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A gigantic cigar-shaped craft shadowed a NATO airliner over the Atlantic in 1963, the same year similar motherships appeared over Australia, Canada, and the skies of a Britain overrun by headless creatures and desecrated churches.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/1963DarkForcesREAD or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p87kmstFEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: A “gigantic cigar-shaped UFO” is spotted over the Atlantic in 1963, but the witness is so terrified by her experiences that it takes her twenty years to come forward to tell her story. And in that same year, elsewhere in the United Kingdom, people were dealing with dark, paranormal, even satanic forces - with numerous events that still remain unexplained.CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00:00.000 = The Foreboding00:01:18.783 = Show Open00:02:35.157 = The 1963 Atlantic UFO – Part 100:16:32.034 = The 1963 Atlantic UFO – Part 2 ***00:32:15.933 = 1963: Dark Paranormal Forces Invade The UK – Part 1 ***00:50:26.206 = 1963: Dark Paranormal Forces Invade The UK – Part 2 ***00:56:44.362 = Show Close*** = Begins immediately after inserted ad breakLISTEN ON PODCAST APPS: Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: https://weirddarkness.com/wdapps*No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast*SOURCES and RESOURCES:“The 1963 Atlantic UFO Encounter” by Marcus Lowth for UFO Insight: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/z2j2zp88“Dark Paranormal Forces Invade The United Kingdom” by Marcus Lowth for UFO Insight: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p93a79s(Over time links may become invalid, disappear, or have different content. I always make sure to give authors credit for the material I use whenever possible. If I somehow overlooked doing so for a story, or if a credit is incorrect, please let me know and I will rectify it in these show notes immediately. Some links included above may benefit me financially through qualifying purchases.)WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness.Originally aired: January 05, 2022This episode of Weird Darkness opens over the north Atlantic in May 1963, where a NATO English-language secretary based in Paris, flying on a near-empty DC-8 carrying fifty staff from Orly Airport to ministerial meetings in Ottawa, looked from her window and saw a dark grey, torpedo-shaped object six to seven thousand feet below the plane — its rear cut off sharply and squarely, with no wings, windows, or visible propulsion — before it vanished into cloud and the aircraft dropped into violent turbulence. Terrified and certain no one else aboard had noticed, she said nothing for almost twenty years, until a 1980 letter to Flying Saucer Review brought the account to light and the magazine published it the following year. The segment threads her sighting into a longer record of cigar-shaped craft: Melvin Vagle Jr. and his wife spotting a windowed object hovering over a plowed field near Grafton, Nebraska on November 22, 1961; Miss Footner tracking a silver, hundred-foot craft over Saanich Mountain near Victoria, British Columbia in early 1960; Reverend Lionel Browning and his wife photographing a grey mothership over Cressy, Tasmania on October 4, 1960 as smaller discs darted out of the clouds and explosions later shook nearby houses; RCMP Constable James Blackwood watching a cigar-shaped object near Clarenville, Newfoundland on November 26, 1978 mirror his patrol car's flashing lights for nearly two hours; a couple camping at Hexham, New South Wales in late December 1984 seeing discs swarm a lit craft that seemed to carry a helmeted figure; and an anonymous Swedish driver on Route 55 near Orsundsbro in June 1985 stepping out of her car to study a windowed craft she first mistook for a police helicopter.From there the episode crosses to England, where the night of November 16, 1963 brought four teenagers walking home from a dance past Sandling Park near Hythe, Kent face to face with a human-sized, headless creature with wings on its back; seventeen-year-old John Flaxton and eighteen-year-old Mervyn Hutchinson had first watched a bright gold oval descend behind the trees, and Flaxton felt a sudden, unexplained cold as the thing came at them through the woodland. The same evening in Saltwood, Tony Harrison and three companions saw a glowing oval and a figure in a scarlet cloak holding a flickering lantern, and within days John McGoldrick discovered three giant footprints, each roughly two feet long, near the spot where Keith Croucher had reported an identical object over a football field. The story then opens out into a year-long British wave: a flying saucer interfering with a woman's car headlights near Bluebell Hill in Kent; two men setting up a tripod that fired colored lights into the sky over the Britannia Barracks in Norwich; a market researcher named Joelle in Castleton encountering men who claimed to be extraterrestrials with bases on two of Jupiter's moons; and a dome-shaped craft that reportedly landed at RAF Cosford on December 10, washing the base in green light before vanishing. Stranger creatures shared the year — the Surrey Puma and other big cats stalking Shooter's Hill in London from July 18, a half-man, half-horse centaur seen in Sefton Park by witnesses including a police officer, a bulldog-headed monster rising beside two fishermen on Loch Ness, and a dinosaur-like animal that scattered seals along Cardigan Bay and left a half-eaten carcass behind. The episode closes on a darker thread of occult activity: two children found playing with a human skull taken from the ruined St. Mary's Church at Clophill in Bedfordshire, where Maltese crosses, cockerel feathers, and six tampered women's graves were uncovered; six decapitated horse heads and a cow, their jaws wrenched apart, discovered in Bluebell Woods at Caddington; clay effigies pierced with thorns and a sheep's head studded with thirteen thorns nailed up at Castle Rising in Norfolk; and a group of self-styled Devil worshippers interrupted mid-ritual at an active church in Westham, Sussex on December 7 — all set against a 1963 that began with one of the worst winters on record, claimed Labour leader Hugh Gaitskell and the poet Sylvia Plath, saw Ian Brady and Myra Hindley begin the Moors murders, and ended weeks after the assassination of President Kennedy.

Struggling to keep your home organized? Learn the Swedish secret to a clutter-free, beautiful home: move just 5 things a day. Sound too easy? I thought so too. In this episode, I'm breaking down the viral "5 things Swedes move daily” post, maybe you've seen it on your feeds? But I'm revealing what ACTUALLY works. Plus how you can use this simple method to declutter, beautify, and transform your space without overwhelm. I fell down a rabbit hole after seeing a sketchy Instagram ad promising life-changing Swedish organizing secrets (spoiler: it was a scam). But the research led me to something real: the Swedish concepts of lagom, döstädning, and the power of micro-tasks. I'm combining these with my "Power of Pretty" philosophy to show you how moving just 5 things a day can help you declutter, redesign, and fall in love with your home again. I'm sharing real examples from my own home (hello, dirty soda bar!) and from recent client makeovers, plus answering your questions about action files, downsizing, and organizing for different Clutterbug styles.Ready to stop overwhelming yourself and start making real progress? Let's get moving, Clutterbugs! Want to get organized? Learn 6-Step The Clutterbug Method: https://clutterbug.thinkific.com/courses/Clutterbug-Method You can find more Clutterbug content here: Main YouTube Channel: @Clutterbug Website: http://www.clutterbug.me TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@clutterbug_me Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/clutterbug_me/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Clutterbug.Me/ #clutterbug #podcast #Decluttering #Organizing #Cleaning #Home #LifeHacks #HomeHacks #OrganizedHome #CleanTok #DeclutterWithMe #SmallSpaces #HomeOrganization #CleaningMotivation Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A mysterious gentleman who never aged, never ate, and never seemed to die charmed the high society of two centuries — until police found his wine bottles filled with blood.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/stgermainREAD or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/WD20260625-StGermain.txtFEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: The mystery surrounding Count St. Germain is more than a little strange. Some think him to be a centuries old vampire. Others believe him to be a time traveler. And still others believe the whole thing to be a complete fraud. (The Vampire Time-Traveler) *** Escaping jail isn't easy, but we'll look at some who did the impossible – escaping the most secure prisons, in the most daring of ways. (History's Most Daring Prison Breaks) *** What would you do if you discovered that the church you attend every Sunday has a dark past that involves hauntings and supernatural phenomena? We'll look at some of the most haunted churches in the United States – perhaps you attend one of them and don't even realize it! (Most Haunted Churches in America) *** Benny Binion was one of the friendliest mobsters in Las Vegas… unless, of course, you made him mad. (Benny Binion, The Nice Guy Brute)CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00:00.000 = The Foreboding00:01:46.615 = Show Open00:03:35.546 = St. Germain: The Vampire Time Traveler00:15:55.827 = Daring Prison Breaks ***00:35:47.335 = Benny Binion, The Nice Guy Brute ***00:52:51.426 = Most Haunted Churches in America ***01:00:52.327 = Show Close*** = Begins immediately after inserted ad breakLISTEN ON PODCAST APPS: Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: https://weirddarkness.com/wdapps*No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast*SOURCES and RESOURCES:“The Vampire Time-Traveler” by Marcus Lowth for UFO Insight: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2f2psdnm“History's Most Daring Prison Breaks” by Mike Rothschild for Ranker's Unspeakable Times:https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p948z5e“Most Haunted Churches in America” by Rain-Screaming-For-Horror, posted at Vocal.Media:https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p8we2se“Benny Binion, The Nice Guy Brute” by Melissa Sartore for Weird History: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/4rczaf27(Over time links may become invalid, disappear, or have different content. I always make sure to give authors credit for the material I use whenever possible. If I somehow overlooked doing so for a story, or if a credit is incorrect, please let me know and I will rectify it in these show notes immediately. Some links included above may benefit me financially through qualifying purchases.)WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness.Originally aired: December, 2021This episode of Weird Darkness moves from an immortal vampire said to haunt two centuries of high society, through history's most audacious prison escapes, into the bloody rise of a Las Vegas gambling kingpin, and ends among the haunted pews of America's churches.It opens in London in the early 1740s, where a man known as the Count of St. Germain charmed the upper classes with flawless violin playing, fluency in several languages, and a habit of handing out diamonds, prompting Horace Walpole — son of Prime Minister Robert Walpole — to describe him in a letter as odd and mad before the Count was arrested on suspicion of spying and released without charge. He surfaced next in Paris as a regular guest of Louis XV, working in a commissioned laboratory on fabric dyes and carrying out discreet missions, while gossip held that he could turn ordinary stones into jewels and had lived for hundreds or thousands of years, even claiming presence at the Council of Nicaea in 325 AD. After reported appearances aiding Catherine the Great in Russia and a friendship with Prince Charles of Hesse-Cassel in Germany, where he was said to die in 1784, the story jumps to early-1900s New Orleans and a wealthy newcomer named Jacques St. Germain, who threw lavish parties yet never ate or drank, claimed descent from the Count, and bore an uncanny resemblance to him. The account turns dark when a woman leapt from his balcony into the street, telling police he had bitten her neck; St. Germain vanished overnight, leaving his belongings behind and several open bottles that proved to hold a mixture of wine and blood.From there the episode trades immortality for ingenuity, walking through the boldest jailbreaks on record. It runs from the 2016 Orange County escape, where Jonathan Tieu, Bac Duong, and Hossein Nayeri cut through walls and rappelled to a sixteen-hour head start, to Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán slipping out of Altiplano through a mile-long lighted tunnel in 2015, and Clinton Correctional inmates David Sweat and Richard Matt crawling through a steam pipe with tools handed over by prison worker Joyce Mitchell. Ted Bundy jumped from a Colorado courthouse library window, John Dillinger bluffed his way out of an Indiana jail with a wooden pistol painted in shoe polish, and yoga master Choi Gap Bok greased himself and squeezed through a six-by-eighteen-inch food slot in thirty-four seconds. The larger breakouts carry heavier counts: three men vanished from Alcatraz in 1962 on a raft of raincoats, more than 480 Taliban prisoners filed out of Kandahar's Sarpoza Prison through a thousand-foot tunnel in 2011, over a thousand Japanese prisoners stormed the wire at Australia's Cowra camp in 1944, and inmates at the Nazi death camp Sobibor killed eleven SS guards with homemade knives before running for the treeline.Next the episode settles in Dallas and then Las Vegas with Lester Ben "Benny" Binion, the cowboy-hatted racketeer who founded the World Series of Poker and shot rival bootlegger Frank Bolding in the neck in 1931, walking away with a two-year suspended sentence and the nickname the Cowboy. He killed gambling competitor Ben Frieden in 1936 and beat the charge after witnesses vanished, ran dice games and bookies out of Dallas hotels for high rollers like Howard Hughes and H.L. Hunt, then moved to Las Vegas in 1946 and turned the Eldorado into the no-limit Horseshoe, laying down the first carpet in a Vegas casino. His feud with Dallas gambler Herbert "the Cat" Noble ran through eleven attempts on Noble's life and killed Noble's wife Mildred with a car bomb before a mailbox blast ended Noble in 1951. Binion died on Christmas Day 1989 and was carried to the cemetery behind six black horses, while his son Ted was found dead in 1998 in a case that convicted Sandy Murphy and Rick Tabish of burglary but acquitted them of the slaying, with the missing silver bullion never recovered.The episode closes inside America's churches, where worship shares the building with the dead. At Most Holy Trinity in Brooklyn, built over a former cemetery, parishioners report the spirit of clerk George Stelz, murdered in 1897, alongside bells that ring on their own and a bloody handprint in the bell tower stairway. The Washington National Cathedral carries the echo of Woodrow Wilson's cane and charred figures from a 1946 fire, while New Orleans' St. Louis Cathedral is tied to voodoo queen Marie Laveau, socialite Delphine Lalaurie, and six men executed on its grounds. At St. Mark's Episcopal in Cheyenne, a Swedish immigrant is said to have sealed his dead coworker inside the unfinished bell tower wall to avoid deportation, and at St. Paul's Chapel in New York — where George Washington prayed on his inauguration day — the spirit of actor George Frederick Cooke is said to wander still, his actual skull having traveled from a Philadelphia medical library and, by lore, onto the stage as a prop in Hamlet.

