What do you think of when you think of the Dutch? Of course there's the

Tulip, the windmill. There's the Michael Kane character in the third

Austin Powers movie who hates them.

There's the wooden shoes, which aren't called Seboe no matter how often I write that in the

intro for it to be deleted later by Ben. There's also their stoicism and their height. I guess

that's it. Oh right there's also a sense of permissiveness, isn't there?

Here's a society with legal marijuana and pragmatic views on criminalizing other drugs?

A place where sex work and sex workers are regulated and healthy?

Speaking of sex work, I bet you're wondering.

Why in the hell is the rickles of friendly fire

doing the beloved intro to the show?

What happened to the father time-looking guy

who hates all the movies?

Well, I'll tell you, like all great journalists, he's on assignment.

But, back to the Dutch.

To visit this part of the world is to know what it's like for a country to treat you like an adult.

And from this societal and cultural cradle, Sprang Paul Verhoven, a filmmaker with a mathematics and physics degree and a creator with a how do you say

ah yes reputation for a while he dabbled in Dutch television and then parlayed that into a couple of Dutch features,

one of which Turkish delight was awarded best Dutch film of the century status.

So his talent was recognized, but he had yet to create the oovera we know him for today.

The Paul Verhoovra, if you will.

So Verhoven comes to America and it isn't long before he pivots into being a provocateur.

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