IFYL2GO: Brush to Lose; Drone Degree; Give Your Bad Mood a Name.

In this episode we discuss:

Natural Laxatives.

No Friends? It could be causing brain damage.

Do Not Call!

And many more topics.

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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 intelligence for your life, clips from this week's radio show, and we package it, put it in a little in your pocket. You take it with you wherever you go, if y l to go. That's the concept. This is this is me. It's me and John, and we're kibitzing about the kind of information that helps get you from the place you are to the place you want to be. So here, without further ado, is intelligence to go, intelligence for your life to go, if I L to go with me and John TASH so Gib, experts are saying, Be careful when your favorite artist releases a new record. According to Harvard Med School, on days when popular musicians like Taylor Swift, bad bunny or Drake released new records, there was a spike in traffic fatalities. Might not be the music itself, but the drivers are trying to download the music while they're behind the wheel. Okay, first of all, don't do that, right? If you're gonna, if there's a new album, you download it at night, and then you can play it when you get into the car, not while you're driving. You start playing it when you get in the car. But this is where old school wins yet again, because when my favorite artist, when I was a teenager, I was the most dangerous driver I ever was. I was teenager, I would have to go to the record store, spend actual money on a new record or new CD or cassette, and then I would have to unwrap it, put it in my car, and then I'd have to put it into the player before I even started driving. And then I would just listen to the whole record for the whole CD for, you know, one or two weeks. And that was it. Way safer system. Then I got to search for Red Hot Chili Peppers and auto correct makes it something else. And what do you what are you supposed to do? Yeah, and with me, it was eight track tapes, and you didn't even know which song was coming next in that transition that could click in the middle of the middle of the track. Yeah, my dad would download a scotch whiskey before he got I'm actually not kidding. There were times the 50s, all right, Gib, let's get let's get serious. If you're if you're backed up and you can't go, there's a natural fix that I've never tried before. It's molasses. It's so effective, it works as well as an over the counter laxative. The Journal of Ethnopharmacology says the magnesium in molasses pulls water into your intestines, making it easier to go. All you need is one tablespoon of molasses. I don't even know if I've ever seen that in the store, exactly. So I was gonna say like, Hey, I know where to find laxatives. I know the aisle at the pharmacy to get laxatives in. I have no idea. I guess a baking supply, like a grocery store, specialize in baking supplies. I don't know where you get molasses. Hey, Siri, should be some molasses. Yeah, I mean, good to know. I imagine that there are fewer issues that, you know, fewer side effects with the molasses. That's great. And if you, if you need this, use it. I just it's, I feel like in this, in this century, in this decade, I don't have access ready. I have more access to Vera lax than I do to molasses. What's Verrall, ax? Mean, MiraLAX, yeah, whatever. I'm just making up a lack of vero, like, like, a varied form of MiraLAX. Yeah, there it is. I know too much about this stuff, but now I'm gonna, I'm gonna get some molasses for sure. Let's do it, yeah, let's, let's do a test. Sugar free. Sugar free molasses. Can't do sugar. It's just sugar. Okay. Well, now we know Gib, our friends are good for our brain. It was funny, because you know your your your sister's getting married, yes, right? And, and so she said to me, she said, Do you want anybody of your friends? I thought, I thought for a minute, and I thought, yeah, all I know is you guys, there must be something wrong with me, two, three. I have three, counting Chuck, and then it's if it's just my family. Anyway, what was I saying? Oh, in a study involving former prisoners of war pivot, brain scans discovered that those locked in solitary confinement had neurological damage compared to suffering a concussion, but those who had social interactions had less brain damage, loneliness, inflammation. So we know this, right? And we know that while FaceTime and phone calls and zoom meetings are helpful at alleviating some of this, they are not a perfect solution. The best solution is to be in person with people that you care about. There's nothing like it. There is nothing better, and you're absolutely right. For many of us, we are all of our social interactions are centered around, in my case, my children or people that I work with, and that's it. So it's either parents of other kids that my kids are friends with, or it's people that I work with, or family, and that is it. And the reality is we need to invest in friendships. We need to invest in people that we care about, regardless of our other of our other