1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:27,240 Speaker 1: Ridiculous History is a production of I Heart Radio. Welcome 2 00:00:27,280 --> 00:00:30,520 Speaker 1: back to the show Ridiculous Historians. Thank you, as always 3 00:00:30,600 --> 00:00:34,159 Speaker 1: so much for tuning in. Super Producer Max. Can I 4 00:00:34,200 --> 00:00:39,800 Speaker 1: get some bubbles going? Bubble bubble, bubble, bah blah blah. Yeah, 5 00:00:40,120 --> 00:00:45,160 Speaker 1: though there's a though, the calming, placid waters maybe still 6 00:00:45,280 --> 00:00:50,239 Speaker 1: on top. There's a flurry of activity beneath. So as 7 00:00:50,280 --> 00:00:55,400 Speaker 1: you can tell, we are. We're doing today's episode from 8 00:00:55,440 --> 00:00:58,480 Speaker 1: the Jacuzzi of the mind. They called me ben No, 9 00:00:59,240 --> 00:01:02,440 Speaker 1: how about we how about we invite people into this 10 00:01:02,600 --> 00:01:07,240 Speaker 1: uh hot tub of an episode. This is a this 11 00:01:07,280 --> 00:01:11,200 Speaker 1: is something just picturing, like you know, you're bisecting someone's skull, 12 00:01:11,520 --> 00:01:14,839 Speaker 1: cutting off the top part and you know, just turning 13 00:01:14,880 --> 00:01:18,039 Speaker 1: the brains into into squish and then just kind of 14 00:01:18,080 --> 00:01:20,320 Speaker 1: bathing in it with your arms around the edge off 15 00:01:20,360 --> 00:01:22,920 Speaker 1: someone's head. I don't know, is that weird? I think 16 00:01:22,920 --> 00:01:25,280 Speaker 1: it's weird that I'm saying it out loud. It's going 17 00:01:25,360 --> 00:01:27,920 Speaker 1: with him. It's dark, but hey, just the season, you 18 00:01:27,959 --> 00:01:31,199 Speaker 1: know what I mean? Uh, And it's also perfect weather, 19 00:01:31,319 --> 00:01:34,360 Speaker 1: some would argue for a hot tub. We also want 20 00:01:34,400 --> 00:01:36,800 Speaker 1: to give a shout out to our research associate for 21 00:01:36,840 --> 00:01:42,600 Speaker 1: this week Uh. Max Williams the very same bubble, bubble bubble, 22 00:01:43,880 --> 00:01:46,800 Speaker 1: our resident hot tub expert. He's been this for some 23 00:01:46,920 --> 00:01:51,520 Speaker 1: time now, Uh, much to your chagrin at times been Matt's. 24 00:01:51,640 --> 00:01:55,560 Speaker 1: Max is always bringing up hot tub times, the before times, 25 00:01:55,600 --> 00:01:57,800 Speaker 1: before he knew you. And I think there's been a 26 00:01:57,800 --> 00:01:59,760 Speaker 1: little pomo there, and today I think we can kind 27 00:01:59,800 --> 00:02:03,480 Speaker 1: of take up for that. Yeah, maybe I I have 28 00:02:03,560 --> 00:02:05,920 Speaker 1: a lot of hot tub adventures that are probably not 29 00:02:06,080 --> 00:02:11,200 Speaker 1: fit for a family show, So we'll just go Hitchcock rules. Folks, 30 00:02:11,400 --> 00:02:14,400 Speaker 1: imagine what happened off screen. But yeah, this is our 31 00:02:14,480 --> 00:02:17,760 Speaker 1: long waited hot tub episode. Now. For a lot of 32 00:02:17,800 --> 00:02:20,720 Speaker 1: us in the modern day, at least in the United States, 33 00:02:20,919 --> 00:02:24,280 Speaker 1: you might think of hot tubs and their glory days, Uh, 34 00:02:24,400 --> 00:02:27,880 Speaker 1: somewhere in the same echelon of like the rain of 35 00:02:27,960 --> 00:02:32,120 Speaker 1: water beds, you know what I mean, or seventies conversation pits. 36 00:02:32,160 --> 00:02:35,280 Speaker 1: But if we if we describe a hot tub basically, 37 00:02:35,600 --> 00:02:38,840 Speaker 1: it's exactly what it sounds like, right, you you get 38 00:02:38,919 --> 00:02:41,600 Speaker 1: you might see these in hotels sometimes too. Write you 39 00:02:41,680 --> 00:02:45,720 Speaker 1: get the streams of water that that don't like they 40 00:02:45,720 --> 00:02:49,320 Speaker 1: come from multiple faucets or speak they cascade. I would 41 00:02:49,400 --> 00:02:53,400 Speaker 1: argue they're a little you know, waterfall thingies, and then 42 00:02:53,440 --> 00:02:55,760 Speaker 1: you've got the jets, which is, you know, kind of 43 00:02:55,800 --> 00:02:58,959 Speaker 1: what we're talking about here. It creates the bubbles that 44 00:02:58,960 --> 00:03:00,799 Speaker 1: that we so know and left. Sometimes you can kind 45 00:03:00,800 --> 00:03:03,399 Speaker 1: of tell the caliber of the hotel you're in by 46 00:03:03,560 --> 00:03:06,320 Speaker 1: the shape of the hot tub. If it's heart shaped, Uh, 47 00:03:06,360 --> 00:03:09,239 Speaker 1: you might be in Vegas. You may have just gotten 48 00:03:09,320 --> 00:03:12,799 Speaker 1: married by an Elvis impersonator. Or it could also be 49 00:03:12,880 --> 00:03:15,160 Speaker 1: one of those rent by the hour to kind of 50 00:03:15,320 --> 00:03:19,480 Speaker 1: kind of motels. Uh. It takes all cons but in general, 51 00:03:19,680 --> 00:03:24,400 Speaker 1: you know, it's it's typically round around kind of plastic 52 00:03:24,480 --> 00:03:28,360 Speaker 1: e thing like shell, usually situated within sight, within some 53 00:03:28,440 --> 00:03:32,400 Speaker 1: sort of like wooden frame, and typically they're outdoors. It's 54 00:03:32,400 --> 00:03:33,880 Speaker 1: sort of that's sort of how we think about it 55 00:03:33,880 --> 00:03:36,240 Speaker 1: in general, Like a jacuzzi tub is one thing, but 56 00:03:36,320 --> 00:03:40,360 Speaker 1: a hot tub is for the out of doors. And uh, 57 00:03:40,480 --> 00:03:42,480 Speaker 1: one day, I've got god, I'm coming up with so 58 00:03:42,760 --> 00:03:46,200 Speaker 1: so many inappropriate stories right now. I one time accidentally 59 00:03:46,200 --> 00:03:49,800 Speaker 1: stayed in what's called a love hotel in Japan, which 60 00:03:49,840 --> 00:03:53,200 Speaker 1: is which is uh was a surprise to me in 61 00:03:53,200 --> 00:03:56,360 Speaker 1: a condemnation of my terrible Japanese and uh, you know what, 62 00:03:56,520 --> 00:03:59,720 Speaker 1: just by picking up context skills, but that that had 63 00:03:59,760 --> 00:04:02,680 Speaker 1: an epic hot tub. It took up like half the room. 64 00:04:02,760 --> 00:04:05,960 Speaker 1: The hot tub thing. It's a universal appeal and might 65 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:09,720 Speaker 1: be surprised learn ridiculous historians. It's quite an ancient appeal. 66 00:04:09,840 --> 00:04:14,440 Speaker 1: Hot tubs are a innovation or an iteration, a spin 67 00:04:14,640 --> 00:04:20,320 Speaker 1: on the ancient love humans have for getting a good soak. Imagine, 68 00:04:20,360 --> 00:04:24,840 Speaker 1: if you will, the first ancient humans stumble across a spring, 69 00:04:24,920 --> 00:04:28,680 Speaker 1: maybe near a mountain, and they realize quickly, hey, this 70 00:04:28,760 --> 00:04:32,080 Speaker 1: is not your usual spring. It's warm, it might even 71 00:04:32,120 --> 00:04:37,120 Speaker 1: be dangerously hot. But let's let's soak our bones here. 72 00:04:37,200 --> 00:04:39,920 Speaker 1: Hunting and gathering is tough. Let's let's take a let's 73 00:04:39,960 --> 00:04:42,480 Speaker 1: take a quick fifteen you know what I mean, just 74 00:04:42,520 --> 00:04:45,080 Speaker 1: a so yeah. I was got to stay in a 75 00:04:45,080 --> 00:04:48,520 Speaker 1: little retreat in a place called Hot Springs, North Carolina, 76 00:04:48,560 --> 00:04:50,960 Speaker 1: I believe, and they literally just have these kind of 77 00:04:50,960 --> 00:04:55,159 Speaker 1: hot tub enclosure things built around these naturally occurring springs. Um. 78 00:04:55,200 --> 00:04:58,960 Speaker 1: I will also hearken back to the story we did 79 00:04:59,120 --> 00:05:02,800 Speaker 1: with Alex Williams to composed our theme about the kind 80 00:05:02,800 --> 00:05:06,200 Speaker 1: of the gentleman who sort of did a bad job 81 00:05:06,240 --> 00:05:11,400 Speaker 1: at wildernessing col that's the one he ended up getting 82 00:05:11,400 --> 00:05:15,520 Speaker 1: like his flesh seared off by Old Faithful or something 83 00:05:15,600 --> 00:05:17,680 Speaker 1: like that. He lay on the thing thinking that it 84 00:05:17,720 --> 00:05:19,440 Speaker 1: was gonna light warm him up, and it really just 85 00:05:19,520 --> 00:05:22,039 Speaker 1: kind of did a number on him. It's dangerous. You know. 86 00:05:22,120 --> 00:05:25,800 Speaker 1: I've been in many like natural springs, and sometimes I'm 87 00:05:25,839 --> 00:05:28,120 Speaker 1: so I'm weird about it, man, because something like in 88 00:05:28,279 --> 00:05:30,640 Speaker 1: Uh it was in Guatemala and they said, Okay, we're 89 00:05:30,640 --> 00:05:33,000 Speaker 1: gonna go these hot springs, and they were, Okay, they 90 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:35,800 Speaker 1: weren't freezing, but they were like warm springs. If you 91 00:05:35,839 --> 00:05:39,600 Speaker 1: go to warm springs Georgia here in our home state, Uh, 92 00:05:39,640 --> 00:05:42,320 Speaker 1: then you'll also find that they were. They were managing 93 00:05:42,400 --> 00:05:45,800 Speaker 1: expectations with the names, but some of these things can 94 00:05:45,839 --> 00:05:49,280 Speaker 1: be blistering hot. You're absolutely You're absolutely right, Nolan. I 95 00:05:49,320 --> 00:05:51,560 Speaker 1: think we're on the same page with this, Folks. If 96 00:05:51,600 --> 00:05:53,920 Speaker 1: you get a chance to hang out at a natural 97 00:05:53,960 --> 00:05:59,080 Speaker 1: hot spring, do so. It's a cool experience. People. As 98 00:05:59,080 --> 00:06:03,080 Speaker 1: far as we can tell, I have always loved soaking 99 00:06:03,320 --> 00:06:08,599 Speaker 1: in warm or hot natural springs. Even in ancient history 100 00:06:08,640 --> 00:06:11,920 Speaker 1: we see this happen. The Tibetan Plateau in Central Asia 101 00:06:12,440 --> 00:06:15,040 Speaker 1: was home to Hot Springs and again in a lot 102 00:06:15,040 --> 00:06:20,560 Speaker 1: of hunter gatherers, and we've got innovations from the ancient world. 