Louis Ziskin
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
But even back then, you know, 1996, 97, bro, super treated me amazing.
Never.
Never been extended like that kind of welcome.
Right.
You know, later when, you know, I had a little bit of a name or I was a big drug trafficker or whatever, people went out of their way to kiss my ass.
But these were just this was just their Arabian hospitality.
Right.
And and then there's a knock on the door.
It's the dude from customs.
And he's standing there with my bags.
I don't even realize that I didn't have my passport.
He still had my passport.
He's staying there with my bags and passport and apologizing to me.
And I was like, wow, these dudes are really somebody.
So then you find out, like, Al-Habtour Construction builds all those big buildings.
Like, they have, you know, Rolls-Royce, Aston Martin, Bentley.
They have the licensing for it.
Metropolitan Hotels, they have licensing for it.
The dad, Khalif Al-Habtour, runs the Dubai National Investment Corporation.
This was not just a rich Arab family.