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

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 https://bit.ly/4mZdLhD Ⓜ️ CONNECT ON MINNECT: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/4kSVkso ⁠⁠⁠ https://bit.ly/4kSVkso Ⓜ️ PBD PODCAST CIRCLES: ⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/4mAWQAP⁠⁠⁠ https://bit.ly/4mAWQAP 👔 BET-DAVID CONSULTING: ⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/4lzQph2 ⁠⁠⁠ https://bit.ly/4lzQph2 🥃 BOARDROOM CIGAR LOUNGE: ⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/4pzLEXj⁠⁠⁠ https://bit.ly/4pzLEXj 🇰 KALSHI: ⁠⁠⁠⁠http://kalshi.com/pbd⁠⁠⁠⁠ http://kalshi.com/pbd⁠ 💬 TEXT US: Text “PODCAST” to 310-340-1132 to get the latest updates in real-time!

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• 0:00Speaker 00

  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.

• 0:10Patrick Bet-David?

  You almost got taken hostage while you were there.

• 0:11Speaker 00

  Yeah, so the president of Cuba knew that we were there, like we've been monitoring you guys.

• 0:19Patrick Bet-David?

  What do you think's gonna actually end up happening in Cuba?

• 0:24Speaker 00

  Their monthly salaries, fourteen dollars USD. One person said they haven't had eggs in a year.

• 0:31Patrick Bet-David?

  What's the latest with you and Nusa?

• 0:32Speaker 00

  What do you think about the Stop Nick Shirley Act?

• 0:34Patrick Bet-David?

  Stop Nick Shirley Act?

• 0:36Speaker 02

  I think you're a psycho scam artist.

• 0:37Speaker 00

  It's so bad in California, like so bad. Like, nobody knows how bad it is, except for the people living in California. Quality leering center. Ilhan Omar, she needs to get prosecuted, or she needs to get deported. There's evidence that she did marry her brother.

• 0:57Speaker 00

  Candace Owens came after me a while back, that was very interesting.

• 1:01Patrick Bet-David?

  Why would Candace Owens come after you?

• 1:06Patrick Bet-David?

  Nick Shirley, how you doing?

• 1:08Speaker 00

  Amazing.

• 1:09Patrick Bet-David?

  Good seeing you again. Last time we did this was what, New Year's Eve?

• 1:13Speaker 00

  New Year's Eve, it's been a crazy four months.

• 1:15Patrick Bet-David?

  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?

• 1:23Speaker 00

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

• 1:26Patrick Bet-David?

  Okay.

• 1:27Speaker 00

  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, 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 with 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 to not go. I was like, well, I'm gonna go, because like, people deserve to see what's happening. And so I went and yeah, almost got taken hostage.

• 2:06Patrick Bet-David?

  You almost got taken hostage while you're there?

• 2:08Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 2:08Patrick Bet-David?

  So walk me through who you went through. Was it just security? Did you take your brother? Did family go with you?

• 2:14Speaker 00

  Yeah, so it's just me and two of my security guards. One, the one's actually 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, different slang and whatnot. And so these guys I went with, they had done operations like anti-human trafficking operations in Haiti and Mexico. And so they're very well-versed in these hostile situations. And when we arrived to the airport, we had done everything correct. I had my visa and it was for journalistic activities.

• 2:56Speaker 00

  And I get there and rise I get there, they take all my, I only brought two GoPros and some DJI microphones. They take all of that and my meta glasses as well. However, luckily I had a very small microphone that I had at the very bottom of my backpack. And the guy's finger just like scuffed it and he let me, and he didn't notice 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 them, I'm just here to make a video. Like I said, like I have my visa right here. And just want to show people what's going on here in Cuba.

• 3:36Speaker 00

  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 meta glasses. They were like analyzing the meta glasses like they, like some crazy foreign object.

• 3:52Patrick Bet-David?

  Because they've never seen it before.

• 3:53Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 3:53Patrick Bet-David?

  That stuff's not gonna be out there. Now, what was their biggest, like, did they recognize you? Did they know who you were or no?

• 3:59Speaker 00

  Not from the get-go. I don't think so. And then they're asking me, what kind of videos do you make? I was like, well, I just go around the world showing people what's going on, um, like with journalism. And I told them my name and then one of the ladies was like, one of the ladies said, uh, he's up to no good. Like Trump probably sent him or something like that.

• 4:18Patrick Bet-David?

  She said, one of the ladies said?

• 4:19Speaker 00

  Yeah, she's like, uh, she said, uh, 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.

• 4:36Patrick Bet-David?

  Interesting. So, they took, did you get anything back or no? The cameras, all this stuff?

• 4:41Speaker 00

  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.

• 4:50Patrick Bet-David?

  So, everything you shot and recorded is on an iPhone?

• 4:53Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 4:54Patrick Bet-David?

  Huh. iPhone and one of those mics?

• 4:57Speaker 00

  Mm-hmm.

• 4:58Patrick Bet-David?

  That's all you, that's all you went with?

• 4:59Speaker 00

  It's all I had was an iPhone, my microphones. They took like the stabilizer, that's like this most simple stabilizer. Um, they took that and I was just filming with a GoPros and iPhone. And they took the GoPros, obviously.

• 5:13Patrick Bet-David?

  So now, while you're in, in the airport, who else is coming to you? Is, is other security coming? Is there intel coming? Is the military showing up? Is it a big spectacle? Or is it fairly low-key in a different private room where nobody sees it?

• 5:25Speaker 00

  No, it was out in the open. So, right 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, uh, three other people. And there was like the boss of the airport and then two other people that, they were literally writing everything down on a piece of paper. Like, they don't have computers inside of the airport. So, they're literally writing everything down pen and pen, or pen and pen, uh, pen and paper. Um, and the paper is not even a sheet of paper. It's a receipt, like an empty receipt.

• 5:56Patrick Bet-David?

  You didn't see one computer in the airport?

• 5:58Speaker 00

  No. It was all pen and paper. As far as when they were taking my stuff.

• 6:05Patrick Bet-David?

  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?

• 6:12Speaker 00

  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 escaped North Korea. Uh, like Yonomi Park, I don't know if you ever met her.

• 6:47Patrick Bet-David?

  Mm hmm.

• 6:47Speaker 00

  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.

• 6:57Patrick Bet-David?

  It's funny you say that. You ever seen the movie, The Tetris, The Story of Tetris?

• 7:01Speaker 00

  No, I have not.

• 7:02Patrick Bet-David?

  Rob, can you pull up the Tetris movie? Uh, uh, I think if there's a movie, everybody has to watch on the story of snitching. And what happened is this movie Tetris. It's, it's a very good movie that came out a couple of years ago. And how it happened, the mob was involved. I even want to say Ra- Jelaine Maxwell's father was involved in this story. Rob, can you go a little bit lower and type in Maxwell? Type in Ctrl F Maxwell. Right there, yeah. So it was Roger learns that the worldwide rights were to be sold to British entrepreneur Robert Stone, 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. Uh, very interesting.

• 7:47Patrick Bet-David?

  So now you're leaving. How quickly do you start creating content and taking the camera out?

• 7:53Speaker 00

  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.

• 8:00Patrick Bet-David?

  How does he know you?

• 8:01Speaker 00

  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. Uh, 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 party in communist in Cuba. That's uh,

• 8:31Speaker 00

  Communist Party of Cuba.

• 8:32Patrick Bet-David?

  Is that it? Is this the guy?

• 8:33Speaker 00

  No, the, this is not the guy. This is a, a guy who we went and did a ride around with their 1950 Chevrolet, shepher.

• 8:43Patrick Bet-David?

  Give me, give me what you're seeing in the streets. What are the cars? What are the properties looking like? What are the people, what they're wearing? Phones, watches, what, what, what did you notice?

• 8:51Speaker 00

  Streets are empty. Buildings are decaying like.

• 8:58Speaker 00

  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 nineteen fifties. And if any of the other cars they do have, they're Chinese or from the Soviet area. And just mass poverty.

• 9:17Speaker 00

  And everyone's just trying to get some dollars. Like, it's super, super, super sad.

• 9:24Patrick Bet-David?

  What did you eat?

• 9:26Speaker 00

  I brought just some protein bars and then I ate at the hotel. That was it.

• 9:30Patrick Bet-David?

  How was the food at the hotel?

• 9:31Speaker 00

  Super good.

• 9:32Patrick Bet-David?

  Oh, so it was good?

• 9:33Speaker 00

  The food at the hotel was good. Life inside the hotel is amazing. It's a five-star hotel. They make sure that you have the best 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.

• 9:51Speaker 00

  At the end of the night, that's where all the spies, where we eventually had all the spies come, yeah.

• 9:56Patrick Bet-David?

  The spies go to the hotel you were staying at?

• 9:59Speaker 00

  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 a, comes to find out, it's obviously ran 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. Cause the lady that was the spy filmed me asking a guy about communism. This guy went off about communism, just like how bad it is.

• 10:42Speaker 00

  And she then like ran away and sat down to the next person. And then a few minutes later, she's back in the hotel lobby with a guy who had caught following us earlier that day.

• 10:53Patrick Bet-David?

  This is wild.

• 10:54Speaker 00

  It was very wild.

• 10:55Patrick Bet-David?

  What was for you, before I show this clip, because there's a bunch of clips I want to show them. What was something that you expected? What was surprising? What was good? What was bad? Walk me through what you saw, where maybe you're like, you know what? I was surprised. This is what I liked about it. This is what was concerning about it.

• 11:13Speaker 00

  I expected to see 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.

• 11:26Patrick Bet-David?

  What do you say, though?