103 00:06:20,640 --> 00:06:22,360 Speaker 1: Like when you think of the ancient world, you think 104 00:06:22,360 --> 00:06:25,359 Speaker 1: of like Greeks, you think of you know, Roman, the 105 00:06:25,480 --> 00:06:28,640 Speaker 1: Roman era. You also think of ancient Egypt. It shouldn't 106 00:06:28,640 --> 00:06:33,440 Speaker 1: surprise anybody that the ruling class of Egypt was super 107 00:06:33,480 --> 00:06:36,200 Speaker 1: into hot springs. There were a particular sort of folk. 108 00:06:36,880 --> 00:06:39,040 Speaker 1: We gotta lock those down too, you know. It's like, 109 00:06:39,040 --> 00:06:41,360 Speaker 1: I mean, you know, you gotta you gotta good established 110 00:06:41,400 --> 00:06:46,800 Speaker 1: domain dominion around these precious entry points into the Earth's 111 00:06:46,880 --> 00:06:50,880 Speaker 1: geothermal powers. And it really is truly like a harnessing 112 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:55,080 Speaker 1: of the Earth's natural wonder, you know. I mean, I'm 113 00:06:55,120 --> 00:06:58,479 Speaker 1: being very David Attenborough about this, but it's pretty cool. 114 00:06:58,520 --> 00:07:00,719 Speaker 1: And it's also not something that every would have access 115 00:07:00,760 --> 00:07:03,560 Speaker 1: to because they're not They're not just everywhere. I mean, 116 00:07:03,560 --> 00:07:05,600 Speaker 1: you'll you'll have these kind of hot spots where they 117 00:07:05,640 --> 00:07:07,520 Speaker 1: will there will be some you know, here and there, 118 00:07:07,520 --> 00:07:09,440 Speaker 1: like again in Hot Springs, North Carolina, when I was 119 00:07:09,440 --> 00:07:11,640 Speaker 1: talking about some of the spots you mentioned, Ben, But 120 00:07:11,840 --> 00:07:14,520 Speaker 1: it's not something that kind of happens randomly. There have 121 00:07:14,600 --> 00:07:18,440 Speaker 1: to be some certain criteria meant to have these um 122 00:07:18,720 --> 00:07:23,040 Speaker 1: take place. Yeah, it's just like the idea of using 123 00:07:23,120 --> 00:07:27,280 Speaker 1: geothermal power. You have to be in the right location, 124 00:07:27,360 --> 00:07:30,320 Speaker 1: just like real estate. It's all location. We do know 125 00:07:30,560 --> 00:07:33,200 Speaker 1: that the very well to do in the ancient world 126 00:07:33,800 --> 00:07:38,840 Speaker 1: started quarreling with the idea of being bound to geography, 127 00:07:38,880 --> 00:07:42,040 Speaker 1: and they said, hey, let's make our own hot water 128 00:07:42,280 --> 00:07:45,080 Speaker 1: type things. And that's uh, that's how we know that. 129 00:07:45,120 --> 00:07:49,320 Speaker 1: In ancient Egypt, the very wealthy had well had the 130 00:07:49,320 --> 00:07:53,600 Speaker 1: peasants build bathing chambers and they would take what you 131 00:07:53,640 --> 00:07:57,160 Speaker 1: would think of as like an old, very old school shower. 132 00:07:57,480 --> 00:08:00,800 Speaker 1: They would have their servants get hot water and then 133 00:08:00,840 --> 00:08:04,200 Speaker 1: you know, like pour the jugs water over their heads 134 00:08:04,600 --> 00:08:07,800 Speaker 1: while they're like brainstorming about the pyramids or the Sphinx. 135 00:08:08,240 --> 00:08:13,080 Speaker 1: And this was cool or actually this was pretty neat 136 00:08:13,240 --> 00:08:16,920 Speaker 1: for the person getting the bath, but all the people 137 00:08:17,120 --> 00:08:20,800 Speaker 1: who had to help make the shower happen probably hated 138 00:08:20,840 --> 00:08:23,360 Speaker 1: their jobs. You know, you gotta heat the water up yourself, 139 00:08:23,520 --> 00:08:26,000 Speaker 1: you gotta carry it all the way to wherever the 140 00:08:26,080 --> 00:08:30,160 Speaker 1: rich person is. That's why I think maybe to your 141 00:08:30,160 --> 00:08:33,199 Speaker 1: point and all the the ancient Greek method was a 142 00:08:33,280 --> 00:08:36,679 Speaker 1: little bit better when they were building on pre existing 143 00:08:37,080 --> 00:08:39,280 Speaker 1: hot springs, and there are some of the first groups 144 00:08:39,280 --> 00:08:42,160 Speaker 1: of people who believed this stuff had a magical power 145 00:08:42,280 --> 00:08:46,240 Speaker 1: to heal, which is also why Warm Springs, Georgia was 146 00:08:46,320 --> 00:08:49,719 Speaker 1: home to a US president once upon a time. You know, 147 00:08:49,800 --> 00:08:52,760 Speaker 1: it's the idea too of like just naturally occurring springs 148 00:08:53,160 --> 00:08:55,040 Speaker 1: of any kind. Like there's a little there's a theme 149 00:08:55,040 --> 00:08:59,199 Speaker 1: and this new TV series The Midnight Club, um, which 150 00:08:59,240 --> 00:09:01,920 Speaker 1: is I've I've quite enjoyed, uh, the idea of you know, 151 00:09:02,360 --> 00:09:07,880 Speaker 1: uh springs, natural naturally occurring springs, drinking water, possessing some 152 00:09:07,920 --> 00:09:11,319 Speaker 1: sort of natural healing abilities, and that's something that's really 153 00:09:11,360 --> 00:09:14,520 Speaker 1: you know, persevered throughout history. So yeah, the ancient Greeks 154 00:09:14,520 --> 00:09:17,240 Speaker 1: built these like bath houses essentially, or they referred to 155 00:09:17,320 --> 00:09:20,760 Speaker 1: them as thermal complexes on top of hot springs, uh, 156 00:09:20,800 --> 00:09:24,280 Speaker 1: for that very reason. They carved seats into the natural rock, 157 00:09:24,559 --> 00:09:27,199 Speaker 1: and that that is actually how the hot springs situation 158 00:09:27,320 --> 00:09:30,600 Speaker 1: in in North Carolina is as well. You're literally sitting 159 00:09:30,640 --> 00:09:32,960 Speaker 1: in these holida out pieces of rock, these kind of 160 00:09:33,080 --> 00:09:38,640 Speaker 1: boulder deals. They created these very beautiful, aesthetically um kind 161 00:09:38,679 --> 00:09:41,719 Speaker 1: of carved out bath houses where you know, the well 162 00:09:41,840 --> 00:09:45,640 Speaker 1: to do could could relax and and likely cavorted. I mean, 163 00:09:45,679 --> 00:09:48,800 Speaker 1: I think we know the bath houses, especially of the 164 00:09:48,840 --> 00:09:51,760 Speaker 1: Greek variety, did have a reputation for being a place 165 00:09:51,760 --> 00:09:56,199 Speaker 1: where hanky panky might occur. Uh with watchful eyes. Yeah, 166 00:09:56,240 --> 00:09:58,840 Speaker 1: and deed of whomever you know watches for those kinds 167 00:09:58,840 --> 00:10:05,600 Speaker 1: of things. The Hanks to depict and Turkish bathhouses acquired 168 00:10:06,320 --> 00:10:10,439 Speaker 1: a similar reputation, at least as community centers much later on, 169 00:10:10,600 --> 00:10:14,319 Speaker 1: By the way, but we know that Roman architects started 170 00:10:14,360 --> 00:10:19,800 Speaker 1: creating those public bath houses using a kind of analog 171 00:10:19,920 --> 00:10:24,560 Speaker 1: of modern day concrete, so they were genuinely building out 172 00:10:24,600 --> 00:10:28,360 Speaker 1: these structures instead of just carving out granted really cool 173 00:10:28,440 --> 00:10:31,680 Speaker 1: seats by the rocks. Uh. And this idea took off. 174 00:10:32,160 --> 00:10:34,480 Speaker 1: This was amazing. It was like it took off the 175 00:10:34,480 --> 00:10:36,920 Speaker 1: way like chia pets took off in a more in 176 00:10:36,960 --> 00:10:40,280 Speaker 1: a more modern comparison, everybody needed to to like go 177 00:10:40,800 --> 00:10:43,240 Speaker 1: see and be seen at the bath house. In two 178 00:10:43,240 --> 00:10:47,160 Speaker 1: inter BC, they were building the first public bathhouses. By 179 00:10:47,200 --> 00:10:51,560 Speaker 1: thirty three CE there were almost two hundred there one 180 00:10:51,760 --> 00:10:56,040 Speaker 1: hundred and seventy bathhouses in Rome. And this is where 181 00:10:56,080 --> 00:10:59,760 Speaker 1: the aqueduct thing comes in. Aqueducts are so cool. Gravity 182 00:10:59,760 --> 00:11:03,640 Speaker 1: power are ways to move water around an area, and 183 00:11:03,760 --> 00:11:07,480 Speaker 1: they would put cold water. They would transport cold water 184 00:11:07,559 --> 00:11:11,360 Speaker 1: into the bathhouses. And then they used something that was 185 00:11:11,400 --> 00:11:14,480 Speaker 1: new to me at least before starting this episode. They 186 00:11:14,559 --> 00:11:18,160 Speaker 1: used a heating system called the hypo cost to warm 187 00:11:18,200 --> 00:11:22,040 Speaker 1: the water. And then also eventually, uh, they got their 188 00:11:22,040 --> 00:11:25,040 Speaker 1: technology to the point where they could heat the floors 189 00:11:25,040 --> 00:11:27,000 Speaker 1: and walls. Have you guys ever been in a place 190 00:11:27,040 --> 00:11:31,040 Speaker 1: where the heated floor Oh yeah, I think I have, 191 00:11:31,160 --> 00:11:33,920 Speaker 1: like in a fancy hotel. But it's definitely, you know, 192 00:11:34,360 --> 00:11:37,120 Speaker 1: an extra feature for sure. It's not standard in this 193 00:11:37,160 --> 00:11:39,720 Speaker 1: part of the world. I think