WEBVTT - SYSK Selects: Saunas: More Interesting Than You Think! 0:00:00.240 --> 0:00:03.760 Hi, everybody, Happy Saturday. Chuck Here with the Stuff you 0:00:03.800 --> 0:00:06.720 should know. Select pick for the week from July twenty two, 0:00:08.280 --> 0:00:11.840 Sundas coland more interesting than you think. I think this 0:00:11.920 --> 0:00:14.520 was titled by Josh. If I remember correctly, that's a 0:00:14.600 --> 0:00:17.200 Josh Clark title all the way. Uh And if I 0:00:17.239 --> 0:00:20.000 am not mistaken, I did not know how to pronounce 0:00:20.040 --> 0:00:22.440 it back then. I think I pronounced that sauna all 0:00:22.440 --> 0:00:25.959 through the episode, and uh, I got a lot of 0:00:26.000 --> 0:00:28.920 email that it's actually Suna. So I wanted to write 0:00:28.920 --> 0:00:32.480 that ship here eight years later, going on nine years later, 0:00:32.960 --> 0:00:35.040 and do it the right way. So here we go 0:00:35.120 --> 0:00:37.839 with sound as more interesting than you think because they 0:00:37.840 --> 0:00:43.000 are Welcome to Stuff you Should Know from house Stuff 0:00:43.000 --> 0:00:51.640 Works dot com. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm 0:00:51.720 --> 0:00:56.400 Josh Clark with me as always is Charles W. Chuckers 0:00:56.680 --> 0:01:01.120 Chuck Chucky Bride of Chucky. He paused, as if you 0:01:01.200 --> 0:01:04.679 forgot who I was, I had a thing I have 0:01:04.800 --> 0:01:10.240 marble mouth unusual. Today, here we go, this podcast brought 0:01:10.240 --> 0:01:15.160 to you by a jolly rancher. Have you ever mixes 0:01:15.160 --> 0:01:18.880 with Ziema? No? But you know that Oakland Raiders former 0:01:18.880 --> 0:01:22.319 Oakland Raiders quarterback JaMarcus Russell just got busted with. They 0:01:22.319 --> 0:01:26.240 call it purple drank, and it's it's like it's codeine 0:01:26.280 --> 0:01:29.920 syrup and I think some sort of carbonet soda and 0:01:30.040 --> 0:01:33.959 jolly rancher. Wow, that's robot tripping, is what he's doing. Well, 0:01:34.040 --> 0:01:36.280 it came out of the Houston, Texas scene like ten 0:01:36.360 --> 0:01:39.319 years ago. Were drink. I never heard of it. That's 0:01:39.319 --> 0:01:41.680 how square I am. I haven't heard of it either, 0:01:41.680 --> 0:01:44.760 So don't feel bad. Okay. Plus, it's like that's what 0:01:44.840 --> 0:01:47.560 they do in Houston. Seriously, that what you want your 0:01:47.560 --> 0:01:51.280 town associated with. Yeah, we use codeine water. Yeah, we 0:01:51.320 --> 0:01:54.680 came up with purple drink. Wasn't he the QB for 0:01:54.920 --> 0:01:58.520 l s U? Yeah? Hey that guy, Well he's a bust. 0:01:58.560 --> 0:02:02.120 He's nothing. Now, well he's a big wash really. Yeah. 0:02:02.160 --> 0:02:03.480 He went to the NFL and got all fat and 0:02:03.560 --> 0:02:07.920 through interceptions and he was great for he was so Anyway, 0:02:08.440 --> 0:02:13.239 I guess what all that leads us to, Chuck is saunas. Yes, 0:02:13.280 --> 0:02:16.800 football players, Well, they probably your steam room guys. Yeah, 0:02:16.919 --> 0:02:19.520 let's talk about that's a great place to start, Chuck. 0:02:20.200 --> 0:02:22.680 There's a difference between a sauna and a steam room. 0:02:22.680 --> 0:02:26.040 There's a number of differences, but the mode of heat 0:02:26.280 --> 0:02:29.160 is what's really different, right. Yeah, And I should point 0:02:29.160 --> 0:02:31.880 out we called this Saunas colon more interesting than you 0:02:31.919 --> 0:02:35.160 think for a reason because Robert lamb Our, a steam 0:02:35.520 --> 0:02:41.280 uh writer and uh stuff from the science Lab. He 0:02:41.320 --> 0:02:43.359 wrote this and he told us like months ago, He's like, dude, 0:02:43.400 --> 0:02:47.040 you should do Saunas Saunas. It's way cooler than you think, 0:02:47.440 --> 0:02:49.680 and it's dirty and filthy and like, and he was 0:02:49.800 --> 0:02:52.680 right steeped in history. Yeah, this is uh for my money. 