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

Episode Date: May 7, 2026

Patrick Bet-David sits down with Nick Shirley - who just returned from Cuba after nearly being taken hostage - for a raw, unfiltered conversation about what life under communism really looks like on the ground. Nick reveals how Cuban intelligence followed him from the moment he landed, how a two-star general was waiting in the hotel lobby when he tried to flee at 3 a.m., and why the Cuban president himself knew he was there. Then: the latest on the Quality Learning Center fraud explosion in Minnesota, Ilhan Omar blocking a subpoena and submitting zero evidence in the $250M COVID fraud probe, the "Stop Nick Shirley Act" being pushed by California lawmakers to make investigative journalism illegal, fraud-riddled daycares and hospices across LA, and what Nick found on the streets of Skid Row - including a 12-year-old living among fentanyl dealers and prostitutes. Plus: Candace Owens coming after him, his falling out with Andrew Callahan, the five-year plan he wrote at age 20 in Chile with $0 in his pocket - and how almost every line of it has already come true.------Ⓜ️ MINNECT WITH NICK SHIRLEY: https://bit.ly/49gyFlE👕 VISIT NICK'S STORE: https://bit.ly/3RreQTq🦁 THE VAULT 2026: AUG 31ST TO SEPT 1ST: ⁠https://bit.ly/4mZdLhD⁠Ⓜ️ CONNECT ON MINNECT: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/4kSVkso ⁠⁠⁠Ⓜ️ PBD PODCAST CIRCLES: ⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/4mAWQAP⁠⁠⁠👔 BET-DAVID CONSULTING: ⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/4lzQph2 ⁠⁠⁠🥃 BOARDROOM CIGAR LOUNGE: ⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/4pzLEXj⁠⁠⁠🇰 KALSHI: ⁠⁠⁠⁠http://kalshi.com/pbd⁠⁠⁠⁠💬 TEXT US: Text “PODCAST” to 310-340-1132 to get the latest updates in real-time!

This gets really crazy, actually. You're actually the first person who'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're there. Yeah, so the president of Cuba knew that we were there. Like, we've been monitoring you guys. What do you think is going to actually end up happening to Cuba?

Their monthly salaries, $14 USD. One person said they haven't had eggs in a year. What's the latest with you and Nusa? What do you think about the Stop Nick Shirley Act? Stop Nick Shirley Act. I think you're a psycho scam artist. It's so bad in California, like so bad. Like, nobody knows how bad it is, except for the people living in California.

Quality Learing Center. Elon Omar, she needs to get prosecuted or she needs to get deported. There's evidence that she did marry her brother. Candace Owens came after me a while back. That was very interesting. Why would Candace Owens come after you? Nick Shirley. How 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 four months. Yes. 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. Because I've been tracking, like, the rise of communism, socialism here inside 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, with what Trump's been saying, I said, well, this is probably my last few weeks to do it before they take over. And so I just hopped on the flight, bought my ticket and coordinated the security.

Everyone was telling me, Nick, do not go. My parents were like, do not go. Security was like, Nick, do not go. Everyone was telling me, do not go. I was like, well, I'm going to go because, like, he deserved to see what's happening. And 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 is actually a Cuban-American, and the other one also speaks Spanish. So I had two guys who 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 slang and whatnot. And so these guys, I would. went with, they had done operations like anti-human trafficking operations in Haiti, in 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, it was for journalistic activities. And I get there, and rise I get there, they take all my, I only brought two GoPro's and some DGI 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 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 with them for probably hour to two hours as they were trying to figure out what we were doing. And I was telling him, I'm just here to make a video. Like I said, like I have my visa right here. And, and, and, And I just want to show people what's going on here in Cuba. And 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, seeing what was, it was like foreign objects to them, like the metaglasses.

They were, like, analyzing the metaglasses. Like, they, like, some crazy foreign object. Because they've 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're asking me, what kind of videos do you make? like, well, I just go around the world, showing people what's going on, like, with journalism. And I told him my name, and then one of the ladies was like, one of the ladies said, 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, she said, Trump probably sent him.

Because I was the only American in the airport. Like, I'm the only gringo there, and I have these two security guards with me. and literally the only American, white American male there. Interesting. So 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 three 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. That's all you went with. It's all I had was an iPhone, my microphone. my microphones. They took like the stabilizer. That's like this most simple stabilizer. They took that and I was just filming with a GoPro's and iPhone. And they took the

GoPro's obviously. So now while you're in the airport, who else is coming to you? Is other security come in? Is their intel coming? Is the military shown 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 as I get there, they then take me back to this different area. and from there they had two people working this desk, and then they ended up bringing in three other people. And there was like the boss of the airport, and then two other people that...

