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Podcast: ArTEEtude: Unveiling the Spectrum of Art, Culture and Mind. West Cork´s Art and Culture Podcast by Detlef Schlich.
Episode: #Arteetude 323 - Detlef Schlich, together with his AI Co-Host Sophia, explores pool + sauna as modern “social living. They discuss the unisex changing room, meet the sauna characters, and explore how rituals of wellness create community in small, funny, dignified ways. End song: Los Inorgánicos – “Social Breathing”
Description: In this episode, we step out of the pub and into the heat.For me, the pool and the sauna have become a new form of social living. Not the midnight version, where the atmosphere can turn heavy, drunken, or depressive, but a healthier kind of togetherness: towels, quiet jokes, small kindness, and bodies trying to reset rather than escape.Together with my AI Co-Host Sophia, we begin in the unisex changing room (surprisingly normal for a historically Catholic country), then move into the sauna world: the characters, the unspoken rules, and the strange honesty...