"Planning My Escape From Cuba" - Nick Shirley Returns | PBD #793

This gets really crazy, actually. You're actually the first person that's ever seen this. None of the gas stations are even in operation right now because there's quite literally no gas. You almost got taken hostage while you were there. Yeah. So, the president of Cuba knew that we were there. Like, we've been monitoring you guys. >> [music] >> What do you think's going to actually end up happening to Cuba? Their monthly salary is $14 USD. One person said they haven't had eggs in 8 years. What's the latest with you and Nuesa? >> What do you think about the Stop Nick Sherliac? Stop Nick [music] Sherliac. I think you're a psycho scam artist. >> It's so bad in California, like so bad. >> [music] >> Like, nobody knows how bad it is. Except for the people living in California. Quality leering center. >> Ilhan Omar, she needs to get prosecuted or she needs to get deported. There's evidence that she she did marry her brother. Candace Owens came after me uh a while back. I thought that was very interesting. Why would Candace Owens come after you? Nick Sherliac, how are you doing? Amazing. Good seeing you again. Last time we did this was what? New Year's Eve? New Year's Eve. It's been a crazy 4 months. >> Yes, a lot and we got a lot of things to talk about, but you just got back from Cuba. Out of all the places you can go to, why Cuba? I've been wanting to go to Cuba for the past year or so. Okay. Cuz I've been tracking like the rise of communism, socialism here in the United States, and so I've been wanting to make a video for a long time going to a communist country to show people what life is like inside a communist country. And I've been monitoring like the situation with Rubio, what he's been saying, what the Trump's been saying. I said, "Well, this is probably my last few weeks to do it before they take over." >> Mhm. And so, I just hopped on the flight, bought my ticket, and uh coordinated with security. Everyone was telling me, "Nick, don't do not go." My parents were like, "Do not go." Security was like, "Nick, do not go." Everyone was telling me to not go. I was like, "Well, I'm going to go cuz like people deserve to see what's happening." And uh so I went and yeah, almost got taken hostage. You almost got taken hostage while you're there. Yeah. So, walk me through who you went through. Was it just security? Did you take your brother? Did family go with you? Yeah, so it was just me and two of my security guards. One The one's actually a Cuban-American and the other one also speaks Spanish. So, I had two guys who spoke spoke Spanish. I also speak fluent Spanish. However, when you go to different countries, each Spanish is a little bit different like they have different different slang and whatnot. And so, these guys that I went with, they had done operations like a anti-human trafficking operations in Haiti and Mexico. And so, they're very well-versed in these hostile situations. And when we arrived to the airport, we had done everything correct. I had my visa and it was for journalistic activities. And I get there and right as I get there, they take all my I only brought two GoPros and some DJI microphones. They take all of that. And my Meta glasses as well. However, luckily, I had a very small microphone that I had at the very bottom of my backpack and the guy's finger just like scuffed it and he let me and he didn't notice that I had that microphone. So, I had my iPhone and these people were literally we were we were with them for probably hour or two hours as they were trying to figure out what we were doing and I was telling them, "I'm just here to make a video like I said like I'm I have my visa right here and just want to show people what's going on here in Cuba." And uh it turned into kind of a big ordeal where they brought in like a bunch of other people to come ask me questions and touch the gear, see what was It was like foreign objects to them like the Meta glasses. They were like analyzing the Meta glasses like they like some crazy foreign objects cuz never seen it before. Yeah. >> That stuff's not going to be out there. Now, what was their biggest like did they recognize you? Did they know who you were or no? Not from the get-go. I don't think so. And then they asked me, "What kind of videos do you make?" I was like, "Well, I just go around the world showing people what's going on." Um like with journalism. And I told them my name, and then one of the ladies was like one of the ladies said, "Uh he he's up to no good. Like Trump probably sent him or something like that." She said one of the ladies said >> Yeah. She's like uh she said uh Trump probably sent him. Cuz I was the only American in the airport. Like I'm the only gringo there. And uh I have these two security guards with me. And literally the only American white American male there. Interesting. So, did they took Did you get anything back or no? The cameras, all this stuff? I ended up getting it back when I left the airport the next day. I was planning on being there for 3 days, and it turned into 24 hours. So, everything you shot and recorded is on an iPhone. >> Yeah. Huh. iPhone and one of those mics. Mhm. That's all you get That's all you went with. It's all I had was an iPhone and my microphones. They took like the stabilizer. That's like the most simple stabilizer. Um they took that. And I was just filming with the GoPros and uh iPhone. And they took the GoPros, obviously. So, now while you're in in the airport, who else is coming to you? What's Is other security coming? Is there intel coming? Is the military that is showing up? Is it a big spectacle or is it fairly low-key in a different private room where nobody sees it? No, it was out in the open. So, right as I get there, they didn't take me back to this different area. And from there, they had uh two people working this desk, and then they ended up bringing in uh three other people. And there's like the boss of the airport, and then uh two other people that they were literally writing everything down on a piece of paper. Like they don't have computers inside of the airport. So, they're literally writing everything down pen and pen or pen and pen uh pen and paper and the paper is not even a sheet of paper, it's a receipt. Like an empty receipt. >> see one computer in the airport? >> No. It was all pen and paper. As far as when they were taking my stuff. >> So now when you leave the airport, are they following you? Do you feel like people are all trying to watch you see what you're there for? Well, as soon as we leave the airport, we're getting followed. Like they put people on us from the get-go. And so everything what people don't realize about communism is everyone is essentially working for the government if they have a job, especially in a location like an airport, especially at the hotels as well. So, like it creates a whole entire society where everyone just snitches on each other cuz then that helps them. And nobody knows about that. No one speaks about that about communism. You only hear that from people who escaped North Korea. Like you know me, Park. I don't know if you've ever met her. Mhm. >> me about that. And so when I was there, I was like, "Woah, this is like North Korea." Everyone's just like snitching on each other or everyone's surveilling and then ready to report to make themselves taller. >> say that. You ever seen a movie the Tetris, the story of Tetris? No, I have not. >> Rob, can you pull up the Tetris movie? Uh uh I think if there's a movie everybody has to watch on the story of snitching and what happened is this movie Tetris. It's it's a very good movie that came out a couple years ago. And how it happened, the mob was involved. I even want to say Ghislaine Maxwell's father was involved in the story. Rob, can you go a little bit lower and type in Maxwell? Type in control F Maxwell. Right there. Yeah, so it was Roger learns that the worldwide rights were to be sold to British entrepreneur Robert Stein who sublicensed them to Robert Maxwell's company headed by Maxwell's son Kevin. So, they talk about secrets, snitching on each other, catching people. That guy's getting paid, this guy's getting paid. Uh very interesting. So, now you're leaving, how quickly do you start creating content and taking the camera out? About 2 hours. I get to the hotel, check in. Uh the guy at the hotel lobby actually knew who I was. He's like, "Oh, Nick Shirley, how does he know you?" From Facebook. He's like He's like, "Oh, your videos in Minnesota were great." And he was super cool guy. So, there's some cool people in the airport. This guy was super cool and he put us in a super nice hotel room. Uh that was super awesome. But then there was these other people like the There's this older guy who then took us on a tour and he was just like completely lying about everything about Cuba. I'm like, "So, is this a communist country?" He's like, "No, no, socialist. We're socialist, but there's only one party in commun- in in Cuba. And that's uh >> Communism. Communist Party of Cuba. >> Is that it? Is this the guy? No, the This is not the guy. This is a a guy who we went and did a ride around with their 1950 Chevrolet Chevette. Give me Give me what you're seeing in the streets. What are the cars? What are the properties looking like? What are the people, what they're wearing, phones, watches? What What did you notice? Streets are empty. Buildings are decaying, like turning A lot of them are turning like rubble. And there's no cars in the streets, and the cars they have are from like the 1950s. And if any of the other cars they do have, they're Chinese or from the Soviet area. And just mass poverty. And everyone's just trying to get some dollars. Like it's super super super sad. What did you eat? I brought just some protein bars, and then I ate at the hotel. That was it. >> How was the food at the hotel? Super good. Oh, so it was good. >> The food at the hotel was good. Life inside the hotel is amazing. It's a five-star hotel. They make sure that you have the best uh experience possible when you're on their side and they don't think you're making some video asking people about communism, which I was asking people about communism, so uh all at the end of the night that's where all the like the spies where we eventually I had all the spies come, yeah. The spies go to the hotel you were staying at? Well, we got followed back and when I say spies, you think like oh undercover spies, it's just civilians that are operating for the government that are monitoring what you're doing and so they're just snitching. And the hotel that we were at was uh comes to find out it's obviously run by the government and so we kind of created this bad network for ourselves where we kind of got trapped at this hotel where everyone knew who we were and knew that I was making a video asking about communism. Cuz the lady that was the spy filmed me asking a guy about communism and this guy went off about communism just like how bad it is. And she then like ran away and sat down to the next person and then a few minutes later she's back in the hotel lobby with a guy who had caught following us earlier that day. This is wild. It was very wild. >> What what was for you before I showed this clip cuz there's a bunch of clips I want to show them. What what