September 3, 2025 • 30 mins
ICYMI: Hour Three of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – “What’s Up” with regular guest contributor Nick Pagliochini delving into the magic of vacationing abroad, and traveling the world with Mo’Kelly, who recently returned from a 7-day Mediterranean tour…PLUS - Nick got into Universal Studios Halloween Horror Nights kicking off this weekend at Universal Studios Hollywood along with some closer to home cultural experiences of Oktoberfest at Old World in Huntington Beach and the 626 Night Market at the OC Fair and Events Center in Costa Mesa!!! Don’t miss out, make sure you’re following @nickpagliochini & @thisweekendwithnick - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app & YouTube @MrMoKelly
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Later with mo Kelly on demand from
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
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Speaker 3 (00:12):
Let's find out what the hell's going on with Nick Polokini? Wait?
Speaker 4 (00:15):
Can I stop in and interrupt that? Because I want
to know about what happened on your vacation. Oh, ask
specific questions, okay, So I would love to know. So
we talked about before you went McDonald's near the Spanish
Steps right in Rome.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Which is the ching we did? Which is it right?
Speaker 4 (00:29):
And I know this for a fact because I got pictures,
but I didn't get pictures inside, and I did do
a little bit more homework and it seemed like some
of the stuffs had changed around.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Is that correct? That is correct?
Speaker 4 (00:37):
It's ok. I remodel okay. And it was much smaller
footprint than when I described it correct?
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Got it ok? Correct? And I think that might have
been a function of the pandemic or something, which totally
makes yes.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Absolutely, And for those who don't know, if you go
to my instagram at mister mo Kelly, when I took
a picture of like the plaque on the wall because
it's the first McDonald's in the country of Italy, dating
back to nineteen eighty six.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
Yeah, which is wild to think a period to be
able to visit place. Granted smaller than I had described,
but that's so much fun. So like what you guys
were in Rome and then you did the cruise correct.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
We were in Rome for like three three and a
half days and we got on the cruise, got it
at Cevita Cevita Vecchia.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Oh okay, got it? So then what else?
Speaker 4 (01:22):
How was the cruise because I was what was what
were the point reports of call for the cruise?
Speaker 3 (01:25):
That was what I never had asked.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Sure it was Sansorini, Greece, Mikonos, Greece, Ephesus, Ephesus, Turkey, Yes,
and then Naples. When we were in Rome, we did
a full tour of Italy by bus tour and so
we hit Naples twice, once on the bus tour, once
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on the cruise.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
So when I was there it was before nine to eleven.
It was the Lida versus the euro which we do. Now,
what did it feel like for you because you've been
a handful of times, right, Yes, this is my second
time time. Okay, second time. So what was it like
for you going to Italy? Because it's it's very romanticized.
And then every part of the country is very different.
So you've got like, if you want to have lived
(02:09):
that Tuscan dream, that's one area of the country. If
you want to live where I lived in Naples, which
you did visit, that's a very different area of the company,
our country. And then a lot of people who think
of Italians and especially to look at me, I'm only said,
a generation born in the US, but I'm very very
fair skin, even though I tan great, because people think
of Italians as Sicilians, which are a lot more bosque,
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a lot more different cultures that are in the background.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
So what was it like for you?
Speaker 2 (02:36):
I had to learn this, and then it made sense
that Italian is the national language, but there are thirty
five different versions of Italian depending on what region you're
from Sicilian versus Milan, versus Florence, versus Naples. And I
was there long enough to start hearing some of the
subtle differences. Got it, okay when I was in Naples.
(02:58):
Disagree with me or tell me I'm no.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
I got you.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
It sounded as if it was more of a Spanish incorrect.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
And that's why I had such a good time there
because I had studied Spanish here before moving overseas. For
I don't know, my entire and what do you call
it public school education up to that point, I've been
until eighth grade and then moving over for ninth tenth
or eighth, ninth and tenth. So I had done that
all throughout, and.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
That was why it was so easy I got, I
got over all my Spanish right, and more people were
speaking Spanish in addition to.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Napoleon Plano Napolitano right.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
So but with that specifically, which I think is so interesting,
that again goes to like if you go from Naples down,
so if you're thinking about the boot, if you think
Italy is a boot, so Naples is kind of around
the shin and you go all the way down to
the toes, and then you go go across to the
football which is where Sicily is.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Because it's not part of the mainland.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
That whole area had been conquered by Bosque and Spanish
and everything else, so the influence every year are very different.
And that's what I'm saying. It was so easy for
me as a opposed to if I go north.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
My dad's side of the family is from Naples and Rome,
so it's super easy. My mom's side the family is
from Tartino alto adij which is up north. We're looking
at more like Germanic and Austrian influences, so it's a
very different ballgame, different food styles, different sound of the language,
everything else like that. But then you got the even
better scenario because you went to Greece, which is very
Mediterranean and similar to Italian but very different, and they
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would probably, you know, go to fisticuffs to describe because
so many people internationally look at them as being similar.
But you had to think you had, like, you know,
the Roman Empire, right, I should say, and he had
Greeks before it.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
So it's like all of that. All I know is.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
For anyone who says they love Italian food, if you
haven't been to Italy, you don't know Italian are correct,
because American eyes, Italian food is something completely different.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
And I'm not like a food snob.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
I'm just saying when we got Italian food for the
first time, back when I think it was twenty eight,
it's readily apparent we talking about olive garden.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
Yes, no, and I agree with you because I think
the thing that's interesting is all of that stuff that
we know here. If you want to go like the
Sopranos time period, it's Italian American and it is delicious
and it has its own place in history, but it
is not Italian, as you just said, and especially because
everything is so regions specific there. The further north you go,
you'll find cream sauces, the further south you go, you're
(05:27):
going to find more fresh tomato and pesto or you know,
based things, because it all depends on what is fresh,
and I think that's something we don't necessarily even though
here in southern California we are spoiled and we can
not only locally have year round produce, but we also have,
you know, stuff that comes in from South America and
everything else. In Italy, they're just working off of their
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regionals because a lot of the importing was not happening
when it was coming toward fresh fruits and vegetables. So
that was because I mean, the funniest part of the
whole scenario is tomatoes aren't even native to Italy, yet
everybody thinks of tomatoes as being that like Star exactly,
which was a hybrid that was created and then cultivated there.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
But you know it wasn't originated in Rome. I mean the.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
Cultivation was, but the tomato itself wasn't. So I'm glad
you had an amazing time. A weather looks beautiful. Now
I'm a history nerds. I'm walking up like, oh this
is Pompeii. Oh, this that's Mounts.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
You know, it hits a little bit differently you read
about it than to actually walk the same paths.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Correct.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Uh, Look, people don't know when we first landed. We
texted you We're nine hours ahead, so it's like it
was maybe one in the morning, la time, correct, And
I sent you like one Italian phrase and you set back.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
Like eight Yeah, I do. The best part was that
we talked, said yeah, no. It killed me because we talked,
and then I talked to your wife as well, and
she's like, whoa okay, because I was like, no, let's go.
