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Ep. 80 Today's Peep Savors Southern Italy Escapades, Historical Reflections,, and Culinary Delights with Pat Walsh & Friends
As we uncork the essence of southern Italy, you'll find yourself seated at our table, laughing along with the misadventures and reflections of Pat Walsh and the crew. Picture this: an Italian restaurant, a menu mix-up that has us chomping down on unexpected pizzas, and the quirks that make every meal an adventure. You won't just be a listener; you'll become a part of our camaraderie, sharing in our delight of the Trulli homes of Alberobello and those oh-so-charming peculiarities of Italian restrooms that had us all scratching our heads.
Our episode is nothing short of a cultural treasure trove, with each tale woven into a rich tapestry of historical anecdotes and personal revelations. Hear about our hapless run-in with an elevator that turned into a group escapade, and join in as we raise a glass to the historical significance that enveloped us on the D-Day beaches of Normandy. We're not just recounting tales; we're connecting dots between laughter, the bonds of friendship, and the profound depth of history that you can almost touch.
Finally, as the aroma of Italian olive oil fills the air, we chat about the culinary highs that made our taste buds sing. So grab a glass of vino, and let's toast to the journey with Pat's Peeps. It's an episode that promises all the flavors of Italy, served up with a side of good humor and great friends.
All right, we're going to do Pat's Peep. Pat's Peep's number 80. It's number 80. I don't even know what day this is, guys, we're sitting in Italy.
Speaker 2:I do know that much it is Sunday Sunday, it is Okay, so it's.
Speaker 1:Sunday. So it's been a few days since we've done a Pat's Peep. I think we left it off at 79, but now we are. Where are we are in martina franca, in the pulia region. Man it in so anyhow. So that's ryan harris who's with me. Uh, dan knapp, all my friends are here, don is here, and uh, we're just just smoking cigars. We've been having a fantastic time. We're. I don't know even how many days we've been here. So we've been here. So what like like five days, six days, something.
Speaker 3:Four. Maybe it's the fourth. That's a beauty we left on the 10th.
Speaker 1:Today's the 14th. Isn't that the beauty of it, though?
Speaker 3:Who cares what day it is?
Speaker 2:You don't even know, what day it is, you know?
Speaker 1:But we've been having a great time and I guess the reason that it's taken a while to get to number 80 is because, unlike the trip to northern Italy, where you have time to, you're always going to places, whether you see the, you know the Vatican or you know Michael Sistine Chapel or Michelangelo or David or whatever. This is a lot of bus trip stuff here going across southern Italy and we are headed to the Amalfi Coast in a couple of days. We've been seeing some incredible sights. We went to a place called White City today, which is White City White City.
Speaker 3:No, it's White City, it's White.
Speaker 5:City. That's not the official name.
Speaker 1:Ostuni is the name of the city, but it's White City, right yeah, because all the facades and all the buildings are white from the line. Yes, there was.
Speaker 3:Including the biker gang that we saw. You know one of the things is.
Speaker 1:It was truly amazing that. Honest to God, if you've ever imagined Italy like what Italy might look like, let me start the way I usually do. Pardon me for not starting the way I normally start. Obviously, I'm not looking out my studio window into the beautiful foothills of Northern California because, like I say, we're in Italy. But tonight we are blessed with absolutely gorgeous weather. We're sitting on a patio at this beautiful hotel and it has to be, I don't know, 70 degrees. Maybe it's shirt sleeve weather, and again, we're smoking cigars, we're drinking beer, we just had a fantastic dinner and this group of us four and then Jody, who has been a part of our group, a great group We've just been having a time of our lives and, honest to God, it's hard to even describe some of the places we see.
Speaker 1:I don't ever recall until now, walking on. You know, everyone hears about cobblestone streets, but you're talking about white stone or granite. I don't really know what kind of stone this is, but you're walking on these beautiful white stone streets and you go down these little alleyways and all of the buildings are white. That's just in one city. Things change as you go to city to city, of course, but the sites we have been seeing here go beyond, I believe, anything that I've ever been able to imagine in terms of like you think of a movie of Italy, maybe you think of of, you know, the Italian countryside, or wine, or people hanging laundry out the window, which they do, but there's so many little hidden gems and things. So, you know, I thought I would, I thought that you know, Don and and Dan and and and Ryan and myself, we could just share just some of the things that kind of stand out for us since we've been here in Italy. Anyone, there are plenty of postcard moments.
Speaker 4:That's what I would describe it as. As you go through these small towns, it looks like you have on a postcard yeah, it's like, yeah it is. And all the stonework and the streets. It's actually just incredible.
Speaker 1:Like what do you? It's like you would, I don't know how. There's balconies. There's flowers growing over the balconies, there's laundry hanging the laundry hanging from the lights.
Speaker 3:Everybody dries their clothes by clothesline.
Speaker 4:Balconies with laundry hanging because people live in these old beautiful places. It'd be kind of hard to get your car there.
Speaker 3:The narrow streets are not conducive to a Chevy Suburban driving through there.
Speaker 4:How about grocery shopping? Yeah right. How do they do that?
Speaker 5:Well, I went to the supermarket yesterday and I can tell you there was nobody pushing a cart out to a car Was anyone doing a smash and grab.
Speaker 4:No, no smash and grabs.
Speaker 1:No, that's one thing I'll tell you right there. I've seen no aggressive Well okay.
Speaker 4:We haven't seen any homeless yet either.
Speaker 1:No, homeless, I was going to say we haven't seen any aggressiveness. You would be blown away, absolutely blown away. First of all, my observations everyone's slim and trim. Everyone is styling over here. Kids are out in the plaza at midnight with their parents. There's a whole beautiful plaza. We were eating there last night. The kids are playing soccer in this plaza. Everyone is having the most beautiful time.
Speaker 1:And I'll tell you something else some of the people that are out there are smoking. There's not one person going. Excuse me, will you put that cigarette? You know, no one does. People are free to be now very slow paced, very slow-paced. And when I say that there's no aggression, like everyone is so cold and mellow, I want to Hi, there's a person on our conservative tour. Hi, yes, we are actually. Come out and join us if you'd like a cigar. I will say that there has been some. I don't know what you guys would call it, but sort of a microaggression. I don't know what it is. Overall, I've noticed that as the society, it's very non-aggressive, very laid back and calm and chill, but I don't know, except for the airport coming through.
Speaker 1:Or that waiter last night, or the waiter two nights before that.
Speaker 5:So George, george's wife wanted white wine. We only had red wine. So he asked the server can we?
