This Has Been a Weird Week | Lemonade Stand🍋
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the Lemonade Stand. I was thinking about how to promote the show more.
Okay.
You know how I've been doing web development this year?
Yeah.
I'm learning it. Yeah. So I put together a little website that I thought would be cool for viewers to check out or new ones. And then I was thinking about like, how can I promote this, right? How do I get a lot of people to click it? Yeah. And I realized it's a custom t-shirt with a QR code printed on it. So anybody during the whole episode can check it out and fight.
Look. No, I think that's awesome. Can I ask one question? Yeah. By definition, if they see this QR code, they're already watching our show. I mean, they could show... No, no, like clips or something, like a TikTok. Okay, okay. Oh, no. Wait, don't click it. Please don't click it.
Don't click it. And so we're thinking of selling this as merch. No, we haven't talked about that.
We certainly haven't.
Anyways, we've got a great show for you today. We're talking about Venezuela. We're talking about Russia. We're talking about, excuse me, Crimea and Russia. We're talking about a whole bunch of other stories. It won't scan.
I want you to know... Is it what I think it is? It'll go to exactly what you think it is.
I've just been learning web development this year. Guy who's been... I've been trying to promote the show. Do you think I can wear this? No! Are we getting in trouble? I don't think you can wear this.
What's the first fucking topic? Put your Chinese athletic jacket back on. Yeah, put your jacket back on. And Adis, blur that QR code.
Our poor editor.
All right, we're getting started. What?
What are we going to start with, Doug? Transition us. With the devastating earthquakes that hit Venezuela. I didn't know that was going to be the intro. I tossed you an alley-oop here.
I gave you a perfect throw. Yeah, he set you up, and then you're throwing it in like that.
Have some class. Have some tact. For those of you... who might not know, there were two enormous earthquakes that hit in Venezuela near Caracas, primarily in this area called La Huera. And I think if you don't know how, like, the Richter scale works, you know how, like... the power of earthquakes increases exponentially. So like a 6.0 earthquake and the difference between that and a five is much smaller than the difference in power between a six and a seven and so on. And two 7.2, a 7.2 and a 7.5 magnitude earthquake hit that area, and so far, 1,700 people are confirmed dead, over 5,000 injured, over 16,000 displaced, with tons of new bodies and people, like live people being discovered every day.
And that's part of the reason why the statistics are moving. and changing so quickly is because the rescue effort has been ongoing and so many people are currently lost. And I naturally reached out to my friends that we spoke to earlier in the year on this show because I wanted to make sure, like, hey, are you okay? Is your family okay? What's going on? And just to get their perspective on... make sure they're okay, but also get their perspective on the whole year up until this point. And thankfully, everybody is okay and alive. My one friend, unfortunately, his family is homeless now, so their building didn't completely collapse, but the building is so structurally damaged that everybody in the building had to move out of it.
And he sent his family basically his entire savings up until this point. He works in the Dominican Republic, and that's what's supporting them right now. For the other two, it sounds like they, their families are uninjured, safe, still have homes. But. crazy crazy natural disaster and i i asked uh you know up until this point uh how have things been going this year like in the wake of maduro being removed because a lot of them had a relatively positive outlook at the time hoping for yeah you know, change and things be getting, getting better. And one of them, this friend, he said things this year, unfortunately have not improved and they have arguably gotten worse. And even prior to the earthquake, water and electricity has been less stable than it was in the previous year.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–6:57
2
What happened in Venezuela after the earthquakes and how did locals describe the aftermath?
6:57–33:00
3
How has Maduro’s removal affected Venezuela’s oil production and foreign investment?
33:00–49:23
4
How much debt did Venezuela reveal and what does that mean for restructuring efforts?
49:23–1:28:24
5
Why did Crimea declare a state of emergency and how are Ukrainian drone strikes changing the front?
1:28:24–1:33:15
Speakers
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