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"The screen. You just need a better life. Hey, everybody leaving Bradley. So on my talk one. Oh, 71 Look at this. I can't get my microphone to stay. Put my talk one of seven away from me, Uh, Colleen Lindstrom Bradley trainer. I'm not kidding. I won't stay. OK, I'll just hold it here. Hey, I wanted to quick check in because our friends are very, very good friends. Jennifer Aniston. Nope. No. Jennifer Lopez didn't even know their name. Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck. We call them Bennifer again. A for, um, They're back from their tour of Tuscany and by Tuscany. I mean Venice. They were at the Venice Film Festival. And like we had wondered last week kind of casually like, where have they been? We haven't heard from them in a hot minute. Right? Exactly, But that's where they were. They were in Venice. They were doing the film festival thing, so sure enough, we're getting like, sort of the quarterbacking of their time in Venice. Which by the way, will you can you help Remind me I have to share with you. Stephen Kojak arose, Um, hot take on coho up to I know it's super funny, though, because I just happened upon it on Jennifer Lopez is, uh, look from the VMAs last night, right? So I'm going to get to that in a second, but first I would like to tell you about what happened at the Venice Film Festival, apparently as Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck were walking through the airport. A, um overzealous fan apparently tried a little too hard to get a selfie. With Jennifer Lopez, and he was coming dangerously close to the superstar and Ben Affleck ever the gentleman Firmly pushed the man back with both hands and kept them extended. ER still stayed a reasonable distance away, so it looks like What's his name from that movie? Uh oh. Bat Midler. Okay. Nick Nolte. You think this guy looks like Nick Nolte? Multi, There was a movie. Where in? I think he played. He looked like all disheveled in down and out in Beverly Hills. Oh, yeah, And that's totally the vibes that he's bringing to the situation And the guy looks like he is. Like from Central casting for quote crazed fan. Well, thank you for actually saying that because that was my very, very first. Thought when I saw this This guy was super hired. Oh, for this moment so that Ben could look like he stepped in to save his damsel in distress. My girlfriend save you, ma'am. Yeah, it's just so it's so precious. Have you scrolled through the pictures rightful Delightful and like, sure enough, so it's like this picture. Can I have a picture? Yeah, It's like a scene from a movie. And Ben Affleck is like, Sir. Get away from my woman. No, I mean it. Get away from my woman, and then I don't know pushes him far enough away. And then the two of them class pans and Walk off into the sunset. I'm so done. Yeah. I mean, everything is suspect. At this point. It seems totally off. Just true. I mean, he's best man on. That's true. I'm surprised he didn't like, pull his You know, uh, shirt to the side and show off his Batman symbol. Thank you. Back tattoo, his phoenixes rising Phoenix. You know the thing I will give Ben Affleck as he knows enough to know when he doesn't know better. And by that, I mean, whatever he's with Jennifer Lopez. He's always dressed Flawlessly, and I think it's because Jennifer Lopez dresses him. Thank you, because whenever he's photographed by himself, he just looks like a schlub. He looks like me and anybody else who just kind of showed up. Who's not, you know, waiting for paparazzi to Pop out of every bush, right? Um, can I can we pivot? Can I tell you about because they don't want to run out of time so badly, Caro, So apparently I follow coho Stephen Kojak are Oh, I don't know called right. I don't know why I follow him. But I do And I'm happy that I do because About 90% of buying gauge mint with the V Emma's last night were from his feed. And, um, he was definitely giving some style thoughts on our favorite celebrities. And so this is what he wrote of Jennifer Lopez. So first of all she was wearing, like a very, um Kind of lacy number. And by Lisa, I don't mean like lace like Queen Anne's lace. I mean, like, laces like it's all laced up, Okay? And Stephen coach, Karl writes. It is my great pleasure to introduce you to the new assistant manager of nasty girl kiosk here at the Fashion Square, Jersey city. He's coming up with the house takes. Oh, my gosh. I mean, he was not suffering fools, Joe unhinged. It was unleashed. I thought, my gosh, Somebody give him his show back. Like somebody get him back on the microphone. Should Nana gunnery or chicanery or there was something you're right, But I can't put my finger on it, which is his Wikipedia. This is why I started following him. So I must have started following him following him whenever there was chicanery. Also he was He was pretty ill for a period of time. It's true. I believe he had in mind his Wikipedia page. City and two kidney transplants to do something called polycystic kidney disease. Yeah, and then But then there was some sort of scandal and I can't recall what it was. But here I am following Stephen Coach Carlo and he didn't have He didn't say a whole lot. He actually only commented on Jennifer Lopez and on little gnaws axe. He wrote. Bleep you Lil Nas axe. This was going to be my bridesmaid dress for the Britney Spears destination wedding. Uh And then he says P s I can't stand men in trains looks cheap to me like a mall drag fashion show because Lomas X had like this amazing purple kind of off the shoulder on one side number with a big, long train and then like on the shoulder pant look on the other side. I mean, I actually like loved the look. Um, but Stephen Kojak are apparently not so much. I love that. He's just still popping. Um, I know I just I was like, this is delightful could seriously more, please. I would have liked More then 15 hours ago, the headline Kanye West, Right, Kanye West and follows Kim Kardashian on social media. We've talked about that, coach Joe writes. We interrupt all world events for this breaking news. Stop. VMAs New York Fashion Week MET gala finding a cure for diseases Kanye his stuff following Kim Kardashian. All right. Thank you. I hope that he gets us coach Karl teams up with juicy wa Some household be coach Joe and Jo Jo Jo Jo Ko Ko Ko Joe Joe Joe, That was That was some fast work you did there. Holly and I liked it syllables. I would be there for that, though, because actually, it's not the worst idea. First of all, the name would be great shows should be like The it's Stephen Poaches Caro and,.
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"Left lane. Police Response. North Bong five and federal weight Highway 18 that's blocking the right, Elaine. Our next report, is it 3 24. I'm Evan Smith Coma traffic. Mostly cloudy skies around western Washington. This afternoon, Upper sixties lower seventies not a bad way to wrap up the weekend with a couple sun breaks lots more sunshine for Monday Tuesday in the work week ahead, temperatures are going to be rising to the lower to mid seventies by Tuesday and Wednesday, then bring back the rain on Friday. In the couple of the Senate hearings on companies Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders is urging lawmakers to iron out their differences on the $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill. We got all sit down and work together and come up with a $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill, which deals with the enormously unmet needs of working families, speaking on CNN's state of the Union. The Vermont Independent, says too many people are homeless and noted the Western wildfires as an example of the climate crisis, he says the real problem with the bill is not one Republican is supporting it. Sanders believes the reconciliation bill will pass because the American people strongly supported and public pressure will force the issue. Quest. Virginia Senator Joe Manchin says he won't vote for the $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill. We've already put out 5.4 trillion and we tried to help Americans and everywhere we possibly can and a lot of the help that we put out there. Is still there, and it's going to run clear until next year. What's the urgency? Speaking on CNN's state of the Union, the West Virginia Democrats at the spending bill should only cost around a trillion dollars mansion, said changes on taxes to pay for the huge bill might not be a positive move for the US and wouldn't make America competitive with the rest of the world. He added. The infrastructure bill shouldn't be held up because of the spending Bill Mansion, admitted he agrees with parts of the reconciliation bill, but just not the entire package. Anti vaccine protests are taking place in Italy. Security was high at the latest protest against Italy's expanding proof of vaccination requirements. I may be sees Megan Williams and wrong. Speakers at this latest anti vax and anti green past. Protests here in Rome had to compete with church bells to deliver their stream of disinformation and conspiracy theories to the 500 or so people gathered. Police re stationed around the Piazza after earlier this week, Authorities raided the premises of eight anti-vaxxers encouraging people to come armed and ready for violence to older women who traveled from Tuscany say they're against both vaccines and Italy's green Pass. The digital proof of vaccination or immunity, Italians must show to enter everything from restaurants to trains and starting this week to pick their kids up at school. Many who turned out our older It's the younger generation those in their twenties who are far less vaccine hesitant than those in their forties and fifties in Italy. Despite the protests, the vast majority of Italians support the green Pass and 80% of the population is expected to have had at least their first shot by the end of the month. Megan Williams ABC News Rome If you love scratches from the Virginia Lottery, you love the $70 million explosion scratcher loaded with prices.
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"By some countries but the big moratorium prevented overall destruction of many species and what the recent surveys suggest with the exception of greenland right whale. It still seems to be in trouble. All the others are making notable progress and my hope is that things stay upright even less hunting. That's a very important point to make is. Progress is not unrealistic. If you set your mind to it you can bring great lake. Expect to life you can let endangered species become no longer endangered. It is possible to to help out. You can't give up now. To what degree is climate. Change a player in your concern about the future. Well climate change could be a big player. There are of course projections that we're going to have at least two degrees some perhaps more of global temperature elevation in the next hundred years or less. That doesn't sound like much but if you look into the details and go into the weeds you see that it's going to make a very substantial difference to places where it's going to make. A huge difference are the polar regions because it just so happens that the polls get affected earlier and much more heavily than temperate and tropical regions during periods of climate change. We know from From ancient records. It's the challenge of our age. It absolutely has like many other challenges. What it requires his thought and application and if one assumes that you don't really need to know that much you can solve the problems through gut instinct and we're not going to make any progress on this or any other issue with regard to climate change. I think that there's at least a few things that are just straight physics and if you ignore them then you might as well ignore gravity. So why wouldn't we coalesce behind the idea that further melting of the ice caps and that artika and greenland are just not a good idea and if the correlation is with fossil fuels. The next conclusion is that you've got to do something about that. Spoken like a true scientist. Ross macphee thanks for writing the end of the mega-fauna just reading through your book. It's like traveling but in a whole different era and it is just filled with inspiration. That really does apply to where we are today. Thanks a lot and best hope. So yep kicker thank you very much. Great pleasure travel. With rick steves produced. Add rick steves. Europe in edmonds washington by tim and casimiro hall. Our website is managed by andrew wakeling and our theme music is by jerry. Frank special thanks to the radio foundation in new york city for their help. this week. You'll find guest information program extras and you can listen again. Demand our show notes are updated. Weekly at rick steves dot com slash radio. My facebook friends are fun. Community of curious travelers. And you're invited to join in to stow away with me. In my work play. Politics philanthropy end travels. Follow me at. Rick steves on facebook..