0:02:52.720 --> 0:02:54.720 Robert Williams the best writer on how stuff works out 0:02:54.760 --> 0:02:58.600 com e um. But he wrote an altogether pleasant article 0:02:58.720 --> 0:03:00.560 that I've read like many, many time times and every 0:03:00.560 --> 0:03:02.200 time you just love the way you wrote it. It's 0:03:02.200 --> 0:03:05.160 a great article. We should read the first line, please do. 0:03:05.280 --> 0:03:07.200 The first line of his article says you're going to 0:03:07.240 --> 0:03:09.400 want to read this article naked, so please before you 0:03:09.440 --> 0:03:12.280 go any further, disrobed completely. So if you're in the 0:03:12.280 --> 0:03:14.760 confines of your own home, yeah, if the shades are 0:03:14.840 --> 0:03:17.760 drawn and you're an adult, there's no one else around 0:03:17.760 --> 0:03:21.680 that you're uncomfortable with. Very specifically, Chuck is only talking 0:03:21.760 --> 0:03:23.960 to people who are we'll just go with twenty one 0:03:24.040 --> 0:03:27.800 years of age and older and you're alone in your house, 0:03:27.840 --> 0:03:29.440 and if you're listening to your podcast and you feel 0:03:29.480 --> 0:03:33.679 like doing so naked right now, please do right now. 0:03:33.800 --> 0:03:36.440 Saunas more interesting than you think. Thank you. Brought to 0:03:36.480 --> 0:03:40.560 you by Jolly Rancher, Um Chuck. We were talking about 0:03:40.560 --> 0:03:44.000 the difference between a steam room and a sauna. Steam 0:03:44.080 --> 0:03:48.560 room is heated by moisture vapor, water vapor, uh and 0:03:48.640 --> 0:03:51.480 for that reason, the average steam room is going to 0:03:51.600 --> 0:03:53.720 be about a hundred and four degrees fahenth height, which 0:03:53.720 --> 0:03:56.920 is forty degrees celsius. Right, pretty hot it is, but 0:03:57.120 --> 0:03:59.120 you can't check it up much hotter than that. And 0:03:59.160 --> 0:04:01.800 the reason why is because it feels so much hotter 0:04:02.160 --> 0:04:06.200 than it is because it's a moisture rich environment and 0:04:06.560 --> 0:04:11.120 our body cools by sweating and then the sweat evaporating 0:04:11.160 --> 0:04:14.640 off of the skin that creates our cooling sensation. Well, 0:04:14.680 --> 0:04:18.000 in a steam room, you sweat, you sweat buckets, but 0:04:18.120 --> 0:04:21.880 it never evaporates because for evaporation to occur, the environment, 0:04:21.920 --> 0:04:25.200 the ambient air has to be drier than your skin, 0:04:25.680 --> 0:04:28.120 and if it's equally dry or it's wetter, then your 0:04:28.120 --> 0:04:31.400 sweat is not going to evaporate, no cooling effect, right, 0:04:31.560 --> 0:04:34.640 which is why sweating while you're swimming is is and 0:04:34.800 --> 0:04:38.160 it's a problem. It's disturbing, yeah, which is what I do. Yeah, 0:04:38.200 --> 0:04:41.479 and then an a sauna. Conversely, this is dry heat, 0:04:41.720 --> 0:04:45.200 so it's gonna be a lot hotter temperature wise in there. Right. Yeah, 0:04:45.240 --> 0:04:47.480 I mean if steam room is a hundred and four 0:04:47.520 --> 0:04:50.640 degrees fahrenheit average, you're talking a hundred and seventy six 0:04:50.680 --> 0:04:54.080 degrees fahrenheit. It's hot eighty degrees celsius in in your 0:04:54.120 --> 0:04:58.120 average sauna. And I do you like saunas and steam rooms? 0:04:58.839 --> 0:05:01.400 You do? I never really sat in the steam room, 0:05:01.400 --> 0:05:04.560 but I love saunas. Actually, growing up, there's a holiday 0:05:04.560 --> 0:05:07.679 in in Toledo that um my family had a pool 0:05:07.720 --> 0:05:10.919 membership too, and they had a sauna. Whoa, whoa. You 0:05:10.960 --> 0:05:14.200 could get a pool membership to a hotel in Toledo 0:05:14.240 --> 0:05:18.159 in the seventies, seventies and eighties. Yeah, yeah, I never 0:05:18.160 --> 0:05:20.440 heard of that. But I mean now that I look back, 0:05:20.480 --> 0:05:23.839 I'm like, yeah, that's really really weird. Probably a membership, 0:05:23.880 --> 0:05:26.520 your dad was probably yeah, we got a membership kids, right, 0:05:27.600 --> 0:05:29.800 I wonder actually had a room key as we had. 0:05:30.080 --> 0:05:32.520 I'm pretty sure we had a membership, but I don't remember. 