Indoor vs. Outdoor Pools | Hold Up with Dulcé Sloan & Josh Johnson

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Yours edition listener is Josh Johnson, right for the Daily Show. You're about to hear an episode of one of our original Daily show podcasts, Hold Up, hosted by me and Daily Show correspondent d'ill say Sloan. It's where we take our office banter into a weekly war words about topics big and small. In this episode, we have an aquatic argument of indoor versus outdoor pools. We chat about what our dream pools would look like and what is the best pool day experience. Tune in to find out which

So step your game up.

Live an indoor pool lifestyle, Feed clothes and pool your family.

Okay, that's amazing. Okay, feed clothe and pool your family. Honestly I can get behind that.

Hey, everybody, welcome to Hold Up. I am Josh Johnson, I am one of your co hosts. I'm a writer for the Daily Show, and I am joined.

By Jill Day's long cut Curt correct Been.

No, I'm not I'm not a hater.

I was waiting for the rest because I said your name, but then you did the noises, but then you stopped talking.

Oh yeah, they know. I'm of course brother than the Daily Show. I got to say this every time.

I don't know, I don't know who's listening.

Joshua, tell the people what is a topic for today?

We are going to be talking about something that is It's tough because some people.

To some people, it's gonna seem the same, all right, and we need you to know it's not.

It's not the same at all.

Okay, today's topic is indoor pool versus outdoor pool.

And you know, as originally a Florida Negro, you know exactly what side I'm gonna pick. But we're gonna give the people li Hinte Jez a momentou to think about it. So play the music. Now, what side do you think me and josh pick? Because you picked your side, and I'm gonna tell you, Joshua, tell the people hand tight mm what indire? Always misguided, always misg wow, always inaccurate, incorrect point of view? What did you pick?

I chose indoor pool?

Incorrect?

We're going okay, you want to talk about incorrect?

Okay, I'm telling you right now because the thing that you are picking with outdoor pool, you're imagining a specific type of pool that I don't have to deal with being inside. Okay, And I'm talking about that above ground outdoor pool.

All right. That's that's up. That's up with your pools. Okay. All of my pools go deep, all right.

All of my pools inside are lavish decade.

So you're saying that there's no indoor above ground pools.

I have not seen one. Yeah, but where have you seen one?

You've never seen Jesus, but believe in him.

I'm saying, where have you seen one? The pools that we're talking about outside.

I would never see an above ground.

Indooro I'm starting to think that maybe there aren't any, all right. If I have seen what you haven't seen, there has to be somewhere. Yes, But we're talking about one maybe, versus thousands of above ground right sitting on the top of the lawn, raid a bust like bad Boys too?

Above ground pools?

Is it indoor above ground pool? Just a hot tub?

I feel like even the hot tubs are a little bit more sunken indoors. I've never climbed up to get to a hot tub.

All indoor therapy pools are above are sit up above ground.

Oh so even when my pools are above ground, they're therapeutic. Thank you, Thank you for helping me and my point watch outdoors out there with the elements. No, no, thank.

You too much.

Dip on my chip. Okay, Wow, pretty rich coming from you. It might always misguided.

We had barely start the episode, and I always misguided you.

Because here's the thing.

When you are in an indoor pool, sit okay, when you're protected from the elements. Now, I could actually go swimming when it's raining. I go swimming when it's lightning.

Okay.

I don't have to worry about what the rest of the world is doing when I go swim.

Okay. I'm just gonna send you as welld thing.

Okay, on.

It's five grand.

Are you talking about kidie pool? Is that what you're sending me?

No?

Negro okay, because the kiddie pool could be indoors or outdoors. That's a stalemate.

No, no, this is still outside.

Don't do that.

That's an outside trying to be inside outdoor pool.

Now help me out. Tell me what you think.

Is so special about outdoor pools what puts them over the edge of indoor. Because I got air conditioning, I got safety.

Me and my brother, my mama, my family used to live on North Miami Beach.

Okay, you lived in.

