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March 7, 2024
Boost Longevity with Balloons, Rebellion Against Self-Checkouts, Puppy Power for Men, & Clown Cardio Secrets
We’ll reveal the latest stats on men and women and their pets. We’ll share the deal-breakers and tell you why men won’t date a woman who kisses her pet on the mouth. Plus, Why researchers want us to spend time in gazebos at the park, a circular tent on a camping trip or a rotunda that’s found in many churches and public buildings. It’s the power of round things.
We’ll also tell you why scientists say people who take 15 minutes a day to blow up party balloons have significant improvements in lung function.
And then we’ll reveal how much people hate those self-checkout scanner machines. Finally, we’ll explore the new, trendy workout that combines elements of aerobic activity, dance, and improv comedy. It’s Clown Cardio!
Visit https://Tesh.com for more information and resources.
(00:00) Improving Lung Function With Balloons
(12:14) Posture, Pets, and Personality Traits
(22:23) Clown Cardio and Therapy Benefits
(31:57) Podcast Growth and Engagement Strategy
Transcript
00:00 - Speaker 1
Welcome to the podcast. I'm John Tesh, Gib Gerard and coming up today how blowing up three balloons can extend your life. I will see what. Oh see how that plays out. Why people are revolting against the self-checkouts in the stores, including this guy. Hate him. Plus the latest stats on men and women and their pets. And why the latest way to get fit and have fun at the same time and this has been studied is something called clown cardio.
00:21 - Speaker 2
I have never been more intrigued and more skeptical of a tease than than the all of these things you've just mentioned.
00:28 - Speaker 1
But first let's talk about roundness. If you find yourself less stressed, maybe even more creative, when you're in a round room anything from a gazebo in the park to a circular tent on a camping trip, to the rotundas found in many churches and public buildings New research from bold bond university, rather in Australia, shows that round rooms have a more positive influence on our psychological wellbeing than rectangular or square rooms, and in an experiment where people were asked to perform creative tasks in a variety of different shape rooms, those in round rooms often produce the most creative results, and this comes from cognitive neuroscientist Dr Oliver Baumann says there's a simple fact that you can't be backed into a corner in a round room. On a primal level, okay.
01:10 - Speaker 2
So, so good for Dr Baumann for figuring out the corner thing and also, I mean, the data is there. They did the study round rooms. You come up with more creative responses, right, but but also, every round room that you mentioned is a room that someplace interesting, right, it's like nobody is like, ah, very few people, and if they have a round room in their house, it's usually because their house is architecturally interesting. So they're already a more creative, you know, eccentric person. So my issue is that every place you just mentioned is is a place of excitement and relaxation at the same time. Right, camping, right, you're on vacation right.
01:49
You're going to. You're going to a church or a or a government building that has some sort of grandness to it Gazebos, those ballrooms at the, at the Del Coronado in in San Diego All of these are nice places Round roundabout.
02:05 - Speaker 1
I don't know, I don't know, I don't know.
02:07 - Speaker 2
Yes, song, my point is that these are all places that are already interesting that are already going to stimulate the kind of mental growth.
02:15 - Speaker 1
Okay, I don't have a.
02:16 - Speaker 2
you don't have a round room in your house. You have a very nice house, Architecturally interesting. No round rooms.
02:20 - Speaker 1
I have performed on a rounds, a couple of round stages, one on Long Island in Westbury Music Fair and a theater, and but it moved around in a circle, it was on a turntable, which was was no fun. I was not relaxed, I was nothing, was stressed because it couldn't figure out.
02:34 - Speaker 2
That's disorienting. That's disorienting.
02:36 - Speaker 1
But before you finish poking holes in this whole thing, in Dr Oliver Bauman's thing on a primal level he says there's evidence that rounder environments remind us of being in our mother's womb. I mean, I, I does that sound relaxing to me. You can't breathe. Yeah, so, but also nights at the round table. Sure, that was a relaxing place.
02:57 - Speaker 2
But that was about. That was about you know, authority. It was not about it was not about, you know, creativity. I don't think that Lancelot was working on his paint by numbers on the side, all right, Well, anyway, find a round room.
03:08 - Speaker 1
If you can't, you know, go to Washington.
03:10 - Speaker 2
Who can Okay?
03:11 - Speaker 1
Yeah Well.
03:12 - Speaker 2
This is my point. I'll hop over or just.
03:14 - Speaker 1
I'll just spend time with your family around a round table.
03:16 - Speaker 2
Go to a gazebo. Yeah, I like, I like, if you can find one.
03:19 - Speaker 1
All right, here's our. Here's our next tip, which is from cognitive psychologist Dr Nick Reed. He says we should be careful while listening to a sports broadcast.
03:28 - Speaker 2
Guilty.
03:30 - Speaker 1
People who listen to sporting events while driving are as dangerous on the road as drunk drivers, he says. The researchers found that when people became absorbed in the action of a game, they lost focus on the road and the reaction times slowed dramatically and almost the same amount of slowing caused by drinking alcohol before they got behind the wheel.
03:47 - Speaker 2
I think that depends on what kind of sporting event you're listening to. I am very notoriously around here. I'm a baseball fan, and baseball has a certain rhythm to it that's a little bit softer, a little bit slower, a little bit easier to consume while you're driving or or while you're, you know, while you're doing other things. If I was listening to, like, playoff hockey yes, absolutely that would be distracting. The action is fast and I and I'll say too, I definitely am the kind of person where if I'm listening to an exciting baseball game and it gets very exciting I will turn it down. When I'm going to park or find an address where I have to do, I could make a left turn or something like that.
04:26
So I definitely, I definitely am aware that I can be distracted, but the kind of sporting event that I listen to is a little bit more even keel, a little bit, a little bit ease, more background noise, which I like about it.
04:39 - Speaker 1
Listen, we've been on stage before performing concerts when the Dodgers were in the playoffs, yes, and you play a song and then run off the stage.
04:45 - Speaker 2
Yes, I mean, you're really invested in this, so I I guess Playoff baseball I will give it to you, but like you know some random night in July.
04:52 - Speaker 1
Yeah, but remember this psychologist, dr Reed, says that when you're listening to a sporting event and that you're, you're, you're driving drunk, so what? Just to bottom line this so it's, it's like I'll be saying, like it's hockey or the NBA, but not ski jumping.
05:07 - Speaker 2
Oh, ski jump. I mean, if you're into ski jumping first of all, I don't know how. I don't know how you listen to ski jumping and you're not drunk.
05:13 - Speaker 1
That doesn't make sense to me.
05:16 - Speaker 2
Because it's just oh, here comes Bill, he's jumping, he's in the air, and here's the number.
05:21 - Speaker 1
By the way, his name is never Bill Hans yeah.
05:25 - Speaker 2
Here comes Hans. Bill fell. Bill broke his leg, but Hans is going to do a great job.
05:30 - Speaker 1
By the way, jim McKay never sounded like that Bill's doing great. He broke his leg next, but with video.
05:37 - Speaker 2
It's exciting. I just what do you say if you're doing? What is the radio broadcast for a ski jump going to be like? Here he goes.
05:46 - Speaker 1
Looks like Edward Armuro doing you know, you know. World War I or II, whatever it was, is all the humanity.
05:51 - Speaker 2
Yeah, it's because the most exciting. We're way off the rails on the ski jumping thing, but the most exciting thing about ski jumping is the risk of falling and the amount of time that they're in the air. That's called dead air on the radio, yeah, sports broadcasts.
06:03 - Speaker 1
getting into it too much in the car, be very, very careful.
06:06 - Speaker 2
And if you're listening to ski jumping on the radio. I kind of want to hear from you. I don't think it's on the radio. I hope it's on you, but you might feel I have a tape.
06:13 - Speaker 1
I have a tape you can have. Let's talk about lung function, of course, because there's a new way now that you can actually improve your lung function. It's from the Journal of Physical Therapy Science. It's this simple you can improve your lung function in two weeks and if you ever follow Dr Peter Atea and his book Outlive, you know that VO2 max, the ability of Right over there.
06:37 - Speaker 2
It's your ability of your lungs to process oxygen and how much oxygen you can take in when your heart rate is up.
06:42 - Speaker 1
That can determine longevity. So what they say is if you want to improve your lung function in just two weeks, you blow up three balloons every day. This is again from the Journal People, who took 15 minutes a day to blow up party balloons.
