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That is where Billy is.

I am in Louisville.

And first show back for me live in about two weeks, Billy.

I think this is the longest vacation I've ever taken in my 22 years of being here at IHeartRadio. So I'll see if I still know how the board works here. You know, I've almost forgotten how to do my job after being off

for two weeks. How are you doing, man? I'm good. I maybe took a week and six days off if you took

two weeks off. I played some best ofs on the pre-show, but I felt like it was a little bit too long of a break for me. I don't know if you feel like that, Shannon, I didn't know what to do with myself. No, I did. I did. I went to Florida. I hung out on the beach. Yeah, but isn't there like a sense of you want to get back to the routine and, you know, your passion of your career, Shannon, any like that for you?

Or are you just like, I need to be off?

No.

Look, I watched the games, but I didn't listen to a pre-show, a KSR show, a post-game show, none of that.

Like, when I take vacation, I separate myself from all of that.

You know, that's like somebody that works in, I don't know, like the restaurant industry and they, you know, go home and they start, let's say they're a cook and they want to go home and they don't want to cook when they're on their days off, right? They want to go out and have somebody else cook for them. Yeah, but you didn't have a take you needed to give one morning? No. And you're like, I can't get on the air to give my takes.

No. go out and have somebody else cook for them. Yeah, but you didn't have a take you needed to give one morning?

And you're like, I can't get on the air to give my takes.

No, no.

My take was like, this is some really good coffee and this is a really nice day at the beach.

And that's my take for the day.

Well, I think 2026 is going to be a great year.

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