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Cuba is apparently a total [ __ ] hole. It is awful and people living there are living in co to total absolute poverty. And Nick Shirley went to Cuba to try to raise awareness to this and another country that has been the victim of communism. What percentage of people do you think are suffering here in Cuba? The majority. What's your thoughts on communism? They call me an the worst thing to ever exist is communism because in reality no one is a communist even in operation right now because there's quite literally no gas. We stand out like sword comes here. So they're wondering why we're here with cameras interviewing people. They want to know what's happening and what people are saying. That's why people are not talking to us much. They're asking why are we trying to leave the hotel early? Hold on. They want to talk to us. Cuba right now is facing one of the largest humanitarian crisis in the world. Cuba's government is a one party communist ruled country and they are facing massive food shortages, daily blackouts and a lack of medicine and right now a US blockade is restricting oil and gas on the inside of the country. With communism and socialism on the rise in the west, I wanted to see what life and communism is really like for well the reason why communism and socialism is on the rise in the west. One of the big reasons is we keep importing people from communist and socialist countries. We need to send them the [ __ ] back. Cuba has been living underneath communism for over 60 years. Upon arrival, I completed all required documents and had received a visa for journalistic activity. However, once I landed, all my camera gear was seized and within 24 hours, I was planning my escape out of Cuba after their intelligence followed me all day and a twostar general came searching for me at the hotel. Now, let's go see the reality of Cuba and eventually plan our escape out of Cuba. Holy [ __ ] Where are the people at? The problem is that there's no gasoline. It's not easy. It's not easy to move. I do have to say one of the best ironies of all this is the fact that Nick Shirley seems to be more fluent in Spanish than he is in English. It's so [ __ ] funny. We have a lot of limit limitation for work. None of the gas stations are even in operation right now because there's quite literally no gas. When the United States captured Maduro, their main supplier of gas and oil was shut off. So the country right now has hardly any gas. And if you do want to get gas, you have to wait in a line from the government. The guy that we're in our tax with right now, he said he his position to get gas is 1,200 in line. And gas from the government cost around one,200 in line and it's $4 a gallon. And that's cub dollar. But gas if you were to buy it on the black market cost $10 per liter. That's $40 per gallon if you buy gas here in Cuba. Before they captured Madura, was there gasoline in the gas station? Jesus. Always. Always were easy. Nowadays is really bad, but it was easy to get gasoline. And for you every day you can go to the gasoline station and buy it normally. Was normal, but nowadays it's really bad. Does San tell us Cuba is awesome? Well, he got led into Cuba so he could do propaganda for them. Like I mean they're literally like you you have a lot of Westerners that are literally cooperating with authoritarian communist governments that suppress and kill their own people in order to try to own the United States. Kuba. Just imagine the reality of it with a thousand uh sacrifices and a thousand daily struggles. The average Cuban citizen is the one really going through absolute hell here in this country. It's so interesting being here in Cuba because everything is just like empty. It's almost very like North Korea. Like when you come into a massive plaza, there's not even cars. There's nothing there at all. Yeah. It's just nothing. You can't even hear a car in sight. And they have all this other portraits of people and past leaders, leaders of Cuba, yet there's hardly anyone even here. It's very strange here. They're saying that this is even more quiet than during co during the pandemic. Less people are even leaving the streets than during the pandemic. That's how bad the crisis is right now. And the Cuban people simply just don't have money. And they also just do not have the resources like gasoline to be able to go out. So nobody can even go outside lives right now. We headed to a nearby hospital and and like look at this place. It's a complete [ __ ] hole. Oh my god. This is awful. Look at it. Moment on, we noticed we were being followed by Cuban police and their intelligence after the word got out I was asking people about communism. And also, by the way, to say that this is the United States fault is like the most [ __ ] thing that you can possibly say. The reason why the reason why it's this bad is because the government's making it this way. There's nothing about the United States that tells Cuba that they have to put people in jail for speaking out against