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A funny, honest conversation with 13-year-old Trey and his mom Stephanie about type 1 diabetes, sports, growing up, parenting, pre-bolusing, and why runny eggs somehow matter.
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Scott Benner (0:00) Hello, friends. (0:01) Welcome to the Juice Box podcast. (0:03) Happy holidays to everyone juggling carbs, cookies, and the chaos of this season.
Stephanie (0:18) Hi. (0:18) My name's Trey. (0:20) Or let me do that again.
Scott Benner (0:21) No. (0:22) No. (0:22) No. (0:22) That's all oh, that's all staying in. (0:25) Rob, this is the beginning of the episode right here.
Scott Benner (0:27) Don't let it out.
Stephanie (0:28) That's amazing. (0:28) My name is Stephanie. (0:29) I am the mom of, three kids.
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Scott Benner (2:04) Today's episode is also sponsored by the Dexcom g seven, the same CGM that my daughter wears. (2:10) Check it out now at dexcom.com/juicebox. (2:15) Just so I can test the audio being recorded, I've already checked my voice and it's there. (2:20) Can one of you say test?
Trey (2:22) Test. (2:22) Test.
Scott Benner (2:23) Awesome. (2:24) So when you're ready, Stephanie, go ahead and introduce yourself any way you want to be known. (2:32) Last name's not important as far as I'm concerned, but I don't care if you use yours. (2:36) And then, Trey, when your mom's done, you jump in and introduce yourself. (2:40) Okay?
Trey (2:41) Okay.
Scott Benner (2:42) Alright. (2:42) Go ahead, Stephanie.
Stephanie (2:44) Hi. (2:44) My name's Trey. (2:46) Or let me do that again.
Scott Benner (2:47) No. (2:48) No. (2:48) No. (2:48) That's all no. (2:49) That's all staying in.
Scott Benner (2:51) Rob, this is the beginning of the episode right here. (2:53) Don't add it up.
Stephanie (2:54) That's amazing. (2:54) My name is Stephanie. (2:56) I am the mom of, three kids, Ellie, Trey, and Sullivan. (3:03) Trey is my middle one. (3:04) He's 13, and he's my one with type one.
Trey (3:07) Hello. (3:08) I'm Trey. (3:10) Yeah. (3:10) I'm the I'm the middle child. (3:12) It's fun.
Trey (3:13) I'm 13. (3:14) I've been I was diagnosed in, like, 2023, I think. (3:19) Right? (3:19) Yep.
Scott Benner (3:19) Okay.
Stephanie (3:20) You're correct.
Scott Benner (3:20) So a little over two years?
Trey (3:22) Yeah. (3:23) A little over two years.
Scott Benner (3:24) And is your one of your siblings named after the Monsters Incorporated character or no?
Trey (3:29) No. (3:29) Sadly. (3:30) My dad wanted to name her after Sully Urna.
Scott Benner (3:32) I don't know who that is.
Stephanie (3:34) The lead singer of Godsmack.
Scott Benner (3:36) Of Godsmack?
Trey (3:38) Yes. (3:38) It's a band.
Scott Benner (3:39) I know it's a band, Troy. (3:40) I just that just surprised me. (3:42) How old are your parents, Troy?
Trey (3:43) My dad is almost 50. (3:44) He's 49.
Scott Benner (3:47) It's crazy.
Trey (3:48) He's old.
Stephanie (3:49) It's his favorite band, and he said, I wanna name him Sully. (3:53) And I said, that's great, honey, but we need something for the boardroom. (3:56) And so I settled on Sullivan, and he said, but Sully works for Sully Urna. (4:01) I said, is quite literally a rock star.
Scott Benner (4:04) Do you call him Sully
Stephanie (4:06) in the house? (4:06) Him Sully most of the time.
Scott Benner (4:08) Alright. (4:08) I don't know a lot of godsmack. (4:10) I gotta be honest with you. (4:12) But he does.
Stephanie (4:14) He he does. (4:15) I mean, it works for him.
Scott Benner (4:16) Did you know? (4:17) Were you just like I mean, I know you know he likes the band, but when he said that, were you like, really? (4:22) Or did that make sense to you?
Stephanie (4:25) Oh, no. (4:25) We had he had talked about it many times, and I never really thought that he was serious. (4:29) And the first two kids got family names, so the third one was a little up in the air. (4:35) And he got his choice, and I toned it a little bit.
Scott Benner (4:40) He got his choice. (4:42) I bet you he paid for that in a number of ways. (4:44) Okay.
Stephanie (4:45) Oh, no. (4:45) No. (4:46) I the name is perfect for him. (4:47) Sullivan is, like, the perfect name for him.
Scott Benner (4:50) Very nice. (4:50) Alright. (4:51) Well, Trey, what do you remember about being diagnosed with diabetes?
Trey (4:55) I remember that when I was diagnosed, my blood sugar was, like, 640.
Scott Benner (5:00) Do you remember how that made you feel?
Trey (5:02) Not good. (5:03) I I was in the middle of a lacrosse tournament, and I kinda threw up, like, twice during it. (5:09) And and then I went to the hospital, and we got home, and that's how I got diagnosed. (5:14) Oh. (5:15) I got
Scott Benner (5:16) Trey, I'm sorry. (5:17) I didn't laugh that you vomited. (5:18) I laughed because I heard earlier that your sister plays lacrosse. (5:22) You play lacrosse, then I realized you guys are in Florida, lacrosse is huge in Florida, isn't it?
Stephanie (5:26) Sorry. (5:27) We actually live in Chicagoland.
Scott Benner (5:28) Oh. (5:30) Oh. (5:30) That's a
Stephanie (5:31) state. (5:31) In Florida for a For lacrosse tournament.
Scott Benner (5:34) You traveled from Chicago to Florida for a lacrosse tournament?
Stephanie (5:39) Yes.
Scott Benner (5:40) Wow.
Trey (5:40) Sully went to California all they're in January for, team Illinois lacrosse. (5:47) He also went to Maryland in Rhode Island.
Scott Benner (5:49) Are you guys all good at this, Trey? (5:51) Like, how good are they?
Trey (5:52) You know, I'm a I'm a good goalie.
Scott Benner (5:54) Nice. (5:55) And and people throw that ball at you really hard. (5:57) Right?
Trey (5:57) Yeah.
Scott Benner (5:58) Yeah. (5:58) Does it hurt?
Trey (5:59) My legs always hurt.
Scott Benner (6:00) Yeah. (6:00) It where does it hurt the most to get hit with a ball?
Trey (6:03) The inner thigh and, like, right on the in like, on the I inside of your elbow.
Scott Benner (6:09) Oh, okay. (6:10) And are those places not shielded, does just the ball just find you sometimes?
Trey (6:14) They're not shielded. (6:15) Oh. (6:16) Bullies don't wear elbow pads. (6:17) Their arms are free.
Scott Benner (6:19) Oh, fun. (6:20) So sometimes do you find yourself going, oh, I know I'm moving my arm in front of this ball and it's really gonna hurt? (6:27) Probably. (6:28) Yeah. (6:28) Yeah.
Scott Benner (6:28) Oh, that's interesting.
Trey (6:29) I like to get hit.
Scott Benner (6:30) Okay. (6:31) You like it when balls hit you in the head?
Trey (6:33) Yes. (6:34) My brain Well, they
Stephanie (6:35) have a helmet on for that.
Scott Benner (6:36) Stephanie, I was testing the boys' sarcasm there, and you you jumped all over it. (6:40) So now I don't know why. (6:41) I I don't know where he's at. (6:43) Let me try again.
Stephanie (6:43) My brain doesn't feel it anymore. (6:45) Good
Scott Benner (6:48) job, Troy.
Trey (6:48) My teammates keep sniping me in the face.
Scott Benner (6:52) Alright. (6:52) So care. (6:53) So being diagnosed not fun, didn't feel well. (6:56) Do you remember the lead up to it, Trey? (6:59) Like, how you felt before you guys went to the hospital, and do you remember anything about how your parents handled it?
Trey (7:05) I was really dizzy and lightheaded because I was, like, really high. (7:10) Mhmm. (7:10) And also, I lost a lot I lost, like, 20 or 30 pounds.
Scott Benner (7:15) In how long? (7:16) What was the time frame, Stephanie, he lost that?
Trey (7:18) In, a four month period?
Stephanie (7:19) No. (7:20) It was about a week.
Scott Benner (7:22) Wait. (7:22) He lost 20 pounds in a week?
Stephanie (7:25) Yeah. (7:25) Like, a week or two. (7:27) That was really what finally caught my attention. (7:31) We think, in retrospect, he had been fighting for several months, but the activity from daily practices and working out and just summer activities kept his blood sugar stable enough
Scott Benner (7:48) Okay.
Stephanie (7:48) That
Scott Benner (7:49) Maybe it slowed it slowed the process down of you figuring it out.
Stephanie (7:52) Yes.
Scott Benner (7:53) Okay.
Stephanie (7:53) Because there was so many things leading into it. (7:56) You know, his he was peeing more and drinking more, but his coaches told him to stay hydrated.
Scott Benner (8:02) Yeah.
Stephanie (8:02) So I was able to write that off. (8:05) Mhmm. (8:05) He was sleepy, but he was playing video games until late at night, and he had multiple practices. (8:13) So, again, able to play that off.
Scott Benner (8:16) Yeah. (8:16) A lot of stuff masks everything else. (8:18) It's pretty cool.
Stephanie (8:19) I mean, it's all, like, the the common things. (8:24) It the final straw was that last week. (8:26) His tournament his last tournament was the Sunday before he was diagnosed. (8:32) And that week, I looked at him, and I'm like, gosh. (8:38) He looks thinner.
Stephanie (8:39) He looks maybe he's taller. (8:41) Maybe he's growing.
Scott Benner (8:43) And
Stephanie (8:44) then he had multiple overnight accidents the weekend that he was diagnosed, and I knew something wasn't right.
Scott Benner (8:53) Let me ask Trey a question here. (8:55) So because you're old enough to really ask this question. (8:57) At 11 years old, you don't pee in your bed. (9:01) So when that starts happening, do you remember, like, what did you think was going on, or what were you concerned about when that was happening?
Trey (9:07) I don't know.
Scott Benner (9:08) You don't remember?
Trey (9:09) No. (9:10) No?
Stephanie (9:11) He hid the first couple from us.
Scott Benner (9:13) Yeah. (9:13) I would have too, Trey. (9:14) Well done. (9:15) You know what I mean? (9:16) Would you, like, put it in the laundry on your own or something like that?
Trey (9:19) No. (9:20) He just moved from the basement on the mattress. (9:23) That
Scott Benner (9:24) mattress has been thrown away?
Stephanie (9:26) The mattress has been thrown away. (9:27) So has the one on his bed. (9:29) We replaced both of those that next week.
Scott Benner (9:32) Hey. (9:32) No one ever talks about the high side of being diagnosed with type one diabetes is that you get a new mattress.
Stephanie (9:37) Right?
Scott Benner (9:38) Pretty great. (9:38) Right? (9:39) Is there anybody else in the family who has diabetes? (9:41) Is there any reason for you to think about this?
Trey (9:43) There's, like, a there's, like, a a cousin on my mom's or something.
Stephanie (9:47) One of my first cousins has diabetes. (9:51) She was diagnosed as an adult.
Scott Benner (9:53) She has type one?
