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BONUS RADIO: A Glimpse into Italy and the American Experience · That KEVIN Show

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  Speaker 1: From the birthplace of radio's greatest era. Now from New
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  Speaker 2: Welcome, It is UH Radio Live. It has traveled Tuesday,
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  Speaker 2: and here in New York we are muddling our way
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  Speaker 2: through a kind of rainy, stormy week.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know about this.
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  Speaker 2: I don't like it. Linda. Maybe you need to go
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  Speaker 2: back to Italy or something, because whatever whatever this jump
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  Speaker 2: is now, it's like, don't bring this home.
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  Speaker 3: Oh it's horrible.
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  Speaker 4: Second day, and not in a row, but second day
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  Speaker 4: that's like this, you know, Kevin weather phenomenon. I was
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  Speaker 4: just thinking about this this morning, the fact that yesterday
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  Speaker 4: was the most glorious day. It was perfect, and when
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  Speaker 4: I went to bed, it was a crystal clear night
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  Speaker 4: watching the Yankees see in the stadium that you always
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  Speaker 4: get us. You can always tell what the weather's like
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  Speaker 4: when you're at the stadium and even on TV, right, gorgeous,
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  Speaker 4: pink skies, beautiful, and then you wake up to this.
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  Speaker 3: Like when does this transition happen? When does this?
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  Speaker 2: Oh? Is the stuff rolls across? And you know, before
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  Speaker 2: this we had Canada's lovely oh yeah, wildfire smoke, And
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  Speaker 2: it's it's one thousand percent their own fault because they
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  Speaker 2: don't clear their They've got they've got a bunch of
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  Speaker 2: green wackos up there that don't clear brush in their
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  Speaker 2: in their in their forests. And so you when when
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  Speaker 2: a fire breaks out, it gets really bad because it's
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  Speaker 2: got a lot of fuel to burn, and it's got
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  Speaker 2: a lot of stuff that it can throw up in
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  Speaker 2: the air. Same problem that California has. All the all
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  Speaker 2: the environmental greenies won't let them burn the underbrush off
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  Speaker 2: and keep it, keep the forest nice. Poor guys playing
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  Speaker 2: soccer and stuff. I was like, I am they actually
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  Speaker 2: had a really nice day for the Sunday game, but
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  Speaker 2: it was, oh my god, I was worried into it.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, but you know what, Listen, I don't feel bad
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  Speaker 4: for them. I'm sorry, Kevin.
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  Speaker 2: I just well, let me ask you about that. So
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  Speaker 2: we had this whole month of these teams coming in
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  Speaker 2: and they they went from seed to Shining Sea. They
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  Speaker 2: played in LA, they played in the Northwest, they played
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  Speaker 2: in Miami, they played here in the Northeast, and I
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  Speaker 2: almost wish I could have put a bunch of American
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  Speaker 2: politicians on the buses with them and let them go
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  Speaker 2: around and see the country through. There is the way
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  Speaker 2: they saw it. Because these guys were fans of America.
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  Speaker 2: They come in and they go this place is awesome.
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  Speaker 2: This isn't like what we do.
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  Speaker 3: Well too. I mean, listen, let's face facts. They were
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  Speaker 3: treated like royalty.
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  Speaker 4: So where I live in Morris County, in Madison, we
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  Speaker 4: were a hub for their practice arenas in Red Bull
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  Speaker 4: right here in Marstown. They used another practice facility in Whippany,
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  Speaker 4: which is ten minutes for me. Then the Argentinian team
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  Speaker 4: stayed at the Short Hills Hilton, which is another ten
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  Speaker 4: minutes from here, so we had a lot of activity
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  Speaker 4: going on, and they were celebritized. I mean it was
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  Speaker 4: like the Beatles in nineteen sixty four.
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  Speaker 3: What was the invasion of baking in.
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  Speaker 2: Every country they hold the World Cup in?
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  Speaker 4: I guess so, I mean, I listen. I'm not a
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  Speaker 4: soccer fan, so I didn't feel it. I could see it,
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  Speaker 4: and I could see the magnitude of emotion that it
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  Speaker 4: brought to a lot of these fans, which I think
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  Speaker 4: is very cool.
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  Speaker 3: The one thing I have.
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  Speaker 4: To say is to tag onto what you're saying. These
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  Speaker 4: guys were so here. I mean they were shopping at
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  Speaker 4: the Short Hills Mall.
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  Speaker 5: They went to BUCkies, but ps gracious, these fans were
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  Speaker 5: stopping them, the young fans, especially that you know.
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  Speaker 3: Waiting outside hotels at the mall, cornering these guys while
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  Speaker 3: they were shopping at the.
