RLUSD Locked-In | Trump Frees Venezuela | Democrats Protest

Summary

On The Chain – "RLUSD Locked-In | Trump Frees Venezuela | Democrats Protest"

Episode Date: January 5, 2026
Hosts: Chip & Jeff

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Episode Overview

This episode dives into three central topics: the approval and significance of Ripple's RLUSD stablecoin on the XRP Ledger, the dramatic U.S.-backed liberation of Venezuela from the Maduro regime and its geopolitical consequences, and the ideological protests and political fallout among American Democrats and leftist groups in response. As always, the hosts approach blockchain and crypto news (especially XRP) through the lens of global political shifts, candid opinion, and listener engagement.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. RLUSD – Stablecoin Milestone on the XRP Ledger

[06:57], [09:37]

• Ripple's RLUSD is described as “bank grade crypto infrastructure,” regulated by the New York Department of Financial Services and approved for conditional federal oversight.
• The addition of RLUSD to Wormhole’s interoperability platform means it will soon be natively available across multiple chains and major financial networks (e.g., Circle, Uniswap, Blackrock, VanEck).
• Chip: “Whoever thought we’d see bank-grade and stablecoin in the same sentence?... Ripple sets the highest standard in stablecoin lines... Compliance is a big deal, especially for institutions.”
• Jeff: “The idea of stablecoin influencing traditional finance… these are the building blocks of everything that has to happen…”

Timestamps:
06:57 – Discussion kicks off on RLUSD’s institutional compliance and multi-chain future
10:46 – Comparisons to Circle, PayPal’s PYUSD, and Tether’s evolving Bitcoin play

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2. XRP’s Market Surge, ETF Growth, & Crypto Milestones

[11:28], [13:05], [16:03], [17:17]

• XRP has “flipped” BNB to reclaim its status as the third largest non-stablecoin cryptocurrency by market cap.
• Stablecoins’ presence in market cap rankings is debated. Stablecoins should have a separate chart, hosts claim.
• Discussion of increased transaction volume in Bitcoin and XRP with respect to liquidity, adoption, and the 17th anniversary of the Bitcoin genesis block.
• The explosion of spot XRP ETF net assets: $1.3 billion in under two months.

Notable Quote:
Chip [16:14]: “After 17 years, [crypto] is still in its infancy — still early.” Jeff [21:36]: “Imagine, 3, 5, 10 years out… there are still big moves coming.”

Timestamps:
11:28 – XRP overtakes BNB
16:03 – Bitcoin’s genesis block: “It’s 17 years… we’re still early”
17:17 – XRPs’ ETF inflows and implications

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3. Mainstream Crypto Adoption: Retail Integration

[21:05]

• Walmart, Starbucks, and other major retailers are rolling out phased crypto integration, beginning with the ability to convert crypto into cash via apps like OnePay.
• True direct crypto payment acceptance remains elusive—current steps act as an “on-ramp,” converting to USD at checkout rather than native crypto settlement.
• Jeff [22:12]: “If it’s going through OnePay — not a true crypto payment… but companies thinking about native crypto is where the real impact comes.”

Timestamps:
21:05 – Discussion of mainstream retail crypto payments
22:53 – Payment UX improvements via QR code, digital wallets

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4. Venezuela: Liberation, Propaganda, and Media Narratives

[00:41], [37:00], [41:00], [45:30], [51:39], [54:59]

• Hosts celebrate Venezuelan liberation, citing a rejection of socialism and collectivism for “freedom” and “rugged individualism.”
• Chip [00:41]: “Venezuelans themselves… all out celebration. People celebrating liberation from a socialist regime that destroyed their country… They’re thanking America, they’re thanking Donald Trump.”
• Multiple first-hand perspectives from Venezuelan Americans are played, pushing back against U.S. and Western left-wing critics, whom they accuse of ignorance and ideological hypocrisy.
• Widespread left-wing protests in the U.S. and Europe are critiqued as disconnected from the Venezuelan reality: “These people don’t want Venezuela to be free.”
• The humanitarian disaster under Venezuelan socialism is detailed—hyperinflation, mass exodus, class warfare under Chávez, and targeted suppression.

Relevant Quotes:

• Venezuelan American Woman [45:30]: “Nothing can be worse than the hell we’ve lived up until now. So stop trying to explain Venezuela to Venezuelans.”
• Media Analyst [51:57]: “Stop granting Maduro the title ‘President’… use ‘dictator,’ ‘authoritarian leader’… Coverage that fails on this legitimizes a dictatorship.”

Notable Moments:

• Multiple video testimonials from Venezuelans refuting “white savior” activism and emphasizing grassroots joy at régime change.
• American and Australian “protesters” against the strike cannot articulate their purpose or knowledge of Venezuela’s reality.

Timestamps:
37:00 – On-the-street interviews during New York anti-war protests
41:00–48:27 – Venezuelan American explains the depth of suffering under socialism
51:39 – Media analyst pleads for linguistic accuracy in Western coverage
54:59 – Political commentator: “There’s a particular kind of entitlement it takes to believe you can explain Venezuela to Venezuelans.”

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5. U.S. Political Fallout & Culture-War Commentary

[29:48], [32:11], [54:24]

• The hosts mock and heavily criticize leftist/pro-Democrat reactions, using satire, memes, and blunt language to lampoon media coverage and activist protests.
• Jeff [32:41]: “Everything they’re doing right now is to undermine the civility of the city [NYC].”
• Observations that “Democrats need ghettos” for political and economic power structures, with inner-city chaos generating grant money and NGO business.

Notable Quote:
Paula [60:29]: “Remove the source of narcotics and the money dries up… Democrats need ghettos… Black death is not a tragedy to them. It’s a funding mechanism.”

• Satirical segments: “Choose your fighter,” faux movie promos, and impersonations (Trump, Maduro) intensify throughout the latter half.

Timestamps:
29:48 – Satirical/deprecating review of left/Woke protest memes
32:11 – Commentary on NYC mayor’s policies and impact
54:24 – Bernie Sanders lampooned, critique of “pay your fair share” narrative
60:29 – Paula’s critique of Democratic funding mechanisms and inner-city chaos

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6. Geopolitical Consequences and the “Global Chessboard”

[05:31], [68:09]

• Venezuela is framed as a “geopolitical epicenter” influencing China, Russia, and regional security.
• Hosts predict ripple (no pun intended) effects into Cuba, Iran, and Europe and speculate on future U.S. and global shifts toward democracy and transparency, powered both technologically (via blockchain) and politically.
• Chip [68:09]: “The first thing I thought of was… Iran and Cuba are [messing] their pants right about now. ... Imagine a free Iran, with a democratic—imagine a free Cuba...”

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Notable Quotes & Timestamped Highlights

• Chip [06:57]: “National bank grade oversight is the future of stablecoins… Ripple sets the highest standard in stablecoin lines.”
• Jeff [09:37]: “These are the building blocks… Exciting times.”
• Venezuelan American Woman [45:30]: “Nothing can be worse than the hell we’ve lived up until now. Stop trying to explain Venezuela to Venezuelans.”
• Political Commentator [54:59]: “There’s a particular kind of entitlement it takes to believe you can explain Venezuela to Venezuelans.”
• Paula [60:29]: “Democrats need ghettos. Black death is not a tragedy to them, it’s a funding mechanism… That’s what they need, that’s why they’re furious.”
• Chip [68:09]: “The globalists are on the run and they know their shit’s been had…”

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Memorable & Humorous Moments

• [27:49]: “Choose your fighter” meme lampooning Democrat protest videos.
• [65:29]: Trump impersonator: “We’re gonna make Venezuela grande again. ... All the tacos you want, mucho mariachi, sexy mamacitas, and delicious margaritas. And President Trump is going to be a DJ.”
• [67:09]: Pitbull audio: “If you don’t like the United States of America, go back to the country you’re from and you’ll see how much you appreciate the United States.”

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Additional Segments and Running Themes

• Regular satirical takes on mainstream media spin, “libtard” activism, and the left’s “white savior complex.”
• Comparison of U.S. leftist protest performativity vs. genuine Venezuelan grassroots sentiment, highlighting a major disconnect.
• Emphasis on blockchain as the solution to past corruption: “Put it on the blockchain — it’s a ledger that can’t be messed with.”

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Episode Flow & Tone

The hosts maintain an irreverent, rapid-fire, conversational style, blending humor, opinion, community input, and hard-hitting political commentary with technical crypto analysis. There is a clear pro-XRP and anti-globalist tone throughout, with regular pivots between the digital asset space and global geopolitics.

