Crime, Improv, Gloria Gaynor's MAGA, and the Legacy of "Young Frankenstein"

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Derek Hunter

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🗓️ 29 August 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Dean Karayanis of the Rush Limbaugh Show and the New York Sun sits in for Derek to groove you into the weekend. A look at the Democrats bungling their response to President Trump's crime initiatives and a New York Daily News hit piece on the legendary Gloria Gaynor for daring to support conservative candidates. Plus, a preview of Dean's Substack, "Postcards from the Shed," looks at the legacy of "Young Frankenstein," the "walk this way" bit's origin, how it saved Aerosmith and helped bring rap into the mainstream when Run-DMC covered the song in 1986. It's an enduring lesson for Hollywood and creative people everywhere.

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0:00.0	Hello, Mr. and Mrs. America and all the ships at sea.
0:09.2	Welcome to the Derek Hunter podcast.
0:12.0	This is Friday.
0:13.4	So give yourself a pat on the back.
0:15.3	Here it is.
0:16.1	You made it through four days this week.
0:18.7	Derek had only four days in him.
0:20.7	So he invited me to step in.
0:22.7	Those of you who haven't heard me before, I am Dean Carriannis. I'm a columnist at the New York
0:27.9	Sun. I also am a former member of Rush Limbaugh's highly overrated staff. Please be back with you.
0:34.4	Thank you very much for the kind words you've had to say about me the other times
0:38.5	that I've stepped in. I try to value the audience. That's something really important to me, whether
0:43.9	it's my readers or back of the days when I used to work with animals or anything else I've ever
0:49.7	done. Mow the lawn. There was a great line by Martin Luther King Jr.
1:09.9	And the Reverend said, if it falls here a lot to be a street sweeper, make sure you sweep that so well that when someone walks down that part of the street, they say, this must have truly been swept by a street sweeper that was touched by the hand of God.
1:11.7	So that's what we'll try to do today.
1:14.7	You can find me at historyauthor.com. That is the site for my show, the history author show.
1:18.4	Also, as I mentioned, nysun.com and at HistoryDien on Twitter.
1:24.3	In this crazy world, we evaluate ourselves by how many people are on those social media
1:28.8	sites. And I just passed 25,000, but I only use my Facebook for personal and multiple people
1:35.7	found one of my post that was open, I guess, to the public. And there was a bunch of just really
1:41.8	nasty remarks on there. One of the guys said, well, see, this is why you only have a few followers on Facebook.
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