Kesha Carter, T1D, Comedian, Flight Attendant, Content Creator

[00:00:02] Rob Howe: Hello, wonderful listeners of Diabetics Doing Things. Welcome back to another episode of the show. This is Eritrea. And right before we dive into another incredible episode with an incredible story from someone living with diabetes, I'd like to provide a small content warning. Please be aware that today's episode contains discussion that might be triggering to individuals living with an eating disorder or to anyone who might have a fear of flying. We understand the importance of creating a safe space for everyone. So if these topics are sensitive to you, we encourage you to skip this episode or to listen with caution. All right, then let's get on with this incredible episode with Kesha Carter, myself and Rob. Hello, and welcome back to another episode of Diabetics Doing Things. We're telling the amazing stories of people with diabetes from all over the world. Thank you guys for all the support on the episodes lately. We definitely feel in the love. We've been doing almost every week in 2023. We're back. They say we're back. And our very special guest today, and I think the key word in the intro is all over the world because her work takes her all over the world. Ms. Kesha Carter, welcome to the show. Hey guys. Glad to be here actually. Extremely glad to be here. Excited to have you. And you're not only a person with diabetes and you're not only a flight attendant, but you're also a comedian and a content creator. So really excited to kind of talk through all of the different facets to the extent that we can today. So thank you for coming on. Always. So the other connection that you have to Eritrea and I is you're one of our own. You're from Dallas, Texas. If you ain't from Dallas, then you just don't get it and we cannot help you. So the big question for us is because we know you were diagnosed at a young age. Were you diagnosed at Children's Medical Center in Dallas? So no,

[00:01:49] Kesha Carter: I was diagnosed at Cook's Children's Hospital in Fort Worth, Texas, because I was born in Dallas. And then I was adopted out to Fort Worth. Awesome.

[00:02:00] Rob Howe: So born in Parkland.

[00:02:03] Kesha Carter: I was born in Parkland Memorial. But then by the time I was one or two, I was already adopted out to Fort Worth.

[00:02:11] Rob Howe: I was born in Parkland. My dad always says fifth floor of the baby factory. That's what they call it in Dallas. Well, that is, you know, our friends at Cook's Children's because there's really, if you're, if you're a pediatric diabetes patient in Dallas-Fort Worth, you either are at UT Southwestern Children's or you are at Cook's Children's. So shout out to everybody at Cook's Children's. I met some of their endocrine team over the years. They are awesome people. So shout

[00:02:38] Kesha Carter: out to that team out there. Probably was sick of me, but hey, hey y'all. You know, you know,

[00:02:43] Rob Howe: they were, they were sick of all of us. They were trying to get us out of there and onto the adult endocrinology clinic. Actually, Eritrea did a panel at JDRF North Texas in Oklahoma chapter this past weekend on transitioning from pediatric endocrinology care to adults. So, shout out to all of them and Eritrea, the panelist, expert panelist. Book her. She's booked and busy, but you can book her at Eritrea Diabetics Doing Things. So, I want you guys to kind of talk a little bit about being diagnosed at eight or nine, because that is like a tough age, I think obviously but I feel like Kesha you have a unique perspective of kind of like getting through and like some of the some of the ways that you allowed yourself to accept the diagnosis and even talk about it amongst your like friends and peers so why don't you just kind of walk us through you know getting diagnosed at age nine at Cook's Children's so on a I guess I don't know I'm

