Cuba in the Dark (Members Only #309)

That is admitted to causing pain in his marriage.

He has admitted to causing pain in his marriage.

And I love that you've misled me. It's like I fucked away any time.

No, no, no, no. It's not pain in my marriage.

I think he has a little pressure to some other lady.

We know of new methods of a hack.

Okay.

Sure.

The Trojan Horse.

The Fifth Column.

Semitell County Republican Party

Disappointed in Christy Fifth Column

Bill of Dem party law fair in the podcast law fair

is an un-American and is un-American and harmful.

Can't we at least agree

waste fraud and abuse investigations are necessary

and should not include destroying a life?

What is this like?

Presbyterially Newsom's California

is just a tweet.

I wasn't here.

But I heard really good things.

Seems like a lot of people are interested.

The reason we can, they would.

Christy had to say.

I wouldn't stop talking about it like everyone was.

We had to stop Christy.

It's time to go.

I used to put them a little too much.

Two hours, my God.

And then afterwards, I had to catch a plane.

And so.

Is that how come with you?

I ended up going on the elevator with him.

But first of all, the convent just pointed out

he's the first guest to get Moynihan shut up.

I just sit back and thought it was Christy.

Afterwards, I'm like, okay, I really needed to get this plane.

So I just want to detach and say goodbye.

Yeah.

He's fucking rolling.

Moynihan's rolling.

And it's like the best conversation that you ever want to see.

It was great.

It was great.

I got positive and a few negatives.

Negative?

No, just from friends that are like, he's for shit.

People that are right.

I mean, he's a politician.

He's a politician.

Of course.

And every one of those stories, like he told six fucking bangers.

Yeah.

Like six.

Yeah.

And the story is that he's really smart.

Duh.

Duh.

I mean, I think the most trafficked one,

because the eclipse one, crazy online,

was one that included a lion from him,

quoting a professor of his saying,

you're going to be a politician and you're going to be really good at it.

Yeah.

I was like, I want to lift that bit up, but you're not a politician.

No, I really like him personally.

He was a fun guy to hang out with.

Oh, my God.

Yeah.

So go check out the episode if you haven't.

Yeah.

We will absolutely, well, lean on him to get our painting.

Yes.

Georgia.

Of course.

Portrait.

That's the thing is, I don't know.

Did we get his email address?

Do we have direct contact?

We have direct contact?

Because I got an email on.

Yeah.

I just call Olivia and I was saying, get it from her,

but, um, we bring it from there.

Okay.

Because I want that panning.

Yeah.

I want the George W. Bush panning.

Oh, I said we'd pay for it.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Now we're going to, we have some handsome wall space coming up downstairs.

Yeah.

A walkway of honor.

A walkway of honor.

I got to say that like, you know, I always enjoy being with you guys at this table, just being

with you in general and have a nice whiskey, but like being with you is seeing you both.

And then in the middle of the shot, is that painting?

Yeah.

God, I didn't even paint.

I don't see it.

Jason, I told you.

Yeah.

I had to cut that in.

And that racist problem.

Yeah.

We don't even know what it is.

Yes, we do.

Yes, we do.

Yes, we do.

It's love.

Oh, my God.

Jason, I want to have an art critics kind of on this one.

It's like it's haunted.

If you can, the punk in here, the woman is cross-eyed.

Camille just did like what?

Yeah, but maybe she wasn't real life.

It wasn't insulting.

Not into put the sun going as well.

It isn't her.

Luther Campbell on the bottom.

And then there's the woods in the kind of Bob Ross way in the back.

Yeah.

But one of the trees rather high up in a big letter is proportion to the tree size.

Yeah.

It says DMZ.

Yeah.

So there's the demilitarized zone for their love and their hearts.

I presume.

Yeah.

And I assume, by the way, that she's dead.

Oh.

Because she's in the sky.

Oh, she's in the sky.

I mean, he's in the foreground in a way.

Yeah.

This is like a memorial thing though.

I think we can AI do like a reverse.

So if there was a faithful recognition and find out that he like murdered her in Korea.

So Matt, what do you, when you look at this portal?

Yeah.

What, what Motown or just kind of soul hit comes to mind.

This is like, it's like the post peak 1981.

