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Thanks Sussan. Interesting read ☺
More likely "ex-Alex fans" or even bitter and jealous Joel Kinnaman fans
The post had gone from thestanconfessions tumblr, maybe because it's pretty close to libel if you ask me. However I found this instead and this seems way more accurate to me
http://thestanconfessions.tumblr.com/post/154432124859
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This allegedly happened in early 90s, right? I don't know what this actual case was but cops still take care of teens and young adults for too much drinking, vomiting or falling asleep in the public place.
yes. he arrested in sweden because of drunk and fight in a club when he was 17. his father didnt come to take him for one night. he stayed in police station cell. after the day stellan came and said " you r very clever. because of that i didnt say anything to you, what you did and hurt yourself". alex was very embrrassed at that time. i read it in an interview when taken he wasnt very famous.
Part 5 :1
Lots of references here:
¤ Lundensian dialect is a highbrow variant of Scanian, from the university town Lund.
¤ Arne Hegerfors is a legendary sports commentator and TV presenter.
¤ Skövde is a legendarily dull go-to butt-of-a-joke city. Maybe like Poughkeepsie in US or Hull in UK
¤ Kaviar... you’ve all seen the Colbert episode I guess?
¤ Kvarnen is a 100 year old, VERY rowdy beerhall at Södermalm, usually full of extremely drunk Hammarby fans, indie pop concerts and Communist party meetings (at the same time).
¤ Speak-easy is an old term for illegal bar (showing my age here). Due to the restricive alcohol licensing policies, there were a few illegal bars and night clubs in Stockholm for a time.
¤ Fares is of course AS buddy Fares Fares
¤ The name-change guy was most likely NOT from the authorities as Stocks remembers, but just some volunteer dude doing the paperwork and sending it in to the relevant authorities afterwards as a fun thing. I don’t know why he thought that a government authority would be offering people an extra middle name at an illegal club in the middle of the night.
¤ Janne Josefsson is an investigative journalist, famous for his aggressive style of questioning.
¤ Way Out West = Swedish music festival on the west coast.
¤ Anna von Hausswolff is a brilliant artist, https://youtu.be/uABaTw73PFU Stocks is confusing her with Ann Heberlein, who is an awful theologian and ethicist.
¤ Daniel Norgren = https://youtu.be/Xn8SbpfrszA
¤ Skitnödig = “badly needing to take a ****”. Approximate translation would be “pretentious and uptight”.
¤ Golden Hits is a terrible karaoke/cover band nightclub/restaurant
¤ Mio min Mio, the cheesy flute soundtrack (written by Björn & Benny of ABBA) from the fantasy movie based on Astrid Lindgrens book https://youtu.be/5yYiDG1qfwY
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Q: But we were at a party with Bradley Cooper.
AS: Yes.
Q: Which was fun.
AS: Yes.
Q: I have this thing within me, because I’m from Gothenburg, I don’t get starstruck by actors, in Sweden. But when we were in the US, I could feel the juices running between my legs. No, you can’t say that. But I was a little…
AS: When you saw Bradley and he shook your hand…
Q: Hey! But it was like in Gothenburg a long time ago, and Vince Vaughn enters The Lounge, a nightclub on Avenyn [a boulevard], he just did Swingers and is a cool dude. And our eyes met, and this is true, and he comes up to me actually, and shakes my hand, and he says…
AS: “Nice shoes!”
Q: No! “What’s up man, how are you?” I spluttered “I’m really good”. And he left. But he must have seen me recognizing him, this was before his big break. I was at the stage school at the time, I was there with a dude from film school, who studied directing, I was pretty stoked, so I said: “Did you see, Vince Vaughn”, I mean, he was relatively big…
AS: Also physically. He’s 194, 195 cm tall. FUN FACT, dear listeners!
Q: One of the film students said to me in Lundensian dialect “Come on, Alexander, he’s just a human.”
AS: And he was wrong. Celebrities are a tiny bit better than humans. They are not “just human”.
[Musical interlude]
Q: Have you ever wanted to do anything else?
[Q starts bickering with Q2 about having to ask all questions]
AS: Finally, things are heating up.
Q: He sits there with his ****ing hipster beanie and I have to steer this conversation, it’s like walking through ****ing snow!
AS: Which brings us back to what I said, “have you ever sat here with a guest and wished that someone else was here.” You obviously wish Bradley Cooper was here right now. And you also wish Andreas wasn’t here, that Arne Hegerfors was here beside you, someone quick witted and funny. This is hard work for Alexander Stocks at the moment. A hungover, conceited, boring, Alexander Skarsgård. And Wilson’s falling asleep, eating a blood orange.
Q: And you avoid all the questions.
AS: I’m just complaining. “Why do you have a podcast, what’s the ****ing point? This is ****ing useless, listen to something else instead.”
Q: OK, let’s talk about music.
AS: I wanted to be an architect as a teenager. I though maths was boring, I wanted to be creative and visionary, dreaming about buildings, the visual aspect of it, and someone was like “nah, architecture is 95% maths, you’re only doing calculations.”
Q: What if that isn’t the case?
AS: It isn’t the case! I have friends who are architects! Now when I see them at work, sure, there’s maths.
Q: If you want the building to stay up, you’d better have done some calculations.
AS: You have engineers for that.
Q: But there’s a bit of maths.
AS: Yeah, a bit, but it’s still very creative.
Q: Would you go to the top floor of a skyscraper designed by Alexander Skarsgård?
Q2: Well… if he had put his name on it…
AS: Skarsgård Tower.
Q: You look a little like Donald *****.
Q2: Let’s move on.
Q: Don’t interrupt him.
AS: I have nothing to say.
Q: So the architecture thing didn’t pan out because of maths? “Uh, I guess I have to become an actor.”
AS: Yeah. That was basically it. This isn’t a calling. It wasn’t like “this is my passion”. It wasn’t like that at all. I was pretty mediocre at everything. Couldn’t find anything I was good at or that I wanted to do. Thought about architecture, but “not creative or fun”, so acting it is. And it’s OK I guess.
Q: It’s great, isn’t it?
AS: Sometimes. Sometimes it’s pretty boring.
Q: But everything’s like that.
AS: [platitude voice] Guys, it’s like life itself, Sometimes it’s fun, sometimes it’s boring.
Q: Remember where you heard it first.
Q2: But when do you have a bad day? I understand why it’s boring for Andreas to carry cables around at a children’s play at Skövde Municipal Theater, I get that. But when you’re Tarzan, and swing in on a vine in front of a green screen, it can’t be that dull?
AS: No, of course not.
Q2: Do you get my point, if HE has a bad day…
Q: His worst days are better than my worst days.
AS: Humans are great at whining and finding flaws in everything. Even if you love your job, of course there are days when you think it’s piss. If it’s a big project, you feel pressure, like “****, I have to deliver” you get insecure about your ability, you think you suck, you feel nothing works, and you feel like piss because of that. It’s not just guffawing, swinging on a vine. But sometimes it’s like that.