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"Paleo. Well lots of eggs not. All of them became extinct in the last fifty thousand years. There is an image in the book. That i like a lot that peter shoot and the illustrator dead of something called marsupial tape here. It's not a real tare because a tape there is a placental mammal like us. This is a marsupial. Had approach females did for raising the young so it looks like it was put together by a committee even more so than a camel. Which is what we always use for that from that image. It had ahead very vaguely like a tape here with the big purpose on it. It's is were probably perched close to the top of its head. Something like a hippo responsible for the argument that it might have been semi aquatic but huge limbs. I mean just huge with armed with some of the longest clause you can imagine it came in maybe two hundred two hundred and fifty pounds which is not huge for a megaphone all species but a very strange looking one indeed and there's been a lot of argument about how it was put together. What adaptations it really had. Was it aquatic or did rely on those big arms and legs and claws to dig out roots and tubers paging through your book. It's like a trip through. It's like traveling around the world in hundreds of thousands of years ago. How did your illustrator. Peter shoot. Who did such a beautiful job illustrating this. How did he come up with the details to portray the animals so vividly. I mean is it pretty much imagination or is there some way to make these illustrations accurate. I've worked with a number of illustrators over my career night. All i can say this the really good ones just know. They've got an intuitive sense of. How animal including a fantastic animal. That's extinct that they've never seen ought to be put together on the basis of say it's bones or teeth or something of that nature and as to putting them into realistic circumstances. That sort of thing there. You need direct knowledge. And peter is really good at that. He's self trained but a real natural he just knows stuff. Many of his best illustrations of birds which are his particular specialty especially birds in the south pacific. Even though they're extinct you know that they must have existed. Because there's no perfect but it's basically based on bones and fossils or what is the raw material that lets him. Draw these conclusions and and you know put flesh and skin to it fundamentally. It's the skeleton. That's where we start if there are closed surviving relatives and they have particular Let's let's talk about birds particular. Coloration or head ornamentation. Things like that and you can. You can put that. In as well. That's all going to be guesswork right. So what so what. We're talking about the past. This is travel with rick steves. We're talking with russ mcphee in his book is the end of the mega-fauna talking about the fate of the world. Hugest fiercest strangest animals. Ross this is a travel show. A lot of us are curious about this. What museums do you find her. That are the most instructive for somebody that really wants to learn about this. I would say there are three places. That are really spectacular. In that regard. One is the natural history museum in london. Which has skeletal reconstruction skeletons of many of the mega-fauna that i talked about in the book sodas the paris natural history museum and and a lot of cases even better than those that are in britain in terms of of complete list. They're not necessarily shown in the most advantageous kind of way. But if you're into bones and if you're into the dad then paris certainly a place to go to a third as well off the beaten track. But i know for people. Listen to your show. It would be of interest. That's the museum. The museum in saint petersburg that sounds like doubtful right in terms of what they'd be able to present but we have to remember that the earliest evidence that we had a very well preserved so called. Permafrost mummies mummies of mammoths that are still being found. Today came out of russia right at the end of the eighteenth century and they have specimens of that age and later on display. And they're very compellingly done and then you're the curator of the american museum of natural history in new york city. What is your goal there. And what are its foretaste. We're famous dinosaur museum. And i have to remind people all the time that my mega-fauna are mammals. They're not dinosaurs. Even though some of them were dinosaurs sized we good job of presenting them again. They're in the forms of skeletons but with sufficient explanatory detail in terms of labeling for you to be able to understand what they're related to if they have living relatives where they lived and when they lived. Ross macphee is the animal curator at the american museum of natural history in new york city. He's also the author of the end of the mega-fauna which includes illustrations of what scientists believe giant turtles ground slots wild horses and sabertooth. Cats probably looked like ross tells us more about the sixth extinction that we may be plunging into in an extra to this week's travel. With steves you can hear it from our website. And rick steves dot com slash radio. Let's just wrap up talking about why you wrote this book and white even matters. Did you have some sort of a a wish. That people would take away from reading your book. I hope they take away concern. I hope they take away the idea. That evidence is the only thing that counts in any walk of life and with regard to mega-fauna in particular. I hope that they say that. They are the real canaries in the mineshaft much more. So than a lot of other animals we might point to. You only have to look at the extinction of the northern white rhino. The last northern white rhino died out a year ago. Effectively happened because the last male night. That's a a twig of evolution. That is never coming back even if we're able to make neighborhoods with southern white rhinos. That's a tragedy. By any definition i think by fundamental interest here was to take on the argument that people were responsible for all these losses. This is a very common thing that it was over hunting by humans. For example in north america that caused the extinction of mammoths and mastodons ten thousand years ago. There is a certain amount of evidence in favor of that but at the same time that people were first coming into the americas was a time of great climate change. We were coming out of an ice age into a warm period. The word dramatic changes associated with that. There's also other theories out there like infectious diseases or perhaps an impacter from outer space like the one that killed off the dinosaurs sixty six million years ago because you write about fireball thirteen thousand years ago that just sounds like an amazing event a catastrophic event if it happened. And that's the problem. That's the other thing that i wanted to underline for people than the actual fact basis for any of these theories that i just mentioned is very thin indeed and what science is all about is the evidence so rather than just assume that we know everything. I think. It's very important to outline that these extinctions the ones that humans might have been involved with and therefore are different from all of the big extinctions of the past or worth investigating and much more detail. So we care about saving the world from mass extinctions including the human species and if we have the intellectual grasp to see beyond our own life span or our own quarterly profit statements. What can we do to help the future. Well that's always the big question. It's one thing to encourage people to get involved and to at least understand what the issues are which i regard as the most important thing. It's clearly a very different thing to get governments behind you to do the necessary. But just speaking in theoretical terms the best thing that could happen would be for the surviving part of the earth's biota in other words all of the living things that are still with us. If large portions of the planet could be set aside for those species and then humans and the exploitation of these areas just kept out boy. That's a tough sell. Indeed which is. Which is why. I never got very far with gary mean not develop it. Just leave that wealth sitting there the evidence is that if you leave them alone they will come back a beautiful example. Whales whales are still being hunted.
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"Earth has hosted so far. It's one in which many species of plants and animals are dying off so fast it'll require millions of years to recover the biological diversity. The world currently supports the curator of mammals at the american museum of natural. History has been comparing the competing theories that try to explain. Why many of the world's fiercest strangest creatures disappeared from almost every continent long ago. Ross macphee explorers how the world ended for the mastodon for the giant irish. Dear the gorgon hippopotami giant. Maltese swan and other creatures. That might strain the imagination. That ten is book. The end of the megaton. Thanks for being here. It's a pleasure rick now. Your book is all about mega fauna. What is mega-fauna mega fun as we defined it here very simply as any species. That's over one hundred pounds. You made an interesting point that big animals have to eat more than little animals in order to get the nutrition that they need and they might be more susceptible to changes that. Make them unable to survive. What's an example that you can draw from. Just how a big animal is different than a small animal and it might be tougher for them to get through a difficult extinction. Time being big has its advantages One thing is that you don't get predators on your back all the time. Which a lot of species would regard as a good thing. The thing that is most closely associated with being big however is long generation times long pregnancies longtime growing up. Maybe a long lifespan as well because they live longer than small animals. Don't they generally in general they do and that can be a very good strategy if things are going along as you expect them to go but if you get a disaster and by a disaster that could be people that could be climate change. It could be a bunch of things then. In certain circumstances being big is not a good idea at all. Why not well if we take. Elephants is a good example and we can use them sort of a model for what mammoths and mastodons relate pregnancies last twenty to twenty four months so just imagine you're an elephant herd out in say northern canada thirteen thousand years ago. And whatever happens happens such that. Your food supply suddenly becomes very dodgy. The youngsters are the likeliest to die and the very old. And it's going to take a long time consequently to build your populations back on again if you keep getting hit and hit and hit again at the same sort of bad circumstances that it's possible to see how you're on a slippery slope to extinction whereas smaller animals with shorter jeff station periods could be more nimble than way perhaps the ticket when we're thinking about big creatures. What are some examples. I mean it was fascinating to read about the giant elephant bird a bird. That's five hundred pounds. Three foot tall eggs and to this day there prehistoric shelves litter the beaches in madagascar. What are some other examples that we have of these giant creatures in helping. Were they well. They they went all the way up to probably ten thousand pounds and more in fact some authors actually think that some of the disappeared were on the order of as much as twenty thousand pounds now relative. I don't know what that means. Well what it means is like five elephants. Wow so now events. The currency and with with elephant birds. You've got the largest bird from at least recent times. Roughly five hundred pounds but there were giant lizards. I don't know whether people know about komodo dragons from indonesia but a very close relative but very much larger lived in australia about forty thousand years ago. This was a huge huge monster. Maybe thirty feet long there were also a number of crocodiles that have since died out also a fearsome kind of thing to contemplate and there were in the america's the largest group that that least the largest group that i think is really interesting or the ground sloths. Everybody knows about tree. Sloths because they're famous these days with cartoon shows but those guys come in at about ten to fifteen pounds. They had relatives living. As recently as ten thousand years ago in south america the were as much as four tons holy cow. that's big sloth. That is a lot of slough this travel with rick. Steves we're talking big slots with ross macphee. He's paleo mamola. Gist the curator for the american museum of natural history in new york city. Ross explores the reasons. Why only parts of africa south asia retain any of its then tastic super sized beasts in his new book. The end of the mega-fauna the book including illustrations of what many of these animals would have looked like based on dna records. We have web links to his book with the notes. For this week's show at rick steves dot com slash radio so ross. Were thinking of almost cartoon book mega animals but we do have it. Seems like their close cousins. Still running around on the planet today. What are examples of close relatives to make fun of that survived to this day Something we haven't talked about so far rhinos. Everybody knows what a rhino is. The rhinos we still have with us are essentially living in the tropics or nearby desert areas savanna areas in africa and south asia. So they look like mega-fauna fun of don't they look like they fit right in there with a are are serious mega but they had relatives right up until about ten thousand years ago that lived throughout europe right into northern asian and siberia that were clearly adapted to conditions very different from what surviving rhinos. Able to deal with today you can almost guest by looking at an animal if it's a quote mega-fauna or relative of alligators elephants hippos giant turtles. Is there something that they have in common. Well that being big is actually a good evolutionary strategy under certain circumstances if you have very consistent environments over a long period it's not bad to be big changeability is the bad thing. Just because of size size means that yes. You're in control of your environment but you have to eat a lot especially if you're a her before you have to be able to get between areas where the food is located and it's just the way it is physiologically. It's the way it is that you're not going to be a good breeder. The rate of natural increase the number of babies a female elephant is going to have a. She lives for sixty years. It's probably only three or four at best that are going to survive to adulthood. See you can do the math. If you lose a lot of your youngsters through predation which can happen with small elephants or disease or over hunting. There's a lot of possibilities then. You're also imperilling your population curve. Because where are you going to recruit the new ones around if it takes so long to replace. Russ you've studied this for a long time and It was interesting. You were quoting darwin. Saying tuck sadan was the strangest creature he ever seen in your studies What have you come across. That's just freakishly.
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"And it makes you feel very local. You've been in italy longtime because people can see talking with your hands as because you do this. And at the barada. What's a what's a food memory that we can close this conversation with. gosh well. Tuscany is wonderful because it has every every kind of food imaginable. But i live more inland and so i agree with you. Just a a wonderful fresh pecker or semi age equity no with cured meats. I'm also a huge fan of anchovies and sardines is fish. That are that go back hundreds of years because they could be preserved in salt a nice glass of chianti to wash it all down with and perhaps if it's the right season hey our neighbors just shot a boar. We're gonna make some sausages and have some peachy with bore sauce. And i am there you there. That's that's that part of the part of the terroir. The soil the heritage. But it still simple and it's yeah kilometer zero or maybe five in some cases and it's just that that good hearty really simple peasant food that goes back hundreds of years because this is what we'll farmers would eat a lot of Bread based things. So you make your bread for the week whatever's left over you don't waste it. The bread is without salt. It becomes rock-hard and that means that you can really absorbs all of the different sauces. So if you've got leftover you know castellini beans. He's got some kale. You've got some this. You've got some that you just. You know tomatoes thank you know. Just put it on top of the stale bread and after doing it for an hour. You've got bought by pomodoro and it's delicious. You can enjoy the culture in the museums and the galleries in the palestinians. And in your mouth. Beautiful cuisine and a paper auto. Karen could be thank you.
