IFYL2GO: Race Car Bucket Lists; Case of the Mondays; Odor Fatigue

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Evil Zebras?

Your baby knows McDonald’s.

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Gib, hello and welcome to the episode of the podcast. I'm Gib Gerard here with another ifyl to go edition of the show. This is where we take intelligence for your life from this week from the radio show, and we pull select pieces and we let you put them in your pocket and take them with you wherever you go. It's ifyl, to go. Take it with you. Ladies and gentlemen, that's enough intro without further ado. Here is me and John Tesh, all right. Gib Gerard, according to my recent survey, driving a race car is number one on most people's bucket lists, beating out skydiving. Yeah, I mean, on the list of what's going to kill you. I think that race car is probably right underneath that. So I look, I have a lot of bucket list things that I want to do, and people always assume Skydiving is on my list. Skydiving is not on my list, but race car is. And we recently, you know, for my son's super into, into this race car stuff for his birthday and my birthday, we went to a to a Formula One simulator, right? I did it and and got to drive it, and it's your mom. Your mom threw up. It was super realistic. I would like to get in the real thing. I want to have that moment. Remember the movie Ford versus Ferrari? Yeah, when he get, when the when the chairman of Ford comes and he drives, and Shelby drives him around in the new experimental car, guys crying, yeah? And he gets out and he's laughing so hard he's crying. And that moment where you're like, holy moly, this is what engineering can do. Yeah, I want to have one of those moments. I absolutely get that. Make sure you put on that special belt so your spleen doesn't come out. You got to have a five point safety harness. I'm hip to what the what the safety regulations are. And I don't think I want to do the driving, although I would like to try it. Maybe me too. I love it. And you know, Mamba, she took her driving course. Gib Barber, yeah, it was just crazy. Just way too fast. It's very fast. Well, look at this. This is something that I spent really most of my time trying to figure out in elementary school, cursive writing is making a comeback now, with more states requiring the kids learn it in school, New Jersey and Pennsylvania are the latest to bring it back. And then I hear that, you know, the kids who don't study cursive writing, they can't read the Declaration of Independence, right? I mean independence, neither of those. They're both written in cursive. It's not easy to read. There's, you know, there's the F's are too big. There's printed versions of them you can look at. But the bottom line is, yeah, cursive is good for a number of things, in terms of spatial reasoning, in terms of hand, eye, core pre assumption, that's fine motor skills. My kids, my kids go to a very hippie school. So like, they learn printing and cursive almost in tandem, and they can knit with their other hand. They Yeah, right. So like, they do a lot of knitting and handwork, and cursive is a part of it. I you know, I think as long as we're not cutting out math, time to relearn cursive, I'm good with this. What I what I have noticed, what I have noticed is that the schools that incorporate a lot of screen time into their learning system are actually way worse off than more hands on stuff like cursive. Well, here's a study that should just scare the heck out of all of us. 80% of kids now recognize the McDonald's logo by the age of three. I mean, yeah, they spent a lot of money on advertising, and it works like those golden arches are everywhere. Have you seen the new thing where the CEO bites into their new burger and it looks like he's looks like he's trying a cheeseburger for the first time in his entire life. It has a big emotional reaction. He just, like, bites into it, and it's like, this is our new product, and it looks like an alien is trying a cheeseburger for the first time. He has no idea what he's doing. Point being the elites like the CEO of McDonald's don't know what McDonald's is, but the kids out there on the ground know what a Happy Meal is. Know what the golden arches are. They know what the big arch is in a lot of these places. They've remember those balls that the kids used to jump into? You mean the septic pit? Yeah? Kids were like getting Berry Berry and rickets, yeah? Hey, Ray Kroc, it's time. This probably invested a blue spray. Let's Good night the balls. You know, I love this random intelligence. This is stuff that you can use to impress your friends. And we, you know, because, because I'm the grandfather that gives the three kids, we've been to Safari West, a lot out in Los Angeles, where they have everything. I've been to the Hearst Castle, whether they have these animals, zebras. Zebras are totally cool. What I didn't know was that zebras can be mean, very In fact, they can be dangerously mean. Zookeepers, by the way, are injured by zebras more than any other animal. I think they can kill lions. They can kill lions with their kick. They're very aggressive. They bite. They have all of these things that go in for them, and we're complacent when you're going