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History Hyenas with Chris Distefano and Yannis Pappas

How Socialism Destroyed Venezuela. The Hyenas go off!

History Hyenas with Chris Distefano and Yannis Pappas

Chris Distefano and Yannis Pappas

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

4.85K Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2025

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Let’s take a wild trip down to Venezuela — from the discovery of its oil, to the rise of socialism, Chávez, Maduro, and the full-blown dumpster fire it’s become. We break down how one of the richest countries on earth turned into chaos, why Maduro and Trump are scrapping, and whether El Presidente is basically a cartel intern. What’s next for “Genezuela”? Only one way to find out: let the boys take you through the madness, the history, and the hyena-crying hilarity. Support our sponsors: Get the right life insurance for YOU, for LESS, and save more than fifty percent at https://SELECTQUOTE.com/HYENAS Quo is offering our listeners 20% off your first 6 months at https://Quo.com/HYENAS. https://bluechew.com Our listeners get 10% off their first month at https://BetterHelp.com/HH #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 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

Babe, Crown Hill Theater, Brooklyn, New York, November 12th, live history hyenas show happening.

0:09.1

Go get your tickets. History hyenas is back.com or just Google history hyenas in Brooklyn,

0:14.5

Crown Hill Theater. And then I'll be in Pennsylvania, November 14th and 15th at the Met in Philly.

0:39.4

And somewhere else, oh, in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. So go to chrisdycom or HistoryHinaishtonysback.com. We got all our dates up there. Yeah, Janus Pappas Comedy.com. See me in Bozman, Montana at the Emerson Theater, November 22nd, Stanford, Connecticut, December 5th and 6th, Austin, Texas, December 11th, 13th, and West Nyack, December 19th, and 21st, Patreon.com slash history hyenas for our weekly bonus episodes.

0:44.6

Enjoy this episode on Nicholas Maduro and Venezuela. I'm Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha What's up everybody?

1:22.8

Welcome to another episode of History Hyenas.

1:25.0

I'm Chris Stefano, aka Chrissy the Catholic.

1:28.5

With me as always is Janus Poppas, aka Yanni Greek Orthodox. A.k.a. Yanni analysis. Want to know why?

1:36.4

Yonalysis. Yeah, yonalysis. I'm Yonni Mondani, and I'm also Yonalysis, because I'm looking at you

1:42.8

right now, and I know that you feel like you don't like your haircut. But let me tell you something right now, right now. The fans will agree. And the camera may not show it, but when you see them in person, the kid's got a bowling pole for a head, as you know. Yeah. So what you want to do is you always want to keep the sides a little short. Right. You want to make it look like you're not in the military because that would be a buzz cut, but you want to do have the cut of like a CIA or high-level DOD official, which is what you got. That's what I call a DOD cut. Yeah. Short on the sides. Yeah. It means you do paperwork. You help overthrow governments, but you're not fucking carrying a rifle

2:17.9

and you don't say yes, sir, to a commander. You're high up. Yeah. That's a Pete Hanksaf cut.

2:23.5

Yeah. And you need it because your head is big, so you need less hair, just like I should have

2:28.4

more hair in order to make my head appear bigger. Cause you're perfect right now. You're

2:32.7

219 and your haircut is perfect. Your proportions are right yeah thank you because you just made me feel super cute you're super cute and you're back to wearing what you should be wearing yeah which is sports paraphernalia yes it's what you're a white black kid and i like it i like it i'm gonna take my uh my guy steve jacconi riceroni to the nix game tonight today is his birthday so wish him happy birthday and take me the nix game it. I'm going to take my guy Steve Jaconi, Reisceroni,

2:50.8

to the Knicks game tonight. Today is his birthday,

2:52.9

so wish him happy birthday. I'm going to take me a Knicks game. And I'm

2:54.8

going to be honest with you, right after the Knicks game, I'm going to take him to West Garden. We're going to get a rubbed down. Because the kid hasn't gotten late since 2022. Or as we like to call it, a little stop and frisk action.

3:04.7

A little stop and frisk.

3:05.6

We're getting stop and frisk.

3:06.6

We're getting a loophole, which right now technically is illegal.

3:10.1

But Mamdani has created the New York City Caliphate, and he is bringing back prostitution, baby. Welcome to Mom Dani's mosque. Yeah, I am all for Mondami. I don't want to see how it works out. Maybe it'll be good. But what I do know is it is Stevie Ricearoni's birthday. So happy birthday, Stevie. So when you take him to West Garden, do you have, does he need a step stool to get on the massage bed? 100%. And because do you get a two for one at the Nick game? Because do you sneak them in a backpack? Sneak of it in a backpack. And it's already good. I already called ahead and West Garner has already given me half price because they don't have to, there's not that much bond. So they don't have to go with a full body. So they said it's less work for us. Well, can he give you half price? Yeah. It's like when you get a fence put up, it's by yard. Yeah. Right. So yeah, he's just, it's just less work for the Asian woman to do. Yeah, it's just what it is. So I'm looking forward to that. And I do feel good on my Knicks paraphernalia. Now, I did wear because rag and bone is now a sponsor of this podcast. So go, go rag and bone put in that promo code hyenas. And I got these rag and bone

4:15.1

jeans that I have on right now. And I threw these puppies on today that right here, look at these rag and bone cute jeans on cute top. And I was rag and bone head to toe this weekend for the Halloween fun. And it felt like me, but it also didn't feel like me. So that's why what I did today It's a little mix and match.

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