06:55 - Speaker 2
So not like weather balloons, but baby.
06:59 - Speaker 1
Had significant improvements in lung function within two weeks. So it optimizes oxygen delivery from the lungs to your bloodstream, and the effort it takes to inflate a balloon increases lung capacity by strengthening your abs and diaphragm muscles, which you use to draw air into your. This is a white paper, so the advice is buy a bag of balloons, spend 15 minutes a day blowing them up for better lung function in two weeks.
07:21 - Speaker 2
Go ahead, buy yourself a bag of balloons and try this. Here's the thing. I For sure I understand that if you are in great shape, blowing up balloons is going to be easier. In fact, when my kids have a birthday party or something I know, I, if I'm blowing up the balloon, I can tell oh man, I've really let myself go recently. I should probably go for a jog because the amount of the amount that I'm struggling to blow up the balloon is significant, but I cannot. I mean, what you're saying now is that I'm not saying I'm reporting it.
07:53
We're going to get ahead of this trend where, like, party planners and fitness studios combine and you come in and you pay a fee to inflate balloons as your workout and then they take those balloons and they use them at parties.
08:05 - Speaker 1
Yeah, I think this is.
08:06 - Speaker 2
That's the business that's going to come out of this.
08:08 - Speaker 1
I think the whole thing is a moneymaker, if you ask me.
08:11 - Speaker 2
We're always looking for the angle.
08:12 - Speaker 1
The balloon workout.
08:13 - Speaker 2
Yeah.
08:13 - Speaker 1
I mean it's all over YouTube.
08:15 - Speaker 2
We should come up with the balloon workout on.
08:17 - Speaker 1
YouTube that's not but the blowing up the balloons for a longer life is.
08:21 - Speaker 2
So I Again the study, the research is the research. We need to come up with variable resistance balloons.
08:27 - Speaker 1
So you start off maybe you're not in great shape.
08:30 - Speaker 2
You have the easy to blow up balloon and then you work your way up to the yoga ball style balloon where you really have to use a lot of diaphragm power. That could be the way that we do this. Yeah, a weather balloon. I don't think there's just air in those.
08:47 - Speaker 1
Let's get into pet peeves here, and one of them for both of us and apparently for a lot of people, is these self-checkout things. So, according to the Journal of Business Research, they just finished this study and they're saying if stores want to keep their customers happy and coming back, then what they need to do is cut back on the self-checkout planes. I agree, I hate them. The study found that regular checkout quote-unquote the kind with an actual human cashier makes customers more loyal to a store. When customers use a regular checkout lane, they feel like they're more valued by the store because cashiers handle the work of scanning a bag. And the study also found that regular checkouts also make customers feel that they're receiving an actual service, absolutely so the upshot is the customers feel taken care of.
09:35 - Speaker 2
They do. Look, it drives me nuts. First of all, you're interacting with a human being, you're a part of a society. It's great, the only time if there are days when I don't want to talk to anybody. Yet on those days I appreciate the self-checkout. But here's the thing it's a job. You're giving me something to do to get myself. If I got like two items, fine, no big deal. But if I've got a whole cart, there's no way I'm gonna do the self-checkout, unless you wanna give me the employee discount.
10:00
If you're gonna give me the job of being the checkout person, then I should get the 40% off. That's right. That's the way I feel about it, because the other thing is it never works easily. It never works without one of the items that won't scan. So I always have to have a person come over and they have to press the button and reset the thing, and they always seem put out by the fact that they have to come help me do it. Fine, give me the old checkout lane. I would prefer that.
10:27 - Speaker 1
I also think the voice that comes out of those things is a big judgemental.
10:30 - Speaker 2
I think that they should really Remove card now remove card now.
10:33 - Speaker 1
Yeah, yeah, I said, put the bag in there. I think that if they went, the whole Southwest Airlines thing and just be a little phenocent, hey, what's going?
10:40 - Speaker 2
on. I feel like yeah, everything could be nicer. But I always feel like our robot overlords are. This is their testing the waters for how they're going to influence us in the future. This does not feel human, all right.
10:51 - Speaker 1
Well, anyway let us know how you feel about the whole self checkout thing and we'll start-.
10:55 - Speaker 2
I hate it.
10:56 - Speaker 1
Okay, we'll start a movement. You can just email us at john at teshcom and coming up. I can tell you that I didn't see this coming. Apparently, the latest way to get fit and have fun at the same time is clown cardio. That's anytime.
11:12 - Speaker 2
I do cardio with your shoes on Because you have big feet.
11:16 - Speaker 1
But yeah, I think people probably got that. But first listen to this. When you have a moment, please visit teshcom. This is where you can get access to my music and live concerts and also find out about my new online piano course, the John Tesh Piano Method. Plus, you can join me for my weekly VIP coaching. The John Tesh VIP coaching program is an opportunity for you to get personal coaching from me in a small group environment. You get strategies, plus encouragement and accountability, plus live weekly Zoom calls everything you need to create the next chapter in your life. It's all waiting for you at teshcom. Welcome back to the podcast John Tesh. We give Gerard and in a moment we're gonna talk about clown cardio why. But first this is we talk a lot about posture. I have a problem with posture.
12:07 - Speaker 2
Well, we're both very well, you know, really, but I'm just I have a problem with posture. You know, I'm like this.
12:11 - Speaker 1
So experts say you do this next time. You're down in the dumps. You adopt a what's known as a joy posture, and Gibbs gonna demonstrate this. It's according to a study from Duke University. You have taken me, okay, let's do it. What's the joy posture? It's a posture where your spine is straight, okay, your hands are raised up over your head and your head is uplifted, looking towards the sky, and the study found that adopting this helps subject experience more positive feelings compared to when they were looking down straight ahead or their hands with their sides.
12:39 - Speaker 2
So for me I feel like an idiot.
12:41 - Speaker 1
Well, yeah, but as with most things that are good for you, they seem idiotic at first yeah, you can put them down now, but anyway, what do you think about this? I mean, if you're supposed to strike a pose where you just want a million bucks and that joy posture is not only going to be you know better for your body, for your spine and everything, but it just releases more feel good dopamine.
13:02 - Speaker 2
So I feel fantastic.
13:03 - Speaker 1
Thank you so much for recommending this.
13:06 - Speaker 2
First of all, standing up straight in general is just a good idea. So straight in your spine, I can't help it. Every time we do a story about posture I have to sit up just a little bit straighter because it reminds me that I don't I hunch and, yeah, I feel fine. But this is one of those tips that we give out that you need to do in the privacy of your own home, your own. Don't do this in an open workspace. Environment is my point. Like if you're on a factory floor, you're in an open concept, we work kind of place. Don't do what we just described. Don't stand up and because you look ridiculous, I feel ridiculous. I feel like I'm Superman trying to take off, but it's in Superman too, when I've lost all my powers, so I can't actually take off.
13:47 - Speaker 1
Remember that, yeah, I do Neal before Zahra. That's what I'm thinking, that's how I feel. I remember that you know, when you're married, for coming up on 32 years, connie and I.
13:58
Oh, I thought you meant you and me. Yeah, you're always looking out for each other, hopefully. So my wife is always. If my posture starts to go, she'll say she used to say John, posture, posture, which is embarrassing because people walking by it's all look at her, look at what she's doing, this poor guy. So she said we need a word. This is an amazing story. Maybe it's not an amazing story, but it's goofy. So she says we need a word so that I can say Tippi Joe.
14:30
Yeah, like that, something like that, like a safe word or something. So you'll know, it's just a straight up, there's a chest out, straight up.
14:38 - Speaker 2
Hey, john Teriyaki.
14:39 - Speaker 1
Salmon. No, it's very close to that though. So she said I experimented with different words, so people are gonna know what's going on. And so she said I've got it. And I said what is it? And she said Rami Swami. And I said what? And she goes Rami Swami. When I say Rami Swami, just you'll know. To straighten up. And I said Rami Swami, you mean the guy that was running for president, vivek Rami Swami. And she goes yeah, nobody will know what we're talking about because he's not running anymore.
15:04
It's nice of that, that's genius. So every now and then. So if you see us out in concert or something like that and you see me with my wife, if you hear Rami Swami, then straight, you know, straight enough. I haven't talked to Vivek about this.
15:15 - Speaker 2
I hope that he hears about this. I think he would love it, but that isn't it.
