Peace is Bad for Business: Military Industrial Complex | History Hyenas

Summary

Podcast Summary: "Peace is Bad for Business: Military Industrial Complex"

History Hyenas with Chris Distefano and Yannis Pappas
Hosts: Chris Distefano and Yannis Pappas
Release Date: July 31, 2025

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Introduction to the Military Industrial Complex

[00:49] Chris Distefano: "Now buckle up because you're about to get bombed."

Chris and Yannis kick off the episode with high energy, setting the stage to delve into the intricate and often controversial topic of the military industrial complex (MIC). They blend humor with insightful commentary to unpack how the United States' substantial military spending impacts both national policy and societal priorities.

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Understanding the Military Industrial Complex

[06:10] Yannis Pappas: "The military industrial complex is pretty much a system that we just invest a big part of our budget into the military."

The duo defines the MIC as a symbiotic relationship between the military, government, and defense contractors. They emphasize how this coalition ensures sustained military funding through strategic lobbying and the promise of job creation across various congressional districts.

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Historical Context and Eisenhower’s Warning

[10:03] Yannis Pappas: "The military industrial complex was coined as a phrase when Dwight D. Eisenhower... he said, 'we've got to beware.'"

Referencing President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s 1961 farewell address, Chris and Yannis highlight Eisenhower’s prophetic warning about the growing power of the MIC. They discuss how Eisenhower feared that unchecked military spending could dominate national priorities, a concern that remains pertinent today.

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Current Implications of the MIC

[26:36] Chris Distefano: "Our budget was approved. Spending was $886 billion. The next most expensive budget was education at $90 billion."

The hosts break down the U.S. discretionary spending, illustrating how defense expenditures overshadow essential sectors like education and infrastructure. This disproportion, they argue, reflects the MIC's influence in shaping governmental budgetary priorities.

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Lobbying and Political Capture

[30:52] Chris Distefano: "They spread out the manufacturing over many districts across the country... They know that these factories... will keep these people employed."

Yannis and Chris explore the mechanisms through which defense contractors secure political support. By establishing factories and creating jobs in numerous congressional districts, these companies foster loyalty among lawmakers, ensuring continued financial backing for military projects.

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Global Comparisons and the Future of Warfare

[36:19] Yannis Pappas: "Look at Rome, you look at England... What ultimately led to their demise was the military industrial complex."

Drawing parallels with historical empires like Rome and Britain, the hosts caution that excessive military spending can lead to internal collapse. They also touch upon modern warfare’s evolution, noting the shift towards drone technology and perpetual conflict fueled by MIC interests.

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The Role of Israel and Perpetual War

[32:52] Yeannis Pappas: "Israel functions as a de facto US Military outpost in the Middle East. U.S. weapons surveillance systems are tested in Israel."

The conversation shifts to the strategic alliance between the U.S. and Israel, explaining how this relationship benefits the MIC. By utilizing Israel as a testing ground for military technologies, American defense companies gain real-world data without risking American lives, perpetuating the cycle of weapon development and deployment.

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Economic and Social Consequences

[40:31] Chris Distefano: "50% of US discretionary spending goes to military. Meanwhile, hospitals close, teachers strike."

Chris underscores the societal costs of prioritizing military spending over critical public services. The discussion highlights how this imbalance leads to deteriorating infrastructure, inadequate healthcare, and educational deficiencies, mirroring the decline seen in past empires heavily invested in military endeavors.

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Concluding Insights and Call to Action

[38:10] Yannis Pappas: "I think it's a story as old as time... You can see where it leads."

In their closing remarks, Chris and Yannis reflect on the cyclical nature of military dominance in national policy. They urge listeners to become aware of the MIC’s pervasive influence and advocate for rebalancing priorities to ensure a sustainable and prosperous society.

[50:49] Yannis Pappas: "Now, I will. We'll start here by just saying our budget in 2024..."

The episode concludes with a call to action, encouraging listeners to support the show’s Patreon for more in-depth content and to stay informed about the ongoing impact of the military industrial complex.

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Notable Quotes

• Chris Distefano [26:36]: "Our budget was approved. Spending was $886 billion. The next most expensive budget was education at $90 billion."
• Yannis Pappas [10:03]: "The military industrial complex was coined as a phrase when Dwight D. Eisenhower... he said, 'we've got to beware.'"
• Yannis Pappas [36:19]: "Look at Rome, you look at England... What ultimately led to their demise was the military industrial complex."
• Chris Distefano [40:31]: "50% of US discretionary spending goes to military. Meanwhile, hospitals close, teachers strike."

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Key Takeaways

1. Definition of the MIC: A powerful coalition between the military, government, and defense contractors that influences national spending and policy.
2. Historical Parallel: Eisenhower’s warning remains relevant as the U.S. continues to prioritize military spending over other critical sectors.
3. Economic Impact: Excessive defense budgets detract from essential services like education, healthcare, and infrastructure, leading to societal decline.
4. Political Dynamics: Defense contractors secure political support through job creation and strategic lobbying, ensuring sustained military funding.
5. Global Strategy: Alliances with nations like Israel serve the MIC’s interests by providing testing grounds for military technology, perpetuating the cycle of weapon development.
6. Call to Awareness: Listeners are encouraged to recognize the MIC’s influence and advocate for a more balanced national budget that prioritizes societal well-being over perpetual war.

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Conclusion

In this episode of History Hyenas, Chris Distefano and Yannis Pappas effectively blend humor with critical analysis to shed light on the profound impact of the military industrial complex on American society and global politics. Through historical context and contemporary examples, they illustrate the challenges posed by entrenched military spending and advocate for a reevaluation of national priorities to foster a more balanced and prosperous future.

Transcript

[Chrissy D]

Guys, we got a great episode about the military industrial complex. Something's going to blow your mind about what our country does and how much money they spend on war. Come see me. Go to ChristyComedy.com for TikiWiki's big show in September. September 11th theater at Madison Square Garden. September 5th, Chicago theater. August 8th and 9th, I will be in Oklahoma. And in the middle of August, I am in Toronto, Pittsburgh and Detroit. Christy comedy.com or history hyenas is back dot com.

[Giannis Papas]

Yes. And you can see me in Rosemont, Illinois, August 8th and 9th. That's right outside Chicago. Then Tampa, August 15th and 16th, Poughkeepsie, New York, August 22nd, 23rd. Miami, September 11th and 12th and 13th, Bakersfield, California, October 3rd and 4th and Toronto, October 18th. Giannis peppercomedy.com for Ticket.

[Chrissy D]

Now buckle up because you're about to get bombed. Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

What's up, everybody? Welcome to another episode of History Hyenas. Yeah, we gotta throw three H's in there because HH is an acronym. It's no bueno.

[Chrissy D]

No bueno. We gotta throw in a triple H. I'm Chrissy D. That's Yanni P. And.

[Giannis Papas]

You look like Triple H. Cuz here's the truth.

[Chrissy D]

I look like Triple H. And I.

[Giannis Papas]

Have the beginning stages of COVID You are sick. You're a sick little piggy.

[Chrissy D]

I'm a sick little puppy. I will drink theraflu in about 30 minutes. I've been lightly sipping it throughout the day like a little tea.

[Giannis Papas]

Cause you don't give a shit about your outfit.

[Chrissy D]

I don't care.

[Giannis Papas]

You just don't care. Dressing is not something that's important to you.

[Chrissy D]

I don't care.

[Giannis Papas]

You wear that. This is. The people who are watching this podcast or new this podcast are just going to think that that's actually your podcast uniform. Yeah, that's how much you wear that Mets jersey.

[Chrissy D]

I just don't care. And I'll have you know that the reason I was late is I wore this Mets jersey to a court case.

[Giannis Papas]

Cause it's where everyone knows your name. You're. You are, you're Norm at the Queens County Courthouse.

[Chrissy D]

Yeah, it's just what it is. And we did come out victorious. And what I mean by victorious is we're selling the house and stayed in Queen.

[Giannis Papas]

No, I think it's working out.

[Chrissy D]

It's working out. We'll see what happens. Here's the thing, because you never know, we're going to do a beautiful episode today about the military industrial complex. And I Would like the military. We are the number one military in the world. And I would like. We had our guest on the Patreon, Kyle Creek, who was talking to us about how he wants to bring beheadings back. And I agree.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah.

[Chrissy D]

I would like our military to just be dominant, and I would like to just be able to behead people who denounce our country.

[Giannis Papas]

Well, here's the good news. We are definitely dominant. And that didn't happen because we were putting a lot of money into education. No, that came because we were putting a lot of money into missile.

[Chrissy D]

Here's the thing is, if you want to have the number one military in the world, which is what we do, you're also going to have a lot of people that like Honey Boo Boo. Yeah, that's just what it is. We also like Honey Boo Boo.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah, I forgot about Honey Boo Boo. Honey Boo Boo was a big star for a little while.

[Chrissy D]

Yeah. Honey Boo Boo, when I was in the throes of a sexual addiction, got jerked off, too.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah.

[Chrissy D]

And it's just what it is because you remember that. You remember that version of me where everyone was for the table.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah, yeah. I mean, that version. You still exist. You're just. You're just. You're like King Kong in a cage.

[Chrissy D]

Yeah, yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

That's. I mean, it doesn't exist that you're. Yeah, I'm just.

[Chrissy D]

Well, no, not Honey Boo Boo. Not the child. I meant the. The mom isn't the mom. Honey Boo Boo.

[Giannis Papas]

Oh, she was Honey Boo.

[Chrissy D]

Oh, I meant the mom is what I meant. Not the child. Sorry. I mean mother.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah.

