1-1/2 Greeks: Iran, Leftists on the March, and Tax Day

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Derek Hunter

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🗓️ 16 April 2026

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Dean Karayanis, columnist for the New York Sun, welcomes back his half-Greek writing partner from the Rush Limbaugh Show and former producer of The Drudge Report, George “Koko” Prayias for a fun look at the world’s serious issues. The episode debuts “One-and-a-Half Greeks” new theme song. It’s a little bit country, but the show is all Rock and Roll. The discussion covers the left’s embrace of Tax Day and hiking taxes on “the rich,” in the person of Mayor Zohran Mamdani. Democrats used to stay quiet on this day because America was built on a tax rebellion, but they’ve changed the electorate and now it’s a holiday — even though Americans will work for the government this year from January 1 to April 26, projected as Tax-Freedom Day. The war in Iran illustrates another break with the past, as Senators Schumer, Gillibrand, and Fetterman all find themselves targeted by the ascendant antisemite, socialist wing of their party. Swalwell is an indication that they will take down anyone who gets in their way, aiming the same anger at old-school Democrats that they once reserved for Republicans. Even Pope Leo, who George — as a life-long Catholic — laments is a “Chicago Machine Pope,” has decided to go all-in on the global effort to halt Trump’s agenda and rein in America. That this puts them on the side of the terrorist regime in Iran, Hamas, and Hezbollah doesn’t embarrass them. But at least the fiction that the groups aren’t all one in the same has been exposed by the ayatollahs’ own admission.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Derek Hunter podcast for this Thursday, and I have a special show for you today.
0:12.4	Yes, it's an episode of one and a half Greeks with George Cocoa Pryas, and we don't bring just our voices.
0:18.6	We bring you a theme song. Strings tune tight.
0:22.6	Coffee on the desk.
0:25.6	Two chairs, bright lights, you already know the rest.
0:31.6	Dean leans back, George leans in, arguing the world like too loud cousins headlines spinning truth on trial
0:40.1	They crack a joke then cross-examine your profile
0:43.5	One and a half creeps saying what the news won't speak
0:49.8	Laugh till the heart takes leap
0:52.9	It's one and a half feet
0:55.4	Spin that globe and take your seat
0:58.1	Politics with all of all your heat
1:00.9	We're one and a half
1:04.4	One and a half
1:05.9	George, what do you think of the theme song?
1:08.5	This is adding some flair, is it not?
1:10.7	It's something, I'll give it that, it's something. I like the way it came out country. People don't know the backstory. It's an AI song that you had written for this. I don't know too many country Greeks, but they're out there. The bazooki sounds a little off, but other than that, I love it. And I like the lemon on beans. That's the new one on me. I'm going to be throwing that olive oil grease with you today. Sure. It's great to have you. We'll play the rest of it at the end. For those of you who are new and wondering who the Half Creek is, that's George Cocoa Pryas from the Rush Limbaugh at the television show. That was his big showbiz break in a gorilla suit, a sweltering gorilla suit.
1:44.7	And then later we came to Fox News Channel
1:50.1	with me and some of our other friends, also a friend to Derek. And he worked for the Drudge
1:55.9	report, worked for Matt Drudge when he had his TV show at Fox, which was really groundbreaking.
1:59.6	And you see CNN now try to do those podcast sets and Drudge was he had his TV show at Fox, which was really groundbreaking. And you see CNN now try to do those
2:02.1	podcast sets. And Drudge was doing that 25 years with you as a producer. You really got him. And that was
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