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It's Pat's Peeps Podcast 355. It's been a few days since we've done a podcast. This is October 30th, and it's uh October 30th, 2025. And where are we, Brian Harris?

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What's the name of this town? Giordini Noxo Sicily.

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Giordini Noxo Sicily, which is about 15 minutes away from uh Terrapina Terramino, where we went today. Anyhow, so it's been a few days since I've done a podcast. Actually, it has only been uh I haven't posted one in a few days because we've been so busy, and the fact is we did a podcast, but we had a little bit of a thing. So it's gonna become the mystery podcast, the uh the last episode. The last episode podcast, which will be posted at a later date. But tonight, on October 30th, we're gonna call it the uh I'm gonna call it the Black Sea podcast because Ryan Harris is sitting here with me, and we're sitting on his hotel patio, and we're looking at the Mediterranean Sea from this beautiful resort, and it's dark right now. It's at night and you can't see the sea, but it's right there. It's right there, it's right in front of us. And I gotta tell you, this hotel, which is a Marriott hotel that we're staying at, is gorgeous. They've got a place out in the back where you can sit. They've got the I love those kind of, I don't know what you would call them, like LED sort of party lights that are you know, the string lights, and so it's dimly lit. There's palm trees, there's a you know, there it's the beach is right here, but you just sit here, it's one of the most uh incredible places I've found to relax, listen to some music, and uh and so that's what we've been doing.

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But there's been other things that have been going on that are uh a little different that we're yeah that we're not gonna get into it's I tell you, it's been a wild trip, and uh you know, we've had a great time, but they really with the tour schedule pushed us a little hard, which is fine. I mean, you know, that's the whole point of a tour. It's you're meant to go see things, and you know, as always, Pat, I mean, how many times have I said the food in Italy is just mind-boggling?

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Yeah, we have a lot of different things, we've tried a lot of different foods. Right?

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And it's funny because you and I have both had pizza since we've been here. Yeah, and I was originally gonna try to hold off on pizza because we end the trip in Naples.

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Oh, yeah, right.

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Naples is where they invented pizza. And so, like, I'm so anxious to get there and try pizza di Napoli, where you know, where where it all began. And one of the places I'm hoping we can hit is a place where they make these little deep fried pizzas, which are supposed to be fantastic. Now, I gotta I gotta give a guy a plug. I'm sure a lot of you Deep fried pizza. Right? It seems crazy, but everyone's a healthy balanced diet. I well, you know, that and my morning start of coffee and cigarettes every day is a great way to, you know, maintain this girlish figure of mine. But um, you know, I I studied up before we came by watching the Stanley Tucci show where he goes around Italy and he's just eating everywhere. And he has an episode where he's in Naples and he has an episode where he's in Sicily. And one of the things he he tried, uh, because it's sort of a tradition, is a thing called aren't which is a ball of rice breaded and deep-fried, more deep-fried food, and it's got filling in it. Different stuff, you can put spinach in it. Uh, I had one with prosciutto, which is Italian ham. Uh, and they're just I had to have one. Uh when we were in Palermo before I got there early, so before you all went there, I went to the Mercato Ballaro, which has been there. If you can imagine this, the Mercato Ballaro has been there for about 1200 years since the Arabs controlled Sicily. And it's a street, it's all street food. It's all street food, and it's long and huge, and there's all kinds of you would you would go a little crazy because Pat's kind of a funny eater sometimes, so looking at the case with the little squid sitting in there would not sit well with Pat. I'd go and pop that bad boy in the fryer and throw some extra tentacles in there for me. You know, I love it. I love it all. But the aren't fantastic. And then again, being here early, I went 15 minutes by train to a town called Bagheria, where I went to a Michelin star restaurant and had the most amazing five-course chef's surprise meal where every course was, you don't know what's coming, the chef's just gonna send it out. And it was so intricately prepared and beautiful and expensive, and I'm so glad I did it because Stanley, thank you, Stanley, he went there and it just looked so good and like so much fun, and I thought, I want to go check this place out. And Baggeria, nice little town. I also went to a place called So tell everyone what a Michelin star rating is. I you know, it's it's basically if it is because I don't know. If it is the I'm asking on your behalf to exact uh to examine it. If it is the finest of fine dining and it's that good, the Michelin folks will give it a Michelin star. And that's how you know it's like the tire people? I'm pretty sure it's the like like the guests. And no one knows good good good good food like good food like people like the Michelin. Like tires, like people who make tires. Well, look at him, the Michelin man, he clearly eats a lot of you know, but it's like the Guinness Book of World Records. Those people make beer and they keep world records, so you put some weird stuff together and and that's what you get. But it's just you know, there are things about Sicily that are just so beautiful, like where we are in Giardini Naxos. It's just gorgeous here. We're right on the Mediterranean, it's so much fun, and you know, I did five days in Palermo, and I really had a good time, and there were a lot of things I loved about it, but man, that city is rough. It's rough. I mean, you gotta be prepared for you know holding your bag close to you and watching over your shoulder and graffiti everywhere, and you know, but to go to Sicily, you gotta start in Palermo, and if you are careful and you watch where you're going, uh you'll you'll you'll have a great time. So, I mean, I so far, and we're not even halfway through the trip. You know, we're not even halfway. That's true. And and I've I I've enjoyed every minute of it so far. Haven't you? Every minute of it? Well, let's just say, you know, for the sake of for the sake of argument, the the nice good stuff we've done. You've been having a good time, right?