15:21 - Speaker 1
That's it for posture. You've got to do the joy Good, good, yeah, and you don't.
15:25 - Speaker 2
you don't pick your own word, Rami Swami. No, don't See how that works. I don't want to be a part of this.
15:32 - Speaker 1
All right, let's talk about the latest stats on men and women and their pets, because this is important, because you know a lot of relationships break up because the guy doesn't want the pet on the bed, he doesn't want the Chihuahua on his face, you know anyway. So this is from a poll. That's a good example.
15:48 - Speaker 2
Yeah, I don't think anybody wants a Chihuahua on their face, by the way, nobody's like. Hey, I love my dog so much, I just hope it sleeps on my face. It's happened to me years ago. It's come from a poll. You didn't like it. It's my point.
15:58 - Speaker 1
You didn't want it. A poll comes, conducted by Men's Health magazine, so they found a couple of things, and there's one, two, three, four of them, and I'll get your opinion on this, given you folks at home, at some point or another, 21% of men have used their pet as a way to meet women 21% seems low.
16:15 - Speaker 2
And it's not just men meeting women, because Prima has certainly mad, but Prima met a guy. His sister. My daughter Met a guy doing this exact thing by having Leroy the dog who's around here somewhere. By having Leroy, she has started conversations with guys because they see the dog and they're like, oh, it's cute, it gives you like a safe topic of conversation to start a conversation, so it works for men and for women. I absolutely think 21% is too low.
16:42 - Speaker 1
Yeah, also, women find men 24% more attractive if they're holding a puppy, that's the puppy.
16:48 - Speaker 2
That's not you. You don't get credit for that.
16:51 - Speaker 1
Okay, one in five men say if a woman wow. One in five men say if a woman kisses her pet on the mouth, it's a deal breaker. They won't date her.
17:00 - Speaker 2
So that's, only 20%.
17:02 - Speaker 1
Those are guys that have a list, like Scottie Myers has a list 80% of the men are still fine with it.
17:08 - Speaker 2
But I think it's important because it does show like a line in that you have like, okay, if you treat your dog like that, then that's. That's not something that I'm interested in and a lot of people for a lot of people we've talked about this before how you treat your pets is a good barometer, a good litmus test for how your relationship is going to go, you know, or how how compatible you are. So if you know that you're incompatible in this regard, then yeah, break up before the relationship even starts. I love it.
17:33 - Speaker 1
All right, and then again, this is a poll conducted by Men's Health magazine. The last one the pet least likely to get a man a second date is a spider like a tarantula. Yeah, I think it's what questions you?
17:46 - Speaker 2
have to ask to get to this. Well, I mean like I wonder if they had like a list of pets you could choose from. And they got to tarantula and all the women were like oh, yeah, tarantula for sure yeah.
17:54 - Speaker 1
And half the guys say I've got one.
17:56 - Speaker 2
Or everybody they surveyed had had a bad first date experience with a guy who wanted tarantula. It's one or the other. I feel like tarantula is a it's more of a personality trait than it is a pet Like. If you're the kind of person that has a pet tarantula, you're a specific kind of person. I mean, this is a spider. You have to feed mammals to what you have to give them little pinkies.
18:18
Oh, they're little rabbits, yeah, or the baby mice. It's an insect or an arachnid that you have to feed. People are going to write us if I say insects because it's a spider you have to feed mammals to. That's a very specific kind of person that's willing to do that for their insect. I'm just saying and I say this as somebody who has a pet lizard that there is. You know, you've crossed a line. When you're that kind of person, I think it's more personality type than it is the spider itself. Personally, yeah, I mean, would you own a tarantula?
18:51 - Speaker 1
You were when you were like single in New York, would you have a tarantula? No, but I knew people who are like what you're talking about. I mean, back in the day it was like I have a tarantula to have a tattoo. Now everybody has tattoos, so it's not a big deal. But I think the guy if you remember this, I think the guy who has a tarantula is the same guy who has in his bedroom, who has the clapper.
19:09 - Speaker 2
Oh, yeah, yeah, and a waterbed Lights on.
19:13 - Speaker 1
Yeah, so yeah. In college I had the clapper and my roommate had a waterbed.
19:17 - Speaker 2
And your neighbor had a tarantula. And there you go, it's a come full circle.
19:20 - Speaker 1
The problem is that for me I got it a radio check the clapper thing never worked. I go and it was just beyond. You know why are you clapping?
19:28 - Speaker 2
What's going on with you? You bring somebody back to your door room and you're trying to turn the lights off and and she just thinks you have a tick. I never brought it back.
19:36 - Speaker 1
So, anyway, let's get serious. This is all serious stuff. I mean, the tarantula thing is incredibly serious. That could be horrible. But let's talk about brain health for a moment, because, according to many doctors there, they're now performing these things called quote well-brained checkups, and these things are proven to help you delay or even avoid brain diseases like Alzheimer's. So the way I understand it is that a well-brained checkup involves a blood test that measures levels of plaque, because we know about plaque, it's a known biomarker for Alzheimer's, which can begin clumping together and then you end up with cognitive decline.
20:15 - Speaker 2
It's the same plaque that causes cavities, that causes heart attacks, that causes Alzheimer's.
20:19 - Speaker 1
So the same buildup Right. So the earlier a doctor detects more plaque in the blood, the better your odds of preventing Alzheimer's. Also, these well-brained checkups, they're going to ask about your diet, because we know the foods processed foods, saturated fat, sugar contribute to inflammation in the brain and you should expect also to get an eye exam. I just had one today when you're having your brain assessed, because even your eyesight if it's perfect an exam can reveal if there's damage. I have some damage in my eyes because when I was younger I had higher blood pressure. It's another sign of high blood pressure if you have tiny blood vessels in the retina that have been damaged and that can affect your longevity.
20:57 - Speaker 2
So I mean so I absolutely. We see. Everything you're describing is either chronic inflammation or high blood pressure, which are two things that are biomarkers for almost every chronic disease that we talk about on the radio show. Everything that our researchers come to us with, it's all that's. Those are two of the big ones. It's why we recommend you have an at-home sphigmomynometer blood pressure. It's why we recommend that you regularly test your blood pressure and you deal with acute stress, not chronic stress. So that is, these are just more of the same things that we talk about all the time, and those are just the two big factors, the two canaries in the proverbial coal mine that let you know that your lifestyle is creating this kind of stress that is going to, in the long term, hurt you. So you know, do yourself a favor, find out if you have this stuff and then start making the choice, the lifestyle choices, to get over this before it begins to deteriorate your brain.
21:53 - Speaker 1
Yeah, and, and, and, and, and, and. We were talking about Peter Atia's book Outlive which is right over there.
22:00 - Speaker 2
I can almost reach it, it is.
22:02 - Speaker 1
It's. He talks about zone two training for not only, not only longevity, but also lowering your blood blood pressure. And and why don't you describe zone two training? Because there's something I'm trying to do right now, it's not interval training, which is really hard on your body.
22:16 - Speaker 2
It's, it's lower, it's. It's the kind of heart rate where you have a hard time having a full conversation but you can still make words. The best way to get to this place if you, if you have like a heart rate monitor on your, watch it and you and you calibrate it, it will tell you when you're in zone two. For me it's about 140, 150 beats a minute.
22:35
But if but if you get on a treadmill and you put it at like 10, you know, 10% incline, at about three miles an hour and you do that for 15, 20 minutes, that will get you into zone two and you can stay there for as long as you want to. I mean, we recommend, I think what is it? 20, 30 minutes a day.
22:53 - Speaker 1
Right, yeah, works out to be 150 minutes per week. Yeah, and, and that's you know I love and it's so easy to you know you can track your heart rate if you're somebody who knows all of that stuff, like like you. But it's also it's like if you can barely make. You said it you can barely make a conversation with somebody. You could do it, but you don't want to because it's too irritating. Then you know you're in zone two.
23:15
And really the best way to do it. I mean, he says you know, if you can do it when you're walking, that's fine, but you have to walk really, really fast. So a little bit of incline, like you mentioned, on the, on the treadmill or even the stair master, is the way to do it.
23:26 - Speaker 2
Yeah, yeah, and you and keep that up and that, by the way, that will reverse half of what we just talked about in terms of precursors to Alzheimer's and and negative longevity.