It goes so easy to go back into it when
you're thinking about it, or it can't being immersed in it.
So but I'm glad you guys have an amazing time.
I think there's so much going on in the world
(07:03):
right now, that you guys really took advantage of travel,
and I think that that, especially with what's happening right now,
is so important kind of a reset for ourselves, just
to be able to get out of what we're seeing
every single day related to where we are and where
we live and everything else, and be able to experience
other cultures. And then the best thing for you and
your wife, because you're not huge social media people like me, uh,
(07:25):
you really just unplugged for the most part.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
You were very kind.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
You posted a few things so we could all, you know,
creep on your profiles, but no, you just had an
amazing time.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Hey before we go to break. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Sure for those who don't know and have never heard
you speak any Italian kiddy girl, justiveamo.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
So good evening, see you later.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
Everything's very similar to specially like komet les or as
kome Stai would be like comastas, so like the whole
transition over.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Which I could understand, right, That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
Like, so everything has a one for one because they're
all Latin based languages. Now, remember Latin based means Latin
the originly like original language itself. So you have Italian
you have Spanish and you have French, which are all
based on that as opposed to German or Germanic languages,
which also is where English comes from. Look at see
we've talked about education this entire show. Oh, I was like,
(08:22):
this is so impressive. But yeah, so I think that's
where it's at. It's a lot of it, and I
think I always get the question like how is your Italian?
My comprehension is exceptional, my reading and my writing is phenomenal.
My responsiveness is far more Spanish because of where we live.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
But not only that.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
If I'm quite sure, if we dropped you in Rome
for like a week or so, you're right back in it.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
I love it because your wife was like, ah, man,
I wish you were here with us. I'm like, we
will figure this out. We will make another trip. It'll
be a couple of years down the road, but we
will absolutely do this. Because if you know me, I
have tattoos, which I originally yeah please.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
I noticed that Rome and Italy was very much a tattoo.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
Place, right, everyone had multiple rights, and so like the
one that I have on my leg, and I know
we got to go to break here and we'll come
back and talk more. But the one that I have
specifically is actually collaboration from a girlfriend of mine who
lives in Rome. She has her own shop, which is
really unique because it's not a lot of female owns
tattoo parlors, but she lives in Rome, and she specifically
collaborated with an old drawing that my grandfather had done
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when my grandmother was a pin up, and so that's
where it came from. But like, culturally, Rome has been
kind of that benchmark of the punk culture and kind
of alternative lifestyle culture, meaning the things that were a
little bit more taboo per se were always in Rome.
And I think it's funny to think, like that's the
capital of Italy. It also happens to have Vatican City,
which is a very conservative portion of Italy. So it's
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a very unique juxtaposition because also the way that the
culture is so passionate and involved that you would think
a lot of things are happening that aren't happening because
people are just excited to see each other or interact
with each other, or you know, embraces and kisses and
hugs and everything else are just typical normal everyday fodder,
no matter you know, man, woman, child, whatever the situation is.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
So it's a very different world, it really is. We
got more Italy talk when we come back with Nick Poulio'chinni.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
You're listening to later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
KFI, Moe Kelly, Nick Poaliocchini. We're live everywhere on YouTube,
in the iHeartRadio app. And before Nick was kind enough
prior to my vacation to give some suggestions, some pointers,
some direction.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Languages. It was it was spot on.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
I can't speak in the Italian, but I was saying
yesterday I speak Spanish from the level of maybe a
seven or eight year old, where I'd say like.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
A ten year old. You're like, I've had my knowledge
of having heard you speak to people is a little
bit older.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
I can. I can handle myself. You can.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
I'm not going to have a deep conversation. Sure, I
understand that, but you're much more than just you know,
oh like I heards you. You're much more and you're
like me. Your comprehension is so much stronger than necessarily
your spoken word.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Yeah, and I can, you know, just sort of lay
out the weeds and people may wrongly assume when it
comes to Spanish that I don't understand. I don't catch everything,
but I can surely catch enough.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Oh, absolutely well.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
I think that's the thing that really kind of goes
back to the education theme of tonight that really bothers me.
And I think you may have encountered this in at
least just eavesdropping or over listening and overhearing when you're
in Europe, but every other country not. Okay, I'm going
to say a vast majority of other countries always focus
on letting or teaching their children two or three languages,
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and we don't focus on that.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
I said that last night word for work. So that's it.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
And it's really weird because for me, even the least
educated from a foreign country is better educated than a
lot of our public school students only because the value
is not seen in being part of a global community
and having knowledge of other cultures and languages.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
And I try to tell you, you're all competing in
theory for the same jobs on a big stage, and
you have someone be at a spot at a college
or university. They come in speaking two or three languages,
they have their native language, they're taught one or two
other languages as a course of public education, and then
they're coming to American universities. It's like they have to
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weigh that skill set against yours.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
No, it's wild like it really, And I think that's why,
even if my spoken word isn't great, I try to
make sure that my comprehension when I travel the thing
that I'm most excited about in this. You know, we're
just off in the weeds now talking about it, But
I want to go to Asia. But the language there
is so foreign to me because I have no basis,
as we talked about before the break of French and
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Italian and Spanish being German, I'm sorry, being Latin based languages,
they all have a similar conjugation and root. I don't
know squad about anything, Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese being like, I
don't know any of these things. And while they culturally
have similarities, even within themselves, they're so different. Plus we're
looking at different characters as opposed to letters, and there's
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so much involved with it.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
But I'm still wanting and trying.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
I mean, come on, you know, I love Disney, so
I've got to get over to Disneyland, Tokyo Disneyland and
Disney c get over to.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Hong Kong, get over to Shanghai, all the things.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
You make a great point since you mentioned Disney and
I went into a comic shop in Naples, Star Comics,
one of the biggest ones old with oh yeah, okay,
and I brought back and obviously it was an Italian
and it reminded me. And there are obviously a lot
of Marvel comics. Yes, Disney slash Marvel. They are speaking
to a world audience. There are more fans of Disney
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Plus subscribers outside of America than there are inside of America. Correct,
and traveling reminds you that it ain't all about America.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
Right, No, you're absolutely right, and I think that's interesting
specifically using Disney Plus. In every other country and every
other market, we have had Disney represented through Disney Plus,
usually with one additional component. Here we have Hulu that's
a part of it now in ESPN, which are all
three different things we're aware of. You can also wrap
in ABC and National Geographic anything that's a part of
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that overarching digital content piece. But overseas, Disney Plus was
it like a lot of areas, even though Netflix exists
in other markets, Disney plus moved very quickly. And if
you think if you were like me, if you want,
if you're like us and grew up in the seventies
and then into the eighties, when you have both, you know,
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I'm just gonna say it, we're not that many years apart.
