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Ep. 238 Today's Peep Beyond the Postcard: Authentic Conversations in Italy with the Pat's Peeps Group Traveling with Conservative Tours
The Pat's Peeps podcast takes listeners on an immersive journey through the Italian Riviera as the group shares observations and experiences from their travels in Santa Margarita and Portofino. Conversations range from cultural differences and stunning Mediterranean views to quirky hotel features and future travel plans, capturing both the picture-perfect moments and authentic realities of experiencing Italy.
• Exploring Portofino, including a beautiful hike to a lighthouse offering spectacular views of the Ligurian Sea
• Contrasting Italian "casual elegance" with American style, noting how even Italian teenagers put significant effort into their appearance
• Discussing cultural observations including the notable absence of homelessness compared to American cities
• Sharing humorous experiences with European "half shower doors" that seem designed to soak bathroom floors
• Appreciating tour guide Marco's efforts in creating special experiences, like securing prime restaurant locations
• Debating favorite Godfather films while discussing the upcoming Sicily trip planned for late October
• Noticing the prevalence of New York Yankees caps throughout Italy
• Discovering culinary delights including the unexpected combination of whiskey and ice cream
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Hey, it's Pats Peeps 238. I don't have my intro music going for this one, but Pats Peeps 238, and we are in one of the most beautiful spots you could possibly imagine. We're sitting out here on again, out on the terrace. Does anyone know what the name of the hotel is here, hotel Lorin. We're sitting about again this beautiful spot in Portofino.
Speaker 2:No, santa Margarita, santa Margarita.
Speaker 3:God darn it.
Speaker 1:That's where we went today right. See, I'll be honest with you. I keep getting the places mixed up a little bit. So thank you for that. Cinco Terre. I said what is Cinco Terre? Are we in Cinco Terre? He said, well, all of these five properties are Cinco Terre. I said what is Cinco Terre? Are we in Cinco Terre? He said, well, all of these five properties are Cinco Terre. That's what. That is right. So I get a little confused.
Speaker 4:So we are in Santa.
Speaker 1:Margarita. Thank you, ryan always has it down, dave is joining us on our podcast tonight. Dave, how are?
Speaker 5:you.
Speaker 3:I'm doing great.
Speaker 1:Ryan's here. There's Desley over there. Hi, hello, steve is there. Shelly is here, danny boy is here.
Speaker 1:This is Pat's peeps 238. And we are just having the best time right now. We had such an incredible day today. I actually got on the boat again, which I still can't believe I did that again, but I did. It's like the second or third time I've been on the boat since I've been here, which has been very exciting. Um, so I'm just going to kind of ask you guys, since we are you first of all, you having a good time, you guys are having a good time it's awesome.
Speaker 1:What's what's? Whoever wants to chime in like who's what? What is it about this that you would say what's the best thing you've seen so far? What? What's the best part of this experience?
Speaker 2:the people the people here in this group, yeah well, and the people here yeah and the food is magnificent.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's awesome visuals, but yeah, the visual where we are the scenery is just outstanding and it's so beautiful, the weather is perfect.
Speaker 1:It's just like oh, the weather has been fantastic and you talk about the scenery. So today we did go to Portofino, took a boat over there and we took this great walk over to a lighthouse and we had this most beautiful spot and had drinks and cocktails and I have to say that is one of the most beautiful little places I've ever seen, don't you guys think I mean it was just it was just if you have never, you know.
Speaker 1:Hopefully people get a chance to travel if you come to Italy. It is just an incredible. It's like every turn you want to take photos of something you know. It's just beautiful and, like you said, the people are great here and I did notice that if anyone is wearing a baseball cap over here, right If it's a baseball cap and I'm not talking about the actual cap. It's a freaking New York. Yankee cap Everyone, I don't know if it's the logo, I don't know if that's the, I don't know what it is your obsession?
Speaker 6:became my obsession.
Speaker 1:You see it too right.
Speaker 4:I started like oh my God Remember where I looked.
Speaker 3:Just.
Speaker 7:Yankee caps.
Speaker 3:It caps everything off.
Speaker 7:Well, and I don't know if you've noticed that the women are wearing shirts and tops that all have like Los Angeles, or they have New York, their fashion. You know some of the fashion from America.
Speaker 1:I have, don't you get the feeling when you're over here, though, seriously like people. There's all these beautiful boutiques and these clothing shops and it just seems like people. There's all these beautiful boutiques and these clothing shops and it just seems like people here who live here are very stylish. I thought Shelly had a great description of it today.
Speaker 5:Casual elegance.
Speaker 1:Casual elegance. You know people seem to be slim. People do a lot of walking here. You know there's a lot of steps that you have to. You know, up and down everywhere, and people are dressed very nice and it's very noticeable. I think yeah, and you know.
Speaker 4:I noticed that too last year. I mean even the kids you know down to like young teenagers, the guys and the girls they put themselves all together well, and you know the girls have the makeup and the hair and the guys, you know, they fix their hair and put on the right clothes and all these things that you know that we don't even think about on a day-to-day basis. I mean, how many days have we rolled out of bed and slapped ourselves together? I'm on my way? Not much, you know.
Speaker 5:They just don't do that here.
Speaker 2:Maybe gender specific I was going to say it's pretty much gender specific.
