IFYL2GO: Lemonade Stand Health Inspector; Bomb Shelter Boon

In this episode we discuss:

The best response to an unwanted gift.

No Wifi and other parenting lies.

Pigeon Vocabulary.

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 clips of John and myself bantering on the air on intelligence for your life, which airs every single day across the whole country. We take those clips and we distill them down and we let you put them in your pocket and take them with you to go ifyo to go in your pocket. Here's this week's batch, ladies and gentlemen. Without further ado, here is me and John Tesh, all right, Mr. Gib Gerard, here we go. The etiquette report if you receive a gift, is a great tip here, if you receive a gift you don't like, make sure you have these two words ready. How thoughtful. Turns out, if you had a house warming party and you were dying for a fancy coffee machine and unwrapped kitchen towels, you look the gift giver in the eye and say, How thoughtful. Thomas Farley is an etiquette expert who hosts workshops on good manners, and he says, saying, How thoughtful is a true statement, even if you hate the gift, I think this, you have to be really careful with the with with the look, this approach, this will work for maybe everybody here in this right now, this will work for 30 more days, right because in about a month, everybody that you know will have started using how thoughtful, passive aggressively, to mean that they hate the Gib the gift. And it's gonna, it's gonna become the equivalent of Oh, very nice. You know, it's gonna be one of those things like, oh, is the guy you're setting me up with on a blind date? Is he attractive? He's very nice. How thoughtful is gonna be the equivalent of that in, like, in like, a month. That's how much time you have. So go ahead, I will say, you know, dish towels versus a fancy coffee maker. You're talking about, like 40 bucks versus like 600 so be just be thankful you got anything. And Tom Farley, come over to our house and test, test. Thoughtful. Yeah, there's nobody in our family that would accept that. No careful without thoughtful. How thoughtful? Gib this just in from the Pew Research Department, who study everything, 34% of couples who are surveyed say they argue about parking the car. I actually do this. I do this because, well, because what happens is, you know, the mom says that she has to always drive. Yeah, she did this thing, yeah, she did this thing where it's like, okay, I get six car six, so I have to drive all the time. No, but, but I she had her spatial relations are just bad. So I'm like, they you're not gonna fit in there. And so she'll, she'll go in there. So she'll park the car, the big SUV, and I can't get out. So now I have to get out the back, the back door on the left. I'm six foot six. It's not an easy move. First of all, I'm just gonna push back and say, I think she'd admit this if she was in the room right now, she does not need to drive because, just because of car sickness, it's also because it's about control. Two, I feel like there's an element of spite where you say you're not going to fit there, and she gets the car to physically fit in, but she is unwilling to admit that, you know, there's more to the car than just the you know, fitting the car in the spot you actually have to be able to open the door enough to get out of it, yeah? That she is not willing to accept, yeah. So yeah, I absolutely. I've seen this version of both of you. I know exactly what the conversation looks like. And apparently you are not alone. 34% of couples are along the side of you. There it is. It wasn't too long ago when, when your your kids ran a lemonade stand, oh yeah, and we were there with it, watching, watching, and, you know, trying to get, get some more business and and they may, and they rave made, they didn't buy the lemonade store. They made the real lemonade. Made the real brownies and brownies, yeah, and I don't remember, you getting a permit. Did you get a permit? We did not get a permit. Yeah, no, I don't know that it's but anyway, running a lemonade stand without a permit is technically illegal in 36 states. Sure? Why? Why are you 36 states, would you serving food? And at some point somebody's gonna get, you know, like an A rating and stuff. Somebody's gonna get listeria, and it's gonna be linked to a kids, you know, those kitchens are not regulated. You're not supposed to drink the lemonade. You just buy it and throw it out. We make good lemonade. Well, I know you do, but everybody else is, you know, look, they got their fingers in there. There are other lemonade stands in our neighborhood that just take bottled lemonade and pour it into a cup of people. Not okay, my kids, they make it from scratch. But I was that's the reason for it. But there is a very there's a very dark day for the health inspector's life when he has to show up and shut down a kid's lemonade stand. So I'll just say, like, this is one of those things that you kind of just we've we've fed the fire department with our lemonade stand. We fed the neighborhood cops when they drive by. Padlocks the picture. Yeah, I just so when that, when that health inspector shows up, oh, there's gonna be a 12 year old girl in tears. Oh, my gosh. I Gib, so tell me if you've ever, ever done this. Uh, 51% of parents apparently admit to have lying and telling their kids that the Wi Fi is broken to get them off their devices. Yeah, actually, the other 49% are tech savvy like me, and I know how to go into the Wi Fi router settings and disconnect