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Ten-year-old Emma shares life with type 1 diabetes, from gymnastics to MMA, carb counting at school, and spotting her cousin’s diagnosis before anyone else.
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Scott Benner 0:00
Hello friends, and welcome back to another episode of The Juicebox Podcast.
Emma 0:14
I'm Emma. I'm 10 years old, and I have type one diabetes. I was diagnosed October 23 2018 I was three, almost four. If
Scott Benner 0:26
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Emma 2:26
I'm Emma. I'm 10 years old, and I have type one diabetes. I was diagnosed October 23 2018 I was
Scott Benner 2:35
three, almost four, almost four, and you're how old now I'm 1010, wow. You've had it for six years. Yeah, wow. Okay, that's longer. So you've had diabetes for longer than you haven't had diabetes? Yes, yes. Do you remember anything about being diagnosed? I don't, really, literally, nothing. Yes, nothing. So do you have? I don't know. I don't know how that I don't I'm old, so I don't know how this works for younger people. But What's your earliest memory of diabetes? Do you have like, one that sticks in your
Emma 3:04
head? Not really, but the only memory I remember was we were at a campsite. This is what, like triggered my diabetes. I was playing tag with another friend. I was the three, and we were running. I had tripped and I'd fallen into a bee's nest, and then a few days later, I got diagnosed. That was the only one. Wait, did the bee sting you? Yeah, the bees, I fell into the hive because it was on the grounds. Oh, my God, how bad was that? It was pretty bad. I got stung by like 20 ish, it was pretty bad. Did you have to go to the hospital? Thankfully, no, the other people at the camp had, like, Benadryl and stuff that they gave me.
Scott Benner 3:46
Oh, wow, did you yell the bees, the bees when it was happening, or anything like that. Do you remember, I
Emma 3:50
think I screamed and, like, because I was little, I cried and we had to go in the camper for a
Scott Benner 3:56
while. Are you telling me that if you fell into a bee's nest today, you wouldn't cry because you're not little anymore. I don't know, oh, because I would cry. I'm trying to figure out why you're so tough. You're like, I only cried because I was young. Okay, so you fell at the campground, got stung by 20 B's. And then how does that lead to the diabetes?
Emma 4:17
I think that either, like, triggered it, because a few days later, my dad was at a huge work meeting. My mom was calling him, like, shaking like, I don't know what to do. She has diabetes. My dad had to, like, cancel his work meeting at the place and drive back, and on the way back, he actually listened to your podcast.
Scott Benner 4:38
No kidding, he found my podcast while he was driving to meet you for the first time with diabetes. Yes, that's crazy. Oh, Emma, yeah, I'm wearing white socks today, yeah, and I have my feet up while we're talking, and my chameleon is freaking out because my socks are white. Oh, my God. This is so upsetting, because I really want to put my feet up. I. Hold on a second. Oh, I'm sorry, buddy. You should see him. Do you know what a chameleon is? Yes. Okay, so he is right now, bent in half, leaning away from me. His colors have completely changed to like defensive colors, and he is staring me in the face, like, Why did you bring those in here? But he just doesn't like certain colors. Oh, my God, I'm gonna take the socks off. He's eyeballing the socks. Hold on a second and take the socks off and I'm gonna throw them where he can't see them. This would be nice. A, B testing. All right, socks are gone, buddy. Okay, now, can I put my feet back up, although I am white, so I don't know like but I'm not as white as a sock. So yeah, all right, let's see what happens here. I'll look away from him for a second and we'll get back to it. Sorry. I just looked up and he was like, Oh, this is going to be okay. He's okay, okay, good. That's crazy, isn't it? You imagine being afraid of socks,
Emma 5:55
but only if they were white, only if they were white. That
Scott Benner 5:59
phobia you would have, I know. So you're in the hospital, you're young, you're only four. You don't really, you don't have any hospital memories, yeah, not really. I don't remember. Okay, that's fine. And then, do you recall, Mom? Let's, let's ask it this way, how much of your diabetes is in your control day to day?
Emma 6:18
A lot, sometimes, if the nurse, like, isn't there in time for snack, I just text my parents and what I'm having and, yeah, mostly
Scott Benner 6:27
that. So the school wants you to do it with the nurse, but if the nurse is there, you text your mom. You're like, Hey, I don't see a nurse. You know, it's snack time or whatever. Like, what do I do? Yes, could you do it without them? Yes, I'm pretty sure I could, yeah. And so are you good at counting carbs? I think so, yeah. Well, yeah. What's the highest your blood sugar gets in the in the course of a general day, a general day,
Emma 6:54
the highest it gets is like 130 but if it's like a bad day, like 200
Scott Benner 6:58
okay, how do you manage? Are you MDI? Do you have a pump? Do you have a CGM?
Emma 7:04
I started with MDI and finger poke, and I got the Omnipod and Dexcom three months later.
Scott Benner 7:10
Okay, so you're using just regular Omnipod dash.
Emma 7:12
Oh, yes, okay, because I have loop. Oh, you're looping. Okay, yeah. How
Scott Benner 7:16
long have you been doing that? A few years. Okay, you like that, yeah, it's the best thing for me. Awesome, awesome. Oh, look at you. You're like, you're like, out of a commercial. You're like, it's the, oh, who's calling me a spam risk. Hold on. It's
Emma 7:30
like, go away.
Scott Benner 7:32
Oh, sorry, don't they know, I make a podcast. So you've been looping for how long do you think? A few years. You said, Yeah, a few years. Okay, you've been looping for a few years. You go to counting carbs. You think of a high blood sugar as 130
Emma 7:46
kind of, yeah. When I'm 200 I do get pretty nervous.
Scott Benner 7:50
It changes how you feel internally, yeah, yeah. Explain that to me a little bit like how it feels.
Emma 7:56
I don't know why I get, like, so scared, but whenever I'm high, I get just really nervous, shaky, sweaty. I, like, get afraid it won't come down for some reason. Okay,
Scott Benner 8:06
so do you think you are having a physical reaction to the high blood sugar, or do you think you're having like, an anxiety reaction about seeing the high number?
Emma 8:14
I think anxiety because, um, whenever I look at it, I get even, like, really scared. Or what
Scott Benner 8:19
do you think is going to happen if it stays at 200
Emma 8:21
for a while? I don't know, I think, like I feel really sick, and that's mostly the reason,
Scott Benner 8:27
has that happened in the past that you felt sick with high blood sugar? Uh, yes, yeah, okay. I am not a professional therapist, okay, but I think that's the thing that you you could talk to your parents about working on like I do, yeah? I talk to them. What do they do for you? Like, try to make it better.
Emma 8:45
Tell me, like, it's gonna be okay. Blood sugar always comes down. We have insulin. We're all good.
Scott Benner 8:50
So they just give you reinforcing calming ideas, yeah, does that help you? Yeah, it does a lot awesome. What kind of activities are you involved in
Emma 9:00
I do a lot of sports. My biggest one is gymnastics. I started softball a few months ago. I do soccer, basketball and yeah,
Scott Benner 9:09
so you're trying a little bit of everything. What do you like? You have something that you prefer?
Emma 9:13
Gymnastics is my favorite so far. How come? What do you love about it? I just like being able to like work out and have fun with all my friends that are there
Scott Benner 9:22
and there's a dirt stuck in your socks when it's over. Yeah, that you're gonna get with softball. Oh yeah. Let's rank your activities as how good you are at them. Like gymnastics is first, or do you just love it?
Emma 9:34
I love it, and I think I'm way better than my dad at it. You're way better than what my dad, but
Scott Benner 9:40
your dad, he's so good, but your dad's in gymnastics too. Nobody
Emma 9:44
tries to copy me and watches me and he thinks he's so much better than me. Now,
Scott Benner 9:49
when that happens, what do you think in your head that you don't say out loud?
Emma 9:52
I think that he's so bad that he will never get it. Well, I really think that he could get it, but
Scott Benner 9:59
not. Gonna happen? He's busy, yeah, working and doing the things your mom tells him to do, right? Yeah, yeah, it takes a lot of time. Yeah, right. Okay. Then what else do you basketball? What's next on your list that you prefer? Like, if you couldn't play, if you couldn't do gymnastics anymore, what would
Emma 10:14
you do? And love soccer, softball, okay, all right,
Scott Benner 10:17
awesome. Like, I don't understand soccer at all. So, like, you just all running around crazy, right? And there's a
Emma 10:21
ball. Oh yeah, you kick the ball in the goal, and yeah, it gets pretty intense when you get older, though.
