The player is loading ...
Feb. 22, 2024
How Nostalgia Creates Massive Success, Dating At The Airport, The Scientific Best Workout Time, Cats And Boyfriends, Bathroom Etiquette & Your Shoes
Researchers have now discovered the NEW best time to exercise for longevity and more energy. Also, we’ll share new research that proves we can shape our future by just spending more time talking about our nostalgic past. Plus…You’ll hear about Elon Musk’s warning about people who don’t have the right personality to colonize Mars with him, and there are new etiquette guidelines for how we should behave in a public bathroom. It has to do with the shoes you wear and the things you say.
Visit https://tesh.com for more information and resources.
(00:02) Airport Hangouts and Evening Workouts
(07:23) Relationships, Cats, and Plant Power
(19:16) Navigating Nostalgia and Bathroom Etiquette
(29:03) Pizza Influencers
(34:41) Bathroom Story With Gregory Peck
Transcript
00:02 - Speaker 1
Welcome to the podcast. I'm John Teh, along with the ultimate wingman and co-host, mr Gib Gerard, coming up. We're going to talk about the new and apparently very healthy time of day to exercise. We'll share new research that proves we can actually shape our future by just spending more time talking about our nostalgic past, which, as Gib says, is all I do.
00:22
Oh, you know, this is not all you do, but you definitely lead the conversation that way, very often I lead the conversation and then I empty the room. Plus, you're going to hear about Elon Musk's warning about people who don't have the right personality to colonize Mars with him.
00:36 - Speaker 2
It's me basically, Spoiler alert.
00:40 - Speaker 1
There are new etiquette guidelines for how we should behave in a public bathroom. It has to do with the shoes you wear and the things you say. I'm pretty sure this is going to be a conversation starter for you and it will for us in just a moment, and that's all ahead. The rhetorical question here is when was the last time you spent hours at an airport with no intention of flying anywhere? I have. It has never happened in my life so early on.
01:03
I did this for millions of us. It hasn't happened since the late 1990s, before security checkpoints restricted airport terminals to only people with a ticket, but today a growing number of airports are now offering new quote visitor passes which grant people permission to hang out for the day, to shop, eat, watch planes take off and land, or just spend extra time with loved ones who are leaving town. This doesn't sound like a security problem, does?
01:26 - Speaker 2
it. Well, look, you still got to go through security. What's? The difference between the person with a visitor pass and the person who bought a $9 Spirit Airlines flight. There's no difference.
01:35 - Speaker 1
For example, Orlando International Airport recently launched a visitor pass program, which allows people to roam the airport without a ticket. More than 1,000 people applied for passes within the first two weeks, mostly for the chance to visit restaurants and retail shops found exclusively at the airport. I like those shops. They're a little expensive.
01:51 - Speaker 2
There are some nice ones. Look, there's some nice ones.
01:53 - Speaker 1
So people are dating there as well, Gib.
01:55 - Speaker 2
I will say this the nice thing if you're dating there is you can make sure that whoever you're dating on a first date with, on a blind date, doesn't have any weapons on them because you've got to go through security.
02:06 - Speaker 1
So you know, like you know what I've never even thought about that there's a level of safety in meeting at the airport. Never even thought about that.
02:13 - Speaker 2
That you don't get necessarily your local chilies or Applebees. So that's one. And I think I might be jaded, because we travel a lot and you know, when I'm not traveling the desire to go to the airport is zero. But if you haven't been on a flight in a while, maybe you want to go. Look at the planes. You want to see that. I hope that this drive, listen.
02:30 - Speaker 1
Your son would do that all day, all day.
02:33 - Speaker 2
But he's seven and he doesn't have to drive to the airport or pay for parking when he gets there.
02:38 - Speaker 1
So of course he's fine with it.
02:40 - Speaker 2
Of course he's fine with it. Now, our airport is terrible.
02:42 - Speaker 1
Yeah, because we're near a big airport. Yeah, the biggest, really.
02:47 - Speaker 2
It's not great, but there are some airports. I know in Denver there's a really nice mall there. I've had layovers in Denver that I've really enjoyed, but I just can't imagine going. I hope that this drives the prices down. I hope that the fact that people are coming just to visit makes it so that a can of peanuts is not $1,700. It starts to bring the prices down. That'll be the benefit. I know what's really cool is that Delta?
03:09 - Speaker 1
actually, I think it's in New York and maybe it's everywhere. They have these things where you sit at like a bar and then there's an iPad. There, you just keep ordering stuff and you can do your work.
03:20 - Speaker 2
I think that's great. I think for some people that's fantastic. I've seen the online the app ordering thing. They have that. All kinds of places you don't have to sit and go through TSA in order to be able to do it, but again.
03:36 - Speaker 1
But I can see Prima going on a date and the guy going, hey, let's go to the airport and she might.
03:41 - Speaker 2
You can.
03:42 - Speaker 1
Well, maybe not, okay, never mind, Wait, wait, wait, wait.
03:46 - Speaker 2
I want to A serious question. She comes home. She's like I just had a first date with a guy. We went to the airport and had rock and bruise and tacos.
03:55 - Speaker 1
I would think he's so creative. I would think he's so creative, this guy definitely has a mullet and a face tattoo.
04:00 - Speaker 2
I can tell you that right now. He's showing up. She's dating post Malone.
04:06 - Speaker 1
Anyway, the airport is now a Chuck E Cheese.
04:10 - Speaker 2
Yeah, I guess so.
04:11 - Speaker 1
Basically. So if you've ever been to the airport just to go hang out and watch the planes take off and land, please email us.
04:18 - Speaker 2
This is the thing my kids do not understand is that this used to be a thing. There were episodes of Seinfeld where they would do this. They'd go and hang out at the airport.
04:25 - Speaker 1
I did it, and every plane was a prop plane.
04:27 - Speaker 2
Yeah, it was amazing. Okay, well, not everybody's that old.
04:31 - Speaker 1
Thank you. Let's Speaking of old people. How do old people work out? No, what time do you squeeze in a workout? I work out in the morning, me too, but the most popular time right now is 5 pm. Now, why would this be happening? According to the fitness coaching app Future, at a 20,000 users, 5 pm is now the most popular time to start a workout. It's a major shift from 2019, pre-pandemic, of course, when the app's most popular workout start time was before 7 am, before people got ready for work or started to commute. Right, it's the only For me. It's the only way I'm going to get one in. Yeah, you'll talk about this.
05:07 - Speaker 2
That's how I am.
05:09 - Speaker 1
Now that more people are working from home right, or have hybrid schedules more flexibility they can get to exercise in after work, since they're home earlier or they don't have a commute to contend with. There's also benefits to exercising after work, for example, these experts say you'll push yourself harder, but it'll feel easier. There's research from the University of Birmingham shows people tend to work out much longer in the evening and at a higher intensity, because it's the time of day when our body temperature is highest. So we're more flexible, we have more power and we're less likely to get injured.
05:40 - Speaker 2
So I have worked out in the evenings. I know you have too. I have a home gym, you have a home gym. There have been plenty of times where at the end of the day I will go in there and just blow off some steam, and usually those are great workouts, don't get me wrong. And then you have dinner and you go right to sleep and you get the best sleep of your life. So I absolutely have done the evening workout thing.
05:58 - Speaker 1
Right.
06:00 - Speaker 2
You're working from home and you don't have kids, A great way to end the day is to go do that. My life, though, I mean I get so many I can't get it Okay for those of you who are just joining us.
06:12 - Speaker 1
Gib has three kids under the age of 12, 12, 10, and seven.
06:15 - Speaker 2
A single day does not go by or at least a week doesn't go by where I don't get one phone call from the school at some point in the week that I have that a kid forgot their violin or they didn't bring the project they were supposed to turn in and I've gotta drive it to the school.
06:28
So that happens every single week for me in some way. If I don't do my workout in the morning, then I never get my workout done. I just. The only time in my life where I've been really consistent about working out has not been when I've done a lot of evening workouts. It's when I'm getting up first thing and getting that exercise in the evening. Workouts are great filler but like I gotta take, I gotta, I gotta children to feed and then I take them to practice. And 900 different practices Tonight. Tonight, while we're recording this, I have three practices to take two kids to it's physically impossible.
06:59 - Speaker 1
Is it possible for you to work out like two hours before they get up in the morning?
07:04 - Speaker 2
Yes, I mean, the home gym is really nice, I can get up really early. I can go out and I and that way I'm not leaving the kids alone, I can just be out there and exercise I also there's a gym right by my kids' school, so sometimes I'll go. I'll go a little bit early for pickup in the afternoon, or I'll go right after drop off and I'll go work out for an hour before I come to the studio.
07:23 - Speaker 1
And one more thing in this report. They say and you alluded to this give as far as your sleep goes. The journal Sleep Medicine found that people who fall asleep two hours after exercise, they do get more deep restorative sleep 100%. Absolutely. And, by the way, I was just thinking, your wife managed. She's a full-time teacher, right? Both have full-time jobs, but yours is near your work. I mean, your work is near the school, right? Yeah, so she managed to find a school that's just far away from the kids' school as possible.
