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Giannis Papas
Guys, this was a fantastic episode. We had our friend, longtime friend, comedian Mike Vecchione on the episode. He's got a special out right now on Nate Bargazzi's production company's YouTube channel, Nateland Entertainment. Yeah, check it out. It's called Low income White. This episode actually turned out to be hilarious. We talk, Epstein. We talk.
Chris Distefano
All types wrestling Young Sound, Ohio. How he has a cop face. We talk about it all.
Giannis Papas
We talk about it all. Yeah, enjoy it.
Chris Distefano
Enjoy that episode. And then go to history hyenas is back.com to see mine and Giannis's standup date. States we're both performing in July and August. So go check out. See if we're coming to a city near your. You now. Enjoy the episode, you low income white.
Giannis Papas
What's up, everybody? Welcome to another episode of History Hyenas. Today we're going to be talking about the history of when things were good and when Youngstown was flourishing. It was a good old Bruce Springsteen rust belt town. Iron workers were making iron or steel or something white guys used to do with muscles and dirty fingernails. And then a guy was created, became a schoolteacher and then became a comedian, and in that neighborhood. But he's a funny guy from the heartland. Our good friend, one of the funniest comedians we've all ever seen who's got a new special out, and that person is Mike Veone.
Mike Vecchione
Well, thank you for having me, guys. I appreciate. That was quite an intro.
Chris Distefano
Mike Vecchion, who's. He's really got a lot of good comments on YouTube. Yeah, yeah.
Mike Vecchione
Please be kind. On YouTube.
Giannis Papas
Yeah. That's just gonna make it.
Chris Distefano
And I got some glasses on today because I'm actively doing cocaine again.
Giannis Papas
Yeah. The special's on YouTube. Go check it out. It's on Nateland Entertainment. I came up with the name Nate Land. So did you? Yeah, I haven't spoken to him in a couple of months or whatever. So you tell him I'm coming?
Chris Distefano
Yeah, yeah.
Giannis Papas
Suing him.
Mike Vecchione
Yeah.
Giannis Papas
And I want my piece.
Chris Distefano
Well, that land. Well, that's why you haven't spoken in a couple of months. Because what you don't know is that Mike Vecchione and I are actual defendants in Nate's lawsuit against you.
Giannis Papas
Yeah.
Chris Distefano
So we're allowed to talk to you, but we can't talk about Nate because Nate is actively suing you.
Giannis Papas
Yeah.
Mike Vecchione
Well, now that I'm the countersuit, I'm.
Giannis Papas
Sitting on either side of you guys right now. I feel like I'm in a police interrogation. Put the glass.
Mike Vecchione
How about we feel like we're at a diner.
Giannis Papas
Yeah.
Mike Vecchione
Shots fired.
Giannis Papas
They're all closing.
Chris Distefano
We diners are all closing.
Mike Vecchione
They made through Covid and now they're closing.
Chris Distefano
Yeah, now they're closing. Everyone's opening up a vape shop.
Mike Vecchione
Vapes of the future.
Chris Distefano
Vote Mom. Donnie.
Mike Vecchione
Yeah, Vapes and pot.
Chris Distefano
That'll be good pots, Mike, by the way, round of applause, Property owner. New property owner.
Giannis Papas
Property owner.
Chris Distefano
Also, the name of Giannis is special.
Giannis Papas
Which is also on YouTube. Yes. Amongst the millions that are now on you.
Chris Distefano
Yeah, yeah.
Giannis Papas
I'm going to do a comedy. I'm going to do a comedy, not special. I'm going to do it where it's no comedy and it's only 10 seconds.
Mike Vecchione
Well, I tell you, do the opposite. No, this is what I thought. If this special doesn't do well, my next special is just going to be me falling down a flight of stairs.
Chris Distefano
Right.
Mike Vecchione
And then just over and over again, and then somebody's going to go. I saw that before.
Giannis Papas
This is dubbed. This is dubbed.
Mike Vecchione
This guy's fake.
Chris Distefano
Yeah.
Mike Vecchione
Not really falling down the stairs.
Chris Distefano
Yeah.
Giannis Papas
What if I did it? What if I did a special and then did a takedown of me?
Chris Distefano
Yes. That's. Get ahead of it.
Giannis Papas
Get ahead of it and do a takedown at me.
Chris Distefano
That actually be a great way to.
Giannis Papas
Come up and then read a book about it. And then. Yeah, I need to. I need to take myself. I think you need to start. We need to start taking ourselves down and preemptively.
Chris Distefano
Yeah.
Giannis Papas
And I think those videos will do better than the videos of the thing.
Mike Vecchione
I actually thought about. I'm sorry. I actually thought about doing my friends and just a picture. Just a takedown of my friends. Roasting them.
Giannis Papas
Yeah.
Mike Vecchione
Just taking time, writing like a. Do you guys, like, individually and it's like this week it's Chris and I just take them down.
Chris Distefano
Right?
Mike Vecchione
You just do a lot. Like a roast.
Giannis Papas
Yeah, yeah, Just take them.
Mike Vecchione
Yeah. And then. Yeah. And then against your will, even.
Chris Distefano
Yeah, that's what I mean. Like, I like. In other words, you don't even tell us about it. I just have to wake up to the news. Yeah, I kind of like that.
Giannis Papas
Wake up to the news is taking down Chris Dafoe. Justify.
Chris Distefano
That's the funeral.
Mike Vecchione
Just a funeral.
Giannis Papas
Instead of his real name, what's his real situation?
Chris Distefano
Yeah, because what's he doing?
Giannis Papas
What are we all doing now?
Chris Distefano
Mike, how does it feel now? When did you know you got the special out? You just bought a fucking A nice little.
Mike Vecchione
And I know it sounds good. But I do have 100 year mortgage. First one in history. 100 years do it.
Chris Distefano
A year mortgage. Yeah.
Giannis Papas
Now, which probably means your rate is what, 12.6.
Mike Vecchione
Their usury rates. It's loan shark type rate. Yeah, yeah, I insisted on it.
Chris Distefano
Yeah, Right.
Giannis Papas
Well, it's. It's a new form of slavery right now during this economy.
Chris Distefano
Right. Yeah. The mortgage rates are the. Are the absolute worst. But you own a nice little piece now. What? For the apartment. I assume it's in New York City.
Mike Vecchione
Yes.
Chris Distefano
The apartment that you bought.
Mike Vecchione
Is that the dress? So that people can show up.
Chris Distefano
Let's have fun.
Mike Vecchione
Animals on my doorstep.
Giannis Papas
Can I just for one second, just interrupt? I just want to. Just for one second take a. What are you doing? What do you mean? What is this new thing where you start the podcast with sunglasses and then you take them off immediately like you're. Like you're a fucking cop in Los Angeles giving me a speeding ticket. And then you need to read the.
Chris Distefano
Ticket because what I've decided.
Giannis Papas
What is going on?
Chris Distefano
I need to keep you on your toes.
Giannis Papas
Yeah, I mean, what's going on?
Chris Distefano
I got to keep you guessing.
Mike Vecchione
You need to take your glasses off. Yeah.
Chris Distefano
And then I'll put Yanis.
Mike Vecchione
Oh, no, those are readers.
Giannis Papas
But this is the last two episodes where he's put glasses on at the beginning. Look at me.
Chris Distefano
I'm a.
Giannis Papas
I look over and then the glasses are just cut.
Chris Distefano
Is it a decision where you.
Giannis Papas
You try to see how you feel in them?
Chris Distefano
I gotta be honest with you. You cannot see. No, I'm blind. This is so bad. You can't see at all.
Mike Vecchione
You look like your own accountant.
Chris Distefano
Yeah, do. Yeah, look at me. Yeah, do my. Does this work? Because my eyes are too far apart here.
Giannis Papas
There's nothing you can do when you put glasses on. You just look like a guy at a gym who's reading the back of a Korean tea bottle.
Chris Distefano
Monohydrate.
Mike Vecchione
You look like you're ready to give nutritional information.
Giannis Papas
Yeah.
Mike Vecchione
Like, dude, you got to cut back. You got to skip lunch.
Chris Distefano
Yeah. You just.
Giannis Papas
You. You have the face and the body of a meathead and the personality of a. A descendant of Holocaust.
Chris Distefano
And let me throw those.
Giannis Papas
Yeah, there we go. And they're crooked.
Chris Distefano
Yeah, it's just.
Giannis Papas
What do you feel comfortable?
Chris Distefano
They're kind of dirty.
Giannis Papas
Yeah, they're kind of dirty.
Chris Distefano
Yeah.
Giannis Papas
Are you testing out the glasses? Look, what do they keep going on and off for?
Chris Distefano
You know what? Cuz I don't know. Sometimes these things make me feel invisible when I just don't want to be seen.
Mike Vecchione
Well, you look like a crooked cop.
Chris Distefano
Yeah, I really do. And I feel like one now, Mike, what I was going to ask you is, is when the apartment that you bought in New York City, how. How much real estate would that get you in Youngstown, Ohio, your hometown, would it get you the town? Would you be there by a block? Right there?
Mike Vecchione
Because the house is like a pack of cigarettes.
Chris Distefano
Yeah, right.
Giannis Papas
So the Chinese haven't gotten there yet.
Chris Distefano
That's what I was getting.
Giannis Papas
Real estate.
Chris Distefano
They haven't infiltrated.
Giannis Papas
Now, I got another question. When you join Nateland Entertainment, do you have to be baptized?
Mike Vecchione
They look for your baptismal records.
Giannis Papas
Do they? Does he dunk you in the water?
Mike Vecchione
That's live stream.
Giannis Papas
That's live.
Mike Vecchione
That should be live. That should be a baptism.
Giannis Papas
That should be a thing.
Mike Vecchione
And then if you're on the outs, you. You get exported. Deported. From NAT Land.
Giannis Papas
Yeah.
Mike Vecchione
Like my first show when I was taping the special, I know it's hard to believe. It didn't. It didn't go as well as the second show, so I was in danger of being deported.
Chris Distefano
Yeah. What happened on the first show?
Mike Vecchione
The people. It wasn't as. The laughs weren't as poppy as the second show. You know how you do two shows?
Chris Distefano
Where was it? Where'd.
Mike Vecchione
Maybe you guys nail it on the first. But it's always two shows at least. And then you just pick the better editing from the better of the two.
Chris Distefano
Where'd you film it?
Mike Vecchione
Nashville.
Chris Distefano
Where, though, in Nashville?
Mike Vecchione
Zany's.
Chris Distefano
Oh, Zany's one of the best clubs.
Mike Vecchione
I filmed the last one at the Zany's the club, and this one at the Zany's Lab. And I was joking with the owner. I was like, my next special is going to be in a garage.
Chris Distefano
Yes.
Mike Vecchione
Out back.
Chris Distefano
I would have liked because what.
Mike Vecchione
Zane's Lab is great.
Chris Distefano
Zane's Lab is great. What I. I would have liked because Zany's very famously, a few years ago, had a truck drive through the wall. That's. That's. That would have been great for the session.
Mike Vecchione
That would have been great.
Chris Distefano
Just you're on stage, have the truck drive through the wall.
Mike Vecchione
Face on the walls, drive through Nate's face.
Chris Distefano
And is that the. Is that the face? The truck took down Nate's face. That's hilarious.
Mike Vecchione
That's actually a baptism in the south.
Giannis Papas
Yeah.
Chris Distefano
Right.
Mike Vecchione
Driving a truck through a man's face.
Chris Distefano
Well, actually, what. And that's when his career started to blow up. So I wonder if that was some type of witchcraft, Some type of Nashville witchcraft where they drove through his face. And then there was some kind of deal made with Satan himself. And then you just become this international power. I wonder if that happened. I'm going to ask Nate about that. Do you. Did you. Does that have anything to do with the truck driving to your face? Your success? And we'll see what he says. What'll probably do is block me. You think he made my book?
Mike Vecchione
You won't even get to him.
Chris Distefano
Yeah.
Mike Vecchione
There's six layers before you get to.
Chris Distefano
Where I get to have to get.
Giannis Papas
Through Graham K first.
Chris Distefano
Yeah. And I can tell Graham Case doing coke.
Giannis Papas
You got to get Graham K. You got to get through Mike Vecchio. You got to get through Warren. You got to get Dusty slay, which.
Chris Distefano
I could get Dusty Slay because I could just. I could just. The way I get through Dusty Sleighs, I could just. Anything I could say is in the name of Jesus Christ. And I'm doing this for Jesus. And Dusty Slay will allow it.
Giannis Papas
Yeah.
Chris Distefano
Dusty slay talked to me when we had breakfast once in Cleveland. I love Dusty Slay. He talked to me about he won't eat leavened bread that he won't eat bread that wasn't made the way the Bible says to make it. And I said, I respect that. And I said there's no way that they're going to be able to make that kind of bread because we are at a Denny's.
Giannis Papas
Yeah, but you don't.
Chris Distefano
They don't make bread the biblical way.
Giannis Papas
We're about to do an episode after this on the Barbary pirates of Tripoli.
Chris Distefano
Not Sam.
Giannis Papas
Tripoli, Libya. Muslim countries that they're called Houthis now. Yeah. They enslave.
Chris Distefano
I call them Mamdanis.
Giannis Papas
Yeah. They're Mandanis. And, you know, since it makes me want to join Nate Land.
Chris Distefano
Yeah.
Giannis Papas
Yeah. Oh, you mean the Muslims and save the Christians. And I think maybe just it makes me want to join.
Chris Distefano
I think Nate, I think if we got into an active crusades right now, just put us in a situation. We are in an active crusades. It is the Christians versus the Muslims. I think at the head of. At the head of our Christian army, we have Nate Bargazzi. And at the head of their Muslim army, they have Dave Chappelle and Michelle Wolf. That's why.