Speaker 2:get some white wine.
Speaker 5:He said okay, time passes, no white wine. So another server comes by, george asks again Can we get some white wine? Another server comes by, george asks again we have some white wine. Nothing happens, nothing happens. The original server comes back. George asked him to get that white wine and he snaps his head and says you only have to ask one time. I jumped out of my chair Microaggressive moments man.
Speaker 3:Well, pat, tell the story about what happened to you when we were going through. And, by the way, let me preface this by saying Italian customs is virtually non-existent. They have this high-tech system where you scan your passport and then you stand there and take a picture which I guess they associate for like facial recognition technology, and then you go through the gate, you walk over to another desk, they stamp your passport and that's it. They don't ask if you have anything to declare, how long you're here, where you're. Well, they know where you're coming from because of your passport, you know. But I mean, I could have had two kilos of cocaine down my pants and they would never have known the difference. Did you happen to have that only one key?
Speaker 3:yeah, yeah, you have to use the extra luggage if you're, if you're packing two kilos of coke, but tell them, tell them what you know I'm going through, and this is the first part.
Speaker 1:You take your passport, you put it face down with your picture and it just reads that somehow verifies that it's you. And then you go through that it clicks the gate open, and so then you get to the next portion, which looks very similar you get into a container, you go through a gate and there's another gate.
Speaker 2:It kind of feels like cattle.
Speaker 4:And there's this screen and you have to figure out. I need to look at it, just right, so that it'll take my picture yeah, and I didn't even know that.
Speaker 1:I mean, I just walked through, I I didn't know if I was supposed to put the passport back on the thing or not, so I so I just made a simple mistake. I just put the passport and essentially, what they want you to do is look straight ahead at this little box or whatever. Well, I didn't know that and literally was a split second and the lady, just like man, you know, yeah, just screaming at you. Last night we went to this restaurant we're in a plaza and me and Don and Dan and Jody, and they got the order completely wrong. Now, the food was good, but they got the order wrong. No one, no one, asked for a number two or a number four. We asked for a salad. Two people asked for salads. I asked for a particular pizza, which I got, something that looked well. It certainly wasn't what I ordered, and so when we went to let them know that perhaps there may have been a mistake on the order, which?
Speaker 4:there was, which there was.
Speaker 1:Oh no, there's no mistake, he chastises pretty good. You ordered a, not too, and I'm a fault Now saying this in Italian. I couldn't understand anything else he said, but he's chastising us and we're like no, no one said two or four, and I said El Diavolo Pizza, which I don't even know what number that is, and I got something that looked like it had. Was that a ruvala? Something that I'm not.
Speaker 5:So this is where I have to finish, where I didn't finish my story. This is the weirdest part of it. We did order a two and four. So when he took our order, jody pointed to the salad we were definitely under the salad category on the menu and pointed to number four and he looks at it and he writes it down. And then I pointed to number two and he looks at it and writes it down. So when he came I said we ordered salad number two and salad number four and he flips it over and he points to pizzas number two and number four. I'm like that's not what we did at all.
Speaker 2:You all right, danny? Well, he's trying to sit on his cigar, my cigar's in my chair.
Speaker 3:You're supposed to smoke it from the other end, yeah.
Speaker 5:So that was a fight I wasn't going to win.
Speaker 1:you know, you know one of the highlights of the trip. There's been a lot of highlights and, by the way, again, thank you for listening to the Pat's Peeps. Oh yes, before I get to that story, here's a good one for you. So, peeps, oh yes, before I get to that story, here's a good one for you. So we're at lunch yesterday in this incredible number forget what the hell else I was gonna talk about, but we were in this incredible place called was truly village, something like that. What was that place with?
Speaker 3:the little albara bello, italy was the name of the town.
Speaker 1:Yeah, okay, but and there was this little village and this is in this call're, called Trulia.
Speaker 4:Trulia. That's what those Trulia rentals was, the. Is that what the roofs are?
Speaker 5:called now, I guess.
Speaker 3:Well, if the actual word See what a lot of people don't realize in Italian it's different even than from Spanish, because they don't use the letter S to form a plural. So in the case of truly, that's plural, truly from Spanish, because they don't use the letter S to form a plural. So in the case of truly, that's plural, truly.
Speaker 3:Oh, okay, and if it's a single, it's trulo. Oh, so we were among the truly, and then they've added the truly for the I guess the name of the rental company or whatever for people who want to come and stand.
Speaker 5:You know what else they don't? Pronounce you know T-H rental company or whatever for people who want to come, and you know what else they don't pronounce. You know th? Because when she was talking about catholic church she said cat holic. Okay, someone addicted to cats. I got it cat holic got it, I'll remember that one.
Speaker 1:This place was incredible. I was going to say something about. I don't even know what the hell I was going to say.
Speaker 3:Well, the truly are these homes and buildings with these sort of cone-shaped roofs on the top Flat rock Stacked flat rock in the shape of a cone, and the idea is that they were trying to avoid the tax on the mortar that the Italian government charges. So by building these truly with no mortar, they could avoid the tax, and the perk then is the way the homes are designed. It's also sort of natural air conditioning. Summertime it gets pretty warm here in.
Speaker 3:Southern, and where we are in Southern Italy is essentially, if you look at the map, you know, italy is shaped like a boot. We're in the heel of the boot. So this you know. Springtime it's already, you know, been in the 80s Fahrenheit. They of course use Celsius over here, so it's been up in the 30s and it's only going to get hotter as the summer goes on. So that kind of construction makes perfect sense. Pat you were talking about lunch in the.
Speaker 3:Trulia, I'm someone lunch, yeah, lunch in that, lunch in the true low oh yeah, dang it.
Speaker 1:No. No, that's right. What was it? Was it about? No? I'm darn it now I just I lost that story when it was about lunch. Now, um, oh well, that happens. Oh, here comes the troublemaker Daveave from des moines. Oh, he brought wine though, dave from des moines, jay from des moines, he's got it he's got to climb.
Speaker 3:There's no stairs there was there an opening on that level.
Speaker 2:Two down because two down are. No, you're going to climb up twice.
Speaker 4:Two foot drop there and no stairs. Yeah, so this patio where we're sitting is three foot Three foot okay, three terraces.
Speaker 3:Dave from Des Moines is going to join us on the podcast here. It's three levels of patio, but from one to the next there's no steps and it's like a two and a half foot drop, and the only way to get to the upper level is like through a door in the lobby. So we're trying to figure out how the hell people get down to these things here's dave. He's out of breath, climbing up the patio here. He's struggling a little bit.
