The Derek Hunter Show · WMAL | CMLS Washington DC

HR 1 March 20th,2026

·33 min·2 clips

Hartsfield-Jackson posted a 120-minute wait while 38% of workers called out the day before.

He opens with a Chuck Norris detour. From there, he walks through the actor's best-known roles and treats that 1980s action-movie run as a doorway into a broader memory of the era, especially the wave of Vietnam POW stories and the movies that grew around them. Half nostalgia, half argument. He lingers on how a screen persona can harden into a brand, then uses that brand as a springboard for riffing on the kind of action movies that used to be staples on Basic Cable. The tone never really settles. He keeps grabbing a clip, a line, or a public argument and pressing on it until the wording starts to look ridiculous, which is very much the show's pace. Later he pivots to voting. A discussion of polling places and law enforcement becomes a larger monologue about who gets nervous around police, what that nervousness might mean, and why he rejects the idea that the explanation is as simple as identity politics. He does not soften the point. Instead, he turns it into a blunt claim about behavior, suspicion, and the way ordinary rules look once they get pulled through a partisan argument. The rant widens again. He moves into shutdown politics, homeland security, and the strain placed on people working screening jobs, stressing that thin staffing makes the work harder and raises the risk of missing something important. The pressure is the story. That stretch is less about one policy paper than about the human cost of making front-line workers carry the load while the larger political fight keeps spinning. A caller enters the mix. The conversation with Matt gives the monologue a brief handoff before the host returns to his larger point that Republicans should stop letting Democrats control the field and should be willing to use power more aggressively. The closer stays combative. He argues that the left has spent years building influence through grants, foundations, and academia, while conservatives have been slower to build the same infrastructure and slower still to use government leverage against opponents. The throughline is retaliation. By the end, the episode feels like a sprint through action-movie nostalgia, election anxiety, security concerns, and partisan score-settling, all delivered with the show's usual impatience for neutrality.

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A fast, combative monologue that turns pop-culture memory into political grievance.

PlayNext catches The Derek Hunter Show at its most familiar: a fast, combative monologue that moves from Chuck Norris nostalgia into voting, policing, shutdown politics, and Republican payback.

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