Italian people

Germany was rearming the Allies.

Japanese Empire was in an expansive state of mind building up a very large fleet And of course the the Italians also weighed into the scales and even though they weren't a direct threat to Britain You know the the strength of the United States and and then later that you know, the Soviet Union These are all factors that are weighing on British Imperial strategists and I think he could see that Britain was not in any shape to fight a multi front war and His preferred strategy was to...

Well, his first preference was to get with the Germans and broker a new general political settlement in Europe to replace the political settlement that came out of the end of the First World War at Versailles and Trianon.

So his preference was to proactively... um adjust the political settlement in europe with the germans in a way that made the germans less revisionist minded to kind of proactively uh repatriate or give back certain territories to the germans but in a much more minor way than later became the case so sort of border adjustments uh you know an understanding of sorts And the Germans weren't interested in this, but it didn't change Chamberlain's overall idea that the best solution to the British imperial predicament was an understanding with the Germans in Europe, Britain's primary theater of operations in any war, that would free up resources to focus on the Far East and focus on Japan.

This was when Eric was sobbing over how much he loved his wife.

And Carter multiple times said, do you like spaghetti? Because he had just learned how Italian he was.

Oh, my God.

I didn't notice that.

Standing there telling them about the beginning of the new season.

How do you describe this? Like chef's kiss hands?

Yeah, little Italian fists.

Does he like spaghetti? Does he like spaghetti?

Uh, Naomi, um, we have the French position.

What are the, the Germans or the Italians or the Spanish, what's their view on all this?

Well, my sense is that it's a pretty commonly held view among the public, um, in terms of the kind of, uh, the finer details of what governments think.

I think obviously they would like more revenue, but it's, there's different views on how that should be pursued and with how much energy it should be pursued.

And so now instead of talking about the state, I want to talk about these people that you study.

Because in a way, you set out your book by laying out three peoples, Romans, Italians, and Turks or Ottomans.

And to start with the Romans, who were they? Because they did not live in Rome.

And though they might have granted that the men and women who did live in the city of Rome were still in some sense Romans, the people that you study, the Romanians, those people of Romania, they thought that their being Roman was still different from those people and different again from let's say Frankish or other Germanic peoples who had converted to Roman Catholicism and may even have lived in some sense within a Holy Roman Empire, but the Romans that you study would not have considered them to be Romans at all, even if they claimed in some sense to be Romans, it gets pretty murky.

Even in Italy, it's restricted to the city of Rome.

Okay, so

let's ignore Germanic peoples and let's talk about the Romans that you study, the East Romans, the Byzantines, whatever, these Romans, in contrast to Italians.

Because Italians still speak Latin or some dialect based on Latin.

The priest was young and blushed easily and wore a uniform like the rest of us, but with a cross in dark red velvet above the left breast pocket on his gray tunic.

The captain spoke pidgin Italian for my doubtful benefit, in order that I might understand perfectly that nothing should be lost.

Priest today with girls, the captain said, looking at the priest and at me.

The priest smiled and blushed and shook his head.

The captain spread his hand open, the thumb up and fingers outspread as when you make shadow pictures.

There was a shadow from his hand on the wall.

He spoke again in pidgin Italian.

You go away like this.

I'm not intolerant to cheeses.

I'm not intolerant to ricotta cheese, which is Italian, which I am Italian.

I don't have a problem with ice cream unless I eat too much, which I shouldn't anyway.

Milk has a lot of proteins in it, and I think that if we had milk that was whole milk, don't drink skim milk, because skim milk is just sugar water.

In the US, of course, in-

Gotta be really careful with the Italians.

Of course.

I mean, Italy, it's, it's canon, but in America, radicchio salads, very common on bistro menus.

We argue.

It gives us something to argue over, like we're an Italian family in New Jersey having a spaghetti dinner.

There we go.

And with that, we get into this week's episode.

the x files right that wrapped up in like 2001 2002

yes it did but it's still running right now so the twist is that Tony's dad is actually the cigarette smoking man from the X-Files was never involved in the mafia and just smuggled alien technology to earth all those years

see I'm gonna get I'm gonna go we learned in the pilot what's really really important for Italian mobsters eating

pasta and killing people while they're eating pasta.

it.

What is it going to take for the Commission to put it back on the table? A signal from Belgium, the French, the Italians, the ECB, saying they're willing to explore it now.

What will it take?

Well, I cannot now give, you know, kind of exact triggers, but I said we are ready to engage in this discussion and to put this question back on the table.