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The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show

The Karol Markowicz Show: Derek Hunter’s Wild Career Path, Media Journey & Life Lessons

The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show

iHeartPodcasts

News, News Commentary, Society & Culture, Daily News, Politics

4.511.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2026

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of The Karol Markowicz Show, Karol sits down with columnist, radio host, and author Derek Hunter for a candid and often hilarious conversation about his unconventional path to media success.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:02.5

Guaranteed Human.

0:09.8

Welcome back to the Carol Markowitz Show on IHart Radio.

0:13.3

My guest today is Derek Hunter.

0:15.6

Derek is a columnist for Town Hall, author of the book Outrage, Inc., podcaster and radio host at WMAL in D.C.

0:23.0

And someone who has had 81 jobs and counting.

0:26.7

Hi, Derek. So nice to have you on.

0:28.8

Hey, Carol. Thanks for having me.

0:30.5

I mean, 81? What's going on?

0:33.2

You'd want to talk about lost souls. That's it. You flounder around.

0:36.5

You start off when you're 15, keep a score of softball games and losing track of what's going on in those games and get fired for that.

0:44.6

Then drawing lines on the softball field with the chalker.

0:47.0

And they go like this because it's much easier to guess what a line looks like than to hammer in the chalk line.

0:56.0

Okay.

0:56.6

My entire teen years were looking for short cuts.

0:59.0

So wait, are those jobs one and two?

1:00.9

The job one and like four.

1:03.8

There was a couple of jobs in between.

1:06.3

I made sandwiches.

1:07.3

I was a bus boy.

1:08.1

I worked at a sub shop.

1:09.4

I was a bus boy.

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