"Planning My Escape From Cuba" - Nick Shirley Returns | PBD #793
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🗓️ 7 May 2026
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
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.
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| 0:00.0 | This gets really crazy, actually. |
| 0:01.7 | You're actually the first person who's ever seen this. |
| 0:03.4 | None of the gas stations are even in operation right now |
| 0:05.6 | because there's quite literally no gas. |
| 0:09.7 | You almost got taken hostage while you're there. |
| 0:11.8 | Yeah, so the president of Cuba knew that we were there. |
| 0:15.1 | Like, we've been monitoring you guys. |
| 0:19.7 | What do you think is going to actually end up happening to Cuba? |
| 0:23.9 | Their monthly salaries, $14 USD. |
| 0:27.5 | One person said they haven't had eggs in a year. |
| 0:30.9 | What's the latest with you on Nusa? |
| 0:32.6 | What do you think about the Stop Nick Shirley Act? |
| 0:34.9 | Stop Nick Shirley Act. |
| 0:36.1 | I think you're a psycho scam artist. |
| 0:37.9 | It's so bad in California. |
| 0:39.3 | Like, so bad. |
| 0:41.3 | Like, nobody knows how bad it is. |
| 0:43.3 | Except for the people living in California. |
| 0:45.1 | Quality Learing Center. |
| 0:47.4 | Ilan Omar, she needs to get prosecuted or she needs to get deported. |
| 0:51.7 | There's evidence that she did marry her brother. |
| 0:56.9 | Kenneth Owens came after me a while back. |
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