They were literally riding 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 and paper. And the paper is not even a sheet of paper. It's a receipt. Like an empty receipt. You didn't 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 around 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 because then that helps them. And nobody knows about that. No one speaks about that about communism. You only hear that from people who escape North Korea. Like, you know me, Park. I don't know if you ever met her.

She told me about that. And so when I was there, I was like, whoa, 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 to open. Funny you 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? 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 a very good movie that came out a couple years ago. And how it happened? The mob was involved. I even want to say Jelaine 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 Stans, who sub-licensed 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. Very interesting. So now you're leaving. How quickly do you start creating content and taking the camera out? About two hours. I get to the hotel, check in. Yeah, 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 a 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. That was super awesome. But then there was these other people, like 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 this is a communist country. He's like, no, no, socialist. Or socialist. But there's only one partying country.

I mean, in Cuba. That's a communist party of Cuba. Is that it? Is this the guy? No, this is not the guy. This is a guy who we went and did a ride around with their 1950 Chevrolet. 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 did you notice? Streets are empty. Buildings are decaying. like turning a lot of them are turning in 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 their 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 it to some protein bars and then I ate at the hotel that was it how was the food at the hotel super good oh so the hotel was good the food of the hotel was good life inside the hotel is amazing it's a five-star hotel they make sure that you have the best 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 at the end of the night that's where all the like the spies where we eventually had all the spies come, yeah. Does 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, it comes to find out it's obviously around 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 because the lady that was the spy filmed me asking a guy about communism, this guy who went off about communism, just like how bad it is. And she then ran away and sat down to a 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 was for you, before I showed this, clip because 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 well maybe you're like you know what I was surprised this is what I liked about it this is 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 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 woman wouldn't even look you in the eyes like they're just very depressed like even at the airport the woman 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 were just depressed. And there was like no life in their eyes. And then seeing like some of the, the architecture that they had, like, people used to have like the prettiest architecture. Like, I imagine in 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 sort of 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 When you're walking the streets of Paris And so to see that And you've seen the What it could look like Is very depressing

Rob can you type in Cuba before and after Before communism after communism Cuba Because 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 were doing some podcast weird 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 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 because they're just burning all the garbage wow okay when I sell my business I want the best tax and investment advice

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But, yeah, everyone's, like, depressed. And then you ask him 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 is, is Adam. He's been to places like that before.

Yeah, we should send Adam there to my life. Well, not today. 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 is this one video that you have here with you and the fellow on the car? Yeah, so this is the intro to the video that's going to be coming out in the next case. The video has not been dropped yet.

The video's not been dropped yet. Okay. So people are seeing clips that's not public yet. No, you're actually the first person who's ever seen this. Okay. So what is this? What are we seen this clip? So this, I'm driving around with a tour guide and 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. Let's see it, Rob. Let's see it. What percentage of people do you think are suffering here in Cuba? The majority? The majority? What do you think they communism? Wow, so they're that public about. No, really,

no communists. None of the gas stations are even in operation right now because there's quite literally no gas. We stand out like short thumbs here, so they're wondering why we're here with cameras, interviewing people. They want to know what's happening. That's why people are not talking.

My security. 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 are facing massive food shortages, daily blackouts and a lack of medicine, and right now a U.S. 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 firsthand 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 it's been in reality of Cuba and eventually plan our escape out of Cuba. Where are the people at? Don't there's nobody here in the Calley, no, there's this casas, where is the problem is that there's no gasoline is not easy to move. We have a lot of 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 the line from the government. The guy that we're in our taxi with right now, he said his position to get gas is $1,200 in line. And gas from the government cost around $1. But gas, if you were to buy it on the black market,

cost $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 he? He works for the government, too. But it was easy to get gasoline. Every day you can go to the gasoline and station and buy it normally.

It was normal. But nowadays, it's really bad. And how is supervising the people here in Cuba? 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 it. It's almost very like North Korea like.

Where most people opening up? Massif Plaza. Complaining? A select. I would ask people, and then I'd kind of get to a point in the interview where we can't answer any more questions. They would say they can't answer the question. Let me see the ending of it, Rob, because 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. When you come into a massive plaza, there's not even cars. Listen, right now, you can't even hear a car in sight. And they have all of this other portraits of people and past 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 the 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 disc. What do you mean? Like they had these weird booths. So if you want to watch media or TV, you have to go to like a person who then, you know how like back in the day, like my dad used to make playlist off of CDs, right? They do that exact same

thing but for movies and TV shows. And so, like, right now, they're, like, releasing shows from, like, the 1990s 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 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 where the government controls how much food they get

