July 14, 2020 • 52 mins
Two dads of T1D daughters, on a podcast, trying to figure it all out.
Alan and Mark, two men with faces for radio, unwisely decide to livestream an episode for the first time! If you're listening to this via podcast, smart move. You don't have to deal with the visuals. But you can at least enjoy the different energy that being able to see one another generated from the show hosts.
The gents begin to ruminate on the pandemic 'new normal', and how they're trying to navigate all that comes with it when you have a T1D to consider. Running to the shops, going to church, playing sports, all whilst social distancing and wearing masks - or not! Some folks don't seem to quite understand the necessity for these things, so T1D families have that to navigate, too...
Please do check out our wonderful Dads and Diabetes show sponsors...
Glucose Revival @ https://glucoserevival.com/
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Alan and Mark, two men with faces for radio, unwisely decide to livestream an episode for the first time! If you're listening to this via podcast, smart move. You don't have to deal with the visuals. But you can at least enjoy the different energy that being able to see one another generated from the show hosts.
The gents begin to ruminate on the pandemic 'new normal', and how they're trying to navigate all that comes with it when you have a T1D to consider. Running to the shops, going to church, playing sports, all whilst social distancing and wearing masks - or not! Some folks don't seem to quite understand the necessity for these things, so T1D families have that to navigate, too...
Please do check out our wonderful Dads and Diabetes show sponsors...
Glucose Revival @ https://glucoserevival.com/
Dia-Be-Tees @ www.Dia-Be-Tee.com
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Yep, we're live. Cool.So hey everyone, Hodey so yeah,
yep, so uh yeah, wellhigh folks, welcome to Dads and Diabetes.
Just two dads of t one dkiddos on a whatever this is podcast
stream streaming thing. It's just theStar podcast. There you go, just
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trying to figure it all out.I'm definitely trying to figure this out.
Islands the tech, the two ofus, two dads on the podcast.
You figure out that? Did I? No? No, you did say
that? Two days on two dayson a live podcast. I'm thrown trying
to throw all out. Okay,you're not used to see my face.
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It's distracting a lot of I getthat all the time. I have to
stay out of stay out of stores. That's why we That's why I wear
a mask. It actually has It'sdropped people from being so social just in
all. I don't it would belike meeting Sean Connery. I get better
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looking as I get older, SoI'm really pleased with that. Um I'll
just leave that there. Just leavethat there. Yeah, okay, well
folks, thanks, yeah, offthe rails. Well, we don't have
me. We have no structure you, we have no structure. We have
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no structure, and we don't reallyhave a topic today either, because Alan
and I have been meeting so infrequently, because obviously you've gone to the month
schedule now, and we've had acouple of special shows in the middle of
there with us being on UH groupswith Stacy Sims, and of course we
had the Dad's panel was our lastshow, and I haven't talked to Alan
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about that actually, so I wantto hear what his take on that was
here in just a moment, butbecause he and I haven't had a chance
to visit that much over the lastfew months. Whenever we do get together
now on Dad's and diabetes, it'sreally an exercise in just catching up.
So um, yeah, let's dothat, my friend. How are you
doing. I've been doing good.It's been doing it, you know.
It's it's it's weird, you know, just trying to adjust to the I
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don't know whatever this is. I'mjust ready for it to be whatever this
is. I'm ready for it tobe over, or for the big asteroid
just to take us out. I'malmost I'm almost voting. I'm gonna vote
for a big asteroid. I'm gonnaask Elon must just to shoot something in
the space and make it come backdown, just finish it all off.
It's just you. Are you readyto be taken? Yeah, I'm ready
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for the rapture and I'm not sureI'm worthy, but I've got my hand
up. If it's gonna be aliensto take us out, just get just
do something. So yeah, man, yeah, it's just we are now
we started coming out from NDO theRock right after several months of being locked
down. We are now coming out, blinking into the sunlight, hopefully,
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all wearing masks and transitioning into whateverthis new normal is. What does it
look like for you guys? Youknow, I don't know it looks I
can't tell. I honestly cannot tella difference except for probably when you go
out to eat. You know,Arkansas has been really good about wearing masks
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and things and what we knew wouldprobably happen and what we felt like would
happen in this area, because againyou're dealing with a bunch of rednecks and
where once you know, though,idiom closing the barn doors after the house
horses out. It's like that.I mean, we knew, we felt
like that there was going to beno more. You can't you really can't
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lock people down. And because peoplejust inherently want to be free. So
when you uh, when we startedthese fate this phasing and number one,
it was amazing how many businesses weredeemed essential. Um I think that was
self a self definition. But uh, I think that um once the phasing
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started, it just and because phaseone felt like it felt the same as
Phase two, phase three, itall felt the same. Um. You
really just could not notice the differenceexcept for very specific services. Um uh.
And it really restaurants, it's probablythe weirdest thing now. And the
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also the you know camps, weyou know that that that's an issue,
you know, because we missed that. And but the but there's you know,
there's always an optimistics I don't youknow, and I tried to be
I'm trying to be an optimist aboutmost of all this. The neat thing
is, you know, a Tag'sbirthday was yesterday. Typically if you remember,
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we're at church camp during during thisweek, and this is actually we
went and looked back and Tag hasbeen raised going to church camp and then
and then Anniston, we get backchurch camp by a week. Then we
go to camp. Sweeney, Well, we didn't go to then have church
camp this year. So Tag actuallyhad a birthday party at home yesterday for
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the first time in his the liehis cognitive ability to remember. Really yeah,
so it was weird. It's like, hey, I'm it's gonna be
my birthday tomorrow and me and let'slook at each other like what do we
do? Uh? So, butAnniston made him. He asked he wanted
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to get a cake, and Annistonactually, um, he actually very sweetly
said, asked Anniston if she wouldmake one of heart cakes. And so
she made him a kid old birthdaycake and did some Ninjago stuff to it
and stuff because she's got into bakingbecause now we're all freaky homeschool kids that
do all the stuff like making liferafts and cabins and woods and things like
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that. But yeah, she's beenon a baking kick since you may.
Tag his birthday cake, and um, his Emily and Alexey came over.
Um you know Emily now, whichyou never have got the uh you never
you don't you didn't get to meetEmily. Alexei, I don't believe when
you came one of them and apologizingI think, yeah, yeah, you've
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met Alexei. Yeah, well soso Emily, as you know, she's
expecting and so you have this we'vewe finally start seeing her and she asked
for she had in Arkansas. Wasshe's about the Domino? Yeah, she
the babies do in August. Andit doesn't look like she's gonna make August.
I mean, she's coming around quick, she's having that baby. Just
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uh well, it's it's because forit's like we've been in a time wark
for three or four months. Suddenlyyou come out to this other side and
you're lying, you know what,what's what's going on? And um and
then like yeah, you didn't havea belly and now you got it.
Now you're pregnant, and now youhave the pregnant belly and it didn't look
so like you're ready to deliver.And uh so that's really cool. So
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there's there's good things that are happeningon an on the diabetes front that that's
working well. But uh but againsame thing. You know, we we
weren't able to with her uh Indobeing in Louisiana, they were a sheltering
place, must want much higher restrictions. So you know she didn't get to
zero Indo for I think I toldyou about six months or something like that.
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So she finally had her Endo appointment. We got one person watching,
thank you, whoever that is.I can't arrestive uh comment whoever that is
watching, but um yeah, yeah, when uh Aniston went to do her
U go to her Indo visit.And again thanks your suggesting years ago,
our years ago. It's like acouple of years ago. Our deal.
What we've each other two years?It's been to okay, I couldn't.
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I'm telling you. Every day it'slike Groundholls Day. You know. It's
funny because here we are in Julyand I'm like, wow, how do
we get to July all of asudden? But also this feels like the
longest year in human history exactly.That's my yeah, that's my point.
It's like we're calling this weird vortexof time where you look like, wait
a second, the years. Allright, we're in the second half of
the year. But because every daywe've been focused on this lockdown and it's
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just weird. My birthday month,by the way, you know, just
in case anyone's interested, birthday,um, twenty third, twenty third,
July people hit forty year, hitforty this year. Oh you're so kind.
Sure, let's say that I likeit. So Anniston's last visit with
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r Endo went well, right,it went well, you know because we
still we still do the keyto thingand um and now that Anniston's doing a
lot of cooking and baking, they'vegotten really creative and uh so that's doing
what She actually started a little businessof selling cakes. Got a little stickers
and stuff that she got from VistaPrint looking for a sponsor of Vista Print
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if you're listening, just kidding,but uh yeah, she her a one
C. And it what I wasgonna say about thanks to you about it's
that Sugarmate. Sugarmate has been fairlyaccurate and trying to predict that estimated a
one c and now I've it's alwaysbeen off by I don't never a point,
but like half a point or somethinglike that, and not told less.
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I said, you know, fivepoint three was what it show one
five point three and they were guessingfive point seven five point eight because her
sugars have been kind of wackos sincethey've been out of since all this has
happened, because I think the girlsare under tremendous stress. Kids don't really
understand how to deal with stress.They don't really understand it. They don't
even feel stressed, but you feelit on your body because you know,
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we're social creatures and you're not beable to be around your friends or have
a social structure. It does thingsto you and it affects you. And
especially with like Anna Nella, youknow there's a lot you know, growing
up and going through this growth phaseand things like that. But anyway,
she yes, she went went tothe diabetes Care clinic once everything opened back
up like it was supposed to inLouisiana, and a one Sea came back
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at five point four, so veryhappy and uh so it was within the
tenth of a point of what thesugarmate appen says. So I love that
freaking she sugarmate out because after youbuild a couple of years of data,
it becomes really accurate. I lovethat thing. Yeah, she um,
she grew so let's see, soit was six so six months. Uh
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so she grew an inch and aninch in a quarter. She gained nine
pounds um, almost as tall asLeslie and just she's doing fantastic starting volleyball
where the we've we started a volleyballteam in our little little school and you
remember how small our school is.We're the only class one A school that
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has a volleyball team in the stateof Arkansas. So that's so the learning
actually organized volleyball and not like,um, hey, everybody, let's get
a volleyball, said a dollar generaland put it up and you know,
it falls apart in twenty minutes orsomething. But she's actually learning like,
oh, Dad, they really dorotating volleyball And I said, yeah,
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actually they do. And you know, so you're learning like not street volleyball
like we've played at the beach,so it's organized. She's loving the volleyball.
Saw Paul slow down some because it'sa little different because as you just
like in your state, Uh,it depends on where you go, like
Governor Abbott, you know the withthe a minute with the mask mandate for
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for counties with more than I thinktwenty cases or something like that. Um,
it depends on where you go inthe state what happens. And you
can go to some tournaments and youprobably experienced this with soccer, and I'll
let you talk but you know,it depends on what tournaments you go to.
