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So Hieronymus Bosch was an artist.

He was born around 1450 in a place called Sertogenbosch, which is in what is now the Netherlands, which is also called Den Bosch, which is why his surname is Hieronymus Bosch.

Oh, I see.

So you take the surname of the place where you grew up.

The move is necessary to make room for a fourth railway track alongside the station's building.

According to plans under the Programma Hoogfrequent Spoorvervoer, the aim is to achieve a metro-like frequency of six trains per hour, compared with the two to four trains per hour that currently run on most routes, including on the line between Den Bosch and Eindhoven, which is of course where Vught is located.

It's also where the high-security jail is located.

Yeah, it is, yeah.

He's going to see you guys next week or a week after, I'm sorry, WFMU.

He's going to go to Denbosch.

And then what happens after that? No one knows, including Jason.

So that raises a plethora of questions.

Go back in there, back on the plane, over to Amsterdam.

And I'm just at the train down to Den Bosch.

And that's where we are right now.

I'm running on about eight hours sleep in three days.

We found our first customer, Progress Clinical Research.

They're a commercial research organization in three locations in the Netherlands, in Amsterdam, Den Bosch and Zwolle.

And yeah, we were validating our problem, our perceived problem, the clinical trial recruitment problem with them.

And they were just like, exactly, this is exactly our problem.

And he told me, and it was very funny.

And you know what? If I see you in Austin or WFMU or even at Denbosch, I'll tell you what he told me.

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you go.

Yeah.

Like, you have to hit them hard, you know? So, if somebody offers the money, then, you know...

I mean, the whole thing is like, I'm going to both the, you know, WFMU and Denbosch.

Like I got to, you know, I'm not, I'm not Espo selling splattered Metallica master of the puppets.

Maybe the worst disaster of them all.

Cody and I get up very early from Den Bosch.

We're driving the airport.

We kind of missed, couldn't figure out the gas situation.

So, how do we know that the book even ever existed? Well, it is mentioned in other writings.

It was summarized in a second text, the Itinerium, written by a Brabantian traveler from Den Bosch, now in modern-day Holland.

His summary was the basis for the Arctic regions in many maps.

Sadly, the iterarium also went missing, but not before the mapmaker Gerald Macator copied some of the work into a letter and sent it to John Dee, the English magician and courtier to Queen Elizabeth I. Dee lost the letter, but had copied parts of it into his notebook.