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Useful for Listeners

This summary captures the episode’s full arc:

• The institutional legitimacy and expansion of Ripple's RLUSD
• XRP's resurgence and context in the broader crypto market
• The ground-level reality and Western mischaracterization of the Venezuelan crisis
• The entwined nature of crypto, politics, and global power struggles as experienced in 2026
• Quotable insights and memorable zingers for deeper context or sharing

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For those who didn't listen, this summary provides the shape, substance, and emotional temperature of the episode, spotlighting both the technological milestones and the ideological battlegrounds defining crypto and global affairs today.

Transcript

[Jeff]

Welcome back to on the Chain. Tonight we're going to touch on, you know, RL USD, that one currency based and built on the XRP ledger. But that is important as it does represent bank grade crypto infrastructure. We're going to get into exactly what that means. Something maybe new, maybe you guys have heard about it already, maybe you haven't, but really what's been unfolding over in Venezuela and globally, it just right now matters a lot more. Why? Because it's history in real time.

[Chip]

And what you're seeing out of Venezuela and from the Venezuelans themselves from around the world, 100% all out celebration. People celebrating liberation from a socialist regime that destroyed their country. They're thanking God and really what happened is they the the warmth of collectivism has been burned to the ground in exchange for freedom. Thank God. They're thanking America, they're thanking Donald Trump. They're breaking the grip of the system that forced millions to flee. We've got some data on that.

[Jeff]

That's right. Rugged individualism that's really all about. Now these aren't activists, they're not influencers, they're people who've lived it. They watch socialism destroy their economy, completely devastate their currency. When we saw millions of percent of inflation, they turned a resource rich nation that was a regional exporter of precious stones, oil, and you wouldn't even believe it, but at one time, beef, and it turned this wealthy nation into a humanitarian disaster.

[Chip]

And so let's take a look at the contrast. On the very same day the Venezuelans are celebrating liberations, the Democrats, no surprise, and leftist groups globally organically appear. Same messaging, same outrage, same talking points, protests in the very outcome Venezuelans are thanking God for. There's so much more beneath the surface here tonight. We're gonna start unpacking it. We're gonna do some mini workshops. Jeff, are you ready?

[Jeff]

I'm ready.

[Chip]

Then let's go. Welcome to on the Chain. Welcome everybody to on the Chain. Everybody welcome to be here. It's the last official week of the Super Bowl. I mean the super bowl of the regular season for American football here. And Jeff, the Bills beat the Jets. The jets are so bad. I felt like they were playing a high school team. They had their second stringers and they beat him 35 to 8. And they ran the clock out the end. They could have scored another touchdown, but they did the, what do you call the mercy thing, you know, where you kind of just like let them off. Like, all right, we just run the clock out. We're going to Kind of give you guys a little bit of a break here, right? So it was. That part of it was pretty funny. I was actually laughing pretty hard. But there's a big game going on with the Steelers tonight. We'll see what happens. Steelers and Ravens are basically playing for who's getting in the playoffs here. If the Steelers win, they're going through and it goes. If not the Steelers going actually I don't know, man. My buddy who's a huge Steelers fan who hates the coach and how most of the fan base hates because what happens they'd be going every year to the playoffs and they're always out in the first round. So he kind of hopes that they lose tonight. I'm like who he goes. And a lot of the bases rooting that because they just don't like Tomlin. I think he's ineffective and there's some, some effect he is but I mean I would never root against my team.

[Jeff]

But you know I was going to say it's their team. You know, whether you like the coach or not, you replace the coach, you know, when, when you don't he's.

[Chip]

But they've had three coaches in the entire existence of the fourth maybe the fourth coach in the entire existence of the this team. So. But excited about this good new year. Look at that. Jim D. Called it right there. It's going to be a good new year. We're going to do a lot of cool things at this thing. There's a lot of wild things. If you thought the Venezuelan thing was wild. I think we're just getting started. I think it's going to be one of those years where it's going to be mind blowing on a lot of different levels. So.

[Jeff]

Well, there was so much, there was so much to it.

[Chip]

Shout out Bonsai. Yeah. Beautiful.

[Jeff]

There you go.

[Chip]

It's going to be a good one. 20, 26 off to a great start, that's for sure. Hell is. It is. And you know everybody gets pretty much back to work on Monday as it kind of, you know, kicks off the, the beginning of the work year when you pay most of your taxes to the, to the government. But I'm really hoping that what happens with, with Trump is he really does enact the fact that these, the terrorists coming in and the fraud is like right now it's between one to two thirds of what's been taken in and it's on a level that no one's. I mean this, you're talking about years, Jeff. This has been going on for 20, 30 years. Payments have been made, nobody knows no more. NGOs. Rubio came out and said it's good, payments will be made directly to governments. No more these sort of filter things that filtered off and who knows where it goes to. But I really think the big move here is putting it on blockchain. They put it on blockchain. That's a ledger that can't be messed with. You know, there's no messing with the ledger or the blockchain ledger manager. It's in Del. It's there forever, man. And that's going to be pretty exciting.

[Jeff]

That's gotta, I mean we're, we're seeing something that you know, is having not just regional impact but is going to change the geopolitical outcomes on a global scale. There's a lot of power moves that are happening right now and Venezuela just happens to be the epicenter and that as we get into it later in commentary, we can kind of reflect on who's next, what the next moves are and how it's going to influence the dynamic of the China power play, Russian influence and, and beyond. And so it's going to be, gonna be exciting. And then we're also gonna have to tune our, tune in our attention to New York City because there's some things going on in New York that I'm sure New Yorkers are not happy about. But you know what they voted for? What they voted for, they're gonna have to live. They're gonna live by the, by the sword and they're gonna die on the sword. And so we'll see how long that mayor lasts in New York City. And we can talk a little bit about that later as well. But let's get into some of our crypto so again kind of workshop and talk about that and then dive into all the exciting geopolitical and the significance of, of what happened in Venezuela here.

[Chip]

100%. So we'll start it off here. Let's go right over here to the wormhole. Put this out. I saw this basically because Ripple reposted it on Axe. But national bank grade oversight is the future of stablecoins. Whoever thought we'd see that? Bank, bank bank grade and stable coins in the same sentence. Ripple is executing the vision with Ripple USD and with the New York Department of. What is this one? The New York New York DFS Supervising regulates the activities of insurance companies and also financial institutions up in New York State. They're saying with this regulation, the oversight and conditional federal approval. Ripple sets the highest standard in stable coin lines. This is A big deal, quite honestly, because the OCP is the, you know, controller is what kind of oversees the banks and all that stuff. So it's a really good, that's a really good one in the currency, I should say the currency, but it's really what the banker, you know, the banks abide by because of the current. And if you ever had to name one official from there, you probably can only name one. That was the last Trump administration. Trump administration. But it says now going multi chain powered by Wormhole. If you know anything about Wormhole. Wormhole is a, it's an interoperability platform connecting finance and the Internet economy. So basically going to make it available pretty much almost anywhere. So anybody that's leveraging Wormhole will be able to, that interoperability platform will be able to, you know, go ahead and do with, with RL USD. So a really good, a good play here and basically connecting the entire Internet. You can kind of see it down below. You're looking at Circle, you're looking at Uniswap Base. Obviously blackrock is in there, Van act, all the big guys. So they're all leveraging this stuff. You have securitized in there. It's just, it's, it's a phenomenal platform and the fact that they are shouting it out to Ripple basically on the compliance side is going to be huge. And I think that's where a lot of adoption will probably happen. Like Circle has a lot of the, the consumer stuff. They do a lot of stuff institutionally. But I just think with Ripple's latest acquisitions, the fact that they're going to be now leveraging, you know, they've got this interoperability platform. But if you think about it, that compliance is a big deal because when you're dealing with institutions, compliance is huge for them. Right. So making sure that your, your licensing is intact and then you have multiple services and we've already seen, there's been a bunch of press releases where you've seen companies like Black Rock doing stuff with now Ripple subsidiaries and it's, it's going to be a big deal.

[Jeff]

Yeah, I mean the, the whole idea of the stable Coin and being able to, you know, influence traditional finance is really important. Having a, a significant ledger component to everything that's happening, also really important. Especially when we start seeing some of the big moves that Trump has planned for hopefully this coming year, if not, you know, by, by next year. But there's definitely some other bigger transitional points that we're going to see within our own economy. And so we Got to stay tuned. These are the building blocks of everything that has to happen. So exciting times here. I like that. Yes.

