Welcome, everyone. It is the KSR pre-show Friday, April 18th. I am Shannon the dude.

Being joined by Billy Rettledge. You can give us a call in the Clark's Puppet Shop phone line at 859-2-2-287.

If you're a whiskey thief call of the day, you can also send us a text at 502-265-66.

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It is Good Friday all around for everybody who celebrates Easter and everything coming up this weekend.

Good Friday.

I think that every Friday is good.

Good to be here with you, Billy.

How are you doing this morning?

Happy Good Friday to you, Shannon. It is a good Friday, the weekend ahead. I can't tell you how

happy it made me yesterday that the first caller to KSR was Gene Mitchell. I mean, I thought the guy

was there in PCB listening to the show. Maybe you had made a text or a call to get Gene on the show. But in fact,

just like the Mark Pope fiasco we had the other day, it was a different Gene Mitchell, who decided

to play some of his own catalog of music. So I thought that was just perfect to start KSR.

Yeah, imagine that. You got, first of all, Gene Mitchell's had a great week as far as this publicity

goes, man. I mean, for a random lounge Gene Mitchell's had a great week as far as this publicity goes, man.

I mean, for a random lounge singer down in Florida to get all this publicity on the biggest radio show in the state of Kentucky is pretty impressive for him.

But yeah, how about that?

You have another guy from Lexington who says, I've been hearing you guys talk about Gene Mitchell the last couple of days. I'm Gene Mitchell and I used to be a lounge singer and then

called his back Billy and played over like, I guess, a cassette tape over the air some of his

music. And I got several tweets of people who were really upset. They were listening on podcasts.

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