• 11:27Speaker 00

  There was no life in the eyes of a lot of these people. Like, we all know, we all have Latino friends and a lot of them are just like, like the salt of the earth, right? They're always so happy. So for me to see these Latinos who are so deprived and depressed, I was like, what is going on? Like, a lot of the women wouldn't even look you in the eyes. Like, they're just very depressed. Like, even at the airport, the 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.

• 12:07Speaker 00

  And then seeing like some of 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, looks like some sort of a war zone. So that was interesting to see. And then some of the monuments they had, like, look at the architecture on that, like, super pretty. It looks like something you'd see, like, some of the moldings and stuff look like when you're walking the streets of Paris. And so to see that, and you've seen what it could look like, is very depressing.

• 12:46Patrick Bet-David?

  Rob, can you tap in Cuba before and after? Before communism, after communism? Cuba, Cuba? Because you put Cuban, it may be a girl before, a butt job and an after Cuba before.

• 12:59Patrick Bet-David?

  We've done that before, Rob, you and I, we're doing some podcasts, weird pictures come up. Okay, so go to one of them. That's before and after, 1930s without communism. Then you got today.

• 13:14Patrick Bet-David?

  Is that what you saw? Like, were you seeing things like that on the bottom?

• 13:16Speaker 00

  Exactly.

• 13:17Patrick Bet-David?

  Trash everywhere, mess everywhere?

• 13:18Speaker 00

  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.

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• 15:56Patrick Bet-David?

  What did, what did women look like? Did you see beautiful people? Did you see?

• 15:59Speaker 00

  Yeah, there's some beautiful ladies there. But um, yeah, everyone's like depressed. And then you ask them about life and they're like, we can't talk about it.

• 16:06Patrick Bet-David?

  Depressed, beautiful ladies.

• 16:08Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 16:08Patrick Bet-David?

  I know a guy that will like an area like that. His name is Adam. He's been to places like that before.

• 16:13Speaker 00

  Yeah, we should send Adam there to my wife.

• 16:15Patrick Bet-David?

  Well, not today. Let's wait to see if this is gonna work out or not, but maybe one day. He's been there before, though. So let's go to one of the clips. So what, what is this one video that you have here with you and the fellow in the car?

• 16:26Speaker 00

  Yeah, so this is the intro to the video that's gonna be coming out in the next.

• 16:29Patrick Bet-David?

  The video's not been dropped yet.

• 16:31Speaker 00

  The video's not been dropped yet.

• 16:31Patrick Bet-David?

  Okay, so people are seeing clips that's not public yet.

• 16:34Speaker 00

  No, you're actually the first person who's ever seen this.

• 16:36Patrick Bet-David?

  Okay, so what is this? What have we seen this clip?

• 16:39Speaker 00

  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.

• 16:48Patrick Bet-David?

  Let's see it, Rob, let's see it.

• 16:50Speaker 00

  What percentage of people do you think are suffering here in Cuba?

• 16:52Patrick Bet-David?

  La mayoría?

• 16:54Patrick Bet-David?

  La mayoría?

• 16:55Speaker 00

  What's your thoughts on communism? Que piensan de comunismo?

• 16:59Patrick Bet-David?

  Wow, so they're that public about it?

• 17:03Speaker 00

  None of the gas stations are even in operation right now because there's quite literally no gas.

• 17:08Speaker 06

  And we stand out like sore thumbs here. So they're wondering why we're here with cameras, interviewing people. They wanna know what's happening and what people are saying. That's why people are not talking.

• 17:16Patrick Bet-David?

  My security.

• 17:17Speaker 06

  They're asking why are we trying to leave the hotel early?

• 17:23Speaker 00

  Cuba right now is facing one of the largest humanitarian crises in the world. Cuba's government is a one-party communist-run country, and they are facing massive food shortages, daily blackouts and a lack of medicine. And right now, a US blockade is restricting oil and gas from coming inside of the country. With communism and socialism on the rise in the West, I wanted to see what life in communism is really like 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,

• 18:06Speaker 00

  and a two-star general came searching for me at the hotel. Now, let's witness the reality of Cuba, and eventually plan our escape out of Cuba. Where are the people at? ¿Dónde está la gente? No hay nadie aquí en la calle. No hay nadie aquí en estas casas. ¿Dónde está la gente? The problem is that there's no gasoline. It's not easy to move. Any day, any way, 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 a line from the government. The guy that we're in our taxi with right now,

• 18:49Speaker 00

  he said his position to get gas is 1,200 in line, and gas from the government costs around $1. But gas, if you were to buy it on the black market, costs $10 per liter. That's $40 per gallon if you were to buy gas here in Cuba. Before they captured Maduro, was there gasoline in the gas stations?

• 19:07Speaker 06

  Always, always. It was easy.

• 19:10Speaker 00

  So he works for the government too?

• 19:11Speaker 06

  But it was easy to get gasoline. Every day, you can go to the gasoline station and buy it normally. It was normal. But nowadays, it's really bad.

• 19:21Speaker 00

  ¿Y cómo está sobreviviendo la gente aquí en 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

• 19:34Patrick Bet-David?

  opening up

• 19:35Speaker 00

  everything is just like empty that's why they put people on very like North Korea like

• 19:38Patrick Bet-David?

  were most people opening up

• 19:40Speaker 00

  massive plaza

• 19:41Patrick Bet-David?

  complaining

• 19:42Speaker 00

  a select I would ask people and then I kind of get to a point in the interview where we can't answer anymore

• 19:48Patrick Bet-David?

  they would say they can't answer the question

• 19:49Speaker 00

  yeah

• 19:49Patrick Bet-David?

  let me see the ending of it Rob because I got a bunch of questions right now

• 19:52Speaker 00

  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 and there's not even cars like 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 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

• 20:33Patrick Bet-David?

  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

• 20:40Speaker 00

  they do but they have to do illegally they have to use a VPN

• 20:43Patrick Bet-David?

  got it

• 20:44Speaker 00

  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

• 20:52Patrick Bet-David?

  what do you mean

• 20:53Speaker 00

  like they have these weird booths so if you want to watch media or TV you have to go to like a a person who then you know how you like back in the day like my dad used to make playlists off of CDs right they do that exact same thing but for uh movies and TV shows and so like right now they're like releasing shows from like the 1990s in the in the theaters and in order to even use a theater you have to have like around at least I think like nine people inside the theater to watch the show if not it just gets cut off and there's all these blackouts right now with power so people really aren't consuming much

• 21:28Patrick Bet-David?

  what what was the strangest answer you got like what was a part where you're like you cannot believe what somebody opened up and things they shared with you

• 21:37Speaker 00

  one person said they haven't had eggs in a year

• 21:40Patrick Bet-David?

  eggs in a year

• 21:41Speaker 00

  like they talk about these books that they have like I think they call them like their their ration book where they where the governments controls how much food they get and they're like this is horrible we haven't even had egg in a year takes it years to get eat a chicken like

• 21:58Speaker 00

  Stuff that you wouldn't even think about here in the United States. But because of communism and the government controlling what people can actually do and what they can eat. It dictates their entire life.

• 22:08Patrick Bet-David?

  Hmm. Did you ask about Trump? Did Trump come up at all?

• 22:11Speaker 00

  Yes, Trump came up.

• 22:12Patrick Bet-David?

  Were they optimistic? Were they negative? Were they afraid?

• 22:16Speaker 00

  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 who were like, "Oh, no, this is good." Like, they're fixing up these buildings. But then you talk to some of the other individuals, they're 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.

• 22:42Patrick Bet-David?

  Were there some people that like, "Don't record me. I don't want to be on TV. I don't want to be on camera."

• 22:46Speaker 00

  Yes, a lot of individuals were like that. And you respect it. You're like, "Okay." Or you get to the point in the interview, and you ask a question, and then you're like, "Okay, yeah, see, like, this is what happens." Like, "I've reached my limit here."

• 22:57Patrick Bet-David?

  How many kids did you see in the streets? Actual kids, like, six, seven, eight, 10, 12-year-olds?

• 23:01Speaker 00

  Really, not that many. Uh, I talked to a kid who was playing soccer at their university. He was probably like 12 years old, and it's super sad. Because I'm like, "What's the biggest thing affecting your life right now?" And he says, "The lights." Like, they just cut the lights randomly. I was like, "Oh, and how does that affect you as a child?" He's like, "Well, it affects everything, like, studies." Like, we don't, like, we don't know when we have power. And then there, there really wasn't that many kids out in the streets. Which is weird for being in a, a country in Latin America. Usually, there's kids everywhere.

• 23:33Patrick Bet-David?

  Yeah, especially when it's a beautiful, like, Rob, can you pull up Cuba on a ma, on a map? And details of how big it is. How, how big is Cuba when you saw, like, what would you compare it to?

• 23:43Speaker 00

  Like, it was a big city. Um...

• 23:46Patrick Bet-David?

  Have you been to the Bahamas?

• 23:48Speaker 00

  I have not been to the Bahamas.

• 23:50Patrick Bet-David?

  So if you compare the Bahamas... Zoom out a little bit, Rob? So that's Florida, that's Cuba. It's not small.

• 23:58Speaker 00

  No, it's a big country. It's about two times the size of Haiti and Dominican Republic.

• 24:03Patrick Bet-David?

  Yeah. And so what part did you go to? Did you go to Havana? Just Havana.

• 24:07Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 24:08Patrick Bet-David?

  Okay.

• 24:08Speaker 00

  And there's 2 million people there. And so, there's 2 million people there, but the streets are empty.

• 24:15Patrick Bet-David?

  There's two million people here.

• 24:19Patrick Bet-David?

  Did you go to the hotel that Meyer Lansky built in Havana?

• 24:22Speaker 00

  I don't know. I was at the Hotel Nationale.

• 24:25Patrick Bet-David?

  Hotel Nationale, is that like the main hotel?

• 24:27Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 24:29Patrick Bet-David?

