Hello, everybody, and welcome to the Derek Hunter podcast for this August 5th, 2025.

I am your guest host, Dean Carriannis.

I am a columnist at the New York Sun and various other places, host of the History Author

Show on IHart Radio, and former member of

Rush Limbaugh's staff of the EIB Network. Thank you so much for coming back today to

rejoin me. I am here all week. If you missed Tuesday's show, I did have a glitch. I uploaded

Monday's show, and a friend told me that as well as Nathan. Thank you very much.

Nathan. He sent Derek a nice note. And I know how these things usually work. Usually the

person writes, you're going to be hostile towards the guest host, right? I'm invading your ears.

I'm not the one that you subscribe to. You subscribe to hear the regular host, whoever it may be. But Nathan sent a

very nice note. He said, I'm not here to raffle on Dean. He's doing a good job. Great job.

He said, wow. See, my insecurities automatically bumped it down to good. But I'm pretty sure

I uploaded yesterday's podcast by mistake. Nathan, you are indeed correct. I did do that. And I

praise your verb use as a writer. I'm not here to raffle on Dean. That's a pretty great way to put it.

Raffles. Those used to be burglars, a gentlemanly burglar. The burglars of the kind,

you'd see in those old movies with a guy who's still wearing a suit and tie, but a bandana

around his face, he'd break into your house, but maybe tidy up while he was there. We all know a person like that is a little bit Felix Unger, who if they were a burglar, your house would probably be cleaner when they left than when they got there. Anyway, if you missed Tuesday, I do apologize for that oversight. Please do go check it out. We had a lot that was

hot on that show. And I have to give you news, a little breaking news, but fortunately nothing

broke too much for me. We had a shed quake, did we? My writing shed that I mentioned yesterday

that like Rod Serling and J.D. Salinger that I do my writing out in a garden shed and where it is located

deep in the swamps of Jersey, as Bruce Springsteen once sang. It's actually not in the

swamps, but in any case, it was almost exactly ground zero for this earthquake. And yes, I was

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