Because one day we go to atournament and I'm sorry she missed one
tournament, but this tournament that herteam went to, it was, you
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know, no refreshments, because that'sstill part of the entire thing for sports,
no refreshments. Um. You,if your child is not playing you,
you're to remain in your car.Um I miss. So they were
being very very very very strict.They asked the three questions that everybody's gotten
used to be an ass now todo the temperature check and all that kind
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of stuff. Well then we goto a tournament the next weekend and it
was like I saw a polonaid,a cooker, a smoker into the back
of the I'm like, okay,that's weird. Look at nobody's nobody's wearing
masks. Okay they're not. Sobasically the main social distancing I saw where
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the teams were not allowed to shakehands afterward and do the congratulations thing.
I don't know if they do thatin soccer where they go out in high
five and set a good game,you know, not allowed to do that.
I don't know if they are,but that one was it but it
but it did make you feel alittle bit normal. Uh, So it
was cool. And then the lastbig thing is we went to Gulf Shores.
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We spent Uh I think I toldyou I was. I was on
a vacation. So we went toGulf Shores, UM and down there they
I think they're doing a really goodAlabama. Yeah, and did a very
good job. And of you know, the restaurants, everything was you could
take out, so you didn't understandin line if you said if you did
have a place where takeout was notavailable or it just wasn't a very efficient
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Uh, they would just take yourname and your number and they would just
text you you remain in your carand they would text you say your tables
ready and just come on in.And so it was really neat how they
did it. And everybody's stare atthe condo. And then you go to
the beach and it's yeah, Ican understand the picture of the of the
beaches when it just looks like thousandsof people down the beach because I was
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taking a picture, uh, notfacing the ocean, but facing the beach
and looking that in two D itlooked like people were on top of each
other. Um, it's not thatkind of beach I'm talking. It's it
looks like families just one after another, like look at these hypocrites or whatever,
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look at these people. But butthen when you but if you actually
just walked along the beach, everybodywas very spread out. We made some
friends down there, another girl namedAnna um and her family and and uh,
and when we would talking, everybodyjust kind of I think we're used
to it now. We just westayed about six feet apart and you just
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didn't think anything about it. Everybodymade way. But staying out there on
the beach, man, it madeyou just forget. They have you had
those moments shit where you're like,you actually forget that this is going on.
If you if you haven't, ifyou and I'll tell her, anybody
that's going listening to this, ifyou haven't done that, Um, you
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need to ke get away because thereare places that you can go. It
will absolutely make you forget. Anda lot of times we were doing nature
trails and things like that, butgoing down to the beach really opened things
open our minds up to we focusedjust on our family. We stayed really
safe and but it was amazing becauseagain, until we walked back up to
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the condole, you did not knowthat that we were in this pandemic,
that this was going on. Soit's a nice, nice respite, you
know what I'm saying. Yeah,yeah, we're talking about doing something.
I think you guys, your timingwas impeccable. I wasn't able to do
anything in June because June's up busythis month with work and actually July is
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pretty hectic too, but I thinkjust because of certain funding considerations, June's
going to be the busier month thisyear. So we really weren't able to
go in June. And now,of course we're seeing this huge spike just
about everywhere, particularly here in theSouth in Texas. And I'm going to
call Florida the Sound. It's youknow, kind of the south, but
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this this yeah, we don't know, but yeah, geographically it is,
but it's not parv commas in theSouth. Yeah, but anyway, right,
yeah, yeah, but it's bottomhalf of the country. But anyway,
so it's it's that certainly makes itchallenging them because we're like, okay,
um, you know, it isnow a really good time to go,
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and where would we go and everythingelse, so, um, I'll
just step sure that de mean interruptedhigh. Stephen is the first first comment
on our first live stream. Andif you're an if you're any questions or
comments, thanks, please share theplease share and let everybody no nice sorry
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no if I will our last joke, of course he was in our dat
panel. Yeah, yeah, that'sright. Yeah, I wouldn't on it.
I think y'all left me off.I think we've brought it in the
midst of a complete panic tech aroundfinancial markets. But it's yeah, it's
been. It's been kind of amI put them on here out, Yeah,
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it's been kind of crazy. Yeah. Panic yesterday when I thought the
market wouldn't open, I was like, what's going on now that? Oh
yeah, I forgot that they yesterdayfederally. It freaked me out. I'm
like, oh my god, it'sover, about to lose her house.
I forgot anyway, But yeah,what were you saying about? Yeah,
yeah, only yeah, so wedefinitely, yeah, we do want to
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get out of town, take avacation. We were actually going to head
up to in laws up in Dallasjust for just even just for a long
weekend, and then my mother inlaw became exposed to COVID or at least
somebody who had it was at herhome. Thankfully, she didn't develop any
symptoms, so she worked the fulltwo weeks and everything. So that's great.
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But you know, right, it'sgreat, ready to get in the
car and be like, Okay,we're gonna head up to Dallas. It's
been a few days with you.You really shouldn't come. So even that
got mixed. Um. But asfar as everything else is concerned, you
know, the sports piece we ellatransferred to her to a different soccer team.
I'm not going to bore our listenerswith the wise and wherefores and the
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structure of youth soccer here in theUnited States and what kind of facilities.
Jeez, we'll do that as awhole. We'll do it as a separate
part that people can hear that.Oh I'm sorry, I'm sorry. It's
gonna be a paid for pod thatone. Um. Anyhow, So she
moved teams and they started practicing.Umm. Not sure about the wisdom of
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that. Uh. And then theyplayed a couple of scrimmages and then there
was a known case within the cluband so all of a sudden, we
were back to doing nothing again,and then not on Ella's team, thankfully,
but within the club so as leagueor whatever. Yeah. But then
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a couple of weekends ago, Ellaplayed in a three v three tournament,
which again wasn't entirely sure about thewisdom of that, but people were buy
a large behaving themselves, social distancingmasks and all that good stuff. None
of the usual concession stands, likeyou said, Alan, that you'd ordinarily
see. And I think Alan,well, Ella kind of enjoyed the experience.
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It was the first run out withher new teammates, really, but
in any kind of a competitive setting. But in the first game, so
as she was scoring a goal,some girl like just in that I think
a desperate attempt to try and blockit basically ran through the back of her
and completely flattened her. And yeah, just jacked her back up. And
she still saw even now long aweek and a half later. Yeah,
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So she did enjoy it, butshe's less so after that. Yeah.
So yeah, But in terms ofnumbers, in terms of you know,
diabetes, it has been Yeah,to your point, Alan, it has
been a really crazy stretch of monthshere. We're also seeing wild variations in
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numbers, you know, we'll seeand you know, an entire week where
literally it is just a flat andhumming line and we're like, yeah,
we got diabetes. Whooped right,And then yeah, and then for the
next week it's um, you know, welcome to uh six flags. It's
like whoa, We're all the chasterand her body and there's nothing you can
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do. I mean, it's just, you know, every small tweet to
insulin she crashes. You know,every bite of whatever she puts in her
mouth, she's you know, atwo fifty three hundred, Like whoa,
Hang on a second, um,you know, we try and trying to
bowl us like twenty minutes in advancenow as opposed to our standard ten minutes
to give more of a buffer.It's you know, and it's clearly hormones.
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And it's funny. It manifest actuallyquick story, which I think is
quite funny. So Ella was tryingout for this new team, and so
we've gone to the tryout session,but an old team that she hadn't yet
yet made a decision, and soher old team would doing. They already
told her, you don't need totry out for this team je what was
then her current team, But thelast day of our tryouts her existing team.
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We're gonna pull girls together anyway,because we'd like for you to scrimmage
against girls we're looking at. SoAla goes to her potential new team,
does a tryout, jumps in thecar. She's changing out of her gear
into her club gear. Right gointo the parking lot. She gets out
of the car and she's like,I can't wear this stuff? What do
you mean? And look like don'tsign your shorts? Like really, what
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is that? Let me see thelabel? And sure enough they were I'd
say so when she had these,when she last put these shorts on three
months ago, I wouldn't say theywere like super baggy, but she had
room. They looked like regular fittingshorts. The best description I can give
you now us when she got outof the car, both her training shirt
and her shorts look like what yousee an Olympic sprinter wearing when they're in
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the blocks. Oh in tight on. Oh yeah, it was awesome.
I just bust out laughing, andshe was mortified. She was tugging around
the shots and like pull out asleeve. He was like trying to get
some room in there. And sheshowed up and I would say half the
half the other girls in the sessionhad a similar experience. I mean you
could tell their kids like there werea size or two too small. But
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yeah, she is I don't knowhow much she shot up by, but
she is the fully two thirds legsnow and she's basically half human half giraffe.
We saw a picture on Facebook orlike she's changed. She was losing
the little baby up. My ECMdisconnected. Hold on, can you see
me? I can? Okay,good, I think it connected back.
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That's kind of weirdly, um theuh yeah, anyway, we noticed the
change. We're like, yeah,she's losing her little baby face and we're
like show we showed down. Iwas like she was like it was like
but then just a few weeks,it's just suddenly like that's Ella. Yeah,
that's yes, it's amazing. Thetide is turning, there's no doubt.
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And I think it's any day nowthat she joins Anna on the next
grand Bench womanhood. Man, well, good luck with that. It's get
getting us so close at my friendswhen we can finally do that episode.
Oh we get the girls on.It would love that. Yeah, yeah,
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they would absolutely love that. Andyou know it's so much has changed,
man, you know, you knowjust in this last this twenty again,
twenty twenty has this ups and downsand weird stuff. But yeah,
and it's done kind of reaching womanhoodand all the other stuff combined. It's
just weird. But yeah, ithurts. And it just like Ella,
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you know, she'll have she'll haveit's not weeks, it's you know,
kind of days where it's pretty flatand then I mean she oh, than
I I don't know, several nightsover the last few weeks. I mean
she'll run in the forties and thenthen I mean she one time but she
was like forty three or something,and then it was like two hundred and
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something, and then we've gotten somebad pods and then it's just but I
don't know, we've got a bunchof bad pods too. I wonder if
it's about Yeah, I guess so, because we had to want to replace
replacing a few. We're actually atthe condo and at Gulf Shores. We
had to place three. Yeah it'sthree. Yeah, but you know,
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Leslie, she was she was patready I think she brought ten ten or
so. But uh, yeah,but just just the numbers are of being
just nuts. Yeah, yeah,it's um, it's it's kind of been
the reverse for us. So wehaven't seen that much in the way of
lows over night, but we've seensome crazy highs. We had a night
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the other night where um, shewas basically just hanging out at two fifty
and about every two and a threehours, I was hitting it with insulin
and I was doing the very bestI could do not to rage bolus.
And I basically got to about fourforty five in the morning and it started
to go down. I'm like,oh, I guess I get to go
to bed now, Okay, right, but anyway, it is what is?
