Channel: Good Mythical More
YouTube Video ID: _KUW70dtJOc
Episode Number: 3074
Transcript
What kind of hijinks did this guy get into in Italy? Welcome to Good Mythical More. So you went to Italy. Finally, I went to Italy, something that Jessie and I have been talking about doing for years. You've been wanting to go for a long time. We talked about doing it for our 10-year anniversary. It didn't work out. We talked about doing it for our 20-year anniversary, and then COVID happened, and we just celebrated 25 years. That's amazing. That's amazing. And I- I've topped you by one and- I wa- It's, it's not a competition … but I'm not gonna point that out. And I'm gonna catch up with you. Okay. The, uh- But it'll be because of death. May it be because of death. May it be because of death. Why would we say that? Well, I don't wa- I- Why would you agree to that? Hold on. Why would you agree to that? I guess, no, I would- The only way I can be married longer than you is if you die before me. I'd rather die than divorce my wife. And you just agreed to it. I would rather die than divorce Christy. May it be to the death So anyway, we went to Italy. Uh, Jenna, I know that you're excited to hear about this because you're a traveling woman. Yes, I am. I haven't been to Italy, so I'm excited to hear all the stuff. Any advice you got, give me it all. Okay. We're, we're on the boot. So great question. The only reason I ended up going to Italy at all was because you had been slated for jury duty. That's right. And w- and it's like when you're g- when you got jury duty I c- w- we… If we're not w- who- one guy's not here, the other guy can't do anything. Might as well go to Italy. Might as well go to Italy. I mean- 'Cause originally I was gonna do, like, a local thing, but we were, oh, you know, like, that week I could just be out of the country. Um, oh, and by the way, Jenna? Yes. I just got a jury summons. No. I just saw that came through. Again? A, another one. You, you get one every year. They want me to be on a jury so bad, I guess I'm gonna have to do it. I also moved my jury duty. I know, after all that. So that … So, because I was like, "Well, Rhett's going to Italy. I wanna go on vacation, too." And so you just moved your jury duty. Yeah. And so now I'm gonna go to Italy again. Ha. Hey, and then I got jury duty, you can go to Italy. Ha. No, that's not how it works. Anyway, so- You could always just hold me under … making the decision as to where we would go, that was a big thing, because there's so many beautiful places you can go. Obviously you've got Florence, you've got Rome, you've got Venice, you've got the Amalfi Coast, and lots of other places that I haven't mentioned. Jessie and I wanted to have a somewhat relaxing vacation, and so we just made the sort of what might, you might call it gut-wrenching decision to just completely take Rome out of the equation. Like, I'm not even gonna go to the big main place with all the stuff, because I'm just gonna take it out of the equation and we'll go back for another time. Okay, yeah. And so many people had talked up Florence, because it w- they're like, "It's walkable, and there's art, and the food is good," and all this stuff. So we were like, "Okay, well, let's do Florence, and then let's go down to take the train for the second half of the trip to the Amalfi Coast," because I've just seen how beautiful that is, and I was on, in Croatia a couple years, or last year, couple years ago? And that's the other side of the- And that's the other side of that sea. Oh. And it's beautiful, and I've always heard that Italy's even more beautiful. Actually, sorry, it's not the other side. I'm on the l- I'm on the west side of, the west side, so I'm still in the Mediterranean, but it's- Oh … the same deal in terms of, like, um, beautiful rocky cliffs. Beautiful coastline. Okay. So as you can imagine, I was so excited about the food, because I'm so food motivated. And you've got a- I'm like a dog. You've got a hair over your left eyelash. Oh, did I put it… Should I put it in the… No. Well, it's yours. Um- It's still attached. It's gone now. And so, and Jessie is equally excited about the food. Mm-hmm. Also, the, uh, the history. I'm into the history and the art and all this stuff. But the first night, we go to, uh, a, a highly recommended restaurant that had, like, uh, you know, it had, like, celebrities and pictures on the wall with… It was like, oh, there's Bruce Springsteen has been here. Bon Jovi has been here. Wow. You know, that kind of restaurant. Okay. And we ate there- Joe Pesci … and we thought… I'm sure Joe Pesci, but I didn't find his picture, but I didn't look for it. Okay. The food was good, but the food wasn't, like, the