CODY -- As radio host Christopher Turner gets set to broadcast his 100th show Saturday, he's preparing to join Jack Benny, Barbara Stanwyck and Ozzie and Harriet Nelson.

No, he's not getting canceled, or worse. Turner has been asked to submit his show's recordings and scripts to the American Heritage Center in Laramie, which also holds collections from those other performers.

The University of Wyoming's repository for rare books and other records, the American Heritage Center has more than 3,000 collections, said Associate Director Rick Ewig, who wants to add Turner's "Comfort Food" show to the vault.

For Turner, a lifelong collector of books, memorabilia, toys and pop culture ephemera, having a place in the center's archives is a big deal.

"It's unique for a small town to turn out a weekly comedy and music variety radio show," he said. "So I think people here are really proud of that now and want to recognize it."

Broadcast live from the Irma Hotel, "Comfort Food" has become one of the Big Horn Basin's top venues featuring local actors and musicians.

Cody's downhome 'Country Food' finds new home in UW archives
By RUFFIN PREVOST
Gazette Wyoming Bureau

CODY, Wyo. - As radio host Christopher Turner gets set to broadcast his 100th show Saturday, he's preparing to join Jack Benny, Barbara Stanwyck and Ozzie and Harriet Nelson.

No, he's not getting canceled, or worse. Turner has been asked to submit his show's recordings and scripts to the American Heritage Center in Laramie, which also holds collections from those other performers.

The University of Wyoming's repository for rare books and other records, the American Heritage Center has more than 3,000 collections, said Associate Director Rick Ewig, who wants to add Turner's "Comfort Food" show to the vault.

For Turner, a lifelong collector of books, memorabilia, toys and pop culture ephemera, having a place in the center's archives is a big deal. "It's unique for a small town to turn out a weekly comedy and music variety radio show," he said. "So I think people here are really proud of that now and want to recognize it."

With the show about to enter its third year, Turner said he realized it was being accepted as a live performing arts showcase "when people finally stopped telling me I should interview their neighbor, Larry, about politics or whatever."

Broadcast live from the Irma Hotel, "Comfort Food" has become one of the Bighorn Basin's top venues featuring local actors and musicians.

"Sometimes there are looks of vast confusion on the faces of tourists who walk in on our show and they're not really sure what's going on. But some stay and enjoy it and go home realizing they've just seen something special," Turner said.

Turner writes the show and performs in nearly every sketch, but he credits the musicians and actors who appear each week for much of his success.

"It's been a great opportunity, working with Chris," said Bryce Cornatzer, a Northwest College communications student who has performed on the show for the past year. "Not only performing on the air, but getting to know him, too.

"The show has a lot of silliness to it, but he's been helping me work on my accents and developing different characters. He's a great person to know."

"Comfort Food" focuses on local humor, including comedy sketches about Sylvan Pass, mule deer, ice hockey, prairie dogs, logging and wolves.

Turner said he feels plenty of pressure to come up with interesting guests and topical comedy.

"How many Wyoming wind jokes can you do?" he said.

"There are Mondays when I walk in and look at the computer and think, 'OK, now what?' " he said.

"I carry a little notebook and keep a tape recorder in the car for ideas. I went on a pack trip in the mountains a couple of weeks ago and almost fell off my horse while I was taking notes."

Expect some cutting-edge bark beetle humor in upcoming episodes, he said.

Pete Simpson, who was raised in Cody and is a UW political science professor emeritus, recommended that the Laramie center archive "Comfort Food."

Simpson had the idea after appearing as a guest on the show, Turner said.

Meanwhile, Turner has been pursuing his own plans for archiving the show and "expanding the Comfort Food brand," as he jokingly put it.

"We're going to start podcasting every new show, and all the old shows as well, on the Web site. And I'm looking into publishing a little book of some of the best sketches from the first 100 shows," he said.

Cornatzer plans to transfer later this year to a university in California or Washington state, where he'll listen to the show's podcasts.

"I'll keep listening in to see what he's up to," Cornatzer said, adding that the online broadcasts are a good way for those who haven't heard the live show to sample Turner's brand of absurdist humor.

"There's not a lot else like this out there, so I'd encourage people to take a listen and see if they like it," he said. "The show is very Wyoming and very Cody. It's unique."

Contact Ruffin Prevost at rprevost@billingsgazette.com or 307-527-7250.

FROM THE CODY ENTERPRISE, AUGUST 12, 2007

‘Comfort Food’ goes down in history

By Jayme Fraser

It took only 2 years of comedy, music and commentary for Comfort Food Radio to earn a place in Wyoming history.

