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SPEAKER_00 (00:00):
It's Pat's Peeps Podcast 355.
It's been a few days since we'vedone a podcast.
This is October 30th, and it'suh October 30th, 2025.
And where are we, Brian Harris?
SPEAKER_01 (00:18):
What's the name of this town?
Giordini Noxo Sicily.
SPEAKER_00 (00:22):
Giordini Noxo Sicily, which is about 15
minutes away from uh TerrapinaTerramino, where we went today.
Anyhow, so it's been a few dayssince I've done a podcast.
Actually, it has only been uh Ihaven't posted one in a few days
because we've been so busy, andthe fact is we did a podcast,
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but we had a little bit of athing.
So it's gonna become the mysterypodcast, the uh the last
episode.
The last episode podcast, whichwill 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 Seapodcast because Ryan Harris is
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sitting here with me, and we'resitting on his hotel patio, and
we're looking at theMediterranean Sea from this
beautiful resort, and it's darkright now.
It's at night and you can't seethe sea, but it's right there.
It's right there, it's right infront of us.
And I gotta tell you, thishotel, which is a Marriott hotel
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that we're staying at, isgorgeous.
They've got a place out in theback where you can sit.
They've got the I love thosekind of, I don't know what you
would call them, like LED sortof party lights that are you
know, the string lights, and soit's dimly lit.
There's palm trees, there's ayou know, there it's the beach
is right here, but you just sithere, it's one of the most uh
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incredible places I've found torelax, listen to some music, and
uh and so that's what we've beendoing.
SPEAKER_01 (02:01):
But there's been other things that have been
going on that are uh a littledifferent that we're yeah that
we're not gonna get into it's Itell you, it's been a wild trip,
and uh you know, we've had agreat time, but they really with
the tour schedule pushed us alittle hard, which is fine.
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I mean, you know, that's thewhole point of a tour.
It's you're meant to go seethings, and you know, as always,
Pat, I mean, how many times haveI said the food in Italy is just
mind-boggling?
SPEAKER_00 (02:34):
Yeah, we have a lot of different things, we've tried
a lot of different foods.
Right?
SPEAKER_01 (02:39):
And it's funny because you and I have both had
pizza since we've been here.
Yeah, and I was originally gonnatry to hold off on pizza because
we end the trip in Naples.
SPEAKER_02 (02:48):
Oh, yeah, right.
SPEAKER_01 (02:49):
Naples is where they invented pizza.
And so, like, I'm so anxious toget there and try pizza di
Napoli, where you know, wherewhere it all began.
And one of the places I'm hopingwe can hit is a place where they
make these little deep friedpizzas, which are supposed to be
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fantastic.
Now, I gotta I gotta give a guya plug.
I'm sure a lot of you Deep friedpizza.
Right?
It seems crazy, but everyone's ahealthy balanced diet.
I well, you know, that and mymorning start of coffee and
cigarettes every day is a greatway to, you know, maintain this
girlish figure of mine.
But um, you know, I I studied upbefore we came by watching the
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Stanley Tucci show where he goesaround Italy and he's just
eating everywhere.
And he has an episode where he'sin Naples and he has an episode
where he's in Sicily.
And one of the things he hetried, uh, because it's sort of
a tradition, is a thing calledaren't which is a ball of rice
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breaded and deep-fried, moredeep-fried food, and it's got
filling in it.
Different stuff, you can putspinach in it.
Uh, I had one with prosciutto,which is Italian ham.
Uh, and they're just I had tohave one.
Uh when we were in Palermobefore I got there early, so
before you all went there, Iwent to the Mercato Ballaro,
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which has been there.
If you can imagine this, theMercato Ballaro has been there
for about 1200 years since theArabs controlled Sicily.
And it's a street, it's allstreet food.
It's all street food, and it'slong and huge, and there's all
kinds of you would you would goa little crazy because Pat's
kind of a funny eater sometimes,so looking at the case with the
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little squid sitting in therewould not sit well with Pat.
I'd go and pop that bad boy inthe 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 hereearly, I went 15 minutes by
train to a town called Bagheria,where I went to a Michelin star
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restaurant and had the mostamazing five-course chef's
surprise meal where every coursewas, you don't know what's
coming, the chef's just gonnasend it out.
And it was so intricatelyprepared and beautiful and
expensive, and I'm so glad I didit because Stanley, thank you,
Stanley, he went there and itjust looked so good and like so
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much fun, and I thought, I wantto go check this place out.
And Baggeria, nice little town.
I also went to a place called Sotell everyone what a Michelin
star rating is.
I you know, it's it's basicallyif it is because I don't know.
If it is the I'm asking on yourbehalf to exact uh to examine
it.
If it is the finest of finedining and it's that good, the
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Michelin folks will give it aMichelin star.
And that's how you know it'slike the tire people?
I'm pretty sure it's the likelike the guests.
And no one knows good good goodgood food like good food like
people like the Michelin.
Like tires, like people who maketires.
Well, look at him, the Michelinman, he clearly eats a lot of
you know, but it's like theGuinness Book of World Records.
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Those people make beer and theykeep world records, so you put
some weird stuff together andand that's what you get.
But it's just you know, thereare things about Sicily that are
just so beautiful, like where weare in Giardini Naxos.
It's just gorgeous here.
We're right on theMediterranean, it's so much fun,
and you know, I did five days inPalermo, and I really had a good
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time, and there were a lot ofthings I loved about it, but
man, that city is rough.
It's rough.
I mean, you gotta be preparedfor you know holding your bag
close to you and watching overyour shoulder and graffiti
everywhere, and you know, but togo to Sicily, you gotta start in
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Palermo, and if you are carefuland you watch where you're
going, uh you'll you'll you'llhave a great time.
So, I mean, I so far, and we'renot even halfway through the
trip.
You know, we're not evenhalfway.
That's true.
And and I've I I've enjoyedevery minute of it so far.
Haven't you?
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Every minute of it?
Well, let's just say, you know,for the sake of for the sake of
argument, the the nice goodstuff we've done.
You've been having a good time,right?
SPEAKER_00 (07:30):
Yes, absolutely.
Uh I say every minute like that.
I'm just trying to be funny.
There's a couple of littleglitches 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 glitcheshad nothing to do with anything
about the it's not even worthgetting into.
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Although, truth be told, Ireally wish I could get into it,
but I'm not going to.
Um so, but so yes, it's been agreat time.
Uh, by the way, you know, Istarted off by telling you we're
sitting out here by the uhMediterranean Sea and it's it's
night, and um and that's allcool and everything.
We're sitting on Ryan's patio atthe hotel, but I'm literally
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sitting directly under a geckoon the wall.
Oh, yeah.
And it's kind of freaking meout.
Okay, so it's right over myhead, it's on the wall.
You don't see a lot of geckos onwalls.
I don't, anyhow.
Um, and if it falls on me,you're gonna hear me.
I'm gonna make radio uhpodcasting hole because you're
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gonna hear a scream.