A hotel on North Farman Beach. And every day I would either go swimming in the pool or swimming in the ocean, right like my brother and I. My brother had a German tourist. My brother had to swim for me. A pool is nostalgia. You know. When I was little, we would go to my Auntiejoy's house for my birthday every year, and they had a pool at their house because and then you know, my Auntififi, her parents had a pool, so like I grew up going to black people's.

Houses with pools, okay uh.

And then we went to campus, so we would go swimming. And because I can swim enough to keep myself alive. I'm not out here going to the Olympics or nothing like that. But you know, water won't kill me. Land probably will, but water, I'm good. I'm boying and shit for me. The outdoor pool also, it's like me, you'd

Yeah, I have a full time comic.

Okay, you're not mm hm and you always bitch about being broke, go get it. Put it like La is the only like I've never had lived in where like La where nobody was at work. So for me, the pool has represented a lifestuck. Can you swim when there's lightning? No? And I've got people tell me they go swimming in the rain, which I think is a completely stupid thing to do. But I don't like about indoor pools is that the room that they're in one always reeks of chlorine,

Okay, I always feel gross.

In an indoor pool. There's something about the room is always wet, it's always kind of human in there. It's always smelling a chlorine, a little muggy. So it's like when you're in an outdoor situation, because like a pool day is like a sunny day. We are drinking and a nice bevarrage, you know, just sitting just out here just judging others, really taking in the scene like Stunn excited, excited, excited. It's like a pool day.

Yeah, a pool day is a.

Day like I remember my mom used to drop me and my brother off. Technically, I don't think she was supposed to be doing this at the public pool in a best friend park in Norcross and she drop us off with some lunchy. So I've always been like a swimming gold swimming kind of can't. Like the dream of my life is to have a house with a cement pond.

Okay, okay, yeah, yeah I think that that. I think that's dope. I want that for you. I will just say indoor pool pool day is every day you keep listing the best conditions for.

But see that's the thing. It's like it's the best conditions because you're not in a muggy room. You're not in you don't come out stinking of chlorine, your eyes aren't burning, you know what I mean. It's like the room that an indoor pool is in is never a nice It never feels good.

It you.

No, the water and indoor pool feels nasty. The it's always the wrong, it's it never feels good. It never feels good to me because it's like humid, but chlorine humid. It's muggy.

M hm.

Is this pool heated? Is this room heated? What's going on?

Ye?

And then it is like your eye start burning because it's just a mist of chlorine.

I just are you allergic to chlorine?

Absolutely not, Okay, it's just there's a lot about the chlorine, and I feel like that's never hit me.

The same because indoor pools, I think are over chlorinated because I've never had this. Yeah, I can see that because they don't have the sun, you know, to really just burn things off. Truly, you have to adapt for the fact that this pool is not a fluorescent light.

To me, I guess an outdoor pool is redundant because if you have an outdoor.

Pool and you have the ocean, just go for the ocean.

Some people don't like the ocean.

I understand.

Some people are very afraid of the ocean. Also, it's like there's nothing swimming. Something that swims in a pool is peep kind of.

There's no fish in a swimming pool, not on purpose.

Shut up, Josh. Chlorine will kill a fish, stop it. That's why pools are chlorinated. Those fishes jumping out of the sea. Elamar.

They to go on.

All right, I'm not playing this game, okay. I will not live for these Shenanigans on this day.

Yeah.

Yeah. So what I'm saying is that is also, if you're in a landlocked area, you have to have a pool. If the closest ocean is more than two hours away, you're not going there on a regular basis. If you want to get aquatic in this bitch, you have to have a pool. Now, when you talk about the history of swimming pools, it is very fucked up, you know,

Mostly I think, okay, yeah, but I think that indoor you can bring you if you have an indoor pool, you know what it speaks to me personally?

You because somebody's house or an establishment.

Oh I'm talking about both.

But the one at the house is gonna be hard to be okay, because an outdoor.

Pool at your house, all right, you might still have to give.

