LIVE DEBUNK: Hasan Piker's Cuba Lies Feat. Real Cuban, Spanglish Generation

Summary

Podcast Summary: Louder with Crowder

Episode Title: LIVE DEBUNK: Hasan Piker's Cuba Lies Feat. Real Cuban, Spanglish Generation
Date: March 20, 2026
Host: Steven Crowder
Main Guest: Spanglish Generation (“Day”)

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Overview

This episode centers on Steven Crowder’s attempt to debunk “lies” regarding the situation in Cuba, particularly in response to social media commentator Hasan Piker’s claims and recent trip to the island. Crowder is joined by “Day” from Spanglish Generation, a Cuban-American activist, who offers passionate, first-hand perspectives on Cuban life, socialism, the U.S. embargo, and Western leftists’ romanticization of the regime. Alongside this main topic, Crowder and his co-hosts discuss recent viral political clips (including a Netanyahu quote taken out of context), media dishonesty, criticisms of AIPAC, and some lighter moments on “micropenis” as a feminist insult.

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Episode Breakdown

1. Introducing the Show & Main Theme

(01:32 – 04:49)

• Crowder sets the tone: Friday shows are typically for Mug Club, but today’s is public to host “Spanglish Generation,” described as “a Cuban-American who’s been addressing misinformation out there.”
• The discussion is framed as “setting the record straight” on Cuba, communism, and U.S. foreign policy.

Notable Quote:

“A lot of Cubans, Cuban-Americans have reached out and said please, thank you. So let us correct this...I don’t know that I’ve ever met any of them who are not patriotic and hate communism militantly.” — Crowder (01:45)

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2. Media Misinformation, Identity Politics & Israel Discourse

(10:10 – 29:09)

Media Gatekeeping

(10:10 – 14:35)

• Crowder reflects on “new media” vs. legacy media, criticizing both for dishonesty and headline-chasing.
• Calls out influencers “warping or lying” about resources and facts.

AIPAC and Israel Critique

(14:35 – 21:00)

• Crowder discusses AIPAC's influence (“largest PAC contributor to Congress”), notes lobbying from other countries, but says AIPAC’s tactics are “unsettling.”
• Cautions against supporting other nations’ interests before American ones.
• Complaints about all-expenses-paid congressional trips to Israel, ambiguity on nuclear weapons, and undermining U.S. policy on Iran.

Viral Netanyahu Clip Out of Context

(16:47 – 27:20)

• Viral video shows Netanyahu comparing Jesus Christ to Genghis Khan (“Jesus Christ has no advantage over Genghis Khan…”).
• Crowder explains the quote is taken out of context; Netanyahu is quoting a Catholic author—Will Durant—and making a broader philosophical point about power and evil.

Key Quotes:

“So let me ask you, is the clip out of context? Dishonest? What do you guys think?” — Crowder (20:48)
“He’s obviously quoting an author, trying to make sure the U.S. does what America First things, get up and defend yourself.” — Co-host (22:08)

• Discussion on how misrepresentation ruins substantive debate:

“It makes it harder to have the real conversation about being very frustrated with how he prosecuted that war in Gaza. Even if you supported Israel, you can look at like Netanyahu, what the hell are you doing?” — Co-host (24:55)

Young Americans’ Changing Attitudes

(25:23 – 27:20)

• Crowder points to falling support for Israel among young Americans (down to 13%).
• Attributes much of it to misinformation and short-form clip culture.

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3. The “Micropenis” Debate: Feminist Tactics in Arguments

(33:20 – 39:44)

• Crowder lampoons the use of “micropenis” as a debate/insult tactic, arguing that any woman who uses it is acting as a feminist, regardless of political leaning.
• Presents a tongue-in-cheek “5-point case” (plus “.5”) as to why
• Asserts it’s an irrational, reputational attack rather than an argument.

Notable Quotes:

“Any woman out there who uses the attack of micropenis ... is a feminist, even if they claim to be conservative.” — Crowder (33:27)
“Micropenis scream that out. When you can’t win the argument.” — Spanglish Generation (33:30)
“The feminist thing is attack. And then that’s their superpower. Play victim while they’re the aggressor.” — Podcast Host (36:12)

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4. Setting Up the Cuba Discussion & Introducing Spanglish Generation

(39:46 – 46:06)

• Crowder notes the difficulty of polling in dictatorships like Cuba and the importance of the Cuban American diaspora in truth-telling.
• Frames Cuba as a uniquely oppressed population whose suffering is often minimized by Western socialists.

Notable Quote:

“If you say the Cuban people are being starved, executed, tortured by their own government, there are throngs of white socialists going, ‘No, no, no, shut up, shut up.’” — Crowder (40:34)

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5. Debunking Hasan Piker’s Flotilla & Cuba Aid Narrative

(41:36 – 48:02)

• Clip of Hasan Piker announcing his aid mission to Cuba, blaming U.S. “intervention” for Cuba’s plight.
• Crowder immediately questions credibility—predicts all aid goes through the regime, not to the people.

6. Spanglish Generation Interview: Cuban Reality & Regime Impact

(45:14 – 69:03)

Aid Always Goes to the Regime

(47:09)

• “Day” says: “Every single thing that arrives in Cuba goes through the government. The only reason they’re going…is because it’s already been filtered, it’s already been managed by these organizations ... Anything they do is going to be broadcast...But I guarantee you ... the family (I have) in El Caney … will see none of these supplies and neither will thousands of other Cubans.” (47:09)

Where Do Cubans Place Blame?

(48:02 – 49:21)

• Crowder inquires if Cuban Americans blame the U.S. or their own government for Cuba’s situation.
• Day: “Absolutely not [the U.S.]. They see what’s going on...their oppression comes from the people within.”

Life Under Communism: Scarcity, Control, and Surveillance

(51:46 – 53:53)

• “Vintage” cars, blackouts, and crumbling infrastructure are symptoms of regime neglect, not charming nostalgia.
• Day recounts how even in the 1980s, her pregnant mother waited hours for a gasless ambulance.
• “Women in Cuba…target foreigners so they can leave Cuba...That’s their only goal. Their goal is not to build a future, to be somebody, to go to school, to start a business. Their goal is who can I target that will take me out of this hellhole.” — Day (53:04)

The Pain of Seeing Westerners Romanticize Cuba

(54:00 – 57:11)

• Day expresses exasperation watching Western activists and politicians (e.g., Bernie Sanders, Rage Against the Machine) promote the regime as “aspirational.”
• Examples of her family’s hardship highlight the disconnect: “No one…spends days at sea trying to get to freedom…unless what’s going on there is really, really dark.” (58:33)

Cuba, Socialism, and the American Left

(60:10 – 61:15)

• Day criticizes Democratic politicians for entanglements with Cuban socialism.
• States: “Every time...there’s the same people supporting Cuba's socialism.” — Day

Aid, Embargo, & Suffering

(61:15)

• Both Day and Crowder agree: aid delivered now props up the government, not the people. The embargo’s effect is minor compared to systemic regime oppression.

Hopes for Cuba: Responsibility, Uprising, and Freedom

(62:37 – 66:57)

• Day hopes for Cuba’s freedom – but stresses, “Cuba has to do their part…inside the island, there needs to be an uprising.”
• Expresses gratitude for U.S. support, but sees real change as needing both internal and external pressure.

Notable Quotes:

“Freedom is not free. And we cannot just be thinking that the US is just going to come and free us. Although we would love the help.” — Day (64:53)
“I really do hope it becomes a reality soon…so the world understands the regime has not completely manipulated the people.” — Day (65:10)

Crowder: Why Cuba Matters Now

(66:57 – 68:52)

• Crowder adds: With Russia and China “hamstrung,” this may be the perfect moment for Cuban regime collapse, even without U.S. intervention.

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Notable / Memorable Moments

• The “micropenis” diatribe as a comedic yet pointed critique of feminist rhetorical tactics (33:20-39:44).
• Crowder’s thorough contextualization of the Netanyahu “Jesus vs. Genghis Khan” quote and the broader media problem of out-of-context smears (16:47-27:20).
• Day’s emotional, personal testimony about life under the Cuban regime, including the story of her father’s failed attempts to escape and the realities facing young Cuban women (45:40-58:33).