  Yeah. Is that it? No, that's a different property.

• 24:32Speaker 00

  That's the capital.

• 24:32Patrick Bet-David?

  That's the capital. Um, wha- what else? Were they saying things like, "We can't wait for something to happen"? "Are you here giving us news"? "Are we about to be free"? Were they seeing like they're pleading for help with you? Or they were almost afraid of speaking to you? Because there's two different energies, right? Both?

• 24:50Speaker 00

  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 a, 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 sixty hours, turned into twenty-four because they all, like, they surrounded us at the hotel, so...

• 25:26Patrick Bet-David?

  What was the reasoning for you wanting to turn around? Did you just not feel safe?

• 25:29Speaker 00

  My security was like, "We gotta go."

• 25:31Patrick Bet-David?

  Okay.

• 25:31Speaker 00

  They, they said this is like,

• 25:34Speaker 00

  one of the more risky situations they've ever been in, and this is coming from guys who have gone to Haiti and who have done, uh, anti-human trafficking missions in in Mexico and Haiti, so...

• 25:45Patrick Bet-David?

  How easy was it for you to change the flight and come back early? Was that pretty smooth and easy?

• 25:49Speaker 00

  It was pretty smooth, but we didn't want, we didn't want to let them know and tip them off that we were leaving early. So, I think we booked the flight at like 3 a.m. But it didn't help because at the, when we went down to leave the hotel, the two-star general was waiting for us. And so we had, 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."

• 26:11Patrick Bet-David?

  What did they ask you?

• 26:13Speaker 00

  So the guy, the, the general...

• 26:17Speaker 00

  It was like a movie. Like I can't, it's hard to even put it into words because of the feelings and then also like the scenery of it. It's like the stars on the hat, like everything that you'd expect to see from a, from, from a movie. And they take us back into this room. He has a secretary with us and he's asking, he's like, hey, why are you guys leaving early?

• 26:38Speaker 00

  What was the purpose of your trip?

• 26:39Patrick Bet-David?

  They're asking you why you're leaving early.

• 26:41Speaker 00

  Yeah, like, why are you leaving early? We saw that, we heard that. We had an interaction out in front of the hotel. It was everything alright. And that confirmed 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.

• 26:56Patrick Bet-David?

  And are you tipping folks? Are they receiving cash from you? Do they accept tips? What was their reaction when you gave them money?

• 27:02Speaker 00

  Yeah, so their minimum, their monthly salary is fourteen dollars USD. And so I was tipping money. I was like giving money away.

• 27:09Patrick Bet-David?

  Monthly salary is fourteen dollars?

• 27:11Speaker 00

  Yes. Like, that's how bad it is.

• 27:14Patrick Bet-David?

  And then you gave them tip. Was it, because I remember being in Guatemala. I went to Puerto Barrios, Livingston, Tikal and Guatemala City. And I'm going around giving tips to people. I, I gave fifty dollar 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 tipped them?

• 27:33Speaker 00

  They wanted more.

• 27:34Patrick Bet-David?

  Oh, they wanted more?

• 27:35Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 27:36Patrick Bet-David?

  These guys were capitalists. They're greedy.

• 27:37Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 27:38Patrick Bet-David?

  Okay. Well, at least in every communist, there's a capitalist deep down inside.

• 27:41Speaker 00

  Yeah, so I mean, you'd give them money and you'd give them, I don't really took one dollar bills and five dollar bills. So you'd give them one dollar bill, three dollars, five dollars, and then they'd want more and more. And so like eventually, but like I had like a group of people following me around asking for money. I was like, hey, you guys stop. I don't have any more.

• 27:58Patrick Bet-David?

  So the moment they found out you were tipping, did you find any other Americans there that, if you're at the hotel at the lobby, were there other Americans that are coming and talking to you?

• 28:06Speaker 00

  Not coming to talk to me. There was other tourists. It was interesting that these tourists, like a lot of them. Uh, they were wearing like the communist gear, like they're wearing the shirts of Jay, the communist leader. And it's so interesting that you had like all these Americans, not even that many Americans, but you had all these, I don't know where they're from. America or Europe, but they're all like pro-communists. And I'm like, how can you see what I just saw in the streets? And say, let's have more of this?

• 28:36Patrick Bet-David?

  There was a guy that called you out, that was in the hotel, Rob. I think if you got the clip, is this the first one or the second one? No, you gotta go to the first one.

• 28:45Speaker 00

  That's the second one.

• 28:45Patrick Bet-David?

  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.

• 28:53Speaker 06

  So Nick Shirley, I'm in the hotel that you were supposedly in here in Havana Cuba. Then you're nowhere to be seen. Neither is the security and the CIA and the spies that were supposedly holding you hostage. We understand that you're super tight with Trump and basically what you're doing is just pretext for the United States to try to go ahead and invade Cuba the same way they did with Venezuela. But you're not here. I'm at the hotel that Nick Shirley said that he's currently being held hostage by the Cuban government in. And that he was tailed by their secret service. And there's literally no security here. I'm making a video in public in a country that he said is communist. So because of the communism, there's no freedom of speech. Well, as this brother here sees, there is freedom of speech. And Nick Shirley's nowhere to be seen.

• 29:38Speaker 06

  And neither are these spies that he's talking about. We're actually about to walk in right now and go find out exactly where he is. Let's see. Hola buena.

• 29:49Speaker 06

  Como estas? Hola, hola. Hola, como estas? De donde son ustedes? De aquí? Yo? Soy de Estados Unidos. Ah, sí. Chao, buena noche.

• 30:00Patrick Bet-David?

  What'd he say right there?

• 30:02Speaker 00

  He's like, I'm from the United States.

• 30:03Patrick Bet-David?

  He said, I'm from the United States. And in the part two of the video...

• 30:06Speaker 00

  Yeah, so, but first, like, there's some huge flaws with this guy's video. He knows I'm not there. He knows I left.

• 30:12Patrick Bet-David?

  How does he know you're not there?

• 30:13Speaker 00

  Because I, in the video, I said if after this video gets posted, it means I made it out.

• 30:18Patrick Bet-David?

  So he saw the video you posted, that you've already left?

• 30:20Speaker 00

  He's a complete liar.

• 30:21Patrick Bet-David?

  Okay.

• 30:21Speaker 00

  He's literally there to push propaganda that Cuba's alright. Like Cuba's not alright. This is part of the problem where you have these people who can go to a communist country and still support communism.

• 30:33Patrick Bet-David?

  Why do you think he's doing this? He lives in America, but he goes there to push communism and say everything's going good. If it's so good, why is he not moving to Cuba himself?

• 30:43Speaker 00

  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 or anything. Meanwhile, he's plugging his phone into a generator.

• 30:55Patrick Bet-David?

  He's plugging his phone into a generator. And what's he saying in this clip?

• 31:00Speaker 00

  So, this clip, these ones really make me mad. Because, these are straight up, just lies, that they then use. And a small group will then believe these, and then they'll, like, Believe that Nick Shirley is this villain, or they'll believe that, They'll believe the words that this guy says are true. And they're not true at all. And so, you have this problem with these legit radicalized individuals, Who's supporting communism after he's seen, Uh, 7 out of 10 people miss a meal a day, inside Cuba.

• 31:30Patrick Bet-David?

  7 out of 10 people miss a meal a day?

• 31:32Speaker 00

  A day. People can't, people are getting surgeries without actually getting medicine. Like, without getting induced.

• 31:42Patrick Bet-David?

  What does he say here?

• 31:43Speaker 00

  Uh, watch it.

• 31:43Patrick Bet-David?

  Go ahead, Rob.

• 31:46Speaker 06

  What Nick Shirley is doing in Cuba, Is settler colonial, white supremacist, state sanctioned violence against the Cuban people. Tell me how it's any different than the killing of George Floyd? Or than the killing of 4 million Iraqis during the United States invasion of Iraq? Or then, the invasion of Venezuela? Or then ICE in our communities, taking the lives of countless people? Or then, so many things, the taking of the life of...

• 32:09Patrick Bet-David?

  Yeah, so he's one of those guys?

• 32:11Speaker 00

  Yes.

• 32:12Patrick Bet-David?

  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 were able to take off and there was no issues?

• 32:22Speaker 00

  They gave us a bit of a hard time, so, I go through, I get my stuff, because we had just passed through the 2-star general. And with the 2-star general, they're like, "Okay, uh, good, we'll get you a taxi." And, we go down to get the taxi, and there's no taxi, we're like, "Okay, we're not risking getting in some random car." So we start walking by foot. Uh, and then we finally get on a little tricycle, like, electric taxi, And that takes us to the airport. So we're fleeing Cuba in a 10 mile per hour tricycle. And then we get to the airport, uh, we get through, I go and grab my stuff. I'm like, "It'd be bad 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 2 individuals, and they're like, "Hey, why are you guys leaving early?"

• 33:05Speaker 00

  Like, "Why are you guys leaving early?" And the security guard goes like, "We know what's up, like, you guys had your guys on us the whole entire time." And like, and the guy, literally told security this, he said, "Yeah, the president knows you're here." Like, "We've been monitoring you guys." Like, "We want to make sure that, of 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 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 afternoon is all there by himself again.

• 33:50Speaker 00

  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 sixty forty it goes well. And with everything going on like wouldn't have been the worst idea for them to hold somebody like me hostage. They could, they could have used it as leverage, right? So I knew it was very risky to go, but I knew I also needed to go to show people what's going on. And 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 controlled country who controls the media.

• 34:34Speaker 00

  But the president knew we were there.

• 34:36Patrick Bet-David?

  Yeah, and, and it's, what do you think's going to actually end up happening in Cuba? Do you think Cuba is going to be free here soon and you know, part of one of the, you know, similar to what Puerto Rico is to the States? What do you think's going to happen?

