Are Water Beds Still A Thing?

You don't hear much about water beds anymore, but they used to be everywhere and "fancy". Is there anyone out there that still has a waterbed and how are you not seasick every night?

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
I'm not going to show how we got onto it yesterday,

(00:01):
but we were talking about waterbeds. Oh, that's right, one
of my childhood fears because my brother had one and
also liked, uh sort of tormenting me by watching Freddy
Krueger movies and there's one scene where they get pulled
into this waterbed.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
So then he went and bought a waterbed just really
messed me up. And it was really what a nice kid,
really really good. Yes.

Speaker 1 (00:21):
Anyway, I want to know if waterbeds this sort of thing,
is there anyone on the Gold Coast who still has
a waterbed?

Speaker 3 (00:26):
I don't think anybody would. It was more of like.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
An eighty what maybe seventies eighties thing.

Speaker 1 (00:32):
It feels like no one from the two thousands would
have had one.

Speaker 3 (00:36):
I had a waterbed from probably aroundbout a year, year
and a half, two years.

Speaker 2 (00:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (00:40):
The whole thing is when you have to bring the
hose in from yes, fill it up with the watch
it yes, and then make sure it doesn't bust, yes,
and nothing sharp on there or you end up swimming well. So,
and it was a heater too, did yours pop? No?

Speaker 2 (00:54):
It was a heat was weighed a lot less I
went like eighty to ninety kilos. But it was the
most comfiest is it really? And I didn't think it
would be. I got on there the first time, I
was like, this is, Oh, this is I just always
thought it was like a joke. I don't know why,
like I like you see movies. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:13):
Well, my brother would get the hosing from outside, which
I thought was just so odd in itself, and then
would put it and then I'd lie on it and
I just feel like I was it was just bouncing.

Speaker 3 (01:24):
And you just listen to that.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
I just need to we and it was just way
too much. That's how you top them up.

Speaker 4 (01:32):
That's it a special little area on the side.

Speaker 3 (01:45):
Now. We had one for two years and it was
just comfy.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
As Michelle from Hollywell, do you have one?

Speaker 5 (01:52):
Yes, we do, Oh my god, when.

Speaker 2 (01:55):
Did you buy it?

Speaker 5 (01:56):
Well, I've been with my husband for well, when married
thirty two years on the twenty seventh of this month,
and he had it when I met him and we've
been together thirty eight years.

Speaker 2 (02:09):
Hang on, so you're still using the same bed not.

Speaker 5 (02:12):
The same one. We have had to replace the mattress
and we got a new bed frame and went to
the waterbeds and then it did get a hole in that,
so we've got a normal mattress. But then my husband
hated it and it lasted about six months with a mattress,
and we went back to the waterbed. Wo so you

(02:33):
wear waterbed people.

Speaker 2 (02:35):
Do you still feel it up from the hose outside?

Speaker 5 (02:37):
Don't have to? It's perfect good?

Speaker 3 (02:40):
Yeah, as yous got a heater in it?

Speaker 2 (02:42):
Like is it?

Speaker 3 (02:42):
He yes?

Speaker 5 (02:43):
It has. I think it's two bevels. I think they
call it because people say, oh, don't you just get
knocked around when the other person gets in it? But no,
we've got I think it's two bevils in ours. But
it's so old and we're just used to it and
wouldn't get without.

Speaker 2 (03:02):
Like a pool, you have to put chlorine in it,
take the water you bought.

Speaker 5 (03:06):
Anti fungle tablets in it every now and then.

Speaker 2 (03:12):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (03:13):
Okay, well we've driven the one person on the Gold Coaster.
He still has one. It is forty years old.

Speaker 2 (03:18):
Anyway, thankes me. It's more a big tramp here hot tomato,
big tram for the driver on tomato