Are you ready to master the art of adulting? We promise you'll learn valuable tips and tricks on managing your living space sans the stress. We dive into the fine line between cleanliness and spotlessness as we try to debunk the myth that the cleaner the better. Here, we discuss time management strategies that will make your cleaning routine more enjoyable and rewarding.
We also take you on a journey through the aisles of grocery shopping. We share our personal stories and practical strategies to avoid impulse purchases, highlighting the significance of meal planning and list-making. We'll bring to light the challenges of shopping in sensory-intensive environments like Walmart, and share tips on how to navigate these spaces.
This episode also highlights the crucial aspects of health and well-being. We explore why it's vital to care for our physical and mental health. And we discuss the limitations of BMI and explore ways to manage medical conditions with the help of professionals. You'll also get to hear about a 15-year-old from Kolkata who broke the Guinness World Record by constructing a massive structure from playing cards, a testament to the power of dedication and hard work. So, pop those earbuds in and prepare for an insightful discussion that will make adulting a breeze.
Are you ready to master the art of adulting? We promise you'll learn valuable tips and tricks on managing your living space sans the stress. We dive into the fine line between cleanliness and spotlessness as we try to debunk the myth that the cleaner the better. Here, we discuss time management strategies that will make your cleaning routine more enjoyable and rewarding.
We also take you on a journey through the aisles of grocery shopping. We share our personal stories and practical strategies to avoid impulse purchases, highlighting the significance of meal planning and list-making. We'll bring to light the challenges of shopping in sensory-intensive environments like Walmart, and share tips on how to navigate these spaces.
This episode also highlights the crucial aspects of health and well-being. We explore why it's vital to care for our physical and mental health. And we discuss the limitations of BMI and explore ways to manage medical conditions with the help of professionals. You'll also get to hear about a 15-year-old from Kolkata who broke the Guinness World Record by constructing a massive structure from playing cards, a testament to the power of dedication and hard work. So, pop those earbuds in and prepare for an insightful discussion that will make adulting a breeze.
Today on the Idiots Guide, we are talking about more adulting topics. See, we only made it through five of them last week, and so we're going to continue this conversation and cover a few more maybe three, maybe eight, probably five, but we're going to do more adulting topics. Best things for tips and tricks about how to be an adult appropriately and properly. And with Lego Price's skyrocketing, a teenager has found playing cards to be just as structurally sound. Barring there isn't a breeze. I'm your host, adam Richardson, aka the Profit Hacker, and I'm joined by the man in charge, mr Joe Haslam. Welcome to the Idiots Guide.
Speaker 1:Well, I have you know.
Speaker 1:I specifically remember really picking on myself last time we talked about this topic, because we're continuing the same topic, but this time I think I'm going to just confirm that that is truth, that is accurate information, and, yes, I am not qualified to speak on this matter and honestly, I don't know if the AI list that we have is much more qualified than I am, being that I probably drew from 20 billion sources and yeah, so, anyway, we're going to take its recommendation and talk about some of these things and, you know, talk about the next couple subjects and hopefully, you know, we can get through at least five of these. But you know, I'm just as excited because, honestly, I didn't read as thoroughly and last episode, like one, took me completely sideways, because it was really funny what AI is recommending, and I can't wait to see if there's any more of those in this episode. So, without further ado, joe, I just want to at least open this conversation up before we jump into the first topic. Yeah, do you have any input about last week's experience?
Speaker 2:No, just you know how much our AI overlords think what we need to learn is not necessarily always there, but it's a good list. Obey the overlords, right.
Speaker 1:AI overlords. I'm trying to think like there are actual people and names and faces that come to mind as these overlords, because, well, I mean even ones that we believe maybe have passed away, but we don't know if they actually have, because they're so technologically advanced that maybe they are AI. I don't know, you know. No, okay, Too much credit to humanity, sorry. All right. Well, let's dive in. The first one that we're going to talk about today is clean. Regularly Develop a cleaning routine to keep your living space tidy.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think this is a really, really important one. Now, this isn't it says tidy, this isn't spotless.
Speaker 1:Or immaculate yeah.
Speaker 2:And we kind of talked about this before. I mean the difference between clean and spotless. Spotless not necessary, right? You know you're living there.
Speaker 1:The difference between when I clean a space or my wife cleans a space. It's definitely that yeah.
Speaker 2:Well, it's the difference of you know, if you're cleaning too much it can actually be too clean, but you don't want it to the point where you've got mold climbing up your shower walls coming off of your shampoo bottle.
