IFYL2GO: Cell Service Lies; Super Bowl Babies; Porta Potty Phones

In this episode we discuss:

Floppy Disk Memories.

Dad Lunches.

Butterfly Benefits.

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 ifyl to go episode of the show. That's where we take parts of the radio show from this last week. We we mix it down, put it into the podcast, so you can put it in your pocket and take it with you wherever you go. It's I have file to go. You listen to it when you want, where you want. That's what we're offering. Here we go. Here is intelligence for your life with me and John Tesh, gotta love these pew research studies, Gib, this just in nearly 20% of people admit to not running since high school. Yeah, so this is, look, I know you went through a little bit of this. I went through about went through it for a second because we were both athletes in college, and I did not, I was I played water polo and I did not swim like for exercise for a really long time after college, because I always associated it with putting in work that I was getting yelled at to do. So if you're in high school and they're like, you know, go run the mile before math class, then you finally graduate high school, you're like, I'm not running the mile before math class ever again in my life. And you have to this compulsory behavior where we are told we have to do something, something has to change in our brains, to where we actually choose to do it for ourselves later in life, and for me, that clocked in about a couple years after college, was like, Oh, I actually really like exercising for the sake of exercising. I don't need a coach yelling at me to do it. If that is you, consider getting into some group fitness programs where they yell at you to do it. It'll feel just like how feel just like high school all over again. Yeah. By the way, Gib and I both run marathons, and we ran one together, and it's not the marathon that'll wipe you out, it's the training. Why I don't train just so you know, all right, Gib, here's an interesting bit of data. It turns out that nine months after a Super Bowl victory, there's an increase in births, of course, by fans of the winning team. Yep, the uptick was first studied after New Orleans won the over the Indianapolis Colts Super Bowl. 44 the number of births rose about 25% over the prior year. Here's the here's the I have a friend. I don't know what the takeaway who's a big Yankees fan, and he has a daughter, and she's about the age that you would have to be to have, you know, to coincide with the last time the Yankees won the World Series. My point being, does she know this? Hopefully she does. The thing is, sports convey a lot of emotion, right? We watch sports, we feel a lot of big emotions, and the high of winning, I imagine, leads to couples being happy in their own right, and this leads to the increased number of births. I just I have such a different relationship to sports, like I've never, I've never watched the Super Bowl or the World Series or something. And thought, You know what, I need to make an 18 year minimum commitment starting right now. That was really well done, ladies and gentlemen. If you want a lesson in how to deal with that, you just got one. I love, I love doing this radio show with you, Gib, and I love just sort of finding random facts and then seeing what happens. So we now know that 64% of people born after the year, 2000 have never heard the sound of a floppy disk. And it's basically this because we, I grew up on it, sort of Gib, actually here, you hear it's perfect. You hear it spin, and then you also know the sound when it doesn't find the data correctly, and it like it just keeps spinning. You're like, oh, something's wrong. It has that goes on for too long, and they're huge. These things, well, depending on what it is, look my kids have no concept of any of this stuff. Everything is in the cloud. Now they do not. There's no home based storage for for anything, they barely understand external hard drives, which is, you know, which is crazy. The only reason they know about about landline phones is because they have them in your house. The term hang up doesn't make sense to them. In fact, they don't even understand why the logo for save looks like a floppy disk, because they've never had to save to a floppy disk. I don't even have a disk drive on any of my computers in the house anymore. It is they missed out on the joy of losing one of those things or leaving it in your car, and the sun warps it, and then you can never use it again. I'll never forget when your middle child picked up the phone because I asked her to, like, you know, to call for a pizza, right? And she picks up the phone and she goes, she goes, pop up. There's this weird sound. Oh, so much is lost. Jon Tester, Gib Gerard and Gib, we now know that 41% of people have lied about having no cell service. How does this work? You basically, why didn't you call me? Yesterday I was out of coverage, right? Which, you know, it happens, but at the same time, like, I think we just kind of use it as a default of, like, I forgot to call you, but you don't want to admit that, so you say you're out of coverage. Is it funny? Because you're you are a movie aficionado and an actor, yeah, how cell cell phones have changed the horror film 100% so I've actually been in a horror film where we know it existed. It exists post cell phone. So you have to write it in. You have to have the dialog where you go past a certain point where cell phones stop working, or the bad guy has to have like a Faraday cage that keeps the keeps the signal from getting through that you have to write that in now, because think about all of these great plots in movie and stage where that would be completely upended just by being able to call like, if Romeo could have texted Juliet, they would have been fine. She wouldn't have died, and he wouldn't have died. John Chester, Gib, Gerard and Gib, you're part of this group. More men now prepare kids lunches during the school year than women. Yeah, so I'm a big I like cooking for my family. I like making the lunches. I like preparing, making dinners, stuff like that. I think this is a function, though, look of certain changing dynamics overall, which is, people are waiting longer and longer to have kids. Fewer people are choosing to have kids. So the people that are having kids, this is a little bit like the divorce rate going down. People that are getting married, people that are having children, are people