President Macron... and macarons
The Earful Tower: Paris
Oliver Gee
4.8 • 794 Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2018
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
The best way to understand a country is to understand the person running it. That's my theory at least.
And with that in mind, we've got Adam Plowright in the studio. Now, Adam may not be the person running France, but he is the man who wrote the first book in English about France's President Emmanuel Macron
He explains the "Macron handshake", the president's fascinating rise to power, and how he dreams of Macron after following him around for a year.
He also gives us a few tips on how to become successful, from what he's observed from Macron.
Find Adam's book - The French Exception: Emmanuel Macron – The Extraordinary Rise and Risk - here.
After Adam, we have a new voice on the show, April Pett who runs the April in Paris tours. Due to a hilarious miscommunication, she didn't come with a story about Macron - but about macarons, the sweet meringue-based confection.
Thanks in advance, and maybe see you in Paris?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, hello, hello, hello from a very snowy Paris. That should be bonjour. |
| 0:04.4 | Bonjour, bonjour, from a very snowy Paris. Yes, it's snowing today. More on that later. |
| 0:08.3 | You're listening to the Earful Tower. If this is the first time you've ever listened to the |
| 0:11.5 | Earful Tower, welcome. You've come in at season three your host, trying to figure out France with the help of guests who know best. |
| 0:24.5 | If you've been here from the start, that's like 52 episodes now. |
| 0:28.3 | Welcome back. |
| 0:29.8 | Today, we've got an episode all about Emmanuel Macron, or Macron, if you prefer, the president of France. |
| 0:39.2 | And this is all according to the man who's written the first book in English about him, Adam Plowright. So this guy, Adam, I met him in a |
| 0:45.0 | bar a couple months ago. We got talking about Macron. He's telling me how he followed him |
| 0:48.7 | around for a whole year on the presidential campaign trail. And I was like, well, that is an |
| 0:53.2 | interesting story. Come on my show and he |
| 0:54.8 | said yes so that's what you're about to hear for the large part of the show today he talks about the |
| 1:00.3 | macron handshake which is a bit different to Donald trubs he talks about macron's fascinating rise to |
| 1:06.2 | power and he also talk about he how adam dreams about mac Macron after spending so much time with him. |
| 1:12.5 | I thought that was pretty funny. |
| 1:14.6 | Adam also gives us a few tips on how to become successful. |
| 1:17.2 | So if you're listening and you're thinking, I want to be a president, |
| 1:19.7 | then you might just find some secrets here that will help you get to the top. |
| 1:24.2 | But before we get into that, the book is called The French Exception, Emmanuel Macron, |
| 1:29.5 | The Extraordinary Rise and Risk. |
| 1:32.0 | I hope you enjoy this episode. |
| 1:33.2 | But before we get into it, I want to say huge thanks to the 72 people who've subscribed |
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