probably in colder areas 194 00:11:39,720 --> 00:11:41,520 Speaker 1: and probably colder parts of the world it might be 195 00:11:41,559 --> 00:11:45,160 Speaker 1: a little more common. It's in Korea too. I had 196 00:11:45,160 --> 00:11:48,040 Speaker 1: a landlord, well correction, I was living in a friend 197 00:11:48,080 --> 00:11:50,040 Speaker 1: of mine's house. That's but by the way, better way 198 00:11:50,080 --> 00:11:52,640 Speaker 1: to describe that. And he had he had floors in 199 00:11:52,679 --> 00:11:54,400 Speaker 1: his bathroom, like one time he was like out of TWN. 200 00:11:54,400 --> 00:11:55,920 Speaker 1: He's like, if you want, you can use the bathroom 201 00:11:55,960 --> 00:11:59,920 Speaker 1: with the heated floors, and like, will do it? Was nice? Okay, 202 00:12:00,440 --> 00:12:02,719 Speaker 1: he's a he's a very particular bathroom guy. I mean 203 00:12:02,760 --> 00:12:05,280 Speaker 1: that is, like to Knowle's point next, that's a that's 204 00:12:05,280 --> 00:12:08,600 Speaker 1: a pretty custom or bespoke kind of feature in the house, 205 00:12:08,600 --> 00:12:10,679 Speaker 1: so you don't really see them here in the United 206 00:12:10,720 --> 00:12:19,800 Speaker 1: States that often. We're gonna get to Japan in a minute, 207 00:12:19,800 --> 00:12:21,840 Speaker 1: but I want to just even like to take a 208 00:12:21,960 --> 00:12:26,359 Speaker 1: take a quick swing at another um kind of analog 209 00:12:26,600 --> 00:12:30,840 Speaker 1: form of this type of relaxation that you do still 210 00:12:30,880 --> 00:12:33,160 Speaker 1: see like in gems and all of that. You know, 211 00:12:33,200 --> 00:12:36,400 Speaker 1: the sauna, the idea of like a steam room that yeah, 212 00:12:36,440 --> 00:12:39,880 Speaker 1: I don't know if it's exactly coals anymore, but I think, 213 00:12:39,920 --> 00:12:42,760 Speaker 1: like you know Scandinavia, there would literally be like a 214 00:12:42,840 --> 00:12:45,880 Speaker 1: thing of coals that you would pour water on and 215 00:12:45,880 --> 00:12:48,680 Speaker 1: it would create steam, and that would be the source 216 00:12:48,920 --> 00:12:51,040 Speaker 1: of the steam that you'd allow you to kind of 217 00:12:51,160 --> 00:12:53,040 Speaker 1: again sort of soak your bones in a in a 218 00:12:53,040 --> 00:12:55,520 Speaker 1: different way, more of a reverse way, and then you 219 00:12:55,559 --> 00:13:00,320 Speaker 1: beat yourself with a branch of course. Oh, I'm gonna 220 00:13:00,320 --> 00:13:02,920 Speaker 1: do be a call back alert guys. Um, do you 221 00:13:02,920 --> 00:13:06,320 Speaker 1: guys remember the episode we did about the Sausage War, Yes, 222 00:13:07,480 --> 00:13:13,040 Speaker 1: the the Honest Expedition. Yeah, yeah, but at the very 223 00:13:13,120 --> 00:13:15,720 Speaker 1: end we're talking about saunas and we're talking about how 224 00:13:16,000 --> 00:13:18,880 Speaker 1: they would have um in Finland, those casts that you 225 00:13:18,880 --> 00:13:20,719 Speaker 1: can put your sausage in with you when you get 226 00:13:20,920 --> 00:13:23,200 Speaker 1: sauna and cook your sausage while you're sitting a sauna. 227 00:13:23,440 --> 00:13:24,679 Speaker 1: I just want to bring that back up because it 228 00:13:24,880 --> 00:13:30,440 Speaker 1: felt fitting too. Yeah, because they are they're they're very 229 00:13:30,520 --> 00:13:33,760 Speaker 1: much multifunctional. They're meant to relax you and allow you 230 00:13:33,800 --> 00:13:35,480 Speaker 1: to have a little bit of a sit down and 231 00:13:35,520 --> 00:13:38,560 Speaker 1: collect your thoughts perhaps, and also again this idea of 232 00:13:38,600 --> 00:13:40,680 Speaker 1: healing properties. But you know, why not be able to 233 00:13:40,920 --> 00:13:42,640 Speaker 1: eat your sausage while you're at it's sort of like 234 00:13:43,360 --> 00:13:47,679 Speaker 1: a shower beer um. But it's Japan that really kind 235 00:13:47,679 --> 00:13:49,560 Speaker 1: of takes to the next level and inspires what would 236 00:13:49,559 --> 00:13:52,000 Speaker 1: go on to become the hot tub that we know 237 00:13:52,080 --> 00:13:54,439 Speaker 1: and love. Oh and we have to point out why 238 00:13:54,920 --> 00:13:59,800 Speaker 1: this became the case. The Roman Empire loved hot tubs, 239 00:13:59,800 --> 00:14:03,960 Speaker 1: but then the Catholic Church had a problem with it, 240 00:14:04,040 --> 00:14:06,199 Speaker 1: and so during the medieval period a lot of them 241 00:14:06,320 --> 00:14:09,120 Speaker 1: disappeared in that part of the world because it was 242 00:14:09,520 --> 00:14:13,880 Speaker 1: seen as a social center that distracted from you know, theocracies. 243 00:14:14,559 --> 00:14:18,880 Speaker 1: This didn't happen in Japan, As he said, Japan really 244 00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:21,960 Speaker 1: creates or leads to what we call the modern hot 245 00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:25,480 Speaker 1: tub today, and they had the geography for it. Again, 246 00:14:25,640 --> 00:14:29,280 Speaker 1: it's an archipelago with a lot of natural hot springs, 247 00:14:29,720 --> 00:14:34,320 Speaker 1: and even like even today, what's really interesting is if 248 00:14:34,360 --> 00:14:39,440 Speaker 1: you go into a Japanese house there there's a soaking bathtub, 249 00:14:39,560 --> 00:14:43,119 Speaker 1: but you wash your body before you get into that bathtub. 250 00:14:43,240 --> 00:14:46,040 Speaker 1: It's like a mini hot spring, and it's it's a 251 00:14:46,080 --> 00:14:49,960 Speaker 1: regular thing. Super cool. Their bathroom so far ahead of ours. 252 00:14:50,480 --> 00:14:53,040 Speaker 1: I agree. I've always also wondered, like, why would anyone 253 00:14:53,200 --> 00:14:56,560 Speaker 1: take a bath just on its own and think that's 254 00:14:56,680 --> 00:14:59,200 Speaker 1: gonna do the trick because you're literally just steeping in 255 00:14:59,280 --> 00:15:02,080 Speaker 1: your own philm after a point, so it's like, do 256 00:15:02,240 --> 00:15:05,640 Speaker 1: the shower, then enjoy the soak in the bathtub. But 257 00:15:05,720 --> 00:15:08,240 Speaker 1: don't get the two twisted. They're not the same, uh. 258 00:15:08,320 --> 00:15:10,240 Speaker 1: And also, a hot tub is not really meant to 259 00:15:10,280 --> 00:15:13,200 Speaker 1: clean yourself per se. It's more of like a fun 260 00:15:13,240 --> 00:15:18,280 Speaker 1: activity and the water is kind of circulating and it's treated, 261 00:15:18,920 --> 00:15:23,400 Speaker 1: so it's not necessarily going to harbor some of these 262 00:15:23,440 --> 00:15:25,720 Speaker 1: gross things that we're worried about that might just hang 263 00:15:25,760 --> 00:15:30,320 Speaker 1: around if you're soaking in a pool of stagnant warm water. Yeah, 264 00:15:30,400 --> 00:15:32,600 Speaker 1: because you don't lay in puddles on the street, do you. 265 00:15:33,440 --> 00:15:36,920 Speaker 1: Anti bath Cruise would say, the same logic applies. Max 266 00:15:37,000 --> 00:15:39,120 Speaker 1: is on the fence. Max is like, I've seen some 267 00:15:39,160 --> 00:15:42,360 Speaker 1: good puddles. Yeah, you know, we get those real heavy 268 00:15:42,440 --> 00:15:45,280 Speaker 1: rainstorms here in Atlanta. Just see a good one, especially 269 00:15:45,320 --> 00:15:48,920 Speaker 1: like you know, especially like downtown Atlanta, really deep like 270 00:15:49,000 --> 00:15:51,480 Speaker 1: potholes in the side. They look pretty good to me. 271 00:15:51,520 --> 00:15:53,640 Speaker 1: And you know it's hot outside, jump out in there, 272 00:15:53,680 --> 00:15:57,240 Speaker 1: splash around a little bit. I mean, the water on 273 00:15:57,240 --> 00:16:00,400 Speaker 1: on the street where I live in Atlanta, uh has 274 00:16:01,160 --> 00:16:05,040 Speaker 1: has at points gotten almost a knee level. Uh So 275 00:16:05,160 --> 00:16:08,520 Speaker 1: maybe we'll be maybe we'll street surfers later. But in 276 00:16:08,640 --> 00:16:13,320 Speaker 1: terms of bathing in Japan, which again is just streets 277 00:16:13,320 --> 00:16:16,360 Speaker 1: ahead of the rest of the world, they have three 278 00:16:16,440 --> 00:16:19,640 Speaker 1: types of hot baths. They have the onsen, which I 279 00:16:19,680 --> 00:16:22,640 Speaker 1: think most of us have heard about. Now that's that 280 00:16:22,680 --> 00:16:26,560 Speaker 1: could be a public bathing house or private entity, but 281 00:16:27,040 --> 00:16:32,120 Speaker 1: it's located around hot springs they get that geothermal energy. 282 00:16:32,200 --> 00:16:35,120 Speaker 1: And then they have the They have the CentOS, which 283 00:16:35,160 --> 00:16:37,960 Speaker 1: are a little more like the Roman version. It's constructed 284 00:16:39,000 --> 00:16:42,480 Speaker 1: to imitate natural hot springs, but they use technology to 285 00:16:42,520 --> 00:16:45,760 Speaker 1: heat the water and then the ones. Oh that's the 286 00:16:45,800 --> 00:16:48,360 Speaker 1: word for the ones I was thinking about, Oh, furos. 