"Hello, my name is Jeff Goldblum"
"By now, you may know me as a man of adventure"
"I pop, I chop"
Come on, you
"I surprise, I improvise"
"I sometimes enjoy getting a little a little gussied up"
"But I'm not gonna need many clothes for my next mission"
Swimming pools, swimming pools Let's talk about swimming pools
Cement ponds and all things water! What a life aquatic it is!
Let's take a deep, deep dive
Hey, water boy, bring...
"These days, you can find swimming pools"
"in almost every country and climate in the world"
"Over the past few decades"
"we've started building them bigger..."
"and better..."
"and more thrilling than ever before"
"I guess we're just head over heels in love with pools"
"But here's the question, why? Pourquoi?"
"How come?"
"Follow me, little fishies!"
"This is Raging Waters"
"I think Robert De Niro was in that"
"No, I'm thinking of Ethel Waters, sorry"
"Raging Waters, it's California's largest water park"
"and part of an industry the water park industry"
"that's worth a staggering five billion dollars a year"
"to the US economy"
"Maybe here in this fantasy land"
"we can gather our first few clues"
"about why we have this strange affinity with H2O"
"Let's go!"
When I was a kid
we were the first to have swimming pools in our neighborhood
"So, we built one I remember when we built one"
"But even before then"
I remember having a blow-up inflatable pool
when I was, you know... These are my first memories
"And we have home movies"
"those old 50s-style home movies of me in that"
You know, but even before that I loved running through the sprinkler
"And you couldn't, like a lot of kids"
"you couldn't get me out of the water"
And then in my adult life...
I didn't go in the pool much you know...
"So, let's dip our toes in"
"and start to glean why folks are flocking to places like this one"
"I myself have never been"
Wow! I'm really getting waves now
We are definitely water babies We love swimming
The pool's relaxing It's refreshing, there's no...
- Sharks - There's no sharks
Well, yeah Why is it calming?
It's like, you're just sitting in the pool
and then, like the water's kind of cold
and you can just relax
and you don't have anything else to do except try to float
It's feels like you're flying when you swim
It's like you're flying when you swim
- It's like zero gravity - It's like zero gravity
- It's fun - It's like flying
And it's a quick way to cool off when it's hot
"Somebody who thinks that he can reconnect me"
"with my inner water baby is a water park super fan"
"by the name of Marcus Dorsey"
"He has spent a whole lot of time" in the last five years"
"visiting water parks all over the globe"
"Golly!"
- Water parks? - Yes
You are an eighth-degree black belt master
Supposedly
How many water parks are there in the world?
- In the United States alone - Yeah
There are thirteen hundred water parks
The water park is spinning at this point for me
Hold on, hold on Thirteen hundred?
I had no idea
There's a few types of people that enjoy water parks
which is what makes them great
Okay, four types of people, tell me
The first one are the adventurers
the people who dive into the unknown
Oh, my God!
Holy cats
Is this the first time you've done this?
Yeah, this one here, yes
That might be me That might be me
Though at least there's part of me that's an adventurer
The second one is the dreamer
This one's a person who's imaginative
They'll pretend they're on a pirate fortress, you know?
Taking on other pirates
and then going down the slides to escape
Yes, yes, I am the pirate king
and it is, it is a glorious thing to be a pirate king
Yes, I like it, okay
The third one is a challenger
These people push the limits a little bit
Sometimes, they'll go out to a wave pool and they'll try out
Something that's like a surf simulator
They like challenging themselves, you know?
Yeah, that's me, okay And fourth
Maybe if we hit, like, four cherries on this machine
I'm telling you, I'm moving in
The fourth and last one are the socializers
Wait a minute, wait a minute
I'm a people person
"Give me the description"
The people who like shared experiences
- That's... - That's like you
That's me all over
I never realized it
"Well, the time has come to quit with the socializing"
"and face my fears as the adventurer"
What's everybody screaming about?
That bodes ill
Alright, wait a minute wait a minute, wait a minute
Wait a minute!
What do you hold on to? Like this?
- Yes - Let me see, hang on
Hello
Wow!
Hello!
Oh, my God!
Wow!
That was actually really good
That got me much more soaked than I expected
Yeah, I thought we were going over
My whole life flashed before my eyes
"Oh, man, I guess I've been... I've been missing out"
"But is there more to pools than just daredevil-ment"
"and jejune frivolity?"
What I wanna now pursue is... In history, what did they do?