Throughout the Draculae miniseries, about the Swedish and Icelandic translations of Dracula that played fast and loose with the original text, I've been wondering a couple of questions: why are cover versions of songs and remakes of films so normal and acceptable, whereas cover versions in book form cause such a stir? And do these Scandinavian Draculae count as fan fiction? And if not, why not? Fansplaining.com's Elizabeth Minkel explains what fan fiction can mean.Visit theallusionist.org/transformation for more information plus a transcript of the episode. And though this is the fourth and last part of the Draculae miniseries, it is more inspired by than directly connected to the other episodes, so you don't have to listen to them beforehand. But do listen to them, they're very fun and intriguing!Content note: this episode contains some references to (but not descriptions of) sexual content and sex slavery. There is also mention of J.K. Rowling.Sign up at theallusionist.org/donate to fund the continuing existence of this independent podcast. In return, you can join me for regular livestreams where I read relaxingly from my ever-expanding collection of vintage dictionaries, plus behind the scenes info about every episode, membership of the Allusioverse Discord community, and watchalong parties for films and TV shows.Find the Allusionist at youtube.com/allusionistshow, instagram.com/allusionistshow, facebook.com/allusionistshow, @allusionistshow.bsky.social… If I'm there, I'm there as @allusionistshow. Our ad partner is Multitude. If you want me to talk compellingly about your product, sponsor an episode: contact Multitude at multitudeshows.com/ads. This episode is sponsored by Squarespace, your one-stop shop for building and running your online forever home. Go to squarespace.com/allusionist for a free trial, and get 10 percent off your first purchase of a website or domain with the code allusionist.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This week we are doing something a bit different. Often this podcast is a space for a deep dive into an article that you can read about on the Velo website. This week we are instead going to learn more about contributor Lisa Charlebois. Mike Levy and I sat down to chat with Charlebois about a ride she once did. This wasn't an ordinary ride, though. Charlebois does a lot of big rides, but this one was even bigger. It is called the Midnight Sun Randonneur, and it is a 1,215-kilometer (755-mile) loop that starts six hours north of Stockholm in Umeå, Sweden, pushes north into the Arctic Circle to the Norwegian Sea, and then loops back. Because the event takes place during the Scandinavian midsummer, there is no real sunset, just a constant daylight that messes with your sense of time. The mass start kicks off at 11:00 PM, and riders navigate to checkpoints roughly every 100 kilometers where they refuel on local items like deep-fried dumplings and moose meat sandwiches. Beyond that framework, it is an unsupported ride with a 90-hour time limit. You carry your own gear and sleep when you can. To put her pacing into perspective, Lisa's first day on the bike covered 470 kilometers (292 miles) with over 15,500 feet of climbing. That initial push took 19 hours of moving time through rolling hills and endless Swedish forests before the landscape drastically shifted. Just in case you thought things weren't hard enough, the third day is where the weather broke. Lisa and the remaining riders faced roughly 200 kilometers of driving, freezing rain. Of course, like any ultra-endurance event, crossing the finish line was met with no fanfare. Does that sound like your idea of a good time? Maybe not, but that's the kind of thing Charlebois brings to the table when she shares her perspective about a bike. Listen to the full discussion to hear all the twists and turns and find out if Charlebois would ever consider doing it again. For more information about the event visit the Midnight Sun Randonneur website.

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The CEO of Heart Aerospace describes the development of a hybrid-electric 30-seat regional commercial aircraft. In the news, a near miss at Boston Logan between a landing Delta Air Lines flight and a departing American Airlines flight, NASA's Advanced Aircraft Concepts for Environmental Sustainability 2050 (AACES) program, Canada’s purchase of F-35A fighters and possibly Saab Gripens, and Canada’s look at early-warning-radar planes. Guest Anders Forslund is the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Heart Aerospace, formed to electrify short-haul regional aviation. Heart Aerospace is developing the ES-30, a hybrid-electric 30-seat regional commercial aircraft. Heart is currently in upstate New York, testing the X1 demonstrator aircraft, which the company says will be the largest electric aircraft ever to fly. The company is backed by Bill Gates' Breakthrough Ventures and Y Combinator, as well as operator/investors United Airlines and Air Canada. Anders explains Heart Aerospace’s mission to lower the cost of air travel and how their clean-sheet Part 25 airliner will achieve about a 40% reduction in overall operating costs. The ES-30 will be an electric-motor-and-turboprop hybrid, while the full-scale X1 prototype is all-electric. The X1 demonstrator has completed low-speed taxi testing at the company’s X1 flight-test base at Plattsburgh International Airport in upstate New York. First flight is expected shortly, with type certification planned for 2031. Video: Heart X1 Completes Low-Speed Taxi Testing https://youtu.be/5jkyKevsJNI?si=1xreSjh_gRcI6xu2 Anders tells us about the Heart team and how aerospace development has changed in the last decade. The company strives to manage uncertainty rather than minimize it, holds itself accountable, and sets falsifiable goals. Before starting Heart, Anders was an aerospace researcher at Chalmers, where he was a driving force behind the Elise-Electric Aviation research project in Sweden, funded by the Swedish innovation agency Vinnova. He spent 2013-2014 at MIT, where his work on geometric variation of aerospace components was awarded the Charles M. Manly Memorial Medal. He is also a founding member of the Nordic Network for Electric Aviation. Anders has a Ph.D. in Aerospace Product Development and a B.Sc. in Engineering Physics from Chalmers. He has a dual M.Sc. in Astronautics and Space Engineering from Cranfield University and Luleå University, as part of the SpaceMaster program. He is also a member of Prince Daniel’s Fellowship for young entrepreneurs. Follow Heart Aerospace on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, X, and LinkedIn. Aviation News Horrifying Near Miss at Boston Logan as Quick-Thinking Delta Air Pilots Go Around to Avoid Landing On Top of American Airlines Boeing 737 Delta Air Lines flight DL-2351, an Airbus A319 flying from Dallas, was landing at Boston Logan International Airport (BOS), was cleared to land on runway 33L. Moments later, American Airlines flight AA-3161, a Boeing 737-800, was cleared to take off for Charlotte from intersecting runway 27. The pilots repeated the instruction back to the controller, and after about 40 seconds, started the takeoff. As Delta flight 2351 was about to touch down, the pilots saw the American Airlines plane and executed a go-around. That was followed by the air traffic controller asking the American flight, “American, where are you going?” Listen to the Incident Audio via @xJonNYC. Electra reveals 100-seat hybrid-electric aircraft concept Electra developed the concept under NASA's Advanced Aircraft Concepts for Environmental Sustainability 2050 (AACES) program. NASA has commissioned industry and academia to “develop transformative aircraft designs, propulsion technologies, and sustainability solutions for commercial aviation by 2050.” Electra's large airliner concept features a wide “double-bubble” fuselage that generates lift. Propulsion comes from two turbofans under the wings that produce thrust and electricity, as well as three fans mounted on the top of the aft fuselage. Electra says those fans would “ingest and re-energise slower-moving air over the fuselage, a technique known as boundary layer ingestion.” Other AACES participants include the Georgia Institute of Technology with the Liquefied Natural Gas Powered Athena Aircraft Concept, and JetZero with a hydrogen fueled blended wing body design. Congress Questions Air Force's Combat Rescue Readiness As HH-60W Helicopters Get Turned Into VIP Transports The Senate Armed Services Committee filed S. 4784, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027 (NDAA), which establishes funding levels and authorities for the U.S. military. The 66th annual NDAA supports a total of $1.15 trillion in FY 2027 funding for national defense. In its report [PDF], the Committee expresses concern “about combat search and rescue (CSAR) force structure in the Air Force. In recent years, the Air Force truncated the buy of HH-60Ws and has since transferred 26 HH-60Ws from units responsible for CSAR operations to the Air Force District Washington (AFDW) to replace H-1 helicopters. AFDW uses these helicopters to support contingency response, homeland operations, and ceremonial honors in the National Capital Region. “The committee believes that these actions have left CSAR forces unnecessarily short of the forces needed to support CSAR operations in a major contingency. Therefore, the committee directs the Secretary of the Air Force to conduct a study of CSAR requirements and capabilities, including HH-60Ws and HC-130Js, and provide a report and briefing on that study to the congressional defense committees, not later than March 31, 2027. “Furthermore, the committee directs the Secretary to avoid making any changes in CSAR force structure until the study is completed and he or she has provided the results of that study to the Congress.” Canada Plans Fleet Surge to 140+ Fighters as Low Cost Gripens Reduce Expenses According to informed sources, the Royal Canadian Air Force plans to grow its fighter fleet to 140, possibly by purchasing Saab Gripen jets. Canada has planed to purchase 88 F-35A fighters, but that could drop to 70, accompanied by 70 Gripens. Saab offered to establish final assembly, maintenance, and long-term industrial support in Canada. This would transfer technology and intellectual property to Canada. Under the F-35 program, sustainment and software updates are centralized in the United States. Canada to buy Swedish surveillance plane over US models Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney announced that Canada would not purchase early-warning-radar planes from the United States. Instead, they will purchase Saab’s GlobalEye, which is based on the Bombardier Global 6500 jet, manufactured in Canada. Price and fleet size were not announced. Saab said in a statement that as part of any deal, the company would invest in research and development work in Canada. Hosts this Episode Max Flight, our Main(e) Man Micah, Rob Mark, and David Vanderhoof.

Neoborn Caveman reads from the Dalai Lama's Book of Joy on how warm-heartedness dissolves loneliness and excessive self-focus creates the very alienation it chases, then turns the mirror and names the real war as the internal one where we suppress what we feel because the structure around us taught us to bury it. NC walks through a series of care home sexual assaults in Sweden where courts described the rape of an 82-year-old as short-lived and mitigated, declares rapists lose the identity of human, marks the 20th anniversary of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault and connects it to Monsanto's seed patent monopoly, then addresses the Powassan virus spreading across the US with 15-minute tick transmission and permanent neurological damage while drawing the Plum Island and Bill Gates lineage, and closes with a declaration of why America remains the greatest hope for humanity through faith, freedom, diversity and 36 million small businesses. Season 10 is gearing up with back catalog episodes and two new songs premiere from pMad and Inoxidables.Music guests: pMad, InoxidablesKey TakeawaysThe Dalai Lama argues excessive self-focus creates the very alienation and loneliness it tries to escape.The real war is internal — suppressing inner truth to adapt into structures designed to suppress us.Swedish courts classified the rape of an 82-year-old as mitigated because it was short-lived and without blows.A rapist loses the identity of human regardless of nationality or background.The Svalbard Global Seed Vault holds 2.25 billion seeds and was designed to survive the melting of every ice cap.Monsanto created heroin as children's cough syrup and now patents seeds while neighboring farms fail.Powassan virus transmits within 15 minutes and half of survivors suffer permanent neurological damage.CDC advice to keep grass short contradicts climate policy demanding taller grass.America has 36 million small businesses and the foundational principle that rule belongs to the free.Heaven on earth is not naive to imagine if America pursues its founding promise.Sound Bites"Is there a life after death? Well, that's not the right question. The right question is, is there a life before death?""However difficult it is to hear, it's us.""A rapist has no place in human society, period.""The court considered number of alleged mitigating factors, describing the rape as short-lived and one that occurred without threats or blows.""It is designed to remain dry, even if every ice cap on the planet melts.""You can't have your own seed.""I'm not going to say that this deadly new virus slash tick nightmare has anything to do with Bill Gates.""America is the greatest hope for the whole humanity.""Free is not when your speech is curtailed or when your government can grab you from home because you posted something online.""Heaven on earth can be created."Support the show and join the free tea house conversation at patreon.com/theneoborncavemanshow.Humanity centered satirical takes on the world & news + music - with a marble mouthed host. Free speech marinated in comedy. Supporting Purple Rabbits. Viva los Conejos Morados.Keywords: Dalai Lama Book of Joy, loneliness, inner war, Sweden care home rapes, court leniency, Svalbard Seed Vault, Monsanto seed monopoly, Powassan virus, Plum Island, Bill Gates ticks, MAID organ harvesting, why America is great, freedom, Season 10, pMad, Inoxidables, pro-humanityHumanity centered satirical takes on the world & news + music - with a marble mouthed host.Free speech marinated in comedy.Supporting Purple Rabbits.Viva los Conejos Morados. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome back to Circle Round Summer Camp! We're revisiting our favorite stories about the outdoors. Recorded live at Symphony Hall with Boston Symphony Orchestra members and a star-studded cast, this Swedish tale sheds magical light on kindness, caring, and letting roots run deep. This Circle Round episode originally was released on Oct. 28, 2025. Sign up for our monthly newsletter, "The Lion's Roar", here.

In case you missed it: How does a country of 10 million people dominate the global pop charts? From ABBA's Eurovision breakthrough to Max Martin's methodical hit-making, Sweden has quietly engineered a kind of musical Stockholm Syndrome: we've all become captives to their sound without realizing it. Listen to the crystalline vocal production and deceptively simple chord progressions in tracks by Lisa, Childish Gambino, and Addison Rae, and you're hearing Sweden's sonic fingerprint so embedded in pop's DNA that it now defines the genre itself. We sit down with pop star Zara Larsson to explore her love letter to home, "Midnight Sun." As she puts it, "I can't really leave Sweden; it's just something that's like a part of who I am," a sentiment that captures how Swedish pop's unique blend of melancholy and euphoria, mirroring the country's extreme seasons, has made us all willing prisoners of Stockholm's musical empire. Songs Discussed Lisa ft. Rosalia: "New Woman" Childish Gambino: "Lithonia" Addison Rae: "Fame Is a Gun" Bleachers: "Tiny Moves" Zara Larsson: "Midnight Sun" Robyn: "Show Me Love" Robyn: "Dancing on My Own" Nirvana: "Smells Like Teen Spirit" Brad Mehldau: "Smells Like Teen Spirit" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Taiping Army commits to one of its most audacious acts yet – an assault on the Qing throne itself, a thousand miles north in Beijing. To reach it, it will launch its great Northern Campaign: a single spear-throw that, if its aim holds true, might end the entire war before the teeth of winter bite down.Time Period Covered:May 1853 – March 1855 CE Major Historical Figures: Taiping Heavenly Kingdom:Hong Xiuquan, the Heavenly King [1814–1864]Lin Fengxiang, co-commander of the Northern Expedition [d. 1855]Li Kaifang, co-commander of the Northern Expedition [d. 1855]Li Xiucheng, future Loyal King [c. 1823–1864] Qing Dynasty:The Xianfeng Emperor (Aisin-Gioro Yinzhu) [r. 1850–1861]Prince Senggelinqin [c. 1811–1865]Other:Theodore Hamberg, Swedish missionary, Hong Kong; author of the first European account of the Taiping [1819–1854] Major Sources Cited:Hamberg, Theodore. The Visions of Hung-Siu-tshuen, and Origin of the Kwang-si Insurrection. Michael, Franz, and Chang Chung-li. The Taiping Rebellion: History and Documents, Vol. I.Platt, Stephen R. Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom.Spence, Jonathan D. God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Please note Endgame Episodes 1 & 2 were not able to be re-released due to the Supreme Court Take Down Order.For all details on how to subscribe using Apple or Spotify and support the podcast plus get early release, ad free listening and bonus episodes please visit https://www.theguiltpodcast.com/how-to-subscribeThroughout this podcast, to protect the safety of witnesses and the integrity of the case names, voices and even genders are changed without notice. In April of 1989 two Swedish tourists, Heidi Paakkonen and Sven Urban Hoglin disappeared without a trace only days before they were due to leave New Zealand.Despite no bodies being found, David Wayne Tamihere was convicted of their murders. In October of 1991 Urban's body was discovered 70km away from where the New Zealand Police said it should be, when it was discovered up a forest road in Parakiwai, near Whangamata.Yet despite this contradictory new evidence and the eventual discovery that a key witness had committed perjury, David Tamihere was not successful in his appeals and served 21 years before being paroled in 2010.To this day Tamihere has always maintained his innocence, that he never met the Swedish couple, and he certainly never murdered them.It was almost three years ago, in December of 2023 that I released the final official episode of Season three of GUILT - Finding Heidi. This episode was the last in what had been an eight month investigation by myself to try and get to the truth, and more importantly to try and find Heidi.Since the release of that episode my work has not stopped, in fact it has amplified, as I've worked with the New Zealand Police to ensure that fresh evidence I've uncovered has been actioned appropriately with one final goal in mind, to find Heidi.Over this series of episodes which I'm calling Finding Heidi - Part Two Endgame, you're going to hear the story of this year's work, and how it led to a recent event, which I believe is the most important development in this case in 30 years..Everything you're going to hear is new, and has never been heard before.And by the end, this case will never be the same again.Guilt is a 100% Independent Podcast. Support the Podcast by becoming a Brevity+ subscriber. For a small monthly or annual fee you can both support the show and get a ton of amazing features, including Early Episode Release, Bonus Episodes, Ad Free Listening and exclusive access to the Guilt Podcast 'War Room' on www.theguiltpodcast.com where you'll find timelines, maps, case files, exclusive episode video content and more!Subscribe today on Apple or Spotify (Supporting Cast). For details on how to subscribe please visit our website www.theguiltpodcast.com/how-to-subscribeIf you have information about any of our cases or you would like to suggest a case or a story, please visit our website www.theguiltpodcast.com and use our contact form to contact us.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/guilt. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

China Eastern Airlines has resumed direct flights between Shanghai and Stockholm after a six-year suspension. The service between the Chinese metropolis and the Swedish capital will operate three times a week.

