4.8 • 749 Ratings
🗓️ 29 June 2020
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Meet Casey Laulala, a Samoan rugby player turned Paris restauranteur. He talks about how his life in the sports world taught him how to run a Paris restaurant.
Find his restaurant Itacoa on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/itacoa_paris/
Find the restaurant website here: http://www.itacoa.paris/
And find Casey on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/casey_laulala/?hl=en
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0:00.0 | Hello everyone, my name's Oliver G. This is the Earful Tower podcast. Welcome. Welcome for a little |
0:07.0 | escape from whatever you're doing for I guess 40 minutes in the city of Paris with me. And today's |
0:12.8 | episode, you're really going to feel like you're here. I'll explain why in a second that if you're |
0:17.6 | new around here, this is a podcast where I meet characters that make the |
0:22.2 | City of Lights shine. Today, no exception, you're going to meet Casey Laolala, which is a Samoa |
0:29.4 | name in case you hadn't picked that from the name. I don't know. Maybe you're an expert on |
0:33.5 | names La La La La La La La La La La La La from Salmoa. And he runs a restaurant called Itakoa in Paris. |
0:41.1 | You can find it on 185 Rue San Dene, the second hour on this month. |
0:45.6 | And he's got a really interesting backstory, this guy. |
0:49.6 | He, I mean, as I wrote in the title, rugby to restaurants. |
0:53.8 | This guy played rugby in New Zealand and then in France. |
0:59.0 | He was in the All Blacks, which if you don't know much about the sport of rugby, as I say in the episode, it's being in the All Blacks is like this is mega status, you know, like it's kind of like being an NBA |
1:13.9 | all-star basketball player in America, for example. Anyway, he came over to Paris to play rugby, |
1:19.9 | then to coach, and now he's in the restaurant industry. So, just to set the scene before we get |
1:25.5 | into it, we are sitting on the terrace out the front of his restaurant, and it was really interesting. |
1:33.6 | The street itself, Roussandini, it feels like the whole street is under construction. |
1:39.8 | Like, while we're sitting there, there were so many vans going past. |
1:42.9 | You'll hear drilling sometimes. You'll hear |
1:45.7 | people unloading things from the van. And sometimes I took it out, but I also left some of those |
1:52.3 | extra sounds in. So you'll feel like you'll feel like you're being part of the changing face of Paris |
1:56.7 | sitting there with me and Casey. Anyway, no further ado, I think. Let's get into it. |
2:01.5 | Here's the episode. |
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