best food I've ever had, the best Italian food I've ever had, even. It w- it wasn't even as good as my favorite Italian restaurants in Cal- in Los Angeles. So I was like, "Hmm, what is happening?" And then Jessie was like, "Let's reset here." We had made a bunch of reservations, but w- but our month leading up to leaving for Italy was absolutely crazy, and so we didn't do the in- the best job of planning. And so she was like, "Let's, let's just, like, do some research and see what places we can get in." And so we completely redid our reservations for Florence for the next three nights. Oh. Sometimes that's good, by the way. Hmm? Like, not over-planning, but just saying, "I'm gonna go here and I'm gonna do this." Well, that's what Jessie was saying. But, as you will learn, maybe that's not the case. Okay. As we were waiting, that, that second day that we were there, the second day, we were like, "Let's just get some history in." We were gonna go to do a tour of, um, the, uh, the Academia, Academia Museum or whatever it's called, where David, Michelangelo's David is. And a bunch of other- Oh … uh, sculptures of these, like, guys who were, like, he didn't completely finish the sculpture, but it's, like, on purpose. It kinda looks like Han Solo coming out of the ice or whatever. Oh. And so he's got those, like, like- Carbonite. Carbonite … leading up to the David. Saw the David, learned about the David, why the hands are bigger and all this stuff, and why the head is so big, 'cause they thought it was gonna be on top of the church, but then it wasn't, and it's cool, and he was young. And I- But it's bigger than you think it's gonna be overall. It's big. It's real big. It's like the opposite of seeing the Mona Lisa. His penis is not that big. I mean, it's large, you know, compared to, like- But relative … but relative to him. I didn't wanna know. And, um, but then we were gonna take a little trip up the dome, so the Duomo, which is, uh, this huge cathedral. Like, if you see the skyline of Florence, you see this big church dome, and it's, like- Okay … really famous for, it's the largest dome in the world up to a certain point because of the way they, they designed it. And so we, we show up for the tour of the dome that day, and the guy says, looks at Jessie and he's like, "Oh, you're gonna need something to cover your shoulders. We can't go into a church with, uh, covering, you know, with your shoulders uncovered," which is something we should have known, because we, same thing is true in Portugal, and we had just forgotten. But what, what happens to your shoulders? Is it, is it, like, you, you get- God doesn't like shoulders. Do you not get it? Okay. And so we went to get, I got her a little shawl that she, like, wore over the top of her shoulders. Okay. And then we get ready to g- She cosplayed as an old lady. And the, 'cause the guy was like, "You need to get something to cover the shoulders." And then w- we do some touring and we get ready to go into the dome, and the guy says, he, the tour guide looks at Jessie's legs and he's like, "Mm, your shorts are too short. You need something for that, too." So we had to leave, go buy Jessie a whole outfit. Two more shawls to go- We bought her an outfit. Oh. Uh, maybe we're showing the picture of that outfit right now, but you don't get to see it 'cause I don't have it pulled up. Uh, you being Link. But why would I…? 'Cause it's funny that we had to go buy an outfit. Oh, here it is. But is the outfit funny? I mean, it's not her first choice in outfits. You wouldn't have bought it unless it was an emergency church climbing outfit. I mean, do they just, why don't they just sell pants and shawls right on the outside of it? That's what I said. But they don't. Anyway, we go up there- Or there's sleeping bags with holes for feet. It, it was wonderful, the history and the art, and I was having a great time. And then Jessie had made a reservation at this place where she was like, "Oh, this place is, like, highly rated. It's, like, on, like, the Eater list or whatever," which is usually a really good resource. And she, she had called them, and they said, "Well, we don't have a normal…" It's not a normal dinner tonight. It is a, a curated dinner. A guy is coming in, a friend of the chef, and he's, like, curating a dinner with wine pairings. And we're like, "Well, that sounds great." So we walk across the bridge and into the neighborhood. You know, I walk everywhere. We get there, and the guy comes up to us, and he kind of knew that we were Americans, and he begins explaining. He was happy to see us, jovial guy. He was like, "I'm the guy who brings the wine to this restaurant. I'm the wine dealer," or whatever he is, you