Minimum amount of exercise to boost your brain; Your Houseguests are Judging You; Signs of Age Related Cognitive Decline; Spicy Food Boosts Creativity; Growing Careers that don't require a Degree; A look back 100 Years Ago

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Welcome to the podcast John Tesh with Gib Gerard got some great stuff for you today.

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Let's talk about exercise and brain health. Oh yeah. So here's the question, Gib, what is the minimum amount of exercise that we need for better brain health?

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They now know, apparently, according to a study from Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis, it is 25 minutes a week. That's it less than four minutes a day, and it could help, of course, you have to run a mile in four minutes.

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No, just kidding, it's they say, it could help, quote, bulk up your brain and improve your ability to think as you grow older. It's 25 minutes a week.

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This according again, to that study at Washington University, they scanned the brains of more than 10,000 healthy men and women from ages 18 to 97 that is a massive study. They found that those who walked, swam, cycled, or did any kind of moderate workout for 25 minutes a week did have bigger brains than those who didn't, no matter their ages, and bigger brains, of course, typically mean healthier brains. The differences were most pronounced in parts of the brain involved with thinking and memory, which shrink as we age and contribute to cognitive decline and dementia. Are that many people doing less than 25 minutes.

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That's that's the real takeaway that I have from this, which is, you know, it doesn't we, we have we are addicted to standing still, right? We are addicted to, I love it. I know it's great, but laying down is nice, but, and you and, I mean, I fall into this category where I will be really active for a while, and then, you know, something comes up, or I'm a little hurt, and I, you know, as I kind of, I back off a little bit, and then I become really sedentary, like during the height of of quarantine, you know, I ended up building a gym in my house because I was so sedentary. I started to have health issues. I started to gain so much weight.

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And I am the kind of person where if I can't do a full workout, I do almost nothing.

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I'm the same way. It's like, oh, well, I'll get it tomorrow, right? But what this is teaching us is that it does not take much. You can get benefits by just getting outside and going for a 25 minute walk.

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Now, it says once a week, but 25 minutes a day is, is something we could all do, and you will get, you know, you'll get astronomical brain benefits.

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It'll deal it'll help you with your dementia, with your cognitive decline. It'll help you with your cardiovascular health. So you know, just getting off the couch, just a little bit every week is really all it takes in order to improve your health in a meaningful way.

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So the researchers were saying that the goal of their research was to see how little exercise we really needed for better brain health. Because, and if you just said it, very few people get the recommended amount, which is 150 minutes a week, but the effects of 25 minutes a week of exercise on people's brains were real.

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Yes. I mean, and again, like I said, I'm the kind of person if I can't do 150 minutes a day, I skip it all together. And that, you know, obviously that's, that's, that's not the healthy move, yeah. Now for something completely different, the truth is that your house guests are absolutely judging you. Of course they are.

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So the average, the average person takes just 38 seconds to judge your home. And here are the three things they will notice. First, according to researchers, if you vacuumed, if your windows are dirty and if there's a funny smell in your house. I always remember we used to go over to Donnie Holman house. And I think, I think Mom was mom Holman was love, love Brussels sprouts. And there's just something about the brussels sprouts smell that says, Get me out of here. Yeah, I don't want those. It's a sulfur compound that sticks in the air. There is okay, according to the Wall Street Journal, we're buying more air fresheners, scented candles, diffusers and strongly scented cleaners to overcome one of our deepest social fears.

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This would be my mom. The visitors will think our home stinks to high heaven. So Procter and Gamble did their own research and found that 74% of us, Gib are concerned about how our homes smell. As a result, sales of air fresheners are up 10% while candle sales are up nearly 30% I mean, have you seen every every home store has 1000 candles with different stent, with different scents, with like flavors that everyone like bergamon and and cardamom, all the mom sense And they it's that they're like spices, and they got, you know, they have like ocean and lavender and seascape and Forest Glen and all of these, all of these, all these different scents that are just meant to do exactly what you're talking about, convince people that we are we're not disgusting in how we live in our homes. I mean, I cook at my house. I have sweaty, you know, athlete children. My house always has a little bit of a pungentness to it. But we got candles. We got lots of candles.

