Two In The Think Tank - 229 - The Eiffel Tower

Episode Date: March 11, 2020

The most visited monument in the world, The Eiffel Tower wasn't always popular. Built for the 1889 World's Fair, it was an ambitious project - the tallest structure in the world at the time - almost doubling the previous record holder. On this episode we talk about the tower's inception, the protest against it, its time as a giant billboard as well as Franz Reichelt the "Flying Tailor," who tested his parachute suit by jumping from the tower.Tickets to our live shows in MELBOURNE here: https://dogoonpod.com/events/Matt is performing his new stand up show MONKEY HOUSE in BRISBANE March 10-15 and MELBOURNE March 26-April 19, find more details/get tickets here: https://mattstewartcomedy.com/gigs (use the code 'podcast' for a 20% discount)Jess is performing her debut solo stand up show ALMOST in MELBOURNE March 26-April 19, get tickets here: https://www.comedyfestival.com.au/2020/shows/almost (use the code 'podcast' for a 20% discount)Our website: dogoonpod.comSupport the show and get rewards like bonus episodes: patreon.com/DoGoOnPod Submit a topic idea directly to the hat: dogoonpod.com/Submit-a-Topic Twitter: @DoGoOnPodInstagram: @DoGoOnPodFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/DoGoOnPod/Email us: [e-mail] out our other podcasts:Book Cheat: https://play.acast.com/s/book-cheatPrime Mates: https://play.acast.com/s/prime-mates/Listen Now: https://play.acast.com/s/listen-now/Our awesome theme song by Evan Munro-Smith and logo by Peader ThomasREFERENCES AND FURTHER READING:https://www.toureiffel.paris/en/the-monument/gustave-eiffelhttps://www.vice.com/en_au/article/nnqpnm/breaking-up-with-the-eiffel-towerhttps://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/2074301/Woman-with-objects-fetish-marries-Eiffel-Tower.html

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It's going to be so much fun. Awesome. Again, tickets are comedyfestival.com.au. I have links to all the shows in the description of this episode. Comedy. How good is it? Real good. Tata. Hello and welcome to another episode of Do Go On. My name is Dave Warnocky and I'm sitting here with Matt Stewart and Jess Perkins, I put a hand out to hold my hand and then pulled it away when I went in for it.

Is that why you said Matt's name first? Yeah, he's never rejected my hand. Matt come on, straight in like that. Oh, ho ho. Yeah, all right. Enjoy the dying of coronavirus. Yeah, he's never rejected my hand. Matt, come on. Straight in like that. Oh, I'll call it. Yeah, all right. Enjoy the dying of coronavirus. Yeah, man. Did Phil Worm and sort of coronary? Yeah.

I've ever told you about the first time I went to a friend's house and it was a girl's house in primary school. And I met her dad and I shook his hand and I had no idea what he meant. He said, oh, little clammy. And I did not know what that meant. So I said, thank you. That's my cue.

That's my cue. You have not changed because your shake was still a little away. That's what made me think about that. So I've had coronavirus since I was the age of 30. So what was the dead getting at? You just, why was he trying to make you uncomfortable? I think he was trying to make me nervous

and he didn't succeed because I didn't know what he meant. Oh, thank you so I can have that. He won his respect. Oh, this guy's good. Thank you. Takes everything as a compliment. This guy has a lot of stuff for him. Love that.

Hey, Dave, explain what's this show again? This show. Well, it's a little clammy. That's what it is. No, it's, that's probably fair. It's a podcast where we take an intense report on a topic usually suggested by a listener. And it is my turn to report on a topic this week.

And to get us onto that topic, I ask you a question. I love question. Here we go. My question for you, both of you, is because you don't know what I've reported on. What is the most visited, paid monument in the world? What counts as a monument? The Eiffel Tower?

Pairs is paid. The Eiffel Tower does count, and that is the correct answer. Oh! Yes! Well done! Nailed it! Today I'm going to be talking all about the Eiffel Tower. Wow, that's cool.

Because we just recorded a bonus episode, and there was a all about the Eiffel Tower. Wow, that's cool. Because we just recorded a bonus episode and there was a mention of the Eiffel Tower. Yeah, and I was hoping that no one was in the audience. No one had the clammy. I was really hoping that none of you were going to go, yeah, that'd be a boring topic to talk about. That'd be a weird comment for us to make, but I wouldn't put a past. I'm loving this as an idea because I know vaguely that it was not intended to be up there forever and it was only meant to be up for a brief amount of time and the people hated it for while. So I want to know, I want this story fleshed out my brain or even to find out that those

things are not true. I was in a similar boat with this because have we all seen the tower? Yeah. So we would have, yeah, but also it's so famous but I didn't know that much about it. But you know, if you Google famous buildings, or it comes up. And what I did this week was I put three famous structures. I put a statue in a bridge, one spoil, which one's up for the vote of the Patreon. Lady Liberty.

And seriously. And the pontivecchio. Yes. The most famous bridge. Oh, what a beautiful bridge it is. And the Patreon supporters voted for the Eiffel Tower, but only just, just picked them. And it's only been suggested by one person,

and that it's Tom from England. And you can write when he suggested topic, and there's a link in the description if you want to do that, anyone can do that. And Tom from England says, why he just writes in capital letters, because Dave said it. I don't know what that means Tom, but good on you.

You must have, I guess you said at some point that it would make a good topic. Yeah. Great, okay. What on Tom? And Tom was right. What on the day? What on the day? Cause here it is. Wow, full circle. So just you know Matt just a little to a bit of the story there but do you know much about it? I know that I think it wasn't supposed to be there for long. Okay. Originally and people hated it. God I wish wish that was so wrong, sadly this true,

but it would be great if you were, I'm trying to interpret him out there being wrong. I'm trying to put my finger on the name who is Eiffel was a man, wasn't it? Gary Eiffel was a band. Oh, band, Eiffel 64. Yeah. Amblurna.

Amblurna. Amblurna. Amblurna. Yeah, it was a real good. It was a real after them. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It was a good one. Has anyone done a cover band of them yet called Alpha 69? That would be Alpha 69. Oh, yeah.

Oh, gosh. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Better than that. Are we doing it? Are we going to do the band? Yeah. Alpha 69.

My balls are blue now. I can beat up the band. Right. Well, that's our first hit. All right. My balls of blue Great They're all different slightly different versions of that song I'm working blue dabbard 8 of and I which means so smarty you work exclusively blue I do work very blue. Come save me the company festival, I work blue. Wow, it is so racy. I'm working a fuck there somewhere. Can you believe that, huh?

I'm working a fuck. Yeah, I didn't like it. You say things that other people are too scared to say. Like, I'll work in a fuck. What? I'll exclusively work in fuck. All right, let's go. The world's first world's fair, then known as the Great

Exhibition. The world's first world fair. I mean, I have gone off script early. The first world's fair, then known as the technically a true fact was just a statement. Yeah, grammatically was not there. Sorry, the universe's first world's fair, then known as the Great Exhibition took place in London in 1851. The idea of the fair was to celebrate industry, commerce and the arts. You might have... What do we need a fucking fair for industry and commerce? Oh, you're happy for the arts, though.

Of course! I live for arts fairs. You might have heard of the famous crystal palace in London. The socket team. Yeah well named after that palace absolutely Chinese restaurant. Which canfers are real chicken and the egg not knows if it's a socket team or the building that came first. It's sadly later burnt down. A crystal palace. I can't even know what a good burn. No longer there but a lot of the things built for the great exhibitions of the world's fairs would mysteriously burn down.

Interesting. But it was originally erected to be the pavilion for people to exhibit their trades. Yes, it has to take names. Correct it. So the world's first world's fair was a big success, a world's first. And so every few years after that,

more world's fairs or world expose, so sometimes we're put on. Paris at the second one Then I went to Vienna, Philadelphia. We even had one in Australia in 1851. Both Sydney and Melbourne are rivalry as old as time itself competed to get the fair And instead they had it in Dubbo Well Sydney struck first and put on the Sydney International Exhibition in 1879, but it mainly focused on agriculture and therefore wasn't officially recognized by the BIE, which we all know is the Bureau of International Relations.

BIE. What? That's what I say when I'm having a good time. BIE. That's what I say, rollercoasters. BIE. Of course you are referencing the Bureau of International Exhibitions. They didn't recognize the Sydney. They said that doesn't count. Sucked in Sydney. But I-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E Actually, come see me at the Sydney Company Festival. The Sydney Melbourne rivalry goes one way. Like Melbourne just feels inferior.

Who in Melbourne cares? No. It doesn't exist at all. It's way as a go. It's like Melbourne has an inferiority complex Sydney. Sydney don't care. Melbourne doesn't care. Who in Melbourne talks about it?

I reckon there was definitely a thing when I was growing up. Yeah, right. Like our boys Sydney. I've never, I don't think I've ever heard anyone talk about it, apart from talking about how no one talks about it. Right. I'm talking about it going back to 1879 here.

Right, okay, sorry. No, this is definitely true. It's definitely a real thing, the rivalry. But yeah, I don't have a thing about it. I just think of Sydney as like, it's like very similar to Melbourne, only a bit prettier with better weather. Much better weather.

It's a lovely place. Beautiful bay. It's just a nightmare to get anywhere. Oh yeah. That's the one thing that people tell you. It's slightly more expensive and the road system's confusing. Lots of wild waste rates. But the public transport's better.

Yeah, the train's great. And it's got more sunshine, better beaches. You can get a train from the airport imagine and They're like similarly strong comedy scenes, right? Yeah, I think so. I don't yeah, I don't I don't know anyone who gives a shit about it I fucking love that bridge. I've talked about it many times really really that actually came third in the boat I'm afraid I'm obsessed with that bridge and Which I'm hoping to get to the Sydney Harbour Bridge one day, because actually I was looking into it. That's a pretty funny story.

But anyway, you haven't got there yet. Have not got there. But you're ruining my point here of Melbourne now. Yeah, Sydney. Oh, no, no, yeah. Oh, that's not there. And they bloody stayed up all the time. Yeah, that's a phrase,

stapling something to summer. So, Sydney really lipped it, didn't they, dad? Well, Sydney put on a shit fare basically, and Melbourne put on a slightly better one, which was recognized as the 1880 World's Fair, which also attracted them by the EIE. Other BIE. EIE.

It's basically Melbourne said, well, that's not gonna be recognized. We'll just put one on slightly later, and everyone that was part of the exhibition in 1879 just went to Melbourne as well. Ah. So, the road trip. Our beautiful Royal exhibitionhibition Building in

Carton Gardens was built to host the event. Oh, that's what that's what's for yeah. That's a great building. Yeah, it's a World Heritage Listed. Oh, it's nice. Paris, however, was given their fourth go at a World Expo in 1889, but this time it meant even more to the people of France. Every year the expo had a theme, previous themes being stuff like Industry of all nations, Agriculture, industry and arts, industry and arts and new technologies. But then in 1889, France decided to show things up a bit and went with the theme of the French revolution.

Interesting. Shortly more out there than industry and arts. So 1889 was celebrating a hundred years since the storming of the Bastille prison, seen by many as a major event in starting the French Revolution that saw a revolt against the monarchy. But because of this celebrated the overthrow of the French monarchy, something that the French were extremely proud of, a lot of European countries still had monocles at the time, so they officially boycotted the exposition. Oh.