I'm gonna be like, I mean, thatthing falls on me.
And I'm probably I'm surethey're harmless.
They are harmless.
You know, little insurancesalesman.
Oh, listen, hold on.
Listen, hold on, listen, listen,let me take a listen.
Can you hear that?
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It started just it's juststarting to rain here now.
The first time.
It's the first time.
It literally just started.
This is incredible, this isbeautiful.
Tomorrow.
SPEAKER_01 (09:15):
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 dayyou all arrived, it was in the
80s, but the humidity has beenhigh because our tour guide,
Marco, um, who has beenwonderful, uh, and is our second
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time with Marco, um you know,said that some sort of weather,
something has blown up fromAfrica, and that's why Yeah,
we're not that far from Africa.
SPEAKER_00 (09:46):
We're very close to Africa, couple hundred miles
tops.
Um and the thing is, too,tomorrow.
So just to give you sort of anidea where we're located,
although I don't know if ithelps anybody, you'll just kind
of understand that as Ryan'stalking about, Marco's saying
there's gonna be some kind ofweather pattern coming through
tomorrow of all days.
So, where we're sitting, we areliterally not only looking at
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the Mediterranean, but off tothe right is Mount Etna.
Now, this is an active volcanoand it blows up.
And my friends, this freakingvolcano 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 rightthere.
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Um, much like Mount Vesuvius.
You know, when we were in uh sowas 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 twomost active volcanoes in the
world.
I think the other one would beKilauea and Hawaii.
Right.
I'm just guessing, but I'mpretty sure that's pretty sure
that's it.
Uh but there's stuff, and we'refar pretty far away from Mount
Aetna where we are, but there isthis black rock that is hardened
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lava from Mount Aetna that'sbeen here for hundreds of years.
SPEAKER_00 (11:03):
And they built the fences around this resort.
I mean, they're there rockfences of this black lava.
SPEAKER_01 (11:08):
Yeah, and it's stuff that's been here for hundreds
and thousands of years from whenAetna was more active and
blowing farther and more cratersand all of that.
And uh it's just mind-boggling.
And the rock is beautiful.
SPEAKER_00 (11:23):
Listen to this rain coming down.
Just one more time, it's comingdown harder now.
Let's see if you can hear this.
I love that sound, and all of asudden it just smells good.
It's just so beautiful out here.
So so to tomorrow, now, this isgood timing because tomorrow
we're climbing, we're notclimbing hell, no, we're driving
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up, but we're going up over6,000 feet.
This mountain is 11,000 feet, Ithink, something like that.
I'm climbing to the top.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, you're seeing you there.
Uh, but we're going to be takingthe uh uh the coach up to like
6,000, and it's gonna beraining.
I already know what tomorrow'sgonna be like, and then they
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expect us to go to some kind ofa 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 thismountain.
The rain might lighten up bytomorrow, I hope.
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I might just grab a blank, cozyup on the coach while you guys
are out of the honey farm.
SPEAKER_01 (12:32):
Well, the other thing that's that's my hot
chocolate for you know, for meat least, the fun about the
honey farm is that, you know, onour trip, Ray and Tammy Oliveras
uh, you know, they farm honey inOreland.
And so, you know, they're gonnabe uh uh visiting uh another
site with their own uh ownindustry.
SPEAKER_00 (12:56):
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 havegone.
Now we have someone talkingabove 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 andabout.
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I wasn't sure where that wascoming from for a second.
We hadn't heard anything on it.
But gosh, you know, I wasthinking about it, Ryan.
The things that we have seentogether, you we have now, this
is your third trip, and we havetraveled the world together,
man.
We have seen, um, I know wetouched a little bit uh uh, you
know, um on a previous podcast.
(13:38):
Um you'll hear about that on theon the uh lost episode, but you
know, we um we have seen someincredible places together with
the Pat's Peeps Tour, you know,with the conservative tours, and
you know, um it's reallyamazing, Ryan.
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When I stood sit and I thinkabout it, how really blessed we
are, man, to travel the worldand and meet friends that have
traveled with us several times.
There's people on this trip nowthat have come five trips with
me.
Yeah.
Um, and they're just it's soit's a great way to meet
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friends.
We have now become friends, alot of us.
Uh, you know, and and the otherthing too is when you're here in
Italy or Sicily or some of theseplaces, Austria, Germany, I
mean, you name it, you're doinga lot of walking up hills,
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you're walking on cobblestones,you're walking on streets that
are unempty, I mean, that are umuneven.
Um, and I can see white peoplehere that who live here are
pretty slim, man.
You you're doing a lot ofwalking everywhere.
They're in great shape and theywalk everywhere.
Right.
I mean, yeah.
Uh so uh again, it's just anincredible thing.
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And and we're gonna continuethis, it seems like.
It seems like there's gonna bemore trips in the future.
I can't really divulge anythingjust yet, but uh sounds like
there's some promise of a coupleof other exciting trips that are
on the horizon.
So, you know, if anyone islooking to join us and be part
of our Pat's Peeps group withConservative Tours, you know,
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you can go to conservativetours.com or call them, say, um
you're interested in going, youknow, perhaps looking into the
next trip.
But I want to thank them for allthe 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 puttogether 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 groupmeals that are always good.
And I I have to say, I do notknow where the next trip is
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planned, but just my gut feelingis that at some point I'm gonna
be singing carry me care of andtake me away.
That's your hint.
I don't know.
I'm guessing, but that's that'swhat I think is coming.
SPEAKER_00 (16:14):
So, you know.
You were talking about food andall the great food we've tried.
Let me just remind hey, wouldyou guys do, if you're listening
to us right now, please do me afavor.
You know, please do yourself afavor.
This is super important to me.
Honestly, if you would do this,uh go to Rock and Stoll Diner.
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Matt Haynes, who owns Rock andStoll, 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'venever been there, but now I'm
gonna go on your 10th and R orwhatever.
My guess, my guess was 10th andR because that R Street court or
what you've done with it isamazing.
SPEAKER_00 (16:53):
But here's what the thing please go in there.
And I'm always telling you, ifyou just say Pat's peeps, you're
gonna get free stuff.
We're all trying to beatinflation, right?
I mean, I think everyone agree.
If you're listening to me rightnow, please do this.
And I'm talking dinner, notlunch, not breakfast, please.
I'm gonna emphasize dinner.
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If you go to rock and souldiner, that's R O C and then the
at, the and sign, you know, thelittle thing.
And so, S O L, Rock and SoulDiner.
Look it up.
On dinner items only, you'regonna get two for one.
Keep in mind, on Friday andSaturday nights, Rock and Soul
Diner has prime rib.
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It's 25 bucks a plate, which ispretty reasonable to begin with,
to be quite honest with you.
But the other thing is, if allyou lit, all they have to do is
just go when you walk in, yougo, yep, hey, you know what?
I heard about you on Pat'sPeeps.
They're not gonna ask you topull out a coupon, you don't
have to have an app, none ofthat stuff.
