#33- Rod Martin
The Eric Metaxas Show
Metaxas Media
4.7 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 6 January 2026
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Rod Martin reacts to the Maduro extraction story and unpack what it means for Venezuela, cartels, oil, and American power. They connect the fallout to Cuba, Iran, China, Greenland, and the broader Trump doctrine, then pivot into the 2020 election debate, Smartmatic, and what they think comes next in the fight over election systems and the deep state.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, folks. Let me be the first to wish you a Feliz annual new. |
| 0:06.5 | A ha ha. |
| 0:07.6 | Hey. |
| 0:08.0 | Hey. |
| 0:08.1 | Chris, Chris, are you, are you as astonished as I am at the good fortune? |
| 0:15.5 | Because, you know, we don't believe in God. |
| 0:17.3 | So I want to just put it as secularly as possible. |
| 0:20.0 | The good fortune that we've had |
| 0:22.7 | already in the new year, Chris, you must be amazed. You're a Cuban American. That's right. I am a |
| 0:29.3 | Cuban American. It's been amazing. I think it's kind of like when you go to a baseball game |
| 0:35.7 | and the buddy in front of you and the lineup just hit a home run |
| 0:39.6 | and you're just getting really excited. Say you're on deck. And I feel like as a Cuban |
| 0:42.5 | American, I'm on deck waiting for, you know, the operations. I've got some New Year's predictions. |
| 0:49.5 | Yeah, what's that? I think Mayor Mamdani is going to be the governor or vice roy of Greenland. |
| 0:56.0 | Wow. |
| 0:56.6 | Yeah, a lot of crazy stuff is happening. |
| 0:58.8 | A lot of crazies. |
| 0:59.5 | That was like five leapfrogs ahead of what I want to talk about today. |
| 1:04.8 | It's just, it's so crazy. |
| 1:06.4 | First of all, let me frame things a little bit. |
| 1:10.2 | I've been working very, very hard on finishing my book on the American Revolution. |
| 1:16.5 | So if I seem punched drunk, the only explanation is I am punch drunk. |
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