[00:03:39] Kesha Carter: Every minute weeks it takes. I was born, you know, I didn't have that much. I was born when I was nine, as you see. And so it all, like, I guess, blew through the roof. A couple weeks before, while I was nine, Memorial Day, Labor Day. Which one is in September? Labor Day. Labor Day. Labor Day, when I was nine years old, I was at New Orleans, a family gathering at the Bramfield, my uncle's house. And my uncle, his daughter, is like my, you know, sister cousin like her and I very close so we call each other sisters and so her and I were playing out songs with them the week before hanging out in my old David's house and he told my mom at the barbecue he was like you owe me a gallon of milk and my mom was like why would I owe you a gallon of milk like if she ate cereal she ate cereal she ate a gallon of milk worth of cereal he was like no she drank a gallon of milk and I I hate milk with my soul. And so I was like, something's got to be wrong because Kesha's milk. And then she started watching. I guess it's like a mother's thing. She started watching me. And the day went by. And I got paler and paler. And I didn't go outside to play with the kids. And I wasn't an overweight kid. I was very small. And when you don't know what the, I guess, beginning effects of diabetes look like, heavy weight loss is not like something that's like, oh, well, maybe, you know, So now with this nine-year-old kid that's completely really skinny now, so apparently I lost a lot of weight. The night of sweat, I'm nine years old. I don't pee in the bed, and I'm a girl. So it's like, I'm just thinking I'm hot at night, and I'm just overly sweating. No, I was actually seeing issues there. So I didn't tell my mom about it, because it was like, this nine-year-old girl, you're supposed to be on top of your stuff. You don't want to read on anybody, you know. So I just handled it myself. So I didn't tell my mom I was having night sweat. I didn't tell my mom I was overly thirsty, because I just saw how I was thirsty. And every five minutes, and asking if Kesha goes to the bathroom, I was in the classroom with Franker. So she never told me no. So it was never like something she had to alert my mother. I was like, well, why is Kesha going to the bathroom? I was a very acting child. I mean, she's during a very young age. So I passed. We went to the night of that holiday. We went to the emergency room at the hospital. That's what we're. And I guess at that time, I'm vomiting, like just stomach acid. and the one piece of corn and a piece of chicken I was eating that day because I didn't eat anything because I didn't have any energy. And the moment the doctor looked at my mom and he was like, her blood sugar is about 798. And if we don't get her to cook, it's not going to be good. And at that time, that's when I slipped into a coma. So I was in a diabetic coma for 24 hours. Woke up the next day. I think I got airlifted to cook from Uggly. And I mean, they had to get me there fast. cramly i don't know what probably the best thing and woke up 24 hours later thank god it was just 24 hour sleep but they were like you have diabetes i'm like i'm adopted so and then neither of my grandparents have diabetes so you know like she's like oh my grandma my grandma has diabetes i'm like we don't know her i'm adopted so i don't know my bloodline what it is and yeah spent the week in ICU at nine years old and figuring out you know I cook same child they walk you this is what diabetes is this is how you have to give yourself an insulin shot

[00:07:06] Rob Howe: so I was very very young there was probably a problem but I was very well you touched on a couple things which I think are important and our friends at beyond type 1 are running a campaign called See the Signs, which talks about just what you mentioned, which is when you're, when you look at the symptoms individually, a little bit of weight loss, a little bit of dehydration, maybe some night sweats, you know, as a kid, you know, you're, you know, urinating in the bed, you know, wet in the bed at night, like those things independently seem kind of weird. Like you said, it's like, oh, this is weird. I need to have my stuff together. But even at age nine, you're able to not, you're able to hide that and able to make your way through it and then before you know it you realize like oh man you know there's there's all these different signs your blood sugar is 798 and you slip into a diabetic coma and you know i imagine that most of that day you probably didn't feel great but you didn't feel that bad i assume it's like you're still doing all of your stuff and then all of a sudden you slip into a coma for 24 hours

[00:08:09] Kesha Carter: and thankfully we're able to come out of it yes the decline yeah really happy real homestead They have real things.

[00:08:16] Rob Howe: Yeah, I think that's something that, you know, when we talk about DKA and we talk about those things, like they can come on really quick. Like it goes from, you know, just a little bit of a high blood sugar to a serious emergency, a severe hyperglycemia, extremely quick.

[00:08:31] Kesha Carter: Yeah, especially when one of my things my friends, my friends joke about all the time. Like she's in a crackhead mode and like when my sugar drops and like people, we're in our comedians. I make jokes out of the toughest thing. And so when my sugar drops, the best way for me to explain it is like a drug thing looking for drugs. I don't want drugs. I want food. So anything I see, I eat peanut butter and jelly sandwich, a bowl of sugar snacks, and a bowl of spaghetti in 30 minutes at 2 o'clock in the morning. It'd be unstoppable. In fact, that is what's going on. It's not me.

[00:09:04] Rob Howe: Does anything stand out as like the weirdest thing that you've ever treated a low blood sugar with?