was something that you expected, what was surprising, what was good, what was bad? Walk me through what you saw when maybe you're like, you know what I was surprised, this is what I liked about it, this is what what you know was concerning about it. I expected to see like poverty. I've been to South America. I lived in South America. I expected to see that. I didn't expect to see Latinos so depressed. Why do you say that? There was like no life in the eyes of a lot of these people. Like we all know uh we all have Latino friends and a lot of them are just like like the salt of the earth, right? They're like always so happy. So, for me to see these Latinos who are so deprived and depressed, I was like, "What is going on?" Like, a lot of the women wouldn't even look you in the eyes. Like, they're just very depressed. Like, even at the airport, the women that were working at the airport, they were so depressed. And even the men as well, like, there's just no hope for these people. And so, that was what really took me back was seeing all these people that are just depressed. You know, there was like no life in their eyes. And then seeing like some of the the architecture that they had, like, Cuba used to have like the the prettiest architecture. Like, I imagine 1950s it was just beautiful. And now you're seeing like the decay. And it looks awful there. Like, everything just literally looks like rubble. It looks like some some sort of a war zone. So, that was interesting to see. And then some of the monuments they had, like, look at the architecture on that. Like, super pretty. It looks like something you'd see like some of the moldings and stuff look like uh when you're walking the streets of Paris. >> Mhm. And so, to see that and you've seen the what what it could look like, is very depressing. >> Rob, can you type in Cuba before and after before communism after communism? Cuba Cuba cuz you put Cuban, it may be a girl before a butt job and an after. Cuba before We've done that before, Rob, you and I. We're We're doing some podcast where pictures come up. Okay, so go to one of them. That's before and after. 1930s without communism. Then you got today. Is that what you saw? Like, were you seeing things like that on the bottom? Exactly. >> Trash everywhere, mess everywhere. There's no uh there's no gas in the country right now. So, there's nowhere for them to get rid of their garbage. So, they're just burning the garbage in the streets. Like, when I arrived, I was like, "Why is there all this smog in the air?" And the lady next to me goes, "Oh, cuz they're just burning all the garbage." Wow. What did What did women look like? Did you see beautiful people? Did you see >> Yeah, there's some beautiful ladies there. But, um Yeah, everyone's like depressed. And then you ask them about life, and they're like, "We can't talk about it." >> Depressed beautiful ladies. Yeah. I know a guy that would like an area like that. His name is Adam. He's been to places like that before. Yeah, we should send Adam there. You always Well, not today. Uh let's wait to see if this is going to work out or not, but maybe one day. He's been there before, though. So, let's go to one of the clips. So, what what is this one video that you have here with you and the fellow in the car? Yeah, so this is the intro to the video that's going to be coming out in the next >> has not been dropped yet. >> Okay. So, people are seeing clips that's not public yet. No, you're actually the first person to ever seen this. Okay. So, what what is this? What are we seeing in this clip? So, this I'm driving around with a tour guide in the intro, and then you'll see some other clips building up to it, and then I'll show you guys the gas stations as well. >> it, Rob. Let's see it. What percentage of people do you think are suffering here in Cuba? What do you think of communism? What do you think of the communism? Wow, so they're that public about None of the gas stations are even in operation right now because there's quite literally >> [music] >> no gas. >> 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. They're asking why are we trying to leave the hotel early. 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're facing massive food shortages, daily blackouts, and a lack of medicine. And right now, a US blockade is restricting oil and gas from coming inside of the country. With communism and socialism on the rise in the west, I wanted to see what life in communism is really like first hand as 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 two-star general came searching for me at the hotel. Now, let's look at the reality of Cuba and eventually plan our escape out of Cuba. Where are the people at? The problem is that there is no gasoline and nothing. It's not easy to move any day any way. 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 taxi with right now, he said he his position to get gas is 1,200 in line and gas from the government costs around $1, but gas if you were to buy it on the black market costs $10 per liter. That's $40 per gallon if you were to buy gas here in Cuba. Before they captured Maduro, was there gasoline in the gas stations? Always. Always. What is it? No, he works for the government, too. But it was easy to get gasoline. And food >> Every day you can go to the gasoline station and buy it normally. It was normal. But nowadays, it's really bad. Just imagine the reality of it with a thousand 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. >> That's why they put you on there. When most people open up complaining a select I would ask people and then they kind of get to a point in the interview where they can't answer anymore questions. say they can't answer the question. Let me see the ending of it Rob cuz I got a bunch of questions right now. So this is like North Korea here. Look at this. Like they have these monuments for their leaders and it's just like desolate. Like when you come into a massive plaza and there's not even cars. Listen right now 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 COVID 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 and continue their normal lives right now. Nick, let me ask you. Do they have internet? Meaning are they able to watch YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, TikTok or are they able to consume news? They do but they have to do it illegally. They have to use a VPN. Got it. >> So actually if you want to watch a TV show, you have to go into a booth and then they run it like on a hard drive and they give you a disk. What do you mean? Like they have these weird booths. So if you want to watch media or TV, you have to go to like a a person who then you know how you like back in the day like my dad used to make playlist off of CDs, right? They do that exact same thing but for uh movies and TV shows. And so like right now they're like releasing shows from like the 1990s in the in the theaters. And in order to even use a theater, you have to have like around at least I think like nine people inside the theater to watch the show if not it just gets cut off. And there's all these blackouts right now with power so people really aren't consuming much. What what was the strangest answer you got? Like what was a part where you're like you cannot believe what somebody opened up and things they shared with you. One person said they haven't had eggs in a year. Eggs in a year? Like they talk about these books that they have like I think they call them like their their ration book. Uh-huh. Where they where the government's controls how much food they get and they're like, "This is horrible. We haven't even had eggs in a year. Takes it years to get it eat a chicken." Like stuff that you wouldn't even think about here in the United States. But because of communism and the government controlling what people can actually do and what they can eat, it dictates their entire life. Hm. Did you ask about Trump? Did Trump come up at all? Yes, Trump came up. >> Were they optimistic? Were they negative? Were they afraid? They The ones that opened up on camera, they said it'd be good. Cuz they're sick of it. Like no one There's a lot of brainwashing that takes place. So I had a lot of old ladies who like, "Oh no, this is good. Like they're fixing up these buildings." But then you talk to some of the other individuals who are like, "This is horrible. Like something needs to happen." Something needs to happen. So in the video like I still I'm still going through and like blurring the faces of these individuals cuz I don't want them to get sent to jail. >> some people that like don't record me? I don't want to be on TV. I don't want to be on camera. >> Yes, a lot of individuals were like that. And you respect it. You're like, "Okay." Or you get to the point in the interview and you ask a question and the person and then you're like, "Okay, yes, see like this is what happens. Like you I've reached my limit here." How many kids did you see in the streets? Actual kids like six, seven, eight, 10, 12-year-olds. Really not that many. Uh I talked to a kid who's playing soccer at their university. He was probably like 12 years old and it's super sad cuz I'm like, "What's the biggest thing affecting your life right now?" He says, "The lights." Like they just cut the lights randomly. I was like, "Oh, and how does that affect you as a child?" He's like, "Well, it affects everything like studies. Like we don't like we don't know when we're have power." And then there there really wasn't that many kids out in the streets, which is weird for being in a country in Latin America. Usually there's kids everywhere. Yeah, especially when it's a beautiful like Rob, can you pull up Cuba on a map on a map and details of how big it is. How big is Cuba when you saw like what would you compare it to? Like it was a big city. Um Have you been to the Bahamas? I have not been to the Bahamas. So if you compare the Bahamas zoom out a little bit Rob. So if that's Florida, that's Cuba. It's not small. No, it's a big country. It's about two times the size of Haiti and Dominican Republic. Yeah. And so what part did you go to? Did you go to Havana? >> Just Havana. Yeah. Okay. And And there's 2 million people there. And so there's 2 million people there, but the streets are empty. There's 2 million people here. Did you go to the hotel that Meyer Lansky built in Havana? I don't know. I was at the Hotel Nacional. Hotel Nacional. Is that like the main hotel? >> Yeah. Yeah. Is that it? No, that's a different property. >> That's the capital. Um what else? Were they saying things like we can't wait for something to happen? Are you here giving us news? Are we about to be free? Were they seeing like they're pleading for help with you or they were almost afraid of speaking to because there's two different energies, right? When I Both? Yeah, so obviously some people don't want to speak out cuz they're sick of it. But one of the individuals like, "See, this is why it's gotten like this cuz we can't speak out." And so people are grateful that you're actually going and showing what's happening. And because I'm not going on a I didn't have a a tour guide from the government, I was able to actually go out and do journalism. There's a lot of people who have gone to Cuba lately and they're going on these propaganda trips. And if you