You just go, yeah, I heard aboutyou, I was listening to Pat's
Peeps, or I know about you onfrom the Pat's Peeps.
(17:56):
You get your second dinner freeall month long.
All month, but it has to bedinner.
So please do that, and you'regonna save money and you're
gonna treat yourself.
I know a lot of people on thistrip already said, yeah, as soon
as I get back, I'm going therefor sure.
Um, so yeah, I uh I'm very proudof that, that we're able to
bring that to you, you know,that we're able to save you a
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little money, and so if you'reinterested, we'd certainly
appreciate you, you know, doingthat.
SPEAKER_01 (18:22):
And who doesn't love a slab of prime rib?
SPEAKER_00 (18:25):
Right.
And it doesn't even have to bewhatever you like.
It could be fish and chips,whatever they got on the menu,
two-for-one dinners.
But we want to build up theirdinner crowd and turn people on
to the uh to the virtues of therock and soul diner and the good
food.
Um in terms of the pizzas Ryanwas talking about, yeah, I kind
of Oh my goodness.
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There, you know the thing aboutit, you know, you think pizza,
you know, but there's so manyother things over here that you
gotta try.
We had some lasagna last nightat this hotel.
We had a three-course meal thatwas outrageously good.
And the first course, when theybrought it out on this plate,
I'm not a big adventure eater.
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Like I don't, I I kind of stayin my wheelhouse.
I don't, like you were seeing mesquid.
I don't venture to a bar.
I don't even like you knowsushi.
But um they brought out thislasagna, and it's not your
typical.
It wasn't like with red sauceand meat and all that, and but
although I thought it had meatin it, but I was wrong.
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No, it had the smoked cheese orwhatever.
I'm telling you, I I should havetaken a picture of this.
When they first brought it onthe plate, a big square of this
stuff out on the plate, and Iwas the last to get mine on my
table, so I got to seeeveryone'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
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of all things.
I can't believe it.
It was the best food that I havehad, it was the tastiest thing I
have eaten in years.
So, yeah, that has been a realuh interesting thing is to try.
I tried something today, I can'teven remember the name.
Everyone else knew what it was.
Something, some kind of pumpkinsauce with these potato things.
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I don't know.
Um, everyone seemed to know whatit was called, and it was
outrageous.
And I I these are things that Inever try.
So pizza's good, yes.
But if you ever come over here,absolutely try the pizza.
I'm hooked on the pizza versuswhat I what we get in America.
Now, but I uh but not a hint ofpineapple.
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No pineapple.
No, I haven't seen any of thatover here.
Remember, the mafia runs thisplace over, and I believe it's
actually you put the pineappleon the pizza.
SPEAKER_01 (20:39):
Yeah.
What have I ever done to makeyou 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, andwe'll talk about it on a future
podcast because it's stillupcoming.
But one of our stops is the townof Savoca, which is where the
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Sicily scenes in the GodfatherPart One were filmed.
We're gonna sit at Barvatelliwhere uh Michael Corleone asks
Apollonia's father forpermission 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.
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Absolutely, and I'm just soexcited about seeing it.
And there's a little sort ofmemorial to Coppola there.
Well like kind of a statue thingthat I've looked, I'm just
looking forward to all of it.
I'm so excited.
SPEAKER_00 (21:33):
Yeah, we'll see the Godfather locations of the
Godfather uh uh movie.
Uh the other thing, too, thatI'm excited about is once this
trip to uh Sicily is done, Ryanand I are gonna fly to England.
My first time to England.
We're gonna go there, we'regonna spend some time in London.
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Ryan can talk more about thathere in a second, but we're
gonna go from England to uhLiverpool.
You know, when you s to me, whensomeone says Liverpool, I think
of one thing.
And it's the same thing youthink of, the same thing that
probably most people think of.
It's the beats.
And we're gonna go on themagical mystery tour.
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And we are gonna go toStrawberry Fields.
Is there are we gonna see uhAbbey, uh are we gonna see Penny
Lane?
SPEAKER_01 (22:24):
Oh yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (22:24):
We're gonna go to Penny Lane.
We're gonna go to the uh AbbeyRoad Studios.
That's in London.
And we're gonna do the cross,you know, going across the
crosswalk, you know, the as theycall it the zebra crosswalk,
because it's stripes.
I'm oh yeah.
That's right.
And I'm yeah, I didn't know theycalled it that.
They don't say zebra, they sayzebra.
(22:45):
Oh.
And I'm curious, I've alwaysbeen curious, because my gosh,
you know, that's such a famousintersection of the crosswalk.
And I'm really curious what thesurrounding area looks like.
I'm curious how many peoplebesides me are gonna be standing
on that corner wanting to walkacross that crosswalk, get their
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picture taken.
I don't know how many people goon it at the same time.
I don't know if people stop soyou can take a picture.
I don't know if, you know, ifit's just if people are just
using, I'm sure people are justusing it all day to go back and
forth to work and stuff andthinking, oh yeah, it's the same
thing as the Beatles, butthey're just doing what about
their business.
But for those of us who aremusic fans, it's gonna be a very
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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 studiosare kind of actually tucked away
in a bit of a neighborhood.
It's not like a businessdistrict per se.
I mean, there are other fewbusinesses, maybe some offices
around, but a lot of uh whatthey call flats, apartments, and
and things like that.
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And yeah, there will be peopleall day doing the walk across,
and what's funny is there's nostops for the traffic there.
So the traffic just buzzes byand they have to wait for a gap
in the traffic, and then aspeople are doing their crossing
video, the cars and trucks haveto sit there and wait.
Really?
It's hilarious to watch.
Do they get pissed?
(24:09):
I don't I think they're prettymuch, they know they're going
there, they know what they'regetting themselves into, I'm
pretty sure.
Um but it's uh it's definitelyan adventure just getting across
that crosswalk.
It's unreal, but it's it is aplace 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-hourbullet 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'restaying, probably be a 10-minute
taxi ride.
Really?
Yeah, be like a 10-minute taxiride.
It's a little away from the areawhere we're staying, is in an
area called Soho.
And a beautiful hotel, and Idon't want to say much more
because what I'm really lookingforward to, and I don't think
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I've actually said this to you,Pat, but uh when we put you into
your room, I I'm gonna followalong with you, and I just want
to see the look on your facewhen you see this room.
It's that good.
Alright, I'm intrigued.
It's that good.
I wouldn't would I steer have Iever steered your own?
(25:17):
Nah, no.
No, of course not.
Of course not.
And this will be my third timestaying at this hotel.
Uh, and I will just say Idescribe it as a rock star
hotel, and I know people use theterm literally too much these
days.
This is literally a rock starhotel in the true meaning of the
L word.
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That's why Pat Walsh is stayingthere.
SPEAKER_00 (25:40):
Okay, so I know nothing about this hotel, but I
know Ryan has been very excitedabout that.
I can't, I don't know what's uphis sleeve or what I'm about to
see, but I am pretty excitedabout it.