Speaker 3:I can be ready in five minutes, my wife's 35 minutes.
Speaker 5:I slap myself, you know, okay, you're working. I did that once, but I got it on my piece.
Speaker 3:I washed my pants. I don't do that anymore.
Speaker 1:Whose first time is it over here to Italy? Over here to italy? Okay, you're it's I'm my second.
Speaker 6:You're in your second. I'm on my second visit, your second visit.
Speaker 3:I'm on my second, where'd you go? The first time we did a cruise, so we did all the major stops in rome and sicily and sardinia and tuscany and a few other places yeah yeah, pisa, we're going tomorrow, so yeah, I haven't.
Speaker 1:I need. I can't wait to go to pisa tomorrow.
Speaker 3:I'm really looking forward to what I'm looking for, because when I went to Pisa the last time I didn't go in the tower, but there's a dome facility just outside the cathedral and, like at noon, a young girl goes in there and she sings, it projects her voice up into the dome and actually the way it projects back down, it's harmonic and it's very, very motivating.
Speaker 1:You went to Pisa and didn't go to the Leaning Tower. Is that what you said?
Speaker 3:I didn't go inside the Leaning Tower. So, you can go in. I didn't go in, but I took the standard picture where you're holding the tower, of course.
Speaker 1:Is anyone going to take the standard Leaning Tower of Pisa photo tomorrow?
Speaker 3:There's like a basilica next to the church and this basilica- has a dome. And at 12 o'clock A young lady comes up there and sings and projects her voice into the dome and it's so surreal Because it echoes back and forth and the harmonics are just. It's mind blowing.
Speaker 1:I hope we get to see that tomorrow, because that's what I'm looking forward to.
Speaker 3:You loved it enoughblowing. I hope we get to see that tomorrow because that's what I'm looking forward to oh, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:Well, I mean, you loved it enough to come over. You had to see it again.
Speaker 3:You had to see more of italy more of italy, because you know half italian, the other half we don't know what to talk about, but no, I'm definitely looking forward to seeing what about you guys?
Speaker 1:what, uh? So your your first time over here, so what are your? What are your feelings about Italy so far? What do you notice? What do you think Stan? Oh, I love it.
Speaker 2:I mean, we're what, two days, three days into it, oh my gosh. I mean, can it get any better? Yeah, it's just oh my yeah, it's no, it certainly went way past what my expectations or what I had thought about it. One thing I know this would coming back no, you know, you never see any homeless.
Speaker 7:I saw one.
Speaker 3:I saw one lady at the dock where we departed, but she was like she had a little can. Oh, okay, so we can do that tomorrow. Her name wasn't sure what, the gypsy's name was.
Speaker 5:Yeah, that is a good point. Yeah, I mean, this could be it. Well, I didn't want to make the comparison. This is like the Sausalito of Italy, yes. However, if you go to Sausalito of America, it's like you know, oh, that was built in 1940, or whatever. Right.
Speaker 6:Not 1740. Or 1340.
Speaker 5:Right.
Speaker 2:And maybe they have homeless folks in Rome.
Speaker 1:You know, they really don't. They don't, no, I mean, I haven't seen it and I there was we've done.
Speaker 6:I have not seen it.
Speaker 1:Well, there was one place where we did a podcast. Remember that, ryan, we were, we were, we. We ordered these alcoholic beverages, these fruity alcoholic beverages, on this corner. One day we were doing the podcast, the middle of the day with jody and and uh, with dan is that where you found those odd cigars? Yes yes okay, and those remember there was a whole row of people sleeping on that sidewalk that was.
Speaker 4:That's right, that's right. I remember that. Yeah, that's the only thing I've ever seen, right I?
Speaker 1:forgot about that you know, over here they uh, from what I understand. Understand you have to take care. People take care of their families. Yes, it's kind of a shame for the family to have anyone on the street and people have compassion and there's. You know you kind of have to take care of your family over here they don't want to see the people.
Speaker 7:I think that's exactly the reason that we have homeless in America.
Speaker 4:It's a big part of it, the breakdown.
Speaker 7:People don't have a place to go home to.
Speaker 4:Well, and I will tell you, in Bologna I had a few people come up to me and beg for money. But the other thing that was driving me crazy is these guys with arms full of like earbuds and chargers and that kind of stuff, and trying to sell you stuff on the street and they all looked like they were out of Bangladesh or somewhere, like they weren't Italian guys, so I don't know what was going on there.
Speaker 6:I saw that all the time.
Speaker 4:And they tell you, you know, ignore them. Don't even look at them. Or just wave them off, or whatever. You really I had a couple of times say no.
Speaker 5:That happened in Greece when I went to greece.
Speaker 7:Yeah, I think that the nicer the places the more protected. It is too, I mean. So you don't see trash here, because they don't want this to be right.
Speaker 5:They want this to be very clean because I always thought, oh, why don't you get in Switzerland? It's like really no. I can't hear you, I know, but I can't have a blank spot. So once you get, I always heard when you're in Italy it's like dirty, or the trains are dirty and shut up. I'm sorry. And then, once you get to Switzerland, it's like everything's clean, yes, but I think this is fricking beautiful, it is, it is. Like where's a trash can around here?
Speaker 2:Yeah, everything's been cleaned.