[Chrissy D]

Is what I'm saying, because they just pulled out a picture. That's not any Boo Boo. The child. Yeah, yeah, it was. Oh. I mean, the mother is Mama June.

[Giannis Papas]

It was enough.

[Chrissy D]

That's who I jerked off. Mama June.

[Giannis Papas]

Mama June. Yeah, there you go.

[Chrissy D]

Not the child. Honey Boo Boo. My bad.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah. Mama June and Honey Boo Boo, at the time, I think, were considered weight challenged people.

[Chrissy D]

Right, right.

[Giannis Papas]

Who may possibly now be unhomed.

[Chrissy D]

Now, let me ask you this. Mama June fubes.

[Giannis Papas]

Definitely. You think? Definitely. But, you know, the simulators have a sense of humor. So it could just be syrup down there.

[Chrissy D]

It's just.

[Giannis Papas]

That would be the irony of it, you know, it would be the irony that she would look like that and have jowls. She's got jowls.

[Chrissy D]

Yes, she does have jowls. And she's got, you know, not great teeth. But when I. When you're in the throes of a sexual addiction, in 2018, 2019. Mama June. You did, you were. You did satisfy some nights for me.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah.

[Chrissy D]

Because I was just. You were enough for the table. And I just lit up my belly button thinking about you now. Also, because the reason why I've been wearing this Mets jersey for the past six weeks is because I didn't respond to my wife's texts in time. And she was packing up our house to move while I was having fun at the Montreal Comedy Festival. And she threw away all my clothes.

[Giannis Papas]

She threw them away?

[Chrissy D]

She didn't throw them away, but she said she was giving stuff up to donation because she just need to get this house packed up. And I didn't respond to the text. I didn't see the text. So there was a pile of clothes that I wanted to wear. Some of them were my true classic shirts that I love. And they were thrown into a garbage bag and given up to charity, which is AKA members of her family.

[Giannis Papas]

Right.

[Chrissy D]

So it's what, So I could get them back at the next family.

[Giannis Papas]

Right, right, right, right.

[Chrissy D]

I could ask for them back. I could buy back the T shirts that I own.

[Giannis Papas]

That's how that goes.

[Chrissy D]

That's what it is.

[Giannis Papas]

That's how that goes. That's how that system works.

[Chrissy D]

Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

And that's much like the system that we have when it comes to funding military projects.

[Chrissy D]

Yes.

[Giannis Papas]

You know, which is very interesting.

[Chrissy D]

Right?

[Giannis Papas]

It's very interesting you brought that up because that's exactly how kind of the military industrial complex works. What is the military industrial complex? Cuz.

[Chrissy D]

Cuz what?

[Giannis Papas]

The military. I thought it was a mental condition. Because it's a complex.

[Chrissy D]

Yes, because it's a complex.

[Giannis Papas]

I' about war. War.

[Chrissy D]

The military industrial complex is pretty much a system that we just invest a big part of our budget into the military.

[Giannis Papas]

That's basically it when it comes to it. But tell me more.

[Chrissy D]

Cause tell me more.

[Giannis Papas]

Tell me more. Does he like to go sight. Tell me more. Tell me more. Does she like.

[Chrissy D]

Tell me more, Tell me more. Let's bring back the Reich. I'm sorry, Just kidding around. Military industrial complex.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah. Well, you. They probably had a military industrial complex.

[Chrissy D]

That built them up 100. That's why I said it.

[Giannis Papas]

Basically. That's what a military industrial complex is historically, is when you become an empire, you basically start funneling all your resources towards the military.

[Chrissy D]

Now that's an interesting thing. Let me just ask you quick and then we'll get into this. But you have, you know, it's very fascinating when you said that America's an empire Child sex trafficking rings in every empire but just German empire. There is. Here's the one thing you got to submit this. Nazis did horrific things, but you, they never know. Pedophilia.

[Giannis Papas]

Well, accusation. I don't think they had enough.

[Chrissy D]

Enough time. Right.

[Giannis Papas]

They didn't have enough time.

[Chrissy D]

Right.

[Giannis Papas]

The Nazis was quick. It was a coke bender.

[Chrissy D]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

They came in with a wild, wild philosophy.

[Chrissy D]

Yeah. It's also like.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah, you just.

[Chrissy D]

Maybe we should just edit that. Yeah, I just, I don't know why I said that one's too much.

[Giannis Papas]

That one is. Yeah.

[Chrissy D]

The one in the Patreon that was in a pot. I shouldn't have said that.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. What you basically said is you can't smoke a cigarette if it's put out in the ashtray. Yeah.

[Chrissy D]

It's just what it is.

[Giannis Papas]

That's what you were trying to say.

[Chrissy D]

And it was a joke and it was horrible.

[Giannis Papas]

It's. And it's a truth. It's a truth.

[Chrissy D]

It makes pedophilia and war crime and it's just even too low for me and I do apologize to the group for that.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah.

[Chrissy D]

Well, I apologize to the group chat and that means because I'm feeling bad about myself. What's also going to happen in the group chat is they're going to get sex.

[Giannis Papas]

You're going to get sexed hard. But yeah, we should give a limbo award every time one of us goes too low.

[Chrissy D]

Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

We just. What's. What do they call that? The guy who won the limbo contest.

[Chrissy D]

Oh, like you mean like limbo like at a party?

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah, yeah. I'd be like, so you are the, you're the, you're the, you're the cruise limbo king. Yeah. Today. Yeah, yeah. You went low, but that's okay. Yeah, it was there.

[Chrissy D]

It was there.

[Giannis Papas]

It was there.

[Chrissy D]

And you take shots.

[Giannis Papas]

Truth to it.

[Chrissy D]

And like we've said, like we've said, if you go to patreon.com/history hyenas and you go to the $25 level, that's the show that we used to do for free five years ago.

[Giannis Papas]

That's what it is. Patreon.com/history hyenas that's where the fun is always. I'm sure the Nazis did do a little bit of. But they did. When you think about the Nazis, they didn't really have. They had an empire for like a couple of years. You're right.

[Chrissy D]

It was very short lived.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah. But they were definitely a military industrial complex.

[Chrissy D]

Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

No question about that.

[Chrissy D]

Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

They victim of a military industrial complex, which basically means, like, all your resources just get. Just get rerouted.

[Chrissy D]

Right.

[Giannis Papas]

To the arms industry.

[Chrissy D]

Right.

[Giannis Papas]

And then the arms industry lobbies the. The. The legislative branch, and then the legislative branch just enacts policies or legislation that benefits the arms industry. So it's just like. It's just like a triangle that's round and round.

[Chrissy D]

Yeah. And perfect time for Pat Shamahal to walk in from Lebanon because his country was a big victim of American military industrial complex.

[Giannis Papas]

Big, big, big.

[Chrissy D]

And I don't know why he's walking around with an arm bandage on. You're not in Gaza right now. Stop trying to. Stop trying to protest. What happened to your arm? Why is it bandaged up? Sliding in softball. You were sliding in softball? Yeah, I was sliding in softball. And you cut your arm. And you have to.

[Giannis Papas]

My arm and my knee because. No disrespect, but you don't get the body type to slide.

[Chrissy D]

I do. Yeah. Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

Go and stand it up. I worked out with Chris one time.

[Chrissy D]

You did? Yeah. You could say I was athletic. Remember the homeless pimp filmed it?

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah.

[Chrissy D]

Right. Didn't. He was. That was another time. Oh, sorry. We don't talk about him here. Oh, yeah, that's right. Y.

[Giannis Papas]

You ever notice that Patty laughs a little bit like Butthead from Beavis and Butthead. It's my asthma.

[Chrissy D]

Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

So the military industrial complex was coined as a phrase when.

[Chrissy D]

What are we talking?

[Giannis Papas]

Eisenhower. Dwight Eisenhower.

[Chrissy D]

And the thing with Dwight D. Eisenhower. Here's one thing.

[Giannis Papas]

He'll get kissed softly on the lips.

[Chrissy D]

He'll get kissed softly on the lips. I used to do. I used to jog around his park on Long Island, Eisenhower Park. And here's one thing about Eisenhower is the unfortunate truth of the situation is this. He was a great general in World War II. He was president, United States. And the kid also just has German roots. He was a German kid.

[Giannis Papas]

Eisenhower.

[Chrissy D]

Eisenhower.

[Giannis Papas]

Dwight D. Eisenhower.

[Chrissy D]

He's a German kid. So you just don't know if the kid had little. Just Nazi juice.

[Giannis Papas]

That's. That's ironic.

[Chrissy D]

He's a German kid.

[Giannis Papas]

He was a general during World War II, and then he was president, I think during Korea.

[Chrissy D]

Yes, he was.

[Giannis Papas]

And I think his son was a general after that.

[Chrissy D]

Yes, he was. Didn't your father fight for his son? My father, who's.

[Giannis Papas]

Yes. Famous father, was a liaison, a first liaison lieutenant for the Greek battalion during Korea. And he would liaison with. Or was it Dwight D. Eisenhower's son who was the general in charge of that Theta of war. It's just what it is. It's just what it is. Yeah, it's just what it is. And he also tap danced for general Something. I hear what he said.

[Chrissy D]

Your father did.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah, he said I tap danced for general Somebody. I can't remember the name. And you got a face that could have played for the Dodgers.

[Chrissy D]

Yeah, I could have played for the Dodgers. And now that I'm. Now that I'm putting together that your father tap dance for a general he told me I got a face I could play for the Brooklyn Dodgers. And you have a gay brother. Is your dad was gay?

