October 2, 2025 • 15 mins
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A guy’s least favorite date.
Celebrate small wins.
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Unknown (00:00):
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 picked them, mix them up,and we 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, as usual, we arethe dating mavens. Are we not
really? Okay? We have the data.
We have the data. And the datasays that women, you are more
likely to give men your phonenumber when you're approached at
a pleasant smelling place, likea coffee shop, a bakery or a
flower shop, yes, as compared towhen when men approach them in
(00:53):
clothing stores or banks, Idon't smell it, the smell of the
smell of money,though, you know? I mean, look,
some clothing stores are pipingin really good smelling stuff.
So you could use this there, youknow, I Abercrombie and Fitch.
My mom used to hate going inthere with me when I was in high
school, because it just was allit was the woods cologne. It's
not like Woods cologne.
(01:15):
Researchers believe it's becauseenjoyable aromas improve our
mood, making us more receptiveto romantic advances, and the
opposite is true. You don't wantto be near a dog park or
anything. It smells terrible, ora sewage treatment plant. That's
not a great place to meetsomebody. So look, we know this.
We know that the lizard braintakes over when we're going
through our courting rituals,and that includes how you smell,
how the area smells, all of thepleasantness around that create
(01:37):
that environment. Createpleasantness, smell good, look,
put together. Meet somebody in anice place. Be your own rom com.
Go enjoy it.
I'll meet you at the sewagetreatment flat. You're crazy.
Who would do that? John Tishwould give Gerard. It's time for
some travel intelligence. We canall use that. Here's some.
Here's some. For me, do notdrink a gallon of vodka before
(02:00):
you get on the plane. Oh, I'veseen those. I've seen those
videos. I've seen those people.
Yeah, yeah, okay, that's, that'snumber one. Number two.
Somebody out there is going, Inever thought,
I mean, the airport at like, 5amis a lawless place, like, people
are getting coffee, or they'regetting, you know, vodka Red
Bulls and jumping on the plane.
It you get insanestuff. Speaking of red, research
(02:20):
shows that you'll get betterservice on airlines. If you wear
red, you may even get upgraded.
Gib must be something about likeyou just look passionate about
air travel. I don't know whatthe deal is, but look, we've
talked a lot about how coloraffects mood, how color affects
your perception, all of youremotions. So the research says,
(02:41):
wear red, you'll get yourupgrade. Wear red. Get the
better service. Why wouldn'tyou? I know you like to wear
jeans and a T shirt, but Ialready ordered on Amazon. I
ordered you two, so you canchoose two red ascots. Okay,
done. Just Gib. Me a red onesie.
I like to travel to onesie. Now,that's too expensive. I got you
an ascot. It's got the ring onthere. So you don't have to, you
(03:01):
know, you don't have to tie it.
It's like a clip on Ascot,right? Hello, and then you get
the accent going, hello. Anychance of an upgrade?
I think I'm gonna be, I'm gonnaget beat up at the airport.
Ascotwear red. You'll get better
service, unless you're me.
Folks, if you ever see this guy,he's not gonna get beat up,
(03:25):
maybe they'll steal your asscaught, though. Okay, Gib, a
couple of quick survey results.
Things, according to a recentsurvey, going dancing is
officially the last thing a guywants to do on a first date.
Yeah, I think you would, youwould absolutely want to do
that, because you appropriateall the cool dances.
(03:45):
I don't mind dancing. I'm not agreat dancer, but it is an
opportunity to sort of be outthere and have fun, show your
personality. So I can, I canappreciate that I love, I
absolutely love dancing atweddings or bar mitzvahs or what
have you, with my with my wifeand my kids, like I have your
sister? Yeah, I really likethat. But I understand this idea
(04:06):
of being in a reallyuncomfortable situation on a
first date does not soundappealing
for a lot of people. Well, I dohave a tip for men to a dance
tip, because you always seem soconvicted. I mean, you're in it.
That's the thing. You justgotta, you gotta dive right in.
There's no halfway dancing. Yougot to dance or and if you know,
if you want to get used to this,go to Line Dancing bars. Because
the line dancing bars, you havea sequence you can memorize. And
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then you don't have to worryabout, what am I doing with my
hands? They tell you what to dowith your hands. That's a way
around this.
