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We Actually Believed This?! The Wild Things We Were Told as Kids · Health Tech & Wellness Podcast

• John Adams: don't meet strangers from the internet? I just spent two and a half years of my life, almost three, picking up strangers who booked a ride from me over the internet. Crystal Nevedale: Right, right. John Adams: That follows up to don't get in strangers' cars. Crystal Nevedale: Right. Yeah. John Adams: It it's a crazy thing to think about that that is fact, Crystal Nevedale: It is. John Adams: you know. Don't yeah, that it it's it's a sad thing. Crystal Nevedale: that we would have random people pick us up? Whoever thought that we'd stand in stay in random people's houses as Airbnbs? Like there's so many things that over the last 30 years have been like, what? John Adams: Welcome back to another week of the Health Tech and Wellness Podcast. I'm John Adams. Crystal Nevedale: And I'm Crystal Nevidale. John Adams: And I kind of want to have a little fun today because I'm starting by thinking about all the things that we were told when we were growing up that we just kind of believed, right? Our parents said it, our grandparents said it, maybe your teacher said it, or one of the kids on the playground said it. And somehow it just became scientific fact, right? We didn't have Google, we didn't have our phones that we could pull out and fact check it. You know, it was just. Okay, this is fact, right? And at the end of the day, think about it. Okay, I'll just throw this one out there right off the rip because I guarantee everybody listening right now has heard at least part of this, right? Somebody in your life told you if you swallow your gum, it's gonna stay in your stomach for seven years or you're gonna die or whatever. I even heard if you fart it, it's gonna blow a bubble, right? It just it Right. So at the end of the day, you just thought, well, I guess that's kind of how the human body works, right? So today we just kind of want to go back through some of those things that we were told growing up. Have a little fun with it. Some of them are going to be health myths, some are going to be just predictions, technology predictions, or things that we talked about in the past that we said, man, this is going to be, you know, when we get here. Or the things that our parents used to say to scare the hell out of us, right? When we were being bad or we were doing something they didn't want us to do or just to get out of their hair. Some of the things that kind of surprisingly might have actually been true, maybe, right? So Crystal, what's the first thing that you remember being told as a kid that you completely believed? No ifs, ands, or buts. Crystal Nevedale: You can't go outside with can't go outside with wet hair. You're gonna get catch pneumonia. My grandma used John Adams: One hundred percent. Crystal Nevedale: to tell me that every time. John Adams: And I'm sure when when you became a nurse, the first one one of the first things you learned was the germs get you sick, not the cold, not the wet hair, right? But we all believed it. Crystal Nevedale: Right. Yeah, for sure. John Adams: well here, you have to wait 30 minutes after eating before swimming. Now, here, there's some reality to it because your body is kind of digesting and stuff. But have you ever went swimming less than 30 minutes after eating? Did you get cramps? You know, I never tried it because I was always nervous, right? But those are those things, right? Have you ever Crystal Nevedale: What about the watermelon seeds? John Adams: the watermelon seeds? If You swallow a watermelon seed. It's gonna grow a watermelon in your stomach, and then they're gonna have to cut it out. All of those things. Crystal Nevedale: Yeah. John Adams: Cracking your knuckles. It's gonna give you arthritis. Now you were a nurse. Crystal Nevedale: Yeah. John Adams: Is that accurate? I don't have a clue, but I've heard it. We all heard it. Crystal Nevedale: You know why? Like that's so funny to say that 'cause I really don't know if it's true at this point. I haven't been a nurse for a long time. My nurse days are all over, but yes, I always heard that. John Adams: I crack my knuckles all the time, and I've done it since I was a kid. Crystal Nevedale: We need to Google that right now. John Adams: Yeah. And I've done it since I was a kid. I've got arthritis everywhere but my knuckles. So Crystal Nevedale: Well there you go, there's your answer. John Adams: exactly, right? if you cross your eyes, they're gonna get stuck that way, right? Listen, Jim Carrey, all of these other people, they've made a living and millions of dollars making goofy faces. I think we would have been okay, right? Crystal Nevedale: So my thing that I heard about crossing your eyes was if you cross your eyes and someone hits you on the back, it stays like that forever. That one, yeah. John Adams: I heard that one too, yeah, yeah. Or if you're making a goofy any of that stuff, right? Yeah, don't do that. You know, if somebody Crystal Nevedale: Yeah. John Adams: Here's one that I heard. It's actually true only because I mean it's science, but it's fun to do, especially