0:05:32.560 --> 0:05:35.360 But they had a sauna for sure. Uh. And so 0:05:35.400 --> 0:05:37.440 I was introduced to the sauna like really early on. 0:05:37.480 --> 0:05:39.400 It was like just a normal thing. So when you 0:05:39.400 --> 0:05:41.320 were a little kid, you enjoyed it because it seems 0:05:41.320 --> 0:05:43.800 like such an old person thing or an adult thing 0:05:43.800 --> 0:05:48.080 to do here in the West. If you go to Finland, baby, 0:05:48.120 --> 0:05:51.120 they are all about the saunas. I mean, it's like 0:05:51.120 --> 0:05:55.480 their national pastime, right actually, um in their national epic, chuck, 0:05:56.320 --> 0:06:03.000 it's called the love Valla. This a little side side note. 0:06:03.800 --> 0:06:07.080 It's their national epic, very very old. Uh. It mentioned 0:06:07.120 --> 0:06:11.240 saunas frequently. Well, of course, okay um, there's about one 0:06:11.240 --> 0:06:15.360 point six million saunas in Finland and uh. The first 0:06:15.400 --> 0:06:19.039 description of a Finnish sauna dates back to eleven thirteen. 0:06:19.320 --> 0:06:22.479 The Ukrainian historian Nestor wrote about him. That was my 0:06:22.520 --> 0:06:28.240 goats name, Nestor, Really did you name it after the 0:06:28.360 --> 0:06:31.760 Ukrainian history house? I was eleven and named him after 0:06:31.760 --> 0:06:35.200 the Ukrainian storian. It was either that or Plato. Did 0:06:35.240 --> 0:06:37.880 your goat love a good sch fitz? Uh? No? But 0:06:37.960 --> 0:06:40.799 he drank coke from a bottle which was kind of cute. 0:06:40.839 --> 0:06:43.240 That is so cute. It's cute with goats. It's not 0:06:43.320 --> 0:06:45.400 very cute when you see a human baby drinking coke 0:06:45.440 --> 0:06:49.280 from a bottle, which I've seen and it's disturbingly Yeah, 0:06:50.400 --> 0:06:52.000 if you're seeing like a one year old drinking a 0:06:52.000 --> 0:06:54.960 bottle of Coca cola, No, it ain't right, man, Yeah, 0:06:55.000 --> 0:06:58.000 that's not right at all. It's better than an espresso shot, 0:06:58.040 --> 0:07:01.120 I guess, but not much. It's in and by coke. 0:07:01.160 --> 0:07:04.800 Of course, I'm using the Southern colloquialism for coke, which 0:07:04.800 --> 0:07:09.000 means any kind of soda popu c as always, man, 0:07:09.080 --> 0:07:11.960 we got really far off of saunas, didn't we. Let's 0:07:12.000 --> 0:07:14.640 go back. So Finland saunas are associated with it, and 0:07:14.680 --> 0:07:17.760 for good reason, right did you read the article about 0:07:17.840 --> 0:07:22.480 the Finnish navy fighting pirates. Yeah, they have saunas on 0:07:22.560 --> 0:07:26.120 the pirate fighting boats. Yeah. And not only that, the 0:07:26.160 --> 0:07:30.600 Finnish army and Kosovo built twenty saunas for their for 0:07:30.640 --> 0:07:35.480 their fighters over there, like troops, eight hundred troops. And 0:07:35.720 --> 0:07:38.680 they have them in prison yeah, finished prisons. Yeah, it's 0:07:38.720 --> 0:07:41.040 it's literally a part of daily life. If you go 0:07:41.160 --> 0:07:45.520 camping and you're finish you take along a portable sauna 0:07:46.040 --> 0:07:49.040 while you're camping, like people take saunas every day. It's 0:07:49.040 --> 0:07:52.680 like showering to us, and this is an addition to showering. 0:07:52.800 --> 0:07:55.400 They shower a lot too. Yeah. Before we breathe past 0:07:55.520 --> 0:07:59.800 the Finnish prison saunas though, we should uh that this 0:08:00.040 --> 0:08:02.080 sort of remarkable to me because we'll find out, as 0:08:02.080 --> 0:08:04.559 we said, that a lot of about being in sauna 0:08:04.680 --> 0:08:08.200 is being completely naked, especially if you're finished. Americans a 0:08:08.240 --> 0:08:09.800 little more shy, but we'll get to that in a minute. 