Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony

As a bonus episode, we decided to put a focus on the opening ceremony of Paris 2024, as it was a global phenomenon! Yes we know we’re a bit late with this one, but we had to share our take on it! The world had never seen a ceremony quite like it before and in this episode we discuss how French and non-French the ceremony was, what the cultural references were and how it was received by different audiences! The real story of the ancient olympic games World Wars’ impact on the Olympics Paris 2024 in numbers The opening ceremony 9.7 million tickets Tickets prices & ticket prices 300K tickets sold & 29M watched Thomas Jolly Opening Ceremony Artists 12 Tableaux Entire playlist of the songs played on the ceremony 10 Women honored Yuming Hey interview Philippe Katerine - Nu Philippe Katerine Interview Values Marine le Pen’s reaction to Aya Nakumura Iron Horse reactions Jeanne d’Arc reference Louise Michel reaction Louise Michel The Last Supper vs The Feast of Gods Thomas Jolly announcement “Stop attacks on Christians” bus Anne Hidalgo announcement Podcast: Short History Greek Olympics meme The history of drag in France We recorded this episode at Jardin des Plantes on 24 August 2024. The publication date of this episode is 27 August 2024. If you'd like to reach out to us, with your feedback on what topics to cover next, send us an email at [email protected] or hit us up on Instagram  The music track used on our podcast is titled Into the Night and created by Praz Khanal.