The Wild History of the Ivy League | History Hyenas

History Hyenas with Chris Distefano and Yannis Pappas

Chris Distefano and Yannis Pappas

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

4.8 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2025

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Yannis and Chrissy D go all the way back to the bougie birth of the Ivy League, from powdered wigs and Latin mottos to today’s woke battlegrounds. Then they sink their hyena psuedos into the latest beef between Trump’s administration and Harvard. It’s legacy admissions, lawsuits, and lunacy. Wild stuff, cuz whiz! Support our sponsors: http://lucy.co/hyenas 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. Cancel your unwanted subscriptions and reach your financial goals faster with Rocket Money. Go to https://RocketMoney.com/HYENAS today. #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	Guys, we got a wild episode today about the history of Ivy League schools and if Trump is right for taking the money away from Harvard.
0:07.1	And it's going to be a good one.
0:08.8	It's a very good one.
0:10.0	Come see me in Providence, July 11th and 12th, August and Tampa, 15th and 16th, Bakersfield, California, October 3rd and 4th, Toronto, October 18th, Tulsa, 24, 25th, Bozeman, Montana, November 22nd, and Stanford, Connecticut, December 5th and 6. Christycom for all my dates. We just added Atlantic City in June, so go see that, and then go see MSG, theater at MSG, September 11th, and then I got a whole bunch of dates in the summer, Braia Improv, Oklahoma.
0:37.6	When are you going to go to Oklahoma? I'm going to Tulsa, too.
0:39.4	I'm coming with you. Yeah. And watch the special. It's up on History Hyena's YouTube channel.
0:45.1	Property owner. Do it. I'm a little bit more. I'm a good I'm a
0:55.0	I'm
1:02.0	a Hello, everyone. Welcome to another episode of the history hyenas. There's two guys with eight eyes. We're both glasses up. We got our goggles on and we're ready to rock.
1:27.3	Goggles on today. Today we're going to be talking to you about the history of the Ivy League
1:31.8	schools in this country because of the recent scandals with Donald Trump and Harvard University.
1:35.7	So I throw on my glasses to look and sound smart. Yeah, to be Chinese or to not be Chinese.
1:41.2	That is the question when you are being admitted to an Ivy League
1:44.2	University. And the Supreme Court in 2023 said, it is okay to be Chinese. And then Donald
1:49.8	Trump came in and said, it is not okay to be Chinese. And it gets pretty wild as, and I think
1:56.9	you and I are going to have different takes on this and different sides. We're going to be on different sides of the aisle. Yeah. Because I'm all for it. Yeah, well, we look like we're different. I look like a guy who attends Harvard University. You look like a guy who's pulling up to Harvard University to sell the students coke. It's just what it is i mean because i realized because i said i started
2:18.3	looking through my house and i said do i have glasses for the bit to look small and these are the
2:22.1	only glasses i have and these are the only glasses in history that make you look dumb yeah those are
2:26.6	what you call community college glasses those are two-year glasses and i got four year glasses
2:31.1	these are national community college glasses yeah now I was, before we get into...
2:35.3	Talk to me.
2:36.2	I just want to tell you.
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