relationships. It's important. It's not just good for your soul, it's now we know it's good for your brain, for your brain. Amen. All right, my friends, if you want to cut back on your snacking, maybe lose a few pounds, you don't have to start a new diet or start. Weight Loss injections, just brush your teeth more often. Hey, a survey looked at the everyday habits of 14,000 people, and researchers found that those who were better able to manage their weight tended to brush their teeth. Teeth after every meal. An ingredient in toothpaste that makes food taste bad is sodium laurel sulfate. Well, that's, you know, the old orange juice and teeth brushing thing. How bad that tastes if you drink oranges after brushing your teeth. It does it, but it also creates a finality ritual to your meal. If you are in the habit of brushing your teeth, when you are done eating, you've just told your brain, and you've you've created this ritual where you're done eating. So I don't know about you, but you know, I when I have extra calories, 90% of the extra calories are after I'm, quote, unquote, done eating. Yeah. Eating. Yeah, I'm walking through the kitchen and I see a couple things out there and decide to have a few more bites, or make another plate, or have a little bit of dessert, or have a late night snack. That's that's where the calories start to add up. And the reality is, if we just treated the end of the meal, or we just brush our teeth and move on, as the end of the meal, you know you're talking about, on a given day, 600 700 calories that just get cut out. But just by doing that alone, yeah, I just worked out in the gym the other day, and I went to the store and they had vegan carrot cake. What is that? Don't do it ever is it good? No, it's a cardboard box. Okay, I was gonna say with with frosting, frosted cardboard. Man, I tell you what I'm putting in my application right now you can now get a Bachelor of Science degree in flying drones. One of the schools that offers a BS in drones and autonomous systems is Fullerton College, right near where we are right now. You can also major in unmanned aerial systems at Purdue and Arizona state. It's not just about flying toys around with a remote control. Drones are revolutionizing and transforming industries. At Fullerton, students are trained to monitor marine life off the coast, working hand in hand with biologists, a drone degree can help students get jobs in all kinds of areas, including construction supervision. Yeah, you can also shoot in movies. If you're really good at piloting a drone, you could be a drone. What about the Olympics downhill skiing? I'm hearing, I'm thinking, what is that? It's a drone. Jason, drones for the luge. I mean, they got drones for everything. Look, I this is, this is one of those things where colleges are adapting to where, where the economy is moving. And the idea we for years, you've you've been able to go to the Air Force Academy, or you'll be able to go and get your pilot's license and then work as a pilot. Now, institutions of higher learning are they? Hey, people are going to be flying drones. We have military drones. We have we have with civil drones. We have to be ready for how scary is it to be like the drone driver pilot at the Olympics, where you're following the skier down the hill, and all of a sudden you're like, you have like, a little conniption ruin the whole now you just put that in my head. And now whoever's listening is gonna be in their head. And next time he's piloting, he's gonna crash all right from our can't hurt to try it files. Gib, here's how to switch off a bad mood in seconds. Next time you feel angry, maybe agitated, maybe jealous, irritated in any way, go somewhere alone and describe out loud what you're feeling. This is good. You're gonna feel silly. But here's how, why it works. Verbalizing our feelings makes us calmer. It slows down our heart rate. It stops us from dwelling and ruminating. You know, giving it a name is so unbelievably powerful. Obviously, that's a that's a common trope in a lot of old religions, the concept of, when you give something a name, you have control over it, right? But sitting there and just talking out loud to the problem, whether it's an uncontrolled emotional reaction, if you can just give that uncontrolled emotional reaction, because everybody has that moment where you see red, where you're super angry about something, and you know, you're behaving irrationally, but you just can't help it, because the emotions are overwhelming. If you give that a name and you just say out loud that you're not going to deal with it, it is so unbelievably powerful. Hey, Bob, Bob, the angry person in my head, like, leave me alone. It really, really works. There is, there is a ton of anecdotal evidence, but now we have the empirical evidence. This has worked. Speaking of the Bible, death and life from the power, Death and life are in the power of the tongue. Do you remember when you were at Harvard Westlake and you were in that cool group, that jazz groups, jazz bow swinging sound jazz bow swinging soundies. Did it make you happy? Oh, yeah, because there's