Manuel Noriega

So anyway, we have this real rag-tag group of people.

We meet with Trujillo, and Trujillo's basically like, I'm open to this, but you've got to deal with my son.

if uh if you want these documents and we're like okay why and jose explains that in panama when you reach a certain age your children do all your business for you all you're negotiating for you okay so this guy um this guy trujillo's kids uh essentially owns like a like a brothel right so you're telling me that at some point when i get old enough that mary shelley

If you lived in Panama, that would be your reality.

Sorry.

But we go to what's essentially a brothel.

It's a bar, but it's the only other patrons in there are hookers just trying to pick up like Americans to take them back to their hotel and make a hundred bucks, right?

And we are taken into this back room, this real rag-tag group of people.

Trujillo's kid comes in.

The wallpaper is like this like Miami 80s, like Miami Vice Scarface type, like really tacky wallpaper.

The guy sits down and he tries to sort of bully us a little bit.

He's like,

what are you going to give me for these for my dad's documents and he sort of starts acting like that jose is an extremely strong negotiator strong arms the shit out of him right just strong arms the shit out of him just like really puts him in his place and the guy's like okay yeah okay for like this percentage of the book of the book's profits like i'll do it and i was like okay i can give up that much for for these documents for all the proof that i need to make this credible so

I was literally just about to say, that's why, like, I got to try to look cool, right?

And tell my story.

Like, I got to be like, I went to Panama.

Because it is cool.

It is a cool story.

Yeah, that's a good point.

Yeah.