So like the production values are not good.

You're literally very close.

I think it's a bad.

It's like Ralph Trezzat, like 84, 85.

Wow.

Yeah.

Sunglasses are really doing a lot for them there.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

If you, if you've watched the, we are the world documentary.

And I haven't watched clip it.

Like a lot of guys have like Lionel Richie.

Right.

Yeah.

I have photos of my dad.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Probably late 70s.

Yeah.

It's a common 80s thing.

But it's a, but we'd like to offer you listeners a free subscription for short period of

time.

Like a month.

Okay.

Yeah.

Please.

We don't give shit away.

And for the best.

One of you will get this portrait as well.

Yeah.

No.

No.

We're not giving that away.

No.

For the best kind of, you know, art critic idea about what this painting is.

Oh, yeah.

An interpretation.

An interpretation as if you were writing for art forum or something.

What would that, what would you describe that?

Leonard Pimp Garnel.

Um, type of art criticism that we've been waiting for.

Yeah.

Well, I don't know who that is.

But, uh, the Pimp, Pimp Garnel.

That's what I call that movie as a Pimp Garnel.

Right.

But that was adjacent.

Oh my gosh.

And he sent us a picture while he was in Florida.

Obviously, um, add a thrift store.

And the unified response with the exception of Camille was by that now.

Yeah.

I don't know how you're getting it on the plane.

Don't know the price.

It doesn't matter.

Did you put that in overhead?

He had to ship it.

He had to ship it.

He had to ship it.

He didn't have to ship it.

You could, you could have carried it on.

It was.

Yeah.

I think you see you with it.

I don't know.

I just love the painting.

Like, I love Georgetown.

He bushes paintings.

We've talked about the show.

And Chris Christie has now been tasked.

Deputized with negotiating that.

I don't know if he has a dealer.

If he has a gallery that represents him.

Yep.

Or if it's just, uh, you don't want to.

You're still upset about this.

I'm upset about that.

Yeah.

Why is that?

Like, what a feeling with an injury.

And this is what y'all do.

It's a great.

What do you like?

A relief picture.

You know, rotate your cup.

No, no, no.

This is amazing.

That's the best thing we've ever had in the set.

Okay.

So.

All right.

Thank you, Jason.

But it's contribution.

But there's other stuff happening in the world.

Yeah.

That's not that amazing.

I don't know if I'll be able to focus.

Um, but yeah.

No.

Do you need a t-shirt to that painting?

Oh, God.

I don't think you can.

There's almost certainly a trademark.

I think that's more like one zip territory.

If that ended up in a fucking Gainesville flea market.

I don't think there's any legal problem.

Sometimes people have great finds.

Maybe.

I see it on pond stars all the time.

Yeah.

Um, that was one of them Oscars last night.

Big deal.

I know you guys are really excited to see much even one became.

And this is, I mean, just a personification of racism.

The biggest loser.

Wow.

In Oscar history.

Sometimes isn't the color purple?

Actually, a huge loser as well.

They do it to black people.

Were they?

Were they a huge loser?

Yeah.

Did they?

How many awards do they have?

A whole bunch.

And they got nothing from our from our remember.

Well, they won like four.

They won four.

But they lost 12th.

So apparently set a record last night.

So that's a lot.

One battle after another got best picture.

Was that got best picture?

I didn't even see that.

I literally don't know.

I saw one clip of, um, the thing that I've never seen.

I still don't understand the, what is the, um, the Korean animated, uh, K-pop thing.

K-pop.

K-pop.

Yeah.

K-pop.

K-pop.

K-pop.

K-pop.

K-pop.

K-pop.

K-pop.

K-pop.

And, and it's just automatic.

Mm-hmm.

Because I was clip online.

And like, I think she has access to AI in the same way that I do.

I don't know if like, because of all the racism she faces, they don't let her get AI.

But she got up there and did the 2020 speech with no research.

It's like, I am finally up here giving representation to people who look like me.

And I'm like, okay, AI.

How many ages it was like 25 in the past 10 years.

I just said 10 years.

Because I remember the guy that was short-round, which maybe I was a bit racist.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I mean, come on.

Yeah, that's so great.

The best.

I mean, I was like, I want to be an Asian kid.