• 34:47Speaker 00

  Very possible. If you're looking at it, right now, the US, US has a blockade on Cuba. Their main supplier of oil was Venezuela and Mexico. Trump said if Mexico were to give them oil, then they're going to impose more tariffs. So Mexico scared, is scared off. They're not giving them oil. Venezuela, they're not giving them oil either. So the United States is currently squeezing all of the oil and gas out of Cuba and it will not be hard for them to take it over in my opinion.

• 35:17Patrick Bet-David?

  Yeah, what, do you have the clip rob of what the president said? The ship is going to pull up. It was actually a speech he was giving. He 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. Let's, did you see that clip with the president? Yeah. So he's a, you know, he is thinking this is not going to take a long time either. I think it was just a couple of days ago that we did this.

• 35:40Patrick Bet-David?

  Yeah, this is it, Rob. Go for it.

• 35:43Speaker 06

  An architect who's really talented, has done a lot of work for him. He's got a flair, a beautiful Hispanic flair in particular. And he comes from originally a place called Cuba, which we will be taking over almost immediately.

• 35:59Speaker 06

  No, Cuba's Cuba's got problems. We'll finish one first. I like to finish a 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."

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• 38:42Patrick Bet-David?

  Yeah, thank you very much. We give up on how quickly he thinks it's going to be ending.

• 38:47Speaker 00

  Like, they're literally squeezing them.

• 38:49Patrick Bet-David?

  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 them was going to, none of the money was going to the people. They were keeping it at the top, so the people were poor, and they just had the gas 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?

• 39:13Speaker 00

  I don't think it'll 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 out the Cuban people. So it's gonna be interesting to see what happens.

• 39:30Patrick Bet-David?

  They're probably begging for it.

• 39:32Speaker 00

  The people are begging for it.

• 39:33Patrick Bet-David?

  They're probably begging for it. The government, you know, no, but the people are begging for it. There's a lot of Cubans here that can't wait for that to become a reality, for them to go back. It's a beautiful place. I mean, the stuff that you see, what it was like. It's produced a lot of amazing people here. You know, a lot of them are good business owners, small business owners, who want to find a way to go back. You know, I got one of the kids, that's a friend of my son. Every summer, he goes to Cuba. He goes to Cuba just because the parents don't want him to lose the culture, even though they know it's a communist nation. They want to go back to Cuba to be around the family. But deep down inside, they can't wait for that to become a reality. And by the way, what a, what a move.

• 40:13Patrick Bet-David?

  What a move of not going to Cuba and Iran before doing Venezuela because Venezuela was gonna... You know, suffocate, you know, Cuban government and China because China is relying on Venezuela for the oil so much. Interesting move the way these guys did it. One day when we read these books to find out if this whole thing was intentional or not. To go to Venezuela first, we're gonna 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 out for a minute.

• 40:43Speaker 00

  Yeah, I mean, and also like with Panama, like the whole thing was because of China.

• 40:46Patrick Bet-David?

  Mm hmm.

• 40:47Speaker 00

  The because China was then controlling the canal and then. You really don't want China to be that close to the United States and Cuba was also being propped up by China, Russia. I mean, we 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. So like it's not a good idea to have an enemy that is. Only like 90 miles away from.

• 41:12Patrick Bet-David?

  Yeah, that's a that's a scary thought, especially the people who live in Florida. They probably. Anybody living in Florida is probably gonna want that to become a reality first. Let's talk about Quality Learning Center. What's happened from, of course. You got a couple of 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 Learning Center? Because this is what I've seen. But I wonder what else you have on what's happened with these guys.

• 41:45Speaker 00

  So the Quality Learning Center, they got raided and the great thing about these raids that took place is they had to provide enough. Evidence to then get these warrants, these search warrants. So a federal judge had to then grant them these warrants. And right now in Minnesota, they're also blocking. People are they're blocking a bill that would ban funding from the Quality Learning Center.

• 42:08Patrick Bet-David?

  Wait, what is that? Minnesota Democrat just voted to block an amendment that would have banned funding from going to the Quality Learning Center. In Minneapolis. That means what? Money not going to them?

• 42:20Speaker 00

  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.

• 42:33Patrick Bet-David?

  Rob, can you play that clip real quick?

• 42:36Speaker 00

  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, the secretary will close the roll. There being 32 ayes and 33 nays, the motion does not prevail. The amendment is not adopted.

• 43:03Patrick Bet-David?

  Madam President. To the end. You gotta be kidding me.

• 43:07Speaker 00

  Minnesota is the biggest joke in America. Ilhan Omar also had the opportunity to provide any evidence about any of the fraud taking place and being our future, and she submitted nothing.

• 43:18Patrick Bet-David?

  Yeah, I saw that. She submitted nothing. I don't have to.

• 43:22Speaker 00

  Yeah, her silence speaks volumes.

• 43:24Patrick Bet-David?

  Have you had an interaction with her? Have you at all had any interaction with her when you were out there, or no?

• 43:29Speaker 00

  No, Ilhan Omar. I've tried to go to her office twice. I've gave her a Quality Learing hoodie. I gave her an Anti-Fraud Taxpayer Club hoodie. She wasn't there both times. Actually, at the State of the Union, her guests were actually right behind me, which was very interesting. So I'm like sitting down, and I see Ilhan Omar. I really wanted to say hi to her, but I didn't get a chance.

• 43:52Patrick Bet-David?

  Her guest was sitting right behind you?

• 43:54Speaker 00

  Yes.

• 43:55Patrick Bet-David?

  Did you speak to the guest?

• 43:56Speaker 00

  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.

• 44:03Patrick Bet-David?

  Yeah.

• 44:04Speaker 00

  Imagine if, like, Tim Walz or Ilhan Omar reached out and said, "Hey, Nick, let's have a conversation on your YouTube channel. I would love to do something like that." And just say, like, "Hey, let's have a conversation about this issue." They won't ever do it, because they know that they're complicit in this fraud.

• 44:18Patrick Bet-David?

  What's this clip here, Rob? Is this a... 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 is.

• 44:29Speaker 00

  ... 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 Tafoya, with this. She has not participated in this process at all so far. She... has remained somewhat untouchable here in Minnesota. I'm not sure why that is. I'm not sure why we don't hold all of our suspected wrongdoers to account.

• 45:14Speaker 00

  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.

• 45:24Patrick Bet-David?

  What do you think is going to happen here? What do you think will happen to her?

• 45:28Speaker 00

  Well, she obviously needs to be investigated. I think she's currently underneath investigation. Her net worth went from 30 million to 100,000 dollars. 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 Fry as well. So Ilhan 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.

• 46:13Patrick Bet-David?

  You know you're pushing the weight where you're disrupting a lot of these people's lives, and tens of millions of people support what you're doing because they want to know what the hell is going on. They've been wanting the government to do this for a long time. You're doing this. How much worse is security for you today than even after Quality Learning Center? Is it getting better? Is it getting safer? Or it's getting worse with the threats that you're getting?

• 46:39Speaker 00

  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, and it makes it even worse for you, so. Like right now, uh, 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. 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.

• 47:20Speaker 00

  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, 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.

• 47:47Patrick Bet-David?

  Financially, are you in a better place to be able to protect yourself?

• 47:52Speaker 00

  Yes, but I mean, if you had to spend $30,000 a month on security.

• 47:58Patrick Bet-David?

  That adds up.

• 47:58Speaker 00

  That adds up.

• 47:59Patrick Bet-David?

  Yeah.

• 48:00Speaker 00

  And so luckily I have been able to raise some money for that, which helps a lot. Um, but it's not like, so like, say, say I made $30,000 a month before all this stuff. That's like amazing. Now you make $30,000, well then you have to spend $30,000 on security if I had to pay for it out of pocket. Which is really tough.

• 48:17Patrick Bet-David?

  How many of the sweaters did you sell? The quality lirik sweaters?

• 48:21Speaker 00

  Sold quite a bit of those. A lot of people liked them.

• 48:23Patrick Bet-David?

  More than 10,000?

• 48:24Speaker 00

  No, not that much.

• 48:25Patrick Bet-David?

  Couple thousand?

• 48:27Speaker 00

  Yeah, a couple thousand.

• 48:28Patrick Bet-David?

  That's good. We have it here. I come to work. Guys are wearing the quality lirik. So I'm like, I'm glad Delhi's trying to learn something.

• 48:34Speaker 00

  That's a knockoff. That's a knockoff. Go to antifraudclub.com.

• 48:36Patrick Bet-David?

  What's it called?

• 48:37Speaker 00

  Antifraudclub.com.

• 48:39Patrick Bet-David?

  Antifraud.com.

• 48:41Speaker 00

  Antifraudclub.com.

• 48:42Patrick Bet-David?

  Club.com. And then the merch is what? At the top shop?

• 48:46Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 48:47Patrick Bet-David?

  There we go. Yeah, I see these. I actually see these in our building with guys wearing. And by the way, some of you guys, 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 Minect Nick Shirley. Minect Nick Shirley, he responds back to people on Minect.

• 49:07Speaker 00

  I'm Nick Shirley and you guys can find me here on Minect. 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 Minect. I really appreciate all your support and I can't wait to answer your questions.

• 49:23Patrick Bet-David?

  We'll put the link below as well for Minect 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

• 50:04Patrick Bet-David?

  fraud. People are over it. Start working for the people and not against them. 283,000 likes compared to 20 something thousand likes and he's a governor. You're just a citizen journalist. What's the latest with you and Newsom?

• 50:19Speaker 00

  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 a healthcare at the very bottom of the bill. And so for me to go to California and go 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 it was an unwelcome visit, they could then say that's harassment. And so they're

• 51:00Speaker 00

  literally trying to make it criminal to expose fraud inside the state of California. There's over $100 billion in fraud. Like I would say $100 billion each year in fraud in California.