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Do you remember exactly? I'm not sure if I can tell a story, because I remember reading. It was a fascinating story, the story about Febreze, yes, yeah.

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With you. Can you tell. The story. So Febreze was originally, it's actually, it's scentless. And what it does is it bond, it binds to the chemicals that cause odor in the air and and and takes them literally, takes the smell out of the air. So in theory, Febreze would be the absence of smell. So if you were to spray, it would be the absence of smell. And they found that people were not buying it, even though it did exactly what it's supposed to do, which is cover up the scent. And what, what they ended up adding was some some fresh scents to the Febreze spray. And they turned it into the the ritual of when you finish cleaning a room, you give the room a little spritz of room fragrance in order to, you know, actually sell Febreze, which is crazy, because what makes Febreze so great is that it is, it is no smell. But, you know, I if it were me, if you know, if I could go back and do it I want.

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I want plain Febreze, and then I'll add the candle in later with exactly the smell that I want. Yeah.

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So the name of the, if you want to go further, it's a, it's an, it's a fascinating marketing study, apparently. And the story is called Febreze, the fall and the rise, a story recreated.

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Yes, so there you go.

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And you know, basically what they had to create was the habit and the and the impetus to form the habit of spritzing a room after you were done, growing it right, right, right, all right. Let's talk about, you know, I've noticed this. I noticed this with with your, your grandma's boyfriend, Elliot, you know, when they were, how old were, how old was Gigi, when she was dating?

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I mean, she was in her late 80s, yeah, and she was dating Elliot, who was a smart guy, because she he a lot of people are concerned about falling, but they don't make any adjustment. He would always sort of shuffle in. Yes, they barely picked and I thought, I thought that was really cool. Kind of felt like, like the, like the nerdy kid in the back of the English class when he came in, you know, he had a style. Yeah, he's British. He would, we would kind of shuffle in, like unassuming, like a Hugh Grant type, right, right, exactly, well, but I remember noticing before I'd ever seen this story we're about to tell you, I remember noticing that he was always walking slower than Gigi. And so this is from Monash University in Australia, they say, If you worry, excuse me, if you worry that you or somebody you love is at high risk for age related cognitive decline, dementia, Alzheimer's. The early sign is from Dr Taya Collier, who followed 17,000 retirees over seven years, those walking. This is amazing. Those walking at least 5% slower than the previous year were at a super high risk for dementia. Dr Collier believes it's linked to shrinkage in the hippocampus, the brain area for memory and spatial navigation. The good news is you can slow age related cognitive decline with here we go again exercise. The psychologists from the University of Pittsburgh had people begin walking 10 minutes a day, and gradually increased it to 40 minutes a day. Increase increase the size of their hippocampus by up to 2% which ended up shaving one to two years off their Brain Age.

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Amazing. This goes back to what we were talking about before.

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Look. So this is a sign of lower decline. Start walking more often. And here's the great news, your wife does not have dementia. Oh my gosh.

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I'm like, a little cheese too fast for me. I'm like, the dog can't catch her. Yeah?

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So everybody that lives in in New York City is, is going to be fine, because they walk right?

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Well, if you don't walk, you get trampled, right? If you don't walk in faster speed.

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So, but, but look again. You know, use the walking as a sign that you are, that it's starting to happen even before you start to realize it. Because everybody forgets stuff. When they walk into a room or they they leave the house, they go, Oh, I forgot to bring the thing that I said I was gonna bring. Yada yada yada.

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It happens to everybody. Yeah, but if you notice these little signs of not lifting your feet completely, of walking slowly because your brain can't process the spatial information quickly enough to be able to walk at pace. Then you need to start doing things. And the number one thing you can do is exercise, both exercising your brain by doing stimulating puzzles and things like that, learning a new language, learning a new skill, all of those things are helpful, but also just literally exercise again, we are so sedentary as a species right now. I mean, at least in the North American culture, where we are, we are just slowly but surely killing ourselves. This is why they say sitting is the new smoking.