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  Speaker 4: Mall, and they were nice and gracious, and I thought
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  Speaker 4: that that was If that was any take home message
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  Speaker 4: for other athletes is to see that because these kids
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  Speaker 4: are looking at.
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  Speaker 3: You like your God and you are God to them.
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  Speaker 4: They all want to be professional athletes, and they you know,
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  Speaker 4: giving them twenty seconds of your time to sign something
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  Speaker 4: or to take a selfie is just to me.
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  Speaker 3: There it was.
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  Speaker 4: That was the lesson. That's what I learned from having
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  Speaker 4: them here. Not about soccer. I don't care about soccer,
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  Speaker 4: and I'm not a soccer guy.
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  Speaker 2: I've never been. We did watch the final game just
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  Speaker 2: because Messi was in it, and.
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  Speaker 3: My kids picked up.
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  Speaker 2: On Messy a little bit, so we'd kind of watched that,
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  Speaker 2: but you know, it was boring, like it was. It
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  Speaker 2: was scoreless for the whole regular game, and then they
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  Speaker 2: went into extra time and they did. They didn't score
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  Speaker 2: the winning goal until like into the extra extra time.
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  Speaker 2: But at the end of it, I'm looking back over
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  Speaker 2: the whole month. I mean, you had these really and
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  Speaker 2: people don't understand in America truly how big of stars
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  Speaker 2: these guys are because every every Messy that's on one
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  Speaker 2: of their teams is the equivalent of like Michael Jordan
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  Speaker 2: and their country back home.
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  Speaker 3: Right, Well, they are.
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  Speaker 2: You mentioned God, they are. They are. They are worshiped
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  Speaker 2: because they don't follow football or baseball or you know,
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  Speaker 2: any of that stuff.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I was just going to say to them in
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  Speaker 4: the in the United States, because we're spoiled brats, right,
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  Speaker 4: we have way too much of everything.
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  Speaker 3: Baseball is baseball.
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  Speaker 4: That's during the summertime once baseball, and oh you become
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  Speaker 4: a basketball fan because that's the fall winter sport.
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  Speaker 3: And oh do you still love soccer? We got soccer
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  Speaker 3: for you too.
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  Speaker 4: We've got sports going on all your The Europeans do
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  Speaker 4: not have South America and.
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  Speaker 2: The Middle East. Yeah, they're all it's all the same.
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  Speaker 3: It's all soccer.
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  Speaker 2: The point I was going to make was is that
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  Speaker 2: they go so they they're fascinated, and they've been told,
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  Speaker 2: largely by a lot of their governments, US is bad.
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  Speaker 2: Everything's bad. You know, this is a terrible country. So
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  Speaker 2: what do they do. They come over here, they see
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  Speaker 2: that people are thriving, that it's not like a terrible place.
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  Speaker 2: And then they go to places like Walmart and they
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  Speaker 2: see massive amounts of goods like at Lolo Prices. And
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  Speaker 2: I think I think the funniest thing was Earling whatever
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  Speaker 2: his name was from from the Norwegian team. He gets
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  Speaker 2: off the plane when they land back in Norway and
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  Speaker 2: he has his five thousand dollars Louis Vuton carry on
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  Speaker 2: in one hand and in the other hand he's got
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  Speaker 2: his his stuffed raccoon from BUCkies, holding the bottle of
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  Speaker 2: Tennessee in the other and he gets off the plane
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  Speaker 2: and he's holding them both up like they're the same thing. Now,
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  Speaker 2: that thing costs, you know, maybe maybe fifty bucks had BUCkies.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what the cost for that raccoon was.
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  Speaker 3: It was Bucky. I don't think there's anything fifty dollars
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  Speaker 3: at Bucky.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, maybe not. But he's got the Louis Vuitton
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  Speaker 2: and he's got the raccoon, and it was like he
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  Speaker 2: had been to like paradise, you know, and he's coming home.
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  Speaker 2: And that's what That's what Americans don't have. We don't
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  Speaker 2: have an appreciation for what we experience here or race
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  Speaker 2: our life is. And I'm just done with these insufferable complainers.
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  Speaker 2: You had people that were from legitimately socialist country trees
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  Speaker 2: that came over here and were like, I can't believe
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  Speaker 2: how much everybody in America has when they're in a
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  Speaker 2: socialist program back home, and nobody has anything. Even even
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  Speaker 2: if you're ly well off, you don't have anything, but
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  Speaker 2: the poor certainly don't. And they see that our poor
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  Speaker 2: have Jordan's cell phone.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and you're right, so here's go ahead, Kathy.
