Nice One, Slovakia
The Europeans | European news, politics and culture
Katy Lee and Dominic Kraemer
4.8 • 162 Ratings
🗓️ 8 April 2019
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
This week, a little glimmer of hope from central Europe in the form of a new Slovakian president who refuses to fight dirty. And a little glimmer of the future in the form of our guest, bionic woman and tech journalist Mimi Billing, one of a growing number of Swedes to have got themselves... microchipped? Plus: Russian whale jails, a decades-old French mystery, and germs at the opera.
Follow Mimi on Twitter here and read her great article about Swedish body-hacking here!
And for more on Slovakia's badass president-elect Zuzana Čaputová, there's no better place to start than the latest episode of the In Between Europe podcast hosted by our former guest Zselyke Csaky, which you can check out here.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello Amsterdam. |
| 0:17.3 | Hello, Katie. I don't know where you are, actually. Where are you? London this weekend. |
| 0:21.5 | Hello, London. |
| 0:22.6 | Oh, my God. |
| 0:23.3 | You sound like Barry White. |
| 0:24.2 | How sick are you? |
| 0:25.2 | Oh, I'm fine. |
| 0:26.4 | I've just got a horrible cold. |
| 0:28.7 | It happens to all of us sometimes. |
| 0:30.6 | You're the sick man of Europe. |
| 0:32.1 | Hey. |
| 0:32.9 | Bidum bum. |
| 0:33.8 | What's going on, apart from being really sick? Well, we've been away for a week and it feels like we haven't on this podcast for months. |
| 0:39.9 | I know. |
| 0:40.9 | But you didn't miss me because you saw me in real life, didn't you? |
| 0:43.4 | You came to Amsterdam and that was really nice. |
| 0:45.3 | Katie wasn't even that mean to me. |
| 0:47.2 | Not even that mean. |
| 0:48.4 | I am missing you actually after spending quite a weird weekend with you, which we can't really talk about. |
| 0:53.7 | We did something quite mysterious and all will become clear in a few months' time. But I'm really happy to be back |
| 0:59.6 | because last week a bunch of stuff happened that was like, oh, this would be really good for the |
| 1:02.9 | podcast. And then we weren't here. So we're very glad to be back, listeners, and we hope that you |
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