Don't Divorce and Drive; The Benefits of Dead Hang; The Return of the Knob

On this week's episode we discuss:

1 in 3 adults are sleep deprived. 

Kids are drinking too much caffeine.

The return of knobs and dials!

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John Tesch would give Gerard and Gib but this just didn't like we didn't know this one in three adults don't get enough sleep to find us seven or more hours a night and we sleep. This is amazing. We sleep a full hour less each night than people did in the 1940s because there was nothing to do. So my grandparents didn't have but didn't have electricity, right? Electric Light keeps us up later. And that was one thing. The light bulb was one thing. We've got the light bulb plugged into 220 by having these, by having these phones and screens and TVs and everything everywhere we go, and Wi Fi in the house, it's crazy. Get yourself a sleep mask. Keep your phone outside of your bedroom. These are the things that like, the basic things that we all let's go through the basics. Because the sleep mask thing. You fought against this for a while, but you love it now. I do. They have one too. They have the good ones that kind of rest around your eyes. They don't rest right on your eyelid. Need a sleep mask. I like a white noise machine. You got to make sure the temperature is right, and you can't be looking at your phone or any blue light, any screen light about an hour before bed, and you should stop working two to three hours before bed, 65 to 68 degrees. That's cold. That's very cool. You have a thing that you can't set right, that freezes you out cold air into your bed, refrigerator for my bed. Yeah, I don't use it anymore. Yeah, I understand why I was had to go to the hospital cryo sleep exactly. I wanted to bring this to you, Gib because you have three kids under the age of 13, and you're you coach a lot of them in a lot of different sports, and so I mock Children's Hospital. National poll found that 25% of parents say their teenager has caffeine daily. And now the experts are saying that kids are landing in the emergency room because of this consuming too much caffeine. The the cases have doubled among adolescents in the past several years. Have you seen any of this? I mean, I haven't personally seen it, but I absolutely make sense, because back in the day, when I was a kid, if you wanted to get caffeine, you had to drink coffee. And coffee was, you know, it was bitter, you had to go to go to the coffee shop. And so, like it was, it was sort of a rite of passage that you needed caffeine badly enough that you could drink coffee. But now, you go to every coffee shop, they've got 1000 different sugary options. You go to every grocery store, they've got these high caffeine energy drinks on the wall and kids, and they're marketed to children. They're marketed to athletic children. So kids on the sports field are having a lot of them as a pre game stuff to prime you for your whatever gonna be like urine tests, next blood tests. Well. So these kids are drinking these sugary drinks. They don't realize how much caffeine is in it, because it's basically tasteless. And they're having these issues. Yeah, American Academy of Pediatrics says kids between the age of 12 and 18 should only have 100 milligrams of caffeine per day. That's the amount in one cup of brewed coffee. Yeah, that's it. Not sort of the basic nine Red Bulls. No, definitely not go to the hospital. All right. It's John Tesh Gib Gerard with some relationship Intel, because, you know, it's where you come when you want relationship Intel. Oh, yeah, me and Gib, if you're according to the National Center for Biotechnology Information. If you're freshly divorced or newly separated or married to an Italian, that's just for me, be careful driving. Your risk of car accidents increased by 400% and by the way, I've been married 33 years, so everything's fine because I know how to duck. So look, she thrives. You know, that's why, which is odd, because she definitely externalizes her stress more than you do, yeah, but thank you. Let me just say that regardless of whether you're divorced or separated, what the point that they're trying to make is that divorce and separation are distracting concepts for your brain. They are emotionally fraught. Even if you have an amicable divorce, it is still an emotionally fraught time. I have a friend who's been going through an amicable divorce for over a year, and it's still every day, every time there's a conversation about it, it's emotionally fraught. You shouldn't be driving when you are emotionally distressed. You just shouldn't whether it's a bad breakup, emotional a divorce or separation or losing a job, whatever it is, driving distracted is as dangerous as driving drunk, and you can't help but drive distracted. If you're going through some sort of major breakup, your risk of a car actually increases 400% Yeah, that's that's quite, quite the issue risk, all right. Gib here something that I'm not going to do, go to the park, find the kids monkey bars or jungle gym and do a dead hang. I thought you say do a chin up, as long as there's no kids around, yeah. And by the way, there's kids around you alone, you don't want to wander around anyway. Different intelligence, grip strength is good for more than opening jars. It's a biomarker of aging. Go Yes. So being able to hang for one minute is sort of the secret. That's the That's the magic number. So being able to hang for one minute in terms of grip strength, it is a it is a big indicator of a healthy brain, of an overall healthy body. And longevity. Also, if you can hang comfortably for one minute, it. Without, you know, without any support, it's actually really good for your shoulder joints. It puts your shoulder joints in the right position. So if you have shoulder impingement and pain, hanging building up to one minute is a really great way to get there, really great way to alleviate the shoulder impingement. And yeah, you have to, you have to build to it for most of us, but you should be doing it every day. Yeah, go to the park, find the kids monkey bars or the jungle gym, and do a dead hang so do the chin up bar at the gym. You don't have to be around kids, yeah, that is sort of creepy, yeah, yeah, okay, well, yeah. Well, we'll check this out. Okay. Ah, finally, oh, maybe I can get maybe I can just buy new stereo now where the turntable touch screens are out and buttons and knobs are back. Gib Apple added two new buttons to the iPhone. 