Looking into Cuba Happenings

On this Episode we find out what's Currently going on in Cuba.

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Transcript

SPEAKER_06 0:09

So part four is gonna be a little more play shoot at the hip, I guess would be the better way to put it. Uh, because there's apparently a bunch of chaos going on in Cuba right now. We don't really know what's happening. So I wanted to X it up. Well, we'll start with the two-minute Asmund Gold video that came out, and I wanna play that, and then I'm gonna see what we find on X to see if there's any updates.

SPEAKER_03 0:35

Who's Asmund Gold?

SPEAKER_06 0:37

That's just he's another YouTuber. He's another YouTuber.

SPEAKER_03 0:39

Oh, oh, that guy.

SPEAKER_06 0:41

Yeah, so let's see if I can actually get to him. Here we go.

SPEAKER_03 0:48

He was interviewed by someone. Yeah! Huh?

SPEAKER_06 0:53

What'd you say, Trevor?

SPEAKER_03 0:55

Uh I saw an interview with him uh by uh somebody recently.

SPEAKER_06 1:03

Yeah, well, apparently Cuba is in turmoil, and this might might be history in the making, so I thought we ought to like at least react to it. I know it's not pertaining to anything that we do, but I wanted to at least kind of keep tabs on what was going on. So we'll just start here.

SPEAKER_07 1:20

Mass, yeah, here it is. Mass protest across Cuba. Cuba enters its eighth straight night without power as the protests spread across the island. No fuel shipments in three months, batteries running on firewood. And now Havana is talking to Washington for the first time because they have no other choice. Holy shit. Uh-oh. How's it gonna buy? Well, probably because there's not as much fuel it requires. Holy shit. The brave people of Cuba have just taken over the headquarters of the Communist Party. These rebels set fire to the building. Setting the communist building on fire. Basically, Cuba, after seeing Iran, after seeing Venezuela, I think the guy from Cuba is like, okay, I'm gonna call you. I see where things are going here. Cuba's president confirms the communist government has begun negotiations with Trump. They are negotiating with the United States to initiate the democratic process for the end of the Cuban regime.

SPEAKER_00 2:51

Cuba also confirmed today it's in talks with the Trump administration. Cuba's leader, Miguel Diaz Canel, announcing both countries are in the early stages of a possible agreement as the crisis in Cuba deepens.

SPEAKER_07 3:04

Director of Cuba, Miguel, this is the same thing, announces that the nation they have officially given in. They have officially given in turning. Like, I didn't even know. Do we even have a lot of pressure on Cuba yet? Yeah, they're already caving. Oh my god, this is amazing. We had pressure. The lack of oil from Iran and Venezuela made their country have no energy. Combine that with lack of food from Russia due to the Ukraine war, and you get the fall of Cuba. Thank God. I mean, that's an amazing thing. I mean, this is like millions of people that are going to be liberated from uh, you know, another communist shithole regime. Don't tell me what Asman is saying.

SPEAKER_06 3:37

I don't know what that last clip was about, but that happened. So yeah, apparently it looks like Cuba's about to fall. We are actually putting Chat GP. Any questions?

unknown 3:50

Nope.

SPEAKER_06 3:50

Nope. Alright, well, let's get on X then and try to figure out what in the world's going on. We haven't seen anything new since we first looked this up. So this is had this is happening in real time. I don't have anything pre-picked out here. So I think this is what he was looking for. That was very loud. Let's see if I can make that window a little bigger. So there's that. Um see what we got here. Keep an eye on Miguel Diaz Canal, Salvador Valdez Mesa, and Manuel Mararo Cruz. Cuba is next. Won't before the mulas fall either. President Trump is truly a geopolitical genius. Okay, this is Laura Loomer. Alright, so that's the same video. Okay, Venezuela. Alright, this is from March 3rd. Here's this guy's speech. So let's see what this is about. Well, that's in a language I don't know. Let's just read this here. Um, come on guys, quit being jerks. Um it's not gonna look like on the whole thing. Okay. Cuban negotiations update. Cuban president Miguel D. Diaz Canal says the government has entered negotiations with the United States, which we already knew already. Okay. Trevor, have you found anything relevant?