individual devices so that it actually is out for them. And then they come to me and Oh, Wi Fi is not working. I go, Oh, man, that's a bummer. Well, I wonder what's going on. And then I get, you know, for 30 minutes, I can set a timer even I can either pretend that I didn't do it, or I can admit that I did it because it's, you know, they they're not allowed to be online for a little bit, so you don't even have to lie. You can just, you can just get one of those routers that you can program and disconnect, learn your I know all of my kids IP addresses for all of their devices. I can take them offline anytime I want. Wow. Gib and I saw this. I was, I was depressed because our dog, the family dog, Leroy, I think he only, I think he's only got, like, I don't know, seven or eight words, maybe, okay, like, food, feed Leroy, walk out poop and do it. Never does it. But anyway, scientists say I'm getting scientists say I'm getting a pigeon. Scientists say pigeons can understand up to 60 words. It's always something with these pigeons. Look pigeons and pigeons and crows. You know, you find out they have vendettas and stuff like, you know, decades later, pigeons were coming home from World War One. They were still making it back. So, you know, I think we don't, we don't even understand fully. It's always something, it is you find out that, like, you know, they have, like, family relationships, like, had that rotisserie chicken. I feel bad, but it does not surprise me that the vocabulary of a pigeon because we train them so much and we've bred them, so it makes sense that there is, like, a subset of pigeons that have a really high vocabulary. I mean, there are, there are African gray parrots that have like, 1500 word vocabularies. So most of them are, most of them are curse words. Well, it depends on the house they were raised in. I guess we just learned something about you, Gib, I'll tell you what. In the 1960s my dad built something under our house, and it was, it was a bomb shelter. Oh, yeah. And we never, nothing happened, of course, because of the good news about what happened with the Bay of Pigs. But now we're back at it. A company in Texas called Atlas survival shelter says their phone has been ringing off the hook because they make bomb shelters, simple bunkers. Go for 25 grand, if a full bomb shelter can set you back 250,000 bucks, better be deep too. Better be deep. Look. The thing you got to remember is, I, don't know if this company does it also, but the thing that you used to have to do is you have to dig the pit, and then they would deliver the bomb shelter and all the tubes and stuff, and you have to get it installed. Like that's a whole part of it. The shelter is, you know, it has all of the life support systems inside of it. But no, this is, look, if you are, if you are worried about this kind of thing and you want to pay for the peace of mind. By all means, pay for the peace of mind. And the worst case scenario. Worst case is you have additional pantry space for your Costco toilet paper and stuff like that. Yeah, you know. Worst case scenario, you have a place to store your toilet paper. Best case scenario, you survive. Imagine somebody launches something you can't get in because it's full of toilet paper at this point. At this point, I don't think I have what it takes to survive the nuclear winter. I just, I just, I just want to go in the blast. All right, Gib, and folks, I should tell you that Gib graduated from college with a degree in theoretical mathematics, and when he walked down the aisle, was like, was just you, right? It was just me. I was the only one that got my particular BS. We were so proud. The mathematicians at Northwestern now, they did a new analysis, and they say that fashion trends really do come back around. The research analyzed 37,000 garments spanning 160 years worth of women's clothing. And the clothing styles, ladies and gentlemen, come back into fashion almost exactly every 20 years. Yes. I mean, we know that, like, if wide shoulders are in 20 years ago, wide shoulders would be in 20 years later. But by the way, in the interim period, you look ridiculous if you have the wide shoulder. I have all those jackets. And they come, they come right back, they come, you know, crashing right back through the door every 20 or so years. It absolutely makes sense. I absolutely get this. I don't think what I don't understand is, I don't think you needed a mathematician to tell you that this was the case. But they did. They ran the numbers. They did the data. Don't throw out those bell bottom genes. They'll be back sooner, rather than later. Well, they got tired of conjugating pi or something, so they had to do something else. Yeah, I don't know. Do you know what mathematicians do conjugating pi these remember Latin class? You're like, that sounds like a thing. Okay, dads, this just in from University of Kent in the UK. If you want happy, healthy kids, dads do your share of the chores. So you get, I mean, your kids are gonna be so healthy because you do the chores all the time. You're watching everything I do, taking the kids to school, taking bringing them up, yeah, children whose fathers. Help with the housework, are more social and better behaved. They're also less likely to get depressed. Why? Well, when dads step up and participate in the day to day tasks of household, everybody is less stressed, particularly moms. Yeah, scream as much I look I I wanted a family from a very young age. I knew I wanted to be a dad. I'm all in on this