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Key Timestamps

• 01:32 – Main theme set-up; introducing Spanglish Generation
• 16:47 – Viral Netanyahu quote; context and debunking
• 25:23 – Israel support statistics; social media’s impact on perception
• 33:20 – “Micropenis” as a feminist tactic
• 39:46 – Cuba segment setup: mainstream misconceptions
• 41:36 – Crowder plays Hasan Piker’s Cuba aid mission announcement
• 45:14 – Spanglish Generation’s personal Cuba testimony begins
• 47:09 – Aid always goes through regime (never direct to people)
• 48:02 – Who do Cubans really blame?
• 53:04 – Life goals in Cuba: escape, not prosperity
• 54:00–58:33 – The heartbreak of Western leftists supporting the regime
• 62:37–66:57 – What real change in Cuba would take

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Quotes Archive

On the Cuban regime:

“It’s just propaganda. So the world can continue to, you know, be in la la land about the reality of Cuba.” — Day (47:09)
“Their goal is who can I target that will take me out of this hellhole. And that’s no way to live. That’s not a future for any country.” — Day (53:04)

On U.S. activist tourists:

“They love socialism, but they’re not trying to live in Cuba. That’s the part I never understood.” — Day (55:14)

On media honesty:

“If we withhold resources or warp or edit or lie about resources rather than providing resources and references, I always believed that that was the stark contrast.” — Crowder (12:54)

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Flow and Tone

• The episode features Crowder’s signature confrontational, irreverent style, mixing comedic jabs with more sobering, passionate testimony from Spanglish Generation.
• The tone oscillates between mockery of political opponents, frank skepticism toward media, and earnestness in sharing lived experiences of Cuban oppression.
• A sense of exasperation pervades regarding Westerners’ refusal to understand communist realities in Cuba.

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For New Listeners

If you missed the episode, this installment of Louder with Crowder is a thorough (and polemical) takedown of socialist apologetics regarding Cuba. It relies on both hard-hitting statistics and first-hand accounts, interspersed with the show’s trademark satirical jabs. It’s especially valuable for those looking to understand why many Cuban-Americans reject the mainstream left’s talking points about the “Cuba blockade” and why they view foreign aid with suspicion. Spanglish Generation’s testimony provides emotional resonance and cultural context, making clear what Western activists and politicians often overlook or willfully ignore.

Transcript

[Spanglish Generation]

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Click Rumble Premium and join now for 99 annually or 9.99amonth to get the entirely ad free experience and an ever expanding roster of content creators and free speech. Hi there. Glad we're with you. You know, usually Friday, Friday shows if you're watching. So Love letter to Mug Club to OG Rumble Premium. But today we are going to be actually still doing this whole hour wide and here's why. We have a guest coming on. You know her as Spanglish Generation. Every now and then we just sort of stumble. I don't want to say diamond in the rough because I don't want it to be anything other than complimentary. But in discussing Cuba, this is a Cuban American here now who's been addressing some of the misinformation out there. And I tell you what, after discussing it this week, a lot of Cubans, Cuban Americans have reached out and said please, thank you. So let us correct this. I don't know that I've ever met any of them who are not patriotic and hate communism militantly. So we're going to have her on and I wanted to make sure that you guys could could hear it straight from her because Hassan is on his way with a flotilla or private jet to deliver some aid to Cuba. Outside of that, we're going to talk about micropenis, microaggressions and some misinformation regarding Netanyahu and some quotes today and Jesus Christ. Yeah, Jesus Christ. The. You know, if you deny him. Whether you're a Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, one of the other religions, that doesn't really matter. I think you're wrong. Oh, before I introduce you. Well, hold on. Captain Morgan, CEO, thank you for being here, sir, and in third chair, because Josh is actually in the bustling metropolis of Fort Wayne, Indiana, right now. Go see him live. We have in third chair, I descended from the balls of him. It's Pops Crowder. How are you, sir? Thanks for the vulgar introduction. It's not vulgar. It's not vulgar. It's, like, descriptive. Yeah, it's like a biology textbook. It is.

[Co-host/Commentator]

It's very sterile. It's medical.

[Podcast Host]

Yes, that's exactly right. I'm sorry.

[Co-host/Commentator]

Did he burst forth from your loins?

[Podcast Host]

Well, now you added burst. It's not an energy drink commercial, son.

[Spanglish Generation]

All right?

[Podcast Host]

And I hate to start this on a downer, but you know what? I actually ran into this man, like, maybe once or twice. Never really spoke with him or spent time with him, but of course, an American legend, a good man by all accounts. Chuck Norris passed away today at 86 years old. So obviously, our hearts go out to the families affected. I know a lot of people loved him. A lot of people had their lives impacted by him. And so we wanted to just show you one of our favorite Chuck Norris clips. And how you doing, little partner?

[Spanglish Generation]

Fine. And it's little visitor now. Atta waioli's how you say it in Cherokee.

[Podcast Host]

Oh, well, pardon my French, but I'll be damned.

[Spanglish Generation]

Walker told me I had aids.

[Co-host/Commentator]

Does he also see dead people?

[Podcast Host]

He will soon. That's a director's cut. That's a director's cut of Sixth Sense. He finds out that he's the one who had AIDS all along.

[Co-host/Commentator]

I'm Chuck Norris.

[Podcast Host]

You mean from that men's rest stop? Chuck was on an apple box there, by the way. Not a big man. Not a big man. But I tell you what, not one of the. He wasn't one of the Hollywood fake martial artists. You need to know that, honestly. He did combat karate, which. Wherever you line up on karate. But he also became a black belt in judo. Jiu jitsu was one of the first. He really was very open minded, cross trained, and he brought jiu jitsu to Dallas. Really? There was nothing here. Yeah. Yeah, he did. Yeah, he was with Machado. So what's your favorite, favorite Chuck Norris joke? You guys can let us know. Maybe we'll read some in the chats later, as we do every show, weekdays at 11am Eastern. By the way, I forgot to also mention, because we were discussing your nether regions, your tell me what you know, shout out. Us. That's what you just like a non communist cameo? Basically. Yeah, I hate to use the cam that reference of the competition. Okay. It's like a pro communist cameo. That's right. Yeah. That's all it is. No new people coming on every day. You know, we've got a lot of. There's a scroll there. A lot of guys that are on the rumble lineup kind of downstream from us. Yeah, the very fetching Gerald Morgan is on there as well. And for those of you who don't know, you can tip your favorite creators, content creators, and they'll send you a personalized message for a birthday, anniversary, or heckle you.

[Co-host/Commentator]

I mean, just whatever you want.

[Podcast Host]

You have 12 hours. Well, you've out. If you haven't been roasted by Nick, you haven't lived. Yeah, probably request that one anonymously because if there's any. If you got any ethnicity in you that's gonna be part of the video. It happens a lot. All right, let's move on here. This woman, this is just really funny for a multitude of reasons. Here's a lady dropping a disturbing detail, according to her, regarding genetic testing and decided to broadcast this to the world. Like the good little haram feminist nose ringed, screeching banshee she is.

[Palestinian American Guest]

Okay, So I just did blood work for genetic testing because I just met with my genetic counselor. I'm Palestinian, I'm from Gaza. All right, a lot has happened in the last three years, but something to note is that my parents are first cousins decided to do my blood work, and she shows me my family tree.

[Podcast Host]

She's like, you don't say, make sure

[Palestinian American Guest]

it's right because it's kind of crazy. And then it's not that crazy. The very bottom of the page, it says Ashkenazi Jewish with a check mark. And it says, yes, I'm looking at it.

[Podcast Host]

Imagine that.

[Palestinian American Guest]

I'm like, I don't like that. This is regular day in the life of a Palestinian American. I go home, find out news that more of my family members have been killed and murdered. Go to school. I'm a teacher, but even as a student, Go to school, act like everything's normal. Go to the doctor, act like everything normal. She's looking at me horrified and is just like, I'm so sorry.

