The time a Parisian supermodel changed this whole show
The Earful Tower: Paris
Oliver Gee
4.8 • 749 Ratings
🗓️ 2 June 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
This week it's Caroline de Maigret, supermodel and author of How to Be Parisian Wherever You Are.
Her appearance on this podcast in April 2019 changed the direction and dynamic of the show. While we're between seasons, I take a look back at this episode and explain why it made a difference to The Earful Tower.
In the episode, Caroline talks about being a Parisian woman, the freedom of Paris, and how pleasure is a key element of life in the French capital.
If you want to find more from Caroline, check out her Instagram page here.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody, it's Oliver G from the Earful Tower. |
| 0:03.3 | And this episode, while we're between seasons and while we're off gallivanting around in Italy, |
| 0:10.3 | this is a flashback to an episode that changed everything on the Airful Tower. |
| 0:15.4 | This is from 2019. |
| 0:16.8 | This is the time I interviewed the supermodel and author Caroline de Megris and I want to give you some |
| 0:24.0 | context on the story before I play the episode. An episode I really like, not just because it changed |
| 0:30.0 | the other things, it's just a good episode. But what happened to set the scene is I saw Caroline. |
| 0:37.2 | I recognized her. She was the face of Chanel at the time, |
| 0:40.2 | I think, and she'd put out the book, How to Be Prisian, wherever you are. And she was on the cover of |
| 0:46.3 | that book too. So I'd seen her face around a lot. And I saw on the other side of the road, I ran over, |
| 0:51.3 | and these were the early days of this podcast, you know, and I said something along the lines of, |
| 0:55.9 | do you ever do podcasts with Australian podcasters? And she sort of laughed and she said something like, |
| 1:03.2 | look, I'll be honest, these kind of plans never eventuate, but if you can record on your mobile |
| 1:09.9 | phone, right now in that cafe I'll do the |
| 1:13.3 | interview with you and I couldn't believe it I had about 30 seconds walking to the cafe to figure out |
| 1:18.0 | what I was going to ask her about and you know to figure out if the mobile phone could record a good |
| 1:24.2 | podcast interview and then during the, there was all these sounds, |
| 1:29.0 | you know, the sound of the waiter coming over, the espresso machine, whizzing away in the |
| 1:33.2 | background, clatter of plates, these kind of things. And my first thought was, geez, I always |
| 1:38.1 | record in a studio. This isn't going to work at all. And at first I sort of started trying to |
| 1:42.7 | cut away as much of that noise as I could, |
| 1:45.0 | but it was no point, there was no use, there was too much of it. And I put out this episode, |
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