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Our first ever listener question, and it stumps Ken! Some preview of Slovenia's entry and Robbie's first ESC History lesson.

Songs listened to in this episode:

1. Raiven - Veronika

2. alyona alyona & Jerry Heil — Teresa & Maria

3. maNga - We Could Be The Same

Intro/outro music by tunetank.com

Audio engineering by Mike Platt

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