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Speaker 1: Hi, everybody, Happy Saturday. Chuck Here with the Stuff you

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Speaker 1: should know. Select pick for the week from July twenty two,

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Speaker 1: Sundas coland more interesting than you think. I think this

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Speaker 1: was titled by Josh. If I remember correctly, that's a

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Speaker 1: Josh Clark title all the way. Uh And if I

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Speaker 1: it back then. I think I pronounced that sauna all

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Speaker 1: through the episode, and uh, I got a lot of

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Speaker 1: email that it's actually Suna. So I wanted to write

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Speaker 1: that ship here eight years later, going on nine years later,

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Speaker 1: and do it the right way. So here we go

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Speaker 1: with sound as more interesting than you think because they

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Speaker 1: are Welcome to Stuff you Should Know from house Stuff

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Speaker 1: Works dot com. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm

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Speaker 1: Josh Clark with me as always is Charles W. Chuckers

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Speaker 1: Chuck Chucky Bride of Chucky. He paused, as if you

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Speaker 1: forgot who I was, I had a thing I have

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Speaker 1: marble mouth unusual. Today, here we go, this podcast brought

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Speaker 1: to you by a jolly rancher. Have you ever mixes

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Speaker 1: with Ziema? No? But you know that Oakland Raiders former

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Speaker 1: Oakland Raiders quarterback JaMarcus Russell just got busted with. They

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Speaker 1: call it purple drank, and it's it's like it's codeine

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Speaker 1: syrup and I think some sort of carbonet soda and

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Speaker 1: jolly rancher. Wow, that's robot tripping, is what he's doing. Well,

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Speaker 1: it came out of the Houston, Texas scene like ten

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Speaker 1: years ago. Were drink. I never heard of it. That's

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Speaker 1: how square I am. I haven't heard of it either,

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Speaker 1: So don't feel bad. Okay. Plus, it's like that's what

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Speaker 1: they do in Houston. Seriously, that what you want your

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Speaker 1: town associated with. Yeah, we use codeine water. Yeah, we

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Speaker 1: came up with purple drink. Wasn't he the QB for

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Speaker 1: l s U? Yeah? Hey that guy, Well he's a bust.

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Speaker 1: He's nothing. Now, well he's a big wash really. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: He went to the NFL and got all fat and

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Speaker 1: through interceptions and he was great for he was so Anyway,

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Speaker 1: I guess what all that leads us to, Chuck is saunas. Yes,

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Speaker 1: football players, Well, they probably your steam room guys. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: let's talk about that's a great place to start, Chuck.

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Speaker 1: There's a difference between a sauna and a steam room.

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Speaker 1: There's a number of differences, but the mode of heat

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Speaker 1: is what's really different, right. Yeah, And I should point

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Speaker 1: out we called this Saunas colon more interesting than you

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Speaker 1: think for a reason because Robert lamb Our, a steam

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Speaker 1: uh writer and uh stuff from the science Lab. He

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Speaker 1: wrote this and he told us like months ago, He's like, dude,

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Speaker 1: you should do Saunas Saunas. It's way cooler than you think,

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Speaker 1: and it's dirty and filthy and like, and he was

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Speaker 1: right steeped in history. Yeah, this is uh for my money.

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Speaker 1: Robert Williams the best writer on how stuff works out

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Speaker 1: com e um. But he wrote an altogether pleasant article

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Speaker 1: that I've read like many, many time times and every

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Speaker 1: time you just love the way you wrote it. It's

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Speaker 1: a great article. We should read the first line, please do.

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Speaker 1: The first line of his article says you're going to

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Speaker 1: want to read this article naked, so please before you

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Speaker 1: go any further, disrobed completely. So if you're in the

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Speaker 1: confines of your own home, yeah, if the shades are

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Speaker 1: that you're uncomfortable with. Very specifically, Chuck is only talking

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Speaker 1: to people who are we'll just go with twenty one

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Speaker 1: years of age and older and you're alone in your house,

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Speaker 1: and if you're listening to your podcast and you feel

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Speaker 1: like doing so naked right now, please do right now.