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  Speaker 2: But but I felt like it was a great big
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  Speaker 2: PR tour for America, like for Americans to see America
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  Speaker 2: through non American eyes like that on the global stage.
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  Speaker 2: I think was really beneficial for a lot of Americans
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  Speaker 2: because we're like, huh, I guess we do have it
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  Speaker 2: pretty well well.
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  Speaker 3: We're spoiled.
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  Speaker 4: And you know Kevin first, many times as I've been
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  Speaker 4: to Italy, people are like, are you ready to move there?
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  Speaker 3: Would you move there? Would you live there?
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  Speaker 4: And I say, you know what, for like three months
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  Speaker 4: out of the year, and then I'd want to come
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  Speaker 4: home because every time I come back, especially from Europe,
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  Speaker 4: I go I loved where I was as ASTs right,
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  Speaker 4: even Italy.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not a tourist anymore.
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  Speaker 4: But the convenience is that we have in this country
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  Speaker 4: that you will find nowhere else. You can't live without them,
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  Speaker 4: I hate to say it. Can't live without him, can't
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  Speaker 4: live without Walmart twenty four to seven. You can't live
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  Speaker 4: without Instacart, without door Dash, without going to back.
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  Speaker 3: Oh CBS doesn't have that. We'll try Walgreens.
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  Speaker 4: This is I mean, people don't understand that in other
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  Speaker 4: places in the world, you can't live like this. You
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  Speaker 4: cannot live like this, and you're right, ps we take
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  Speaker 4: it completely for granted, and that breaks my heart because
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  Speaker 4: I'm an American.
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  Speaker 2: And I am well and it was fun and I
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  Speaker 2: hope they all had a great time, and I hope
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  Speaker 2: they go back and tell all their countries how cool
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  Speaker 2: a place America is. She's Linda, I'm Kevin. We're coming
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  Speaker 2: right back.
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  Speaker 1: From New York. It's Radio Night Life with Kevin McCullough.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome back. She's Linda, Kevin, Linda Perillo, Kevin mccauaugh. Glad
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  Speaker 2: to be with you. And you know, it's interesting, Linda,
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  Speaker 2: because we were just talking about World Cup. We had,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the Knicks World Champions, you had World Cup,
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  Speaker 2: You've got the sail Forth event that came into New
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  Speaker 2: York Harbor with the ships from all over the world.
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  Speaker 2: But you you were in Italy when all this is
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  Speaker 2: going on. So like I got to see the Medergo Vespucci,
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  Speaker 2: which is the Italian ship that's called the most beautiful
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  Speaker 2: ship in the world by multiple world leaders have have
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  Speaker 2: dubbed her such. So it's been a big, big year
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  Speaker 2: for especially people in the Tri State area, because we've
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  Speaker 2: had a lot of things happen this summer. But this week,
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  Speaker 2: this last weekend, the biggest movie event that had been
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  Speaker 2: anticipated for a long time coming out is Is finally
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  Speaker 2: in theaters and one of my kids got to go
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  Speaker 2: see it with a buddy of his. And so I
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  Speaker 2: have two I have two boys that are both into
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  Speaker 2: the Greek mythological classics, and so they've and some of
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  Speaker 2: some of it's been study that they've had to do
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  Speaker 2: for school, but some of it is just you know,
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  Speaker 2: they they like the Iliad, they liked the Odyssey. They
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  Speaker 2: they and they have discussions about it. I don't I
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  Speaker 2: remember having to read them for class. I don't. I
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  Speaker 2: don't remember a ton about.
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  Speaker 3: Them, key having to They weren't.
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  Speaker 2: They weren't things that radically changed my life. But for
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  Speaker 2: some people they really make an impact. And uh so
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  Speaker 2: there's there's there's back and forth. It's the movie any good, No,
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  Speaker 2: talk to some groups, terrible, it's worst ever talked to
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  Speaker 2: some groups. Oh, they they based it on the feminist
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  Speaker 2: version of the of the book. And then there's another
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  Speaker 2: group that's like, no, it's actually pretty faithful, but you know,
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  Speaker 2: they it's it's violent, it's gory, it's got some weird
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  Speaker 2: things with the psyclopsis and stuff. So just knowing that
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  Speaker 2: it's Greek myth to begin with is all kind of
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  Speaker 2: one thing. But it does revolve around places that you
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  Speaker 2: and I have both been to but also would still
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  Speaker 2: like to go to. And one of them is what's
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  Speaker 2: the name of the little rock formation outside of a
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  Speaker 2: Malfi where the Lecier news swam the sirens were swimming.