[Chip]

Water and roses. That's a new. That's a new one. 2026 is going to be insane, but in a good way. I like it because 2023 was insane too, but not necessarily in a good way. So it was a. Was the opposite way. You changed your. I think you changed your handle. Pretty sure you changed. What was your handle before? Waters and Water and Roses, I think. I'm pretty sure you did.

[Jeff]

Circle's legit, you know, the other. The other point with all of that, you know, and John brings that up. Circle's legit. RL USD legit. Especially with ripples tied to the financial infrastructure. I think ripple, would be even more so only because of that tie in. And then you have the py USD from PayPal and. And that's it, you know, I mean, you have USDC and Tether. Tether is now trying to put more bitcoin time, more bitcoin into their treasury. You know, they want to become, I think, more consistent as well. So a lot of things happening. XRP check. Right?

[Chip]

Knew it. I knew something was going. I couldn't remember the original, but thanks for sharing that. I was like, yeah, I'm looking at it, looking at the avatar, like something's a little bit off here, but that's okay. That's good. Good evening. What's going. XRP prominent. What you doing? The Blue Crew, Plumbers. I love it here. We have. And then I wanted to raise one from New Zealand to this as well. Look at this, Jeff. This is crazy. XRP flips BNB to become the third largest cryptocurrency in the world by market cap. So it's back to where it should be, you know, And I'll tell you, if you look on some of these, you know, charts, I really, I really don't like them putting stable coins. Stable coins should have their own chart, you know, Right. For market. It's not crypto. Right? It's not. It's not. It's not. I mean, in a sense, it's blockchain based, but it's not necessarily a crypto. Right. Stable coin. Stable coin. She had a stable coin chart. Crypto should be that. But if you look on it, you'll still see something shows up. Well, I think some charts out there actually do that. But I was like, looking at the chart, I was like, oh, what the hell? Why is a stable coin ahead of, you know, of xrp? But if you're just looking at the, the cryptos themselves. Yeah, it's number three. Is it tether? Is that what it is?

[Jeff]

Yeah, tethers right now, number three. But you know what's interesting by 24 hour volume, if you look at that number, it's amazing the 24 hour volume.

[Chip]

Put it on screen.

[Jeff]

Yeah, XRP compared to BNB right now.

[Chip]

No kidding. No kidding, Jeff. Huh?

[Jeff]

Very impressive. You see it? No, I haven't shared it yet.

[Chip]

I'm seeing anything. I'm looking at the screen, sharing anything. I just see your smiling face. That's it. There we go. That's all I'm sharing. See we go. Here we go. There we go.

[Jeff]

So but if you look at the 24 hour volume, look at that. 3.6 billion. Look at that. It's a nice number to 1.2, 1.2 on BNB.

[Chip]

Yeah. So the crush.

[Jeff]

Here's the market cap though on 24 hour.

[Chip]

Yeah, massive. But look at, you know, it's funny, I was, I was watching some podcast or something the other day where the, the guest came on. He said from October through December, the end of December, maybe it was, could have been September, but October through December, he said the amount of bitcoin, more than half of the supply, current supply was, was, was changed hands. So if you think about it, if you know, maybe there's like, I think it was like seven and a half million bitcoin and a lot of those were wallets where, you know, they never, a lot of, weren't a lot of activity. Maybe people had piled in early. But if you think about that's almost half the supply because quite honestly I don't think we'll see more than 15, 16, maybe 17 million Bitcoin. This, you know, out of the 21 potential. But you know, 4, 5, 6 million was lost. Early days, people just going, not really realizing what it was. I think that that was probably so I don't know, maybe 16 million total. So you think about half of the supply. Can you imagine if half of the, the trading supply of any other thing like Ethereum or let's say XRP or Cardano changed hands and like short period of time, like two, three months tops. I find that to be really an interesting tell there. And this is kind of huge. Look at this, Jeff. This was, this was a big one yesterday. Speaking of which, the block that started it all 17 years ago is actually yesterday. 17 years ago yesterday, Satoshi Nakamoto launched bitcoin and mine, the first Genesis block. So. And before, you know, 18 years ago, you know, if someone said bitcoin, you'd be like, what is that, a new game? You know, what is that, a card game? What is that? Bitcoin? You know, it looks like what sounds like some kind of a kids game, maybe a video game. Right. But you'd have been like, what. What is this? It's like, yeah, well, another year, Satoshi Nakamoto is gonna mind the first. Jeff. You know, the Genesis block, The very first block. You're like, what? But it's been 17 years, Jeff. That's a while.

[Jeff]

It's pretty 17 years ago. It's no longer just 12 years ago. No, I still think about Bitcoin, like 12 years ago.

[Chip]

But is that right, though?

[Jeff]

So I guess 2006 was mined in 2010. I thought.

[Chip]

I thought it was 09.

[Jeff]

I guess it'd be 17 years ago.

[Chip]

It is 17 years. Yeah.

[Jeff]

What was the exact date of the first?

[Chip]

Well, this was.

[Jeff]

They put it there. It said 17 years ago today.

[Chip]

Well, that's because this. But when did. This post was from yesterday. Yeah, this was in the January 3rd. So it was on the 3rd.

[Jeff]

Does anybody know?

[Chip]

I think it's 2009. Is. I'm pretty sure it was.

[Jeff]

It was 2009.

[Chip]

Yeah, it was 2009. Pretty. Pretty positive. It's like, keep thinking it's like 12 years ago, 13 years ago. For. It's 17 years. I mean. And the funny thing.

[Jeff]

January 3rd, 2009.

[Chip]

There you go. And we're still early. That's the funny part about it. It's like still in its infancy. It's still kind of after 17 years.

[Jeff]

I think it's a 25 years. 25 years.

[Chip]

Yeah, it's. I mean, we've got time to go and time to burn. Moon Lambo put out a really cool post that I really liked. He basically said, XRP Army. Do you realize what just happened? There's only five spot XRP ETFs live today, and they've only been live for less than two months. You know, we kind of. We've been talking about it for so long, Jeff. When I read this, I was like, what? Is that true? Like, it feels like it's been longer because we've been hearing about it for like the last 10, 11 months. Right. And it hasn't gone through, but really it's been live for less than two months. Only 34 business days. Today was day 35. And for all the spot XRP ETFs, the total net assets already equals $1.3 billion. 1.37 billion. So that means that 0.7 of all XRP in existence has been eaten up by ETFs in just 34 days.

[Jeff]

Yeah, so now we got to wait for a little bit more, you know, to happen. But you know, it's interesting too because when they launched XRP was what, like 225?

[Chip]

Yeah.

[Jeff]

It'S gone down. We're early. You know, things need to, things need to pick up. The whole market is trend down too. It was interesting to see Bitcoin at 86 now, now that it's sitting at 92. You know, maybe we're getting a little bit of a push from what just happened down in Venezuela. That was definitely a little bump, you know, some positivity in the space. I think we're going to see a little bit more momentum. We're going into a positive year as well. I think there's that pickup. People towards the end of the year get a little anxious, maybe there's some sell off and then now beginning of year, you know, starting to see some momentum again. But I, I like that right there. Imagine, you know, three, five year, 10 year plan out and going into ETFs, you know, there's still going to be some, some big moves there. Now's a great time to get into some of these ETFs. I love the Bitcoin ETFs that I got. They're great.

[Chip]

Yeah. And also too, I think that there's something like I say there's more than 15. I mean I've heard all kinds of different numbers. 18, 21, it kind of, we'll see what it would actually. But there's only been, there's only a few that are launched. So the increase in demand for xrp, that'll occur on the native crypto side of things like Coinbase and Binance and stuff is that's going to push the price higher too. It's all happening when a time when the fundamentals for XRP have never been stronger, which is a major True statement. XRP's obvious early winner in the crypto space now has been for around 14 years. So if you're in XRP in 2026, even if you're brand new, you're going to look back on this moment, realize you were actually early. Even if it doesn't feel like it right now, you're early. In fact, the vast majority of adoption for XRP that will ever occur has not even happened yet. The best is yet to have. It's a really good observation by Matt From Moon Lambo. I try to get him on the show a couple of times. I think he's just too busy. There's another guy out there I'm trying to get on the show I've been working on for a year and a half just because I like his videos and I want him to come on. And now he's telling me march. He's like, march. I'm doing some traveling. I was like, come on, man. So now, come on, man.

[Jeff]

Now or never.

[Chip]

Now or never. It's a big year, 2026. We're gonna do things upright. And so when you start talking about. We've always talked about, well, what's the general public doing? Is the general public supporting anything? Well, I'm gonna play this video right here for you right now if I can find it. Where the hell is the damn video? Here it is. But check this out. This is. I don't even think this is. Is this new? I think.