Fluent Fiction - Swedish: Sailing into Friendship: A Summer's Tale at Vasamuseet Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:fluentfiction.com/sv/episode/2026-06-23-22-34-01-sv Story Transcript:Sv: Det var en strålande sommardag i Stockholm, och solen lyste klart på Vasamuseet där en grupp elever från Norra Real hade samlats för en skolutflykt.En: It was a brilliant summer day in Stockholm, and the sun shone brightly on the Vasamuseet where a group of students from Norra Real had gathered for a school trip.Sv: Linnea, en av eleverna, hade alltid känt sig hemma i historiens värld.En: Linnea, one of the students, had always felt at home in the world of history.Sv: Hon älskade att förlora sig själv i böcker och historier om gamla tider.En: She loved losing herself in books and stories about olden times.Sv: Men hon önskade också att äntligen få kontakt med sina klasskamrater.En: But she also wished to finally connect with her classmates.Sv: Elias, å andra sidan, charmade alla i klassen med sitt leende och sin utstrålning.En: Elias, on the other hand, charmed everyone in the class with his smile and charisma.Sv: Han var omtyckt och populär, men kände ofta en oerhörd press att alltid vara på topp.En: He was well-liked and popular but often felt an enormous pressure to always be at his best.Sv: Sigrid var den nya tjejen i klassen.En: Sigrid was the new girl in the class.Sv: Nyinflyttad och lite blyg, sökte hon fortfarande sin plats.En: Newly moved and a bit shy, she was still looking for her place.Sv: Den här dagen hade Linnea bestämt sig för att göra ett försök att bryta isen.En: On this day, Linnea had decided to make an effort to break the ice.Sv: Hon närmade sig fröken Andersson, deras lärare, och erbjöd sig att hjälpa till med museumsturen.En: She approached Ms. Andersson, their teacher, and offered to help with the museum tour.Sv: Genom att visa upp sin kunskap och sitt intresse, hoppades hon på att Elias och de andra skulle lägga märke till henne.En: By showcasing her knowledge and interest, she hoped that Elias and the others would notice her.Sv: När turen började följde Elias av någon anledning med just Linneas grupp.En: When the tour started, Elias for some reason followed Linnea's group.Sv: Han tyckte det var något särskilt med Linnea, något ärligt och äkta.En: He thought there was something special about Linnea, something honest and genuine.Sv: Museet var fullt av spännande föremål, från den imponerande Vasa-skeppet till små detaljer om sjömännen som hade arbetat ombord.En: The museum was full of exciting items, from the impressive Vasa ship to small details about the sailors who had worked onboard.Sv: Linnea berättade med glädje och entusiasm om skeppets historia medan de vandrade genom de stora salarna.En: Linnea shared with joy and enthusiasm the ship's history as they walked through the large halls.Sv: "Elias," sa fröken Andersson under en interaktiv aktivitet, "Vill du och Linnea bilda ett team?En: "Elias," said Ms. Andersson during an interactive activity, "Would you and Linnea like to form a team?Sv: Ni kan arbeta tillsammans på nästa utmaning."En: You can work together on the next challenge."Sv: De båda log osäkert men instämde.En: They both smiled uncertainly but agreed.Sv: Utmaningen gick ut på att lösa små gåtor som ledde dem genom en serie av intressanta stationer i museet.En: The challenge was to solve small riddles that led them through a series of interesting stations in the museum.Sv: Deras skratt ekade i de tysta korridorerna när de försökte lösa en särskilt knepig gåta.En: Their laughter echoed in the quiet corridors as they tried to solve a particularly tricky riddle.Sv: Genom att arbeta tillsammans bröts stelheten.En: By working together, the stiffness was broken.Sv: Efter den lyckade samarbetet satte de sig i museets kafé.En: After the successful collaboration, they sat in the museum's café.Sv: Runt omkring dem fanns ljudet av glada röster och klirrande koppar medan de delade sina tankar.En: Around them were the sounds of happy voices and clinking cups while they shared their thoughts.Sv: "Jag har alltid gillat historia," erkände Linnea.En: "I've always liked history," Linnea admitted.Sv: "Men det är svårt att prata med folk ibland."En: "But sometimes it's hard to talk to people."Sv: "Jag vet hur det känns," svarade Elias ärligt.En: "I know how that feels," replied Elias honestly.Sv: "Det kan vara svårt att vara sig själv."En: "It can be hard to be yourself."Sv: De pratade vidare och insåg att de hade mer gemensamt än de först trodde.En: They continued talking and realized they had more in common than they initially thought.Sv: När dagen gick mot sitt slut bestämde de sig för att samarbeta på ett projekt om Vasa-skeppet i skolan.En: As the day drew to a close, they decided to collaborate on a project about the Vasa ship at school.Sv: De var glada och nöjda, stolta över att ha tagit steget utanför sina bekvämlighetszoner.En: They were happy and content, proud of having stepped outside their comfort zones.Sv: För Linnea, denna dag hade varit en ljusglimt av självsäkerhet och nyfunna vänskaper.En: For Linnea, this day had been a bright glimpse of self-confidence and newfound friendships.Sv: Elias insåg att ibland är det äkta kontakter som betyder mest.En: Elias realized that sometimes genuine connections mean the most.Sv: Tillsammans kände de vinden från nya möjligheter blåsa.En: Together, they felt the wind of new possibilities blowing.Sv: Och medan solen sakta sjönk i sommarhimlen, visste de att detta bara var början på deras vänskap.En: And as the sun slowly sank in the summer sky, they knew this was just the beginning of their friendship. Vocabulary Words:brilliant: strålandegathered: samlatsclassmates: klasskamratercharmed: charmadecharisma: utstrålningnewly: nyinflyttadapproached: närmade sigshowcasing: visa uppgenuine: äktaimpressive: imponerandeenthusiasm: entusiasmuncertainly: osäkertsolve: lösariddles: gåtorechoed: ekadecorridors: korridorertricky: knepigcollaboration: samarbetetclinking: klirrandeadmitted: erkänderealized: insågcontent: nöjdacomfort zones: bekvämlighetszonerself-confidence: självsäkerhetnewfound: nyfunnaconnections: kontakterpossibilities: möjlighetersank: sjönkglimpse: ljusglimtstepped: steg

Fluent Fiction - Swedish: Elsa's Melodic Triumph: A Tale of Courage and Harmony Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:fluentfiction.com/sv/episode/2026-06-23-07-38-19-sv Story Transcript:Sv: Solen strålade in genom de stora fönstren i Stockholms allmänna gymnasium.En: The sun streamed in through the large windows of Stockholms public gymnasium.Sv: Sommarens värme kändes genom de öppna dörrarna, och elevernas glada röster fyllde korridorerna.En: The summer heat was felt through the open doors, and the happy voices of students filled the corridors.Sv: Elsa, en tystlåten men bestämd tonåring, gick med raska steg mot musiksalen.En: Elsa, a quiet but determined teenager, walked briskly towards the music room.Sv: Hon hade en viktig uppgift framför sig.En: She had an important task ahead of her.Sv: Elsa levde med sin mamma, efter föräldrarnas nyliga skilsmässa.En: Elsa lived with her mother, after her parents' recent divorce.Sv: Hon saknade sin pappa, speciellt när Midsommar närmade sig.En: She missed her father, especially as Midsommar approached.Sv: Men hon hade bestämt sig för att lägga sin energi på musiken.En: But she had decided to focus her energy on music.Sv: Skolans musiktävling närmade sig, och Elsa ville vinna för att göra sin mamma stolt.En: The school's music competition was approaching, and Elsa wanted to win to make her mother proud.Sv: Nils, en självsäker och populär elev, var hennes största rival.En: Nils, a confident and popular student, was her biggest rival.Sv: Han hade vunnit tävlingen året innan och var fast besluten att vinna igen.En: He had won the competition the year before and was determined to win again.Sv: Det gjorde Elsa nervös, men också mer motiverad.En: This made Elsa nervous, but also more motivated.Sv: Efter skolan träffade Elsa Hedvig i musiksalen.En: After school, Elsa met Hedvig in the music room.Sv: Hedvig var duktig på att arrangera musik, och Elsa trodde att de två kunde skapa något unikt.En: Hedvig was skilled at arranging music, and Elsa believed they could create something unique together.Sv: De började jobba tillsammans, fyllde rummet med toner och harmonier.En: They began working together, filling the room with tones and harmonies.Sv: Elsa spelade piano, Hedvig hjälpte med arrangemangen.En: Elsa played the piano, Hedvig helped with the arrangements.Sv: De skrattade och diskuterade tills solen började gå ner.En: They laughed and discussed until the sun began to set.Sv: När tävlingsdagen kom, var skolan dekorerad med blommor inför Midsommarfestligheterna.En: When the competition day arrived, the school was decorated with flowers for the Midsommar celebrations.Sv: Publiken fyllde aulan, och Elsas mamma satt längst fram, leendes stolt mot sin dotter.En: The audience filled the auditorium, and Elsa's mother sat in the front, smiling proudly at her daughter.Sv: Elsa tog ett djupt andetag och gick upp på scenen.En: Elsa took a deep breath and stepped onto the stage.Sv: Hon hade precis börjat spela när en av förstärkarna plötsligt gav ifrån sig ett högt tjut.En: She had just started playing when one of the amplifiers suddenly emitted a loud squeal.Sv: Publiken flämtade till och hon kände paniken stiga.En: The audience gasped, and she felt panic rising.Sv: Men Elsa mötte sin mammas blick.En: But Elsa met her mother's gaze.Sv: Hon tog ett djupt andetag, rätade på ryggen och fortsatte spela, utan förstärkning.En: She took a deep breath, straightened her back, and continued playing without amplification.Sv: Ton efter ton flöt genom luften.En: Note by note flowed through the air.Sv: Tystnaden i rummet blev en del av melodin.En: The silence in the room became part of the melody.Sv: Publikens uppmärksamhet var fängslad, och Elsa kände kraften i sin musik.En: The audience's attention was captivated, and Elsa felt the power in her music.Sv: När hon spelat klart bröt applåder ut i aulan.En: When she finished playing, applause erupted in the auditorium.Sv: Elsa log stort mot sin mamma, som hade tårar i ögonen.En: Elsa beamed at her mother, who had tears in her eyes.Sv: Även om hon inte vann tävlingen, hade hon vunnit något större - modet att följa sitt hjärta, trots livets svårigheter.En: Even though she didn't win the competition, she had won something greater—the courage to follow her heart, despite life's difficulties.Sv: På väg hem den kvällen kände Elsa en varm känsla av tillfredsställelse.En: On her way home that evening, Elsa felt a warm sense of satisfaction.Sv: Hon insåg att livet inte alltid var perfekt, men att det ändå kunde vara vackert.En: She realized that life wasn't always perfect, but it could still be beautiful.Sv: Och ibland var det de små segrarna i livet som betydde mest.En: And sometimes it was the small victories in life that meant the most. Vocabulary Words:streamed: stråladegymnasium: gymnasiumbriskly: raskaimportant: viktigtask: uppgiftdetermined: bestämddivorce: skilsmässaapproached: närmade sigcompetition: tävlingproud: stoltconfident: självsäkerbiggest: störstarival: rivalmotivated: motiveradskilled: duktigarranging: arrangeraunique: uniktones: tonerharmonies: harmonierlaughed: skrattadediscussed: diskuteradedecorated: dekoreradcelebrations: festligheternaamplifiers: förstärkareemitted: gav ifrån siggasped: flämtadestraightened: rätademelody: melodincaptivated: fängsladcourage: mod

A Swedish hacktivist exposed Peter Thiel's secret club Dialog. Allison talks with Corbin Trent about the implications of Elon Musk becoming the world's first trillionaire on the widening gap between the elites and we the people.  More from Corbin Trenthttps://www.americasundoing.com/ https://substack.com/@corbintrent https://bsky.app/profile/corbintrent.bsky.social Reminder - you can see the pod pics if you become a Patron. The good news pics are at the bottom of the show notes of each Patreon episode! That's just one of the perks of subscribing! patreon.com/muellershewrote Listener Survey:http://survey.podtrac.com/start-survey.aspx?pubid=BffJOlI7qQcF&ver=shortFollow the Podcast on Apple:https://apple.co/3XNx7ckWant to support the show and get it ad-free and early?https://patreon.com/thedailybeanshttps://dailybeans.supercast.com/https://apple.co/3UKzKt0 Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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The Founderz Lounge Episode #92 with Don Varady and Steve Bon.In this episode of Business & Bullsh*t, Don and Steve break down the rise of the super franchisee and what it means for the future of franchising. They get into how larger operators and private equity groups are buying up more territory, why mom-and-pop franchisees may be getting squeezed out, and the risk franchisors take when growth starts to outweigh culture, support, and customer experience.They also unpack the Bricks & Minifigs controversy and why franchisees can't afford to go outside the system, even when they think they have a good idea. Then they shift into Random Bullsh*t with a ridiculous luxury car insurance scam involving bear costumes, an IKEA Swedish meatball lollipop that somehow exists, and a sharp Founderz Hot Take on fake AI experts trying to cash in before they've earned the right to teach anybody.If you care about franchising, business growth, private equity, brand standards, and spotting business nonsense before it costs you, this episode is for you.Timestamps:[00:00] Trailer and Intro[00:49] Founderz Roundup[00:54] The rise of the super franchisee[08:02] Bricks & Minifigs franchise controversy[15:08] Random Bullsh*t[15:08] Operation Bear Claw insurance scam[16:55] IKEA's Swedish meatball lollipop[19:18] Founderz Hot Take[19:27] AI experts are getting out of hand[23:52] What The Hell Is This?[24:05] Dolly Parton x Dollar GeneralKey Takeaways:  • The franchise industry is shifting toward larger operators, and mom-and-pop franchisees are going to feel that pressure more and more. ~Don Varady• Some of the best franchisees are not the most polished on paper. They are the people with no plan B who have to make it work. ~Don Varady• Private equity can help fuel growth, but the wrong partner can hurt culture, customer service, and the long-term health of the brand. ~Steve Bon and Don Varady• “I think that the future of franchising will belong to operators, not just entrepreneurs.” ~Don Varady• Franchisees cannot go outside the system just because they think they have a good idea, because one bad move can create a brand-wide mess. ~Steve Bon• A lot of people selling AI advice right now are trying to monetize something they barely understand, and real results still require actual work. ~Don Varady and Steve BonConnect with Don and Steve…Don Varady:Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/don.varady/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/donvarady/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/don-varady-450896145 Steve Bon:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephenbon Instagram: https://instagram.com/stevebon8 Tune in to every episode on your favorite platform: Website: https://www.thefounderzlounge.com/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheFounderzLounge Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0Nurr4XjBE747qJ9Zjth0G Apple Music: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-founderz-lounge/id1461825349 The Founderz Lounge is Powered By:Clean Eatz:Website: https://cleaneatz.com/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CleanEatzLife/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cleaneatzlife/ Website: https://cleaneatz.com/Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJRGrE-Xv4IMW_DbxSOTGGA Bon's Eye Marketing:Website: https://bonseyeonline.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bonseyemarketing Instagram: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bon's-eye-marketing/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bon's-eye-marketing/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@bonseyemarketing9477  

