The Lou Perez Podcast: Cuba Libre - Gaby Blanco Parses Truth & Commie Propaganda

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🗓️ 12 August 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Gaby Blanco from the Dissident Project was born and raised in Havana, Cuba. She joins me today to talk about the communist island American leftists love to defend— while living in the United States, of course. What’s it like to grow up with food rationing, no freedom to criticize the state, and with Cuba’s big business of medical slavery? Gaby separates truth from propaganda. I hope you enjoy it. And if you’re in Cuba, please let me know. Thanks to the Revolution Cubans in Miami can freely criticize the Cuban government without fear of imprisonment. Cuba would be better off had it not waited until 2021 to legalize private companies. Check out my book, That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore: On the Death and Rebirth of Comedy https://amzn.to/3VhFa1r Watch my sketch comedy streaming on Red Coral Universe: https://redcoraluniverse.com/en/series/the-lou-perez-comedy-68501a2fd369683d0f2a2a88?loopData=true&ccId=675bc891f78f658f73eaa46d Rock XX-XY Athletics. You can get 20% off your purchase with promo code LOU20. https://www.xx-xyathletics.com/?sca_ref=7113152.ifIMaKpCG3ZfUHH4 Attorneys on Retainer https://attorneysforfreedom.my.site.com/signupattorneysonretainerus/s/?promoCode=LU51ZEZ324 Support me at www.substack.com/@louperez Join my newsletter www.TheLouPerez.com Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../the-lou-perez.../id1535032081 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2KAtC7eFS3NHWMZp2UgMVU Amazon: https://music.amazon.com/.../2b7d4d.../the-lou-perez-podcast YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLb5trMQQvT077-L1roE0iZyAgT4dD4EtJ Lou Perez is a comedian, producer, and the author of THAT JOKE ISN'T FUNNY ANYMORE: ON THE DEATH AND REBIRTH OF COMEDY. You may have seen him on Gutfeld! , FOX News Primetime, One Nation with Brian Kilmeade, and Open to Debate (with Michael Ian Black). Lou was the Head Writer and Producer of the Webby Award-winning comedy channel We the Internet TV. During his tenure at WTI, Lou made the kind of comedy that gets you put on lists and your words in the Wall Street Journal: “How I Became a ‘Far-Right Radical.’” As a stand-up comedian, Lou has opened for Rob Schneider, Rich Vos, Jimmy Dore, Dave Smith, and toured the US and Canada with Scott Thompson. Lou has also produced live shows with Colin Quinn, the Icarus Festival, and the Rutherford Comedy Festival. For years, Lou performed at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater (both in NYC and L.A.) in sketch shows with the Hammerkatz and his comedy duo, Greg and Lou. Greg and Lou is best known for its sketch "Wolverine's Claws Suck," which has over 20 million views on YouTube alone. In addition to producing sketch comedy like Comedy Is Murder, performing stand-up across the country, and writing for The Blaze's Align, Lou is on the advisory board of Heresy Press, a FAIR-in-the-arts fellow, and host of the live debate series The Wrong Take and The Lou Perez Podcast (which is part of the Lions of Liberty Podcast Network). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:28.6	hey guys welcome back to the lou perrez podcast on the Lions of Liberty Podcast Network.
0:40.9	I'm your host, Lou Perez, and today I am joined by Gabby Blanco, who is with The Dissident Project.
0:48.6	Hi, Gabby.
0:50.3	Hi. Thank you for having me.
0:52.4	Thank you.
0:52.9	Well, I came across your stuff via Instagram, and I think it was in regards to, I had posted
1:01.2	something about Cuba, and you had commented, and then I went and I looked at your stuff,
1:08.7	and I'm like, oh, here's someone who does quite a bit in regards to Cuba.
1:13.7	And I was like, you know what?
1:14.7	I haven't had anyone on my podcast yet who could talk to me about Cuba, excuse me.
1:23.5	That's right.
1:24.5	So, yeah, can you talk, tell us a little bit about, you know, the dissident project and, you know, what it is and how you got started with that?
1:32.5	Yeah, for sure. So I'm born and raised in Havana, Cuba. I've been here in Austin, Texas, since late 2019.
1:40.1	I've been with the dissident project for about a year now since last year.
1:44.8	And basically is this nonprofit organization that puts dissidents like me or people like me that have left authoritarian regimes, countries like Cuba.
1:55.5	And they put them in front of student audiences here in the U.S.
1:59.4	So we get to talk to high school students.
2:02.5	We'll come to your school at no charge to your school just to sort of share about our life
2:08.3	experiences in our home countries, what happened over there and hopefully answer some of the
2:13.8	questions. We always do a Q&A, which is really fun because high school students have
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