watch the videos, they're only interviewing certain people or their tour guides taking them to certain spots. I went all by myself. And then I was supposed to go for about 60 hours. It turned in 24 because they all like they surrounded us at the hotel. So What was the reasoning for you wanting to turn around? Did you just not feel safe? >> My security was like we got to go. Okay. They they said this is like the one of the more risky situations I've ever been in and this is coming from guys who have gone to Haiti and who have done anti-human trafficking missions in in Mexico and in Haiti. So >> How easy was it for you to change the flight and come back early? Was that pretty smooth and easy? It's pretty smooth, but we didn't want we didn't want to let them know and tip them off that we were leaving early. So I think we booked the flight at like 3:00 a.m. But it didn't help cuz at the when we went down to leave the hotel, the two-star general was waiting for us. And so we had went out to go get the taxi and then the security guard comes. He's like, "Hey, don't run. They're here. They want to talk to you." What did they ask you? So the guy the the general It was like a movie. Like I can't It's hard to even put it into words cuz it the feelings and then also like the scenery of it. It's like the the stars on the hat. Like everything that you would expect to see from a from from a movie. And they take us back into this room. He has a secretary with us and he's asking he's like, "Hey, why are you guys leaving early?" What What was the purpose of you guys leaving? >> you why you're leaving early. Yeah. Like why are you leaving early? We saw that we heard that you had an interaction out front in front of the hotel cuz everything all right. And that confirmed that that lady who started taking the cameras reported us to the government because they would have not known about that before they would not have known about that. And are you tipping folks? Are they receiving cash from you? Do they accept tips? What was the reaction when you gave them money? Yeah. So their minimum their monthly salary is $14 USD. And so I was tipping money. I was like giving money >> Monthly salary is $14. >> Yes. Like that's how bad it is. And then you gave them tip. Was it cuz I remember being in Guatemala, I went to Puerto Barrios, Livingston, Tikal, and Guatemala City and I'm going around giving tips to people. I I I gave $50 tips and I couldn't one mother with her kids starts crying when I give it to her. She says, "You don't understand how much money this is." What was the reaction they gave you when you tipped them? They wanted more. Oh, they wanted more. They were These guys were capitalists. They're greedy. Yeah. Okay. Well, at least in every communist, there's a capitalist deep down inside. Yeah, so you I mean you'd give them money and you'd give them I don't really take $1 bills and $5 bills, so you'd give them $1 bill, $3, $5, and then they'd want more and more. And so like eventually but like I had like a group of people following me around asking for money. I was like, "Hey, you guys stop. I don't have any more." So, the moment they found out you were tipping, did you find any other Americans there that if you at the hotel at the lobby, were there other Americans that are coming and talking to you? Not coming to talk to me. There was other tourist. It was interesting that these tourists like a lot of them they were wearing like the communist gear. Like they're wearing the shirts of Che, the communist leader. And it was so interesting that you had like all these Americans not even that many Americans, but you had all these I don't know where they're from. Um America, Europe, but they're all like pro-communist. And I'm like, "How how how can you see what I just saw on the streets and say, 'Let's have more of this?'" There was a There was a guy that called you out. That wasn't the hotel, Rob. I think if you got the clip, is this the first one or the second one? No, you got to go to the first one. That's the second one. That's the second one. Go to the first one. That's him. So, this is the clip. He says, "Hey, I'm at the same hotel. Where's Nick Shirley?" Go ahead and play the clip, Rob. Yo, Nick Shirley, I'm in the hotel that you were supposedly in here in Havana, Cuba. Then you're nowhere to be seen. Neither is the security and the CIA and the spies that were supposedly holding you hostage. We understand that you're super tight with Trump. And basically what you're doing is just pretext for the United States to try to go ahead and invade Cuba the same way they did with Venezuela, but you're not here. I'm at the hotel that Nick Shirley said that he's currently being held hostage by the Cuban government in and that he was tailed by their secret service. And there's literally no security here. I'm making a video in public in a country that he said is communist. So, because of the communism, there's no freedom of speech. Well, as this brother here sees, there is freedom of speech and Nick Shirley's nowhere to be seen and neither are these spies he's talking about. We're actually about to walk in right now and go find out exactly where he is. Let's see. What did he say right there? He's like, "I'm from the United States." He said, "I'm from the United States." And then the part two of the video Yeah, so but first like there's some huge flaws with this guy's video. He knows I'm not there. He knows you're not there. He doesn't know you're not there. Cuz I In the video I said if I after this video gets posted, it means that I I made it out. So, he saw the video you posted that you've already left. >> liar. Okay. He's literally there to push propaganda that Cuba's all right. Like Cuba's not all right. Like this is part of the problem where you have these people who can go to a communist country and still support communism. Why Why do you think he's doing this? He lives in America, but he goes there to push communism and say everything's going good. If it's so good, why is he not moving to Cuba himself? Yeah, and he's acting like there's no issues. And it's sort of funny cuz on his Instagram, then he has a photo of him He's like talking about how great it is and how there's no issues or anything, meanwhile he's plugging his phone into a generator. He's plugging his phone into a generator. And what's he saying in this clip? So, this clip these These ones really make me mad because these are straight-up just lies that they then use and a small group will then believe these and then they'll like believe that Nick Shirley is this villain or they'll believe that they'll believe the words that this guy says are true and they're not true at all. And so you have this problem with these legit radicalized individuals who supporting communism after he's seeing seven out of 10 people miss a meal a day inside of Cuba. >> Seven out of 10 people miss a meal a day. A day. People can't people are getting surgeries without actually getting medicine like without getting induced. You know. >> What does he say here? Uh watch it it's >> Go ahead Rob. What Nick Shirley is doing in Cuba is settler colonial white supremacist state sanctioned violence against the Cuban people. Tell me how it's any different than the killing of George Floyd or than the killing of 4 million Iraqis during the United States invasion of Iraq or than the invasion of Venezuela or than ice in our communities taking the lives of countless people or than so many things that the the taking of the life of Elijah >> one of those guys. Yes. Got it. Got it. Interesting. Okay, so then you come back. On the way back at the airport are they giving you a hard time or you able to take off and there was no issues? They gave us a bit of a hard time. So I go through I get my stuff cuz if we had just passed through the the two star general and we went with the two star general they're like okay good we'll get you a taxi and we go down to get the taxi and there's no taxi. We're like okay we're not risking getting in some random car. So we start walking by foot. Uh and then we finally get on a little tricycle like electric taxi and that takes us to the airport. So we're fleeing Cuba in a 10 mile per hour tricycle. And then we get to the airport. Uh we get through I go and grab my stuff. I'm like it'd be bad luck if I didn't go back and get my stuff. So I go get my stuff. One of the security guards stays upstairs with them. He gets cornered by two individuals and they're like, "Hey, why are you guys leaving me early?" Like how Like what Why are you guys leaving me early? And the security guard goes like, "We know what's up. Like you guys had your guys on us the whole entire time." And like And the guy literally told security this. He said, "Yeah, the president knows you're here. Like we've been monitoring you guys. Like we want to make sure that what you guys publish makes us look good essentially." And so the president of Cuba knew that we were there. Like that's how our password got out and then like that also That just went to prove everything that we were speculating as far as the spies and being monitored the whole entire time. Like we'd be filming outside of one of the hospitals and then all of a sudden two random guys would show up out of nowhere. And then we'd go to the next location. Then we go to the hotel. The guy who's there in the afternoons all there by himself again. The two ladies The The lady is then sitting next to the guy. Like everything proved to be real. And it would have Like I knew going to Cuba like it was a big risk. Like 60/40 it goes well. And with everything that's going on like wouldn't have been the worst idea for them to hold somebody like me hostage. They could They could have used it as leverage, right? So I knew it was very risky to go, but I knew I also needed to go to show people what's going on. And [snorts] so it wasn't the craziest idea to me that I knew like I was entering a very dangerous situation, but I also knew how it had to be done cuz people need to see what's going on there. They're not going to get it from a communist-controlled country who controls the media. But the president knew we were there. Yeah, and and it's What do you think's going to actually end up happening to Cuba? Do you think Cuba's going to be free here soon and, you know, part of one of the, you know, similar to a Puerto Rico to the states? What do you think's going to happen? Very possible. If you're looking at it, right now the US US has a blockade on Cuba. Their main supplier of oil was Venezuela and Mexico. Trump said if Mexico were to give them oil then they're going to impose more tariffs. So Mexico is scared is scared off. They're not giving them oil. Venezuela They're not giving them oil either. So the United States is currently squeezing all the oil and gas out of Cuba. And it will not be hard for them to take it over in my opinion. >> Yeah, what did do you have the clip Rob of what the president said? The ship is going to pull up. It was actually a speech he was giving. He said the ship's going to pull up the moment we're done with Iran. Then the ship's going to go to Cuba. Once it's out there they're going to be like done. We're good. Let's Did you see that clip of the president? Yeah. So he's uh you know, he is thinking this is not going to take a long time either. I think it was