[00:09:09] Kesha Carter: Yes. I was on the aircraft and my sugar job, I was working for the class and we were serving dessert. And they had this, like these cheese and crackers, but on the side for the sundae toppy, for the iced tea sundae toppy, was like a raspberry jam, like a raspberry syrup. And like no sugar we played. I don't know how McTree does not have sugar, but it was not sweet. but then there was a corner dipping the crackers and like

[00:09:41] Rob Howe: and with cream and my other spider tooth looking like are you okay i was like no actually i need a minute please i i love that like diabetes is such a mind like it's just like it messes up your mind i'm not gonna curse i'm trying to do better about cursing for my parent listeners so it's just such a trick though because like on one hand you're just you look like you're eating a snack and like you're hungry like like you said you're in your crackhead kind of like mode but on the other hand you're like it's all medicinal you know it's like oh no no this is just for my medicine this is just

[00:10:13] Kesha Carter: so i live this side don't die one second please yeah it's just just one of those tricks that

[00:10:20] Rob Howe: diabetes throws on you it's very similar i was on the golf course a couple weeks ago and i just i had to get a replacement pump and my pump was not yet able to be in smart guard on auto mode and And so I was kind of on manual and I had, it was hot. I was walking and I crushed through my snacks and I had to talk to one of my buddies. I was like, Hey, like you got any snacks? And I'm like sweating. And he was like, yeah, I have some Sour Patch Kids with that work. I was like, yes, yes. Give me those. And then like, I had a little handful and then I was fine. I was back up and he goes, so like, you're good now. I was like, Oh yeah, bro. Like that's all I needed was a little bit of my medicine.

[00:10:52] Kesha Carter: Yes. Now Brandon, for all the listeners listening, I have never once in my life done any other drug other than insulin. But, you know, you see things on TV and you're like, who is that one? It looks like what I look like when I'm ready to eat when my shit is low. That's, of course, before my job pull up next to me and be like, TV is, we got to find out.

[00:11:16] Rob Howe: So let's talk about your job a little bit. Like you mentioned, like you're treating a low in the cabin. You're working in the first class cabin. You are a flight attendant. And we've never had a flight attendant with type 1 on the podcast before. We've had a couple of pilots, and I know some flight attendants with type 1, but you are the first on the podcast. So you get to answer all of our flight attendant questions. So talk about, and we get a lot of travel questions as well. I think people are very, especially if they've been recently diagnosed and they've never traveled on a plane with all their diabetes supplies. so let's talk about a like being a flight attendant and having diabetes because you're up and around working and moving around during the flight while we're all just sitting there so you talked about treating a low uh by you know dipping it in in the jelly or in the in the snacks like what kind of accommodations do you have to make sure like how do you prepare for a day on the job so i am very

[00:12:16] Kesha Carter: fitness i i'm very fitness in my head if i'm getting more weight i have to take more insulin if i have to take more insulin i gotta pay for it insulin is expensive don't get big don't pay for it you know that that's what it was logic in my so me watching my cards and making sure like when i wake up in the morning and i'm at work or any other day i wake up in the morning you ready for a day period, whether I'm at work or not. I start off with something that I never will, I guess, set my sugar for a while, like level it out, won't have it too high, getting crazy, won't have it too low. So that in my stomach to, you know, level up my blood sugar and then I'm prepared for the day. So a lot of diabetics I've heard have issues with their pump releasing insulin into, like releasing insulin into their blood sugar when they are on an airplane. I've never had that issue. I've never had that issue.

[00:13:10] Rob Howe: but i i also have never had but it can happen and i think it's mostly because like the pressure change and sometimes i think it's like because i don't know i'm not a scientist so again refer to your science on this but like sometimes the air like if there's a little air pockets or bubbles in your tubing or in your reservoir they can expand and contract because of the pressure so that sometimes causes causes extra insulin to secrete you're right and so i'm again and if it

