IFYL2GO: Don’t Shop Hungry; Workplace Pet Peeves

In this episode we discuss:

Blue Zone Diets.

7/11 Wedding Catering.

The Dichotomy of Control.

And many more topics.

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Transcript

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Hello, and welcome to another episode of the podcast. I'm Gip Gerard, here with another Ifyl To Go episode of the show. That's where we take clips of me and John on the radio talking about intelligence for your life, we just pull out, we get rid of the music, we get rid of all the other stuff that gets in the way of the information, and we let you take this intelligence for your life, put it in your pocket, and take it with you wherever you want to go. That's ifyl to go, that's what we've got for you today. I'm excited to bring you these topics, ladies and gentlemen. Without further ado, here is me and John Tesh. All right, Gib, so Google data shows one of the top trending searches right now is gardening, and you don't need a backyard or outdoor space to do it. This is good for me. Miniature gardening, gardening setups at all-time highs, including terms like a mini garden and tabletop garden. Search interest is how to grow in a container that's that's spiking. Yeah, I think I could probably do that without killing everything. You can't.. there's a.. there's a really popular online tool kit to grow sprouts on your.. on your countertop. Sprouts.. there's, you know, there's.. there's a home composting kit. You can, you can do everything on your countertop nowadays. You don't even have to use an appliance, it's all just countertop stuff. But look, I have friends who have hydroponic gardens where they grow lettuce in their, in their, in their apartments, so that they're without any soil. You don't need soil, you just put nutrients into the water, and the stuff grows. The vertical gardening, there's a reminder of the plot of the thing comes from outer space, and you just grow part of them out of more. Go ahead, all the thing needs is just a little part of himself, and thing gets to perpetuate. I see your point, but look, the point is that you have no excuse, whether you're the thing or whether you're just growing lettuce, you have no excuse to not be growing your own stuff. And by the way, you're, if you have kids, they're more likely to eat the food, yes, they help grow it. So, if you want to get more fruits and vegetables in your life. Find a way to get a mini garden or a maximum. Don't do what I did. I grew radishes, and kids are delicious. Oh my gosh, you bite through that, and you start weeping, your eyes weeping. Here's a power tip for you. This won't be a problem for me, because I never have an empty stomach. Don't shop on an empty stomach is the advice, no matter what you're buying. According to University of Minnesota, shopping on an empty stomach makes us more likely to buy anything, not just food, because hunger activates the brain's reward-seeking system. Look, that's why I bought that Porsche, low blood sugar insanity. Look, man, I oof, I fast every day. I go, you know, 18 to 20 hours without eating, and if I take, if I pick up the kids on my way home, and I haven't eaten yet, and we stop to get groceries. Let me just tell you, the amount of like processed food and snack food that makes its way into our cart is much higher than if I've eaten, so when I'm fasting and I go shopping, by the way, online shopping, same thing, I'm just way more, even worse, because you're not being judged, right? Way more impulsive in the decisions that I make. If I'm going, if it's food, it's not good for you, food, if it's, if it's other things, it's all impulsive purchases. Yeah, like a Porsche. Okay, some of us don't have the disposable income to buy a Porsche as a 223 a month for the rest of your life. It's not a problem. Well, John Tesh would give Gerard, and I've seen this happen in your family give as your as your kids start to get older. A study from Oxford University now is saying that there's nothing, nothing has more of an impact on the future success of kids than just reading. Oh, yeah, not sports, not socializing, going to museums, cooking, or anything else. Reading is number one. Look, it's there are so many studies about the earlier in your kids' life that you expose them to books, the better their school outcomes are, the better their overall intelligence is over time, so yeah, we try really hard to emphasize that we have them in a no-screen time school, so they can only read during the week if they want a diversion. It's, it is fundamental to the way that we parent, and I see it, I see it pay dividends. It's interesting too, because I've seen that your eldest daughter, she just reads all the time, and now the two younger ones are like, I want to do this. Yes, yeah. Well, you make it a habit that your family shows. And by the way, you know if you want, if you want your kids to read, if you think that this is important, and you know that you want them to read, the best way to get them to read is for you to be modeling that behavior. So, time to put the screens down and pick up a book, even a Kindle. Amen. So, in the interest of full disclosure, we're having a wedding soon in our family. Yes, and we've been adding up the thing, and we're gonna, Connie and I gonna be paying for this thing for a very long time, but I'm thinking about pulling the plug because I just read this and. By the way, don't say pulling the plug for a guy my age, I just gave myself chills. 711 convenience stores are offering catering for weddings. They've partnered with Easy Cater to deliver some of their classic items for meetings, offices, and events, even weddings. They're positioning themselves as the go-to for catering if you're trying to save money like me, and the menu will vary depending on which restaurant you order from. So, salads, I never seen one of those at that. Breakfast sandwiches, hot dogs, pizza, and lunch boxes. No word on Slurpees. Well, I can't imagine the Slurpees travel well. You have to bring the whole machine if you're gonna cater with the Slurpee. Bring the machine better than the chocolate fountain that my daughter wants. She's internalizing stuff in their life. She saw it on some show. Now you gotta have a.. I need a chocolate fountain, a cheese fountain. Look, I'll just say that's something else. Go ahead. I'm sorry. Point being, whether it's McDonald's or 711 you know, this is not the highest convenience store serves a lot of purposes. One of those purposes is not to provide really high-quality food, healthy food for you, it's to give you calories and sustenance when you're, when you need to move quickly, and that's fantastic. As a gimmick, I love it. If you have, if 711 is really important to you in your life, why not have 711 Katie, your wedding or office party, or event? But for the rest of us, let's, let's at least cook yourself for something. I don't know. Let's talk about your.. do you have a favorite song? Give.. I don't know that I have off the top of my head, but I hear through phases where I have a song that, oh yeah, that's that's that's very normal. I still like Ground Ball Rock. Oh, gosh, I still like 20-First Century Schizoid Man. Yeah, it turns out your favorite song will light up your brain the same way cocaine does. Neuroscience scientists at McGill University, in a neuroscience study that was very expensive, apparently used PET scans on people listening to music that gave them chills and watched a flood of dopamine hit the nucleus accumbens the brain's pleasure center. I mean, look, we know that a great song, it really hits, it makes you feel all kinds of things, it makes you relaxed when you're when you're stressed, it gets you excited when you're when you're feeling down, a good song with a good chorus, a good hook, it can hit it's there. It's why it's why we use music to comfort us, why we use music to set the mood. If we're having a party, whatever, there is a reason why music is the soundtrack for our lives as we go through it. I cannot believe that. I mean, I guess it hits like hard drugs, that's incredible. Yeah, now the test proves it. We should find those guys. I'm good, good, just reading it. We'll get nose jobs. All right, let's talk Blue Zones. We love the Blue Zones. We talk about those all the times on our Thursdays coaching sessions with Coach Git or Coach Gib. We now know only one food group shows up daily in every blue zone, the five regions where people live past 100 and it's beans. Oh yeah, a meta-analysis in the Asia Pacific Journal: every 20 grams, every 20 grams a day, about two tablespoons, cuts the risk of dying early by 7% Wow, unbelievable. Round out the top five with leafy greens, nuts, and olive oil, and berries. The common thread is polyphenols and fiber, but beans, I keep hearing, and now they're, they, these, these companies are selling, are selling beans as the, as the perfect protein and fiber meal, right, which everybody's concerned about right now. Yeah, so I mean, it hits you, want to go to the store and buy a, buy one of those processed bars that says high in protein, high in fiber. No, just, just eat some beans. Go ahead and get some beans. The only thing you got to watch out for, it's the beans themselves. You got to watch out for the canned beans that have a lot of sugar in them. So, make sure you're getting just beans and you're cooking them with, you know, only herbs and spices, not adding sugar to them, because that will counteract a lot of the benefits they get from beans. But, yeah, look, high in protein, high in fiber, full of, I think there's lycopene and stuff in there. Yes, yeah, great for awesome. Don't forget the Beano. If you have a hard time digesting them, you can use the like, if you need Beano, you can use Beano, or you can use a pressure cooker, right. All right, Gib, I asked, I asked the internet right now, what is the most popular stoic concept? Oh, well, it isn't a quote, it's a framework. It's called the dichotomy of control from Epictetus, a Roman philosopher. The idea is, sort everything into two - this is good advice - sort everything