Speaker 1:Yum, yeah, I definitely don't like mold anywhere, anywhere, especially my shower, yeah.
Speaker 2:But, yeah, cleaning regularly and that's something that not everyone knows how to do and that can be a hard thing for some people, but it's an important skill to learn because you build a habit of doing it.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And you have to build those neural pathways, you have to build those habits to do it, otherwise you never will.
Speaker 1:I think you know, when it comes to cleaning, probably the biggest thing and this goes with the last one that we talked about from last week was time management is making sure that we are very specific about, you know, putting together some priorities in our schedule, and some of that is making sure that there's time to clean, time to take care of some certain things. And you know, my wife and I we share some of those duties because there are areas that she's really good at and there are areas that I'm really good at. I think we have a I can't remember if it was a podcast episode or if it's a pretty sure that's what it is. But talking about how, you know, I have this uncanny ability about doing dishes really, really quickly. Like I can see a mountain in a sink.
Speaker 1:Now I have a dishwasher, so like when I say doing dishes, I can load the dishwasher but not all the dishes go in the dishwasher or fit in the dishwasher, and so usually that means that there's, you know, a dozen or so different things that I am taking care of after I've loaded the dishwasher, and still I'm doing it like lightning and my wife can't do what I do, but there are areas in the house that she is just really, really good at and I'm like did you, when, did you take care of this? She's like you didn't see. I was like no, it was like lightning Boom, you know like, and so that's that's something that I'm really good at. That's something that I think is is just you know, find the things that you excel at, especially if you have somebody you get to share this. You know responsibility with, yeah.
Speaker 2:And and going along with the time management idea, setting a time to regularly clean. So, growing up, On Saturday mornings we always cleaned, so that was chore day, and so Saturday morning at nine or 10 o'clock we were all up. If we weren't up, we got woken up and we cleaned the house. So you know all the different chores clean the kitchen, do the dishes, sweeping, mopping, vacuuming, all those different things. It got divvied up amongst everyone and you did the chores, Music was put on, so there was blurring music throughout the house. Oh yeah, and it was that's what we did on Saturday mornings Usually took us two hours to get everything done, and then the rest of Saturday it was have fun. We didn't have any other chores to do because it all got done in that time frame, and so you know it. Mowing the lawn was maybe an extra chore that would be done later or something like that, but that's the time when chores were done and that was it.
Speaker 1:It was great I'm thinking about. Like 9 o'clock in the morning is when X-Men came on, so I wasn't doing chores, I was watching X-Men. Just I had priorities. Okay, that's. It's very, very important.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we weren't allowed. Yeah, we could watch cartoons before or after, but that was the clean time. There was no debate.
Speaker 1:No, we did have. Saturday was definitely that. I think my parents like there was certain shows that I was like I have to watch this one, you know. But but after X-Men it's on and like if I'm not cleaning, then everything else it's a really bad thing. So, yeah, it was. You know you only have 30 minutes and nowadays, like you can burn 30 minutes like this watching TV shows, and you're like three hours later you're like where have I been? Where am I? I don't even know what day it is.
Speaker 2:You know Like yeah, and so just setting that regular schedule and setting aside, you know, a day, a time, whatever to get the chores done really makes a big difference and it really helps in the process. And it helps because you're developing those neuro pathways, those neuro connections to help build that habit. Yeah, that when you see a certain thing, hear a certain thing, it is that's what does it. I can still hear in my head talking about the Saturday morning cleaning the songs that my mom would play while we were cleaning.
Speaker 1:Oh man, you just reminded me of like Katie Lang and Stevie Wonder, and yeah, probably not the same songs as your mom, not quite. My parents had an eight track player, so like we listened to. Like I mean, I'm not old enough, okay, just just, I'm going to preface there. Okay, yes, my parents had one. It wasn't like because I was born in that generation, it was because my parents were so. But like America and Kansas and you know the good old hippie rock bands, that kind of stuff, yeah, I, there were so many days where that was, that was normal in the house here in that, and then our radio station around here, the oldies 103, point or arrow or something like that, 103.5.
Speaker 2:I have no idea.
Speaker 1:Well, what's really bad about it is music from my generation is now on the radio. Station is so insulting I'm like no, no, that's not. That's not the truth.
Speaker 2:See, I like the music I listen. I know we're getting off subject here, but you know, the great thing is the music I listened to. There haven't been a lot of new bands in that genre over the last 10 or so years, and so if it's the same music my kids listen to, which they listen to the same genre of music I do, so it's alternative rock. Okay, it's all the same bands, so the music they're listening to is the same music I listened to. So I'm cool, cause you know I'm listening to that music.
