#005 Ryan Reed Interview
Juicebox Podcast: Type 1 Diabetes
Scott Benner
4.7 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2015
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
When Ryan Reed was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes at age 17, his doctor told him that he would never race a stock car again. In his interview with now 21-year-old Ryan, Scott and Ryan discuss what it was like to win the 2015 NASCAR Infinity Series, the unique way Ryan manages his diabetes while racing, and how Ryan turned his diabetes diagnosis and racing career into advocacy for people with Type 1 diabetes.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Ryan Reed and you're listening to the Juice Box Podcast. |
| 0:03.0 | Hello. |
| 0:14.0 | Ryan, hey, it's Scott. |
| 0:16.0 | Is better for you? |
| 0:18.0 | Yeah, it's good for me too. |
| 0:20.0 | Okay. |
| 0:21.0 | Well, I don't want to keep you any longer than we have to, but I do have some questions for you. So if you're ready, I'd like to get going. |
| 0:25.6 | Yeah, man. Oh great. Okay, so, um, I'm pretty sure you don't remember this because I almost don't remember but I think you and I met briefly in a you know hotel |
| 0:36.9 | Lobby in Philadelphia about a year ago. It's some sort of diabetes event |
| 0:40.8 | Yeah, yeah, I remember. Oh no kidding. Okay. I'm out at dinner with my family the other night and I start getting messages from everybody. People I know, people I don't know, people who just read my blog, and're like oh my God are you watching this |
| 0:53.3 | or you looking what's happening like Ryan's gonna you know look what's |
| 0:56.5 | happening and so I'm in a restaurant I get the guy to turn the the ball |
| 1:01.5 | game off there was a college basketball game on he switched it for me and I got to see the last two laps. |
| 1:06.0 | Just first of all, congratulations. It is an amazing accomplishment and I can't imagine how you must feel at the moment. |
| 1:13.0 | Yeah, thanks man. |
| 1:14.0 | It's been a really cool week. |
| 1:15.0 | You know, I was, it was really cool. |
| 1:18.0 | My family was there and it was just, it was awesome. |
| 1:21.0 | You know, that's our biggest race of the year so you know to |
| 1:24.8 | win our biggest race of the year is is awesome and then also too you mean everyone's |
| 1:27.8 | there you know I mean just you know like Edsel Ford was there and I mean just it was a really cool deal you know and I don't know if you know this but |
| 1:35.4 | Ethel Ford's son has type 1 diabetes also so I didn't know yeah and so it was a really |
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