Speaker 1:So no, we're in good shape but the the fact is, and the upside of it is, he did all that with a freaking glass of wine and a bottle of wine in his hand, and didn't stumble or break either one, which is good job, that's a professional.
Speaker 4:I'm a photographer, oh yeah.
Speaker 3:You have to be an acrobat.
Speaker 6:You do a lot of stuff and you only make one trip.
Speaker 1:I don't know where I was going with the story in that little village, damn it, it was a good one too. I don't know what it was we had you eat an eggplant, huh. Yeah we teach a lot of weird stuff over here.
Speaker 3:It was different. Well, like we had gone to a nice winery the day before in the village of Tarassi, which all that had me thinking about was one of my favorite basketball players, diana Tarassi, who's fantastic, oh you you the guy that watches the WNBA.
Speaker 1:He's the one.
Speaker 3:I'm the one guy that watches. I forgot who that was the one guy that watches the WNBA, but every time I go to a game the ladies adopt me which is nice, but I was very dude. I got to watch Sue Bird and Brianna Stewart for years. Sue Bird's one of the best there ever was. She's a baller. She Stewart for years. Sue Bird's one of the best there ever was.
Speaker 1:She's a baller, she's a baller. So, before you bash the WNBA, before we delve into the WNBA, let's not go down that road. That's a rabbit hole Give them a look, is all I'm saying. So, Dave, from Des Moines, we're on the coach. I'm like who's this guy? Who are these two folks here? I haven't seen them. They're on a bus and we introduce ourselves. Dave tells us a delightful story about having to go from where was it?
Speaker 6:Dallas to Georgia, to Spain to an Uber Dallas to Madrid, Spain.
Speaker 1:Dallas to Madrid, spain, after a two-and-a-half-hour delay on your flight.
Speaker 2:Before we even got started, right.
Speaker 1:And you told us one thing you don't want to do is go to the airport in Madrid.
Speaker 6:It is a long ways. I would almost bet it's a quarter mile from the plane to where you have to check in, and that's half of it. Then you have to. After you get through customs there you have to walk another quarter mile to get to the command force to get onto your flight. It's designed. It's unreal. And trying to think who I met today, it was John. He's a civil engineer. I says, yeah, you gotta go to Spain.
Speaker 2:They need help.
Speaker 6:I says they need help. Big time man, I'll tell you.
Speaker 1:Speaking of an interesting trip, one of the places we went to is the Abbey of Monte Cassino, which is an incredible story. It was an incredible place, but one of the highlights so far on our trip is the guy that was breathing all the air.
Speaker 3:oh, the air sucker do I need to tell the story, so we're.
Speaker 1:We're in the avia monte casino, which you know what it is. You know what we're talking about. If not, it's pretty, like I say, an amazing thing to really see and to know about a lot of staircases and our, yes, a lot of staircases and unbelievably, I had no clue they would have an elevator. But apparently they had an elevator somewhere in there, which I still can't believe, and our friend Ryan here was on the elevator with another couple. Was it just the other couple? There was five of us in this elevator.
Speaker 3:There was five of you on this elevator and, mind you, this is not the elevator at the Empire State Building where you can put 50 people in here. It's a great elevator. It's like it's like three feet by four feet, like a little box, and there were five of us jammed in there. We get six inches from the top and the thing stops and it won't open. Nine bucks and one of the ladies that was in the elevator was starting to panic.
Speaker 3:I didn't open it. She was starting to panic and meanwhile we're waiting. She kept hello, hello, can you let us out? Hello, we're coming, we're coming, we're on our way, but we were in there for about ten minutes. Meanwhile the condensation is already starting to build up. It's getting steamy in there.
Speaker 4:And they finally I mean, it's not the oxygen has been lost the oxygen is being lost
Speaker 3:here quickly. But and then they finally figured out that if they can get it to go back down, then they can get us out that way. And as soon as it got back to the bottom well, first of all it gets to the bottom with a huge thud Thud which scared this poor lady to even worse. Hey, she was freaking out, she was freaking out. Then they finally got us out of there and we were fine. But later on she goes to tell Pat, referring to me, that and we were fine.
Speaker 2:but later on she goes to tell Pat, referring to me that man was breathing all our air for the record as soon as we got stuck.
Speaker 3:I, honest to goodness, started breathing shallow because I didn't want to suck up all the oxygen.
Speaker 5:Regardless, you still been, ryan, the air breather.
Speaker 3:I'm the man stealing the air from poor ladies stuck on elevators.
Speaker 4:With yourself also.
Speaker 5:Oh yeah, I wouldn't have done. Well, I have claustrophobia we teased him all day.
Speaker 1:but the fact is, man, that would have to be a terrifying experience, Especially five strangers in an elevator.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I mean, this is our first day. We've all just come off the plane. We take this two-hour bus ride to this abbey and now we're all together on this elevator stuck. It was surreal. I've never been stuck on an elevator before You're sardined into this elevator.
Speaker 4:You're stuck on.
Speaker 6:One guy is sucking all the air out of it. There's only one, only one.
Speaker 3:Just one. That selfish bastard. Everybody else was holding their breath. But that one selfish SOB is up there. He's breathing all of our air. What are we going to do? What are we going to do? What are we going to do? This lady and I have now become friends. She's a very nice lady, she and her husband. They're wonderful people.
Speaker 1:She was panicking and I was calm at first we had no idea what was even going on.
Speaker 5:You guys were waiting, something was going on because a security guy came running up the stairs to talk to Leah, and then Leah is our liaison for this trip Conservative Tours.
Speaker 1:please check it out. Go to Ireland with us in September.
Speaker 5:And then he ran back down the stairs and I was like I hope somebody didn't have a heart attack or something, Because all I know is we've all come off a nine hour flight. Nobody has slept.
Speaker 3:We've got a lot of people that are a little older and we've climbed so many stairs.
Speaker 5:And a steep hill just to get up to the Abbey.
Speaker 3:Something bad happened. Yeah, something bad did happen.
Speaker 5:Yeah, but not as bad as I was thinking. No, no, no, not at all.
Speaker 3:And thank goodness for that. But you know like I was calm calm at first. I knew there were people there waiting for us and they would act quickly to get us out of there. But the more she panicked, the more I was starting to get nervous, and I usually don't react like that. But she and what's funny is her husband said hey, cut it out, you're gonna panic everybody else in here. Well, sure enough she. You know, I started to get a little nervous myself Now. Granted, we could have hand-pried these doors open to get a little more air for me to steal from everybody.
