In this episode, I discuss WHAT TO DO IN PARIS THE FIRST TIME, TIPS AND TRICKS TO PARISIAN SURVIVAL, and WHO THE CREEP OF THE WEEK REALLY IS (PARIS EDITION).”
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What you got that I don’t got what you got that I don’t Got hey welcome back kill the cat radio sharp teeth this is episode 33 that’s right it is mid January 2024 here in Brooklyn New York City and you my friends are listening to episode 33 of kill the cat radio sharp teeth where we discuss news opinion media interesting
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Subscriber down below hit the Subscribe button please we are already at 80 subscribers this week we got the Hat on the wall and of course the topic is Paris that’s right one of my favorite cities in all of the world Paris France bour Yen venue it’s so cool we’re
Calling episode 33 the dos and don’ts of perisan life I think I can Wing a conversation about Paris at this fine age where to start about gay Pye where to begin I mean everybody’s got their ideas about Paris but we’re going to break everything down into three different formats just like we usually
Do point one we’re going to discuss how I got there point two is when you get there what do you do when you’re there three why I think it’s one of the greatest cities in the world yes we will get into the creep of the week portion
Of the show as well but Parisian Edition I will talk about some of the creepier aspects of Parisian lifestyle so hit the like button get those subscribes up I want to get over a hundred come on guys 85% of all of you who are already watching have become subscribers there’s
25% of you still watching that are not subscribers hit the Subscribe button it is free you will not get spammed and without further Ado let’s get into our show the dos and don’ts of Parisian life okay first question how did I get to Paris I remember growing up with a
Single mother and my sister and I think there was always some kind of poster or something about niece or uh you know the Eiffel Tower there was always something in the back of my mind that this place existed that wasn’t good oldfashioned Rhode Island pretty one bud wise as kid
No there was a place out there somewhere where artists were and people who read books and it was very dreamy and you know basically the same kind of dream everybody has about Paris is pretty normal also my grandfather’s family and my grandmother’s family were cuqua which
If you guys don’t know Springs from the DNA of a lot of the French soldiers that came over for the king doing a lot of fur trading in Canada and so cuqua is basically where Quebec is and a lot of the keanes I don’t even know if that’s a
Word the Kea a lot of them some of them sailed down the Mississippi River and since they were from The Arcadian region of Canada they became Arcadian all the way down at the bottom of the Mississippi River in New Orleans and that is where the word cun comes from
Arcadian cun so really a lot of people in New Orleans are technically my ancient relatives and anybody who was a sailor along the mississipp Mississippi River especially came over with the French for their fur trading Services they were building up here in the new world ended up either down in New
Orleans or in Quebec around that area and the Montreal region fun fact my mother’s ma name is betet so if you go to Montreal you’ll see the last canonized Saint or one of the last canonized Saint in the Catholic Church St Andre betet his heart is encased in steel outside this beautiful beautiful
Church in Montreal s Andre beset direct relative can you see my halo can you see my halo anyways whatever so I remember my grandfather reading the m i remember him smoking gawa cigarettes remember him having a beret I don’t know there was all this stuff kind of floating around
About the French side of my life okay so that’s point one now fast forward right now I’m in New York City never been to Paris in my life don’t know anything about and I’m working at a bar as usual and I meet a girl who works for a
Publishing House who gets me a job at the Publishing House and then I befriend a writer who was published at this Publishing House no names no names so this girl introduces me to this writer guy etc etc I meet the writer guy I become his assistant and he just happens
To be he’s an American but he’s a big name in France I a friend him I become his assistant I’ll save that for another podcast anyway he’s like would you like Paris Matthew he literally said it like that like would you like Paris as if it
Was a ride at Disneyland so of course I completely accept he’s like well I have a small uh he which is like a you know basically like a studio apartment in the six and if you like to go and I’m like okay I don’t know what the this guy’s talking
About I’m going fast forward before I know it I don’t know what’s happening I don’t speak the language I’m in dead center of Paris awesome times I wake up in the middle of the night jet lag have no idea what’s going on it’s raining like I got to find the sen river which
Is the Little River that snakes through the center of the city I find the river I drop down to my knees I’m on the Pont Arts PS or something like this it’s like the little wooden bridge with all the locks on it that they had to eventually
Take down cuz it was like going to be a structural error just Dro to my knees the rain’s coming down it’s like a VRA Vendetta meets amaly moment I don’t know I’m just I’m loving it it’s amazing I’m like I cannot believe smalltown Ron Island boy this guy right here is now in
