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we are in Paris, and the plan is fluid. There are flights that are booked, certainly not hotels. The plan is Paris for a day, and then make my way to the Normandy section, starting in Deville, and then work my way west a little bit, and then I have a flight scheduled to Stockholm, and then on the way back from Stockholm, stopping Amsterdam, I've been to Amsterdam once before it was on a high school trip to Germany,

where we flew into Amsterdam, and then we had this like long weird layover. I think because the adults, they were shappering us on the trip. Again, it was a singing thing, I've told the story before, but sort of absurd, but they wanted to see the tulips huge part. You want to talk about the price of pelts globally, the price of tulips, that market didn't last, but that's a different lesson.

“But the parents, the adults, they really wanted to see the tulips, and I'll just never forget”

us being exhausted, teenagers, you know, jet lagged, first time ever. I think it was the first time I'd ever been on a plane other than for basketball, games, and then tuck it. And we went to Amsterdam, and we were asleep on the bus, and we were getting like yelled at, not appreciating it enough, and like fucking, you don't want to look at this stuff. However, some of the dudes, when they got to Amsterdam, were fired up to try the hash brownies, and I was just not my speed then or now,

but we were basically unleashed on the city for a few hours. And if you want to talk about

the face of some dudes experiencing things, they've never experienced before. That was a lot of the

kids in the vineyard went pretty hard. There's smart kids too, but they're just immediately inhaling hash brownies, and I think we looked at the hookers through the windows. And that was, that was, it for Amsterdam, and then we were off to Germany. So yeah, the plan is likely going to change, but that's kind of what is on the dock it now for maybe a couple of weeks here. So we'll see. I, um, the flight over just to fully capture everything, watch the Michael Jackson biopic. These

music biopics do not do it for me. I know they've been really popular, where it's like one works,

And I know, I say that if somebody but like if you're of a certain age, that is, he was at one

point. It felt like the most important person on the planet. He was probably at one point the most

famous person on the planet. So I was a little interested because I grew up. I'm a thriller kid. I fathered in let us have cable, I think until we were 13. And I think that was really because he wanted to watch the Biggie's games on Monday, which is sick of not watching him. So prior to that, you know, if you were over your friend's house when thriller came on, it was like, you know, what'd you do this week? It's been an unbelievable week. I saw thriller twice.

Because how big that video was. And I would say, you know, I love off the wall, still did this day. And I'd say there's a couple tracks that you almost are like, man, I didn't realize how much I love this song. So I think the music in the movie is really good.

“I think the casting is really good. I think that's what a nephew of Michael Jackson that plays”

him. He's terrific. The father's terrific. Miles Taylor's hair is terrific. I would tell Miles Taylor to maybe just bring that look back and stay with it the entire time, although casting him.

Like that with that hair may limit some of his roles, but he's always, he's always fun to see

in a movie. But I did turn it off when bubbles the CGI monkey showed up in the movie. I was like, I don't, I don't want to watch this. And then I was like, what are you going to do? It's flights 11 hours LAX direct to Paris. So he might as well just ride it out. So I finished the movie. And, you know, whatever those movies that's fine, I also watched is this thing on with Will Arnett, which I like that those movies are made.

I thought he was great in it. His triceps are incredible in it. He has one scene where his mom first shows up in the movie and he's leaning against a counter in the kitchen, talking to his

“kids about like being separated and his tricep is just absolutely unfire. Honestly, his arms look”

so good. I don't think any wife would ever divorce a guy like that. And normally I don't like watching movies or shows about divorce. I probably think about divorce more than somebody who's not married, which is its own topic. But normally I don't like sitting and hanging out watching a divorce couple or about to be divorced couple for two hours. But I did like that movie and I think Cooper's Bradley Cooper's character. I think his name is Balls. He must have just had a blast playing

that character writing it and then directing it as the kind of wayward friend who's high all the time. But it's just a good movie. I enjoyed it. So if I slept 45 minutes on the plane, which is

pretty standard for me, I just don't sleep on planes. Okay. My history with the French. I've never

been to Paris before, which I know is probably surprising to some usually you just know my deal where's the ocean if I'm going to go somewhere and with no ocean. That's usually not going to do it for me. I did study it for seven years. I was okay at speaking. Passable if I had to on trips to Montreal. I could say I needed to say to make my point. I wasn't as great at listening,

“which I think there probably be a few people close to me that would say your English is a lot”

like your French then, as well. I do remember this story which I'll share with you. In high school, again, Martha's Vineyard's High School was a different experience. I got there at the beginning of my sophomore year. We had this awesome French teacher. She was great and we were not a superlocked in group, even though I would say the room was generally on the smarter side. And she wasn't super tough on us. And I do think there was something too. If you think about like the early 90s and think about

some of the teachers that would have come over from the mainland, maybe in the 70s, decided I'm going to live on Martha's Vineyard year round and be a high school teacher. That's just a different, you're very specific type of person to do that. And most of our teachers are terrific and like anything, there are some teachers that are bad. We have one teacher that I'll never forget that always was trying to like tell us who to tell our parents to vote for. It would

turn into like propaganda season if you had him at the wrong time of the year of the voting cycle, which was always a little annoying when you're a bunch of kids going like hey can you give us homework so we can do stuff as opposed to this. Though we had this French teacher and then I think our junior year there was this exchange program where she got to go teach English in France and then switch houses with a French teacher who would then come over and teach us French for the year.

And our French teacher that we had in this exchange was just right at a central casting, a little petite French woman from the countryside, you know, tightly cropped, curly black hair, super intense, told us like day one, we're going to be just speaking French in the room and I was like yeah, actually we're not that good. So that's not really going to work out. And then it kind of turned into like substitute teacher mode except for the entire year for her. So she was definitely

consistently telling us how bad we were French and how let down she was because I think, you know,

said that I had taken it for seven years. I was all said and done. And so I'll never forget like

she didn't, she didn't smell great. Okay. And I think the principal or the assistant principal had to address our classroom to suggest like hey different cultures, prioritize different things, and he kind of is beating around the bush until he finally said like and some of that comes

“down to like hygiene. So I'll just never forget her principal basically saying, hey we know she smells”

and you guys know she smells and she might even know that she smells but can you just back off? I this is kind of sad but I think by the end of it she'd almost like had a nervous breakdown with the class. So then our teacher comes back and this is why I can't remember if it's our junior senior because I can't imagine I'd go to a teacher's house after I was done with high school. But she was great. She had us all over and then she just talked about the exchange and how she

loved it and wish she could do it again because she got to live in this like a state in the French countryside which was that teacher's home. And then this woman was thinking she was moving to Martha's vineyard and I guess again the house in she was very self-deprecating about our American French teacher house wasn't that great. So she was like you know we got to live in her like palace and then she like came here and lived in this two bedroom like one story home on Martha's

vineyard because real estate so expensive and I'm a teacher and so it probably wasn't a great trade for her and she was like yeah it was incredible for us it was unbelievable and the other reason

“why I remember my French teacher so much is that her husband I think hated me because I remember”

like that early 20s phase where I'd come home for Christmas and the first thing that I'd want to do was like soup and they'd have this super intense men's league thing and then they have these like non-men's league games from the men's league guys so I would just show up to crash those and just see like because they'd actually be the men's league's games would be on public access I'm Martha's vineyard and everybody would like talk about it so I'd be like I wonder how many points

a game I would get if I played in this men's league so I would come back and there always be like a

handful of us that played that would come back for Christmas and just ruin these pickup games for these guys that were playing in a year round or like hey it's bad enough that we're stuck here year round and then you dickhead show up for like a week and decided to take over and I remember I was going up against this kid who was like the best player from high school who would just graduate and he was really good player and I had a couple of times I had a couple drives on him that I wasn't working

I couldn't get to him but I'm sure I would have figured it out and I don't say that like as an arrogant dick because I remember then her husband was on my team and maybe he was like the point guard when I wasn't there I just didn't care was like bringing the ball up and going and he finally after like two times it was like hey you're gonna do that because you can't fucking beat him and like let me have it and I was like whoa wow like that was pretty aggressive man and he wasn't a very

good player so I didn't really like that and it still bothers me three years later all right so landed the airport and 50 minute taxi to Saint Germain which is where I'm gonna stay some of you a certain age may remember the first Saint Germain CD kind of this techno jazz thing I was usually the new music guy at the bar that I worked at and I think it was actually one of the other guys so that was kind of mind blowing that he was like hey wait until you

hear this and I'm sitting there going like I just got so many marked for you mushroom jazz volumes to throw at you shout out to Danny McBride then somebody else is on the scene with the Saint

“Germain thing that first CD is incredible that's why I always think about this but there was just a”

little on the left side of the send that I wanted to check out so that's where I'm at staying at the hotel, Dame Des Arts about 409 it's pretty boutiquey, room is kind of small that's not really the point I like it seems like everything's good here and you just start walking around these little villages at least in the on the Saint Germain side and granted Paris is massive with all these different neighborhoods that are signed by numbers and that was an old system they've

kept in place for a while I think they changed it like five or six years ago with all different administrations of these specified neighborhoods by number throughout Paris so Paris is massive which has been kind of cool because even though normally when I get to these big European cities this time of year when it feels like the entire world is descending on these cities it doesn't feel as overwhelming so the plan is to be here for a day but certainly it's kind of absurd to

think that I would get to it all in a day or at least what I want to see so immediately get over the Eiffel Tower got to do it get out of the taxi and I don't know what I was expecting but it was kind of like oh yeah there it is I think it's just this idea that it's the Eiffel Tower it's going to cast a shadow over the entire country and that it can't be big enough like as big as it is it can't

be big enough in person with the way that you've thought about it because I'd never I'd landed in

Paris plenty of times and connecting flights but I'd never actually got out in the city so walk over

weights getting the reps in hoping to be discovered something about caricatures in general that I think

“is interesting is because Instagram makes you look better caricatures make you look worse although”

I feel like the artist and I was looking at somebody like okay that's a good looking guy and now he looks terrible in this sketch and then you see somebody was like you sure you want one buddy and then you it would look like the artist would would be building them up so it's just something to think about our caricature artists keeping the people in check that need to be kept in check but then building

up the people that need to win that day I don't know something I've never really thought about

also some of the samplings where you don't have to get one of yourself you can get one of someone else's famous Dale Earnhardt that was available I was thinking about getting it for Kyle's mom but it may be too soon so I'm not sure I also saw believe it or not multiple artists offering up Mr. Bean sketches and you just have to think it wasn't like one guy had it multiple guys had their

“interpretation of Mr. Bean so there's a market there I don't know who that market is”

I don't know who buys that for themselves or buys it hey what's the pairs we've got you this Mr. Bean caricature um I want to frame that one but it must move they must do numbers because it wasn't just like one dude had a Mr. Bean sketch I saw multiple versions of Mr. Bean walk underneath the Eiffel Tower go through security that part of itself free so you can just roll in but to take up the elevator is a ticket and the line was so incredibly long even though I'm

sitting or standing underneath the Eiffel Tower and looking at it like I don't feel like dealing with this right now so over to the Trugodero which was mobbed to be expected yes if you go over there and then you have the Eiffel Tower in the backdrop it is spectacular it's worth all the pictures to go ahead and do it but it's going to be really crowded and probably the most touristy thing that I saw

on the first day which again was totally expected it's not like you expect to go over there and

it's like oh chill no one's here no one else had this idea to go take this picture over by the Eiffel Tower another thing on live violins which I've noticed in my travels I've seen the guys hook up to the electric equipment just go dwayne almond on that fucking thing and belt out these songs

“it is the same song I think this has happened four times and I'm I'm not even worried about”

finding out the song for you because I'm going to figure it out because every time I've seen live violin in some promenade some plaza and some other party Europe I swear to God they're all playing the same song so I don't know if there's some mountain jam violin song that everybody just knows that takes 30 minutes because it seems to be every time I walk past anyone playing the violin publicly it is this like big crescendo song and I know some of you're saying oh you're just

confusing it it's like a bunch of songs is same no it's the same song I have an ear for all right so I'll keep monitoring that I would not go back to the trickadero again one over to the no-chordom cathedral all the people pronounce that differently when they're talking about the football team it still looks like it's being repaired even though it says that the reconstruction of it that started in 19 and it in 24 obviously with the fire but that's right

across the river for more my hotel is so I walk back over there check that out you know it's obviously staggering and beautiful to look at and just all of those buildings on the right side of the river I guess it would be the right bank even though I'm staying on the left bank just they're pristine they're clean there's these promenades all around them I've walked past the Senate and I checked out that area and there's these fountains and everybody's sitting out in these gardens and

they're reading books and they're just taken time grand their rip and cigarettes but like good

for them and it's despite it being torasty and highly populated it never feels like as overwhelming

is other places that they've been in Europe so just love to see people out there reading there's also a fountain in front of the Senate that you can rent a sailboat for 30 minutes for eight euros and look I'll admit I was like hey when are you gonna do this again when are you gonna be Paris with you love boats the availability to rent a little sailboat and run it out there and then I started looking at it I'm like oh these aren't even remote you just throw it in there heavy

ballasts keeps it afloat they catch a little wind and then they cut across the fountain and then you have to go to the other side of the fountain and then turn it around and then of course there was some sort of like power source in the middle of the fountain so like a multiple boats were like over there just stuck and you just kind of have to like wait hoping the wind changes so the boat comes

you just have a stick and then you poke at the boat and then it goes the other way and then you have to walk to the other side of the fountain and I was like I've wasted eight bucks in a worse way but I don't think I'm gonna do that today and then I started watching some kid with um

“I don't know it wasn't from bape it was a different French player for the national team um and belly I think so”

I don't know if that means anything but he took his stick and never used it on the boat there is

these massive fish in the fountain just loving life tons of food in there no one fishing so massive these things were huge and I guess the only downside would be a kid unsupervised with his stick who doesn't care about his sailboat just smashing these fish over the head with the stick and you know you're watching it and you're like all right it's not really my place to say anything so uh made it back to the hotel world cup final spain dominant over Argentina got myself uh nicely windy dish I'm over three on

asking for ice in a glass and getting ice over three on that one may give up uh world cup dinner was fine out of the shoot the meals this is on me I know classic but I just wanted to find a cafe outside TV whole setup cigarette smoke sort of bothered me a little bit um and just glad that

“I wasn't on the air for or even just consuming any of the is messy actually good content that would”

happen to an NBA player after a final loss so that's part one for you part two still in Paris uh absurd absurd idea that I was just going to do Paris for a day and then make it to the coast uh I love Paris I'm a huge fan and I know look I knew it was ridiculous to go you're going to go there for a day and I didn't think of clearly I mean I'm not going to get to it all in the limited amount of time it just normally the big cities don't want to be there but

Paris uh it's just this felt different than some of the other cities that I've been to and again I

don't know if it's because it's so big that it never feels quite as overwhelming

and that there's a million little side streets uh in the area that I'm at where you're just walking and walking and exploring and it never feels like you're tired you just want to keep seeing more more of it so uh decided to extend another day even though I did the early check-in thing because when I got to Paris it was like that was at the hotel at 11 a.m. and I actually paid for the room the night before to finally do that because I was like you know if you show up and it's one of

these joints it's like hey the rooms not going to be ready until four o'clock you're going to be super annoyed so um budget-wise not my favorite thing to do but whatever all right um what else do we have here looking at the notes um yeah so extended here made it over the with gym did legs what do I do thanks for asking what I do doing a lot of dynamic stuff in the beginning to really mess up the nervous system once I started with this trainer so we started with a 45-pound plate

that you slide between your legs for 30 seconds back and forth working on that growing to get the kicks a little stronger then right into a plank with the 45-pound plate on your back plank for a minute and then right into box squats granted if I had a trainer I would have done a lot heavier weights I did kind of a goblet kettlebell thing box squat um and then right into lunges with I would say 25-3-pound dumbbells in each hand 12 on each side and then you just do it all over

again and you do it four times and you try to do it with no rest I do cheat at the end and usually look for a minute somewhere in there it's so bad it sucks so fucking bad that the plank is actually a bit of a rest so again thanks for asking about that all right um after the gym check out have a little cafe theory it's not that insightful it's not groundbreaking it's it's pretty straightforward but you know we've talked about in the past the restaurants closest to water sources usually just

get away with being shitty because they're near the water and you go this is amazing like I'll just

sit here next to this river or next to this lake or next to the ocean and then boom and then the

