Hey everybody, it's Joe Trippy and welcome back to that Trippy show with my co-host, Alex Ashlow.

We're both coming at you from the amazing Fairfield Suites.

Well, actually, I'm at the Fairfield Suites. I got a deal, and I am not at the Fairfield Suites. Well, actually, I'm at the Fairfield Suites.

I got a deal, and I am not at the Fairfield Suite.

Birmingham, Alabama.

You guessed it.

We're both here to help Doug Jones.

That's where we're at.

And anyway, happy New Year, everyone.

And today, of course, we'll be talking Venezuela.

And hopefully we'll have time to empty out our mailbag of listener questions from over the holidays.

Alex, where do you want to get started, my friend?

I mean, we got to talk about it, man.

Like, I know we don't need to spend a ton of time on it, but obviously it's the biggest story.

I think in actually a while.

Joe, what the hell? I mean, just to catch people it's the biggest story. I think in actually a while. Joe, what the hell?

I mean, just to catch people up, the two things I noticed from him this week, none of which were a surprise, but one, he said we're keeping the oil. And two, he says, we'll quote unquote run Venezuela.

Joe, what the hell's going on? You would hope that the last time Iraq for oil

happened that you, we'd learn the lesson of regime change. As he keeps pointing out, you know,

Bush's mistake was he didn't get the oil. Well, Trump's going to get the oil. You know,

it's more again, and we've all talked about it.

I'm sure we've seen all the coverage, obviously, but it's, you know, it's more the

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