07:54 - Speaker 2
So I get it. Yeah, so I'm the one that has to go and pick them up. Yes, exactly. I'm the one that has to go do all that stuff and, as a result, they don't call her. They don't call her in the middle of the day saying they forgot their violin. First of all, she would not take the violin. She would tell them it's a life lesson they need to learn.
08:10 - Speaker 1
And second of all, she's not able to have you seen that movie, Mr Mom. I have. Ok, we'll talk about it later.
08:15 - Speaker 2
The world has evolved past that movie, but it's still a classic. Terry Gards Fantastic, and so is Michael.
08:19 - Speaker 1
Keen, ok, let's talk about dating and if you're seeing somebody romantically. A relationship coach is now suggesting that I think this works for men and women, but women in particular should ask men about their feelings towards cats, ok. Relationship coach Zomaria Thompson believes that people who dislike cats may have an issue with unpredictability and a lack of control.
08:46 - Speaker 2
So so, hmm, Boy, I'm starting to think deeply about this. I know, I know what you're thinking.
08:51 - Speaker 1
If you ask a man how he feels about cats and he has a strong reaction, saying something like I hate cats, they ignore you and they're too independent. That could be a sign she says that he doesn't like things he can't control and perhaps if you're too independent, he'll try to control you. Of course, this is just a hypothesis, not a rule, she says. But if you've just started dating somebody, you may want to ask how they feel about cats. Now, in the interest of full disclosure, my wife really does not like cats.
09:17 - Speaker 2
No, and you used to have cats. I used to have cats and you have a wife and no cats at this point.
09:22 - Speaker 1
Right and no control. Exactly, I have no control. So this is all. This is not hypothesis, my hypothesis anymore, this is a theory.
09:29 - Speaker 2
So again, cats are independent. They are free thinkers, for lack of a better word. They really tolerate their owner, like it's your privilege to give me food and to clean out my litter box and I am gracing you with my presence. That is how cats approach it, versus dogs, which are much more of a companion animal. That being said, I'm allergic to cats. If I wasn't allergic to cats, I would have several cats. I like this element of them, the fact that they are independent. Don't think you need to use this. First of all, I don't think it's gender specific. I think in your case?
10:04 - Speaker 1
Yeah, very clearly not.
10:06 - Speaker 2
Very clearly she hates cats. She loves control. She hates everything she can't control. It's a very that's not even that's just a statement of fact. That's the starting point. You're laughing like I'm saying something.
10:21 - Speaker 1
The comedian who says something that you think is funny. Every, every person that knows her knows that's the case.
10:26 - Speaker 2
But what this can do and I think this is great. You know, this is the kind of conversation you can have early on in a relationship where you guard you a cat person or dog person and you can have the conversation but why they gravitate towards cats and dogs. You can actually grow your intimacy a lot with this. With this kind of a conversation, I would just say, you know, be aware the person that doesn't like the cats may have control issues, which is what she said, whenever we have stuff like that, this, this, there's always somebody who sort of takes it to the next level.
10:51 - Speaker 1
I can just see I there's a couple people that I know who will, who will like either adopt a cat for a couple days or or just a house set a cat just to seem less controlling. Little bit of no, but it'll be so transparent where the guy will come over and she'll say, hey, why don't you come in, I'm almost ready. And then he'll, she'll just go. What do you think about the cat?
11:16 - Speaker 2
Fake cat.
11:18 - Speaker 1
I mean, why I've never seen this study before, but it's amazing. Yeah right, I mean, why wouldn't you do that?
11:24 - Speaker 2
I I have four of them. I think you think of a lot of reason why you wouldn't use an animal as a prop Right.
11:28 - Speaker 1
You could just have the conversation.
11:30 - Speaker 2
You don't need a stunt cat.
11:31 - Speaker 1
But you could I mean yeah, I mean it's expensive to date, right, and it's, and it's, even it's dangerous, for I mean we, why we're watching prima date. You know it could be, it could be dangerous. So why not get? If you want to get right to it right, don't use one cat. Bring five cats over to your house. Yeah and then, what do you think of the cat?
11:48 - Speaker 2
I think so. I want to be something. We need it. Great, great advice Please do not do this.
11:55 - Speaker 1
I made that up myself.
11:56 - Speaker 2
But there's also I would say you can be a cat person, but there's a very big difference between one or two cats and like five plus. Oh yeah, I think people get that Very big difference. So you can be not controlling and like the idea of a cat, and all that at the one or two level. When you get to five Plus, you go hey, maybe you're a hoarder.
12:13 - Speaker 1
Yeah, maybe that's your source of intimacy as cats, not not me, and let me just issue a you know a warning here to you folks who are listening.
12:20
Yeah, if you're thinking, oh, this is not, this is not useful for me anymore, I'm gonna shut off this podcast. It's very useful for you because you're gonna know somebody who's been dating. You're gonna know somebody in your life who didn't grow up with cats or who did grow up with guy, and you're gonna know all about their personalities. Now You're gonna tell everybody about this story, yeah, yeah.
12:39 - Speaker 2
And then you find out the next person. You find out it doesn't have a Cat. You all are you, I just think.
12:42 - Speaker 1
I just think of it as a time saver and money.
12:45 - Speaker 2
That's it is, it is five, cats Five I come, so come on in.
12:50 - Speaker 1
I'm almost dressed. Okay, what do you think of the?
12:52 - Speaker 2
cat. I'll say this if I was dating say hi to the cats.
12:55 - Speaker 1
There were five cats. I leave.
12:57 - Speaker 2
Want to hold one of them. Two cats, I'd stay. Hold the.
12:59 - Speaker 1
Hold a cat you don't want to hold it, okay, all right. Hey, parents and grandparents, this next one is is for you, and then you're not a parent or a grandparent. I bet you're gonna be one eventually. So, hey, did you know? By the way, did you know that the average age of a grandparent in America it's 46 years old? I mean, crazy.
13:16 - Speaker 2
To 23 year old pregnancy. That's amazing. Yeah, so it seems young, though it does.
13:20 - Speaker 1
Yeah, I'm on the verge of being a grand if you have, if you have a kid or a grand kid who has trouble staying on task to finish their homework with complete school projects and this, of course, is in here because Gibbs gonna be able to talk about it Make sure they have a houseplant in their room. That should do the trick. House plants sharpen attention. In scientific lingo quote Visible greenery is restorative and increases the ability to concentrate in kids and adults. So Melinda newt is professor of horticulture science at my alma mater on North Carolina State, go Wolf pack, and she says brain scans reveal that kids who spend time in the presence of a real plant Experience improvements and attention and concentration. You need to try this on your kids. You have plants in your kids.
14:01 - Speaker 2
I do not have plants in my kids rooms. Part of it is that my kid. Here's the thing if you have a kid that has a hard time finishing a project, a plant is a project. It's a thing that has to get taken care of. So the kid that I have that has the hardest time with this kind of thing, she would have the hardest time keeping the plant alive, uh-huh. But basically what I hear is the here is another thing for give to take care of. Mm-hmm, in order to keep my kid get finishing your homework right, I have to take care of the plant, because if I don't take care of the plant, you're gonna have you're gonna have a kid that doesn't finish your homework in a room with a bunch of dead plants. So what you're, what you're saying is here's a project for dad that will help your kids do their homework.
14:41 - Speaker 1
No, what I'm saying is that brain scans reveal the kids who spend time in the presence of a real plant experience improvements your attention and Concentration yes. I know that. Yeah, I know that your eldest daughter is going to reimagine the plant.
14:52 - Speaker 2
I know those scientists, that is, they have assistants that help keep the plants alive.
14:57 - Speaker 1
And then they just look at the brain. That's you.
14:59 - Speaker 2
I am the yeah exactly, I'm the assistant that has to keep the plant alive. And then I also know that my, you know my, she's amazing, she's brilliant, she's unbelievable. But when she's distracted she will tear the plant apart, one, one little pond frog at a time She'll paint it.
15:17
She'll paint it, she'll put it into a collage on the wall, she'll find the essential oils inside of the plant and smear it and on the on her bedspread It'll be everywhere and then and then that's what she'll do instead of doing her homework. So again, I Absolutely think the science is real. I just for everybody out there that has an 80d kid who's thinking like, oh, I just got to get him a plant, like you have to create the environment yourself and hope that the kid lives in that environment. Well, that's, that's the Bible.
15:46 - Speaker 1
Okay, okay, you had me. Yet She'll remove the essential oils from the plants. Is that even?
15:51 - Speaker 2
possible, of course. Yeah, all you need is a home Chemistry kit and a microwave oven.
15:57 - Speaker 1
Okay, All right coming up. You may have heard that Elon Musk thinks we're gonna be living on Mars in the future. Now check it out. He thinks humans will set foot on Mars by 2029 and eventually we can build colonies there. Listen, if it was anybody else who said that, if it was the guy who didn't says he invented the internet, yeah, yeah, okay, anyway. If somebody like that, then no offense. Guess, I did sort of offended, but yeah, no offense. But for somebody like that I say okay, yeah, fine, all right, so the world's gonna end in 29. No, okay. But if Elon Musk says we're gonna be on Mars in 2029, I mean, get ready. He says it's our closest habitable neighboring planet. However, there's always one of those. A recent psychological profile study advises that, quote people who have neurotic tendencies need to stay on earth Because they won't survive.
