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EP 41 Jake Nichols

Jake Nichols:

It's 8:27, this morning in the Cowboy State Daily Morning Show with Jake! As we come out of break, I want to talk about the weather forecast, because it impacts travel.

Wendy Corr:

Hey, Jake!

Jake Nichols:

But Don day…

Wendy Corr:

Jake! Jake, it's podcast time. It's podcast time.

Jake Nichols:

Oh my goodness, Wendy, I'm so sorry. I was in the middle of something.

Wendy Corr:

You were in the middle of, Jake In the Morning with Cowboy State Daily.

Jake Nichols:

No one knows about it, but me. But yeah, I'm happy to share.

Wendy Corr:

Well, now it's time to tell everybody about it. Jake Nichols - okay, folks, we'll start over here a little bit. Welcome to The Roundup, Cowboy State Daily's podcast, where we interview really interesting people from around the Cowboy State. Today we are interviewing Cowboy State Daily's own, Jake Nichols!

You've read his articles. I mean, his 'Drinking Wyoming' in Dubois is legendary. You've got to go back and read that if you haven't read it yet. But Jake has such a fantastic writing style. His voice almost comes off the page.

Well, actually, his voice IS coming off the page now because his voice is going to be over the internet, hopefully soon, over your local radio station, because Jake is launching Cowboy State Daily's very first morning show! Jake Nichols, what are we doing here?

Jake Nichols:

Wow. Well, thanks for the build up. Yeah, I like to think that my writing style is really an extension of my first passion, my number one skill set, and that's as a radio guy. And maybe nobody knew that - knows that, but they're going to know.

Wendy Corr:

I guess they're definitely going to know now, because you are going to be launching October 1! Folks, we are launching the Cowboy State Daily morning show with Jake Nichols, and it's going to be everything that you expect from a morning show. We got a little bit of a glimpse of it when we interrupted Jake first, when he was getting ready and rehearsing for this morning show.

Jake, tell us about Cowboy State Daily's morning show. What are we going to hear when we tune in at 6am Monday through Friday? What are we going to hear?

Jake Nichols:

Well, I mean, it's hard to envision something that isn't happening yet, but I've done morning shows before, so I know, you know, I know what it needs to be - four hours a morning for people, you know, it's to kind of get the morning started.

But I think one thing that'll be typical of the morning show, it's going to have all the elements that morning shows have. It's going to, you know, have weather, keep people informed, all the info you need to start your day. And then I think one of the - a couple of things that morning shows don't have the luxury of doing is, we can look at the stories of the day and drill down a little deeper.

You know, there's always stories that we read and it leaves you with more questions than answers. Or it leaves you wanting to talk about it, and it's water cooler talk. And we're going to do it on radio.

We're going to invite people to call in. We got a number of people can call in. And I want to talk to people. When we see one of these interesting stories, I want to see what Wyoming thinks about it.

And, yeah, we're also going to cover the state, you know, border to border. I really, I've been around the state. I love this state, and I don't want to leave an