Hello and welcome to Something's Off with Andrew Heaton. I'm your host Andrew McGillicuddy Callahan Heaton the third and today Brian Brushwood

podcaster extraordinaire magician comedian is going to be joining me. We're going to talk about Venezuela, which if you

haven't been paying attention to, it is bleak. If you have a time share in

Venezuela, it is probably not doing very well. If you've got friends over there, you should check in on them

because it's going poorly. And I will talk to Brian about the causes of that, the future of Venezuela,

and everything else. We will all earn master's degree in foreign policy

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