Hi there, everybody. Ira Glass here. Today's program is a rerun, but from a long time ago, the year So forgive any anachronisms you hear. That's a word a person doesn't get to say very often outside of the SATs. Forgive any anachronisms. It's back when the person at the center of the story still smoked, back before Notre Dame started burning. Anyway, it's a great show. We haven't aired it in forever.
A total favorite. In honor of Bastille Day this month, here we go. A silky line of tourists waits on the grounds of an old medieval palace, now one of the most famous museums in the world.
I'm with David Sedaris who lives nearby. We're at the Louvre. And this is the closest I've ever come. I've never set foot inside the Louvre. Two years. But I still haven't visited.
I didn't see the point. Why come to Paris and go to the one place where you're not allowed to smoke? As a matter of fact, it's my goal to be the only person who's come to Paris and has never set foot in the Louvre. I'm probably about a minute walk, minute walk from the Louvre.
I'm close to Notre Dame, too, but I've never gone in there either. It just doesn't interest me. I mean, I think so many people come here and they feel like they have to do certain things because somebody told them to do it, or they're going to go home and people will say, what do you mean you didn't see the Pantheon? What do you mean you didn't go into the Louvre?
