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

Today is Monday, December 22nd.

I am Billy Rutledge, and no Shane and the Dude.

Surprise, he's on vacation.

We'll continue on without him, no 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 on Main Street, just a few days away from Christmas.

Hopefully everybody's having a great holiday. Also, our man, Shannon the Dude, celebrated a birthday yesterday turning 58 years old.

Congratulations to Shannon the dude.

Just getting up there in age now.

So we'll have a special guest today.

Joining me is former KSR pre-show co-host, Zach Gagan.

You can follow him on Twitter at Zach Z. Gagan, KSR.

He is a former guest of the KSR pre-show.

Also did a little cut man in the last couple years or so. Zach, good to see you this morning. Yeah, Billy, thanks for having me on it. We were talking coming here. I think it's been about a year since I did my last pre-show. So Shannon's on vacation. I'm ready to step in. Let's do it. Yeah, ready to talk some ball with you today, Zach.

And by the way, Shannon's not 58.

I mean, I embellished a little bit. 59?

56.

Oh, Zach. And by the way, Shannon's not 58. I mean, I embellished a little bit. Fifty-nine? 56. Oh, okay. And I gave him a couple more years than I should have. Yeah. But, you know, he's, you know, he's somebody that's getting up there in age. I was a little insulted when Shannon didn't think that I could beat him in a race. We talked about the KSR members in a race, Zach, and of course Shannon didn't think that I could beat him. What do you think the rankings could look out if we were doing a race of the KSR guys? I guess if we are we including Mario too? Yeah, Mario's included. I have to pick Mario first just because he's the youngest.

He's, you know, former basketball player himself.

And I'll put you second. I feel like he's still got some young legs in any. You can take Shannon pretty easy. What is this? Like a 100-yard dash? What's the race? Who knows? Who knows? And who knows if this will ever happen? This would be typical KSR fashion that it never comes to fruition.

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