So like we love our monarchy. who still had monocles at the time, so they officially boycotted the exposition. Oh. So like we love our monarchy. Including Germany, Austria, Hungary, Belgium, Spain, Great Britain, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Russia, and Sweden, all said, you should not celebrate overthrowing monocles. Oh, but it was a hundred years ago. Yeah.

By this point, right? So like, stopping so precious, the rest of the week. They were very precious. But wait, wait, wait, which monarchy was over 300 years ago? No, 100 years before the 1889 exhibition. So the French Revolution, over to the monarchy and then 100 years later, that was because France are very proud of their national anthem is all about Rising up against people that are enslaving you basically. Yeah, and They were like, great, it's 100 years, let's celebrate.

And other monocles are like, oh no, we still have a king in Queen. We do not want to be involved. You're right. Yes. But this didn't stop 61,000 people flocking to Paris to exhibit their industry, commerce, and the arts. 61,000, huh? So it's going to be a big one.

And that's just- And a thousand of you stay home, please. It's actually 61,722, but I just round it down. Couldn't you have rounded down? Round up! 62,000 people. And that's just people putting on the exhibits. Oh, okay, so there are more people.

Whoa! People with 61,000 people poured on it, but like, holy shit. That's how big these things are. Holy shit. And they're showing off inventions of all sorts, different types of music and art. Yeah, it's massive.

You know, I, my old job selling air conditioning, I used to, twice a year we'd do their home expos and I reckon that would have been like, a couple hundred people putting on air exercises and you have little huts. So I'd just sit in this little thing and then new exhibition, what, the old ones exhibition building and the new ones exhibition center. Yeah. I'd be in there and you just sit in this little thing and the new exhibition, what the old one's exhibition

building and the new one's exhibition center. Yeah. I'd be in there and you just sit there and people would come and go think about putting air conditioning in my place. Tell me about it. Oh, all right. Well, it's a broad place to start, but it can cool and heat your home. Any question?

It was real fun. I miss it a lot. So Paris knew all eyes would be on it for the expert. Yeah, right. They wanted more than ever to make a mark on the world. It's celebrating hundreds of their country, basically. The idea of a 300 meter tower had been circulating in Europe and the USA at the time. Circulating everyone's passing over the note. Yeah, what are you reckon?

I do have a 10 minutes. Pass it on. And France saw this. A really big town. Really big. Why the fuck have you written this down? I don't care. It just is really big town.

They've underlined it twice. Yeah, you get OK. Pass it on. No, what's up? It ends up, it gets all muddled. Really big power. Power bird. Let's make it real big bird. 300 meter power bird. 300 kilo meter power bird. You know what? Power birds do. They collect things that are blue, dabbity, dabbity, dabbity, dabbity, dabbity, dabbity.

Pleased to go on, please, please. So, France saw this as a ticket to impressing their visitors, a 300 meter tower. If it was achieved, it would be almost double the height of the world's tallest structure at the time. Oh, wow. So it's like, if you take the birch glee for the currently, the world's biggest building, would you have a 700 meter tall now?

Usually, things go out by a bit at a time, but imagine someone is suddenly, but now I'm gonna double it. Yeah. I'm gonna double it. The Washington Monument was the tallest at the time. It had been completed in 1885. Is that the Obst-Galisk?

Yes. Or whatever. The two-tone Obst-Galisk. But I love the idea of, you said the way you were, it was France was hoping that they would impress their visitors. I just pictureing all of France sort of like meekly standing next to it, going sort of pointing up to

with their eyes going up and there's like thousands of people coming through pretty big pretty big pretty big big little thing. Okay, we've nailed the brief. It just has big towel underline twice. Happy. We did it. The world's fair would go on to be the catalyst for a

number of famous buildings and structures. The world's first Fer go on to be the catalyst for a number of famous buildings and structures. The world's first Ferris wheel debuted at the Chicago Fair in 1899. The Wendy City. Chicago. The Seattle Space Nader was built for the 1962 world fair, which you may remember from the Frazier credits. Yes, it's from the logo. Of course.

Oh, baby. He blew the collar. I just saw it and scrambled eggs. Oh my. I made it. See a little bit eggs. Oh my. I made a little bit confused, but maybe I got you peck. And I don't know what to do with a salad and scrambled eggs. They're calling again. Good night, Piano.

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The Wigsphere. So the fair put the call out many years earlier for designs for this proposed 300 meter tower, was it just over just under a thousand feet for our people that don't use meters. So all it is at this point is big tower. Big tower. That's no design. Well the brief, they had a brief, it stated they wanted quote to study the possibility of erecting an iron tower on the Shondama,

which is where it is now, with a square base, 125 meters across and 300 meters tall. That's what they said. All in all, they had 107 entries to choose from, many of which ignored the brief asking for a tower to be made of iron. Right. In fact, all that stuff I just read out, apart from the 300 meter bit, most of them to signal that. Isn't that a fun thing for you to do is you're picking which one you like.

You're just like, oh, that doesn't matter. Just screwing up one after the other, putting them into the bin. That makes it so much easier. And there was only one that designed something in line. And they're like, all right. Yeah, go to that one. But default, this is, we go with this guy.

One of the most vocal front runners was architect Jules Bordei, who proposed a 350 meter granite tower with a gigantic searchlight and mirrors on top that could illuminate the whole city. Wow. Went a question on how such a heavy column would actually be an engineering possibility, he declined to comment. I don't want to give too much away.

Other entries included a towel that could double as a huge water sprinkler in case Paris ever went through a drought. Oh, where's the water coming from? No, no, no. Paris is in drought. All right, far out the pumps, we have no water. That's the drought. If we have the water for the sprinkler, we just distribute that in a more sensible way. A giant guillotine was even proposed to celebrate the revolution. Again, that's not an iron town. 300 meters guillotine. Whoa. That's too big. It's way too big. But of course, some of these designs were chosen. The winner was submitted by

engineer Gustav I fell's company. Gustav.. At the time Gustav was already thought of as an engineering genius. He'd already had the skills to pull off such a feat. Surely it wasn't named Eiffel Tower from the start then. No, no, he just submitted the designs for his company. Yeah. Like the Realtor being called Grolo Tower. Grocon Tower. When they were gonna call something something growl O Tower?

Probably. Yeah, and then they've lost the money for it, I believe. Yeah, the Realtor was once the tallest building here in Melbourne. Yeah, in the Southern hemisphere, I think. That's beautiful. Diamond in the Melbourne skyline. Hmm. I love the Realtor.

You served by the Eureka. All too soon. There's another one going up, I believe. It's gonna maybe be fulfillment. Yeah, apartment something. Yeah. Apartment. I think it's called apartment one I want to know,

something like that. But you can live in it. I think so. Oh, I hate that too high. Yeah. Yeah, you're too high to live. The five minute commute up the elevator. Yeah, God, fuck that.

You wanna do it? No, too high. I don't know how, how much clearer do I need to be Dave? I was called Australia 108. There you go, but it will have 1100 apartments inside. 1100, measure having 1100 neighbors. Well, you wouldn't. You'd have a 1,099.

More than one person can live in an apartment, Dave. I don't think so. I have a look at the plants. They're very small. Oh, wow. There's a 1,100 cupboards to choose from. Whoa. And there's also a $5,000. There's also a pen house double cupboard. So Gustav Eiffel, or Eiffel, was born in 1832. His full name was Alexander Gustav Bonichausen, did Eiffel. Wow. Which is an incredible name. Love that. Fantastic name.

He graduated from the prestigious Eccles Central Parie in 1855. The same year that Paris hosted the second World's Fair, and Eiffel was born a season ticket by his mother. So these World's Fairs would keep coming up in his life. After a slow start working odd jobs, once given an opportunity to prove himself, he excelled. He had been hired to work on the 500 meter long Bordeaux bridge, initially just given the responsibility of assembling the metal work. But when the project manager resigned in 1860, I fell took over the entire project. It was a huge success. From

there he was asked to design railway stations, locomotives themselves, and aqueducts. Wow. His career was off. He was hired to help design the exhibition hall for the Paris's second-goat hosting the World's Fair in 1867. So it comes up again. When the Statue of Liberty's initial designer Eugene Voila Ledouc unexpectedly passed away in 1879 Gustave I fell was hired as his replacement. So he also helped design Statue of Liberty. Wow. He redesigned the interior of the statue to make it more flexible.

The elasticity of I fell's design has been praised because the statue has to withstand winds from New York Harbor, temperature changes and other various weather conditions. Yeah, she can touch her toes. She can very... That is impressive. She's hyper flexible. Yeah. The...

I love that, it'd be so fun. A big typhoon comes through. She's bent over. I can't touch my toes. This buddy, concrete, probably statue can. Just try it, woman,, as a parasol. I was talking about a statue. Oh, the entire statue was erected at Eiffel's works in Paris, his factory,

before being dismantled and shipped over to the United States. So he just had it there in his factory. Wow. So, yeah, it's crazy that one man worked on two of the most famous structures in history. By the time of the third Parisian world's fair world around at 1878, Gustave Establish's reputation as one of the leading engineers of the time and designed many of the fair's buildings. Oh, cool.

Every time it comes around, he's like, yeah, I'll work on another thing, cool. His reputation as a pair of engineering hands almost certainly contributed to his company getting the job to erect the 300-meter tower. They knew they could handle he could handle it. It was disembodied hands. That makes all this even more impressive. He's just a pair of hands. And Dave stopped saying erect.

I will never stop saying erect. Okay, well, I tried. That's like asking a dancer not to dance. Yeah, what? I will always erect. And... So, I fell as the name we associate with the Towers, the Eiffel Tower. But he didn't actually come up with the original design.

That is attributed to, and let me have a crack at these French names. Maurice, Coshlin, and Emil Nuzier, two senior engineers working for IFL's companies, a hero in the company. Inspiration for them came from the Latin Observatory, which was built for the 1853 World's Fair in New York. Sadly, that building also mysteriously burned down three years later. What, are you going to go into this more, or is this just a mystery? No, just at the time, it was harder to put things out

and then do things from flammable materials. So once it got a fire to cold, I don't know if that's why, but the iron building of the Eiffel Tower was a lot harder to burn down. I don't know if that's why they chose that. It's not like the city that was outbid for the fair came in and burned it down. If I can't have it, no one can. So, Koshlin, who came up with the design, he made the first sketch of the idea, which still exists,

and I will post a photo of it, because it looks like a three-year-old, no, about a seven-year-old's drawing of the Eiffel Tower. Okay, hello, I'm glad you upgraded from three to seven. Yeah, you've changed the picture in my mind. Yeah, it's very different. From cray upgraded from 3 to 7. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's very different. From crayons to gray lads. Yeah, it's definitely a gray lads, but it's still not, it doesn't look like an architectural masterpiece. Yeah, it's right. But it's just the idea's there.

