How Socialism Destroyed Venezuela. The Hyenas go off!

Summary

History Hyenas: "How Socialism Destroyed Venezuela. The Hyenas Go Off!"

Podcast: History Hyenas
Hosts: Chris Distefano (Chrissy the Catholic) & Yannis Pappas (Yanni/Greek Orthodox)
Date: November 6, 2025
Episode Theme:
A wild, irreverent, and surprisingly insightful breakdown of how socialism contributed to Venezuela's collapse, blending comedic riffs with real historical analysis. Chris and Yannis explore Venezuela's resource curse, the rise (and fall) of populism, and why every attempt at redistributive utopia runs aground on human nature — with plenty of banter, punchlines, and memorable tangents along the way.

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Episode Overview

Chris and Yannis, the "history cuties," crack open the history of Venezuela — from oil riches to failed socialism under Chávez and Maduro, to today’s humanitarian crisis and potential U.S. intervention. They lampoon the players, connect history to big ideas about capitalism and socialism, and riff about everything from haircut advice to why Latinas rule the world, all keeping the high-energy "Hyenas" vibe.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Venezuelan Oil Wealth & Crony Capitalism

• Venezuela, the "Saudi Arabia of South America":
  Venezuela discovered oil in the 1920s and held immense reserves, leading to huge influxes of money — but the government did not distribute this wealth equitably (13:45–14:26).
• Crony Capitalism under Perez:
  Wealth stayed with elites; most Venezuelans didn't benefit — creating social resentment and paving the way for populist revolution (22:04–22:39).

  Giannis: "Some people are skimming off the top. The elites are getting richer, hiding money in offshore accounts, and the people aren't really seeing any of the revenue from their land." [22:27]

• Comparison to U.S. Baseball & Redistribution:
  Chris likens Venezuela’s wealth mismanagement to MLB’s failed luxury tax system, where small teams receive money but don’t invest for improvement (13:51).

2. Socialism on the Rise: Chávez and His Legacy

• Chávez's Populist Revolution:
  Charismatic military man; jailed, then rose to power on a platform of nationalizing oil & creating social programs — initially bringing real benefits (22:59–23:37).

  Giannis: "He nationalizes the oil, starts building all these social programs, and initially it goes very well... People got what they want. Poor people are happy." [23:28–23:34]

• The Turn to Authoritarianism:
  Over time, Chávez centralized power, altered the constitution, and grew more autocratic— habits Maduro would continue (41:06):

  Chris: "He centralized power, controlled the legal system, media... changed the constitution to allow indefinite re-election. Dictator. Suppressed dissent..." [41:06]

• Chávez’s Death & Conspiracy Bees:
  Died of cancer; persistent rumors of CIA involvement, humorously dismissed (23:45–23:53).

3. Maduro’s Regime: Collapse Accelerates

• Sanctions, Corruption, and Hyperinflation:
  Maduro inherits Chávez’s system and the nation spirals into inflation, economic freefall, and international isolation (25:44–27:04).
  • Over 7 million Venezuelans flee, basic infrastructure collapses, and hunger is rampant (54:00–54:14).
• "Bad Guy or Bad System?"
  Hosts debate if Maduro is uniquely evil or just another result of the system:

  Yannis: “No socialist revolution has worked. Zero.” [26:45] Chris: “Because we can’t have socialism without capitalism. We have socialist programs, but they’re propped up by capitalism.” [26:54]

4. Why Socialism Fails: Human Nature & Mixed Economies

• Socialism’s Fatal Flaw—Elite Self-Interest:
  Leaders promise redistribution but always serve their own interests. Without competition, motivation and innovation die (29:47–30:41).
• You Need Capitalism to Fund Socialism:
  Swedish, Norwegian "socialism" works because it's built on capitalist prosperity and small, homogeneous societies (29:52–30:18).
• Populist Rhetoric vs. Reality (Celebrity Socialists):
  The hosts take swipes at AOC and celebrity socialists for preaching equality while enjoying their own privileges and perks (43:34–44:22).

  Chris: "AOC always talks about the white man and how bad it is. Your husband’s white!" [44:30]

5. Comedy Analogy: Grades, Effort & Redistribution

• Classroom Analogy (46:00–49:39):
  Chris and Yannis imagine if podcast members’ hard-earned top grades were forcibly distributed to underperforming classmates: it’s not fair, achievement is punished, group resentment rises.

  Giannis: "It’s been proven time and time again, the only way you can subjugate the individual for the sake of the group is by force... You become just a cog in a wheel." [48:56–49:36]

• Motivation & the Lure of Self-Interest:
  Both hosts argue that even the most high-minded systems fall apart when individual incentive is removed (45:05–45:31).

6. Venezuela Today: U.S. Intervention & Geopolitics

• Current Crisis: Sanctions, Cartels, and the “War of the Fake Butts”
  U.S. labels Venezuela’s military cartel as terrorists, opening the door for more robust action. Other countries (Brazil, Argentina) are on board (52:09–52:47).
• Maduro’s Endgame:
  The hosts predict impending regime change — likely managed by the CIA, not direct military invasion — with China and Russia conspiring in the background for oil (55:06–56:08).

  Chris: "The only thing keeping Maduro afloat is China and Russia... simply for oil and to challenge the U.S." [55:31]

• America’s “Painting” and Keeping Hegemony:
  The hosts riff on the CIA’s history of treating foreign countries as their “canvas” — intervention by covert operation, not boots (56:29–57:19).
• Big Picture: Power Games & the New Multipolar World
  The episode closes on an honest note: All talk of morality or ideology on the world stage is just cover for hardball power politics. “China has risen — and they want it all.” (59:34–59:43)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Yannis Pappas [22:27]:
  "Some people are skimming off the top. The elites are getting richer, hiding money in offshore accounts..."
• Chris Distefano [26:54]:
  "You can’t have socialism without capitalism... We have socialist programs, welfare, all that, but it’s propped up by capitalism."
• Yannis Pappas [26:45]:
  “No socialist revolution has worked. Zero. It just doesn’t work.”
• Chris Distefano [41:06]:
  “He centralized power, controlled the legal system, media... changed the constitution to allow indefinite re-election. Dictator.”
• Chris Distefano [44:30]:
  “AOC always talks about the white man and how bad it is. Your husband’s white!”
• Yannis Pappas [48:56–49:36]:
  “The only way you can subjugate the individual for the sake of the group is by force... You become just a cog in a wheel...”
• Chris Distefano [58:17]:
  "...the man [Trump] does not fuck around. He does a little thing called fuck around and find out."
• Yannis Pappas [59:34]:
  “China has risen. And unlike Israel, that’s just a regional power, China is a global power. And they want it all, baby.”
• Chris Distefano [60:18]:
  “We do TikTok and we hit you with the baton in the knee…”

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• How Venezuela Squandered Oil Wealth: 13:45–14:26
• Chávez’s Socialism and Populism: 22:59–23:37
• Authoritarian Drift & Chávez-Maduro Transition: 41:06–41:34
• Explaining Socialism’s Failures & "Mixed Economy" Model: 26:45–30:18
• Comedy Classroom/Redistribution Analogy: 46:00–49:36
• Venezuelan Collapse & Current Humanitarian Crisis: 54:00–54:44
• CIA’s “Artistic” Regime Change & U.S. Power Games: 56:29–57:19
• Closing Big Picture: Power, China’s Rise, U.S. Strategy: 58:17–60:33

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Final Takeaways

• Socialism, in their words, never works long-term — too much self-interest at the top, motivation at the bottom dies.
• Venezuela is today’s case study: Resource-rich, now destitute, with millions fleeing and the world’s superpowers circling around its ruin.
• The cycle of hope, corruption, and collapse repeats wherever systems try to "force" fairness over individual drive.
• In the end, power (not altruism) rules geopolitics — all the more reason regular people need fair rules, competition, and a shot at self-driven success.

Throughout, Chris and Yannis' trademark blend of sharp insights and politically-incorrect comedy keeps this heavy history lesson both digestible and highly entertaining for fans and newcomers alike.

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Transcript

[Giannis Papas]

Babe.

[Chris Stephano]

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[Giannis Papas]

Yeah. GiannisPappisComedy.com See me in Bozeman, Mont. Emerson Theater, November 22nd. Stanford, Connecticut, December 5th and 6th. Austin, Texas, December 11th, 13th and West Nyack, December 19th and 21st. Patreon.com History Hyenas for our weekly bonus episodes. Enjoy this episode on Nicholas Maduro and Venezuela.

[Chris Stephano]

What's up, everybody? Welcome to another episode of History Hyenas. I'm Chris Stephano, AKA Chrissy the Catholic. With me as always is Giannis Papas and AKA Yanni, Greek Orthodox, AKA Yanni.

[Giannis Papas]

Analysis. Yes. Wanna know why?

[Chris Stephano]

Yanalysis. Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

Yanalysis. I'm Yanni Mandani and I'm also Yanalysis. Cause I'm looking at you right now and I know that you feel like you don't like your haircut, but let me tell you something right now, right now, the fans will agree and the camera may not show it, but when you see him in person, the kid's got a bowling pole for a head, as you know. Yeah. So what you wanna do is you always wanna keep the sides a little short.

[Chris Stephano]

Right.

[Giannis Papas]

You want to make it look like you're not in the military, because that would be a buzz cut. But you want to do have the cut of like a CIA or high level DoD official, which is what you got. That's what I call a DOD cut. Yeah. Short on the sides.

[Chris Stephano]

Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

Means you do paperwork, you help overthrow governments, but you're not fucking carrying a rifle. And you don't say yes, sir to a commander. You're high up.

[Chris Stephano]

Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

That's a Pete hag saf.

[Chris Stephano]

Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

And you need it because your head is big. So you need less hair. Just like I should have more hair in order to make my head appear bigger. Cuz you're perfect right now. You're 219 and your haircut is perfect. Your proportions are right.

[Chris Stephano]

Yeah. Thank you, cuz. You just made me feel super cute. You're super cute and I appreciate that.

[Giannis Papas]

Back to wearing what you should be wearing.

[Chris Stephano]

Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

Which is sports paraphernalia. Yes.

[Chris Stephano]

It's when you're a white black kid.

[Giannis Papas]

And I like it.

[Chris Stephano]

I like it. I'm going to take my. My guy, Steve Ciccone Riceroni to the Knicks game tonight. Today is his birthday, so wish him happy birthday. I'm gonna take me to the Knicks game. And I'm gonna be honest with you, right after the Knicks game, I'm gonna take him to West Garden. We're gonna get a rub down because the kid hasn't gotten laid since or.

[Giannis Papas]

As we like to call it, a little stop and frisk action.

[Chris Stephano]

A little stop and frisk. We're getting stop and frisk. We're getting a loophole, which right now, technically is illegal. But Mamdani has created the New York City caliphate and he is bringing back prostitution, baby. Welcome to Mom Donnie's mosque.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah, I, I am all for Mondami and I want to see how it works out. Maybe it'll be good. But what I do know is it is Stevie Rice a Ronnie's birthday. So happy birthday, Stevie. So when you take him to West Garden, do you have. Does he need a step stool to get on the massage bed?

[Chris Stephano]

One.

[Giannis Papas]

And it was because. Do you get a two for one at the Nick game? Because do you sneak them in a backpack?

[Chris Stephano]

Sneak them in a backpack. And it's already good. I already called ahead and West Gardner has already given me half price because they don't have to. There's not that much body, so they don't have to go with a full body. So they said it's less work for us. So we're going to give you half price.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah, it's like when you get a fence put up, it's by yard.

[Chris Stephano]

Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

Right. So, yeah, he's just. It's just less work for the, for the Asian woman to do.