How was the unique stamp put on pool life
swimming pool life in other cultures in other times?
I will pursue it now
"As far back as 5,000 years ago"
"the Ancient Egyptians had hieroglyphic symbols"
"for the words swimming and pools"
"but it took Roman engineering for the construction of the first pools"
"that were meant for swimming"
"They were, by the way, heated"
"And then during the next few millennia"
"pools were used in gardens and in temples"
"to heal the sick to make fishponds"
"But it wasn't until 1868 that in the United States"
"you know what opened? Public baths"
"And they weren't intended for any swimming, just for getting clean"
"Yeah, since many of us didn't have a bathroom"
"city officials decided that we should all get into a bit of hot water"
"After that, we just went water-crazy en masse"
"If you lined up all the 10.6 million pools"
"in the United States end to end"
"you could swim around the world nearly two and a half times"
"Hey, ever see that movie The Swimmer with Burt Lancaster?"
"It's a... It's a good one"
"Anyway, now we have pools not just for recreation"
"but for a whole bunch of other things"
"including the quest for inner peace"
"Nama-stay a while and enjoy this next sequence"
"That's a horrible joke That's terrible"
Hudson...
There you are
There... There you are
This must be the place
I guess we have to...
I feel that sensitivity demands
that we start to hush ourselves up and...
center ourselves because this is a place...
As it says here on the welcoming mat
"Float Spa for the Body Mind and Spirit"
A spa I'm not exactly a spa fella
And now, don't you know you're in front of the spa?
So who has their car alarm on?
Shut up, shut up!
These are not extras These are actual other people
I hope I'm not disturbing anybody
Are you waiting for your flotation... you're appointment?
You, too?
Jeff, my name's Michael Ruskow
I'm the owner and founder here at Just Float
It's a pleasure to meet you
You know, I did not know that
This is like some spy movie where you know...
Mr. Bond, I'm Felix Leiter I'm your contact
Hello Jeff Goldblum...
Already I'm falling into the deep pools of your floating eyeballs
Well, thank you
- Thank you - Yes
- Avert your eyes immediately because... - There you go, there you go
I'm gonna get into this float...
- Wow! - Alright, how does it feel?
- The water's good? - Yeah, yeah, yeah
- You're getting in? - Alright, yeah
I'll tell you, we're gonna get cozy and personal
- Oh, my golly! Alright - I'm gonna put this on your forehead
This is called a brain station So it's reading your brainwaves
so when your neurons' firing, right?
When you're thinking about something
they create this electromagnetic field on your scalp
"Dr. Gil-da-Costa is a pioneering neuroscientist"
"whose cutting edge gadgets read people's brainwaves"
"What if they found out that I'm aby-normal?"
So, Jeff, one thing that you can do for your first few floats
- is put this under your head - What do you do?
- You just do like... - You just put it like this
- Exactly - Just like that?
- Just like that - Oh, boy, oh, boy
- And you'll see that... - Hey, I am floating
- Yeah, just like that - That's fun, perfect, alright
- Just like that - Okay
- Alright, have fun - I got this
Enjoy your float, my friend I'll see you on the other side
Oh, yeah
"Okay, let me read a bit from the information here"
"Some evidence shows that flotation"
"can calm down the mentality by regulating the stress hormone"
"called cortisol"
"It can also help treat anxiety and alleviate negative emotions"
"and boost our sense of well-being"
"Regular floaters report feelings of deep inner peace"
"and spiritual insight but a note of caution"
"In some cases, sensory deprivation can lead to..."
"hallucinations"
"Wait a minute"
"I don't wanna be William Hurt in Altered States"
"I'll go..."
Good, good
I feel kind of spacey
But I never opened my eyes that whole time
Was that 45 minutes that I was in here?
Wow! That's interesting
- "Well, give me the bad news" - "So, how are you feeling?"
You know, I'm feeling rather good right now
I feel energized, clear, fresh
- I feel good - Perfect
- So, we'll look at your data - Yeah
- We'll look at the brain data - Yes, sir
- It is interesting, so... - Interesting
My dad used to say... He was a doctor, my dad said
Heaven forbid you should be an interesting case
You were meditating, correct?
Well, yes, I was starting...
At the beginning I started to do something
and then I kind of went into a dream state
The interesting thing which we don't see a lot
we see it on expert meditators, is...
You're doing this very quick aural reassessment of the brain
that is associated with creating this mindfulness experience
So we see it in Tibetan monks for instance...
