All right, so this is the story about the central figure in the new video game Assassin's Creed Shadows.

It's 500 years ago.

Imagine you're a brilliant, healthy, strong, young black man from Mozambique in Africa.

You're in service to a Jesuit priest whose job it is to introduce Catholicism to Japan.

You arrive there in 1580 when you're about 25 years old.

Then one of the most powerful men in Japan wants to see you,

simply because he wants to see a black person.

In the next two years, you become one of the most powerful foreign figures in Japanese history.

I'm Patty Steele, the only black samurai.

That's next on the backstory.

I'm Mark Seal.

And I'm Nathan King.

This is Leave the Gun, Take the Canoli.

The five families did not want us to shoot that picture.

Leave the Gun, Take the Canoli is based on my co-host Mark's best-selling book of the same title.

And on this show, we call upon his years of research to help unpack the story behind the godfather's birth from start to finish.

This is really the first interview I've done in bad.

We sift through innumerable accounts.

I see 35 pages. Many of them through innumerable accounts. I see 35 pages, really much.

Many of them conflicting.

That's nonsense.

There was 60 pages.

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