Host Chris Turner received a letter from the University of Wyoming’s American Heritage Center on Aug. 3 wanting to document the local variety show.

“The papers related to the show will provide a look at Wyoming culture you wouldn’t get any other way,” said AHC Director Mark Greene, adding that Comfort Fod Radio is the first show to be archived at the Center.

“I was just floored because it’s such a great honor,” Turner said, “Usually they take stuff when it’s over, but this is ongoing.”

Greene said the AHC tries to record history as it happens.

“We know the best way to insure historically relevant material is preserved is to talk with the creators, “ Greene said.

Turner’s staff was excited when they were told the show would be part of Wyoming history.

Actor’s Wendy Corr and Bryce Cornatzer briefly chatted about the honor before reviewing their scripts.

“Chris, scholars 50 years from now will be able to read your bad spelling,” sound engineer Frank Hiltz said.

Turner laughed and said, “They’re going to think, ‘Man this guy is funny and that I was this idiot-savant.”

Turner credits the show’s success to his staff who he describes as “dedicated, loyal and talented.”

Comfort Food began broadcasting live from the Irma Hotel nearly 3 years ago.

To air is human: Cody radio show is 'aluminum standard'

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By KRISTY GRAY
Star-Tribune staff writer Friday, March 23, 2007



Step into the You Don't Want To Know What It Is Restaurant, a place where teenagers jam to Percy Faith and bootleg Perry Como.

Say hello to Tawney Pickle, Miss Comfort Food for 2007, and one of her 37 personalities, all inspired by guests on Oprah Winfrey.

Welcome to "Comfort Food: Meatloaf and Mashed Potatoes for your Mind" -- a manic roadmap of Chris Turner's often twisted sense of humor. Broadcast live every Saturday morning from Cody's historic Irma Hotel, it is the only live variety radio show west of the Mississippi.

If Garrison Keillor's "Prairie Home Companion" on public radio is the gold standard of live-audience comedy radio shows, Turner likes to think "Comfort Food" is the aluminum standard.

That's nothing to scoff at. Everybody needs aluminum. It's what makes beer portable.

At first glance, Cody, Wyo., seems an unlikely place to find Chris Turner.

Or, perhaps, Chris Turner is an unlikely man to find Cody, Wyo.

Before the rush of summer tourists, Cody slumbers between the Absaroka and Big Horn mountains. Some 500,000 Yellowstone tourists will pass through this town of about 9,000 locals when the weather turns warm.

It is steeped in Western history, legend and the influence of the showman who was its namesake -- Col. William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody.

Turner comes from a much different history.

His father, Ed "No Relation To Ted" Turner was one of the four founding fathers of the CNN News network.

Chris Turner started his career there as a copy boy on July 17, 1980. He taught himself to cut video and work sound. He became a Johnnie-Be-All for the fledgling network. By 1984, he was head of the political unit and followed the campaign of Democratic presidential candidate Gary Hart for five months.

During one campaign trip, the Hart plane's right engine caught fire and blew up shortly after take-off.

Newsmen around him prayed. Turner didn't really want to die either, but this was news, people! He picked up his still camera and started snapping pictures. His cameraman saw him and started videotaping.

The plane landed safely.

Later, in the airport bar, Turner's hands shook so that the ice rattled against his glass. He glanced up at the television hanging on the wall. It was playing his crew's tape from the plane.

"That's why you guys will always beat us," an NBC newsman said.

Turner covered wars and politicians for 16 more years -- the Panama invasion, the bombing of Libya from the USS America, the Iran-Iraq war and the civil war in Bosnia. In Sarajevo, one of his photographers was shot in the jaw. The bullet could have hit Turner if he hadn't stayed behind to pay the bills.

The photographer lived, but Turner was finished with war.

"Suddenly I became mortal. If you are covering wars, you can't be mortal," he said.

He found Cody on a 2001 vacation. He had retired from CNN to care for his father, who had been diagnosed with liver cancer. He wanted to take a trip before he cared for his dad.

"Have you ever been to Wyoming?" his mother asked. It was the only state he hadn't seen.

"You have to go to Cody and stay at the Irma Hotel. They make stiff drinks, so be careful."

Turner spent three weeks there. When he left, he swore he'd come back.

His father died six months later. Retired and financially secure, Turner suddenly was faced with the option of living anywhere he wanted. He thought about returning to Rome, where he had lived for three years for CNN. He thought about Tulsa, Okla., his hometown.

But he couldn't get Cody out of his head.