That one to nature every once in a while, But an indoor pool in your house, I'm bringing the snacks.

Okay.

You wouldn't bring snacks to outdoor pool?

Not always, No, especially if it's above ground.

Have you ever heard of the redneck trifector?

I have heard of it, but remind me what it actually is.

Above ground pool? Okay, trampoline, pontoon boat.

Three of the most fun things you could hope for on a Saturday afternoon.

You remember, do you know anyone who lives in Florida?

Mm hmm.

Yeah. Have you've been to the home of someone with a pool in Florida?

I believe so. Yeah.

Now did you see that the pool is outside but is encased by a screen, like a giant screen as big as it basically is as big as the house.

I don't know if I've seen that.

So basically you're like indoors and outdoors at the same time.

Don't don't tell me that that hold on that hold on, let me send it to you.

Oh no, this is this is nice. I thought you meant when you said a screen. I thought you meant the you know, like the screen door material that met what that made out of the door.

It is made out of that.

I thought that you meant the walls were made out of it and the ceiling was made out of it.

It doesn't look like there's.

You've got the you've got support beams.

Yeah, there's some real wall.

No, what it is just to support beams to create the shape, and then in between that is pure screen.

The thing is if you have a hybrid situation where you essentially built onto your pool from outside to make it kind of inside. I don't know where that lands. I don't know if that becomes inside or it stays outside.

Well, it's a pool and a screen enclosure. So when it does, it's like you can enjoy being outside without like the mosquitos and the bugs and all of that.

Yeah.

Also you can have food out there, so there's no flies, there's no.

Yes, it's gonna it's gonna come down somewhat on the flies, somewhat on the mosquito. If you're outside, they're fighting their way in. Okay, And I think with an indoor pool, you don't have to worry about the flies.

You don't have to worry about them.

I can get in your house if you're going in and out of a door.

They can, but not at the right. No, just being outside.

Outside, of course, It's just that's what the bugs are.

You came to they shit, but you're in their neighborhood.

You're in their neighborhood. That's why I don't kill bugs outside because I'm in they ship. You don't want If I'm out, I don't kill bugs. I try not to kill a bug if I'm outside. What is his face?

I'm just.

From outside. Yeah, I don't want to kill a bug if I'm outside, like, that's their ship. Now, if you're in my house, that's a different situation.

Mm hmm.

You came in my ship. Bug. I try to help you. I try to put you outside. But if you can donkey. You die Like flyers. Though there's a fly in my house, you die. I can say that. I don't think you've given me any good reason to have an indoor pool.

The reason I've given you to have an indoor pool is that you are not out there. And I can list them if you need, But you're not out there with the elements. All right, when it light when it's lightning, when it is lightning, I can swim in my pool. When it's a rainy day, I can swim my pool when it's just nasty outside, you know, like sometimes it's just not fun outside, even though it's not bad weather.

I can swim in the pool. My pool indoors is consistent. Also a pool indoors if you can afford it, if you're blessed like that. Everything it is lavish, it is. It is a beautiful thing. I've never seen. I'll just say this.

I've never been in someone's house that had an indoor pool and it was ugly. All right, every indoor pool.

Been in with an indoor pool.

I'm not gonna say all their names, but it's it's been two friends, yeah, two.

Where they was this the Louisiana or is this Chicago?

The uh? One with Chicago? And one was New York.

Yo?

An indoor pool in New York.

Yeah at the house?

Yeah, yo, you should marry that person.

Ah nah, he's taken Mary's parents, get adopted, do something.

Why don't you put in work, why don't you try? Yeah, no, I'm with you.

Everything in New York with just the lack of an access to I mean, as a child, I remember seeing on TV kids playing like a fire hydrant, and it was the saddest thing. I've ever seen.

Look, I'll tell you right now. For my listeners listening right now, who get me? Who understand me? Who get where I'm coming from? There's two angles right here that I want you to hear me from, truly, all right? One men, all right, men, I want you to listen to me right now. Your family deserves an indoor pool, all right. So then, as a man, you gotta go out there. You gotta work, You gotta do everything that you need to do to go ahead and get an

There's no water?