[Jeff]

I don't know. I was trying to figure it out.

[Chip]

I'm not sure if this is new or not. Maybe let me do a Google search on this seat, trying to figure out if this.

[Jeff]

It's. It's interesting either way.

[Chip]

I feel like we've done this story before, but it's always hard to tell.

[Jeff]

Oh, you shouldn't have said that. Then we could have just done it and nobody would know.

[Chip]

Well, well, it's hard to know if.

[Jeff]

It'S, you know, maybe like we'd be like, it's a brand new story just launched and someone would be like, hey, that happened back in like 2017. That's new. We're covering it.

[Chip]

Let's see, when was this? Wait, what year? Let me see. When. So, yes, talking about. Okay, yeah, okay, this is a new story, but I kind of remember somebody.

[Jeff]

Else talk about it happened. Yeah, A while ago.

[Chip]

Yeah, the one. You know what it is, it was through the app, but now it's. Now it's, I think everywhere. So I think that's the key difference.

[Jeff]

Or maybe they were just discussing the possibility of should have been something.

[Chip]

But we're going to play it anyway. Let's listen in.

[Hugh]

And just the ease of which, you know, regular folks, people who, you know.

[Chip]

Go to Walmart, story about Walmart. Right.

[Hugh]

So Walmart, basically accepting 150 million Americans online or in person every week, can now actually have crypto in the very same app. They can buy it, they can hold it, they can store it, they can trade it if they want, and then when they want to go pay for something they can, you know, turn it into cash and like we said go, you know, one pay is actually integrated into the checkouts of Wal Mart. So it is, I think a milestone in that case.

[Chip]

Carl. All right, Hugh, thank you. Said roll out late 25, early 26. So that's. It is somewhat of a new story, but I think they've announced this before.

[Jeff]

The story that we talked about wasn't one page. It was actually Walmart.

[Chip]

Well, Walmart in conjunction with playing around.

[Jeff]

Yeah, I think a while ago it was Walmart playing around, toying and I think they might have even filed patent on something that had to do with crypto.

[Chip]

Because the story here that I've another story I found from Nasdaq says that Walmart, Starbucks and more are accepting crypto payments December 26, 2025.

[Jeff]

They're not, they're not really accepting crypto payments. Then if it's going through one pay, it's not a true. They're accepting the crypto payment. It's kind of a spin on. Because you're converting it through one pay, converting it over to USD to cash. They're not even, it's not even like they said, they're accepting RL, USD or USDC at least. Except a stable coin.

[Chip]

You would think.

[Jeff]

Yeah, you would think then that would be exciting.

[Chip]

But I have to think that's coming. You always want to make it, you know, less friction. Anytime we have a customer paying anything, if you can just go and use a wallet or somehow do a transfer, scan a QR code and pay for it that way. That's fantastic.

[Jeff]

Yeah, exactly. Is that how they're going to do it? QR code?

[Chip]

I don't think so, but I'm just, I'm just kind of thinking out loud like you want to use it natively. If you're just going to spend Bitcoin, use a couple of sats and you pay for something. But this one, this one app is kind of a one pay, kind of like gaming the system a little bit. You're not really paying with, with crypto because the guy even said in the report you gotta, you convert it to, to USD first and then you purchase. Okay, well that's an extra step. So I don't know how it exactly works, but the fact that, the fact that like Starbucks and other com, you know, companies are thinking about this is really, I think where the, where it really comes into play and I think that's kind of the big deal right there.

[Jeff]

So that's, I like how we're getting, we're getting close to this idea of, of using QR code to simplify the payment process. You know, if you think about, you know, if you use your Starbucks app and you have money on your Starbucks app and you go and just scan, you know, you can just scan to pay, which is kind of cool. When you go to Whole Foods, you can use your, your Whole Foods QR code to make sure that they log you into your Amazon account, you know, which is a little scary that, you know, it tracks everything you buy. You can now do a hand print over at Whole Foods. They're like, everyone's toying with different ideas of how to do things.

[Chip]

Yeah.

[Jeff]

You know, but we're, we're getting close because then it ties in the crypto and the simplicity of the payment infrastructure to get away from the need from, from the carrying the credit cards around. But you, you use Apple Pay a lot, don't you?

[Chip]

I used it almost 90 in Japan. It was, it was fantastic. I use Apple Pay all the time. I mean all Apple Pay does is do the NFC for whatever card you're holding. So I was like, it was funny because I was using Apple Pay, but I was using amex. So I had my AMEX card. But I, you know, it was just easier to touch it like that, do the NFC payment. And then it would, and it's funny because sometimes it would be in yen and sometimes it would be in dollars, depending. Sometimes I switch between cards. But then I had to go convert it to find out how much did I really pay. And then I liked what it showed up. And, and sometimes you'd have a chance, a choice to, it would pop up and it said, do you want to pay in USD or do you want to pay in yen? And I'm like, is this an exchange rate thing where if I pick the wrong one I'm going to get docked? You know, it's like, felt like it was a quiz, you know, I was like, okay, because I always chose that because the bank will figure it out. If I choose USD, they're going to figure it out.

[Jeff]

So I always choose exactly. It's always a scam.

[Chip]

I was like, they're always trying to get you somewhere. Even when you like go to the airport, you like switch the money. I'm like, okay, that's not the going rate, but all right, I got my money, you know, and sometimes you got to pay cash. They didn't take anything. You're like, oh good it have cash. And figuring out the coins is always fun. Anytime you go to a new Country. You're like, what is. What the hell is this? You know? And they have one that's got a hole in it. I'm like, what is this, A penny? This seems useless to me. I'm, like, putting on the thing. Subway machine. I'm, like, watching it tick up, throwing coins in. And then I threw one coin and went. I was like, oh, that's a 500. Okay.

[Jeff]

I put the wrong one in.

[Chip]

That's the wrong one. Then it. Then it dispatches the change any way it feels like it. Like, so usually get more coins back. I was like, oh, no.

[Jeff]

Right.

[Chip]

My wife, the first lady, she was the one that was handling all that. She had the little, you know, bag that we zipped them in and threw them in the backpacks or whatever.

[Jeff]

I always. I always like using local currency as much as I can. I always like having local currency. But sometimes you travel, you end up using your credit card for everything, pretty much. That's why, like, when I was in Iceland, I was surprised that they wanted you to use credit card. I don't think we ever got local currency in Iceland, really. Like, I used. I use credit card for everything.

[Chip]

Well, you know what?

[Jeff]

I did everything.

[Chip]

Because I changed all my money back to USD, because I was. I was surprised. I thought I would actually use more because I. I thought I would have to use cash more, but I didn't want to be in a situation where I didn't have cash right. Even, like, you know. Yeah. And I remember so one time. So I do all that, and then I'm waiting to get on the plane. I'm like, there's a cool vending machine. The Suntory vending machine has all the Suntory products in it. I'm, like, gonna get a water or get a coffee or something out of there. I'm like, oh, no, I don't have any more of those change. We got rid of all of our change, and. But the cool thing was, never fear, Apple Pay is always here. There's one water. There's another water. I took, like, three waters in the plane, drank them all in the first, like, hour. And I was getting up every 30 minutes on the bath, But I was like, I want to stay hydrated, man. Jeff, look at this. This is. This is pretty funny. The caption on this post is, choose your fighter. Do you remember when the Democrats did that take off of the video game? We're like, choose your fighter. And they were doing it. Everyone was so gay, Jeff. It was super gay.

[Jeff]

Everyone.

[Chip]

Now that Trump's president, I can Say that again. Just totally gay, meaning stupid.

[Jeff]

They were.

[Chip]

It's not getting offended, people, but it was majorly gay. Okay? And I was like, it was so embarrassing. Like, do you not have any. Do you have any amount of self awareness? Like, you watch it back and go, I'm not sure that we should probably post that, but who cares? Let's have 10 more Democrats do the same thing right, with the music. And then. And then Trump put out their video and it just like, it was so easy to just knock them down. Well, here we go.

[Jeff]

Street Fighter. That was cool.

[Chip]

Yeah, exactly. Street Fight. It was like a Street fighter thing. Choose your fighter. Well, this is the caption on this one. Choose your fighter.

[Jeff]

This is.

[Chip]

There's the Delta Force that went down. Okay, you know what the next picture is going to be, right? A few days ago. Everybody's already figured it out. The next picture bling. Choose your fighter. The greatest thing ever. Do you remember?

