IFYL2GO: Invest in Pokemon; Talk About Your Mother; How to Google

In this episode we discuss:

Sunday Cheats.

Work Life Balance.

How to Sound Passive Aggressive.

And many more topics.

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Our Hosts:
John Tesh: Instagram: @johntesh_ifyl facebook.com/JohnTesh
Gib Gerard: Instagram: @GibGerard facebook.com/GibGerard X: @GibGerard

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 episode of the podcast. That's where we take parts of the radio show from this week. We boil them down. We give you just little parts of intelligence for your life that you can put in your pocket and take with you wherever you go. You don't need a radio. Just put this in your pocket and take it with you. It's ifyo to go. That's what we're doing here. So here, without further ado, is me and John Tesh. I just checked with the research department Gib, and turns out more than half of adults admit to being stuck in a rut when it comes to meals, eating just six different meals on a loop. 59% of us tend to cook the same dishes and rotate them throughout the week. Now, I have seen data from these nutritional experts that say this is the best way to lose weight, actually, and to maintain a healthy lifestyle as length, as long as those six meals you have on rotation are good for you meals, if it's like macaroni and cheese and hot dogs, then you're not headed for success. But yes, I've never thought of that. So if these six meals, because what you're talking about is this is where, like meal prep comes into play. Of doing prepping all of your meals at the beginning of the week, it makes it makes meal preparation scalable again. You know the to make seven meals takes about the same amount of time as it does to make one meal. One meal if you're just making one so, you know, you make them for the whole week, and that's that's how body builders do it, but you got to make sure that they are the macronutrient ratios are correct. There's enough protein, there's enough carbohydrates, there's enough healthy fats for it to be healthy for you. I will say getting rid of the decision fatigue is nice when it comes to making food choices, because then you don't reach for the, you know, the cheesy puff snacks that keep you from maintaining your fitness and nutrition goals. What I just noticed, though, is that macronutrients has the word Mac, macronutrients and cheese. Mac and cheese? Yeah, maybe if you use, like an activated yeast instead of cheese, then they be okay. Here's another one of those surveys, Gib, that's like, Okay, I already knew this. Anyways, a Pew survey finds it people admit that they're most likely to cheat on their diets on Sunday nights between seven and 10pm and I'm going to tell you why. Oh, because we've had enough of the week, and we're going to reward ourselves and we're going to want to watch Sunday night basketball or Sunday night football or whatever, baseball or Sunday night anything, or something like pasta? Yeah, it's 100% look. You're stressed. You're looking forward to the new week. The last week is ending. You, your, your, your diet starts tomorrow, your, your new fitness regimen starts the next day. It's not starting, just starting your fitness regimen on a Sunday night. So you go, All right, one right, one last meal on death row before I start my, my my diet. And then for your last meal, what do you have? You have an entire large sausage and onion pizza. And then your diet, you know, to your point. Sometimes when my wife looks at me with a certain look, I think I think of the warden. Yeah, you stress eat Oreos in the pantry, pan the Oreos, yeah. Now, aren't there healthy Oreos? I mean, healthy Yeah, yeah, yeah. So it's what it is. Is it's it's biscuit, it's sandwich cookies with better ingredients, fewer of some of the it's still sugar. There's still cookies. Okay, yeah, I want to make sure it's not a health food. Have a tomato. Have a carrot, as Huey Lewis said, I want a new drug. All right. This just in Gib from the dating and relationship department, 60% of women recently polled say they are willing to kiss a guy on the first date if he talks about his mother on that day. This is gonna, this is gonna, this is a chain reaction. Okay, so if you're hearing this right now, and you've got a date coming up, and you're thinking, all right, I mean, let me roll out the old cue cards about Mom. I'll bring a photo book. That's not, it's an entire try, right? Throws anything against the wall and see what sticks. I get it. It's either gonna work or you're gonna get slapped. So the point is, if you show in your first date that you have a healthy relationship with women in your life, you are more likely to, you know, garner the physical effects of the person you're with, right? So that I absolutely understand it, because it makes you seem like a stable individual. Do not sit there like Norman Bates and just talk about mother for the whole time. It's not your opportunity to be was it? Danny DeVito and throw mama from the train. You've got to you got all of them. You've got a Blade Runner. Let me tell you about my mother. So just make sure what you're really trying to convey is that you have a healthy relationship with the women in your life. That is what. That's what you're showing. 