[Podcast Host]

And I'm just so sorry. You're part Jew.

[Palestinian American Guest]

There's literally nothing I can do. Like I said, makes sense from a genetic counselor's point of view. But to me, bintfolo saniyah min ghaza. I don't want to see those words on my paperwork.

[Podcast Host]

Now, here's the confusing thing. You would think what you're saying. I don't want to see those words. What would be the upsetting words would be that your parents were cousins.

[Co-host/Commentator]

First cousin.

[Podcast Host]

First cousin. Yeah. The family tree doesn't split. No, it doesn't. Instead, she doesn't want to read that there's any potential Jewishness in you from a historically Jewish. Like, you're basically the same people ethnically. And a lot like this just shows they have. They have no problem. No qualms with being inbred. She skims past it, like, okay, so, like, you know, whatever. But then I saw Jew, by the way, when reached for comment, her father had this to say. But who. Who has a genetic counselor in their roster of services in their life? A feminist who claims to be Muslim, who also has a nose ring and wears makeup in public. How often would you have to seek their counsel? Just once. Well, probably a lot now, because how Jewish am I? Can I remove it? You know, like, I have, like, 1% sub Saharan African in me, so, you know, I'm not going to lie. I wasn't thrilled about it, but, hey, jungle fever, we all have our thing. This poster describes yourself as a baddie from the blad, which is a, you know, Arabic for country. And an educator who stands against all forms of oppression.

[Co-host/Commentator]

Oh, really?

[Podcast Host]

Yes. All forms of oppression. Yeah. Don't like reading that. I have Jew in me.

[Co-host/Commentator]

She doesn't know what to do now, should she become an oppressor.

[Spanglish Generation]

She's an Ashkenazi.

[Podcast Host]

That's right.

[Co-host/Commentator]

Ah, see what you did there?

[Podcast Host]

Oh, thank you. And she loves being camera ready. You know, she could not live in a country where that had to be hidden. That's true. Messiah on crutches. All right, I'm just really tired. Better way of saying yeah, I know. Well, because, you know, the Jews don't think so. Like, they're still waiting for him, which, you know, means you're hellbound, but doesn't mean you're a bad person.

[Co-host/Commentator]

Don't worry. He's gonna give you an opportunity to, you know.

[Podcast Host]

Yeah, yeah. We all get a chance. We try. So let me go to the next one here. We really do. Look, we try and call balls and strikes on this show. And I do have kind of one thing that's a big leg up on most people in this space, and I can't claim credit for it. It's Just that I pretty much had no other options. I've been here the longest, and you can go back and see a blue bed sheet and me in 2008 on YouTube in 2006. And I've always believed these things. And I was always fighting against legacy media and the corruption they're in. And early on, I would always really make the case there are no gatekeepers anymore. And that's a wonderful thing, because we used to think the cream would rise to the top, but then we realized that that wasn't the case. It was often the people who would play ball, the people who owed favors, and they were being paid back. But I will tell you this. There's no value in what we once called new media if it just becomes exactly that which we are replacing. Meaning corrupt, meaning chasing headlines, meaning trying to tell people exactly what to think or risking exclusion rather than helping people think more effectively. More critically, if we withhold resources or warp or edit or lie about resources rather than providing resources and references, I always believed that that was the stark contrast. But that's not always the case right now. And so this brings us to some of these conversations right now regarding Israel. Look, I've caught a lot of flak because there are serious criticisms that need to be discussed. Aipac, I agree. I mean, yeah, it's a problem. It's the largest PAC contributor to Congress. And I also know that Qatar, that, China, that they lobby with more money overall, but they do it in different ways. It's not a pac. There is a specific hold. There is a specific influence that is very unsettling, that is exclusive to aipac in many ways. They're the largest PAC contributor to Congress. $127 million. Now, another criticism, and I think, like, this is a. I just think they should, you know, they need to pick a Lane in 54. AIPAC was founded by a registered foreign agent, Isaiah Kennan, and it was specifically founded to avoid Farah. That's not something that's in dispute. Now we can discuss whether it's Americans who, you know, a coalition of Americans who want to look out for the interests of Israel, which I also think is kind of antithetical to America. First, I agree with that. I don't think that any other nation should come before the United States. And that's why AIPAC rubs me the wrong way. If we look at Israel and what people see, you know, that Israel is the number one destination that's paid for. As far as congressional travel, I have been offered those trips. I don't know if it came through these official organizations. I have declined. And here's the crappy part though. I would love to go to Israel as a Christian to visit the historical sites. I don't like that I have to. You know what though? I, since I've been impartial my whole life, I have to be careful that people don't accuse me of not being impartial. Personally, I would love to go sometime has nothing to do with the Israeli government. I also have a problem with the fact that a lot of congressional representatives get a paid for trip. You know, it's kind of like juul or these social campaigns, influencer campaigns, these products they get created and they go, hey, here's a party, let's invite some influencers, let's give them some cool places to take pictures. That rubs me the wrong way. I don't like that Israel is ambiguous on whether they have nuclear weapons. I don't like that they have in many ways here. And President Trump thankfully called it out, undermined our strategy in Iran. We can have a vested interest, a shared interest in a non nuclear Iran, in an impotent Iran, but we also need to take our own self interest into account how we approach it and Israel has put that at risk. That's a problem. I mean President Trump wrote it. Does this seem like he's the one who's being led or he's leading the dance? This is why I like that President Trump spoke forcefully on it and I'd like him to do it more often when Israel acts up. He wrote the United States knows nothing about this particular attack and the country of Qatar was in no way, shape or form, none of those things involved with it, nor did it have, nor did I have any idea that it was going to happen. No more attacks will be made by Israel pertaining to this extremely important and valuable South Pash field. Great. Those are all not only legit criti, not only legitimate criticism, say that five times fast, but ones we've issued here and caught flack for from people saying that we must be paid by Qatar. I will take an oath and like I've said, I will open the books to any other influencers or shows out there. We don't take any money from a foreign lobby, never have, not even nonprofits. We're supported by mugs, not a foreign caliphate or a pac. That being said, new media can't replace old media in being just as dishonest. It's of no value. So we need to separate legitimate criticisms that are really a conversation is necessary regarding those and I'm really bothered by people who say we can't have those conversations. That's a huge problem. Let's separate that from the lies that are going on as well. I'm just as upset about lies circulating on social media. Even if they, even if those lies would support my line of arguing. It's just as much of an affront to what we do here and always was to those on the right, conservatives, nationalists. That brings me to this clip. It's gone viral. Netanyahu again has a lot of problems. He has a vested interest in keeping this conflict going. And I don't know where it ends from, but I don't think it ends well once this is all said and done. But people have clipped this comment from him out of context and ginned up outrage. And so I want to show you what has circulated and then give you the context as well as the original author he was quoting so that you can be made aware that there are people lying, just like cnn. Here's the first clip.

[Benjamin Netanyahu]

Well, history proves that unfortunately and unhappily, Jesus Christ has no advantage over Genghis Khan. Because if you are strong enough, ruthless enough, powerful enough, evil will overcome good, aggression will overcome moderation. So you have no choice. If you look at the world as it is today, you have to be blind not to see that the democracies led by the United States have to reassert their will to defend themselves and to oppose their enemies in time, while there's still time before the jarring gong of danger wakes them up and wakes them up too late.