In Dave's absence we have a very special treat for you in this episode: a peek behind the Patreon paywall - an episode of Lost Mountain Saga's Patreon exclusive Birch Basement podcast (featuring, by pure coincidence, Matthew and Dave)00.00.40: Introduction00.02.14: World of Gaming - The Children of Time RPG is live soon on kickstarter; New Alien cinematic Operation Leading Edge, on pre-order; just two weeks to back Nordic Skalds' Third Horizon campaign Eater of Worlds00.05.50: Old West News - Lone Rider has playtest feedback; Tales of the Old West will be the ruleset for the next season of Lost Mountain Saga00.08.04: An episode of Birch Basement  - Ellinor and Sydney's Patron Exclusive podcast. If you like it (we are not on every episode) join their Patreon at a paid rank.01.01.28: Next time and Goodbye Effekt is brought to you by Effekt Publishing. Music is by Stars in a Black Sea, used with kind permission of Free League Publishing.Like what we do?But our game, Tales of the Old West via our website and download Tales of the Old West QuickDraw available for free on DriveThru. The core rules are now available on DriveThru too.Put our brand on your face! (and elsewhere)Buy pdfs via our DriveThru Affiliate linkLeave a review on iTunes or PodchaserFind our Actual Play recordings on effektap ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Fluent Fiction - Swedish: Blooming Under Pressure: Elina's Midsommar Market Challenge Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:fluentfiction.com/sv/episode/2026-06-22-22-34-02-sv Story Transcript:Sv: Marknaden i byn var full av liv.En: The market in the village was full of life.Sv: Solen sken starkt över de färgglada tälten.En: The sun shone brightly over the colorful tents.Sv: Doften av nybakat bröd blandades med sötman från blomsterbuketterna.En: The scent of freshly baked bread mixed with the sweetness from the bouquets of flowers.Sv: Elina stod vid sitt marknadsstånd.En: Elina stood at her market stall.Sv: Hon hade pysslat med sina blomsterkronor hela natten.En: She had been crafting her flower crowns all night.Sv: Midsommarfesten närmade sig, och alla ville ha en vacker krona till kransen.En: The Midsommar celebration was approaching, and everyone wanted a beautiful crown for the wreath.Sv: Trots glädjen runt henne, kände Elina sig överväldigad.En: Despite the joy around her, Elina felt overwhelmed.Sv: Den varma, omslutande solen och den ständiga rörelsen från folkmassan fick världen att snurra.En: The warm, embracing sun and the constant movement of the crowd made the world spin.Sv: Svetten rann nerför hennes panna när hon försökte fokusera på sina kunder.En: Sweat ran down her forehead as she tried to focus on her customers.Sv: Elina hade alltid varit känd för sina vackra blomsterkronor.En: Elina had always been known for her beautiful flower crowns.Sv: Hennes vän Astrid hjälpte ofta till.En: Her friend Astrid often helped.Sv: Hon hade lovat att möta Elina efter att ha köpt färska jordgubbar.En: She had promised to meet Elina after buying fresh strawberries.Sv: Men medan Elina väntade kände hon en stigande yrsel.En: But while Elina waited, she felt a rising dizziness.Sv: Hennes huvud dunkade, och allt började suddas ut.En: Her head throbbed, and everything began to blur.Sv: Sven, den lokale helaren, gick förbi.En: Sven, the local healer, walked by.Sv: Han bar alltid sina örtkorgar, något som ingav byborna trygghet.En: He always carried his baskets of herbs, which gave the villagers comfort.Sv: Han lade märke till Elina precis när hon svajat till.En: He noticed Elina just as she swayed.Sv: "Elina, du verkar inte må bra," sade han med en mjuk röst.En: "Elina, you don't seem well," he said in a gentle voice.Sv: Hon försökte le, men det blev ett svagt försök.En: She tried to smile, but it was a weak attempt.Sv: "Jag måste sälja mina kronor," mumlade hon, medan hon förgäves försökte skaka av sig den tunga känslan.En: "I have to sell my crowns," she mumbled, while she tried in vain to shake off the heavy feeling.Sv: Sven såg bestämt på henne.En: Sven looked at her firmly.Sv: "Man måste lyssna på kroppen.En: "One must listen to the body.Sv: Vila är också viktigt."En: Rest is important too."Sv: Elina insåg att han hade rätt men tvekade att överge sitt marknadsstånd.En: Elina realized he was right but hesitated to abandon her market stall.Sv: Plötsligt kom Astrid inspringande med ett bekymrat ansikte.En: Suddenly, Astrid came running in with a concerned face.Sv: "Elina, du behöver hjälp!"En: "Elina, you need help!"Sv: ropade hon och lade en stödjande arm runt Elinas axlar.En: she shouted, putting a supportive arm around Elina's shoulders.Sv: Med Sven och Astrids hjälp satte sig Elina ned.En: With Sven and Astrid's help, Elina sat down.Sv: Hon drack kall vatten och kände hur Sven lade en sval kompress mot hennes panna.En: She drank cold water and felt Sven place a cool compress on her forehead.Sv: "Ta en paus.En: "Take a break.Sv: Vi hjälps åt," sade Astrid lugnande.En: We'll help each other," Astrid said soothingly.Sv: Med tiden återhämtade sig Elina.En: In time, Elina recovered.Sv: Hon insåg att hon kanske inte kunde göra allt själv.En: She realized that maybe she couldn't do everything by herself.Sv: Marknaden fortsatte omkring henne, men nu med Sven och Astrids stöd kändes det mer hanterligt.En: The market continued around her, but now with Sven and Astrid's support, it felt more manageable.Sv: Senare, efter att marknaden slutat för dagen, omfamnade Elina den nu ljumma, friska kvällen vid midsommarfesten.En: Later, after the market had ended for the day, Elina embraced the now warm, fresh evening at the Midsommar celebration.Sv: Hon skrattade med Astrid vid sin sida.En: She laughed with Astrid by her side.Sv: Blommorna i hennes hår påminde henne om hur vackert det är att låta andra hjälpa till.En: The flowers in her hair reminded her of how beautiful it is to let others help.Sv: Där, under den natthimlen full av stjärnor, kände sig Elina äntligen fri att njuta av dagens glädje.En: There, under the night sky full of stars, Elina finally felt free to enjoy the day's joy. Vocabulary Words:market: marknadenvillage: byntents: tältenscent: doftenbouquets: blomsterbuketternacrowns: kronorcelebration: festenapproaching: närmade sigoverwhelmed: överväldigadembracing: omslutandecrowd: folkmassansweat: svettenblur: suddas uthealer: helarenherbs: örtkorgarcomfort: trygghetswayed: svajatgentle: mjukhesitated: tvekadeabandon: övergesupportive: stödjandecompress: kompressmanage: hanterligtevening: kvällenjoy: glädjerecover: återhämtadethrobbed: dunkadepromise: lovatdizziness: yrselattempt: försök

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Fluent Fiction - Swedish: Forging Dreams: Sven and Astrid's Midsummer Triumph Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:fluentfiction.com/sv/episode/2026-06-22-07-38-20-sv Story Transcript:Sv: Sven och Astrid arbetade som lärlingar hos smeden i Stockholms medeltida marknad.En: Sven and Astrid worked as apprentices under the blacksmith in the medieval market of Stockholm.Sv: Det var sommar och platsen sjöd av liv.En: It was summer, and the place was buzzing with life.Sv: Färgglada stånd kantade gatorna, och doften av nygräddat bröd blandades med ljudet av hammare mot städ.En: Colorful stalls lined the streets, and the smell of freshly baked bread mixed with the sound of hammers on anvils.Sv: Över alltihopa reste sig de gamla murarna, en påminnelse om stadens uråldriga historia.En: Above it all rose the old walls, a reminder of the city's ancient history.Sv: Sven hade en dröm.En: Sven had a dream.Sv: Han ville smida det mäktigaste svärdet och visa upp det under Midsommarfirandet.En: He wanted to forge the mightiest sword and display it during the Midsummer celebration.Sv: Detta skulle ge honom respekt och kanske en fast plats som smed.En: This would earn him respect and perhaps a permanent position as a blacksmith.Sv: Astrid, däremot, var skeptisk.En: Astrid, on the other hand, was skeptical.Sv: "Det är för svårt och vi har inte tillräckligt med tid eller resurser," varnade hon.En: "It's too difficult, and we don't have enough time or resources," she warned.Sv: Men Sven lyssnade inte.En: But Sven didn't listen.Sv: Han var fast besluten och behövde mer material.En: He was determined and needed more material.Sv: På natten smög han in i marknaden för att samla det han behövde.En: At night, he snuck into the market to gather what he needed.Sv: Astrid, trots sin oro, gick med på att hjälpa Sven under dagarna.En: Astrid, despite her concerns, agreed to help Sven during the days.Sv: "Försök inte överarbeta det," påminde hon.En: "Don't try to overwork it," she reminded.Sv: Dagarna flög förbi, varje stund dyrbar medan Midsommar närmade sig.En: The days flew by, each moment precious as Midsummer approached.Sv: Sven kämpade med sitt projekt.En: Sven struggled with his project.Sv: En kväll, när paniken tog över, gav han upp.En: One evening, when panic took over, he gave up.Sv: "Jag klarar det inte ensam," insåg han.En: "I can't do it alone," he realized.Sv: Då trädde Astrid fram, hennes händer vana vid verktygen och hennes ögon skarpa och fokuserade.En: That's when Astrid stepped in, her hands familiar with the tools and her eyes sharp and focused.Sv: Tillsammans arbetade de, sida vid sida.En: Together they worked, side by side.Sv: När festivalen var här, var svärdet färdigt.En: When the festival arrived, the sword was finished.Sv: Det var glänsande, starkt och perfekt balanserat.En: It was gleaming, strong, and perfectly balanced.Sv: Sven visade svärdet för mästersmeden.En: Sven showed the sword to the master blacksmith.Sv: Med ögon fyllda av förvåning och stolthet, sade han: "Sven, detta är en mästerverk.En: With eyes filled with amazement and pride, he said, "Sven, this is a masterpiece.Sv: Du är från och med nu en del av vår smed."En: You are now part of our blacksmith guild."Sv: Sven log, stolt och lättad.En: Sven smiled, proud and relieved.Sv: Astrid, vid hans sida, kände sig också stolt och mer säker på sina egna färdigheter.En: Astrid, by his side, also felt proud and more confident in her own skills.Sv: De insåg båda nyttan av samarbete.En: They both realized the value of cooperation.Sv: Sven lärde sig att inte rusa in i saker, och Astrid insåg sin egna styrka.En: Sven learned not to rush into things, and Astrid recognized her own strength.Sv: När mörkret föll och midsommarens eldar brann, tittade vännerna ut över marknaden.En: As darkness fell and the Midsummer fires burned, the friends looked out over the market.Sv: Ljuset från elden dansade över deras ansikten, och de visste båda att en ny era hade börjat, i både deras liv och deras vänskap.En: The light from the fire danced over their faces, and they both knew a new era had begun, in both their lives and their friendship. Vocabulary Words:apprentices: lärlingarblacksmith: smedenmedieval: medeltidabuzzing: sjödstalls: ståndlined: kantadeanvils: städforge: smidamightiest: mäktigasteskeptical: skeptiskdetermined: fast beslutensnuck: smöggather: samlaconcerns: orooverwork: överarbetastruggled: kämpadepanic: panikenfamiliar: vanagleaming: glänsandebalanced: balanseratamazement: förvåningpride: stolthetmasterpiece: mästerverkguild: smedpermanent: fastresources: resurservaluable: dyrbarconfidence: färdigheterfires: eldarcooperation: samarbete

FASHION CAREER BOOTCAMP - Faça sua aplicação: https://forms.gle/5m5o39qgSToGayFr7 Mari agora é mestre em Fashion Marketing and Management pela Swedish School of Textiles, da University of Borås, na Suécia. Neste episódio, ela faz um tour pelo campus da universidade, que mais parece uma galeria de arte, e relembra os quase dois anos de experiências, aprendizados e conexões internacionais que marcaram essa fase. Agora, é hora de começar um novo capítulo do Moda na Mochila.FASHION VOCAB TALKS - lista de espera: https://www.modanamochila.com/fashionvocabtalksnewsletter: https://modanamochila.substack.com/about Ig: https://www.instagram.com/modanamochila/

