Cut Your Ponytail; Ride the Lux Bus; Adult Tricycles

In this episode we discuss:

Warm up with a RomCom.

Elder Entrepreneurs, it’s never too late to start a business.

WASH YOUR BEARD!

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. So Gib, I'm not sure why it took me so long to get this, but frozen, especially or canned, fruits and vegetables, according to certified nutritionist Nora minnow, fresh produce can lose up to 55% of its nutrients all the time it's picked to the time it makes it to your grocery store. Frozen fruits and vegetables are typically flash frozen right on the spot. So a lot of these companies, they let the fruits and vegetables ripen in the truck, right? So they don't have as many nutrients. So the better nutrients come from the frozen from the frozen vegetables, the frozen fruit, and it's cheaper. So for me, it's a win, win. I mean, I use it. I'm a big smoothie guy. I will throw that into my smoothies. It's a great way to get my daily fruits and vegetables. So yeah, it's a little bit cheaper. It's actually better for you. It is, in my mind, it is a win, win. Just be aware, some of the canned fruits and vegetables and some of the they add a little bit of sugar to them. Yeah? You that that negates everything we're talking about. So make sure you're getting the real deal. Make sure you're getting just the straight up frozen frozen fruit. That's the way to go. Yeah, thanks to you, I have frozen berries every day. Oh yeah, put them in there with some with some yogurt, Greek yogurt and some milk too. Super food. It's great protein, and also you get all that fiber. It's fantastic. All right, Gib, next time you're feeling chilly, forget the jacket and just turn on a romantic movie. I know you love those. According to the Journal of Consumer Research, study participants who had just had a cold drink or sat in a cold room, they were 83% more likely to choose to watch a romantic movie compared with those who weren't chilly. That was true of men and women. It's because physical coldness activates a need for psychological warmth, yes, and that leads to increased enjoyment of romantic movies. What works for me? Gladiator also gets my blood going. Also all the all the shots of them, like fighting in the desert, yeah, I don't need a romantic movie. The thing about this is that we are such unbelievably simple creatures, right? We see warm emotions. We feel warm on the inside. We're like, we're these little lizards on a rock, and we just warmed by the sun of our own feelings, that is, that is our life. That is how simple our brains work. And I love these little hacks. So feeling cold, this is why all those romantic movies are so popular. Around Christmas time, everybody's sitting in their house a little bit cold, you know that they don't want to turn their heater on. How many Christmas movies are you in? Right? Like a dozen. Keep coming back. They come back every year. They get played at least one to be like, 90 years old. Everybody thinks, oh my gosh, look at him. He's 27 cents. I get sent seven cents in the mail every time. Yeah, exactly Josh. Time for another episode of random intelligence with Gib. Gerard. Gib, first of all, 62% of women in a recent survey said they would not date a guy who had a ponytail. The ponytail is over. Now that's absolutely over. I don't know if it's ever I mean, like, if Fabio needed to get his hair out of his face at the height of his popularity, he could have gotten away with a ponytail. That's and and Brad Pitt in like Legends of the Fall with the long hair. If you're not those two guys in the 90s, you can't have a ponytail. But, you know, I've noticed that people get that now they put now. They put the ponytail on the top. Yeah, they do that. They also do the man bun. Another is another thing. Yeah, okay, one more, if it works. 82% of women say that. In the same survey, say a guy over 30 should never wear an earring. I know a couple people, know a couple of people who have, like fate, like men, you know, in their even in their 50s, who have some of that stuff, unless you are actively fronting a mega stadium size rock band, yes, take the piercings out. Yeah. Take the piercings out. If you're an accountant, you don't get an earring. I'm sorry I remember or or a parrot on your shoulder. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Only you need the mystique of a rock star Otherwise, otherwise just, you know, put on your J Crew and go to work. I think it's one earring on the left and then the parrot on the right. Very specific into character design. Put some thought into this. Gib, here's an interesting statistic. Almost 30% of people employed in their 70s are working for themselves. That's nearly double the share of entrepreneurs in their 60s. That makes roughly 1.3 million entrepreneurs in their 70s running their own businesses. And I think maybe that's because they just got tired of. Quote, unquote, working for the man. They wanted to go off on their own right, or they spent their whole lives building a business, and it's as much a part of them as anything else. So they want to sit there and keep and keep working on their business, as opposed to working for somebody else. Also, you work for somebody else, then you have a retirement plan. You work for yourself. Yeah, you got to either sell the business or, you know, or keep, or keep working it. So it does make sense. I hope, I might, you know, I hope that this is a sign of of people who really are passionate about what they do. Have spent their whole life building something they can't let go of it. It's it's too important to them, and so they keep working because they enjoy it. It's probably Uber drivers too. I mean, that counts Uber drivers. Anybody, anybody that hangs a shingle and does anything, is it? They're an entrepreneur. That's an old school hanging a shingle. Gib, have you heard about this latest travel trend? It's luxury, long distance busses. We first reported on this two years ago, and now it's hotter than ever. Great way to travel because of the high gas prices and the record number of delayed and canceled flights. Yes, indeed. So luxury busses are significantly cheaper than trains and planes because of a lower cost of equipment, fuel and personnel, fewer passengers too. So one company offers like an 18 passenger bus with seats that fold into a flat bed. I've never seen it. That's the key. They come with a pillow and a plush blanket. Yeah, look, if you're somebody you know, there's, there's the, there's this culture nowadays of, you know, you burn the you burn the candle on both ends. You're working all the time. You want to maximize every moment, right? Let's say you're in San Francisco and you got to get to Las Vegas. Yeah, you could catch a flight, but you got to deal with all this stuff beforehand, checking your bag, all that stuff, or or you work your day, and at the end of the day, you just get on the night bus and you sleep your way and then you wake up in Las Vegas and, boom, you're able to approach your approach the next day in Las Vegas. You know, whatever that situation is, whatever those two cities are, this is a fantastic way of maximizing your time. You're just taking your sleep time and you're using it as comfortable travel time. It's crazy. I've never seen a bus with a bed. Oh, it's aside from tour busses. Oh, that's right, but, but the this is the new thing, where they have, like, they have little it's, it's like being in a really nice, first class cabin, but it's on a bus. Yeah? Love it all right? From our health and wellness files, Gib Gerard, if you're looking to make new friends, the experts say, Try finding a way to sing together. And I know that you are a veteran of many different choirs, including, including a Jazz Choir. This is the message from an Oxford University study. The study found singing is one of the fastest ways to promote feelings of closeness and cooperation. Says it's because breeding in unison with other people triggers the release of the bonding hormone oxytocin. Look, it is. It's very bonding. There's a reason why. Why? Some groups, some bands, stay together for so long you get bonded. And it is a well, I do this with my family. I sing with my family in the car, much to my teenage daughter's chagrin, but everybody else seems to enjoy it. There is something about music in general, but singing specifically where, when your bodies are synced in that way, where you are. You are moving to rhythm. You are singing to rhythm. You're playing an instrument to rhythm. That sense of flow and a shared sense of flow, it bonds you, it bonds you. It bonds you intensely. And we now, we have the research to prove it. There's a reason why there's so much drama around these rock bands and acts that that were together for so long, because they're so close that, of course, they start to bump into each other because the singing, the singing makes them close. Fleetwood Mac would have been fine if they were just instrumental musicians, if they weren't all dating each other. No, that's it. They started dating each other because of the singing. Gib, we've had many studies on the power of humming, what it does to Gosh, your whole body, and it's a great way to relieve stress of the latest study tells us, if you hum the chorus of your favorite song, you do that for 30 seconds. It activates rhythmic vibrations within the inner ear that produce calming alpha brain waves. So Cornell University scientists studied this, they say this humming effect is so powerful it can slash your stress by as much as 48% humming the chorus of your favorite song, especially when you're driving, yeah. So look the humming, singing the way that you have to soften your soft palate actually de stresses you. The fact that you have to slow your brain down to do anything to music is super helpful. And then, of course, there's the comfort of your favorite song. All of that adds up to being something that is way more, that is calming for your body and helping you with stress. I want you guys to take this all with a grain of salt. Don't just be sitting