Also, 12% of men that I say theygrunt at the gym because they
think it impresses women.
I don't I've see all kinds. Lookif you want to see, if you want
David Attenborough to to narratethe human mating rituals, you
(04:50):
just got to go to the right gymright after work, because you
see everything there. You seethe bright colors. You see the
weird, you know, dancing androutines, and you hear the loud
grunts and.
Stresses. David Edinburgh alwayssounds like he's exhausted.
Here we see the human nail inhis native
habitat, all right, Gib, here'sa great way for you to release
(05:10):
relieve stress, and I have onehere in the studio for you. It's
a tangerine. Oh, yeah, you throwit at the perspective right now.
No, it can relieve the feelingsof stress in minutes because of
the healing plant compoundresveratrol, same antioxidant is
found in grapes and red wine.
I'll have the red wine, yesplease. But tangerines contain
10 times more than grapes andred wine. There you go. A study
(05:31):
in the journal behavioral brainresearch finds that resveratrol
reduces anxiety by calming yourbrain's emotional control
center.
Tangerine. Look, I love a goodtangerine. I'm gonna start doing
this. I get, I get them, andthey get their little they come
in their little fishnet bags,you know? And yeah, I take, oh,
and I just tear that, tear itapart, tear it apart. And then,
and then it's all over. But Ikeep them in my fridge. My kids
(05:54):
like them. They're a staple inthe lunch. What's nice about
tangerines is I put them in mykids lunches, and they always
come back to me at the end ofthe day, so it's like a never
ending resource, and then I eatthem at the end of the day. So
that may be why I'm so relaxed.
My life is always like, Why doyou have to tear the fishnet
back? Because I need, I needaccess to my tangerine. Put the
money back. Why do you why doyou have to tear the fish? Is
(06:14):
there a nice way to open thetear? Yeah, scissors. I don't
want to have to get thescissors. Just tear the tear.
Yeah? Break it apart. Yeah. Thebeauty of the
then the power of the tangerine.
All right, Gib, we're now gonnafind out what is the most germ
infested seat on a plane. Andthis is according to
microbiologist, Dr CharlesGerard. Have you ever seen a
picture of Dr Charles Gib, a Helooks just like like? Dr Charles
(06:34):
Gib, he looks he looks like, helooks like. He's been studying
Gerard his whole life, and hehas and we appreciate the work
that he does. Yes, yes, yes. Imean, even his hair looks like
Gerard. We love him. So he andhis team collected, Gib is
catching strays on the radiotoday, I'm throwing shade. So he
and his team collected swabsfrom window middle and aisle
(06:59):
seats on dozens of flights, andthey found that the German
festive seat, the most Germanfestive seat, is the aisle seat.
Sure, they were plastered withsignificantly more bacteria than
the other seats.
Look, here's the deal at thispoint, after everything that's
happened, just take some wipeswith you. And then a lot of the
airlines, they give you thewipes when you get on the plane.
(07:20):
Take some wipes with you. Wipedown all your surfaces, all that
stuff. Those people, you just,just do it. Just do it. You'll
be and you'll be much lesslikely to get sick. Just by all
means, please go do that.
And if you ever see a guy, Ithink he lives in in Arizona,
you ever see a guy walking downthat with flies buzzing around
his head? Dr, Gib,he's gonna be wiping down the
seat. I guarantee I knowI was looking for for a tip we
(07:42):
had, we had your son's birthdayover here, and all these kids,
there were all these snacks, andI wish I had had this tip.
Here's a quick way to eat less,according to Harvard
researchers, before each meal,take two minutes to focus on
your breathing. Yeah, I'm doingokay. And follow this pattern,
inhale deeply through your nose,pause, then exhale slowly
through your mouth, that willhelp you eat 400 fewer calories
(08:04):
each day and cut four poundsevery month. Deep breathing
before you eat wakes up yourbrain's appetite control center
so you crave less food.
