Chris Robinson

I just read another amazing book called Wine and War.

And it's a history of like the wine business during the Nazi occupation during World War II.

Unimaginable wild shit going on.

But the French people, you know, because the Germans...

they knew as well, like, you know, what's the blood of France?

It's the wine.

What is the thing that holds it together in all these things?

But it's also a great commodity and also something of great elevated status.

All this stuff with the way they dealt with the Vichy.

I'm like, wow, man, these guys had a lot on their plate for five years and leading up to the inevitable Nazi occupation.

And in the book, I mean, and also just history, I think that's one of the people, you know, one of the reasons I think Germany, I mean, a lot of French people just didn't want to do it again.

Right, right, right.

And that and I think, you know, and.

You know, it's funny, too, like history repeats itself all the time.

We know this, you know, and there was a lot of infighting and political things within the French government at that time, whether that's, you know, through the military or whatever that made them really a soft spot.

You know, they had no no one.

There was no cohesiveness of the way they would think about fighting or defending or whatever.

Yeah.

But they went out in the end.

You know what I mean?