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374 — Bellini Boys
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Ty & Eric break down the itinerary of Ty’s last minute Italian holiday, including disappointing the female breadheads, the food and beverage of Venice, ordering the original Bellini, and Ali Express’s take on the Eiffel Tower. Audio issues end this episode with an abrupt and exciting energy.
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Introduction and Merch Talk
00:00:10
Speaker
Bread heads. Cheers. Cheers. We are so back. We are so back in the booth, Ty and Eric, your favorite. Co-hosts, Donny and your favorite. Merch line. Think fresh logo, tees. I'm wearing spinach green, Eric, and black. Olive. Black olive, of course, sorry. That was a little off brand of me to miss that. Dude, of course. Why would you get a green shirt when you can get a spinach shirt, am I right?
00:00:37
Speaker
facts. like It brings you closer to the earth, closer to nature. I think if you just walked into a subway wearing that and maybe the hat you're wearing, you could just probably walk into the subway like staff area and just start making bread. Just snipes its just like grab some gloves and yeah get in the lab. like I think you could just say, like hey, I don't know if you got the memo, but I'm the new manager in town. and You could just like yeah i get the gloves on,
00:01:05
Speaker
You know, start showing them a few things, you know, do the, I'll tell them I'm the baking consultant and and they need some help with their bread department. Yeah. Um, contrary to popular, popular belief, people who work at HQ where think fresh merch, they don't wear eat fresh. merch They're not eating that shit where they're not eating that they know better. So but that's just the brains of the operation over there at a big HQ.
00:01:27
Speaker
100% they are ideas people. They are thinking through what other people are eating. Yeah,
The Art of T-Shirts and Podcasting
00:01:35
Speaker
I agree. And part of that thinking is the propaganda of eat fresh. Eat fresh. Some might say they are overthinking. Dude, overthink fresh would be a really funny play office logo. I think so too.
00:01:49
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We have so many merch ideas. We have to, I think, get back in the lab and do a Christmas drop. What do you what say you? dude Yeah, nose to the grindstone, as they say. Put the put the hours in. Takes 10,000 hours to make a t-shirt. That's right. Do the t-shirt you're wearing now.
00:02:07
Speaker
It may look simple in nature. You know what I mean? It's a simple logo t-shirt. However, that's 10,000 hours of podcasting that led to this moment. So don't take for granted, breadheads. Unfortunately, quite literally that amount of time. Yeah, I know. Episode 374, baby.
European Adventure Planning
00:02:24
Speaker
Oh, dude. We are approaching 500 very fast. Yeah, scary fast.
00:02:29
Speaker
um What do we have to talk about today, Ty? Well, dude, I have to tell you about something I did last night. I'm a little nervous. I sense regret in your voice. It's not regret, it's just a little bit of nerves. I booked a flight to Europe that leaves next week. Okay, awesome. For two weeks. Damn. Yeah. This is maybe unfortunate news for the Bredettes that are listening. Uh-oh. Yeah, I hate to break it to them, but your boy is... He's...
00:03:00
Speaker
He's taken. He's spoken for. Getting hitched in Italia. He's getting hitched. Me and Bey are going to Italy. um Some people say, I guess you could say I'm trying to secure the old bag. Ah, yes.
00:03:15
Speaker
And, uh, so we're heading over to Europe to scout some venues for a potential wedding next summer. Beautiful. Yeah. So I'm very rapidly piecing together a two week Euro trip with about one week to figure it out. And it just feels very, it's kind of like when you're at subway and you have to put together 12 inches of sandwich in 12 seconds. you know Totally. It's such crunch time, uh, literally and metaphorically. Um,
00:03:43
Speaker
wow i'm excited for you man i don't know if you need more than a week to plan europe because you're gonna be so busy looking at venues and. eating food. I don't think you're going to be worried about doing the all the tour stuff, but you're just going to enjoy your time outside of doing the work. you know You just kind of play it by ear, kind of mosey around the Tuscan countryside, sip the Chianti. And those are just kind of one thing we'll spill into the next. I'm not i'm not too worried either. um It's just a lot of coordination because you got to get car rentals, hotel rentals, train tickets, plane tickets. You got to
00:04:17
Speaker
I'm talking to like, you got to coordinate all of these different venues to when you're going to go meet them and where you're meeting them and what you're going to say to them, what you're going to ask them. They all speak broken English. It's all in Italian. I'm talking to like literally three or four different Lorenzo's right now. So when a Lorenzo emails me, I have to go back and I have to check which one is this Lorenzo. You have to check your like notion board to be like,
00:04:44
Speaker
Is this the Lorenzo with the Ferrari or is he with the Fiat? Exactly. I got to fucking learn learn SQL just to manage my Lorenzo database. Wow. I hope none of them are Jerry Lorenzo because you're going to be in for a real disappointment. Real price sticker shock. Yeah. I don't know if you're the type to get married in a church. Dude, I fear God.
