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Crack a little bit. >> anthony: uh-huh. so are you suggesting something untoward? >> peter: weapons. >> anthony: weapons? >> peter: yeah. >> anthony: he was a merchant of death? awesome. you know, my aunt always said he was a gun-runner. we figured she was fulof --. i mean, she also said she was in the resistance, you know, but everybody in france said that. arms? so, was he ever a hat maker? was this a cover job? was he a hat maker, ash arms -- are all these local researchers, historians, and geniuses on the money re? was great-great-great-grampy an arms dealer? so what hat maker needs two hu...

Merchandising, it was definitely not hats. >> really? >> we have here jean bourdain. >> right. >> and what is he bringing? 200 boxes of fireworks. >> fireworks? >> fireworks. >> like firecrackers? >> there is not even more than 200 or 300 wealthy families who sometimes in the birthday would crack a little bit. >> uh-huh. so are you suggesting something untoward? >> weapons. >> weapons. >> yeah. >> he was a merchant of death? awesome. my aunt always said he was a gun runner. we figured she was full of it. she also said she was in the resistance, but everybody in france said that. arms. so was h...

Interesting. >> your family, your grandfather jean bourdain came to montevideo following the son. >> the facts as i know them so far, i think are this. my great, great, great granddad, jean, his son, also named jean came to uruguay to live with his uncle. >> 1850, john bourdain moves. >> this is the document we have showing him arriving. >> there he is. >> in that time, he works with a -- >> with a hat maker. >> hat maker? i'm pretty sure he said hat maker, which i have to say disappoints me, like a lot. the whole elusive wing of south american bourdains were "project runway" contestants of th...

With madame lynch. >> madame lynch was fond of things like french couture. >> yes. and that changed the way of dress. >> madam lynch might have been good for business. i try to put this in a light i can be enthusiastic about, like how clearly forward-thinking my relatives were. his customers were a hat maker, the very people that treated madam lynch with utter contempt, did they live in the old colonial homes, the mansions we see still? that type of residence? >> yes. >> times were changing in south america too, in those days. society ladies craved the latest in french fashion. there was money...

Are all these local historians, researchers and geniuses on the money here? was great, great, great grampy an arms dealer? so what hat maker needs 200 tons of gun powder? i've got you now jean bourdain. i've got you now. >> or was he a party supplier, selling fine french hats and firecrackers to school kids? i don't know what to believe. >> and in '58, he died. >> right. >> and he was buried, here, two miles from here in the rich people's cemetery. we can pretty well say in which area he remains. >> he is there. >> wow.