Welcome everyone to another edition of the KSR Pre-show.

Today is Thursday, December 5th.

I'm Billy Rutledge.

You can give us a call on the Clark's Puppet Shop phone line.

That's 859-2-80-2287.

Text us at 502-265-66-56.

And as always, the KSR Pre-show is brought to you by Italics.

Fine Italian Dining right here in Lexington, Kentucky on Main Street,

in the city center, which is where we are today back in studio,

not with the KSR guys, Shannon the dude, Matt Jones,

and everybody will be checking in from, I believe, Colorado, a little later today at 10 a.m.

Until then, we continue our week of special guests.

Big thank you to Sean Woods, Ritchie Farmer, Nick Coffey, who have joined us this week.

Now joining us in studio for the very first time here on the KSTR Pre Show.

Is Campbellsville University Hall of Fame member from 93 to 97?

She is the host to the countdown to kick off on the UK Sports Network and

it is a color analyst on the SEC Network. It's Christy Thomas. How are you, Christy? Hey, good. Well,

thanks for having me. I'm kind of in a, I'm bummed that I'm following up Sean Woods and

Richie Farmer though. I thought when you were telling me that before we came on the air. I thought, oh, no, this is, you've put me in a bad spot here coming in on the heels of these guys. No, not at all. Not at all. We're going to have a fun time.

We've got a big volleyball game. We get to talk about a little later today. The SEC ACC

ACC Challenge in Women's Basketball starts later today. So we will talk some UK sports today, but I did read a note about you, Christy, that you are the first

female pregame radio host in SEC history. Well, as far as I can tell, yes, I think so. Someone

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