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Is Reggie about to become THAT guy now that he’s back? To close the hour, John Lopez puts Reggie to the test, seeing how much Europe may have altered his outlook, habits, and personality.
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00:00How was Italy?
00:02It was gorgeous.
00:03Yeah.
00:04It was picturesque.
00:04Wait, you went to Italy?
00:05Yeah, yeah, I did.
00:06If you're not familiar, if you, you know, I guess had not heard.
00:09Has he mentioned it today?
00:12Did you?
00:12Only a couple times.
00:13Get out of town.
00:14Really?
00:15Maybe four.
00:15I had a friend get married in Italy, and so I went and I spent the week in a few
00:20places
00:21in Italy, Rome, Florence, and a town in the countryside of Tuscany called San Gimignano.
00:28He pronounced that pretty well.
00:30Well, you know, I like trying to pronounce things if I can.
00:32San Gimignano.
00:33Okay.
00:34Did you do the homework I gave you?
00:35Oh, yeah.
00:36I tried.
00:37I tried.
00:37I tried to do the homework.
00:38I was looking for Texans fans, and I will be honest, I found two Cowboys fans.
00:44Oh, really?
00:45Really?
00:46Yeah.
00:46Yeah, that was a little unfortunate.
00:48Yeah, yeah.
00:49So that's all I had.
00:50You should have talked to them as if they were Texans fans.
00:52Oh, yeah, yeah.
00:54That would have been interesting.
00:55Houston, right?
00:56Houston.
00:56Yeah.
00:57Act like you're from out of town.
00:59Uh, the group that I was with put the kibosh on the, uh, on the ordering in the, in the
01:06absurd accent.
01:07They were like, absolutely not.
01:09And then, I'm an idiot.
01:10I didn't write down the other two, so I did not remember the other two to give them a
01:13shot.
01:13It was just those two.
01:14Okay.
01:15And we're having fun.
01:16Like, we all get excited, get to go to a trip like that.
01:19I'm glad you did.
01:20I was talking to you off air.
01:21Uh, you know, it, it, it, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's over there and you should, you should
01:26have enjoyed it.
01:27Uh, however.
01:29Okay.
01:29Um, is Reggie that guy?
01:31Do you think he's going to be that guy?
01:32Figgy?
01:33He's shown a couple little hints already today.
01:35Yeah, you get to weigh in.
01:36You'll be the judge on the text line.
01:38713-572.
01:39You got some questions lined up.
01:40I got some questions for you.
01:42Oh boy.
01:42Here comes the interrogation.
01:43So, so when did you get back?
01:44I got back on Saturday.
01:47Well, I got back stateside Saturday because I was going to a second new wedding.
01:50Remember I had back to back days of weddings, but I got back to Houston Sunday.
01:54So we're working on three days back.
01:55Yes.
01:56How many times have you talked about the pasta over in Italy compared to the pasta here?
02:01Not once.
02:01Ah, come on.
02:02Not that.
02:03Hand to God.
02:04I will, I will be, I'm going to be.
02:06How was the pasta?
02:06Do you feel like the pasta is better over there than here?
02:09Um.
02:10Or it's kind of the same?
02:12I think that there's a lot of good pasta.
02:14Or there's, I think that there's, it's a lower floor, but if there's, if you're talking
02:18about ceiling here, you can get pasta that is, that is similar, I think.
02:22I'm surprised because that guy would have said, well, you know, in Italy, uh, have you,
02:27have you complained or talked about American bread, cheese, or wine since you've been back
02:33compared to what you had in Italy?
02:35Figgy?
02:35Yep.
02:36The wine.
02:37It was the wine.
02:38It was the wine.
02:39I had a lot of wine.
02:41The wine in Italy.
02:42Yeah.
02:42Um, just can never go to Kroger again.
02:45Oh, I'm not buying off the shelf at Kroger.
02:47Are you ridiculous?
02:49Just to give you a short version of what I gave Fig was there was a day that the group
02:54that I was with did a couple of wineries, a couple of wine tastings.