He described it as quote, a great pile on consisting of four lattice girders standing apart at the base and coming together at the top, joined together by metal trusses at regular intervals, which, you know, that's a description of what it is. That's what it is. They showed that design and the drawing at the top, joined together by metal trusses at regular intervals, which, you know, that's the description of what it looks like. They showed their design and the drawing to their boss, I fell, who initially wasn't that keen, but he told them to keep working on it anyway. He asked Steven Syvestra, the head of the company's architectural department to take a look, and this is from the IFAW's official website. Syvestra proposed stonework pedestals to

dress the legs. Monumentalals to dress the legs, monumental arches to link the columns, a bulb shaped design for the top, and various other ornamental features to decorate the whole of the structure. So he took their idea and just made it look more beautiful. Yeah, but a bit of pizzazz. So, not on Adi. How do you say? How do you say? Resil-desil. Genes-sacquire. Resil-desil. Genesequat. Um, Resil-desil. That's how Sebastian would say it. Yeah, I think, I think as Genesequat translates to a Resil-desil.

Yes, I believe that's correct. So here you have the, the periods that, you know how at the bottom of it, it's got the four legs and there's arches over, you would have stood under the arches. Those arches don't do anything. They are purely ornamental. Very pretty. They're not there to hold the tower up. They are purely ornamental. Very proven.

We're not there to hold the tower up. They just put that into be like, it'll look more pleasing to the eye. We put the arch. I did assume that was like braces. You used to brace or something. Yeah. That's cool.

So he redesigned, he made it more beautiful. It's now three people that have worked in the design. They took it back to IFL. Who liked this improved design a lot better. And he bought the patent for the design. He paid them for the design. How much? I believe I couldn't work out how much this I read 50,000 francs. Sounds like a lot. Yeah. Couldn't work out. Couldn't do the conversion from 1879. Yeah. What a moving path. All right. In 84 and he submitted it

to the exhibition of decorative arts under his company's name. He applied and said, well, build the thing in five years. After more presentations and a lot of red tape, I fell as company was hired and they were given the job. So he paid 50,000 francs before even, it was like a gamble that I would hopefully get picked. Put the money down. Well, maybe this puts it into perspective slightly. 1.5 million francs was given towards the construction costs,

which is actually a quarter of what it was going to cost. It's going to cost 6 million to build the whole thing. He's just getting 50,000 of these guys. I follow himself, ended up putting in more than half the construction cost himself. Whoa. But because of this deal, he struck a deal with him where he was able to receive all the income from the commercial exploitation of the tower during the exhibition for the next 20 years. Whoa! And remember it's the most ticketed structure in the world.

So people are paying to go up it. This would end up making him a very, very rich man. Wow, he's so smart. He took the gamble, put the outlay, but said, okay, only if I get all the ticket proceeds and they're like, all right. Why would they agree to that? Well, because they, well, like, I don't think anyone else is going to be able to build this thing. You got to get points.

Is that what you're doing? A deal? Get a back end that deal. Get a real sweet back end. Is that a thing? Am I talking in? I have no idea. Will you say this at your expo?

People asking about that. I'm trying to talk in Hollywood with jargon, but I'm possibly not doing it. You've got to make sure you get a few points on that. Make sure you get, you look different on the back end. So you get, get some of the roll over. Yeah, make sure the roll over happens in your, you covered. You've involved there. They back on up that truck.

So the design's been approved and announced a couple of years before the fair, but there as you said Matt, lots of doubt in the process construction began in January 1887. Remember, nothing that big has ever been attempted before and there was lots of doubt. Common questions were, how would the iron building survive in the wind? Will it just fall over? Well, probably bolt it down, dickhead. Jeez, that's a big question. You'd hope that I'd have that answer before it started going up. Yeah. Another question, where would they be able to find men that would be willing to work 300 meters off the ground?

Could men even work that high up? Because no one's ever been up that high to work on a structure before. Right. A bit like when also the Mont-Golfier brothers that launched the hot air balloon, the first hot air balloon, and they were like, will people be able to survive up there?

So they sent the animals up instead. It's a bit like that. Now we go, oh yeah, people can work that eye, but at the time people were worried. It was even claimed that such a large building of iron would become a giant magnet and start pulling nails out of nearby buildings that would then fall down. What was the logic there? I felt declined to respond to such a wild episode. I refused to dignify that question with hands.

That's so silly. So though the practical objections, it was also objected to an artistic grounds, a committee of 300, one member for each meter of the towers height formed. World-famous architect Charles Garnier was in charge of the group. Ah, fructus. He had designed the Palais Garnier, the stunning opera house in Paris that you may have seen when you're there.

And the shampoo. And the shampoo and also the setting for the Phantom of the Opera. The group also included many famous writers and artists of the day, all who oppose the design. A petition called Artists Against the Eiffel Tower was published in 1887. It's not so weird, artists against it. And this is what they wrote. We writers, painters, sculptors, architects,

and passionate devotees of the hitherto untouched beauty of Paris protest with all our strength, with all our indignation in the name of Slided French taste against the erection, sorry, yes, of this useless and monstrous Eiffel. To bring our argument home, imagine for a moment a giddy, ridiculous tower, dominating Paris, like a gigantic black smoke stack, crushing under its barbaric bulk, Notre Dame, the Louvre, the dome, of less enveloped, the act of triumph, all our humiliated monuments will disappear in

this ghastly dream. And for 20 years, we shall see stretching like a blood of ink, the hateful shadow of the hateful column of bolted sheet metal. Amazing. So they really hated it. It is for like, people hate change and that seems like that's always been true. People really hated Fed Square when they started building it. But haven't we all swallowed our words now?

Ah, love Fed Square. It's so beautiful. There's so many things to do there. Yeah. So too many to list here. They've got multiple cafes. We're still in the eye of the storm with that one. It's generations to come that will decide I think whether or not that was good or bad. What was there before? I think it was like an industrial sort of section. I can't even remember. When did it happen?

I've been in grade six when I was building it. I was at the early 2000s. And this is the one of Melbourne's main squares. Yeah, obviously a lot of just train station. And one of my most iconic pubs, but it's young and Jackson. Young and Jackson. And then on the other corner is a cathedral.

But yeah, I don't. It's quite, it's an instrument. I like elements of it. I like that sandstone or whatever that red brick stuff. I really like the edge, the glass section. I wish they had built the whole thing to look like that glass. And it was probably practical reasons

where they couldn't, but that's the coolest looking part of it, I reckon. I like Acme. Acme is great. I think there's some really cool bits in there. I like the pub. The pub's good, the beer. I don't like that.

Ah, it's fine. There's a 7-11 in there. There is a 7-11 in there, and it's fine. It's very small. First time I ever had a spinach roll was in that 7-11, so I mean, that's ain't nothing happened. First one I ever had was in the was in that 7-11 so I mean, I'd say nothing happened. First one I ever had was in the awful towel. No.

No. At the 7-11 at the awful towel. Because there are two restaurants there. There's all, there's lawns all the way around it. My memories are pretty vague, but I just remember to be in the most perfect blue sky summer's day and I just sat and read a book in the shade of the Eiffel Tower nearby. So nice.

It's a very beautiful spot, but at the time people are saying it's going to ruin the city's skyline. Wow, it's fascinating. Gustave, I fell responded to these criticisms by comparing his tower to the Egyptian pyramids. One of the other former record odds for thousands of years of the tallest structure. My tower will be the tallest edifice ever erected, sorry, by man. Will it not also be grandiose in its own way? And why would something admirable and Egypt become hideous and ridiculous in Paris?

He said, I love that. He's like equating two things that are not the same. And then just going, all right. So the pyramids and the alpha-tower are the same. We all agree on that. Now, are you telling me you hate the pyramids? Do you hate all, do you hate everyone in Egypt? Is that what you say? Do you hate man, mankind? Okay. Well, I'll start to argue with that. He launches it into a 16 hour filibuster. It was I

disparagingly described by writers and satirists in paper and in pamphlets. It was the age of pamphlets. I love that. Oh yeah, great, beautiful. Let's bring it back. A lot of comedians for a while there had newsletters. I reckon I'm gonna start pamphlet.

Like a physical pamphlet. Monthly pamphlet, I'm just gonna start handing out. Just add a box-dropping. Yeah, put it over there. It seems like a lot of work. I mean, people do still have news loads. They just have them online now. They've say mom to be.

You could just, you could email it. Could you, but I prefer a pamphlet. Well, you could call it an e-pan foot. e-panth. What is a pamphlet? Your suma pamphlet is a small version of a pamphlet. Like a pieclet. Yes, what's the pamphlet?

It's a small version of a pieclet. Yes. That time that pancake. Is it book a pamphlet? Yeah. A larger pamphlet. I guess so, yes. Right. I'm saying yes definitely. That's what a pamph is. But pamph is fun to say. Pamp. Anyway, I'm going to read you some descriptions of what they thought the Eiffel Tower would be, including in pamphlets and in newspapers. These are descriptions. Novelists and pamphlets here, Leon Bloys. So these are all famous writers at the time.

This is what they'd say it was gonna be. Yeah, but I've heard of Iful Tara. I haven't heard of this guy. So what does that say? You haven't heard of Bloys pamphlet? No. Still going. One of the longest.

One of the longest running pamphlets in history. He wrote in his hoi, Pa-loys. He described it as a truly tragic street lamp. Blamp. Blamp? Blamp. Street lamp. He described it as a truly tragic street lamp lamp lamp lamp Street lamp. Oh, I definitely Hurt lamp. Did you hit lamp street lamp? Am I having a stroke? I heard lamp, but I like lamp more I thought that you were saying that that's what he said. I thought you were saying he should have called it a lamp No, I heard you say street street lamp and I thought why do you both know what a lamp is?

And you're not no one's reacting to lamp. You never been blamping never been blamping That would have got him. Street Blamp and I thought, why do you both know what a Blamp is? And no one's reacting to Blamp. You never been Blamping? Never been Blamping. Poet and Novelis Francois Cope said, this master of Iron, Jim Nazion, apparatus, incomplete, confused and deformed. They're hating it.

Novelis, Joriskarl Heisman, who was known for his wit said, it's a half-built factory pipe, a whole riddled suppository. Ooh. Known for his wit. Whole riddled suppository. Yeah, I love that.

Okay. But possibly the longest description was Mausapan, who's a famous writer who is described as the master of the short story. Has not nailed the shortness here. Baby shoes never worn for sale. That was one is. Oh, this high and skinny pyramid of iron ladders, this giant ungainly skeleton upon a base that looks built to carry a colossal monument of cyclops, but which just peed us out into

a ridiculous thin shape like a factory chimney. Didn't really keep it short there, did he? No, got a trim to a few words. I hate it. So despite this intense criticism, cannot stay how intense it was. I don't think it would not make you feel good going about it tonight.

I'd be thinking about it a lot, like self-doubt and stuff of you creeping in. If the whole city is telling you you're going gonna ruin Paris. It's crazy now that we know how famous it is. Yeah, maybe he's just essentially a prision. He could tell you, he knew what it would be. He said, it's like when you're kids are yelling at you.

He said, I hate you, you say, that's how you feel right now. That's cool, man, I get it. I wonder, you'll appreciate me. They don't get to you, and they tell you they hate you. I hate you, Jessica. No, it doesn't bother me. No, I love it.

Bounces off my back, makes me more powerful. It doesn't bother me at all, I don't care that my kid hate me. Why are you weeping, Jessica? I'm not, I have a hate fever. Well, that's yeah, I really hope that he gets to live to the point where the appreciation is universal. Yeah.