Q: But whatshername, Jane…
AS: Margot Robbie
Q: “Yeah, it’s so boring making out with Margot Robbie” and then Andreas Wilson is in Skövde making out with Beata, 62 years old with kaviar breath.
Q2: Don’t bring Beata into this, she’s not here to defend herself.
AS: You just want to say that my life is better than that of Andreas Wilson, that’s all you want to say! You’re just bitter because you have to move this heavy, boring ****ing interview along. Let me just say this; Andreas has a successful business, a fantastic wife, kids, while I’m alone at Kvarnen at 2 AM, bragging about my work and how great I am, and then I stumble home alone and cry myself to sleep.
Q: You have to stop bragging. It’s too much now.
AS: People who know me know that I love to talk about myself.
Q: It’s so nice that you do that.
AS: That’s why I’m here today.
Q: You said: “I’m so gosh-darned humble”. You said that.
AS: But I am. I’m extremely, extremely humble. People tell me this all the time. They’re like “Alex, You shouldn’t be this humble! You are amazingly successful, you’re intelligent, you’re handsome, you should be conceited!”
Q: Do they say you’re intelligent?
AS: Oh yes, I hear that one all the time. And I’m like “It doesn’t matter, I’m just a human. I have flaws and shortcomings just like you.”
[Musical interlude]
Q: The wonderful thing about you..
AS: Yes, what is the wonderful thing about me
https://freundmaschine.tumblr.com/post/154673718140/part-5
Lots of references here:
¤ Lundensian dialect is a highbrow variant of Scanian, from the university town Lund.
¤ Arne Hegerfors is a legendary sports commentator and TV presenter.
¤ Skövde is a legendarily dull go-to butt-of-a-joke city. Maybe like Poughkeepsie in US or Hull in UK
¤ Kaviar... you’ve all seen the Colbert episode I guess?
¤ Kvarnen is a 100 year old, VERY rowdy beerhall at Södermalm, usually full of extremely drunk Hammarby fans, indie pop concerts and Communist party meetings (at the same time).
¤ Speak-easy is an old term for illegal bar (showing my age here). Due to the restricive alcohol licensing policies, there were a few illegal bars and night clubs in Stockholm for a time.
¤ Fares is of course AS buddy Fares Fares
¤ The name-change guy was most likely NOT from the authorities as Stocks remembers, but just some volunteer dude doing the paperwork and sending it in to the relevant authorities afterwards as a fun thing. I don’t know why he thought that a government authority would be offering people an extra middle name at an illegal club in the middle of the night.
¤ Janne Josefsson is an investigative journalist, famous for his aggressive style of questioning.
¤ Way Out West = Swedish music festival on the west coast.
¤ Anna von Hausswolff is a brilliant artist, https://youtu.be/uABaTw73PFU Stocks is confusing her with Ann Heberlein, who is an awful theologian and ethicist.
¤ Daniel Norgren = https://youtu.be/Xn8SbpfrszA
¤ Skitnödig = “badly needing to take a ****”. Approximate translation would be “pretentious and uptight”.
¤ Golden Hits is a terrible karaoke/cover band nightclub/restaurant
¤ Mio min Mio, the cheesy flute soundtrack (written by Björn & Benny of ABBA) from the fantasy movie based on Astrid Lindgrens book https://youtu.be/5yYiDG1qfwY
————————————————————–
Q: But we were at a party with Bradley Cooper.
AS: Yes.
Q: Which was fun.
AS: Yes.
Q: I have this thing within me, because I’m from Gothenburg, I don’t get starstruck by actors, in Sweden. But when we were in the US, I could feel the juices running between my legs. No, you can’t say that. But I was a little…
AS: When you saw Bradley and he shook your hand…
Q: Hey! But it was like in Gothenburg a long time ago, and Vince Vaughn enters The Lounge, a nightclub on Avenyn [a boulevard], he just did Swingers and is a cool dude. And our eyes met, and this is true, and he comes up to me actually, and shakes my hand, and he says…
AS: “Nice shoes!”
Q: No! “What’s up man, how are you?” I spluttered “I’m really good”. And he left. But he must have seen me recognizing him, this was before his big break. I was at the stage school at the time, I was there with a dude from film school, who studied directing, I was pretty stoked, so I said: “Did you see, Vince Vaughn”, I mean, he was relatively big…
AS: Also physically. He’s 194, 195 cm tall. FUN FACT, dear listeners!
Q: One of the film students said to me in Lundensian dialect “Come on, Alexander, he’s just a human.”
AS: And he was wrong. Celebrities are a tiny bit better than humans. They are not “just human”.
[Musical interlude]
Q: Have you ever wanted to do anything else?
[Q starts bickering with Q2 about having to ask all questions]
AS: Finally, things are heating up.
Q: He sits there with his ****ing hipster beanie and I have to steer this conversation, it’s like walking through ****ing snow!
AS: Which brings us back to what I said, “have you ever sat here with a guest and wished that someone else was here.” You obviously wish Bradley Cooper was here right now. And you also wish Andreas wasn’t here, that Arne Hegerfors was here beside you, someone quick witted and funny. This is hard work for Alexander Stocks at the moment. A hungover, conceited, boring, Alexander Skarsgård. And Wilson’s falling asleep, eating a blood orange.
Q: And you avoid all the questions.
AS: I’m just complaining. “Why do you have a podcast, what’s the ****ing point? This is ****ing useless, listen to something else instead.”
Q: OK, let’s talk about music.
AS: I wanted to be an architect as a teenager. I though maths was boring, I wanted to be creative and visionary, dreaming about buildings, the visual aspect of it, and someone was like “nah, architecture is 95% maths, you’re only doing calculations.”
Q: What if that isn’t the case?
AS: It isn’t the case! I have friends who are architects! Now when I see them at work, sure, there’s maths.
Q: If you want the building to stay up, you’d better have done some calculations.
AS: You have engineers for that.
Q: But there’s a bit of maths.
AS: Yeah, a bit, but it’s still very creative.
Q: Would you go to the top floor of a skyscraper designed by Alexander Skarsgård?
Q2: Well… if he had put his name on it…
AS: Skarsgård Tower.
Q: You look a little like Donald *****.
Q2: Let’s move on.
Q: Don’t interrupt him.
AS: I have nothing to say.
Q: So the architecture thing didn’t pan out because of maths? “Uh, I guess I have to become an actor.”
AS: Yeah. That was basically it. This isn’t a calling. It wasn’t like “this is my passion”. It wasn’t like that at all. I was pretty mediocre at everything. Couldn’t find anything I was good at or that I wanted to do. Thought about architecture, but “not creative or fun”, so acting it is. And it’s OK I guess.
Q: It’s great, isn’t it?
AS: Sometimes. Sometimes it’s pretty boring.
Q: But everything’s like that.
AS: [platitude voice] Guys, it’s like life itself, Sometimes it’s fun, sometimes it’s boring.