02:57And so on that day I had had a bottle of wine with lunch with, with sandwiches.
03:02So that was two, two glasses there.
03:03I had a Hugo's and then we went to the winery.
03:07Winery number one gave us five, uh, five wines.
03:11And of course this isn't quite a taster, but it's also not a full glass.
03:14So somewhere in there.
03:15Yeah.
03:15And then there was the second winery gave us food and seven wines.
03:18Yikes.
03:19Cause that's 15 drinks.
03:20And buddy, I was still good.
03:23Like it, no hangover, none of that sort.
03:25So I was like, Hey man, the wine in Italy, Figgy, the wine in Italy.
03:29It's magical.
03:30It is magical.
03:31It's some Italian music right now for this.
03:33That's right.
03:34Uh, this is another tell and you might be wearing one right now.
03:38I don't remember that shirt.
03:40Did you buy any Italian shirts or clothing and, you know, mention it or wear it in passing
03:47here?
03:47No and no.
03:48Really?
03:48That's not, that looks new.
03:49No, I've had this for a little while.
03:51Um, and you buy no clothes or nothing?
03:53No, I honestly didn't buy very much, but that was because of a natural constraint I had because
03:58I was doing the two weddings.
03:59I was like, I have to be able to pack for a carry on only.
04:02I couldn't check a bag in order to make my maneuvering quick.
04:05And so I, I went through this with a duffel, but you remember the duffel bag I went to
04:09the Super Bowl with a duffel bag and a backpack and that's it.
04:12I went through it.
04:12I went for a week.
04:13That includes a tuxedo.
04:14That includes a tux packed into a duffel bag.
04:16So I did not have room for any trinkets, unfortunately for you guys.
04:19I did not bring you back any super.
04:20By the way, uh, for research purposes only, did you wear the same tux that you wore in Italy
04:27to the wedding in, um, the States?
04:30Yes, I did.
04:31The same exact one without going to the, uh, dry cleaning.
04:35There's anything.
04:36Didn't have an opportunity.
04:37All right.
04:38Just asking.
04:39They were happy that I was there.
04:41I mean, I took a shower at the beach.
04:42You make it seem like I rolled in there dirty.
04:45Hey, that question yesterday.
04:46So yeah, yeah.
04:48I couldn't pack two full of wedding outfits in there.
04:51All right.
04:51So this is a tell Ron.
04:53This is, this is a tell as well.
04:55If you're that guy, when you, once you're in Italy and it gets good to you, you know,
04:58and you're walking around maybe in the countryside, you try to take that artsy picture of like
05:03a door, a doorway or a cobblestone street or an alleyway.
05:09Did you, did you feel it?
05:10Did you take that?
05:12I got 13,000 of those.
05:14My phone is chock full.
05:15Look at the shadows on this doorway.
05:17He sent us a picture of an air conditioner.
05:19Well, that's different.
05:20Well, no, that was because of the Daikin, but honestly, like I, I, my phone is chock full
05:25of useless photos.
05:27He gets the shadows just right and take a picture of the cobblestone streets.
05:31Yeah.
05:31Yeah.
05:31That's a, that guy.
05:32That's a guy.
05:33You're like, this is phenomenal.
05:34Yes.
05:34You don't see stuff like that.
05:36Oh, speaking of which, um, have you mentioned to anybody or talked about how Europe changed
05:42you?
05:42Oh no.
05:44I think you guys know I'm not that guy.
05:46Well, I've even said you look at life different now.
05:48That's what I'll say.
05:49Like one thing I've said about people and about, you know, traveling in Europe, you learn
05:53they know how to live there.
05:54That's something I always say.
05:56And, and maybe that can be perceived the same way.
05:59Yeah.
05:59So they do know how to live in Europe.
06:01They really do.
06:01Like one thing that is very evident when you go is that, hey man, you, you have dinner
06:06and you're waiting for your check.
06:08Just wait.
06:08Yeah.
06:08Like they'll get around to it.
06:10There is no urgency on bringing you the check and getting you this money, like getting
06:13this money.
