#111 Actor Derek Theler
Juicebox Podcast: Type 1 Diabetes
Scott Benner
4.7 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2017
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Derek and Scott discuss Derek's life with type 1 diabetes, how tall he really is, dating, Baby Daddy and his desire to be a movie superhero. You'll even find out what Dwayne Johnson recently said to Derek and much more.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the juice box podcast this is episode 111. |
| 0:03.4 | Today's episode is brought to you by OmniPOD, the world's only tubeless insulin pump. |
| 0:08.1 | Unlike traditional insulin pumps, the OmniPOD doesn't have any tubes, |
| 0:11.2 | plus it's waterproof. |
| 0:12.3 | So you get three days of non-stop |
| 0:13.9 | insulin without any need to disconnect. |
| 0:16.8 | The podcast is also sponsored today by DexCom, makers of the G5 mobile continuous glucose |
| 0:22.2 | monitoring system. |
| 0:23.6 | You can learn more about our sponsors later in the program or by visiting my omnipod.com |
| 0:28.0 | dot com forward slash juicebox or deckscom.com forward slash Juice Box. |
| 0:33.4 | On this episode of the Juice Box podcast, I'm speaking with Derek Feeler. |
| 0:37.7 | You know Derek from the TV show Baby Daddy. |
| 0:40.3 | Baby Daddy is available now on Netflix and Free Form TV. |
| 0:43.3 | What you may not know is that Derek has had type 1 diabetes since he was three years old. |
| 0:47.6 | This conversation was fantastically open and honest. |
| 0:50.8 | I almost didn't expect Derek to be this forthcoming about living with |
| 0:54.7 | type 1 diabetes but he just really was put everything out there he talked about |
| 0:58.5 | everything about what it's like the date with type 1 we discussed his advocacy around the disease. He told me about what it |
| 1:05.1 | was like to play sports in high school with type one. He shared a story about |
| 1:08.0 | meeting Duane the Rock Johnson recently. He even hinted at the end about an opportunity he has coming up in the acting world that just sounded super. |
| 1:17.0 | Anyway, I really think you're going to love Dark. |
| 1:19.0 | You know, he told me that he's embraced this disease, he knows who he is, |
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