garlic. >> villager: yamas. >> anthony: yamas. >> lambros: yamas, yamas. >> lambros: lambros. >> stefanosborn here. i came to naxos when i was 23 years old. >> anthony: from? >> stefanos: athens. >> anthony: athens? very different life here. >> stefanos: i believe here, you live every moment of your life. yeah, you feel really the freedom. >> anthony: oh, thank you. this village, what do people here do for a living? farm? tourism? both? >> lambros: yeah, i guess a combination. >> anthony: i noticed a lot of churches, little chapels. >> lambros: there are shit loads, and it's basically the continuation of the original temples, be they apollo or zeus or athena or something. >> anthony: they switched over? >> lambros: they switched over to churches. >> anthony: hey, you guys thought pagan idolatry was fun? check it out. it's much more fun and we'll slide right in there and you won't even notice. >> lambros: seamlessly. yes. [ male villager speaking greek ] >> anthony: important island in mythology though. >> lambros: extremely. >> stefanos: it is the old dionysus island. yes, it is. >> antho

>> lambros: the cyclades? >> anthony: cyclades. >> lambros: is it about 15. maybe more.here's andros, tinos, mykonos, syros, paros, naxos, um -- >> anthony: tito and jermaine. [ lambros laughing ] >> lambros: and more. >> anthony: right. and the rest. >> lambros: and the rest, yes. >> anthony: a lot of history here in the greek islands. on naxos in particular, where zeus himself was said to live. where his son dionysus frolicked and presumably drank and threw orgies and dropped e, and danced all night to the bc version of edm. these days you have to go over to mykonos for that. anyway lambros here runs a bar

anyway lambros here runs a bar in athens, but comes out here frequently to get away from it all. >> if definitely dig boarding a boat and leaving for the cyclades. you know, there's this air of mysticism about them, like an arcane feeling, that definitely doesn't exist in the other islands, the archipelagos in greece. >> a big glass of raki on the rocks. >> and a big glass of raki on the rocks. >> oh jeez, that's a -- that's a little more than i'd sort of -- well, i'll have a sip. >> yamas. good morning. >> yamas. oh. >> it kind of puts the day into perspective when you start off with a -- with a drink. >> ah. wow, it's a perfect day for the beach. >> it's a perfect day, yes. >> i like the wind here, and actually it's one of the really cool things about this island is it's that breeze, you know, that always. >> it's like our main past-time, talking about the wind. wind's coming, the wind's leaving, which beach do you go to when the wind is coming from the north. >> really? >> the south. yes, most islands want to claim that actually like odysseus, ulysses was from there. >> right. >> or

this is why the middle-class has been dangerously shrinking. .his is again john lambros regular viewers of c-span no on the weekends -- know on the weekends c-span 2 turns into "book tv" and "american history c-span3. we go around the country and look at literary and historical sites. this weekend we are in san bernardino, california. segments on "book tv and "american history tv" about san bernardino. one of the things we did was talk to the mayor about last year's shooting in san bernardino. here is a state take. -- here is a sneak peek. [video clip] i received the information and immediately left and came back to city hall. as the events of the day unfolded, the remarkable effort you stop what out by the police department, fire department, all of these they came together to stop this tragic event in such a short the bank of time showed how well we were to response. as surely after that, we had a forhtened level of patrol the rest of the month of december to make sure the community felt calm. part of the crisis was the police department working very closely with the sheriff's departme