Scott Benner 10:26
Oh yeah. Is it intense now? Or you think it's going to get intense later?
Emma 10:30
I think it's going to get more intense. But people have been getting more hurt in soccer once we've been getting older.
Scott Benner 10:37
Have you identified the angry girls that run people over? Yes. Are you one of them?
Emma 10:44
No, I don't think so. Don't think so. No, I don't I don't try and kick people over. Awesome. Good for you. That's very nice. Do you have any brothers or sisters? Uh, yes, I have two brothers. Are they older or younger? They're older than me. I'm the youngest. Oh, do you not prefer that? I mean, I like being the youngest, but I also don't, because I don't get to drive and that type of stuff. Oh, they're already driving. My oldest is graduating soon, the middle, middle my brother, he is doing Driver's Ed right now.
Scott Benner 11:16
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Emma 13:34
think so. I was technically an accident.
Scott Benner 13:39
Oh, you're, you're an oops baby, yeah, I gotcha. How much of life do you understand? Do you know what that means? Yeah, I think so. Would you please tell me your best explanation of what that means? Like,
Emma 13:53
they weren't planning on having any more babies. But then I came like,
Scott Benner 13:58
yeah, I gotcha. Okay, all right, that's what I could tell. Because usually, what happens when the youngest is that far off of the older ones, either, like, the parents have been divorced and remarried and you're like, the baby of a second marriage, or, you know, something happened that they weren't expecting. Yeah,
Emma 14:16
did they tell you that? Yeah, they told me that. How did that Do you remember how that made you feel? Yeah, I didn't really care, honestly, as long as you're here, right? Yeah, Jackson was technically an oops baby, too. Oh, your
Scott Benner 14:29
parents were trying to say, your parents are not very good at not having babies.
Emma 14:33
Yeah, my middle was the only one that was planned. What do you enjoy doing in school? I like math gym and art, those are my top math
Scott Benner 14:43
gym and art. And your dad has kind of a math based job too, right?
Emma 14:47
Yeah, but he's horrible at math. He didn't graduate college, didn't
Scott Benner 14:51
graduate from college. He tried to go to college and couldn't do it,
Emma 14:55
yeah? Like he couldn't, so he just dropped out. Your
Scott Benner 14:58
dad's a college dropout, yeah? Yeah, if you want to say it out loud, just so you can get it on the
Emma 15:02
recording, yeah, my dad's a big college drop out. There you go, awesome.
Scott Benner 15:06
How about your mom? What does she do? She
Emma 15:09
doesn't usually work, but she sometimes substitutes for kids in school.
Scott Benner 15:15
Yeah, hey, your pod's about to expire, yeah? What do you got four hours?
Emma 15:19
Oh, no, I have low reserve of insulin. I have four hours left. Oh, I do have four
Scott Benner 15:24
hours. Oh, look at me. How much insulin Do you have? A 25 more units. Oh, how much do you know? How much you use in a day,
Emma 15:30
in a day, I honestly don't know.
Scott Benner 15:33
Okay, what do you know? What your a 1c is right now about
Emma 15:36
it's about either like six or five point like nine or eight.
Scott Benner 15:43
Okay, so let me ask you a couple of diabetes questions, right? Are you good at answering diabetes questions? Yeah, I'm pretty sure I'm pretty good. We'll find out together. So you're 10 years old, you've had diabetes for six years. You're looping, but you, you know you, you have your parents help, right? But you can do it by yourself. You feel pretty confident. So that's kind of the setup of who you are around diabetes. Yes. Now, how do you eat? Are you like a trash baby? When you eat, you eat pretty well. Like, what's a go through your day? For me, what did I have? What do you have for breakfast, lunch, dinner?
Emma 16:13
Okay, so I always have the same thing for breakfast. It's this protein bar I have. It's like 12 grams, 12 minute timer every morning, and I know how to bolster that really well now.
Scott Benner 16:24
Okay, and then is that, do you eat that way because you have diabetes, or that's how you prefer to eat? Both? Okay, all right, so you wouldn't eat like a bowl of Apple Jacks?
Emma 16:33
I don't think so. I would. Have you ever had an Apple Jack? Never had an Apple
Scott Benner 16:38
Jack? Let me tell you something. They're not good. Okay, yeah, but if I could put you in a time machine and take you to 1977 they were awesome. Do you understand they were awesome back then? But now I don't know what they are, garbage, Styrofoam, okay, now, okay, so you have a nice protein bar. In the morning, you get up. They tell me how you set take me through it. You wake up in the morning. Where's your blood sugar? Usually when
Emma 17:01
you wake up, usually when I wake up, it's like 100 to 80s, like 80.
Scott Benner 17:07
Okay? And then you get in the shower, you give yourself insulin. How's your day go?
Emma 17:11
So then after that, I either ask dad to Bolus because I'm too tired, or I Bolus myself. Is it
Scott Benner 17:19
difficult for you getting up in the morning? Yeah, I don't, I don't
Emma 17:23
like mornings. Has it always been that way? Pretty sure.
Scott Benner 17:26
Do you have hypothyroidism or any other autoimmune issues? Uh, no, I don't think so. Okay, you don't think so. Do you take a pill for anything? No, I don't take a pill. Okay, all right, so your dad comes in and wakes you up, or you wake yourself up.
Emma 17:38
Sometimes He wakes me up. Sometimes I just wake up.
Scott Benner 17:42
There's no way that Arden would let me share this online, but I have a video of me trying to wake Arden up when she was, like, young and in high school or middle school or something, and I'm literally, like, picking her limbs up off the bed and dropping them and just like, and she's not like, I'm like, I'm yelling, Arden, Arden. I'm banging on things, like I'm making my phone make noises, holding it up to her ear, dropping her limbs, like she looks like a dead body. Okay, so now we've had our protein bar. Yeah, you are you finally awake? Are you a problem in the morning? Do you know what I mean? Do you give your parents trouble? Not really, not usually. Okay. Now, do you spike from the protein bar? Or you're good,
Emma 18:20
because we've had it for a long time, I'm pretty good with it.
Scott Benner 18:24
It took you a while, though to figure it out. Yeah, okay. And then you get your energy. You feel good. You're off to school. Yeah, all right, now, when's the first time you eat at school? School
Emma 18:33
starts at like you get on the playground at 810 you have to be inside by 830
Scott Benner 18:40
Okay, so you get a playground, you mess around a little bit. You say hi to people. It's like a, like a, like a meet and greet in the morning, right? You find your friends, blah, blah, blah. Head inside and you eat lunch. Then do you have a snack in the morning? Do they let you snack? Still? Are you too old for that?
Emma 18:55
If we're, like, really hungry, we didn't eat breakfast, you could go down to the cafeteria where we're having recess. To go grab a breakfast.
Scott Benner 19:02
Okay, you don't do that? No. Okay, so lunch comes. You go visit the nurse.
Emma 19:06
No. So I usually just, if I get hot lunch, I go grab it and sit down. If I'm out of the cold lunch, I just go straight to the table and sit down. When do you? When do you? Bolus, usually when I start eating, or it's either eyeball us or the nurse comes. The nurse comes either a little after or a little before I'm
Scott Benner 19:26
there. She comes to you in
Emma 19:28
the lunch room. Yes, and one of my other friends that has diabetes,
Scott Benner 19:32
they call that concierge service. That's lovely. You don't have to go to the nurse room, the nurse room, sorry, the nurse's office, and she comes to you. Yes. Do you ever tip her? Give her a couple bucks? You know what I mean? Not really. No. How funny would that be one time if you turned to her with a couple dollars folded in between your forefinger and your pointer finger, or your middle finger and your pointer finger, and you just reached out with you said, Hey, I appreciate it. Please do that one day and tell me how that goes. Yes, I will. That would be hilarious. You just you turned her to go, Hey, and you get her in real close. Just reach out with the dollar, and you go, you're doing a good job. All right, sorry. Okay, so she boluses for you. Do you spike at lunch?
