Bursting the Bath Time Bubble

Chasing Life

CNN

Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.5 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

There’s been a lot of debate about how often we need to bathe — and the answer might be less than you think. It turns out we have a complicated history with washing dating back to the baths of Ancient Rome. In this brand new episode of Margins of Error, CNN's senior data reporter Harry Enten goes straight to the experts to decode the hygienic necessity of bathing versus our societal norms. Plus, he sees what life is like without deodorant. You’ll have to smell it to believe it. New episodes of Chasing Life return on May 17. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey there listeners!
0:04.2	Next week marks the start of Chasing Life's New Season, but in the meantime, there's one
0:09.0	more podcast I'd like to share with you.
0:11.5	This week's episode is From Margin's of Error, and it's hosted by CNN's resident Numbers
0:16.0	Guy, Harry Anton.
0:18.3	In this episode, Harry looks at the complicated history of bathing.
0:21.8	Yeah, bathing.
0:22.8	He's going to ask how often do we really need to wash?
0:26.4	He goes right to the experts to sort out the differences between our societal norms and
0:31.8	the science of staying clean.
0:33.9	Plus, Harry sees what life looks like and smells like when he goes a week without deodorant.
0:39.2	It's going to be pretty interesting.
0:41.4	You can find margins of error wherever you get your podcasts.
0:44.8	Enjoy the episode.
0:51.4	The days I'm not on TV in the early morning all start off pretty similarly.
0:57.0	I get up slowly, read my email, watch something on YouTube, and eventually I'll find my way
1:03.1	into the shower.
1:04.6	Now, I don't know about you, but when I'm in the shower, I think about a lot of stuff.
1:10.9	One thing I thought about recently, funnily enough, was showers!
1:15.1	Specifically, how often I take them.
1:17.8	I'm firmly in the camp of people who shower every day, and according to the pollster you
1:22.5	give, that's easily the majority here in America.
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