This is Adam Manus.

And I'm Peter Martin.

And you're listening to the You'll Hear a podcast.

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Today we're going to do part two of our funny worst gig stories from the road. Well, they didn't start out from the road, but they went to the road. Yeah, now I'd like to reiterate that we should do this anonymously. I firmly believe in that we're going to get in trouble. We are. I'm just saying. We are. This is totally anonymous. So let me tell you about my Jane Monheist.

Okay, so you finished yesterday, and I would just say normally you can pick this podcast up any day. We do it every day. Quality level, variable from low to average.

But in this case, I'm going to say, you know, jump back to yesterday. If you miss part... Oh, well, we finished in Italy, so Uno. El Parto Uno, then you might want to check that one out. Wait, isn't it Un Cafe, though? Uncafe, duet. Duet. Dupeo. I never bothered to learn. Yeah, well. So we finished in Italy, Southern Italy, and that was a beautiful story you told.

Thank you.

Yesterday.

And that reminded me of one of my favorite road stories, kind of funny giggling stories from Sicily, which coincidentally was the same agent as I believe your story.

I'm not sure.

The way you describe it, I don't want to name names,

but it seems similar to me. There's so many stories from this agent. So many stories from this gentleman,

air quotes over gentlemen. But we, uh, I did a gig with Christian McBride in his inside straight group.

This was actually years ago. I think it was our first European tour. And we started in Sicily, in Palermo,

which is a great place to start. It's awesome. The way we did it, though, we were kind of like flying in from New York, arriving in the afternoon with a gig that night. So it was a little bit

hectic. And I think we got to Rome and we're transferring, you know, flying like New York to Rome, and we're going to transfer Rome to Palermo. And, you know, the way the lines are, when you have to transfer terminals got a little funky. And I sort of butted the line and McBride and the rest of the group are like, I can't believe you're being such an ugly American budding up to the front. I'm like, we're not going to make it otherwise.

So they're all sneering at me.

So I'm the only one who makes the connection to play.

I'm trying to get the plane to wait.

No, the other guys are coming.

They wouldn't wait. They won't do it.

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