[Podcast Host]

So that was circulated and a massive reaction ensued, saying, see, these people are evil. He said that Jesus Christ is no better than Genghis Khan. He says it like John K. That's not what he said. Now, if you were to hear me saying, if you were to see a clip, me going, and Jesus Christ is a crazy person, he's of no value because he's just going around making crazy claims and have that reaction. And then you were to extend that clip and me going, either Jesus Christ is the one true savior, which of course I believe, or he's a crazy person and of no value because he's making a bunch of crazy claims, saying that he's divine and Muslims are effectively saying he's a crazy person. Does that change the context? If I'm quoting someone else comment, would it change your view? If I was saying, if you heard me say Jesus is nothing but a crazy person, that's all you saw. And someone said that's what he said, and then you saw me say, some people say Jesus isn't divine, he's nothing but a crazy person. Would it change your reaction? That's exactly what Netanyahu was doing here. He was quoting a Catholic author specifically on the context of the evil of the world doesn't have a prejudice toward meaning. They don't care if you're Christian because the world is evil and the world is about survival. And so we need to, as Christians, acknowledge the evil that is in the world and protect ourselves. He was quoting a Catholic author, Durant. This is the actual quote. Nature and history do not agree with our conceptions of good and bad. They define good as that which survives and bad as that which goes under. And the universe has no prejudice in favor of Christ as against Genghis Khan. Now that's the original quote from the Catholic author Durant. Here's the contextual clip of Netanyahu.

[Benjamin Netanyahu]

You know, if people want to be naive, then they don't see the kind of world we're living in. In this world, it's not enough to be moral. It's not enough to be just. It's not enough to be right. You know, one of the greatest writers of the 20th century, someone that I admire a lot, was the historian Will Durant. Now, he wrote many volumes. I read most of them. He also wrote the Lessons of history, very brief 100 page book in which he said, well, history proves that unfortunately and unhappily, Jesus Christ has no advantage over Genghis Khan. Because if you are strong enough, ruthless enough, powerful enough, evil will overcome good. Aggression will overcome moderation. So you have no choice. If you look at the world as it is today, you have to be blind not to see that the democracies led by the United States have to reassert their will to defend themselves and to oppose their enemies in time, while there's still time before the jarring gong of danger wakes them up and wakes them up too late.

[Podcast Host]

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[Co-host/Commentator]

Yeah, I mean, and everybody that I saw commenting on this was just saying, jesus versus Genghis Khan. Yeah, that was the quote in every single night.

[Podcast Host]

It's like, man, first off, I'm kind of a little fan of both.

[Co-host/Commentator]

But first off, you mean to tell me that somebody who doesn't believe that Jesus was the Messiah would speak negatively about Jesus? I was like, okay, that's not really a shocker to me. I expect atheists and Jewish people to do it, Hindus to do it, Muslims to do it in different ways because they still revere Jesus, but not as the son of God. They completely deny who we say he is. That wasn't the shocker. I was just like, I don't really think that he was saying that. Let me just see what the clip actually is. And I was like, he's obviously quoting an author, trying to make sure that the United States does what America first things, get up and defend yourself.

[Podcast Host]

More important than that, he's going out of his way to say, one of my most respected moral teachers, a Catholic author. And the author, by the way, is also the inspiration for a lot of the films that you see. Well, first off, obviously you would see other Christians throughout history, like the Crusaders, the retaliatory action, the Reconquista, which we talked about, William Wallace, the patriot, right Christians who were pacifists, and then saying sometimes a shepherd has to protect his flock. He's pointing to a Catholic author making the point about Christians not being lambs to the slaughter, saying contextually, he's one of my favorites. And he's right. Your faith, your righteousness isn't enough to defend itself. You have to defend that. You can disagree with that point. Correct? Don't lie. What do you think? I think it's a flat out lie. Yeah, it is. And it changes everything. But the world doesn't care. The world doesn't care. Jesus or Genghis, they don't care. Of course not. Why did Jesus say, hey, they hated me first? Of course they don't. Right, yeah, they're not in his camp. So. I mean, no, it changes everything. And it's, we have to be better or alternative media has no value. Right, that's exactly right. It's like, what are we doing here? Okay, I'm gonna, I'm just going to start again to drive this home, the phrase, and then I'll say clip because I know that I've said something to this effect. Look, Judaism and Islam, they both share a fundamental problem or disagreement with Christians in that they deny the divinity of Christ, which is foundational to our religion, to our faith. And also Islam tries to claim that they revered Jesus, but the truth is either Jesus was divine, either Jesus was the Messiah or. Clip. Jesus was a psycho or a liar because he claimed all those things, right? And if he's. Well, he's not the Messiah, so how can he say that? Clip. Yeah, I'd be pissed if you did that to me because I had it happen. You've had it happen. You were on CNN on Don Lemon in a highlight reel going, queer, queer, queer, queer. So it's like, well, as I do. Yes, you do that.

[Co-host/Commentator]

But it makes it harder to have the real conversation about being very frustrated with how he prosecuted that war in Gaza. Even if you supported Israel, you can look at like Netanyahu, what the hell are you doing? You're probably going to be brought up on war crimes, maybe rightfully so in this case, like you're going to have a really big issue with that. Instead of doing that now, you've people who wanna support them outright. Well, you lied about this, Clip. You're obviously just lying about him because you just don't like him. And now we can't have the conversation. You can't have the change that you actually want, right?

[Podcast Host]

And then it changes. And I will say this, generationally, you have a lot of young people who they don't, you know, they consume short form content and you see many of them believe some things that are fundamentally untrue. I think it would be fine to see an even split on generally supportive or not supportive of Israel's policies. I don't have a problem with that. I think it's reasonable because I know reasonable people on both sides of that. But the perception that Israel hates America, that Israel is America's greatest foe, which we're seeing in a lot of that to me is worrisome because I know it's predicated on quite a few lies like we saw today. So the views on Israel as far as, like, positive, in 2023, there were 47%. Now they're 32%. And it really depends on age group. Like, if you look at older people, it's 59 or 64% positive. If it's like to 64, 65 plus. And then with a lot of young people, it's only 26%. Not saying you need to have a supportive view of Israel.

[Co-host/Commentator]

Well, it's gone down to 13% is the point. Modern younger people is 13%.

[Podcast Host]

That's right. Sorry. It was 26% and 23. It's now 13%. Yeah, right. It's gone down across the board, but particularly with people who live on social media and they'll watch that clip and go, oh, my God. He said, Jesus is just like Genghis Khan. By the way. Here's something else. You don't know everything there is to know about Genghis Khan. I'm joking when I say I'm a fan, but kinda like, I mean, in some ways. In some ways, horrible. Believe me, I get it. But like, he. There are some cool things. Like you could wear a. You could wear a silver platter on Silk Road. Why? Because if you touched a messenger under Genghis Khan, I mean, you were torn limb from limb. But it made sure that their postman Pat was okay.

[Co-host/Commentator]

He doesn't have to worry about looking over his shoulder.

[Podcast Host]

Yeah. Also I should note, there was one group when polled that showed 100% support for Israel. Juice, Juice, Juice, juice. I don't think that. Nothing like rooting for the home team. I mean, the black and the smile is. That's weird.

[Spanglish Generation]

Were they all Sam?

[Podcast Host]

Yeah, they're all the same. He was forced to do his own photo shoot, wasn't he? That was cruel. Yes.

[Co-host/Commentator]

You know who else we defended? Because we defended the fact that that clip was not quite accurate and people should go back and look at the context. Nick Fuentes. We did the exact same thing for him on something.

[Podcast Host]

Good point.

[Co-host/Commentator]

That we don't always agree on. It's like, hey, that's not fair. That's not what he said. If you want to attack his arguments. Fantastic. Do it in context.

[Podcast Host]

Yeah.

[Co-host/Commentator]

Every time. Doesn't matter if it's Bibi Netanyahu or Nick Fuentes or Donald Trump saying, you know, peaceful protesters on both sides.

[Podcast Host]

You know who else I've defended? Tucker Carlson.

[Co-host/Commentator]

Yeah.

[Podcast Host]

Remember when he had the interview with Putin and everyone said this means he's a. I said, nope. I said, look, we may or may not find out at some point in time that he's compromised. Cuz I don't know if anyone is. I know that there are some people who are because we've seen it in the past. Right. But I said, but you can't say that because he's interviewing the most significant foreign head of state at that moment in time. I said, by the way, I think it's not only fair. I gleaned some information from that interview. I don't trust Putin any further than I can throw him. Defended that to be clear. And then I have a problem when he says there are more Christians in Palestine and they're treated better than Israel. Well, that's not true. So like, again, what are we doing here, guys? And here's why it matters. We need to have this conversation, of course, regarding aipac. And I think it's dishonest when people just say, well, there are other lobbying groups. Well, sure, but we know that there's something that's a little bit unique about aipac and we know that the Christian church, the Evangelical church, has received a lot of dollars from the Israel Lobby. Where I would. My problem is that they're teaching things that aren't theologically correct. I think we would agree with that. Yeah.

