So THIS is the most popular street in Paris (Part Two)
The Earful Tower: Paris
Oliver Gee
4.8 • 796 Ratings
🗓️ 11 August 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
So what is the best-known street in Paris? And if that seems obvious, then what's number two? And three?
After last week's pod with Parisians Abiola and Margaux sharing their take on popular Paris streets, we surveyed our audience for an official answer.
Here it is, presented by Oliver and Lina. Thanks to all who participated. Read some more of the comments here on Substack.
Fitting music this week, again, is from Pres Maxson.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone. A rare part two episode, this time about the best known streets in Paris. |
| 0:07.7 | Weirdly, I don't think you need to listen to Part 1 to enjoy this episode, but I'd encourage it. |
| 0:13.2 | In this part 2, you're going to hear from me, Oliver G, and my wife, Lena Nordenji, who's sitting right in front of me. |
| 0:20.1 | Hello, Lena. |
| 0:20.9 | Hello, I am ready, I just need to add. |
| 0:24.2 | I want to say before anything else that it's been astonishing the amount of people who've jumped in and contributed to this very unofficial earful tower poll. |
| 0:37.3 | I know. |
| 0:37.8 | It's been like a buzzing beehive. A buzzing beehive. And just to catch everybody up, I did an episode with two Parisians. I said, what do you think is the most well-known Parisian street? They had a few guesses. And then I said, I put it out to the people. and if over 100 people comment comment on the substack post I'll tally it all up and we'll come up with the official one |
| 0:59.1 | two and three four and five best known streets according to Paris fans across the globe |
| 1:04.0 | before we get into it let's hear some music from Press Maxon which will reveal what the number |
| 1:09.5 | one is no surprises take it away, Press. |
| 1:21.3 | So that song was obviously Sean Zalise. |
| 1:24.3 | Yeah, as you said, no surprises. |
| 1:26.3 | No surprises there. |
| 1:27.4 | In fact, I went on some AI chat thing. Who doesn't these days? Am I right? I don't know. I'll just ask AI. I asked them which was the most popular street in Paris. It said, Sean Zalise. And I said, tell me the 10 most popular streets in the world. Number one, Sean Zal really in the world what's number second broadway oh okay and then you could have guessed |
| 1:50.0 | all the other ones pretty much um what i will say though the song chonse lez |
| 1:55.4 | did you know it's a cover is this like trivia noise it could i think i'm going to add some trivia in it's a cover. Is this like trivia notes? |
| 2:01.1 | I think I'm going to add some trivia in. |
| 2:02.6 | It's a cover. |
| 2:03.7 | Huge shout out to Lionel Morton. |
| 2:06.0 | Editor's note, just jumping in here, |
| 2:08.5 | it wasn't Lionel Morton who wrote this song. |
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