just a couple days ago that we did this. Yeah, this is it Rob. Go for it. And our architect is really talented. He's done a lot of work for me. He's got a flare, a beautiful Hispanic flare in particular. And he comes from originally a place called Cuba, which we will be taking over almost immediately. Now Cuba is Cuba has got problems. We'll finish one first. I like to finish the job. On the way back from What we'll do On the way back from Iran we'll have one of our big maybe the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier, the biggest in the world. We'll have that come in. Stop about 100 yd offshore. And they'll say, "Thank you very much. We give up." Yeah. Thank you very much. We give up. On how quickly he thinks it's going to be ending. Like they're literally squeezing them, too. >> Yeah. Well, they were relying cuz they Venezuela was giving oil to Cuba for free to sell and they were making their money through it and then none of them was going to none of the money was going to the people. They were keeping it at the top. So the people were poor. Uh and they just had the gas that they were selling so people can fill up kind of like that one guy was talking about. Anything else about the experience in Cuba? Anything else? I don't think it'll be hard for the United States to take it over. Now, uh, like I don't like the idea of the United States going in and just taking over countries or I I wish like other people could do it themselves. Like I wish the Cuban government could help out the the Cuban people. Uh, so it's going to be interesting to see what happens. They're probably begging for The people are begging for it. >> begging for it. The government, you know, no, but the people are begging for it. There's a lot of Cubans here that can't wait for that to become a reality. For them to go back. It's a beautiful place. I mean, the stuff that you see what it was like. Um, it's produced a lot of amazing people here. You know, a lot of them are good business owners, small business owners who want to find a way to go back. You know, I got one of the kids that's a friend of my son. Every summer he goes to Cuba. He goes to Cuba just because the parents don't want him to lose the culture. Even though they know it's a communist nation, they want to go back to Cuba to be around the family. But deep down inside, they can't wait for that to to become a reality. And by the way, what a what a move. What a move of not going to Cuba and Iran before doing Venezuela because Venezuela was going to, you know, suffocate, you know, Cuban government and China because China's relying on Venezuela for the oil so much. Interesting move the way these guys did it. One day when we read these books to find out if this whole thing was intentional or not, to go to Venezuela first, we're going to learn a lot about history. And if it was intentional, good move on Rubio and and the president's end. But I guess we won't find that out for a minute. Yeah, I mean, and also like with Panama, like the whole thing was because of China. >> Mhm. The because China was then controlling the canal and then you really don't want China to be that close to the United States. And Cuba was also being propped up by China, Russia. I mean, we We almost start had a nuclear war with Cuba because of the Soviet Union and they had nukes and uh apparently they were ready to start nuclear war with the so like it's not a good idea to have an enemy that is only like 90 miles away from Yeah, that's a that's a scary thought. Especially the people who live in Florida, they they probably Anybody living in Florida is probably going to want that to become a reality first. Let's talk about Quality Learning Center. What's happened from Of course, you got a couple guys to resign. Of course, you got a couple you know a governor that saw the video and and a lot of people saying, "Well, you know, Nick Shirley, he's not really a journalist." And now you've done some work with it's actual policies being made with you. What is the latest with Quality Learning Center? Cuz this is what I've seen. But I wonder what else you have on what's happened with these guys. So, the Quality Learning Center, they got raided and the great thing about these raids that took place is they had to provide enough evidence to then get these warrants, these search warrants. So, a federal judge had to then grant them these warrants. And right now in Minnesota, they're also blocking people uh they're blocking a bill that would ban funding from the Quality Learning Center. Like >> Wait, what what is that? Minnesota Democrats just voted to block an amendment that would have banned funding from going to the Quality Learning Center in Minneapolis. That means what? Money not going to them? I don't know if it's to go to more Quality Learning Centers or if it's to go to the Quality Learning Center. Like that's how crazy stuff is in Minnesota where I wouldn't even be surprised if they still want to give money to a empty building that has no children. Rob, can you play that clip real quick? word to the end, the words "or to the Quality Learning Center Inc." And Learning is spelled e l e a r i n g. All members having voted who desire to vote, the secretary will close the roll. There being 32 eyes and 33 nays, the motion is does not prevail. The amendment is to the amendment is not adopted. Madam President, to the end You got to be kidding me. Like Minnesota is the biggest joke in America. Um Ilhan Omar also had the opportunity to uh provide any evidence about any of the fraud taking place in Feeding Our Future, and she submitted nothing. Yeah, I saw that. She submitted nothing. She I don't have to. Yeah, her silence speaks volumes. Have you had an interaction with her? Have you uh at all uh had any interaction with her when you're out there or not? No, Ilhan Omar. I've tried to go to her office twice. I gave her a Quality Learning Hutter, a Quality Learning Hoodie. I gave her a uh anti-fraud Taxpayer Club Hoodie. She She wasn't there both times. Actually, at the State of the Union, her guest were actually right behind me. Which was very interesting. So, I'm like sitting down, I see uh Ilhan Omar. I really want to say hi to her, but I didn't get the chance. >> Her guest was sitting right behind you? >> Yes. >> Did you speak to the guest? >> Yeah, it was super funny cuz I just stood up, shook their hands, and they acted super nice to me. But Ilhan obviously she wouldn't say hi. Yeah. Imagine if like Tim Walz or Ilhan Omar reached out and said, "Hey, Nick, let's have a conversation on your YouTube channel." I would love to do something like that. And just say like, "Hey, let's have a conversation about this issue." But they won't ever do it because they're they know that they're complicit in this fraud. What's this clip here, Rob? Is this uh This was from 4 hours ago, apparently. >> Let's see it cuz I haven't seen this. So, neither one of us know what what it is. Let's see what this >> Minnesota's $9 billion fraud scandal. Yesterday, they blocked a subpoena for materials from Congresswoman Ilhan Omar. Investigators want to see her communications with the convicted ringleader of the theft from $250 million in COVID funds. That particular part of the probe. That money was meant to feed hungry children. The subpoena attempt came after Ilhan Omar blew off a deadline to turn over the information. Republican candidate for Senate Minnesota Michelle Tafoya with this. She has not participated in this process at all so far. She has remained somewhat untouchable here in Minnesota. I'm not sure why that is. I'm not sure we why we don't hold all of our suspected wrongdoers to account. There is so much smoke here and I want to find the fire. Well, I can tell you who could talk about the smoke. Senior correspondent Mike Tobin is digging in to get the facts posted on this What do you think is going to happen here? What do you think will happen to her? Well, she obviously needs to be investigated. I think she's currently under investigation. Her net worth went from $30 million to $100,000. She's obviously guilty and a lot of this fraud, even the Quality Learning Center. She was friends with the lady who was running a restaurant in front of the Quality Learning Center who also owns daycares when she was in videos with Mayor Frey as well. Um so Ilhan Omar, she needs to get prosecuted or she needs to get deported. There's evidence that she she did marry her brother. I think the problem with her marrying her brother is that I don't think the brother is currently in the United States right now. I think he's in the UK. So, that complicates things, I believe. But, if she does not get she'll she'll either step out of step down from Congress um or she'll be arrested, I believe. There's no way she can continue what she's done. You know you're pushing the weight where you're disrupting a lot of these people's lives and tens of millions of people support what you're doing because they want to know what the hell is going on. They've been wanting the government to do this for a long time. You're doing this. How much worse is security for you today than even after quality learning center? Is it getting better? Is it getting safer? Or it's getting worse with the threats that you're getting? It goes in waves. But, for instance, when you have people like that guy in Cuba who makes that video saying all these these straight up lies, that just makes it even worse for you. Or you have these other people who come up with all these things and all these other theories, it makes it even worse for you. So, like right now, security is an issue. Like whenever I travel, I do bring people with me. Because I like 99% of people, it's all love. Like people are thankful that this fraud's being exposed. Kind of be crazy not to be happy this fraud's being exposed. But then there is that 1%. Even if it's 1% here in America, that's 3 million people who are radicalized. Even if it's just 0.1%, that's 300,000 people. It only took one person to go think he could even storm into the White House Correspondent Dinner. That guy had no shot of actually killing President Trump. But he had thought in his mind that he had to do it. And he literally stormed past stormed past Secret Service and brought a gun and traveled all the way from California to try and kill the president. Like there are there's a really big issue with radicalized individuals here inside the United States. Financially, are you in a better place to be able to protect yourself? Yes, but I mean, if you had to spend $30,000 a month on security, that adds up. >> That adds up. Yeah. And so, luckily I have been able to raise some money for that, which helps a lot. Um but it's not like So like say say I made $30,000 a month before all this stuff, that's like amazing. Now you make $30,000, so then you have to spend $30,000 on security if I had to pay for it out of pocket, which is really tough. How many of the sweaters did you sell? The Quality Lyrics sweaters? Sold quite a bit of those. A lot of people liked them. More than 10,000? No, not that much. Not that much. A couple thousand? Yeah, a couple thousand. >> That's good. We have it here. I come to work, guys are wearing the Quality Lyrics. I'm like, I'm glad Deli's trying to learn something. That's a knockoff. That's a knockoff. Go to antifraudclub.com. What's