the government. Cuba does that all by itself. So this concept that somehow Cuba would be some kind of coastal paradise as long as the United States didn't come in and ruin everything, this is pure libtard delusion slop. The place is a [ __ ] hole. It's a [ __ ] hole ideologically. It's a [ __ ] hole mechanically. And it's a [ __ ] hole politically. It's a complete [ __ ] hole. That's it. And if the thing is that if there was only one thing that they had wrong, which was like, for example, they were really poor, but everything else was okay, then I think you could make an argument that well maybe the US is making things a lot worse for them. But the reality is that they're making things bad for themselves. Communist country, there's no such thing as freedom of speech or freedom of the press. In fact, if you speak out against the current regime or against communism, your neighbor can then report you to an area inside of the neighborhood where the government police will then come after you and you have the risk of supernormal imprisoned for speaking out against the regime. And what's the reality of living inside of communism? They're presidents of everything. They're bosses of everything. This is one of the things that I think is really funny is that these people that are talking about like I mean I mean this is basically I mean like everything that they criticize Trump doing for being fascist these countries do 10 times worse. There's like no logic or reasoning for this at all. And what would be your last message to the people about living life in communism? The worst thing in Cuba is communism. To live in communism is the worst thing now in Cuba. Wow. What do you think about your president? I don't think he's capable to be president. Damn. Because we are dying of hunger. And do you believe that it's the responsibility of the government to give food to the people? Y they're the bosses. What do you think about Trump oil or gas into the country? See, like people are very scared to answer and even give questions and responses here because of communism and because when you say communism when they say that they control the the food or they control the jobs, they also control the freedom of press here. So a lot of people aren't used to talking on camera. And uh yeah, [ __ ] [ __ ] the president. That's the only thing you're trying to say. [ __ ] Security had noticed that two random individuals had appeared while we were doing these interviews and they decided it was time to leave. What happened while we were conducting some of those interviews? Right now, while we were finishing one of the interviews, some undercover cops, you could just tell they're undercover cops. They came out of nowhere. Yeah. They got on better used phones than the average person here and they were right away communicating with each other and they were trying to corner us out. So, that's why we had to get out of there. Oh my god. So, you do have government spies going around making sure that certain things aren't set. Of course. And we stand out like sore thumbs here. So, they're wondering why we're here with cameras interviewing people. They want to know what's happening and what people are saying. That's why people are not talking to us much. That's also you don't ever see any videos come out of Cuba. That's 100% why you don't see videos come out of Cuba. It's very limited the videos that you see come out of Cuba because Yeah. Did the United States make them do that? No. Control everything. We headed into downtown Havana with the hopes that we'd shake off the Look at this. This is awful. This is terrible. It's just a complete [ __ ] hole spies that were telling us and I want you to notice the pure decay here. The streets and the buildings like to fall apart and this is due to 50 years of say Africa is probably even better. Innovation inside of a communist country. We then went into one of the local markets to exchange some cash for some Cuban pesos. And here in Cuba, their inflation has hit really hard here. So their peso does not really go that far. So the dollar does go a lot farther here. In fact, the average salary of someone here for the month is $14 USD. So, right. $14 a month. Now, we're exchanging here on the streets of Cuba and you get a lot for your dollar versus if you were to do it at the airport here in Cuba. How would you say life is here in Cuba? The situation's bad. You're going to come here. USA is going to take Cuba. Of course, Would you like the USA to take Cuba? Of course. Why not? It's bad here, man. What's your opinion about communism? Communism is bad. It's bad. There's no Yeah, they can't talk about it. It's kind of interesting asking about these political situations that you could talk about in the United States completely freely, but a lot of people are timid and you have to respect that because you don't want to put them in a bad situation. But people are very timid to talk about stuff politically here in the streets of Cuba. I mean, look at this one you have coming down the street right here. Yeah, these