Emma 20:13
If it's like hot lunch and we're having, like, french toast sticks, usually I spike a little bit. But if it's like my normal lunch, no, you
Scott Benner 20:21
know, it's funny, when you said that you have a protein bar for breakfast, I thought, oh, like, you're a little Jenny in training. Do you know who Jenny is from the podcast? Like, she's in, like, the pro tip stuff and stuff. Oh, yeah, okay. I thought, like, Oh, that's it. But no, you're, you get the school and you're, you're like, I'll have some french toast sticks with everybody else, right? Okay, all right. So it's so that's carb heavier, harder to deal with. But what is it your parents have figured out how to Bolus for that usually, yes, okay, because I mean a 596, a, 1c, is really awesome. You know that, right?
Emma 20:51
Yeah, a few times ago when we had went to, oh, my nurses are like, Corey and Tori at, like, not school. What
Scott Benner 21:01
are you in a Disney Channel show
Emma 21:06
we go to there for, like, when I need to get my diabetes check up. And a few times ago, one of the nurses came in with her, like, jaw dropped, and they gave me a squishy my a 1c, was 5.6 or 5.50
Scott Benner 21:18
wait, your nurse in the school, or your nurse at the like, the endos office, the endos office. Oh, you got a doll for having a good a one say,
Emma 21:25
well, it's like this little, like, squishy panda. I got awesome. You should
Scott Benner 21:29
hand it back to him and say, I prefer cash poor Bitcoin. Tell them that next time go, oh, yeah, give me some bitcoin. Yeah, I prefer cash or Bitcoin. And then just hand it back to them. And then don't and look away, like, as if it doesn't bother you at all. What kind of squishy did you get? Squishy
Emma 21:43
did you get? Um, it was just, like, rubber, squishy type of thing. What's it like? Though, it's a kind of, like a panda, um, it's, it's in like a plastic bag, but you open it, you get, like, the squishies from like, Dollar Tree or something. Yeah,
Scott Benner 21:56
you should, you should have said, thanks. This is gonna end up in the ocean. Give them like, a real black bummer feeling. Well, that's nice. So they, they incentivized you. They with, with plastic tchotchkes. Do you know tchotchke means, uh, no. What does it mean? It's a Yiddish word. It just means a thing that sits and you look at it. Did they say stuff to you like, Oh, my God, you're the best person we have here. Or, like, what is like, what are their names, Millie and Jilly. What are their
Emma 22:23
names? Again, Corey and Tory. Corey and Tory. Gotcha so. Corey is like, he's a boy. He's like, the one of the head people there that I do for he said I was one of the best because he right before this, he saw someone with like, like a point 11 or 1111,
Scott Benner 22:40
yeah, yeah. Corey, pitting you all against each other. Do you eat again in the afternoon at school or not? Till you get
Emma 22:47
home, we have a snack like right before we leave, kind of like we have snack special, and then pack up and go home. When do you learn anything? Oh, so when we get there, we usually have morning meeting, math, social studies, lunch, recess, social studies, reading, writing, and then snack, and then special.
Scott Benner 23:08
Did you have to do school and covid? You know you were like six during covid, right? Six? Yeah. Did you have to do, like, school online, a little bit? Yeah. Do you prefer going there or doing it online? Oh, I prefer going there, okay, because is it the people or just, do you like it now the house? What is it you like about
Emma 23:26
it? Getting to see my friends, yeah, yeah,
Scott Benner 23:29
seeing people, right? Okay, well, that makes sense. And
Emma 23:31
something crazy happened last Thanksgiving. Actually, what? He's one of my cousins, peeing and drinking a lot, blah, blah. They come over for Thanksgiving. We had a big party and jokingly tested blood sugar. It was 700
Scott Benner 23:44
Wait, hold on. Cousin has diabetes.
Emma 23:48
Yes, he has diabetes now. Or she
Scott Benner 23:50
just like making fun of him. Or did she know could be something?
Emma 23:54
She knew it could be something because talks about like me a lot in my diabetes, that some of the symptoms were that, because I tell her about some of this stuff sometimes,
Scott Benner 24:04
wow. Okay, so notices peeing a lot, mentions it to who
Emma 24:08
to my parents, because we have, like, a tester, and after we found out he did had diabetes, because we tested a bunch of other people with different needles, the meter was right, and we actually gave him some insulin, so we technically diagnosed him. Oh,
Scott Benner 24:24
look at you take an event. Also, I don't think it's legal to do that, but don't that's okay. No big deal to what you do. Go around the room and test everybody you turn into a party. Well,
Emma 24:32
everyone wanted to because,
Scott Benner 24:36
yeah, all right, let's figure out how. Oh, gosh, okay. Is somebody's kid? Is it your father or mother's brother or sister? It's my mom's sister? Your mom's sister's son has type one diabetes too?
Emma 24:51
Yes, he's had it for like, about either six months or a year. Does your
Scott Benner 24:55
mom have anything like, like, thyroid or any. Me like that, yeah,
Emma 25:00
she has all of thyroid and a few other things. I don't know lupus
Scott Benner 25:04
really, your mom, yeah, she has some more. Oh, she's collecting them, like squishies. Yeah, I got you. Okay, so your mom has thyroid, lupus. How about on your dad's side? Anything over there? Just bandage gymnastics,
Emma 25:16
yeah? But also, he has ADHD on his side,
Scott Benner 25:20
oh, yeah, he has ADHD, or it's in his family. It's in his family, and
Emma 25:24
he has ADHD. It's both. Do you notice that, yes, he has to take meds for it, and my brothers do too.
Scott Benner 25:32
From your perspective, what does ADHD look like on your dad? Pretty
Emma 25:35
like, getting more mad at us sometimes. And he was like, just he was like, it looks like he was going crazy a little bit.
Scott Benner 25:45
Oh, awesome. I think he's gonna love hearing that so but with the medicine, he's less crazy, or not crazy.
Emma 25:53
Oh, he's not as crazy, but he's when he doesn't take it. It makes him feel like, I don't know if it's like, depressed is the word. It makes it feels like sadder and like, madder. Yeah,
Scott Benner 26:05
crazy. That's interesting, huh? And you don't have any of that, no, but you don't think so. You don't think so. I
Emma 26:13
don't think I do.
Scott Benner 26:13
But like, Have you ever had a moment you're like, Oh, I just acted crazy.
Emma 26:17
Not really. I don't think unless, like, I was like, really mad. Gotcha. What would make you mad? Kind of if someone's like, I love we all love animals. We have a lot of cats, chickens and dogs. If someone was like, abusing or hurting an animal or like hurting
Scott Benner 26:33
someone else, the chickens and the cats can't be together, though, right? Oh no. The cats are inside. The chickens are outside, right? You eat the chickens or eat the eggs. We eat the eggs,
Emma 26:43
and sometimes we have to call the chickens, like, kill the roosters. Why? Because they get because we have too many and like, oh yeah, we have too many of them. The eggs are mixing and like, the roosters are getting too mean to each other, I
Scott Benner 26:58
see, so yeah, so you can stop them from being mean by eating them.
Emma 27:02
Whoa, kinda, yeah. Oh, I've watched them be been killed before by my dad. I
Scott Benner 27:07
don't wanna know exactly where you live, but, like, What state do you live in? Maine, you live in Maine,
Emma 27:13
yeah, I live we live in Maine. We're like, at the end of the road. So we could technically have
Scott Benner 27:18
chickens. The end of the road makes a chicken available? Well,
Emma 27:22
kinda, it's like everyone else, like, down the road, except for one person can't have chickens, really? Yeah, I don't know why. Our house where it is, we can,
Scott Benner 27:32
that's interesting. Okay, we have, yeah, it's incredibly cold there in the winter. Yes, yes, very cold. Do you wish that your parents would move somewhere warmer? Kinda, yeah. Where have you been on vacation that you enjoyed?
Emma 27:44
I liked Cape Cod a lot. And I don't remember this one, but I would like to try and go to Florida, because it's really warm.
Scott Benner 27:52
It is really warm. Yeah, it'll definitely be warm and humid. You know what humidity is, I think. So you think so? Yeah, does it get sticky in the summertime there?
