Parisians told to stay home to curb coronavirus spread
The Earful Tower: Paris
Oliver Gee
4.8 • 749 Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2020
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Paris is on lockdown. We've been told to stay home, only to leave for a very good reason (and with a note to prove it to police).
My journalistic instincts have kicked in, so it's time to take a break from the regular show and focus on Paris during this historic time.
Expect more regular episodes shining a light (and hopefully some positivity) on this unusual time.
Expect interviews with people affected across Paris (by phone of course, the studio is closed).
And if you want me to keep going, please become a member on Patreon. www.patreon.com/theearfultower
My book: www.theearfultower.com/memoir
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to season 8 of the Earful Tower. |
| 0:04.5 | What happened to season 7? |
| 0:06.2 | What happened to season 7? |
| 0:07.7 | Last I heard you up to episode 11 on the 11th, Aaron Desmond with David Liebervitt. |
| 0:12.4 | That's probably what you're thinking. |
| 0:14.4 | But in case you've been living under some kind of a rock lately, |
| 0:19.4 | there has been this terrible coronavirus spreading around |
| 0:23.0 | the whole world France and especially Paris has been particularly affected and essentially it's |
| 0:30.0 | changed life for everybody here it's a historic time you're meant to say an historic time but |
| 0:34.8 | I think that's ridiculous it's a historic time for Paris and my |
| 0:40.1 | journalistic instincts kicked in and I figured it'd be more interesting, better, more informative |
| 0:46.1 | and maybe even more entertaining if I switched up the Eiffel Tower for a while, a couple of weeks, |
| 0:52.4 | maybe a couple of months and instead took you inside |
| 0:55.9 | Paris while it's on lockdown. This is a really interesting time. So that's what you're going |
| 1:01.0 | to be hearing for a while. The idea is that I'll tell you a little bit about what's going on. |
| 1:06.3 | Stick into the facts. None of this fearmongering or spreading incorrect news that I see some other people |
| 1:11.7 | are doing inadvertently or, well, who knows what's going on there, but just sticking to what Paris |
| 1:16.6 | is like on lockdown while talking to some people via telephone, of course, I'll talk about that in |
| 1:22.3 | the second, talk to them about what life is like for them and hopefully provide a little glimmer or a shimmer of entertainment in your life wherever you are, especially to the people who this episode is dedicated to, to the people who had trips planned to Paris and couldn't make it because of all these travel restrictions. |
| 1:41.1 | So this one goes out to you guys and all the other people dreaming of Paris. |
| 1:44.2 | It's still a beautiful city. It's still an interesting city and I'm still going to be talking about it. |
| 1:48.6 | So I'm going to spend this first episode of season eight telling you what you can expect from the upcoming episodes. |
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