Hi Sleepy. Tonight we wander into that strange little gap before a feeling has a name. A sound moves the air in your ear, a smell opens a basement door inside you, a birch tree in the wind becomes childhood, and suddenly the body has arrived long before the words come running after it, late and out of breath.There are grannies, boomers, vowels and bowels, thunder at the kitchen table, a cemetery walk among birches, and one small blissling in a northern Swedish church that grows when it is gently noticed. This is an introspective and slightly ridiculous journey to sleep about feeling, memory, language, smell, the body, and all the things in us that never become sentences.Drift off to sleep, Sleepy. It is what it is. What happens, happens. And right now, there is nothing we can do about it.Sleep Tight!More about Henrik, click here: https://linktr.ee/Henrikstahl Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Fluent Fiction - Swedish: Chaos at the Museum: Lars' Journey to Inspiration Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:fluentfiction.com/sv/episode/2026-06-21-22-34-02-sv Story Transcript:Sv: Solstrålar landade mjukt genom de stora takfönstren inne i Vetenskapsmuseet i Stockholm.En: Sunbeams landed gently through the large skylights inside the Vetenskapsmuseet in Stockholm.Sv: Det var en livlig dag, där barn skrattade och föräldrar ivrigt pekade på de interaktiva utställningarna.En: It was a lively day, with children laughing and parents eagerly pointing at the interactive exhibits.Sv: Doften av nygräddade våfflor kom från kaféet intill.En: The scent of freshly baked waffles came from the café next door.Sv: Det var sommar och atmosfären var fylld av glädje och upptäckarlust.En: It was summer, and the atmosphere was filled with joy and a spirit of discovery.Sv: Lars, en vetgirig men klumpig forskare, stod vid en av montrarna som visade gamla vetenskapliga instrument.En: Lars, a curious but clumsy researcher, stood by one of the displays showcasing old scientific instruments.Sv: Han ville hitta en unik idé för sitt nästa projekt.En: He wanted to find a unique idea for his next project.Sv: Han sneglade på Emma, hans briljanta kollega.En: He glanced at Emma, his brilliant colleague.Sv: Han beundrade henne och önskade att få hennes uppskattning.En: He admired her and wished to gain her appreciation.Sv: Men just som Lars lutade sig för att titta närmare på ett gammalt mikroskop, hände det.En: But just as Lars leaned in to take a closer look at an old microscope, it happened.Sv: Han tappade balansen, och hans hand kom åt en känslig knapp på glasmontern.En: He lost his balance, and his hand hit a sensitive button on the glass display case.Sv: Plötsligt satte ett öronbedövande larm igång.En: Suddenly, a deafening alarm went off.Sv: Ljudet fyllde hela museet, och människor stannade upp, förvånade.En: The sound filled the entire museum, and people stopped, surprised.Sv: Lars blev röd i ansiktet av skam.En: Lars turned red in the face with embarrassment.Sv: Han kände alla blickar på sig och visste inte vad han skulle göra.En: He felt all eyes on him and didn't know what to do.Sv: Men istället för att fly, bestämde han sig för att fixa situationen själv.En: But instead of fleeing, he decided to fix the situation himself.Sv: Han böjde sig ner mot montren igen för att försöka stänga av larmet.En: He bent down towards the display case again to try to turn off the alarm.Sv: I sin panik tryckte han dock på fler knappar, och till sin förskräckelse såg han hur en stor dinosaurieskelett började röra på sig.En: In his panic, however, he pressed more buttons, and to his horror, he saw a large dinosaur skeleton begin to move.Sv: En av de interaktiva utställningarna om gravitationsvågor sattes igång, vilket fick en modell av en miniatyrraket att flyga över besökarnas huvuden.En: One of the interactive exhibits on gravitational waves activated, causing a model of a miniature rocket to fly over the visitors' heads.Sv: Det hela var en komisk kedja av händelser som verkade oändlig.En: It was a comic chain of events that seemed endless.Sv: Emma skrattade tills tårarna rann, men såg sedan att Lars behövde hjälp.En: Emma laughed until tears streamed down her face, but then she saw that Lars needed help.Sv: Med ett lugn lyckades hon lokalisera huvudströmbrytaren och slog av den.En: With a calm demeanor, she managed to locate the main switch and turned it off.Sv: Larmet tystnade, och allting återgick till det normala.En: The alarm fell silent, and everything returned to normal.Sv: Lars pustade ut, lättad men fortfarande generad.En: Lars sighed with relief but was still embarrassed.Sv: "Förlåt, jag gjorde allt värre", sa han till Emma.En: "Sorry, I made everything worse," he said to Emma.Sv: Men Emma log varmt och sa, "Det var modigt av dig att försöka lösa det själv.En: But Emma smiled warmly and said, "It was brave of you to try to fix it yourself.Sv: Alla gör misstag, Lars.En: Everyone makes mistakes, Lars.Sv: Det är en del av att vara mänsklig."En: It's part of being human."Sv: De satte sig ner vid ett av kaféets bord efter att museet hade lugnat ner sig.En: They sat down at one of the café's tables after the museum had calmed down.Sv: Med en våffla i handen vågade Lars till sist prata om sina idéer.En: With a waffle in hand, Lars finally dared to talk about his ideas.Sv: Emma lyssnade noga och uppmuntrade honom.En: Emma listened carefully and encouraged him.Sv: Lars lämnade museet den dagen med ett lättare hjärta.En: Lars left the museum that day with a lighter heart.Sv: Han hade lärt sig att hans klumpighet och misstag inte bestämde över hans talang.En: He had learned that his clumsiness and mistakes didn't define his talent.Sv: Och än viktigare, han insåg att Emma såg hans kreativitet och potential precis som han hoppats på.En: And more importantly, he realized that Emma saw his creativity and potential just as he had hoped. Vocabulary Words:sunbeams: solstrålarskylights: takfönstreneagerly: ivrigtdisplays: montrarshowcasing: visadeadmire: beundradealarmed: larmetdeafening: öronbedövandepanic: panikhorror: förskräckelsechain: kedjademeanor: lugnbrave: modigtmistakes: misstagcalm: lugnaexhibits: utställningarnaappreciation: uppskattningbalance: balanseninteractive: interaktivacomposed: lyckadesintent: avsiktpride: stolthetcurious: vetgirigdiscovery: upptäckarlustclumsy: klumpigrelief: lättadpotential: potentialencouraged: uppmuntradereluctant: motvilligaflustered: generad

Curtis Yarvin, Minna Salami, and Yascha Mounk discuss whether we can ever be free in a liberal society in a discussion moderated by Roger Hearing. In this special episode of The Good Fight, recorded at the How The Light Gets In Festival, Roger Hearing moderates a debate between Curtis Yarvin, Minna Salami, and Yascha Mounk on whether liberalism can ever be neutral, what a truly free society would look like, and whether liberalism's heyday is over. Find out more about the Institute of Arts and Ideas—and book tickets to this year's  How The Light Gets In Festival in September—here. Watch the video of the debate here. Roger Hearing is a broadcaster and journalist with over 30 years experience presenting and reporting for BBC News and Bloomberg. Minna Salami is an award-winning Nigerian-Finnish and Swedish author, cultural critic, and independent scholar based in London. She is the author of Can Feminism Be African?: A Most Paradoxical Question. Curtis Yarvin is a political blogger and software developer. If you have not yet signed up for our podcast, please do so now by following ⁠⁠this link on your phone⁠⁠. Email: leonora.barclay@persuasion.community Podcast production by Jack Shields and Leonora Barclay. Connect with us! ⁠⁠Spotify⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠Apple⁠⁠ X: ⁠⁠@Yascha_Mounk⁠⁠ & ⁠⁠@JoinPersuasion⁠⁠ YouTube: ⁠⁠Yascha Mounk⁠⁠, ⁠⁠Persuasion⁠⁠ LinkedIn: ⁠⁠Persuasion Community Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Fluent Fiction - Swedish: Midsummer Compassion: A Vote for Health and Empathy Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:fluentfiction.com/sv/episode/2026-06-20-07-38-20-sv Story Transcript:Sv: Det var en solig sommardag i Sverige, och midsommaren var precis runt hörnet.En: It was a sunny summer day in Sverige, and Midsummer was just around the corner.Sv: Den lilla staden fylldes av doften från blomkransar och det hördes skratt från folk som förberedde sig för firandet.En: The small town was filled with the scent of flower crowns and the sound of laughter from people preparing for the celebration.Sv: I hjärtat av staden låg kommunens samlingssal, där dagens val skulle hållas.En: In the heart of the town lay the community hall, where the day's election was to be held.Sv: Axel, en ung och sprudlande volontär, hade kommit tidigt till lokalen.En: Axel, a young and lively volunteer, had arrived early at the venue.Sv: Det var hans första gång som ansvarig för att organisera röstningen, och han var fast besluten att göra ett bra jobb.En: It was his first time being responsible for organizing the voting, and he was determined to do a good job.Sv: Solstrålarna föll in genom de stora fönstren och gav rummet en varm glans.En: Sunbeams poured in through the large windows and gave the room a warm glow.Sv: Röda och vita dukar täckte borden, och valsedlar låg prydligt staplade.En: Red and white cloths covered the tables, and the ballots were neatly stacked.Sv: Bland dem som kom för att rösta var Ingrid, en sjuksköterska som hade arbetat långa timmar på sjukhuset.En: Among those who came to vote was Ingrid, a nurse who had worked long hours at the hospital.Sv: Trots sin trötthet kände hon en plikt att rösta.En: Despite her fatigue, she felt a duty to vote.Sv: Hon gick in i salen, men hennes kollega Lars, som följt med henne, såg med oro på henne.En: She walked into the hall, but her colleague Lars, who had accompanied her, looked at her with concern.Sv: "Ingrid, du borde vila", sa Lars mjukt.En: "Ingrid, you should rest," Lars said softly.Sv: "Jag måste rösta först", insisterade Ingrid, trots att ögonen visade tecken på utmattning.En: "I have to vote first," insisted Ingrid, even though her eyes showed signs of exhaustion.Sv: Plötsligt stapplade hon till och föll ihop på golvet.En: Suddenly, she staggered and collapsed to the floor.Sv: Axel rusade fram, liksom Lars.En: Axel rushed over, as did Lars.Sv: "Vi måste se till att hon mår bra", sa Axel beslutsamt.En: "We need to make sure she is okay," said Axel decisively.Sv: Lars nickade och försökte hjälpa Ingrid upp.En: Lars nodded and tried to help Ingrid up.Sv: "Vi måste ta henne till sjukhuset."En: "We must take her to the hospital."Sv: Men Ingrid var envis.En: But Ingrid was stubborn.Sv: "Jag vill rösta", mumlade hon svagt.En: "I want to vote," she murmured weakly.Sv: Axel kände sig kluven.En: Axel felt torn.Sv: Han visste hur viktig röstningen var för Ingrid, men hennes hälsa var prioriterad.En: He knew how important voting was to Ingrid, but her health was the priority.Sv: "Låt oss se till att du får vård först", sa Axel varsamt men bestämt.En: "Let's make sure you receive care first," said Axel gently but firmly.Sv: "Jag kan ordna så att du röstar hemifrån senare."En: "I can arrange for you to vote from home later."Sv: Lars såg tacksamt på Axel.En: Lars looked gratefully at Axel.Sv: "Vi måste åka nu", sa han, och Axel hjälpte Lars att leda Ingrid ut till en taxi som väntade utanför.En: "We need to go now," he said, and Axel helped Lars lead Ingrid out to a taxi waiting outside.Sv: Väl inne på sjukhuset blev Ingrid omhändertagen av läkare.En: Once at the hospital, Ingrid was taken care of by doctors.Sv: Lars stannade vid hennes sida tills han visste att hon var i goda händer.En: Lars stayed by her side until he knew she was in good hands.Sv: Axel återvände till röstlokalen, där han med hjälp av andra volontärer återställde ordningen.En: Axel returned to the voting hall, where he, with the help of other volunteers, restored order.Sv: Dagen gick smidigt.En: The day went smoothly.Sv: Axel andades ut när det hela var över.En: Axel breathed a sigh of relief when it was all over.Sv: Han hade lärt sig hur viktigt det är att vara flexibel och att visa empati.En: He had learned how important it is to be flexible and to show empathy.Sv: Några dagar senare, när Ingrid hade vilat upp sig, röstade hon hemifrån.En: A few days later, when Ingrid had rested, she voted from home.Sv: Hon insåg att det var lika viktigt att ta hand om sig själv som att delta i demokratin.En: She realized that it was just as important to take care of herself as it was to participate in democracy.Sv: Axel kände sig stolt över att ha hanterat situationen bra och lärde sig en värdefull läxa i ledarskap.En: Axel felt proud for having handled the situation well and learned a valuable lesson in leadership.Sv: Ingrid tog sig tid att återhämta sig och tackade både Axel och Lars för deras hjälp.En: Ingrid took the time to recover and thanked both Axel and Lars for their help.Sv: Det blev en sommar de sent skulle glömma - en midsommar där medkänsla och medborgarskap stod sidan vid sida.En: It was a summer they would not soon forget—a Midsummer where compassion and citizenship stood side by side. Vocabulary Words:election: valvolunteer: volontärresponsible: ansvarigvenue: lokalsunbeams: solstrålarcollapse: föll ihopstubborn: envisdecisively: beslutsamtarrange: ordnagratefully: tacksamtrestore: återställarelief: lättnadempathy: empaticitizenship: medborgarskapcompassion: medkänslaexhaustion: utmattningstaggered: stappladeglow: glansduty: pliktdetermined: fast beslutenaccompanied: följt medhall: samlingssalballots: valsedlarstacked: stapladeprioritize: prioriteradweakly: svagtnodded: nickadetaxi: taxihospital: sjukhusnurse: sjuksköterska

