All righty, hello and everyone and welcome to it. It is the Derek Hunter podcast for the 15th

day of September 2022. Happy Thursday almost Friday. This is Collette's. Can we just pretend

it's Friday for the love of God? I'm Derek Hunter. I am your host appreciate you listening,

downloading, sharing, telling a friend so far, so good, knock on wood. Apple hasn't screwed up.

I still haven't figured out who's got the power over there to control the distribution of the show,

but as long as they don't mess with it, I'm good with it. Don't forget to go and enter the

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Derek Hunter podcast and Derek Hunter.locals.com. Let us get on with the program. It's a beautiful day

here and it's going to be a beautiful fall. It's always a beautiful fall just like it's always a

beautiful spring and it's a kind of year or kind of time or the weather year that you sit there

and you go, God, I wish it could be like this all the time. The summer hot, the summer humans,

I got no use for you, stuff them in the sack, dump them in the bay, but if it weren't for the

raking of the leaves, I'd say fall is my favorite time of year, but I have no use for the raking

of the leaves. It's just too many damn leaves. Couldn't you just, you know, disappear, deteriorate more

quickly. Anyway, yeah, thank God for the mulching feature on a mower, but still, you got to do,

you got to mow a lot when they really start to fall or else you just have piles of dead leaves

everywhere. Anyway, welcome to the program. There is a lot going on, lots of things to talk about,

bunch of stuff happening today and in general and we're going to cover it. In the show today,

we're going to play the interview I did with Ken's star. I'm going to break it up into two bits

and why? Because Ken's star passed away yesterday. At the age of 76, sadly, tragically,

it was in the hospital. He had to have some sort of surgery, some kind of procedure and complications

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