Welcome back to POTS Day of the World. I'm Tommy Vitor. I'm Ben Rhodes.

Ben, happy January 6th, fifth year anniversary. It feels like just yesterday, you and I were rampaging through the Capitol.

Yeah.

Shits behind Pelosi's desk or whatever we were doing with that. Still haven't found my pence.

Yeah. We've been looking for that guy for finding. Still can't identify him.

We recorded POTS of America yesterday. We had a whole like editorial meeting to think about like

what else we should cover besides Venezuela. Notuela not one of us even it didn't even

occur to us that the episode was going to be coming out on the january 6th anniversary maybe that's

is that a good thing i don't know and that's probably probably not a good thing it's probably not a good thing

yeah meanwhile i got between our last podcast and this one i got like this devastating flu. So I was basically like hallucinating

through the first 48 hours of the post-Moduro Venezuela regime. But I'm here. I'm on the mend,

Tommy. This is your, this is your Jordan flu game. Yeah, I'm sorry. I'm not there in person,

though, but you don't want this. Ben's healing himself exclusively with essential oils,

like any good LA West Sider. I did my own research. I did my own research. You got a bunch of home cures. Yeah. Well, you look good. I'm glad you feel better. The flu is the absolute worst. I got a flu shot over the break. I went with my three-year-old to the pediatrician and I had to show her that I was brave and get the flu shot first, which did not feel great, to be honest with you.

Then she got it.

And then we got ice cream. And I let her eat the ice cream before we had lunch. So it was honestly, you know, that's a, that's a, that's a, you know, my kids are older and it still works. Ice cream still works. Chocolate sprinkles, baby. All right, we got a great show today. We're going to focus just on three big topics.

So the first is the latest from Venezuela. We're going to talk about the backstory about how Trump got from negotiations to invasion, why he genocent opposition leader Maria Machado and embraced Delci Rodriguez, who is Maduro's handpicked vice president. Then we're going to go deeper on

the so-called Dunrow Doctrine. We're going to explore what Trump's newfound love for regime change

and expansionist foreign policy at gunpoint might mean for the world. So that's a fun one for

everyone to figure out. And then finally, we're going to cover these massive protests that we've

seen in Iran for well over a week now that appear to pose the

most serious threat to the regime since, I know, probably 2009, Ben. I mean, 2022 were the last

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