Fluent Fiction - Swedish: Crafting Success: Teamwork and Innovation by the Lake Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:fluentfiction.com/sv/episode/2026-06-20-22-34-01-sv Story Transcript:Sv: Under en klarblå himmel, vid en sjö som glittrar i solen, sitter Linnea, Oskar och Eva runt ett robust, träbord på ett charmigt utomhuscafé.En: Under a clear blue sky, by a lake shimmering in the sun, Linnea, Oskar, and Eva sit around a sturdy wooden table at a charming outdoor café.Sv: De känner brisen från sjön och blickar ibland ut över det lugna vattnet, men idag är deras tankar fokuserade på ett sommarprojekt.En: They feel the breeze from the lake and occasionally gaze out over the calm waters, but today their thoughts are focused on a summer project.Sv: Linnea är projektledaren.En: Linnea is the project leader.Sv: Hon känner sig stressad eftersom den nya produktlinjen måste lanseras snart.En: She feels stressed because the new product line must be launched soon.Sv: Hon vill visa sin ledarskapsförmåga och hoppas att projektet blir en stor framgång.En: She wants to demonstrate her leadership skills and hopes the project will be a great success.Sv: Oskar, med sitt kreativa sinne, sitter lutad tillbaka i stolen och tänker på hur de kan förbättra projektets utformning.En: Oskar, with his creative mind, leans back in his chair, contemplating how they can improve the project's design.Sv: Eva, vars skepticism ibland får Linnea att tveka, bläddrar i sina papper och funderar på om tidslinjen verkligen är realistisk.En: Eva, whose skepticism sometimes causes Linnea to hesitate, flips through her papers, pondering whether the timeline is really realistic.Sv: "Midsommar är precis runt hörnet," säger Eva med en stillsam röst.En: "Midsummer is just around the corner," Eva says in a calm voice.Sv: "Ska vi verkligen fortsätta trycka på med denna tidsplan?"En: "Should we really keep pushing with this timeline?"Sv: Linnea tar ett djupt andetag och känner en viss oro, men hon vet att hon måste leda teamet mot ett gemensamt mål.En: Linnea takes a deep breath, feeling a bit anxious, but she knows she must lead the team towards a common goal.Sv: "Jag har tänkt mycket på det," säger hon.En: "I've thought a lot about it," she says.Sv: "Jag tror att vi kan lyckas om vi arbetar tillsammans."En: "I believe we can succeed if we work together."Sv: Oskar lutar sig fram.En: Oskar leans forward.Sv: "Om vi integrerar några nya, innovativa funktioner kan vi göra produkten ännu mer lockande."En: "If we integrate some new, innovative features, we can make the product even more appealing."Sv: Linnea ser att Oskar är full av idéer.En: Linnea sees that Oskar is full of ideas.Sv: Hon känner att det är rätt tid att kombinera hans förslag med Evas strukturerade strategi.En: She feels it is the right time to combine his suggestions with Eva's structured strategy.Sv: "Vad säger du, Eva?"En: "What do you think, Eva?"Sv: frågar Linnea.En: Linnea asks.Sv: "Kan vi skapa en balans mellan kreativitet och struktur?"En: "Can we create a balance between creativity and structure?"Sv: Eva nickar, överraskad över Linneas vilja att kompromissa.En: Eva nods, surprised by Linnea's willingness to compromise.Sv: "Om vi är smarta och fokuserade kan vi nog fixa det."En: "If we're smart and focused, we can probably make it work."Sv: Det finns en tyst överenskommelse runt bordet.En: There is a silent agreement around the table.Sv: De ser mot sjön, och en känsla av enighet växer fram.En: They look towards the lake, and a sense of unity emerges.Sv: Solen strålar ner, varm och uppmuntrande.En: The sun shines down, warm and encouraging.Sv: Linnea tar mod till sig och förklarar passionerat för sina kollegor om projektets betydelse.En: Linnea gathers her courage and passionately explains the significance of the project to her colleagues.Sv: Hon ber dem att ge sitt bästa innan de går till de efterlängtade midsommarfesterna.En: She asks them to do their best before they head off to the much-anticipated midsummer celebrations.Sv: När mötet lider mot sitt slut, märker de alla en ny energi.En: As the meeting draws to a close, they all notice a new energy.Sv: De har en plan.En: They have a plan.Sv: Linnea känner sig lättad och stolt.En: Linnea feels relieved and proud.Sv: Hon har insett vikten av att lyssna på sitt team.En: She has realized the importance of listening to her team.Sv: Efter att ha skakat hand och skrattat, går var och en mot sina respektive håll, ivriga över projektets framtid.En: After shaking hands and laughing, each goes their respective way, eager about the project's future.Sv: Linnea stannar kvar en stund, ser ut över sjön där solen nästan kysser horisonten.En: Linnea lingers a moment, looking out over the lake where the sun almost kisses the horizon.Sv: Hon andas in den friska luften och njuter av ögonblicket av stillhet, nöjd med att ha byggt en starkare och mer sammanhållen grupp.En: She breathes in the fresh air and enjoys the moment of stillness, pleased to have built a stronger and more cohesive group.Sv: Midsommarnatten lovar att bli ljus och full av hopp, precis som deras projekt.En: Midsummer night promises to be bright and full of hope, just like their project. Vocabulary Words:shimmering: glittrarsturdy: robustbreeze: brisengaze: blickarproject leader: projektledarendemonstrate: visaleadership skills: ledarskapsförmågacontemplate: tänker påskepticism: skepticismtimeline: tidslinjenanxious: orocommon goal: gemensamt målintegrate: integrerarinnovative: innovativaappealing: lockandecombine: kombinerastructured: struktureradecompromise: kompromissaunity: enighetencouraging: uppmuntrandesignificance: betydelseanticipated: efterlängtadedraws to a close: lider mot sitt slutrealized: insettrespective: respektivelingers: stannar kvarcohesive: sammanhållenbright: ljushorizon: horisontenstillness: stillhet

In 1954, hundreds of Glasgow schoolchildren armed with makeshift weapons stormed the Southern Necropolis, hunting a towering, iron-toothed vampire they believed had already claimed two victims.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/GorbalsVampireREAD or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/4xtvswmmFEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: What caused hundreds of Scottish children in the 1950s to suddenly become vampire hunters? (The Gorbals Vampire) *** Over the years, from ancient to more modern times there have been a number of incredible cases of mass hysteria. Some are so unbelievable it's difficult to understand how they happened at all. (Ancient Cases of Mass Hysteria) *** Zachary Davis had a history of mental disturbance, but no one could have predicted the horrors he was truly capable of. (The Disturbing Story of Zachary Davis) *** When poor travelers are found dead in the frozen winter, could it be that there is something more to their story? Could they have been killed not by the cold, but by a demon of the snow? (Demon of the Snow) *** Southwest of Tombstone, Arizona are the remains of a simple adobe cabin nicknamed ‘the bloodiest cabin in Arizona'. (Brunkow's Cabin) *** Oscar Beckwith was a hermit who lived in the woods, in a small, squalid shack with no furnishings but a bunk, two stools, and a stove… on which he cooked human flesh. (The Cannibal of Austerlitz)CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00:00.000 = The Foreboding00:01:02.525 = Show Open00:03:13.218 = The Gorbals Vampire00:07:54.447 = Ancient Cases of Mass Hysteria00:23:57.158 = The Disturbing Story of Zachary Davis ***00:32:13.121 = Demon of the Snow00:38:22.972 = Brunkow's Cabin ***00:43:01.745 = The Cannibal of Austerlitz00:48:36.810 = Show Close*** = Begins immediately after inserted ad breakLISTEN ON PODCAST APPS: Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: https://weirddarkness.com/wdapps*No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast*SOURCES and RESOURCES:“The Gorbals Vampire” by Cynthia McKanzie for Message to Eagle: (link no longer valid)“Ancient Cases of Mass Hysteria” posted at Ancient Pages: http://bit.ly/2Iw12SX“The Disturbing Story of Zachary Davis” by William DeLong for All That's Interesting: http://bit.ly/2UOxLd6“Demon of the Snow” by A. Sutherland for Ancient Pages: http://bit.ly/2UlTX97“Brunkow's Cabin” by Amanda Penn: http://bit.ly/2GojnOB“The Cannibal of Austerlitz” by Robert Wilhelm for Murder By Gaslight: http://bit.ly/2ZjADwV(Over time links may become invalid, disappear, or have different content. I always make sure to give authors credit for the material I use whenever possible. If I somehow overlooked doing so for a story, or if a credit is incorrect, please let me know and I will rectify it in these show notes immediately. Some links included above may benefit me financially through qualifying purchases.)WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness.Originally aired: January, 2019Weird Darkness moves from a 1950s Scottish vampire panic and centuries of mass hysteria through a Tennessee teenager's matricide, the vengeful Japanese snow demon Yuki-Onna, the bloodiest cabin in the Arizona desert, and a New York hermit who cooked the man he murdered.It opens on the evening of September 23, 1954, when hundreds of schoolchildren poured into the Southern Necropolis cemetery in the Gorbals district of Glasgow, Scotland, armed with sharpened stakes and knives to hunt a creature they called the vampire with iron teeth, blamed for abducting and killing two missing boys. Police could not clear the children from among the headstones, and only the rain finally drove them home, though the hunt resumed over the next two days. Although no children were actually missing, newspapers and Parliament blamed American horror comics such as Tales from the Crypt and The Vault of Horror, a panic that drew in Labour MP Alice Cullen and led to the 1955 Children and Young Persons (Harmful Publications) Act, while others traced the iron-toothed monster to the Book of Daniel or to the Glasgow Green bogeywoman Jenny Wee. From the Gorbals the episode widens into centuries of mass hysteria: the first recorded case on an Egyptian papyrus dated to 1990 BC, children in a 1676 Dutch orphanage who barked and crawled like dogs, the 1374 dancing plague known as choreomania that seized the German town of Aachen, the Swedish witch panic of 1664 to 1676 and its children flown to the devil's meadow of Blakula, and French convent nuns who meowed in unison until soldiers threatened them with rods. The same survey takes in the 1630 poisoning terror of Milan that sent the barber Mora to torture and execution, the 1771 Okage Mairi pilgrimage that drew five million Japanese to the Ise Grand Shrine of Amaterasu Omikami, Richard A. Locke's 1835 Great Moon Hoax describing winged bat-men called Vespertilio-homo in the New York Sun, the Salem witch trials of 1692 that hanged nineteen people after the slave Tituba's confession, and the Hammersmith ghost of 1804 that ended when Francis Smith shot the plasterer Thomas Millwood dead in the dark.From there the focus shifts to Sumner County, Tennessee, where on August 10, 2012, fifteen-year-old Zachary Davis killed his sleeping mother, Melanie, striking her nearly twenty times with a sledgehammer he had carried up from the basement, acting on what he believed was the voice of his dead father. His father, Chris, had died of ALS in 2007, after which Vanderbilt psychiatrist Dr. Bradley Freeman diagnosed the boy with schizophrenia and depression before Melanie pulled him out of therapy. After the killing Davis doused the family game room in whiskey and gasoline and set it ablaze to kill his sixteen-year-old brother Josh, who woke to a smoke alarm and escaped while Davis fled on foot and was found roughly ten miles away. He told investigators he felt nothing when he killed her, laughed during a televised interview with Dr. Phil McGraw as he described the weapon and the wet sound it made, and was sentenced to life in prison after Judge D. David Gay told him he had gone to the dark side, with parole possible only after fifty-one years.Next the episode crosses into Japanese folklore and Yuki-Onna, the Lady of the Snow, a vengeful Onryo spirit said to have begun as a pregnant woman left to freeze in a mountain storm and to return on snowy nights as a tall, pale figure with blue lips and long black hair who floats over the drifts without leaving footprints. Her most famous tale follows two woodcutters, the old Mosaku and the young Minokichi, who shelter in a mountain hut where Yuki-Onna breathes a killing cold over Mosaku but spares Minokichi on the condition that he never speak of her. Years later Minokichi marries a woman named Oyuki who never seems to age, and when he finally recounts his strange night in the hut, Oyuki reveals that she is the snow demon herself and vanishes, sparing his life only for the sake of their children.After that the episode turns to the desert of Cochise County, southwest of Tombstone, Arizona, where the ruined adobe Brunckow Cabin earned its reputation as the bloodiest cabin in Arizona through at least twenty-one deaths. The German miner Frederick Brunckow built it in 1858 to work a San Pedro silver claim and was murdered there by his own laborers, killed with a rock drill driven into his abdomen alongside the chemist John Moss and the miner James Williams. The owners who followed met similar ends: Milton Duffield, the first U.S. Marshal of Arizona Territory, was shot dead at the cabin by James T. Holmes during an eviction, N.M. Rogers was killed by Apaches, and five thieves who hid there gunned one another down in a quarrel over stolen loot. Ed Scheifelin used the cabin as a base camp in 1877 before he founded and named nearby Tombstone, and visitors today report an apparition that fades when approached and the phantom sound of mining machinery drifting through the ruins.The episode closes with Oscar Beckwith, a seventy-two-year-old hermit living in a squalid shack in Austerlitz, New York, who on January 10, 1882, killed his mining partner Simon Vanderkoek over a soured gold claim near Alford, Massachusetts, then dismembered and cooked the body. A neighbor named Harrison Calkins smelled burning flesh at the shack and was told Beckwith was only frying pork rinds, but he returned the next day to find the mutilated remains, a blood-stained axe, and charred bones in the stove. Beckwith fled to Canada and evaded capture until the detective J.B. Gildersleeve tracked him to Bracebridge, Ontario, in 1885, by which time rumor had branded him the Cannibal of Austerlitz. Six trials sent him to the gallows in Hudson, New York, on March 1, 1888, where at seventy-eight he became both the oldest man and the last person hanged in the state, struggling at the end of the rope for eighteen minutes before he died.

We hear about Sweden's much loved Midsummer traditions. Also, how an international theft ring was uncovered after a stolen quad bike with a hidden GPS transmitter in Leksand was tracked all the way to Poland.Plus: SVT's Fouad Youcefi on first time voters and their key role in the elections this September.Presented by Kris Boswell and Dave Russell

Dolph Lundgren is on Celebrity Jobber with Jeff Zito this week. What type of work would Dolph be doing if not for being a Swedish actor, filmmaker, and martial artist? Many celebrities will tell you that if not for that one lucky break or meeting, they would have been selling insurance door-to-door like George Clooney or cleaning breast pumps, like Chris Hemsworth. In other words, they may have been just a jobber. Thanks for listening. Please rate, review, and subscribe to the Celebrity Jobber with Jeff Zito wherever you pod.