and they're like this is horrible we haven't even had eggs in a year it takes it years to get 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 what they can eat, it dictates their entire life. 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. Because 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 for like, oh, no, this is good. Like, they're fixing up these buildings. But then you talk to some of the other individuals that, 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 because I don't want them to get sent to jail where there's 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 are like that and you respect it you're like okay or you get to the point of interview and you ask

a question and then you're like okay yeah 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 I talk to a kid who's playing soccer at their university. He was probably like 12 years old and it's super sad. I'm like, what's the biggest thing affecting your life right now? He says the lights. They just cut the lights randomly. I was like, oh, and how does that affect you? The child, he's like, well, it affects everything. Like studies, like we don't, like, we don't know when we are have power. And then there really wasn't that many kids out in the streets, which is weird

for being in a country and Latin America. Usually there's kids everywhere. Yeah, especially when it's a beautiful, like, Rob, can you pull up Cuba 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. Have you been to the Bahamas? I have not been to that. Bahamas. So if you compare to Bahamas, zoom out a little bit, Rob. So 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 there's two million people there.

And so there are two million people there, but the streets are empty. There's two million people here. Did you go to the hotel that Meyer Lansky built in Havana? I don't know. I was at the Hotel National. Hotel National. Is that like the main hotel? Yeah.

Yeah. Is that it? No, that's a different property. That's the capital. That's the capital. What else? saying things like we can't wait for something to happen are you here giving us news are we about to be free would they see like they're pleading for help with you or they were almost afraid of

speaking to because there's two different energies right when to both yeah so obviously some people don't want to speak out because they're sick of it but one of the individuals like see this is why it's gotten like this because 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 it i didn't have 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 their 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 said this is like, one of the, one the more risky situations they've ever been in. And this is coming from guys who have gone to Haiti and who have done anti-human trafficking missions in Mexico and in Haiti. 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 to let them know and tip them off that we were leaving

early. So I think we booked the flight at like 3 a.m. But it didn't help because when we went down to leave the hotel, the two-star general was waiting for us. And so we 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 general, it was like a movie. Like, I can't. It's hard to even put it in the words because the feelings and then also like the scenery of it. It's like the stars on the hat, like everything that you would expect to see 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 was the purpose of your trip you're asking you why you're leaving early yeah like why are you leaving early we saw that we heard that he had an interaction out front in front of the hotel because everything all right and that confirmed that that that lady who started taking the cameras reported us to the government because they would have not known about that they would not have known about that and are you tipping folks are they receiving cash from you do they accept tips what was a reaction when he gave them money yeah So their minimum, their monthly salaries, $14 U.S.D. And so I was tipping money.

I was like giving money. Monthly salaries $14. Yes. Like, that's how bad it is. And then you gave them tip. Was it? Because I remember being in Guatemala. I went to Portobarios, Livingston, Tikal, in Guatemala City,

and I'm going around giving tips to people. I gave $50 tips and I couldn't. One mother where her kid 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 tip them? they wanted more. Well, they wanted more. Yeah. These guys were capitalists.

They're greedy. Yeah. Okay. Well, at least in every communist, there's a capitalist deep down on the side. Yeah. So, I mean, you'd give them money and you'd give them, I don't really took $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, 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 that you were tipping, did you find any other Americans there that, if at the hotel at the lobby, would there are other Americans that are coming and talking to you? Not coming to talk to me. There was other tourists. 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 Jay, the communist leader. And it is so interesting that you had all these Americans, not even that many Americans, but you had all these, I don't know where they're from,

America or Europe, but they're all like pro-communists. And I'm like, how can you see you I just saw in the streets and say, let's have more of this. There was a guy that called you out. There was in 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.

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. Oh, Nick Shirley.

I'm in the hotel that you were supposedly in here in Havanaikoula. And 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 surely is 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 allahua good how are you called on what he's time what he said what he's like I'm from the United States. He said I'm from United States and then 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 I know you're not there because I in the video I said if I after this video it gets posted it means I made it out so he saw the video you posted that you've already He's a complete 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 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 he's so good, why is he not moving to Cuba himself? Yeah, and he's acting like there's no issues. And it's super funny because 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 as 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 ones really, really make me mad because these are straight up just lies that they then use in 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 they're true and they're not

true at all and so you have this problem with these legit radicalized individuals who's supporting communism after he's seeing seven out of ten people miss a meal a day inside of Cuba Seven out of ten people miss a meal a day. A day. People can't, people are getting surgeries without actually getting medicine, like, without getting induced. What does he say here? Watch it. 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 then the killing of four million Iraqis during the United States invasion of Iraq, or then the invasion of Venezuela, or. or then ICE in our communities taking the lives of countless people, or then so many things, the taking of the life of him. So he's 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're 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 because if we had just passed through the two-star general, And 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. 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. We get through.