Speaker 1:My son listens to stuff that I've. I've grown to like a couple of the artists, but most of them it's like theatrical digital. I have no idea.
Speaker 2:Very strange, like your core or something like that.
Speaker 1:I have no idea, but yeah, like it's, it's interesting core If you listen to it it's like storylines and drama, like it's really dramatic. But it's not like emo music dramatic where you're like I'm sad cause my trust fund got blocked. You know, sorry.
Speaker 2:So back to cleaning.
Speaker 1:No, I think that there's. There's a connection here. Here's, here's, here's how I'll rope this back in. This is you know, I think that cleaning usually goes a lot smoother if you have something like music in the background. You know, like I have, I have speakers in my house. I have different. I have a Google system in my whole house so, because it's all over the place, I can broadcast to the whole house my playlist and everywhere in my house is now playing my music. And you know, I was one of those that back in the day, that was like a rich person house. You know, I'm like no, it's not a rich person, I'm sorry.
Speaker 2:Oh, it says listening.
Speaker 1:But I I think that you know, when I mow the lawn I have earphones in when I, I mean, from when I was a kid I had a Walkman, you know, and then I had a Discman, when I could upgrade, and then, you know, and so on and so forth. Now I just have my phone because it Bluetooth to my headphones and I'm good.
Speaker 2:I was a kid, I had my Walkman and I would listen to the weird owl tape. And I still think of Yoda every time I mow the lawn.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so the point is is that cleaning regularly is good If you need something to kind of keep you motivated while you're going through the motions of cleaning, put some music on, you know, dance a little bit while you're wiping off tables and whatever way, like whatever you feel like doing, but honestly, like that has been a normal thing in pretty much anyone's life anytime they've ever had to grow up cleaning something. Yeah, you know. So all right. Number seven is grocery shopping.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the joyous grocery shopping.
Speaker 1:Now I'm going to point something out here, not because it has anything to do with grocery shopping, but because it has to do with linguistics.
Speaker 2:Uh-oh.
Speaker 1:Okay. Now, joe, can you tell me what was the first word in that that started with a G? How do you say that Grocery, grocery? Is there an SH in that? No, no, okay, all right.
Speaker 1:So I've always said groceries and I used to work at a grocery store where I was a bank teller in a bank branch in the store and we do announcements, and so I'd be like, whatever you're done, you're done doing your grocery shopping, and my manager would crack up and just laugh and laugh and laugh, because I said groceries. Like I'm some snooty British, you're posh, right, I have no idea. I have only ever called it that my whole entire life. And I had some satisfaction because my son, who's like a miniature tan version of me, you know far more handsome, he is way handsomer, but he says groceries too. He's like there's no SH, it's not groceries. Well then my oldest son, he goes oh no, I call it ghostries. What is ghostries? So yeah, I didn't mean to rabbit trail, but I just had to because it's it's, it's something that, like I don't let it really bother me. But when somebody's like, why do you say it's so weird? And I'm like, technically, I'm saying it correctly, you aren't.
Speaker 2:I'm trying to think of any other word that has a C that sounds like an SH.
Speaker 1:Nope.
Speaker 2:There's got to be one.
Speaker 1:You keep thinking.
Speaker 2:I'll keep thinking while you talk, because I got to find one that disproves your theory here.
Speaker 1:And the biggest description of grocery shopping is plan meals, make a list and avoid shopping when you're hungry, which absolutely. I mean that's solid advice. You know, I, I, I think about this and I'm like okay, I definitely benefit when I have my meals planned out through the week. Then I, if I'm going to the store, like each day, to get things, I'm going for a specific meal, so I'm not getting like, sometimes I'll do a whole week and I know that you and I do meal prep differently. But when it comes to that, like your meal plans, you're doing essentially the same thing, just in a lump sum at the beginning of the week.
Speaker 1:And for me, we have something on our fridge that we were like okay, today we're gonna do this, tomorrow night we're gonna do this, and so on and so forth. We'll have leftover night or whatever it is, but the whole goal is so that we have that and then I can go from that and build the grocery list and then when I go to the store, even if I'm hungry, I have the list to go off of. Now the problem still exists that that store is designed to get me to buy everything else around it. Yep, so as I make my way. I'm inundated by ooze and oz and sometimes, especially when I'm hungry, those ooze and oz I just, you know, I'm like twice as much on my grocery bill.
Speaker 2:So Do not go to the grocery store hungry.