• 51:10Patrick Bet-David?

  In California alone?

• 51:11Speaker 00

  In California alone. Just if you just look at their medical budget. It's gone up a hundred billion dollars and they've only had a one hundred thousand one hundred thousand percent or one hundred thousand en- en- enrollment boost and it's gone up a hundred billion dollars.

• 51:31Patrick Bet-David?

  Now, who who were you chasing down? There was a clip, I think I saw where you said, hey, you you're the one that wrote the Nick Shirley, uh, Stop Nick Shirley Act?

• 51:40Speaker 00

  Yes.

• 51:40Patrick Bet-David?

  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.

• 51:44Speaker 00

  So this gets really crazy, actually. So the lady who makes this bill, her name's Mia Bonta.

• 51:50Patrick Bet-David?

  Is that the one or no?

• 51:52Speaker 00

  She didn't Mia Bonta didn't. She didn't show up to do her job that day. I think she got word that I was coming and she didn't show up. And so Mia.

• 52:00Patrick Bet-David?

  Mia Bonta, shouldn't she married to the AG of California, whose job is to do what you're doing?

• 52:05Speaker 00

  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

• 52:17Speaker 00

  to go out, making it illegal and criminal to expose fraud.

• 52:22Speaker 00

  Just not not just expose it, but to investigate it.

• 52:26Patrick Bet-David?

  And her husband is Rob Bonta. Rob, can you go to her husband? Rob Bonta. So Rob Bonta is the thirty fourth Attorney General of California since 2021, member of the Democratic Party. And he chaired the California Asian Pacific Island Caucus after Javier Becerra resigned, which Javier is right now running for mayor as Attorney General to become Secretary of Health and Human Services. Bonta was appointed as by Governor Newsom to replace him. Bonta's sworn in. So he what what? So let me get this straight. She, who is married to him, is targeting you to prevent you from doing their job?

• 53:05Speaker 00

  Yes, it's very bad.

• 53:09Speaker 00

  And she's saying it's not a violation of 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.

• 53:25Speaker 00

  It'd be a direct violation of the First Amendment. And the thing is like, uh, say this bill, it's super it shouldn't pass. But say it does pass, it will then take the Supreme Court a year, two years to then go and reverse it.

• 53:40Patrick Bet-David?

  Year or two years to go reverse it, yeah. And who was the person you were asking questions? You're following somebody.

• 53:46Speaker 00

  Yes, so I'm asking the co-authors of the bill.

• 53:49Patrick Bet-David?

  Rob, can you go to that, the co-authors of the bill? Is that the clip that he had a minute ago?

• 53:53Speaker 00

  Yes.

• 53:54Patrick Bet-David?

  Rob, go to that, you were on X.

• 53:55Speaker 00

  Right there.

• 53:56Patrick Bet-David?

  Go ahead, Rob. She asked a question, who are you? Go ahead.

• 53:59Speaker 00

  The bill, AB 2624, why would you sign off on that? It's a direct violation of the First Amendment, and it makes it harder for people to expose fraud here.

• 54:06Speaker 04

  We have lodge counsel, they check the constitutionality of all our bills as we're writing them. I work on fraud issues, you'd know that if you look at some of the work I did on the Budget Subcommittee.

• 54:16Speaker 00

  So, Mia Bonta, her husband's 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?

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• 56:41Speaker 03

  No, no, I think that that's a misinterpretation of the bill, but I'm happy to talk with you more about it. And I...

• 56:48Speaker 00

  Don't you worry.

• 56:49Speaker 03

  ...caught in investigations into fraud or something that's been happening for a very long time. The Attorney General handles those cases. This is an ongoing issue.

• 56:57Speaker 00

  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?

• 57:04Speaker 03

  No, I actually don't...I don't think that this bill violates the First Amendment.

• 57:09Speaker 00

  Really?

• 57:09Speaker 03

  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 we do.

• 57:17Speaker 00

  So your bill criminalizes publication of images recorded in public. You believe the government has the right to punish journalists for filming in public space?

• 57:25Speaker 03

  No, I think that that is a complete misinterpretation of actually the piece of legislation.

• 57:32Speaker 00

  No, because if... That is not...that's literally what happened. Speaker Rivas, how you doing? What do you think about the Stop Nick Shurliak, AB 2624? These guys are like literally running... I don't 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.

• 57:59Patrick Bet-David?

  Crazy.

• 58:00Speaker 00

  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.

• 58:08Patrick Bet-David?

  Who else did you get a chance to speak to while you were out there?

• 58:11Speaker 00

  All the other co-authors. And some of them had no idea that they had even passed their committees. Some people had no idea they were actually authors of the bill. 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's migrants once again. Because it would make it illegal for people to investigate what they did underneath Biden.

• 58:51Patrick Bet-David?

  Yeah, and while you were in L.A., you went to a couple of different centers, right? If I'm not mistaken. How many, how many different facilities did you go to in L.A.?

• 58:59Speaker 00

  So, in L.A., they have all the Armenian fraud taking place with the hospitals.

• 59:03Patrick Bet-David?

  Why you gotta go after Armenians? What did Armenians do to you?

• 59:06Speaker 00

  They were just committing lots of fraud.

• 59:07Patrick Bet-David?

  Kai.

• 59:07Speaker 00

  Like, so much fraud.

• 59:08Patrick Bet-David?

  What did you find out?

• 59:10Speaker 00

  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 death. They're taking their medical beneficiary numbers, which is more valuable than a credit card for an individual over the age of 65. And then they're making money off these people who are supposedly dying. And while this is taking place, these people are buying Maybacks,

• 59:38Speaker 00

  G-Wagons, Cybertrucks, M8 Competitions, and it's been happening for years.

• 59:45Patrick Bet-David?

  Is this one of them? This is one of them? This was the most disturbing one you went to?

• 59:49Speaker 00

  Yeah, that's a daycare.

• 59:52Patrick Bet-David?

  Was that in LA?

• 59:53Speaker 00

  That was in San Diego.

• 59:55Patrick Bet-David?

  Rob, play that clip. No one's there with these kids.

• 59:57Speaker 00

  No one.

• 59:58Patrick Bet-David?

  Played that?

• 59:59Speaker 00

  Finally found kids at a daycare.

• 1:00:02Patrick Bet-David?

  Now, this is the opposite problem. Adults are not there, kids are there.

• 1:00:05Speaker 00

  Now, we're at the Jamma Shukri Family Childcare. 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?

• 1:00:19Speaker 03

  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.

• 1:00:31Speaker 00

  We just arrived at 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 gonna see if we can talk to the...

• 1:00:51Speaker 03

  Licensee.

• 1:00:54Speaker 03

  It is, according to this paperwork, Shukri Jamma.

• 1:00:57Speaker 00

  Can we talk to the adult?

• 1:00:59Speaker 04

  Um, he's not here.

• 1:01:00Speaker 00

  Not here?

• 1:01:01Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 1:01:02Speaker 00

  So, you guys are all by yourself?

• 1:01:04Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 1:01:05Patrick Bet-David?

  That's ridiculous.

• 1:01:06Speaker 00

  No one's here?

• 1:01:08Speaker 04

  No one is here, no one is not here.

• 1:01:12Speaker 00

  Okay, so you guys are all by yourself?

• 1:01:14Speaker 04

  Okay. I can see by myself.

• 1:01:17Patrick Bet-David?

  Rob, you can pause it.

• 1:01:20Speaker 00

  Yeah, it makes you mad, and think about it. 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.

• 1:01:43Patrick Bet-David?

  Have you ever gone to one of them where you end up being wrong about it? Where you're doing a video, and then you're like, "You know what? This one I was wrong on. This one, they weren't doing anything illegal, it was real."

• 1:01:51Speaker 00

  These daycares? No.

• 1:01:53Patrick Bet-David?

  None of them yet?

• 1:01:54Speaker 00

  No.

• 1:01:54Patrick Bet-David?

  Okay.

• 1:01:54Speaker 00

  Cause 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 wrecking, like, there was nothing there.

• 1:02:10Patrick Bet-David?

  One of the girls sends me a minac and I said, just minac Nick directly, okay? And it was from Healthy Life ADHD. Do you remember that one or no? Healthy Life ADHD?

• 1:02:20Speaker 00

  Healthy Life ADHD.

• 1:02:21Patrick Bet-David?

  Healthy Life ADHD and she sent me a message and she said, mom has been running ADHD for 25 years, including this one for the last 10 years. Nick was wrong here. Here's my number. Please have him call us because people are thinking we're running a fraud.

• 1:02:38Speaker 00

  Well, in that video I said, in that one, I said, is that, I don't think it's enough to say it's fraudulent.

• 1:02:42Patrick Bet-David?

  I remember you saying that and I told her that. I said, well, Nick said, it may not be a fraud. Uh, we don't know. We don't know enough if it's a fraud. And she's like, no, my mother, they run a real legit business here. Uh, so they were messaging me. I said, I'll ask Nick next time, next time we do something. Did she ever minac you or no?

• 1:02:58Speaker 00

  She never did.

• 1:02:58Patrick Bet-David?

  She never minacced. Okay. So let me put the name out there. Uh, Roxanne, if you're seeing this wherever you are, minac Nick. He'll respond back to you and I'll share this with him as well.

• 1:03:09Speaker 00

  And so like, that's that one right there that says inside a 19 million dollar adult daycare in California.

• 1:03:13Patrick Bet-David?

  That's the one. Yeah, that's the one.

• 1:03:14Speaker 00

  And, uh,

• 1:03:15Patrick Bet-David?

  Click on that, Rob. I think the owner's daughter minacced me about this place. Yeah.