Q: Remember where you heard it first.
Q2: But when do you have a bad day? I understand why it’s boring for Andreas to carry cables around at a children’s play at Skövde Municipal Theater, I get that. But when you’re Tarzan, and swing in on a vine in front of a green screen, it can’t be that dull?
AS: No, of course not.
Q2: Do you get my point, if HE has a bad day…
Q: His worst days are better than my worst days.
AS: Humans are great at whining and finding flaws in everything. Even if you love your job, of course there are days when you think it’s piss. If it’s a big project, you feel pressure, like “****, I have to deliver” you get insecure about your ability, you think you suck, you feel nothing works, and you feel like piss because of that. It’s not just guffawing, swinging on a vine. But sometimes it’s like that.
Q: But whatshername, Jane…
AS: Margot Robbie
Q: “Yeah, it’s so boring making out with Margot Robbie” and then Andreas Wilson is in Skövde making out with Beata, 62 years old with kaviar breath.
Q2: Don’t bring Beata into this, she’s not here to defend herself.
AS: You just want to say that my life is better than that of Andreas Wilson, that’s all you want to say! You’re just bitter because you have to move this heavy, boring ****ing interview along. Let me just say this; Andreas has a successful business, a fantastic wife, kids, while I’m alone at Kvarnen at 2 AM, bragging about my work and how great I am, and then I stumble home alone and cry myself to sleep.
Q: You have to stop bragging. It’s too much now.
AS: People who know me know that I love to talk about myself.
Q: It’s so nice that you do that.
AS: That’s why I’m here today.
Q: You said: “I’m so gosh-darned humble”. You said that.
AS: But I am. I’m extremely, extremely humble. People tell me this all the time. They’re like “Alex, You shouldn’t be this humble! You are amazingly successful, you’re intelligent, you’re handsome, you should be conceited!”
Q: Do they say you’re intelligent?
AS: Oh yes, I hear that one all the time. And I’m like “It doesn’t matter, I’m just a human. I have flaws and shortcomings just like you.”
[Musical interlude]
Q: The wonderful thing about you..
AS: Yes, what is the wonderful thing about me
https://freundmaschine.tumblr.com/post/154673718140/part-5
Post 5:2
Q: We have to talk about some of our war stories. We’ve had a few. Does this make you nervous?
AS: Not at all, just curious. Because you have this Rain Man memory. I’m so curious about what you can remember.
Q: You’ve been there during some big events in my life.
AS: I’ve been there in YOUR life?
Q2: The urinal…
Q: I remember one thing, we had pre-partied at my place when I lived in Southie. We’re going to a speak-easy on Kocksgatan. I show up a little bit later, because I had to clean up, because none of you ****ers helped me with that. No matter, we’ll edit this out. Dunno why I said that.
AS: Extremely bitter.
Q: So we go there, I’m the last one in. You grab me and say “you are going to change your name, I just changed my name to Fares”. “Yes” I said, because I was drunk. You shove me in front of you to some table. Some guy from the authorities is there. You could get a legal name change.
AS: Or add a name.
Q: So I changed my name to Fares. And we left. And you had also changed your name to Alexander Hjalmar Fares Skarsgård.
AS: Yes, Alexander Johan Hjalmar Fares Skarsgård.
Q: And we partied, and that’s that, and we laughed about the name change the next day. But because you’re famous and live in Hollywood, you didn’t recieve the confirmation letter.
AS: Yes, you have to confirm the name change, which we didn’t know. I thought you just signed the dotted line and that’s that.
Q: Exactly. But you didn’t recieve the letter, but I did. And I’d told so many people I’d changed my name, so I had to follow through. Which I thought you also would do.
AS: But I never got that letter.
Q: You could have called them!
AS: I could have.
Q: And you didn’t. You left me behind here.
Q2: You leave things undone.
AS: I start things and don’t follow through.
Q: You forced me to change my name.
AS: Yes.
Q: So my name is officially Alexander Lars Fares Stocks.
AS: Yes.
Q: And your name is NOT…
AS: You’re welcome. It’s a pretty cool name. We also tried to get Fares to add another Fares. We thought Fares Fares should be Fares Fares Fares. Because two is not enough.
Q: “C'mon dude, do it, add another Fares!” “NO!”
AS: He got so angry! “IT’S NOT FUNNY, GUYS!”
Q: ****, that was funny.
AS: But actually, it is funny. It is a really funny name. Fares Fares Fares is a really good name.
- “What’s your name?”
- “Fares Fares”
- “Middle name?”
- “Fares”.
Q: It’s not too late. But anyway, will you ever change your name?
AS: An impulse thing like that can absolutely happen again.
Q: When was the last time you did something impulsive like that? Trying to get a scoop here.
AS: You’re doing great.
Q: I know another story, I’ve only had this told to me. When you lived in LA, a long time ago, and you walked home. You lived far away, and you walked home.
AS: Yeah.
Q: And you hitchhiked. And some guy picks you up.
AS: I was walking home, some dude stops his car, it was very late, I had been drinking, he asks if I need a ride. I thought that was cool of him. So he drove me home. But he was hoping for something more than just driving me home. So when we got to my house… his penis was apparently out.
Q: And we are awakened by screams outside, in the street, between you two.
AS: You heard a squeal of joy from Alexander Skarsgård. “Woo-hooo!”
Q: But it wasn’t like “put it back in your pants!” More like happy shouts.
AS: Yeah, I was pretty fascinated by the entire incident. I didn’t, like… panic. I was psychologically fascinated by his thought process. Because it was so absurd. There was zero sexual chemistry in the air. He wasn’t trying to steer things in that direction. We were just chatting and having a good time, we arrive, and PLOP, there it is. And I was like “what does he think is going to happen?” Does he expect me to go “Oh hiya, there it is, how nice!” It wasn’t even hard. Which I took as an insult.
Q: Maybe this was a tried and true routine he used?
AS: Yeah? But also, I didn’t feel threatened. I had control over the situation, physically. Otherwise, it could have been uncomfortable, if I hadn’t felt that. Of course, I could just have opened the door and left, but I was so fascinated by his tactics. I was like “What’s your thought process here, buddy?” He was like “I don’t know, I don’t know, what do you think?” But we had a good conversation.
Q: It was you, me, Ulrik and my then girlfriend who lived together. You had to live in the annex, so to speak. We rented a house together, with one bedroom which me and my girlfriend lived in, a guest room in the basement which Ulrik lived in. And there was an office with a fold out couch…
AS: It wasn’t a fold-out, it was a wooden bench. And it was so narrow, I couldn’t lie down on it.
Q: And not very long.
AS: Not very long either. So I stacked books next to it to increase the width. We lived like that for six months.
Q: We had rented the house under the premise that we weren’t four young Swedes, but one nice couple. So you didn’t officially live there. So every time the cleaning lady came…
AS: Yeah, they had a cleaning lady who came once a week, who knew the owners.
