i think in large part we have the genius of david wundrich to thank for that.mbibe is coming up next month. it's very nice to see you. >> so nice to be here. >> let me ask you, i'm sure i got some of that history wrong. >> you got all the history right. i'm just -- there's so many people that pushed the revival forward. >> you don't have to accept the compliment part of it. >> i work with a lot of bartenders, and they tend to be pretty down-to-earth. >> and a lot of people are doing great work, but something i believe, and the reason i think that you are sort of a cultural genius for what you've done, i believe the revival could not have had the staying power that it has had, and could not have had -- not just the legs but the integrity it's had, without you taking the history very, very seriously. other people who tried to unearth that history but had been a little cavalier about it. did you recognize you needed to get the details right to make it stick? >> yeah, but i had training. i was an english professor and i before that was in graduate school, and i stu