[Jeff]

That's the best. That's the best.

[Chip]

Can you with the right mind even think, oh, my God, we're at the point of like 20 years ago. Like, if you said, like, if I go back in 20 years, Jeff, you and I go back in time, we go like, listen, you're just not in the future. Let me show you this picture. This is the picture of the future. Be like, come on, that's not even a good SNL skit. It just isn't. It wouldn't make a good parody skit on any network. You'd be like, seriously, I mean, what kind of. I mean, remember that one guy that would get up there, he would. With a straight face, dressed up like a girl. I mean, how do you have. How could this even.

[Jeff]

I still believe. I still believe we somehow switch timelines. I don't think. I think we're on like a normal timeline somehow. And somehow this other timeline kind of interfered with ours and it was like a parallel. And all of a sudden, and we finally are kind of kicking it back out and getting normalcy again. It was crazy. That was Crazy Town. Still, some of the. The effects of crazy Town.

[Chip]

This is.

[Jeff]

Thank God. It's got to be done. We got to get.

[Chip]

Not only is it gay, but Chad's reminding us it's also retarded and retarded.

[Jeff]

That's right.

[Chip]

And by the way, on ax, there's all kinds of retard finder at Retard Finder is my. One of my favorite accounts where he goes, found one. And it's always some lefty. He's always like, I Found one. Yeah, they're not hard to find. They're pretty easy. But we're gonna see some more of.

[Jeff]

Them in the videos later.

[Chip]

Somebody had a. Somebody had a. It was like something took a picture of a lawn sign. I gotta find this lawn sign. It says, in this house we say gay, and that's right.

[Jeff]

Yeah.

[Chip]

I'm like, we never stop saying in my house. I see all kinds of stuff. I don't care because I said something at out, and I don't. What did I say? I said something like. I don't know if you said anymore. I go, I just did. And I'll say it again if there's any problem with the hearing, but there you go. Choose your fighter.

[Jeff]

Well, growing up. Growing up, we used to say, you know, worse things to our friends.

[Chip]

Oh, yeah, come in. I go with my buddy Eyes wine to the gym, and we call each other homos and all kinds of stuff. It's fantastic. It's the best. It's the best ever, man. So there you go. This right here, Jeff. Let's just get into Zohar Zora. And the worst thing is we got to say that stupid name.

[Jeff]

I don't know what that name is.

[Chip]

The Commie.

[Jeff]

What was that. What was that one movie?

[Chip]

The Dictator.

[Jeff]

No. Yeah, it was at the Dictator.

[Chip]

It was the Dictator. Yeah, it was the Dictator.

[Jeff]

Yeah.

[Chip]

It's pretty much a parody that came true. So Mandami just downgraded last week. Jeff. This is like this. You really. This is. Another one of those things is like. No, this is real. He downgraded the New York Police Department Commissioner ending direct mayoral briefings that existed since 911 policing is now treated like sanitation. The mayor no longer believes Islamic terror represents a threat to the city. Sees no need for daily intelligence briefings. After 911 New York's mayors kept it the NYPD the commissioner in a direction daily intelligence loop. The model's now ending. Mandani removed the commissioner Jessica T. Direct line to his office, relegating police leadership to the same access level of garbage collection. The shift weakens situational awareness at top and reflects and beliefs that the Islamic terror threats now you know, when it goes down, you know, it's. Something's going down.

[Jeff]

Well, there's just. It's all purposeful. Everything that he's doing right now is to undermine the. Is to undermine the civility of the city.

[Chip]

Chad says his briefings come from the other side. We're laughing about it, but there's not a truer statement on the screen right now. I can tell you right now. I mean, it's all. That's exactly what it is. And about to dismantle the city like Obama did so many times in this country. Yeah, 100, man. That's exactly.

[Jeff]

But they, they know what they're doing. Right. We've seen it happen over in Europe. We're seeing it happen and they're, they're ratcheting things up right now. And we have to be vigilantly aware of what's happening. We don't understand it, you know, then you know that that's to our own detriment. But New York City is as symbolic in the world, obviously much more symbolic than London, but London is, is suffering, Right? You look at the mayor of London, right. Look at the Islamist impact on, on England, on London and beyond. And think about what's happening in, in Dearborn, Michigan, in Hamtramck, Michigan. They haven't gone too far out yet, but they're moving at, at a pace. And now New York City is right there. And now they have. What was it? Islamic Heritage Month.

[Chip]

Yeah.

[Jeff]

In New York City and they're lighting up a month. Do we need to give everybody a month? What, what is this month? And this guy. There's, there's, I think one of the videos that we have. It's just, it's. Well, we'll play the video. But there was another one. I don't know if I put the video there. The Islamic prayer echoing through the streets of New York.

[Chip]

Yeah, I mean, that's. But that's been happening actually a lot longer than you think. I mean, it's happening more often, but it should happen.

[Jeff]

Zero. It should not happen. I don't hear, you know, call for any other prayer going on. They want to. We're at such a point now, and there, there are so many videos that, you know, that people have been watching or posting lately. And it's like, come on, you know, if you want to live in an environment where they have call for prayer, go to the Middle East. That's where they do it. You know, go live over there. You don't have to, you know, offend, you know, every Christian and, and, you know, and Jewish person and, you know, someone who's atheist, you know, and beyond. Everybody on the street now has to hear your call for prayer. Go to the Middle east and that. And that's it.

[Chip]

What happened to you? You can't, you can't have. And there's a video that I think we had yesterday where it was in the UK and a preacher was on the side of the road. He was basically getting arrested for. For basically just, you know, talking about Christianity. But you can have the call of prayer and take up a whole street and. Yeah, whole thing is ridiculous.

[Jeff]

You can't have church belts, you know, but you can have call for prayer because there's certain sound ordinance, you know, so if you have a sound ordinance and yet you can have call for prayer, you know, things have. Have gotten so out of hand.

[Chip]

But here, look at this, Jeff, you're. Yeah.

[Jeff]

You're freezing up.

[Chip]

I froze up for a second there.

[Jeff]

Yeah, you froze up.

[Chip]

It was easier to capture the leader of Venezuela than it was to find a kid in a Minnesota Somali daycare. I mean.

[Jeff]

Oh, my.

[Chip]

I mean, what the hell? I mean, is that. Is that crazy? I mean, are we. Are we. Is. Are we doing this right now, man? It's. It's insane.

[Jeff]

Yeah. Ramadan is a month of fasting. Yes.

[Chip]

So what? That's not. Look, look, the president used to be like. He used to have memory. Used to have George Washington, and then it was like, you know, you had two presidents that had a day, then it became a one President's Day. So one day, we're coming up on the 250th anniversary of the United States, and you only get one day. That's it. One day. You get a day to honor the dead, and you get a day for labor. That's it.

[Jeff]

And. And by the way, Ramadan is February 17th.

[Chip]

Yeah. So what's the point? Why are they lighting it up green? Like, what's the significance? I don't even care. I don't care. They don't do anything for the two biggest face, you know, Christianity, Judaism. What. Who. Why? What's the. What's the thing? What is the. I don't. It's not making any sense here. Yeah.

[Jeff]

All right, let's go and let's get into some Venezuela stuff.

[Chip]

Let's talk about. So let's look at a couple videos here of. Of people, basically, because the other thing that happened is, like, these fake crowds broke out pretty fast. But look at this guy here.

[Andres Bermudes Portillo]

How are you guys? Where are you from, guys? No. Hi, guys.

[Jeff]

Where are.

[Chip]

No more war.

[Andres Bermudes Portillo]

Where are you from?

[New York City Bus Rider]

From here.

[Andres Bermudes Portillo]

Here. And why are you protesting right now, today?

[Chip]

No more wars.

[Andres Bermudes Portillo]

Venezuela. No more words in Venezuela. And you know about the situation in Venezuela?

[New York City Bus Rider]

Yes.

[Andres Bermudes Portillo]

What do you know about the situation in Venezuela? So you want to give me an answer? Because we can talk. I'm not aggressive or anything. I just want to talk, actually. So we have Here a group of people that they are protesting because they want no more war in Venezuela. But all these people, there's nobody here from Venezuela. So from all these people, nobody from Venezuela.

[Paula]

This is people from United States.

[Chip]

United States.

[Andres Bermudes Portillo]

This is people from another places where there's no people from Venezuela. And actually I am from Venezuela. Andres Bermudes Portillo from Maracaibo, Venezuela. I spend time in jail because of the regiment of Nicolas Maduro. We have 25 year with a dictatorship. And right now, in the moment that somebody take attention of that situation, people decide to protest because they don't want war. So in the past five years of 30 million of people that live in Venezuela, more than 10 million leave the country. So these people is right now protesting because they don't want that we people recover all freedom. So these people don't want and Venezuela be free.

