Why hello there? You are listening to the Earful Tower podcast. I go by the name of Oliver G.

This is a show about Paris, France. Usually I interview someone for the show, but this week and the

surrounding weeks, I'm going through my audio experience for Paris on Air, which is a book I wrote in

2020. I think you already knew that.

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folks who have taken the plunge and become a member on Patreon. I say taking the plunge like

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This week, there's a scroll that goes with this episode in which I've twisted Lena's arm

to reveal the banana bread recipe from halfway through the chapter.

Also, Eddie, my brother, who puts together these scrolls, has, I don't know how he did it, but he found pictures I don't think I've ever

seen before from finding Mary, the chapter you're about to hear, which was my first trip to

Paris. In fact, and he's tried to twist my arm into sharing it, I haven't

decided yet if I will. There's a video that I filmed from the top of the Eiffel Tower when he was a

young 12, but I was a young, whatever, 21. I'm doing a French accent pointing out all sorts of

things from the top of there. I had no idea. This was my trip to Paris. Funny to think

how far things have come, but all that will be on Patreon. Now, this chapter that you're about to

hear is kind of fun. It takes a sort of quicker pace, I think, than the other ones, which were

a little bit more passive, which is sort of what was happening to me in France and what was

happening around me. Now you're going to hear

as I started making things happen myself, live shows, tracking down people, learning more about

the country through cheese, crocodile hunting, all sorts of things, and a very viral video too.

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