Speaker 5:I know, isn't this weird?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean I could live here, but I couldn't. Even the language is clean.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but that was another thing I noticed too, having trouble finding a trash can.
Speaker 6:Do you speak Italian and that sounds. It's counterproductive. How do you know they're not cursing?
Speaker 1:They could be going. These people are Americans.
Speaker 5:You just had an A.
Speaker 3:I can see you, izzy, I know every curse word in every language and I haven't heard it here. Oh really no, I'm just saying that.
Speaker 1:Oh, I was going to have you give us a few examples, no, I can't, I give Japanese a couple of Italian curse words Because there's no curse words in Japanese If you guys want to see a place that's clean.
Speaker 6:Martina Franca, Where's?
Speaker 4:that when we stayed last year. Do we have to take a train?
Speaker 6:Oh, it's just. I mean it's marble-y stony all the way up, it's all lit up it literally looks like they mopped their streets, streets is that where the white streets?
Speaker 1:were. We were talking about the plaza yes, not the all white.
Speaker 7:That was the, that was white city well, no, no, no, the place, no, really white city is incredible.
Speaker 1:All the buildings are white, the sidewalks, the stones you can't have that in the united states.
Speaker 3:White the sidewalks, the stones.
Speaker 5:Did you see the guy with the blower ahead of the street sweeper Mm, that was-.
Speaker 4:What.
Speaker 2:What there?
Speaker 4:was a guy with a blower and he was blowing stuff from the sidewalk into the street.
Speaker 6:Ah, so he could sweep it up.
Speaker 7:He's blowing it off the street. No, no, he was cleaning.
Speaker 2:It was like a Pac-Man game. I walked down two blocks to get coffee and everybody was scrubbing the front of their the hole with soap and rinsing it with water.
Speaker 4:That's what I said Couldn't do that because they were worried about rinsing the soap into the groundwater. Well, that's what they were doing. Couldn't do that at all.
Speaker 5:You know what?
Speaker 2:They really wanted it clean yeah.
Speaker 3:And it is.
Speaker 1:We were standing yesterday coming back from someone's Chiquiterre, Chiquiterre.
Speaker 2:Chiquiterre.
Speaker 1:We took the train for a little bit. Yes, and they got these high-powered, these high-speed trains, man, and this is something you would never see in California.
Speaker 5:What about the high-speed train? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:Certainly you're not seeing that high-speed train in California, as we know Anyhow. That's a very good point, shelly, thank you. In california, as we know anyhow. That's a very good point, shelly, thank you. But uh, but this is like you would never have this in california, like if you're waiting for this train, you go into this like what, is it a train tunnel? Yeah and these things are. I don't know how fast these trains are going, uh 150 miles an hour at least through that tunnel yeah, it's slow yeah but they get up over 200.
Speaker 4:they get up over 200 miles 200 miles an hour.
Speaker 1:Yeah, there's no honking right. And they say, well, stay behind the yellow line. Well, first of all, as dan pointed out, the what yellow line? The yellow line is literally faded away, except for in certain little spots, and you can't tell me they don't have the budget to, you know, paint a yellow line. If they don't have the budget to paint a yellow line, man, I don't know what's happening. But it's terrifying. When you're standing in there and that train comes through, even if you're against the wall, it feels like it's sucking you out onto the track.
Speaker 6:Well, it's hitting that tunnel and just pushing all that air right.
Speaker 5:It's called physics.
Speaker 3:my dear, you have to hold on to your hat, because when it goes by, oh yeah yeah, did anyone else catch my? Great.
Speaker 4:I saw the great cat did you see my catch yesterday. Was it the hat?
Speaker 5:yeah your hat blew off and you caught it. Yeah, no, no, someone else's george. It was george, it was george and it was it had. What did it have? It was like Capitol or it was some place. I knew it was like a California place and it ripped off the pad and it was like he was out in left field.
Speaker 2:He made the catch. Your instincts just kicked in. He was a shortstop, he grabbed it.
Speaker 5:Yeah, he was a shortstop and everyone you know he got it Start clapping. No one made the run, but it was an amazing game.
Speaker 3:No one was on base, he made the double play. The catch was so good. The A's tried to sign him, but he signed up.
Speaker 7:It was like yeah, not at this time, Especially after last week.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he tried that you might be called up Against the clock. What are?
Speaker 7:you telling me some guy caught a hat, get him, sign him now.
Speaker 1:We'll get you a torpedo bat.
Speaker 5:He catches hats, let's sign him.
Speaker 1:We've got to get this guy.
Speaker 5:Hopefully it's a Yankee hat.
Speaker 1:I'm surprised it wasn't. Oh my.
Speaker 7:God, it was our group.
Speaker 5:I know, but it was our group and that guy was so happy with his hat. God, now I get to think it was.
Speaker 2:Oh, dude, if my Joe Marty hat blew off and you caught it. I would be eternally thankful.
Speaker 4:That would have been no relationship, because I don't think you can get those anymore.
Speaker 2:Right the Joe.
Speaker 1:Marty. Well then Steve buys me this cool 1945 Solomons cap. It's an exact replica of the Sacramento Solomons and then you're looking. I said, well, my dad played for the Amarillo Gold Sox and the Salem Sinners. He tells me at breakfast this morning man, I'm looking online and I don't know what they did to the website, but they're not even selling the stuff anymore. So it's like suddenly, like you bought that at the right time and it's just like gone now. Yeah, it's no more what the heck man.
