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Several years ago, I was in Israel and I took a day trip to the Dead Sea. And I was there with my cousin, and we were just sitting there and watching people in the Dead Sea. And if you don't know much about the Dead Sea. And I was there with my cousin and we were just sitting there and watching

people in the Dead Sea. And if you don't know much about the Dead Sea, what you need to know is

it's about nine times saltier than the ocean. And so due to its high salt content, it's pretty

hard for things to live in the Dead Sea. It's pretty natural for things to float in the Dead Sea

because that's what dead things do when they spend any amount of time in the Dead Sea.

So you can actually look out at people who are alive

laying back on the water of the Dead Sea and they just float

because that's what things do.

It's like the sea knows. If you hang out here long

enough, you're going to be dead so you can go ahead and pretend like what you will be like if you

hang out here for too long. And so we were just looking out at people. We were people watching,

and they were doing the whole floating thing. But then the second thing that people love to do at the

Dead Sea is they love to

pick up mud off of the bottom of the Dead Sea floor, and they love to cake their bodies in the mud.

And so people will spend time just kind of covering their bodies, and then they will make a short walk

up to these freshwater showers and clean up because they think it's therapeutic for the

skin. And so my cousin and I on this particular day were just looking out at this group of people

caking themselves in the mud of the Dead Sea. And man, they were having the time of their lives.

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