Dear listeners, welcome, welcome and bea-nevenu to the latest episode of the Europeans.

Do I sound like one of those napkins you get in hotels with welcome in all the languages?

Do I sound like one of those napkins?

Yeah.

Are they talking to you? That's a little worrying.

Okay. Hi, Katie. Have you missed me?

Hi. Yes, I have. Hello from Paris. How are you? I'm fine. Yeah, it was my birthday this week, so happy birthday to me. Oh yeah, I said that last week, didn't I? You've got to stop just wishing yourself happy birthday on this podcast, Dominic. That's not what this show is about. I'm just stretching it out, you know? Milking it for all right. But how's your week been? It's all right. It's been quite dramatic. So as you know,

on the train to London last week, I bumped into European super villain, Nigel Farage. And it

turned out the way back was even more action-packed. I was like just about to board a train

back to London on Monday night. And suddenly there was a small explosion and everyone started screaming

and running for the emergency exit.

What?

Yeah.

And for about five terrifying minutes we really thought there'd been a terrorist attack.

It was really, really horrible.

And it turned out that a passenger's phone had exploded in their bag.

Oh my God.

Was it a Samsung?

It was a Samsung.

Well, that's what the staff told me.

We never actually got official confirmation, but one of the staff members told me that

it was a Samsung.

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