Look, this is, this is part ofan overall pattern that we've
discussed, which is this needfor more mindfulness around our
snacking, of being more presentin your body with what your
needs are before you reach forthe for the snacks. My problem
(08:26):
is, if I do a deep breath rightbefore I dive into and tear
apart the package of Oreos, I'mjust going to smell Oreos and be
like, You know what I need rightnow? I need more Oreos. That's
how, that's why this would behard for me. But look again,
this is part of this is oneaspect of an overall idea of
being more mindful of what weeat, of being really intentional
about what we put into ourbodies. And this can help you
(08:48):
getthere. Yep, before each meal,
you just take two minutes tofocus on your breathing. Gib,
we've given this tip before onour coaching program, but here
it is on the radio, it's time tothrow a little party to
celebrate your tiny wins. Thisis from one of our favorites,
guy that Gib has interviewed, DrBJ Fogg, who works at the
Stanford human behavior lab. Hesays we don't focus enough on
(09:10):
the small things we accomplishwhen we do it can be really
motivating. It's why he saysevery day we should be writing
down our small wins, even ifit's just, I wash the dish
dishes instead of leaving themdirty in the sink, small
wins, yes, look, you have tofind these little moments that
you can celebrate. And that is,it is it's super important,
because what we do is we makeevery small setback a big deal,
(09:33):
and we only, we don't evencelebrate our big wins anymore,
because we think it's not cool.
But what you need to do is youneed to re hijack your dopamine
by taking the positiveexperiences that you have. Hey,
I had a great I had a greatconversation with my teenage
daughter where she didn't tellme that I was the worst person
on the planet. That's a smallwin. I'm gonna celebrate it. You
know, I when you know you'recoaching a kid's team like I do,
and everybody got on base inthat game. Hey, that's a small
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win. We're gonna celebrate it,even if you don't win the Big.
Game, you have these smallthings that you can celebrate,
and you start to string thattogether. All of a sudden,
you're living a positive,happier life, and you're
actually going to find more winsbecause you get in the habit of
being a winner again.
From Dr BJ Fogg, time to throw alittle party to celebrate your
tiny wins, all of them so Gib,here's a tip. I want to see what
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you think next time your stressis spiking, psychologists say,
grab your childhood teddy bear,raggedy and all or Cabbage Patch
Kid Yale scientists call thoseobjects, quote, safety signals,
something uplifting andcomforting that's never been
associated with negativity.
Holding a safety signalstimulates the part of your
brain that controls thoughts andbehaviors, replacing feelings of
stress and tension with comfort.
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We had the thing about peopletraveling with Teddy Bears. And
I actually asked a stewardessabout this, and she said, Yes,
it's absolutely a thing.
Businessmen and women, theycarry their teddy bears. A lot
of them look there'sso there's there's so many
fleeting points of there's sofew little points of joy in our
lives. If you have somethingthat brings you comfort, forget
what everybody else thinks andjust enjoy the fact that this
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brings you comfort. And it couldbe something from your
childhood. Look, how much do youwish you could have the blanket
that your uncle Beau threw intothe fire? That was horrible.
We're diving some therapy. Itwas my night night. Yeah, your
night night, and we still talkabout it to this day. Don't you
wish you could hold on to nightnight again. Yeah. Exactly.
Yeah, exactly, yeah. So, so ifyou I refuse to let anybody
watch the thing, though, so,but my daughter, my middle
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daughter, has this, had the samething. She still has hers, and
even though she's 11 years oldand doesn't need it the way she
did it when she was a baby,sometimes when she's had a bad
day, I see her, she lays in herbed and she holds the night,
night, and look, she would neverthrow it into the fire. I would
not. I'm not your uncle. Bob,smart, yeah, well, I'm just it's
a different generation. All I'msaying is, whatever brings you
joy, if it's this kind of thing,and this, the research shows
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that it is safety inducing. Itdoes make you feel better.
Please just do it.
So Gib, we've talked a lot aboutthe benefits of dill pickle
juice. We get a lot of emailsabout it. Now we know from the
latest research that picklejuice can prevent cavities as
according to the journalsfrontiers in microbiology,
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because the microbes containedin the probiotics help eliminate
the bacteria that causes toothdecay. The researchers say it
doesn't mean you can do shots ofpickle juice and skip brushing
or flossing, which is what Iwould do, but you could reduce
your risk for cavities by addinga variety of pickled foods to
your diet, including dillpickles, Kimchi and sauerkraut.
