WEBVTT - A Very Self Indulgent Suggestion 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:02.040 Well, if you ever win the lottery and want to 0:00:02.040 --> 0:00:04.080 be self indulgent, I got an idea for you. 0:00:04.160 --> 0:00:08.559 It's one more thing. I'm strong and getty. One more thing. 0:00:12.280 --> 0:00:14.640 I'll start here. Joel have to help me. How do 0:00:14.720 --> 0:00:17.320 you pronounce an A with the two dots over it? 0:00:19.560 --> 0:00:23.080 I said, German, that's Swedish. 0:00:23.160 --> 0:00:29.200 I thing, yeah, umlot, Well that's the well, that's that's 0:00:29.360 --> 0:00:31.800 the symbol. Yeah, I was wondering how you pronounce the anyway. 0:00:32.240 --> 0:00:35.880 The brand is h A S T E N S. 0:00:35.960 --> 0:00:40.040 With the thing, I'll call it Houstin's probably close anyway. 0:00:40.640 --> 0:00:43.520 So I mentioned last week this thing New York Times 0:00:43.560 --> 0:00:46.840 has called Wirecutter and they recommend products and I've kind 0:00:46.840 --> 0:00:48.640 of gotten sucked into it and I purchased a bunch 0:00:48.640 --> 0:00:49.880 of things from their recommendations. 0:00:49.920 --> 0:00:50.559 I really like it. 0:00:51.000 --> 0:00:55.400 Their their their ethics are they don't take any sponsorship, 0:00:55.440 --> 0:00:57.480 they don't take any money, they don't get to keep 0:00:57.520 --> 0:01:01.200 the products, and uh, they review all these different things 0:01:01.240 --> 0:01:03.560 and tons of things. Like I bought a frying pan 0:01:03.640 --> 0:01:05.880 the other day. They said the best non sticks frying 0:01:05.920 --> 0:01:07.640 pan you can get. And one of the reasons it's 0:01:07.680 --> 0:01:10.240 so popular is it's not like you might expect out 0:01:10.240 --> 0:01:13.240 of the New York Times. They're always the most expensive 0:01:13.280 --> 0:01:15.760 thing out there. It's very regularly you can get this 0:01:15.800 --> 0:01:18.640 at Target for twenty bucks or or if you want 0:01:18.640 --> 0:01:21.680 to really splurge, this one's two hundred dollars. But it's 0:01:21.680 --> 0:01:23.600 only this much better or whatever. It just it has 0:01:24.120 --> 0:01:25.679 and I've been very happy with a bunch of things 0:01:25.720 --> 0:01:26.480 I've purchased from it. 0:01:26.520 --> 0:01:30.560 And well, and that's so hard to find now. Yeah, yeah, 0:01:30.600 --> 0:01:34.200 soal honest, you know, ratings and reviews and stuff like that. 0:01:34.520 --> 0:01:36.160 Yeah, well, lost of them are crap. 0:01:36.319 --> 0:01:36.520 Yeah. 0:01:36.560 --> 0:01:39.160 And they'll have like, you know, the best white T 0:01:39.319 --> 0:01:42.199 shirt for men, and they'll have ten different options, different 0:01:42.200 --> 0:01:44.440 price points, and why they're good and you know how 0:01:44.440 --> 0:01:47.280 they hold up and wash in the prime. Well whatever, 0:01:47.400 --> 0:01:51.760 you get the point this. I need a good beefy tea. 0:01:51.960 --> 0:01:54.120 I remember, do they still have the Hanes beefe tea? 0:01:54.160 --> 0:01:55.800 Because so many places. 0:01:55.440 --> 0:01:59.520 You go the T shirts are like double washed for softness, right, 0:01:59.560 --> 0:02:03.480 and they're superform fitting. I don't want superform fitting. It's 0:02:03.680 --> 0:02:06.080 all right, It's like im a age twenty. 0:02:06.160 --> 0:02:06.600 I don't know. 0:02:07.760 --> 0:02:10.760 Mark Kotzi says, I look worse with this shirt on 0:02:11.000 --> 0:02:16.840 than I if I didn't have a shirt on. Yeah anyway, 0:02:16.960 --> 0:02:19.400 So this is why this one stands out so much, 0:02:20.000 --> 0:02:23.880 the headline being I wish this fifty six thousand dollars 0:02:23.880 --> 0:02:29.000 mattress weren't so incredible from this reviewer. As a Wirecutter's 0:02:29.000 --> 0:02:32.640 resident sleep expert, I've tested nearly one hundred mattresses, including 0:02:32.680 --> 0:02:34.519 a dozen of those in my own home. I've slept 0:02:34.520 --> 0:02:37.240 on everything from a forrrible bed in a box. I 0:02:37.280 --> 0:02:38.960 got my son one of those. It's pretty cool to 0:02:39.080 --> 0:02:42.760 ten thousand dollars mattresses made from materials developed for massa. Well, 0:02:42.800 --> 0:02:45.679 I've found decent, even wonderful options across the spectrum. None 0:02:45.720 --> 0:02:48.440 of them have compared to the Hostins two thousand te 0:02:48.919 --> 0:02:52.160 It also costs fifty five, seven hundred and eighty dollars. 