

Arden Benner 1:18:44
No. First things first. I did miss my room. Second. I have okay. I have this thing. When I'm gone. I don't like I'm not sitting there thinking and not in a bad way. But I'm not sitting there like, Oh, I miss my mom. I miss my dad. I miss my brother. I just miss the essence of being home. Okay, I'm not the type of person who's like longing for someone else's like company. Because I'm very much fine. Just like being alone. Like I don't I really don't need to be with another person. Am

Scott Benner 1:19:19
I the only sentimental person in our family?

Arden Benner 1:19:22
I'm very sentimental guy. Go ahead, but

Scott Benner 1:19:26
you can get your nose. It's fine.

Arden Benner 1:19:27
I mean, I know it's a free conjuring

Scott Benner 1:19:31
just I just burped. You didn't have to say it because Rob would have cut it out. But now people know it's there. So he has to leave it because Rob

Arden Benner 1:19:38
I was Rob long. Oh, my suppose is Rob.

Scott Benner 1:19:43
You're so close. But I don't think we I don't think Rob Rob. Rob wrong. Yeah, Rob. Take your name out if you don't want it. So yeah, yeah, sorry, my bad he's doing the edit. I

Arden Benner 1:19:54
always see your text messages. Always in my car. I get. I mean, I don't do a textbook. I'm there. And then he's like texting you back and I'm like, drive the car and he's like, Ah, well, this matter is really great. And I'm like, Alright, come on, come on, we gotta go to dinner.

Scott Benner 1:20:11
Well, while we're on Rob, let's push his daughter and his wife while they got COVID. They were laid off for a little bit, so we hope they're feeling better. Guess where we're at, though? Oh, about the sentimental thing you said your sentimental, sentimental

Arden Benner 1:20:24
house. So, you know, quietly. Yeah. I don't like to express my feelings. You know that. It's very obvious. Yeah. I'm very much close off

Scott Benner 1:20:35
but you in Kohler like Mom, in that regard? Yeah. But you have my sense of humor. I have my sense of humor. You and I share a similar sense of humor. I mean,

Arden Benner 1:20:47
funny. Um, like to other people in our family.

Scott Benner 1:20:51
The other two are not funny. No, no, they are to some people. Like I'm always like, when close girlfriends like he's so funny. I always think

Arden Benner 1:20:58
oh my god, I think Is she okay. I think that she's been held at gunpoint.

Scott Benner 1:21:03
We just have two very different kinds of funny, like, like, ideas of it. But when we all went together to see John Mulaney,

Arden Benner 1:21:10
we will because he's all the Froot Loops story. And that was hilarious.

Scott Benner 1:21:14
But all of us were thought it was hilarious.

Arden Benner 1:21:16
That no, you know what, there were parts of it. I was like, Ha ha funny. When he told the Froot Loops story at the end. I was like, That is hilarious. What was it like he was super high. And they called him to do like a interview and he drops the drops the spoon. He goes, I'm sorry. I'm eating Froot Loops.

Scott Benner 1:21:34
He went back later and read the interview. And it was like, Oh my God, it was like,

Arden Benner 1:21:37
it was like spoon HITS FLOOR.

Scott Benner 1:21:42
He's that's in this special is that in this specialty? They keep it in, in the Netflix. Did

Arden Benner 1:21:46
you watch it didn't watch. I mean, I saw it and watch it. Okay, so

Scott Benner 1:21:49
anyway, it's good. We saw that live with what, uh, what is his Netflix special now? Which I don't have any above but it was very funny. Okay, so you're sentimental, but you're not overly expressive with your feelings? Not

Unknown Speaker 1:22:00
at all. Okay.

Scott Benner 1:22:02
Do you think that's changing? As you get older?

Arden Benner 1:22:03
No, I actually think that I'm more reserved as I get older.

Scott Benner 1:22:07
Does it bother you? Are you comfortable with it?