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So what do you think then,now we're coming out from under this
rock and again trying to adjust tothis new normal. What do you see
as being the most significant challenges whenyou have a kid who's t one d
and kind of this situation. Imean, how when you go to the
store, are people wearing masks andyou how do you feel when you see
those people who aren't If you're youdon't even need to be in the store
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with Anna, right, You're goinghome to Anna anyway, so you don't
want to take anything home with you, right, Yeah? What are the
thoughts you're having on how are youdealing with it all? Well, firstly,
you know, Anna wasn't allowed inthe store, and we still do
as much. We do a lotof Amazon Walmart delivery, and even with
our local grocery store will deliver anhour. But we started since they really
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kind of uh, I guess inthe small community. They've done a really
good job at social distancing. Sowe're not seeing many masks. But when
you go into a place they havepeople, they'll have you know, the
plexi glass or whatnot, but peopleare kind of separating and just nobody jams
up. As you walk down andaisle, people start kind of fade,
(26:26):
uh like that. So there's notanybody that calls somebody else say hey,
put your stupid mask on. That'sjust not really happening. The kids have
become really proficient at uh not touchingyour face. We consistently washing hands and
uh not touching things. So wedon't wear a mask much unless we're gonna
(26:47):
be which where I get in aplace where you can't avoid it or that
is required beauty Yeah trump rally,Sorry, I see me the one,
tell me the one? Yeah,I got there. You go uh yeah,
saying it's and it's got. Youknow, churches started back. We
(27:08):
split services and but we socially distanced. We taped off everything to where the
stuff as well. Right, Istarted with your church. You do some
online stuff with the church as well. Yeah, yeah, I started.
Because we're doing everything. All thishas happened. We started live streaming for
small Town Famous, and that's whyI wanted to do this today, get
better engagement the church. And Istarted doing the podcast because we were doing
(27:29):
zoom. So I just started takingthe audio and I created Brother Joel Podcast
and he like I saw that.I was. I was thinking at how
easy it would be to hack inbecause I thought it would be fun if
you guys are doing like your onlinechurch. And I was like, where
a beard and be in a dimlylit room and be like, Jesus is
here. Oh my gosh, Jesus, he's back. I didn't expect him
(27:52):
to be. What do you knowhe does speak English with an accent.
You're mute Jesus. You're a muteJesus. It's like all the like all
the Jesus. But uh, wouldyou see him in a movie? You
always a British accent. It's amazinglyum. But but yeah, yeah,
yeah he keeps that private. He'she's pretty proud. But but yeah,
you know, I'm doing the podcastingfor for the church and stuff like that.
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This fantastic because you're bringing the communitytogether. That's fantastic. Yeah.
Well but yeah, because we didn'trealize there were so many people that not
that they felt vulnerable coming to church. I mean, this would have happened
before. So we have several youknow, when especially at a small church,
we have a lot of uh,senior citizens, and when there's any
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kind of illness going around, theytend to stay home, and so we
don't notice a whole lot of difference. But now they actually are more engaged
on social media. So they're lookingat Facebook and and and zoom. We're
not doing we do zoom church whenwe're dabs having a private meeting and we're
not gonna be at the church.But yeah, just but just doing it
on Facebook and me uploading it.They're uploading on the part guess, but
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they can see the message and thenthey can hear it. So that's been
kind of a cool ac called.I do like the trend of live streaming
stuff and you can see people.I do like that that that actually probably
wouldn't have been pushed as much beforecoronavirus, but yeah, it's interesting.
So there's another podcast that I hostat UM semi defuncts now We. I
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hosted it when I lived in Colorado, and when I moved out here,
I just knew with the move andwith the new work responsibilities and all the
travel and everything, it was goingto be impossible to do. And also
that was back in July of lastyear, and so we just all weren't
as o fee with web tools aswe are anymore with webinar tools UM.
And of course now we're all superproficient in Zoom and Skype and everything else,
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right indeed, And so I actuallyreached out to my friends back in
Colorado Springs said, hey, youwant to do another episode of the show,
because I think we could all justjump on zoom and do it.
And we did it and it wasseamless and it was really really fun.
But also our show is kind ofa comedy panel show, and you have
to be quick witted and interject andit's easier. It's weird because obviously this
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is nice because we can see eachother so you get that human connection,
but it's still one degree removed frombeing sat in a room with somebody right
and being able to really pick upon body language. And so they've gotten
so adept at looking at one anotherand looking for those gaps when people were
taking breath to be able to jumpin and crack their joke and I resoom,
it just got it got a littlechaotic, and we ended a bit
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about an hour and a half it'sworth of recording, which I ended up
having to edit down to about fortyfive minutes, and it was brutal talking
over We've gotten a little bit betterat it as far as not talking over
each other unless we're doing it onpurpose. But yeah, you start getting
pretty proficient at the at the lag. You know, I asked a question,
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didn't your respond and laugh? Andso you have to just wait a
little bit and that, like youjust said it. But you know,
it's just the way the way itworks. I don't know everybody. Everybody
has been a lot more proficient atdoing things like that. Yeah, that's
where to reach out. But so, how's are you enjoying the house?
I mean everybody? Of course theymoved to Arson and we've talked about several
times. I mean, you're enjoinedthe house and then you buy a new
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house, right, so yeah,yeah we did. Yeah, yeah,
yeah, I think maybe we did. We're all we're awfully moved in now
and I have my office stroke manCave, which is where you see me
now? Where am I? Uh? We're not eying a forest shirt with
my other not even forest shirt behindme over there somewhere, so very forest
steamed. But it's interesting. Oneof the things I think that was was
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so nice for our podcast, Alanwas the dynamic we have, but both
between you and I being very differentkind of people, but also in where
we lived, right, you beingin the small town meet at the time,
being Colorado Springs, which I thinkpeople just still think it's a sleepy
hamlet touching in the shadow of Pike'sPeak, but it's actually the second biggest
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city in the state of Colorado.So I was worried when I moved to
Austin. Obviously Austin is a comparablesize, but I was worried because I
was like, you know, howthis is going to affect our dynamic and
it's interesting. I'll listen to youtalk about and obviously I've been to your
town now. You and your familyvery kindly hosted us, and we really
enjoyed the experience. And it wasactually really fun to be able to get
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out of the city and go goto the country with a paint of lice
a little slower and things have donea little differently, and it was really
really nice to be able to dothat. And it's interesting when you're talking
about your experience of going in thestore of how people are socially distancing and
you're not seeing much in the wayof masks. But that's because you know,
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you don't walk into an HB ora Walmart where you know there's four
hundred people in the store already.You know you might be one of two
or three people in the stories prettyeasy if you guys kind of you know,
so I can navigate one another andnot rub shoulders. That obviously hasn't
been our experience. Our experience isstill the big city experience, so you
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know it is. I would sayCostco have been fantastic. We do a
lot more shopping in Costco now thanwe've ever done. Despite the fact I
go in Costco, put six itemsin my basket and somehow end up spending
two hundred and fifty dollars. Howthat happens. But because Costco have a
mask policy, you cannot go inthe store, you cannot shop in the
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store unless you're wearing a mask.HV don't have a policy, pers say,
but all of our employees wear masks, and their customers are strongly encouraged
to do so. Had an interestingexperience in home Depot though, a couple
of weeks back, because I noticedin home Depot that although I'd say maybe
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a third of the customers were wearingmasks, almost none of the employees were.
So I asked to speak to amanager because obviously I'm kind very aware
of this, as are you.Al I'm living with somebody who's UM,
who you know, has the minimunesystem that's compromised UM. And although our
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kids are both in great shape,so you know, I don't think anyone
who has a kid who's t oneD, who's in great shape, who's
on top of their numbers, needsto freak out too too much. But
still it's in the back of yourmind. And so I asked, hey,
can I close to me to amanager, and an assistant manager came
over to talk to me, andI said, I'm curious, Um,
you know what, why why arenone of the employees in here wearing masks?
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And she actually had a mask onand then she immediately dropped it down
to talk to me. Okay,and she said, well, it's it's
it's a choice, you know,Um, they can wear masks or not
wear masks. It's not been atthat point. It wasn't mandated by the
mayor or by the governor. AndI said, oh, okay, and
she said, yeah, we gaveevery We gave all of our employees masks.
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Like, well, hand a secondset back to you. You give
all of your employees masks and thenthey choose whether they wear them or not.
And her retort to me was,and we're recording this on July fourth,
so this is particularly pertinent Alan.She said, yeah, this is
America. It's a free country.And I was like, I literally took
a step back because I was expectingto see stars burst out of their head
and an eagle fly by. That'swhat happened to me. So don't get
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me wrong, I know you lookat a free country. It's one of
you know, a couple of hundredon this planet that are free countries.
But it just kind of blew mymind a little bit. And yeah,
so I kind of left it atthat, And so it's definitely it's definitely
m it's definitely challenging and definitely playson my mind. But but the one
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thing I will say is here andlasting, is that people have been by
a large really respectful when it comesto social distancing. So even if I'm
not wearing masks, I don't thinkthey're going out their way to be rude
wood here because we don't have thepodcast exactly that. I mean, I
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don't have to edit my march goingout of the way to do that.
For whatever reason, they're choosing notto wear a mask, but they're not
like, you know, breathing inyour face. So um, that's a
good thing at least, But youknow, it just surprised me a little
bit when people show up to yourhome to do work, Like we had
a guy shot up to do fixour refrigerator and again not wearing a glove,
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not wearing mask, And I askedhim about it and he said the
same thing. We get provided amask, but it's just kind of hard
to work with it, Like,okay, well next to their own.
I suppose it seems like social good, but at the end of the day,
if it's not mandated by the mayoror by the governor, then I
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guess it is each other on andit really at the end of the day
it is I mean, they commendated, but the at some point that what
man, what do you what areyou gonna do? I mean, it's
a even in what they even withthe mandate, even if they try to
ticket someone or whatever, you won'ttell very long. They would just be
an injunction against that. Because youcan't force someone to do something. You
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can't force them to do it.They should do it. And so why
I think what you're seeing here,Um, at the same thing, people
are just being They're just doing theright thing. And especially like in our
circle, it's easier to socially distancein Arkansas obviously, and and it's been
you know, our community knows eachother and it's been really easy because,
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um, well they know Anna isa diabetic and they actually you know,
they are very cognizant and cognizant ofthat, and they do their best to
not try to expose or not tryto be you know, anything like that,
not to compromise anything. Here.Um. People are visiting each other
now more um, but they arethey specifically ask if it's okay where they
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might go and just go run totheir friend's house. They call first and
say, hey, well, youknow, is it okay? And and
you know, so people are justyou know, it's just that different community.
