Brian’s 15 minutes of fame are about 13 and a half minutes gone, and on this Happy Daily he’s trying to figure out what to do with the rest. He recorded this one in the car on the way to the zoo with his daughter, still sorting through what’s happened since U-Turn Lane to Walmart, his song about the new U-turn lanes on Highway 421, took off on Facebook, right on the heels of his video celebrating Ollie’s finally coming to Wilkes County.
Brian runs the numbers for you: about 10,000 views on the Ollie’s video, about 40,000 on U-Turn Lane to Walmart on Facebook and 25,000 on his appearance on 3WC radio, against roughly 40 views on YouTube, most of them, he figures, from his friend Ricky. He’s the talk of Wilkes County Facebook now, people are looking at him sideways, and he’ll admit he’s got the big head a little bit. But he doesn’t know 40,000 people, and he’s not sure what they’re all getting out of a Christmas song about a traffic pattern. When it’s all said and done, what matters is his family, his kids and his dog Jack, and the Happy Daily, the official podcast of the Wilkes County Bureau of Happy Days.
Brian would like the fame to last just a little longer, and that’s where you come in. The International Request Line at BrianKilby.com/radio lets you pick any radio station in the world, put in your name and send a prewritten request for U-Turn Lane to Walmart, then drop a pin on the map. Out of tens of thousands of views, not one person has used it yet. Brian would especially like to hear it played in Bangkok, Thailand, which he hears is north of Galax.
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