that really want to do that. There's no societal expectation anymore. You can live a very happy, fulfilled life without doing those things. But if you do do it. It's because you really want to do it, and if you want to do it, it's a real joy. I love being a dad. I love doing this stuff with my kids. Okay, I'm happy to do it. Okay, so what's the easiest lunch? The quickest lunch to make a peanut butter and joy sandwich, peanut butter and joy sandwich bag of chips, and then if you have, like, some kind of drink you can throw in there, or some, like, gummy snacks. But those are all highly processed. I try to avoid that stuff. Do you cut the crust off? I don't cut the crust off. I make them eat the crust. But I also, I will also sometimes do, like a full grilled sandwich with Turkey and like different mustards. And then I'll slice the vegetables a certain way. And I like, I take it seriously about it, and then they trade it for other stuff. They trade it for other stuff. But look, as long as the market value is high, I'm happy. All right. You intelligent people, if you have that butterflies in your stomach, feeling, experts now say that's a good thing. According to the journal clinical psychological science, the nervous jitters means your body is ready, readying itself to perform at your best. It's because when we get that feeling, the body is sending more blood and oxygen to our brain and muscles. How about that? Yeah, that feeling. But like you. People always say this, if you stop feeling that bit of fear before you walk on to stay on the stage, you're gonna be bad, right? You're gonna be bad, or it's time to quit. Because if it doesn't, if it doesn't get you high like that, meaning it doesn't, it doesn't turn on all the parts of your brain and get you excited, it's not worth it. It's a lot of work if you don't enjoy it. And that butterfly feeling means that you are invested in the stakes, invested in the outcome. So that is where the joy comes from, and you are going to do better if you can learn to focus through those kinds of jitters. I agree. If you listen to the show, you know that Gib loves the scent of lavender. I do. I like I like scented candles. I'm not afraid. Now there's a natural way to boost your brain power you just sniff lavender. The Journal of Medical signals and sensors found that it can improve your ability to multitask. For the study, people performed faster, more accurately on task switching tests after taking five whiffs of lavender essential oil, the aroma increases the activity of brain waves associated with, quote, cognitive flexibility. You know, look, we've talked about the importance of essential oils and how to how to use that to your advantage, to, you know, trick your brain into stuff about how to use it while you're studying so that, and then to use that same smell when you go to take the test trigger parts of your brain. That's good. And I got made fun of just at the beginning of this for liking the smell of lavender, but you have an essential oil diffuser in your in your studio for this exact reason for we like those smells and they turn your brain on. So yes, lavender is fantastic. It's also really nice to relax at the end of a hard day. I like lavender. Yeah, I have a lavender eye mask too. See, yeah, see this intelligence you can use. All right, movie goers, it could be you could be a movie watcher at home, too. If you're going to watch a scary movie, we want to make sure you keep the candy out of arms reach, because researchers at Arizona State say watching a gory movie or even a crime thriller makes you think about death, which can trigger stress eating, even when you're not hungry and when we're riveted to the screen, we're not paying attention to how much food we're shoveling in our mouth. I mean, I can even if I get dragged to romantic a romantic comedy, same thing. Oh, yeah. But look, there's all the margins I'm trying to get out of their theater. I like all movies, but all the margins of the movie. Theater are in buying candy, sodas and popcorn, right? That's where they make their money. So they are banking on the fact that you're mindlessly eating. If I could avoid finishing all of my popcorn before the trailers are over, I would mindlessly eat throughout the whole movie. That's why they make the giant steamer and trunk size popcorn now, because they know if they keep giving it to us, we'll keep eating it, and they can charge whatever they want. And I do this, scary movies, funny movies, whatever. I love the experience of popcorn, little soda, little candy, little popcorn, little soda. Look, I do it. I do it the whole movie. And then I now I've gotten to an age where I have to get up and use the restroom because I can't make it the whole movie and consume at that rate anymore. I like the fact that the movies are louder now, because we're all gonna be deaf, but I can just I can eat and not have to worry about being the only one going that's why they turned it up. Oh, we can't listen to John chomping set the DV level a little bit higher. Gib will never forget going to a Promise Keepers event with 80,000 men at the LA Coliseum, and there was a friend of ours, Jerry gross, and he went to the port a potty, and he dropped his Nokia cell phone many, many years ago into the port a potty, and he spent a half an hour debating with himself whether he was gonna stick his hand in there. It's estimated that 7 million phones, a lot of speakers, need to be replaced each year in the US after being dropped into toilets or porta potties. I mean, you need to go get the one in the toilet, right? I mean, look, look, first and foremost, port a potty. Yeah, you guys say goodbye. I couldn't, I couldn't bring myself to do it. I feel like this is a great scene in a movie, but I just cannot bring myself to do something like that. It is. I have definitely look. I have dropped into a clean ish toilet. I have dropped my phone, pulled it out, disinfected it. I've done that, but I porta potty is a whole it's beyond the pale. There's I would just get a free flip phone and not replace a smartphone, just to not have to. That's why you got to have that lanyard thing that everybody has now. Well, we need to stop taking our phones out when we're every two seconds, when we're using the restroom. We got to get used to that. Again. That's the problem. Keep the phone in your pocket, and this doesn't happen, but we don't we can't help ourselves. I get 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.