16:50 - Speaker 2
I guess I'm staying on earth, okay.
16:51 - Speaker 1
That's next, but first, when you have a moment, please visit test comm. 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. It's 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 test comm. All right, we have the Mars report for you.
17:27 - Speaker 2
John Tesh would give Gerard with a conversation story for you All the news you need on the red planet.
17:31 - Speaker 1
Listen, we're going to be running the newspaper on that thing until maybe not you, let's see. You may have heard me say it Elon Musk thinks we're going to be living on Mars in the future. He thinks humans will set foot on Mars by 2029.
17:44 - Speaker 2
That's very quick.
17:45 - Speaker 1
March of 2029. He eventually says we can build colonies there, since it's our closest habitable neighboring planet. That's how out of touch I am. I had no idea it was inhabitable.
17:55 - Speaker 2
It's not. I mean we're like it's a rocky planet. It's the closest planet to us. It has an atmosphere. It just does not have an atmosphere. There's no air, there's no living things, there's no producing oxygen.
18:09 - Speaker 1
We have to make it happen. Oh, I got it. It's just a rocky surface we could put stuff on. So you can't do that on Uranus or Venus.
18:15 - Speaker 2
Yeah, venus is like sulfuric acid in the atmosphere. Ok, there you go. You can't even send probes there, they dissolve.
18:20 - Speaker 1
OK, so it's a variety vacation land. Anyway, a recent psychological profile study advises that people who have neurotic tendencies quote unquote should stay on Earth. So according to a computer simulation, people with neurotic personalities would quote quote fair poorly as members of a human settlement on Mars. The study found that those who are insecure, inflexible and unable to cope with boredom or change would keep the colony from thriving, and in the Mars simulation those people died at a much higher rate 100% sure that I should not be on Mars.
18:56 - Speaker 2
Imagine so I love the show. Curb your Enthusiasm. I've almost been on that show a couple of times. Give us an actor Do you want Larry David on Mars, the guy like oh my gosh.
19:09
You don't want that. I send back water if the waiter touches the top of the water when he's handing me the glass. There's no way I could survive in a little pod on Mars. I'm fully aware that I couldn't do it. The only thing that I would have going for me is I'd make sure that those oxygen filters or the carbon scrubbers are changed regularly.
19:31 - Speaker 1
But I would be so neurotic about it.
19:33 - Speaker 2
I would go through like 10 of them in the time that we only have enough of these to change them every six months. You're changing them every week. That is why I would not survive. I'm 100% sure I could not survive on Mars. There's no way, no way.
19:46 - Speaker 1
I would love to see the simulation. Would you see that Like sketches of people dropping flies?
19:54 - Speaker 2
because they're neurotic. I would actually watch if they wanted to do this. I know that the Caribbean enthusiasm is ending, but can you imagine if they took the cast of the Caribbean enthusiasm and put them in a Mars simulator? That would be a show I would watch.
20:06 - Speaker 1
What's really interesting too, they will fare poorly those of you who remember this from years and years ago. There was a guy in the original Lost in Space named Mr Smith who was nothing but neurotic.
20:16 - Speaker 2
Yes, and he did not fare well. He didn't, he was the villain. He ruined the show for me too.
20:22 - Speaker 1
All right, there you go. That's the latest on Mars. Let us know if you.
20:27 - Speaker 2
What's this podcast about?
20:29 - Speaker 1
Well, we're not sure, but they just talked about Mars. Let's talk about your future. All right, it was not going to be on Mars. We have a way for you to make it better here on Earth. It could be as simple as spending time each day waxing, as they say, nostalgic about the past.
20:44
I went on this one. This is according to psychologist Dr Clay Rutledge, who wrote the book Passed Forward how Nostalgia Can Help you Live A More Meaningful Life. He says a lot of people view nostalgia as a negative thing because it makes us seem stuck in the past. But Dr Rutledge says there's growing evidence that nostalgia has mental health benefits. When life is stressful and unstable, looking to the certainty and comfort of the past makes us feel better. When we look talk, when we talk about the good old days, it can give give us a roadmap to make the future better and we engage in. Nostalgia triggers the release of feel good Dopamine. This is pretty much all I talk about. In fact, when we had Superbowl here and give brought some of his friends over, I ran two of them out of the house because they couldn't take it anymore.
21:25 - Speaker 2
All I talked about was the old the old days on CBS sports. So, so, first of all, a guy that you did, that you did games with back in the day was on the, was on the broadcast. He was he bread muskburger yeah they had, and you you've talked many a time about what a great there it is many a time. What a great partner he was in the booth and how how good he was at certain things.
21:46
So and and I I just want to say you know you're being self deprecating, but it is fun to hear. You have some amazing stories over a very interesting and varied career. I really do enjoy everybody that you tell your stories to enjoys them. So you wrote a book and people bought it and the book is just nostalgia so quit, so quit it now.
22:03 - Speaker 1
Yeah, no, no but so it's.
22:05 - Speaker 2
My point is that, like you, have good stories, so I don't don't feel bad, but the reason why this works is because you know how things end up.
22:12
Yeah, it's the reason why we like to go back and watch the same tv shows again Is that it's less stressful because you know how it's gonna end. We, you know, we know, we know that, uh, that we win the cold war, so we know how that works. That's, when you look back on those days, you don't think about the fear of the of the unknown. You think about, oh, how nice it was, and knowing that everything worked out. That is the benefit of nostalgia.
22:33 - Speaker 1
Yeah, I think you have to be careful too, though, and I try to try to do this. Is that you know, whining about, about, uh, about today and comparing it to you know, the past is that nobody likes that. In fact, I remember, you know I love this guy's great musician, great sonra steve allen, and in his, in his later years, he was so sick and tired of of youngins, including me, because I was much younger than him he just never stopped with that stuff and it's like okay, okay, all right.
22:59 - Speaker 2
Well, if you're living in the past, you look, remembering the past and talking about it. Finally, is very different from living in the past and wanting things to not change.
23:07 - Speaker 1
That's very different. Yeah, we should also mentioned, before we move on to the next story, that that you know gibb is a is a trained A youth soccer referee, which sounds like you know, oh, you know how hard could that be? It's, it's incredibly hard.
23:21
And there's no no, listen, because I and I you know the stakes are high. And now he trains other soccer referees. And the reason the stakes are high? Those of you who have been in those soccer games, you know parents and grandparents, you know that if the referee gets anything wrong or there's a and there's, you know, there's a debatable call, the parents go nuts. No some of those parents have a flask with them, so it's like you know.
23:40
so anyway, I, there was a somebody, I thought somebody charged my granddaughter right, and so the the play continued and I yelled out that was a charge and the referee stopped the game, stopped the whole game, and came over marching towards me. I looked over to see my wife, she had gone, she went, she just took off, you know. They came over and stood right in front of me and he was like foaming at the mouth. This guy Remember this guy.
24:04 - Speaker 2
I was busy doing something, it's all unbelievable.
24:06 - Speaker 1
He was so he was so mad and and he said he said, you know, you obviously don't know anything about the game. And I said, oh well, actually then I thought I made the biggest mistake. I said, actually I played Division one soccer in college and he goes you know, pops, things are a little different now.
24:21 - Speaker 2
Did he really Absolutely said that he didn't say.
24:24 - Speaker 1
He didn't say pop-up, which is my name, you know my grandpa name but he said pops. And and you know, I looked around and none of my friends were there anymore.
24:31 - Speaker 2
You know it's like.
24:32 - Speaker 1
So that was my nostalgia story.
24:34 - Speaker 2
Sort of Unbelievable Nobody's gonna suffer.
24:39 - Speaker 1
I walked over. I ran over to the other side of the field you know To and stood next to Eric, another one of the parents, and he just leaned over and goes don't stand next to me pop-up, you want to get thrown anyway. That's it, so that I think nostalgia is just a good book. By the way I passed forward, I skimmed it how nostalgia can help you live a more meaningful life, and that's really what we're talking about here. We're not talking about me, although I do tend to do that. So there you go.
25:01
It's a nice, you're very kind, you're very kind, and, and, and if you see, wait, you got to come see we'll get some video of Gibb refereeing, because it's really quite amazing.
25:11
So the huffington, the huffington post. They came out with a list Of office bathroom etiquette and you're like, why are you talking about this? Because you may see yourself, and this you'll definitely see yourself, uh, on one side or the other of it, and you might even see it next time you go to a public bathroom. See if you agree with their points, with the huffington post. Etiquette right number one don't wear shoes Memorable enough to be recognized under a bathroom stall. Leave me alone.
25:36 - Speaker 2
Leave me alone with this Look. I'm uh, I Like sneakers.
25:39 - Speaker 1
I'm a sneakerhead, all right, and so I have a lot of shoes, so a sneakerhead is people that buy uh, you know collectable shoes.
25:46 - Speaker 2
Now, I don't spend a ton of money on it. Some people spend. You know, you can spend thousands of dollars on single pairs of air jordan's Wow. I don't have like old versions you mean the old versions or or limited edition free shoes.
