It’s that damn bear again
The Europeans | European news, politics and culture
Katy Lee and Dominic Kraemer
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🗓️ 22 January 2019
⏱️ 35 minutes
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It's good to be back! We've got big plans for 2019. Starting with the fact that we're now on Patreon! If you have a few euros to spare and want to help us grow, hit us up at patreon.com/europeanspodcast.
This week, smart Finns and a very smart bear. Computer scientist Teemu Roos is on the line from Helsinki to explain why Finland is trying to educate its population en masse about artificial intelligence. And our Woman in Warsaw Ania Jakubek is back with the tale of a Polish wartime hero who just happened to be... a bear. Plus: Greek drama, Satanic tourism, and how to make the internet a nicer place.
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READ ANIA'S ARTICLE about Wojtek the bear at https://yhoo.it/2FEdA9F
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, Europe. We are back after Dominic dragged me kicking and screaming back from our holiday. |
| 0:22.4 | Some of you said you're about to call the police. |
| 0:23.3 | No need. |
| 0:24.0 | We're alive. |
| 0:28.1 | And very pleased to be back here on Skype in Paris and Amsterdam. |
| 0:29.4 | Brand new year. |
| 0:31.1 | Same very weird continent. |
| 0:33.2 | Same very charming co-host. |
| 0:34.5 | How's it going, Dominic Kramer? |
| 0:35.6 | It's all okay. |
| 0:36.8 | I'm over my jet lag. |
| 0:39.2 | Back in Europe. Happy to be back. |
| 0:45.1 | You've been very far away. I have, yeah. You only went like half of where I went to. |
| 0:49.7 | I went to New Zealand and it was an incredibly beautiful country, as everyone says. |
| 0:53.3 | Not only that, but like you go to these beautiful beaches and they're empty. |
| 0:55.4 | Or there's like one other person on them. |
| 0:57.3 | Did it feel like you're in a car advert? |
| 1:00.1 | Yeah, some of the time it actually did feel like I was in a car advert. |
| 1:03.0 | Did it feel like that in Vietnam and Hong Kong? |
| 1:11.3 | Yeah, we've both been on the other side of the world. first time in a very long time to go to Hong Kong and where I used to live and hang out with some old friends there, which was amazing. And then I went to Vietnam, see my family in |
| 1:15.6 | Saigon, which was great. Very hot compared to here. I'm now back in freezing cold Paris. |
| 1:22.4 | And sorry, what was the question? Did it feel like a car advert there as well? |
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