So, I'm actually envious I don't get to that point
- You don't? - Not yet
"Jeez, the mindfulness of a Tibetan monk"
"Well, it's another feather in my cap, I guess"
"In any case, if pools can take us to the inner space of our minds"
"where else could they possibly take us?"
"Like, a wheel within a wheel like the windmills of our minds"
This can't be the end of our journey
What would I now be interested in...
Hey, I'm just thinking, now that there are people literally
who are involved with pools and water
who literally go out of this world...
I won't say what I'm thinking
I'll tell my producers We'll confer
and then maybe we'll take you there next
"My, oh, my!"
"Hey, can you imagine what it's like to really be in outer space?"
"Well, it turns out that if you wanna find out"
"you can do it right here on Earth in a pool"
"You wanna know where we are?"
"Well, I'm pointing to the name on the building"
"If it were a snake it would bite you"
"Take a gander at this It's one of the biggest"
"most unbelievable pools in the world"
"It's 200 feet long a hundred feet wide"
"and 40 feet deep"
"It holds 6.2 million gallons of water"
"and submerged within it is a full-scale replica"
"of the International Space Station"
"Don't say I never take you anywhere"
We're in Houston, Texas and we're in...
I have never in my life been inside a NASA facility
This is the Neutral Buoyancy Lab
And look, I'm gabbing so much
Behind me is a craft of some kind
Wait a second, are we for sure going back to the moon?
"But before any astronauts go there they got to train right here"
"Floating in water instead of floating in space"
"and scrutinized by Mission Control exactly as if it was the real McCoy"
Well, here we are
Who do you think is the astronaut in this group here?
How are you? Good to see you
Sir, good to see you
- Have you been up in space? - I have been in space
Where'd you go in space?
Around the Earth once every 90 minutes
for five and a half months
- You've got to be kidding - I'm not kidding
"My amazing guide Colonel Mark Vande Hei"
"has spent a 168 days in space"
"and performed four space walks"
"Kudos to the Colonel"
"There are a couple of astronaut candidates getting suited up"
"to get in the water"
Yes, Kayla and Loral
- Is it okay if we just say hi? - Yeah
- Oh, my gosh! - Okay
My name is Jeff, you're on camera I hope that's okay
- That's okay - You wanna be an astronaut
- Yes - You're going to be an astronaut
- Yes, I hope so - I feel very strongly
And what are you doing today?
Well, today, we're training in the Neutral Buoyancy Lab
It's a really large pool
large enough that we have a model of the Space Station inside of it
It's the biggest pool I've ever seen
- This is Loral - Hi, I'm Loral
- I'm Jeff - Nice to meet you
- How long have you been training? - Two years
- Two years, yeah - Yeah
- Two years - Almost exactly
They got to go Go all the way through
"Our moment is swift We're like ships adrift"
"We're swept apart too soon"
"It's time for Kayla and Loral to start the long process of suiting up"
"They're learning to space walk submerged 40 feet down"
"When they do it for real they're gonna be 240 miles up"
"This is the high point of my life I tell you"
- Okay, unbelievable - So, you can see, it's...
Let's look at that I can't believe it
That suit is actually exactly like the suit we would do in space
- with a couple of exceptions - Okay
The backpack is a simulation of the life support system
Because she needs to get used to being able to maneuver
with that same volume on her back
But the life support system that she'll have today
is provided by an umbilical which you won't have in space
- How long is she gonna be in it? - Six hours
- Six hours? - Yes
- Yeah - Did she have a good meal before?
- I hope she did - Did she go to the bathroom?
She did but she'll probably have to go again...
So, not everybody has to go again...
What happens in the pool when you got to go to the bathroom?
We're all wearing diapers Space is a very sexy job
I like it!
There she goes look, look, look, look, look
They're gonna lower her in She's waving
She's waving to me
Let's see now I'm gonna come down...
I'm coming down and swimming
"We're go for test on EV1 and EV2"
"EV1 and EV2, this is archer comm operator, how do you copy?"
- "EV1 copies" - "EV2 copies"
"EV2 is at the bottom"
"Copy that, EV2 is on the bottom"
"This may look like just a few steps to you"
"but this is one giant leap for a very virile man"
I would just go in deep enough to be able to sit down comfortably
and that'll allow you to get your fins on
- Oh, I like this... - Temperature...