if you don't have kids and they're there with their parents and then you send them home with their parents afterwards. But sugar makes kids hyper, right? We've all heard it. It's kind of true, and it's fun if they're not your kid. Crystal Nevedale: Right, yeah. John Adams: They're visiting, the family's there, mom and dad's there, the kids you want some ki 'cause you know in a couple of hours they're leaving and it's gonna kick you. Crystal Nevedale: So let me tell you something about that. And this is from personal experience, and I wouldn't believe it if I didn't see it for myself. So my kids are very particular on what the grandkids eat, very particular. And I don't remember how old Ali Hanna was, but she was walking and I gave her two little tastes of my ice cream. Two little tiny tastes, right? This baby who would just lay down on she would go nine night. She grab her baby, go nine night, and put her face down wherever she was at to go to sleep. This baby for forty minutes straight walked all over the bed, back and forth, standing up, sitting down, putting her face and I thought, my gosh, but she had had no sugar. So to John Adams: Yeah. Crystal Nevedale: like actually witness what it did to her little body and brain, I was like, man, I I'm I'm never giving her that stuff again. I'm done. John Adams: Or wait five minutes before she's leaving your house. No, yeah, that's true. Crystal Nevedale: god. John Adams: Well, that's why, you know, some of these things we were told they're they're real. Some of were just to get us out of their hair. Crystal Nevedale: Yeah, I think it's John Adams: another one. And and this one might be true because I'm a short guy. Coffee will stunt your growth. Crystal Nevedale: I never heard that one. John Adams: I heard it. My my mom and dad, because gosh, as early as I can remember, I wanted caffeine and You know, we didn't always have pop 'cause mom and dad, you know, just didn't spend the money on it. So coffee and but coffee's gonna stunt your growth. Maybe it w listen, Sam was tall. I I'm short for a guy, Crystal Nevedale: Ha ha ha. John Adams: so I I don't know, right? So Crystal Nevedale: See her boy stall, how how tall is she? John Adams: Jesus Crystal Nevedale: At least six two, I swear. John Adams: Well, I'm five eight, so I would say at least six two six three. Yeah. Look at Jeff. I don't know if Jeff drinks coffee or not, but Jeffrey's six something, I'm sure. I mean, he's he's gotten shorter with age, but that was another one, you know. you Crystal Nevedale: I like your dad wasn't that tall, was he? John Adams: No, Dad, maybe when he was younger, maybe he shrank. Dad walked with a slouch. I don't know if dad Crystal Nevedale: Okay. John Adams: had maybe he was tall and walked with a slouch and that messed up his back or something. Cause listen, I I've heard I would listen, I I've a short dude. I would rather be tall, but people say that you know, tall people have that phobia and they walk with a slouch. My dad always walked with a slouch, so I don't know how tall he truly ever was, honestly. He Crystal Nevedale: Mm. John Adams: kind of had that hunch. So, yeah, I don't know. but Jeffrey and Sam definitely are were the tall ones. We all got the short gene from my mom. I don't think it was coffee. reading Crystal Nevedale: Yeah, she was sure. John Adams: in the dark will ruin your eyes. nature, we did not have incandescent lights in nature back Crystal Nevedale: Right. John Adams: years ago, right? We we adapted in the dark with cats, cats hunt in the night, right? Not saying we're cats, but nature will survive. I don't think we're gonna go blind. Reading in the dark. by the way, read in the dark. Put this stupid thing. I I know I harp on that a lot. I sound like an 80. You ha you already said this one, this one was on my list. Don't swallow watermelon seeds or one'll grow in your stomach. Let's go into some scare tactics. So we've we've hit a few of the little funny stuff, but here's some scare tactics, right? And and you we've already talked about the one where you know, don't cross your eyes or it'll stay that way, or don't make those faces. If somebody smacks you in the back of the head, it'll stay that way. but here's one, and and maybe maybe the women listening won't won't appreciate this one, but every guy listening to this podcast will appreciate this one. You're gonna go blind if you don't stop doing that. I'm gonna leave that one alone. The Crystal Nevedale: Okay. John Adams: images are already in everybody's head. Crystal Nevedale: Sure. John Adams: I don't know how many people out there are blind today because of that, but I'm sure that was wrong. that was on the list. Crystal Nevedale: Yeah. John Adams: When I looked this stuff up, it was on the list. I did not add it there. Turning on the cars inside lights while driving when I was a kid, and I remember mom and dad telling me this, it is illegal. You will get pulled over. Don't turn on the lights because I would turn on the light because I'm looking for something or one of my toys or whatever. you can't do that. That's illegal. A cop will pull us over. Do you ever hear that one? Crystal Nevedale: No. John Adams: You never heard