Valuetainment - May 09, 2026


＂We Fled Cuba On A Tricycle＂ - Nick Shirley ESCAPES Cuba Before The Communist Regime Closes In


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Length

10 minutes

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2,243

Sentence count

77

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Misogyny

5

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Toxicity

2

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Hate speech

2

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In this episode, the guys talk about the situation with Nick Shirley and the Cuban government in regards to him being held hostage in Cuba. They also talk about why they think he's a complete liar and why he should be released.

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00:00:00.000 There was a guy that called you out, that was in the hotel, Rob.
00:00:03.140 I think if you got the clip, is this the first one or the second one?
00:00:06.920 No, you got to go to the first one.
00:00:08.240 That's the second one.
00:00:08.560 That's the second one.
00:00:09.400 Go to the first one.
00:00:10.540 That's him.
00:00:11.600 So this is the clip.
00:00:12.520 He says, hey, I'm at the same hotel.
00:00:14.160 Where's Nick Shirley?
00:00:14.900 Go ahead and play the clip, Rob.
00:00:16.100 Nick Shirley, I'm in the hotel that you were supposedly in here in Havana, Cuba.
00:00:20.720 And you're nowhere to be seen.
00:00:21.900 Neither is the security and the CIA and the spies that were supposedly holding you hostage.
00:00:26.760 We understand that you're super tight with Trump.
00:00:28.600 and basically what you're doing is just pretext for the United States to try to go ahead and invade Cuba
00:00:33.700 the same way they did with Venezuela, but you're not here.
00:00:37.300 I'm at the hotel that Nick Shirley said that he's currently being held hostage by the Cuban government in
00:00:42.060 and that he was tailed by their secret service, and there's literally no security here.
00:00:47.440 I'm making a video in public in a country that he said is communist,
00:00:51.440 so because of the communism, there's no freedom of speech.
00:00:54.220 Well, as this brother here sees, there is freedom of speech, and Nick Shirley is nowhere to be seen,
00:01:00.660 and neither are these spies that he's talking about.
00:01:02.860 We're actually about to walk in right now and go find out exactly where he is.
00:01:08.120 Let's see.
00:01:09.200 Hola, buenas.
00:01:11.820 Como estas? 0.99
00:01:13.520 Hola, hola. 0.51
00:01:14.140 Hola, como estas? 0.95
00:01:15.240 De donde son ustedes? 0.99
00:01:16.460 De aquí? 0.97
00:01:17.300 Yo?
00:01:17.760 Soy de Estados Unidos.
00:01:19.260 Ah, sí.
00:01:20.680 Hello.
00:01:21.780 Chau, buenos días.
00:01:22.380 what did he say right there he's like i'm from the united states he said i'm from united states
00:01:27.280 and then the part two of the video yeah so but first like there's some huge flaws with this
00:01:32.140 guy's video he knows i'm not there he knows i know you're not there because i in the video i
00:01:36.960 said if i after this video gets posted it means i made it out so he saw the video you posted that 0.58
00:01:42.560 you've already he's a complete liar okay he's literally there to push propaganda that cuba's
00:01:46.600 all right like cuba's not all right like this is part of the problem where you have these people who 0.94
00:01:51.460 can go to a communist country and still support communism.
00:01:56.040 Why do you think he's doing this?
00:01:58.120 He lives in America, but he goes there to push communism
00:02:00.660 and say everything's going good.
00:02:02.700 If he's so good, why is he not moving to Cuba himself?
00:02:05.640 Yeah, and he's acting like there's no issues.
00:02:07.540 And it's super funny because on his Instagram,
00:02:09.440 he has a photo of him.
00:02:11.000 He's talking about how great it is
00:02:12.060 and how there's no issues with anything.
00:02:13.960 Meanwhile, he's plugging his phone into a generator.
00:02:17.540 He's plugging his phone into a generator.
00:02:19.940 And what's he saying in this clip?
00:02:22.420 So this clip, these ones really make me mad
00:02:25.440 because these are straight up just lies that they then use
00:02:30.600 and a small group will then believe these
00:02:33.760 and then they'll believe that Nick Shirley is this villain
00:02:38.640 or they'll believe the words that this guy says are true
00:02:42.000 and they're not true at all.
00:02:44.340 And so you have this problem with these legit radicalized individuals