[Giannis Papas]

My dad. Your dad gay? Did try to cornhole him at Fort Brigg in Georgia.

[Chrissy D]

It's just what it is.

[Giannis Papas]

Someone did try to cornhole him and.

[Chrissy D]

He would call it cornholing because as we've always said, when we die, we'll know we're in the gay part of heaven when we're greeted by your pops and my dog Larry.

[Giannis Papas]

This is a good one for my dad. What the fuck is wrong with you, John? If it smells like shit and it tastes like. If it smells like shit, it looks like shit. You don't put your fingers in it to try to taste it.

[Chrissy D]

That's what he would say.

[Giannis Papas]

It's a big one. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Here we go. That's what he scream once in a while.

[Chrissy D]

Yeah, yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

Which is a good one. That's a good piece of advice. It is actually like shit and it smells like shit.

[Chrissy D]

Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

Don't fucking stick your fingers in it to taste it. It's shit.

[Chrissy D]

Your father also said a good one, I think to you that you relayed through me when I was having some problems a few years ago. You said, you know, don't negotiate something like you're not going to negotiate with an alligator. Right. Wasn't it? Your dad said something like that where it's like, that's an alligator right there. Don't go near it, don't try to negotiate with it. Just walk away from it.

[Giannis Papas]

I think so. Probably.

[Chrissy D]

He had a lot of fun, something like that.

[Giannis Papas]

He had. What was another one he had. He had a lot of go. He always, hey, baby, stay loose like a goose because anything too stiff snaps.

[Chrissy D]

Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

So that's a good one.

[Chrissy D]

That's a big one.

[Giannis Papas]

Like a goose, baby.

[Chrissy D]

Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

And he also said. He also said it's always better to be lucky than smart.

[Chrissy D]

It's smart. Yeah. And my dad would say, dollar straight dollar.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah. And then playing the lotto and then when I said, what's the point of life. He just said survival. Yeah, I didn't like that one.

[Chrissy D]

But it's truth. But it's truthful.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah, but it's a little. It's just too. I don't know. I want to believe that there's a.

[Chrissy D]

Greater but survival meaning. Like. But survival can be. Can be a happy thing, too, where it's like, you know, you survive.

[Giannis Papas]

It was General Clark. I remember now. I tap dance for General Clark.

[Chrissy D]

Oh, yeah. But why would. Why did he have tap dance choose in Korea? Did he just pack him?

[Giannis Papas]

I just packed him. I don't know, but he was an interesting guy. He liked to do a lot of different things.

[Chrissy D]

Yeah, I mean, he was.

[Giannis Papas]

He was a fireman.

[Chrissy D]

Oh, shit. Fdny.

[Giannis Papas]

No, he was. He was a volunteer fireman in Ithaca.

[Chrissy D]

Oh, in Ithaca. Because I thought if he was an fdny, then Patty Fly Balls would probably stop calling you gay in the group chat and say, I didn't know he was the son of a fireman. Yeah. Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

My dad was a fireman. He. He was a lifeguard.

[Chrissy D]

Okay.

[Giannis Papas]

Played football. He was a wrestler.

[Chrissy D]

He was ripped and jacked. Those old photos that you used to pull up.

[Giannis Papas]

I mean, what.

[Chrissy D]

He was just a picture?

[Giannis Papas]

He was. But, you know, he was a reserve. Let's just be honest. He was off the bench. But he was a God.

[Chrissy D]

He was a God.

[Giannis Papas]

He was a God. And then he wanted. His first thing he wanted to do was be a football coach.

[Chrissy D]

Interesting.

[Giannis Papas]

That's the first thing he wanted to do.

[Chrissy D]

Then the kid became a lawyer.

[Giannis Papas]

Then he went and he went to the Korea, and then he came back and everybody was dead. So they said, we're taking everybody. So he went to law school.

[Chrissy D]

He went to law school.

[Giannis Papas]

Brooklyn Law School. And that's where he met my mother.

[Chrissy D]

My mother. But so he. So your father directly ties into the military industrial complex because he served it.

[Giannis Papas]

Oh, right. Yeah. Another good expression. He said. He said, because my dad got a Bronze Star and he got a medal from the Greek King, but he got the Bronze Star. Right.

[Chrissy D]

And what constitutes getting a Bronze Star? Like, what you have to do.

[Giannis Papas]

Like, you can pull it up, but it's like.

[Chrissy D]

Like, what did your father do? I'll say, to get the star, when.

[Giannis Papas]

You get a Bronze Star, Other people. And I have his Bronze Star. He didn't. He never displayed it. He didn't give a. He hated.

[Chrissy D]

He hated. Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

Hated war. Bad. And this is what he said. I asked him, what did you do for the brother? So it's. You got to do heroic. Heroic or meritorious achievement of service not involving aerial flight in connection with military operations against an armed enemy.

[Chrissy D]

Okay.

[Giannis Papas]

But, yeah, other people have to witness it. You have to be nominated for it.

[Chrissy D]

Okay.

[Giannis Papas]

Other people.

[Chrissy D]

Okay.

[Giannis Papas]

Superiors or whatever.

[Chrissy D]

It's like winning an Emmy.

[Giannis Papas]

It's like winning an Emmy for killing.

[Chrissy D]

Right.

[Giannis Papas]

And he said this. I'd ask him when I was young about his Bronze Stars. And he goes, you want to know why I got that Bronze Star?

[Chrissy D]

Huh?

[Giannis Papas]

He goes, because you can't pin a medal on a dead guy. So he's basically saying they just give it to people because.

[Chrissy D]

Right.

[Giannis Papas]

Whoever's alive.

[Chrissy D]

Right.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah.

[Chrissy D]

So. So in other words, he just survived the battle where most guys died.

[Giannis Papas]

He said. He just said. He just said wars.

[Chrissy D]

But I'm sure your dad was being humble about. I'm sure he had to do something because other. You don't just get a Bronze Star for nothing. He. For surviving a war.

[Giannis Papas]

Based on what his duties were, he probably his role as a liaison lieutenant was calling in artillery. So he probably was very. I guess you can call smart or adept at figuring out where to murder the best.

[Chrissy D]

It's just. What?

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah. War did not do good on my dad's psyche.

[Chrissy D]

No.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah. I don't think it would do good on anyone's psyche.

[Chrissy D]

No, you don't even. You take the bravest warriors and you just, you know, they. They. I saw War. I'm sorry. I saw a great movie. I think it was called. Is it Warfare? Warfare A. You know, the production company A24, they make all that cool stuff, Warfare. I just watched it. It was on Amazon prime, one of war movies I've ever seen in my life, because it was 100% written by and consulted by, and I want to say directed by the actual guys who fought in this battle. So everything that you see in that war is from their memory. Everything. So there are parts of the movie. It's very interesting because a lot of movies. Yeah, this is it. A lot of these war movies, what they try to do is just show you, like, the, you know, the explosions. And then there's 45 minutes of this movie that's just mundane stuff because they're like. That is actual war is your joke with your buddy. You're chewing gum. You just have a sniper rifle on a location that nothing's happening at. And obviously it's simultaneously building up the suspense to what inevitably is going to happen. But everything in the war, they. And I watch an interview about this after. Like, there's these parts where they have the I believe it was Iraq or Afghanistan. They have, like, you know, the Afghani. Any soldiers that, like, would help them. They have them go out first. Like, it's not like in the movies. They would try to be like brave Americans. Going. At first, they're like, no, no, that's not what you do. You send the Afghani guys out first.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah.

[Chrissy D]

And then you let. You basically let them get blown up. If there's an IED out there, let them step on it.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah.

[Chrissy D]

Then we're coming.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah.

[Chrissy D]

So.

[Giannis Papas]

And.

[Chrissy D]

And. And. But, you know, a lot of guys get hurt. A lot of guys get, you know, killed and all that. And. And it's interesting because not only do you see, like, the camaraderie between them and how, like. Well, you see the camaraderie, like, but then you also. What they show. You've talked a lot about Yanni, about, like, the fog of war. You see a lot of the fog of war, like, when they drop those smoke bombs, like, they will. They don't know who's shooting at who. They have no idea what's happening. When one of their, like, the. The. And the reason why I bring it up is, like, the leader guy, there's a part in the movie where, like, one of his boys gets blown up and he freezes. He doesn't know what to do, and somebody else has to take over command. And it's not like all these guys know each other's names and they're best buds. Like, you're in the army. You are all descending on this one target, and you're like, oh, I see you have the same uniform on as me. So help me. Yeah, it's very. It's in warfare. It's very, very. I've never seen a movie. I've never seen a movie like this. A war movie like this.

[Giannis Papas]

And this is urban warfare. So it's different. I mean, the type of warfare my dad was engaged in during Korea. And I think you can't really do it anymore. It's just people, they just lob bombs at each other.

[Chrissy D]

Right.

[Giannis Papas]

That's basically just artillery back and forth.

[Chrissy D]

Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

That's all it is.

[Chrissy D]

I mean, I do believe in.

[Giannis Papas]

There's no more. More battlefields where, like, clashing of managers.

[Chrissy D]

Right.

[Giannis Papas]

They're lobbing at each.

[Chrissy D]

Yeah. Like how, like, we look back, it's like, imagine getting, like, killed by a sword. Like, you know how we look at, like, Braveheart. I think the people 100 years from now would be like, remember when, like, humans used to fight wars?

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah.

[Chrissy D]

Now just be Drones.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah, drones.

[Chrissy D]

Probably knocking out other drones, not even trying to kill humans anymore.

