August 21, 2025 • 16 mins
In this episode we discuss:
The power of anticipation.
The Price and Profit of Pet Food.
Clean Up your mood.
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Unknown (00:00):
Gib, hello and welcome to another episode of the
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podcast. I'm Gib Gerard, herewith one of my favorite things
that we do. I call itintelligence to go that's where
we take pieces that we've doneon the radio this week, and we
hand pick them, mix them up, andwe give them to you, for you to
put your pocket and take withyou wherever you go. We got some
great ones for you today. Sohere, without further ado, is
(00:32):
me, Gib, Gerard and John Tesh.
All right, Gib, just to provethat we study everything or we
have friends who do this. Thelatest thing is about, about
love, and we now know that,well, we have, I mean, we've,
there's been, there's beenresearch out there, right? That
that we hear birds chirping andstuff, and we fall now,
(00:53):
apparently, when you fall inlove, your next sip of water is
gonna taste like 80% sweeter.
Oh, I mean sweet water. Look,look, this is sweet water. This
isgreat if you, you know, if you
have a sweet tooth, you justfall in love and drink more
water. But I love that we'relearning to be expensive. Just
have the water. Tap Water,please.
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So sweet. But we, this is thatthing where the scientists are
figuring out what the poets haveknown for decades, for
millennia, right? We the poetshave already told us that when
we're in love, everything isbrighter. The moon hits your eye
like a big pizza pie. Okay, youknow all of that is better when
you're in love. Now we know why.
Well, let me, let me, let meknow if the poets know this, we
(01:36):
now know that one in three womensay love handles on a man are
very attractive lies.
They're saying that by men.
They're saying that to lull youinto a false sense of security.
Good next time there's a newmagic. Mike, out find out. How
much next is it gonna be a nexttime I pray there's not a next
(02:00):
time for magic. Mike, oh,well, thank you.
John Tesh, here again with GibGerard, the father of three
kids, 13. What are we at now?
1311, and almost nine. Yeah,almost nine. There we go, hands
away. And on Wednesdays, theycome here and they study piano,
not from me, but from a bonafide teacher. And it's pretty
amazing to me that kids this agewere just watching that, how
(02:23):
quickly they pick up stuff, sonot only reading, but just the
ear training and stuff likethat. And
now my daughter's ears betterthan mine now, oh yeah,
yes. Now we know thatpreschoolers have higher
intelligence and better studyskills. They score higher on
tests if they're just givenmusic education,
oh, I mean, you've talked aboutthis for so many you had a you
(02:45):
had a foundation that put musicinto schools for this exact
reason, the it is so good foryou. Look, not only is music
beautiful, not only does this isit intrinsically fine on its own
and a valuable thing for us tolearn to be able to understand
and play music. But it does. Itsupports your math scores are
better when you are good atmusic, because you are
(03:05):
practicing and practicallyemploying the laws of
mathematics in music. Everythingabout it, studying all of it,
all of the skills you learn inmusic translate to all of these
other things. That's why thereare so many, you know, people
that have accomplished greatstuff, and you find out later
on, oh, they actually play, youknow, concert level piano. They
just don't. They don't lead withthat. Yeah, was it? Who is the?
Was Secretary of State,Condoleezza Rice, yeah, it's a
(03:28):
classically trained concert.
Yeah, apparently a figureskater. Isn't that, right? Yeah,
exactly. There you go. Love it,Gib, you and I do not have a
hard time believing this nextstatistic, only because, gosh,
your mom, my wife has has beenthis. We know so many of these
(03:49):
people because your grandma wassick for so many years I got
sick. According to a new survey,nearly one in every four
Americans is a care get giver,either professionally or because
of a family. So what? How manypeople in America now? Three, 50
million. Yeah, like that, yeah.
So one, sothat'd be, it'd be like 80, 70
million, 70 million people. Andthat's the toughest job ever.
(04:13):
Yeah, it's actually close to, ifyou say 360 is 90 million
people, that is yes. And look,we are able to keep people alive
longer than at any point inhuman history, right? Every year
we add to it, but the quality oflife does not necessarily match,
and this is why it's soimportant. If you you know it's
so important for us asindividuals to do the things in
(04:35):
our life that make our longevitynot just a number that we
achieve, but a lifestyle that weachieve. So you've got to do the
things that we talk about on ourcoaching calls, where you you're
keeping your you're keeping youryour lower body strong, your
grip strength is high. You'redoing the things that keep your
brain intact. So that, you know,we can, we can lower that number
of caregivers. Because right nowwe need those caregivers. Right
(04:56):
now we need them because of theway that we're aging.