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"Not just pins up the entire valdosta where it's located. Wasn't that the famous scene in Gladiator yes feel all that. Was that russell crowe right walking through the field brushing his hand against the we to the green and coming home and i got to walk right over that and it's just down below pinza and i just thought man. This is so beautiful. Lo oh carlos russell crowe and they pass nice martha thanks for your call and thanks for those memories. Thank you are guides. Tuscany on travel. With rick steves or karen kibi and anna pepperoni there. Each american born but now. They've made tuscany there fulltime home. Our number is eight seven seven three three three seven four to five and calling from washington. Dc is an and thanks for calling yet. Another esley ana on a marie-anne what a delight to chat with you. My better half. And i are actually moving to florence area. We both love it and my family is actually. I feel like a traitor because my family is from the venice area in particular but as we go to visit obviously we're looking at various properties and never mind kind of set on certain areas and small villages. What tips do you have or us to help us. Experience the daily life and traditions in the small villages areas around lawrence because we're not necessarily going as tourists we're also looking at it is becoming are permanent home. Wow well these. Two women have both moved into tuscany and seemed to be enjoying it. Wh- what would you advise. Somebody like an who's thinking about doing the same thing. Well first of all do. Do you speak italian very poorly enough. That i wouldn't share it on air. Well the main thing is to get speaking to start talking to local people. Even if it's just going to the same bar for your morning you know cafe capuccino and your your breakfast and just you know maybe trying to find a language course getting to or do a language exchange with people who want to learn english and really just get involved in your local community if you if you go to church. Go to service if you disobey become involved somehow in the community as you would do here. You can't just living your house like look out the window. You've got to be a part of where you are and in places like tuscany. i would imagine. There's two worlds of experts those who'd with other experts and don't learn the language In those who really immerse themselves in the community. It's not right or wrong but if you want to connect with the community pretty clearly you need to do it in their language. All right karen any ideas. Also you've done a great job of diving right into lavar. No i think that anna actually said exactly what. I was thinking in terms of going to the same coffee shop every day. having your what we call a flying coffee where you stand at the counter and you just sort of throw your espresso back and check out the newspaper. Headlines is really important because as soon as they've seen you for about four or five days in a row realize they'll know what kind of coffee you want yes and asked people You know what. I what do they like to do in the villages around in and stay up on on what's going on like the sagas and and that's where you find the villages that people aren't going to his tourists. They're going for an event. Yeah get yourself invited right and good luck and that sounds like an adventure for you and your husband. Oh well thank you so much. We really appreciate it. Okay how you say. Good like bone Two now lupo in the mouth of the wolf crappy lupo in the mouth of the mouth of the wolf and the response would be may the wolf. That died which is very hard for me to say. Because i'm a she wolf. Karen karen enter them. Gutting in book lupo crappy. Lupu go and that's your first italian lesson. Language courses are needed. Okay take care by this time travel. With rick steves. We've been venturing from pu colonial. All the way to the cnn. We're talking about great cuisine. Great hollow horse races medieval banquets. We're talking with anna pepper auto and karen kitty. I could talk all day about tuscany. It's so great to have you guys here Let's just close this little travel fantasy with a favorite meal from tuscany l. l. Start off because ice. We're talking about agra. Therese mos. And i stayed in the form of a woman named senior gory and i'll never forget. The is the like the complete experience we. She walked proudly through her farm. She picked up the sheep and hugged it. And i remember the hey was in the air and the sun was coming through the hay and gave everything a glow and we could hear the squealing of the pigs in the in the in the butcher house up on the hill she goes. That's our own little beirut. She said that night. We sat down at the dinner table. And we're in this classic living surrounded by portraits of all seniora glories ancestors through the generations. Going back a couple of hundred years and we had this wonderful reno cheese this wonderful shuto all right on the farm zero kilometer meal the most beautiful wine and i just thought this is really good living and this is living that a traveler can can share and no sitting there with the family. The the little girl next to the little kids. They only like their spaghetti. Bianco right just a butter oil or something like that and she was learning how to twist it on her fork and it was just the most marvelous experience and was part of budget travel for a traveler. Who will venture out there and get to know the people by staying with family on a farm. That's the kind of experience you can have intesting karen. What's an experience. What's a meal that brings back memories for you in tuscany. That a traveller could enjoy. So i think if you're traveling along the coast since that's what i've been talking about around the town of lavar. No the most important thing is to eat fish based dishes and Octopus that is really one of our favorite things and it freaks people out a little bit up. But you gotta try it. It's really delicious in lavar. No we eat a dish called chico. Which is a fish based Tomato based stew With all kinds of fish. In it and tomatoes i came into italy through the port town of leave ordina or it's one of the first places this with a mix of whatever fish there catch whatever fish. They're catching every family. Has their own recipe name again cut. Yuko is the name and then afterwards. If you're in the area you can find it anywhere between maybe pisa. Livorno along the coast We have a special drink called paunchy and punchy is coffee with rum and a little bit of secret ingredients that everybody has after dinner.
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"In livorno right. So on where you're talking about there's wonderful beaches down there and there are lots of families that go on vacation in custody so i think your kids might even be able to find a few playmates there on the beach and the water is really. What's different so the california coast. The tends to be a bit chilly. The water is bigger waves and a bit colder in. So i think that your kids will really enjoy being able to be in water not quite bathwater a little more. Tepid shall we say than the pacific very clean and clear and then there's some towns where like we're talking about elba's worth a would that be something young kids would enjoy a boat right out there and day. I think so. You know the boat ride doesn't take very long if you're taking the ferry it only takes about maybe a half an hour forty minutes to get from piombino and i think what you have to sort of decide to is. If you're going to go to elba. I would spend the night because unfortunately it is a bit costly to get your car out there. So you can leave your car in piombino. Take the ferry over and just hang out of town the very goes to the main town but if you want to explore the island at all i would definitely recommend staying two nights just to make the cost worth getting your car over. Okay yes well. There is some public transportation around the island. If you do. If you're willing to do a little bit of research into it you can make that happen. It just like You know we. We've been to a couple of trust in the crop list. Is like tear queen. And chevy terry but i think there's some archaeological sites and grow seto looks like an interesting city as well or those worth Are there places around in terms of an insight. I think i would really close to. Pm beano is a small little town called poop alania. That's up on a hill and at the base of poop. Alania is the gulf of barati which also has a beach and it has addressed entombs. Okay kids we're to go to the beach trust in tombs. I all right so compromise. Literally on the beach actually settled. And what's the name of that again. Alania is the name of the village. The bill your kids will have fun without poop bologna and the gulf of barati is the name of the gulf where the water is and you can get english tours. Bill thanks for your call. Thank you so much best wishes on your trip. Martha's calling him from shrewsbury in massachusetts. Martha have you been to italy lately. Yes and in fact just last summer had a wonderful variance in the hill town of piacenza and loved both that small town but the experience which you introduced me to through your web of a clayton solo. Which is a beautiful agree. Therese snow something that i would never have thought about doing in tuscany isabella and carlo. Yes i did. We stayed in their agree therese smo- and had an experience unlike experiences of being in florence And other bigger cities. It was an opportunity to be on their farm and be invited into their family and having meals and learning how to make their local pasta peachy and understanding how to taste olive oil and wine and experience their farm. Which you only do normally when you have relatives but they as warm hosts made all of their guests at augury smell part of their family. When you said that it just took me right back there. This is i love stinging in eggert when i left the cultural bootcamp. They put you through. I'm the last person that would ever personally make homemade pasta. And i did it. And i loved it and it was rolling those little. Pt pasta and Isabelle was so gentle and carrying and such a beautiful teacher of that culture and it reminds me the beauty of these agritourism of staying on a family farm. And one of the great joys of my work. When i'm updating my tuscany guidebook or my italy guidebook is getting a car rental car and visiting all these farms and what really blows me away. Martha is every time. I drop in on a farm. There's all these adventurous american travelers that are really immersed in the culture making their own pasta learning how to follow the dog and find the truffles and and just immersing themselves in the culture. It's almost like it's an advertising set up waiting for me to come. Just letting me know how much funded his disdain a agritourism but this is an important part of your tuscan experience is staying on a farm and farm that rents rooms can call itself an edgar therese mo and i understand that it has to be a working farm. It has to be making money in agriculture in order to get this prestigious title. And it's a clever way that the italian society our government is leading small family farms. Kind of make ends meet by renting rooms and being in this therese mode trade. I- know with isabella ancarlo. Who run creativity. It's a week long state. did you stay for about a week. There martha we did And part of the joy beyond the wonderful food the wonderful friendship and exploring the produce of the farm was entry into piacenza and their introduction to the artist and the history and the walk that was just mind-blowing where they took us into a case that was on their farm. That was discovered a few years ago. It had been a cave where cattle had been stored or staying and they cleaned it out cleaned it out. And they discovered this. Beautiful carved altar with madonna and child. And then you go beyond this into a further into the cave and you discovered a trust skin carvings on the wall of a hermit's cave and you you realize that there's so much history still there and to discover it with the people whose landed is makes it more than a history or an art lesson it really becomes going back in time experiencing with them which. I don't think you would get as a tourist in a hotel if there's something about being with the families and it's slowing their life with them. It opens you up to new experiences. Yeah we've got another friend in in skinny. Who's our in outside of veto. Who's got a farm and Chia and the bowtie family and in their kitchen. There's a like a magical door. I thought it was just a pantry. But it goes down into down the stairs into this subterranean world of passageways that go back probably back to ancient times. Yeah and they're stacked with bottles of wine. Family has made better martha you're talking about. Pin's a. p. e. n. z. a. It's a town famous for its architecture. An you've got your your italian history. Tell us about piazza. What's important about it well. Piazza is a town. Actually named after pope pious the second who was pope in the fifteenth century. And he had this idea of making the ideal town made to measure for men and so he was from nearby yano and then he was a real renaissance man actually but from china so he brought a florentine architect into design this ideal town and it's a perfect balance between nature and man architectural perfection and the beauty of god's land as well humanism. He'll love humanism. It's the greatest thing about the jane hundreds in the renaissance and all that and actually the town itself is is lovely as martha will attest and the food is delicious. Won't even get into the arts. But the views of the entire valve dorchester and the relationship. That man was and is still able to have with nature. And that's actually why it's one of it's a unesco. World heritage site.