[Giannis Papas]

So as. As most people are aware and some who aren't. You know, the concept behind a military industrial complex was obviously present in every empire. Right?

[Chrissy D]

Right.

[Giannis Papas]

Rome, you know, everyone you can think of. England, etc with their Navy, blah, blah, blah, blah. But the term was coined by Dwight D. Eisenhower. He called it. He was the first person to coin it and call it the military industrial complex in 1960. When. 1961. In his farewell address to the nation.

[Chrissy D]

That's what he. Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

And he said, we got to beware of this, right? He said he got to be awareness now.

[Chrissy D]

Now why was he saying to beware? Like what was he saying?

[Giannis Papas]

He was basically saying that they're interested in perpetual war, right?

[Chrissy D]

They meaning?

[Giannis Papas]

Meaning the private sector that creates weapons.

[Chrissy D]

Got him.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah. The weapons makers. The what? What became known to warheads. Lockheed Martin, what is it, Wraith now? Palantir.

[Chrissy D]

There's a few of them. Mom, Donnie.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah. Mom Donnie. Yeah.

[Chrissy D]

Can I just say something real quick about. Mom, Donnie.

[Giannis Papas]

Do it.

[Chrissy D]

And you're gonna have to buckle up for this.

[Giannis Papas]

Do it.

[Chrissy D]

And any of the people listening, you got to understand that, you know, I'm an emotional person. So I just. I saw this when I was taking the subway over here because I think that the subway knows you're on the subway. So it's going to show you content from the subway.

[Giannis Papas]

Are you okay?

[Chrissy D]

I saw on that show Subway Takes. You know that show, like with Kareem, where he interviews people with like the Metro card. It's a great, great premise for a show. So anyway, he interviewed Mamdani. And I gotta be honest with you, other than, you know, some of the tax strategies he has, I actually didn't hate what he was saying.

[Giannis Papas]

What was he saying?

[Chrissy D]

He was just saying that he's the only mayor running. He's the only candidate that's like actually wants to be the mayor of New York and make this city just a better place. He's like, I am not trying. He said. Cuz that's what I liked about the kid, Kareem. He asked him, he said, said people are saying you're defunding the police. And he was like, I am not defunding the police. I love. He said, I love the police and I want them to protect our city. What I'm saying is, is I don't want the police to have to do the job of social worker and psychiatric counselor. I want them. I want other people to do that job. And then the police Just worry about stopping murders and rapists and crimes and high profile crimes. That's what I'm saying. And I was like, wow. And then he was saying like, he was like, look, look, I'm also not saying that being, you know, like wealthy people are the worst. I'm not saying that he goes, what I'm saying is, is that I don't think there should be people who are billionaires and people who are out on the streets. And he said, he was like, I may not be able to stop that, but I feel like I should at least try. And I was like, well, you know, that I don't hate. I thought that you were a communist because that's what the group chat said, you know.

[Giannis Papas]

Well, he's, he's, he's had some communist slogans that he's thrown up on his Twitter.

[Chrissy D]

Yeah. So he didn't say though. I'm saying, I'm not saying I'm gonna go out and vote for the guy. I'm just saying when I saw him on the subway takes, I just had a little bit of a tingle for him.

[Giannis Papas]

You got a tingle? He's also a handsome guy. He's not a bad looking guy. He's a good looking guy.

[Chrissy D]

And he's a young kid. He's like a 34 year old Indian kid, which, you know, I like Indian kids.

[Giannis Papas]

I know.

[Chrissy D]

That's Chrissy Calcutta.

[Giannis Papas]

That's the part that, that's the part that worries me the most, is his age. But look, he's gonna win. I think he's gonna win.

[Chrissy D]

He's gonna win.

[Giannis Papas]

I think he's gonna win. And we'll give it a shot. Yeah, I mean, give it a shot. See what happens. I always think it's easier to campaign than it is to govern.

[Chrissy D]

Oh, 100%, I agree.

[Giannis Papas]

What I always notice about the left and the right is, the right is so rigid that they end up becoming naive. And the left, I'm talking about the far left or whatever you want to call them, actual left, whatever you want to slice it, they always, they, they come off to me as naive and then they, because of that, they become rigid.

[Chrissy D]

Right.

[Giannis Papas]

So it's just, it's just, it's a vicious cycle. Can't be rigid. You got, you know, when you snap.

[Chrissy D]

That'S what your pop said, snap.

[Giannis Papas]

You gotta give a little give and take a little gray zone, little ba ba, ba. Yeah. You can't just be, you know, rigid. So maybe the guy, you know, understands he's gonna have to. A mixed bag is the way you gotta govern.

[Chrissy D]

We've been saying it since 2017. A mixed bag is the way to go. A mixed bag is what we are.

[Giannis Papas]

It's what we are, and it's the best way.

[Chrissy D]

But we'll.

[Giannis Papas]

We'll. We'll see. I mean, look, we've had a few democratic socialist mayors and none of them have really worked out that good, unfortunately. And the. And their Achilles heel has always been crime. Yeah, yeah, it's been crime. And we see a big move to the middle in Portland and.

[Chrissy D]

Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

San Francisco. And. And what's the other? Seattle.

[Chrissy D]

Seattle. Well, you know, a few others.

[Giannis Papas]

Chicago.

[Chrissy D]

Well, you know what helps with crime? The military industrial complex.

[Giannis Papas]

Yo.

[Chrissy D]

Yeah. That's the bottom line, guys, is if you want to just keep committing crime in these cities and we're just gonna.

[Giannis Papas]

Send in the military, that's what we'll do.

[Chrissy D]

That's what Trump is about to do.

[Giannis Papas]

That's what we'll do.

[Chrissy D]

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[Giannis Papas]

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[Chrissy D]

You like it extra.

[Giannis Papas]

I like a nice watermelon jizz in my mouth. Yeah, yeah. What it is?

[Chrissy D]

I mean, who does it. You gotta level up your nicotine routine with Lucy. You've always been telling me that Lucy's just the best.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah. How come you don't get on nicotine to give yourself a little. You don't need. You need more of a downer.

[Chrissy D]

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[Giannis Papas]

Yeah.

[Chrissy D]

Because I have too much coffee and theraflo.

[Giannis Papas]

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[Chrissy D]

Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

It's delicious.

[Chrissy D]

And yeah, because you sent me a picture the other day where you were just having like tea time with your daughter. You saw like the little. Little girls table, whatever. And then I just saw coffee. I saw your tv, which is flush in the Wall. Nice. You can't see any wires. They put that in the wall. Nice. I just saw in the corner, I saw a little pack of loose.

[Giannis Papas]

So you're always. When you go to my house, you're always going to see around tin of.

[Chrissy D]

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[Giannis Papas]

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[Chrissy D]

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[Giannis Papas]

Yes. Whatever ad that was that we just found out about, it was. It was, Yeah.

[Chrissy D]

I don't know if it was. Whatever it was. It was, yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

Buy it if you like it, you know, whatever. The check cleared.

[Chrissy D]

Yeah, the check cleared. We're just reading the thing. We're reading the thing off the computer and the guy who gives the ads gets pegged.

[Giannis Papas]

Wei Song xi because. And some people think we get pegged by the military industrial complex, because some of them.

[Chrissy D]

It depends what country you're from. But you might be in a country that's getting pegged by the complex.

[Giannis Papas]

It could be getting pegged. Unfortunately, if we.

[Chrissy D]

Unfortunately, unfortunately, the military industrial complex does like to play in the sand.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah, they. Unfortunately, unfortunately, they do.

[Chrissy D]

And it's not right. But they like to build Sin Cast Sandy.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah.

[Chrissy D]

They like a little sand on their dick.

[Giannis Papas]

They do like to play in the sand.

[Chrissy D]

It's unfortunate.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah. They like to dump artillery into the sand. Yeah.

[Chrissy D]

Unfortunately, our military industrial complex, they just jerk off to a little bit of Middle Eastern porn.

[Giannis Papas]

They just like to play in the sand. Best way to put it. Yeah, it's what it is. Yeah, they like that. They like. Their playground is a sandbox.

[Chrissy D]

It's what it is.

[Giannis Papas]

It's what it is. Now, I will. We'll start here by just saying our budget in 2024, okay? Our budget, military, defense. We spend more than the next 10 countries combined.

[Chrissy D]

That's what it is.

[Giannis Papas]

Our budget was approved. Spending was $886 billion. The next most expensive budget. The most we spent next to that for education was 90. 90 million. 90 billion. Okay, $90 billion.

[Chrissy D]

So 10 times as much, 110 of.

[Giannis Papas]

The defense budget on education, then health care. And this is discretionary spending. So that means, of course, Medicare and Medicaid is law. Right. But a Lot of the intention you can find in the discretionary spending, meaning what they vote on, okay, is 130 billion. Okay. And then infrastructure and transportation is 80 billion. So you can see right there, what are prior priorities are. Yeah, we got, we got priorities, we got potholes. Our priorities are mostly in the sand. Yeah, we're just, we're headed to the sand. We headed to the sand.

[Chrissy D]

Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

And so that is, that is why a lot of people think that we are beholden. We are captured by the military industrial complex and we spend a lot of money and we lay so these weapons manufacturers pockets with a lot of taxpayer money. Now the difference between billionaires and military, the military industrial complex is everyone's focused on billionaires, everyone's yelling at billionaires. But when you think about it, don't billionaires, and I'm asking you guys, don't billionaires just really mostly keep what they earn by not paying taxes? Tax loops, all shit like that. And of course they get some government subsidies depending on the industry that they're in.