[00:13:38] Kesha Carter: has happened to me i just roll with the questions i'm very roll with the question type of girl i just roll with the questions my sugar hands up drop and i just grab listen there's always pack of fruit snacks near my soul and i always grab fruit snacks the gushers should actually sponsor me so hold it there's always something near me and you really need to let your crew know as by the scene and i let my crew and my pilots know hey i am a 22 year type 1 23 years this year, 22 year old, 23 type 1 diabetic. I'm a professional at this point. If I feel something, you feel it before it comes. It could be 80 going to 40 real quick and you can feel it before it comes. I let them know I can feel it before it comes. And if there's any diabetic emergencies on the aircraft, let me know first so that I can treat it the best way as a diabetic. Because a lot of diabetes training for flight attendants isn't as spot on that they only teach just to, if they're having a diabetic issue, give them orange juice. You can give somebody the orange juice that's having a diabetic issue and their sugar is already 400. They're probably going to have a harder time because you gave them orange juice. So I let everybody around me know that I have been, I guess, life training. So yeah, my diabetes doesn't really give me problems while I fly or while I travel.

[00:14:53] Rob Howe: I like the way that you frame that. It's kind of very similar when I was going and visiting colleges to play basketball. that was like professional diabetic. Like, hey, I'm a professional. Like I, yes, I have this disease and I'm going to make sure that I, and I may need accommodations, but I'm going to make sure that I'm doing everything I can to make sure that I'm able to answer the bell, so to speak, and, you know, be the person that I need to be in the midst of it. But that can be challenging. And like you said, like you can just in the middle of a shift, like just need for no random reason, you got to be able to roll with the punches in. And, you know, I love that you got a pack of Gushers nearby. That's, I feel like that's me. It's like, I've always got gummy bears. somewhere nearby my person. And when I don't, like that's where I start to actually, I really get, you know, a little bit.

[00:15:34] Kesha Carter: I know there's something. I know there's something. I always got something on me. As a Texan, usually that means you always got that too.

[00:15:40] Rob Howe: But I always got poops next to my pistol. It may fix. Yeah, I always, I joke with Eritrea, like I keep that thing on me and it's glucagon. Same. Absolutely same. Wait, so when we're talking about, because something I always think about when I'm sitting in the emergency row exit, like, you know, like when you sit on the plane, I sit in the emergency row sometimes. And they'll be like, are you able bodied to help people? And I always ask myself in my head, like, I'm saying yes, but what if I'm not? So something I've thought about, like, I'm not a flight attendant. I don't think I would be very good at it. Customer service does not suit me. But how am I supposed to start supplies in life if I'm low? Like, do you carry, basically the question is, do you carry extra supplies in the case that there is a plane crash? Is this something that you think about? I know that you're very jokey and good at making light of situations, but that could be a real life in that situation for you because of employment. So how do you prepare for that?

[00:16:36] Kesha Carter: So it could be a very life in that situation. And granted, they teach you how to, every flight attendant knows how to evacuate an aircraft and not a state insurance. With me, then we have a, when you sit in your job seat, we have like this thing you go through, like steps you go through just in case I'm a town. because takeoff and landing, takeoff and landing are two of the most critical phases of life. Like, that's when, that's when issues should happen, getting your nurse issues could happen. So that's when you really got to be on your P's and Q's. And so, and while I'm sitting in my jump seat, in my head, I don't think it, because I do have extra, I have extra diapers. Like, you hit the wall and you patch them off and three pants are too fast. It's like, you got to have something to replace them. So I always have extra diapers with me. While I'm sitting in my jump seat, I'm thinking like, if something goes down, I don't know what time I'm going to do, but I'm grabbing my insulin. Then y'all can follow me. But then we can be back and break. The little thing they do to slide into this is no doubt, get out. So there's something that happened and we can't say everything or give us because they put us through different scenarios in Australia, different emergency scenarios.

[00:17:41] Rob Howe: There's something happening and I have no everybody that I can. No doubt, get out.

[00:17:46] Kesha Carter: Grab my insulin, follow me. No doubt, we'll get out.