I go and grab my stuff. I'm like, it would be a bad look 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 early like why are you guys leaving early and security guard goes like we know what's up like you guys on us the whole entire time and like in 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 fast word 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 all of a sudden two random guys would show up out of nowhere. And then we'd go to the next location.

And we'd go to the hotel. The guy who's there in the afternoons, all there by himself again. The two ladies, 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 going on, like, wouldn't have been the worst idea for them to hold somebody like me hostage.

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 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 to be done because people need to see what's going on there. They're not going to get it from a communist country who controls the media. But the president knew we were there.

Yeah, and what do you think is going to actually end up happening to Cuba? Do you think Cuba's going to be free here soon and part of one of the, you know, similar to what, what do you think is going to happen? Very possible. If you're looking at it, right now the U.S. has a blockade on Cuba. Their main supplier of oil was Venezuela in Mexico, in Mexico.

Trump said, if Mexico were to give them oil, then they're going to impose more tariffs. So Mexico 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.

Do you have the clip rob of what the president said, the ship is going to pull up, it was actually speech he was given. He says 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. Did you see that clip with the president? Yeah. So he's, 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. An architect who's really talented, has done a lot of work for him. He's got a flare, a beautiful, Hispanic flair in particular. And he comes from originally a place called Cuba, which we will be taking over almost immediately. No, Cuba's got problems. We'll finish one first.

I'd like to finish your 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 yards 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 to... Yeah. Well, they were relying because Venezuela was given oil to Cuba for free to sell, and they were making their money through it, and then none of the money was going to the people. They were keeping it at the top, so the people were poor, and they just had to guess that they were selling, so people could 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 will be hard for the United States to take it over. Now, like, I don't like the idea of the United States going in and just taking over countries. Or I wish, like, other people could do it themselves. Like, I wish the Cuban government could help the Cuban people. So it's going to be interesting to see what happens. They're probably begging for.

The people are begging for. They're probably begging for. The government, you know, no, but the people are begging for. 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. It's produced a lot of amazing people here. A lot of them are good business owners, small business owners,

who want to find a way to go back. 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 aside, they can't wait for that to become a reality. And by the way, what a move.

what a move of not going to Cuba and Iran before doing Venezuela because Venezuela was going to suffocate Cuban government and China because China's relying on Venezuela for the oil so much interesting move the way these guys did and 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 the president's end but I guess we won't find that for a minute Yeah, I mean, and also like with Panama, like the whole thing was because of China. 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 literally almost had a nuclear war with Cuba because of the Soviet Union. And they had nukes. And apparently they were ready to start nuclear war with us.

So like it's not a good idea to have an enemy that is only like 90 miles away from. Yeah, that's a scary thought, especially the people who live in Florida. 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've got a couple guys to resign. Of course, you got a couple, you know, a governor that saw the video. 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 its actual policies being made with you.

What is the latest with quality leering center? because this is what I've seen. But I wonder what else you have on what's happened with these guys. So the Quality Learing 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. They're blocking a bill that would ban funding from the Quality Learing Center.

Wait. What is that? Minnesota, the America just voted to block in a minimum. that would have banned funding from going to the Quality Lerang 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?

The word to the end, the words, or to the quality, Learing Center, Inc. And Learing is spelled L-E-A-R-I-N-G. All members having voted who desire to vote that Secretary will close the role. There being 32-E-E-E-N-E-E-R-E-E-R-E-N-A-S. The motion does not prevail. The amendment is, to the amendment is not adopted.

Madam President. You've got to be kidding me. Like, Minnesota is the biggest joke in America. Il-Han Omar also had the opportunity to provide any evidence about any of the fraud taking place in being our future, and she's submitted nothing. Yeah, I saw that. She's submitted nothing.

I don't have to. Yeah, her silence speaks volumes. Have you had an interaction with her? Have you at all had any interaction with them when you're out there or no? No, Ilhan Omar. I've tried to go to her office twice. I gave her a quality leering hoodie. I gave her an anti-fraud taxpayer club hoodie.

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 and I see 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 because 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 Walters or Omar reached out, say, 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. They won't ever do it because they know that they're complicit in this fraud. What's this clip here, Rob? Is this? This was from four hours ago, apparently. Let's see it because I haven't seen this. So neither one of us know what it is.