Q: To check on things, probably
AS: So every Tuesday between 9 AM and 3 PM, I had to leave the house. Not only that, I had to pack my things, so there were no traces of me.
Q: Is that the closest you’ve come to being a refugee?
AS: But we had a good time there, it was pretty cosy. I and Ulrik are older than you and your girlfriend, but you were so domesticated, you were at home all the time, being a couple, making cosy dinners, baking some ****ing zucchini. I and Ulrik were single, out drinking heavily, getting in cars with guys with their penises out, came home drunk… So you were like our parents. In the mornings you were like “Hey guys, breakfast is ready, oh are you a little bit tired? Welp, do you have an amusing penis story from last night?”
[Musical interlude]
TIME 43:17
Q: Hey, I’m an investigative reporter… like the Janne Josefsson of this group.
Q2: Exactly. Go on.
Q: [noise] Ouch, ****, I hit my tooth.
[giggles]
Q2: Janne always does that.
[giggles]
Q: You are our most famous friend.
[giggles]
AS: Janne Josefsson!
Q: You are our most famous friend.
AS: This is so boring.
Q: You don’t want to talk about this, but we have to.
Q2: I wanna talk about music instead.
AS: Dear listeners, Alexander Stocks has left us. He just got up and left.
Q: You have an impeccable taste in music.
AS: Look at all your muscles! Personal Trainer? You’ve got big!
Q: Easy now.
AS: Dear listeners, Alexander Stocks is not only the Janne Josefsson of podcasting, he’s also a personal trainer. So if anyone in the greater Stockholm area need some PT… You’re welcome.
Q: I’m currently training Alexander Skarsgård for his next role, The Cave. No, what’s it called?
AS: ****, this podcast is going to be so successful.
Q: Thanks for helping us by being here.
Q2: Maybe we should only have you as our guest, recurring…
AS: You had a question about music. I don’t know if my taste is GOOD, but I like music.
Q: But you have kind of a nose for new bands.
AS: Yeah, but I listen to lots of old stuff too.
Q: Granted, but still, you’re at Coachella every year.
AS: It’s been a few years since the last time.
Q: My theory fell apart there. But you’re knowledgeable when it comes to music. When I was at Way Out West this year, with our mutual friend Gustav Tott and you, and saw her, Anna von Heberlein or what the **** her name is.
AS: Anna von Hausswolff
Q: Anna von Hausswolff, and you and Tott look at me and say “Dude, this is the hottest thing right now”. I had no idea who she was. It’s very fun, like in LA, we sat in your car and Shazammed songs, and you said, “you should listen to this artist”. But I broke you as a DJ. Or no, I can’t make that claim. But you have DJ’d when we’ve been out partying. You did play records at Way Out West, and you do have great taste in music.
AS: But you are actually a very successful DJ.
Q: He’s like a racquetball wall. You shoot the ball and it bounces right back at you.
Q2: It’s his humbleness.
AS: Yes, I like music. WOW was really fun, lots of good Swedish artists. Daniel Norgren was really good, check him out, he is very very good. It was a great concert. And Anna von Hausswolff is very good.
I think your initial success as a DJ, you broke through internationally when you were eleven years old… No. But it’s because you’re not pretentious. A lot of DJ’s are skitnödiga, everything has to be from the Brussels underground, something only four people have heard. You don’t give a ****, you’re a bit like Golden Hits. Which almost always works. You can read the room, when it’s time for Mio min Mio.
Q: Thank you, you make me happy when you say that.
AS: You’re good at that.
Q: I think you’re right.
AS: You play songs people love, but are ashamed of. Songs they usually only listen to in headphones. Then you put that song on in a nightclub, after people have had a few drinks, they feel they love it, and suddenly it’s OK to love it. You’re breaking down barriers, and you make people find happiness, together.
Q: That’s how I see myself as well. So nice of you to say it, to hear someone else say it. Andreas never says that.
Q2: No, I don’t. I usually say it’s really bad.
Q: But we’ve played together a few times, like WOW last year. I played Maroon 5 or something, and I got a hard palm in the center of my back.
AS: Sometimes I have to establish boundaries, Alexander. And I like a lot of commercial music, it doesn’t have to be esoteric Anna von Hausswolff.
Q: You’ve hit me a few times.
AS: Well, when you play Maroon 5… It’s time for a talk. It’s not OK. That’s my limit.
[MUSICAL INTERLUDE]
Time 48:36
Q: We have to talk about some of our war stories. We’ve had a few. Does this make you nervous?
AS: Not at all, just curious. Because you have this Rain Man memory. I’m so curious about what you can remember.
Q: You’ve been there during some big events in my life.
AS: I’ve been there in YOUR life?
Q2: The urinal…
Q: I remember one thing, we had pre-partied at my place when I lived in Southie. We’re going to a speak-easy on Kocksgatan. I show up a little bit later, because I had to clean up, because none of you ****ers helped me with that. No matter, we’ll edit this out. Dunno why I said that.
AS: Extremely bitter.
Q: So we go there, I’m the last one in. You grab me and say “you are going to change your name, I just changed my name to Fares”. “Yes” I said, because I was drunk. You shove me in front of you to some table. Some guy from the authorities is there. You could get a legal name change.
AS: Or add a name.
Q: So I changed my name to Fares. And we left. And you had also changed your name to Alexander Hjalmar Fares Skarsgård.
AS: Yes, Alexander Johan Hjalmar Fares Skarsgård.
Q: And we partied, and that’s that, and we laughed about the name change the next day. But because you’re famous and live in Hollywood, you didn’t recieve the confirmation letter.
AS: Yes, you have to confirm the name change, which we didn’t know. I thought you just signed the dotted line and that’s that.
Q: Exactly. But you didn’t recieve the letter, but I did. And I’d told so many people I’d changed my name, so I had to follow through. Which I thought you also would do.
AS: But I never got that letter.
Q: You could have called them!
AS: I could have.
Q: And you didn’t. You left me behind here.
Q2: You leave things undone.
AS: I start things and don’t follow through.
Q: You forced me to change my name.
AS: Yes.
Q: So my name is officially Alexander Lars Fares Stocks.
AS: Yes.
Q: And your name is NOT…
AS: You’re welcome. It’s a pretty cool name. We also tried to get Fares to add another Fares. We thought Fares Fares should be Fares Fares Fares. Because two is not enough.
Q: “C'mon dude, do it, add another Fares!” “NO!”
AS: He got so angry! “IT’S NOT FUNNY, GUYS!”
Q: ****, that was funny.
AS: But actually, it is funny. It is a really funny name. Fares Fares Fares is a really good name.
- “What’s your name?”
- “Fares Fares”
- “Middle name?”
- “Fares”.
Q: It’s not too late. But anyway, will you ever change your name?
AS: An impulse thing like that can absolutely happen again.
Q: When was the last time you did something impulsive like that? Trying to get a scoop here.
AS: You’re doing great.