Emma 28:02
Uh, yeah, like, inside right now, I don't know if it's the heat or, like, they have the crank the heat cranks. I'm sweating right now,
Scott Benner 28:10
are you or you're in a room, and they close the door too, right? Oh, yeah, and the windows not open. I'm hot when I make this podcast, too, because I turn the air conditioner down so it doesn't make noise. I, like, close the door, and then eventually someone will come in here after I'm done and be like, Oh my god, it's so hot. And I'm like, yeah, no, I know you're welcome. I that's what I say. I'm like, You're welcome for working. You know what? I mean? I know this is weird. Isn't this weird that this is my job talking to you, yeah, don't get full of yourself and think you're gonna get a job like this one day. No, it doesn't work that way. All right. You got to go do a real job. Do you have anything you really enjoy doing? I either want to be a chef or a veterinarian. Why not be a chef for dogs? Perfect. Combine your loves, you know what I mean? Yeah, then you gotta, just gotta find one rich pop star and talk them into letting you cook for their dog, which I'm sure you could do chapel Ronan, looks like she'd go for that in two seconds, doesn't she? Yeah, you could trick one of those. Do you like cooking? Do you get to cook?
Emma 29:09
Yeah, sometimes I cook dinner, not, not a lot, because I don't want to. But sometimes, if it's something I like, Yeah, I do
Scott Benner 29:16
Emma, let me tell you a secret, no one wants to make dinner. Do you have that thing in your house when you go out to eat and nobody can decide where to go? Yeah. Do you guys fight when that happens? Not.
Emma 29:28
Usually. We just have to, like, choose one place. We have to, like, all put in a like, either we use this, like, spinny wheel that we have on our phones, okay, that sometimes, or we just choose a random place. That's not a bad idea, but I do. I don't like McDonald's.
Scott Benner 29:44
No, no, we don't want to go to McDonald's. Yeah, I know this sounds crazy, but we're out of school. They give you a snack at the end of the day you go home, are you very hungry when you get home from school? Usually, yes, all right. Do you eat something? Yes, and your mom's there, because as we went. Over earlier she doesn't work. Is that, right? Yes, you like that. Your mom's at home when she gets when you get home,
Emma 30:06
yeah? Because I get to, like, play with her a little
Scott Benner 30:10
bit. Yeah, she messes around with you guys for a while before she sends you off to do your homework.
Emma 30:13
Yeah? Or she helps me with my homework. Sometimes look at her and she's
Scott Benner 30:17
probably bored, you know what I mean? Yeah. What do you think she does all day when no one's there.
Emma 30:21
I either, like, clean the house a little bit, or like, chillax, because I really don't know, because she had broken her back a while ago, and we had to, I don't know where it was. I forgot where it was. We had to fly somewhere. We had to fix her back. And then when we went back to the airport, and my mom had to walk through, they wouldn't let her go through with the wheelchair, so she had to use a cane. But her back was
Scott Benner 30:45
really she should have been in the wheelchair. Yes, wow, but she gets around. Okay. Now, yes, she can walk a lot better. Now, awesome, like when you leave for school in the morning. You ever go, Hey, why don't you do some laundry or clean this place
Emma 30:58
up a little bit? Sometimes she does do the laundry. My dad doesn't.
Scott Benner 31:02
Oh, really, yeah, I do the laundry almost exclusively here. You know, I wrote a book one time
Emma 31:09
we oh yeah, my, my dad has a bunch of books from you on his toilet.
Scott Benner 31:15
Wait, my, the one with the picture of the guy like holding the laundry is on your toilet.
Emma 31:22
I don't know if it's that one, but we have a bunch of your your books on like the toilet, so we could just read them.
Scott Benner 31:27
No, no, I think you're thinking about me. I only have one book. Oh,
Emma 31:31
my I asked my dad. He said, too. It must be that one. Who's your dad cheating on me with?
Scott Benner 31:38
We'll find out. Yeah. Anyway, I was gonna say the book is called Life is short. Laundry is eternal, because I constantly am doing laundry. Like, yesterday, I was up here programming something for any I can't say what it's for yet, but I was doing something for the podcast, and in the middle of it, like, in the middle of like, Oh, I gotta put laundry in. Like, I ran to put in laundry that it's like, beeping and like, I'm like, Oh, I gotta put the dryer now, okay, now, I gotta fold it so you're at home. Your mom's there. You guys mess around, which is nice. You like that she's there. Yes, somebody's gonna make dinner. It's not you, because you like to cook, but not that much. And you, Bolus again, do you have a snack in the evenings before you go to bed or, like, or is that I'm trying to go through your whole day eating
Emma 32:22
sometimes I have it before bed. Usually we have, like, sugar free ice cream, kind of, like vanilla ice cream. I usually either have, like, a little bit that or just nothing before bed, sugar free ice cream. It's not, like, completely sugar free, is it good? But it's, yeah, it's pretty good. It's vanilla, all
Scott Benner 32:39
right. You like it, so you're not just eating it. Like, oh, I guess this is okay for sugar free, but you actually enjoy it, okay? Yeah,
Emma 32:46
it's not as good as, like, we have a ice cream shop down the street, and it's, yeah,
Scott Benner 32:52
awesome. I wonder if the ice cream shop has a refrigerator, if they just use main to keep their ice cream cold, yeah? I mean, because very cold. Are you near the ocean,
Emma 33:01
we have a river in our backyard, kind of like, if you walk down, we have a campsite, and then if you keep going down, we have a huge
Scott Benner 33:09
river. You know what's so funny when I was young, I remember there being this pretty, like, big creek that ran through my apartment complex. Sorry, I'm not fancy, like you people with the house, but it ran through my apartment complex. We used to play in it and cross it and all this stuff. And in my mind, it was, it's huge, you know? And as an adult, I went back there one time, and it is a trickle of garbage water, barely like, I couldn't believe how small it was compared to my memory. Oh, my God, you know, like, you'll also one day have this experience where you go back to your elementary school and realize that, like, you're you'll feel huge, yeah, in there anyway. Like, it made me wonder, like, Do you have a river in your backyard? Or is it like, or is it just like, this small trickling of water that one day you'll be like, Oh, that was not a river, because a river is, like, pretty specific, is why? Like, you know what I
Emma 34:06
mean, if you go down, there's a bunch of like, huge rocks, like you can walk on them. There's a river in across the rivers, a street with like, more rocks on that side. If you keep going down the rocks, we have that. We call it a cove. It's like a sandy
Scott Benner 34:20
beach. Oh, nice. Yeah, huh, this is fancy. Yeah. You like it? Do you like living there?
Emma 34:27
I do like living here, but the trees, because this place, I don't know how much we got it for. It was like 100 I have no idea.
Scott Benner 34:35
Yeah, you don't need to make up a number. But go ahead, it was
Emma 34:39
less than we expected that it would be now, but why it was, like, so cheap is because there's so many trees here,
Scott Benner 34:45
so a lot of the ground, you have a lot of land, but a lot of it's covered in, like, woods, and there's not a lot you can
Emma 34:50
do with it, yeah, there's, like, a lot of leaves. There is a lot we can do with it, because my dad cut down the tree, a lot of trees to make, like, a
Scott Benner 34:58
pathway down to the river. Yeah. Is your dad? Like a big, strong guy. He
Emma 35:02
looks pretty skinny and weak, but he um, actually lifted 100 something pounds the other
Scott Benner 35:07
day. Wow. He lifted up 100 pounds even though he's skinny and weak. Well, he looks weak,
Emma 35:12
but he um, not what? Yeah, what he says is, um, the muscles are made in the kitchen. That's what he always says. Do you have
Scott Benner 35:21
any idea what he means when he says that,
Emma 35:23
like, eat healthy and that type of stuff? Yeah,
Scott Benner 35:26
that's a good idea. Are
Emma 35:28
there animals in the woods? Sometimes, we see deer a lot, but no bears, not usually we see turkeys in our yard. Sometimes, yeah,
Scott Benner 35:38
turkeys are fun. They're loud, though, aren't they? Yeah, so, so you're not afraid to play in the woods, is what I'm saying. Sometimes,
Emma 35:45
like, I get nervous. If I see like a big footprint, or like, the trees are
Scott Benner 35:52
shaking, I get scared. Yeah, what do you what do you think the footprints from? I
Emma 35:55
honestly don't know. But the other day I was looking it was, I wasn't the other day. It was in winter. I It looked like a moose footprint, like a big moose, yeah, but I think it was just a huge deer, because the footprint was huge and it looked like, um, it wasn't like a human footprint. I
Scott Benner 36:14
hear what you're saying. Do you want me to find out if they're bears where you live? Uh, sure. Honestly, bears in I remember the name of your town, although I'm going to ask Rob to take the name of your town out, but I remember it. So hold on a second. Asking chat. GPT, are you using that,
Emma 36:32
by the way, yeah, I use that sometimes. What important things are you asking it sometimes i i usually just mess around with it. Yeah,
Scott Benner 36:41
just ask it, like, stuff. Do you think it's going to take over for Google, for kids?