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  Speaker 2: That's that's the island that that Odysseus is supposedly where
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  Speaker 2: he experienced the sirens, and you can and it's actually
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  Speaker 2: got a home on it. I think it's I think
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  Speaker 2: it's just outside of It's not Sorrento, it's not Positano. Uh.
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  Speaker 2: And so like last year when we're there, you know,
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  Speaker 2: of course my two boys start talking about, you know,
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  Speaker 2: was this where Odysseus supposedly saw the sirens and the
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  Speaker 2: and the captain of our boat who had us out
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  Speaker 2: that day, he's like, oh, yes, this is the very
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  Speaker 2: spot they were right over there.
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  Speaker 3: You could say, it's.
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  Speaker 2: Like it was totally going there. But these these little
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  Speaker 2: islands and so Ithaca is the other one that I've
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  Speaker 2: never been to, but I but I think I would
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  Speaker 2: like to go to. And it has all of the
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  Speaker 2: heritage of like Homer's writings, and you know, all of
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  Speaker 2: the stories and stuff there, and like this is one
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  Speaker 2: of those things where if you if the if the
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  Speaker 2: stories or the movies of today do us any service
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  Speaker 2: at all, it's that sometimes they can point us back
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  Speaker 2: to these places where real beauty took place. And Greece
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  Speaker 2: and Italy are loaded with those places.
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  Speaker 4: So let me interrupt you for a second. I was
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  Speaker 4: not incorrect on all of them. They are a group
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  Speaker 4: of islands. It's called le Gali Lee l I g
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  Speaker 4: A l l I.
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  Speaker 3: So I was right.
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  Speaker 4: Copperty is one, uh is one. I mentioned that, all
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  Speaker 4: so Lecosa and then uh Venotine. So there's this whole
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  Speaker 4: little group and that's where I guess they claim that
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  Speaker 4: they saw the sirens.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm trying to He just called this this, these
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  Speaker 2: structures the Legali, but they were.
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  Speaker 4: They were Galilee Gali, right, What did I say.
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  Speaker 3: Lee Golli? But Lee Golli too, So leave the Golli.
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  Speaker 2: Like I know that you're primarily an Italy girl, but
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  Speaker 2: but Greece is something that you would probably.
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  Speaker 4: Well, Sicily has a lot of Greek influence. You know,
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  Speaker 4: we have towns called Siracusa, which is in Greek Greece,
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  Speaker 4: because which is in Sicily, which is Syracuse, right, we
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  Speaker 4: have all these different influence that does come from the Greeks.
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  Speaker 3: And the Greeks are very close to the Italians.
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  Speaker 4: I mean that Mediterranean is so close, so close in culture,
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  Speaker 4: in warmth, in food, even it's the very just.
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  Speaker 2: You know, at different times, and.
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  Speaker 4: A lot of intermarriage kevin marriage, we call it marriage breeding.
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  Speaker 4: You know, there's a lot of interbreeding among the Mediterraneans
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  Speaker 4: at that time too. So that's why the influence. And
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  Speaker 4: remember something I tell people this all the time. When
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  Speaker 4: you get to the bottom of Italy and especially Sicily,
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  Speaker 4: and you have all those uh entryways, right, because Italy
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  Speaker 4: is a peninsula more so than you do up with
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  Speaker 4: the North.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but grow from Africa too.
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  Speaker 1: Well.
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  Speaker 4: I was just gonna say, Sicily has a lot of
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  Speaker 4: influence also from.
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  Speaker 3: The African countries like Egypt. That's why they're dark.
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  Speaker 4: That's why Sicilians are dark, I mean, because they do
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  Speaker 4: have that. And it's listen, it's just it's the way
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  Speaker 4: it happened, it's the way the world. It's they traveled
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  Speaker 4: and they did whatever they did and had children.
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  Speaker 2: And so why is the so is the is the
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  Speaker 2: debate about Italians not being Sicilian and Sicilians not being Italian.
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  Speaker 3: It's the other way around.
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  Speaker 4: It's the Sicilians not being Italian because the Italians, you know, listen,
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  Speaker 4: they're just their pain in the butt because they are like,
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  Speaker 4: you know what, anybody that's that was disconnected from the
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  Speaker 4: mainland doesn't count, right, So they don't like the fact
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  Speaker 4: that the Sicilians think that they're Italian. It's really kind
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  Speaker 4: of retort. I mean, it's just kind of silly. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: because they are.
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  Speaker 2: But if you look at the history of Italy, like
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  Speaker 2: they became a nation after the United States.
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  Speaker 3: Did, Yes, they did.
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  Speaker 2: You just had all these on paper, You just had
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  Speaker 2: all these regions that and they largely spoke different languages,
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  Speaker 2: you know, That's why I.
