IFYL2GO: TikTok.edu; Find Your True Friends; Pet Painkiller

In this episode we discuss:

The Forever Roll;

The Power of Prayer;

Do’s and Don’ts for Men over 30;

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, and it has been a doozy of a week. And you know what I need when I've had a doozy of a week, I need a little intelligence for my life, a little bit of the radio show that we do every single day, but in my pocket wherever I go and that, folks, is what we have here for you today, a collection of our pieces from this week's radio show, intelligence for life to take with you in your pocket anywhere you want to go. Intelligence for life to go. Here it is me and John Tesh, so Gib, I feel like I got a touch of this when I went back to my alma mater, the news station, WSM in Nashville, and they told me that a lot of their viewers consumed their newscast on on Tiktok. And now we see 48% of high school and college age students say they use Tiktok for help with their homework. I thought it was just dancing, and now it's consuming Intel. Well, first of all, it's still dancing like there's still the dancing on Tiktok. Let's not get it twisted, dancing with homework help. Yeah, if you want to see dumb dances, Tiktok is absolutely the place to go. But look, it should be of no surprise to anybody that these rectangular screens we have in our hands that are connected to all of the world's information 100% of the time, that whatever app you're using is the app that people are going to put the information that you need onto. So there are some great accounts on YouTube, on Tiktok, on Instagram, on all of the different apps that show you how to do basic math problems that show you how to do these kinds how to break down homework. There are a lot of great resources out there, and it's I love, I love when we actually use the power of the information superhighway for good. So yes, you can get homework help on Tiktok. You could ask for homework help, and there are all these people who will respond to you. There are some great ways to use social media, and that is one of them. You know, in the 50s and 60s, we had nothing. Our parents didn't even know how to do math because they had new math Exactly. My father was like, You know what a cigarette is not. I don't understand this guy. Somebody else. My wife is a STEM teacher. I was a math major. I still have trouble helping my kids learn math. They still end up in tears. I Gib, I want you to pay close attention here, because I want you to have have somebody in mind here. New research. Pew Research found that one out of 10 people believe that the true definition, a definition of a true friend, is a friend that's willing to bail them out of jail. I wouldn't even know how to do that. How much money do you have to have? Well, it depends on what you did. That makes sense, okay? Like Shawshank, redemption, so murder, no, no, no, it's a lot of money. Go ahead. So I'm thinking about this. There are a few people I know of in my life. I am absolutely their friend. I don't know if they'd be mine, like there are people I'd be willing to bail out, but I don't know if they'd have an excuse, right? I don't think Greg would bail you out. He might. He would need me to pay him to get to bail me out. Tiger would bail me out. Oh, heartbeat. He would actually get that. He would get you off on the charges as well my wife, my wife, Connie, it would absolutely depend on what it was. There are so many. And it's not the line that you think she would bail you out if it was something that you did to protect her or but if there was anything, if you lied about anything that involved you getting arrested, you're rotting in jail for at least five days. Your wife say why? I don't even know. I think my wife would be like you were sick. I don't even know where to start. I don't even how much. How do you do? Can I bring your credit card? I don't think she would know. I truly believe in this. 49% of adults surveyed recently believed that prayer affects their health in a positive way. I've been very public, yeah, about how not only modern medicine, but but my belief in the healing power of the Word of God has really helped me get through that, through the cancer journey. And I feel like so many more people are now, are now understanding that there's, there's good evidence of consistent prayer. Yes. I mean, look, take out all the if you have a spiritual belief system and you are communing with your God. That is a fantastic way to to to calm yourself and be healed, but but in a completely agnostic sense as well, to sit down and get quiet and focus on your breathing and to and to offload the physical stress of your life, that has been proven time and time again to be helpful. So whether you contextualize it as prayer, you contextualize his meditation. It absolutely works if you have a belief system that really is, it heavily supports the fact that you would be you would benefit from prayer and and it's shown again, like you said time and time again. It's interesting to see some of these YouTubers come into this too, like Joe. Joe Rogan has talked publicly about prayer. Dr. Jordan Peterson, and so there's a lot of great debate on on YouTube and also on Instagram about the power of prayer, yes. So Gib, Don't you hate it when you go to use a bathroom and somebody has left you with one square or an empty roll? Yes? So you, you are the target customer for charmin's Forever role. How is this possible? It's the brand's largest TP roll ever. It costs $35 for a two pack that includes a stainless steel holder and has 1700 sheets and promises to last for a month. Depends on the household, three kids. They say, if the role was fully unspooled, it would be as tall as the Washington