The greatest City for writers ever made and it really is a great City for writers and that’s what brings us to part two that’s going on there what was the attraction first of all Paris is Old New York City yeah New York City’s pretty rough and tumble certainly one of
The oldest cities in the United States of America however it’s about 500 years old I’ll give it five not even that probably like 300 when it was established but it was still kind of like a port city again with a lot of Native American tribes the lappi tribe
And the alanan tribes worked with a lot of the local people because the Dutch owned this area before the British came over and then renamed it New York it used to be New Amsterdam but now they named it New York and then they named New London in Connecticut New London
Which it should have been the other way around named after the Duke of York New York City little history for you anyways but Paris is like thousands of years old and all the little windy streets are all there and yes they’ve got electricity it’s all very modern and there’s you
Know the metro and such but even in 2008 when I was first there you know the small little lights you could get lost in these very Serpentine little veinlike streets Alleyways never forget I was there out of New Year’s Eve and I went to go see a New Year’s Eve like Catholic
Sermon what have you and they had all these beautiful candles out there and it was beautiful was on something called Sant and it’s renowned for its brothel and its sex and Drug section so you have this beautiful church right next to sex and drugs and rock and roll the momont
Section of Paris you go there that’s like the 24-hour clubbing not just clubbing but but bars are open 24 hours nothing really closes yeah it’s dangerous there’s prostitutes walking the streets it’s just cool to see just so I don’t know so European what can I say you know it really makes us
Americans look little uptight if you know what I mean anyway these are the reasons why I love it plus let’s talk about the elephant in the room it is one of the greatest places for a writer yes it’s gloomy a lot of the times pron doesn’t really give a about what
You’re doing each day they leave you alone and you can sit at cafes it’s not like here where everything’s kind of profit driven and you buy one coffee you could sit there for two hours No One’s Gonna with you I mean no one you know they they don’t work on tips like
We do so we’re hey what’s going on they don’t got to like turn tables so it’s a perfect riter town everything is sort of Moody all the architectures kind of spooky sun goes down you can see this beautiful blue light across the scent I’ll show you a picture it’s just
Fantastic and it it’s like unlike everybody everybody always says oh you got to go to Italy if you like old buildings like okay I’ll go to Italy if I like the old buildings people say no no no you want to go to you know the norlands like Germany Berlin you know
London Amsterdam and it’s kind of almost too clean and organized Paris is that mix between the sacred and the profane like we talked about it’s a mix of ancient buildings but they’re sort of dirty um if you have a place and you just want to get work done but you want
To get it done and you want to people watch and you want to look around want to sit around for a while and eat fantastic food and you could survive just with a bottle of wine a baguette under your arm cheese from the local superp M write whatever you want to
Write and just hang out and no one really bothers you and little fog boats are like you know like little tugboats going along the sun it was so romantic and I didn’t even know where I was you know you wake up and you’re like oh my God
Where am I and you look up and just hear the SE seagull like bur black Waters of the S beneath the beautiful cathedral of notredam totally romantic right they leave you alone they don’t care about you they certainly don’t care about you if you’re an American and it’s uh you
Know you can find anything you want just like New York is just way more stylish more interesting more fun certainly more dangerous that is why I ended up falling completely and utterly in love not with the dream of Paris that kind of caming Jewel cuz it’s not it’s dirty as
All right let’s be hon honest with you here there’s no dreams there I mean there’s gy you know what I mean there’s drugs everywhere there immigration’s out of control crime is up terrorism worries I mean these are things you got to really think about but all in all you
Can get away with you want to set up your easel and you want to paint something by the river if you want to write your poem you always wanted to write if you want to just languish around Shakespeare and Company or the red wheelbarrow bookstores no one cares
You could just buy whatever you’d like I’m just so pleased that I got a chance to be there I’ve lived there maybe now 13 times so I know every street I know every neighborhood out this small is what they call them some are more interesting than others all right so for
You firsttime Travelers out there Center of Paris that’s pretty much the notra area the lower half kind of on the left if you’re looking at the map here boring it’s kind of Rich that’s like the eel Tower area it’s the first this mall it’s more like wealthy MRA is like up there
Just means like mountain of the martyrs right that’s where the saur is and you know that’s where Van go lived and Goan and all the greats lived over there you know it’s fantastic think if you love painting like I dear um in the Deep Center there there’s the morray which is
