BAES 134: Venezuela- What Just Happened?

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🗓️ 8 January 2026

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Well, we went into Venezuela and plucked out their leader. In this episode we lay out the entire thing and explain the who, what, when, where, and why. Stay tuned sweeties. This week's bonus is a BANGER. Support us and get bonus content, ad-free versions and more plus your first 7 days free at https://benandemilshow.com WATCH THE LATEST EPISODE OF EMIL'S NEW SHOW! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcnIFEGK9_I OUR NEW CREDIT CARD SITE IS LIVE!!! Go get that AMEX personal card before it's gone! https://thecreditcardlist.com Give this video a thumbs up if you enjoyed it! And please leave us a comment! It helps us! ***Ben's new movies and tv podcast with Dillon is OUT NOW! GO WATCH the latest episode on our TOP MOVIES OF 2025: https://youtu.be/tbC-cMqcby8?si=tO0NK0PmpN2187ir **CHECK OUT EMIL'S LIVESTREAMS HERE: https://www.youtube.com/emilderosa __ SOME OTHER VIDEOS YOU MAY ENJOY: That's Cringe of Cody Ko: https://youtu.be/dTbEk0pVh2w Our AUSTIN VIDEO: https://youtu.be/yGSs56bFzRU Our episode with Kyla Scanlon: https://youtu.be/cIHWkY35cuc Big Tech is out of ideas (ft. ED ZITRON): https://youtu.be/zBvVGHZBpMw Arguing with a millionaire (ft. Chris Camillo): https://youtu.be/1ZUWTkWV_MM We bought suits HERE: https://youtu.be/_cM1XqA9n2U ***LINK TO OUR DISCORD: https://discord.gg/CjujBt8g ***Subscribe to Emil's Substack: https://substack.com/@emilderosa ***Trade with Ben at https://tradertreehouse.com __ MIZZEN & MAIN: Get 20% off your first purchase at https://mizzenandmain.com with promo code BAES20 HIMS HAIR: For simple online access to personalized and affordable care for hair loss, ED, weight loss, and more, visit https://hims.com/BAES SUPERPOWER: Head to https://superpower.com and use code BAES at checkout for $20 off your membership. Live up to your 100-year potential. #superpowerpod HARRY'S: Our listeners get the Harry's Plus trial set for only $10 at https://harrys.com/BAES #harryspod __ Follow us on instagram! @ benandemilshow @ bencahn @ emilderosa Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Why do growing businesses love working in Slack?
0:02.8	Let's ask Christia Ari Bikes.
0:04.6	Running things in Slack saves me so much time.
0:07.3	AI summaries save 97 minutes per week.
0:10.4	What say you?
0:11.4	Rocks from Gosney.
0:12.4	Slack helps us build community.
0:13.9	It helps us build connection.
0:15.2	Your partners, vendors and customers all in one place.
0:18.3	Take us on home, Ashley from Carraway.
0:20.3	If we did have Slack tomorrow, I would explode.
0:23.4	Well, let's not let that happen.
0:25.1	Visit Slack.com slash podcast to get 50% of Slack Business Plus.
0:30.1	Let's see.
0:30.8	Did anything big happen?
0:32.9	No, come on, you know what happened.
0:34.3	After months of chest beating, saber rattling,
0:39.1	they kidnapped Maduro and his wife. Trump at first said that the United States would run Venezuela.
0:50.1	It was walked back by Marco Rubio, who was like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, we're not exactly going to, like, run it. And now Marco Rubio has to go on every news station and they go, Trump said this. How's that going to work? And he's going, well, it's not exactly like that. There are so many compilations of him just doing long. Look, there are a lot of guys around the world who need pony. Who do bad things.
1:11.8	Yeah.
1:27.9	Who we could drum up indictments about it. But is that what we want to. Why aren't we taking Antarctica is what I want to know? We need it now. Let's go to the South Pole. Not only we need it and it's ours. It was promised to us. Bring the penguins over here. Bring the polar. Well, polar barrels are, I don't know where they are.
1:28.5	Who knows?
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