Pope Julius II was originally like pretty gung-ho like yeah we're gonna fix the building yeah it's gonna be great

And he gets this report he's like oh boy yeah get get the bulldozers

Everybody's a conservationist until they get the estimate. Yeah, exactly.

So he was just like, can we do the Vancouver thing where we like keep the front foot of the facade and then just build a new thing behind it?

Oh, facade of me.

There are some tiny bits of the spic that are still around but they're like buried underneath

I think there's like parts of the crypt are still there and some of the ornamentation is saved

So cool I want to do Laura Croft shit like I want to like swing across a bunch of like banners and like ancient mechanisms and shit to find those.

So Julius II commits to demolishing old St. Peter's, which is a major controversy in all of

Christinam because this is like an 1100 year old building. He also orders the Coliseum to be demolished to provide stone for the new church.

They don't quite get through with that one.

I love, well, that's, isn't that why it's not symmetrical still, why it's not like a big circle?

Because they just took a chunk off of the top. That's a lot of Roman ruins.

It's kind of like, yeah, we'll just use these as a quarry.

Hmm.

Very cool.

Very cool.

The difficult part about this is, okay, we going to finance our new fancy church?

The new St. Peter's Basilica. How are we going to finance it?

It pulls big button, big lever marked indulgences.

Yes.

We're going to sell a shit load of indulgences guys.

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