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Speaker 1: Saunas more interesting than you think. Thank you. Brought to

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Speaker 1: you by Jolly Rancher, Um Chuck. We were talking about

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Speaker 1: the difference between a steam room and a sauna. Steam

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Speaker 1: room is heated by moisture vapor, water vapor, uh and

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Speaker 1: be about a hundred and four degrees fahenth height, which

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Speaker 1: the reason why is because it feels so much hotter

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Speaker 1: our body cools by sweating and then the sweat evaporating

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Speaker 1: the Finnish navy fighting pirates. Yeah, they have saunas on

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Speaker 1: the Finnish prison saunas though, we should uh that this

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Speaker 1: But I imagine a finished prison sna is a pretty

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Speaker 1: because the saunas have something of a reputation, especially in

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Speaker 1: And not just gay either, well, no, all sorts of stuff, prostitution, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: all the spruce cedar. Would that looks so nice and

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Speaker 1: it's still warm. Your tookis is hot, but it's not

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Speaker 1: like you're not hurting yourself. Yeah, And Robert also pointed

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Speaker 1: like that. Fine, seed or smell, right, which is why

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Speaker 1: the youth seedar and spruce because they have natural a

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Speaker 1: the savusana. Yeah. Nice, it looks sort of like the

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Speaker 1: a wood fire sauna. Yeah, and it's a little disconcerting. Apparently,

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Speaker 1: it sounds very dangerous to me. It does. It doesn't

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Speaker 1: sound healthy, um, which is why the savo sauna um

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Speaker 1: carbon monoxide and all sorts of other stuff. Um, is

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Speaker 1: I don't understand how people survive the saunas, right, so, um,

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Speaker 1: to sweat even for even further. Yeah, but it doesn't

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00:23:40,560 --> 00:23:45,000
Speaker 1: increase your blood pressure and increases your blood circulation circulation,

417
00:23:45,040 --> 00:23:47,480
Speaker 1: but not your blood pressure. No, but if you do

418
00:23:47,600 --> 00:23:50,199
Speaker 1: have high blood pressure, we should say saunas are not

419
00:23:50,240 --> 00:23:53,000
Speaker 1: recommended for you. Well, we should just go ahead and say,

420
00:23:53,040 --> 00:23:55,399
Speaker 1: who all, it's not recommended for kids and old people.

421
00:23:56,040 --> 00:24:00,960
Speaker 1: It's not recommended pregnant ladies. Um, but it is good. Um,

422
00:24:01,080 --> 00:24:03,760
Speaker 1: Like those people shouldn't get in, but women definitely might

423
00:24:03,800 --> 00:24:07,359
Speaker 1: want to get in because it apparently alleviates menstrual cramps

424
00:24:07,359 --> 00:24:09,720
Speaker 1: really well. Right, but if you're pregnant again, you want

425
00:24:09,760 --> 00:24:13,879
Speaker 1: to stay away from the sauna if you're pregnant, right,

426
00:24:14,080 --> 00:24:18,240
Speaker 1: very very astute point. Suck. Thank you. Um. Lastly about

427
00:24:18,320 --> 00:24:22,199
Speaker 1: physiology and saunaing. Um, what you want to do is

428
00:24:22,320 --> 00:24:25,320
Speaker 1: keep yourself very hydrated, because the irony is while you're

429
00:24:25,359 --> 00:24:31,320
Speaker 1: excreting that one percent the go to excrese excreting organs.

430
00:24:31,359 --> 00:24:35,439
Speaker 1: The kidneys need water to excrete the other And if

431
00:24:35,480 --> 00:24:37,719
Speaker 1: you're sweating all of it out, things get backed up,

432
00:24:37,880 --> 00:24:40,040
Speaker 1: toxic levels, raising your body and you can do some

433
00:24:40,080 --> 00:24:42,840
Speaker 1: real damage to yourself. So every time you go into

434
00:24:42,840 --> 00:24:45,040
Speaker 1: the sauna, you want to take a jug of water

435
00:24:45,119 --> 00:24:47,800
Speaker 1: with you with at least a leader. Right. Yeah, I

436
00:24:47,840 --> 00:24:49,600
Speaker 1: would say if you have gout, the sauna is probably

437
00:24:49,640 --> 00:24:51,639
Speaker 1: a good place to go. You think, so, oh, because

438
00:24:51,640 --> 00:24:53,480
Speaker 1: you're a acid builds up, Yeah, it's your all. This