SPEAKER_00: 7:30

Yes, absolutely. Uh I say every minute like that. I'm just trying to be funny. There's a couple of little glitches here and there that had nothing to do with the trip, with Pat's peeps, with conservative tours, with hotels. Any, there was no the glitches had nothing to do with anything about the it's not even worth getting into. Although, truth be told, I really wish I could get into it, but I'm not going to. Um so, but so yes, it's been a great time. Uh, by the way, you know, I started off by telling you we're sitting out here by the uh Mediterranean Sea and it's it's night, and um and that's all cool and everything. We're sitting on Ryan's patio at the hotel, but I'm literally sitting directly under a gecko on the wall. Oh, yeah. And it's kind of freaking me out. Okay, so it's right over my head, it's on the wall. You don't see a lot of geckos on walls. I don't, anyhow. Um, and if it falls on me, you're gonna hear me. I'm gonna make radio uh podcasting hole because you're gonna hear a scream. I'm gonna be like, I mean, that thing falls on me. And I'm probably I'm sure they're harmless. They are harmless. You know, little insurance salesman. Oh, listen, hold on. Listen, hold on, listen, listen, let me take a listen. Can you hear that? It started just it's just starting to rain here now. The first time. It's the first time. It literally just started. This is incredible, this is beautiful. Tomorrow.

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Yeah, and we've been very lucky with the weather. It's been like California. Oh, it's been sunny and mid-70s, uh, although my second day or yeah, my third day here, the day you all arrived, it was in the 80s, but the humidity has been high because our tour guide, Marco, um, who has been wonderful, uh, and is our second time with Marco, um you know, said that some sort of weather, something has blown up from Africa, and that's why Yeah, we're not that far from Africa.

SPEAKER_00: 9:46

We're very close to Africa, couple hundred miles tops. Um and the thing is, too, tomorrow. So just to give you sort of an idea where we're located, although I don't know if it helps anybody, you'll just kind of understand that as Ryan's talking about, Marco's saying there's gonna be some kind of weather pattern coming through tomorrow of all days. So, where we're sitting, we are literally not only looking at the Mediterranean, but off to the right is Mount Etna. Now, this is an active volcano and it blows up. And my friends, this freaking volcano is huge and it's ominous looking, and it's just right, we're sitting here during a day looking right at it, it's right there. Um, much like Mount Vesuvius. You know, when we were in uh so was it Sorrento? No.

