STACKS and HACKS

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Time for stacks and hacks. I have stax information which
has life hacks. A poll found seventy five percent of
US will put on holiday music this month, seventy two
percent of us will watch a Christmas movie, seventy percent
of us will go look at lights, sixty six percent
of us will decorate a tree, and twenty one percent
of us will build a snowman. According to a news report,

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twenty seven percent of people admit to stealing from self
checkout anybody here ever done that?

Speaker 2 (00:26):
Not on purpose? No.

Speaker 1 (00:28):
People with a household income of one hundred thousand dollars
or more and more likely to admit it than people
making less. A report looking at traffic congestion across the
country found that the typical driver lost forty nine hours
to traffic jams in twenty twenty five worst traffic Chicago,
New York and Philadelphia.

Speaker 3 (00:44):
Seems like more than forty nine hours, because when you're
sitting in traffic, even if it's ten minutes of not moving,
you feel like you just wasted so much time.

Speaker 1 (00:53):
If you need an excuse to eat more sweets this month,
Happy National Brownie Day. I love brownies, me too. Ice
cream dipped in butter. A place in New England is
doing it and people claim it's amazing.

Speaker 2 (01:04):
I've seen that that looks scrumptious.

Speaker 4 (01:05):
I feel like it would taste like the olive oil
ice cream from SALTM Straw.

Speaker 1 (01:09):
Oh Okay, this next thing I think is so cool
and I would like this for Christmas. I'll put this
out to my wife. Chipotle teamed up with a luggage
company for a line of bags. Look like they're aluminum
foil and paper bag packaging it. It'd be so cool
to have a luggage that looks like one of them burritos.

Speaker 2 (01:25):
I mean, you need to definitely see it coming down
the luggage rack.

Speaker 1 (01:29):
The hot gift this year cash Fifty percent of America
say they'd rather to get money or gift cards than
anything else. Clothing is number two. Coler debuted a six
hundred dollars toilet camera in October that watches you go
to the bathroom and analyzes your waist expert claims. Experts
claim there's a major security flaw. It doesn't have end
to end data encryption like Colder said.

Speaker 2 (01:51):
Mmmm, so it doesn't have back end security.

Speaker 1 (01:56):
Remember I telling that story about that guy in New Zealand.
I ate that Faberge egg for nineteen thousand dollar egg.
He passed it. They recovered the egg six days later.

Speaker 2 (02:06):
Like, who's gonna want that egg? Now, that's what you
want to have color analyze.

Speaker 1 (02:10):
But that came out like approximately six thousand, six hundred
people worldwide die every hour, sixteen thousand, seven hundred twenty
people are born. With those numbers, the world population grows
by more than ten thousand people every hour. Whoa women's
going viral on TikTok. She went into a goodwill and

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she bought a vintage piggybank for eleven dollars. And here's
what happened when she found the pea bank.

Speaker 4 (02:38):
Why would you buy that hideous kiggybank for tend ninety nine? Listen,
it sounds like there's something in it. And when I
was in the store, I opened it up. I see
all these plastic baggies in there, but I didn't want
to open it in the store.

Speaker 3 (02:50):
What they're like tied together?

Speaker 4 (02:52):
No freaking way, like shaking right now, that's not plastic.
It's wads of money.

Speaker 2 (02:59):
There's more in there. God, here's all the money.

Speaker 4 (03:04):
It's two twenty eight dollars.

Speaker 2 (03:08):
That's a pretty great return on investment. Goodwill for two grand.

Speaker 1 (03:12):
The original version of Star Wars A New Hope will
return in theaters in twenty twenty seven for its fiftieth anniversary.
That's so cool.

Speaker 2 (03:20):
That is cool.

Speaker 1 (03:20):
Do you Shares getting married?

Speaker 3 (03:22):
Shares Getting Share is.

Speaker 1 (03:24):
Eighty years old and she's marrying a thirty nine year old.
Oh that's so crazy, man, Wow, what do you have?

Speaker 2 (03:30):
Her life has rich, all right?

Speaker 3 (03:32):
So everybody can feel scattered this time of year. There's
a lot going on, you know, you got parties, obligations,
all that. So this doesn't work just around the holiday times.
It works all the time. So if you find yourself
feeling scattered, overwhelmed, or unfocused, here's three simple steps to
get your world back in order. When you even start hyperventling,
you're so hyperventilating, you're so freaked out, look at three

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things in the room and name them out loud. It
doesn't matter if you're by yourself or with other people.
It actually pulls your brain out of stress mode and
puts you in the present, which is the first thing
you need to do. Now, take two slow breasths four
seconds in six seconds out. That instantly lowers your cortisol
and then do one tiny action that you've been avoiding,
like replying to a text, delete an email, put something away.

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They say perfectionists, people like John Jay have so many
emails in his inbox because he's afraid to like reply
the wrong thing. So they say perfectionists have the most
unanswered emails thousands? How many thousands? Just out of curiosity?
How many do you have unanswered right now? Well?

Speaker 1 (04:29):
Right now, right now, it's not that impressive because I've
been going through them. You have, well, I kind of well,
well that's not true. I not expect to hear that
I deleted the app and then added the app so refreshed.

Speaker 3 (04:41):
Okay, So how many right now? I only have three thousand,
oh three thousand. That's still a lot. It's not like
the one hundred thousand that you've had before.

Speaker 1 (04:49):
We anyway, I have sixty five miss calls and I
have sixty four voicemails.

Speaker 2 (04:52):
Would never listened to.

Speaker 3 (04:54):
Flip the momentum of your stress and try those tricks
if you can't remember them, we have posted them all
up at Johnjay and Rich dot com. Up