Speaker 1:So yeah, I mean, I think that this one's kind of a given, but any luck on a word.
Speaker 2:I still haven't figured one out I will, though as soon as we're done with this podcast, I will go find one.
Speaker 2:No, and see what I do is because we generally have a bad habit of going to the store hungry and so we do all of our shopping online.
Speaker 2:So we buy at Walmart, we do Walmart and then we also do local grocery store Smiths, kroger, for other companies or other people in other areas, but it's so we go on the Walmart app and we go through and we just buy everything on there, so it's a lot less likely that you're gonna buy something hungry and then I just go and pick it up on Saturday morning. So we do it on Friday night figure out what we're gonna eat for that next week, and then I just go and pick it up and then I prep some on Saturday, prep some on Sunday. We're done for the week on food, and so it really reduces a lot of that. If they don't have anything, or if there's some things that Walmart just doesn't have or some things that I just don't buy the Walmart brand or I have to buy specific brands for certain things, we go to Smiths and we buy the other things that we need.
Speaker 1:Now.
Speaker 2:I take one of my daughters with me, who she likes doing these grocery trips. But it also means we go through the store really, really fast. And so it's great, because if I were to go with my wife or alone, I would probably go through really slowly. But because my daughter's there, who wants to go but doesn't want to go?
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And so it's get in, get the stuff, get out the door, because she wants to get back home.
Speaker 1:And for me especially Walmart. I don't like Walmart ever. It's a trigger environment for me, so like and it's unhealthy. It's one of those things my therapist is like you know that's a bad thing and I'm like I know gosh, but avoidance basically is what it's considered. Walmart is one of those environments that presents too many like mixed bags of personalities.
Speaker 1:Like I have a neighbor, the Walmart near closest to us, the biggest Walmart, one of our neighbors he's like I've had to pull a gun on three different occasions at that Walmart and I'm like neat, thanks for that information. That just makes it so much better. Now I feel safer because of that right there. No, I don't not at all actually, and but like that's just kind of to give you a little bit of perspective as to the quality in which we're dealing with Walmart's kind of notorious for that. Like they have the whole feeds of Walmart fashion that you get to. You know you get subjected to at that store and thank goodness I have never had that kind of interaction. But that place back to school was terrifying, like it is. You know moms are the most intimidating thing to go around and when that? But like you know, when I go to Walmart I am very much on point. I do not want to browse. I will go in, get what I need to get out.
Speaker 2:Well, you've got to find the right time, yes, and so again coming back to being autistic, I know I mentioned that a lot, but it does dictate a lot in my life how I interact with people. Being in crowds, being in crowds where there's a lot of potential confrontation, being in crowds where people don't understand personal space and will walk right up to you, you know, walk into you, it is way, since I'm starting to stutter just even thinking about it. Yeah, the sensory overload from that place is just awful, awful, same. I mean, that's the way with any grocery store, really. Yeah, whether it's Smith's, walmart, you know wherever you go, but you can find good stores to go to or good times to go to. Like, I know all the different Walmart's in the area and I know the quality of the Walmart's and I know the types of people that are in the Walmart's. I know what levels of crowds are in the Walmart's at what time of day.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Each one has slightly different hours for when the crowds are heavier, when the crowds are more raucous. What happens with each of these Walmart's?
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 1:I go to that degree when it comes to go I agree with you. I'm gonna ask you for that knowledge. You know I'm gonna be like hey, can you write all that down, please Like, because I. So Walmart used to be that way for me, like I used to go back pre COVID before they used to shut, or before they. Now they shut down at 11. Right, so before it was like once it hit about 11, that crowd like there'd be a 24 seven Walmart and it's 24 seven. It's sketch because of that. Yeah, but from 11 to like one, it's a ghost town.
Speaker 2:Depends on the Walmart, because some areas, once you hit that 11 o'clock, so like 10, 11 o'clock now, or I guess 10 o'clock now, that's when you really start getting some of the crazies in the store, and so the sweet spot.
Speaker 1:Now it is yes, definitely.
Speaker 2:The sweet spot is between eight and 10. Okay, and so you don't want to be there any earlier than eight. Sometimes it can be a little crazy until eight 30, but then you also want to be out of there by 10. Between that timeframe it is quiet, you don't have the crazies, the normal people are out of there, and so it's just really empty. Now, different Walmart's do different things, but the same thing that when I do my Smith's ketchup shopping at the end of the night on Saturdays, I don't go to Smith's until nine o'clock. Okay, because it's crazy and it's still like two hours of shopping.