He thinks of Wyoming as that bar on Luke Skywalker's home planet -- a place with the roughest and toughest from across the galaxy, who don't bat an eye when someone loses an arm in a quick-draw light saber fight.

There's no bar in which Turner would rather drink.

Except maybe the Irma's Silver Saddle Bar.

The reason he has a bra in his office?

Well, it's a long story.

Most of Turner's stories are long. And there is one behind almost every artifact in his two-room office.

The Tickle-Me Pete Simpson Doll was built for a radio sketch. It giggles. Laughs obnoxiously. Then keels over of a heart attack. (Simpson, a University of Wyoming professor emeritus and a member of Wyoming political royalty, thought it was funny.)

Most of the props his actors use in front of the radio show's live audience make it back to these rooms. They sit among dozens of other collectibles Turner has gathered over the years.

Some mark events in his life, such as the picture of him with his news crew, the first crew into Kuwait at the beginning of Desert Storm. Some are just silly, such as his collection of action figures featuring Marie Antoinette (the beheaded queen of France). Turner's Houdini doll, complete with straight jacket and handcuffs, holds Mary's head.

Many of the collectibles celebrate the American West, a Turner obsession.

"Jazz is our only original art form. The West is our only mythology," he said.

"It's our Iliad. Our Odyssey. We'll never have anything like the West again."

Just look at his boots --green on top, tan on the bottom. The pointed toes are tipped with black.

Most of "Comfort Food" is created in this office. It's 40 hours of work for a 55-minute show.

The musical acts offer Turner a chance to show off the area's local talent. It's also one of the hardest parts of the job.

His dog groomer is an accomplished jazz vibraphonist. His dentist is a bagpiper and blues harmonica player. Both have been featured acts. He also features students to promote their upcoming school productions.

He practically discovered the Bannock Trailers, a musical duet who didn't even have a name when he and his wife saw them playing in Cooke City, Mont. "If you want to give me a birthday gift," his wife had said, "get these guys on your show."

They now play "Comfort Food" whenever the mountain roads are clear. They are getting ready to cut their first CD, a mixture of country and classic hillbilly.

Stephanie Davis also has played the show a few times. She's a country songwriter who has written for Garth Brooks, among others. She is also the most returned guest of "Prairie Home Companion." Once, in a pinch, "Prairie Home" asked her to fill in for another musical guest. Davis turned them down. She was scheduled to do "Comfort Food" that weekend.

Take that, Keillor.

Show ideas come mostly from the news. He spends at least an hour and a half each day flipping through newspapers and browsing the Internet. The "in" box on his desk is full of clippings that may make future shows.

Yellowstone Superintendent Suzanne Lewis is an occasional target. With the winter closure of the park's east gate, Lewis isn't the most popular figure in Cody right now.

"Chris has great affection for Wyoming," said Cody actor Thom Huge (pronounced HYOO-gee). "He pokes fun at our foibles. He's not making fun of us."

You might recognize Huge's voice. He was Jon Arbuckle in CBS's morning cartoon, "Garfield and Friends."

Saturday. Show day.

Turner is at the Irma by 5:30 a.m. to move tables to make room for the sound equipment.

He can't think of a better place for his show.

Buffalo Bill built it for his youngest daughter in 1902. The cherrywood bar in the dining room was commissioned by Queen Victoria for her showman friend. The wood is from France. It was carried by steamship to New York City, by train to Red Lodge, Mont., and to Cody by horse-drawn wagons.

The Irma claims to serve the best prime rib in the Rocky Mountains.

"The Irma is the heart of Cody. You're always going to know someone when you come into this place," Turner says.

Turner's cast and crew arrive about an hour before showtime:

* Frank Hiltz, audio engineer and owner of a local karaoke company.

* Kim Richard, who hails from a long-time Cody family. She is an actress and the "beat lady." She announces upcoming Cody events.

* Huge, making a return appearance. He can't act on the show as much anymore because of the demands of his new job -- director of the Buffalo Bill Art Show and Sale.

* Wendy Corr, Big Horn Radio Network's news director. She studied acting in college, but she never thought she'd actually get to use it.

* And 16-year-old Jayme Fraser, a Cody High School junior who met Turner at a journalism conference. She asked him if she could help on the show.

"It's grown to more than just what you hear on the radio. It's a family of comedians that you can detach yourself from six days a week," she said.

Their only group rehearsal is about 10 minutes before the show goes live.

By now, the Irma breakfast crowd is picking up. It's a mix of long-time ranchers, area artists, professionals and three older women who came to see the show together.

