Welcome to the Derek Hunter podcast. No, I am not Derek Hunter, so I guess I should stop writing checks as his name.

I am Dean Carrianna, though, and thank you so much for spending this week with me.

I will be back here with you on Friday.

We will be doing an episode, as has become a little bit of a tradition here when I do the full week.

One and a half Greeks.

Yes, I'll be welcoming back George Coco Prias from the Rush Limbaugh show.

We first met working way back in the mid-90s in olden times on Rush Limbaugh, the television show.

It also worked for Matt Drudge when Matt Drudge had his TV show there at Fox News Channel,

and George and I were both at Fox News Channel.

George's wife, Cookie, to anybody who listened to Russia's show, also a celebrity in her own right.

And I think she's glad to have George have an outlet.

So I'm glad all of you will give it to him.

He has some great insights, things that I don't think of already.

And I think that's what makes a good partnership, whatever you're doing. And speaking of old Rush Limbauchel colleagues, I was on with James Golden, both Snardly, on Veterans Day. So if you'd like to hear that, you can go to

history author.com. You can hear my appearance with James. And with that housekeeping out of the

way, on with the show.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average hit its second consecutive record close. It finished above

$48,000 for the first time ever. Now, please do update your prevailing media narrative to the stock market doesn't matter that's

the setting right there on the dial stock market no longer matters no longer an indication of what

is happening we only show those on the cable channels when the market is going down we do not show

it when it's going up we do not not care. And as I'm sure,

if you've been paying attention to this kind of thing, you know to pick whatever psychological term

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