Sigge Eklund about the podcast with the Flinck brothers
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Almost 25 years ago, they broke contact – and now Richard Flinck is dying of cancer.
With the podcast “Återföreningen” author Sigge Eklund hopes that he will reconcile with twin brother Thorsten Flinck before it is too late.
– Everything is being put to the test now that time is about to run out.
Recently, the third season of the podcast “The Reunion” has been released on the portal Podme. Once again, the writer Sigge Eklund, who is a childhood friend of the media entrepreneur Richard Flinck and his brother Thorsten Flinck, tries to get the brothers to reunite after many years as enemies.
In the first episode, Richard Flinck, 63, tells us that last autumn he was told by the doctor that he has cancer in the lungs and that the liver is damaged.
– It was a death sentence he read out, no one survives that, what they were talking about wasn’t that you should have a long life, but that if you’re really damn lucky, you can get by for a few years or two more years, but everything points to it being two weeks, says Richard Flinck in the podcast.
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Sigge Eklund tells us that this was the origin of this third season.
– I didn’t think this one would end because the previous two seasons have ended with such fights. Hope was lost for these two to become friends again. But when Richard told me that he had gotten sick, I thought that something could happen between them now that they know that time is up. That was the origin, that maybe there is a small chance after all, says Sigge Eklund and continues:
– Thanks to the podcast, they hung out for a month now that Richard’s life is coming to an end. It would never have happened otherwise, they are too proud, they need me to be able to meet and hang out.
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Sigge Eklund tells us that Richard Flink is now feeling very unwell.
– He doesn’t feel very well. He’s hoping to do surgery, but he’s been too weak for it so it’s not looking bright at all.
– Richard is very bad there, but it makes all these conversations electrified by it. It makes everything come to a head in a different way than previous seasons now that time is about to run out.
“They are like two predators”
That the Flinck brothers are erratic has been understood from the two previous seasons of “The Reunion”. Sigge Eklund explains what it’s like to interview them.
– What is so crazy is that there is love somewhere. But as soon as they end up in the same room, they trigger things in each other. It’s like being in a room with kerosene all over the floor and they’re sitting and playing with matches. There is so much that can flare up from old sorrows.
– It is very charged and dangerous in the room when they talk to each other. It’s two predators out to hurt each other, then suddenly there’s this incredible tenderness as they embrace each other and cry because Richard is sick. Then suddenly anger again.
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The first season of “Återföreningen” was broadcast in autumn 2020 and Sigge Eklund tells how he got the idea for the podcast.
“Don’t want to risk anything”
– All three of us became enemies in 2000. Richard and I separated at the same time as the brothers separated, so none of us saw each other for 20 years. It has been like an open wound. I’ve felt bad all these years that I didn’t meet them. They were two father figures, especially Richard when I was young. I also felt bad that they were enemies. The idea was to maybe manage to kill two birds with one stone, I will be friends with them again and they will be friends with each other if the three of us meet. I don’t think it would have worked if the microphones hadn’t been there.
With this third season, Sigge Eklund feels that he has largely reached the end of the road.
– I think there is so much happening this season that it feels like we have reached the goal. Even if it’s not a traditional reconciliation, there are still encounters at the end that make me want to live in the feeling that they actually did meet. I don’t want to risk anything by doing more.