287 00:16:48,920 --> 00:16:53,960 Speaker 1: Those are the whole, the whole hot tubs, and they're 288 00:16:54,000 --> 00:16:58,440 Speaker 1: they're really the antecedent of the modern hot tub. But 289 00:16:59,280 --> 00:17:01,600 Speaker 1: this is the strange each thing. Man, if you live 290 00:17:01,680 --> 00:17:04,080 Speaker 1: in the US and you love hot tubs, you owe 291 00:17:04,119 --> 00:17:08,280 Speaker 1: a big thank you to American veterans returning from World 292 00:17:08,280 --> 00:17:11,040 Speaker 1: War Two, the ones who were stationed in Pacific Theater 293 00:17:11,119 --> 00:17:14,080 Speaker 1: and in Japan. They got on board with this hot 294 00:17:14,080 --> 00:17:16,720 Speaker 1: tub culture and they brought it to the US. I 295 00:17:16,760 --> 00:17:20,520 Speaker 1: wonder also if they brought those futuristic bid days you 296 00:17:20,520 --> 00:17:23,919 Speaker 1: know what I'm talking about. That's absolute Wait, what are 297 00:17:23,960 --> 00:17:26,840 Speaker 1: you just describing bidays as futuristic in general? Or is 298 00:17:26,840 --> 00:17:28,800 Speaker 1: there a futuristic type of BI day that I might 299 00:17:28,800 --> 00:17:31,800 Speaker 1: not be aware of? Oh the you're you're aware of it. 300 00:17:31,880 --> 00:17:36,480 Speaker 1: The Toto brands like the washlet Yeah, yeah, well the 301 00:17:36,520 --> 00:17:39,119 Speaker 1: one that uh that spins around in a circle, It 302 00:17:39,160 --> 00:17:42,400 Speaker 1: spins you right round, baby, right round. I've I've been 303 00:17:42,560 --> 00:17:47,199 Speaker 1: I was, I encountered one that would like today music 304 00:17:47,359 --> 00:17:49,080 Speaker 1: for you? So but can you hear you do your 305 00:17:49,119 --> 00:17:52,199 Speaker 1: business and eats and you know, we'll have nature sounds 306 00:17:52,200 --> 00:17:54,680 Speaker 1: and then I had to come back to us toilets barbaric, 307 00:17:55,480 --> 00:17:59,600 Speaker 1: absolutely barbarica. Now I completely agree. So we have now 308 00:18:00,400 --> 00:18:04,600 Speaker 1: a guy who needs no introduction, although we're going to 309 00:18:04,640 --> 00:18:08,160 Speaker 1: introduce him knowing what we know now about pop culture. 310 00:18:08,200 --> 00:18:10,600 Speaker 1: And you know, he just sounds like a made up 311 00:18:10,600 --> 00:18:14,040 Speaker 1: cartoon character. But the guy, you know what, the chicken 312 00:18:14,080 --> 00:18:16,359 Speaker 1: or the egg? What came first? The Jacuzzi or the 313 00:18:16,400 --> 00:18:20,840 Speaker 1: person Roy Jacuzzi? Uh, And the answer is Roy Jacuzi. 314 00:18:20,880 --> 00:18:23,800 Speaker 1: But now it just sounds like a bad pseudonym for 315 00:18:23,880 --> 00:18:30,119 Speaker 1: a pimp or something like water bed crime. Yeah, it 316 00:18:30,160 --> 00:18:32,520 Speaker 1: feels like his commercial would play after Donna on the 317 00:18:32,520 --> 00:18:36,360 Speaker 1: Wolfman's Yeah, that's what I think. I feel like it's 318 00:18:36,840 --> 00:18:41,960 Speaker 1: he like runs crooked card games. This is nominative determinism 319 00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:44,920 Speaker 1: has worked in reverse and against this poor man who 320 00:18:44,920 --> 00:18:47,679 Speaker 1: was a good inventor. You know, it's clearly, yeah, he 321 00:18:47,760 --> 00:18:50,919 Speaker 1: just got associated with the with the wrong thing, you know, 322 00:18:51,080 --> 00:18:55,040 Speaker 1: the wrong crowd, the wrong thing water. But again, they're 323 00:18:55,040 --> 00:18:58,440 Speaker 1: they're perfectly legitimate uses for the Jacuzzi, but I think 324 00:18:58,560 --> 00:19:02,359 Speaker 1: people tend to not call them jacuzzis anymore because there's 325 00:19:02,400 --> 00:19:05,720 Speaker 1: a sleeze associated with that word. For some reason. So 326 00:19:05,840 --> 00:19:08,760 Speaker 1: hot tub. Uh, this is a little bit less, but 327 00:19:08,800 --> 00:19:10,879 Speaker 1: it's still even that has itself. Well. I also I 328 00:19:10,920 --> 00:19:14,800 Speaker 1: also believe that Jacuzzi is a brand of tub. You 329 00:19:14,800 --> 00:19:16,600 Speaker 1: can't go around calling everything a hot tub because it 330 00:19:16,680 --> 00:19:18,560 Speaker 1: might be offensive because it's like, no, no no, that's not 331 00:19:18,600 --> 00:19:20,760 Speaker 1: a Jacuzi brand hot No. But but but that's the same 332 00:19:20,800 --> 00:19:24,960 Speaker 1: as Xerox became just ubiquitous for mimeographs or whatever, like 333 00:19:25,040 --> 00:19:28,520 Speaker 1: coke became ubiquitous for soda. I mean, people will definitely 334 00:19:28,560 --> 00:19:30,880 Speaker 1: use Jacuzi in the same way. Yeah. Well, you guys 335 00:19:30,880 --> 00:19:34,280 Speaker 1: are talking about is what's called a generic trademark, and 336 00:19:34,320 --> 00:19:36,760 Speaker 1: there are lots of lawsuits about it. You will also 337 00:19:36,880 --> 00:19:42,359 Speaker 1: hear about companies asking people not to call everything they're 338 00:19:42,440 --> 00:19:45,679 Speaker 1: branded product the most notorious. By the way, I'm speaking 339 00:19:45,680 --> 00:19:48,960 Speaker 1: from experience, the Frisbee people, you can't call it a 340 00:19:49,000 --> 00:19:53,440 Speaker 1: Frisbe unless Frisbee makes it. Otherwise it's like a throwable 341 00:19:53,520 --> 00:19:58,280 Speaker 1: fline disc. But the disc. I'm I'm fascinated by this stuff, 342 00:19:58,280 --> 00:19:59,959 Speaker 1: and I think you raise a good point about generic 343 00:20:00,359 --> 00:20:02,800 Speaker 1: jacuzzis how do we get that. The problem there, though, 344 00:20:02,880 --> 00:20:05,640 Speaker 1: has been the try as they may, you can't really 345 00:20:05,680 --> 00:20:08,880 Speaker 1: put that Genie back in the bottle and and honestly 346 00:20:08,920 --> 00:20:12,400 Speaker 1: it's a credit to the innovation of the brand in question. 347 00:20:12,960 --> 00:20:15,520 Speaker 1: Um you know what I mean. So it's it's interesting 348 00:20:15,600 --> 00:20:18,120 Speaker 1: they wouldn't want people to do that because it's really 349 00:20:18,119 --> 00:20:21,600 Speaker 1: just free advertising for them. But to the point it 350 00:20:21,640 --> 00:20:25,119 Speaker 1: gets it can muddle the conversation where it's like you 351 00:20:25,160 --> 00:20:28,480 Speaker 1: can call everything an aspirin. It's not an aspirin. It's 352 00:20:28,560 --> 00:20:30,760 Speaker 1: it's a seat of menefin or whatever it might be. 353 00:20:30,800 --> 00:20:33,280 Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. Yes, it can cause well, 354 00:20:33,359 --> 00:20:37,520 Speaker 1: well it can cause major brand recognition. It can muddle 355 00:20:37,560 --> 00:20:40,440 Speaker 1: that brand's recognition at the same time, if that makes sense. Yeah, 356 00:20:40,440 --> 00:20:42,479 Speaker 1: it totally makes sense. And that's that could be an 357 00:20:42,480 --> 00:20:46,840 Speaker 1: episode all its own as well. Uh, the four Jacuzzi 358 00:20:46,920 --> 00:20:50,520 Speaker 1: became synonymous with hot tub. We've got to talk about 359 00:20:51,400 --> 00:20:53,879 Speaker 1: Roy Jacuzzi's great uncle. And one thing that might surprise 360 00:20:53,920 --> 00:20:57,280 Speaker 1: a lot of people is the jacuzzi wasn't invented for 361 00:20:57,400 --> 00:21:02,400 Speaker 1: bound bound mount sexy times. It was invented for what 362 00:21:02,440 --> 00:21:05,159 Speaker 1: we would call hydrotherapy, right like it was meant to 363 00:21:05,240 --> 00:21:08,560 Speaker 1: help I also really quickly, yes, I also really People 364 00:21:08,600 --> 00:21:10,560 Speaker 1: do want to point out too that I think more 365 00:21:10,600 --> 00:21:15,400 Speaker 1: people think about sexy hot tub times than actually participate 366 00:21:15,480 --> 00:21:19,000 Speaker 1: in them. It doesn't work, and it's it's you get overheated, 367 00:21:19,040 --> 00:21:23,320 Speaker 1: and if there's you know, vigorous movement going on, you're 368 00:21:23,359 --> 00:21:25,639 Speaker 1: gonna you might pass out. It's not it's not the 369 00:21:25,640 --> 00:21:27,919 Speaker 1: best idea. They say, you know, limit your time in 370 00:21:27,960 --> 00:21:30,400 Speaker 1: the Jacuzi too, you know, thirty minutes at a time, 371 00:21:30,440 --> 00:21:32,600 Speaker 1: which no one listens to. They also drink when you're 372 00:21:32,600 --> 00:21:34,840 Speaker 1: not supposed to drink. That's another thing. But yeah, you 373 00:21:34,920 --> 00:21:36,920 Speaker 1: have that other thing in the equation. It's a recipe 374 00:21:36,960 --> 00:21:40,240 Speaker 1: for disaster. But in eight roy Jacuzi is great. Uncle 375 00:21:40,440 --> 00:21:43,119 Speaker 1: thought it would be a cool idea like raise a 376 00:21:43,240 --> 00:21:46,800 Speaker 1: Lynsky from like Honey I shrunk the kids style to 377 00:21:46,920 --> 00:21:50,600 Speaker 1: put an aerating pump into a bathtub people doing this 378 00:21:50,680 --> 00:21:54,320 Speaker 1: to provide some comfort, some pain relief to his son 379 00:21:55,119 --> 00:21:58,760 Speaker 1: who had really bad roomor toward arthritis, had only fifteen months. 