439
00:24:53,600 --> 00:24:55,440
Speaker 1: is a build up. If you're a acid and you're well,

440
00:24:55,480 --> 00:24:58,160
Speaker 1: your is your ac acid. So if you have gout,

441
00:24:58,320 --> 00:25:01,320
Speaker 1: get thee to a sauna. Okay. Um. And there was

442
00:25:01,400 --> 00:25:04,119
Speaker 1: one other cool thing about the physical Oh the reason

443
00:25:04,160 --> 00:25:07,440
Speaker 1: they one reason they recommend heart patients not getting saunas

444
00:25:07,480 --> 00:25:10,320
Speaker 1: is because one of the traditions is to jump from

445
00:25:10,359 --> 00:25:13,159
Speaker 1: the sauna, either into a snow bank or into a

446
00:25:13,160 --> 00:25:17,399
Speaker 1: cool pool water in Finland, Yeah, and shock your body.

447
00:25:17,520 --> 00:25:19,199
Speaker 1: And the old urban legend that you heard when your

448
00:25:19,280 --> 00:25:22,439
Speaker 1: kids about going from the hot tub to the pool

449
00:25:22,720 --> 00:25:25,560
Speaker 1: and you'll you'll drown because your pores are open. That's

450
00:25:25,560 --> 00:25:28,760
Speaker 1: so not true. Actually, it's big in Turkey too. There's

451
00:25:28,800 --> 00:25:30,800
Speaker 1: the Turkish bath, which is like a hot tub and

452
00:25:30,840 --> 00:25:32,439
Speaker 1: then a cool tub, right, and you go from one

453
00:25:32,440 --> 00:25:34,879
Speaker 1: to the other. I did not know that as far

454
00:25:34,880 --> 00:25:37,359
Speaker 1: as or No, that's what I've always heard it. I

455
00:25:37,400 --> 00:25:40,760
Speaker 1: had no idea. Um, Chuck, I think it's high time

456
00:25:40,800 --> 00:25:43,639
Speaker 1: we talked about the history of the sauna. And saunas

457
00:25:44,080 --> 00:25:47,760
Speaker 1: are very very old. Yeah, Neolithic tribes. I love how

458
00:25:47,760 --> 00:25:53,800
Speaker 1: he tied culture and humans, like culture springing up around

459
00:25:53,920 --> 00:25:57,879
Speaker 1: human physiological needs and bathing. He said was like the

460
00:25:57,920 --> 00:26:01,119
Speaker 1: first people that bathe and hot springs lead to saunas.

461
00:26:01,119 --> 00:26:05,360
Speaker 1: They're like, wow, this is fantastic. I really like this. Yeah. Um,

462
00:26:05,480 --> 00:26:08,560
Speaker 1: And I think in France and Spain especially, a lot

463
00:26:08,600 --> 00:26:12,920
Speaker 1: of the Neolithic settlements are located very close to hot springs,

464
00:26:13,359 --> 00:26:18,119
Speaker 1: and not by accident either, right. No, um, as people

465
00:26:18,160 --> 00:26:24,280
Speaker 1: were remained nomadic. Apparently we started creating collapsible, portable saunas

466
00:26:24,320 --> 00:26:28,520
Speaker 1: that resemble like sweat lodges in Native America. UM. And

467
00:26:28,560 --> 00:26:31,439
Speaker 1: then as we began to settle down and become sedentary. Uh.

468
00:26:31,520 --> 00:26:36,600
Speaker 1: They made more permanent structures like dugouts in Earthen dugouts uh.

469
00:26:36,640 --> 00:26:40,600
Speaker 1: And then eventually the Savoy saunas, which remember date back

470
00:26:40,720 --> 00:26:45,600
Speaker 1: at least to the twelfth century, right, probably a lot

471
00:26:45,640 --> 00:26:51,720
Speaker 1: further than that. Apparently, as Finland settled by modern fins Um,

472
00:26:52,520 --> 00:26:57,040
Speaker 1: the the sauna was pretty much brought with them. Yeah.

473
00:26:57,080 --> 00:26:59,399
Speaker 1: And through the Middle Ages it was like the common people.