But when you were here in southern California or when
you were in the United States, the growing component of
knowledge and understanding with Disney, you know, it was cable,
and then it because basic cable and whatever when they
went to the streaming world. Now we're fast forwarding all
the way to now Disney really had the money and
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the resources to put forward to be able to launch
into these markets and be able to create a product
that no one had ever experienced before. Plus other countries
don't have like the weird cable conglomerates that we do
know and a lot of them don't even have the content.
And having lived overseas, I can tell you the number
of stations the thing that always gives me, Like in
the UK, most of the stations, in fact, pretty much
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all the stations are involved and owned in part by
the government. The major stations that are on your basic
cable of course you can get HBO Max or whatever
streaming there, but it's just wild to think that there's
so much elsewhere. And also that's the lens of the
American culture that these different markets are experiencing and learning from.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
One thing which was reaffirmed and the more you travel,
the more you see it. I was much better received
when I either greeted in Italian or Spanish as opposed
to other people, specifically Brits, who would lead with English.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
No, you're right, And I think that's a really interesting point.
Speaker 4 (16:07):
And I think the biggest representation I am sure that
KFI listeners have is I look to my parents who
had always viewed the French culture as being very much
against you know, ugly Americans, ugly French whatever, back and forth,
and that was it. Specifically, if you go anywhere in
the world and you try this country makes me sad
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having lived overseas, because we have people that yell in
your face, as if you yelling and being louder is
going to make somebody that doesn't speak English understand you better.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
I said that when you travel you have a different concept.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
Of immigration, correct, absolutely, because if you put in any
amount of effort in other people's countries against what the
people here put in and when they come here, we
have and we can go into the whole politics game
of it. You know, these people that don't have the
understanding or the comprehension. If I was coming over here
from a different language speaking country, and especially with what's
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going on right now, I'd be terrified trying to figure
out how to navigate all this stuff. So we went
from a time period where you did your very best
to learn. And again this is just like what MO
and I talked about. Our comprehension is far superior to
what we can say back to you, our reading comprehension,
our listening comprehension. And I think that's what it is culturally.
But in the rest of the world there's such a
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value placed again on education, but also placed on Oh
you're coming eglig here and learning. You're doing your best.
So I'm going to now bend over backward to help
you because you're not yelling in my face and trying
to say things as if I'm deaf, and it's just
because I don't understand English.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
There is there I'll say this. I remember the first
time I went to Spain and I talk about how
English is not the cold national language. It's Spanish or
cata Lan. And if you get away from the high
tourist areas, you're not going to hear any English.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
So you're asked better swim or you're going to think.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
Right, I mean, and even here if you want to
go something closer to home, you know, Parta Virata is
a huge destination for people. And if you're in the
specific city center, but you go on one atv tour
and nobody speaks a lot at English. Nobody, and their
economy is eighty percent based on English speaking language people.
But there's such a different experience because people that go
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to part the Viarratha don't have the expectation of people
speaking English. They have the expectation of people speaking Spanish.
And so the vast majority of people that I've encountered,
including expats who live down there now, have done everything
in their power to make sure their comprehension and they're
speaking knowledge is so much better.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Want to hang around for a little while, I would
love to kfi Am six forty ninth Paliochini Mo Kelly.
We're talking about the world. We're talking about languages, We're
talking about how we can learn a little bit more
on the process.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
You're listening to later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
KFI Mokelly Little with Mo Kelly and Nick Poliocheti. We're
just reffering right now talking about Italy, travel the United
States relative to how we as Americans may see the
world and how the world may see us. And I
always say, and I'm going to reiterate that travel changes you.
Travel helps you grow as a person. That has nothing
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to do with politics. She just has to do with
your individual.
Speaker 4 (19:26):
Improvement, absolutely, and I think that it's a huge component
that we both experienced personally. But going to these foreign
areas is so integral to the human experience, but also
just learning. And when I'm talking about learning, okay, it
doesn't necessarily need to be book smarts, but street smarts
are involved in there. And we have enough communities here
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in southern California specifically, but nationwide where you're able to
actually get a bit of a taste of these things,
you know. I mean, we've got here in LA We've
got little everything except for Italy, which is very, very
bizarre to me. There's no little Italy. Now hypothetically, we
have two things. You have the Italian Heritage Home, which
is near Albera Street, which is where a very large
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community of Italians, like that's the historical center.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
But we have no Little Italy.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
The do look at the South Bay, so San Pedro
Leamita torrent but that's also it's very weird because there's
also no Little Greece. And that's both the South Bay
is Little Italy and Little Greece because that's where the
vast majority of Italians and Greeks settled when they came
to the US, specifically coming to the West Coast. So
we have those things here. But the thing that I
kind of want to go away from the Latin based
stuff in this kind of goes into the usual what's
(20:38):
up with Nick content is Oktoberfest is under way starting
this weekend at Old World in Huntington Beach, and that
in and of itself again goes specifically into this whole
conversation we've been having having because you can still go
to Old World and find people that speak German and
Austrian and Octoberfest if you are not familiar, because it's
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like it's based on around something around October, but it's
not it's supposed to be in September originated eighteen ten
royal wedding celebration for Crown Prince Ludwig of Bavaria and
Princess Teres of saschen Hitburg Housen in Munich, Germany. And
if you go to Munich now you can go and
experience I went to alber Village. But see that's I
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was gonna say, and that's again specifically to this so
Alpine Village if you were not familiar, is in the
South Bay of Los Angeles. It wasn't too far, you know,
from San Pedro Lemina, torrents off the one Tent, and
that was one of the best cultural places to learn
and experience because originally at Alpine Village, and still a
couple people at Old World literally are from Italy and
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Austria and are able to give you that taste of
not traveling internationally but being able to experience. So you
can head over to Old World. So if you're familiar,
now tap into my traffic World four or five southbound
Huntington Beach getting off at Bellitera or right there at
Beach Boulevard. Old World is just too it's kind of
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by the Costco and everything there. But they've starting this
weekend through the beginning of November, will be having Octoberfest,
which means you can go and enjoy all the food
and all the beer. But the best part, and then
goes with what we've talked about, is you can get
some of the culture and you get some of the
experience and the knowledge, and I think that that's the
biggest part. Also coming up this weekend to talk about
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something we talked about earlier is the six to sixth
Night Market, which is based predominantly around Asian cultures, will
be at the OC Fairgrounds this weekend Friday, Saturday and Sunday,
so you can head over the six to sixth Night
Market and check that out. There are so many things
in our backyard that we are spoiled with in southern
California of having all of those little little Tokyo Chinatown
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anything to that effect. Just get out in your own
backyard if you cannot, and I get it. Being able
to travel, especially now in twenty twenty five, is a luxury.
