Matt Randolph

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6,151 appearances 29 recordings 3 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 11 Sep

Matt Randolph’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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American Power · Did Trump Get Played on Venezuela’s Oil Deal? · 2 Sep 2026 podcast

And the truth is it wouldn't matter if it was or it wasn't, because you don't get all that oil. voice-verified

That's that's not a thing. voice-verified

Their ten year timeline th that they're hoping to achieve is to produce one and a half million barrels a day out of that. voice-verified

That's their ten year goal. voice-verified

So the sixty five billion barrel talk, like voice-verified

None of that matters. voice-verified

You're never gonna get even a billion barrels out of it, likely. voice-verified

Um, so here's the thing. voice-verified

When Hugo Chavez was in charge and voice-verified

Venezuelan oil was really climbing, their oil production was climbing. voice-verified

He used a lot of crazy methodology to artificially inflate Venezuela's oil reserves. voice-verified

And one year they went from voice-verified

Ninety million to a hundred and eighty million. voice-verified

And then the next year or billion, they went from ninety billion to a hundred and eighty billion. voice-verified

And then the next year they went to three hundred and three billion. voice-verified

And it was based on methodology that he was using to calculate voice-verified

their recoverable reserves. voice-verified

And so one of the ways you calculate your recoverable reserves is first you have to figure out your total reserves, because that's not the same as the amount you can actually get out of the ground. voice-verified

And then you uh voice-verified

Over a period of time, you can see a recovery factor. voice-verified

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