How to Celebrate Presidents’ Day Without Really Trying

The Derek Hunter Podcast

Derek Hunter

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🗓️ 16 February 2026

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Dean Karayanis, New York Sun columnist, host of the History Author Show, and former member of Rush Limbaugh’s highly overrated staff, sits in for Derek. Mondays are becoming a regular thing! Topics include highlighting the success of Angel Studios, which is out with the enjoyable “Solo Mio” starring Kevin James and will have “Young Washington” this summer. Plus, a discussion of how to look and presidents, some anecdotes, and warnings about “celebrity historians” who shade the facts. Marco Rubio tells NATO allies what they fear to hear. “Irish Twitter” gets angry at Dean for pointing out the aid and comfort so many in their country gave Nazi Germany and Hamas as they rushed to tout Seamus Culleton as an innocent Irish victim of “fascist” America, only to learn he fled his country on drug charges and abandoned his two beautiful little girls before marrying a U.S. citizen last year in hopes of avoiding deportation for overstaying his visa by 16 years. “In the future, everybody will be Hitler for 15 minutes,” with apologies to Andy Warhol, as the Democrats slowly move on from Trump being Hitler to the next Republican, as they have done since FDR likened his GOP opponent to the Fuhrer while World War II was still raging. The show closes with a word from the first president ever captured in audio, Benjamín Harrison, and another clip from the archives: President William McKinley.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Derek Hunter podcast for this Monday, February 16th of 2026.
0:12.5	Sounds like the far future.
0:14.4	I'm here to help you kick your week off right.
0:17.0	Derek will be back tomorrow.
0:18.6	As you heard him talk about, if you were listening last week,
0:22.1	and if you've heard his cryptic mentions prior to that, he wants me to get some reps. I appreciate
0:28.1	the opportunity. He is getting good feedback from all of you out there about me being here. So
0:32.8	it looks like Monday is going to be a regular thing. And I'll also still fill in for Derek, and he'll, I'm sure, pick up Monday is when I am unable or unwilling to do it.
0:44.2	But I enjoy the time I'm spending with you.
0:46.2	My name is Dean Carriannis.
0:47.9	You can find me at history author.com.
0:50.3	And I'll probably stop mentioning these things because you'll find me out there if you want to now.
0:56.1	It's just a name.
0:57.3	My name is hard to spell.
0:58.6	That's why my Twitter handle is just History Dean because I just noticed my own name misspelled in my phone the other day.
1:06.5	My email address somehow, one of the many I have from my work at IHeartRadio, is wrong. I had so many emails over the years, and this one misspelled my last name. I don't know if that's from the company or where that came from, but you can't find me there. You can't find me at HistoryAauthor.com, and you can find me at History, Dean, on Twitter, if you so choose that all out of the way.
1:28.4	Let's kick off the show and kick off the week.
1:31.9	If you are tired of hearing of Valentine's Day, I apologize for what is coming next.
1:37.5	Turn down your radio.
1:38.7	Skip forward, but I wanted to give you a movie recommendation.
1:42.5	Now, as you might imagine, I am not a big rom-com fan. I think if you've seen one hallmark movie, you've probably seen them all based on the memes that I have witnessed. I do, however, enjoy a good movie. I enjoy a good plot, and that's what I found. I found
2:01.5	Solo Mio by, of all people, Kevin James, who I know him from probably just the everybody
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