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Nick's Sicilian Pinecone From July 7, 2025 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: So we had a Fourth of July over the weekend.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously, I'm not sure what your guys's plans were, but
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  Speaker 2: I just caught up with the fam first.
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  Speaker 3: It's a big, big it's a big family holidays.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's been a big family summer for me.
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  Speaker 2: My brother got married, my other brother has been like
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  Speaker 2: out in California. So fourth of July with it being
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  Speaker 2: my dad's birthday recently, was just kind of like a
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  Speaker 2: way to get together for the first time in weeks.
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  Speaker 1: We our family.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like the way Gina talks about her family
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  Speaker 2: are very similar, Like like we get together a lot,
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  Speaker 2: like we we there are a lot of.
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  Speaker 3: Events, so there are a lot of mandatory things.
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  Speaker 1: Who attend too many, if you ask me, way too many?
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  Speaker 2: Uh So, uh my mom and my sister recently got
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  Speaker 2: back from like this cruise vacation in Europe post my
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  Speaker 2: brother's birthday. Uh So, my mom, much like Gene, I
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  Speaker 2: feel like, is the type of who's like I was
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  Speaker 2: thinking about you and I got you a gift while
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  Speaker 2: I was gone. So it's me, my wife, my brother
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  Speaker 2: and his new wife, like all sitting on the back patio.
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  Speaker 2: My similar thing, Like it's been a while, I wanted
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  Speaker 2: to get you guys something, and my mom, well, well
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  Speaker 2: she was there. And this requires a little bit of googling.
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  Speaker 2: Got me and my brother for each of our households
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  Speaker 2: a Sicilian pine cone.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm not sure if.
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  Speaker 4: You're gonna make me google Sicilian pine it.
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  Speaker 2: It is an oval shaped object with a flared.
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  Speaker 3: Bass No, she didn't we.
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  Speaker 2: In Sicilian culture, as Google says, the pine cone, known
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  Speaker 2: as the pina in Italian is a powerful symbol of
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  Speaker 2: good luck, prosperity, and motility.
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  Speaker 3: Is she wants grand babies? That's what this is?
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  Speaker 1: Does that contribute to Grandberry's grand babies?
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  Speaker 5: Grandberry's Katie said that to uh to the TV one
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  Speaker 5: x ninety six dot com slash live and we can't
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  Speaker 5: we have a picture of it.
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  Speaker 6: This takes a minute.
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  Speaker 1: My there, we kind there.
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  Speaker 3: It is naive.
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  Speaker 1: Mother put these out.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, first of all, let's talk about the design. This
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  Speaker 5: is just a bad design. There's so much potential for
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  Speaker 5: bacteria there.
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  Speaker 2: I think they go back years right like as a
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  Speaker 2: cultural staple.
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  Speaker 1: But this is a no.
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  Speaker 4: But this is supposed to it's a It's a common
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  Speaker 4: motif in Sicilian ceramics, often given as a gift for
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  Speaker 4: weddings or births, carrying wishes of happiness and a thriving family.
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  Speaker 2: Me and my wife just moved into a new place,
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  Speaker 2: my brother just got married. So my thoughtful mother, he
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  Speaker 2: said that this would be a very kind thing. So
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  Speaker 2: she presents it.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, I mean I can't call it what it is, yeah,
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  Speaker 5: because the FCC you will not allow me.
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  Speaker 1: But it's.
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  Speaker 4: She presents this to me with a flaired base, with
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  Speaker 4: sitting on a base.
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  Speaker 2: She presents it to me, and uh, I guess maybe
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  Speaker 2: in other circumstances I'd be able to hold myself together
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  Speaker 2: a little bit better.
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  Speaker 1: But just the casualness of my family, I burst out laughing.
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  Speaker 3: Do you make your mom feel bad?
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking about it.
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  Speaker 3: On the radio.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think I'm helping.
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  Speaker 6: You're not helping her?
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  Speaker 2: She meant, well, she did, she did. My brother starts laughing,
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  Speaker 2: our wives convincingly. Uh, go, like, what could you possibly
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  Speaker 2: be laughing at with these two things? I find out
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  Speaker 2: later they both immediately thought the exact.