We have went to Shreeports some andTexas Arcana, which are the two
larger towns around us, and there'sit's different because you can go to a
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Walmart down there and the majority ofpeople are wearing a mask. But you
go to one of Magnalia and noone does. That's when they will say
it blew my mind. Actually,And even in places like h I mean
obviously home depot, it's each totheir own right. Places like hib generally
speaking, people wearing a mask andbeing pretty good. I had to go
to walm out the other day justbecause I was dashing around and it was
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the closest to me. It Ordinarilywe do HB and this is bias right
here, folks, holding my handsup, this is bias right here.
I'm like, oh god, Imay need to wear two masks here.
I go to Walmart because no buggersgonna have a mask on. I saw
one customer not wearing a mask inWalmart. Walmart customers the best and everybody
(39:08):
had a mask on. It wasgreat. They're really trying to do you
know how, don't Nobody wants tobe well. Nobody wants to be shut
back down or paused, which ishappening in certain places. Because once you're
it was only going to last solong and until you see the marches and
people were wanting to get out.And once again, once you started the
(39:30):
phase, it was gonna be likea dawn breaking and we were predicting that
to happen. When I say wejust it just the economists and its financial
people without like the dam would breakbecause once you got because people actually Americans
do have a pretty good work ethic. They do want to go back to
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ward, They do want to beat work, They want the camlaraderie of
being at the office. And Ithink that once we knew that it would
open at that the flood ga wouldopen and that you would see what you're
seeing right now? What what?And I may this may date this podcast,
or I may be totally totally wrong, um, but you're not going
(40:13):
to see the economy of scale backbecause it because of the damage that it
could do and it doesn't help anyonebecause thankfully now that's back to more by
science um, where it's just nothealthy to stay at the house or to
be locked down, so it cansuppress immune system and also so does depression,
anxiety, stress, all those thingssuppressed immune systems. So you're actually
(40:36):
just it's a self fulfilling prophecy.You can get, you could get,
you could actually become more uh,the ability to be infected by something by
being locked down for long enough,if you suffer from if you if you
have a you know some kind ofif if stress and anxiety is starting to
become an issue, and especially fortwo one D parents that I've seen,
(40:58):
anxiety is at a huge high becauseyou are trying to protect your child.
And there's some things that you know, we've learned and we have talked about,
and I just did a little bitmore of looking at jd R after
day to see what kind of updatesthat they do, and uh, we
talked to our ENDO chronologists which basicallysaid the same thing that when I was
on Stacy sims Um panel um thatshe talked about about it was really her
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ENDO because I remember telling Leslie thather endow said, Hey, if your
child has has well managed diabetes,they're no more at risk than any other
child. Now, there are morerisks if they get sick that but that's
with any type of virus um butif they but there are no no more
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unhealthy than a child without type onediabetes. That actually was a super relief
to me. That was the biggesttakeaway I've had from especially being with on
on that Stacy Simms panel thing.The talks that helped out a lot.
And I told Leslie about that,and you know, you know how hands
on Leslie is in the concern.It's just that mother's concern. And then
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when we went to the ENDO visit, or she went to the ENDO visit
and talked with the INDO about that, and she's like, absolutely, and
if the and that Now I lookedon jd r F and they said,
if the if it's well maintained,there are no more at risk than anybody
else. So we've been thankful,very thankful for that. But uh,
yeah, you know, it's stillkind of hard to h it's hard to
(42:27):
trust what you believe, what yousee in the news. You know what
I'm saying. That's uh, that'sbeen making Stephen, That's right, and
it's it's really really hard to uhto well, you know what I'm saying,
How everybody you know do matt ormask don't work, mass do work,
(42:49):
mask don't work, mass do work? Now, who was saying real
masker really only for medical workers,people who are symptomatic, and people who
are around people that are exposed.The thing is you don't know who's exposed,
So so are you saying that foreverybody? There's no, no,
no, only if you've been exposed. You know what I say. It's
sort of maddening. And after awhile you just kind of a tune out,
(43:10):
all right, and people speaking ofwhich we can do a whole other
hour on this. Yeah, yeah, Now, I wanted to mention this
because this is like the most excitingthing we're going to talk about in this
entire podcast, and I then wedon't want to go too long here,
but I don't want to forget this. Alan. You talked about how um
Anna's more involved in cooking now andyou're baking the cakes and everything, and
(43:36):
the most exciting thing to happen sinceyou and I talked last What has that
been a month? Now? Yeah? I got a ninja blender? How
about that? Yes? Do youget George former girl the same time I
got a ninja blender and Alla andI are like big into us smoothies now,
(43:57):
so it's cool, dude, you'reusing black. We were on a
SMOOTHI kick for a while. Yeah, prote that protein powder, almond milk.
That's why I wanted to say it, because people who listen to this
show hit us up Dads and Diabetesat gmail dot com, Dads and Diabetes
(44:19):
at gmail dot com, or ofcourse you can hit stuff on social media
on the tweete on Facebook. Iwant recipes. I invested in a recipe
book. As to one Amazon,it was highly rated. I don't rate
it very much. Honestly, I'vegot it right here. I chow the
cover of I thought if I thoughtit was worth promoting. But yeah,
jury is still out. Um,but you know we're throwing in the usual
stuff. Got the protein powder,got the bananas, got the spinach,
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got the peanut butter, almond milk. But yeah, absolutely, I mean,
just come out, come out,you folks. I want to hear
these recipes. I want to hearif you if you have a kid who's
T one D, if you're tone D, if you have a blender,
if you like your smoothies, thenplease hit me up with the recipes
the things that are good and nutritious. And that weren't sending down his number
(45:00):
through the roof, but it hasbeen made with the ninja that's right of
the Dazzenies podcast. So yeah,no, I know you're you're you're right.
Well, and we were Leslie asa recipe book of of them and
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it got to be though we justyeah, but we kind of got off
them. I don't know why,but yeah, that actually they're they're good.
Congratulations, that's good man, Unleslie, that's not emailing me. Then
I expect to see some books.She can do it. And I know
you look at Anderson's a little herFacebook page and uh, we used to
(45:43):
post some smoothie but I'll tell I'lltell them put some smoothies back on cool.
We talked about it just the otherday about starting doing smoothies in so
we're gonna break break through ninja backout do some ninja stuff. It's my
Father's Day gift. Very cool.Well, congratulations a high Gluca's notification from
Alexaner. Okay, guys, tosee what got going on here? Yeah,
(46:07):
I'm not suing that one. Probablywe probably better wrap up. Well,
we're smoking riubs down there at thebottom down that they by the pool,
and Leslie's already been in here onceand said orm Now she didn't say
wrap it up. She was goingto the store. Let me know she's
going to store. But um,it's good to see, good to see
(46:30):
you. Did did you like thisformat? Because Mark was he was a
little tentative. I know you wellenough right now. I could usually tell
about your voice, but then Icould see in your face a little tentative,
especially for radio. Look at that. I mean, look when I
got I got sun burned. Westared on the beach. Typically when we
(46:52):
go to the beach, I'm nota beach person. I'd rather be in
the mountains. I'd like to gosnow skin and stuff like that. I
spent at least eight hours a dayon the beach. The waves were amazing.
We were boogie boarding and I'm fatand I was boogie boarding. I
broke one board. Um, butmy what was weird. I didn't realize
(47:12):
how bad my wrinkles have gotten righthere. And how much I squinted on
that white sand And when I oneparticular morning, I woke up and I
went and looked in the mirror andI thought some had drawn white lines.
And what I realized I'd squinted forhours. This part did not get tan.
And now it makes me look likeI have been smoking for about sixty
(47:36):
five years and mother skin, Anduh, I don't like it. I
looked pretty and dark. You knowI got the Can you tell I got
a tan? This isn't a filter. I mean I got a tan.
Look pretty pretty high? Yeah,but you can see the wrinkles. I'm
a pasty white Englishman. I can'tstand around. And how deep aut you
on? Because they used me asa coat up pilette? He understand actual
(47:58):
white. Well you're used to you'renot used to sun very much where you
were raised, so very much.That ball in the sky, it does
a lot, it's amazing in it. It is. Well, I'm off
to the pool now. So thishas been fun, but I am going
to go ahead to the pool nowin decent swimming. Did you like this?
Yeah? Sure? Well, Imean that's well, that's the thing
(48:22):
that well, it's still us talkingand we didn't talk about us not any
different. But I don't have toedit you. I don't have to edit
your rants out. And I'm justkidding, we don't. I don't have
to edit anything out. We're alittle bit more careful for what we say.
I mean, I just tend tolook like it. You'll see the
engagement come up because next time I'llput a schedule out on it and it
(48:42):
will actually remind people, Hey,they're about to go live, and we'll
we'll we'll dictate the time and everything. Uh So, again, Steven,
thank you for jumping on. Hewas the only one to really commented.
But we've we had three people now, well me and Chase first did this.
We only had about probably four fiveWell, and it is two forty
(49:04):
six Central time, not them onJuly the fourth. Most people aren't setting
around saying I wonder watch live onFacebook. That's not what's happening, and
you brought that meant that up.But the fact is they can go back
and watch this anytime they want tobecause it lives on our Facebook page.
So this is our podcast. Iwill do the normal thing, uploading it
or sending you the MP three,so you can do your magic on what
(49:29):
is it we use? Not Spotify? What do you call it? What
do we use? Speaker? Therewe go. Yeah, it's been a
while, yeah yeah, but Idon't get to do this today. So
wherever you normally get our podcasts,it has still be on there. You'll
get the audio version. But ifyou want to see the video, we're
gonna be I'd like to do itlike this because it's just a man.
(49:49):
The editing is so much easier.So all right, and it's it's America's
birthday. You are are American,So why don't you gonna put you on
the spot here? Why don't youdo the Dads and Diabetes clothes? You
take us out this episode? Theusual, the usual clothes we have.
All right, Well that's it forthis episode of Dads and Diabetes. We
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are celebrating America's birthday, America andme as an Indian American Cherokee. Um,
you get two days in a podcasttrying to figure out. I want
to thank everybody for allowing for allowingus to come into your Facebook feed.
(50:32):
I'm trying. I'm struggling here.I'm trying to thank but all I'm gonna
say this is great, especially asI could see it. Thanks for listening
to Dads and Diabetes. Just twodays on the podcast trying to figure it
all out, and we will beback with you hopefully. Um maybe if
we do it like this, thisis a lot easier and we can perhaps
(50:54):
maybe get off the once a monthand get back on. Uh Jackie ball,
that's my boy. Okay, notreally that, oh miss Jackie,
and I've never met you. I'mthe redneck part of the podcast. So
um on. Somebody said, huh, I thought that was like a hank
(51:17):
heel and that's my boy though Ithought it was so that was literally good.