Mike Vecchione
Let's face off.
Chris Distefano
That would be the face off. And I do give the edge to Nate and the Christians.
Mike Vecchione
And who's the.
Giannis Papas
Who's the king of the Jews? The king of the Jews. You got to give that.
Chris Distefano
And the Jews fight with us, by.
Giannis Papas
The way, on Face Alone. Of course, it's got to go to the Great Arish Shafir.
Chris Distefano
100%. That's what I'm saying.
Giannis Papas
Happy merchant, me. Yeah.
Mike Vecchione
With as a little farther back. You have Modi and Elon going. Yeah, yeah, they're also on that.
Chris Distefano
And by the way, I just want to give a quick, you know, shout out. Not shout out. I want to give a quick to our Lord. I want that. But I want to tell the fans who are going to patreon.com history hyenas and making chatgpt memes of me or Giannis in a Nazi uniform shooting Ari Shafir on his knees. That is not okay. And we do not condone that.
Giannis Papas
No, we do laugh at it, but we do not.
Chris Distefano
Do not do that again. And Ari wouldn't like that either. And I know that because I texted it to him.
Giannis Papas
Yeah.
Mike Vecchione
You texted, like, can you believe that?
Giannis Papas
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Chris Distefano
And he was like, I'm going through a lot. I'm leaving New York. And I was like, but will this make you feel better? Yeah.
Giannis Papas
Well, the good news is Ari, by.
Mike Vecchione
The way, the best human being.
Chris Distefano
100. The best human.
Mike Vecchione
People don't know that.
Giannis Papas
Yeah, he is.
Mike Vecchione
Or maybe they. Maybe they do. I don't know.
Chris Distefano
He is the best. I mean, you know, the Kreischer family might not think so, but we think he's the best human being.
Giannis Papas
And I think. I think the Bryant family might have a different opinion.
Chris Distefano
But. But we here in the comedy community, we are Ari Shafir lovers.
Giannis Papas
And like I. And like I always like to say, you never know who your friends are until Kobe dies.
Chris Distefano
Right?
Giannis Papas
Because that's when Ari found out who his true friends were.
Chris Distefano
Right? And I was one of them.
Giannis Papas
Yeah, you're one of them. I called him and said, just keep your head up, buddy. Yeah, keep your head up. Yeah.
Chris Distefano
Now, Mike, also, what I like about Mike V. Is you are committed. You are committed to that hair look for years. For years. Yes, for years.
Giannis Papas
I knew you before you had family, too.
Chris Distefano
You know what I like?
Giannis Papas
I knew you both before you had.
Chris Distefano
You did.
Mike Vecchione
And I like fans.
Chris Distefano
And you've had that haircut so long where it was out of style and you kept it. Now it's coming back in style. So you just do not waver.
Mike Vecchione
Hold the line.
Chris Distefano
Yeah.
Mike Vecchione
Hold high and tight.
Chris Distefano
Yes.
Giannis Papas
He has gone with the white man. Flat top.
Chris Distefano
100% trooper.
Giannis Papas
Flat top. He will be in an old folks home and he will still have a hundred percent. Yeah.
Chris Distefano
That haircut, it started out when he first got it as a cop blocking a protest, and now it's went all the way around to a female out of protest. That's when the haircut is more all the way around the sun once. And that's what I appreciate about Mike. Yeah.
Giannis Papas
Because you're a simple guy. You're not a guy who follows the trends. You're a workhorse.
Chris Distefano
Right.
Giannis Papas
You got that Youngstown kind of let me get at these jokes.
Mike Vecchione
Right.
Giannis Papas
You show up at the factory, you put your lunch pail down, and you just go to work. Go to work. You're not a guy who is gonna.
Mike Vecchione
I'm not a hat backwards guy.
Giannis Papas
Yeah.
Mike Vecchione
You're just not. I'm not a hat backwards guy. I'm not. I let my hair flow.
Chris Distefano
Yeah.
Giannis Papas
It looks like.
Mike Vecchione
Let the people see it.
Giannis Papas
It actually looks like we're two teenagers having our father give us a talking to.
Chris Distefano
Yeah.
Giannis Papas
That's what it looks like right now.
Chris Distefano
He's sitting us down. He goes, hey, the way you guys are talking to your mother is not okay. You can't disrespect her like that. That's my job. Don't talk back to your mother. Yeah.
Giannis Papas
Now you're both grounded.
Chris Distefano
Yeah.
Giannis Papas
And all we gotta do is get Salv and Mateo Lane in here. And I think we've had every podcast host you've had on the same page. Yes.
Chris Distefano
Every single person. They're all here. Oh, my God.
Giannis Papas
Yeah.
Mike Vecchione
And we still talk.
Chris Distefano
Yes. Yeah.
Giannis Papas
Cause you're like the Pete Davidson of Podcast 100.
Chris Distefano
You run through a lot of things. He puts up. He puts up his. His hot women. I put up my hot podcast. Yeah.
Mike Vecchione
And all of your podcast hosts are. Have been hot.
Chris Distefano
They've all been hot. I haven't had one.
Mike Vecchione
Were you with Mateo?
Chris Distefano
I was with Mateo that. We did a brief stint last summer, and I always got a hottie with a body. Yeah.
Mike Vecchione
Wow.
Chris Distefano
Yeah.
Giannis Papas
Yeah.
Mike Vecchione
I'm honored. Then he'd be in that category.
Chris Distefano
Well, that's what I was going to get to.
Mike Vecchione
Is my least successful of all the hosts.
Giannis Papas
No, I would not say that. Well, I would not just say that. He's podcasting with me, so I would not say.
Chris Distefano
Yeah.
Giannis Papas
Yeah.
Chris Distefano
Giannis took. Yeah. Yana took the bus.
Giannis Papas
Yeah.
Chris Distefano
So, yeah.
Giannis Papas
It's just, you know, you got to measure me by expectation.
Mike Vecchione
Giannis actually lives in Poughkeepsie.
Chris Distefano
Yes.
Giannis Papas
It's like going to Youngstown from Poughkeepsie is like a lateral move.
Mike Vecchione
It's like the metro north.
Giannis Papas
I like to call it the Youngstown of the Northeast.
Mike Vecchione
Poughkeepsie.
Giannis Papas
I've been to Youngstown, I got to admit. Have you ever been to Youngstown?
Chris Distefano
Actually, no, I haven't. I'd like to go.
Giannis Papas
Yeah.
Mike Vecchione
A slow guitar starts to an acoustic, starts to strum when you get into the city limits.
Chris Distefano
I like getting banged, like in Deliverance.
Giannis Papas
Yeah. I like to call it the tears of America.
Chris Distefano
Right?
Giannis Papas
Right. Like, it's like. It's like America's tears.
Chris Distefano
Right?
Giannis Papas
It's like you go to Youngstown and you're like, this is what we used to be.
Mike Vecchione
But every 10 years or so, somebody does a documentary. It's like, youngstown's coming back. We're not down. It's like. And then it's nothing.
Chris Distefano
Right. Down again. Yeah. Nothing happened. What. What is it? What is holding Youngstown back right now, would you say?
Mike Vecchione
There's just no industry and they haven't founder. They. It's since. Since the 80s, since this late 70s. They haven't found a replacement. It's like many other Rust Belt cities.
Giannis Papas
You can't just.
Mike Vecchione
But it's a great place, and the people have just. The city is kind of like evacuated, and people, if you have any kind of means. You live in the suburbs now.
Chris Distefano
Have they made, like, all the former warehouses into cool apartments yet?
Mike Vecchione
Not yet, but you need some kind of an attraction. Maybe a casino.
Chris Distefano
Yeah.
Mike Vecchione
Or maybe a Walmart.
Chris Distefano
Bring in the Native Americans is what you're saying. Bring in. Yes. Let's bring in the tribes corrupted by Italians 100%.
Mike Vecchione
But the native Americans. That's the way it should be.
Giannis Papas
You need only. There's like, three things you need to inject into your.
Chris Distefano
What's the starter kit?
Giannis Papas
The starter kit is you're either going to. It's either got to become like a young hot town for very liberal kids with different colored hair. That helps that.
Chris Distefano
That helps a lot.
Giannis Papas
That.
Mike Vecchione
That's a Starbucks.
Giannis Papas
Yeah. You need, like a hipster influx. You need Chinese to get interested in it for some reason. That's another thing that can happen. Or you need to legalize gambling and prostitution.
Chris Distefano
Well, this. This is what an.
Mike Vecchione
And prostitution.
Giannis Papas
Yeah, those are the three that really.
Chris Distefano
This is where. This is where, though. My God. Original idea of what they need is a casino, because you're bringing in gambling and. And casinos are like catnip for the Chinese.
Giannis Papas
Yes.
Chris Distefano
They cannot stay away from a casino.
Mike Vecchione
Really.
Chris Distefano
Asian people love casinos in a way that I've never seen before. They. If you put A casino in Youngstown, Ohio. You will think that you literally will wake up one day and be like, I am now in Beijing.
Giannis Papas
That's a good day.
Mike Vecchione
But, like, doesn't I just. From my experiences in Atlantic City, doesn't actually. Doesn't help the surrounding area when they put a casino in?
Chris Distefano
No.
Mike Vecchione
I mean.
Giannis Papas
No, that's a good point.
Chris Distefano
It. It's a good point, but we're trying to make money here together, Mike, and we're just trying to get some money and run out in the casino. We are. Nateland Casinos. Yeah.
Giannis Papas
Do you. Yeah. Clean casinos.
Chris Distefano
Yeah.
Giannis Papas
Yeah. No cursing at the table?
Chris Distefano
Yeah. No cigarettes? Only the ones that looks like a cigarette, but it's actual candy.
Giannis Papas
Yeah, no, it's actually. It's just chewing tobacco.
Chris Distefano
Oh, that you can have chewing.
Giannis Papas
Quit that yet? Nate.
Chris Distefano
Nate.
Mike Vecchione
I've been on the road for a little while.
Giannis Papas
Yeah.
Chris Distefano
Yeah. Do you have any.
Mike Vecchione
I think Nate is healthy now, man.
Giannis Papas
Yeah, I think he is.
Mike Vecchione
He's healthy. Nate.
Chris Distefano
He's gotta be.
Mike Vecchione
He's got to be looking good.
Chris Distefano
And the reason why he does look good, and I'm telling you, and this is what I was trying to get at, the reason why he's healthy is because of the Mike Vecchione influence, because Mike Vecchione has been a healthy guy. I've known him. You've known you for 15 years. Yeah. You always are very conscious of calories in, calories out.
Mike Vecchione
I was fat at times, and then I. I never wedding. I was very fat.
Giannis Papas
Really?
Mike Vecchione
Yeah. Yeah. I was heavy, and you could see it in my face. It's certain videos and stuff. It's like. But I'm doing. Like, I've talked to you before about these practices. It's just to stay off medication. Like, I just want to feel good.
Chris Distefano
Right.
Mike Vecchione
It's not.
Giannis Papas
I'm not.
Mike Vecchione
I don't have any grand illusions not.
Chris Distefano
To be ripped anymore.
Mike Vecchione
Well, no, I. I want to be in good shape, but I. I. The one thing is, like, I don't want to be on medication, and I. I want to feel good every day. So I find that if you suffer a little bit, it'll help you to feel good on the other end. Like, this morning, I got up and worked out. We got a gym in the building. So I go down. No coffee. It's very hard for me to do and get a workout in, out of bed, no coffee. And then, like, I feel good right now because of that.
Chris Distefano
Well, you were the one who told me you were the one, and I started practicing this. You used to do Delayed coffee. You'd have your coffee, but delay it. And then I started doing it. And it works better.
Mike Vecchione
It does work. You feel better, right? Yeah, yeah.
Chris Distefano
And then. And so. But. But what? That's fascinating, what you just said. You.
Mike Vecchione
But it's that people are like. Like when I tell people, like, I'll tell people because it's like, oh, these practices help me in my life. Maybe it could help you in your. I'm not doing it to, like. I do this and I do an extreme this and that.
Giannis Papas
You're doing it not to blow your brains out. Yes.
Chris Distefano
Yeah, basically.
Mike Vecchione
You know what I mean?
Chris Distefano
But are you also telling me that.
Mike Vecchione
I'm trying to, like, tell people, like, may this little strategy help? So that little. It's like giving, like, little strategies that have helped me.
Chris Distefano
I'm no.
Mike Vecchione
By no means an expert, which everyone is now, but it's just to, like, give some insight. But it's not like I'm not an extreme athlete or a distance runner or any of that crap.
Chris Distefano
But you're telling me that you're a white Italian American male over the age of 40 who's got a wife and owns property. Dis.
Mike Vecchione
Nullified themselves white and Italian.
Giannis Papas
Yeah.
Chris Distefano
Yeah. So. And you are. And you're a property owner with a wife and you are not on any type of blood pressure or cholesterol medication.
Mike Vecchione
Blood pressure.
Chris Distefano
Okay. Because I was gonna say that's like Puerto rican girl being 21 and not having a kid. You don't see it. Yeah.
Mike Vecchione
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Chris Distefano
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Mike Vecchione
I got you. Because I'm.
Chris Distefano
I'm 10 years older, but blood pressure, but no cholesterol.
Mike Vecchione
Your cholesterol is good now it's border. It was.
Chris Distefano
What does border mean? What. What's the number?
Mike Vecchione
I don't know what the number is, but the last time I got the numbers.
Chris Distefano
We'll wait.
Mike Vecchione
Well, I don't know. I have bad. I have not good health insurance.
