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A Very Self Indulgent Suggestion · Armstrong & Getty One More Thing

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  Speaker 1: Well, if you ever win the lottery and want to
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  Speaker 1: be self indulgent, I got an idea for you.
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  Speaker 2: It's one more thing. I'm strong and getty. One more thing.
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  Speaker 1: I'll start here. Joel have to help me. How do
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  Speaker 1: you pronounce an A with the two dots over it?
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  Speaker 2: I said, German, that's Swedish.
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  Speaker 1: I thing, yeah, umlot, Well that's the well, that's that's
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  Speaker 1: the symbol. Yeah, I was wondering how you pronounce the anyway.
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  Speaker 1: The brand is h A S T E N S.
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  Speaker 1: With the thing, I'll call it Houstin's probably close anyway.
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  Speaker 1: So I mentioned last week this thing New York Times
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  Speaker 1: has called Wirecutter and they recommend products and I've kind
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  Speaker 1: of gotten sucked into it and I purchased a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of things from their recommendations.
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  Speaker 2: I really like it.
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  Speaker 1: Their their their ethics are they don't take any sponsorship,
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  Speaker 1: they don't take any money, they don't get to keep
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  Speaker 1: the products, and uh, they review all these different things
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  Speaker 1: and tons of things. Like I bought a frying pan
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  Speaker 1: the other day. They said the best non sticks frying
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  Speaker 1: pan you can get. And one of the reasons it's
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  Speaker 1: so popular is it's not like you might expect out
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  Speaker 1: of the New York Times. They're always the most expensive
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  Speaker 1: thing out there. It's very regularly you can get this
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  Speaker 1: at Target for twenty bucks or or if you want
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  Speaker 1: to really splurge, this one's two hundred dollars. But it's
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  Speaker 1: only this much better or whatever. It just it has
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  Speaker 1: and I've been very happy with a bunch of things
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  Speaker 1: I've purchased from it.
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  Speaker 3: And well, and that's so hard to find now. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: soal honest, you know, ratings and reviews and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, lost of them are crap.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And they'll have like, you know, the best white T
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  Speaker 1: shirt for men, and they'll have ten different options, different
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  Speaker 1: price points, and why they're good and you know how
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  Speaker 1: they hold up and wash in the prime. Well whatever,
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  Speaker 1: you get the point this. I need a good beefy tea.
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  Speaker 1: I remember, do they still have the Hanes beefe tea?
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  Speaker 1: Because so many places.
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  Speaker 3: You go the T shirts are like double washed for softness, right,
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  Speaker 3: and they're superform fitting. I don't want superform fitting. It's
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  Speaker 3: all right, It's like im a age twenty.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Mark Kotzi says, I look worse with this shirt on
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  Speaker 1: than I if I didn't have a shirt on. Yeah anyway,
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  Speaker 1: So this is why this one stands out so much,
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  Speaker 1: the headline being I wish this fifty six thousand dollars
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  Speaker 1: mattress weren't so incredible from this reviewer. As a Wirecutter's
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  Speaker 1: resident sleep expert, I've tested nearly one hundred mattresses, including
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  Speaker 1: a dozen of those in my own home. I've slept
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  Speaker 1: on everything from a forrrible bed in a box. I
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  Speaker 1: got my son one of those. It's pretty cool to
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  Speaker 1: ten thousand dollars mattresses made from materials developed for massa. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I've found decent, even wonderful options across the spectrum. None
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  Speaker 1: of them have compared to the Hostins two thousand te
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  Speaker 1: It also costs fifty five, seven hundred and eighty dollars.
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  Speaker 2: I'm getting one of these right away.
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  Speaker 1: Hostin's would lend her to the mattress to slip deep
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  Speaker 1: on for several weeks, along with the box spring and headboard.
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  Speaker 1: With If you get the box spring, headboard and the mattress,
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  Speaker 1: that brings you to seventy five thousand dollars.
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  Speaker 3: Well, if you you gotta, you gotta get the package
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  Speaker 3: because they fit together.
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  Speaker 2: I mean it's a unit, it's a team.
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  Speaker 1: Austin's derived from the Swedish word for horse. Of course
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  Speaker 1: you knew. That was found in eighteen fifty two as
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  Speaker 1: a saddle making business that shifted to luxury bed making
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  Speaker 1: in the twentieth century. All of its mattresses are hand
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  Speaker 1: crafted from the same materials horse hair, wool, flax, cotton,
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  Speaker 1: and steel coils.