SPEAKER_01: 10:35

I guess no, Sorrento, but the difference is Vesuvius is pretty quiet. Mount Aetna is one of the two most active volcanoes in the world. I think the other one would be Kilauea and Hawaii. Right. I'm just guessing, but I'm pretty sure that's pretty sure that's it. Uh but there's stuff, and we're far pretty far away from Mount Aetna where we are, but there is this black rock that is hardened lava from Mount Aetna that's been here for hundreds of years.

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And they built the fences around this resort. I mean, they're there rock fences of this black lava.

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Yeah, and it's stuff that's been here for hundreds and thousands of years from when Aetna was more active and blowing farther and more craters and all of that. And uh it's just mind-boggling. And the rock is beautiful.

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Listen to this rain coming down. Just one more time, it's coming down harder now. Let's see if you can hear this. I love that sound, and all of a sudden it just smells good. It's just so beautiful out here. So so to tomorrow, now, this is good timing because tomorrow we're climbing, we're not climbing hell, no, we're driving up, but we're going up over 6,000 feet. This mountain is 11,000 feet, I think, something like that. I'm climbing to the top. Oh, yeah. Yeah, you're seeing you there. Uh, but we're going to be taking the uh uh the coach up to like 6,000, and it's gonna be raining. I already know what tomorrow's gonna be like, and then they expect us to go to some kind of a honey farm, some place where they're harvesting honey. It's I can already assure you, it is going to be rainy and cold and miserable up on this mountain. The rain might lighten up by tomorrow, I hope. I might just grab a blank, cozy up on the coach while you guys are out of the honey farm.

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Well, the other thing that's that's my hot chocolate for you know, for me at least, the fun about the honey farm is that, you know, on our trip, Ray and Tammy Oliveras uh, you know, they farm honey in Oreland. And so, you know, they're gonna be uh uh visiting uh another site with their own uh own industry.

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Talking to Ryan about going to Mount Hanton and we've been to Mount Vesuvius, it's remarkable to me how uh many places just you and I have gone. Now we have someone talking above us. Listen. Some little kids in a family, don't they? Is that what it is? Oh yeah, we're on my balcony, and there's other people at balconies and they're out and about. I wasn't sure where that was coming from for a second. We hadn't heard anything on it. But gosh, you know, I was thinking about it, Ryan. The things that we have seen together, you we have now, this is your third trip, and we have traveled the world together, man. We have seen, um, I know we touched a little bit uh uh, you know, um on a previous podcast. Um you'll hear about that on the on the uh lost episode, but you know, we um we have seen some incredible places together with the Pat's Peeps Tour, you know, with the conservative tours, and you know, um it's really amazing, Ryan. When I stood sit and I think about it, how really blessed we are, man, to travel the world and and meet friends that have traveled with us several times. There's people on this trip now that have come five trips with me. Yeah. Um, and they're just it's so it's a great way to meet friends. We have now become friends, a lot of us. Uh, you know, and and the other thing too is when you're here in Italy or Sicily or some of these places, Austria, Germany, I mean, you name it, you're doing a lot of walking up hills, you're walking on cobblestones, you're walking on streets that are unempty, I mean, that are um uneven. Um, and I can see white people here that who live here are pretty slim, man. You you're doing a lot of walking everywhere. They're in great shape and they walk everywhere. Right. I mean, yeah. Uh so uh again, it's just an incredible thing. And and we're gonna continue this, it seems like. It seems like there's gonna be more trips in the future. I can't really divulge anything just yet, but uh sounds like there's some promise of a couple of other exciting trips that are on the horizon. So, you know, if anyone is looking to join us and be part of our Pat's Peeps group with Conservative Tours, you know, you can go to conservative tours.com or call them, say, um you're interested in going, you know, perhaps looking into the next trip. But I want to thank them for all the opportunities we've had.

