Welcome, everyone. It is the KSR pre-show. It's Tuesday, August 12th. I am Shannon the dude. And you can give us a call on the Clark's Puppet Shop phone line, 859-2-2-2-2809-2-8-8-0-2-6-thouskythew.

The KSR pre-show is being brought to you by Italics, Fine Italian Dining in Lexington,

which is where my main co-host, Billy, R. Sports is right now. Hopefully, Billy, when you came

into the buildings there at IHeart this morning, they patted you down to make sure you didn't have any

pocket knives or anything like that on you. Are you good? You're not packing anything this morning, right? No, no. I have a little, like a Swiss Army knife, Shannon, keychain that I have. Oh, you do? So you do carry a knife? I am, I guess, packing, I guess, you could say. Oh. What are you going to do with that Swiss Army knife? I have no idea. So you got it and you don't even know what to do with it?

You know, if I need to cut like a red or a blue wire to diffuse a bomb maybe last minute or something, I'm going to have. What do you mean red or blue? It's one or the other. Like if you cut the wrong one, we're all dead. That's right. It means it's red or blue. So you don't know which one.

No, no.

But we'll pick one in the moment.

I was just saying to you before the show started, and it's great to be with you again, how prepared I am for this show because of all the show prep that we do, the Google Doc we share, switching back topics. You know, we kind of get on a call before the show, the topics we want to talk about. So we're ready to go because of all the prep that we do. Well, the KSR pre-show is true to form to the actual KSR. For years, you know, we've been doing KSR. I've been a part of KSR now for, what, 14 years, over 14 years, going on 15 years. And we have never once sat down and had a pre-show, like, here's what we're going to talk about here are the

topics check this out you and i don't talk at all the first time we talk really is when we open up

the mics and start doing this show so from day to day you don't know what i'm going to bring up

as topics i don't know what you're going to bring up as topics but we've done know what you're going to bring up as topics, but we've done that with Matt for so many years. I feel like at least I'm prepared for the unexpected. That's the best part about this show. Sometimes you can't really determine what we're going to talk about. A lot of times listeners call in and take the conversation in a completely different direction, so you've just got to be ready to react. You got to keep your head on a swivel. You know, you're right about that. Shannon can bring up his pumpkins at any moment, and you've got to be ready to have a take about it. That's not normal. That is very different compared to the other radio shows, I think, across this land, Shannon. But maybe this is the secret sauce. Maybe that's why we're so good at what we do,

I guess. Well, I brought the pocket knife thing because I don't know if you heard the conversation.

We were on KSR yesterday about Matt's friend trying to get a pocket knife into a casino. And I said to

him, like, do people still carry pocket knives? Like, that was something that my grandpa always had on him.

He had a little pocket knife.

And I don't know why he had it, but, like, if he ever needed a pocket knife, you knew where to go.

Just go to my grandfather.

He's got a pocket knife ready at any given moment.

But I thought that was like an old man thing, like where people carry around pocket knives.

Is that something that's more common maybe than what I realize that people still carry a pocket knife?

I mean, I think they're in the minority, but I think you'd be surprised on how many people might be carrying a little something, something on them, Shannon.

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