[Co-host/Commentator]

And they're pushing both sides, giving Hakeem Jeffries money and then they're giving Republicans money as well.

[Podcast Host]

Well, my primary agreements with AIPAC is that it's clearly not America first. Correct. Because for the same reason I hate Act Blue, they gave a ton of money to Hakeem Jeffries. They don't care about the United States of America. They care about Israel more than America. You can't care about America and support Hakeem Jeffries and Elizabeth Warren or Debbie Wasserman Schultz, whoever. You can't. You just cannot. Just like you cannot support America and support the Castro regime in Cuba. Right. Here's why that conversation should take place. Another conversation that should take place that's pretty important, which is now being presented as a psyop, is that Islam is not a problem. It's a religion of peace and we should align with them because they have more in common with Christians than any other group. Here they are trying to mob the Australian Prime Minister, sounding a lot like the people who wanted to beat and rape the man's servants in Sodom and Gomorrah. If you guys remember that, here it is. We as Australian Muslims need to have these deep intellectual discussions in regards to how we navigate the path of engaging political leadership, the media and the wider.

[Co-host/Commentator]

There's your religion.

[Podcast Host]

Here, watch this.

[Benjamin Netanyahu]

Hey, build some more mosques.

[Podcast Host]

One guess. Why are you protecting him? Yeah, give him to us.

[Spanglish Generation]

We don't want politicians, Baba.

[Podcast Host]

We're praying. Why do we got politicians? We, politics our side. By the way, just in case anyone thinks. Well, yeah. If we align with them, you know that. That's the government, right? Australia after the. The Bondi beach attack. That said, it wasn't religiously motivated, right? Mm. No appeasement will suffice.

[Co-host/Commentator]

None.

[Podcast Host]

We need to be able to have those conversations, and we need to be able to have them in good faith, honestly. That's also why we provide all the references. You can check them out for this show as we do every sing, and we can keep the lights on and call balls and strikes because of your support. If you want to click that button, join Mug Club Rumble Premium. No caliphates, no nonprofits, no $7,000, no Qatari investment funds. It comes from you. So whether you agree or not, at least, you know, everyone serves somebody. I'm happier to serve you than to serve someone else with a separate interest. Yeah.

[Co-host/Commentator]

And I'm glad he experienced that. I'm glad the Australian Prime Minister got to see exactly what he's been importing.

[Podcast Host]

Right.

[Co-host/Commentator]

You know, if you want to. If you want to kind of like, you know, flick the jab at being woke and try to make sure that, oh, I know. Everybody's the same, it's peaceful. And you have zero experience with this. You have zero historical understanding of it. I'm glad you go sit there and try. And that happens. I'm glad it was just that. Because it usually gets far worse than just, like, running you off and saying, we don't want you here.

[Podcast Host]

Right. You have to get to the point

[Co-host/Commentator]

you're exploding pretty fast.

[Podcast Host]

Yeah. Where you realize this can't be fixed.

[Co-host/Commentator]

Yeah.

[Podcast Host]

That's the place to start. This can't be fixed. Right. So how do we deal with it? There's no fixing this. Get away from them. Yeah. It's that simple. All right, here's the next thing I want to discuss before we have. Because I know I can't use your Spanglish generation. Yeah. Before that, if you watch the. I highly recommend the Ash Wednesday, not because I'm in it, but because of the guest that Rachel Wilson was on last week. She's great. And we talked about, you know, she runs into quite a bit feminists, and she discusses them, and she's really, really quite versed in the history of feminism, its roots in pseudo spiritualism, socialism, the occult, for lack of a better term. And she talked about how often. Then you just have these women, they go, you got a tiny jack micropenis. So I actually want to present the case to you that any woman out there who uses the attack of micropenis, and I'll give you a 5.5 point case as to why anyone who uses that line of attack is a feminist. Even if they claim to be conservative, they are acting as a feminist. Micropenis scream that out. When you can't win the argument.

[Spanglish Generation]

The men in the MAGA movement have small penises. We go micro penis screaming out.

[Podcast Host]

When you can't win and have a brain on a feminism, just find a

[Spanglish Generation]

place where you can scream micropenis like it's so small.

[Podcast Host]

And I know. And by the way, I already know you'll see this in the comments. Like, really? Someone that upset about it, that's something that someone with a micro penis would say. Be that as it may, the point still remains when facts and logic cannot win a debate. You know, we're still discussing feminism. You can simply revert to the feminist line of attack. And anyone who uses it is a feminist or a subversive femcon. Just. They'll use the line of attack. Micropenis. Tiny dick.

[Spanglish Generation]

So he is running around with a micropenis energy. Hey, what the. What are we doing?

[Podcast Host]

What are we doing?

[Spanglish Generation]

This gives small energy.

[Palestinian American Guest]

This gives impotent vibes.

[Spanglish Generation]

She has maintained steadfast that she believes that a lot of the men in the MAGA movement have small penises. Not only energy, little energy, but also micropenes. That's what you do when you have a micro penis. When they go low, we go micropenis.

[Podcast Host]

Now, this segment could be really short, and I could prove my point by the second you hear micropenis, you yell canyon. And then everyone. And then everyone would say, ah, hey, that's. That's chauvinism, misogyny. Exactly. That's my point.

[Co-host/Commentator]

I'm gonna treat you like a man.

[Podcast Host]

Yeah, exactly. So five reasons that anyone using the term micropenis or if they use that in a debate, it proves that they are a feminist. It encapsulates, it crystallizes all of the primary, really the tenets and the grievances that critics have with feminism. So you can hit the bell there, Billy. Point number one. Okay, A woman in an argument or debate shouting micropenis is a woman trying to act like a man. Just to be clear, that's feminism. It's inherently not feminine. Right. They're Trying to act like a man and using that line of attack. And they're doing so quite poorly. Because that brings me to number two. Micropenis small penis is a completely irrelevant, totally irrational, non debatable line of argument that really can't be refuted without committing sexual assault.

[Co-host/Commentator]

Need to define the terms too.

[Podcast Host]

That's the right. The feminist thing is attack. And then that's their superpower. Play victim while they're the aggressor. That's what micro penis is. Because no matter what you say, you're like, well, look, you probably shouldn't do that. That's probably not appropriate. Like, that's something that someone with a micropenis would say, well, let me. Sexual assault. Me too. There's no good way you're registering with your neighbors. That's exactly right. I have to be fitted for office space glasses. Point number three, it is a woman acting a way toward a man that would never be permissible if she was a man. Right. As silly and benign as it's like, I don't think any guy is ever actually bothered or offended. Like, sure, fine, whatever. It's deliberately designed to cross a line that would result in a man being slapped for the same behavior. Women do this very often, but under the umbrella of I'm a woman, so you can't do anything. So if a guy said, yeah, that's a micropenis, tiny, thick energy, here's what would happen. You'd probably go like, okay, all right. And you go back to the point. If a man kept going micropenis, micro penis, you go, look, we either need to have a conversation about this topic or we're just going to have to stop here. Micropenis, micropenis probably gets. You probably come to blows. A woman saying those things is relying on you not treating them like a man. Also, don't infantilize them and treat them as equals. Number four, it is, again, a feminist mo. It is a sidestep to reputational damage. Instead of addressing the argument or facing the conflict head on. Right. It's the same thing. As opposed to facing an argument, facing conflict, which men tend to do in a more straightforward way. That's why I think that gossip and high school, like, drama is very feminine. I don't like seeing guys do that in debate. It's the same thing. Rather than addressing. It's like, you know, actually, here's a tiny, dark. That's what feminists do. That's what women do. They don't fight. There's no physical conflict. They engage in reputational damage. That's why Me too. All the false accusations in the middle of an argument, yelling micropenis, thinking that you've won. That means you are a feminist whether you claim to be one or not. And number five, the reason it proves that they're a feminist is because like all modern feminist post sexual liberation, it's called projection. They're only saying micropenis because they in fact have a huge vagina. He looked very confused. Yes.

