Welcome, everyone, to another edition of the KSR pre-show.

Today is Monday, December 15th.

I'm Billy Rutledge, along with Shannon the dude.

You can give us a call on the Clark's Pump and Shop phone line.

It is 859-280-2287.

Text us at 502-265-66.

And as always, the KSR Pre-show is brought to you by Italics.

Fine Italian dining in Lexington, Kentucky at the city center.

That's where I'm at today, where the coffee machine is broken here in the office.

So it is a little bit of chaos this morning.

Shannon, the dude, is in Louisville, but he should be in the back of a van driving to Atlanta for the St. John's game this weekend, but he is not. He is in studio. Good morning, Shannon. How was your weekend? How are you? It was good, man. Yeah, I guess, you know, I would be heading to Atlanta, but probably somewhere in St. Louis right now if we were taking off for the road trip because, you know.

Gotta go west. That's right. You got to go west before you go south. That's how the KSR road trip works. But man, I'm just enjoying this heat wave over here in Louisville right now. I see it's 8 degrees in Lexington. It is 11 degrees here. We are warming up here in Louisville. It is, it is, it is but cold.

Ridiculously cold out there. Like my car was like, I don't even want to go to work today. I'm trying to start it this morning. It was like, nope. But then it got going eventually. But, yeah, it is. If you can't, if you don't have to go outside, don't go right now. That would be my no no and you know can't imagine working in places where the temperature would normally be like this. You know, Paul and Minnesota calls in, and Minnesota gets their helpings of snow and cold weather a lot of times. But imagine like an Antarctica or like an Alaska, or I'm telling you this is like a brisk summer day. I just wouldn't, I don't know if I'd be able to do that. When I was driving in this morning, the manholes were steaming. That's what you call them, right?

Yeah. Well, is that something different? Like down in the sewer? Yeah, like, you know, where the ninja turtles used to go in there. Yeah, that's right. The manhole. Yeah, it was like, they're eating pizza down there. steaming.

There's a steam coming out.

I'm going,

that's how you know it's cold when your manhole is steaming.

That is,

that is the,

that is, There's steaming. There's a steam coming out. I'm going, that's how you know it's cold when your manhole is steaming.

That is the sign. There's no doubt. So a big thank you to all our mailmen, our package delivery people.

Even the people working in retail that are about to get all the Billy R sports is coming in over the next week or so that have delayed their Christmas shopping.

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