I, you know, being a music fan,it's obviously um, you know,
it's a mecca.
I mean London and the whole areafor music and all of that.
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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 aworking show.
SPEAKER_00 (26:11):
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 whatbuilding it is.
But uh can we go is can we go tothe building where they played
on the roof or uh let it for uhthe 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 AppleRecords building, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, where they did therooftop concert.
No, that's not Abbey Road, thatwas somewhere else.
That was that was Apple Records.
SPEAKER_00 (26:42):
Oh, Apple, yeah, Apple, right, right, right,
right.
Yeah, because that was theirlabel.
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 inLondon somewhere.
SPEAKER_00 (26:50):
We can probably find it.
Do you know who pulled thecables?
Do you know that did much of thecable pulling to get all that
equipment hooked up on the rooffor 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 thatBeatles show, and of course,
Alan Parsons who went on togreat fame on his own right, you
know.
What was the name of his band?
It'd be the Alan ParsonsProject.
That's right, of course.
Who then, of course, went on toproduce and engineered Dark Side
of the Moon by the Beatle, I'dbe by the F.
B.
Floyd.
(27:31):
And uh, you know, uh, so it'sjust a lot of music history and
things.
We're gonna go see the is it thecavern club?
Oh yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (27:40):
I mean, I don't think we get to go inside the
cavern club, but it's rightthere in the you know, in the
heart of Liverpool, and and uhthere's just so many things.
And you know, I was originallygonna do the magical mystery bus
tour, and as I was looking tobook it, I discovered these
people who do private Beatlestaxi tours.
(28:04):
And I have been trading emailswith Mr.
Ian Doyle, who's going to be ourguide.
And I think the private taxitour is the way to go.
That's gonna be so much fun.
And what's funny is it wasn'tthat much more than the bus.
So it's like a few extra bucks,whatever.
(28:24):
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 ataxi.
Okay, over here is he what is hedoing?
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 probablysome stuff painted on the side
of the cab, and I it's a wholething, it's a whole production.
Wow.
So it should be good.
And like I say, I've beentrading emails with him, and he
really sounds like he's he's ontop of things.
So I feel like, and I read I'mone, and I always say this, I I
(29:05):
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 thingspeople say?
But if that because you alwaysbut you always find uh two or
three people at least who aregonna just complain about
(29:27):
anything.
And so I try to gauge the numberof negative reviews.
Like if it's got 4.6 out of fivestars, and there's six negative
reviews, I'll read them and seewhat they say, but I usually
will kind of brush them off.
Ian is very well reviewed, verywell reviewed.
So that's why I picked him.
(29:47):
And we were lucky, he's got thedate and the time free for us,
the perfect timing.
It couldn't have dialed itselfin better.
So I'm I'm very, very muchlooking forward to that.
that me too and it'll be quitethe experience on a bullet train
for two hours yeah yeah thatwon't that won't be too bad i
(30:09):
think i booked i think i bookedthis aisle seats on that one too
oh really okay yeah pat and iare big on the aisle seats yeah
yeah yeah we like our we likeour well you know i can't be
breathing up uh other people'sair too much so i gotta take the
air from the aisle so that's forfor those of you who might not
(30:30):
remember this goes back to myfirst trip with Pat to southern
Italy a year and a half ago thefirst day we go to the abbey at
Monte Cassino six of us getstuck on an elevator and one of
the women on the elevatorstarted to panic and when she
was explaining what happened toPat later she says and that man
(30:50):
was breathing all our air wellthat man that man was me and I
was not breathing all the air Ipromise you um I had my oxygen
tank with me so uh I wasbreathing my own air but that's
been a running joke it's been arunning joke so I have to get
the aisle seat so I don'tbreathe up everybody's air see
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man that's the thing about thesetrips with conservative tours we
get these great groups and likethose folks haven't been back
with us on another one but thereare people on this trip that
have been on all three of thetrips that I've been on.
Yeah.
Tammy and Terry.
Yeah right you know they'rewonderful Tammy and her husband
Ray make the honey Terry runsthe local restaurant and sits on
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the Orland City Council andwhich is just crazy to me
because as a reporter I coveredso many city council meetings
and Tammy's daughter Tawny isalso on this one she skipped the
the second tour I was on butshe's on this one again she was
on the first one and we weretalking about that I said you
know as a reporter I had tocover a lot of city council
(31:58):
meetings and they are so boring.
My God who would put themselvesthrough that it's you know oh do
we put this lamppost 86 inchesfrom the edge of the sidewalk or
88 inches and there are and thenone big thing will come up and
it's got everybody there doingpublic comment going crazy and
(32:18):
and you know and the citycouncil they always put the big
item that's going to attracteverybody at the end of the
agenda hoping people will leaveat 11 o'clock at night before
the meeting's over and it's justI couldn't leave.
I had to stay because I'mcovering it.
So I mean I would do that Ithink about jobs where I'd have
(32:39):
to be at a meeting untilmidnight and then on the air
anchoring at 6 a.m and I don't Idon't care how far the lamppost
(32:59):
is from the edge of thesidewalk.
I just don't and I don't need asix inch thick binder to tell me
all about it.
I don't want to sit there readthat at the house you know when
I'm trying to watch a Giantsgame or whatever I just don't
want to do it.
So God bless the people that arewilling to put themselves you
(33:19):
know they put themselves on therack and turn the crank and
stretch themselves pretty thinno thank you.
SPEAKER_00 (33:27):
Yeah yeah yeah what do you think Pat we got amount
amount etna tomorrow yeah Ithink that what at this point
what we should do is you shouldpull up some kind of uh Sicilian
music of some kind I I I Ihesitate to call it Italian
(33:48):
music you know they they'reSicilian and they like to think
of themselves as their ownlittle uh I guess country almost
but um you know I think youshould pull up uh uh something
like that and what we should dois enjoy a little music and
thank everyone for listening tothe podcast and and ask you once
(34:10):
more time to please support youknow go to patspeeps.com I've
got great merchandise thereSam's Hoprow t-shirts are
outrageous we've got the uhPat's peeps merchandise we've
got the Pat Walsh showmerchandise we've got all of
this and we'd love you to go toRock and Soul Diner and get your
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uh I promise what I'm gonna dotomorrow at least what I hope
unless it's raining so hard thatI can't I'll try to do a podcast
from Mount Aetna as we'retraveling up there is that okay
Ryan my friend thank you siralways a pleasure no one better
(34:56):
to travel with than Ryan Harrishe's a great guy to hang out
with and I appreciate youlistening and we'll see you
tomorrow for Pat's Peeps numberthis is 355 so tomorrow 356.
If you're looking for themissing 354 you're gonna have to
wait on that one.
It will be the missing episodelater to be renamed uh the lost
(35:17):
episode Pat's peeps 354.
All right see you then see youfrom out at now
It's Pat's Peeps Podcast 355.
It's been a few days since we'vedone a podcast.
This is October 30th, and it'suh October 30th, 2025.
And where are we, Brian Harris?
