The Dating Power of the Nose; Tangerine Wellness; Pickle Juice Mouthwash

In this episode we discuss:

Wear Red for better airline service.

A guy’s least favorite date.

Celebrate small wins.

And many more topics.

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Gib, hello and welcome to another episode of the podcast. I'm Gib Gerard, here with one of my favorite things that we do. I call it intelligence to go that's where we take pieces that we've done on the radio this week, and we hand picked them, mix them up, and we give them to you, for you to put your pocket and take with you wherever you go. We got some great ones for you today. So here, without further ado, is me, Gib, Gerard and John Tesh. All right, Gib, as usual, we are the dating mavens. Are we not really? Okay? We have the data. We have the data. And the data says that women, you are more likely to give men your phone number when you're approached at a pleasant smelling place, like a coffee shop, a bakery or a flower shop, yes, as compared to when when men approach them in clothing stores or banks, I don't smell it, the smell of the smell of money, though, you know? I mean, look, some clothing stores are piping in really good smelling stuff. So you could use this there, you know, I Abercrombie and Fitch. My mom used to hate going in there with me when I was in high school, because it just was all it was the woods cologne. It's not like Woods cologne. Researchers believe it's because enjoyable aromas improve our mood, making us more receptive to romantic advances, and the opposite is true. You don't want to be near a dog park or anything. It smells terrible, or a sewage treatment plant. That's not a great place to meet somebody. So look, we know this. We know that the lizard brain takes over when we're going through our courting rituals, and that includes how you smell, how the area smells, all of the pleasantness around that create that environment. Create pleasantness, smell good, look, put together. Meet somebody in a nice place. Be your own rom com. Go enjoy it. I'll meet you at the sewage treatment flat. You're crazy. Who would do that? John Tish would give Gerard. It's time for some travel intelligence. We can all use that. Here's some. Here's some. For me, do not drink a gallon of vodka before you get on the plane. Oh, I've seen those. I've seen those videos. I've seen those people. Yeah, yeah, okay, that's, that's number one. Number two. Somebody out there is going, I never thought, I mean, the airport at like, 5am is a lawless place, like, people are getting coffee, or they're getting, you know, vodka Red Bulls and jumping on the plane. It you get insane stuff. Speaking of red, research shows that you'll get better service on airlines. If you wear red, you may even get upgraded. Gib must be something about like you just look passionate about air travel. I don't know what the deal is, but look, we've talked a lot about how color affects mood, how color affects your perception, all of your emotions. So the research says, wear red, you'll get your upgrade. Wear red. Get the better service. Why wouldn't you? I know you like to wear jeans and a T shirt, but I already ordered on Amazon. I ordered you two, so you can choose two red ascots. Okay, done. Just Gib. Me a red onesie. I like to travel to onesie. Now, that's too expensive. I got you an ascot. It's got the ring on there. So you don't have to, you know, you don't have to tie it. It's like a clip on Ascot, right? Hello, and then you get the accent going, hello. Any chance of an upgrade? I think I'm gonna be, I'm gonna get beat up at the airport. Ascot wear red. You'll get better service, unless you're me. Folks, if you ever see this guy, he's not gonna get beat up, maybe they'll steal your ass caught, though. Okay, Gib, a couple of quick survey results. Things, according to a recent survey, going dancing is officially the last thing a guy wants to do on a first date. Yeah, I think you would, you would absolutely want to do that, because you appropriate all the cool dances. I don't mind dancing. I'm not a great dancer, but it is an opportunity to sort of be out there and have fun, show your personality. So I can, I can appreciate that I love, I absolutely love dancing at weddings or bar mitzvahs or what have you, with my with my wife and my kids, like I have your sister? Yeah, I really like that. But I understand this idea of being in a really uncomfortable situation on a first date does not sound appealing for a lot of people. Well, I do have a tip for men to a dance tip, because you always seem so convicted. I mean, you're in it. That's the thing. You just gotta, you gotta dive right in. There's no halfway dancing. You got to dance or and if you know, if you want to get used to this, go to Line Dancing bars. Because the line dancing bars, you have a sequence you can memorize. And then you don't have to worry about, what am I doing with my hands? They tell you what to do with your hands. That's a way around this. Also, 12% of men that I say they grunt at the gym because they think it impresses women. I don't I've see all kinds. Look if you want to see, if you want David Attenborough to to narrate the human mating rituals, you just got to go to the right gym right after work, because you see everything there. You see the bright colors. You see the weird, you know, dancing and routines, and you hear the loud grunts and. Stresses. David Edinburgh always sounds like he's exhausted. Here we see the human nail in his native habitat, all right, Gib, here's a great way for you to release relieve stress, and I have one here in the studio for you. It's a tangerine. Oh, yeah, you throw it at the perspective