Speaker 2:Well, not, I mean not no more, but they may bring it back, but it's certainly not now.
Speaker 1:Shelly got a beautiful new blouse. Today we were clothes shopping. They have great boutiques, don't they?
Speaker 2:From what it is nice, no this Beautiful silk blouse is off.
Speaker 3:It is nice, very nice, beautiful silk blouse, exactly.
Speaker 5:No, it's hung up in my closet.
Speaker 3:This is my nightwear.
Speaker 5:Oh well, let's just stop here.
Speaker 2:Me too, but thank you I know, but thank you.
Speaker 5:But thank you for the subject.
Speaker 1:Well, certainly.
Speaker 3:Yes, oh my God, it tops everything you wore.
Speaker 5:I'm just trying to.
Speaker 7:No, he's not talking about that. He's talking about what your new clothes that you bought today, yes, and it was lovely.
Speaker 5:Thank you for shopping with me.
Speaker 1:Well, sure.
Speaker 5:I love this shirt and we're going to hopefully find you a nice new shirt.
Speaker 1:Well, we went to look at his shirt today and it was only.
Speaker 3:When it comes to shopping, he's the tops.
Speaker 5:I thought it was like no, this beautiful sweater, cashmere and cotton, and I said this is it 250 euro 500. 500 euro. And then he was very reasonable. He goes I have, I have so many sweater I. I can't do this. I can't do this and I go, okay, you then you can't do it that's right. I haven't seen your closet, but you can't do it. But, boy, this is nice. And then, and all you want is a shirt, yes, and so you'll find a lovely shirt when you find one.
Speaker 1:Well, and it was really, and maybe some new pair of pants. Yeah, because it was a good thing. I didn't buy it because it was white. And literally, this is the third time now that I have flung food onto my clothes on this trip.
Speaker 3:I know why didn't you get it.
Speaker 6:Who flung?
Speaker 3:food.
Speaker 5:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Who flung food, absolutely.
Speaker 1:Spaghetti dough mix.
Speaker 3:Huflung food, huflung food, absolutely, and your host, huflung food. Huflung food, it's a great hit and it's on Happy.
Speaker 4:Hour, I've spotted a couple Chinese restaurants since we've been here.
Speaker 5:Shelly gives me like a little cute pat. Maybe I'll buy that sweater for myself. There you go.
Speaker 6:Your evil plan was literally to just flirt it out in front of everyone.
Speaker 5:I know, you know what. It's just so beautiful and it's cotton and cashmere See.
Speaker 2:Now I'm rethinking it, it's C squared.
Speaker 7:Well, we're going to Florence Okay you're right, there's always Florence, there's always Florence. That's what.
Speaker 5:I keep telling Pat you, you're right.
Speaker 6:There's always Florence there. Okay, that's what I keep telling Pat. Okay, gotta buy it in Florence Buy it in Florence.
Speaker 1:Do you guys have any expectations of? Have you looked at any videos or anything of Florence?
Speaker 7:No, do you have any?
Speaker 1:expectations of what you might see.
Speaker 7:Well, I'm looking forward to seeing David Right.
Speaker 2:Well different, david, I don't blame her.
Speaker 3:We'll call different David, it's so you know, it's some marvel thing.
Speaker 7:No, but it's not just that, it's some marvel.
Speaker 1:When you see David, by the way, you'll marvel at the size of his hands versus the size of his manliness. Yes, yes, it just doesn't mesh, and I love hands.
Speaker 5:I know you've always looked at hands.
Speaker 6:It blows that whole theory up a lot and I love hands.
Speaker 5:I know you always look at hands. It blows that whole theory out of you.
Speaker 6:He has enormous hands.
Speaker 1:I'll just say that I think it's more of the fact of being in Florence.
Speaker 7:I'm going to bring this back to.
Speaker 1:To what David, david, david Sure.
Speaker 7:You know, it's more of the fact of being in Florence, where you've seen pictures and you've heard about it but never been there, right, right. And so many people go to Florence.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 7:And Rome, but so many go to.
Speaker 5:Florence. I'd rather go to Florence. Yes, because of the leather quality.
Speaker 7:Yeah, Right, yeah, well, and I think that it seems like it's I'm getting leather chaps, it's still.
Speaker 1:Hey now, ooh, okay, she didn't want me to mention her new blouse, but openly will tell you she's wearing leather chaps. Please tell us more. Yes, yes, will you be?
Speaker 5:wearing those around. It'll heat you, breathe well oh there we go.
Speaker 3:That's a good excuse.
Speaker 2:So what about whiskey and ice cream?
Speaker 1:Oh, fantastic. Oh, I discovered a new dessert tonight. Whiskey, thanks to Steve. Yes, it was incredible. I can't believe those two things go together so well, affogato.
Speaker 7:Affogato with whiskey is what it is.
Speaker 6:Affogato.
Speaker 1:Affogato yes.
Speaker 7:So that's typically ice cream with a little bit of coffee, is it's an affogato?
Speaker 1:And here they have it with whiskey Fantastic, whiskey is a better choice.
Speaker 3:I think you put a little port wine over that ice cream Might even be just as good. I don't know, there's so many different flavors of alcohol you can add to your ice cream now. It's just opened up so many new dimensions. That's true. How to perceive ice cream.