there in the middle of like a courtroom hearing, humming to yourself. You're not going, you're not gonna get all you're not gonna, you're not gonna beat the charges. You gotta do this in a private space, and then you like your car, and then you come into the stressful situation, more relax. You could also destroy your relationship, yeah, also beware of what your favorite song is. It might be inappropriate, so just you know, pick a new favorite song. All right, folks from our relationship and dating files, joint bank accounts, that's the key, apparently, to a loving, long, lasting relationship. This comes from a new study now from Cornell. I. The research was done by marketing professor Emily garbinski, and she found couples in serious relationships who combined their finances, they felt more harmonious, more committed, more satisfied with their relationship, and had more common goals. What do you think I mean? Look, study after study after study that we report on shows this. It's a little uncomfortable, especially for people who have, you know, relatively independent lives, and they get married later. It can be a little bit stressful to do this, but study after study shows that this is the best way to create that kind of closeness. It comes from the fact that one, whether you want to or not, you can't hide from you can't hide things from your partner. It increases the amount of trust, and it increases the fact that you guys are invested in the fact that you guys are a couple, that it is not you and her, it is it is the two of you together. That process does a lot for the psychology of your relationship. Let us know the website is, or rather the email address is John at test Comm, John test.com Do you have a joint bank account in your relationship? I do so Gib, I think it was maybe four or five years ago. We reported on this, and I told you that I wanted one of these. Well, they're selling out, and I might not be able to get one. Tricycles for adults, the hot new bike trends still hot. They give the rider more stability, which I really need than a two wheel bike. Tricycles are easier to to mount, become to mount because the middle bar is very low and riders sit up straighter with the pedals positioned in front of the seat. You've seen these things. You have to really try hard to fall off of a tricycle. I could probably do it. You could, if anybody could find a way to fall on a tricycle. It's you. So look, if you're if you're at a point in your life where riding a bike is no longer for you, I get it if you can still ride a bike, I would say the only adult tricycle that I'll accept are those ones with the giant wheels that you can like ride onto the pond or the lake, and also it's a giant tricycle that one's fine for the rest of us. What do we do with the tricycle. I find that the guys, it's mostly men. I find the man I see on. First of all, they have that giant flag that the recumbent, the recumbent, right? It's not gonna stop me from hitting you. But anyway, I thought I find that a lot of these guys, then they're wearing sandals, socks, they right, they have, they have an attitude. Oh, right. It's like, you know, they'll cut me off. I'm in a car, and they'll cut me off, you know. But then again, I want to get in one I'm gonna have like a flag with a Jolly Roger on it, Pirate tricycle, just a reminder. Just because you have the right of way doesn't mean you're protected from getting hit. Saying that I'm gonna board you now. Pop quiz time when it comes to germs, which is worse, men's beards or dog fur. We've seen three different studies on this, and now a new one from the folks in Switzerland found that men's beards harbor more harmful bacteria than dog fur. For the experiment, researchers took swabs from the men's beards and the necks of dogs of various breeds. They found that all the bearded men who ranged in age from 18 to 76 had high microbial counts, but only 75% of the dogs had similarly high microbial counts. I i This is disturbing. Dogs roll around, because that's the thing with their beer, exactly the baseline for a dog and how dirty they are is pretty is pretty high of a baseline. That's a high water mark. Like cats, they're super clean. They're always that's why they have hair balls, right? The dog, the dog doesn't care dogs. Dogs stay dirty. They're they're happy. I mean, obviously, bathe your dogs, all that stuff that now we got to deal with the fact that, what are men doing to their beards, that we're allowing this to be worse than the dog. I just man, we got a lot of unpacking to do. I want to know where the bacteria is coming from, where those beards are going, and why we're not regularly washing our faces. Gentlemen, let's just invest a little face wash. Well, the last sentence here in this study is some of the men's beards tested positive for bacteria that actually posed a threat to human life. What kill you with my beard, like little tardigrades and amoebas are living in your living in your beard, stop. 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.