[Chrissy D]

Right.

[Giannis Papas]

But they're still earning it because they get the subsidy and then they make profits. Whatever. But doesn't the military industrial complex take what we make more? So the billionaires aren't really taking from us, they're just not giving us more of their own and they're keeping it for themselves. Whereas the military industrial complex takes the tax dollars into their coffers.

[Chrissy D]

Right.

[Giannis Papas]

So how come nobody's focused on yelling at them?

[Chrissy D]

Well, because they have guns.

[Giannis Papas]

That's a good point.

[Chrissy D]

That's what it is.

[Giannis Papas]

That's what it is.

[Chrissy D]

Because they have new versions of AK47.

[Giannis Papas]

That's a good point.

[Chrissy D]

Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

So how does this work and how does this play out? Right. It plays out between, in America, it plays out with this kind of tacit agreement between.

[Chrissy D]

What does the word tacit mean?

[Giannis Papas]

Tacit, like not outwardly spoken. Okay, so it's like secretive, secret, serendipit, surreptitious. Right. It's sort of tacit. Meaning it's understood.

[Chrissy D]

Yep. Tacit means understood or implied without being openly expressed.

[Giannis Papas]

Exactly.

[Chrissy D]

Right, yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

They don't openly express it. So it's tacit. It's the perfect word to describe how this works.

[Chrissy D]

Right.

[Giannis Papas]

So Congress votes on stuff. Okay, the military industrial complex, which is composed of these companies, lobbies Congress. Right. Lobbies Congress and says, hey, we need this, this, this. But also what we're going to do is we're going to set up factories in your district, which creates jobs. And what they are, what they. The way they capture the whole Congress and keep themselves in business is because they spread out the manufacturing over many districts across the country. There's a couple of, there's a couple of military projects that exemplify this perfectly. Where like I think it was the F13 or the F35, where different parts of it were manufactured all across the country. And they do that strategically to win the votes of these congresspeople who knows that these factories or whatever manufacturing bases will create jobs for those districts. And so they know that they would never vote against funding for these military contractors because that would mean loss of jobs. So what the, what the military industrial complex sells is jobs.

[Chrissy D]

Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

They go, we're going to employ. Boom. And we'll set up your factory here. And in turn. And what you're going to do for me, me is you're going to vote this budget through so then I can in turn create these jobs for your district. Yeah, it's what it just goes like that. It goes, it goes Congress to the weapons manufacturers, weapon manufacturers lobby back to Congress. And then the, and then the big budgets just come in.

[Chrissy D]

It's just what it is.

[Giannis Papas]

That's just one of our biggest employers is the military industrial complex. And that's why the budget is so big. And that's how they ensure that the budget stays big, is because you're basically saying, hey man, you're doing, you're voting for this big budget for your district to keep these people employed. But they don't go, hey, do we still need these weapons? And they go, that's not the question we're asking. We're asking if you want to get reelected. Because if we close down that fucking factory or whatever it is, that manufacturing arm, then your people are going to be unemployed. They're going to vote you out.

[Chrissy D]

Yeah. So it's just what it is. So that's why you just, on Those planes on 911 just had Lockheed Martin on the side.

[Giannis Papas]

That's just what they just said.

[Chrissy D]

We need to test out these new weapons. So. So unfortunately, we're doing this.

[Giannis Papas]

Well, here's another thing just that's relevant to today, right. When you think about it, when you go, what is this thing with Israel in the United States? Well, think about it. Our military, right. And also there's a lot of this back and forth. Well, you know, guys will be working for the private defense contractors and then they'll get into government, be heads of DoD, work in the Pentagon, and then they'll jump back and forth, jumping back and forth from the private to the Public sector. So they, you know, they know how to. That, sweetheart. Deal themselves.

[Chrissy D]

Right.

[Giannis Papas]

Or. Or for the interest of the private contractor, just need a little juice. Get a little juice. Be a little therapist, get some therapy juice in there. So want a little juice?

[Chrissy D]

You want a little theraflu?

[Giannis Papas]

So Israel, Israel is. People go, why? Why do we love Israel, first of all? You know, it keeps us in the Middle East. We like that. We like the influence in the Middle East. You're going like, what does America get out of this? Well, I'll tell you.

[Chrissy D]

You.

[Giannis Papas]

The military industrial complex gets a lot out of Israel because it functions. Israel functions as a de facto US Military outpost in the Middle East. I'm just reading my tweet because I wrote this. U.S. weapons surveillance systems are tested in Israel.

[Chrissy D]

Right.

[Giannis Papas]

During, like, real combat conditions. Right, right. And so Israel shares the battlefield data with these companies. Right, right. And that's how. And that's how these American companies benefit because they don't have to risk American lives to actually test out all this stuff that they're making.

[Chrissy D]

Right.

[Giannis Papas]

Because Israel's always at war. That's why it's always too soon to tell a joke about the Middle east. Because you're going like, they're dying now.

[Chrissy D]

Yeah. Kids are always at war.

[Giannis Papas]

Always at war.

[Chrissy D]

Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

So that's how it plays out with Israel as an example. But you can see it play out all over the world, how we're always in perpetual war. Because war is great for business.

[Chrissy D]

So that's why there is no in there. They are not incentivized financially for peace. So you can even see it all the way down, I think even on the local news or the national news. That's why they're always going to look for the. For the, you know, baiting stories. They're always going to look for another enemy. There's no. There's no. Why would they be incentivized to cure racism, to cure war. There's. There's no money.

[Giannis Papas]

There's no money.

[Chrissy D]

The money is in the fighting.

[Giannis Papas]

The money is in. Oh, now we got the war on terror. Now we got whatever we can.

[Chrissy D]

It's always a new war.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah. And so how it works is they just. They take the money from, you know, us through taxes, and then it just gets funneled into the military companies for them to create more weapons. And then, of course, they have the weapons. So we need to, you know, you need to use the weapons.

[Chrissy D]

Right.

[Giannis Papas]

So they can make new ones. So it's just a conveyor belt that goes round and Round around. And our Congress people are captured by it because they want to stay in office. So they look at the defense contractors who strategically set up their manufacturing factories in places that could use the jobs.

[Chrissy D]

Right.

[Giannis Papas]

And so that's how they capture the Congress.

[Chrissy D]

That's how they do it.

[Giannis Papas]

That's how they keep the votes coming.

[Chrissy D]

And people.

[Giannis Papas]

And it's the major part of our economy. It is.

[Chrissy D]

It's the reason why, you know, like, people. You don't even realize it. Like, we are the number one superpower. And people still, no matter what the media says, people still risk their lives every day trying to get in here. And it's because we just are a big warmongering nation.

[Giannis Papas]

We are a warmongering nation. There's no way around it.

[Chrissy D]

There's just. No, we're like the, you know, like the Mohawk Indians were like. They were like the War Clan. We're just a modern day War clan.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah.

[Chrissy D]

And that's what it is. And people walk around with flasks of whiskey. I walk around flasks of theraflo.

[Giannis Papas]

You do it. And that's what Dwight. Dwight Eisenhower was warning against because he saw that happen. And I think it really happened to us after World War II. And when we built up. I'm sorry, after World War I. No, World War II. World War II. Yeah, World War II. And then he was warning against it because he saw just the power that they were starting to have to.

[Chrissy D]

And he worried that this is what we're gonna come.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah. Dictate what reality was and to kind of hijack the government and the budget.

[Chrissy D]

And that's just what country is closest to us. Do we know? I know we are number one, as you said, ten next combined. But. But who's second? Because I want to look at, like, who's the second? Who. Who invests the second most money? What nation invests the most amount of money? Is it China?

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah, of course it's China. And it used to be Russia. And this is the thing. This is the warning. This is the history part. You look at Rome, you look at England, you look at, you know, the British Empire, you look at a few of these empires. What ultimately led to their demise was the military industrial complex. They were spending too much money on perpetual war, and they collapsed from within. They weren't spending enough money on their education, on.

[Chrissy D]

Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

On health care, on their infrastructure.

[Chrissy D]

Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

They just were addicted to this kind of constant conquest. And then they just collapsed.

[Chrissy D]

And unfortunately, China is, Is. Is the second biggest. We all know about Russia. And then a Surprise, surprise on the 4th. And you may not want to hear this, but the next who has made the top five is a little nation known as Germany.

[Giannis Papas]

Germany.

[Chrissy D]

So Germany is now just starting to really ramp it up. And that's not a great thing.

[Giannis Papas]

Y.

[Chrissy D]

Because then I'm gonna have to choose sides.

[Giannis Papas]

Look at the amount, the amount of money that's spent on it is unbelievable. And in my opinion, you gotta say, you know, hey, if you think that's a problem, then AOC makes a good point about.

[Chrissy D]

Right.

[Giannis Papas]

She's going, hey, you can, you could take a little money. And a lot of people always go, but Medicare and Medicaid cost so much. And yeah, they do, they do. But when you talk, when you look at the discretionary budget, we could put more into the discretionary budget that they vote on every year for health care.

[Chrissy D]

And yeah, you're like, could, Instead of doing 997, Billy, could we do 897 billion and still be three times as big as China, but just save a few more old people?

[Giannis Papas]

Or how about we just do 315 billion?

[Chrissy D]

Yeah. And we just need to stay 1.

[Giannis Papas]

Billion ahead of China.

[Chrissy D]

Yeah. Just to give them a real fuck you. Because, like, I do think 997 billion is a little excessive.

[Giannis Papas]

It's a lot. It's a lot, a lot of money. It's a lot, a lot of money. And I think you can see, you can, you can almost go like, I can kind of see the consequences of that a little bit. And when you think of how fucking.

