All righty, hello and everyone, welcome to it. It's the 16th of January. I'm Derek Hunter. This is the Derek Hunter podcast. I'm going to get straight to it.

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But let's neither here nor there. Let's get going so we can get done.

There is a lot going on. There's a bunch of things to talk.

Last night I'm watching the news and they break in. There's breaking news. There's a ceasefire agreement. There is whatever, you know, the hostages to be released. Tamas and Israel and the

United States got together and

agreed to terms. It was all very vague, but all very exciting. And you want this war to come to an

end. You'd much rather Hamas be dead, but it's impossible to kill a bad idea. Just look at progressivism.

But it, you know, I suppose one of the biggest hurdles that they had to deal with was trying to figure out who the hell leads Hamas now that pretty much everybody who was leading Hamas is dead.

But they'd struck a deal for the release of hostages.

It was like 120-day, ceasefire, et cetera, et cetera.

And just show you how petty everything is.

The I did it, the other guy didn't do it, game started.

And it's really pathetic, particularly coming from this president, Joe Biden.

There is no ambiguity about the way Donald Trump talked about what was happening in the Middle East.

He had been saying to anybody who would listen that if the hostages are not released,

this thing is a result.

If the hostages aren't released, particularly the American hostages,

there's going to be hell to pay as soon as he's sworn in.

So you've got until the 20th to figure it out,

because you don't want him to be commander

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