23:36 - Speaker 1
That's good stuff, Very valuable. You know, I do remember. Well, I don't know if you were, if it was happening when you were, when you were younger, but you're, you're Gen X, right.
23:46 - Speaker 2
I'm right on the border, gen X.
23:47 - Speaker 1
They call us geriatric millennials.
23:50 - Speaker 2
Yeah.
23:50 - Speaker 1
And I'm a I'm a baby boomer, which is, you're very much a baby boomer Implied geriatrics yeah, I am very much Elder millennial geriatric millennial that's what they call us. It's so funny because we were watching the news the other day and somebody said, yeah, 40% of elderly people, you know something? Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah and I go, wow, man, that's, that's a, that's a bummer of the elderly people and it kind of goes you know, that's you right.
24:11 - Speaker 2
It's a wild thing that happened. So, like I was the Super Bowl the halftime show, you think, oh, when I was a kid it was all these older artists that appealed to older people. It's great to see that the halftime show is starting to appeal to a younger crowd. And then it dawns on me no, no, no, no, no.
24:27 - Speaker 1
I'm the older crowd now. Yeah, yeah, I mean. The reason I bring this up is that back in the day, if somebody, if you were going to go through psychotherapy, right and back in the day, there wasn't really any psychotherapy, it was just they sent you to a quote, unquote mental institution. This happened to my sister and she ended up Mary Ellen and she ended up and she's no longer with us and she ended up having what do you call?
24:49 - Speaker 2
Electroshock therapy.
24:49 - Speaker 1
Electroshock therapy, yeah, which you know whacked out her, her memory and, and their therapy was like oh, I'm like, are you in therapy right now? What's wrong with you? But it turns out that now, admitting you've gone to therapy is attracting more matches on on these these dating apps?
25:05 - Speaker 2
We say of course, but okay anyway, wait, wait, wait.
25:08 - Speaker 1
So so Eli Finkel is a psychology professor at Northwestern and he says in the 1980s or 90s it would be hard to imagine it saying oh, I see my therapist regularly would increase your dating status. But now taking care of your mental health carries a lot of weight. So that's why psychology professor Paul Eastwick says having done some work on your mental health gives daters a competitive advantage. And you knew this, I 100%.
25:33 - Speaker 2
So for one you're. You're talking about a change in stigma. So when you were growing up, it was only mental institutions or very rarely, or you know only certain people were in. They called it analysis right and it was and it was always made fun of in movies.
25:47 - Speaker 1
It was a comedic it was a comedic trope.
25:49 - Speaker 2
And then you have shows like the Sopranos and you have these other shows where the main character is in therapy with the stigma, trying to work out their issues, and we see it work in a positive way. So that kind of that, those kinds of pop culture references, work to begin to change the stigma to the point now where you can text people. You can text your therapist and just kind of check in with them, which is something that you know never. Obviously, if you were institutionalized, you you couldn't text your therapist. And now it's a totally different thing and what it says is hey, I've dated other people, I have some patterns in my life that I've recognized and I'm working to break those patterns and I'm like what could be more attractive than?
26:25
that To say hey, I'm admitting that part of the reason why my past relationships haven't worked is because of me. Then I'm going to work to fix that, whether it's the people that I select or because of my own behavior. Boom.
26:38 - Speaker 1
What an attractive thing. Yeah, what you're talking about is self awareness, right?
26:41 - Speaker 2
Self awareness and and and a growth mindset, the ability to change and adapt to issues that you've had in the past. I love it yeah.
26:49 - Speaker 1
Yeah, again, when it comes to dating, according to Eli Finkel, a psychiatrist, psychology professor at Northwestern, admitting you've gone to therapy is attracting more matches, and the dating apps are seeing this as well. I can, we're going to close out with with this and I have a feeling that, of all the stuff we've talked about today, and if we're you know, if you want us to go in a certain direction, whatever you can just let us know in the, in the comments, wherever you're listening to or watching this, this podcast.
27:15 - Speaker 2
Unless you want us to have more self checkout lanes, in which case keep your opinion to yourself.
27:21 - Speaker 1
Yeah, but the whole idea behind what we're talking about is we're curators, right, and so we find stuff that's not only trending, but things where you can dig in and it's good. We always make sure, with our writers and researchers, that it's good material and you're not gonna be hurting yourself, right, or that it's actually supported it's peer reviewed and supported, and so our whole idea is to help you with the next. However old you are, we're always looking for that next, more powerful chapter.
27:48 - Speaker 2
We wanna give you that edge. Yeah, exactly that edge. If you're in preschool, we want you to be the best kid in preschool. If you're going to the Margaritaville retirement community, we want you to have the edge on how to race your golf cart properly.
28:02 - Speaker 1
So here we go. Here's a piece on a new way to do cardio, and when I first saw this, I'm like I'm not, I, we're not doing this. But then I look it up and it's like it's real. It's very popular and it's called Clown Cardio, which is listed as the latest way to get fit and have fun at the same time. So it's a new form of exercise that combines elements of aerobic activity and dance and improv comedy.
28:28 - Speaker 2
Now that's new, right, right. So a typical clown cardio. Do you remember the improv traffic school? Now they've got it. I know what it is, but I've not been there. Comedians would run traffic school.
28:38 - Speaker 1
I'm a good driver, yeah okay, a typical clown cardio session. It involves chasing others around while honking a bicycle horn, playing a sped up version of musical chairs or competing in a chaotic game of clown dodge ball which involves throwing different sized balls all at the same time.
29:00
Right, what a clown would do, right? So the dance elements of clown cardio incorporate warm up moves that circus clowns have used since the 1920s, and some sessions devote time for practicing classic clown facial expressions while you're exercising, including surprise sadness and baffle man. I'm not sure what that one would look like. Oh, I can't. I've seen that emoji. So, wait, wait. According to a neuroscientist who is this? Dr Sophie Scott movement that triggers laughter is proven to reduce stress and motivate you to keep going. So because clown cardio is fun, you'll keep doing it. So I'll tell you how you can find clown workouts after Gib takes care of this.
29:39 - Speaker 2
So if you, if this is the kind of thing that appeals to you. I always say the best workout is the one that you do consistently. So if this makes you work out, then by all means go do it.
29:49 - Speaker 1
It's not like my therapist, but would you do this, would you? Because you are I would cover it. You and I I would cover it, I would report on it.
29:56 - Speaker 2
You'd be an undercover reporter.
29:58 - Speaker 1
I would get it back in the day when I witnessed news and action news.
30:01 - Speaker 2
You would have dressed up like the clown. Yeah, you have to do it right.
30:03 - Speaker 1
You have to show people what it is. I would have the baffle man smile and everything Okay.
30:09 - Speaker 2
You and I like the same kind of weird movies and they almost always the clown is the villain.
30:13 - Speaker 1
Yeah, so there is an element of this where there's like fear Stephen King, right, I'm thinking of it, right it.
30:19 - Speaker 2
And then you know, killer clowns from outer space, the Joker, yeah, all of that. All of that is terrifying. I don't know that I would be in the kind of. The benefit to me would be I'd be so scared of the clowns that I would be. I would work out just a little bit harder, yeah, but it would not be an enjoyable experience. I still would rather. I'd rather do hot yoga than the clown workout, wouldn't you?
30:42 - Speaker 1
Well, you know, they're gonna combine it eventually, because they combine all these workouts. Yeah, so yoga was just yoga until it was like oh, let's do what we just do in Asana. So there's gonna be hot clown workouts.
30:53 - Speaker 2
Wow, there's hot clowns in there. Awesome, I have this image of like very in shape clowns that are very attractive, like it's the hot clown workout, you know, and coming to these like boutique, these boutique fitness studios across the city.
31:06 - Speaker 1
Listen, I've got size 16 shoes. I could tell you that that's a workout. Just get, just lift the nose up and put them down. So I totally get it.
31:12 - Speaker 2
It's ridiculous. Look, I mean, if you want to try it, it seems fun, go for it, okay, but it also sounds ridiculous. Thanks for wrapping this up, because that could have gone on forever. I have a lot of images in my head, oh but I do have.
31:23 - Speaker 1
let me see what I got. You can find dozens of clown I don't know if these people are hanging, oh yeah. You can find dozens of clown workout videos on YouTube or Google clown cardio in your neighborhood. So clown cardio plus your zip code.
