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The Reykjavík Grapevine has been published out of downtown Reykjavík for more than 20 years, with its offices for most of that time next door to the "World Famous Hot Dog Stand." Every day, people drop-in to our office for various reasons. Sometimes we they tell us interesting stuff that we want to share with you, so we interview them, for your pleasure. There is no theme.

Today we are joined by Larry Jaffee, an American author and journalist who recently moved to Reykjavík to establish a record press in Iceland, the country's first such press in 40 years. Not only is the to-be record press to be run on geothermal power, the vinyl itself will be made of sugar beets and starches, making it 100% fossil-fuel-free.

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The Reykjavík Grapevine has been published out of downtown Reykjavík for more than 20 years, with its offices for most of that time next door to the "World Famous Hot Dog Stand." Every day, people drop-in to our office for various reasons. Sometimes we they tell us interesting stuff that we want to share with you, so we interview them, for your pleasure. There is no theme.

Today we are joined by Páll Óskar and Benni Hemm Hemm two veterans of the Icelandic music scene, who just released an album together called "Alveg" and were featured on the cover of The Reykjavík Grapevine this September. In this two hour long interview with discuss an array of topics, amongst them how their collaboration works, the connection that live music provides for both performers and audiences, their musical influences, creative processes and lyrical inspirations along with activism, politics, protests, identity and class.

Hosted by: Jón Trausti Sigurðarson & Bart Cameron

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The Reykjavík Grapevine has been published out of downtown Reykjavík for more than 20 years, with its offices for most of that time next door to the "World Famous Hot Dog Stand." Every day, people drop-in to our office for various reasons. Sometimes we they tell us interesting stuff that we want to share with you, so we interview them, for your pleasure. There is no theme.

Today we are joined by Bergur Þórsson and Magnús Jóhann Ragnarsson, half of the people responsible for the second annual State of the Art music festival, that takes place October 7-12 2025. Bergur has worked as Björk’s musical director for the past 7 years, while Magnús Jóhann has played and performed with every other songwriter in Iceland during the past decade. The festival these two are organizing fuses together classical and contemporary music in innovative and interesting ways, such as piano concerts in garages, baroque music at dance clubs and more.

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The Reykjavík Grapevine has been published out of downtown Reykjavík for more than 20 years, with its offices for most of that time next door to the "World Famous Hot Dog Stand." Every day, people drop-in to our office for various reasons. Sometimes we they tell us interesting stuff that we want to share with you, so we interview them, for your pleasure. There is no theme.

Today we are joined by Roberto Luigi Pagani, Iceland's newest citizen. We discuss his plight of obtaining the citizenship, his work at the university of Iceland, which includes a lengthy talk about the various types of medieval Icelandic manuscripts and his love for rounding up sheep.

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The Reykjavík Grapevine has been published out of downtown Reykjavík for more than 20 years, with its offices for most of that time next door to the "World Famous Hot Dog Stand." Every day, people drop-in to our office for various reasons. Sometimes we they tell us interesting stuff that we want to share with you, so we interview them, for your pleasure. There is no theme.

Today we are joined by Elías Þórsson, who interviewed Prime Minister Kristrún Frostadóttir for The Reykjavík Grapevine (us). The interview will be published on Friday, September 12. We discuss the interview, Icelandic politics in general with emphasis on tourism, immigration, right-wing talking points, policy ideas etc., and the challenges ahead for Iceland's Prime Minister.

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The Reykjavík Grapevine has been published out of down town Reykjavík for more than 20 years, with its offices for most of that time next door to the "World Famous Hot Dog Stand". Every day, people drop-in to our office for various reasons. Sometimes we they tell us interesting stuff that we want to share with you, so we interview them, for your pleasure. There is no theme.

Today we are joined by Ryan Keeping, a Canadian from Halifax, who recently ran across Canada. He is in Iceland to attempt to beat the standing record of over 16 days for running the entire ring road around Iceland, a whopping 1390 kilometers.

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What is the future of Iceland's tech, economic and entrepreneurial sectors? What role does Iceland have to play in global development? Join host Bala Kamallakharan, founder of Startup Iceland, as he explores answers to these questions with some of the brightest minds working in Iceland today.

Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson is a software developer and a parliamentarian. He was the member of the parliament who presented the bill to make Iceland join the European Space Agency so any Icelander can become an astronaut. We talk about the unique opportunities Iceland has in relation to space.

Futurecast is also available as a video on our YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/jpEmoQcIavM

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Today on FutureCast we are chatting with Ari Jónsson. Ari is a NASA Ames Center Research Scientist and Stanford Alumni. He is currently the CEO of AWAREGO and Rector of Reykjavik University, a role he has held since 2007, and he will soon be moving on to become CEO of the institute. Ari is on the board of Iceland Venture Studio and is also an investor. Through his work over the years he has been a good friend, mentor and co-conspirator in building the startup community in Iceland. We will be speaking to him about Space, the opportunities that Iceland offers and his time at NASA.