[Chris Stephano]

Yeah. It's just what it is. So I'm looking forward to that. And I do feel good on my next paraphernalia. Now, I did wear because Rag and Bone is now a sponsor of this podcast. So go, go Rag and Bone. Put in that promo code hyenas. And I got these Rag and Bone jeans that I have on right now. And I threw these puppies on today. They're right here. Look at these Rag and Bone QQ jeans and a cute top. And I was rag and bone head to toe this weekend for the Halloween fun. And it felt like me, but it also didn't feel like me. So that's why what I did today is a little mix and match. I put on my Rag and Bone jeans and my New York Knicks jacket with my kith cutie sneakers.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah. I think there comes a point where first I want to say you should wear more blue because it brings out your eyes.

[Chris Stephano]

Yeah. Thank you.

[Giannis Papas]

I want to say that. Secondly, I want to say there does come a point, I think in a person's life where they do just have to commit to believing in something. Now you're more for me.

[Chris Stephano]

That's Catholicism.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah. That you've just been going very hard. You're just. I think you're finally landing. You're back on Lynn. Yeah.

[Chris Stephano]

It's just what it is. Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

You know when you play Monopoly and you go, you have to return to go.

[Chris Stephano]

Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

I think you've returned to Lyn.

[Chris Stephano]

Yeah. Returned to Christendom. And I've returned to Linendom. Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

Cuz at some point you just got to choose something. Right. Because mostly you're just like a honey pots dream.

[Chris Stephano]

100%.

[Giannis Papas]

You're an empty container that can be filled up any which way.

[Chris Stephano]

Yes.

[Giannis Papas]

But now you've been filled up with the light of Jesus.

[Chris Stephano]

It's what it is. The only thing that can sway me right now is the body of Christ.

[Giannis Papas]

Or the body of a Latina.

[Chris Stephano]

No, but that. Not anymore. C. Unless you have a communion wafer in between your Thetas. Yeah. I'm not interested.

[Giannis Papas]

Now, how do you repel the Latin women? Do you just hold up a healthy.

[Chris Stephano]

Meal and they run and they run away? Yeah, I just hold up. No, the Latino women. I mean, honestly, I'll probably always be able to get honey potted. Like, we're going to talk today about Venezuela and we're going to talk about how Venezuela and the United States are about to go into a war. And it would be tough for me to be a soldier for the United States army invading Venezuela because, I mean, I would want to bang everything big.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah.

[Chris Stephano]

Venezuelans are hot.

[Giannis Papas]

Venezuela's hot. Colombia's hot. The Peru, I mean, they just got two things. And that's the coca bean.

[Chris Stephano]

Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

And cute puss.

[Chris Stephano]

I mean gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous women. I mean, Latino women are. If aliens came and invaded this planet, I think they would take the Latinas to breed with. Yeah, right. They would just take that. That's who the breeders are. They said just take all these ones.

[Giannis Papas]

Absolutely. Because if you do want to catch up in the birth rate. Race.

[Chris Stephano]

Yes.

[Giannis Papas]

I mean, why isn't just everyone assigned a Venezuelan refugee female?

[Chris Stephano]

It's just what it is.

[Giannis Papas]

You could probably push out. They're like puppies. You could push out. I think they can hold 10 in their belly.

[Chris Stephano]

Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah. They get pregnant big.

[Chris Stephano]

Yeah, yeah. That's why it was weird when Octomom got a show. They were like, that's just every woman in Venezuela. Yeah, Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

I mean, they're just really good at getting pregnant. Latin women, this. Yeah, it is.

[Chris Stephano]

It's what. Hey, look at my life. Yeah. What it is.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah.

[Chris Stephano]

It's just.

[Giannis Papas]

They get pregnant easy.

[Chris Stephano]

Yeah, it's just what it is. And let me remind you, my brothers and sisters, if the light. If you want to expose someone and the light will be turn back right on to you. My friends, we have spoken about this. I. I don't really run. I'm not on my social media anymore. But I posted this joke that I did about Mom Donnie and I talked about, you know, I said the history hyenas bit that we have with the. The towels underneath the armpits. We posted that and then a. A.

[Giannis Papas]

And you lost a few followers.

[Chris Stephano]

I did lose a few followers. And then it was interesting because one guy, the kid Miro, who is like, you know, you know who the kid Miro is?

[Giannis Papas]

Is that Desus and Miro, Jesus and.

[Chris Stephano]

Miro the kid mirror, he wrote something in all caps, lock on my thing, like, this is a bad look bar. And then he said, you know, you're going to need. You got a Puerto Rican baby mama. You're going to need universal pre K, you know, because basically saying Puerto Rican women have a lot of kids. And he was like, you need to sell those Knicks tickets to make end me. And my guy showed me, showed it to me. And then somebody I think wrote, because he's a pro, Mom Donnie guy said, isn't your wife Jewish, Miro? So it's like, if your wife. So the thing is, like, you came at me, but then the fans reminded you that you have a Jewish wife and mom Donnie doesn't like the Jews. Yeah, so what? So I'd rather deal with a Latino than. Than you voting for someone who doesn't like Jewish people.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah. And they can. You could have also said to Miro, get back with Desus, because nobody cares about what you say if it's outside of that podcast.

[Chris Stephano]

It's just what it is. Welcome to my reality. Yes.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah. Because both of their careers just haven't been as hot since that pocket.

[Chris Stephano]

It's what it is. And it's just one of those things where we will. We will talk about Ven. Venezuela. Yeah, we will talk about Venezuela, but we will just go back to the truth of what this is. The enemy of my enemy is My friend.

[Giannis Papas]

War makes for strange bedfellows.

[Chris Stephano]

Remember this, my friend. Yeah. This is why. This is why liberals want to constantly tell you about Islamophobia. This is why they want to constantly tell you about how Mom. Donnie.

[Giannis Papas]

So your group chat must be fucking fired up. Fired up, Right? Fired up. Is this group chat, Chrissy?

[Chris Stephano]

Yes, Group chat, Chrissy and.

[Giannis Papas]

Or is it 4chan? Chrissy.

[Chris Stephano]

No, 4chan.

[Giannis Papas]

Or are they both the same guy?

[Chris Stephano]

And then we're also going to talk about. I don't know if we're on the Patreon or not or the YouTube or not, but we never do know. We never really do know. We'll make a decision after the episode.

[Giannis Papas]

Which is what we always do.

[Chris Stephano]

But we are going to also have to get into the specifics of Donald Trump fighting against Boko Haram. And because there is a Christian massacre happening there that the news does not want to talk about, because they want it all to go towards the Palestinians versus the Israelis. And the bottom line is, baby gorgeous, there's no genocide happening. The genocide's happening in Nigeria against the Christians.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah. I really want to hear what Godfrey has to say about what's going on in Niger around.

[Chris Stephano]

Yeah. It's what it is.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah.

[Chris Stephano]

Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

It's what it is.

[Chris Stephano]

Godfrey, who says. Who calls blacks the N word more than anybody in Howard beach ever could.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah.

[Chris Stephano]

Because to him, if you're not from Nigeria, you're an N word, which is why. And he yells about it all the time.

[Giannis Papas]

And he always loves talking about how Nigerians are just superior people. Yeah.

[Chris Stephano]

Which is I. Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

Everyone wants to believe that their people are superior people, that they're chosen people. Even the Greeks are guilty of that.

[Chris Stephano]

Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah.

[Chris Stephano]

It's just what it is.

[Giannis Papas]

It's just what it is. I think Nick in some way believes that the Ecuadorians are superior.

[Chris Stephano]

Yes. Yes. And now Ecuador. Now that's a nice Venezuela. Okay, if this does happen, if the.

[Giannis Papas]

Jihadis do take over, like you're talking about through their. Through their caliphate bomb dummy.

[Chris Stephano]

Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

To bring back the caliphate through Sultan Mandami.

[Chris Stephano]

Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

I'll tell you what Jesse's gonna do. Jesse's gonna start talking like this. Oh, what's the matter with me? You wanted to meet a ball? Welcome to my restaurant. I'm Italian, he's couturo. Yeah.

[Chris Stephano]

He's gonna lead into that Italian side.

[Giannis Papas]

Big, Big.

[Chris Stephano]

And then Nick's gonna go the other way and grow that beer down to his belly button.

[Giannis Papas]

He's gonna grow that beer and go.

[Chris Stephano]

Nick can go Muzzy.

[Giannis Papas]

Big bag. All you got to do is grow that just laden beard and you're fine.

[Chris Stephano]

Now, Jesse, just real quick, that's. He sounded like a Patreon rant, right? That's probably not good for YouTube.

[Giannis Papas]

It's all good. The world needs to hear it, man.

[Chris Stephano]

What do you think? Did I tell a lie, Jesse, in that rant?

[Giannis Papas]

I didn't hear any lie.

[Chris Stephano]

You hear a lie? I don't think we heard a lie. I could disagree, but I don't know if you're to lie.

[Giannis Papas]

I just. I just say we let it fly, you know, and see what. At what Spotify and YouTube does with it.

[Chris Stephano]

It's what it is because. Yeah. Here's the truth. Here's the truth is the views can't get any worse.

[Giannis Papas]

The views on YouTube are looking pretty. They're going down.

[Chris Stephano]

They're going down. So that's socialism right there. Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

That's social. To get redistributed someplace else.

[Chris Stephano]

Yeah, that's what it is. So that's nice.

[Giannis Papas]

Thank you. Yeah. But I do. On Spotify, I think we're. We're pretty high up as far as comedy genre.

[Chris Stephano]

Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

I'd like to say number four. And I like to lie.

[Chris Stephano]

I like to lie. He lied to the real estate kid who we were driving around with because we are trying to make an active move out of the studio because the WI fi just doesn't work.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah. Now we're gonna talk about Nicholas.

[Chris Stephano]

Nicholas Maduro.

[Giannis Papas]

But it's all inter. It's all interconnected.

[Chris Stephano]

Now, I gotta be honest with you, because you said we're gonna talk about Maduro today, and I thought you were talking about sweet plantains, because Maduro is one of my favorite Puerto Rican foods.

[Giannis Papas]

I love a Maduro. Well, but through Maduro, we can talk a little bit about. Because there's allegations that there's money coming in and out from Hezbollah. There's allegations that he's in bed with the cartel. There's allegations that he's. Well, I don't know. Maybe we should just check out his podcast.

[Chris Stephano]

Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

Think what he says. Nicholas Maduro has a podcast. So listen, it's not just former Hollywood sweethearts who are getting podcasts right now. No, it's also dictators.

[Chris Stephano]

Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

Because Nicholas Maduro has his own podcast. It's called the Maduro Podcast, called the.

[Chris Stephano]

Maduro Podcast, which is a cute name.

[Giannis Papas]

So he has taken. He's taken a page out of Trump, who is his nemesis. Right.

[Chris Stephano]

Trump is Maduro's nemesis, which is interesting. Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

They are really I'd say that they're. I don't know if it's more, it's not really a Djokovic kind of because Nadal rivalry, but it's akin to it.

[Chris Stephano]

Because let's set the scene. Let's, let's, let's tell the truth. You will see Venezuela of, I think all the South American countries, are they, are they Central American or South America? South American. Okay. South American countries, they had the most oil money. They were like, they were like the Saudi Arabia of South America. And they had all this oil money and they didn't distribute it back to their citizens in the correct way. They lined the pockets very much like the Major League baseball where you're supposed to, the top teams are supposed to pay these luxury taxes and give it to the bottom teams and the bottom teams take the money, but they don't redistribute and buy players. So it's very, very similar. Venezuela was not distributing this money properly and they had a financial collapse. Yeah, they had a financial collapse and then they tried to jump on the backs of socialism real quick but it didn't work at all. And now they actually, I believe they actually don't even have a sitting government. They have the Maduro's the dictator, but I don't think that they, I think there are for real like chaos, like famine is going on through Venezuela.

[Giannis Papas]

Chaotic over there. Let's set this, let's set the stage and then build it back up. Yeah, Venezuela has the most oil. They discovered oil I believe in the 1920s. Right. And they have the most oil in South America. They are a founding member of opec.

[Chris Stephano]

Right.

[Giannis Papas]

But now they've are not in opec.

