Hello everybody out there in listener land. My name is Oliver G. This is the Earful Tower podcast. And today,

it's me telling you what I consider to be a fantastic story of something that's been happening

over the past couple of days in Paris. But to appreciate the story, you need a bit of background information. Now, if you've been

listening to all the recent episodes, you don't need this at all. But if you're new around here,

or if you sort of only been half watching social media and half listening to the episodes,

this is for you. About a month, six weeks ago, I did an episode

about antiques, which I've not really covered before in great depth how to buy antiques,

fine French antiques. It was with Hugh and Susanna from Sheapleuie. And as it kind of often

happens with this podcast, when I sort of delve into one

subject, I become interested in it and then I find myself, I don't know, going down offshoots

of that conversation in future episodes. And it maybe was due to that that I discovered that cane shop, the antique

walking stick shop in Rue de Bonn in the 7th Arondesmont. And so an episode soon after the

antiques was with Chloe from the cane shop. And funnily enough, this hasn't been on the podcast yet, but soon after that,

I got an email from Christoph Lucien, the head auctioneer of the Drouot, the Paris Mon Amour,

the antique French curiosities, who I featured on the show a couple years ago. And he wanted to interview me

in French about my love for Paris and so I was talking about antiques with him as well. And

that's all sort of going on in the background, right? And then all the while, that cane story got this huge gust of energy in it because I started to make some short videos about the gadget canes.

So this is important. In the cane shop, there's two sorts of canes. There's the ornamental variety, the decorative ones, where you have a sort of carved head on the top of the walking stick. And then there's a gadget ones, which is where there's a, like a revolver or a sword, or there's the Toulouse-Letrek one with a little glass flask for absinth or whatever, hidden inside.

And I made these videos.

He really sort of, I tried to make them really entertaining short videos about Keynes.

Now, if you've really been listening to the show for a while, it was ages ago that I decided I'd get a TikTok account.

It was when I had a moniker on talking about men's fashion, I think it was. He was talking about

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