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EP 2-20 NED LEDOUX

Wendy Corr:

Well, Hey folks, welcome to The Roundup. We are a Cowboy State Daily podcast, and we focus on the interesting people in the Cowboy State. And it's such an interesting place with so many interesting people and so many resources.

Real quickly, before we get started with our really, really great guest today, I want to make sure that people know about another great podcast called Business from the Basement. It's the Wyoming Business Alliance's podcast. We want to make sure to let people know that these resources from the Business Alliance are out there for anybody who's in business in the cowboy state. Check out the Wyoming Business Alliance Business from the Basement podcast for wonderful information that'll help you with your Wyoming business.

But we're talking about Wyoming businesses, and the business that we're talking about today is show business, and show business is embodied in our guest, Ned Ledoux. Ned Ledoux, what a great, great thing to have Ned on our podcast today.

Ned, welcome to The Roundup. We're so glad to have you.

Ned Ledoux:

Well, thanks for having me.

Wendy Corr:

It's so fun to be able to talk to you. We were talking just beforehand, and Ned and I actually grew up in the same part of Wyoming. I'm from Buffalo, and Ned is from Kaycee, so I think they're the only two communities in Johnson County, if I recall correctly.

Ned Ledoux:

Yeah, yeah, I think you're right, yeah.

Wendy Corr:

I think most everybody knows somebody in common, which is a lot of fun. And Ned, you grew up in Kaycee. You grew up, of course, in the, can I say the shadow of the spotlight, because your dad was in the spotlight, and you were just on the edge of that. And then eventually you joined him. And I absolutely love that.

Ned, tell us about growing up in Wyoming. What was it like for you, growing up in such unique, your feet really, in two worlds.

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Yeah, I just love the state of Wyoming. Very proud to have grown up there and to grow up on a ranch. Means a lot to me. You know, because just growing up a ranch kid, you learn so many things out there, you know, work ethic and just, you know, a working ranch, you learn how to work cows and build fence and haying and irrigating and all that stuff.

And working side by side with my siblings was great. And of course, when you're a kid, you know that kind of work is something that you might not really want to do because it's pretty tough stuff. But, you know, looking back on it now I'm, I'm sure thankful that I got to do that.

Wendy Corr:

And yet, you also had a glimpse into the show business world, into the music industry world. What was it like to kind of be able to see both of those different life experiences?

Ned Ledoux:

Well, if you're talking about Dad, you know, like one thing I always say is, you know, if you're a rodeo fan, Chris Ledoux is the 1976 bareback champ of the world. If you're a country music fan, you know, Chris Ledoux is, in my opinion, the greatest entertainer that there ever was, and has some of the best music. But if you're me or any of my siblings, you just simply know him as dad, you know, he never really brought that stuff home.

And I've talked about all the people that he played for, and, you know, all the big shows that he did and all that stuff - that was like, he wanted to get involved with what we were doing, you know, whether it was a sport that we were into or or homework. But then once he got into playing the game of golf, you know, he was like, Hey, you guys want to g