Skip the kimchi. It smellshorrible, but it smells horrible
because it has the good bacteriathat your body needs. That's
(12:30):
exactly why you should go forthe stinky kimchi, the stinky
sauerkraut, the good now, look,I love pickles. I just I go to
Costco, and I get a bigcontainer of pickles, and I keep
them in my fridge, and they'remy favorite things. That's my go
to snack. So I absolutely lovethis. Whatever we can do to
improve our microbiome withhealthy bacteria, and that that
means eating fermented foods.
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We've been talking about thisfor years. You need to add that
to your diet, dill, pickle,kimchi, sauerkraut. Go for all
of it.
I'll never forget when we wereat the Renaissance Fair recently
and and you came back from theconcession stand and you had,
like, an individually wrappedpickle. And the thing was the
size of my thigh. Oh, it was,it was massive. You know what? I
loved every second. It was niceand sour. I really liked I ate
it all day. Yeah, allright, my friends, here we go
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with some hiring tips that youcan use. And Gib is here to add
some fuel to them. Here are sometips to help you get hired from
the former editor in chief ofglamor and self magazines, Cindy
leave be into something mostcompanies don't care where you
went to college or what youmajored in. What they do care
about is that you're apassionate person, whether it's
a book club a blog about yourfavorite hobby, maybe you're a
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marathoner. They want somethingthat shows you're a doer and you
make things happen. It's alsogood to highlight any team
sports you participate in. Itshows you work well with others.
Look, when you hire somebody,you're putting them into a room
with somebody else for eighthours a day for the foreseeable
future. This concept, you wantsomebody that fits into the
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organization as it exists. Thisis why, and you can find them
all over online. Google is sortof notorious for having these
unorthodox hiring practiceswhere they ask strange
questions, like, what would youdo with an elephant if you
couldn't sell it or give itaway, that kind of thing,
really, yep, because whatthey're trying to do is see how
you approach the world, see howyou approach problems that you
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never thought of. And if you arepassionate about something, if
you play on team sports, you'reshowing that you are a team
player and you're somebody thatthat gets very excited about
stuff. They just want to see.
It's the same thing with thefirst date. They want to see
that you care about something.
Nobody wants to hire Daria fromthe MTV sitcom. Nobody wants
the, you know, the somebodywho's just a general malaise
about everything. Daria from theit's a great reference. Look it
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up. I will solid. Thank you.
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You.
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 picked them, mix them up,and we 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, as usual, we arethe dating mavens. Are we not
really? Okay? We have the data.
We have the data. And the datasays that women, you are more
likely to give men your phonenumber when you're approached at
a pleasant smelling place, likea coffee shop, a bakery or a
flower shop, yes, as compared towhen when men approach them in
(00:53):
clothing stores or banks, Idon't smell it, the smell of the
smell of money,though, you know? I mean, look,
some clothing stores are pipingin really good smelling stuff.
So you could use this there, youknow, I Abercrombie and Fitch.
My mom used to hate going inthere with me when I was in high
school, because it just was allit was the woods cologne. It's
not like Woods cologne.
(01:15):
Researchers believe it's becauseenjoyable aromas improve our
mood, making us more receptiveto romantic advances, and the
opposite is true. You don't wantto be near a dog park or
anything. It smells terrible, ora sewage treatment plant. That's
not a great place to meetsomebody. So look, we know this.
We know that the lizard braintakes over when we're going
through our courting rituals,and that includes how you smell,
how the area smells, all of thepleasantness around that create
(01:37):
that environment. Createpleasantness, smell good, look,
put together. Meet somebody in anice place. Be your own rom com.
Go enjoy it.
I'll meet you at the sewagetreatment flat. You're crazy.
Who would do that? John Tishwould give Gerard. It's time for
some travel intelligence. We canall use that. Here's some.
Here's some. For me, do notdrink a gallon of vodka before
(02:00):
you get on the plane. Oh, I'veseen those. I've seen those
videos. I've seen those people.
Yeah, yeah, okay, that's, that'snumber one. Number two.
Somebody out there is going, Inever thought,
I mean, the airport at like, 5amis a lawless place, like, people
are getting coffee, or they'regetting, you know, vodka Red
Bulls and jumping on the plane.
It you get insanestuff. Speaking of red, research
(02:20):
shows that you'll get betterservice on airlines. If you wear
red, you may even get upgraded.
