The Cult of Cold Plunging

Culture Study Podcast

Arts, Society & Culture

4.5 • 789 Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

This week I get my “cold plunge curious” partner Charlie Warzel to come on the pod and talk about how cold plunging suddenly feels like it’s everywhere, the science (some interesting, some junk) behind it, whether it’s been “bro-ified,” who’s buying those $6000 cold plunge tubs… and how to actually start doing it, if that’s your thing.Show Notes:The Huberman Lab Podcast (I also like this Jess Grose piece on “Huberman Husbands”)The Coney Island Polar Bear Club, founded in 1903The Tiktok guy who plunges every day:The $6000+ cold plunge tub:Charlie at The Atlantic and Charlie on InstagramFollow Melody on Instagram and follow the show on Instagram!We’re currently looking for your questions for future episodes about:SITTING. Is it that bad? How do you feel about how much you sit? Do you do anything to sit more or less?The cultural force that is/was Contemporary Christian MusicMoms for LibertyGoodreads (what has made it so bad, a particular trend you’ve observed, should you go to Storygraph, you can take this anywhere you want)Very Contemporary Architecture Trends (like ‘modern farmhouse’) and/or wtf is going on with Chip & Joanna Gaines these days, why is their new show so banalWhatever Bradley Cooper’s deal isAnything you need advice on!You can submit them (and ideas for future eps) here (and here’s the subscriber-only priority form)Tell us all your plunge thoughts. Do you love it? Does it annoy you? Are you mostly just sick of people talking about it?Or maybe you just want links to all the cold plunge robes that have haunting me for the past month. We’ve got it all.

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0:46.2	Thank you so much.
0:49.0	Okay, I'm starting recording.
0:50.5	Do you have the towels?
0:51.4	I have the towels, yeah.
0:52.8	Okay.
0:53.9	I should set the scene that it's about 40 degrees and raining. No, it's like 50. No, it's colder now.
1:01.0	It's not 50 on my thing. 45. Okay. It's raining. We're coming down the beach. We're meeting our
1:08.2	friends. Beth and Joe.
1:11.6	Yeah. Yeah.
1:12.6	I speak the language clean when I'm saying.
1:15.6	No, not at all.
1:16.6	I'm excited.
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