All right?

They broke their little feet jumping in. Do a cannonballs to nothing? All right? Get an indoor pool. Let them see the water down there before they jump in.

Don't make them jump off, faith, But look second angle right here, second angle.

For the people listening, I want you.

To have enough money in this world to get an indoor pool, because you deserve it. After only after you've put in that work, after you've grinded.

Oh god, okay, after that grinding's gonna come up.

I felt it, yeah, yeah, because honestly a lot of the no one gets an indoor pool by chance.

People put in below ground pools.

Nobody gets that by chance.

All right, if your house had already, you got to work for exactly.

You gotta work, You gotta grind. Okay, do say, I already know what I'm talking about. You gotta put in worth. You gotta go home, look at your house and be like house. Why you being lame? Why you being lame? Okay, all right, don't rest your head until you can rest your head underground in an indoor pool.

Don't rest on your laurels because you need to be resting on the tile of a swimming pool.

Go ahead and rest on those floaties that you get from bringing home all that money to build an indoor pool. You already know, you already know.

I can see what you're saying. You can swim whatever you want.

Mm hmm.

You can swim anytime in an indoor pool. You can grind any time to get it. Indoor pool.

Get an indoor pool. It has to be heated because if it's cold outside and it's a below ground pool, your pool could be cold. So you have to get a heated pool. And if you're going to be really doing it right, you gotta get a saltwater pool.

That's just a little extra grinded. All right, you don't even really need to worry.

Okay, that's just you already got the indoor pool, buddy, that go ahead, just grind until you get the full pool money. Yeah. Because it also also you want some lights. Okay, maybe you need some lights in the bottom pool with no lights, a pool with no lights, a dark pool, you might as well be in stranger things.

Oh my god, I saw somebody I don't know on my TikTok. It was a pool. It was cleaning TikTok and it was pul TikTok British man that cleans pools. I didn't know people have some pools England. Yeah, outside pools.

Oh wow, that is a surprise.

Yeah, it's only I don't know what's We were there for the warmest months of the year and it wasn't warm enough to go swommen.

Yeah.

Yeah, And so he had a client and they painted the bottom of the pool red.

That's so like it was disturbing. I don't even know what to say.

It was disturbing a red bottom pool.

So did it just look like you were swimming in blood? It did.

Apparently this person is not the only psychopath to ever do this shit.

That's that's deeply disturbing. I can't even imagine diving in now.

What is your because because I want to be fair, I brought up outdoor, above ground pools, all this stuff, all the elements everything I do want to be fair.

What is your ideal perfect pool?

Oh well, my ideal perfect pool one is actually near the beach.

Okay. Why is that?

Because the feeling you get in get into the ocean is not the feeling you get when you get into a pool. Okay, And I don't like swimming in the ocean at night because I don't want to go missing. So when you're near the ocean but you're in a pool, you get that ocean feeling without the ocean, without being in the ocean.

Okay, got you?

Got you? And so your ideal pool does it have any extra features? Are there any other things going on with your pool besides it being near the ocean or was that just the first thing?

That was just the first thing. So first thing. Also, there needs to be an areas. Like the pool that was at the house we had in the Bahamas was great because there was a basically as a bench that went all the way like in the water, that went all the way around the pool. Inside you're in the pool, but you can sit down because not everybody can fit on the stairs, you know what I mean. So there's that.

Got you so, so I want to get it right, So help me list it right near the ocean has the uh, the seated step all the way around, but has the gradual steps to enter that that take a while.

The rise and run of those is smoother and longer.

Yeah, because if you're doing that, so when you have those rising, like is that what in it is a spot where it just like becomes one level hmm, and then you can sit and then there's the deeper part of it.

Got you and it's only going six feet deep, it's not going eight feet not going way way beyond.

Right, Okay, all right? Is there anything else?

This is my dream pool?

