What's up? What's up? Welcome to a brand new episode of Part of the Problem. I'm Dave Smith. He has Robbie the Fire, Bernstein. We got a big one for you today. Real quick, before we start the show, this weekend is me and rob are back on the road for the first time in

2006 uh will be at helium comedy club in philadelphia uh so go grab your tickets to that

still some tickets available but they are moving quick so uh comic david smith.com is the website for that

really looking forward to this weekend it's going to be fun well speaking of the weekend

since our last episode uh we got another war in or something like that certainly an active war

if someone did that to the united states of america we'd certainly call it that um let's get

into it so i just um you know i got a lot to say on this. I'm sure you do too, Rob. And I swear, my, my instinct with these things is almost always to go like, hey, let's go over the last 15 years of history in Venezuela real quick, you know, but I just don't, I want to get to all the stuff we want to say. So I don't want to waste too much time with that. But Hugo Chavez took over the country and ruined it and then got stomach cancer and handed it off to Maduro and he continued to ruin it even more. And socialism doesn't work. And also they pissed off the United States of America. And also it's been Marco Rubio's wet dream to get a regime change there. And of course, as you know,

we've been blowing up boats and telling lies about drugs and a whole bunch of stuff lately.

And of course, me and you have been saying for a while now that you kind of don't know with

Donald Trump. Like it's kind of hard to judge. Like is he gonna is he,

you know, is this all just bolster and nothing's ever going to come of this? Is he actually going to

invade the country? Is, you know, like what's what's going to happen here is always unclear? And

essentially, I think we're still at that place right now, where it's very unclear what,

if anything, is actually going on. But what happened over the last few days is that the Trump

administration launched a military offensive and they were able to kidnap, extract,

Madero.

And the first thing I got to say about it, which I did post on Twitter and some people got upset by that.

This was like the quickest regime change, if you can exactly call it a regime change, that I've ever seen and or read about.

And even in other like successful, you know, I think of examples like Panama or something like that where we got Noriega.

There's a much bigger military operation and there was much more of a fight to get him.

And so it was, I will say it was at least a little bit surprising to me because there's,

obviously Donald Trump has wanted to remove this guy, not just now, but through his first term too.

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