2026 Will Be Truly Insane | Ep.044 Lemonade Stand π
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
So I'd been thinking about how we closed out last year. Yeah. First year of the show. Yeah. And how much it meant to me to get to do and like work on a project. Shut up, Aiden. All right, look, this episode we're making predictions. We're gambling big. We're going to come up with 10 predictions for 2026 and we're putting money behind it for each of these 10 predictions that we get wrong. By the end of the year, we're going to donate $5,000 to charity. We have to come up with 10 by the end of the episode, starting with Venezuela. Venezuela. 2026, baby. Gambling. No emotions. Okay. I do think I agree with you in general. Have you looked at the Chinese New Year calendar? It's the year of the gambler. Is that true?
Yeah. Last year was the horse. I think this year's the horse. There's no way it's the year of the gambler. I'm going to China. I think I know what I'm talking about. There can't be a horse, turtle, and a gambler. There's a dragon. A gambler's not an animal. The classic animals. I think we should agree we should be meaner to Aiden this year. If that's what you're trying to do, if that's the message you're sending, I think that should be a key thing. I don't agree with that. 2026. It's going to be a big damn year. We have all these cards. I'm sorry. Did you say something? Did you say something? Oh, my God. I'm so sorry. Did someone talk over you? I'm so sorry. He's hurt because Ludwig kept calling him fat earlier. What?
My prediction is your health. I'm trying to get not fat. Okay, that works because one of my prediction categories, you can see here Ludwig. I predict Ludwig is going to be alive at the end of 2026. Not if I have anything to say about it. Okay, never mind. We're tossing this one. I don't trust that anymore. Based on how you've been talking, maybe he's not going to be alive. We're going to start with Venezuela, as well as the huge topic. We are going to chat about that. We will, maybe if it doesn't feel unethical, throw a prediction on what happens with Venezuela. But we'll start with this, since this is a huge, huge, huge topic, obviously. What a crazy way to kick off the damn year, huh? What happened in Venezuela?
You know what happened in Venezuela. I'll tell you one thing. So guys, Aiden's actually bringing a lot of facts today, because he interviewed three Venezuelan citizens. Supposedly. he lost all of the footage three and a half hours of footage which he was going to upload to patreon and then realized he didn't record his own microphone he recorded orally his own microphone it's just him talking wait it's only you to be clear so there's no proof that there was a venezuelan person the footage exists it's just you'll only hear my voice for the three and a And if you log into the Lemonade Sand Patreon, you can hear Aiden talking to imaginary Venezuela's for three and a half hours. I can't believe it. I removed the audio track from OBS on accident doing a solo recording on my laptop like before this.
And I just didn't check. I was actually legitimately excited to see this. It's just you yapping. I think maybe just to introduce the topic quickly, for those if you somehow do not know, the U.S. sent an operation into Venezuela and removed President Maduro, the dictator, literally removed him from the country and his wife. We robbed him like in Ocean's Eleven movie. Yeah, like overnight, came back, did a press conference where they said that the U.S. is now, quote, running Venezuela. Initially, I would say through the press conference, expressed the common reason you'd heard over the past few months of why we were attacking Venezuelan boats, why we had this increased military presence in the ocean around Venezuela, that it's to control narco, like narco-terrorism, control drug shipments.
But then- Trump went a bit off the beaten path of the script, I would say, and just started saying that this is also for American oil companies to regain control of Venezuelan resources. Here's the ways that we're going to become wealthy from those resources, which in its own way was kind of... It was a refreshing from George Bush, right?
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Chapters
4 chapters
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00β4:29
2
What happened in Venezuela and why are we making predictions about it?
4:29β24:44
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How does the Venezuela situation compare to the Iraq invasion historically?
24:44β51:29
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What did Aiden learn from interviewing Venezuelans about daily life and corruption?
51:29β1:34:48
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