Valuetainment - ＂Cuba Had SPIES Tracking Us＂ - Nick Shirley INFILTRATES The Communist Surveillance State

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00:00:30.000 you just got back from Cuba.

00:00:32.840 Out of all the places you can go to, why Cuba?

00:00:35.240 I've been wanting to go to Cuba for the past year or so.

00:00:38.200 Because I've been tracking the rise of communism,

00:00:40.780 socialism here inside the United States.

00:00:42.300 And so I've been wanting to make a video for a long time

00:00:44.160 going to a communist country to show people

00:00:46.380 what life is like inside a communist country.

00:00:49.100 And I've been monitoring the situation with Rubio,

00:00:51.620 what he's been saying, what Trump's been saying.

00:00:53.460 I said, well, this is probably my last few weeks to do it

00:00:56.220 before they take over.

00:00:58.520 And so I just hopped on the flight, bought my ticket, and coordinated security.

00:01:03.280 Everyone was telling me, Nick, do not go.

00:01:05.080 My parents were like, do not go.

00:01:07.560 Security was like, Nick, do not go.

00:01:09.880 Everyone was telling me, do not go.

00:01:10.900 I was like, well, I'm going to go because, like, people deserve to see what's happening.

00:01:14.860 And so I went and, yeah, almost got taken hostage.

00:01:17.980 You almost got taken hostage while you were there.

00:01:19.820 Yeah.

00:01:20.460 So walk me through who you went through.

00:01:23.020 Was it just security?

00:01:24.000 Did you take your brother?

00:01:24.960 Did family go with you?

00:01:26.000 Yeah, so it's just me and two of my security guards.

00:01:29.300 One is actually a Cuban-American, and the other one also speaks Spanish.

00:01:35.540 So I had two guys who spoke Spanish.

00:01:37.340 I also speak fluent Spanish.

00:01:39.240 However, when you go to different countries, each Spanish is a little bit different.

00:01:42.900 They have different slang and whatnot.

00:01:45.840 And so these guys I went with, they had done operations,

00:01:49.680 like anti-human trafficking operations in Haiti and Mexico.

00:01:53.120 and so they're very well versed in these hostile situations and when we arrived to the airport

00:02:01.360 we had done everything correct i had my visa and it was for journalistic activities and i get there

00:02:09.060 and rise i get there they take all my i only brought two gopros and some dgi microphones

00:02:14.220 they take all of that and my metaglasses as well however luckily i had a very small microphone that

00:02:22.460 had at the very bottom of my backpack and the guy's finger just like scuffed it and he let me

00:02:28.720 and he didn't notice that i had that microphone so i had my iphone and these people were literally

00:02:34.280 we were with them for probably hour to two hours as they were trying to figure out what we were

00:02:38.200 doing and i was telling him i'm just here to make a video like i said like i have my visa right here

00:02:44.400 and just want to show people what's going on here in cuba and uh it turned into kind of a big ordeal

00:02:50.160 where they brought in, like, a bunch of other people

00:02:52.820 to come ask me questions and touch the gear,

00:02:55.660 seeing what was, it was, like, foreign objects to them,

00:02:58.120 like the metaglasses.

00:02:59.180 They were, like, analyzing the metaglasses

00:03:01.340 like some crazy foreign object.

00:03:03.780 Because they've never seen it before.

00:03:04.920 Yeah.

00:03:05.220 That stuff's not going to be out there.

00:03:06.800 Now, what was their biggest, like, did they recognize you?

00:03:09.360 Did they know who you were or no?

00:03:11.020 Not from the get-go.

00:03:12.320 I don't think so.

00:03:13.240 And then they asked me, what kind of videos do you make?

00:03:14.900 I was like, well, I just go around the world

00:03:15.900 showing people what's going on, like, with journalism.

00:03:19.520 him and i told him my name and then one of the ladies was like one of the ladies said uh he's up

00:03:27.060 to no good like trump probably sent him or something like that she said one of the ladies

00:03:30.900 said yeah she's like uh she said that trump probably sent him because i was the only american

00:03:36.660 in the airport like i'm the only gringo there and uh i have these two security guards with me

00:03:43.060 and literally the only American, white American male there.

00:03:47.920 Interesting.

00:03:48.760 So did you get anything back or no?

00:03:51.280 The cameras, all this stuff?

00:03:52.440 I ended up getting it back when I left the airport the next day.

00:03:57.260 I was planning on being there for three days,

00:03:59.900 and it turned into 24 hours.

00:04:02.220 So everything you shot and recorded is on an iPhone?

00:04:05.260 Yeah.

00:04:06.420 Huh.

00:04:07.400 iPhone and one of those mics.

00:04:09.220 Mm-hmm.

00:04:09.940 That's all you went with?

00:04:11.340 It's all I had was an iPhone, my microphones.

00:04:13.380 They took like the stabilizer.

00:04:14.560 That's like the most simple stabilizer.

00:04:17.360 They took that.

00:04:18.860 And I was just filming with the GoPros and iPhone.

00:04:22.400 And they took the GoPros, obviously.