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  Speaker 3: Have all the dialects, so many dialects.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Right, So what was considered to be the true Italian heritage,
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  Speaker 2: the Roman heritage from handed down from the Roman Empire.
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  Speaker 4: Well, that's probably what they're going to say, right, I mean,
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  Speaker 4: I think that's their strongest argument, is the Roman Empire
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  Speaker 4: was the beginning.
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  Speaker 3: Was the seed.
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  Speaker 4: What do we say, it's the cradle of civilization. The
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  Speaker 4: Roman Empire is a cradle of civilization. So it was
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  Speaker 4: supposed to have blossomed into everything else. Now if you
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  Speaker 4: go to Rome, I don't know if you noticed this.
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  Speaker 4: So outside the Colisseum where I got kicked out of
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  Speaker 4: the Colisseum on the side.
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  Speaker 2: You wouldn't put your ear set in.
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  Speaker 4: No, right, didn't have it, not that such a rebel,
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  Speaker 4: it is such a rebel.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't even have it.
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  Speaker 4: But there are I think four or five different maps
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  Speaker 4: that Mussolini put up on the side of the one
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  Speaker 4: of the side buildings of the coliseum.
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  Speaker 3: And it shows you the beginning of what was the.
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  Speaker 4: Roman Empire to what the Roman Empire ended up being
• 17:25
  Speaker 4: right when they did unify, and it's very interesting to
• 17:29
  Speaker 4: see where it goes.
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: It goes, it goes, but it always had its core
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: in Rome, and that was that was it. I don't
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: think you could ever ever argue that.
• 17:40
  Speaker 4: I mean, Roman Empire, Ottoman Empire, they were all part
• 17:43
  Speaker 4: of each other.
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: And then the Romans just they took over.
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: Well, and it makes sense that it made sense that
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: ultimately Italy was the peninsula and the islands attached to it,
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: because that that makes the most sense geographically speaking. But
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: you know, you see such a different culture from Venice
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: down the seat like it is is just a world
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: of difference. Yeah, so anyway I did. I would like
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: to go to Ithaca at some point. I would like
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: to go to Athens at some point. There's there's some
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: more biblical sits I want to see in some of
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: those places. But yeah, a lot of people are looking
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: at the Odyssey, going, hey, I want to go. I
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: want to go check out where the where the Athenians
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: were from and where the Trojan horse was.
• 18:20
  Speaker 4: Built on that beautiful country, absolutely beautiful. Perillo Tours is
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: doing Greece just f y.
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: I you know, your brother doesn't pay you enough to
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: do all the free pub Seriously, you should see.
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: You should say, Steve got anything?
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: Well, there you go, so but you should say, Steve,
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: look every time I mention it, you're gonna you're gonna
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: owe me a hundred bucks and just you know, just
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: make him pay.
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: Maybe that's the way to do it, Kevin.
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: We're going to try that.
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: She's loved I'm Kevin. We got much more straight ahead.
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: And now I'm from New York back to radio night life.
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: Here're Kevin McCullough.
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: Welcome back, Kevin McCullough. It's Tuesday night, It's travel Tuesday.
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: We're grateful to have you with us. Thank you for
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: being here. Linda Parrillo is my co host on Tuesdays,
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: and we have a great time talking about kind of
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: global destinations and everything else. If you would like to
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: read some of our thoughts, and I'm hoping that my
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: co host will submit at least a piece or two
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: from her to recent trip to Italy and how amazing
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: some of the things were that she experienced, because I
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: would love for our readers to know more about. Okay,
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: but anyway, so while you were gone, you know, there
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: was this little thing called Iran that was still going on. Yeah,
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: and I'm curious in your in and out because Iran's
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: not super far from that portion of Europe. What did
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: you see anything different? We're security procedures in any way
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: impacted by what's going on over there at all.
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: No, I didn't notice anything, And as a matter of fact,
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: when I came home, I'm like, wait a minute, what happened.
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: I thought we were.
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: Doing so well here and then you know, you say
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: to yourself, well, yeah.
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: But look who we're dealing with.
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: I mean really, I mean, do we really count on
• 20:07
  Speaker 4: them to be stellar and uphold there, ender the bargain
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: and do this piece.
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: You know, I mean I think we tried.
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: And so the ps to this whole thing is, whenever
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: there's tension anywhere in the world, it doesn't.
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: Matter where you are an American.
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: I hate to say this, but you have to be prudent, right,
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: you're a target. You're a target because whatever Americans do
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: ends up in the forefront of everything, Right, we end
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: up it's the broadcast, it's the top news story. Anytime
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: we're having any kind of relationship with any other country,
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: we get spoken about because we're the big cheese. And
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: that's just the way it goes. So listen, it's nothing new, Kevin.