[Chrissy D]

Stupid people are, do you think it'll ever change? Or you think this is who we are, this is our identity and it ain't going nowhere and it's not stopping.

[Giannis Papas]

I, I think it's, I think it's a story as old as time when you look at it. And that's what's so great about history, and that's why people study history, is you can see that it's happened before and you can see where it leads. Unfortunately, it just. You overextend yourself. A lot of people believe that. We just, we sometimes we go into wars just to dump artillery.

[Chrissy D]

Right.

[Giannis Papas]

I actually had this guy, he was a landscaper of mine. One of the first guys. He was former military, so he was a landscaper. He was one of the non Mexican landscape. I didn't hire him because he, he didn't give me Mexican prices.

[Chrissy D]

It's just what it is.

[Giannis Papas]

But he, he was a former military guy and he was in Iraq and he told me, he was like, he was Just like don't. He was like dude, that what they would do is they would go on night runs. This is what he said. He was like I'm just telling you what the truth is. They'd go on night runs and just dump artillery into the desert. They just dump artillery. They would just like not killing people.

[Chrissy D]

Dumping artillery because they just to get.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah, yes. They could order more like they were just dumping artillery. Wow. That's what he would say. And you go look, it's just what, it's just what happened. He was like so you're not going to read about it? Like this is what. That's what was.

[Chrissy D]

So what do you mean dumping? Like shooting their guns, dropping their bombs.

[Giannis Papas]

Plane rides and just. And they were just. And just bomb the desert for no reason.

[Chrissy D]

Well, you know what's interesting is in that movie Warfare and this made me think it's like they have artillery, right? And they. I understand that they need to use it, I really do. But they also would kept doing this thing in the movie where the. They would be pinned down by gunfire from the Afghanis. I believe they were in Afghanistan. And then they would call in what's called a show of force where an F16 would just, just fly low because you know they go so fast and break the sound barrier. They would fly low like I'm talking about a thousand feet in the air and just the sound of it would kick the dust up and like knock buildings down and like actually you know, scare the, you know, other the Middle Eastern military but also like cause damage. And I'm like can't they just do that? Can't they just like show a force like it was almost like with sound they could do this. But military industrial complex says well they got to drop the artillery somewhere so of course they can't just do that.

[Giannis Papas]

Right, right, right, right, right. So yeah, I mean that, that's something that you either think is a problem or it's not a problem. I mean what do you think?

[Chrissy D]

I mean I don't.

[Giannis Papas]

We'll give you our opinion right after these messages.

[Chrissy D]

Right after these messages from True Classic.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah, I just asked Chat GBT cuz it's a friend of ours.

[Chrissy D]

Yeah, Chat GPT is nice. And yours is a girl you said Or a guy.

[Giannis Papas]

I don't remember. So some of like a lot of the signs of decay are when defense budgets balloon while roads, schools, health care and cities crumble.

[Chrissy D]

Check.

[Giannis Papas]

50% of US discretionary spending goes to military. Meanwhile hospitals close, teachers strike. He said Rome did the same lavishing Money on legions. While aqueducts and civic life deteriorated.

[Chrissy D]

Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

So you can kind of see infrastructure collapse, bridges failing, water undrinkable, cities decaying. We see that in Flint. We have examples of that. Because war machines get newer jets, hypersonic missiles, while subways break down. Look at our fucking subway.

[Chrissy D]

Right.

[Giannis Papas]

Compared to like the latest military technology.

[Chrissy D]

Right. New York subway is a. Yeah, it's not good.

[Giannis Papas]

So late. Empires always protect their borders better than they invest in their people. So that becomes a sign of decay, that there's signs from the past.

[Chrissy D]

So we are protecting our borders right now.

[Giannis Papas]

And then they also see in. In the past, support the troops becomes a religion. But veterans are neglected. We got that. Endless wards are norm. Endless wars are normalized. We have that, that militarization of the police, border agents, even language. War on drugs, war on terror. Ancient Athens fell into this trap. Glorifying war led them into futile draining campaigns like the Sicilian disaster. Look at us. Fucking Afghanistan. Just disasters where we just dump. Losing money, lose money for no reasons. But someone's getting rich.

[Chrissy D]

Right.

[Giannis Papas]

It's just our money's being used. Right. And funneled into.

[Chrissy D]

And once that train goes, you almost can't stop it.

[Giannis Papas]

You can't. It's tough. And then you look at you, just enjoy the ride. The Ottomans, the J. Janissaries, became powerful and started demanding loot. The British colonial companies did. The Janissaries and the British companies did the same. They became these military elite units that became unaccountable. Unaccountable. When the military becomes the government, it's like the same thing. Why Rome as a republic failed is because Julius Caesar got so powerful with his. With his troops and then it became a dictatorship and. Right. Just the end of a republic. So permanent war, you know, is just. It's a permanent economy.

[Chrissy D]

Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

They're not fought to win. They're fought to keep the machine moving, keep it going. That's. That's what becomes the problem.

[Chrissy D]

Right.

[Giannis Papas]

So it becomes an addiction.

[Chrissy D]

Yeah, yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

It just becomes an addiction.

[Chrissy D]

So you're saying that what the military needs to do is get in the program and on the beam.

[Giannis Papas]

It's what it seems like low dose. Yeah, it seems like we're. We're definitely at a point point where if we said we're going to reprioritize from defense, it would probably not. We wouldn't be hurt as a nation.

[Chrissy D]

Right.

[Giannis Papas]

You know. Right, we wouldn't be hurt. But you know what would be hurt? Us Selling weapons to foreign countries that want to keep warring. And defense companies, profits would go Down.

[Chrissy D]

Yeah, and that. But. And that's probably the real illuminati, the real 1%, dude.

[Giannis Papas]

I mean, it's like. Yeah. I mean, come on, you know, I mean, like, what's, what's really. Is it really Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk, right, who are hurting everyone, or is it the military industrial.

[Chrissy D]

I mean, you look at, you look at like, you know, even like that.

[Giannis Papas]

Is it, is it Elon Musk's responsibility to build roads and create health care for people or not our government?

[Chrissy D]

No. And it's like that's being time. You look at that Iranian hostage crisis. It's like Iran, you know, we, we had the certain shah in there because that shah was buying weapons for us.

[Giannis Papas]

Yes.

[Chrissy D]

We put in leaders all the time that will buy our weapons and then the whole country gets destabilized and then we have reasons to go in there and fight their quote, unquote enemies and bomb them. And it's all one, you know?

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah. It's to keep the gravy train going.

[Chrissy D]

What it is.

[Giannis Papas]

It's to keep the fucking. It's to keep the murder content. A comment that. That's their algorithm.

[Chrissy D]

Yeah, yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

They got to keep it going. You can't take any time off.

[Chrissy D]

The difference is, it's like, I think why. Because we all kind of know it now. But I think the difference is, is like, we don't let it. We understand. I think you and I, guys like us understand that there's really truly nothing we can do except talk about it and make fun of it and that's our outlet. And just live our lives and enjoy our lives. Because, you know, going out on the street with a sign.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah.

[Chrissy D]

It's not going to stop.

[Giannis Papas]

That does anything. No, that never does anything. You got to. I don't. How do you do it? How do you make a difference? Because this is obviously a problem. And one of the best examples is the Soviet Union. So, you know, they collapsed because of the military industrial complex.

[Chrissy D]

Right.

[Giannis Papas]

It was, you know that, I mean.

[Chrissy D]

Even, even the Germans. Right. I mean, they, they always say the reason why they lost that war is because they tried to have that two pronged war and fight Russia in the winter, United States in the summer. And, and it's all. It's too much.

[Giannis Papas]

In the 1980s, the USSR was spending 25 to 40% of its GDP on defense. Right. And at that time, the United States was only spending 3 to 4%. Oh, no, I'm sorry. It's only three to. This is crazy. I'm sorry. I read that wrong. So they were spending 25 to 40% in the 80s. They're spending too much and they're. 20 to 40% in the 80s is only 3 to 4% in the United States today.

[Chrissy D]

That's what it is.

[Giannis Papas]

So their budget that was considered big back then is only 3 to 4% of what we spent of the budget now.

[Chrissy D]

So it's gotten worse.

[Giannis Papas]

So it's just. So. Yeah, I mean, they were spending all this money on the military while their. Their people were waiting on breadlines.

[Chrissy D]

Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

They were doing it as a communist country with no profit motive. So, I mean, you're going to crash quick that way.

[Chrissy D]

Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

At least we, you know, we have private industry, so we can keep the illusion going for a little while.

[Chrissy D]

Yeah. I mean, the only thing that can be beneficial for us in the military industrial complex is if the aliens do arrive by November, which is what we suspect, which is what the New York Post is telling us is at least we'll have the best weapons to combat the them.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah. I mean, here's the thing. They're saying that the. They're coming. They're going to show up in November. Maybe they say that they're hostile. I'm like, my question is, this is what makes it so funny. Yeah. This is what makes it so funny. And I think it. I think the elite pedophilia ring has broken the spell on everyone. I think it's cut through all the bullshit because everyone's concerned about it. So I think everyone sees that alien story as funny money. And I think they're starting to see through the. Because think about it like this. Let me just bring it up. They go, they're hostile.

[Chrissy D]

Right.

[Giannis Papas]

It's like, how the. Do you know that?

[Chrissy D]

Did you ask them?

[Giannis Papas]

Did they send a telegram? Yeah, maybe they're coming. Maybe they're coming because they're. They want to know who's on the Epstein list, too.