Gib must be something about likeyou just look passionate about
air travel. I don't know whatthe deal is, but look, we've
talked a lot about how coloraffects mood, how color affects
your perception, all of youremotions. So the research says,
(02:41):
wear red, you'll get yourupgrade. Wear red. Get the
better service. Why wouldn'tyou? I know you like to wear
jeans and a T shirt, but Ialready ordered on Amazon. I
ordered you two, so you canchoose two red ascots. Okay,
done. Just Gib. Me a red onesie.
I like to travel to onesie. Now,that's too expensive. I got you
an ascot. It's got the ring onthere. So you don't have to, you
(03:01):
know, you don't have to tie it.
It's like a clip on Ascot,right? Hello, and then you get
the accent going, hello. Anychance of an upgrade?
I think I'm gonna be, I'm gonnaget beat up at the airport.
Ascotwear red. You'll get better
service, unless you're me.
Folks, if you ever see this guy,he's not gonna get beat up,
(03:25):
maybe they'll steal your asscaught, though. Okay, Gib, a
couple of quick survey results.
Things, according to a recentsurvey, going dancing is
officially the last thing a guywants to do on a first date.
Yeah, I think you would, youwould absolutely want to do
that, because you appropriateall the cool dances.
(03:45):
I don't mind dancing. I'm not agreat dancer, but it is an
opportunity to sort of be outthere and have fun, show your
personality. So I can, I canappreciate that I love, I
absolutely love dancing atweddings or bar mitzvahs or what
have you, with my with my wifeand my kids, like I have your
sister? Yeah, I really likethat. But I understand this idea
(04:06):
of being in a reallyuncomfortable situation on a
first date does not soundappealing
for a lot of people. Well, I dohave a tip for men to a dance
tip, because you always seem soconvicted. I mean, you're in it.
That's the thing. You justgotta, you gotta dive right in.
There's no halfway dancing. Yougot to dance or and if you know,
if you want to get used to this,go to Line Dancing bars. Because
the line dancing bars, you havea sequence you can memorize. And
(04:28):
then you don't have to worryabout, what am I doing with my
hands? They tell you what to dowith your hands. That's a way
around this.
Also, 12% of men that I say theygrunt at the gym because they
think it impresses women.
I don't I've see all kinds. Lookif you want to see, if you want
David Attenborough to to narratethe human mating rituals, you
(04:50):
just got to go to the right gymright after work, because you
see everything there. You seethe bright colors. You see the
weird, you know, dancing androutines, and you hear the loud
grunts and.
Stresses. David Edinburgh alwayssounds like he's exhausted.
Here we see the human nail inhis native
habitat, all right, Gib, here'sa great way for you to release
(05:10):
relieve stress, and I have onehere in the studio for you. It's
a tangerine. Oh, yeah, you throwit at the perspective right now.
No, it can relieve the feelingsof stress in minutes because of
the healing plant compoundresveratrol, same antioxidant is
found in grapes and red wine.
I'll have the red wine, yesplease. But tangerines contain
10 times more than grapes andred wine. There you go. A study
(05:31):
in the journal behavioral brainresearch finds that resveratrol
reduces anxiety by calming yourbrain's emotional control
center.
Tangerine. Look, I love a goodtangerine. I'm gonna start doing
this. I get, I get them, andthey get their little they come
in their little fishnet bags,you know? And yeah, I take, oh,
and I just tear that, tear itapart, tear it apart. And then,
and then it's all over. But Ikeep them in my fridge. My kids
(05:54):
like them. They're a staple inthe lunch. What's nice about
tangerines is I put them in mykids lunches, and they always
come back to me at the end ofthe day, so it's like a never
ending resource, and then I eatthem at the end of the day. So
that may be why I'm so relaxed.
My life is always like, Why doyou have to tear the fishnet
back? Because I need, I needaccess to my tangerine. Put the
money back. Why do you why doyou have to tear the fish? Is
(06:14):
there a nice way to open thetear? Yeah, scissors. I don't
want to have to get thescissors. Just tear the tear.
Yeah? Break it apart. Yeah. Thebeauty of the
then the power of the tangerine.
