The Podcast SOAK

Series Update:note from nell

Hi everyone, just a quick update on the series since we haevn’t published a new episode this summer. We’ve got more coming! Listen IN.

Episode 2: Bathhouse Row

Al Capone and Bugsy Siegel were often sighted. Bonnie and Clyde drove through. Marilyn Monroe came and Liz Taylor too. The Hale, The Superior. The Maurice. The Fordyce. Buckstaff. The Ozark. Lamar. The Magnesia became the Quapaw. One by one these establishments formed the spine of downtown. and it all began with proto bathhouses in the wild.

Episode 1: Kama Sutro

a love letter to Adolph Sutro, his legacy, and the glass palace that became a world phenomenon as a bathhouse + curiosity cabinet: Sutro Baths.

Episode 0: Creative Potential

Ever since Archimedes shouted Eureka! in a small wooden hot tub humans have experienced the creative potential of a hot soak. soak is an original podcast series that features the bold and the beautiful bathhouses that were social spots in America at the turn of the century from California to Arkansas, Detroit to New York City. the series begins in the late 1800s and spans the current moment as a renaissance in soaking is under way in part fueled by the elusive search for digital detox + nostalgia for the places that could never be built today. Or could they? is it time to return to the bathhouse as the town square?