Chris Distefano
Right. Right now. Do you think. Can Mom Donnie fix that?
Giannis Papas
Do you think. Do you think some of your.
Mike Vecchione
No. But the health insurance thing is. You want to talk about something that's wild?
Chris Distefano
Yes.
Mike Vecchione
It's the podcast.
Chris Distefano
Yes.
Mike Vecchione
Okay. So it's. The health insurance is like what I'm paying every month, and then the deductible. It's just nuts. It's like, I'm not in sag. I'm in sag, but I don't have that insurance anymore. I had it for a while.
Chris Distefano
Same with me. I lost the sag.
Mike Vecchione
I lost it. So I'm just paying out of pocket now. And it's like. Like you're paying an insane amount of money every month, and then it's just a $4,000. So it's four grand if I need anything right immediately off the. Off the bat.
Giannis Papas
You understand what Luigi did?
Mike Vecchione
I understand. Like, this is how. This is how. There's a thing where it's like, there's. There's no nuance. It's like, it's. People going, first degree murder is wrong, and if you excuse it, then you're a pro. It's like, yeah, of course. And then other people, like, he's actually a hero, because these companies shouldn't exist. It's like both things are true.
Giannis Papas
Right?
Chris Distefano
Right.
Mike Vecchione
First degree murder is wrong, period. New sentence. These companies shouldn't exist.
Giannis Papas
Right.
Mike Vecchione
Look up what your company is. I looked at my company. It's worth $28 billion. $28 billion?
Chris Distefano
Yeah.
Mike Vecchione
That shouldn't exist, man.
Giannis Papas
You're nuts. Your argument is coming from a place before we all had to make content to each other.
Chris Distefano
Yes. You're coming from a place of reason, and that doesn't get the views.
Mike Vecchione
Yeah.
Chris Distefano
Pick a side, Mike.
Giannis Papas
All right, now my next question is, do you think your blood pressure may be a little high? Because Mike Vecchion is one of the greatest guys in college comedy. Nobody ever has a bad thing to say about Mike Vecchion. But your genetic code, being Italian, being from Youngstown, do you think not being able to say slurs or.
Chris Distefano
Yes.
Giannis Papas
All this stuff, because we often say sometimes that could be prescribed, like, in your car, at least. Yeah, just yell something about the Chinese, something to get it out, because your.
Chris Distefano
Brain wants to say it, your face wants to say it, but you will not. And you would never, ever, ever say it. And it just raises the pressure.
Mike Vecchione
My genetics weren't Want. Want to say out loud how good things used to be.
Chris Distefano
Right.
Mike Vecchione
And how bad things are now.
Chris Distefano
Right.
Mike Vecchione
I mean, things used to be great. You could leave your doors unlocked.
Chris Distefano
Right.
Mike Vecchione
You could put food on the table.
Chris Distefano
You could put a kid through college.
Giannis Papas
Now you can't do that.
Mike Vecchione
You don't even know your gender now. Yeah, you say your gender, you're canceled.
Chris Distefano
Yeah, yeah, it was.
Giannis Papas
It was a great day. Before these Ecuadorians. And then you go, that's.
Mike Vecchione
You need one group to escape.
Chris Distefano
Right? Right.
Giannis Papas
Ecuadorian.
Mike Vecchione
Ecuadorians.
Chris Distefano
That's like. That's like a guy. Like. Like, what about the Primary. Right. You don't hear about them. Where are they with the guys like you? Like, if you came in. I'm a doctor, and you say, I. I take. You got high blood pressure. I take a look. You. And what I would do first is I'd put on a documentary of George Washington and I'd say, if his pressure comes down, that's all he needs.
Giannis Papas
Yeah.
Chris Distefano
But if it doesn't, then I got to put you on meds. And I would allow you just in the thing. I'd say, read these slurs. Just get it out. Let's see what happens in real time. Because, you know, Mike's a good. The thing is about Mike Vecchione is he's just a good guy. He's just a very good, great guy.
Giannis Papas
I go, one of the best. And that's the thing about you two guys that's so interesting.
Chris Distefano
Yeah.
Giannis Papas
Is because.
Chris Distefano
Well, I say the slurs.
Giannis Papas
You say the slurs. But you have a very anxious, kind of Jewy personality.
Chris Distefano
We are.
Giannis Papas
But you don't look that way. And you have kind of like.
Mike Vecchione
Yeah.
Giannis Papas
And you talk about it all the time. You got that look where you're going to say the Ecuadorians. But in fact, you will defend the Ecuadorians and say that this is an unjust situation. Everyone needs to find love.
Chris Distefano
Yeah. Because of that, we all accept you and love you. And obviously the. But because of that, at home in Youngstown, Ohio, they hear some of your content and they say, oh, we have a gay comedian from Youngstown, Ohio, because he won't shit on the Ecuadorian. They say, oh, the gay guy from. I didn't know he was gay, is what they say about mine.
Giannis Papas
Yeah.
Chris Distefano
Yeah, unfortunately.
Mike Vecchione
Can I pitch my idea? Because I want to leave comedy so segregated.
Giannis Papas
Oh, you're doing it in the net.
Mike Vecchione
I'm doing it right now.
Giannis Papas
You're quitting?
Mike Vecchione
I want out.
Chris Distefano
Yeah. Yeah.
Mike Vecchione
I want to see how the special does.
Giannis Papas
Right.
Mike Vecchione
If it does good, then I'll come back. But if it doesn't do anyone. If it doesn't. I was telling you guys before the show, my next special is going to be me falling down a flight of stairs.
Chris Distefano
Yes.
Mike Vecchione
And then if that doesn't work, this is my idea. Segregated cemeteries. Segregated cemeteries. And the pitch is you don't have to be next to those people anymore.
Chris Distefano
Yes. I like that.
Giannis Papas
I actually think.
Chris Distefano
I like. That's a great idea.
Mike Vecchione
It's a great idea.
Chris Distefano
Yeah.
Mike Vecchione
The other idea. I have a lot of cemetery ideas. This might already be happening where it's like the headstone you go to visit your loved one. Right. But on every headstone there's a QR code since we're all making content and it's a documentary about the person.
Chris Distefano
That's a great idea. Dude, we should be in the funeral business.
Mike Vecchione
Are you guys have a production company.
Giannis Papas
That I could pitch it to Jesse?
Chris Distefano
Yeah, yeah.
Giannis Papas
It's called Pseudo Penis Inc. Yeah.
Chris Distefano
Yeah. We've actually been looking for a way to revive Ditch Films. This might be the first idea which he's an alum of.
Giannis Papas
He's an early alum.
Mike Vecchione
That's right.
Giannis Papas
Because he was. Let me tell you something. You know me a long time. You know I like to. What I like is what I like. I don't really follow trends.
Chris Distefano
Yeah.
Giannis Papas
And how excited were we when we got quints?
Chris Distefano
Because the only thing there's two things in. In life that Yanni loves and that is merchandise from quints and women's feet. Those are the things that Yanni can't live without.
Giannis Papas
These are crisp, right?
Chris Distefano
If Quince was selling women's feet on there, I mean Yanni would be spending a million dollars a year.
Giannis Papas
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Chris Distefano
I know a high class. I know a high class kid who goes Quince. He told me he goes Quince. And the Internet thinks he's friends with hep stuff. So. So it's just what it is. So I know some high class kids who's. No, the kids. Quint stuff. Quincy Quincy Jones.
Giannis Papas
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Chris Distefano
So you know what that means. It was made personally by Genghis Khan. Ak.
Giannis Papas
Yeah. It's beautiful stuff. They give you luxury. Please, luxury pieces of clothing without the markups. Basically, it's. It's all the gorgeous stuff.
Chris Distefano
And you know why you should be for sale on quints? You want to know why?
Giannis Papas
Because I'm for the table.
Chris Distefano
Cuz you're for the table. And because you're a luxury piece.
Giannis Papas
You're a fucking.
Chris Distefano
You're a luxury piece.
Giannis Papas
Yeah. What it is. Yeah.
Chris Distefano
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Giannis Papas
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Chris Distefano
Because the stuff is made in Mongolia.
Giannis Papas
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Chris Distefano
That's crazy. To be able to return something a year later.
Giannis Papas
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Chris Distefano
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Giannis Papas
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Chris Distefano
And you know what it is? Especially this is why this endorsement weighs especially heavy. Because it's especially. It's very difficult to smell good when you're a Greek man.
Giannis Papas
Yes.
Chris Distefano
But yet you're a Greek man and you smell good. Because Greeks have.
Giannis Papas
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Chris Distefano
That may not be 72 hours. That might be 24 hours. But that's good for Greek.
Giannis Papas
That's good for a Greek. You got to rate it on a curve.
Chris Distefano
You got to rate on the curve 72 hours for people who are snow monkeys.
Giannis Papas
Exactly.
Chris Distefano
Yeah, yeah.
Giannis Papas
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Chris Distefano
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Mike Vecchione
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Giannis Papas
And pro sport.
Chris Distefano
Cause that's the thing is I have no interest in climbing Mount Fuji. So the way I'm gonna do it is by using Mando Mount Fuji on my nuts. That's the way I'm gonna do it. Because you could put it all over your body.
Giannis Papas
Yeah. I like to take a whiff of other men and I can always. I go up to them on the street and I go, mando.
Chris Distefano
Mando.
Giannis Papas
Yeah. And they go, yeah, yeah.
Chris Distefano
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Chris Distefano
No fumes. Even for Greek?
Giannis Papas
No, even for the Greeks.
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Giannis Papas
S H o P M A N D o dot com. Please support our show. Tell them that we sent you. Mando's got you covered. Protect your pits. Smell great doing it. No, Fumare. Yeah, he's an early alum. And. And Cop face. Cop face. God, did that have a lot of future stars in it.
Chris Distefano
Yes, it did. Go watch cop face on, on, on ditch films. YouTube that. I remember watching that sketch. I was like an open micr in comedy. I was like, I gotta be in that.
Giannis Papas
Here's how, here's how much. I didn't get the Internet and the short attention span thing early.
Mike Vecchione
No, you. I thought you got it more than anybody.
Chris Distefano
Yeah, you were the pioneer.
Mike Vecchione
You're the George Washington.
Giannis Papas
I know we got some things. But then with you were a trans.
Chris Distefano
George Washington, that thing, I should have.
Giannis Papas
Made it look like 90 seconds. It should have been like two minute piece. The first one we cut was like 23 minutes. So it's like I remember Ali one going like, don't you think it's a little long? And I was like, I think it's perfect.
Chris Distefano
Yeah, yeah.
Giannis Papas
Cuz I just.
Mike Vecchione
But you were way ahead of your time, man. Everybody, we were all trying to get in the clubs and be in the clubs and everything. And it's like, you were in the club, you're doing that. But also you were doing the video stuff, which was. And that's when YouTube was all like, puppies.
Chris Distefano
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Giannis Papas
But you know what? And then. And then I was like, you know what? I'm not a real comedian. I gotta go. I gotta go do the half hour. And then. And Schultz was sitting there going like, no, no, he's right. I'm gonna do that. And then he took it. Yeah, yeah, he took it and ran.
Chris Distefano
Right, well.
Giannis Papas
And you can go watch my half hour and be the sixth person who saw it on Comedy Central.
Mike Vecchione
I think everybody's half hour just got.
Giannis Papas
Do you remember? I remember when it premiered. I remember premiered. I was work.
Mike Vecchione
I had that good business model. By the way, Comedy Central have everybody do half hours. All the best comedians. And then lock it down.
Giannis Papas
Yeah.
Mike Vecchione
No one can.
Chris Distefano
And then put it on Fridays at midnight.
Giannis Papas
Yeah, Fridays at midnight.
Chris Distefano
And air.
Giannis Papas
Nate's was actually the funniest.
Chris Distefano
Yes.
Giannis Papas
They put Nate's on opposite the Mayweather packet.
Mike Vecchione
Yeah, that was his.
Chris Distefano
Yes. And he said.
Giannis Papas
He goes, I didn't even watch my own special.
Chris Distefano
No.
Giannis Papas
I always said Comedy Central was a great place to go to if you wanted to hide your special. Yeah, that's a great place.
Chris Distefano
I feel like we missed, though. Or I. You know, because I started really, in like 2009, 2010. Those glory years of Comedy Central was like the early 2000s. But that. I don't even know it's comedy set.
Mike Vecchione
I was coming in then, so I.
Chris Distefano
I didn't get on any, like, I.
Mike Vecchione
Didn'T get the Lounge Lizards.
Chris Distefano
Premium.
Mike Vecchione
Premium blend.
Chris Distefano
Yeah.
Mike Vecchione
I came after. I came at the Live of Gotham.
Chris Distefano
Yeah. Yeah. When it was already on. But it's Comedy Central, which is different.
Mike Vecchione
Than Gotham Comedy Live.
Chris Distefano
Yeah.
Mike Vecchione
By the way.
Chris Distefano
Which is on Axis tv.
Mike Vecchione
It was tv.
Chris Distefano
Yeah. Is it. Is it There is Comedy Central. This is. Honest question, is it still a network?
Giannis Papas
It is.
Chris Distefano
I'm not even shitting on it.
Giannis Papas
It is Earnest south park and nothing else.
Mike Vecchione
It's the Office.
Giannis Papas
Yeah.
Mike Vecchione
It's all these reruns.
Chris Distefano
So no new content is what I'm.
Mike Vecchione
Saying, other than Daily show them some credit for taking a chance on, like, the Office.
Chris Distefano
Yes.
Mike Vecchione
Watch it. And I'm like, really?
Chris Distefano
Yeah. Yeah.
Mike Vecchione
They fired everybody.
Chris Distefano
Yeah.