[Chris Stephano]

Right.

[Giannis Papas]

They were like fuck you. They OPEC said fuck you, fuck you.

[Chris Stephano]

And, and the state controls through the Petra state, Venezuela, the pdvsa. This is the difference. This like in America. We have oil here too, but we have private companies that do it. The state owns 95% of. Actually, no, I'm sorry, the state owns all of the oil production, refining and exporting. Yeah, that's the problem, honey.

[Giannis Papas]

And here's, here's a little bit of the solution that America now is exporting more oil than we're importing because I'm fracking, which a lot of environmentalists say are no bueno. But we found a lot of oil. We got a lot of oil ourselves. Yeah. Huh. So that's changed the tables a little bit because look, if. All right, let's set the stage because we could go all over the place.

[Chris Stephano]

Set the table for me.

[Giannis Papas]

Because I was about to say like you always think, can't we just go to these countries and just take them over?

[Chris Stephano]

Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

But then you got a mess. Right? Then you got resentment and.

[Chris Stephano]

Yeah. Actually wait, before you set the table, we're gonna be back right after this because I gotta go take a call from Pete Hegset. Hun, you got life insurance now you.

[Giannis Papas]

Got to get life insurance. You have to do it. You got to do it.

[Chris Stephano]

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[Giannis Papas]

Okay.

[Chris Stephano]

You know why?

[Giannis Papas]

Why?

[Chris Stephano]

Because what? Select. Because a lot of these companies, they just try to sell you, you know, whatever one specific company, they'll say, oh, we're the best, we're the best. Well, Select Quote does all the dirty work for you and they actually find out who's the best for you. Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

And you know, what's. What you can do. So you can take a look in the mirror and see where your drawing line's at. Yeah. If yours has disappeared like mine, you need life insurance.

[Chris Stephano]

Life insurance.

[Giannis Papas]

I'm pretty close to a heart attack.

[Chris Stephano]

And Select Quote, what they do is they take the guesswork out of finding the right life insurance policy. You don't have to sort through dozens of confusing options on your own. Instead, one of their licensed agents will find the right policy at the right price for you. And they compare plans from all the top rate insurance companies. And I've done this and sometimes you get to do facetime with them. And they got a lot of hotties. Yeah. I mean these guys are handsome.

[Giannis Papas]

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[Chris Stephano]

And that's good that there's no medical exam required because we would not have good results at the moment.

[Giannis Papas]

Life.

[Chris Stephano]

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[Giannis Papas]

Yeah.

[Chris Stephano]

Now Quo, I said. And then maybe they should. Yeah. Because let's talk about something every business owner knows too. Well.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah.

[Chris Stephano]

Missed Calls. You don't want to have these missed calls because missing a business call, that's like watching money fly out the window and straight into your competitors hands. Okay, you don't want that. You want to use Quo.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah. Quo is the number one business phone system built for 2025, not 1995. It's rated the top choice for customer satisfaction with over 3000 reviews on G2, your whole team can share one number and collaborate on calls and texts like a shared inbox. Faster response, happier customers. Chrissy, it's what it is.

[Chris Stephano]

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[Giannis Papas]

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[Chris Stephano]

But I think 15 minutes of it's gonna have to go on Patreon.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah, we went a little. We went. I didn't know it was that long because you did that. You had. That's what we call w. I didn't. I was so enthralled by your rant that I lost time.

[Chris Stephano]

As long as it's funny, as long as we listen back and it's funny because you can't be serious.

[Giannis Papas]

I don't. I could. I think it's gonna be very funny.

[Chris Stephano]

Yeah. Cause I'm on the borderline of serious and funny.

[Giannis Papas]

I don't know if anything you say could ever be taken seriously.

[Chris Stephano]

Okay, good.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah.

[Chris Stephano]

Yeah. But some of these fuckers do. And then I called out the kid Miro, and that's probably stupid too.

[Giannis Papas]

Not really.

[Chris Stephano]

I mean, he just commented on something.

[Giannis Papas]

Commented? He said it's gonna be stupid for you to have that position. You were just making a joke.

[Chris Stephano]

Yeah, I was just making a joke.

[Giannis Papas]

I mean, you're just making a joke. It's like, where's your sense of humor, guys? Where you wear your towel is a very funny joke. Yeah, it's a very funny joke.

[Chris Stephano]

Yeah. And the mom. Okay, it's where.

[Giannis Papas]

It's just a funny joke. I mean, whatever.

[Chris Stephano]

But this is why I get off social media and I had to tell my social media guy, don't even send me the comments anymore.

[Giannis Papas]

We're not saying. We're not saying all people who voted for mom dummy wear their towels like that.

[Chris Stephano]

Well, we did say that in the bit if.

[Giannis Papas]

You know. But. Yeah, in the bit, because you have to exaggerate. But what we are saying, if you want to reflect reality, is if you wear your towel like that, that you voted for Mom.

[Chris Stephano]

That's what it is.

[Giannis Papas]

That's just. That is like.

[Chris Stephano]

That's what.

[Giannis Papas]

That's like, a fact.

[Chris Stephano]

Yes. Like. Like a good bit will be. Is for you guys to send us [e-mail] history hyenas, of just your towel underneath your armpits, and then we know who you voted for.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah. I mean, it's like, nobody who wears their towel like that voted for Cuomo or Silwa.

[Chris Stephano]

No, they just didn't. No.

[Giannis Papas]

So we're not saying all of you do, but if you do wear it like that, we know how you voted. That's all you're saying? That's all you're saying? That's all you were saying?

[Chris Stephano]

That's all I was saying. Okay.

[Giannis Papas]

Okay.

[Chris Stephano]

So, Venezuela. So go set the table for me. Or as Nick likes to call it, the Pisa. Oh, floor. Sorry, what's table again?

[Giannis Papas]

We'll set the mesa.

[Chris Stephano]

Nick likes. Wants to set the mesa.

[Giannis Papas]

We're gonna put the. We're gonna put the comedic. The comedic comida on the pesa.

[Chris Stephano]

On the pesa.

[Giannis Papas]

Ready, muchachos? See, muchachas, let's build some ras casiellos. With comedy.

[Chris Stephano]

Yes.

[Giannis Papas]

And skyscrapers.

[Chris Stephano]

Nick's got an NWF NWO shirt on. And his future fat wrestling fan wife is listening live from Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

[Giannis Papas]

Right now. What we're gonna do is we're gonna show you one frame of Nick so you could start photoshopping him like you do us. And there will be one female wrestling fan out there who will see it.

[Chris Stephano]

Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

And Nick will fall in love and will contact Nick and be like, oh, my God, I love wrestling. Whatever. She will be a little heavy. Yeah, she will be a little heavy. Because female wrestling fans don't tend to live in metropolitan areas.

[Chris Stephano]

No.

[Giannis Papas]

They like to live in places like Uniontown, Pennsylvania.

[Chris Stephano]

Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

And then we'll lose Nick, because Nick will move for love. Yeah. And he'll move there. And the next thing you know, Nick will be courtside in a high school gymnasium watching Hacksaw Jim Duggan headline a card in a small area for $10 tickets.

[Chris Stephano]

It's what it is.

[Giannis Papas]

Happy as a clam.

[Chris Stephano]

It's what it is.

[Giannis Papas]

Happy as a clam.

[Chris Stephano]

Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

Because he's a wrestling fan. And there's nothing more authentic than going to a lower rung intramural fucking professional wrestling match in a local gym.

[Chris Stephano]

That's what Nick likes to do. And he's gonna have a baby with this woman and he's gonna name that baby whether it's a boy or girl. That kid's name is gonna be Ric Flair.

[Giannis Papas]

That kid's name's gonna be Macho Man. Ready, set.

[Chris Stephano]

Yeah, it's what it is.

[Giannis Papas]

That kid's name is gonna be Vince McMahon.

[Chris Stephano]

And so we're very, very happy for Stardust. And Nick probably, knowing Nick, he's probably the best venue he can get married at is probably gonna be Soul Joel's.

[Giannis Papas]

Comedy Club, which is gonna happen, which.

[Chris Stephano]

Is where we're going to a wedding in March.

[Giannis Papas]

We're going to a wedding in March?

[Chris Stephano]

Yeah. Sergio has already asked for a ride there and I say no. Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

Has Sergio been invited?

[Chris Stephano]

Sergio's definitely probably gonna get invited.

[Giannis Papas]

Nice. Yeah.

[Chris Stephano]

All right, so go ahead.

[Giannis Papas]

So let's. This is the only history show where we get to the history for about seven minutes.

[Chris Stephano]

But that's why you listen, that's why you're here. We also do have good. Some good points coming about Venezuela. And I think I. At least, if you take one thing from the rant, at least just take. Just find your faith.

[Giannis Papas]

Okay, so what happens here? Here initially, we can't talk about Maduro without talking about Chavez and then talking about the guy before him, who. I think his name was Perez. Ok, his name was Perez. Just make him Perez.

[Chris Stephano]

Just what it is. Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

Right.

[Chris Stephano]

So Hugo Chavez is the big one, though.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah, Hugo Chavez is the big one. So Perez is a corrupt guy. He's a corrupt guy. Right.

[Chris Stephano]

During the 2000, he brought oil prices, brought hundreds of billions of dollars into the country, my friend.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah. So, I mean, but Perez is in there, you know, we get a little crony capitalism situation.

[Chris Stephano]

What does that mean? Crony capital.

[Giannis Papas]

Some people are skimming off the top. The elites are getting richer, they're hiding money in offshore accounts, they're wetting each other's beaks, and the people aren't really seeing any of the revenue from their land.

[Chris Stephano]

Right.

[Giannis Papas]

Okay, so that makes fertile ground for what? Just like New York City, high rent prices and high cost living made fertile ground for socialism.

[Chris Stephano]

Right.

[Giannis Papas]

Crony capitalism and lack of redistribution for that oil wealth creates fertile ground for socialism. Yeah, that's what it is, what happens.

[Chris Stephano]

Socialism comes in, it grows from those roots. Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

It's just equal, but opposite reaction. It's what we do, the human species, we go from one extreme to the other and boom. Chavez comes in who? Chavez. Chavez is a military guy, very charismatic. He gets jailed for two years, his property. He gets out of jail. His popularity grows. He's very charismatic. He's overwhelmingly popular. He storms in, he nationalizes the oil, he starts building all these social programs, and initially it goes very well.

[Chris Stephano]

Right.

[Giannis Papas]

People are happy. Got child care.

[Chris Stephano]

Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

They got health care.

[Chris Stephano]

Thank you.

[Giannis Papas]

People got the stuff that they want. Poor people are happy.

[Chris Stephano]

Yeah. And then.

[Giannis Papas]

Chavez dies. 2013, he's got a little bit something called cancer.

[Chris Stephano]

It's what happened.

[Giannis Papas]

A lot of people think the CIA gave him the cancer.

[Chris Stephano]

Really? But that can't be proven.

[Giannis Papas]

It can't be proven because the kid.

[Chris Stephano]

Was smoking cigarettes, too.

[Giannis Papas]

It's probably not true because the kid was smoking cigars and he was going to Cuba to get his medical attention.

[Chris Stephano]

Now United States wants Hugo Chavez out.

[Giannis Papas]

Why? They want Hugo Chavez. Why? Because we have what we call private companies that want to get their fingers back in there. Chevron wants to get their fingers back in there.

[Chris Stephano]

And because there's a lot of Venezuelan oil. We haven't figured out fracking yet. And they said Venezuela is keeping all the oil money for the selves. And you can't do that here.

[Giannis Papas]

Well, if we get rid of Maduro, we'll fast forward. Forget estimated. You know, it'll shave like 10 cents off a barrel because we start importing from Venezuela. We also don't like that Venezuela gives its oil to China. Yeah, we don't like that they give the oil to. To China. We don't like that.

[Chris Stephano]

No, we don't.

[Giannis Papas]

Electa.

[Chris Stephano]

Let's be honest. Why does China need oil? Can't they just run their factories on duck sauce?