[Jeff]

They don't want to get here because.

[Andres Bermudes Portillo]

They want to attack Donald Trump and they want to use the name of my country and the name of my people to do this without caring about all the people that has die. And he's suffering right now in a jail in Venezuela because of this regimen.

[Jeff]

Yep. What did you notice about the first guy that he was talking to with the toothpick arm?

[Chip]

He has no idea what he's there. He has no idea, he has no idea where he is, why he's there. Understand, he didn't even understand the question. I don't even think that he understands the sign he's holding. He's probably like, what a more war? Oh, I guess. Yeah. Okay.

[Jeff]

I mean, but he's the typical, you know, liberal that you expect to see at a, at a protest like that obviously paid. Then you saw the, you know, the, the heavier woman, you know, that obviously the organizer, you know, and she comes over and, you know, always, you know, this, you know, and she's like trying to tell him to stop, you know, it's just such a pathetic repeat, you know, I feel like you just repeat the same narrative over and over again. The same people, there's always the one that tries to shut them down and they're all just stupid. They're, they're, they have zero, you know, and here he is a Venezuelan coming there to have a. Engage and they want to shut him down. It just, it's amazing to me, but it's stupid.

[Chip]

What is more, we got some more videos here. Here we go, a whole bunch of them.

[Venezuelan American Woman]

Hi, my name is Paula and I am Venezuelan born and raised. I've lived in the United states for almost 10 years to the date. And I am an American citizen also, by the way, the main reason why I'm coming here today, I'm literally nobody. And if this reaches one person, my job here, that one person that didn't know what was happening in Venezuela and now they do, my work here is done. I am outraged about the comments I've been seeing today. I made the mistake myself of going on social media and reading all the news outlets reporting on the news of the Venezuelan strikes, well, military strikes to remove Maduro. Thank you. And everybody, ton of Americans and then from whatever you're from, but you've never been to Venezuela. You have no idea about the political situation, situation in Venezuela, the history of Venezuela, and trying to be like our saviors. Like, I can't. Let me set some things straight. First of all, so good. The regime has been going on since 1998, when Chavez was elected Parisian. From there on, their country is the mess. In good words that it is today. We have suffered a lot. The Senate was dissolved, the constitution was changed. They bought the military, all the armed forces. Many people have been killed, kidnapped. You can go do the Google search.

[Chip]

Yourself or you know why, Jeff? The warmth of collectivism. That was what it. Remember what Chavez promised? Free oil. Everyone's gonna have free oil, free food. And just like the people of New York, they're like, yes. Yeah. They all lined up and wanted it.

[Jeff]

Yeah. The other thing that, that Chavez did was he promised that the poor people could live in the wealthy neighborhoods. So he instigated. He instigated class warfare. And then he was really good at it. And then he also went after the grocery store, the grocers, and blame them for the cost of increase of food. So there were all these different things that, that he did to orchestrate to break down society from within. And then what he did was he claimed golf courses and parks in these wealthy neighborhoods and he built subsidized government housing in the wealthy neighborhoods by taking over the parks and the golf courses. And he moved the, the poor communities into those regions, you know, many of them. And so it just caused all sorts of chaos and conflict. Any. Everything was purposeful. Exactly. Everything that Momi is talking about, everything that, that what's his name? Who's that? The old guy that. The senator that nobody can stand. Everything that he talks about, you know, just.

[Chip]

Bernie Sanders.

[Jeff]

Bernie Sanders. It's a. The same nonsense. Bernie Sanders.

[Chip]

I don't want to tell you I've never had a job in my life, but I'm gonna set you straight.

[Jeff]

But it played out, it played out in Venezuela if you were to say, and you were to study this in at university, you know, in these university professors that typically pontificate and just want to listen to their own, you know, but in this case, here's like the perfect, you know, real life, real world example of what socialism does to a country in two decades, in such a short period of time. How they dismantled a free society that was wealthy, that has resources, that could mine the resources that it was exporting and was a mass exporter of beef and, and other product and then it within 20 years we're at where we're at now. It's just, it's unbelievable. And you know, we had previous administrations, Obama one of the bigger culprits that turned a blind eye to the theft of election, you know, and obviously that was purposeful also. And soon to find out that companies like Dominion are Venezuelan based companies. Right? So go figure. So let's say are you ever going to trust a company that is being, that's producing voting machines that's under either a Chavez regime or this Maduro regime, which is an extension of the Chavez regime that's tied back into Cuba, tied into China, tied in, tied into Russia, that has hisbah components coming into into Venezuela. It's a launching point. So there's so much more being orchestrated from this point. We just saw two Venezuelans, you know, just regular people talking and we haven't even gotten started yet.

[Chip]

Regular people, just let's let her finish.

[Venezuelan American Woman]

Just ask because clearly Google is not working for you people. Three things I want to get across today. One, the new are set. No, we're not. This is literally the happiest days of day of our life. This is our second independence. We are still in shocked, complete shock about what finally happened. We have been wanting this, we have been praying for this. We have been literally anybody that we have been able to go to and ask and nobody listened to us. So we are happy. Enjoy. And even if you're a Venezuelan in Venezuela or a Venezuelan outside of Venezuelan, any country that you are, if you left 10, 15 years ago, five days ago or a week ago, we are all happy. So don't worry about us, we're happy. United States only attacking Venezuela because of the oil people. We do not control our oil. We haven't seen our oil. Russia, Iran, Cuba, China, whatever other countries, Central America and South America, we've been giving away our oil to all these countries. Like we're not seeing that anyways. So. So and we used to have traits and whatever other things with the United States before t about our oil and our country was working fine. So we, the way we don't care, don't worry about us. If United States wants to take our oil, we will be happy to be giving away the oil to United States if that means that our country is going to be safe and that US Citizens, residents of whatever of Venezuela are going to be good, are going to be able to make money, are going to be able to retire, which none of those things are happening right now. And then number three, if you're worried about what United States did to Venezuela and that what's going to happen now? Nothing. Literally. And I mean this, Nothing can be worse than the hell we've lived up until now. So stop. And I mean this, Stop trying to explain Venezuela to Venezuelans. Stop. If you want to know, reach out to someone from Venezuela. Okay? Either that are living there or that left. So again, I am very upset. I am outraged. I spent a dumb amount of time today on social media reading all these comments and that was my own mistake. That's why I felt compelled to make this video. Leave it open. I am open to answer any and all questions if you're genuinely wanting to know what's going on. Any comments about trying to explain to me what's happening or how I must feel today. Like, you're out. I'm not kidding. Thank you.

[Chip]

She's way too nice. She's way too nice. But it's heartfelt, Jeff. It's totally. Yeah, it's a, it's a heartfelt message. And I have to say that, you know, it is, it's great to see it. You know, the fact that she's just, she's a little nervous. She's doing the video, but she's like, why would you have these white liberals, especially the women, explain Venezuela to them, you know, 27, 28 years of persecution. Not only that, but they, A lot of people die. This is what part they don't talk about in communism, that how many people die. They basically confiscate every business. And I saw videos in Spanish I'm going to play. I have a Spanish one today, but just because it's more visual. But the one guy they were interviewing, one of the Venezuelan guys on the ground and the was like a, it was like a CNN type reporter, but it was all in Spanish. He was saying, well, what do you, what do you say about the fact that the US Is coming in for oil? He goes, and he said the same thing. She said. He. She goes, china's here, Russia's here, Cuba's here. They take olive oil. What do you think they're here for? Rapos recipes, right? He's like, why do you think they're here? You know, you think they're here for the oil? And so. And it's just funny to see that. But this is one. One of the greatest things, and I voted for this. And I didn't even know how great this was going to be. When I see this show up on the official White House account, and I always have to check because I think, is this different account? I'm like, yeah, at White. Did I spell nice? W H I T at White House. Okay. Because I want to make sure. Like, it's not special characters and it's something else. No games around. Find out. There's a picture of Trump with the White House logo on there. This is the greatest thing I've ever seen in my life. Look at this. There it is.

[Jeff]

You gotta love it. But you heard Hexeth say that yesterday. Yeah, you have around. Yeah, around. You find out.

