Welcome, everyone. It is the KSR pre-show.

Friday, July 17th, I am Shannon, the dude, being joined by Billy Rutledge,

and you can give us a call on the Clark's Pupp and Shop phone line at 859-2-2-2-2-2-2-2X-5-6-6. I think we're on the air right now if we are somebody

I don't know send out an sOS let us know but I couldn't hear you at the start of the show

billy I don't know what happened there but I think I got you now good morning how are you

I'm great Shannon what a way to start a Friday yeah I hope we're on the air I hope we're able to talk about the all the topics that we have to talk about today I'm great, Shannon. What a way to start a Friday. I hope we're on the air. I hope we're able to

talk about all the topics that we have to talk about today. I'm live on location somewhere that

you're not even here, Shannon. So I'm missing you this morning. Where are you at? What are you doing?

I'm here live at the Vine in Lexington, which is reopening tomorrow. It's on like what, the

ninth or tenth floor in a building across the street from the IHeart

building here in downtown Lexington.

And, Shannon, it's like I've stepped into like a Vegas, like, I don't know, steakhouse and

pool.

It's incredible.

The vibe and ambiance here, they're going to be reopening to the public tomorrow, I believe. But they've got a new general manager who's got a Michelin star, and they just took me out to the pool with the big TV outside. It was like I was sitting out in the Venetian, where you can watch all the sports outside next to the pool. So I'm live at the Vine getting ready for their grand reopening tomorrow here, Shane. Nice. All right. Well, I'll have to get down there and check that out maybe in the upcoming weeks. I'm a little disappointed. I couldn't be there with you today. Kind of disappointed in the start of the show. It was an embarrassing start. We couldn't hear each other. I think we're good now. People were saying we're on the air,

so that's good. As embarrassing as it may have been, it could not have been any more embarrassing than

Ryan Lemon telling the story of him splitting his pants one time at Rupp Arena on the show yesterday.

He said he was, you know, back in his TV days when he was doing those live sports reports from Rupp Arena.

He bent down to pick up a piece of paper.

He says as soon as he did that, he realized he was in trouble because he had a split from end to end on his pants.

And to make matters worse, he was going commando for whatever reason that day.

I think he said he hadn't done his laundry in about a month.

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