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"List. If you're traveling into skinny anna pip. Arado makes her home and cnn. And karen kidney lives near the coast in lavar. No there are guides to the romantic towns and villages. Tuscany right now on travel. With rick steves. Karen when you think of other ways to celebrate the heritage today as traveler. What's an example that comes to mind you and tuscany even though it sounds a little bit cliche. I think. I have to say the food. I'm really researching out. What people eat in specific places. And if you're traveling especially in the fall there are so many things that we call sagas and they are little festivals in little towns like san mateo. Has the truffle festival personally. My all time favorite is going to the island of copra and we have a cuttlefish festival. Oh no i was in a little town in tuscany. I forget the name. But i'll never forget. The festival was the artichoke festival. I'll where was that. I don't know posters for it. And and the ladies were sitting there with their best gets cutting up the artichokes and everybody was frying them up or heavy do and it was so delicious but what it made. Even more delicious was the jovial atmosphere. Everybody was in a great mood. And they were just gorging on artichokes. You can find it for the bruce. As soon as we have the olive harvest there's plenty of brusca festivals new wine festivals Wild-boar festival pechiney mushroom keyword. You said sandra. Sandra how do you spill s. a. g. r. a. Karen you mentioned the importance of recognizing the how the cuisine is tied to the heritage and the culture thing so important to eat both with the season and eat locally. You wanna eat what the people want to feed you. Yes i generally ask. Especially if i'm outside of my town. What's their specialty. What's in season. I let the waiters order for me and also the wind because most italians are quite well versed in what wine goes with what food you and i trust them. I'm not that sophisticated of appellate. But when i get that good marriage what do you call it a painting. There's a word about being a beautiful pairing of the food and the wine. You feel like you just go into orbit and you can make quite a social faux pie if you pick the wrong rob. Oh my goodness yeah so go with the locals and remember when you have that printed menu and have the little special sheet in there. That's the daily specials. This is not the push list for tourists. This is what's fresh and what's a better value. In what the locals are going to go for an. I'd highly recommend it. This is travel. With rick steves. We're talking with karen kitty n. We're talking about the wonders of tuscany. You know when we're thinking about having fun in skinny. I think there's ways to kind of really connect with nature and oftentimes that gives overlooked and bike. Ride seems to me in a beautiful part of tuscany would be a good idea. Is there any sort of best opportunity for biking in tuscany. Well if you're really serious about biking in the fall there's a thing called the ed oheka in galilee and canty gale g. i l. Yes and so. That's in the heart of canty. The candy classical and every year people bring their bikes from the nineteen twenties thirties forties fifties and they dress up in the outfit that matches their bike and they go along the dirt roads and they finish every day with a glass of wine. It's not a race. it's an experience. Sounds great aggressive county classical in kenya with your classic bike andrew. Your long bike ride. You've earned it and people come from all over. The world is to do that. But i would not in a million years say it's touristy no it's a joyful event for all so many fun ways to distinguish your travels karen you live on the coast and i know everybody goes to the interior for the hill towns. But there's a lot of charm overlooked on the coast and on a little island off the coast. What are your tips for that. And and i were talking about this just before we came in here that it's a bit unknown to most americans But the coastal area of tuscany is very important to the tuscan. 's it's where everybody goes on the weekends. Everybody goes to play where all of the americans are. Maybe up there in the chink with all the are down on the island developed by and it's not always the most convenient place i do have to say. You need to be a little bit of an intrepid traveler. You're going to need your rental car. You're going to need to take the ferry from the town of piombino to go over to alabama but once you're over there there's small villages a hiking trails wonderful restaurants beautiful beaches in. It's full of italians others not so many americans. There's a few french germans. The dutch have discovered it. But there's wonderful swimming wonderful wine wonderful food and i have to say because it got some strange press. I could say. I visited for the first time this summer. The island of gpo which is a very short ferry. Ride from the center steph on which is a bit south or the billion dollar coup ship. There could well the docket on the xactly. And i wasn't sure what i was going to find when i went there because that was the only image i had really seen was of it. The crashed cruise ship and instead of the little port area. Where you can dock your boat or where you can get to buy. A fairy is gorgeous and on top of the hill. Where i saw maybe the most beautiful sunset i've ever seen in tuscany. There is a fourteenth century village. Gilio jean and then of course if you'd rather be exile like napoleon go to elba karen kibi and pip araujo. Take listener calls in a minute at eight seven seven three three three to help you get ready to explore the villages of tuscany. Today's interview comes from before the pandemic in our travel. With rick steves archives and later in the hour ross. Macphee tells us what happened to some of the fiercest biggest and strangest that ever roamed the earth a long time ago after the must see sites of roman bennis in the crowds. Who want to see them to for a little breathing room. I think a change of pace and testimony is always a rewarding idea. From renaissance florence to farm stays hill town scattered across the region. Tuscany offers the romantic essence of italy. That visitors dream about travel. With rick steves guides to tuscany or art historian anna pip arado. Who grew up in massachusetts and karen. Kibi who comes from oregon you know. Make their homes and cnn and lavar and bills calling from livermore in california. I built out. Rick yeah i was listening and it's it's really exciting for me. I have a trip planned. We're going to be driving from rome up the coast. And i've done this several times up to relatives up in the area and this time i'm bringing my son and daughter-in-law and grandkids and their little four eight and longs my wife and we're looking at Staying along the coast there one of the places. I've looked at south of lavar. Now i wanted to get a little feedback on his custody. Only della the sky which is Near elba too. So i'm just kinda curious about things to see and do around there wondering whether elbow it'd be a good place to go. I know that they have these blue flag beaches which Castellina apparently has one of the best beaches and my grandkids live on santa cruz on the california coast. But they wanna see beaches on. Hey girl got kind of hand up some beaches. I know karen lives.
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"Hey i'm rick steves. In my latest book for the love of europe. I share the highlights of a lifetime of exploring europe my favorite experiences sites and encounters in a hundred essays. If you love your up to this is four. Decades of greatest hits in four hundred pages made to order to stoke your travel dreams. You can order your copy of for the love of europe at rick. Steves dot com. There were stranger creatures than you can ever imagine roaming the earth until maybe a few thousand years ago like lemurs the size of guerrillas in five hundred pound burks coming up a little later in the hour on today's travel with rick. Steves ross macphee. From the american museum of natural history tells us what they've learned about the megaphone. So many people are so crazy about italy and in italy. You've got all of these distinct regions provinces. That are they got their own personality and for a lot of people. The quintessence of italy is tuscany. I wanna learn more about tuscany. I wanna learn about the villages of tuscany at one. Learn about the hill towns on the cuisine. And the best way to do that is to talk with some friends who have fallen in love with tuscany or maybe fallen in love with a tuscan and moved there. I've got two guides with me right now. Americans who have adopted tuscany as their homeland and tip arado lives in sienna in anna has her phd in art history and she fell in love with the history and the art and the culture of sienna in tuscany and karen. Kibi lives in lavar. No she's lived there for eight years and she fell in love with a with an italian guy. Fabrizio and now karen leads americans around from her base in livorno karen and ana. Thanks for joining us. Thanks thank you so much when judge notes so you both sound like you love tuscany. You end up living there if gonna brag about tuscany. How is it distinct. From other parts of italy karen i think part of the beauty of tuscany is the history and the towns and architecture and most people know about our most famous residents like leonardo da vinci and michelangelo. But what a lot of people don't know is that each village and each town has its own distinct personality foods that we eat and we don't eat anywhere else in the in the region. Different accents every place you go. They have different accents and so we can actually tell each other apart. who's appeasing. who's aleve organiser. Who's a florentine his ac- nasa just by how people talk you know and just sitting here at the table with you. Guys i can just see the fun you have in acknowledging and celebrating the cultural differences and the the rich heritage combined in this relatively small piece of land and even within tuscany. You've got these. You know the pride of this town and the price of that town you live in sienna. How cnn distinct and what what is proud of well. Sierra is one of the proudest towns. I've ever come across and of course it's most famous for. Its is polio race. In so within the walls of cnn we have seventeen distinct neighborhoods called colorado. So they run in the pa twice a year and it's just the best example of civic pride. I think That i've ever witnessed to. What is the poly. The polio is a race that has been going on in sienna since the thirteenth century. At least and it has evolved over the centuries but basically essentially remains the same. It's the world's longest continuous running horse. Race it happens twice sometimes three times. A year in the city center of there are horses. There is pandemonium there is passion and it's well worth visiting an all this commotion and craziness and i wasn't people gathering together. And how long does the race last a minute. And fifteen thirty seconds something. Ninety seconds ninety seconds is before and after yes and you feel that when you go there and when you say civic pride it's important to remember that the notion of italy is is relatively new one hundred and fifty years ago. There was no italy and in the middle ages. There was all these little competing city states. And there's a huge historic rivalry between florence and sienna. And you feel that in many ways. karen how do you feel the competition between States like cnn florence. Pisa or lavar notice lebron. He's not our historic enemies and we actually have a saying. That says it's better to have a death in the family than a piece in on your doorstep so easily over there. He's a really. You had a lot of enemies. Because i know in florence they they love to pee into the river because it goes down to tony v.'s. Right exactly the. What are the siennas in florence on my goodness well. The first time. I went there and i was still learning italian. There was a soccer game. It was win briefly. Briefly ciano was in series a. And they were playing at florence. I didn't know this. But i was outside the church of san domenico the basilica of san domenico to visit saint catherine and i hear chanting. I asked him what are they chanting. And she said the sienese fans are chanting to the florentines record data. Montag di remember montepellier. The remember that time in twelve sixty when we beat you. So don't make a senior person angry. They tend to hold a grudge. These this history. It's a little bit playful but it's a little bit real it centuries old and when you travel around tuscany i find all these gorgeous hill. Towns wonderful little squares and there's a little florentine flavor you see the medici seal because it was in the empire of the little imperial power of florence and the the grand duchy of tuscany that they found it in the in the sixteenth century and whatnot. You see you're you're in multiple john or something and there's the i'm allowed to say balls on the radio balls. The medici crest is ball's they took over someplace in slop. Their balls on it. I mean pills pills. Medici oranges globes and it is a reminder of the rule of the power of the she and that was florence spend. Yes yeah but if. I may just one town that did not get taken over because got taken over leave ordinary but luca did not and they are still proud about that too. Independent independent independent luca independent and tuscany means never with the medici. The florentines flag flying. And i just love that in fact a lot of big kessels in tuscany. What would be a castle. That means a lot to you. Well the castle joni. Because whenever i see it on the bus it means. I'm nearly home and someone wanted. He joins a little town population. Something of forty now. But it's basically a fortress to protect cnn from the florentines so between About twenty minutes outside of cnn. As i say the scenes would watch and make sure those florentines weren't trying to come and take over. Cnn which they were doing from the twelfth to the sixteenth century and so this fort managed to keep those florentines back until the sixteenth century when they finally surrendered or never taken over. But you can visit that today and you can walk the walls and dress up as a medieval knight. I love how they have festivals and different excuses to remember the history. And in this case you would have. I would imagine a festival that takes you back to the middle of the pageantry. Yes you go into monterey joining the summer and you you exchanger euros for these little silver and gold coins to buy your beer. And you're you know you're meat. And they have live theater and music and performers so this is monte rejoin m. o. n. t. e. r. I g g. I o n i in. It's a great castle that you can put on your on your.
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"That was the next logical step and they went there for that. Wow very meaning. Yes bill in. Darwin get ice cream bars from little restaurant. That's near the parking lot We do not see billy his ice cream but darwin explaining that he built his right away. Darwin wanted to save his for the car ride ice cream. When did you get ice cream in darwin's offering a share and now it's like no no you you got your ice cream. You enjoy it. How did they get the ice cream. I do wanna know. How did this happen running around. They've got they've got like spending cash lull. Remember at one point. Myra says she's got like forty francs or something. That doesn't think that's enough to bribe al to give her exemption so perhaps they are given a small yeah per diem. Yeah yeah yeah. Get the ice cream in a i. I really liked darwin a lot. I i have to say like i think he can. He can be really funny. And i like the way he's talking about the show. I lose a lot of respect for his ice cream choice in this moment. You're in bargain. Italy no idea where that was going. You're bargain like legit gelato. what are you doing. Yeah yeah don't buy. Don't buy a good humor bar getting something that apparently you can get at the d.c. You know what it looks like. It's only fair that there's a little bit of a dbq that comes after they got for d. Qra so that we see your layers. Tuscany in tuscany. Don't get a chocolate dipped like you know like nestle bar bar. That's what it is is pretty good. Podcast always base be crave food pizza and ice cream two of the four food groups right there. So we make it to the hotel. Alavia dorothy formula coalition. And they're going through sharing information from their journals. Dorsey has alavi as old journal. And she's like okay but you think i'm the mole so how how to work and a lot. He has a good point. She's like well if you are the mole than it doesn't really. There's no motivation for me to give you wrong information. Yeah totally legit. Which is valid logic if alavia is not the ball correct. Dorothy may or may not know dependent on your side now. We're taking ap puzzles the next day. They've got the return of the blueberries. The the blueberry trae has shown up. are you the one now. I'm hungry kip. What's it over the top one. Yeah me too. are you the one. That's a different show. Yeah we we know. We're not doing that. No zafy point. Anderson is addressing. All of the rule break that has happened in his candy. Factory deaths heather touching the bike. Darwin bill eating ice cream even though they were explicitly told the pizza was supposed to be their only dinner. I don't care if you're still hungry because we only at three crappy twelve inch pizzas. That was all you got. You broke the rules. I'm going to be nice and make one fine of ten thousand dollars instead of counting these each as individuals infraction. they're doubling. they got financial. They got the doppler. And so if they do if there's another fine it's going to be twenty k. Bold prediction time. That's going to happen. I kind of feel like you don't say that if you get another fine it's going to be ten twenty k and less that's happening on the show like there's re i feel like there's no real reason to put that out there unless we're going to have a lot of faith the players right there no chekhov's fi and did these little numb skulls these idiots. I love him. But my gosh enhanced yourself don't mind cream nets great. I love it there so great. Great this isn't it. I mean technically is..
