Speaker 1: Well, if you ever win the lottery and want to
Speaker 1: be self indulgent, I got an idea for you.
Speaker 2: It's one more thing. I'm strong and getty. One more thing.
Speaker 1: I'll start here. Joel have to help me. How do
Speaker 1: you pronounce an A with the two dots over it?
Speaker 2: I said, German, that's Swedish.
Speaker 1: I thing, yeah, umlot, Well that's the well, that's that's
Speaker 1: the symbol. Yeah, I was wondering how you pronounce the anyway.
Speaker 1: The brand is h A S T E N S.
Speaker 1: With the thing, I'll call it Houstin's probably close anyway.
Speaker 1: So I mentioned last week this thing New York Times
Speaker 1: has called Wirecutter and they recommend products and I've kind
Speaker 1: of gotten sucked into it and I purchased a bunch
Speaker 1: of things from their recommendations.
Speaker 2: I really like it.
Speaker 1: Their their their ethics are they don't take any sponsorship,
Speaker 1: they don't take any money, they don't get to keep
Speaker 1: the products, and uh, they review all these different things
Speaker 1: and tons of things. Like I bought a frying pan
Speaker 1: the other day. They said the best non sticks frying
Speaker 1: pan you can get. And one of the reasons it's
Speaker 1: so popular is it's not like you might expect out
Speaker 1: of the New York Times. They're always the most expensive
Speaker 1: thing out there. It's very regularly you can get this
Speaker 1: at Target for twenty bucks or or if you want
Speaker 1: to really splurge, this one's two hundred dollars. But it's
Speaker 1: only this much better or whatever. It just it has
Speaker 1: and I've been very happy with a bunch of things
Speaker 1: I've purchased from it.
Speaker 3: And well, and that's so hard to find now. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: soal honest, you know, ratings and reviews and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, lost of them are crap.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And they'll have like, you know, the best white T
Speaker 1: shirt for men, and they'll have ten different options, different
Speaker 1: price points, and why they're good and you know how
Speaker 1: they hold up and wash in the prime. Well whatever,
Speaker 1: you get the point this. I need a good beefy tea.
Speaker 1: I remember, do they still have the Hanes beefe tea?
Speaker 1: Because so many places.
Speaker 3: You go the T shirts are like double washed for softness, right,
Speaker 3: and they're superform fitting. I don't want superform fitting. It's
Speaker 3: all right, It's like im a age twenty.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Mark Kotzi says, I look worse with this shirt on
Speaker 1: than I if I didn't have a shirt on. Yeah anyway,
Speaker 1: So this is why this one stands out so much,
Speaker 1: the headline being I wish this fifty six thousand dollars
Speaker 1: mattress weren't so incredible from this reviewer. As a Wirecutter's
Speaker 1: resident sleep expert, I've tested nearly one hundred mattresses, including
Speaker 1: a dozen of those in my own home. I've slept
Speaker 1: on everything from a forrrible bed in a box. I
Speaker 1: got my son one of those. It's pretty cool to
Speaker 1: ten thousand dollars mattresses made from materials developed for massa. Well,
Speaker 1: I've found decent, even wonderful options across the spectrum. None
Speaker 1: of them have compared to the Hostins two thousand te
Speaker 1: It also costs fifty five, seven hundred and eighty dollars.
Speaker 2: I'm getting one of these right away.
Speaker 1: Hostin's would lend her to the mattress to slip deep
Speaker 1: on for several weeks, along with the box spring and headboard.
Speaker 1: With If you get the box spring, headboard and the mattress,
Speaker 1: that brings you to seventy five thousand dollars.
Speaker 3: Well, if you you gotta, you gotta get the package
Speaker 3: because they fit together.
Speaker 2: I mean it's a unit, it's a team.
Speaker 1: Austin's derived from the Swedish word for horse. Of course
Speaker 1: you knew. That was found in eighteen fifty two as
Speaker 1: a saddle making business that shifted to luxury bed making
Speaker 1: in the twentieth century. All of its mattresses are hand
Speaker 1: crafted from the same materials horse hair, wool, flax, cotton,
Speaker 1: and steel coils.
Speaker 2: The company.