Stephanie (9:55) She is type one.
Scott Benner (9:56) Okay.
Stephanie (9:57) And I have an uncle by marriage, but no relation.
Scott Benner (10:01) How about other autoimmune stuff down that side of the family?
Stephanie (10:05) My grandmother was rheumatoid arthritis. (10:09) I have what I think are, but never diagnosed. (10:12) Like, I think they're thyroid stuff, but the numbers are always normal, so they say I'm fine. (10:17) You know?
Scott Benner (10:18) Yeah. (10:19) What what are the numbers? (10:20) Do you remember?
Stephanie (10:20) Not off the top of my head. (10:22) Yeah. (10:24) Yeah. (10:24) They're borderline, but still within the normal range.
Scott Benner (10:27) But you have symptoms?
Stephanie (10:29) I've got the exhaustion. (10:31) I've got I've got food intolerances.
Scott Benner (10:35) Why don't you tell them that you would prefer if your symptoms were managed and not your numbers?
Stephanie (10:40) I'm working on that.
Scott Benner (10:41) Good.
Stephanie (10:42) I've changed providers a couple of times. (10:44) I was actually finishing nursing school when Trey was diagnosed.
Scott Benner (10:49) Oh.
Trey (10:50) So
Scott Benner (10:50) What kind of nurse are you?
Stephanie (10:52) I'm an emergency room nurse.
Scott Benner (10:54) Oh, awesome. (10:56) I just interviewed doctor Beach Jim. (10:59) Do you know who that is? (11:00) Are you on the line?
Stephanie (11:02) I am online, but I don't know who that is. (11:06) I
Scott Benner (11:06) She does, like, a lot of TikTok and Instagram stuff.
Stephanie (11:09) Oh, do you know what? (11:10) I think I just started seeing her come across my stuff.
Scott Benner (11:14) Okay. (11:15) Yeah. (11:15) She's very, very popular, and I just interviewed her the other day. (11:17) She's gonna be on the podcast next week. (11:19) I'll tell you something that no one else will know.
Scott Benner (11:21) But if I hear it in public, I'll know it was you that gave me up, Stephanie, because I don't think Trey's gonna remember. (11:25) I'm gonna put together, like, a five or six episode series with her about going into the ER with type one.
Stephanie (11:32) That would be awesome. (11:33) Yes. (11:33) And I do know who she is.
Scott Benner (11:35) She
Stephanie (11:35) just hopped across my Facebook feed in the last three or four week.
Scott Benner (11:41) Okay. (11:41) She got
Stephanie (11:42) And I started following her.
Scott Benner (11:43) Millions of followers, really something.
Stephanie (11:46) Yeah.
Scott Benner (11:46) My wife's been telling me about her for, like, years. (11:50) And then I think I don't know. (11:53) Like, a week or two. (11:54) It was probably two weeks ago now. (11:56) My wife brings her up again.
Scott Benner (11:57) She goes, you really should try to get her on the podcast. (12:00) I was like, why would she come on my podcast? (12:02) And then she put up a post about diabetes awareness, and then I basically, like, wrote a post and I was like, hey, everybody. (12:10) What if we all ask doctor Beach Jam if, you know, she wanted to come on the podcast? (12:15) And then she got inundated by people who listen to the podcast, which I appreciate.
Scott Benner (12:18) Thank you, everybody. (12:19) And then that got her on. (12:21) So, and she was lovely, like, really awesome. (12:24) So I'm excited about it. (12:25) Anyway Okay.
Scott Benner (12:27) So there's some autoimmune in your family. (12:29) You probably have Hashimoto's or hypothyroidism. (12:33) Yep. (12:34) Do you have a type one on a one of your cousins? (12:38) And how about your kids?
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Stephanie (14:44) Not that we know of other than Trey with his diabetes. (14:50) My daughter I'm I'm actually in the process of having my daughter's thyroid tested as we speak. (14:56) We were at the provider a couple weeks ago, and I have to catch up with them because we had a couple of weeks of tournaments.
Scott Benner (15:03) What's her symptoms?
Stephanie (15:05) Similar to mine. (15:06) She's got exhaustion. (15:07) She's got some stomach issues. (15:08) I was listening to one of the old episodes where you were talking about Arden and the stomach issues. (15:15) And that kind of triggered me to go, I think I need to have it all checked out.
Scott Benner (15:22) Yeah.
Stephanie (15:22) So we're in the middle of that right now.
Scott Benner (15:24) Okay. (15:25) Well, good luck. (15:25) I hope you get good news.
Stephanie (15:27) I just want answers.
Scott Benner (15:28) Yeah. (15:28) Or an answer. (15:29) One or the other. (15:30) Okay. (15:31) Cool.
Scott Benner (15:31) So, Trey, what's it like having diabetes for the last two years? (15:34) Your friend's cool with it? (15:36) Is it getting in the way of you playing?
Trey (15:38) Yeah. (15:38) My friends are cool with it. (15:41) Sometimes my alarm goes off during school and, like, during reading times when it's really quiet and they're allowed. (15:48) Mhmm. (15:49) So it's kind of embarrassing sometimes.
Scott Benner (15:51) You're embarrassed by it?
Trey (15:53) No. (15:54) By the alarm because it it it's like a screaming.
Scott Benner (15:57) Yeah. (15:57) Yeah. (15:57) I'm saying when that alarm goes off, you feel embarrassed?
Trey (16:00) Sometimes.
Scott Benner (16:01) Sometimes. (16:02) Oh, I'm sorry about that. (16:03) Do you usually mute them?
Trey (16:06) Yeah. (16:06) I watch it still though.
Scott Benner (16:08) You watch it. (16:09) You don't ignore it?
Trey (16:10) I don't ignore it. (16:11) I just mute I just mute it for the time being.
Scott Benner (16:13) Are you making most of your decisions or are you and your mom or dad doing it through text messages? (16:18) How do you handle school time?
Trey (16:19) Sometimes text messages. (16:21) Sometimes I handle it on my own with the school nurse.
Scott Benner (16:23) Okay. (16:24) You still go to the nurse?
Trey (16:25) Yeah.
Scott Benner (16:27) For everything or just some things?
Trey (16:29) For the lunch carbs because I get school lunch, and they have, like, the menu in there with all the carbs on it.
Scott Benner (16:34) Okay. (16:36) Okay. (16:37) Does that usually go well?
Trey (16:39) Yeah.
Scott Benner (16:40) You're pretty good with, like, how the boluses end up and everything?
Trey (16:44) Mhmm.
Scott Benner (16:45) Stephanie, are you good with how they end up?
Stephanie (16:47) He's doing really good. (16:49) Only thing that he could really work on is a little bit better pre bolus sometimes. (16:55) But
Scott Benner (16:56) Get in line, Trey.
Stephanie (16:59) In general, I'm I'm really proud of how he manages while he's at school because he is fairly independent. (17:08) The nurse follows him, but really more just to take care of the lows Mhmm. (17:16) Because he doesn't always catch them when he's in PE. (17:20) So she'll have to do that. (17:25) But most of the time.
Scott Benner (17:27) Most of the time, it goes well. (17:29) Trey, how does it feel to hear your mom say she's proud of you and she thinks you're doing a good job?
Trey (17:33) Yay.
Scott Benner (17:35) Is that is that the full contextualization of of how you feel? (17:39) Yay. (17:40) Oh, seriously though, like, it what what's that response like? (17:43) Does it is it embarrassing? (17:45) Or
Trey (17:45) It feels good.
Scott Benner (17:46) It feels good? (17:47) Okay. (17:48) Do you work hard at it?
Trey (17:51) Yeah.
Scott Benner (17:51) Nice to hear somebody say something that recognizes what you're doing? (17:56) Yeah. (17:56) Yeah. (17:57) Just hard to tell something nice to your mom. (17:59) Right?
Trey (17:59) Kind of.
Scott Benner (18:02) We don't want her to think she's doing too good of a job. (18:04) She might get a big hit. (18:05) You know what I mean?
Trey (18:06) Kind of.
Scott Benner (18:06) Let's say some bad stuff about her. (18:08) What does she suck at? (18:09) One thing she's not great at. (18:10) Tell me now.
Stephanie (18:11) Cooking eggs. (18:13) Cooking eggs.
Scott Benner (18:14) What does she make your
Trey (18:17) burns them every single time.
Scott Benner (18:19) Oh, Stephanie, why don't you know how to make eggs?
Stephanie (18:22) I do what every single time?
Scott Benner (18:23) You burn his eggs constantly.
Stephanie (18:25) Them. (18:25) There's no moisture left. (18:27) That's because he likes them runny. (18:30) He likes his scrambled eggs runny.
Scott Benner (18:32) Why are you fighting with him about that? (18:33) Let him have his eggs the way he wants them.
Stephanie (18:35) So he can make them the way he wants them.
Scott Benner (18:37) Oh, but you won't be making them the way he wants them.
Stephanie (18:39) Because I don't like them that way, and I don't make them that way.
Scott Benner (18:42) Oh, Trace, she's not willing to learn your style, my friend. (18:46) There's only so far no. (18:47) No. (18:47) No. (18:47) Stephanie, there's only so far your love will go, I see.
Scott Benner (18:50) That's fine.
Stephanie (18:51) That That's yeah. (18:51) Totally it. (18:52) I've tried. (18:53) It just doesn't happen.
Scott Benner (18:54) Can I tell you something? (18:55) I can I make eggs the way I make them, and my family complains about them? (19:00) And then they stood me in front of the stove and gave me a tutorial about how to make the eggs the way they want them. (19:09) I thought I was so embarrassed. (19:10) I was like, wait.
Scott Benner (19:11) Are you really all they all stood around me. (19:14) They're like, yeah. (19:14) Now flip it, turn the heat down, do this. (19:16) This is about see, right my Arden goes right here. (19:19) Here's where the cheese goes on.
Scott Benner (19:20) I was like, uh-oh, okay.
Stephanie (19:21) Oh, that's amazing. (19:22) Yeah.
Scott Benner (19:23) Yeah. (19:23) Well, so so you take it, Stephanie. (19:25) Just let him show you how to make the eggs and just do it. (19:27) I'll get this fixed for you, Trey. (19:28) Don't worry.
Scott Benner (19:29) Okay?
Stephanie (19:29) He has shown me. (19:31) I I I try.
Scott Benner (19:32) Is she trying, Trey, or is she resisting?
Trey (19:34) Nope. (19:35) Nope. (19:35) Nope. (19:36) She is
Stephanie (19:36) I don't take him out of the pan in time.
Scott Benner (19:38) Is this passive aggressive, Stephanie?
Trey (19:40) No.
Scott Benner (19:41) Are you sure?
Trey (19:43) Positive. (19:44) Forgets because she goes on Facebook during the cooking.
Scott Benner (19:46) Stephanie, that hurt must have hurt to hear him say that out loud.
Stephanie (19:50) My opinion of Dunneggs and his opinion of Dunneggs are two different opinions.
Scott Benner (19:55) How does it hurt when he points out that you're on social media while you're supposed to be cooking for him?
Stephanie (19:59) No.
Scott Benner (20:00) That you're okay with?
Stephanie (20:02) That that's fine.
Scott Benner (20:03) Sometimes we look over at Kelly and
Trey (20:04) I we're can't be complaining. (20:06) I watch YouTube and TikTok while I cook my egg, but I actually watch the eggs while I do it.
