Hello everybody and welcome to the Derek Hunter podcast for this Tuesday, September 2nd, 2025.

If you don't know what day it is, then I guess you need me to tell you.

So there you go.

I often don't know what day it is myself.

I am Dean Carriannis.

I am the host of the History Author show on IRHart Radio and also a columnist at the New York Sun. And I often lose track of days because they tend to all blend together. It's writing a column. It's working my regular I-Heart job. And tomorrow, though, or today when you'll be hearing this, I'm recording this on Monday afternoon.

I'll be going into New York City, which I don't do much anymore.

So I wanted to make sure you had something, that I shared something with you before I was going to be out of pocket because I imagine that the show for Wednesday, recorded Tuesday, might be a little bit shorter than usual.

But who am I kidding?

I can't keep quiet. I can't stop talking. I want to thank all of you if you heard me on with

James Golden, both nerdly, my former colleague and friend from the Rush Limbaugh days. That was fun.

I go on with him on 77 WABC, pretty much every holiday. Talk about the history of the

holiday, in this case of the labor movement, and that first, very first, Labor Day parade in New York

City, it was in 1882. And if you are interested in that, you can go back, you can find that

column where you can find the audio when I post it of me and James

Golden.

He'll post it on his usual feed there at the rush hour.

Love going on with him.

Love being with somebody just like Derek who has the same values in radio that I do.

It's a holiday that didn't become a national holiday,

didn't come close to that. The first time it was signed as legislation was 1894 by Grover

Cleveland because he'd sent in some strike breakers and he knew that his Democratic Party would

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