[00:17:49] Rob Howe: And let's hit the road. yeah that's that's what i i kind of like you know let jesus take the wheel a little bit too like if this plane's going down i can't stop it we're just gonna i'm gonna do what i can yeah just let it go but you know i think i think people forget about that i think i i think that we do not take the seriousness of flight attendants the way that we should like people forget that we are suspended in the air with these people as our the captains of our life souls like in this moment my life depends on you being able to do your job properly and and i think that this that people don't remember that but when i'm talking to some like a professional like you don't like you're so funny but at the same time if i die like i need you to save me swanisha like i'm we had a medical

[00:18:38] Kesha Carter: emergency and because I play too much, I think people catch my joke again during my introduction on the aircraft because I do tell a few jokes and you know, if I tell you jokes to make you laugh, you won't act stupid so I gotta be making words. So it makes sense. So I tell a few jokes during my introduction on the aircraft and it's cool, it's cool, everybody's talking. There was a medical emergency on a plane one day and I dialed on the mic, I was like, ladies and gentlemen, so I'm trying not to panic because I'm trying to keep a straight face. So I'm like, ladies and gentlemen, please, is there like somebody with medical emergency medical experience like a bed or something like somebody in the whole plane what's that and i'm like okay my dad they've not been somebody that knows how to take blood pressure thing

[00:19:17] Rob Howe: so let's help please if you find giggling i'm like look we got first time and they think it's common session somebody but i i think it's great that you can make such a joke about being in charge of all these people because i'm sure it's also such a big responsibility for you i remember once I was on a plane this couple years ago I fly a lot and I got laid over and was just stuck on this short two-hour flight and I was like dropping had no snacks and I needed to eat something like I had to eat it in six hours and the flight attendant gave me her lunch and she told me she was like I am in charge of keeping you alive and I was like you are and she was like yes that is the job of the flight attendants not just to keep you guys comfortable but to make sure that you are okay and that you can get through this flight so I it really left an impact on me on how

[00:20:03] Kesha Carter: important you guys are oh yeah because ladies this pregnant lady pregnant a blood sugar for her job and she had a blood sugar machine now very not my time religious but i had my extra blood sugar machine in my bag and so i was able to give it to the doctor that we found on board that was helping you know he reached at the red seat and did all good stuff that they exposed to all because he had a mental certificate but anyway he checked her blood sugar with mine is my not absolute diabetes blood sugar monitor glucose machine my god there's so many but yeah so like i was able to be there and that's very y'all i had the extra equipment to make the airline think okay maybe we need one of these i reflect maybe we need to try my flight song and i'm like they're gonna be upset okay let's do it's so interesting though like the stories of

[00:20:55] Rob Howe: like kind of the one-offs like air trade you're talking about like the woman gave you her lunch and I remember probably 15 years ago now but we were out on the taxiway and we hadn't taken off and it had been like two hours it was like something was wrong there was like a maintenance issue at like a plane at the front of the line and the rest of us like until we get that plane out of the way we were stuck and this was before a CGM and you know I tested and like they hadn't done like a cabin service but I I asked one of the flight attendants and I I feel I don't know about anybody else I feel like so much anxiety when like you ring the service bell because like you know like i just feel like they like it's like they're throwing daggers at you whenever you ring that bell yeah like oh come on somebody hit it again and but she came back and i was like hey like i i'm having a little butcher like could you bring me a sprite and she brought me a sprite but she also brought me to tito shooters with me because she didn't know why but she was like hey you probably need these too and i was like okay thank you you got me i love this for us yeah it It was great. It was great. But.

[00:21:55] Kesha Carter: We don't want to do paperwork. And our main, our number one, our number one thing is client intended to save the births and medical issues all over the same. So if there's any doubt that God very likes on this podcast, the moment you are on an aircraft and not having anything going on with you, do not hesitate. Because that's really what that bill is for. We'd rather you lay the bail and tell me you're a bloodstreamer as low and feeding us to help you versus somebody that's like, me, can you pick a rain shot? No.

