Welcome, everyone. It is the KSR pre-show from Monday, October 6th. I am Shannon the dude here in the Louisville studio.

You can give us a call on the Clark's Popp and Shop phone line at 859-8-9-2-80-2-80-2-80-2-8-2-2-8-2-2-2-6-6-6-6-6-6-265-6656. The KSR. Pre-Show is being brought

you by Italics, Fine Italian Dining in Lexington, which is where Billy R. Sports is today, but he's not

in the Lexington studio. He's not at KS. Bar and Grill. He's actually at Kentucky Basketball

Media Day, where KSR is going to be broadcasting from later on today. But the pre-show is getting a head start there. Good morning, Billy. How are you? Good morning, Shannon. I hope you had a good weekend. Yes, out and about on a Monday here at the Janasium floor at Memorial Coliseum. And I will say this is my first time being in here since the renovations, dude. It is

beautiful here. And also the cool touch of the boards from the old bleachers up here above the

garage doors. It is a really cool spot here, my first time here. And glad to be with you, dude. How was

your weekend? It was good. I felt like that you're talking a little a little quieter like are you just uh you don't

want to project too much or are you are you afraid you're going to be too loud and wake up mark

pope well mark pope probably gets up at four o'clock in the morning you're not going to wake anybody

up around there you could you could talk normal yeah that's true i've sometimes been told i

sound like a sing-songy old radio dj sometimes when i start shows. So we're just, we're talking at a normal level. I'm also still dragging a little bit from our 1am NFL podcast record that we did. Wow. I always enjoy that. Mario is next to me walking around right now. Good to have Mario here with me as well.

So where are you, dude?

I guess you had to stay back and run all the shows. That's right. Yeah, I'm in the Louisville studio. So what is the plan out there, GM Billy? Let me ask you for KSR today. Are we going to be able to talk to Mark Pope later on on KSR? Or what's the plan? Yeah plan yeah unfortunately none of the men's basketball players or

coaches are available to interview before noon so I don't think we're going to have anybody

on the show actually Shannon but you know KSR is at its best when they are out and about and amongst

the people and this will allow Matt and Drew and everybody to just go right to Media Day after the show.

So I think it'll work out for a lot of us.

I'm here to just make sure everything keeps running.

I've threaded the Ethernet cable through the bleachers, Shannon.

So we're connected and hopefully we stay connected.

Well, you mentioned Media Day for Kentucky basketball.

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