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: Since the beginning of time. Americans be cautious when you travel,
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: especially nowhere. Your embassy is at all times in every
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: city that you're visiting.
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: That is your haven, you know, So either you're going
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: to stay at home and not.
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: Go anywhere just because you're an American, or you're going
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: to go out there, and you're going to be aware,
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: be very cautious.
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: Of where you're going, what you're doing.
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: Would I tell somebody, g go to Israel today and
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: travel to the Middle East?
• 21:23
  Speaker 6: No?
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: Yeah, get on a plane and go to Italy?
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: Why not? Yeah?
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: But again, be smart about what's happening, because you will
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: forever be a target as a US citizen.
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: And that brings me to the question and the reason
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: we're talking about this friends, by the way, is the
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: US Department did issue today a worldwide cautionary advisory for
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: American citizens because of the redevelopment of hostilities with Iran.
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: And today when I was up very early this morning,
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: evidently Yemen and the Houties are threatening to do to
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: the Red Sea what Iran's trying to do to the
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: Strait of Horror moves. They're all going to be like,
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: really sad when when all of the pipelines are finally
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: online and we don't have to ship oil through ships anymore,
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: because that's going to change that equation big time. But
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: I want to go back to what you were talking about,
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: because I've realized that the more American you seem, especially
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: on foreign soil, I sense the difference in terms of
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: how people watch and look and react and usually it's
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: it's good, but it's so easy to spot us in
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: some of these places, some of these some of these
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: countries that have had like almost zero immigration security in
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: terms of the last few years. Have you have people
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: in some of these places that kind of blend in
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: easier than the Americans do, And so you kind of
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: do stand out where you're in a place. And I purposefully,
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: when we went to Italy last year, I purposely bought
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: some clothes ahead of time to kind of look like
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: I was just more more authentic Italian, just to kind of.
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: Just McCullough, yeah, so Italian.
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: But I don't think it really helps because I don't
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: think I can make myself look like I'm an Italian.
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: But I was conscious. I was conscious of it, which
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: is not something I've been in the past. And I
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: think that's the difference. It's like now something that.
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: I think about, Well, you know, the Americans, I always say,
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: we look like remember that proverbial Like if someone ever
• 23:28
  Speaker 4: showed you a picture of a tourist, the proverbial tourist.
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: With like the hat on and the big camera in
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: front of.
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: Yah's Clark Griswald and vacation too.
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: That's what the profile of the American tourist.
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: And I have to say, we don't really waiver like
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: we kind of do look like that. And I have
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: to say this too, you know, I always try before
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: I go to Italy. I really try to say I'm
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: bringing you know, listen, I'm a close a fictionado anyway,
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: but I.
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: Bring the best outfits I have.
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: I try to no matter what happens I get there,
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: I bought the best outfits. I'm dressed to the nines,
• 24:06
  Speaker 4: and I still don't look like an Italian.
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: I mean, you just can't.
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: You actually are Italian.
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: And I am.
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: And what's available to us here are not the same
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: things that are available to them there. So you know,
• 24:21
  Speaker 4: you'll never really not stand out. You could do as
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: much as you can. But Americans, unfortunately, they.
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: Have a look. And that's part of it.
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: I mean, Europeans look like Europeans. A French person could
• 24:33
  Speaker 4: look like an Italian person.
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: Right, Park and Company in vacation too, they go and
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: they buy all their Italian designer clothes and they look
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: like the funniest thing. Anyway, I'm Kevin, We're coming right
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: back don't go where.
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: What a little moonline can do.
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: It's radio night life. Here's Kevin mccollo.
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: Welcome back, Calvin McCollough, Chris, Christine Nicholas, No Brong night,
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: Linda Perillo.
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: I love Christine.
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: By the way. Speaking of Christine, she's going to join
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: us on September first, is it. We're going to be
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: in in little little Italy, Arthur Avenue up north, are
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: not down down and not down in Manhattan. We're going
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: to be in the Bronx at Marios in in Arthur Avenue,
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: and we're gonna have a lot of people coming over
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: from all the shops. They're all going to be there,
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: but we're gonna do uh, it's going to be a
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: fun night. You're gonna want to be there. Linda and
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: I are going to do our show, and then Christina
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: and I are going to do our show, and Linda
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: is going to be with us on on that show,
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: and Christine may jump on the Tuesday night show. But
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: we have a lot of fun talking about a lot
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: of interesting things. And here's the one thing I did
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: not ask you about yet on tonight show. Linda and
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: you were out of town. But and I'm I'm bracing
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: myself for your response because we've we've we've talked to
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: a handful of other Italians about this since it happened,
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: and it's not been nice any of the times. But
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: the mayor released a map, Oh boy, I'm.
