Episode Details

Wendy Corr:

Well, hey there folks, welcome to the Roundup. We are a Cowboy State Daily podcast, and our focus is on interesting people in the Cowboy State. And it's a bittersweet one for me today, this is my final podcast as the regular host of the Roundup.

But I am leaving you all in such great hands, because my guest today is the person that I'm handing the baton to when it comes to broadcast media for Cowboy State Daily. And that is Mac Watson. Yay for Mac Watson!

Mac Watson:

Hi. Thank you.

Wendy Corr:

There he is! Now Mac, Mac has such an interesting story, so we're talking about interesting people - he fits right in. And, my goodness, the stories he has to tell. We're going to laugh a lot today.

But before we go to our interview with Mac, I want to make sure that people know about the Wyoming Business Council "Business From the Basement" podcast. The "Business From the Basement" podcast is put on by the Wyoming Business Alliance. The Wyoming Business Alliance wants to promote business and business people - and the networking, the networking that can happen between business people in Wyoming.

So if you are a business person, if you are interested in being a business person, if you want more resources, more connections, more networking, go to the Wyoming Business Alliance "Business From the Basement" podcast. Check it out, and you will thank me. You will thank me for sending you their way.

But don't go there yet, because for the next little while here, we are going to get to know Cowboy State Daily's newest broadcast media director, who is Mac Watson, who comes from a - Mac, your history in the broadcast radio industry is just so colorful, and it's so interesting.

But Mac, you've only been in Wyoming for about three years, but you've had connections to Wyoming for like almost 15 now, right? So tell us about your connections to Wyoming. What brought you to Northwest Wyoming, which is where you are now?

Mac Watson:

So I was living in Phoenix, working in Phoenix at a radio station there, and I happened to start stalking a person who worked at the Attorney General's office.

Wendy Corr:

Oh my.

Mac Watson:

Yeah, she's a lawyer, which is not a great person to stalk, by the way, unless, you know, you're in jail or whatever and you need representation. But anyway, I started stalking on social media this woman that I just found fascinating, and still do. And we met, we got married, and she is from Cody.

She grew up in Cody, she was born in Casper, then they moved up here to Cody. Her dad worked for Marathon, worked for Husky oil, Marathon. He was a draftsman for years. So she graduated from Cody High School and then went to, you know, college, law school, University of Wyoming, graduate law school, and then worked for the attorney general's office in Wyoming, as well as Arizona.

So I met her when she was in Arizona, and the first time, we'd been dating two weeks. And she said, Hey, I just gotta tell you I'm going back home from my high school reunion. And I knew, because she, you know, we compared exes - always a good thing - but none of our exes really were, you know, did things for her, right?

So she said, I'm going to my class reunion, my 20th class reunion. I said, I'll go. And she was like, what? And I said, Yeah. And I bought a plane ticket that night, not knowing where Cody, Wyoming was. I flew into Bozeman. I was like this all the way until we landed, because there was nothing around. I come from the East Coast.

And when we finally landed, I called her, and I said, I'm here, but I don't know where to meet you. And she go