What Is Swedish Death Cleaning? with Ella Engström, Johan Svenson, and Katarina Blom

Getting Better with Jonathan Van Ness

Sony Music

Society & Culture, Comedy, Education, Self-improvement

4.9 • 21.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Do you ever look around at your living space and suddenly realize that you have way too much stuff? Well, you might need to take some inspo from the traditions of Swedish Death Cleaning! On this week’s Getting Curious, the three Swedish Death Cleaners from the Peacock show join Jonathan to tell us all how we can tidy up our lives and learn to confront one of the scariest things out there: death. Ella Engström is an organizer. Johan Svenson is a designer. And Katarina Blom is a psychologist. You can follow Johan on Instagram @svenson_johan, Ella on Instagram @engsroom, and Katrina on Instagram @katarinablom. The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning is streaming now, on Peacock. Follow us on Instagram @CuriousWithJVN to join the conversation. Jonathan is on Instagram @JVN. Transcripts for each episode are available at JonathanVanNess.com. Find books from Getting Curious guests at bookshop.org/shop/curiouswithjvn. Our senior producer is Chris McClure. Our associate producer is Allison Weiss. Our engineer is Nathanael McClure. Production support from Julie Carrillo, Anne Currie, and Chad Hall. Our theme music is “Freak” by QUIÑ; for more, head to TheQuinCat.com. Curious about bringing your brand to life on the show? Email podcastadsales@sonymusic.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	New from DurX, 7 different vibrations you'll want to put on repeat.
0:15.0	Now available at boots and at duarX.co. UK. Meet Jonathan Bannes.
0:25.0	is 36 years old, hosts this very podcast and lives in a house that's slowly being taken over by cats, dogs, and designer bags.
0:36.5	Jonathan could use some death cleaning.
0:38.9	In fact, we could all use some death cleaning.
0:41.7	So today, we're calling in the pros.
0:44.3	Welcome to getting curious.
0:45.6	I'm Jonathan Bandez, and every week
0:47.7	I get to sit down for a gorgeous conversation
0:50.3	with a brilliant expert, or in this case, three, to learn all about something that makes me curious.
0:55.3	Today we are going to be learning all about Swedish death cleaning and all three of our guests.
1:01.4	Actually two of our guests are joining us from Sweden, but another one is joining us from Cyprus, which we'll be getting to that later.
1:07.6	But welcome to this show. Ella Inksdram is an organizer.
1:11.4	Johann Spenson is a designer, and Katarina Bloom is a designer and Katarina Bloom is a psychologist. Together they're a
1:17.3	team of Swedish death cleaners who star in Peacock's fantastic new series
1:21.9	The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning, which by the way you guys is done by Scout
1:26.8	Productions who also does Queer Eye. So basically today I'm meeting like three of my TV
1:32.2	Unscripted first cousins.
1:33.7	Like I am so excited that y'all are here.
1:36.5	But let's dive in because I think this is one of the most
1:39.6	interesting titles of a Tele show ever.
1:42.0	Like when I first saw the advertisements I was like
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