Monument. You want something taller. Look, I've seen this thing and I've thought about getting this thing for all of the reasons. Again, you know, family of five in a house, I with it now a teenager, it's I could benefit from having a never ending roll of toilet paper. I would just say, look it up. It is massive. It's like the square footage required to just house the thing I don't have? I don't have room in my bathrooms for a for a spool of toilet paper as big as they have. Maybe there could be, doesn't fit in a traditional holder. Maybe there could be a thing like a dog door where I get where a company pulls up out outside and fills up your page just never ending, like the whole thing service, yeah, instead of a septic tank guy. You have a guy parks outside your house of hooking up to the septic tank. They hook up to your toilet paper dispenser at a certain point. I think we just, what about a bunch of smaller roles that you can replace easily and regularly? They always break down. I see that. I see that in the public toilet, those things are stacked up at the airport. Never works. Okay, Gib, I already know how you feel about this, but let's hear is, let's hear it again, because you're passionate if stores, according to the Journal of Business Research, if stores want to keep their customers happy and coming back, they need to cut back on the self checkout line 100% a new study in the Journal says the kind the self checkout kinds, the kind with an actual human cashier, makes customers more loyal to A store go 100% first of all, it's a face. It's a human being that helps you feel connected to the food and the stuff that you're buying. The other thing is, I understand that some people do not like self checkout lines or do not like talking to other people. They have social anxiety, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. However, I have never gone through a self checkout line and not had an issue that has required somebody to walk over and help me. If they were efficient and worked well, we'd be having a different conversation, but they aren't. There's always a mistake. Somebody has to put in a code. I don't know what the code is for the payers that I'm buying. I like to buy fruits and vegetables. I got to know the code. No, thank you. I'd let a person do it every single time. I prefer it. Not only is it better for the economy to have the jobs than people that are actually going to be a part of working at the store? I like to talk to the people, and I don't have to do the work if you want to give me an employee discount. All day long. If you're not going to give me an employee discount, I would like for you to pay somebody so I don't have to deal with this. You want to be paid to scan, right? You pay me to scan. That's fine. I think that's fair. All right, here's a mood booster for you. I don't think you need a Gib, but sometimes I do think of a time when you did the right thing, like when you took flowers to a sick friend or volunteered for a charity. University of Kansas study found that thinking back on a good deed will trigger strong feelings of pride. It also helps you see the world around you is a brighter, happier place. It's a form of embodied cognition in which our brains associate ethical behavior with lightness and positivity. You're always talking about embodied cognition. Look, if you act like if you act like Superman, you know they you're, you're you're in, you're in the market for truth and justice if you're that person, if you act like Superman by literally just putting your hands on your hips like Superman. If you wear a little something, you can wear like a special you are under ruse or something under your clothes that makes you feel like Superman. You will behave like Superman. You will be happier. We've talked about how when you do things for other people, it's the equivalent of taking Valium, in terms of the the cognitive and emotional effect of helping other people. So the more you do stuff outside of yourself, and the more you act as though you are the kind of person who does that, the happier you will be, the more stable your your neurotransmitters become. It is. It is a it is a cheat code for feeling good all the time. One follow up question, Mr. President, what's an under Roo? Underoo is the underwear that's like, but, but, like, it's like a T shirt and underwear set for a superhero. You'd be like, a onesie. No, it's like, under you. Well, I'll show you. It's under it's a t shirt on right? Now, I don't have, you wouldn't know. Maybe I do. Okay. Now, I know. I think this just didn't Gib, according to public health professor Dr Colleen Dell from the University of Saskatchewan, just 10 minutes with a pet will reduce pain in an emergency room. Patient pets also make patients and healthcare providers more optimistic about health outcomes, because the presence of a therapy dog benefits the patient's experience and serves as a comfort to care providers. If we were to take Leroy the dog to your hospital. No, sure you'd be missing a foot. He is. Look, he is his feet. He hates people that aren't in our family. It's that's where he's just a short dog. So what he can get to is their feet. Yeah, it's not the feet themselves. It's the other. He's so sweet, and he calms my nerves and everything. But boy, in our hospital, he is the end. But when my wife had surgery, he was very comforting to her. That's right, you're in pain, you guys, you cuddle. He is an unbelievably warm and loving dog to like eight of us. And she then everybody else he hates. And he and she didn't grow up as a dog in the house. Person, no, but she, but she, she likes having him around because of the comfort he provided when when she was in pain. So it absolutely