SPEAKER_01: 15:36

Oh my god, Ken Chase and the team at Conservative Tours. I mean, they know how to put together a trip. The hotels are always very nice, but they don't fool around. You know, they and you know, sometimes we're on our own to eat, but sometimes there's group meals that are always good. And I I have to say, I do not know where the next trip is planned, but just my gut feeling is that at some point I'm gonna be singing carry me care of and take me away. That's your hint. I don't know. I'm guessing, but that's that's what I think is coming.

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So, you know. You were talking about food and all the great food we've tried. Let me just remind hey, would you guys do, if you're listening to us right now, please do me a favor. You know, please do yourself a favor. This is super important to me. Honestly, if you would do this, uh go to Rock and Stoll Diner. Matt Haynes, who owns Rock and Stoll, and Ryan happens to know the address. It's on 10th Street.

SPEAKER_01: 16:41

It's uh I don't know, he's what's it uh I don't know the address because I've never been there, but now I'm gonna go on your 10th and R or whatever. My guess, my guess was 10th and R because that R Street court or what you've done with it is amazing.

SPEAKER_00: 16:53

But here's what the thing please go in there. And I'm always telling you, if you just say Pat's peeps, you're gonna get free stuff. We're all trying to beat inflation, right? I mean, I think everyone agree. If you're listening to me right now, please do this. And I'm talking dinner, not lunch, not breakfast, please. I'm gonna emphasize dinner. If you go to rock and soul diner, that's R O C and then the at, the and sign, you know, the little thing. And so, S O L, Rock and Soul Diner. Look it up. On dinner items only, you're gonna get two for one. Keep in mind, on Friday and Saturday nights, Rock and Soul Diner has prime rib. It's 25 bucks a plate, which is pretty reasonable to begin with, to be quite honest with you. But the other thing is, if all you lit, all they have to do is just go when you walk in, you go, yep, hey, you know what? I heard about you on Pat's Peeps. They're not gonna ask you to pull out a coupon, you don't have to have an app, none of that stuff. You just go, yeah, I heard about you, I was listening to Pat's Peeps, or I know about you on from the Pat's Peeps. You get your second dinner free all month long. All month, but it has to be dinner. So please do that, and you're gonna save money and you're gonna treat yourself. I know a lot of people on this trip already said, yeah, as soon as I get back, I'm going there for sure. Um, so yeah, I uh I'm very proud of that, that we're able to bring that to you, you know, that we're able to save you a little money, and so if you're interested, we'd certainly appreciate you, you know, doing that.

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And who doesn't love a slab of prime rib?

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Right. And it doesn't even have to be whatever you like. It could be fish and chips, whatever they got on the menu, two-for-one dinners. But we want to build up their dinner crowd and turn people on to the uh to the virtues of the rock and soul diner and the good food. Um in terms of the pizzas Ryan was talking about, yeah, I kind of Oh my goodness. There, you know the thing about it, you know, you think pizza, you know, but there's so many other things over here that you gotta try. We had some lasagna last night at this hotel. We had a three-course meal that was outrageously good. And the first course, when they brought it out on this plate, I'm not a big adventure eater. Like I don't, I I kind of stay in my wheelhouse. I don't, like you were seeing me squid. I don't venture to a bar. I don't even like you know sushi. But um they brought out this lasagna, and it's not your typical. It wasn't like with red sauce and meat and all that, and but although I thought it had meat in it, but I was wrong. No, it had the smoked cheese or whatever. I'm telling you, I I should have taken a picture of this. When they first brought it on the plate, a big square of this stuff out on the plate, and I was the last to get mine on my table, so I got to see everyone's, you know, before I got, and I thought, oh my god, this looks good. And I can tell you that food, and it happened to be vegetarian of all things. I can't believe it. It was the best food that I have had, it was the tastiest thing I have eaten in years. So, yeah, that has been a real uh interesting thing is to try. I tried something today, I can't even remember the name. Everyone else knew what it was. Something, some kind of pumpkin sauce with these potato things. I don't know. Um, everyone seemed to know what it was called, and it was outrageous. And I I these are things that I never try. So pizza's good, yes. But if you ever come over here, absolutely try the pizza. I'm hooked on the pizza versus what I what we get in America. Now, but I uh but not a hint of pineapple. No pineapple. No, I haven't seen any of that over here. Remember, the mafia runs this place over, and I believe it's actually you put the pineapple on the pizza.

