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AIMEE MULLINS: These are five things that I love and I think everybody should check
out.
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AIMEE: I probably shouldn't be telling you all that.
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Number one, drive-in movie theaters.
I come from a town in Pennsylvania that has the oldest drive-in movie theater in the United
States.
You park your car backwards facing the movie theater.
You wait until the sun goes down, the fireflies are out, the moon comes out, and they start
your double feature.
It is awesome!
A book that I tend to give as a give often is What Remains by Sally Mann.
It's a book of her photography and it was prompted after the death of her father.
She had this exploration of what remains when something dies and she had permission to go
to the FBI training ground where John and Jane Does, unclaimed bodies, they're allowed
to decompose in various natural situations and they're documented over time.
She did it with this like the old kind of like tin type style camera so it's—half
the time you're not really sure what you're looking at.
You may think I'm morbid for this, but I just think it's such a haunting, gorgeous book.
I love hammams, or the Turkish bath.
It's the steam, the sauna, the cold plunge.
It's this ritual of like extreme hots and colds that y'know gets your endorphins going
and in the hammam experience, these north African women put on this kessa mitt and it
feels like linen and they scrub you down and your skin comes off in sheets like pencil
eraser.
It is the gnarliest thing you've ever seen and yet you're thinking I'm so glad that's
not going on my sheets or my clothes.
It is the cure for so many ailments from jet lag to stress to just feeling under the weather.
Go find your local Turkish bath.
I love anything that's hand written and personal.
A good old fashioned thank you note in our kind of texting, emailing, Skype generation,
I miss the tactile and I love those things so for me it's something—I'm still that
person that always sends a thank you note and I believe those things should be hand
written.
I just imagined myself as an 85 year old man going "Those should be hand written!"
My new favorite tech thing is the Uber app.
Oh my God, this uber app is it!
If anyone has ever been stuck in a shift change looking for a car, a taxi, in Manhattan or
Washington or LA—they're in most major cities in the US—this is the app for you!
It's uber!
Get it.
It's amazing.
You basically put in your information, put in the credit card, it GPS-es you on your
phone and it says pick me up and they show you all the cars that are available near you.
So it's an licensed car from the taxi and limousine commission and it says "Johnny,
your driver will come to you in six minutes."
and they send you a text.
Johnny calls you when he's 10 seconds away, you get in the car, he takes you where you
want and there's no exchange of cash whatsoever.
There's no tipping, there's no nothing and it's basically 15 to 20 percent more than
the cab fare.
Which is worth it in the pouring rain when you've been waiting 35 minutes for a cab anyway.
I probably shouldn't be telling you all that because now there won't be any cars when I
need them.
I'm begging all of you to go out and subscribe to THNKR!