Speaker 2:So yeah, yeah, I mean there's plenty of time to go in and you know I've had to deal with every all the workers there. They want to get done for the night, so they bring out all the carts of the stuff that they're restocking and all those things. You just have to get used to walking around all those things and knowing there's gonna be a lot of inconvenience.
Speaker 1:At Kroger I run into that Like if it's too late then I'm jumping over like pallets and boxes, cause I used to do stock and so like the fastest way I could do it is first like explode the pallet down the aisle so you've got boxes lining everywhere. Literally it's just to push a grocery cart down the aisle is almost impossible, but it's the most effective way for that employee to do their job Right and do it quickly. And they I used to work with somebody who was in grocery and they said like they're on a mission because they're timed. Oh yeah, their systems track how fast they can get it done and if they aren't like really really fast, they get in trouble.
Speaker 2:So oh yeah, and nothing against the people who are doing that. That's part of their job, that's what they're doing For me. I'm willing to put up with that inconvenience because it means I'm not interacting with people who are going to bump me and touch me, and it's just too much.
Speaker 1:But it's usually not until like 10. Like it's usually in that like either it's first thing in the morning when they're getting something like a truck showed up in the night or something like that, or right at the end of the shift or end of about an hour before it closed, and that way they get out by a decent hour because they're not going to stay overnight doing all that, right? So no, I mean, like I think that that's just kind of something that I like your recommendation. Hey guys, you heard it here first, but eight to 10.
Speaker 2:Grocery shopping. Well, now that I've said that, you know well, I guess we've only got one caller, so we've got one more person coming to the store during that time.
Speaker 1:But that's not bad.
Speaker 2:Our numbers are still good, there you go. No, that's the thing about grocery shopping is, when you've got this, it can be fearful for some people. Yeah, you know, especially being an adult for the first time, going out and grocery shopping for yourself for the first time.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:It's intimidating, but knowing that honestly there are other people that deal with these same kind of emotions of grocery shopping being intimidating, knowing that there are times where it's going to be less intimidating, those are important things to know and recognize those and do your best to find the right time that fits for you to go grocery shopping. My wife loves go grocery shopping on Saturday afternoon. She loves the crowds. Oh, all right.
Speaker 1:That just gave me like I want to throw up. I can't do that, not Saturdays, but Saturday anytime is terrible.
Speaker 2:It's just. It's one of those things what works best for you is important. You just got to make sure that you find out. Do the research, do the looking into it to find out what is going to be best for you. Like, for me, it's going to Smith's at 9 o'clock at night and buying my groceries on Walmart app on Friday night and picking it up on Saturday morning, so I don't have to go in that store.
Speaker 1:Hey, a really helpful tool. I just remembered that it does this. But if you have like Google Maps on your phone or you can even do this on a computer If you look up Google Maps and look up a location this goes for restaurants, gas stations, I mean, you name it the tracks Basically any registered business. It's going to give you a traffic chart about when it's busiest or like busier than normal or for whatever reason, and so you can see even there it'll give you a rough idea so that you don't have to like go dip your toe in the water and be like, nope, not right now. You get a chance to kind of see that and check it out, yeah.
Speaker 2:And, to be honest, I have gone into grocery stores and gone in there for five minutes and then I'm out as in. I haven't bought anything. It's just too overwhelming. I'm out the door. I agree, I'll do it a different day, yep.
Speaker 1:All right, so number eight. We've got three more to go through, so we got to fly through this. I was joking about three the jokes become the reality.
Speaker 2:Isn't that life, right there?
Speaker 1:Number eight is health care. Schedule regular checkups and take care of your physical and mental health. Guys, I think, like the biggest thing is we are absolute advocates for mental health, absolute advocates for just overall health, physical health, just being better, about paying attention to that stuff. It's something that it's heart-wrenching to see. Just somebody that isn't concerned about it and they're just kind of wasting away and you're like man, there's 1,000 things you can do without paying a dime at a doctor's office for, and yet it happens. But, guys, this is something that's really, really important because there's somebody who wants to keep you around for a while. Stay around.
Speaker 2:And this isn't just about being skinny or being fat or anything like that. A lot of the what is it we, govie or whatever that medication is out there right now for losing weight.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, I can't remember the name of it.
Speaker 2:This isn't about that, because you can be overweight and still be healthy and this may be a topic for another podcast, but even the I think it's the AMA recently came out and said recommended doctors stop using BMI. Yeah, has a gauge for health, and that's because it really doesn't do anything. And again, we can go into this more detail. On another one, it's not what BMI was ever meant for. It was meant for a growth chart for children to make sure that they were growing at a steady rate. Yeah, similar to how we look at what is their weight, what is their height.
