Iron Your Clothes, Varsity Pickleball is coming, and Tell Your Doctor to Sit Down

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John, welcome to the podcast. John teshwood, gib Gerard and coming up, we'll tell you why we want our doctors to sit down more often. We'll tell you why we love things that are so bad that they're good, like the Sharknado movies or the 90 day fiance. And also a fascinating story why vegans and vegetarians clock, 36 more minutes of sleep each night.

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Those stories and a whole lot more coming up on the podcast, but first give a check this out.

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43% of women in a recent survey, they say they find it very attractive when a potential love interest just knows how to iron clothing. And before you answer, I just have to say, when I'm when we're on the road and we're getting ready for a concert, there's nothing that's the only time I iron clothes, right?

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Sure, and when I do it, it's like, it's like when I walk the dog and the dog goes to the bathroom, I feel, I feel this, I feel this just sense of accomplishments, that it's so huge. I have my posture is different. I have a spring in my set when I in my step when I iron my clothes. So you and I, we are athleisure wear kind of guys in our day to day life. But like you said, we do performances where we wear suits, and that is the only time we meetings and performances, the only time we're wearing clothes that should be ironed.

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And you are a very good ironer.

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I highly suggest a steamer over an iron, just because it's a little quicker and easier, and if you have time to hang the clothes, everything goes better.

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But look, the reason why this is attractive is twofold. One is you never look better than in properly tailored clothing, that is, you know, wrinkle free and worn properly. And this is a part of that. That's part one.

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Part two is it just shows that you can take care of yourself.

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Anything you do that shows you can take care of yourself is attractive and that so. So that's why this works. Okay, here's what's next. So maybe your kid doesn't want to be on the school soccer team or the or the track team.

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Can't relate.

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Oh gosh, your kids are on every soccer, basketball. Now it's track and field, cross country, baseball, all of that is happening, okay, so, but there are some kids who just don't want to do any of that, right?

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So now there are varsity pickleball teams, at least one anyway. So it's become a sport where kids can earn a letter as well, starting with it. And people don't know what we're talking about. Maybe they don't.

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You get a jacket, and then when you spend it, when you when you're on the field for a certain amount of time, you get a varsity letter. And then you put the letter on the jacket.

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Yes, that's why it's called a letter. People don't know, I guess the young people that it's not as gift as it used to be, people who are saying sigma, and you are in the letter with playing time, and then you put it on a jacket with leather sleeves, there it is. And then you give it to a girl, wait, keep it, and she never gives it back. That's just me. Okay. So it's starting with the school district in Maryland that's offering pickleball as a varsity sports the director of montgomery county public school says, Good sport for kids of all ages and demographics, and leads to lifelong health and well being. I wonder if it's going to be scholarships.

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Why not? Why not? Look what's, what's the letter again? Because it always in the shape of, shape of the pickle, of a pickle. No, come out of the grave. Okay?

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First of all, I absolutely approve that if there is a school athletic director out there trying to imagine, please make it a pickle. I would love to see it, but it'll be the pickleball racket with a wiffle ball logo. That's exactly what's going to be but here, but it's also look pickleball was established for older for senior citizens, to be able to play a racket sport like tennis that improves mobility, lateral movement, balance, all of these things as well as cognitive ability, because we've talked about how racket sports help with that without the full on athletic bursts that are required of tennis. So put the high school kids who should be able to do this into tennis.

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They can just play the tennis.

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It already exists. Yeah, and let and let the pickleball remain with the you know, 65 plus crap.

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Yeah, there's some people who believe that pickleball was created for or for ortho surgeons. What do they call those guys? Orthopedic Surgeons?

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Yeah? Because that's what's happening to a lot of us older people. You're not supposed to be, you're not supposed to be playing it like you're in your 20s. You're supposed to be put you have to, you see, yeah, but I was playing it with you, yeah, you play it like your plate, like your John McEnroe or Jimmy Connors, and they somebody hits it. He sits a hits a short shot.

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You're not gonna walk over like you're going to the senior home.

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You're gonna die for it.