Scott Benner (20:11) Look at you. (20:12) You can multitask. (20:13) Does your mom have ADHD, do you think? (20:14) Maybe she can't focus.
Trey (20:16) I can't focus.
Scott Benner (20:17) Oh, you can't?
Trey (20:20) My brain won't let me.
Scott Benner (20:21) Stephanie, does he have a problem or no?
Stephanie (20:24) He might.
Scott Benner (20:25) Yeah. (20:25) Is it in the family?
Stephanie (20:27) My oldest. (20:28) Yeah.
Scott Benner (20:28) Okay. (20:29) My
Trey (20:30) Probably has ADHD.
Scott Benner (20:32) Trey, did you say my
Trey (20:33) drive now.
Scott Benner (20:33) Trey, did you say my brain won't focus?
Trey (20:36) Yeah. (20:36) My brain He said oh, I I thought
Stephanie (20:38) he said Ellie had ADHD.
Scott Benner (20:40) No. (20:40) He did, but he said my brain won't focus. (20:42) I think I heard it in between something there.
Trey (20:44) It won't let me focus.
Scott Benner (20:46) It won't let you. (20:46) Yeah. (20:47) It's it's
Trey (20:47) If I don't like the thing, can't focus on it.
Scott Benner (20:49) Your mom your mom won't let you eat eggs the way you want either. (20:55) How runny do you like them, Trey?
Trey (20:58) I don't like them too runny. (20:59) I like them semi runny where they actually still have moisture left.
Scott Benner (21:02) Can I make a suggestion for you, Trey? (21:04) It's gonna sound like an old man talking and you're not gonna make sense of it. (21:07) Yes. (21:08) A poached egg, you might love it.
Trey (21:11) I've tried poached eggs before. (21:12) They're they're pretty good.
Scott Benner (21:13) Yeah. (21:13) I love a poached egg. (21:14) As we were talking about it, I might eat it for lunch now that I'm saying it out loud.
Stephanie (21:18) He actually went on YouTube and watched a video to teach himself how to poach an egg.
Trey (21:25) I poached one egg one time
Scott Benner (21:27) Yeah.
Trey (21:27) And it turned out horribly because it exploded as soon as it hit the water, and then I I got mad.
Scott Benner (21:32) Okay. (21:32) So the water needs to be very low, not very hot, and you need to put, like, a tablespoon of white vinegar in the water. (21:39) And that helps the egg stay together in a nice form. (21:43) And then that that's the whole thing. (21:44) Right?
Scott Benner (21:45) And it's for all of you. (21:46) A little bit of white vinegar, low not a rolling boil or anything like that. (21:50) Like, low heat, put them in, then you can bring the heat up a little bit, and then you can kinda control it before you take it out. (21:58) Then I like taking it out with a, like, one of the like, a serrated spoon kind of a situation. (22:03) Yeah.
Scott Benner (22:04) Yeah. (22:04) And then I like to let the water come off it a little bit before I put it over my toast. (22:08) That's just me.
Stephanie (22:10) I put it in with a ladle.
Scott Benner (22:12) Look at you. (22:13) Gentle. (22:13) I don't do that. (22:14) I throw them in. (22:15) Boom.
Scott Benner (22:16) Like that. (22:17) Like, it's nothing. (22:18) Trey, do you know my son taught himself to parallel park with the YouTube video? (22:23) You guys, you're a different group. (22:25) Like, your your generation Amazing.
Scott Benner (22:27) Yeah. (22:27) Yeah. (22:27) We were we were I've probably told this before, so I'll go real quickly. (22:30) But we were, like, doing, like, a last minute practice before he was gonna go take his test. (22:35) And I just it hit me out of nowhere.
Scott Benner (22:37) He had never parallel parked the car, and I completely forgot that was part of the test. (22:41) And I said to him the day before, I was like, oh my god, Cole. (22:45) Like, we never taught you how to parallel park. (22:47) That's part of the test. (22:48) And he just stopped.
Scott Benner (22:50) Like, I tried to teach him, and he was like, he pulled out his phone, watched one video, and was like, alright. (22:56) Then he put the car in drive, drove around the parking lot, and parallel parked the car. (23:01) I was like, Okay. (23:04) I was like, guys are you guys are living in a different world. (23:06) The one your mom how how old's your mom again?
Scott Benner (23:08) You said she was old. (23:09) Right?
Trey (23:09) I think she's, like, 47 or 48.
Scott Benner (23:12) Oh, jeez. (23:13) Does she make noise when she stands up?
Stephanie (23:16) Sometimes.
Scott Benner (23:20) She stand up, she go, when she walks so after you guys are sitting on the sofa for an hour and she walks away, is she a little bent forward, or is she able to stand straight up and walk away, Trey?
Trey (23:30) She's able to stand straight up.
Scott Benner (23:32) Wow. (23:33) Look for that other thing to come.
Trey (23:34) Walking and running all over the hospital all the time.
Scott Benner (23:37) Oh, yeah. (23:38) Right? (23:39) That's your what was your job before this?
Stephanie (23:42) So I've had a couple of jobs. (23:43) Before the kids were born, I, taught middle school math and high school social studies. (23:49) And after that, I was home for several years, and I went back to manage a swim school after my youngest was about two. (24:01) And I did that for, like, five years.
Scott Benner (24:03) What made you go to nursing?
Stephanie (24:05) After my kids were born, I wanted to do childbirth, and I wanted to do midwifery. (24:11) I wanted to catch the babies.
Scott Benner (24:13) Yeah.
Stephanie (24:14) The easiest path in Illinois is as a nurse midwife, which recall would require me to have a nursing degree. (24:22) So that was my original path. (24:25) And then while in nursing school, Trey was diagnosed, and it kinda changed my whole trajectory. (24:31) My last semester, I was exposed to so many different things in nursing. (24:36) I was like, I don't wanna just do one thing.
Stephanie (24:38) I wanna do many things.
Scott Benner (24:40) Yeah. (24:41) Mid the midwife thing is, it's pretty crazy. (24:44) A midwife and a doula, those are two different things. (24:46) Right?
Stephanie (24:47) And I've done both. (24:48) Well, I haven't done midwife, but I was a doula, after my young my oldest was born.
Scott Benner (24:53) How many births have you been involved in?
Stephanie (24:55) About 15. (24:57) I only did it for about a year and a half before Ellie and I moved from Saint Louis to San Antonio where my husband was working for a year and a half. (25:10) And then I had another child, and it kind of became difficult to schedule.
Scott Benner (25:16) You're the middle child trend. (25:17) That's how that's how we got you.
Trey (25:19) Yeah. (25:19) I was born in San Antonio.
Scott Benner (25:21) Oh, yeah. (25:21) Tex. (25:21) You're a
Trey (25:22) Texan, technically. (25:23) Biggest city in the biggest state.
Scott Benner (25:24) Are you technically a Texan?
Stephanie (25:26) He is.
Scott Benner (25:27) Mhmm. (25:28) How does it feel? (25:29) Do you feel better than other people? (25:31) You don't judge? (25:32) Look at you.
Scott Benner (25:33) Real serious question, Stephanie. (25:34) Like, transformative to be around that many births? (25:37) Like, is it does it change your perspective on the world at all?
Stephanie (25:41) It is amazing to watch. (25:43) It's just every time a baby is born, I cry. (25:48) It's a renewal and a new opportunity, and it's just a miracle to watch.
Scott Benner (25:52) Yeah. (25:52) So
Stephanie (25:55) it's still a passion of mine, but trace diagnosis kind of changed my trajectory. (26:03) And instead of working in the birthing suite, more or less, I ultimately wanna work with the reproductive side of it and then endocrinology. (26:14) So I have one more step to go, and I'm going back for my nurse practitioner so that I can do endo.
Scott Benner (26:20) Oh, very nice. (26:22) I mean, being in the emergency department has gotta be the polar opposite of watching a child be born. (26:28) Right? (26:28) Like, isn't it is it crazy?
Stephanie (26:31) I mean, it's not it's not as crazy as you would think it is most of the time. (26:35) Really? (26:35) It's fast paced. (26:37) You never know what a day is going to bring. (26:40) Depending on which part of the ER I'm in, I could be in the main ER, and I could have a code come in.
Stephanie (26:46) I could have a critical care patient where I'm the only where they're my only patient. (26:51) But I could also be in our fast track area, and I can have six people. (26:57) Some are abdominal pain. (26:58) Some is maybe a broken bone. (27:00) Like, you never know what your day is gonna bring.
Scott Benner (27:02) Do you have experiences like, if I said to you, like, Stephanie, have you saved a life? (27:07) Can you, like, honestly say, yes, I have?
Stephanie (27:10) Yes.
Scott Benner (27:11) Yeah. (27:11) Isn't it crazy, Trey, that she saved someone's life but can't get your eggs right?
Stephanie (27:16) Yes. (27:16) Yeah.
Scott Benner (27:17) So it's disappointing, isn't it?
Trey (27:19) I mean simpler.
Scott Benner (27:21) You would think, but apparently not.
Stephanie (27:23) Depends on your perspective.
Scott Benner (27:25) I'm sorry. (27:27) I asked you that question just so I can say that. (27:29) That's right. (27:29) I feel bad now. (27:33) I just assume you've saved somebody's life if you're in the ER, but I was like, oh, how how can I get this back to the eggs is what I was thinking?
Scott Benner (27:41) Also
Stephanie (27:42) It's all about the eggs.
Scott Benner (27:43) It really is, honestly. (27:45) True enough. (27:46) So is, childbirth. (27:48) So Right? (27:49) Yeah.
Scott Benner (27:49) Yeah. (27:49) Right. (27:49) Everything's about the eggs, really. (27:51) And I am definitely having poached eggs for lunch when I'm done recording with you. (27:55) Yeah.
Scott Benner (27:55) I'm gonna finish recording with you. (27:57) I'm gonna have a call with John from Sugarpixel. (28:00) I don't know if you guys know Sugarpixel. (28:01) You know what that is?
Stephanie (28:02) I do.
Scott Benner (28:03) Yeah. (28:03) John and I are gonna go on a little tour of America in 2026. (28:07) I think we're doing ADA, a d c e s, Friends for Life together.
Stephanie (28:12) Oh, that will be fun.
Scott Benner (28:13) Yes. (28:13) It will. (28:13) Look for us. (28:14) We'll be out there. (28:15) I don't do a lot of that.
Scott Benner (28:16) What I just did just now, I feel like a YouTuber. (28:19) I'm like, subscribe and follow. (28:22) I'm gonna be, at ADACS. (28:25) Sorry. (28:25) I feel like a douchebag doing that.
Stephanie (28:27) That that's a lot of a lot of letters.
Scott Benner (28:30) A d a c s, American Diabetes Educator Care Specialists. (28:36) Is that right? (28:37) Oh, did I get that right?
Trey (28:39) It might be.
Scott Benner (28:40) Trey, let's look real quick because I would be super happy with myself if I got that right. (28:44) Give me a second. (28:45) A d a what? (28:46) Let's see.
Stephanie (28:47) Yeah. (28:48) Certified diabetes specialist, I think, is what it
Scott Benner (28:52) I don't know. (28:53) It's possible. (28:54) I have no idea. (28:54) They invited me to come speak a couple times, then I told them what I wanted to talk about, and they said no. (28:59) It's like, okay.