Mike Vecchione
And then they're just. I thought it was going to be like an mtv. I thought MTV bought it or something, but I thought it was going to be like Dance Party. What I Don't even. Ridiculousness. That kind of thing. But it's now it's just like.
Chris Distefano
It's got to be just the Daily show too, right?
Mike Vecchione
The Daily Show.
Chris Distefano
And that's.
Giannis Papas
The numbers of the Daily show are so low that they watch it online. But south park still, it gets those.
Chris Distefano
Real numbers on television.
Giannis Papas
On television, people still watch. South park holds up. That holds up that whole network. Just like. It's funny how all those networks became like one show. Like it was like the Jokers was that channel. I don't remember.
Chris Distefano
True tv.
Giannis Papas
The Jokers.
Chris Distefano
Yeah.
Giannis Papas
And then you go to mtv. It's just ridiculousness.
Mike Vecchione
Yeah.
Giannis Papas
And they play it over and over and over.
Chris Distefano
But again it becomes. It's the same thing as we were talking about before the pod started. It's like you go to a YouTube channel or an Instagram page to see your one creator. And this is what these networks are becoming. Yes. We have one thing here.
Mike Vecchione
Yes.
Chris Distefano
Right. You know, so.
Giannis Papas
And, and things change so fast now. It's crazy. There's some kid now who's coming up who's gonna know Will Smith as just the worst rapper.
Chris Distefano
Have you seen this rap? Have you seen this rap? No, it's, it's not, it's.
Mike Vecchione
It.
Chris Distefano
I don't like to. You know, sometimes you're like, oh, people are trying things. But I gotta say objectively, not that I'm a rapper, but objectively, it's horrifying to watch. It's bad.
Mike Vecchione
And these guys who are famous for a long period of time, they're kind of like, like they are out of reality no matter who. Like, you know what I mean? Like if you're famous as a, like an 18 year old or a 19 year old and then you're just famous till you're, you know, whatever. It, like you just become in your own delusion kind of. You have too many. Yes. People around you. You don't know what's a good idea and a bad idea anymore. You're full of yourself. I think it's just like everyone tells you you're great. Yeah. So you're saying you're doing something crazy terrible and no one's there to go, hey, I don't think this is anything.
Chris Distefano
Yeah.
Giannis Papas
Right. Yeah, it's really, it's. It is tough to watch. It's sort of like. It's like the hip hop genres, Gaza. I mean, it's tough. It's just tough to watch.
Chris Distefano
Yeah.
Giannis Papas
Like when the clips come up, it's like I'll see like a war crime clip and then Will Smith and both of them make me just go, yeah, yeah.
Mike Vecchione
What's he. Is it still clean rap or is it like.
Chris Distefano
He's talking. The problem with this song is he's talking about I want a girl. And he's 56 years old, so the whole thing of the song is, I want a girl. I want a pretty girl. I want a pretty girl. And you're like, well. Well, can you say woman? Because when you say girl, it just makes me feel weird.
Giannis Papas
Yeah. It's just. He's getting ripped up and I'll just give you a little.
Mike Vecchione
He's still making movies, though, right?
Chris Distefano
No, not. Not since the slap thing. He kind of lost credibility. This is it. And the crowd goes wild. Awkward performance by Will Smith.
Giannis Papas
It's tough to watch. I mean, he. At one time, he was one of the five biggest movie stars in the country.
Chris Distefano
Right.
Giannis Papas
And now he's gone back to his rap, which wasn't good when he was Fresh Prince.
Chris Distefano
Right.
Giannis Papas
He had one summertime hit with Jazzy Jeff.
Mike Vecchione
It was a different time back then. So for that time, I think it was okay. It was a very. Digestible.
Giannis Papas
Yeah. Digestible, right. Yeah.
Chris Distefano
No. No WI fi in here again. What a studio we have. We are out of here.
Giannis Papas
We're out of here. We're done leaving. We're going back to Gas Digital. Yeah, yeah. Where they have WI fi at least.
Chris Distefano
Yeah.
Mike Vecchione
Probably is behind it. He slapped the WI fi.
Giannis Papas
Yeah.
Chris Distefano
He slapped a wife right out.
Giannis Papas
Yeah. I mean, you just, you know, it's. To sit next to a Puerto Rican guy saying the N word with the hard R and a black baby. Baby face is worth it for WI fi.
Chris Distefano
Yeah.
Giannis Papas
As long as. At least they got WI fi.
Mike Vecchione
Yeah.
Giannis Papas
I may have to box Lewis.
Chris Distefano
Yeah.
Giannis Papas
I have WI fi.
Mike Vecchione
If you fight Lewis, he'll live stream it.
Chris Distefano
Yeah, yeah.
Mike Vecchione
He'll go, look, let's make some money.
Chris Distefano
Yeah.
Mike Vecchione
Let's live stream it.
Chris Distefano
Yeah, Yeah.
Giannis Papas
I mean, I love doing. I love all those guys, but, you know, the first episode I was on Allegiance Gank the title was. And then from there on, he just asks every week.
Chris Distefano
I'll tell you.
Giannis Papas
I go.
Chris Distefano
It depends on what I'll tell you right now. Giannis, if you want to name your special. That. That's not getting on, Nateland.
Giannis Papas
It's not.
Chris Distefano
That will not get on. That's not. I could just tell you that I'm not a manager. I'm not his manager.
Mike Vecchione
I'll be the one to stop it.
Chris Distefano
Yeah, yeah.
Mike Vecchione
I'll step in.
Chris Distefano
So.
Mike Vecchione
No, but the the slap. Like, I love how everybody, like some people were like, well, if that was me, it's like, like, if, if that was me, I would have reacted. I thought Chris Rock reacted the best that you could possibly react.
Giannis Papas
I'm going to. Okay, yeah, get your wife's name out my mouth. I'm going to.
Chris Distefano
Okay, dude.
Mike Vecchione
But if I was slat, I would be like in shock.
Chris Distefano
I would have been.
Mike Vecchione
I would have been not able to say anything.
Chris Distefano
Also a slap like that would have.
Mike Vecchione
Been coming to make a joke.
Chris Distefano
I would have been knocked unconscious. If I'm being honest with you. I got a glass jaw. I would have been on the floor and then it would have just been a close up of me just knocked completely out.
Giannis Papas
He would have missed because my head's so small. Yeah, yeah. Now you would not have reacted like that. I know you.
Mike Vecchione
No, no, no, I, I would have.
Giannis Papas
All came out background.
Mike Vecchione
No, I think I would have been. I would just the shock of being smacked. But would. What would have been very funny is if. If they would have talked and, and squashed it, which would have been very hard afterwards. And then the next. And, and, and the. Well, Chris could have came out and forgave him publicly. And then the next award ceremony, Will was hosting it and Chris came up and smacked him.
Chris Distefano
Right.
Mike Vecchione
And then the next thing that Chris was hosting, Will came up and smacked him and they just kept doing it. And even after it was like, okay, we get it. It's like they just keep.
Chris Distefano
Yeah. Keep doing the.
Mike Vecchione
They just keep hosting award show and keep smacking each other. Would have been hilarious.
Giannis Papas
Yeah, that would. That's a good idea.
Mike Vecchione
Because then people were like. Would have been like, is that. Was it real?
Giannis Papas
Yeah.
Mike Vecchione
And it's like, no, it was real and we don't believe you.
Giannis Papas
Yeah.
Chris Distefano
What people too, with that slap. To me, one of the most grow. I mean, I know people, people talk about this ad nauseum, but the grossest part of that whole thing to me was 30 minutes later when Will Smith won his award and the audience clapped for him.
Giannis Papas
Yeah, yeah.
Chris Distefano
Like that. That to me is like. I think what's happening before our eyes too is that the whole world, fame and all that is just losing every. Like, it's just not.
Mike Vecchione
I think literally they did not in the, in the award show because it's like its own. Like there was a producer of the. They did not know what to do.
Chris Distefano
Yeah.
Mike Vecchione
It's like, what do we do? Do we have security come in here? I'm not excusing it, but I'M just like, I really think it's like, what do we do?
Chris Distefano
Yeah.
Mike Vecchione
But they have him exited out. Like, it would be great if he got the award from jail.
Chris Distefano
Yeah, right. Yeah, that would be good. On a zoom.
Mike Vecchione
He's like, we're going to let you out. He goes to make a phone call and the guy just brings him.
Giannis Papas
The award also was Hollywood and it was a black guy slapping a black guy. So I don't think anyone in the audience thought that it was okay for them to have an opinion on it. They were like waiting. Like what we're supposed to.
Chris Distefano
Yeah. Like we, that is how. Not our story.
Giannis Papas
Not our story. I'm gonna receive, I'm gonna let.
Chris Distefano
Yeah.
Giannis Papas
And also, I mean, listen, the, the, the applause breaker. We may cut this out. The applause break. Listen, maybe it was just because. And we're back. Yeah.
Chris Distefano
What it is. Yeah.
Giannis Papas
I mean, seriously, they handled the problem. Nobody got shot. I mean, what is what doesn't deserve an applause break?
Chris Distefano
Yeah.
Mike Vecchione
Both of them.
Giannis Papas
Did you see what happened in Philadelphia, like three days ago?
Chris Distefano
What happened? I didn't see it. That's my tone that. By the way, I lived in Philadelphia. Mike lived in Philadelphia. He was representing himself as a Philadelphia comedian early on his career.
Mike Vecchione
Career. He's a comedy in Philadelphia.
Chris Distefano
You do root for the Eagles. I do root for the Eagles. So be very careful.
Mike Vecchione
Can I say that my background before you get to it? Youngstown to Boca Raton, Florida, which was a lovely place.
Chris Distefano
Yeah. Yes.
Mike Vecchione
To graduate high school and grow.
Giannis Papas
You're not going to see this in Boca Raton, Florida. And I guarantee you that while Mike was in Philly, even though he was a struggle comedian, he didn't live in this part of town.
Chris Distefano
No way.
Giannis Papas
Let's take a peek.
Chris Distefano
Jesus Christ.
Giannis Papas
Fat, Lebanese, he kid in here right now.
Chris Distefano
Yeah.
Mike Vecchione
Well, we can do it. Let's reenact it.
Chris Distefano
Yeah.
Giannis Papas
It was.
Mike Vecchione
You guys have your hats turned around already?
Chris Distefano
Yeah.
Giannis Papas
I mean, the, it's just the people die.
Mike Vecchione
Was that Fourth of July or was that just a regular week?
Giannis Papas
No, it wasn't.
Chris Distefano
Did the Phillies win?
Giannis Papas
Yeah, it was the Fourth of July. And I, I, I just say this as a New Yorker. I just say this as a New.
Mike Vecchione
Yorker and you talk down to Philly.
Giannis Papas
As a new talk. The New Yorkers had lots of black friends. Love black culture, love black people, everything. Fourth of July weekend, you know, it just doesn't mean the same thing for black people as it does us. They have pent up, you know, we're going, we're free and they're going, like, must have been nice, right? Just don't know what to do with those emotions. Sometimes they're. They're. Their definition of fireworks at those cookouts is just always a little different.
Chris Distefano
Right, Right.
Giannis Papas
It's not.
Mike Vecchione
Yeah, it's.
Giannis Papas
Yeah, the fire. The. The rockets are in the guns.
Chris Distefano
Right. That's what it is. It's just a different thing, different celebration now. Now, Mike, when you see, like, you know, because you're an interesting guy, because you got. Youngstown, Ohio.
Mike Vecchione
Yes.
Chris Distefano
Then Philadelphia, but then you went to Boca Raton.
Mike Vecchione
I went to Boca Raton first.
Chris Distefano
So where are you. Where do you want to get buried? Where do you want your QR Code gravestone to be? That's interesting because now you've lived in New York your whole life, so you have. Why, like, I'm getting buried in Queens, New York.
Mike Vecchione
Yeah.
Giannis Papas
Is that where you want to be?
Mike Vecchione
No.
Giannis Papas
Next to Houdini.
Chris Distefano
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Giannis Papas
Because Houdini. Houdini.
Chris Distefano
Yeah.
Mike Vecchione
Houdini dealt with the ultimate heck of heckler. A guy who came backstage and punched him in the stomach.
Chris Distefano
And that's true. And then he died. Yeah.
Giannis Papas
Wait, wait.
Mike Vecchione
What's the ultimate heckler?
Giannis Papas
Is that. That's true story.
Chris Distefano
That's a true story. He died of, like, what, what, like, organ bleeding? Internal bleeding.
Mike Vecchione
Internal bleeding? Yeah, like his. People say his. He already. What's that? That bursts. His appendix was already, like, on. Not in good shape, but this guy put him over the edge. Yeah, he just came back and he was like a. He's like, ah. You know, and he was like, laying down, resting between shows. And the guy came back to meet him and then like, punched him in the stomach when he wasn't ready, and it burst his appendix and. And internal bleeding. And then he died in the hospital.
Chris Distefano
Wow.
Mike Vecchione
Yeah.
Chris Distefano
Yeah. Houdini's buried in the.
Mike Vecchione
Be careful. Monitor your green room.
Chris Distefano
So where are you going to? So where are you going to?
Mike Vecchione
I. I was just going to say, like, when we all fly out, we all pass that cemetery in Queens on the way to LaGuardia.
Chris Distefano
Yeah.
Mike Vecchione
And I like that.
Chris Distefano
Yeah.
Mike Vecchione
So that other comics, you know, they can see me on the way to go to their spots or to the airport weekend.
Chris Distefano
Right. That's a veterans cemetery, though.
Mike Vecchione
Is it really?
Chris Distefano
Thing you gotta be a vet, join.
