It was in December 2023 when Ítalo Fideli, a businessman from Concepción, was at the Santiago airport to receive his sonwho arrived from an international flight.
According to his account, There were reporters from several TV channels at the scene. televisionwho were making notes about the trips end of the year.
One of the media that appeared at the airport was Chilevisiónspecifically the morning With you in the morning.
And when Fideli recognized journalist Daniela Muñoz’s microphone, he immediately knew that He was faced with an opportunity to interact – through transmission – with a friend he has had for more than 40 years: Julio César Rodríguez.
While the JC was at the canal and he at the airport, They threw a series of carvings in front of the cameras, which led to them being on air for about an hour.
“It was nice and from there a lot of people started telling us that we should do a program together,” Fideli tells La Cuarta..
Months after that comical moment, Julio César and Ítalo They decided to release a program that can be seen on YouTube from this Wednesday 19th of June.
They call him We are or we are not friends and the first chapter is now available on the Yuly channel (@somosyuly).
In conversation with this medium, Fideli delves into what this instance of conversation will be like that promises to generate laughter and tells details about what their intimate friendship has been like. over the years.
What will be the dynamics of We are or we are not friends? Will they only tell their experiences or will they also have guests?
—First of all, I’m not involved in any of these communications issues. I have a construction company, I am from Concepción. In fact, she traveled to record and the whole thing.
The theme of We are or we are not friendsfundamentally, It is a conversation about stories that have happened to us together, that have happened to Julius Caesar, that he does not like to tell and that we are going to take them to the nice that they were.
In itself it is a relaxed program. We are going to try to talk about current events, but bring it to the common topic of those who are in the house and who would like to give their opinion. or say things.
Aside from the fact that I’m very foul-mouthed and the whole thing, I like everything to take it to size, to double meanings, to humor.
We are going to make a nice program, where people can laugh, enjoy the nonsense that one talks. We are going to talk and have guests.
Within that, There is also a project we are doing. We are already remodeling a pub in Concepción that is going to be called “We are or we are not”which will be inaugurated in two more months, God willing.
It is a project that we take hand in hand to do live programs and the idea is to bring guests and everything in the future.
The friendship they have has lasted for more than 40 years, since they met at school…
—We have known each other since elementary school and we have always maintained a friendship, but this strengthened more when we were adults. and we began to share with families.
We also had a lot of experiences there, so We have many stories to tell, of funny situations and anecdotes.
It’s been many years, there are codes of vision (…) we know each other very well.
And were they always good for size or did that develop over the years?
—We always were. He tells me that I am very quick to get the sizes and double meanings. Him too. We both have the spark.
He has a lot of faith in the program. He told me that she listened to it and reviewed it before today’s release and that He laughed again at the stupid things we talked about.
For me, at 55 years old, to live an experience like this, since I have nothing to do (with the programs) It’s like a reactivation of energy.
By making people laugh and enjoy it, I feel more than paid for what we are doing. with Julius Caesar.
Many people tend to distance themselves from the friends they had at school after leaving fourth grade. How have you managed to maintain your bond?
—Well, we We established ourselves after each one began his studies and did what he had to do.
We both come from very sacrificed and humble families, each one tried to forge their destiny. I was in Concepción and he came to Santiago.
Later, as fate would have it, we started communicating. We were at the first school meeting and we went telling the stories.
Then we started getting together in Santiago again, to reactivate everything, and We have had enough years of communicating practically every day, worrying about each other, in good times and bad..
This man is very workaholic, so suddenly Conce is taken to relax.
Regarding the question, I believe that a lot goes into respecting friendship and loving your friend as such.with the defects and things that may be present.
Friendship is about taking care of each other, loving each other and carrying the cart with two oxen. This makes loading easier. And it has worked for us.
Many people tell us that We have a chemistry and we get along very well. Even yesterday in a Zona Latina program, they told us that they see that I break the scheme to Julius Caesar…
Could you tell us an anecdote that you both had as students or as a teenager?
—We had to live a very complex story with this man, who since he was a child was very in love and that has not changed..
He fell in love with a school teacher who was young and was doing her internship..
In a folk club I found him in a room (…) he hid this from me. He achieved his goal, because he was very attentive. That meant something to us that makes us laugh to this day.
Later there were several changes due to this issue. It is a situation that I will tell you in very summary, the event was with more development, because Many things happened to discover them.