right now. No, it can relieve the feelings of stress in minutes because of the healing plant compound resveratrol, same antioxidant is found in grapes and red wine. I'll have the red wine, yes please. But tangerines contain 10 times more than grapes and red wine. There you go. A study in the journal behavioral brain research finds that resveratrol reduces anxiety by calming your brain's emotional control center. Tangerine. Look, I love a good tangerine. I'm gonna start doing this. I get, I get them, and they get their little they come in their little fishnet bags, you know? And yeah, I take, oh, and I just tear that, tear it apart, tear it apart. And then, and then it's all over. But I keep them in my fridge. My kids like them. They're a staple in the lunch. What's nice about tangerines is I put them in my kids lunches, and they always come back to me at the end of the day, so it's like a never ending resource, and then I eat them at the end of the day. So that may be why I'm so relaxed. My life is always like, Why do you have to tear the fishnet back? Because I need, I need access to my tangerine. Put the money back. Why do you why do you have to tear the fish? Is there a nice way to open the tear? Yeah, scissors. I don't want to have to get the scissors. Just tear the tear. Yeah? Break it apart. Yeah. The beauty of the then the power of the tangerine. All right, Gib, we're now gonna find out what is the most germ infested seat on a plane. And this is according to microbiologist, Dr Charles Gerard. Have you ever seen a picture of Dr Charles Gib, a He looks just like like? Dr Charles Gib, he looks he looks like, he looks like. He's been studying Gerard his whole life, and he has and we appreciate the work that he does. Yes, yes, yes. I mean, even his hair looks like Gerard. We love him. So he and his team collected, Gib is catching strays on the radio today, I'm throwing shade. So he and his team collected swabs from window middle and aisle seats on dozens of flights, and they found that the German festive seat, the most German festive seat, is the aisle seat. Sure, they were plastered with significantly more bacteria than the other seats. Look, here's the deal at this point, after everything that's happened, just take some wipes with you. And then a lot of the airlines, they give you the wipes when you get on the plane. Take some wipes with you. Wipe down all your surfaces, all that stuff. Those people, you just, just do it. Just do it. You'll be and you'll be much less likely to get sick. Just by all means, please go do that. And if you ever see a guy, I think he lives in in Arizona, you ever see a guy walking down that with flies buzzing around his head? Dr, Gib, he's gonna be wiping down the seat. I guarantee I know I was looking for for a tip we had, we had your son's birthday over here, and all these kids, there were all these snacks, and I wish I had had this tip. Here's a quick way to eat less, according to Harvard researchers, before each meal, take two minutes to focus on your breathing. Yeah, I'm doing okay. And follow this pattern, inhale deeply through your nose, pause, then exhale slowly through your mouth, that will help you eat 400 fewer calories each day and cut four pounds every month. Deep breathing before you eat wakes up your brain's appetite control center so you crave less food. Look, this is, this is part of an overall pattern that we've discussed, which is this need for more mindfulness around our snacking, of being more present in your body with what your needs are before you reach for the for the snacks. My problem is, if I do a deep breath right before I dive into and tear apart the package of Oreos, I'm just going to smell Oreos and be like, You know what I need right now? I need more Oreos. That's how, that's why this would be hard for me. But look again, this is part of this is one aspect of an overall idea of being more mindful of what we eat, of being really intentional about what we put into our bodies. And this can help you get there. Yep, before each meal, you just take two minutes to focus on your breathing. Gib, we've given this tip before on our coaching program, but here it is on the radio, it's time to throw a little party to celebrate your tiny wins. This is from one of our favorites, guy that Gib has interviewed, Dr BJ Fogg, who works at the Stanford human behavior lab. He says we don't focus enough on the small things we accomplish when we do it can be really motivating. It's why he says every day we should be writing down our small wins, even if it's just, I wash the dish dishes instead of leaving them dirty in the sink, small wins, yes, look, you have to find these little moments that you can celebrate. And that is, it is it's super important, because what we do is we make every small setback a big deal, and we only, we don't even celebrate our big wins anymore, because we think it's not cool. But what you need to do is you need to re hijack your dopamine by taking the positive experiences that you have. Hey, I had a great I had a great conversation with my teenage daughter where she didn't tell me that I was the worst person on the planet. That's a small win. I'm gonna celebrate it. You know, I when you know you're coaching a kid's team like I do, and everybody got on base in that game. Hey, that's a small win. We're gonna celebrate it, even if you don't win the Big. Game, you have these small things that you can celebrate, and you start to string that together. All of a sudden, you're living a positive, happier life, and you're actually going to find more wins because you get in the habit of being a winner again. From Dr BJ Fogg, time to throw a little party to celebrate your tiny