If you're a. Caregiver, I justsay, blessing son, yeah, God
bless you for what you're doing.
Thank you. So somebody asked me,because anyway, did we did
intelligence for your life, Gib.
They said, Hey, what do youthink the most profitable food
item sold in North America is?
And I said, Gosh, if Gib washere, he would know. But now we
looked it up, and I checked withGib, and he knows too. And I
(05:19):
know this because I pay for it alot. The most profitable food
item sold in North America ispet food. Oh, well, look,
because it doesn't matter ifwe're starving to death as
humans will buy the pet foodwhen you when, when, when you
have to tighten your belt. AndI've seen this. We've it's in
the studies when that when we'reheaded to recession when we are,
(05:40):
when things are, when things arebad, when people lose their
jobs, the one place they don'tcut is, is the pet food. We have
uncle Vinnie, who, no matterwhat his his life situation is,
he's always, and it's been dire.
It's been dire. He will alwaysbuy the premium pet food for his
dogs. We have Leroy. We always,it's, you know, whatever,
(06:01):
whatever works for him. We'resticking with. I may switch to
spam and rice and, you know, andstuff like that, but he's still
getting the, the premium, youknow, made in a in a kitchen
somewhere, by Michelin starchefs for dogs,
dude. Do you remember whenVinnie caught, like, like, the
terrible, like, rash, or what,like, Parasite or something. Oh
(06:21):
yes, yes,I kept sorry. Should not be
laughing.
And before he bought himselfanti parasitic drugs, he went
out and bought the good pet foodwe're gonna give Vinny on this
show. We really do. You guyswould love him,
all right. Gib John, teshu, GibGerard here, the master of
disaster and other really funstuff, research has confirmed
the obvious. It's not just thepain of a dentist drill, but the
(06:43):
fear of it. Oh yeah, that hurtsas well. Oh yeah. Scientists at
Oxford University found theanticipation of a dentist
drilling your teeth heightensthe sensation. The same is true
for your first kiss. Theanticipation alone can make your
heart pound and your kneesbuckle. When I was on the way,
when I was sick with cancer andI was on my way to you, remember
this to MD Anderson, Houston,from Los Angeles, right? Plane
(07:05):
trip, three hours, three and ahalf hours on the plane trip, I
would get chemo sick before Ihad even had anything in my in
my bloodstream, because of theanticipation. And I used to
think I was control my mind, notso absolutely.
Look, if you know you're goingto have a really good meal later
in the day, you're thinkingabout that meal, the
anticipation, and then when youfinally sit down to it,
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everything is a heightenedexperience because you've been
you've been planning for it.
This is the same this is usethis to your advantage in
everything that you do, whetherit's your business, always try
to create that anticipation withyour clients and your customers.
Try to make that seem specialand exciting. Whatever it is
that you do in yourrelationships. Plan those date
nights, plan for those littlebit mini vacations. Think about
those things that you can dotogether as a couple. If you
(07:46):
spend time anticipating it, it'sgoing to make it all that much
sweeter. Would it actuallyhappen? Yeah, you can even do
this just for weekends. Oh, justlike, like a brunch on Sunday
with all your friends. Yeah,yes, absolutely. You're
listening to intelligence foryour life. John tesher, Gib
Gerard, here's a great tip. Wealways have great tips, of
course, but I'm not sure I'mdoing gonna do this, but I think
it's a good tip for you. Gib, ifyou need a quick boost, tidy up
(08:09):
your home for just one minute.
Oh, yeah. So experts say a quickcleanup from fluffing pillows to
straightening papers increaseslevels of the feel good hormone
oxytocin by 45% in just 60seconds. Clinical Psychologist
Dr Alicia Clark wrote, hack youranxiety. She says, We want to be
able to do something when we getanxious, because we really what
(08:31):
we really want is to be incontrol and take action. So I
like this, everything fromfluffing pillows to
straightening papers. Have youseen how many pillows are on my
bed.
I just had this whole argumentwith my wife too. Is Too many
pillows? Pillow person? Theydon't live on our bed, because
only when she makes the bed,every once in a while do all of
them and get there, and then therest of the time they're on the
(08:53):
floor around the bed. I'm like,What are we doing here? Why? Why
am I trying not to step onpillows all the time?
