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Speaker 1: In Italy, Joe McKenna, very good morning to you.

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Speaker 2: Good money mate.

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Speaker 1: I haven't spoken to you since you went on holiday,

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Speaker 1: have you have I Oh, that's right, well indeed, and

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Speaker 1: you haven't spoken to me since I went on holiday,

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Speaker 1: So it's been God, it's been so long Joe since

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Speaker 1: we've spoken. How was your holiday? Out of ten?

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Speaker 2: Way too short? I'd say seven out of ten for Croatia. Yes,

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Speaker 2: beautiful scenery, fabulous Mediterranean water or Adriatic water, very transparent,

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Speaker 2: very nice. Food. Was a little bit disappointing, I say,

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Speaker 2: I think we're still spoilt in Italy.

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Speaker 1: Oh, good on you, well, very pleased you had a

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Speaker 1: good time. Now, maloney, tell me about the Poles. First

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Speaker 1: of all, she seemingly can do no wrong.

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Speaker 2: It's incredible when you think about it. I mean, she's

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Speaker 2: been in office now for a year and a half,

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Speaker 2: almost two years coming up in October, and her party,

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Speaker 2: if they had an election tomorrow, would be quite solid

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Speaker 2: at around twenty nine percent of the vote according to

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Speaker 2: the latest polls. The nearest rival is the center left

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Speaker 2: Democratic Party, the main opposition party, at around twenty three.

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Speaker 1: Okay, and she I saw the eye roll. Has that

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Speaker 1: gone down well in Italy. The eye roll at NATO look.

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Speaker 2: I think generated a lot more interest around the world

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Speaker 2: than inside Italy. But it's something that she's known for

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Speaker 2: and when she gets bored or angry or frustrated, she

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Speaker 2: tends to roll her eyes and it was caught on

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Speaker 2: camera at the NATO summit, went viral and created all

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Speaker 2: sorts of interest around the world.

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Speaker 1: Okay, talk to me about the weather. I got a

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Speaker 1: daughter in Italy at the moment, she's saying thirty seven

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Speaker 1: thirty eight around the place.

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Speaker 2: That's right, and even more severe in places like Sardinia

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Speaker 2: and Sicily. Today we've had some fires. Two forty five

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Speaker 2: year old firefighters lost their lives in southern Italy trying

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Speaker 2: to save a family from a fire around the Materra area.

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Speaker 2: For elderly people have died from the intense heat wave.

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Speaker 2: We've got fourteen cities tomorrow on red alert for the heat,

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Speaker 2: which is a warning for everyone to just take a

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Speaker 2: bit more care, and particularly elderly and vulnerable people.

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Speaker 1: And what happens that there are droughts and you know,

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Speaker 1: things like that that we worry about in this country

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Speaker 1: in the summer when it doesn't rain.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the odd thing, Mike is we've had storms and

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Speaker 2: heavy rain in the north of the country and worsening drought,

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Speaker 2: particularly in Sicily and Colaretti. The National Farmers Organization is

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Speaker 2: warning more than thirty thousand jobs have been lost between

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Speaker 2: Sicily and the southern region of Paulia.

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Speaker 1: Fantastic. I'm reading the other day Barcelona. What they're doing

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Speaker 1: is standing outside the cafes and they're spraying people with

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Speaker 1: water water guns for the tourists. They hate the tourists,

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Speaker 1: and I know that Italy is inundated with tourists at

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Speaker 1: the moment. Is there angst about the tourists?

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Speaker 2: Six? There is a bit of angst. Yeah, I'm particularly

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Speaker 2: with a lack of taxis in Rome. Pickpockets on the

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Speaker 2: subway out of control more so than usual. One subway

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Speaker 2: station was shut down last Saturday night when two rival

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Speaker 2: pickpocket gangs started fighting with tourists. So there is this

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Speaker 2: wave of tourists that's come in. We've heard about the

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Speaker 2: chartarge in Venice for day trippers, and even the island

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Speaker 2: of Cupri has been overrun in recent days with Americans. Apparently.

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Speaker 1: Daughter's telling me a lot of biggers at So if

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Speaker 1: you're eating on the street. A lot of biggers. They

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Speaker 1: just come up and bother you over dinner or lunch

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Speaker 1: or whatever.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I haven't found it so much around my dinner

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Speaker 2: table at a restaurant, but certainly on the street. It's

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Speaker 2: quite common now to see beggars in front of you

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Speaker 2: on the street.

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Speaker 1: All right, good catch up, Joe, go well we'll catch

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Speaker 1: talk next to this. They appreciate it very much, speaking

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Speaker 1: of itly. By the way, if you've never seen it,

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Speaker 1: I'm sure I've recommended it about a million times. But

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Speaker 1: Stanley Tucci did it just an astonishingly good series on

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Speaker 1: CNN about a year ago, and because it was on

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Speaker 1: c and N didn't seem to go anywhere else. So

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Speaker 1: you either got it on CNN or you didn't. It's

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Speaker 1: turned up on the Living Channel, which is channel what's

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Speaker 1: the Living Channel, Channel seventeen? I think anyway, s turned

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Speaker 1: up on the Living Channel on Sky. And I really

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Speaker 1: think that people are still dialing in channel numbers and

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Speaker 1: not just going to the on demand thing. And that's

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Speaker 1: exactly why I said what I see you try and

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Speaker 1: find that series on demand, and you can't because it

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Speaker 1: was a C and N product that didn't go on demand,

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Speaker 1: so it is channel seven, It's channel seventeen on my box.

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Speaker 1: It look Sammy's nodding and he's a what's the gen

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Speaker 1: xer Gin wire? A millennial anyway, Standy Tucci, very very

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Speaker 1: good of you into food and Italy in culture gently.

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