Hello and welcome back to the Derek Hunter podcast. It is Tuesday, September 9th of 2025.

I am your host, Dean Carriannis. I'm sitting in for the man you signed up to here, Derek Hunter.

If you missed yesterday's podcast, he kicked it off of the introduction

for me, explaining where he has been and when he will be back. But I have been pinch hitting.

I thank you all for sticking around. Those of you who are new and haven't heard me before,

I am a columnist at the New York Sun. And for 30 years, with a stint in there, breaking it up for

Fox News Channel and a couple of political campaigners, I worked for the late great Rush Limbaugh.

And those of you who maybe doubt that or don't think he's the greatest ever to do it,

well, that's what it says on his death certificate. It says radio's greatest of all time. So you can't argue

with official documents, can you? Derek said yesterday, he'll double my pay if I do this every day.

And since the pay is zero, zero dollars, I figured I would hold out for triple pay. And that's

just because my math isn't so good.

But my history and word skills are pretty good.

I'm also the host of the history author show on IHeartRadio.

If you'd like to say thank you, I'm not going to ask you for money, but you can't give me a follow at HistoryD on Twitter or at my substack,

which is called Postcards from the Shed.

And you can follow me there.

You can send me a message of encouragement there.

You could say, hey, keep going.

Marvel Comics back in the old days, which would be when I was young, they used to give

something called a no prize.

If you were a nerd, I mean a real nerd and you'd say Mary Jane Watson's eyes were

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