Odyssey, Hypocrisy, James Comey, & AOC's Threat to Free Speech

The Derek Hunter Podcast

Derek Hunter

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🗓️ 18 May 2026

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Dean Karayanis, New York Sun columnist and former Rush Limbaugh staffer, broadcasts straight from the writing shed to break down the media's relentless narrative control, the assault on free speech standards, and why the erasure of historical truth matters in Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey.” Dean will be guest-hosting for Derek at WMAL on Friday, May 22nd. Dean exposes the mainstream media's predictable meltdown over a clip of President Donald Trump talking about White House ballroom budgets, pointing out how journalists manipulate language to manufacture "all-caps EXPLOSIONS." He then dives into the brewing cultural controversy surrounding Hollywood's new adaptation of Homer’s “The Odyssey.” Reacting to comments from The View’s Sunny Hostin and actor John Leguizamo, Dean delivers a powerful defense of Greek history and culture. As a person of Greek ancestry, he takes aim at the hypocrisy of "cultural appropriation" rules, detailing the historical trauma of the Greek genocide and explaining why Hollywood's double standards insult true minority populations. Later in the program, Dean addresses the dangerous trend of government-backed censorship, sounding the alarm on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s (AOC) calls to "rein in" the media environment and weaponize the FCC. He draws parallels to George Orwell's “1984,” highlighting how figures like former FBI Director James Comey celebrate using the legal process as a punishment against political enemies. Finally, Dean honors actress Gina Carano for winning her free speech battle against Disney and calls on conservatives to defend the U.S. Constitution as the ultimate bulwark against modern-day despots.

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0:00.0	Greetings and welcome, my good friends.
0:08.2	This is the Monday, May 18, 2020, 26 episodes of the Derek Hunter podcast.
0:14.9	I am your host, Dean Carriannis, your Monday morning, Malacca.
0:19.6	And yeah, I may do too much of the Greek stuff, but today with the Odyssey going, you're going to get plenty of that.
0:26.2	Today, I am sitting in the fabled writing shed.
0:31.1	Yes, those of you who know my substack, postcards from the shed, I haven't posted there in a while, but see if I get some new follows,
0:38.7	maybe I will. Hold a little carrot out for all of you. The reason I'm out here today is I seem to
0:45.0	have injured my back. Now, I don't say through my back out, because that makes me feel like an old guy.
0:50.4	But if you remember in the 70s, if you're my age, oh, that was funny to watch Oscar Madison and Ralph Cramden walk around with their back hurting. Oh, that was a staple of comedy. Well, at this age, no longer quite so funny when you use muscles you have not used in a while. So rather than skip this, rather than called Derek and say I'm dropping out
1:11.6	on my regular Monday morning appointment, I decided I would bring the mic and some of the other
1:16.3	things out here because this chair that I have in the writing shed, because this is where I do
1:20.9	most of my writing, if not all of my writing, that this would be a better place for my back
1:25.8	so I can sit and I can bring all of you
1:28.1	the news that you're accustomed to.
1:30.3	The thing about working for Rush Limbaugh was he was really the gift that never stopped giving.
1:35.2	He was really a big Santa Claus.
1:36.5	And sometimes he would just get something that someone mailed to him and he would say, hey,
1:40.5	you want this?
1:41.8	That was always nice.
1:43.4	Not to mention the gifts he would buy himself.
1:45.4	Like James Golden and I joked in our interview, our history author show interview, you could go
1:51.2	watch it on YouTube because we both hold up our iPhones at the same time. We'd say these are the
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