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what's up to you, your thoughts, your choices, your actions, and what's not, other people's opinions, the economy, the past. It has exploded. Yeah, well, look, it's there. Is we are inundated with information, right? We are constantly being, being, being prodded into a fight or flight response by the news, by our phones, by everything is just shouting at us all the time to give it our attention, and as a result of that, we start to give things our. Tension, we start to internalize it, and it has been shown to cause anxiety symptoms in us, in, you know, in a huge percentage of the population, the constant inundation with information. So, what does this do? This gives you a filter, a lens, a screen to look at this information, so you don't become overwhelmed by it. By the way, this is something that a lot of people who are, who are, who are addicts have to deal with, which is why the Serenity Prayer is so popular in 12 step programs. You know, God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. That is exactly the same thing as this Stoic concept. That's great. And a trust scout is trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean, and reverent, so Gabe, I've got this new way of exercising, of course. I learned it on this show on our coaching program, exercise snacking, we talked about before, fitness snacking, and now I'm driving my family crazy because I'll just run out of the room and go in the backyard. So good for you. Three one minute bursts of vigorous exercise spread through your day, cuts your risk of dying from heart disease nearly in half. Hello, Healthy Heart, that's from a nature medicine study, and the same study found a 38 to 40% drop in cancer-related death. The practice is called exercise snacking, short hard bouts of about a minute, multiple times a day. This is, look, this cuts through all of our excuses that we have. I'm always saying on the coaching call here that the best exercise program is the exercise program you will do. That's the best one to do, is the one that you will do consistently. I am one of those people where if I can't exercise to my fullest, like if I don't have time to spend an hour in the gym, I end up skipping the exercise, and that's terrible for me. And then that piles up. We shouldn't be doing that. This is a great way to get to cut through the excuses. I keep a dead lift bar loaded in my backyard, and every time I walk past it, I have to do three to five. All it does is it gets my heart rate up, it gets my blood pumping, and boom, I'm making it through the day with with consistent exercise, and research has shown that consistently exercising, even in small ways throughout the day, is actually better for you than one big exercise routine, where you go to the gym for an hour, and then you don't move for the rest of the day. Yep, this is actually better for you to move consistently through the day, but less intensely. That was a great way to describe it. Right, folks, here's

