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PODCAST

The Swedish Terminator

Gert Forsström

A podcast with strange episodes from a strange country - Sweden! Listen and learn how a Terminator lives its life there!

health & fitness

All Episodes

6:46

A Swedish school, 111

The Swedish Terminator ·

2010/04/06

The school is mine, where I worked for 28 years, getting better every year with more and more knowledge. We had working teams with teachers teaching the same subjects. The pupils had class rooms for their education. Everything was just great. The pupils got good notes. Till the municipality decided to reconstruct the school and this new school ought to have an upper secondary school under the same roof.The municipality wanted something up to date, modern. The most modern was to have a

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8:31

Amongst islets and islands 112

The Swedish Terminator ·

2010/04/06

When I studied in the evening school I had no problems to find a work during the summer vacations. Many summers I worked as a caretaker, moved the lawn and cut the hedges, raked the walks and filled the garbage and such things. But one summer I spent with another work. The girl who was my fiancée this time liked the sea very much, her father had a marvelous summer house with view of the sea on the west coast en Hamburgsund and she even was preparing for the masters certificate. Yes, she

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4:08

Visit from Japan (80)

The Swedish Terminator ·

2010/04/06

This happened when I studied in Uppsala. I lived in a little flat in a corridor for students. One morning, very early, the doorbell sounded and I went to open the door. Outside stood my friend Fred with a young Japanese. Fred said: This young Japanese went with me from Gävle in my car. Can you lodge him a night in the dayroom? This was the beginning of an episode with complications. The man´s name was Yama and was 18 and son of famous Japanese architect. He slept several nights in the bed

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2:32

Chopping wood (79)

The Swedish Terminator ·

2010/04/06

To chop wood and put it in the woodshed, is there anything healthier for a stressed man, with the birds singing among the birches and spruces. I´m inclined to think that there isn´t, at least not for me. We have taken down some spruces on our piece of land. My neighbor has sawn them in pieces sized 30 cm, and now it´s my work to do the rest, with the axe. I do it by easy stages to avoid problems with fibrillation. It´s the wood from three trees, not too big. I´ve already chopped almost

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1:39

An asthmatic solution (113)

The Swedish Terminator ·

2010/04/02

An asthmatic solution (113) In Stockholm there is a very popular youth hostel. It´s an old ship called “af Chapman” with masts and everything. It´s situated at Skeppsholmen (the islet of ships) one of the islands that make our fantastic capital, the Northern Venice, Stockholm. We wanted our boy to have an adventure, to live one night in this ship, looking out through the round window imaging how the life of a sailor was in times gone by. Mi wife called the youth hostel and booked a room

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4:17

Klampe, an evil teacher (114)

The Swedish Terminator ·

2010/03/31

In English/En inglés Klampe, an evil teacher (114) Ingmar Bergman, the famous Swedish director, wrote the manuscript for the movie Hets that deals with the sadistic teacher of latins, called Caligula. One of his pupils is Jan-Erik Widgren who´s going to pass his examination. There is a girl, Bertha, who works in a tobacco shop where Widgren and Caligula are clients. Widgrens parents are very demanding and want him to pass his examination. When he gets involved in a drama around Bertha the

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3:30

A walk in Himlinge (75)

The Swedish Terminator ·

2010/03/31

There is a place where we like to walk my wife and I. It´s called Himlinge. The landscape is fascinating, with slope hills with lots of big junipers and pines with heavy branches. The summertime the farmer has his cows there and You already know that we don´t like to walk among cows. Therefore we only take walks there in the spring and the autumn. We can combine the walk with purchase of eggs. The farmer sells eggs in a shed on the side of the cowshed. Today we bought chicken eggs, small

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0:24

Three encounters with deers (116)

The Swedish Terminator ·

2010/03/31

Yesterday we went to our summerhouse, the second time this winter. The cold and the snow have done it rather expensive and laborious too. But this time it was for visiting our neighbours who also are some of our best friends. When we go to the summerhouse we can choose between two roads, the ugly road and the nice road. The “ugly” road is the county road with a distance of 25 km and the “nice” road winds between woods, meadows and lakes about 40 km. Normally we take the nice road, because

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2:25

Christmas in Sweden (7)

The Swedish Terminator ·

2010/03/31

In Spain they give the christmas presents the 6:th of January, in England on the Christmas day. In Sweden the Christmas Eve is the day for the presents. Its “tomten” who gives the presents. From the beginning tomten was a little figure who guarded the house and the building site (=tomt) and the people who lived there. He liked rice porridge with a little butter very much. He didn´t distribute presents in that time, but it was the Christmas goat ( a person disguised as a he-goat with horns

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1:46

The magic window (50)

The Swedish Terminator ·

2010/03/30

The day after our encounter with the intolerable man we went to one of our favorite places. We use to live in other places, because the youth hostel here is expensive, and the landlord even let you pay for the parking, in other words a skinflint. The hostel consists of barracks and as always when it´s nice weather, we had dinner outside at a table on the side of the barrack. A few meters further back two couples had dinner, happy from wine and good food. Suddenly one of the ladies shouted:

