IFYL2GO: Ozempic Airlines; Shoplifting Whiter Teeth; Don’t Wear Crocs to a Wedding

In this episode we discuss:

Bar Soap vs Body Wash.

Brainiac Hobbies.

Shower in the Morning.

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 another if y l to go edition of the podcast. That's where we take parts of our radio show intelligence for your life. We mix it, we match it. We put it together from this week for you to put into your pocket and take with you wherever you go. It's like we're putting a radio in your pocket. Ifyl to go. Here we go, folks. Here is me and John Tesh, all right, Gib, according to a recent survey, we love these right 64% of people surveyed prefer to take a shower in the morning, and they take an average of nine minutes and 15 seconds to do that. This is what they're admitting to. Of course, people aren't timing them with it. What do you think your eldest daughter were like 90 minutes? Oh, she it's, it's, she's never run out of water. Well, we have, we have a tankless hot water heater. Half of the reason we have it is for my teenage daughter, who takes very long, very hot showers. She is look when it comes to her ablutions, getting ready for getting ready in the morning, getting ready for bed at night, when she's tired, she takes a long time to do everything. But I will say in her defense, there is something really luxurious after a long, hard day, about taking a long, hot shower. I respect it. I just It annoys me, and my gas bill is huge, and 30% of people surveyed under the age of 30 don't use a bar soap anymore. So it's that stuff they use the body washes. Yeah, I'm a bar soap guy. I like a bar soap with an exfoliant in it. Yeah, for a lot of people, it is drying of this. That's like sandpaper, right? The exfoliant? Well, they don't actually put it's like oatmeal kernels, but yes, I've seen those in the store. Yeah, is that called loofah? The loofah is the sponge thing on the side that you put the soap on. This bar soap with exfoliant has the grit in it, and you use it to, like, scrub the dead skin off of your body. And I that is my luxury time is when I just feel all scrubbed and nice, I guess for, like, for decades, I've had dead skin. I have never done this. You got you have to exfoliate. Okay, all right, I'll get back to you, please. John tesher, Gib Gerard, in a poll of adults, has revealed that the average person, person first picked a favorite candy around the age of 11, and has stuck with it ever since this is so true, more or less, while for me, it was dots, and it still is. Oh, and mom is dots all day long. And this is what keeps them all lick a maid, though, do we still have lick a maid? Now we do have lick a maid. In fact, I have caught my kids with because here's the problem, Lika made it's just sugar on a little on a stick. Colored Yes. Colored sugar, yeah. And so I've caught my kids with that in their room, but because if you don't finish it all, they just leave it in the little pouches, and then, you know, that's how you get ants. So I can't really look at me. It's great if you're out and about, but not, it's not a good in home. It's not a good in home. Candy like a live camera in your house. Just put it right up there. Yes, just for donations. For me, I picked like, Butterfinger and Reese's Pieces, and I've stuck with it, anything chocolate peanut butter I will have for the rest of my life. Yeah, and, you know, there's, there's also just a Hershey's candy bar. Oh, not dark chocolate, milk chocolate. Look, there's a there's a time to reap, a time to sow, a time for peace, a time for war, and a time for a Hershey's. I just made it biblical. I know a time for a Hershey's. Gib, our business manager sends me chocolate. Sends a family chocolate Christmas. Yeah, it's all dark chocolate. I don't have the heart to tell him that I don't eat dark chocolate, but I love it, because this giant brick of dark chocolate in the pantry, and I go in there and I have it for half a year or I don't shut it off. What was I talking about no bar? So no, this is everybody picks their favorite candy. Oh, that's right, that's right there. Wow. Okay, thank you. All right, Gib, let's talk about what, what women want. There's a new Pew Research study now we do know already, because we reported on this, that that it's more than 50% of women don't like men in sandals now. Now, 60% of women say they dislike it when a man wears crocs. Here's the thing, I look I wear sandals a lot. I wear sandals a lot because I live in a warm climate and I'm able to I don't have to get fully dressed. I drive the kids to school, I come to the radio studio, all that stuff. But there is a lack of attention to detail that comes with it. And crocs are very comfortable. Everybody in my family owns a pair of crocs, but they are not if you're you can wear crocs to the dock. You can wear crocs to go do X, Y or Z activity, like if you're going to your kids soccer game, wear the crocs. But just the issue is, don't wear crocs to date night, right? Yeah. Don't wear crocs a date night. Don't wear crocs to a nice sit down restaurant or even a good like loungy bar. Oh, we're gonna have martinis after this. Then leave the crocs. Get out. Get a closed toed shoe. You know, that's all you need. My friend Lenny in New York, when he goes on first dates, he wears a fishing vest, and he says