Giannis Papas
Our armed forces, show a picture of him, and he'll slide by. They won't even ask for credentials. Yeah, I'd just be like, yeah, put them over there.
Mike Vecchione
But do you guys notice that cemetery, like, the headstones are so close Together. It's like even in death in New York, you don't have space.
Chris Distefano
No space.
Giannis Papas
It's really clear. It's very true.
Chris Distefano
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Giannis Papas
And you know, I want to measure the success of my career by if, if. And when I die, I just. I just don't want the other comedians to have to do a Kickstarter for my funeral.
Chris Distefano
Yeah. That's. What if.
Giannis Papas
That is if. If. If I. If I can afford my own funeral. I had a good career.
Chris Distefano
Yeah.
Mike Vecchione
Well, I mean, I assume you're going.
Giannis Papas
Mausoleum because of the Greek thing.
Chris Distefano
Yeah.
Mike Vecchione
Indoors.
Giannis Papas
Indoors, yeah. We like.
Chris Distefano
Is that what they do? Greeks?
Giannis Papas
No.
Chris Distefano
What do Greeks do typically? Cremate.
Giannis Papas
You were at a Greek funeral.
Chris Distefano
Oh, yeah. Was that you popped.
Giannis Papas
We do an open casket, which I think is completely un.
Chris Distefano
Right. We go open casket. The Catholics.
Giannis Papas
I know. Yeah. Cuz you.
Mike Vecchione
Well, if you're not shot in the face.
Chris Distefano
Exactly. Not in Philadelphia.
Giannis Papas
Yeah. The Catholics in the Greek. It's just like, why are we doing that? We want to just feel as bad as possible.
Chris Distefano
Right.
Mike Vecchione
You know, but you guys have a super long m. Your masses are super long.
Chris Distefano
Right?
Giannis Papas
Yeah.
Mike Vecchione
I've been to a Greek.
Giannis Papas
Are you Catholic?
Chris Distefano
Yeah.
Giannis Papas
Yeah.
Chris Distefano
Oh, yeah. Come on, Mike Veion.
Giannis Papas
Did you get nicked or no?
Chris Distefano
Yeah. By priest. Yeah.
Mike Vecchione
Oh, what's. I thought you meant circumcised.
Chris Distefano
Oh, yeah.
Giannis Papas
No. Well, that could be. No, that's.
Mike Vecchione
I don't know what the kids are saying these days. Hat turned around.
Chris Distefano
You ain't lit.
Mike Vecchione
I think you're throwing shade at my pee.
Chris Distefano
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Giannis Papas
You've become an expert at that. And it is very impressive because you follow up and then they say, yeah, Blue Chew. And you said, yeah, I knew that was a red, white and blue bowl.
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Giannis Papas
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Chris Distefano
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Giannis Papas
Ending marriages.
Chris Distefano
What it is. Because I can't sit in court all day and not get a loop.
Mike Vecchione
Because that's like a real thing now where it's like. I guess it's.
Chris Distefano
It's.
Mike Vecchione
I don't even know what's what anymore, but it's looked down upon. If you do get circumcised.
Chris Distefano
Yes.
Mike Vecchione
So it's like, do you want to go do that? Tears. It's. They look at it as mutilation. Oh, yeah.
Chris Distefano
Are you circumcised? Yeah. Yeah. Because Stavros was saying the other day that if he found out you were circumcised, it would really change his opinion of you because he is a great.
Giannis Papas
Are we ever gonna. Are we ever gonna really listen to anything Stavros says again? Because he endorsed Mondami? I mean.
Chris Distefano
Yeah. Yeah.
Giannis Papas
What are we gonna do?
Chris Distefano
Yeah. I mean, stop. If you end.
Giannis Papas
If you're a comedian and you endorse a political candidate, you are now tied to whatever, how that turns out.
Chris Distefano
Right, Right.
Giannis Papas
Like, why would you do that even if you like the guy? You know, it's just like, if you're on the other side, there's people endorsing Trump. It's like, what are comedians doing now?
Chris Distefano
I endorse politics.
Giannis Papas
It's tied to however it turns out. Why would you want to. Why would you want to commit to something if you could just stay back. Right. And always play the devil's advocate?
Mike Vecchione
Well, I like that. We're bombing all the I countries. Y. Iraq, Iran. Look out, Indiana. Yeah, we're coming after you.
Chris Distefano
Coming after you. Yeah, Yeah. I like. I endorse candidates from other countries.
Mike Vecchione
Yeah.
Giannis Papas
Just.
Chris Distefano
That's a deal. Kim Jong Un.
Mike Vecchione
Guy from France. His wife. His wife slapped him.
Chris Distefano
Oh, yeah.
Mike Vecchione
In the face. And then. And then on today's news, it's like she was walking down the airplane. He goes to offer a hand, and she's like, yeah, she doesn't.
Chris Distefano
Well, she Much older than him. Like, she started hooking up with him when he was a student. She was a teacher. Teacher something. Which is that. I mean, that's just commonplace in New York in. In America now. I mean, every teacher's just banging every student.
Giannis Papas
Or she's a guy. Or she's a guy. That's a big rumor. Or she's.
Chris Distefano
She's a guy too, now.
Giannis Papas
Well, biggest one. She's the biggest one where they suspect she's a guy.
Chris Distefano
Interesting. You want to pull. Oh, well, it'd be nice. Imagine we were doing a podcast in 2025 with Wi Fi. That'd really be ahead of the game.
Giannis Papas
That would be nice. We don't know. We just don't.
Chris Distefano
Did you eat yet today, Mike?
Mike Vecchione
No, because I. I want my face to look thinner for this.
Chris Distefano
Yeah, it looks good.
Mike Vecchione
It'll blow up immediately if I eat something.
Chris Distefano
What are you gonna eat? What's the big meal today? What, are you gonna break the fast?
Mike Vecchione
We're gonna see what happens tonight for dinner. We have some leftovers.
Chris Distefano
You're gonna make it all the way to tonight. Yeah. When's the last time you ate?
Mike Vecchione
Last night. 6.
Giannis Papas
6Pm I gotta be honest. I would have never pegged you for a dinner guy. I would have never pegged you for a dinner guy.
Mike Vecchione
Most social meal.
Giannis Papas
You're more. No, you're more of a supper. I thought supper was supper. Yeah, I would peg you as a Youngstown. We're gonna wait for what we have for supper tonight.
Mike Vecchione
Well, everybody sits at the table, if that's what you mean by supper. And we all. We all pray before you eat.
Giannis Papas
Yeah, supper is more of a prayer before you eat, kind of. Do I pray before?
Mike Vecchione
Yeah, because you have a family now.
Giannis Papas
Is Nate watching or. No, I do pray before I eat. No, I do pray.
Chris Distefano
I do pray before I eat.
Giannis Papas
Yeah.
Chris Distefano
Yeah, we pray as a family. We do pray before. And Jasmine's Puerto Rican, so we all have to hold hands. That's what we do. Yes. And we. Yes. Arms up like that. Yeah. Wait, so you're gonna go 24 hour fast?
Mike Vecchione
No, no, I did that. I did. I. I tried. I got off my schedule a little bit, but I tried to do. I'm on this now a 36 hour once a week.
Chris Distefano
Interesting.
Mike Vecchione
So. But usually ends up being like a 33, but you just. You just eat dinner and then you go to sleep, you wake up, you don't eat the whole next day, and then you sleep and then you wake up and you eat at noon.
Chris Distefano
Got it.
Mike Vecchione
That's what.
Chris Distefano
That's. And you do that once a week.
Mike Vecchione
Let me tell you about autophagy. It cleans your cells out, Chris. You have zombie cells.
Chris Distefano
Yep.
Mike Vecchione
And the zombie cells are there. And then you. You can get cancer, you can get other kinds of. And fasting for 36 hours cleans that all out. That's why younger and everything.
Chris Distefano
That's why the Greeks, they've been talking about fasting and cold plunges for since the beginning time. 100%. Way before Joe Rogan.
Mike Vecchione
I thought you say before the Romans. I know.
Chris Distefano
You know, Roman.
Mike Vecchione
A Roman versus a Greek culture. Like who?
Chris Distefano
Yeah.
Mike Vecchione
Who did it first? Who did it better? Who wore it better?
Giannis Papas
Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, we've been do.
Chris Distefano
Yeah, they've been doing it for. I mean, so fasting has been proven time. But some studies now say that 36 hours, they say, is not enough.
Mike Vecchione
Yeah. And who are those studies funded by? Yeah, exactly.
Giannis Papas
Follow the money, Chrissy.
Chris Distefano
Big Pharma.
Giannis Papas
That's what I'm getting at.
Mike Vecchione
Big pharma is wild. Good on the show.
Giannis Papas
Big pharma.
Mike Vecchione
We don't have Internet.
Chris Distefano
Yeah.
Mike Vecchione
Special'S great. Let's go to a clip.
Giannis Papas
We can't.
Mike Vecchione
Damn.
Giannis Papas
Yeah, it's like we're doing podcasting during a blackout.
Chris Distefano
Yeah. I mean, have you ever. What's the longest you went without eating?
Giannis Papas
Oh, man. It's not long. No, like, it's not long.
Chris Distefano
Do you think you've ever even made it 18 hours? Have you ever. Have you ever stopped eating at 6pm and then not eaten again till the next day at 1 or 2 o'?
Giannis Papas
Clock? No. No, it's never happened. It's never happened.
Chris Distefano
Yes.
Giannis Papas
Constantly putting calories into my face.
Chris Distefano
Always you. You ever did a long fast? Only when I had.
Giannis Papas
Have a colonoscopy.
Chris Distefano
Got it.
Mike Vecchione
Oh, yeah. You have to do that, don't you?
Chris Distefano
Have to.
Mike Vecchione
And you guys will see.
Chris Distefano
Yeah, I've done two already. Ganis has done three or two.
Giannis Papas
I've done three.
Chris Distefano
Yeah, you've done them.
Mike Vecchione
Yeah, I had to do it.
Chris Distefano
Polyps or. No, clean now.
Mike Vecchione
Clean.
Chris Distefano
Squeaky clean. See, we got polyps.
Mike Vecchione
I got.
Giannis Papas
We got nicked.
Chris Distefano
We got pol. Yeah.
Giannis Papas
No, when I said nicked, I meant it. Do you think that the church got.
Chris Distefano
Yeah.
Mike Vecchione
Oh, no.
Chris Distefano
Ultra boy.
Mike Vecchione
No, that never was. But how about the Pope from Chicago.
Chris Distefano
Yeah. Yeah.
Mike Vecchione
How about we got an American Pope now.
Chris Distefano
I know. I love it. And we. I. We've said here on the show that we think he's in the Chicago Mafia, and we think it's witness protection. Oh, yeah. Because his name's Pope Leo. And his, you know, Chicago guy. How would you get.
Mike Vecchione
Well, you know, into the story? And they were like, we knew it when he was a child that he was going to be the Pope. It's like, people like the family was like, that guy's gonna be the. That kid's gonna be the Pope. It's like, how do you know what.
Chris Distefano
Yeah. You didn't know.
Mike Vecchione
What kind of things was he doing?
Chris Distefano
That's a lot.
Mike Vecchione
That's the Pope.
Giannis Papas
Well, I could think of a few things.
Chris Distefano
Yeah. Was he walking. Was he five years old, walking around with a red yarmulken robe? Now he's dressing up for Halloween.
Mike Vecchione
He's his blessing. Treehouse.
Chris Distefano
Yeah.
Giannis Papas
Sometimes I just love not being Catholic.
Chris Distefano
Right.
Giannis Papas
And I'm not Catholic.
Chris Distefano
Yeah, you're not.
Giannis Papas
So I can.
Chris Distefano
You weren't chosen.
Giannis Papas
I wasn't chosen yet. And I just love Greek Orthodox. Greek Orthodox. And you guys are two. Two Catholic kids.
Mike Vecchione
More like unorthodox.
Giannis Papas
Yeah.
Chris Distefano
Boom.
Giannis Papas
Sorry. But it's just. It's still one of my favorite things to just sort of allude to and watch people squirm.
Chris Distefano
Yeah.
Giannis Papas
I didn't hear you.
Chris Distefano
No Internet.
Giannis Papas
Yeah, no Internet, you fat.
Chris Distefano
Speaking of. He's a. He thinks he's Catholic, but we don't.
Giannis Papas
We don't have any.
Chris Distefano
We don't accept him from Lebanon.
Giannis Papas
Where's our Internet? You go Internet again, dude.
Chris Distefano
Palliat, pay the bill. Yeah. Do they pay for their Internet? These.
Giannis Papas
You'll never be a real Christian to me.
Mike Vecchione
Go buy a pizza shop like every other Lebanese.
Chris Distefano
Yeah, and I'm not gonna buy your father's deli in Brooklyn. Stop asking. What is going on with the Internet, Pat. Literally. We're done with this studio. We're staying in here. We're out of here. We're taking Pat. We're leaving. Yeah.
Mike Vecchione
What's the password? Hezbollah.
Chris Distefano
God.
Giannis Papas
What do you think about. It is timely. So I just want to bring it up because this is coming out very soon. What do you guys think? Especially Mike. We've brought you in here specifically to find out what your take is on this Jeffrey Epstein stuff.
Mike Vecchione
You know what? I have an unpopular take on it.
Giannis Papas
Yeah.
Mike Vecchione
I think he killed himself.
Chris Distefano
Right? Right. Yeah.
Mike Vecchione
And I don't think there's any. I Think the FBI is what it, what they said it was. I think that he killed himself. I think that it's just that simple. It's like he was living this lavish life life where he's having all this sex and blah blah, blah. And he's a multi millionaire and has people working for him and then he's just in a cell, a dirty cell. And I think his prison mate was a big, some jacked Italian who like killed like three people and it's like.
