La Venganza Será Terrible (oficial) · Alejandro Dolina

LVST 10 de abril de 2026

·1 hr 27 min·7 clips

The ventajita has a radar for convenience — he moves through life hunting the small advantage and uses friendship as his instrument.

1. La Venganza Será Terrible, April 10 episode, centers on a satirical essay about the opportunistic friend archetype called the 'ventajita,' hosted by Alejandro Dolina. 2. Alejandro Dolina leads the program as host; he is joined by co-host Burton (who interjects throughout) and production by Maike Iglesias, Eugenia Gorostiza, and Juan Virches. 3. The episode's core offering is a taxonomic analysis of the ventajita — a person who exploits friendship for small personal gains — presented as a philosophical-comic essay with dramatized illustrations. 4. The ventajita is defined as someone who appears only when there is something to gain, with a 'radar for convenience' that activates upon news of promotions, new cars, summer pools, or social contacts worth cultivating. 5. Specific ventajita behaviors are enumerated: sending an exaggerated congratulations message the same day someone is promoted, then immediately asking for a favor; befriending people specifically for their useful professional connections; appearing only in summer when the target has a pool. 6. The 'who pays the bill' behavior is illustrated: the ventajita develops an astonishing ability to be distracted, receive phone calls, or discover a lack of change precisely when the restaurant check arrives. 7. The 'leftover food' variant is analyzed: at the end of a gathering, the ventajita secures a container while everyone else clears plates, leaving with three days of meals and attributing the quantity to 'it's for the dog.' 8. A dramatized scene stages a ventajita visiting a lawyer friend's office to request a fraudulent car document, charming the secretary during the lawyer's bathroom break, and simultaneously discussing suing the lawyer via usucapion. 9. The ventajita who borrows clothes, tools, and technology is catalogued: he requests the loan of a new shirt for a wedding, a watch the owner no longer uses, and an old phone being replaced — and returns none of them. 10. Dolina notes that the ventajita who uses professional friends for free consultations — doctors, lawyers, psychologists — is now a widely recognized social type, and describes his own consultation of a doctor friend (Pampa Van Garden) about a vocal difficulty before the program. 11. Listener messages arrive from Anabel in Alicante, Spain; Joana Bain from Ciudad de la Costa, Uruguay; Leo from Tancacha, Córdoba; Santiago from San Ignacio, Misiones; and a sailor who stood night watch in 2002. 12. The sailor's message describes laughing so uncontrollably at Dolina and Jorge Rolón's discussion of lovers hidden in wardrobes that he could not see the ship's bow at 00:30; Dolina responds that old programs can be found on the YouTube channel 'Venganza del Pasado.' 13. Sebastián from Wellington, New Zealand writes about Alexander the Great's cultural curiosity when invading Persia, noting that Alexander — far from treating Persia as a primitive village — was so impressed that he required a thousand of his generals to marry Persian women. 14. A listener from Colonia Elisa, Chaco province, describes the program as providing the only laughter of difficult moments in his life. 15. Discussion of whether Argentina has opossums (sarigüeyas) or weasels (comadrejas) arises from a listener correction — the show has historically conflated the two animals, and the distinction is debated with acknowledgment that the sarigüeya is North America's marsupial, not South American. 16. The program's history is referenced: a listener writes of recording cassettes of La Venganza in the 1980s and playing them for his father while eating; another listener received a copy through a cassette chain; the show's longevity across multiple formats — cassette, radio, Spotify — is noted. 17. The episode tone is relaxed, ruminative, and self-referential, with Dolina and Burton trading observations rather than arguing, and frequent digressions that abandon their initial subject. 18. The format is a long-form radio variety show: part essay, part listener interaction, part live event announcement, with no fixed structure beyond the host's commentary linking segments. 19. Buenos Aires residents with an interest in Argentine popular culture, tango, radio nostalgia, and philosophical comedy will find this episode particularly rewarding. 20. Listeners unfamiliar with the show's references to Argentine cultural figures, Buenos Aires neighborhoods, and the program's own multi-decade history will find many segments opaque without context.

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