[Giannis Papas]

Wei Song Xian, you got fired for a joke like that from Netflix.

[Chris Stephano]

It's what it is, but it landed me back here, baby. Gorgeous.

[Giannis Papas]

Nobody watched that show anyway. It was called Ultimate Beastmaster.

[Chris Stephano]

It was called the Ultimate Beastmaster, and I was on season two. It's what it is.

[Giannis Papas]

That show was very funny. It was. They were trying to do American Gladiator.

[Chris Stephano]

Yeah. It's what it is, actually. No, I'm sorry. I was on season one. I don't even know what season I was on.

[Giannis Papas]

Anyway.

[Chris Stephano]

And I also want to say just real [e-mail] history, I mean, is, I got a ghost story for the room. I'm gonna read everyone a ghost story. I'm gonna try to come in each week with a ghoster, and I'm just gonna read it and see if Nick gets scared.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah, it will know if Nick Gets scared if he starts throwing on his ultimate warrior armbands.

[Chris Stephano]

Yeah. It's what it is.

[Giannis Papas]

That's what he's ready to go down to the basement.

[Chris Stephano]

Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

Let me tell you something right now, Ghost.

[Chris Stephano]

Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

So that sets the stage. Chavez dies. He appoints Nicholas Maduro as his successor.

[Chris Stephano]

Who's a sweet plantain.

[Giannis Papas]

Who's a sweet plantain. Yeah. So Nicholas Maduro comes into power. At this point, sanctions start hitting, inflation is going through the roof.

[Chris Stephano]

So is Nicolas Maduro a good guy or a bad guy?

[Giannis Papas]

Well, I think 60% of Venezuelans right now say he's a bad guy.

[Chris Stephano]

He's a bad guy.

[Giannis Papas]

Right. I think Americans on the right would say he's a bad guy. Right. I think Americans on the left, as per usual, they are not into agency. Right. They're very big into grievance culture.

[Chris Stephano]

Right.

[Giannis Papas]

They'll go. It's the big baddie United States sanctioning them, not allowing socialism to be in its natural form. Here's just.

[Chris Stephano]

It needs to be. Here's also the truth too, with, with extreme leftists is they just always want to go for the underdogs. Whoever they perceive as the underdog and whoever they see perceive as the disenfranchised, that's what they'll go for.

[Giannis Papas]

And I will say this. It's just a fact. I'm just going to state a fact. No socialist revolution has worked.

[Chris Stephano]

None, as the Venezuelans would call it.

[Giannis Papas]

Zero.

[Chris Stephano]

It's saddle.

[Giannis Papas]

It's never worked. There's been plenty. There's been plenty.

[Chris Stephano]

It just don't work.

[Giannis Papas]

It just doesn't work. Right.

[Chris Stephano]

Because we can't have, as you said on the phone call, you can't have socialism without capitalism.

[Giannis Papas]

You just, you just can't.

[Chris Stephano]

I mean, we have socialist programs here, welfare, all that socialist. Yeah, it's propped up by capitalism.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah. I mean, so what does socialism even mean anymore?

[Chris Stephano]

I don't know.

[Giannis Papas]

Because all the socialist countries that had socialist revolutions are now mixed economies. Some of them have one party authoritarian state, like Venezuela. Like, I mean, all. I mean, let's go down the list. I mean, the list just goes on and on and on. But Vietnam is always a good example. Yeah, it happened recent and yeah, they opened up their markets and the country just flourished. Now, all right, they went from rice shortages to now like mass being a massive rice exporter, you know, a foreign capital flood.

[Chris Stephano]

But what is it? What is. Why does the socialism not work? Because at the top, these people just do that. Crony capitalism don't even care.

[Giannis Papas]

Your own uncle that much, how are you going to care about people you don't know?

[Chris Stephano]

So you don't care about redistributing the rice and the money through the fields because you'll just eat it all.

[Giannis Papas]

At the end of the day, everyone wants the wealth redistribution. If they're not paying for it, but they're receiving it and everyone who is paying it doesn't want it, right. All the people who are chanting, let's redistribute it can either afford it like Billie Eilish, right? Afford it many times over, right. Or they don't want it, right? Because they're in the million bracket or the 2 million bracket. But when you're in the 30, 50 million bracket, you know, you want to pander to your fan base. You'll say, why are there billionaires? Yeah, but here's the thing. If millionaires really didn't want billionaires and they thought billionaires are bad because they have too much, then wouldn't multimillionaires just stop charging now?

[Chris Stephano]

Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

Wouldn't Billie Eilish just do free concerts now?

[Chris Stephano]

Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

You have enough, right? So they don't. Wouldn't Hasan Piker just stop charging on.

[Chris Stephano]

His super chats, right?

[Giannis Papas]

Because he's got multi millions, Right. If you really hate billionaires, wouldn't you say, okay, I have enough now. Everything's free now, Right. You don't have to, I don't have to charge you anymore.

[Chris Stephano]

Right?

[Giannis Papas]

So it's just, it's utopianism, it's idealism. It's got nothing to do with the real world. Like you believe in a state of grace, like there's angels.

[Chris Stephano]

Good movie.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah, good movie. That's why I like that line. It's, it's just because you look cute.

[Chris Stephano]

And green, by the way. Thank you. You look like a really nice string bean.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah. At the end of the day, it, there is that truth that like, you know, there's this belief that everyone who's rich is bad, right? Like that somehow everyone who's elite had it handed to them.

[Chris Stephano]

No.

[Giannis Papas]

And what they, they always skip over the step of, oh, maybe those people just worked hard or they have more ability or whatever. But they, that, that's never the case.

[Chris Stephano]

Well, that, that's why, that's why to me, socialism, that's where the scary part is, is when you take away the competitive advantage and the free market, all that, you stifle the human creativity and you stifle our, you know, humans that want to go out there and, and make the world a better place. Or make more money, whatever. You take that away from people and then everybody starts to get real depressed.

[Giannis Papas]

Right.

[Chris Stephano]

The best upset, the bet.

[Giannis Papas]

The only thing that's really worked is like capitalism with a heart, I think.

[Chris Stephano]

You would call it. Right, Right.

[Giannis Papas]

So Norway, Sweden. But then you go, oh, those are mostly homogeneous societies with a population of 5 to 8 million.

[Chris Stephano]

Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

And then once, now you've seen that they've allowed a lot of immigrants in. They're having problems in taking a turn for the right.

[Chris Stephano]

That's what it is.

[Giannis Papas]

So. But those aren't socialist societies. There's CEOs in Norway.

[Chris Stephano]

These CEOs sure.

[Giannis Papas]

In Sweden, it's mixed economy.

[Chris Stephano]

Right.

[Giannis Papas]

It's a mixed bag.

[Chris Stephano]

It's a mixed bag.

[Giannis Papas]

China, like everything else.

[Chris Stephano]

Right.

[Giannis Papas]

Capitalism. I think one of the most ironic things, and what Marx could have never seen, is that the only mechanism that works for socialism is capitalism. That's it. The only engine that allows socialism right to work. Because if you don't have capitalism creating wealth, there's nothing to socialize. Everyone's just the same.

[Chris Stephano]

And also too, this whole idea of like, people get it handed to them, that's almost never true. Even, even the Kardashians didn't get it handed to them.

[Giannis Papas]

Right.

[Chris Stephano]

You can disagree with everything about them, that's fine. But they, they built that.

[Giannis Papas]

They built that on their pussies.

[Chris Stephano]

It's what it is. However they did it, they did it. So the truth, nobody gets a hand to him. That's just an excuse that people who aren't where they want to be financially or educate or wherever they don't want to, they're not where they want to be in their life. So then they say the rich get it handed them. It's all bullshit. It's all excuse. The only thing it's going to repeat back to what your manager said to you. Look in the mirror.

[Giannis Papas]

Ladder 14.

[Chris Stephano]

Well, look at everybody. If everybody would just stand up and look in the mirror and say, how am I responsible for my place in my life, whether I like it or whether I don't like it? What is my responsibility here? What did I do or not do to get me where I want to be or not want to be? It's always, always, always look within, because that's where God lives. Remember that God doesn't live up there. God lives in here.

[Giannis Papas]

I think nobody said it better than F. Scott Fitzgerald, and I believe it was F. Scott. In America, families are always rising and falling, right?

[Chris Stephano]

Yes.

[Giannis Papas]

What's the quote? Is that F. Scott?

[Chris Stephano]

That's from the Departed. That is from the Departed originally.

[Giannis Papas]

I don't think it's from.

[Chris Stephano]

Leonardo DiCaprio said that in the Departed. Did he? Yeah, yeah, I think he. Was it Hemingway, by the way, the Leonardo dicaprio.

[Giannis Papas]

That Departed is the Leonardo dicaprio that most chicks want to bang. Yeah.

[Chris Stephano]

And he does not look like that at all anymore. Didn't he? Fitzgerald's father.

[Giannis Papas]

That quote, I think is from F. Scott Fitzgerald, but also it's from the Departed. It's also from the Departed.

[Chris Stephano]

From the Departed.

[Giannis Papas]

Sucker.

[Chris Stephano]

The quote is from Secret Garden by Franz. No, but this isn't it.

[Giannis Papas]

No. Yeah.

[Chris Stephano]

Cook, Families just go. Families are a rising and a fallen in America. Right?

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah, yeah, let's just make sure it was by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

[Chris Stephano]

Nathaniel Hawthorne. Families are always rising and are falling in America. And actually he says Hawthorne in the movie the Departed. He goes. And then Mark Wahlberg goes, what's the matter? Don't you read any Shakespeare? Yeah, that's what he said. Because that's just a movie. I like to move my monkey. Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

And in Massachusetts that would. He would be Nathaniel Hawthorne because make no mistake. Yeah.

[Chris Stephano]

When I watched the Departed, I hit the ham candle. I hit it big.

[Giannis Papas]

You hit it big.

[Chris Stephano]

Those are the type of guys I want to bang out.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah.

[Chris Stephano]

And the town. Yeah. Watch the town.

[Giannis Papas]

Well, if you think about who has it handed to them, it's a. Some people do. Right. But it's a very small minority.

[Chris Stephano]

Such a small minority.

[Giannis Papas]

Small minority. I mean I think it's really. If you look at what is the 1% percent, the one. The family of the 1% definitely has it handed to them. But a lot of them squander it.

[Chris Stephano]

Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

Sometimes they squander it.

[Chris Stephano]

Yeah. Just like I'm of course willing to acknowledge that the very, very, very, very, very small percentage of. Of Muslims are terrorists. Very, very, very, very, very small.

[Giannis Papas]

Right. Like about 75%. Yeah.

[Chris Stephano]

Yeah. So small. It's insane how small it is. I'm going to tell you who the real terrorists are right after this. Cause you know, this is my favorite favorite ad to do on this show because I use it, I love it and I want everyone to have those rhbs, those rock hard boners. And the only way to do it is blue Jew.

[Giannis Papas]

What do I say to you constantly? Cuz I say to you, do not send me another dick pic unless you're blue chewed up.

[Chris Stephano]

Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

I don't like soft dick pics from Chrissy.

[Chris Stephano]

It's what it is. Cuz I love them. I love just walking around with a pretty much rock Hard at all times. And that's cuz I'm love bluechew. I mean, it's like my dick got an energy drink. Yes.

[Giannis Papas]

You know what Bluetooth does because it's made in the usa. So you're gonna get a nice red, white and blue. Guys, this isn't just about performance. This is about legacy. Or third legacy.

[Chris Stephano]

Yeah, we even gave it to Nick because Nick texted us in the group chat and said that he was very concerned and he asked us if he we could help him because he said he was watching Royal Rumble and he. Royal Rumble. And he wasn't hard.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah, that's.

[Chris Stephano]

And I said. And he said, so what's going on? Like, I don't know what to do. I'm not rock hard watching Royal Rumble. And I said, try bluechew.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah.