SPEAKER_01: 20:39

Yeah. What have I ever done to make you treat me so differently? You put pineapple on my pizza. You know, that's another thing. I am still so geeked up, Pat. I mean, it's down the line, and we'll talk about it on a future podcast because it's still upcoming. But one of our stops is the town of Savoca, which is where the Sicily scenes in the Godfather Part One were filmed. We're gonna sit at Barvatelli where uh Michael Corleone asks Apollonia's father for permission to report her. I'm just so excited. That's Godfather Part One. Oh, is that marries Apollonia's? Oh, yeah, absolutely. One, yes, right. Absolutely, and I'm just so excited about seeing it. And there's a little sort of memorial to Coppola there. Well like kind of a statue thing that I've looked, I'm just looking forward to all of it. I'm so excited.

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Yeah, we'll see the Godfather locations of the Godfather uh uh movie. Uh the other thing, too, that I'm excited about is once this trip to uh Sicily is done, Ryan and I are gonna fly to England. My first time to England. We're gonna go there, we're gonna spend some time in London. Ryan can talk more about that here in a second, but we're gonna go from England to uh Liverpool. You know, when you s to me, when someone says Liverpool, I think of one thing. And it's the same thing you think of, the same thing that probably most people think of. It's the beats. And we're gonna go on the magical mystery tour. And we are gonna go to Strawberry Fields. Is there are we gonna see uh Abbey, uh are we gonna see Penny Lane?

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Oh yeah.

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We're gonna go to Penny Lane. We're gonna go to the uh Abbey Road Studios. That's in London. And we're gonna do the cross, you know, going across the crosswalk, you know, the as they call it the zebra crosswalk, because it's stripes. I'm oh yeah. That's right. And I'm yeah, I didn't know they called it that. They don't say zebra, they say zebra. Oh. And I'm curious, I've always been curious, because my gosh, you know, that's such a famous intersection of the crosswalk. And I'm really curious what the surrounding area looks like. I'm curious how many people besides me are gonna be standing on that corner wanting to walk across that crosswalk, get their picture taken. I don't know how many people go on it at the same time. I don't know if people stop so you can take a picture. I don't know if, you know, if it's just if people are just using, I'm sure people are just using it all day to go back and forth to work and stuff and thinking, oh yeah, it's the same thing as the Beatles, but they're just doing what about their business. But for those of us who are music fans, it's gonna be a very special thing to go see that.

SPEAKER_01: 23:28

And it is, and uh, to your point, Pat, a lot of people go there, and the studios are kind of actually tucked away in a bit of a neighborhood. It's not like a business district per se. I mean, there are other few businesses, maybe some offices around, but a lot of uh what they call flats, apartments, and and things like that. And yeah, there will be people all day doing the walk across, and what's funny is there's no stops for the traffic there. So the traffic just buzzes by and they have to wait for a gap in the traffic, and then as people are doing their crossing video, the cars and trucks have to sit there and wait. Really? It's hilarious to watch. Do they get pissed? I don't I think they're pretty much, they know they're going there, they know what they're getting themselves into, I'm pretty sure. Um but it's uh it's definitely an adventure just getting across that crosswalk. It's unreal, but it's it is a place that you know people go.

SPEAKER_00: 24:28

Well, it's gotta be the most famous crosswalk in the world. Probably. You can only imagine. And we're taking a two-hour bullet trying to get there from London to Liverpool.