[00:22:24] Rob Howe: I didn't die at all. So this is important because we're going to learn about passenger etiquette today because you've got the shirt on, you've got the brand. Do not touch the flight attendant. So I need to know, you know, I've seen the TikToks, but for our listeners, tell us the story. Where's the origin story of the don't touch the flight attendant shirt? Because I think it's an important lesson because you already said it, like people ring the bell to try to get the trash. but you know what are the other things that we don't we as passengers need to be mindful of

[00:22:52] Kesha Carter: not doing on a flight first off don't touch each other and second don't touch us there's a bill that tip there's a button that money we give you to save your life or if you need anything granted if you're small there's a button every plane has one push you don't push me okay that's the thing past years feel like they have longer authorized access to you as a flight attendant in the aircraft the level of what's the level of is it audacity oh i was about to say

[00:23:26] Rob Howe: audacity come on what the word the level of audacity that people get when they come on the

[00:23:33] Kesha Carter: aircraft they're they're feel like they're entitled to everything like i'm the flight Lieutenant is uncertain. No, I'm here to save your life and I can save you to the next case of any murder scene. If I feel like it, I can handle coke. But any more, don't test the flight Lieutenant Kane will and my character Swanisha came up because I was looking for a smaller airline back then when Swanisha came about and I was hanging in front of my hotel room in Austin, Texas and I had nothing to do. And so I grew up a theater kid and I knew that the company being, you know, company branded I can't I'm not one of those flight attendants that puts my company uniform on and stands and playing the camera as far as talking because that's how you get fired so I like um made I went to Walmart in Austin it was like Halloween time they had like this little five dollar jewelry and I had like this little fake pen and whatever case mean like well it's like a little five dollar little necktie you know whatever case maybe they're here put together flights in a costume on and I sat in front of my iPad in Austin and I started talking and I was doing it for myself you know self-enthusiating you know just just doing whatever and lo and behold literally three days later Swanisha had went viral internationally and Latinx all over the world like called on to Swanisha like I had been to Germany and Switzerland and I love the world I got because because you know touching the client is just a universal problem like don't touch us don't try to do you know adult things in the bathroom that is not sexed and here's not a lot of sex please stop doing that

[00:25:16] Rob Howe: that's not a thing you should never vaping not so say vaping Kesha because I've seen so many people get kicked off with lights now listen you don't need that that bad my guy but please we slow that's a group

[00:25:30] Kesha Carter: a freebie apple coming out the door. And those smoke detectors in the lavatories are so sensitive. Like, you can be mad and you

[00:25:40] Rob Howe: can be hot and then the fumes, boom, now we gotta open it. Now we gotta open the door because you've been in there and you just been hot. I don't know. Like, it's crazy

[00:25:49] Kesha Carter: how people don't understand the rules. I mean, why we still have ashtrays on the neocrand is because people go in there thinking they can... I don't know it really gives crackhead behavior sometimes but you know I can't just when when

[00:26:06] Rob Howe: we're talking about things that will get you removed from aircraft just because that's been happening so so so so much as a flight as a flight attendant well I think I have multiple questions one have you ever had to kick somebody off of aircraft and two how do you even make that decision like do you as because I think you do have the right to make that decision right yes

[00:26:27] Kesha Carter: Yes, if I don't feel comfortable with flying with you, I will have you put out the aircraft. One of my crew members don't feel comfortable with you. And there's steps you got to take because, you know, a lot of passengers or people, people in general, whether you're the flight attendant or the passenger or the pilot or the gate agent, some people have ego issues. head and the best flight attendants don't make sure our ego is checked at the door because if there's something you can do to me that you just hurt my ego but it's like okay please get it to go i can't just have you kick off the flight because you hurt my ego but you know like i said there's steps uh but one time i did have to kick a passenger off he didn't it's bad when we asked him to move it and it wasn't it wasn't oh you're not moving your bag you're getting off here it was multiple chances of me giving him the softest the keisha softest the professional keisha and then it i have to fight swanisha back a lot because swanisha always comes forward in my head and so when i'm asking me so i need to load his bag it's a small bag you really need to go by your feet and he stands up this is like the third time we try to explain him you gotta get more bags so we can leave. And he stands up and he's like, what you're not going to do is tell me where to put my bag or you can move it. And I said, certainly help is not my name, but I'm going to help you off this flight. And so he was like, no, I'm trying to hear about it. So he's yelling at me. Mind you, my age used to be registered for boxing. I have an issue with people in my personal space. but I'm trying to know when you're not going to do anything to me but you being irate passing here yes you now have to go because you stayed up at me and tried to play me like the song now granted I gave you three chances to do what we asked you to do this time you write the alarm now you gotta go and now it looks like an ego thing but it was not my safety was that slate so that's how like I said there's steps to take before you put somebody off the airplane plane you really gotta take these out then i was like that he was talking to me the three or four times i gave him the chance to put his bag up oh i did not like flying to check my ego sir i'm

