Manuel Noriega

He's like protests like these happen all the time.

Civil unrest is extremely common and it usually trickles down from like the United States.

Right.

Or like in this case was Canada.

But usually it's it's like a it's like a world superpower that's taking advantage of like this.

What's essentially a third world country.

So we break through these like hordes of protesters and we make it back to the city miraculously.

And then I go to a hotel, camp out in my hotel for like three days because I couldn't get a flight for like three days.

I'm there watching the streets below from like the 17th floor.

And there were like people in balaclavas like shooting fireworks into the sky.

There were people shooting guns.

There are these massive like school buses covered in LED lights like blasting Panamanian music.

And it just like didn't stop, I think, for like seven weeks.

Right.

I managed to get out of there.

I was able to go to the airport at like 3 a.m.

and like camp out at the airport till I forget when my flight was, like 1 or 2 p.m.

It was miserable.

But then I go back to the States.

I go back to the pool house in Los Angeles and I just start writing the book.