Welcome, everyone. It is the KSR pre-show Wednesday, October 8th. I am Shannon the dude. I'm in the Louisville studio being joined by Billy R. Sports. He's over in Lexington and you can give us a call wherever you are.

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Fine Italian dining in Lexington, which was named yesterday, Billy, as having, I think, was it the best

lasagna in all of Kentucky? I think, or in Lexington at least. I think that was on the list.

We looked up like the, or no, somebody wrote into Matt and said, I have the definitive

list. Italian restaurants? Yeah, best, I think best lasagna. And Italics was listed on there. So get out to Italics and try their lasagna. It's world-renowned. It's great food. Open for lunch every day besides Monday. And Tuesday, the caccio-epepe is something I love to have there. And espresso martini is something that gets me in the right frame of mind, Shannon. So espresso martini. Well, espresso, dessert drink. No ex and espresso. I definitely got that wrong the first couple times I said it. But are you know, are you a coffee drinker outside of the first couple hours of the morning? Because, you know, some people will have coffee after their dinner.

Well, I'm having coffee counter right now. I've got a cup in front of me. Oh, me too, buddy.

Yeah, yeah.

But no, I mean, I'm not really one of those people that drinks it after.

I feel like that's an old person thing.

Like my grandparents would do that sometimes.

They would have dinner.

Then they would drink coffee.

And I'm going after dinner.

I don't know, man. I'm kind of winding down.

I'm going after

dinner. I don't know, man. I'm kind of winding down. I'm not trying to get my day like restarted again at 6 o'clock in the afternoon. So I'm not really a coffee drinker past probably 10 a.m. After that, it's no more coffee for me. Yeah, I think it's a big thing in Europe know, when you have the Golden Corral buffet at 5.30 in the afternoon, sometimes you need a little coffee to get you to the 8, 9 o'clock bedtime that you have. But enjoying it this morning with you, dude. Yeah, a little drier day today. I don't know. I mean, yesterday was just a downpour in Louisville. I don't know if it was like that in Lexington, but it was one of the

scariest drives I've ever had going from work. Like the other one would probably be when it

snowed 15 inches last year and I had to drive through that to get to work. When you stayed at

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