And as Moe and I were talking about off the air,
you know, when I was living over seas, we're talking
about you know, late eighties early nineties, like into the nineties,
and all that money was different. The Euro didn't even exist,
and the euro, if you're not familiar, is kind of
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like the sterling British pound, which is strong against the
American dollar. When we lived there, it was lira l
i r a and for hypothetically, one American dollar was
equal to a thousand liras. So we were able to
do so much living there. But why do you have
to travel internationally when you've got the opportunity to check
these things out and experience them in our own backyard
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here in southern California. And that's a big part of
me with talking about what's up with Nick and this
weekend with Nick and all the things, because I want
you to get out and experience the world, even if
you can only do it through the lens of our
own backyard.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Today, misk pratikar no suspend mare is FANTASTICO see musclemenos No,
that's pretty darn good. Perro escucandoladio mirror.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
Say see, I'm losing it, but but I'm saying, how
do you say? Like? But that's it.
Speaker 4 (24:14):
There's so much to it, and I think even just
listening to Mo in that small period, if you were
aware of the words that were being spoken or not.
It's just applying and trying. And the thing too, kind
of going back to what we've talked about earlier, when
MO has traveled internationally, when I have travel internationally and
a lot of people that do it. When you try,
people will help you. And the thing is, you know,
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conjugation of a verb is very foreign to the English
language because you have one root word usually with an
I R, an e r or something of that effect
that they don't correct exactly. So it means you know, yo, soy,
I am to ed as you are, or to stay
or what the formal right correct.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
We don't have.
Speaker 4 (24:59):
Any of that in the English language, and we just
say you you hey, yo, you bruh.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
But that's it, and there's so much involved with it.
Speaker 4 (25:07):
So I really want to encourage you and push you
to get out there and try things in our own backyard.
And I think taking a little bit from the MO
playbook of just getting back from Europe. But there's so
much happening right now, and I definitely want to say
because it's me and it's Halloween, if you are so lucky,
it is also opening weekend for Halloween hohrornight. It's at
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Universal Studios here in Universal City. Unfortunately I will not
be there. I'll be there in a couple of weeks,
but you can definitely check them out. You can always
follow me on socials Nick Polliochanni. This weekend with Nick?
That's easiest way to find it? Shoot me a message
in the DMS because I'm always They're always open and
I'm always happy to help you with this. Again, I'm
(25:49):
not a travel you know, agent or a tour guide,
but I definitely would love to connect with you. So
Nick Poliochini, what's up with Nick? Or actually this weekend
when Nick? Are the easiest ways to find me on?
Speaker 2 (25:59):
So very quickly, Mark Ronner, how many countries have you
been to in your short life?
Speaker 5 (26:06):
I don't know quite a few, though, and I've been
around Italy enough to be able to swear a little bit.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
Okay, of course everybody knows that.
Speaker 4 (26:13):
That would have to be a taken to the hallway, yes, yeah, probably.
Speaker 5 (26:17):
Also you got to remember I grew up in an
Italian Catholic town, and so I heard everybody swearing at
their kids in Italian.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
Of course, that.
Speaker 5 (26:27):
Weren't they swearing at you as well. Some Yeah, absolutely
and I had it coming too.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
Sam, What about you? Where have you been?
Speaker 6 (26:33):
I went Mexico, Canada and Japan, and I took three
years of Latin. I didn't I barely. I understand everything
that you guys said. I just don't know how to speak.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
Any of it.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
And that's the hardest part, just giddy out there and
getting past the feeling of ridicule.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
Sure, for sure.
Speaker 4 (26:51):
And I think especially right now going traveling elsewhere, it's
so interesting because you're going to be dropped in that
immersive culture in one way, shape or another, and in
just putting yourself out there, and I think that's the
biggest thing.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
Just be comfortable giving it a shot. Mark best Strung,
I understood that FCC can't fire.
Speaker 5 (27:19):
Is if we swear in Italian can say.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI A M six forty.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
And before we go, thank you, I want to say
on air, thank you Nick for all your hints and help.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
You were a very valuable resource.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
Look, all I can say is chili cheese fries at McDonald's.
I didn't touch the Popeyes in Turkey. I just I
didn't feel comfortable with that. I love it because I
can't read the menu and I wasn't sure what I would.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
Have been eating, which I get.
Speaker 4 (27:55):
But I think it's so funny because even texting with
your wife specifically was like, Okay, well we got stuff
from O so, but that's amazing and I always love it.
I think it's so exciting because it gives me another
opportunity to really enjoy sharing my knowledge and experience, even
though it has been a good number of years since
I lived there. Obviously, as we covered that, one of
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the places had a major renovation, but still there still
the original McDonald's in Rome or in Italy.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
But I think that's it.
Speaker 4 (28:24):
I think it really is so nice to not only help,
but also for us to sit here and talk about
it and share about it because it's such for me.
It's ingrained for these specific cultures, but it's so much
better to share about culture in general.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
I hope someone listening tonight or even last night, is
inspired to go beyond their comfort zone. Yes, to go
beyond the country boundaries and go somewhere where you where
English is not the predominant language.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
Correct.
Speaker 4 (28:55):
I agree, and I think as We've talked about it
several times and don't want to like beat it till
you know we're blue in the face, but specifically just try.