00:04:24.680 So now while you're in the airport, who else is coming to you?

00:04:28.540 Is other security coming?

00:04:30.060 Is there intel coming?

00:04:31.000 Is the military showing up?

00:04:32.000 Is it a big spectacle or is it fairly low-key in a different private room where nobody sees it?

00:04:37.140 No, it was out in the open.

00:04:38.080 And so right as I get there, they then take me back to this different area.

00:04:41.640 And from there, they had two people working this desk.

00:04:45.080 And then they ended up bringing in three other people.

00:04:48.700 And there was like the boss of the airport and then two other people.

00:04:52.600 They were literally writing everything down on a piece of paper.

00:04:55.900 Like they don't have computers inside of the airport.

00:04:57.720 So they're literally writing everything down pen and paper.

00:05:03.120 And the paper is not even a sheet of paper.

00:05:05.520 It's a receipt.

00:05:07.020 Like an empty receipt.

00:05:07.860 that you didn't see one computer in the airport no it was all pen and paper as far as when they

00:05:14.560 were taking my stuff so now when you leave the airport are they following you do you feel like

00:05:21.240 people around trying to watch you see what you're there for well as soon as we leave the airport

00:05:25.680 we're getting followed like they put people on us from the get-go and so everything what people

00:05:32.740 don't realize about communism is everyone is essentially working for the government if they

00:05:37.620 have a job especially in a location like an airport especially at the hotels as well so

00:05:42.200 like it creates a whole entire society where everyone just snitches on each other because

00:05:48.260 then that helps them and nobody knows about that no one speaks about that about communism

00:05:52.460 you only hear that from people who escaped north korea uh like you know me park i don't know if

00:05:57.800 you ever met her she told me about that so when i was there i was like whoa this is like north korea

00:06:02.680 everyone's just like snitching on each other or everyone's surveilling and then ready to report

00:06:07.340 to make themselves

00:06:09.260 it's funny you say that

00:06:10.140 you ever seen a movie

00:06:10.940 the Tetris

00:06:11.660 the story of Tetris

00:06:12.680 no I have not

00:06:13.580 Rob can you pull up

00:06:14.260 the Tetris movie

00:06:15.280 I think if there's a movie

00:06:18.100 everybody has to watch

00:06:19.680 on the story of snitching

00:06:21.740 and what happened

00:06:22.940 is this movie Tetris

00:06:24.060 it's a very good movie

00:06:25.280 that came out

00:06:25.720 a couple years ago

00:06:26.580 and how it happened

00:06:28.080 the mob was involved

00:06:29.220 I even want to say

00:06:30.480 Jelaine Maxwell's father

00:06:32.400 was involved in the story

00:06:33.660 Rob can you go

00:06:34.240 a little bit lower

00:06:34.800 and type in Maxwell

00:06:35.680 type in control f maxwell right there yeah so it was roger learns that the worldwide rights were

00:06:44.040 to be sold to british entrepreneur robert stan who sub-licensed them to robert maxwell's

00:06:48.300 company headed by maxwell's son kevin so they talk about secrets snitching on each other

00:06:54.500 catching people that guy's getting paid this guy's getting paid uh very interesting so now

00:06:59.320 you're leaving how quickly do you start creating content and taking the camera out about two hours

00:07:05.200 I get to the hotel, check in.

00:07:07.600 The guy at the hotel lobby actually knew who I was.

00:07:09.780 He's like, oh, Nick Shirley, how does he know you?

00:07:12.760 From Facebook.

00:07:13.680 He's like, oh, your videos in Minnesota were great.

00:07:17.600 And he was a super cool guy.

00:07:19.500 So there's some cool people in the airport.

00:07:21.760 This guy was super cool, and he put us in a super nice hotel room.

00:07:25.200 That was super awesome.

00:07:26.880 But then there was these other people.

00:07:28.640 There's this older guy who then took us on a tour,

00:07:30.980 and he was just completely lying about everything about Cuba.

00:07:33.460 I'm like, so this is a communist country?

00:07:34.800 He's like, no, no, socialist or socialist.

00:07:38.040 But there's only one party in Cuba.

00:07:41.120 That's the Communist Party of Cuba.

00:07:43.580 Is that it?

00:07:44.140 Is this the guy?

00:07:45.220 No, this is not the guy.

00:07:48.080 This is a guy who we went and did a ride around with their 1950 Chevrolet.

00:07:54.300 Give me what you're seeing in the streets.

00:07:56.240 What are the cars?

00:07:57.080 What are the properties looking like?

00:07:58.380 What are the people, what they're wearing?

00:07:59.960 Phones, watches.

00:08:01.480 What did you notice?