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Because when you're not doing just even a little bit of moderate exercise, 10 minutes a day, 25 minutes a week, these small amounts, you are allowing yourself to slowly deteriorate from the inside. And this is just the worst way to find out about it, which is, you're losing your brain.

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You know, who does this, the exercise snacking, as we say, is Ashton Kutcher, the actor, and also Tim Ferriss, the author of The Four Hour Work Week and the Four Hour Body and all that stuff. They're just always like, they'll. Know, I've seen you do this when you do planks, but they'll do so like they'll do bear crawls and stuff like that.

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The thing is that you and I are, you know, a buck and a half heavier than 200 pounds. Yeah, and and, well, up, well, taller than six feet tall. And so it takes me a while to get wound up. By the time I get the flywheel going, my wife is, is already in the store and gone out the back end. You know, you take, she's like trying to, it's like, for me, it's like trying to chase Jason Bourne, you know, so many metaphors to unpack there. Here's my advice to you, stride. Take bigger strides. Right out of the get go that way. You'll, stay that way.

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Your wife will take three steps to fear everyone.

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But I'm afraid I'm gonna throw a rod. You know, I gotta worry about my Achilles. Now, you know, all these people are snapping their Achilles, playing playing pickleball. Another friend who did that? Did you really? Yeah, yeah, well, I didn't. And what's her name? A friend. Your last name, Connie's friend, Michelle's mother, yeah, just snapped her Achilles. She's 80 years old, and old enough where they the doctor said, now I'm not fixing this. I'm like, why wait? What? Yeah, she had some complications, you know, okay, but, but, yeah, how do we get on Achilles? We got because of me, yeah, because I gotta, I need to, need a slower start. It was like, well, look how long your legs are, yeah? But it just take, takes a while to unfold the darn things, yeah, yeah. You have to get it.

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Getting to pace is difficult. I get it, I know, but I still, I still can't. And even this is my whole life as a kid, my dad used to take me once a month into work in Manhattan with him, and I'm running at full speed trying to keep up with him. Yeah, yeah.

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Well, he didn't get dementia.

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No, he's smoking all day long, six pack of cigarettes a day.

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But the dementia didn't get exactly, exactly. People aren't smoking anymore, and their dementia is getting them.

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Dr John, Dr Gib, the doctors are in. Okay, let's talk about your brain. I think we just did. But if you want to come up with new ideas or solutions, but you're feeling mentally tapped out and uninspired, this is actually the this. I think we're finding that this is the solution to everything, including a hit television show or YouTube channel, eat something spicy. Oh yeah. So now this comes from the book breakthrough, proven strategies to overcome creative blocks and spark your imagination was written by Alex Cornell. Listen to this in a recent survey of creative leaders, Cornell found that nothing sparks new ideas like eating spicy food. Why would this happen? He says, What clears the head, literally, by draining the sinuses, especially the ones that that you eat, the ghost peppers. But spicy food also increases blood flow by relaxing your arteries, so more oxygen rich blood starts flowing to your brain, giving you more energy and hopefully fresh ideas. You know? The other thing about spicy food, we've talked about this on the radio show before, is that it really it amps up your immune system because your your body thinks it needs to attack it, right? Yeah, so spicy food is this is this brings up, you know, a point that we talk about on every one of our shows and and that is acute stress versus chronic stress. So, so chronic stress is the worry and relationship problems and and financial issues and all of that stuff. It's the stuff that you that you carry with you, and it interrupts your sleep, and it makes it increases your cortisol levels that you you know, you have a harder time metabolizing fat. That's all chronic stress.

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When we talk about de stressing, that's what we're talking about removing. But acute stress is the stuff that's really good for you, which distinguishes the two is the acute stress is something that has an immediate stressor that you then take away, and your body is able to to compensate for that immediate stressor. So that is exercise, right? You do a sprint on the treadmill, and then you stop sprinting, your body gets back to its baseline when you do that, and as a result, your your whole body actually becomes more relaxed when you take away that stressor. The same thing is true of cold water therapy. So getting taking a cold shower, doing cryo all of that stuff.