I actually put him back on, butthe wrong order. It's, I mean, I
don't know how, yeah, you know,there I saw three comedy
routines, all based on throwpillows. The throw pillow, I
hate throw pillows, but lookthrow pillows aside so it
(09:13):
doesn't boost my mood. The throwpillows, okay, tidy up
something else. The speedcleaning does. I have noticed,
and I hate to admit this forgotwhat the top my wife, my wife
likes, like she, she gets veryanxious if the room is just a
little bit messy. And so werecently, like, cleaned the
whole house deeply, but, butjust, just getting rid of the
(09:35):
clutter, all of a sudden you'resitting in the room and
everything just feels better.
And I hate that she's right,yeah, there you go. Giant
tester, Gib, Gerard. Gib and Ihave a and our families, and
even prima, our daughter, she,we have a family dog. He's
amazing. He, he, he switchesfrom family to family. It's
pretty cool. He's got to get thelife of Riley, as we say. I just
(09:56):
discovered. Heard from thisstudy and and now I do act on
this from evolutionary biologistDr Mark be cough at University
of Colorado, that that you'vegot to let your dog when you
take your dog out. I was justletting the dog out to go to the
bathroom, and I was pulling himback in, and he's fighting me.
But I had other stuff to do. Andthey say, if you don't let a dog
(10:16):
sniff, it's like not lettingthem read a book. There are
experiments conducted that saidthe dogs are much more
optimistic animals if you justlet them read a little bit.
We don't have an analog in ourbrain for how much information a
dog is able to get fromsniffing, and they because they
(10:38):
can smell how long something'sbeen, obviously, obviously, we,
you know, we use bloodhounds,when, when somebody's trying to
escape. We know that. But likejust, just your little terrier
gets a lot of information, we donot have any equivalent in our
sensory system of what theyexperience or factually with
their nose. We don't have that,that equivalent. And I noticed
(10:59):
that when, when, when Leroystaying with us, I just let him
in the backyard. Yeah, he lovesthat. And he explores. He smells
the possum that lives under ourdeck. He smells all the stuff
around the house, the cat thatsneaks into our backyard every
night. He smells that he goescrazy. Loves it. You
gotta, Gib, let your dog have achance to use their nose. So
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Gib, I was talking to one of ourcousins who came to stay over,
and this person decided theywere gonna retire early. Okay?
And I said, I said, Hey, listen,you know, there's data on this.
And she goes, Yeah, I'm startingto feel this. She didn't retire
for like, a How long do youthink a couple of years, been
(11:41):
retired for a couple of years?
She's this. Years. She's aneconomics professor, right? Oh,
no, you're not even gonna outher. Okay? So anyway, according
to according to a massive newstudy, voluntarily giving up
your job may not be the bestthing for your brain health.
There was a study on millions ofadults aged 50 to 75 and they
found that people retired earlywere more likely to suffer from
delayed recall, which is animportant predictor of dementia.
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So you need to keep your brainstimulated. And here's the
thing, if you're one of thosefire people you know,
financially independent, retireearly fire. My My brother in
law, is one of these guys, andI'll tell you this, it's not
about not working, it's aboutnot having to work to live, and
that should be the focus foryour retirement. You need a
project. You need, even if it'staking strokes off your golf
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game, you need something thatkeeps you that gets you out of
bed every day. Otherwise, yourbody quits. If your brain is not
activated, your body quits, andyour brain begins to deteriorate
faster. I saw this happen withmy grandmother, when all of her
friends moved away and shedidn't have people to talk to
anymore, she got worse a lotfaster, and it stopped when we
when we moved her in with us, sothat she could, she could start
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to be around people again.
That's really good advice. Dothe research before you decide
to retire. So Gib, you know someof us baby boomers, you know we,
we, we come, we come down hardon the millennials and the Gen
Zers. Oh, noticed, oh, that oneof those people, not anymore. I
used to be, but they're smart,and the way they're being smart
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is, if they have a problem,they're not holding it inside.
They're going to therapy. Yeah.
And I think this really startedin earnest during during covid,
where these, thesepsychological, American
Psychological Association istalking about the the the
popularity of online help, liketalk space and better health,
and their usage rates havequadrupled in last year,
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not even just the services thatyou're talking about, which are,
which are great ways ofconnecting you to therapists,
but even therapists who are justprivate practice, therapists are
doing their sessions on Zoomnow, and opening up, you know,
opening up all kinds of newparts of their business, people
who, you know, couldn't drive toan office and then, and then
drive back to their job, theycan just pop on a zoom call.