0:02:53.639 --> 0:02:55.040 I'm getting one of these right away. 0:02:56.960 --> 0:03:00.200 Hostin's would lend her to the mattress to slip deep 0:03:00.280 --> 0:03:04.920 on for several weeks, along with the box spring and headboard. 0:03:04.960 --> 0:03:07.120 With If you get the box spring, headboard and the mattress, 0:03:07.240 --> 0:03:09.400 that brings you to seventy five thousand dollars. 0:03:09.720 --> 0:03:12.080 Well, if you you gotta, you gotta get the package 0:03:12.120 --> 0:03:13.120 because they fit together. 0:03:13.240 --> 0:03:16.240 I mean it's a unit, it's a team. 0:03:16.720 --> 0:03:19.680 Austin's derived from the Swedish word for horse. Of course 0:03:19.680 --> 0:03:22.120 you knew. That was found in eighteen fifty two as 0:03:22.160 --> 0:03:25.360 a saddle making business that shifted to luxury bed making 0:03:25.400 --> 0:03:28.560 in the twentieth century. All of its mattresses are hand 0:03:28.639 --> 0:03:34.640 crafted from the same materials horse hair, wool, flax, cotton, 0:03:34.680 --> 0:03:35.640 and steel coils. 0:03:36.680 --> 0:03:37.600 The company. 0:03:39.320 --> 0:03:42.720 Whoa one of the big selling points. One of the selling 0:03:42.720 --> 0:03:45.920 points of this mattress. It will last spells like a horse. Yeah, 0:03:47.000 --> 0:03:49.080 what are the selling points of the mattresses? It will 0:03:49.120 --> 0:03:51.880 last the lifetime. So if you're a rich person who 0:03:51.880 --> 0:03:55.160 buys expensive mattresses and you started at age five and 0:03:55.200 --> 0:03:57.760 lived to be two hundred, you might break even but 0:03:58.200 --> 0:04:03.200 on having one mattress your whole life. But horsehair is 0:04:03.240 --> 0:04:05.800 the star of the show in every Houstin's mattress. I 0:04:05.840 --> 0:04:10.080 promise this is interesting. The horse made and tail strands 0:04:10.120 --> 0:04:14.240 are heated, heat treated, braided, and then steamed to create 0:04:14.280 --> 0:04:18.360 a permanent curl, an expensive process which, according to Hostin's, 0:04:19.120 --> 0:04:22.719 is the main reason this bed is so different. The 0:04:22.760 --> 0:04:25.159 curls are dense enough to create a loose, springy structure 0:04:25.160 --> 0:04:28.120 that feels airy yet supportive. The fibers are hollow. This 0:04:28.160 --> 0:04:30.640 helps the mattress feel breatheable by wiking away moisture and 0:04:30.640 --> 0:04:31.240 excess heat. 0:04:31.320 --> 0:04:34.400 Okay, I just can't get past a mental picture of 0:04:34.400 --> 0:04:37.480 a bunch of shaved horses running around stud Wish. 0:04:37.200 --> 0:04:42.520 And they had their hair back. Hastins usually requires potential 0:04:42.680 --> 0:04:47.360 buyers to try mattresses and purchase before purchasing one. Of course, 0:04:47.400 --> 0:04:49.560 you wouldn't want to buy it online a sixty thousand 0:04:49.600 --> 0:04:52.880 dollars mattress, so I embarked on a sleep spa experience 0:04:52.880 --> 0:04:55.920 at the company's flagship store in New York. There are 0:04:56.000 --> 0:04:59.680 thirteen mattresses in the line, ranging from fourteen thousand to 0:05:00.080 --> 0:05:03.360 six hundred thousand dollars, and I was able to try 0:05:03.400 --> 0:05:05.760 each mattress at my own pace in a dimmed room, 0:05:06.000 --> 0:05:08.360 swallowed in a down comforter with two pillows from my head, 0:05:08.400 --> 0:05:12.800 one for my knees, ambient music playing. There is a 0:05:12.800 --> 0:05:15.440 person lying in the bed across them, guiding me to 0:05:15.520 --> 0:05:17.880 scan my body to assess the feeling into my hip 0:05:18.200 --> 0:05:21.000 and back. If a mattress filled un supported them all away, 0:05:21.160 --> 0:05:23.360 Hey a bed somalia to help you choose the right one, 0:05:23.360 --> 0:05:24.200 That's exactly right. 