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I'm excited about today's podcast. Regular listeners will know also, I like learning things.

Today, we're going to take a little journey into the arts to learn about

opera. So here's the story. I went to a pub with my friends a few years ago, and I got talking

to these women on the table next to us. We discovered one of them. Kim Lillian Strebel is a well-respected

opera singer. She is young and ridiculously talented.

I bought her that night with a thousand questions. She was not what I really expected from

an opera singer. I mean, she didn't look like an opera singer, and that's really cliche thing

for me to say, but she was basically young and i don't know she just didn't

really look like one so it was kind of shocking um i've only been to one opera in my life uh i had no

idea what was going on but i was blown away by the talent i thoroughly enjoyed it it was a it was a

great experience i just love watching town to people. You know,

whatever it is they do, whether it's, I don't know, singing opera, ballet, fishing, whatever

it is, if they're good at it. I like, I like watching them and I like to learn all about it.

Anyway, let's meet her and find out more about opera. Here's Kim, Lillian Strebel.

Hi, Kim.

How are you?

I'm very well.

How are you doing?

Good.

Whereabouts in the world are you at the moment?

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