SPEAKER_03 6:11

No, it's just what you pick.

SPEAKER_06 6:15

Alright, let's see if this is better.

SPEAKER_05 6:18

News makes me sleepy.

SPEAKER_06 6:20

News makes you sleepy.

SPEAKER_05 6:22

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 6:22

This might be history in the making, man. Maybe. You got any thoughts?

SPEAKER_03 6:32

I'm looking on ground news, see if they got anything.

SPEAKER_06 6:36

Well, Cody, what's your opinion of this then? Well, maybe if we get you talking, we'll wake you up a little bit.

SPEAKER_05 6:41

I literally forgot what we're talking about.

SPEAKER_06 6:43

Cuba! Communists might be falling in Cuba.

SPEAKER_05 6:48

Yeah, I don't know. Who owns Cuba? Because we had that thing in the 80s, right?

SPEAKER_06 6:51

Uh don't believe so. Not sure, but I don't believe so. Uh I think that uh there's a lot of I well, I couldn't say who owns Cuba. I kind of suspect either Russia or China, but I don't really know. I do think that they're working for some other communist group, and I think since they haven't been able to get oil, that's kind of what's caused the collapse of the whole thing. That's my opinion, but I don't know. I'm learning about all this just now.

SPEAKER_05 7:22

So let's see if this is actually I don't know. Um, I'm not there. Wars and rumors of wars, man. These things must happen.

SPEAKER_06 7:33

Gotcha, gotcha. Well, let's see if we can get any more information out of this.

unknown 7:39

Okay.

SPEAKER_06 7:40

In correspondence. Also in Spanish. Never mind. We got another video here.

SPEAKER_04 7:46

Baxter, you know I don't speak Spanish.

SPEAKER_06 7:49

Huh?

SPEAKER_04 7:50

I said Baxter, you know I don't speak Spanish.

SPEAKER_06 7:53

Uh Baxter what? I'm sorry. Baxter. Baxter. Oh, oh, that's an anchorman quote. Okay. Slow on the draw tonight, man. Little bit. Well, so they took off the flag in the Communist Party. So this is the first time the the protest broke out. So it's kind of a similar deal as what's going on in Iran. Or was going on in Iran before the bombing started. So Yeah, that's all. See, this is from 14 hours ago. This is the fan Trump army. What is this? Let's see. So you guys sign it says Make Cuba Great Again. Alright, that's also in Spanish. Guys, I don't speak Spanish. I don't know. Can't help you with that.

SPEAKER_05 9:48

Hey, is that the clip of Ted Cruz about that thing?

SPEAKER_06 9:50

No, this is the Tucker Carlson interview. He didn't say it. We watched that whole thing and my blood pressure went up. Did we watch it together? I don't remember. I either watched it alone or I thought I watched it with you guys.

SPEAKER_05 10:04

Uh I don't remember.

SPEAKER_06 10:08

Anyway, yeah. We didn't do that. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 10:11

Because Tucker was asking all those pointed questions and it was hilarious.

SPEAKER_06 10:14

Yeah, yeah. He was acting like I was getting CNN flashbacks. That like infuriated me. That was very sleazy journalism. Did the same thing. Did the same thing with Huckabee, by the way. I don't know. I can't stand. Tucker has gotten on my nerves. I used to be a big fan. I'm not a big fan anymore, I guess.

SPEAKER_05 10:34

I think he likes Sadducees. I think that's what I think.

SPEAKER_06 10:37

You all tuckered out on Tucker. I'm Tuckered out on Tucker. I like Sadducees. Well, yes, obviously. But uh it's not just that, it's the freaking questioning stuff. Like the I I quit watching the news because I got tired of hearing crap like that. And now it's like all coming back, and it's like all the commentators are starting to pull that crap again, and it's really frustrating.

SPEAKER_05 11:02

You learned the tactics, and you were like, ew.

SPEAKER_06 11:05

Yeah, yeah. Well, Limbaugh taught you the tactics.

SPEAKER_05 11:08

Ew.

SPEAKER_06 11:09

Yeah. You know, Limbaugh was a master. He understood how they did what they did, and he told his audience, and I learned what they did, and now it's like coming back, and he's doing it. And I'm just uh I don't want to see that crap again. I went to the internet to my new for my news because I didn't want to see that crap anymore. Yeah. You know? Anyway. Trevor, have you found anything?

