Castuner

Latitude 59

JFR

I'm a southerner who has lived in Sweden for over a decade, and at some point that stopped being a problem.

This podcast is all about my thoughts and experiences since I started living in this Nordic country. You'll hear a lot about philosophy, Swedish culture and my own interests, which I hope you will enjoy too.

I have low expectations of this podcast. I may do it as a form of escapism and for fun, but I hope it will somehow be useful to you, my unknown listener.

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Episodes

34 episodes

  1. The Woods: Why Sweden Sends You There 7:02
  2. On Meditation 7:36
  3. Unemployed in Sweden: My Experience 10:15
  4. How I Keep Trying to Learn Swedish: The Greatest Intellectual Challenge of My Life 8:46
  5. Spain, the Country Where Everything Is Banned 8:45
  6. Midsommar: When Sweden Celebrates the Light 9:08
  7. The Fakir: The Book That Taught Me to Walk the Wire of Life 10:56
  8. Slavery in Sweden: the past nobody talks about 9:43
  9. 10 Things Sweden Changed in Me 9:09
  10. Valborg: The Fire That Renews Everything 4:51
  11. Modern Work: Between Detachment and Dehumanization 7:07
  12. Who Speaks for Earth? 4:38
  13. AI Is Just a Tool — The Problem Is How We Use It 4:46
  14. Finding Clarity in the Darkness 4:36
  15. How the Norse Imagined the Beginning of Everything 5:18
  16. 19 Swedish Idioms You'll Actually Hear in Real Life 7:43
  17. Sweden and Argentina: More in Common Than You'd Think 11:30
  18. 9 Things You Actually Need to Live in Sweden Long Term 5:49
  19. 11 Premises That Got Me Through the Hardest Year of My Life 10:34
  20. Eratosthenes: How One Man Measured the Earth With a Stick 4:18
  21. 10 Tips to Get a Job in Sweden (From Someone Who Did It the Hard Way) 5:05
  22. Returning Home: Why the Place You Left No Longer Exists 9:39
  23. What Is Swedish Culture? A Foreigner's View After 11 Years 10:23
  24. Seneca's Letter 5: Stop Performing Your Virtue 4:20
  25. 13 Things That Surprised Me When I Moved to Sweden 15:09
  26. Cosmos: We Are Made of Starlight and We've Forgotten It 8:20
  27. Japan and Me: The Obsession That Started With a Game Boy 8:31
  28. Sweden's Biggest Myths — Debunked by Someone Who Actually Lives Here 7:27
  29. Krishnamurti: The War You're Responsible For 6:24
  30. Richard Vaughan: The Man Who Taught Spain to Speak English 34:26
  31. What Sweden Quietly Took From Me — And I Only Noticed in Spain 6:21
  32. The Things I Didn't Miss About Sweden — Told From a Terrace in Spain 4:13
  33. From Ice to Kingdom: Sweden's Ancient History Nobody Taught You 5:58
  34. The Demon-Haunted World: Carl Sagan's Warning We're Still Ignoring 7:11