Speaker 2:We know that that my niece was actually diagnosed with Crohn's disease because she stopped growing at age 10. And so she was no longer keeping up with the charts, and so they knew something was wrong, and so that's what those charts meant for. That's what BMI was meant for. But it's not about weight. Now, if there's excess weight, if it's because you're not healthy, that's a completely different story. But it's not about being skinny, it's not about being fat, it's not about any of that. It is about being healthy.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:Eating right, exercising as best as you can. I've got osteoarthritis. I've got a lot of issues with my body. I cannot exercise as much as I would like. I've tried, it hurts.
Speaker 1:I'm perfectly chiseled Like in the shape of a Michelin man, but chiseled, yes.
Speaker 2:You know, and I gladly show off my calves because, well, I have weight in the middle because of issues with my hormones and things like that, it is, my calves are stellar.
Speaker 1:I'd like to be around. When that's your conversation starter, you're like hey, I'm Joe. Have you seen my calves, have you?
Speaker 2:You know, go to the beach. I like to wear shorts At the beach. It's the only time I wear shorts.
Speaker 1:If we were recording this like video, that would happen right now.
Speaker 2:I've got awesome calves and so, yes, I am overweight in the middle and that does cause some issues. But as much as I've tried I've talked about here I have an endocrinologist, I have a gastroenterologist, I have these doctors to try to figure out why my body is doing what it's doing, and the best we can tell is that's just what it wants to do, and so no amount of diet, no amount of exercise is going to change the way that my body is defined itself to function, and so it's just that's the way it is. But I am still really healthy. I have really good cholesterol.
Speaker 2:I have high blood pressure, but that's familial, and so it took 10 different rounds of different medications in order to get my blood pressure under control, because it was it's primary or I can't remember the exact term for it, but it's essential hypertension, which means it's not secondary to being caused by being overweight or diet, exercise, anything like that, and so it is familial problems. One thing I have been able to avoid I'm almost 40, and my family has diabetes all up and down, every side of the family. Everyone, by the time they're 40, has diabetes, not because of diet, not because of anything, it is just genetic.
Speaker 1:You're predisposed Exactly Yep and honestly.
Speaker 2:I still do not have diabetes and that is well in control. I get my A1C tested and I am well within normal ranges for diabetes because, even though I have the family history of it and I was able to keep my blood pressure in line until about two years ago through diet and exercise, even though it's familial. And so all these things, even though it may be familial, even though you may be genetically predisposed to this, you can still work hard to reduce those things through proper health, getting with your doctors, making sure you're looking at it yeah, working with doctors when it gets beyond like with mine, familial when it gets beyond your ability to control with diet and exercise, and so it's so important that you stay healthy because and all it takes is a doctor visit, all it takes is managing things. Work with a nutritionist or a dietitian not a nutritionist, they're not licensed. Work with a dietitian to find them a dietitian.
Speaker 1:Exactly, I'm a nutritionist, so don't call me.
Speaker 2:And again, it's not about being skinny. That is not what it's about. Skinny is a societal construct of beauty. It is not a sign of health.
Speaker 1:I think one of the things that I always emphasize is the impact of whether skinny or obese or whatever. It is like our society is really trying to get away from the stigmas that are attached to those things, but unfortunately, on the other side of it, we're inundated with this standard of beauty that's supposed to be out there, that you're like I'm never going to, and it's discouraging, and you eat your feelings and then all of a sudden, you're never getting there. So, guys, I think the biggest thing is that your health overall is going to be impacting you Overall is going to be impacted by how you eat. What you eat to the different things that you're exposed to. It comes to I was talking to my son about this what you eat as far as consumption if it's candy and soda is going to impact your mental health, because you're not getting the right nutrients to your brain and your brain is not going to fire correctly the way that it needs to. So those are all really, really important principles. But also it makes you, if you don't really have a healthy living that you're doing, it's going to be impacting your immune system, and your immune system is the only defense your body has against everything that is unseen in this world and is out to kill you, and so the best thing that you can do is always just kind of keep that in mind, so that you're not just headed down a road of like man.
Speaker 1:Tonight, a bucket of lard sounds delicious, you know, please don't. You know, like, oh, oh. I don't know if anybody does, but it's you know like. I saw a video the other day of a Mayo eating contest. I was like that's disgusting.