[Chip]

Find out. You know, I mean, they weren't. What do you think those think they were doing off the coast or sitting there, you know, crocheting. So I see this kind of stuff, and I'm like, this is the greatest thing. And you know the Taunt videos that they put out on the White House, too? Those are the other ones, too. And I just have to check it. But this one right here, Maduro basically taunts Trump, come and get me. He's. What he's saying. I'll. I'll do the. For the. For the. The Voice podcast. I'll do the translation. Come get me. I'll wait here. Amir. Fl. Don't take too long now.

[Hugh]

If you don't know.

[Chip]

Now you. Daddy, I gotta be careful because of the music there. I can't have the music on there.

[Jeff]

There's Trump walking into the.

[Chip]

Look at that. You coward. Rubio. Like, not. You didn't know. Now you know. There he is. There he is on the plane, and there's Trump walking in. This is the greatest thing. Another White House. There's so much great stuff. Like, I think that might be the greatest account ever. Like the White House.

[Jeff]

Another one with the bombing, with the music.

[Chip]

Oh, the music. Yeah. When they rolled it in. Yeah, that was the other one. I couldn't do that one because of. The music's too heavy, like in the beginning of that. But yeah, you see, like, the helicopters rolling. God, it's just one of the Greatest. It really is fantastic. My God, I don't even know where we are. So let's play this other one. There's another one about Venezuela, your American media.

[Media Analyst]

Please stop using these three phrases in your Venezuela coverage because you're not being neutral, you're legitimizing a dictatorship. Listen, I've worked in American media my whole life. I've even published in the New York Times. And yes, they've been one of the outlets getting this wrong. So here's what to stop saying.

[Chip]

1.

[Media Analyst]

President Maduro. Maduro claims he won the election in July 2024 with no proof. The opposition, led by Edmundo Gonzalez and Maria Corina Machado, won by a landslide and have the receipts. So say dictator, autocrat, authoritarian leader, de facto ruler. Stop granting him the title President. 2. Regime change. Regime change makes this sound like Iraq or Afghanistan to the American public. Use democratic restoration, constitutional order, a democratic transition, a return to what voters chose. 3D. Rodriguez is a moderate. Speaking French or studying abroad doesn't make someone a moderate. Del C. Rodriguez is Maduro's vp. She handles the oil and is responsible, along with his power brokers, for one of the biggest refugee crises in our hemisphere and for torturing and imprisoning thousands of innocent people. If she replaces Maduro, it's not an ouster, it's a reshuffling. If this coverage affects you, share this, send it to your American friends and tag journalists and editors and outlets. Because of the US politics, public doesn't get the words right. They'll never understand what we're setting out to do. Sierra Venezuelano, o latinoamericano comparte estebideo periodico editores.

[Chip]

You get the gist there. But you know, it's funny that she makes a really. That third one is a really good point. She talks about the whole idea of democracy, right? What do we hear from the left? All the time? Democracy, okay, we live in a constitutional republic. But yeah, I get you would love to have mob rules rule. We get that you're a little stupid, you're not that bright. But what is the first thing they do? They don't talk about democratic restoration. They don't talk about installing somebody who. Or putting the person that was actually elected. Oh no, they keep digging deeper holes. Like they only need to read the first rule of holes, which is when you're in one, you stop digging. But no, no, they just get the shovels out and start digging further and put themselves in a more compromised type position, which is just hard to understand and sort of square it what else do we have here? Gosh, there's so much good stuff here.

[Jeff]

There's just one after another.

[Chip]

Let's see, there's. They're kind of mixed. Oh, so here's. Speaking of Bernie Sanders, Jeff, here's Bernie Sanders. I'm Bernie Sanders. I've never had a job. Have you ever seen pictures of him from like when he was like in his 20s? It looks like a typical hippie loser that just woke up, you know, just walked out of a house.

[Jeff]

He never had a job. I never had a job.

[Chip]

But he's worth millions. He's got multiple houses. Sure. I mean, somehow everybody. You must pay your fair share. Everybody has to pay their fair share, right? What is their fair share?

[Jeff]

That's how this ties everything together.

[Chip]

Donald Trump has once again shown his contempt for the Constitution and the rule of law. Let's be clear, the President of the. He just made the faux pas of all faux pas. Let's be clear. When you say let's be killer. Everything you're saying out there, that's complete and utter bullshit. The United States does not have the right to unilaterally take this country into war.

[Political Commentator]

There's a particular kind of entitlement it takes to believe you can explain Venezuela to Venezuelans. And what's worse is that this so called analysis often comes from people who claim to oppose appropriation and white savior thinking while doing exactly that. When narratives about Venezuela are formed without Venezuelans in the conversation, reduced to simplistic takes about foreign interference and then broadcast as education through threads, carousels or reels that end up whitewashing a narco authoritarian regime, that isn't activism, it's the appropriation of a pain that isn't yours. Now here's the There are hundreds of political prisoners, including teenagers, many never properly tried. There are forced disappearances. More than 7 million Venezuelans, that's a quarter of the population, have fled the country, many crossing deadly terrain because staying was worse. Nearly half the population struggles to eat. Children are malnourished, hospitals barely function, journalists are silenced, NGOs are criminalized, and families whole, entire families, including mine, forced to flee. Given this reality, using US Force to remove a narco regime that has held an entire population hostage for decades isn't interventionism. It's a response to a regional security crisis. Venezuela has become a continental issue, destabilizing neighboring countries and the United States through mass displacement, while serving as a safe haven for guerrilla groups, drug and human trafficking networks, and hostile, hostile actors like Russia, China and Iran. Venezuelan sovereignty was lost long ago when the regime effectively handed the country over to these interests. Freeing Venezuela from criminal control is not only a just cause, it serves the stability of the entire hemisphere. And if we're going to move forward in this deeply polarized tribal moment, we have to learn how to hold two opposing truths at the same time.

[Chip]

Eyes on fire, man. I mean, like, and these are just random people that we come across, Jeff. There's been so many of them popping up in my feed, and they can speak. I mean, and not only that could they speak to the issue, but also in a very, very poignant way. It's really incredible to kind of go through these videos and just see how, you know, my wife shared a story. She was a year. I think it was two years ago. She was in. She was in Colombia. And there's a lot of foot traffic that comes in. People are still fleeing Venezuela and what. This one part of. Of Colombia that she was in, they went out and they made 150 sandwiches and they gave them out, you know, and she said, I gave it to one of the little girl, the kids, she was. She was passing them out. The kids were jumping up and down smiling because they could eat. They were hungry, man. They haven't eaten for days. Kids are, you know, you know, they're trying to go to a country that will. Will accept them. And people think, well, the fleeing already happened. No, it gets so bad. You gotta take your family and move somewhere and they just start. They all kind of said south. And unfortunately, a lot of the criminal element kind of bled down into, like, Peru and Chile and Argentina. As far as Argentina, where the bad element comes in. And then all of a sudden you got crime that raises up and all kinds of stuff. Just because those countries don't have the. Aren't necessarily fighting it, but it's like those are stories that break your heart, man. It's like, you know, these families can't even. They can't even. They don't have a way to even feed their kids. It's just. It gets to be really sad at some point. Yeah, let's see. Where is the.

[Jeff]

Gosh, there are a couple other really good ones on Venezuela and then there's one.

[Chip]

Well, there's this one right here. This was some footage that was taken when Maduro got off the plane.

[Comedian/Impersonator]

Do we agree?

[Chip]

Has there ever been anything like that? He didn't know what hit him.

[Andres Bermudes Portillo]

He's going, oh, get me off on this stage.

[Chip]

Do that, Jeff.

[Jeff]

Yeah.

[Chip]

Trump runs up and takes a selfie. AI, this might be the best application for AI ever, man. Oh, my God.

[Jeff]

But there's one. There's one here that I think kind of puts it all together, and that was from Gene Robinson. Did you pull that up?

[Chip]

I don't think I had that one.

[Jeff]

Oh, man. This one's good.

[Chip]

I didn't see.

[Jeff]

I put in the.

[Chip]

Keep.

[Jeff]

It's under. Democrats need ghettos.

[Chip]

I mean, I have more of it. I have more on them. I have more other ones queued up.

[Jeff]

Yeah, so this one. But let's put this one up. Let me put this one up. This one is so poignant. Hang on, Shoot. Let me get it. Here it is. Let me see if it. All right, Perfect.

[Chip]

Oh, yeah. Okay. That. Dude. Okay. I did see that one. Yeah, I had that. I have that one. If you want to. Let me see if. Hang on a second. The thing was, they're all out of order, so it's kind of hard to.

[Jeff]

I know, yeah. It wasn't a sequence.

[Chip]

So.

[Jeff]

You see me put that one up.

[Chip]

I usually have them in order. There we go. There we go.