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This kind of work is so good,and it's so great that we're
making it more accessible, thatyou don't need to, you know,
park your car, go into a youdon't have to deal with all of
the other trappings of going toa therapist office. Now, if you
can do that, still do that, butfor the rest of us, it's, it's
really nice to be able to openup in a context that is that we
can control.
(14:14):
Yeah, so check them out.
Actually, better help. Used tobe one of our they may still be
one of our advertisers and oneof our family members even use
them. It's it's easy to get helpnow, and you can even do it
online. Gib, you know, I loveChristopher winter. I even
talked to him personally aboutsome sleep problems that I was
having. He's a sleep sleepspecialist, neuroscientist, Dr
(14:35):
Christopher winter. He Herecommends that if we're just
too wound up, what a lot of hispatients do is they, they've,
they always have somewhere ontheir bookcase a very boring and
he says, he says, He tells us,remember how you had to fight to
keep your keep your eyes openduring reading assignments in
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school. So. Name, impulse canhelp you fall asleep, because
the repetition page after pageis going to distract you from
thoughts that keep you awake,and you read the most boring
thing you can find and put youright to sleep. I have one of
those books on my Kindle, and Iuse it for exactly this. It just
it makes. Whatkind of a book is it? It's
actually afantasy book, okay, so it's
(15:18):
fiction, yeah, it's just andit's very wordy nonfiction, very
over descriptive, overdescriptive. And it's not
descriptions that I'm into. Ijust I fall asleep so fast with
it. This is a great time toremind everybody that John has
two books that are availablewherever you really want to fall
asleep quickly. Is that whatyou're saying? You know, you
could have just left that out.
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Okay, all right. There it is,yeah. You look at my book on
Amazon, it's called relentless.
It could throw out all yoursleep drugs and just Just
kidding and just pass greatbooks.
All right. So don't forget,get yourself a boring book and
have at it. That'sit for the show today. Thank you
guys so much for listening. Ifyou like the show, please rate
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for listening. You Gib.
Gib, hello and welcome to another episode of the
(00:10):
podcast. I'm Gib Gerard, herewith one of my favorite things
that we do. I call itintelligence to go that's where
we take pieces that we've doneon the radio this week, and we
hand pick them, mix them up, andwe give them to you, for you to
put your pocket and take withyou wherever you go. We got some
great ones for you today. Sohere, without further ado, is
(00:32):
me, Gib, Gerard and John Tesh.
All right, Gib, just to provethat we study everything or we
have friends who do this. Thelatest thing is about, about
love, and we now know that,well, we have, I mean, we've,
there's been, there's beenresearch out there, right? That
that we hear birds chirping andstuff, and we fall now,
(00:53):
apparently, when you fall inlove, your next sip of water is
gonna taste like 80% sweeter.
Oh, I mean sweet water. Look,look, this is sweet water. This
isgreat if you, you know, if you
have a sweet tooth, you justfall in love and drink more
water. But I love that we'relearning to be expensive. Just
have the water. Tap Water,please.
(01:15):
So sweet. But we, this is thatthing where the scientists are
figuring out what the poets haveknown for decades, for
millennia, right? We the poetshave already told us that when
we're in love, everything isbrighter. The moon hits your eye
like a big pizza pie. Okay, youknow all of that is better when
you're in love. Now we know why.
Well, let me, let me, let meknow if the poets know this, we
(01:36):
now know that one in three womensay love handles on a man are
very attractive lies.
They're saying that by men.
They're saying that to lull youinto a false sense of security.
Good next time there's a newmagic. Mike, out find out. How
much next is it gonna be a nexttime I pray there's not a next
(02:00):
time for magic. Mike, oh,well, thank you.
John Tesh, here again with GibGerard, the father of three
kids, 13. What are we at now?