[Benjamin Netanyahu]

Sound design.

[Podcast Host]

As Travolta would. Some people are going to say. Are you suggesting. What's the solution here? We try to offer. Are you suggesting sexual assault? Uh huh. Yeah, I guess that's what we're wondering. Any feminist who dares to use the attack of micropenis must be met with the response of, as I said, canyon, and immediately subjected to conducting a physical examination on the spot. It is the only way. Otherwise it must be disregarded. Anything else? No. You guys notice that's a big thing. It's tiny Dash. Well, they just assume that our egos can't handle this, that we all sit around thinking about such things. It's so offensive to us. Yeah, I'm gonna get them. I'm getting them where it really hurts them.

[Co-host/Commentator]

Yeah, well, it's the same thing as like a Jewish shell. Like, it's the same thing. Like you're just totally sidestepping the arguments. Like, come on, just. Just debate the points.

[Podcast Host]

Yeah. Yes.

[Co-host/Commentator]

You don't have to do that.

[Podcast Host]

Speaking of points. Okay, I know we're gonna have our guest coming on here in a little bit. I'm very grateful to everyone, but I want to set this up because this is the reason too, that we're having. And I want to do a roundtable with. And I know you'll say they're not real Cubans or Cuban Americans. Well, here's the thing. You can't actually get accurate polling of Cubans in Cuba. The government doesn't. They're not big fans. No, they're not gonna do that. So the closest you get are you. The stats, the polls, the demographic numbers that you see in the United States, and this is why I think too Cuban. And you're seeing this with Iranian. Well, the diaspora of Iranians around the world. But you see it a lot with Cuban Americans. The reason they are, I believe, so appreciative of any type of a platform is because everyone, for example, agrees. Like, if you go Darfur or if you say there's a genocide, you know, Rwanda, people go, yeah. Oh my gosh, that's terrible. But if you say the Cuban people are being starved, executed, tortured by their own government, there are throngs of white socialists going, no, no, no, shut up, shut up. Oppressed, starved, tortured people. It's great. They're doing the bidding of the communist regime and so Cuban expats, and you see it with Iran too. These people are going, I can't have a voice, I can't have a platform. All of us know what's going on. You guys are being lied to. You don't typically get that for what are recognized as totalitarian, cruel, oppressive, inhumane regimes, that context matters. Because today a man who never met a little red book that he didn't like audio or traditional Hasan Piker is set to arrive in Cuba on a flotilla or plane, whichever comes first.

[Hasan Piker]

By this time tomorrow, I will be live in Cuba. I will be doing a regular broadcast in Cuba as well. For those of you who are asking, I am joining the flotilla, the aid mission to Cuba. I'm going to Cuba to one bring awareness to the plight of the Cuban population as a direct consequence of American intervention on the island nation for the the last couple of decades. I'm going to be doing my regular news coverage when I'm out there how I have established a place where I'll hopefully be able to have Internet access and energy even though the grid is is on shaky grounds. I'm very excited to go to Cuba and see to see the Cuban folks, which is a beacon of hope and resilience. We are not going to be transmitting through the flight or the flotilla flight. Initially we set it up so that I could stream it, but I'm not going to be streaming that process either for safety concerns. But I will be live when I get to Cuba.

[Podcast Host]

Oh, for safety concerns. I'm going to ask our guest too how much you want to bet that it's not going to be broadcast because there is zero chance that that aid goes directly to the Cuban people. Has to go through the government. And by the way, his arrival was met exactly as you'd expect. Save on family essentials at Safeway and Albertsons this week at Safeway and Albertsons Signature select spiral ham bone in is 127 a pound member price with digital coupon limit one while supplies last and

[Spanglish Generation]

Fuji Gala or Granny smith apples are

[Podcast Host]

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[Podcast Host]

Boy, Yeah, also I commented on this and this is a perfect example. People going, hey, well, then why don't you go? I'm one of very, very few people who has both legally been to Havana and Guantanamo Bay. I went to Havana to tape a commercial as a at that point from Canada on a Canadian passport. And I went to Guantanamo Bay to entertain the troops. I've seen both sides. I've been there. I do know what it's like. And I can also read statistics. And we all know that the communist regime is awful. This next guest, I want to show you a clip. I just. I found her video and boy, you'll see a lot of people now just sort of become talking heads. Not only the passion, but when she got cooking. It's rare that I'm as impressed as I was by what I saw.

[Spanglish Generation]

Thousands of Cubans are not allowed to enter their own country because they've been banned by the regime because they disagree with the communist oppression that we've had for 67 years. So spear me la pila de carrados that are trying to spew their propaganda. Cos patada de ogados.

[Podcast Host]

Please welcome to the show. You know this lady as on TikTok, Spanglish generation. Hello, Miss. I don't know how to do this because I know you have a screen name. Ms. Generation. Should I call you? Can you see me? Hear me Day.

[Spanglish Generation]

Day is fine.

[Podcast Host]

Okay, Day. All right. Day. Thank you so much for being here. We appreciate it.

[Spanglish Generation]

Thank you for having me. This is so exciting.

[Podcast Host]

Well, don't get too excited because this will go sideways quite quickly. Yeah. If you were watching, she's like, deal with me, micro penis. That's how much. My lead in here's my first question. And by the way, where can people follow you and your content? I know TikTok, YouTube. Where else?

[Spanglish Generation]

YouTube, Instagram, TikTok. Spanglish Generation is my handle. And you know, we're there Talking in stories every single day, doing a lot

[Podcast Host]

well and I know it's horrible. And then I wanna give you the floor. Cause I'm sure you have a lot to say. And as I understand it, a lot of Cuban Americans feel that they don't have a voice in the way that a lot of other pseudo oppressed groups do. But I do have a couple of questions to set it up. I know it's wrong to generalize. I've never once met a Cuban American, I know they exist. Never once met a Cuban American who didn't check the boxes of anti communist, hard working, family oriented. It's as close to a stereotype that is almost universally perpetuated anecdotally and statistically. So that's also why I've had a heart for these people for a long time. And my agent, Gabe William is Cuban American as well. Let me ask you this though, first question, because I really want to make sure I'm getting this right. What do you think the chances are that Hasan Piker will be delivering supplies straight to the Cuban people, bypassing the government? Or do you think it'll be going to the government for them to distribute?

[Spanglish Generation]

Every single thing that arrives in Cuba goes through the government. The only reason they're going to Cuba and being allowed to do this whole charade is because it's already been filtered, it's already been managed by these organizations like Code Pink and People's Forum, et cetera, all these brigades. And so they've already been in contact with the regime, it's all been arranged. And anything that they do is going to be broadcast that they're going to have people come in, in from, you know, wherever, and they're going to film these people getting supplies, et cetera. But I guarantee you that, you know, the family that I have in El Caney, Santiago, Havana, will see none of these supplies and neither will so many other thousands of Cubans. Like we say, Cubano pied. Everyday people will get to see none of this. This is just propaganda. So the world can continue to, you know, be in la la land about the reality of Cuba.

[Podcast Host]

And we hear people like them blame the United States for the state of Cuba. Now we could discuss that, but policy wise. But let me ask you, you have family in Cuba. You're obviously around a lot of Cuban Americans. Do they blame the United States or the regime?

[Spanglish Generation]

Absolutely not.

[Podcast Host]

Okay.

[Spanglish Generation]

No, no.

[Podcast Host]

Why not?