0:08:10.120 --> 0:08:12.680 But I imagine a finished prison sna is a pretty 0:08:12.680 --> 0:08:16.360 happening place to be on a Friday night, wouldn't you think. Yeah, 0:08:16.520 --> 0:08:21.680 because the saunas have something of a reputation, especially in 0:08:21.680 --> 0:08:26.120 the seventies. Um they developed the reputation for being a 0:08:26.240 --> 0:08:31.600 swinging gay hangout, right, and that is nothing new actually, 0:08:31.760 --> 0:08:34.679 um saunas, which we'll talk about later, the history of them. 0:08:35.000 --> 0:08:38.439 But they were um kind of eradicated thanks to the 0:08:38.440 --> 0:08:42.040 Protestant Reformation because they had started they had started to 0:08:42.080 --> 0:08:46.920 get pretty frisky. Yeah. Yeah, it's a big party in there. Uh. 0:08:46.960 --> 0:08:51.440 And not just gay either, well, no, all sorts of stuff, prostitution, Yeah, 0:08:51.480 --> 0:08:54.920 it's on as we're all they were missing was a 0:08:54.960 --> 0:08:57.320 disco ball in uh Andy Warhol and it could have 0:08:57.360 --> 0:09:01.600 been a studio. Uh So let's get but let's crawl 0:09:01.640 --> 0:09:03.760 back inside the sauna for a minute. Okay, you know 0:09:03.840 --> 0:09:06.320 all the spruce cedar. Would that looks so nice and 0:09:06.320 --> 0:09:09.320 feel so good on your bottom? Yes? I always thought 0:09:09.360 --> 0:09:11.360 that was just like I mean, I knew obviously they 0:09:11.400 --> 0:09:13.880 weren't gonna put stainless steel in there, but I never 0:09:13.880 --> 0:09:16.080 really figured out it's would. But I never gave it 0:09:16.120 --> 0:09:18.360 two thoughts. Right, you would think that it was just 0:09:18.440 --> 0:09:22.560 a traditional and it is traditional. But at the same time, yeah, 0:09:22.559 --> 0:09:25.920 it's never been updated in that respect because if you 0:09:25.920 --> 0:09:29.400 did put in stainless steel, you would leave many, many 0:09:29.480 --> 0:09:32.280 layers of skin in the sauna from your bottom every 0:09:32.320 --> 0:09:35.760 time you sat down with plastic um, you'd just be 0:09:35.800 --> 0:09:39.240 in big trouble. So would absorbs heat, and it remains 0:09:39.280 --> 0:09:42.480 relatively cool at high temperatures, which is why I mean 0:09:42.520 --> 0:09:46.079 it's still warm. Your tookis is hot, but it's not 0:09:46.160 --> 0:09:49.520 like you're not hurting yourself. Yeah, And Robert also pointed 0:09:49.520 --> 0:09:54.239 out that it's absorbs steam and stores heat and releases 0:09:54.280 --> 0:09:56.559 like that. Fine, seed or smell, right, which is why 0:09:56.600 --> 0:09:59.839 the youth seedar and spruce because they have natural a 0:10:00.000 --> 0:10:02.920 a matic's trapped within more than others. Right. I love 0:10:02.960 --> 0:10:05.360 cedar except pine. But I don't know if you'd want 0:10:05.360 --> 0:10:07.240 to just sit there and smell pine the whole time, 0:10:07.280 --> 0:10:10.040 would you? Maybe you get a little crazy? I think yeah, 0:10:10.160 --> 0:10:16.040 I think so, Chuck. Let's talk about the original finished sauna, 0:10:16.240 --> 0:10:20.160 the savusana. Yeah. Nice, it looks sort of like the 0:10:20.240 --> 0:10:26.320 unibomber cabin. It's literally a cabin like structure, no windows, 0:10:26.440 --> 0:10:29.480 no chimney, no chimney, which is important because it is 0:10:29.679 --> 0:10:33.120 a wood fire sauna. Yeah, and it's a little disconcerting. Apparently, 0:10:33.200 --> 0:10:36.200 if you have an original savosana, it takes like all 0:10:36.320 --> 0:10:39.200 day to get it hot enough. You're burning wood, they're 0:10:39.240 --> 0:10:43.440 smoking there. Yeah, it's black soot on the walls and 0:10:43.440 --> 0:10:45.880 this is where you're supposed to go in and sit. Yeah, 0:10:46.280 --> 0:10:48.360 it sounds very dangerous to me. It does. It doesn't 0:10:48.360 --> 0:10:52.480 sound healthy, um, which is why the savo sauna um 0:10:52.760 --> 0:10:55.560 because of the eye irritants, the fact that you're inhaling 0:10:55.600 --> 0:10:59.240 carbon monoxide and all sorts of other stuff. Um, is 0:10:59.720 --> 0:11:02.839 gen really relegated to sauna purists. According to Mr R 0:11:03.000 --> 0:11:04.760 L A M. Yeah, but I get the idea that 0:11:04.760 --> 0:11:06.760 you're supposed to let the smoke clear out as much 0:11:06.760 --> 0:11:09.280 as possible, is that right? Yeah? Like, but how how 0:11:09.360 --> 0:11:11.160 do you do that well? Because you're just letting all 0:11:11.160 --> 0:11:12.840 the heat out