25:58
And you'll see a lot of times you'll see real sneakerheads because they can't get them in their size but they want the sneaker so bad. The, the head coach of the of the miami dolphins, is a sneakerhead and you'll see him, and sometimes his shoes are clearly like three sizes, four sizes too big like you can very walk Really.
26:15
And it's because, it's because he can't get them in his size every time, because they're limited edition and you have to like. You have to go to the website or go to the store at the exact right moment in order to get the Shoes so he wears these shoes, but they're too big because he couldn't get the, you know, size nine or whatever he is.
26:29
Uh, yeah, so so it's a it's a whole world and some of us really enjoy our shoes and, you know, let us live our lives. If, if don't, I, if I, have recognizable shoes on, it's on you for looking under the bathroom stall, it's not on me for wearing the recognizable shoes.
26:44 - Speaker 1
You get bored in there, you know. Next, don't take your phone with you. Speaking of getting bored in there right, don't take your phone with you, says the uh etiquette people. If you need something to wile away the time, you're taking too long and you quote need more fiber.
27:00 - Speaker 2
Okay, that may be true.
27:02 - Speaker 1
This is a little harsh.
27:03 - Speaker 2
That may be true, but I will say this even if I'm just going to the water cooler, I've got my phone in my hand. I don't have that much down time in my life, so if I have an opportunity to look at my phone and check in with a friend or look at a meme or something or whatever, I'm gonna take that opportunity. So leave me alone.
27:20 - Speaker 1
Etiquette expert I'm taking my phone with me everywhere, okay next etiquette expert bathroom public tip no long conversations with people in the bathroom. A simple hey man or a smile is acceptable.
27:33 - Speaker 2
Finally, one that I agree with. Finally one that I agree with. If you wanna have a long conversation, couple things. One is I don't wanna be in the bathroom any longer than I have to be. I don't wanna have a conversation about how your kid is doing with their math tutor. Right, we can do that in the hallway, not in the bathroom, all right, and so I agree with that. I also the noises and everything, all of the environment in there, is not conducive to a conversation. Hey, and you get it. If you wanna talk, get out of the bathroom. I agree with that.
28:01 - Speaker 1
How do you say it yeah, the most horrible thing that you can go through only for me, anyway was I was a witness in a court case, right, okay, I was being deposed, right, and so-.
28:16 - Speaker 2
This was an OJ, was it? We take it?
28:17 - Speaker 1
no, we take it close. We take a break right. And so I headed to the bathroom and I'm standing at the urinal and on the next urinal the guy who's been deposing me, who I hated, is there, and I just felt like if I could just push him into the urinal you know you should have.
28:32 - Speaker 2
Yeah, I agree you should have, but you didn't have a conversation with him, so you were in the okay I couldn't because we were under oath.
28:40 - Speaker 1
You know, yeah, Wait what? This is not the best story I've ever told, so let's move on. Anyway, the next one is to-.
28:48 - Speaker 2
What are you gonna say in the bathroom? It violates me up.
28:50 - Speaker 1
I don't know, I've never told that story before and I just brought it up and I said, well, there's no ending to that story. This is still a really bad story. I even made up the part about pushing him in the urinal. It was just awkward, but so anyway, sorry folks. The next tip, the last etiquette tip, mercifully, is avoid the last stall. Studies have shown it's the most unsanitary because more people use it, because it's private. The clean what? Yeah, the cleanest stall is the one closest to the door. Nobody wants to use that because it's not private.
29:23 - Speaker 2
Well, yeah, but that's kind of. That's why nobody wants to use it. They want the privacy right.
29:27 - Speaker 1
So if you want the cleanest stall, you use it. Use the first one I got it.
29:30 - Speaker 2
I got it. I mean you can also unless you're, unless it's a very busy often, unless you're at like a sports venue from Usually you have a chance to like pick the cleanest stall. I usually do a quick survey, a little quick eyeball, and pick the cleanest one. What this is saying is that the closest one is usually the cleanest one. I'll give you that. But sometimes, sometimes it's not so I did a little quick, little quick eyeball test.
29:54 - Speaker 1
Yeah, that's good. I think that's enough of the bathroom etiquette.
29:56 - Speaker 2
I think so too I'm. I stretch that out, I'm sorry.
30:00 - Speaker 1
Okay, we have one more story for you. Right and again, this is probably what this is two things it's. It'll be a conversation starter. You can press your friends with this. It's even one of those. You know, we we actually have kids who are it's mostly like 13 14-year-old kids who listen to the radio show, unless to the podcast. Who who will use these Intelligence for your life? Bits on their teacher and I. We've even had a kid email us saying that he used it to To try and impress a girl not the bathroom etiquette.
30:27 - Speaker 2
I'll take no, no no, not that story.
30:29 - Speaker 1
No, not that story. But this next story is Not only interesting, as I mentioned, but it's also a way for any of us to make money and so, given I have our eye on this, it's the latest way people are going viral on social media as Pizza influencers. Now, these pizza influencers, they have huge followings. They can make or break a local pizza restaurant, even an online restaurant, axios news Reporting that it has become an actual career path. The way to hear the numbers. There are now published lists of top pizza influencers, some who promote pizza restaurants and some who showcase their pizza making skills on social media and blogs. And slice, which is an online ordering app, recently advertised a job opening for quote pizza influencer at a salary of up to 110 tons thousand dollars a year. Wow, 10,000.
31:15 - Speaker 2
I I mean like I could talk about for a hundred ten thousand dollars a year. I could talk about pizza all day, every day. I love pizza. Yeah, here's, here's where this is insane. I mean, these are, these are the kind of jobs that did not exist even ten years ago.
31:27
This idea of being a pizza influencer. It was not something that it's a brand new. You know world out there and if you are passionate enough about something like pizza, it's a great. This is something you couldn't have turned into a career before. And now you can make six figures a year Talking about pizza. And I will say here's why it's really valuable because I think all pizza With very few exceptions pizzas usually it's hard to mess up, it's all pretty good, but the difference between Fantastic knock your socks off, you know just I have to have that pizza a hundred times a year. Pizza and they're like it's just fine pizza, it's it's very small and it's hard to tell. That you can't tell from a picture, you can't tell just from a single yelp review. So having somebody who you trust that has an opinion about pizza is Super valuable.
32:14
So I understand why this exists. It's just unbelievable that it does, because I I mean, look I was. I Gained a lot of weight when I first went to college.
32:23 - Speaker 1
I would I would definitely call myself a pizza influencer at the time, but I was not getting paid to do it.
32:29 - Speaker 2
Where do?
32:30 - Speaker 1
you eat your pizza.
32:31 - Speaker 2
I mean I get, I don't. There's a couple pizza places around around my house that I go, but I like Costco pizza. I mean, like we got parties, I have Costco pizza and then the nice thing about that is you've got pizza for like eight months because you know there's a giant pie and you know, I know.
32:45 - Speaker 1
I wonder you know why? Why it's not more consistent? Because there's a place, for example, in Los Angeles, called Turonis. There they have two stores and you walk in there and it is. It's as good as it is in Italy, you know and I somebody.
32:57 - Speaker 2
right now there's an Italian man who's who's looking up you and he's gonna say I know, I know Almost as good, and and, and I asked them.
33:04 - Speaker 1
You know, I asked the pizza person back there. I said you know what is that? What is the difference? They may have been lying, I don't know, but they said that they actually get the water from New York City. Is that possible?
33:13 - Speaker 2
I mean, I've heard about that like the bagel restaurants and some of the pizza is that the New York City Well, people don't realize is, you think of it as a city, you think of it as dirty, but the the water comes from an underground aquifer system. Yeah, and so it's artesian wells, it's these it's this high mineral content water, and so there's a lot of extra flavor in the bagels and the pizza that come from the dough made with this water. That happens to be great tap water.
33:38 - Speaker 1
Where is your? Where's your favorite pizza made folks? Let us know. Email me, john, a test calm. John, test calm. I'll share it with you, of course, and what we're gonna do is we are going to order pizza from there.
33:55 - Speaker 2
Or if that there's a thing called gold belly where you can get pizza or different dishes from they, freeze it and send it yeah yeah, all right.
34:02 - Speaker 1
Well, anyway, let us know, let us know what it is, and then maybe we could help turn you a pizza into a pizza influencer in your town.
34:08 - Speaker 2
Oh yeah, you can influence us on our pizza. There it is.
34:11 - Speaker 1
Thank you for joining us for the podcast. We, of course, would love it if you would share the program with your friends. We're grateful that you've been with us today. Remember, anytime you want to follow up, just get signed up from or you want to get signed up for one of our courses, including the brand-new learn how to play piano course, which give doesn't need the audience how to play.
34:28 - Speaker 2
No, that's good I could. I could learn how to play better, okay.
34:32 - Speaker 1
Just head on over to teshcom. So for Gib Gerard, I'm John tesh. Thank you for tolerating my my rants and for my nostalgia and.
34:41 - Speaker 2
And your your weird bathroom story about the lawyer you saw in the bathroom.
34:44 - Speaker 1
No, I know I'm sorry about that.