31:38 - Speaker 2
So, basically, what you would have done if we hadn't said anything to find out about it is what you should Google it. Google the clown workout.
31:45 - Speaker 1
But just be careful, because that's going to be in your history now. Yeah.
31:49 - Speaker 2
You can serve all kinds of ads about clowns, every website you thought about visiting a clown. You might also like the clown tarantula. There you go, oh gosh.
31:57 - Speaker 1
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32:11 - Speaker 2
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32:16 - Speaker 1
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32:19 - Speaker 2
If you've done the clown workout, you can go ahead and direct message me about it.
32:23 - Speaker 1
Thank you for listening.
Welcome to the podcast. I'm John Tesh, Gib Gerard and coming up today how blowing up three balloons can extend your life. I will see what. Oh see how that plays out. Why people are revolting against the self-checkouts in the stores, including this guy. Hate him. Plus the latest stats on men and women and their pets. And why the latest way to get fit and have fun at the same time and this has been studied is something called clown cardio.
00:21 - Speaker 2
I have never been more intrigued and more skeptical of a tease than than the all of these things you've just mentioned.
00:28 - Speaker 1
But first let's talk about roundness. If you find yourself less stressed, maybe even more creative, when you're in a round room anything from a gazebo in the park to a circular tent on a camping trip, to the rotundas found in many churches and public buildings New research from bold bond university, rather in Australia, shows that round rooms have a more positive influence on our psychological wellbeing than rectangular or square rooms, and in an experiment where people were asked to perform creative tasks in a variety of different shape rooms, those in round rooms often produce the most creative results, and this comes from cognitive neuroscientist Dr Oliver Baumann says there's a simple fact that you can't be backed into a corner in a round room. On a primal level, okay.
01:10 - Speaker 2
So, so good for Dr Baumann for figuring out the corner thing and also, I mean, the data is there. They did the study round rooms. You come up with more creative responses, right, but but also, every round room that you mentioned is a room that someplace interesting, right, it's like nobody is like, ah, very few people, and if they have a round room in their house, it's usually because their house is architecturally interesting. So they're already a more creative, you know, eccentric person. So my issue is that every place you just mentioned is is a place of excitement and relaxation at the same time. Right, camping, right, you're on vacation right.
01:49
You're going to. You're going to a church or a or a government building that has some sort of grandness to it Gazebos, those ballrooms at the, at the Del Coronado in in San Diego All of these are nice places Round roundabout.
02:05 - Speaker 1
I don't know, I don't know, I don't know.
02:07 - Speaker 2
Yes, song, my point is that these are all places that are already interesting that are already going to stimulate the kind of mental growth.
02:15 - Speaker 1
Okay, I don't have a.
02:16 - Speaker 2
you don't have a round room in your house. You have a very nice house, Architecturally interesting. No round rooms.
02:20 - Speaker 1
I have performed on a rounds, a couple of round stages, one on Long Island in Westbury Music Fair and a theater, and but it moved around in a circle, it was on a turntable, which was was no fun. I was not relaxed, I was nothing, was stressed because it couldn't figure out.
02:34 - Speaker 2
That's disorienting. That's disorienting.
02:36 - Speaker 1
But before you finish poking holes in this whole thing, in Dr Oliver Bauman's thing on a primal level he says there's evidence that rounder environments remind us of being in our mother's womb. I mean, I, I does that sound relaxing to me. You can't breathe. Yeah, so, but also nights at the round table. Sure, that was a relaxing place.
02:57 - Speaker 2
But that was about. That was about you know, authority. It was not about it was not about, you know, creativity. I don't think that Lancelot was working on his paint by numbers on the side, all right, Well, anyway, find a round room.
03:08 - Speaker 1
If you can't, you know, go to Washington.
03:10 - Speaker 2
Who can Okay?
03:11 - Speaker 1
Yeah Well.
03:12 - Speaker 2
This is my point. I'll hop over or just.
03:14 - Speaker 1
I'll just spend time with your family around a round table.
03:16 - Speaker 2
Go to a gazebo. Yeah, I like, I like, if you can find one.
03:19 - Speaker 1
All right, here's our. Here's our next tip, which is from cognitive psychologist Dr Nick Reed. He says we should be careful while listening to a sports broadcast.
03:28 - Speaker 2
Guilty.
03:30 - Speaker 1
People who listen to sporting events while driving are as dangerous on the road as drunk drivers, he says. The researchers found that when people became absorbed in the action of a game, they lost focus on the road and the reaction times slowed dramatically and almost the same amount of slowing caused by drinking alcohol before they got behind the wheel.
03:47 - Speaker 2
I think that depends on what kind of sporting event you're listening to. I am very notoriously around here. I'm a baseball fan, and baseball has a certain rhythm to it that's a little bit softer, a little bit slower, a little bit easier to consume while you're driving or or while you're, you know, while you're doing other things. If I was listening to, like, playoff hockey yes, absolutely that would be distracting. The action is fast and I and I'll say too, I definitely am the kind of person where if I'm listening to an exciting baseball game and it gets very exciting I will turn it down. When I'm going to park or find an address where I have to do, I could make a left turn or something like that.
04:26
So I definitely, I definitely am aware that I can be distracted, but the kind of sporting event that I listen to is a little bit more even keel, a little bit, a little bit ease, more background noise, which I like about it.
04:39 - Speaker 1
Listen, we've been on stage before performing concerts when the Dodgers were in the playoffs, yes, and you play a song and then run off the stage.
04:45 - Speaker 2
Yes, I mean, you're really invested in this, so I I guess Playoff baseball I will give it to you, but like you know some random night in July.
04:52 - Speaker 1
Yeah, but remember this psychologist, dr Reed, says that when you're listening to a sporting event and that you're, you're, you're driving drunk, so what? Just to bottom line this so it's, it's like I'll be saying, like it's hockey or the NBA, but not ski jumping.
05:07 - Speaker 2
Oh, ski jump. I mean, if you're into ski jumping first of all, I don't know how. I don't know how you listen to ski jumping and you're not drunk.
05:13 - Speaker 1
That doesn't make sense to me.
05:16 - Speaker 2
Because it's just oh, here comes Bill, he's jumping, he's in the air, and here's the number.
05:21 - Speaker 1
By the way, his name is never Bill Hans yeah.
05:25 - Speaker 2
Here comes Hans. Bill fell. Bill broke his leg, but Hans is going to do a great job.
05:30 - Speaker 1
By the way, jim McKay never sounded like that Bill's doing great. He broke his leg next, but with video.
05:37 - Speaker 2
It's exciting. I just what do you say if you're doing? What is the radio broadcast for a ski jump going to be like? Here he goes.
05:46 - Speaker 1
Looks like Edward Armuro doing you know, you know. World War I or II, whatever it was, is all the humanity.
05:51 - Speaker 2
Yeah, it's because the most exciting. We're way off the rails on the ski jumping thing, but the most exciting thing about ski jumping is the risk of falling and the amount of time that they're in the air. That's called dead air on the radio, yeah, sports broadcasts.
06:03 - Speaker 1
getting into it too much in the car, be very, very careful.
06:06 - Speaker 2
And if you're listening to ski jumping on the radio. I kind of want to hear from you. I don't think it's on the radio. I hope it's on you, but you might feel I have a tape.
06:13 - Speaker 1
I have a tape you can have. Let's talk about lung function, of course, because there's a new way now that you can actually improve your lung function. It's from the Journal of Physical Therapy Science. It's this simple you can improve your lung function in two weeks and if you ever follow Dr Peter Atea and his book Outlive, you know that VO2 max, the ability of Right over there.
06:37 - Speaker 2
It's your ability of your lungs to process oxygen and how much oxygen you can take in when your heart rate is up.
06:42 - Speaker 1
That can determine longevity. So what they say is if you want to improve your lung function in just two weeks, you blow up three balloons every day. This is again from the Journal People, who took 15 minutes a day to blow up party balloons.
06:55 - Speaker 2
So not like weather balloons, but baby.
06:59 - Speaker 1
Had significant improvements in lung function within two weeks. So it optimizes oxygen delivery from the lungs to your bloodstream, and the effort it takes to inflate a balloon increases lung capacity by strengthening your abs and diaphragm muscles, which you use to draw air into your. This is a white paper, so the advice is buy a bag of balloons, spend 15 minutes a day blowing them up for better lung function in two weeks.