Speaker 2:Growing up, my dad would eat mayonnaise on a spoon it like to this day. I refuse to eat mayonnaise. It is, oh, just so disgusting.
Speaker 1:I can eat mayo in moderation, but I can't do it. The contest was horrible, so, but it's the idea of, like you see, these things that are really tied together From even what you, what you're grocery shopping for is making sure that you're not just going, they're hungry and buying everything that they're trying to get you, that sugary and bad for you and high in calories, and you know and we just did an episode a little bit ago about some of this stuff of good eating and good ideas about that yeah, you know.
Speaker 2:And, surprisingly, mcdonald's French fries were actually on the healthy list, relatively healthy, relatively Only two categories off the health macro health charts and even those two were not that far off.
Speaker 1:Guys, not the super size, and you will be hungry after you're done eating those Again.
Speaker 2:it doesn't matter size, it's about the caloric intake. They're not going to make you feel full, that's for sure. But managing your diet so that you're getting the right quantities of things in your diet and sometimes that's a snack, yep, you know. If you get some ice cream, great, add it to what you're having for that day, you know. Just make sure you're managing it. In other areas. Yeah, diet and exercise is not about managing every minor thing. It's about being responsible, and that just means if you have a cheat afternoon where you go out and get a big, juicy, fattening cheeseburger, maybe eat a salad for dinner, you know, a salad that actually has nutrition in it, not just yeah, I mean, there's a lot that goes into it. We won't go there. But this is what it means. It's just be aware and don't get discouraged. Never get discouraged If you feel like you're not meeting your image goals.
Speaker 2:Images, goals. Are people like haven't you done this job? Inappropriate? Yes, no question. If someone gives you a hard time for being too skinny, someone gives you a hard time. So my wife is a very small person and her sister is the same thing. Yeah, when I say small, they grew up to be 4 foot 11.
Speaker 1:That's smaller than my wife, my wife's 5 foot.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they are short and they are extremely skinny people. They were followed at school to make sure they weren't bulimic or anorexic, and so they were judged because they were too skinny.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:It's. This isn't just a overweight thing, it's an underweight thing. Yep, everyone is different.
Speaker 1:My wife is tiny. She can eat a triple cheeseburger and it doesn't do anything. Yeah, I get pissed because I can eat a triple cheeseburger and it will do everything.
Speaker 2:When I was in my 20s, I could eat just nonstop, and I did eat nonstop.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And then when I hit about 26, 27, it all came crumbling down. But no, it's not about any of that. And even then I mean even then I was still pretty healthy. I drank a lot of water, I made sure to manage my diet, but I could have more of that because I was eating more stuff. So I was doing like 3000 calories a day. So when you're doing 3000 calories a day, you can have a lot of variety to meet your macro nutrients. And so it's nowadays I'm lucky to get maybe 1500 calories a day just because I don't eat that much, I don't exercise enough to for my body to crave that many calories. Yeah, and so it's. It just comes down to managing it. And do not ever get discouraged. Never get discouraged. Image image is not what's important, health is.
Speaker 1:I think another thing to emphasize in this is I and I know like we we're going to attribute this to our diet, to what we're eating, to those sorts of things but healthcare in general is to be aware of yourself. I mean, if it hurts more than normal, go see a doctor. If it looks funny, go see a doctor. If it's, if it's something that you've never seen, you know on you, or you know something, something growing, go see a doctor. If this is something that is out of normal, go see a doctor. It's being aware of yourself, the normal sees of who you are, and when that comes off of that normalcy, it's okay to go see a doctor.
Speaker 1:You don't have to play tough. Honestly, most people that I know who's tried to play tough didn't win. So you know it's. It's better to be self-aware in that in those instances and then that way you know people get to have you around a lot longer and so you know it's. It's. It's about these kind of things. Part of it has a lot of it has to do with what you're eating, how your mental health is, how your physical health is Overall is going to add to what your diet is, but but, but it's also just being aware of those things so that if you're going along and you've got a, you know an ache in your foot and you don't know why it just started. Well, maybe it's the way you're walking and you need to talk to somebody about how that walk has changed over the years. It's okay, we're growing, you get older, everything changes. So just just being aware, I think, is overall, some of the best you know, best things to do for your own, your own health.
Speaker 2:And that's one of the reasons why it's great to have a primary care provider, someone that you go to once a year, because then they know your baseline. Yeah, they know what your normal is and if you go outside of your normal, they know, okay, there's something wrong here. Because they know you. I had a great provider. She was a nurse practitioner. She was our family provider, for I hate that I can't call her a doctor because she's a nurse practitioner. She's a doctor. Doctors will hate me for saying that, but honestly, she's a doctor.