wins, all of them so Gib, here's a tip. I want to see what you think next time your stress is spiking, psychologists say, grab your childhood teddy bear, raggedy and all or Cabbage Patch Kid Yale scientists call those objects, quote, safety signals, something uplifting and comforting that's never been associated with negativity. Holding a safety signal stimulates the part of your brain that controls thoughts and behaviors, replacing feelings of stress and tension with comfort. We had the thing about people traveling with Teddy Bears. And I actually asked a stewardess about this, and she said, Yes, it's absolutely a thing. Businessmen and women, they carry their teddy bears. A lot of them look there's so there's there's so many fleeting points of there's so few little points of joy in our lives. If you have something that brings you comfort, forget what everybody else thinks and just enjoy the fact that this brings you comfort. And it could be something from your childhood. Look, how much do you wish you could have the blanket that your uncle Beau threw into the fire? That was horrible. We're diving some therapy. It was my night night. Yeah, your night night, and we still talk about it to this day. Don't you wish you could hold on to night night again. Yeah. Exactly. Yeah, exactly, yeah. So, so if you I refuse to let anybody watch the thing, though, so, but my daughter, my middle daughter, has this, had the same thing. She still has hers, and even though she's 11 years old and doesn't need it the way she did it when she was a baby, sometimes when she's had a bad day, I see her, she lays in her bed and she holds the night, night, and look, she would never throw it into the fire. I would not. I'm not your uncle. Bob, smart, yeah, well, I'm just it's a different generation. All I'm saying is, whatever brings you joy, if it's this kind of thing, and this, the research shows that it is safety inducing. It does make you feel better. Please just do it. So Gib, we've talked a lot about the benefits of dill pickle juice. We get a lot of emails about it. Now we know from the latest research that pickle juice can prevent cavities as according to the journals frontiers in microbiology, because the microbes contained in the probiotics help eliminate the bacteria that causes tooth decay. The researchers say it doesn't mean you can do shots of pickle juice and skip brushing or flossing, which is what I would do, but you could reduce your risk for cavities by adding a variety of pickled foods to your diet, including dill pickles, Kimchi and sauerkraut. Skip the kimchi. It smells horrible, but it smells horrible because it has the good bacteria that your body needs. That's exactly why you should go for the stinky kimchi, the stinky sauerkraut, the good now, look, I love pickles. I just I go to Costco, and I get a big container of pickles, and I keep them in my fridge, and they're my favorite things. That's my go to snack. So I absolutely love this. Whatever we can do to improve our microbiome with healthy bacteria, and that that means eating fermented foods. We've been talking about this for years. You need to add that to your diet, dill, pickle, kimchi, sauerkraut. Go for all of it. I'll never forget when we were at the Renaissance Fair recently and and you came back from the concession stand and you had, like, an individually wrapped pickle. And the thing was the size of my thigh. Oh, it was, it was massive. You know what? I loved every second. It was nice and sour. I really liked I ate it all day. Yeah, all right, my friends, here we go with some hiring tips that you can use. And Gib is here to add some fuel to them. Here are some tips to help you get hired from the former editor in chief of glamor and self magazines, Cindy leave be into something most companies don't care where you went to college or what you majored in. What they do care about is that you're a passionate person, whether it's a book club a blog about your favorite hobby, maybe you're a marathoner. They want something that shows you're a doer and you make things happen. It's also good to highlight any team sports you participate in. It shows you work well with others. Look, when you hire somebody, you're putting them into a room with somebody else for eight hours a day for the foreseeable future. This concept, you want somebody that fits into the organization as it exists. This is why, and you can find them all over online. Google is sort of notorious for having these unorthodox hiring practices where they ask strange questions, like, what would you do with an elephant if you couldn't sell it or give it away, that kind of thing, really, yep, because what they're trying to do is see how you approach the world, see how you approach problems that you never thought of. And if you are passionate about something, if you play on team sports, you're showing that you are a team player and you're somebody that that gets very excited about stuff. They just want to see. It's the same thing with the first date. They want to see that you care about something. Nobody wants to hire Daria from the MTV sitcom. Nobody wants the, you know, the somebody who's just a general malaise about everything. Daria from the it's a great reference. Look it up. I will solid. Thank you. That's it for the show today. Thank you guys so much for listening. If you like the show, please rate comment and subscribe on Apple podcast. Spotify, wherever you get your podcast. It helps us out a lot. When you do that, we also try to respond to every mention the show, every DM about the show. You can tell us what you think about it. Because ultimately, we do the show for you guys. So thank you so much for listening. You.