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"Quotes a fire. I've ruled heather out completely. If she's the molden. I'm an I guess that's okay words to say don't scratch that one out literally meant donkey. Yes correct and i'm an ass. Don't yeah yeah so we are. As josh mentioned in bhargava italy we have. We have moved on from vicenza. Home of luigi deport. The awesome once and future author of romeo and juliet Whereas bargain in italy is. My question was quick to the google maps. It seems to be uh the kind of tuscany tuscan ish. Tuscany ask the only part of italy. I've ever been to is rome. That is much italy as i have done. You know. it's i think it's tuscany. I think it's it's close to close ish to foreign jason tuscany adjacent. What is the how long how what. I've yeah there's literally at tuscany hotel like a mile away okay. Yes we're under the tuscan sun here embargo the s. and we need three pieces. Diane lane where is she lied. Three people that love to cook three people that hate to cook three people that okay. The neutral box as it were The only thing that's really gonna matter. Is that three people who love to cook or three people that hate to cook. Rather are going to be our chefs today and anderson says to katie myra and bill who don't like to cook. Don't you know how this game works. If you say you don't like to cook your cooking mole. He remains them out. He gives them the real old kuba d do like he really. He really trashes. You idiots don't you know how the mole works. What did you think was going to happen. Yeah come on. You say you don't like to cook you gonna cooking you fools in in fairness. Nobody ever figures this out and i was anderson. I probably would have rimmed amount for this much earlier than they actually got the meaning. Yeah if there was if there was enough cooperation amongst the team. It's so good it needs to be more cooeperation between the cast mates here then. They should have somebody who likes to cook on every team. Yeah as-yet of strategy. Yes yes to you never this. is it. it really is a shame that we didn't get twenty years of the mole to have people over thinking like the way people do on survivor and big brother like we don't get the equivalent of splitting the idol vote..
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"And i was. Whoa what's wrong with you. You need to pay for that ship while. Yeah and then i was like so. What's a boy miss me. You haven't seen me in a while. So i haven't seen my sister since two thousand nine hundred thanksgiving twenty nineteen. This is the longest we've been apart since we met. But i was like but what you miss me and you just wanna watch his. I'd just like it when hearing korea and like you mean and i liked the sales like off because my my brother in law loves me this out zooey i love it. I love love. Love it. And i did i when i was like catching up on prepping for our chat. I like look at your sister's instagram to and like they just got their super q. Her husband are durable. And like yeah. They're so french so french. On my gosh mindy this wedding. That wedding was in sane royalty so her uncle is a monsignor okay. What does that mean. It's something fancying. Catholic church is as honorary title. It's an honorary title. But he's he's like the equivalent of likened archbishop in the catholic church so he founded a seminary in what i think is tough nia in tuscany. So we we went. There wedding was in florence church florence and then they hopped in this fancy boozy ass car and drove up to the chateau basically were. The rest of the wedding would ensue. And they had. I were in italy right. But they're so french that they're like we don't want Will only be drinking champagne. Even though in italy they're like no there should be no Were drinking champagne. So it's very fancy on the drove up and we're on this leg beautiful hillside. There's like fireworks at night at when they enter the room. Everyone standing up in like waving. They're not it was like the most magical thing i've ever seen there. Were all these fancy little poofs of food that i can't even tell you what they were but they're all like very fancy in very french. Lots of cheese really amazing dinner was four hours. And then you party you know oh love it. Oh my gosh. So at about three. Am i tried to sneak away and go to bed for a few hours. Were you party foul. I always have to lake. I always have to irish goodbye. I feel like is that it is not a phrase anymore shedding things but i always like to buy dip out. I always deep out and just silently pretend like about to use the bathroom in just leave because i go to bed early and they stay up. I don't know what we're robots they are. But i don't know how you can operate with a that much alcohol in that little sleep like i can't i can't do either like i'm a really big lightweight. Which is why. When i so i i have irish. Go by before it. I don't know if that terms offensive in any circles to yes. I will stop using it. Apologize preemptively not no legally binding. I i would go to a lot of events..
WMAL 630AM
"tuscany" Discussed on WMAL 630AM
"Up a million Fourth of July weekend Independence Day in America K. T. McFarland joins us. She is President Trump's first Deputy National Security advisor, The author of Revolution Trump Washington and we, The people and Katie joins us from Italy this morning. Happy fourth. Mm. Will happen for us and I've got the best news in the world. I am in Lucca. Italy is in Tuscany. I'm here for the, uh, a long weekend for a wedding and I was on one of the first flight from the United States into Italy. Post covert I've got to tell you the same love Americans in Italy. I mean, they love Americans all over Europe. So where the wedding Rick, where we've been now it's sort of three or four events and there People in their thirties are getting married and they're from all over literally all over the world, India from Europe from the UK from Scotland, and everyone's reaction Is to thank America. You know, they don't care about the Biden stuff for the trump stuff. They're all this stuff We're just so consumed with on a daily basis. I mean, everyone says, Oh, I got the American vaccine or I got the tests and have it. You know, I've had the cova test and the attitude seems to be America. You know, we're all you know you're you're it. We can count on you. You're the ones But in a crisis, it's America. It's not fun Russia and they don't sweat the small stuff. But I was. I cannot tell you how great I feel about being in Europe. But you know, these people are normally just sort of put their noses up at Americans, especially in tourist time. First of all, they're glad to see Americans fact. And the attitude is okay. You know, it was constant international global pandemic. But you guys, you've solved it. Great. Katie. You know the the constant drumbeat from most of the media outlets during the Trump administration is how we were alienating our allies. We were alienating people all around the world. And it is very encouraging and very refreshing to hear your real perspective as to how people really feel about the United States. You know, That's what I was so struck with, because if you really can look to the staff of the Catholic foreign relations and the pundits, not all America's stock has never been lower. Donald Trump Terrible Americans. Not the world leader. Okay, fine, But I am in little towns in Italy and vineyards in Italy, and it's the average person the small business person and they threw up. Individuals are looking to America. I mean, obvious leadership roles in the world. They look at it like okay. The cover the pandemic. You know, China cost in America. We knew America could cure it. America cure it. And so it's a very, very, very different attitude. And as you travel, um, what do you see in terms of the effects of Covid 19 on people's Daily routines? Is everybody masked up there, or are they coming out of it as we are here, and those people who are vaccinated? Not wearing masks? What are you seeing? Well, the atmosphere towards everybody is that if you're an American, the assumption is you've been vaccinated. So nobody is there. No, you know, math Nazis telling you to mask up There's a sort of going in. You're going out. Oh, you're an American. Okay, Come on. Happy to see you. Um, the Europeans are still wearing masks. They're wearing masks in public places. They're not wearing masks as much. On the street corner. But the feeling is especially in Europe, which is so dependent upon tourism. And Europe was so lockdown for the last year and a half and they really haven't seen anybody. I mean, I've talked to people from Norway. He said. You know, we were met at the airport were Norwegians and we were met at the airport. Sizing has that food And in Italy families got together. You've got to get the vaccine before. I guess you've got together. We've got to get the test before you get on the plan. You got to get test, actually, but the assumption is okay. It is over and the euphoria and the sense of international goodwill is just palpable. You can steal it everywhere. I mean, I see ever I traveled a lot abroad in my life, and I've never felt prouder to be an American. I do right now. Well again. I cannot tell you how, uh, just encouraging. It is to hear that after the four years of that media narrative of negativity about President Trump on the world stage, So, uh, I am glad you are setting the record straight for us. I think that's great. Um, the people seem to care or talk at all about American politics. Do they talk about Biden? Do they talk about Trump? Or is it pretty much? Just wow. Oh, I mean, they're not following those little details. They know trap. I know it's exciting. They're still talking about Trump, You know, love and hate him. He certainly captured a lot of people's attention. I'm born. But the bottom line is the American people. I mean, the the help people have about the vaccine. And don't underestimate nobody could figure out the vaccine. Nobody could figure out the testing and even you know the Chinese. Nobody here wants the Chinese vaccine. Nobody here wants the Russian vaccine and they want the British vaccine, but they really want the American vaccines plural. Well, that's great, Katie and I really, really appreciate you joining us from Tuscany this morning, and it's just to hear you say how proud you are to be an American. It's one thing if you're in the United States on the Fourth of July, I think we all feel that here we see the American flags out. We see the bunting. We have the parades. We have the fireworks. But to hear you say that from Europe as the reaction to what you are hearing from Europeans, I just can't tell you how How exciting that is. This more And they're all in the middle of their what we call soccer What they call football, You know, Competitions Americas, nowhere near being victorious in anything but American Americans victorious. Just Because we're Americans, You know, we hear things we fix things with figures out how to get things done. We get people vaccinated. We got hundreds of millions of people vaccinated. And so it's just I'm really proud. KT. McFarland live from Tuscany in Italy this morning. The author of Revolution Trump in Washington, and we, the people. You have a wonderful weekend, Katie. Thank you. Honourable. Sure. Thank you to the honor is ours. It is 7 44. It is the Saturday Morning update on W M A. L Lieutenant Colonel Tony Shaffer joins us next. But first we're off to the W email Traffic.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Multitasking vs Monotasking: The Secret to Getting Things Done
"Now how many of you believe that you can multitask. I know you're nodding right now. I know you're raising your hand. How many of you genuinely feel you can multi. I have my hand out. Because i used to be one of those people and then read a study. That said this. Only two percent of the world's population can multitask. That means ninety. Eight percent of us can not multitask now. The article goes on to say that when people hear that we all believe the very present right. We all believe we can multitask. When the truth is most likely in ninety eight percent icon. So if you're sitting there convincing you solve your in that two percent i promise you you're not and we have to switch to mono tossing or single tasking. This is the idea of being present right now. Is i'm recording this podcast. I don't have my phone in front of me. I don't have my laptop in front of me. I don't have any device in front of me. Apart from the microphone and the recorder. I am fully present with you. And i know you can feel it. I know right now whether you're walking your dog with your cooking whether you're eating whether you editing. Whether you had the jim i know you can feel that i'm present. And why do i do that. Not so i can say i was mono talking or single tuscany. I do it. Because i want you to get the best of me. You know that this podcast will be different if i was texting messaging. You know this. Podcast will be different if i was cooking or if i was at the gym or if i was editing while i was doing this podcast. The quality of our output decreases as we multitask our efficiency and productivity goes up as we monitor. Ask single task. We think that. Hey if i only spent time on one thing at a time then i'm going to slow down. I'm going to achieve less than everybody. That's not true you actually achieve more quality you will actually achieve more debt you will actually achieve more connection by single tasking or monitoring asking.