00:05:06
Speaker
I'm scared to go near God. i have a fear of him um Wow. That's exciting, man. So what cities are you hitting up? Are you just going mainland or eating the coast? Walk me through that. I'll tell you all about next weekend's itinerary. Don't talk to yourself too much, but I do want to hear. I'm going to land in Rome. Then I either rent a car, or take the train, and head up towards Florence immediately. Ferranze. Ferranze. Beautiful. I know, I know. And this time of year, shoulder season will be super quiet in the city center, which I really appreciate. The Duomo in Florence is the busiest place.
00:05:42
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on earth. It's like more busy than Macau. Yeah. 100%. Oh dude. I'm just thinking about the beautiful quiet streets, a little bit chilly, but that's exactly what you want when you're in Florence because you're not swimming anywhere. No, I'm just going to load up on Uniqlo cashmere this week and I'll be flying. 100% dude. Um, yeah, dude, you're gonna be walking around.
00:06:06
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No lines at the Duomo, the bell tower is yours for the taking. Dude, I love that bell tower. Great view. Dude, absolutely. No lines at any of the churches or anything. So set up home base, then day trips into Siena, Montepulciano, San Diamandio.
00:06:26
Speaker
any other nanji yamanji that pronounced No, no, no. I'm talking about the movie with ah The Rock. Oh, of course. Well, I will be rocking ah through the Tuscan countryside for, I don't even know how many days yet. We'll figure that out as we go. Dude, that's awesome. Is there any chance that you'll walk into a beautiful, you know, cathedral built, you know, at like 100 BC and you'd be like, actually, this one, this one will do.
00:06:56
Speaker
Like, can you rent those cathedrals to throw a banger? Dude, I think anything can be rented for the right amount of money. Like, I can book out the Vatican if the ah Pope hasn't already has has those days spoken for, you know? Yeah, dude. He's got a window ah coming up pretty soon.
00:07:13
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but Yeah, the Pantheon will be another another one. Like imagine the acoustics in the Pantheon. Oh, yeah. For like my shitty like cover pan that's going to play during dance. You're going to get a Filipino cover band to tap in at the Pantheon. Wow. Wow. The best one we've ever done.
00:07:29
Speaker
I'm sure it's been, that's happened before. Just like the world's worst band trying to figure out the Pantheon as acoustics. Yeah. But dude, that like opening in the ceiling, just imagine like you're partying all night. You've just been wedded and you've, uh, you're, you're approaching sunrise, you know, it's six in the morning and all of a sudden the beautiful, um, night sky above you is turning a purpleish blue color. And you're thinking, wow, this is the beginning of the rest of my life.
00:07:57
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Wow. What a beautiful way to start it amongst one of the oldest buildings on earth. Yeah. I feel kind of free. Still the podcasters we used to be.
00:08:12
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good um And I can't be canceled anymore. I feel kind of free. Let's go. Let's go, dude. Love it.
Exploring Italian Culture
00:08:22
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So I'm going to hit up as many Italian villas, Borgos, tourism, and agriculturalismos, you know, all these vineyards and farms. It's going to be awesome. I'm just going to get wined and dined by these people that want all of my money for five or six days. And you're going to donate to some wild wine collections when you're out there. Quite literally. like This is a little bit different than buying Metastock. The the S and&P 500. Almost a guaranteed loss here.
00:08:57
Speaker
For sure, dude. There's nothing. This is the thing is the wedding industry is a complete scam. they just all they want it's It's probably worse than Vegas, shout out to two episodes ago. Of course. um so you're Okay, so you're flying to Rome, going immediately to Firenze. Yeah. And then heading deep into the Tuscan region to figure out my shit, my nuptials. Anything beyond that or you stick into the Tuscana region?