474
00:26:59,480 --> 00:27:02,040
Speaker 1: It wasn't just for the rich or anything. The common

475
00:27:02,040 --> 00:27:06,720
Speaker 1: like whole villages would would sauna together, sweat it out together, men,

476
00:27:06,760 --> 00:27:10,600
Speaker 1: women and children, and at the local bathhouse they would

477
00:27:10,640 --> 00:27:15,439
Speaker 1: actually feast inside the sauna. Yes, is really gross. It is.

478
00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:19,280
Speaker 1: They would get married, um, and they would get they

479
00:27:19,320 --> 00:27:23,680
Speaker 1: would have babies on. Yes, prostitution what what they called

480
00:27:23,720 --> 00:27:27,880
Speaker 1: the stews was the nickname they had. Yes. Yeah, that's

481
00:27:27,920 --> 00:27:32,480
Speaker 1: not a stew. You want to eat with crackers? Um

482
00:27:32,600 --> 00:27:37,960
Speaker 1: maybe afterwards yeah, perhaps. So this this association, like we said,

483
00:27:38,040 --> 00:27:41,960
Speaker 1: with saunas and places where you could find a prostitute

484
00:27:42,160 --> 00:27:46,320
Speaker 1: and have sex with said prostitute. Um. And just kind

485
00:27:46,320 --> 00:27:51,360
Speaker 1: of that Roman Diane ice in or giastic um kind

486
00:27:51,400 --> 00:27:54,240
Speaker 1: of vibe going on in the saunas was one of

487
00:27:54,240 --> 00:27:56,679
Speaker 1: the reasons why they were eradicated by Europe because in

488
00:27:56,760 --> 00:28:01,120
Speaker 1: the early sixteenth century Europe got a little old tents. Yeah,

489
00:28:01,160 --> 00:28:04,119
Speaker 1: Protestant Reformation just ruined everything. Yeah, they're kind of like,

490
00:28:04,160 --> 00:28:06,080
Speaker 1: you can't do that you put a put a hat

491
00:28:06,119 --> 00:28:08,080
Speaker 1: with a buckle on right now. Yeah, you can't do

492
00:28:08,119 --> 00:28:10,280
Speaker 1: that either or that or that or that right, get

493
00:28:10,280 --> 00:28:13,480
Speaker 1: out to start crying right now, let me teach you

494
00:28:13,480 --> 00:28:15,640
Speaker 1: what guilt is all about. Right. And then that lasted

495
00:28:15,720 --> 00:28:18,560
Speaker 1: for about five hundred years, and then finally in the

496
00:28:18,640 --> 00:28:22,520
Speaker 1: late twentieth century, thanks to the nineteen sixties, people began

497
00:28:22,560 --> 00:28:25,680
Speaker 1: to loosen up again and get climbed back into the sauna, right,

498
00:28:25,760 --> 00:28:29,320
Speaker 1: and the sauna immediately became associated with sex again, like

499
00:28:29,400 --> 00:28:31,600
Speaker 1: the gay bath houses that we were talking about. Have

500
00:28:31,680 --> 00:28:34,520
Speaker 1: you ever seen in the band played on? Uh No,

501
00:28:34,680 --> 00:28:36,680
Speaker 1: but my brother worked on that. I think we talked

502
00:28:36,680 --> 00:28:38,840
Speaker 1: about that, um and I think you said that your

503
00:28:38,840 --> 00:28:41,640
Speaker 1: brother worked on it too. But Phil Collins plays a

504
00:28:41,640 --> 00:28:45,120
Speaker 1: bath house owner, and I think it's Richard gear who's

505
00:28:45,240 --> 00:28:48,400
Speaker 1: like trying to track patient zero, is trying to convince

506
00:28:48,440 --> 00:28:50,720
Speaker 1: him to like shut down the bath house because there's

507
00:28:50,760 --> 00:28:53,320
Speaker 1: like this epidemic that no one's paying attention to. That.