All right, Gib, we're now gonnafind out what is the most germ
infested seat on a plane. Andthis is according to
microbiologist, Dr CharlesGerard. Have you ever seen a
picture of Dr Charles Gib, a Helooks just like like? Dr Charles
(06:34):
Gib, he looks he looks like, helooks like. He's been studying
Gerard his whole life, and hehas and we appreciate the work
that he does. Yes, yes, yes. Imean, even his hair looks like
Gerard. We love him. So he andhis team collected, Gib is
catching strays on the radiotoday, I'm throwing shade. So he
and his team collected swabsfrom window middle and aisle
(06:59):
seats on dozens of flights, andthey found that the German
festive seat, the most Germanfestive seat, is the aisle seat.
Sure, they were plastered withsignificantly more bacteria than
the other seats.
Look, here's the deal at thispoint, after everything that's
happened, just take some wipeswith you. And then a lot of the
airlines, they give you thewipes when you get on the plane.
(07:20):
Take some wipes with you. Wipedown all your surfaces, all that
stuff. Those people, you just,just do it. Just do it. You'll
be and you'll be much lesslikely to get sick. Just by all
means, please go do that.
And if you ever see a guy, Ithink he lives in in Arizona,
you ever see a guy walking downthat with flies buzzing around
his head? Dr, Gib,he's gonna be wiping down the
seat. I guarantee I knowI was looking for for a tip we
(07:42):
had, we had your son's birthdayover here, and all these kids,
there were all these snacks, andI wish I had had this tip.
Here's a quick way to eat less,according to Harvard
researchers, before each meal,take two minutes to focus on
your breathing. Yeah, I'm doingokay. And follow this pattern,
inhale deeply through your nose,pause, then exhale slowly
through your mouth, that willhelp you eat 400 fewer calories
(08:04):
each day and cut four poundsevery month. Deep breathing
before you eat wakes up yourbrain's appetite control center
so you crave less food.
Look, this is, this is part ofan overall pattern that we've
discussed, which is this needfor more mindfulness around our
snacking, of being more presentin your body with what your
needs are before you reach forthe for the snacks. My problem
(08:26):
is, if I do a deep breath rightbefore I dive into and tear
apart the package of Oreos, I'mjust going to smell Oreos and be
like, You know what I need rightnow? I need more Oreos. That's
how, that's why this would behard for me. But look again,
this is part of this is oneaspect of an overall idea of
being more mindful of what weeat, of being really intentional
about what we put into ourbodies. And this can help you
(08:48):
getthere. Yep, before each meal,
you just take two minutes tofocus on your breathing. Gib,
we've given this tip before onour coaching program, but here
it is on the radio, it's time tothrow a little party to
celebrate your tiny wins. Thisis from one of our favorites,
guy that Gib has interviewed, DrBJ Fogg, who works at the
Stanford human behavior lab. Hesays we don't focus enough on
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the small things we accomplishwhen we do it can be really
motivating. It's why he saysevery day we should be writing
down our small wins, even ifit's just, I wash the dish
dishes instead of leaving themdirty in the sink, small
wins, yes, look, you have tofind these little moments that
you can celebrate. And that is,it is it's super important,
because what we do is we makeevery small setback a big deal,
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and we only, we don't evencelebrate our big wins anymore,
because we think it's not cool.
But what you need to do is youneed to re hijack your dopamine
by taking the positiveexperiences that you have. Hey,
I had a great I had a greatconversation with my teenage
daughter where she didn't tellme that I was the worst person
on the planet. That's a smallwin. I'm gonna celebrate it. You
know, I when you know you'recoaching a kid's team like I do,
and everybody got on base inthat game. Hey, that's a small
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win. We're gonna celebrate it,even if you don't win the Big.
Game, you have these smallthings that you can celebrate,
and you start to string thattogether. All of a sudden,
you're living a positive,happier life, and you're
actually going to find more winsbecause you get in the habit of
being a winner again.
From Dr BJ Fogg, time to throw alittle party to celebrate your
tiny wins, all of them so Gib,here's a tip. I want to see what
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you think next time your stressis spiking, psychologists say,
grab your childhood teddy bear,raggedy and all or Cabbage Patch
Kid Yale scientists call thoseobjects, quote, safety signals,
something uplifting andcomforting that's never been
associated with negativity.
Holding a safety signalstimulates the part of your
brain that controls thoughts andbehaviors, replacing feelings of
stress and tension with comfort.
