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#313 - Ben's Show

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4.32.7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2011

⏱️ 80 minutes

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0:00.0

From the Bob Barley studio in Orlando, Florida, you're listening to The Dizz Unplugged.

0:18.2

Hello and welcome to the Dizz Unplug Roundtable discussion for the week of July 27, 2011.

0:24.1

From Orlando, Florida, I'm your host Pete Werner, joined at the table this week by my good

0:29.4

friends Tracey Heinrichs. Julie Martin. Julie Martin. Our good friend Ben, Kevin Close, and John

0:40.1

Meijai, back in the peanut gallery, everybody else. Listen to the other shows. Too many people to

0:45.6

announce. I love you all, but you're all back there now. In this segment, something very special

0:53.0

that actually Ben brought to us. They're in town on vacation this week, visiting. And of course,

1:01.1

as I mentioned earlier, Tracey Heinrichs is one of our spectacular dreams and limited travel agents.

1:08.8

And you are spectacular. And we tell you that all the time. You actually, one of my girlfriends,

1:14.4

you're her travel agent. Really? Yep. Am I spectacular to her too? Yes. Thank God. Julie back

1:20.0

hand her. Talking to the mic. Mike. And Ben has a form of autism known as Asperger's. And he's

1:34.4

now 15 years old. And, you know, Walter and I just met Ben, you know, within the last year.

1:41.9

And if Tracey hadn't told me, told us that you had Asperger's, we never would have guessed.

1:50.0

So you've obviously come a long, long way. And when you offered up the, that you wanted to do

1:57.6

this segment, that you thought it was important to do this segment, I mean, I was thrilled. And

2:04.2

the number of parents we have on the site that have children with autism is sadly large. It's a

2:13.0

large audience. And I think getting this perspective is something that is just, you know, invaluable

2:20.3

for them. Because you can talk about it from, you know, being younger coming to Disney. Because you've

2:25.8

had many times now, do you think you've been a Disney world? Easily over 30. Over 30. So you can talk

2:31.5

about it. You can talk about it throughout your life. And, you know, from kind of two different

2:37.9

perspectives because you just had your first day on your own in Epcot, your mother cried the entire

2:44.7

time. But I got a little teary too, Ben. So why don't we, why don't we start out talking about,

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