Arden Benner 1:22:10
I feel like I should be a little bit more able to talk about my feelings. But that doesn't seem like a podcast episode.

Scott Benner 1:22:17
It's something you're gonna work on your no personal? No, I'm good. Do you want to help? We'll have to talk about it now.

Arden Benner 1:22:24
Like, give me like better help.

Scott Benner 1:22:27
Better help.com forward slash juice box, get 10% off your first month, when you use my link. I have to say of all this. So I have I'm looking at the list of advertisers, I have a big word did that for you. I was gonna give you credit. I'll say this big whiteboard in here that I keep a ton of information on about the podcasts, it kind of helps my brain I walk past every day. And I look at it. And it keeps me focused on like, you know, like, we just crossed off the MythBusters series that I did with Jenny and Jenny and I are going to do Grand Rounds next. And it keeps me all like really kind of focused tells me to pay my taxes. Learn how to backup servers better, like all the weird stuff I do here. But I have a list of advertisers. They're pretty thoughtfully curated. Like I didn't just say yes to everybody, some of these advertisers, I went out and got myself because I knew they'd be good for the podcast, people listening, I knew we use the stuff. So I was comfortable with it. Better help is online therapy. And I thought this is like, I think this might actually be good for people and help them. So I went on to the Facebook group and I said, Should I take advertising from BetterHelp? Would you guys use it? overwhelming amount of people are like, Oh my god, I guess I need to do that. I absolutely would. So I take the advertiser, get the whole thing set up. I sit through their trainings, and I learned how to talk about it. So I don't get in trouble with their lawyers and all this stuff. And then I put it out there. And like six people use it. And I was like, wearing all the people who said they wanted this. So I called the company. I'm like, I feel like I'm failing you and they're like, No, we're doing you're doing fine. I'm like, This is not fine. What are you talking about? They said it's really hard to get people to start going to therapy. And I was like, really? And she said yeah, that's not a thing people want to do. I was like, oh, okay, so anyway betterhelp.com forward slash juicebox save 10% off your first month of therapy when you use my link. Is that the voice that we're talking about?

Speaker 2 1:24:19
Yeah, while we're here, I really need to crack my back up to crack you up.

Speaker 1 1:24:24
Should we do it while people are like I just need to crack Oh, we should do while people are listening.

Arden Benner 1:24:28
Well I need to cut my back right now.

Scott Benner 1:24:29
Okay, hold on. Can we get come over to my microphone? No, I

Arden Benner 1:24:32
need to do it in the chair. Okay,

Scott Benner 1:24:33
everybody because it makes sense.

Arden Benner 1:24:38
I don't actually don't even know if I need to crack that was like nothing

Scott Benner 1:24:45
was their neck. People like hearing people cracking toes

Arden Benner 1:24:57
I don't know. I'm just like really sore. How was more activity I did today?

Scott Benner 1:25:03
Meaning going and sitting next to another school. It was. Well, you're not doing your thing right now.

Arden Benner 1:25:11
Here we go. You're not this is my day, every single day I wake up, and he's like, Oh, see you didn't take your bills last night. Yeah, I was asleep. I supposed to take them on asleep

Scott Benner 1:25:25
or awake during the day? No. Yes. Well, I just love you. And I'm worried about you. majeeda, that?

Arden Benner 1:25:34
sip of my drink?

Scott Benner 1:25:35
So the next time we do this, it'll be like, what, three months from now? No, here when you come back next time, this is how we do it. Oh, yeah.

Arden Benner 1:25:44
I'm gonna do it again next year.

Scott Benner 1:25:46
It'll be next year when we do it. It'll be January No. A year from today? No, we need to do it sooner that you have to have the most popular episodes of the podcast.

Arden Benner 1:25:56
Yes. Quarterback.

Scott Benner 1:26:00
But when that mean, you should come on more often?