Scott Benner (29:00) Fine. (29:01) You're not a doctor. (29:02) You can't talk about that. (29:06) I don't know. (29:07) It's yeah.
Scott Benner (29:08) And then ADA, that one's easy.
Stephanie (29:11) Right.
Scott Benner (29:11) Friends for life. (29:12) Hey, you guys ever been to Friends for Life or anything like that? (29:14) Trey, do you know a lot of people with diabetes?
Trey (29:17) I know another lacrosse goalie with it. (29:19) His name is Anthony.
Scott Benner (29:21) Mhmm. (29:21) Wait.
Trey (29:22) I Seriously? (29:23) Used to play with him. (29:24) Yeah. (29:25) Yeah.
Scott Benner (29:26) You know another lacrosse goalie who has diabetes?
Stephanie (29:31) Yeah. (29:31) He's he's in the same general area of us, and we met him this summer. (29:40) I think the summer after Trey was diagnosed. (29:43) He either had a a Dexcom failure or he was running low. (29:50) And I was running around the field to bring him something.
Stephanie (29:56) The other dad was like, oh, I thought I heard a an alarm.
Scott Benner (30:01) No kidding.
Stephanie (30:02) And it yeah. (30:04) What
Scott Benner (30:04) a weird
Stephanie (30:04) He lives, like, thirty minutes from us. (30:08) He's a couple years older, and Trey's taken a couple of spots that he recommended and wears his Dexcom and his pump there for games and whatnot.
Scott Benner (30:21) Wow. (30:22) That's awfully bizarre and kinda cool. (30:25) So Yeah. (30:26) Yeah. (30:26) Yeah.
Scott Benner (30:27) Very what a what a strange little thing. (30:30) What makes you wanna do the podcast? (30:32) I'll start with you, Stephanie.
Trey (30:35) So
Stephanie (30:35) I really just enjoyed listening. (30:38) Trey was the one that wanted to do it. (30:40) I'm like, well, if you do it, I'll go on with you. (30:42) So Heath really the reason that we came on, he wanted to talk about dealing day to day with it as a a preteen and a kid and then how he manages athletically.
Scott Benner (30:55) Well, Trey, you wanted to come on the podcast, but your mom what you you you wanna bring your mommy with you? (31:00) What's going on, Trey?
Trey (31:01) She wouldn't let me do the podcast alone because I didn't think she trusted me yet.
Scott Benner (31:04) Did she just lie to me, Trey? (31:06) Did she just lie to me about why she's here?
Stephanie (31:08) I did not. (31:09) I
Trey (31:10) wanted to go on the podcast because I thought it'd be fun, and I wanted my own episode down there. (31:15) Yeah. (31:16) But I wanted to do it solo, and mom wouldn't let me.
Scott Benner (31:19) Oh my gosh, Trey. (31:21) Don't you think she should get off now? (31:23) Let us talk, and maybe she could go practice some eggs. (31:25) You know what I mean? (31:26) See if she can't
Trey (31:26) get a your eggs, mom.
Scott Benner (31:29) Can you imagine? (31:31) I don't mean that in any way way that someone's gonna yell at me for, like, he told that lady to get in the kitchen. (31:36) I heard him. (31:37) He doesn't like women. (31:39) I don't know.
Scott Benner (31:39) I I hear you and your complaints about the world out there. (31:43) Take it out on somebody else. (31:45) Okay. (31:46) So, Trey, tell me.
Stephanie (31:46) It's always the middle one. (31:48) They're the troublemakers.
Scott Benner (31:49) Trey, what is it you wanna do? (31:51) I mean, what is it you want people to know, or what do you wanna share?
Trey (31:54) So we started listening to your podcast, like, last year, was it, mom?
Stephanie (32:01) It was two years ago. (32:02) I found the podcast in September or October after he was diagnosed in the July.
Scott Benner (32:10) Mhmm.
Stephanie (32:10) Like, was like, there's gotta be an easier way to do this.
Trey (32:13) And we started we started listening to it, and we tried out pre bolus thing, and it worked really well because I didn't go to 250 after I ate my food.
Scott Benner (32:22) Yeah.
Trey (32:23) I stayed, like, at 200 max
Scott Benner (32:26) Nice.
Trey (32:26) For the first couple of for the first week that we tried it.
Scott Benner (32:30) Yeah.
Trey (32:30) And it worked really well. (32:32) So we we've been keep on doing that.
Scott Benner (32:34) Where do you hope that your blood sugar doesn't go above now when you eat? (32:38) What's your goal?
Trey (32:39) 200. (32:40) Don't go above 200.
Scott Benner (32:41) That's how you feel. (32:42) And how and what happens if you get to 200? (32:44) What do you do?
Trey (32:45) I take more insulin.
Scott Benner (32:47) Alright. (32:47) Look at you. (32:48) Stephanie, you're saying it wasn't going well. (32:50) So what? (32:51) He had diabetes for, like, three months and you started thinking, like, this can't be the answer?
Stephanie (32:55) Well, I was like, there's gotta be more. (32:58) You know, I I was managing okay, but it was every waking thought that I had was where's his number? (33:07) How much insulin has he had? (33:09) How much you know, how long do we have? (33:13) And then he wants to eat again.
Scott Benner (33:16) I know. (33:17) Right?
Trey (33:17) I like food. (33:18) Okay?
Scott Benner (33:18) Well, no. (33:19) No. (33:19) Trace, you're not doing anything wrong. (33:20) But, like, when you're a person who's trying to figure it out, like, just as you feel like you've got the bolus from the last meal figured out, somebody's like, I'm hungry. (33:27) And you're like, oh my god.
Scott Benner (33:27) I just need a second. (33:28) Hold on. (33:30) Just feels
Stephanie (33:31) like I was exhausted. (33:33) Yeah. (33:33) So it it was really
Scott Benner (33:35) So you find the podcast and you go right to management series stuff? (33:41) Is that what you did?
Stephanie (33:42) Well, actually, I started at the beginning. (33:45) So I'm still still working through the episodes. (33:48) I haven't listened to new episodes yet. (33:50) Oh.
Trey (33:50) More like episode 300 ish?
Stephanie (33:52) Nope. (33:53) Kidding. (33:53) About episode 400.
Scott Benner (33:55) Oh, I love that.
Stephanie (33:56) Still working through. (33:57) So, I mean, in two years, I've listened to not quite 400 episodes, but still working through it.
Scott Benner (34:04) But things are going the way you want now?
Stephanie (34:06) Yeah. (34:07) I mean, his last appointment, his A1C was five nine.
Scott Benner (34:10) Good job, man.
Stephanie (34:11) His endo walks in the room. (34:14) He goes, I don't have anything to say to you. (34:16) You're my best best patient of the day. (34:18) And, you know, he's had that a couple of times now. (34:21) He the last three A1C's were, like, 59, 6 or 61, and then 59 again.
Stephanie (34:29) The first time we got 59, he's like, oh, I wanna make sure you're not having too many lows. (34:33) And I'm like, really? (34:34) We're not.
Scott Benner (34:35) Yeah.
Stephanie (34:37) But okay. (34:38) I'll I'll be a little bit less aggressive.
Scott Benner (34:41) After you prove to him that that wasn't the case, did he leave you alone on that?
Stephanie (34:45) He did. (34:46) Over the summer, his a one c went from, like, that five nine to six or six one. (34:51) And the two weeks before we went in, he was at diabetes camp. (34:59) His blood sugar ran so high the whole week. (35:03) So I was able to see he's like, what happened here?
Stephanie (35:05) I'm like, oh, he was at camp. (35:07) Oh, okay.
Scott Benner (35:08) Trey, do you feel prepared to take care of yourself? (35:11) Like, if your mom just, like don't I know. (35:14) She just disappeared for five five days. (35:16) Would you be okay?
Trey (35:18) Yeah. (35:20) There's
Scott Benner (35:21) What is it that you've learned in the last two years that makes you feel like, yeah, I could be fine?
Trey (35:25) I can pre bolus early enough, and I have plenty of food, so I'll be okay.
Scott Benner (35:30) Yeah. (35:30) Do you get scared of being low ever?
Trey (35:33) No. (35:33) Not really.
Scott Benner (35:34) Have you been really low?
Trey (35:36) I've been to, like, low thirties. (35:39) Yeah. (35:41) Upper twenties of, like, the lows I've been, I think, like, 28, 29.
Scott Benner (35:45) How'd that feel? (35:45) Can you describe it?
Trey (35:46) I kept screaming for juice. (35:48) Just give me sanity. (35:49) Just juice.
Scott Benner (35:50) You're just yelling? (35:51) Were you being helped? (35:52) Like, somebody was helping you?
Trey (35:53) Yes. (35:54) Mom was bringing me food, but she was telling me to relax, otherwise, my blood sugar would go to infinite.
Scott Benner (35:59) Could you have Trey helped yourself if she wasn't there, do you think?
Trey (36:03) Yeah. (36:03) I probably would have just kept grabbing Maurice's food.
Scott Benner (36:05) Okay. (36:06) Stephanie, do you remember that situation?
Stephanie (36:08) There's been a couple of times where I've had to keep him from eating the kitchen.
Scott Benner (36:13) Yeah.
Stephanie (36:13) Wants to keep grabbing the food. (36:15) I'm like, okay. (36:16) So we've gotta give this a couple of minutes to work. (36:20) If we're not going back up in, ten, we will eat a little bit more. (36:24) Mhmm.
Stephanie (36:25) But as it is, I already am going to have to give you insulin.
Scott Benner (36:29) Can you talk a little bit about, like, the sort of psychological side of that when that's over? (36:34) Stephanie, do you go somewhere quiet for a minute? (36:36) Like, how does it hit you afterwards?
Stephanie (36:39) You know, it's
Scott Benner (36:41) Maybe the nursing brain doesn't let you feel too upset by it?
Stephanie (36:44) I feel like I respond less than a lot of my peers who don't have a lot of experience with diabetes. (36:54) I I mean, I respond, but I don't respond in that I'm going to throw all of the sugar at it kind of way.
Scott Benner (37:02) Yeah. (37:02) I mean, more like, are you upset about your son being low after like, after you've handled it, do you have, like, any existential, like, oh my god. (37:09) My kids got really low. (37:10) That was super close to a seizure kind of feelings?
Stephanie (37:13) It makes me nervous.
Scott Benner (37:15) Yeah.
Stephanie (37:15) You know, I almost congratulate myself. (37:17) Okay. (37:17) We prevented another one. (37:19) He's luckily never had, knock on wood, a seizure. (37:23) Always had glucagon on hand, but he he's never had to use it.
Stephanie (37:27) Again, knock on wood.
Scott Benner (37:28) Trey, which glucagon do you have?
Trey (37:30) We have, like, two or three pen ones.
Scott Benner (37:33) Yeah. (37:33) Gvoke.
Trey (37:34) And then I have one or two nasal.
Scott Benner (37:36) Wait. (37:37) You just got wait. (37:37) You got the whole thing. (37:39) Stephanie, why you got both of them? (37:40) What what's the play there?
Stephanie (37:42) So the Gvoke was what was prescribed first, and then I heard about the, Beschimi, I think is it. (37:50) I wanted to to see what it was about and try it.
Trey (37:53) Mhmm.
Stephanie (37:53) We haven't used it. (37:54) So I've got one prescription of that. (37:57) It was more about just having it on hand, and I feel like the Gvoke is more socially understood because it's the same as an EpiPen.