you know, yeah that he said it 0:11:12.880 --> 0:11:16.480 seeps through uh the cs in the roof. Yeah yeah, 0:11:16.920 --> 0:11:19.360 stick to me. And I mean, if you're setting hot 0:11:19.480 --> 0:11:21.200 enough as a c o A, I would say, please 0:11:21.240 --> 0:11:23.720 do not try to build your own savo sana because 0:11:23.720 --> 0:11:26.560 you will likely die of That's what I'm saying. Like, 0:11:26.600 --> 0:11:31.520 I don't understand how people survive the saunas, right, so, um, 0:11:31.600 --> 0:11:34.760 they're generally left to sauna purists and the rest of 0:11:34.840 --> 0:11:37.679 us just use regular saunas. It's just called the sauna. 0:11:37.760 --> 0:11:41.280 And this is the very recognizable sauna with spruce or 0:11:41.320 --> 0:11:45.040 cedar would um and a stove. Most of the time, 0:11:45.120 --> 0:11:50.120 these stove called kiowas, are electric these days, although you 0:11:50.160 --> 0:11:54.720 can have a wood burning kiowa kiowas ki u a 0:11:55.040 --> 0:11:58.520 s um that has a chimney, right, so you have 0:11:58.559 --> 0:12:01.600 gas to the main feature isn't that it's wood heated 0:12:02.040 --> 0:12:05.200 for a sava sauna. It's that there's no chimney and 0:12:05.240 --> 0:12:08.000 you're inhaling. Yeah, and well we should point out to 0:12:08.160 --> 0:12:11.000 like whether it's wood or gas or electric or whatever, 0:12:12.000 --> 0:12:14.679 it's not that's not providing the heat. You're heating rocks, right, 0:12:14.720 --> 0:12:17.560 and then the rocks transfer the heat to the surrounding environment. 0:12:18.080 --> 0:12:20.520 And if you want to jack the temperature a little bit. 0:12:20.520 --> 0:12:23.920 Remember we talked about a steam room, uh huh, that 0:12:24.120 --> 0:12:26.600 it's heated by water vapor. You can actually use the 0:12:26.600 --> 0:12:28.760 same thing for a sauna. You take a little water 0:12:29.000 --> 0:12:31.600 too later from a bucket, splash it on the rocks, 0:12:31.679 --> 0:12:33.480 and all of a sudden you have. With the Finns 0:12:33.520 --> 0:12:36.480 call loyally, there's an m lout in there. I know, 0:12:36.559 --> 0:12:39.120 and I don't. I'm not big on Finnish pronunciation. I 0:12:39.160 --> 0:12:41.920 know how to say semohaya, and I'm not even sure 0:12:41.960 --> 0:12:45.360 I'm saying that right. I'm gonna go with literally literally 0:12:45.720 --> 0:12:50.640 literally convening, but Swedish. I'm sorry, I just said something 0:12:50.640 --> 0:12:52.959 in Swedish. So since we were talking about the rocks, 0:12:52.960 --> 0:12:55.600 so we should say that the rocks, it's very important. 0:12:55.640 --> 0:12:58.400 You can't just throw granite in there, because grantit will 0:12:58.400 --> 0:13:00.800 probably explode in your face. I think it's that hot. 0:13:01.040 --> 0:13:03.880 But water on real danger rocks are not good. No, 0:13:04.040 --> 0:13:06.600 you need unweathered quarry rock, and he listed a few. 0:13:07.640 --> 0:13:11.839 Hornblender is my favorite. The one they like the most is, uh, 0:13:11.880 --> 0:13:18.080 what is it? Podote? Peridotite, peridotite, because there's an there's 0:13:18.080 --> 0:13:21.319 a there's a semi precious mineral called parado So I 0:13:21.320 --> 0:13:23.720 imagine this is where it comes from. Paradotite or old 0:13:23.720 --> 0:13:29.760 friend basalt. Yeah, why why can't we get that one? 0:13:29.880 --> 0:13:32.920 It won't stick in our head, like there's no um 0:13:32.960 --> 0:14:03.040 neural pathway forming when we hear that word. So anyway, paradotite. 