“food sucks and you have to go off onto these little side streets in Paris what I've noticed here is”

that you just kind of like one cafe looks amazing and it has this great awning and then it's empty and it's open and then the one right next door to it is absolutely packed and if you just stay with that being like I mean I get a table right away but I want to eat here and not at the other place like you'll just notice these these streets you'll go down and you'll go like this place is completely empty and this one is busy and then empty empty and then busy and so far sticking to that

every meal has been terrific especially after rough start which is very classic me right at the gate I wouldn't exactly nail the food um a little breakfast cafe called Lulu I see a bowl consistency thickness we need to examine that in general but they have this side potato dish and the fresh

terrific so far um the idea was to check out the loop but the ticket thing you've got to

“plan it out ahead of time like when you know you're coming here get the tickets like two weeks ahead”

of time so as at the front desk we had a ticket available I kind of felt like I needed to do it even if I knew it was going to be a shit show over there and then the hotel was like we have one available at one o'clock same day which is unheard of and then as we were like executing the purchase it didn't hold the ticket and she's like oh it's actually gone and I was like all right low or jake uh uh or joree then we'll we'll check that one out instead another museum write it down

the gardens um from the loop I did go over the loop and ask like hey what's the story over here and they were like we're sold out in a lot of times I'm able to pull off like hey it's just me I don't need a tour is that gonna work out that place is a little buttoned up because it is chaos outside of there and so I don't even though I felt a little bit like it's right there and you're not going to go which I know is going to horrify some of you I didn't really care um through the two delivery gardens

which have their own history which are pretty extensive but it's just these pristine areas that you would normally think with this much traffic just get worn down and the French just do it right with this stuff um the gardens have all sorts of crazy history with the royals like having it be hunting grounds exotic animals a silk worm section of trying to have their own silk industry different royals during different changes of power escape through the gardens to get away and then you have

Napoleon the third we're going to get in his story a little bit air who was captured by the

Prussians and this is 1871 and then after this whole period of like 1871 you have the uh coming arts who were this group of like working class radicals who honestly when you look to their policies their policies were great a lot of them and we're pretty ahead of their time on some of the stuff that they were fighting for um and so when they were coming back to like take over which did not last very long basically like the French army comes in and kicks their ass again I mean France is just going

through all sorts of shit it's unbelievable um I love looking at a lot of this stuff but it's hard to even like keep up with the transition of power and like what's going on but the point is is that during this time they set the gardens on fire and we're like we're taking it with us and then there was these false reports that Lou was actually set on fire and I think it was just like a

“library so you can go back and research some of this stuff if you want to it's actually not”

that rewarding going back and looking at a lot of it so I was right at the doorstep and it didn't

happen um I'm gonna do a little bit more on uh that for a second but let's go into La Orrangerie

which the main attraction is the water lily display exhibit by Monet where he had this property where he would just sit and redo these lily panes over and over and over again trying to get everything right and the panes themselves are massive there's like four in these two different rooms so I think it's eight total pieces they're huge they're the entire wall and the whole idea was that Monet would just sit obsessively outside and just be at peace with his own um determination

this almost like unbelievable determination of of trying to get this right to make it look like it was an active movement like it was it was real water moving along I'll be honest you like this exhibit didn't like I didn't blow me away or anything which I feel a little guilty about it's not like the trains that St. Lazar were that kind of stuff from him I like a little bit more um and then we were getting yelled at all the time well I wasn't talking because I wasn't talking anybody

clearly but it's just a bunch of groups rolling through and it's it's gonna be chaos in there and the French they I don't even know if I call them security guards I mean they were right at a central casting of like what you would expect like an older woman who works at a museum to look like but they were shushing everyone like every five minutes because the whole idea is you're supposed to go in there and kind of like meditate and be at peace and be in total silence you're

like yeah good luck there's international people from all over the world um I thought on Asian women

“I think I've got you figured out I do and you may not like what I have to hear but I've figured it out”

you cut everyone and you do this kind of like and it's a certain age right it's not every Asian woman I've ever seen but I've noticed this in my travels and something needs to be said but you do this kind of like confused mek thing and you know you you know exactly what you're

doing you're fucking cutting everyone in line but there's this language barrier and you never make

this as critical I'm just noticing it and it's part of your game I admire it because if like there's

“no line that you're like whenever I'm just gonna pretend I don't even know what's going on and then”

everybody's gonna be like whatever she's confused this can be it happens all the time and on the way into the museum three women cut me like all north of 40 they look around they never make eye contact they all act confused no one has any chance of understanding oh fucking word they're saying and then they know they know the game they know exactly what they're doing so needed to be said who else Picasso is hitter miss for me Russo there's a big Russo thing I respect the fact that it took

him like 40 years self made you know just kept grinding everybody told him what was going to work on his own he was like I got this you don't understand and it totally worked I don't really love it he kind of looks like somebody from a different and older generation just like look how good the tracings are I know that sounds ridiculous maybe some of you love it who's any of us to argue over any of this stuff but it they're all the were so stuff that I look at it's just doesn't really

“do anything for me I think out of this Maurice Utrillo is my guy I didn't know what kind of about him but”

I really liked his stuff the most despite the Monet Russo Picasso exhibits he had out of the museum over to a bistro went with the busy theory again it was killer this tomato kind of barata pesto which I think is one of the most overrated things but this one worked I'll admit some of the French dishes that you want to be colder come out a little less cold than you want them to be and they're slicing of their beef car patchio they'd probably go a little thicker and somebody who

would like the Italian version of it but it's very simple they nail this stuff time and time again

simple lesson ingredients and it all tastes incredible and all you want to do is eat every single piece

of bread that you could possibly have so we're going to do some bread numbers back to the Parisian infrastructure because reading about Napoleon and your Roberts I think Lord Andrew Roberts I forget we had him on the show after reading his massive Napoleon biography one thing that you would say about Napoleon although you know horny little guy who once said love is a distraction of the warrior which I related to quite a bit a lot of other stuff that he did I didn't relate to but he was beyond

an extraordinary military mind although you know like Russia did you really think that was going to fucking work dude um his his understanding of him structure I mean the guy could have been one of the great city planners of all time right okay so that's the turn of the century 1800 stuff his nephew Napoleon III during that time the French were like you know what let's get back

to basics here you know never underestimate the value of brand awareness and that's basically

what happened Napoleon III is he wins presidency in Africa we're just like you know what I'm actually emperor now so suck it um but during that time because there's certainly a lot of things you'd be critical of he's like we have to make Paris like the most attractive city in the world and he commissions another Parisian housemen I don't know who's meant whatever uh to redo

“basically the entire city and that's why when you walk around Paris a lot of the buildings are as old as”

maybe you would think and that's why they have these wide boulevard's there's 12 of these roads that lead to the arch to triumph which are supposed to represent the ray of a sun heading towards the center of the city's identity and it's fascinating like going up the chunks of like it says you're like okay this is this this six lane thing that goes right in the face of the arch to triumph that depending on the angle and this is like the right angle and it was just after best

deal day so all of this stuff was set up they were taking it down as I was exploring this part of it it's it's just incredibly gorgeous layout and normally when you have cities that are this old you just have so many areas that have been around for so long it's like no way to fix anything now there was a reason why they did this is that there had been all of these uprisings and so many of these smaller streets and these little kind of slummy village areas of Paris

that it was actually very easy from a military standpoint to execute some of these uprisings because you couldn't you could like shut down these streets and you could just hold up in these areas and it was tough for the National Guard essentially the National Army to to quail this stuff so part of the strategy was if you made these super wide boulevardes

gentrification of like hundreds of thousands of Parisians and you know again the criticisms would be that he was catering to wealthier individuals but the benefit is when you're walking around the the structure and the set up the beauty is all really because of all of the stuff that happened you know in the mid-1800s so I thought that that was sort of important to to bring up all right what else the rest of the night okay I made it over to this Italian I didn't even think it was

“Italian it was kind of this French pasta place look screaming Ray I think I don't know one of those”

little side streets in Saint Germain where it's just going off and you're just so I would also say this is the worst city to come to by yourself you want you want to just like share it with somebody else and so I roll in and you know sometimes the place is really nice you're kind of like our solo and I don't get like dressed up or hang and rolling the guys like whatever you want man he's like writing the back and my way to look just like James Hardin which was hilarious so I ordered

some ham obviously did the bread a little white wine and then I was like what is up with this beef rabbit you'll eat and then it was like what's what's the sauce situation he goes there's no sauce my command man there's no sauce and clearly there's probably like some butter and there's some olive oil over the top of it but it's like the specific parmesan where he's like the Parmesan

the way or the olive oil that's all you're gonna need and it was incredible like every bite was

so good and maybe it's a little placebo effect of being in France but like the place was clearly a very very nice restaurant and it was these beef ravioli's that didn't need any sauce whatsoever it was sick and it was funny too because my bread basket was done my waiter kind of like the way he was so coordinated and slick with the way he kind of like grabbed the bread basket with his hands I was like this motherfucker can probably ball and it wasn't just

because he looked like James Hardin and then I made it back to the hotel which I noticed there was all this commotion and all these people being turned away when they would come up to the concierge and so I went up and said able what's going on upstairs he's like we have one of the greatest rooftops in the city of Paris like our rooftop bars I was like so I should go up there he's like

“yeah of course like one of the whole reasons you should stay here is you want to go up there and”

I'll also say this too like the whole thing about like people from Paris being rude and or hating Americans I didn't catch any of that I honestly maybe you know it's just running into people that are working hospitality but from the taxi drivers to everyone in every restaurant you can go into the gym to everybody at the hotel my French is not helping me at all it's fucking terrible some woman came up to me asking for directions and I don't even think I said instead of saying

it was like a gunpah which I think she figured out what I fucking meant but she was probably super confused I was confused after I said it so I hit up the rooftop bar which kind of reminded me of like why the James hotel used to be my favorite near city back when it owned the rooftop bar the Jimmy up there because they would only let like mostly it was people or models obviously but

they would let people in that we're staying at the hotel and so it was never too crowded it was always

kind of fun and then eventually I don't know I haven't stayed there in a while because the last

“I think I went there one time and it was like four nights in a row they'd rent it out the place for a”

private party and I was like so I can't even fucking go up there huh and like yeah well maybe not really I was like all right I'm done with this place this place then I'm staying at in Paris that was the whole point it's like no we don't want to crowd it up there and it's just hotel guests except for exceptions or for incredibly slow so you go up there and it's nine stories up and it's a view of the entire city I full tower in the backdrop by the sunset had a sunset which is a real

go to and try to chase the night for you a little bit for the audience here because I was giving the heads up then on the other side of the river there's this taco shop that also has a speakeasy um it's called the candelera this taco shop so you it's like the most basic taco shop on this side street there's one counter for like four seats and then there's a table in there for

like another eight seats there's a guy on the grill making up these incredible tacos even though

again it's corn tortilla but you know if this place is gonna try to like be cool about it because everything they're doing was cool they're gonna go with corn and the whole point is like you actually walk through the kitchen right next to the guy in the grill if you get the okay from security to go into the speakeasy that's in the back and the guy that gave me the heads up on it was like look um depends on how busy it is it's not a guarantee you'll get in he's like try to speak

French to the guy and I'm like you know say just mom and he's like they just goes you want to go into the bar that's like yeah yeah is that cool and then he gives you the okay and they don't walk

painted door and then boom it's this sick room with couches and chairs and it's like 20 plus people

“in the lighting so it's like walking through a door and it would completely different world”

had a beer there and then realized like okay I'm actually not gonna stay out but I did that for you guys and for the the audience welcome before 30 again this morning which sucks did go to the hotel gym in the morning I almost broke my finger on the bench the hotel gym was very strange it was almost like a catalog for an antique gym so they had like ever last boxing gloves and then I was looking at it and it was realizing like oh these are decorations you're not actually supposed to

use them on anything and then they had weird leather pouched stuffed weights where there be a little handle on them and the weight was in the leather pouch and they were like four different weights for that which is strange it was kind of something right out of like a level even above restoration

hardware was like hey do you want to decorate a room that has fitness equipment that you're never

“ever going to use and then the bench had a sliding thing but no knob to so you had to stick your”

finger into the dang in a course I crushed my finger and yelled the fuck in the gym in front of everybody then I just kind of kicked it in the afternoon hit up this dumpling spot it was incredible the gave me ice arcs of triumphant up there totally worth it didn't take that long and I'm getting oh yeah I went by pontniff where my taxi cab driver said what you do is you bring a padlock here with your lover and then you lock it out of this thing but then they made everybody

stop because there's too many padlocks and I was like we're good I don't have to do that today and he laughed at me in my face and then I hit the train and I'm headed up to develop the coast in the Normandy region. Raising canes is turned in 30 this month to celebrate the milestone canes is hosting a 30th birthday pop-up museum in Baton Rouge located directly behind the original restaurant the mothership Todd Graes will be unveiling the museum on August 25th in honor of 30

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par three develop the plan of last two days is spent time in the seaside village in the Normandy region and you know took the train up from Paris it was about two plus hours

“I still never understand the European train thing where I think the regular ticket was 87”

euros then first class is 91 and it's a completely well that's not that big of a deal it's not

like first class on a plane but for the four extra books it seems like an absolute no brainer the train ride in was everything you'd hope it would be French countryside these small villages lot of walls and I don't think it's just because of like horses or cows although there's tons of cow pastures all of them place because those are more like traditional cow fences but a lot of walls around the property that are like over six feet tall I constantly whenever I see these small

villages or the train stops or it's going slow enough that you can kind of like get a sense of what the town is like I granted you're still depending on which part of the train ride you're at you're like okay this is still only like an hour away from Paris so if you needed to go to a city although clearly like any place in United States if you were to drive around and be like oh my god this is the middle of nowhere like how do people live here sometimes it's like yeah it's the

best it reminds me a little bit of driving through Quebec even though there's parts of Quebec as soon as you get over the border that is about as flat as it can possibly be a which would make sense with the way borders are naturally kind of designed by topography but in this case you know you're just rolling through some of these towns and you're like alright it's just a street and a few houses and then just rinse and repeat although there was one guy who I noticed like on the third

floor of a house it might have been more of like an apartment building just shirts off

and you look at the guy and you're like I wonder what his day is going to be like probably a little different than mine so the train ride was terrific and then you pull into this just gorgeous little village of developed so the history here will go back to 1066 Duke William of Normandy also aka William the Conquer he originally went across the water and he was in charge of England for a little bit and then of course so many of these areas it just goes back and forth back and forth

1860's probably when this place takes off as a resort town the Duke of Morney who was the half brother of Napoleon the third apparently like his wife's friend was like hey why don't we just make a

“resort town and they did that I think it kind of goes back a little bit earlier than that where there”

was a doctor with somebody else who got together and they were kind of like let's just make this place awesome and that's exactly what they did they built a horse track here which is still an operation that season picks up I think in a few weeks it's kind of a legendary horse area as far as horse auctions everything that goes along with that they did have the Deville Grand Prix in 1936 because they wanted to add auto-mobile I guess I would just say auto racing to the area car such as Bugatti,

Alfred Merrill, Mazarati the problem is is if you look at the track it's insane it is basically this

long rectangle with the four 90 degree left turns unless they're going the other way I guess but two people died one guy in a crash immediately then another guy later on at the hospital and so they canceled it immediately and looking at the race track you're just kind of like how how was this going to work out I think only three cars finished so that was the end of that after that 1936 like looking at some of the world war two history it's not as extensive I'm sure

there's more to it but this was generally if the Germans just went hey this place is sick which is post up here the casino was part of their headquarters they took over all the luxury hotels

