25 FEB 2026: Episode Delay - Return Thursday
The Wright Report
Bryan Dean Wright
4.9 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2026
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Join Bryan Dean Wright, former CIA Operations Officer, with a brief update instead of today's full episode. Bryan explains that a last-minute staffing setback disrupted production this week after a long-planned writing hire unexpectedly fell through.
He shares candidly about the ongoing challenge of building a small, trusted journalism team to help grow The Wright Report, especially as global tensions rise and the midterm cycle approaches. Bryan promises a return tomorrow and thanks listeners for their patience and continued support as the show works through this hurdle.
"And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." - John 8:32
Keywords: February 25 2026 Wright Report update, podcast staffing challenge, writer hire setback, independent journalism growth, New Media political podcast, midterm election coverage expansion
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| 0:00.0 | It's February 25th. I'm Brian Dean Wright, former CIA operations officer, and this is The Wright Report. |
| 0:12.1 | Hey, good day to you, ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to The Wright Report, your Daily News podcast, |
| 0:21.9 | although not today for a Daily News podcast, unfortunately. So here's the deal. This week was |
| 0:28.7 | supposed to be a really joyful one for me. I've been interviewing candidates over the past few months |
| 0:33.6 | to join me as a writer to research and draft the podcast each day, not just me doing |
| 0:39.0 | it, but a team. And I found one journalist who agreed to start this week after I spent months |
| 0:45.4 | negotiating with her and flexing the job description itself to make it exactly what she wanted. |
| 0:50.4 | And she was supposed to start this week, arrive this week. She did not. And she sent an |
| 0:55.9 | email back in out at the last possible second. And as a one-man show, that has wrecked a lot of stuff |
| 1:02.0 | that I've been preparing to deliver for you all and with you all. It threw a wrench in then getting |
| 1:07.6 | today's episode out, researched and written and recorded. So here I am. |
| 1:12.1 | Hat in hand, a little bit frustrated. |
| 1:15.3 | Apologizing to you all, my incredible and faithful listeners. |
| 1:18.7 | We're going to get back to it tomorrow as I start the search for help again from scratch. |
| 1:24.6 | And for what it's worth, for my longtime listeners out there, you know that I have |
| 1:28.4 | been on this for a while now, finding a writing team or just one to start, it's been what, |
| 1:34.4 | three, four years I've been at it. It has been the single greatest challenge for me in growing |
| 1:39.3 | and sustaining this podcast. And it's a shame, yeah, and frustrating, because I think that what this podcast is doing |
| 1:45.5 | is something very, very special in the space of new media. This is a space for people who think, |
| 1:51.2 | not just jaw flap or provoke. And that's why I've got you all as incredible listeners, |
| 1:56.0 | loyal listeners, and quite a few of those same folks this morning are listening at the White House and on Capitol Hill and various three-letter agencies in Washington, D.C. |
| 2:06.4 | So this podcast, then, is punching way above its weight. |
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