Scott Benner (38:09) Okay.
Trey (38:09) It's similar to EpiPen.
Scott Benner (38:10) Yeah. (38:11) Yeah. (38:11) But you still tried the Baqsimi?
Stephanie (38:13) Well, we have it. (38:14) We'd have never used
Scott Benner (38:15) it. (38:15) Yeah. (38:15) I mean, you but well, yeah. (38:16) But you you got it is what I'm saying. (38:18) Yes.
Scott Benner (38:18) I think that it's a thing that doesn't get used very often. (38:21) It's super important to have it. (38:22) I'm glad you have any. (38:23) I wanna be clear. (38:24) Everyone out there, you got Baqsimi, you got ChivoC.
Scott Benner (38:27) I'm happy you have happy you have glucagon with you. (38:29) I hope everybody's carrying it.
Trey (38:30) We have a Gvoke in the nurse's office at school.
Scott Benner (38:35) Mhmm.
Trey (38:36) We have one that sits at home in our little diabetes basket by the fridge where, we keep all my like, some all some stuff. (38:44) Yeah. (38:44) And then I have one of my diabetes bag I bring around with me.
Scott Benner (38:48) So you have them spread around because and you can't keep all of your glucagon in one basket. (38:54) Right?
Stephanie (38:55) Yep. (38:55) Nope.
Scott Benner (38:56) Yep. (38:56) Just like you don't want
Stephanie (38:57) eggs again.
Scott Benner (38:57) Yes. (38:58) Yes. (38:58) You don't wanna put all your eggs in one basket, Trey. (39:01) Trey, tell me about playing sports with diabetes. (39:04) What do you have to do to prep?
Scott Benner (39:05) What do you have to do while you're playing? (39:07) What do you have to do after you're playing?
Trey (39:09) So, when I go on the field for a goalie, I my my dad puts my blood sugar about, like, one thirty, one fifty ish. (39:16) So in case I drop, I have time to catch it.
Scott Benner (39:19) Okay.
Trey (39:19) Because I'm at a 100 and I start dropping. (39:22) Yeah. (39:22) I might not have enough time to catch it, and I might have to go off the field for a minute.
Scott Benner (39:26) You're wearing a pump?
Trey (39:28) Yes. (39:29) Which one? (39:29) Omnipod.
Scott Benner (39:30) Omnipod. (39:30) Omnipod five?
Trey (39:32) Oh, yes.
Scott Benner (39:33) What did do? (39:33) You set the target differently? (39:35) Because with that target, you put in, like, three different places. (39:37) You make a higher target.
Trey (39:38) In activity mode.
Scott Benner (39:39) Activity mode. (39:40) And that kinda brings your blood sugar up a little bit before you play.
Trey (39:43) Yeah.
Scott Benner (39:44) Do you eat before you play?
Trey (39:46) Sometimes.
Scott Benner (39:47) Do you find that you get low more frequently when you've eaten before the game?
Trey (39:51) Mhmm. (39:52) Because if I have insulin on board, it activates when I'm when I'm, like, doing workout and stuff. (39:57) When I'm exercising, it activates quicker, the insulin does. (40:00) And then my blood sugar goes down quicker.
Scott Benner (40:03) Try are trying to make me cry? (40:05) No. (40:05) I'm so happy you know that. (40:07) Thank you. (40:08) Oh, I feel like my life means something that you said that out loud.
Scott Benner (40:11) That's so awesome. (40:12) How did you learn that? (40:14) You. (40:15) Trey, I swear I I I I I'm gonna sound less manly than I did back when I was telling your mom to get back in the kitchen. (40:22) I got a tear in my eye from that.
Scott Benner (40:23) That was wonderful. (40:25) I mean, I'm so happy for you that you know that. (40:27) It's really
Trey (40:28) drinking water makes the insulin activate quicker?
Scott Benner (40:31) Yeah. (40:31) Staying hydrated, right, makes everything work better. (40:35) Do you guys get disconnected?
Stephanie (40:37) No. (40:38) I'm here.
Scott Benner (40:38) Okay. (40:39) Trey, are you there? (40:40) Yeah. (40:41) Oh, he's like voice did you you heard it too. (40:42) Right?
Scott Benner (40:43) Stephanie, like, voice started to, like, fade away while he was talking about water? (40:46) Am I the only one that heard that?
Stephanie (40:47) He was talking too long. (40:49) He just ran out of breath.
Scott Benner (40:52) Does that happen, Trey? (40:53) Do you sometimes talk so long you pass out? (40:56) No. (40:56) No?
Trey (40:57) I don't know. (40:57) My phone my phone glitches sometimes.
Scott Benner (40:59) That's okay. (40:59) Maybe you need a new phone for Christmas.
Stephanie (41:02) No. (41:02) I just got a new phone. (41:03) Couple months ago.
Scott Benner (41:04) Try I'm trying to help you.
Trey (41:05) Put My old phone's kind of exploded.
Scott Benner (41:08) Oh, yeah.
Trey (41:08) But it doesn't work anymore. (41:09) It doesn't wanna turn on.
Scott Benner (41:10) Yeah. (41:10) If you don't need the phone, then we pivot to something else that you want. (41:13) Don't just say no
Trey (41:14) so quickly. (41:15) Ebike.
Scott Benner (41:15) And mom
Trey (41:16) won't give me one because it's too expensive. (41:18) I want one. (41:18) It's, like, $600. (41:19) It goes, like, 30 miles an hour.
Scott Benner (41:21) Wait. (41:21) You wanna drive 30 miles an hour?
Stephanie (41:24) On an ebike. (41:24) The problem.
Scott Benner (41:25) I bet I was gonna say I bet you'd eat the $600 stopping you from getting the ebike because I heard all three of you are all over the country playing lacrosse. (41:31) Your mom's got 600. (41:32) She could she don't want you going that fast. (41:35) You understand?
Trey (41:35) I can go but I can go to school in ten minutes. (41:38) I don't can stay a little bit.
Scott Benner (41:39) Stop it, Trey. (41:40) I agree with your mom. (41:41) You're completely wrong. (41:42) You're not getting an ebike. (41:43) I'm sorry.
Trey (41:44) No fair.
Scott Benner (41:45) Your mother and I have spoken.
Trey (41:47) On PlayStation and PS five. (41:48) I'm giving you a PS five. (41:49) My PS four is glitchy. (41:51) It doesn't wanna work.
Scott Benner (41:52) Listen.
Stephanie (41:53) I love you too much to get an ebike for you because you make stupid choices sometimes.
Trey (41:58) I would I would decide to do the soup do the Superman flying pose while going 30 miles an hour down Main Street.
Stephanie (42:06) Yeah. (42:07) Like I said, stupid choices.
Scott Benner (42:08) Trey, I think it would be easier if your mom just grabbed you by the ankles, smacked your head on the ground, and then, like, and then saved the 600. (42:15) You know what I mean? (42:15) That's not good. (42:16) You don't you don't need that.
Stephanie (42:17) That could be arranged too.
Scott Benner (42:19) We're not saying that's not gonna happen. (42:21) Yeah, man. (42:21) I listen. (42:22) I hate to say this. (42:23) I don't usually say stuff like that.
Scott Benner (42:24) You're too young. (42:25) I wouldn't let you have it either.
Trey (42:26) I'm not sure.
Scott Benner (42:27) Yo. (42:27) You wanna know
Trey (42:28) what My friend has a ebike and they ride it to school. (42:30) It goes it go their their bike goes 50 miles an hour.
Scott Benner (42:33) You know why they have one?
Trey (42:34) Because their parents trust them.
Scott Benner (42:36) No. (42:36) Your mom knows why because their parents don't love them. (42:38) That's why.
Trey (42:39) Their parents own a a pizza place.
Scott Benner (42:42) Well, I don't know if that's Wait. (42:44) What does that got to do with anything?
Stephanie (42:46) Because their parents don't work in the ER and see kids come in with injuries from doing stupid things.
Trey (42:53) Yeah. (42:54) And also, they have they have a lot of money from the restaurant.
Scott Benner (42:57) The pizza money.
Trey (42:58) The pizza money.
Scott Benner (42:59) I'll tell you right now, Trey. (43:01) Your slightly offensive Italian accent aside, let me say this. (43:05) Okay? (43:06) I think about this all the time. (43:08) That pizza business has gotta be a cash cow.
Scott Benner (43:11) Right? (43:11) Because what are we really doing here? (43:13) Dough, cheese, an oven, little sauce. (43:16) Yeah. (43:18) Right?
Scott Benner (43:18) It can't be that the overhead's gotta be mostly the building. (43:22) I don't think the ingredients are much. (43:24) I think that's a that's a license to print money, that pizza thing. (43:27) People love pizza too.
Trey (43:29) Sally, shoo.
Scott Benner (43:31) What happened there? (43:32) I didn't hear.
Trey (43:33) My brother's here. (43:34) Sullivan, shoo.
Scott Benner (43:35) Yeah. (43:35) Get him out of there. (43:36) How old is he?
Trey (43:36) Shoo fly. (43:37) Mom's also on the podcast.
Stephanie (43:38) Go. (43:39) Trey, be nice.
Scott Benner (43:40) Yes, Trey. (43:41) I know you're trying to be funny, Trey. (43:42) And it's not working, but it's not your fault.
Trey (43:44) I'm gonna throw a dog toy at him.
Scott Benner (43:46) Oh, well, that would be
Stephanie (43:47) Sullivan is a whole
Scott Benner (43:50) Is a whole what?
Stephanie (43:51) A whole year and a half younger than Trey.
Scott Benner (43:54) Oh, Trey. (43:55) Yeah. (43:55) What's it like to be so much more mature?
Trey (43:58) I'm also bigger than him. (44:00) I'm I'm taller than him. (44:01) Yeah. (44:02) I'm gonna snipe you with a
Stephanie (44:04) shoe, boys.
Scott Benner (44:06) Yeah. (44:06) Don't throw things. (44:07) But if you throw something, make it a squeaky toy because that'll be funny.
Trey (44:10) Did you
Scott Benner (44:11) get him with a a toy? (44:12) A squeaky toy?
Trey (44:13) I hit him I hit him with one of my shoes.
Scott Benner (44:15) I don't think that's right. (44:16) Although, Ike Turner found it very effective.
Trey (44:19) It is very effective.
Scott Benner (44:21) Yeah. (44:21) That's a joke for maybe five people.
Stephanie (44:23) This is my every day.
Scott Benner (44:25) Yeah. (44:26) No, Stephanie. (44:26) You have a you have a problem over there. (44:27) I know. (44:28) The two boys that close in age, that's not good.
Stephanie (44:30) Nineteen months apart, and it's it's it's constant. (44:34) Yes. (44:35) Sometimes he feeds it.
Scott Benner (44:39) You think he's doing that, to get back at you, or do you think he's what do you think's going on there?
Stephanie (44:45) My husband was one of seven. (44:47) His house was always like that too.
Scott Benner (44:49) Oh, he just likes it. (44:50) Yeah. (44:50) It probably feels normal to him.
Trey (44:51) It it
Stephanie (44:52) he thrives on it. (44:53) A little crazy.
Scott Benner (44:54) You got any brothers or sisters, Stephanie?
Stephanie (44:56) I have two. (44:57) I have one of each. (44:58) I'm the oldest of three.
