All right, he had a look at everyone. Welcome to it. It is the Derek Hunter Podcast, the 22nd

day of August 2023. Happy Tuesday to you. I'm Derek Cutter. I am your host. At the end of the

program, I will be announcing where of the autographed book. A lot of coke heads out there. I did not

know that, but yes, the winner will be announced. And this next, the next book is actually pretty

pretty cool. You're just going to have to wait until it's too author sign of it. One is way more

famous than the other. I think, although I don't know who the second one is because they don't really

follow fiction, but one is an Oscar-winning actor. Some of the best movies ever too.

So you'll have to find out at the end that's at patreon.com slash Derek Hunter Podcast or

derrickhunter.locals.com where you can sign up to enter when these fine fine autographs and all

the other goodies that and later on in the week, I'm going to post some pictures from my trip to

Michigan. It's not nothing from the memorial, but I didn't take any pictures from there, but we did

other things. Got some good pictures of the kids. So I will post those up as I can as I will. So

I want to start off with where did that story go? Damn it. Ah, you know what I hate is I hate when

you go to open a tab or you go to go to a tab and you accidentally hit the x to close it before

you can get it, but I got it back. All right, the big debate is tomorrow night. I'm

toying with the idea whether or not I want to do a debate reaction show. Maybe try and get

Brian DeRyne to come on. That might be the way to go except the audio quality of my microphones.

My wife has a microphone I could try. I don't know if it's my computer or what the hell it is. I've

just not had any good luck with quality of the audio on my end, but maybe we'll look into that.

See how that goes. But in the lead up to it, of course, the big story is Donald Trump is not going.

Is he chickening out or is he playing it smart? I don't know. I think that politicians

owe the public the opportunity to talk to them and hear out the other candidates and respond

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