06:13They're like, chill.
06:14And you just have to deal with it.
06:16So that was interesting.
06:17The thing that I did say was it did just going experience.
06:20This is my first, I guess not first full international.
06:23Well, yeah.
06:23First, like big, big international.
06:25Yeah.
06:25Cause I've done like a cruise and stopped in places, but that feels a little different.
06:29And I was like, yeah, I got to expand my horizons.
06:31That's, that was the thing.
06:32So if, if that counts as I've changed, yeah.
06:34Then I would say.
06:35Yeah.
06:36Once you go once you, you always immediately want to go again.
06:38Um, here's one, uh, have you, well, actually you, you, you kind of did earlier.
06:45Have you used any Italian words, air quotes by accident?
06:49Yes.
06:50Yeah.
06:51I have been fighting for my life over the last three days to not, whenever I like get
06:56food or something to not say grazie.
06:58Oh, I'm sorry.
06:58I just got back from Italy.
07:00I'm used to saying grazie.
07:02Which is funny.
07:03Cause while I was in Italy, I was pure American tourist.
07:06Like I did not do enough of the learning of like the basic, uh, you know, greetings and
07:10such.
07:11And so there was a lot of, you know, how like Americans will do that where we just kind
07:16of like smile and nod and just, they'll figure out what I mean.
07:19I do that to my cleaning lady.
07:21Don't know English and she's Spanish.
07:23And so the one that I knew I could do really well, I got you on the gracie.
07:27I got you on that one.
07:28And so that one stuck.
07:29And then I got back and I'm, I'm hopping in, uh, I'm hopping in an Uber, right?
07:33In San Antonio, Texas.
07:35And I'm, I'm about to, uh, grazie.
07:36Oh, dang it.
07:37Dang it.
07:38I just came back from Italy.
07:40Sorry.
07:40Oh, I'm sorry.
07:41Yeah.
07:41That's a force of habit.
07:42I spent some time in Italy.
07:43All right, ciao.
07:45Um, have you, have you talked about how you miss walking everywhere?
07:51I mean, I have not talked about how I miss walking, but while I was there, I was like,
07:55yeah, we don't get, we don't get a chance to do this as much.
07:57It is pretty cool.
07:59It is very cool.
08:00And I was helped out by, and I was listening yesterday when, uh, Luke was talking about
08:04the fact that the world cup, uh, adjustments that were happening downtown.
08:08Yeah.
08:08How like, it's kind of crazy how Houston is neither walkable nor drivable.
08:12Yeah.
08:13And I was like, I, that was one of those.
08:15I gave him a, yeah, he's, he's not wrong.
08:19Uh, so what, what was, uh, what was the best part?
08:23Oh man.
08:24Um, there's a lot of best parts, which again, sounding like that guy.
08:28Um, if the best food that I had, oddly enough was a croissant that I had in the, in the
08:34bed
08:34and breakfast that I had in the Tuscan countryside, why don't you go over there and get one book
08:39your flight.
08:39I'll be back.
08:40I'm headed out.
08:41I'll catch y'all next week.
08:42No.
08:43Um, there was a lot.
08:44I mean, it's just the vistas.
08:45Everything is picturesque and all of the pictures that I've taken.
08:48And some of them that I posted, none of them do them just do justice.
08:52Oh, there you go.
08:52There's one.
08:53There's one right there.
08:54He just did one.
08:56What do you want me to lie?
08:57You want me to lie?
08:58None of them do justice.
08:59Oh, here's a picture of, uh, the blah, blah, blah, but, uh, uh, it just doesn't do it justice.
09:04Oh, I forgot one.
09:05Um, did you go to a museum and spend too much time there because you felt like you needed to
09:11because you really had to appreciate the art?
09:14Yes, but that's me at museums anyways.
09:16Yeah, you are kind of a museum guy.
09:18So, but yes, yes, I did.
09:19A lot of people just like stare at a painting, not knowing what the hell they're looking
09:22at, but they're acting as if like, oh, look at the, you know, the-
09:25Acting like you reading that long ass paragraph right there.