34:46 - Speaker 2
I know I swear I wouldn't edit sure you've been in the bathroom with, like, charlton Heston or something interesting actually.
34:53 - Speaker 1
It is Gregory, was Gregory Peck.
34:55 - Speaker 2
Yeah, it was Gregory Peck. That's a real lawyer. Atticus Finch was in the bathroom with you, we were. I'll tell the story of the next podcast Because I know more bathroom.
35:04 - Speaker 1
There, it is Okay. Thank you guys. Good morning.
Welcome to the podcast. I'm John Teh, along with the ultimate wingman and co-host, mr Gib Gerard, coming up. We're going to talk about the new and apparently very healthy time of day to exercise. We'll share new research that proves we can actually shape our future by just spending more time talking about our nostalgic past, which, as Gib says, is all I do.
00:22
Oh, you know, this is not all you do, but you definitely lead the conversation that way, very often I lead the conversation and then I empty the room. Plus, you're going to hear about Elon Musk's warning about people who don't have the right personality to colonize Mars with him.
00:36 - Speaker 2
It's me basically, Spoiler alert.
00:40 - Speaker 1
There are new etiquette guidelines for how we should behave in a public bathroom. It has to do with the shoes you wear and the things you say. I'm pretty sure this is going to be a conversation starter for you and it will for us in just a moment, and that's all ahead. The rhetorical question here is when was the last time you spent hours at an airport with no intention of flying anywhere? I have. It has never happened in my life so early on.
01:03
I did this for millions of us. It hasn't happened since the late 1990s, before security checkpoints restricted airport terminals to only people with a ticket, but today a growing number of airports are now offering new quote visitor passes which grant people permission to hang out for the day, to shop, eat, watch planes take off and land, or just spend extra time with loved ones who are leaving town. This doesn't sound like a security problem, does?
01:26 - Speaker 2
it. Well, look, you still got to go through security. What's? The difference between the person with a visitor pass and the person who bought a $9 Spirit Airlines flight. There's no difference.
01:35 - Speaker 1
For example, Orlando International Airport recently launched a visitor pass program, which allows people to roam the airport without a ticket. More than 1,000 people applied for passes within the first two weeks, mostly for the chance to visit restaurants and retail shops found exclusively at the airport. I like those shops. They're a little expensive.
01:51 - Speaker 2
There are some nice ones. Look, there's some nice ones.
01:53 - Speaker 1
So people are dating there as well, Gib.
01:55 - Speaker 2
I will say this the nice thing if you're dating there is you can make sure that whoever you're dating on a first date with, on a blind date, doesn't have any weapons on them because you've got to go through security.
02:06 - Speaker 1
So you know, like you know what I've never even thought about that there's a level of safety in meeting at the airport. Never even thought about that.
02:13 - Speaker 2
That you don't get necessarily your local chilies or Applebees. So that's one. And I think I might be jaded, because we travel a lot and you know, when I'm not traveling the desire to go to the airport is zero. But if you haven't been on a flight in a while, maybe you want to go. Look at the planes. You want to see that. I hope that this drive, listen.
02:30 - Speaker 1
Your son would do that all day, all day.
02:33 - Speaker 2
But he's seven and he doesn't have to drive to the airport or pay for parking when he gets there.
02:38 - Speaker 1
So of course he's fine with it.
02:40 - Speaker 2
Of course he's fine with it. Now, our airport is terrible.
02:42 - Speaker 1
Yeah, because we're near a big airport. Yeah, the biggest, really.
02:47 - Speaker 2
It's not great, but there are some airports. I know in Denver there's a really nice mall there. I've had layovers in Denver that I've really enjoyed, but I just can't imagine going. I hope that this drives the prices down. I hope that the fact that people are coming just to visit makes it so that a can of peanuts is not $1,700. It starts to bring the prices down. That'll be the benefit. I know what's really cool is that Delta?
03:09 - Speaker 1
actually, I think it's in New York and maybe it's everywhere. They have these things where you sit at like a bar and then there's an iPad. There, you just keep ordering stuff and you can do your work.
03:20 - Speaker 2
I think that's great. I think for some people that's fantastic. I've seen the online the app ordering thing. They have that. All kinds of places you don't have to sit and go through TSA in order to be able to do it, but again.
03:36 - Speaker 1
But I can see Prima going on a date and the guy going, hey, let's go to the airport and she might.
03:41 - Speaker 2
You can.
03:42 - Speaker 1
Well, maybe not, okay, never mind, Wait, wait, wait, wait.
03:46 - Speaker 2
I want to A serious question. She comes home. She's like I just had a first date with a guy. We went to the airport and had rock and bruise and tacos.
03:55 - Speaker 1
I would think he's so creative. I would think he's so creative, this guy definitely has a mullet and a face tattoo.
04:00 - Speaker 2
I can tell you that right now. He's showing up. She's dating post Malone.
04:06 - Speaker 1
Anyway, the airport is now a Chuck E Cheese.
04:10 - Speaker 2
Yeah, I guess so.
04:11 - Speaker 1
Basically. So if you've ever been to the airport just to go hang out and watch the planes take off and land, please email us.
04:18 - Speaker 2
This is the thing my kids do not understand is that this used to be a thing. There were episodes of Seinfeld where they would do this. They'd go and hang out at the airport.
04:25 - Speaker 1
I did it, and every plane was a prop plane.
04:27 - Speaker 2
Yeah, it was amazing. Okay, well, not everybody's that old.
04:31 - Speaker 1
Thank you. Let's Speaking of old people. How do old people work out? No, what time do you squeeze in a workout? I work out in the morning, me too, but the most popular time right now is 5 pm. Now, why would this be happening? According to the fitness coaching app Future, at a 20,000 users, 5 pm is now the most popular time to start a workout. It's a major shift from 2019, pre-pandemic, of course, when the app's most popular workout start time was before 7 am, before people got ready for work or started to commute. Right, it's the only For me. It's the only way I'm going to get one in. Yeah, you'll talk about this.
05:07 - Speaker 2
That's how I am.
05:09 - Speaker 1
Now that more people are working from home right, or have hybrid schedules more flexibility they can get to exercise in after work, since they're home earlier or they don't have a commute to contend with. There's also benefits to exercising after work, for example, these experts say you'll push yourself harder, but it'll feel easier. There's research from the University of Birmingham shows people tend to work out much longer in the evening and at a higher intensity, because it's the time of day when our body temperature is highest. So we're more flexible, we have more power and we're less likely to get injured.
05:40 - Speaker 2
So I have worked out in the evenings. I know you have too. I have a home gym, you have a home gym. There have been plenty of times where at the end of the day I will go in there and just blow off some steam, and usually those are great workouts, don't get me wrong. And then you have dinner and you go right to sleep and you get the best sleep of your life. So I absolutely have done the evening workout thing.
05:58 - Speaker 1
Right.
06:00 - Speaker 2
You're working from home and you don't have kids, A great way to end the day is to go do that. My life, though, I mean I get so many I can't get it Okay for those of you who are just joining us.
06:12 - Speaker 1
Gib has three kids under the age of 12, 12, 10, and seven.
06:15 - Speaker 2
A single day does not go by or at least a week doesn't go by where I don't get one phone call from the school at some point in the week that I have that a kid forgot their violin or they didn't bring the project they were supposed to turn in and I've gotta drive it to the school.
06:28
So that happens every single week for me in some way. If I don't do my workout in the morning, then I never get my workout done. I just. The only time in my life where I've been really consistent about working out has not been when I've done a lot of evening workouts. It's when I'm getting up first thing and getting that exercise in the evening. Workouts are great filler but like I gotta take, I gotta, I gotta children to feed and then I take them to practice. And 900 different practices Tonight. Tonight, while we're recording this, I have three practices to take two kids to it's physically impossible.
06:59 - Speaker 1
Is it possible for you to work out like two hours before they get up in the morning?
07:04 - Speaker 2
Yes, I mean, the home gym is really nice, I can get up really early. I can go out and I and that way I'm not leaving the kids alone, I can just be out there and exercise I also there's a gym right by my kids' school, so sometimes I'll go. I'll go a little bit early for pickup in the afternoon, or I'll go right after drop off and I'll go work out for an hour before I come to the studio.
07:23 - Speaker 1
And one more thing in this report. They say and you alluded to this give as far as your sleep goes. The journal Sleep Medicine found that people who fall asleep two hours after exercise, they do get more deep restorative sleep 100%. Absolutely. And, by the way, I was just thinking, your wife managed. She's a full-time teacher, right? Both have full-time jobs, but yours is near your work. I mean, your work is near the school, right? Yeah, so she managed to find a school that's just far away from the kids' school as possible.
07:54 - Speaker 2
So I get it. Yeah, so I'm the one that has to go and pick them up. Yes, exactly. I'm the one that has to go do all that stuff and, as a result, they don't call her. They don't call her in the middle of the day saying they forgot their violin. First of all, she would not take the violin. She would tell them it's a life lesson they need to learn.
08:10 - Speaker 1
And second of all, she's not able to have you seen that movie, Mr Mom. I have. Ok, we'll talk about it later.
