How to NOT be an American in Paris
The Earful Tower: Paris
Oliver Gee
4.8 • 794 Ratings
🗓️ 11 October 2017
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
This week it's American journalist, Heidi Moore, who LOVES Paris. While she doesn't live here, she's probably visited more than most tourists ever will, so we had her into the studio to talk about the city.
Specifically, she explains how NOT to be an American in Paris. If you're not American, you can still learn from this, I promise.
I've typed out the subheadings she brought up, but you'll have to listen in to hear her justify it all. And at the end, tour guide Corey Frye tells us a eyebrow raising story about an American woman who LOOOOVES the Eiffel Tower. His weirdest one yet.
Heidi's tips to blending in:
1: Learn the importance of saying bonjour
2: Don't choose comfort over style.
3: Don't smile so much.
4: Don't waste all your time on the monuments
5: Watch your manners at all times - regardless of your French fluency
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| 0:00.0 | Earful Tower listeners, this episode today is all about being an American in Paris or even |
| 0:05.0 | how not to be an American in Paris. And we have an American woman, Heidi Moore, talking all |
| 0:09.7 | about this. This applies for expats in Paris, tourists who want to come to Paris, and even people |
| 0:15.3 | who aren't American and just want to be in Paris. But I do know that we have a lot of American |
| 0:20.0 | listeners. So this one's kind of for you guys, |
| 0:22.6 | all you people who sit there listening on your commutes, on your long drives. |
| 0:25.7 | I'm talking to you. |
| 0:28.1 | But before we get into the episode, |
| 0:29.5 | I just want to put a little mention that this one was recorded back in the summer |
| 0:33.6 | and regular listeners might recognize a voice of our former co-host James Vazina who was in |
| 0:39.6 | the room for this one and he was adamant that he wouldn't speak throughout the episode because |
| 0:44.1 | we were just setting up the studio at the time and he was very well aware that the corner he was |
| 0:48.8 | sitting in made it sound like he was in a toilet when he spoke because of the sound and the padding that we put on the walls. |
| 0:56.9 | So you'll hear him say that he's going to cut himself out of this later, but he's not the editor anymore, and I'm going to leave it in because it sounds kind of funny. |
| 1:02.8 | It's nice to have him back in there for a bit. |
| 1:05.0 | So we get to that episode in a second, but while we're on the America theme, I just wanted to do a listener shout-out. |
| 1:11.4 | And this one is to a woman called Veronique, Veronica, I'd call her. |
| 1:15.9 | And she runs a Facebook page called French Girl in Seattle. |
| 1:20.0 | Now, she's been a listener of this show for the beginning. |
| 1:22.6 | She shares pretty much every episode with sort of like deeper comments than just listen to this and this woman's |
| 1:30.3 | got an eagle eye on France. Anything written about France in English, sometimes French, she'll share |
| 1:34.5 | on this community. French girl in Seattle. I recommend you follow it. If you want a bit of France |
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