09:28I think what he's really trying to say here is blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
09:31You want to know how-
09:31Hmm, 1596.
09:33Oh, that's the year.
09:34You want to know how much I am that guy?
09:36I have pictures of just the plaques so that I can like, have the context.
09:39Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
09:41All, all, all the way.
09:42I got one.
09:43Do you think Reggie, um, going forward, uh, um, just in a regular conversation,
09:48you're like, oh, yeah, when I was in Italy.
09:50Oh, yeah.
09:50Oh, yeah.
09:51My mother-in-law, God bless my mother-in-law.
09:54She went to Africa.
09:55I want to say a couple of years ago, every single talking point.
09:59Oh, yeah.
09:59When I was in Africa.
10:01Oh, yeah, they got this nice little thing in Africa.
10:04You could be sitting there talking about-
10:06McDonald's.
10:07Yeah, McDonald's.
10:08Oh, in Africa, they're McDonald's.
10:11There were two McDonald's on either side of the Pantheon when I went there,
10:14and I was like, word two?
10:16Did you have any American food there?
10:18Fast food?
10:19Yeah, good for you.
10:19I'm like, look, man.
10:20Hey, come on.
10:21You get that.
10:22You got American food at home.
10:23I got it.
10:24The crib, man.
10:24We're not doing that.
10:25You know, one of the best things about there, and this is me sounding like
10:27that now, though, and I'm sure you'll agree, is like, it's great to go to
10:31their awesome restaurants and have, you know, whatever, but the street food,
10:35just getting a quick croissant with ham and cheese is like, this is the best
10:39ham and cheese I've ever had in my life.
10:41It really is.
10:41The good part is that you don't have to plan, especially in Rome particularly,
10:44but a lot of places, you don't have to plan where you want to eat.
10:46You can, or you just pop in anywhere, and you can usually get a pretty good
10:50bite.
10:50But, yeah, it was a fun time from the 832 on the text line.
10:54How did people react when you said you were from Texas?
10:56Lit up.
10:57Oh, yeah?
10:57Lit up.
10:58Like, obviously, there's a certain level.
11:00They know what America is, but, you know, some people, like I have a friend who is
11:03from Louisiana and lives in Dallas.
11:08And so, like, hey, where are you from?
11:10Texas.
11:11Oh, Texas.
11:12Like, you ain't going to say Lafayette.
11:14You don't know what Lafayette is.
11:15Everybody knows Texas.
11:16There was a circumstance because there was a lot of people from Chicago on this
11:19trip that were like, from Chicago.
11:21Texas.
11:21Hey, Texas.
11:22Yeah, yeah, yeah.
11:23We big.
11:24We big in Italy.
11:25And the Italian women?
11:29Gorgeous, but more often than not looked really young, which made me feel, I was like, okay,
11:33I'm getting older because I was like, why does she look 12?
11:36That's uncomfortable.
11:37Yeah.
11:38So, yeah, it was a fun time, and I will offer you guys this.
11:41You ready?
11:42I have a story that reflects poorly on myself that if at any point, actually, I have two,
11:48but one of them I'm actually willing to tell, I might give you the second one.
11:52At any time, if you want me to tell this story, you guys have a free reign to force Reggie
11:58to tell the story.
11:58I'm putting it in my notes right now.
12:00Hey, we can talk about this story in the midst of this one.
12:03I'll clear it out for you.
12:05This is my gift to you.
12:06I have one that makes me look pretty bad here, so I'll throw that one up there.
12:11But a good time, and again, real big thanks to Luke Morrow for sitting in for me for the time
12:15being.
12:15Who's Italian, by the way.
12:16He is Italian.
12:16That's irony.
12:17Yes, yes it is.
12:18Yes it is.
12:19I went to his motherland, and I defiled it.
12:21He's going to Nigeria next week.
12:24As payback.
12:26I would absolutely love that.
12:27Just a spike trip to Legos.
12:30When I was in Nigeria.
12:32That's funny.
12:32All right.
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