Emma 36:47
Oh, yes, yeah. I also asked, like, how many carbs are in like, say, I'm having to see pop as how many grams are in a Tootsie Pop? And,
Scott Benner 36:56
yeah, it knows that, yeah,
Emma 37:00
oh, I actually have a joke for you. Go ahead, tell me the joke. Okay, it's a pretty long one, but so there's 500 bricks on a plane one falls off. How many are left?
Scott Benner 37:09
500 bricks on a plane one falls off. How many are left? 499,
Emma 37:14
yep. And then, how do you put an elephant in a fridge? How
Scott Benner 37:18
do you put an elephant in a fridge? Yes, one piece at a time,
Emma 37:22
you open the door, put the elephant in, and close the door. How do you put a giraffe in a fridge?
Scott Benner 37:28
Maybe you open the door, you put the giraffe in the fridge and you close the door.
Emma 37:32
No, you open the door, take the elephant out, put the giraffe in, close the door.
Scott Benner 37:36
Oh, really. Okay, now the giraffe in the refrigerator. Now what
Emma 37:40
so the lion kings having a birthday party. Every single animal is there except for one animal. Which animal is it? Lion
Scott Benner 37:47
kings, having a birthday party, every single animal is there except for one animal. Which is it? Is it Mufasa? Because he died?
Emma 37:55
No, it's a giraffe because he's in the fridge. Oh, how come? I didn't put that together. Do you think? And then Susie's crossing the alligator like, um, but she survives. How does she survive?
Scott Benner 38:06
Susie's crossing the alligator Lake, and she survives. How does she survive? I don't know,
Emma 38:11
because all the alligators at the birthday party, but she still somehow dies. How does she die? Does she drown? No, the brick from the plane.
Scott Benner 38:21
Oh, it answered that. This is one big joke you're telling me. Yeah, that was the whole joke. That's awesome. Jeez, hey, there are bears in Maine. Oh, yeah. Maine supports 24,000 to 36,000 black bears, the largest population east of the Mississippi River. What that means for where you are, it's prime bear habitat urban edges don't stop bears that follow river corridors and green belts looking for food. Bears are active from early April through November. Residents start reporting sightings each spring. As soon as natural food is become scarce, you're growing up in a world where anything you can ask will get given back to you immediately. Yeah, right. Now, when I grew up, when I was 10, it was 1981 when I was 10, Oh, right. It's crazy, right? Yeah. And back then, there were five stations on my television, right? So you don't even think of it as stations. You think of it as like, apps or, yeah, like, right, YouTube, right? So there was ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, those were the stations I had. They were on one dial of my I know you don't even understand this, but there was a thing you turned on the like a dial, you turned on the television to change the channels, and then there was another dial at the bottom that was UHF, and that had, like, channel 48 channel 29 like, there were, like, they were kind of like junky channels, yeah, right. If you wanted to watch a football game, for example, yeah, you had to sit down when the football game started, and you had to stay sitting there and watch it the whole time because it only played once. You could not record it. You couldn't pause it. Like you. Had to sit there and watch it like that was. How insane is that? Right? Phones hung on the wall. They didn't go in your pocket. They had long cords on them so you could walk around while you're talking on them, but all they did was make phone calls. You couldn't do anything else with them. Oh, there were no computers in your house. Some people didn't have microwaves at that point. What right, how old I am, right? And so then and so, like, a day in my life was like, get up watch cartoons on UHF channels. This is my Saturday, okay? I'd get up really super early. I had to be up at 6am to watch Mighty Mouse. Do you know what Mighty Mouse is? I have no idea. It's a cartoon. Okay, I had to be up at 6am to watch Mighty Mouse, and then I had to sit through some other garbage, religious based cartoons until seven o'clock and then, and then I could watch like super friends and Tom and Jerry and stuff like that. Okay, oh my God. Then it was 8am cartoons were over now, like they would come to an end, and you could feel your soul die because you were like, Oh no, the cartoons are done until next week at 6am oh my god, and then I had to live for the next 12 hours. But what would I do? Think about it. Now, what do I do? I'm dumb. I don't read that already takes out a whole thing. Now, I got to go outside and pull weeds and cut the lawn and like, right, right, right. There's nothing to do. I talked to my grandmother a little bit on a Saturday, maybe my mom, my brothers, we go outside, we play. Our parents would just kick us out of the house. Oh, my God, get outside. Come back later.
Emma 41:50
Okay, all right. My dad had a way different childhood than
Scott Benner 41:54
that. I imagine he did. And I know, hold on, we're gonna find out about your dad's in a second. Okay, all right. And so then eventually I got a computer like, let me tell you. When did the first Radio Shack computer? My god, that's all become available for retail. This is when I bought my first computer. Now keep in mind, I've just asked a prompt on one of my two computers sitting on my on my screen right now. Oh, the TRS 80, which is what I got. Oh, my God, this historically released in 77 but that is not, certainly when I got it originally, like it was available for a long time before people actually use them. Oh, I bought it, I think when I was like, maybe 13 or 14. So this thing's gonna get it, yeah, so it was out already for a few years. When I bought it, I bought it in like, 84 maybe, I don't remember exactly anymore. Now, it didn't do anything. So I returned it like it was literally just you could code on it or program on it for back then, but I didn't know. But I didn't know how to do that, and so I bought it. I was like, oh, man, this thing's gonna be amazing. And then it wasn't, and I returned it. Okay? I saved for how many years to buy the computer? A lot, yeah, four years of saving my money to go buy the computer that when I got it home, I typed from a book. I took a book that had code in it, and I sat down, I typed out that code for days, and then I hit Enter, and it said error. Then I went back to the book, re went through all the code, found the like one place. I made a typo, fixed it. Hit enter and tell me what you think popped up on screen. It didn't work. No, it worked. What did I get? What did you get? It was a stick figure, man. He did one Jumping Jack. Oh, my God, that's right, that's right. And when it did that Jumping Jack, I unplugged that thing, put it back in the box and took it right back to the store. It's like, this ain't ready for prime time. Then my next one was a Commodore 64 and that only really played games and did like, little like, it didn't really do anything. Yeah, right. But even that, like, that was my whole like, day. Like, that, was it like nothing happened. Do you understand? We'd go to school, we'd come home, we'd argue, fight, eat a little food, go to bed. There was nothing to do. You are going to grow up in a world that not only has the internet right, which I know you don't know, is important, but it's super important. You have the internet and you have AI, your life is going to be so incredibly different from mine in ways that we can't even figure out yet. Yeah, like, what do you think you'll like, really, you're like, oh, I want to be a chef or, like, work with animals or something like that. But, like, I mean, will that even exist?
Emma 44:55
Good? I don't
Scott Benner 44:57
even know, right? Like, your dad's job. Didn't exist 20 years ago. Yeah, right. My job didn't, like, think about my job, right? You and I don't know each other. We're talking we're recording it. Yeah, people are gonna listen to it, like, on their phones and their computers all over the world, like somebody right now is listening to this in Australia, England, China, India, Canada, Mexico. Like, like, seriously, like, this conversation, right, right, right, right. It's crazy, right? And so, like, yeah, they can only do that because the internet exists and phones exist, yeah, right. And so before that, if you would have gone back to before the internet, which, you know, or before cell phones, and said, One day people are going to talk about diabetes in their house, record it, and people all around the world are going to listen to it. Nobody would have even understood what you were saying, yeah, right, because they would have said, Wait, they're going to be on the radio. That's what they would have said, Oh, my God. And you would have said, no, no, not on the radio. And then they would not have context for that. So Don't you wonder, what is it you don't have context for right now that's going to happen in your lifetime. Oh, my God. What do you think it could be? Make up. Make a
Emma 46:09
guess, a levitated car or something. Maybe I have no idea. They used
Scott Benner 46:14
to say that when I was a kid. They used to say, like, when you grow up, cars will fly.