Q: I know another story, I’ve only had this told to me. When you lived in LA, a long time ago, and you walked home. You lived far away, and you walked home.
AS: Yeah.
Q: And you hitchhiked. And some guy picks you up.
AS: I was walking home, some dude stops his car, it was very late, I had been drinking, he asks if I need a ride. I thought that was cool of him. So he drove me home. But he was hoping for something more than just driving me home. So when we got to my house… his penis was apparently out.
Q: And we are awakened by screams outside, in the street, between you two.
AS: You heard a squeal of joy from Alexander Skarsgård. “Woo-hooo!”
Q: But it wasn’t like “put it back in your pants!” More like happy shouts.
AS: Yeah, I was pretty fascinated by the entire incident. I didn’t, like… panic. I was psychologically fascinated by his thought process. Because it was so absurd. There was zero sexual chemistry in the air. He wasn’t trying to steer things in that direction. We were just chatting and having a good time, we arrive, and PLOP, there it is. And I was like “what does he think is going to happen?” Does he expect me to go “Oh hiya, there it is, how nice!” It wasn’t even hard. Which I took as an insult.
Q: Maybe this was a tried and true routine he used?
AS: Yeah? But also, I didn’t feel threatened. I had control over the situation, physically. Otherwise, it could have been uncomfortable, if I hadn’t felt that. Of course, I could just have opened the door and left, but I was so fascinated by his tactics. I was like “What’s your thought process here, buddy?” He was like “I don’t know, I don’t know, what do you think?” But we had a good conversation.
Q: It was you, me, Ulrik and my then girlfriend who lived together. You had to live in the annex, so to speak. We rented a house together, with one bedroom which me and my girlfriend lived in, a guest room in the basement which Ulrik lived in. And there was an office with a fold out couch…
AS: It wasn’t a fold-out, it was a wooden bench. And it was so narrow, I couldn’t lie down on it.
Q: And not very long.
AS: Not very long either. So I stacked books next to it to increase the width. We lived like that for six months.
Q: We had rented the house under the premise that we weren’t four young Swedes, but one nice couple. So you didn’t officially live there. So every time the cleaning lady came…
AS: Yeah, they had a cleaning lady who came once a week, who knew the owners.
Q: To check on things, probably
AS: So every Tuesday between 9 AM and 3 PM, I had to leave the house. Not only that, I had to pack my things, so there were no traces of me.
Q: Is that the closest you’ve come to being a refugee?
AS: But we had a good time there, it was pretty cosy. I and Ulrik are older than you and your girlfriend, but you were so domesticated, you were at home all the time, being a couple, making cosy dinners, baking some ****ing zucchini. I and Ulrik were single, out drinking heavily, getting in cars with guys with their penises out, came home drunk… So you were like our parents. In the mornings you were like “Hey guys, breakfast is ready, oh are you a little bit tired? Welp, do you have an amusing penis story from last night?”
[Musical interlude]
TIME 43:17
Q: Hey, I’m an investigative reporter… like the Janne Josefsson of this group.
Q2: Exactly. Go on.
Q: [noise] Ouch, ****, I hit my tooth.
[giggles]
Q2: Janne always does that.
[giggles]
Q: You are our most famous friend.
[giggles]
AS: Janne Josefsson!
Q: You are our most famous friend.
AS: This is so boring.
Q: You don’t want to talk about this, but we have to.
Q2: I wanna talk about music instead.
AS: Dear listeners, Alexander Stocks has left us. He just got up and left.
Q: You have an impeccable taste in music.
AS: Look at all your muscles! Personal Trainer? You’ve got big!
Q: Easy now.
AS: Dear listeners, Alexander Stocks is not only the Janne Josefsson of podcasting, he’s also a personal trainer. So if anyone in the greater Stockholm area need some PT… You’re welcome.
Q: I’m currently training Alexander Skarsgård for his next role, The Cave. No, what’s it called?
AS: ****, this podcast is going to be so successful.
Q: Thanks for helping us by being here.
Q2: Maybe we should only have you as our guest, recurring…
AS: You had a question about music. I don’t know if my taste is GOOD, but I like music.
Q: But you have kind of a nose for new bands.
AS: Yeah, but I listen to lots of old stuff too.
Q: Granted, but still, you’re at Coachella every year.
AS: It’s been a few years since the last time.
Q: My theory fell apart there. But you’re knowledgeable when it comes to music. When I was at Way Out West this year, with our mutual friend Gustav Tott and you, and saw her, Anna von Heberlein or what the **** her name is.
AS: Anna von Hausswolff
Q: Anna von Hausswolff, and you and Tott look at me and say “Dude, this is the hottest thing right now”. I had no idea who she was. It’s very fun, like in LA, we sat in your car and Shazammed songs, and you said, “you should listen to this artist”. But I broke you as a DJ. Or no, I can’t make that claim. But you have DJ’d when we’ve been out partying. You did play records at Way Out West, and you do have great taste in music.
AS: But you are actually a very successful DJ.
Q: He’s like a racquetball wall. You shoot the ball and it bounces right back at you.
Q2: It’s his humbleness.
AS: Yes, I like music. WOW was really fun, lots of good Swedish artists. Daniel Norgren was really good, check him out, he is very very good. It was a great concert. And Anna von Hausswolff is very good.
I think your initial success as a DJ, you broke through internationally when you were eleven years old… No. But it’s because you’re not pretentious. A lot of DJ’s are skitnödiga, everything has to be from the Brussels underground, something only four people have heard. You don’t give a ****, you’re a bit like Golden Hits. Which almost always works. You can read the room, when it’s time for Mio min Mio.
Q: Thank you, you make me happy when you say that.
AS: You’re good at that.
Q: I think you’re right.
AS: You play songs people love, but are ashamed of. Songs they usually only listen to in headphones. Then you put that song on in a nightclub, after people have had a few drinks, they feel they love it, and suddenly it’s OK to love it. You’re breaking down barriers, and you make people find happiness, together.
Q: That’s how I see myself as well. So nice of you to say it, to hear someone else say it. Andreas never says that.
Q2: No, I don’t. I usually say it’s really bad.
Q: But we’ve played together a few times, like WOW last year. I played Maroon 5 or something, and I got a hard palm in the center of my back.
AS: Sometimes I have to establish boundaries, Alexander. And I like a lot of commercial music, it doesn’t have to be esoteric Anna von Hausswolff.
Q: You’ve hit me a few times.
AS: Well, when you play Maroon 5… It’s time for a talk. It’s not OK. That’s my limit.
[MUSICAL INTERLUDE]
Time 48:36
Thank you for posting this. These have been very funny, especially the part about the 'name change' And Alex hitting Stocks for playing Maroon 5.
Thanks for all the updates, ladies.
From The Library:
New photo of Alex doing audio dialogue replacement for Big Little Lies at Oxygen Sound Studios in Berlin, Germany:
“ADR with Alexander Skarsgård for HBO's Big Little Lies !! — with Alexander Skarsgård and Gregor Mazurczuk.”