[Chrissy D]

Yeah, it's just what, you know they're hostile. Yeah, it just.

[Giannis Papas]

You could see the like, oh, we want to scare people.

[Chrissy D]

Right.

[Giannis Papas]

By saying they're hostile. How would you know that they're hostile?

[Chrissy D]

Yeah. And you gave a month. November.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah. It's like, okay, date. You're going to be here in November.

[Chrissy D]

Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah.

[Chrissy D]

Interesting.

[Giannis Papas]

It's very funny.

[Chrissy D]

Yeah. People look potentially be a hostile alien.

[Giannis Papas]

How do you know they're hostile?

[Chrissy D]

Yeah. No, you don't.

[Giannis Papas]

Jesse, what do you think? Is this a bullshit story? Yes.

[Chrissy D]

Yes, it is.

[Giannis Papas]

I hope they're not hostile, because that would be terrible, because then we'd be smoked.

[Chrissy D]

Right? But when are you going to sculpt the fat princess from Iran?

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah. What A fat princess from Iran. What's her name? You want.

[Chrissy D]

What was her name? No.

[Giannis Papas]

Fatima.

[Chrissy D]

Fatima. We want you to about put in the studio. Yeah. All right.

[Giannis Papas]

Here. Nice.

[Chrissy D]

Fat. I might have one already, actually. I do, I do.

[Giannis Papas]

No, but you don't have her with the mustache. I got a good one. You're going to love it. Yeah. Yeah.

[Chrissy D]

Can you sculpt Mama June?

[Giannis Papas]

I like some of these comments, though, on this have been fun. This guy goes, so should I make plans for Thanksgiving or just wait?

[Chrissy D]

See? Yeah. See the replies. Because I'm telling you, people, if you look at these things, people know. How do they know? Hostile, though. Did they? Yeah. So people know.

[Giannis Papas]

Hostile.

[Chrissy D]

Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

Did they give us the finger as they pass by?

[Chrissy D]

Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

I mean, it is really funny. Funny.

[Chrissy D]

Yeah. I mean, this one's a Renee Graziano says, leave that ship alone. My next husband is aboard.

[Giannis Papas]

I mean, let's be.

[Chrissy D]

She sounds like a piece.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah.

[Chrissy D]

I mean, yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

But it was interesting that you, you. You predicted that.

[Chrissy D]

Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

Which was funny. You were like, what's coming next? Aliens? And it was like two days later.

[Chrissy D]

Well, because it just kind of. So that's clearly people learning.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah.

[Chrissy D]

It just so clearly feels that, like. All right, you know, you know, the, the Epstein thing is, is, you know, my group chat is a good predictor of what's happening. And my group chat is they're all starting to turn on the. On the current administration. So they're saying. So I'm like, they know if. If my group chat knows the powers that be at the top now, and they're like, we got to think of something. We got to distract some. So they're going to try aliens. I don't think it's going to work. And I think things are probably going to get bad because Ghislaine Maxwell, I just saw on the post today that they said that she's given like, over like 100 names or something like that, and that. That they're probably working out some kind of deal for her to just walk away with immunity. So if she walks out of jail.

[Giannis Papas]

It'S not going to be good. Yeah, it would be good.

[Chrissy D]

Yeah. She's. She. If she walks out of jail, she should walk out of jail with baby oil. Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah. But you know that I think that is one of the good things about the Internet, though, is I think it is good that the corporate media is not the only media out there anymore.

[Chrissy D]

Right.

[Giannis Papas]

I think that is a good.

[Chrissy D]

They can check them now.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah. And I think it's good thing that there's other options. People can go and get media or opinions that aren't like corporate sponsored. I think that's important for the long term picture of our country.

[Chrissy D]

It is, but it was, it was less scary when there. When we just had to be fed the state media.

[Giannis Papas]

That was less like a good time.

[Chrissy D]

Because the military industrial complex and all this stuff was happening 20 years ago.

[Giannis Papas]

We just didn't know about it.

[Chrissy D]

We were just having fun watching reality tv.

[Giannis Papas]

Everyone just saw Dwight Eisenhower make that speech and then they just were like, oh, there's nothing we can do about it. We can't talk about it anymore. Let's go get. Get. Let's go get a shake. Yeah.

[Chrissy D]

Burger.

[Giannis Papas]

Go see a movie at an outdoor movie theater.

[Chrissy D]

Yeah. Let's throw on our T bird jackets and get hickey.

[Giannis Papas]

That's it. Yeah, that's it.

[Chrissy D]

Yeah. And now instead we got to read about like the Reddit thread that says Eisenhower is actually Nazi or reptile.

[Giannis Papas]

That's right.

[Chrissy D]

And I don't. And that just gets scary.

[Giannis Papas]

That just gets a little scary. But it's also good that people, I think, kind of know what's going on. I think more people are kind of of all intelligence levels are starting to know what's going on a little bit.

[Chrissy D]

Bit.

[Giannis Papas]

And that this is a little club up there.

[Chrissy D]

Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

And sometimes they do. Boo boos.

[Chrissy D]

Cuz. I got to be honest with you. I got to be honest with you. I think I might have overdid it with Theraflu because I'm feeling a little loopy. You feel a little loop? See? A little loopy hole. Yeah, I am feeling a little loopy hole right now. I think coffee and Theraflu is probably not the best. Yeah, I'm just feeling a little loopy.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah, it's just what it is.

[Chrissy D]

So I'm gonna have to just start reading these Patreon names because I'm going down.

[Giannis Papas]

Let's go. Let's do it. Because we made it to our. We made it to our.

[Chrissy D]

Do we get all our things, all our facts?

[Giannis Papas]

Let's go.

[Chrissy D]

Go. So, as you know, always go to patreon.com history hyenas. And we love to read out the names. We are a little bit backed up. So if you don't hear your name this episode, please don't call us slurs on the Patreon. Here we go. Welcome to the list. My uncle made me smell his finger after.

[Giannis Papas]

I'm gonna Put that on the list.

[Chrissy D]

Oh, wow. I'm gonna put that on. We haven't had the first one out of the gate on the list. That's. That's interesting.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah.

[Chrissy D]

Reno.

[Giannis Papas]

That's an. That's a double trauma. Not only is it gonna do. Smell it.

[Chrissy D]

Lou Lewis and the.

[Giannis Papas]

We had that.

[Chrissy D]

Got it.

[Giannis Papas]

We had that one.

[Chrissy D]

Dr. Pastrami, Nick V. Tuckback. Squeak in lap. PJ catapult engaged.

[Giannis Papas]

That guy's just. Just going for all our.

[Chrissy D]

Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

To all our talking points. Oh, by the way, the merch is coming. We're about. Is about to go up, so we'll make the announcement when it comes.

[Chrissy D]

Yes. Smorgasbord. Jen Shiro would turn Ben Shapiro to a Greek giro. Yeah, that one's in.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah, that one made me spit out my Zen.

[Chrissy D]

Yeah. Graham Moans. Cole Portella. Giannis sees everybody in a different way.

[Giannis Papas]

Put him on the list. Yeah, yeah, because. Sees him in a different way because the eyes are closed.

[Chrissy D]

Yep, I got it.

[Giannis Papas]

And he punned on our expression.

[Chrissy D]

I like it. Faz. Four, three, two. Trey Shayna, AOC gives me a stimmy 2024. Donnie T. Okay. Yanni. Cracked open and cleaned out Wrecking Crew. James Mindler. My glue smells like farts. Hurts. Okay.

[Giannis Papas]

Chicken finger, K Mac.

[Chrissy D]

Drizzly soup. Care Bear, Jordan Thorne, Michael Rarer. Straight to the back. Because I'm gay.

[Giannis Papas]

Okay.

[Chrissy D]

Patrick, make no mistake. Mistakes were made. Minogue, John Seto, Nick Cerulo. Dem Frisbees. Throwing missiles.

[Giannis Papas]

It's kind of just an observation of the news.

[Chrissy D]

Tracy Opuku, Andrew Cuomo's tit handshake.

[Giannis Papas]

It's a really good point. Because he gropes.

[Chrissy D]

Oh, yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

So see, just his head. You got to put them on the list.

[Chrissy D]

All right.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah, that's a really good one. That might be a contender.

[Chrissy D]

Okay. Daniel Sabrewski, Evan youn. Zachary Reed. Married, but now she won't swallow my synovial fluid.

[Giannis Papas]

That's just kind of what we all deal with. Yeah.

[Chrissy D]

Mike Hunt, L Steezy, Dean Eggenschwiller, Adolf Albersus, AOC Deep Throats. Leroy's for lunch, then queefs out the cricket glue.

[Giannis Papas]

Ceiling cricket.

[Chrissy D]

Yes. Oh, okay. Ken Robbins, Jerry Sandusky for the win. Tatos the Great Will Tim Dillon's ghost have diabetes. Not Jewish, but my anxiety sure is. Yani Mamdani's failed DEI initiative, aka Jared Harvin.

[Giannis Papas]

Lot of 14 inside baseball. Yeah, but he gets a Drexler. But I mean, man, is that fucking funny.

[Chrissy D]

Eckhart told me Chrissy likes Glue guns in his Buddha Chedge for the table. Diego Brando, Mike Hinkle, Abola.

[Giannis Papas]

Lola Titus that Eckhart told deserves a drex.

[Chrissy D]

That's fun. Drex.

[Giannis Papas]

Okay.

[Chrissy D]

Ebola. Lola Titus, the Rude Doula. Yanni P. More like Yanni wnba. Because at this point, we need to see your dribble package because the boy loves him a hesi.