380 00:21:59,680 --> 00:22:02,680 Speaker 1: Uh and as we know hydrotherapy, this this does work. 381 00:22:02,720 --> 00:22:05,919 Speaker 1: You know, in in sports medicine they always altered in 382 00:22:05,960 --> 00:22:08,080 Speaker 1: between hot and cold and things like that. And a 383 00:22:08,200 --> 00:22:10,600 Speaker 1: soak in a in a hot tub is much more 384 00:22:10,720 --> 00:22:13,159 Speaker 1: or ice cold bath is much more of a of 385 00:22:13,200 --> 00:22:16,480 Speaker 1: a remedy than like a luxury. Yeah, and people have 386 00:22:16,520 --> 00:22:19,320 Speaker 1: believed in the curative powers of water for such a 387 00:22:19,320 --> 00:22:22,400 Speaker 1: long time. I always love to point out that here 388 00:22:22,400 --> 00:22:25,600 Speaker 1: in Atlanta, where old Office was a place called Ponts 389 00:22:25,600 --> 00:22:28,919 Speaker 1: City Market, there's actually an underground spring that was built 390 00:22:28,960 --> 00:22:32,640 Speaker 1: over and it was something that for thousands of years 391 00:22:32,800 --> 00:22:37,320 Speaker 1: local populations had thought of as a sacred spring. Uh. 392 00:22:37,440 --> 00:22:40,119 Speaker 1: So history is all around you. The world is a 393 00:22:40,119 --> 00:22:43,280 Speaker 1: palam tested basically, And uh does that have to do 394 00:22:43,280 --> 00:22:46,040 Speaker 1: with Ponts de lay On and and him being you 395 00:22:46,040 --> 00:22:49,920 Speaker 1: know and those explorer who saw the Fountain of u Yeah, okay, 396 00:22:49,960 --> 00:22:52,919 Speaker 1: so that's where the connection. Well, from the real quick backstory, 397 00:22:52,960 --> 00:22:56,960 Speaker 1: it was a grift. The street has named that because 398 00:22:57,440 --> 00:23:02,960 Speaker 1: so not completely above board. People wanted to lean into 399 00:23:03,000 --> 00:23:06,520 Speaker 1: advertising and have folks pay to go to the springs 400 00:23:06,560 --> 00:23:11,320 Speaker 1: to try to cure various maladies, and they totally ripped 401 00:23:11,400 --> 00:23:15,840 Speaker 1: them off. But that's Jacuzzi. The Jacuzzi family is not 402 00:23:15,920 --> 00:23:19,920 Speaker 1: associated with that. They're, like we said, doing hydrotherapy and 403 00:23:20,080 --> 00:23:26,400 Speaker 1: it can have efficacy, It can at least help relieve suffering. Right, 404 00:23:26,440 --> 00:23:28,880 Speaker 1: It's not necessarily going to cure anything, but it will 405 00:23:28,960 --> 00:23:33,200 Speaker 1: help ease the pain or the symptoms. So let's learn 406 00:23:33,240 --> 00:23:36,679 Speaker 1: a little bit about these guys, the Jacuzzis, which sounds 407 00:23:36,720 --> 00:23:40,240 Speaker 1: like a great upcoming HBO show. They came from Italy 408 00:23:40,280 --> 00:23:44,159 Speaker 1: in the nineteen hundreds and they were always inventors. I 409 00:23:44,160 --> 00:23:47,879 Speaker 1: am so impressed with people who are full time inventors. 410 00:23:47,920 --> 00:23:51,879 Speaker 1: They made what they make, water pumps for agriculture. They 411 00:23:51,920 --> 00:23:55,320 Speaker 1: made the world's first submersible pump, which doesn't sound like 412 00:23:55,359 --> 00:24:00,000 Speaker 1: a big deal until you need one, by the way, uh, 413 00:24:00,040 --> 00:24:02,119 Speaker 1: I think that's what led them to the idea of 414 00:24:02,160 --> 00:24:04,920 Speaker 1: the hot tub. I think that's right. And the idea 415 00:24:04,920 --> 00:24:07,879 Speaker 1: of the submersible pump is to literally pull water up 416 00:24:07,920 --> 00:24:12,240 Speaker 1: from the ground. And this was what inspired the type 417 00:24:12,280 --> 00:24:15,919 Speaker 1: of hydraulic pump that was used to create that you know, 418 00:24:16,040 --> 00:24:20,520 Speaker 1: hydro therapy situation that could turn a bathtub into you know, 419 00:24:20,680 --> 00:24:24,760 Speaker 1: something a little a little more sparkly and potentially you know, curative, 420 00:24:24,760 --> 00:24:27,080 Speaker 1: because it moves the water around, It circulates the water 421 00:24:27,160 --> 00:24:30,199 Speaker 1: around the you know, the joints and the parts of 422 00:24:30,200 --> 00:24:32,560 Speaker 1: the body that are in pain, and that can make 423 00:24:32,600 --> 00:24:37,320 Speaker 1: a difference as well. So Roy he used the idea 424 00:24:37,440 --> 00:24:40,840 Speaker 1: that he had, you know, observed from his great uncle, 425 00:24:41,359 --> 00:24:53,840 Speaker 1: and UH created what he branded as the Roman, which 426 00:24:53,920 --> 00:24:56,440 Speaker 1: was a you know, a bath a bathtub that had 427 00:24:56,680 --> 00:25:02,000 Speaker 1: jets that would do a fifty fift air to water ratio. 428 00:25:02,560 --> 00:25:04,800 Speaker 1: Let's unpack that a little bit. I imagine that this 429 00:25:04,880 --> 00:25:07,920 Speaker 1: has to do with the strength of the jets and 430 00:25:07,920 --> 00:25:11,240 Speaker 1: and how you know, how much air was being combined 431 00:25:11,320 --> 00:25:14,320 Speaker 1: with the water to create that effect. Yeah, it's how 432 00:25:14,400 --> 00:25:16,680 Speaker 1: much punches in the pump, you know what I mean? 433 00:25:17,040 --> 00:25:21,720 Speaker 1: And this uses uh air propulsion. So these are air 434 00:25:21,840 --> 00:25:25,760 Speaker 1: jetted hot tubs, which will later be a technology we 435 00:25:25,800 --> 00:25:31,280 Speaker 1: see in countless other knockoff versions this. However, the Roman, 436 00:25:34,480 --> 00:25:36,600 Speaker 1: you have to say it like that, folks. The Roman 437 00:25:39,840 --> 00:25:46,600 Speaker 1: get quiet, storm with it one more time. The Romans Roman. 438 00:25:49,240 --> 00:25:55,960 Speaker 1: There it is, so the Roman, right, that's the JR. 439 00:25:57,040 --> 00:26:04,840 Speaker 1: So that's for That's for chuahuas Uh. The Roman is 440 00:26:04,880 --> 00:26:08,200 Speaker 1: the very first of its kind that people have heard about. 441 00:26:08,960 --> 00:26:12,200 Speaker 1: But if you are a if you're a World War 442 00:26:12,240 --> 00:26:16,320 Speaker 1: two veteran, you might be familiar with this particular reindeer game. 443 00:26:16,840 --> 00:26:20,439 Speaker 1: People love this, and people started making a lot of 444 00:26:20,520 --> 00:26:25,720 Speaker 1: claims about how it helped out their various health conditions. 445 00:26:25,760 --> 00:26:30,600 Speaker 1: These claims are often not founded in science just important 446 00:26:30,600 --> 00:26:34,639 Speaker 1: to note, and Jacuzi wasn't out trying to build people, 447 00:26:34,880 --> 00:26:37,359 Speaker 1: and we're just like, hey, we got the future tubs 448 00:26:37,480 --> 00:26:40,919 Speaker 1: right here. They only wanted the Jacuzi family only wanted 449 00:26:41,119 --> 00:26:48,600 Speaker 1: the Roman to be indoors at first, right, and maybe 450 00:26:48,600 --> 00:26:52,000 Speaker 1: help other people who had things like Ruman toy darthritis. 451 00:26:52,680 --> 00:26:57,080 Speaker 1: But folks recognized a social opportunity. If you could get 452 00:26:57,080 --> 00:26:59,359 Speaker 1: a hot tub out on a porch in like a 453 00:26:59,440 --> 00:27:02,120 Speaker 1: nice cat been in the woods or something, you can 454 00:27:02,160 --> 00:27:04,879 Speaker 1: gather around, you know, put it by your pool, you know, 455 00:27:05,080 --> 00:27:07,960 Speaker 1: have a party, you can unwind, you can have the 456 00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:11,040 Speaker 1: equivalent of a shower beer, even though you're not supposed to. 457 00:27:11,520 --> 00:27:14,520 Speaker 1: It reminds me a little bit of how if you're 458 00:27:14,520 --> 00:27:17,359 Speaker 1: ever at a gathering in someone's house for some reason, 459 00:27:17,400 --> 00:27:21,200 Speaker 1: the kitchen often becomes the central hangout area, even when 460 00:27:21,200 --> 00:27:24,239 Speaker 1: there's like a living room with the TV. People were 461 00:27:24,280 --> 00:27:26,760 Speaker 1: just drawn to the hot tub. They wanted to congregate 462 00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:29,199 Speaker 1: around it, sort of the way that wildlife in the 463 00:27:29,240 --> 00:27:32,880 Speaker 1: savannah might congregate around water. Source. Yeah, I want to see. 464 00:27:32,920 --> 00:27:35,200 Speaker 1: This is roughly around the same time it was depicted 465 00:27:35,200 --> 00:27:38,679 Speaker 1: in the Paul Thomas Anderson movie Licorice Pizza where the 466 00:27:38,680 --> 00:27:40,639 Speaker 1: water bed was a big thing. I think it was 467 00:27:40,640 --> 00:27:42,960 Speaker 1: maybe a little earlier, like maybe like seventies six or 468 00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:45,840 Speaker 1: seventy seven, but it was in nineteen seventy nine that 469 00:27:45,960 --> 00:27:48,199 Speaker 1: the hot tub there was just like a craze. You know. 470 00:27:48,320 --> 00:27:51,000 Speaker 1: Businesses started making their own versions of that, because again 471 00:27:51,040 --> 00:27:54,560 Speaker 1: it's hard to how do you get patent the spat 472 00:27:54,760 --> 00:28:00,520 Speaker 1: specifics of putting a water pump in a in a bathtub? Water? Oh, 473 00:28:01,359 --> 00:28:04,840 Speaker 1: I am Ben Waterson for the purposes of this dumb bit, 474 00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:09,520 Speaker 1: and I have copyrighted the temperature of water. I don't 475 00:28:09,560 --> 00:28:11,680 Speaker 1: guess you guys say that, but there was a school 476 00:28:11,720 --> 00:28:14,879 Speaker 1: in Ohio who recently got a copyright on the on 477 00:28:14,920 --> 00:28:18,479 Speaker 1: the word of the so stupid things can happen. Yeah, 478 00:28:18,480 --> 00:28:20,399 Speaker 1: but I mean that's more of like a troll than 479 00:28:20,440 --> 00:28:22,600 Speaker 1: it is something that would actually be functional, and in 480 00:28:22,600 --> 00:28:24,840 Speaker 1: a court of law, I would argue. But again, you know, 481 00:28:24,920 --> 00:28:27,240 Speaker 1: sort of like whoever came up with the first fidget spinner, 482 00:28:27,280 --> 00:28:29,600 Speaker 1: they're either kicking themselves because they didn't padent it or 483 00:28:29,640 --> 00:28:32,400 Speaker 1: it's too you know what. While it is novel, it's 484 00:28:32,400 --> 00:28:34,520 Speaker 1: also generic enough that other people can make it in 485 00:28:34,560 --> 00:28:37,400 Speaker 1: different shapes, and it's just about combining these ball bearings 486 00:28:37,400 --> 00:28:39,960 Speaker 1: with these little plastic wings. Same with the hot tub, 487 00:28:40,400 --> 00:28:42,560 Speaker 1: same with the water bed. You know, you had like 488 00:28:42,600 --> 00:28:46,920 Speaker 1: the original, except no substitutions. Except people accepted tons of substitutions. 