00:02:47.900 who's supporting communism after he's seeing seven out of 10 people miss a meal a day inside
00:02:52.980 of Cuba. Seven out of 10 people miss a meal a day. A day. People can't, people are getting
00:02:58.520 surgeries without actually getting medicine, like without getting induced.
00:03:04.580 What does he say here? Watch it. Go ahead, Rob.
00:03:08.740 What Nick Shirley is doing in Cuba is settler, colonial, white supremacist, 0.89
00:03:13.660 state-sanctioned violence against the Cuban people. Tell me how it's any different than
00:03:17.320 the killing of george floyd or then the killing of four million iraqis during the united states
00:03:21.260 invasion of iraq or then the invasion of venezuela or then ice in our communities taking the lives
00:03:26.880 of countless people or then so many things that the taking of the life of so he's one of those
00:03:32.780 guys yes got it got it interesting okay so then you come back on the way back at the airport are
00:03:42.340 they giving you a hard time or you're able to take off and there was no issues they gave us a bit of
00:03:46.060 hard time so i go through i get my stuff because if we had just passed through the the two-star
00:03:51.380 general and with the two-star general they're like okay uh good we'll get you a taxi and we go down
00:03:57.420 to get the taxi and there's no taxi we're like okay we're not risking getting in some random car
00:04:02.780 so we start walking by foot uh and we finally get on a little tricycle like electric taxi and that
00:04:08.740 takes us to the airport so we're fleeing cuba in a 10 mile per hour tricycle and then we get to the
00:04:15.060 airport uh we get through I go and grab my stuff I'm like it'd be bad look if I didn't go back and
00:04:19.260 get my stuff so I go get my stuff one of the security guards stays upstairs with them he gets
00:04:23.540 cornered by two individuals and they're like hey why are you guys leaving early like how like what
00:04:29.900 why are you guys leaving early and security guard goes like we know what's up like you guys had your
00:04:33.060 guys on us the whole entire time and like and the guy literally told security this he said yeah the
00:04:37.800 president knows you're here like we've been monitoring you guys like we want to make sure
00:04:43.000 that what you guys publish makes us look good essentially and so the president of cuba knew
00:04:50.480 that we were there like that's how fast word got out and then like that all that just went to prove
00:04:56.900 everything that we were speculating as far as the spies and being monitored the whole entire time
00:05:00.760 like we'd be filming outside of one of the hospitals and all of a sudden two random guys
00:05:05.100 would show up out of nowhere and then we'd go to the next location and we go to the hotel the guy
00:05:10.120 who's there in the afternoons all there by himself again the two ladies the the lady is then sitting
00:05:16.580 next to the guy like everything proved to be real and it would have like i knew going to cuba like
00:05:24.280 it was a big risk like 60 40 it goes well and with everything going on like wouldn't have been the
00:05:31.720 worst idea for them to hold somebody like me hostage they could they could have used it as
00:05:36.220 leverage right so i knew it was very risky to go but i knew i also needed to go to show people
00:05:41.360 what's going on and so it wasn't the craziest idea to me that i knew like i was entering a very
00:05:48.060 dangerous situation but i also knew how to be done because people need to see what's going on there
00:05:52.020 they're not going to get it from a communist controlled country who controls the media
00:05:56.680 but the president knew we were there yeah and and it's what do you think is going to actually
00:06:01.080 end up happening to cuba do you think cuba is going to be free here soon and you know
00:06:04.520 part of one of the, you know, similar to what Puerto Rico is to the states?
00:06:08.780 What do you think is going to happen?
00:06:09.740 Very possible.
00:06:11.160 If you're looking at it, right now, the U.S. has a blockade on Cuba.
00:06:17.380 Their main supplier of oil was Venezuela and Mexico.
00:06:20.740 Trump said if Mexico were to give them oil, then they're going to impose more tariffs.
00:06:24.180 So Mexico is scared off.
00:06:26.300 They're not giving them oil.
00:06:27.500 Venezuela, they're not giving them oil either.
00:06:30.000 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.
00:06:39.620 Yeah. Do you have the clip, Rob, of what the president said? The ship is going to pull up. It was actually a speech he was 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 of the president?