07:21 - Speaker 2
Go ahead, buy yourself a bag of balloons and try this. Here's the thing. I For sure I understand that if you are in great shape, blowing up balloons is going to be easier. In fact, when my kids have a birthday party or something I know, I, if I'm blowing up the balloon, I can tell oh man, I've really let myself go recently. I should probably go for a jog because the amount of the amount that I'm struggling to blow up the balloon is significant, but I cannot. I mean, what you're saying now is that I'm not saying I'm reporting it.
07:53
We're going to get ahead of this trend where, like, party planners and fitness studios combine and you come in and you pay a fee to inflate balloons as your workout and then they take those balloons and they use them at parties.
08:05 - Speaker 1
Yeah, I think this is.
08:06 - Speaker 2
That's the business that's going to come out of this.
08:08 - Speaker 1
I think the whole thing is a moneymaker, if you ask me.
08:11 - Speaker 2
We're always looking for the angle.
08:12 - Speaker 1
The balloon workout.
08:13 - Speaker 2
Yeah.
08:13 - Speaker 1
I mean it's all over YouTube.
08:15 - Speaker 2
We should come up with the balloon workout on.
08:17 - Speaker 1
YouTube that's not but the blowing up the balloons for a longer life is.
08:21 - Speaker 2
So I Again the study, the research is the research. We need to come up with variable resistance balloons.
08:27 - Speaker 1
So you start off maybe you're not in great shape.
08:30 - Speaker 2
You have the easy to blow up balloon and then you work your way up to the yoga ball style balloon where you really have to use a lot of diaphragm power. That could be the way that we do this. Yeah, a weather balloon. I don't think there's just air in those.
08:47 - Speaker 1
Let's get into pet peeves here, and one of them for both of us and apparently for a lot of people, is these self-checkout things. So, according to the Journal of Business Research, they just finished this study and they're saying if stores want to keep their customers happy and coming back, then what they need to do is cut back on the self-checkout planes. I agree, I hate them. The study found that regular checkout quote-unquote the kind with an actual human cashier makes customers more loyal to a store. When customers use a regular checkout lane, they feel like they're more valued by the store because cashiers handle the work of scanning a bag. And the study also found that regular checkouts also make customers feel that they're receiving an actual service, absolutely so the upshot is the customers feel taken care of.
09:35 - Speaker 2
They do. Look, it drives me nuts. First of all, you're interacting with a human being, you're a part of a society. It's great, the only time if there are days when I don't want to talk to anybody. Yet on those days I appreciate the self-checkout. But here's the thing it's a job. You're giving me something to do to get myself. If I got like two items, fine, no big deal. But if I've got a whole cart, there's no way I'm gonna do the self-checkout, unless you wanna give me the employee discount.
10:00
If you're gonna give me the job of being the checkout person, then I should get the 40% off. That's right. That's the way I feel about it, because the other thing is it never works easily. It never works without one of the items that won't scan. So I always have to have a person come over and they have to press the button and reset the thing, and they always seem put out by the fact that they have to come help me do it. Fine, give me the old checkout lane. I would prefer that.
10:27 - Speaker 1
I also think the voice that comes out of those things is a big judgemental.
10:30 - Speaker 2
I think that they should really Remove card now remove card now.
10:33 - Speaker 1
Yeah, yeah, I said, put the bag in there. I think that if they went, the whole Southwest Airlines thing and just be a little phenocent, hey, what's going?
10:40 - Speaker 2
on. I feel like yeah, everything could be nicer. But I always feel like our robot overlords are. This is their testing the waters for how they're going to influence us in the future. This does not feel human, all right.
10:51 - Speaker 1
Well, anyway let us know how you feel about the whole self checkout thing and we'll start-.
10:55 - Speaker 2
I hate it.
10:56 - Speaker 1
Okay, we'll start a movement. You can just email us at john at teshcom and coming up. I can tell you that I didn't see this coming. Apparently, the latest way to get fit and have fun at the same time is clown cardio. That's anytime.
11:12 - Speaker 2
I do cardio with your shoes on Because you have big feet.
11:16 - Speaker 1
But yeah, I think people probably got that. But first listen to this. When you have a moment, please visit teshcom. This is where you can get access to my music and live concerts and also find out about my new online piano course, the John Tesh Piano Method. Plus, you can join me for my weekly VIP coaching. The John Tesh VIP coaching program is an opportunity for you to get personal coaching from me in a small group environment. You get strategies, plus encouragement and accountability, plus live weekly Zoom calls everything you need to create the next chapter in your life. It's all waiting for you at teshcom. Welcome back to the podcast John Tesh. We give Gerard and in a moment we're gonna talk about clown cardio why. But first this is we talk a lot about posture. I have a problem with posture.
12:07 - Speaker 2
Well, we're both very well, you know, really, but I'm just I have a problem with posture. You know, I'm like this.
12:11 - Speaker 1
So experts say you do this next time. You're down in the dumps. You adopt a what's known as a joy posture, and Gibbs gonna demonstrate this. It's according to a study from Duke University. You have taken me, okay, let's do it. What's the joy posture? It's a posture where your spine is straight, okay, your hands are raised up over your head and your head is uplifted, looking towards the sky, and the study found that adopting this helps subject experience more positive feelings compared to when they were looking down straight ahead or their hands with their sides.
12:39 - Speaker 2
So for me I feel like an idiot.
12:41 - Speaker 1
Well, yeah, but as with most things that are good for you, they seem idiotic at first yeah, you can put them down now, but anyway, what do you think about this? I mean, if you're supposed to strike a pose where you just want a million bucks and that joy posture is not only going to be you know better for your body, for your spine and everything, but it just releases more feel good dopamine.
13:02 - Speaker 2
So I feel fantastic.
13:03 - Speaker 1
Thank you so much for recommending this.
13:06 - Speaker 2
First of all, standing up straight in general is just a good idea. So straight in your spine, I can't help it. Every time we do a story about posture I have to sit up just a little bit straighter because it reminds me that I don't I hunch and, yeah, I feel fine. But this is one of those tips that we give out that you need to do in the privacy of your own home, your own. Don't do this in an open workspace. Environment is my point. Like if you're on a factory floor, you're in an open concept, we work kind of place. Don't do what we just described. Don't stand up and because you look ridiculous, I feel ridiculous. I feel like I'm Superman trying to take off, but it's in Superman too, when I've lost all my powers, so I can't actually take off.
13:47 - Speaker 1
Remember that, yeah, I do Neal before Zahra. That's what I'm thinking, that's how I feel. I remember that you know, when you're married, for coming up on 32 years, connie and I.
13:58
Oh, I thought you meant you and me. Yeah, you're always looking out for each other, hopefully. So my wife is always. If my posture starts to go, she'll say she used to say John, posture, posture, which is embarrassing because people walking by it's all look at her, look at what she's doing, this poor guy. So she said we need a word. This is an amazing story. Maybe it's not an amazing story, but it's goofy. So she says we need a word so that I can say Tippi Joe.
14:30
Yeah, like that, something like that, like a safe word or something. So you'll know, it's just a straight up, there's a chest out, straight up.
14:38 - Speaker 2
Hey, john Teriyaki.
14:39 - Speaker 1
Salmon. No, it's very close to that though. So she said I experimented with different words, so people are gonna know what's going on. And so she said I've got it. And I said what is it? And she said Rami Swami. And I said what? And she goes Rami Swami. When I say Rami Swami, just you'll know. To straighten up. And I said Rami Swami, you mean the guy that was running for president, vivek Rami Swami. And she goes yeah, nobody will know what we're talking about because he's not running anymore.
15:04
It's nice of that, that's genius. So every now and then. So if you see us out in concert or something like that and you see me with my wife, if you hear Rami Swami, then straight, you know, straight enough. I haven't talked to Vivek about this.
15:15 - Speaker 2
I hope that he hears about this. I think he would love it, but that isn't it.
15:21 - Speaker 1
That's it for posture. You've got to do the joy Good, good, yeah, and you don't.
15:25 - Speaker 2
you don't pick your own word, Rami Swami. No, don't See how that works. I don't want to be a part of this.
15:32 - Speaker 1
All right, let's talk about the latest stats on men and women and their pets, because this is important, because you know a lot of relationships break up because the guy doesn't want the pet on the bed, he doesn't want the Chihuahua on his face, you know anyway. So this is from a poll. That's a good example.