that the speaking of Crocs and sandals, he says, If. If the if the girl likes the fishing, if she thinks it's cool, then he, then he'll ask her out on a second date. Also, if she orders surf and turf and doesn't eat the whole thing, he'll never talk to her again. I mean, she's got to get the surf and turf if he's wearing a fishing vest. Exactly. I think Scotty has the same these rules, you know, they help some people and they are disgusting for others. You know, of course, all of us here in the John Tesh radio program want you, if you, if you decide to have a cocktail, we want you to drink responsibly. Do not get in the car, please. So we're going to talk about alcohol now. They ready. Here it is. Here's the headline. We now know, according to research study, that people eat 30% more nachos when they are legally drunk? Yeah, I'm surprised. It's like 30% everybody's driving around the car going this. Also, water is wet, like when you have a couple of cocktails. First of all, a lot of bars serve really good nachos, period. Like they have, like that. It's an easy food because all the ingredients can be used for all kinds of stuff. So they'll have, if the bar, if the bar has a restaurant, they usually have nachos. So they're gonna be able to bring you out nachos. You know why they do that? Right? It's the salt, and you're gonna drink more. There you go. You're gonna stay longer, you're gonna drink more. You're gonna and it's also, you know, you're less likely to get belligerent because you have a little bit of food in your belly. And and nachos are the kind of food where, if your brain signals are not telling you to stop, you're never gonna stop, right? You're never gonna stop. Like, if I've had a margarita and I'm at a Mexican restaurant, I don't stop eating chips and salsa until I have to leave. That's it. So the same thing's gonna be true if I'm at a bar and there's nachos, I'm not gonna stop eating the nachos. It's way more than 30% more Absolutely. All right, we have the latest here. Gib from the Journal of Alzheimer's disease. They say regularly, doing hobbies like putting together puzzles, playing board games and crafting can cut a person's dementia risk in half. Your whole family is never going to have the dementia. It's it look, it's important to engage your brain. I've said this so many times. I've said on our coaching calls, we said it on, on the air a bunch look, the more you the more you specialize in life, and the more routine you get. It's good for being able to do stuff easily, without a lot of mental energy, but you have to find places where you exert mental energy, otherwise your brain will atrophy. The parts of your brain that keep you alive, that keep you that keep you focused, that keep you from getting dementia, will atrophy. So a good hobby that involves good, a good amount of thinking, whether it's online chess or online crosswords or building stuff with your hands, it's, it's super important for keeping you engaged and vibrant, especially as you get a little bit old. Yeah, love it. Okay? From our health and wellness files, Gib, it turns out, if we're looking for a snack that won't spike our blood sugar, we should try dates. Oh, this is a life hack. A study in the nutrition Journal found that people with type two diabetes could eat up to 10 dates without a sugar spike. Why? Because they are loaded with fiber, so the sugar in dates enters the bloodstream slowly, instead of all at once, plus dates are rich in magnesium and potassium. That's called like the net carb effect, right where you can wait if you, if you look at a label and you see 18 grams of sugar, but there's 10 grams of fiber, you can subtract the fibers. You only count says eight grams of sugar, if you're if you're trying to be in ketosis or something like that, fiber slows it down. Fiber slows it down. Fiber is good for you. Also. The sugar in dates is not as it doesn't spike your blood sugar the way that refined white sugar does. It also. And here's why it's such a life hack. It satiates your desire for sugar because it is very sweet on the tongue, and it does begin to prime you to say, Oh, I just had something sweet. So it actually it does two things. One is it's it's actually digests more slowly and keeps your blood sugar from spiking. So that's good. But it also it fits the craving. So having a little bit of a few dates around every once in a while is a great way, if you're trying to cut sugar to get your sweet tooth satiated without having the blood sugar spike. Yeah, well done. So let's admit it, sometimes we eat late at night. Guilty me too, but the experts from Northwestern say we should try not to eat any later than 10pm people who can do this are less likely to develop health problems like diabetes. Eating late scrambles our body's internal clock, it throws off our blood sugar, and in the long term, it could lead to diabetes type two. Even better, stop eating at least three hours before bedtime, and you'll get more sleep because your body's not trying to digest. It's going to sleep. I've had this issue because we know we go on the road. You're done it at 11. Yeah, you're done at 11 o'clock, and you're starving because you just did a show, so you got to get a little bit of food in your system. But then all of a sudden, now you've just eaten, you've come down from the