Let's see what this. It was on the state'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 in Minnesota, Michelle Tofoya, 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 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. What is 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 underneath 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 Frye as well. So Il-Lah and Omar, she needs to get prosecuted or she needs to get deported. There's evidence that she did marry her brother. I think the problem with her marrying her brother is I don't think the brother's 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 either step down from Congress 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 larynx 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 straight-up lies, that just makes it even worse for you. Or you have these other people who come up with all these things, 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 you can't have to be crazy not to be happy this fraud's being exposed but then there is that 1% even if it's 1% pat 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 like I 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 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. But it's not like, so like, 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 in security if I had a paperboard out of pocket, which is really tough. How many of the sweaters did you sell, the quality luring sweaters? Sold quite a bit of those. A lot of people liked them. More than $10,000? No, 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 glad Delhi's trying to learn something. That's a knockoff. That's a knockoff. Go to antifroddclub.com.

What's it called? Anti-fraudclub.com. Anti-fraud.com. Anti-fraud club. Club. com. And then the merch is what? At the top shop?

Yeah. There we go. Yeah, I see these. I actually see these in our building with guys wearing. And by the way, we'll 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 wanting to support or you know stuff, you may want to Menect Nick Shirley. Menect, Nick Shirley, he responds back to people on Meneck. I'm Nick Shirley, and you guys can find me here on Meneck. 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 will be going, or just quite frankly, anything. You can ask me here on Meneck.

I really appreciate all your support, and I can't wait to answer your questions. We'll put the link below as well for Menect with Nick Shirley. Walk me through your best friend, what's his name, Gavin Newsom, okay? Because he said some very complimentary things about you. 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. 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 on 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 slyly did it. They put in health care at the very bottom of the bill. And so for me to go to California and go to expose 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 there 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 $100 billion in fraud. I would say $100 billion each year in fraud in California alone. In California alone. If you just look at their Medi-Cal budget, how it's gone up $100 billion, and they only had a $100,000,

100,000 or 100,000 enrollment boost. And it's gone up $100 billion. Now, who were you chasing down? There was a clip I think I saw where you said, hey, you're the one that wrote a Nick Shirley 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 Mia Bonta. Is that the one or no? She didn't, Mia Bonte 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 Bonte, shouldn't 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 just expose it but to investigate it and her husband is uh rob bonte rob can you go to her husband rob banta so rob banta is a 34th attorney general of california since 2021 member of the democratic party and he shared the california as pacific island the caucus after haviar basera resigned which have years right now running for mayor as attorney general to become Secretary of Health and Human Services.

Banta was appointed as by Governor Newsom to replace him. Banta's warning. 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, say this bill, it's super wrong. It shouldn't pass. Let's say it does pass. It will then take the Supreme Court a year, two years to then go and reverse it. Year or two years to go reverse it.

Yeah. And who was the person you were asking questions? You're following somebody. Yes. 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. Yeah. Go ahead, Rob. She asked the question, who are you? Go ahead.

The bill AB 26, 24, 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. We have ledge counsel. They check the constitutionality of all their bills as we're writing them. I work on fraud issues. You know that if you look at some of the work I did on the budget set committee. So that Mia Bonta, her husband's Attorney General of the Attorney General of California and it was only until I exposed fraud that they actually tracked 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

based off of immigrants for instance Armenians in California no no I think that's a misinterpretation of the bill but I'm happy to talk with you more about it and I thought in investigations and defraud or something that's been happening for a very long time. The Attorney General handles those cases. This is an ongoing issue. You think it's a little weird that the wife of the Attorney General,

Mia Bonta, is now pushing this bill that literally goes against the First Amendment? No, I actually don't I don't think that this bill violates the First Amendment. I mean, that's the whole purpose. We have ledge counsel and ledge attorneys that talk with us about this. constitutionality is really important to the work. So your bill criminalizes publication of images

recorded in public. Do you believe the government has the right to punish journalists for filming in public space? No, I think that that is a complete misinterpretation of actually the piece of legislation. That is not. That's literally what happened. Speaker Revis, how are you doing? What do you think about the Stop Nick Shirley Act? AB 2624? These guys are like literally running know anything about it. And do you think there's any conflict of interest there with Mia Bonta and her husband being the AG? That 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 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.

pass their committees. Some people had no idea they were actually authors of the bill. They wouldn't answer any questions about the bill. And like the bill literally says it would make it confidential how much money, 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 they would make it illegal for people to investigate what they did underneath Biden. Yeah, and while you were in L.A., you went to a couple different centers, right, if I'm not mistaken. How many different facilities did you go to in L.A.?

So in L.A., they have all the Armenian fraud taking place with the hospices. Why you got to go after Armenians? What did Arbosan do to you? They were just committed lots of fraud. 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. lots of old people actually that are on the verge of debt. 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 Maybacks, G-wagons, cyber trucks, M-8 competitions. And it's been happening for years. Is this one of them? This is one of them. This was most disturbing one you went to.

