Hello everyone, you're listening to the Earful Tower podcast. My name is Oliver G. This is a show all about Paris,

all about France, the French people, the French language, and so on. If you are joining for the first time,

well, I've got to say you've picked a pretty good time to join because this is the first episode of a new season,

season 10, which is kind of like, almost like we're starting from

scratch. It means you haven't really missed anything you can pick up from here and get into it

nice and easily. If I were to summarize the past nine seasons in 30 seconds, this is what you

missed out on, okay? I started really small and scrappy interviewing anyone I could.

The guests were, actually, the guests were really good, and it kind of grew quickly,

thanks to them.

About two or three seasons in, I started a Patreon, which meant that through the membership,

I was able to get a career out of this show.

I wrote a book, Paris on

Air, I wrote a children's book, Kyla the Crocodile, then my wife, lovely leader and I had a

baby called Otis. That was two months ago. Then I released the audio from my book for the last season,

and now you're up to date.

And one of the things with this show is often I interview people and talk about their lives.

Sometimes I talk about a topic.

Sometimes I just tell a story.

This is an episode today where I'm talking about a specific topic and I got a French guest,

Nico, who had a baby,

him and his wife Alex had a baby three months before we had Otis.

And he's a Parisian man.

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