60% of women say they're willing to kiss a guy on the first day if he talks about his mother, Gib. Since we're leaning into the percentages, let's, let's talk about this. 150 6% of millennials now consider themselves, quote, mindful drinkers. Yes, I think this is great. And you know, you know what's happening is you and I both know. Because. Follow these trends that there are in California. There are a couple of these, these wineries, yep, that have declared bankruptcy because the kids are not drinking as much, and they're not drinking the cheap stuff anymore, which is where all the profit margins are, right? Oh, is that right? The expensive stuff, you know, you've got to store it for years in barrels, and then they and then they bottle it and all that. So lots of mocktails too. Lots of mocktails have become which you're basically just charging now. Restaurants are reaping the benefit. They're just charging $17 for a glass of juice with some sparkling water in it, whereas, you know, the wineries are going out of business because we're just not drinking as much. Each generation younger is drinking less and less than the previous generation at that same age, and I would say millennials, which is sort of where I fit, we are the default of going out to drink all the time. That has sort of historically been what young people do, or what people of any age do. We have slowly issued that and and we really only drink on special occasions or at certain, you know, work mixers and stuff like that, but the the the high ball, Manhattan, when you come off the train, it's just not a thing we do anymore. My dad did. That's where the reference came from. I think this will cause a debate, probably at the dinner table, or whatever. Again, we now know the average person spends nearly three hours doing unpaid work for their employer every weekend. Now my My opinion is that if you want to get ahead, and if you're and if your job is your passion and your purpose, you're probably going to feel good doing this. But there's another side to it. You got to make sure that the work you're doing will get you ahead. There's so many people who are in, because you got to remember this. You know, the system is different now than when you were coming up, where a lot of people, they'll put in those extra three hours, they'll put in those extra those super long hours, and deal with some of the choke points, as they say, and then there's no carrot at the end of that stick anymore. You know, the first round of layoffs come in, and that person's gone. Why did I? Why did I waste my time on the weekend when I could have been playing catch with my kids, you know, doing this thing and it's not appreciated properly. And I think that's sort of been a big shift in the employee employer relationship over the last couple decades, where that the expectation is still that you put in those extra things to make yourself stand out. But there's no longer, there's no longer a gold watch and, you know, retirement account at the end of the pension like there used to be. So what do you do? You just tell your employer, this is what I'm going to be doing. I mean, boundaries is kind of the thing now, right? You know, and a lot of companies are advertising work life balance as a way of getting new recruits and getting the recruits they want, because work life balance is important. If you're going to get cut off as soon as they need to lay people off, you might as well have that work life balance. Yeah, amen. We've talked before about chat, G, P, T, and now there's Claude and Gemini three and a whole bunch. There's so many, so many of these super duper search engines. We now know that every month, more than 5000 people search for the phrase, how do I use Google on Google, yeah. I mean, it makes it makes sense. What I can tell you, though, is that I have finally embraced chat, GPT, 5.2 Pro, and I know that it is. It's just much, much. It's much faster, and I think, and I think it's better than Google, but you have to make sure you understand that it does make mistakes, and also you have to ask it to be a devil's advocate. So these, these language, you know, these, these language prediction models that are that we use for AI now are good at a couple of things, and one of them is first drafts, right? You get it to write the first draft of an email that you then edit it can help you get through writer's block and all that. But Google is still going to be the best way to search the internet for stuff. The search engines still gonna be stronger at that kind of thing. But look, I there's been wrong with asking Google what the best tools are to use Google. I've done that with with AI. I said, Hey, what's the best way to prompt you in order to get the results that I want? And it'll tell you, you can ask Google to do that same thing. I've also seen people type in, they've searched Google. They've used Google to search for Google, to find google.com or that because the default search bar is, is, you can just type in a Google search up in the in the URL bar now, and they'll go, they'll type it into Google and then search for Google and then use that. So we're not the smartest people. AI is really has a huge advantage over us, but we get it done eventually. Gib, does your wife ever buy your new clothing? Yes, what kinds of stuff she buys me? I mean, if she, if she's shopping for herself and she sees something I'll like, you know, she gave me a shirt or some pants or jacket athleisure wears, because I wear a lot of athleisure, where she'll grab me some of that here and there, a lot socks. Oh, okay. A new survey says almost 40% big number of wives buy their husbands jeans and underwear. My wife bought me jeans recently. She doesn't buy my underwear. I buy my own underwear. I think that's it's acceptable at a certain point you buy your own underwear. So, yeah, I think. Look, I have at this point in my life, whatever makes your relationship work, makes relationship work. So if you need your spouse to buy you underwear, shouldn't expect it, right, right? But if that's the dynamic that you guys have and it's kept you married for a long time, by all means, live with it. I have no judgment. You see ice, you know, I expected it when I was growing up, because my dad was the vice president of