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They're holding back, aren't you?

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Therein lies the problem. Yeah, people are getting hurt by playing this like they are playing a varsity sport. So now they're turning it into a varsity sport. If you want to know if you're walking around, you see a kid with a jacket, and you want to know whether they're on the pickleball team, just look for the pickle. Look for the pickle. By the way, brand new pickle jackets available@tesh.com so how? How? I Why is it that we love things that are so bad, that they're that they end up being good? So you remember the Sharknado movies, of course, now what? But also a 90 day fiance.

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You know what that is? That's the thing where that you meet somebody of 90 days to decide if you're gonna get married or break up. I believe otherwise they if they'll leave for the green card. It's like a It's a green card situation. It's an immigration thing. You have to decide if you're going to marry them in night. I believe I had no idea, but anyway, marketing professor Caleb Boren, he studies so called ironic consumption, yeah, which used to be buying a John sash record. In an experiment, nearly 400 participants were asked to choose one joke to read from several options. Okay, and all the jokes had a quality rating.

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Most of the participants preferred the best rated joke, but the second most popular joke was the worst rated one. People were more likely to choose the worst rated joke compared with ones in the middle. In a similar experiment, people are asked to view art and same thing. So the researchers say there's entertainment value in something that that is so bad that it's good, right? You enjoy. Look, I tell a lot of dad jokes. I tell a lot of dad jokes on stage. I tell a lot of dad jokes to my friends. It's because I have had to curtail my humor to be around kids all the time. So I found these sort of clean, corny puns that I tell constantly, versus, you know, the the darker jokes that I want to tell, and because of that, you know, the other dads we laugh and the other dads tell dad jokes. It's where this stuff, it's where this whole thing comes from, and it ceases.

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It's a certain point where it ceases to be ironic, and now you're just doing it because it's a part of your sense of humor. The same thing is true of all forms of art and consumption. Look, I have lined up in my 20s. I went with my friends. We went to the midnight showing of the room, which was that, oh yes, yeah, oh, hi Mark.

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Oh, hi Mark, yeah, she's killing me. I that all of that, yes, we watched that movie. We would and I've done it more than once.

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There have been multiple viewings of movies like that that I want I go to watch ironically and then fall in love with the story and the lore and all of that. I don't know if you know this, but I must have been 10 years ago, I got an offer to be the president in Sharknado three, and I said no, and I do think it was the right decision.

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Yes. Do you want these Redis?

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Because we've been so much work, and they would have cut your part down to like, you know, you would have had like, seven minutes of screen time, and it would have taken, like, you know, five weeks of your life.

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Why? Because that's how that works. Oh, okay, you know, you're the president. You're gonna have, you're gonna be in the movie, in and out of the movie, whenever there's a major thing. You have one big scene, and then all of these little clips of you on the phone and stuff, and it will take you weeks of showing up for hours a day. And then you're gonna look at the final product like, that's it. Maybe not. I mean, why would the President be involved in a in with a shark?

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Okay, so if there are sharks, just gonna put this out there.

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The concept of the film, please, is that tornadoes have sucked sharks up out of shark infested waters. Yeah, and are now shooting the sharks that are somehow still alive from the storm. Because this happens with like, fish sometimes, right?

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They get sucked up. They get sucked up into storms. So it's based on so it's a documentary.

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It's not a documentary. It does not work with large great white sharks. They get sucked up into these tornadoes, and then they get distributed by the tornadoes into places where sharks aren't normally existing. It's like, out of like, like, in a small town, yeah, yeah. I obviously didn't read the script. I just knew it was a thing. So if that happens in real life, all 50 governors, 100 senators and the President are going to have to answer for what they're going to do about sharks coming out of the sky. That's why the President is in the movie. You could have been that President, but I think I don't think you would have enjoyed Do you know who the other presidents were? Gene Simmons meatloaf made an appearance at one point. Rest in peace. Wow.

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Gosh. Okay, so, why were we talking about that? Oh, why are things so why do we love things that are so bad they think about how much time we just spent talking about Sharknado, and you've just answered the survey.

