Flea markets, football, and the Louvre: The Earful interns are back!

The Earful Tower: Paris

Oliver Gee

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

4.8 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

This week on the podcast, it's The Earful's two interns Thomas Farnham and Genevieve Victoria Gorain. And it's time to hear how they went with their bucket lists after their two-month internship is over.

Here's the post with all ten ideas they mentioned in the episode.

Also mentioned in this episode:

The Earful Everywhere podcast (currently in Italy): https://theearfultower.substack.com/p/its-here-the-official-launch-of-the
Our walking tours of Paris: http://www.theearfultower.com/tours

Music by Pres Maxson.

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0:00.0	Hello everybody. My name is Oliver G. This is the Earful Tower podcast and you might remember about
0:05.9	six to eight weeks ago I had the two Earful Tower interns, Victoria and Thomas from the United
0:14.1	States of America on this show sharing their bucket lists. So their internship is finished now.
0:22.8	These two, I would say quite competitive college students, at least at the time, are back
0:27.7	in the studio and they're going to walk through what they did and what they thought about
0:32.3	it.
0:32.5	So it's not a competition.
0:33.9	This is two young people in Paris exploring it really for the first time as young adults.
0:41.1	And we're going to hear how they went.
0:44.5	Bucket List, in case you're unfamiliar with the concept is essentially...
0:49.8	I started doing this on the show after Notre Dame burnt.
0:52.0	I wrote the things that I wanted to do.
0:53.9	I knew I could always climb up the Notre Dame and see from the top until it was taken away from me.
0:59.0	So every year since then, I've written lists and tried to tick them off as crass as it might sound ticking things off in Paris, but sometimes it works.
1:06.0	So these guys had five things each. We're going to walk through each of the five things. And I think
1:12.0	we start with a bit of music from Press Maxon. And of course, as always, a huge shout out to the members
1:17.8	on Patreon and Substack who keep this thing going. Thanks everybody out there. Let's get into the episode.
1:23.5	This is the Eiffle Tower.
1:30.4	Victoria?
1:31.4	Hi.
1:32.1	How you doing?
1:32.7	I'm doing well.
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