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

Today is Monday, March 16th.

I'm Billy Rutledge along with Shannon the dude.

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

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And it's one of the very best days of the year.

If you're a sports fan and you probably are listening to the KSR pre-show this morning, you know that it is bracket Monday.

March Madness is here. I've got my copy in studio this morning, ready to fill it out.

Shannon the dude is in Louisville, Kentucky, back from his trip to Nashville. Good morning, dude. Good to be back on our regular scheduled programming here. Yeah, good to be back here with you. We're not hijacked today by KSR as we were a couple of days last week. I also love that you got the hard copy of Brackett. That is old school right there, baby. See, I've gotten lazy over the years. I just go digital because it's so easy to go on one of those bracket websites and just go click, click, click. And then I don't have to print it out. I can look at it on my phone. But I like that you go old school. You print out the bracket and you fill it out, hopefully with a pen. No pencil, though.

You know, you talk about the bracket of integrity.

It's only a bracket of integrity if you use Sharpie or a pencil or a pen, not a pencil.

I'm one of those people, the bracket of integrity that I will fill out one bracket,

and that will be what I submit to all the sites that you'll use, the ESPN tournament challenge. Is Warren Buffett still trying to give away a billion dollars if you get a perfect bracket, Shannon? I know that was a thing. I know we're doing a thing on our station's websites for a million. Not a billion, but a million if you fill out the perfect bracket, which no one has ever done in the history of the world.

I mean, if we're being honest, no one has ever filled out a perfect bracket. But if you want to try to, even though we know you're not going to, we've got your shot to do that. WQMF.com, WKQQQ.com. I know it's linked up there on the contest page if anybody wants to take a shot at that. but nonetheless, I've got my bracket filled out.

You've got yours filled out.

I'm sure we'll share that at some point. We don't have to do it right now. But a lot happened over the weekend, Billy. It was a busy week last week in Nashville, too. It was. And that's a very company man of you to promote the bracket challenge that we should be promoting. Yeah. so go to some of our websites and we will and do that bracket challenge with us.

But, you know, it was a busy weekend, dude. I mean, Kentucky lost to Florida in the third game of the SEC tournament.

The cats get a seven seed in the NCAA tournament and the boys will be going to St. Louis to take on Santa Clara, the 10 seed out of the WCC.

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