that one. Crystal Nevedale: No, always just it was distracting. Turn off the lights was distracting. Other drivers. John Adams: No, they would tell me it was illegal. Touching a toad gives you warts. Crystal Nevedale: yeah I definitely heard that. If the if they pee on you, you get orbs. John Adams: Yeah. I've never heard the peon. I've heard the just touching them gives you warts. You you must have touched a toad 'cause a kid at my school had a big wart right on his knuckle. And I was telling my mom about it and she's that's the first thing she said. He must have touched a toad. Crystal Nevedale: I love that. John Adams: Have no idea. Now my mom was Kentucky, so that was probably one that they had from way back. Crystal Nevedale: what about if you leave the window open at night you'll catch a cold? Did you ever get that one? Can't leave the window open at night, John Adams: well no Crystal Nevedale: you catch a cold. John Adams: No, we we unfortunately didn't have central air. We had one air conditioner in the house and it was in the living room. And my mom kept up a big thick blanket between the living room and the hallway that headed to the kitchen to keep all the cool air in the living room. So we either kept a window open or we died. So we never heard that one. here's a here's one that I heard more often than not. This is not a is this true or not? This is just a why. Because I said so. Why? Crystal Nevedale: Right. yeah. I got that a lot. John Adams: Just do that. What? Because I said so. Okay, still, why? Because I said so is not an answer. But as a parent, it's an answer. You're right. money doesn't grow on trees. I for years always said I wanted to go and buy a fake tree and glue a bunch of dollar bills to it and plant it in the yard and say, look, dad! Money doesn't grow on trees. Were you born in a barn, shut the door? we didn't get a lot Crystal Nevedale: yeah. I said that the other day. John Adams: yeah, we didn't get a lot of that growing up because again, we didn't have central air. But you said you were just the other day? Crystal Nevedale: I just said that the other day, like customers coming in or they'll peek their head in and leave the door open. It's like What's going on here? You born in a barn? Sometimes I just think it, but sometimes John Adams: yeah, exactly. Crystal Nevedale: I do say it. John Adams: Well, here here's here's another one. My dad said this all the time, goes the same way. the the polar opposite of where you born in a barn was close the door, I'm not heating the entire neighborhood. Crystal Nevedale: yeah, that one too. John Adams: now we'll kind of we'll we'll roll into some things that schools lied to us about. And and here's the best part about it is almost every one of these things, at least recently, have been I I I went through this list and just laughed my butt off, right? But here's the big one. You won't always have a calculator in your pocket, so you need to learn this stuff. Crystal Nevedale: Always have a calculator in the pocket. John Adams: Right. Right. should you know math a hundred percent. I'm not poo-pooing, I'm just saying I I don't think they realized that the technology we were gonna have today was there, right? Crystal Nevedale: Yeah, that's kinda crazy where it's when I remember going to the computer class and it was just that little computer and it took forever to load it up. Remember that? my gosh. John Adams: Yep. Yep. And and quite honestly, and here's the funny part, and I if you think hard enough, you'll remember, they were all Macs. Macs were in school Crystal Nevedale: Yeah, yeah. John Adams: from the very, very, very, very beginning. this I I'm just an Apple geek, and that's the only reason why I I love that little fact. but yeah, no, I remember they'd put the little box over the keyboard so you couldn't look at your fingers, so you could type. But yeah, no, they were all Max. Yeah. Yep. Yep. They were all like the very the Crystal Nevedale: And like the little tiny images just bounced across the screen. We're showing our age here, John. We're showing our age. John Adams: very first well Oregon Trail. Gotta remember Oregon Trail. so yeah, this is I don't want to get political, I don't want to get into stupid stuff, but this is actually kind of funny because it's actually very timely. You need to learn cursive because you're gonna use it your entire life. If I'm not mistaken, didn't Crystal Nevedale: Yeah, right. John Adams: they just stop teaching cursive to kids? I want to know Crystal Nevedale: Yeah. John Adams: how they're gonna sign their names. Crystal Nevedale: I don't know, maybe the way I sign it was just some squiggly lines. John Adams: Well, that's true. Most signatures don't even look like your name. Crystal Nevedale: I know the first time I signed a plant Emily, she's like, What are you doing? I go, Listen, I am forty five and I've been doing this my my whole life. I was a nurse. We didn't have time to make out the letters perfect. Just scribble it down and you keep on rolling. John Adams: Yeah, my my signature is almost a perfect cursive J, and then it just goes off into the distance. but Crystal Nevedale: Yeah. Me too, same. John Adams: you'll