Take Your Shoes Off, the Podcast

It's Midsummer Eve in Sweden, and host Robert Becker sits down with a very special guest: 9-year-old August Rabe from Texas. August has a Swedish father and American mother, and he's spending part of ...

19 Juni 18min

Today on Take Your Shoes Off, we’re hanging out with a guy whose voice has probably sold you a car, narrated your favorite documentary, or convinced you to trust a brand you’d never heard of. He’s a v...

28 Aug 20251h 11min

Welcome to another episode of Take Your Shoes Off - the podcast that's usually released on Thursdays, but this week we're running on American time, which means....it's ready when it's ready, tack så m...

4 Juli 202551min

Today's episode is about the Long Way Home. About what it means to find a new life in a new place, sometimes even a new name. Most importantly, you will hear about how we cannot get through this lif...

22 Juni 20251h 7min

This week we sit down wit Martin Arvebro - video wizard, long-time vlogger, and certified rock enthusiast (the headbanging kind, not the geological kind....although who knows, really?). Martin creates...

5 Juni 20251h 3min

This week, we’re joined by Jonathan Rollins: U.S. Air Force vet, Founder of The Laugh House - at least the longest running consistent English-language comedy club in Stockholm, and the kind of guy who...

22 Maj 202554min

Kim Kraft is a professional educator with over fifteen years of experience. She is member of the faculty at University of Washington and she joined us to talk all things Swedish and to also teach Mika...

8 Maj 202555min

This week's guest is Stephen Lessard, known online as @stephen_in_sweden. He left behind Fenway franks and Dunkin' coffee for a land of licorice, quiet buses, and pastries that sound like cartoon char...

24 Apr 20251h 1min