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The House of Saud is Haunted | Yannis Pappas Hour

Yannis Pappas Hour

Yannis Pappas

News, Comedy Interviews, Comedy, News Commentary

4.91.7K Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Yanni dives into the decades-long oil-for-protection pact between the United States and Saudi Arabia. He explores the history of the royal family, their new mission to diversify the economy, and their push to attract foreign investment. But as the kingdom westernizes, plenty of ghosts and skeletons still rattle in the closet. Support the show and watch bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/yannispappashour Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

What's up everybody? Welcome to another episode of The Honest Pappas Hour. I just cannot figure out a better way to

0:06.5

initiate this journey every week or every other week whenever we do it. Right now it's been every

0:12.6

week for a little bit, meaning two weeks, besides saying what's up everybody. Every podcast starts with

0:19.3

what's everybody. It's so ingrained culturally.

0:23.1

I mean, I guess maybe at another time they would say raw or school or greetings or, you know,

0:29.6

but what's up everybody is as much as like, dude, it's just dude. It's in there. Dude, bro. You know,

0:37.4

it's just what we say like we say like doesn't mean we're

0:41.3

stupid means we're american it's just what is called culture culture you got culture and then you got

0:50.2

needs and i have a need for you to come see me if you're watching this.

0:58.2

There's still shows in Miami. If you're in Miami, you can come. I know they're not all sold out. So just fucking get online and get them and then see me in Bakersfield, California,

1:03.8

Montana and a few other places on my website, Janus Pappas Comedy.com. Also support this show.

1:10.0

Patreon.com slash Janus Pappasour.

1:12.8

It's a couple bucks. Basically, you're supporting the show. You get a little bonus content,

1:16.5

but you just support the show and keep us running. We're a mom and pop operation.

1:22.6

We're like the woman that, you know, grows and makes CBD on her farm in upstate New York. She's not really

1:30.0

making any money. She's self-sustaining. She goes to her to a farmer's market, you know.

1:35.4

She looks at the farmer's market schedule, sells a few, and it's just enough for her to just eat

1:40.5

porridge and grain, which is what used to power Rome.

1:46.9

Rome, the Empire Rome.

1:49.0

It was their oil, was just grain.

1:52.3

How boring is that shit?

1:54.0

No Arabs, no, you know, Lawrence of Arabia, no Storm Troop Ralph's hoods over the ladies, no public beheadings,

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