Because the other thing is, let's not forget that he's also put in all his money. Yeah. It's not just. It's because he's like reputation and his company's reputation. It's also all his money's reputation. Yeah, he's money's reputation. How will he's money go to the bank? Your money's name is money's reputation. Yeah, he's money's reputation. How will his money go to the bank? Your money's name is mud around here.

Who would kiss him good night at night? Good night at night. That's my money giving me kisses. It's not very loud because it's not a lot of money. Oh, but his money is deafening. What? Actually, no, it's not because he spent it all. He's kissing him like that.

Ow! Depensively loud. Yeah, it's annoying. So despite this criticism, the assembly of the supports went ahead and began on July the 1st, 1887. And just two years, two days and five months later, the tower, as we know, it was completed. Two years, two days and five months.

What a weird order. Wait, yeah, is that what you said? I meant to write, two years, two months and five days. What a weird order. Wait, yeah, is that what you said? I meant to write two years, two months and five days. Okay, right. Thank you for pulling me up on that. Sorry, no, I was just repeating you, but then I realized I have it. I just thought it was running a poetically, get the twos together and chuck the five out the back with the mom. Two years and two days. Last five months. Yeah, who gets about that?

Don't worry about it. This was considered to be mind-blowingly fast at time. That is, I'm surprised. Especially considering all the elements were prepared and I felt factory located on the outskirts of Paris and then they were brought in. Okay. The tower is made up of 18,000 pieces

or specifically designed and calculated, traced out to an accuracy of a tenth of a millimetre and then put together forming new pieces around five meters each. Then they bring those in and then assemble them again. Wow. Love that, the accuracy for something so big to come down to a tenth of a millimeter.

Wow, like what I couldn't see to my naked eye. Yeah, but they have to be that precise. Because they're building, if there's four legs of it, they start in each corner and build up to that base. So they're building if there's four legs of it, they start in each corner and build up to that base. So one of them's even slightly out, you're not going to get that bottom level. If your eyes could put on some pants though, that'd be good. Make it all. Okay, thank you. Thank you for me talking me through that. I think it was like, You could see me talking me through that. I think it's like, yeah, and any sort of mini project I might do where I'll measure stuff

out pretty much, you know. Pretty close. Pretty close. Within like a meter. And then you're fine. And it's, oh, this thing was meant to be a square. It's more like something else, a circle. I've got some measurement off here.

Yeah, it's wild. But I mean, it's the different ways that people can operate, I guess. I feel like I do things a little differently. He's a, oh man, it does things precisely. I'm like, hey, a friend easy, baby. It's the Perissian way. It's a little Perissian in me. His name's Geralt.

Geralt. Ah, Matthew. That's where I bet the measure. Okay. name's Geralt. Geralt. Eh, Matthew, that's where I bet the mission. Okay, Geralt. Hey, he's coming a lot of strong. About 300 work is put together the pieces on site. First the pieces were assembled in the factory using bolts and then they were later replaced

by ones with thermally assembled rivets. A team of four men was needed for each rivet assembled. One would heat it up, another to hold it in place, and a third to shape the head whilst a fourth's job was to beat it in with a sledgehammer. It sounds sexy. Yeah, all up the tower had 2.5 million rivets. What? So it's a long job.

Absolutely riveting stuff there, Dave. Thank you so much. That is good. Thank you. Oh, yeah, I just saw the double thing. So the main structural work was completed in March 1889. And on the 31st of March, I fell open to the tower by leading a group of government officials and members of the media all the way to the top.

So there was already like a lift there, or did they take the stairs? Well, no, the lifts were being built still at that time. They weren't yet in operation. So the ascent was made by foot and took over an hour, mainly because I fell kept stopping to point out various features. Oh, fun. Well, that's good because I would appreciate stopping to point out various features. Oh, fun. Well, that's good, because I would appreciate that, because I was a little bit of a risk. I'm a little bit of a risk.

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how did the public react? Well, it was an instant success. Oh my God. So the backlash was all before they'd seen it. Oh yeah, so the designs were out and then they started building these bottom bits and people started being like, you know, front pages of newspapers and pamphlets

and things were like, it's gonna be disaster. This is awful. Letters were written. Everyone was talking about it as it was being built. And he was just hoping. He's come. Everyone working up was just hoping, all right, oh, this is a success. The world's fair people are hoping as well because they want it to be like, you know, the center point. Yeah. But like you said at the very least, it's double the next highest structure in the world. Yeah. Or man-made structure. So surely there's something there. At the very least it's like, well you know people could stand up there. Surely that's amazing on some level. Yeah, right. It's crazy. It looks pretty cool.

Lifts were added to take the passengers up the tower but weren't operational until three weeks after the fare. That was the only bit that they lapsed behind in time. Still 30,000 people walked all the way to the top in those three weeks, which is 1,710 steps. 1,710. If you're gonna walk all the way there. And quoting from Wikipedia here, but I did enjoy this all the same. Some of the protestes changed their mind

when the tower was built. Others remained unconvinced. The writer who I mentioned before, Mouser Pant, who was the short story guy, supposedly ate lunch in the Towers restaurant every day because it was the one place in Paris where the tower was not visible. I've heard about that guy. What a dick. Who knows if that's true, but that's a great story. It's a great line, great story, but it's also like, man, if you really hate it,

you're supporting it every day, hate it, you're supporting it. Every day, every day, you're giving it cash. You could just sit with your back to a window, so you can't see it anyway. Yeah, look in a different direction. Yeah, then you could, your money doesn't have to go towards it. You know, it's not visible when you're

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I believe it's, I think it's Joseph. Yes, I think that's it. Yes, what a man. And he's giving me treats every time. Yeah, I think I remember last time I was like, this is just for you, Jess. So, I'm not a love. He's giving me treats.

And just. Which I welcome. I love hearing him talk. Yeah, big fan of that. But if you want to give me traits Please come to our Love me treat me treat. We got me and Brisbane who always leaves me skittles. Oh, he's one of my favorite people. Oh, wow huge call It's such a good guy. I love treats. I'm not sure if I mentioned it again

But I think that there's two restaurants these days at the Eiffel Tower. I don't know, I don't know when you went. I didn't know. How did I not realize that? One of the, I think once the Jules Verne restaurant, the famous name doctor, the famous writer. Yeah. So 30,000 people in the first few weeks climbed to the top, but all up over the world's fair, which goes for many, many months, it received two million visitors. Whoa.

And Gustave got a large percentage of all those ticket sales. Yeah. So his investment really paid off. He's a genius. Our famous visitors to the tower during the world's very included the Prince of Wales at the time. Tom Eils. Yeah.

That's good to say. Tom Eils Edison, who was exhibiting his inventions. Wow. He was there. That's cool. We did an episode about him way back. God, I's unbelievable. And another episode where we mentioned this exact incident was

and Buffalo Bill Cody, who was attending the exhibition as mentioned in our any Oakley episode. Remember she performed in a Buffalo Bill's circus? I love how we're building a shared universe. We totally are. Huh. Gustave, I fell had a small apartment built for himself near the top of the tower. near the top of the tower.

Near the top of the tower. Right near the top. I cannot. So there's in my head it's all like basically outdoors, but it's sort of in my head it's just all metal. But he's in building a closed area. Is that still there? Yeah, which is still there.

What? He welcomed many of these famous visitors up to his private apartment. So he live there on and off, including Thomas Edison, himself who gifted Gustave with the newly invented phonograph, which laid on to go on to be the grammar phone or record player, which was he was exhibiting at the world's fair. The apartment itself was kept a secret at first, but once word got out that I fell had the highest apartment in Paris. The rich and famous got very jealous and he received many offers to rent it out, even for one night. But he, cool-y, decline them all. Oh my God. I can't even picture that.

He doesn't need their cash. Yeah. And so it's still there now and there's like models of him inside it. How big is the apartment? Very small, it's only a couple of rooms. Yeah, right. And there's like, you can see... It looks like a caravan, like the toilets next to the oven. Yeah, right. And there's like, you can see it looks like a caravan like the toilets next to the other. Yeah, well, the form of the I was I was trying to look at the photos doesn't have a toilet I don't know. Oh, okay. Flinging, flinging out the window. That's what I do. And I have a toilet. Sorry to brag. The toilet in my house.

I think I and so that I think there are things that I misunderstood about the story. I house. I think, and so I think there are things that I misunderstood about the story. I'm sure I heard that people hated it after it went up and they wanted to bring, it was planned for it to come down or something. Well, was it always supposed to be there forever? Well, the next thing I was gonna say, it's crazy to think now, but at the time,

it was meant to be only temporary. How long? It was planned to stand for 20 years and then get scrapped and they went with 20 years because of Gustav's investment and they said okay we'll give you 20 years to recoup the cost that you've invested in it but after that we're going to bring it down. Right. Surely he made his money in like that first. Oh very very quickly.

Yeah so after that it's just extra. Two million people came straight away and then it's popular and sure as popular already helped but then want to keep it. extra. Two million people came straight away and then it's popular. And sure, it's popular already helped, but one of the main reasons it wasn't demolished in 1909 and scheduled was the fact that the tower had become a fantastic radio transmitter. Right. Yes, that's what I heard. Because it was so high, it was the tallest thing in the whole city. And it looks like an aerial, baby. Yeah, it is a very beautiful aerial. Yeah, that's amazing. And I bet they glad they stuck with it because in 1914, at the outbreak of World War I,

radio transmitter located in the tower, jammed German radio communications, seriously hindering their advance on Paris at the time and contributed to the Allied victory at the first Battle of the Man, which kept the Germans out of Paris. Right. Wow. Oh, this did result in four years of stalemate and trench warfare.

Sure, but they kept them out of Paris. And one of the main reasons was because they had the best radar transmitter. Right. That's cool. That's crazy. This episode is brought to you by Progressive. Most of you aren't just listening right now. You're driving, cleaning, and even exercising.

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That man was France Reichheld, aka the Flying Taylor. Okay. I'm sorry, what? The Flying Taylor. Okay. No, now I get it. I don't need it any further clarification. Is it closed Taylor?

Yeah, it's closed up. Like sort of flying around you. So he's sort of like a couple of feet off the ground. Oh, like in Disney movies when like birds help you get dressed. Or the, like carrying scarves in between their feet. Yeah. Was he a bird? Was he a little colorful bird?

Sorry, OK, the bird. Aww, little bird. I'm going to shout out to Odie Matthews who suggested we do a full report on this guy, but I've condensed a mini report here on France Rikelle, the flying tailor, who was born in Austria in 1878. He became a French national in 1909 and was keen to make his mark on the world. He opened a dress making shop at first, working as a tailor, but he wanted to invent something new. This was the beginning of the age of aviation, like I mentioned, hot air balloons before. Small planes had started taking off. France Reichelt saw a gap in the market for a parachute suit. Oh, yeah. Love this. MC Hammer was the first big customer.

Oh, he don't really enjoy that. I did imagine him. Good job. Hey, Matt. Good job on that. Oh, no, no, you were funny. No, that really tickled me. So the idea was a suit not much bigger than a regular suit, but one that in an emergency could double us a parachute. That's the basic idea. Parachute suit. David Cooper would have enjoyed that. He would have loved that. He probably could have used that.

