Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way.

Yo, yo, yo, can we get Thanksgiving first?

I'm hungry.

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Welcome, everyone. It is the KSR pre-show, Thursday, December 18th.

One week away from Christmas.

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

859-280-2287.

Bear a whiskey thief call of the day.

The text line is not with me, so don't even bother because I don't have it.

Instead, you can tweet me at Shannon the dude if you want to write me and you can't call in. And the KSR pre-show is being brought to you by Italics, Fine Italian Dining in Lexington. The text line is not with me. It's with Billy. Billy keeps track of all that. And Billy is not here today because Billy has jury duty. So instead, we're bringing in Mario Maitland as our pinch hitter today for for Billy he's

over in Lexington what's going on Mario how are you what's up my man Shannon man always always fun to

have to do this thing with you man I'm excited I'm excited I don't know if you didn't know I couldn't

sleep last night I was thinking about this the whole time I got one hour hour. You were so excited to do a show with me. You couldn't sleep? I got one hour of sleep last night. I was tossing and turning and then I looked at my phone. It was 6 o'clock and I was like, man, I should just stay up. That's what I should do. I don't know. I don't know what it was. Maybe it was, you know, me excited to do this thing with you?

I honestly don't know. I mean, you've done the show with me before. Like, it's not like, you know, that you've never done this before. Are you like that other shows that you do with me? I'm not. Okay, you're just ready to go today. I guess it was just today. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I don't know what your afternoon was like yesterday, but I'll tell you the last couple of days. I've spent some time wrapping Christmas gifts. I don't know. Have you already done on your Christmas shopping? I shopped a little bit, but I haven't wrapped. I haven't wrapped. I haven't wrapped a single thing, though. All right. Well, listen, this is what I do. And I told Billy this last year. And I still do it.

I've still been doing it this year, too. You know, I got order a lot of stuff online. And it comes in through Amazon. and it comes in a box

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