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Today is Tuesday, December 9th.

I am Billy Rutledge, along with Shannon the Dude.

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call of the day. I'm here in Lexington. Shannon the dude, my fellow procrastinator, is in Louisville.

We were just talking about how we're not Christmas shopping yet right before the show started. What's up, dude? Good morning. That's right. I like to wait to the last minute. You know, I like the thrill of it. If you get it done too easy, it's just, you know, too early, it's too easy. And it's already done. You don't have to think about it. I like waiting to the very last minute, then go out and get it. But then you have to go out to the traffic amongst everybody during that time. You don't have a problem getting out there with everybody? Well, no. I mean, it's like that anyway right now. If you go out there, you know, on a weekend, anytime in December, it's going to be like that, whether it's the last weekend or the first weekend.

And the other thing is, like, the Christmas tree just now got up. There's no way, we're 16 days away from Christmas. I'm not taking that Christmas tree down the day after things, or the day after

Christmas. So I'm going to keep it up maybe until March. It'll be my March Madness tree.

March Madness tree. That's right. Okay. Which I don't know if Kentucky will be a part of that or not.

Probably not the way they're playing. Oh, well, man, you're right about that. That's a depressing realization here in December. I'll take it down when the Kentucky basketball season ends. How about that? Well, some people have it up year-round. I would call you crazy. Some would call you festive. I would call you lazy.

Lazy's probably another word for it.

I don't have the Christmas tree up yet, so I I would call you crazy. Some would call you festive. I would call you lazy.

Lazy is probably another word for it.

I don't have the Christmas tree up yet, so I guess we are slacking a little bit. What are you waiting on, dude? You're going to wait for Christmas Eve to put up the Christmas tree? I don't know. Maybe. Maybe. At this point, I am a progress later. If 16 days before Christmas you don't have the tree up, you might as well just now even put it up.

I'm just not in the spirit yet.

I know you're watching a little watch. If 16 days before Christmas you don't have the tree up, you might as well just now even put it up.

I'm just not in the spirit yet.

Are you, I know you're watching a little white Christmas, but are you singing carols and songs yet, dude?

No, I'm not going around caroling.

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