Welcome everyone. It is the KSR pre-show. It is Friday, November 14th. We are live in Lexington at the Infinity rooftop, restaurant, and bar on top of the Marriott. And you can give us a call on the Clark's Pubb and Shop phone line at 859-2-289-2-287. Bear a whiskey thief call of the day. You can also send us the text at 502-265-66. 6656. The KSR Pre Show is being brought to you by Italics, fine Italian dining in Lexington, Shannon the dude, Billy Rutledge. And what a view we have up here on this rooftop bar, Billy? I told you yesterday I'm a big fan of rooftop bars. I made a trip to New York one time, and every night that we went out for drinks, it was on a rooftop bar.

It was like, let's just see what kind of rooftop bar we can find tonight.

This is a really cool rooftop bar that they have here on top of the Marriott.

Nice view up here.

You can see the city of Lexington.

We can't see the guys that we were talking about that were like sword fighting and wrestling each other on top of the rooftop. But the inflatable pool. Yeah, but that's over here somewhere, right? Isn't that close by? Yes, I believe that's kind of over that direction. But this is a really cool spot. Some great views up here on the eighth floor. I've had some important work meetings here, Shannon. Oh, you have.

Oh, yeah. The business meetings. Michael Jordan back in the day taking me here talking business. Not that Michael Jordan. Don't be impressed. Not 23 from, you know, Chicago. That's right, which is you got to go through life with that name. I'm sure you get that once or twice. Yeah. So if you come by here today, Here's what's going on.

You buy an entree, and then at the end

of the show, we're going to draw for a chance to win a gift basket, which has the Mark Pope

autographed basketball and some Eagle Rare, 10-year Eagle Rare, hard-to-find-Burban that you can win

here today. You come in, you hang out, you watch the show, grab a bite to eat. You could be walking away with that gift basket.

That's a heck of a prize.

Yeah, it is.

I mean, Mark Pope signed basketball and Eagle Rare. So just come on, hang out with us, and we need a lot of cool stuff here on the way. We're kind of struggled to get here this morning over from Louisville. I got stuck right there in front of Rupp Arena. and I'm sitting there.

I like that you're talking about.

And it says a third of a mile, 15 minutes.

And I'm going like, why is traffic not moving? I mean, we're right there. And there's nothing more frustrating than when your destination is right in front of you, but you're stuck in traffic and you can't go anywhere. And then just to rub it in my face, a guy and a motorcycle went right down the middle of both lanes and just went right on by. And I go, you know what? That's what I need. I need a motorcycle. So when I'm running late, I can just jump on that thing and just go right through traffic and get to where I'm going. Is that actually legal to do that? You know, I don't know splitting lanes like that. I do know you have a VESPA, though, Shannon. So why not put that crate right on the back of your Vespa and just weave in and out of traffic?

The Vespa, though, Shannon. So why not put that crate right on the back of your Vespa and just weave in and out of traffic? The Vespa goes at like 40 miles an hour at best. So I'd have to leave at 5 o'clock in the morning to get here. Yeah, well, I mean, that is a drawback. But I'm glad we got Shannon's traffic report we normally do on a Friday wherever we have to drive to. So it's going to be a good show here today. Looking forward to it, got a lot to talk about. I think we should start yesterday, though, the big news, Billy. Yeah, where do you want to start? Well, I think Jalen Lowe injuring that shoulder again, you know, Mark Pope had just given his press conference a few hours earlier and said that the shoulder was good.

It was, you know, everything was looking good and he was recovering from it.

And then we had the report just a couple of hours later that he re-injured that same shoulder that they had to pop back into place during the blue-white game.

So now we're back to that again.

And I'm just wondering if this is going to be a recurring injury that happens throughout the season. I mean, look, tonight you play Eastern Illinois, no reason at all to play him. You know, you're a huge favorite. There's no reason at all for him to play. I don't think he would anyway. but you know a little bit of concern though Jalen Lowe, our star point guard that we need that this offense relies on so much dealing with that injury again. Just a little concerned with Kentucky players over these past few years. It feels like they're a little cursed right now. With all the point guard issues they had last year, you'd go out and you get a lot of depth so you don't have that issue again. and then Jalen Lowe and the shoulder injury rears its ugly head.

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