SPEAKER_01: 24:36

To Liverpool, but yeah, Abbey Roads in London. Not too far from where we're staying, probably be a 10-minute taxi ride. Really? Yeah, be like a 10-minute taxi ride. It's a little away from the area where we're staying, is in an area called Soho. And a beautiful hotel, and I don't want to say much more because what I'm really looking forward to, and I don't think I've actually said this to you, Pat, but uh when we put you into your room, I I'm gonna follow along with you, and I just want to see the look on your face when you see this room. It's that good. Alright, I'm intrigued. It's that good. I wouldn't would I steer have I ever steered your own? Nah, no. No, of course not. Of course not. And this will be my third time staying at this hotel. Uh, and I will just say I describe it as a rock star hotel, and I know people use the term literally too much these days. This is literally a rock star hotel in the true meaning of the L word. That's why Pat Walsh is staying there.

SPEAKER_00: 25:40

Okay, so I know nothing about this hotel, but I know Ryan has been very excited about that. I can't, I don't know what's up his sleeve or what I'm about to see, but I am pretty excited about it. I, you know, being a music fan, it's obviously um, you know, it's a mecca. I mean London and the whole area for music and all of that. So I don't know. I don't know what's going on.

SPEAKER_01: 26:05

Well, and there's been a lot of stuff recorded at Abbey Road. Oh, yes. You know, I mean it's still a working show.

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I want to know. Here's what I want to know. I just thought about this. I don't know if you know or not. Because I don't know what building it is. But uh can we go is can we go to the building where they played on the roof or uh let it for uh the light of the city?

SPEAKER_01: 26:27

I'll have to figure out where that is, the Apple Records building. I'll do some research. It was on top of the Apple Records building, yeah. Yeah, yeah, where they did the rooftop concert. No, that's not Abbey Road, that was somewhere else. That was that was Apple Records.

SPEAKER_00: 26:42

Oh, Apple, yeah, Apple, right, right, right, right. Yeah, because that was their label.

SPEAKER_01: 26:45

I'm tired, so that was yeah, that was that was their label. So I'm not I think that was in London somewhere.

SPEAKER_00: 26:50

We can probably find it. Do you know who pulled the cables? Do you know that did much of the cable pulling to get all that equipment hooked up on the roof for the Beatles for that show? No. Um Alan Parsons.

SPEAKER_01: 27:08

It was a real project for him, wasn't it?

SPEAKER_00: 27:10

Alan, yes, it was Alan Parsons' project to hook up that the electronics for that Beatles show, and of course, Alan Parsons who went on to great fame on his own right, you know. What was the name of his band? It'd be the Alan Parsons Project. That's right, of course. Who then, of course, went on to produce and engineered Dark Side of the Moon by the Beatle, I'd be by the F. B. Floyd. And uh, you know, uh, so it's just a lot of music history and things. We're gonna go see the is it the cavern club? Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 27:40

I mean, I don't think we get to go inside the cavern club, but it's right there in the you know, in the heart of Liverpool, and and uh there's just so many things. And you know, I was originally gonna do the magical mystery bus tour, and as I was looking to book it, I discovered these people who do private Beatles taxi tours. And I have been trading emails with Mr. Ian Doyle, who's going to be our guide. And I think the private taxi tour is the way to go. That's gonna be so much fun. And what's funny is it wasn't that much more than the bus. So it's like a few extra bucks, whatever. I'll take the private taxi. We're spending 12 days on a bus. By the time the 12 days is over, I'm done with the bus.

SPEAKER_00: 28:32

So the taxi driver, so we're gonna get in the back of a taxi. Is I'm gonna go to a taxi and a taxi. Okay, over here is he what is he doing? Is he gonna tease things? He's he's gonna guide us around.