1311, and almost nine. Yeah,almost nine. There we go, hands
away. And on Wednesdays, theycome here and they study piano,
not from me, but from a bonafide teacher. And it's pretty
amazing to me that kids this agewere just watching that, how
(02:23):
quickly they pick up stuff, sonot only reading, but just the
ear training and stuff likethat. And
now my daughter's ears betterthan mine now, oh yeah,
yes. Now we know thatpreschoolers have higher
intelligence and better studyskills. They score higher on
tests if they're just givenmusic education,
oh, I mean, you've talked aboutthis for so many you had a you
(02:45):
had a foundation that put musicinto schools for this exact
reason, the it is so good foryou. Look, not only is music
beautiful, not only does this isit intrinsically fine on its own
and a valuable thing for us tolearn to be able to understand
and play music. But it does. Itsupports your math scores are
better when you are good atmusic, because you are
(03:05):
practicing and practicallyemploying the laws of
mathematics in music. Everythingabout it, studying all of it,
all of the skills you learn inmusic translate to all of these
other things. That's why thereare so many, you know, people
that have accomplished greatstuff, and you find out later
on, oh, they actually play, youknow, concert level piano. They
just don't. They don't lead withthat. Yeah, was it? Who is the?
Was Secretary of State,Condoleezza Rice, yeah, it's a
(03:28):
classically trained concert.
Yeah, apparently a figureskater. Isn't that, right? Yeah,
exactly. There you go. Love it,Gib, you and I do not have a
hard time believing this nextstatistic, only because, gosh,
your mom, my wife has has beenthis. We know so many of these
(03:49):
people because your grandma wassick for so many years I got
sick. According to a new survey,nearly one in every four
Americans is a care get giver,either professionally or because
of a family. So what? How manypeople in America now? Three, 50
million. Yeah, like that, yeah.
So one, sothat'd be, it'd be like 80, 70
million, 70 million people. Andthat's the toughest job ever.
(04:13):
Yeah, it's actually close to, ifyou say 360 is 90 million
people, that is yes. And look,we are able to keep people alive
longer than at any point inhuman history, right? Every year
we add to it, but the quality oflife does not necessarily match,
and this is why it's soimportant. If you you know it's
so important for us asindividuals to do the things in
(04:35):
our life that make our longevitynot just a number that we
achieve, but a lifestyle that weachieve. So you've got to do the
things that we talk about on ourcoaching calls, where you you're
keeping your you're keeping youryour lower body strong, your
grip strength is high. You'redoing the things that keep your
brain intact. So that, you know,we can, we can lower that number
of caregivers. Because right nowwe need those caregivers. Right
(04:56):
now we need them because of theway that we're aging.
If you're a. Caregiver, I justsay, blessing son, yeah, God
bless you for what you're doing.
Thank you. So somebody asked me,because anyway, did we did
intelligence for your life, Gib.
They said, Hey, what do youthink the most profitable food
item sold in North America is?
And I said, Gosh, if Gib washere, he would know. But now we
looked it up, and I checked withGib, and he knows too. And I
(05:19):
know this because I pay for it alot. The most profitable food
item sold in North America ispet food. Oh, well, look,
because it doesn't matter ifwe're starving to death as
humans will buy the pet foodwhen you when, when, when you
have to tighten your belt. AndI've seen this. We've it's in
the studies when that when we'reheaded to recession when we are,
(05:40):
when things are, when things arebad, when people lose their
jobs, the one place they don'tcut is, is the pet food. We have
uncle Vinnie, who, no matterwhat his his life situation is,
he's always, and it's been dire.
It's been dire. He will alwaysbuy the premium pet food for his
dogs. We have Leroy. We always,it's, you know, whatever,
(06:01):
whatever works for him. We'resticking with. I may switch to
spam and rice and, you know, andstuff like that, but he's still
getting the, the premium, youknow, made in a in a kitchen
somewhere, by Michelin starchefs for dogs,
dude. Do you remember whenVinnie caught, like, like, the
terrible, like, rash, or what,like, Parasite or something. Oh
(06:21):
yes, yes,I kept sorry. Should not be
laughing.
And before he bought himselfanti parasitic drugs, he went
out and bought the good pet foodwe're gonna give Vinny on this
show. We really do. You guyswould love him,
all right. Gib John, teshu, GibGerard here, the master of
disaster and other really funstuff, research has confirmed
the obvious. It's not just thepain of a dentist drill, but the
(06:43):
fear of it. Oh yeah, that hurtsas well. Oh yeah. Scientists at
Oxford University found theanticipation of a dentist
drilling your teeth heightensthe sensation. The same is true
for your first kiss. Theanticipation alone can make your
heart pound and your kneesbuckle. When I was on the way,
when I was sick with cancer andI was on my way to you, remember
this to MD Anderson, Houston,from Los Angeles, right? Plane
(07:05):
trip, three hours, three and ahalf hours on the plane trip, I
would get chemo sick before Ihad even had anything in my in
my bloodstream, because of theanticipation. And I used to
think I was control my mind, notso absolutely.
