Daily Breakfast 473 - Running in Rome
Join me and communications professor Marc Carroggio for an early morning run in this extra long episode of the Daily Breakfast. We will climb the Spanish Steps and run through the gardens of Villa Borghese while talking about life and study in Rome.Links:
- More information on the Spanish Steps and the Gardens of Villa Borghese
- 6th Professional Seminar for Church Communications Offices
- Catholic New Media Celebration
New listener — very new. I loved this run! I am so jealous and now I want to go running through Rome!! And I’m not even a runner!!
Congrats on 4 miles : )
Adrianne
PS: I also want ice cream …
What a great run Fr. Roderick! Professor Marc was a great guide on the way! It was in the early 70’s when I visited Rome with my social worker co-workers and friends and this podcast brought back so many memories. We were young and were running too…but usually to get away from the Roman young men eager to embrace us girls! (Really, in those days, and probably now also, they were very sweet, friendly and harmless.) Did you notice that at the end of the run you were not out of breath when closing the show? So you must be in good shape! Keep it up!
Fr,
Just noticed that for last 2 shows the mp3 tag for “artist” is coming as david at sqpn.com instead of Fr Roderick, what confuses the playslist and the itunes library.
Can you fix this?
Thanks
Hi father.. Im impress u can tolk and run!! Im from Latin America (Guatemala) and is exelent idea can do a SQPN spanish!! Think about it! may be not now because I know u have many things to do (Indiana Jons for example…) but think about it. Remember what Jhon P II say: Latin America is the Hope of Catholic Church, we still love have kids our media is 3.5 per family… Kids are the future of the church,And Latin people is so religius, you know that.
God Bless and Bless all you do.
Tell me, when u will answer me about I write? he he he MY LENGUAJE IS SPANISH! and my english drive me crazy! hhehe
Tks For all Father!!
Our Blesed Virgin care for you and Bless you!!
-maria-
whew, I’m worn out from all of that running! Just kidding - I loved this episode and was so impressed by Professor Marc. Thank you so much for bringing us along on your journey! Safe travels, Lisa
Here is something interesting from ‘The Wayback Machine’-
The Dutch Were Smart About Bikes in 1928
Eighty years ago the Dutch were building a proper infrastructure for bikes, separating the lanes and making it a safe place to ride. We just built highways and pulled up rail lines. No wonder things turned out the way they did - Modern Mechanix(nov. 1928):
“AUTOMOBILES NOT POPULAR IN HOLLAND
There is a bicycle to every 2-1/2 inhabitants in Holland, but automobiles have failed to win great popularity in the low country. Holland is a country without hills, and the popularity of the bicycle is attributed to this fact. Separate bicycle roads running parallel to the regular highways are provided by the authorities.”:
http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/04/28/automobiles-not-popular-in-holland/
Story with comments here:
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/04/dutch-loved-bikes-in-1928.php
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I would love to run the Spanish Steps. Beats regular old stadium stair running.
Great podcast! Professor Marc should not worry about his English-he speaks very well and it was enjoyable to hear him talk with you about the various parts of the city where you were running as well as his experiences teaching and with communications.
I believe the movie you were thinking of is “Three Coins in the Fountain”, which seemed to start everyone throwing the coins in. There was also a song that went “Three coins in the fountain, which wish will come true?”
Thanks for including us in your trip to Rome with the podcasts!
Bonita
Hi Fr Roderick,
I love this episode, it brought back memories of the wonderful time we had in Rome last year. Prof. Marc is very impressive, an excellent guide indeed.
Thank you for your podcasts. We enjoy listening to them here in Sydney, Australia.
God bless.
Geek request… Father, your “remotes” always sound so good and balanced. I’m wondering what kind of settings you use on your Zoom H2. Do you use auto gain control? Do you set the mic gain to high? You never hear your hand on the machine. Do you use the mic stand holder to hand hold it? If you manually set your record level, where do you start?
Do you use the windscreen? I never hear wind noises or popping. Not everyone knows how to talk “over” the microphone to avoid the “P” popping.
I’d appreciate some help since I never seem to get my settings correct.
Hi Father,
It’s a joy to hear you podcasting from Rome. I was in Rome in March and the show took me back there. Thank you for your traveling shows. They are great. Before traveling to Rome I listened to all your “Rome” shows and I was glad to discover Soprani (religious store with great prices).
Regards,
Lourdes from NY, USA
I’ve tried many times to post a comment to this particular podcast and it keeps disappearing. When I try to repost, Wordpress tells me I am duplicating my comment. If perhaps overnight, the cyberland finds and posts about 6 - 10 duped posts…. forgive me and please delete the extras… I had no trouble posting on the Breakfast with the Pope pod cast.
Peace
Jan SFO :)>+
See you at the Catholic New Media Celebration
Fayetteville, GA
I was sitting at my desk working while listening to this. You exhausted me! Whew…. It was hard enough the couple times I’ve walked up the Spanish Steps. On my last trip, I visited the Villa Borghese museum. It is incredible — yes — jam packed in every room with fantastic pieces.
Here is my favorite gelateria in Rome. It is Giolitti. The one I went to was on via Uffici del Vicario. I also had very good gelato at a place in Assisi by Santa Chiara.
http://www.giolitti.it/english/home.html
See you at the Catholic New Media Conference. The convention center is near my home and I’ll be at the Eucharistic Congress on Friday night and Saturday.
Peace
Jan SFO :)>+
Fayetteville, GA
Finally — my post worked
Off to bed now — it is 12:38A here in Georgia.
@Michael: For outside recording, I always use the windcap; mic gain on high; set it to surround on 2 channels; monitor the recording with headphones (which I didn’t have, hence the overmodulation at some points; keep the H2 at about 20 cm. from your face to avoid overmodulating and popping. Point the microphone in the direction of interesting sounds, but don’t speak when you do that, otherwise the audience gets disoriented. Hold the microphone in your left hand, so you can use your right hand to open doors, gates, etc. Hold it as if you are holding an Italian Ice Cream, and never reposition the microphone in your hand while you are recording, otherwise you might hear it.
@ St Francis Girl: if your post doesn’t appear, it’s caught by the spam filter and has to be manually authorized. If you try to repost the message over and over, the system will think you are a spam robot (because that is what spam robots do), and your other posts are labeled as spam as well.
So if your post doesn’t appear immediately, have patience. Usually it gets ‘unspammed’ the next day.
Thank you for taking the time to reply, especially with your busy schedule. I appreciate it very much!!
I really enjoyed listening to your run around Rome. Coincidentally I was listening to the podcast while on a ‘powerwalk’. I did nearly 4 km to your 4 miles! I think your running made me up my pace!
Fr,
I loved this podcast! I traveled to Rome with my family about ten years ago, and this brought back some very pleasant memories! We stayed in the very area that you ran!! I want to return!
Hey Father! Loved this one. I would agree with the priest your wrote with when he said your English is great. I listened to the podcast for two months before I realized that you weren’t an American living in the Netherlands, but were actually Dutch! You have a great lexicon and great pronunciation.
I disagree with that priest about his English being poor, though. I think it is just impressive how many languages many priests seem to have a firm knowledge of. It has inspired me to dive back into a subject I studied in high school, but have since abandoned- spanish! Thanks for the inspiration. God Bless!