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

Today is Friday, April 10th.

I am Billy Rutledge, and no Shan the dude. It is his last day

of vacation, not for the year, but for the week at least. Give us call today. 859-2-2-2-87. That's the Clark's

Pump and Shop phone line or Texas at 502-265-66. On a Friday, we're live on location here at Somerset at Don Franklin Hyundai. Don Franklin with 29 stores and over 6,000 vehicles across the bluegrass, trucks, SUV, sedans, only at Don Franklin Auto ready when you are. And joining me this morning is Mario Maitland who made the drive up here from Lexington with me. Drug them up here early. See, here's the thing. Nobody really likes the carpool with me since I have to go a little bit earlier. Shannon's always driving the company car, so I usually have to come up alone, but I drug Mario out of bed a little bit earlier this morning to come join me. It was cool, man. I got to kind of be your assistant today. I got to see you set up, you know, see all the behind the scene stuff. me it was cool man i got to kind of be your assistant today i got to see you set up you know see all the behind the scene stuff so it was cool you know a little bit early not really my thing but you know i'm happy to be here well next time you can help set up the equipment instead of just watching did i not help i'm pretty sure i just kind of sat there and watched me do it all. Did I not set up this speaker phone?

I know everybody watched me set up that speaker phone.

No, no, you didn't.

But that's okay, though. I did invite you to the gym yesterday. I thought we could get a pump in together, Mario, right? Like maybe lift some weights. You invited me? I don't remember you inviting me. He says no, and then tells me this morning he went to the gym yesterday to go play some basketball.

What about that, Mario? It was a last-minute thing.

Somebody invited. He says no, and then tells me this morning he went to the gym yesterday to go play some basketball.

What about that, Mario?

It was a last-minute thing.

Somebody invited me to go, you know, play basketball at the Johnson Center, and I was like, let's do it.

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