Art De Vivre (I of II)

Benjamen Walker's Theory of Everything

Benjamen Walker & Radiotopia

Society & Culture, Personal Journals

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🗓️ 26 May 2015

⏱️ 35 minutes

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The voice of the ToE episode announcer revealed! (her name is Mathilde) and she joins our host for this two part series about the intersection between France and China and wine. The story of the red obsession of Wealthy Chinese has been told many times, but what is going to happen when China’s elusive emerging middle class gets wine fever? Can wine transmit cultural values? Can it transcend consumerism? In this installment Benjamen and Mathilde traverse France to discover this vino nouvelle vague.

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0:00.0	You are listening to Benjamin Walker's Theory of Everything.
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0:21.4	fm. Thanks. Hey dear listener, it's me Benjamin Walker. I just
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1:27.0	You are listening to Benjamin Walker Theory of Everything.
1:32.0	This installment is called Ardevivre.
1:37.0	Ardevivre part one.
1:39.0	Ardevivre part one.
1:42.0	I get a lot of emails from listeners asking me who that voice is at the beginning of the
1:46.7	podcast it's actually Matild hi my wife and she is from France. Yes, I'm French. For the past few years now we've been
1:57.8	spending our summers in Paris and Burgundy where Matilda's from and I've totally and completely fallen in love with the French way of life.
2:07.0	Of course, it's unfair to pit France against America, because America doesn't even have a decent rail system or a universal health
2:16.1	care, but I can't help it. Bicycle-friendly roadways, rolling green hills, long afternoon lunches.
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