Talk 1260 KTRC
"tuscany" Discussed on Talk 1260 KTRC
"Very dark tone of what was coming for the rest of Europe and then the United States after that. Do you receive? We're gonna take a break here. Jill Men will come back but got about a minute before we take a break. Um, does Does Italy have the the The right wing or whatever wing it would be in Italy. Misinformation disinformation, Of course, Italy has direct knowledge of an experience with fascism. We we have a kind of tangentially here. We called other things. But is there that right wing that is spreading disinformation and fear and doubt about the cove it too. I know. Continue with with chaos and you know is there Absolutely. It's not like it is in the states. Of course, I followed the elections. I followed everything. Uh, but it is. There is a right wing hair. It's led by a man called Salvini. And his party is called the Leggo and they spread false information. And they also spread back vaccine hesitant the but it's not as strong as it is in the states. He is the telling version of Tucker Carlson. Yeah, All right. We'll take a break. We'll come back and will speak more with Jill Feldman. She's in Tuscany spoke with her about 13 months ago come back, and we'll get a sense of what's going on in Italy and Europe in the No. Maybe you're spraying the summertime leading into fall. You right back and talk. 12 61 37 Katie RC Stay tune. It's 19 minutes after two o'clock, 74 degrees and lovely rain is a phone..
Italian Wine Podcast
"tuscany" Discussed on Italian Wine Podcast
"Okay. Let's go to velandia malaysia. Callous tv hello. everyone can so i'm valeria. My my name's jones italian veteran extratime russian. And i've been living in france in bordeaux for last two years. I'm the newest addition to the via community. I did my ambassadorial just months ago. And last month received the title So yeah my background is Mostly hospital t. I'm so many but for the for the last year. I'm doing more wine writing. I write for for the biggest russian vaccine simple venues doing some some other fine projects not on the floor and i'm going to be more involved in education credits mutual To see all that on thanks greg. Thank you but letter she. She's my actually classmate on of diploma. Except she's really accelerating. I'm still very bunch of behind. But she also started. John jive invited her because she has incredible pallet. So hope you guys get get a chance to meet her as will end next up his emily china me me. Yes yes yes it to because everybody which is not the smart thing to do while you're driving in the room. But i thought gosh i lost it. The yeah child everybody. I just I'll probably think you'll still harvey jealous. Because i'm driving. Montel gino to stay with her producer. Coupla nights and Yeah really looking forward to it but stevie anybody else i haven't heard. Yeah maybe i missed. It wants to leave the room but as anybody joined the was off the team. When i did it because i think i wanted i think we were the first group in two thousand fifteen in in in In april just you and Sarah's not here. She sent me a message. I had nobody else listen. Emily tell us what you're doing to introduce yourself to everybody. Okay so my name is. Emily and i was so many. And why visor driven tests a london amazing restaurant battalion wine and food and i left in two thousand fourteen to to come in today to try to stay because i like all of us when you have such a passion for the wind eventually just just really wants to try to make allies in the country so i i came in two thousand fourteen and i worked in the south i it. The hottest in twenty fourteen which was an interesting ones assaulting into south going to the blue and then and then in tuscany with the esi from his to see now and then i'll Sona to work in the cotin markey. And i don't wonderful time in tuscany so base myself tuscany. And then a is is now in sienna and invited to kanter and club in on the sheet and various publications is funny because Govinda who was in on the coast with me in two thousand fourteen. He just wrote to me and said. Can you cover all canseco tastings because none of us can get to the tuscany. So may so. Would you do that. And i was thinking as as everybody was saying about the you know how amazing the coast is what's become really valuable the social connections because the friends. I made in that in that year in that time like goes into lake. Jc like michaela kara. We owe connect now in say really trust him. I really trust if i have time to say my friends could report on this view all. Can they do this. Makes cop killer. Goes this tasting canadian fright this piece and likewise i get messages saying can you go into this tasting. Can you to that piece is ready. Ready valuable community. But i don't know if it's like this now. But when i did the coast in nineteen fifteen Because it was the first one. I just think we really appreciate how tough it would be in some. We will going out and getting quite quite drunk in the evenings. And then kind of showing up through recall google tastings and unfortunately i passed but it was It was really challenging. Get so drunk. These days doing the via tools. Now i would say now if you also exam is now much tougher ice not just multiple choice. There is also a tasting alexandersson s. Say there's a video presentation it is actually much more challenging in terms of an exam so is lives challenging even in that multiple choice. I sound really challenging. I can't imagine the level of was out. For which reason. I would love to reset. Because i feel like this is the same for my. Wc quantifications. I feel like every five years every ten years stuff changes so much probably even less time than that Tinted when extinct varieties brought back to life and what not. It would be valuable to recess. So i would love the opportunity to to retake the just to prove to myself that i am in Whenever you're ready. Emily already ready for you. I mean one of the one of the important pod. I think the evolution of via is that it is Is it tries to cover a lot more tasting and practical on pots event. so The flagship addition you. You will go through many many many more winds law. I mean two years ago we went to like three hundred. Seventeen lines the new york edition. We went through two hundred sixty one. So i think it's it's improved in that way as well as also there is a Tasting grid which is specific for italian wines very similar to w said but much more Specific act but it cleaned like to learn more about it. Certainly we can walk you through that. I would love. I would love us tv. 'cause i i find found the w. t. approach really helps makes michael pants quite knowledgeable so that really also your english. Of course it works via the eh and case..
Inside Outside Guys
Young professionals cut ahead of older Italians for vaccine
"Italy is pledged to vaccinate the most vulnerable against the Corona virus is coming under scrutiny in some regions of the country. Lawyers, Magistrates and other young professionals have been prioritized over older citizens. In fact, those over the age of 80 in Tuscany have the lowest
Monocle 24: The Entrepreneurs
Interview with Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky
"Talk to me about going forward and connecting people and the focus. You're putting on experiences but also on the lives you can create for your host. Who in part. I think are taking equity and becoming quite important for the brand. We've just heard in london here this week. That uber has said its drivers will become workers with benefits and minimum wage. So they're getting brought into the companies. So how do you sort of to advance the experience of your host but also the people that are using the platform to rent yet to great questions. Maybe i'll start with the second question host. And then i'll go to the first one the different like let's just take us versus uber. One difference in us an uber is the founders of uber created uber because they wanted to be writers another words they said it would be awesome if i could summon a black car so they started on the buyer side. We were totally opposite. My roommate and i weren't desiring to have a service like airbnb to travel because we were too broke to even want such a service. I mean we would have loved it but we were so broke. We just wanted to way to make money so we really started as host. So in that sense. I think this is a company of hosts by host for host and even if we have veered from that in the past. We're back there. And so i'm very proud of the fact that number one host have made one hundred and ten billion dollars on our platform since we started. That's pretty cool. The next thing. I'm saying i think it's cooler. Fifty five percent of that income has gone to women most ecommerce platforms. The vast majority economics. They're not evenly distributed on airbnb. The vast majority of income is outside the united states and more than half of it goes to women. it's a pretty diverse audience. We have four million host on airbnb. Ninety percent of our hosts are individual people so there is a question. How many of these are professionals. The answer is ten percent ninety percent of individuals. The most common careers are healthcare workers schoolteachers. In students these are the three most common professions that we've seen so these are truly everyday people like my parents. My parents are social workers. And it would make sense that people who need supplemental income would be everyday people for the most part one of the things we did before it went public. Is i got a piece of advice from somebody. They said. institutionalize your intentions. So that even as a public company you can minimize conflicts. Your vision and what they really meant was wants to go public. The cement of your company gets a little harden. What do you want to bake into the company before you go public. And i said one of the things i want to bake in is to create a host endowment. I want to set aside equity for host and so one of the things we did is we took nine point. Two million shares of airbnb equity and we put it into is essentially a airbnb host endowment kind of like a college endowment where it would grow every year but then some of the appreciation would get distributed into the host each year. So that was the idea that endowment is nearly two billion dollars today and growing. I hope it's one day. Larger than most college endowments and we created a host advisory board of seventeen host from fourteen countries to advise us on how to spend that money and reinvest it back to the host community. We also allowed host to invest in our ipo. And we had. I think it was fifteen thousand host. If i'm not mistaken who invested. They bought stock at sixty eight dollars. A share as you know the stock prices at the time of this recording around triple so those hosts have done really well and if i could allowed winning more host to invest in the whatever but we had some sec regulations that limited us and so these are just some of the many things we tried to do. But i just want to say like our commitment to host just beginning. Because i've committed to putting more than one hundred million dollars in my own equity into the host endowment and we're gonna continue to invest in our host because we are nothing without our host and in the end the day everybody's more of a community anything else i mean. Yeah we are a technology company in a sense but with people are buying isn't technology and they're not buying real estate we're not like zillow wh- senator of our company our host and our people and so that leads to the second question. What is airbnb about in. Where's it going when we started airbnb. Our first tagline was travel like a human. The idea was that you were like kind of treated for who you are. And you're seen for who you are valued for who you are and that was kind of the idea. I mean it was idealistic. But i can tell you. We definitely believed it in the early days and we realized that i had these two crazy ideas when we start airbnb. These crazy beliefs and people thought i was absurd. The first idea was we thought people were fundamentally good. That sounds kind of crazy because if you open any newspaper you wouldn't think they're good. People are good wise every headline about the worst of humanity. I think there was a famous quote by a former chief justice. The united states. You said i don't read the front page of the newspaper. I read the sports section. The front pages filled the man's failures. The sports pages. Filled man successes. I kind of feel like despite what we read in the news. People are funny. Good and i can tell you that we have the data to prove it. We probably more than anyone to prove what happens. When a hundred million people live together. Mostly good things sometimes bad things but statistically people are good and the second thing is true is that people are ninety nine point nine percent the same and you would never think that today given that we are so divided and yeah we spent a lot of time energy celebrating that point one percent. That makes us different. We call that culture in other things but let's not forget that we're mostly the same deep down and if you think people are good and their most the same then you'd believe that it's better to bring them together than divide them in separate them. That was the idea behind airbnb and so real estate and housing is just the beginning. We launched a few years ago. Airbnb experiences air experiences are essentially just three hour activities where you can have a host host. One other passions. You can go to tuscany. And make pasta with grandma grandma. Non an arena. Who's like an eighty plus year old grandmother who grew up during world war. Two and tells you about living in italy during the rise of fascism and then kind of what happened after and she tells you about her famous recipe and you make pasta in her house with and then you eat around the table this alternative to going to restaurants a pretty cool alternative so we have these like really interesting experiences and i think experiences is going to be a really really big product. I thought last year was going to break out year. But of course social distancing met we put on pause but we're looking at many new ways to try just connect people again. I think this is one of the loneliest times in human history right now. I think most people listening would probably say they felt some type of loneliness in the last year. We've been so separated. And i think in life we sometimes appreciate things when they're taken away from us and human connection and travels been taken away from us and i hope that makes us value at more than ever before and i'm pretty concerned about the amount of isolation happening and i don't think that social media and digital connections are fully nourishing. We actually do need real connection with real people. And i actually think it's good. Connect people are different than you. If you wanna like bridge the divide in any country. The best answer. I've heard is to just walk in other people's shoes don't argue over the internet. No one's ever changed. Someone's mind on a youtube comment section to my knowledge. But how could you not change your mind when you walk in someone. Just home live in their home walk. In their shoes do their activities. You may not agree with them but you will find that. Most of them are good and they're mostly just like you deep
The Small Business Success Podcast
Uri Bram on Being Remotely Functional