know. "And I'm friends with this couple. And w- you know, I come into town from being out in the country, and sometimes when I come into town, we do a special night where I curate a menu, and I bring out the new wines that I've brought along, and we eat, drink, and be merry because tomorrow we may die." Yeah. He didn't say the last part. And, um, so I'm like, "Okay, this is gonna be great. This is gonna be wonderful. We're not big drinkers, but we're in Italy, and let's just go for it." Yeah. And so he brings the first course out, and I could best describe it as grass Imagine grass on a plate. Not hard to do. That's what this salad looked like, and it's kinda what this salad tasted like. Okay. But I was like, "Hey, we're just getting started. The wine's good." I bet it's better with the wine. And then he brings out the second course, and it, it was a very clear soup that I could only best describe as water. So we … So course one, grass. Course two, water. We are very much in, like, bovine meal territory at this point. You are the cow. I am the cow. I guess I'm being fattened for something. Did the wine pair nicely with the grass and the water? It was excellent. The wine actually was really good wine. But the second thing that I noticed is that we had arrived at 8:30 and it was 9:30 and I'd only had water and grass. We proceeded to stay at this place until 11:30. Ugh. And it didn't get a lot better than water and grass. And we were just like, "What is happening? We came to Italy." Like- How many people were around eating this? The whole restaurant was full, but it's probably a restaurant that holds, like, 30 people, so. And did they seem They seemed to have … Like they're having a great time. Really? But I think they knew what they were getting into. It was like this is a little challenging to the palate. It was that kinda like chefy chef type thing and- Okay … it was just too much for us. And we were just like, "I just want a really good pasta. Like I, I, I, I want … I'm in Italy and I want a really good pasta." So- Did you Google that? Well, oh, hell yeah, I did. So then the second day- We had heard about this place. Or the third day. The third day we had heard about this place, I'm not gonna say the name of the restaurant. Maybe I will after. Well, I'll tell the story then decide if I'm gonna say the name of the restaurant. Um, and we… Oh, first of all, that morning we went to the Uffizi, I think is how you say it, Gallery. So this is where you got, like, the Botticelli and stuff, and, uh, the Botticelli paintings, and it's incredible. It's like, you know, and the- we had a really good tour guide. I could barely understand him, but I, I understood him well enough to l- know that we were learning cool stuff. And, but that night, again, I love the art, I love the history, but the food is my main thing. Mm-hmm. Right? So lunch rolls around and we decided we were gonna go to this restaurant for lunch, and we had read about it, and they were like, "This is, like, one of the best places in all of Florence. It is a f- uh, a mother and a son who run it, and it's very small. And this guy is sort of notorious for not liking American tourists." Now, one of the things you'll see all throughout Florence is this bumper sticker that says, "Yankee go home." They don't like Americans. And there's a lot of Americans, especially American college students who are there, like, studying abroad. Huh. Just all these, like, college students going down the street at night just making all kinds of noise. I mean, I would not be into it if I was Italian either, you know? Uhhuh. And so I think this guy is kinda like, he's sitting there doing, like, really good food, but he's kind of annoyed with all these people from the US who are coming in, and they don't speak Italian, and they don't seem like they're trying to speak Italian. Yeah. So we had heard that he will be, like, kind of rude to you. But I was like, "I am so desperate for some good pasta that I'm willing to be abused by this chef." And that can be part of it. And so we g- and, and we had heard that what he's gonna do is he's gonna have a chalkboard with the menu written on it, and he's gonna go through it, maybe in Italian if he's in a bad mood, and he's going to read the stuff, and then he's gonna look at you. And when he looks at you, that is your cue to just say what you want at that moment. And if you don't say what you want at that moment, he's gonna get upset. So Jessie's like, "We need to go," and I'm like, "I don't know." She's like, "No, come on. I- if anything it'll be a good story." Which is always true. Well, you're telling a story. We show up at the restaurant and I go up to, he has written the chalkboard menu on