Arden Benner 1:26:02
Well for you. But personally, I'm good. I don't need my stats to go

Scott Benner 1:26:08
down. Or you just want to leave them wanting more?

Arden Benner 1:26:11
Yeah. What if your listeners are getting less funny? And then all of a sudden, they don't want to listen to this anymore?

Scott Benner 1:26:16
Do you have any questions for me?

Arden Benner 1:26:18
No, not at all. No. No, I have a question. That's not related to diabetes. That's fine. So I had this idea or this thought, would you note no consequences, you're not going to be hurt in the long run. But you can get shot. You can get shot once and experience what it's like to get shot. You're gonna be fine. After no long term, like problems, you're gonna recover completely fine. Like everything is gonna be fine. But you can experience getting shot.

Scott Benner 1:26:49
Is the question if I could experience being shot, but know that I would have no long term deficits from it. Would I do that? Yes, the answer is 100%. No, I think I would. Well, you're still gonna get shot is scenario. But

Arden Benner 1:27:05
you know, I want to, I want to just experience it seems cool. No, what if someone's like, and if you're gonna experience no long term problems, I keep the bullet, but you're still gonna have pain? No, no, no, you'll be good.

Scott Benner 1:27:21
No, wait when you get shot?

Unknown Speaker 1:27:25
Yeah, no hurt. But

Scott Benner 1:27:27
I mean, I don't think that's I don't need that. No,

Arden Benner 1:27:30
I mean, I don't need it. I also also, I don't actually want it. But if I could experience it, what would that bring? Good story. You only live once.

Scott Benner 1:27:42
You could go to? I don't know. I don't need that story. I see that I see the the idea desire, I understand the question and the whole thing, but I am not interested in that.

Arden Benner 1:27:52
Like, if there's one thing you could do no consequences, but it's like not really that great. Would you do it? Like what is it? Yeah, what is it?

Scott Benner 1:28:02
I mean, the thing just popped into my head. And I have it's funny. It's not a thing that I can I don't think about this at all. Like meaning like, it's not a thing I wonder about or anything like that. But if you told me I could flat out do anything, and I wouldn't have any weird consequences from it. I might try heroin.

Arden Benner 1:28:22
Okay. I don't know what I would do. I don't think get shot would be number one. Um,

Scott Benner 1:28:31
do you think a lot of people are thinking gay sex right now?

Arden Benner 1:28:34
No, actually didn't think that. No, because? Not about you. I

Scott Benner 1:28:37
mean, do you think they're in their car right now gone? I get along with a lady once if I knew nobody. Like, I would try that.

Arden Benner 1:28:44
I mean, I think people would do that. Like, all right, no problem. I have a killer person. You could offer me some money. And I sleep with a woman.

Scott Benner 1:28:52
What about like, kill the person? Like they weren't dead when it was over. But you got to have the whole

Arden Benner 1:28:56
and then they just come back to life? I do that. But how would you tell someone? I have no idea. I'd poison them. Really? Yes.

Scott Benner 1:29:07
How did you come up with that so

Speaker 1 1:29:08
quickly? It's like not messy. Oh, and you wouldn't have to touch them? Yeah,

Scott Benner 1:29:13
I don't think I could touch a person.

Arden Benner 1:29:14
Now when you kill them. Do you call the cops? Or do you take care of the body? I call the cops.

Scott Benner 1:29:19
Why are you getting away? They're gonna stand back up. This is a magical situation. They'll be fine.

Arden Benner 1:29:23
Oh, yes. Right. I forgot that that happens. Now if they're not going to come back to life.

Scott Benner 1:29:28
I call the cops on yourself. Yes. Why?

Arden Benner 1:29:31
I plan it out so that I cannot be caught. Like I would really plan this out. I call the cops because I'd be like, Oh my God, I don't know what happened to them.

Scott Benner 1:29:39
I think that's a mistake. And every TV show when you're too involved, they know it's you. Just like when a woman disappears, it is most often their husband.