Yeah, okay, So anyway,two days on the podcast trying to
figure it all out. We willhopefully get back more than once a month
and make this a little bit easier, even if it's just jumping on for
twenty minutes or thirty minutes something likethat. But share this with your share
this with your friends, and nexttime we're live, we will put out
(51:38):
a time that we'll put out aschedule and you'll know that we'll be live
so you can be ready and hostto watch the GONN watch party. Good
close it out, My mum's say, my mum's coming. Oh god,
love it. So she's got yoursense of humor. I love it.
(51:58):
Get job out and get y'allen.Happy birthday America and thanks for listening guys.
Yeah, I have birthday to YouTube. Brother. I love you man,
you'd be good to Elsa. Allright, well do you say Alanna
hide to see you guys. GoodBye bye
Yep, we're live. Cool.So hey everyone, Hodey so yeah,
yep, so uh yeah, wellhigh folks, welcome to Dads and Diabetes.
Just two dads of t one dkiddos on a whatever this is podcast
stream streaming thing. It's just theStar podcast. There you go, just
(00:24):
trying to figure it all out.I'm definitely trying to figure this out.
Islands the tech, the two ofus, two dads on the podcast.
You figure out that? Did I? No? No, you did say
that? Two days on two dayson a live podcast. I'm thrown trying
to throw all out. Okay,you're not used to see my face.
(00:44):
It's distracting a lot of I getthat all the time. I have to
stay out of stay out of stores. That's why we That's why I wear
a mask. It actually has It'sdropped people from being so social just in
all. I don't it would belike meeting Sean Connery. I get better
(01:10):
looking as I get older, SoI'm really pleased with that. Um I'll
just leave that there. Just leavethat there. Yeah, okay, well
folks, thanks, yeah, offthe rails. Well, we don't have
me. We have no structure you, we have no structure. We have
(01:34):
no structure, and we don't reallyhave a topic today either, because Alan
and I have been meeting so infrequently, because obviously you've gone to the month
schedule now, and we've had acouple of special shows in the middle of
there with us being on UH groupswith Stacy Sims, and of course we
had the Dad's panel was our lastshow, and I haven't talked to Alan
(01:55):
about that actually, so I wantto hear what his take on that was
here in just a moment, butbecause he and I haven't had a chance
to visit that much over the lastfew months. Whenever we do get together
now on Dad's and diabetes, it'sreally an exercise in just catching up.
So um, yeah, let's dothat, my friend. How are you
doing. I've been doing good.It's been doing it, you know.
It's it's it's weird, you know, just trying to adjust to the I
(02:21):
don't know whatever this is. I'mjust ready for it to be whatever this
is. I'm ready for it tobe over, or for the big asteroid
just to take us out. I'malmost I'm almost voting. I'm gonna vote
for a big asteroid. I'm gonnaask Elon must just to shoot something in
the space and make it come backdown, just finish it all off.
It's just you. Are you readyto be taken? Yeah, I'm ready
(02:45):
for the rapture and I'm not sureI'm worthy, but I've got my hand
up. If it's gonna be aliensto take us out, just get just
do something. So yeah, man, yeah, it's just we are now
we started coming out from NDO theRock right after several months of being locked
down. We are now coming out, blinking into the sunlight, hopefully,
(03:07):
all wearing masks and transitioning into whateverthis new normal is. What does it
look like for you guys? Youknow, I don't know it looks I
can't tell. I honestly cannot tella difference except for probably when you go
out to eat. You know,Arkansas has been really good about wearing masks
(03:30):
and things and what we knew wouldprobably happen and what we felt like would
happen in this area, because againyou're dealing with a bunch of rednecks and
where once you know, though,idiom closing the barn doors after the house
horses out. It's like that.I mean, we knew, we felt
like that there was going to beno more. You can't you really can't
(03:53):
lock people down. And because peoplejust inherently want to be free. So
when you uh, when we startedthese fate this phasing and number one,
it was amazing how many businesses weredeemed essential. Um I think that was
self a self definition. But uh, I think that um once the phasing
(04:16):
started, it just and because phaseone felt like it felt the same as
Phase two, phase three, itall felt the same. Um. You
really just could not notice the differenceexcept for very specific services. Um uh.
And it really restaurants, it's probablythe weirdest thing now. And the
(04:38):
also the you know camps, weyou know that that that's an issue,
you know, because we missed that. And but the but there's you know,
there's always an optimistics I don't youknow, and I tried to be
I'm trying to be an optimist aboutmost of all this. The neat thing
is, you know, a Tag'sbirthday was yesterday. Typically if you remember,
(05:00):
we're at church camp during during thisweek, and this is actually we
went and looked back and Tag hasbeen raised going to church camp and then
and then Anniston, we get backchurch camp by a week. Then we
go to camp. Sweeney, Well, we didn't go to then have church
camp this year. So Tag actuallyhad a birthday party at home yesterday for
(05:21):
the first time in his the liehis cognitive ability to remember. Really yeah,
so it was weird. It's like, hey, I'm it's gonna be
my birthday tomorrow and me and let'slook at each other like what do we
do? Uh? So, butAnniston made him. He asked he wanted
(05:43):
to get a cake, and Annistonactually, um, he actually very sweetly
said, asked Anniston if she wouldmake one of heart cakes. And so
she made him a kid old birthdaycake and did some Ninjago stuff to it
and stuff because she's got into bakingbecause now we're all freaky homeschool kids that
do all the stuff like making liferafts and cabins and woods and things like
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that. But yeah, she's beenon a baking kick since you may.
Tag his birthday cake, and um, his Emily and Alexey came over.
Um you know Emily now, whichyou never have got the uh you never
you don't you didn't get to meetEmily. Alexei, I don't believe when
you came one of them and apologizingI think, yeah, yeah, you've
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met Alexei. Yeah, well soso Emily, as you know, she's
expecting and so you have this we'vewe finally start seeing her and she asked
for she had in Arkansas. Wasshe's about the Domino? Yeah, she
the babies do in August. Andit doesn't look like she's gonna make August.
I mean, she's coming around quick, she's having that baby. Just
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uh well, it's it's because forit's like we've been in a time wark
for three or four months. Suddenlyyou come out to this other side and
you're lying, you know what,what's what's going on? And um and
then like yeah, you didn't havea belly and now you got it.
Now you're pregnant, and now youhave the pregnant belly and it didn't look
so like you're ready to deliver.And uh so that's really cool. So
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there's there's good things that are happeningon an on the diabetes front that that's
working well. But uh but againsame thing. You know, we we
weren't able to with her uh Indobeing in Louisiana, they were a sheltering
place, must want much higher restrictions. So you know she didn't get to
zero Indo for I think I toldyou about six months or something like that.
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So she finally had her Endo appointment. We got one person watching,
thank you, whoever that is.I can't arrestive uh comment whoever that is
watching, but um yeah, yeah, when uh Aniston went to do her
U go to her Indo visit.And again thanks your suggesting years ago,
our years ago. It's like acouple of years ago. Our deal.
What we've each other two years?It's been to okay, I couldn't.
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I'm telling you. Every day it'slike Groundholls Day. You know. It's
funny because here we are in Julyand I'm like, wow, how do
we get to July all of asudden? But also this feels like the
longest year in human history exactly.That's my yeah, that's my point.
It's like we're calling this weird vortexof time where you look like, wait
a second, the years. Allright, we're in the second half of
the year. But because every daywe've been focused on this lockdown and it's
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just weird. My birthday month,by the way, you know, just
in case anyone's interested, birthday,um, twenty third, twenty third,
July people hit forty year, hitforty this year. Oh you're so kind.
Sure, let's say that I likeit. So Anniston's last visit with
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r Endo went well, right,it went well, you know because we
still we still do the keyto thingand um and now that Anniston's doing a
lot of cooking and baking, they'vegotten really creative and uh so that's doing
what She actually started a little businessof selling cakes. Got a little stickers
and stuff that she got from VistaPrint looking for a sponsor of Vista Print
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if you're listening, just kidding,but uh yeah, she her a one
C. And it what I wasgonna say about thanks to you about it's
that Sugarmate. Sugarmate has been fairlyaccurate and trying to predict that estimated a
one c and now I've it's alwaysbeen off by I don't never a point,
but like half a point or somethinglike that, and not told less.
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I said, you know, fivepoint three was what it show one
five point three and they were guessingfive point seven five point eight because her
sugars have been kind of wackos sincethey've been out of since all this has
happened, because I think the girlsare under tremendous stress. Kids don't really
understand how to deal with stress.They don't really understand it. They don't
even feel stressed, but you feelit on your body because you know,
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we're social creatures and you're not beable to be around your friends or have
a social structure. It does thingsto you and it affects you. And
especially with like Anna Nella, youknow there's a lot you know, growing
up and going through this growth phaseand things like that. But anyway,
she yes, she went went tothe diabetes Care clinic once everything opened back
up like it was supposed to inLouisiana, and a one Sea came back
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at five point four, so veryhappy and uh so it was within the
tenth of a point of what thesugarmate appen says. So I love that
freaking she sugarmate out because after youbuild a couple of years of data,
it becomes really accurate. I lovethat thing. Yeah, she um,
she grew so let's see, soit was six so six months. Uh
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so she grew an inch and aninch in a quarter. She gained nine
pounds um, almost as tall asLeslie and just she's doing fantastic starting volleyball
where the we've we started a volleyballteam in our little little school and you
remember how small our school is.We're the only class one A school that
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has a volleyball team in the stateof Arkansas. So that's so the learning
actually organized volleyball and not like,um, hey, everybody, let's get
a volleyball, said a dollar generaland put it up and you know,
it falls apart in twenty minutes orsomething. But she's actually learning like,
oh, Dad, they really dorotating volleyball And I said, yeah,
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actually they do. And you know, so you're learning like not street volleyball
like we've played at the beach,so it's organized. She's loving the volleyball.
Saw Paul slow down some because it'sa little different because as you just
like in your state, Uh,it depends on where you go, like
Governor Abbott, you know the withthe a minute with the mask mandate for
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for counties with more than I thinktwenty cases or something like that. Um,
it depends on where you go inthe state what happens. And you
can go to some tournaments and youprobably experienced this with soccer, and I'll
let you talk but you know,it depends on what tournaments you go to.
Because one day we go to atournament and I'm sorry she missed one
tournament, but this tournament that herteam went to, it was, you
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know, no refreshments, because that'sstill part of the entire thing for sports,
no refreshments. Um. You,if your child is not playing you,
you're to remain in your car.Um I miss. So they were
being very very very very strict.They asked the three questions that everybody's gotten
used to be an ass now todo the temperature check and all that kind
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of stuff. Well then we goto a tournament the next weekend and it
was like I saw a polonaid,a cooker, a smoker into the back
of the I'm like, okay,that's weird. Look at nobody's nobody's wearing
masks. Okay they're not. Sobasically the main social distancing I saw where
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the teams were not allowed to shakehands afterward and do the congratulations thing.
I don't know if they do thatin soccer where they go out in high
five and set a good game,you know, not allowed to do that.