Scott Benner (44:59) Okay. (45:00) Alright. (45:00) I hear that you're the oldest in your voice when you talk about this stuff, by the way.
Trey (45:04) The youngest one of her siblings is my uncle Steven.
Scott Benner (45:07) Oh, yeah? (45:09) What what
Trey (45:10) Uncle Steven
Scott Benner (45:10) Go ahead.
Trey (45:11) He he he lives on, like, a farm ish. (45:15) He he has two horses named Flash and Bentley. (45:18) He also has two goats named Andy and Ella. (45:21) And my little cousins, they're they're fun to play with. (45:24) One's five and one's, like, two year old.
Scott Benner (45:25) Yeah.
Trey (45:26) Right, Grandma? (45:27) Yes.
Scott Benner (45:27) That's cool. (45:28) Hey. (45:29) Although I don't understand what farm ish means.
Stephanie (45:31) It it is a farm pet.
Scott Benner (45:34) Does he have chickens?
Trey (45:36) Yes. (45:36) He has chickens.
Scott Benner (45:37) Do they lay eggs?
Trey (45:40) Yes. (45:41) They make the eggs. (45:42) They make the breakfast.
Scott Benner (45:43) Do you ever have the eggs from the chickens from the uncle Steven?
Trey (45:46) Sometimes. (45:47) They give them to us sometimes.
Scott Benner (45:48) Are they better than the eggs from the store?
Trey (45:51) Yes.
Scott Benner (45:52) How? (45:52) Please tell me how.
Trey (45:54) They're more fresh, so they taste better. (45:56) They don't go through weird factory processes.
Scott Benner (45:59) Mhmm. (46:00) Mhmm.
Trey (46:00) They just come from the chicken coop. (46:02) They get washed off, and then they get put in egg carton and sent to us.
Scott Benner (46:06) Sounds like Steven It
Stephanie (46:07) really is all about the eggs. (46:08) My gosh.
Scott Benner (46:09) Well, let's say you guys brought it up, not me. (46:12) Steven, sounds like he got ahold of you, told you good about those eggs.
Trey (46:16) Eggs. (46:17) Yummy.
Scott Benner (46:18) Yeah. (46:18) Yeah. (46:18) Yeah. (46:18) And they're from Chicago? (46:20) They're Chicago eggs?
Stephanie (46:22) They are Chicago eggs. (46:24) Chicagoland eggs. (46:25) Chicago.
Scott Benner (46:26) Local politics in Chicago is
Stephanie (46:28) Almost Wisconsin eggs.
Scott Benner (46:29) Almost oh, West ish?
Stephanie (46:32) Far Northwest.
Scott Benner (46:33) How far how close are you to the train station?
Stephanie (46:35) Which train station?
Scott Benner (46:37) By the football field.
Stephanie (46:38) Union State or downtown?
Scott Benner (46:39) I think yeah. (46:40) Yeah. (46:40) Yeah.
Trey (46:41) We're about a two hour drive from
Stephanie (46:42) the It's about an hour and twenty minute train drive.
Scott Benner (46:45) The problem there is that Trey was doing the math on an ebike and you were doing the math in the car. (46:49) He's like, that's about two hours. (46:50) Yeah. (46:51) Two hours by ebike.
Trey (46:52) Drive. (46:53) It's it's two hour drive in a car.
Scott Benner (46:55) Your mom says no?
Trey (46:57) That's with The train the train doesn't stop, though. (46:59) The train doesn't stop, though.
Scott Benner (47:01) Wait. (47:01) What the hell are you talking about, Trey?
Trey (47:03) She you the train she said a train ride is an hour hour long there.
Scott Benner (47:08) From where you are? (47:09) You have a train near you?
Trey (47:11) We have a train about twenty ish minutes from our house.
Scott Benner (47:13) I gotcha.
Trey (47:14) Train station.
Scott Benner (47:15) How do you like living in the Midwest and where it's cold? (47:18) Have you ever lived the other I mean, you lived in Texas. (47:20) Right? (47:21) What what are your feelings?
Trey (47:22) I lived in Texas for the first three two or three months of my life, and then I took an airplane up to Illinois.
Scott Benner (47:27) Right. (47:28) I'm talking about your mom trying to your mom lived in Texas. (47:31) I know you didn't stay there long. (47:32) How long were you there, Stephanie?
Stephanie (47:34) So we were in Texas a little over a year and of, like, fifteen months. (47:40) I loved it. (47:41) I met, like, my group of people down there, but, sadly, my husband was on a a temporary assignment, and he didn't get a permanent position down there. (47:51) So we went back to where the corporate office was.
Scott Benner (47:54) I see. (47:55) I see. (47:55) But you wished you were in Texas?
Stephanie (47:57) Yeah. (47:58) I loved it.
Trey (47:58) Yeah. (47:59) I don't like the cold. (48:01) The cold sucks.
Scott Benner (48:03) In Chicago?
Trey (48:05) I don't like the cold.
Scott Benner (48:06) I don't either, Trey. (48:07) It's upsetting to me. (48:09) Starting to get cold here now, even though it doesn't work the same way as it did when I was a kid. (48:13) Like, by by now like, Stephanie, you're not my age, but you're close enough. (48:16) Like, by now November, it would have been, like, borderlining on getting frigid right now.
Scott Benner (48:20) Like, it would start getting yeah. (48:22) And it's it's nice. (48:23) My grass is still green. (48:24) It's ridiculous.
Stephanie (48:26) We're still pretty green here. (48:27) I mean, the trees are most well, they're mostly changed, and a lot of them have lost their leaves, but it's late this year for that. (48:35) Yeah. (48:36) And yeah. (48:37) I mean
Scott Benner (48:38) Feels like it shifts more every year.
Stephanie (48:41) Really does.
Scott Benner (48:41) Yeah. (48:42) Like, it doesn't get super cold here, like, until February and March now. (48:46) Like, it's just I don't know.
Trey (48:47) It's
Scott Benner (48:48) strange. (48:49) Anyway, I agree with Trey. (48:50) Let's all go to Texas. (48:51) I don't want bad allergies, though. (48:52) Is that gonna happen to me in San Antonio?
Stephanie (48:55) My allergies weren't bad in San Antonio.
Scott Benner (48:57) Alright. (48:57) I'm on my way then. (48:58) Let's go.
Stephanie (48:58) I'm tired. (48:58) I'm tired of this. (48:59) I mean, we just spent the last week in Florida. (49:01) And if it wasn't for the humidity, I would stay there too.
Scott Benner (49:04) Yeah. (49:05) Bugs too.
Trey (49:05) Not fair. (49:06) I wanted to go.
Scott Benner (49:07) Well, you had school. (49:10) No. (49:10) What do you mean no? (49:11) You didn't have school?
Trey (49:12) Well, they left Thursday night. (49:13) And I got out of school. (49:15) I got early release on Friday, which was at 12:30.
Scott Benner (49:18) They didn't wanna take you because you're a pain in the ass or what? (49:20) Why didn't you get to come?
Trey (49:22) I didn't get to come because it was my sister's tournament, and they did not feel like paying an extra, like, $600 for me to go there and back.
Scott Benner (49:30) Yeah. (49:30) It makes sense.
Trey (49:31) Plus food costs.
Scott Benner (49:32) They could have paid for the ebike with that money they saved.
Stephanie (49:35) Well, I mean, I told them. (49:37) They get a tournament in in in Florida, and and you're good to go.
Scott Benner (49:40) Yeah. (49:41) Oh, I see. (49:41) Oh, she got invited. (49:42) Right? (49:42) Like, she's down there getting recruited?
Stephanie (49:45) Her her team went. (49:46) It was a recruiting tournament for her team. (49:49) She's on a twenty twenty seven, an all junior team. (49:53) So
Scott Benner (49:53) Nice. (49:54) That's awesome. (49:55) Alright. (49:55) So where are we taking all this, Trey? (49:57) Like, we've got our Omnipod five.
Scott Benner (49:59) We're doing great with our a one c. (50:01) You sound like you're on top of what's going on. (50:03) You're learning about your diabetes. (50:04) Like, how do you see this going the next couple of years, and are you thinking of going to college?
Trey (50:11) Yes. (50:11) College. (50:12) I hope my blood sugar stays good, and my a one c stays good for the next couple years.
Scott Benner (50:16) What are you thinking about? (50:17) I know you're only 13, but this is the oldest you've ever been, so I don't mean to say only 13. (50:22) But you
Trey (50:23) turned 13, about, like, three weeks ago.
Scott Benner (50:25) Oh, you just turned 13. (50:27) Happy birthday. (50:28) What'd you get?
Trey (50:30) I got $20 from my auntie Kim with, she lives in Maryland. (50:34) Nice. (50:34) Or no. (50:34) She lives in, like, Maryland, Virginia border.
Scott Benner (50:38) Wow. (50:38) Hey. (50:38) Listen. (50:39) In Maryland money, that 20 is a 50. (50:40) Now what else you got?
Scott Benner (50:42) That's what you got. (50:42) You got $20 for your birthday. (50:43) Your mom gets you anything?
Trey (50:45) She got me a a cool lacrosse goalie sticker, but my friends, they got me a birthday crown.
Scott Benner (50:52) Nice. (50:53) Did anybody make your eggs the way you like them for your birthday?
Trey (50:55) They got me a watermelon mango peelers gummy thingies.
Scott Benner (50:59) Okay.
Trey (51:00) They were also really good.
Scott Benner (51:01) Nice. (51:02) Nice.
Stephanie (51:03) And what did we get you right before your birthday? (51:06) What did we just replace?
Scott Benner (51:09) Was it the phone?
Stephanie (51:10) Your goalie head.
Scott Benner (51:12) Oh, your goalie?
Trey (51:13) Yeah. (51:13) My goalie head, it kinda, it kinda started cracking at the base where it connects to the shaft to the stick. (51:19) They started cracking.
Scott Benner (51:21) Wait. (51:21) Wait. (51:21) Wait. (51:21) What's goal what's a goalie head?
Trey (51:24) It's basically a lacrosse head that's the size of a watermelon. (51:26) It can hold a watermelon.
Scott Benner (51:27) I don't understand what it's for, though.
Stephanie (51:29) It's for saving the lacrosse stick.
Scott Benner (51:33) Wait. (51:33) I'm I'm I I need an image of this.
Trey (51:36) So it's something called a gold stick.
Scott Benner (51:38) Oh. (51:38) Oh, it's the thing that holds the net on the end of your stick. (51:42) Mhmm. (51:43) Oh, I
Stephanie (51:43) got it. (51:44) And he got he got a whole new stick. (51:45) He got his new head strung and dyed and a new shaft. (51:54) So
Trey (51:54) I I call my stick the Loki leprechaun because I have shamrocks, and it and it has golden lettering on it, and it's green.
Scott Benner (52:05) Dude, you are like a font of offensive impersonations. (52:08) I love you. (52:12) You called the are you Irish?
Trey (52:14) Oh, German Irish.
Scott Benner (52:15) Oh, okay. (52:16) I was gonna say, where did she come up with just because it was green?
Trey (52:19) Lucky leprechaun.
Scott Benner (52:20) She could've
Trey (52:21) got Is it Lucky leprechaun?
Scott Benner (52:22) Because if it's green, you could've called it Godzilla. (52:24) There's lot of things you could've done.