Emma 46:17
Oh, my God, they don't fly.
Scott Benner 46:21
Maybe that's not a thing that could happen. Like, it's going to be stuff you don't think of. Yeah, right, oh my god. Like, I imagine one day that you will just sit down at a computer and tell it, like, Hey, here's my charts and my graphs from my blood sugar from this week. Like, what should I change? And it'll just give you, like, oh, like, turn this setting here, do that there. But then one day, what I imagine is that your pump will just do that. Your pump, your pump will just go, you know, okay, like, here's a week's worth of data. Me, because your pump knows where food went in. It knows how many carbs went in, right? It knows what insulin happened. It knows what happened afterwards. If it keeps that information and just goes over it can't it just make adjustments. I mean, it could right like, so maybe one day, that won't even be a thing, you'll have to think about very much. That would be so cool. Yeah, tell me why that would be cool. It would be cool because I wouldn't have to worry about it. Is like, Yeah, and you do think about it. I think about it a lot now, yeah, yeah. Tell me what that means. Like, what does think about it a lot. Mean, let's
Emma 47:32
say in class, if we're right in the middle of something, and I feel I always have to, like, immediately check, let check it. Or else, like, I get nervous and I, I feel like that's one of the things that I depend on, is diabetes and like my pods, is it because
Scott Benner 47:47
you don't want to be different than the other kids, or you just don't want the hassle?
Emma 47:50
I think I just don't want the hassle because I'm fine with being different that
Scott Benner 47:54
you have no trouble with. You don't care about people knowing you have diabetes or anything like that. Nope. And does anybody give you about it?
Emma 48:01
Not really, but a lot of little kids come over say, What's that on your arm? What's it on your leg? And I have to, like, explain it to them.
Scott Benner 48:08
Anybody who would send me an email to complain to me about the way you and I are talking? What should I say? Back to them,
Emma 48:14
shut up. Shut up. Ish, just anything like that. Awesome. Do you think about boys? Yeah, yeah. So
Scott Benner 48:23
are you like, like, lining up, which ones, like, do you guys all have, like, boyfriends at school, kind of thing
Emma 48:28
I did, but I don't anymore. I have a crush. Oh, yeah, yeah. I can't say his name, though he's coming over today. Oh, does he know that you have a crush on him? I don't think so, but I pretty sure he might have a crush on me. Yeah. Why do you think that? Because, um, like, I play Four Square recess, and whenever we're playing four square, even if I know, like, I'm definitely out, he always is like, Oh no, she's not out because blah, blah, blah, but he has a girlfriend, but I don't think like he doesn't seem to like his girlfriend.
Scott Benner 49:00
That goes around sometimes, and vice versa, vice versa. So right now, you're, you're lining up to be a home wrecker. You're trying to, you're trying to get her out so that you can get in. Is that
Emma 49:10
right kind of well, I'm friends with her, so how are we going to handle that? I don't know. I'm just not going to tell them. I'm not going to tell them. So you until,
Scott Benner 49:20
yeah, you keep it to yourself. You let them break up naturally, yeah. And then you, then you come in,
Emma 49:26
yeah. I come take my shot,
Scott Benner 49:27
yeah, take your shot. And where do you think this will go, like, when, when you're 10 and you're dating? What does that mean? I don't know.
Emma 49:34
But a lot of people in like, fourth grade, in fifth grade are dating for I don't even know why. I just like like
Scott Benner 49:41
people, yeah. So what does that really mean? Like you like you walk next to each other in the hall a little
Emma 49:46
bit. You hold hands. I used to kiss my boyfriend. Oh
Scott Benner 49:49
my gosh. When did that? Did it stop for a reason? Did you get in
Emma 49:54
trouble? I just didn't want to, well, I didn't do it at school a lot. I just didn't want to date them anymore. I was just. Done.
Scott Benner 50:01
What did a boy do that made you be done? Well,
Emma 50:04
one of them just, like, just like, didn't care, kind of, like, pushed me a little bit like, so I just, I didn't like him, and the next one, um, like, forced him and yelled at me. So, yeah, I didn't you had a boy yell at you? Yeah, I've had a boy yell at me.
Scott Benner 50:21
Why? Why did he do that?
Emma 50:23
I don't know. I was grumpy from a sleepover and he was mad at me for being grumpy. My
Scott Benner 50:29
wife gets grumpy sometimes. Yeah, I don't push her, though, although I'm sure she would push me. So yeah, like, do a lot of kids date. Uh, yes, and it's like that. That's the level of how it works. Yes, okay, are there any kids your age doing stuff that you're like, Oh God, I don't think they should be doing that. Tongue Kissing, like French kissing, oh my god. Really? Yep, yep, yeah. You know how you can stop that hell. Get married. Yep, yeah. That'll put an end to that real quick. Get rid but we don't want 10 year olds getting married, just so they don't French kiss. Yeah, that would be going too far, probably, yeah, yeah. So like, that gets around, like, somebody French kisses, and then it, like, gets all over the school, and everybody knows about it, yeah, yeah. Is there anything you wanted to talk about? It's been an hour. I didn't ask. Oh,
Emma 51:22
yeah, kind of go ahead. So, um, I have a best friend. Uh, can I say a friend name? I don't care if you're okay with it, I'm okay with it. Yeah, she Oh, she's gonna listen to this, but she's completely fine with it. I asked her before it okay. Her name's Emmy, and her brother's name is Bennett. Bennett was diagnosed September 22 with diabetes. Oh, okay,
Scott Benner 51:42
how old is he? He's four. Oh, how old is she? She's your age.
Emma 51:47
Emmy is 10. Yep, she's a little younger. So I'm pretty sure it's
Scott Benner 51:51
Emma and Emmy. Yeah, and then the doctor's office is Corey and Tori. Corey and Tori. Does everybody's name rhyme with someone else's name and where you live,
Emma 52:02
kind of but, oh, something crazy with that is the Bennet was diagnosed September, like, I don't know what day, but, and then Emmy was diagnosed October, 22 2022 the day before my diversity.
Scott Benner 52:17
Wait, your friend also has type one diabetes, and she was diagnosed and her brother, oh my gosh, yeah. I wonder how that's happening. Maybe the bears are giving it to people. What do you think of that? That'd be, I mean, the bears, the bears eat the honey from the beehives. Oh, yeah, and you fell on a beehive and then got diabetes. Yeah. I mean, science, right? It is, yeah, right, right, right. Well, that Do you know a lot of people who have type one?
Emma 52:45
I'm pretty sure, yeah, oh, this girl named BJ, she's an MMA fighter with diabetes.
Scott Benner 52:50
Wait, she lives locally to you?
Emma 52:53
Yeah, she does MMA, and I'm actually starting it this weekend with her. Wait, you're gonna start doing MMA? Yes, and it's free for me, because I have diabetes.
Scott Benner 53:03
Wait, diabetes makes MMA free. How does that work?
Emma 53:07
She does like a program with all these adults and kids can, but no kids have so far, and she made it so like people with that kids, or like adults with diabetes, can go in for free. I'm gonna be the only kid
Scott Benner 53:20
there? Okay, is she? BJ, Garcia,
Emma 53:25
I don't know. She does pea pods.
Scott Benner 53:28
She does pea pods. What the hell does pea pods mean? Pea
Emma 53:31
pods is, like, it's an event we get to go to for summer and, like, they do pumpkin carving, ice skating events. Okay,
Scott Benner 53:38
got a news report about her, so she's given you, like, free lessons.
Emma 53:42
Yeah, I'm gonna start this Saturday. It's at seven. Are you looking forward to hitting people? Yes, very much. How come tell me about it. I'm really excited for that, because I've technically been practicing with my dad every
Scott Benner 53:55
day. You and your dad fight every day,
Emma 53:59
at night, what we do is I start, we start in the bedroom, and he has to get me to the bathroom, and I'm not allowed to bite, sometimes I'm not allowed to scratch, and he's not allowed to tickle or cover me with a blanket. That seems like good rules. Yeah, we just fight. We just fight to the bathroom. I usually win.