08:15 - Speaker 2
The world has evolved past that movie, but it's still a classic. Terry Gards Fantastic, and so is Michael.
08:19 - Speaker 1
Keen, ok, let's talk about dating and if you're seeing somebody romantically. A relationship coach is now suggesting that I think this works for men and women, but women in particular should ask men about their feelings towards cats, ok. Relationship coach Zomaria Thompson believes that people who dislike cats may have an issue with unpredictability and a lack of control.
08:46 - Speaker 2
So so, hmm, Boy, I'm starting to think deeply about this. I know, I know what you're thinking.
08:51 - Speaker 1
If you ask a man how he feels about cats and he has a strong reaction, saying something like I hate cats, they ignore you and they're too independent. That could be a sign she says that he doesn't like things he can't control and perhaps if you're too independent, he'll try to control you. Of course, this is just a hypothesis, not a rule, she says. But if you've just started dating somebody, you may want to ask how they feel about cats. Now, in the interest of full disclosure, my wife really does not like cats.
09:17 - Speaker 2
No, and you used to have cats. I used to have cats and you have a wife and no cats at this point.
09:22 - Speaker 1
Right and no control. Exactly, I have no control. So this is all. This is not hypothesis, my hypothesis anymore, this is a theory.
09:29 - Speaker 2
So again, cats are independent. They are free thinkers, for lack of a better word. They really tolerate their owner, like it's your privilege to give me food and to clean out my litter box and I am gracing you with my presence. That is how cats approach it, versus dogs, which are much more of a companion animal. That being said, I'm allergic to cats. If I wasn't allergic to cats, I would have several cats. I like this element of them, the fact that they are independent. Don't think you need to use this. First of all, I don't think it's gender specific. I think in your case?
10:04 - Speaker 1
Yeah, very clearly not.
10:06 - Speaker 2
Very clearly she hates cats. She loves control. She hates everything she can't control. It's a very that's not even that's just a statement of fact. That's the starting point. You're laughing like I'm saying something.
10:21 - Speaker 1
The comedian who says something that you think is funny. Every, every person that knows her knows that's the case.
10:26 - Speaker 2
But what this can do and I think this is great. You know, this is the kind of conversation you can have early on in a relationship where you guard you a cat person or dog person and you can have the conversation but why they gravitate towards cats and dogs. You can actually grow your intimacy a lot with this. With this kind of a conversation, I would just say, you know, be aware the person that doesn't like the cats may have control issues, which is what she said, whenever we have stuff like that, this, this, there's always somebody who sort of takes it to the next level.
10:51 - Speaker 1
I can just see I there's a couple people that I know who will, who will like either adopt a cat for a couple days or or just a house set a cat just to seem less controlling. Little bit of no, but it'll be so transparent where the guy will come over and she'll say, hey, why don't you come in, I'm almost ready. And then he'll, she'll just go. What do you think about the cat?
11:16 - Speaker 2
Fake cat.
11:18 - Speaker 1
I mean, why I've never seen this study before, but it's amazing. Yeah right, I mean, why wouldn't you do that?
11:24 - Speaker 2
I I have four of them. I think you think of a lot of reason why you wouldn't use an animal as a prop Right.
11:28 - Speaker 1
You could just have the conversation.
11:30 - Speaker 2
You don't need a stunt cat.
11:31 - Speaker 1
But you could I mean yeah, I mean it's expensive to date, right, and it's, and it's, even it's dangerous, for I mean we, why we're watching prima date. You know it could be, it could be dangerous. So why not get? If you want to get right to it right, don't use one cat. Bring five cats over to your house. Yeah and then, what do you think of the cat?
11:48 - Speaker 2
I think so. I want to be something. We need it. Great, great advice Please do not do this.
11:55 - Speaker 1
I made that up myself.
11:56 - Speaker 2
But there's also I would say you can be a cat person, but there's a very big difference between one or two cats and like five plus. Oh yeah, I think people get that Very big difference. So you can be not controlling and like the idea of a cat, and all that at the one or two level. When you get to five Plus, you go hey, maybe you're a hoarder.
12:13 - Speaker 1
Yeah, maybe that's your source of intimacy as cats, not not me, and let me just issue a you know a warning here to you folks who are listening.
12:20
Yeah, if you're thinking, oh, this is not, this is not useful for me anymore, I'm gonna shut off this podcast. It's very useful for you because you're gonna know somebody who's been dating. You're gonna know somebody in your life who didn't grow up with cats or who did grow up with guy, and you're gonna know all about their personalities. Now You're gonna tell everybody about this story, yeah, yeah.
12:39 - Speaker 2
And then you find out the next person. You find out it doesn't have a Cat. You all are you, I just think.
12:42 - Speaker 1
I just think of it as a time saver and money.
12:45 - Speaker 2
That's it is, it is five, cats Five I come, so come on in.
12:50 - Speaker 1
I'm almost dressed. Okay, what do you think of the?
12:52 - Speaker 2
cat. I'll say this if I was dating say hi to the cats.
12:55 - Speaker 1
There were five cats. I leave.
12:57 - Speaker 2
Want to hold one of them. Two cats, I'd stay. Hold the.
12:59 - Speaker 1
Hold a cat you don't want to hold it, okay, all right. Hey, parents and grandparents, this next one is is for you, and then you're not a parent or a grandparent. I bet you're gonna be one eventually. So, hey, did you know? By the way, did you know that the average age of a grandparent in America it's 46 years old? I mean, crazy.
13:16 - Speaker 2
To 23 year old pregnancy. That's amazing. Yeah, so it seems young, though it does.
13:20 - Speaker 1
Yeah, I'm on the verge of being a grand if you have, if you have a kid or a grand kid who has trouble staying on task to finish their homework with complete school projects and this, of course, is in here because Gibbs gonna be able to talk about it Make sure they have a houseplant in their room. That should do the trick. House plants sharpen attention. In scientific lingo quote Visible greenery is restorative and increases the ability to concentrate in kids and adults. So Melinda newt is professor of horticulture science at my alma mater on North Carolina State, go Wolf pack, and she says brain scans reveal that kids who spend time in the presence of a real plant Experience improvements and attention and concentration. You need to try this on your kids. You have plants in your kids.
14:01 - Speaker 2
I do not have plants in my kids rooms. Part of it is that my kid. Here's the thing if you have a kid that has a hard time finishing a project, a plant is a project. It's a thing that has to get taken care of. So the kid that I have that has the hardest time with this kind of thing, she would have the hardest time keeping the plant alive, uh-huh. But basically what I hear is the here is another thing for give to take care of. Mm-hmm, in order to keep my kid get finishing your homework right, I have to take care of the plant, because if I don't take care of the plant, you're gonna have you're gonna have a kid that doesn't finish your homework in a room with a bunch of dead plants. So what you're, what you're saying is here's a project for dad that will help your kids do their homework.
14:41 - Speaker 1
No, what I'm saying is that brain scans reveal the kids who spend time in the presence of a real plant experience improvements your attention and Concentration yes. I know that. Yeah, I know that your eldest daughter is going to reimagine the plant.
14:52 - Speaker 2
I know those scientists, that is, they have assistants that help keep the plants alive.
14:57 - Speaker 1
And then they just look at the brain. That's you.
14:59 - Speaker 2
I am the yeah exactly, I'm the assistant that has to keep the plant alive. And then I also know that my, you know my, she's amazing, she's brilliant, she's unbelievable. But when she's distracted she will tear the plant apart, one, one little pond frog at a time She'll paint it.
15:17
She'll paint it, she'll put it into a collage on the wall, she'll find the essential oils inside of the plant and smear it and on the on her bedspread It'll be everywhere and then and then that's what she'll do instead of doing her homework. So again, I Absolutely think the science is real. I just for everybody out there that has an 80d kid who's thinking like, oh, I just got to get him a plant, like you have to create the environment yourself and hope that the kid lives in that environment. Well, that's, that's the Bible.
15:46 - Speaker 1
Okay, okay, you had me. Yet She'll remove the essential oils from the plants. Is that even?
15:51 - Speaker 2
possible, of course. Yeah, all you need is a home Chemistry kit and a microwave oven.
15:57 - Speaker 1
Okay, All right coming up. You may have heard that Elon Musk thinks we're gonna be living on Mars in the future. Now check it out. He thinks humans will set foot on Mars by 2029 and eventually we can build colonies there. Listen, if it was anybody else who said that, if it was the guy who didn't says he invented the internet, yeah, yeah, okay, anyway. If somebody like that, then no offense. Guess, I did sort of offended, but yeah, no offense. But for somebody like that I say okay, yeah, fine, all right, so the world's gonna end in 29. No, okay. But if Elon Musk says we're gonna be on Mars in 2029, I mean, get ready. He says it's our closest habitable neighboring planet. However, there's always one of those. A recent psychological profile study advises that, quote people who have neurotic tendencies need to stay on earth Because they won't survive.
16:50 - Speaker 2
I guess I'm staying on earth, okay.
16:51 - Speaker 1
That's next, but first, when you have a moment, please visit test comm. 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. It's 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 test comm. All right, we have the Mars report for you.
17:27 - Speaker 2
John Tesh would give Gerard with a conversation story for you All the news you need on the red planet.
