Latest / The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of / Gina's Rome Adventure For April 7th 2025
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- 0:00Speaker 1: You know, it's the jubilee in Rome. Do you know
- 0:04Speaker 1: what the jubilee is, the jubilee found of the city.
- 0:08Speaker 2: It's a it's a it's an anniversary. It's it's a
- 0:11Speaker 2: pilgrimage that Catholics make to go. Say, it's kind of like, uh,
- 0:18Speaker 2: like going to Mecca. It's kind of like going and
- 0:22Speaker 2: paying your respects. So there were extra it was extra
- 0:25Speaker 2: Catholic catholic y there, and everybody's worried about the pope.
- 0:30Speaker 2: And I was worried about the pope too, because if
- 0:33Speaker 2: he died while.
- 0:34Speaker 1: We were there. Oh yeah, you wouldn't be able to
- 0:37Speaker 1: leave the country.
- 0:37Speaker 2: You get you get the Conclave.
- 0:40Speaker 1: You guys both watched the Conclave. I did. I haven't
- 0:42Speaker 1: watched it, and.
- 0:45Speaker 2: It it just shuts down everything. Well because all the
- 0:48Speaker 2: cardinals have to come from all over the world for
- 0:51Speaker 2: the conclave, so there's tons of more people that come in.
- 0:55Speaker 2: Conclave is where they picked the new pope, right, And
- 0:58Speaker 2: if you're curious about that process us, you should watch
- 1:01Speaker 2: that movie.
- 1:01Speaker 1: Yeah, I was curious. It's all political. I learned a lot.
- 1:06Speaker 2: It's absolutely political, and it's it's fascinating. And I watched
- 1:12Speaker 2: it on the plane out there, and then we went
- 1:16Speaker 2: through the Sistine Chapel and Saint Peter's and all that.
- 1:19Speaker 1: You saw the Pope, didn't you, he he he. I'm okay.
- 1:24Speaker 2: He came out after we left.
- 1:28Speaker 1: He came out.
- 1:29Speaker 2: Well.
- 1:29Speaker 1: He made an appearance on the balcony there. Yeah, hey everybody,
- 1:34Speaker 1: I'm okay, look I'm here.
- 1:35Speaker 2: Have you guys been there?
- 1:37Speaker 1: I care I have not been.
- 1:39Speaker 2: So when you went to the Sistine Chapel was Were
- 1:42Speaker 2: there a million people there? Uh?
- 1:45Speaker 3: No, that's the benefit of going with a tour group.
- 1:49Speaker 2: They hurried us like there's so much to see in there,
- 1:52Speaker 2: and they hurried you through. They're like, no, sorry, you
- 1:54Speaker 2: gotta I'm.
- 1:54Speaker 1: Like, you go to the coliseum.
- 1:57Speaker 2: So so our good friend Carol Bernard Art, Yes, no, Caro,
- 2:02Speaker 2: yes we do. She gave me a recommendation. I look
- 2:06Speaker 2: for opportunities to remain seated, and she said, I have
- 2:10Speaker 2: a restaurant across the street from a coliseum.
- 2:13Speaker 1: Like you have a restaurant.
- 2:14Speaker 2: Well, no, she suggested a restaurant where you could just
- 2:17Speaker 2: sit and look at the coliseum so we didn't have
- 2:19Speaker 2: to go on the tour. Oh, actually you can see it.
- 2:21Speaker 2: X ninety six dot com slash Live.
- 2:23Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it's right there.
- 2:26Speaker 2: Carrots, no penny, penn are abata and apparol sprits.
- 2:31Speaker 1: Oh nice. So you didn't go into the college.
- 2:35Speaker 2: Because she's like, why you don't have to go in
- 2:37Speaker 2: you can just sit there and look at.
- 2:40Speaker 1: It was perfect.
- 2:42Speaker 3: I mean, I will say this, it's it's an amazing structure.
- 2:47Speaker 3: Not much to see inside.
- 2:48Speaker 2: That's what she had the best. She's like, she said,
- 2:50Speaker 2: don't don't take the tour, just go eat across the
- 2:53Speaker 2: street and then you can say you were I was
- 2:55Speaker 2: at the coliseum.
- 2:56Speaker 1: Well don't go inside's right there. You didn't see any gladiators,
- 3:02Speaker 1: did you.
- 3:03Speaker 2: And the great thing is in Italy you you could
- 3:06Speaker 2: sit at that table all day.
- 3:08Speaker 1: They will never ask.
- 3:09Speaker 2: You to leave.
- 3:10Speaker 1: No, just and I would. I would just sit and drink.
- 3:14Speaker 1: I would. Did you go to the fountain and throw
- 3:17Speaker 1: some coins in it?
- 3:18Speaker 2: We tried to go to the Trevy Fountain. We couldn't
- 3:20Speaker 2: get close to it.
- 3:21Speaker 1: Too many people.
- 3:22Speaker 3: Yes, it's such a problem that the locals are upset
- 3:27Speaker 3: about it.
- 3:27Speaker 2: There are parts of Rome that are that that are
- 3:31Speaker 2: like Disneyland, which is unfortunately what.
- 3:34Speaker 3: Do you mean just a million people are the rides.
- 3:40Speaker 1: Okay then.
- 3:43Speaker 2: But yeah, I mean you just go a few streets
- 3:45Speaker 2: over and it's fine. But there are places in Rome
- 3:48Speaker 2: where you're like, yeah, I will.
- 3:49Speaker 4: I will go to You go two streets over, and
- 3:54Speaker 4: it's not crowded because there's.
- 3:55Speaker 1: Nothing there is there in Rome.
- 3:58Speaker 2: There's always something to see. There's always something to see.
- 4:02Speaker 1: And is it now?
- 4:04Speaker 4: I remember somebody once telling me who'd been there a
- 4:06Speaker 4: long time ago, said it was a very dirty city.
- 4:10Speaker 2: No.
- 4:11Speaker 4: No, so they've cleaned it up. It's I think it's
- 4:14Speaker 4: probably better than it used to be.
- 4:16Speaker 2: It's I mean, it's old old things.
- 4:18Speaker 4: I don't know.
- 4:19Speaker 1: Yeah, there was no there was not. I didn't see
- 4:24Speaker 1: any of that.
- 4:26Speaker 4: But you know, you go go over there, things are
- 4:28Speaker 4: so old you think they get some new stuff.
- 4:31Speaker 1: There is no new stuff to get some new stuff.
- 4:34Speaker 3: Like I said, go for the food, go for the wine.
- 4:38Speaker 3: Leave the homophobia and racism behind.
- 4:42Speaker 1: Now you went to you did?
- 4:43Speaker 4: You went to Vatican City then, right, yep, which is
- 4:46Speaker 4: actually its own own country.
- 4:48Speaker 2: I like to another country.
- 4:50Speaker 3: So you do well, we'll tell you about it in
- 4:53Speaker 3: the future.