Hello and welcome to a very different little mini episode of the Europeans.

I mean, it's not really an episode, is it?

Why is it not an episode? It's an episode. People can hear us talking.

Yeah, but we're just here to chat. Isn't that kind of nice though?

I guess that's what a podcast

is. Anyway, I'm joined by Katie Lee. Hi. As you can hear, but I'm also joined by Katzlaslo and Vojta

Alexiak, our two wonderful producers. Hi both. Hi. Hi. Hi, hello. Hi guys. And we're here today

because we want to share something with you.

We have an idea that we're really, really excited about

and we wanted to put it in your ears now to see if you maybe want to help us make it reality.

Maybe we won't give away what the idea is yet,

but should we start by talking about why we want

to make something different?

This is very cryptic, isn't it?

Yeah, how long are we going to be cryptic for?

95% of this podcast.

Well, I guess the obvious place to start is money.

As you've heard us talk about many times on the show, this is a proudly

independent podcast, and it's kind of crazy that we have managed to keep this thing in existence

for, oh, how many years now? 87? Yeah. Crazy. We don't have any support from a big media outlet,

and this year we have very little grant funding as well. So more than

80% of our funding this year is coming directly from you guys, our listeners. It is thanks to

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