science now, and you don't have to be in the jazz bowl swinging soundies, which was the, which was the super duper group in high school. You could be in just a church choir, right? But when you sing in a group, it's gonna make you healthier. Oh, yeah. I mean, yeah, you I know this. You soften your soft palate. You have better connections. By the way. You know this from playing any kind of music, when you have to sync your brain to people in a combo, in another group, in another playing another instrument or singing another vocal part, when you have to sync your brain to that, you get into a flow state. You feel more interpersonal connection. It is, it is incredibly beneficial to your brain. But. Also just the act of singing. We've reported on this a bunch before. So you soften your soft palate, you you are vibrating all of the phlegm out of your system. It is incredibly beneficial. Yeah, it just you just Gib me chills. Because when, when I was a kid and let my little rock and roll band, my mom would always say, are you gonna Are you gonna practice with your combo? Oh, I know what I was doing. You're welcome. Oh, my gosh, is horrible. We're not practicing, we're rehearsing. We already know our instrument combo. We're not a combo, we're a band. Yes, thank you. All right. This is gosh. This is from the guys, guys at Pew Research Department who studies everything, and they missed me because they say the number one food we used to hate as kids, but we now love is asparagus. Oh, really, asparagus is a good source of beta carotene and selenium, both of which boost the immune system. I would say in 35 years, a stalk of asparagus has never touched anything on my plate. You hate asparagus reminds me of the it reminds me of like a science fiction film, like a tentacle coming out. What is that thing called the Schwarzenegger was trying to kill Terminator tournament? No, no. Well, thank you for the predator. Yeah, that's it. Go ahead. Asparagus stock. Look, it's this is, this is a common thing where the vegetables that we hated as kids have gotten better. So brussels sprouts, they have. They grow them differently. Now they're less bitter, and they're also, in addition, asparagus and Brussels sprouts are prepared in very fun ways. They're char, grilled and broiled and drizzled with like honey and vinaigrette, you know, balsamic, reductions and stuff, all of that makes them way tastier. I get it. It's not for you, but it is way better. And I can get my kids eat asparagus. Every time I see an asparagus stock I hear, I do not get the connection. Oh, it looks like the mouth. Does it look like the mouth or the dread locks? One of those things, Gib, this just in back in 2000 we talked on the phone on average, almost half a dozen times a day. Oh yeah. I mean, it's like in the 1970s was all day. Now we talk on the phone twice a day or less. We really do. Yeah, we really do. I because I just such an easier interaction to do it via text. And honestly, we were losing a lot because of it. We're losing a lot of tone. There are times when I when I, when I realized after a text conversation, I just need to pick up the phone and make the call. But it is because, because you can feel the conversation getting away from you. Ever have that feeling like you're texting somebody and they're taking everything you say personally, it's like, oh, we just need to pick up a phone and talk. Yeah, it is. It is super beneficial. I mean, to hear intonation, to hear the subtleties of communication. It's way better to do it on the phone. But we just don't, because, again, I don't even like ordering food over the phone. I if it's not in the app, I'm not ordering. Yeah, amen. Gib, per capita, okay, the people of Iceland read more books than any other population in the world. Now, my take on this is, what else are you gonna do? That's true. I don't really know much about Iceland, to be honest with you. The only thing I know is that they do have an app. There's so few people there. They have an app so that you don't, that you don't go out with or marry your your first cousin, right? There's a lot there are. There are so few people around that's a real family trees are so closely connected that, yes, there are apps to make sure that you're not, you're not dating a cousin, which is amazing. But you know, bjorks from Iceland, they have hot springs, they have amazing, amazing views and vistas. They're gorgeous. It's a gorgeous place. But you just, you got to know you're absolutely right, like I went to college in Maine, and in January, there's not a lot to do, but sit inside, have a cocktail and read a book. Yeah. And so I gotta imagine, in Iceland. It's pretty similar. They're latitudinally similar to Maine is, you sit inside, you read a book, you pour yourself, I don't know what do they have? Moose wine. It's, yeah, knits. Well, it's like, it's like the Swedish thing, Aquavit. It's like, it's a drink. It's a it's a an alcoholic drink, but it's like 150,000 proof, okay, yeah, sitting there, you use it to power your house and have a cocktail. That's it for the show today. 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