Speaker 1:You know, when you see Florence, you're going to be blown away. You're just going to look at that and go. I remember seeing Florence and thinking wow, this is. You can really tell you're not in America when you see Florence.
Speaker 4:There's a few places right, like whoa look at this.
Speaker 1:It just looks so different than anything you see in America and it's huge, but it's a fascinating city.
Speaker 7:Here it's.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I'm looking forward to it, yeah. I want to say it's about the real statue of David.
Speaker 1:My foot size is 10 oh, is that right can you imagine someone went in there years ago I don't know, it was 40 or 50 years ago going in to look at the statue of David and brings in a hammer and starts smashing the toes off of this thing? Sorry, breaking the toes off of Michael huh no, no, it's true and the crowd subdued this guy before the police could even get to him. They're just mobbed him.
Speaker 2:He's just in there, he's in a protest he starts smashing so if you look at the statue, you'll see where he got it.
Speaker 5:You see the Sistine Chapel.
Speaker 3:It's incredible, you go into the Sistine Chapel and it's, it's tight, it's small. You look up.
Speaker 1:Very compact. Yeah, Everyone stands there and you gotta look up.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh, it's incredible to see that.
Speaker 4:But they pack them in man In addition to enjoying the work of Michelangelo on the ceiling. In my mind, it would also go to. You know, this is where the Cardinals get locked in to pick a new Pope, like that's amazing to me, that's their meeting room well, they're in that process as we speak, I believe.
Speaker 6:He hasn't passed no he hasn't died yet.
Speaker 3:I thought Pope died.
Speaker 7:No, he got released from the hospital Doing better it was news right before we left, it flashed up that he had passed.
Speaker 3:Oh, really so that was interesting.
Speaker 4:Oh, so you got a false report that he died.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it was a false report. I don't know if it was a false report that he died.
Speaker 7:Yeah, it was a false report. I don't know if it was a false report, I just Look it up.
Speaker 4:I'm doing it right now. Yeah, I've been watching news the entire time.
Speaker 1:I've been over here Every time I've come to Italy. A pope dies A pope dies. Someone dies.
Speaker 5:A pope dies.
Speaker 4:I go to.
Speaker 1:Italy, Queen Elizabeth dies yes.
Speaker 3:I go to and the next time I take, the OJ died, which I wasn't no, actually I was in the results of the Pope is Pope Francis makes surprise appearance at St Peter's Square and has now signed up to play center field for the Sacramento A's we're all going straight to hell.
Speaker 1:Have you been to the vatican?
Speaker 4:Just to the outside.
Speaker 1:Oh, that's right, you didn't go in. How did you?
Speaker 4:You know, because I signed up for the trip just a month in advance and the Vatican had instituted some new security. They needed all your information at least 60 days in advance.
Speaker 6:That's why I didn't go too.
Speaker 4:Now Ken tried but it didn't work out. But I ended up with our tour guide on that trip, leah all to myself in St Peter's Square going this is this, this is this, this is this, this is this. For half an hour. And then she said go on your own down this street past the Vatican that Mussolini built and see how beautiful it is. And she was right. But the thing I honed in on, because I tune into these things, is that's the chimney where the smoke comes out. And she says yep, sure is.
Speaker 4:And they all sit in the square when the Pope's dead they all sit in the square during the conclave and they wait to watch that smoke come out of that chimney.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and if it's black.
Speaker 4:They're oh a big, you know, sigh.
Speaker 2:And then yeah, big cheers.
Speaker 4:Yep they have to vote again.
Speaker 3:Yep have to vote again. Them and Mary Poppins I want to see that con play.
Speaker 1:Anyone else have a half shower door? I do, yeah, half shower door.
Speaker 7:Full door.
Speaker 3:What the hell is with that, I think half is generous, to be honest.
Speaker 6:I think it's like a little bit more than a third.
Speaker 5:Here. Give me your key. I want to go look at it.
Speaker 1:I want to see what this is. She's going to ruffle through our stuff. No, I'm just.
Speaker 5:Trust me on that.
Speaker 3:It's not so bad. I just want to look at this shower.
Speaker 5:Then turn it on no, then turn the shower on.
Speaker 6:And then turn it on spray so you can see how it soaks the entire freaking bathroom.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's stupid. The Skin Stripper 5000. It's just this heavy. It looks like on Seinfeld.
Speaker 4:What was the shower head. You wanted that rush from the Russian guy. That's what this is. No more low pressure showers.
Speaker 1:Low water flow showers. It's just. I see it every time I come over here. The hotels have like and you're right, dan, it's not even like a half a shower.
Speaker 6:It's not half a shower.
Speaker 2:I looked at it this morning, fuck that Well, they have half showers and then almost everywhere you go there's no toilet seats.
Speaker 6:Oh, you get the public restrooms? Yeah, but today in.
Speaker 2:Portofino. I was blessed two or three times. I couldn't believe it.
Speaker 1:I went in there Blessed with a toilet seat.
Speaker 2:And lo and behold, there was a toilet seat.
Speaker 4:Well, oh my God, you know what? I did see that a couple of times last year public toilets with no seats and it just.
Speaker 1:Well, they're everywhere.