Trey (52:26) Well, it's It was supposed to Hulk head. (52:28) It used originally used to be the Hulk stick.
Scott Benner (52:31) Mhmm.
Trey (52:31) So I I kinda send kids flying if they get too close to my crease.
Scott Benner (52:36) Yeah. (52:36) Yeah.
Trey (52:37) But now it's the lucky leprechaun.
Scott Benner (52:39) Yeah. (52:39) My wife does that too. (52:41) Alright. (52:41) That one just fell flat. (52:43) It's okay.
Scott Benner (52:44) Don't worry. (52:44) Anyway, for the people listening, they got it. (52:46) You get too close to Kelly's crease, she sends you flying. (52:49) That's what
Stephanie (52:49) I I got it. (52:50) I was letting Trey
Scott Benner (52:51) do this stupid thing. (52:53) You didn't do anything. (52:54) Trey, you did nothing. (52:57) Trey, I like you, but you're not exactly a man of many words. (53:02) No.
Scott Benner (53:03) What made you think you could do a podcast by yourself for an hour?
Trey (53:07) I don't know.
Scott Benner (53:10) You should say hubris, Scott.
Trey (53:12) But my parents my parents say I never stopped talking.
Scott Benner (53:15) I know, but I asked you a question. (53:17) You went, yeah. (53:18) You you broke my heart on that one earlier. (53:21) I was like, tell me, yeah, how's that make you feel? (53:23) And you went, yeah.
Scott Benner (53:24) I was like, uh-oh.
Trey (53:26) I said, yay.
Scott Benner (53:27) Yeah. (53:27) I don't know. (53:28) I I can't remember. (53:29) It was, like, twenty minutes ago.
Stephanie (53:29) So that might that might be going back to that why mom said, maybe I'll go on with you.
Scott Benner (53:34) Yeah. (53:35) No. (53:35) I was trying to give her some I was trying to give her some credit here. (53:37) You did a good job. (53:39) Did a good job.
Scott Benner (53:40) Trae, who helps you more with your diabetes? (53:43) Your mom or your dad?
Trey (53:44) Mom.
Scott Benner (53:45) Does your dad know anything about it?
Trey (53:47) Yes.
Scott Benner (53:48) Okay. (53:49) Ish. (53:49) Ish. (53:50) Meaning?
Trey (53:51) Not as much as my mom.
Scott Benner (53:53) Do you know more about it than your dad does? (53:55) Yes. (53:55) Okay. (53:57) Is your dad busy?
Trey (53:59) I didn't hear you.
Scott Benner (54:00) Why do you think your dad has less knowledge about it?
Trey (54:03) Because my mom's a nurse, and she know and she works with kids with diabetes.
Scott Benner (54:07) Think he's deferring to her?
Trey (54:10) Yeah. (54:10) He refers to her a lot sometimes.
Scott Benner (54:12) Mhmm.
Trey (54:13) A lot of the time, he refers to her.
Scott Benner (54:15) Do you wish he knew more about it, or are you happy with the division of labor on this?
Trey (54:19) Oh, I wish he knew more about it. (54:21) I wish he knew as much as my mom. (54:23) How
Scott Benner (54:24) come?
Trey (54:24) Because then when my mom's on lacrosse shifts or she's at work for multiple hours at a time because she works twelve hour and sixteen hour shifts, I wish my dad knew like, my mom knows, like, twice as much as he does.
Scott Benner (54:40) Tell me why, though. (54:41) Why do you wish she knew more?
Trey (54:42) Because, he wouldn't have to call my mom so often. (54:46) Wouldn't have to and my mom wouldn't have to call him if my blood sugar goes high and I'm handling it, but yeah.
Scott Benner (54:52) Yeah. (54:52) But but women love it when their husbands call them and ask them all kinds of inane questions. (54:58) Don't you, Stephanie?
Trey (54:59) My mom doesn't my mom gets mad.
Scott Benner (55:01) No. (55:01) No. (55:02) I was I was being frustrates her. (55:03) Yeah. (55:03) Try I was being sarcastic.
Scott Benner (55:04) They hate that. (55:05) I'm pretty comfortable saying that, like, across the board. (55:09) So can I tell a story here?
Trey (55:12) Yeah.
Scott Benner (55:12) In honor of the Thanksgiving? (55:15) I brought our turkey home yesterday, and I got home and I put it on the counter. (55:19) And I said to Kelly, I said, Kelly, why don't you come out and, like, find a place to put this in the refrigerator? (55:23) Now I say that because Kelly buys too much food and overstuffs the refrigerator. (55:29) It's her fault.
Scott Benner (55:30) Everyone knows it. (55:30) I am not saying anything.
Trey (55:31) My mom overstuffs the fridge as well because I eat everything.
Scott Benner (55:34) I I know it. (55:35) I know. (55:35) Don't worry, Trey. (55:36) And so I don't like, because then something falls, then I get irritated, then she's irritated with me for being irritated that something fell. (55:43) And then, like so I just was like, why don't you come out and just do this, and I'll go do something else?
Scott Benner (55:47) And that way, you know, you can put this where you want it. (55:50) And she said, oh, can't you figure out how to get the turkey in the refrigerator by yourself? (55:55) She's being sarcastic with me, Trey. (55:57) And so I said, oh, no. (55:58) No.
Scott Benner (55:58) No. (55:59) No. (55:59) I'll take care of it. (56:00) So I put the turkey in the refrigerator. (56:03) Now why don't I wanna be the one to put the turkey in the refrigerator?
Scott Benner (56:05) Trey, you don't understand this yet because you're not married, But I don't want to later open myself up for commentary about how I put the turkey in the refrigerator, which is a real reason why I wanted her to do it, not because she's better at it than I am.
Stephanie (56:17) Because you were gonna do it wrong.
Scott Benner (56:18) Stephanie, that's neither here nor there, and it's not where the story ends. (56:21) So then when the story ends, it's when she looks up at me a couple minutes later and and tries to make a point sarcastically by going, oh, I see you got the turkey in the refrigerator without my help. (56:34) Meaning, you should have left me alone and not bothered me on this because you got you you see where I'm going with all this. (56:40) I, without a moment's notice and, Trey, this is why you don't mess with somebody who has what they call a quick wit. (56:46) Okay?
Scott Benner (56:47) I said, well, Kelly, it turns out that the reasons I think you're valuable around here are going down every moment. (56:55) You really should have come out here and taken care of this refrigerator thing because now I'm seeing that, you know You
Trey (57:01) did not.
Scott Benner (57:02) Maybe I did. (57:03) Try because I'm I've been married for thirty years. (57:05) I I know I'm not gonna get to be happy anymore. (57:07) So now this is where I get my happiness. (57:09) And so I said, I said, your your value here is is going down.
Scott Benner (57:13) Like, I I I don't even know why we're keeping you around exactly. (57:18) And I said, and you're quite the drain on resources. (57:24) I stopped myself from saying the next thing that popped in my head.
Trey (57:28) What was it?
Scott Benner (57:29) I don't know, Trey. (57:30) You're kinda young. (57:32) Trey, you know what happens to the ladies every month?
Trey (57:35) Yes.
Scott Benner (57:36) Yeah. (57:36) Okay. (57:36) So, I was gonna say you're quite the drain on resources, and we have to buy all those extra things for your vagina. (57:44) That's what I was gonna say. (57:46) But I kept that part in my head because I'm not completely stupid.
Scott Benner (57:52) But I was so proud of myself when I said you're quite the drain on resources, and now I have to reassess what it is you're adding back into the house because of this refrigerator thing. (58:02) Anyway, I was just tickled. (58:05) I thought if that was in a movie, that'd be a very funny moment. (58:09) And then she did not she did not think that was funny at all, in case anybody's wondering. (58:13) So anyway, Trey, my turkey's in the refrigerator.
Scott Benner (58:16) It's safe. (58:17) How big is your bird, Stephanie?
Stephanie (58:19) So I just got home at 10:30 last or 11:00 last night. (58:24) I have to go out today after we finish recording and buy it.
Scott Benner (58:26) Stephanie, you don't have a bird yet?
Stephanie (58:28) Nope. (58:29) And pray that it's thawed by the time I have to soak it in two days.
Scott Benner (58:32) So and you're gonna be cooking for five people?
Stephanie (58:35) Yeah. (58:36) I'm just cooking for the five of us.
Scott Benner (58:37) What size, bird do you like there for that?
Stephanie (58:40) So we normally get way bigger than we need because we Leftovers. (58:46) I have leftovers, and I make stoop and stuff.
Scott Benner (58:50) Do a whole thing.
Stephanie (58:52) So yeah. (58:52) Yeah. (58:53) I mean
Scott Benner (58:53) You get 20 pounds? (58:54) You go bigger?
Stephanie (58:56) Probably about 20. (58:57) Maybe not quite, but close.
Trey (58:59) Mom, get a 50 pound bird.
Scott Benner (59:01) Well, don't make this.
Stephanie (59:01) They don't make it.
Scott Benner (59:02) Yeah. (59:02) I did see a 37 once, though. (59:05) Have you ever bought a fresh turkey? (59:06) Splurged?
Stephanie (59:07) We have. (59:08) We had there's a couple of farms near us that have them and do all the things.
Scott Benner (59:14) Trey, how come uncle
Trey (59:15) turkeys on the street, I'm wondering why my dad can't just go pick one of
Scott Benner (59:18) those up. (59:19) I don't think he can eat those. (59:20) I think that's different. (59:21) And, how come uncle Steven doesn't have some turkeys? (59:23) Why can't he get involved in that?
Stephanie (59:24) Because auntie Mandy loves her turkeys and names every single one of them.
Scott Benner (59:28) Oh, wait.
Stephanie (59:28) Or not turkeys, chickens.
Scott Benner (59:30) Well, let's get a let's get let's get some turkeys working over there, and we can, wouldn't that be nice if a couple years from now you could go murder a turkey and then have it for Thanksgiving, Trey?
Trey (59:39) Auntie Manny would not be happy with that.
Scott Benner (59:41) No? (59:41) Wait. (59:42) So they have a bunch of animals. (59:43) They don't eat them?
Trey (59:44) Nope. (59:45) They eat they eat the, eggs from the chicken. (59:47) That's about it.
Scott Benner (59:48) We joked about eating we joked we joked about eating Friday last night.
Trey (59:53) Who's Friday?
Scott Benner (59:54) Harden's like, look how is my daughter's puppy. (59:57) Look how cute he is. (59:58) I could just eat him. (1:00:00) Don't you wish he was this turkey so we could have him this week? (1:00:03) She was being sweet, but I was just thinking
Stephanie (1:00:05) I I could just dabble him up kind
Scott Benner (1:00:06) of thing. (1:00:07) Yeah. (1:00:07) That was that. (1:00:07) But I was thinking, like, oh, it would be nice to get rid of this dog. (1:00:12) But I don't think he would taste good at all, Trey.
Stephanie (1:00:15) No. (1:00:16) Probably not.
Scott Benner (1:00:16) Yeah. (1:00:17) Trey, do you have a dog?
Trey (1:00:18) I have two dogs. (1:00:20) Sometimes, they eat my sister's clothes.
Scott Benner (1:00:22) Yeah. (1:00:22) I'd rather that.
Trey (1:00:23) At least.
Scott Benner (1:00:24) And I saw my dog outside the other day. (1:00:27) I was like, what's he doing? (1:00:28) Then I realized what he was doing. (1:00:29) It made me upset.