Speaker 1:Sure. Sometimes all you need is the air that you breathe All I need is the air that I breathe.
Speaker 3:Absolutely Holly's reference. But they did get us out of there and we finally got to see the tomb and the crypt crypt of Saint Benedict and his twin sister, saint Edna lastica knows twin sister.
Speaker 3:Edna yes which I thought was an interesting name, but this is the thing about this. There's a couple of things about the Abbey of Monte Cassino that are, I just found, fascinating. I mean, saint Benedict founded the Benedictine monks and the Benedictine order. That's been around for what a millennia and or more. I can't remember the years there, um, but uh, it was also. It was also a place that one of the places that you know was bombed during world war two and had to be defended, and just so much history, even up to the modern era, that it was just a fascinating place. I'm so glad, so glad we stopped there, you used the wrong song reference.
Speaker 5:It really should have been Breathe.
Speaker 3:Breathe in the air.
Speaker 1:That's right.
Speaker 3:Don't be, afraid to care. Those are the only good music references.
Speaker 1:So, speaking of also, you know, dancing or any song by Air Supply, by the way. No, that's on your list.
Speaker 6:I feel cheated that I wasn't even there.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you weren't there. You really missed out.
Speaker 4:You did miss out because you weren't there. You really missed out. You did miss out because you weren't there.
Speaker 3:You know what you missed out on Standing around for 20 minutes waiting for the tour to continue in the final chapel.
Speaker 4:We were all outside and we didn't know, because the guy came up and I heard the elevator stuck. Okay, well, who got in the thing? Most of us Five idiots. Five idiots got in the thing.
Speaker 3:Most of us, five idiots, five idiots got in the thing. And it was all because we didn't want to have to climb these 45 steep steps. I was glad to climb those steps after I got out of that elevator.
Speaker 1:Well, speaking of not knowing whether or not a dancer, if you had a heart attack, what the heck was going on. So another little interesting part of the trip we were driving I don't know what four hours. They decided they were going to stop at a truck stop somewhere. Was it a truck stop? Or what was that place with all the candy bars?
Speaker 3:It was just kind of a gas station basically.
Speaker 1:I've never seen so many freaking candy bars and toys and candy in my life. It's definitely a place where you know you just stop to load up on junk and what have you Anyhow. So you have to imagine, as Ryan said, you know we get off the plane, we take a two and a half hour ride immediately after being jet lagged and we drive to this, you know, this Abbey of Monte Cassino, and then it's a little old day of this and climbing stairs and so you're on a bus and there's really not a lot of time to hydrate. You know you're not drinking water. At least I wasn't. I didn't have a lot of water. I don't think anyone really had. We'd have sleep showers, water it either.
Speaker 1:So, anyhow, here we pull up this trust and as soon as I get off of the coach and I'm in there with everyone in there, I'm down at the end of the aisle by myself and Suddenly what happens to me? The same thing happened to me there, that happens to me on the radio a lot of times. When I'm dehydrated, I start getting cramps in my ribs. My ribs start cramping up and I'm trying to hide from everyone, like I don't want anyone to see me cramping up and they're brutal man, they're debilitating, and I'm in a corner and I'm buckled over. I'm pretending like I'm looking at things on the bottom shelf.
Speaker 5:Hey, what's this down here?
Speaker 1:Oh God. And then I turn around and I realized that there's several people now looking at me from our group. And now people are offering me water. They're offering me Advil. They think I'm having a heart attack. They don't know what's going on and I'm trying to tell them look, I'm just having these rib cramps. So after this, I get on a bus. The next thing, you know, the rumor is going through the whole bus. What was it that I was? I had a heart attack. What was Indigestion at first, which then turned into a heart attack.
Speaker 5:It's like the passing whisper onto your neighbor. Yeah, it just got worse and worse.
Speaker 1:I'm like I didn't have a heart attack. I'm like the host of the trip.
Speaker 5:I think somebody said you were dead, I don't know.
Speaker 1:Yes, right, that's the direction it was going. So there's been kind of weird highlights like that throughout the trip.
Speaker 6:You sure Ryan wasn't there and he took all the oxygen.
Speaker 1:I took all the air away Was he close.
Speaker 3:No, I was busy paying 50 cents to use the restroom.
Speaker 6:Oh yeah, that's right.
Speaker 4:That's another thing over here. Is you're going to pay to use?
Speaker 3:the restroom. If you think you're going to pee within six hours, you better have a pocket full of change.
Speaker 5:And you're going to pay for a restroom that doesn't have a toilet seat.
Speaker 2:It was okay with me, because I just had to pee.
Speaker 5:As soon as I walked in, I was like, oh, I felt so sorry for all the women that I knew who were standing in line. It's like, oh my gosh, guess what.
Speaker 3:Yeah, mind, it's like oh my gosh, guess what you're? Yeah, you're in trouble. And let's talk about the toilet situation here, because something that's sort of new to me is that every hotel room we've been in so far has a bidet which is like. It kind of looks like a toilet, but it's got a faucet on it and the only thing it looks like a sink.
Speaker 4:Have you drank out of it?
Speaker 5:I've not had a faucet on it.
Speaker 3:I don't know what to think. It looks like a sink.
Speaker 4:Have you drank out of it? I have not had a drink out of it yet. He is not refined.
Speaker 3:I am apparently not as bougie as I think I am.
Speaker 6:I think you clean your wine glasses.
Speaker 3:You clean your wine glasses with the bidet. Now I've seen in. America, these aftermarket bidets that they sell, that you hook up and it's just a little tube and you kind of hook it to the side of the seat or whatever and the little spigot is sort of aimed upward at where it's supposed to go. Well, these bidets here. You know where it's supposed to go. It's supposed to. It's supposed to hit you right in the bh dan so you know you're supposed to be able to clean yourself with this thing.
Speaker 3:I'm just curious yeah so, but these things, the first well, first of all the first night I used one at the first hotel the is used one. I've used it. I've used them every day, used them every day.
Speaker 1:But I put thank you for allowing me to picture that. Yeah, yeah, I put the whole thing together.
Speaker 2:God darn it, I'm going to paint an even worse picture.
Speaker 3:So, yeah, I'm trying to figure this thing out. There's no seat on it, and the first one I used, the faucet, was so strong that when I turned it on it shot out and soaked my socks, so there was problem number one. Then I'm trying to figure out how to straddle this thing so that again the water hits the BH area. And finally I just sat on the damn thing. It's very cold, porcelain right.