SPEAKER_01 (00:18):
What's the name of this town?
Giordini Noxo Sicily.
SPEAKER_00 (00:22):
Giordini Noxo Sicily, which is about 15
minutes away from uh TerrapinaTerramino, where we went today.
Anyhow, so it's been a few dayssince I've done a podcast.
Actually, it has only been uh Ihaven't posted one in a few days
because we've been so busy, andthe fact is we did a podcast,
(00:47):
but we had a little bit of athing.
So it's gonna become the mysterypodcast, the uh the last
episode.
The last episode podcast, whichwill 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 Seapodcast because Ryan Harris is
(01:08):
sitting here with me, and we'resitting on his hotel patio, and
we're looking at theMediterranean Sea from this
beautiful resort, and it's darkright now.
It's at night and you can't seethe sea, but it's right there.
It's right there, it's right infront of us.
And I gotta tell you, thishotel, which is a Marriott hotel
(01:32):
that we're staying at, isgorgeous.
They've got a place out in theback where you can sit.
They've got the I love thosekind of, I don't know what you
would call them, like LED sortof party lights that are you
know, the string lights, and soit's dimly lit.
There's palm trees, there's ayou know, there it's the beach
is right here, but you just sithere, it's one of the most uh
(01:53):
incredible places I've found torelax, listen to some music, and
uh and so that's what we've beendoing.
SPEAKER_01 (02:01):
But there's been other things that have been
going on that are uh a littledifferent that we're yeah that
we're not gonna get into it's Itell you, it's been a wild trip,
and uh you know, we've had agreat time, but they really with
the tour schedule pushed us alittle hard, which is fine.
(02:21):
I mean, you know, that's thewhole point of a tour.
It's you're meant to go seethings, and you know, as always,
Pat, I mean, how many times haveI said the food in Italy is just
mind-boggling?
SPEAKER_00 (02:34):
Yeah, we have a lot of different things, we've tried
a lot of different foods.
Right?
SPEAKER_01 (02:39):
And it's funny because you and I have both had
pizza since we've been here.
Yeah, and I was originally gonnatry to hold off on pizza because
we end the trip in Naples.
SPEAKER_02 (02:48):
Oh, yeah, right.
SPEAKER_01 (02:49):
Naples is where they invented pizza.
And so, like, I'm so anxious toget there and try pizza di
Napoli, where you know, wherewhere it all began.
And one of the places I'm hopingwe can hit is a place where they
make these little deep friedpizzas, which are supposed to be
(03:09):
fantastic.
Now, I gotta I gotta give a guya plug.
I'm sure a lot of you Deep friedpizza.
Right?
It seems crazy, but everyone's ahealthy balanced diet.
I well, you know, that and mymorning start of coffee and
cigarettes every day is a greatway to, you know, maintain this
girlish figure of mine.
But um, you know, I I studied upbefore we came by watching the
(03:36):
Stanley Tucci show where he goesaround Italy and he's just
eating everywhere.
And he has an episode where he'sin Naples and he has an episode
where he's in Sicily.
And one of the things he hetried, uh, because it's sort of
a tradition, is a thing calledaren't which is a ball of rice
(03:56):
breaded and deep-fried, moredeep-fried food, and it's got
filling in it.
Different stuff, you can putspinach in it.
Uh, I had one with prosciutto,which is Italian ham.
Uh, and they're just I had tohave one.
Uh when we were in Palermobefore I got there early, so
before you all went there, Iwent to the Mercato Ballaro,
(04:18):
which has been there.
If you can imagine this, theMercato Ballaro has been there
for about 1200 years since theArabs controlled Sicily.
And it's a street, it's allstreet food.
It's all street food, and it'slong and huge, and there's all
kinds of you would you would goa little crazy because Pat's
kind of a funny eater sometimes,so looking at the case with the
(04:42):
little squid sitting in therewould not sit well with Pat.
I'd go and pop that bad boy inthe 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 hereearly, I went 15 minutes by
train to a town called Bagheria,where I went to a Michelin star
(05:07):
restaurant and had the mostamazing five-course chef's
surprise meal where every coursewas, you don't know what's
coming, the chef's just gonnasend it out.
And it was so intricatelyprepared and beautiful and
expensive, and I'm so glad I didit because Stanley, thank you,
Stanley, he went there and itjust looked so good and like so
(05:29):
much fun, and I thought, I wantto go check this place out.
And Baggeria, nice little town.
I also went to a place called Sotell everyone what a Michelin
star rating is.
I you know, it's it's basicallyif it is because I don't know.
If it is the I'm asking on yourbehalf to exact uh to examine
it.
If it is the finest of finedining and it's that good, the
(05:54):
Michelin folks will give it aMichelin star.
And that's how you know it'slike the tire people?
I'm pretty sure it's the likelike the guests.
And no one knows good good goodgood food like good food like
people like the Michelin.
Like tires, like people who maketires.
Well, look at him, the Michelinman, he clearly eats a lot of
you know, but it's like theGuinness Book of World Records.
(06:14):
Those people make beer and theykeep world records, so you put
some weird stuff together andand that's what you get.
But it's just you know, thereare things about Sicily that are
just so beautiful, like where weare in Giardini Naxos.
It's just gorgeous here.
We're right on theMediterranean, it's so much fun,
and you know, I did five days inPalermo, and I really had a good
(06:37):
time, and there were a lot ofthings I loved about it, but
man, that city is rough.
It's rough.
I mean, you gotta be preparedfor you know holding your bag
close to you and watching overyour shoulder and graffiti
everywhere, and you know, but togo to Sicily, you gotta start in
(06:57):
Palermo, and if you are carefuland you watch where you're
going, uh you'll you'll you'llhave a great time.
So, I mean, I so far, and we'renot even halfway through the
trip.
You know, we're not evenhalfway.
That's true.
And and I've I I've enjoyedevery minute of it so far.
Haven't you?
(07:19):
Every minute of it?
Well, let's just say, you know,for the sake of for the sake of
argument, the the nice goodstuff we've done.
You've been having a good time,right?
SPEAKER_00 (07:30):
Yes, absolutely.
Uh I say every minute like that.
I'm just trying to be funny.
There's a couple of littleglitches 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 glitcheshad nothing to do with anything
about the it's not even worthgetting into.
(07:53):
Although, truth be told, Ireally wish I could get into it,
but I'm not going to.
Um so, but so yes, it's been agreat time.
Uh, by the way, you know, Istarted off by telling you we're
sitting out here by the uhMediterranean Sea and it's it's
night, and um and that's allcool and everything.
We're sitting on Ryan's patio atthe hotel, but I'm literally
(08:19):
sitting directly under a geckoon the wall.
Oh, yeah.
And it's kind of freaking meout.
Okay, so it's right over myhead, it's on the wall.
You don't see a lot of geckos onwalls.
I don't, anyhow.
Um, and if it falls on me,you're gonna hear me.
I'm gonna make radio uhpodcasting hole because you're
(08:40):
gonna hear a scream.
