Selects: Waterbeds: The Sexiest Bed?

# Water Beds: The Sexiest Bed

This episode takes you on a wild ride through the history of the waterbed, from its humble origins as a design student's thesis project to its peak as a cultural phenomenon in the 1970s and '80s. Chuck and Josh explore how inventor Charles Hall's dream to revolutionize sleep got hijacked by the counterculture and became synonymous with, well, let's just say romance, while also diving into the practical innovations that made waterbeds better over time. You'll learn about competing patents, leaked water, heavy furniture problems, and how newer mattress technologies eventually sent waterbeds the way of other groovy relics from decades past.