Manuel Noriega

So it's like, you know, you're standing before a judge and, like, they're not really taking your story into consideration.

Like, you're already guilty.

Nicky's judge actually fell asleep during the trial.

It's a very famous thing in Ireland.

It's called the sleeping judge.

Nicky goes to, like, a terrorist prison.

Basically, it was, like, a prison for, like, IRA criminals.

members and he goes on hunger strike for like 37 days and the people of Ireland sort of like you know he becomes like a cult like national hero and then in the late 80s in the late 80s he finally gets like let out of prison and it sort of just shows like an injustice in the Irish government that still kind of exists today and a lot of it has to do with Britain's sort of like oppression of Ireland and how

it still sort of lingers, even though Ireland got its independence from Britain and, you know, like a hundred years ago.

So I know as like someone who doesn't know Irish history, that probably just like, but it's very much like a passion project for me.

It's like an Irish story.

I've known Nicky for like a few years.

He's, he's quite old now and not necessarily on his deathbed, but yeah,

I don't think I'll have that much longer to like get the story out of him.

Yeah.

And he's also in on the book and like he wants it told.

So total passion project, man, I'm going to do this.

And then I'm trying to set up another thing in Latin America.

I was supposed to go to Cuba a couple of weeks ago, fell through for reasons I can't really say.

And then, and then I've got like a major interest in what's going on in El Salvador with Bukele as well.