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🗓️ 12 October 2020
⏱️ 29 minutes
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I scored the phone number to legendary French singer Edith Piaf via a dream and an apparent time portal.
Here's what happened when I dialled the number.
At the end of the episode, I also chatted with tour guide Edith de Belleville, who you can find here: https://en.edithdebelleville.com/
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0:00.0 | Hello there. You're listening to the Earful Tower podcast. My name is Oliver G. And I've got to be honest with you, |
0:04.9 | if you've just joined for the first time, you have joined for a pretty unusual episode because it's me |
0:11.1 | interviewing Edith Piaf. That's right, the world famous singer from France, Edith Piaf. How did that |
0:19.6 | happen? You're probably wondering, well, let me tell you. |
0:21.6 | Let me rewind a little. |
0:22.9 | During the lockdown, things we all sort of went a bit stir crazy in Paris. |
0:27.1 | I ended up having very vivid dreams. |
0:29.4 | And I think if you've been listening for a while, you might remember I had a dream where I met Ernest Hemingway, |
0:34.4 | which resulted in a podcast episode and a YouTube video, actually. |
0:38.4 | Well, he came back the other night in a dream and he said, you want to talk to Edith P.F? |
0:43.5 | I said, sure I do. He said, well, call this number. She's waiting for you. |
0:49.1 | That's exactly what I did. woke up in the morning, dialed the number, and that's how the interview was prompted. |
0:55.1 | Now, I need to just set out a few things so you know what's going on. |
0:58.3 | Whenever you deal with time portals, it's a dangerous situation. |
1:01.9 | You don't want to change the course of history. |
1:03.4 | So very subtly and cleverly, I deduced what year we were in a little bit into the interview. |
1:10.0 | But I can tell you now it's |
1:11.2 | 1960 so for context Edith P.F. died at a fairly young age in her mid to late 40s in |
1:18.0 | 1963 so she'd already pretty much done everything the only thing she hadn't done is |
1:24.0 | got married to her next partner which she's going to talk about but 19 1962, she'd just come out with one of her mega hits, which was non, jean regrettrien. |
1:33.5 | And she performed it at the Olympia, which you're going to hear about as well. |
1:38.3 | The other thing is because she was kind of tragically about to die, I didn't want to get into that morbid stuff. |
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