HBM100: Faraway Minds
Here Be Monsters
Here Be Monsters Podcast
4.6 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 6 June 2018
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Anna Klein thinks that tea tastes better on the Faroe Islands. She thinks the water’s more pure there, and the Northern Lights let the sky be whatever color it wants to be. She often thinks about moving there.
Content Note: Violence (momentary) and Language
But she also worries that her fantasies of running away to the remote corners of the world may be a familial urge to isolate herself, the same way her father did...a tendency that ultimately contributed to his early death.
It was a loving and hurtful relationship that led Anna to retrace her father's life. From her home in Aarhus, to his dying place of Copenhagen, to his hometown of Skagen, and then back to Aarhus again via the museum at Moesgaard.
Producer: Anna Klein
Editors: Jeff Emtman and Bethany Denton
Music: Lucky Dragons and The Black Spot
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| 0:00.0 | From KCRW, this is Here Be Monsters. |
| 0:05.0 | And just a heads up that about 12 minutes into this episode, |
| 0:08.0 | there's a brief mention of domestic violence. |
| 0:11.0 | Okay, here's the show. |
| 0:15.0 | So I remember this one time. |
| 0:20.0 | It was my 13th birthday and we got a letter in the mail, let's say we could go to the poster |
| 0:29.2 | and pick up a package from my dad. And course that was so exciting and it rarely |
| 0:37.6 | happened so when it happened it was like Christmas. What was in that box he sent was a children's book for kids the age of five to seven. |
| 0:52.0 | The thought was there. It was nice. I mean he had probably gone into a book |
| 0:57.1 | shop and he knew I liked to read. He just didn't realize that it was probably not the kind of thing you sent to a 13 year old. |
| 1:11.0 | That was when I realized that my dad had no idea how old his children were or who they were or what kind of people they were. |
| 1:25.0 | I mean I always knew that my dad was weird |
| 1:30.0 | but this was when I realized that something was completely off. |
| 1:35.0 | I felt so disappointed and |
| 1:40.0 | but in his head he just had a little girl. |
| 1:46.0 | And it, that was, I think that was the last time he ever gave me a birthday present. So I should treasure it, right? I should think that this was |
| 1:59.8 | the best. |
| 2:07.0 | Sometimes when you spend a lot of time in your own company, |
| 2:17.0 | sometimes when you spend a lot of time in your own company, it's difficult to be a part of the world again. And every time I do something that reminds my mom of my dad, always says oh you're so like your dad and yeah and |
| 2:29.6 | that is a good thing because I think he was a great person. |
| 2:36.2 | But it's also something that scares me. Oh, Here be monsters the podcast about the |
| 3:00.0 | the podcast about the unknown The So today I'm going to see my dad's childhood home. |
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