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Hello, my name is Jeff Goldblum.
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By now, you may know meas a man of adventure.
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I pop, I chop...
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Come on, you.
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...I surprise, I improvise...
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I sometimes enjoy getting a little,a little gussied up.
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But I'm not gonna need many clothesfor my next mission.
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Swimming pools. Swimming pools.
Let's talk about swimming pools,
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cement ponds, and all things water.
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What a life aquatic it is.
Let's take a deep, deep dive.
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These days,you can find swimming pools
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in almost every countryand climate in the world.
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Over the past few decades,we've started building them bigger...
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and better...
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and more thrilling than ever before.
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I guess we're just head-over-heelsin love with pools.
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But here's the question.
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Why? Pourquoi? How come?
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Follow me, little fishies.
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This is Raging Waters.
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I think Robert De Niro was in that.
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No, I'm thinking of Ethel Waters.
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Sorry, Raging Waters.It's California's largest water park
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and part of an industry,the water park industry,
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that's worth a staggeringfive billion dollars a year
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to the US economy.
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Maybe here, in this fantasy land,we can gather our first few clues
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about why we have
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this strange affinity with H2O.
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Let's go!
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When I was a kid,
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we were the first to have
swimming pools in our neighborhood.
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So, we built one.I remember when we built one,
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but even before then...
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I remember having a blow-up
inflatable pool when I was...
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You know, these are my first memories.And we have home movies,
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those old '50s-styles home movies,of me in that.
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You know, but even before that,
I loved running through the sprinkler.
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And you couldn't, like a lot of kids,you couldn't get me out of the water.
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And then in my adult life...
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I didn't go in the pool much, you know.
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So, let's dip our toes in
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and start to glean why folksare flocking to places like this one.
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I myself have never been.
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I'm really getting waves now.
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We are definitely water babies.
We love swimming, the pools, relaxing.
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It's refreshing, there's no...
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Sharks.
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-There's no sharks.
-Well, yeah.
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Why is it calming?
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It's like, you're just
sitting in the pool, and then,
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like, the water's kinda cold,
and you just can relax,
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and you don't have
anything else to do except try to float.
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- I...
- It feels like you're flying
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- when you swim.
- It's like
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-you're flying when you swim.
-It's like zero gravity.
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- It's like zero gravity.
- It's fun.
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- It's like flying.
- Yeah.
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And it's a quick way to cool off
when it's hot.
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Somebody who thinks that hecan reconnect me with my inner water baby
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is a water park super-fanby the name of Marcus Dorsey.
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He has spent a whole lot of timein the last five years
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visiting water parksall over the globe. Golly.
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Water parks?
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-Yes.
-You are an eighth-degree
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black belt master.
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Supposedly.
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How many water parks are there
in the world?
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-In the United States alone...
-Yeah.
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...there is 1300 water parks.
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The water park is spinning
at this point for me.
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Hold on, hold on. Thirteen hundred?
I had no idea.
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There's a few types of people
that enjoy water parks,
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which is what makes them great.
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Okay, four types of people. Tell me.
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The first one are the adventurers,
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the people who dive into the unknown.
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Well... My God. Holy cats.
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Is this the first timeyou've done this?
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Yeah, this one here, yes.
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That might be me, that might be me.
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At least, there's part of me
that's an adventurer.
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Second one is the dreamer.
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This one's the person who's imaginative.
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They'll pretend they'reon a pirate fortress, you know,
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taking on other pirates and thengoing down the slides to escape.
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Yes, yes!
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Yes! I like it. Okay.
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Third one is a challenger.
These people push the limits a little bit.
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Sometimes, they'll go out to a wave pool
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and they'll try out somethingthat's like a surf simulator.
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They like challenging themselves,
you know?
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Yeah, that's me. Okay.
And fourth, maybe...
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If we hit, like,
four cherries on this machine,
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I'm telling you, I'm moving in.
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The fourth and last one
are the socializers.
