Big Jay Oakerson
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They were just like, architecturally, technologically, they were way ahead of their time with everything.
The Sistine Chapel is fucking nuts, dude.
Michelangelo went blind painting it.
He was on scaffolding and paint was just dripping into his eye and he
Sort of going mad and fucking, it's so cool.
And the details, and he wasn't even a painter, which is the craziest thing.
He wasn't like, he wasn't, that wasn't by trade what he did.
He was just a genius and could like emulate like that crazy ass art.
It's the biggest art museum in the world, and I'm going again.
I brought my son a few years ago on a father-son trip, and he was eight years old.
We did a four-hour tour.
We could have done an eight-hour tour.
It was so cool.
It was just never-ending.
Just every room was more awesome than the next.
They had the big map room.
Did you see that?
They had a map that was 150 feet wide, fucking however many feet tall, and it was 99% accurate.
Whatever year it was that they made it, it was like, I don't know how...
hundreds and hundreds of years ago, 99% accurate, drawn by hand.