Welcome, everyone.

It is the KSR pre-show.

It's Tuesday, November 18th.

I am Shannon the dude, and you can give us a call in the Clark's Puppet Shop phone line at 859-2-2-287.

You can also send us a text at 502-265-66-6-6-6-6-6-a-l of the day.

And the KSR pre-show is being brought to you by Italics, fine Italian dining in Lexington, which is where Billy our sports is right now, fresh off of his trip to Buffalo, New York. Welcome back, Billy. How are you, man? I'm great, Shannon. It's great to be back with you. It's great to be back on the routine. I've got a cup of coffee, just had some small talk in the elevator. It's like we never left, Shannon. So glad to be with you. It's great to be back on the routine. I've got a cup of coffee, just had some small talk in the elevator.

It's like we never left, Shannon. So glad to be with you again. What time did you guys make it back? Did you do a direct drive from Buffalo to Lexington? Or did you do the, we're going to go over here, then go over here for a while, and then do a circle? how was the trip back?

It was good.

It's not the same escapades as a week-long trip. When you've got all that time, Matt will kind of go into

a different direction. It was a short trip for us, so it was just directly there and directly back.

I think that was, that was a good introduction to the KSR road trip for me, Shannon. But I had a couple good stops. I upped my snack game a little bit. I had some Mountain Dew and Gummy Worms from my slacks. No, no, no, wait a minute. The guy who had carrots and celery is now doing Mountain Dew and Gummy Worms. Don't let them bully you out of your snack tray, okay? You can have the veggies. It's okay to do that. Well, good. I mean, I didn't think that the veggies were in the wrong to begin with, but we got unhealthier and unhealthier as the trip went on. I got the front seat treatment on the way back, Shannon. So, you know, I was able to, on the way there, I was able to kind of nap and, you know, watch a show, do my own thing. But I was in the front seat on the way back. Got about four to half hours of the Bill Simmons podcast up there. So I've listened to enough Bill Simmons for the year. And, you know, we talked a lot. It was a good talk with Matt. So overall, it was a great trip. We got back about, what, like 8, 39 o'clock. So not too bad.

Had some time to eat dinner and go to bed. But Shannon, man, it's weird because we've got the

Champions Classic tonight. I feel like I'm still in Buffalo mode right now. Like I've got a

I've got to pivot and get ready to go because Kentucky's got a big game tonight. But

I told you before the show started, we missed you. We missed you on the road trip, Shannon.

And I don't think you seem to. because Kentucky's got a big game tonight, but I told you before the show started, we missed you.

We missed you on the road trip, Shannon.

And I don't think you seem to share the same sentiment.

I mean, I miss you guys.

I don't, here's the thing.

I've erred my grievances about the KSR road trips.

I don't hate road trips in general.

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