Episode Details

This is a talk hosted on Duff Radio about how I (Ty McDuffey) first got into journalism after moving to Montana and working as the editor of the Big Horn County News in Hardin, Montana. 

TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 - Introduction to Ty and Mimi C
0:26 - Living in North Kansas City & barely affording my rent
1:02 - I'd always wanted to live out West in the mountains
1:47 - Indeed job alert in Montana for newspaper editor
2:15 - Big Timber, Montana, is a stunning place 
2:45 - Applying with zero relevant work experience
3:46 - Looking up Yellowstone Communications 
5:01 - Hearing back from John Sullivan
5:53 - Praying at my family's farm at Lake of the Ozarks
7:18 - Job opportunity in Hardin, Montana, instead of Big Timber
8:13 - Going into my formal interview, I was very underdressed
9:06 - My technique for being successful in job interviews 
10:48 - Mushroom trip
15:33 - Loading up my Chevy Malibu to go from Kansas City to Montana
17:09 - Driving through the plains to Livingston, Montana
18:31 - Getting to the Black Hills of South Dakota
19:53 - Detour to Mount Rushmore
21:02 - Having the entire Mount Rushmore monument to myself
22:28 - Running into a serious blizzard in Wyoming
23:49 - Entering Crow Nation through the Big Horn Mountains
28:02 - Arriving in Livingston, Montana, to work at the Livingston Enterprise
28:50 -  Livingston is gorgeous
30:45 - My little $600/month apartment in Livingston
32:20 - My first stories as a journalist 
37:52 - The interesting way newspapers are printed, learning InDesign 
40:54 - Seeing my name in print for the first time
42:27 - Moving from Livingston for Hardin 
44:25 - Renting a beautiful cabin on the Big Horn River
45:17 - The Big Horn River is one of the best trout streams in the world
46:26 - How I learned to fit in living in a small town

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