IFYL2GO: Hidden Dirty Dishes; Sleep vs. Exercise; Toilet Cameras Are Coming!

In this episode we discuss:

The Pain Relieving Power of Nostalgia.

Where to wear your fitness tracker.

The Worst Thanksgiving Food

And many more topics.

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Transcript

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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, a brand new study from the Journal of Neuroscience found, if you have aches and pains, you should watch an old movie you love. Their suggestion is When Harry Met Sally et or big Okay, so there's great movies. They're great, but I have other choices. They found that nostalgic entertainment reduces brain activity in areas that perceive pain, so you get powerful, drug free pain relief by the time the movie is done. I think this happened during covid Because we saw the Netflix data and friends in Seinfeld were like number one and number two, comfort shows. Yeah, shows. You know what's gonna happen. You know how it all works out. It's on in the background, and it just feels good to have it on. The office is like that for a lot of people. And look, there is nothing wrong with this. You had me at watch your favorite old movies, which is something I'm going to do anyway. It's good to know that there's actually a pain benefit. It's amazing to me, all the stuff that we report on, how often we find out what simple creatures we are. You want to feel better in your body, feel better and more comforted in your mind, and that's all it takes. All of a sudden chronic pain starts to go away. I think the office is probably a good, good suggestion from you, because all those characters are so quirky, you just feel better about yourself. Oh my gosh, can you imagine? Yeah, well, my job is not that bad. I don't have that guy breathing down my neck all the time. Exactly. Here's an interesting statistic. Gib Gerard as father of two girls and a boy, and the girls are, one of them is getting ready to go into into junior high. The other one is in seventh grade, right? Yeah. Seventh grade, sixth, sixth and my granddaughters, yeah. So 40% of high school girls play organized sports today, compared with 7% that did in the 1970s look, we know I talked about this. What's great news. I love that. It's, it's phenomenal news. It means that, you know, it means that certain things are working. And look, I talk about this all the time when we do the coaching calls with with our with our group, and that is, you know, my kids all play sports, and they don't play sports necessarily, because I believe that one day they are all going to be professional athletes or even necessarily get scholarships. But because Sports teaches us about our lives, about what it means to to put a lot of effort into something, into and to reap those rewards, what it means to overcome hardship, what it means to lose with dignity, win with dignity. All of these things are life lessons that they're going to have to take with them into adulthood. And that is why my kids play sports. And the more kids that do it, I think, I think the better society will be with people who understand those feelings. Yeah, I did too. I mean, it's just, it's great to see, you know, the kids that are girls and boys that are playing sports, they don't have iPads in their hands. No, you can't, otherwise a ball hit you in the face. There we go with more random intelligence, Gib, we now know that 11% of North American households, somebody in the household admits to having dirty dishes under one of their beds. I mentioned this to you and mom, and mom was like, Are you kidding me? And you said, Yeah, my daughter would do this. So I have a teenage daughter. She's very young teenager, but she's a teenage daughter, and she absolutely has dirty dishes somewhere in her room at all times, because she'll she'll go in, she'll be doing her homework, and she has her headphones on, and she doesn't want the world to talk to her, and she goes back into her room and she listens to her music, and she does her homework with her snack. And then she has no inclination to put those, those dishes back in the sink, and I am sure they are rotting under her bed, and we have an infestation of something. But I I can't go in that room. I refuse to. Ernest heckleton, heckleton Shackleton, Shackleton, Shackleford, Shackleton. He would not explore those the mounds of clothes that are all over her room. The great explorer, yeah, I actually had a friend who used to he showered with his dog so he could watch his watch his dog in the shower. But he also that's how he washed, washed his, his his pots and pants in the shower. I mean, as disturbing as I find that, as Lenny, having a teenage daughter is more disturbing than that. There we go. Tie. So Gib, I sort of did this naturally, because I like to wear my watch on my on my non dominant hand. But the technology website C NET says, If you want to get a more accurate reading from your fitness tracker and tracker and so many of us have these things now, wear it on your non dominant hand. That way it won't. Use your emotions like whisking an omelet. These are their examples, whisking an omelet or applying makeup with exercise, yeah, you don't realize how much more effort you're actually using