508
00:28:53,400 --> 00:28:56,000
Speaker 1: Back then they called gay cancer, which is now called

509
00:28:56,120 --> 00:28:58,560
Speaker 1: HIV or AIDS. They called the gay cancer they did

510
00:28:58,600 --> 00:29:03,320
Speaker 1: originally crazy Yeah, um, and so the bath houses featured prominently,

511
00:29:03,360 --> 00:29:06,240
Speaker 1: and sauna's featured prominently in the bath houses. Phil Collins,

512
00:29:06,360 --> 00:29:09,320
Speaker 1: Phil Collins SUSU studio was Yeah, he did a good

513
00:29:09,400 --> 00:29:11,240
Speaker 1: job the bath house. I think we talked about what

514
00:29:11,280 --> 00:29:13,720
Speaker 1: a good job Phil Collins did too. Dude, that was

515
00:29:13,760 --> 00:29:17,520
Speaker 1: a long time ago. So if that's the case, then people,

516
00:29:17,680 --> 00:29:19,520
Speaker 1: you know, that's like a two year old podcast. So

517
00:29:19,560 --> 00:29:21,440
Speaker 1: I don't mind repeating things every once in a while.

518
00:29:21,600 --> 00:29:23,320
Speaker 1: We should do one on things to do with the

519
00:29:23,360 --> 00:29:27,320
Speaker 1: dead body or synaesthesia. That would be a great one.

520
00:29:28,280 --> 00:29:40,720
Speaker 1: As watched Wyble sk as good should know. As watch

521
00:29:42,560 --> 00:29:52,680
Speaker 1: sk as Good should know. So Chuck, the saunas make

522
00:29:52,720 --> 00:29:56,480
Speaker 1: their comeback. Now you can find him at holiday inns

523
00:29:56,640 --> 00:29:59,360
Speaker 1: around the world. Actually it's not true. I've never seen

524
00:29:59,400 --> 00:30:01,520
Speaker 1: a sauna at a Aliday And since they had my

525
00:30:01,640 --> 00:30:05,760
Speaker 1: last really crappy job, they had um a gem in

526
00:30:05,800 --> 00:30:08,120
Speaker 1: the building, which was one cool part because you could

527
00:30:08,160 --> 00:30:10,440
Speaker 1: go down like during lunch and work out and they

528
00:30:10,440 --> 00:30:11,960
Speaker 1: had a sauna in there, and I would work out

529
00:30:12,040 --> 00:30:15,160
Speaker 1: and then I could theoretically I did for a time,

530
00:30:15,800 --> 00:30:18,080
Speaker 1: and I would go sit in the sauna and it's

531
00:30:18,120 --> 00:30:21,560
Speaker 1: just the best man, just sitting there, just like there's something.

532
00:30:22,160 --> 00:30:24,520
Speaker 1: I see why the intercourse happened, because there's something very

533
00:30:24,520 --> 00:30:28,080
Speaker 1: primal about just sitting there naked and just sweating and

534
00:30:28,120 --> 00:30:30,640
Speaker 1: sweating and sweating. But I never had a desire to

535
00:30:30,720 --> 00:30:34,560
Speaker 1: like eat food or meet anyone special. You know what

536
00:30:34,600 --> 00:30:38,440
Speaker 1: I'm saying? Is that clear? Yeah? I got it. Okay,

537
00:30:38,600 --> 00:30:41,480
Speaker 1: I got hint hint um. For those of you can't see,

538
00:30:41,520 --> 00:30:45,520
Speaker 1: I just winked that, chuck um. Uh so chuck. Let's

539
00:30:45,560 --> 00:30:47,800
Speaker 1: say that you have been inspired to go out to

540
00:30:48,360 --> 00:30:51,200
Speaker 1: take a sauna from listening to this, because there's actually

541
00:30:51,200 --> 00:30:53,320
Speaker 1: something called sauna etiquette that you need to know about.

542
00:30:53,560 --> 00:30:55,400
Speaker 1: First of all, if you're in a country and they

543
00:30:55,440 --> 00:30:57,640
Speaker 1: speak German and you decided to go to a sauna,

544
00:30:58,280 --> 00:31:01,040
Speaker 1: there will be a person in there now the sauna maister,

545
00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:04,479
Speaker 1: the son of master is in charge for basically running

546
00:31:04,520 --> 00:31:08,680
Speaker 1: a very strict ten minute session. Your entire job is

547
00:31:08,680 --> 00:31:11,880
Speaker 1: to go in there and sit down and shut up right. Uh,

548
00:31:12,080 --> 00:31:14,440
Speaker 1: basically follow the son of myster's lead. You're not allowed

549
00:31:14,480 --> 00:31:17,000
Speaker 1: to leave once the ten minutes has started, you're not

550
00:31:17,040 --> 00:31:19,240
Speaker 1: allowed to come in once the ten minutes and definitely