That's a David Cooper reference on episode 30, Rocco is watching the other day, and I was like, wow, that's a nation. I get that. I get that. I understand it now. She'd be noted that functional canopy parachutes already existed, but no parachutes existed for people, leaving from planes or from a low altitude.

And none existed that also doubled as sweet suits. Interesting, yeah. So he's really ahead of the course. Cornering the market here, the flying Taylors, you get it. In 1911, Colonel Lelance, love that name, Colonel Lelance. Lelalalance. Lelalance, Lelalance, Lelalance, Lelalance, Lelalance. Colonel.

From the Aero Club de France, offered a prize of 10,000 francs to anyone that could create a safety parachute for aviators that did not exceed 25 kilograms in weight. Reichheld had the inspiration to been waiting for, started to work on his design properly. There was no mention of us, it also doubling as a suit, but that was just a sweet bonus. I'm picturing like an 80s power suit, big high shoulder pads, pinstrops, pocket, pocket, kitchief. Nothing makes you feel more powerful knowing that at any time you can just bail out of this plane and be fine.

Yeah. I don't need this plane. Oh yeah. I can fly. I can just fly myself from here. You're going to keep flying. I'll just stay in it. But if you reckon this is going down, I'll just take it from you.

All right. I'll just look around the plane these days and everyone's wearing a parachute suit. Just in case. Never know. So he created a few prototypes, but it's 70 kilos, nearly three times what he wanted. These were way too big and heavy. He presented this early designs to the leading aeronautic organization in France hoping that they would want to test it But they rejected his designs on the grounds that the construction of the canopy was two week

And the attempt to dissuade him from spending further time on development They basically told him to give up now But he wouldn't give up of course not instead he had his own little tests the shoot on dummy, he's dropped from the fifth floor of his apartment building. These failed. So he decided to have a go himself. Wait, what? He thought the dummy was the problem. He was in fact wrong.

He broke his leg. But he remained under turret. Oh my God, he should be deterred. His theory was that it actually wasn't high enough to test the sheet properly. That's the problem. I'm only five floors up. You know what, it's okay to be deterred. Yeah. It's okay. Sometimes you should be deterred. Sometimes. Take a hint, sometimes. Unless this is going to turn into a huge success. Yeah, I don't feel like it is that. So flying Taylor, how bad could this go?

Well, you didn't say at the start. you said at the start, one guy wished the Eiffel Tower didn't exist. I mean, he's going to jump off it. Well, he needed a tall structure to test his experiments. No. His apartment's not tall enough. He started lobbying to get permission to be able to conduct some tests from the Eiffel Tower. He was flat out denied for over a year, but I imagine he was so persistent, they finally gave him permission after one year to run a test on February 4th, 1912. He told them he was going to test his parachute on dummies. He was lying. He planned to jump himself. What the fuck is he thinking? Is this a parachute suit? So when he arrived at the tower at 7am, he made the announcement whilst wearing the parachute.

So he's strutting in. They're like, oh, where's your suit? Where's the dummies? He's like, don't need either, baby. They're here to know. They're here to know. They're here to know. They're here to know. Many friends and onlookers tried to dissuade him from such an attempt.

This is not a bad idea. He would not listen. Oh my God. They said, hey, how about you use a dummy first and then next time when this works, do it yourself. Great, a great idea. Great suggestions, I think. Wonderful suggestion from caring friends and family and onlookers.

Prove that it works once, then you can do it. He said, no, one question just to whether he would plan to take any further precautions, such as using a safety rope, for example. He replied that he would not, since he intended to trust his life entirely to his parachute. Oh my God, does he have like a wife and kids? Not that I came across. That's right then.

Not anymore. Yeah, they're long-tents deceased. He already used them as... Dummy. When I say dummies, I'm a children. This is him, quote, I want to try the experiment myself and without trickery as I tend to prove the worth of my invention.

Oh, no. He's putting his money where his mouth is. Well. Mm-hmm. Okay. He went up the tower with two friends and a cameraman with another filming below. As he climbed the stairs, he paused.

Turned back to the crowd, raised his hand and wished them a cheery in French. See you soon. He was right. He would see the crowd, raised his hand and wished them a cheery in French. See you soon. He was right. He would see the crowd soon. Oh my God. He stood up on the guard rail, threw a piece of paper to check the wind. Oh my God.

He's got safety precautions, guys. And then jumped from just 57 meters or 187 feet above the ground. So he went from the first level, didn't even go to the top of the tower. The parachute folded around him, and he plummeted onto the frozen ground below. No. He died instantly and made news around the country. Oh. You can see the video of his jump online.

Is the video of it? Yeah, that a camera. So you can't remember the top and at the bottom. So there's two angles. Oh, right. He may as well, watching it back, he may as well have jumped, holding bed sheet. It would have done more. It just folds around him.

He's just suddenly got a cloak around him and he just plummets to the ground. That's her rent and people are standing there watching him and just seem Hit the ground sadly. He was taking a hospital, but he had died straight away. Oh my god. The crossword, I guess. Yeah. I've wanted to talk about this guy for a while, as he is the poster boy. There was a photo of him on my favorite, my second favorite Wikipedia page,

which is list of inventors killed by their own inventions. Ha-ha-ha. Second only too, or should I hope I've mentioned before, list of popes who've died violently. Ha-ha-ha. Why don't I think that sort of falls because this guy didn't invent icy ground? Ha-ha-ha-ha. Technically, it was the ground that killed him. Yeah. That's... I think that's sort of false because this got in invent icy ground.

Technically, it was the ground that killed him. Yeah. That's wild and terrible. Isn't that a crazy story? But then on it, a lot of people asked to conduct experiments, including Gustave I fell next to his apartment. He had another room for experiments and he would later in life. He did a lot more designing after he's, you know, his reputation is huge, a lot more engineering, but, he did a lot more designing after he's, you know, his reputation's huge,

a lot more engineering, but he also did a lot of weather experiments from the top of the tower. But from this point on, from 1912 on, it became a lot harder because people would apply and they'd say, no, the last guy jumped and died, so no more experiments. He ruined it for everyone else. Yeah, there's a bit of a bummer to be honest.

He sounds like that kind of person. Oh, well, but I'd like to finish now with something I haven't had for a while, everyone else. Yeah, it was a bit of a bummer to be honest. He sounds like that kind of person. Oh well, but I'd like to finish now with something I haven't had for a while, which is a a lot of fun fact. Yeah. And with something that's been around for over 130 years, I've got a lot. Great. Well, I will be the judge. Let me know. Fun level. If you had to guess, but before this report when it was built, would you have had a, what would your guess have been? I wouldn't have had a clue. I wouldn't have had a clue either would your guest name be? I would have had a clue. I would have had a clue either. I would have, yeah, it makes sense now that I know,

but I almost would have thought 1700s, which is probably crazy. I would have said 18. I do, right? When was it built, late 18? 1889 is when it was unveiled. So 100 years after the revolution. It just feels like it's been around forever.

And I guess in my life, that is true. Yeah, it's funny because like, because we've grown up with TVs and then the internet and stuff like that. You see pictures of these things long before you see them in our cases living on the other side of the world. So then when I was going over to Paris I was sort of like, well I mean I've seen pictures. And then we were wandering around the Louvre on our first day in Paris and just out a window I saw the top of it and I was like and I was like and I was like and I was like

and I was like and I was like and I was like and I was like and I was like and I was like and I was like and I was like

and I was like and I was like and I was like and I was like and I was like and I was like and I was like and I was like and I was like and I was like and I was like and I was like and I was like and I was like and I was like and I was like and I was like and I was like and I was like and I was like and I was like and I was like and I was like and I was like and I was like and I was like and I was like and I was like and I was like and I was like and I was like and I was like and I was like and I was like and I was like and I was like and I was like and I was like and I was like and I was like and I was like and I was like and I was like and I was like and I was like and I was like and I was like and I was like and I was like and I was like and I was like and I was like and I was like and I was like and I was room lit up at night. It was beautiful. I loved it So cool and same with big Ben too. Sorry. I mean, let's not get Don't people get really pedantic about calling it big bang?

Technically, it's a Elizabeth tail. Yeah, right. Okay, but ever I think people have gone beyond that now Right, so because I remember walking actually I think you find actually think you'll find I'm a very boring person Because I remember getting off the tube and walking out and just sort of being on the street and looking up and being like oh my god Like I loved it. I loved the awful Hi, this is a story you know stories from your childhood that your family often repeat My one is seeing it as an 11 or 11 year old my reaction was huh. It's not that big My parents laugh because you know they

Spent my mum's uncles and heritans to fly my sister big. My parents laughed because, you know, they spent my mum's uncles and heritans to fly my sister and I half way around the world to, you know, see this amazing thing. And I was in 11 year old going, huh, not that big. Apparently, I had the same reaction a few years early when I saw the grand canyon. Oh my god. What a little, what a little dick. How many, how many relatives died? She's had this lifestyle. Honestly, there was two inheritances spent on those trips. Yeah, that's how we got to America too. Isn't it really? Yeah.

Ah, damn my family's longevity. No, it's unhealthy. Ah. That's why I never got to travel. I didn't get on a plane till I was 17, I think. Yeah, right. And that was to go to the gut. We drove to the car.

What was that with you with the flight home? That was with the Wright Brothers, I wasn't it? That was the flight home. Oh, he's out! Woo! I was actually there first, with the flight home. I was with the Wright brothers, I wasn't it? That was the flight home. Oh, he's out of the picture! Woo! I was actually there first test, I mean, broke my leg. All right, Dave, fun facts, let's do this. All right, fun facts.

Did you know that for four decades, as I said, the IFATOW was the world's tallest structure. So was the tallest building, or structure for 40 years after it was built? It wouldn't, like, these days the records would be held for like six months and a year. Yeah, taking over. It was eclipsed by the Chrysler Building

in New York City in 1930. type of the Chrysler Building, which is only held the record for a few months, which we talked about, and I decided to do this episode because one of my favorite Patreon bonus episodes I've done a report on is the Empire State Building and the Battle to Be the World's tallest

between that and the cries of the building. And I remember having fun on that episode. So I was like, what's another famous thing I could talk about? I don't know if I could tell the difference between those two. I've been at the top of the, what was not the cries of one there? The Empire State. I'm sure you would know the difference. So the cries of buildings, the famous art deco, one with that spy thing at the top.

Right. Yeah. And the awful, and that spy I think at the top. Right. Yeah. And the awful and the, I'm sorry Empire State Building, you definitely recognize it, yeah. Yeah. I do, but I just don't know if I saw on both would I be able to pick which one with which? I'm not sure if I would. I'm not sure. I have.

Actually, the one I went to the top of was the different again, I was the Rockefeller building. Ah, right, sure. I think they're the two competing ones with the views over there. I haven't actually been to New York City. I'm waiting for my great uncle to die, but... No, no, no. Which one is this one? That's the Empire State.

Yeah. Yeah, you know. Because that's the one that's one in Kong climbed. Yeah, that's right. That's how you remember. Once King Kong, the other one's the fantastic Art Deco spy. And the cries of building is someone, some character in the Annie orphan musical says something about...

The top of the Crysor Building. So over here, Crysor Building, that line runs through my head. I can't remember the context. The top of the Crysor Building. But, you know, for 40 years, that's a pretty good stint. That's amazing. The fact that people were disparaging about it's like, all right, we just built the world's biggest thing.