00:08:03.460 streets are empty buildings are decaying like turning a lot of them are turning in like rubble

00:08:12.260 and there's no cars in the streets and the cars they have are from like the 1950s and if any of

00:08:18.800 the other cars they do have they're chinese or from the soviet area and just mass poverty

00:08:26.760 and everyone's just trying to get some dollars like it's super super super sad what did you eat

00:08:36.840 i brought just some protein bars and then i ate at the hotel that was it how was the food at the

00:08:42.580 hotel super good oh so it was good the food at the hotel was good life inside the hotel is amazing

00:08:47.800 it's a five-star hotel they make sure that you have the best experience possible when you're on

00:08:54.380 their side and they don't think you're making some video asking people about communism which i

00:08:59.340 was asking people about communism so uh at the end of the night that's where all the like the spies

00:09:04.840 where we eventually had all the spies come yeah the spies go to the hotel you were staying at

00:09:09.920 well we got followed back and when i say spies you think like oh undercover spies it's just

00:09:15.420 civilians that are operating for the government that are monitoring what you're doing and so

00:09:20.880 they're just snitching and the hotel that we were at was uh it comes to find out it's obviously

00:09:27.580 ran by the government and so we kind of created this bad network for ourselves where we kind of

00:09:35.900 got trapped at this hotel where everyone knew who we were and knew that i was making a video asking

00:09:41.900 about communism because the lady that was the spy filmed me asking a guy about communism this guy

00:09:50.600 went off about communism just like how bad it is and she then like ran away and sat down to

00:09:56.720 the next person and then a few minutes later she's back in the hotel lobby with a guy who

00:10:00.740 had caught following us earlier that day this is wild it was very wild what what was for you

00:10:07.660 before i show this clip because there's a bunch of clips i want to show them what what was something

00:10:13.060 that you expected what was surprising what was good what was bad walk me through what you saw

00:10:19.380 Well, maybe you're like, you know what?

00:10:20.240 I was surprised.

00:10:20.780 This is what I liked about it.

00:10:21.900 This is what, you know, what's concerning about it.

00:10:24.560 I expected to see like poverty.

00:10:26.320 I've been to South America.

00:10:27.320 I lived in South America.

00:10:29.060 I expected to see that. 1.00

00:10:30.280 I didn't expect to see Latinos so depressed. 1.00

00:10:37.600 Why do you say that? 1.00

00:10:39.200 There was like no life in the eyes of a lot of these people.

00:10:42.520 Like we all know, we all have Latino friends

00:10:46.760 and a lot of them are just like the salt of the earth, right?

00:10:49.640 They're like always so happy. 1.00

00:10:50.780 So for me to see these Latinos who are so deprived and depressed, 1.00

00:10:54.820 I was like, what is going on? 1.00

00:10:56.360 Like a lot of the women wouldn't even look you in the eyes.

00:11:00.060 Like they were just very depressed.

00:11:02.120 Like even at the airport, the women that were working at the airport,

00:11:05.680 they were so depressed.

00:11:07.960 And even the men as well, like there's just no hope for these people.

00:11:11.740 And so that was what really took me back was seeing all these people

00:11:15.440 that were just depressed.

00:11:16.760 and there was like no life in their eyes and then seeing like some of the the architecture that they

00:11:21.980 had like people used to have like the prettiest architecture like i imagine 1950s it was just

00:11:28.060 beautiful and now you're seeing like the decay and it looks awful there like everything just

00:11:34.380 literally looks like rubble looks like some some sort of a war zone so that was interesting to see

00:11:39.360 and then some of the monuments they had like look at the architecture on that like

00:11:43.620 super pretty it looks like something you'd see like some of the moldings and stuff look like

00:11:48.240 when you're walking the streets of paris and so to see that and you've seen the what what it could

00:11:55.600 look like is very depressing rob can you type in cuba before and after before communism after 0.76

00:12:00.980 communism cuba cuba because you put cuban it may be a girl before a butt job and then after cuba

00:12:08.620 before we've done that before rob you and i were we're doing some podcast weird pictures come up

00:12:14.840 okay so go to one of them that's before and after 1930s without communism then you got today

00:12:22.820 is that what you saw like were you seeing things like that on the bottom exactly trash everywhere

00:12:29.480 mess everywhere there's no uh there's no gas in the country right now so there's nowhere

00:12:33.760 for them to get rid of their garbage so they're just burning the garbage in the streets 0.64

00:12:38.060 like when i arrived i was like why is there all this smog in the air and the lady next to me goes 1.00

00:12:43.340 oh because they're just burning all the garbage wow what did what did women look like did you see

00:12:50.280 beautiful uh people did you see yeah there's some beautiful ladies there but um yeah everyone's like

00:12:55.620 depressed and then you ask them about life and they're like we can't talk about it depressed

00:12:59.340 beautiful ladies yeah i know a guy that will like an area like that his name is adam he's been to

00:13:03.940 places like that before yeah we should send adam there well not today uh let's wait to see if this

00:13:10.520 is going to work out or not but maybe one day he's been there before though i'm nick shirley and you

00:13:14.400 guys can find me here on my neck go ahead and ask me any questions whether it be about politics

00:13:18.620 about what i believe or where i think the future of the country will be going or just quite frankly

00:13:23.340 anything you can ask me here on my neck i really appreciate all your support i can't wait to answer

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Valuetainment - May 08, 2026

＂Cuba Had SPIES Tracking Us＂ - Nick Shirley INFILTRATES The Communist Surveillance State

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