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You this exactly what? Yeah, I'm fascinated, and I don't have regret. You should we should be talking about me as the president in the Sharknado movie. You played yourself in soap dish, which is much cooler than being the president. I this is why I'm not an actor. Though I'm, you're an actor. And I could still remember the one line I had in Santa Barbara.

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Santa Barbara, the what is that thing called soap opera? Because I just makes me. It makes me really nervous. You're not, you're a lucky man. Mr. Capwell, not every, it's not every father has a daughter who's so who's so beautiful, and then he ignores me and walks off. And I go, it's not every father can be so rude, either. And then, and then the camera zooms into me getting ready to go to commercial. I've had that in my head so many times because it took me so long to memorize that line well. So okay, so this is, this is, this is a an indicator of. Who you are as a performer in every area that you perform, the fact that you rehearse that one line enough to where, what, 30 years later you still remember it.

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4040, years later, you still remember it right? Is Exactly.

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And by the way, it's in the book relentless. It's why the book is titled relentless. You can learn about this in person, in the coaching calls, where you will take people through your method for all this stuff. But you I know exactly what happened. You got this line. You go, I am so far out of my comfort zone, the only way I'm gonna get through this is if I feel so prepared that they can throw anything at me, and I will still say the line they could have hit you with a chainsaw. Your leg bleeding from the femur, and you are able to recite the line without any issue because of how much you prepared. That is your goal. It is your goal with everything you do. I remember, I remember going through the checkout line at at the not checkout line, but the drive through at McDonald's, your order, please. You're an honest man, Mr. Capwell, we should talk about acting later.

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I think we just did that's all I've got that and and being a Klingon for like a half an hour, oh, for a day, well, the makeup alone. Oh, my God. Think about how long you were in Star Trek Next Generation, yeah, how much time you spent preparing and being in the makeup chair for that. And now realize that's what you would have had to do for Sharknado. You would not have been happy, but I wouldn't have had a wouldn't have had a trading card for Sharknado. I got a trading card. I'm ketesh.

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I'm in which is K Tesh. No, no, I, first of all, I've seen the card. So talking to you like I don't even know, you would never mind.

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Let's do something useful. Shall we? Let's talk about because you look like you're really your eyes are starting to glaze over.

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No, I love this. I just don't know how much anybody else does.

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Yeah, but Well, you have to understand that. You have to understand the podcast world. Is it? People listen to podcasts that are either really good or really bad. Leslie, see in the cringe area I want to be I don't. I want to be in the uncanny valley either. I want to be in the good this is just, that was just the cringe area.

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Now we're serious. We'll talk about vegans and vegetarians who clock 36 more minutes of sleep every now this is a big deal.

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It's coming that from a National Sleep Foundation. They said the vegetarian diet typically contains more fruits and veggies and beans and nuts. You were just talking about this, you can talk about more in a minute, because you're talking about, what if I just ate only that a really good source is for melatonin, the sleep hormone, yeah. And also a plant based, plant based diet linked to a better mood. And then the vegetarian diet improves sleep because of more fiber, and it improves gut health and diversity of microbes in your in your gut. So basically, that's a big number, actually, when you think about it, if you're having trouble sleeping, 36 more minutes of night for sleep, for just being a vegetarian, I eat meat. I know you eat meat, but you cut back on red meat. Not lately, but but I have why. I have watched a lot of documentaries. I have read a bunch of stuff about it that the all of the longevity experts look a vegetarian diet, if you can find ways to get enough protein, is a fantastic way of expand, of extending your life.

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It really, it really is. And this is true of circulation. And now we're finding out it's also true of sleep. I'm not going to stop eating meat in general, but just know that if you know, one or two days a week you swap out meat for an all for a vegetarian day, you will see health benefits that include sleep you're going to get, you know, because in order to feel full without eating meat, you've got to eat a lot of fruits and vegetables. And the fruits and vegetables are full of fiber, a lot of water, a lot of vitamins and minerals that your body needs, that you're probably not getting if you're getting, you know, so many calories from meat. So there are a whole bunch of upsides to eating vegetarian.