I don't know if they are,but that one was it but it
but it did make you feel alittle bit normal. Uh, So it
was cool. And then the lastbig thing is we went to Gulf Shores.
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We spent Uh I think I toldyou I was. I was on
a vacation. So we went toGulf Shores, UM and down there they
I think they're doing a really goodAlabama. Yeah, and did a very
good job. And of you know, the restaurants, everything was you could
take out, so you didn't understandin line if you said if you did
have a place where takeout was notavailable or it just wasn't a very efficient
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Uh, they would just take yourname and your number and they would just
text you you remain in your carand they would text you say your tables
ready and just come on in.And so it was really neat how they
did it. And everybody's stare atthe condo. And then you go to
the beach and it's yeah, Ican understand the picture of the of the
beaches when it just looks like thousandsof people down the beach because I was
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taking a picture, uh, notfacing the ocean, but facing the beach
and looking that in two D itlooked like people were on top of each
other. Um, it's not thatkind of beach I'm talking. It's it
looks like families just one after another, like look at these hypocrites or whatever,
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look at these people. But butthen when you but if you actually
just walked along the beach, everybodywas very spread out. We made some
friends down there, another girl namedAnna um and her family and and uh,
and when we would talking, everybodyjust kind of I think we're used
to it now. We just westayed about six feet apart and you just
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didn't think anything about it. Everybodymade way. But staying out there on
the beach, man, it madeyou just forget. They have you had
those moments shit where you're like,you actually forget that this is going on.
If you if you haven't, ifyou and I'll tell her, anybody
that's going listening to this, ifyou haven't done that, Um, you
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need to ke get away because thereare places that you can go. It
will absolutely make you forget. Anda lot of times we were doing nature
trails and things like that, butgoing down to the beach really opened things
open our minds up to we focusedjust on our family. We stayed really
safe and but it was amazing becauseagain, until we walked back up to
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the condole, you did not knowthat that we were in this pandemic,
that this was going on. Soit's a nice, nice respite, you
know what I'm saying. Yeah,yeah, we're talking about doing something.
I think you guys, your timingwas impeccable. I wasn't able to do
anything in June because June's up busythis month with work and actually July is
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pretty hectic too, but I thinkjust because of certain funding considerations, June's
going to be the busier month thisyear. So we really weren't able to
go in June. And now,of course we're seeing this huge spike just
about everywhere, particularly here in theSouth in Texas. And I'm going to
call Florida the Sound. It's youknow, kind of the south, but
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this this yeah, we don't know, but yeah, geographically it is,
but it's not parv commas in theSouth. Yeah, but anyway, right,
yeah, yeah, but it's bottomhalf of the country. But anyway,
so it's it's that certainly makes itchallenging them because we're like, okay,
um, you know, it isnow a really good time to go,
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and where would we go and everythingelse, so, um, I'll
just step sure that de mean interruptedhigh. Stephen is the first first comment
on our first live stream. Andif you're an if you're any questions or
comments, thanks, please share theplease share and let everybody no nice sorry
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no if I will our last joke, of course he was in our dat
panel. Yeah, yeah, that'sright. Yeah, I wouldn't on it.
I think y'all left me off.I think we've brought it in the
midst of a complete panic tech aroundfinancial markets. But it's yeah, it's
been. It's been kind of amI put them on here out, Yeah,
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it's been kind of crazy. Yeah. Panic yesterday when I thought the
market wouldn't open, I was like, what's going on now that? Oh
yeah, I forgot that they yesterdayfederally. It freaked me out. I'm
like, oh my god, it'sover, about to lose her house.
I forgot anyway, But yeah,what were you saying about? Yeah,
yeah, only yeah, so wedefinitely, yeah, we do want to
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get out of town, take avacation. We were actually going to head
up to in laws up in Dallasjust for just even just for a long
weekend, and then my mother inlaw became exposed to COVID or at least
somebody who had it was at herhome. Thankfully, she didn't develop any
symptoms, so she worked the fulltwo weeks and everything. So that's great.
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But you know, right, it'sgreat, ready to get in the
car and be like, Okay,we're gonna head up to Dallas. It's
been a few days with you.You really shouldn't come. So even that
got mixed. Um. But asfar as everything else is concerned, you
know, the sports piece we ellatransferred to her to a different soccer team.
I'm not going to bore our listenerswith the wise and wherefores and the
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structure of youth soccer here in theUnited States and what kind of facilities.
Jeez, we'll do that as awhole. We'll do it as a separate
part that people can hear that.Oh I'm sorry, I'm sorry. It's
gonna be a paid for pod thatone. Um. Anyhow, So she
moved teams and they started practicing.Umm. Not sure about the wisdom of
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that. Uh. And then theyplayed a couple of scrimmages and then there
was a known case within the cluband so all of a sudden, we
were back to doing nothing again,and then not on Ella's team, thankfully,
but within the club so as leagueor whatever. Yeah. But then
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a couple of weekends ago, Ellaplayed in a three v three tournament,
which again wasn't entirely sure about thewisdom of that, but people were buy
a large behaving themselves, social distancingmasks and all that good stuff. None
of the usual concession stands, likeyou said, Alan, that you'd ordinarily
see. And I think Alan,well, Ella kind of enjoyed the experience.
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It was the first run out withher new teammates, really, but
in any kind of a competitive setting. But in the first game, so
as she was scoring a goal,some girl like just in that I think
a desperate attempt to try and blockit basically ran through the back of her
and completely flattened her. And yeah, just jacked her back up. And
she still saw even now long aweek and a half later. Yeah,
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So she did enjoy it, butshe's less so after that. Yeah.
So yeah, But in terms ofnumbers, in terms of you know,
diabetes, it has been Yeah,to your point, Alan, it has
been a really crazy stretch of monthshere. We're also seeing wild variations in
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numbers, you know, we'll seeand you know, an entire week where
literally it is just a flat andhumming line and we're like, yeah,
we got diabetes. Whooped right,And then yeah, and then for the
next week it's um, you know, welcome to uh six flags. It's
like whoa, We're all the chasterand her body and there's nothing you can
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do. I mean, it's just, you know, every small tweet to
insulin she crashes. You know,every bite of whatever she puts in her
mouth, she's you know, atwo fifty three hundred, Like whoa,
Hang on a second, um,you know, we try and trying to
bowl us like twenty minutes in advancenow as opposed to our standard ten minutes
to give more of a buffer.It's you know, and it's clearly hormones.
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And it's funny. It manifest actuallyquick story, which I think is
quite funny. So Ella was tryingout for this new team, and so
we've gone to the tryout session,but an old team that she hadn't yet
yet made a decision, and soher old team would doing. They already
told her, you don't need totry out for this team je what was
then her current team, But thelast day of our tryouts her existing team.
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We're gonna pull girls together anyway,because we'd like for you to scrimmage
against girls we're looking at. SoAla goes to her potential new team,
does a tryout, jumps in thecar. She's changing out of her gear
into her club gear. Right gointo the parking lot. She gets out
of the car and she's like,I can't wear this stuff? What do
you mean? And look like don'tsign your shorts? Like really, what
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is that? Let me see thelabel? And sure enough they were I'd
say so when she had these,when she last put these shorts on three
months ago, I wouldn't say theywere like super baggy, but she had
room. They looked like regular fittingshorts. The best description I can give
you now us when she got outof the car, both her training shirt
and her shorts look like what yousee an Olympic sprinter wearing when they're in
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the blocks. Oh in tight on. Oh yeah, it was awesome.
I just bust out laughing, andshe was mortified. She was tugging around
the shots and like pull out asleeve. He was like trying to get
some room in there. And sheshowed up and I would say half the
half the other girls in the sessionhad a similar experience. I mean you
could tell their kids like there werea size or two too small. But
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yeah, she is I don't knowhow much she shot up by, but
she is the fully two thirds legsnow and she's basically half human half giraffe.
We saw a picture on Facebook orlike she's changed. She was losing
the little baby up. My ECMdisconnected. Hold on, can you see
me? I can? Okay,good, I think it connected back.
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That's kind of weirdly, um theuh yeah, anyway, we noticed the
change. We're like, yeah,she's losing her little baby face and we're
like show we showed down. Iwas like she was like it was like
but then just a few weeks,it's just suddenly like that's Ella. Yeah,
that's yes, it's amazing. Thetide is turning, there's no doubt.
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And I think it's any day nowthat she joins Anna on the next
grand Bench womanhood. Man, well, good luck with that. It's get
getting us so close at my friendswhen we can finally do that episode.
Oh we get the girls on.It would love that. Yeah, yeah,
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they would absolutely love that. Andyou know it's so much has changed,
man, you know, you knowjust in this last this twenty again,
twenty twenty has this ups and downsand weird stuff. But yeah,
and it's done kind of reaching womanhoodand all the other stuff combined. It's
just weird. But yeah, ithurts. And it just like Ella,
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you know, she'll have she'll haveit's not weeks, it's you know,
kind of days where it's pretty flatand then I mean she oh, than
I I don't know, several nightsover the last few weeks. I mean
she'll run in the forties and thenthen I mean she one time but she
was like forty three or something,and then it was like two hundred and
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something, and then we've gotten somebad pods and then it's just but I
don't know, we've got a bunchof bad pods too. I wonder if
it's about Yeah, I guess so, because we had to want to replace
replacing a few. We're actually atthe condo and at Gulf Shores. We
had to place three. Yeah it'sthree. Yeah, but you know,
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Leslie, she was she was patready I think she brought ten ten or
so. But uh, yeah,but just just the numbers are of being
just nuts. Yeah, yeah,it's um, it's it's kind of been
the reverse for us. So wehaven't seen that much in the way of
lows over night, but we've seensome crazy highs. We had a night
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the other night where um, shewas basically just hanging out at two fifty
and about every two and a threehours, I was hitting it with insulin
and I was doing the very bestI could do not to rage bolus.
And I basically got to about fourforty five in the morning and it started
to go down. I'm like,oh, I guess I get to go
to bed now, Okay, right, but anyway, it is what is?