In this episode of Keeping Abreast, Dr. Jenn Simmons responds to Peter Attia's breast cancer screening episode (#396). Attia asks the right question: why are 42,000 women still dying of breast cancer every year? But his answer, more mammograms and MRI on top, is exactly wrong. Dr. Jenn breaks down, study by study, why that 40-year approach has never moved the death toll.Forty-two thousand women a year. That number has not moved since mammography went mainstream in the 1980s. Detection rates are up, diagnoses are up, and the death toll has not changed. We have been finding more cancer, calling more women patients, and watching the same number of them die. If you have ever scheduled your annual mammogram believing it was the most protective thing you could do, this episode will reframe everything you thought you knew.What You'll LearnWhy the breast cancer death toll has not moved in 40 years, and why more screening is the reasonWhy DCIS is not cancer, why mammography invented it, and what happens to a woman the moment it gets labeled "stage zero"Why an aggressive tumor is aggressive from the day it forms, and why finding it earlier on a mammogram does not change what it does nextWhy mammography catches the cancers least likely to kill you, and routinely misses the ones that willWhat happened when researchers followed 89,835 women for 25 years and compared annual mammography to doing nothing, and why you have never heard about itWhat the Cochrane review found after analyzing every randomized mammography trial ever run, and why Peter Attia addressed it in one sentenceWhy the WISDOM trial, the most significant recent evidence in this space and the one study Attia never mentions, is an indictment of everything he arguedWhy there is no standard radiation dose for a mammogram, and why the woman next to you in the waiting room may have received ten times less than you didWhat the FDA has formally documented about gadolinium staying in the brain and bones for years, and why the women being told to get it every six months are the last women who shouldWhy insulin resistance, chronic inflammation, and toxic burden are among the most powerful drivers of breast cancer risk, and why Attia's episode contained zero mention of any of themResources MentionedPeter Attia, Episode 396 on breast cancer screening: peterattiamd.com/breastcancerscreeningDr. Robin Berzin, founder of Parsley HealthMiller AB, et al. Twenty five year follow-up of the Canadian National Breast Screening Study. BMJ. 2014;348:g366.Gøtzsche PC, Jørgensen KJ. Screening for breast cancer with mammography. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2013;(6):CD001877.Zahl PH, et al. Results of the Two-County trial are not compatible with official Swedish breast cancer statistics. Danish Medical Bulletin. 2006;53(4):438–440.Nyström L, et al. Long-term effects of mammography screening: updated overview of the Swedish randomised trials. Lancet. 2002;359:909–19.Esserman LJ, et al. Risk-Based vs Annual Breast Cancer Screening: The WISDOM Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA. 2026;335(9):763–774.FDA gadolinium-based contrast agent safety communications (2015, 2017, 2018), summarized in Fotenos A, FDA Pediatric Advisory Committee, Sept 2018.Kanda T, et al. High signal intensity in the dentate nucleus and globus pallidus and cumulative gadolinium dose. Radiology. 2014;270(3):834–841.Veenhuizen SGA, et al. Supplemental breast MRI for women with extremely dense breasts: DENSE trial. Radiology. 2021;299(2):278–286.Tabar L, et al. Reduction in mortality from breast cancer after mass screening with mammography. Lancet. 1985;325:829–32.To talk to a member of Dr. Jenn's team and learn more about working privately with Dr. Jenn visit: https://calendly.com/stephanie-1031/clarity-callTo get your copy of Dr. Jenn's book, The Smart Woman's Guide to Breast Cancer, visit: https://tinyurl.com/SmartWomansBreastCancerGuideTo purchase the auria breast cancer screening test go here https://auria.care/ and use the code DRJENN20 for 20% Off.Connect with Dr. Jenn:Website: https://www.jennsimmonsmd.com/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DrJennSimmonsInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/drjennsimmons/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@dr.jennsimmons

In today's Cloud Wars Minute, I examine why the Google Cloud-EQT deal signals a major shift in how AI is being distributed at scale. Highlights 00:03 — The rapid pace at which deals are being struck and portfolios are expanding among the leaders in the race for AI dominance isn't new. Significant partnerships are being forged, and contracts are being signed all the time. However, every so often, a deal comes along that stands out not only for its scope, but also for what it indicates about the direction of travel for the industry as a whole. 00:33 — One such deal recently announced is between Google Cloud and the Swedish private equity firm EQT. Ultimately, this partnership sees EQT commit to accelerating AI adoption through Google Cloud for over 300 companies within its portfolio, and this is, of course, a big win for Google Cloud, as it gains access to hundreds of potential enterprise AI customers. 01:04 — Beyond this, those companies will not only benefit from Google Cloud's wide-ranging AI offerings, including the Gemini Enterprise agent platform, as well as its cybersecurity portfolio, but also from its vast partner network, which includes over 330,000 consultants from major firms like Deloitte and KPMG. 01:27 — For me, the biggest takeaways here are that, firstly, agentic AI is clearly going mainstream, with equity firms eager to roll it out among their entire portfolios. We're obviously well past the experimentation phase now. 01:42 — Secondly, this really presents a major opportunity for AI infrastructure companies to leverage this growing acceptance to enhance AI distribution at the portfolio level. This shift could result in AI adoption accelerating much faster than when companies go down the traditional enterprise sales route. Visit Cloud Wars for more.

Late on a quiet Sunday night in May, gardaí in Limerick arrived on the scene of what they expected would be a routine call-out to a road traffic incident.Instead they were met with an extraordinary scene.In one of the damaged cars they found a dead man on the back seat. He was wearing a balaclava and there was a loaded pistol at his feet. The driver of the anonymous looking Seat Leon had escaped, leaving his phone behind.The Garda quickly established that the dead man was a Swedish hitman and the pair were in Limerick for a contract killing. They were just minutes from their victim.But who was the target? Has there been a resurgence in the deadly feuding that blighted Limerick for years? Where is the hitman who fled the scene and why has the manhunt for him been so muted?Irish Times crime and security editor Conor Lally reports on the latest in this most unusual case.Presented by Bernice Harrison. Produced by John Casey. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Fluent Fiction - Swedish: High-Stakes Midnight: Elsa's Gamble in the Swedish Lodge Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:fluentfiction.com/sv/episode/2026-06-19-22-34-02-sv Story Transcript:Sv: Midsommarnatten var magisk i den gamla svenska lodgen, där girlander av blommor hängde från taken.En: The midsummer night was magical in the old Swedish lodge, where garlands of flowers hung from the ceilings.Sv: Det luktade rök i rummet, och kort glyddes över bordet med ett lågmält sus.En: It smelled of smoke in the room, and cards slid across the table with a gentle rustle.Sv: Johan såg runt på de andra spelarna, och hans hjärta slog snabbare.En: Johan looked around at the other players, and his heart beat faster.Sv: Elsa satt mittemot honom.En: Elsa sat opposite him.Sv: Hon kunde känna Johans nervositet, liksom sin egen.En: She could feel Johan's nervousness, as well as her own.Sv: Det var hans idé att de skulle delta i detta högriskspelet.En: It was his idea that they should participate in this high-risk game.Sv: Hon ville vinna för hans skull, men också för att visa Annika vad hon var gjord av.En: She wanted to win for his sake, but also to show Annika what she was made of.Sv: Annika log på det sätt som retade Elsa mest.En: Annika smiled in the way that irritated Elsa the most.Sv: Med henne i rummet blev varje andetag tyngre.En: With her in the room, each breath became heavier.Sv: Elsa kände spänningen öka, men fokuserade på korten framför sig.En: Elsa felt the tension rise but focused on the cards in front of her.Sv: Hon hade en talang för att läsa människors undermedvetna gester.En: She had a talent for reading people's subconscious gestures.Sv: Hon märkte hur Annika försökte spela på nerver, och hur de andra spelarna reste gard mot känslor.En: She noticed how Annika tried to play on nerves, and how the other players raised a guard against emotions.Sv: Men gammal rivalitet var bara en del av problemet.En: But old rivalry was only part of the problem.Sv: Det tunna, rökfyllda rummet började tränga ihop Elsas lungor.En: The thin, smoke-filled room began to constrict Elsa's lungs.Sv: Hon kände det välbekanta trycket i bröstet.En: She felt the familiar pressure in her chest.Sv: Astmaanfall hade överraskat henne förut, men aldrig vid ett så avgörande tillfälle.En: Asthma attacks had surprised her before, but never at such a decisive moment.Sv: Hon tvekade, kastade en blick på Johan, och han förstod.En: She hesitated, glanced at Johan, and he understood.Sv: Hennes inhalator låg i väskan, men detta var inte rätt plats att avslöja svaghet.En: Her inhaler was in her bag, but this was not the right place to reveal weakness.Sv: Hon fokuserade tillbaka på spelet.En: She focused back on the game.Sv: Pensionerade kort byttes ut.En: Retired cards were exchanged.Sv: Hon tog ett djupt, men ansträngt andetag.En: She took a deep, but strained breath.Sv: Johan rörde diskret på sig, som att sträcka ut sig, och sträckte fram inhalatorn under bordet.En: Johan moved discreetly, as if to stretch, and handed her the inhaler under the table.Sv: Trots hennes problem med att andas kändes hans närvaro som ett lugn.En: Despite her trouble breathing, his presence felt calming.Sv: Det blev sista rundan.En: It was the final round.Sv: Elsa kände sig lätt yr, men hon var envis.En: Elsa felt slightly dizzy, but she was determined.Sv: Annikas ansikte var en mask av självsäkerhet, men Elsa visste hur hon skulle läsa kort.En: Annika's face was a mask of confidence, but Elsa knew how to read cards.Sv: Hon placerade sin sista satsning och lutade sig tillbaka, kände inhalatorns bris bara i tid för att förbättra sitt andetag.En: She placed her final bet and leaned back, feeling the inhaler's breeze just in time to improve her breath.Sv: Korten vändes, och ett sus gick genom rummet.En: The cards were turned, and a murmur swept through the room.Sv: Elsa vann.En: Elsa won.Sv: En varm känsla av seger och lättnad sköljde över henne.En: A warm feeling of victory and relief washed over her.Sv: Hon tackade de andra spelarna, rösten lugn och kontrollerad.En: She thanked the other players, her voice calm and controlled.Sv: Johan stod upp, hans ansikte strålade av lättnad.En: Johan stood up, his face radiating with relief.Sv: Utanför lodgen omslöt midsommarnatten dem med sin eviga skymning.En: Outside the lodge, the midsummer night enveloped them with its eternal twilight.Sv: De såg på varandra, viskade tyst och log.En: They looked at each other, whispered softly, and smiled.Sv: Elsa kände sig starkare, säker på att hon härnäst skulle hålla känslor före statistik.En: Elsa felt stronger, certain that she would next keep emotions before statistics.Sv: Hon kastade ett sista leende åt Annika, vars grepp om Elsa hade förlorat sin kraft.En: She cast a final smile at Annika, whose grip on Elsa had lost its power.Sv: Nu kunde hon andas fritt i den milda natten.En: Now she could breathe freely in the gentle night. 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Swedish-born artist and vocalist Manda Malina joins the Pirate Studios Podcast to talk about growing up around music, learning Pro Tools at 10, and launching her career through Swedish X Factor as a teenager.In this episode, Manda reflects on the reality of moving from early industry momentum into a more self-directed creative life in LA, where she has learned to prioritise authenticity, fun and versatility over the constant pressure to release music and chase social content.She also breaks down her sound — a blend of Swedish pop, 2000s R&B, lush harmonies and sensual, body-positive energy — and talks about the different sides of her career, from solo releases to Vegas production shows and her jazz cabaret project, Velvet Noir.We also get into the pressure on independent artists, navigating early industry experiences, her recent West End callback for Burlesque, writing with friends, and why Pirate has become a useful space for recording and rehearsals.To close the episode, Manda introduces “Found It”, one of her favourite releases to date.

Get every episode of The Dumb Zone by subscribing to the show at DumbZone.com or Patreon.com/TheDumbZoneJake spills a secret about what he's been doing with his free time the past couple months, somebody compared James Woods to Ted Williams, and we're joined by a group in from Sweden for the World Cup (00:00) - Open: Jake has been doing this behind our backs (20:54) - Sports: James Wood vs. Ted Williams (40:25) - Today in Twitter: Cincinnati was aware of Sorsby's account (01:02:30) - Big Thursday Viewer Mail Bag (01:37:13) - News: Londoner Pub welcomes Fire Marshall (01:51:35) - Untold: Jamie Vardy (02:04:04) - VM birthdays/Today in History (02:33:13) - Closing Remarks: Our new Swedish friends ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

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A listener wrote in about her upcoming girls' weekend. The rental has a hot tub, everyone's going to be in bikinis, and she's nervous about how she looks in a bathing suit. Em and Cass share their own experiences navigating this exact scenario, plus a few tips for managing the anxiety without limiting your damn life. From there, Cass walks us all through her recent nose job: why she wanted it, the cost breakdown, post-anesthesia antics and the healing process. Emma shares the story of Elise Ottesen-Jensen, a Swedish journalist and anarchist who started teaching women about their bodies in the early 1900s and went on to co-found the International Planned Parenthood Federation.  They close with a "normalize-this" segment on what summer bodies actually look like, plus listener hot takes (i.e. FREE THE BUSH). Learn more about 1:1 coaching HERE!⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Get Honeydew Me Merch HERE!⁠⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Drain Gang cofounder talks about mysticism, Gen Z and his new album, Sulfur Surfer. Bladee's work as a founding member of the Swedish collective Drain Gang has shaped a new generation of underground music. The group's sound, which is rooted in cloud rap and Auto-Tune experimentation, and pulls from trance, noise, metal, goth and grunge, has earned them an enormous following of fans—AKA "drainers"—overwhelmingly under 30. Bladee has long been one of Drain Gang's most prominent voices, building a prolific solo career alongside the collective's output. His work engages with mysticism through vulnerable, diaristic lyrics about his state of mind. On his new album, Sulfur Surfer, he presents an autobiographical figure caught between "letting go and holding on"—a continuation of his longstanding interest in spirituality and the occult. He draws on the story of St. George, the Swedish painter Hilma af Klint and the occultism of British group Current 93, whose frontman David Tibet makes a guest appearance. In this RA Exchange, Bladee talks about making honest music, the role Drain Gang has played in pushing him to find his voice, his ambivalence about fame and his collaboration with Skrillex. Sulfur Surfer is out now on Trash Island. Listen to the episode in full.

The Drain Gang cofounder talks about mysticism, Gen Z and his new album, Sulfur Surfer.Bladee's work as a founding member of the Swedish collective Drain Gang has shaped a new generation of underground music. The group's sound, which is rooted in cloud rap and Auto-Tune experimentation, and pulls from trance, noise, metal, goth and grunge, has earned them an enormous following of fans—AKA "drainers"—overwhelmingly under 30. Bladee has long been one of Drain Gang's most prominent voices, building a prolific solo career alongside the collective's output. His work engages with mysticism through vulnerable, diaristic lyrics about his state of mind. On his new album, Sulfur Surfer, he presents an autobiographical figure caught between "letting go and holding on"—a continuation of his longstanding interest in spirituality and the occult. He draws on the story of St. George, the Swedish painter Hilma af Klint and the occultism of British group Current 93, whose frontman David Tibet makes a guest appearance.In this RA Exchange, Bladee talks about making honest music, the role Drain Gang has played in pushing him to find his voice, his ambivalence about fame and his collaboration with Skrillex. Sulfur Surfer is out now on Trash Island. Listen to the episode in full. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our Special Guests often surprise us. We ask them to reveal their Top Five songs by a major artist—in this case, Bruce Springsteen—and we quickly discover that their choices are anything but predictable. In this episode, Team Derringer—Laura, Alton, Paul, and Rob—welcome Swedish recording artist and performer Max Bäck (pronounced "Beck") as our Special Guest to count down his Top Five favorite songs by the one and only Bruce Springsteen. Which Bruce Springsteen songs made Max's list? Listen to the episode to find out! Then write to us at feedback@derringerdiscoveries.com and share your own Top Five. We may even feature your picks in a future episode—so choose carefully! As you listen, you'll hear voiceovers from Derringer Discoveries fans around the world. We now have regular listeners in more than 30 countries! Send us your own voiceover, and you may hear yourself on a future episode of Derringer Discoveries: A Music Adventure Podcast. MEET THE SPECIAL GUEST Max Bäck is a Swedish singer, guitarist, and songwriter known for his melodic style and tasty lead guitar work. With a passion for craftsmanship and memorable melodies, Max creates music that fits comfortably on playlists while retaining its own distinctive character. Contact Max Bäck: Spotify Instagram Facebook WHERE TO LISTEN & CONNECT More info & show notes: www.derringerdiscoveries.com/099 Spotify Playlist: Springsteen Inspired Website: www.derringerdiscoveries.com Theme Song: Your Sister's Room by Ho Jo Fro. Episodes: www.derringerdiscoveries.com/episodes. Social Media: Instagram, Facebook, Threads, X, and BlueSky. Newsletter: Stay up to date by signing up for our newsletter.  Thanks for listening to Derringer Discoveries! 

