Why Many Decisions You Make Don’t Really Matter & The Fascinating World of Weather

Something You Should Know

Mike Carruthers | OmniCastMedia

Education, Social Sciences, Self-improvement, Science, Health & Fitness

4.5 • 4.3K Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Take a guess… how many times does the average American check their cellphone in 2023? I don’t know your guess, but I bet you are way off. This episode begins with some amazing stats regarding how and how much we use our phones. https://www.reviews.org/mobile/cell-phone-addiction/ We spend a lot of time agonizing over decisions that really don’t matter. That’s just one of the revelations I discuss with Annie Duke. She is a speaker and consultant on the topic of decision making, a former professional poker player and author of the book, How To Decide: Simple Tools for Making Better Choices (https://amzn.to/3OQgGIF). Listen as Annie looks at the whole process of decision making through a very enlightening lens. The advances in the science of weather in just the last few years are astounding. Here to tell you all about them is James Marshall Shepherd. He is the Georgia Athletic Association Distinguished Professor of Geography and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Georgia and host of the Weather Geeks podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/weather-geeks/id1373312240. He also explains how weather forecasting works and the difference between partly cloudy and partly sunny and other meteorological terms. You are not supposed to drink alcohol when you take antibiotics. Most people think it will neutralize the effects of the antibiotic but that’s not the reason. Listen as I explain what the real reason is. https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/consumer-health/expert-answers/antibiotics-and-alcohol/faq-20057946 PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS! Delete Me helps you keep your personal info private by removing it from hundreds of data broker websites that sell our data online. You tell Delete Me exactly what info you want deleted, and their privacy experts take it from there! It’s really that simple to protect yourself. DeleteMe makes it easy! Right Now get 20% off your DeleteMe plan when you go to https://joindeleteme.com/something and use promo code SOMETHING20 Indeed is the hiring platform where you can Attract, Interview, and Hire all in one place! Start hiring NOW with a $75 SPONSORED JOB CREDIT to upgrade your job post at https://Indeed.com/SOMETHING Offer good for a limited time. Now, your ideas don't have to wait, now, they have everything they need to come to life. Dell Technologies and Intel are pushing what technology can do, so great ideas can happen - right now! Find out how to bring your ideas to life at https://Dell.com/WelcomeToNow If you want to lose weight and keep it off, increase your metabolic efficiency and prevent or reverse health conditions you need to know the truth about why dieting has failed and how to take back control of your body and health! With GOLO you will safely and effectively control sugar cravings, hunger, and minimize muscle loss allowing you to feel good and inspired to reach your goal weight. Learn more at https://golo.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today on something you should know, does your cell phone control your life?
0:07.0	You need to hear some statistics.
0:09.0	Then when you need to make a big decision, get some advice, any advice.
0:14.0	There's just all sorts of evidence that shows when you look at people giving other people
0:19.0	advice, the quality of the advice that they give to other people is much higher than the
0:24.0	quality of the advice that you give to yourself.
0:26.0	So we should be seeking out people to give us advice.
0:29.0	Then you shouldn't drink when you take antibiotics, but not for the reason you probably think.
0:35.0	And the amazing advances in weather forecasting you probably never knew.
0:40.0	We're really in the golden age of weather forecasting.
0:43.0	You rarely see airplane crashes anymore because of wind shear, microbursts that we used to deal with in the 70s
0:50.0	because we have terminal Doppler radar and very advanced weather radar systems with the satellites.
0:56.0	All this today on something you should know.
1:01.0	One of the first podcasts I really got into and became a fan of is the Jordan Harbinger Show.
1:08.0	Mostly because of Jordan, and now I've gotten to know him, and I like to show more now than I did then.
1:14.0	Which is one of the reasons I'm suggesting you give it a listen.
1:18.0	Like something you should know, Jordan Harbinger talks to really interesting people.
1:23.0	Recently he did a show titled, are you a psychopath and is that so terrible?
1:28.0	He spoke with Kevin Dutton who's the author of The Wisdom of Psychopaths.
1:33.0	Pretty interesting and provocative topic.
1:36.0	And then there was another episode I liked recently about how conspiracy theories make society sick.
1:42.0	Jordan Harbinger is an excellent interviewer.
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