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🗓️ 24 May 2024
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0:00.0 | I had an interesting experience recently. I went into a float tank for the first time. |
0:04.2 | You ever been in one of these? I have seen them in sci-fi movies. |
0:07.8 | This is like a Bacta Tank from Star Wars where you're healed from your injuries? |
0:13.2 | No, this is like a trendy new thing in the Bay Area |
0:15.7 | where you basically go into these like pods. |
0:18.6 | Like, imagine if like Apple designed a coffin, |
0:21.0 | it's like a shiny white pod the size of your body. |
0:26.0 | And you go in and it's filled with a couple inches of very salty water. So you basically just lie there and you float for an hour |
0:36.5 | inside this pod and it's supposed to be relaxing and was it relaxing? |
0:40.8 | Sort of, sort of. Sort of. |
0:43.0 | I mean it's definitely relaxing to be like floating gently in some like warm salty water, |
0:48.3 | but it is a little claustrophobic because you can make it totally dark in there and do sort of sensory deprivation. |
0:53.8 | But the thing that actually made it less relaxing for me was that you, |
0:57.0 | they have music that you can choose from, but the selection is not good. |
1:00.9 | It's like it's like cheesy yoga music, it's like pan. is not |
1:05.0 | what I wanted to be like it's like cheesy yoga music it's like you know chimes it's not what I wanted to be listening to down there which was |
1:10.0 | espresso by Sabrina Carpenter that's what I want to be listening to. |
1:14.0 | Kevin, let me ask you this, have you ever heard of taking a bath? |
1:17.0 | Because you're able to get many of the benefits of driving somewhere to float into inches of water, |
1:23.4 | and you can choose your own music. |
1:25.4 | Might want to look into that. |
1:26.3 | That's true. |
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