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  Speaker 2: The company.
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  Speaker 1: Whoa one of the big selling points. One of the selling
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  Speaker 1: points of this mattress. It will last spells like a horse. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: what are the selling points of the mattresses? It will
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  Speaker 1: last the lifetime. So if you're a rich person who
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  Speaker 1: buys expensive mattresses and you started at age five and
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  Speaker 1: lived to be two hundred, you might break even but
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  Speaker 1: on having one mattress your whole life. But horsehair is
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  Speaker 1: the star of the show in every Houstin's mattress. I
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  Speaker 1: promise this is interesting. The horse made and tail strands
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  Speaker 1: are heated, heat treated, braided, and then steamed to create
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  Speaker 1: a permanent curl, an expensive process which, according to Hostin's,
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  Speaker 1: is the main reason this bed is so different. The
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  Speaker 1: curls are dense enough to create a loose, springy structure
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  Speaker 1: that feels airy yet supportive. The fibers are hollow. This
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  Speaker 1: helps the mattress feel breatheable by wiking away moisture and
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  Speaker 1: excess heat.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, I just can't get past a mental picture of
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  Speaker 3: a bunch of shaved horses running around stud Wish.
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  Speaker 1: And they had their hair back. Hastins usually requires potential
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  Speaker 1: buyers to try mattresses and purchase before purchasing one. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: you wouldn't want to buy it online a sixty thousand
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  Speaker 1: dollars mattress, so I embarked on a sleep spa experience
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  Speaker 1: at the company's flagship store in New York. There are
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  Speaker 1: thirteen mattresses in the line, ranging from fourteen thousand to
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  Speaker 1: six hundred thousand dollars, and I was able to try
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  Speaker 1: each mattress at my own pace in a dimmed room,
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  Speaker 1: swallowed in a down comforter with two pillows from my head,
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  Speaker 1: one for my knees, ambient music playing. There is a
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  Speaker 1: person lying in the bed across them, guiding me to
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  Speaker 1: scan my body to assess the feeling into my hip
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  Speaker 1: and back. If a mattress filled un supported them all away,
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  Speaker 1: Hey a bed somalia to help you choose the right one,
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  Speaker 1: That's exactly right.
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  Speaker 2: M uh.
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  Speaker 1: Shopping at Hostin's felt like a meditation session in a cool,
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  Speaker 1: quiet studio, relaxed.
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  Speaker 2: Blah blah, blah blah.
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  Speaker 1: After forty five minutes, I landed on the two thousand
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  Speaker 1: tees soft. Here's the part that I really liked, that
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  Speaker 1: I thought was quite amazing. I know from years of
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  Speaker 1: mattress testing the comfort is subjective, and no single mattress
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  Speaker 1: work for everyone. That being said, sleeping on the two
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  Speaker 1: thousand t tea feels like nothing I've ever felt before.
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  Speaker 1: When I settle in, the mattress conforms just enough to
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  Speaker 1: my whole body to sink into it, while what feels
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  Speaker 1: like a thousand little hands support me from below.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, don't tut me there, like a bunch of a
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  Speaker 2: little oop bloopas.
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  Speaker 1: The closest comparison I can think of is floating in
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  Speaker 1: a sensory deprivation chamber. When I lay on the Hostins,
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  Speaker 1: I feel weightless, like I'm bobbing on a pool of
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  Speaker 1: water calibrated to my exact body temperature. I can barely
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  Speaker 1: tell whether a mattress ends and my body begins, regardless.
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  Speaker 2: Of what position I'm in. That sounds freaking cool.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean because I I had the same look
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  Speaker 1: on my face that you've had up until this point. Like, okay,
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  Speaker 1: get to explain in how great this. But if it
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  Speaker 1: feels like you're not laying on anything, like you're just
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  Speaker 1: actually just floating in body temperature air with no pressure
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  Speaker 1: on any point in your body, that's pretty appealing feeling.
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  Speaker 1: I've never had it, but wow. Unlike the slow sink
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  Speaker 1: of memory foam or the cushion of a padded pillow top,
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  Speaker 1: the horse air and a Hastin's mattress has a natural springingness,
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  Speaker 1: yet it's just as soft and far more breathable. I'm
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  Speaker 1: a hot sleeper on ever, once woke up sweaty below
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  Speaker 1: the horse hair two three and forty individual springs offer
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  Speaker 1: a sensation that is as delightful to experience as it
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  Speaker 1: is difficult to describe. But imagine being suspended in a
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  Speaker 1: tide of soft shifting air. Imagine being suspended on a
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  Speaker 1: tide of soft shifting air, cradled yet free. I gotta
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  Speaker 1: admit I'd like to try this once. I would never.
