Mining Minnesota, Swalwell Scandal, and Why Shatner Regrets Star Trek V

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🗓️ 17 April 2026

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Dean Karayanis steps back into the host chair to close out the week for Derek Hunter with a wide-ranging look at a world that seems to have forgotten its history. Dean breaks down the recent Senate vote on Minnesota mining, questioning why environmental groups invoke the legacy of Theodore Roosevelt while modern "colonizers" ignore the very regulations that keep America from becoming a Third World polluter. Later, Dean dives into his latest column for the New York Sun, comparing the Eric Swalwell "honeypot" scandal to the transparency of Alexander Hamilton — a man who was a "dirtbag" adulterer but not a crook. From the "rich friend" reality check for the UK and Italy to selective biblical pandering by the pope and politicians, Dean pulls no punches. Finally, the show wraps with a surprising lesson on humility and failure from an unexpected source: William Shatner. The irony of Chilean mining companies and Minnesota’s shifting cultural identity. The Hamilton Model: Why admitting to an affair is better than a political cover-up. Article 5 Reality: Why Europe’s "equal" status is a myth maintained by American muscle. The 2x4 Method: How the U.S. Navy is successfully choking off the Iranian economy. Shatner’s Regret: What Star Trek V teaches us about taking responsibility for our own "plastic spiders."

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0:00.0	Hello, it's me again. Dean Carrie Annis, I am sitting in one more day. It holds out the weeks of all of you for the Derek Hunter podcast. I couldn't be happier. I hope that you're happy to have me back. I never lose sight of the fact that I am not the person that you signed up for when you subscribe to this podcast, so I take it as a special responsibility, and I thank you all for
0:25.1	sticking with me. Let's move on to the news. A moment before I sat down to speak with all of you
0:32.3	nice people, I got an alert on my phone from the New York Times, and it was breathless, that the Senate had voted 50 to 49 to allow mining in Minnesota wilderness.
0:45.5	And I got to chuckle out of this because it's a Chilean company, for one thing.
0:50.3	And anybody south of the border, we know you certainly can't tell them they can't come here.
0:55.0	You certainly can't tell them that they have to respect our laws.
0:58.5	But I also read in here that they went and they got four of
1:03.5	Peter Roosevelt's descendants to come and say,
1:06.4	he made it a national park for our children and grandchildren,
1:09.7	and that it should remain that way.
1:11.9	And I thought, well, strictly speaking, his grandchildren aren't no longer with us.
1:15.8	But in all seriousness, Theodore, you mean the guy whose statue that you let them tear down outside the Museum of Natural History?
1:23.7	Now, I'm of two minds on that. And if you go to my history author show interviews, you'll see I speak about this with an author, a guy who's going to be one of the muckety mucks.
1:32.6	He might even be the director at the new Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Museum out in South Dakota.
1:39.4	And Theodore Roosevelt didn't ever want to be portrayed on horseback, and that is one of the objections
1:44.8	to that statue as he was on horseback. But among historians, among just the Iranian-file people,
1:50.1	it was that they dared to have a Native American and an African guide standing next to the
1:55.5	statue. And this was called racism. Never mind that those things were meant to honor the men who risked their lives in the
2:02.2	River of Doubt expedition with Deere Roosevelt and then with his various African expeditions.
2:06.7	No, no, no, we just decide anything that we say is racist is racist and must be torn down.
2:11.9	So I was kind of having a chuckle about that. But then I thought, Minnesota, you have all these
2:17.0	things you speak about where you say,
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