[Spanglish Generation]

They are very clear on the situation because they've been in Cuba for six decades. You know, the older ones and the younger ones that were born under this. They see what's going on. And now with the, you know, coming of the Internet, thanks to Obama. One of the few things that we have to thank Obama for regarding Cuba is that, you know, he kind of pushed for the Internet to get to the island. And that was a double edged sword because now people know what's going on. They have access to our content here in the US and so they're not blind anymore. They realize that their oppression comes from the people within. The fact that they can't farm, the fact that they can't eat shrimp, the fact that they cannot enter the hotels, that the tourists can enter, the fact that security takes them off the beaches when they're trying to access the beaches in their own island, they know that's not the United States, not Trump sending people to do that. It's the own Cuban regime, the government that's preventing them from actually enjoying everyday life and being productive in Cuba.

[Podcast Host]

Yeah, I mean, obviously that's what I figured because anecdotally, you know, when I was in Guantanamo Bay, do you know what the biggest threat was? A lot of people don't know this. They had to set up a perimeter and in many cases non lethal type landmine type devices, capture devices to prevent Cuban citizens from getting into the prison because they thought that it was American soil. If they got in, they could flee. That was a huge security threat to Guantanamo. Really?

[Spanglish Generation]

Yeah. My dad used to practice swimming when he was in 19, early 20s. He seems to be an avid swimmer and he used to practice swimming every single day because his dream was to swim to Guantanamo because you know, so many people did that trying to get to US soil. Wow.

[Podcast Host]

Wow, that'd be like someone here trying to swim to Alcatraz. I'm free. Yeah. Wow. Well, God bless your dad. I saw to the raft graveyard there in Guantanamo Bay, all the flotation devices that anything they could put together. And like I said, I spent time in Havana. We taped this rising crust pizza commercial. I was 16 years old and I had to go on a Canadian passport. And I remember being so mad because the Canadians were like, it's beautiful. And I was like, did you see the 13 year old prostitute because she was trying to feed her family? Did you see, did you see the people with one shoe? I'm like, I get the beaches are nice, but do you guys realize what you're supporting? And you know, Canadians are the worst. Your thoughts?

[Spanglish Generation]

You know what, it's ironic because people are like, well, you know, they're mad about their vacations being ruined, their cheap vacations at that. Because there are many beautiful beaches elsewhere that are cleaner, that have better access to a lot of things. Cuba has amazing beaches. Yes. But the structure there is not it. You know, naturally it's a beautiful island, but it's lacking when it comes to infrastructure. So people are mad because Cuba is now not accessible in terms of, you know, them being able to go there and spend much less than if they were to go to Cancun, Isla Mujeres, you know, maybe Punta Cana, Dominican Republic or elsewhere in the world. But when people go and they're like, it's so enchanting and it's so vintage, I'm like, it's not vintage, it's stuck in time. Because we have been driving cars from 1950s.

[Podcast Host]

Yeah.

[Spanglish Generation]

And the reason for that is not because we're vintage. It's not because, you know, we want to be like Avant Card. It's because we're stuck in time. And it's because of the Cuban regime. They have access to so many resources. And my question to them is always, why do the people that are in charge have access to all of these things? When they say the hospitals have no electricity, well, how come there's electricity for Diaz Canel and his family? How come the hotels have electricity? How come they have fuel? When we call an ambulance, and this was in the 1980s, people think this is an issue now. I was born in 1980 in Santiago de Cuba, and when my mom was going to give birth, they called an ambulance and the ambulance didn't have any fuel, there wasn't any fuel. So they had to wait for hours for a bus to take her to the hospital because the ambulance had no fuel. This was in 1980. So the fact that people are complaining now because we have no fuel because of the blockade, we've been having this issue. And so when a dissident decides to, you know, protest and speak up, it turns out that every single patrol car has fuel to come to this house, you know, to their houses, and oppress them and disappear them. And you know, why?

[Podcast Host]

Right?

[Spanglish Generation]

So people can't put two and two together. It's just common sense. You don't have to be a historian, you don't have to be like, you know, knowledgeable in politics and global. You don't. It's simple. The Cuban regime has access to these things. When you go there on vacation, if you really open your eyes, you are going to see the 16 year old, as we call them, prostitutes and still a thing. Little girls, young Women in Cuba are waiting. They're just targeting extrajeros, foreigners, so they can leave Cuba. That's their only goal. Their goal is not to build a future, to be somebody, to go to school, to start a business. Their goal is who can I target that will take me out of this hellhole? And that's no way to live. That's not a future for any country.

[Podcast Host]

Yeah, no, it's really sad. And I think they're going to have some more fuel and medical supplies for those patrols, courtesy of Hasan Piker. Right. Because he knows what's up. What would you say to. And how big of a problem is it for Cuban American, the people in Cuba, by the way, seeing these influencers out there selling this, I've got to imagine that it is soul crushing for you guys to see these Westerners going, no, no, Cuba is great. I mean, everyone from Bernie Sanders Rage against the Machine to Hasan Piker. I don't know if, you know, we were banned from YouTube because we had a. Maybe we could bring it up. If she could see we had a shirt. Socialism is for figs and it's Che Guevara, but we changed the fist to a limp wrist. And they said, that's hate speech. You can't. And I said, he's a genocidal maniac. He's Hitler without the charm. And what I mean is he was a personal sadist and would have been as evil as Hitler if he could have gotten away with it. And this is on a T shirt. Yeah, this shirt right there. We can send you guys some. It's still our number one selling shirt. I invented it, I wrote it, I created it when I was 14 years old. How awful is it for someone like you and Cuban or the Diaspora, Cuban Americans, all of them, to see that out there? Is it like a nightmare, like where you're, you know, you're screaming and nothing comes out? Is that what it feels like?

[Spanglish Generation]

Yeah, it's. It's total frustration. The. The disrespect toward people that they cannot relate to because, I mean, they love socialism, but they're not trying to live in Cuba. That's the part I never understood. If you want to live in the revolution, go to Cuba, but not as a tourist. Like, the tourists go there. There's a lot of European tourists that go live in Cuba, and that's the latest trend, you know, in Havana. And then when you confront them, they're like. Because, you know, Cuba gives opportunity to different realities. Now there's one reality in Cuba, Misery, Communism and misery and so when we see these people go there, it's frustrating because we're seeing 67 years of the same thing. 67 years of the regime being connected with people like Bernie Sanders. And you know, of course they'll say we're not pro dictatorial or totalitarian regimes. Yeah, but your party has completely, completely sided with the people that support the socialism in Cuba. Karen Bass from California, she is a part of the Venceremos Brigade. She supports going to Cuba to learn about socialism. If you're a politician in the US and you're going to Cuba to learn about how to do things, we're in trouble. Like this is going to. We're in trouble. And so when we see these people out there parading Cuba as if it was aspirational, it just makes it like. It's like. I don't know how to explain it. It's just a dark feeling. Because my parents went through so much to get to the United States. My dad used to dream my dad actually was going to come during the Peter Pan era. My dad, his dad was a fierce anti communist. When the communism got to Cuba, my grandfather and I'm sidetracking. I talk a lot.

[Podcast Host]

No, it's fine. Please. I spent a lot of time with Cuban Americans. I know you guys chat.

[Spanglish Generation]

Yeah, we can talk.

[Podcast Host]

Yeah.

[Spanglish Generation]

And so my grandma opposed because she's like, he's too little. I'm not going to send him alone to a different country. They were supposed to go through Mexico and then eventually get to the United States. My dad got to leave Cuba after a long time in 1989. And the journey from when he was a kid to almost 40s to leave Cuba is so gut wrenching. As a pastor in Cuba, being oppressed, being silenced, having state security sitting in the pews listening to every single message that he said, every single on Sabbath. We are Seventh Day Adventist. I was raised to Seven Day Adventists. So I know what it feels like to have surveillance 247 because they're afraid that you're going to say something that may mislead people in their opinion. So my parents went through so much. In 1980, we were supposed to come in the Marielle boat lift. My aunt spent $10,000 on a boat. And my dad found out that if he left, the pastoral house was going to be given to the people from, you know, the cdr, which is the Committee of Revolutionary, you know, the people that surveil you and whatever.

[Podcast Host]

Right.