-O2studios Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/o2studios/...938122777208/1174010085970002/?type=3&theater
*shared on December 20, 2016
From The Library:
New photo of Alex doing audio dialogue replacement for Big Little Lies at Oxygen Sound Studios in Berlin, Germany:
“ADR with Alexander Skarsgård for HBO's Big Little Lies !! — with Alexander Skarsgård and Gregor Mazurczuk.”
-O2studios Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/o2studios/...938122777208/1174010085970002/?type=3&theater
*shared on December 20, 2016
'War on Everyone' is available on DirecTV Jan. 5 and in select theaters and available everywhere On Demand Feb. 3.
New trailer here http://www.etonline.com/media/video...ed_cops_first_war_on_everyone_trailer-205467/
New trailer here http://www.etonline.com/media/video...ed_cops_first_war_on_everyone_trailer-205467/
FINAL 1:2
¤ Måns Zelmerlöw, kind of a Swedish Justin Bieber (equally insufferable musically, but without the scandals). (Måns didn’t write this song, which Stocks incorrectly asserts)
¤ Joakim Thåström is a Swedish punk and post-punk legend. He was the singer of early swedish punk band Ebba Grön https://youtu.be/KeVGwJ0DePk later formed post-punk Imperiethttps://youtu.be/-HEoyhZ_6pY and after that became increasingly pompous and embarrassing
¤ Anders Wendin, a.k.a Moneybrother https://youtu.be/83sP9eeA9Mw
¤ Frida Hallgren http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0356516/
¤ Linus Wahlgren, also from an acting family, co-starred in The Dog Trick http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0906320/
¤ The Finland ferries are like Carribbean cruises, but in the Baltic sea and very cheap. So nothing like Caribbean cruises. They only exist to enable binge drinking of tax-free alcohol, especially among teens. The cruises take 12, 23 or 36 hours, after which you are back where you started, without money, but covered in mint schnapps vomit and several sexually transmitted diseases.
————————
Q: Back to music, do you play any instruments?
Q2: He doesn’t play any instruments!
Q: No he doesn’t. Do you? Or do you just like listening to music?
AS: Yes. I, yes… I regret that I didn’t…
Q: Which instrument would you like to be able to play?
AS: I would like to be a…
Q: ****, I’m asking serious questions.
AS: I would like to be a musician, I would like to compose songs, and…
Q: You like that world?
AS: Being on tour… being on stage, the audience response… Get it? You write a song, you stand on a stage, and fifty or fifty thousand people are there, and the song YOU wrote mean something to these people, it has given them joy, maybe helped them through a hard break up or what the **** ever. That feeling has to be immense.
Q: Like when Måns Zelmerlöw wrote Cara Mia.
AS: Like when Måns Zelmerlöw goes on stage and performs Cara Mia in front of 20.000 screaming teens. But still, that’s pretty cool, isn’t it? They feel this song means something to them. And it has meant a lot to Alexander Stocks, it is like your signature song, and has always been.
Q: Just because I told you once that I thought this song is good, it has snowballed from there. Everyone’s talking about it, and you spread this around.
AS: I think it’s a good pop song. (sings) Come on, you can’t resist it!
Q: It’s a real earworm. If you got to play an artist in a biopic, who’d you want to be?
AS: Joakim Thåström.
Q: The Håkan Hellström movie has already been made, so…
Q2: Without you! You didn’t even get to make him coffee.
AS: Respect to Håkan, but Joakim Thåström is the only rock star we have in Sweden.
Q: What about Anders Wendin?
AS: He’s cool, he’s playing tonight at the Bajen gala. He’s a skilled musician, incredibly good live artist.
Q: I love him.
Q2: I don’t get the impression that his life resembles that of Thåström. There’s no drama there.
AS: Yeah but what the ****, Thåström is on a completely different level from everyone else. I’ve never talked to him, I’ve seen him once playing at Södra Teatern [Southie venue], it was kinda like seeing Jesus. Håkan is like… we’ve been Håkan fans for many years, when I met him I was like “****, cool, Håkan”, and the fact that he was very sympathetic makes him such a great guy.
Q: You took it to the next step with him, you kind of know him now, don’t you?
AS: In a very small way, very superficially. However, Joakim Thåström, what a legend, what a rock star! So this 25 minute answer is: I would like to play Joakim Thåström.
Q: Is that the case?
AS: No, I wouldn’t dare.
Q: Some dreams should remain dreams.
AS: That’s kind of it. I would also disappoint the entire audience, including myself.
Q: It would be had to get that offer.
AS: An offer you can’t refuse, but you hate yourself for…. I could never do it.
Q: Back to Håkan, after our first podcast episode, where I talk about Håkan… we have a thread on facebook where we write about our guests, where everyone in [podcast hosting company] writes. Oscar, our boss, wrote: “damn, I got a mail from Håkan’s manager, Håkan listened to the podcast and wants to come on as a guest.” My heart started beating.
Q2: This was a couple of hours after we put the podcast up.
Q: I started sweating, I was like “this is impossible, I don’t know what to say”. I had 30 seconds of pure euphoria. And then he wrote: “Hahaha just kidding”. I’m so ****ing angry just thinking about it.
AS: Could you have him on as a guest? Would it be too hard?
Q: I don’t know
Q2: He (Stocks) would just lie here, apathetic.
AS: I don’t think you could uphold your investigative journalism, your Janne Josefsson… It’s easy with me, you know me, you don’t feel anything when you put my feet to the fire this harshly. With Håkan, you’d have a completely different tone.
Q: You should know that we love all of the guests we’ve had on, we agree on this. We’ve talked about who we want to meet, and we decided to only invite people we really like. and it’s important to us to say this to the guests during this hour.
Q2: Done.
Q: I’m getting serious here. We rarely say things like that when we talk. Like “****, Alex, you’re a great actor.” or “I think you’re a wonderful human being”. And it’s important to say this.
AS: We, in our gang, are pretty good at ball-busting each other. In a loving way.
Q: That’s also why you’re here. Partly because you’re a ****ing Hollywood star, so it’s great for us to have you on, we can’t deny that. But also, you’re a very good friend, very loving and sweet. And a good actor.
AS: Thanks, Alexander. It means a lot to me.
Q: When was the last time Alex did something nice for you, Stocks?
Q2: Erm… eeh…
AS: ON NEXT WEEK’S EPISODE….
Q: I have story about him doing something nice for me. This was when we lived together, I had moved from another apartment, and was scammed out of my deposit.
AS: Oh yeah, that ****er….
Q: Yeah, he was a real ****er. I took him to court, partly because it was fun to see what would happen in the U.S. court system.
AS: It was a moral thing. You shouldn’t get away with **** like that.
Q: You shouldn’t cheat people out of money. It was around $1000, it wasn’t the entire world, but it was still money. Part of suing someone is serving them with a supina. There are people whose job it is just to deliver supinas.