with your dominant hand on a daily basis. So that when you when you wear the tracker on the non dominant hand, yeah, if you switch, you really see a huge difference in the number of steps you're taking, and it really only counts the steps. It doesn't count the dishwashing and the, you know, the even the turning of a doorknob, all of these activities that you do with your dominant hand start to go away. Yeah, my wife was bragging about her 10,000 steps the other day, and I said, I said, eyelashes. Putting her eyelashes. What are you talking about? No, that doesn't count as steps. I saw. I texted her this thing, working on those eyelashes busted 10,000 steps. Gib, I know you're a technology guy and you're also very healthy, a longevity guy. Apparently we're gonna be putting a camera in your toilet. Nope. So Kohler, yo, wait, wait for it. Kohler just announced a $600 toilet camera called decoda, not duh D. The camera attaches to your toilet bowl and takes pictures of what's inside, not inside you. It requires a finger, it requires a fingerprint scan to sign in, and uses an optical sensor to analyze your gut health and hydration. It can also potentially detect blood in your urine or or stool. And they say, they say that Dakota sensors see into your toilet and nowhere else, quote, unquote cool, because, come on, have it for underwear now. I Oh, do they? Oh, yeah, it'll detect your underwear. Can detect diabetes. Live from the toilet bowl at a Gib Gerard show. At a certain point we need, we need to go back to dumb appliances, because what happens if there is a server outage and all of a sudden you can't flush your toilet, because the server that helps use your toilet. Camera won't allow any you know, won't verify your fingerprints. You can't flush the toilet, and so you're sitting there waiting for somebody to to unplug and then replug in some server in the middle of nowhere in order to in order to be able to flush. That's called a cold boot. It's a cold boot. Turn it on, turn it back. I'm just saying I want wi Fi's down. I have no idea what's going on my toilet Exactly, exactly. Oh, is it the Wi Fi is out, and now you can't flush, and we're done here. So Gib, you and I both know that sleep and exercise are both crucial for good health. So when you haven't had a full night's sleep, is it better to sleep in a bit or get up and exercise? Mayo Clinic researchers say if you have to choose one or the other, just go with sleep because it is, quote, unquote foundational. Yeah. I mean, see, I always thought that the best way to get your sleep under control was to get up at the same time every day, right? And that's something that we've talked about a lot like that. If you can just get your body used to waking up at the same time every day you can stop, you stop having caffeine after a certain point in the day, eventually, your your sleep time will become early enough to give you the right amount of sleep. And I always, I always feel like getting up and exercising, regardless of what I did the night before, is the best way to keep my clock set. I will say, though, especially as I get older, the more disrupted my sleep is, the harder it is to do everything in the day. So I respect the fact that the research is that getting your sleep is way more important than getting the exercise in but I believe, and again, we reported on other stories about this, that if you can get up at the same time every day, and you can start to build your schedule around waking up at the same time every day. That is the recipe for getting sleep and exercise together in a way that is harmonious for your life. I agree with you. I would go, I would go and exercise and then plan to take a nap. Hell yeah. That's yeah. That's you love taking naps. I do. I do because I don't have three kids in my house jumping on my head. That's true. Not today, anyway. All right. Gib, in a recent Pew Research Study, couples were asked to describe their spouse using one word, okay, number one answer, all the way across the board, was stubborn. Number two was sweet. I mean, I mean it's my I mean we're both thing. I mean my wife is she's stubborn and sweet. Stubbornly, yes, yes. She's stubbornly. Sweet, yes, yes. I think, I think they seem like they are contradictory terms, that you can't be stubborn and sweet, that stubborn is smart. This is smart is rude and sweet is kind. But I would say the deeper into a relationship you get, the more you realize that stubbornness, while frustrating, does not make your partner any less sweet than they were, there are still kindnesses that happen, even when they dig their heels in on something that you don't think matters at all, and you wish they would just get over it and stop making it a big deal, but yet they bring it up every single day. Not I'm just saying that that could also coexist with being kind and sweet and. Really nice. Well, if my spouse was my spouse wasn't stubborn, I probably wouldn't be alive as stubborn as she was with doctors. In this case, stubbornness is a government. If you weren't stubborn, your kids would be but it'd be a free for all. Yes, if I wasn't stubborn, my kid, my I think my daughter would still be in bed. Now here's an interesting study. The recent study found that kids today cannot run as fast as their parents