- Okay, I'm putting on the fins - "Alright"
"Only a handful of average Joes like me have ever been allowed"
"to go diving in this pool"
"So, right now, I'm just the luckiest boy on the face of the Earth"
"Now, by using special floats and weights"
"the divers are carefully adjusting how much Kayla and Loral rise"
"or sink in the water"
"And when both are equal"
"the astronauts will be at what's called neutral buoyancy"
There we go
"Which is the watery equivalent of zero gravity"
"And that's the closest thing"
"that we've got to outer space here on our planet's surface"
Should be good to go
"It's space training made possible by the power of the pool"
"The magical feeling of being weightless in water"
"is one of our primal sensations"
"Just as all life began in the seas"
"so too each and every one of us"
"began in the near-weightless environment of a pool inside mother"
"The womb, the womb!"
"But gravity drags us down"
"As we get older, we get shorter wider, less flexible"
"Regular exercise in water can counteract this"
"by reducing blood pressure"
"And muscle tension and rehabilitates injuries"
"and releases endorphins giving us a natural high"
"And for some, being in water can even turn back time"
"If I could turn back time"
"Ladies and gentlemen the world famous Aquadettes"
I think they've espied me
They're waiting for me
They've seen me I've been spotted, I've been spotted
Don't let me interrupt What are you doing?
- You're practicing? - "Wait a sec"
Okay, okay
They're right in the middle of practicing
Synchronized swimming or whatever it's called
sends you into a transcendental just intoxicated dream state
It does me...
Oh, boy
Hi, Jeff Nice to meet you
Oh, my God!
Sydney
- Nice to meet you, Laura - Hi, Jeff
Hello
- What's your name? - Marilyn
Marilyn?
Nice to meet you
You have such soft kisses, Marilyn
- I wanna be on this team - Try it
It's strictly gender exclusive though, isn't it?
- Not today, not today - No, not anymore
- How so? - We have special...
A special day for Aqua dudes, yes
- For Aqua dudes? - "Yes"
And, you know since you're here...
You are going to be our Aqua dude
That's what I would say I wanna be part of this
I don't wanna be left out of this whole team
- "Water, it's very healing, isn't it?" - "Yes, it is"
A lot of us here are 80 or above 80, or almost 80
You don't look it You look much younger than that
- Yeah, we're all around that age - You look much younger than that
- and it's amazing, isn't it? - That's amazing, that's amazing
All of us have different problems in our body
you know, shoulders, knees back surgeries, heart surgeries...
- Heart surgeries? Yeah, yeah... - Everything you could imagine
And you get in the water and it's just like no gravity
- no pain, no nothing - Right, right
- Everything goes away - "Nothing hurts"
- You know, nothing hurts anymore - And nothing hurts
Yeah, I really think that water is healing
- Oh, my gosh! - There you go
Hey...
- That is sexy - Yeah, yeah
- Is that good? - Yeah, it's good
- So, we're gonna go one... - Yeah
and two, and three
and then we're gonna come around on four
- and five is kind of a little present - Present
- Five and six... - Five and six...
She's laughing at me or with me I don't know
and eight and you're gonna pull it in
We're gonna do what's called a porpoise
- It's a stunt - A porpoise
A porpoise, it's kind of like another breaststroke at a 45-degree angle
- Three... - I like that
- and four - Yeah, okay
- Lift both your legs on five - I got you
and then we're gonna go down, six...
- Okay - and seven and eight
Then we're gonna come around We're gonna turn around...
- Switch around - And now, we're gonna go that way
Okay, what music am I imagining?
- It's Waltz on Blue Danube - How's that go?
Okay, here we go
Follow us if you dare This is gonna be great
or just leave us alone
Maybe you should all just amuse yourselves while me and the...
me and the Aquadettes work on our routines
"Five and six and seven and eight"
"Yes!"
"My watery excursion is at an end and, jeez, what have we learned?"
"Well, we've seen that whether you're a water park adventurer"
"or socializer, it's just plain fun to be in the water"
"even when you're grownup Goldblum"
"And we've learned that when we're floating in a tank"
"or in NASA's Neutral Buoyancy Lab"
"we can slip the surly bonds of Earth"
"and liberate our minds and our bodies"
"We've also seen how pools might just be the fountain of youth"
"But one more... one more thing"
Water is life
Every living cell in your body has some water in it
In fact, you might even say that all of us sapiens
are made up of a collection of tiny little bitty pools
You know, maybe that's why when you jump in them
it feels so, so at home
"God, when I think of home I think of a place..."
"Where there's love overflowing..."
Sorry, bye-bye
Bye-bye...
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