[00:28:45] Rob Howe: really asking you to call them off i could not do customer service i just thought rob knows i would have fought that man i would have fought that man they would have to take you off the plane they would have to take you off the plane too that would have been hilarious wait so once they kick you off are you no fly now or are they just oh yes absolutely you are no fly and it depends on the

[00:29:05] Kesha Carter: level of what you did to get you put off that aircraft if you did something that was like okay okay we can just put you on the next flight you back it up a little bit let me just put you on the next flight if you did something like touch me inappropriately if i knew you really went there because people do what they feel they felt it they feel like they have unrestricted access to flight attendants and i've been touched in places that i that are on national podcast because they just feel like they can get my attention and yeah you gotta get off you gotta get out wow so you

[00:29:40] Rob Howe: become a terrorist sorry i just googled it if they actually know pilots you are legally a terrorist yes yeah yeah my so i think i think what i would like to sum it up as is like these rules are not they're rules for safety and the safety of not just you but everybody else around you and there's sometimes you know 300 of us on a plane and while yes i agree if you're flying on a plane now feels like riding on a bus it feels that you know you're kind of like getting shuttled in a big group everybody's anxious everybody's spent a lot of money everybody's trying to go on vacation or trying to go to work and try not to be bothered but like don't for like don't touch the flight attendants and just remember that one little like you know bad moment like that woman who got stormed off the plane and was like pointing at people she was from dallas of course like you could definitely tell who you know about people not being real and what like you could be your viral moment could also be your you never fly anywhere again and i always think like you mentioned earlier, Eritrea like i always try to imagine explaining to my great grandparents like that i can just hop on a plane and go across the world in the same day and like that how that would blow their mind because i think we've totally lost how magical it is and how special it is to be able to go almost wherever we want to go and so um you know while sometimes the you know diabetes isn't going to be a big risk for you on most flights i think you should do it confidently you should pack your stuff and go where you want to go, but also follow the rules and be a good community member. Be a good friend. Be a good passenger because, you know, you don't want people to delay. And if you act up, you for sure will get delayed.

[00:31:11] Kesha Carter: You will. The rule does the flight for you, my guy. Humans are not meant to

[00:31:15] Rob Howe: fly. The fact that we get onto these metal things and move from point A to point B is crazy. That's why people used to think that your soulmate was in your area because you ain't going nowhere, partner. That's right. that's right people forget that this is like it used to be little girl's dreams to be a flight attendant like yes and it is still a lot of people's dream job so how beautiful well speaking speaking of soulmate though this is and this is a great kind of like finisher because i i want to hear keisha do honestly just i could probably hear you do an entire special on this or five minutes at a open mic or something so you you met nick jonas you were part of a dexcom campaign so a that's something that you got on me because i've never met him because the minute i do i'm gonna take an instagram photo with him and i'm gonna caption it never talk to me or my son again because he is a little he's so small i'm gonna put my arm around him and be like this is my son anyway out out but you got to meet him and you know the bits that you do online we air trey found an article to talk about you know you and hearing his story you fell in love with him and you've been a big, big Joe Bros fan because of that. So tell us about what it was like to meet Nick and like, you know, for you kind of coming full circle. She just fell in love with him. She said he was her man.