"To me, the comedy carries it. I've heard it many miles in my car and I laugh hysterically," said Joan Anderson, 65. "And you need to laugh."

Sometimes "Comfort Food" plays before 130 people packed in like sardines. Sometimes it plays before six. Today, about 20.

The theme to the "Magnificent Seven" thunders out of a sound system.

Turner sits tables behind a laptop computer. One hand is wrapped around his script, the other waves in exaggerated gestures.

"Welcome back to 'Comfort Food,' the crown jewel in Wyoming radio!" he shouts. "The pinnacle of audio entertainment! The finest sounds you will ever hear coming from the AM band because we've been banned from FM!

"And elementary schools.

"And middle schools.

"... And any public place."

So it begins, the wacky parade of misfits and malcontents that Turner leads every Saturday morning.

Huge calls it "Garrison on speed."

That's OK. If Turner could do for Wyoming just a fraction of what Garrison Keillor's Lake Wobegon has done for Minnesota, Turner would be happy. Ninety percent of Keillor's listeners have never been to Minnesota. But "Prairie Home Companion" makes them feel like they know it.

"Who would have thought we'd have something like this in Wyoming? I'm just tickled to be part of it," Corr said.



Take a bite out of radio



You can listen to "Comfort Food: Meatloaf and Mashed Potatoes for your Mind" from 9 to 10 a.m. every Saturday:

* On KODI 1400 AM in Cody and surrounding areas.

* On KXMQ 1140 AM throughout the Big Horn Basin.

* Or download the show each week at www.

NWC forensics team a 'juggernaut'
By RUFFIN PREVOST
Gazette Wyoming Bureau

POWELL - Sweeping virtually every tournament it has entered this year, the Northwest College forensics team has posted its best record in a generation, earning it the nickname of "juggernaut" from a competitor.

Leave it to the president of a forensics team to use a 17th-century word derived from the title for an Indian deity.

But that's what Jordan Palmer, of Hastings College, did earlier this month when he called the NWC Trapper forensics team a juggernaut, or unstoppable force.

That was after back-to-back wins in two tournaments held Feb. 1-3 at Laramie County Community College. The team has continued to dominate its opponents since.

'Phenomenal' success

Mark Kitchen, vice president for college relations, said the team's success has been "nothing short of phenomenal."

"This college community could not be prouder of the forensics team, both the students and the coaches," he said. "I've been around for a long time, and for three decades, the program has been highly competitive and ranked nationally."

The team of 24 students, about half of whom are from the Bighorn Basin, compete in events such as debate, extemporaneous speaking and dramatic interpretation.

Students must be able to think on their feet and must have a strong command of a wide array of facts drawn from current events, history and politics.

For team member Brett Delaney of Casper, the variety of topics and events is part of the appeal.

"I like the range the activity offers," he said. "You get to learn everything with forensics. You have aspects of theater, politics, communication and public speaking."

Delaney was chatting with coaches last week about a coming meet in Seattle, but didn't seem overly concerned about what some might consider stiff competition.

"You won't talk to too many of our students who lack confidence," Coach Duane Fish said of his team. "In some ways, that's why we're doing so well.

"They don't know that when they're up against some of these schools, they're not supposed to win," Fish said with a smile.

But the rest of the country is now expecting the Trapper squad to win, with the team ranked 8th out of more than 400 schools rated by the National Parliamentary Debate Association.

That puts the two-year community college ahead of not only the University of Wyoming and University of Montana, but also such powerhouse schools as the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Notre Dame.

Fish said the team's rating could rise further after recent successes, including last weekend's overall first-place win at the Western States' Tournament in Seattle, where 11 of the 12 NWC students attending earned awards.

Kitchen credits Fish and fellow coaches Bob Becker and Jeannie Hunt for much of the team's success.

"If you ask the coaches, they'll say the students are outstanding, and they're right," Kitchen said. "But the students are confident and well-prepared because the coaches are encouragers, not dictators. They just help the students be the best they can."

Fish said that, unlike many schools, "we're not on a 'star system' here," meaning the team is open to any student who wants to join.

"If they come in and get prepared, we'll take them," he said. "That's one reason we get many students participating for us who have little or no forensics experience."

That includes Bryce Cornatzer, an 18-year-old theater and communications major from Lovell.

"I just walked onto the team," said Cornatzer, who was home-schooled from seventh grade through high school and had never competed in forensics.

"I met the woman here in the Student Success Center, and she saw the way I was dressed and said, 'You need to join the forensics team,' " he said.