0:05:24.560 --> 0:05:27.480 M uh. 0:05:27.560 --> 0:05:30.040 Shopping at Hostin's felt like a meditation session in a cool, 0:05:30.080 --> 0:05:31.000 quiet studio, relaxed. 0:05:31.000 --> 0:05:31.960 Blah blah, blah blah. 0:05:32.120 --> 0:05:34.400 After forty five minutes, I landed on the two thousand 0:05:34.440 --> 0:05:36.640 tees soft. Here's the part that I really liked, that 0:05:36.680 --> 0:05:39.000 I thought was quite amazing. I know from years of 0:05:39.040 --> 0:05:41.719 mattress testing the comfort is subjective, and no single mattress 0:05:41.760 --> 0:05:44.360 work for everyone. That being said, sleeping on the two 0:05:44.360 --> 0:05:47.799 thousand t tea feels like nothing I've ever felt before. 0:05:48.120 --> 0:05:50.640 When I settle in, the mattress conforms just enough to 0:05:50.720 --> 0:05:53.200 my whole body to sink into it, while what feels 0:05:53.240 --> 0:05:55.839 like a thousand little hands support me from below. 0:05:56.480 --> 0:06:01.000 Yeah, don't tut me there, like a bunch of a 0:06:01.000 --> 0:06:02.359 little oop bloopas. 0:06:03.440 --> 0:06:06.320 The closest comparison I can think of is floating in 0:06:06.360 --> 0:06:10.279 a sensory deprivation chamber. When I lay on the Hostins, 0:06:10.320 --> 0:06:13.320 I feel weightless, like I'm bobbing on a pool of 0:06:13.320 --> 0:06:17.039 water calibrated to my exact body temperature. I can barely 0:06:17.040 --> 0:06:21.080 tell whether a mattress ends and my body begins, regardless. 0:06:20.480 --> 0:06:24.960 Of what position I'm in. That sounds freaking cool. 0:06:25.160 --> 0:06:29.039 Yeah, I mean because I I had the same look 0:06:29.080 --> 0:06:31.520 on my face that you've had up until this point. Like, okay, 0:06:31.880 --> 0:06:33.880 get to explain in how great this. But if it 0:06:33.960 --> 0:06:36.479 feels like you're not laying on anything, like you're just 0:06:36.640 --> 0:06:42.440 actually just floating in body temperature air with no pressure 0:06:42.480 --> 0:06:45.960 on any point in your body, that's pretty appealing feeling. 0:06:46.040 --> 0:06:50.720 I've never had it, but wow. Unlike the slow sink 0:06:50.760 --> 0:06:53.040 of memory foam or the cushion of a padded pillow top, 0:06:53.279 --> 0:06:56.280 the horse air and a Hastin's mattress has a natural springingness, 0:06:56.480 --> 0:06:59.240 yet it's just as soft and far more breathable. I'm 0:06:59.279 --> 0:07:01.760 a hot sleeper on ever, once woke up sweaty below 0:07:01.800 --> 0:07:05.520 the horse hair two three and forty individual springs offer 0:07:05.520 --> 0:07:08.200 a sensation that is as delightful to experience as it 0:07:08.240 --> 0:07:11.520 is difficult to describe. But imagine being suspended in a 0:07:11.560 --> 0:07:16.680 tide of soft shifting air. Imagine being suspended on a 0:07:16.880 --> 0:07:23.280 tide of soft shifting air, cradled yet free. I gotta 0:07:23.320 --> 0:07:25.240 admit I'd like to try this once. I would never. 0:07:25.360 --> 0:07:27.560 I would never, even if I could afford it. Buy 0:07:27.560 --> 0:07:29.840 one of these. Maybe, if I could afford it, I would. 0:07:29.880 --> 0:07:32.440 I mean, well, it actually makes that point at the 0:07:32.520 --> 0:07:33.200 end of the article. 0:07:33.800 --> 0:07:36.000 Well, I just before we move on, just to clarify, 0:07:36.040 --> 0:07:39.200 you are saying horse hair and not horse hair, right, 0:07:39.840 --> 0:07:42.640 this is not the harvested hair of sex workers. 0:07:42.920 --> 0:07:46.400 Right, people exchange if people exchange money for sex. 0:07:46.560 --> 0:07:49.000 Yeah, exactly. Just you know, I got that Oscar winning 0:07:49.040 --> 0:07:49.880 movie on my mind. 0:07:51.120 --> 0:07:54.200 No, the common beast of burden as seen in western movies. 0:07:55.840 --> 0:07:59.640 Ah, the horse, Yes, I'm surelier there's one. 0:07:59.720 --> 0:08:05.080 Now, hey, come here, I got an idea for your hair. 0:08:05.800 --> 0:08:08.280 Hold Still, after a couple of weeks on the mattress, 0:08:08.280 --> 0:08:11.320 I could feel them. This this part is amazing, Okay, 0:08:11.480 --> 0:08:13.320 all right. After a couple of weeks on the mattress, 0:08:13.320 --> 0:08:16.160 I can feel the materials start to compress together, creating lumps. 