I'm gonna be like, I mean, thatthing falls on me.
And I'm probably I'm surethey're harmless.
They are harmless.
You know, little insurancesalesman.
Oh, listen, hold on.
Listen, hold on, listen, listen,let me take a listen.
Can you hear that?
(09:02):
It started just it's juststarting to rain here now.
The first time.
It's the first time.
It literally just started.
This is incredible, this isbeautiful.
Tomorrow.
SPEAKER_01 (09:15):
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 dayyou all arrived, it was in the
80s, but the humidity has beenhigh because our tour guide,
Marco, um, who has beenwonderful, uh, and is our second
(09:37):
time with Marco, um you know,said that some sort of weather,
something has blown up fromAfrica, and that's why Yeah,
we're not that far from Africa.
SPEAKER_00 (09:46):
We're very close to Africa, couple hundred miles
tops.
Um and the thing is, too,tomorrow.
So just to give you sort of anidea where we're located,
although I don't know if ithelps anybody, you'll just kind
of understand that as Ryan'stalking about, Marco's saying
there's gonna be some kind ofweather pattern coming through
tomorrow of all days.
So, where we're sitting, we areliterally not only looking at
(10:08):
the Mediterranean, but off tothe right is Mount Etna.
Now, this is an active volcanoand it blows up.
And my friends, this freakingvolcano 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 rightthere.
(10:28):
Um, much like Mount Vesuvius.
You know, when we were in uh sowas 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 twomost active volcanoes in the
world.
I think the other one would beKilauea and Hawaii.
Right.
I'm just guessing, but I'mpretty sure that's pretty sure
that's it.
Uh but there's stuff, and we'refar pretty far away from Mount
Aetna where we are, but there isthis black rock that is hardened
(11:00):
lava from Mount Aetna that'sbeen here for hundreds of years.
SPEAKER_00 (11:03):
And they built the fences around this resort.
I mean, they're there rockfences of this black lava.
SPEAKER_01 (11:08):
Yeah, and it's stuff that's been here for hundreds
and thousands of years from whenAetna was more active and
blowing farther and more cratersand all of that.
And uh it's just mind-boggling.
And the rock is beautiful.
SPEAKER_00 (11:23):
Listen to this rain coming down.
Just one more time, it's comingdown harder now.
Let's see if you can hear this.
I love that sound, and all of asudden it just smells good.
It's just so beautiful out here.
So so to tomorrow, now, this isgood timing because tomorrow
we're climbing, we're notclimbing hell, no, we're driving
(11:47):
up, but we're going up over6,000 feet.
This mountain is 11,000 feet, Ithink, something like that.
I'm climbing to the top.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, you're seeing you there.
Uh, but we're going to be takingthe uh uh the coach up to like
6,000, and it's gonna beraining.
I already know what tomorrow'sgonna be like, and then they
(12:07):
expect us to go to some kind ofa 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 thismountain.
The rain might lighten up bytomorrow, I hope.
(12:27):
I might just grab a blank, cozyup on the coach while you guys
are out of the honey farm.
SPEAKER_01 (12:32):
Well, the other thing that's that's my hot
chocolate for you know, for meat least, the fun about the
honey farm is that, you know, onour trip, Ray and Tammy Oliveras
uh, you know, they farm honey inOreland.
And so, you know, they're gonnabe uh uh visiting uh another
site with their own uh ownindustry.
SPEAKER_00 (12:56):
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 havegone.
Now we have someone talkingabove 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 andabout.
(13:17):
I wasn't sure where that wascoming from for a second.
We hadn't heard anything on it.
But gosh, you know, I wasthinking about it, Ryan.
The things that we have seentogether, you we have now, this
is your third trip, and we havetraveled the world together,
man.
We have seen, um, I know wetouched a little bit uh uh, you
know, um on a previous podcast.
(13:38):
Um you'll hear about that on theon the uh lost episode, but you
know, we um we have seen someincredible places together with
the Pat's Peeps Tour, you know,with the conservative tours, and
you know, um it's reallyamazing, Ryan.
(13:59):
When I stood sit and I thinkabout it, how really blessed we
are, man, to travel the worldand and meet friends that have
traveled with us several times.
There's people on this trip nowthat have come five trips with
me.
Yeah.
Um, and they're just it's soit's a great way to meet
(14:21):
friends.
We have now become friends, alot of us.
Uh, you know, and and the otherthing too is when you're here in
Italy or Sicily or some of theseplaces, Austria, Germany, I
mean, you name it, you're doinga lot of walking up hills,
(14:41):
you're walking on cobblestones,you're walking on streets that
are unempty, I mean, that are umuneven.
Um, and I can see white peoplehere that who live here are
pretty slim, man.
You you're doing a lot ofwalking everywhere.
They're in great shape and theywalk everywhere.
Right.
I mean, yeah.
Uh so uh again, it's just anincredible thing.
(15:04):
And and we're gonna continuethis, it seems like.
It seems like there's gonna bemore trips in the future.
I can't really divulge anythingjust yet, but uh sounds like
there's some promise of a coupleof other exciting trips that are
on the horizon.
So, you know, if anyone islooking to join us and be part
of our Pat's Peeps group withConservative Tours, you know,
(15:24):
you can go to conservativetours.com or call them, say, um
you're interested in going, youknow, perhaps looking into the
next trip.
But I want to thank them for allthe 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 puttogether 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 groupmeals that are always good.
And I I have to say, I do notknow where the next trip is
(15:58):
planned, but just my gut feelingis that at some point I'm gonna
be singing carry me care of andtake me away.
That's your hint.
I don't know.
I'm guessing, but that's that'swhat I think is coming.
SPEAKER_00 (16:14):
So, you know.
You were talking about food andall the great food we've tried.
Let me just remind hey, wouldyou guys do, if you're listening
to us right now, please do me afavor.
You know, please do yourself afavor.
This is super important to me.
Honestly, if you would do this,uh go to Rock and Stoll Diner.
(16:35):
Matt Haynes, who owns Rock andStoll, 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'venever been there, but now I'm
gonna go on your 10th and R orwhatever.
My guess, my guess was 10th andR because that R Street court or
what you've done with it isamazing.
SPEAKER_00 (16:53):
But here's what the thing please go in there.
And I'm always telling you, ifyou just say Pat's peeps, you're
gonna get free stuff.
We're all trying to beatinflation, right?
I mean, I think everyone agree.
If you're listening to me rightnow, please do this.
And I'm talking dinner, notlunch, not breakfast, please.
I'm gonna emphasize dinner.
(17:13):
If you go to rock and souldiner, that's R O C and then the
at, the and sign, you know, thelittle thing.
And so, S O L, Rock and SoulDiner.
Look it up.
On dinner items only, you'regonna get two for one.
Keep in mind, on Friday andSaturday nights, Rock and Soul
Diner has prime rib.
(17:34):
It's 25 bucks a plate, which ispretty reasonable to begin with,
to be quite honest with you.