SPEAKER_01: 28:43

And he has all the knowledge of all the taxi driver. And I I think there's probably some stuff painted on the side of the cab, and I it's a whole thing, it's a whole production. Wow. So it should be good. And like I say, I've been trading emails with him, and he really sounds like he's he's on top of things. So I feel like, and I read I'm one, and I always say this, I I read reviews. If I'm gonna stay at a hotel, I'll read a hundred reviews of the hotel. And I always start, you know, you can search them by the best reviews or the worst reviews, and I always start with the worst. What are the negative things people say? But if that because you always but you always find uh two or three people at least who are gonna just complain about anything. And so I try to gauge the number of negative reviews. Like if it's got 4.6 out of five stars, and there's six negative reviews, I'll read them and see what they say, but I usually will kind of brush them off. Ian is very well reviewed, very well reviewed. So that's why I picked him. And we were lucky, he's got the date and the time free for us, the perfect timing. It couldn't have dialed itself in better. So I'm I'm very, very much looking forward to that. that me too and it'll be quite the experience on a bullet train for two hours yeah yeah that won't that won't be too bad i think i booked i think i booked this aisle seats on that one too oh really okay yeah pat and i are big on the aisle seats yeah yeah yeah we like our we like our well you know i can't be breathing up uh other people's air too much so i gotta take the air from the aisle so that's for for those of you who might not remember this goes back to my first trip with Pat to southern Italy a year and a half ago the first day we go to the abbey at Monte Cassino six of us get stuck on an elevator and one of the women on the elevator started to panic and when she was explaining what happened to Pat later she says and that man was breathing all our air well that man that man was me and I was not breathing all the air I promise you um I had my oxygen tank with me so uh I was breathing my own air but that's been a running joke it's been a running joke so I have to get the aisle seat so I don't breathe up everybody's air see man that's the thing about these trips with conservative tours we get these great groups and like those folks haven't been back with us on another one but there are people on this trip that have been on all three of the trips that I've been on. Yeah. Tammy and Terry. Yeah right you know they're wonderful Tammy and her husband Ray make the honey Terry runs the local restaurant and sits on the Orland City Council and which is just crazy to me because as a reporter I covered so many city council meetings and Tammy's daughter Tawny is also on this one she skipped the the second tour I was on but she's on this one again she was on the first one and we were talking about that I said you know as a reporter I had to cover a lot of city council meetings and they are so boring. My God who would put themselves through that it's you know oh do we put this lamppost 86 inches from the edge of the sidewalk or 88 inches and there are and then one big thing will come up and it's got everybody there doing public comment going crazy and and you know and the city council they always put the big item that's going to attract everybody at the end of the agenda hoping people will leave at 11 o'clock at night before the meeting's over and it's just I couldn't leave. I had to stay because I'm covering it. So I mean I would do that I think about jobs where I'd have to be at a meeting until midnight and then on the air anchoring at 6 a.m and I don't I don't care how far the lamppost is from the edge of the sidewalk. I just don't and I don't need a six inch thick binder to tell me all about it. I don't want to sit there read that at the house you know when I'm trying to watch a Giants game or whatever I just don't want to do it. So God bless the people that are willing to put themselves you know they put themselves on the rack and turn the crank and stretch themselves pretty thin no thank you.

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Yeah yeah yeah what do you think Pat we got amount amount etna tomorrow yeah I think that what at this point what we should do is you should pull up some kind of uh Sicilian music of some kind I I I I hesitate to call it Italian music you know they they're Sicilian and they like to think of themselves as their own little uh I guess country almost but um you know I think you should pull up uh uh something like that and what we should do is enjoy a little music and thank everyone for listening to the podcast and and ask you once more time to please support you know go to patspeeps.com I've got great merchandise there Sam's Hoprow t-shirts are outrageous we've got the uh Pat's peeps merchandise we've got the Pat Walsh show merchandise we've got all of this and we'd love you to go to Rock and Soul Diner and get your two for one go ahead and crank that a little bit little two for one action tell him Pat's peeps we've got him on Pat's peeps and uh I promise what I'm gonna do tomorrow at least what I hope unless it's raining so hard that I can't I'll try to do a podcast from Mount Aetna as we're traveling up there is that okay Ryan my friend thank you sir always a pleasure no one better to travel with than Ryan Harris he's a great guy to hang out with and I appreciate you listening and we'll see you tomorrow for Pat's Peeps number this is 355 so tomorrow 356. If you're looking for the missing 354 you're gonna have to wait on that one. It will be the missing episode later to be renamed uh the lost episode Pat's peeps 354. All right see you then see you from out at now