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So what do you think then,now we're coming out from under this
rock and again trying to adjust tothis new normal. What do you see
as being the most significant challenges whenyou have a kid who's t one d
and kind of this situation. Imean, how when you go to the
store, are people wearing masks andyou how do you feel when you see
those people who aren't If you're youdon't even need to be in the store
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with Anna, right, You're goinghome to Anna anyway, so you don't
want to take anything home with you, right, Yeah? What are the
thoughts you're having on how are youdealing with it all? Well, firstly,
you know, Anna wasn't allowed inthe store, and we still do
as much. We do a lotof Amazon Walmart delivery, and even with
our local grocery store will deliver anhour. But we started since they really
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kind of uh, I guess inthe small community. They've done a really
good job at social distancing. Sowe're not seeing many masks. But when
you go into a place they havepeople, they'll have you know, the
plexi glass or whatnot, but peopleare kind of separating and just nobody jams
up. As you walk down andaisle, people start kind of fade,
(26:26):
uh like that. So there's notanybody that calls somebody else say hey,
put your stupid mask on. That'sjust not really happening. The kids have
become really proficient at uh not touchingyour face. We consistently washing hands and
uh not touching things. So wedon't wear a mask much unless we're gonna
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be which where I get in aplace where you can't avoid it or that
is required beauty Yeah trump rally,Sorry, I see me the one,
tell me the one? Yeah,I got there. You go uh yeah,
saying it's and it's got. Youknow, churches started back. We
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split services and but we socially distanced. We taped off everything to where the
stuff as well. Right, Istarted with your church. You do some
online stuff with the church as well. Yeah, yeah, I started.
Because we're doing everything. All thishas happened. We started live streaming for
small Town Famous, and that's whyI wanted to do this today, get
better engagement the church. And Istarted doing the podcast because we were doing
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zoom. So I just started takingthe audio and I created Brother Joel Podcast
and he like I saw that.I was. I was thinking at how
easy it would be to hack inbecause I thought it would be fun if
you guys are doing like your onlinechurch. And I was like, where
a beard and be in a dimlylit room and be like, Jesus is
here. Oh my gosh, Jesus, he's back. I didn't expect him
(27:52):
to be. What do you knowhe does speak English with an accent.
You're mute Jesus. You're a muteJesus. It's like all the like all
the Jesus. But uh, wouldyou see him in a movie? You
always a British accent. It's amazinglyum. But but yeah, yeah,
yeah he keeps that private. He'she's pretty proud. But but yeah,
you know, I'm doing the podcastingfor for the church and stuff like that.
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This fantastic because you're bringing the communitytogether. That's fantastic. Yeah.
Well but yeah, because we didn'trealize there were so many people that not
that they felt vulnerable coming to church. I mean, this would have happened
before. So we have several youknow, when especially at a small church,
we have a lot of uh,senior citizens, and when there's any
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kind of illness going around, theytend to stay home, and so we
don't notice a whole lot of difference. But now they actually are more engaged
on social media. So they're lookingat Facebook and and and zoom. We're
not doing we do zoom church whenwe're dabs having a private meeting and we're
not gonna be at the church.But yeah, just but just doing it
on Facebook and me uploading it.They're uploading on the part guess, but
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they can see the message and thenthey can hear it. So that's been
kind of a cool ac called.I do like the trend of live streaming
stuff and you can see people.I do like that that that actually probably
wouldn't have been pushed as much beforecoronavirus, but yeah, it's interesting.
So there's another podcast that I hostat UM semi defuncts now We. I
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hosted it when I lived in Colorado, and when I moved out here,
I just knew with the move andwith the new work responsibilities and all the
travel and everything, it was goingto be impossible to do. And also
that was back in July of lastyear, and so we just all weren't
as o fee with web tools aswe are anymore with webinar tools UM.
And of course now we're all superproficient in Zoom and Skype and everything else,
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right indeed, And so I actuallyreached out to my friends back in
Colorado Springs said, hey, youwant to do another episode of the show,
because I think we could all justjump on zoom and do it.
And we did it and it wasseamless and it was really really fun.
But also our show is kind ofa comedy panel show, and you have
to be quick witted and interject andit's easier. It's weird because obviously this
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is nice because we can see eachother so you get that human connection,
but it's still one degree removed frombeing sat in a room with somebody right
and being able to really pick upon body language. And so they've gotten
so adept at looking at one anotherand looking for those gaps when people were
taking breath to be able to jumpin and crack their joke and I resoom,
it just got it got a littlechaotic, and we ended a bit
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about an hour and a half it'sworth of recording, which I ended up
having to edit down to about fortyfive minutes, and it was brutal talking
over We've gotten a little bit betterat it as far as not talking over
each other unless we're doing it onpurpose. But yeah, you start getting
pretty proficient at the at the lag. You know, I asked a question,
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didn't your respond and laugh? Andso you have to just wait a
little bit and that, like youjust said it. But you know,
it's just the way the way itworks. I don't know everybody. Everybody
has been a lot more proficient atdoing things like that. Yeah, that's
where to reach out. But so, how's are you enjoying the house?
I mean everybody? Of course theymoved to Arson and we've talked about several
times. I mean, you're enjoinedthe house and then you buy a new
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house, right, so yeah,yeah we did. Yeah, yeah,
yeah, I think maybe we did. We're all we're awfully moved in now
and I have my office stroke manCave, which is where you see me
now? Where am I? Uh? We're not eying a forest shirt with
my other not even forest shirt behindme over there somewhere, so very forest
steamed. But it's interesting. Oneof the things I think that was was
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so nice for our podcast, Alanwas the dynamic we have, but both
between you and I being very differentkind of people, but also in where
we lived, right, you beingin the small town meet at the time,
being Colorado Springs, which I thinkpeople just still think it's a sleepy
hamlet touching in the shadow of Pike'sPeak, but it's actually the second biggest
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city in the state of Colorado.So I was worried when I moved to
Austin. Obviously Austin is a comparablesize, but I was worried because I
was like, you know, howthis is going to affect our dynamic and
it's interesting. I'll listen to youtalk about and obviously I've been to your
town now. You and your familyvery kindly hosted us, and we really
enjoyed the experience. And it wasactually really fun to be able to get
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out of the city and go goto the country with a paint of lice
a little slower and things have donea little differently, and it was really
really nice to be able to dothat. And it's interesting when you're talking
about your experience of going in thestore of how people are socially distancing and
you're not seeing much in the wayof masks. But that's because you know,
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you don't walk into an HB ora Walmart where you know there's four
hundred people in the store already.You know you might be one of two
or three people in the stories prettyeasy if you guys kind of you know,
so I can navigate one another andnot rub shoulders. That obviously hasn't
been our experience. Our experience isstill the big city experience, so you
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know it is. I would sayCostco have been fantastic. We do a
lot more shopping in Costco now thanwe've ever done. Despite the fact I
go in Costco, put six itemsin my basket and somehow end up spending
two hundred and fifty dollars. Howthat happens. But because Costco have a
mask policy, you cannot go inthe store, you cannot shop in the
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store unless you're wearing a mask.HV don't have a policy, pers say,
but all of our employees wear masks, and their customers are strongly encouraged
to do so. Had an interestingexperience in home Depot though, a couple
of weeks back, because I noticedin home Depot that although I'd say maybe
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a third of the customers were wearingmasks, almost none of the employees were.
So I asked to speak to amanager because obviously I'm kind very aware
of this, as are you.Al I'm living with somebody who's UM,
who you know, has the minimunesystem that's compromised UM. And although our
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kids are both in great shape,so you know, I don't think anyone
who has a kid who's t oneD, who's in great shape, who's
on top of their numbers, needsto freak out too too much. But
still it's in the back of yourmind. And so I asked, hey,
can I close to me to amanager, and an assistant manager came
over to talk to me, andI said, I'm curious, Um,
you know what, why why arenone of the employees in here wearing masks?
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And she actually had a mask onand then she immediately dropped it down
to talk to me. Okay,and she said, well, it's it's
it's a choice, you know,Um, they can wear masks or not
wear masks. It's not been atthat point. It wasn't mandated by the
mayor or by the governor. AndI said, oh, okay, and
she said, yeah, we gaveevery We gave all of our employees masks.
(34:57):
Like, well, hand a secondset back to you. You give
all of your employees masks and thenthey choose whether they wear them or not.
And her retort to me was,and we're recording this on July fourth,
so this is particularly pertinent Alan.She said, yeah, this is
America. It's a free country.And I was like, I literally took
a step back because I was expectingto see stars burst out of their head
and an eagle fly by. That'swhat happened to me. So don't get
(35:22):
me wrong, I know you lookat a free country. It's one of
you know, a couple of hundredon this planet that are free countries.
But it just kind of blew mymind a little bit. And yeah,
so I kind of left it atthat, And so it's definitely it's definitely
m it's definitely challenging and definitely playson my mind. But but the one
(35:46):
thing I will say is here andlasting, is that people have been by
a large really respectful when it comesto social distancing. So even if I'm
not wearing masks, I don't thinkthey're going out their way to be rude
wood here because we don't have thepodcast exactly that. I mean, I
(36:09):
don't have to edit my march goingout of the way to do that.
For whatever reason, they're choosing notto wear a mask, but they're not
like, you know, breathing inyour face. So um, that's a
good thing at least, But youknow, it just surprised me a little
bit when people show up to yourhome to do work, Like we had
a guy shot up to do fixour refrigerator and again not wearing a glove,
(36:30):
not wearing mask, And I askedhim about it and he said the
same thing. We get provided amask, but it's just kind of hard
to work with it, Like,okay, well next to their own.
I suppose it seems like social good, but at the end of the day,
if it's not mandated by the mayoror by the governor, then I
(36:50):
guess it is each other on andit really at the end of the day
it is I mean, they commendated, but the at some point that what
man, what do you what areyou gonna do? I mean, it's
a even in what they even withthe mandate, even if they try to
ticket someone or whatever, you won'ttell very long. They would just be
an injunction against that. Because youcan't force someone to do something. You
(37:15):
can't force them to do it.They should do it. And so why
I think what you're seeing here,Um, at the same thing, people
are just being They're just doing theright thing. And especially like in our
circle, it's easier to socially distancein Arkansas obviously, and and it's been
you know, our community knows eachother and it's been really easy because,
(37:37):
um, well they know Anna isa diabetic and they actually you know,
they are very cognizant and cognizant ofthat, and they do their best to
not try to expose or not tryto be you know, anything like that,
not to compromise anything. Here.Um. People are visiting each other
now more um, but they arethey specifically ask if it's okay where they
(38:01):
might go and just go run totheir friend's house. They call first and
say, hey, well, youknow, is it okay? And and
you know, so people are justyou know, it's just that different community.
We have went to Shreeports some andTexas Arcana, which are the two
larger towns around us, and there'sit's different because you can go to a
(38:22):
Walmart down there and the majority ofpeople are wearing a mask. But you
go to one of Magnalia and noone does. That's when they will say
it blew my mind. Actually,And even in places like h I mean
obviously home depot, it's each totheir own right. Places like hib generally
speaking, people wearing a mask andbeing pretty good. I had to go
to walm out the other day justbecause I was dashing around and it was
(38:45):
the closest to me. It Ordinarilywe do HB and this is bias right
here, folks, holding my handsup, this is bias right here.
I'm like, oh god, Imay need to wear two masks here.