“but I think a lot of the battles were in the surrounding areas and then eventually this place was”

cleared once of the dudes landed on the beach so we covered the train right in walking from the train to the hotel probably wasn't the smartest thing to do but I wanted to kind of take the town in but when you're sitting there with a roller bag and originally I put in the wrong hotel even though they're next door to each other but there's still a little bit further a walk I probably wouldn't do it again but it gave me at least the layland and wanted to kind of see

with the town was like although with the streets and the cobblestone on a kind of stuff eventually

you're like all right this is a little annoying but the town itself is incredible I cannot believe

this place is not a bigger deal maybe you're saying yes it is a big deal and people have known about it for a while I don't know I mean I understand the south of France and Mediterranean and the climate it's a little bit colder up here it's felt like it's in the low 70s for the last two days but it's it's great maybe a little windy at night so you could well I'm not telling you like hey make sure you pack a jacket but I would just say like in the grand scheme of things some

of the international spots that were all well aware of I think very few people have ever heard of this and I've told people that I'm here they're like where is that what is it and I would say it's kind of like the town of Greenwich Connecticut and if a West Anderson movie had a baby

“that's what this town is like it's only 4,000 people year round apparently peak season it's”

40,000 people so when you compare this because you'll look at some of the store fronts and it'll say develop or center pay so you're like okay well there's a connection there it's the same is like when you see something in the Hampton's and then the other locations says nan tuck at or something so there's like a lot of high end stuff with the marina and the real estate and just all these luxury amenities but at the same time it's just incredibly cute I can't think of a

better word for it than cute because it's exactly what it is there's a carousel in one of the town squares there's a train where families just kind of like roll around there's horse wagons horse-drawn wagons that kind of take you through if you want to do that and then there's a ton of Michelin star restaurants and high end luxury shopping and all that kind of stuff but it doesn't feel as bougie as some of the other places that would have some of these kinds of restaurants and

and kind of the resume that this place has the hotel I'm staying at well I've finished my stay as I'm checking out now little royal barrier which again feels a lot like a West Anderson movie when you check in it is like he casted the entire staff here like right at the front desk checking in you know like okay this guy looks like he would be in one of these movies the hotel is old in a way that's kind

of charming at first and then maybe not as I tell the entire story he walked through the carpet is old

but it's like it looks like it's 1920s and 1930s the walls are covered in fabric which is very

door at the front it's an old wood frame with with glass where it's almost loose and then it

feels like it's kind of charming the downstairs old red velvet chairs it just looks straight out of a movie I mean there's really no other way to explain it I have a terrace I was upgraded to the terrace because I don't think this place is that busy it was 700 euros a night so whatever but the terrace looks out over the beach in the terrace itself you're like okay these older chairs and you know this iron railing and you know the tile like everything has this kind of cool

older feel to it then you could also go yeah or it's also not kept up well enough because there's a huge bird nest right above the balcony that I have which is probably not exactly what you're looking for because the bird stopped by a few times while I was here another little tidbit about the hotel is that my room is 412 and then coming over from dinner only one glasses on

“there but as I was sitting there sliding the key into the door into room 412 it would not work and”

then I pulled on the door and I'm like what is going on and it wasn't that late it was only like I don't know 11 and by the way the sun I don't even think it like fully was down maybe it was like

1045 when it finally went down so that's pretty incredible too but I'm sitting there at the door

I was like this doesn't make any sense I guess I'm just going to have to go back down on the elevator to the front desk my key card isn't working and then I looked to the right and realized that both doors said 412 because it's in a joining room that is at this point locked off because I don't have both rooms deep breath so that worked out it was fine and then it didn't work out because I fell asleep from a little after 11 to 130 the room was so incredibly hot

and I called down to the front desk and said is there a thermostat anywhere or I'm sitting there

“for some reason not turning on the lights because I took the key card out and so I'm walking around”

my phone trying to find the thermostat and there's no thermostat at all so I called down I was like hey is there any way to control the temperature and they were like is it too hot or too cold like who the fuck is saying it's too cold it is too hot malfair so they sent up a guy with this like futuristic blade fan and again because I had taken the key card out of the room to control the lights like he and I were sitting there on the floor of my room trying to figure

out how this fan works because the head settings 1 to 24 and then more settings 1 to 12 he didn't understand it he's like oh these are brand new fans he didn't speak great English he had a mustache and glasses he was older it was right out of like it was like Indiana Jones sitting there with a guy in a cave going like can we figure this whole thing out and we couldn't

understand each other the entire time and it was 1/3 in the morning so we finally got the thing going

it was the dumbest like futuristic hey look how cool this fan is it sucked um so I was awake from 1/3 to 5/3 which wasn't great um woke up around 10 and then checked out the on-site gym not great all of the game room was killer game of thrones pinball and then a fuzball table um there was a full blown bridge tournament going on with posters and everything like a real I don't know sanctioned part of the tour uh average age 82 83 in there just a bunch of people playing

bridge um super passionate about a lot of yelling um and this host or this hotel is also host the American film festival which takes place in September which also makes a lot of sense because you're walking these hallways where this place is kind of like a museum so I know it's given it shit a little bit about the temperature but it's kind of cool to just look at all of these pictures of all these actors and actresses and directors and everybody that you would think of staying here

at the hotel partying here after all of these different film festivals that they can place over the years so that part of it was kind of cool um the hotel again like I said is right on the beach it's next to a casino and I just cannot overstate this town is absolutely awesome it is and it will remain to be like one of my favorite places I've ever visited the influence on the buildings

“and stuff it's called Normandy style I think it'd be safe to say that a lot of it feels very”

Scandinavian um with the way the wood is exposed the finished painting but it's all like a seaside version of that uh where it it just it I can't like everything seems like it's in the right place and looks exactly like the way you would want it to look like you get off you travel you go to all these places and you just land in a town like this and you go holy shit this place is awesome

in town and they said well it's probably like a 15 minute bike ride away I was like I really don't feel like dealing with that but you know what what's a better warm up than a little bike ride to go push them way around and in fact it ended up being fantastic because I was able to explore different parts of the town and then I was in this other village on the way over which is part of this bigger athletic facility with tennis courts just kids everywhere pound and balls you know

“it's the next great one who knows I may have seen him there's also a shooting range I think but”

I don't know who is eligible for that based on some of the pictures we'll just leave it at that and then I was in the gym it was fine it was old old equipment it was only 10 euros it was kind of funny too because they were like if you get there by 12 you can use it but after 12 everybody takes launch and they'll be gone for like two hours I'm like you guys are not putting in the work here um

if you close a gym in the middle of the day but then it was weird because it was always in there like

there was like six or seven dudes in there there was also an older guy who was pretty strong but he wasn't that big and I could see he was kind of eyeing me a little bit and then he was like getting in my way um to kind of show that like hey I can curl and usually whenever you see a guy like swinging his entire torso into curling 40 pound dumbbells would you can do but it's just sort of pointless

“unless you can completely control the way and he couldn't but I think he was like hoping I would notice it”

decent numbers I just decided to go full bench I'm incredibly sore today because I don't think I'm sleeping at all but considering I haven't slept much I felt pretty good about it with through a bunch of kilograms on and then behind the bench was a poster of the Avengers which you know if you can't be motivated by that can you be motivated also a picture of Jay Cutler which was uh pretty interesting so left the gym bike to back towards the hotel and on the way back you

get to see the race track which is just immaculate you can ride your bike around the stables um you know as they're getting ready for the season here it must be incredible and apparently this place is kind of like considered that originally when it opened up and it was like this destination that was so close to Paris even though I think back then the train ride took six hours and said to two hours they called it kind of like the other neighborhood of Paris when I was talking about like

the different numbered administrations of Paris and how it's all mapped out they called this like

“at the time the 21st if there were 20 in Paris but I think the number is 26 and then they changed it again”

so whatever that parts are relevant biking back through that village I saw this kid

and look I I'm never going to meet him he's never going to hear this so I don't think it matters he

was an unattractive kid but he was kicking a soccer ball down the sidewalk like where cars are and people are walking and incredible control and maybe it's because I've watched more world cup that I'm paying more attention to the first touch and he was just all over it and I'm like okay that kid I don't know if he sat or if the parents are fighting again he want to get out of the house or maybe there's some mirrors in there what but he looked really bummed out so it was kind of

depressing but at the same time like watching him kick this soccer ball and have the control that he did while he was just on a sidewalk incredible first touch because it may be a while for a second touch so back to town lunch it lists plonches I know that sounds less plonch one of the best meals I've ever had the food here is fantastic every time I've had anything here it has been everything you could possibly want it to be and this was even a little bit different what

with the traditional ham and the bread to get things started asked for ice they brought me ice and then they came out with the pie art which was this lemon grilled chicken over this teziki

whipped cream cheese which is something I would never order normally I made it again before I leave

it was fucking ridiculous how good this thing tasted and you know they bring out a little potatoes they bring out some more fruits and top an odd which was like capers and olives and tomatoes and some onion in it and so you could spread it all over everything one thing that I have learned is they want you to take forever so if you go to lunch it like 11 something there's no one there and then it 12 there's this massive rush and it's hard to get a table because people take two plus hours

and it's just part of the deal which is totally understandable very European thing that's not really how I roll so I can tell they're almost I mean even even read that it's considered offensive to be in a hurry and I'm not in a hurry but I also if you're by yourself you're like I don't want to sit and have lunch for two hours but adjust for that amount of time or allow for that amount of time although very few of you are ever going to come here by yourself so I'm going to have to worry about it the night

your car is considered one of the best restaurants in the area and in that main area I couldn't get a

seat but then the guy was incredible he was like well wait a minute you know we can we can

see you at the bar if you're okay with that so they brought me up to kind of it's like private hangout room

“which I was the only one in there and I think maybe like there was a couple of guys that worked there”

or maybe it was an owner or something and they were just pounding booze and ripping cigarettes and then I sat at the bar and was like yeah I'm totally fine with this and they were almost like a apologetic to be like are you okay to go do this I'm like yeah man it's like you know who you're talking to and so looking at the menu I'm like let me just grab a steak because I don't well I'd had something in in Paris but I grabbed a steak in the guy spoke knowingly and for me to try to

discover like what your French words were going to work we were at an impasse and essentially

he was asking me what temperature I wanted to steak all right and so he started doing like a

saute pan thing with his arms and I went like a temperature temperature and he was like yeah yeah so I said like medium and I try to do like low on a ladder and then high on a ladder and then like put my hand right in the middle and he looked at me like okay we're totally on the same page

“and out came the rarest steak I've ever had to fucking eat my entire life and I know some of you”

guys are total bad asses and it's like I wanted to move and I wanted to be bleeding and whatever this was straight up Pittsburgh style like a piece of beef seared on both sides for maybe 30 seconds and then cut open and it was cold at the center of it and I fucking hate that but there was no way I was sitting it back because it was already hard enough and the guy was like a younger dude and he was a good kid and he could tell he almost felt bad that he couldn't understand

me and I was like trying to just emphasize the hand like don't worry about it and a lot of it's going to come proud what what the fuck was that you're gonna come print power yeah a lot of that so anyway I I just I just muscle the down and it's still like I was just going like hey if you like carpacho like here you go buddy big chunks of carpacho for you and there was some weird kind of green sauce that I have no idea what it was but it worked and it was terrific and then there was one

piece the head like a massive massive line of fat and it because I was trying to eat it all and that piece took about an hour to chew and I was gonna spit it out except he was just watching me the whole time because he had nothing to do because I was the only one in there and I'm like I don't think I can spit this out and put it back on the plate so you guys that eat all the fat and any kind of piece of beef I don't know how the fuck you do it but um it just might be being

like a kid and taking a bad bite and going like I just want to spit this on the floor underneath the table but fought through the entire thing um I headed over the beach little beach chair drama you know I went to the front desk and said I want to get a beach chair but I'm not going to be there until a little bit later because I've got some stuff to do with the room um is it is a cool it was like if I just go over there late it was windy it wasn't the best beach day but again

a bad beach day is better than most days you walk out to this boardwalk there's all these restaurants and bars out there and shopping areas so that's its own little part of the town and that's another cool thing about this town is like I thought I kind of had it handled and then I kept writing my bike around on like oh there's even more to this so it's it's more than just some of these town you're like alright this is gonna get boring after a couple days because it's like three streets and

“doville has much more to offer than that I think you can probably do if you want to do a week here”

you probably have to love either the horse racing would be in season or you have to really really love the beach maybe that'd be too long for some of you but I feel like it's a kind of place where there's enough going on that you wouldn't just go like hey some of these magical places that you visit and you're like alright actually it's boring at 48 hours I would not describe that this way so headed out to the beach chair area about five o'clock and the guy was like hey look there's

65 bucks to the chairs I'm like when do you close and he's like in an hour I was like man you know and I just had told him I was like I talked to the concierge and they said you know this late in the day just go out there and you'll be totally fine and he's like well he was like a

younger dude he didn't really know what was going on I wasn't certainly I'm never addicted any of

these people but I was kind of like there's a thousand empty chairs I don't need a towel he's like well I can't open a umbrella or give you a towel and I was like that's fine I was like how about we do this how about I give you 20 euros you keep it and will be good and he was like still confused and almost like offended or I don't know there was a massive disconnect there or maybe he was like yeah it's 65 bucks but the hotel it's told me that it was fine so I don't you know who

then I'm telling you like at 5.55 they're like you gotta get out of here and I think I was like the

“only person sitting in the beach chairs and there had to be well over 100 beach chairs and they”

weren't pulling all of the beach chairs either they were just pulling the tables although it was really windy a little mini-rezyro did look at some properties through the real estate offices there's maybe 30 real estate offices which tells you things are probably going well here you know there's some affordable stuff here this is a central pay even Paris when I would just kind of look

when you're walking back by my place is going like oh that condo is 7 million euros yeah Paris

has been discovered folks it's the secrets out so developed way different seriously could see doing a month here you know at some point with NBA though probably we get a little difficult probably with any sporting event so then I get into this fantasy land of like hey you could maybe do this you know like you probably can't though um dinner at literature car I ended up getting in there the second night they were awesome an incredible warm chicken Caesar salad one of the best I've ever had

glass of sunset and then I went with the black cod and side of rice the rice was pretty mid shockingly but this is one of the best restaurants I don't know if your car noir is named after this restaurant it would make sense but incredibly friendly staff and then my waiter was a soldier who was telling me about the one time he's been in the United States he was in Houston but then I was like Houston or Austin and then he kept saying Houston this Houston Austin hybrid where I still don't

necessarily know to finish things off here the art thief is the book that I'm reading by Finkle quick short book I felt a little like hey man you're getting into it you're sitting here in France you're reading the art thief a couple facts off of that that I didn't know Picasso the most stolen paint her of all time which is ironic because he was questioned in the theft of the Mona Lisa

and hold on we have some people coming by here I'll be done in a second

all right the Wasr the Wasr coming in they want me out of here all right yeah so Picasso was questioned in the theft of the Mona Lisa which again was ironic because I guess three years prior they actual theft of the Mona Lisa that was done it was an inside job maintenance guy who then held on to it forever and then it was ended up being returned but Picasso this book is great because you know art history and art theory two areas of malina when it

comes to knowledge but Picasso had hired somebody to steal these figurines prior to that but he

was never caught but then he was so freaked out after being questioned to attain for a half of

day in jail about the theft of the Mona Lisa that he then had somebody like return them and then

“dropped them back off of the loof goia my guy remember Madrid that travel log one of the few artists”

were watching it watching it looking at it you're like this stuff is insane satirating his son so still to this day one of my favorite guys and referenced in the art deep book is that if you're James Bond fan like I am and there's some suggestions that this area was heavy influence on some of the early James Bond writings that in Dr. Noah when Sean Connery visits Dr. Noah's layer there is a portrait of the Duke of Wellington which had been stolen a year before which is

a goia painting so it had been stolen I think in 1961 and while they made the movie they thought it would be funny to have that actual picture in Dr. Noah's layer so there you go I am off to buy you which is not Louisiana looking at some of the train situations they don't seem ideal there's been talk of a bus being involved that is not going to happen so we will figure it out and we will get into our war two phase of the pop. Part four two days in Bayou so the plan is to leave the bill and