00:06:53.160 Yeah. So he's, you know, he is thinking this is not going to take a long time either.
00:06:59.140 I think it was just a couple of days ago that we did this.
00:07:02.720 Yeah, this is it, Rob. Go for it.
00:07:05.660 An architect who's really talented, has done a lot of work for him.
00:07:08.760 He's got a flair, a beautiful Hispanic flair in particular.
00:07:13.040 And he comes from originally a place called Cuba, which we will be taking over almost immediately.
00:07:18.560 no cubists cubists got problems we'll finish one first i like to finish a job
00:07:29.060 on the way back from what we'll do on the way back from iran we'll have one of our big maybe
00:07:36.940 the uss abraham lincoln aircraft carrier the biggest in the world we'll have that come in
00:07:42.240 stop about a hundred yards offshore and they'll say thank you very much we give up
00:07:47.740 yeah thank you very much we give up on how quickly he thinks it's going to be ending
00:07:55.440 like they're literally squeezing them yeah well they were reliant because the venezuela was given
00:08:00.980 oil to cuba for free to sell and they were making their money through it and then none of them was
00:08:06.840 going to none of the money was going to the people they were keeping it at the top so the people were
00:08:11.080 poor uh and they just had to guess that they were selling so people can fill up kind of like that
00:08:15.200 one guy was talking about anything else about the experience in cuba anything else i don't think
00:08:21.740 it'll be hard for the united states to take it over now uh like i don't like the idea of the
00:08:27.480 united states going in and just taking over countries or i i wish like other people could
00:08:31.600 do it themselves like i wish the cuban government could help out the cuban people uh so it's gonna
00:08:36.640 be interesting to see what happens they're probably begging for the people are begging
00:08:41.440 they're probably begging for the government you know no but the people are begging for there's a
00:08:46.240 lot of cubans here that can't wait for that to become a reality for them to go back it's a
00:08:51.000 beautiful place i mean the stuff that you see what it was like um it's produced a lot of amazing
00:08:56.860 people here you know a lot of them are good business owners small business owners who want
00:09:01.660 to find a way to go back you know i got one of the kids that's a friend of my son every summer
00:09:07.040 he goes to Cuba. He goes to Cuba just because the parents don't want him to lose the culture,
00:09:11.640 even though they know it's a communist nation. They want to go back to Cuba to be around the
00:09:15.100 family. But deep down inside, they can't wait for that to become a reality. And by the way,
00:09:20.160 what a move. What a move of not going to Cuba and Iran before doing Venezuela, because Venezuela
00:09:27.460 was going to suffocate Cuban government and China, because China is relying on Venezuela
00:09:35.400 for the oil so much interesting move the way these guys did and one day when we read these books to
00:09:40.160 find out if this whole thing was intentional or not to go to venezuela first we're going to learn
00:09:44.580 a lot about history and if it was intentional good move on rubio and and the president's end
00:09:49.460 but i guess we won't find that out for a minute yeah i mean and also like with panama like the
00:09:53.700 whole thing was because of china the because china was then controlling the canal and then
00:09:59.440 you really don't want china to be that close to the united states and cuba was also being propped
00:10:05.380 up by china russia i mean we literally almost had a nuclear war with cuba because of the soviet 0.64
00:10:10.420 union and they had nukes and uh apparently they were ready to start nuclear war so like it's not
00:10:15.640 a good idea to have an enemy that is only like 90 miles away from yeah that's a that's a scary
00:10:21.860 thought especially the people who live in florida they probably anybody living in florida is probably
00:10:26.780 going to want that to become a reality first. I'm Nick Shirley, and you guys can find me here
00:10:30.240 on Manect. Go ahead and ask me any questions, whether it be about politics, about what I believe
00:10:34.780 or where I think the future of the country will be going, or just quite frankly, anything. You
00:10:39.580 can ask me here on Manect. I really appreciate all your support, and I can't wait to answer your
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