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And of course, we talk about this all the time, spicy food is yet another example of an acute stressor. So you take on the stress your body registers the spicy food as literal pain, and then that pain as it goes away, as your body processes it, all of the things that come with stress in the good way start to happen. You get an immune boost.

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You get a blood flow boost. All of these things start to occur.

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Your energy goes up. You get into the fight or flight or flee. Fight flee, or freeze.

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That's you get into that, into that zone where you're, you know, and then, and then you come out of it. And all that does is it makes your body healthier and more adaptive to actual stress. And as a result, your brain gets fired up. So it makes sense, this is the same thing. It's. Similar to, you know, people like Steve Jobs, who, when they get stuck, they go for a walk. It's exactly the same thing again.

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The book, if you want to go deeper, is breakthrough, proven strategies to overcome creative blocks and spark your imagination. It's about using spicy food to be more creative.

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I feel like I'm a I feel like I need to get a side hustle. I know a lot of these people that listen to the radio show are like, Hey, John, every time we do a side hustle thing, whether it's wrapping your car in an advertisement, or renting out your furniture or renting out your pool, we get a lot of response. And so I thought maybe I should get a side hustle. So I looked this up, and these are the careers that pay very well, but they don't require a college degree. So on top of that, the Bureau of Labor Statistics says these careers are growing right now. Now, I could absolutely do this first one, part time. I could just take care of a couple of buildings close to us, in Beverly Hills, elevator and escalator installation and repair. Are there a lot of broken ones around you is that, why is what you're implying?

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I think that there's probably there. There's the people who fix them are so good, yeah, that they never break. I mean, they never Yeah, right there. You never get wrong every now and then. Yeah. Who's there? Who's the guy that Mitch Hedberg, yeah, an escalator can be broken. It can only become stairs. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. So people who can install and fix elevators and escalators are in demand, and it's a sick six figure job. So if I got another six figure job, I mean, I could, I could buy Christmas presents, right? Go in there and fix a couple of elevators. I don't the escalators puzzling to me, but I think I could fix the elevator, because I've seen it in so many of those Mission Impossible movies. People interested in this job will need a license.

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I don't know how you're getting the license.

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I love this. My driver's license even just expired. You know, you know, I'm 72 you know this, my driver's license expired. So I set the thing in. I said, here we go, renew it. You go, nope.

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You gotta come in and take that test again. What? How that's like that? That's the definition of I'm going to drown myself in the pool. This is where I still think I'm 40 years old. That's why I don't look in mirrors anymore. I think, Okay, I'm 40.

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But then you get the thing in the mail that says, Yeah, you're gonna have to come in. I cannot wait. Look, this would be full circle if I have to drive you to your driving test because you told me to my driving test when I turned 16. So I would, I would relish the opportunity to drive you to your driving test. People interested in this job well the license and can enroll in union apprenticeship programs to learn the necessary skills you follow.

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Apprenticeships are great, man you follow, God follow around the elevator. Guy teaches you what to do, and what's the worst that can happen? Mean, you get stuck, everybody, everybody's worst nightmares, what can happen, and you, you forget to tighten down a couple of bolts, and in the middle of the night, you're like, Oh no, I gotta go back.

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I see some horror movies. I can show you if you want to know what the worst that could happen. Oh, thanks.

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Would they fall on a spike or something?

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No, they get like, yeah, the average median salary for these workers is $102,000 a year. Now this is important, because I don't think Connie can do this. I'm not sure how you feel about it. I don't have claustrophobia, because I've been in so many MRI machines. By the way, I have so much experience in the MRI machine, it can't be any different than the elevator. So anyway, anyway, it's very different. But go ahead, you need to be okay with, first of all, you need a license. I love that. You need to be okay with being in cramped areas, crawl spaces and machine rooms. You may also be at heights in elevator shafts.

