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But this podcast would not be possible without the incredibly generous support of our amazing listeners who donate a little bit each month at patreon.com forward slash europeans podcast Hello, this is the Europeans, and we're actually away this week, listeners, but never fear, That doesn't mean that there is no podcast,

because we're bringing you a story this week, a rather brilliant and sharp and funny

and moving story that says a lot about this continent that we call home. This story was

performed live at an event that we hosted in Amsterdam last Friday night,

and I co-hosted this particular event with our wonderful producer Katzlaso. Hi Katz. Hi. Can you

tell everyone a little bit about this event that we were at? Yeah, absolutely. So it was an event to mark

Europe Day, which is on May the 9th, and I suspect that most Europeans have no idea it's happening.

But it's supposedly a day to celebrate all things European.

And at this event, our friends at Dutch Culture and the European Cultural Foundation

organised this brilliant lineup of speakers

who took a more critical perspective of Europe Day

than, you know, let's wave all these blue flags

with yellow stars on them

and celebrate the sunshiny, idealized version of what Europe

and the European Union should be.

And I think it was really trying to point out, you know,

the places where we could do better

and how we might

fix that. You can find the whole live stream of the event with all the speakers via the link

in the show notes, but no one could have set the turn better than the storyteller who started

the night, Bashak Leitch. I have to admit that I actually had to look away from the audience because I almost

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