Unknown Speaker 1:29:47
It kills them. Well, yeah.

Scott Benner 1:29:51
So you don't want to be too involved in it. I don't know i So

Arden Benner 1:29:55
what if I do this? What if I like there's a third party and I set them up? To be the one to actually hand on the poison.

Scott Benner 1:30:03
I don't know. I wouldn't want to be involved in this. I also this is not a thing I would actually do.

Arden Benner 1:30:07
Yeah, I'm not planning on doing it. But I know this is like I think about this like when I played the game like clue, because you gotta like someone died with the candlestick. Yeah, it's always the candle. So everybody thinks that in the boardroom, and it's always a mustard, mustard. Those are actually the only three things I remember from that game. So that's why I said it. So I

Scott Benner 1:30:28
as I'm trying to imagine, I don't think I could put my hands on somebody and hurt them. I'd have to do it from a desk.

Arden Benner 1:30:33
I don't Yeah, I don't think I could do it either. I

Scott Benner 1:30:34
also don't think I could point it. I've never held a gun. So I don't know that I could point a gun at somebody either. I definitely couldn't stab somebody. I couldn't choke them.

Arden Benner 1:30:45
In the heat of a moment or

Scott Benner 1:30:46
moments. I thought I could choke mom.

Arden Benner 1:30:51
In the heat of the moment, all right.

Scott Benner 1:30:52
I guess you're making a point. If I got upset I could probably

Arden Benner 1:30:57
I don't think I could hurt someone like because I have like a vicious. I could hurt someone out of protecting me. Here's

Scott Benner 1:31:03
a question. You know, in the movies, when someone's being attacked, and they can't get away, and they're losing, and eventually they go to sticking their thumb in their

Arden Benner 1:31:12
eyes. No, I don't think I could do it. I'd be like,

Scott Benner 1:31:14
save your life.

Arden Benner 1:31:16
I don't know what I just got my nails done.

Scott Benner 1:31:19
I every time I see that, I think well, that's game over right there. If that happens,

Arden Benner 1:31:23
I want to learn the pressure point that you put like touch someone to make them.

Scott Benner 1:31:27
Finally try right now. We'll look it up. I'll try to make it if I'm just out.

Arden Benner 1:31:32
Can you still make me food for when I wake up? Yeah, sure. We'll make sure you have it. I need a shower.

Scott Benner 1:31:39
And I said do you know it's not? I know, podcasts I was listening to recently one of the hosts got another host chloroform as a gift. Like that stuff you put on your face and

Arden Benner 1:31:54
pass out from Oh, yeah. Would you do that? Would you try?

Scott Benner 1:31:57
So if Okay, so if you told me I definitely would be okay. I have to tell you that I've been I've just done bed. I've been put out with the Jackson juice a couple of times for some small surgeries. And it's amazing. So I guess maybe, but like they're talking to you. They're like, yeah, so we're gonna do the surgery, and then blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And then you just open your eyes. And you're in the you're out in the other room. It's It's amazing. It's very restful.

Arden Benner 1:32:26
I don't disagree. No, I

Scott Benner 1:32:27
felt restful afterwards.

Arden Benner 1:32:28
I don't feel restful. After was I feel like I need to take a shower.

Scott Benner 1:32:32
You do feel a little dirty after? Yeah. So let's finish up here. I have a couple of college questions for you. Did, did you get offered drugs?