17:31 - Speaker 1
Listen, we're going to be running the newspaper on that thing until maybe not you, let's see. You may have heard me say it Elon Musk thinks we're going to be living on Mars in the future. He thinks humans will set foot on Mars by 2029.
17:44 - Speaker 2
That's very quick.
17:45 - Speaker 1
March of 2029. He eventually says we can build colonies there, since it's our closest habitable neighboring planet. That's how out of touch I am. I had no idea it was inhabitable.
17:55 - Speaker 2
It's not. I mean we're like it's a rocky planet. It's the closest planet to us. It has an atmosphere. It just does not have an atmosphere. There's no air, there's no living things, there's no producing oxygen.
18:09 - Speaker 1
We have to make it happen. Oh, I got it. It's just a rocky surface we could put stuff on. So you can't do that on Uranus or Venus.
18:15 - Speaker 2
Yeah, venus is like sulfuric acid in the atmosphere. Ok, there you go. You can't even send probes there, they dissolve.
18:20 - Speaker 1
OK, so it's a variety vacation land. Anyway, a recent psychological profile study advises that people who have neurotic tendencies quote unquote should stay on Earth. So according to a computer simulation, people with neurotic personalities would quote quote fair poorly as members of a human settlement on Mars. The study found that those who are insecure, inflexible and unable to cope with boredom or change would keep the colony from thriving, and in the Mars simulation those people died at a much higher rate 100% sure that I should not be on Mars.
18:56 - Speaker 2
Imagine so I love the show. Curb your Enthusiasm. I've almost been on that show a couple of times. Give us an actor Do you want Larry David on Mars, the guy like oh my gosh.
19:09
You don't want that. I send back water if the waiter touches the top of the water when he's handing me the glass. There's no way I could survive in a little pod on Mars. I'm fully aware that I couldn't do it. The only thing that I would have going for me is I'd make sure that those oxygen filters or the carbon scrubbers are changed regularly.
19:31 - Speaker 1
But I would be so neurotic about it.
19:33 - Speaker 2
I would go through like 10 of them in the time that we only have enough of these to change them every six months. You're changing them every week. That is why I would not survive. I'm 100% sure I could not survive on Mars. There's no way, no way.
19:46 - Speaker 1
I would love to see the simulation. Would you see that Like sketches of people dropping flies?
19:54 - Speaker 2
because they're neurotic. I would actually watch if they wanted to do this. I know that the Caribbean enthusiasm is ending, but can you imagine if they took the cast of the Caribbean enthusiasm and put them in a Mars simulator? That would be a show I would watch.
20:06 - Speaker 1
What's really interesting too, they will fare poorly those of you who remember this from years and years ago. There was a guy in the original Lost in Space named Mr Smith who was nothing but neurotic.
20:16 - Speaker 2
Yes, and he did not fare well. He didn't, he was the villain. He ruined the show for me too.
20:22 - Speaker 1
All right, there you go. That's the latest on Mars. Let us know if you.
20:27 - Speaker 2
What's this podcast about?
20:29 - Speaker 1
Well, we're not sure, but they just talked about Mars. Let's talk about your future. All right, it was not going to be on Mars. We have a way for you to make it better here on Earth. It could be as simple as spending time each day waxing, as they say, nostalgic about the past.
20:44
I went on this one. This is according to psychologist Dr Clay Rutledge, who wrote the book Passed Forward how Nostalgia Can Help you Live A More Meaningful Life. He says a lot of people view nostalgia as a negative thing because it makes us seem stuck in the past. But Dr Rutledge says there's growing evidence that nostalgia has mental health benefits. When life is stressful and unstable, looking to the certainty and comfort of the past makes us feel better. When we look talk, when we talk about the good old days, it can give give us a roadmap to make the future better and we engage in. Nostalgia triggers the release of feel good Dopamine. This is pretty much all I talk about. In fact, when we had Superbowl here and give brought some of his friends over, I ran two of them out of the house because they couldn't take it anymore.
21:25 - Speaker 2
All I talked about was the old the old days on CBS sports. So, so, first of all, a guy that you did, that you did games with back in the day was on the, was on the broadcast. He was he bread muskburger yeah they had, and you you've talked many a time about what a great there it is many a time. What a great partner he was in the booth and how how good he was at certain things.
21:46
So and and I I just want to say you know you're being self deprecating, but it is fun to hear. You have some amazing stories over a very interesting and varied career. I really do enjoy everybody that you tell your stories to enjoys them. So you wrote a book and people bought it and the book is just nostalgia so quit, so quit it now.
22:03 - Speaker 1
Yeah, no, no but so it's.
22:05 - Speaker 2
My point is that, like you, have good stories, so I don't don't feel bad, but the reason why this works is because you know how things end up.
22:12
Yeah, it's the reason why we like to go back and watch the same tv shows again Is that it's less stressful because you know how it's gonna end. We, you know, we know, we know that, uh, that we win the cold war, so we know how that works. That's, when you look back on those days, you don't think about the fear of the of the unknown. You think about, oh, how nice it was, and knowing that everything worked out. That is the benefit of nostalgia.
22:33 - Speaker 1
Yeah, I think you have to be careful too, though, and I try to try to do this. Is that you know, whining about, about, uh, about today and comparing it to you know, the past is that nobody likes that. In fact, I remember, you know I love this guy's great musician, great sonra steve allen, and in his, in his later years, he was so sick and tired of of youngins, including me, because I was much younger than him he just never stopped with that stuff and it's like okay, okay, all right.
22:59 - Speaker 2
Well, if you're living in the past, you look, remembering the past and talking about it. Finally, is very different from living in the past and wanting things to not change.
23:07 - Speaker 1
That's very different. Yeah, we should also mentioned, before we move on to the next story, that that you know gibb is a is a trained A youth soccer referee, which sounds like you know, oh, you know how hard could that be? It's, it's incredibly hard.
23:21
And there's no no, listen, because I and I you know the stakes are high. And now he trains other soccer referees. And the reason the stakes are high? Those of you who have been in those soccer games, you know parents and grandparents, you know that if the referee gets anything wrong or there's a and there's, you know, there's a debatable call, the parents go nuts. No some of those parents have a flask with them, so it's like you know.
23:40
so anyway, I, there was a somebody, I thought somebody charged my granddaughter right, and so the the play continued and I yelled out that was a charge and the referee stopped the game, stopped the whole game, and came over marching towards me. I looked over to see my wife, she had gone, she went, she just took off, you know. They came over and stood right in front of me and he was like foaming at the mouth. This guy Remember this guy.
24:04 - Speaker 2
I was busy doing something, it's all unbelievable.
24:06 - Speaker 1
He was so he was so mad and and he said he said, you know, you obviously don't know anything about the game. And I said, oh well, actually then I thought I made the biggest mistake. I said, actually I played Division one soccer in college and he goes you know, pops, things are a little different now.
24:21 - Speaker 2
Did he really Absolutely said that he didn't say.
24:24 - Speaker 1
He didn't say pop-up, which is my name, you know my grandpa name but he said pops. And and you know, I looked around and none of my friends were there anymore.
24:31 - Speaker 2
You know it's like.
24:32 - Speaker 1
So that was my nostalgia story.
24:34 - Speaker 2
Sort of Unbelievable Nobody's gonna suffer.
24:39 - Speaker 1
I walked over. I ran over to the other side of the field you know To and stood next to Eric, another one of the parents, and he just leaned over and goes don't stand next to me pop-up, you want to get thrown anyway. That's it, so that I think nostalgia is just a good book. By the way I passed forward, I skimmed it how nostalgia can help you live a more meaningful life, and that's really what we're talking about here. We're not talking about me, although I do tend to do that. So there you go.
25:01
It's a nice, you're very kind, you're very kind, and, and, and if you see, wait, you got to come see we'll get some video of Gibb refereeing, because it's really quite amazing.
25:11
So the huffington, the huffington post. They came out with a list Of office bathroom etiquette and you're like, why are you talking about this? Because you may see yourself, and this you'll definitely see yourself, uh, on one side or the other of it, and you might even see it next time you go to a public bathroom. See if you agree with their points, with the huffington post. Etiquette right number one don't wear shoes Memorable enough to be recognized under a bathroom stall. Leave me alone.
25:36 - Speaker 2
Leave me alone with this Look. I'm uh, I Like sneakers.
25:39 - Speaker 1
I'm a sneakerhead, all right, and so I have a lot of shoes, so a sneakerhead is people that buy uh, you know collectable shoes.
25:46 - Speaker 2
Now, I don't spend a ton of money on it. Some people spend. You know, you can spend thousands of dollars on single pairs of air jordan's Wow. I don't have like old versions you mean the old versions or or limited edition free shoes.
25:58
And you'll see a lot of times you'll see real sneakerheads because they can't get them in their size but they want the sneaker so bad. The, the head coach of the of the miami dolphins, is a sneakerhead and you'll see him, and sometimes his shoes are clearly like three sizes, four sizes too big like you can very walk Really.
26:15
And it's because, it's because he can't get them in his size every time, because they're limited edition and you have to like. You have to go to the website or go to the store at the exact right moment in order to get the Shoes so he wears these shoes, but they're too big because he couldn't get the, you know, size nine or whatever he is.