• 1:03:23Speaker 00

  Adult daycare. This place over the past few years has billed 19.8 million dollars alone. 16,000 beneficiaries. Now let's go see if I can enroll my grandma.

• 1:03:35Patrick Bet-David?

  16,000 beneficiaries.

• 1:03:35Speaker 00

  Cause she needs some daycare. And this right here is the entrance of a building that's received over 19 million dollars. Yeah.

• 1:03:42Patrick Bet-David?

  In the five years.

• 1:03:43Speaker 00

  Location that's received over 19 million dollars. Kind of crazy, right? They say that right here, right now, we're here at 130. No adults are here. I wouldn't doubt that adults do come, but 19 million dollars.

• 1:03:58Patrick Bet-David?

  It's kind of like North Korea. What time did you guys go there? You said 1:30?

• 1:04:01Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:04:02Patrick Bet-David?

  Okay. It's like for a show almost. Is this now a different one? Is this still the same?

• 1:04:06Speaker 00

  The same one. And they can't give you any information.

• 1:04:08Patrick Bet-David?

  Yeah, I saw it. I told you.

• 1:04:10Speaker 00

  It's like...

• 1:04:11Patrick Bet-David?

  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...

• 1:04:23Speaker 00

  What's going on? 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 voicemails.

• 1:04:37Patrick Bet-David?

  See, these are all red flags.

• 1:04:38Speaker 00

  Another thing to take note of is Gavin Newsom right now on... They just need to show that.

• 1:04:41Patrick Bet-David?

  Yeah, these are all red flags. I mean, these are... Look, I don't know who they are. This is not like I know who these folks are. But if they send me my neck, they're like, "Hey, Pat, this is a legit business." You got seven things you can do to make it seem like a legit business, and that's on you, the business owner, to make sure you do that. Uh, your job as a citizen journalist is to go out there and tell your story and let the market decide. If the market's not gonna be doing it, you know, and it's being left to... How old are you now, Nick?

• 1:05:06Speaker 00

  24.

• 1:05:06Patrick Bet-David?

  24 years old, you're going out there doing this stuff in, uh, in LA. And while you're in LA, where... Did you go somewhere and there was like a homeless family in the streets saying it would have been better in Colombia than it would... There's something you didn't... There as well?

• 1:05:20Speaker 00

  Yes, in Skid Row. I filmed that video a while back, but you had migrants living on the streets of Skid Row.

• 1:05:28Patrick Bet-David?

  Is that it?

• 1:05:29Speaker 00

  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 Colombia. This was a 12-year-old that got off the streets in Skid Row and got him back into school and into shelter.

• 1:05:50Patrick Bet-David?

  You did?

• 1:05:50Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:05:51Patrick Bet-David?

  12 years old?

• 1:05:52Speaker 00

  Mm-hmm.

• 1:05:53Patrick Bet-David?

  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 couple times knives were pulled on us and I would sit there and talk to these guys and sometimes our guys would bring their kids for their kids to see what's going on. Eventually it got a little bit dangerous for like, let's just go as adults. We would, we would go with forty, fifty cars, four thirty in the morning, every Christmas, every year. And a guy named June introduced me to this because, uh, you know, and we followed the lead with them for many, many years. It was an incredible experience. But if folks have not been to Skid Row, what was your experience with Skid Row?

• 1:06:30Speaker 00

  I've been to Skid Row a few times and it's super, super sad. It is literally a tent city.

• 1:06:36Patrick Bet-David?

  It really is.

• 1:06:37Speaker 00

  It's blocks upon blocks of just human suffering to levels that are not necessary here inside the United States. And it's been happening for years and years and years. They give it millions upon millions of dollars and nothing ever happens. In fact, they actually give people the paraphernalia to continue to do drugs.

• 1:06:56Patrick Bet-David?

  It's ridiculous.

• 1:06:57Speaker 00

  And it's like, I was really upset when I found that child there because you have all these NGOs surrounding.

• 1:07:03Patrick Bet-David?

  The twelve-year-old.

• 1:07:04Speaker 00

  The twelve-year-old. But nobody will offer him a place to sleep at night. He's sleeping on the streets of Skid Row where there's prostitutes, where there's people selling fentanyl, people getting abused and this kid's living there. And it's just no big deal for all these people that are walking right by him.

• 1:07:20Patrick Bet-David?

  Yeah, it's, it's, uh, and it's crazy because the sheriff, the chief, said the other day that he doesn't believe they're ready for twenty twenty-eight Olympics when it comes down, comes to L.A. But the problem is if they're not even ready for twenty twenty-eight Olympics, eight of the hundred and four World Cup soccer games are gonna be played at SoFi Stadium in L.A. How the hell is he gonna be taking care of those people that are gonna be coming to L.A.? This is him right here, Rob. Go ahead. Requested funding to purchase vehicles, technology, and specialized.

• 1:07:52Speaker 06

  ...equipment to be able to uh to uh do the Olympics. In addition, the one billion dollar budget is for all agencies involved in the Olympics, not just the LAPD, and will be restricted primarily to police officer overtime. LA 28 confirmed that they have zero police or public safety budget, and while they do have a security budget, it doesn't cover law enforcement.

• 1:08:17Patrick Bet-David?

  Yeah, this is going to the Olympics in two years.

• 1:08:20Speaker 00

  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.

• 1:08:33Patrick Bet-David?

  Yeah, I mean, there 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 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, Sheriff Bianco and Steve Hilton, who are also out there making some noise. We'll see what happens. It sounds like right now, if it ended today, they're still winning, meaning the liberals are still gonna 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 of 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?

• 1:09:13Speaker 00

  There's a lot more work to do in California. There's a lot more fraud to take place there. A lot of people want me to go to like all their, like, it's so funny, like, my phone is just filled with people who want me to go to their city or to their state, because their their fraud is quite literally everywhere.

• 1:09:26Patrick Bet-David?

  They're asking you to come, they're inviting you to come.

• 1:09:28Speaker 00

  I actually filmed a video a few weeks ago in LA, finding like where all the money went to for the homeless people, and that should be coming out. My problem is, I'm doing so much, it's hard to get everything out. Like, since the Minnesota stuff, my workload's gone up like, feels like ten 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.

• 1:09:55Patrick Bet-David?

  Stop it.

• 1:09:56Speaker 00

  Like, I'm never home, never home.

• 1:09:58Patrick Bet-David?

  So you're sleeping at hotels, you're on the road?

• 1:10:01Speaker 00

  Sleeping at 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 it's a lot.

• 1:10:12Patrick Bet-David?

  Is it still a one man show?

• 1:10:14Speaker 00

  For the most part, yeah, so.

• 1:10:15Patrick Bet-David?

  Nick, has anybody, go ahead.

• 1:10:18Speaker 00

  Yeah, so it's pretty much a one man show on a YouTube channel, but it's the fastest growing

• 1:10:24Speaker 00

  political news account in America.

• 1:10:26Patrick Bet-David?

  I saw that, 1.8, 1.9 million subscribers. And I remember before you did the Lyric Center, where were you at, couple hundred thousand?

• 1:10:35Speaker 00

  I had hit a million.

• 1:10:36Patrick Bet-David?

  You had hit a million, even before that?

• 1:10:38Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:10:38Patrick Bet-David?

  So 800,000 subs in the last four months?

• 1:10:41Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:10:41Patrick Bet-David?

  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"?

• 1:10:52Speaker 00

  Really, not that many. I had a few people offer me like

• 1:10:57Speaker 00

  pretty good amounts of money to go work for them, but I told them no.

• 1:11:01Patrick Bet-David?

  So Fox hasn't offered you anything yet?

• 1:11:03Speaker 00

  No.

• 1:11:03Patrick Bet-David?

  I don't think you would take it though, if they did offer you?

• 1:11:05Speaker 00

  No, not at this point in my life.

• 1:11:07Patrick Bet-David?

  Yeah.

• 1:11:07Speaker 00

  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 fraudsters are on high alert right now. Like, they're either covering up the fraud or they're leaving America. Like, they shut down all the hospices in California, they shut down over 500 of them. Not a single hospice has said, "Hey, open our hospice back up." Minnesota, they froze $250 million of the payments for childcare there. Not a single daycare sent a single receipt. They just raided 22 daycares and other welfare programs. Not

• 1:11:49Speaker 00

  a single mother complained about her child not being able to go to a daycare. Like, there's so much fraud here, and now all these fraudsters are trying to cover up. And that's why they're having a hard time actually prosecuting these people, because they're either leaving the country, or they're covering everything up. Or the money's already left the country.

• 1:12:09Patrick Bet-David?

  Yep.

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• 1:14:08Patrick Bet-David?

  I mean, a part of it is, I almost don't want you to be part of anybody. As a supporter.

• 1:14:15Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:14:15Patrick Bet-David?

  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 gonna be like, well, is he pursuing the story he wants to do or is he pursuing the story? That that outlet wants to do.

• 1:14:35Speaker 00

  Exactly, and I actually want to show you something, because a lot of people are like, how did Nick do this? Like, how's this happen? Like, I've been planning this for like years, and actually brought it with me. Because a lot of people don't understand, like, how hard I actually work to make stuff happen. And the reason why I think I've been able to have so much effect is because I am 100% independent. I do everything I can to make money to stay independent, because it's not cheap to do. But, so, this is from December 5th, 2022. I created a five-year plan. When I was 20, I was in Chile on my, like, mission trip for my church. But, all I would do on my days where I wasn't doing the missionary stuff was, like, this whole book is just, just, uh, I actually read your book, and I read three books.

• 1:15:21Speaker 00

  How to Win Friends and Influence People, that's my favorite book ever.

• 1:15:24Patrick Bet-David?

  Dale Carnegie.