Scott Benner 54:17
Yeah, you think he lets you win? Or do you think you were actually
Emma 54:21
wanting he, most of the time, tries his hardest. And dad, when you listed this,
Scott Benner 54:25
you Oh, there you go. Awesome. I wish I could leave that in for you. Well, I mean, he's so weak. How could he stop you? I know, yeah, he should eat more good food.
Emma 54:35
Yeah. I usually grab the lamps though. You wait, you fight him with lamps. Well, no, when he tries to drag me, I grab onto the lamp, and he has to let go.
Scott Benner 54:46
Oh, I see, I see, because he doesn't want the lamp to fall over,
Emma 54:49
yeah, well, the lamp usually does fall over, so you're cheating. Well, kind of have
Scott Benner 54:56
you ever shot a gun? No, but I really want to really. Yeah, do people around you target shoot or anything like that?
Emma 55:03
My brothers, once in a while, do is my dad and we actually got a place in levant we're gonna get because there was this old man that was my dad's friend for a while, then he died. Yeah, he died, and he had a wife named Carol.
Scott Benner 55:19
So you guys are buying their place. Is that what you're
Emma 55:21
doing? So it's actually 100 acres. And we're, we're in their will, so when Carol dies, we're gonna get the place, and they actually have a shooting range there.
Scott Benner 55:31
Wow. 100 acres in the woods, the 100 Acre Wood, kind
Emma 55:35
of, but it's also, it's like, in the middle of nowhere, kind of, I mean, that's how you get 100 acres, yeah, but it's in LA van. He actually got it for like, a really cheap price. The husband, yeah, and yeah.
Scott Benner 55:48
So listen, I want to tell people something, you know, Emma's dad reaches out and says, like, my daughter could be on the podcast. And people do that once in a while. They're like, my kids, you know, you know, could be on the podcast. And I go, how old? And he says, 10. And I go, Sure, because often kids can't, like, hold up a conversation. They don't know what they think they're you know, they sometimes they lack self confidence. But every once in a while, you meet one who just, like, can really talk like, I'm talking to you right now. I know you're 10, but you are doing such a good job of of representing yourself and holding up your side of the conversation, like, is that something all of your friends are good at at this age now?
Emma 56:26
No, I don't think so. But most people say I talk like an adult and when my dad talks to me, he does like real adult conversations. He's like, I feel like I'm talking to like an A 20 year old. I'm talking to
Scott Benner 56:38
you No kidding, like you really are. Like, you're very easy to say, I don't know. If you don't know, you know you're not, like, cursing, just the curse. Like, you know what I mean. Like, you everything you're doing is very, like, purposeful. It makes me this all makes me very hopeful for the world. Yeah, yeah, no kidding. Like, I am super interested in, like, how, and you're too young to ask, because you don't know. Like, I know I kind of went over it, but you can't grasp yet how much the world's going to look different, like, in the next five or, like, even, maybe by the time you go to college. I have no idea. Are kids cheating with chat GPT now on homework? Yes, right. Like, so that's not going to stop they're gonna have to find a way to fold that into education.
Emma 57:23
Yeah, I don't cheat with, like, any program thing. Yeah, you're
Scott Benner 57:29
already hearing them talk about it, right? Yes, yeah. I mean, that's, I don't believe that's going to stop. Like, you could Google stuff in the past, but when you get you get the return back, you still have to read it, make sense of it, or you had to, like, plagiarize it, like, copy and paste it, which, you know, they quickly made software to catch plagiarism. You know what plagiarism is, right? Yes, yeah, okay. Like, so, like, they quickly made software that's not plagiarism. So people would turn in plagiarized stuff in college and high school. They'd run it through a computer real quick, and they'd say, No, this isn't your work, right? And there's really bad like you, you get kicked out of school for it. So yes, that stopped people from doing that, but chatgpt and other AIS, I don't think that's going to be distinguishable at some point. And just understanding people in general, like I think instead of having to see this as a problem, I think we need to see this as what they would call an inflection point, or as a moment where life changes a little bit, because I don't think you're going backwards from this. Yeah, you know what I mean, like. So I super, I'm super interested in what like school is going to look like for you, like for the next, you know, eight years till you graduate, yeah, it's gonna be something. I mean, I hope I can stay alive long enough to find out what happens, you know you mean, but I'm like, maybe I can come back in a few years. Oh, you were already gonna get invited back. Don't worry about that. That's awesome. I think you should probably come back, like every 24 months till I stop making the podcast, because I see you again at 1212. Is a real interesting time. Yeah, you know you're gonna get your lady time at some point. You know what that is?
Emma 59:08
Yeah, period. I don't want to get my period. Of course not. Who would want that?
Scott Benner 59:11
That's going to change your blood sugar a little bit. You know about that?
Emma 59:14
Yeah, yeah, I'm scared for that. That's one of the things I'm scared of. And my dad's like, I'm just gonna, like, just watch you with their beard, not, not creepily. Just, I want to I'm interested with your
Scott Benner 59:25
blood sugar. Yeah, I say, are you what are you reading a book? What's that noise?
Emma 59:29
I have no idea. Oh, am I boring? You? No, are you sure? Yes, I like talking with you.
Scott Benner 59:36
Awesome. So, like, okay, so you told me about your friend Emma and Bennett, who also have type one diabetes. Me, Emmy, excuse me, you're MX. We always get our names confused. I mean, absolutely, they're in the same class too. Oh, awesome. Do you always think you're hearing your name when it's somebody else's? Yeah,
Emma 59:53
sometimes, like, the teacher calls on me and she's like, Emmy, I was like, That's not my name.
Scott Benner 59:59
That's. Still went over there gotcha Okay, so is there anything else that you wanted to talk
Emma 1:00:04
about that we haven't talked Oh, I do have this other condition. Okay, it's a lung disease, really. Yeah, it's like a lung disease. It's, it's a really hard word to say. It's a really long word. It's nominal, ultra microscopic, so called volcanoconiosis. Have you heard of
Scott Benner 1:00:22
that? Well, I don't even know what you just said. So numeo,
Emma 1:00:26
numeno, ultra microscopic, silico, volcano coniosis, and also that I'm just with you,
Scott Benner 1:00:38
that's something you had planned for today.
Emma 1:00:40
Yes, because it is, it is a real lung disease, but I don't have
Scott Benner 1:00:45
it. You don't have it. No. Oh, what does it do to people? Do you know?
Emma 1:00:50
Um, I know it's a lung disease. I have no idea. I think it's like short of breath or something. Oh, it
Scott Benner 1:00:54
means short of breath. I have no idea. How long have you been planning to tell me
Emma 1:00:59
that? What? Right when my dad said I will be on the podcast.
Scott Benner 1:01:04
So you've been sitting on this for that
Emma 1:01:06
long? Yes, it's been so hard to keep it in.
Scott Benner 1:01:10
Have you been lying to me about anything else today? No. How will I know that for sure now that I know that you've lied about this lung disease? Well, I guess you'll never know it's true. That's very, very true. Oh my gosh. Are you gonna be tall or short? Like, how are your parents?
Emma 1:01:24
They're both very short, but my brothers are both very tall. Like, my 14 year old brother is a lot taller than my 18 year old brother 15. Do you know how tall your tall brother is? No but I know he's taller than my dad and mom, and my dad's really short.
Scott Benner 1:01:40
What else? Let's see, oh yeah, please drive with your seat belt on, yeah, okay, okay, and don't like and when you start driving, be careful. It's gonna be fun to drive fast, but don't do that. Okay, yeah, all right, make sure boys are nice to you, yeah, nobody gets to push you or yell at you. Okay, yep, even if you're grumpy, yeah, all right, anything else you want to talk about?
Emma 1:02:03
Oh, I wrote this one down because my dad wanted to know kind of or I wanted to know, but wait, do you get your eyebrows started? That's what my dad said.
