Welcome, everyone. It is the KSR pre-show. It's Monday, September 15th. I am Shannon the dude, and you can give us a call in the Clark's Poppins Shop phone line.

859-280-2287, be our whiskey thief call of the day. You cannot send us a text because Billy is on vacation this week, and he's got the text line.

But I do want to tell you that KSR pre-show is being brought to you by Talix Fine Italian Dining in Lexington.

I'm in the Louisville studio.

My guest host today is in Lexington and he is also the guy who is responsible for the absolute worst Matt Jones impersonation I have ever heard in my life.

Give me a break.

But I'm glad to have him here with this this morning.

He is Mario Maitland.

Good morning, Mario.

How are you doing?

I'm good, man.

Can I say I feel like I'm moving on up in the company of I heart?

Oh, yeah.

Can I say that, Shannon?

Yeah, yeah, sure.

You can say whatever you want.

It's your day today. I got in today and Gus helped me out with the board. So I feel like I'm, you know, taking the next step in my career, Shannon. I'm learning the role of a producer. I'm running the board a little bit. Shout out to Gus and Billy helped me last night a little bit. You guys don't get enough credit.

The producers don't get enough credit because this thing is actually hard. Like running the board, setting this thing up for radio. It's actually, it's kind of difficult. It's a little bit tricky. It can be intimidating when you walk in and there's all these hundreds of buttons in front of you. You're like, okay, one of these buttons could take us off the air. One of them could put us on the air, but I'm not sure which one is which.

And you can't just go in to start hitting buttons

because then all kinds of bad things start happening. But I'm glad we got you dialed in and

ready to go. Now, promise me you won't do any Matt Jones impersonations like we got out at Clark's

Puppen Shop this past Friday. I love you, Mario. I love you. Like you're very talented. You're great at what you do. Why don't you like my impressions, said? Everyone has given me, like, compliments. Even Matt, I gave Matt an impression yesterday on the NFL show. He thought it was pretty good. Oh, stop it. You're the only one who does not like my impressions. And I was giving you a compliment. I was telling you you're great at what you do with your pictures. A backhanded compliment. No, no, no, no, no. Let me just say this. I told you this in private. I said, I am absolutely the least photogenic person I know. Like, I take horrible pictures. Like, if I'm

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