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Wait a minute, wait a minute.
I'm a people person.
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Give me the description.
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The people who like shared experiences.
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-That's like you.
-That's me all over.
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I never realized it.
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Well, the time has cometo quit with the socializing
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and face my fears as the adventurer.
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What's everybody screaming about?
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That bodes ill.
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All right, wait a minute, wait a minute,
wait a minute, wait a minute.
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- What do you hold on to, like this?
- Yes.
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Let me see, hang on.
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Hello.
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Hello!
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That was actually really good,
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that got me much more soaked
than I expected.
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Yeah. I thought we were going over!
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My whole life flashed before my eyes.
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Man, I guess I've been,I've been missing out.
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But is there more to pools than just
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dare-devilment and jejune frivolity?
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What I want to now pursue is...
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in history, what did they do?
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How was the unique stamp put on pool life,
swimming pool life
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in other cultures, in other times?
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I will pursue it now.
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As far back as 5000 years ago,
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the ancient Egyptianshad hieroglyphic symbols
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for the words "swimming" and "pools,"
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but it took Roman engineeringfor the construction
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of the first poolsthat were meant for swimming.
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They were, by the way, heated.And then, during the next few millennia,
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pools were used in gardensand in temples
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to heal the sick, to make fishponds.
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But it wasn't until 1868 that,in the United States,
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you know what opened?
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Public baths.
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And they weren't intendedfor any swimming,
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just for getting clean.
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Yeah, since many of us didn't havea bathroom,
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city officials decided that we shouldall get into a bit of hot water.
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After that, we just went water-crazy,en masse.
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If you lined up all the 10.6 million poolsin the United States end to end,
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you could swim around the worldnearly two and a half times.
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Hey, you ever see that movie,
The Swimmer, with Burt Lancaster?
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It's a good one. Anyway,
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now we have poolsnot just for recreation,
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but for a whole bunch of other things,including the quest for inner peace.
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Nama-stay a whileand enjoy this next sequence.
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That's a horrible joke, that's terrible.
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There you are.
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There you are. This must be the place.
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I guess we have to...
I feel that sensitivity demands
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that we start to hush ourselves up
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and center ourselves,
because this is a place...
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As it says here on the welcoming mat,
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"float spa for the body, mind,
and spirit."
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You know..."spa"!
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I'm not exactly a spa fella.
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And now, don't you know
you're in front of the spa?
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So, who has their car alarm on?
Shut up! Shut up!
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These are not extras,
these are actual other people.
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I hope I'm not disturbing anybody.
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Are you waiting for your floatation...
You are? Appointment?
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You too?
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Jeff, my name's Michael Ruskow,
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I'm the owner and founder
here at Just Float.
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-It's a pleasure to meet you.
-You know, I did not know that.
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This is like some spy movie
where, you know...
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"Mr. Bond, I'm Felix Lighter,
I'm your contact."
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Already I'm falling into the deep pools
of your floating eyeballs.
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Well, thank you.
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- Thank you.
- Yes.
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- Avert your eyes immediately.
- There you go, there you go.
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- I'll get into this float ch... Whoa!
- All right.
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- How's it feel? The water's good?
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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- Ooh, you're getting in?
- We're... Yeah.
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- Okay.
- I tell you, we're gonna get
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- cozy and personal.
- My golly.
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- All right.
- I'm gonna put this on your forehead.
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It's called a brain station.
So, it's reading your brainwaves,
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so, when your neurons firing, right,
when you think about something,
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they create this electromagnetic field
on your scalp.
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Dr. Gil da Costais a pioneering neuroscientist
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whose cutting-edge gadgetsread peoples' brain waves.
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What if they find outthat I'm Abby Normal?
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So, Jeff, one thing that you can do
for your first few floats
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is put this under your head.
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-What do you do? You just do, like...
-Just put it like this. Exactly.
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- Just like that?
- Just like that.
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- Boy. Boy.