Speaker 4:The first thing I think is oh, the poor women.
Speaker 1:That's so disrespectful to women. You've got to be kidding me, man, but I saw one that was respectful for men actually, Because the last restaurant, or did you hover?
Speaker 3:The toilet seat actually was spring-loaded, so you put it down, you sit on it, but if you stand up, it automatically springs, it's automatically for men because you don't have to push it down, because it's spring, loads up.
Speaker 6:It's in the opposition all the time, unless you sit on.
Speaker 4:That's cuz you know, you just didn't learn. Always put the seat down. The same place you can get a bidet, the same place you ate. No bidet, no bidet.
Speaker 7:No bidet today no bidet today.
Speaker 3:That's an old country song.
Speaker 2:You know I'm getting a bidet today, I know my wife let me in the pickup truck, the dog died, but I gotta get my bidet today.
Speaker 3:I'm not going the bidet.
Speaker 7:Oh boy.
Speaker 4:Well, one interesting thing that I've noticed too, is that you know I think, if I'm not mistaken, italy was on the wrong side of World War II At first, at first, at first right.
Speaker 7:They came around, they came around and then they were now our tour guide said that they're still indebted to us as Americans.
Speaker 3:Their gold is in the reserve Somewhere. I don't know about that Somewhere in the US.
Speaker 4:In Fort Knox, where nobody can actually find the gold. It wasn't.
Speaker 3:Fort Knox.
Speaker 7:He said the reserve, the reserve, whatever that is the Federal Reserve. Oh, here she comes, this will be the verdict.
Speaker 1:Now we'll get the official. He said the reserve, the reserve, whatever, that is, the Federal Reserve. Oh, here she comes.
Speaker 6:This will be the verdict. Yeah, now we'll get the official call. Where are your feet?
Speaker 1:went Shower door dilemma, here she comes. Ladies and gentlemen, if she speaks up, we've got to hear her voice. I can't wait to hear this Speaking up on the shower door.
Speaker 3:Here we go.
Speaker 6:The verdict is why are your clothes, thank you, thank you. You see it. Oh my god, did you turn it on?
Speaker 5:No, I just wanted to be there because you have like.
Speaker 6:You had to get the full experience Water shot into your face.
Speaker 5:You have like a fricking bathtub? Oh yes, and then you have to step in.
Speaker 7:Yes, and then?
Speaker 5:you have to. Oh, my god, yeah, and then you have to.
Speaker 7:Oh, my God.
Speaker 5:Yeah.
Speaker 3:It's bizarre, you're running back.
Speaker 6:It's okay.
Speaker 3:Mine's a walk-in. There's no bathtub, so you can just walk in. Yeah, we know.
Speaker 1:The bathtub wall is this high too.
Speaker 4:And the floor's soaked.
Speaker 1:You have to be an.
Speaker 4:Olympic hurdler to get into it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's dangerous. I mean for some people. I got the doors.
Speaker 3:You got the doors Me too. Yeah, they're identical.
Speaker 4:Yes, you don't need to look at mine, but you're welcome to. Just don't use the bidet. That's getting a little whiskey. The bidet is untouched this trip no.
Speaker 3:It's a virgin bidet.
Speaker 1:Virgin bidet and every room I ever get has that same half door.
Speaker 5:Yep, every room I ever get has that same half door. Yep, well, you need to. It's the same, oh yeah.
Speaker 1:Special room.
Speaker 6:That's why they give you the helmet.
Speaker 5:He'll never notice.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 5:That's.
Speaker 1:I've resorted to taking vows and of showers.
Speaker 3:Well, you're up here. It's a step up from us. Below we don't have bathtubs, below we just have straight showers.
Speaker 5:I know, when you're in the third level you get a bathtub. I'd rather get a shower. Who takes a bath soon?
Speaker 6:Well, Babies, babies.
Speaker 5:People that have a half wall.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's right that. Yeah, that's right, that's right. You know you got to resort to.
Speaker 7:It turns men into bathers.
Speaker 3:Half wall, half wall. I remember when the wall fell.
Speaker 1:I just wanted to say something, too, about Marco. Marco was our liaison on this trip, yeah, and this guy has gone out of his way to accommodate us, and with just first class, like yesterday was a lunch right up at the Chiquiterre right, yeah, it was Vernazza.
Speaker 1:And and as we're going by on this boat and I know, dan, you're thinking like, oh my god, this has got to be the greatest place to eat we looked up there and there was people eating in this most incredible spot and you're like, well, that's gonna be the best place to eat, right?
Speaker 1:you were telling deb yeah your wife yep and next thing you know we're back there and, uh, marco says, hey, I've got a table, come and get with it. And he takes us up there and it's the greatest spot you could ever have at this particular restaurant, overlooking the Mediterranean right, the Mediterranean.
Speaker 7:Or is it the Mediterranean? Ligurian Sea?
Speaker 1:I've got it right here it's Ligurian Sea.
Speaker 7:Yes, thank you. Yeah, no, I had to look it up. Is that confused, did you ever?
Speaker 1:Ligurian Sea. Yes, thank you. Yeah, no, I had to guess that.
Speaker 5:That confused me. Did you ever think you'd be to the Ligurian?
Speaker 4:Sea, ligura, or is it Ligura or Ligure, ligure, ligure, no, who would have thought.