Speaker 2:It did not break.
Speaker 3:It did not break. It did not break. But yeah, I'm going to have one put into my house.
Speaker 5:That'll be great Because you need to practice. Obviously I've got to practice the bidet.
Speaker 3:You know, and God forbid, if only I had a device in my hand in which I could look up the proper way to use a bidet.
Speaker 5:There was a thing called.
Speaker 6:Google, I would put a pressure valve on it. Oh, it needs a pressure valve.
Speaker 2:I'm not getting enough pressure there because I need to basically sandblast back there when I'm done Again.
Speaker 3:Tmi, yeah, yeah, just kidding guys.
Speaker 1:I think we went and had this beautiful lunch today. It was somewhere. It wasn't that far from Sicily. Right, it was the castle.
Speaker 2:Well it's not that we're not far from Sicily.
Speaker 3:I mean, it was not like we're next door, we're just not far from where Sicily and Italy meet each other. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Beautiful winery. We had a couple of beautiful wineries.
Speaker 2:Gorgeous winery with a castle. The food was delicious.
Speaker 5:Yeah, a winery with a real castle yeah, but it had been in the family for fifteen generations.
Speaker 6:Since 1500 that castle's been there, or something right, yeah, and it was monks that had it originally, yep. And then this one dude bought it and he's had it for what? 50 years, wasn't it? I don't know that. They said 15 generations.
Speaker 3:Okay, it could have been that. Yeah, so that's like 300 years. Yeah, that's a long time for one family. I mean, we have stuff.
Speaker 1:Most of America is not 300 years old, but I mean just sitting out there having lunch in this incredible gorgeous place, you know, with the, with a castle right there. I mean this is just. You know, this is stuff you just don't see every day. This is why traveling is so interesting.
Speaker 1:You know and that and and of course, I love our country when you're over here, it is the architecture, the, the history is so amazing it I mean, just being honest, it's a little disappointing when you go back and realize that we live in strip malls and a lot of you know buildings that are all beige, right don, and all of them.
Speaker 4:They may not be there a hundred years from now. And they turn they won't be there 100 years from now.
Speaker 6:And they tear them down after 40 years. That's the problem.
Speaker 2:What's that?
Speaker 6:They tear them down after 40 years.
Speaker 2:Well, but they're not anything worth keeping yeah exactly, that's just it.
Speaker 3:They're not anything worth keeping, they're not special. The building we walked past today in Lecce, that we went to the town of Lecce today and the tour guide was pointing out how, you know, some of these buildings they have like gargoyles on them and stuff or different animals and they're part of the support structure, like for the balconies or whatever. They're carvings. They are carvings. Well, this particular one had smiling horses. So you know, I mean, it was just just, it's amazing stuff. We're not putting that kind of stuff on buildings and no offense, we're slapping stucco on framing and drywall and that's, that's not anything worth, you know, worth preserving and that statue that was in the the courtyard there yeah they.
Speaker 6:They said that that was one of two of the pillars that was built and they just replaced that marble statue on top and it was marble and the thing had to have been, it had to have been huge. I mean, I don't know how they, I mean how they moving it is what you're saying.
Speaker 4:Yeah, they had to be huge. I mean, I don't know how they are.
Speaker 6:I mean, how they're moving is what you're saying, yeah, they had to have a… With a giant crane they had to have a crane. But where would you get a crane in there? There's no way you would have got a crane in there. What?
Speaker 1:about that amphitheater today that you were talking about, Dan, that's being uncovered.
Speaker 4:Well, it was uncovered, so someone buried it.
Speaker 5:There's one hundred years. I don't know how you how to say it right, but it's 100 years before AD ended, so I'm not sure I'm saying that right.
Speaker 4:It was 100 years BC. It was there.
Speaker 5:Yeah, yeah, yeah so yeah, it was Roman Empire era.
Speaker 3:It was very old.
Speaker 5:It had been there for a long time but things had built up around it and in the 1990s they were digging stuff out to put in some buildings and they discovered this arena that it actually all those seats you guys saw were actually carved out of the rock that was there.
Speaker 4:And they, not only did they uncover it, it was built, somebody filled it in to build on top of it.
Speaker 5:Yep, because under the we just saw a small portion of it. The rest of it was under the streets and under the buildings. It used to hold 44,000 people. Oh wow, it didn't look that big.
Speaker 6:No, because well because they were smaller people. That was just a portion of it.
Speaker 4:Yeah, but just the labor to fill it in so you could build on top of it. Why wouldn't you want that amphitheater in your town? Somebody had already built it. There it is, and when they filled it in it was manual labor filling it in. Yeah right, why wouldn't?
Speaker 6:you want't you guys with shovels I don't even know if they had a shovel right and then they had that guy that was playing the piano and all the chaos in that courtyard and that piano player. Just it was so calming and so surreal. It's just like here we've got thousands of people in this courtyard and this guy is playing the piano and it's like it just brings you down to peace almost he was playing.
Speaker 1:I think he played Moon River and I think he played Love is a Many Splendored Thing or something like that. But you're right, it was just very, very peaceful and calming, for sure Someone told me, wasn't it? You Don that said that he'd been playing music since 1973 or something.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it was written on his piano live music since 1973.
Speaker 6:I mean, I videoed that and I could listen to him just over and over in that courtyard area.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it was just Well. It wasn't just the piano player, dave, there was also the guy down the way with the concertina. Yeah, which is a very when you're playing Italian music with the concertina, that's like a that feels, that's like a traditional Italian thing, it does feel right in Italy.
Speaker 1:So the guy's playing that right, totally Italian right, and he, when I, when I, put a coin in his thing, he was French. How do you say thank you in French? Merci, he goes, merci I go what the French, merci, merci, he goes, merci, he goes, merci, I go. What the French he goes oh, merci. I'm like, oh, wow, that kind of threw me off for a second, you know. We went to this town today. I don't know.
Speaker 6:I keep saying White City because, that's all I, you guys are good remembering those names.
Speaker 1:I remember the simple part White City. Anyhow, all the buildings are white. I've never in my life seen anything like this and the streets are white and the stone streets are like this white. And you go through these alleys and these streets and you just get lost into this and there's a great big white ferris wheel out in the middle of the hills and it's just the most spectacular and and they were saying that as you go from region to region, we're pulling out right. So we go to region to region. Um, the the towns change, the architecture change the accent changes.
