“Hey everybody! Come and take a journey with me to a millennial old human practice of soaking in mineral waters. Desert Hot Springs Spa offers excellent facilities and a fun environment.” – Cynthia Troyer
In Like Cyn – Season 2 Episode 6
Desert Hot Springs Spa
Uploaded to Youtube January 7, 2016
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In Like Cyn
Season 2 Episode 6
Desert Hot Springs Spa
Uploaded to Youtube January 7, 2016
[Cyn: Cynthia Troyer; SE: Sage Emeralds; JM: Jacquie Marroquin; Diana: Diana Mendoza]
TITLE: The Comedy Multiverse
TITLE In Like Cyn
Cyn: Hello, hello and welcome to another episode of In Like Cyn. Whew!
SE: Wha-wha – what? Uh uh uh yo! Every thing I do is brand new I must continue… Everything I do is brand new I must continue…
TITLE: Desert Hot Springs Spa
Cyn: And today we are at Desert Hot Springs Spa. Right here in Desert Hot Springs, California.
TITLE: Cynthia Troyer / screenwriter
Cyn VO: Just 120 mile east of Los Angeles, north of Palm Springs in the Coachella Valley is a literal oasis. Built over one of the world’s finest natural hot mineral water aquifers, Desert Hot Springs, California is a get-away-from-it-all destination.
TITLE: Jacquie Marroquin / advertising
Cyn VO: Jacquie is always one of my favorite traveling companions.
Cyn VO: Due to the San Andreas Fault bisecting the area, one side has hot water, the other cold. The city became popular in the 1950’s when snowbirds discovered the spa and boutique hotels.
TITLE: 10805 Palm Drive, DHS, CA 92240
Cyn VO: Mineral spas dot the globe and have been used for millennia for their purported healing or healthful benefits to those wealthy enough to partake of their waters.
TITLE: Beats by Sage Emeralds, Sage Emeralds, Sage Emeralds, Sage Emeralds, Sage Emeralds…
Cyn VO: Even President Theodore Roosevelt became known as a manly-man of incredible endurance, and he attributed his good health to “taking the cure” periodically.
Cyn VO: History – grand scale history – lies beneath your feet. The eroded remains of billion year old rocks, fossils of giant mammoths and tiny fragments of a great ocean that inundated this entire region make up the ground you stand upon.
Cyn VO: The city of Desert Hot Springs rests up on the crumbled debris of the Little San Bernardino Mountains just a few miles north of where we’re standing. Some rocks within this range, lifted up by geological forces just 20 million years ago, are more than a billion years old.
Cyn VO: Notice the verticle fracture that has displaced the layers. This fracture represents the San Andreas Fault. The actual horizontal displacement along this fault averages about two inches per year or nearly seventeen feet per Century. At that rate, Desert Hot Springs will be a suburb of Oakland, California in just over 13 million years.
Cyn: We’re going down by the pools.
Cyn: I’m going to get my tan on and get in the luscious mineral water. Yay!
Cyn: Trying to figure out which pool do I want to pick. Which pool to go in first. They’ve got 8 different pools and each pool is kept at a different temperature. And they have a big pool kept at a normal temperature. This one here is a little cooler than the rest. This one over here is a little hotter than the rest. And so you just, you pick and you choose and you find the one you want to go in. So I’m gonna go ahead and get into the hottest mineral water.
Cyn VO: I came here a few years ago to attend the Palm Springs Film Festival, and I’ve been dreaming of the water ever since.
Cyn VO: The word ‘spa’ itself means a place providing therapeutic mineral springs. The hot springs here have been compared to the famous spa waters of Baden-Baden in the German Black Forest, Vichy in Central France, and Evian on the French-Swiss Border.
Cyn: This one’s about 98, 99 degrees. So it’s at least… Whew!
Cyn VO: “Every sickness, every disease, every ailment can be traced to a mineral deficiency.” – Dr. Linus Pauling, two time Nobel Laureate.
Cyn VO: I met people from Texas, Arizona, Nevada and all over California who had come to soak in the healing waters and take the cure.
Cyn: They have 8 pools of mineral water here, and – it’s cold and hot mineral water and they mix it together to make the perfect hot tubs. And I see people going around constantly testing the Ph balance. There’s been a lot of people here today. It’s Saturday. And um, we started last night. When you’re floating with the stars above you. Let me see it – I’m not going to be able to get that point of view.
Cyn VO: While stress is relieved by the thermal heat, minerals absorbed through the skin rejuvenate the body. The waters here are especially rich in silica leaving the skin soft and smooth.
Cyn OS: Are you having fun, Jacquie?
JM: Yes, I am.
Cyn OS: There’s a beautiful sunset in progress.
JM OS: It’s quite lovely.
Cyn OS: So we’ve made a new friend here. What’s your name?
Diana: Diana.
Cyn OS: And Diana, which is your favorite pool so far?
Diana: I choose that one right there.
Cyn OS: That one?
Diana: It’s not too hot… Ah it’s not too — it’s right in the middle. Temperature is perfect.
Cyn OS: Do you feel like, the healing powers of it?
Diana: Well I feel like my skin is ah… clearer.
Diana: I come every week though.
JM: Wow!
Cyn OS: You come every week? To this place specifically or do you go to all of ’em?
Diana: Just this one right here. Yeah!
Cyn OS: Yeah!
Diana: It’s the price and the water! It makes a lot of things better.
Cyn OS: Do you live in LA? Where do you live?
Diana: Riverside. Here’s my dad, so.
JM: Oh Riverside!
Cyn VO: Diana drives from Riverside, California to Desert Hot Springs every weekend. She talked about the amazing quality of the drinking water. I confessed I was taking some home with me.
Cyn: So my bruises are healing, I’m feeling better. This place was a good idea all around. I met a woman who came here from Texas, she’s saying bottle the water, take it home with you. There’s something about the water here that heals your body.
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Cyn VO: Join me next week on In Like Cyn as I take you to the Hotel Cecil in DTLA. Many strange occurrences have happened here at this old hotel built in 1924 and the basis for FX’s American Horror Story: Hotel.
Cyn VO: Join me every Thursday for a new In Like Cyn.
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