"One of the things. I'm always curious about is. When did you first notice you were growing beyond what you could manage like on your small team or as a solo preneurs for someone. When like when did you first notice. You're going to have to expand beyond that. I think that is a really interesting transition. Because i you know i sort of realized that i was at ninety percent capacity. I realized i was may be coming towards one hundred capacity. I realized that it was maybe two hundred and ten. Thank you know. I always took pride that. I on every email and whenever subscriber right to end i would go above and beyond try and look after them and make make make sure that they felt like a human. Was tuscany reading announcing dino and yet another thing about emails is the thing that it was just like going for other one of the other night. It never ends the nuclear inbox menu. Wake up in the morning and there's like another goodness. Oh i think we will traumatize and so i realized on the a little too late that it got out of control and the problem was the Big restructuring the has to happen between a sort of china and an organization. I mean the easiest part of it is just a you know we go from having all the knowledge and information about business in my head and i know edrich and i remember it thankfully at the time But no one else has any idea how anything so we started out as working with a few freelancers graphic design. Obviously that simple enough. You know you. Just say hey. We'd like this beautiful draw a picture. Thank you very much. And yeah i think at the moment when i realized we needed to expand into an organization and a team and it was already too late because it actually takes quite of work to then and make business legible. Which at that moment you longer have time to do. Because you're trying to do the work. That is something. I wish i'd started sina. So what would you say are some signs that solo per newer out there right now. Listening could see in their own business. And say i should be starting to think about that already. What should they be looking out of. They make that jump. It's a really great question. Obviously one of these things that it's always going to be a matter of discretion and you know sometimes people jumped to five people often higher too early on then w ovation so they can't fulfill in always Already challenge on the other side of me. I think that when you realize that you are doing tasks that don't really require your skillset so for me. It was realizing that a lot of the things i was doing. I enjoyed them. And i like them. Because i had gotten good at them. Actually it needs to be meeting them. It didn't really take expertise to the simplifies and i was procrastinating from the heart attacks by simple tasks what ingredients today with handoff. They simply tasks. But i think as set it is very hard. You have this vision of how well you do things right You think you're doing everything right and when you had something over. It's never going to be done the way you did it. Maybe it's going to be done better but you think it's done better. You think it's not quite right. I think at the moment. When i realized that yet these tasks within the business that i was during repeatedly and didn't require like you know my specific expertise at the moment that i think you start thinking. Hey can i organize the system. Either like to unite like sas has improved so much and has made. This is like aw possible like that. Identity can get handed like the right technology. And then others can be hindered Another member of the team. Yeah i definitely agree with that. It's so funny. Everything you just said was like a mirror from my one on one with my manager really liked to do are the things that probably you're going to have to let go of to keep expanding at least that's what she keeps telling me and i have found that she's been right every time she reminds me of that. But it's really tough to let go those things that you really like doing and i think you have a certain level of Confidence and excitement. Because you already like become an expert at those things that you should probably be delegating out to your point that maybe are not as much strategy but in the day to day but they're also hard because that's why you fell in love with the track. He did right because those are the things that you really enjoy in. That's how you kind of got into stuff so it's always interesting to me in the corporate world. You know you end up. Having to give those up in as a solo per newer. You probably have to give them up to in order to grow your business right I always say that like all business problems emotional problems and that's not actually true. Like many are not a lot of my are about me about my psychology about figuring out a way around myself and mike hangups and whatever it might be and i it's it's kind of funny to realize that the best thing you can do for your business unit realized realize have kiss reflection realized the things holding you back and just solving problems actually is really good for businesses. Well yeah buddy. Go things and not being a control freak. They're all things. I'm working on every day at. I feel like you're right. Those are those motions issues that could be holding you. Back is keeping hanging onto things a little too long. I do think you are right. That people sometimes higher too quickly. But i think what you're saying. You said a couple of things that really stand out to me before we move onto a new little section here. But you mentioned that one if you're realizing you're doing one hundred ten nine hundred fifty percent every day you know. You're probably starting to outgrow needing just yourself and the other thing was really about letting go some of those things that you really liked doing but you can't. You can't scale by doing those. Every day and focusing on things the areas you need to expand in so. I think both of those really stand out to me for someone who's out there. Sola preneurs right now feeling. Some of those things might be time to start making the plan. Oh that's the other thing you said that stood out to me so three things actually because we talked about by the time you need it. It's too late to make the plan because you're too busy so i think if you're a solo pure out there and you're feeling like you're overworked. Every day i mean every every silla preneurs going to feel that way but if it's getting excessive and if you're feeling like you know you are doing the day to day in it's just drowning you. It's definitely you might be already passed the time to make a plan. So are there any like where in your experience he said. You kind started the planning a little too late. So where do you think someone should start planning before. They feel like that like what what's their signed like. Hey start making span into a multi employee organization. Yeah i. I'm going to say that this is not actually a signal in itself but an example for me. That was really salient. Was when we started using helpdesks of. I used to get support just to my personal in box and way way way too late i set up proper support software just in modern held stuff and at first it wasn't such a big change. I i like. I was still dealing with emails. Am i was just doing it from a different client and then slowly you kind of learned over like tools within it and you're like oh i can do snippets and our hey. I can get reminded. An owner is actually like much better than for the main thing. Is that it. Lets you hand off smoothly like once. Stop ramp-up unanimous situation. If you want to bring someone new on board like you're working with a system that is built for that and the initial like transition tick a week way to But if i was doing that we transition in the middle of a crunch time. I would have been absolutely friday. Was only by during that transition in. Advance that unite. The whole thing seemed possible.
Newsradio 600 KOGO
"tuscany" Discussed on Newsradio 600 KOGO
"The most common financial secret for all age groups spending more money than their partner would be okay with I'm Alisa Zee. Hold this month. So it's my hope that someone just by staying sending a message in a bottle to his competition, All right. The former police front man won a celebrity war of luxury red wines recently with his ill paella. Geo Sister Moon. Tuscany. Red 2016. The wine garnered 332% of the vote in wine expert Mark Oldman's Contest. Finishing second was Aisha Curry, wife of NBA star Stephon Curry. With 18% 18% Staying got 332%. How do you get tired of you Consider 30 papers. This makes no sense. Uh, Kurt Russell yell Ming. Tied for second with 16% do even ex. Maybe we have an extra number in there. Maybe it's 32%. It could be 32%. Yeah, because that that would make a lot more sense. John. Legend had 10%. E. Don't think 332 years. It's Come on. I I'm pretty sure it's not How many percent salmon E hundreds of percent can you have exactly all right, Let's get news about your money. It is brought to you. By bay Alarm, Putting the pro in protection stocks are rising once again this morning, making new records. Global markets from the U. S. And European bonds to stocks and oil are also sending a clear signal inflation is finally coming back. That's closing it dramatic reprising of bonds that are most sensitive to rising prices still mounting housing bills or one of the biggest shadows hanging over the U. S economic recovery. About five million Americans didn't make their rent or mortgage payments in December. That's according to a new survey released by the Mortgage Bankers Association..
Travel with Rick Steves
Italian Wine and Music
"To start. I thought we could all use a touch of the simple pleasures of life has enjoyed in italy. Aband- from or veto has fun with the popular songs. People like to request in italy. And just a bit. Let's warm up with virtual sip of the great types of wine. They've been producing for centuries. Our guides are francesco clunky. He's a licensed so may from tuscany. and alberto. Batak specializes in farm and food tours in the companion region around naples francesco. Alfredo benvenuti run journal. Nice to have you guys hear clearly. Alfredo italian wine and vineyards earn an important part of the tradition of italy. And you're making your own wine now and you've got tour groups that come in and and experienced the wine. How do you teach an appreciation of italian wine. Well actually i'm just implanted my vineyard only two years ago so we are not yet at the stage of producing and also having groups arriving back in the future i plan to do so and i am not the only one who's Starting a new vineyard region which is compound yeah and Precisely maybe near is in the area of europeana which is close to a sexually between avellino benevento and It's a process that many young people in companion starting to do again like going back to the land. That families said abandoned for many years when they moved to the cities to work there now. Many people are thinking it's a good idea to restart producing implanting nervion yards but being not a professional of this sector economic implant to limit it a quantity which is called italy personal use quantity. I know this sounds something. How many bottles is personal use. It's not in terms of bottles in surface you can you can. It's like actually One thousand square meters maximum. That quite small. It's all it's like nine thousand square feet and how many bottles you produce in a you can produce out of that probably Seven hundred hundred bottles sending like that depending on the year and the quick enough for you and your friends exactly. That's the idea. There's a blended personal use. That's a lot of energy. You're putting into y. You must really love wine. I love wine and does so actually starting in the same plot which is bigger. I started with the olive trees and planted to one hundred twenty seven years ago and then i told that wine and olive oil is a good commission. That's nice but you work all of this. Put all this energy all this money into that. You make seven hundred bottles. What if the winds not good and you love wine i. It'd be a pity to to drink mediocre wine when you've got great wine all around new well that's said it's a little bit of a challenge and also i'm not making my note may own and i'm gonna get people didn't make really expert help i. I'd love to hear how that goes in. When will you pop up your first bottle. I'm gonna start probably really producing in a couple of years from now all right and when we think of italian wine what makes it talion special compared to french or spanish wine. Well i i will say a french. And italian can be comparable in terms of the variety and quality and is actually what happens every year. This fighting between italy and france to be the best one for the year and in terms of production quality and varieties. The spanish winds are getting better and better. I used to live close to spin for a while in the nineties. I was into will go often over the border and drink some good spanish winds. They're improving. But i will not say that varies as much variety and as much quality. They'll be having these two countries italy and france and as Talking from the point of view Really a lot of variety like everything else in italy. One is regional specific varieties which are with aversive personality. Exactly and also in each region you can go through the different levels of quality and for example in my region panya we have five top winds which audio cg once and most of them are white but we also tout out to one name to you before.
Monocle 24: The Foreign Desk
Italys parliamentary shake-up
"The reduction of Italy's national parliament was a typical five-star and typical populist promise grand dramatic sweeping eye-catching rabble-rousing and. Totally. Pointless. Pressed for a rationale beyond pandering to the anti-establishment grouch ing voters five star claimed that axing impedes would save money even five star assessed that this might run to roughly a billion euros of the next decade, which in the context of the outgoings of the government of the world's eighth largest economy is a wretchedly poultry hillock of beans. Granted that Italy's parliament was by Global Standards Lodge among the world's democracies only the United Kingdom and Germany seat more impedes in their lower house but the UK has roughly the same number of people living in it as Italy and Germany more. Granted. Also that a quantity of Italian MP's will have been inept crooked, lazy silly insane and or drunk but the proportions are unlikely to have differed significantly from those of other elected assemblies and at any rate five stars initiative seems more focused on quantity than quality. Nevertheless, the idea was also backed by most of Italy's political parties who decided that being accessories to a massacre of themselves was politically more sensible than defending the status quo. When anti-establishment sentiment reaches a critical mass, it requires ran nerve to tell cranky voters that may be governing is more complicated than they might think. But possibly more interesting and perhaps even more encouraging results of local and municipal elections held in seven regions across Italy the same day as the referendum. These, conversely did not go brilliantly for Italy's recently triumphant populists league the right wing Tub Thumpers who at one point ran the country with five star in a coalition as unlikely as their eventual falling out was inevitable had made promises. If not assumptions of sweeping the board, they did not obey we lost. That's clear. I'm happy because I'm sure that many of the forty percent of people who voted for us to back that acceleration audition east. Regrettably the elections were not a total bust later, they held onto Veneta and lagoon area and will probably form a government invalid Diaz to. Even more regrettably the brothers of Italy a gruesome sack of ultra-nationalist won the regional presidency in McKay. But results elsewhere looked like a vote of confidence in at least current national government, the Democratic Party who replaced later as five styles. Coalition Partners surprised many by keeping Campania, Puglia and Tuscany. As these votes have been counted, everyone has claimed victory the labor force slightly expanding their reach the brothers of Italy, for eating into his share of flag flapping head banging sentiment the Democratic Party for resisting the populous surge five star for winning their referendum. But may be and two thousand and twenty s clearly in which all optimism demand asterix the real winner is the recently fashionable contention that governing is difficult and best done by people who know what they're doing as opposed to Yahoos and grand dieters who enjoy being on television. Italy's governments like everyone's have been brutally tested this year the relationship between general diligence and effectiveness in dealing with covid nineteen has been difficult to miss competent representatives of the people have demonstrated the value and in some places there scarcity. As, a consequence of five stars referendum, Italians will now have fewer representatives trying to answer to more people. It seems reasonably likely that this will prove a hollow victory but as more folk are hopefully realizing in Italy and elsewhere, that's the only victory that populists ever win.