it called? antifraudclub.com antifraud.com >> antifraudclub.com >> club.com So >> the merch is what? At the top shop? Yeah. Here we go. Yeah, I see these. I actually see these in our building with guys wearing And by the way, some of you guys will put the link to this below as well for people that want to go buy that. And also at the same time for some of you guys that are watching is wanted to support or you know stuff, you may want to connect Nick Shirley. Connect Nick Shirley. He responds back to people on connect. I'm Nick Shirley and you guys can find me here on connect. Go ahead and ask me any questions whether it be about politics, about what I believe or where I think the future of the country would be going, or just quite frankly anything. You can ask me here on connect. I really appreciate all your support and I can't wait to answer your questions. We'll put the link below as well for connect with Nick Shirley. Uh walk me through your best friend, uh what's his name? Gavin Newsom, okay? Because he said some very complimentary things about you. Uh this right here came from them. Nick Shirley right now, okay? So this is what's interesting about this post. He's posting this out there saying you're going to daycare to see their kids, okay? That got 9.7 million views. How many likes? Rob, if you can pull up the likes, 26,000 likes. Not bad. But then there's a guy on the bottom that posts a comment. His name is Nick Shirley. You do realize I'm trying to help America eliminate fraud and waste, right? No need to try to make me look like the bad guy for exposing fraud. People are over it. Start working for the people and not against them. 283,000 likes compared to 20-something thousand likes and he's a governor. You're just a citizen journalist. What's the latest with you and Newsom? Right now they're trying to pass a bill that would stop investigative journalism for nonprofits that support immigration support services. They're trying to hide our tax dollars from these NGOs and they very slightly did it. They put it in a healthcare at the very bottom of the bill. And so, for me to go to California and go expose a a leering center for instance, that would become illegal if that person would then say that was harassment. And now if you read what they say in that bill about harassment, there's a few things they say would be considered harassment. And one of those just says unwelcome. Like if it was an unwelcome visit, they could then say that's harassment. And so, they're literally trying to make it criminal to expose fraud inside the state of California. There's over a hundred billion dollars in fraud. Like I would say a hundred billion dollars each year in fraud in in California. >> alone? In California alone. Just if you just look at their Medi-Cal budget, how it's gone up a hundred billion dollars and they've only had a 100,000 100,000% uh 100,000 en- enrollment boost. And it's gone up a hundred billion dollars. Now who who were you chasing down? There was a clip I think I saw where you said, "Hey, you you're the one that wrote the Nick Shirley uh Stop Nick Shirley Act." And then she's like, "I don't know who Nick Shirley is. Who are you? What's your name?" She was acting like she didn't know who you were. So this gets really crazy actually. So, the lady who makes this bill, her name's uh Mia Bonta. Is that the one or no? She didn't Mia Bonta didn't She didn't show up to do her job that day. I think she got word that I was coming and she didn't show up. And so, Mia Mia Bonta, she she she married to the AG of California whose job is to do what you're doing? >> Yes, her husband is the Attorney General of California whose job is to prosecute and stop fraud. And she's making a bill right now to make it illegal to go out making it illegal and criminal to expose fraud. Just not not just expose it, but to investigate it. And her husband is Rob Bonta. Rob, can you go go her husband? Rob Bonta. So, Rob Bonta is a 34th Attorney General of California since 2021, member of the Democratic Party, and he chaired the California Asian Pacific Islander Caucus after Xavier Becerra resigned, which Xavier's right now running for mayor as Attorney General to become Secretary of Health and Human Services. Bonta was appointed as by Governor Newsom to replace him. Bonta sworn in. So, he what So, let me get this straight. She who is married to him is targeting you to prevent you from doing their job. Yes. It's very bad. And she's saying it's not a violation of the First Amendment. It would literally be illegal and a daycare owner of the Quality Learning Center would have legal authority to tell you to delete your video from the internet on a public street. It'd be a direct violation of the First Amendment. And the thing is like uh say this bill, it's super un- it shouldn't pass. Let's say it does pass. It will then take the Supreme Court a year, 2 years to then go and reverse it. Year two years to go reverse it, yeah. And who was the person you were asking questions? You're following somebody. Yeah, so I'm asking the co-authors of the bill. Rob, can you go to that the co-authors of the bill? Is that the clip that he had a minute ago? >> Yes. Rob, go to that you were on X. Right there. Go ahead, Rob. She asked the question, "Who are you?" Go ahead. The bill AB 2624, why would you sign off on that? It's a direct violation of the First Amendment and it makes it harder for people to expose fraud here. Uh we have ledge counsel. They check the constitutionality of all our bills as we're writing them. I work on fraud issues. You'd know that if you uh look some of the work I did on the budget Okay, amazing. So, the Mia Bonta, her husband's Attorney General of the Uni- of of the Attorney General of California, and it was only until I exposed fraud that they actually cracked down on the fraud and made some arrests here, especially with the hospices. And do you know that if this bill were to pass, it'd make it illegal for someone to go after fraud, especially if it's in based off of immigrants, for instance, Armenians in California. No, no. I I think that that's a misinterpretation of the bill, but I'm happy to talk with you more about it, and I Don't you worry. >> into fraud are something that's been happening for a very long time. The Attorney General handles those cases. This is an ongoing issue. >> the wife of the Attorney General, Mia Bonta, is now pushing this bill that literally goes against the First Amendment. Uh no, I I actually don't uh I don't think that this bill violates the First Amendment. I mean, that's that that's the whole purpose. We have ledge counsel, ledge attorneys that talk with us about this. Constitutionality is really important to the work. >> bill criminalizes publication of images recorded in public. Do you believe the government has the right to punish journalists for filming in public space? That No, I I think that that is a complete misinterpretation of actually the No, cuz if >> legislation. It is That is not. That's literally what happened. Speaker Rivas, how are you doing? >> [laughter] >> What do you think about the Stop Nick Shierly Act? AB 2624. These guys are like literally running from >> know anything about it. And do you think there's any conflict of interest there with Mia Bonta and her husband being the AG? It I just shows you everything you need to know. These people won't even answer the questions. Crazy. Crazy. Like these people are co-authoring bills, yet they don't even know what's on these bills. And they're it's a direct violation of the First Amendment, too. Who else did you get a chance to speak to while you were out there? All the other co-authors. And some of them had no idea that they had even passed their committees. Some people had no idea they were actually authors of the bill. Uh they wouldn't answer any questions about the bill. And like the bill literally says it would make it confidential how much money uh the funding that goes to these NGOs. But these people have no issue with that. Honestly, I think why they're doing this, why they're trying to pass this bill, is so say Newsom wins next election, they can just begin to flood the country with migrants once again. Because it would make it illegal for people to investigate what they did underneath Biden. Yeah, and while you were in LA, you you went to a couple different centers, right? If I'm not mistaken. How many how many different facilities did you go to in LA? So, in LA they have all the Armenian fraud taking place with the hospice. >> Why you got to go after Armenians? What did Armenians do to you? >> They're just committing lots of fraud. Okay. Like so much fraud. >> What did you find out? Well, you find out that these guys are living life in luxury while they're defrauding uh lots of old people actually that are on the verge of death. They're taking their medical beneficiary numbers, which is more valuable than a credit card for an individual over the age of 65. And then they're making money off these people who are supposedly dying. And while this is taking place, these people are buying uh Maybachs, uh G Wagon, Cybertrucks, M8 Competitions. And it's been happening for years. >> one of them? This is one of them. This was the most disturbing one you went to. Yeah, it's a that that's a daycare uh a daycare. >> in LA? That was in San Diego. Rob, play that clip. No one's there with these kids. >> No one. Play it, Rob. Finally found kids at a daycare. Now, this is the opposite problem. Adults are not there. >> Now, we're at the Jama Shukri Family Child Care. This place is not a shopping plaza, it's not anywhere near any place that looks like a place where a daycare would be. In fact, it's actually in one of these apartments right here. So, they're able to have daycares inside apartment buildings? Yes. So, I've come across many of these. Some of these are on third the third story of an apartment complex. It's only one bedroom, and yet the capacity is for eight kids. We just arrived to the daycare. We have two kids out here. I don't know if they're members of the daycare. There's no one There's no oversight right here. Can we talk to uh your teacher? Is your teacher [music] there? So, this is the first child we've ever encountered at at one of these daycares. There's two kids out here right now, and we're going to see if we can talk to [music] the licensee. Um it is >> [music] >> according to this paperwork Shukri Jama. Can we talk to the adult? Um he's not here. Not here? [music] Yeah. So, you guys are all by yourself? Yeah. That's That's ridiculous. >> No one's here. No one's here. No one's No one is not here. Wow. >> Okay. So, you guys are all by yourself? Okay. I can see by myself. Robbie, can you pause it? >> Yeah, it makes you mad. And And think about it, they're they're also giving money to these daycares. And this is an apartment complex. Why shouldn't somebody who just opens up their apartment complex for a daycare receive government funds? And these kids are all by themselves, obviously. Uh and the government, instead of saying, "Oh, let's go figure out what's happening." They then come after me for exposing it. Like, that's how corrupt California is. Have you ever gone to one of them where you end up being wrong about it? Where you're doing a video, and then you're like, "You know what? This one I was wrong on. This