Giannis Papas
Just couldn't take it.
Mike Vecchione
Yeah, he's like this is going to be a nightmare forever. And he just hung himself cuz he.
Giannis Papas
Was just listening to his cellmate talk about how much he missed his ma and he. I just. Kids take sitting in here anymore.
Mike Vecchione
But you know, he's like a big Italian but he's like kind. He's like, obviously he killed three people so he's like a bully kind of too. And it's like, ah, dude. Well now, now Mike, probably bullying Epstein. Epstein's like, I can't. This is, this is jail. I, I'm not even in a, a federal penitentiary yet. That's going to be.
Chris Distefano
It's going to be bad nightmare. Well now Mike, it's making me, it's making me think that maybe you're on the Epstein list and that's very convenient for you to say kill himself because you don't want to be implicated by the FBI. Bring them in. Yeah, that's why you're really here. Your name's on the list.
Mike Vecchione
This whole pod. So great.
Giannis Papas
We want to see your Venmo history and we want to see how much Israel has sent into that account.
Chris Distefano
Yeah, yeah.
Giannis Papas
Because what do you think, Chrissy?
Chris Distefano
What?
Giannis Papas
I just want to hear fucking people who don't know what they're talking about talk about it.
Chris Distefano
What I think is probably Epstein did Tower 7. You think that's what I think. Epstein did it himself.
Giannis Papas
You can't believe anything he says.
Mike Vecchione
He's the Prince Andrew of Queens.
Chris Distefano
Yeah, he is. Oh look, we got the Internet back.
Giannis Papas
Oh wow. How about them?
Chris Distefano
Apple.
Giannis Papas
Oh yeah. Pam Bondi who initially said she had the client list on her desk now says that.
Chris Distefano
Where did that go?
Giannis Papas
Where did it just. Whoops. Dog ate it. Dog ate it. So it's just not there now.
Mike Vecchione
I just beautiful about getting the Internet 46 minutes into the podcast.
Chris Distefano
Yeah, I love it. It's nice.
Giannis Papas
Can I, can I ask you guys a question and then you tell me.
Chris Distefano
No, you can't ask me a question. It's me and Mike Veggie and you can ask us. You're not asking us anything.
Giannis Papas
I'm going to ask you. I'm going to ask you a question. I'm going to tell you a quote and then you tell me, you tell me if you would be suspicious of this person if they had anything to do with Epstein and did anything based.
Chris Distefano
Off just the quote. We don't know who it is.
Giannis Papas
Just hearing the words, just nobody knows. I'm just going to say I've known Jeff for 15 years. Terrific guy. He's a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do. And many of them are on the younger side.
Chris Distefano
Trump. Trump. My lord and savior, Donald Trump. That was him, I believe that was him. That was Donny Tate.
Giannis Papas
That was Donny Tate.
Chris Distefano
That was Donny Tate.
Giannis Papas
Now, what do you think about that quote from 2002 New York magazine interview?
Chris Distefano
What? I honestly, I'm waiting for you to.
Mike Vecchione
Tie it in with tariffs.
Giannis Papas
And the younger girls and then the tariffs and give us leeway for negotiation.
Chris Distefano
I think honestly that a lot of people knew Epstein celebrities, you know, guys like Trump and he was just a. It was a multi billionaire guys like exist today that you might be going on a private jet with. You know, even in the comedy space or the entertainment space, you don't know what the hell they're doing. You just go like people, you know, many people went to Diddy parties and had no, truly, generally no idea that that's happening.
Mike Vecchione
And they were there early.
Chris Distefano
Yeah.
Giannis Papas
Okay, so another question. How does he become go from a math teacher at Dalton?
Chris Distefano
That I don't know.
Giannis Papas
The next thing you know, he's managing a former prime minister of Israel's money. And he's got this. He's. He's got a $10 million townhouse on the up reset. How did that happen?
Chris Distefano
More 10. I think it's like 50 million.
Giannis Papas
Yeah. How did it happen out of nowhere?
Chris Distefano
I don't, I don't know if it happened. Mike was a math teacher. He'll know. Can you tell us about. You were a teacher in Philadelphia. Maybe you could explain.
Mike Vecchione
Teaching is boring. Sometimes teaching math especially has got to be.
Chris Distefano
Were you a math teacher? Did I have that right?
Mike Vecchione
No. I taught kids with emotional and behavioral problems.
Chris Distefano
But what did you teach them?
Mike Vecchione
I would teach them whatever the administration was like, just keep them in the room.
Chris Distefano
Yeah. So you would literally go and keep.
Mike Vecchione
Them in the room. Let's keep the felonies to a minimum. I like one principal didn't get it.
Giannis Papas
And he came in the room.
Mike Vecchione
Principal came in, he's like, the test scores are low. I'm like the test scores?
Chris Distefano
Yeah.
Mike Vecchione
You know what I'm dealing with here?
Giannis Papas
Yeah.
Mike Vecchione
There's not been a homicide. Yeah, I should get a medal.
Chris Distefano
Yeah. So basically get tenure.
Giannis Papas
So basically what you're saying is you weren't a teacher in an Asian neighborhood.
Chris Distefano
Right. Wait a minute, so it was that really like you would have no lesson plan life?
Mike Vecchione
No, no, I would have a lesson.
Giannis Papas
I told you it was keep them in the room. Keep in the room.
Mike Vecchione
Yeah, but I, I hands up at.
Chris Distefano
All times where I can see him. That's every day.
Mike Vecchione
But hey, about, how about there's a kid who was, they were coming in from recess and there was a kid. My kids were telling me because I loved my kids, man. And I really, I taught them and, and had lesson. I worked hard at what I was doing and there was a kid. All my kids were telling me it's like there's a kid out there. Cuz we were in a special self contained class and they were calling my kids names.
Giannis Papas
They were calling by the police outside.
Chris Distefano
Yeah.
Mike Vecchione
Tame by the authorities. Yeah, but. And I, I, I got the kid. I found out who the kid was because he was like, he was calling my kids dumb, stupid.
Chris Distefano
Like he was a more able bodied kid.
Giannis Papas
Yeah, yeah.
Mike Vecchione
Well he just wasn't, he wasn't part of probably a. But he just wasn't in my class.
Chris Distefano
Right.
Mike Vecchione
So he was calling my kids dumb and stupid. You're in a stupid class, whatever. And my kids were like telling me they came in from and they were take this kid's like, like telling us this and calling us names. So I grabbed the kid in the room and I said, hey, don't insult my kids, man. If you insult my kids again, I'm gonna pull you in this room, I'm gonna lock the door, I'm gonna step outside.
Chris Distefano
Yeah.
Mike Vecchione
So don't do that again. And he didn't.
Chris Distefano
And he did it because he knew if I leave, if leaving with them. Yeah, I'm gonna be done.
Mike Vecchione
Now. I would have real, I wouldn't have really done that, but I threatened the kid and that was enough for him to be like, I'm sorry.
Chris Distefano
Yeah, right.
Giannis Papas
You gotta understand, Mike Vigillone's a former race wrestler, right? Yeah, he's got like his. Then that's why I think, you know, he would explode. I think he would explode because it's just in there, right? It's like you say the wrong thing to Mike Vecchion. You're gonna. You're gonna get a lot of that.
Chris Distefano
You're gonna get a lot of that.
Giannis Papas
Reaching from the back of my neck.
Mike Vecchione
But I'm also 52, so it's probably just gonna be this.
Chris Distefano
Just gonna be this.
Mike Vecchione
Yeah, it's gonna be a lot of this.
Chris Distefano
But you'll have. You have the ear muffs on and just a lot of touching.
Mike Vecchione
A lot of touching. A lot of ear muffs. And then talk to my lawyer.
Chris Distefano
Yeah.
Giannis Papas
What it is now. Next question about it. I wanted to ask you guys. There was a guy. There was a guy in. You know, Jeffrey Epstein was indicted and convicted in. In Florida, right.
Chris Distefano
For Mike's home state. Yeah, Mike's Homesteads for your home state.
Giannis Papas
From your home state. He was indicted in. In Florida for pedophilia. Let's just say.
Mike Vecchione
Let's.
Chris Distefano
Is that actually what the charge was for?
Giannis Papas
No, no, it was like. What was it?
Chris Distefano
Underage sex?
Giannis Papas
Underage sex trafficking. It was bad. And there was a guy named Alexander Acosta who was the U.S. attorney at the time, and he cut a secret deal with Epstein's legal team where he. What he do. He did 13 months in prison, something like that. But they could. He could never. He could. He could not be federally prosecuted again. He got a slap on the wrist, right. He got. He had work release where he was able to get out six days a week or something like that. I'm messing up the details, but it was a slap on the rest.
Mike Vecchione
His work release was a massage.
Giannis Papas
Yeah, it was a massage. So he basically. That. And then he was appointed by Trump to be Secretary of Labor during Trump's first term. Is that just a small world?
Chris Distefano
Oh, you're saying that. Why did Alexander Ocasio Cortez.
Giannis Papas
Yeah.
Chris Distefano
Why did he. You're saying. Because Trump is in on it. Because you think it's all time. You want to say Trump is on the list.
Giannis Papas
No, I'm not saying that. I'm just saying you pull up all the pictures of Trump with it. I'm just saying. Saying. I'm just saying Trump was in office when Jeffrey Epstein killed himself.
Chris Distefano
Right.
Giannis Papas
Trump is now in office.
Chris Distefano
But again, I don't think anybody. Nobody debates that Trump and Epstein were friends. That there's all proof of that. Yeah.
Mike Vecchione
Are you saying that you're a Tesla's double park?
Giannis Papas
I'm just saying Epstein called Trump his closest friend. They've known each other for 20 years. At the time, you know, they hung out together.
Chris Distefano
Yeah. Because was. Epstein was alive the first time Trump was President, Right?
Giannis Papas
Yeah.
Chris Distefano
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay.
Giannis Papas
Yeah.
Mike Vecchione
He was getting into it.
Giannis Papas
Yeah. Yeah. I mean, they. They knew each other very well.
Chris Distefano
Right, right.
Giannis Papas
And I'm just saying. I mean, that's. So what happened is with.
Mike Vecchione
But I think the island. The whole island thing, like, I don't know. I'm just speculating, but it's like. I don't think it was all that. No, I think it was like, some. Like, they did some paperwork, too. And what's that?
Giannis Papas
You think they did some bonfires and cook some marshmallows?
Mike Vecchione
Yeah, I think it was a lot of that. I think it's like an early D. Early time frame at a ditty party where it was just, like. It just looked like this is the cool place.
Chris Distefano
Well, you would go, like, I think, too, a lot of times Epstein would just, like, you know, celebrities or whatever. You'd go to his island, like, with your wife and kids. Just, like, go to, like, a private beach and then go back the same day. Right. But you're all. But then you're off.
Mike Vecchione
You're staying. You're not staying in the mix of anything.
Chris Distefano
Yeah.
Mike Vecchione
Staying, like, I'm sure they had that. I'm sure this was. Even at that time, was kept pretty under wraps.
Chris Distefano
Bonnie is smoking.
Giannis Papas
She's a smoke show. Yeah.
Chris Distefano
Yeah. Oh, I didn't realize that Jeffrey Epstein and Jelaine were a couple. I thought Jelaine was just the handler of the girl, but they were, like, together. He's got his hand on her waist.
Giannis Papas
That's what the interesting thing about the whole thing is, is, like. Yeah, they were just.
Mike Vecchione
Sex is, like, currency.
Giannis Papas
Yeah.
Mike Vecchione
It's not like the way that we think about it, where it's, like, intimate. It's just, like. It's kind of currency, I think.
Chris Distefano
Yeah.
Mike Vecchione
Like, yeah, you get me women to sleep with, and then I sleep with you. And then.
Chris Distefano
Yeah.
Mike Vecchione
It's like kind of a.
Chris Distefano
Just all it is.
Mike Vecchione
Yeah.
Chris Distefano
Everyone's having sex at all times. I think it's a perverted.
Giannis Papas
It' so funny because right now, as we record this podcast, this is, like, breaking people's, like, political alliances and beliefs and brains.
Chris Distefano
Right.
Giannis Papas
Because this is obviously one of the most obvious, funny gaslightings that.
Mike Vecchione
Yeah.
Chris Distefano
Yeah.
Giannis Papas
We've had as a country.
Mike Vecchione
So, people, it tells me that Giannis works for the wind company.
Giannis Papas
Yeah.
Chris Distefano
Right.
Giannis Papas
So it's just funny. Now, everyone. This is all everyone's talking about because this is just right. You know, Alex Jones cried, right.
Chris Distefano
Which was fun to watch because he's saying, how could this be happening? He just cried because he's like.
Giannis Papas
He goes, how could Trump do this?
Chris Distefano
Yeah, yeah.
Giannis Papas
And he's going like, he's been doing good, and I just can't. Can we pull up him crying?
Chris Distefano
Pull him up?
Giannis Papas
I mean, it's just.
Mike Vecchione
What was his point, though?
Giannis Papas
His point is, like, because it's such a hard thing to have dissonance on the cognitive dissonance, because everyone knows that Jeffrey Epstein was an intelligent intelligence asset. I mean, it's so.
Chris Distefano
From Mossad.
Giannis Papas
Either Mossad or CIA or both. I mean, it's just so obvious. I mean, it's one. It's like saying. Saying if there was. It's like, if there was chocolate chip cookies on this table, and I said, those are chocolate chip cookies. Everyone would go, those are chocolate chip cookies.
Chris Distefano
Yeah.