15:48 - Speaker 2
Yeah, I don't think anybody wants a Chihuahua on their face, by the way, nobody's like. Hey, I love my dog so much, I just hope it sleeps on my face. It's happened to me years ago. It's come from a poll. You didn't like it. It's my point.
15:58 - Speaker 1
You didn't want it. A poll comes, conducted by Men's Health magazine, so they found a couple of things, and there's one, two, three, four of them, and I'll get your opinion on this, given you folks at home, at some point or another, 21% of men have used their pet as a way to meet women 21% seems low.
16:15 - Speaker 2
And it's not just men meeting women, because Prima has certainly mad, but Prima met a guy. His sister. My daughter Met a guy doing this exact thing by having Leroy the dog who's around here somewhere. By having Leroy, she has started conversations with guys because they see the dog and they're like, oh, it's cute, it gives you like a safe topic of conversation to start a conversation, so it works for men and for women. I absolutely think 21% is too low.
16:42 - Speaker 1
Yeah, also, women find men 24% more attractive if they're holding a puppy, that's the puppy.
16:48 - Speaker 2
That's not you. You don't get credit for that.
16:51 - Speaker 1
Okay, one in five men say if a woman wow. One in five men say if a woman kisses her pet on the mouth, it's a deal breaker. They won't date her.
17:00 - Speaker 2
So that's, only 20%.
17:02 - Speaker 1
Those are guys that have a list, like Scottie Myers has a list 80% of the men are still fine with it.
17:08 - Speaker 2
But I think it's important because it does show like a line in that you have like, okay, if you treat your dog like that, then that's. That's not something that I'm interested in and a lot of people for a lot of people we've talked about this before how you treat your pets is a good barometer, a good litmus test for how your relationship is going to go, you know, or how how compatible you are. So if you know that you're incompatible in this regard, then yeah, break up before the relationship even starts. I love it.
17:33 - Speaker 1
All right, and then again, this is a poll conducted by Men's Health magazine. The last one the pet least likely to get a man a second date is a spider like a tarantula. Yeah, I think it's what questions you?
17:46 - Speaker 2
have to ask to get to this. Well, I mean like I wonder if they had like a list of pets you could choose from. And they got to tarantula and all the women were like oh, yeah, tarantula for sure yeah.
17:54 - Speaker 1
And half the guys say I've got one.
17:56 - Speaker 2
Or everybody they surveyed had had a bad first date experience with a guy who wanted tarantula. It's one or the other. I feel like tarantula is a it's more of a personality trait than it is a pet Like. If you're the kind of person that has a pet tarantula, you're a specific kind of person. I mean, this is a spider. You have to feed mammals to what you have to give them little pinkies.
18:18
Oh, they're little rabbits, yeah, or the baby mice. It's an insect or an arachnid that you have to feed. People are going to write us if I say insects because it's a spider you have to feed mammals to. That's a very specific kind of person that's willing to do that for their insect. I'm just saying and I say this as somebody who has a pet lizard that there is. You know, you've crossed a line. When you're that kind of person, I think it's more personality type than it is the spider itself. Personally, yeah, I mean, would you own a tarantula?
18:51 - Speaker 1
You were when you were like single in New York, would you have a tarantula? No, but I knew people who are like what you're talking about. I mean, back in the day it was like I have a tarantula to have a tattoo. Now everybody has tattoos, so it's not a big deal. But I think the guy if you remember this, I think the guy who has a tarantula is the same guy who has in his bedroom, who has the clapper.
19:09 - Speaker 2
Oh, yeah, yeah, and a waterbed Lights on.
19:13 - Speaker 1
Yeah, so yeah. In college I had the clapper and my roommate had a waterbed.
19:17 - Speaker 2
And your neighbor had a tarantula. And there you go, it's a come full circle.
19:20 - Speaker 1
The problem is that for me I got it a radio check the clapper thing never worked. I go and it was just beyond. You know why are you clapping?
19:28 - Speaker 2
What's going on with you? You bring somebody back to your door room and you're trying to turn the lights off and and she just thinks you have a tick. I never brought it back.
19:36 - Speaker 1
So, anyway, let's get serious. This is all serious stuff. I mean, the tarantula thing is incredibly serious. That could be horrible. But let's talk about brain health for a moment, because, according to many doctors there, they're now performing these things called quote well-brained checkups, and these things are proven to help you delay or even avoid brain diseases like Alzheimer's. So the way I understand it is that a well-brained checkup involves a blood test that measures levels of plaque, because we know about plaque, it's a known biomarker for Alzheimer's, which can begin clumping together and then you end up with cognitive decline.
20:15 - Speaker 2
It's the same plaque that causes cavities, that causes heart attacks, that causes Alzheimer's.
20:19 - Speaker 1
So the same buildup Right. So the earlier a doctor detects more plaque in the blood, the better your odds of preventing Alzheimer's. Also, these well-brained checkups, they're going to ask about your diet, because we know the foods processed foods, saturated fat, sugar contribute to inflammation in the brain and you should expect also to get an eye exam. I just had one today when you're having your brain assessed, because even your eyesight if it's perfect an exam can reveal if there's damage. I have some damage in my eyes because when I was younger I had higher blood pressure. It's another sign of high blood pressure if you have tiny blood vessels in the retina that have been damaged and that can affect your longevity.
20:57 - Speaker 2
So I mean so I absolutely. We see. Everything you're describing is either chronic inflammation or high blood pressure, which are two things that are biomarkers for almost every chronic disease that we talk about on the radio show. Everything that our researchers come to us with, it's all that's. Those are two of the big ones. It's why we recommend you have an at-home sphigmomynometer blood pressure. It's why we recommend that you regularly test your blood pressure and you deal with acute stress, not chronic stress. So that is, these are just more of the same things that we talk about all the time, and those are just the two big factors, the two canaries in the proverbial coal mine that let you know that your lifestyle is creating this kind of stress that is going to, in the long term, hurt you. So you know, do yourself a favor, find out if you have this stuff and then start making the choice, the lifestyle choices, to get over this before it begins to deteriorate your brain.
21:53 - Speaker 1
Yeah, and, and, and, and, and, and. We were talking about Peter Atia's book Outlive which is right over there.
22:00 - Speaker 2
I can almost reach it, it is.
22:02 - Speaker 1
It's. He talks about zone two training for not only, not only longevity, but also lowering your blood blood pressure. And and why don't you describe zone two training? Because there's something I'm trying to do right now, it's not interval training, which is really hard on your body.
22:16 - Speaker 2
It's, it's lower, it's. It's the kind of heart rate where you have a hard time having a full conversation but you can still make words. The best way to get to this place if you, if you have like a heart rate monitor on your, watch it and you and you calibrate it, it will tell you when you're in zone two. For me it's about 140, 150 beats a minute.
22:35
But if but if you get on a treadmill and you put it at like 10, you know, 10% incline, at about three miles an hour and you do that for 15, 20 minutes, that will get you into zone two and you can stay there for as long as you want to. I mean, we recommend, I think what is it? 20, 30 minutes a day.
22:53 - Speaker 1
Right, yeah, works out to be 150 minutes per week. Yeah, and, and that's you know I love and it's so easy to you know you can track your heart rate if you're somebody who knows all of that stuff, like like you. But it's also it's like if you can barely make. You said it you can barely make a conversation with somebody. You could do it, but you don't want to because it's too irritating. Then you know you're in zone two.
23:15
And really the best way to do it. I mean, he says you know, if you can do it when you're walking, that's fine, but you have to walk really, really fast. So a little bit of incline, like you mentioned, on the, on the treadmill or even the stair master, is the way to do it.
23:26 - Speaker 2
Yeah, yeah, and you and keep that up and that, by the way, that will reverse half of what we just talked about in terms of precursors to Alzheimer's and and negative longevity.
23:36 - Speaker 1
That's good stuff, Very valuable. You know, I do remember. Well, I don't know if you were, if it was happening when you were, when you were younger, but you're, you're Gen X, right.
23:46 - Speaker 2
I'm right on the border, gen X.
23:47 - Speaker 1
They call us geriatric millennials.
23:50 - Speaker 2
Yeah.
