430 Being Sicilian; Geography of Genius; Tokyo 2016
Travel with Rick Steves
Rick Steves
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🗓️ 9 January 2016
⏱️ 52 minutes
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A pair of native-born Sicilian tour guides tell us what matters most about the "intensified Italy" of the island they call home. Then Eric Weiner, author of Geography of Genius, poses a theory about the places that have fostered world-changing innovation, from ancient Athens to today's Silicon Valley. And a journalist from Tokyo updates us on Japan's recession, and tells us what the Japanese are looking forward to in 2016.
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| 0:00.0 | Is it in the water? |
| 0:02.0 | Eric Weiner contends that some places are just breeding grounds for innovation, |
| 0:06.0 | but the reason seem to differ through the ages. |
| 0:09.0 | A dirty little secret about Florentine genius is that it involved money, |
| 0:12.0 | and we don't normally think of money |
| 0:14.0 | and geniuses having that much in common but they do. |
| 0:17.5 | Coming up we'll explore the geography of genius. |
| 0:20.6 | A friend in Tokyo tells us how Japan is coping with its recession. |
| 0:24.0 | Despite all that Prime Minister Abbe has been doing with his so-called Abenomics program, |
| 0:29.0 | devaluing the yen, trying to open up Japan to more foreign investment it just doesn't seem to be |
| 0:35.1 | working and guides from Sicily explain the high-spirited ways they celebrate |
| 0:39.2 | being Sicilian including the remarkable treats they enjoy on the Feast of St Agata. |
| 0:44.4 | It is a super sweet candy made with ricotta cheese, and it comes in a shape of the brace of Saint-Tagata. |
| 0:54.6 | It's all just ahead on today's travel with Rick Steves. |
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| 1:25.0 | Well, they just can't seem to quite shake off their recession. |
| 1:28.0 | Tokyo is hoping that playing host to the Olympics four years from now will stir up their economy. |
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