stuff of being around my kids and raising them and doing the things I make, the I make a good percentage of the dinners I make, I do a good percentage of the dishes I you know, I like this process of being present with my family enough that I love to do that stuff. And you know, your kids see it. Your kids see that you're the one doing it. You they see that you guys share chores. They understand. They get a better sense of what people's roles can and should be. It's, it's a lovely thing. Everybody is less stressed. And then also they, in turn, take it upon themselves to realize, oh, chores belong to everybody. I'm going to do some myself. It is a, it is a nice way of demonstrating, like leading from the front where you you are demonstrating what it looks like to be a member. But after watching you, your kids gonna say, I'm never getting mad. Never getting married. That's a lot of work. I don't want to do all that. It's a lot of work. Gib, I feel bad because we haven't I feel badly because we haven't talked to the cat parents recently. So cat parents, here we go. Your numbers are growing, and so now we're going to really pay attention to you. The Pet Care app Rover says it's seeing an increase in demand for cat care, especially among Gen z's. Rover's CEO told Business Insider, it's because cats are generally lower maintenance, right? So for people just starting out in the working world, cats can make more financial sense, plus you can you can leave food there for like, two or three days, and they'll be fine, right? To meet demand, rover now acquired meow, tell a cat sitting app at the beginning of the year, I thought half the appeal of the cat was that it didn't need to be set like the cat would just go like people have cats that roam the neighborhood all day and all night, then they come back for food, like my buddy, my best friend in high school, he had a cat Tommy. And Tommy would just be outside. Would show up in the evening, sleep in the house, sometimes go out at night. There was, it was the lowest maintenance pet ever. Why do you need a cat sitter? It's like Paul McGuinness on Long Island. You know, he's just always out, yeah, exactly, always out trying to eat rats. That's, that's so it me out. So it's a cat sitting app, I guess. So, yeah, I don't have a cat. I wish that I did. I wish I wasn't allergic, but I absolutely understand that. I understand the appeal of cats. They are their furry thing you can take care of, and they, you know, they kind of, they don't need you around. They really don't like I grew up with cats. They do not need you around. All right. Pop quiz, all you listeners out there, how does your significant other sound when they snore? According to a survey, here's what people say their partners sound like when they snore. Number five, Darth, Vader. Number four, a train. Yeah. Number three, lions roar. Okay. The number two thing people say their partner sounds like when they store is a saw like that. I can't remember doing this, wow. And the top answer is a bear growling, yeah, yeah, I can. I started snoring lately. A little bit more often when I sleep on my back and I actually wake myself. God knows how low is going on, right? Yeah. And I think I'm in the, I'm in the bear growling thing. It's low, it's guttural. It wakes me up. My wife has recorded me a couple of times. It is turn my side. I'm okay. There's an app I don't want. I just don't want to deal with it. I don't want to know. I feel bad, but I know I'm the bear growling guy. I would like to know your snore type. You should let us know. Okay, Gib, I know you are an avid runner, and now I'm gonna have more butter. Let me explain. The latest viral Tiktok trend is butter runs. Basically, I've seen this. I've seen this. People doing this. Yes, go ahead, butter. Runners have discovered they can literally churn butter while they jog. It started with running influencer Libby cope, who found that if you strap bagged heavy cream and salt to your torso and then run for an hour, you'll have freshly churned butter. Butter, the bouncing motion agitates the cream, separating the fat from the liquid, which is the same principle behind traditional butter making. Yes, so they have, like these two bags so he doesn't leak. They put it in their camel pack and they and they go, or they put it, they strap it to the their torso, like, like you're describing. But what's funny is, in the running community and all the websites and forums and stuff, there's debate about what your pacing has to be and how long you have to go, how many miles you have to run in order for it to turn properly. And it is really fun, because some people, their form is too good, and they don't move up and down enough, and so they have to actually go farther to turn it so, you know, people with bad form are getting their butter churned more quickly because they're moving that up and down motion that it's harder on your on your knees and ankles, is actually better for the butter churning. It's amazing. And then online, they'll show you how well their run was in terms of butter churning. And run clubs now will. Rate how good of a run is by how much butter was churned. I absolutely love this coming out, because it come out as a loaf, or is it just, you guys know, it's like a blob, and then you got to filter the liquids off of the solids, and then the solids are what you use now. Now we've heard everything. Yeah, exactly. That's it for the show today. Thank you guys so much for listening. 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