A Ridiculous History of Hot Tubs

Ridiculous History

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History, Society & Culture

4.3 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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While hot tubs may not always have the... best reputation in some circles, there's no denying people across the world love a good, hot soak after a long day. And we've loved this since antiquity, all the way back to the first time humans found natural hot springs. In today's episode, Ben, Noel and Max dive into the strange origin of hot tubs, from millennia past all the way to the modern day.

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2:08.4	producer Max. Can I get some bubbles going? Bubble bubble bubble bubble. Oh yeah. Though there's
2:17.0	the calming, well, blasted waters maybe still on top. There's a flurry of activity beneath.
2:24.7	So as you can tell, we are we're doing today's episode from the Jacuzzi of the Mind. They call me
2:33.2	Ben. How about we how about we invite people into this hot tub of an episode. This is a
2:42.3	this is something I'm picturing like you know you'd bisecting someone's skull,
2:46.8	cutting off the top part and you know just turning the brains into into squish and then just kind
2:53.3	of bathing in it with your arms around the edge of someone's head. I don't know. Is that weird?
2:58.0	I think it's weird. Now that I'm saying it out loud. It's dark. It's dark, but hey,
3:02.2	just this season, you know what I mean? And it's also perfect weather. Someone argue for a hot
3:08.8	tub. We also want to give a shout out to our research associate for this week. Max Williams.
3:15.4	The very same bubble bubble bubble bubble bubble bubble. Our resident hot tub expert. He's been this
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