zack: you can sit here all day, just ordering a couple drinks and anthony: right, no rush. i plan on spending some time here. red wine ordered, tripe s to follow. tender, spicy, delicious tripe. zack: sun, plaza, guts. pretty good. fuen: hello. hello. you re , no? anthony: not too long ago, before zack basically defected to spain, he met fuen. the next thing you know, he s living here, part of an extended andalusian family, eating the ham, drinking the wine, living the life of the spanish dandy, in freaking granada, no less. classically, culturally speaking, do you want a sensitive, nice, caring, thoughtful guy? fuen: well, it depends on the woman first. but usually we look for this kind of person that we know he will protect us. anthony: from what? feral hippies? [zack laughs ] fuen: for example you know? or anthony: i would love to do the vows at your wedding. do you, zack zamboni, swear to
kingdom of granada. one of the oldest, most complex, magically surreal places in spain, and one of the most beautiful. granada is tucked against the sierra nevada mountains of andalucia in southern spain. it s not like barcelona, it s not like san sebastian, it ain t madrid. any reasonable sentient person who looks at spain, comes to spain, eats in spain, drinks in spain, they re going to fall in love. otherwise, there s something deeply wrong with you. [ man chuckles ] anthony: spain s the sort of place that never really made any sense anyway, and in the very
processions will creep slowly through these streets. there are different brotherhoods, each with their own sacred colors, crests, insignia and so on. it s their medallions and particular christ images that adorn the bar. and, frankly, they re kind of bummin me out. maybe it s just me, but when i m getting a nice late morning buzz i don t particularly want jesus looking down at me from, like, everywhere. how drunk can you get here? don t you feel like a little guilty, like, getting really drunk here? pedro: yeah, of course. anthony: whoa, uh, morcilla? pedro: morcilla. anthony: oh, this is one of my favorite things. pedro: this is your favorite things? anthony: ever. yes. pedro: try it. it s amazing. anthony: gaze away disapprovingly all you like, jeebus. i am happy now. overlooking granada, the hillside of sacromonte is riddled with caves.
best possible way. [men chanting ] anthony: this is a country that gave us the spanish inquisition, also anarchy. this is where devout catholicism mixes with surrealism, modernist cuisine with traditional tapas. christianity and islam traded places, shared space. and the effects and influences of all those things are right here to see. you could almost look back through time and through the mists of history, see the phoenicians marching up, cross the vega. or are those feral hippies? an influx of international hippies, many of whom appear to have set up squats in the caves up the mountain, have made things interesting. if they ask what we re doing, you should say we re staging a moon landing. wherever you are on the ideological spectrum, however, some things are constant it seems some stereotypical expectations. it s true, there are free tapas everywhere. yes, they do actually take siestas, which is a civilized damn thing to do, far as i can see. flamenco? yes, they do that also. b
that s a plateful of perfect happiness. zack: good tapa, huh? anthony: that s right, tapas come from here. and this is still one of the few places in spain where they re free. all you have to do is keep drinking. zack: you can sit here all day, just ordering a couple drinks and anthony: right, no rush. i plan on spending some time here. red wine ordered, tripe s to follow. tender, spicy, delicious tripe. zack: sun, plaza, guts. pretty good. fuen: hello. hello. you re , no? anthony: not too long ago, before zack basically defected to spain, he met fuen. the next thing you know, he s living here, part of an extended andalusian family, eating the ham, drinking the wine, living the life of the spanish dandy, in freaking granada, no less. classically, culturally speaking, do you want a sensitive, nice, caring, thoughtful guy? fuen: well, it depends on the woman first. but usually we look for this kind of person that we know he will protect us. anthony: from what?