Can you be happy with that? It was also the world's largest billboard for a time. I had no idea about this, but between 1925 and 1936, a quarter of a million colored light bulbs were attached to three sides of the tower's steeple, illuminated to spell out in 100 foot vertical letters, Citron, the French car company. Yeah, right. So it just said Citroen, the French car company.

Yeah, right. So it just said Citroen on three sides over a decade. That's wild. I had no idea about that. And there's sort of been early, pretty early days of Citroen as well, but nothing. Well, yeah, I mean, the car company in 1925 must have been pretty early.

And you can see images online, I'll try and post photos of this stuff as well, but yeah, it's amazing. You see it and you go, it looks fake almost. The fact that it's got these letters on it. Over the years, the color of the tower has changed. When it opened in 1889, the Eiffel Tower sported a reddish brown color. Interesting.

A decade later, it was coated in yellow paint. Oh, don't like that. The tower was also yellow brown and chestnut brown before the adoption of the current, especially mixed Eiffel Tower brown. That's brown. In my head it's a little charcoal. Yeah, it's what I'm thinking. Yeah.

It's brown. Every seven years painters apply 60 tons of paint to help her look young. It's painted in three shades too. Fucking patriarchy man. I'm telling you what, oh we've got to paint this broadmaker look. You're like, hey, I was supposed 60 tons of paint on here. This is ridiculous. Yeah, come on, you know, age-cressively, mate.

Yeah, it's all right. They're just, they're basically like Botoxing it. Yeah. Oh, did I mention the Botoxing it? It's painted in three shades, progressively lighter with elevation as it gets taller. In order to augment the structure silhouette against the Parisian sky, quite from history.com there, it's a fantastic race.

It's smart. It's smart, I do. Is that makes sense? I don't get it at all, but okay, cool. I think you just don't make it stand out a bit better, so it looks better, it's just lighter at the top. Interesting. Paris was of course occupied by the Nazis in 1940.

And to really stick it up them, the French, who, famously have the French resistance, before they occupied, cut the lift cables of the tower so the Nazis had to walk up it. If they wanted to get to the top, no more lift. So they did so, and they raised the Nazi flag on top top only for it to be blown away in the wind. It was a giant flag so they had to replace it with a small wall. Cop that Nazi's your dickhead. Yeah, Cop it. When the Allies were nearing Paris in August 1944 and the Germans knew that they were going

to have to give it back, Hitler ordered the military governor of Paris to demolish the tower along with the rest of the city. That's a dog act. I'm sorry, that's a dog act. That's a dog act. I'm sorry. That's a dog act. Jess, is that a dog act? He's wrong with that guy. He's a real piece of work. Oh my god.

Don't get me started. I mean, that says it old, doesn't it? Yeah. It just seems like, what a fucking bitch. It was a bitch. It was a bitch. He's a bitch. There, we said it. So I'm sorry, but that's bravery.

He's a, honestly. He's a fucking bitch. He's a bitch. Unfortunately, the governor disd- disd- disd- disd- disd- disd- disd- disd- disd-

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Yeah, yeah. Hitler, you're starting to say some pretty crazy things. Some other things I get. I was willing to work with you through some pretty dassy stuff. But knocking down a tower, I don't think so. You're crazy. I'm out bitch This isn't what I got into the Nazi I wanted to build up not built not not down I know we lost our way there somewhere

Became pretty to be honest. Pretty evil. Has anybody mentioned that, Tee? Because I feel like not enough people around you are being honest with the Hitler. You're sounding pretty evil. You're a bit of an evil bitch. They're a set it. I know I'll probably be shot against a wall for it, but I said it.

They're a bitch. Other people have jumped off the building. A young woman survived when she jumped, was caught in a gust of wind, and blown onto the roof of a car, which broke her fall. Oh my god. She later married the car's owner. No! The car was a citriot.

Holy shit. What a meet-tune, you know. That's, that is a great story to tell you. Some people are now like oh I got on the Tinder first swipe love you know some people meet at work some people meet at a bar. Some people meet their love when they fall out of the sky. Yeah and crashing to their heart. To be honest ruined my car. Yeah honestly that car is not. You owe me a date. Oh that's how it started. Why it's creepy.

Yeah, well, it's a different time. I want to say date, I mean my car. It's what I call my car. You want me a car. Maybe. What? Yeah, that's... There's a lot of...

Is that a fun fact? I'm happy that she survived, right? That's fun, right? But it's so, she jumped off on purpose. I mean, how do you jump? Yes, yeah, you can't jump off. Yeah, sadly a few people have jumped off. And not survive to these hours.

Or in a gust of wind, so it lifted her. Yeah. Was she wearing a parachute suit? Yeah. It's funny that a man was wearing a dress was more effective than something to say to be a parachute suit. I was just wearing a jacket,

and it's not as cool as some of the wind and yet. Awesome. I was naked and I survived and it's not as cool as some of the wind and what awesome I was naked in us above So you're an idiot my scrotum caught the breeze You better get that looked at that man. That is amazing. It's a slap in the face of the parachute suit Turkey slap in the face. Thank you So I that's the wildest thing in this whole story surely surely. How high from, do you know how it's high? I actually don't know what level she was on. But he died instantly from the lowest level.

The low level, yeah. So she was at least the same level as that. Yeah, at least 50, 50 plus miles. Oh my God. It's a luck of that. And then, because obviously, you know, geez, and she, and a whole life turned around. I hope.

Yeah. It's a very little I know about it. That is one of the wildest things I've ever heard. That's insane. I'm sure some listeners are hoping I'll report on how the tower was sold by Conman Vista Lustig, but I wanted to dedicate a full reporter, at least a patron to him one day. So there's a few people that requested that when I searched Iphone Tower. Okay. Just know that that report is coming one day, but it's pretty cool story.

I do want to burn it here. Yeah, great, okay. Because it's already quite a long story on its own. But in 1967, Charles de Gaulle, the then president of France, proposed temporarily dismantling the tower and sending it to Monterey Hall for expose 67. Thankfully, that plan was rejected.

That seems like a bad idea. Yeah, it's your biggest tourist attraction. That seems like a... idea. Yeah. It's your biggest tourist attraction. That seems like a... Let's give it to another city for a bit. It's real strange. Why would you choose to do that? Well, I guess they didn't. The lady who fell is not the only one who found love

with the tower in 2007. Erica Eiffel married the tower. I'm sure you've heard people talk about someone married the Alpha Tower. She changed their name to Erica I fell. She first encountered it in 2004 and felt an immediate attraction. Surely Erica Tower.

If you're gonna take it. Yeah. And you're, yeah, I don't know. She's an American. Isn't it just because it's a bit phallic? Well, no, she's been in love with many things over the years. She's an American competitive archer. She's like a world class archer or has been in love with many things over the years. She's an American competitive archer. She's like a world-class archer,

or has been in the 2000s, and an advocate for object sexuality. She'd previously been in a 20-year relationship with the Berlin Wall. And what happened? Well, people grow apart. It all came tumbling, yeah. That's good stuff.

You are fucking killing it today, honestly. According to an article from Vice, which I'll link to with all the other references in the episode, in addition to holding a commitment ceremony with a 186 year old French eye and tear at the time. But it's not about ages just a number. She's fallen for fighter jets and is currently fencing. I imagine that means like a fence. And she's currently in a relationship with the crane.

Oh, Dr. Frazier Crane? She told Vice in this article, quote, I understand that people are going to get visuals in their head and they're going to have questions about sex. When you see a building and a person you have questions, like when you see a very tall person, a very short person together, you wonder how the mechanics work. Not the same thing. But you would never think that. I do. You see couples and you picture them fucking.

Of course. If they're like, he's gonna be like seven foot tall and she is about three foot tall. And then I'm like, wow, this is... I mean, it's gonna be a big difference. Or other way around. But to finish, And then I'm like, wow, that's... I mean, it's gotta be a big difference. Or other way around. But to finish, to finish her quote here,

but you wouldn't go up to those people and ask, how do you do it when you're so tall and she's so short? The fact that people ask us those questions just shows how little they respect us. She's talking about herself in the building. No, I think people respect the awful tower. I'm so, I'm so conflicted here. Cause I don't want to shame anyone.

No, don't yuck the yum. Yeah. That's what you want to do, that's cool. I don't think we're, are we shaming? No, not shaming her, but it's just funny to compare the tall and tall and tall to her and a tower. That's so funny. That's the funny part.

But it is also a wild idea to me. And I am probably shaming her a little bit. Yeah, no me too, but I don't want to. No, but it's fascinating. But also can she not just talk? Imagine who's just trying to have a conversation with a person. It must be so hard.

And but also like how do you think you've, how can you be in a relationship with something that can't talk to you? And can't consent to that relationship. And it was just like, it's all, oh God, it's only one way straight. Yeah. It's such a publicly owned thing.

Like how do you get to go? I want, you know, just work on fantasy. Yeah, that's my now. Also, it's way older than she is. You're actually visiting my boyfriend right now, my girlfriend. Yeah, do you mind not taking pictures of my boyfriend? Which you mind if someone else married it?

Like, am I free to marry it too? I guess, because you did gender it, you gave the awful terror, you called it a woman before. People do refer to it as a sheep. Like a ship. I wonder. I wonder if she sees objects as having a gender. Yeah, good point.

Why? Because I mean, why would they? It's weird that we do that. Yeah, that's true. She needs a coat of paint. Hmm. Anyway, you've taken us to an interesting. Yeah, I feel good. It is fascinating. Two more fun facts here if you think they're still fun. During the cold, the tower shrinks around six inches. Huh? Huh? Don't we all? tower shrinks around six inches. Huh? Don't we all? No. No.

In height. Is that what you mean? Yeah. Yeah. When do you get real cold? Really? Six inches. That's, yeah, I guess that's quite a small.

Smalls that, yeah. And apparently it was so sways in the wind, but it's just a huge... Or it shrinks two six inches. Yeah. That's fascinating. Whoa. how cold. You wouldn't want to be standing above it

when it gets hot. Whoa, oh. Unless you were married to it, I guess. So maybe, maybe that's, maybe you don't. Maybe you get to have a very cold day and you pour hot water on it. Whoa.

Only when you had a verse, right? You died literally doing what you love. Since opening over 250 million people have visited the Eiffel Tower, today it is the most paid monument of the world as we started with 6.9, 1, nearly 7 million people ascended it in 2015. Is that true? I wonder how many people like me stood near it. It must be millions more because I also didn't go out when I saw it. I mired from a farm. I wonder how many people like me stood near it. Must be millions more because I also didn't got one. I saw it.

I mired from a farm. I did. I went underneath it. Yeah, I went all around it, but not up it. What it was like, was the view worth it? I went to the first level. Where the flying tailor was. Yeah, I did.

I did know that at the time. I did not know. I had to get to go all the way to the top and then I got to that level and I was like this is high enough Yeah, right. So you're real you feel out amongst the elements sort of Oh, yeah, and you like the views incredible and it was awesome, but it was scary right now reading this I want I want to go back and I want to go up. I'm gonna make sure yeah All right when we go over there, I'll come up. We'll do a presentation.