SPEAKER_03 11:35

Yeah, no, it's basically everything. They're all they're just talking. Uh talking to Trump about trying to figure out what to do.

SPEAKER_06 11:46

It's all seems it's all seems so So we it looks like we just still don't have a whole lot of information. I was thinking by the end of the show we'd have more, but I guess not.

SPEAKER_03 11:58

Yeah, I haven't seen any updates since since Friday. Since yesterday. Yeah, that's down with communism.

SPEAKER_06 12:05

Down with communism, faux show, faux show. Uh yeah, well. Here's something. What is this? Somebody like cooking on top of the embassy.

SPEAKER_05 12:22

Nice.

SPEAKER_06 12:23

Okay. Well, there's no volume to that. Interesting. Alright. Space telescope camera. They don't they don't have audio, huh? Cops are trying to arrest kids, I guess. This is seven hours ago.

SPEAKER_03 12:50

Yeah, uh, this is the most updated story I've got. It's uh seven hours ago.

SPEAKER_06 12:56

Alright, go for it.

SPEAKER_03 12:58

The Cuban president says talks were recently held with the US to resolve differences. And that's all he's got. Nice. And then it goes into what's been happening and then upset.

SPEAKER_06 13:19

Well, this is a somewhat unrelated question. Oh, that's that's a little funny. Trump sh was it, Trump Chavez? I don't know. Trump Castro. There we go. That's a that's that's kind of funny. Alright.

SPEAKER_03 13:38

Yeah, so so as of right now, the most up updated we've got is that the talks were recently held to solve their differences.

SPEAKER_06 13:49

Okay. Well, here's the video of the communist headquarters. We can take a look at this. They're basically running in our Benny Johnson says the brave people of Cuba have just taken over the headquarters of the Communist Party in Sagao de Avila. These rebels then set fire to the building. Cubans see the freedom being bought brought to other nations and now want theirs. There you go. He's got something else here. Yeah. He's got another one. Torches uh watches torches ablaze or carried into the Communist Party HQ in Cuba. So this is when they're actually setting the building on fire. There are reports of other protests all over the island. This is finally the revolution is this finally the revolution that frees Cuba. Well, if they're talking to the United States, I I would assume they're going, we give.

SPEAKER_05 15:07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 15:09

So somebody being a smart elec. We're gonna be able to vac we're gonna be able to vacation in Gaza, Cuba, Venezuela, Iran, and maybe Minnesota. Maybe Minnesota soon. Incredible times. That's pretty funny. It's pretty funny. Alright. So yeah, that's what's going on. Pretty crazy. Pretty crazy. I got a question for you, Cody. I don't know. You're the you're the mechanics guy. I'm pretty ignorant on all that. But uh how in the world do you like use a fire to charge a battery?

SPEAKER_05 15:55

Oh.

SPEAKER_06 15:57

That's what they were saying. Like they had like wood fire batteries or something like that. Did I hear that correctly?

SPEAKER_05 16:04

Kind of wondering about that myself.

SPEAKER_06 16:05

I mean I was like, how would you even do that?

SPEAKER_05 16:08

I don't know. Steam or um I mean steam can turn a propeller to charge a battery. Or uh smoke. Man, I don't know.

SPEAKER_06 16:25

Yeah, because it'd have to create some kind of static, right? I mean, like some kind of charge.

SPEAKER_05 16:30

I don't think you can transmit regular heat.

SPEAKER_06 16:34

Yeah. Yeah, I didn't energy. I didn't think so. That I was kind of baffled by that. I have no idea. I am not a mechan I am not a mechanical mind. He was saying a Tesla was able to do something similar, like transfer heat and use it as energy. Is that what you were getting at, Trevor?

SPEAKER_03 16:56

Yeah, something similar to that. Yeah, like scalar waves. Yeah, I think you're right. I don't know.

SPEAKER_06 17:08

Yeah. Well, that's all I got, guys. I was kind of hoping there'd be more out by now, but apparently it's all went radio silent. I'm just seeing the same videos. Oh, we got Alex Jones. Let's see what he has to say.