The old Jewish quarters and it’s really fascinating play she gets a really good flawful by the way fantastic Middle Eastern food I must say uh you can go over by the bastile that’s more of the Cy areas undescribed liquid I don’t know you drink them you kind of feel a little
Funny maybe there’s absence in there I don’t know what they’re doing uh down here rud de Goblin you know this is sort of a publishing area here a little bit of a business slash uh Urban Apartments things like that so like each each part of Paris has its own thing all the way
To the north that’s kind of the the African leasard section so you can get some very interesting food that’s it’s it’s an interesting place let’s go to point three which is the dos and don’ts of Parisian life do walk around I believe we said this do that but do walk
Around that’s how you learn everything about Paris I walked around just with a compass sort of a circle so it already looks like a compass so you always know where you’re at by taking a tour bus that’s cool too that’ll give you some like insights to what’s going on get
That out of the way familiarize yourself with the AIS mson don’t go go to restaurants this is a good one don’t go to restaurants with more than six items on the menu this is a fascinating thing right here French chefs are renowned for being the best in the world they’re also
Renowned for being total these are good compliments they’re total because when they say something’s farming a table because France is only pretty much the size of Texas actually smaller all the meats are coming from the Farms all the fish are coming from the sea so when the chefs
Get their stuff they want to cook it immediately because they’re so proud of their work that they want to cook it immediately so if you could imagine how you know sad they would be when they get something Frozen they look at American food like G these guys are savages how
They eat you’re going to walk by a small little Charming Cafe right and you’re going to see written on the chalkboard maybe six items that Chef really means business and they’re not going to have anything in the cooler that’s just waiting around no their pride exists on
These six items so look at the menu if there’s more than six items generally something’s Frozen it’s more of a turist trap don’t go there you see the Eiffel Tower once in your life yeah you got to go there you got to stand underneath it
You can look up you know you can see all the weird people there then it’s kind of just always this thing in the background that sort of sparkles at night it’s uh actually really kind of charming it’s really beautiful do go to the less popular museums these are facts here
Okay the Lou is giant I actually had a panic attack trying to leave the Lou because it’s so big and I got lost in the center that I’m like I got to get out of here I don’t know what was going on but just got paranoid or something
Like I didn’t want to leave I was hungry or something anyways the Lou is giant go there sure but don’t try to attack it at once no human being can actually handle the Lou uh you’ll be there for nine hours max I mean but like other museums
Too like the van go Museum or the Picasso Museum the dolly Museum or the um us pomu which is their great Modern Art Museum or the M deio which has the largest collection of impressionist and post Impressionists paintings ever Great Van go selection great Goan selection fantastic Degas Mones mayonnaise I mean
If you’re an art lover paris’s narcotics for you okay buddy okay don’t try to only speak English this has been going on for a while like are the parisians going to be nicer to you if you speak French or will they be condescending if you try and fail the answer chances are
Everybody speaks English in Paris they’re you know you need to know your seu plays and your mayor C’s so you say bour when you walk into a place they already know you’re not French because your accent sucks so bonj just hello okay you say SAA s just means how are you or
K how are you doing right and then they’ll say and and they’ll say SAA back to you and you say SAA which means I’m cool you’re cool all right good now we can go about our business they will be a lot nicer to you so if you do want
Something you know remember you just say C play uh M thank you right manners go a long way it’s pretty much anywhere really in the world but especially if you say it in their language you will the pron will be super nice to you as long as you’re you’re uh polite okay
Know where you’re at you’re in a different country man learn their value systems yes of course everybody treats America like like it’s a giant cash machine they could care less about our Constitution and values we travel we try to be the best representation of ourselves and I say please and thank you
Cvu play MC so do that try that and you’re going to have a wonderful time first things first couple just random tips really quick uh you take the Subway there the Metro make sure you keep your little Metro ticket because they will get you CU they don’t check you when you
Put your little Metro ticket in but they’ll check if you have that little card so keep it in your pocket because they’ll be you know the police the Metro Police or whatever they’ll be like hey do you have your ticket if you don’t have it it’s like €60 EUR right there
You got to pay it or they’ll take you in so that’s a little money-making thing so when you get your little Metro ticket when you take the metro in Paris make sure you keep the little guy that’s a good tip another Pro tip know where you’re going you know have a map or
Whatever so if you’re going to you know make a little Expedition just be like I’m going to choose this neighborhood okay as I said I already listed the neighborhood you should but if you have a certain point of interest just research around just take a little bit
