Hello everyone, Oliver G here from the Earful Tower with something of a sad update.

The Red Beast, the red scooter that I've been driving around in Paris is no more.

She's been wheeled off the Paris streets forever.

And this is, well, it was a long time coming,

but it's also kind of melancholic, a little bit sad. And if you've been around for a long time here at the Eiffel Tower, you'll know how big a part that scooter was of everything.

And if you're new around here, let me explain before we get into what I'm about to do.

This, I think, I mean, the scooter's been around as long as the Eiffel Tower, and it's become sort of the trademark, the mascot of this channel.

So if you go back through the old episodes, we took it all around France,

I drove it on the streets of Paris all the time. It's this little beautiful little red scooter

that was slow but had a big heart and you'll see like it's on the front page of my book,

Paris on there, it's hidden in the pages of all the children's books.

And look, it's been in, people have drawn, it's been immortalized, it's been immortalized

in song, more on that later. But look, it got old and its time was over. And like I said,

it's days on the Paris roads are no more. So what I've done and what I said, it's days on the Paris roads are no more.

So what I've done and what I often do in life when something sad and important happens

is I wrote a poem.

And, you know, I wrote those rhyming children's books and this is kind of the same style. A little shout

out before I read it. The style of this one is inspired by my favorite poet of all time, an Australian

bush poet called Banjo Patterson. And he wrote in the 19th century. So this one that I'm basing

it on is from the 1880s. And I've always

loved this kind of style. There's a little nod to one of his poems in there for you if you're a

fan. Otherwise, it's a typical Oliver G poem, kind of, despite a sad subject, it's, you know,

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