are all old cars. Look at this. Like this these are like cars my dad would be like, "Oh, I remember when that one came out." This is just it. here in Cuba. It's kind of weird. The reason for these cars here in Cuba is because in 1959 is when communism took effect and the United States then later put an embargo on Cuba which stopped new companies from working with Cuba. So all they had left was cars from the 1950s and earlier. Innovation tends not to take place in communism because there's no incentive for an entrepreneur to go out and create something because he'll receive no benefit because the state takes everything. The government controls what goes in and out and also how much money you take from that underneath communism. So it completely kills entrepreneurship which then kills innovation and then you come up with a stagnant society like this one here in Cuba where they have not developed any much further since around the 1950s. All these buildings here are still standing from the 1950s but they have not innovated or there's nothing new here inside this country. It's actually kind of sad to see this man right here will explain just how dangerous it is to speak out against communism inside of a communist country. How's life in communism? Dad, what's the reality of it? I can't talk about that. I don't know what to tell you. the people here. You'll disappear. People are afraid to speak. If you speak, you disappear. So if you speak bad about communism here in Cuba, you'll be taken to prison and you'll just disappear. They put you in jail for days. It's going to be so crazy whenever we go to Cuba and we just pack him up. Like I wonder if it's even going to take a week. I I wonder if they're going to just do what Maduro did what they did with Maduro where they just get the main guy and then put him in a box like in the US or like if they're going to go and like you know like go go all the way in. I don't know. I don't have anything to say. Yeah, I bet. That's what's super interesting about talking about communism. They cannot speak bad about communism here inside of Cuba. And because of the lack of oil inside the country, there's constant blackouts that are taking place each and every single day inside of Cuba. And it's even affecting the education of the children. In fact, right now inside of Cuba, the main university, the university that Fidel Castro attended is currently shut down. And so right now, that's the university. Children and the that looks like a [ __ ] zombie map. First students of Cuba are having a hard time getting education. This is the national university of Cuba. I mean, this is a huge stadium. They have tons of seats, a track, and a football pitch, but it's all just has not been the grass is [ __ ] dead. It's a [ __ ] hole are all rusting. Oh my god. Kuba. How's life here in Kuba? It's all right. There are problems with transportation. You have no idea. biggest problem. The biggest problem for the biggest problem the lights. Damn. How many times a day do they cut out the lights? Almost every single day for an hour. So it's like yesterday for me, but every single day. Yeah. How do you live through that as a young child? Hovven not very good with the lights it affects studying as well. Yeah. You can't even learn anything. So the lights are affecting your entire life. When it comes sometimes it doesn't come back until the morning. Oh my god. We left the university and did the most touristy thing we could do and that was to hop into a 1950 Chevrolet and tour the city of Havana. man with one of the local guides. We did this in the hopes that we would have less people following us. However, it just brought even more attention to us when we got back. I don't see how you can look at something like this and then not come to the conclusion that obviously communism is is a is garbage. Like I mean very clearly this is garbage. Very clearly this isn't working. Duh. It's not working. To the hotel. How how come here you guys still use old cars from the 1950s? These are traditional cars from before the revolution. 1950 1959 for the government. So you guys work for the government still? We work for the government. This is kind of a random question, but do you know what a Tesla is? Tesla? No. No. No. Man, that's sad. Never heard of a Tesla. No. M. Mhm. Right now on Poly Market, there's a 45% chance that there's a clash between the US military and the Cuban military. Do you think there will be a clash with the two militaries in 2026? What is that? Like a clash? Like I feel like that's such a broad term. That's what a lot of Cubans think because we want the best for our country. The kids, the schools, the hospitals, humble neighborhoods. Yeah. I bet you do. So, do you think it would be good if there was some intervention between the two militaries? Damn. What do you think would happen in that war? I don't think era be an improvement for the people. Jesus Christ. Because what's happened here in Cuba has not been good for the general public. And what do the people of Cuba think about Donald Trump and