Welcome, everyone. It is the KSR pre-show Monday, September 29th. I'm Shannon the dude.

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Billy, our sports, is in Lexington right now in the studio. How was your weekend, Billy? Good

morning. Good morning, Shannon. It was good for the most part. We'll get into maybe some of the

lower parts of the weekend today on the show, but I'm a little tired this morning because I stayed up to watch your Green Bay Packers and the Dallas Cowboys go to a 40-40 tie. That game didn't end until like 1215 last night, Shannon. It's just un-American for a game to end in a tie like that. Did you stay up for that? Of course, you and me both, you know, you stay up late, that's, that's the trickery right there. You stay up late on a Sunday night and the game ends the way it started. A tie. Like wasted three, four hours in my life. I mean, I didn't know what to do after that. If we could go to like the college football mentality of, there's no ties, let's just play this thing out until we get a winner, I would be happy with that. There's nothing more frustrating than a tie, especially on a Sunday night when it's a late game and you sit up late just to watch that and it ends up 40 to 40, which by the way, at least we got a score of gami out of the deal. Oh, yeah. So the first time, I guess, in NFL history, you had a 40-40 final in a football game, if that means anything to you. But, yeah, it was very frustrating. Almost as frustrating as watching Kentucky, South Carolina. We'll get into that in just a minute. But before we do, I have to tell you, Billy, that over the weekend, I made a return trip to Lebanon. Went back to Ham Days. I told you I was going to come back. Couldn't get enough of that country ham. I don't think you believe me when I said that I was going to get some country ham and get the country ham breakfast, just like the old days when I was a kid. Used to go up to Lebanon and check it all out. And it was a lot of fun. So I will tell you that it was definitely

worth another nearly hour trip for me to go back to Lebanon. Get in line. You go to the big white

tent. They got the ham. They got the eggs, the cinnamon apples, totally worth a trip back there.

Well, if anybody could have seen how many breakfast sandwiches you had on Thursday morning, I think that you would have been a betting favorite to come back to the country ham festival over the weekend. Yeah, like I said, I was just there to eat. I mean, you were scarfing stuff down Thursday morning. I mean, barely. I was going to eat, man. I was hungry. Barely able to talk in between bites of biscuit and country ham or sausage. So, I mean, you were practically

raised there, Shannon. So you're just kind of returning home. Was it as good as the second time

the country hand last week? I think it was maybe. I don't want to say anything disparaging to the

folks that were there with us. I think it was better because you had even more ham. Like,

they really lured you up. They load you up. And there was a great crowd there. I was really surprised how many people showed up that early on a Saturday morning. I guess they had the 5K or 2K or whatever it was that they ran. I guess the 5K. So I guess there was a lot of people out early for that. But a ton of people, it felt like the entire city of Lebanon and then some were out there.

And it's grown to be much bigger festival than what I remembered it as a kid.

Did anybody come up to you and say that Billy got robbed in the hog calling contest?

I mean, it was quite the controversy.

Not one person, even mentioned your name.

I did have several KSR listeners that were out there and said hello to me, but not one person said that Billy got robbed in the hog calling contest.

I think that they believed that the results were as they should have been.

Ryan won the hog calling contest, takes the trophy, and he took your trophy, too, by the way. He still got your

haybell tossing trophy. I think he said he's going to take it and display it at KS. Bar and Grill,

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