0:14:03.240 --> 0:14:05.840 So those those are the rocks, the unweathered corey rock 0:14:05.960 --> 0:14:08.320 that that you can use to get really really hot. 0:14:08.360 --> 0:14:10.400 You can pour water on them, it'll steam, it'll hiss, 0:14:10.840 --> 0:14:13.640 but it won't blow up in your face right again, 0:14:13.679 --> 0:14:16.720 which is very important. I was surprised to find that 0:14:16.800 --> 0:14:19.440 the Swedes don't have a name for the pile of 0:14:19.520 --> 0:14:22.480 rocks that heat the the sauna. They have a name 0:14:22.520 --> 0:14:24.920 for the stove kiowas. They have a name for the steam, 0:14:25.400 --> 0:14:28.000 which is yeah, they don't have a name for the rock. 0:14:28.000 --> 0:14:31.040 It's called the pile of rocks. Yet the water on 0:14:31.040 --> 0:14:34.600 the pil rocks and make us some really uh josh. 0:14:34.680 --> 0:14:37.240 You can also have what's called an infrared sauna, and 0:14:37.280 --> 0:14:41.560 that's the latest and greatest. And people say, people that 0:14:41.640 --> 0:14:43.920 believe in the infrared sauna say that it actually penetrates 0:14:43.920 --> 0:14:47.800 like into your bones, which it's good and bad. If 0:14:47.840 --> 0:14:51.400 you listen to the Butterfly Wings podcast, you know, infrared 0:14:51.400 --> 0:14:56.040 means redder than red on the on the spectrum of light, right, Yeah, 0:14:56.600 --> 0:15:01.680 and it's radiation, sure exists radiation. That's basically what's going on, 0:15:01.800 --> 0:15:05.680 is you're being bathed in infrared radiation. Yeah, so it 0:15:05.720 --> 0:15:08.480 heats you up. I'm a semi purist, I think, yeah, 0:15:08.520 --> 0:15:10.560 I think I would just like a regular sauna, not 0:15:10.600 --> 0:15:13.760 a savasana stove a key us exactly, kind of like 0:15:13.800 --> 0:15:16.160 they have at the gym, yeah, or at the holiday 0:15:16.160 --> 0:15:19.680 and without the old naked men. Well that is the 0:15:19.720 --> 0:15:22.120 thing about um Sawna's that you're going to run into, 0:15:22.240 --> 0:15:25.800 Chuck is naked men and naked women even depending on 0:15:25.760 --> 0:15:29.960 where why not, Yeah, that's um. Robert made sure to 0:15:30.000 --> 0:15:32.440 point out that depending on where you are in the world, 0:15:32.720 --> 0:15:37.320 different cultures have different traditions. Finland, a lot of Eastern Europe, Russia. 0:15:37.920 --> 0:15:40.600 You can pretty much drop everything. You gotta have your 0:15:40.600 --> 0:15:42.840 towel though, because you gotta sit on it. Right You 0:15:42.840 --> 0:15:45.440 you may be completely naked, but you still have to 0:15:45.480 --> 0:15:48.000 have a towel for hygienic reasons. You don't want to 0:15:48.040 --> 0:15:51.280 just sit your butt on the cedar plank where somebody 0:15:51.280 --> 0:15:53.520 else just said there but because there's a transfer of 0:15:53.600 --> 0:15:55.720 butt punk. Yeah. But you know what also I thought 0:15:55.800 --> 0:15:58.440 was funny he said that they don't like Americans who 0:15:58.440 --> 0:16:00.200 want to wear like their bathing suit in there. They're 0:16:00.200 --> 0:16:02.920 really frowned upon because of hygienic reasons. Right, you just 0:16:03.000 --> 0:16:04.680 cover up with a towel. Yeah, but why is that 0:16:05.080 --> 0:16:09.040 not hygienic to wear like your speedo in there? Does 0:16:09.040 --> 0:16:11.680 a butt funk get trapped in the I think the 0:16:11.720 --> 0:16:14.280 butt funk can make it through the licra to the 0:16:14.360 --> 0:16:17.360 outside of it? Is that it? Maybe? I don't know. 0:16:17.560 --> 0:16:20.240 I just thought that was odd because here in the 0:16:20.360 --> 0:16:22.760 U S we're like, now, you wear a bathing suit 0:16:22.880 --> 0:16:26.640 for hygienic reasons. That's my point. That's some my point. 0:16:27.480 --> 0:16:29.880 Maybe maybe it's because we don't wash our bathing suits 0:16:29.920 --> 0:16:33.760 quite as often as we wash ourselves are naked bodies. 0:16:35.280 --> 0:16:38.720 This is a steamy episode. You should know, well, we 0:16:38.760 --> 0:16:41.920 are talking about nakedness, and we also should mention that, um, 0:16:42.240 --> 0:16:47.520 same sex saunas are found all over the place in Europe. Yeah, 0:16:47.920 --> 0:16:51.760 where saunas have traditionally been around for a very long time. Yeah, 0:16:51.840 --> 0:16:54.320 they tend to have same sex, although they'll also have 0:16:54.400 --> 0:16:59.800 mixed sex um as well. Yeah there's both. Wait, um, 0:16:59.800 --> 0:17:02.200 so the places where the songs have been around the 0:17:02.240 --> 0:17:05.760 most are more likely to have mixed sex. Places where 0:17:05.760 --> 0:17:07.760 it went away for a while and came back would 0:17:07.760 --> 0:17:13.560 have more like same sex saunas. Right right, I was confused. Germany, Austria, Scandinavia, 0:17:13.600 --> 0:17:17.320 Eastern Europe, he says, generally offer nude mixed company bathing. 