[Spanglish Generation]

And my dad said no. So he let that opportunity go. And my mom was pregnant with me, I would have been born here, you know, orange bull back in the day. And he said, no, he was not going to allow the pastoral home and the church to be given to those people. And that boat was instead given to the prisoners. Prisoners and people that were released from Masora, the mental hospital and mental institutions. And so my dad suffered repudiation acts. My mom was pregnant as well. Suffered repudiation acts because, you know, during the 1980s, boat lift and all the repression, my husband came on a raft. Okay. This is my. My family is plagued with just people that have been through so much. And when I see these people go to Cuba and talk about how wonderful and poor people, because the US Is oppressing them, knowing the truth, knowing that no person gets on a raft and spends days at sea trying to get to freedom, knowing very well that they could die and just living with that reality. No one does that unless what's going on over there is really, really dark. And the fact that these people trying to whitewash it and just, you know, butter it up and call it vintage and call people resilient. Yeah, we're resilient, but not because we've been fighting against the US because we've been oppressed by a regime that, you know, sold social justice. And that's. It's even scarier when you see the similarities between the Cuban narrative and the Democrat narrative.

[Podcast Host]

Yeah.

[Spanglish Generation]

And I have to say, I don't mean to. I don't. I don't believe that every Democrat is a socialist or a communist. Absolutely not. But it would be great if they admitted that their party is the one that the socialists found fit to infiltrate with their social justice bs.

[Podcast Host]

Yeah. I even slightly disagree with you. I think they all are. Not all of them, but I think the party is. And what I mean by that party. Yeah, yeah, let's use. You know what? Let's use Bernie Sanders. Before I do that, I think this is. Tell me if I have this right. My understanding in talking with as many Cuban people as I can is that the United States is not to blame and that people in Cuba have been suffering and starving for forever. So this blockade, whatever you want to call it, doesn't affect them. It affects the government. And anyone bringing in aid is actually enabling the continued oppression. That seems to be the general opinion. We don't have this stuff anyway. Might as well make it so those in the government don't get it. Is that about right?

[Spanglish Generation]

That's about right, Yes.

[Podcast Host]

I know it's more complicated than that, but going back to let's use Bernie Sanders as an example. I know he's an actual socialist, but you could find, I mean you could use Jane Fonda. Okay? Jane Fonda sided with Fidel Castro, the Viet Cong and Chavez. Bernie Sanders honeymooned in the ussr, said breadlines in Venezuela were a good thing and supported Fidel Castro. Bob Dylan's broad, Susan Rotolo back then who was a social activist, said there's no violence, the regime won't as long as you don't protest, it's fine. They were propaganda mouthpieces. I get that. They're not all socialists. I don't know how you so often line up with every single socialist oppressive regime whenever given the chance and then not be one. And that's the majority of those in the Democrat Party who have been active. It's almost like a compulsion for evil because make no mistake, the Cuban regime is absolutely evil. It's just that they've been, they don't have the same power as other evil regimes in history have. Let me ask you, what do you hope for and what do you think most Cubans, Cuban Americans hope for as far as like, how does this end? How would you like to see this turn out for Cuba?

[Spanglish Generation]

Well, absolutely. I would like for Cuba to be freed from the 67 year nightmare. And what I want people to understand is that the U.S. although I am convinced and there is evidence that Cuba is a national threat to the U.S. cuba is complicit with the terrorists of the world and they're 90 miles away from the Keys. So yes, they are a national security threat. But I want people to know that the US really has no obligation to free Cuba. The only reason why we as Americans as well, who are America first, are supporting this initiative is because we understand firsthand that people that have been disarmed and for 67 years oppressed, starved. This whole electric grid situation, that's also a strategy. It's not that they don't have resources to fix these things, they don't care. And as long as they keep people in survival mode, it keeps them busy trying to, you know, trying to see what they can do for the everyday to day, trying to see if the lights come on so they could, you know, charge their phones or cook for their children within that two hour span. That's an oppressive mechanism. It's not only that they don't have the resources to have electricity, it's also a tactic. People need to understand that. So although the US has no obligation, we are very grateful that the US is finally paying attention to the situation because the Cuban people have so much to offer. Cuba is so grateful. Cubans are so grateful for everything that the US has provided. And I know that with the learning that we've had of six decades stuck in communism, I think we would flourish as a nation in Cuba. To me, the US Is already home. But I would love, for the sake of my parents, for the sake of everyone that died at sea trying to cross, for the sake of all the political prisoners still in prison today and those who have passed, I hope that Cuba is free. And I hope that we could see the Cubans prove to the world that what was keeping them down was the socialist regime, was the communist regime, which is one and the same. People want to, you know, separate socialism and communism. They're one and the same. And so with that, it's a dream, you know, But I really do hope that it becomes a reality soon. And I want to say this. Cuba. Cuba has to do their part. And I know a lot of Cubans don't like it when I say this, because Cubans on the island, it's time for them to rise up, and they're starting. I know it's scary, but we're doing our best to try to encourage them. I do have family there, and people are like, I could just say that, you know, if they're gonna go to prison or they could be in prison. Well, I morally cannot ask us to put their kids, their. Their soldiers, their guys at stake if I'm not asking the people in Cuba, my birthplace, to risk and sacrifice as well. Freedom is not free. And we cannot just be thinking that the US Is just going to come and free us. Although we would love the help, because we need it. Cuba does need to understand that inside the island, there needs to be an uprising, and there needs to be an uprising for the sake of freedom, but for the sake of the world. Understanding that the regime has not completely, completely manipulated the people's minds. Right now, these flotillas flying over their situation are being successful because there is not like a huge, huge amount of people just massively protesting in the streets proving this wrong. If Cuba rises and shows the world, no, we do not agree with the regime, no, we do not agree with these bobos coming here to talk the nonsense they're talking and try to twist the narrative. If that were to happen, I think it would make the biggest difference. So I think that the US Is doing a wonderful job, and we appreciate it, but my wish is that the people overcome fear and finally show the world that they've had Enough.

[Podcast Host]

Yeah. Wow. I don't think I've ever heard a case better articulated than that. And what I mean is a lot of people going, hey, no, we actually love the U.S. can you help us? And you taking inventory and accountability saying, yeah, but Cuba has to do their part. That's the way that it needs to be done. And I will add something else too, if I can help spur that at all. Because here's the thing, I'll get people too going. Why do you care about other countries outside the United States? I'm like, no, no, no. I can also acknowledge Cuba and I, of course I'm America first, but people get mad at military action. Okay? There's no military action. There's no money that we need to spend right now. Right now we're just not allowing the communist regime to get the shit that they need. And that may be all that it takes for this to change over. Because if there are Cubans out there watching right now, here's something important to note. Russia is hamstrung right now because they have to deal with Ukraine. China has other problems thanks to what happened in Venezuela and what's going on with, with the Strait of Hormuz. They are very unstable right now. These are the primary trading partners of Cuba. And so Cuba can fall without significant military action. Let me tell you why. Because the regime, they're cowards. And I'll prove to you that they're all a bunch of bitches. Che Guevara, the revolutionary motorcycle Fucking diaries. Sorry, I had to watch it in high school. Everyone out there, hey Cubans, if you're wondering if you can rise up and take these people. He was found in Bolivia with a. A fully loaded fucking rifle that was never fired, crying, saying, I'm worth more to you alive than dead. Some revolutionary. That's your competition, Cubans. Please remember that. And they're not gonna be holding up the way that you think they are. Can we please. I'd like for you to take some chat because I know the audience has tons of questions for you. I know you're busy. It'll be more just fun chit chat. But tell people one last time where they can can find you.

[Spanglish Generation]

Spanglish, Generation, Instagram, YouTube and TikTok. So we're there every single day, talking in stories, posting about everything that happens. Cuba socially and politically, all over.

[Podcast Host]

So absolutely. And by the way, to all those, we're about to go to rumble. Premium chat. She is happily married as she let Lane know. Because I guarantee you that plenty of people are rich so don't do that in chat. All right, Stay with us. Time to go. Let's go to premium.

[Spanglish Generation]

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[Podcast Host]

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[Podcast Host]

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[Spanglish Generation]

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