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2:06

To be retired in a globalized world (73)

The Swedish Terminator ·

2009/12/17

Yesterday I watched a program dealing with the “crisis” and its causes. Of course, I already knew a lot. But the program was very clarifying and showed how the greediness for wealth did that the banks gave credits to people without security that they could pay back. The dubious method was as follows: Sell your claims to other banks and credit institutes. The buyer can “packet” the claims, sometimes with shares to financial instruments and sell these instruments to other banks. In that way

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2:50

A letter means so much (71)

The Swedish Terminator ·

2009/12/17

I began working when I was fifteen. Then it was easy to get a work. The industries in Sweden cried for labour. I took my moped and went to a pulp mill. There I went to the staff-office. I spoke with the boss and he said: “Go to the workshop, speak to Sixten Jonsson, he´ll tell you what to do”. And so I was employed. My first work was hard and dull. I had to stand inside a tower of iron with a heavy grinding machine and grind the welding seams on the inside of the tower. What a damned job

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2:35

With view on the lake (70)

The Swedish Terminator ·

2009/12/17

One night when we were in the weekend cottage my neighbour called me to tell me something we had been waiting for for fourteen years. He said that the community needed money and therefore they wanted to clear the spruces in front of our house and sell them. My heart did a somersault in my chest – at last. We have tried to convince the guys with the motor-saws how beautiful our hill would be with only birches, how healthy it would be for the anemones, not to mention how good it´d be for us

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3:04

Bellman – a Swedish poet in the 18th century (69)

The Swedish Terminator ·

2009/12/16

If you want to know some about the Swedish song traditions you must know a little about Bellman. On could call him a national poet/troubadour. This singer/troubadour lived between 1740 and 1795. He accompanied his songs with a lute (a cittern). He always had economic problems. Once he had to escape to Norway to flee the creditors. He spent some time in jail, but king Gustav III helped him to a job. Bellman wrote songs that honored the king and performed in the castle. The themes of his

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2:31

On the side of the road – in the snow (68)

The Swedish Terminator ·

2009/12/16

My friend in the North has bought a new car, an Audi Quattro. When we visited him the other week he wanted to show us what a good car he had. He invited us for a journey in wintry surroundings. Since we were in the region where I lived in my young days he asked me where I wanted to go. I proposed a place named Gårdskär, because I wanted to know where my cousins lived a long time ago. We traveled here and there and it wasn´t easy to find the house where they lived. But finally we succeeded

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2:12

The “key harp” – a ”Swedish” instrument (67)

The Swedish Terminator ·

2009/12/16

In some episodes I´m going to present some Swedish music. This first episode I´ll tell You a little about the key harp and also give You some links to let You listen to the mysterious sound of this instrument. To describe this instrument is very fun for me, because it comes from my home district in Uppland. When I was young I had a friend whose father used to chase us, drunk and playing this instrument. Then I didn´t understand how interesting this instrument is. For us Elvis and other

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5:45

The Swedish fauna (65)

The Swedish Terminator ·

2009/12/10

Once upon a time there was a moose standing at a waterhole drinking water. He felt a little solemn and vigorous, looking at himself in the water surface. Suddenly he said: “Well, one is the king of the forest, splendid as I am”. But the moose hadn´t noticed the bear standing beside him. The bear, very calm, said: “What did you say?” The moose somewhat embarrassed, not knowing where to go, answered: “Well, You know, I speak too much when I drink…” Yes, we have bears and moose´s in our fauna,

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4:27

Something about genealogy (64)

The Swedish Terminator ·

2009/12/10

I work with genealogy about my family. I have a friend who has studied genealogy. I work with him in our library to look for my “roots”. Before we had to send for the documents in the archives, but now it is easier, because many of the documents are on internet. One has to pay a little, not much, to research. We book three hours every Monday to work with this. It´s rather popular among retired people to genealogize. Something that makes it easier for us swedes to genealogize is that the

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1:53

Thoughts about the time (63)

The Swedish Terminator ·

2009/12/10

As a child you don´t notice that time is passing. I don´t understand why it is so or even if it is so. It´s a long time since I was a child. My son, 25 years old doesn´t have a watch. I guess he can get the time on his mobile. (We have one but we only use it when we travel). In my work as a teacher I had to think a lot of what time it was. I had to come in time to the lessons and therefore I had to have a watch. In the class I also had to think: “Am I going to have time to do this, how

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0:50

Swedish religion c (61)

The Swedish Terminator ·

2009/12/10

Gustav Wasa had carried through the Protestantism. He died in 1560. He had three sons Erik, Johan and Karl. They had different opinions of how the church should be. Johan was the more Catholic and wanted a “mixture” of Protestantism and Catholicism. His wife, Katarina Jagellonica was from Poland, a Catholic country, and that had an influence on him. Karl was very Protestant. He didn´t like the Catholicism. He was more influenced by the Northern German Lutherans. The result of the

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