all righty hello and everyone welcome to it is the air kind of podcast the abbreviated version

for the seventhth of July.

2025, happy Monday to you.

And yeah, I haven't, I have to get up and there's a lot going on.

But it was, I hope you had a wonderful, uh, fourth of July weekend, Independence Day. We went to, uh, one of our trips to Rehoboth for a couple of days, got to see some

really good fire.

They put on a hell of a fireworks display and just unplugged for a couple of days.

And thankfully nothing super major happened in the world.

Horrible floods in Texas.

The president saw in the big beautiful bill, big beautiful bill, etc. I'll post pictures

at patreon.com slash derrick hunter podcast for everybody if you want to see them in a bit so you can

check it out but yeah keep getting emails people I feel bad because I'm not doing a full show today, but I always get these emails, people thanking me for keeping the podcast going, even though I have a radio show.

And it's like, you know, you guys kept me going.

And so I don't want to get sentimental and choked up or anything, but you guys kept me going.

This is the least I could do.

This is like a way to communicate in a way that is for certain.

You guys listen and then you email me and we email back and forth and you send me story ideas

and even if I don't respond, I read the emails.

So no, you don't thank me you guys kept me

going between jobs being able to afford to feed my kids and so you know I owe you so thank you for

that now I feel like I want to be a total D-ag and disappoint you, but we didn't get home until late

last night, returned the rental car, and just, just traffic. People, if I could have one wish for

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