you'll laugh. Cindy laughed at me. I bought a little sketch pad and some really cool, fine pins. And I created and I don't use it for anything other than the book, but I sat for almost three weeks practicing science. Look, but nobody cares about my book. I'm just glad it's out there. It's out of my head. But at the end of the day, I I had it in me. I sat for almost three weeks practicing because I'm like, if somebody says, can you sign one for me? I need to be able, I can't just do a perfect J and then this, right? so you need to memorize these because you won't be able to just look it up again. It's sad. It's a w sad, sad world. We don't our memories and our minds, we don't Crystal Nevedale: retain stuff anymore. John Adams: Yeah, yeah. Crystal Nevedale: I really do think that's a a technology thing. I don't retain a lot of things anymore and I think it's because it's all at the tip of my fingers I don't need to retain I don't feel like I would need to retain it anymore. John Adams: So I think it's gonna lead to more and more dementia and Alzheimer's, honestly, because there's there's studies that if, you know, people that do crossword puzzles, people that do puzzles, people that do things that make you figure things and and stuff are less likely to have dementia and Alzheimer's. And I don't know. I think it's gonna lead to some of that stuff. Off topic. This Crystal Nevedale: I'm sure you're right. John Adams: just popped into my head, but off topic. I'm thinking about dimension Alzheimer's and old folks' homes and nursing homes. Can you imagine in 20 years what nursing homes are gonna look like? You're gonna have little old ladies with I don't wanna use the word, but the tattoo right over the butt crack. You're gonna I mean our nursing homes Crystal Nevedale: Yeah. John Adams: are gonna be, I mean, we need to put up cameras and just charge people to watch. It's gonna be the most hilarious things in 20 years. Crystal Nevedale: I think that you they're already liked Dennis. John Adams: You think? I don't think that Crystal Nevedale: Yeah, I mean I haven't been in nursing in a long time, but I John Adams: Yeah. Crystal Nevedale: had many patients that came in that were fully tatted and like you wouldn't believe it they're eighty years old and eighty. Maybe. And that was what, fifteen years ago? So I think it's been more popular. I think like in the eighties John Adams: I'm talking about elderly, not young. Eight eight wow. Well okay. Wow. So Tether. Yeah. Crystal Nevedale: when you say like the seventies where everything was free love, that the tattooing really hit a high peak, I would think. John Adams: Okay. I must have I must have completely missed what era tattooing and piercings and all this stuff started in, but you you're probably right. Crystal Nevedale: Yeah, I think it was probably where freedom, you know, like where people were trying to free put out their free voice and free love and I think that's a lot of it probably John Adams: Okay, yeah. Crystal Nevedale: started around that time. John Adams: Yeah. No, that makes sense. No, a hundred percent. That that makes sense. Okay. I I I I'll have to re redact that. I'll leave it in. I won't delete it, but I I swear I thought it was more recent. Well, I don't know about all that 'cause I don't Crystal Nevedale: But in fifty years imagine what it's gonna look like. We're all gonna be head to toe. We're gonna look like gremlins. 'Cause everything's gonna yeah, all of our stuff's gonna sag and John Adams: God no Crystal Nevedale: But some of my tattoos I'm so I'm forty five and I had some of these done at twenty and they're already bleeding. so I'm gonna get John Adams: Yeah. Crystal Nevedale: some cover ups done and stuff like that. But that was just twenty years. So think about eighty John Adams: Yeah. Wow, yeah. Crystal Nevedale: years of my stuff. Holy hell. John Adams: yeah. Oof. Okay. Back to where we were. so we we talked about math a little bit. permanent records. How often do you remember teachers telling us future employers are gonna care about your permanent record from high school? Does that even really exist? Yes, when you grow up and you get a felony or something, that's on a permanent kind of thing. But I don't think anybody can go back and look at did I get a detention in high school? Right. Yeah. Crystal Nevedale: Or if I got a C instead of an A. If you pass, you pass. John Adams: Yeah. Yeah. You you have your your grade point average, right? We all know that, but y I don't think there's a permanent record from high school, other than your grade point average. You need to learn well, we've talked about the computers until the end of the day. I mean, everything that they said, you need to learn this without a computer. We all do it, right? nobody's gonna buy things online. That was kind of something we heard, you know, at the beginning of Amazon, right? Nobody's gonna buy things online. And then now I don't think I go a day without seeing an Amazon truck on my street. Everybody's getting things Crystal Nevedale: Yeah, for sure. John Adams: delivered online. What about don't meet strangers from the internet? I just spent two and a half years of my life, almost