Hello everybody. You are listening to the Earful Tower podcast and I'm very, very proud to say that this episode, this bonus episode is brought to you by the very kind and generous Patreon supporters, the people who pay a monthly pledge to support this show in return for loads of bonus content. And there is some bonus that comes with this episode I'll talk about in a second but first

the episode uh David Downey now he's written a book called Paris Paris I've talked about on

the show before it's currently the book club book for for you guys who like reading and are in

the Facebook group where we dissect a book about Paris or France every month. The story, if you haven't

listened to recent episodes, the story goes that I met David's wife, Alison, couple of times

around Paris, and eventually I said, look, I really want to interview and meet your husband.

And she said, here's his phone number, give him a call. I called him up, and he said, yes, I'm very busy, I'm leaving town

in a couple of days. We can meet tomorrow in the shadow of the fig tree in the park just off

Rue de Rousier. And when he said that, you'll hear it in the episode, but I felt like,

I felt like James Bond or some kind of spy or something, and I loved it. So I did. I went and met

him under the shade of the fig tree in the park that has a part of the Philippe Auguste Wall. So

you regular listeners know that I'm already salivating at this opportunity. We sat down, had a

really great chat and you're about to hear it. So before we get into it, though, a little bit

of sort of information here. The book is

called Paris Paris Journey into the City of Light. We've been reading it as a big group in the

book club, which is currently just on Facebook, but you can find it by looking on my Facebook page,

scrolling down, there's a thing that says book club, join it, see what people are saying about

the book. Personally, I i love it i've really

been enjoying it love the way it's written and uh well you'll hear i'm going to talk about it a bit with

david here uh the other thing if you're a patron supporter what does that mean it means you pay a

monthly pledge you become a member you get bonus stuff one of these bonus things and i can

tell you exactly what this is because it's already done,

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