I know that it's unnerving. I know that we come,
especially here in the US or in California or whatever,
we come from a culture that is so ingrained in
judgment and so ingrained in shame. And this is that
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one opportunity to kind of be a child again and
just try and just do and give it a shot
and give it something different. Because again, there's a lot
going on in the world, both here at home and
across the globe. But this is that specific opportunity for
you to you know, cut your teeth as a global
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citizen and be, you know something, learn something new, something
that's a little bit different.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
I think that's worthy of being the final word. Coming
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Speaker 3 (00:12):
Let's find out what the hell's going on with Nick Polokini? Wait?
Speaker 4 (00:15):
Can I stop in and interrupt that? Because I want
to know about what happened on your vacation. Oh, ask
specific questions, okay, So I would love to know. So
we talked about before you went McDonald's near the Spanish
Steps right in Rome.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Which is the ching we did? Which is it right?
Speaker 4 (00:29):
And I know this for a fact because I got pictures,
but I didn't get pictures inside, and I did do
a little bit more homework and it seemed like some
of the stuffs had changed around.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Is that correct? That is correct?
Speaker 4 (00:37):
It's ok. I remodel okay. And it was much smaller
footprint than when I described it correct?
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Got it ok? Correct? And I think that might have
been a function of the pandemic or something, which totally
makes yes.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Absolutely, And for those who don't know, if you go
to my instagram at mister mo Kelly, when I took
a picture of like the plaque on the wall because
it's the first McDonald's in the country of Italy, dating
back to nineteen eighty six.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
Yeah, which is wild to think a period to be
able to visit place. Granted smaller than I had described,
but that's so much fun. So like what you guys
were in Rome and then you did the cruise correct.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
We were in Rome for like three three and a
half days and we got on the cruise, got it
at Cevita Cevita Vecchia.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Oh okay, got it? So then what else?
Speaker 4 (01:22):
How was the cruise because I was what was what
were the point reports of call for the cruise?
Speaker 3 (01:25):
That was what I never had asked.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Sure it was Sansorini, Greece, Mikonos, Greece, Ephesus, Ephesus, Turkey, Yes,
and then Naples. When we were in Rome, we did
a full tour of Italy by bus tour and so
we hit Naples twice, once on the bus tour, once
(01:47):
on the cruise.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
So when I was there it was before nine to eleven.
It was the Lida versus the euro which we do. Now,
what did it feel like for you because you've been
a handful of times, right, Yes, this is my second
time time. Okay, second time. So what was it like
for you going to Italy? Because it's it's very romanticized.
And then every part of the country is very different.
So you've got like, if you want to have lived
(02:09):
that Tuscan dream, that's one area of the country. If
you want to live where I lived in Naples, which
you did visit, that's a very different area of the company,
our country. And then a lot of people who think
of Italians and especially to look at me, I'm only said,
a generation born in the US, but I'm very very
fair skin, even though I tan great, because people think
of Italians as Sicilians, which are a lot more bosque,
(02:31):
a lot more different cultures that are in the background.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
So what was it like for you?
Speaker 2 (02:36):
I had to learn this, and then it made sense
that Italian is the national language, but there are thirty
five different versions of Italian depending on what region you're
from Sicilian versus Milan, versus Florence, versus Naples. And I
was there long enough to start hearing some of the
subtle differences. Got it, okay when I was in Naples.
(02:58):
Disagree with me or tell me I'm no.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
I got you.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
It sounded as if it was more of a Spanish incorrect.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
And that's why I had such a good time there
because I had studied Spanish here before moving overseas. For
I don't know, my entire and what do you call
it public school education up to that point, I've been
until eighth grade and then moving over for ninth tenth
or eighth, ninth and tenth. So I had done that
all throughout, and.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
That was why it was so easy I got, I
got over all my Spanish right, and more people were
speaking Spanish in addition to.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Napoleon Plano Napolitano right.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
So but with that specifically, which I think is so interesting,
that again goes to like if you go from Naples down,
so if you're thinking about the boot, if you think
Italy is a boot, so Naples is kind of around
the shin and you go all the way down to
the toes, and then you go go across to the
football which is where Sicily is.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Because it's not part of the mainland.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
That whole area had been conquered by Bosque and Spanish
and everything else, so the influence every year are very different.
And that's what I'm saying. It was so easy for
me as a opposed to if I go north.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
My dad's side of the family is from Naples and Rome,
so it's super easy. My mom's side the family is
from Tartino alto adij which is up north. We're looking
at more like Germanic and Austrian influences, so it's a
very different ballgame, different food styles, different sound of the language,
everything else like that. But then you got the even
better scenario because you went to Greece, which is very
Mediterranean and similar to Italian but very different, and they
(04:25):
would probably, you know, go to fisticuffs to describe because
so many people internationally look at them as being similar.
But you had to think you had, like, you know,
the Roman Empire, right, I should say, and he had
Greeks before it.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
So it's like all of that. All I know is.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
For anyone who says they love Italian food, if you
haven't been to Italy, you don't know Italian are correct,
because American eyes, Italian food is something completely different.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
And I'm not like a food snob.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
I'm just saying when we got Italian food for the
first time, back when I think it was twenty eight,
it's readily apparent we talking about olive garden.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
Yes, no, and I agree with you because I think
the thing that's interesting is all of that stuff that
we know here. If you want to go like the
Sopranos time period, it's Italian American and it is delicious
and it has its own place in history, but it
is not Italian, as you just said, and especially because
everything is so regions specific there. The further north you go,
you'll find cream sauces, the further south you go, you're
(05:27):
going to find more fresh tomato and pesto or you know,
based things, because it all depends on what is fresh,
and I think that's something we don't necessarily even though
here in southern California we are spoiled and we can
not only locally have year round produce, but we also have,
you know, stuff that comes in from South America and
everything else. In Italy, they're just working off of their
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regionals because a lot of the importing was not happening
when it was coming toward fresh fruits and vegetables. So
that was because I mean, the funniest part of the
whole scenario is tomatoes aren't even native to Italy, yet
everybody thinks of tomatoes as being that like Star exactly,
which was a hybrid that was created and then cultivated there.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
But you know it wasn't originated in Rome. I mean the.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
Cultivation was, but the tomato itself wasn't. So I'm glad
you had an amazing time. A weather looks beautiful. Now
I'm a history nerds. I'm walking up like, oh this
is Pompeii. Oh, this that's Mounts.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
You know, it hits a little bit differently you read
about it than to actually walk the same paths.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Correct.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Uh, Look, people don't know when we first landed. We
texted you We're nine hours ahead, so it's like it
was maybe one in the morning, la time, correct, And
I sent you like one Italian phrase and you set back.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
Like eight Yeah, I do. The best part was that
we talked, said yeah, no. It killed me because we talked,
and then I talked to your wife as well, and
she's like, whoa okay, because I was like, no, let's go.
