68. Has Innovation Changed Our Lives for the Better? Interview with Kris' Dad
The Kris Gethin Podcast
Kris Gethin
4.9 • 598 Ratings
🗓️ 6 August 2019
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Kris' dad, Aidan Gethin, joins us on the show to discuss the changes in lifestyle, food and culture that he has experienced. From growing up in post-World War II Wales to the modern world we live in today, Aidan has lived through immense change.
In this episode Kris and his Dad discuss his accidental organic diet growing up, the advent of technology and how it has changed our lives for better or worse, living off the land and much more!
Time Stamps
- The state of Wales in 1950: Dealing with the elements, knowing when it was time for bed, doing things in the evening, living off the land, etc. [1:10]
- Is the obesity epidemic due to the abundance of options available to us now? [15:38]
- What was the ritual of bathing time back in his childhood? [20:35]
- What was it like to have a space of his own? [24:26]
- The access to medication from his early days compared to current day. [26:30]
- Is there a sense of entitlement from the younger generation due to the access to anything and everything at their fingertips? [30:46]
- Social media addiction and our youth: The NEED to find balance and be present. [34:30]
- Are parents overprotective and creating bad behaviors in their children? [39:00]
- If you don't move it, you lose it! [43:40]
Related Links/Products Mentioned
- The Epidemiology of Obesity: A Big Picture - NCBI - NIH
- Why Millennials Are So Entitled (Parents Are Partly Blamed) | Inc.com
- Is My Teen Really Addicted to Social Media?
- The Effects of 'Helicopter Parenting'
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Good day, everybody. Welcome to another episode of the Knowledge and Mileage podcast. If you can hear sheep in the background, it's because we're in a different surroundings now. We're in Wales in the backyard of my parents' garden. So we have quite the guest today. It's my dad celebrated his 70th birthday yesterday. |
| 0:23.4 | And we had a conversation last week, and I was just asking him out of curiosity of, you know, what was it like, you know, being brought up in Wales in the 1950s on a farm? |
| 0:34.9 | You know, obviously there was a lot less opportunity. There's a lot less variety |
| 0:40.3 | options. You know, we do have a sense of entitlement today with so many options that we have |
| 0:45.8 | available to us. You know, if you think about the internet, you think about you can order anything |
| 0:50.4 | from Amazon to your door. We have an abundance of food aisles at the grocery stores. |
| 0:56.7 | And with that sense of entitlement, we're not very grateful. So with that conversation, I thought |
| 1:02.0 | it'd be awesome to get Dad on the podcast. Took a bit of persuading, but easier. So I got some |
| 1:09.3 | questions for you, starting from the top, my man. Can you recall, |
| 1:15.5 | like the state of the country, Wales, like in the 1950s. Obviously, it's like five years after |
| 1:20.6 | the, or, you know, just a little bit after the World War II. Like, was it a state of depression, |
| 1:28.7 | financial burden? |
| 1:32.1 | Can you remember, you know, what it was like back then? |
| 1:37.4 | Well, I remember the late 50s, more than the early 50s because I was only so young. |
| 1:42.9 | But it was okay, you know, you didn't have a lot. Just kids being brought up. |
| 1:47.0 | So, depression-wise, we didn't really notice anything, because we didn't know any difference, really. |
| 1:54.0 | Yeah, the 50s were, I suppose you could put it into colors, couldn't you? |
| 2:01.2 | It's kind of a lightish kind of grey color, if you know what I mean? |
| 2:06.3 | It was, yeah. |
| 2:08.7 | Like drab or when you say gray? |
| 2:10.7 | Yeah, you know, because we were kids, you know, you play around and, you know, you don't really know what's really going on. |
| 2:17.3 | Because we didn't have TV or you know |
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