[Paula]

I'd like to know why every single Democrat in lock step with their media amplifiers are screaming illegal, about Venezuela's strike, about the US's strike on Venezuela, as if indictments that have existed since 2020 suddenly have vanished. This is a pattern, folks. They don't react to law, they react to disruption. What was disrupted was not sovereignty or norms. It was a revenue stream. Let me explain. Drugs moving north, bodies dropping in neighborhoods that look like mine. Overdoses that fuel the NGO economy. The chaos isn't accidental, folks. It's by design. It's a system. Remove the source of narcotics and the money dries up. There's no more chaos. There's no more ghetto. But Democrats need ghettos. From Dan Goldman to Maxine Waters, they need ghettos. No drugs means no overdoses. No overdoses means no grants, no non profits, no endless conferences, no executive salaries wrapped up in the language of compassion. And none of that money ever reaches the mother burying her child or the family shattered by fentanyl. It never reaches them. I know this to be true because I live in the aftermath. Not the press release. Not with cnn, msnbc, cbs, abc. I don't live in that world. I live on the ground, in the ghetto. That is why they're outrageous, uniform. That's why you see every Democrat from California to New York condemning the strike. That's why there's no deviation. They don't care about the legality. They only want the chaos that serves them. They only care when the order threatens their machinery, Black death is not a tragedy to them. It's a funding mechanism. When people like me overdose and die with needles still in our arms, that's a feature. That's what's supposed to happen. Do you understand me?

[Chip]

Color doesn't.

[Paula]

Does not matter inside the party either. Because they got these black explicatives and they're. They're nothing more than glorified gatekeepers. Very well paid gatekeepers, I might add. They're paid to keep you in the plantation picking cotton. That's exactly what they want you to do. So like I said, black Democrats or white demons, they're all the same. It doesn't matter. But the utility does. The dead bodies keep the pipeline flowing. Stability breaks it. So they condemn. Not because something was wrong, but because something was profitable and it was stopped by President Trump. That's the design. That's what they need. That's why they're furious.

[Jeff]

Man, the guy's so spot on.

[Chip]

That's such fire. So, Jeff, you know what happened? Do you remember Mundami promised they'd be frustrated free bus rides?

[Jeff]

Oh, yeah.

[New York City Bus Rider]

Hi, guys. From the New York City bus where Mayor Mom, Donnie, he promised us a free ride, but guess what we got instead. Higher bus fares. Yes, that is right. Today the price of this bus went up to $3.

[Chip]

You know why?

[New York City Bus Rider]

Because even with this price increase, the New York City buses and subways are barely able to function. The mayor of New York City has actually, actually never had control over the transportation that is controlled by the state. Yes, that's right. The governor. He lied to all of you. And guess who's paying the price? All of us.

[Jeff]

Yep. $3.

[Chip]

Check this out. Jeff. Here's an Aussie patriot right here. He got arrested for going to a pro Maduro rally and yelling, usa.

[Jeff]

Hey.

[Andres Bermudes Portillo]

Usa. Usa. Usa.

[Chip]

Hey, hey, hey.

[Paula]

What's up?

[Jeff]

What's up?

[Chip]

Fast around him.

[Jeff]

Yeah, the police. Look, at least they look tough in Australia, not like the ones in the uk.

[Chip]

It's debatable, Jeff. I don't know. Look at this Maduro playset. It's all in Spanish. You'll get the gist of it. Gotta love that, Jeff. And then here's what Trump said after the. This whole thing went down.

[Comedian/Impersonator]

Amigos, Joe Soyo Presidento and Senor Donaldo J. Trumpo, your ex presidento, Senor.

[Chip]

He's dressed up like he looks. He's. He's dressed up just like Maduro, man. He's got the freaking mustache, the sash over him. He's got The Venezuelan flag in the background. This is too much.

[Comedian/Impersonator]

Maduro. He's no longer your presidento. He kept talking shit, you know, and around though. And he ultimately found out though. Anyway, we're gonna make Venezuela grande again. Mucho grande. Bigger. You're better than ever before. We're gonna drill, baby, drill. We're gonna have a big beautiful fiesta. All the tacos you want, mucho mariachi, sexy mamacitas and delicious margaritas. And President Trump is going to be a dj.

[Chip]

Okay, which sounds like a sound bite, Jeff. We should play that one right there.

[Comedian/Impersonator]

And delicious margaritas. All the tacos you want. Mucho mariachi, sexy mamacitas and delicious margaritas.

[Chip]

There you go.

[Comedian/Impersonator]

And President Trump is going to be a dj. Okay, which is grassy, which I chose. Let's make Venezuela grand again. Aribel. Venezuela amigos.

[Jeff]

Oh my God.

[Chip]

Then there's this one, this new dick. There's a new Disney Pixar coming out. Look at this. President is a coward.

[Paula]

Come get me.

[Chip]

I'm waiting. Well, how about that? Quicker than doordash.

[Jeff]

Oh my God.

[Chip]

It's actually too good. Here's Pitbull addressing a crowd about the Pitbull. The. So you're talking about the. The US whoever the doesn't like the.

[Paula]

United States of America.

[Chip]

May God bless you.

[Paula]

But you at the same time.

[Comedian/Impersonator]

If.

[Chip]

You don't like the United States of.

[Paula]

America, go back to the countries that we the from and you'll see how much you appreciate the United States of America.

[Jeff]

That's so spot on. God, I love that, that speak.

[Chip]

Dude, did you remember Bob Barker? Did you know Maduro's on the prices, right? Check this out. You've won an all inclusive trip back to the US of A.

[Paula]

Hands behind your back. Let's go, let's go.

[Jeff]

He around and found out.

[Chip]

Yeah, it's just fantastic, man. It really is. No other word for it. It's kind of late, Jeff.

[Jeff]

Notice.

[Chip]

Yeah, well the first thing I thought of was when that happened I thought, you know, I think Iran and Cuba are their pants right about now. I'm like, right, you know, they're wondering what's going on. You got the uprising in Iran. They're going to take back Iran, man. And there's no mistake. While this stuff's going down, there's no estate. Well, the good news Mark is you will have that clip. Because if you go ahead and put your email or you go to the website, you'll be able to find the clip on there there. We publish them on the website right after the show. Concludes, we send out an email that has all the clips on it that you watch here and all the stuff we do and probably a lot of stuff. We didn't get to a lot of stuff tonight, but yeah, do you have to get out of here? That's great. It's good stuff. Need more popcorn. I need a lot more popcorn. If you look, Trump is strategic. If you want to know what he's planned for this year, get the popcorn. You need an awful lot of it because timing is everything. Watch what happens as we start getting close to the midterms. Watch the fun and the avalanche of no more drip, drip, drip talking avalanche. It's going to be a phenomenal year.

[Jeff]

It's all coming.

[Chip]

It's all coming. Just, just, you know, get that popcorn ready. But that's all the time we have here. People will be free again. Too, right? Cuba. There you go. They're like, they're, they're scared shitless.

[Jeff]

Yes.

[Chip]

So look around, find out. There you go.

[Jeff]

We're seeing many countries saying, please. Trump leaders, the UK included. Well, the uk, they're going down a slippery slope. There's a lot of evidence to show that the UK apparatus is behind a lot of things that have been anti.

[Chip]

Us so go figure. They've been doing it for 250 years.

[Jeff]

They have been no income tax.

[Chip]

Yeah, the. No income tax. Those tariffs, people like against tariffs. The tariffs also weans us off the, The Fed. So we don't need the Fed. We don't need to worry about that. We get, you know, and I love the fact that Trump is suing the Fed chair. He's going to go after him for incompetence. He's going to open up discovery and he's going to find out all kinds of stuff. So it's, again, it's just, just getting going. Viva lotc. I love it.

[Jeff]

Tz.

[Chip]

Top marks, gents. Thank you guys very much. That's it. All the time we have, guys, we're getting out of here. So all the time we have tonight.

[Jeff]

Crypto capital of the world. America first.

[Chip]

Damn straight. That's what I say. Amen.

[Jeff]

Making America great again.

[Chip]

Make America great again. Make Venezuela great. Cuba, Iran. Imagine a free Iran, like with a democratic. Imagine a free. It's gonna, just, I mean, all the conflict. Look, the, the, the globalists are on the run and they know their shit's.

[Jeff]

Been had, so it has been. Yeah, we're after him.

[Chip]

We're after him. That's all we got. Jeff, we are out of here. Chip. Jeff, we are out. Are you down with otc?

[Paula]

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[Chip]

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