I get to hang out with India.

Absolutely, right.

Um, he won for something like a couple years ago.

Yeah, he was great too.

The Korean movie that ran the parasite that ran the tables.

Yeah.

He was like, it said 20 to 25 was the estimate.

Everything all at once was everywhere.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Everywhere.

Everything everywhere.

All at once.

Yeah.

And then, and then I'm like, listening to this and I'm, I should just walk by stivocent

or something where it's like what 92% Asian enrollments.

And I'm like, I know you guys are having it really hard right now.

You've walked by Brooklyn Tech, which I think is 140% Asian.

I don't know how that happens.

But it's just this thing where you don't actually research it.

But it's just like, I am up here and this is what I know.

I don't know anything about politics.

I know the rhythm of the times and she's a little behind the times and gets up there and gives that speech.

And I was like, ugh.

No.

And I didn't even know who won Best Picture.

But I knew that that happened.

Yeah.

It wasn't sinners.

Centres ended up winning best original screenplay.

Have you seen this movie?

Centres?

Yeah.

Yeah, I saw it.

It's good.

It's not very good.

Not in my estimation.

It's not certainly not Best Picture good.

But it's just a bad movie.

What is the bad movie that Camille has liked that was one battle?

Some other amount of acclaimed parties.

And Matt's also included a majority described as black cast.

Oh.

This is not as black cast.

I'm just trying to get around your race problem for a second.

I don't have a race problem.

No, I mean, like I said, I don't want that film as a majority black cast.

Centres?

I don't think it is.

It's sweet.

You love that movie.

I did like that movie.

Yeah.

Coffee.

But like, coffee's a great movie, Mandingo.

You were Mandingo.

You were Mad.

You were Mad.

I've seen it, yeah.

You were Mad at Black Panther.

I was not Mad at Black Panther.

I just said Black Panther was not a great movie.

It was not even a great movie.

It was a great, but a lot more of a tough time.

I saw Climby the other day of joy.

It's not a lot of joy read.

Joy read.

And what was she was talking about?

The one I saw today was her insisting that the United States is just about as bad as Ron.

She's the same as Ron, yeah.

Yeah.

She's like, we're a little less authoritarian, but not much.

But respect to the oppression of women.

Yeah, yeah.

Totally.

Really?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Discfigure the beautiful faces of 23-year-old female protestors.

What about this?

Matt, our shallow capitalist culture when it comes to beauty is very similar.

We women are disfiguring themselves.

I mean, is it much different?

different. Wow. And see how you see how in their minds. That's good. Yeah. Because then you're on

the on your heels going, what? You have to argue against it. And it's like really dumb. There's

some good stuff. It's been a very nice. I picked this up in my neighborhood. It's like an expensive

neighborhood. Oh, what? Oh, these days is the latest. Oh, of the communist. Yes. That they were

giving out. Oh, my God. We're going to overthrow the Epstein class. Yeah, the Epstein class was on the

front page. The, let's see, Trotsky, Imperialism, the main enemy of, so it's Trotsky at newspaper.

Then the gains of the Cuban revolution. Oh, hello, workers of the world. Defend the Cuba. Hold on,

hold on. Hold on. Let's, can you read just the lead about the gains of the Cuban revolution,

please? Hang on. Don't drop the hand. I'd love to do that. Senura Moynihan. Yes,

things are going swimmingly in Cuba. Let me, let me skip just down from that, you know, very

throbbing lead social gains. You want to hear about that? Yeah, yeah, that's your social gets.

The gains extended far beyond national sovereignty and dignity. So the gain was in dignity.

You can really gross dignity. When you're a saber metrics guy, do you like look for dignity?

Yeah. Taking out players like that. That's kind of a lot of dignity. The plan economy

brought about huge improvements in the standards of living of the masses. You know,

feel in the field of, yeah, yeah, in the field of health, Cuba totally socialized health care.

It's pharmaceutical industry was world class prior to the latest escalation.

By the way, people, you're not getting any of your Cuban drugs after this latest escalation. Please,

please tell me what the drug is that they've done so well. Infant mortality. Let's see,

medical doctors taught the peasant to read. Yeah. By the way, this is just false. In 1958,

25% of the population was illiterate. The literacy in Cuba in 1958 was almost 80%. It was higher

than Spain and I think it was higher than Italy. Definitely, definitely like best in class.