[Chris Stephano]

And then he told me he went into a movie, he took a Blue Chew, he went into the movie theater, and he started jerking off to Iron Claw.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah, I mean, BlueChew could definitely help wrestling fans get hard. That's for sure.

[Chris Stephano]

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[Giannis Papas]

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[Chris Stephano]

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[Giannis Papas]

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[Chris Stephano]

Cause you know, we need to get our roofs cleaned.

[Giannis Papas]

That has got to be part of your weekly maintenance.

[Chris Stephano]

Maintenance. And you and I, we both have to get our roofs cleaned. But I have to go for a little bit longer because I have a bigger head. So therefore I have a bigger roof.

[Giannis Papas]

That's a lot. That's why. Yeah, you can't put solar on your head because it's too expensive.

[Chris Stephano]

Too expensive. So we both been getting our roof roofs cleaned at Better Help, which is great. What I love about Better Help is they match you up with a licensed, hell, licensed therapist. You do do this like little survey. They ask you these questions and then you can pick everything. Guy, girl, what they're like, what they're not like. And you can change at any time for free if you don't like the therapist. And it's all done from the comfort of your own hume.

[Giannis Papas]

Now, I've used Better Help. I know a lot of people who have. It's just look, if you're feeling blue, it's quick. Right. You get. And it's very flexible. And you can change your therapist at.

[Chris Stephano]

Any time because there's a lot of impediments to having to go to a therapist's office. But BetterHelp takes that all out because it's done online.

[Giannis Papas]

Yes. And it's also very affordable. So they have over 30,000 therapists. It's one of the world's largest online therapy program. They've served over 5 million people globally. And it works with an average rating of 4.9 out of 5 for a live session based on over 1.7 million client reviews. Right.

[Chris Stephano]

And it's awesome. And this month, and we actually gave this promo code to Nick and he loved it. And he said it's really been helping him this month. Don't wait to reach out. Whether you're checking in on a friend like we checked in on Nick, or reaching out to a therapist yourself. BetterHelp makes it easier to take that first step. Our listeners get 10% off their first [e-mail] h when the Trump put a tariff on Clay, how upset was Jesse?

[Giannis Papas]

Very upset.

[Chris Stephano]

And what did we say to Jesse? You need to talk to a professional at BetterHelp. That's better. Help. H E L p.com HH the real terrorists are bots. Yeah. No, our lives, our wives are always mad.

[Giannis Papas]

That's right. They're always big. I don't think a woman could go one full day without being angry.

[Chris Stephano]

Something.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah.

[Chris Stephano]

Not being angry at something. So let's finish Venezuela. Because make no mistake, we're gonna do this. I'm gonna read the Patreon names and then we're just gonna Venezuelan babes and take a peek.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah. So Nicolas Maduro comes to power and, you know, eventually, inflation, eventually oil prices tank.

[Chris Stephano]

Because why? Because they didn't. They weren't redistributing the wealth properly. And I think. Because why did the oil prices tank, though? What happened? They just weren't managing it correctly, I think. Well, they weren't drilling correctly.

[Giannis Papas]

Global oil supply always gets, you know, it's like supply goes up. Demand. It's all supply and demand. That's what OPEC is. What is OPEC? I think OPEC controls like 40% of global oil supply and they just set the price and they were formed, you know, advocates say, oh, we're going to. Just to make sure the oil market stays stable. Right. We're like this body that makes sure to stay stable by these founding countries. Right. Saudi Arabia Is one of them. Venezuela was one of them. They're kicked out. Other people say, oh, that's so they can fucking manipulate the price, make sure the prices.

[Chris Stephano]

Just like the Fed.

[Giannis Papas]

Just like the Jews who control the diamond district. It's worth fucking nothing. But they control the supply and jack up the price.

[Chris Stephano]

That's why I got two words for you guys out there looking to marry your wives. Lab grown.

[Giannis Papas]

Lab grown. That's something you don't want to know about women. Can't tell the difference. And it's very cheap. And yeah. I'll be honest, I think people who are mostly of Jewish descent have controlled that market.

[Chris Stephano]

Sure.

[Giannis Papas]

And the women loving shiny things has sustained that market.

[Chris Stephano]

That's what it is.

[Giannis Papas]

Because women are like moths.

[Chris Stephano]

Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

How the moths fly into lamps.

[Chris Stephano]

Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

You fudgeing, you shimmer a diamond.

[Chris Stephano]

Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

They go pay ten grand for that fudgeing, worthless thing.

[Chris Stephano]

Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

I don't know if you can blame Jews. I think you can blame women.

[Chris Stephano]

That's what it is.

[Giannis Papas]

Because really, just, you know, wait. But what the demand is.

[Chris Stephano]

Let's go back to Venezuela for a second. How did you. How did you connect the families are always rising and falling in America to what's going on in Venezuela? Can you.

[Giannis Papas]

Because what. What you said was what happened in Venezuela. Right, Right. And what. And is America like this big, bad, Big bad capitalist country?

[Chris Stephano]

Right.

[Giannis Papas]

And I think that what happened in Venezuela is one person gets control.

[Chris Stephano]

Okay.

[Giannis Papas]

So the people who vote for socialism always vote for socialism initially to get rid of some corruption. They got sick of corruption under Perez, I think his name was. And then Chavez comes in, and then Maduro. But then what ends up happening is you just trade one corrupt person for another. Because it's all about power. Right. It's all about power. America is very dynamic. It's more dynamic than people give it credit for. That's why that quote is relevant. Because it's never one group that has control. Only conspiracy theorists really believe that.

[Chris Stephano]

Believe in the Rothschild, in our own business.

[Giannis Papas]

Rye rise and fall.

[Chris Stephano]

Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

It happens all the time. Businesses rise and fall. Comedians rise and fall. It's how it is. Because.

[Chris Stephano]

But that's good, because if you do it the other way, then you have a monarch.

[Giannis Papas]

Very good. We have democracy. Every four years we get a new person in. Senators have to be elected, whatever. Now a lot of people say it's rigged, it's rigged. There should be more term limits. All that stuff is valid. I'm not saying. But when you compare it to what. What is out there in the world.

[Chris Stephano]

Right.

[Giannis Papas]

It's very dynamic.

[Chris Stephano]

And then here's the thing.

[Giannis Papas]

His power. His power. The power in Venezuela is static. Static. It's Maduro.

[Chris Stephano]

Maduro. And because what Chavez did do, though, he did take an authoritarian turn, which is what Maduro is doing now. But Chavez, even though he was beloved in the beginning, he centralized power. He controlled the legal system, the media and the electoral institutions. He changed the constitution to allow indefinite reelection. So dictator. And he suppressed dissent and nationalized private companies. His rule became increasingly personal. Journalist centered on his image as El Commandante, which got crazy.

[Giannis Papas]

Well, which one of the countries hasn't done that?

[Chris Stephano]

Right. The United States of America.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah. Mao's China did that.

[Chris Stephano]

Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

Which country hasn't done that? Stalin did that.

[Chris Stephano]

Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

Which country has not done that?

[Chris Stephano]

Only the only two boys have done that. Have not done that.

[Giannis Papas]

Has done that.

[Chris Stephano]

The United States has not done that.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah. The state takes. Instead of the state withering away, which was what the initial idea behind communism was, the state always takes control. And instead of a bunch of billionaires, you get one trillionaire and his name's Putin. And that's just how it always goes.

[Chris Stephano]

And Donald Trump is not going to do this. He's not going to centralize power. He's not going to change the constitution for indefinite reelection. It's like when I hear people say that, I go, shut up. He's not going to do that.

[Giannis Papas]

But I think it's good that there's people always saying, you know, pushing back on his rhetoric because that's what makes America great.

[Chris Stephano]

You're a liberal.

[Giannis Papas]

Way song.

[Chris Stephano]

She ain't no you need. No, it's true. It is true.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah, you do need that. Because you know, that's what's great about the multi party system. That's what's great about rule of law and term limits is there's always a, you know, it's always a dialogue going on and pushback because that's the only way we can get to the middle.

[Chris Stephano]

Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

Is by pushback.

[Chris Stephano]

Why don't you just meet me in the middle?

[Giannis Papas]

Because human beings are not evolved enough to.

[Chris Stephano]

Nick likes that song.

[Giannis Papas]

Govern themselves or govern others. No, on principle.

[Chris Stephano]

No.

[Giannis Papas]

We always act in our own interest. All those people voting for Mondami or the people vote.

[Chris Stephano]

This is why socialism doesn't work. Because the top will always act in their own interest.

[Giannis Papas]

People just are into their own interest.

[Chris Stephano]

You need a governing body, you need democracy, you need the wealth to be spread out among. Because then the. Even if the top wants to act in their Own interest. There's only so far the President of the United States can go.

[Giannis Papas]

I mean, you.

[Chris Stephano]

In democracy, the more you look into.

[Giannis Papas]

It, people railing against billionaires. Yeah. Billionaires got a lot of money, but they also do create a lot of wealth for others. Yeah. They also do create a lot of innovation for others. I think there's a good chance that if I go. If I go to the Whole Foods, if I go to the Whole Foods in Yorktown Heights, wherever. It's close to the Yorktown Heights. Yeah. Or Astoria or wherever it is.

[Chris Stephano]

Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

I think there's a good chance I'll be in the organic produce section and I'll look up from grabbing my organic pancake mix. Yeah. And I think there's a good chance I will save AOC in the Whole Foods. I think there's a good chance. If we looked at the digital record of AOC on Amazon. Yeah. I think there's a good chance she's got more than 14 orders.

[Chris Stephano]

Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

On Amazon.

[Chris Stephano]

Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

I just think there's a good chance I'm not going to see her buying Wonder Bread at the bodega.

[Chris Stephano]

No, no, no.

[Giannis Papas]

I just don't think she's going to get eggs that expired four weeks ago.

[Chris Stephano]

No.

[Giannis Papas]

I just don't think there's a good chance she practices what she preaches.

[Chris Stephano]

No.

[Giannis Papas]

And that the problem with people at the top of the power structure, they want the good cigars.

[Chris Stephano]

Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

They want the organic produce.

[Chris Stephano]

I can tell you because AOC always talks about the white man and how bad it is. Your husband's white?

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah.

[Chris Stephano]

He's white. Yeah. He's a white man. Yes.

[Giannis Papas]

I don't know if she.

[Chris Stephano]

Outwardly, it's hard to resist two things, and that's white.

[Giannis Papas]

Last 14.

[Chris Stephano]

Even Nick can't resist it.

[Giannis Papas]

So at the end of the day, that's a fundamental problem with socialism, is people just start to feel like things get a little stagnant. They don't get motivated. Because what motivates people to innovate is they want to fly on jets and be courtside for a Jake Paul fight.

[Chris Stephano]

That's what it is. And whether you get there or not, it's irrelevant. It's the motivation and it's the effort to do it.

[Giannis Papas]

Right.

[Chris Stephano]

You can't take away people's effort.

[Giannis Papas]

Yes. It's just. That's what motivates you is people are just motivated by self interest.

[Chris Stephano]

Right.

[Giannis Papas]

And when you work really hard, you want to get rewarded for it. And it's just human nature. Like, for example, let's say and this is relevant. It is a relevant analogy. Let's just say we're all in a class together. Now if we were all in a class together, it wouldn't be to learn how to code.

[Chris Stephano]

No.

[Giannis Papas]

Or anything scientific.

[Chris Stephano]

No.

[Giannis Papas]

Let's just all say we're in English as a second language because that's the only class we'd all be in together.

[Chris Stephano]

That or we'd be IQ in here.

[Giannis Papas]

Is probably about a 1.6.

[Chris Stephano]

Yeah. Or the. Honestly, the only other way if we're not doing a podcast. The only other way us forward being here is if we're taking a stand up comedy class.

[Giannis Papas]

That would be it.

[Chris Stephano]

And we're trying to learn the art of stand up comedy.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah, that would be it.