“that's what I did and really want to leave it but there is stuff to see in the bill his greatest”

restaurants and the whole set up was history on the horizon so heading over to Bayou which made me laugh every time somebody said it because it reminds me Louisiana taxi to Hundo you know looking at

but there's I'm not expecting direct from every single village but there's apparently some issue with the number of trains so like they'll say a train is available the shorter one and then it is and then it turned into the like hey it's a train in two buses and so that was out it was going to take like five hours or something ridiculous however this ride in the taxi 115 is what it took but it sucked the guy apparently and I only know this from my one summer of driving a taxi at home

which is its own podcast but he had to have been the dispatcher for the company or something we got 50 fucking calls look no exaggeration 50 phone calls any answered every single one of them

and it would always start with somebody pressing the buttons to some sort of automated direction

so that went on the entire ride I'm telling you every minute there was a call he breaked 100 yards away

“from any break like like hard slam on the break and then I think he picked his nose and ate it but I wasn't”

sure and then I realized like do I want to know if he's actually picking his nose and eating it I'm going to give him a pass because I saw him biting his fingernails although he may have just tried to throw me off you know a bit of a decoy mission which is going to come up later so by you I'm over at this great little hotel right next to the museum and by you I have the general pattern room which I thought was just perfect there's a few options and as I was walking by him

I'm like oh once the pattern room like I hope I get and they were like obviously you're going to get the pattern room so I got that and then Holland's Normandy 44's on the bookshelf did already read it but you know anytime you're you get a Holland you know he or his brother I think I've gone over two on both brothers and trying to have him on his brother is a big Roman Empire guy I had an

“entire summer laid out I read three of his books we're going to do a full Roman Empire thing and”

go through all three of the books maybe he was like I don't even want to fucking do that and I wrote them all so we did not hear back from him the museum is good I wouldn't say great I'm going to do like bigger museum facts for you kind of in the middle of all this try to keep it contained because I wanted to share with you stuff that I thought was interesting but I also don't want to turn this into a lecture there was a movie was good again the the museum is two minutes from

the hotel I was at so super convenient enjoyed it banged out probably two hours in there I do

always like reading about the perspective of the different German generals and how history

remembers like their disagreement with all of the preparations in Western Europe now granted you know that could be a lot of people like an NBA team saying like I we actually did want to draft like a board engineer but that that part I was find kind of interesting this was odd too there was a huge French guy in his son these guys were big dudes and he was wearing like a Colin Kaepernick T-shirt jersey so not the jersey like the the cheapest jersey version gift that you could give

anybody so it was like a t-shirt and we went into the movie and it's all of these movies are set okay like none of them are a good time or fun people are getting emotional in them and this fucking guy talks of the whole time and I was in his row and you know he spoke French so I wasn't going to get into it or anything but I don't know I don't know what that was I don't even then cappernick would do that all right that's not a referendum on cappernick and that shit

I don't want to be visiting that stuff but I just thought of all the people that would be talking during this D-Day movie with people getting killed left and right and he's wearing this shirt anyway after the museum stopped by I love a flea market big farmers market guy in Manhattan Beach just made the lap I bought a pen made out of cherry wood hand lathe 47 euros magnet cap got it from my father he loves a nice piece of cherry wood the guy did spoke zero zero English

and he was trying to explain to me and I was like I don't understand I don't understand and he was the word cherry which I was unable to translate and then finally and he was like juggling which I did not think was ever considered the international symbol for cherries and I'm going like

I've never worked in the circus you know I don't want to go with you who's just a flea market like

I was going to grab maybe you know song Sarah and some handcrafted works here like I don't want to I don't want to join the circus and then he was like no no no cherries and we finally figured it out

“cherries cherry wood he's very proud that that's why I was so expensive that it was made from cherry wood”

and then there was this old maid she had some leather works nothing like that it was bracelets

one with a horse on it a horse you question theme just every single town you go to

“I grabbed that for my sister I'm not even sure she's gonna like her not but I just couldn't this”

old lady was just so like I'm like you could be getting these from China and I'm all the way in flea market bio this lady reminds me my grandmother how do I say no to her so I bought one of those what else what else happened hit this flea market um there's this one stand it's like cakes

desserts shit you've never even seen in the states you want to eat all of it and buy any

I did wait in line for this hamburger set up that looked like a very freshly hamburger deal I walked by it on the way in all the patties were cooked because I'm like if it's frozen I'm fucking out and then when I got back in a line which was a long very slow line but it was looking pretty good coming off of the conveyor belt and then I saw the guy in the box in the back throw down another 20 patties and they're all frozen stiff and I went fucking out that was after waiting

“in line I just won't do it I'll ask at a restaurant and the thing is is every one of these”

tourist towns they've never heard of a fucking fresh patty to save their lives so point America on the burgers headed over to this dinner place where they had a watermelon going and there's just this little stream there's like two that run through the town of bio um and it's just as picturesque as it gets and the sun is setting down to the back of you as you walk down towards these little waterways and again they're really small but there's like a pink boat in there with

full of flowers and somebody obviously tends to and the boat's anchored is kind of like a little design of the town and this church behind US teen glass windows there's all sorts of organs going off there left and right nothing like church bells and a French village and bio's very much like an old world village if to village you know a little bit more modern very beachy themed getting choked up about it bio's just exactly what you would expect old world we have some history

that will get to you on that in a little bit here uh the language part of this is going awful um I don't know if I've got to get babble going or what you know they talk about learning another

language to fight Alzheimer's and if you think about it's never too early to start fighting

Alzheimer's but I'm I'm not going to talk about it anymore but I'm just saying like uh I'm like making up shit so I'm really disappointed myself I even think three to four years ago the last time I was in France I kind of hung a little bit maybe I'm just imagining it but it's a disaster so far so it didn't work out at the flea market did grab dinner it was good right next to the water mill place there was a sick bar facing the sunset up the hill back at the church through all the stained glass

and I'm like that is a bar that you could let it fly and you could probably start a little bit earlier and then right across that was this open wood patio thing that overlooked the water again a very small brook so it's not like some massive water seen through the whole thing but they're just kind of like the town itself kind of like each turn I'm like oh there's another section and here's another section because right around the church in the very beginning of it in the

town square they're like okay this is where it all started and built out from here and then it's very much like an old quaint neighborhood with these massive walls dividing every single property

“which is something and it's going to have to study maybe it was the Germans maybe that's why”

they still have these walls up but it's it's perfect it's it's very picturesque and it's it's been exactly what I want so anyway rent the car the next morning after another terrible night is sleep and we're headed over to Omaha Omaha Beach is the first first place on the itinerary I am tired I am in the car the driving super easy not a big deal at all get over Omaha pretty quickly on the way into the town and you kind of take the turn you're kind of getting excited you're

feeling that ocean air it's not super busy but certainly there is tourist traffic going on this

kind of the peak tourism season it's so far it's never it's busy in places but it's never felt

like it's annoying or anything like that and because I had neat and because I had to get up early to go get the rental car from the place I stopped at a pancake place and I go you know what let me see what all these see what these what the great thing is let's just do it because I've never I mean I'm aware I just don't want to tell a and fucking ice cream all over something I'm just like ham just gonna walk around and eat one of these so I went with the raspberry and then I went

with the plain pancakes which they're always a little freaked out by because they're like don't you want caramel and then vanilla dusting with pearl sugar and then also two scoops of fucking macaroon ice cream like not really it's not am I don't want that so I didn't get that I

France still respects a morning OJ 99 states is years past it unfortunately Omaha

“you pull in plenty of parking I imagine like on the busiest busiest day maybe parking is a bit of an”

issue they do charge you for parking just kind of like a couple hour limit and then there's walking

areas where you can go left or right once you pull in and on first glance like hey it's a beach

there's families there with kids with toys and they're making castles there's horse-drawn wagons there's boats flying by in the front it is a beach that people in the area go to there's also a fresh water source that flows to the back of the beach which then kind of has these like it's not so much about the tides but it breaks up the beach a little bit where these these parallel lanes of fresh water that may only go a foot to six inches deep that are parallel to the land parallel to

the front of the ocean but it's obviously a very wide beach and so I don't know what I expected like I knew I wasn't going to get emotional it's been 80 plus years I wasn't around for it I don't

“have any relatives that lost their lives there I've read about it a lot I've always wanted to see it”

I sat down I read my book for a little bit just kind of took it all in but it's okay it's not like expected in the middle of July on a Friday that it was going to be chill you know there's there's people there there's a monument in the front there's American flags the Canadian flags obviously flags of England and the French flags they're American flags literally everywhere you go every single village has American flags flying a lot of Canadian love as well but obviously because of

what the Americans did and saying all right we're in and then hitting Omaha first which was the

toughest landing and what I'm sitting there again I didn't really know what I was expecting to feel didn't think like anything was going to happen but then I almost felt guilty that I didn't feel a little bit more so I started walking around like on the beach and then looking back up at that ridge you know that you're picturing in your head if you've seen saving private Ryan or you've watched any footage of the day landing and you realize like why Omaha absolutely sucked in comparison

to the other four beachheads because it is this miles long ridge that is right across this road that exists now in front of the beach and it's just uphill and so imagine landing in these boats with the tides having to deal with everything that you're dealing with all of these minds which will get to some of the numbers on that in a bit you're coming out of this boat if you even survive actually getting out of the boat not drowning or not being shot immediately then really all you can

do is run at the hill to try to get without get within get close enough so that you're also out of shooting range so you're running straight at the defense with nowhere to hide and when you see the topography of it all you just to like this is this must have been the fucking worst and that's

“why that landing is is so much worse than the other ones let's do some Omaha facts here I think”

now we'll hold off for a second because I have a couple things here hung around there for a little bit but I knew I wanted to hit up some other spots drove down the coast a little bit there's a gun turret there I'll get the I'll get the number for you shortly there's like a German deal but it's like a one-man or two-man gun turret that's still there that you can walk to you can walk inside of it I took a video the whole thing and it's completely blown out I don't know if that's

actually still the gun 80 years later but it's like a destroyed gun and this is this stretch where the guys once they settled the area which was rather quick they actually take over the beach and kind of set up everything within a few hours because they're just overwhelming the Germans with their numbers and the Germans were kind of still caught off guard despite two years of preparation but again they were trying to defend the entire fucking coastline France there's this gun turret area here

and then you kind of walk up behind it and it's this massive like like it's not a mountain or a hill technically but it's like a decent a scent pretty quickly into this farmland where it's all that hedgero stuff that again you see from the movie so it's moments of being completely wide open

but then you're never really safe because there's so many areas in these fields where this is

where the fight really starts to happen after the beach is taken over so the beach is basically secured by 10 o'clock that night at all of the five landings but you can just see like as beautiful as this land is and I'm sure all of you have seen some version of it and movies and television shows or maybe you've been out here but you're just walking around

toast at any given moment depending on who's hiding in the bushes because it's not forest

“it's it's wide open but with cover everywhere cemetery headed over there”

but on the way there I made a decision that I know you guys are going to laugh about I was like I'm fucking exhausted and I need to like move my body around exert something put myself something through you know again the the routine of like I need to do something physical for 45 minutes to feel a little bit better because I'm so tired and so I put in the maps gym and I'm like oh my god there's a gym like 20 minutes away and it's in this marina town with all

these boats and there's a fairy like yeah you know what I'll go check that out NBD so I type in the hours the whole deal I'm like make sure you're not going to get host here and then I pull in and I don't see anything that's even close to resembling a gym there was like a tennis court I'm like I'd get hose with that thing we're like everything in Europe falls under like they just put a dumbbell up there and they're like this is our question facility and you're like where's the

lat pulled out machine apparently what popped up was a campground that had a gym it was for RVs and they closed in the middle of the day from 12 to 3 and I got there a little after 12 so I drove all the way to this town for a gym that was in who knows if it would even a fucking gym they're probably gonna give me some like rubber ball be like a lot of a lot of balance work here but I did check out this other town in the marina whatever all right so I headed to the cemetery

which was something I also always wanted to do and you pull in it is busy but it's not too much

and the cemetery is everything that you'd want it to be and I don't really know what the proper way to phrase that is but it is pristine it's like walking into the inside the ropes at Augusta every single blade of grass every single tombstone every marking every display everything is fucking perfect um which is a great thing because I mean that's the first they just started bearing guys immediately so technically the date you know D days June 6 the first soldiers were

“buried in June 7th and that's what started this whole thing and there's 9,389 soldiers buried there”

the museum itself is terrific really good museum and then there's these massive like areas there's a place where you can go and pray you know the whole thing is just completely first classes you expect exactly what you would expect with the backdrop of the English channel off of the hill of where all these soldiers are remembered all right let's do some facts here this is a long part I mean just this part of the pod but whatever if you guys listen to Portugal

I imagine you're still listening to this okay Normandy the Normandy region um Rome taken over then the Vikings taken over um it was considered kind of an independent Dutchy then part of the kingdom of France in 1204 uh the hundred-year war 1337 1453 the land

castry in phase though is 1415 1453 there's some Henry the fifth shit that I always like getting into

1417 on um he took con which I'm headed to a little bit later that's not nearly as brutal as some of his other castle siege is one in particular where they were throwing over the malnourished and um soon to be dead they did that hoping that Henry the fifth would take care of them and diminish their own resources and Henry the fifth was like nope I'm not following for this which I guess he's been criticized I just don't I don't know who sits around and criticizes

people in the 1400s like yeah no shit it was awful so I'll check out con a little bit later

“so yeah that's what we have with the Normandy region bio same population today is in 1793”

I don't even know how that's possible because there's a commercial side of it that I saw a little bit later again old world charm of bio 9 out of 10 church I'm not sure 10s exist they claimed to be

the first city liberated from the Germans the next day on June 7 I don't know if that's true

because I've heard conflicting towns um one of that I went to a little bit later I don't think it was really liberated other than it was just the Germans didn't care because it wasn't important enough place for them to sit there and use any resources so Omaha on the day of the landing between 2,000 and 2,500 casualties half of the DNA deaths were just at Omaha

and that kind of stuff there's variance says between 2059 killed wounded or missing the missing

“numbers are kind of staggering which would make sense the natural walls of Omaha which I've”

already explained you have the tide messing up the deployment of the boats and then trying to get these Sherman tanks set up which a ton of them sink you have people drowning left from right there's no separate number kept for people drowning speaking of drowning there was an exercise laboratory exercise called the tiger rehearsal that happened on the southern coast of England where they thought that beach was very similar to where they'd be landing in Normandy

and while they were running through this exercise some German e-boats not e-boats attacked and granted the guys thought it was a rehearsal right so now all of a sudden they're being attacked for real and it was new equipment like this entire amphibious landing was a was a new thing and it's also operation Neptune not overlord this is this specific part is Neptune which some of the museums don't even make that crap that I knew until it was corrected somewhere else right

but during this tiger rehearsal 946 allied soldiers died during this whole time and a lot of them drown because the equipment was heavy they weren't used to using it they didn't know how to use any of the light-preserver stuff I don't know but it was such a disaster that the military kept

“to the secret because they were like "well fuck" we just had a practice and a thousand guys died”

before heading over there the Atlantic wall defense by Germany this was built up between 42 and 44 in preparation for being attacked literally anywhere they built up defenses over 1670 miles of the French coast all the way from Norway to Spain and then most of their defenses were actually towards the English Channel Normandy because they figured that was the closest area so their preparation of that made sense in the English Channel in front of Normandy in this region they dropped

over a thousand sea mines they had the Chech hedgehogs which we've all seen those four way iron things that look like motherfuckers that wreck holes ironically one of the few things anybody rushing the beach could hide behind for a little bit their hedgehogs all over the place in every village there's like a rustow hedgehog just sitting there and then you have rommels asparagus