Best in carbion America. So they had a starting point, which was extremely high. And of course,

as I've said a million times, what does it matter if you can read when you can't read what you

want? There's no bookstores, there's no libraries that have or well, etc. So like the press is

controlled, the newspapers are controlled. This would do just fine there. It actually probably

a little bit much for the Cubans, but all of that steps controlled. So you have literacy,

supposedly. And again, keeping in mind that you're getting these figures from the government,

which lies about everything. But the other thing that people don't realize about this,

Venezuela did something very similar was that the kind of twin track with literacy was ideological

indoctrination of the peasantry and people in the army. The army was considered like they were the

least literate people were the people that were kind of overthrown the government. This has been

written about quite a bit. And so they do much like the Vietnamese did the same thing a massive

literacy campaign in 1975 was all the sudden we get to teach them about the glories of Marx and

the revolution and the horrible Yankee imperialists. So there's that aspect of it too. But the numbers

are fake inflated. And even if they're good, it's from a starting point that was very high.

So very high for the region. So yeah, they say 25% of the 25% of the Cuban population could read

in 1958. That's it. Get out. I remember when I tried to move to Cuba in 1998,

it was my big idea after being in Central Europe for eight years. Like I'm going to plan this out

and instead of going to a plan. Yeah, yeah, the five-year plan to do this. And I thought like instead

of being in a place just after communism fell. Now that I gathered all this experience and I can

sort of see where the cracks might have been, I'm going to go to a place where is currently

communist. And therefore I will be able to cover it as it turns because any day now in 1998,

if the Castro's are going to lose power, there was a bunch. There was a special period. They

were cut off from the Soviet Union. So there was desperately poor, although as we'll talk about

a second, I'm sure like right now, this moment, they are more poor and desperate than they have

ever been in all of the history. Like it's on right now, right now. And it's thrilling and

the electrical grid is completely collapsed. The electrical grid is collapsed. They're in the

fucking dark. That is crazy times. They've been in the dark when it came to media for a long time,

not actually physically in the dark. So just to close a little story about that, we talked about

the other stuff, is one of our friends that we made there became kind of a guide. He was an

architect and he was a revolutionary true believer, a really, really nice guy. He was probably in his

early 60s in 1998. So he's probably still alive because his Cubans never die.

And he had been a true believer. He wasn't like in the innermost cadre, but he worked for

whatever ministry had to deal with architecture and stuff. And he was enthusiastic about going

to the countryside and trying to develop good architectural projects for the people out there.

And he threw his life into the work and then came back and he was starting to look around

Havana. And if you've been to Havana, like it is one of the most beautiful cities in the Americas.

And it is absolutely just gutted. It's like the combination of seawater and communism and

neglect and poverty has made you still that way. You have Potemkin facades here and there,

but for the most part, it's just like gutted out once grand buildings everywhere. Like it is,

it hurts your soul looking at it. And he hadn't been to Havana and he sort of comes into Havana

after being 15, 20 years of revolutionary. He can't believe it. And he starts to justify

in his own brain like, well, I'm doing this because we're sort of sacrificing Havana so that we can

do and rewrite unjust policies towards the countryside. He knows he's kind of like making a

deal with himself. But the moment that like sold it to him was after the collapse of communism in

Eastern Europe. He had always been a voracious reader of all of the newspapers from Poland and

Czechoslovakia and other places there because he felt there was a system of fraternity and also

there's good information. There's like people who are educated populists who might also be

emissary and poverty, but at least they can talk him whatever. And after the revolution, all those

papers stopped coming and he realized that there is no actual reason for them to stop coming,

except for that the government didn't want to have newspapers from countries now that had freedom

of speech and who were talking about the horrible 40 years of communism in Central Europe. And

that pulled the wall over, I remember him talking to us and like, you know, imagine someone who

really believed in this stuff and believed in it for the good reasons that you can believe in it.

It's too late. At that point you still be believing in it. It is, it is, but coming to the

I don't know. I don't know if that's going to work. I don't care. All right, cheapos. You got as much

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