0:08:16.200 --> 0:08:18.160 After I got up in the morning, you'd think, Man, 0:08:18.240 --> 0:08:20.640 two weeks into my fifty six thousand dollars bed, I'm 0:08:20.680 --> 0:08:23.360 starting to feel lumps. I'd think, all right, somebody's gonna 0:08:23.400 --> 0:08:28.679 get a beating. Right, But that's normal. Assures Hostins because 0:08:28.720 --> 0:08:33.800 the mattress requires regular complimentary massaging. Yes, every mattress sold 0:08:33.800 --> 0:08:37.880 by Hastins comes with a recalibration program in which Houston's 0:08:37.920 --> 0:08:41.040 employees visit your home to loosen up the materials and 0:08:41.080 --> 0:08:44.880 redistribute them to prevent the mattress from settling into a 0:08:45.040 --> 0:08:48.520 U shaped valley. Each Hastin's owner is entitled to the 0:08:48.600 --> 0:08:52.040 service for a decade or more with the mattress. 0:08:53.000 --> 0:08:55.600 All right, this sounds like a pain in the ass. Yeah, 0:08:55.679 --> 0:08:56.959 wait a minute, and. 0:08:56.920 --> 0:08:59.600 I want some dude coming over and massaging my mattress 0:09:00.040 --> 0:09:00.920 on a regular basis. 0:09:00.920 --> 0:09:03.320 That's where Hey, Joe, can you play golf tomorrow? No, 0:09:03.520 --> 0:09:07.600 I'm due to have my mattress massage. 0:09:08.320 --> 0:09:11.520 You're what. No, it's made with a horse hair. It's 0:09:11.679 --> 0:09:12.480 very complicated. 0:09:13.280 --> 0:09:16.120 You're gonna get a massage on your mattress. No, the 0:09:16.160 --> 0:09:18.440 mattress itself is getting a massage. 0:09:18.840 --> 0:09:24.000 What the point they make about spending the money, though, 0:09:24.160 --> 0:09:27.040 is I have a pretty expensive piano. This person says 0:09:27.040 --> 0:09:27.600 that I play. 0:09:27.840 --> 0:09:28.440 Sometimes. 0:09:29.720 --> 0:09:32.480 Many of us stretch our budgets for a fancier car, 0:09:32.920 --> 0:09:36.480 marble countertops, or whatever. We spend a third of our 0:09:36.520 --> 0:09:39.760 time on earth asleep. Our mattresses are among the most intimate, 0:09:39.800 --> 0:09:43.160 constant companions of our lives. One of your most prized 0:09:43.200 --> 0:09:46.280 possessions was your bed instead of your car or something 0:09:46.280 --> 0:09:50.600 else that you care about. The having to have somebody 0:09:50.640 --> 0:09:53.480 come to my home multiple times a year in massage. 0:09:53.520 --> 0:09:55.680 My bed does sound like painting the ass the other 0:09:55.760 --> 0:09:58.760 description of you can't even tell you're laying on anything. 0:09:58.760 --> 0:10:02.840 It's just like you're floating that untouched. 0:10:02.920 --> 0:10:04.160 It sounds amazing. 0:10:04.280 --> 0:10:07.640 It does sound absolutely amazing, and I wonder what to 0:10:07.720 --> 0:10:09.120 be like to sleep like that. 0:10:10.679 --> 0:10:12.079 I'd like to try it once. 0:10:12.080 --> 0:10:14.800 Until it starts getting lumpy and needs a massage. That's 0:10:14.840 --> 0:10:17.079 so weird to me. I have so much trouble sleeping. 0:10:17.120 --> 0:10:18.920 I could see if I if I slept on one 0:10:18.920 --> 0:10:20.880 of those and it's as great as they describe, I 0:10:20.960 --> 0:10:22.640 might decide, you know what, I'm gonna drive a twenty 0:10:22.720 --> 0:10:24.720 year old Toyota Corolla for the rest of my life 0:10:25.360 --> 0:10:28.400 and uh, I don't know, donate plasma every Saturday and 0:10:28.520 --> 0:10:30.160 figure out a way to get one of these beds. 0:10:31.120 --> 0:10:32.760 I just hope they carve out a little bit of 0:10:32.800 --> 0:10:35.160 that sixty thousand dollars to buy a nice wig for 0:10:35.200 --> 0:10:37.199 the now hairless horror. 0:10:38.280 --> 0:10:41.000 Who's not gonna get in because not that many people 0:10:41.000 --> 0:10:43.920 won't have sex with a bald woman exactly. 0:10:45.080 --> 0:10:46.840 Well, I guess that's it.