three, picking up strangers who booked a ride from me over the internet. Crystal Nevedale: Right, right. John Adams: That follows up to don't get in strangers' cars. Crystal Nevedale: Right. Yeah. John Adams: It it's a crazy thing to think about that that is fact, Crystal Nevedale: It is. John Adams: you know. Don't yeah, that it it's it's a sad thing. Crystal Nevedale: that we would have random people pick us up? Whoever thought that we'd stand in stay in random people's houses as Airbnbs? Like there's so many things that over the last 30 years have been like, what? You're renting your house at what? Like it's yeah, there's a lot of different things that we've experienced, seen come and go. John Adams: That this could come off really, really bad. And maybe you'd not seen it. I'm sure downtown at least you've seen it. But have you seen some of the people who delivered DoorDash? Crystal Nevedale: Mm. I don't really do the whole door John Adams: Can you imagine Crystal Nevedale: down. John Adams: what you don't see it like on the strip where your shop is? I've seen some really crazy looking people, shady looking people delivering DoorDash. And I'm thinking, 20 years ago, if we would have said this person's gonna bring food to our house, we'd have never, you know. Same thing with Uber, same thing with you know, all of that. We it 20 years ago, we would be literally sitting going back if we had a time machine and saying, Yes, in 20 years, you're gonna have, you know. Random people just pull up to your house and you're gonna get in and go where you need to go, or bring in your we would we would literally tell them we're nuts. Crystal Nevedale: Great. John Adams: why do we need a camera on our phone? I remember that when flip phones first got cameras. Who's gonna use that? Now we can't stop using it. You're talking about getting a going back and getting a regular camera because. You want the phone out of your hand, right? We overuse the cameras. Crystal Nevedale: get lost in the moment, like the moment it's gone because you're too busy trying to capture it. It's like John Adams: Yeah. Yeah. nobody is gonna pay for streaming. We get cable cheap. Now nobody has cable and we pay way more than we ever did for our single cable subscription for all these multiple streaming platforms. Crystal Nevedale: Streaming out. John Adams: So all these things kind of We were wrong, right? We're doing it. Everybody said, no, that's never gonna take off. We're doing it. But let's be f Go ahead. Crystal Nevedale: They say do it and the people will come. You know, do it Yeah, do it and people John Adams: That's it. Yeah. Build it and people will come. Yeah. That's it. Crystal Nevedale: will come. John Adams: One of my favorite shows that I talk about all the time is Breaking Bad. And I think, honestly, Breaking Bad was one of the biggest reasons why Netflix, the streaming side, not the DVD side, but the streaming side took off. because that was the first show that everybody kind of went and watched off of there. how about this? this is not something that we heard and didn't believe, but we're gonna age ourselves a little bit more. Do you remember when internet came on a disc? Crystal Nevedale: No. John Adams: Wow. Crystal Nevedale: Internet came on a disc. John Adams: You don't remember when what was it? when you you had to first off, you had to put the disc into your computer and and install it. And then it was goodness, hold on, hold on, hold on. I'm gonna have to edit this because I gotta remember what it was now. Hold on. Let me let me let me load me. Crystal Nevedale: Was it AOL? John Adams: AOL. Yes. AOL. Came on a disk and you had to install it. Crystal Nevedale: I I don't remember that, but at the same time I think maybe I do. I think I sold AOL when I was a kid, like sixteen or something. I think that's what it was. I don't I can't really remember, but yeah, I didn't realize it was a disc. I think I was John Adams: Yeah. Crystal Nevedale: it that was happening probably when I was around Thirteen fourteen. So that's why I'm probably not remembering it. John Adams: Yeah, it was dial up internet, and your computer didn't come pre-installed with it. No computer came pre-installed with it. You had to install it, and then you got internet. And you still had to pay per minute or whatever of usage. It's I mean, the world that we live in today is insane. Crystal Nevedale: It is. John Adams: but yeah, it's that's crazy. but let's kind of start to wrap this thing up and just come up with A a good conclusion to this whole thing. Crystal Nevedale: Don't believe everything you read, see, or hear. John Adams: But at the end of the day, some of the stuff was accurate, right? So Crystal Nevedale: Your story yeah. John Adams: we do have to admit that our parents didn't lie about everything. But some of the things they did say were to protect us, even though they were kind of bullshit. So let's wrap this one up in a tiny little bow and just tell everybody as we always do, as always, stay healthy. Crystal Nevedale: They balance. John Adams: And keep driving forward. We'll see you next time with a little more serious one. We just wanted to have fun, guys. Have a great day.