0:17:17.560 --> 0:17:21.640 I yeah, mixed company like men and women. You got it. Yeah. 0:17:22.280 --> 0:17:25.240 In Russian Banya's did you ever see Eastern Promises? Yes, 0:17:26.200 --> 0:17:28.120 such a good movie. Has there ever been a more 0:17:28.880 --> 0:17:34.920 uncomfortable fight scene in your life? Naked? A couple of guys? 0:17:35.000 --> 0:17:38.760 It was, Yeah, if you have a Yeah, it's awesome movie. Um, 0:17:38.760 --> 0:17:41.119 it's for adults. It's rated R or maybe n C 0:17:41.240 --> 0:17:45.720 seventeen even possibly triple X, triple X, triple X. But yeah, 0:17:45.760 --> 0:17:48.000 there's a fight scene where Vigo is completely naked in 0:17:48.000 --> 0:17:51.159 a bathhouse and fights these guys. I can't imagine anything 0:17:51.200 --> 0:17:53.679 worse than being in a fight when I'm completely naked. 0:17:53.680 --> 0:17:56.520 I would just that gives me the hives. It does 0:17:56.560 --> 0:18:02.040 me as well. Yeah, let's talk about sweat. Yeah, let's 0:18:02.080 --> 0:18:04.479 talk about the science of it. Huh. Okay, that's what 0:18:04.480 --> 0:18:08.080 it's all about. Yeah. But a lot of people who um, 0:18:08.160 --> 0:18:11.520 who use saunas say that they're very healthy, and as 0:18:11.760 --> 0:18:14.639 Lamb gets into that goes back to the idea that 0:18:15.040 --> 0:18:19.040 sweat is excretion and excreting anything is healthy. But he 0:18:19.119 --> 0:18:23.560 also points out that it's very easy to make this mistake. This, 0:18:23.560 --> 0:18:26.520 this idea of any excretion is good has been around 0:18:26.520 --> 0:18:27.920 for a very long time. And don't forget what we 0:18:28.000 --> 0:18:31.480 used to use leeches to suck our blood. Um. We 0:18:31.600 --> 0:18:34.720 used to believe that um pooping as much as we 0:18:34.760 --> 0:18:38.359 could was a good idea, UM, which I kind of 0:18:38.359 --> 0:18:41.680 still clean to that one. I do too good. I'm 0:18:41.680 --> 0:18:46.000 a big believer in it. Uh. If you're talking sweat, josh, Um, 0:18:46.080 --> 0:18:49.040 what happens is nerve endings are triggered by heat, and 0:18:49.080 --> 0:18:54.159 it releases a neurotransmitter called acetal colie exactly, and he 0:18:54.240 --> 0:18:56.159 says there are two point three million sweat glands that 0:18:56.160 --> 0:18:58.160 all a sudden kick into action, which are also called 0:18:58.160 --> 0:19:01.320 ekring glands, are differ from aple kringle. I feel like 0:19:01.359 --> 0:19:04.200 I have more, but it's probably not the case. Mine 0:19:04.200 --> 0:19:08.240 are just overactive. That's possible. Hard working you do. I've 0:19:08.240 --> 0:19:13.160 seen I've seen you sweat in a seventy degree fahrenheight tank, 0:19:13.200 --> 0:19:15.240 which is chili. You have to have a wet suit 0:19:15.240 --> 0:19:17.240 for that. And Chuck is still sweating again with the 0:19:17.320 --> 0:19:20.919 swimming and sweating. Uh so, he claims that in a 0:19:20.960 --> 0:19:24.320 fifteen minutes sauna, the average person sweats about four cups 0:19:24.600 --> 0:19:27.040 about a leader of sweat, which is way more for 0:19:27.080 --> 0:19:29.800 me in fifteen minutes. Right, Yeah, I sweat about a 0:19:29.800 --> 0:19:32.200 gallon in fifteen minutes. I guarantee that's a lot. Man. 0:19:32.240 --> 0:19:34.800 A leader of sweat is a lot of water to lose. 0:19:34.960 --> 0:19:37.159 It is, you know. But you should see me in 0:19:37.240 --> 0:19:40.720 a sauna. It's awesome. It's one of the best feelings. 