It goes so easy to go back into it when
you're thinking about it, or it can't being immersed in it.
So but I'm glad you guys have an amazing time.
I think there's so much going on in the world
(07:03):
right now, that you guys really took advantage of travel,
and I think that that, especially with what's happening right now,
is so important kind of a reset for ourselves, just
to be able to get out of what we're seeing
every single day related to where we are and where
we live and everything else, and be able to experience
other cultures. And then the best thing for you and
your wife, because you're not huge social media people like me, uh,
(07:25):
you really just unplugged for the most part.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
You were very kind.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
You posted a few things so we could all, you know,
creep on your profiles, but no, you just had an
amazing time.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Hey before we go to break. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Sure for those who don't know and have never heard
you speak any Italian kiddy girl, justiveamo.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
So good evening, see you later.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
Everything's very similar to specially like komet les or as
kome Stai would be like comastas, so like the whole
transition over.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Which I could understand, right, That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
Like, so everything has a one for one because they're
all Latin based languages. Now, remember Latin based means Latin
the originly like original language itself. So you have Italian
you have Spanish and you have French, which are all
based on that as opposed to German or Germanic languages,
which also is where English comes from. Look at see
we've talked about education this entire show. Oh, I was like,
(08:22):
this is so impressive. But yeah, so I think that's
where it's at. It's a lot of it, and I
think I always get the question like how is your Italian?
My comprehension is exceptional, my reading and my writing is phenomenal.
My responsiveness is far more Spanish because of where we live.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
But not only that.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
If I'm quite sure, if we dropped you in Rome
for like a week or so, you're right back in it.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
I love it because your wife was like, ah, man,
I wish you were here with us. I'm like, we
will figure this out. We will make another trip. It'll
be a couple of years down the road, but we
will absolutely do this. Because if you know me, I
have tattoos, which I originally yeah please.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
I noticed that Rome and Italy was very much a tattoo.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
Place, right, everyone had multiple rights, and so like the
one that I have on my leg, and I know
we got to go to break here and we'll come
back and talk more. But the one that I have
specifically is actually collaboration from a girlfriend of mine who
lives in Rome. She has her own shop, which is
really unique because it's not a lot of female owns
tattoo parlors, but she lives in Rome, and she specifically
collaborated with an old drawing that my grandfather had done
(09:26):
when my grandmother was a pin up, and so that's
where it came from. But like, culturally, Rome has been
kind of that benchmark of the punk culture and kind
of alternative lifestyle culture, meaning the things that were a
little bit more taboo per se were always in Rome.
And I think it's funny to think, like that's the
capital of Italy. It also happens to have Vatican City,
which is a very conservative portion of Italy. So it's
(09:47):
a very unique juxtaposition because also the way that the
culture is so passionate and involved that you would think
a lot of things are happening that aren't happening because
people are just excited to see each other or interact
with each other, or you know, embraces and kisses and
hugs and everything else are just typical normal everyday fodder,
no matter you know, man, woman, child, whatever the situation is.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
So it's a very different world, it really is. We
got more Italy talk when we come back with Nick Poulio'chinni.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
You're listening to later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
KFI, Moe Kelly, Nick Poaliocchini. We're live everywhere on YouTube,
in the iHeartRadio app. And before Nick was kind enough
prior to my vacation to give some suggestions, some pointers,
some direction.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Languages. It was it was spot on.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
I can't speak in the Italian, but I was saying
yesterday I speak Spanish from the level of maybe a
seven or eight year old, where I'd say like.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
A ten year old. You're like, I've had my knowledge
of having heard you speak to people is a little
bit older.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
I can. I can handle myself. You can.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
I'm not going to have a deep conversation. Sure, I
understand that, but you're much more than just you know,
oh like I heards you. You're much more and you're
like me. Your comprehension is so much stronger than necessarily
your spoken word.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Yeah, and I can, you know, just sort of lay
out the weeds and people may wrongly assume when it
comes to Spanish that I don't understand. I don't catch everything,
but I can surely catch enough.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Oh, absolutely well.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
I think that's the thing that really kind of goes
back to the education theme of tonight that really bothers me.
And I think you may have encountered this in at
least just eavesdropping or over listening and overhearing when you're
in Europe, but every other country not. Okay, I'm going
to say a vast majority of other countries always focus
on letting or teaching their children two or three languages,
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and we don't focus on that.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
I said that last night word for work. So that's it.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
And it's really weird because for me, even the least
educated from a foreign country is better educated than a
lot of our public school students only because the value
is not seen in being part of a global community
and having knowledge of other cultures and languages.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
And I try to tell you, you're all competing in
theory for the same jobs on a big stage, and
you have someone be at a spot at a college
or university. They come in speaking two or three languages,
they have their native language, they're taught one or two
other languages as a course of public education, and then
they're coming to American universities. It's like they have to
(12:28):
weigh that skill set against yours.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
No, it's wild like it really, And I think that's why,
even if my spoken word isn't great, I try to
make sure that my comprehension when I travel the thing
that I'm most excited about in this. You know, we're
just off in the weeds now talking about it, But
I want to go to Asia. But the language there
is so foreign to me because I have no basis,
as we talked about before the break of French and
(12:52):
Italian and Spanish being German, I'm sorry, being Latin based languages,
they all have a similar conjugation and root. I don't
know squad about anything, Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese being like, I
don't know any of these things. And while they culturally
have similarities, even within themselves, they're so different. Plus we're
looking at different characters as opposed to letters, and there's
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so much involved with it.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
But I'm still wanting and trying.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
I mean, come on, you know, I love Disney, so
I've got to get over to Disneyland, Tokyo Disneyland and
Disney c get over to.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Hong Kong, get over to Shanghai, all the things.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
You make a great point since you mentioned Disney and
I went into a comic shop in Naples, Star Comics,
one of the biggest ones old with oh yeah, okay,
and I brought back and obviously it was an Italian
and it reminded me. And there are obviously a lot
of Marvel comics. Yes, Disney slash Marvel. They are speaking
to a world audience. There are more fans of Disney
(13:46):
Plus subscribers outside of America than there are inside of America. Correct,
and traveling reminds you that it ain't all about America.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
Right, No, you're absolutely right, and I think that's interesting
specifically using Disney Plus. In every other country and every
other market, we have had Disney represented through Disney Plus,
usually with one additional component. Here we have Hulu that's
a part of it now in ESPN, which are all
three different things we're aware of. You can also wrap
in ABC and National Geographic anything that's a part of
(14:17):
that overarching digital content piece. But overseas, Disney Plus was
it like a lot of areas, even though Netflix exists
in other markets, Disney plus moved very quickly. And if
you think if you were like me, if you want,
if you're like us and grew up in the seventies
and then into the eighties, when you have both, you know,
(14:39):
I'm just gonna say it, we're not that many years apart.