[00:32:30] Kesha Carter: Listen, when back in, I don't know how old you guys are. I'm 32, just found 32. So back when I was like, like the Jonas Brothers, it was a thing, right? And so it was a thing. And me and my friends were like, play John's music. I'm from my snippets and numbers. We are screening these songs like everywhere. My mom would be like, you like, where they at? I'm like, where they at? Because B2K wasn't my thing. But the Jonas Brothers posters is like, he's going to include. So it was my thing. And so when I found out that he was already my husband in the seventh grade, when I found out that he had diabetes, I was like, oh, this is perfect. I didn't want to claim my demise. And I didn't want to make sure we meet each other, foreign love, we have to keep going to die. They made me the whole house. And so when I found out that he got married, ally will defend it because how dare you marry dimple find a chance for him to see like smiling so dimple my god how dare you but granted she's gorgeous absolutely gorgeous she had feet where you don't compare and her wallet and my wallet really compete against each other because i had him laid but then who so yeah i met him and it's so crazy because we were doing the next song started to put a Super Bowl for the G6. And he walked the lane. And granted, my trauma response is to crank jokes. I know this because my therapist told me this because really was talking about serious things. She's cracking up laughing because I'm talking. I'm just talking. So she was like, yeah, your trauma response is to make jokes. So I'm in a nervous situation because he walks in the room and everybody's quiet. So I'm looking and I'm like, oh, so it's you. and everybody's like what you doing he starts laughing he was like what do you think I was like this whole room is quiet nobody's reading because you walked in the room you must be an officialist what's your name and he's like what oh my gosh and I'm like I'm just kidding I'm just kidding like I'm one of the talents in the room for the G6 and he was like I'll tell you nice to meet you it was at that moment that I felt like I could pull like the ultimate homewrecker when I didn't want to be the ultimate homewrecker. I was like, you know what, Kesha, please, please, not stay. Not stay.

[00:34:47] Rob Howe: This is why you can't let people from Dallas go anywhere. You can't take us anywhere.

[00:34:51] Kesha Carter: Honey. Wait. But, you know, I just come to my mouth. You should.

[00:35:05] Rob Howe: Well. Well, that was so cool. And I know that many of our listeners have asked, you know, when we put out who we want to have on the podcast, he's on the list. So Nick, if your people hear this, we want to have you on the pod. We got questions to ask you. I'm going to ask you about, I'm going to ask you, do you remember Kesha Carter? Because she is ready, waiting for your call, bro. Where are you at?

[00:35:24] Kesha Carter: I don't want to admit, okay? I don't. You got to be lovely. I love that she has you for me. Okay.

[00:35:31] Rob Howe: They have your blessing. And I love that. That's so, that's so, that's so big of you.

[00:35:35] Kesha Carter: Always. Ain't bad now. Love it.

[00:35:39] Rob Howe: Well, Kesha, I do want to thank you. I know it's been very difficult for us to schedule just because of your travel. And I thank you for your patience on that. You are hilarious and amazing. And I cannot wait, hopefully, that we get to have our paths cross in person. We're throwing events now. And we're going to be doing more in Dallas. But I wanted to thank you for being a great example for people with diabetes and advocating for yourself. And also doing it in a way that's fun and feels authentic and real. I know that you have me like legitimately like cutting up and laughing and in stitches on this call. So thank you so much for, what are you working on now? Like what's next? Where can our listeners tap in with you and follow you on, on the socials? So I, that's majority of my

[00:36:18] Kesha Carter: soldiers are at InstaKeesh, Insta, K-E-E-S-H, two E's, BlueCard Pilot, because that's Swanisha's logo. I am, you know, I do comedy and flight attending, but I am segueing into burlesque um i'm picking back up my professional dancer bag that i put down a long time ago but now i'm back in the professional dancing scene and i'm stepping into the burlesque scene here soon and they have a diabetes burlesque show in dallas that i will be looking for looking for it being at and doing my debut at the diabetes burlesque event so yeah that's my podcast is up follow me on all of my socials at insta quiche youtube is kicking it with quiche

[00:37:04] Rob Howe: yeah well please let's follow up on the the burlesque event for diabetes because i'm sure that there are you know a lot of people that could go to that that we're connected to and may not know about it that's the first time i've heard of it so yeah i would love to

[00:37:19] Kesha Carter: i've sent the email to wear everything to get everything going and float so i'll keep y'all and a loop about it. But yeah, my podcast, my Instagram, all of my skits and everything. I'm coming out with a series for flight attendants here soon on my YouTube. So be looking out for it. I'm doing my writer's thing.

[00:37:37] Rob Howe: Well, we will absolutely link to all of that in our show notes. And thank you again for coming on. And yeah, thanks again for listening to Diabetics Doing Things. We'll see you guys next time.

[00:37:48] Kesha Carter: Bye, guys.