I go to Walmart because no buggersgonna have a mask on. I saw
one customer not wearing a mask inWalmart. Walmart customers the best and everybody
(39:08):
had a mask on. It wasgreat. They're really trying to do you
know how, don't Nobody wants tobe well. Nobody wants to be shut
back down or paused, which ishappening in certain places. Because once you're
it was only going to last solong and until you see the marches and
people were wanting to get out.And once again, once you started the
(39:30):
phase, it was gonna be likea dawn breaking and we were predicting that
to happen. When I say wejust it just the economists and its financial
people without like the dam would breakbecause once you got because people actually Americans
do have a pretty good work ethic. They do want to go back to
(39:51):
ward, They do want to beat work, They want the camlaraderie of
being at the office. And Ithink that once we knew that it would
open at that the flood ga wouldopen and that you would see what you're
seeing right now? What what?And I may this may date this podcast,
or I may be totally totally wrong, um, but you're not going
(40:13):
to see the economy of scale backbecause it because of the damage that it
could do and it doesn't help anyonebecause thankfully now that's back to more by
science um, where it's just nothealthy to stay at the house or to
be locked down, so it cansuppress immune system and also so does depression,
anxiety, stress, all those thingssuppressed immune systems. So you're actually
(40:36):
just it's a self fulfilling prophecy.You can get, you could get,
you could actually become more uh,the ability to be infected by something by
being locked down for long enough,if you suffer from if you if you
have a you know some kind ofif if stress and anxiety is starting to
become an issue, and especially fortwo one D parents that I've seen,
(40:58):
anxiety is at a huge high becauseyou are trying to protect your child.
And there's some things that you know, we've learned and we have talked about,
and I just did a little bitmore of looking at jd R after
day to see what kind of updatesthat they do, and uh, we
talked to our ENDO chronologists which basicallysaid the same thing that when I was
on Stacy sims Um panel um thatshe talked about about it was really her
(41:24):
ENDO because I remember telling Leslie thather endow said, Hey, if your
child has has well managed diabetes,they're no more at risk than any other
child. Now, there are morerisks if they get sick that but that's
with any type of virus um butif they but there are no no more
(41:44):
unhealthy than a child without type onediabetes. That actually was a super relief
to me. That was the biggesttakeaway I've had from especially being with on
on that Stacy Simms panel thing.The talks that helped out a lot.
And I told Leslie about that,and you know, you know how hands
on Leslie is in the concern.It's just that mother's concern. And then
(42:05):
when we went to the ENDO visit, or she went to the ENDO visit
and talked with the INDO about that, and she's like, absolutely, and
if the and that Now I lookedon jd r F and they said,
if the if it's well maintained,there are no more at risk than anybody
else. So we've been thankful,very thankful for that. But uh,
yeah, you know, it's stillkind of hard to h it's hard to
(42:27):
trust what you believe, what yousee in the news. You know what
I'm saying. That's uh, that'sbeen making Stephen, That's right, and
it's it's really really hard to uhto well, you know what I'm saying,
How everybody you know do matt ormask don't work, mass do work,
(42:49):
mask don't work, mass do work? Now, who was saying real
masker really only for medical workers,people who are symptomatic, and people who
are around people that are exposed.The thing is you don't know who's exposed,
So so are you saying that foreverybody? There's no, no,
no, only if you've been exposed. You know what I say. It's
sort of maddening. And after awhile you just kind of a tune out,
(43:10):
all right, and people speaking ofwhich we can do a whole other
hour on this. Yeah, yeah, Now, I wanted to mention this
because this is like the most excitingthing we're going to talk about in this
entire podcast, and I then wedon't want to go too long here,
but I don't want to forget this. Alan. You talked about how um
Anna's more involved in cooking now andyou're baking the cakes and everything, and
(43:36):
the most exciting thing to happen sinceyou and I talked last What has that
been a month? Now? Yeah? I got a ninja blender? How
about that? Yes? Do youget George former girl the same time I
got a ninja blender and Alla andI are like big into us smoothies now,
(43:57):
so it's cool, dude, you'reusing black. We were on a
SMOOTHI kick for a while. Yeah, prote that protein powder, almond milk.
That's why I wanted to say it, because people who listen to this
show hit us up Dads and Diabetesat gmail dot com, Dads and Diabetes
(44:19):
at gmail dot com, or ofcourse you can hit stuff on social media
on the tweete on Facebook. Iwant recipes. I invested in a recipe
book. As to one Amazon,it was highly rated. I don't rate
it very much. Honestly, I'vegot it right here. I chow the
cover of I thought if I thoughtit was worth promoting. But yeah,
jury is still out. Um,but you know we're throwing in the usual
stuff. Got the protein powder,got the bananas, got the spinach,
(44:39):
got the peanut butter, almond milk. But yeah, absolutely, I mean,
just come out, come out,you folks. I want to hear
these recipes. I want to hearif you if you have a kid who's
T one D, if you're tone D, if you have a blender,
if you like your smoothies, thenplease hit me up with the recipes
the things that are good and nutritious. And that weren't sending down his number
(45:00):
through the roof, but it hasbeen made with the ninja that's right of
the Dazzenies podcast. So yeah,no, I know you're you're you're right.
Well, and we were Leslie asa recipe book of of them and
(45:21):
it got to be though we justyeah, but we kind of got off
them. I don't know why,but yeah, that actually they're they're good.
Congratulations, that's good man, Unleslie, that's not emailing me. Then
I expect to see some books.She can do it. And I know
you look at Anderson's a little herFacebook page and uh, we used to
(45:43):
post some smoothie but I'll tell I'lltell them put some smoothies back on cool.
We talked about it just the otherday about starting doing smoothies in so
we're gonna break break through ninja backout do some ninja stuff. It's my
Father's Day gift. Very cool.Well, congratulations a high Gluca's notification from
Alexaner. Okay, guys, tosee what got going on here? Yeah,
(46:07):
I'm not suing that one. Probablywe probably better wrap up. Well,
we're smoking riubs down there at thebottom down that they by the pool,
and Leslie's already been in here onceand said orm Now she didn't say
wrap it up. She was goingto the store. Let me know she's
going to store. But um,it's good to see, good to see
(46:30):
you. Did did you like thisformat? Because Mark was he was a
little tentative. I know you wellenough right now. I could usually tell
about your voice, but then Icould see in your face a little tentative,
especially for radio. Look at that. I mean, look when I
got I got sun burned. Westared on the beach. Typically when we
(46:52):
go to the beach, I'm nota beach person. I'd rather be in
the mountains. I'd like to gosnow skin and stuff like that. I
spent at least eight hours a dayon the beach. The waves were amazing.
We were boogie boarding and I'm fatand I was boogie boarding. I
broke one board. Um, butmy what was weird. I didn't realize
(47:12):
how bad my wrinkles have gotten righthere. And how much I squinted on
that white sand And when I oneparticular morning, I woke up and I
went and looked in the mirror andI thought some had drawn white lines.
And what I realized I'd squinted forhours. This part did not get tan.
And now it makes me look likeI have been smoking for about sixty
(47:36):
five years and mother skin, Anduh, I don't like it. I
looked pretty and dark. You knowI got the Can you tell I got
a tan? This isn't a filter. I mean I got a tan.
Look pretty pretty high? Yeah,but you can see the wrinkles. I'm
a pasty white Englishman. I can'tstand around. And how deep aut you
on? Because they used me asa coat up pilette? He understand actual
(47:58):
white. Well you're used to you'renot used to sun very much where you
were raised, so very much.That ball in the sky, it does
a lot, it's amazing in it. It is. Well, I'm off
to the pool now. So thishas been fun, but I am going
to go ahead to the pool nowin decent swimming. Did you like this?
Yeah? Sure? Well, Imean that's well, that's the thing
(48:22):
that well, it's still us talkingand we didn't talk about us not any
different. But I don't have toedit you. I don't have to edit
your rants out. And I'm justkidding, we don't. I don't have
to edit anything out. We're alittle bit more careful for what we say.
I mean, I just tend tolook like it. You'll see the
engagement come up because next time I'llput a schedule out on it and it
(48:42):
will actually remind people, Hey,they're about to go live, and we'll
we'll we'll dictate the time and everything. Uh So, again, Steven,
thank you for jumping on. Hewas the only one to really commented.
But we've we had three people now, well me and Chase first did this.
We only had about probably four fiveWell, and it is two forty
(49:04):
six Central time, not them onJuly the fourth. Most people aren't setting
around saying I wonder watch live onFacebook. That's not what's happening, and
you brought that meant that up.But the fact is they can go back
and watch this anytime they want tobecause it lives on our Facebook page.
So this is our podcast. Iwill do the normal thing, uploading it
or sending you the MP three,so you can do your magic on what
(49:29):
is it we use? Not Spotify? What do you call it? What
do we use? Speaker? Therewe go. Yeah, it's been a
while, yeah yeah, but Idon't get to do this today. So
wherever you normally get our podcasts,it has still be on there. You'll
get the audio version. But ifyou want to see the video, we're
gonna be I'd like to do itlike this because it's just a man.
(49:49):
The editing is so much easier.So all right, and it's it's America's
birthday. You are are American,So why don't you gonna put you on
the spot here? Why don't youdo the Dads and Diabetes clothes? You
take us out this episode? Theusual, the usual clothes we have.
All right, Well that's it forthis episode of Dads and Diabetes. We
(50:10):
are celebrating America's birthday, America andme as an Indian American Cherokee. Um,
you get two days in a podcasttrying to figure out. I want
to thank everybody for allowing for allowingus to come into your Facebook feed.
(50:32):
I'm trying. I'm struggling here.I'm trying to thank but all I'm gonna
say this is great, especially asI could see it. Thanks for listening
to Dads and Diabetes. Just twodays on the podcast trying to figure it
all out, and we will beback with you hopefully. Um maybe if
we do it like this, thisis a lot easier and we can perhaps
(50:54):
maybe get off the once a monthand get back on. Uh Jackie ball,
that's my boy. Okay, notreally that, oh miss Jackie,
and I've never met you. I'mthe redneck part of the podcast. So
um on. Somebody said, huh, I thought that was like a hank
(51:17):
heel and that's my boy though Ithought it was so that was literally good.
Yeah, okay, So anyway,two days on the podcast trying to
figure it all out. We willhopefully get back more than once a month
and make this a little bit easier, even if it's just jumping on for
twenty minutes or thirty minutes something likethat. But share this with your share
this with your friends, and nexttime we're live, we will put out
(51:38):
a time that we'll put out aschedule and you'll know that we'll be live
so you can be ready and hostto watch the GONN watch party. Good
close it out, My mum's say, my mum's coming. Oh god,
love it. So she's got yoursense of humor. I love it.
(51:58):
Get job out and get y'allen.Happy birthday America and thanks for listening guys.
Yeah, I have birthday to YouTube. Brother. I love you man,
you'd be good to Elsa. Allright, well do you say Alanna
hide to see you guys. GoodBye bye
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