Bonjour from the French countryside. It's episode 5 of the honeymoon season, and this week we're in a charming French village called Verté sur Charent.

And we're going to be talking about the weirdest ice cream flavor ever from Ilde Ré, the story of the friendly farmers who saved our lives after a breakdown on the scooter,

and the woman who married the King of France and then the King of England.

That's all coming up on this episode of the Earful Tower

but first here's a little intro music from Slim and the Beast.

Jump on my back

hold on tight so do it together let's go for a ride let's go for a ride and hello again

how you doing, Lena?

I'm very well, thank you. How are you?

I'm pretty well, pretty well. If people are tuning in for the first time thinking who's

Lena, who's Slim in the Beast? Well, you're my wife.

Yeah, I am. Slim and the Beast are not.

No, they're not my wife. Or yours, they're the band uh kind of like uh they'd go as far as saying that the

house band for the earful tower yeah i think so even if they don't know it yet well especially since

they play that our wedding that's true and that song uh is a little bit about the trip if you go back

to episode one from the honeymoon season you can hear it in full halfway through but that's what

we've been doing,

going for a ride. And this episode, we're going to be telling you guys, the listeners, wherever you

are in the world, a little bit about the last week of our ride. How are you feeling?

I'm feeling great. I think it's been an eventful week. It feels like it's been the most eventful

week and the least eventful week. I know. It's weird that. I say least eventful because. It feels like it's been the most eventful week and the least eventful week.

I know, it's weird that.

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