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And we were just talking about this today, you can't I was just, I was just reading a nutritionist who was basically saying, you can't overeat fruit if you're eating whole fruit.

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I'm not talking about fruit juice. I'm not talking about modified fruit pies. But if you're eating, you know, you're having an apple, not modified.

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You're having an apple like you're sitting down, you're having a piece of fruit. You're having an apple, having an orange. You you the chances of you being able to overeat and create, you know, metabolic issues from eating all the fruit you could possibly, you possibly could are slim to none. I mean, you have to have a serious thyroid issue where you're not metabolizing fruit properly in order for that to happen. So, so eat all the fruit and vegetables that you want, and you know, and your health will well. Thank you. Okay, awesome. Hey. One more thing before we wrap up on the podcast. Recent study by University of Michigan. I found this interesting because it affects me as well. What do we want from our doctors? And the answer is, we want them to sit down. Turns out that people don't like it when their doctors stand over them. The study from University of Michigan, they reviewed 14 studies looking at how a doctor's posture i.

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Affects patients in hospital settings. They found that patients prefer doctors to sit down. When a doctor is seated, patients feel the doctor has more empathy and compassion.

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They also rate their care better. Makes patients more likely to follow treatment plans, etc, etc, small thing, but it makes a big difference when you when our doctor sits down right and even my doctor at MD Anderson, he he sits down.

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But there are other doctors I've had that do stand up, you just feel like they're, they're, they got one foot out the door if they're standing up, it feels like you're, you're part of a factory system. Even if they spend the same amount of time with you. If they're standing up, it feels like you're a part of a part of a factory system.

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Look, I'm gonna back into this.

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The placebo effect is real, right? What that means is we, when we, when we take medication, the companies that sell you the medication have to tell the FDA that they are better than a sugar pill and a story. Meaning, when you hear the story of something, your brain actually physically manifests, some to a degree, the results of that story, and what happens when your doctor is standing up is it's telling you a story that this doctor is too busy and is probably going to give you shoddy care, that they are moving too quickly. So the story the doctor is telling you when they sit has a huge effect on your brain. And it's by the way, it's why there's a thing called white coat syndrome. It's why looking for high blood pressure makes you that much more likely to find high blood pressure, because when a doctor is sitting there with a white coat telling you you might have high blood pressure, guess what happens? Your blood pressure goes up because of the stress.

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So we we manifest these things physically. The placebo effect, like I said, is real. So when your doctor is standing up, it's telling you the story that your that your care is not a priority. When the doctor is sitting down, it tells you a story that the doctor is invested in his conversation with you, and he's not going anywhere, even if they spend the same amount of time, it's all in your head. And use it, you know, use it to your advantage. If you're a doctor, listen to this.

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Sit down. Spend the same amount of time. Just pop a squat there, big guy, pop a squat. That's good. That's good. All right, good. Thank you very Oh, that's just about it for us, but we have to mention it is today. Is it today? Is it Leroy's birthday today? No, well, it's actually tomorrow, but by the time people listen, yeah, okay, well, anyway, too, but you folks are listening that tomorrow for us, tomorrow, the family dog, Leroy is two years old. Would you get nothing yet? Me, either, no, but I'm gonna get him son. What do people get dogs for their birthdays, bones, okay, chew toys. He throws up when I get him a bomb. If it's flavored, he'll maybe an iPod, an iPod.

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Yeah, that's cool. I think he just wants more love. He's, this is, I don't know, folks, I don't know if your dog is codependent.

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This is a codependent dog. Yeah, yeah. He doesn't let me leave the room. He has a easy to come with me. Plus he's got that face where it's like, it's like, it's very expressive. It very expressive. But the expression is usually like, why? What? Why are we? Why are you doing anything other than just holding me right now, that's the only time that's content. Why? Thank you for joining us for the podcast. We hope you learned something, and we hope during the Sharknado part of it, you didn't tune out. Why? Obviously, if you're listening to this, you did it. But we'll see you next time. John Tesh, forgive Gerard, have a good one. You.

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