AS: “You’ve been served”
Q: The person who’s suing can’t do this, I think. Something like that. So I brought Alex in. So you had to go to his door and knock on it and deliver the supina. He was hiding, right?
AS: He thought I was a hitman, so he called the cops. He looked through his key hole and was like “There’s a meat head outside my door”. I was a little bit insulted, he called me a meat head. He thought I was an enforcer, that I was there to break his legs.
Q: You could be mistaken for that. Russian mobster.
AS: I wouldn’t have broken his legs, but I was really ****ing pissed off.
Q: You really didn’t like him.
AS: You were so nice, you and Johanna, behaved so well, and he tries to **** you over, it was so ugly.
Q: It was a planned scam.
AS: It turned into a moral crusade.
Q: He was served and we went to small claims court, and he never showed. And we didn’t have anything on him. He got away. Karma is a *****, I haven’t seen him in any successful movies.
AS: Was he an actor?
Q: Some kind of actor. Everyone is, over there.
AS: … And his name was Bradley Cooper.
[Musical interlude]
https://freundmaschine.tumblr.com/post/154715827635/final
¤ Måns Zelmerlöw, kind of a Swedish Justin Bieber (equally insufferable musically, but without the scandals). (Måns didn’t write this song, which Stocks incorrectly asserts)
¤ Joakim Thåström is a Swedish punk and post-punk legend. He was the singer of early swedish punk band Ebba Grön https://youtu.be/KeVGwJ0DePk later formed post-punk Imperiethttps://youtu.be/-HEoyhZ_6pY and after that became increasingly pompous and embarrassing
¤ Anders Wendin, a.k.a Moneybrother https://youtu.be/83sP9eeA9Mw
¤ Frida Hallgren http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0356516/
¤ Linus Wahlgren, also from an acting family, co-starred in The Dog Trick http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0906320/
¤ The Finland ferries are like Carribbean cruises, but in the Baltic sea and very cheap. So nothing like Caribbean cruises. They only exist to enable binge drinking of tax-free alcohol, especially among teens. The cruises take 12, 23 or 36 hours, after which you are back where you started, without money, but covered in mint schnapps vomit and several sexually transmitted diseases.
————————
Q: Back to music, do you play any instruments?
Q2: He doesn’t play any instruments!
Q: No he doesn’t. Do you? Or do you just like listening to music?
AS: Yes. I, yes… I regret that I didn’t…
Q: Which instrument would you like to be able to play?
AS: I would like to be a…
Q: ****, I’m asking serious questions.
AS: I would like to be a musician, I would like to compose songs, and…
Q: You like that world?
AS: Being on tour… being on stage, the audience response… Get it? You write a song, you stand on a stage, and fifty or fifty thousand people are there, and the song YOU wrote mean something to these people, it has given them joy, maybe helped them through a hard break up or what the **** ever. That feeling has to be immense.
Q: Like when Måns Zelmerlöw wrote Cara Mia.
AS: Like when Måns Zelmerlöw goes on stage and performs Cara Mia in front of 20.000 screaming teens. But still, that’s pretty cool, isn’t it? They feel this song means something to them. And it has meant a lot to Alexander Stocks, it is like your signature song, and has always been.
Q: Just because I told you once that I thought this song is good, it has snowballed from there. Everyone’s talking about it, and you spread this around.
AS: I think it’s a good pop song. (sings) Come on, you can’t resist it!
Q: It’s a real earworm. If you got to play an artist in a biopic, who’d you want to be?
AS: Joakim Thåström.
Q: The Håkan Hellström movie has already been made, so…
Q2: Without you! You didn’t even get to make him coffee.
AS: Respect to Håkan, but Joakim Thåström is the only rock star we have in Sweden.
Q: What about Anders Wendin?
AS: He’s cool, he’s playing tonight at the Bajen gala. He’s a skilled musician, incredibly good live artist.
Q: I love him.
Q2: I don’t get the impression that his life resembles that of Thåström. There’s no drama there.
AS: Yeah but what the ****, Thåström is on a completely different level from everyone else. I’ve never talked to him, I’ve seen him once playing at Södra Teatern [Southie venue], it was kinda like seeing Jesus. Håkan is like… we’ve been Håkan fans for many years, when I met him I was like “****, cool, Håkan”, and the fact that he was very sympathetic makes him such a great guy.
Q: You took it to the next step with him, you kind of know him now, don’t you?
AS: In a very small way, very superficially. However, Joakim Thåström, what a legend, what a rock star! So this 25 minute answer is: I would like to play Joakim Thåström.
Q: Is that the case?
AS: No, I wouldn’t dare.
Q: Some dreams should remain dreams.
AS: That’s kind of it. I would also disappoint the entire audience, including myself.
Q: It would be had to get that offer.
AS: An offer you can’t refuse, but you hate yourself for…. I could never do it.
Q: Back to Håkan, after our first podcast episode, where I talk about Håkan… we have a thread on facebook where we write about our guests, where everyone in [podcast hosting company] writes. Oscar, our boss, wrote: “damn, I got a mail from Håkan’s manager, Håkan listened to the podcast and wants to come on as a guest.” My heart started beating.
Q2: This was a couple of hours after we put the podcast up.
Q: I started sweating, I was like “this is impossible, I don’t know what to say”. I had 30 seconds of pure euphoria. And then he wrote: “Hahaha just kidding”. I’m so ****ing angry just thinking about it.
AS: Could you have him on as a guest? Would it be too hard?
Q: I don’t know
Q2: He (Stocks) would just lie here, apathetic.
AS: I don’t think you could uphold your investigative journalism, your Janne Josefsson… It’s easy with me, you know me, you don’t feel anything when you put my feet to the fire this harshly. With Håkan, you’d have a completely different tone.
Q: You should know that we love all of the guests we’ve had on, we agree on this. We’ve talked about who we want to meet, and we decided to only invite people we really like. and it’s important to us to say this to the guests during this hour.
Q2: Done.
Q: I’m getting serious here. We rarely say things like that when we talk. Like “****, Alex, you’re a great actor.” or “I think you’re a wonderful human being”. And it’s important to say this.
AS: We, in our gang, are pretty good at ball-busting each other. In a loving way.
Q: That’s also why you’re here. Partly because you’re a ****ing Hollywood star, so it’s great for us to have you on, we can’t deny that. But also, you’re a very good friend, very loving and sweet. And a good actor.
AS: Thanks, Alexander. It means a lot to me.
Q: When was the last time Alex did something nice for you, Stocks?
Q2: Erm… eeh…
AS: ON NEXT WEEK’S EPISODE….
Q: I have story about him doing something nice for me. This was when we lived together, I had moved from another apartment, and was scammed out of my deposit.
AS: Oh yeah, that ****er….
Q: Yeah, he was a real ****er. I took him to court, partly because it was fun to see what would happen in the U.S. court system.
AS: It was a moral thing. You shouldn’t get away with **** like that.