Arden Benner 1:32:45
So I get offered drugs? Yeah,

Scott Benner 1:32:49
like hard drugs? No. What about the one boy? It was like his date. It was his dating pitch. Remember the kid who wanted to? Oh, yes,

Arden Benner 1:32:58
I did get offered drugs. You're so right. Yes, I was coming back from class. So I was in class and this kid next to me to ask me all these questions. And then he asked me if I could. I had like, I had a like an article or whatever. And he was like, Hey, could you touch that to me? And I was like, Yeah, sure. So I texted him the article. This was a plant. I don't think she wanted the article was hitting on you. He was 100%. I mean, I figured this out after I realized she didn't want article, because then he tried to swim. He said, so when we when you're going to ask me to dinner, that's what he said. And I, I was literally sitting next to him in class. And I turned the phone to him. And I was like, huh, because if you know me, I'm not putting up with that. So he like tried to talk to me after class and I kind of put my I'd like to put my headphones in and walk home. And so I did such a thing. And he came up behind me and sweet kid, like no bad intentions. But then I was like, it's fine. Like, I'll just walk home with this kid from class. It's like a 15 minute walk. It's not a big deal. And we're talking and then he starts telling me about all these drugs. He does. And I'm like, Oh, it

Scott Benner 1:33:59
was the sales pitch. Right? I don't think so. It didn't just tell you how to like get a brown bag. No, no, you just made a story. I don't know. I felt like he was like, Hey, I've got drugs. You should go out with me.

Arden Benner 1:34:09
No. Well, he was just telling me about the drugs. He does. Okay. I was like, Well, that's very nice. But nothing. But I never never offered them to me. He just was I think he thought it was cool. Yeah, he's just trying to come off as cool. Yeah. And I was like, you know, it's super cool if I think at dinner and bring it up to my room, so I kind of drugs was he talking about? Well, I don't remember. I remember one of them being LSD. But I can't there were four other ones and I don't remember what they were. But LSD is like a fun LSD. Like it sounds cool to say that's that's why you think you remember Yeah, because it just reminds me of LED. That's why Oh, like lighting like lighting those lights right there LED? Yeah, exactly. But like, I have never been offered hard drugs. Okay. Nobody was like and you have never even seen someone do hard drugs.

Scott Benner 1:35:00
And you use some of your friends with your club a couple of times. You didn't enjoy that idea you went out

Arden Benner 1:35:05
to hit a club. I hate it like that a lot. No. Gotcha. All right. Awesome. I did not see any drugs. Okay,

Scott Benner 1:35:11
fair enough. Did you try drinking while you were gone?

Arden Benner 1:35:16
I tried to sip of wine. Um, my, actually, I feel like I should not tell this story on here because it should get us in severe trouble it who

Scott Benner 1:35:25
is of your trouble. Oh, Robin and where it happened? Yeah. Okay. You don't have to tell them.

Arden Benner 1:35:31
But I did try a sip of wine. And all I could think of was why then like, like, why don't you do this? I'll try to sip a vodka cranberry. Two and a half bad? Yeah. Like, I understand if you're drunk that you can drink it. Not make sense to me. But yeah, to get drunk first. And I Oh, also, yes, I did try. I tried some sort of liquor. Like a shot a shot of something. And wow, well, we'll never do that again. Also, I did it. Like, I did it out of like to end an argument. Because someone wanted the last shot. And they were fighting over it. So I just took it. By the way, I don't drink alcohol. That is probably the second time my tongue has like, even tasted like, like a dribble of alcohol. And I just took a whole shot. And I was like, oh, okay, let's go. Let's stop fighting. Let's leave. I did that whole thing. So an argument would hit you hard? No, actually, my stomach hurt. Like burn? No, just like my stomach. But okay, you didn't feel drunk afterwards? No, I don't think one shot while so like, five, seven. And like,

Scott Benner 1:36:44
I don't know, I done a shot like, three times in my life. So I don't even know.

Arden Benner 1:36:49
In one night.

Scott Benner 1:36:51
I don't remember. This is a really long time ago. It was like well over 30 years ago, so I don't know. Really. Okay, so, Episode 999. Mike, so my my last last question for you is people used to ask all the time, does your daughter mind that you're making this podcast? Does it bother you at all?

Arden Benner 1:37:15
That you make the podcast? Yeah. Why would I don't understand how that would affect me. Okay, so because I keep myself out of this like this right now what I'm doing. I am forced into this because he is paying for my knowledge.