But when you were here in southern California or when
you were in the United States, the growing component of
knowledge and understanding with Disney, you know, it was cable,
and then it because basic cable and whatever when they
went to the streaming world. Now we're fast forwarding all
the way to now Disney really had the money and
(15:02):
the resources to put forward to be able to launch
into these markets and be able to create a product
that no one had ever experienced before. Plus other countries
don't have like the weird cable conglomerates that we do
know and a lot of them don't even have the content.
And having lived overseas, I can tell you the number
of stations the thing that always gives me, Like in
the UK, most of the stations, in fact, pretty much
(15:24):
all the stations are involved and owned in part by
the government. The major stations that are on your basic
cable of course you can get HBO Max or whatever
streaming there, but it's just wild to think that there's
so much elsewhere. And also that's the lens of the
American culture that these different markets are experiencing and learning from.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
One thing which was reaffirmed and the more you travel,
the more you see it. I was much better received
when I either greeted in Italian or Spanish as opposed
to other people, specifically Brits, who would lead with English.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
No, you're right, And I think that's a really interesting point.
Speaker 4 (16:07):
And I think the biggest representation I am sure that
KFI listeners have is I look to my parents who
had always viewed the French culture as being very much
against you know, ugly Americans, ugly French whatever, back and forth,
and that was it. Specifically, if you go anywhere in
the world and you try this country makes me sad
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having lived overseas, because we have people that yell in
your face, as if you yelling and being louder is
going to make somebody that doesn't speak English understand you better.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
I said that when you travel you have a different concept.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
Of immigration, correct, absolutely, because if you put in any
amount of effort in other people's countries against what the
people here put in and when they come here, we
have and we can go into the whole politics game
of it. You know, these people that don't have the
understanding or the comprehension. If I was coming over here
from a different language speaking country, and especially with what's
(17:07):
going on right now, I'd be terrified trying to figure
out how to navigate all this stuff. So we went
from a time period where you did your very best
to learn. And again this is just like what MO
and I talked about. Our comprehension is far superior to
what we can say back to you, our reading comprehension,
our listening comprehension. And I think that's what it is culturally.
But in the rest of the world there's such a
(17:28):
value placed again on education, but also placed on Oh
you're coming eglig here and learning. You're doing your best.
So I'm going to now bend over backward to help
you because you're not yelling in my face and trying
to say things as if I'm deaf, and it's just
because I don't understand English.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
There is there I'll say this. I remember the first
time I went to Spain and I talk about how
English is not the cold national language. It's Spanish or
cata Lan. And if you get away from the high
tourist areas, you're not going to hear any English.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
So you're asked better swim or you're going to think.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
Right, I mean, and even here if you want to
go something closer to home, you know, Parta Virata is
a huge destination for people. And if you're in the
specific city center, but you go on one atv tour
and nobody speaks a lot at English. Nobody, and their
economy is eighty percent based on English speaking language people.
But there's such a different experience because people that go
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to part the Viarratha don't have the expectation of people
speaking English. They have the expectation of people speaking Spanish.
And so the vast majority of people that I've encountered,
including expats who live down there now, have done everything
in their power to make sure their comprehension and they're
speaking knowledge is so much better.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Want to hang around for a little while, I would
love to kfi Am six forty ninth Paliochini Mo Kelly.
We're talking about the world. We're talking about languages, We're
talking about how we can learn a little bit more
on the process.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
You're listening to later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
KFI Mokelly Little with Mo Kelly and Nick Poliocheti. We're
just reffering right now talking about Italy, travel the United
States relative to how we as Americans may see the
world and how the world may see us. And I
always say, and I'm going to reiterate that travel changes you.
Travel helps you grow as a person. That has nothing
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to do with politics. She just has to do with
your individual.
Speaker 4 (19:26):
Improvement, absolutely, and I think that it's a huge component
that we both experienced personally. But going to these foreign
areas is so integral to the human experience, but also
just learning. And when I'm talking about learning, okay, it
doesn't necessarily need to be book smarts, but street smarts
are involved in there. And we have enough communities here
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in southern California specifically, but nationwide where you're able to
actually get a bit of a taste of these things,
you know. I mean, we've got here in LA We've
got little everything except for Italy, which is very, very
bizarre to me. There's no little Italy. Now hypothetically, we
have two things. You have the Italian Heritage Home, which
is near Albera Street, which is where a very large
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community of Italians, like that's the historical center.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
But we have no Little Italy.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
The do look at the South Bay, so San Pedro
Leamita torrent but that's also it's very weird because there's
also no Little Greece. And that's both the South Bay
is Little Italy and Little Greece because that's where the
vast majority of Italians and Greeks settled when they came
to the US, specifically coming to the West Coast. So
we have those things here. But the thing that I
kind of want to go away from the Latin based
stuff in this kind of goes into the usual what's
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up with Nick content is Oktoberfest is under way starting
this weekend at Old World in Huntington Beach, and that
in and of itself again goes specifically into this whole
conversation we've been having having because you can still go
to Old World and find people that speak German and
Austrian and Octoberfest if you are not familiar, because it's
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like it's based on around something around October, but it's
not it's supposed to be in September originated eighteen ten
royal wedding celebration for Crown Prince Ludwig of Bavaria and
Princess Teres of saschen Hitburg Housen in Munich, Germany. And
if you go to Munich now you can go and
experience I went to alber Village. But see that's I
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was gonna say, and that's again specifically to this so
Alpine Village if you were not familiar, is in the
South Bay of Los Angeles. It wasn't too far, you know,
from San Pedro Lemina, torrents off the one Tent, and
that was one of the best cultural places to learn
and experience because originally at Alpine Village, and still a
couple people at Old World literally are from Italy and
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Austria and are able to give you that taste of
not traveling internationally but being able to experience. So you
can head over to Old World. So if you're familiar,
now tap into my traffic World four or five southbound
Huntington Beach getting off at Bellitera or right there at
Beach Boulevard. Old World is just too it's kind of
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by the Costco and everything there. But they've starting this
weekend through the beginning of November, will be having Octoberfest,
which means you can go and enjoy all the food
and all the beer. But the best part, and then
goes with what we've talked about, is you can get
some of the culture and you get some of the
experience and the knowledge, and I think that that's the
biggest part. Also coming up this weekend to talk about
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something we talked about earlier is the six to sixth
Night Market, which is based predominantly around Asian cultures, will
be at the OC Fairgrounds this weekend Friday, Saturday and Sunday,
so you can head over the six to sixth Night
Market and check that out. There are so many things
in our backyard that we are spoiled with in southern
California of having all of those little little Tokyo Chinatown
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anything to that effect. Just get out in your own
backyard if you cannot, and I get it. Being able
to travel, especially now in twenty twenty five, is a luxury.