Yeah, that's a daycare. A daycare. Was that in L.A.? That was in San Diego. Rob, play that clip. No one's there with these kids. No one. Played Rob?

Finally found kids at a daycare. Now, this is the opposite problem. Adults are not there. Now are the Jamo Shukreaf 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 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 your teacher? Is your teacher there? So this is the first child we've ever encountered at one of these daycares. There's two kids out here right now, and we're going to see if we can talk to the... Licency.

It is, according to this paperwork, Shukri Jama. Can we talk to the adult? He's not here. Not here? Yeah. So you guys all by yourself? Yeah. That's ridiculous.

No one's here. Okay. So you guys are all by yourself? Robbie, you can pause it. Okay. it makes you mad and think about it they're they're also giving money to these daycares and this is an apartment complex why should somebody who just opens up their apartment complex for a daycare receive government funds and these kids are all by themselves obviously 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 right this one i was wrong on. This one, they weren't doing anything illegal, was real. These daycares, no. None of them yet. No. Okay. Because I go up, I do the research. Like, this one, I had the form, and 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 reckon. Like, there was nothing there. One of the girls sends me a Meneck, and I said, just Meneck Nick directly, okay? And it was from Healthy

Life ADHD. Do you remember that one? or no, Healthy Life, ADHD? Yeah, 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 them call us because people are thinking we're running a fraud. Well, in that video, I said, in that one I said, I don't think it's enough to say it's fraud.

I remember you saying that. And I told her that. I said, well, Nick said, it may not be a fraud. 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. So they were messaging me.

I said, I'll ask Nick next time we do something. Did she ever manacked you or no? She never did. She never menacked it. Okay, so let me put the name out there. Roxanne, if you're seeing this wherever you are, Meneck Nick. They'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. That's the one. Yeah, that's the one. And click on that, Rob. I think the owner's dog. or mynectomy about this place. Yeah. Adult daycare, this place

over the past few years, has billed $19.8 million alone. Now let's go see if I can enroll my grandma, because she needs some daycare. And this right here is the entrance of a building of a seed over $19 million. Yeah. In the five years.

Location, that's received over $19 million. Kind of crazy, right? They say that right here, right now we're 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. What time did you guys go there? You said 130?

Yeah. Okay. For a show almost. Is this now a different one? Is this still the same? The same one. And they can't give you any information. Yeah, I saw it nice.

I told me. 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, when he's walking out. No. Look at this place. This adult daycare. They don't even have an inbox.

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 a voice. These are all red flags. Another thing to take note of. Yeah. 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 say, Send me Meneck. 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. 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 L.A. And while you're in L.A., did you go somewhere and there was like a homeless family in the street saying it would have been better in Colombia than it would there's something you didn't there as 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 the circumstances are worse on skid row than if they were in columbia this was a 12 year old that I got off the streets in Skid Row and got it back into school and into shelter. Yeah. 12 years old. Mm-hmm.

We used to go to Skid Row every Christmas morning at 4.30 a.m. in L.A. We used to go to Skid Row and hand out Bibles and food and burgers and blankets and a 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 go with 40-50 cars, 4.30 in the morning, every Christmas, every year. And a guy named June introduced me to this because, 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. 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 but nobody will offer

him in place to sleep at night he's sleeping on the streets of skid row where there's prostitutes where there's people selling fentanyl people get in 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, 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 L.A.

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 L.A. How to 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 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 two 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's 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 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 it happens 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 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 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 L.A. 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 every everything out. Like since the Minnesota stuff, my workload's gone up like, it feels like 10 times. Like I think since I last spoke with you four months ago, I've probably been home for a total of maybe two and a half weeks. Stop it. Like I'm never home. Never home. So you're sleeping out hotels. You're on the road. Sleeping out hotels. Like, in fact, like last night, I didn't even sleep last night because I was editing the Cuba video to try and get it done before you could

interview me. But it took too long. Like, it's a lot. Is there still a one-man show? The most part, yeah. Nick has anybody, go ahead. Yeah, so it's pretty much a one-man show on a YouTube channel, but it's the fastest-growing political news account in America. I saw that, 1.8, 1.9 million subscribers. And I remember before you did the Lyrics Center,

where were you at? A couple hundred thousand? I had hit a million. You had it a million, even before that. Yeah. So 800,000 subs in the last four months. 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 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 fraudsers 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 hospice back up. Minnesota, they froze $250 million of the 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. 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 else. or the money's already left the country. Yeah, I mean, a part of it is I almost don't want you to be part of anybody.