Speaker 5:What's that the accent?
Speaker 1:dialect and the whole bit. I mean, you see some of the things here and it's just like, it's like something you would just see in like a history book when you were a kid. And then, all of a sudden, you're here and I want to give a plug to you know, to Ken Chase and Conservative Tours and and a great job that they do on these tours. You know I've been on Conservative Tours, uh, you know, 2017, we went to France. We saw the Norm, all the D-Day beaches, um, you know, we went to Nice. We, you know, we did. Everything was incredible.
Speaker 1:Then, a couple of years ago, and Don has, it's been great traveling with dawn, because dawn and I been on what three of these trips together. Yeah, our third one, you know, we, we hung out, we had the best time. We went to germany and austria. We had a just a blast there, uh. And then, uh, a few months ago, we came back in october. We're there for halloween, came back early November, right before I started my Pat's Peeps podcast, and you know, and we saw, we saw northern Italy, which is vastly different, you know, than southern Italy in so many different ways.
Speaker 1:And now here we are with southern Italy, a third trip. So I just want to say thank you to Ken because he's allowed me to travel essentially a lot of the world places I didn't realize I'd ever get to see, and it's a real blessing to be able to host this trip and get to know all the people that are on this trip, people like Dave, who's joining us right now, and my friend Dan, who I've known forever, and Ryan, who I've been colleagues with, and Don, who I've known forever, and Ryan I've been colleagues with, and Don, who I've been friends with now for a number of years, and the group is fantastic. Everyone is really nice. There's never a moment where anyone's grouchy or negative. Everyone enjoys it. We literally, on the way back tonight, there just happened to be an accident on the road and I don't know how long we sat there, and it's very unusual to have any kind of a traffic jam that I can see in southern Italy, so it was kind of surprising we sat there.
Speaker 2:What 40 minutes, maybe an hour Almost an hour Almost an hour.
Speaker 5:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Not one single complaint. No, we actually had fun. I mean, you know, for being stuck in a traffic jam. So the point is it's a great group. We're going to Ireland in September who knows how many of these you know trips we'll plan in the future where else it might take us. But I just can't say enough good things about conservative tours. Yes, sometimes I mean you do have free time and sometimes you know're you're going to see a lot of things. But in the end, when you get back, I, at least in my experience and I don't know about you don you're glad you did it because you saw all of that. So what if you in?
Speaker 4:the walking to me is beautiful, I love it yeah, you're glad you did it and he packs a lot in to the days you're here and you know where you want to go back to after you get back. Yeah right, but yeah, it is a busy schedule.
Speaker 5:Yes, it is, they do keep us moving along for sure, we started at 8 o'clock this morning and we got home at 8 o'clock tonight.
Speaker 4:We have to be on the bus at 8 o'clock this morning and we got home at 8 o'clock tonight we have to be on the bus at 8 o'clock tomorrow
Speaker 6:morning, but I want to thank Ken. Ken is I was very impressed with the history knowledge that he had of the World War II. I mean I just it shames me to think that we can't teach this in schools. It really does, it's. I mean, he had such a grasp on what and how the fronts were doing and you never hear of that in his in schools and you know I was thinking about that today too, Dave.
Speaker 3:And you know like every time I took like a US history course in school, you start with the colonization and you get about as far as the Civil War and then the school year's over. They never get past. You know, maybe they get up into the Industrial Revolution and maybe into the early 20th century, but then you don't get to world war ii. You don't get to vietnam or korea or you know jfk, the assassination and those things, and that's as important a part of our history as any of the other stuff. And same thing in world history classes, because world war ii would certainly apply in a in a world history class. I don't care about the Visigoths or all of that. Talk to me about what happened at Normandy.
Speaker 6:World War II. Most of us here probably had a dad or a grandfather, or possibly a son that was involved in that.
Speaker 1:I did not for the record, have a son involved in World War II.
Speaker 2:My grandfather sat in a car.
Speaker 6:I just want to point that out. I had a dad, but dad never talked about World War II. I knew he was a pilot or a gunner in a B-17. That is the extent of it. So this is going to make me go and actually start researching his military experience.
Speaker 2:Yeah. My grandfather's… so you've been on a trip to Normandy.
Speaker 1:No, have you been on that trip? No, Well, I'll tell you what, If you ever get a chance, because I did take that. Like I said, and you know, just like anyone else who was raised at least. We learned World War II, World War I, World War II in school right, and we saw all the. I remember seeing the films in class, you know, and obviously all the documentaries, and you watch the History Channel and you have someone like Ken standing there and explaining it.
Speaker 1:It really hits home and you see the Americans that gave their lives to help liberate Italy. It really hits you. I mean, that's when you really experience it, even staying in the German bunkers that are looking at the beach, and you stand in those bunkers and you look and you learn about things like potato mashers and just things you've never, ever heard of rupert dolls and things you're like oh, I've never heard mulberries, and you find out what caissons are. It's a real um, it makes a difference to be there and actually you feel it. And boy, the people in normandy, they love americans as you can imagine they don't they really take care of the cemeteries.
Speaker 4:Oh, it's impeccable. You have to see how beautiful they are.
Speaker 1:Unbelievable. We went out there first thing in the morning, remember that.
Speaker 5:So the history lesson I got out of the first trip we went to the abbey in Monte Cassino was the history of that abbey, which was built around, I think, 549 AD and had been ravaged four times. Three of those times were way back. The last time was World War II, when the Americans mistakenly thought the Germans were hiding in the abbey so they bombed the heck out of it, destroyed 80% of it. When the monks that were down in the bottom levels worked their way out went out through this door that's still standing. When they started rebuilding it they put PAX. Remember seeing that? Yeah, p X means peace, isn't that Latin?
Speaker 1:yeah, so it's like I learned, so they put my new favorite word so that they would see that they were renaming the whole area.
Speaker 2:Peace which is pretty incredible when you figure what they went through.
Speaker 5:Wow, that is astonishing.
Speaker 1:You know that's an amazing sign. Speaking of signs, on a lighter note, dan's gotta post a couple of signs we saw today that I've never seen, well, walking past a cafe that you know they serve coffee.
Speaker 5:That's what they do. Possibly the big sign right there in front possibly the worst coffee you've ever had, or something like that.
Speaker 3:No, I have it right here. It's probably the worst coffee in town it tells you they're the best coffee and then the other one.
Speaker 5:It's this. It's this little street. I wish we had a visual here little street. In the corner of it is an alley and there's a sign that says Zona Romantica. Oh yes, and it has two people.