Giannis Papas
If you said, no, those are. Those are actually Chessmen cookies.
Chris Distefano
Yeah.
Giannis Papas
People would go like, no, this guy's lying.
Chris Distefano
The chocolate chip.
Giannis Papas
Yeah. So they'd go like, something's up with this guy. So we're at that point where everyone kind of knows that what's happening now is people are going, no, those aren't chocolate chip cookies. Those are chestnut cookies.
Chris Distefano
Right. Which I would. Now I just want to eat cookies.
Giannis Papas
Because, I mean, it's just every. Everything you find out about the players involved, you just go, this is.
Chris Distefano
Just.
Giannis Papas
Doesn't make sense that they're there, because now they're saying there was no Epstein client list and he killed himself. And then they. This is the funniest part. They released the footage outside his jail cell, and then there was, like, a jump in the footage.
Chris Distefano
Right.
Giannis Papas
It's like, for one minute.
Chris Distefano
Right.
Giannis Papas
When they released the Pentagon.
Chris Distefano
I think that's it. Jesse. No. Someone else's video. Yeah. Yeah. But I think. Are they. Oh, I'm sorry, you're saying that they're. They're breaking it down. Yeah.
Giannis Papas
Do you remember when they released that video of the. The plane hitting the Pentagon? And we were all like, all right, we're finally going to see the proof of the plane going. And it was just like. It was like a couple of frames, and then there was just a fireball.
Chris Distefano
Yeah. Yeah.
Giannis Papas
So, yeah, it's just. That's what they did. They released the footage of. Outside of his jail cell. And then there's the jump cut.
Chris Distefano
There's a jump cut.
Giannis Papas
And they go, see, there's Nobody came in and out of his cell.
Chris Distefano
Alex Jones looks like he's on text tests. Yeah. That's another impressive thing about you, Mike. You're not on Tess.
Mike Vecchione
No, I'm too afraid of any of that stuff.
Giannis Papas
Yeah.
Chris Distefano
Anyone here that probably.
Giannis Papas
You gotta.
Chris Distefano
I never saw any evidence of Trump involved in any of the stuff that came out. It was all fake. The fake Jane does, all the. All the crap, you know, Eugene, Carol's cat lady, all of it.
Giannis Papas
Alex Jones.
Chris Distefano
So now a little bit coming in.
Giannis Papas
And being part of the COVID towards the end, he starts crying. It's just funny with the service there.
Chris Distefano
Was the day before and over 500 times.
Giannis Papas
This is just a guy. Does he have a family? Real.
Chris Distefano
Nice baby blue eyes too.
Giannis Papas
I realize he's not a bad looking.
Chris Distefano
No. What?
Giannis Papas
He's one of the most entertaining guys on the planet. I have to say that.
Mike Vecchione
I love guys who do videos in their car too.
Chris Distefano
Yeah.
Giannis Papas
Yeah.
Chris Distefano
I love guys who pull over and they're in Parker in the parking lot, but still got the seat belt on.
Giannis Papas
Here we go.
Chris Distefano
11Am today I'll be covering it. And no matter where the this information goes, I'll always report to.
Giannis Papas
Whatever he cries. It's funny.
Mike Vecchione
Yeah.
Giannis Papas
I just love how serious obvious he takes everything.
Chris Distefano
He's.
Giannis Papas
He's on it.
Chris Distefano
Right.
Giannis Papas
He's like people.
Mike Vecchione
Well, what is his reaction to the Diddy? I personally think Diddy that he was acquitted of the most serious charges, but I think he's gonna get slapped with a lot of time for the remaining charges. I personally think. Really everybody else thinks that they're. He's gonna walk. Like, I think he's gonna.
Chris Distefano
I like O.J. got away with it. But then they gave him 10 years for something that would have normally got three months. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Mike Vecchione
Like, you know, I think that's coming and everybody disagrees with me. Everybody's like, he's gonna walk. It's because he was celebrating. It's like, he's gonna walk now. It's like, I don't think so. I think they're gonna just nail him. It's like when the mob does stuff now, it's like they don't do like the real heavy stuff that's like gambling or whatever, but they just hit them with the hardest.
Chris Distefano
Yo. They are three years for jaywalking.
Mike Vecchione
Yes.
Chris Distefano
Yeah. Interesting. Well, I know because they were saying. I saw her a lawyer talking about the. Saying that really the judge, if he did give him Diddy serious time, would really be breaking like a lot of like traditional rules. Because technically, frankly, Diddy on paper has never committed a federal crime before. And he's a first time offender. Right, Right. So he's a first time offender at these. So the judge, the State of New York weighs that heavily. You are.
Giannis Papas
Because.
Chris Distefano
Because the judge's job is to not do what. What. What you said. Like the judges to say I am fully impartial. I don't care about. Yeah, but they're saying I'm just on.
Mike Vecchione
What these sentencing guidelines.
Chris Distefano
Right.
Mike Vecchione
So if they're sentencing guidelines, you can give him the upper echelon of the sentence.
Chris Distefano
It's up to the judge. In other words, the judge is the one who decides. Right, but they're saying that he would be. This lawyer was saying he would breaking like crazy protocol if he. If he gave him all these years. Like, it wouldn't be actually the right thing for the judge to do.
Giannis Papas
Interesting.
Chris Distefano
Can you pull up. I don't know why.
Mike Vecchione
Yeah, but what are the pull up what he charges for that? Because it happens in mob trials all the time where it's like they, they. It happened with the Philly guys in.
Chris Distefano
Mercury and you seem personally affected and hurt by this, so.
Mike Vecchione
No, no, I have to take issue with it. And like the mob trials in Philly, it's like they got acquitted of RA racketeering and the drug charges and murder. But they got him on stolen property and gambling. But they gave him 14 years for gambling.
Chris Distefano
Right. Which.
Mike Vecchione
It's crazy.
Chris Distefano
We wouldn't even go to jail for that.
Mike Vecchione
Right? Yeah, but they know who the guy. And the judge gave them 14 years on gambling. And like the guy went to jail for 14 years for gambling.
Chris Distefano
That's your uncle and that's my uncle. Yeah.
Giannis Papas
Yeah.
Mike Vecchione
Now he's out and it's not fair.
Chris Distefano
Yeah.
Giannis Papas
The Internet is not working again.
Chris Distefano
It's just what is. Is. It's it.
Giannis Papas
Yeah.
Chris Distefano
Pat, who runs the studio, is running the studio like we're in Lebanon. Like, there's attacks from Israel coming at every moment.
Mike Vecchione
He's running it into the ground.
Giannis Papas
Yeah.
Chris Distefano
Yeah.
Giannis Papas
Which is why we need a bunker buster. Yeah. We do reactivate the Internet. Yay.
Chris Distefano
All right, well, what can you do? We have no more Internet.
Giannis Papas
Yeah.
Chris Distefano
So what about you, Mike? Where. Where are you going to be? Website, all that.
Mike Vecchione
I'm going to be in Tempe, Arizona at the Improv. Improv.
Giannis Papas
Great.
Mike Vecchione
I don't know the dates. It's coming up here in like two weeks. Not this weekend, but next weekend. I'm not sure when this comes out. It would help me to know the dates. Mikevecchione.com for dates.
Chris Distefano
Yeah.
Giannis Papas
Yeah.
Mike Vecchione
Comic Mike V on all social media. Please follow me. And the special is called Low Income white. It's on YouTube.
Chris Distefano
Great.
Mike Vecchione
Name and it's for free for people who are actually low income whites.
Giannis Papas
Yeah.
Chris Distefano
Yes.
Mike Vecchione
Please watch it. And if you're gonna make a comment which I appreciate for the algorithm, please don't call me names. Yeah, it's for free. And I worked hard on it.
Chris Distefano
Yeah, yeah.
Giannis Papas
It's like, what are you doing? Why are they. You know, it's weird because, you know, they're all incentivized to do it. We're all. We've all been conditioned by social media companies to create content and the comment section is their content.
Chris Distefano
Yeah.
Giannis Papas
Because that. You have to know the reason why they're putting those comments. Comments in there is for other people to see the comments.
Chris Distefano
Yeah. That they want to get a bunch of likes. It's like the way that they can. Right. Factor in their own. Get their own kind of slice of the pie.
Giannis Papas
Yeah.
Chris Distefano
Right. You will. And if you are a history hyenas fan and you like Mike special and you want to comment, just please put an American flag after whatever comment you've made so we know it's you and you're a hyenas fan. That's how you identify yourselves.
Giannis Papas
Yes.
Chris Distefano
By the red, white and blue, baby.
Giannis Papas
That's why we love Mike. We want every one of our fans to go watch that special. We want every one of you to comment on.
Chris Distefano
On it.
Giannis Papas
You know, identify yourself with $3 bill or on the beam or whatever.
Chris Distefano
The American flag.
Giannis Papas
Just all positive. Get in there and then get in the comments to the other people who say negative things and throw it and argue with them because it's all what the social media companies.
Mike Vecchione
Yes.
Giannis Papas
YouTube, once they see that, the algorithm goes, oh, there's engagement happening.
Chris Distefano
Yes. We want you because Mike is a part of our hyena clan. So we. You have to fight to defend him too.
Giannis Papas
Yeah. Okay, so go watch this.
Mike Vecchione
I'm in the back of the pack of hyenas.
Chris Distefano
Yes, but you still are.
Mike Vecchione
But I'm still there.
Chris Distefano
You're in the pack.
Mike Vecchione
Yeah.
Giannis Papas
You're in the pack.
Mike Vecchione
As long as the pack is running on Nateland.
Giannis Papas
That's right.
Chris Distefano
That's it.
Mike Vecchione
Okay.
Chris Distefano
Yes. As long as the pack is being clean and not saying too many curse words.
Mike Vecchione
Yeah, that's right.
Chris Distefano
All right, so these are the good guys who went to patreon.comhistoryhyenas and join the matriarchy. That is where all the fun happens. We have five dollar episodes, $10 episodes, all the way up to $25 episodes episodes. And it's all awesome. It's bonus content and it's really, really fun. And it's a community. I mean, we got people going on dates on the Patreon. So you could use our Patreon as a dating app if you have the new grinder.
Giannis Papas
Yeah.
Chris Distefano
Here we go. Welcome. Brian orozco. Reuben Sufuentes. General. Shiro Ishi's BDSM kink. So that's from unit 731. That's, you know, Shiro BDSM kink. Yes. Okay, so he's just saying that, you know, he's. Yeah, he's listening.
Giannis Papas
And I appreciate the attempt.
Chris Distefano
Brian Garrett Brown. Then we got big birds. Left nut. Okay.
Giannis Papas
Okay.
Chris Distefano
It's fun.
Giannis Papas
Yeah.
Chris Distefano
Danielle Dicks, which is a good trans name. Yeah. Darius Jack. Kieran dy. Then we got the most balls in ever.
Giannis Papas
Okay. Chicken figure for the funny factor.
Chris Distefano
Brendan Hoverak. Carter Whitten. Brandon Masters. Amy Harris. Real.
Giannis Papas
I walked into one.
Chris Distefano
Yeah. Yeah. Richard Van V. It's just a minefield of those. It's just what it is.
Giannis Papas
Yeah.
Chris Distefano
Richard Van Vlnderen. Nick Wilson. Andrew Ramirez. D.J. frisbee. Caleb Kinsler. Christopher Tooone. Then we got. My roof is so leaky, I threw a Frisbee down my chimney.
Giannis Papas
Very funny.
Chris Distefano
Then we got. Gogeta has got a small peen too. An Indian kid. Cortez conquered more than one jungle.
Giannis Papas
Okay, we gotta do an episode on Cortez.
Chris Distefano
Yeah, we do. Brad Williams called this walked in lad 14. But Brad Williams is a. Is a smidget. Yeah, Right. But he just hit.
Giannis Papas
Yeah, but they're got it. They're just going for the word Frisbee.
Chris Distefano
Smoking stinians like some stinky hookah Wesley Bradshaw. Then we got. I ride bikes and tights. Call me Spandy, Queer Drexler, Peter Gospel. And. And off. This is the second episode in a row where we're going pretty deep down a list. And we don't have anyone who's made it yet.
Giannis Papas
Right.
Chris Distefano
It's interesting. Alec, Matt Clanson, Dalton Phelps, Damien Dylan James. Then we got off the beam. Mariachi monkey with a leaky roof. SLS charged up and ready to detonate. Like building 7.
Giannis Papas
Put them on the list. Okay.
Chris Distefano
Yeah, that's what it is.
Giannis Papas
Yeah.
Chris Distefano
It's going to say they're gay and they're ready to explode. They're gay. Is. But also building.
Giannis Papas
Just like Building Seven. Yeah.
Chris Distefano
Vulcan. Then we got crippled with swollen nipples. Okay. Then we got Head Box Boy. I don't eat. I just work for ups.
Giannis Papas
Okay.
Chris Distefano
Then we got stapling pictures of my testes around Macy's. Like Martin Luther's 95s put him on the list.
Giannis Papas
Because Martin Luther went around, you know, taping up his proclamation. His Protestant proclamation.
Chris Distefano
Yeah.
Giannis Papas
So this kid's going around making Stacy's.
Chris Distefano
Yeah. Put his testies up there.
Giannis Papas
Yeah. So like Martin Luther. I'm putting him on the list because it's history and it's funny.
Chris Distefano
Then we got Griffin Kerner. Then we got a Muzzy Stole My Heart and it chicken figure. Matthew Lee Chrissy, steroid dealer. Call me back, cuz. Base jumping off the Four Seasons. Tim Dillon's Gazin Vacation. Barry Dinger, DDS Nervous hyena who's scared of laughing matters. Okay. Bluey Chew us and the glues.