the outside in Italian. And so I'm looking at it and I'm trying to figure out what it is, Google Translate. And then a guy with a baby who's walking outside, who's obviously inside the restaurant with his family but he's brought his baby outside, who looked like an American said, "Just do it," as he saw us looking at the menu. Like Nike? And, uh, he wasn't a Nike representative. He was just a American man telling us that, "I know you're having trouble deciding if you wanna do it. Just do it. This is the best restaurant in Florence." Okay. And, and then Jessie was like, "Yeah, but we heard he's really mean." He was like, "Well, he's very mean. But he's in a good mood today, and it's worth it. Whatever he, whatever happens, it's worth it. It's the best food here." Okay. So we go in. And you still kinda don't want to, 'cause … I don't l- I don't like, I just don't like uncomfortable situations, you know? It's just not my thing. And so, and I don't like- You, you don't, you don't want to- disappointing people. You don't wanna perturb somebody that you respect. And I, and I, and I had made m- I had thought that I was gonna, like, learn some Italian, like, beyond, like, buongiorno. Ciao? And ciao, and … Ciao means food. I'm pretty much out at that point. Arrivederci. You know, that kinda stuff. Yeah. Um- So you had nothing. And so I was like, "I can't really order the food in, in Italian. What are we gonna do?" So he comes up to us, and he holds the menu up. And then he doesn't look happy, but then he starts speaking English. Oh. And he, but he's like, just sort of, like, his face is like this. He's like, "We have ragu with wild boar. We have this, this, this. We have this, this, this." Deadpan. You know, I'd already decided that I wanted the ragu with the wild boar, and I got it. And, uh, what, well, the thing is, is that after he finished with us, he goes to the couple next to us, and they're Italians, and he's like, "Hey, oh!" "So good to see you." Like, he's speaking Italian to them. And they're laughing, and he's, like, having the best time with them. Wow. Not with the Americans. But listen- Americans … I'm not mad. I get it. It's part of the thing, you know? The food was incredible. It was really, really good pasta. But I also started to get this sneaking suspicion that- What makes good pasta? that we have really good food in this town. Can I just say that? We have really good food in Los Angeles. Mm- And it, and I- you know what? That place in, uh, Chapel Hill, in Carrboro. That pla- the Te- uh, Tessaro- Mm … that I took you to. That's got really good pasta, too. Like, it's, the, the pasta in Italy isn't even, is not better than that. It's like, there, there- I gotta say, you're not, I don't, I don't really want to go to Italy … there's a point, there's a point- I love that you started whispering that. Like you were afraid to say it out loud. Well, people are just gonna be like, "You don't know. You didn't go to the right place." But I'm just saying that, like, you can get so good at making something that you can't get that much better at it, and there's places all around the world where people have done that, and this town is one of the places. I'm just, I'm saying. I will say- I'm not go- I mean, I'm not going anywhere … we had some excellent pizza, which is b- which is better than any of the pizza that I've had in this town. I will say that. Um, but I wanna save a little bit of time to talk about the second half of the trip, which was going down to the Amalfi Coast. So We decided to take the train. F- Florence was great, very happy that we went there, but at the end of the day, I was like, "I think we're probably gonna like the Amalfi Coast even more. That's just my suspicion." Mm-hmm. And we get on this train, we take it down to Naples, and then we have, uh, like a taxi driver drive us to the hotel in a place called Positano. And we, it was, it was getting to be kinda late in the evening when we arrived. Check into the hotel, and then we just start walking through this town, and I was like, "This is the coolest place I've ever been." In terms of imagine just a town that is, like, built into seaside cliffs, and then that is also, has been there for, like, 1,000 years. What's it called? Positano. And so, uh, yeah, if you … Pull up a picture of Positano for Link to see, and then I'll show some of my … I just want him to be able to see, like, you know, what this place looks like. Yeah, I've heard of that place. I've heard good things. It's absolutely beautiful and incredible. Is there a beach? Yeah. Or just cliffs? No, there's cliffs that go down to a beach. And then the whole cliff has the- Has all kinds of, like, nooks. You know, I'm, I'm a big nooks and crannies guy. Yeah. So, like, little medieval paths that go through things, and then they've turned this old monastery into a, a hotel and that kinda thing. It's just, it's absolutely beautiful. Mm-hmm. I'm, I'm walking around and I'm thinking to myself, "This is the most beautiful place I've ever been." Like, this is a- this is as if they built a bunch of really cool architecture into the, into the cliffs of Big Sur. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Like, imagine, like You s- you've kinda seen these, the- these kind of places. And we also, we ate at the hotel that night, and it was the best food we had the whole trip except for the one place in, in Florence. So then I get ready to go to bed, and I kinda notice as I'm getting ready to go to bed that my stomach feels a little tight, just a little bit of a, like a, a little bit of a cramp in my stomach, but I think nothing of it And we had planned a, a, a, an outing that first day to Capri to, like, to get a boat ride to Capri to go, 'cause, see, to, there you go. Okay. That's the, that's where we were. Oh. And so the- That's nice … so, and we're, like, in a hotel right in the middle of all that. And you had, but you have to walk up there? Like, is that a lot of steps? No, it's all drones. You grab drones and they take you there. Oh, good. Yeah. Nice. That's better. Yeah, lots of walking, lots of steps. Mm. But then the, the second day we were gonna go down there to the beach, and we were going to get a, um, a little boat ride to Capri, which is, like, an hour away. And Capri is supposed to be even more beautiful. But I wake up and I am feeling my, like, I wake up early and I'm like, my stomach is jacked up. And I go to the bathroom, and let's just say, uh, if you'd a heard from the outside what was going on in the bathroom, it would just sound like somebody just, just taking a bucket of water and pouring it into a toilet. Oh, God. Okay? You know, you know what I'm saying? Okay. All right. Mm-hmm. And so then I get, I go back to the, I go back to the bed- Somebody's serve, serving that soup from, uh- I go back to the bed and I'm like, "Jessie, I'm sick." And she looks at me and she's like, "I'm sick, too." She goes to the bathroom. It sounds like somebody's pouring a bucket of water into the toilet. And that was when we decided, uh, definitively that the meal that we had shared, the same exact dish that we had shared on the train the day before at lunch, was the chicken on the train. Train chicken. And when we got that train chicken, we both looked at it and we both thought, "This doesn't look right. It doesn't look great." It was just like, it said chicken medallions, but it was just, like, a piece of grilled chicken. And then we started eating it and Jessie was like, "This doesn't taste good." And I was like, "Yeah, but it's the all we got." And then I was also thinking, "I think of all the things I've eaten on this show, and I don't get food poisoning. We'll be fine." We got food poisoning. Oh, dude. I had to call the people who were gonna do the boat trip. I said, "We are sick. We are definitely not getting on a boat." Ugh. We stayed in the hotel room in our first day in Po- full day in Positano, back and forth. Thankfully, there was never a time where we both needed to empty the bucket, so to speak, at the same time. Wow. It was like perfectly synced up where she- Dude … I would, like, give her a five as I went back to the bed. That's like a, that's the bucket brigade. Yeah, yeah, we tag teamed. Oh my God. And then you gotta start thinking about fluids because I was like, "We are losing fluids," you know? So I'm just, like, drinking water and, uh, and then I just, I said, "We'll- Vino. Sh- "… we'll be better by tomorrow, so let's just postpone the boat trip until tomorrow But then Jessie was like, "Well, let's order. I'm so hungry. Uh, let's order a little food." And we got a little room service, and I just had a little bit of food. And then at 2:00 AM, back to the bathroom, bucket of water. Yes. 3:00 AM, back to the bathroom, bucket of water. Ugh. And, uh, so, and then Jessie was kind of getting over it, but we had to call and just completely cancel. We had already paid for it and we couldn't get out of it. We paid, so we had to cancel the Capri thing, and then we just spent the day, like, next to the pool just ready and, ready to get into the bathroom if we had to. Dang. But that night we ended up having a r- a good meal. The food in Positano was great. Had a great meal that night, and we were basically better. And then the thing that I'd been looking for for the whole trip, and I'm so glad we didn't have to cancel because I was fully better, Pompeii. So I've always wanted to go to