551
00:31:19,320 --> 00:31:21,960
Speaker 1: never ever put your hands on that later. No, that's

552
00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:24,160
Speaker 1: the son of master's job. Do not wet the rocks

553
00:31:24,200 --> 00:31:26,400
Speaker 1: if you have a son of myster. No, that's that's

554
00:31:26,440 --> 00:31:28,560
Speaker 1: the song. And I got the impression. I was looking around,

555
00:31:28,600 --> 00:31:31,080
Speaker 1: I couldn't find anything that wasn't in German and that

556
00:31:31,160 --> 00:31:33,840
Speaker 1: I could translate. Um, but I get the impression that

557
00:31:33,840 --> 00:31:38,320
Speaker 1: the son of mister is actually a paid professional. Well

558
00:31:38,360 --> 00:31:40,520
Speaker 1: I hope so, because if someone's just doing that for kicks,

559
00:31:40,560 --> 00:31:42,880
Speaker 1: then no, you know, there's like jerks out there. They're like,

560
00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:44,960
Speaker 1: I'm just so on a monster, but come here all

561
00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:47,440
Speaker 1: the time. It's like no one the son of myster.

562
00:31:48,760 --> 00:31:50,440
Speaker 1: It just goes on like that for a long time.

563
00:31:50,560 --> 00:31:54,640
Speaker 1: And then they wrist wrestle and yeah they like wrestle.

564
00:31:54,760 --> 00:31:58,160
Speaker 1: Yeah with that with just towels on. God, how about

565
00:31:58,160 --> 00:32:01,120
Speaker 1: those guys that walk around the gym with the towel

566
00:32:01,200 --> 00:32:04,000
Speaker 1: over their shoulder but naked? I know? And why are

567
00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:06,560
Speaker 1: they always like seventy I know? And they pretend like, hey,

568
00:32:06,600 --> 00:32:10,720
Speaker 1: everybody else is subject to the Protestant Reformation. I'm free.

569
00:32:10,840 --> 00:32:13,000
Speaker 1: It's like put a towel on, hippie. I don't even

570
00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:15,720
Speaker 1: like I'm this close to being a never nude myself,

571
00:32:16,520 --> 00:32:19,680
Speaker 1: are you? I don't you have them? Yeah, shower with

572
00:32:19,720 --> 00:32:22,600
Speaker 1: denom jeans now, But I mean, I mean that I'm

573
00:32:22,640 --> 00:32:25,680
Speaker 1: not into that. Put some clothes on. Protestant Reformation. No

574
00:32:25,720 --> 00:32:29,160
Speaker 1: one can escape it. Yeah, no one escapes the Protestant

575
00:32:29,200 --> 00:32:34,200
Speaker 1: Reformation myself. So lastly, with sauna etiquette, basically the whole

576
00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:36,880
Speaker 1: thing comes down to putting the ladle on. If you're

577
00:32:36,880 --> 00:32:40,080
Speaker 1: alone in the sauna, feel free to add some loyally. Yeah,

578
00:32:40,120 --> 00:32:42,760
Speaker 1: do whatever you want. Somebody in there. It's probably one

579
00:32:42,800 --> 00:32:44,240
Speaker 1: of those things where you want to be quiet and

580
00:32:44,320 --> 00:32:46,240
Speaker 1: then just say, hey, do you mind if I put

581
00:32:46,280 --> 00:32:48,120
Speaker 1: some water on the rocks. It's supposed to be a

582
00:32:48,120 --> 00:32:50,200
Speaker 1: pretty quiet environment. Don't go in there like some chowder

583
00:32:50,240 --> 00:32:52,560
Speaker 1: head with your cell phone, right and um, when you

584
00:32:52,600 --> 00:32:54,640
Speaker 1: go in and out, you want to come in out

585
00:32:54,640 --> 00:32:57,120
Speaker 1: as fast as possible because that open door changes the

586
00:32:57,120 --> 00:33:00,320
Speaker 1: temperature very quickly. Right, and just be considered, don't be

587
00:33:00,320 --> 00:33:04,520
Speaker 1: a jerky. I saw him. That just reminded me. I

588
00:33:04,520 --> 00:33:06,280
Speaker 1: saw the War of the Roses again the end the