Scott Benner 1:02:13
I do get my eyebrows threaded. Yes. Does it hurt? Okay, so, yeah, I mean, but it's fleeting, but like, you know, like, it's not like it hurts afterwards, but while it's happening, it's feels like someone's pulling like a shard of metal out of your face, like it's just like, it's like, plink, they come out, and you're like, oh, but it really does. It really is, all right, I want to be clear. Okay, I do a couple of things because it's stuff Arden and I do together. Yeah, if Arden didn't say, Hey, I'm gonna go get my eyebrow started. Would you drive me? I would never have done this. Okay, but once I got there and she's like, You should do it, I was like, I'll do it. Like, you know? I was just like, I get did it now it's kind of a thing we do together. And if I'm being honest, it does look a little nicer for me, because my eyebrows have a way of, like, curling down the side of my head, like, like, sad faces. So they do a good job of cleaning them up. So whenever Arden goes, I just go with her and we do it together. Well, that's cool. Exactly same goes for sometimes, every once in a while, in the wintertime, we go, like, to a tanning salon. But that's the thing Arden wants to do. And it started out with me just driving her over there. And then I was like, I'll do it too. So it's like a thing we do together. Like, if, if Arden left, like she moved across the country, I'd never go tanning again, and I'd never get my eyebrows threaded again. It's the thing I do with my daughter. You know what? I mean? Well, yeah, so that's that's it? Yeah, yeah. I mean, I once shaved my legs, but that was different one time when we were like, God, were we, like, 19 or, I don't know what we were, but it was summertime, and we were all this week. We were so bored. And everybody, like, everyone was talking about how bored we were because, like, I'm telling you, the world was just different. Like, there was not a lot to do. Okay? We all got around one day and we all said something like, like, let's do something stupid, like, and we all came up with different stupid stuff to do. And I was like, I'll shave my legs. So, like, anyway, it was very itchy when it came back. Oh, my God. I don't remember what my other friends did. We once shaved. We once gave my brother, I think he was maybe like, 13 at the time. We collected money up from a bunch of people. Gave my brother $20 so we could shave his head bald. Oh, my God. And so for $20 my brother let his head get shaved completely bald.
Emma 1:04:49
My dad did it for free. My mom
Scott Benner 1:04:52
was so mad. Oh, my God. She was so incredibly. Be angry, and my brother didn't care. Like, he was just like, he was like, I have $20 like, can you imagine? Can you imagine nowadays? Like, how much if I said to you, am I going to shave your head bald, but you're going to get money for it? How much money would you want
Emma 1:05:14
if it's more than 50 because I am, I am not shaving my head,
Scott Benner 1:05:20
right? It would have to be, to you, would be a lot of money. And to you, $50 is a lot of money.
Emma 1:05:26
Yes, 100 is, like, I've only had ever $100 bill that I've earned. And how did you make the money? I worked six hours with my dad for a whole day. Okay? Would you cleaning the chicken coop and cleaning up the leaves. Very unpleasant. It was disgusting. What'd you do with the money? I think I saved it for a bit, and did I bought some stuff? I should have saved her an Apple Watch, but I was too dumb at the time to know.
Scott Benner 1:05:51
So you kind of like you spent it before you could build up. Yeah, I got you
Emma 1:05:56
that place we're getting we have to mow in last summer. My brother, the younger brother, he earned $1,000 for doing it. So I'm gonna try and plan to mow the summer. Is it a push mower or a rider? Oh, you ride it. I did that last year for a little bit.
Scott Benner 1:06:14
Oh, so you, so you would cut this lawn for the whole summer to make like, $1,000
Emma 1:06:18
Oh, yeah, no, definitely. Yeah. That's not a bad deal. Yeah, you don't have to buy the gas, do you? Oh no. My dad
Scott Benner 1:06:25
does. Oh, awesome. Well, then I would do that. If I was you, they'll let you do that when you're 10.
Emma 1:06:30
Oh yeah, my brothers do? I mean, my dad does. The lady that's there, she gets very, like, scared when I'm out, and my mom is, like, holding her breath. Like, why is she going, Oh,
Scott Benner 1:06:41
I see I say because you're because you're young, right?
Emma 1:06:44
Yeah, but I don't, I don't, I don't feel like I'm young. I feel like I'm older than that.
Scott Benner 1:06:49
You do? You feel like it's safe for you to be doing it?
Emma 1:06:51
Yeah? And a lot of people said I look a lot older because I just, I had really long hair down to like, I don't know how long it was it, but I finally got it so I could put it like over my shoulder and have it there. I cut it all off, not like shaved. Why'd you cut it off? Because I did not like having to take care of it. So now I have this really short haircut. Gotcha? You like that better? Oh, way better. I hated taking care of my head there. Do
Scott Benner 1:07:16
you think? Have you ever thought about, will there become a time where you're get tired of diabetes and you just don't want to do it. Has that ever happened
Emma 1:07:23
to you? I mean, I get like, upset that I haven't but no, I don't think I'd never, I don't think I'd ever, like, not take care of myself for it. What's upset? What do you mean? You get upset like I sometimes when I have to change my podcast, just like, I'm not having a good day, I get really mad about
Scott Benner 1:07:39
it. Yeah, you ever get mad at your parents for trying to help you? No, I don't do that, though. That's good. It doesn't bother you when people are trying to help you, uh, not really. Okay. If that ever, if that ever happens, try hard to fight that feeling. Yeah, okay.
Emma 1:07:54
But sometimes when I, like, uh, let's say I played this new video game the other day, because we're all big gamers, except for my mom. We were playing this game, and I was a new game, and my dad was like, Oh, I can help because I played him for I was like, No, I like doing this stuff by myself. Yeah, you
Scott Benner 1:08:10
like to have something for yourself, right? Yeah, gotcha. How come you're not at
Emma 1:08:14
school today? Oh, I'm skipping it until we're done.
Scott Benner 1:08:18
Oh, okay, yeah, nice. So you'll go to school and say I was on a podcast today, so I couldn't be here on time. Or are you gonna lie and say something else?
Emma 1:08:26
I'm gonna say that, Oh, only one of my friends really cares about this podcast, and it's the one with diabetes me,
Scott Benner 1:08:32
of course. Yeah, nobody else, yes. So I have a last question for you. Said your dad found the podcast the day you were diagnosed, yes, right? And do you guys talk about it, or does he bring ideas to you from the show? Because that's like, six years ago, so he's been listening for a long time. Like, so it's kind of, he's listened to almost all the episodes. Yeah. So it's kind of a part of your like, of your life, a little bit. So like, how does it impact you? Like, does your dad come to you with stuff? Or do you think that doesn't happen?
Emma 1:08:59
He sometimes does that? Yeah, okay. Do you know things
Scott Benner 1:09:03
because of the podcast or no, you know things because your parents? I also listened
Emma 1:09:07
to the school nurse one. Okay, I've listened to a few of them that I really liked, like it was someone in the motorcycle. Oh, Shay. Shay in the motorcycle. Yeah. I just listened to that one. I finished it with my dad. Yeah,
Scott Benner 1:09:20
yeah, so. But do you think, like, some of the ways you manage your diabetes come from this podcast?
Emma 1:09:26
Yes, it definitely does. Like, how my algorithm
Scott Benner 1:09:30
is, okay, all right, well, that's cool. That's really awesome. So, you know what, you have a couple friends with diabetes, which I think will be like, I think that's gonna be great while you're growing up. Yeah, yeah. Do you guys have, like, kind of, like an unspoken kind of club thing. Like, do you, you know what I mean? Like, you feel like you guys are closer than other people,
Emma 1:09:48
kinda like, with Emmy, I'm best friends with her, like, all the way, but with some other people, I have different best friends than
Scott Benner 1:09:57
them. I know what you mean. Like, yeah, like. People are, like, you have like, different relationships with Yes, I gotcha. Okay, all right, listen, I think we're done, but, yeah, but I would, but, but I want you to go to school and try to learn something. You know what I mean? Yeah. What do you think you'll learn today?
Emma 1:10:12
Well, we just finished a new we had test, so a bunch of math, and we're learning in social studies about
Scott Benner 1:10:20
waves, like sound waves or waves,
Emma 1:10:23
sound waves, like actual waves, that type of stuff.
Scott Benner 1:10:27
Yeah, okay. Are you enjoying that? Yes, awesome. Okay, all right. Well, Emma, this was awesome. I really appreciate you doing this with me. Maybe, like I said, couple years from now, you come back and do it again. Okay, yeah, definitely awesome. Can I talk to you? Dad first? Oh, you're very welcome. Let me go grab my dad. Yeah, let me talk to your dad
Emma 1:10:44
for a second. Be right back. Okay.
Scott Benner 1:10:55
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