[Chris Stephano]

Yeah. Okay.

[Giannis Papas]

Because if the four of us were to class together, it wouldn't be for advanced chemistry.

[Chris Stephano]

No, it would not be.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah. So let's just say we're all in English as a second learning class.

[Chris Stephano]

Okay.

[Giannis Papas]

Second language. Okay. Now let's say you get a 4.0.

[Chris Stephano]

Okay.

[Giannis Papas]

Now let's say I get a 2.7. Right.

[Chris Stephano]

Okay.

[Giannis Papas]

Now we know Nick is probably going to get 2.1, right?

[Chris Stephano]

No, I think Nick's the smartest guy in here. He might be.

[Giannis Papas]

Okay. He gets 3.8.

[Chris Stephano]

Yeah. I'm going to get the lowest grade because I'm just going to keep speaking to everyone in German.

[Giannis Papas]

So what you're saying is if it wasn't for Nick's Shakespearean actor actor dream, he actually could probably have a really good job.

[Chris Stephano]

No, I think he really would be have a really good job.

[Giannis Papas]

He just had this dream where he wanted to be a theater actor.

[Chris Stephano]

Yeah, it's what it is. Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

Now Jesse.

[Chris Stephano]

And to him that dream is still alive.

[Giannis Papas]

Still alive. And now Jesse. I know for a long time Jesse in a lot of areas is legally okay. Like it's beyond dyslexic, it's like legal.

[Chris Stephano]

Right, Right. We could tell when he searches things.

[Giannis Papas]

On chat when it comes to like writing and math. Like the basics. No. Artistic genius.

[Chris Stephano]

Genius actually.

[Giannis Papas]

Yes, genius. And also pretty smart guys for his concept.

[Chris Stephano]

Very good. Understand stocks and the market very well.

[Giannis Papas]

And he's good with money. But as far as like simple stuff. So let's say Jesse gets a 1.6. He also wouldn't attend cuz he got a GED.

[Chris Stephano]

Right.

[Giannis Papas]

So he would, you know.

[Chris Stephano]

Right.

[Giannis Papas]

He would see one group of kids outside the school acting unruly and he say, I'm not going back to that school.

[Chris Stephano]

He's not going to do it.

[Giannis Papas]

Jesse likes the safety of his studio where he can sculpt fat people.

[Chris Stephano]

It's just what it is. Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

1.6 would. Would a bad attendance record.

[Chris Stephano]

Yeah. I just know that any Christmas or birthday gift. I know what to get Jesse. And that's clay.

[Giannis Papas]

It's clay. That's what he needs. That's just.

[Chris Stephano]

You just. I just buy him more and more clay.

[Giannis Papas]

Now I get a 1.7 because I'm fucking stupid.

[Chris Stephano]

Right.

[Giannis Papas]

I'm actually going to give the highest grade to you because you're a go, go, go. And you do have that Germanic thing in you from Lynn where it's like you're going to get to the top of the HR department. Yeah.

[Chris Stephano]

It's just one video. We're just going to get there.

[Giannis Papas]

You're just going to get there.

[Chris Stephano]

We're going to. We are going to be at the top of. At the bank of Nova Scotia.

[Giannis Papas]

I'm going to get my Filipino doctor degree.

[Chris Stephano]

It's what it is just what you got. You the only one. Physical therapy. A Filipino doctor degree is a 10.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah, you got to.

[Chris Stephano]

I have a Filipino doctor.

[Giannis Papas]

You do, and you just got it. So you are the fucking high most highly educated person.

[Chris Stephano]

And let's be honest, I would find a way, whether it's a guy or girl, to be banging the teacher. Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

You're a highly motivated guy who doesn't like to sit still. You're a motivated guy.

[Chris Stephano]

Motivated kid.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah. You didn't get your success just by sitting around. You can't sit around.

[Chris Stephano]

No, my feet are always moving.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah, you're moving. So you're going to get a three, nine, seven. Yeah. Okay. Now if me, Nick and Jesse said, this isn't fair. This isn't fair. Okay? It's these grades are not equal. Right. And we said we want to take a couple of points of your degree and give it to us.

[Chris Stephano]

Right.

[Giannis Papas]

Would that be fair?

[Chris Stephano]

That would not be fair.

[Giannis Papas]

That would not be fair. Now, I think it's fair because I want a higher degree. Right? Right. But you don't think it's fair. No, but there's more of us.

[Chris Stephano]

Right.

[Giannis Papas]

So we intimidate you. Right. And say, I know there's one of you and your big kid, but the three of us could take you like fucking fire ants.

[Chris Stephano]

Yeah, we can. Yeah. But this goes back to what we were saying before, where this is why these people want socialism. And this is where, in fact, they subconsciously voted for mob Donnie and love him because they want to even the playing field because they are not Happy with their grade.

[Giannis Papas]

That's exactly.

[Chris Stephano]

They're not happy with their grade.

[Giannis Papas]

Ultimately, it's been proven time and time again, the only way you can subjugate the individual for the sake of the group is by force.

[Chris Stephano]

Right.

[Giannis Papas]

And so that becomes the role of the state. We don't let dissidents in. We don't let other opinions in. We control the media. We just control everything. Because it's the only way you can do it. Because guess what happens when you subjugate the will and the potential of the individual. Then individual rights inevitably become forsaken because it's all about the group. Right. So you become just a cog in a wheel. Right. That's very dispensable.

[Chris Stephano]

Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

Because it's all about the group.

[Chris Stephano]

You're just a number, babe.

[Giannis Papas]

So that's what happens. People start getting thrown out of windows.

[Chris Stephano]

Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

And nobody can say anything. Anything. But we're like, ho. We're all for the group. We're all for society.

[Chris Stephano]

Right.

[Giannis Papas]

Society starts taking precedence over the individual, and the leap in logic is lost. And that logic is the society is just an aggregate of individuals.

[Chris Stephano]

Right.

[Giannis Papas]

So it becomes this amorphous concept. We're all for this society and the betterment of society. And what they forget is society is just fucking an aggregate sum of individuals.

[Chris Stephano]

That's what it is.

[Giannis Papas]

We're all pieces of the pie. Without the pieces, there is no fucking pie.

[Chris Stephano]

Why do we say we're all bees in the same hive, bubbas?

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah.

[Chris Stephano]

Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

Some of us are in different h.

[Chris Stephano]

It's what it is. And some of us just have hiv.

[Giannis Papas]

Some of us are in just different algorithms. Those are the new hives. We're in different algorithms. Now, some of them are just going to be in Hasan Minaj's new podcast algorithm, and some they're going to be in Theo vault.

[Chris Stephano]

It's what it is. But we all in the same height.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah. One talks more education. But at least he doesn't lie about powder coming to his daughter.

[Chris Stephano]

What it is. So here we go.

[Giannis Papas]

I love how uncomfortable you get when I throw one of those out there.

[Chris Stephano]

Yeah. But I just. It's okay.

[Giannis Papas]

It's okay because it happened.

[Chris Stephano]

It happened. So here we go.

[Giannis Papas]

Even Ronnie Chime made fun of him for it.

[Chris Stephano]

Ronnie Chime.

[Giannis Papas]

I forgive him for it.

[Chris Stephano]

I forget.

[Giannis Papas]

I think it's great. Yeah, I think it's great. I like it.

[Chris Stephano]

I like it.

[Giannis Papas]

I just want to say, now that Boko Haram has sent an envelope full of anthrax to my house, it's what it is.

[Chris Stephano]

And that's where we're gonna bring up Baby Gorgeous is because you want to know, we want to talk about what's happening in the news right now and that Donald Trump is blowing up boats in Venezuela and they're saying they're going to have a ground invasion potentially in Venezuela. And a lot of people think it's for a good reason, a lot of people think it's for a bad reason. And they're. And I think I'm on the fence right now. We're going to learn about it here together. But I do know that whatever Donald Trump does with Venezuela, I ask him to do it swiftly and I asked him to do with grace because he needs to focus on the big prize, which is Boko Haram and the persecution and killing of Christians in Nigeria by Islamists. And that's what Trump needs to really be fighting against is Boko Haram and the Islamists.

[Giannis Papas]

Now here's the deal. So Venezuela, we've opened a new front against Venezuela.

[Chris Stephano]

It's just what it is. We're open up front. We've opened up fronts. We're starting to murder people in the sea like Adolf. We got too many fronts going.

[Giannis Papas]

Ladder 14 could be possible.

[Chris Stephano]

Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

But what's happening is we're not the only ones. I think Brazil, Argentina has also designated, what do they call it, the Cartel de Sol or something, which is just a made up name for military generals who may be involved in.

[Chris Stephano]

So you got Brazil and Argentina fighting that want to fight Venezuela. That's going to be called the War of the Fake butts.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah, well, what they have agreed with us on is designating the cartel as a terrorist group. Yeah, that's what Trump has done. He said this is a terrorist group, not Venezuela.

[Chris Stephano]

It's just the, this specific group.

[Giannis Papas]

Right. I think it's the Cartel del Sol. I think it's, it's cartel de soul.

[Chris Stephano]

Cartel of the soul.

[Giannis Papas]

And there is no real cartel de soul like there is the other cartels, but it's, it's a word that's been given to whoever's in Venezuela doing drug stuff.

[Chris Stephano]

That's just what it is.

[Giannis Papas]

So what we've done by doing that, by dedicated, by designating them a terrorist group is by going now it's okay for us legally to kill you. Right.

[Chris Stephano]

So that's what it is.

[Giannis Papas]

It's what it is. So obviously, you know, but they are.

[Chris Stephano]

Probably most likely just killing innocent people. I mean, look, who knows there is.

[Giannis Papas]

Drug trafficking going on in Venezuela now. We do got this guy I think we caught up in Miami. He was a former general and I think he's going to flip on Maduro.

[Chris Stephano]

Okay.

[Giannis Papas]

Because much like Noriega, we're trying to get him. There's a $50 million bounty on Maduro's head right now.

[Chris Stephano]

So somebody's going to turn him in.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah, Pam Bondi put a $50 million.

[Chris Stephano]

So unfortunately Maduro is not doing his pod right now.

[Giannis Papas]

Maduro is doing his pod from a hideout.

[Chris Stephano]

So yeah, that's just what it is.

[Giannis Papas]

And the opposition leader is Maria something. She's also in hiding. Everyone who's trying to be a leader.

[Chris Stephano]

In Venezuela, why is she in hiding? Wouldn't the United States want her? No.

[Giannis Papas]

Well, because Maduro's people want to kill her and, and, and the people want to kill Maduro. Venezuela is not a cute place to take a three day vacay right now.

[Chris Stephano]

No, it's not. I don't think you could fly there. Also. Do they have any infrastructure at all?

[Giannis Papas]

Nobody's going there. They do. They. I mean they built up in the 50s and 60s. It was a glory era. The oil money was flowing in, you know what I'm saying?

[Chris Stephano]

Like, are the kids going to school? Do they have like any type of economy working at all? Is Venezuela truly off the rails right now?

[Giannis Papas]

Off the fucking rails.

[Chris Stephano]

They are off the beam.

[Giannis Papas]

They. It's. One out of ten Venezuelans has fled the country. I think it's something like 7.7 to 9 million Venezuelans have. Jeez. Yeah, so they have fled and it's just pandemonium. Right. Right now.

[Chris Stephano]

And. But this started happening a few years ago. Venezuela started to collapse and we're invading now. But didn't this happen in like 2019? Like, right, it's been years and there's.

[Giannis Papas]

Been for about a decade long there's been accusations that Maduro is involved in the drug trafficking.

[Chris Stephano]

So Venezuela faces a severe humanitarian crisis with widespread poverty, food insecurity and a crippled economy that is a fraction of its size compared in 2013. Okay. This was all. Nicolas Maduro's authoritarian rule is the fault of this, which is this is what happens with communism and socialism.

[Giannis Papas]

And then in 2024 there was an election and he came out on top. But the, the consensus I think internationally is that it was a rigged election.