Yeah, so don't even think about the house, think about just the pool. You can have whatever you want at the pool, because because when I tell you mine, I just want to make sure we're not talking about the house it's in.

It's specifically the pool.

Oh then I wanted to be a bar.

Okay, I want there to be a bar bar pool side.

A bar side are also my homeboy his pool at his apartment had these like seats in them, like these concrete seats so you could be sitting down, but like really like secured sitting down, so you could like sleep if you wanted to. Because idea of being in water and being asleep is great, all.

Right, Yeah, I think I think that those are all respectable choices.

Oh wait, I forgot something. I forgot. I would want the ability to cover it if I needed to.

Mm hmm mmmm. Sounds like someone's come around.

No no, no, no, no, like in the winter time to keep up the leaves and stuff out of it. They don't have to like shock your pool and all this other stuff to be able to keep the stuff out. Also if it's a particularly bad mosquito season, because like the covering, because like the the enclosures for pools and screen closures are cool, but you still feel like you're inside.

Or or maybe you wouldn't have to deny yourself if you would just go ahead and hustle until you had this indoor pool money. And you has an indoor pool, can go swimming all the time, non stop, hotter, cold, outside, raining, lightning, thundering, swimming, all of it.

Now, can you swim?

Not?

Well no, yeah, yeah, you can do just enough not drowned a little less than that. But yeah, yeah, so you're.

Telling me the water you're too deep.

Mm hmm.

Then it is bye bye josh.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I go. I go pretty uh pretty knee heavy, knee heavy.

Yeah, I'm like once it hits the knees, you know, I'm like, ah that the rest of the water over there too heavy for me.

Oh okay, the knee is your threshold.

Mn as you know, maybe stick my hands in a little bit, lean in front of the knees and let the water touch me.

But oh no, no, not going not going deep deep my ideal pool.

That's why it's six feet because even though I'm not six feet, I can still give a little jump, grab some air, grab a little air with my mouth, and then come back down, you know, snatch some air with my lips and then come back down and swim around and walk around and stuff. But every once in a while, just instead of when you have a six foot deep pool and you're at least average height, you don't have to swim.

You can just hop.

You can just hop every down again, just grab some water, come back down. That's what the dolphins do, you know. So I would just pop up like and then come back down and look around or whatever you do when you're at a pool at the remember the kid.

Like the ideas of opening your eyes in a pool was insane.

Yeah. I was like, guys, I'll go.

Blind, right, And then you did it, and you're just like, one, I can't see shit, and two no, my eyes are burden.

Yeah I could see just enough to get kicked in the face, Like I could see.

You're always too close to somebody?

Yeah to you?

Did you ever you your friends have baptized each other in the pool?

Nah?

Not really.

We used to play that game and baptize each other.

Mm hmm.

What a fun little Southern thing to do, you and all your friends just baptizing each other because that makes sense.

Yeah, No, I'm with you. I just this is my thing to me, the perfect pool indoors six feet max. It has.

It has a little bit of a mimic to what you were saying, because it does have a little place for you to sit if you want to be in the pool but not actually swimming, and heated with the lights. All right, so heat it with the lights so I can see myself in case I'm I'm drowning. I can see it, right, I can. Let me go ahead and pop up real quick.

You know, the thing you have to be weary about for the outdoor pool is the cleanliness of the pool. You always have to be on top of that. But I feel like indoor pools. I've ever been an indoor pool like that's on, like those pools like a YMCA place. I always feel like there's this film on my body. Whenever I get out of an indoor pool.

Yeah, I don't know what I can.

I'm always itchy whenever I get out of an indoor pool, Like, yeah, if I take a shot, I'm so itchy. I don't know if they put more well, I don't know what it is, but I'm always like oh when I get out of an indoor pool. So maybe I'm anti indoor pool because of the experiences that I have of how just gross I have felt, uh huh yeah, because like a hotel or YMCA, the only time I really see indoor pools. I'm with you.

I guess my thing is okay, Okay.

