Josh and Franco

The Europeans | European news, politics and culture

Katy Lee and Dominic Kraemer

Society & Culture, News, Politics

4.8 • 162 Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

We have a very special episode for you this week. From the south of Italy, a father and son's coming of age stories, told in parallel. This is the first episode of our series This Is What A Generation Sounds Like: intimate stories from across the continent, as told by the young Europeans experiencing them. This series is produced with Are We Europe and made in cooperation with Allianz Kulturstiftung, an independent not-for-profit cultural foundation committed to strengthening cohesion in Europe using the tools of art and culture. Find out more at kulturstiftung.allianz.de. Producers: Katz Laszlo and Josh Prezioso Editorial support: Dominic Kraemer, Katy Lee, Andrei Popoviciu and Priyanka Shankar Music: Tarantella del Gargano by Marco Beasley & represented by Out Here Music; Italian Opera by UV Protection; Andante (Italian Concerto) written by Bach and performed by Catrina Finch; Amore Mio by Mina with Warner Music Italy; Tomb by Veshza; La Luna E Fisarmonica by Ziv Moran; Disco Ball by Evgeny Barduzha, and Jim Barne. Additional music from Blue Dot Sessions: Kilkerrin by Scalcairn; Sylvestor by One Such Village; Angel Academy by Marc Oakley; Toby or not Toby by Mark Oakley. SFX from Freesounds.org: Wescwave; GeorgeHopkins; suonidigallipoli; samararaine; cmusounddesign; suonidibologna; wolkenunddreck; ancorapazzo; soundforest. Thanks for listening! If you enjoy our podcast and would like to help us keep making it, we'd love it if you'd consider chipping in a few euros / dollars / pounds a month at patreon.com/europeanspodcast. You can also help new listeners find the show by leaving us a review. This podcast is part of the Are We Europe family. Find more like-minded European podcasts at areweeurope.com/audio-family. Twitter | Instagram | Facebook | hello@europeanspodcast.com

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0:00.0	Hello, listeners.
0:11.0	Hello listeners. Today we're doing something a little bit different, but I promise you're going to want to stick around because it is something really quite special. This is the first episode in an occasional new series that you're going to be hearing over the next year or so. It's called This is what a Generation sounds like and we are very, very excited about it. These episodes are
0:42.4	personal stories from young Europeans tackling a broad range of issues that affect young people
0:48.3	across our continent. We're making them in cooperation with Alliant's Culture Stifting, an independent not-for-profit cultural foundation,
0:57.2	committed to strengthening cohesion in Europe using the tools of art and culture.
1:02.6	Josh and his father Franco wrote to us from deep in the south of Italy.
1:06.6	Josh is a professor of many things, and his father Franco is a restaurant owner and an entrepreneur.
1:12.2	It's a coming of age story.
1:13.7	It's two coming of age stories, actually, at very different stages of Josh and Franco's lives.
1:18.4	And we're handing the microphone over to them this week.
1:22.2	This story was co-produced by our producer Katzlaslo and Josh Precioso.
1:27.8	And this episode is probably one not to listen to with the kids
1:30.5	because there's a bit of sexual content and strong language.
1:38.5	Hey Daddy.
1:40.2	Hi, love.
1:41.7	So here we are.
1:43.2	How do you feel?
1:46.0	Honestly, I've been nervous. I feel you. So, um, let me to the talking then, okay?
1:50.0	Go ahead, my son.
1:51.0	Introductions first. I'm Josh and this is my dad Franco over the phone.
1:56.0	I'm honestly reading some notes because I'm quite nervous too.
2:01.6	So, so far we've introduced ourselves as a traditional dad and son duo.
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