- And you'll see that...
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- Hey, I am floating, that's fun.
- Yeah.
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- Perfect. Just like that.
- Ready?
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Just like that.
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- Okay.
- All right?
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- That good?
- Have fun. Enjoy your float, my friend.
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- I'll see you on the other side.
- Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Okay, let me read a bitfrom the information here.
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Some evidence shows that floatationcan calm down the mentality
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by regulating the stress hormonecalled cortisol.
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It can also help treat anxietyand alleviate negative emotions
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and boost our sense of well-being.
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Regular floaters report feelingsof deep inner peace and spiritual insight,
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but a note of caution...
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in some cases,sensory deprivation can lead to...
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hallucinations.
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Wait a minute. I don't want to beWilliam Hurt in Altered States.
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Hi, Bill.
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Good, good.
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I feel kind of spacey.
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But I never opened my eyes
that whole time.
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Was that 45 minutes that I was there?
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That's interesting.
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- Well, give me the bad news.- So, how are you feeling?
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You know, I'm feeling
rather good right now.
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I feel energized, clear, fresh...
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-I feel good.
-Perfect.
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So, we'll look at your data.
We'll look at your brain data.
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- Yes, sir.
- It's interesting. So...
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- "Interesting"?
- ...I'm gonna...
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My dad used to say...
He was a doctor, my dad said...
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"Heaven forbid you should be
an interesting case."
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You were meditating, correct?
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Well, yes, at the beginning,
I started to do something,
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and then I, kind of,
went into a dream state.
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The interesting thing,
which we don't see a lot,
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we see it in expert meditators,
is you're doing this
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very quick aural assessment of the brain
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that is associated with creating
this mindfulness experience.
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So, we see it in Tibetan monks,
for instance.
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So, I'm actually envious.
I don't get to that point.
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-You don't?
-Not yet.
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Jeez, the mindfulnessof a Tibetan monk?
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Well, that's another feather in my cap,I guess.
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In any case, if pools can take usto the inner space of our minds,
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where else could they possibly take us?
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This can't be the end of our journey.
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What would I now be interested in?
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Hey, I'm just thinking now
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that there are people, literally,
who are involved with pools and water
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who literally go out of this world.
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I won't say what I'm thinking,
I'll tell my producers, we'll confer,
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and then maybe we'll take you there next.
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My, my.
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Hey, can you imagine what it's liketo really be in outer space?
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Well, it turns outthat if you want to find out...
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you can do it right here on Earthin a pool.
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You want to know where we are?
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Well, I'm pointing to the nameon the building.
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If it were a snake, it would bite you.
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Take a gander at this.It's one of the biggest,
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most unbelievable pools in the world.
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It's 200 feet long, 100 feet wide,and 40 feet deep.
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It holds 6.2 million gallons of water,
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and submerged within itis a full-scale replica
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of the International Space Station.
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Don't say I never take you anywhere.
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We're in Houston, Texas,
and we're in...
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I have never in my life been
inside a NASA facility.
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This is the Neutral Buoyancy Lab.
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And look, I'm gabbing so much.
Behind me...
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is a craft of some kind.
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Wait a second,
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are we for sure going back to the moon?
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But before any astronauts go there,
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they got to train right here,
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floating in waterinstead of floating in space,
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and scrutinized by mission controlexactly as if it was the real McCoy.
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Well, here we are.
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Who do you think is the astronaut
in this group here?
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-How are you? Good to see you.
-Sir, good to see you.
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-Have you been up in space?
-I have been in space.
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- Where'd you go in space?
- Around the Earth once every 90 minutes
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for five and a half months.
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-You've got to be kidding.
-I'm not kidding.
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My amazing guide,Col. Mark Vande Hei,
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has spent 168 days in spaceand performed four spacewalks.
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Kudos to the colonel.
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There are a couple of astronaut candidatesgetting suited up to get in the water.
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Yes, Kayla and Loral.