“which was this kind of like aerial attack rifle I don't know from the ground apparently you could”

shoot 15 miles but I just thought rommels asparagus was an interesting name so the first allies to land

with a pair of troopers in that same area glaze which I checked out a little bit later so we'll have some thoughts on that the 80 second and 101st they dropped at midnight five and a half hours before the navy started firing away at the coast you also had bombers run a bunch of missions but a lot of this stuff was super inefficient because when they dropped the pair of troopers and there's airborne t-shirts fucking everywhere like guys are wearing them around like they're at the concert

which again makes sense I don't know I wasn't gonna check anybody's credentials or anything like that but guys are taking a really serious a lot of t-shirts available if you're into that kind of stuff but they drop so many pair of troopers they're all over the place like they ended up covering this 10 mile area by well it's kind of all it was supposed to be very specific on both sides of this one river but they ran so many of these these missions and all these guys were

kind of like all over the place and then if you go same merit glaze John steel when you're walking around the town on the church is a mannequin with a parachute hanging from the top of the church which is because the scotch on steel a pair of trooper was hanging there when he didn't make it to the ground it then played dead in the Germans inside the church realized he was alive the capture him but then he ended up escaping but the mannequin still is hanging from the top of the

church so the other crazy thing about d-day is you know you have this bombing run but they're worried about where they're dropping their bombs because of coordinating with where the soldiers are and then the navy's firing away but like a lot of the stuff didn't really wear out the German defenses

the pair troopers did take the town of similar glaze which again also claims to be the first place

liberated and that was pretty quick the German turret that I looked at the wider stands net completely blown out you taught missed their target by 2000 yards which actually saved the rass because it was a very like weak defense and when you're at Utah Beach compared to Omaha you're

D-day by the way the D stands for day

“that's it it's all it is case you ever see that trivia and somebody's like destination day like nope”

no it isn't uh misinformation was a massive massive part of the lead up to Normandy at the area called Padukulei they put pattern in charge of the invasion at Padukulei and they sent out all sorts of information having the Germans listen to their transmissions and they were trying as much of the kid to get the Germans to believe that we'll look if Paton is in charge like you're not gonna have you know I have Tony Kuko shoot it right

like so Paton was a decoy through this entire lead up so the Germans actually had a ton of their

defenses in this area that was never attacked except that they were dropping dummies and parachutes

they had rubber tanks there was even these like when you get a t-shirt and an NBA game and it's in that mini parachute they were dropping these mini parachutes with these almost like fruit by the foot long spirals of aluminum to mess with the German radars and it totally worked and here's Paton who's like where do you need me Africa Sicily I'll go up and take on the hun's and they put him in charge of something that's actually not going to happen they do secure

the beach again by 10 o'clock that night so I always think of like the way we talk about the landing and how brutal it is but they secured the beach pretty quickly and the other part of is the Germans were like oh shit I guess this is the real one like let's get out of here and then the war is really fought for the next two plus months in trying to liberate all of these different towns I did look for death totals for Germans the on the actual day of June 6th and I thought

a note was sort of interesting it was like it's speculative between four and nine thousand because they stopped keeping track they had other things to do all right that brings us to yeah a bad lunch in similar glaze chicken thick chicken fucking finger Caesar salad like Costco chicken fingers asked for ice in my yeti which I now can't open the top of so the waitresses are looking at me you know like look at this fucking loss and uh I couldn't open my own

yeti jug so I put my head down and shame but they were like we can't we can't spare a lot of ice

now's the guy I noticed there's no one here at this restaurant and it was in this incredible brick

courtyard it was one of the most beautiful it's the best setting for a nice restaurant with the worst food gap I've ever experienced in my life and that was after I was like I'm not going on any of these tourists there's like I walked to this place being like okay this there's no way it can be that bad and it was that bad what over do you taught beach and again that bluff in comparison to what Omaha is I don't know that it's like saying attacking the attack adverse equipment but you

“get the point also shout out mattery I think this guy Gibson out of there originally from Omaha”

I hope I'm not messing it up you know what I got to look up his name here what are we at 30 minutes already I don't know why if you hung out this long right I get to get that guy's name right because he built those boats those front loading boats where the flap goes down and like you can walk into it at Utah and hang out with the whole thing oh that's right Higgins my bad Andrew Jackson Higgins Omaha but get these got these ships going up out of mettery and that's where he's buried so

shout out to New Orleans so those boats where the flap goes down the whole thing and there's like one guy behind a wheel I don't know what kind of engines they're running out of there but God that looked like an awful time and I'm sure it was but yeah they they missed their spot and it worked out for Utah the group at Utah all right drive back to buy you and then Lebron decides he's going to filly so we're going to tape an emergency pod at the hotel I wondered if perhaps like me

Lebron's going to fill it off he's for the history then he just loves history wasn't getting enough culture in LA that could be part of it but he hates Boston with a passion so how much could he

“really love history although maybe that's why he makes sense because fill it off you hated”

Boston before during and after the Revolutionary War so that one totally fine all right dinner

I had pasta I desperately desperately missed youville I have some thoughts on menus which I know I've shared in many European travels before but I have like a final rant and then I finally slept nine solid hours I don't know the last time I slept nine hours it was unbelievable hit the gym

the town wave in a people feeling like just part of the community over the more commercial side although

this gym was right next to a McDonald so inhaling those fries right before you go to the gym is sort of an experience and then I got in there $15 day pass just a thought on rappers some of these rappers

“the new guys that I like I think they're fucking with us they pump out so many songs and they're not”

not really like Jared Jeffries on the wizards Louis V 55 I'm a keep it all celery and look I'm not dissing it in the way that you would think of like oh you know you just don't like me rap I fucking I think I like that song I hope someone does drop that verse in a song but some of you guys are totally fucking with us there's no way that you're not getting done with these songs and then everybody's like oh my god banger and then you're not you're like laughing driving home with your

body pain like I put fucking four minutes into those lyrics today all right the gym smelt awful I'm on guys it smelled so fucking bad I walked down a hallway to kind of like get going and

“trying to find a place to go stretch and I was like what the fuck is that smell and it was just”

rancid be oh it was like they were pumping it through the place and so I'm looking around everybody's got their towel a couple decent sized guys in there shout out by you and I bought a towel from the vending machine because all the European places like for guys like me just like I don't work out with a towel I don't you know I all know I'm sweating more now with Paul the trainer but I'm like I get a buy a towel because I have a thought on condoms when you're young you think

the condoms about you like I don't have a kid I have basketball practice men's league basketball practice you don't really think about the condom in any other way when you're due you're just like the condom you're very narcissistic about the condom and then you start to realize like oh

“the condom could be because of the other person right and I think that's what the towel's”

role is in a European gym it's not because I'm sweating and gross it's just perhaps making sure that I'm not sweating gross off to Con tomorrow at boys head we've been going back to school for over 115 years and this year every school lunch is reason to celebrate with the flavors your kids love and the exceptional quality you expect helping you make school lunch fresh easy and delicious bring the towel the devil is over

or is it committed to craft since 1905 okay part five I'm in con which is not to be confused with can't can it's out of the French film festival I've already been there before con is inland from where I am in Normandy it was not originally part of the plan but I may meet up with some friends from Manhattan Beach that are in can and they invited me down to a villa and I was like hey what's wrong with meat

that was some people you know for a change on these trips you never tell anybody when you're going

or where you're going and then people will be like hey dickhead I was in sand Sebastian for three those days why not shoot a text I don't know I didn't know you were in sand Sebastian it's not my fault so con is a town another town just with a ton of history it's not exactly the place I wanted to go but logistically I was trying to get the Paris and then from Duville and by you that didn't make a ton of sense then there was a chance I would have to go back to Duville which I wouldn't have

minded necessarily but look I'm behind which is totally fine this is totally open ended but Sweden is definitely in trouble so it's a quick ride from by you to con the hotel is mid which is by design totally fine with it and then I'll look at flights out of con to head to the south to niece so

there's a castle here and there's a apparently an amazing world where two museum which is considered

one of the better museums in the region so a little history about con well straightforward

William the Bastard William the Bastard right around year one thousand now if you want to spend any time on this the Normans are kind of an interesting fascinating group descendants of

Vikings year nine eleven which is they basically admit like we didn't even know if this year is right

in this northern section of France along the coast which is where I've been which was basically

“its own place up until I think like the 1200's from French people were just like hey what the”

fuck we doing like this is ours but prior to that William the Conquer again aka William the Bastard the Norman Conquest of England the battle Hastings we're talking I don't know 10 40 10 60 something like that I figure where the note is but the battle Hastings is interesting because it's like the defining battle of William rolling in and you know like a lot of this stuff at least these numbers are real there's like seven thousand aside here for the English and the Normans but there's just

so many times you read about something like 80 guys showed up and took over a poor and then they technically like they were the ruling class for 60 years like what the fuck there weren't some guys who rakes to just get them out of there but this is real like these are real numbers even the only took nine hours apparently the battle got off to a really slow start it wasn't going great from William the Conquer and it's crew so they pulled a little possum on him and did a fake

“retreat pulled the English out and then ended up winning and you know honestly had like a run there”

where it was like the Norman Conquest of England all right but that in itself it's kind of a weird thing because it's like what does this mean everybody's speaking French no like nobody spoke French except for an ability and the nobles that maybe originally were from France that were in England already

who had French territories like they just basically became English because especially during the

hundred year wars get later on in the history with all this stuff it's like all right so we didn't even have any of our areas I mean just goes back and forth over and over and over again between these two countries basically because they're close to each other and that's it um you would think there be some commonality and they try time and time again with marriages to to bring peace to it but it just it doesn't happen um and just you know guys didn't have a lot to do so there you go uh William

is considered I think look he was I don't know if he's an absentee conquer like he wasn't around a ton um and then he's buried inside the castle which we're gonna talk about here in a second which is right in town I hate launch right in front of it launch did suck but we um I don't know I mean William kind of is like I think regard to pretty well historically that he was fair to the people he was

“really just in the conquer and man and that's why I had a great nickname and on his deathbed he basically”

said like yeah I killed the English and you know for a good and for bad just like all right that's better than that's been somebody else's last words but who knows last words I feel like who knows who was keeping track of them back then let's talk about his wife Matilda aka Matilda of Flanders who uh if you look at that courtship saga there's some really bad versions of it and there's some more loving versions of it who's to know but apparently this marriage was originally banned

by Pope Leo the ninth because they are third cousins and even though I was like man third cousins

they were strict back then um you know there's oh I'm sorry I'll leave out a joke I'm not going to say it uh yeah third cousins like not cool then I was going through like the rules there and it's you know it's a little bit more extended than you would think during those times but the Pope was like because of penance there's like you got to build these two abbies which are still intact today the men's abbie and the women's abbie and they're just spectacular once you go up to the castle

and you see the skyline of con it's it's terrific and she also made William a boat to help with these adventures and I'm just telling you right now ladies there's not a lot of women out there there's not a lot of wives they're building their husbands a boat so I think there's some true love there although there is a little speculation that was William being gone conquering and whatnot so much she had nine kids nine kids he was gone a lot I don't know what's going on there like why's that

guy look like pool Richardson um two of the kids though became kings William and Henry uh William the second I believe Henry the first all right so there's a little backstory on it which leads it's perfectly to the castle because the castle is fantastic one of the coolest things that you will see it's as massive you walk in near the center of the castle the grounds it was damaged um quite a bit more war two but it still like very much intact for the sense of like going to see

something really cool but till this bedroom not that big I think it would be bigger she probably had other areas to go whether it was the keep they also had this massive hall that was built where I guess like a thousand nights we get together and just around Christmas look out um the hall actually

fantastic and then you can go up to like these embankments where there were these different defenses you can walk through the top walls of the castle when it looked back down over the town as I mentioned you can see the abbies and then through the walls you can see like the defensive positions of where you'd be shooting arrows out of and the way that the rock is cut the specific way so it's wide enough for a man's torso to be able to line up the shot but then thin enough out of

the shot that you'd never ever get a shot through there again someone shooting at you and yeah I was

totally worth it and there's some graves sites there's some medieval stuff there and there's damage where technically I guess you're able to see like bullet holes but I mean to me it kind of look like hey that just looks like an old rock missing some pieces so um bounce from the castle and headed up to the world war two museum which I had heard great things about and it did not disappoint so this has turned out to be like a pretty good day because between the castle and

“the museum fantastic and I think one of my favorite parts about the world war two museum here in”

Kahn is that um they do a really good job of laying out germany post-war war one and then the momentum of Hitler and the messaging and why you had Germany heading in the direction that they headed in and you know if you go back through anything that I've read about world war one

there's a million different things that I could point out here but like just this obsession with

Germany being jealous of French culture and just thinking less of everyone else constantly and just being like wise in German culture like more expensive again there's far more factors to it than just being jealous of the art in literature but post-war war one we know with the treaties like it was led to absolute economic devastation um Germany lost 13% of their territory they lost all of their colonies they were told they could have an army over 100,000 people no air force no navy

no tanks no new recruits and then hit with a 33 billion dollar tab now this is not to say like hey right that's not what I'm saying but I'm saying is that human nature whether as people are a country would be like hey you know sorry about the wars but like you know this is this is a lot this is kind of excessive so that leads to just disastrous economic situation in Germany in massive resentment that is all the backdrop of building up for war war two and so you have a voice like

Hitler and you have his party and you have people more susceptible to wanting to try something that feels like they're going to go back at everybody else and of course they they don't listen anyone they tell everybody what they want to hear um and there's even one pact with Russia that I thought was amusing it reminded me of the alliance with the big 10 pack 12 and ACC where I was like yeah we won't mess with each other um and it was this pack with Russia where they wouldn't engage in any

military conflict for 10 years and then by doing that it's like yeah but we don't care what Poland thinks this whole thing and so therefore Germany can invade Poland without Finland if they actually have to have a threat from Russia which is all like clearly everything they're doing they're telling everybody what they want to hear and then doing exactly whatever they want to do. The Vici French

“part of this is always fascinating that how quickly I think it takes less than two months”

whereas at Patan who just is like I may be just saying that name wrong but he's like you know what I think Germany's here today so we're going to change the country's motto to align with Germany more and like hey this is just what it's going to be and it's basically like if you drew a line across the center of France horizontally other than some of the landed coast areas it's basically all of that it's just like hey this is you know it's occupied French and then France France and then

these the Vici French thing where you know it's just fucking ridiculous well like we're good we're done we don't know if you guys need more. The Holocaust section is brutal to be expected the pictures is just really really rough to look at when you're looking at kids faces and getting on a train it's awful and the worst picture but an important picture is there were these four

smuggled out pictures it's amazing they even got smuggled out but it was leading women to take off

their robes and get ready to enter the gas chamber and this was like a really big deal that these pictures got out. There was a movie that I really enjoyed it was a lot of the Allied troops taking over the French villages and marching Nazi prisoners around and there's this one moment in one of the clips where there's a Nazi prisoner where his hands are up high enough and you can

“just see it was like the most modern I've ever seen I think somebody from like 1944 ever look”

it was an American soldier and he's looking at the German guy basically yelling at him to get his hands up and there's obviously a language barrier there and the the US soldiers like you know get your fucking hands up like what are you doing in the German guy like it's scared of death that made me smile I don't know why but I enjoyed it this is my six slash seventh museum historical site I

I think I think I think we're good I don't I'm just telling you maybe don't care but I don't I don't

think I'm gonna be a guy like who's 72 going well the problem with the half tracks is that if you had a

“50 cow on that I don't I don't think I'm gonna be that guy but I think I think I'm good on on the”