Scott Benner 1:37:29
You feel forced to make this episode peace

Arden Benner 1:37:31
and love. I don't want to be doing this. But are we having a good time? Yeah, but we could also do this without a microphone in front of our face.

Scott Benner 1:37:37
I know. Yeah. Don't you think our podcasts would be good, though, if we just made a podcast? Oh, my God,

Arden Benner 1:37:41
any podcast I'm a part of would do absolutely incredible. But you don't want to be involved? Yeah. Also, oh my God, I feel like I should say this now. Because I've hit rock bottom here. I officially GIVE UP WITH YOU Instagram people, you will never just not request me. Okay, you're just gonna keep coming to me and requesting me. And you know what it is what it is. And I'm here to say whatever you're giving me followers now. But it is what it is. You're gonna let them follow you. Yeah. And so now if you follow me, you must and I mean, you must buy from my clothing company at some point in my life. That's that this is like, this is where we're at?

Scott Benner 1:38:20
Well, you could design T shirts for the podcast. I won't be

Arden Benner 1:38:23
doing that. I don't want that reputation. But um, yeah, I made my account like public a couple years ago when I posted a photo of Tom Holland because I really was like, wishing he would see it. He didn't. But I just never changed it. And now you all find me. But I mean, whatever it is just up in my status. I guess

Scott Benner 1:38:41
I have way more Instagram followers than you? Well, yeah.

Arden Benner 1:38:45
I hope so.

Scott Benner 1:38:46
I hope so. I know. Right? But so you don't care that the podcast exists. It's not a thing that bothers you? No. All right. Do you like that? It helps people. I think as you get older, it changes for you.

Arden Benner 1:38:59
Wait, here's what I'll say. I don't dislike it. Um,

Scott Benner 1:39:06
hey, it's Scott. I'm jumping in to let you know that the podcast is gonna stop in a second. I know it's abrupt but Arden's blood sugar got low very quickly. She had a higher blood sugar earlier in the day that we adjusted pretty aggressively. And while we were sitting here, neither of us kind of saw it coming. She said she could feel it coming for a while. But she didn't expect it to be this harsh. So you're going to hear her say she's low. We finish up the show, and we're out. But there were a few minutes of the podcast that we're cutting because she just wasn't herself and it's not a good representation of her.

Arden Benner 1:39:42
My blood sugar is getting urgently low. I'm so irritable. Are you really low? Yes. And I can feel it and I'm sweating and I'm so excited to eat after this. Okay, I literally have a bathing suit on and I'm sweating.

Scott Benner 1:39:56
Oh, how can we then how can we didn't say anything?

Arden Benner 1:39:58
Because I was excited to get to a point where I just speak. Oh, okay.

Scott Benner 1:40:02
It was interesting what happened like you got aggressive with your pleasure got louder. I

Arden Benner 1:40:05
know. It was interesting. I did that today earlier today too, because that was around the time I started reading my syllabus.

Scott Benner 1:40:13
Oh, and that's when you started getting agitated. really upset. That's super interesting. Okay, well, let's get you something to go and we'll say goodbye then. Right? Do you want to say goodbye? No, it's just over now.

Arden Benner 1:40:26
I mean, like maybe that's my blood sugar was 40 points higher we could do. Okay, I want to eat

Scott Benner 1:40:31
Okay, well, we're gonna go then

want to thank garden for I mean, everything right? And thank her for coming on this episode of the show to I'll remind you that the diabetes Pro Tip series will be re mastered and re released at episode 1000 through 1026. Please enjoy it, share it. And you can find it like I said in your podcast players or at diabetes pro tip.com and juicebox podcast.com. You can also find lists of the podcast in the private Facebook group under the featured tab. Thank you so much for listening. I'll be back very soon with another 1000 episodes of The Juicebox Podcast

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