Marco Rubio? I can't speak for everyone. It's good for everyone and us Cubans. May it be good. You think it's necessary in Cuba necessarily? Okay. And what would you say the reality of communism is? Reality of communism is high and the other isn't. Communism should make everyone equal. Yeah. Well, everybody is equal. Everybody lives in a [ __ ] hole now. There you go. Perfect. No one's rich. Nobody else. And it's not like that right now. They say seven out of 10 people here in Cuba, the reason why it's never going to work is because it is in direct opposition with the nature of humanity. The nature of humanity is that people are not equal. So operating under the principle that people should have equal outcomes is a flawed principle to even begin with. So if your ideology is that everybody should have the same outcome, you will always create a system that fails because your system is being made in opposition to reality. That's the reason why are going without their necessary meals here. Would you say that's true? You think communism managed by AI would work? No. People manage AI. People are naturally committed. communism kills it. It's not even that not everyone can buy food. Jesus Christ. And was this happening before the blockade or is this just now happening? One speaks about universal income just because I I I support a lot of social systems and other forms of social policies that can help people avoid going hungry and you know like losing housing and stuff like that. I support a lot of that. But I think that if you are equating that with the way communism works in a country like Cuba, you have a fundamental misunderstanding of what it is. So it's not new that this is happening. For how many years have the people of Cuba been suffering? For a while suffering with food and other things, they don't want to express it. We suffer because we fear the freedom of expression. Yeah. True. If that's how we feel, then we get judged. That's okay. A lot of people don't talk. I'd be afraid. And that's something I have noticed when we have been talking to people is a lot of people are scared to talk about the current situation here in Cuba because of communism essentially. Go to jail or get killed. People tried in the past have problems with the government. Yeah, I bet. And how much does it cost right now for gas? $10 a liter. We're buying on the black market. And how much? Holy [ __ ] We raise the prices on taxes. What would be your message to all the people in the world about what's actually happening here in Cuba? We want better. We need better. And this is where things began to get really weird. As we arrived back to the hotel, this man began following us. He was all And look at the See, this is the thing. Look at how nice it is for all the Westerners. It's like this is like your traditional, you know, Mexican villa, right? Everything is nice, the lights are on, all of that. The moment that you leave this though, it's just a total [ __ ] hole. Yeah, he's got Jason Stathithm after him. As we moved, security noticed him telling us. We played it cool and left the hotel a few hours later. And after one interview on the street, we caught the web of spies following and monitoring everything I was doing as this man exposed the raw reality of Cuba unfiltered. What happens at night time What happens at night? At night time, there's nothing. There's nothing. No food, no medicine. How much long we're going to go on like this? Come in and have military intervention here. We leave the situation. Yeah, leave the country. No power, no food, no medicine. We lack even the most basic hospital necessities. can live like this. Oh my god. And what would be the rest of the world? Just look around him. Like everything is decayed and just like just complete. It's just a [ __ ] hole. I mean, look at this. It's awful. What's happening here in Cuba? Scared. begging for food with her dog. Look at her talk to her. What is this? What are you going to not with a camera? People don't want to be on camera. Yeah, I bet. That's the problem. They put you in jail. You post this video, I'm going to jail. God damn. What's your thoughts on communism? Thing to exist. There it is. In reality, none of them are communists. Exactly. They get rich and exploit the people. Isn't it crazy how the same thing happens every single time? Like every single time the same thing happens. Wow. Surely there must not be a Surely it's the United States fault. Equality for man doesn't exist here. Holy [ __ ] They're the ones with everything. They have electricity. They have the nicest cars. They have oil. They have gas. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. There it is. Majority of the companies are theirs. They defended a communism. Why do you think they defend communism? No. It doesn't work. The only ones who defend communism are with the Castro family. Someone who's afraid of them. Someone who lives off the government who gets rich off the dictatorship. Many such cases. A lot of people think that communism and socialism is the way to go. What would be your message to them? Because they think capitalism has failed them. No, no, no, no. The worst thing you can have happen in life is socialism. Yeah. No. Imagine your salary. You can't even buy cooking oil. It's pretty bad. How can you live like that? Well, they're dying. How can you live with a ration book that gives you three lbs of sugar and one of salt? Every Wait, wait. You get three pounds of sugar every 15. Each year they give you a chicken and eggs. Eggs hived in a year. What? Nobody can figure out how to grow chickens. What the [ __ ] is going on over there? This is insane. What the [ __ ] do you mean? Eggs haven't arrived in a year. You have to go to the buy the eggs from the private grocery stores. The ration book, the government gives you nothing. I don't know what it's for. It brings Oh my god. The shipments you send the humanitarian aid. Wait a minute. The shipments that America sends for humanitarian aid, they end up selling back to the What a [ __ ] hole, man. Oh my god. The aid never arrives. By the way, do you see the reason now why so many of these people want us to give aid to these countries? It's because they support the governments and that they know the aid will enable the governments to continue doing this. That will feed their worldview. That's the reason why stuff the thing is that like whether it's Sudan, Gaza, um you know, Guatemala, um you know, like pre-bukle, El Salvador, uh Cuba, um you know, Zimbabwe, they're all the same. Every single one is the exact same. They all do the exact same thing because that's what people do. We've been doing this for 20,000 years. That's the way it is. Look at that woman though. Donald Trump. She's recording him. I am waiting for you guys. Please. Oh man. See if we can live like people to live like a human being. have necessities to live like a human being because we are living worse than animals. What do you say of the argument the blockade since the 60s surely countries would end up like this if they can't import anything? Uh I think no. What did why did the blockade cause them to put their own people in political prisons? why' they do that? Why can't they grow a chicken? And also like if and let let's let's be pragmatic here for a minute, okay? Let's just be realistic here. Is it worth the suffering of all of your people for you to keep your ideology on life support and then take your entire country into a total [ __ ] like a a ghettoization of the entire country? Millions of people displaced, millions of people starving, living in [ __ ] holes, living like animals, so you can keep the idea of communism alive. At a certain point, Cuba should recognize its position. They're not going to be able to stop the United States. What they should have done a long time ago is just do whatever we said. That's what they should have done. They should have immediately rolled over and everybody else in the country would be better off for it. But they don't want to do that. And it's because of ideology. They're more It's more important for them to maintain this ideology and get all of their people killed than to admit that maybe they did something wrong. That's it. The blockade was basically no communism or starve. Well, then why would they choose communism? Who chooses communism? And that's who who chooses the decision of well um let's see do I want all of my people to be killed and starve and live in absolute poverty or do I want to change the government? Who does that? I'll tell you who does that. People that don't have to live like that because they're not the ones living like that. the people making that decision to continue this uh you know aggressive uh antagonistic relationship with the United States where they're backing our all our our enemies and everything. They're they're living in nice houses. They they they're rich. They're totally fine. So they have no problem sacrificing the well-being for all of their people so they can maintain this power structure. That's it. If communism is so wonderful, why aren't they self-sufficient? because they're a [ __ ] hole. Like like again nothing about like look at the social laws they have. Look at the laws on expression that they have. We didn't do that. They did that. went well. Probably don't only live in Cuba. Yeah. America bomb Cuba and help the people. Hopefully they bomb some of the uh I saw the the main leadership. Are you taking our photos, man? He's getting roached out and film that that lady. Get a shot of her. Wow. And uh she's trying to this lady had spawned out of nowhere and began spying on us. For instance, look at it. She comes into frame right here. And then she hides behind the lamp post and then all of a sudden she starts filming us. And then when she goes to the other side lampost, she then begins to act like she's on a phone call. However, she continues to point her. She maintains the camera angle directly at them. Yeah. Towards our direction. The guy I'm interviewing then notices that she's filming us. He goes and confronts her. Yeah, this is I'm sure this is also because