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I mean, there's so many reasons why. That's why the pay is so high. This is every John Wick film, yeah, every time you see, like, in Mission Impossible or John Wick, they sneak into the elevator shaft, yeah, yeah. Guy rides on top, yeah.

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You know that's like in taken three. I watch too many of these. You really do. It's unbelievable. Taken three, because he rides on top of the elevator shaft, and then he gets the Russian okay, there's anything wrong with Russians?

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Let's just circle back real fast the actual job we're talking about.

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Okay, sorry. I think the issue for me, I can't handle the close faces. And for you, I think you're too big to get your arms into the places you have to repair. I think you're too large. I think we need to find you something else. I remember when I was an ROTC at North Carolina State. First of all, I didn't want to cut my hair. I had very long hair, but I wanted my dad wanted me to go, because he was in navy, and so I'm there. And I remember one of the guys, that was Steve Thomas, that was in there with me. And why do I want to win this?

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Because, well, you don't, you know if they're gonna send you to Vietnam. You want to be a captain or whatever. And I said, Oh, okay. And then he said, plus you're really big and they won't send you in those tunnels. That was like a big selling point for me, speaking. So I'm so unbelievable. Okay, so I'm gonna cross out the elevator thing, yeah, the next one, Always Look on the Bright Side of Life.

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Steve Thomas, thank you for that. Let's. Just, I know he always came up with those ideas. What's the worst that could happen? All right, another good paying job that does not require a degree is subway and streetcar operators.

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Wow, I think I could do this easily. Do you need a license?

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The workforce needs people who can operate subways and trains, and it pays about $84,000 a year. You only need up to a year of on the job training.

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I mean, yeah, we gotta, we gotta. You need the people that look just don't look at your phone. Like the guy on the train that I used to take to work, he was looking at his phone and the train derailed. So, yeah, you just gotta be, you gotta be focused. And if you do it, well, nobody ever notices you. I it's a great job. What great job? How many street cars are? There is a few towns that have street cars. A lot of malls have street cars. Now, those outdoor mall spaces and, you know, like any above ground subway, but ground train, and they call it a street car. I wonder if they I wonder if I'm here. I wonder if they check. I mean, of course, I've taken a million subways because I grew up in New York. But I wonder if, when you, when you, when you audition to be the subway operator, I wonder if they check out your voice, because everybody seems, everybody's got that voice.

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That's the old New York version.

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It's all automated. They have a voice over our that's terrible.

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You should that's a that's a job. Speaking of auditioning, that's the job you should audition for, is to be the voice of the next stop, La Cienega Boulevard. No. It never comes off like that. That's the train at the airport, and the subway is like now. They have the professionals do it. It's not the guy in the car anymore. I was really bummed out. We just got back from Italy a little while ago, and I was really bummed that I when I found out that when it one of the church bells, you know, back there in the Vatican, it was a recording like, what? Yeah. What are you doing?

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Well, because the actual Bell is, like a historical relic asked by Michelangelo, ring it, yeah? Like, somebody tell the Pope. All right.

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Oh, this will be fun. You guys will this will be a conversation starter for you. Let's look back 100 years ago. This is called, we need some music, but I don't have it right now. Here it is.

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Thank you. What? What a difference a century makes. So Gib, approximately 100 years ago. You know where I'm going here, indoor plumbing was not a regular part of new home construction until 1900 and then it was, excuse me, and then it was mainly for wealthy people, sure. So even in the 1920s fewer than half of us homes had indoor plumbing. It wasn't until 1930 that it became standard. When I was at my grandpa's house in rural North Carolina, that there's no difference without house.

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Yeah. I mean, you know, it's a keep in mind, not only did you have to pay, and now you know, you can't have a house without plumbing, but not only did you have to pay to have the fixtures put into your house and the pipes in your house, but they also it took a long time for them to run the pipes for for everything, you know, the indoor plumbing, it took some time so it when you have something that works, and I imagine, I imagine, your grandparents in North Carolina were like, well, we have the well, and we have the outhouse. I'm not spending what it takes to do all this. No, thank you. I don't need it. And now, and now it's, you know, now it's, it's changed. Fundamental.