489 00:28:47,080 --> 00:28:49,760 Speaker 1: In the early nineteen eighties you had the Watkins Brothers. 490 00:28:49,800 --> 00:28:52,040 Speaker 1: There's a little bit of nominat of dem terminism. There 491 00:28:52,120 --> 00:28:55,240 Speaker 1: could be the Waterkins Brothers. They released their own spa 492 00:28:56,120 --> 00:29:01,000 Speaker 1: made of something called Rovell, which was a material that 493 00:29:01,120 --> 00:29:05,000 Speaker 1: could be like extruded. Uh. It was a coming from 494 00:29:05,320 --> 00:29:07,960 Speaker 1: Tao that made it um So it was essentially like 495 00:29:07,960 --> 00:29:10,960 Speaker 1: like what do you call that? Been like vacuum extrusion 496 00:29:11,120 --> 00:29:13,320 Speaker 1: kind of like almost like you know, you can create 497 00:29:13,400 --> 00:29:15,680 Speaker 1: shapes out of plastic essentially or out of like a 498 00:29:15,720 --> 00:29:18,200 Speaker 1: plastic type material. Um. So then you can get all 499 00:29:18,200 --> 00:29:22,120 Speaker 1: these like vinyl acrylic uh kind of seats instead of 500 00:29:22,200 --> 00:29:25,320 Speaker 1: using polyester resin. So there were you know, these surface 501 00:29:25,320 --> 00:29:27,960 Speaker 1: problems that have been the thing because in the seventies 502 00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:31,440 Speaker 1: you had a lot of leakage and problems with cracking 503 00:29:31,520 --> 00:29:33,960 Speaker 1: of acrylic hot tubs and you know all of that, 504 00:29:34,160 --> 00:29:36,600 Speaker 1: and they were heavy. You could now have lighter weight 505 00:29:36,640 --> 00:29:39,960 Speaker 1: ones that could be sexier colors and and have little 506 00:29:40,040 --> 00:29:42,520 Speaker 1: butt shaped you know seats because it was all used 507 00:29:42,600 --> 00:29:47,440 Speaker 1: this kind of vacuum extrusion, uh you know process. Yeah, 508 00:29:47,520 --> 00:29:52,200 Speaker 1: they were able to more easily make bespoke, customized molds. 509 00:29:52,240 --> 00:29:57,280 Speaker 1: And this material science is important evolution because in nineteen 510 00:29:57,440 --> 00:30:01,160 Speaker 1: seventy when everybody jumped on are jumped into the hot 511 00:30:01,160 --> 00:30:04,600 Speaker 1: tub trend, they were using a lot of fiberglass. And 512 00:30:04,760 --> 00:30:08,840 Speaker 1: like you said, fiberglass can crack, it can splinter, it's 513 00:30:09,480 --> 00:30:15,120 Speaker 1: it's got problems. But with this innovation from Rovell and 514 00:30:15,160 --> 00:30:19,360 Speaker 1: the Watkins Brothers, hot tub sales reached two hundred and 515 00:30:19,480 --> 00:30:23,040 Speaker 1: eighty thousand. I've got in n I've got some weird 516 00:30:23,280 --> 00:30:26,800 Speaker 1: hot tub facts. I just want to share one this like, 517 00:30:26,920 --> 00:30:28,120 Speaker 1: we'll do it at the end, but I wanted to 518 00:30:28,200 --> 00:30:31,120 Speaker 1: spoil one right now. You guys, as we were recording 519 00:30:31,160 --> 00:30:34,480 Speaker 1: this episode, as you were hearing it, seventeen thousand people 520 00:30:34,560 --> 00:30:38,800 Speaker 1: are currently sitting in a hot tub right now, right now, 521 00:30:39,920 --> 00:30:42,880 Speaker 1: people in heaven, right now. How many How many of 522 00:30:42,880 --> 00:30:47,479 Speaker 1: them do you think are peeing? Somebody just stopped, so 523 00:30:47,520 --> 00:30:57,959 Speaker 1: we just stopped. We know it's you. So these are 524 00:30:58,000 --> 00:31:00,320 Speaker 1: really popular, but there are still a lot of knock offs, 525 00:31:00,480 --> 00:31:04,120 Speaker 1: right and This is a status symbol item. To have 526 00:31:04,280 --> 00:31:07,120 Speaker 1: a hot tub means that you have gotten ahead of 527 00:31:07,120 --> 00:31:11,080 Speaker 1: the Joneses in your social circle. By the ninety nineties, 528 00:31:11,320 --> 00:31:14,000 Speaker 1: consumers are starting to get wise to this. At hot 529 00:31:14,040 --> 00:31:16,440 Speaker 1: tub manufacturers, if they want to stay in the game, 530 00:31:16,640 --> 00:31:20,000 Speaker 1: they have to make stuff that's a little bit higher quality. 531 00:31:20,200 --> 00:31:24,600 Speaker 1: And that's when we start seeing replacements for the old 532 00:31:24,640 --> 00:31:27,800 Speaker 1: school wooden cabinet where the mold and the and the 533 00:31:27,840 --> 00:31:32,160 Speaker 1: pumps would go inside. Now they have a synthetic cabinet 534 00:31:32,720 --> 00:31:35,600 Speaker 1: and this doesn't need all the maintenance that a wooden 535 00:31:35,720 --> 00:31:39,200 Speaker 1: structure would need. So wooden structure starts to become niche, 536 00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:43,920 Speaker 1: then it becomes obsolete. Uh, and like we see with 537 00:31:43,960 --> 00:31:46,120 Speaker 1: every you know what this reminds me of. This reminds 538 00:31:46,120 --> 00:31:48,920 Speaker 1: me of the early days of soda. When soda was 539 00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:51,960 Speaker 1: first coming out, there were there was this vast panopoly 540 00:31:52,120 --> 00:31:55,080 Speaker 1: of different brands. You know, everybody had a soda brand, 541 00:31:55,360 --> 00:31:58,960 Speaker 1: and now it's it's really narrow to just the top performers. 542 00:31:59,200 --> 00:32:02,000 Speaker 1: And that's what been to with hot tubs. Yeah, it's right. 543 00:32:02,040 --> 00:32:06,440 Speaker 1: And you know, like any boom, oftentimes, like many booms, 544 00:32:06,520 --> 00:32:10,200 Speaker 1: rather oftentimes there's gonna be a bust. Uh, when things 545 00:32:10,480 --> 00:32:13,160 Speaker 1: rise in popularity so quickly and everyone's got to have, 546 00:32:13,280 --> 00:32:16,840 Speaker 1: and there's a feeding frenzy, it either just kind of 547 00:32:17,520 --> 00:32:21,120 Speaker 1: meat it peaks early, or people get kind of tired 548 00:32:21,160 --> 00:32:25,320 Speaker 1: of there's a general waning interest. Um. So at this point, 549 00:32:26,120 --> 00:32:28,480 Speaker 1: you know, hot tubs are coming in all the first 550 00:32:28,480 --> 00:32:31,160 Speaker 1: shapes and sizes, and all these different companies are making 551 00:32:31,160 --> 00:32:34,320 Speaker 1: different ones. They're being um, they're being marketed in different ways. 552 00:32:35,040 --> 00:32:38,560 Speaker 1: They're being designed to fit both inside of homes and 553 00:32:38,640 --> 00:32:41,239 Speaker 1: in yards. Some of them are leading more into the 554 00:32:41,240 --> 00:32:44,480 Speaker 1: therapeutic kind of angle of it all if you look. 555 00:32:44,560 --> 00:32:46,440 Speaker 1: So we're now at a place where the hot tub 556 00:32:46,520 --> 00:32:48,520 Speaker 1: where it's it's kind of old hat, but I mean 557 00:32:48,600 --> 00:32:50,120 Speaker 1: we still love it. That's where this is. This whole 558 00:32:50,120 --> 00:32:52,560 Speaker 1: conversation came from the idea to explore this. You know, 559 00:32:52,600 --> 00:32:55,000 Speaker 1: hot tubs are the kinds of things that you look 560 00:32:55,080 --> 00:32:59,440 Speaker 1: for in a mountain cabin rental getaway. You know, would 561 00:32:59,440 --> 00:33:02,280 Speaker 1: I go so far as to buy one? I don't know? 562 00:33:02,600 --> 00:33:05,560 Speaker 1: There are you know. Coleman, for example, makes an inflatable 563 00:33:05,600 --> 00:33:08,520 Speaker 1: hot tub that you can put in your backyard. How 564 00:33:08,560 --> 00:33:11,920 Speaker 1: comfortable am I having an inflatable anything in my backyard. 565 00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:14,640 Speaker 1: I I don't know. It's hard to say. You gotta 566 00:33:14,680 --> 00:33:17,760 Speaker 1: get one of the what are the fun doodle guys 567 00:33:17,800 --> 00:33:22,560 Speaker 1: are not fundals. The wavy wavy arm dudes from dealers, 568 00:33:23,720 --> 00:33:27,160 Speaker 1: you gotta you gotta get them. Uh man, I used 569 00:33:27,200 --> 00:33:29,320 Speaker 1: to have one of those there. Those are more like 570 00:33:30,280 --> 00:33:33,320 Speaker 1: a novelty, you know, decoration. But the idea of having 571 00:33:33,360 --> 00:33:35,920 Speaker 1: an above ground pool, it's really easy to kind of 572 00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:37,800 Speaker 1: rag on people for that. It's sort of like a 573 00:33:37,840 --> 00:33:40,120 Speaker 1: sign of like, Okay, you can't quite afford a pool, 574 00:33:40,360 --> 00:33:42,280 Speaker 1: so you're getting get enough above ground pool. It tend 575 00:33:42,280 --> 00:33:43,960 Speaker 1: to get a little grimy. No shade to anybody that 576 00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:45,400 Speaker 1: has an above ground pool. I'm just saying this is 577 00:33:45,440 --> 00:33:49,000 Speaker 1: the perception I think at large. Uh. Same with like 578 00:33:49,040 --> 00:33:52,240 Speaker 1: an inflatable hot tub. They do seem pretty cool. But 579 00:33:52,280 --> 00:33:53,640 Speaker 1: do I want to be that guy that has an 580 00:33:53,640 --> 00:33:55,920 Speaker 1: inflatable hot tub? Do I really want one that back? 581 00:33:55,960 --> 00:33:59,360 Speaker 1: Can I just do a cabin thing? Feels like it 582 00:33:59,440 --> 00:34:02,000 Speaker 1: does feel like glamping thing? I agree. Um So now 583 00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:04,040 Speaker 1: where we're used to this, we've got literally inflatable hot 584 00:34:04,080 --> 00:34:06,360 Speaker 1: tubs you can buy. Uh. There are some models that 585 00:34:06,440 --> 00:34:10,279 Speaker 1: lean more into the efficacy of the therapeutic jets and 586 00:34:10,320 --> 00:34:12,120 Speaker 1: all of that. There are some that are just like, 587 00:34:12,160 --> 00:34:15,200 Speaker 1: you know, totally leaning into the absurdity and seventies and 588 00:34:15,239 --> 00:34:17,319 Speaker 1: nests of it because it's a throwback thing at this point. 