00:09:24
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Well, then I think what I'm going to do is I'm going to try to actually lock into a couple of days in Florence and just hold, hold it down there. i down See the Santa crochets and the other places. It's been a while since we were there. Patron a few graves of the maestros that have inspired me in this podcast. Oh yeah.
00:09:45
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Da Vinci. you know just do The Medici family has done wonders for this podcast. It's incredible. No kidding. They really paved the way for us. And I think and we're going to dip to Venice for a couple of nights. oh I've never been there, but I want to visit that Bellini bar that you've, uh, speak and spell highly of. I believe Mary's bar, the $30 Bellini. I had three of them. I highly recommend it. yeah It's like a beautiful little old money.
00:10:12
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like hide away from the tourists, you know, you you have to muscle your way in. But once you're in, it's serene. There's going to be one guy wearing a Rolex at the bar and with his like trophy wife. And that'll just that'll be it. You know, sit next to him dude to chop it up. All watches in Venice have to be the oyster perpetual because you don't know when you're going to get submerged.
00:10:34
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okay 100% dude. Everyone has a Submariner over there. They got to have diving watches on at all times. You don't know if the floods, the great floods going to happen. Yeah, dude. When it's Aqua Alta, you're going to want the Submariner on the wrist. Otherwise you're fucked. Exactly. And it probably will be Aqua Alta because this is once again, shoulder season. It's going to be Deadsville there, dude. It's going to be like a subway at four in the afternoon. Yeah, dude.
00:10:59
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Four in the afternoon is like maybe the kids from school are popping in, but it's kind of late. and you know early Let's say 8 a.m. Subway. Yeah. 8 a.m. Subway. Yeah. Coffee. There is no one's getting the con one's getting a coffee. there No one's getting breakfast. So I'm really excited for that because I've never really been interested in visiting Venice simply because it's so overrun and I'm never in it. I'm never in Europe in the fall, like this late. So yeah it's very fortunate timing to go to like some of the like really tourist hotspots. I was thinking on Malphie Coast for the same reason, but I kind of want to swim when I go there. So I skipped that. Uh, I was going to suggest the Malphie because recently I saw some people get married there on my Instagram. And, um, I got to say, dude, the views from the venues, like they probably paid so fucking much oh i bet for some of those venues, but,
00:11:50
Speaker
just dining, cave side, cliff side with the beautiful um Mediterranean sea off in the distance. you're You're at like a thousand meters elevation, just fucking beautiful. Dude, so, so cool. Um, really surreal. So maybe that's still in the cards. We might have a last minute and pivot to the itinerary, but right now two nights in Venice, then we'll work our way back to Rome for a few days, hang out.
00:12:19
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have some discourse in the forum about what we're going to do with this venue. Discourse in the forum? Of course. It's a forum in the forum. That's awesome. And then head back to Canada. We're doing a one night layover in Paris, which I think is really funny. Gives me a chance to like, I don't know, hit Moulin Rouge and see the Eiffel Tower at night. That is awesome. um Dude, gotta hit Arc de Triomphe at sunset too. 100%. That's a good move. I've done that one.
00:12:46
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um It's really funny, though, because I just saw the Eiffel Tower married two weeks ago in Las Vegas. So to see it again within the same month is really, really cool. and Very few people get the opportunity to see two different Eiffel Towers as close back to back. Yeah. If you really want to push it, th you can see a third one in China.
