Nick Shirley: Exposing Government Fraud, Suing California & Taking on the Media
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Nick Shirley: Exposing Government Fraud, Suing California & Taking on the Media

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 18, 202632 min

(0:00) Nick Shirley debuts his new video: "Inside California's High Speed Rail to Nowhere" (11:42) Nick joins The Besties to discuss California's "Stop Nick Shirley Act" and recent fraud arrests (17:03) How he got into investigative journalism and finding fraud (23:32) Selective journalism and why Nick is a major threat to mainstream outlets (27:34) What's next for Nick: Investigating welfare fraud, building his platform Thanks to our partners for making this possible! IREN is a vertically integrated AI Cloud platform, delivering data centers, compute and software for AI training and inference. https://ir...

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Hey Besties, if you were given $15 billion, what could you build? The next PayPal? Perhaps the next SpaceX? The next Google?

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Or would you build a high speed rail? This is the California high speed rail that goes to absolutely nowhere. And when I mean absolutely nowhere, I mean literally nowhere. This is all California has to show for $15 billion

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in 18 years of work. In 2008, they said they were gonna connect Los Angeles to San Francisco. To this date, they have connected literally nothing.

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