589 00:34:17,680 --> 00:34:20,959 Speaker 1: But if you look back, this was in fact a 590 00:34:21,080 --> 00:34:24,160 Speaker 1: very very, very very interesting idea. It was two things 591 00:34:24,239 --> 00:34:27,799 Speaker 1: kind of combined from history, uh and modern kind of 592 00:34:27,840 --> 00:34:31,880 Speaker 1: you know, industrial revolution to make something kind of new. 593 00:34:32,480 --> 00:34:34,600 Speaker 1: And it also came up in the same time, you know, 594 00:34:34,640 --> 00:34:38,160 Speaker 1: again with like the Waterbed, where there were spokes people 595 00:34:38,719 --> 00:34:43,480 Speaker 1: that became you know, synonymous with these products, like Suzanne Summers, 596 00:34:43,600 --> 00:34:47,280 Speaker 1: uh and the what was it the thime Master or whatever. 597 00:34:47,320 --> 00:34:52,400 Speaker 1: I believe Suzanne Summers was also initially a hot tub spokesperson. Yeah, 598 00:34:52,440 --> 00:34:54,640 Speaker 1: and there's a shout out to a previous episode we 599 00:34:54,680 --> 00:34:58,440 Speaker 1: did here. Uh. So we talked about reality television with 600 00:34:58,480 --> 00:35:02,279 Speaker 1: our pal an A from Ailey's Eike Eist and ethnically Ambiguous, 601 00:35:02,520 --> 00:35:06,800 Speaker 1: and we talked about that frighteningly dystopian TV show Queen 602 00:35:06,920 --> 00:35:10,560 Speaker 1: for a Day. The Jacuzzi Brothers advertised on Queen for 603 00:35:10,600 --> 00:35:12,880 Speaker 1: a Day it was part of your prize if you 604 00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:15,800 Speaker 1: got your wish because you had the worst, most tragic 605 00:35:15,840 --> 00:35:20,279 Speaker 1: sob story as graded by an audience. That's how Dystopiated is. 606 00:35:20,360 --> 00:35:22,560 Speaker 1: Check out our episode there. But yeah, we're nailing a 607 00:35:22,600 --> 00:35:27,960 Speaker 1: really important thing here in current society and even back then, 608 00:35:28,080 --> 00:35:30,800 Speaker 1: which wasn't too long ago, one of the main ways 609 00:35:30,840 --> 00:35:33,480 Speaker 1: to make a new product popular was to have people 610 00:35:33,520 --> 00:35:37,160 Speaker 1: who are liked in the public sphere endorse it. So 611 00:35:37,280 --> 00:35:41,760 Speaker 1: right now, I would posit that we could take something 612 00:35:41,840 --> 00:35:44,919 Speaker 1: that's I don't know, like some weird you don't really 613 00:35:44,960 --> 00:35:47,879 Speaker 1: need it type of invention, and then if you get 614 00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:51,239 Speaker 1: enough celebrities to say they like it, then everybody will 615 00:35:51,320 --> 00:35:54,680 Speaker 1: want one. It doesn't really matter what it is. The 616 00:35:54,800 --> 00:35:58,560 Speaker 1: hot tub played the same role, you know, big celebrities 617 00:35:58,600 --> 00:36:01,600 Speaker 1: at the time, like you mentioned Suzanne Summers, j Mansfield, 618 00:36:01,640 --> 00:36:04,520 Speaker 1: They're they're endorsing this, and people are thinking, I want 619 00:36:04,520 --> 00:36:08,080 Speaker 1: to be like Suzanne Summers. I also want to feel 620 00:36:08,120 --> 00:36:11,440 Speaker 1: I have made it and Suzanne's never let me wrong before, 621 00:36:11,760 --> 00:36:14,640 Speaker 1: whether or not that was true. So you also see 622 00:36:14,640 --> 00:36:19,360 Speaker 1: this in television shows and movies. People are relaxing and 623 00:36:19,520 --> 00:36:24,120 Speaker 1: unwinding and all sorts of things across the Yeah, in 624 00:36:24,200 --> 00:36:26,440 Speaker 1: game show in terms of the prize, you know, like 625 00:36:26,960 --> 00:36:31,360 Speaker 1: yourself hot tub installation for your home, you know, patio 626 00:36:31,440 --> 00:36:35,040 Speaker 1: or whatever it might be. And now you can see 627 00:36:35,320 --> 00:36:39,680 Speaker 1: the hot tub. The hot tub craze may have cooled 628 00:36:39,719 --> 00:36:43,040 Speaker 1: down a bit, but it's still very much it's still 629 00:36:43,239 --> 00:36:47,080 Speaker 1: very much there, you know, like you can find countless 630 00:36:47,120 --> 00:36:50,719 Speaker 1: hot tubs at hotels. You'll find them both in the 631 00:36:50,840 --> 00:36:53,160 Speaker 1: rooms and you know by the pool area. A lot 632 00:36:53,200 --> 00:36:55,239 Speaker 1: of people have hot tubs in their house. Some of 633 00:36:55,320 --> 00:37:00,759 Speaker 1: the more fancy ones have a lot of customized wile options. 634 00:37:00,800 --> 00:37:04,240 Speaker 1: They can see like nine people, because there's nothing worse 635 00:37:04,680 --> 00:37:07,440 Speaker 1: than being at a hot tub party and they're not 636 00:37:07,480 --> 00:37:10,600 Speaker 1: being enough room for everyone. Uh. The one thing I 637 00:37:10,640 --> 00:37:12,640 Speaker 1: really like, and there's a boring thing for me to like, 638 00:37:12,760 --> 00:37:14,600 Speaker 1: but I'll say it. I like that they have self 639 00:37:14,600 --> 00:37:18,319 Speaker 1: cleaning technology. Now that is a game changer if you've 640 00:37:18,360 --> 00:37:21,560 Speaker 1: ever had to clean the pool. And I imagine again 641 00:37:22,600 --> 00:37:25,640 Speaker 1: training as a family show, I imagine there are people 642 00:37:25,800 --> 00:37:29,640 Speaker 1: who have had to clean hot tubs and hated the experience. 643 00:37:30,200 --> 00:37:32,600 Speaker 1: Oh god, yah, yeah, I mean I just you know, 644 00:37:32,760 --> 00:37:37,960 Speaker 1: I remember h having a neighborhood pool and and then 645 00:37:37,960 --> 00:37:40,480 Speaker 1: they're being a real commotion when the little kid, you know, 646 00:37:40,520 --> 00:37:42,799 Speaker 1: pooped in the pool. And then some somebody had to 647 00:37:42,800 --> 00:37:45,000 Speaker 1: deal with that. Somebody had to deal with that. I 648 00:37:45,080 --> 00:37:49,239 Speaker 1: know it's a dirty job. Picture the local lifeguard, teenagers 649 00:37:49,320 --> 00:37:52,520 Speaker 1: drawing straws. Who's got to be the poop man today? 650 00:37:52,560 --> 00:37:56,879 Speaker 1: But either way, we know that this started out as 651 00:37:56,880 --> 00:37:59,719 Speaker 1: an invention that just was meant to help relieve the 652 00:37:59,719 --> 00:38:02,600 Speaker 1: pain of one person, and now it really has helped 653 00:38:02,920 --> 00:38:06,880 Speaker 1: millions of people. And you know, at this point, like 654 00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:08,960 Speaker 1: that's the main story. But at this point we've got 655 00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:12,400 Speaker 1: some tangents, some things that Max you thought were interesting, 656 00:38:12,440 --> 00:38:15,839 Speaker 1: so weird hot tub facts I thought were interesting. I mean, 657 00:38:17,239 --> 00:38:20,879 Speaker 1: pop culture loves a hot tub. Even now, you guys 658 00:38:20,920 --> 00:38:23,000 Speaker 1: remember Hot Tub time Machine. I can't believe that was 659 00:38:23,040 --> 00:38:27,359 Speaker 1: in twelve years ago. Actually saw it. I've been thinking 660 00:38:27,400 --> 00:38:29,919 Speaker 1: about it though lately as we've been talking more about 661 00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:33,520 Speaker 1: hot tubs. Well, the plot is basically the title. It's 662 00:38:33,520 --> 00:38:36,080 Speaker 1: one of those films. I like that though, so I 663 00:38:36,080 --> 00:38:38,600 Speaker 1: feel like you just saw it now by hearing the title. 664 00:38:39,640 --> 00:38:42,439 Speaker 1: So before we close out today, let's let's round robin 665 00:38:42,520 --> 00:38:47,239 Speaker 1: a list of the most incredible best hot tubs in 666 00:38:47,320 --> 00:38:49,560 Speaker 1: the world. Also, I would I would just like the 667 00:38:49,560 --> 00:38:51,520 Speaker 1: post of people if they want to look at these 668 00:38:51,880 --> 00:38:54,560 Speaker 1: while we're reading them off because they're very impressive. Go 669 00:38:54,680 --> 00:38:58,720 Speaker 1: to Outside online and the eight most Spectacular Hot Tubs 670 00:38:58,760 --> 00:39:03,840 Speaker 1: in the World, because they're they're pretty awesome. Alright, well 671 00:39:03,880 --> 00:39:06,759 Speaker 1: I'm intrigued. What what do we have here? Well, the 672 00:39:06,800 --> 00:39:10,160 Speaker 1: first one is that it on its surface looks like 673 00:39:10,200 --> 00:39:12,880 Speaker 1: something you might see in like the Super Smash Brothers 674 00:39:12,920 --> 00:39:16,640 Speaker 1: Donkey Kong Country stage. Because it's literally like a like 675 00:39:16,680 --> 00:39:20,040 Speaker 1: an old school barrel with like, you know, metal kind 676 00:39:20,040 --> 00:39:22,560 Speaker 1: of brackets on it. And these two fellas sitting there. 