00:13:05
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in one of those like replica cities they have. Have you seen those? Perfect. Maybe that'll be my Christmas plans. Go to Teemu Opolis. Yeah,
Venice: Beyond the Gondolas
00:13:13
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dude. Get the AliExpress version of the Eiffel Tower. Those are crazy. Yeah, it is weird how they recreate all of these places. And then we like look at it from North America and we're like, these guys, go get your own culture. And we're like, we're going to Vegas, baby. It's so strange. they will come he should yeah They will come here and build China. And then back there, they're going to build Paris. It makes zero sense to me. They're truly inspired by the ingenuity of the men before them. Yeah. um But dude, I'm so stoked you're going to Venice finally. I honestly think it's like such a must visit place. And it's so busy, like at all times, but
00:13:55
Speaker
It's just one of those things that like if you just put up with it, it's a life changing experience. Do you think I should take one of the little boat rides with a little man in the little diaper hats? No, I don't think so. I think you should instead take a taxi, like ah the Uber canal. Exactly. Not the, well I don't know, they're not Ubers, but they'll have like these beautiful wooden boats just parked like in the busy areas and you can like rip across the entire city if you want to go for dinner somewhere or if you got a ferry to catch or to get back to the main station, you know, you can just take a taxi and rip down the Grand Canal or do a little loop-de-loop around. Wow, that sounds grand. Yeah, and it's like fast and it's not – people aren't like staring at you like, oh, look at these guys, they paid 80 euros each to have some, ah you know, Waldo look alike synced to them. Where's my canal operator? Exactly.
00:14:48
Speaker
Yeah. Where's my, where's my purse? It's gone. Yeah. no kidding um yeah You don't need to do it back and shit, but. Yeah, tactics are great. The Peggy Guggenheim collection is a great stop. Get a look at some Picassos. I didn't realize you were a baby. Peggy Guggenheim. Who the hell are you talking about, Eric? mean You've obviously heard of the Guggenheim Museum in New York. Of course. This is the estranged sex-addicted daughter who is um has her own little collection in bed. She led to Europe. up Beautiful ah waterfront property. You can go onto the balcony and on the Grand Canal.
00:15:27
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um There is a statue on the patio of a little dude on a horse and he has an erect penis. Hell yeah. And legend has it that people who would pass by, because the penis was removable, she would take it with her on her way out of the house and people would pass by and they would see the horse. And if the dude had the dick on him,
00:15:49
Speaker
then they would know that she's at home. Gotcha. The lights are on. The lights are on. The dick is up. The dick is hard. But if it's not there, then they know that she's out and about. And if she takes it to go, it's kind of like a dildo for the road. Exactly. She would flaunt it at parties. That's very funny. Very funny. So I could see this dildo horse. I could pick ass, though, is what you said. Yeah, exactly. You can pick an ass.
00:16:15
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um Yeah, natural wine bars out the ass, so many places. Dude, it's just such a great city. du Let's go. I can't stand the Venice slander when people are like, oh, it's too touristy. I don't want to go. Dude, it's like the one of the best cities in Italy. Like if you think about it objectively, it's one of the best cities. You you are changing my perspective live on air. I'm now a Venice apologist. I just need someone to amp me up and make be sure I knew I was making the right choice here. I'm almost more excited that you're going there than anywhere else in Europe. Perfect. Yeah, Europe, I guess.
00:16:45
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It is like the most, it is a place that is so, uh, important that it's been replicated more than even the ankle tower. We've got Venice, Los Angeles, got Venice, Nevada. Yeah. Yeah. We got the fake sky yeah over at the Venetian. We have Venice, the ne Netherlands. That's all Amsterdam is. Oh, that's right. Yeah. yeah i'll by al there And I'm sure there is.
00:17:12
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seven or eight more Venuses in yeah Southeast Asia. I mean, any city with canals has been inspired by the Venetians. They were the first. They were the first. And a little humble brag here, some of the wood that they use to create the city because it's on stilts. It's all lifted and dug into the mud. That wood has come from my hometown.
00:17:37
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from Croatia, Northern Croatia. No way, they barded it over there? Yeah, that's because the Venetians ruled that area as well. So they took our forests, Ty, but I got to say it went to a good place. Wow. Yeah, it was worth it. It was worth it. To sculpt your land to create such a masterpiece. Totally. Yeah, I'm not going to try to decolonize Venice.
00:17:58
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ah Dude, the ocean will. Exactly. Yeah, eventually the rain and the ocean will do it. Nature's the ultimate decolonizer. It's like, take me back, bro.
Nature's Role in Urban Life
00:18:07
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Yeah, dude. When sinkholes pop up, it's just there's too many hair salons. That's why. Yeah, 100%. We need to genocide a few dentists. Exactly. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Wow. I'm excited for you, man. It's going to be a good trip. Dude, I'm so excited. And that's kind of like the whole point of this episode