23:50 - Speaker 1
And I'm a I'm a baby boomer, which is, you're very much a baby boomer Implied geriatrics yeah, I am very much Elder millennial geriatric millennial that's what they call us. It's so funny because we were watching the news the other day and somebody said, yeah, 40% of elderly people, you know something? Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah and I go, wow, man, that's, that's a, that's a bummer of the elderly people and it kind of goes you know, that's you right.
24:11 - Speaker 2
It's a wild thing that happened. So, like I was the Super Bowl the halftime show, you think, oh, when I was a kid it was all these older artists that appealed to older people. It's great to see that the halftime show is starting to appeal to a younger crowd. And then it dawns on me no, no, no, no, no.
24:27 - Speaker 1
I'm the older crowd now. Yeah, yeah, I mean. The reason I bring this up is that back in the day, if somebody, if you were going to go through psychotherapy, right and back in the day, there wasn't really any psychotherapy, it was just they sent you to a quote, unquote mental institution. This happened to my sister and she ended up Mary Ellen and she ended up and she's no longer with us and she ended up having what do you call?
24:49 - Speaker 2
Electroshock therapy.
24:49 - Speaker 1
Electroshock therapy, yeah, which you know whacked out her, her memory and, and their therapy was like oh, I'm like, are you in therapy right now? What's wrong with you? But it turns out that now, admitting you've gone to therapy is attracting more matches on on these these dating apps?
25:05 - Speaker 2
We say of course, but okay anyway, wait, wait, wait.
25:08 - Speaker 1
So so Eli Finkel is a psychology professor at Northwestern and he says in the 1980s or 90s it would be hard to imagine it saying oh, I see my therapist regularly would increase your dating status. But now taking care of your mental health carries a lot of weight. So that's why psychology professor Paul Eastwick says having done some work on your mental health gives daters a competitive advantage. And you knew this, I 100%.
25:33 - Speaker 2
So for one you're. You're talking about a change in stigma. So when you were growing up, it was only mental institutions or very rarely, or you know only certain people were in. They called it analysis right and it was and it was always made fun of in movies.
25:47 - Speaker 1
It was a comedic it was a comedic trope.
25:49 - Speaker 2
And then you have shows like the Sopranos and you have these other shows where the main character is in therapy with the stigma, trying to work out their issues, and we see it work in a positive way. So that kind of that, those kinds of pop culture references, work to begin to change the stigma to the point now where you can text people. You can text your therapist and just kind of check in with them, which is something that you know never. Obviously, if you were institutionalized, you you couldn't text your therapist. And now it's a totally different thing and what it says is hey, I've dated other people, I have some patterns in my life that I've recognized and I'm working to break those patterns and I'm like what could be more attractive than?
26:25
that To say hey, I'm admitting that part of the reason why my past relationships haven't worked is because of me. Then I'm going to work to fix that, whether it's the people that I select or because of my own behavior. Boom.
26:38 - Speaker 1
What an attractive thing. Yeah, what you're talking about is self awareness, right?
26:41 - Speaker 2
Self awareness and and and a growth mindset, the ability to change and adapt to issues that you've had in the past. I love it yeah.
26:49 - Speaker 1
Yeah, again, when it comes to dating, according to Eli Finkel, a psychiatrist, psychology professor at Northwestern, admitting you've gone to therapy is attracting more matches, and the dating apps are seeing this as well. I can, we're going to close out with with this and I have a feeling that, of all the stuff we've talked about today, and if we're you know, if you want us to go in a certain direction, whatever you can just let us know in the, in the comments, wherever you're listening to or watching this, this podcast.
27:15 - Speaker 2
Unless you want us to have more self checkout lanes, in which case keep your opinion to yourself.
27:21 - Speaker 1
Yeah, but the whole idea behind what we're talking about is we're curators, right, and so we find stuff that's not only trending, but things where you can dig in and it's good. We always make sure, with our writers and researchers, that it's good material and you're not gonna be hurting yourself, right, or that it's actually supported it's peer reviewed and supported, and so our whole idea is to help you with the next. However old you are, we're always looking for that next, more powerful chapter.
27:48 - Speaker 2
We wanna give you that edge. Yeah, exactly that edge. If you're in preschool, we want you to be the best kid in preschool. If you're going to the Margaritaville retirement community, we want you to have the edge on how to race your golf cart properly.
28:02 - Speaker 1
So here we go. Here's a piece on a new way to do cardio, and when I first saw this, I'm like I'm not, I, we're not doing this. But then I look it up and it's like it's real. It's very popular and it's called Clown Cardio, which is listed as the latest way to get fit and have fun at the same time. So it's a new form of exercise that combines elements of aerobic activity and dance and improv comedy.
28:28 - Speaker 2
Now that's new, right, right. So a typical clown cardio. Do you remember the improv traffic school? Now they've got it. I know what it is, but I've not been there. Comedians would run traffic school.
28:38 - Speaker 1
I'm a good driver, yeah okay, a typical clown cardio session. It involves chasing others around while honking a bicycle horn, playing a sped up version of musical chairs or competing in a chaotic game of clown dodge ball which involves throwing different sized balls all at the same time.
29:00
Right, what a clown would do, right? So the dance elements of clown cardio incorporate warm up moves that circus clowns have used since the 1920s, and some sessions devote time for practicing classic clown facial expressions while you're exercising, including surprise sadness and baffle man. I'm not sure what that one would look like. Oh, I can't. I've seen that emoji. So, wait, wait. According to a neuroscientist who is this? Dr Sophie Scott movement that triggers laughter is proven to reduce stress and motivate you to keep going. So because clown cardio is fun, you'll keep doing it. So I'll tell you how you can find clown workouts after Gib takes care of this.
29:39 - Speaker 2
So if you, if this is the kind of thing that appeals to you. I always say the best workout is the one that you do consistently. So if this makes you work out, then by all means go do it.
29:49 - Speaker 1
It's not like my therapist, but would you do this, would you? Because you are I would cover it. You and I I would cover it, I would report on it.
29:56 - Speaker 2
You'd be an undercover reporter.
29:58 - Speaker 1
I would get it back in the day when I witnessed news and action news.
30:01 - Speaker 2
You would have dressed up like the clown. Yeah, you have to do it right.
30:03 - Speaker 1
You have to show people what it is. I would have the baffle man smile and everything Okay.
30:09 - Speaker 2
You and I like the same kind of weird movies and they almost always the clown is the villain.
30:13 - Speaker 1
Yeah, so there is an element of this where there's like fear Stephen King, right, I'm thinking of it, right it.
30:19 - Speaker 2
And then you know, killer clowns from outer space, the Joker, yeah, all of that. All of that is terrifying. I don't know that I would be in the kind of. The benefit to me would be I'd be so scared of the clowns that I would be. I would work out just a little bit harder, yeah, but it would not be an enjoyable experience. I still would rather. I'd rather do hot yoga than the clown workout, wouldn't you?
30:42 - Speaker 1
Well, you know, they're gonna combine it eventually, because they combine all these workouts. Yeah, so yoga was just yoga until it was like oh, let's do what we just do in Asana. So there's gonna be hot clown workouts.
30:53 - Speaker 2
Wow, there's hot clowns in there. Awesome, I have this image of like very in shape clowns that are very attractive, like it's the hot clown workout, you know, and coming to these like boutique, these boutique fitness studios across the city.
31:06 - Speaker 1
Listen, I've got size 16 shoes. I could tell you that that's a workout. Just get, just lift the nose up and put them down. So I totally get it.
31:12 - Speaker 2
It's ridiculous. Look, I mean, if you want to try it, it seems fun, go for it, okay, but it also sounds ridiculous. Thanks for wrapping this up, because that could have gone on forever. I have a lot of images in my head, oh but I do have.
31:23 - Speaker 1
let me see what I got. You can find dozens of clown I don't know if these people are hanging, oh yeah. You can find dozens of clown workout videos on YouTube or Google clown cardio in your neighborhood. So clown cardio plus your zip code.
31:38 - Speaker 2
So, basically, what you would have done if we hadn't said anything to find out about it is what you should Google it. Google the clown workout.
31:45 - Speaker 1
But just be careful, because that's going to be in your history now. Yeah.
31:49 - Speaker 2
You can serve all kinds of ads about clowns, every website you thought about visiting a clown. You might also like the clown tarantula. There you go, oh gosh.
31:57 - Speaker 1
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32:16 - Speaker 1
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32:19 - Speaker 2
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32:23 - Speaker 1
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