Q: You shouldn’t cheat people out of money. It was around $1000, it wasn’t the entire world, but it was still money. Part of suing someone is serving them with a supina. There are people whose job it is just to deliver supinas.
AS: “You’ve been served”
Q: The person who’s suing can’t do this, I think. Something like that. So I brought Alex in. So you had to go to his door and knock on it and deliver the supina. He was hiding, right?
AS: He thought I was a hitman, so he called the cops. He looked through his key hole and was like “There’s a meat head outside my door”. I was a little bit insulted, he called me a meat head. He thought I was an enforcer, that I was there to break his legs.
Q: You could be mistaken for that. Russian mobster.
AS: I wouldn’t have broken his legs, but I was really ****ing pissed off.
Q: You really didn’t like him.
AS: You were so nice, you and Johanna, behaved so well, and he tries to **** you over, it was so ugly.
Q: It was a planned scam.
AS: It turned into a moral crusade.
Q: He was served and we went to small claims court, and he never showed. And we didn’t have anything on him. He got away. Karma is a *****, I haven’t seen him in any successful movies.
AS: Was he an actor?
Q: Some kind of actor. Everyone is, over there.
AS: … And his name was Bradley Cooper.
[Musical interlude]
https://freundmaschine.tumblr.com/post/154715827635/final
FINAL 2:2
Q: We have a thing that we have to do. Two things. First, the challenge. How the **** do we do this? Do you accept the challenge before you know what it is?
Q2: No, you get to know it first. And this is for the year 2017.
Q: Frida Hallgren didn’t get a challenge. Linus Wahlgren was challenged to go on the 36-hour Finland ferry, alone.
AS: (pensively) Sheeeiiit. What a nightmare. The 36 hours one, on top of that!
Q: And he accepted, so he has one year to do it, alone, to Helsinki and back. He loves that ****, sliding in, singing karaoke and having a ****ing pint of beer.
Q2: He’s gonna have a great time. Your task is simpler; you have to promote us, in an international media of your own choosing.
AS: 2017?
Q: During your next interview with… Letterman. You have to say “Stocks and Wilson har en podd”
AS: In Swedish, “har en podd”?
Q: “…har en podd, is one of the best, most inspiring… Janne Josefsson… journalistic vibe”
AS: Because sometimes they ask like “have you had a really good interview recently, who are the journalists you look up to and respect?” And it feels good that… Going on a 36 hour to Finland is hard, but you guys are incredibly good journalists. It’s not just that we’re buddies that makes me want to say that you’re breaking new ground here. There are a lot of podcasts out there, but this is something different. You guys bring up things nobody else bring up, things nobody dare bring up. You talk about how you know people, how you met people. The references to Ingrid from Halmstad… That’s something the listeners… i don’t think people see how… when they hear the depth… No but for real, in a few years, people will catch up and understand, like “oh my god, this is on a completely different level, they have taken podcasting to outer space and back”
Q: Sarcasm is really blooming…
AS: Guys, soak it up.
Q: Next item… Oh, do you accept the challenge?
AS: One Hundred Percent.
Q: Here we come!
AS: Letterman retired two years ago.
Q: What the ****. Well, Jay Leno then.
AS: Also retired. …middle aged men yapping, knowing nothing.
Q: Jimmy Kimmel then. So the idea here is that you, being the star that you are… we’ve taken Andreas favourite movie, and a scene from it. I will direct you: Imagine that you love each other. You really want each other. But… you can’t right now. Action.
60:25 - 61:50 [acts out scene]
Q: Glorious! What an actor you are!
AS: This would only have worked if the listeners had the ability to see our director, Alexander Stocks, during this… (laughs) You gave your actors incredibly bad confidence. You sat there like with a severe case of tinnitus, pressing both your thumbs into your eye sockets, like you were welcoming death.
Q: But all the directors you’ve worked with these last years, how does Stocks compare to them?
AS: When you have a director like Stocks, who despises you, you turn into a little puppy, yearning for approval.
Q: This may be one of the best interviews we will ever do.
Q2: The longest recording session and the shortest episode.
AS: This will be three minutes long. But the best three minutes of my life.
[mutual “I love you”]
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Q: We have a thing that we have to do. Two things. First, the challenge. How the **** do we do this? Do you accept the challenge before you know what it is?
Q2: No, you get to know it first. And this is for the year 2017.
Q: Frida Hallgren didn’t get a challenge. Linus Wahlgren was challenged to go on the 36-hour Finland ferry, alone.
AS: (pensively) Sheeeiiit. What a nightmare. The 36 hours one, on top of that!
Q: And he accepted, so he has one year to do it, alone, to Helsinki and back. He loves that ****, sliding in, singing karaoke and having a ****ing pint of beer.
Q2: He’s gonna have a great time. Your task is simpler; you have to promote us, in an international media of your own choosing.
AS: 2017?
Q: During your next interview with… Letterman. You have to say “Stocks and Wilson har en podd”
AS: In Swedish, “har en podd”?
Q: “…har en podd, is one of the best, most inspiring… Janne Josefsson… journalistic vibe”
AS: Because sometimes they ask like “have you had a really good interview recently, who are the journalists you look up to and respect?” And it feels good that… Going on a 36 hour to Finland is hard, but you guys are incredibly good journalists. It’s not just that we’re buddies that makes me want to say that you’re breaking new ground here. There are a lot of podcasts out there, but this is something different. You guys bring up things nobody else bring up, things nobody dare bring up. You talk about how you know people, how you met people. The references to Ingrid from Halmstad… That’s something the listeners… i don’t think people see how… when they hear the depth… No but for real, in a few years, people will catch up and understand, like “oh my god, this is on a completely different level, they have taken podcasting to outer space and back”
Q: Sarcasm is really blooming…
AS: Guys, soak it up.
Q: Next item… Oh, do you accept the challenge?
AS: One Hundred Percent.
Q: Here we come!
AS: Letterman retired two years ago.
Q: What the ****. Well, Jay Leno then.
AS: Also retired. …middle aged men yapping, knowing nothing.
Q: Jimmy Kimmel then. So the idea here is that you, being the star that you are… we’ve taken Andreas favourite movie, and a scene from it. I will direct you: Imagine that you love each other. You really want each other. But… you can’t right now. Action.
60:25 - 61:50 [acts out scene]
Q: Glorious! What an actor you are!
AS: This would only have worked if the listeners had the ability to see our director, Alexander Stocks, during this… (laughs) You gave your actors incredibly bad confidence. You sat there like with a severe case of tinnitus, pressing both your thumbs into your eye sockets, like you were welcoming death.
Q: But all the directors you’ve worked with these last years, how does Stocks compare to them?
AS: When you have a director like Stocks, who despises you, you turn into a little puppy, yearning for approval.
Q: This may be one of the best interviews we will ever do.
Q2: The longest recording session and the shortest episode.
AS: This will be three minutes long. But the best three minutes of my life.
[mutual “I love you”]
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