World War 2 stuff for the rest of this trip I knew dinner would be a risk because I went back to the hotel which is not really located anything centrally and I was like let me just see if I get a steak and some rice or something like that it was fucking awful very family-based hotel kids just trashing the lounge which is fine I'm not my kids enough to deal with it there's a soccer team there I think they were soccer team I don't know what they're they're group was but they were just like a bunch of hot

jack guys and we all get along immediately and hung out um because the same interests so I do have these believe they're not friends for Manhattan Beach in the south so I don't know exactly when they're gonna be there so it's like I have a couple days to play with here so I think the move Sandra Pay is potentially back in the mix return visit um it'd be a couple hours away from

“I think where these guys go but when you look at hotel sometimes you're like do I really want to do this”

like six grand for a few nights I could buy a fucking sweet used herb bike for that amount which would be a very mean thing to buy a dirt bike a live Manhattan Beach not be able to drive anywhere um so yeah we had it did the south of France and we will update you then part six I'm in the south and I'm in anti we just finished up a couple days here and this is a little bit more my speed on tea little history brief here um because I don't want to do a

ton of history right now um museum doubt I don't want to look at any fucking paintings I think studying war for like multiple days in a row can do something to not that I'm bummed out or anything I just like I don't think I want to keep reading about war every single day but what I do want to do is tell you about the Gromaldi family so on tea it's little rock that juts out from the southern coast I wanted to hit it up before I guess I'll

share that story here a little bit but just to finish this Greek influence Roman influence the way the streets are set up um the way that water sources are set up the castle and then you have the Gromaldi family which originally is from Italy and they basically ruled on tea from 1385 to 1608 and then the French were kind of like what are we doing here again and more importantly if you are indemonico which I am not the Gromaldi family they're the line of rulers extends

from this family so originally it's it's this line of this family so they're still they're still making moves making it happen and the castle that they lived in shatou to Gromaldi is now what houses Picasso's museum here and on tea which I don't think I want to check out either so

okay I don't care the story that I guess I'll tell because it never it was an unreleased

when I did this trip will not the same trip but I went to the south of France for the first time ever I went to niece I went to can I went to San Tropez and that's where I kind of like fell in love of San Tropez it was like okay this it's bougie but whatever like this really is that fucking sick and I had this awesome experience hit the beach and the kids let me stay in the beach chairs for as long as I wanted oh excuse me they took to beach chairs and instead I could stay at the beach as long

as I wanted and I was just like this was just never happened in the States and like I stayed there till like 10 o'clock or something was just great and then I worked my way up to ex-on provolence which was fucking stupid and then even dummer I went to verdon where I wanted to see that lake and I rented a boat for the day and took an Uber up there and it was it was cool but like the boats are nothing like anybody can read them so there's no like boat hearto brag with that one whatsoever

but once your boy got out of the boat I went up and tried to like I dialed up Uber on the app and it was just like your fucked in French like the app was working but it was like you are you high and

“then I went to the restaurant because I think I was like four hours in linen tap point coming up”

from ex-on provolence which was in linen which was just basically another hot European city at that

point where I was like okay why would I come here but I was just trying to like go to as many places that possibly can the ups and downs of my travel experience and so I went to a restaurant in verdon and I was like hey where are the Uber's there like Uber and they're just like it was we didn't need a translator because he's just like you're fucking idiot there's no bear who bear you know and they were like fucking having people like a waitress and a host

just in some old guy with a cigarette they're like this asshole thought there'd be an Uber here

okay well it's a little later as like is there a hotel or something like a hotel here they

what are you fucking nuts so then it just comes down to a matter of money I'm like all right who has a car who wants to make some money that can drive me somewhere because I mean this is fucking ridiculous and then a dishwasher came out he was like oh my uncle he's the taxi driver he'll bring you to niece and I was like well I don't want to go to niece I was just in niece and I really like it I don't want to go back and my flight back is still days away

so I still have some days to work with I was like and it's also further away from here than other beach towns like why can't we go to NT but I can't we go to what is it fray horse probably isn't that but whatever it is that was another place I would have gone and they were like 300 euro and only niece only niece so I did tell this part of the story before too because I was annoyed as fuck we make it to niece get to the hotel and then he wanted like 400 bucks and I had to

“go to an ATM and that's when a guy who was dressed really nice asked me for money and I think I”

said the line on the podcast that he had a better chance of getting a hand job from me than a dollar because I was so fucking bad and then I was just yelling it would ever French I could come up with that taxi driver just being like you told me 300 euros and then you fucking charged me 400 drop me off here and then I'd already stayed at the hotel in niece and they liked me and they came out and they're like what is the commotion mr. or silo I was like this guy sucks and then I

gave him the 400 fuck whatever but then I was stuck in niece and I went to Monica which sucked it sucks it's not that fun if you wanted to go watch other people on south beach take pictures and front of rolls of races that they don't own thing monocos for you you also can't take your shirt off there so yeah I I don't want anything to do with niece but I want a lot to do with NT and I love it here now it's not the perfect beach spot but let's back up a little bit hotel check in

I got there super early after the flight from condonese and then a quick taxi ride over to NT it was super easy good ride didn't rip me off but I was so early at the hotel I was there at 11 am

I'm like this is never gonna work and Sophie my gal behind the desk was like your sweet is ready

because it's always great when you're by yourself you're in the sweet and I'm like fuck did I book did I pull a fucking Portugal here where I book some the biggest room in the entire place because

“I thought I was saying somewhere nice and honestly like there's only one the it's this cool little hotel”

where it's its own I shouldn't say it's its own little village because it's not that big but like the whole thing is designed where it's kind of like this center room center building with a pool and then these little villas off of it so it's not a traditional hotel by any stretch but my room was like two floors but it was one bedroom all of us it was like the second best version of any room that you could get there because there were obviously more expensive ones so first I'm thrilled I'm like

this is gonna be amazing and then she's like your room isn't ready and we have some time to kill so

I use the gym which I'm staying above I'm above the hot tub and the gym which is perfect for me worked out was totally fine so if he was super super apologetic about the entire thing I told her not to worry about it then I'm a very easygoing person and then she charged me double I'd already prepaid and I thought I was giving her my card for incidentals and I got the card back

“and I was like oh so 1600 I'm like that's a pretty high incidental and she was like that's”

for the room it's a guarded paid for the room and then due to lures you know she just looks at the computer and she's like oh my god and then it was kind of funny because she was like well I can't handle this right now I was like when do you think it can handle it those Sophie when do you think you can and we'll see how that refund goes because that's gonna be she was like now you just call them like how about you call them or you just refund the card we'll see how it goes but I want to get

to the room get everything kind of set up so the way on team works is like if you are looking at it on a map and you go up the left side of the coast there isn't really a beach it's kind of these scattered positions where there may be a little cut of sand and then there's 10 people down there and then that's packed or maybe there's like a little rock that you go sit on or then there's other just other little section or you can work your way up to the left side of the town

that kind of stretches out to the west again if you look at in team it's kind of this thing that just sort of drops down and there's a left side and then a right side of the coast the left side felt a little bit like south beach it's not bad it's not my favorite and the stores the restaurants you can kind of tell on the beach clubs or a little like you know if I were 20 something I probably would have really liked it but walking around up there again I didn't not like it but

I was like this isn't really for me and then kind of work my way down back again I bought a beach chair which I don't think is gonna be the best beach you ever ever had but yeah I grabbed a beach chair

which I did like these just cement stones staircase is like some of its news some of it's really

“really old and just kind of plopped down and jumped off this thing and then you're kind of navigating”

the rocks all time and started reading my patty heres book again where that fucking guy that lunatic debris shows up which is just crazy that I've read about this guy and back to back books the Jacob are a book and now the patty heres book maybe a revolution is a little hard and you guys think it is that's that's my two cents so beach it for a little bit and then change and then head up to the old town side which is the right side both location and the side that you want to be on it is fantastic because the huge marine up there

underneath the castle the Picasso museums over on that side and then there's those small little streets with all the different restaurants and cafes where you know you're just going to be on your toes trying to figure out looking at people's meals trying to figure out where you want to go where you want to eat and I found a place called Bosta Epasta I looked it up a little bit I made it in

“and it was fantastic an appetizer of kupo fried items very Italian I almost asked for a side of”

marinara which I know would have been like fucking disastrous to ask them for marinara and then actually it all tasted so good by itself I didn't need it so I ended up not even asking and then had some rigotoney thing I did notice this French family next to me because again the way they run these restaurants and I know it's like insulting to kind of rush your meal but if I owned a restaurant I would not be insulted especially when it's impossible to get a table at some of these places and I completely

lucked out like I thought they're going to turn me away and I was there close enough to close and they were like actually we can give you that one if you want it and they were nice about the

whole thing but I was watching a positive family straight ahead of me and I'll just never understand like

ordering a meal and not wanting to taste how that meal tastes because the dad just decided to go caught you a peppy then he went some rigotoney then he went some bolognese and he just made himself a big fucking plate and I'm like all right this guy doesn't care about individual taste all right fine and I know a lot of you agree with this approach the whole thing like who cares some of you would say it's all going in the same place but it starts off in the same place and the whole point is

for it to taste the way that you wanted to taste not it be some fucking smoothie of pasta flavors and on top everything else they did some charcuterie thing where it was like different ham some speck I was watching the whole thing go down and he just started building this pasta thing and then throwing all this different ham on it and then he started throwing a rugle on top of all that like this guy's a fucking barbarian but who knows maybe he served and he was like look

it's about getting the calories getting the energy in there and then the family broke out of deck of cards for like the six or seven of them the meal was done they'd had dessert and like who wants to play cards maybe because the place was closing it didn't fucking matter but I don't know all right observations over I debating getting a few drinks that was trying to do a night for the audience I had a glass of wine the moment passed when I was like I just don't I just don't

I'm gonna go home because you get a long long day ahead of us as I was walking through the town though I heard some live music and I was like this sounds interesting little trombone some trumpet some saxophone some drums maybe a tuba in there and then if like Savannah bananas were a band

“that's what this was they were just like 10 to 12 dudes all there was a woman on the tambourine”

I'm like seriously guys twenty twenty six we can't get her better instrument and they were just

doing a bunch of songs the first two were in French it was actually enjoyable and we know about

that street performer life if you're gonna do it you have you can't date it you have to be all the way in like when your buddies are like you're seriously gonna do this you have to be like yeah I'm fucking doing it and I'm psyched to do it and then you probably won't be friends with that guy anymore but these guys are super passionate so I'll give him that back to the hotel sleep gym on day two basic fit my spot brought my six dollar towel with me um made it up to the gym

and then right next to the gym I noticed a moui-tai gym called Lillabo not to be confused I think with a very unisex perfume slash cologne that did really well a few years ago went in and signed up for a class so we will tell you about that a little bit later after the gym hotel went down to Eden Rock which is the very bottom of on teab maybe it's cap done teab so you would know it the Eden Rock thing there looks like the coolest

fucking compound ever I wasn't gonna stay there and spend a much money there but it was sick and from

fucking walls everywhere and then work my way to the very bottom of on teab and walked around

all these rocks with my chair book some water yeti I still can't get any ice in it I can't open this lid and I even research a little bit I guess it's something that happens they're like

“you have to get a strap for this and I'm like okay let me buy the yeti assisted strap thing”

so I post up the chair started reading a little bit and it was you know look this is not beach the way and this is why I'm so spoiled where I live now because I'm like actually in hand beach beaches are kind of better than a lot of these other beaches maybe not this particular views the sides depending if you get a clear day looking at PV or Malibu but you know it's these kind of rock things you've got to navigate and then like once you find your spot

you then have to like navigate the rocks to get into the water so I was doing that back and forth

and it was great and I loved it but it's not fucking easy either and I get in and I'm looking at all these rocks that are covered with this like moss that is so incredibly slippery and you're just going like I have to kind of get down on all fours and work this out and I can only

“imagine like how bad because I've got that planar stuff my feet and spurs and so stepping on rocks”

is so fucking painful for me so I have to like crawl to get over it and then get into the water and then get back up and I'm like you know dudes are probably looking at me be like that guy fucking do you see that 68-year-old guy it's the oldest thing I do other than watching boats in the marina and trying to figure out what their docking procedures are those are the two oldest things that I do try to envision myself docking at both that I don't own and walking on rocks

to get into the beach and then getting out it's a disaster it's not a good look it's then they're like no one other that guy's by himself Jesus Christ he seems trying to get out of the water so then I decided to just kind of go for a walk and I had heard about Mason de Bacon the house of Bacon it's this amazing restaurant right off the water the people the hotel told me go ahead you'll be

“fine I'm like even just like an asshole I did bring a change of clothes but it was just into”

another short T-shirt steel but again a lot of these places they don't really fucking care because they know like it's hot out and it is hot here and I walked and I kept walking and I walked the nicest part of town and then I caught the sandy beach that was absolutely packed but I could see that backwards like okay well that's like the best sandy beach on the right side looking at some of the properties did a quick zero search 20 millipop 20 million euros so these places

just these massive sick fucking villas spectacular but again you can't always appreciate all the

scenery because there's these walls they're like 10 feet high in front of every single property for security reason I would imagine more than anything else but made it back to old town and then because of the movie tie class that I will have the next day I went into the pharmacy being like you know what you don't have with you you don't have your knees leave because there's something torn in there and it's my you know my switch kick and it's my plant leg I'm not

worried about throwing the kick with the right leg I'm worried about it planning as the nice to have a little extra compression around that knee so I went and do a pharmacy and the pharmacist I don't even know if she's technically like past any courses or anything but she was stunning she was working in the pharmacy and I was trying to explain to her that was like yeah do you have I'll be doing some kickboxing tomorrow do you have a knee you know like I'm still pretty functional

but you know do you have a knee brace or anything like that she was like what the fuck are you talking about and then I Google it and pulled it up on my phone and showed her the picture and she was like like that's like that's not gonna happen so couldn't find one then close it off with a meal decided to get some pizza they had a chicken meal in a stitch which you know I love and I looked at the menu I was like let me give this shot and it was great because it's kidden lied to me French kid

girls were just I fucking the entire time he's running around the restaurant waiting on tables and you know he's good looking kid you know what I'm gonna say and I went hey without chicken meal in days I'm like is that a fucking frozen thing is it like a chicken nugget you guys just throw on some arugula and he goes yeah because it's like a chicken nugget I was like thanks for telling me the truth when he was like yeah I was like no wonder you do so well with the ladies you're immediately

honest so pizza whatever bounced and went back to the hotel taxi rides I don't think I like the techno or EDM remix of going back to San Francisco I don't think it was needed um did a sunset spectacular the pictures will be on the YouTube early for bed because I've got

bought a sure that technically fits but it doesn't like actually fit that's why this is my favorite brand of all fucking time one bone I'm in love with everything that I put on today I've in fact

I would say I've never loved a brand more than one bone trust me you guys are gonna romanticize

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that is actually built for you use code bar stool for 20% off to see the difference first hand after one wear you'll understand what standard fits don't make the cut part seven all right I survived my movie tie class with Sam at his gym he fought Thailand I think he used you know he was he was great he was really great but he was definitely critical of some of the stuff that I was doing I don't know what I was expecting expected you better

I did not just not gonna get my plant foot turned 180 degrees the other way on every single kick

just not gonna happen some of the striking stuff so the balance stuff we stopped in the middle of

some of it and was like working on balance and I was like yeah he's not wrong he's not wrong so I was hoping to do a little bit better but I did not but it was quite the workout just an

“absolute faucet leaving the gym think Patrick can you get the free throw line and now you're ordering”

an Uber and you don't want to be that guy who just gets into the car and you're like all right so I wasn't ordering fancy cars because it doesn't really matter and I was trying to be like I kids are anyway I'm going to stop sweating and you're like you know you're not going to stop sweating for at least 45 minutes and I feel like walking around it's fucking hot I changed T-shirts immediately

that thing's drenched and so then I'd just after I don't know 20 or so minutes I ordered a car

and I got it and I told the driver hey look like if it's sweaty legs on your seats I don't want to do that Tia so I'll run into the hotel and grab something some disinfectant some towels and I'll clean out the back of your car I want to be courteous I want that five star rating he was cool about it he's like look you know we're picking up people at the beach sand salt and movie tie sweat so all right back at the hotel I have a bunch of time to kill before my next move

and I checked out and they were great they were super accommodating and I said hey look like I'm going to check out I want to leave my bags here you know the whole deal and they're like don't even worry about it so I was checked out of the room left the bags with them and then they let me shower at the gym area just to get some of this movie tie stink off of me and then I'm going to spend the afternoon in town grab some to eat and then head over to the beach before I go to

can to meet up with some friends from Manhattan Beach so not a lot to report on the afternoon part of this went to boss the apostate again terrific it was glad I got there right before the 2pm afternoon Mediterranean shut down not every place closes but usually the better places close and so was