of the United States. Runs to the other side of the street. She then turns the corner and my security guard follows her to see where she goes. And who does she meet up with? She meets up with the man who was following us inside of the hotel. And after we had confirmed that we being followed by Cuban intelligence and their spies were spying on us, we hurried back up to our hotel room and made a plan to escape Cuba. She makes her way through the woods to him and then he goes, "No, no." Like saying, "Don't sit here." Boom. Sits there. So they're together 100%. Come back to the hotel. Buddy's there. They're 100% watching us. Option two is there's no more flights out today. They're 100% on. So, you think we got to leave tomorrow morning? We're going to if we're going to deal with the pressure at one point, which I think we're going to anyways, we do it trying to leave early at the airport where there's public eyes. We're in Cuba County. So, this is a different bugging for all of us. Um, think we can get a boat tonight. I was thinking about making a call to see if we were to do that. How far would the US Coast Guard need us to? This is like This is literally the North Korea of Latin America and we have spies on us. 100%. Yeah. This is all this is all because of America. Yeah. Doing this like and think about this, right? You're investing time and energy and resources into doing this. This is what they think is more important than actually taking care of their people. No, we're not there. I'm 100% convinced. But if we grab our bags right now and make an escape, you're going to say, "Hey, China, too." The thing is, here's the difference between this and China. China generally and also, by the way, oh, China's communist, right? Um, you know, they're selling these like there's billionaires in China. They have these massive houses. People are riding around in sports cars. Uh-huh. Right. They're ch Yeah, it's it's so communist. Um, yeah. And so like the the reason why I think that people put up with it with China is because really to because to the extent that they are I mean they are to an extent is because it's not a [ __ ] hole. It's not. You look at the h the the [ __ ] towns in China, they look nice at le I mean and I'm sure there are places in China that are like this. I'm sure there are. But for the most part you at least have a better quality of life. They have they have eggs there. Okay. They have eggs. They're going to shut this whole [ __ ] down looking for us. And to make things even worse, Cuba was having their Mayday march just outside our hotel in the morning. So all around the hotel, military and Cuba government was surrounding the hotel, protecting the streets for the march the next morning. My thoughts. So tomorrow they're going to have the march for the May 1st march. It's a big march. So it starts at 6:00. They're either going to come for us by three or four. So, we have to be out of here by then. Yes. And whether that's us bouncing around the city uh in two in a pair of two and one off on their own and maybe I'll meet back up, but we have to distract them enough by the time it's our time to board on the airport at 8 8 a.m. They're too occupied doing this march thing. We took a bit of a risky move and headed down to the lobby to act as if we had no idea they were spying on us and acted very casual. So, security puffed on some Cuban cigars. I drank some water. Security chatted up with some of the people working at the hotel. And then we went back upstairs and barricaded ourselves into the hotel room for the night. And then at 4:00 a.m., we made our attempt to escape the hotel. All right, 4:00 a.m. Now we're in the elevator. We're heading down to the bottom lobby and we're making our way out right now. People are gathering up on the streets. We have one of the security guards down at the bottom making sure that it's clear for us to walk out of the lobby right now. And now we're heading out getting on a taxi and making our way to the airport. Time to roach out. Yeah. One of the necessary stopped by someone at the hotel. She asked why we are leaving the hotel early and she would not let us leave. They were stalling for some reason. And then when we did try to make it out to go get a taxi, the guy barely let us out the door. And then when we got out to get a taxi, they called us back in. We're running into some complications here. Just trying to get out. They're asking why we're trying to leave the hotel early. Immigration police. Oh boy. and they took us into the back room of the hotel and we had a meeting with a twostar general who interrogated us for 10 to 15 minutes about why we're trying to leave Cuba, what was our purpose of our travels, what kind of questions we were asking. You saw the two stars, right? Yep. There it is. That's nuts. Two star general asking the people on the streets what kind of footage we got. The general then said we could go and he said they would get us a taxi to the airport. However, we waited for 5 minutes and there was no taxi. We thought we were about to get set