the underwear division of Haynes. So you underwear purchase for you. I just underwear just appeared when I got it to college. I'm like, wait a second, there's no underwear in the mail to watch these things. What? Yeah, I'm pretty sure there's still a landfill full of underwear from my house. It's you have the weirdest, tiny kingdom that you ruled at one point I've ever heard. I was the underwear. I was I was the heir to the underwear thrown and I didn't, and it stunted your growth. That's the word I was looking for, stunted my growth. Gib, there's a guy, gosh, I can't remember his name right now, but I followed him on on YouTube, because he's always got great, great ideas about about podcasting, and he has a side hustle. And the Side Hustle Hustle is he talks about how to trade and buy Pokemon cards. So fortune doing it. So if you're looking for a good investment, there are experts who say, if they're kept in excellent condition, Pokemon cards will outpace the S, P stock market index by 3,000% Did you know that is, it's crazy. But look, I wanted two things. One is, you know, Pokemon is the it's a sensation. There's a there's a television show and movies and video games and stuff. And they also have this trading card game, and some of the cards are exceedingly rare, and when you're playing the game, they're really powerful, and people who play will pay a lot of money, or people who collect will pay a lot of money for certain rare ones. The thing is, like any investment, this is not your this is not a sign to go out and just buy willy nilly buy Pokemon cards. You have to learn about what the rare ones are, what to look for all of that, because as an investment, like anything, there are people in the marketplace who are way savvier about this than you, who have the edge and that you're gonna spend, you know, $10,000 on a regular old Pikachu card, and they're like, No, you need a, you need a Squirtle. And that's where you that's where the, that's where the real, the real money is. Or get a me too card, you know, that's Mewtwo. Mewtwo, you get one of those cards, and that's, that's where the real money is. And then before you know you're out, like your whole savings is gone, and all you have is, you know, a couple of lame cards. You got to know what you're doing, and you can look them up. You had me at squid. You Squirtle is one of the Pokemons. Okay, Gib, let's take a moment talk about the most passive aggressive phrases. You and I both have some passive aggressive people in our lives, some of the same. Some are retired, some are still active. Turns out being okay. So first of all, being passive aggressive is when you don't come out and clearly say how you feel. Instead, you express your negativity in an indirect way, helping to post asked a bunch of therapists and counselors, what are the most passive aggressive phrases? Oh, good. Number one is good for you. Oh yeah. It's often, often used passive, aggressive. Oh yeah, because what you're saying is, I don't really care, but good for you. I'm glad you're I'm glad you're happy with that mediocre success that you're bragging about right now. That was my dad. Oh yeah, good for you. Yeah. B, plus chat. We had done something really important. Where's the a, yeah. Also this one, I'm sorry you feel that way. Oh, look, great. Apology. Just don't, just don't say it. Because honestly, what you're doing is you're you're acting like you get to say that you apologized, but saying I'm sorry you feel that way makes means that you're sorry for the other person's feelings. No, you need to be sorry for your actions and how they affect the other person. And if you're not sorry, just don't say you're sorry. Work on the other stuff, but don't say it. Yeah, we're talking about, talking about the most passive aggressive phrases. And then the last one is, we all know this one, it's fine, or I'm fine, yeah? And then my favorite, which I will add to it's in the same categories, K, responding in text, just k, like, sure, yeah, I know you know that. Yeah, I forget. I always forget. You don't like, sure, because I use that all the time, sure thing, yeah, sounds great, yeah. But you read it as sure Well, yeah, but yeah, yes, I do. I know not from you. I always forget it, not from you. But if my wife type Sure, okay, she doesn't, oh, I read into my wife's text messages like I'm, I don't know, like I'm, I'm trying to do exegesis from, like, the Biblical Greek. Here's a great tip, folks. Let's see what Gib thinks about it. If you need a quick brain boost, you step away from what you're working on and you go outside for a few minutes. How many times we have to tell you guys? Combined research from University of Colorado and Texas found that switching up your environment clears your working memory. That's where you store your short term information. I do this all the time. Has stuff all over the house. Listen, we tell you you got to take a break, right? And when we say you got to take a break, a break every hour, every couple of hours, this is what we're talking about. What most people do when they take a break is they pick up their phone and they go on to Instagram or Facebook or Tiktok or Snapchat or whatever, and then they start scrolling through that for their 10 minute break. And honestly, that's not a break. Your brain is just being stuck. Emulate it in a different way. You have to get out, get into your body, get away from your get away from your surroundings. Going for a walk is the perfect way, if you just do this for 10 minutes every hour, every two hours. First of all, you'll notice your waistline gets smaller, but secondly, your focus and your creativity will go through the roof. 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. 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