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if you have trouble sleeping, we'll get Gip to weigh in here. The more calories you burn while you're awake, the sounder you're going to sleep at night, if you notice that you don't work out during the day, you don't sleep great. This comes from the Sleep Foundation. In their study, they found if you deplete your energy stores during the day, your body is going to need to replenish them when it's at rest, which is associated with deeper sleep. We talk about this all the time. Look, Prima got one of those aura rings, and she got us a bunch of, she got all of got us the aura rings, and you wear them, and you see what correlates with a good night's sleep and what doesn't. I've started tracking my sleep as well, and I'll tell you right now, one of the biggest factors is how much you exercise during the day. My advice to you is to get up at the same time every day and immediately exercise, and you will see that that immediate exercise translates to being tired at the right time later in the day, and it is. I mean, it's a huge boon. Yeah, absolutely. You don't need, you don't need that GLP nine thing. You can just go. We're still on GLP one. We haven't gotten the sequels yet. Okay, I've seen a couple of GLP nines walking around. They look good. All right, GB, according to Career Builder, the top fashion pet peeves for employers. This is important if you want to get or keep your job. Number one, and unironed shirts. Oh geez, the problem is, I got these fancy shirts that they just get wrinkled immediately. Yeah, they have like linen in them. Yeah, the linen just immediately crinkles, unless you starch them. Number two is sneakers, although there are some pretty fancy sneakers, yeah, it depends on the environment that you work in, but I respect it. But, and the number one, number three, rather top fashion pet peeve for employers, I would think this would be number one, is wearing flip flops. I look again, this really depends on what you do for a living, but I would say 99% of jobs, unless you're a lifeguard, in which case you know where the flip flops 99% of jobs you shouldn't wear flip, you shouldn't wear flip flops too. If you're a creative executive somewhere, sometimes being a sneaker head is a, is a, is helpful, makes you look cool, makes you look like you're hip, so you know you work in advertising and you got a big sneaker collection that seems okay, converse, but if you're look, if you're in finance and your shirt is not pressed, then yeah, I'm expecting you to be mind, you know, minding the p's and q's. I want you to know exactly how, what percentage each, each dollar is going to what place, and if you don't have an iron shirt, then you know, I, it doesn't look like somebody who, who is minding the details, yeah. So I understand where this comes from. I just think it's very much career and sector dependent, yeah. And probably don't have alcohol on your breath either. It's probably a good tip, solid advice, yeah. Unless you're, you know, unless you're Somalia, that came up that, okay. Bye. That's it for the show today. Thank you guys so much for listening. If you like the show, please rate, comment. Minute, 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. Bye.