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The Earful Tower: Paris

French pastry

The Earful Tower: Paris

Oliver Gee

Places & Travel, Society & Culture, Arts

4.8794 Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2017

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Here comes Tal Spiegel, the man with over 200 pairs of colourful shoes to go with his colourful pastry. 

If you've never heard of him, check out Desserted in Paris on Instagram and inject some serious colour into your life. 

Here's our chat, followed by a story from Corey, as usual. 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Airtle Tower listeners, this week we've got an episode with Tal Schiegel.

0:03.3

This is the guy behind the Instagram account, the wildly popular Instagram account,

0:07.2

deserted in Paris.

0:08.5

That's deserted with two S's.

0:10.4

And why?

0:11.1

Because he's all about desserts.

0:13.7

Now, check out his Instagram account.

0:15.5

He's matching pastry with shoes with more color than you could possibly imagine.

0:20.6

I encourage you to flick through

0:22.0

it while you're listening to this episode unless of course you're driving and then don't even look

0:26.6

at your phone. Keep driving. Do it when you get home. Now hang around after the chat for a story from

0:32.2

Corey, the tour guide Corey Frye who's going to be talking also about shoes but this time about

0:36.8

how the shoe scene

0:38.2

changed when the Nazis occupied Paris way back, Second World War.

0:42.1

So have a listen to that, and rather interesting, I thought, I found out that Corey is an egg

0:47.0

corner.

0:47.7

What's an egg corner?

0:48.5

You're going to find out.

0:49.1

I had no idea until he said it.

0:51.1

And one last thing, there's still tickets available for my live episode on November 15th.

0:55.6

Come check it out. I'd love to meet you. All the details will be on the yearful tower.com.

0:59.9

Hope to see you there. Hope to meet you. And thanks in advance for supporting the show. Let's do it.

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