26:29
Uh, yeah, so so it's a it's a whole world and some of us really enjoy our shoes and, you know, let us live our lives. If, if don't, I, if I, have recognizable shoes on, it's on you for looking under the bathroom stall, it's not on me for wearing the recognizable shoes.
26:44 - Speaker 1
You get bored in there, you know. Next, don't take your phone with you. Speaking of getting bored in there right, don't take your phone with you, says the uh etiquette people. If you need something to wile away the time, you're taking too long and you quote need more fiber.
27:00 - Speaker 2
Okay, that may be true.
27:02 - Speaker 1
This is a little harsh.
27:03 - Speaker 2
That may be true, but I will say this even if I'm just going to the water cooler, I've got my phone in my hand. I don't have that much down time in my life, so if I have an opportunity to look at my phone and check in with a friend or look at a meme or something or whatever, I'm gonna take that opportunity. So leave me alone.
27:20 - Speaker 1
Etiquette expert I'm taking my phone with me everywhere, okay next etiquette expert bathroom public tip no long conversations with people in the bathroom. A simple hey man or a smile is acceptable.
27:33 - Speaker 2
Finally, one that I agree with. Finally one that I agree with. If you wanna have a long conversation, couple things. One is I don't wanna be in the bathroom any longer than I have to be. I don't wanna have a conversation about how your kid is doing with their math tutor. Right, we can do that in the hallway, not in the bathroom, all right, and so I agree with that. I also the noises and everything, all of the environment in there, is not conducive to a conversation. Hey, and you get it. If you wanna talk, get out of the bathroom. I agree with that.
28:01 - Speaker 1
How do you say it yeah, the most horrible thing that you can go through only for me, anyway was I was a witness in a court case, right, okay, I was being deposed, right, and so-.
28:16 - Speaker 2
This was an OJ, was it? We take it?
28:17 - Speaker 1
no, we take it close. We take a break right. And so I headed to the bathroom and I'm standing at the urinal and on the next urinal the guy who's been deposing me, who I hated, is there, and I just felt like if I could just push him into the urinal you know you should have.
28:32 - Speaker 2
Yeah, I agree you should have, but you didn't have a conversation with him, so you were in the okay I couldn't because we were under oath.
28:40 - Speaker 1
You know, yeah, Wait what? This is not the best story I've ever told, so let's move on. Anyway, the next one is to-.
28:48 - Speaker 2
What are you gonna say in the bathroom? It violates me up.
28:50 - Speaker 1
I don't know, I've never told that story before and I just brought it up and I said, well, there's no ending to that story. This is still a really bad story. I even made up the part about pushing him in the urinal. It was just awkward, but so anyway, sorry folks. The next tip, the last etiquette tip, mercifully, is avoid the last stall. Studies have shown it's the most unsanitary because more people use it, because it's private. The clean what? Yeah, the cleanest stall is the one closest to the door. Nobody wants to use that because it's not private.
29:23 - Speaker 2
Well, yeah, but that's kind of. That's why nobody wants to use it. They want the privacy right.
29:27 - Speaker 1
So if you want the cleanest stall, you use it. Use the first one I got it.
29:30 - Speaker 2
I got it. I mean you can also unless you're, unless it's a very busy often, unless you're at like a sports venue from Usually you have a chance to like pick the cleanest stall. I usually do a quick survey, a little quick eyeball, and pick the cleanest one. What this is saying is that the closest one is usually the cleanest one. I'll give you that. But sometimes, sometimes it's not so I did a little quick, little quick eyeball test.
29:54 - Speaker 1
Yeah, that's good. I think that's enough of the bathroom etiquette.
29:56 - Speaker 2
I think so too I'm. I stretch that out, I'm sorry.
30:00 - Speaker 1
Okay, we have one more story for you. Right and again, this is probably what this is two things it's. It'll be a conversation starter. You can press your friends with this. It's even one of those. You know, we we actually have kids who are it's mostly like 13 14-year-old kids who listen to the radio show, unless to the podcast. Who who will use these Intelligence for your life? Bits on their teacher and I. We've even had a kid email us saying that he used it to To try and impress a girl not the bathroom etiquette.
30:27 - Speaker 2
I'll take no, no no, not that story.
30:29 - Speaker 1
No, not that story. But this next story is Not only interesting, as I mentioned, but it's also a way for any of us to make money and so, given I have our eye on this, it's the latest way people are going viral on social media as Pizza influencers. Now, these pizza influencers, they have huge followings. They can make or break a local pizza restaurant, even an online restaurant, axios news Reporting that it has become an actual career path. The way to hear the numbers. There are now published lists of top pizza influencers, some who promote pizza restaurants and some who showcase their pizza making skills on social media and blogs. And slice, which is an online ordering app, recently advertised a job opening for quote pizza influencer at a salary of up to 110 tons thousand dollars a year. Wow, 10,000.
31:15 - Speaker 2
I I mean like I could talk about for a hundred ten thousand dollars a year. I could talk about pizza all day, every day. I love pizza. Yeah, here's, here's where this is insane. I mean, these are, these are the kind of jobs that did not exist even ten years ago.
31:27
This idea of being a pizza influencer. It was not something that it's a brand new. You know world out there and if you are passionate enough about something like pizza, it's a great. This is something you couldn't have turned into a career before. And now you can make six figures a year Talking about pizza. And I will say here's why it's really valuable because I think all pizza With very few exceptions pizzas usually it's hard to mess up, it's all pretty good, but the difference between Fantastic knock your socks off, you know just I have to have that pizza a hundred times a year. Pizza and they're like it's just fine pizza, it's it's very small and it's hard to tell. That you can't tell from a picture, you can't tell just from a single yelp review. So having somebody who you trust that has an opinion about pizza is Super valuable.
32:14
So I understand why this exists. It's just unbelievable that it does, because I I mean, look I was. I Gained a lot of weight when I first went to college.
32:23 - Speaker 1
I would I would definitely call myself a pizza influencer at the time, but I was not getting paid to do it.
32:29 - Speaker 2
Where do?
32:30 - Speaker 1
you eat your pizza.
32:31 - Speaker 2
I mean I get, I don't. There's a couple pizza places around around my house that I go, but I like Costco pizza. I mean, like we got parties, I have Costco pizza and then the nice thing about that is you've got pizza for like eight months because you know there's a giant pie and you know, I know.
32:45 - Speaker 1
I wonder you know why? Why it's not more consistent? Because there's a place, for example, in Los Angeles, called Turonis. There they have two stores and you walk in there and it is. It's as good as it is in Italy, you know and I somebody.
32:57 - Speaker 2
right now there's an Italian man who's who's looking up you and he's gonna say I know, I know Almost as good, and and, and I asked them.
33:04 - Speaker 1
You know, I asked the pizza person back there. I said you know what is that? What is the difference? They may have been lying, I don't know, but they said that they actually get the water from New York City. Is that possible?
33:13 - Speaker 2
I mean, I've heard about that like the bagel restaurants and some of the pizza is that the New York City Well, people don't realize is, you think of it as a city, you think of it as dirty, but the the water comes from an underground aquifer system. Yeah, and so it's artesian wells, it's these it's this high mineral content water, and so there's a lot of extra flavor in the bagels and the pizza that come from the dough made with this water. That happens to be great tap water.
33:38 - Speaker 1
Where is your? Where's your favorite pizza made folks? Let us know. Email me, john, a test calm. John, test calm. I'll share it with you, of course, and what we're gonna do is we are going to order pizza from there.
33:55 - Speaker 2
Or if that there's a thing called gold belly where you can get pizza or different dishes from they, freeze it and send it yeah yeah, all right.
34:02 - Speaker 1
Well, anyway, let us know, let us know what it is, and then maybe we could help turn you a pizza into a pizza influencer in your town.
34:08 - Speaker 2
Oh yeah, you can influence us on our pizza. There it is.
34:11 - Speaker 1
Thank you for joining us for the podcast. We, of course, would love it if you would share the program with your friends. We're grateful that you've been with us today. Remember, anytime you want to follow up, just get signed up from or you want to get signed up for one of our courses, including the brand-new learn how to play piano course, which give doesn't need the audience how to play.
34:28 - Speaker 2
No, that's good I could. I could learn how to play better, okay.
34:32 - Speaker 1
Just head on over to teshcom. So for Gib Gerard, I'm John tesh. Thank you for tolerating my my rants and for my nostalgia and.
34:41 - Speaker 2
And your your weird bathroom story about the lawyer you saw in the bathroom.
34:44 - Speaker 1
No, I know I'm sorry about that.
34:46 - Speaker 2
I know I swear I wouldn't edit sure you've been in the bathroom with, like, charlton Heston or something interesting actually.
34:53 - Speaker 1
It is Gregory, was Gregory Peck.
34:55 - Speaker 2
Yeah, it was Gregory Peck. That's a real lawyer. Atticus Finch was in the bathroom with you, we were. I'll tell the story of the next podcast Because I know more bathroom.
35:04 - Speaker 1
There, it is Okay. Thank you guys. Good morning.