Look, if you know you're goingto have a really good meal later
in the day, you're thinkingabout that meal, the
anticipation, and then when youfinally sit down to it,
(07:25):
everything is a heightenedexperience because you've been
you've been planning for it.
This is the same this is usethis to your advantage in
everything that you do, whetherit's your business, always try
to create that anticipation withyour clients and your customers.
Try to make that seem specialand exciting. Whatever it is
that you do in yourrelationships. Plan those date
nights, plan for those littlebit mini vacations. Think about
those things that you can dotogether as a couple. If you
(07:46):
spend time anticipating it, it'sgoing to make it all that much
sweeter. Would it actuallyhappen? Yeah, you can even do
this just for weekends. Oh, justlike, like a brunch on Sunday
with all your friends. Yeah,yes, absolutely. You're
listening to intelligence foryour life. John tesher, Gib
Gerard, here's a great tip. Wealways have great tips, of
course, but I'm not sure I'mdoing gonna do this, but I think
it's a good tip for you. Gib, ifyou need a quick boost, tidy up
(08:09):
your home for just one minute.
Oh, yeah. So experts say a quickcleanup from fluffing pillows to
straightening papers increaseslevels of the feel good hormone
oxytocin by 45% in just 60seconds. Clinical Psychologist
Dr Alicia Clark wrote, hack youranxiety. She says, We want to be
able to do something when we getanxious, because we really what
(08:31):
we really want is to be incontrol and take action. So I
like this, everything fromfluffing pillows to
straightening papers. Have youseen how many pillows are on my
bed.
I just had this whole argumentwith my wife too. Is Too many
pillows? Pillow person? Theydon't live on our bed, because
only when she makes the bed,every once in a while do all of
them and get there, and then therest of the time they're on the
(08:53):
floor around the bed. I'm like,What are we doing here? Why? Why
am I trying not to step onpillows all the time?
I actually put him back on, butthe wrong order. It's, I mean, I
don't know how, yeah, you know,there I saw three comedy
routines, all based on throwpillows. The throw pillow, I
hate throw pillows, but lookthrow pillows aside so it
(09:13):
doesn't boost my mood. The throwpillows, okay, tidy up
something else. The speedcleaning does. I have noticed,
and I hate to admit this forgotwhat the top my wife, my wife
likes, like she, she gets veryanxious if the room is just a
little bit messy. And so werecently, like, cleaned the
whole house deeply, but, butjust, just getting rid of the
(09:35):
clutter, all of a sudden you'resitting in the room and
everything just feels better.
And I hate that she's right,yeah, there you go. Giant
tester, Gib, Gerard. Gib and Ihave a and our families, and
even prima, our daughter, she,we have a family dog. He's
amazing. He, he, he switchesfrom family to family. It's
pretty cool. He's got to get thelife of Riley, as we say. I just
(09:56):
discovered. Heard from thisstudy and and now I do act on
this from evolutionary biologistDr Mark be cough at University
of Colorado, that that you'vegot to let your dog when you
take your dog out. I was justletting the dog out to go to the
bathroom, and I was pulling himback in, and he's fighting me.
But I had other stuff to do. Andthey say, if you don't let a dog
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sniff, it's like not lettingthem read a book. There are
experiments conducted that saidthe dogs are much more
optimistic animals if you justlet them read a little bit.
We don't have an analog in ourbrain for how much information a
dog is able to get fromsniffing, and they because they
(10:38):
can smell how long something'sbeen, obviously, obviously, we,
you know, we use bloodhounds,when, when somebody's trying to
escape. We know that. But likejust, just your little terrier
gets a lot of information, we donot have any equivalent in our
sensory system of what theyexperience or factually with
their nose. We don't have that,that equivalent. And I noticed
(10:59):
that when, when, when Leroystaying with us, I just let him
in the backyard. Yeah, he lovesthat. And he explores. He smells
the possum that lives under ourdeck. He smells all the stuff
around the house, the cat thatsneaks into our backyard every
night. He smells that he goescrazy. Loves it. You
gotta, Gib, let your dog have achance to use their nose. So
(11:20):
Gib, I was talking to one of ourcousins who came to stay over,
and this person decided theywere gonna retire early. Okay?