Speaker 5:Emphasis on the first syllable yeah, do these seas join, like all of a sudden, they're okay, well, well, there's the Gurren, you see, and then, oh, it joins up with the Mediterranean, like whatever you take pictures of there's a buoy. That's it.
Speaker 6:It is all connected you could
Speaker 2:swim in two different seas at the same time yeah. See this.
Speaker 6:So, pat back on your point about Marco. Yeah, also our last tour guide, leah fantastic, oh, no doubt. So I gotta say I gotta get a shout out skin. Yeah, establishing these relationships out here, that's I mean, that's what he does conservative tourism, and also me to talk to.
Speaker 1:Lorenzo was also great, and Bernie, who was our, who was our liaison in Ireland oh, what a sweetheart. These people are fantastic. You know, you come on one of these trips and you know I'm just going to say it if you, you know I'm doing these ads on my radio show and I'm always telling you, you know about this great group of people that we have this Pats Peeps group that goes with conservative tours and we meet all these people and it's funny because you become friends with a lot of them. After the group is left we come back and now they get together. Still they go off. You know, they just visit each other. We just make new friends.
Speaker 1:Um, so you know, if you didn't make, if you were not able to make this trip, we're also going to do another trip in late October, into November, the beginning of November, in Sicily. And just on this group, in the last couple of days I've heard several people say, hey, you know what, we're going to go to Sicily too. We're going because we just want to go do this again, and so you know that's something and just go to conservative tours. Hopefully they have my name up on that trip out there.
Speaker 1:They didn't have it up there for a while. But you know, just make sure if you, if you are thinking about it, to go to the Pat's to uh, to the Pat Walsh uh trip to Sicily in late October, like I said. So, uh, I'm really looking forward to that because we're going to go see part of this is going to be going to see the Godfather tour, which I'm really looking forward to. We're all the guys you know some of the locales from that. The Godfather was shot.
Speaker 4:But I understand, sicily is just gorgeous gorgeous, and last time I looked I'm pretty sure your name was on it on the website.
Speaker 1:Oh, was it OK good.
Speaker 6:Conservativetourscom right, yes, sir.
Speaker 4:Yeah, okay, yeah, I want to go. I really want to go. I don't know if I can pull it off and you know the Godfather, yeah, and that series is my all-time favorite and I always remind people it is still, after more than 50 years, the only film and its sequel both to win the Best Picture Oscar, so that's an accomplishment in and of itself. If you ever saw the offer on Paramount Plus a 10-part series about making it, the stuff they went through.
Speaker 4:The fact that that first film was ever made was unreal. It should never have made it to theaters at all. There were so many things that went wrong or problems they had or money, See.
Speaker 5:I like the inside information.
Speaker 4:We should watch the offer on Paramount+. It was terrific.
Speaker 5:Well, I don't have Paramount+. I'll give you my password, you hear that Paramount+.
Speaker 4:you can have my password at Paramount+, but I would love to see those locations.
Speaker 1:Yeah, right it wasn't like.
Speaker 4:They went to Corleone and the local mob boss. They wanted the entire budget of what they had for the Corleone shoot just to grease the local mafioso. So they packed up and snuck out of town and went to the next town over and actually filmed it there. Oh really.
Speaker 5:I heard that the making of it was interesting. I see and I think the behind the scenes is fascinating. Love that stuff.
Speaker 6:Yeah absolutely, or like the scene with.
Speaker 4:Pacino with the gun taped behind the tank of the toilet. Coppola had him move where they taped it so that he couldn't find it while they were filming and it made him nervous.
Speaker 1:Because Pacino was nervous, he was young and he was scared, he was, you know, he's a stage actor.
Speaker 4:He'd never done anything like this before. They moved the location where they taped the gun to freak out Pacino.
Speaker 3:It came out beautifully.
Speaker 4:The cat in the first scene where he's Buona sera buona sera. What have I ever done to make you treat me so disrespectfully? The Undertaker. That cat was just a cat that wandered onto the set, jumped in Brando's lap he was playing with it. In the scene the cat's an icon. Shows up in the movie poster Shows up in the movie poster.
Speaker 1:That's great, that cat was supposed to be nowhere near that film Cats always show up in the, so both of those, the one and two, won Best.
Speaker 4:Both of them Best for Oscar. So okay you've seen the trilogy.
Speaker 1:All three of them. I have not seen the last one, but I'm going to ask you your opinion on the first two. The first two movies. Have you seen them? Yeah, it's been a while. Yeah, it's been a while Seen them yeah. What's your favorite?
Speaker 4:the first or the second? The first one, but the second one is great. Are we asking me about the third one?
Speaker 1:Do you need a setup? No, I have no reference to it. Yeah, we don't have time, okay, so here's the thing about the third one. Yeah, there's of time folks.
Speaker 4:Thank you for joining Padspeak. No, the third one was not well received at first and I could see why. But it's grown on me over the years. This features a cameo by the way of former California Assembly Speaker Willie Brown as a friend of the family, another reason I won't be seeing it, that's conservativetourscom.
Speaker 1:Conservativetourscom.
Speaker 4:We all thought Willie Brown was crooked, and then he's chummy with the mobsters, so it makes perfect sense. Actually Is Kamala with him?