show, you've just eaten, and now you gotta go to sleep. It's really hard to fall asleep at that point. So I've had insomnia when we've traveled. I've had all kinds of issues at home. I have found I've gotten a lot better about this where an intermittent fasting helps with that. That's where I stop eating at a certain time of night. My sleep gets better. My blood sugar is more regulated. All of those things are benefited from the fact that I have a hard out of what I stop eating. Yeah, at the Hilton Garden Inn, too, when we get back there at 11 o'clock at night, they've got that little locker thing where you got the. Behavior. Hagen Das, get a hagendas, pepperoni pizza, hot pocket, yeah, and a cookie, yeah. There it is in a Pepsi, yeah. So we shouldn't be preaching on this stuff. I want to say, do as we say, not as you do. Boy, I never, I didn't see this one coming. Gib, weight loss medications, apparently, are going to be big money. Big money savers for airlines. According to CNBC, analysts are predicting a windfall for the airline industry now that the new weight loss pills are available, 10% even just a 10% reduction in the weight of the average passenger, can slash the weight of the total aircraft by 2% that leads to significant savings on jet fuel. There you go. Yeah. GLP, airline, that actually is that a bad idea. Only people on GOP ones can fly on our airline this. Look, this is there's a reason why GOP ones are so popular. There's a reason why they are so successful. There is a reason why we needed them, and it's because so much of our society's BMI have been going our body mass indexes have been going through the roof. And this is a helpful way of regaining control over our bodies. So for that, it is a huge boon. And then all of these ancillary effects, the size of seats is going to get to go down. The construction quality of desk chairs can be a little bit better. And obviously airlines are going to save a little bit of money. I think, I think overall, we needed this, yeah, the four airlines, major airlines, could collectively save nearly $600 million a year and pass the savings on to us. All right? Gib, so I saw this that just came in another research study that 15% of people who shoplift steel teeth whitener. So I put it into I put it into chat GPT, because I'm like, why? First of all, they are high value, small size teeth whitening kits and strips cost between $30 and $80 right? They're small, lightweight and easy to conceal. And then the embarrassment factor. Some shoplifters report that they feel awkward buying cosmetic enhancement items. So rationalized, they rationalize the theft is avoiding judgment or interaction. I mean, I've seen you see this with some other devices and items that where you know you, there's an embarrassment factor. I understand. It's why I ordered a pizza online. By the way, I don't go into the store, so you get your teeth whitening online, your pizza online, yeah. I mean, look, nobody wants to see the guy I know my I think there's a thing with it where you I know my teeth are yellow. I'm working on it. See, when you're checking out. It's also a reason why cheese is so shoplifted, because, again, it's worth a lot of money per gram, right? So the more you batteries too, right? Yeah. So you're able to, if you're able to get it out, but I think we need to just remove the stigma. It's okay to want to get your teeth whitened. Yeah, it's okay to do this. You don't need to, you don't need to shoplift. I bet you there's people out there who are, like, ethical shoplifters. They get, they take the they take the teeth whitening thing, and they hide it in their coat, and they leave, but they like, drop a 20 on their way out. Like, oh, that would be me, right. Do that, but I don't want to steal exact there it is. All right, Gib, here we go with a trick to control your spending. Beware of those digital chat bots. So if you've ever been on a retail website, when a little box pops up and offers to help you shop or asks what you're looking for, experts from Forbes magazine say, ignore it, because when we have a conversation with a digital assistant, we're more likely to splurge. That's especially true if the chat bot uses emojis like a waving hand or a smiley face when we feel like, when we feel acknowledged by the bot, it seems more human. This is look, this is the this is why big department stores have personal shoppers, and it's why you end up buying more when, when you're in Sephora and the person comes up to you, like, Do you need any help with anything today, all of a sudden you feel obligated because you're taking up somebody's time. And the digital they figured out it doesn't cost them any more money. There's no person on the other end of it. It's a digital chat bot. But if they just have that, you're gonna feel that psychological connection like, oh, I should. I should probably buy a 12 pack of, you know, crew cut socks, athletic socks. Otherwise, otherwise, I've wasted the chat bots time. Yeah, you know who this won't work on? Who? Your mom? Yeah, gosh, yeah, nothing works on her. No, she'll get frustrated that it's a chat bot, not a person, and then she'll never shop there again. It'll backfire. Yeah, absolutely be careful with that, too. I don't think they care. Thanks. 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.