Places/place
Venezuela
2017-08-13, 1 mention2019-04-07, 1 mention2019-04-14, 3 mentions2019-05-19, 1 mention2019-07-07, 1 mention2021-04-11, 1 mention2024-02-03, 1 mention2024-08-10, 1 mention2024-08-17, 1 mention2024-09-14, 1 mention2025-09-13, 1 mention2025-11-01, 2 mentions2025-11-08, 1 mention2025-12-06, 4 mentions2026-01-03, 1 mention2026-01-10, 2 mentions2026-01-17, 1 mention2026-03-07, 1 mention2026-06-27, 1 mention
Tim’s take
He mostly treats Venezuela as the go-to example of a country people pontificate about without knowing anything, and as the case study for socialism and price controls not working 33:23 15:00. It also shows up as shorthand for wherever migrants are fleeing from, in jokes that assume conditions there must be uniquely dire 17:05 7:28 24:46. Once the US actually starts bombing boats and floating an invasion, his tone shifts to calling the whole thing theater — a resource grab dressed up as a drug war, with Maduro cast as a convenient socialist boogeyman 31:28 42:04 20:45 7:15 23:37 2:04. He even says he finds Maduro personally charming and suspects Washington is privately fine with him despite the public outrage 5:36.
Every Reference (26)
"like, you know, maybe there's a military option on the table for Venezuela. It's like Yeah doing them. I mean, it's not great. I mean, like,"
Hysteria, the Google Memo, and Growing Up With a Mentally Ill Mother — Alt Ass Eating+134s into the segment"Do you know anything about Venezuela? I started reading a little bit about it. So here's the thing,"
Venezuela, Maduro, and Leftist Support for Dictators — Mike Recine"regime change like people like you advocated regime change in Venezuela. I don't advocate any it's a podcast you fucking clown I Didn't"
"He got mad. He was angry. Like you're influencing, you know, Venezuela. You're like I'm a fucking factor in the fucking national debate"
"knock off Venezuela How about this? I will permit a genocide in Venezuela if you buy the maple syrup I will stand idly by while Maduro"
Brittany Murphy, Kathy Griffin's Thieving Husband, and Andy Jacobson Won't Come On — The Advocate+232s into the segment"maybe you are a independent journalist yeah and you got a lot to say about Venezuela right which I don't I don't know why I have to give a [ __ ]"
Wix Ad: Beyonce Has a Website — Episode 148 - Streak of Evil (with Yannis Pappas)+137s into the segment"as an opportunity humor is less of a way to combat things in Venezuela it doesn't really affect any about like right if if it goes beyond"
FBI Infiltrators, Ice, and the Case for Better Targets — 155 - Death By Chocolate+131s into the segment"you know like venezuelans cubans when they escaped uh you know they escaped to america they swam here on rafts or on their tt's back or whatever"
Reasonable People Fleeing to Austin as Cities Die — #247 - Scream At The Sky (ft. Yannis Pappas) | The Tim Dillon Show+13s into the segment"you got to think to yourself how bad was it how bad was it in Venezuela you start thinking to yourself did I have to eat every day maybe"
The New Hampshire Adult Diaper Spa — The Diaper Spa | The Tim Dillon Show #380+704s into the segment"leaving right he's got the military correct this is the country of Venezuela if you aren't aware people out there that are listening to this"
Marcelo's Family and Finding the Charm in Maduro — Tim Walz The Funnel Cake Dad | The Tim Dillon Show #404+266s into the segment"price controls historically haven't worked um you could look at Venezuela and places like that um there's a lot of rationing that happen"
Subway Is Human Trafficker Food — Matthew Perry & A Hamptons Tragedy | The Tim Dillon Show #405+22s into the segment"doesn't mean that if but I will tell you this if a migrant from Venezuela ate the Chihuahua from selling Sunset I would I would watch the"
Selling Sunset's Chihuahua Funeral — The Presidential Debate & Eating Cats | The Tim Dillon Show #409"runs Elliot Capital Management and he's very involved in in Venezuela as well. So these guys are running the show. So let me let me"
AIPAC's Congressional Hammerlock: Cori Bush, Jamaal Bowman, and Thomas Massie — The Silencing Of Charlie Kirk | The Tim Dillon Show #461+143s into the segment"or something. Who cares? Whatever. We're just going to bomb Venezuela now. We killed a bunch of fishermen and now we're going to bomb"
Weird Fault Lines in the Republican Party and Teasing the Cheryl Hines Interview — Halloween Beast Mode & Billie Eilish Bravery | The Tim Dillon Show #468+195s into the segment"different world there. Yes. What do you think about the war with Venezuela? Are you excited about that? That one I don't I don't know."
