E373. Socialism Always Fails - Francis Foster

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🗓️ 15 January 2026

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Triggernometry co-host and comedian, Francis Foster, returns to the podcast to unpack Nicolás Maduro’s dramatic downfall. Foster’s familiarity with the country stems from his Venezuelan mother, and he references on-the-ground stories from friends and family in the wake of Maduro’s arrest. He and Bridget discuss chilling stories of a friend robbed at gunpoint by police officers, teen protesters gunned down, and a regime so corrupt it turned the world’s richest oil nation into a country so econ...

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0:00.0	All right, I'm with Francis Foster, everybody. Welcome back to Walkins, welcome. It's so good to see you. Hey, it's a pleasure to be here, Bridget. It really is. When was the last time we saw each other in the flesh? When you were in Austin, I believe. It was not too long ago. We were in the green room. Yeah, we were in the green room yeah we were in the green yeah it was
0:21.9	April I think you were on your American tour yeah yeah yeah that was the one
0:27.1	before the one we did so yeah that would have been April time it was it would have
0:30.5	been April time I bet Austin's beautiful now isn't it no it was it was more
0:34.7	recent than than, April.
0:38.3	Oh, was it? Or maybe no, no, no, no, no.
0:39.9	It would have been November.
0:40.9	It would have been November then.
0:42.6	Yeah.
0:43.3	Yeah.
0:43.6	Yeah.
0:44.7	Yeah, wasn't that long ago.
0:46.0	You seemed like you were in good spirits and you and Constantine were interviewing like crazy
0:51.5	and trigonometry is blowing up, which is exciting to see.
0:57.0	Yeah, yeah, 33 interviews, three and a half weeks, four different cities, three different
1:03.0	states, three different time zones. Yeah, it was kind of wild.
1:06.5	That's so crazy. It's, you have a production team that goes with you, right?
1:13.1	Yeah. Okay. And they set everything up and make sure it all looks pretty and... Yeah. Yeah. Who does the location scouting?
1:18.3	There are some cool locations for those interviews. That was our guest booker, Billy. Billy's great.
1:26.7	Big shout out to Billy. And he booked, he booked some,
1:30.3	yeah, he booked some amazing places. When I walked in, I was like, Billy, this is amazing. How much
1:36.0	is it fucking costing? Yeah. Worth it though. Yeah, it was. Yeah, it was. Yeah, it was.
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