Speaker 1: Whoa one of the big selling points. One of the selling
Speaker 1: points of this mattress. It will last spells like a horse. Yeah,
Speaker 1: what are the selling points of the mattresses? It will
Speaker 1: last the lifetime. So if you're a rich person who
Speaker 1: buys expensive mattresses and you started at age five and
Speaker 1: lived to be two hundred, you might break even but
Speaker 1: on having one mattress your whole life. But horsehair is
Speaker 1: the star of the show in every Houstin's mattress. I
Speaker 1: promise this is interesting. The horse made and tail strands
Speaker 1: are heated, heat treated, braided, and then steamed to create
Speaker 1: a permanent curl, an expensive process which, according to Hostin's,
Speaker 1: is the main reason this bed is so different. The
Speaker 1: curls are dense enough to create a loose, springy structure
Speaker 1: that feels airy yet supportive. The fibers are hollow. This
Speaker 1: helps the mattress feel breatheable by wiking away moisture and
Speaker 1: excess heat.
Speaker 3: Okay, I just can't get past a mental picture of
Speaker 3: a bunch of shaved horses running around stud Wish.
Speaker 1: And they had their hair back. Hastins usually requires potential
Speaker 1: buyers to try mattresses and purchase before purchasing one. Of course,
Speaker 1: you wouldn't want to buy it online a sixty thousand
Speaker 1: dollars mattress, so I embarked on a sleep spa experience
Speaker 1: at the company's flagship store in New York. There are
Speaker 1: thirteen mattresses in the line, ranging from fourteen thousand to
Speaker 1: six hundred thousand dollars, and I was able to try
Speaker 1: each mattress at my own pace in a dimmed room,
Speaker 1: swallowed in a down comforter with two pillows from my head,
Speaker 1: one for my knees, ambient music playing. There is a
Speaker 1: person lying in the bed across them, guiding me to
Speaker 1: scan my body to assess the feeling into my hip
Speaker 1: and back. If a mattress filled un supported them all away,
Speaker 1: Hey a bed somalia to help you choose the right one,
Speaker 1: That's exactly right.
Speaker 2: M uh.
Speaker 1: Shopping at Hostin's felt like a meditation session in a cool,
Speaker 1: quiet studio, relaxed.
Speaker 2: Blah blah, blah blah.
Speaker 1: After forty five minutes, I landed on the two thousand
Speaker 1: tees soft. Here's the part that I really liked, that
Speaker 1: I thought was quite amazing. I know from years of
Speaker 1: mattress testing the comfort is subjective, and no single mattress
Speaker 1: work for everyone. That being said, sleeping on the two
Speaker 1: thousand t tea feels like nothing I've ever felt before.
Speaker 1: When I settle in, the mattress conforms just enough to
Speaker 1: my whole body to sink into it, while what feels
Speaker 1: like a thousand little hands support me from below.
Speaker 2: Yeah, don't tut me there, like a bunch of a
Speaker 2: little oop bloopas.
Speaker 1: The closest comparison I can think of is floating in
Speaker 1: a sensory deprivation chamber. When I lay on the Hostins,
Speaker 1: I feel weightless, like I'm bobbing on a pool of
Speaker 1: water calibrated to my exact body temperature. I can barely
Speaker 1: tell whether a mattress ends and my body begins, regardless.
Speaker 2: Of what position I'm in. That sounds freaking cool.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean because I I had the same look
Speaker 1: on my face that you've had up until this point. Like, okay,
Speaker 1: get to explain in how great this. But if it
Speaker 1: feels like you're not laying on anything, like you're just
Speaker 1: actually just floating in body temperature air with no pressure
Speaker 1: on any point in your body, that's pretty appealing feeling.
Speaker 1: I've never had it, but wow. Unlike the slow sink
Speaker 1: of memory foam or the cushion of a padded pillow top,
Speaker 1: the horse air and a Hastin's mattress has a natural springingness,
Speaker 1: yet it's just as soft and far more breathable. I'm
Speaker 1: a hot sleeper on ever, once woke up sweaty below
Speaker 1: the horse hair two three and forty individual springs offer
Speaker 1: a sensation that is as delightful to experience as it
Speaker 1: is difficult to describe. But imagine being suspended in a
Speaker 1: tide of soft shifting air. Imagine being suspended on a
Speaker 1: tide of soft shifting air, cradled yet free. I gotta
Speaker 1: admit I'd like to try this once. I would never.
