Hello everyone, you're listening to The Earful Tower. It's another Monday in Paris. This show is brought to you by French Today. Audiobooks teaching you French. Hang around as usual at the end of the episode where I'll tell you a little bit about their audiobooks and the things I've been learning as well as read a little bit of Gmail from you guys, the listeners. But first, what are you listening to?

Well, this is the Earful Tower. It's a podcast about Paris, and you may have heard that Paris is called

the City of Lights. So lately I've been telling people who ask me what this podcast is all about.

I say it's interviews with interesting people who make the city of lights shine. And that's no

exception today. You're going to hear an interview with a man called George Eddie. Have you heard of

him before? I wonder, if you're an American listening to this, maybe you haven't. If you're a

French person, you almost certainly have. Now, the idea is, this, well, you're going to hear it all

in the episode, but George Eddie came to Paris and France as a young man playing professional basketball and he played a whole career here and when that finished, he became the voice of NBA basketball in French on French TV. So he does basketball, the Super Bowl, the Olympics, and as a result, a lot of

people in France know this guy's voice, they stop him on the street, they recognize when they hear

him, and we just talked a little bit about that interesting journey that he's been on, including,

well, there's a lot of basketball talk in there because the man's interviewed Michael Jordan

several hundred times for goodness sake, but also we talk a lot about basketball talk in there because the man's interviewed michael jordan several

hundred times for goodness sake but uh also we talk a lot about france he says how it's been a land of

opportunity for him how it's the ideal country uh we also talk about the typical kind of stuff you hear

on this show like whether you should be smiling in a city like paris and uh people with loud

voices americans australians people with loud voices, Americans, Australians, people with loud voices

in Paris and what George Eddie thinks about that. Anyway, that's the episode. A few little notes.

We recorded this one in a park. In fact, as I'm recording this intro, there are children

screaming in the background. The same thing happens in the episode. George and I met in a park

on the outskirts of Paris and the kids were screaming

throughout. It's sort of background noise but also just a little heads up two or three times

there's a little bit of wind and it runs for about five, eight seconds each time. It's kind of a

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