“able to house some more food almost got the exact same meal I think I got the sausage oh that's”

right I got the sausage bowl in the days but they did it without any tomato whatsoever so like the sausage and this version of the pasta is kind of salted enough that it works I'll tell you though I probably would have just loved a red sauce on there and I did ask the waiter after I ate the whole thing because it still tasted great I said hey do you ever like do a scoop of of marinara or the red sauce that you use on the rigatoni is anybody like can you do that and he gave me this

look and he's like sometimes he do it for kids but I didn't ask but or brought my beach chair over which isn't great I'm afraid it's gonna cut me every single time I grab it brought the beach chair over the sandy town part of the anti beach which is just a ton of people you know so when over there read for a little bit and then off of that you know jumping into the water just kind of like killing some time before I have to take a taxi probably like I don't know less than an

hour away anyway so I wasn't ready to do any of that kind of stuff but I'm fed I've got it the nice work out in I've got this beach chair that I wanted to do with I'm already packed up I have to go back to the hotel to get all my stuff and so I was I was reading and finishing up my day at the town beach just to get back into the salt water even though it was just fucking mobbed with people there was this little French kids sitting there and he was just like sitting on a rock and as I was

leaving and I do kind of love this move when I'm just over the beach chair I know I don't want to bring it with me to the next stop I'm leaving and I was like hey do you want this chair and he was like blown away so there you go pay a forward so on my way thick can nothing to really report there a few couples again somebody who's a pretty close friend of mine from Manhattan beach

I don't know eight or nine I'm sorry I mean I don't think the kids are going to listen to this

“although there was one of the parents it was like we do listen to your podcast when the kids”

can't fall asleep and the smudger voice comes on out cold so there's going to be a market there the village is in grass which is north of can and the villa was just awesome it's exactly what you would hope it would be of course walls again everything gated up roll in stone driveway into this old farmhouse type deal with a massive front yard maybe an orchard even and then the back a pool with a guest house in the pool house and then a gym and a fitness cold tub son of the whole deal

so I'm just sitting there being like how do I help kick in for a little bit of this because you knew it had to be not the cheapest thing the kids it was nice to be around kids I do really like kids but they were letting me have it I feel like they were like new blood new guy in town and he

can't do shit to us and that was like they were letting me know I felt like a guy in the first day of

prison and it was just like all right we're going to you know fresh meat here we're going to fuck with this guy fresh fish shoshank redemption and one of the little girls is like you look old I can probably do this person here so very very good observation anyway that night went to a

“dinner club in can by Palm Beach I think is what it's called and I like can when I had been”

here before four years ago it is smaller than certainly watching smaller than niece and smaller than Santa Pei although I don't know I can't feel bigger now it felt like a little bit more modern in maybe the area that we were hanging out I did get a super important agent phone call on a TV show that I had sold and I was like wait a minute I'm like what a great story this is going to be

can film festival my first show got green lit while I was in can with friends we're going right

to the white wines after this if this goes through and the pretty revealing thing about an agent where they call you with bad news is you don't even need like it's the first note of a song although the first note of a song cannot be the greatest note and then you can get there the first note from an agent giving you bad news it's like you don't even need it is record time where you know

“this is going to be a note and that's what it was and I said hey look I'm in the south of France”

so I'm not going to I'm not going to be determined to have a worse time so we were on the phone for like two minutes I was like all right back to the dinner share that with no one big table lot of kids couple nannies we'll get to them I did find it a little strange that the restaurant house entertainment was this older guy singing sexual healing to a six-year-old I don't know I don't know what that is maybe it's a French thing or not but serenading a six-year-old and like

just the little isn't a lyrics man so all right no one is no one like it wasn't discussed and it seemed like the kid liked it so maybe everybody had a great time but I was just like if I were a lounge singer I think I would 12 and up if you're going that song I would think we're not going out we're going back but the nannies in particularly one I thought about our future for probably five or six hours minutes and like what our life would be like together and you know what she

liked my friends and is there gonna be a language barrier you know was she gonna be confused by the lack of cleanest that you get with me and then you know one of the wives is like she

just had her third kid do like three weeks ago I was like well you know she is nanny so

maybe maybe anyway so back to the house right to bed cold tub in the morning finished up haddy herst this book let's just talk about look we know in the the world you know when how do I want to say this there are a ton of things on the male female bargaining table that's suck for women but you know what doesn't suck is if haddy herds were a dude there's no way that she gets out of jail then gets a pardon. Petty herds kidnapped sucks

but then immediately joins the group the kidnapser sleeps with the guys um it helps out in a bank robbery that leads to the death of just a normal fucking citizen whips out of machine gun and fires it at this sporting good store which is not actually not that far the area not that far from where I live now and you know eventually she goes to jail for this but then Jimmy Carter

blown part in the last hours of Bill Clinton's presidency and when I read the book and I got done

“with it I'm like this wouldn't happen to a dude no dude would be able to say well you know they”

kidnapped me but fuck a lot of stuff going on they made me sleep with all the women and then you know a robbed a few banks and somebody did die and I also pulled out a machine gun and a parking lot of a motels and kidnapped a teenager in the process all the way to go to the movies together um you know just kind of mixed up and see you know just that time my life you know it's just kind of add a lot of thoughts you know some stuff of my dad and really fully come to grips with so um yeah and then the

art thief same deal finished that book or close to finishing it and it's 200th F's by the man character who's a dude who sucks but his girlfriend was the lookout for 200 plus thefts in all of these museums like one of the most staggering you could say impressive ruthless I mean the guy sucks if you read about it but it's a really good book but the girlfriend was there for almost all of it and she walks so look point women on that one all right uh back to bed next day we've got a boat excited about

“the boat checking out the deal on um the control panels follow pentas very familiar with that engine”

so if they need to me in a panch I felt pretty comfortable you took out the seabob in uh surmer which was a few towns over from where we were seabob's you know it's gonna fight you a little bit not quite sure what you're supposed to do it looks cooler probably in the James Bond deal I was

thrilled to use it it was a lot of fun first time using it don't know that it's like hey I have to

use this every time but it was a great group we had launch around the boat cruising around and you know there's uh there's a lot worse ways to spend your day then we get back to the dock I did help on the tie up again you know I thought I was just like I'm here for you man to the captain even though there was a language barrier so a little refresher back at the villa and then that night it was kind of funny because like me and the one younger dude that showed up to visit uh you know

we're like should we just go out tonight you and I and then there was this barbecue like a family style barbecue cookout whatever I know barbecue's like very different in the north and the south not even in France in the States but it was just a big old cookout and it was like friends of other people and we're like all right let's just go and it was I'm so glad that I didn't end up doing something else it was one of the most impressive incredible collections of meats that I've ever

experienced in any dining setting whatsoever they had some guy from Argentina cooking up everything

“I think the man of the house was really maybe the the inspiration behind everything like appetizer”

chickens I'm just smashing cutlets asking about the seasoning they gave me the seasoning to fly back with sausage which again I don't really like but now I've missed a mention I should say sausage twice now during this part so not a huge sausage guy like look if you can go to riggly and pound one of those fucking things and you know more more power to you I myself want nothing to do with

it breakfast sausages never zero okay but they're like hey we have these Italian sausages or I guess

they went to San Rimo and picked them up and I'm like fuck all right let me try it and I ate like three of those and then the tomahawk steak and every other goddamn thing it was just this absolute meat fest and there was Capri Sons two for the kids which was great really really just great family set up the whole thing the hosting was off the charts they brought out this dessert they brought out this appetite this like sort of I would say first class version of French helico that was like

fifty years old and then we started racing with the kids and then the whole thing turned on me it got real ugly like the kids were just like fuck this old guy and yeah that's it so woke up the next day with a big decision as I sit here and try to figure it out because the Sweden things clearly out debate of whether or not to fly to Corsica but looked at that that's a huge pain in the ass then I was like should I fly to Sardinia but then I could go to Barcelona and then

go back and I'm like I don't know that I want to do that but maybe I could get out of Barcelona to direct it's just sort of open do I just run a car and go to San Rimo and then do the boat thing and talented Mr Ripley it without the jazz club and it gave you that really likes me and the murders so you know I'd probably just a lesser version than that but really is I'm sitting here I'm sifting through the different options on Delta's app and then go and like what if you just

went home six man Manhattan Beach although I don't know if I'm built for it anymore it is a grind without drugs for 48 hours in town but it is an epic epic setting but I'm like you're really going to miss six man so anyway as I'm sifting through all the different options I go you know what one of your favorite places in the world is two hours away so just go to Santa Pek okay our final part of this French travel log which is all gonna be France instead of Sweden

fell in love with it I've told people like hey I know it's bougie I know it's rich I know it's busy

“I know it's hot but it really is fucking incredible and knowing it was only two hours away I'm like”

you already know that you love it so why not do that instead of driving a San Rimo from Cam because I was even talking is this one Italian guy and he's like yeah it's all right you know he's like you could go to San Rimo or Santa Pek like what the fuck are you doing so it's a two-hour drive from where I was traffic wasn't great getting in midday like sometimes you get really backed up coming in a town about 45 minutes outside of Santa Pek there's a monster truck rally going on it hadn't

started yet demolition derby the whole fucking deal and I was like man it might be kind of sick to do that but that's not why you go to Santa Pek you don't go there for the monster trucks four

years ago like I said I made it to town and I absolutely loved it I loved the beach I loved the town I

loved checking out the different boats and again like there are places that are bougie that you just don't feel accepted and you could get caught up in all that kind of stuff and like even though whatever you know I can go to any of the restaurants or I guess I could go to any of the clubs and do whatever I want I don't really want to necessarily do all that stuff so I don't feel like left out even if I'm dressed like an asshole most of the time because a lot of people are dressed

like it is the last night out of their lives and there's a huge like I'm not acting like because four years ago I went here and now oh the secrets out all right I'm not yeah I'm not like a pioneer here whatsoever guilty mesh but this is it's noticeably more people than just even four years ago and I do not understand how the influencers pay for all this stuff I don't understand how they can all stay it because Santa Pek is so fucking expensive like looking at

hotels in anticipation of coming here it's like man you know three four granted night for some of these reasons now you don't have to do that you can stay a little further outside of the town the place I stayed at which is the same hotel I stayed a couple of years ago was less you know like over a grand but you still don't love it especially when you're by yourself you're like I don't know if I can spend that much money I even stayed in the Louis Vuitton I switched because

the place I was in was sold out four years ago and the people that ran the hotel were awesome to me

“and I was like I think I'm gonna extend one more night and they're like you can stay at the Louis Vuitton”

place there's one room open and I'm like how bad is that gonna be it wasn't great but again it's it's there are so many hotels like right in town there are these unbelievable spots and if you want to do that you can pull it off more power tea I just am like I have to have three nights and getting a hotel bill for 12,000 euros you know I don't I don't want to do that all right so history 4,000 people year-round here 80,000 people per day July and August it feels

again different I think those numbers are a little outdated as far as the history goes I think the

Romans were the first to turn this into like a villa place because there's some incredible properties

outside of the town um it was the first coastal town liberated in World War II it was still pretty much a sleepy fishing village throughout its history and then Bridget Bardot who there's all sorts of places that honor her she was in the movie and God created women in 1956 and apparently like after that the place completely blew up and why that club 55 is such a big deal even though when you go there if you're expecting it to be wild like it isn't you could maybe

“be underwhelmed by it but like that's the famous beach club um and I think after that just decades”

since then this has become one of the international spots and it's the yachts that are off the coast and the beach clubs you know and I look at the yachts and I see the tenders coming in and they grab bottles of champagne they grab some fucking Caesar salad that probably suck and they head back out of their tenders to the yachts and they're out there and they're having a good time and I get jealous but the jealous in a good way I think jealous can be a good

emotion at times I mean there's probably more to life than wanting a wide beam but I don't know what it is right now the name centre pay that is for the Christian martyr San Torpez it may it may be just be centre pay but not it's TOR as opposed to TRO so the story behind him is nearo brother nearo uh beheaded him in 65 AD um nearo by the way because Sophie coming him isn't the news the nearo would not be a fan of Sophie coming him um but they chopped up Torpez here

beheaded him and then kept the head and then dumped his body into a rotten boat into the water with a rooster and a dog this is where the story you're laying out I don't know if this happened guys but whatever we'll go with it so his beheaded body in this rotten boat they send it off the

have like like as if the dog and rooster get together and ration this out although then there's the

“exercise where you can be like okay well you can't leave the dog with the rooster so you'd have to”

drop off the rooster than leave the dog with the body so the legend goes that there is this vision of a woman that lived in the village of Santa Pei before it was named Santa Pei and then the next day that vision was executed fully and that this body shows up in the boat and she knew that it was going to happen and then apparently the boat was the the rooster flew off and then the dog ran to another town they named the dog town after the dog they named another town after the rooster and the

body was completely untouched throughout its journey so anyway then they're like well cool let's name that after this bad guy so there you go first night first day just a reset and I didn't care you know I know it's like hey let's go but it's been almost two weeks so it's like hey you also could just

sort of take it easy here and you don't have to go to like a million things I've been to all the

museums here before already so I did a lot more exploring then so it was just kind of like let me get a good dinner in here let me get a good night rest and get a nice chimed day in there tomorrow and that was the plan although as I was walking through the square there's like this main square before you get in all the shops and towards the docks and the first time I experienced it I just loved it because you were like hey you could tell me I was in Italy Spain France anywhere and that's

what's kind of the beauty of the Mediterranean is that it's just this mixing pot because of all the invasions and everything but here we're just watching old guys play bachi and there's these bands that are playing in these restaurants and like you can do the absolute like hey we want to have

the most expensive best experience that ever had for an entire weekend you can do that but you can

also go and just sort of chill on you can like grab a fucking beer and then watch guys play bachi or they'll invite you to play bachi like I was so as I was walking by these guys in English guy turns me and goes hey I'm not gonna do the accent he's like hey do you want to play 1000 bucks a game and I expect that I would be good at bachi pretty quickly and it probably is some other Italian name for this that I'm not getting right but just so everybody's able to play along here

and I didn't feel like fucking looking up up I'd expect to be good at this sport quickly but you know you don't want to be that much of a soccer and go yo where who who who which through where will I throw it you know and then you're down for grand I'm gonna do this to prove this to some Tom Hardy fucking wannabe because as soon as I said no he called me a pussy and he did in a

“little playful way but just a note on the British men out there I think the Tom Hardy thing is”

fucked up a lot of you guys and you've got the neck tattoos you know you've got some arms to a lot of you guys with shorter you're with these women who like I mean the variants of like it's like a cam Thomas game I'm like is this a good game like I think it is and then the next game you're like shit I have no idea what to make of him because of the contouring what to make up I'm like what is going on with the nose there like is that a prosthetic is it good is it bad and the brits will

have these like not all brits again we don't want to generalize here but there's this this 2026 version of the British male which I don't know which town he's from but he just kind of carries himself and it's like look I think Tom Hardy's fucking cool too but you're not Tom I'm not Tom none of us are so fucking chill out a little bit so I didn't really appreciate getting called the pussy even though he's trying to be a little playful about it but I think it was probably the

bruskies and I don't know maybe watching warrior or something although not the most English version of Tom Hardy and in the movies so yeah you're asking where I got dinner I went right to the rotisserie chicken foot stand and in fucking care I know I'm in Santa Pei I grabbed a whole fucking chicken and some potatoes and it tasted awesome because I was like here we go I'm getting a