Of time you know because you will get lost it will happen and chaos and S wine and cheese you can live on it okay the bread is so fresh each morning that there’s actually finds that Bakers can get if they don’t cook the bread the baguettes in a certain way they will be
Fine by the government because such a national tradition of making sure the baguette is Super Fresh perfectly made right in the morning you grab it break it open to smoke the steam from the bread comes out oh my God I could smell it now oh I could live off that and the
Butter is so fresh made from real fresh Butters no but you just you just pour the butter on there and you can just live on that and then you have your cheese not cheddar cheese or whatever get the stinkiest most foul most messed up cheese in the world oh it’s so good
Just go for it just be brave wine bread cheese Rider’s dream they don’t kick you out of cafes what more can I tell you to sell you on this place which leads us now to the creep of the week creep of the week does not have to be a person
Place or a thing it could be an idea it can be a concept it also can be a place and it also can be a person and the people I want to talk about who are the creep of the week for this week especially for episode 33 the dos and
Don’ts of Parisian life is I got to tell you guys men are sexist as you ladies complain about sexis of Americans let me tell you something my ex-wife all right she loved me want to know why CU I was an American man I actually had manners I treated her respect I treated
Her with equality it is so still to this day sexist AF in Paris life unbelievable let me give you a point of what I’m talking about all right so here’s me coming out of the University thinking oh yeah there’s a lot of French philosophy going about you know there’s a lot of
Women philosophers Simone deis you know all these other ones anas nin I’m thinking they’re super evolved about this nope my wife had to my ex-wife thank God and got to survive that best ex-wife I ever had anyway she’s like hey let’s do an experiment when we were walking around Paris together she’s like
Yeah everybody seems cool now but let me walk by myself in the city Watch What Happens I like bounce back maybe like 20 ft and follow her around before I know it as she’s walking around the town just normal day bright sunny day nice day everything’s fine in New York City May
Maybe men from a construction side be like hey beautiful or like okay you know something like that right these men were running up to her being like I want to kiss you down I want to kiss your body I want to and me it was like men were just
Running out of nowhere like there were Savages in this town I couldn’t believe it I had to like hold back my anger being like I want to break these faces I couldn’t believe how absolutely 100% biased male sexism chauvinism rampant in Parisian life I I can’t even believe it so that that
That’s why you meet a Pion woman she’s pissed off and she she deserves to be pissed off I mean I gotta say I don’t usually side with the feminist especially in this country because they got it all B they got it all ass backwards but I’m telling you there’s
Real sexism in pan streets and it’s I would not want to be a woman of any caliber in City Life there unbelievable and conversely funny enough most of the men there total I actually saw two college kids one new uh one New Year’s Eve evening I remember there I
Was by myself sort of wandering around alone New Year’s Eve it was great it was very solemn and romantic and I ended up waking up outside the Peres um Cemetery you know where like Jim Morrison was born or you know where Jim Morrison’s buried woke up on like against the wall
With like a bottle of wine then I went in there it was just a very cool I know it doesn’t sound cool I thought it was very romantic anyways I woke up and just went to his grave and I was like happy New Year Matt and you know just drank
The wine at his grave as one does no but the men uh that night during New Year’s Eve festivities I saw them and they’re like and they’re like like w i i i keep imagining them waving around handkerchiefs for some reason they couldn’t fight wor their lives depending
On I remember one guy even tried to talk smack I’m like excuse me pal I just totally Brooklyn and he’s like so that was pretty funny so anyways creep of the week crazy sexism that still exists on the Parisian streets what the f guys I mean get with the program here I mean
You’re making these beautiful ladies who are parisan ladies who I love they dress very well very clean women okay despite all those myths about the armpits and the smells and all that no no these ladies are ladies are very very beautiful okay that’s all I got to say
You know what I’m talking about hey leave them alone okay cuz you’re ruin it for the rest of us and US goddamn tough guy brooklynites have to go out there and take all your women you guys want that so toughen up boys stop being some goddamn sexist that’s the creep of the
Week TalkBack section all right we’ve been getting a couple cool talkbacks yeah it’s great people are always like cheering earing on the the videos you know they’re like hey man let’s keep it going you got a great voice you know keep moving I’ll be releasing soon a
Parisian video as well kind of in parallel to this uh episode but it’ll be more like an artistic project so it’ll be sort of on the side you know we do these little asides sometimes short teeth has everything I want to thank our 80 subscribers and if you haven’t
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