From Belgium to Wall Street: The Dirty Birth of the Stock Market
Episode Date: May 8, 2025Yannis and Chris take you on a wild ride back to the very first stock market—then keep going all the way to ancient Greece and Rome, where guys in tog...
Comedians Yannis Pappas and Chris Distefano go WILD for history and nature. Listen in as these two Hyenas teach all things historical and natural in a way that you never thought was possible cuzzie! We’re tyrants for history, bad! Also nature.
480 episodes transcribedYannis and Chris take you on a wild ride back to the very first stock market—then keep going all the way to ancient Greece and Rome, where guys in tog...
Yannis & Chris are joined by Tim Dillon who explains the difference between the Hamptons and Beverely Hills. #Comedy #Podcast #History Join our...
Yannis & Chris sit down with Chelsea Handler and go wild. Make sure to watch her special on Netflix and get her book! #Comedy #Podcast #History Jo...
Tom Segura drops by and calls his mom to see who she thinks might be responsible for the Pope’s death. Afterwards, Tom, Chris, and Yannis go over the...
Chris & Yannis take you from the very first music festival all the way to today’s Coachella. Did you know music festivals have always been a thing? Th...
Yannis and Chris dive into the wild ride that is the history of American tariffs…spoiler alert: it’s been messy. Then they fast-forward to the Trump T...
The boys take you back to Transylvania to explore one of history’s most notorious serial killers, Countess Elizabeth Bathory. Did she really bathe in...
Bert Kreischer drops in to talk about how he’s the Ulysses S. Grant of comedy, his political heroes, and how he could take over an African village. He...
Yanni & Chris take this episode over to the Eastern Hemi to break down the history of Samurai culture. Then, NFL legend Pacman Jones drops in for a wi...
Let’s take you back to Bourbon-ruled France for the tale of Louis XIV. He was an opulent king who ruled with a watchful eye for 72 years. He spent lav...
Yannis & Chris delve deep into the past to explore the causes of the Jewish Diaspora. The Jews sought to shake off the yoke of Roman rule but failed i...
Yannis & Chrissie take a look at the life of P. Diddy and ask: What went wrong? Was he just an ambitious kid from New York who lost his way, or was he...
It’s Black History Month, and Chris and Yannis bring you one of the wildest slave escape stories in history: The incredible tale of Ellen and William...
The boys rattle off the history of the Panama Canal and how we got to where we are today with it. Donald Trump wants it back, and even prior administr...
The Hyenas dive into the wild and sordid history of Walt Disney and the empire he built. From questionable business dealings to urban legends about Di...
Live from The Lincoln Theater in Washington DC, Chrissie & Yanni cover a vicious toot who became a ruthless and effective ruler. The only prostitute t...
Yannis and Chris are in D.C. at Spotify’s on-site studio. They cover the history of inaugurations, recap their day in Washington, D.C., and go wild on...
Georgios Karaiskakis might just be one of the wildest figures in history. A Greek mountain rebel and the illegitimate son of a nun, he lived his life...
The boys take a deep dive into the wild history of cloning. These days, you can clone a pet, and scientists have successfully cloned animals—but what...
China has risen to global superpower status in just 49 years. What’s their ultimate goal? Is it to surpass the USA? Can the boys hold their ground aga...