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They spent all their money on cigarettes and Dr peppers. Those were like, those were free back then, my grandparents never spoke to me. My grandparents, on the side of the farm was just like, just grunts, yeah, and that meant, go slap the hall. They just pointed at the chicken they wanted you to kill. Well, no, yeah. I mean, my grandma taught me how to kill the chicken. That's that's not a that's not cool. I have nightmares about that, you know?

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I mean, it's not like the chickens going along for a ride.

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It's a chicken. It resists taking it to the vet. Yeah, I'm eating tofu. Okay. Well, listen, you know, I remember this now, this is in 1920 but I remember this vividly in the 1950s and early 60s, when you had to, like, really, you had to save up for a long distance phone call.

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Yeah. So in 1920 for example, a 10 minute call between LA and New York was 26 bucks, yeah, the equivalent of $250 now, yeah.

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I mean, I remember when that was a was a really big deal where a phone call was super expensive.

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And now, you know, I don't know of a phone plan. Now, you had to plan your plan. I don't know of a phone call if you're dating somebody you don't have any money, yeah. I mean, now I don't know of a phone of a phone plan that doesn't have unlimited minutes attached to it, right? I mean, so keep in mind, we had, you have the long distance phone call being super expensive for four years and then, and then, remember, when they would have, you'd have unlimited talk and text after a certain time of day, yeah, so then, so everybody would start calling you, like, after 7pm to start having phone calls, if you like. I remember this in like. In college, you'd wait till after a certain point to start calling the girl that you were trying to date, because that was the time when you could get the free phone call. That's right. And now it's like, now I hate using my phone, but I cannot imagine them charging me to do that. It's all about the data. Now, yeah, yeah. 100 years ago, most births took place at home. Yeah, yeah, for better, for worse. I mean, I know I have some friends who've had home births, and I know some people who have had home births and loved it. I know some people who've tried for home births and had to end up at a hospital. But I mean, my, you know, my mother in law is a labor and delivery nurse, and she did, I think, two births at home, and then sold the couch she gave birth on. So if you're sitting on the couch out there right now, it could be one that my mother in law gave birth on at home, like they did 100 years ago.

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Gosh, thanks for the detail. You're welcome a couple of more here. 100 years ago, a nice, good sized home cost about $6,300 unbelievable.

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If you had, if you got an apartment in Manhattan, the rent was $60 a month. Can you imagine? You can't, I mean, you a parking space is, is $6,300 a month now, yeah, 60 bucks a month for for rent.

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That's what I that's what I did when I went to when I took my first job in Manhattan, is I immediately sold my car because I just I couldn't afford to keep it. Yeah, and then finally, and I actually remember this since I was born in 52 radio, 100 years ago and beyond, was the main form of home entertainment.

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Yeah, television was three years away from being demonstrated.

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And we say demonstrated, you had to. You'd go into a store and they would demonstrate the television, because people were like, do I want this in my home?

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Yeah, is this? Is this the devil?

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Also, they didn't. They had to show you what the programming looked like, because you couldn't fathom what it would actually be. You didn't have the idea of a screen Exactly.

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How does it get in there, right?

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That was a big question. Yeah.

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I mean, radio is still a great form of entertainment. We got radios and podcasts, and the old radio drama is alive and well now. So you know, the the old wireless, the sitting around the wireless in the living room?

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Yep, it has come back in some ways, especially on road trips.