up. So, we left the hotel and set off on foot to explore Cuba. As soon as we made it down to the hotel lobby, they had their guys down there. We had immigration and they brought us in for an interview. Gabe, so what's the current circumstances that we got going on right now? We're trying to find a taxi. We've left the hotel. We're a few miles out now. No taxes or anywhere. How are we getting out of Cuba? So, number one, second we got downstairs, we had um what you want to call their undercover police walking through the lobby just playing it cool, acting like nothing. Once you and I came downstairs and you guys made your way out to the front, two star general came out of nowhere and that's insane. He asked as politely as possible but with firm action like, "Hey, I need to sit down. We need to talk to you guys." And then he realized that he was pressing. So he's like, "Hey, could you just bring in your friend so we could talk?" And I was like, "What's going on?" And he goes, "I would want to talk inside." That's when he came outside to outside lobby. I was trying to just engage a conversation there and he said, "I would like to talk inside." We had our conversation. Now they they they let us leave and now we're on foot. That's actually actually surprising they did in the hospital and we got about another mile and a half to the airport. Two miles. So we're on a kid's full of [ __ ] doing the whole escape thing for views. Um what do you why do you think that it's [ __ ] Why would that Why do you think that? Yeah. What makes you think that? Yeah. What What What's the reason? What are they going to do? Disappear a bunch of Americans? Yeah, they could probably hold them there for a while. Maybe torture them. uh you know, maybe hold one of the guys but then let the other ones go. Yeah, sure. Or they could also take their stuff, beat them up. Uh like Yeah. I mean, they could do a bunch of stuff. I mean, maybe they're not going to hold them hostage for like 5 years, but they might hold them hostage for a week. They might hold them hostage for a month. They might, you know, you know, like abuse them. They just recorded the video. They could have sent to family. I'm confused by what you mean by that. I I'm confused. I mean, do you think that the government doesn't do that? Like, so so what do you think happens? Like, let's say like you go to Cuba. Why don't they have any more video of them with the general? Why do you think they don't have any more video with them at the general? Why do you think if if you if you had to guess yourself? Okay, I'm back. Sorry about that. So, what is this? Uh, they didn't search their phones cuz if it was a big deal, they would have just taken them. I mean, earlier they could have sent them all the earlier home videos. someone would have come up and seen to miss him. Seems like a big drama feast in the end for views. The rest seems legit. I think that I think you underestimate how dangerous these governments can be. And also like you don't know what they would have done. Wh why did they not do that? Maybe they didn't have reason to suspect that they had to do that. Maybe they hadn't fully investigated it all the way. Maybe the reason why the guy wasn't there is that they were trying to figure it out. Like how do you like you're trying to understand what their thought process is? I don't know what their thought process is, but everything that they've shown shows them like I mean what do you think for example, right? Like let's say you go to Cuba and you start talking about how bad the government there is at Cuba. What do you think happens? Yeah. What what do you think? I can see how the kid's scared, feels grounded. Yeah. You You've said that three times now. What do you think happens? Like you go to Cuba and you express negative sentiment about the government. Hold on. So, I'm asking you like let's say you're an American citizen and you express negative sentiment about the government and you're in Cuba. I got this. it, right? So, you express it, but what are they going to actually do to an American citizen outside of you holding you or taking your phone? Well, there's a lot they could do besides that, right? I mean, they could beat you up. They could put you in jail. They could starve you. They could torture you in different ways. I mean, there's tons of ways that they could do that are not killing you. I mean, killing you is the obvious one, right? But like even beyond that, it put you in jail. Yeah. I mean, right? I mean, is is that outrageous? Arrest you and your friends and then America gets involved. Their families are going to see are going to see you're gone. Yeah. But the thing is that don't you see this is this is the problem that a lot of people don't understand is that you are operating under the principle that is there is either all or nothing. The odds are they weren't going to put Nick Shirley in jail and kill him. But are those the only two things that are on the spectrum of bad? Of course not. There are dozens of other things that they could have done to Nick Shirley