[Chris Stephano]

And they don't recognize, the rest of the world doesn't recognize this as the result. So they recognize it as all the other countries like you. You've basically taken over a country that isn't yours and we're taking it back.

[Giannis Papas]

Right, right.

[Chris Stephano]

We've become the world's police again.

[Giannis Papas]

In a way, we still are the world's police police. And this is just right now.

[Chris Stephano]

How do you see this playing out?

[Giannis Papas]

Oh, Maduro's toast.

[Chris Stephano]

Maduro's toast.

[Giannis Papas]

He's toast with Nutella on it.

[Chris Stephano]

He's not going to go do an interview with David Letterman like Zelensky. He's not.

[Giannis Papas]

He's toast. I mean, he's toast. Right now the only thing that's keeping him afloat is China and Russia.

[Chris Stephano]

So China and Russia are backing them simply is the main reason because they buy their oil. But is the bigger reason because. Because they want to fight with us, with the United States, I think. Is it another proxy war?

[Giannis Papas]

Now? It's. It's a little thing called we continue to give you loans and we continue to help you out and you give us nice cheap oil.

[Chris Stephano]

Now, will, if we, if the United States doesn't in fact invade Venezuela, will China and Russia back Venezuelans and send them troops? Because that's a little thing that gets a little bit closer to a little thing we like to call world war.

[Giannis Papas]

Well, America is not going to invade Venezuela, but.

[Chris Stephano]

Well, didn't Donnie T. Say that they might?

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah, but he says stuff all the time because that's what he does. He's just.

[Chris Stephano]

Well, he better invade Boko Haram.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah, but what is, what is going to happen is I think he's given the green light to the good old, good old three letters. And I don't mean hiv. Okay, the three letters, the good old American three letters. They're called the C I, A to go. Have fun.

[Chris Stephano]

Got it.

[Giannis Papas]

They got the green light. Yeah, they got to go.

[Chris Stephano]

So maybe they'll do a little Steph.

[Giannis Papas]

Curry shooting green light.

[Chris Stephano]

So will they do a little regime toppling? Will they do a little inside info?

[Giannis Papas]

Like they're going to do something dirty?

[Chris Stephano]

Well, they do. Like, will they do, like, will you start to see protests? Will they start to kind of just take over, like little psyop stuff? What are they going to do? They're going to get up to a little Havana syndrome. Are they going to do a little. What was the shit we talked about last week? Are they going to do a little bit of the. What do we talk about last week?

[Giannis Papas]

Well, what they. What, what, what he did, what is.

[Chris Stephano]

Called the mind control. Oh, yeah, they can do it.

[Giannis Papas]

I forgot what we talked about.

[Chris Stephano]

What was it? Isaac Bentikov, Active shit, Remote viewing. Yeah, they're going to do that.

[Giannis Papas]

Well, I don't Know what they're going to do. But I'll tell you what did happen. Trump went to the CIA and he said, I want you guys to have a canvas. He said, venezuela is your canvas.

[Chris Stephano]

He's Bob, Bob Ross. Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

He said, here's your canvas.

[Chris Stephano]

There's no H mistakes. Happy accident.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah. He said, here's your canvas. You want a canvas? Here's your canvas. Now paint. Yeah, paint me like your French girls, Jack. Yeah. So that's what's going on.

[Chris Stephano]

Yeah, that's what it is. We're painting, we're just painting.

[Giannis Papas]

We're painting the girl in the pearl necklace.

[Chris Stephano]

We're having fun.

[Giannis Papas]

And I think Maduro's going to fall into the sea. Yeah.

[Chris Stephano]

You think Maduro's going to have a little accent? He might get a little cantaloupe.

[Giannis Papas]

Maduro's going to be fried up and become a tostone.

[Chris Stephano]

Oh, yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

I think he's going to become a plantain. He's going to be covered in fucking bullets of honey.

[Chris Stephano]

Yeah. So the US unfortunately, here's the one.

[Giannis Papas]

Thing, we're still top of the food chain.

[Chris Stephano]

We're still top of the food chain because the one thing, the one thing that I understand there's many things to dislike about him to certain people. I understand there's many things to like about him. Certain people. This is not, you know, advocating for, against Donald Trump. But the one thing you do all do have to admit on both sides is the, the man does not fuck around. He does not fuck around. Well, when it comes to stuff like this, he just, your boy does not fuck around. He does a little thing called fuck around and find out he does a little. That's what he does.

[Giannis Papas]

He does a little thing called we're going to restart our nuclear program because, you know, we want to compete with China and Russia.

[Chris Stephano]

Make absolutely no mistake, the kid carries himself like a drug dealer from Baltimore. And when he does inevitably do it with a durag on.

[Giannis Papas]

We're still humans haven't evolved to the point where we're past geopolitical jostling. We, we, we do have. It's still all about power now on X in the headlines. It's still all about, you know, you hear morality, you hear this, you hear that, but the players are still playing the power game. And if we were to go all moral, there would be a vaccine vacuum. And that's why we're in Ukraine, that's why we're in Venezuela, that's why we want to go to Nigeria. That's why we're Trying. That's why we're in Panama talking about the canal. And we're about to win that because if we don't take it, China will.

[Chris Stephano]

Right.

[Giannis Papas]

So that's just the consensus between parties. That seems to be the reality. We have a. It's not a unipolar situation anymore. This isn't the fall of the Soviet Union. China has risen. China has risen.

[Chris Stephano]

They have risen. Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

And unlike Israel, that's just a regional power.

[Chris Stephano]

Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

China is a global power. Right. And they want it all, baby.

[Chris Stephano]

Yeah. Because Russia has kind of unveiled themselves as not being as strong as we thought, But China still could be real strong.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah. And Russia's still up there.

[Chris Stephano]

They're still strong, but we're stronger.

[Giannis Papas]

We're stronger. China, you know they're coming up, baby.

[Chris Stephano]

Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

And sometimes you got to be tied to Tanya Harding.

[Chris Stephano]

Yeah. It's what it is.

[Giannis Papas]

Sometimes you have to be Tanya Harding. Yeah. We know. We can't win the race. We don't have the educated population to win the race.

[Chris Stephano]

No.

[Giannis Papas]

Okay. How did Malaysia and Singapore get so good? Discipline.

[Chris Stephano]

Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

Kids go to school for 14 hours.

[Chris Stephano]

Yes.

[Giannis Papas]

They recycle water. They desalinate. They're doing all types of shit.

[Chris Stephano]

We don't do that.

[Giannis Papas]

We do tick tock.

[Chris Stephano]

Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

We do tick tock and we hit you with the baton in the knee.

[Chris Stephano]

Yeah. So tick tock and we do ticks.

[Giannis Papas]

We do ticks and we do detective Tick tock. So that's what we're good at.

[Chris Stephano]

Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

Let us do what we do.

[Chris Stephano]

Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

Because we still can squeeze out another 20 years of dominance.

[Chris Stephano]

Yeah. It's what it is. Just let us hit you with the hammer in the back before. Let us call Jeff Goolie.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah.

[Chris Stephano]

Before that guy's name.

[Giannis Papas]

Before we get formally overtaken by the giant walk in the east, let us still do a little cooking. Let us cook in pots and pans for a couple years.

[Chris Stephano]

It's just what it is. It's rock and roll until it's rock and roll. So here we go.

[Giannis Papas]

Is why is my nose.

[Chris Stephano]

Honey. We're at the patreon. Patreon.com history. I knows. Welcome to the Matriarch. Our newest members. We love to read the names. At the end of the episode, Giannis's nose is running. He's doing coke in his basement.

[Giannis Papas]

I have diarrhea.

[Chris Stephano]

It's what it is of the nose. So here it is. Nick McIntyre. Joshua Holtmer. Then we got. I heard some dings. Okay.

[Giannis Papas]

Put them on the list.

[Chris Stephano]

Really?

[Giannis Papas]

Chicken finger on the list instead of I heard some things.

[Chris Stephano]

I heard. I heard some things. But that also could just. Because maybe it's your AC unit. I don't know what it is.

[Giannis Papas]

Could be. And if you don't know what things are, dings could be any thing.

[Chris Stephano]

Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

Just they're technically something that hurts your quality of life.

[Chris Stephano]

It's what it is. And don't [e-mail] history we are going. I'm telling a ghost story to the room.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah.

[Chris Stephano]

So it's going to be cute. Show neck. August and Lara. Then we got blurry piece from the Far East. Call me John Cena. John Cena. John Chenna.

[Giannis Papas]

Good try.

[Chris Stephano]

Okay. Brandon Norton, Rosa Park's husband had a car. That's just a fact, I guess.

[Giannis Papas]

Or put him on the list.

[Chris Stephano]

Fact. No, but it's hilarious. It's funny.

[Giannis Papas]

Funny.

[Chris Stephano]

Yeah. Then we got Puerto Rican rattler and Toot sharing an account like a chill. Okay. Puerto Rican rattler might have made chicken finger. Yeah, that's. What's a definition of a chicken finger Cutter. Lee, John Vernon. Then we got patriotic penis pump filled with red, white and glue.

[Giannis Papas]

Great.

[Chris Stephano]

One Chicken finger Hunter Eaton, Scrabina, Hyena, Michael, Jan and Ch Alp Karab, Goga Buzz and Neil's Zero G Moonglu established in 69. James Rivers Slayer, Slavmeister. UA Go Go Gadget. Greg. Hope is my hedge. Facts are my proof. I'm already coming.

[Giannis Papas]

Drexler.

[Chris Stephano]

We haven't said that in a while. Hope is. We have so many things that we just do for two weeks and then they're done.

[Giannis Papas]

Hard to remember.

[Chris Stephano]

Hope is my head. I have to remember that really is.

[Giannis Papas]

But ham candle is sticking.

[Chris Stephano]

Ham candle has st. So congratulations. I mean, shout out to you. Dax Logan Bennett, Brandon Milsk, Lips of A Leroy, PP of Chingis Khan Way song. That's funny.

[Giannis Papas]

Nice combo.

[Chris Stephano]

Ethan Holmes, Teal Allen, Will Clark, Jesus Guevara Leroy piece with a Jesus piece. Yamin Oscar, Stephen, Two bears, one grave. Because that podcast is dead. It's what it is.

[Giannis Papas]

Funny.

[Chris Stephano]

Yeah, we're gonna give that a Drexler ima. Torta pounder. Call me an ice pick. Oh, I'm a torta pounder. Call me an ice pick. Ice.

[Giannis Papas]

That is really good.

[Chris Stephano]

Torta pounder is Tor pounder.

[Giannis Papas]

And so he's a pick for ice.

[Chris Stephano]

Yes.

[Giannis Papas]

Contender.

[Chris Stephano]

Contender.

[Giannis Papas]

Contender.

[Chris Stephano]

Yes.

[Giannis Papas]

Contender. That's a catapult. Put it out.

[Chris Stephano]

That's a good one.

[Giannis Papas]

Catapult him right onto the list.

[Chris Stephano]

Calling a Latina woman's vagina a torta. Funny.

[Giannis Papas]

And saying that he the torta the powder could be a new one for Mexican.

[Chris Stephano]

Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

It's just now they're adding to our lexicon.

[Chris Stephano]

Yeah. It's what it is. And Nick giggled and put his head down. So, you know, it's good.

[Giannis Papas]

That's a good one.

[Chris Stephano]

Jared Justin. Gilbert Scott. E. John Rubio. Simon Suntrum. Crispy Frisbee. Then we got.

[Giannis Papas]

Frisbee is one that got by you.

[Chris Stephano]

Okay.

[Giannis Papas]

That's a really bad one. That means it's a cooked Jew.

[Chris Stephano]

Yeah. All right. Sorry about that. That's not good. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Then we got. Got my monkey Crispy Frisbee.

[Giannis Papas]

Jesus Christ. I mean.

[Chris Stephano]

Yeah. Jesse hit the way shot she had. I Even though I blew past it.

