Hello, everybody, Oliver G here. This is the Earful Tower podcast, and I know a lot of people are coming to Paris with plans of everything they want to do for every hour of their day. But this episode is more about Paris if you want to roll with it. Paris, if you want to experience the real city. Paris, if you want to see how locals live, who better to speak to

than Scott Dominic Carpenter, aka Scott Carpenter, aka the author of the new book, Paris

lost and found a memoir of love. He's from the Midwest. He's a lovely man. I just read his book,

enjoyed it a lot.

We're going to be talking about life in this city when you're more of a local.

And if you're not a local, how you can go about achieving that sense of this magnificent city.

I'll leave you with some music from Press Maxon.

And then we're going to get into the podcast.

A huge thanks to the Patreon members who make this show possible. I'll be back at the end with a few more words

of how you can join them. But first, here comes Scott Carpenter, welcome to the studio. How you doing?

I'm doing fine. Thanks for having me.

Thank you for coming in here.

I'm going to own it straight away. A lot of things have gone wrong before we pressed record.

You've been very gracious and kind on me, I must say. Well, I think that's one of the things we'll

talk about, what to do when things go a little bit wrong and how to turn that to your advantage. That's a great segue already. Is that also this

sort of, you know, you could have really just told me to get lost and walked out of here. Is that a

Midwestern sort of friendliness or something going on here? There could be a little bit of that.

People talk about Minnesota nice, but it's also just some learned skills about how to take

advantage when things go a little bit haywire.

Right.

Is that, does that mesh well with Paris and Parisians?

Oh, well, yes and no.

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