Paris in 1911
The Earful Tower: Paris
Oliver Gee
4.8 • 794 Ratings
🗓️ 21 October 2017
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
I got an amazing gift for my birthday - a Paris guide book from 1911.
So, I decided to get the Paris whisperer, Corey Frye, to come in and look through it with me. Of course, he had no idea what he was in for until the last second.
Here's our chat about it.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi guys, this episode today is dedicated to my own mother, a lovely woman, a great birthday |
| 0:04.5 | present giver and a huge supporter of the show. |
| 0:07.4 | I mean, she listens. |
| 0:08.1 | She doesn't, she's not sponsoring it or anything like that. |
| 0:10.9 | Anyway, enjoy the show. |
| 0:12.6 | Earful Tower with Oliver G. |
| 0:17.9 | Earful Tower listeners, we're doing something way different this week. |
| 0:21.5 | Rather than me sitting by myself in the studio, I've asked Corey. |
| 0:24.8 | Hello. |
| 0:25.4 | Now famous from Corey's stories to come in from the start of the episode. |
| 0:29.1 | Good to see, Oliver. |
| 0:29.9 | Good to see you too. |
| 0:30.7 | Yeah. |
| 0:31.1 | He doesn't know why we're here. |
| 0:32.1 | And there's a reason that he doesn't know why we're here. |
| 0:34.0 | It's because I like to put him on the spot, as you maybe heard before. Yeah, this is not the first time you've done this. |
| 0:39.1 | Let's just, before we even get into what we're going to talk about, let's talk about the time |
| 0:42.9 | when we met. So this is back, I don't know, was it last year? I don't know if it was last year. |
| 0:47.2 | It was episode seven anyway. He was in one of those Turkish baths. We were both nude. I said, Corey, come in. I didn't tell you anything about what the episode would be. |
| 0:55.3 | But then all I asked you was, are you confident that you know Paris well? |
| 0:58.9 | And you said something along the lines of, yeah, let's go. |
| 1:03.2 | I said something along the lines of if you make me look like a fool on the radio, you're dead. |
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