But the other thing is, if allyou lit, all they have to do is
just go when you walk in, yougo, yep, hey, you know what?
I heard about you on Pat'sPeeps.
They're not gonna ask you topull out a coupon, you don't
have to have an app, none ofthat stuff.
You just go, yeah, I heard aboutyou, I was listening to Pat's
Peeps, or I know about you onfrom the Pat's Peeps.
(17:56):
You get your second dinner freeall month long.
All month, but it has to bedinner.
So please do that, and you'regonna save money and you're
gonna treat yourself.
I know a lot of people on thistrip already said, yeah, as soon
as I get back, I'm going therefor sure.
Um, so yeah, I uh I'm very proudof that, that we're able to
bring that to you, you know,that we're able to save you a
(18:17):
little money, and so if you'reinterested, we'd certainly
appreciate you, you know, doingthat.
SPEAKER_01 (18:22):
And who doesn't love a slab of prime rib?
SPEAKER_00 (18:25):
Right.
And it doesn't even have to bewhatever you like.
It could be fish and chips,whatever they got on the menu,
two-for-one dinners.
But we want to build up theirdinner crowd and turn people on
to the uh to the virtues of therock and soul diner and the good
food.
Um in terms of the pizzas Ryanwas talking about, yeah, I kind
of Oh my goodness.
(18:45):
There, you know the thing aboutit, you know, you think pizza,
you know, but there's so manyother things over here that you
gotta try.
We had some lasagna last nightat this hotel.
We had a three-course meal thatwas outrageously good.
And the first course, when theybrought it out on this plate,
I'm not a big adventure eater.
(19:05):
Like I don't, I I kind of stayin my wheelhouse.
I don't, like you were seeing mesquid.
I don't venture to a bar.
I don't even like you knowsushi.
But um they brought out thislasagna, and it's not your
typical.
It wasn't like with red sauceand meat and all that, and but
although I thought it had meatin it, but I was wrong.
(19:26):
No, it had the smoked cheese orwhatever.
I'm telling you, I I should havetaken a picture of this.
When they first brought it onthe plate, a big square of this
stuff out on the plate, and Iwas the last to get mine on my
table, so I got to seeeveryone'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
(19:48):
of all things.
I can't believe it.
It was the best food that I havehad, it was the tastiest thing I
have eaten in years.
So, yeah, that has been a realuh interesting thing is to try.
I tried something today, I can'teven remember the name.
Everyone else knew what it was.
Something, some kind of pumpkinsauce with these potato things.
(20:09):
I don't know.
Um, everyone seemed to know whatit was called, and it was
outrageous.
And I I these are things that Inever try.
So pizza's good, yes.
But if you ever come over here,absolutely try the pizza.
I'm hooked on the pizza versuswhat I what we get in America.
Now, but I uh but not a hint ofpineapple.
(20:30):
No pineapple.
No, I haven't seen any of thatover here.
Remember, the mafia runs thisplace over, and I believe it's
actually you put the pineappleon the pizza.
SPEAKER_01 (20:39):
Yeah.
What have I ever done to makeyou 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, andwe'll talk about it on a future
podcast because it's stillupcoming.
But one of our stops is the townof Savoca, which is where the
(20:59):
Sicily scenes in the GodfatherPart One were filmed.
We're gonna sit at Barvatelliwhere uh Michael Corleone asks
Apollonia's father forpermission 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.
(21:19):
Absolutely, and I'm just soexcited about seeing it.
And there's a little sort ofmemorial to Coppola there.
Well like kind of a statue thingthat I've looked, I'm just
looking forward to all of it.
I'm so excited.
SPEAKER_00 (21:33):
Yeah, we'll see the Godfather locations of the
Godfather uh uh movie.
Uh the other thing, too, thatI'm excited about is once this
trip to uh Sicily is done, Ryanand I are gonna fly to England.
My first time to England.
We're gonna go there, we'regonna spend some time in London.
(21:55):
Ryan can talk more about thathere in a second, but we're
gonna go from England to uhLiverpool.
You know, when you s to me, whensomeone says Liverpool, I think
of one thing.
And it's the same thing youthink of, the same thing that
probably most people think of.
It's the beats.
And we're gonna go on themagical mystery tour.
(22:18):
And we are gonna go toStrawberry Fields.
Is there are we gonna see uhAbbey, uh are we gonna see Penny
Lane?
SPEAKER_01 (22:24):
Oh yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (22:24):
We're gonna go to Penny Lane.
We're gonna go to the uh AbbeyRoad Studios.
That's in London.
And we're gonna do the cross,you know, going across the
crosswalk, you know, the as theycall it the zebra crosswalk,
because it's stripes.
I'm oh yeah.
That's right.
And I'm yeah, I didn't know theycalled it that.
They don't say zebra, they sayzebra.
(22:45):
Oh.
And I'm curious, I've alwaysbeen curious, because my gosh,
you know, that's such a famousintersection of the crosswalk.
And I'm really curious what thesurrounding area looks like.
I'm curious how many peoplebesides me are gonna be standing
on that corner wanting to walkacross that crosswalk, get their
(23:05):
picture taken.
I don't know how many people goon it at the same time.
I don't know if people stop soyou can take a picture.
I don't know if, you know, ifit's just if people are just
using, I'm sure people are justusing it all day to go back and
forth to work and stuff andthinking, oh yeah, it's the same
thing as the Beatles, butthey're just doing what about
their business.
But for those of us who aremusic fans, it's gonna be a very
(23:26):
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 studiosare kind of actually tucked away
in a bit of a neighborhood.
It's not like a businessdistrict per se.
I mean, there are other fewbusinesses, maybe some offices
around, but a lot of uh whatthey call flats, apartments, and
and things like that.
(23:48):
And yeah, there will be peopleall day doing the walk across,
and what's funny is there's nostops for the traffic there.
So the traffic just buzzes byand they have to wait for a gap
in the traffic, and then aspeople are doing their crossing
video, the cars and trucks haveto sit there and wait.
Really?
It's hilarious to watch.
Do they get pissed?
(24:09):
I don't I think they're prettymuch, they know they're going
there, they know what they'regetting themselves into, I'm
pretty sure.
Um but it's uh it's definitelyan adventure just getting across
that crosswalk.
It's unreal, but it's it is aplace 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-hourbullet 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'restaying, probably be a 10-minute
taxi ride.
Really?
Yeah, be like a 10-minute taxiride.
It's a little away from the areawhere we're staying, is in an
area called Soho.
And a beautiful hotel, and Idon't want to say much more
because what I'm really lookingforward to, and I don't think
(24:57):
I've actually said this to you,Pat, but uh when we put you into
your room, I I'm gonna followalong with you, and I just want
to see the look on your facewhen you see this room.
It's that good.
Alright, I'm intrigued.
It's that good.
I wouldn't would I steer have Iever steered your own?
(25:17):
Nah, no.
No, of course not.
Of course not.
And this will be my third timestaying at this hotel.
