And one of them stopped our car and pointed a gun right up, basically up my nose and he was just screaming at me to give him like $2 or something. I can't remember what it was.

And my driver was like, you have to tell him to like get lost. I was like are you serious? I'll just give him everything. He's like no if you give him anything he'll take the lot so you've got to tell him to f off.

Hello loyal listeners it's me but I'm out in Buenos Aires at the moment so I'm just

talking to you from the roof of my girlfriend's house overlooking the cityscape of sprawling tower blocks all sort of white and lots of pools and dazzling reflections and incredible

shimmering heat it's about 40 degrees right. I thought I'd do this one outside to hear all the crickets chirping and butterflies fluttering and all the other weird and wonderful exotic noises associated with the Rio Plata down in Argentina.

Anyway, I thought this was quite an apt setting for this episode because we're going to take you

all around the world through the eyes of Sean Williams. Have you ever wanted to

know about West Africa's cocaine empire, how meth infiltrated a New Zealand biker gang, or what

about the gangs controlling Heitie?

Taking us along with him on a deadly and thrilling voyage to the world's most dangerous

underworlds of organised crime as journalist Sean Williams.

There's a coziness to this conversation. My girlfriend had been away visiting family in Argentina and I didn't want to catch COVID before my flight out here.

So I was pretty isolated and alone in the dark cold Bristol night.

Sean, who is based out of Berlin, my former city. I didn't own it. I mean I lived there.

Had been traveling through mainland Europe to get

home for Christmas encountering all sorts of roadblocks and problems getting home and here

in an episode recorded on Christmas Eve we two investigative journalists share a beer and trade war stories.

It just so happens that his stories involve having a child soldier pointing a gun in his face while mine are about pulling my

hamstring playing football and none of my teammates showing enough sympathy. I don't

often drink alcohol obviously I drink water enough to survive, but especially while working and

while one beer isn't really enough to get drunk, I think you can see the adverse effects

in my increasing efforts to Storytop. At another point in the episode Sean talks about being

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