We ever get back to the UK and Ireland, maybe we should do. That's so close. So close. So close. We should get over to Paris, visit Joseph. Hmm. There's the fun of fun facts, but I just want to end. Finally, the namesake of the tower, Gustave I fell, died in 1923, so he did see it become

a massive success. Oh, that's awesome. because he lived to be 91 Wow, I mean the overla is life overlap with my to my grandparents. That's cool. Wow, then love the same time He died whilst listening to Beethoven's fifth symphony Oh, that's Bapapana Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, on the Saturday night fever soundtrack, which is one of the top five selling albums all time. There's like a disco version of it, banana, banana, banana, banana, banana, banana, banana,

banana, banana, banana, banana, banana, banana, banana, banana, banana, banana, banana, crazy. He died from a Saturday night fever, did I mention that? There's no cure for that. The other code designer, Emil Nuzier, died much earlier in 1897, 50, 70 years old. Ah, the VFL commenced. But thank god he saw that. But Maurice Kotchelin, who drew the first design ever, the image that I'll post, outlived

Gustav and died in 1946 at the age of 89. In Switzerland, in a house that he'd built by himself. Oh, cool. Yeah, 1900. So he lived old enough to see the tower taken over by the Nazis and then reclaimed by the friend, which is just in time. Yeah, wow. So they got it back in, like, 44.

But that is the end of my report on the I fell tower. Right. Report. Thank you very much. And thanks to Tom from England for suggesting it because Dave said it. And also Odie. Odie Matthews for mentioning the flying tailor.

Which is, oh yeah, it's right, yeah. A little, you're almost, you were tempted to do three reports and why I could say it. Yeah, because if I do that, Victor Lustig, the con man, that's going to be a cool story. You reckon that, that could be its own story. Yeah, at least or at least a mini Patreon bonus. Yeah, awesome. I look forward to hearing that. Don't forget to do it.

You can't sizzle like that, not come through. You can't. Dave, you can't. All right, I'll do it. Can we beat that? Well, this is the time for everyone's favorite section of the show. It is the fact to quote or question section of the show. It is the fact-quotal question section of the show.

Justin, does it, what does the jingle go like? I have no idea what you're talking about. Oh, damn it. I think it's something like, in Jess's voice. Fack, what old question, ding! And then Dave says ding. Fantastic, but that was a little bit early too. Why do they always forget the ding?

Uh, so this week, it is a great man named Tien and NS. And the way you get involved in the fact quota question I should say is by supporting sub patron.com. In particular on the Sydney Shamburg Deluxe Memorial Package level and on that level you get to give us a factor quota question as well as voting in two of every three topics.

And I can't just say this level is the one that voted for my topic today. And the difference between first and second was yet again, one vote. One vote. So, because it's a much smaller patch on level. It's a smaller pool because it is the VIP section, shall we say. So, if you want to dictate how the show goes, either some people didn't vote or join, and you can change the show basically.

Yeah. And as well as that, you also get the two bonus episodes per month, which, and we record a really fun one earlier tonight, which is probably already gone out, which was all about the country of Spain, and I was a new, it was basically a pilot episode for a new show

that I might be starting, because I don't have enough of them. I was basically a pilot episode for a new show that I might be starting because I don't have enough of them. And anyway, so Tien and Anis, who's given himself the title because that's something else he had to do on this level, he's given himself the title of that Irish gobshite, which is a term we talked about a bit when we were in Ireland. I think our taxi driver taught us that. Yeah, that's right. I mean, taught us a lot. Not as much as our first taxi driver, who took us to where his wife was born. Yes, that was very... Is that normal, double, and sort of hospitality?

I wonder if that's the case. Especially after getting off a 22 hour flight and we were on the way to the hotel, but he still had time to take us on the way to where his wife was born. It was an exciting journey. So, Taren has asked the question, have you ever had a friend or family member taken back

in case we didn't get that, he's putting brackets surprised? When you tell them how popular this podcast is with live shows across Australia, two UK tours and Thailand and Ireland. Okay, well I don't know if I've talked about this on the show yet. Sadly my grandfather passed away about two months ago now. Well, all good things must come to an end. Yes, he lived a very long, full life,

a very accomplished dental specialist. And it was amazing at the funeral, them reading out all his achievements as a dentist. It was honestly a part of like 30 different boards, all this kind of stuff. So that was just professionally inspiring. But then afterwards we went and had the wake at a local place near the funeral parlour and we're all dressed in suits or whatever and as I'm ordering a beer a Lady asked me. Oh, do you host the do-go-hon podcast? I said yeah

She's like I recognize your voice and my uncle was standing next to me Who doesn't know too much about the show and he just thought it was the funniest thing that I could do a I said, yeah, she's like, I recognize your voice, and my uncle was standing next to me, who doesn't know too much about the show, and he just thought it was the funniest thing that I could do a podcast, but he doesn't fully understand what that is. Was he taking her back? He was taking her back, and he couldn't.

Bracket surprised. Couldn't wait to get back to the table to tell everyone else that I'd just been breaking up to Grandpa's way. That's amazing. So yeah, and didn't you post for a photo with her? Yes, so sorry, I forgot your name. You're very, very lovely. And she know you're at a wake.

I don't think so. She just worked there and we would just there and suit so maybe she just thinks up. She's grandfather's way. And I'm in like four words. And you're a whizzing from photo. You're a whizzing from photo. My wife.

Fancy fuck. My uncle was absolutely, it was one grandpa part would have wanted. Exactly. My uncle thought it was so funny. So yeah, he was taken aback by that because I was taken aback too. And as I didn't expect it, the last place you expect. Yeah. And we don't get recognised that often. No, no, no, no.

I don't remember anyone being, I'm not sure. I'm sure there'd be a lot of people who'd be confused by it. If they thought about it or not, they'd be like, No, no, no. No. I don't remember anyone being, I'm not sure. I'm sure there'd be a lot of people who'd be confused by it if they thought about it at all. It's not the most conventional job.

So when people are kind of like, see, still doing that little thing on the podcast, yeah. Yeah. We just did it to the UK and like I get that from from extended family a lot. Yeah, right. They're very confused by what I do. Yeah, right. Yeah, because I mean, yeah, you work very hard, Jess. Thank you. And I've got a little show for you. I, yeah, I don't know, I can't remember any specific examples. I'm so grateful that you had that great story. Yeah, I mean, I would probably never would have mentioned it otherwise, but it's just because you feel like a wanker talking about being recognized,

but because it's so really happened, but it was just so funny and fits that. So well, my uncle just laughing alone. He took the photo as well. He was laughing on a steak. That's right. He was laughing while taking the photo. That's the best. I think I told you about this one, I was in Adelaide, French a couple of years ago, I was in the bar of my venue and someone recognized me from

the podcast. I said, you're not Matt from Duke or one, are you? I said, I am. And they're like, what are you doing in town? I'm doing my show here at the French Festival, really. Like, I'm doing my show here at the French Festival. She's like, really? She's like, oh, you should mention that on the show. I'm like, I did go, I have every week for the last probably two months, but I think she skips the intro. So.

That's amazing. That wasn't the year that we had just done a show. Was it because it would be an even better? She missed that on saying, is that would be so far? She was taking her back. No, yeah, I don't recall anyone really being taken aback. Was everyone in your family as chilled as you?

On some level I'd say. Yeah. You'd be like, oh, cool. Anyway, I want a sausage. Well, a few of my folks came to us, Shoes, I think. Yeah. And my sister's coming out wonderful.

My dad's my biggest supporter in everything I do. And he's currently on a tour of Egypt, and he rings me the other day. Did someone leave him some money? Yeah, that's true. That's true. I'm not sure if he did many calls me up the other day and says, oh, I've got you,

I've got you a new listener over here. He's talking to a young guy on the trip, but your age and he's, says into history, I said, I should check out my son's podcast. And then he goes, I was here now, I got you a new listener over here talking about a young guy on the trip, about your age and he's, says into history, I said, I should check out my son's podcast. And then he goes, I was here now, put him on. And then he's talking to the guy, he's like, oh, yeah, cool, listen to his show.

It's pretty fun. Gave me a couple suggestions for episode two. Oh my God. Yeah, so I look at, we'll look at for a new download and Egypt on the stats. My dad got talking to the neighbor across the road who said his daughter was doing a podcast, and my dad's like, yeah, my dad does a podcast as well.

And this guy's like, wherever I does podcasts and whatever. And they're talking a bit more, and he goes, and the neighbor goes, yeah, really like a little dumb, dumb club. And my dad's like, do you now? Cause, uh, just was just over in Thailand with him. And he was like, wait, that podcast!

My dad's like, yeah, that's right. Proud Daddy. Proud Dad's. My dad, one time I did a show years ago on Community TV and dad watched it. And afterwards he said, oh, it was interesting. That's good, dad paid back.

He said he liked a bit that was so close to the end of the episode. He said, I liked your interview with, I think you liked the interview with Damon Coward, Tissinger, and I'm like, that was like 40 minutes into the show. Did not get it. Anyway. Love to look at the credit supporters. Yeah, now dads. Yeah. Oh, thanks so much, Tinnon, for your ongoing support. Thanks, Tinnon. I was very helpful, especially the first time we're over in. In Brat. Yeah.

That's right to come over. I don't think we really got to talk to him. I've got maybe a very briefly saw him in the line. In the line at the front, that's right. But he had to rush off because we were, how he shows on a school night last time. Anyway, thank you so much, Tinen, you God damn legend. I'd also love to thank Johanna's O-Wall. What does an Oomla outdo on a capital O or any O?

Oh, I was just just... I'm sorry Johanna's been talking to me. O-Wall. I'm going to say Johanna's O-Wall, who's given himself the title of Accounting Consultant, Jesse Beam, pleased by that. Very disappointed, isn't it? And Johannes has given us a quote, erotes, hi gang,

one of my favorite movie quotes is from the movie Airplane, a little airplane, which is called Flying High, right? Yeah, that's the same movie, yep, yep. Uh, yeah, I wonder what that is. It was called airplane. Airplane in America. Airplane. Airplane, that's how they say Yeah, I wonder what that. It was called airplane. Airplane in America.

I mean, airplane. That's how they say airplane, I think. Airplane. I think so. Yeah, airplane, Hyundai. That's weird. Arraygano. I love how they talk.

Please let us in to your country. Come on! We wanna come in here and say these words silly in front of us. Say it to our face. You can say I'm silly to us, and then we'll say it I'll silly back to you. Or a Gano. A Regano.

That's gonna be fun. Adidas, that's gonna be great. Yeah, what do we say? Adidas. No. Adelwas. Adelwas. That's right, anyway, he says,

one of his favorite movie quotes is from the movie airplane. And the quote is, surely you can't be serious. I am serious and don't call me Shirley. That's a great quote. That's great. That's a great quote. That's a good bit.

It's funny, I know so many quotes in that film. I don't know if I've ever seen it start to finish. Yeah, totally. All right, I would have sent it a few times and not for long time, so good. So many still moments. Where's Lee Nelson's in it, but he's not, he's, he was not the main man, is he?

Jesus been a while. Fuck, he's very it, but he's not, he's, it's, he was not the main man, is he? Jesus been a while. Fuck, he's very funny, Leslie. We should all watch it. Johannes, thank you so much for your support. And yes, I am serious. Really? A pumpkin, pumpkin. A pumpkin, oh my God.

