Manuel Noriega
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Mm-hmm.
So I said, yeah.
And then I got on a plane to Panama like a few days later.
Never been before, barely speak Spanish.
Show up at Jose's apartment.
He basically says, okay, you know, starting tomorrow, we're going to meet Carlos.
If he likes you, you'll be here for quite a while writing his book.
You cool with that?
And I was like, sure, whatever.
I meet Carlos the next day at like an Italian restaurant and him and Jose are speaking in Spanish for like 20 minutes.
Carlos is cracking jokes.
He sort of breaks into English a little bit.
He's like speaking Spanglish.
And then Jose says, hey, Carlos, you know, Killian is interested in writing a story.
He's a young Irish writer.
He's written four books.
You know, I think he could do a great job.
So Carlos turns to me.
And he sort of like scans me up and down.
He, you know, he can switch between being like super friendly and like the nicest guy you'll ever meet to like having these really sharp eyes that really are penetrating you.