677 00:39:22,600 --> 00:39:25,760 Speaker 1: But it's like in the wilderness and there's a massive 678 00:39:25,880 --> 00:39:31,320 Speaker 1: waterfall just off to the left of it. Looks absolutely remarkable. Uh. 679 00:39:31,520 --> 00:39:34,840 Speaker 1: You know, depends on your position on the sound of 680 00:39:34,920 --> 00:39:38,200 Speaker 1: rushing water, if you find that distressing or or soothing. 681 00:39:38,719 --> 00:39:42,719 Speaker 1: I thought everybody found that soothing. People are distressing. I 682 00:39:42,719 --> 00:39:45,520 Speaker 1: don't know. Maybe I'm just I'm a different kind of 683 00:39:45,560 --> 00:39:48,480 Speaker 1: cat guy. We're just making you know, we're making room 684 00:39:48,520 --> 00:39:51,080 Speaker 1: for everybody. However, you react to water. If you don't 685 00:39:51,080 --> 00:39:54,520 Speaker 1: like waterfalls, then uh, fear not, because there are many 686 00:39:54,520 --> 00:39:59,120 Speaker 1: other very fancy hot tubs. Let's go to Queenstown, New Zealand. Uh, 687 00:39:59,200 --> 00:40:02,960 Speaker 1: it's the Mata Corey Lounge. It's on the shore of 688 00:40:03,239 --> 00:40:08,680 Speaker 1: Lake Wakatipu, and it's got a incredibly you know what 689 00:40:08,719 --> 00:40:11,200 Speaker 1: I would call it. This hot tub is just extra. 690 00:40:11,840 --> 00:40:14,720 Speaker 1: It's perched on a balcony where you have like access 691 00:40:14,760 --> 00:40:18,040 Speaker 1: to a helicopter, you can charter a boat. Uh, they've 692 00:40:18,080 --> 00:40:20,960 Speaker 1: got an on site chef and they give you a 693 00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:24,960 Speaker 1: hot stone massages. And if you don't like that hot tub, 694 00:40:25,280 --> 00:40:28,360 Speaker 1: then there's another whirlpool. Yeah, let's read this is also 695 00:40:28,440 --> 00:40:32,680 Speaker 1: a list of hot tubs that you cannot afford. Yeah, no, no, no, 696 00:40:32,800 --> 00:40:34,759 Speaker 1: I feel like that's accurate. And let's let's drive for 697 00:40:34,840 --> 00:40:38,120 Speaker 1: realism here. The list goes on like there are hot 698 00:40:38,120 --> 00:40:41,600 Speaker 1: tubs in Wyoming that will blow your mind Iceland as well. 699 00:40:41,719 --> 00:40:46,200 Speaker 1: Right now, as we are recording, we do have to 700 00:40:46,239 --> 00:40:49,040 Speaker 1: note that there is some signs, Like here's some science 701 00:40:49,080 --> 00:40:52,239 Speaker 1: I did find. If you spend fifteen minutes in a 702 00:40:52,320 --> 00:40:56,440 Speaker 1: hot tub per day for one week, you can have 703 00:40:56,480 --> 00:41:00,720 Speaker 1: an eleven percent drop in QUARTI zone, the stress hormone. 704 00:41:01,120 --> 00:41:05,200 Speaker 1: It really does change your chemistry a little cool. Uh. 705 00:41:05,400 --> 00:41:10,680 Speaker 1: You ever heard of Jackson Hole? Yeah, to get away 706 00:41:10,719 --> 00:41:12,959 Speaker 1: for the rich and famous. I do want to point 707 00:41:12,960 --> 00:41:15,000 Speaker 1: out that I was able to get a price estimate 708 00:41:15,000 --> 00:41:18,960 Speaker 1: on that one is only for Obviously we wouldn't get 709 00:41:18,960 --> 00:41:21,120 Speaker 1: this room because we're gonna go as booge as possible. 710 00:41:21,400 --> 00:41:24,640 Speaker 1: But like the lowest end room is only dollars a night, 711 00:41:27,400 --> 00:41:30,600 Speaker 1: highest end ones about and only has a king size bed. 712 00:41:30,640 --> 00:41:32,200 Speaker 1: So Ben, you're gonna be sleeping at the foot of 713 00:41:32,200 --> 00:41:34,600 Speaker 1: the bed. Do they take Ben Bucks, I'll just get 714 00:41:34,640 --> 00:41:38,400 Speaker 1: I'll get the other room. Okay, Yeah, that works to me. Yeah, totally. 715 00:41:38,440 --> 00:41:42,760 Speaker 1: And I mean it's after a four thousand foot tram 716 00:41:42,880 --> 00:41:45,680 Speaker 1: ride straight up. I mean, I think we gotta go, guys, 717 00:41:46,160 --> 00:41:48,000 Speaker 1: let's do Yeah, this is what I would call, like, uh, 718 00:41:48,440 --> 00:41:51,320 Speaker 1: an infinity hot top. Think of it like those infinity 719 00:41:51,360 --> 00:41:55,080 Speaker 1: pools you see in like a crazy galatial Hollywood estates. 720 00:41:56,040 --> 00:41:59,759 Speaker 1: And uh, then of course we should also mentioned the 721 00:42:00,160 --> 00:42:03,040 Speaker 1: are the creme de la creme of the estimated twenty 722 00:42:03,120 --> 00:42:08,440 Speaker 1: six million functioning hot tubs all across the world, where 723 00:42:08,920 --> 00:42:13,160 Speaker 1: every year forty three thousand bottles of champagne are opened. 724 00:42:13,560 --> 00:42:15,400 Speaker 1: What about how you should have done a little speck on. 725 00:42:15,400 --> 00:42:17,279 Speaker 1: I mean this is based on the maca way open 726 00:42:17,320 --> 00:42:19,840 Speaker 1: the story talking about chopping off someone's skull cap and 727 00:42:19,920 --> 00:42:22,000 Speaker 1: making a hot tub of the mind. I wonder how 728 00:42:22,040 --> 00:42:25,560 Speaker 1: many people end up dead in hot tubs. That, my friend, 729 00:42:25,640 --> 00:42:28,600 Speaker 1: is a little bit of a darker statistic, but I 730 00:42:28,640 --> 00:42:33,400 Speaker 1: have it partially. According to the Consumer Products Safety Commission 731 00:42:33,440 --> 00:42:38,080 Speaker 1: the CPSC, more than three hundred people die each year 732 00:42:38,480 --> 00:42:40,960 Speaker 1: in an accident related to a hot tub. So that 733 00:42:41,000 --> 00:42:43,480 Speaker 1: could be slipping by the hot tub, that could be 734 00:42:43,520 --> 00:42:48,120 Speaker 1: falling asleep, that could unfortunately be eating, drowning, maybe asphyxiation, 735 00:42:48,280 --> 00:42:52,120 Speaker 1: but a heart attack based on sexual activity mixed with 736 00:42:52,840 --> 00:42:58,000 Speaker 1: alcohol mixed with heat. Yeah, but that's this is why, 737 00:42:58,080 --> 00:43:01,960 Speaker 1: this is why you'll here directed like, don't spend more 738 00:43:01,960 --> 00:43:04,480 Speaker 1: than twenty minutes in a hot tub. But I I 739 00:43:04,520 --> 00:43:07,920 Speaker 1: gotta be honest, I have flagrantly disregarded that rule us 740 00:43:08,040 --> 00:43:11,000 Speaker 1: every time, same same, But again, you know, we're not 741 00:43:11,080 --> 00:43:13,000 Speaker 1: here to tell you how to live your life. I 742 00:43:13,000 --> 00:43:17,080 Speaker 1: found an incredibly pointed headline on the Tampa Bay uh 743 00:43:17,239 --> 00:43:22,040 Speaker 1: dot com website. It says, by Judy Stark, meant to soothe, 744 00:43:22,640 --> 00:43:28,600 Speaker 1: the hot tub can kill bum bum bum? Is this 745 00:43:28,680 --> 00:43:35,120 Speaker 1: from April of ninetn I just that's such a great headline. 746 00:43:35,200 --> 00:43:38,760 Speaker 1: But um, and speaking of other great headlines, my headline 747 00:43:38,800 --> 00:43:42,200 Speaker 1: for today this is a fun episode Noel Brown and 748 00:43:42,239 --> 00:43:44,280 Speaker 1: I hope you found an interesting folks. If this doesn't 749 00:43:44,320 --> 00:43:47,080 Speaker 1: quite heat your tub, I have no fear. We are. 750 00:43:47,120 --> 00:43:51,360 Speaker 1: We are boldly going to a place our history show 751 00:43:51,440 --> 00:43:54,120 Speaker 1: has yet to explore. We hope you joined us on 752 00:43:54,160 --> 00:43:57,520 Speaker 1: our continuing mission. Those are all the hints we're gonna 753 00:43:57,600 --> 00:44:00,320 Speaker 1: drop today. But yeah, what a pleasure I would I 754 00:44:00,400 --> 00:44:02,719 Speaker 1: agree with you. No, that's that's the headline. We end on. 755 00:44:02,800 --> 00:44:05,600 Speaker 1: Thanks as always to Mr Max Williams, our super producer. 756 00:44:05,800 --> 00:44:08,759 Speaker 1: Thanks also to our Resetreach associate wait for it, Mr 757 00:44:08,800 --> 00:44:13,680 Speaker 1: Max Williams. Indeed, thanks to Alex Williams, who composed our theme. 758 00:44:14,400 --> 00:44:18,440 Speaker 1: Christopher astiotis here in spirit, heves Jeff Coats love following 759 00:44:18,800 --> 00:44:22,719 Speaker 1: eaves On on social media The South Africa Adventures. Yeah 760 00:44:22,840 --> 00:44:27,360 Speaker 1: South African Uh, literary adventures? Um with eaves That should 761 00:44:27,360 --> 00:44:31,359 Speaker 1: be a Discovery Channel show or you know, National geographic show. 762 00:44:31,400 --> 00:44:34,879 Speaker 1: Let's get a little high more highbrow um and hey, 763 00:44:35,320 --> 00:44:38,080 Speaker 1: thanks see you, Ben. We finally hot tubbed it up together, 764 00:44:38,120 --> 00:44:39,759 Speaker 1: even if it was only in the hot tub of 765 00:44:39,800 --> 00:44:44,480 Speaker 1: our minds. Right on, then next list to water beds 766 00:44:44,600 --> 00:44:49,800 Speaker 1: or water boarding or maybe too well, baby water beds. Okay, 767 00:44:49,840 --> 00:44:58,759 Speaker 1: fair enough, We'll see you next time puts for more 768 00:44:58,800 --> 00:45:01,279 Speaker 1: podcasts for my heart Radio, visit the i heart Radio app, 769 00:45:01,320 --> 00:45:04,400 Speaker 1: Apple podcast, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.