Hello, everyone, you're listening to the Earful Tower podcast.

My name is Oliver G.

This is going to be an introduction to the big season that's going to last the rest of this year,

but also a little bit of an introduction to the podcast, because it's been two years since I've done one of those.

First, the podcast.

I'm an Australian guy.

I've been in Paris since 2015. I've been doing this podcast

since 2017. And in terms of podcast years, that's pretty long. The idea is, every Monday,

I release an episode with some kind of connection to Paris or France or the French language

and it goes out around the world and

as fortune would have it. There are a lot of people listening and to all you people out there

I say thank you. The show comes out wherever you get your podcasts but I know a lot of people

listen to it on my website, the earful tower.com. They just listen to it on the computer. That's fine too.

One thing I think that separates this show from lots of other podcasts is the website,

the earfultower.com, is really like the extra arm that goes with it. Whenever you hear me

talking about something, it's more than likely that we've taken lots of

pictures of it, we've made videos, we've got all the links and everything on the website, so you can

connect them up and get a whole lot more out of it.

The show doesn't have adverts.

It's brought to you by the Patreon supporters, so patreon.com slash the earful tower.

And often it's co-hosted by my wife, Lena Norton-G,

who also illustrates the children's books that I write.

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