Interview with Cheryl Hines: RFK Jr., Vaccines, LA, and Her Book Unscripted — Halloween Beast Mode & Billie Eilish Bravery | The Tim Dillon Show #468+223s into the segment"shutdown the money is still going out the door to so we can invade Venezuela arm Israel arm the Ukraine or or it's a giveaway Palanteer so"
The Boring Brunch People Coalition — Zohran’s Victory, Air Traffic Chaos, & Government Shutdown | The Tim Dillon Show #469+236s into the segment"they look at Venezuela and they're a good boogeyman because they were socialists and we've never really liked them from Hugo Chavez"
Proposing a Holiday Dress Code and Killing People as Government Function — Pete Hegseth, War Crimes, & The Breakfast Rush | The Tim Dillon Show #473+53s into the segment"just was surprised like right now I'm surprised by how much Venezuela is a threat to us. Again, I didn't know this. I'm a relatively"
Boomers, Boat Explosions, and the Forgotten Ukraine Obsession — Pete Hegseth, War Crimes, & The Breakfast Rush | The Tim Dillon Show #473+169s into the segment"this insane pivot to Venezuela and the fact that, you know, save for a few dissending voices, we might have had more of a commitment in Iran"
Performative Cruelty as the New National Show — Pete Hegseth, War Crimes, & The Breakfast Rush | The Tim Dillon Show #473+59s into the segment"imperfect. This is a little difficult. No one's really afraid of Venezuela. They don't like that gang trend awa, which I I imagine is no"
Maduro's Dancing Makes Him a Bad Villain — Pete Hegseth, War Crimes, & The Breakfast Rush | The Tim Dillon Show #473+68s into the segment"then after the White House ballroom and a few other projects, Venezuela, whatever. Once all of that's done, we'll get to Pennsylvania,"
Trump's 'Locked and Loaded' Threat and the Case Against Invading Iran — Back To Iran, Gaza Reborn, & A Happy New Year | The Tim Dillon Show #477+247s into the segment"resource you have and it's going to start in in places like Venezuela and then eventually we're just going to start whacking people"
Kidnapping Maduro to Lower Gas Prices — ICE In Minnesota & Venezuela Without Maduro | The Tim Dillon Show #478+281s into the segment"too long. we're gonna go and kidnap the leader. Now, in now, Venezuela, of course, there are armed uh leftist guerilla gangs in the"
Kidnapping World Leaders as the New Tariff Policy — ICE In Minnesota & Venezuela Without Maduro | The Tim Dillon Show #478+134s into the segment"Russia now feels like if if the US is going to go and knock over Venezuela and take the oil and maybe knock over Iran and help the Ukraine"
The Mar-a-Lago Furry Ball and Charlie Kirk Optics — Trump’s Furries & ICE Wide Shut | The Tim Dillon Show #479+256s into the segment"for him. And and I think the latest one to Jeremy's point was Venezuela. That was like, "You can't can't just go into the country and"
Grim: Trump's Venezuela High and 'I'm on a Roll' Mentality — Emergency Podcast: Iran, Israel, & Imminent Destruction | The Tim Dillon Show #486+13s into the segment"It's it goes much deeper than the Hugo Chavez remnants in in Venezuela. So I think he just had an overestimation uh a false belief in"
From Anti-War Populism to Invading Iran — Donald Trump’s Endgame | The Tim Dillon Show #501+361s into the segment