War with Venezuela: First as Tragedy, Then as Farce
Head in the Office
HITO Media LLC
5.0 • 797 Ratings
🗓️ 7 January 2026
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
Trump invaded Venezuela! The HITO boys gather to discuss the US operation to kidnap Nicolás Maduro out of the Presidential palace in Venezuela. What were Trump's motivations? Was it regime change? Was it oil? Or was it pure megalomania? Tune in to find out. Broadly, it seems like Trump and Marco Rubio want the US to return to an outdated kind of empire-building that will only serve to ostracize America from the rest of the world.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an incredibly bag-minded podcast. |
| 0:03.2 | Incredibly bag-minded. |
| 0:04.2 | We are all about money on this podcast. We love money on this podcast. And anytime there's a chance for profiteering of any kind, we're there. I got to respect it. I got to respect the hustle. You know what I mean? If American exceptionalism is good for one thing, is for believing that you can hustle your way out of any single problem in any way possible. and boy do I mean any way possible. |
| 0:22.3 | Long-term listeners of this show know we're big fans of the health insurance believing that you can hustle your way out of any single problem in any way possible. And boy, do I mean any way possible. |
| 0:22.2 | Long-term listeners of this show know we're big fans of the health insurance industry. |
| 0:25.4 | Yes, sir. |
| 0:25.7 | We're big fans of pharma. |
| 0:27.3 | Don't forget it. |
| 0:27.8 | We're big of it. |
| 0:27.9 | I mean, who's a more bag-minded group than landlords? |
| 0:31.0 | Can't think of them. |
| 0:31.9 | Except there might be one more bag-minded group than landlords. |
| 0:34.7 | And that might be Trump administration officials. Trump administration officials, specifically gamblers. Oh my God, yeah. Gamblers, folks, they're back big. We've talked about a lot. We've talked about it with the Kalshi CNN partnership. We've talked about that. We've talked about Polly Market. We've talked about sports betting. And these people know where it's at. Especially when we're talking about Kalshi and Pali Market and these unregulated agencies, these unregulated gambling platform. Name a more bag-minded group of individuals. You simply, simply cannot. And, you know, we're going to be talking about the war in Venezuela today. That's going to be like the entire show, basically. And I do want to start out with a story related to that because it's silly. |
| 1:13.3 | It's silly and it's something that's entirely predictable. |
| 1:15.8 | So basically what happened is that a new account on Polly Market was opened and placed $30,000 on Maduro essentially being abducted by the United States one day before the operation took place. |
| 1:27.9 | Like come on. And now they've made over $400,000 off that bet. Like new account. |
| 1:33.3 | Yeah. $30,000 high bet. Yeah. $400,000 return on it. Literally hours before it happened. |
| 1:40.0 | Like hours before. Like you can't make it up. That can't be more suspicious. And honestly, even if we found out who it was, even if Pete Heggs had came out at that press conference. |
| 1:48.6 | And he was like, oh, guys, it was me. It looks like I'm going to Nobu tonight. Yeah, Rick Scott would have been like, what's wrong with making money? Exactly. Respond to us said what's wrong with making money? and nothing would happen because it's not illegal to do that. |
| 1:58.6 | Yeah, and I have a quote from Axios here, quote, |
| 2:00.7 | the market for whether or not Maduro would be out of power climbed shortly before 10 p.m. E.T. on Friday after hovering in low single digits for weeks, part of the Wall Street Journal. What appears to be a newly created account appeared to invest $30,000 Friday in Maduro's exit. after Madero went into custody Saturday morning, the same investor netted $400,000, more than $400,000. |
| 2:20.9 | I mean, it's just like, it's so in your face. That's so awesome. Somebody's insider trading. Yeah, no, absolutely. And it's like people, people always talk about when there's like a conflict that's like about to happen or a conflict that's going on. They love to talk about like the Pentagon Pizza Index and this idea that like whenever |
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