Waterbeds: The Sexiest Bed?

Stuff You Should Know

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🗓️ 18 October 2018

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Waterbeds came and went pretty quickly in the United States, but despite their marketing as sex beds, they were actually invented to deliver a great night's sleep. Learn all about these super 70's beds in today's episode.

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0:00.0	There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.
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0:16.4	I'm Wes Kosova.
0:17.7	Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.
0:23.6	Listen to The Big Take on The I Heart Radio App, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.
0:31.2	Welcome to Stuffy Should Know from House Stuff Works.com.
0:41.4	Hey, welcome to The Podcast.
0:43.4	I'm Josh Clark and there's Charles W. Chuck Brighton.
0:46.2	There's Jerry over there and we're just here jiggling away.
0:49.9	Slosh, slash.
0:50.8	On our pleasure pit.
0:54.2	Oh man, it's so funny.
0:56.1	When I started researching I saw it was like water beds.
0:59.3	That's very stuff you should know.
1:00.8	Yeah.
1:01.8	So sort of fits right in with our historical pop culture phenomena series.
1:09.8	Phenomenal.
1:12.8	In Big Shout Out to The Atlantic, one of our favorite rags.
1:15.8	A lot of this is taken from a 2010 article by Rebecca Greenfield and then a bunch of
1:21.9	other cool supplementary stuff, New York Times, who else?
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