229 - The Eiffel Tower
Do Go On
Matt Stewart, Jess Perkins & Dave Warneke
4.9 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 11 March 2020
⏱️ 102 minutes
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Summary
The most visited monument in the world, The Eiffel Tower wasn't always popular. Built for the 1889 World's Fair, it was an ambitious project - the tallest structure in the world at the time - almost doubling the previous record holder. On this episode we talk about the tower's inception, the protest against it, its time as a giant billboard as well as Franz Reichelt the "Flying Tailor," who tested his parachute suit by jumping from the tower.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is part of the Planet Broadcasting Network. |
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| 0:07.8 | Hi everyone, just us at the top of the show to tell you that the Melbourne International Comedy Festival starts in just two weeks. |
| 0:15.0 | What? |
| 0:16.0 | We're doing... |
| 0:17.0 | How to start writing my show? |
| 0:18.0 | We're performing what? |
| 0:20.0 | And just two and a half weeks, you can see Jess and Matt do full runs, which means three and a half weeks of their shows. |
| 0:25.0 | Jess, your show is cold. |
| 0:27.0 | Almost, it's on at 6pm at the Greek Centre, 5pm on Sundays. |
| 0:31.0 | You can get tickets at ComedyFestival.com.au |
| 0:33.0 | And Matt? |
| 0:34.0 | Monkey House, and it's on Brisbane from the 10th, which is, yes, I think, to the 15th. |
| 0:39.0 | Then in Melbourne for the full run, and then in Sydney, late April for only four nights. |
| 0:44.0 | And you can get tickets via matzjuacomedy.com slash gigs. |
| 0:49.0 | Just got to matzjuacomedy.com and there's a button right there. |
| 0:52.0 | Dave always makes fun of me for that, no? |
| 0:54.0 | I've gotten the rhythm, I can't stop saying it. |
| 0:56.0 | And if you use the discount code podcast or mine or Jess's shows, you get 20% off. |
| 1:00.0 | So, Kate, you should definitely do it. |
| 1:02.0 | And you can use that code because we are doing live podcasts at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, |
| 1:07.0 | starting on Sunday, March 28th, Saturday, March 28th. |
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