0:19:41.280 --> 0:19:46.320 But I'm not exactly Uh, sweating out toxins, am I No, 0:19:46.680 --> 0:19:50.240 you're sweating out salt uric acid. Not to be confused 0:19:50.280 --> 0:19:53.760 with Robert uruk um and that's pretty much it. You 0:19:53.800 --> 0:19:58.239 can you can you do excrete toxins, right yeah, but 0:19:58.320 --> 0:20:01.719 not much. No. For the most part, toxins are excreted 0:20:01.840 --> 0:20:09.760 through your kidneys. This is your go to um excretion, right, um. 0:20:09.840 --> 0:20:14.080 And the researchers have found that in heavy sweat, about 0:20:14.200 --> 0:20:18.640 one percent of mercury found in the bloodstream is released, 0:20:19.080 --> 0:20:22.040 where the other that's released goes through the kidneys. It 0:20:22.080 --> 0:20:24.440 either comes out in the stool or the urine, right 0:20:25.280 --> 0:20:28.080 or pooh right uh. And this is it has no 0:20:28.760 --> 0:20:32.600 The concentration of a toxin in the blood stream appears 0:20:32.600 --> 0:20:34.960 to have no bearing on how much is released through 0:20:34.960 --> 0:20:36.960 the sweat. It's almost like our sweat glands are set 0:20:37.040 --> 0:20:40.760 up to just do one percent. But people who use 0:20:40.840 --> 0:20:44.760 saunas say, man, one percent of a concentration of mercury, 0:20:44.960 --> 0:20:48.080 that's definitely worth fifteen minutes in the sauna, absolutely, you know, 0:20:48.160 --> 0:20:51.040 so they can. But I think it's not just feeling healthier. 0:20:51.040 --> 0:20:53.040 They're saying, look, there's a science behind it as well, 0:20:53.320 --> 0:20:57.760 right exactly. Um. Another benefit of a good sauna sweat 0:20:57.880 --> 0:20:59.639 or a good sweat period is this really good for 0:20:59.640 --> 0:21:02.480 your skis in it opens your porrors keeps them nice, 0:21:02.480 --> 0:21:06.200 impliant and the Uh. There's a study by the Journal 0:21:06.200 --> 0:21:10.320 of Dermatology that said, you know, a regular sweat from 0:21:10.359 --> 0:21:13.320 a sana has a proactive effect on your skin and 0:21:13.359 --> 0:21:14.919 like helps out with x amoun and all kinds of 0:21:15.040 --> 0:21:18.960 dry skin conditions. And also um Land points out that 0:21:19.040 --> 0:21:23.080 we have long associated like bathing rituals with kind of 0:21:23.200 --> 0:21:28.119 um clearing away the like a spiritual the psychic funk. 0:21:28.280 --> 0:21:32.560 Yeah yeah, not just bottom funk, but head funk. Yeah. Uh. 0:21:32.600 --> 0:21:36.720 And anybody who's felt poorly uh, and it's taking a 0:21:36.760 --> 0:21:40.000 shower can attest to that. You just feel better somehow 0:21:40.040 --> 0:21:42.800 after a shower. And there's nothing worse than the feeling 0:21:43.160 --> 0:21:46.520 of taking a shower, stepping out and still feeling bad 0:21:47.200 --> 0:21:48.959 because you know it's going to be another twenty four 0:21:49.000 --> 0:21:52.480 hours before you're going to feel start to feel good. Like, 0:21:52.600 --> 0:21:54.560 you know, you've screwed up big time if you take 0:21:54.600 --> 0:21:57.479 a shower and you still don't feel good afterwards, Right, 0:21:57.560 --> 0:22:01.000 you are, Josh, A great shower like great sweat or 0:22:01.080 --> 0:22:04.840 good steam, good fits, good fits, does a body good. Um. 0:22:04.920 --> 0:22:08.919 We're talking about the Russian banya, the saunas there the bathhouse. 0:22:09.040 --> 0:22:12.639 They also would beat themselves. I think they probably still do. 0:22:13.080 --> 0:22:15.560 You would flog your skin with what's called the venic 0:22:15.960 --> 0:22:18.679 and it's a bundle of leafy branches like oak and 0:22:18.760 --> 0:22:21.640 maple and birch branches, right, And by doing that, they're 0:22:21.680 --> 0:22:24.920 they're stimulating circulation. Yeah, because the skin is like, what's 0:22:24.920 --> 0:22:27.520 gonna quit that? Send some blood there, find out what's 0:22:27.520 --> 0:22:29.240 going on, right, let me know what's going on after 0:22:29.280 --> 0:22:32.600 you get there. See, and um, that's what that's what 0:22:32.640 --> 0:22:36.199 the skin is doing, right. Uh. And it also um 0:22:36.400 --> 0:22:39.720 produces a mild euphoric effect apparently yea. It releases the 0:22:39.760 --> 0:22:42.840 plant oils, which is also a good thing. And uh yeah, 0:22:42.880 --> 0:22:46.480 he said, it stimulates the production of opiate endorphins. And 0:22:46.920 --> 0:22:50.400 it's like a mild narcotic effect crazy, which I love 0:22:50.440 --> 0:22:53.880