one they weren't doing anything illegal. It was real." These daycares, no. None of them yet? No. Okay. Cuz I I go up, I do the research. Like this one uh had I had the form, and they California had went through and done their evaluations, and they had shown like no children at these locations. And then the hospices, that was just pulling up and wrecking. Like, there was nothing there. One of One of the girls sent me a Manneck, and I said, "Just Manneck Nick directly, okay?" And it was from Healthy Life ADHD. Do you remember that one or no? Healthy Life ADHD? >> Healthy Life ADHD. Healthy Life ADHD, and she sent me a message, and she said, "Mom has been running ADHD for 25 years, including this one for the last 10 years. Nick was wrong here. Here's my number. Please have him call us because people are thinking we're running a fraud." Well, in that video I said In that one I said is that I don't think it's enough to say it's fraudulent. >> you saying that, and I told her that. I said, "Well, Nick said it may not be a fraud. Uh we don't know. We don't know enough if it's a fraud." And she's like, "No, my mother, they run a real legit business here." Uh so, they were messaging me. I said, "I'll ask Nick next time next time we do so." Did she ever Manneck you or no? >> She never did. >> She never Manneck'd it. Okay, so let me put the name out there. Uh Roxanne, if you're seeing this wherever you are, Manneck Nick. He'll respond back to you, and I'll share this with him as well. And so, like that's that one right there that says inside a $19 million adult daycare >> one. Yeah, that's the one. And uh Click on that, Rob. I think the own the the owner's daughter Manneck'd me about this place. Yeah. Adult daycare. This place, over the past few years, has billed $19.8 million alone. >> $16,000 beneficiary. >> I can enroll $16,000 beneficiary. >> cuz she needs some daycare. And this right here is the entrance of a building that has received over $19 million. Yeah. In the 5 years. location that's received over $19 million. Kind of crazy, right? They say that right here right now we're here at 1:30. No adults are here. I wouldn't doubt that adults do come, but $19 million. It's kind of like North Korea. It's like a show. >> there? You said 1:30? Yeah. Okay. It's like for a show almost. Is this now a different one? Is this it still the >> The one? >> and they can't give you any information. >> Yeah, I said I said I I told her I said like if you you're making it look bad for Nick. Go answer. Have some customer service. Have somebody be able to talk it. But at the end you did say I don't know enough if this is If you go to the end of this video, Rob, you when he's walking out and >> look at this place. It's adult daycare. They don't even have an answering machine. There are people inside right now. The phone's just ringing. You can leave a message after the tone. This mailbox is full. There you have it. They don't even have an inbox available to take in >> are all red flags. >> Another thing to take note of Yeah, like they they just need to show that. >> Yeah, these are all red flags. I mean, these are Look, I don't know who they are. This is not like I know who these folks are. But if they send me Manek, they're like, "Hey, Pat, this is a legit business." You got seven things you can do to make it seem like a legit business, and that's on you, the business owner, to make sure you do that. Uh your job as a citizen journalist is to go out there and tell your story, and let the market decide. If the market's not going to be doing it, you know, and it's being left to How old are you now, Nick? 24. 24 years old, you're going out there doing this stuff in uh in LA. And while you're in LA, what where Did you go somewhere and there was like a homeless family in the street saying it would've been better in Colombia than it would There's something you didn't There is well. >> Yes, in Skid Row. I filmed that video a while back, but you had migrants living on the streets of Skid Row. Is that it? Yes, I found I found multiple children living on the streets of Skid Row. I found this one This was a while back, like almost nearly a year ago. These kids living in Skid Row. And like their circumstances are better than their the circumstances are worse on Skid Row than if they were in Colombia. >> Mhm. This was a 12-year-old that I got off the streets in Skid Row and got him back into school and into a shelter. >> Yeah. 12 years old? Mhm. We used to go to Skid Row every Christmas morning at 4:30 a.m. in LA. We used to go to Skid Row and hand out Bibles and food and burgers and blankets and couple times knives were pulled on us and I would sit there and talk to these guys and sometimes our guys would bring their kids for their kids to see what's going on. Eventually it got a little bit dangerous for like, let's just go as adults. We would we would go with 40, 50 cars 4:30 in the morning every Christmas every year. And a guy named June introduced me to this because uh uh you know, and we followed the lead with them for many many years. It was an incredible experience. But if folks have not been to Skid Row, what was your experience with Skid Row? I've been to Skid Row a few times and it's super super sad. It is literally a tent city. It really is. It's blocks upon blocks of just human suffering to levels that are not necessary here inside the United States and it's been happening for years and years and years. They give it millions upon millions of dollars and nothing ever happens. In fact, they actually give people the paraphernalia to continue to do drugs. >> It's ridiculous. And So like I was really upset when I found that child there because you have all these NGOs surrounding >> The 12-year-old. >> The 12-year-old, yeah. But nobody will offer him a place to sleep at night. He's sleeping on the streets of Skid Row where there's prostitutes, where there's people selling fentanyl, uh people getting abused and this kid's living there and it's just no big deal for all these people that are walking right by him. Yeah, it's it's uh and it's crazy because the sheriff, the chief said the other day that he doesn't believe they're ready for 2028 Olympics when it comes out comes to LA. But the problem is if they're not even ready for 2028 Olympics, eight of the 104 World Cup soccer games are going to be played at SoFi Stadium in LA. How the hell is he going to be taking care of those people that are going to be coming to LA? This is him right here, Rob. Go ahead. >> requested funding to purchase vehicles, technology, and specialized equipment to be able to uh to uh do the Olympics. In addition, the $1 billion budget is for all agencies involved in the Olympics, not just the LAPD, and will be restricted primarily to police officer overtime. LA28 confirmed that they have zero police or public safety budget, and while they do have a security budget, it doesn't cover law enforcement. Yeah, this is going to the Olympics in 2 years. It's so bad in California, like so bad. Like nobody knows how bad it is except for the people living in California. But even they will still vote for the people that enabled it all to happen. Yeah, I mean, there is two big elections going on right now in California. One of them is the LA one where Spencer Pratt, the mayor, is doing a very good job exposing and he's he's great at marketing, he's great at doing all those things, which is good. And then you have the governor race, which, you know, Bianco uh Sheriff Bianco and Steve Hilton, who are also out there making some noise. We'll see what happen. It sounds like right now, if it ended today they're still winning, meaning the liberals are still going to be winning, but Spencer Pratt is on fire. This guy's on fire with the stuff that he's doing. I mean, he's done a couple different ads. We don't need to play this one here, but he's done a lot of different things. Uh what's the next stop for you? There's a lot more work to do in California. There's a lot more fraud to take place there. A lot of people want me to go to like all their Like it's so funny, like my phone is just filled with people who want me to go to their city or to their state because their their fraud is quite literally everywhere. They're asking you to come. They're inviting you to come. I actually filmed a video a few weeks ago in LA finding like where all the money went to for the homeless people. And that should be coming out. My problem is I'm doing so much it's hard to get everything out. Like since the Minnesota stuff, my workload's gone up like feels like 10 times. Like I think since I last spoke with you 4 months ago, I've probably been home for a total of maybe 2 and 1/2 weeks. >> Stop it. Like I'm never home. Never home. So, you're sleeping at hotels, you're on the road. Sleeping at hotels like Like in fact like last night, I didn't even sleep last night cuz I was editing the Cuba video to try and get it done before you could interview me, but took too long. Like I It's It's a lot. Is it still a one-man show? For the most part, yeah. So, listen >> Has anybody Go ahead. Uh yeah. So, it's pretty much a one-man show on the YouTube channel, but it's the fastest-growing uh political news account in America. I saw that. 1.8, 1.9 million subscribers. And I remember before you did the the lyrics center, where were you at? Couple hundred thousand? I had hit a million. You had it at a million even before that. >> Yeah. >> So, 800,000 subs in the last 4 months. Yeah. It's pretty insane to have that. By the way, what major media outlet has called you to want to have you represent them and say, "We got you financially moving forward."? Really, not that many. I had a few people offer me like pretty good amounts of money to go work for them, but I told them no. So, Fox hasn't offered you anything yet? >> No. I don't think you would take it though if they did offer you. No, not at this point in my life. Yeah. Like I really enjoy what I'm doing. It would be nice to have like a show in the future, you know? But uh I really enjoy what I'm doing right now. It is getting harder and harder because like I've become very recognizable. And especially for the fraudsters, like right now in America, all the fraudsters are on high alert right now. Like they're either covering up the fraud or they're leaving America. Like they shut down all the hospices in California, they shut down over 500 of them. Not a single hospice has said, "Hey, open our hospices back up." Minnesota, they froze $250 million of uh payments for child care there. Not a single daycare sent a single receipt. They just rated 22 daycares and other welfare programs. Not a single mother complained about her child not being able to go to a daycare. Like there's so much fraud here and now all these fraudsters are trying to cover up. And that's why they're having a hard time actually prosecuting these people because they're either leaving the country or they're covering everything up or the money's already left the country. Yeah, I mean part of it is I almost don't want you to be part of anybody. Mhm. As a supporter. Yeah. >> As a supporter to me it's like, "Hey, stay as independent as you can as long as possible as you're going through this process because it makes it more honest and you can go pursue any story you want. You go somewhere then they're going to be