From Bonnie London Town, this is Obscure Season 4.

I will withhold the name of the book just for a few moments as we begin Season 4 of Obscure

I am your host, your friend, your earlover, your literary mansplainer in chief and

George analogist Michael Ian Black, Southern gentleman Esquah, glad to be rejoining you for a brand

new season of Obscure I am in London, recently in Rome, my six month European sabbatical is,

I don't know, halfway two thirds through it's hard to exactly to determine because I don't

yet know when I will be returning home to the United States of America.

Home was terrific, if you've never been, I recommend it, great city, great walking city, full

of historical shit as you probably know, just, you know, stuff, any time you turn a corner,

oh there, oh a Pope was there and Pope Shag, somebody there and some Duke or something was

there and some famous painting is in that church over there, oh this is where, this is

where Caesar was killed and this is these aqueducts were built 20,000 years ago, you know, it's just,

it never ends and it's kind of exhilarating, the food is what you would expect, it's pizza,

it's pasta and variations thereof. The weird thing about Roman restaurants is they're all the same,

like you pretty much go into any Roman restaurant and you're going to get varieties on a theme,

you're going to get your carbonara, you're going to get your caccio a pepe, you're going to get your,

what maybe some yogi, maybe some result, you know, you're going to get all kinds of, but it's

all going to be basically, you know, the same stuff from restaurant to restaurant to restaurant

and I was reading about this in a book called, oh geez, what's a Rome, I think it's called a,

or maybe it's called dinner, I don't know, dinner in Rome, I think it's maybe it's called a history

of Rome in a single meal. I'm getting the name wrong, but it's a terrific book, you can probably find

it very easily and one of the points the author makes is that in restaurants all over the world,

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