that would be traumatic, stressful, or negative to him that don't involve putting him in jail forever or killing him. So, the concept that these are the unless those two things are happening, then they're totally not at risk is naive. Sith deals and absolutes. Yes, exactly. Uh, like obviously they're not going to like they're probably not going to kidnap a journalist and do this. But would they maybe beat it? You're right. Seems so dramatic. Comes off as a it comes off as a fish for views. Yeah, cuz they're stressed out. And also, you don't know what's going to happen. There it is. Right. I mean, it it seems so dramatic. So, you don't like the fact that it's dramatic. If you were in Okay, so let me ask you this situation again. If you were in his situation, would you be really stressed out? I would have been, but I'm not a content creator. If you were recorded when you were in that situation, do you think that you would have behaved this way? You would have been stressed out and because I'd be really stressed out. I'd be insanely stressed out. And what what I'm trying to do is I'm trying to work work through your reasoning for you to come to the understanding that your your feelings on this in the way that you would have approached this is probably the same. Anyway, I we we'll move on wasting time. We can get a taxi at some point if we don't get squeezed in before. And there's no taxi that right now. That's a bit of a problem right now. The street in the morning empty and everybody's going the opposite direction. By the grace of God, we found one taxi driver in Havana to the airport. Problem, it's a tricycle that only goes 10 miles hour. [ __ ] base. There you go. Our taxi to the airport. Look at that. Look at that. That's insane. We're going to get into to make it to the airport. This is our taxi we have right now. It's the only option we had available. We're going to try to find another car taxi cuz this is taking too long to get to the airport and our flight is going to leave without us. And right now we currently have fire that we're trying to leave the country, You should ride one of those. Get another taxi. We've been in this taxi for the past hour or so. Sun's came up. We finally made it to the airport and now this is our last stretch in order to get out of Cuba. They might press us one more time inside the airport. So, we don't know exactly. We're not out of here for certain for good. They might make one last push at the airport. They could either ask us some questions or not let us board our flight. They do have all my camera gear inside the airport right now. So, we have to get all that. Yeah, I bet how Yeah, I don't know how this is going to work. Everyone's on the know that we're trying to leave Cuba right now. You see, they let us pour. Yeah, you see like it's bright outside. And now I had to go get my camera gear that they seized just 24 hours before they questioned me for another 30 minutes. They then took one of my security guards, questioned him as well, and then they ended up letting us get onto Oh my gosh. Gracias, gracias. Oh, we're making on the plane right now. I've never been so happy to make it onto a plane. I got pulled up by two guys. They wanted to do the smooth approach like, "Hey, what's going on? Why are you guys here? Uh, why are you guys leaving so soon? You guys got here yesterday." After going back and forth and I I was done with a small talk already. I was like, "Bro, something's going to happen. Let it happen already." And he's like, I'm like, "Listen, we had a twoar general at our hotel at 5 in the morning. You guys are here now. We were pressed all day yesterday. What's up?" And he's like, Even the president knows that you guys are here. The president of communist Cuba knew that we were here. He knows that we were here. Facts. He's They know. They've been watching us all day. They know that we're here. So, you might not see three more happier men in the world right now. Feels like Christmas morning. How are you? Made it out. Oh my gosh. People are saying it's [ __ ] reporting. These are the same people that were saying that the Minnesota stuff was [ __ ] These are the same ones. And the reason why they're saying that is they want to downplay the bad actors and the bad behaviors of communism and communist governments because they agree with them. All they're trying to do is run defense and run cover for something that they are ideologically aligned with. That's the only That's the only reason. W Nick Nick Shirley. Yeah, I know. And I did say, listen, guys, listen. I could [ __ ] around for a lot longer. I could do plenty more, but I did promise you guys I would try that game. And I'm gonna get into it. We're going to try it out. See what it's like. I don't know how long I'm going to play this. I have no idea. Before I do that though, I want to say this is a Nick Shirley video. I'm a huge fan of Nick Shirley. I love Nick Shirley. I completely agree with his ideology on this. And uh I wish we had more people that felt that way, right? Uh I do like that would be