589
00:33:06,360 --> 00:33:09,160
Speaker 1: night for like the fiftieth time, and remember Kathleen Turner

590
00:33:09,200 --> 00:33:11,640
Speaker 1: locks Michael Douglas and the sauna. And then the next

591
00:33:11,680 --> 00:33:15,280
Speaker 1: shot after he like some like falls out of the sauna,

592
00:33:15,600 --> 00:33:18,200
Speaker 1: is him drinking gatorade in the office. The next day,

593
00:33:18,360 --> 00:33:20,840
Speaker 1: He's got like a gallon of Gatorade's good, didn't Danny

594
00:33:20,920 --> 00:33:23,040
Speaker 1: de Vito directly? Man, That's one of my favorite movies.

595
00:33:23,280 --> 00:33:25,920
Speaker 1: Has a brilliant mid. Lastly, Chuck, let's talk about the

596
00:33:25,920 --> 00:33:30,240
Speaker 1: world record for saunaing. Uh. There is a guy named

597
00:33:30,240 --> 00:33:36,640
Speaker 1: timok Conan. He is the world championship, Um, well, the

598
00:33:36,680 --> 00:33:40,160
Speaker 1: world record holder. Finish, of course, finish. Yeah. In August

599
00:33:40,200 --> 00:33:43,760
Speaker 1: two thousand nine, he sat in a sauna that was

600
00:33:44,040 --> 00:33:46,400
Speaker 1: he did to two hundred and thirty degrees parent height,

601
00:33:46,400 --> 00:33:49,840
Speaker 1: which is ten degrees celsius for three minutes and forty

602
00:33:49,920 --> 00:33:53,600
Speaker 1: six seconds. You can like warm food at that temperature,

603
00:33:53,800 --> 00:33:57,840
Speaker 1: you can cook food at that temperature. Uh. That my

604
00:33:57,880 --> 00:34:00,560
Speaker 1: friends of saunas, and again I think, Chuck, that both

605
00:34:00,680 --> 00:34:03,720
Speaker 1: endorse you. Going over to the website how stuff works

606
00:34:03,720 --> 00:34:07,000
Speaker 1: dot com typing in saunas and just reading this really

607
00:34:07,120 --> 00:34:10,960
Speaker 1: well written article by Robert Lamb I think you'll enjoy it. Yeah,

608
00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:14,080
Speaker 1: then informative. Uh and since I said how stuff works

609
00:34:14,080 --> 00:34:17,160
Speaker 1: dot Com, I'm largely abandoning the handy search bar thing.

610
00:34:17,280 --> 00:34:20,160
Speaker 1: I think that's run its course. Really. Yeah, so the

611
00:34:20,200 --> 00:34:24,600
Speaker 1: new the new signal for for UM listener mail is

612
00:34:24,640 --> 00:34:29,040
Speaker 1: how stuff works dot Com? Oh really? Yeah? Okay, watch

613
00:34:29,560 --> 00:34:31,360
Speaker 1: I'll say it again. Because I wasn't ready. I was

614
00:34:31,360 --> 00:34:35,200
Speaker 1: still in handy search bar mode. Okay. Uh, you want

615
00:34:35,239 --> 00:34:37,600
Speaker 1: to just go over and read saunas at how stuff

616
00:34:37,600 --> 00:34:42,840
Speaker 1: works dot Com? Watch this? See so you know I

617
00:34:42,920 --> 00:34:46,359
Speaker 1: can say now it's time for listener mail. I can't

618
00:34:46,400 --> 00:34:48,200
Speaker 1: control it. I used to be able to control a

619
00:34:48,239 --> 00:34:51,399
Speaker 1: lot more when I said handy search bar. But oh

620
00:34:51,400 --> 00:34:55,120
Speaker 1: look it just happened. That chuck chiming all over the

621
00:34:55,239 --> 00:34:57,759
Speaker 1: I need to not say anything else. Okay, let's just

622
00:34:58,200 --> 00:35:03,160
Speaker 1: read the listener mail. How about that, Josh, I'm gonna

623
00:35:03,160 --> 00:35:09,080
Speaker 1: call this. Uh take that Colbart? Oh yeah, Colbert. I

624
00:35:09,120 --> 00:35:11,840
Speaker 1: recently heard this from Scott in Connecticut? Is that what

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