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: Aware of this.
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: It did not have any Italian enclaves, it didn't have
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: the Irish enclave, it had none of the Jewish enclaves
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: in the five boroughs. And I'm just curious your thoughts,
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: your family's thoughts, your many extended Italian family's thoughts about
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: how that was received, because i will tell you that
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: from business leaders like at Arthur Avenue and in Little Italy,
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: there were some pretty steamed people saying, what's he trying
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: to do? Erases from the map?
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: Right?
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: Well, this is what I'm going to say to begin
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: this whole thing, and it's just a very general comment
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: about him. You know, no kings in America, Mondannie, like
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: you're doing the same exact thing that you cry about
• 26:56
  Speaker 4: every day that you broadcast to your liberal city.
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: How dare you? And now he wants to attack Benjamin.
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: He.
• 27:08
  Speaker 4: Wants to arrest him, which he does not have the
• 27:12
  Speaker 4: But it's very interesting to me that there's parallels to
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: what he claimed that Donald Trump does and to what.
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: He wants to do.
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: Now, you want to annihilate people from a map that
• 27:23
  Speaker 4: were artisans and workers. And here's the other thing. Come
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: after me, real immigrants, immigrants who came here with jobs,
• 27:34
  Speaker 4: with families, with hopes, with dreams, health records, legally, without disease,
• 27:42
  Speaker 4: without anything. And that's what you want to do. Wow,
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: talk about Okay Cuckoo. I don't understand him. I don't
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: understand his followers. It's terrible.
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: And on that map that I didn't even know existed,
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: like little Senate, did you know, what do you think
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: of New York? Do you think of little Senegal?
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: Like the first thing that comes to mind? You should
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: play this game. You should go on the street, say,
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: first thing that comes to mind.
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: In New York? What do you think of little Synegal? Yeah?
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: Little yeah, yeah, our little Haiti. But if you're looking
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: about if you're looking at New York and you're saying, okay,
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: what communities came to New York and built modern New York?
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: So and I've watched Eric Burns' New York documentary on PBS,
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: like maybe twenty five or thirty times and it's twelve
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: hours long, but it's it is worth the watch. But
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: you had the Dutch come first, and then you had
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: the British, and then you had the Revolution and we
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: were occupied for the whole length of the war, and
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: then the American colonials broke out. But then you had
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: the immigration waves that came and the Italians came, and
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: Jews came, and the Irish came, and those three communities
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: were really the communities that made modern New York what
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: it is.
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: I was just gonna say, we build it.
• 29:05
  Speaker 7: And they did it peaceful, living next door to each other,
• 29:08
  Speaker 7: like right, they didn't have problems like the Irish and
• 29:11
  Speaker 7: the Italians, you know, both well whatever, but like but
• 29:15
  Speaker 7: they lived with each other and they got it done.
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: The same thing with Jews. So why are we why
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: are we like, oh, look at this little Muslim neighborhood
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: and look at this one, and you're ignoring these massive
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: communities that basically gave you the city that you now.
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: Have, because we're not living in the same New York City,
• 29:33
  Speaker 4: in the same New York City suburbs that we were
• 29:36
  Speaker 4: living in Kevin when when I grew up and we
• 29:38
  Speaker 4: had these mayors that realized that.
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: Guess what, New York City is a melting pot.
• 29:44
  Speaker 6: And we did respect all of those groups that formed
• 29:49
  Speaker 6: this city that how about this that built this city,
• 29:53
  Speaker 6: like I said, the artisans, the people that the masons,
• 29:57
  Speaker 6: and everyone had a job.
• 29:59
  Speaker 4: Like you said said the Italians had probably one thing
• 30:02
  Speaker 4: that they did well. The Irish had another thing that
• 30:05
  Speaker 4: they did well. And okay, the banter back and forth,
• 30:08
  Speaker 4: whatever their issue was with each other, they worked in harmony.
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: When they were on those big skyscraper skeletons. They didn't
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: care if they were Irish or Italian. That what they
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: cared about was not can you catch the molten bullet
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: that's being thrown at you to put into the to
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: the thing and can you keep your balance? That's what
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: they cared about when they were up there.
• 30:27
  Speaker 4: Absolutely, and I think it's it's absolutely heinous and terrible.
• 30:31
  Speaker 4: And if I ever met him one day, I would
• 30:33
  Speaker 4: really tell him exactly that.
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: I have a feeling you you would, I don't.
