Welcome, everyone, to another edition of the KSR pre-show.

Today is Tuesday, October 7th.

I am Billy Rutledge, along with Shannon the Dude.

You can give us a call on the Clark's Pump and Shop phone line.

That's 859-280-2287.

Text us at 502-265-66.

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Shannon the dude is in Louisville. Hopefully he's in a good mood this morning. What's up, Shannon? How are you, man? What are you talking about? I'm always in a good mood for this show. Whatever I've ever come in here on a bad mood. No, I'll give you credit. You are no Oscar the Grouch in the mornings, especially having to get up so early as you do. What is the official wake up for Shannon?

Let me see.

5.30?

Let me look at my alarm. I've got it at 535. Ah, five. I'm an extra five minutes in there. Five minutes. Five minutes sometimes goes a long way. Hey, well, it's better than hitting snooze and then your brain going back to sleep and then you take it an hour to get out of that brain fog.

That's the thing, Chandan, don't hit snooze. It is not good for you long term. I had to learn that the hard way. You know, I can't figure it out. There's some mornings I wake up and I just can't get going. And then there's other mornings where I wake up and I'm just, I'm ready to go. Like today was one of those days where I woke up and I was ready to go.

I felt like I had energy the moment that I woke up.

But there are some mornings I wake up and I'm like,

ugh, just can't get going. And I don't know why that is. Like some people would say maybe it's the weather, but it's raining today. So I would think that today would be one of those days you don't want to get out of bed. For me, I don't know if it's like something that maybe I did before I went to

bed, because if I knew what it was, I don't know if it's like something that maybe I did before I

went to bed, because if I knew what it was, I would do that every day so that I would wake up

full of energy and not dragging. So I think last night before I went to bed, I ate something sweet.

So maybe it's the sugar rush that carried over like six hours later and kicked in.

Could be the diet. Could be how much sleep you get. You know, could be the Shannon, the dude, bruise that you pounded before you went to bed. It's kind of making it a little bit harder to get up. I did have a little bit of one. Not a full one, but a little bit of one. Yeah. So, you know, maybe that's the case. I don't know. but I can't figure it out.

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