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History Hyenas with Chris Distefano and Yannis Pappas

From Belgium to Wall Street: The Dirty Birth of the Stock Market

History Hyenas with Chris Distefano and Yannis Pappas

Chris Distefano and Yannis Pappas

History, Comedy Interviews, Popculture, Yannispappas, Chrisdistefano, Comedy, Historyhyenas

4.85K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2025

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

Yannis and Chris take you on a wild ride back to the very first stock market—then keep going all the way to ancient Greece and Rome, where guys in togas were investing in ship voyages. They break down what the market is, how it started, and why it still confuses the average person. Along the way, they spotlight Hetty Green, the OG “Wall Street witch” who became the richest woman in the game, hit the Great Depression like a bear market fever dream, and cruise through the turbulence of the industrial boom. Let these two twink cubs teach you the purpose of the stock market—for companies and investors alike—and the difference between a bull and a bear market! Support our sponsors: Get $80 off your first month with promo code SPACE80 at https://Talkspace.com Make life easier by getting harder and discover your options at https://BlueChew.com! Try your first month of BlueChew FREE when you use promo code HYENAS -- just pay $5 shipping. Control Body Odor ANYWHERE with @shop.mando and get $5 off your Starter Pack (that’s over 40% off) with promo code HYENAS at https://shopmando.com! #mandopod #comedy #Podcast #History Join our Patreon at 👇 https://www.patreon.com/historyhyenas/ Subscribe to the poddy woddy Our YouTube!: https://bit.ly/2ARdDOz HH Clips:https://bit.ly/2YaK2Z8 iTunes: https://apple.co/2UQTHCc Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3fxtsc0 Hyenas Merch!!! https://teespring.com/stores/historyhyenas Follow us Cuz! 🙆🏻‍♂️ Yannis Pappas Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/yannispappas/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/yannispappas Website - https://www.yannispappascomedy.com/ 🙆🏼‍♂️ Chris Distefano Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/chrisdcomedy/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/chrisdcomedy Website - https://www.chrisdcomedy.com/ 🐕More Hyenas Website: www.historyhyenasisback.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/historyhyenas/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/HistoryHyenas Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/historyhyenaspod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

What's up, everybody. Welcome to another episode of History. Hyenas. I'm Krista Stefano,

0:04.7

aka. Christy Too Much Coffees. With me, as always, Janis, aka Yanni low dose.

0:10.9

A.k.a. Yonni with a little egg white caught between his teeth. It's what it is because

0:14.9

handsome Yanni, tan Yonni, five o'clock shadow Yanni. Yeah, sometimes I'm five o'clock shadow. Sometimes I'm just, I age 10 to 15 years when I have that. Yeah. And then I de-age what I don't have that. Because you're always five o'clock. Today you're handsome, you're 5 p.m., but sometimes you come in wild, you're 5 a.m. Yeah, sometimes the hair's all over the place. Sergio says I look like a newborn baby bird.

0:39.1

It's what it is, but so does Sergio, because.

0:41.3

Yeah, no.

0:42.0

Sergio looks like a Puerto Rican egg.

0:43.9

Sergio, yeah, he looks like he's sitting on top of a fence and you want to push him over and say howdy-duty, but you want to say it in Spanish.

0:49.5

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

0:50.1

Sergio's name is Humpty Dumpty as shit.

0:51.9

Yeah, Humpty Dumpty as shit. Yeah, Humpty Dumpty. When I say, Howdy Duty, but I was really trying to say Humpty Dumpty. Because make no mistake, and the fans have been commenting it, and I've been saying it for the last six months. You are Yanni sundowns big. I'm sundowns, baby. So sometimes I'm 5 p.m. Sometimes I'm 5 a.m. But when does the sun go down in winter? about 5 p.m. so that goes from my shadow and also when I start saying things wrong.

1:14.1

Because here's the thing with you is a lot when people are close to death they're on the runway but when people are close to sundowning they're on the ramp. They're on a wheelchair ramp because of the wheelchair ramp is. Yeah. You're waiting for the nurse to push you down and take you for a little strong. Yes. And before we start, we wanted to talk about something. We want to talk about something that's very special and dear to our heart. That's our exclusive community. Yes. Where you can find lots of bonus content. We're doing new series now. We got a few of them. We got dad tips. Yep. We have Snowstorm. Yep. And we got

1:46.4

exclusive bonus content only at patreon.com slash history. Hyenas, we have now beefed up the $25

1:54.0

tier. We have a episode that we put once a month that is exclusive, exclusive, exclusive. We go

1:59.3

absolutely wild off the rails and then we have our

2:02.0

five dollar tier which is audio only and our ten dollars here which gets you audio and video and we

2:07.5

have been really leaning in folks like yani said extra content exclusive bonus content that only

2:14.1

exists at patreon.com slash history hyenas and as yani said it is a community okay

2:20.5

people are talking over there people are hanging over there all it costs you is five bucks cause

2:25.4

yeah that's it's five crisps that's it a little bit of scratches my dad would say uh we also got

2:31.3

the political polling series up there which is is the on-notice boys and

2:35.1

Latter 14, where the Democratic Party comes in and asks those two focus groups what they think

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