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Is it okay if we just say hi?
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- Yeah. Hello.
- My gosh.
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- Okay.
- My name is Jeff.
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- You're on camera, I hope that's okay.
- That's okay.
282
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You want to be an astronaut.
283
00:16:22,023 --> 00:16:23,399
-Yes.
-You're going to be an astronaut.
284
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-Yes, I hope so.
-I feel very strongly.
285
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And what are you doing today?
286
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Well, today we're training
in the Neutral Buoyancy Lab.
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It's a really large pool,
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large enough that we have a model
of the space station inside of it.
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It's the biggest pool I've ever seen.
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-This is Loral.
-Hi. I'm Loral.
291
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-I'm Jeff.
-Nice to meet you.
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- How long you been training?
- Two years.
293
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-Two years.
-Yeah.
294
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- Two years?
- Almost exactly.
295
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They gotta go. Go all the way through.
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It's time for Kayla and Loral
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to start the long process of suiting up.
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They're learning to spacewalksubmerged 40 feet down.
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When they do it for real,they're gonna be 240 miles up.
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This is the high pointof my life, I tell you.
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- Okay. Unbelievable.
- So, you can see, it's...
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Let's look at that.
I can't believe it.
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That suit is actually exactly like
the suit we would do
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- in space, with a couple exceptions.
- Okay.
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The backpack is a simulation
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of the life support system.
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Because she needs to get used
to being able to maneuver
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with that same volume on her back,
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but the life support system
that she'll have today
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is provided by an umbilical,
which she won't have in space.
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- How long's she gonna be in there?
- Six hours.
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- Six hours?
- Yes.
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-Whoa. Did she have a good meal before?
-I hope she did.
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Did she go to the bathroom?
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She did, but she'll probably
have to go again.
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- And what happens...
- Not everybody has to go again.
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What happens in the pool
when you gotta go to the bathroom?
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We're all wearing diapers.
Space is a very sexy job.
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I like that.
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There she goes!
Look, look, look, look, look!
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They're gonna lower her in!
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She's waving to me, she's waving to me!
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I'll see you there. I'm gonna come down...
I'm coming down and swimming.
324
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We're go for test on EV1 and EV2.
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EV1 and EV2,this is comm operator. How do you copy?
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- EV1 copies.- EV2 copies.
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EV2 is at the bottom.
328
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Copy that, EV2 is on the bottom.
329
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This may look likejust a few steps to you,
330
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but this is one giant leapfor a very virile man.
331
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I would just go in deep enoughto be able to sit down comfortably,
332
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and that'll allow you to get your fins on.
333
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- I like this temperature.
- And then...
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Okay, I'm putting on the fins.
335
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Only a handfulof Average Joes like me
336
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have ever been allowedto go diving in this pool,
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so, right now,
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I'm just the luckiest boyon the face of the Earth.
339
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Now, by using special floats and weights,the divers are carefully adjusting
340
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how much Kayla and Loralrise or sink in the water,
341
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and when both are equal,
342
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the astronauts will be at what's called
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- "neutral buoyancy..."- There we go.
344
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...which is the watery equivalentof zero gravity.
345
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And that's the closest thingthat we've got to outer space
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here on our planet's surface.
347
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Should be good to go.
348
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It's space training made possibleby the power of the pool.
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The magical feeling of being weightlessin water
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is one of our primal sensations.
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Just as all life began in the seas,so, too, each and every one of us
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began in the near-weightless environmentof a pool inside mother.
353
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The womb, the womb!
354
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But gravity drags us down.
355
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As we get older, we get shorter,
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wider, less flexible.
357
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Regular exercise in watercan counteract this
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by reducing blood pressureand muscle tension,
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and it rehabilitates injuries
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and releases endorphins,giving us a natural high.
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And for some, being in watercan even turn back time.
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Ladies and gentlemen.
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the world-famous Aquadettes. Yay!
364
00:20:45,953 --> 00:20:48,539
Look.
