Welcome everyone. It is the KSR pre-show. It's Friday, October 31st, Halloween. We're live at Whiskey Thief Distilling Company on Crab Orchard Road.

Shannon the dude, Billy Rutledge, you can give us a call in the Clark's Pubbit Shop phone line, 859-28027.

You can be our Whiskey Thief call of the day, which is appropriate since we're here today. You can also send us a text at 502-265-6656. KSR pre-show being brought to you by Italics, Fine Italian Dining in Lexington. It is Halloween. We are here. I'm back from vacation. You are dressed up. I am dressed up. It's obvious what I am. I'm a referee, right?

I've even got it right here on my hat in case you couldn't figure it out by the striped shirt and the whistle.

That's right.

But I figured, you know, if anything gets out of hand here, I can just tee somebody up and throw them out of here. I mean, you've got to think, like, of all of the reasons that people have broken electronics or their remote controls over the years,

it's because of a bad call.

It's because of a referee. of all the reasons that people have broken electronics or their remote controls over the years

is because of a bad call it's because of a referee so i thought since i am so you know

unlikable i thought that i would be a referee because nobody likes a referee right well join the

club of the unlikable club but yeah holes in the drywall as well probably a couple due to these referees. They're a dying breed though, so we need these referees. Your hat looks like it was at the bottom of a goodwill bin, but you know, it was at the bottom of Halloween spirit. So that's probably around this time of year, about the same. Yeah, yeah, but you know like referees, you only really know them because they make bad calls, right?

Nobody, if you're a good referee, does anybody, do you know the name of a great referee that never makes bad calls? I knew of one, and that was Ed Hockey League, and that was the only reason why I knew him is because he had big biceps. So, like, he'd do the Green Bay Packers games, it's zero degrees. He wears short-sleeved shirts, and he'd just come out in his big biceps. But you talk about like basketball referees.

Yeah, I mean, you know their name because we've had some bad calls over the years, right? Yeah. Oscar Combs will even tweet out before every Kentucky basketball game the list of the officials so we can go back and see, okay, is this, you know, going to be an officiating crew that's going to job us or give us a fair game. Well, you know, immediately Doug Schaise is on the call, right?

He's going to do something to get on TV.

Yeah, I feel like I should be gyrating up here, you know?

That's right.

So, yep, you're right. You're doing a great service for us in a referee company. Yeah, like I said, you know, we are in a place where people drink here at Whiskey Thief.

The bourbon involved you do might have to cut somebody out.

Anybody gets a little too drunk?

Fight breaks out. I can officiate it right here.

So we'll make sure everybody's on their best

behavior. Including you and you are dressed up as what? What is this? You get a green shirt on with an

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