Last week on the Bowery Boys.

A lot of stuff going on.

We're standing in the courtyard right now next to a statue of your citizens.

Sword at the ready.

Greg, how would you describe his expression?

He is very smug, very confident,

posed, maybe overly posed for a statue of this particular nature

of a Dutch military man.

The next day, before meeting up with our guide, historian Yap Yacabs, Greg and I left our hotel on the dam rock and walked toward the train station,

descending down a set of stairs to the water's edge.

We are in the heart of Amsterdam right now.

It doesn't get more heartfelt than this, Greg.

We are standing on a little dock that is in the basin of water from which Tour Cruises take off, canal cruises take off.

In fact, one just pulled in here a cruise next to us, Lovers Canal Cruise, which is next to the Lucky Stripper Cruise I see

over there that looks like some sort of booze cruise.

Surrounded by some hotels that seem to be at least 200 years old and others that seem like they're 40 years old

which seems like a theme of the city.

Today that however we spend a lot of time talking about everyone's favorite director general.

Peter Stuyvesant, it turns out, is the subject of a book that Yap is in the middle of writing.

He's writing a biography of Peter, because the last one, the last authoritative one hadn't been written since the 1950s.

So this is a really big deal in Stuyvesant circles in which you know we in our listeners

like just 17th century history circles right I'm joking because it's really

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