• 1:15:24Speaker 00

  If anyone wants to have success, their success will double in life if they read that book.

• 1:15:29Patrick Bet-David?

  It's the first book I ever wrote in my life.

• 1:15:30Speaker 00

  Yeah, no, it's literally the best book, and, uh, 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 How to Affect People, read your book as well, uh, Five Moves.

• 1:15:52Patrick Bet-David?

  Your Next Five Moves.

• 1:15:53Speaker 00

  Your Next Five Moves, read that book. I have all those notes right here as well, and then, uh, 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, uh, finish mission, come home with $10K, AK Bank, and I had, and then, uh, be home for one to two months, working to get 30K liquid cash to be able to, uh, fund my channel. And then use that 30K to rebuild my YouTube channel, Nick Shirley. 30K will be used to fund travels, new laptop, and 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.

• 1:16:35Speaker 00

  At that time, I had wanted to work for Barstool, maybe move to Barstool and live 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.

• 1:16:50Patrick Bet-David?

  At this point, you don't have a YouTube channel yet?

• 1:16:52Speaker 00

  No, I do.

• 1:16:53Patrick Bet-David?

  But you're doing the pranks.

• 1:16:55Speaker 00

  I had twenty thousand subscribers.

• 1:16:56Patrick Bet-David?

  Okay, that's right.

• 1:16:56Speaker 00

  It was Nick Shirley in high school.

• 1:16:58Patrick Bet-David?

  Got it.

• 1:16:58Speaker 00

  And so do interview.

• 1:17:01Patrick Bet-David?

  Investigative.

• 1:17:02Speaker 00

  On current subjects or on popular, uh, popular topics. So I had like politics, strange topics. And then the goal was to reach a hundred thousand subscribers in six months. From six to eight months of uploading weekly uploads. And then was to make fifty K in ad revenue from YouTube in the first full year of YouTube. And then, uh, so that was the year one, completed all that. And then at twenty, twenty-five was to upload channel to get to two uploads a week, which I did with live streaming and have a studio and office place to film and work out. Did that, create a podcast show. I have that on my YouTube channel. And then hit five hundred thousand subscribers.

• 1:17:43Speaker 00

  And then this year was to create a media company and have ten employees in an office space. Um, and it's supposed to be like the million dollar year. And the, the ten employees has happened. And, uh, like I have, now I have about ten people who work for me consistently on everything. Uh, I had an office in New York City, uh, moved out of New York, but everything else came to fruition.

• 1:18:07Patrick Bet-David?

  Isn't that great?

• 1:18:08Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:18:09Patrick Bet-David?

  Isn't that great? So impressive. It's so impressive. And this is December sixth, two thousand twenty-two, 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 vision, you're turning this into a reality, you're at twenty thousand subs. And then now, ten employees, and this is gonna be your million dollar year, twenty twenty-six?

• 1:18:31Speaker 00

  Hope so. That's the goal.

• 1:18:33Patrick Bet-David?

  Sponsorship, you're getting better sponsorship. I noticed you were wearing a Polly Market shirt the other day.

• 1:18:37Speaker 00

  Yeah, I like Polly Market.

• 1:18:38Patrick Bet-David?

  Did they reach out and sponsor or not yet?

• 1:18:40Speaker 00

  Yeah, so I'm a partner with Polly Market.

• 1:18:42Patrick Bet-David?

  Okay.

• 1:18:42Speaker 00

  Um, and I have a few other sponsorships on the channel that I work with. But I really just wanna do one or two on my channel. And, uh, Polly Market's been awesome. But yeah, that's like, uh, even down to the thumbnail, like I had that envisioned. Like if you watch my YouTube channel, you'll see like all the yellow boxes. And I remember just like having that envisioned when I was. I knew that's how I wanted my channel to look. I wanted that my aesthetic to look like that. So like it's been crazy to see how everything's came to fruition. And so when people are like, oh, Nick's like a, uh, he's a, he's a planner. I'm like, no, this has all been written.

• 1:19:18Patrick Bet-David?

  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?

• 1:19:25Speaker 00

  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 in across the US 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 few this year and then also have a short film to show.

• 1:19:43Patrick Bet-David?

  Yeah, I think if you write a book, I think the book would do very well. So 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, I, I'll, if you're open to it, I'll introduce you to a, a matter of fact, the person I'll introduce you to will be a very funny person.

• 1:20:03Speaker 00

  Yeah, please do, because I've wanted to write a book.

• 1:20:05Patrick Bet-David?

  I'm going to tell you how I'm going to introduce you to, and this is meant to be. She was Stephen Covey's literary agent for every book he did. She met her him when she was only 22, 23 years old.

• 1:20:16Speaker 00

  Really?

• 1:20:17Patrick Bet-David?

  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. Uh, with the business. Have you thought about at all going to?

• 1:20:35Patrick Bet-David?

  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.

• 1:20:43Speaker 00

  Uh, 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.

• 1:20:55Patrick Bet-David?

  Yeah, you saw the plane, right? A plane landed and they were kind of showing what's going on and how it's opening up.

• 1:20:59Speaker 00

  They just opened flights. You're a fan of me, so.

• 1:21:02Patrick Bet-David?

  Yeah.

• 1:21:02Speaker 00

  I want to be the first person to interview the lady who's currently president.

• 1:21:07Patrick Bet-David?

  I don't think you should have a hard time.

• 1:21:09Speaker 00

  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 South 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 have a better life is not true. Like there's other options and there are current people like Nayib 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 in Venezuela, you had the Maduro and

• 1:21:51Speaker 00

  now in Cuba, you have this communist regime that's destroyed their lives.

• 1:21:56Patrick Bet-David?

  And that's great. I can't wait for that to happen. Who, who in the market is supporting you? Who in the market is criticizing you that you're surprised on the conservative side? Are there people who are like, Nick, go, you're doing great. And then there's people that are like, yeah, I don't know if I like what he's doing.

• 1:22:13Speaker 00

  Candace Owens came after me a while back. That was very interesting.

• 1:22:17Patrick Bet-David?

  Why would Candace Owens come after you?

• 1:22:19Speaker 00

  I don't know. She like didn't believe my Brazilian Tevella video and...

• 1:22:24Patrick Bet-David?

  Oh, it's not even the, so you're talking, this was a couple of years ago?

• 1:22:26Speaker 00

  No, no, this is like recent. She's like, white boy. I'm like, it was very like snarky of her to do this.

• 1:22:33Speaker 03

  I'm just gonna say I don't believe that at all. I'm sorry. I just, I, I, I just, it's so stupid. I'm not even gonna tell you why I don't believe it. It's like, it's like, if you don't know that that's stupid, that he infiltrated the gang in 48 hours. Like it's just, that's so dumb. I'm so tired of dumb. That's not how that works. Okay. You don't just go up to gangs on the street as a nice looking white boy with a camera and say, hey, I just 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.

• 1:23:13Speaker 00

  I've been to find myself on topics.

• 1:23:15Patrick Bet-David?

  Meaning what? Meaning you're, you're handler or you're representing somebody?

• 1:23:19Speaker 00

  She's basically saying that's fake.

• 1:23:21Patrick Bet-David?

  She's saying that's fake.

• 1:23:22Speaker 00

  And I'm like, well, maybe if these podcasters would actually leave their podcast studios, no offense, Pat, they'd leave their podcast studios and go and like do journalism. Like they'd actually see like stuff just sometimes just happens. Like that, I don't, that was the most risky video I had done to that point was going to Brazilians.

• 1:23:38Patrick Bet-David?

  So it's not about Newsom, it's not about Lirik Center, it's specifically about Brazil. Has she called you out on other stuff or this is the only one?

• 1:23:46Speaker 00

  No, this is the only one.

• 1:23:47Patrick Bet-David?

  Interesting.

• 1:23:48Speaker 00

  She was trying to tie me into, um, trying to verify some stuff about the Charlie Kirk assassination because I was on his show, literally hour, like as the last live guest.

• 1:23:59Patrick Bet-David?

  I remember we talked about that, yeah.

• 1:24:00Speaker 00

  Before 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.

• 1:24:13Patrick Bet-David?

  But she did apologize.

• 1:24:14Speaker 00

  Um, not apologize about that, but she said, well, Nick came in fact checked about the instance with Turning Point.

• 1:24:23Speaker 00

  But she didn't apologize about that.

• 1:24:24Patrick Bet-David?

  Got it.

• 1:24:25Speaker 00

  Like I'm not offended, but it is just like stupid.

• 1:24:28Patrick Bet-David?

  You know, it's funny, we were talking in the back and one of the guys brought up another name. I won't mention the other name. It's also somebody that's doing what you're doing. But it's like, hey, the other guy's having a hard time. What do you think's 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?

• 1:24:55Speaker 00

  Yeah, that'd be the goal.

• 1:24:57Patrick Bet-David?

  Before 30?

• 1:24:58Speaker 00

  Yeah, we gotta figure that out.

• 1:24:58Patrick Bet-David?

  You gotta figure that out. Well, I mean, you know, maybe you go to Cuba, you find a beautiful wife who's not happy. You bring her back and she starts saying, my God, this man's making my dreams become a reality. It'd be a white boy with some Cuban, Cuban kids.

• 1:25:13Speaker 00

  I don't know about that, Pat. I need to speak fluent English.

• 1:25:17Patrick Bet-David?

  Yeah.

• 1:25:17Speaker 00

  My Spanish is good, but to be screaming and shouting.

• 1:25:21Patrick Bet-David?

  What is Nick Shirley into? What kind of, what is your type?

• 1:25:24Speaker 00

  Beautiful.

• 1:25:25Patrick Bet-David?

  Just beautiful?

• 1:25:26Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:25:27Patrick Bet-David?

  6'5", 6'5", 185, beautiful?

