Are hipsters ruining Paris?
The Earful Tower: Paris
Oliver Gee
4.8 • 796 Ratings
🗓️ 26 March 2018
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
This week we've got Guy Griffin in the studio talking about hipsters, coffee, and Paris.
He's the man behind Cafe Oberkampf and Cafe Mericourt in the trendy 11th arrondissement. Check those coffee shops out right now.
Some may say Guy is a hipster himself, so who better to discuss hipsters and how they're changing Paris?
Guy hung around for a Walk Show after the episode, which you can watch if you become a Patreon member here.
Lastly, if you want tickets to the next live show - with Adrian Leeds at Cafe Mericourt on April 18th -- message me now to reserve a spot (oliver@theearfultower.com). Tickets €10 - and the show will be streamed live for Patreon members.
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| 0:00.0 | Earful Tower listeners, hello guys. Whoa, I got to say straight away, this is the second recording because I did my first intro and I listened to it back and it was so lacking in energy that I almost, well, I was a bit disappointed with myself. So I'm coming back for take two a little bit more energy. I've slapped myself on the face. |
| 0:18.0 | This week's episode we've got Guy Griffin. He's a cafe, he's a restaurant |
| 0:21.6 | owner, and he's talking about whether hipsters of ruin Paris or not. And we also talked about |
| 0:26.4 | the changing coffee scene in Paris and the difference between this kind of old Paris and new |
| 0:31.0 | Paris. Now, before we get into it, I want to say, I'm really excited. You can hear it in my voice, |
| 0:36.2 | I'm excited. April 18th, so just a couple of weeks from right now when I'm really excited. You can hear it in my voice. I'm excited. April 18th. So just a couple of weeks |
| 0:39.8 | from right now when I'm recording this, we've got my next live show and that's with Adrian Leeds, |
| 0:44.9 | the past guest, the property guru, the real estate expert. She's going to be talking with me |
| 0:49.4 | in front of a live crowd at Cafe Merrickour, which is actually the cafe that's run by today's guest, Guy, Griffin. |
| 0:55.5 | So the show is going to be based on, so this is the live show, that's going to be based on this |
| 0:58.9 | concept of why Paris? Why do people want to live here? Why do they want to come here? Especially |
| 1:03.2 | when it's so expensive. She's got the answers, I think. And the tickets are going to be 10 euros. 10 euros if you come live, if you want to watch it from home, |
| 1:12.6 | all you have to do is become a Patreon member |
| 1:14.6 | and I'm going to stream it live around the entire universe. |
| 1:17.6 | But if you want a ticket, if you want to come in person, |
| 1:20.6 | there's only so many tickets, I think about 40 places |
| 1:23.6 | and a few of them are already reserved. |
| 1:25.6 | So email me at Oliver at theeufel Tower.com |
| 1:29.2 | and I'll put your name aside and we'll see you on April the 18th. Otherwise, let's get on with |
| 1:33.6 | the episode. One man, one country, one red scooter. Here's the earful tower with Oliver G. |
| 1:43.2 | Guy Griffin. Hi. Guy Griffin. How you doing? I'm good. I'm good. Thank you. |
| 1:48.1 | So you've been, you're a friend of the show. Yeah. said, ah, no, I've been on the show before. And I like that because a lot of |
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