Speaker 2:But going to see her she knew everything about my family. She knew everything about our background. She knew the specific struggles that we went through with being foster parents, and so she knew that we were dealing with. You know struggles with kids that had mental health issues. You know the times that I was physically attacked by my kids when they got triggered, and so she knew all of this background and she knew where our mental space was. Now we're really good about making sure we talk about things and we're in really good mental health space, which is really important for foster parents. But having a doctor who understands not just you but your entire family dynamic and your individual situations is phenomenal.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Every time I'd go in she'd ask how's, how's, how are your kids? She would ask by name, how are your kids? And I would see her maybe. Well, I am accident so prone. So maybe three or four times a year, but it's not accident prone.
Speaker 1:I was thinking like you're gonna say I'm a lot better now than I used to be.
Speaker 2:My wife has implemented plenty of rules to prevent me from getting into trouble anymore. Yeah, but no, I mean it's one of those things.
Speaker 2:She knew everything about the family and it was great, and having a provider like that means you can talk to them about things. You can be open about things because they know you, and so if you have something out of the ordinary, it's so much easier to talk about them. So build a rapport with a provider, find someone, find someone that you feel comfortable with. Unfortunately, she retired recently, and so I've spent the last two years trying to find a new provider. Still have yet to find one that I feel comfortable with, but it's something that just keep searching, keep looking to find someone. It may take a while, but find someone that you feel comfortable with, that you can talk to.
Speaker 1:I don't think we're gonna make it to five.
Speaker 2:I'm sorry, it's probably my fault.
Speaker 1:No, these are good subjects and we're only gonna make it to three. Yes, but it's okay, guys, that just means again more episode security. Yes, we'll be on this until we're done. There's 20 of them, so it might be six months, we don't know. I doubt it, but I think there's a couple of these that at least I think we trade off as far as who's talking about what in different areas. But yeah, I think this is good.
Speaker 1:One of the things I wanted to kind of bring up is, I think and this maybe is on the heels of healthcare, and that is to do things. I think you and I had this conversation is do things that kind of boost your. What we talked about serotonin levels. Okay, and I don't wanna go in detail about those sorts of things, but the simplest way is what makes you happy, do something that makes you happy. Do something that at the end of the day, you can just kind of wash the stress off of ya and that way, what that's happening inside your body is it's building up some of those serotonin levels so that you have a better spirit about you. I guess.
Speaker 1:Now one of the things that this young gentleman, a teenager, he's actually from India. He spent 41 days making himself pretty happy with this Guinness Book of World Record. So at this point it was over 40 feet long, 11 feet and four inches high and 16 feet eight inches wide, breaking the record for the biggest building built out of playing cards, like just a structure. And there's a YouTube. I'll link the YouTube video in our video. But literally it's a whole, like I guess there's four buildings. That from his home city in Calcutta I don't think that's the right way to say that word, but it's K-O-L-K-A-T-A. Anyway, he broke the world record now and he's the world. He's 15 years old and this was the last one. Before that was only 34 feet. So, come on, you know, like, seriously, you gotta step it up there.
Speaker 1:But now, honestly, 143,000, oh sorry, this one, that was the last record 143,000 playing cards, but it doesn't show me how many playing cards this one was. I'm assuming, if he's another six feet at least in every direction that the last record holder was, he's probably double that number in playing cards. So you know easily in height-wise and in depth-wise of how big this was. So, most impressive, honestly, none of us have that kind of time on our hands, you know. Or space, honestly, like where do you go? Like hey, can we expand the garage? Cause I've got a project, I've got something I'm thinking about doing, you know, and you're like no, no, that's not gonna happen. So I have no idea where this happened, like maybe at the school? I I I Maybe he has a big backyard. Like I said, I would hate to do a card.
Speaker 1:I can ask him to have cards on a windy day.
Speaker 2:That would just be devastating.
Speaker 1:You've been working for three weeks and you're like, oh, it wouldn't have been 40 days, it would have been 20 days had there not been a tsunami come through. You know, oh, you know so, or what do they call it? It's a typhoon, not a tsunami. Tsunami washes everything away. Then you're like I don't have any cards anymore, I don't even have a building, so, anyway, that's a wrap for us. I'm going to call this one a win and let you guys know this is the end of our show. Life's too short, so keep laughing and learning and remember idiots have way more fun. Check your shoes. Check your shoes. Check your shoes.