282: Author of Paris On Air and Podcaster, Oliver Gee
The Simple Sophisticate - Intelligent Living Paired with Signature Style
Shannon Ables
4.7 • 944 Ratings
🗓️ 1 June 2020
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Today on the podcast, fellow podcaster Oliver Gee of The Earful Tower joins me to talk about his newly released memoir Paris On Air (shop here on Bookshop.org) as well as living in Paris during France's 59 days of confinement. I had the opportunity to speak with him the day after the lockdown regulations were loosened, and he shared what his and his wife Lina's experience had been and what the first thing they did was on May 11th.
The primary focus of our discussion is his new book. Tune in to our conversation to discover the behind-the-scenes of how his acclaimed podcast (recently recommended in The New York Times for the top 13 podcasts to listen to for traveling abroad while staying at home) came about, evolved and, in a short amount of time, became his full-time and one and only job in the City of Light. As well, if you enjoy listening to your books, Oliver explains how his book is a unique Audio Experience that welcomes the people he writes about in his book into the studio to share their voice for their part.
Follow Oliver on Instagram (@theearfultower), and visit his blog here (learn more about his virtual book tour as well).
~Order your own copy of Paris On Air here: Amazon, Bookshop.org
~Listen to my first interview with Oliver, episode #222 in August 2018.
Visit the full Show Notes on The Simply Luxurious Life — thesimplyluxuriouslife.com/podcast282
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the simple Sophisticate Podcast, where intelligent living is paired with signature style. |
| 0:16.3 | I'm your host, Shannon Ables. |
| 0:18.8 | And whether you're listening on your commute, exercising, working in the garden, or sitting down with a hot cup of tea or a |
| 0:25.0 | cafe ole, thank you for tuning in. Let's get started. Welcome to the 280 second episode of the Simple Sophisticate. We're back with |
| 0:48.7 | brand new episodes for the month of June and I'm excited that you're tuning in and I have a wonderful |
| 0:54.8 | guest to bring to you today from Paris Oliver G will be talking about his new |
| 1:00.4 | his first book that is inspired by his podcast the earful tower his book is called |
| 1:06.6 | Paris on air and it was just released this spring and he joined me from Paris just the day after Paris came out of lockdown. |
| 1:16.8 | And we're going to talk about all sorts of things. |
| 1:19.0 | If you've been listening to his podcast, you know that he takes us to Paris he takes us to the big parts |
| 1:26.8 | that are intriguing and a lot people talk about but more often than not he shows |
| 1:31.5 | us the everyday life of Paris the things that peak his |
| 1:34.3 | curiosity and this book is about his podcast but also how his career or his job as a |
| 1:41.2 | podcaster has evolved what brought him to Paris in the first place and |
| 1:44.2 | that behind the scenes that we just don't hear in each episode. |
| 1:48.7 | We'll also talk about what it's been like in Paris during this time of confinement that we have been |
| 1:56.0 | living through all around the world and he just brings his enthusiasm to the |
| 2:01.4 | conversation about his sincere love for Paris and |
| 2:03.9 | podcasting and bringing it to his listeners and how he does that and where it comes |
| 2:10.5 | where that drive comes from. We will also talk about his audio experience. So he has |
| 2:16.3 | a book, paperback, he has an e-book, but he also has an audio experience, which is quite |
| 2:21.0 | unique compared to so many other audio books out there and I think if you enjoy |
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