Pompeii. How far is that from Positano? It's about an hour drive back towards Naples. And of course, you remember, you remember 79 AD, Mount Vesuvius, it- Oh, yeah … it explodes. And then the people were frozen like statues, and then- Right. And interestingly, I always thought that they were, like, burned in place, and, like, we were seeing their actual bodies when you see those famous pictures of, like, the bodies, like woman holding a child or, like, of somebody. What it was, was that when Mount Vesuvius erupted, it wasn't lava. It was volcanic ash and rock, very, very hot. And it came really, really fast, and it basically buried everybody very, very quickly. And then because it was a porous material, water seeped in when it rained, and their bodies decomposed really, really quickly. And then you had these perfect shells of where a person was, kinda like a fossil, that was surrounded by volcanic material. Oh. And then in the 1900s, some dude figured out that if you found one of these cavities and you poured plaster into the top of it, and then you excavated around, you would get the perfectly posed body that… So it's not the body. It's the cavity of the volcanic material where the body was. Oh. And then they're just plaster. And they're all, and they've got m- s- many of them around Pompeii, which is absolutely giant. We did a three-hour tour, uh, with a tour guide of Pompeii, and we saw, like, 15% of it. It's like a massive city. The houses are still, like, they're all stone, but, like, they're still intact. And the, and so the- The frescoes are on the walls … and then the people are just standing in their houses? No, no. They've taken all of the people and all the objects out, put them in museums. A lot of it's in a museum in Naples, but then there's a p- there's a couple of places where you walk in and they've got, like, a glass case, and there's, like, a dude in it, like a plaster man, you know, like- Wow the way he died or whatever. That's so wild. So, but the- So they would pour… Mm. But the funny thing is- What? … is we get there for this tour, and our tour guide, um cannot remember her name. Doesn't matter. Maybe I shouldn't. Maybe I shouldn't say her name based on what I'm gonna say right now. And, um, she was a great tour guide, but there's a f- some eccentricities. The first thing that I noticed is that as we were walking along, there's al- there's so many people there. Even though we went, you know, at like the basically the beginning of June, there was already a lot of people, already a lot of people in Italy. And so you're g- you're, like, fighting with tourists and other tour groups and other people who are just, like, showing themselves around. And this tour guide was so annoyed at all the other people, like, walking around, not knowing where they're going, like, turning around in the middle of the path or whatever. In fact, and after, after a while she was like, "I hate the people." Which is why I'm a tour guide. I hate the people. And- … we started asking questions. You know, we're curious people. We're asking questions, and I'm ask- so, like, "When did the eruption happen?" or whatever, and she was like, "I will answer all questions about the eruption at the end of the tour." And I'm like, "A three-hour tour? Uh, we're here, I w- it's because of the eruption, right?" And she's like, "I, I'm gonna get to all your questions about the eruption at the end of the tour." And so then I'm like, "I guess I can't ask about the eruption." So she's telling us all these facts, and they're, it's incredible stuff. There's just incredible things that you, that you learn. But I kinda stopped asking questions once I saw the way that she responded. Jessie kept asking questions. And then at one point she was like, "You ask so many questions." Sh- and she turns to me and she's like, "She's, she's asks so many questions. She's so curious. She's like a baby." She's like a baby. She's like a baby. And, uh, I thought that was funny. Wow. I really did think that was funny. Um, but then we did get to the end, and that was when she answered all the questions about the eruption, and I learned the stuff about the way the plaster worked and- But you were there … how quickly it happened and- She wanted to wait until you were at the right place. There was also a brothel that was like a Waffle House menu where you had pictures of the sex positions that you would want to do and you would point at them and they were still on the wall. O- okay. You learn anything? I'd seen it all. Oh. Um- Wow … but then just to cl- just, just, just to wrap up this story, I'd l- what I had learned about Pompeii was fascinating and I, I, and that, and it turns out that that ended up being