into the Lion King. Age, or the tiger dead, or whatever, you're fully aware of what you're going into. You have all the security. I'm sure. Some guy ties a rope around you so that when you walk in, they can pull you out if they get you. We know, with the zebra, you're like, it's just a horse. I'll be fine. Next thing looks a little heavy, yeah. And next thing you know, you're getting kicked in the head, and you wake up, you don't remember your name anymore. I think when a lion sees the zebra, it's like, oh my zebra, it's like, oh my gosh. The eye testing. Can't see the zebra. The whole thing with the stripes, you can't figure out if it's coming or going. That's the secret nature, isn't it? If you want something really cool, nature is metal. Look that up on YouTube. Yeah, your discretion is it? Don't, don't watch, yeah, don't watch with your kids, unless you really like planet Earth. Okay, bye. You know, Gib. I have a lot of friends who have just sort of said, I've had it, I'm going to retire. Okay? And they keep asking me, I live almost at one minute, dinner party, something. And somebody says, Hey, John, what are you doing to stay busy? And I'm like, shut up. I got a lot of things, a lot of things I would like to be less. I don't want to, yeah, I don't want to retire. I'm having such a great time on the radio and in concert and all the rest of that stuff. But now one of the reasons I don't want to retire is a new study that just came out and said Mondays still stress us out, even when we're retired. You know what it is? It's the same thing. It's like, you know you're you're 30 years out of school, 20 years out of school, and you have the test you forgot to study for, or the alarm that you slept through and you missed the you know, you missed going to the class that was really important. We still have those dreams. It's just we just have created these anxiety moments in our lives. This is why, on the coaching call, we talk about reclaiming Monday as a psychological reset time, so to avoid the Monday blues. To avoid this kind of stress that happens, you have to reclaim it. But it's the same thing like, again, I still wake up in a cold sweat thinking there's an exam I forgot to study for paper I forgot. Right? Yeah. Well, Monday is also, I think, at the at the home, Monday is also the bowel movement day. It was with your grandma. If everybody like, if everything's working right, every day should be bowel movement. And this is the last time people listen to the John Tess radio show, the Gib Gerard radio show. Excuse me. Write it down as that. Here we go with another pew research study, a full 24% of women. What is that? One in five, one in 4.9 it's closer to one in four. Oh, okay. Oh, you're right. Of course it is. 25% Yeah, word problems. 25% of women basically say that their lives would be better if they just had an extra hour to spend more time with their pets. Yeah? Betsy Chase, look our producer. I spend so much time when I have Leroy, you know, Leroy is I use the pass around, yeah, I give him I get. If I just had an hour to, like, take him for a walk and then snuggle him and just sit there, I would be, we would both be so happy. It's such a nice thing. But it's always we don't. That's why we have our pets. Is for that that level of comfort, it's not just about the taking care of it's the it's the comfort that they provide. And if you just had an hour to bask in the comfort of your pet, that would be fantastic. But ladies would tell me, and my email is john@tesh.com john@tesh.com Leroy, the dog has not come up with a way to tell us that he needs something. So the look he comes up and looks at you, and the look could be that he has to go outside and go to the bathroom, that he's hungry or that he's tired and wants to go to sleep. It's the same look. How are we supposed to know? I mean, it's very same with you, right? It's a high risk situation. You just assume he has to go to the bathroom. You do everything. You do everything. Well, we start with bathroom because bring a treat outside, and one I'm gonna be I'm gonna be at least right with two things. You guys are so codependent. Yes, I am. Here's a great, great way to get a mood boost. All you have to do is go somewhere that's at least 15 miles away from your home. You don't have to walk. You can drive. So research from University College London found that people who regularly traveled 15 miles outside whatever kilometers that is outside of their local area felt healthier than those who stayed close to home. It was especially true for people over the age of 50, because people who travel outside their comfort zone tend to visit more places and meet more people, and those are key factors that improve mental and physical health. When my wife hears this, we're arguing or bickering or something, will you just go 15 miles away from me? I can see her saying that, well, look, we've How many times have we reported on the fact that travel and novelty new experiences? What that does for your brain health, what that does for making for slowing time down you want to age more slowly, have more novel experiences. And look, they figured it out. How far do you have to go for the experience to be novel? And it's just 15 miles. So it doesn't have to be the Bermuda