EPISODE · Jul 6, 2026 · 31 MIN
H4 : Heidi Harris analyzes the ongoing energy crisis in Cuba and shares a listener's personal perspective on communism.
from The Charlie James Show Podcast
In this final, hard-hitting segment of the broadcast, guest host Heidi Harris shifts focus to geopolitical affairs, providing a stark analysis of the cascading energy crisis and total grid failure in communist Cuba. She uses the widespread blackout affecting millions of people on the island to deliver a passionate philosophical critique of state-controlled societies, contrasting the chronic hardships faced by Cubans with the consumer abundance and robust public infrastructure that Americans frequently take for granted. To add localized texture to the analysis, Harris takes a phone call from a regular listener, David in Westminster, who shares firsthand historical anecdotes from an older Cuban acquaintance. The caller vividly describes the systematic seizure of private property and businesses by the Castro regime during the 1960s, providing a tangible example of the human toll behind state overreach. Harris leverages this raw testimony to caution her audience against domestic policy trends that lean toward government intervention, concluding with a firm assertion that true economic stability and human dignity can only be sustained through the free market principles and individual liberties protected within the United States.
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Heidi Harris: Good evening, Mark Levin coming up at 7 o'clock. Don't forget, the—of course, the big soccer tournament tonight between America and Belgium. We're going to kick their butts. I don't care, they can scream and yell and holler and throw a fit all they want to, but we're going to get them. We're going to get them, the little Brussels sprouts that they are. [laughs] 800-905-0989, Stan in a place that I wouldn't mind living, Six Mile. Beautiful Six Mile, how's it going, Stan? Stan: Wonderful over here in God's country. Heidi Harris: It is beautiful, my gosh. I— what, during— during the break I was looking up real estate listings in your area, I want— I'm moving to Six Mile, boy, oh boy. Stan: I am— I am literally 150 yards from Lake Keowee. Heidi Harris: [bursts out laughing] Wow, okay. All right, beautiful area, my friend, beautiful. Stan: All right. Now, I would like to make a comment about Cuba. Heidi Harris: Sure. Stan: Um, well, I was— when I was in elementary school back in the Cuba missile crisis, we had a family that came in. They had escaped from Cuba and they explained to us what communism was all about. Heidi Harris: Good. Stan: They informed us that they had— they were in business, the government came in, "Hey, not your business anymore." Heidi Harris: [sighs] Uh, yep. Stan: They took it all. Um. Took it all. And, uh, you know, and you know, it was so— you know, I mean that, as a child, that scared me to death. That could very well happen to our country, this day, by looking at New York City, who they voted up there for, those peop— these people are not educated in our schools anymore about what communism is and what socialism is. Heidi Harris: No, they— they need to be. I— I just interviewed a guy, uh, for my podcast. I interviewed a guy for my Heidi Harris Show podcast, uh, I don't— about a month or so ago, and he— he and his family escaped Czechoslovakia over the mountains like the freaking Von Trapp— Von Trapps, okay? Stan: Right, right, right, right. Heidi Harris: And I told him, I said, "You need to be speaking in every school, you need to—" because people just— they don't understand it now. That's what happens, Stan, they don't understand what communism is. Stan: Right, right, right, right. And we got these liberal teachers out there that's teaching it, too. Heidi Harris: That's right. Oh, you are right. But, uh— I've seen this firsthand. I was in the Army from 1974 to 1978, to, um— 197— excuse me, 1973, went to Vietnam. I was one of the last guys that went to Vietnam. Went to Korea and I was up on the 38th parallel. Heidi Harris: Wow. Stan: Okay, they took all— We could see what happened from the— We were right on the DMZ. We were up at Camp Casey, as far as you can go north. You can spit into, uh, North Korea. Heidi Harris: Wow. Stan: That was a big apartment complex. We could see them through the binoculars. Well, they took that, and what that complex was, they took all the senior citizens. Senior citizens in North Korea is a burden to the government. Heidi Harris: That's right. Stan: They moved them in there. They fed them— they had a life of luxury for what? For three months? They gassed them. Heidi Harris: Oh. Stan: They gassed them. We've seen them haul body after body after body out because we were in the guard towers. Heidi Harris: Mm. Wow, that's just tragic. That— that is what communism— that is, uh— see, they had their population, they— they had what— you— you reach a certain age limit, you move— they move you out. Heidi Harris: Yeah, that's right. Well, you know what, it's interesting you say that, Stan, because there are people now—I'm not going to go on a tear on this right now, but I will some other time—but I am very much against assisted suicide, and what of the reasons is, you know, this is all part of communism, too. They want to get rid of you when you are old and inconvenient or expensive, or whatever else. It's the same thinking, yeah. Stan: Right ...
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