Chris Robinson

Yeah, what if Bill Gates had been like, you know, Guido, whatever.

It would be a different thing.

What if the whole internet came from Italy, not America, you know what I mean?

Claudio Gazzo, whatever.

He came up with this, you know what I mean?

Have you ever seen a book called Naples 44?

No.

Do you know this book?

A friend of mine gave it to me a couple of years ago.

It's a British Secret Service officer, comes to Naples in 1944, directly in the push of the Allies, pushing the Germans and then fascists up the peninsula.

from Sicily and then landing in Italy.

And it's an unbelievable book that this guy writes.

And it's the sadness and the like tragedy of it.

And like anything else, war is dramatic.

War is pain and violent.

The aftermath of war is something that people rarely can wrap their heads around or interested in.

Maybe because it's even, you know, you take away the drama of the battle and stuff.

It's bleak.

But there's something about, and this guy is not Italian, English guy, but he captures the spirit of the humanity within like this transitional period in Naples, but unimaginable stories there.

depravity, but also great exalted human things as well.