Trey (1:00:31) What was he doing?
Scott Benner (1:00:32) He was eating deer like it was candy.
Stephanie (1:00:34) Pepper doesn't eat it, but she does roll in it.
Scott Benner (1:00:37) Oh, I don't know which I prefer. (1:00:40) Those both of those things are terrible. (1:00:42) Trey, real quick.
Stephanie (1:00:43) She's a white dog, and she comes in brown sometimes.
Scott Benner (1:00:46) Oh, Jesus. (1:00:47) Trey, real quickly. (1:00:49) Be serious about this. (1:00:51) Would you rather eat deer poop or roll in deer poop?
Trey (1:00:55) Roll in it because I could clean it off.
Scott Benner (1:00:57) Even if it was on your face?
Trey (1:00:59) I could still clean it off. (1:01:00) I can't get that taste out
Scott Benner (1:01:01) of my mouth. (1:01:02) It's the right answer, Son. (1:01:03) Good job. (1:01:04) And then And
Trey (1:01:05) my dog, one of our dogs, Louie, he's the younger of the two. (1:01:09) He caught a squirrel the other day.
Scott Benner (1:01:11) When you say caught it, do you mean murdered it?
Stephanie (1:01:14) Murdered it. (1:01:14) Mhmm. (1:01:14) It it
Trey (1:01:15) was laying lifeless in the in our in our yard with its with one of its legs missing.
Scott Benner (1:01:21) Oh my god. (1:01:22) Really? (1:01:22) What kind of dog?
Trey (1:01:24) He is like a a black lab chihuahua. (1:01:27) He likes he
Scott Benner (1:01:28) likes Wait. (1:01:28) Hold on. (1:01:29) He almost made me curse. (1:01:30) No. (1:01:31) He's not.
Scott Benner (1:01:31) Is he really?
Stephanie (1:01:32) He is really. (1:01:33) He looks like a miniature. (1:01:34) Wait.
Scott Benner (1:01:35) Trey, do you guys cursed at the house?
Trey (1:01:37) Yes.
Scott Benner (1:01:38) Yeah. (1:01:38) I because I was like, get the fuck out of here. (1:01:40) You don't have a black lab chihuahua. (1:01:42) Do you really?
Trey (1:01:43) Yes. (1:01:44) Yes. (1:01:44) We do.
Scott Benner (1:01:44) Hold on a second. (1:01:46) Black lab.
Trey (1:01:46) He's like a miniature black lab and, he's a mama's boy. (1:01:50) So you could
Scott Benner (1:01:52) Oh, wait. (1:01:52) These are adorable dogs.
Trey (1:01:54) Lou Louie will grab that pillow and start you know what sharks do when they grab onto something they're eating? (1:01:59) They, like, shake their heads around and try to rip it off.
Scott Benner (1:02:01) Sure. (1:02:01) I saw a shark wave.
Trey (1:02:02) And that's what Louie does.
Scott Benner (1:02:03) Are these called labra hoohos?
Stephanie (1:02:06) I don't know what to call him. (1:02:07) We we we say that he's a little bit Too astral. (1:02:10) Avidors. (1:02:10) Chewabadors.
Scott Benner (1:02:11) You're just making these words up as are the people on the Internet, but there's a lot of people making out names for these dogs on the Internet. (1:02:17) I've got cha oh my god. (1:02:19) Chewabadors. (1:02:20) I've got labra hooahua. (1:02:22) What the hell is wrong with everybody?
Trey (1:02:37) The sound of a nuclear bomb going off.
Scott Benner (1:02:41) Wait a minute. (1:02:41) You've heard a nuclear bomb go off?
Trey (1:02:44) He scream he he barks at people, and it is so unreasonably loud.
Scott Benner (1:02:48) Oh, okay. (1:02:49) You misspoke. (1:02:49) You said he he he okay. (1:02:51) I got it.
Trey (1:02:52) Screams louder than any
Scott Benner (1:02:53) Then you're imagining a neutron bomb would make that same noise.
Trey (1:02:58) It would be quieter than Louis.
Scott Benner (1:03:00) I hear what you're saying. (1:03:01) Hey. (1:03:01) You know what? (1:03:01) Isn't it interesting, Trey, that we're okay with people taking dogs and mixing them together to make certain outcomes, but we don't do that with people. (1:03:08) It's weird.
Scott Benner (1:03:09) Right?
Trey (1:03:09) Don't think it's legal with people.
Scott Benner (1:03:10) Legal. (1:03:11) Well, you can't make people have babies. (1:03:13) That's not what I'm saying. (1:03:14) I'm saying when people date, they don't often think, oh, me with that person mixed will end up with a nice outcome. (1:03:21) I don't think people think like that.
Scott Benner (1:03:23) You know what I mean?
Trey (1:03:24) Yes.
Scott Benner (1:03:25) I can't believe my kids aren't like a mess. (1:03:27) I'm stunned, actually. (1:03:30) I have really attractive kids. (1:03:32) I don't even know how it happened. (1:03:33) And I'm not just saying that because they're my kids.
Scott Benner (1:03:35) They're and don't go looking them up online, you weirdos. (1:03:37) Just relax and believe me. (1:03:39) Okay? (1:03:39) But and my kids are really attractive, and it freaks me out because I was worried. (1:03:43) I'm not gonna lie to you.
Scott Benner (1:03:44) Like, my wife's pretty, but, like, I I thought I was gonna ruin that mix easy. (1:03:47) You know what I mean? (1:03:49) But it didn't work out like that, Trey. (1:03:52) What do you know, buddy? (1:03:53) Alright.
Scott Benner (1:03:53) Listen. (1:03:53) I think we're done. (1:03:54) I've enjoyed this.
Trey (1:03:55) I eat tunes, though.
Scott Benner (1:03:56) Woah. (1:03:57) Now we're not done. (1:03:58) What'd you just say?
Trey (1:03:59) What what do I eat tunes,
Scott Benner (1:04:02) Do you swallow it?
Stephanie (1:04:04) Yes. (1:04:05) Trey. (1:04:06) We're gonna have to have words later.
Scott Benner (1:04:07) Hold on a second. (1:04:08) Do you have low iron? (1:04:09) Wait a minute. (1:04:09) This could be a medical thing.
Trey (1:04:11) No. (1:04:11) I just like it. (1:04:12) It tastes good.
Scott Benner (1:04:13) Okay. (1:04:13) Hold on a second. (1:04:14) First of all, now you're gonna get stuck seeing a mental health counselor. (1:04:17) I hope you're happy you opened your mouth. (1:04:18) No.
Scott Benner (1:04:19) What does it mean when a kid eats tinfoil? (1:04:26) Get ready for this. (1:04:27) Trey, you're not gonna like this. (1:04:29) There's a medical word for it. (1:04:30) It's called pica.
Stephanie (1:04:32) It is pica.
Scott Benner (1:04:33) Yeah. (1:04:33) Toddlers, with new nutrient nutrient nutrition deficiency, iron, or zinc, sensory behavioral reasons. (1:04:42) Some kids like the crinkle, the shine, or the feel. (1:04:45) It's more common in kids with autism, ADHD, developmental delays, or high stress anxiety.
Stephanie (1:04:50) I think
Trey (1:04:50) I have ADHD. (1:04:51) I probably do. (1:04:52) I don't know.
Scott Benner (1:04:52) Okay. (1:04:53) Also, is not good for you. (1:04:54) It can choke you, cut make cuts in your mouth, block your GI system. (1:04:58) It could get it could get caught in your pooper. (1:05:00) It could also be vomited back up, cause belly pain, constipation.
Scott Benner (1:05:04) How often do you do this?
Trey (1:05:05) Not often.
Scott Benner (1:05:06) When's the last time you did it?
Trey (1:05:07) Two weeks ago.
Scott Benner (1:05:08) Alright. (1:05:09) Well, now we know what you guys are gonna be talking about when we say goodbye on the podcast.
Stephanie (1:05:13) Right?
Scott Benner (1:05:14) Awesome. (1:05:14) Hey. (1:05:14) Is there anything else you wanna, admit to your mom while we're here? (1:05:18) Seems like this thing is truth serum for you.
Stephanie (1:05:21) Here, I thought he was gonna talk about how he manages his diabetes on the field more, but, you know
Scott Benner (1:05:26) No. (1:05:26) No. (1:05:26) Talk
Stephanie (1:05:26) about aluminum foil instead.
Scott Benner (1:05:28) No. (1:05:29) Aluminum foil and how bad your eggs are. (1:05:31) That's pretty much what I got out of this one. (1:05:33) Is it possible he's anemic?
Stephanie (1:05:35) I don't think so. (1:05:37) Wait. (1:05:37) What what word?
Scott Benner (1:05:38) Anemic. (1:05:39) Like, your iron is low and your blood. (1:05:41) Wouldn't yeah. (1:05:41) You wouldn't know what that is.
Trey (1:05:42) I have a friend with an iron deficiency.
Scott Benner (1:05:44) Yeah. (1:05:45) He might have one too. (1:05:46) That's a great play on this one. (1:05:47) Oh, wow.
Stephanie (1:05:48) There isn't iron in aluminum though.
Scott Benner (1:05:50) Can I tell you something? (1:05:52) No. (1:05:52) No. (1:05:52) But, it doesn't matter. (1:05:54) That's what it says here, that people who find it it's selfie and that have a iron or zinc can have iron or zinc issues.
Scott Benner (1:06:02) I have to say something, Stephanie. (1:06:03) And first of all, Trey, thank you for being honest. (1:06:05) Your mom's gonna be very kind to you when we get done here, and she's gonna try to help you. (1:06:08) Okay? (1:06:09) But, Stephanie, I have to say in, 1,700 episodes, that's gonna stick with me as one of the more out of left field answers somebody's ever given me or things that have said.
Scott Benner (1:06:20) Because I I often say, like, I can't like, it always, like, strikes me what people say, but only some things stick with me. (1:06:26) And you know what they are because I repeat them over and over again. (1:06:29) Like, one girl was diagnosed on a heroin bender. (1:06:32) That really stuck with me. (1:06:34) Like, there's, like Yeah.
Scott Benner (1:06:35) Yeah. (1:06:35) Like and I I maybe heard that means years and years ago. (1:06:38) I once asked a girl what her diet was like, and she said Jack and Coke, but she didn't mean the mixed drinks. (1:06:45) And and that stuck with me. (1:06:48) And this is gonna I feel like I'm gonna remember this.
Scott Benner (1:06:52) Trey, thank you. (1:06:54) I appreciate I appreciate your honesty today.
Stephanie (1:06:57) My children are memorable. (1:06:58) Yes. (1:06:58) Oh
Scott Benner (1:06:58) my god, Stephanie. (1:06:59) This is awesome. (1:07:00) Thank you for doing this with me. (1:07:02) Right now, Stephanie's like
Trey (1:07:03) Runny eggs is the new podcast title.
Scott Benner (1:07:05) Can I just ask him to delete this? (1:07:08) That's what your mom's thinking right now. (1:07:10) And, no, Stephanie, you can't. (1:07:11) I'm sorry. (1:07:11) It's too late.
Stephanie (1:07:11) That's okay.
Scott Benner (1:07:12) You guys are awesome. (1:07:13) Hold on one second for me. (1:07:14) Okay?
Stephanie (1:07:15) Uh-huh.
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