SPEAKER_01 17:28

The old political order is collapsing. A new system is forming. When I talk about World War IV, that is the term the CIA uses. They call the Cold War World War III. World War IV, they predicted, would be more kinetic, not so much cold. I want to get rid of the MULAS. But 14 days ago, I thought this was talking about Cuba. Now, the Mulas a week ago said they're not going to surrender and they're going to close the trade of war moose, and they've done it. So we see these headlines with Trump saying, Oh, I'm not going to negotiate. They're not trying to negotiate. Now Trump has called for this international fleet, the EU, the UK, the Chinese are enemy, to come there and take over the strait so that Iran will attack their ships. It doesn't matter. All Iran has to do is attack ships that aren't flagged to China or India. And nobody's going to be able to do that.

SPEAKER_06 18:32

Okay, I thought this was about Cuba. Okay, I feel a little I feel a little baited and switched here. Am I being unfair? Because that that felt like a bait and switch to me. Yeah, I that felt like a bait and switch. I'm not happy about that. Let's just skip ahead and see if he actually does eventually address Cuba, since that's what I wanted to learn about.

SPEAKER_01 18:54

Trying to get him around.

SPEAKER_06 18:57

What people actually talking about what they say they're gonna talk about? No, really, really setting the bar there. Of course, then again, we probably have that standard up ourselves.

SPEAKER_01 19:09

So talking to the Iranians. This is so un-American. This is how offensive military is, but not their ability to close short, not their ability to close the Strait Ormus by these Chinese anti-ship missiles that are hypersonic we can't stop. Then Americans are gonna go crazy and want full war. And the Marines, the army, are ready to go in. Full invasion of Iran. And just the Arabs.

SPEAKER_06 19:37

Israel literally only thinks about the world. Alright, this whole blasted thing is about Iran. That's it. Look at this. Okay, that's not fair, dude. You sit there and have a picture of Cuba and then you start talking about Iran. Alright, why don't you do that?

SPEAKER_05 19:54

You sound like you need some creatine, Gary.

SPEAKER_06 19:56

I need some creatine. I already had my creatine, though. I already had it for the day. Um that's what I need to get. Yeah, it's it's good stuff. It works. Creatine. Yeah. Okay, so alright. Seven hours ago. Okay, looks like there's protests in Iran again. So this was seven hours ago. Maybe they're making their move. I think that the other guy that they tried to put in to replace the first guy is dead. So yeah, this is twenty this is Cuba again. So yeah, it's happening all over the world. I wish everybody the best.

SPEAKER_05 20:40

See you guys on the flip side.

SPEAKER_06 20:43

Yeah. Don't be like us and screw it up with for an entire generation, because the hippies are a bunch of degenerates. Don't get hippies. If you manage to get your freedom, don't get hippies. They'll take it away. They'll promise you hedonism and then take away all your freedom. That's what they do. They're awful.

SPEAKER_05 21:04

100%.

SPEAKER_06 21:05

Yeah. Alright. That's all I got, guys.

SPEAKER_05 21:09

That was a little sounds good to me, man.

SPEAKER_06 21:11

That was a little lackluster, but hey, I kind of I honestly thought there'd be more out by now. But I guess not. So all right, gentlemen, you got any final thoughts for this evening?

SPEAKER_05 21:21

Well, let's wrap it up. It's been a good show. I broke my leg and everything.

SPEAKER_06 21:25

You broke your leg? What?

SPEAKER_05 21:27

Break a leg.

SPEAKER_06 21:29

Oh, oh, the stage. Okay. I gotcha.

SPEAKER_05 21:32

Man, you're slow on the references thing.

SPEAKER_06 21:34

I'm tired, man. I've been on a diet. Creatine ain't fixing it all. So doing the best I can, though. Trevor Burrus Do you have any final thoughts?

SPEAKER_03 21:51

No. Good luck to them all. Alright. Chat, we appreciate you being here.

SPEAKER_06 21:56

Yeah, well, hey, before you go, because I've got a few seconds to kill.

SPEAKER_03 22:00

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_06 22:01

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SPEAKER_03 22:41

Later.

SPEAKER_06 22:46

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