Welcome, everyone. It is the KSR pre-show. It's Wednesday, September 17th. I'm Shannon the dude. Give us a call on the Clark's Pubbit Shop phone line. 859-280-2-80-Cats.

Give you our Whiskey Thief Call of the Day, the KSR Pre-show. As always being brought to you by Italics, fine Italian dining in Lexington. I am in the Louisville studio. It is the calm before the storm for me, because tomorrow we go right back at it round two with Louder Than Life Fest, and we're going to be out tomorrow in Mount Vernon, a community trust bank for the Christian Appalachian Project.

We'll talk more about that coming up later on.

We are on day number three of Billy R. Sports still being out.

So you know what?

Monday went really well with Mario.

And I thought, you know what?

Let's bring back Mario once again.

So Mario is live at KS. Bar and Grill this morning.

And who let you end the bar? You don't have a key to get in there, do you? Yeah, I was going to say, I'm actually in studio, man. That was the whole problem. I didn't have a key. So I was like, you know what? I'm just going to go set up the board or at least try to set up the board. Gus kind of walked me through it. and I'm actually in studio, Shannon.

So I'm not at KS Bar and Grill, not just yet.

But Ryan's going to be there later, though, right? Ryan is going to be there later. He's probably headed there right now. Look at that commitment. See, things don't work out. You can't get into the bar. You go to the studio. It's got to make it justice. If this for Ryan, he would probably still be asleep right now, you know?

So I think I'm going to bring him on with me for the pre-show tomorrow and Friday since we're doing the remote. And you can join us if you want to. But, you know, yesterday we had Richie Farmer on the show. It was the first time I'd ever had Richie on the pre-show with me. He thought he was great, man. You know, sometimes we sit down to do a show and it's like, man, an hour sometimes feels like two hours.

Then you have... on the pre-show with me he i thought he was great man you know sometimes we sit down to do a show

and it's like man an hour sometimes feels like two hours then you have a guy like richie who could

come on and tell stories about his playing time at clay county high school and at kentucky

and i could have sat down and done another hour maybe even even two hours with Richie yesterday. So we

got to get him back on the show. He is. I love Rich. He's entertaining. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I don't know if you met his friend Buck. Oh, yeah. Buck's divers. He texts all the time. Oh, do you? Sometimes I just call him out the blue. I love his accent. So I just call him out the blue. Yeah. So I think they're going to be coming back on KSR, Richie and Buck, on the 30th, he said yesterday.

So looking forward to that.

And I also really liked hearing Richie's stories about Rick Petino practices because I've

always heard some legendary stories about how just grueling and tough Rick Petino was on his players during practice.

You heard Richie say yesterday,

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