When I have been at an outdoor pool, I have been accosted, what with germs like just just the visible. You want to talk about a film, let's talk about p okay. Because the amount of children who I've seen p in a public pools.

It's violence. There's not enough chlorine in the pool.

The whole thing should be a vat of chlorine for all the pa and you're letting people do.

I can tell you I was at a pool in or that Austin, Texas, Austin, Texas hotel pool. The water was only like way was probably three feet deep m hm. And it wasn't a very big I'm talking about Josh, just was I guess it was like a big dinner to at. The pool wasn't big enough for how many people were in it, and everybody was drinking, every single person. Yeah, probably fifty people in that pool. Yeah, it was probably a pool that you have twenty people in it. Max.

It's a very vegus thing. To have happened.

It's a very Vegas thing. The water wasn't deep at all.

Yeah.

Yeah, you're just getting those elbows wet you, so you're like your waste.

It's like a six foot man was wasteep. Everybody's drinking. We were probably there for three or four hours. I really didn't see people getting out of this pool, and I saw people have multiple drinks. And once I realized that another hour one, I was like, oh, everybody's peeing in this pool because I peed in that pool.

And I was like, oh, this water.

Looks different. Let me get out of this pool. Because I don't know if I was telling the truth. I do't know if it was just like my my still brain. I was like, I think this water is like changing. Oh god, so we all are were just in pee.

That yeah.

Yeah.

So I went back to my room and took the most magnificent shower m hm, because I was like, this is a bunch of us all noticed it the same, Like nobody was getting out. People were getting like drink after drink, and this guy was like, so we're just standing in each other's pee and somebody went yes.

That person definitely the one that said yes.

But Uh, let's let's kick it to the listeners.

Yeah, I mean, I want to hear from all of you what would you rather, and also tell us about your dream pool. Who do you think was right?

And who do you think is Josh?

I mean, why you gotta like, like, I'm trying this whole episode.

I'm trying to help and have poets and all, and then you're gonna come at me at the top end the back end.

You said you like an indoor pool, and I can't. I can't. I can't condone that.

You can't condone.

I gave you every clear reason because why my pools are superior.

I I'm not here for your pool supremacy.

Yeah, but you you also don't really want to listen to to reason, you know what I mean?

Like, hey man, you know what the little listeners tell us? Okay, uh huh? Lit the listeners let us know who is living a truth, who is telling the truth about these pisinas, who is letting the children know how to live their lives? So listeners, you tell us, you go to comments and YouTube and you tell us how you feel. And I'm not gonna try to bias you. In this last few seconds of the show. I would never do that. You make your own decisions.

Oh my gosh, what no.

No, no, no, no, no, no no.

Not the head scratch.

It's fine, it's fine, it's fine.

It's not that.

No, not the high out and the head scratch. Y. Yep, you're talking to me like I'm a man.

You earned both, Okay.

That I am not a man. You can't hand scratch. No, I'm good, I'm fine.

Listen until next time.

Okay, Keep putting in work on yourself, keep grind and keep hustling.

All right. Get to the top, get to the top of the top.

And when you're at the top of the top, when you're the top one percent of the one percent, look yourself in the mirror and still say.

It's not good enough.

Okay, remember that, all right. And and for you men out there, remember what I said about family. Remember why I said about pools. All right, So step your game up. Live an indoor pool lifestyle, feed clothes and pool your family.

Okay, that's amazing. Okay, feed clothe and pool your family. Honestly, I can get behind that.

That's what I want for you, and that's what I want for the people in your life.

And I was going to say that there is someone messages me Jill Burd seventy eight that we need some dual say merch that says get your books up, because she is an inspiration to the Cheersdrep. Okay, all right, Josh, how you inspiring children today?

I'm inspiring them with ways Ways coming through my book coming out this summer, grind grind ground.

Okay, I'm gonna pull off myself. God's John so much. You Passard, you.

Basard, thank you so much for listening. We love you and we will catch you next week.

Bye La Bamba.

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