＂Cuba Had SPIES Tracking Us＂ - Nick Shirley INFILTRATES The Communist Surveillance State
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On this episode of the podcast, my guest, Nick, talks about his recent trip to Cuba and how he almost got kidnapped in the airport. He talks about how he managed to escape and what he did to make it there.
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I've been wanting to go to Cuba for the past year or so.
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Because I've been tracking the rise of communism,
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And so I've been wanting to make a video for a long time
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And I've been monitoring the situation with Rubio,
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what he's been saying, what Trump's been saying.
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I said, well, this is probably my last few weeks to do it
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And so I just hopped on the flight, bought my ticket, and coordinated security.
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I was like, well, I'm going to go because, like, people deserve to see what's happening.
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And so I went and, yeah, almost got taken hostage.
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You almost got taken hostage while you were there.
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Yeah, so it's just me and two of my security guards.
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One is actually a Cuban-American, and the other one also speaks Spanish.
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However, when you go to different countries, each Spanish is a little bit different.
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And so these guys I went with, they had done operations,
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like anti-human trafficking operations in Haiti and Mexico.
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and so they're very well versed in these hostile situations and when we arrived to the airport
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we had done everything correct i had my visa and it was for journalistic activities and i get there
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and rise i get there they take all my i only brought two gopros and some dgi microphones
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they take all of that and my metaglasses as well however luckily i had a very small microphone that
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had at the very bottom of my backpack and the guy's finger just like scuffed it and he let me
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and he didn't notice that i had that microphone so i had my iphone and these people were literally
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we were with them for probably hour to two hours as they were trying to figure out what we were
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doing and i was telling him i'm just here to make a video like i said like i have my visa right here
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and just want to show people what's going on here in cuba and uh it turned into kind of a big ordeal
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where they brought in, like, a bunch of other people
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seeing what was, it was, like, foreign objects to them,
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Now, what was their biggest, like, did they recognize you?
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And then they asked me, what kind of videos do you make?
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showing people what's going on, like, with journalism.
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him and i told him my name and then one of the ladies was like one of the ladies said uh he's up
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to no good like trump probably sent him or something like that she said one of the ladies
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said yeah she's like uh she said that trump probably sent him because i was the only american
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in the airport like i'm the only gringo there and uh i have these two security guards with me
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and literally the only American, white American male there.
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I ended up getting it back when I left the airport the next day.
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So everything you shot and recorded is on an iPhone?
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And I was just filming with the GoPros and iPhone.
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So now while you're in the airport, who else is coming to you?
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Is it a big spectacle or is it fairly low-key in a different private room where nobody sees it?
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And so right as I get there, they then take me back to this different area.
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And from there, they had two people working this desk.
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And then they ended up bringing in three other people.
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And there was like the boss of the airport and then two other people.
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They were literally writing everything down on a piece of paper.
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Like they don't have computers inside of the airport.
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So they're literally writing everything down pen and paper.
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that you didn't see one computer in the airport no it was all pen and paper as far as when they
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were taking my stuff so now when you leave the airport are they following you do you feel like
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people around trying to watch you see what you're there for well as soon as we leave the airport
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we're getting followed like they put people on us from the get-go and so everything what people
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don't realize about communism is everyone is essentially working for the government if they
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have a job especially in a location like an airport especially at the hotels as well so
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like it creates a whole entire society where everyone just snitches on each other because
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then that helps them and nobody knows about that no one speaks about that about communism
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you only hear that from people who escaped north korea uh like you know me park i don't know if
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you ever met her she told me about that so when i was there i was like whoa this is like north korea
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everyone's just like snitching on each other or everyone's surveilling and then ready to report
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type in control f maxwell right there yeah so it was roger learns that the worldwide rights were
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to be sold to british entrepreneur robert stan who sub-licensed them to robert maxwell's
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company headed by maxwell's son kevin so they talk about secrets snitching on each other
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catching people that guy's getting paid this guy's getting paid uh very interesting so now
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you're leaving how quickly do you start creating content and taking the camera out about two hours
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The guy at the hotel lobby actually knew who I was.
