Welcome, everyone. It is the KSR pre-show. We are live in Madisonville. It's Friday, February 27th.

Shannon the dude and Billy Rutledge. You can give us a call in the Clark's Puppet Shop phone line.

859-2-80-2287. We're a whiskey thief call of the day. And the Quantrell Auto Group text line is 502.

265-66. We are live at the Kentucky Sports Factory where somebody today, Billy, is going to win, possibly, $10,000 if they can hit a half-court shot.

But I've got some bad news. The contest is already over because before all you came in here, I already hit a half-court shot.

Billy's got the evidence.

He's tweeted it out.

I'll tell you what, I won't take the $10,000. I'll be a good sport. I'll leave it up to somebody else to do it. But I'm just letting you know it's already been done. And I think that's some good mojo for the rest of this crowd for whoever's going to take the half court shot later on. Well, Shannon, it's great to see you.

We missed you last night.

You made the drive up this morning.

We came last night.

You made the drive up this morning.

We came last night here at the Kentucky Sports Factory today, where it is absolutely beautiful. Let me put my three goggles on. Well, you got three goggles on. There's already. But I got to tell you, there is no worse start to this KSR pre-show right now than Shannon hitting the half-court shot right before we go on air.

Right before we go on air, Shannon hits the half-court shot.

And now I knew what the entire first segment was going to be about. Well, do you want to tell everybody what happened at your attempt at a half-court shot? I missed. I missed. It was unfortunate. You hit a lot of air. Well, the second one was much more online. We just need a little bit more m-f. Shannon, if you would like to go review the video, it's at Billy R Sports.

Shannon was clearly over the line. Oh, please. Clearly over the line. Market zero. It sounds like somebody who's jealous who can't even hit the backboard. I mean, you didn't even hit the, like, any part of anything. It just kind of plopped up there. Oh, okay. Well, that's okay. You know, I was much more online the second time, but I knew as soon as that went in that we weren't going to stop talking about it. Yes. You were online, but about 15 feet short, unfortunately. Hey, that's okay. That's okay. As long as the cats make those shots, it doesn't have to be me. Let's talk about this place they've got here. What a great place this is. The Kentucky Sports Factory. This place is awesome. It opened up in January of last year.

You've got here. What a great place this is. The Kentucky Sports Factory. This place is awesome. It opened up in January of last year. You've got a 92,000 square foot all in one sports destination, basketball, volleyball, pickleball. Look at all these pickleball courts they have here. And you can come out here and check it out. They've got rec leagues they do here, 40 tournaments in 2026 that they've scheduled. I mean, this place is really cool. If you're in Madisonville, you've got to love having this facility. Yeah, they were telling me they could turn this gym floor into about 28 pickleball courts, Shannon. That's what we probably should have done for that. That sounds like Matt would love that. You know, Matt's such a big fan of pickleball. I think we should maybe finally make that pickleball match happen. Well, look, I mean, a lot of our basketball dreams do end earlier than we'd like, whether it be high school or maybe at a low college level. Shannon, for me, it was much even earlier than that. But you bring the boys along or even the females, and you come to a place like this, you know, you can have a lot of fun. into it. There's a turf field right over there, too. So soccer, flag football, whatever you want to do.

I also like that, you know, you can have a lot of fun. There's a turf field right over there, too, so soccer, flag football, whatever you want to do.

I also like that they've got the scoreboards here.

Each scoreboard has a score on it, and there's the significance to that.

Yes.

Does anybody recognize what the significance of the scoreboards is?

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