“full meal all right so that's what that's what we did so next day get to the gym bought”

towel number five in the trip tight gym packed good looking people and it though telling you that right now different gym than where I worked out when I was here last time because when I asked the hotels okay is that gym so we're in the guys like it is still there but where you want to go is the other one that's the gym you roll in and be like man this is fucking small had a buy towel like you said wanted a buy water they didn't have a key for the cooler so

tough day for the sales that day what was the most fascinating part about this gym is they had this video that was running on this like 75 inch screen because the gym itself was just like one room think of like a garage even though it wasn't a garage but think of like the size of a two car garage and then just equipment everywhere and it was tough like you're just fucking on top of each other so not ideal but whatever they had enough stuff get it in figure it out but while you're

working out there's this screen being played and it's like a guy who's jacked and his wife who's like one of those you know that rare breed of like jacked woman who's just obviously like spend her life

injecting shit into herself while you're like watch you know like you do your exercise you're

done minute rest 90 seconds depending on what your routine is maybe going heavy two plus minutes and she's just injecting herself I was all in French so I don't know what she was saying subtitles didn't help and I'm like what better way to get locked in and motivate yourself than watching somebody just fire in some shit and then she would then it was her driving to the gym and then just crushing fucking leg day after whatever it was she was pushing there so after the injections

headed over to club 55 and the routine last time around what I love so much about it was that they closed at five but then the guys were like ages go by a towel in the gift shop and then we'll dig a hole for you like a sand chair and then you can stay here as ladies you want I stayed there until the sunset and it was just magical right little turnout just awesome and then hyped up the beach for a while so it was this one of those nights where I'm like this is fucking killer all right so

this time around I was excited to go again and again it's chill it's not wild it's if you want the DJs and a crazy fucking party and yeah there's a restaurant that's inside that plays music and there's people that are singing at times but it's still relatively a little chill so some people go into it being like this this fucking thumbprint of a beach this is what everybody talks about

“like this isn't wild and it isn't but if you want to go and jump in and out of the water which”

feels incredible nice sandy beach and yeah the European beach here things sucks and you're on

top everybody else you can run a hut but I ended up with like an eastern European family around me and they're just so quiet all the time that ended up being fine and I'm just sitting there reading my book jumping in out of the water it was a little crazy because there's fires hundreds miles away and people were asking me like hey are you nearing this stuff I was like now I'm so far away from all of that but on that day on the beach you actually could feel it and smell just the burning

wood and all of that smoke traveling so it wasn't like you were seeing hardcore smoke in the air but you were feeling it and you could smell it while you're on the beach but it didn't necessarily ruin it the other thing that happened last time I was there is there was this massive black guy think

Kevin Willis asking your wife if she wants a massage at the beach just absolutely jacked

and then he had jeans on that had like no jeans I know this is gonna make any sense but it was a

“full-on speedo no secrets whatsoever whatever you want to imagine go ahead that's what it looked”

like and yet they were sort of jeans but again no jeans and then this guy would go up to women and be like do you want a massage looking like the guy from the seven up commercials in the 80s and you know yeah okay and then it's just full-on like are they having sex like what does this guy get paid to dry hump your wife on the beach well he's not working there anymore or he wasn't there the day that I was there there were some Asian women asking if you wanted to foot massage no

problem there's a snack cart going around although the biggest advertisement on the side of it wasn't popsicles wasn't ice cream wasn't cold drinks it was a massive donut filled with cream and there's just nothing I can think of that I'd be like man super hot beach day little forest fire in the air you know to be right right now a fucking massive donut with a ton of cream in it uh finished my book finished the Hearst book finished the art thief book

I'm on a run here the last three books whether Shigwara Patty Hearst or this art thief brat where I hate the people I'm reading about they're all terrific books but I've got to find a book although that's like do you read about LBJ Carol again do I get back into that because I couldn't stand him for 700 pages even though I love the book so I I seem to be on this stretch of reading about main characters I absolutely can't stand um so on to dinner solo Italian place

“Marcos little further way if you want to tip on the restaurants at San Tropez just like everything”

else don't go to the ones next to the boats don't cut any of the ones on the main streets not saying that there are really good ones but the best places to eat and the best places to drink are you just gonna do a little work and get off on a side street and do some of the alley streets and every single time those restaurants are better it's unbelievable like you would think I just can't express enough how how much higher the hit rate is once you get off the beaten

path a little bit all right um did almost get turned away because it's a nicer place it was an awesome room live music going on but I looked at the menu was all over it and you know they have a meeting I've seen this meeting too many times as solo traveler like to really don't know what this guy ain't here by himself and then once I got in there they gave me like the worst table possible and they said do you mind having the worst table I was like I expect the worst table I'm just really happy

to roll me out here in a wheelbarrow and the waiters are cool as hell and it was like a really cool

“back bar room so it actually looks like not just a great restaurant but an awesome place to kind”

of hang out there maybe a pre dinner date drink if you're dating in this entropy area and probably listening the dinner was just awesome and it was perfect and after that dinner I'm like tonight is the night you thought about it in on tea but didn't really happen there was really no chance in bio there was con I didn't want to go out in can was different was it the family if we're going to drink it was going to be back in the house and my tonight is the night so when over to

that Irish bar right by the marina where I hung out the South African boat captains and bunch other guys years ago which actually ended up being that was my birthday it was kind of funny because I forgot it was my birthday at the time and anyway so I'm I'm I'm trying right I'm like all right got a couple drinks let's see what happens you've got to stay out one of these nights have some stories and I just didn't have it I'm like this I just don't have it I don't want to

waste a day tomorrow I want to get up and go to the beach so I start walking back through town

“back to the hotel and then I run into a former NBA player that I know a little bit not same”

were best friends but enough to say hey man and he looks at me and goes resello he's like holy shit huge hug he's with a deep crew he's like where's your crew like you're looking at it and then it's a bit like oh it's he got fucking loser which I totally understand and then there was a wife that was like what is your deal she because then he's like oh come with us we're going to this Asian place not racist he was like did now it's it's her sushi so I I was getting a bit of the like

what's this guys deal again you know over the wise and girlfriends and one of the wise is like let me see your hand is convinced that I'd remove my wedding ring and that there was going to be some sort of wedding ring tan there and I was like I'm not married and then my guy was like how he's not he's not fucking married he's not he's not like and then one of them was like are you like a hooker guy just super addicted hookers I was like now I've heard that theory before I'm not

I like to cuddle too much um so that wasn't the case and then we rolled in uh and it was a really good spot I don't know that they were ninjas I don't think it was the same dress but these guys are kind of dressed up in some Japanese garb so and then they had like a hole like you know how clubs will do these sort of presentations but it was clubby but it wasn't clubby and that it wasn't overwhelming and they had the best table and the whole set up and yeah I mean there was still some

trepidation about like this guys just fucking walking around by yourself your friends with this guy and then another current NBA player showed up and gave me the finger which I don't know I maybe he doesn't like ten good minutes maybe things that goes too long but then somebody else was like

“I think you think he's someone else so we hugged a bit but I it didn't feel real at all and then”

there was always the hey you know why don't you get up on the table and dance with this and I

I stood on the table no one in the girls is like you don't dance either huh you're fucking by yourself and Sandra Bay and you don't dance I was like I usually don't dance on table with plates of sushi around silver so now not really then there was a pivot to this side club we were escorted in they seem to have this whole thing locked in pretty pretty good I think that's what this world does certainly better than I do and there was a moment there like 130 there's

this moment and you're like all right do you just fucking go for it because if you do the sun's coming up and that means tomorrow's gonna suck and you know one of the guys is like why don't you just stay and then I was like I don't think anybody's doing this because I want me to pay for stuff but hung out for a little bit was like I'm not gonna dance in here and you're in a club and it was like a club club which is very different than the Japanese sushi place with an

inches who again I don't know what their training really was but some great car so went back to the place woke up the next day with a little white wine hangover but little water boarding and work out three hours later right as rain was awesome like hey little hungover but now I feel great and I'm ready to go back to the beach to close out my last day here I got my head shaved it was getting pretty gross that could have been an issue the night before in the shaving of the

head and a bit of a beer trim which was 75 euros they were done shave my head after two minutes

I got a hair splinter in my lip never experienced that before I don't know if the

courseness of the hair is getting thicker I don't know what the grit rating would be on some of these beard hairs but I was like why is my lip hurting you know what is going on and then I would poke it and I felt the hair out of there so I had to like pull out this hair splinter a little bit later on again first time that's ever having it suck and then I decided to go back to the beach but I was going to do the budget version of 55 because I didn't feel like buying the chair

in the umbrella and the whole deal knowing that I was only going to be staying there for a little while so I brought another beach chair that I bought at a grocery store which was much better than the one I bought an antique even cheaper than went up to some of the locals in bought an umbrella had to hago them a little bit he's like how much do you actually want to pay I'm like look it's

fucking disaster I ended up having to take the whole thing down because this is afraid it was going to

impale another kid I did want to head over to the club 55 gift shop and the thing is they didn't close they like stayed open to seven plus so I was like I should have just gone there a whole reason I didn't do that because then I want to pay for anything knowing that they were going to

“close in like two hours and instead I think they stayed open like a couple hours later than they”

normally would so I don't know if that's like a Saturday Sunday thing or what but that was what was going on there but it was fine it was fine and I needed a new book so I bought 1984 which will cheer me up on a thought on 1984 by George Orwell who the Portuguese loved this book I saw this book in every single fucking bookstore window I saw on like the eight towns that I went to in Portugal and February I know in today's political climate there are some thoughts there's a lot of people out there

they're worried about the future that we're headed down this path those stuff I gotta tell you we're not even close to 1984 so when people start getting upset about like I'm a care who the leader is like oh we're heading down this path big brother all these different things we're not drinking thimbles of oily gin okay we don't have to have sex in a bush secluded from anybody noticing we don't have our kids turning or so turning us in why don't he kids but you understand kids are

not turning parents into the thought police and having them executed and being proud of doing it with the young spies initiative by big brother so there's plenty of things we can plan about in 1226 but we are not we're not close to 1984 after 140 pages in all right but I again I don't know that it's improving my mood by reading that kind of stuff went back into the town it is the last stretch here looked at paddocks for a little bit just not there but I love to do one day just not there

look I just bought it in Borla for 30 bucks yeah I gotta I gotta make sure I'm I'm being responsible here I went to the grocery store wanted to grab some fruit just nothing makes your day better than fruit the fresh produce fruitos also known as produce not that great in Santa Pei shot head dinner grabbed a pizza at this point fairly over okay I want to finish this whole trip with a thought here running through all the different towns whether it's

Santa Pei which is still probably number one but if we did Brazil rankings like let's be realistic here it's like saying hey I want to get a place in Colorado and ski a little bit and then starting your search and aspect it's just like okay this is going to be pointless uh doville probably maybe number one but again it's colder it's English channel it's not the Mediterranean so that seems a little ridiculous I say on tea maybe third with this can for appearances in some category so you

can't really compare it to this bayou was cool wouldn't want to live there con probably my least favorite even though I love the castle I love the museum and everything okay but the primary objective

of all of this was to head to Normandy to head to the Normandy region and I always wanted to do

kind of this roar to sweep through and see all the sights and I'm really glad that I did I don't know that I expected to feel anything when I was at the cemetery again any personal relationship to it isn't really there my grandfather wasn't World War II he was a tail gunner and he was in Sicily so he had nothing to do with France but I think about him and I thought

“about him during this time and he died when I was I think six and I actually remember the night”

because my mother and father drove over to his apartment and you know it's my father's father and nobody had heard from for a couple days I guess and I remember I was in the backs of the car and then my little sister was probably too so she wasn't going to be exactly paying attention what was going on but I remember just kind of like okay what's going on and they didn't want to say anything and they were worried that he had died and he did he had died and so my father wanted to

do his apartment and I remember it like took a while from to come out which I imagine is something

a lot of you have maybe had to experience first hand you know you're sitting there with a

my dead mother or dead father you know I guess he was like sitting up in the kitchen I think and I remember being like mom you know let's get out of here what's going on and and then my parents and what I tell me what's going on is a little kid and then I think after a little while maybe my father collecting his thoughts or whatever that moment is supposed to be he came out to the car and like leaned in and told my mother and she started crying and then

there was an ambulance and I was still so confused right and it was again it was my parents looking out for like a little kid they didn't want to say anything at least right away so the reason why

“I'll always remember that apartment I always remember him it's not specifically because of that night”

it's that he had all these world war two metals and there was all these pictures you know of him being in the army and he was the epitome of like what an old man was like to me he was just

just a man of his time right and I think the war shaped him in ways you know

probably more bad than good but it was it was something I've always thought about is like I've

read more about it and read about so many of these men that went over there and the increase in production in America and you know going like hey this is enough of this shit like we had to go over there and then everybody rallying to this in a very prideful way and I know what times that generation has been written about is the greatest generation and maybe there's selfishness I think that was a Tom Brokelle that wrote it I mean he may have written that book

and you know we could get fucking cynical about everything because that's all we fucking do now and then go well you know back in the 40s people were much more submissive and impressionable

“and that's why they went ahead and did it but I'll tell you this like I'm all the time”

then I've read about different conflicts and the number of times like at the conclusion of the story you just go what an incredible waste of fucking time, a waste of lives, a waste of of resources setting you know cultures back generations and all of this stuff like reading about the cold war the the the summary is one sentence complete waste of fucking time right um whether I've read about stuff in the Middle East and it's like hey let's try this no let's try this guess what

none of it works none of it works so when you compare a war war two to all of these other things that we have more time removed from like war war two feels like it was something that had to happen it was fought for the right reasons and the people that came back it was it was a real like I'd like to think it was hey there's actually no way of debating what the motivations were here and I'm sure you can I've read about some of the stuff but like give me a fucking break all right

“let's let's try to actually look at the greater good of of what this was and so that's why I”

think that war in particular like there's there's a reverence for it because it feels like hey this was this is something it had to be done and the fact that if you were of a military age back then it was expected of you and not just expected of you to enlist you wanted to and this is where it kind of comes back to a personal thing too because I remember I had this other uncle part of the province crew on River Ave so it would have been I believe

my grandmother who's married to the grandfather that I'm talking about my grandfather's brother right so this is a brother-in-law situation and there was this one uncle who I remember going to visit him to my god it was as if they had a designer for the home and they said okay what we really want to emphasize here is if you're a little kid and you come here this is the worst fucking experience of your life and boy did they accomplish that it sucked to visit there and look when

you're a little kid going to old people's houses kind of in general isn't that great of a time unless you just have like you know whatever then there's like a rich grandfather or grandmother and

“like who wants to go on the slide again that was not the case for us and I remember like”

even if I was scared of my grandfather this uncle was never fun there was never any part of it

that was ever fun and there were no metals because he didn't fight in the war and this is something that I never quite understood about this dynamic between the grandfather and uncle is that my grandfather apparently and people told me about this later was like the reason they had had so much conflict wasn't about marrying a sister it was more about like my grandfather had zero respect for this guy because he didn't fight and you know you'd go and you'd sit there and you eat and the uncle was just

miserable about everything and he just would work you and he'd get pissed to you no matter what you did and I wasn't even like a shitty little bratty kid I just would be like I'm gonna get in get out

I don't want to eat peas like get me out of here and then he's always on your case about what you

did or didn't eat and then it just wasn't it wasn't ever fun and then as I got older and I would talk to my father you know like hey what about this or what about that and he was like that was kind of the root of the dynamic was that whatever their their their difference as was there it was an unsolvable deal my grandfather was never going to have respect for him because he didn't fight and there's just something I thought about when I looked at all

the stuff in the museums I looked at the unfortunate absurd death tolls so many of the countries and you're like okay but this was something that felt like celebrated feels like the wrong word but I feel like there should be very little doubt about honoring the motivations to win this war because there's a lot where I wouldn't ever say that

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