Hello everybody and welcome to the Derek Hunter podcast. I am your guest host, Dean Carriannis.

Wrapping up my guesting stint here for Derek. We'll be back with you on Monday, January 5th.

I know you're all looking forward to having the voice you signed up for.

Return to your ears. So I thank you. I very much appreciate all of you welcoming me here into your

home. I thank you all for the kind word that you said while I have been here. I thank those of you

interacting with me there at History Dean. I thank you for the little bump I get at my

substack postcard from the shed and all of the other little ways that I understand that I

have connected with you. I see that result and I feel I've done a good job here this previous

week. It's very important to me that I do so. So So thank you all, and I'll give you a few stories,

even though the news has yet to resume. News is no longer being made the way that it will be

next week and into the coming year. But I've got some news stories for you. So let's have at it.

Dipping into my New York Sun columns, I want to talk about Mom Donnie and his swearing in at a

forgotten subway station, New York City's first subway station, the City Hall station,

which is underneath City Hall itself, where he will now be conducting the business of

the greatest city in the world.

And to me, the choice was very interesting because it didn't send the message that

Mahmdani might have wished to send or did wish to send.

He had said that the subway stop was a physical monument to the city that dared to be

both beautiful and build great things that would transform working people's lives.

And when I hear those words, workers are working people.

It always makes me cringe because that's how communists look at people.

I remember the dictator, Fidel Castro, saying that poor little Ilyan Gonzalez was a good worker.

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