[Giannis Papas]

How do you want your Frisbee?

[Chris Stephano]

Yeah, my monkey was moved this time. The. Okay, hold on. My monkey was moved this time. The fumes don't know who did it was. Okay. My. I can't read this one. This time there were fumes don't know who did it. It was probably the Jews. Okay. I. I don't know.

[Giannis Papas]

Okay. It's probably walked away.

[Chris Stephano]

Okay. Weekend at Bernie's. B U R N I S. Preston. Wait. B U B U R N I E S. Weekend at Bernie's. I don't know what they mean spelling it differently. Okay. Preston Newhouse. Jake sama. No, Jake Cams. Nagasaki. It to me, little boy.

[Giannis Papas]

Nagasaki to me, little boy.

[Chris Stephano]

All right. Nagasaki. Okay. Yeah. B Marshall. 24. Kyle, Jared. Reinstall. Startler. Ryan Brennan, Theodore. Top squeak Commander in Chief. The name is Lito Sage. Josh Stewart. Ben Dayahoo. Ms. 13 tramp stamp.

[Giannis Papas]

Put him on the list.

[Chris Stephano]

Okay. Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

It's a good one.

[Chris Stephano]

Evan Lee got his.

[Giannis Papas]

He got his MS.13 tattoo at his lower back.

[Chris Stephano]

That's what it is.

[Giannis Papas]

Or a girl. Very funny.

[Chris Stephano]

Evan Lee. Sean Murray. Corey Jen Jacob Smith. Chrissy P with a leaky V for conspiracy. Te's Creatine. Chrissy. Alan. Alan Tudyck. Coming. Had pineapple juice. My come tastes the same to me.

[Giannis Papas]

Rexler.

[Chris Stephano]

Good. Good one.

[Giannis Papas]

Any other day.

[Chris Stephano]

Don't worry, Chrissy. Tony Hinchcliffe at MSG on 8. 1525 was empty.

[Giannis Papas]

It's good to know what it is. Yeah. Down.

[Chris Stephano]

But that was two shows. Yeah. Oliver, Fourth rta. Is that lint in your belly button or are you just happy to see me? Matzah Mutt. Mike.

[Giannis Papas]

So much. Very fun.

[Chris Stephano]

Yes.

[Giannis Papas]

Chicken finger.

[Chris Stephano]

Mike Durst. Jake Jones. Why do I also have to watch for ice in Mexico? I don't know what that means.

[Giannis Papas]

Just a question.

[Chris Stephano]

Just a question. Yeah. Samantha Metadia. Irritated by gays. Call me LGT bbq. Ira. Ira.

[Giannis Papas]

So good. It just needed a punch up. LG TBQ is very like barbecuing irrigated by gays.

[Chris Stephano]

Means he's been irritated.

[Giannis Papas]

Irritated. That's almost.

[Chris Stephano]

Yeah, it's.

[Giannis Papas]

I'm going to give it a Drexler because the LGTB BQ is very funny. Tin Tin just left that. Yeah, yeah.

[Chris Stephano]

Tin Tin Meyer. Who do I have to fuck to get a goddamn chicken finger? Kylie Potts, give him a chicken finger. There it is. You got one. Austin Ram Usen. Chrissy sucks peen when he's on the beam. True.

[Giannis Papas]

Probably true.

[Chris Stephano]

Zellmere had a joke about September and planes, but forgot it. Okay. Sydney Sweeney's tits could be that big under communism. It's what it is. No, sorry. Sydney Sweeney's tits could never be that big on what it is. I mean, she has cans.

[Giannis Papas]

She's got cans. And what I love about her is like, she's not. She's. She's leaning into it.

[Chris Stephano]

Well, my father and my father said she's. This is like Marilyn Monroe. This is the same exact thing as Marilyn Monroe. She was like this iconic sex symbol that people couldn't take. Yeah. When she was, you know, younger. Broadway makes you gay. Just look at Hugh Jackman. Amen. Hyena with a stinky mangina. Mana.

[Giannis Papas]

Hyena with a sticky mangina.

[Chris Stephano]

Mangina. I don't know what that means.

[Giannis Papas]

It's a mangina.

[Chris Stephano]

Okay. Yeah. Donnie T. Squatting over the cup at Fumar a Lago.

[Giannis Papas]

Drexler.

[Chris Stephano]

Duh. Duh man. Al Walid. David Schler. No. David Shek Melizer. Fumare Chums. Mike oxlong. P. Dunk. 1776. Muzzy Women Calls me Moses because the way I spread them cheeks open.

[Giannis Papas]

Very good.

[Chris Stephano]

Yeah. Okay. Good for you, sir.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah, I didn't drex for that. That's a good one.

[Chris Stephano]

Cashews and Bacon llc. Alton.

[Giannis Papas]

Oh, my God. He got you. He got you good. I love how they're slipping and buy them catch. I'm the only one who caught that.

[Chris Stephano]

Yeah. Yeah. They're getting cashews.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah, that's. That's what. That's what he meant. Cash.

[Chris Stephano]

Jeez.

[Giannis Papas]

I mean, you look. It's bad.

[Chris Stephano]

Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

The creativity is astounding.

[Chris Stephano]

Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

When people are want to do racist things, they really, I mean, put a lot of effort into it.

[Chris Stephano]

That's really what drives ingenuity. Yeah, Alton. Then we got Sugar Ray Leroy, Southwest Airlines line Champ. Jeffrey's permits for Pizza llc.

[Giannis Papas]

Screwed In.

[Chris Stephano]

Yeah. My uncle said it's not gay if I identify as trans Cole Pugliano. You get the Sauce Monkey Award. The Eternal Frisbee. We've. I think we've had that one. Rob C. Girth Brooks. We've had. Once I'm out of come, I start code switching. Chris, the vitamin water tastes a little tangy from your. When you the thing Bar moving more than Chrissy's closing dates. Master Kilbasi. Denny darts his glue gun through that fume. Hun. Squeak mill like Meek Mill. Squeak mill. Funny. Bluechew Benny. Sir, a second Theo Von hit the beacon. What? Sir, a second Theo Von hit the beacon. Meaning like I guess cuz Theo had those two bad shows or. I don't know what. I don't.

[Giannis Papas]

Very inside. Very inside.

[Chris Stephano]

Just be looking thick as hell underneath those ghost sheets.

[Giannis Papas]

I mean, that's a. Walked in. Jesus Christ. Say the full word.

[Chris Stephano]

Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

They're called Sandra D's.

[Chris Stephano]

Yeah, that's bad.

[Giannis Papas]

Christ.

[Chris Stephano]

Chris. Yes. Pidot Yani. Yes. Muzan asked Dr. Lukash. Okay. Chrissy carried Khashoggi's briefcase full of money. Yes. That is true.

[Giannis Papas]

True.

[Chris Stephano]

Suck a fart out of the straw. Okay. Catch the family. Say that. Can't do that one.

[Giannis Papas]

No Fumari treats.

[Chris Stephano]

Can't do that.

[Giannis Papas]

Bicycle seats.

[Chris Stephano]

Yep. Post Optimus Prime. The real Transformer.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah.

[Chris Stephano]

Chips and salsa monkey. Interesting.

[Giannis Papas]

We've had.

[Chris Stephano]

Okay, we've had that Joey Karate with the Dec piece. For an Eastern Hemi.

[Giannis Papas]

For an Eastern Hemi. Congrats.

[Chris Stephano]

Nice.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah.

[Chris Stephano]

Mommy issues and a choking fetish. Aka George Freud.

[Giannis Papas]

Ladder 14. That's a good one, dude.

[Chris Stephano]

Yeah, but I don't. I don't know.

[Giannis Papas]

I. I mean the creativity. Can you say it again?

[Chris Stephano]

Mommy issues and a choking fetish. AKA George Freud.

[Giannis Papas]

So good it's bad.

[Chris Stephano]

Nick. Nick's not laughing.

[Giannis Papas]

I know. Because. But can we just take a moment? George Freud. Mommy issues.

[Chris Stephano]

Choking issues.

[Giannis Papas]

Joke. I mean.

[Chris Stephano]

I mean, what do you want to.

[Giannis Papas]

Do in one we need to do on Patreon. Look, we need to do it.

[Chris Stephano]

Okay. Okay.

[Giannis Papas]

I don't know which one of us is going to compile the list because we'd have to look back.

[Chris Stephano]

Maybe if Sabrina the Hyena maybe can do it because she's so good at it. Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

We're going to do on Patreon. A walked into one word. You deserve your due. But it has to be behind a paywall.

[Chris Stephano]

Yeah, it's what it is, George.

[Giannis Papas]

They're all bad. We don't agree with them.

[Chris Stephano]

Yeah, just creatively Sicilian Pupa piece with greased up knees sliding into Chrissy's busy with laser eyes like Yanni Pway shot Sean King Thomas writes left votes right Chicken Finger. And we just have a period. Tits out for Tuddy. Oh, that's Are you garbage. Welcome, Evan Muhammad. My foreskin didn't stand a chance, Rashad.

[Giannis Papas]

Good point.

[Chris Stephano]

It got clipped. Nick Vegas Dirty Loofah. Matthew Medina. Michael Richards new role as Willy Wonka in Leroy and the I. It got cut off. Leroy and the something.

[Giannis Papas]

Welcome, cuz.

[Chris Stephano]

Hand me a spearmint. I have taco breath. Tyler Nickem, Drew Dems. Lauren Boebert pissing on her hands. Wolf in Chic's clothing. Brandon Katie Rose, Brad Coaster. Fumare Jory Taylor Green. Fumar Jory Taylor Green for that.

[Giannis Papas]

All right, give him credit for trying to work Fumari into another name. Yeah, besides Amari Stoudemire.

[Chris Stephano]

Enrique the Fre.

[Giannis Papas]

Nice welcome, Joshi.

[Chris Stephano]

Make no mistake, Yanni can poke my boy Panani with his salami. Tametta Chris Ege Brucy. The pseudo penis power washer. Martin Elios Shick Gruber. Cutely Roy. Peace Pipsy Oneway Car service. And then we got the last but not least, general manager of mom Donnie's haram.

[Giannis Papas]

Okay, what we got here is we got got a. A couple of good lottery picks, but I mean it was a pretty uneventful draft.

[Chris Stephano]

Yeah, we don't after the first lottery. And that happens though.

[Giannis Papas]

It happens. They're all. They all got their own personalities.

[Chris Stephano]

So just to. Just to have that, here are the names. Ms. 13 tramp stamp.

[Giannis Papas]

Love that.

[Chris Stephano]

I heard some dings.

[Giannis Papas]

Love that.

[Chris Stephano]

Rosa Park's husband had a car.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah, love that.

[Chris Stephano]

Or amator to pounder. Call me an ice pick.

[Giannis Papas]

I think we know what's going to go on. Let go one the of at a time.

[Chris Stephano]

Ms. 13 tramp stamp.

[Giannis Papas]

We're going to chicken finger that.

[Chris Stephano]

Okay.

[Giannis Papas]

Any other day if it wasn't for the Torta Pounder, which I think's going to win.

[Chris Stephano]

Yeah. Because Torta Pounder also sounds like Quarter Pounder and I just like it. Yeah, I heard some dings, heard some things.

[Giannis Papas]

We're going to chicken finger that. These chicken fingers.

[Chris Stephano]

Rosa Park's husband had a car, which is if that's a fact. That's funny.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah, it's funny. We're going to Drex for that one.

[Chris Stephano]

Okay, so you got the closest, but the winner clearly is. I'm a Torta Pounder. Call me an ice pick.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah, that's perfect.

[Chris Stephano]

You are the winner. So your name up in lights history. Hyenas is back.com or history hyenas pod.com Tell your friends we have a lot of fun every single [e-mail] history hyenas we love doing our episodes. We thank all the fans for sticking around. And then we have even more fun and we start telling ghost [e-mail] history hyenas so go over there right now and just continue to heat. Listen to us.