[Giannis Papas]

Okay, okay.

[Chrissy D]

My piece ain't big, but it's got a lot of character.

[Giannis Papas]

That's the definition of a chicken finger.

[Chrissy D]

There you go.

[Giannis Papas]

Maybe that. That's the award for chicken. That's a good one.

[Chrissy D]

Hindu LGBTQAnon Shaman. My ball sack looks like gulab jamun.

[Giannis Papas]

He went for it.

[Chrissy D]

Okay.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah. He's going with the. The QAnon Shaman and LGTB. It was good.

[Chrissy D]

Okay. Sosa. Kippy Vandelay. Andy Einstein split my Adam's apple with his gay gamma ray ray. Chrissy, would you rather watch a tree grow? Can't say that. Chrissy D. Sucking plantanos out of AOC's Coco Dono. Okay.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah.

[Chrissy D]

Eddie Sill, Jaden. Jesse Tellak, Casey Sennett, Seth Davis. Straight to the back like a Leroy on the bus.

[Giannis Papas]

Wow. Gotcha.

[Chrissy D]

Okay.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah.

[Chrissy D]

Good. She had fumes. Now I can't control my bladder. 14.

[Giannis Papas]

Okay.

[Chrissy D]

Okay. Philip Mitten, Burnt End. Sean Atwater. Joey Gaga. Germanada. Don't touch my daughter.

[Giannis Papas]

I like that one. I'm going to Drexler it.

[Chrissy D]

Okay. Make no mistake, I'm on the beam with my cousin and my girlfriend. The ladder's 14. Okay. Oh, the ladder's 14. Saint. His girlfriend's 14.

[Giannis Papas]

Oh, wait.

[Chrissy D]

Say that again. He says, make no mistake. I'm on the beam with my cousin and my girlfriend. The latter L A T T e R is 14.

[Giannis Papas]

Okay.

[Chrissy D]

Okay.

[Giannis Papas]

That's a pedophile joke. It's a joke and it's inventive.

[Chrissy D]

Yes.

[Giannis Papas]

That is supposed to be on the list. What should we do? It's a walked in it is it?

[Chrissy D]

It. It. I. It's one of those ones where even it caught me and even I had to reread it. It is very inventive.

[Giannis Papas]

Very inventive. We're going to direct slur it because there is pedophilia. Yeah, it's pedophilia. That's the issue. But the joke structure is beautiful.

[Chrissy D]

Beautiful. And we want to commend you. That was good. A good one. Greek for Michael Taylor Formstrom. Suck a fume out of Chrissy balloon. Hold it like a bong hit. Oh, suck a fume out of Chrissy. Balloon. Hold it like a bong hit. Okay.

[Giannis Papas]

Dude. What we created is so ridiculous, so wild that this.

[Chrissy D]

This is our career.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah.

[Chrissy D]

Drake. When do we get our big boy dicks?

[Giannis Papas]

Is it Drake? When do we get.

[Chrissy D]

No, no, no. The Drake was one name, then a separate name. When do we get our big boy dick?

[Giannis Papas]

I'm put the list because it's just funny.

[Chrissy D]

Twisted Timmy, AKA I Blame the Jews. Hold on. Twisted Timmy, AKA I Blame the Jews.

[Giannis Papas]

If I don't make the list, Drex are funny.

[Chrissy D]

All right. Supreme Leader Jeannie Ping Pong. Got my order Wong. Funny Jorge Castellanos. Jamie's Lipton Kreb Herman. I snorted a blue chew to think harder, but all I got was a migraine and a half. Chop up.

[Giannis Papas]

It's. You got to put it on the list.

[Chrissy D]

All right.

[Giannis Papas]

Too good.

[Chrissy D]

Damn. A lot Conservatims BBQ and on chips. Paputa on Twitch. Come see me in a different way cuz he's. Hashtag screwed in. There you go. Papa on Twitch.

[Giannis Papas]

Papua on Twitch.

[Chrissy D]

Got head from a girl with braces on Birthright. Hashtag Iron Dome.

[Giannis Papas]

Okay, that is so good. Yeah, read that again.

[Chrissy D]

Got head from a girl with braces on Birthright. Hashtag Iron Dome.

[Giannis Papas]

That's a good one. Iron domed. You got. You know, you got dome piece. Drexler.

[Chrissy D]

All right. Filthy.

[Giannis Papas]

Okay.

[Chrissy D]

Wow.

[Giannis Papas]

That's a. That's a walked in one.

[Chrissy D]

Yeah, that Leroy Diddy palm my Frisbee like a Spalding.

[Giannis Papas]

Okay.

[Chrissy D]

The showers work.

[Giannis Papas]

That's a walked in one.

[Chrissy D]

Okay. Sorry about that. That's not good.

[Giannis Papas]

That's bad. What?

[Chrissy D]

Goldie Kendra Cook, John Pegan the Stallion instead of Megan Thee Stallion.

[Giannis Papas]

Very good.

[Chrissy D]

Bert walked into one ladder 14.

[Giannis Papas]

Does not. Yep.

[Chrissy D]

He does not. The hard R.

[Giannis Papas]

Jesus Christ.

[Chrissy D]

Eric Gutierrez.

[Giannis Papas]

It's almost like you're walking through Benson Hurst.

[Chrissy D]

Yeah. Kamali Wally AKA Laser Beam. Leroy Edward Wenland Cooper Hughes, Jesse Wynan, Natalie NY I sumi Sepu by fisting. It's a good one.

[Giannis Papas]

Chicken Figure.

[Chrissy D]

Okay. Mitchell Reber, unit 731. Did my top surgery. All right.

[Giannis Papas]

There we go.

[Chrissy D]

Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

Somebody who's paying attention to episodes.

[Chrissy D]

Elizabeth Boom. Gavin Steele Kristen Gemini Glue Gun Gobble Goo. Jalen Douglas Citizen Dez the Lord of the Pieces starring Orlando Fume Taint McCray DJ lackluster lobotomy for Laramie Tunsil.

[Giannis Papas]

Let's stop there. We got enough?

[Chrissy D]

Yeah, yeah, sure. Okay.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah.

[Chrissy D]

All right.

[Giannis Papas]

It's plenty.

[Chrissy D]

All right. So we're a little bit behind and we will catch up. But until. Until the end Then here is our list. So we got a few.

[Giannis Papas]

Okay. Because we got a lot.

[Chrissy D]

So we got. When do we get our big boy dicks?

[Giannis Papas]

Okay. We're going to just chicken finger that. But I. I put him on the list because he deserved it for the laugh factor.

[Chrissy D]

I snorted a blue chew to think harder, but all I got was a migraine and a half chub.

[Giannis Papas]

We're going to keep him around now. That's really good.

[Chrissy D]

Unit 731 did my top surgery.

[Giannis Papas]

We're going to keep that around for now.

[Chrissy D]

Go. My uncle made me smell his finger after.

[Giannis Papas]

We're going to chicken figure that. Shout out for the laugh fact.

[Chrissy D]

That's it. Jen Shiro would turn Ben Shapiro to a Greek giro.

[Giannis Papas]

That's good. I don't know who the first guy is.

[Chrissy D]

So the Rhymeski General Shiro. He's the one from unit 731. Yes. Jen Shiro would turn Ben Shapiro to a Greek hero.

[Giannis Papas]

So good.

[Chrissy D]

Because he doesn't like. He would kill the Jews saying, yeah, General Shiro.

[Giannis Papas]

Ok. So it's a little bit of a Walked in one.

[Chrissy D]

Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

We're going to. It's so good. But we're going to Drexler.

[Chrissy D]

Okay. Yeah. Yanni sees everybody in a different way.

[Giannis Papas]

That's a chicken finger.

[Chrissy D]

Chicken finger. Okay. Andrew Cuomo's tit handshake.

[Giannis Papas]

We're gonna keep that one around. And I think that. I think we're leaning there.

[Chrissy D]

All right, so we got Andrew Cuomo's tit handshake. Unit 731 did my top surgery and I snorted a blue chew to think harder, but all I got was a migraine and a half.

[Giannis Papas]

Are you sure there's not more on the other one?

[Chrissy D]

We only did two pages, right?

[Giannis Papas]

That's it.

[Chrissy D]

Yeah.

[Giannis Papas]

Okay. All right. So those are the ones. All right. Say them again. Again.

[Chrissy D]

Andrew Cuomo's Titan shake.

[Giannis Papas]

Keep it around.

[Chrissy D]

Okay. Unit 731 did my top surgery. I snorted a blue chew to think harder, but all I got was a migraine and a half chub.

[Giannis Papas]

Okay. I know. I. From the three. I know who I'm. I know what I'm going for.

[Chrissy D]

What do you got?

[Giannis Papas]

I'm going for Andrew Cuomo's Titan.

[Chrissy D]

What do you got? Gees, that's a tough one.

[Giannis Papas]

I love the top surgery. Surgery is good.

[Chrissy D]

That's a really good one.

[Giannis Papas]

And the blue chew's great. But yeah, I'm going top. I'm going. Sorry. Andrew Cuomo's Titan shake.

[Chrissy D]

So then, congratulations, you are the winner. If you Go to History is his back dot com. You are the ppw, the pseudo penis of the week. You will say see your name up in lights, Andrew Cuomo's tit handshake and then go to History is his back. That is where all the merch will be. We got brand new merch coming out. Should be any day now.

[Giannis Papas]

Yeah that's right.

[Chrissy D]

Merch coming.

[Giannis Papas]

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[Chrissy D]

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