Speaker 3:A couple kissing.
Speaker 5:Yeah, a couple, and clearly man and woman. The way the icons are made making out One of the other tour guests and I were looking at that. She goes huh, this must be where babies are made. I said, yeah, in America we just go wherever.
Speaker 3:Hey, by the way, because I couldn't resist, I've pulled up Concertina Guy. I think we should give her a little sample there. Oh, yeah, yeah, give her some of the lesson I love it now, that's what you expect to hear when you're walking down the streets of an Italian village. I mean, that's just absolutely amazing to hear when you're walking down the streets of an. Italian village. Yes, I mean, that's just absolutely amazing.
Speaker 1:Do you have the piano player?
Speaker 3:I do have the piano player.
Speaker 1:I'm going to pull the piano player up next. This is the guy that was at the arena that they uncovered. Right, All right, here we go. He was dynamite.
Speaker 3:And here I am talking over him, it's okay, and here I am talking over all. We mean it. I needed there was Ronnie lot yeah the piano player did I?
Speaker 1:say that would I our podcast.
Speaker 3:Or did I say that prior to the podcast? That was part of the prior conversation. Pat was talking about how he met Ronnie Lott out in the middle of the parking lot at Cal Expo for an interview and as he rolled up, ronnie Lott, I guess, had the window of his car down.
Speaker 1:No, he was standing in the middle of the parking lot, standing in the middle of the parking lot, singing Moon River. It was beautiful. As a rampant I said I love you, ronnie.
Speaker 6:What team does?
Speaker 1:a guy, are you a sports?
Speaker 6:fan. Well, I've been watching the girls basketball.
Speaker 1:No, but are you a sports fan? Yeah, no, I'm not. That was just a bad joke. No, I actually admit that's way off topic, but I do admit I had to watch the final For me to watch that. She sucked a lot of people in to watch that, a lot of guys.
Speaker 6:Kaitlyn Clark has changed the women's basketball audience. Oh, she's been huge, a huge draw Everywhere they have had a game, they have sold it out and for the playoffs I think the average ticket price was $418.
Speaker 3:And to think that if she goes pro, she'll go first, number one pick, to the Indiana Fever.
Speaker 6:But supposedly $76,000 is the only. That's the top. Wow which is scary to think that there is that much spread between the men and the women. Okay, so now we're getting into a whole different podcast.
Speaker 1:Oh, you really want to get into that so we're not going to go down this trail too far but I'm going to make this point, I'm not going to watch, probably, women's college basketball again for a while. I don't really, and I'm not being. I don't even watch the NBA, so don't take that the wrong way. Okay, it's not the fact, but that's not going to make me start watching women's college. I'm certainly not going to start watching the NBA, I mean the WNBA, and it's no disrespect intended for me. I just don't have. But maybe some people will. Maybe it drew them.
Speaker 4:Oh, they already have Maybe, but bottom line is that WNBA team is going to be producing money, so they're not losing money. Yes, yeah absolutely.
Speaker 1:And the disparage is because I mean, let's face it, the nba is much, it's making a lot more money than the wnba, so you can pay them.
Speaker 3:You have to pay them because they make they are but you don't know they're doing better though.
Speaker 6:Man, million dollar contract. You're looking at a persona of so many young women entering this sport. I think, and I think you're going to see a an explosion of new talent.
Speaker 1:I should have never taken this conversation down this road, because now, now my, if I was doing a talk show, I go yeah, well, you know what's happening next. Some trend is going to be in the, you know going to be in the women's final four and they're going to be the greatest, and then Caitlin Clark's going to be the second, because I'm a woman that person's going to be the.
Speaker 3:let me throw a couple of statistics at you here. So, firstly, caitlin Clark not only beat Kelsey Plum's all-time scoring record for women's college basketball, she's now the overall all-time scoring record in the NCAA, the holder of that record, because she surpassed Pistol Pete Maravich. Yes, that Iowa's Final Four game drew like 17 million viewers or something, no 19. Whatever it was, it was higher rated, according to ESPN, than any of the last World Series games, nba Finals games and higher ratings than the last 13 Daytona 500s.
Speaker 3:So that's where the money's going to come from. Is the television?
Speaker 6:Yes.
Speaker 3:But I don't think, and she's already came up with an endorsement.
Speaker 1:When you start comparing her to Pete Maravich. I'm stretching things.
Speaker 4:But you are right on the stats. I think college will get watched. I just don't see that the WNBA getting watched in.
Speaker 1:But I could be wrong but are you gonna watch it? You saw it. You've seen Caitlin Clark. Are you gonna be going? I am, oh, I think the Comets in the actually.
Speaker 6:I sparks are on. I am coming for a basketball two teams watch her and tell the finals, but Kaylin Clark has brought so many people.
Speaker 4:Yeah, but will they follow into the NBA, or is this a college thing?
Speaker 1:Again, my apology for turning this into ESPN women's basketball chat. So let's get off of that topic. We'll save that for podcast 97.
Speaker 5:It's not like you can even cut to commercial, I know less than nothing about that.
Speaker 3:I'm going to defend it just a little more, because we were talking about it before we started the recording.
Speaker 1:See, I can't get him off the topic now.
Speaker 3:Sue Bird has won five Olympic gold medals. They blow everybody out of the water when we play on the world stage. And now the Golden State Warriors starting in 2025, are going to have the Golden State fill in the name. They haven't chosen a name yet. They're bringing a WNBA team to San Francisco.
Speaker 4:Well, I just can't wait. But will anybody come watch? That's the question. I'll go.
Speaker 3:I went to a lot of Seattle Storm games when I was living up there because I wanted to watch Sue bird the 2,000 people that show up are not going to be enough to pay big salaries? No, they're not. They pack the house, they pack them Well if they do, then they'll get big salaries.
Speaker 4:But the real money is in the TV ratings.
Speaker 6:But look at LSU, look at UConn.
Speaker 1:Oh Lord, We've got to get out of this topic. For the sake of my podcast For the sake of my podcast. Ladies and gentlemen, people are going to tune out. They want to hear about Italy, not the freaking WNBA Again, my apologies, we'll save that for another time, but anyhow, anything else about Italy we want to share tonight. And listen, I don't mean to, the food is good.
Speaker 2:I want you to know.
Speaker 1:The food. Oh my God. Yes, in normal conversation. Okay, I'm not the guy trying to dictate a conversation. I'm just saying we were talking about Italy and now we're going down to WNBA.