And I said, I said, Hey, listen,you know, there's data on this.
And she goes, Yeah, I'm startingto feel this. She didn't retire
for like, a How long do youthink a couple of years, been
(11:41):
retired for a couple of years?
She's this. Years. She's aneconomics professor, right? Oh,
no, you're not even gonna outher. Okay? So anyway, according
to according to a massive newstudy, voluntarily giving up
your job may not be the bestthing for your brain health.
There was a study on millions ofadults aged 50 to 75 and they
found that people retired earlywere more likely to suffer from
delayed recall, which is animportant predictor of dementia.
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So you need to keep your brainstimulated. And here's the
thing, if you're one of thosefire people you know,
financially independent, retireearly fire. My My brother in
law, is one of these guys, andI'll tell you this, it's not
about not working, it's aboutnot having to work to live, and
that should be the focus foryour retirement. You need a
project. You need, even if it'staking strokes off your golf
(12:27):
game, you need something thatkeeps you that gets you out of
bed every day. Otherwise, yourbody quits. If your brain is not
activated, your body quits, andyour brain begins to deteriorate
faster. I saw this happen withmy grandmother, when all of her
friends moved away and shedidn't have people to talk to
anymore, she got worse a lotfaster, and it stopped when we
when we moved her in with us, sothat she could, she could start
(12:47):
to be around people again.
That's really good advice. Dothe research before you decide
to retire. So Gib, you know someof us baby boomers, you know we,
we, we come, we come down hardon the millennials and the Gen
Zers. Oh, noticed, oh, that oneof those people, not anymore. I
used to be, but they're smart,and the way they're being smart
(13:08):
is, if they have a problem,they're not holding it inside.
They're going to therapy. Yeah.
And I think this really startedin earnest during during covid,
where these, thesepsychological, American
Psychological Association istalking about the the the
popularity of online help, liketalk space and better health,
and their usage rates havequadrupled in last year,
(13:32):
not even just the services thatyou're talking about, which are,
which are great ways ofconnecting you to therapists,
but even therapists who are justprivate practice, therapists are
doing their sessions on Zoomnow, and opening up, you know,
opening up all kinds of newparts of their business, people
who, you know, couldn't drive toan office and then, and then
drive back to their job, theycan just pop on a zoom call.
(13:53):
This kind of work is so good,and it's so great that we're
making it more accessible, thatyou don't need to, you know,
park your car, go into a youdon't have to deal with all of
the other trappings of going toa therapist office. Now, if you
can do that, still do that, butfor the rest of us, it's, it's
really nice to be able to openup in a context that is that we
can control.
(14:14):
Yeah, so check them out.
Actually, better help. Used tobe one of our they may still be
one of our advertisers and oneof our family members even use
them. It's it's easy to get helpnow, and you can even do it
online. Gib, you know, I loveChristopher winter. I even
talked to him personally aboutsome sleep problems that I was
having. He's a sleep sleepspecialist, neuroscientist, Dr
(14:35):
Christopher winter. He Herecommends that if we're just
too wound up, what a lot of hispatients do is they, they've,
they always have somewhere ontheir bookcase a very boring and
he says, he says, He tells us,remember how you had to fight to
keep your keep your eyes openduring reading assignments in
(14:57):
school. So. Name, impulse canhelp you fall asleep, because
the repetition page after pageis going to distract you from
thoughts that keep you awake,and you read the most boring
thing you can find and put youright to sleep. I have one of
those books on my Kindle, and Iuse it for exactly this. It just
it makes. Whatkind of a book is it? It's
actually afantasy book, okay, so it's
(15:18):
fiction, yeah, it's just andit's very wordy nonfiction, very
over descriptive, overdescriptive. And it's not
descriptions that I'm into. Ijust I fall asleep so fast with
it. This is a great time toremind everybody that John has
two books that are availablewherever you really want to fall
asleep quickly. Is that whatyou're saying? You know, you
could have just left that out.
(15:40):
Okay, all right. There it is,yeah. You look at my book on
Amazon, it's called relentless.
It could throw out all yoursleep drugs and just Just
kidding and just pass greatbooks.
All right. So don't forget,get yourself a boring book and
have at it. That'sit for the show today. Thank you
guys so much for listening. Ifyou like the show, please rate
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for listening. You Gib.
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