 All right we have here a question about Notre Dame and you got that in the program notes as well. I don't know if you all saw yesterday but the fire in the Notre Dame so the I mean it looks like they've saved a lot of the structure and they'll be. I'm amazed at what they were able to do given what. It didn't look good because I was watching live last night I guess on some European TV station where they were they were showing the live efforts and it didn't look like they were going to save much because it looked like it was under manned and the fire was everywhere but it was a pretty pretty dramatic pictures and I have to say I was really moved by this cathedral burning down which is kind of bizarre because I'm an atheist it's just a cathedral who cares but it's a symbol and if you think about it it was built in around the over 200 years in the 12th and 13th centuries in Paris which was at the time becoming the center of learning in Europe. It's about the same time as Aristotle is kind of making the first few little footsteps into back well now back into Western Europe thanks to those those evil Muslims who preserved them in their libraries in Spain and you know so Aristotle is coming back this is about I mean if Ernest is a not of Ernest what's this? The fairways yeah yeah he's he's a little later but it's generally the same time in European history this is the birth in many respects this is the birth of Western civilization now the cathedral in many respects represents the opposite of Western civilization because it represents faith and everything but it is a it's tiring heights it's it's grandeur represents that period from the between the dark ages and the renaissance between the dark ages and ultimately the enlightenment when they reject with the rejection of much of Christianity that is it's symbolic in many respects a symbolic of kind of the rise of the west and the rise of western civilization the architecture and the grandeur of it and to see it burn like that in France right now given everything going on in France right now struck me as very symbolic to kind of the decay and the death of of the west and it was quite I found it quite striking and quite emotional to watch it burn it's a beautiful building I remember being in Paris many times looking at it being in sight of it I think once or twice but certainly looking at it from every position Paris you could see it's the second tallest building after the Eiffel Tower and it was very much a again a symbol I think of the rise of the west and the rise of Paris as a cultural center which it begins to be with the Notre Dame the Cathedral that that roof that was destroyed I guess two-thirds of it was destroyed and there was this whole section of it that was constructed of some intricate structure you know interweaving structure of beams wood beams and I read in one article that it said that engineers hadn't completely understood even the principle on which it was able to stand you know that and bear weight and all the stuff that it's done for centuries so a little bit of a engineering feat as well one that wasn't fully comprehended and now they can't test it and do all the different things to well supposedly they've got scans of everything so they can recreate it in in these details because recently some American went in there some scientist or academic and scanned everything in great great detail so they'll be able to resurrect it I would like to see I mean I think it would be cool is instead of that gothic thing they put some modern I mean I just think it would it would be going we're building the modern world on top of it it would just because I hate gothic architecture I think it's ugly well someone someone on Facebook was saying that that you're talking about the particular spire right I was in the 19th century but it was done in the style of the gothics right right right and then of course somebody mentioned this on on Facebook there's the whole emotional connection of Notre Dame to Victor Hugo who of course wrote the beautiful beautiful book the hunchback of Notre Dame which I encourage everybody to read it's just one of those books that you know it's hard to get out of your mind once you read it and it's it's so emotionally engaging and the ending is so emotionally eerie and sad and depressed but it's a beautiful beautiful book anyway and I think I think you know for Hugo Notre Dame was a major a you know a major feature of what made Paris Paris and always played I think he played a role in more than just that book he made a role in a couple of books anyway so so kudos to the firefighters who were able to save so much of the art I understand that a lot of the art was able to be saved and most of the structure and just wow somebody's somebody's saying here cynically that why don't we blame Trump for lighting the fire because we blame him for every other problem in the world right irrationally so I am happy that the firefighters didn't follow Trump's advice about dropping water from airplanes on the top because it you know that would it turns out that most experts believe that would have destroyed the structure much more than it did that volume of water just dropping would have been a disaster anyway