like, "Well, is he pursuing the story he wants to do or is he pursuing the story that that outlet wants to do?" Exactly. And I actually want to show you show you something because a lot of people are like, "How did they do this? Like how's this happen?" Like I've been planning this for like years and I actually brought it with me cuz a lot of people don't understand like how hard I actually work to make stuff happen. And the reason why I think I've been able to have so much effect is because I am 100% independent. I do everything I can to make money to stay independent because it's not cheap to do. But so this is from December 5th, 2022. I created a five-year plan. When I was 20, I was in Chile on my like mission trip for my church. >> Mhm. But all I would do on my days where I wasn't doing the missionary stuff was like this whole book is just just I actually read your book. I I read three books. Um How to Win Friends and Influence People. That's my favorite book ever. >> Dale Carnegie. If anyone wants to have success, their successful double in life if they read that book. >> book I ever read in my life. Yeah, no it's literally the best book in the just teaches you how to navigate life smoothly and to also have smooth conversations. Mhm. Just switching the word from but to and will exponentially increase the relationships in your life. And then I read Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, read your book as well. Uh Five Moves. >> Your Next Five Moves. >> Five Moves, read that book. I have all those notes right here as well. And then uh Thinking Grow Rich as well. But this I created a five-year plan. So, when I came home, I had like zero dollars. So, I obviously had to like go make $10,000. But if you like read this, it's like uh finish mission, come home with 10K dollars, 8K bank, and I had and then uh be home for 1 to 2 months working to get 30K liquid cash to be able to uh fund my channel. And then use that 30K to rebuild my YouTube channel, Nick Shirley. 30K will be used to fund travels, new laptop, new microphone, and potentially new camera. Channel will take 3 to 6 months to grow back and build consistency. Will most likely not turn a profit on channel for a few months. After a few good uploads, at that time I had wanted to work for Barstool, maybe move to Barstool, and uh live in New York. Potential living locations, St. George, Utah, Florida, or New York. And then uh the type of content uh for Nick Shirley. It was interview, investigations on current subjects, or >> point, you don't have a YouTube channel yet? No, I do. But it you're you're doing the pranks you had >> subscribers. I was It was Nick Shirley in high school. Got it. Um to do interview, investigative on current >> on current subjects, or on popular uh popular topics. So, I had like politics, strange topics, and then the goal was to reach 100,000 subscribers in 6 months from uh 6 to 8 months of uploading, weekly uploads, and then was to make 50K in ad revenue from YouTube in the first full year of YouTube. And then uh so that was year one. Completed all that. And then at 20 25 was to upload channel to get to two uploads a week, which I did with live streaming, and have a studio and office place to film and work out of. Did that. Create a podcast show. I have that on my YouTube channel. And then to hit 500,000 subscribers. And then this year was to create a media company and have 10 employees in an office space. Um and this is supposed to be like the million dollar year. And the the 10 employees has happened. And uh like I have now I have about 10 people who work for me consistently on everything. Uh had an office in New York City. Uh moved out of New York, but everything else came to fruition. This is not great. Yeah. This is not great. So impressive. >> [cough] >> It's so impressive. And this is December 6th, 2022. So 3 and 1/2 years ago. 3 years ago, give or take. 3 years and 4 months ago, you're writing this thing down. This is your vision. You're turning this into a reality. You're at 20,000 subs. And then now 10 employees, and this is going to be your million dollar year, 2026? >> Hope so. That's the goal. Sponsorship. You're getting better sponsorship. I noticed you were wearing a Polymarket shirt the other day. >> Yeah. I like Polymarket. Did they reach out and sponsor or not yet? Yeah. So I'm a partner with Polymarket. >> Okay. Um and I have a few other sponsorships on the channel that I work with, but I really just want to do one or two on my channel. And uh Polymarket's been awesome. But yeah, that's like uh even down to the thumbnail. Like I had that envisioned. Like if you watch my YouTube channel, you'll see like all the yellow boxes. And I remember just like having that envisioned when I was I knew that's how I wanted my channel to look. I wanted that my aesthetic to look like that. So like it's been crazy to see how everything's came to fruition. And so when people are like, "Oh, Nick's like a uh he's a he's a planner." I'm like, "No, this has all been written." That's very impressive. It's very impressive for you to have gone through this. And are you at a point where you're thinking about writing a book or not yet? I would like to. My goal actually this year, as a goal I have is I'm trying to make a create a documentary then a separate short film and then to be able to tour it in across the US and go to like 10 cities and I want to create like a a documentary based on kind of like everything that has happened this past few this year and then also have a short film to show. >> Yeah, I think if you write a book I think the book would do very well cuz I think you got a lot of support of people that would want to support the book you're writing and being out there learning what it looks like citizen journalism in 2026 you know, um Al if you're open to it I'll introduce you to a matter of fact the person I'll introduce you to will be a very funny person. Yeah, please do cuz I've wanted to write >> I'm going to tell you I'm going to introduce you to and this is meant to be. She was Stephen Covey's literary agent for every book he did. She met her him when she was only 22 23 years old. Really? >> And if you know who Stephen Covey is the seven habits habits of highly effective people she was his literary agent. I'll introduce you to her afterwards and you guys can get on a call. She's phenomenal at what she does, powerful at what she does here with the business. Have you thought about at all going to I mean if you're going to Cuba have you thought about going to crazy places? Iran, North Korea, do those cross your mind like I'm going to go to some of these crazy places? Um Iran no. North Korea like if they would let me in but they probably won't let me in. I really really want to go to Venezuela like really bad. I wanted to go there for a long time. Yeah, you saw the plane right? A plane landed and they were kind of showing what's going on and how the company got there. >> to Miami so Yeah. I want to be the first person to interview the lady who's currently president. I don't think you should have a hard time. Yeah, I'm going to try to make it happen. Cuz I speak Spanish so like like I actually really care about what happens in uh Central and South America because I I live with those people and then those people do have a lot of things in common with us and like the idea that they need to come to America have a better life is not true. Like there like there's other options. And there are current people like Naib Bukele in these countries who are making their countries great. So it's not it's not the this idea that they're that these people can't create a valuable society. Like they very much can. It's just these leaders that have been controlling them for so long. Like in Venezuela you had the Maduro and and now Cuba you have this communist regime that's destroyed their lives. And that's great. I can't wait for that to happen. Who Who in the market is supporting you? Who in the market is criticizing you that you're surprised on the conservative side? Are there people who are like Nick, go you doing great and then there's people that are like, yeah, I don't know if I like what he's doing. Candace Owens came after me uh a while back. That was very interesting. Why would Candace Owens come after you? I don't know. She like didn't believe my Brazilian to Valley video and Oh, it's not even the So you're talking this is a couple years ago. >> No, no, this is like recent. She's like white boy. I'm like it was very like uh snarky of her to do this. >> going to say I don't believe that at all. I'm sorry. I just I I I I just it's so stupid. I'm not even going to tell you why I don't believe it. It's like it's like if you don't know that that's stupid that he infiltrated the gang in 48 hours. Like it's just that's so dumb. I'm so tired of dumb. That's not how that works, okay? You don't just go up to gangs on the street as a nice looking white boy with a camera and say, hey, I just want to sort of like see what you're doing here. What's going on? Okay, this just stop. That's stupid. Of course that's dumb. I'm sorry, Nick. I know you're young. I hope you know whoever is your contact that has you infiltrating Antifa and infiltrating El Salvador at the age of 23 years old. It just feels like Sean Penn young to me. Like oh, Sean Penn's always there with I've been to find myself on top of Brazil. >> Meaning what? Meaning your your handler or you're representing somebody? >> They she's basically saying that's fake. She's saying that's fake. >> And I'm like, well, maybe if these podcasters would actually leave their podcast studios, no offense Pat, at they leave their podcast studios and go and like do journalism like they'd actually see like stuff just sometimes just happens. Like that I don't That was the most risky video I I had done to that point was going to Brazilians for that. >> it's it's so it's not about Newsom. It's not about Lior center. It's specifically about Brazil. Has she Has she called you out on other stuff or this is the only one? >> No, this is the only one. Interesting. >> She was trying to tie me into um trying to verify some stuff about the Charlie Kirk assassination cuz I was on his show literally hour like I was his the last live guest with Charlie >> yeah. passed away or was assassinated. And so then she like brought me up and then like next episode she kind of apologized, but uh I didn't take it I didn't take it to heart. I thought that was kind of silly of her, honestly. But she did apologize. Um not apologize about that, but she said, "Well, Nick came in fact-checked about the what the instance with Turning Point." But she didn't apologize about that. Got it. Like I'm not offended, but it is just like stupid to >> You know what's funny? We were talking in the back and one of the guys brought up another name. I won't mention the other name. It's also somebody that's doing what you're doing. But it's like, "Hey, the other guy's having a hard time. What do you think is the difference between the the other guy and Nick Fuentes?" I said, "Nick has been raised well. Nick is stable. Emotionally, you're very, you know, balanced. It doesn't sound like you get rattled. And it's very obvious you're enjoying what you're doing. Now, you're 24 now. I'm assuming you're planning on getting married before 30. Yeah, that'd be