Giannis Papas
We've had something.
Chris Distefano
Yeah. Gnome Dwarman. Oh. Owner of the comedy seller. Thank you. Welcome. Matthew Lloyd Molester Stallone. First and last blood.
Giannis Papas
Put him on the lister. Stallone is a goodie song.
Chris Distefano
She ain't Sergio Deviza. Ryan Gindrich, Ultimate Frisbee champion. Shout out my sponsor, Hugo Boss.
Giannis Papas
Very funny.
Chris Distefano
Japanese. Count in units of 730. 31. Okay. Okay. Forrest Gump, 2. Gary Sinise's niece polished my piece. Now my son looks like Walter White Jr. And screams at fireworks from a bat. Okay. Okay. Joshua707 Williams Mendo. Okay. Adam Dayton McGovern. Ish. Al. Then we got. I cream fast for my mail order. Scream. Mask.
Giannis Papas
Mail order. Scream as. Meaning he got an Asian mail order.
Chris Distefano
And he creams fast.
Giannis Papas
He creams fast.
Chris Distefano
Interesting. Good effort.
Giannis Papas
Good effort.
Chris Distefano
John Beeman. Malek Ekal.
Giannis Papas
John Beanman.
Chris Distefano
Yeah.
Giannis Papas
So he's on the beam.
Chris Distefano
John Beamman. Yeah.
Giannis Papas
Beeman beam.
Chris Distefano
Oh, yeah. John Beeman.
Giannis Papas
Yeah. He's on the beam.
Chris Distefano
He's on the beam. Malek Equal. Then we got big, beautiful three dollar bill. No Medicaids.
Giannis Papas
Okay.
Chris Distefano
Okay. Big, beautiful three dollar bill. Might have did it.
Giannis Papas
Yeah, He. It's.
Chris Distefano
No medic. Aids.
Giannis Papas
Yeah. No Medicaid. It's two names in one. So we're gonna give him a Drexler for it.
Chris Distefano
Okay. Then we got Matt is gay. J. Knapp, Hannah Ratched. Let's go, Buzz. Blair Marsdale. Alex Reds. Nicholas Adcock. No good bagel shops in Germany.
Giannis Papas
It's a good boy. It's a good one Way song.
Chris Distefano
Seeing. Yes. You can't. I mean, it's probably a truth. Right? Right.
Giannis Papas
Probably. Yeah. It's probably, you know, they're just not comfortable.
Chris Distefano
Yeah. Nicholas Duncan. Brian Cooper. Chico. Daniel Sangaro. Ted Claire, George Contour. Hitler had a golden shower and so do I. It's what it is, cuz. L 14 Harley Wayne Kilman Avery Reaper Brendan Rivera Hector Load Swallower Benjamin Salvador Danny G. Germaine Richard Gomez Gomez Genghis John Andy Rivera Butterbean David McMase Aldo Rodriguez Kevin Bratton Gagehood Ed Paul T. Shiro Ishii Summer camp was wild. Kieran McGuire.
Giannis Papas
Got you on that.
Chris Distefano
Got me? Yeah, that's it. Walked in on One Way Song Xian Leroy Archaeologists Incorporated.
Giannis Papas
Don't oh, got you again. Back to back.
Chris Distefano
Yeah.
Giannis Papas
Very creative though. Very creative.
Chris Distefano
Jonathan Watson Ryan Cortez Mikey Heineran on Ms. Obama's RHP. Mrs. Obama's RHP rock hard penis. Yeah I love on all and I ran, ran, ran so far away Tel Aviv couldn't get away okay, grower not a shower Cody Nika Elupolis then we got you can lead a horse to water but you still will need a step stool to to it. Put him on the list.
Giannis Papas
That's a catapult.
Chris Distefano
It's just what it is. Good.
Giannis Papas
Could be the winner.
Chris Distefano
Tid Kutcher Maggie Jacob Lori Sticky Couch Abigail Wilson Zom Gum Coffee Davey Long et Lee Michael Ham Danny Not a piece but take me to Normandy please Peter Hutton Thomas Pizzal Senor Gringo the Fourth Travis Camper Midwest mom with fat, fat, fat meat flaps. Okay, okay.
Giannis Papas
Chicken finger just for describing your pussy.
Chris Distefano
Ryan Thompson, Josh Lutz Cameron Deaton David McLeod Spencer Hodgkinson Dyslexic UCF ground and pound me Jennifer Mueller Bug chasing for bug chasing for lubed anus Baby ground gravy Colin v Chrissy D's right pectoral Chrissy's pelvic floor therapist Ryan R5chan.org nursing nursing addily Christina Pitsky, independent learning pod mom Donnie eats sand with his rocket launching hand.
Giannis Papas
It's a good one way song Walked into one, but it's a good one.
Chris Distefano
What do I do?
Giannis Papas
Put it on the list.
Mike Vecchione
Jesse.
Giannis Papas
The Jewish side of Jesse Wood.
Chris Distefano
All right. That's what it is. Yeah.
Giannis Papas
Yeah, it's really funny.
Chris Distefano
Muzzies Want to make my Frisbee family into overdone latkes. Okay. James Allen, Jeremy Barney, Corey Lawrence, Ryan Hassan, Hera, Dustin F. Alex Vega, Kyle Kemper Braxton Buff accountant for ice AKA the Bean Counter.
Giannis Papas
Put them on the list.
Chris Distefano
Okay, There we go.
Giannis Papas
So walked into one. But it's very funny.
Chris Distefano
If Gillis impregnates McCusker, it equals Jesse Plemons or the actor Gary Fatsby Alex Canuelas.
Giannis Papas
I think that we got.
Chris Distefano
We're good, right? You think we're good?
Giannis Papas
Yeah, I think we're Good.
Chris Distefano
Okay.
Giannis Papas
Yeah.
Chris Distefano
Okay. All right, let's do it. All right, here we go.
Giannis Papas
Two pages. We should do two because we're. We're caught up now.
Chris Distefano
We are.
Giannis Papas
So we do two pages at a time.
Chris Distefano
Here we go. So here's the list so far. Granted, it's not the strongest list, but we still have some bangers. Okay, here we go. So we got charged up and ready to detonate. Like Building 7.
Giannis Papas
We're going to leave that for now.
Chris Distefano
Stapling pictures of my testes around Macy's. Like Martin Luther.
Giannis Papas
It's so good. But I don't know if it's got the funny people are going to.
Chris Distefano
All right.
Giannis Papas
Any other day or. If we had just done a Martin Luther episode, you would have. Yeah.
Chris Distefano
Molester Stallone. First and last blood.
Giannis Papas
Very good. We're going to drag. We're going to chicken finger that.
Chris Distefano
Okay.
Giannis Papas
Yeah.
Chris Distefano
Oh, what the hell was. Oh, that was the. That was the table. Here we go. Accountant for ice, AKA the bean counter.
Giannis Papas
It's a good one. We're going to Drexler because it's a walked in one.
Chris Distefano
Okay. Mom, Donnie eats sand with his rocket launching hand.
Giannis Papas
That's Jesse's favorite. It is a walked in one. What else do we have?
Chris Distefano
Last but not least, we have you can lead a horse to water, but you still need a step stool to fuck it.
Giannis Papas
Okay, so we're going to. We're going to direct Huxler the Mandami, even though it's Jesse's favorite because it's a walk dinner.
Chris Distefano
So it's between charge. It's between charged up and ready to detonate. Like Building 7. Or you can lead a horse to water, but you still need a step stool to it.
Giannis Papas
See, you said it was a weak list. I'm saying those are great.
Chris Distefano
I'm sorry, you're right.
Giannis Papas
Those are great. That's a tough one. I'm leaning towards the step stool. That's my vote.
Chris Distefano
Jess. I didn't see the step stool coming. That's my vote, too. Yeah, that's. Then the winners have it. Congratulations. Go to History Hyenas is back Dot com. You can see your name up in lights. You are the winner. You can lead a horse to water, but you still need a step stool to fuck it. Congratulations to you. That is a fantastic. Yeah. And you can see our stand updates throughout the summer. Both mine and Yanis's at History Hyenas is back. Com. Check it out. And thanks for being a part of Patreon. Com. History Hyenas. We can't thank the fans. Enough. This has been great being back, baby.
History Hyenas: "Epstein Offed Himself Cuz of Will Smith Rap w/ Mike Vecchione"
Release Date: July 10, 2025
Hosted by comedians Yannis Pappas and Chris Distefano, "History Hyenas" blends historical insights with humor, creating an engaging atmosphere for listeners. In the episode titled "Epstein Offed Himself Cuz of Will Smith Rap w/ Mike Vecchione," the hosts delve into the controversial circumstances surrounding Jeffrey Epstein's death, intertwining comedic banter with critical discussions.
[00:00 - 02:00]
Yannis Pappas opens the episode by introducing their special guest, Mike Vecchione, a longtime friend and fellow comedian known for his YouTube special "Low Income White" on Nateland Entertainment. The introduction sets a lighthearted tone, with Pappas and Distefano promoting their own stand-up performances while warmly welcoming Mike to the show.
Notable Quote:
Giannis Papas [01:09]: "What's up, everybody? Welcome to another episode of History Hyenas."
[02:00 - 08:20]
The conversation shifts to Mike Vecchione’s career trajectory from a schoolteacher to a comedian. They discuss his new YouTube special, "Low Income White," highlighting his unique comedic perspective rooted in his experiences from Youngstown, Ohio.
Notable Quote:
Mike Vecchione [01:48]: "Well, thank you for having me, guys. I appreciate. That was quite an intro."
[09:00 - 15:12]
Yannis and Chris explore the history of Youngstown, once a flourishing Rust Belt town known for its steel industry. They lament the economic decline since the 1970s, attributing it to the absence of new industries and opportunities, a common plight among Rust Belt cities.
Notable Quote:
Mike Vecchione [15:02]: "There's just no industry and they haven't found a replacement. It's like many other Rust Belt cities."
[15:13 - 16:55]
The hosts brainstorm potential revitalization strategies for Youngstown, humorously suggesting the introduction of casinos, vape shops, and hipster influxes as means to rejuvenate the local economy and attract diverse populations.
Notable Quote:
Giannis Papas [15:43]: "You need to legalize gambling and prostitution."
[16:56 - 22:00]
The discussion turns personal as the hosts emphasize the importance of camaraderie within the comedy community. They share anecdotes about supporting fellow comedians, like Ari Shafir, highlighting the tight-knit nature of their professional relationships.
Notable Quote:
Giannis Papas [11:26]: "And I think the Bryant family might have a different opinion. But here in the comedy community, we are Ari Shafir lovers."
[22:01 - 28:54]
Mike shares his approach to maintaining health without relying on medication, discussing practices like delayed coffee consumption and fasting. The conversation includes humorous exchanges about their personal habits and health routines.
Notable Quote:
Mike Vecchione [17:03]: "I don’t want to be on medication, and I want to feel good every day."
[28:55 - 38:30]
The hosts critique the transformation of traditional media channels like Comedy Central, lamenting the lack of new content and the dominance of reruns and limited programming. They compare this decline to the rise of social media platforms, where content creation has shifted to individual creators and influencers.
Notable Quote:
Giannis Papas [32:55]: "It's just funny how all those networks became like one show. Like it was like the Jokers was that channel."
[38:31 - 54:10]
A significant portion of the episode is dedicated to discussing Jeffrey Epstein's death. Mike Vecchione presents his viewpoint that Epstein killed himself, challenging the official narrative and exploring various conspiracy theories surrounding his demise. The conversation touches on Epstein’s connections with high-profile figures, including Donald Trump, and debates the plausibility of foul play involving the FBI and other entities.
Notable Quotes:
Mike Vecchione [52:43]: "I think he killed himself. I think that's just that simple."
Giannis Papas [54:04]: "Because the judge's job is to not do what... to say I am fully impartial."
[54:11 - 58:00]
The hosts analyze the public's reaction to Epstein's death and the subsequent media coverage. They discuss how selective information release and edit cuts (e.g., jump cuts in jail cell footage) have fueled skepticism and conspiracy theories, comparing it to other controversial media moments like the Pentagon footage release.
Notable Quote:
Giannis Papas [63:15]: "It's like saying if there was chocolate chip cookies on this table, and I said, those are chocolate chip cookies. Everyone would go, those are chocolate chip cookies."
[58:00 - End]
As the episode nears its conclusion, the hosts reflect on the intricacies of fame, legal repercussions for public figures, and the role of social media in shaping narratives. They wrap up with humorous interactions, maintaining the show's characteristic blend of comedy and commentary.
Notable Quote:
Chris Distefano [54:22]: "What do you think about that quote from 2002 New York magazine interview?"
Skepticism Towards Official Narratives: The episode underscores a prevalent distrust in official accounts, especially concerning high-profile cases like Epstein's death.
Interconnectedness of Influential Figures: Discussion highlights the web of relationships Epstein had with powerful individuals, raising questions about accountability and influence.
Media's Role in Shaping Perceptions: The hosts critique how media handling of sensitive incidents can perpetuate misinformation and conspiracy theories.
Comedy as a Tool for Commentary: Yannis and Chris effectively use humor to explore and critique serious societal issues, making the content accessible and engaging.
"Epstein Offed Himself Cuz of Will Smith Rap w/ Mike Vecchione" offers listeners a provocative blend of humor and critical analysis. Through candid conversations and sharp wit, the hosts encourage audiences to question mainstream narratives and consider alternative viewpoints, all while maintaining an entertaining and lively discussion.
Note: This summary excludes promotional segments, advertisements, and non-content interactions to focus solely on the substantive discussions within the episode.