my favorite part of the trip because I had good food, but again- And you didn't have the runs I, I didn't have the … I thought, I think Americans think that when they go to Italy they're going to have every single place they go and every single meal they have is gonna be the best thing they've ever had. And I think that might be the case depending on w- what city you're in. But if you're in a great food city where you basically can just go to a great restaurant at any time in any part of the city, you still gotta do the same thing when you're in a place like Italy. You gotta pick the right restaurants. Um, but the history ended up being my favorite part. And in Positano when Jessie was doing some shopping that I w- didn't wanna do, I found a museum of a, of a, a, an old Roman archaeological site that was in the middle of the town. And you got tickets and you went under this church, it was like a thousand-year-old church right in the middle of town, but you go underneath it, and they discovered that there was a Roman house from the year one. One. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Okay. A long time ago. Yeah. It sounds impressive, but then you reali- you remember BC. Well, it could be 1 BC. So there is a house that… Basically what happened is, is when Mount Vesuvius erupted, it threw a couple of meters of volcanic ash and rock over the mountains onto Positano, killed a bunch of people who presumably who were there, and also started to bury this house. And then a bunch of the volcanic material that was on top of the mountain washed down with the subsequent floods and covered this house up to, like, 60 feet in some places. And this w- and what they… And they took many, many years, I don't remember when they discovered, but they discovered this, like, in the 17th century, like, pretty recently. And they realized there's, like, this three-story amazing Roman house with these columns, and they've excavated down to this floor of this, like, living room. And the way that the volcanic material was up against the fresco painted inside the house, it preserved it. So when they took it off, there is this incredible painting on this wall that's 2,000 years old that was in these people's homes, and it looks like somebody, like, painted it, like, 20 years ago. Like, it's- Whoa … faded, but it's like, um… And then above that, when the monks showed up- Was it sex positions? No sex positions. It was just a home. When the monks showed up, like, a thousand years later in, like, the 12th century or whatever, they built a monastery on top of that, and it had all of these, like, uh, little chairs around it from where they would, like, set a monk after he died. And there was, like, a hole, and it looked like a toilet, and it was, like, where they'd, like, drain their bodies, and they just, like, put a lot of them around this thing. And then when they came to build the church after that, they built it on top of that. So there's, like, the church, then there's the monastery with, like, the dead monks, and then there's this Roman house. That was maybe my favorite part of the whole trip It's like a cake. Yeah, it is. And they're continuing to excavate, and they, and she said, "If you come back in a few years, we're gonna have a whole nother room excavated." And I do think that that's the place I would go back to. I would, the, the, the, the coast was absolutely incredible. But I, you know, I don't know. You go back to the same place, or you go to a new place when you travel? I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. But I highly recommend it. I highly recommend Italy. I'm not trying to sound like some food snob and tell you that you just need to go to LA and eat Italian food instead of going to Italy. But that's kind of the subtext. But I will just say, when I got back to LA, and Jessie and I went out to this restaurant for brunch in LA, and we went, we went to a place that actually we, was on Brittany's social media. Henrietta. She had been to this place called Henrietta, and it had these sandwiches, and I had this sandwich there, and I was like, "God, this is so good. This is, this is as good as anything I had in Italy. Don't tell the Italians." They don't like you anyway. I don't think you're burning any bridges. So yeah. Moral of the story is we have great food in this city. And your wife's a babe. And don't eat the train chicken. Get your food fix on the Mythical Kitchen channel now. Just for me, are you all lovers? Do you, are you guys all- In a polyamorous situation? Yeah. Yeah. Like a big polycule? Yeah. We're a big polycule. You guys are the first polycule I've ever met. What? Did you answer yes? You answered yes for- Yeah. Okay. Yeah, of course.