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  Speaker 1: Same thing when it was brought out.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, and my mom gets very rightfully so dejected.
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  Speaker 1: No, No, it's.
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  Speaker 2: It's for homes and weddings and I was just thinking
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  Speaker 2: of you guys on the trip, and I made the
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  Speaker 2: bad comment of saying like, well, I do really enjoy
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  Speaker 2: the ribbing.
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  Speaker 3: That is Nick, you are grounded.
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  Speaker 1: It is sitting prominently in our new living.
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  Speaker 3: You.
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  Speaker 7: You will fondly look at this, of course, for years
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  Speaker 7: to come.
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  Speaker 3: That's please stop.
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  Speaker 6: Okay, all right, you will.
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  Speaker 7: This is a story course.
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  Speaker 2: And you know what she said, she regretted without still
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  Speaker 2: understanding what I was referencing.
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  Speaker 1: She was like, I wish I got you guys the
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  Speaker 1: bigger one.
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  Speaker 3: No, she did.
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  Speaker 6: Okay, I hate to ask it.
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  Speaker 1: I hate to ask this question.
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  Speaker 6: But how big is it?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, it's like the size of a fist.
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  Speaker 6: You hadn't use that as a measurement.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it's you know, it's it's it's an easy Mom.
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  Speaker 7: Tried to do a nice thing, and you had to
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  Speaker 7: make it nasty.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't make anything nasty.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: The Sicilian pine cones made themselves.
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  Speaker 7: I'm sticking up for your your water. I'm sticking up
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  Speaker 7: for I'm defending that's better.
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  Speaker 3: Oh my god, that's better. That is funny though.
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  Speaker 1: That was my fourth of July.
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  Speaker 2: And yeah, I'm very proud of my Sicilian pine cone
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  Speaker 2: in the middle of this.
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  Speaker 3: This is a great addition to your home. It's got
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  Speaker 3: a story. When you have people over, this is a
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  Speaker 3: it's a conversation.
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  Speaker 6: You're gonna look at it and go, let's get out
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  Speaker 6: of here.
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  Speaker 3: I've never heard of this.
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  Speaker 6: Put a pineapple next to it.
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  Speaker 3: Sure, yeah, it kind of goes together.
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  Speaker 1: Away.
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  Speaker 5: I'm glad I had nothing happening this fourth of July.
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  Speaker 5: Nothing well, I mean, this is.
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  Speaker 1: What the hell kind of it?
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  Speaker 8: Not?
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  Speaker 7: What's the health?
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  Speaker 2: All the wrong one?
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  Speaker 1: Just screw around with these tanks and they're going to
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  Speaker 1: blow up.
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  Speaker 8: Yes, real fine, expensive gear you brought out here, mister Hooper.
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  Speaker 8: If I don't know what that fastest shot is, gonna
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  Speaker 8: do it and might eat it as close seen one
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  Speaker 8: eat a rocking chair one time.
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  Speaker 6: That was my fourth of July.
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  Speaker 3: Carry watches Jaws every.
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  Speaker 6: Every fourth of July. I realize now I have it
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  Speaker 6: committed to memory. It's frightening.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, you could prefer it.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, it's no Italian pine cone.
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  Speaker 3: That's my sign off. It's no Sicilian pine Sicilian.
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  Speaker 1: Sorry, get your loved one a Sicilian pine cone?
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  Speaker 6: And how did mom take the explanation? Oh that's disgusting.
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  Speaker 1: That's not the thing I would think of with this,
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  Speaker 1: and she truly wouldn't.
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  Speaker 2: She's a beautiful, watch arming, okay, thoughtful.
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  Speaker 1: Naive woman a mm hmm.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, well, I look forward to meeting or something.
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  Speaker 1: I don't say that here. No, I don't say that here.
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  Speaker 1: This is the time you want to meet?
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  Speaker 3: Should carry has wanted to meet her previous previous occasion?
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  Speaker 6: Yes, I had, all right,