Passion or Profit?  What does success look like for the next generation in a world being reshaped by AI, automation, and constant disruption? In this thought-provoking episode of The Cardone Zone, Grant Cardone is joined by Swedish podcaster Theodor Ekstrand for an honest conversation about the realities facing young people today. Together, they explore the rapidly changing landscape of work, the impact of artificial intelligence on careers, and the opportunities emerging from one of the biggest technological shifts in history. The discussion also tackles a timeless question that every ambitious young person eventually faces: Should you follow your passion, or follow the money? Whether you're just starting your career, building a business, or trying to navigate an uncertain future, this episode offers practical insights on how to stay relevant, valuable, and prepared for what's next. Follow us on all social platforms @GrantCardone for daily content on wealth, business, sales, investing, and the 10X mindset. Visit GrantCardone.com for information on upcoming events, exclusive training, and the latest strategies on wealth creation, business growth, and real estate investing. TRT: 53:00:02  

Our summer world tour continues — and for Stop 2, we're trading the warm Caribbean rhythms of Puerto Rico for something entirely different: the misty fjords, ancient forests, and hauntingly beautiful folk music of Norway. In this episode, we explore Norway's deep folk music roots, from the Norse storytelling tradition to the extraordinary sound of the Hardanger fiddle — an instrument that doesn't just play a melody but seems to fill the air around it. We also talk about the athletic halling dance, the improvised poetry of the stev, and how composer Edvard Grieg (the very first composer we ever featured on this podcast, back in Episode 2) deliberately wove Norwegian folk traditions into classical music that eventually reached concert halls around the world. Norway's folk music survived centuries of foreign rule because ordinary people held onto it tightly. That's a story worth hearing. What We Cover in This Episode Norway's geography and why the landscape shaped its music The Norse people, the Vikings, and the rich storytelling tradition behind Norwegian folk music How folk music became an act of cultural survival during centuries of Danish and Swedish rule The Hardanger fiddle — what makes it unlike almost any other instrument in the world (hint: it has strings you never touch) Dance forms of Norwegian folk music: the springar and the halling The stev — improvised sung poetry, and how it connects to the décima tradition we heard in Puerto Rico Edvard Grieg and how he translated Norwegian folk music into classical compositions heard around the world How Norwegian folk traditions are being carried forward by younger musicians today Free Downloads for This Episode

The Execution Of Joe HillJump To The AD-FREE Safe House EditionEpisode 487 takes us to Salt Lake City, 1914, where a grocer and his seventeen-year-old son die on a pine floor, and a Swedish songwriter named Joe Hill rings a doctor's bell with a bullet in his lung and a name he will not say. He dies for the silence.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support.You can pay more if you want to, but rent at the Safe House is still just a buck a week, and you can get access to over 400 ad-free episodes from the dusty vault, Safe House Exclusives, direct access to the Boss, and whatever personal services you require.We invite you to our other PULPULAR MEDIA podcasts:If disaster is more your jam, check out CATASTROPHIC CALAMITIES, telling the stories of famous and forgotten tragedies of the 19th and 20th centuries. What could go wrong? Everything!For brand-new tales in the old clothes from the golden era of popular literature, give your ears a treat with PULP MAGAZINES with two new stories every week.

Further reading: https://elephantartgallery.com/blogs/meet Desmond Morris with his favorite Congo painting: Peter/Pierre Brassau and some of his paintings: The so-called donkey painting, and I described it wrong in the episode: Pockets at work: Show transcript: Welcome to Strange Animals Podcast. I'm your host, Kate Shaw. Back in the early days of the podcast I did an episode about animal musicians, which for a long time was my favorite episode. Today let's visit a similar topic, animals who are visual artists. Back in the 1950s through the 60s, researchers studying how humans make art studied monkeys and apes who were taught how to use a brush and paints. The studies caught the public's fancy and it became something of a fad to own a piece of art created by an animal—whether it was a monkey or ape, an elephant, or some other animal. One of the earliest big name animal artists was a chimpanzee named Congo. Zoologist Desmond Morris, who was studying creativity in apes and humans, and who was also an artist himself, offered Congo a pencil and paper when he was two years old in 1956. Congo enjoyed drawing and especially liked to draw circles. When Morris eventually gave the chimp paints, Congo was even more enthusiastic. But while he was considered a novelty, he only had one art exhibition while he was alive, a 1957 event arranged by Morris. It wasn't until 2005 that the remaining paintings were exhibited, along with the art of some other apes, and some of them sold for thousands of dollars. A new exhibit appeared in December of 2019 in the Mayor Gallery in London. One interesting thing is that Morris worked with several apes to see how they drew and painted, but only Congo showed enthusiasm and skill for art. Congo died of tuberculosis in 1964 when he was only ten years old. Also in 1964, a French avant-garde artist named Pierre Brassau exhibited four of his paintings at an art show in Sweden. No one knew who Brassau was, but his paintings were critically acclaimed—except for one critic who wrote, “Only an ape could have done this.” Ahem, yes. That is correct. The artist turned out to be a West African chimpanzee named Peter who lived in a zoo in Sweden. The whole thing started with a Swedish journalist who apparently wasn't much of a fan of modern art. The journalist persuaded a zookeeper to give Peter a canvas, paints, and brush. At first Peter just ate the paint, but eventually he started making marks on the canvas. The journalist ultimately chose four of the paintings and submitted them to the exhibition under the name Pierre Brassau. One of the paintings sold for the equivalent of about $750 today. But animal artists making modern art isn't limited to the 1950s and 60s. In 1905 a painting by an unknown artist, J.R. Boronali, went on display in a Parisian salon. It didn't cause any kind of stir, though, because it was nothing special, until 1910 when word got out that the painting had been made by a donkey. According to the story, an art critic tied a paintbrush to the donkey's tail and fed the donkey carrots, which made it wag its tail, which dabbed paint on a canvas. I've seen the painting, though, and it seems clear that a human artist prepped the canvas by slapping a coat of background paint on it that resembles a red sea and blue sky. There are some dabs and blobs of paint over that in yellow and red, presumably from the donkey. In this case, of course, the donkey wasn't trying to paint a picture and didn't even know what was going on behind it, just that it was getting lots of carrots. An avant-garde Russian school of art named itself The Donkey's Tail in 1912 as a result, though, so that's pretty neat. More recently, a capuchin monkey named Pockets has become a big-name artist in the animal world. Pockets was donated to a Canadian animal sanctuary after his owner finally realized that capuchin monkeys are wild animals and don't actually make very good pets. One of the volunteers at the sanctuary gave Pockets the nickname Warhol because of his white hair, which reminded her of the artist Andy Warhol. That gave her the idea to give Pockets some paints and see what he would do with them. It turns out that Pockets really likes to paint. In 2011 the sanctuary held an exhibit of his paintings to help raise money, and since then his paintings have been exhibited in art shows around the world. He's collaborated with a human artist, who basically paints something and then gives the canvas to Pockets to add to it. His art recently appeared on the cover of an album released by a member of Depeche Mode too. Not all animal artists are apes or monkeys, though. Bini the Bunny stars in a lot of videos where he plays basketball, dances, plays the guitar, and does a lot of other things you would not expect a bunny to do. He also paints. Bini, of course, has been trained to make certain movements, including picking up a paintbrush in his mouth and moving it upward with the paint-covered bristles sometimes touching a canvas, but sometimes not. Bini isn't choosing what paint colors to use and doesn't even really look at the canvas while he's working. He's cute, but he's not making art spontaneously the way Pockets and his predecessors do. Elephants also make art, holding a paintbrush with the tip of the trunk. The most famous elephant artist was named Ruby, an Asian elephant who lived at the Phoenix Zoo in Arizona in the United States, although she was born in Thailand in 1973. When her keepers saw her using a stick to draw in the dirt, they gave her painting supplies to see what she would do with them. Ruby enjoyed painting, choosing her colors carefully, and some of her paintings sold for as much as $25,000. Ruby died from complications of a failed pregnancy in 1998, sadly. So many artists die young. Sometimes you'll see videos of elephants painting a picture of an elephant, but these aren't spontaneously created. The elephant has always been taught to make the same brush strokes, and sometimes the training is cruel. An authentic elephant painting looks abstract, with lines and dots that the elephant places in a shape it finds pleasing, not to resemble something specific. This is the same with ape and monkey artists too. If you listened to the episode about animal musicians, you will probably remember the Thai Elephant Orchestra. Well, the same conservation center that hosts the elephant orchestra also has some elephant artists. The Elephant Art Gallery sells paintings made by various of the elephants who live in the sanctuary. They're allowed to choose their own paints and decide if they want to paint at all that day. Elephants who don't show interest in learning to paint don't have to try, and instead get to do different activities. The main difference between human art and art made by non-human animals is that humans naturally create representational art without being taught. Little kids draw wobbly stick people with big smiles and no one has to show them how. Humans can make abstract art, of course, but a skilled abstract artist chooses colors, textures, and patterns carefully to invoke a feeling in the people who look at the finished painting. This is different from a little kid finger-painting who is just having fun making a mess, although of course you can make art with finger paints too. Animals never create representational art spontaneously, and we can't know if their choice of colors, textures, and patterns is intended to invoke a particular feeling because we can't ask them. (I mean, we can ask them but they wouldn't understand the question and we wouldn't get an answer.) But it does seem obvious that animals who enjoy painting and who make deliberate marks on paper or canvas are taking pleasure from the process of creation. And when you come right down to it, that's the most important thing about making art. Finally, you may remember the court case about the monkey selfie from 2014. Nature photographer David Slater was taking pictures in a nature reserve in Indonesia when he stepped away from his camera, which was set up on a tripod. A Celebes crested macaque monkey investigated the camera and ended up taking a number of photos, one of which was a selfie that became almost instantly famous online. Slater tried to claim copyright to get paid for the photograph as it became more and more popular. In August of 2014 the United States Copyright Office decided that the owner of camera equipment can't claim copyright for a photo taken by an animal. Neither can the owner of an animal who takes a photograph or otherwise produces artwork. Only a human can hold copyright, but if the human doesn't actually create the art, they don't get the copyright. Hey, this would be a great day to make a drawing or a painting! Thanks for your support, and thanks for listening!

We hear from the man who survived for nearly a week on one of the most dangerous parts of Mount Everest with little food, no water and few supplies. Dawa Sherpa became separated from his group after running out of oxygen during bad weather and his family had begun mourning his death. But, after six days, he was found by a cleaning crew, crawling and sliding his way back to base camp.Also: The teenager who was surprised to find his exam paper included a poem he'd inspired. It had been written by his mum several years earlier. How an art student from Germany ended up in charge of a Swedish island. The US singer Barry Manilow returns to the stage after overcoming lung cancer. Plus the boy who can impersonate the calls of more than a hundred birds; and the mysterious knitted toys that have been popping up around an English village. Our weekly collection of inspiring, uplifting and happy news from around the world.(Photo: Dawa Sherpa arriving at a hospital in Kathmandu. Credit: Reuters)Presenter: Holly Gibbs. Music composed by Iona Hampson

Darby Saxbe (Dad Brain: The New Science of Fatherhood and How It Shapes Men's Lives) is a clinical psychologist, tenured professor, and researcher on family stress and the transition to parenthood. Darby joins Armchair Expert to discuss growing up in an academic household, her parents' dramatic divorce, and watching her surgeon father suddenly learn how to become the primary parent. Darby and Dax talk about why fatherhood research has lagged behind motherhood research, what happens chemically and neurologically to new dads, and how hunter-gatherer societies, Barcelona playgrounds, and Swedish “latte papas” reveal very different models of raising children. Darby explains why “dad bod” is a real thing, how dads' brains physically change when they engage in caregiving, and why kids may need more community, boredom, roughhousing, and freedom than modern parenting usually allows.Check Allstate first for a quote that could save you hundreds: https://www.allstate.com/See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Are ZYNs gas-station Ozempic or a dopamine loan shark? Nick Pell digs into the nicotine pouch boom this Skeptical Sunday — and the verdict is messy.Welcome to Skeptical Sunday, a special edition of The Jordan Harbinger Show where Jordan and a guest break down a topic that you may have never thought about, open things up, and debunk common misconceptions. This time around, we're joined by writer and researcher Nick Pell!Full show notes and resources can be found here: jordanharbinger.com/1340On This Week's Skeptical Sunday:ZYNs are a tobacco-free nicotine pouch born from Swedish "snus." Swedish Match engineers extracted nicotine salts and loaded them into food-grade fillers, creating a shelf-stable white pouch that doesn't stain teeth or require spitting. Philip Morris bought the company for $16 billion in 2022.The harm-reduction case is strong, but "less harmful" isn't "harmless." ZYNs skip the carbon monoxide, tar, and lung damage of cigarettes, and carry roughly 90 — 99% lower carcinogens. But they still raise heart rate and blood pressure, can cause gum recession, disrupt sleep, and remain wildly addictive.The user base skews young, male, and white. Men are 88% of the market, and the 19-30 bracket is fastest-growing, with use doubling in 2024-2025. Adoption is concentrated in white, high-income, urban circles like tech, law, and finance where smoking is socially radioactive.Nicotine has real cognitive perks — with a catch. A meta-analysis of 41 studies found genuine gains in alertness, reaction time, and focus, plus appetite suppression ("gas station Ozempic"). The catch: for addicts, these benefits mostly just return you to baseline rather than lifting you above it.If you already smoke, switching is a genuine win you can act on today. For a smoker, trading cigarettes for pouches is described as "trading a motorcycle for a minivan" — vastly less likely to kill you. Harm reduction beats abstinence-only, since switchers are twice as likely to stay off cigarettes as those using gum or lozenges.Connect with Jordan on Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube. If you have something you'd like us to tackle here on Skeptical Sunday, drop Jordan a line at jordan@jordanharbinger.com and let him know!And if you're still game to support us, please leave a review here — even one sentence helps! Sign up for Six-Minute Networking — our free networking and relationship development mini course — at jordanharbinger.com/course!Subscribe to our once-a-week Wee Bit Wiser newsletter today and start filling your Wednesdays with wisdom!Do you even Reddit, bro? Join us at r/JordanHarbinger!This Episode Is Brought To You By Our Fine Sponsors:SimpliSafe Home Security: 50% off + 1st month free: simplisafe.com/jordanProgressive Insurance: Free online quote: progressive.comProfile Guru: 50% off through June: MyProfileGuru.com, code JordanJune50AT&T: Get an iPhone 17 Pro for $0: att.com/iphone or visit an AT&T store for detailsSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.