works. You just got to make sure you have the right dog. Like, there's a lot of chihuahuas out there. If you're bringing them to a hospital, they're going to be biting the IV out of your arm. They're not actually, I've always wanted a horse. I'm gonna get a horse to bring it to the hospital. They do that, they do that, and then at a certain point you go, there's a horse in the hospital. Is that supposed to be a horse? Those are amazing videos. Really treat yourself, folks. Just search on youtube, horse in the hospital. Is there a horse? It's amazing. It looks so funny, but it really helps. I love this data that relates back to when I was a kid. I was born in 1952 and we talked about this on stage all the time. We do concerts. We have like, an old school rap that we do. And so at one to this really said this connects to that. At one time, 90% of kids played jump rope today. Only 34% of kids have ever done it. I mean, so jumping rope and having your own Potsie for hopscotch, and playing stickball and all the rest of that stuff that was such a big deal. You know, even just playing in a Sears box for two or three days before disintegrated. But none of you kids ever played Nintendo growing up. No jump and jumping rope is just so good for you. Do it to stay in shape. I do, I look Jumping rope is, is amazing cardio. It's, it's, actually, it's, it's good for a number of of muscles, like, it's one of the best overall body workouts you can do. Is jumping rope for just 10 minutes a day. I had to teach myself how to jump rope because I didn't do it a lot as a kid. But my kids go to a school where they do this kind of stuff. Do they do double dutch? They don't do double dutch. That's there. Nobody's that good, but they, but they do do the jumping the jump ropes. And all my kids can jump rope, not, you know, it's not Rocky. They're not sitting there, you know? Yeah, exactly. But they are. But they are, they're able to jump rope. And honestly, it is a great way, if they're, if they're being too active in the house, I just give them a jump rope and tell me, right, oh, yeah. Or I give them a soccer ball and tell them to work on their juggling. That's great parenting. Instead of yelling just like, here, here, do this. I still yell. I still yell. I'm not great. Yeah, here's the jump rope. Get out of my head. I can't help. Here's something I truly believe in, Gib, it's from our relationship files. A whopping 84% of couples admit that taking a road trip strengthened their relationship. We've also had people from the John Gottman relationship Institute talk about that's a great way to test an early relationship is to go camping. Well, that's the thing. It's a test. Yeah, so you're gonna, know, camping, even just a weekend getaway, where you have to deal with the ins and outs of travel, a road trip where you have to deal with, you know, making places on time, making food, a lot of decisions about where to stay, what to do over the course the road trip. That's all of that adds up to test your relationship, and so you're either going to break up very quickly and be like, this is another person for me, or it's going or those trials are going to create intimacy, and that's going to lead to a stronger, longer lasting relationship. What's the what's the movie where the mom and the daughter are talking, and the mom is giving the daughter such a hard time, they're basically on a road trip. And finally, finally she the daughter ends up opening the door and jumping out. Lady Bird, that's Lady Bird, that's Lady Bird. That's a great clip. Sir Ronan jumps out of the car. It's fantastic. So I know there are times when I've on road trips where I wanted to be that that girl, they open up the door and yet you're still married. Yeah, exactly, yeah. Well, I don't, I don't drive, right? Because she wants to be the driver. And there are times really well I have opened up the door. She said, Don't do it. Okay. Well, then be nicer. Exactly, right, Gib, I know that you have many friends that are over the age of 30, so let's see what you think about this. Esquire magazine came out with a list of things a man should never do after he's over the age of 30. See if you agree folks at home or have anything to add. Number one, create his own nickname. Oh, I would say you never create your own nickname. A nickname needs to be organic and needs to come from people around you. I would say to introduce yourself with your nickname if you're over the age of 30, unless it's a very like it's almost on your ID. Kind of nickname. You shouldn't even use it. What was your What was your nickname in school? Gib, annoying chubby kid. I was Tesh. Man. Oh yeah, big daddy. JT, next, never use a wallet that's fastened with Vel. Velcro. Sure, I understand you want to have an adult wallet, but having a wallet that's fastened with Velcro will keep you from spending money because you have to open that thing in public. Next thing a man should never do over the age of 30 is wear Disney themed neckties. What if you're if you're a dad over the age of 30, and you're at your you can wear a Disney themed necktie. I can't tell you how many ties people send me with with piano keys on them I've never worn one of them. Never, ever do that. Next thing not to do is to call shotgun. Yeah, you just take the seat that's available. We're adults. Somebody's gonna get shotgun unless somebody pulls it out in the bank, then hit the floor. Then you can call out. Finally, the last thing you should ever do if you're a man over the age of 30, is say two points every time you throw something in the trash. No, I disagree. Formally. You should just say Kobe, and you should do that until you're 80 years old. I love it. 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.