I think a lot of you can remember exactly where you were on April 15th, 2019, when the Notre Dame caught on fire.

And since then, one of the biggest questions that people have been asking is, when will it reopen?

And how far along have they come with the work?

That's what this episode is going to be about.

Today, I'm going to explore the Notre Dame from the outside, trying to figure out where we're at.

And in this interview, you're going to hear a couple of things, actually. You're going to hear a chat with one of the carpenters,

a Danish guy called Magnus Frimalasem. And I met him out the front of the Notre Dame

while he was chipping away at an ancient piece of wood with an ancient looking axe, actually. So I'll be

talking to him about the reconstruction job. You're also going to hear me out

exploring. You're going to hear me going into the crypt. You're going to hear my thoughts on, well,

I'll tell you now, the exceptional virtual reality visit you can do to the Notre Dame, which is just

in front of the entrance. I didn't even know about this place and I went and saw it.

Exceptional, really. Also, you'll hear the latest on when they say it's going to reopen,

but it'll all start with some music from Press Maxen. This is the Yearful Tile podcast.

My name is Oliver G. You're listening to the A-B season, and N is for Notre Dame. Now that song is a bit of a doozy.

Listen to this from Pressmax and our resident musician.

He says, as a tribute to the letter N for Notre Dame, I started listening to albums recorded on the organ in Notre Dame de Paris.

And whoa, baby, was that a rabbit hole?

In fact, it's all too interesting to go into right now, which is why I wrote about it at length on my substack this week.

I'll link that in the show notes.

But let's just talk about Louis Vierne for one moment.

He was born nearly blind in central France, was identified as a musical prodigy as early as age two,

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