vacation for two weeks. It doesn't have to be Jamaica with your in laws. It can just be 15 miles away from your house to try a new restaurant. That's all it takes. People are thinking 15 states away from my in laws. That helps everybody. You know, I really wish that I had invested in house plants years ago. How does one do that? Well. I mean, I've got a couple of stocks, and they're just in the well, they're low, say, toilet but, but house plants. I mean, it's just so house plants are so popular again. Now therapist Rebecca Dion says, How do you invest in that's what was that was my question. I know a lot of people have a hard time feeling grounded when life is stressful and uncertain, but plants are grounding. They're therapeutic. Washington State University study shows that having and caring for plants boosts relaxation and happiness and attentiveness, and plants reduce stress and increased pain tolerance. So we have a great garden outside. You do? We grow all kinds of stuff outside, but it's very easy. Our indoor plants, we can't keep them alive. They are constantly dying. We have these trees or the leaves are falling off of them. So if you want to invest in house plants, we know how good they are. We report on it all the time. And as a result, I have a house full of plants that I watch slowly die. All you have to do is invest in the nursery near my house, because I'm going there every other week to replace the plants that are dying for all of these reasons, I got to figure out how to be better about taking care of house plants. Ficus Benjamin, a Yeah, that's the one that died in my apartment. I've killed, I've killed so many. Benjamin, is it's, it's unbelievable. It's, it's Goldie Hawn, came to my house. Cost you? Ana. Benjamin, yeah, I was trying to find it. I said. Goldie Hawn, those private. Benjamin, Oh, wow. Okay, nice. All right, here's a great tip, folks. Just because you can't smell your own perfume or cologne, oh, doesn't mean you need to spritz on more, because we grow accustomed to our own scent and tune it out. It's like being in a coffee shop for a while. You stop smelling the coffee. It's called odor fatigue, quote, unquote. And it happens because once our brain identifies a smell is non threatening, it ignores it, yep. And that's why you can't tell how much fragrance you have on everybody at the gym that I go to, hello. Well, this is, this is why you can't see the mess in your own home. It's why you can't smell the stuff in your own home. You once you've figured out that it's not a threat, you can't smell it anymore. You can't see it anymore. You don't notice it anymore. This is why it's important to have somebody else. That person is my mother, who will tell you right to your face that you that there's too much perfume on and I currently, I've actually texted her about it to get her advice, because I have she's here right now, but she can't hear me. I have a 14 year old daughter who does too much with the cheap perfume every day, and I have a headache when I get into my car to drive them to school. Now because it because of the way it smells, and I need to find a convenient way to explain that to her. Well, she could get in the car with with some Uber drivers and or cancel it out exactly, exactly invented those trees. Can we bring them up on charges? I use that as deodorant. Just run it under my arm Exactly. We'll just never mind. There we go. Here we go. You can't smell your own No, here we go. That's it, all right, we're gonna talk about delivery robots. I love these things. The thing that I love about them is that they blink. So, oh, it's must be real. It blinks. A lot of people turn to food delivery as a side gig to make ends meet. But what happens to all the delivery drivers? Well, there's a new side gig because of delivery robots that they can try. Robot Wrangler is a real thing. So gig workers are now assisting food delivery robots when they tip over. Oh, I've seen gets, have you? I haven't seen people fix it. I've seen people who are frustrated with it and they'll just knock them over on the sidewalk after they had a couple cocktails. Yeah, sometimes these things get stuck in a pothole or can't handle a crosswalk, a human robot wrangler steps in to rescue the robot and finish the delivery. You're gonna, you're gonna need a side heart. Coco is one brand of delivery robot, and they're paying up to $23 an hour for robot wranglers in Los Angeles. Why not just deliver the food at a certain point? At a certain point, we're just, we're just creating. We're just switching the jobs around. The robot will deliver the food you're gonna walk next to the robot for 23 bucks an hour, make sure it doesn't fall over. Oh my gosh. This is like every movie we've ever, we've ever seen. Listen to this last thing. Robot wranglers help with daily charging, cleaning, software updates and repairs. I can, I mean, I just imagine it just to be the rise of the machine, yeah, where I'm just sitting in a room talking to the robots, recharging them. I gotta get I gotta get Coco back on the road. It all started with the Roomba. Eventually the dust will not be enough and they'll start eating us. Thank you. 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. 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