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  Speaker 1: I would never, even if I could afford it. Buy
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  Speaker 1: one of these. Maybe, if I could afford it, I would.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, well, it actually makes that point at the
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  Speaker 1: end of the article.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I just before we move on, just to clarify,
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  Speaker 3: you are saying horse hair and not horse hair, right,
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  Speaker 3: this is not the harvested hair of sex workers.
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  Speaker 1: Right, people exchange if people exchange money for sex.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly. Just you know, I got that Oscar winning
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  Speaker 3: movie on my mind.
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  Speaker 1: No, the common beast of burden as seen in western movies.
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  Speaker 2: Ah, the horse, Yes, I'm surelier there's one.
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  Speaker 1: Now, hey, come here, I got an idea for your hair.
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  Speaker 1: Hold Still, after a couple of weeks on the mattress,
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  Speaker 1: I could feel them. This this part is amazing, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: all right. After a couple of weeks on the mattress,
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  Speaker 1: I can feel the materials start to compress together, creating lumps.
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  Speaker 1: After I got up in the morning, you'd think, Man,
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  Speaker 1: two weeks into my fifty six thousand dollars bed, I'm
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  Speaker 1: starting to feel lumps. I'd think, all right, somebody's gonna
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  Speaker 1: get a beating. Right, But that's normal. Assures Hostins because
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  Speaker 1: the mattress requires regular complimentary massaging. Yes, every mattress sold
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  Speaker 1: by Hastins comes with a recalibration program in which Houston's
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  Speaker 1: employees visit your home to loosen up the materials and
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  Speaker 1: redistribute them to prevent the mattress from settling into a
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  Speaker 1: U shaped valley. Each Hastin's owner is entitled to the
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  Speaker 1: service for a decade or more with the mattress.
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  Speaker 3: All right, this sounds like a pain in the ass. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: wait a minute, and.
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  Speaker 1: I want some dude coming over and massaging my mattress
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  Speaker 1: on a regular basis.
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  Speaker 3: That's where Hey, Joe, can you play golf tomorrow? No,
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  Speaker 3: I'm due to have my mattress massage.
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  Speaker 2: You're what. No, it's made with a horse hair. It's
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  Speaker 2: very complicated.
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  Speaker 3: You're gonna get a massage on your mattress. No, the
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  Speaker 3: mattress itself is getting a massage.
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  Speaker 1: What the point they make about spending the money, though,
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  Speaker 1: is I have a pretty expensive piano. This person says
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  Speaker 1: that I play.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes.
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  Speaker 1: Many of us stretch our budgets for a fancier car,
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  Speaker 1: marble countertops, or whatever. We spend a third of our
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  Speaker 1: time on earth asleep. Our mattresses are among the most intimate,
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  Speaker 1: constant companions of our lives. One of your most prized
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  Speaker 1: possessions was your bed instead of your car or something
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  Speaker 1: else that you care about. The having to have somebody
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  Speaker 1: come to my home multiple times a year in massage.
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  Speaker 1: My bed does sound like painting the ass the other
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  Speaker 1: description of you can't even tell you're laying on anything.
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  Speaker 1: It's just like you're floating that untouched.
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  Speaker 2: It sounds amazing.
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  Speaker 1: It does sound absolutely amazing, and I wonder what to
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  Speaker 1: be like to sleep like that.
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  Speaker 2: I'd like to try it once.
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  Speaker 1: Until it starts getting lumpy and needs a massage. That's
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  Speaker 1: so weird to me. I have so much trouble sleeping.
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  Speaker 1: I could see if I if I slept on one
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  Speaker 1: of those and it's as great as they describe, I
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  Speaker 1: might decide, you know what, I'm gonna drive a twenty
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  Speaker 1: year old Toyota Corolla for the rest of my life
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  Speaker 1: and uh, I don't know, donate plasma every Saturday and
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  Speaker 1: figure out a way to get one of these beds.
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  Speaker 3: I just hope they carve out a little bit of
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  Speaker 3: that sixty thousand dollars to buy a nice wig for
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  Speaker 3: the now hairless horror.
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  Speaker 1: Who's not gonna get in because not that many people
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  Speaker 1: won't have sex with a bald woman exactly.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I guess that's it.