the goal. Before 30? >> Yeah, we got to figure that out. You got [laughter] to figure that out. Well, I mean, you know, maybe you go to Cuba, you find a beautiful wife who's not happy, you bring her back and she starts saying, "My God, this man's making my dreams become a reality." It'd be a white boy with some Cuban A kids combined. >> Pat. I I need to speak fluently in English. Yeah. My Spanish is good, but to be screaming and shouting in Spanish. >> Nick Shirley into? What kind of What is your type? Beautiful. Just beautiful? Yeah, just beautiful. >> 6'5", 6'5", 185 beautiful. >> than me, a bit athletic. Okay. But, uh just beautiful. Just beautiful. >> [laughter] >> That's all. Is there a type? Um is there a type? Have you thought of this? If you If you're like this, you know, if you're like this, I remember writing down specifically what I wanted my wife to look like. Height, temperament, hair, all of it. Have you done that yet? Cuz you've done a lot of stuff here. I would just say like a virtuous woman. Virtuous woman? Yeah, just like a pure-hearted woman. Faith, Christian? Yeah, like they got to believe in God. They got to believe in Jesus. Like that's obviously very important. And uh yeah, just beautiful. Inside and out. >> All right. That's so That's such a wide range that if I were to set you up with a beautiful inside and out >> girls everywhere. Like I've gone on dates with beautiful girls from France. I've gone on beautiful dates with girls from New York. Like there's beautiful girls everywhere. You're still You're >> with a girl in Switzerland once. That was awesome. Has anything gone you know, where it can be a little bit serious or nothing yet? Um no, nothing yet. >> Nothing yet? No. That's kind of weird, too, cuz like I don't like uh being >> Don't let this Adam guy take you out partying again, you know, stay good. Don't let him take you. >> funny. That was super funny. I was like I wanted to see what that club was like. And cuz Adam, he's like the night He's the nightlife in Miami. >> he is, yeah. >> And I thought it was so stupid. I thought >> [laughter] >> it WAS SO STUPID. LIKE I THOUGHT IT WAS SO STUPID. >> [laughter] >> GOOD FOR YOU. Uh good for you on uh where you at. It'll By the way, the way it'll happen is the way you least expect it. We'll see. >> It'll all of a sudden happen and you're going to come down and say, "Pat, I'm married, you know, she's pregnant. I'm you know, it's going to be in 6 months." Uh it'll be life-changing. But uh what you're doing is very important. It's not It's not easy to do Well, you By the way, what happened with you and uh the Andrew Callaghan guy from Channel 5? Oh, yeah. >> What was that all about? That was uh that one took me by surprise. >> We had him on last >> What was your What was your take on Andrew? He's a liberal. He's a liberal who I would say a uh How would you put it, Rob? A leftist libertarian-ish? Yeah. Is that a good way of putting him? I don't think he's a crazy crazy leftist. I think he has some libertarian tendencies in him, but I do think he's he's part of the left. Yeah, for sure. And I like Andrew. I liked Andrew until he did what he did with the interview. Um so that interview I did with him, it was 72 hours after the video had gone mega viral, and I had only slept for like 6 hours that those past 3 days, and I let him come do an interview with me at like 11:00 p.m. at night, and I hadn't ate anything that day. Um I had just drank an energy drink, and uh just had like a steak right before cuz I was at my We did it at my friend's man cave. And so I was like super accommodating. I was like, "Oh, this will be good uh with to do with Andrew." Like I had a lot of respect for him. I used to watch him a lot, and then I do this interview with him, and I I knew right off the get-go like where he was taking it cuz he started at instead of asking me how the Friday asked like, "Do you think this was a distraction from Epstein?" Like I was like, "Okay, well, I know exactly what this is going to be about." Cuz it had nothing to do with that. So I knew he was kind of trying to do this kind of like smear thing on me, which I thought was super disingenuous on his part because I was super accommodating to him, did this interview, thought we were good friends, and then he goes and does that. Not It was not my best interview by any means, but I also wasn't in the best state of like mind and like physically like I hadn't slept. I hadn't been eating cuz I was like running off pure adrenaline. So you guys went from 11:00 to 1:30? Yeah, it was like >> like a 2 and 1/2 hour interview. Yeah, and then he posted the interview and he only posted an hour of the interview. How long was the total interview? >> 2 and 1/2 hours. >> Okay, so he cut out an hour and a half of it. And any response where he had that he was wrong or made him look bad, he didn't he didn't show. But did you record the whole interview yourself? >> the whole 2 and 1/2 hour interview. Got it. So two 2 and 1/2 hour interview becomes an hour and a half and you're recording the whole thing so you can show a couple parts that he cut out that maybe made him look bad. Yeah. And like the clips he used to very deceptive editing on Andrew's part. And yeah, he like cut out spot he like literally jump cut spots when he admitted to being wrong or not knowing about that. And like one of his claims like, "Well, Nick said 89% of the fraud." Like so many times I'm like, "Yeah, cuz you weren't getting the point that the fraud had been committed 89% of the fraud had been committed by Samolian." And so he obviously came with this agenda. And when you sit down to an interview cuz they're pitching it as a like a a podcast interview. Like let's do it for his channel called uh uh like C5. Channel 5, yeah. Yeah, he has like a a five cast. He has a whole show called like five cast. So we did this interview and I was like, "Oh, cool. We'll just be like an interview where we just chat." But no, he just cut it all up. So. You know what I love the most? Let me tell you what I love the most. I love the fact that guys like him exist and guys like you exist. So I think both is necessary. He's going to go tell his side of the story and you're going to go out there and tell your side of the story. The part with you that is so attractive is you're sincere and genuine is who you are. And I think the market knows that. So that is a little bit scary when you are sincere and genuine cuz you're curious going out there the way you ask the question you're very respectful you've been raised the right way. And you're just getting started and I think it's you know we need more and more people like you that are doing what they're doing. A lot of young people out there you know especially after what happened with Charlie. I love I absolutely love the bravery of what uh folks like you are doing and uh I think you're just getting started. Yeah you got any advice for me? Um you're going to get a lot of uh people that are going to be in your ear. Do your best to speak to those and take counsel from those who need nothing from you. You know study people's motives on what they need from you. And then even if you know what their motives are it could be a sincere motive. That's okay. Like the motive here is we're doing a podcast. You just came from Cuba there's a fair exchange. But study motives cuz you're still young enough where people may see an opportunity with you. So protect yourself from the right influencers the right people out there that are doing the right things financially I love the fact that you wrote down savings. One of the things that I had early on from my dad is the power of having cash in a bank. If I didn't have the cash in a bank like you know I bought a land cash $25.2 million. If I didn't have cash I couldn't buy $40 property for $25. But that happened with me saving $10,000 then $25,000 then $50,000 then $100,000. So behind closed doors you know as much as celebrating the business saving celebrate having savings and cash. It'll give you peace of mind and you'll be able to stay as honest to what you're doing as possible. Be selective of sponsors like you talked about earlier who you're taking sponsorship money from. You're going to have some mistakes. You're going to make some fumbles. Everybody does. When you do, you know, pick yourself up and come back up and do your thing. Trust yourself and your instinct. Um I would say I would say that at this point. Amazing advice. Yeah. I really just want to show people what's happening in the world, like whether it be in Cuba or here in the United States, and just like show it as transparent as possible. Like I think now we're getting to a point where non-controversial issues have become very controversial, and the idea that uh that some of these ideas these ideas have become controversial is just crazy to me. Like for instance, all these people that are now supporting communism, but they live here in the United States and they protest every weekend. Well, if you were to do that, you wouldn't If you were to go live in a communist country, you wouldn't be able to do that. >> Exactly. Like that person I wanted to put There's a lot of like mean tweets that came my way after like Cuba video, and I wanted to tweet like for my next trick, get people to defend a country that suppresses uh speech, has no free media, and uh holds those that speak against the government as uh political prisoners. And I've gotten people to defend fraud openly. I've had them uh defend billions of dollars of fraud. And a Democrat has never even reached out to me and said, "Hey, thanks for exposing the fraud in our state." In fact, they just doubled down. And No, you're the enemy. And you need to know that. You're the enemy. You're doing a very important job. It's like the gates of hell just come upon me once I expose something. >> the other side as well. God's got your back. The right people have your back, and they're supporting you, and your your you know, I'm sure your uh confidence comes from your faith. You know, where you're able to do what you're doing. Your family, your mom, your brother You got the right people in your corner. That's a very, very important part that you have. I think you know that. Yeah, it definitely helps. And uh like without my family obviously a lot none of this stuff would have been possible I've accomplished so far and then with the faith and just the morals I kind of grew up with like it really helped me to be where I'm at today. Yeah, it's exciting. Well, folks if you're watching this the man needs support. If you have any words of wisdom or support or other places you want him to go so you can Manneck them. Rob, let's put the Manneck below as well. I respond to all Mannecks. >> Yes, he does. He responds to all the Mannecks and people message me I'm like just Manneck them. Ask him. Why are you asking me? Ask him. He'll tell you what's going on out there. Keep at it, buddy. You're the man. Good seeing you. You're the man. Excited for you. I'm Nick Shirley and you guys can find me here on Manneck. Go ahead and ask me any questions whether it be about politics, about what I believe or where I think the future of the country would be going or just quite frankly anything. You can ask me here on Manneck. I really appreciate all your support and I can't wait to answer your questions.