did when they were kids. Why do you think? Gib, oh, I probably because there's a lot less time spent in competition with other the kids now that when we were younger, there was more running around the neighborhood. Yeah? And you you had to run for your functional running. Yeah, you had to run for your life because their bully was coming after you or something? Yeah, Paul McGuinness had a switch switchblade, right? So you're you were running with a whole different fight or flight response than kids today. Even understand is that, again, there's a big reason why I try to get my kids, my kids ride bikes around the neighborhood. My kids are do as many sports as we can squeeze into it's for this reason is because I want them to be as active as my wife and I were, you know. And there's, there was also a study that showed that the among the world class record holders for the for the mile, they're usually like fourth or fifth in line, in the in the in the pecking order of kids in the phone, yes, because those kids are always trying to keep up with the older siblings Exactly. There is no bigger motivator through the most formative years of your life as trying to keep up with and not getting beaten up by your older sibling. That's why your son is so fast. That's why he's so fast. That's why my middle daughter is so fast. She's because my oldest daughter has a big kick, and they both have to jump really quickly out of her way, and that that's the kind of stuff that happens on the Savannah and in my house, perfect. All right, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, here we go with the with the top five habits that annoy your spouse the most. Everything that I do, we're gonna go from number five, keeping score in the relationship. I try to do this. It never works. Don't do it. Don't do it. You know, if you're keeping score, it means you're looking for ways to be resented, to be resentful. And I recommend, I recommend trying to do 99% of the work in your relationship. And the more you're trying to do 99% of the work, the more your spouse actually shows up for you. It's, it's a surprising announcement. We think it's supposed to be 5050, and we want to keep score. And the let, the more we let go of that, the better your relationship is going to be. Number four, spending money irresponsibly, yeah. I mean, especially, I mean that's, that's family's resources, that you're, that you're, you know, look, I like, I like, a remote controlled drone flying around my house as much as the next guy, but, but you know, if it's between that and groceries this week, you got to choose the groceries. At least we can hide the Amazon packages. Number three, bragging about yourself. Yeah, let your spouse do it for you. In fact, brag about your spouse as much as possible. Yep, yep. Number two. Wait for number one. Number two. Thing that annoys your spouse the most, according to the recent survey, looking at your phone when you're together, look, you're what you're saying is you're not important. What you're saying is you're not a priority. And nobody wants to feel like that with the person is supposed to be the most important person? Am I number one the way you chew you I mean, I feel attacked. I feel like this is directed right at me. And you, yeah, I mean, the way you it's because it's just the noise while you're eating, and maybe it's been a long day, and just the extra stimulation. There's a lot of stimulating stuff going on in my house. And I will tell you the one last thing of having somebody chew in your ear is enough to send either one of us over the over the river. All right? Gib Gerard, here we go. According to the most recent survey, the most disliked Thanksgiving food is cranberry sauce. I was gonna let you guess, sure, yeah, cranberry sauce. I disagree. I think, Well, I think cranberry sauce, which just comes out of that can. I love that stuff, maybe because it's got a lot of sugar in it. Sugar in it. But if you start, if you start doing what my mom used to do, where you put, you make cranberry mold, and you put in, you put, like, nuts and you put in marshmallows, that stuff is not supposed to be in Cranberry. You say, whatever you want. And look you everybody can have their least favorite thing. But there is not. I adore the Thanksgiving feast. I love every single dish. Oh, you do your sweet potatoes with marshmallows. Oh, you do your sweet potatoes without Oh, you use yams. Oh, you use real sweet potatoes. I don't care. Give me all four. I'll try them all, you know. Oh, you use the green beans from the can. You get your green beans fresh, one pile of each on my plate, please. I love it all. I'll take the cranberry mold, the cranberry sauce, the light meat, the dark meat. I love Thanksgiving dinner. It is my favorite meal of the year. I wish, I wish we did it twice, but you know the specialness of that one meal, I absolutely love it. So let cranberry sauce be your least favorite thing. I will take your helping and put it on my plate. In this house, we have it five times because we just keep eating the sandwiches. It's okay. You can put the you can put the cranberry mold in the sand. It's a little bit sweet, little bit tart. Oh, come on, that's it for the show today. 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