[ singing godfather theme ] anthony imagine that waking up every day. As one bus after another filled with japanese tourists go up there. Oh look, michael corleone got married there. Oh, its so fantastic [ laughter ] i took a walk through this beautiful world felt the cool rain on my shoulder found something good in this beautiful world i felt the rain getting colder sha, la, la, la, la, la, sha, la, la, la, la, la, sha, la, la, la, la, la, sha, la, la, la, la anthony its one of the most beautiful places in europe. A place whose roots are very much the roots of the town where i live. But somehow ive never been able to get it right. To tell the story, any story, of sicily. Its the biggest island in the mediterranean. Two main towns are palermo and catania on opposite sides. Ive done a show in palermo before. It was an epic goat rodeo. A failure of humiliating scale. This time i was gonna get it right. Theres the sicily we know from films. An evocative, deeply felt history thats not quit
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the mafia has decided that it isn t worthwhile bothering with the people who belong to addio pizzo. there s so many others out there, and why look for trouble? how true it is? i don t know. anthony: right. mary: to belong to addio pizzo, you have to sign a pledge that you will not pay and that if you are approached, you will go to the police. anthony: right. mary: then they send you to lawyers and to another organization, which deals with other people who are actually having trouble. it s incredibly complicated. there are no easy answers. what about big farm? what about some of the some of the things that are happening on a much more legitimate level. anthony: i mean, who s more destructive worldwide? i mean, yes, you could make a very good argument. mary: that s horrible. anthony: right. mary: i m upset because i m sounding as if i m making apologies for the mafia. it s just i think, what has happened that having lived 50 years in sicily, i m much more skeptical than
apparently, 80% of the businesses in palermo, and 70% in the rest of italy that pay extortion. anthony: that s a lot. mary: that s a lot, that s a lot. anthony: but not everybody pays the bite. a small but growing coalition of businesses have joined a group called addio pizzo, a grassroots organization taking a stand against the mafia s traditional, near total control over the food chain, from farm to table. i come out of the restaurant business in new york. you got taxed with every laundry order, every time they took your trash away. it was built in mary: yeah. anthony: to all your basic services. mary: here it s much more of the the going around christmas and easter. anthony: guy comes by. mary: the guy comes by. i mean, it s plain and simple extortion. anthony: given that that s a pretty straightforward situation, some of these guys who banded together for addio pizzo, i mean, what happens, the guy shows up and says, i m not paying you. what happens next?
anthony: but not everybody pays the bite. a small but growing coalition of businesses have joined a group called addio pizzo, a grassroots organization taking a stand against the mafia s traditional, near total control over the food chain, from farm to table. i come out of the restaurant business in new york. you got taxed with every laundry order, every time they took your trash away. it was built in mary: yeah. anthony: to all your basic services. mary: here it s much more of the the going around christmas and easter. anthony: guy comes by. mary: the guy comes by. i mean, it s plain and simple extortion. anthony: given that that s a pretty straightforward situation, some of these guys who banded together for addio pizzo, i mean, what happens, the guy shows up and says, i m not paying you. what happens next? mary: well, apparently, now the mafia has decided that it isn t worthwhile bothering with the people who belong to addio pizzo. there s so many others out
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