Welcome to the Europeans, the podcast that tries to talk about Europe in the least boring way possible.

And I'm here as ever with my usual co-host, Dominic Kramer.

Hello, Katie Lee.

And also two sort of special guests.

Hello, producers, Captain Vojek.

Hello.

Hi.

I actually had a really stressful dream last night, guys.

Oh no, what was it?

I dream that we weren't actually recording a podcast this morning.

Dominic, I was in one of your operas,

and I had forgotten that I was also an opera singer.

And I had to learn how to sing really well, really quickly.

And yeah, it was a kind of variant of the usual stress dream

where I'm in high school and I have to do my math exam,

and I can't remember how to do maths.

But worse, much worse, because it involved performing in front of a bunch of people.

I have that dream all the time too.

I'm so sorry I've infected you with that dream.

I also have these dreams. I think these are like post-traumatic dreams for people who are in

performing industries. Oh, that you are trying to drum something on stage and you don't remember it?

Usually I go on stage and then I'm supposed to play the instrument I never played and

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