16 home appliances like stoves or washing machines are returning to knobs. My car has knobs. Yes, a bunch of car manufacturers reintroducing buttons and dials. Wall Street Journal calls it, quote, rebuttonizing. I like it because, you know, I have, I have a family car of a minivan, and I it is designed for, you know, the car trip with a lot of kids in it. And I love that. But one of the things that's really nice is I have all of these controls that are right on the steering wheel with real buttons. Because here's the deal, when you're driving, trying to work a touch screen where you have to, you have to only touch one spot on the screen, and you have nowhere to rest your hand and the car is moving. It's almost impossible. I want to be able to casually reach over and feel a knob under my fingers and know exactly what I'm doing before I do it, because I have too much other stuff going on in the car. I need that. And my car knows that I have the buttons, I have the dials, and I have a lot of them right on my steering wheel. Yeah, that's, that's really the but the buttons are, are back. And, you know, I have to tell you that I'm thinking, I think, I think all the old stuff is, is new again. You would know this because you're in carpool line every, every day, every day, with not only your 13 year old. Is what a seventh grader? Yeah. But is she Jen? What? Oh, alpha. Alpha. She's Gen Alpha. What's Gen Z older than her? Yeah, Jen, alpha. So what's your seven year old son? They come up with, I think they're still Alpha. They're not that far six years apart. But apparently they're, they're into the whole analog thing. So we were releasing, as you know, because you're a big part of it. We're releasing a sports album coming up here and and everybody's saying, listen, last, last two years, 50 million vinyl albums were sold. In fact, they're having a hard time finding all the materials for so that's just one of the things coming back, right? Well, the reason why vinyl is coming back is because it's a centerpiece if you're gonna actually buy something, look, I can listen to 10,000 songs anywhere I go. You know, at any moment that I want to, I can call upon any hit song because I have a subscription service, but I don't own that stuff, right? I don't have, I don't have the like my my whole bedroom in high school and in college was racks of CDs and tapes and vinyl I had. I had all three formats, and so, like, that was just a whole wall of my bedroom. Was just my music collection, and I was proud of it, and I messed with it all the time. And yeah, and there was nothing to look at. There's now, there's nothing to look at while it's playing. So when you were in your dorm room, right, and you got all that writing on the album, you turn it over and everything, yeah, it's and some guy in your, in your, in your fraternity house comes in and and starts messing with it, and you're like, and you can't touch that, yeah, you know, and you got to keep it in the cellophane. Those, those, that's a 33 don't turn it up to 45 right? Yeah, exactly. But this thing and then, and you know what I mean, as somebody who owns a bunch of, you know, digital music stuff. I have synthesizers that I created music on, you know, the night in the 1980s that are worth a lot of money because they have buttons on them. They've had buttons. It's great for playing live. It's hard to just, like, key up these virtual synthesizers. When you're playing live, you want to be able to walk over to the other synthesizers, oh yeah, has a cool vibe, and the computer dies, is like, Oh, yeah. But look, the the idea of owning physical media has actually gotten really popular again, it's because the subscription services lose movies all the time, so people are going back buying blu rays. And the vinyl itself is really about, hey, I really love this album, and it's one thing to just listen to it a lot. It's another thing to have it have a place in my home the way that albums did when I was a kid. And that's what, that's what people that's well, so I loved, I loved watching you as a kid, when you were a kid, getting into albums, oh yeah. And I decided you needed to listen to Uriah. He write, rush, oh, rush, come on. Yeah. How do you learn the names of people in the band if you don't open the liner notes. Oh, who played keyboards on this? The guy. And there's always one guy in the band. There's always one guy. You can see this in the cover of Chicago rush, yes, any of these bands, there's always one, even the Rolling Stones, there's always one guy in the album cover that didn't want to look like he cared in the photo, there's a guy. There's a guy I can't remember. I don't know who it is. I don't know Rolling Stones well enough. So you got, you know, you got Nick Jagger, you've got Keith Richards. And they, you know, they still look like rock stars, and they're all in their 70s, right? And there's one guy who's dressing like, I'm a guy in my 70s. I play golf. There's no silk scarves, no, there's no leather. It's just a quarter zip and a button down. Yeah. Anyway, if you look at the yes cover, it goes everywhere from John Anderson, who was he was like a like a wood nymph, and then Rick Wakeman had a cape on and had weighed way too much to have a cape on. See a guy is like, I'm just, I'm just wearing khakis. Wearing khakis. I'm in rush. I'm in yes, we've had a good time dialing it back to the 19 whatever it was. John Tesh Gib Gerard, thanks for joining us for the podcast. You.