Speaker 1: I would never, even if I could afford it. Buy
Speaker 1: one of these. Maybe, if I could afford it, I would.
Speaker 1: I mean, well, it actually makes that point at the
Speaker 1: end of the article.
Speaker 3: Well, I just before we move on, just to clarify,
Speaker 3: you are saying horse hair and not horse hair, right,
Speaker 3: this is not the harvested hair of sex workers.
Speaker 1: Right, people exchange if people exchange money for sex.
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly. Just you know, I got that Oscar winning
Speaker 3: movie on my mind.
Speaker 1: No, the common beast of burden as seen in western movies.
Speaker 2: Ah, the horse, Yes, I'm surelier there's one.
Speaker 1: Now, hey, come here, I got an idea for your hair.
Speaker 1: Hold Still, after a couple of weeks on the mattress,
Speaker 1: I could feel them. This this part is amazing, Okay,
Speaker 1: all right. After a couple of weeks on the mattress,
Speaker 1: I can feel the materials start to compress together, creating lumps.
Speaker 1: After I got up in the morning, you'd think, Man,
Speaker 1: two weeks into my fifty six thousand dollars bed, I'm
Speaker 1: starting to feel lumps. I'd think, all right, somebody's gonna
Speaker 1: get a beating. Right, But that's normal. Assures Hostins because
Speaker 1: the mattress requires regular complimentary massaging. Yes, every mattress sold
Speaker 1: by Hastins comes with a recalibration program in which Houston's
Speaker 1: employees visit your home to loosen up the materials and
Speaker 1: redistribute them to prevent the mattress from settling into a
Speaker 1: U shaped valley. Each Hastin's owner is entitled to the
Speaker 1: service for a decade or more with the mattress.
Speaker 3: All right, this sounds like a pain in the ass. Yeah,
Speaker 3: wait a minute, and.
Speaker 1: I want some dude coming over and massaging my mattress
Speaker 1: on a regular basis.
Speaker 3: That's where Hey, Joe, can you play golf tomorrow? No,
Speaker 3: I'm due to have my mattress massage.
Speaker 2: You're what. No, it's made with a horse hair. It's
Speaker 2: very complicated.
Speaker 3: You're gonna get a massage on your mattress. No, the
Speaker 3: mattress itself is getting a massage.
Speaker 1: What the point they make about spending the money, though,
Speaker 1: is I have a pretty expensive piano. This person says
Speaker 1: that I play.
Speaker 2: Sometimes.
Speaker 1: Many of us stretch our budgets for a fancier car,
Speaker 1: marble countertops, or whatever. We spend a third of our
Speaker 1: time on earth asleep. Our mattresses are among the most intimate,
Speaker 1: constant companions of our lives. One of your most prized
Speaker 1: possessions was your bed instead of your car or something
Speaker 1: else that you care about. The having to have somebody
Speaker 1: come to my home multiple times a year in massage.
Speaker 1: My bed does sound like painting the ass the other
Speaker 1: description of you can't even tell you're laying on anything.
Speaker 1: It's just like you're floating that untouched.
Speaker 2: It sounds amazing.
Speaker 1: It does sound absolutely amazing, and I wonder what to
Speaker 1: be like to sleep like that.
Speaker 2: I'd like to try it once.
Speaker 1: Until it starts getting lumpy and needs a massage. That's
Speaker 1: so weird to me. I have so much trouble sleeping.
Speaker 1: I could see if I if I slept on one
Speaker 1: of those and it's as great as they describe, I
Speaker 1: might decide, you know what, I'm gonna drive a twenty
Speaker 1: year old Toyota Corolla for the rest of my life
Speaker 1: and uh, I don't know, donate plasma every Saturday and
Speaker 1: figure out a way to get one of these beds.
Speaker 3: I just hope they carve out a little bit of
Speaker 3: that sixty thousand dollars to buy a nice wig for
Speaker 3: the now hairless horror.
Speaker 1: Who's not gonna get in because not that many people
Speaker 1: won't have sex with a bald woman exactly.
Speaker 2: Well, I guess that's it.