And as Moe and I were talking about off the air,
you know, when I was living over seas, we're talking
about you know, late eighties early nineties, like into the nineties,
and all that money was different. The Euro didn't even exist,
and the euro, if you're not familiar, is kind of
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like the sterling British pound, which is strong against the
American dollar. When we lived there, it was lira l
i r a and for hypothetically, one American dollar was
equal to a thousand liras. So we were able to
do so much living there. But why do you have
to travel internationally when you've got the opportunity to check
these things out and experience them in our own backyard
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here in southern California. And that's a big part of
me with talking about what's up with Nick and this
weekend with Nick and all the things, because I want
you to get out and experience the world, even if
you can only do it through the lens of our
own backyard.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Today, misk pratikar no suspend mare is FANTASTICO see musclemenos No,
that's pretty darn good. Perro escucandoladio mirror.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
Say see, I'm losing it, but but I'm saying, how
do you say? Like? But that's it.
Speaker 4 (24:14):
There's so much to it, and I think even just
listening to Mo in that small period, if you were
aware of the words that were being spoken or not.
It's just applying and trying. And the thing too, kind
of going back to what we've talked about earlier, when
MO has traveled internationally, when I have travel internationally and
a lot of people that do it. When you try,
people will help you. And the thing is, you know,
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conjugation of a verb is very foreign to the English
language because you have one root word usually with an
I R, an e r or something of that effect
that they don't correct exactly. So it means you know, yo, soy,
I am to ed as you are, or to stay
or what the formal right correct.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
We don't have.
Speaker 4 (24:59):
Any of that in the English language, and we just
say you you hey, yo, you bruh.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
But that's it, and there's so much involved with it.
Speaker 4 (25:07):
So I really want to encourage you and push you
to get out there and try things in our own backyard.
And I think taking a little bit from the MO
playbook of just getting back from Europe. But there's so
much happening right now, and I definitely want to say
because it's me and it's Halloween, if you are so lucky,
it is also opening weekend for Halloween hohrornight. It's at
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Universal Studios here in Universal City. Unfortunately I will not
be there. I'll be there in a couple of weeks,
but you can definitely check them out. You can always
follow me on socials Nick Polliochanni. This weekend with Nick?
That's easiest way to find it? Shoot me a message
in the DMS because I'm always They're always open and
I'm always happy to help you with this. Again, I'm
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not a travel you know, agent or a tour guide,
but I definitely would love to connect with you. So
Nick Poliochini, what's up with Nick? Or actually this weekend
when Nick? Are the easiest ways to find me on?
Speaker 2 (25:59):
So very quickly, Mark Ronner, how many countries have you
been to in your short life?
Speaker 5 (26:06):
I don't know quite a few, though, and I've been
around Italy enough to be able to swear a little bit.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
Okay, of course everybody knows that.
Speaker 4 (26:13):
That would have to be a taken to the hallway, yes, yeah, probably.
Speaker 5 (26:17):
Also you got to remember I grew up in an
Italian Catholic town, and so I heard everybody swearing at
their kids in Italian.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
Of course, that.
Speaker 5 (26:27):
Weren't they swearing at you as well. Some Yeah, absolutely
and I had it coming too.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
Sam, What about you? Where have you been?
Speaker 6 (26:33):
I went Mexico, Canada and Japan, and I took three
years of Latin. I didn't I barely. I understand everything
that you guys said. I just don't know how to speak.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
Any of it.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
And that's the hardest part, just giddy out there and
getting past the feeling of ridicule.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
Sure, for sure.
Speaker 4 (26:51):
And I think especially right now going traveling elsewhere, it's
so interesting because you're going to be dropped in that
immersive culture in one way, shape or another, and in
just putting yourself out there, and I think that's the
biggest thing.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
Just be comfortable giving it a shot. Mark best Strung,
I understood that FCC can't fire.
Speaker 5 (27:19):
Is if we swear in Italian can say.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI A M six forty.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
And before we go, thank you, I want to say
on air, thank you Nick for all your hints and help.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
You were a very valuable resource.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
Look, all I can say is chili cheese fries at McDonald's.
I didn't touch the Popeyes in Turkey. I just I
didn't feel comfortable with that. I love it because I
can't read the menu and I wasn't sure what I would.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
Have been eating, which I get.
Speaker 4 (27:55):
But I think it's so funny because even texting with
your wife specifically was like, Okay, well we got stuff
from O so, but that's amazing and I always love it.
I think it's so exciting because it gives me another
opportunity to really enjoy sharing my knowledge and experience, even
though it has been a good number of years since
I lived there. Obviously, as we covered that, one of
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the places had a major renovation, but still there still
the original McDonald's in Rome or in Italy.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
But I think that's it.
Speaker 4 (28:24):
I think it really is so nice to not only help,
but also for us to sit here and talk about
it and share about it because it's such for me.
It's ingrained for these specific cultures, but it's so much
better to share about culture in general.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
I hope someone listening tonight or even last night, is
inspired to go beyond their comfort zone. Yes, to go
beyond the country boundaries and go somewhere where you where
English is not the predominant language.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
Correct.
Speaker 4 (28:55):
I agree, and I think as We've talked about it
several times and don't want to like beat it till
you know we're blue in the face, but specifically just try.
I know that it's unnerving. I know that we come,
especially here in the US or in California or whatever,
we come from a culture that is so ingrained in
judgment and so ingrained in shame. And this is that
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one opportunity to kind of be a child again and
just try and just do and give it a shot
and give it something different. Because again, there's a lot
going on in the world, both here at home and
across the globe. But this is that specific opportunity for
you to you know, cut your teeth as a global
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citizen and be, you know something, learn something new, something
that's a little bit different.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
I think that's worthy of being the final word. Coming
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