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 something because a lot of people are like how do this like how does this happen like I've been planning this for like years and actually brought it with me because a lot of people to 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 It's 2022. I created a five-year plan. When I was 20, I was in Chile on my mission trip for my church. But all I would do on my days where I wasn't doing the missionary stuff was like this whole book is just, I actually read your book. I read three books. How to Win Friends and Influence People. That's my favorite book ever. If anyone wants to have success, they're successful double in life if they read that book. It's the first book I wrote in my life. Yeah. No, it's literally the best book.

and just teaches you how to navigate life smoothly and to also have smooth conversations. Just switching the word from but to and will exponentially increase the relationships in your life. And then I read seven habits of highly affected people. Read your book as well. Five moves. Your next five moves.

Your next five moves. Read that book. I have all those notes right here as well. And then think and 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 go make $10,000. But if you like read this, it's like, finish mission, come home with $10K and bank.

And I had and then be home for one to two months working to get 30K liquid cash to be able to fund my channel. And then use that 30K to rebuild my YouTube channel, Nick Shirley. 30K will be used to fund travels, new laptop, a new microphone, and potentially new camera. Channel will take three to six 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 Barstall in a living in New York, potential living locations, St. George, Utah, Florida, New York, and then the type of content for Nick Shirley.

It was interview, investigations on current subjects. At this point, you don't have a YouTube channel yet? No, I do. But you're doing the prank. I had 20,000 subscribers. Okay, that's right. It was Nick Shirley in high school. Got it.

So to interview. Investigative. On current subjects or on popular topics. So I had like politics, strange topics. And then the goal was to reach 100,000 subscribers in six months from six to eight months of uploading weekly uploads. And then was to make 50K and ad revenue from YouTube in the first full year of YouTube. And then, so that was year one.

I completed all that. And then at 2025 was to upload channel to get to two uploads a week, which I did with live streaming and have a student office place to film and work out. 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. And it's supposed to be like the million dollar year.

and the 10 employees has happened and like I have now I have about 10 people who work for me consistently on everything I had an office in New York City moved out of New York but everything else came to fruition Isn't that great? Yeah. Isn't that great?

It's so impressive. It's so impressive. And this is December 6, 2022. So three and a half years ago, three years ago, give or take, three years and four months ago, you're writing this thing down. This is your very,

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 on a sponsor or not yet?

Yeah, so I'm a partner with Polymarket. Okay. 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 Polymarket's been awesome. But yeah, that's like even down to the thumbnail, like I had that envisioned. Like if you watch my 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. Yeah. So when people are like, oh, Nick's like a, he's a plan or 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 is a goal I have is I'm trying to make a create a documentary

and then a separate short film and then to be able to tour it across the U.S. and go to like 10 cities. And I want to create like a documentary based on kind of like everything that has happened this past 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 because 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 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 because i've wanted to 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 him when she was only 22 23 years old really and if you know who stephen covey is the seven habits of highly effective people. She was his literary agent. I'll introduce you to her afterwards, and you guys can get on the 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. 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've wanted to go there for a long time. Yeah, you saw the plane, right? A plane landed and they were kind of shown what's going on and how it's opening a guy. They just opened flights here in Miami.

So 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. Because I speak Spanish, so like, I actually really care about what happens in Central and, America because 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 of a better life is not true like there like there's other options and there are current people like naive you Kelly in these countries who are making their countries great so it's not it's not 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 inventing Venezuela, you had the Maduro and now in Cuba you have this communist regime that destroyed their lives. And that's great. I can't wait for that to happen. 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're doing great? And then there's people that are like, yeah, I don't know if I like what he's doing. Kenneth Owens came after me 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 Tevella video. Oh, it's not even the, so you're talking, this was a couple years ago.

No, no, this is like recent. She's like, white boy. I'm like, it was very, like, snarky of her to do this. I'm just going to say, I don't believe that at all. I'm sorry. I just, I just, it's so stupid. I'm not even going to tell you why I don't believe it. 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 the camera and say, hey, I just wanted to sort of like see what you're doing here. What's going on? Okay, 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 this.

Meaning what? Meaning your handler or you're representing somebody? She's basically saying that's fake. She's saying that's fake. And I'm like, well, maybe these podcasters would actually leave their podcast studios, no offense, Pat. They'd leave their podcast studios and go and do journalism. Like they'd actually see stuff just sometimes just happens. That was the most risky video I had done to that point, was going to Brazilian for those.

So it's not about Newsom. It's not about Lerings Center. It's specifically about Brazil. 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 trying to verify some stuff about the Charlie Kirk assassination because I was on his show literally an hour, like as the last live guest.