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: I would. He's destroying He's destroying that city.
• 30:43
  Speaker 4: And I hope everyone that voted for him realizes what
• 30:46
  Speaker 4: he's doing.
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: Well, there's there's a lot of Italian New Yorkers that
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: I think have been sufficiently put off by this. We'll see,
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: all right. She's Lynndam Kevin. We're coming back with.
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: Perillas one once again from New York. Here's night life
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: and Kevin McCulla welcome back.
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: She's Blinda. I'm Kevin. Glad to have you with us,
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: and please do come out September one. We are going
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: to be in Arthur Avenue at Marios and you know,
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: of all of the Italian eateies there, Linda is Marios.
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: I want to know the best.
• 31:21
  Speaker 4: Well, yes, And here's the thing. There are many that
• 31:24
  Speaker 4: have surfaced since it was my father.
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: There's like seven or eight that have been there for
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: one hundred years. There's like seven or eight there that
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: have been there at least one hundred years.
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, for sure.
• 31:37
  Speaker 4: But Mario's was always, you know, Mario's go to, my
• 31:40
  Speaker 4: dad's go to.
• 31:41
  Speaker 3: He loved it there. He knew the owner very well,
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: Joe very well.
• 31:46
  Speaker 4: So I've known Regina for years and she's hosting and
• 31:49
  Speaker 4: she's a wonderful girl.
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: She the first generation from that Mario, I believe.
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: So yeah, well from Joe who the owner.
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: So you but you two are on the same level.
• 32:00
  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah. So
• 32:03
  Speaker 4: that's why I always try to focus on Marios and listen.
• 32:07
  Speaker 4: They are classic Italian American cuisine.
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: You know inside its ornate and I love all that
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: stuff and the best.
• 32:16
  Speaker 4: Spiadini a la romana that you will ever find in
• 32:20
  Speaker 4: your life. What did you just say, spadini spiadini a
• 32:25
  Speaker 4: la romana. Spiadini are pieces of fried bread with stuffed
• 32:32
  Speaker 4: with fresh mozzarella and.
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: Then deep fried. Oh then on top.
• 32:37
  Speaker 4: Wait, a lot of people don't love this is an
• 32:40
  Speaker 4: anchovy sauce.
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: Oh like, oh my.
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: Gosh, the best ever.
• 32:46
  Speaker 4: So Marios is known for their spiadini and again very
• 32:50
  Speaker 4: classic Italian.
• 32:53
  Speaker 3: Cooking, and that's what you love about.
• 32:56
  Speaker 4: Like if I go to the Bronx, I don't want
• 32:59
  Speaker 4: food fool nouvelle cuisine. I want Dominick's American chicken parm
• 33:06
  Speaker 4: or something similar from Domini's, right, or go to Marios
• 33:11
  Speaker 4: and get more upscale Italian American.
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: What's your favorite what's your favorite form of pasta?
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: It depends, It really depends on what it is. My
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: dad loved that, Matrisiana loved it.
• 33:25
  Speaker 4: I would like, oh you mean you're talking about pasta
• 33:30
  Speaker 4: shape pasta type.
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: I love, oh bumbolott.
• 33:33
  Speaker 4: I love bumbolotti, which are like a very short, fat
• 33:38
  Speaker 4: tube pasta. That's one of my absolute favorites. I'm not
• 33:42
  Speaker 4: a big spaghetti girl. But here's the same Kevin that
• 33:46
  Speaker 4: I'm going to give you. There are certain sauces that
• 33:49
  Speaker 4: go on certain types of pasta, so not every type
• 33:52
  Speaker 4: of sauce you're going to put on every type of pasta,
• 33:55
  Speaker 4: and the Italians are like fanatical about it. There's certain
• 33:59
  Speaker 4: pastas that are to grip onto a short shortain sauces
• 34:02
  Speaker 4: onto a short pasta. There are some that are made carbonara.
• 34:07
  Speaker 4: You would put on a long pasta on a spaghetti
• 34:10
  Speaker 4: Rightlinguini voonbole sauce, you will put that on linguine amtsana.
• 34:16
  Speaker 4: You want a short pasta, al rabiata, you want a
• 34:20
  Speaker 4: short pasta.
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: So now you now, ladies and gentlemen, now you've had
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: the shorthand pasta class by Linda Perillo. Tonight to be
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: continued next time. Linda. Great to see you and can't
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: wait to sit down and have some spidini with you Soonmana, yeah,
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: well maybe ala romana. See, I'll see what if I
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: feel like that night. All right, friends, join us tomorrow,
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: will be doing wellness. Kevin mccallaugh, glad to have you.