Speaker 1:No, no, but the first two were fabulous. Which is the best? The first two. Let's get into the first two.
Speaker 4:The first two were fabulous. You can't see her.
Speaker 5:Which is the best?
Speaker 4:The third one has grown on me and he recut it into what they call the Godfather.
Speaker 6:Coda.
Speaker 4:And it's a little better that way. Oh, I really really love the first one. But they're such great Like when they go to Tahoe. In the second one, that's the old Henry J Kaiser estate that's still there.
Speaker 2:That was my summer favorite. Two is your favorite, I loved the whole Tahoe. Yeah, that was my favorite. What about you, gabe?
Speaker 3:It's been a long time, but I'd say the first one probably still resonates with me yeah, have you seen it, shelly, that's what I remember at first.
Speaker 5:I like. Animal House Everyone told me I like Animal House.
Speaker 4:Was it over when the Germans bombed. Pearl Harbor.
Speaker 5:No, I'm just trying to you know switch it up.
Speaker 1:I didn't care for number two that much.
Speaker 5:What.
Speaker 1:No, I kept fast forwarding through it. I'm like you know what?
Speaker 7:Oh, don't no I did.
Speaker 1:It's just too much To me. It was just all over the place.
Speaker 4:Oh, with the flashing back.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and it was too much celebration people celebrating, I'm like just get to it. Whereas the first one with Ava Goda, with the characters in there, I always knew through the whole movie, exactly what's happening. It was sunny with everyone in there. I knew exactly what's happening?
Speaker 1:The next part. The next part, it kind of flowed better for me. The next one was they're here, they're there, they're Tahoe, they're, you know, they're in Sicily, they're all over the and I couldn't believe that. I don't know how long that he was in the country before he meets this girl and marries her. I'm like what? Two days. I'm like you're married and there's a gigantic, so he there for months. It just it was, I don't know.
Speaker 4:I didn't like it nearly as much as the first one. You read the book, I've read the book, the book. There's a lot more about Johnny Fontaine and his family in the book that just no room. In a two and a half hour film there was no room for that Johnny.
Speaker 6:Fontaine was great.
Speaker 4:But Al Martino was fantastic and he reappears, and see Godfather 3. There was a lot of fan service stuff too, like they brought back Johnny Fontaine, you know, and that sort of thing. I'll find you a cut where it's actually all in chronological order. So it starts with Vito, you know the early years, and then they move along from there.
Speaker 1:So that'll help.
Speaker 7:So, anyhow, all of that came out because we're going to go to Sicily.
Speaker 1:So if you're thinking about that. That would be a great trip. I'm looking forward to that. Anyhow, I just want to say get this great group of people together. Everyone's having a good time.
Speaker 3:It's a great time. I noticed when we got on the ship to go to Portofino that all the people from conservative crews got on the right side of the ship. Oh, is that right? Surely leans right. Is that right, that's right.
Speaker 1:Have you been to Rome? I have yeah, you've seen the graffiti all over the walls all over the city, except the Vatican. That's on the liberal tours group. They go around the town on the bus and then they stop and they hand out spray cans at night.
Speaker 7:It's on the liberal tours you might want to check that one out too. They tax the citizens.
Speaker 1:Oh, that's exactly right.
Speaker 5:So, uh, purple and the cleanup, and it's just like it's a lovely color the graffiti when we yeah we're still hot, but graffiti when we were in vernonza or whatever, and we go. At least it's pretty oh, color coordinated and it's like purple and green and it's not like black and they're doing you know, yeah, it's not gang tags, thank you.
Speaker 4:Yeah, mean graffiti, it's not gang tags.
Speaker 1:Thank you and it didn't say Elon Musk is a Nazi. Whoa I don't know it was written in Italian Maybe it did say I just didn't see the Elon bar or the Nazi part it was like pretty graffiti.
Speaker 7:Pretty graffiti Instead of black, more street art than gang art.
Speaker 5:Yes, it was pretty and it had like very lovely.
Speaker 3:I've never heard anyone described graffiti in that way before, as pretty If I get to a certain side of Milan.
Speaker 4:You're gonna see the ugly graffiti and where I stayed in Bologna it was ugly on. You're going to see the ugly graffiti and where I stayed in Bologna it was ugly graffiti. It's around.
Speaker 1:And Rome was ugly graffiti. I mean his buildings were ugly, so I think we ought to end this on a really lovely fun note and end it with a song Pat's Peeps 238. Everyone knows this one and it's Dean Martin. Can't go wrong. And everyone knows the words, or some of the words, to this song. Right you were singing it with.
Speaker 3:It's true, I like a big pizza pie At Samore.
Speaker 4:At Samore, when the sun Skips and shine like you had.
Speaker 1:Too much wine. That's a boy. I thought it was a car commercial.
Speaker 4:It will ring Ding-a-ling-a-ding, ding-a-ling-a-ding.
Speaker 3:Little Bella, little Hearts will sing Tippy-tippy-tay Like a gay tarantella Boy. You knew that one. We told you Hearts will sing Tippy tippy tay, tippy tippy tay, like a gay tarantella.
Speaker 6:Boy you knew that one, what, when so?
Speaker 2:deep the soul, just like pasta fazoola Samore.
Speaker 1:That's Peeps 238. We love you. Come to Come join us. Come join us and you'll see You're in love.
