The Album I Owe Myself

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About This Episode
Brandon Benjamin Benavidez — known as B3 — is a Bakersfield native, hip-hop artist, and labor foreman in the film industry. He's worked on major productions including Twisters, Elevation, and Sponsor, managing large crews on location across the country. He's also a husband, a father to a four-year-old daughter with autism and a history of febrile seizures, and a musician with four albums out — with his best work, he says, still ahead of him.

Topics Covered
  • B3's background: from football dreams to film sets to the Bakersfield rap scene
  • Why he almost didn't take music seriously — and what changed his mind senior year
  • Working as a labor foreman on Twisters, Elevation (Anthony Mackie), and Sponsor (John C. Reilly)
  • His daughter's autism diagnosis and febrile seizures — 16 seizures by age four
  • The gut-brain axis and its connection to autism, seizure thresholds, and neurological health
  • Why he chose not to medicate, and how ABA therapy and speech therapy have shaped her daily life
  • Dr. Civelli on ketogenic diet and glucose stability as tools for seizure management
  • The perfectionist artist: rushing album four (Neapolitan), and what "letting God write it" looks like now
  • Being the sole provider, managing chronic stress, and the gray beard that showed up during Twisters
  • What accountability in health actually looks like — and why B3 is ready to start
Mentioned in This Episode
  • Twisters (2024) — film, directed by Lee Isaac Chung
  • Elevation (2024) — film with Anthony Mackie
  • Sponsor — film with John C. Reilly
  • Neapolitan — B3's fourth album (released August 2024)
  • Bricktown, Oklahoma City
  • ABA therapy and speech therapy for autism
  • Ketogenic diet and febrile seizure management
  • Love on the Spectrum — Netflix series
  • Baylen Out Loud — YouTube creator with Tourette syndrome
  • Buc-ee's
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