Travel with Rick Steves
How about a language vacation
"Tour Guide Kerry Walker is an American language, but she's worked on her language goes in Central America and was immersing herself in Italian lessons when we last checked in with her Kerry, where have you gone in Italy to study the language I? So I started off in a school at Monte Pacino School in town so I Did that for about a week, which was a great start but then left I really needed more so I quickly learned that private lessons for me were the way to go really get the most being my book I said my last two studies have been in home stays with my teacher. So private is better than group for you for me, but is it more expensive because it's one on one? It is more expensive. But my goal is to really learn the language and order to do that. I realized that I really need that one on one, which is focused exactly on where I am where my misconceptions are the things that I want fine tune, and also that the places that I want to go may teacher can take me there much more quickly they can tailor the teaching to your exact interests you know all over the. World there's a lot of people earning their living despite teaching. English. As a second language is it can flip flop it. Are there a lot of people in Italy that earned their living or supplement their income by teaching foreigners Italian without question it's a big business. How you learn about that you know there's a lot of different ways. There's not one place to go to I. Really do it a lot of different ways I. Just asking people, where did you study? So I, got my last home state through my Italian tutor back home had another student that I spoke to I. So I think really getting those references from other people. Also some research, there's a lot of people now that have contacts with teachers all over Italy, and then you move in and you just how many hours a day or a week where he works. So I did I did about four to six hours a day, but I ate breakfast lunch and dinner with that family our table with ALFRESCO. Semi my classroom was Tuscany alfresco outside as living it. I was I was all those things that I needed to learn. My teacher was right there. So so it's it's a lot of work I I've never bothered I I have. A great time in Italy why would you spend all the time and money learning the language I'd love connecting with the culture I mean I think just to be able to move in and really not only did I. Learn the language I learned the culture I said at that table every day and for me that makes travel so much more real. So that is it. If the bottom line, the bottom line is not speaking the language, but it's connecting with the culture and with the language it's like you've got better vision. Exactly. You've done this also in Costa Rica and. Those are two different. Spanish. Speaking Countries. How does your choice of a destination? Impact, the learning that you have and what you come away with because Costa Rica and Nicaragua you went to both of them and you were trying to learn Spanish Why would you go to one rather than the other for me? It was based on what I wanted to see as well. I had some travel goals to for people. I. Think it's often going to depend on what part of the world you WANNA. See a said oftentimes that's the case also, you have to think about what kind of language you WanNa come away with if you went. Back to learn French and then you go to France, they're gonNA look at you like where are you from? Exactly so that's one of the reasons I chose not to study in Sicily obviously Naples I want to for me 'cause you don't WanNa, go around the world speaking. In, Tuscany, the kind of Italian. That I want to come away with what they're speaking there.
Encyclopedia Womannica
Musicians: Barbara Strozzi
"Barbara Stroke Z.. Was Born in Venice Italy in sixteen nineteen. Her mother was Isabella are Zony a servant in the household of the famous poet Giulio Stroke. while. Giulio became Barbara's adopted father. It's possible that he was also her biological father. Either Way Julia was a profound influence and source of support. Barbara's life. When Barbara was young she received an education in music composition. Truly used his connections with Venezia's artistic and cultural elite to provide his daughter with opportunities. In. Sixteen thirty seven Giulio created a music focused branch of an intellectual organization he attended. Barbara hosted the group performed some of her music at the gatherings there. She was also exposed to other academically minded musicians, some of whom dedicated volumes of music to her. Barbara I launched her composing career in sixteen, Forty four with a volume called first book of Madrigal's she dedicated the book to the Grand Duchess of Tuscany. She wrote so that under an oak of gold, it may rest secure against the lightning of slander prepared for it. In other words she was ready for some serious criticism perhaps particularly due to her gender. But the musical community ended up largely appreciating her work though she did face some accusations that she was a cortisone. Barbara's music was typically secular while many other male composers of the era focused on creating music for the church. Barbara was one of the most influential secular composers of the time and gained a rare amount of public recognition for a woman in her position. The men in the field generally wrote more music than she did but Barbara ensured that more of her music was published than there's. From Sixteen, Forty, four to sixteen sixty four Barbara published eight books of music. The one of them has since been lost. This high volume of work indicates the Barbara's music was well liked however, after her father Giulio passed away in sixteen, Fifty, two Barbara may have faced some financial troubles. She was Julius only air but didn't seem to receive any money after his death. Publishing. So much music may have been an attempt to find financial stability even after Giulio passed away Barbara's work was profoundly influenced by him. Mustafa of her compositions were based on texts perhaps a result of her father figures background in poetry. She used a technique called risky to Tibo llandough meaning she emphasized the words in her music with minimal musical accompaniment. Barbara's bold. Experimental style influenced music for generations to come and cemented her place as one of the few female Italian composers at the is still studied today. Not, much is known about Barbara's life after her final publication in sixteen, Sixty four though she occasionally liked to sing her own work and associated with famous opera composers of the era. She never performed an opera she also never married, but she did have four children who she raised as a single mother. Her two daughters joined a convent and one of her sons became a monk. Barbara Strokes he passed away on November Eleventh Sixteen, Seventy seven in Padua Italy.
The Maria Liberati Show
A Tuscan Staycation - burst 03
"Even if I am not always their body, it is the place that seems to have invented the very idea of the casual but elegant simple, but sophisticated picnic grilling is part of the summer fair and Tuscany, but where else could day old bread be Sushi? US IN PANS Annella Salad? It is so uber tasty with a dash of Tuscan, olive oil, fresh tomatoes, fresh basil, and paired with a glass of Chianti were Brunello, but you don't have to venture to Tuscany, too. Tuscan try at Tuscany. homestake Haitian in create the same relaxed feeling. Try rustic phase with a few sunflowers, rightly colored plates, no tablecloth to simplify this setting and hope for beautifully sunny. Day make this a summer picnic style to quote the man who practically invented the Tuscan Lifestyle Leonardo Da Vinci simplicity is an art sharing with you to my favorite recipes for a summer station to Tuscany. They're both. Both from my Gorman World Award winning book, the Basic Art of Italian cooking, holidays and special occasions, second edition published by Art of Living Premium Media Inc, and you can get a copy on my website Marie Liberty, dot com or Amazon, kindle or many booksellers, online, or at your local bookstore to get a copy if they don't sell them already, or if you'd like to share a photo of one of the recipes here in posted on any social media or my blog comments with Hashtag Marie Liberati show, you could win a free copy of one of the books in the Basic Art of Italian cooking series. Tuscan panelist salad twelve slices of day, old, crusty bread, four tablespoons
The Maria Liberati Show
A Tuscan Staycation - burst 03
"Even if I am not always their body, it is the place that seems to have invented the very idea of the casual but elegant simple, but sophisticated picnic grilling is part of the summer fair and Tuscany, but where else could day old bread be Sushi? US IN PANS Annella Salad? It is so uber tasty with a dash of Tuscan, olive oil, fresh tomatoes, fresh basil, and paired with a glass of Chianti were Brunello, but you don't have to venture to Tuscany, too. Tuscan try at Tuscany. homestake Haitian in create the same relaxed feeling. Try rustic phase with a few sunflowers, rightly colored plates, no tablecloth to simplify this setting and hope for beautifully sunny. Day make this a summer picnic style to quote the man who practically invented the Tuscan Lifestyle Leonardo Da Vinci simplicity is an art sharing with you to my favorite recipes for a summer station to Tuscany. They're both. Both from my Gorman World Award winning book, the Basic Art of Italian cooking, holidays and special occasions, second edition published by Art of Living Premium Media Inc, and you can get a copy on my website Marie Liberty, dot com or Amazon, kindle or many booksellers, online, or at your local bookstore to get a copy if they don't sell them already, or if you'd like to share a photo of one of the recipes here in posted on any social media or my blog comments with Hashtag Marie Liberati show, you could win a free copy of one of the books in the Basic Art of Italian cooking series. Tuscan panelist salad twelve slices of day, old, crusty bread, four tablespoons
Encyclopedia Womannica
Warriors: Matilda of Tuscany
"Of Tuscany. Matilda was born in ten. Forty six in Luca Tuscany. She was the daughter of a prominent ruler in northern Italy. When she was just six years old her father was assassinated. Her siblings died soon. After making Mathilde the sole heir to her family's Fortune Matilda's mother then married the Duke of Upper Lorraine an enemy of the Holy Roman Emperor Henry the third in response the Emperor Kidnap Matilda and her mother and brought them to Germany. He kept them as hostages for a year until he eventually reconciled with the Duke. That experience marked the beginning of Matilda's lifelong animosity towards the Holy Roman emperor. Matilda married the Duke Son in ten sixty nine and they had a child who passed away as an infant after that. Matilda move back to Italy with her mother to rule like her father. Matilda was a stringent supporter of the pope. She became close friends with Pope. Gregory the seventh and was involved in his conflict with the emperor when Henry the fourth became holy Roman Emperor. He and Pope Gregory clashed over the power balance of the Holy Roman Empire. Henry pushed to increase the power of the emperor over the clergy insisting that he had the right to appoint new bishops pope. Gregory wanted to preserve his power and excommunicated Henry the pope also passed a resolution that stunted. Henry's power staving. Henry's underlings had no obligation to obey him. Henry feared the possibility of a rebellion. So in the harsh winter of ten seventy seven he made the long journey to Matilda's castle and Canosa to meet Pope Gregory and beg his forgiveness. After being forced to wait in the cold for three days Henry was permitted to enter the gates cook humiliated Henry further. I making him walk barefoot through the snow and kneel at his feet and penance. This became an iconic historical seen right. Matilda's Gregory revoked Henry's excommunication but the conflict didn't end there. Henry was excommunicated two more times for other offenses after his excommunication in ten eighty Matilda remained at war with him for over two decades. Sometimes she would don armor and personally lead her troops into battle. She also helped finance. The pope's military operations Mathilde battled against Henry until his death in eleven o six in their final conflict. Matilda gathered an army of local small landowners. Who were familiar with the territory there? Quick communication gave them an edge over the emperor. Soldiers Matilda herself wrote on the battlefield surrounded by a small group of loyal men. Henry's battalion found difficult terrain and watch towers raining spears at every turn. Though the Imperial Army was strong these small advantages turned the tide in favor of Mathilde allowing her to hold the territory of northern Italy. Not only was she victorious. Mathilde strategy one over several towns to her side united against imperial rule. Henry never put up much of a fight again. Mathilde forced to soldiers to retreat. Whenever she showed up to lead her army she also lets successful sieges of several more cities in ten ninety. Three MATHILDE convinced Emperor Henry Son to rebel against him and seize the crown. Eventually after Henry. The Fourth Death Matilda made peace with the Imperial Establishment. Before passing away and