365
00:20:49,707 --> 00:20:52,585
I think they've espied me.
They're waiting for me.
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00:20:54,044 --> 00:20:56,630
They've seen me, I've been spotted,
I've been spotted!
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00:20:56,839 --> 00:20:58,799
Don't let me interrupt...
What are you doing? You're practicing?
368
00:20:59,508 --> 00:21:01,427
Okay, okay, they're right in the middle
of practicing.
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Synchronized swimming,
or whatever it's called,
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sends you into a transcendental,
intoxicated dream state.
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00:21:21,906 --> 00:21:27,328
It does me...
Boy.
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00:21:27,495 --> 00:21:30,122
Hi Jeff. Nice meeting you.
My God.
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Sydney!
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Nice to meet you, Laura.
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00:21:35,711 --> 00:21:37,338
-Hi Jeff.
-Hello.
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-What's your name?
-Marilyn.
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00:21:40,549 --> 00:21:42,510
-Marilyn?
-Nice to meet you.
378
00:21:42,593 --> 00:21:45,346
You have such soft kisses, Marilyn.
379
00:21:45,429 --> 00:21:47,097
- I want to be on this team.
- Try it!
380
00:21:47,223 --> 00:21:50,142
It's strictly gender-exclusive, though,
isn't it?
381
00:21:50,726 --> 00:21:52,895
- Not in... Not today, not today.
- No, not anymore.
382
00:21:53,020 --> 00:21:54,647
-How so?
-We have special...
383
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- Aquadudes.
- ...a special day for Aquadudes, yes.
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For Aquadudes?
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And, you know, since you're here.
386
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You are going to be our Aquadude.
387
00:22:02,655 --> 00:22:04,657
That's what I was saying.
I want to be part of this.
388
00:22:04,740 --> 00:22:06,575
I don't want to be left out
of this whole team.
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- Water. It's very healing, isn't it?- Yes. It is.
390
00:22:12,706 --> 00:22:15,793
A lot of us here are 80,
or above 80,
391
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- or almost 80, and...
- You don't look it,
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00:22:17,528 --> 00:22:18,671
-you look much younger.
-Yeah, we're all
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00:22:18,754 --> 00:22:20,232
-around that age, and...
-You look much younger.
394
00:22:20,307 --> 00:22:22,341
-Amazing, isn't it? Yeah.
-That's amazing. Amazing.
395
00:22:22,508 --> 00:22:25,135
All of us have different problems
in our body.
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You know, shoulders, knees,
back surgeries, heart surgeries.
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-Everything you can imagine.
-Heart surgeries?
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00:22:30,784 --> 00:22:31,642
-Yeah, yeah.
-And
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you get in the water, and it's just like
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- no gravity, no pain, no nothing.
- Right. Right.
401
00:22:36,689 --> 00:22:38,148
- Everything goes away.
- Nothing hurts.
402
00:22:38,232 --> 00:22:40,568
-You know? Nothing hurts anymore. Yeah.
-And nothing hurts.
403
00:22:40,734 --> 00:22:42,361
I really think the water is healing.
404
00:22:46,991 --> 00:22:49,994
- That... My gosh.
- There you go.
405
00:22:50,160 --> 00:22:51,203
Hey.
406
00:22:51,954 --> 00:22:53,497
-That is sexy.
-Yeah, yeah.
407
00:22:53,664 --> 00:22:54,874
- Is that good?
- Yeah, that's good.
408
00:22:55,207 --> 00:22:57,209
So, we're gonna go one...
409
00:22:57,501 --> 00:23:00,588
-Yeah?
-...and two, and three,
410
00:23:00,671 --> 00:23:03,299
and then we go
come around on four,
411
00:23:03,883 --> 00:23:07,011
-and five is kinda like a little present.
-Present.
412
00:23:07,177 --> 00:23:09,346
- Five, and six...
- Five, and six...