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He's like, oh, Nick Shirley, how does he know you?
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He's like, oh, your videos in Minnesota were great.
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This guy was super cool, and he put us in a super nice hotel room.
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There's this older guy who then took us on a tour,
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and he was just completely lying about everything about Cuba.
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This is a guy who we went and did a ride around with their 1950 Chevrolet.
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streets are empty buildings are decaying like turning a lot of them are turning in like rubble
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and there's no cars in the streets and the cars they have are from like the 1950s and if any of
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the other cars they do have they're chinese or from the soviet area and just mass poverty
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and everyone's just trying to get some dollars like it's super super super sad what did you eat
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i brought just some protein bars and then i ate at the hotel that was it how was the food at the
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hotel super good oh so it was good the food at the hotel was good life inside the hotel is amazing
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it's a five-star hotel they make sure that you have the best experience possible when you're on
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their side and they don't think you're making some video asking people about communism which i
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was asking people about communism so uh at the end of the night that's where all the like the spies
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where we eventually had all the spies come yeah the spies go to the hotel you were staying at
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well we got followed back and when i say spies you think like oh undercover spies it's just
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civilians that are operating for the government that are monitoring what you're doing and so
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they're just snitching and the hotel that we were at was uh it comes to find out it's obviously
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ran by the government and so we kind of created this bad network for ourselves where we kind of
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got trapped at this hotel where everyone knew who we were and knew that i was making a video asking
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about communism because the lady that was the spy filmed me asking a guy about communism this guy
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went off about communism just like how bad it is and she then like ran away and sat down to
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the next person and then a few minutes later she's back in the hotel lobby with a guy who
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had caught following us earlier that day this is wild it was very wild what what was for you
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before i show this clip because there's a bunch of clips i want to show them what what was something
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that you expected what was surprising what was good what was bad walk me through what you saw
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This is what, you know, what's concerning about it.
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I didn't expect to see Latinos so depressed.
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There was like no life in the eyes of a lot of these people.
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and a lot of them are just like the salt of the earth, right?
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So for me to see these Latinos who are so deprived and depressed,
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Like a lot of the women wouldn't even look you in the eyes.
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Like even at the airport, the women that were working at the airport,
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And even the men as well, like there's just no hope for these people.
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And so that was what really took me back was seeing all these people
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and there was like no life in their eyes and then seeing like some of the the architecture that they
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had like people used to have like the prettiest architecture like i imagine 1950s it was just
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beautiful and now you're seeing like the decay and it looks awful there like everything just
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literally looks like rubble looks like some some sort of a war zone so that was interesting to see
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and then some of the monuments they had like look at the architecture on that like
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super pretty it looks like something you'd see like some of the moldings and stuff look like
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when you're walking the streets of paris and so to see that and you've seen the what what it could
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look like is very depressing rob can you type in cuba before and after before communism after
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communism cuba cuba because you put cuban it may be a girl before a butt job and then after cuba
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before we've done that before rob you and i were we're doing some podcast weird pictures come up
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okay so go to one of them that's before and after 1930s without communism then you got today
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is that what you saw like were you seeing things like that on the bottom exactly trash everywhere
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mess everywhere there's no uh there's no gas in the country right now so there's nowhere
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for them to get rid of their garbage so they're just burning the garbage in the streets
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like when i arrived i was like why is there all this smog in the air and the lady next to me goes
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oh because they're just burning all the garbage wow what did what did women look like did you see
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beautiful uh people did you see yeah there's some beautiful ladies there but um yeah everyone's like
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depressed and then you ask them about life and they're like we can't talk about it depressed
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beautiful ladies yeah i know a guy that will like an area like that his name is adam he's been to
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places like that before yeah we should send adam there well not today uh let's wait to see if this
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is going to work out or not but maybe one day he's been there before though i'm nick shirley and you
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