Hello everyone, you are listening to the Earful Tower podcast. My name's Oliver G.

Earful Tower. What does that mean? Earful. Earful. It's like the Eiffel Tower, but it's a podcast

for your ears. I can't believe I have to explain it, but apparently I do. I learn recently.

So this is a podcast all about Paris, all about France. Usually I'll have a guest

and I'll interview them and I'll talk about their lives. But sometimes, in fact, pretty rarely,

you just get me talking. And that's what today's episode is about because if you rewind a little bit,

you guys know, many of you know anyway that I used to work as a journalist.

And during historic times like now, during this lockdown in Paris, sometimes I feel like

it's important just to give an honest on the scene look at what's happening. Just a true

man on the street look at life. If nothing else, it'll probably be historically interesting,

even for me to listen back to what life's like during a lockdown in Paris. So that's why I wanted

to do this episode. But also, I'm getting a lot of emails from you guys asking what's going on,

telling me about your trips being canceled, telling me about

lockdowns in your various countries and how they're all different. So I just wanted to share

what life is like here. Usually I try and make the episodes as evergreen or timeless as possible

because I like to think people could listen to it two years from now. But today, kind of a bit

of an exception. This is right on the money

in terms of being relevant because I'm recording it in the evening, Sunday, 15th and November,

and releasing it well in just a matter of hours, really, for Monday morning. So this is as fresh as it

gets. This is a look at Paris in lockdown 2.0.

And before I even get into it, just a reminder, I was here for the whole first lockdown, the two months.

Now I'm here for the second one, so I'm going to sort of talk through both of them while trying to keep a positive spin on it as well, you know.

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