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We had the thing about peopletraveling with Teddy Bears. And
I actually asked a stewardessabout this, and she said, Yes,
it's absolutely a thing.
Businessmen and women, theycarry their teddy bears. A lot
of them look there'sso there's there's so many
fleeting points of there's sofew little points of joy in our
lives. If you have somethingthat brings you comfort, forget
what everybody else thinks andjust enjoy the fact that this
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brings you comfort. And it couldbe something from your
childhood. Look, how much do youwish you could have the blanket
that your uncle Beau threw intothe fire? That was horrible.
We're diving some therapy. Itwas my night night. Yeah, your
night night, and we still talkabout it to this day. Don't you
wish you could hold on to nightnight again. Yeah. Exactly.
Yeah, exactly, yeah. So, so ifyou I refuse to let anybody
watch the thing, though, so,but my daughter, my middle
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daughter, has this, had the samething. She still has hers, and
even though she's 11 years oldand doesn't need it the way she
did it when she was a baby,sometimes when she's had a bad
day, I see her, she lays in herbed and she holds the night,
night, and look, she would neverthrow it into the fire. I would
not. I'm not your uncle. Bob,smart, yeah, well, I'm just it's
a different generation. All I'msaying is, whatever brings you
joy, if it's this kind of thing,and this, the research shows
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that it is safety inducing. Itdoes make you feel better.
Please just do it.
So Gib, we've talked a lot aboutthe benefits of dill pickle
juice. We get a lot of emailsabout it. Now we know from the
latest research that picklejuice can prevent cavities as
according to the journalsfrontiers in microbiology,
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because the microbes containedin the probiotics help eliminate
the bacteria that causes toothdecay. The researchers say it
doesn't mean you can do shots ofpickle juice and skip brushing
or flossing, which is what Iwould do, but you could reduce
your risk for cavities by addinga variety of pickled foods to
your diet, including dillpickles, Kimchi and sauerkraut.
Skip the kimchi. It smellshorrible, but it smells horrible
because it has the good bacteriathat your body needs. That's
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exactly why you should go forthe stinky kimchi, the stinky
sauerkraut, the good now, look,I love pickles. I just I go to
Costco, and I get a bigcontainer of pickles, and I keep
them in my fridge, and they'remy favorite things. That's my go
to snack. So I absolutely lovethis. Whatever we can do to
improve our microbiome withhealthy bacteria, and that that
means eating fermented foods.
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We've been talking about thisfor years. You need to add that
to your diet, dill, pickle,kimchi, sauerkraut. Go for all
of it.
I'll never forget when we wereat the Renaissance Fair recently
and and you came back from theconcession stand and you had,
like, an individually wrappedpickle. And the thing was the
size of my thigh. Oh, it was,it was massive. You know what? I
loved every second. It was niceand sour. I really liked I ate
it all day. Yeah, allright, my friends, here we go
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with some hiring tips that youcan use. And Gib is here to add
some fuel to them. Here are sometips to help you get hired from
the former editor in chief ofglamor and self magazines, Cindy
leave be into something mostcompanies don't care where you
went to college or what youmajored in. What they do care
about is that you're apassionate person, whether it's
a book club a blog about yourfavorite hobby, maybe you're a
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marathoner. They want somethingthat shows you're a doer and you
make things happen. It's alsogood to highlight any team
sports you participate in. Itshows you work well with others.
Look, when you hire somebody,you're putting them into a room
with somebody else for eighthours a day for the foreseeable
future. This concept, you wantsomebody that fits into the
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organization as it exists. Thisis why, and you can find them
all over online. Google is sortof notorious for having these
unorthodox hiring practiceswhere they ask strange
questions, like, what would youdo with an elephant if you
couldn't sell it or give itaway, that kind of thing,
really, yep, because whatthey're trying to do is see how
you approach the world, see howyou approach problems that you
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never thought of. And if you arepassionate about something, if
you play on team sports, you'reshowing that you are a team
player and you're somebody thatthat gets very excited about
stuff. They just want to see.
It's the same thing with thefirst date. They want to see
that you care about something.
Nobody wants to hire Daria fromthe MTV sitcom. Nobody wants
the, you know, the somebodywho's just a general malaise
about everything. Daria from theit's a great reference. Look it
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up. I will solid. Thank you.
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