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Episode 79 - Eero, Sam, and Risto grapple with the question of, "What is sauna?"LINKS
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Theme Music: Conga Se Menne "Guess Who's Coming to Sauna"CONTENTS
00:00 Catching up and troubleshooting Eero's sauna mystery
07:46 Previous episode on The Radiant Debate and how we define sauna
12:10 Sauna is a mindset?
15:56 Comparing attempts to define sauna (International Bath Academy, Aachen Sauna Congress)
38:17 Low temp savusaunas?
39:46 Sam and Eero choose IR over traditional sauna
47:59 Reviewing Trumpkin's Notes
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https://finlandiafoundation.org
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https://saunologia.fi
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04:59 How does sauna process affect our design?
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