Hello everyone, you are listening to the Earful Tower, a podcast all about Paris, all about France,

and hosted by me, Oliver G. Now, today's guest, his name is Ronnie Amalam, but the real guest,

if I may say so, is the Is Saint-Louis of Paris. Now, if you know anything about anything

when it comes to Paris, you'll know that there are two

natural islands in the middle. One of them is called Il-S-Louis, the focus of today. The other one is

called Ilde de Cite, and that's where Notre Dame is. But forget Notre Dame. We're talking

about Il-S-Louis, which I've called the Pearl of Paris. And I happened to kind of almost stumble into

Ronnie the other day at the Peloton Cafe. We got chatting and within a minute or two, I said,

look, you seem like a really interesting guy. I want to talk to you at great depth. And I especially

want to talk about the Il-San-Louis. And best of all, he's lived here since the 90s, so he really knows his stuff.

Now, why do I say he's lived here?

It's because I'm also based in the Iles-San-Luilui temporarily,

and I'm going to talk about that a lot more in the coming episodes.

But this is just a bonus episode.

I want to entertain you guys during the

various lockdowns of the world. I want to play a game with you too. See if you can guess

where Ronnie's accent comes from. It's complicated. It's not a straightforward answer. So be

as creative as you can. And about five minutes into our conversation, he reveals it. So have a little game. see if you can figure it out and email me in if you get it exactly right.

It's a pretty interesting case here.

Now, before we get into the chat, I want to say a few things.

This show is brought to you by the Patreon supporters, patreon.com slash the Earful Tower.

It's because of them that this show exists. I'm not kidding.

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