• 1:25:30Speaker 00

  Not taller than me, a bit athletic.

• 1:25:32Patrick Bet-David?

  Okay.

• 1:25:33Speaker 00

  But, uh, just beautiful.

• 1:25:35Patrick Bet-David?

  Just beautiful.

• 1:25:38Speaker 00

  That's all.

• 1:25:40Patrick Bet-David?

  Is there a type?

• 1:25:41Speaker 00

  Um, is there a type?

• 1:25:44Patrick Bet-David?

  Have you thought of, because if you're, 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.

• 1:25:59Speaker 00

  I would just say like a virtuous woman.

• 1:26:01Patrick Bet-David?

  Virtuous woman?

• 1:26:02Speaker 00

  Yeah, just like a pure-hearted woman.

• 1:26:05Patrick Bet-David?

  Faith, Christian?

• 1:26:07Speaker 00

  Yeah, like the God believe in God, God believe in Jesus. Like, that's obviously very important. And, uh, yeah, just beautiful. Inside and out.

• 1:26:16Patrick Bet-David?

  All right. That's, uh, you, you, that's such a wide range. That if I were to set you up with a beautiful inside and out.

• 1:26:23Speaker 00

  There are beautiful girls everywhere. I've gone on dates with beautiful girls from France. Gone on beautiful dates with girls from New York. Like, there's beautiful girls everywhere.

• 1:26:34Patrick Bet-David?

  You're still.

• 1:26:34Speaker 00

  Went on a beautiful date with a girl in Switzerland once. That was awesome.

• 1:26:38Patrick Bet-David?

  Has anything gone, uh, you know, where it can be a little bit serious or nothing yet?

• 1:26:42Speaker 00

  Um, no, nothing yet.

• 1:26:44Patrick Bet-David?

  Nothing yet.

• 1:26:45Speaker 00

  No. That was kind of weird too, because like, I don't, like, uh...

• 1:26:50Patrick Bet-David?

  Don't, don't let this Adam guy take you and party again, you know, stay good.

• 1:26:53Speaker 00

  Oh, yeah, Adam was so funny. That was super funny. I was like, I, I wanted to see what the club was like. And, because Adam, he's like the night, he's the nightlife in Miami.

• 1:27:03Patrick Bet-David?

  In Miami, he is, yeah.

• 1:27:04Speaker 00

  And I thought it was so stupid.

• 1:27:05Patrick Bet-David?

  I thought it was so stupid.

• 1:27:11Speaker 00

  I thought it was so stupid.

• 1:27:15Patrick Bet-David?

  Good for you. Uh, good for you on, uh, where you're at. It'll, by the way, the way it'll happen is the way you least expect it.

• 1:27:22Speaker 00

  We'll see.

• 1:27:23Patrick Bet-David?

  It'll all of a sudden happen and you're gonna come down and say, "Pat, I'm married, you know, she's pregnant, I'm ex-" You know, it's gonna be in six months. Uh, it'll be life-changing. But, uh, what you're doing is very important. It's not, it's not easy to do what you're... By the way, what happened with you and, uh, the Andrew Callahan guy from Channel 5?

• 1:27:40Speaker 00

  Oh, yeah.

• 1:27:41Patrick Bet-David?

  What was that all about?

• 1:27:42Speaker 00

  That was, uh, that one took me by surprise.

• 1:27:45Patrick Bet-David?

  We had him on last.

• 1:27:46Speaker 00

  What was your, what was your take on Andrew?

• 1:27:48Patrick Bet-David?

  He's a liberal. He's a liberal who I would say a, uh, how would you put it, Rob? A leftist libertarian-ish?

• 1:27:56Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:27:56Patrick Bet-David?

  Is that a good way of putting him?

• 1:27:58Speaker 00

  Mm-hmm.

• 1:27:58Patrick Bet-David?

  I don't think he's a crazy, crazy leftist. I think he has some libertarian tendencies in him, but I do think he's, he's part of the left.

• 1:28:06Speaker 00

  Yeah, for sure. And I like Andrew. I liked Andrew until he did what he did with the interview. Um, so that interview I did with him, it was seventy-two hours after the video had gone mega-viral and I had only slept for like six hours that, those past three days and I let him come do an interview with me at like eleven PM at night and I hadn't ate anything that day. Um, I had just drank an energy drink and, uh, just had like a steak right before 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, uh, with, to do with Andrew. Like I had a lot of respect for him. I used to watch him a lot. And then I do this interview with him and I, I knew right off the get-go, like where he was taking it because he started, instead of asking me about the fraud,

• 1:28:49Speaker 00

  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 to 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 like mind and like physically, like I hadn't slept. I hadn't been eating because I was like running off pure adrenaline.

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• 1:31:04Patrick Bet-David?

  So you guys went from 11 to 130?

• 1:31:07Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:31:07Patrick Bet-David?

  It was like a two and a half hour interview?

• 1:31:09Speaker 00

  Yeah, and then he posts the interview, and he only posts an hour of the interview.

• 1:31:14Patrick Bet-David?

  How long was the total interview?

• 1:31:15Speaker 00

  Two and a half hours.

• 1:31:16Patrick Bet-David?

  Okay, so he cut out an hour and a half of it?

• 1:31:17Speaker 00

  And any response where he had that he was wrong, or made him look bad, he didn't, he didn't show.

• 1:31:24Patrick Bet-David?

  But did you record a whole interview yourself?

• 1:31:26Speaker 00

  I recorded the whole interview.

• 1:31:28Patrick Bet-David?

  Got it. So, to two and a half hour interview, it 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?

• 1:31:39Speaker 00

  Yeah. And like the clips he used too, very deceptive editing on Andrew's part. And yeah, he like cut out spots, he like literally jump cut spots when he admitted to being wrong or not knowing about that. And like one of his claims like, well, Nick said 89% of the fraud, like so many times. I'm like, yeah, because you weren't getting the point that the fraud had been committed, 89% of the fraud had been committed by Somali. And so he obviously came with this agenda. And when you sit down in an interview, because they're pitching it as a, like a podcast interview, like, let's do it for his channel called, uh, like C5.

• 1:32:14Patrick Bet-David?

  Channel 5, yeah.

• 1:32:15Speaker 00

  Yeah, he has like a, or 5cast, he has a whole show called like 5cast. So we did this interview and I was like, oh, cool, just be like, uh, interview where we just chat. But no, he just cut it all up. So.

• 1:32:26Patrick Bet-David?

  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, uh, 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.

• 1:33:10Patrick Bet-David?

  I love, I absolutely love the bravery of what, uh, folks like you are doing. And, uh, I think you're just getting started.

• 1:33:18Speaker 00

  Yeah. You got any advice for me?

• 1:33:22Patrick Bet-David?

  You're going to get a lot of, uh, people that are going to be in your ear.

• 1:33:28Patrick Bet-David?

  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.

• 1:34:09Patrick Bet-David?

  If I didn't have the cash in a bank, like, you know, I bought a land, cash, 25.2 million dollars. If I didn't have cash, I couldn't buy a 40 million dollar property for 25. But that happened with me saving 10,000 dollars, then 25,000 dollars, then 50,000 dollars, then 100,000 dollars. So behind closed doors, you know, as much as celebrating the business, saving, celebrate having savings and cash. It'll give you peace of mind, and you'll be able to stay as honest to what you're doing as possible. Be selective of sponsors, like you talked about earlier, who you're taking sponsorship money from. You're gonna have some mistakes, you're gonna 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.

• 1:34:52Patrick Bet-David?

  Um, I would say, I would say that at this point.

• 1:34:56Speaker 00

  Amazing advice.

• 1:34:57Patrick Bet-David?

  Yeah.

• 1:34:57Speaker 00

  I really just want to show people what's happening in the world, like whether in Cuba or here in the United States, and just like show it as transparent as possible. Like, I think now we're getting to a point where non-controversial issues have become very controversial. And the idea that, uh, that some of these ideas have become controversial is just crazy to me. Like, for instance, all these people that are now supporting communism.

• 1:35:25Speaker 00

  But they live here in the United States and they protest every weekend. Well, if you were to do that, you wouldn't, if you were to go live in a communist country, you wouldn't be able to do that.

• 1:35:31Patrick Bet-David?

  Exactly.

• 1:35:32Speaker 00

  Like that person I wanted to put, there's a lot of like mean tweets that came my way after the 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 doubled down. And...

• 1:36:07Patrick Bet-David?

  No, you're the enemy. And you need to know that. You're the enemy. You're doing a very important job.

• 1:36:13Speaker 00

  It's like the gates of hell just come upon me once I expose it.

• 1:36:15Patrick Bet-David?

  Yeah, but it's also the other side as well. God's got your back, the right people have your back, and they're supporting you. You're, you're, 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 got the right people in your corner. That's a very, very important part that you have. And I think you know that.

• 1:36:33Speaker 00

  Yeah, it definitely helps. And like without my family, obviously, a lot, none of the stuff would have been possible that I've accomplished so far. And then with the faith and just the morals I kind of grew up with, it could really help me to be where I'm at today.

• 1:36:47Patrick Bet-David?

  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 manect him, Rob, let's put the manect below as well.

• 1:37:00Speaker 00

  I respond to all manect.

• 1:37:01Patrick Bet-David?

  Yes, he does. He responds to all the manects. And people message me, I'm like, just manect him. Ask him. Why are you asking me? Ask him. He'll tell you what's going on out there. Keep at it, buddy.

• 1:37:09Speaker 00

  You're the man.

• 1:37:10Patrick Bet-David?

  Good seeing you. You're the man. Excited for you.

• 1:37:12Speaker 00

  I'm Nick Shirley, and you guys can find me here on Manect. 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 Manect. I really appreciate all of your support, and I can't wait to answer your questions.

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