Pun King like you Dave should really watch a movie like that. Johannes, he was on to to say thanks for the laughs and keep up with the good work. Best regards, Johanna's Ool. PS, a little pointer since you had some troubles with my name last time. Oh my God, oh my God. It's the proofing that Matt never pre-reads these.

The first letter is my last name, bracket the O with the dots is pronounced like a U in the word burn. Your Hanna's Erwall. Oh that sounds better. Alright, you Hanna's Erwall. Good job. Thank you, Hanna. Sorry, you might need to give me further tips for next time. I love that he would have been hearing that back before you got to that bit going, oh he's done it again. He's done the exact same thing. I've I have spelled it out for him. Read to the end, please. We also like to thank a few other patrons

who've been supporting us for a while, and normally Jess comes up with a bit of a game to do this. Jess, you have any ideas for tonight? Structures or buildings that they will marry. Oh, yes. Like our friend, Erica. Oh, well, I wonder if I should, because I have a structure that I'd marry. Oh, yes. Like our friend, Erica. Oh, well, I wonder if I should, because I have a structure that I'd like to marry,

do I, should I give someone else that? That luxury? Is that honor? I don't know, Matt, would you give away your spouse to someone else? I hope it's hard to know. Can I have a spouse to give one away? And I have not yet married.

I've not yet met the building that I want to spend the whole. It's built in your dreams. I'm still renting. So to speak. Ah, that was weird. Edit all that out. If I could kick it off, I'd love to thank from Adry in North Lentlannakshi in Great Britain. Scott Duke, the Duke.

Scott Duke. Scott Duke. Okay, structures, think of structures. Come on, Jess, come on. You know it, name it. Mount Rushmore. Oh, that is a good one. You get four for the price of one.

Yeah, and Mounts already in the name. What do you plan to do this Mount? I think you know. I think you know. I think you know. That's great. Scott, I hope you're up with that. That's great. It's a bit of a long distance relationship for you

in Atlantic sheer, North Atlantic sheer, but I reckon, yeah, for those four great guys who's on there, you've got, George Washington. Andrew Dys Clay. And Ram Lincoln. Hey, Ram Lincoln. And I'm about.

Ruth about. And Thomas Jefferson. Kentucky Fried chicken. And Ram Lincoln. And I'm a good see man. And Thomas Jefferson. Kentucky Fried Chicken. That is nice. Yeah, Kentucky Fried Chicken. Yeah. See his name, you legally changed it. Thanks Scott, Dirk, enjoy.

I have a weird fascination with Matt Rushmore. I want to go there very badly. I love to hear that as a story. Maybe that's a bonus episode type. I've got a Dollywood. So you know, we've all got different things. I've got things. Yeah, what do I want to go?

You just want to go to America. I want to let you in. Let us in. I've been there as a dude. I want to go there. I want to go there. I want to go there. I want Oh, yeah. I, yeah, what do I want to go? You just want to go to America. I really want to let you in.

Let us in. I've been there as a, as a tourist and I had a great time. I'd love to go back. I'd love to perform our little show there for a few people, a little dog and pony show. Thank you so much, Scott. I'd also love to thank from Brooklyn, New York.

Well, we want to go. Well, we want to go. I'd love to thank Alex Mark Bayer. Alex Mark Bayer is married to. Set-up point tower in Sydney. Oh, what's that? Is that our space needed? Oh, yeah, it is.

It's also called Sydney Tower or something like that. It's basically the Seattle Space Needle. Yeah, similar to that. And it has a rotating restaurant. It's an observation deck. There's,, and it has a rotating restaurant. It was an observation deck. There's, I made that up to rotating. I'm just going to have a Scott. Maybe it's got the, it now has a Westfield logo.

Oh, great. Which is a shopping center for you, Alex. Check it out. You get to shop whilst you mount. So many famous buildings in his city. And you've given him the needle in Sydney. May I please say something? Sorry, that's got.

Yeah, please can you? Please can you? Thank you again to Alex. I would like to thank from Perth, Western Australia. Oh, fantastic. Isaac, King. Oh, the King.

Oh, the King-E. The King-E. King-E. Like that. All right, I think Ale. Ale, oh, I think. right. I think Alex, Alex. I think Isaac is going to have a commitment ceremony with the Southland shopping center in Cheltenham, Melbourne, Victoria.

What a landmark. What a landmark. Kingie. That's got a, as it says, my local shopping center as a kid and it used to be quite a lot smaller. They ended up buying property on the other side of the Napan Highway and they blew my mind. And it still blows my mind, they were allowed to do it. They built a bridge with shops over.

So they bought the air. Somehow they've got the air above Napan Highway. How do you own that? That's crazy. Do you know what, do you know that place? I don't know what you're talking about now, actually, yeah, yeah, I never thought about that. That is what it is.

It's weird, how do you, how do, how was that allowed to happen? But anyway, great spot where I used to go to see movies as a kid and yeah, you know, I had a lot of great times there. So, I'm sure I was able to have some great times there too, you know what I mean? I might, if you'll have me Isaac, I'd love to walk southland down the aisle. It would just for the nostalgia. Yeah.

So, let us know Isaac. I'd also love to thank, from Chishia, Great Britain. I'd love to thank Aaron Kelly. Aaron Kelly. All right. What about the leaning tower of pizza? Yeah. She's got lucky Aaron. You could do a few poses if you know what I mean. Yeah. If you go there because I've only been there once but there is constantly people posing as

if they're pushing or holding up a tower. Is anyone ever posed like their hump in it? Oh, you better believe it. Yeah. Do you pose like it was your dick? Oh, yeah. And it was leaning. Classic. Check out my leaning dick. Classic.

Yeah. Oh, that's it. You've locked out there, Aaron. I think that's probably the most iconic one so far. Good on you. I mean, you can top it. All right. Here we go.

I would like to thank a couple of people. Now, I'd like to thank from a mystery location. Ooh. We were not trusted with this person's address. Fair enough, we would have turned up. Absolutely. We always turn up for our big supporter, which is Tess Onstein.

Tess Onstein. Tess Onstein, just in case. Fantastic name, Tess Onstein. Lady Liberty herself. Oh, yes. She's got the lady Liberty. She's got Lady Liberty,. Oh, yes. She's got the lady Liberty. She's got Lady Liberty, baby.

Wow. Sweet land of Lady Liberty, la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la You're the one who normally judges, though. Oh, no. Thank you so much to Tess Ornstein. Lady Liberty. Maybe it's her mystery address, because you probably don't, if you live there, you can't have an address. Oh, Liberty Island. Yeah, one Liberty Bell.

Ha, ha, ha. Two Liberty Bells. I would also like to thank now from Otago New Zealand. Yes. So it just ought to go. True. Otago sounds right. Otago just also go. I'll take it, Sam's right. I'll take it, I think. I mean, that sounds right, but then it sounds like I'm making it to American-Sanning.

I'd like to thank, because I was expecting it to be like an American thing, but it's from New Zealand. That is any throp. Oh, yes. Such a good name, any throp. You sound like a real character. And that is why you're married to the, what was it called? The Magic Wishing Tree from Eden Blotens Classic Book. I don't know if I can say any of those words. He did a tree, right?

Is it a tree, right? The magic wishing tree. He didn't blighten. And he thought that's the magic far away tree. That's you, the lovely marriage, that's magical. Yeah, the moon face isn't there. I think, and others, I don't remember much about it. Etc.

Yeah. There might have been a wishing tree in amongst there as well, but it's a far away tree. Right. I've merged a few things in there. Maybe. But I think that's maybe now you're winning any throp. I love Indian, Indian, Indian, Blighten. Indian, Blighten.

Is that right? What do I mean? I mean, in my defense, what a name. In it. In it. Is that right? What do that, I mean in my defense, waternave. Yeah. Ined. Ined with Blighten. Everything about that is wild and fantastic. Pretty great.

All right, one more time. A big thanks to Scott, Alex, Isaac, Aaron, Tess and Annie. Keep fighting the good fight. So good. I'm keeping out with the realtor. Hang in there with the realtor. The realtor tells us, just keeping that one for myself. Dave, while I go back and just double check if anyone needs to be led into our VIP area,

are there any other, have we done any other buildings? I was thinking we've done Disney Land, which is sort of like a park thing we did. We did the Empire State Building on the Patreon bonus episode. So this is our first proper building episode. There's proper building and there may be one coming up on our web series.

Oh, that's right. Building of salt. A little mark. And Jess, did you have, you've never done the Sydney Hubber bridge? Oh, I've done it, but not as a report. Okay. Say no more. We've found your secret love.

What days are today? What days is episode coming out, Dave? It's Christmas Day. This Wednesday, Wednesday the 11th of February. I mean, much. 11th, okay. Not much. Okay, well.

Change everything. Even better again. Well, that means we've got four people into the luxury lounge, okay, the tripditch club. Just what are the, what are the canopays serving today? Today we've got a bite-sized mini brusqueta. Uh, oh, love it. Love it when you put into the accent one saying words like that. Thank you.

We also have spinach and ricotta, right? Yes, you. Hahaha. It's a say it. And it's a ricotta. Oh, come on. And also little mini burgers.

But I mean, that's the kind of service you get in here. You'll get a little bit of pretence. Yes. Not too much. Just a little bit. So I'd love to welcome in from Apple Valley in the America, maybe in Minnesota, MN, Noel Laguerre. Noel Laguerre. So good to have you in it, Noel. Laguerre. We've also from Cambridge in Great Britain, Stephen Bat. Stephen Bat. From San Antonio, Texas in the United States of America,

it's Christina Bailey. Christina Bailey. CB. And finally, from, oh, what is it? It's a cable, yes. Oh, well done. I can't sit right down in front of me. So I was just having a pint.

Either can just. Yeah, that's what I mean, press. I just pay attention. And finally, from London in Great Britain, Gurava Kumar. Ah, CB. That's the one. Ha ha ha ha.

You are high-speed for a CB. Really high-speed. Gura, I'll take a cool, go keep it. Thank you so much. So thank you so much to you all for your long-term support. It really, what do they say? Keeps the lights on here at Do Go on Headquarters. And thanks to all our Patreon supporters,

we appreciate it so much. That does bring us to the end of this episode. I've really enjoyed this one, learning about the awful tower. I love that you've sort of opened up a whole new genre of topics we can do. Yeah, I was actually looking at the previous ones we've done in the last few weeks and thought, we really had some varied topics. So, what's something that we can keep going that's, you know, a different type of topic. So, if you have a suggestion for something that we have only done a couple of times, or maybe a topic we've never done before, or kind of topic, you can always

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You're nothing coming near you. I think he heard it. He heard it. He hoped to know what noticed, but I was already looking at him. God. Oh, no. But if you are lucky, we might be coming near you. Oh, we got pretty bad aim, haven't we? Do go on pot.com.

So we can buy a couple of t-shirts or a pin badge. Oh, that's right. Yeah. There's, I think, three different t-shirt designs a pin badge. Oh, that's right. Yeah. There's, I think, three different t-shirt designs at the moment. There's just a last little handful of one. So someone bought the original one recently as a present and I was thinking, oh, geez, that must be one of the last very few of them.

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