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We'll listen to these radio dramas in podcast form when we go on road trips as a family, because they're engaging in the same way that the wireless used to be 100 years ago. So I love, I'm not sure if it was like this in every household, but when, when they when NBC with the peacock, when they came out and they said, Okay, now, now there's the color TV. I remember my dad, John senior, saying, What, very nice. I forgot to nothing. My My father was like, You know what? Why do we need that? I don't need to. I mean, I'm watching, watching the, you know, watch Cronkite, and I'm watching the honeymooners. And why do I need color? Why is that, you know? Yeah, yeah. And then, and then, slowly but surely, I remember, with HD, I had a cathode ray tube TV for the longest time before HD took off and everybody had flat screen TVs and stuff. I was like, Yeah, I like this. This is a good enough TV. The thing is, in suburbia is that, you know, back on Seabury road on Long Island, in the 50s, it was all about a couple of things. One is your yard and your garden. And if you, if you had weeds and stuff in there, I mean, you were just like on all people wouldn't come over your house. You couldn't, you couldn't hang out with their your friends over there, because it would look like the Adams family house. And then when, when aluminum siding became available, that was a, that was it. That was a stature thing, yeah, where you even have that?

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Now, no, I don't think they go into I mean, I'm sure you can get aluminum, take aluminum things, and you just put it on your house. And they thought, Oh, this is great, because what happens is, it protects you from the heat. Now, what they forgot to tell you, and it doesn't, it doesn't erode in the same right? Exactly, exactly, except. But then you got, everybody's got a house made out of aluminum, yeah, but if you live in tornado country, you got a house made out of switch plates.

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That's the thing with the aluminum that you got to worry about, is that switch boy, it just it, just it cuts.

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Yeah, you're right.

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But what would happen is, they didn't tell you this, right?

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Because they the whole idea was, you get a white you'll get black aluminum, you know, yeah, so it's reflective, right? But it does absorb a lot of heat. And so what would happen to me, as, like, a six year old, as I'd be in my bed, and, you know, it would be, I don't know, eight o'clock at night, unless they start hearing, are you thinking somebody's get coming into the house? Aluminum cooling down?

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Yes, yeah. And then my dad, he didn't want to get air conditioning, so he got like this. He was very handy. And so we had with, you know, a two story, small house. And with an attic. So he installed a an exhaust fan in there. I've told you this story before, and it but it wasn't like an exhaust fan, like you see in the in the in the bathroom when you're, you know, restaurants. This was a full on propeller for a King Air 350 I mean, this thing, the propeller was like, What in the hell? And it had, it had louvers on it. So if you flipped, if my dad at six or seven o'clock at night, right, he would flip, flip the switch, and the thing would start sucking air from the house into the attic, and the louvers would open up like that.

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And if you had a window open, or if you had a door open, or something like that, you would lose an arm, because it was like Poltergeist, where the poltergeist is just shutting all the doors to show off. That's what that thing was. And it was in your hair would be like in your face, because if you'd be and if you had friends over, you know, if they freaked out, if your friends were like, you know, had had had low aphrodis weight, whatever they call it, if they were light, they had a see, their feet were a little just off the floor. No, I'm serious, but somebody out there is listening this, and they're going, Okay, we had one of those things too. I mean, imagine being, you know, at an airport, and you walk to the back of the plane, and you start getting sucked towards the propeller.

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That's what it was in my bedroom. We I think we've processed some trauma today, and I'm glad that really try was pretty cool, because what we would do is we take we had army men, like your son does now, and we line them all up, and then they would just get sucked out the door. That's like, well, you know what? We'll dive into that. Not interesting.

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We'll dive into that next week. Thanks. That's all we got, even if it wasn't all we got.

00:31:49.719 --> 00:31:57.578
Gib, I don't know, I don't know where to go with the Army getting sucked out of your house. Okay, let's talk about productivity.

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No, I think we're done. All right.

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We appreciate you listening to podcast, and the audience is growing, if you know that.

00:32:06.000 --> 00:32:28.400
But it is, yeah, they all they want to hear about is the propeller fan destroying your army man. When you get old enough, you've got these stories. You know, if you're like, how did you even survive? You know, it's time for me to write another book. It is, it is, and I'm going to call the book my sisters tried to flush me down the toilet, which is a true story. Yeah, okay, anyway, thanks for joining the podcast.

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I'm John Tesch Gib Gerard.

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Gerard, we are out. You.

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