Uh, and I will just say Idescribe it as a rock star
hotel, and I know people use theterm literally too much these
days.
This is literally a rock starhotel in the true meaning of the
L word.
(25:38):
That's why Pat Walsh is stayingthere.
SPEAKER_00 (25:40):
Okay, so I know nothing about this hotel, but I
know Ryan has been very excitedabout that.
I can't, I don't know what's uphis sleeve or what I'm about to
see, but I am pretty excitedabout it.
I, you know, being a music fan,it's obviously um, you know,
it's a mecca.
I mean London and the whole areafor music and all of that.
(26:03):
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 aworking show.
SPEAKER_00 (26:11):
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 whatbuilding it is.
But uh can we go is can we go tothe building where they played
on the roof or uh let it for uhthe 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 AppleRecords building, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, where they did therooftop concert.
No, that's not Abbey Road, thatwas somewhere else.
That was that was Apple Records.
SPEAKER_00 (26:42):
Oh, Apple, yeah, Apple, right, right, right,
right.
Yeah, because that was theirlabel.
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 inLondon somewhere.
SPEAKER_00 (26:50):
We can probably find it.
Do you know who pulled thecables?
Do you know that did much of thecable pulling to get all that
equipment hooked up on the rooffor 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 thatBeatles show, and of course,
Alan Parsons who went on togreat fame on his own right, you
know.
What was the name of his band?
It'd be the Alan ParsonsProject.
That's right, of course.
Who then, of course, went on toproduce and engineered Dark Side
of the Moon by the Beatle, I'dbe by the F.
B.
Floyd.
(27:31):
And uh, you know, uh, so it'sjust a lot of music history and
things.
We're gonna go see the is it thecavern club?
Oh yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (27:40):
I mean, I don't think we get to go inside the
cavern club, but it's rightthere in the you know, in the
heart of Liverpool, and and uhthere's just so many things.
And you know, I was originallygonna do the magical mystery bus
tour, and as I was looking tobook it, I discovered these
people who do private Beatlestaxi tours.
(28:04):
And I have been trading emailswith Mr.
Ian Doyle, who's going to be ourguide.
And I think the private taxitour is the way to go.
That's gonna be so much fun.
And what's funny is it wasn'tthat much more than the bus.
So it's like a few extra bucks,whatever.
(28:24):
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 ataxi.
Okay, over here is he what is hedoing?
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 probablysome stuff painted on the side
of the cab, and I it's a wholething, it's a whole production.
Wow.
So it should be good.
And like I say, I've beentrading emails with him, and he
really sounds like he's he's ontop of things.
So I feel like, and I read I'mone, and I always say this, I I
(29:05):
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 thingspeople say?
But if that because you alwaysbut you always find uh two or
three people at least who aregonna just complain about
(29:27):
anything.
And so I try to gauge the numberof negative reviews.
Like if it's got 4.6 out of fivestars, and there's six negative
reviews, I'll read them and seewhat they say, but I usually
will kind of brush them off.
Ian is very well reviewed, verywell reviewed.
So that's why I picked him.
(29:47):
And we were lucky, he's got thedate and the time free for us,
the perfect timing.
It couldn't have dialed itselfin better.
So I'm I'm very, very muchlooking forward to that.
that me too and it'll be quitethe experience on a bullet train
for two hours yeah yeah thatwon't that won't be too bad i
(30:09):
think i booked i think i bookedthis aisle seats on that one too
oh really okay yeah pat and iare big on the aisle seats yeah
yeah yeah we like our we likeour well you know i can't be
breathing up uh other people'sair too much so i gotta take the
air from the aisle so that's forfor those of you who might not
(30:30):
remember this goes back to myfirst trip with Pat to southern
Italy a year and a half ago thefirst day we go to the abbey at
Monte Cassino six of us getstuck on an elevator and one of
the women on the elevatorstarted to panic and when she
was explaining what happened toPat later she says and that man
(30:50):
was breathing all our air wellthat man that man was me and I
was not breathing all the air Ipromise you um I had my oxygen
tank with me so uh I wasbreathing my own air but that's
been a running joke it's been arunning joke so I have to get
the aisle seat so I don'tbreathe up everybody's air see
(31:13):
man that's the thing about thesetrips with conservative tours we
get these great groups and likethose folks haven't been back
with us on another one but thereare people on this trip that
have been on all three of thetrips that I've been on.
Yeah.
Tammy and Terry.
Yeah right you know they'rewonderful Tammy and her husband
Ray make the honey Terry runsthe local restaurant and sits on
(31:37):
the Orland City Council andwhich is just crazy to me
because as a reporter I coveredso many city council meetings
and Tammy's daughter Tawny isalso on this one she skipped the
the second tour I was on butshe's on this one again she was
on the first one and we weretalking about that I said you
know as a reporter I had tocover a lot of city council
(31:58):
meetings and they are so boring.
My God who would put themselvesthrough that it's you know oh do
we put this lamppost 86 inchesfrom the edge of the sidewalk or
88 inches and there are and thenone big thing will come up and
it's got everybody there doingpublic comment going crazy and
(32:18):
and you know and the citycouncil they always put the big
item that's going to attracteverybody at the end of the
agenda hoping people will leaveat 11 o'clock at night before
the meeting's over and it's justI couldn't leave.
I had to stay because I'mcovering it.
So I mean I would do that Ithink about jobs where I'd have
(32:39):
to be at a meeting untilmidnight and then on the air
anchoring at 6 a.m and I don't Idon't care how far the lamppost
(32:59):
is from the edge of thesidewalk.
I just don't and I don't need asix inch thick binder to tell me
all about it.
I don't want to sit there readthat at the house you know when
I'm trying to watch a Giantsgame or whatever I just don't
want to do it.
So God bless the people that arewilling to put themselves you
(33:19):
know they put themselves on therack and turn the crank and
stretch themselves pretty thinno thank you.
SPEAKER_00 (33:27):
Yeah yeah yeah what do you think Pat we got amount
amount etna tomorrow yeah Ithink that what at this point
what we should do is you shouldpull up some kind of uh Sicilian
music of some kind I I I Ihesitate to call it Italian
(33:48):
music you know they they'reSicilian and they like to think
of themselves as their ownlittle uh I guess country almost
but um you know I think youshould pull up uh uh something
like that and what we should dois enjoy a little music and
thank everyone for listening tothe podcast and and ask you once
(34:10):
more time to please support youknow go to patspeeps.com I've
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unless it's raining so hard thatI can't I'll try to do a podcast
from Mount Aetna as we'retraveling up there is that okay
Ryan my friend thank you siralways a pleasure no one better
(34:56):
to travel with than Ryan Harrishe's a great guy to hang out
with and I appreciate youlistening and we'll see you
tomorrow for Pat's Peeps numberthis is 355 so tomorrow 356.
If you're looking for themissing 354 you're gonna have to
wait on that one.
It will be the missing episodelater to be renamed uh the lost
(35:17):
episode Pat's peeps 354.
All right see you then see youfrom out at now
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