Speaker 3:Well, you have to, but it is your podcast, it's the Pat's Peeps podcast.
Speaker 1:Yes, so I'm going to go ahead and direct it. You have to guide the show. He's the director. When I start feeling like I tune out, that's time to change the topic.
Speaker 3:But to your point about the food here. Yes, because remember I had an italian grandmother and she was a hell of a cook and I got to point out because this is my first time traveling to anywhere in mainland europe and it's been an emotional experience for me because I know like my mother always wanted to go, she never made it. My grandmother, you know, was an italian. She would be very, they would both be very proud of me. They're both gone now. This food, like the first couple of days, was pretty basic stuff and it was better than any Italian restaurant just about I've eaten in, except for Original Joe's in San Francisco and North Beach. It was fabulous, and the olive oil.
Speaker 2:Oh, fantastic.
Speaker 3:The point I made to you earlier today, pat. Compared to most of the olive oil we get in the US, you would be better off running hot water through garbage than eating that olive oil that we get and I can't stop. I'm dipping bread, I'm pouring it on plates. Give me a shot glass full of it. I'm going to drink it.
Speaker 2:You need to filter it.
Speaker 3:I do no filter, full of it.
Speaker 2:I'm going to drink it. You need to filter it.
Speaker 3:I do no filter, no filter. I need no filter for the olive oil.
Speaker 1:I would say it's by far the longest line of our group of people who have you know, after we get this tour, that have stopped and bought something. There was a whole line of people buying olive oil products, including myself.
Speaker 3:Well, that was mostly the women buying the olive oil cosmetics.
Speaker 1:Hey whatever. It sold. Well, that was mostly the women buying the olive oil cosmetics.
Speaker 2:Hey, whatever it sold, right it did, they made a killing.
Speaker 3:They were all buying the olive oil, cosmetics, the hand creams and all of that stuff.
Speaker 6:I don't cook and I bought three bottles. You don't cook huh, I don't cook.
Speaker 3:Well, most of it, you're going to want to eat uncooked. I'm getting kind of excited about.
Speaker 6:I like my focaccia bread and I bought some stuff. I thought I'm going to try on some cold salads.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, you'll love it. Last time we came to Italy.
Speaker 1:Right, we went to northern Italy. We stopped at a vineyard and we had balsamic vinegar, which I never realized. Balsamic vinegar could be that delicious and aged.
Speaker 4:I thought it was going to be a why are we here kind of thing, and then I discovered, wow, I really like the song.
Speaker 1:We all bought balls even on ice cream yeah, yeah, well, a four-year-old, eight year old, 20 year old balsamic vinegar and yes, so it was.
Speaker 6:I've started using it on salads all the time.
Speaker 5:Yes, with that olive oil, you, you would think balsamic vinegar and ice cream doesn't go together well, it does yeah if it's if it's quality, like they have serving over here anyway that's the oil I bought, but they have the oil with balsamic, so there's no vinegar. It was just oil and balsamic mixed together. It was really good Wow.
Speaker 1:I will say that because I'm a very I don't know, not an adventurous eater. I enjoy some of the food. I'm not going to say I enjoy all of the food. I'm not a big eggplant guy, you know. There's things that I don't even know what the hell I'm eating. I just take a bite of it and determine whether I like it or not. I don't even know what the hell I'm eating. I just take a bite of it, determine whether I like it or not. I don't even know what it is, but for the most part it's been delicious, you know, and it's amazing the way, the way they serve it to you here, unlike it's just so amazing in america. We're hungry, right, you go get a pizza, you scarf it down. You go get a burger, you scarf it down. Here they're feeding you in steps, like in courses. They're bringing little pieces of bread, different kinds of bread, and olive oil, pickled pumpkin yeah, pickled pumpkin, like what is that?
Speaker 1:And the guy serving it. What was his name? Antonio. What was the?
Speaker 2:guy's name Angelo.
Speaker 1:He's like it's a batata and he kept going Halloween.
Speaker 3:Halloween. He couldn't tell us what he didn't know the English word. He said Halloween, halloween. He couldn't tell us what he didn't know, the English word. He said Halloween, halloween.
Speaker 1:Oh, it's pumpkin which are for jack-o'-lanterns. I found out after trying that. But no, it's great Jack-o'-somethings. Yeah, I'm still going to use it for jack-o'-lanterns. That wasn't my thing, but again, I'm a very temperamental eater, I guess.
Speaker 3:No, but we have more to look forward to. I mean, we're on day four of 12.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:So day four of 12. I think we'll wrap it up here. It's podcast number 80. Pat's Peeps podcast 80. And thank you for listening. We're going to post this right away and we'll continue to do this. We'll bring you our experiences. I've been posting, we've all been posting on social media. Check out Ryan Harris, check out Dan Knapp. Are you posting, don?
Speaker 4:I have no social media accounts.
Speaker 1:That's why I didn't say anything.
Speaker 4:I love Don.
Speaker 3:I will improve my number of social media posts. I tend to kind of back off of that when I'm out of town, so people don't go. Oh, let's go rob his house.
Speaker 2:But I'll be better about that.
Speaker 3:I'm on x at at ryan harris news, so I'll put some more pictures up.
Speaker 1:What about you, dave? You posted anything.
Speaker 6:I didn't buy the international phone thing and I should have. I, if I ever go on another trip, I would definitely you need to do yeah, I did that, I did that. Because you are, basically you're so used to your phone and all of a sudden you're on this island and you can't text, you can't communicate.
Speaker 3:Well, but you can hook up to the Wi-Fi still and do it. So you take the pictures and then, when you get back to the hotel, hook up to the Wi-Fi and do your posting. Then, oh, you can do it that way. So you take the pictures and then, when you get back to the hotel, hook up to the Wi-Fi and do your posting, then, oh, you can do it that way.
Speaker 6:Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Well, I'm a total idiot then.
Speaker 1:So yeah, check out our social media. Thank you to Conservative Tours. If you're thinking about going on a trip, check out Conservative Tours. Thank you to my friends, ryan Harris and what the hell's your last name? Again, star, star, damn it. How do I not remember that? Ryan Harris? Dan Knapp, dave, what's your last name? Sandvin? Dave Sandvin and Don Star. It's Pat Walsh. We love you. We'll keep traveling. We'll keep sharing with you. Let's listen to our concertina players. Concertina players, concertina players. We go out. Who said merci when he was done? And we'll see you for Pat's Peeps, number 81.
Speaker 3:Buonanotte. Ciao, ciao, ciao.
