Welcome, everyone. It is the KSR pre-show. It's Wednesday, December 10th. I am Shannon the dude, and you can give us a call on the Clark's Puppet Shop phone line at 859-2-2-287. Be our Whiskey Thief Call of the Day. You can also send us a text at 502-265-66. The KSR Pre-show is brought to you by Italics, Fine Italian Dining in Lexington. We're two weeks away from Christmas, Billy. I have yet to make an attempt to go Christmas shopping yet. Are you with me? Are you holding strong with me? Have you started your Christmas shopping yet? No, of course not, dude. Okay, good, good. I'm on the same boat. I mean, I told you yesterday, I don't even have the tree tree up so i mean we're we're not in the christmas you're not even celebrating christmas at all doesn't sound like if you don't have the tree going no least have that yeah i know we need to kick it into gear but uh are you um somebody that will hang lights or have we had this conversation in the past you have have like permanent lights or something like that? Yeah.

Yeah.

Last year I did the Govi lights.

Yeah.

And you put them up and they're there all year around.

So you don't obviously have your Christmas lights going because that would be tacky if you had Christmas lights going in March and, you know, April, May all throughout the year.

But what you do is just put them on like a normal warm white. And it's like, you know, like an ambient light that you have year round. And then when it's Christmas time, you just go bink, bink, boom, you pull up your laptop. And then you could have Christmas lights. And when it's Halloween, you can have Halloween lights. So it's kind of, how easy is that? It's awesome. I love it. You put up Christmas lights one time and they're done forever. I mean, when you see stats like 15% of ER visits in the month of December are because

falling off of ladders trying to put up Christmas lights, then something like that becomes really

attractive. So yeah, yeah, I have fond memories of it being butt cold outside and helping my dad get on the ladder to put up lights, Shannon. It's just that time of year. But usually we'd make fun of the people that still had their lights up in July. But you know what? That seems like the plan that you're going for. No, I mean, like I said, it'smas lights they're they're multi-use they go from christmas lights to just regular house lights and then it's all there for you okay and you know me like i'm not handy i'm you know my ass is not getting up on a ladder and putting up lights i'm the guy that's on the ground going yeah i think you missed a spot right there i'm the supervisor when it comes to anything that's handyman work. Yeah, and then you plug it in, and there's three bulbs that don't work. Exactly. I should have tested that before you even started. Yeah. All right. So let's talk some basketball last night. Kentucky blows out NC Central. No surprise here. We knew that was going to happen. 103.67. Career high for

Jasper Johnson. He had 22. O.A. played good last night. I guess my main takeaway, Billy,

from the whole thing was that Mark Pope did not seem to be happy at all. He had that,

you could tell he had a bad taste at his mouth from getting blown out against Gonzaga last week.

And it was almost bizarre.

Like, I know that he, you know, takes these losses really hard.

And I posted a clip on Twitter at Shannon, the dude, if you want to see it, if you didn't

see it from last night.

But it's just like he was sort of awkward in the postgame presser answering some of these questions.

I think he was asked about trying to send a message to some of his players.

Brandon Garrison got benched the entire second half because he just jogged back

and gave up a layup on the other end after a turnover.

Jalen Lowe, Kim Williams didn't play at all in the first half. So maybe

there were some messages trying to be sent from Popper to his players to try to get these guys

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