I remember Charlie passed away or was assassinated. And so then she like brought me up. And then like next episode she kind of apologized. But I didn't take it. I didn't take it to heart. I thought that was kind of silly of her honestly. Well, she did apologize. Not apologize about that, but she said, well, Nick came in fact-checked about 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. You know, it's funny. We were talking 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 he thinks the difference between the other guy and Nick Shirley? 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've got to figure that out. You've got 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'll be a white boy with some Cuban kids. I don't know about that, Pat. I need to speak blue in English. Yeah. My Spanish is good, but to be screaming and shouting. What is Nick Shirley into? What kind of good? What is your type?

Beautiful. Just beautiful? Yeah, just beautiful. Six-five, six-five. No, not taller than me. A bit athletic. Okay. But just beautiful.

Just beautiful. That's all. Is there a type? Is there a type? Yeah. Have you thought of? Because 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? Because 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 the God believe in God. God believe in Jesus. Like, that's obviously very important. And, yeah, just beautiful inside and out. All right. That's such a wide range that if I were to set you up with a beautiful inside and out. There are beautiful girls everywhere. I've gone on dates with beautiful girls from France.

We've gone on beautiful dates with girls from New York. Like, there's beautiful girls everywhere. You're still a beautiful date 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 now it's kind of weird too because like i don't like uh being don't let this adam guy take you and party again you know stay good oh yeah adam is so funny that was super funny i was like i wanted to see what the club

was like and because adam he's like the night he's the night life in miami he is yeah and i thought it was so stupid. I thought it was so stupid. I thought it was so stupid. Good for you. Good for you on where you are. By the way, the way it'll happen is the way you least expected. It'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. You know, it's going to be in six months. It'll be life-changing. But what you're doing is very important. It's not easy to do what you're... By the way, what happened with you and the Andrew Callahan guy from Channel 5? Oh, yeah.

What was that all about? That was... That was... We had a month, right? We had him on last year. What was your take on Andrew? He's a liberal. He's a liberal who, I would say a...

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 part of the left. Yeah, for sure.

And I like Andrew. I liked Andrew until he did what he did with the interview. 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 six hours those past three days, and I let him come do an interview with me at like 11 p.m. at night, and I hadn't ate anything that day. I had just drank an energy drink,

and just had like a steak right before, because 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 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 knew right out of the get-go, like, where he was taking it because he started instead of asking me all the Friday, he 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 because 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 him, did this interview, thought we were good friends, and then he goes and does that. It was not my best interview by any means, but I also wasn't in the best state of mind and physically. Like, I hadn't slept. I hadn't been eating because I was, like, running off pure adrenaline. So you guys went from 11 to 130?

Yeah, it was like a two and a half hour interview. Yeah, and then he posts the interview, and he only posted an hour of the interview. How long was the total interview? Two and a half hours. Okay, so he cut out an hour and a half of it. In any response where he had that he was wrong or made him look bad, he didn't show. But did you record a whole interview yourself?

I recorded the whole separate interview. Got it. So two and a half 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 too, 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 was like, well, Nick said, like, 89% of the fraud, like so many times. I'm like, yeah, because you weren't getting the point that the fraud had been committed. 89% of the fraud had been committed by Somalian. And so he obviously came with this agenda. And when you sit down in an interview, because they're pitching as a like a podcast interview. Like let's do it for his channel called like C5. Channel 5, yeah. Yeah, he has like a five cast.

He has a whole show called like five casts. 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 your 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. Because 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 folks like you are doing. And I think you're just getting started. Yeah, you got any advice for me? You're going to get a lot of 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 because 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 for 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 million property for $25. But that happened with me saving $10,000, then $25,000, and $50,000, and $100,000. So behind closed doors, you know, as much as celebrating the business, celebrate having savings and cash, it'll give you a 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 i'm cuba are 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

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 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 the like Cuba video, and I wanted to tweet, like, for my next trick, get people to defend a country that suppresses speech, has no free media, and holds those that speak against the government as political prisoners. And I've gotten people to defend fraud openly. I've had them 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 double down. And, no, you're the enemy. I need to know that. You're the enemy. You're doing a very important job. Like the gates of hell

just come upon me once I expose it. But it's also the other side as well. God's got your back. The right people have your back and they're supporting in your, you know, I'm sure your confidence comes from your faith,

you know, where you're able to do what you're doing, your family, your mom, your brother, you've 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 in, like, without my family. obviously none of the 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, 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 menect them. Rob, let's put the meneck below as well. I respond to all menek. Yes, he does. He responds to all the menecks. And people message me, I'm like, just menect him. Ask him.

Why are you asking me? Ask him. He'll tell you what's going on out of buddy. You're the man. Good senior. You're the man. Excited for you. I'm Nick Shirley and you guys can find me here on my neck. 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 will be going. Or just quite frankly, anything. You can ask me here on Monak. I really appreciate all your support.

I can't wait to answer your questions.