Elephants in Paris

The Earful Tower: Paris

Oliver Gee

Arts, Paris, Society & Culture, Travel, Places & Travel, France

4.8 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2019

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Hello everyone

What do the Bastille, the Moulin Rouge, the Arc de Triomphe, and the Paris Zoo all have in common?

Yes, that's right! They all have amazing elephant stories that you probably never heard about before.

In this jumbo episode of The Earful Tower you'll hear all about them.

Thanks to my cohost Lina, my sponsor Fat Tire Tours, and my Patreon supporters.

Here's the exact link to the Segway Tour I did recently. Ten percent off when using code word Earful.

Here's a link to all the pictures mentioned in this episode.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello everyone. You're listening to the Earful Tower podcast. My name is Oliver G. And I'm sitting right in front of the producer of today's episode.
0:08.5	And that's me, aka Lena, aka Lovely Lena.
0:12.0	AKA Just Lena. You don't like the lovely Lena anymore?
0:15.0	It's lovely. It's lovely. It is lovely. Yeah, it's lovely. And you're lovely. And that's why I've got you as my producer.
0:22.6	What the idea today,
0:28.7	everybody, is that I'm going to talk about something that you didn't even know you needed to know.
0:32.9	I'm going to talk about elephants in Paris. Is this future, future past?
0:37.2	Future past tense. Yeah, your favorite. Is that what we're talking about? The present.
0:38.2	I'm going to talk about elephants in Paris, and the reason is because I stumbled upon this sort of topic in a recent podcast episode, and I think there's a lot to it.
0:47.0	But before we get into it, I want to say this episode is brought to you by Fat Tire Tours.
0:51.2	I recently did their Segway tour around Paris, with you actually,
0:54.8	Lena. And we're going to talk about that at the end of the episode, and just a reminder,
1:00.0	you can get 10% off all their tours worldwide if you enter the code, earful. Do it this summer. Get
1:05.8	booking, but elephants. So here's the thing. I'm going to take a few steps back, Lina.
1:11.8	Firstly, the reason I asked you to be on this episode is because we are on holiday at the moment.
1:17.2	And usually I'd interview someone about Paris.
1:20.3	We're kind of in the middle of nowhere.
1:22.3	Lack of people means hello.
1:24.3	Lack of people means sort of more of a research episode.
1:27.2	And this isn't a history podcast, so I'm not going to write out a long script.
1:30.2	Instead, I'm going to tell the world and you directly my elephant facts about Paris,
1:35.4	because I think they're pretty good.
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