Welcome, everyone. It is the KSR pre-show Thursday, May 28th. I'm Shannon the dude. I'm in the Louisville studio, back from an extended Memorial Day weekend vacation.

Being joined by Billy Routledge. He's over in Lexington. You can give us a call on the Clark's Puppen Shop phone line, 859-2-2027.

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Text Line to Spive02, 265-6655. Billy, you leave for a few days, a lot happens. We got Moreno

coming back. We got Times release for the UK football season coming up. We got KS bar closing down. There's all kinds of stuff happening. And I'm back here with you for a couple of days at least, Billy. We got the KSR golf scramble going on tomorrow. A whole lot going on. And thanks for holding it down the last couple of days. Who did you have in here for the pre-show? I didn't get the hearing of course. We had Jack Pilgrim and Jojo K. K. Howard. All tried to fill your shoes while you were gone. I hope you're well rested. Us normal people went back to work two days ago. But I'm glad that you're here. And how was your trip? It was good, man. It was good. Always good to, you know, get away for a few days, relax, and not have to worry about, you know, hanging out with you every day. I get a break from you. Well, you leave for one weekend in your sports bar that you're a co-owner of shuts down. Yeah, that was the big news yesterday, and I, you know,

I knew this was coming, and it's one of those things that it's disappointing, but I get it.

Look, in case you didn't see the news, KS Bar and Grill, we'll be closing after Railbird Fest,

and it's still going to exist in some form. It still will be in partnership with another bar, which I don't know how much Matt has said, so I don't want to get into too many details on that, just in case we're not supposed to say the name of, you know, who we're in partnership with. But KS. Bar and Grill will still exist in some form on game days, which is really when we're at our best, Billy. I mean, KS. Bar, when it was, you know, the whole idea of it was based on we are an event bar, you know, like when there's something big going on in town, whether it's a concert or, of course, a Kentucky basketball game or football game, baseball game, whatever it is, we kind of wanted to be the place where all UK fans could go to watch the

games. And I think, you know, we've done that pretty well over the last eight years. But,

you know, restaurant business, Billy, is one of those businesses that is really, really tough

to be profitable and to sustain that profitability.

And just because of, you know, the constant cost of everything that it, you know, requires to run the business.

And, you know, we were doing great on game days, doing great on days where there was a concert.

But then what about all those other days?

You can't just exist on game day, where I guess you can if you're doing the new business model that we're going to be doing moving forward.

But as a full-time restaurant, you've got to have constant business.

And, you know, COVID was tough.

We got through that.

You look at the sort of downfall or the downward trend of Kentucky basketball over the last several years.

I think that has also affected business a little bit.

But, you know, disappointing, as I say, but at least we're still going to be around in some form on game days. And fans will still be able to come out and enjoy KS Bar and Grill. But, Billy, I don't know if you had a chance to talk about it on the pre-show yesterday. But kind of sad news, but we're still going to be around. Yeah, really disappointing. I mean, I feel like I just got my picture up on the wall over there and my haybell trophy.

Well, guess what? but we're still going to be around. Yeah, really disappointing. I mean, I feel like I just got my picture up on the wall over there, and my haybell trophy is sitting up there.

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