413
00:23:09,430 --> 00:23:10,849
-...and seven...
-She's laughing at me or with me,
414
00:23:10,924 --> 00:23:12,141
-I don't know.
-...and eight.
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00:23:12,224 --> 00:23:13,900
And you're gonna pull it in.
We're gonna do what's called
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a porpoise. It's a stunt.
417
00:23:15,019 --> 00:23:16,228
- A porpoise?
- A porpoise.
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00:23:16,395 --> 00:23:18,647
It's kinda like another breaststroke
at a 45-degree angle.
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00:23:18,814 --> 00:23:20,149
- Three...
- I like that.
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00:23:20,274 --> 00:23:21,692
- ...and four.
- Yeah, okay.
421
00:23:21,775 --> 00:23:23,277
-Lift both your legs on five.
-I gotcha.
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00:23:23,360 --> 00:23:25,237
And then we're gonna go down.
Six...
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00:23:25,321 --> 00:23:27,197
-Okay.
-...and seven and eight.
424
00:23:27,281 --> 00:23:28,449
Then we're gonna come around,
425
00:23:28,532 --> 00:23:30,075
- we're gonna turn around.
- Turn around.
426
00:23:30,284 --> 00:23:32,202
- And now we're gonna go that way.
- Okay.
427
00:23:32,286 --> 00:23:34,038
What music am I imagining?
428
00:23:34,204 --> 00:23:36,457
It's the "Waltz on the Blue Danube."
429
00:23:36,665 --> 00:23:37,791
How's that go?
430
00:23:47,676 --> 00:23:49,053
Okay, here we go.
431
00:23:49,219 --> 00:23:51,430
Follow us if you dare.
This is gonna be great.
432
00:23:51,513 --> 00:23:52,806
Or just leave us alone.
433
00:23:52,932 --> 00:23:55,059
Maybe you should all
just amuse yourselves
434
00:23:55,184 --> 00:23:59,396
while me and the Aquadettes
work on our routines.
435
00:24:03,484 --> 00:24:06,987
Five and six
and seven and eight.
436
00:24:31,553 --> 00:24:32,554
Yeah!
437
00:24:44,692 --> 00:24:49,738
My watery excursion is at an end,and, jeez, what have we learned?
438
00:24:49,822 --> 00:24:51,532
Well, we've seen that
439
00:24:51,615 --> 00:24:55,494
whether you're a water park adventureror socializer,
440
00:24:55,703 --> 00:25:01,208
it's just plain fun to be in the water,even when you're a grown-up Goldblum.
441
00:25:01,875 --> 00:25:04,503
And we've learned thatwhen we're floating in a tank
442
00:25:04,670 --> 00:25:07,589
or in NASA's Neutral Buoyancy Lab,
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00:25:07,756 --> 00:25:13,679
we can slip the surly bonds of Earthand liberate our minds and our bodies.
444
00:25:14,388 --> 00:25:19,018
And we've also seen how poolsmight just be the Fountain of Youth.
445
00:25:20,686 --> 00:25:23,188
But one more... one more thing.
446
00:25:25,232 --> 00:25:26,358
Water...
447
00:25:27,151 --> 00:25:28,318
is...
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00:25:28,861 --> 00:25:29,987
life.
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00:25:31,238 --> 00:25:36,160
Every living cell in your body
has some water in it.
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00:25:36,827 --> 00:25:39,496
In fact, you might even say
that all of us sapiens...
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00:25:40,706 --> 00:25:41,915
are made up of...
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00:25:42,708 --> 00:25:45,210
a collection of tiny...
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00:25:46,128 --> 00:25:49,173
little bitty pools.
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00:25:49,506 --> 00:25:52,176
You know, maybe that's why,
when you jump in them,
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00:25:52,509 --> 00:25:54,386
you feel so, so...
456
00:25:55,679 --> 00:25:56,805
at home.
457
00:26:04,021 --> 00:26:05,981
Sorry, bye-bye.
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