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Sep 14, 2026

Larry WilsonNARRATOR
1:52
Sunrise.
Larry WilsonNARRATOR
1:54
At an uncertain hour before dawn in February 1912, as I lay asleep in my room on the top floor of a hotel in the town of Menton in southern France, I was suddenly awakened by the morning star.
Larry WilsonNARRATOR
2:08
It was shining with inquisitive splendor directly into my left eye.
Larry WilsonNARRATOR
2:13
At that quiet moment in the last stages of the dying night, this star seemed enormous.
Ray Rhodes Jr.GUEST
34:54
And, And that helped me to get a sense.
Ray Rhodes Jr.GUEST
34:57
So especially in Menton, France, being down there and seeing what Spurgeon saw, smelling what Spurgeon smelled, because it's still a stunningly beautiful place.
Ray Rhodes Jr.GUEST
35:06
When my wife and I stepped off the train in Menton, this was not this last trip, I knew immediately, the attraction to Spurgeon, the beauty, the smells, the fruit, the flowers, uh, the maritime Alps kissing against the Mediterranean sea.
Ray Rhodes Jr.GUEST
35:24
Uh, and it's the climate still today, almost perfect.
Clay CraveyHOST
35:28
Is that hotel there still the hotel?
Clay CraveyHOST
36:03
You need to be able to take in the same view he took in.
Clay CraveyHOST
36:05
And you mentioned Sword in the Trial.
Clay CraveyHOST
36:06
Yeah, there's a lot of articles from or about Mentone, France, even earlier than you would expect.
Larry WilsonNARRATOR
0:52
Sunrise.
Larry WilsonNARRATOR
0:54
At an uncertain hour before dawn in February 1912, as I lay asleep in my room on the top floor of a hotel in the town of Menton in southern France, I was suddenly awakened by the morning star.
Larry WilsonNARRATOR
1:08
It was shining with inquisitive splendor directly into my left eye.
Larry WilsonNARRATOR
1:13
At that quiet moment in the last stages of the dying night, this star seemed enormous.
Paul TrammellHOST
31:43
there.
Richard CreganGUEST
31:44
All right, went to Menton, the marina in Menton, and bought some more chain.
Richard CreganGUEST
31:50
I still have the original anchor.
Richard CreganGUEST
31:52
So we put that on the boat.
Maxime GirardinGUEST
28:22
So that's the exciting thing.
Maxime GirardinGUEST
28:25
They're called Odor and Liqueur Royal because they're made of citrus from Menton.
Maxime GirardinGUEST
28:30
So you've got lemons, you've got bitter oranges, and you've got orange blossoms.
Maxime GirardinGUEST
28:35
So it's very fresh, very fruity, very citrusy, obviously.

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Maxime GirardinGUEST
40:48
It's not the same elsewhere.
Maxime GirardinGUEST
40:50
And even to try to go beyond organic is to source the botanicals from the best terroir available around there.
Maxime GirardinGUEST
40:57
So all the citrus from Menton, the French Riviera.
Maxime GirardinGUEST
41:01
All the herbs and flowers from the Swiss and French Alps, mostly Swiss Alps.
Charles ParkerVOICE_ACTOR
45:54
Sir Ruben and Lady Levy, who are a most devoted couple, always share the same room.
Charles ParkerVOICE_ACTOR
46:00
Lady Levy, as I said before, is in Menton at the moment for her health.
Charles ParkerVOICE_ACTOR
46:06
In her absence, Sir Ruben sleeps in the double bed as usual and invariably on his own side, the outside of the bed.
Charles ParkerVOICE_ACTOR
46:15
Last night, he put the two pillows together and slept in the middle, or if anything, rather closer to the wall than otherwise.
Kathleen NelsonNARRATOR
62:19
At Engis, near Liège, Belgium, a deeply buried skull associated with many remains of extinct animals has been dug up, which is by no means ape-like in character.
Kathleen NelsonNARRATOR
62:31
A still superior example of Paleolithic man is the skeleton found in a cavern at Menton, east of Nice, France, which represents a man six feet in height with rather large head, high forehead, and very large facial angle, eighty-five degrees.
Kathleen NelsonNARRATOR
62:48
The cave contained bones of extinct animals, but no trace of the reindeer.
Kathleen NelsonNARRATOR
62:53
There is no occasion to speak here of the many remains of Neolithic man that have been exhumed.
Rachel CostaHOST
1:24
Il suffit de composer le numéro local, mais il est conseillé de conserver le contact avec le préfixe pour pouvoir appeler depuis le pays de...
Rachel CostaHOST
1:32
Lorsque Leon est encore en France, par exemple à Menton, le numéro doit être composé en composant plus 77 suivis du numéro monégasque.
Rachel CostaHOST
1:39
Croutz y offre des opérateurs.
Rachel CostaHOST
1:41
Chaque opérateur est libre de définir ses prix, mais la plupart ont intégré Monaco dans la zone Europe de leur forfait, éliminant presque totalement les frais additionnels.
Rachel CostaHOST
4:07
Le jeu du tarif, comme à la maison, ressemble à un tour de baratin.
Rachel CostaHOST
4:12
Oui, votre opérateur peut décider d'inclure Monaco dans la zone Europe, mais avec la légèreté d'un yacht qui frôle la côte, si vous vous retrouvez dans une zone grise, le prix grimpe plus haut que le Mont Blanc.
Rachel CostaHOST
4:26
Et puis il y a Menton, ce village frontalier où le portable préfère le réseau français ou italien parce que...
Rachel CostaHOST
4:32
Apparemment, il sent le parfum du fromage plus.
Mike BrownHOST
30:27
Matt.
Mike BrownHOST
30:27
So this is set in Menton, a town to the east of Monaco, just on the border with Italy, which is not in the game.
Mike BrownHOST
30:36
Oh, no, this is all coming true.
Mike BrownHOST
30:39
So we're now going to see a race which is not actually in the final game.
Mike BrownHOST
32:07
And so you get a sense of where this model fits.
Tom ButcherGUEST
32:10
So this is a single lap that I've literally recorded moments before we did the podcast.
Mike BrownHOST
32:18
It's in Menton, which, as I mentioned, doesn't actually feature in the final game.
Mike BrownHOST
32:22
But Matt Bradley and I did drive this route when we did our first research trip.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
79:06
The curse of Dante, who prayed that the island of Gorgona might dam up the mouth of the river, has been fulfilled.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
79:14
Even the delicate invalids who a hundred years ago found in Pisa an agreeable and bracing air now go to Cannes, Menton, and San Remo.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
79:24
The town exists on memories alone.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
79:28
In 1280 Pisa was the sovereign city of a wide domain.

5 HRS 23 MINS LATER

Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
402:29
Louis of Anjou, the pretender to the crown of Naples, hastened to Pisa.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
402:34
The Florentines and the Viennese joined in the league which was formed against Ladislav.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
402:39
Baltasar Cosa, the papal legate, more powerful than the pope himself, put himself at the head of the enterprise, and the military command was entrusted to Malatesta, who had as lieutenant under him Sforza d'Attendolo and Braccio de Mentone, two famous condottieri who were soon to fill Italy with their quarrels.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
403:01
The enterprise was successful.

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