Cornatzer, a standout competitor his first year out, has a penchant for a mode of fashion that is perhaps best described as retro hipster-chic, a look made famous by the character Kramer from the TV show "Seinfeld."

He has been spotted walking to class sporting a full-length gray wool overcoat, brown polyester leisure suit, chunky Hush Puppy shoes, a vintage leather attaché case and a pipe, the latter used as much as a fashion accessory as a smoking apparatus.

"We never had to worry much about a dress code until Bryce got here," Fish joked.

For team member Zack Eckerdt, of Powell, performing well against larger colleges has been a confidence-builder.

"The bigger schools have the ability to pick from a wider selection of students, so they have the advantage of numbers," he said. "Here with the rural kids, we work twice as hard to compete and do well.

Family spirit

"So we have kind of a family relationship with each other," Eckerdt said. "And since our competition area is 1,500 miles across, you can spend 12 hours at a time on the bus together. So you learn to get along."

"Most of the people on the team are usually pretty outgoing," said Charlie Cordova, from Byron. "You can't be afraid to get up in front of an audience. Stage fright is something you can't afford to have."

Cordova said most team members were confident heading into their first national meets of the season, which take place in mid-March and will pit them against large schools from across the country.

"I do think we will have a little bit of pressure when it comes to nationals," Fish said. "We've done very well, but most of the competition has been regional. It will be interesting to see how we stack up against all those California schools."

While the competitions are important, Fish said winning isn't everything.

"We try to tell the students that the primary thing is their education, working hard and learning what they're supposed to in class," he said. "And if you do that, you'll improve in forensics and everything else."


On the Net:
www.northwestcollege.edu/forensics 

Contact Ruffin Prevost at rprevost@billingsgazette.com or 307-527-7250.

Radio Daily News is now posting the radio show Comfort Food, Meatloaf and Mashed Potatoes for Your Mind, permenantly on their web site.

Radio Daily News founder and Editor Larry Shannon says..."Your broadcast not only is live, but gee whiz golly, look at the ambience and location! The show has no equals can't be matched anywhere that I know of."

"As the creator of Comfort Food i am very honored that Larry would say such kind things about our show. I think its pretty unique but then again... its my show" said creator, producer, writer, host Chris Turner.

TURNER RECALLS COURIC’S EARLY TV DAYS

Chris Turner encountered many famous people during his 20 years at CNN.

Some of them he counts among his closest friends.

And one of those is now the most famous woman in television news.

Katie Couric, the CBS Evening News anchor and former Today Show host, was hired at CNN by Ed Turner, Chris’ father.

“I remember her when she first started,” Turner said. “My dad had a real eye for talent and he knew Katie could go far.”

To help her along that journey, Ed Turner encouraged the young Couric to take a job at a local TV station.

“Dad told her that to be a great journalist she needed to expand her background,” Turner said. “So she took his advice and left CNN for local TV.”

Couric took a job in Miami for WTVJ. She worked there for three years, covering city council, schools and doing police stories.

“After a few years dad called her and offered her a job again,” Turner said. “She told him she wanted to, but she had just been offered a job by NBC at their Washington D.C. affiliate. Dad told her to take it.

“She worked in Washington for a few years and then the Network hired her.. she went to New York,” he added. “From there it was on to the Today Show.”

“We see each other whenever we’re in the same place,” Turner said. “I’m so proud of her and what she has accomplished. She’s a hard worker and deserves everything that has come her way.”

Turner said they were together at the 1992 Republican Convention when Couric was mobbed by a crowd.

“She was being so nice and trying not to hurt anyone’s feelings, but she needed to get out,” he said. “So I stepped between her and the crowd and told her that as her producer, we needed to get to work.

“Of course I wasn’t her producer, but no one else knew that,” he added. “She kept thanking me for being the ‘bad guy’ because she loves the fans and could not think of a nice way to get out of the situation.”

FORMER CNN PRODUCER FINDS HOME ON CODY RADIO

EVENT: TURNER CHOSE NEW HOME AFTER MOM PROMPTED VITIST TO IRMA.

By Richard Reeder
Managing Editor

Radio Personality Chris Turner took the long route to Cody.

The former CNN television producer and Oklahoma native had never been to Buffalo Bill’s hometown until 2001.

“My dad was sick with cancer and I was getting ready to go to Washington D.C. to take care of him,” Turner said. “But I had a bit of time before he needed me so I went to Oklahoma to visit my mom. It was on her advice I came here to visit.”

Turner, 47, had retired from CNN after a 21-year career and was trying to decide where he wanted to live. He had narrowed his choices to Kerrville, Texas or Rome Italy. He had served in Rome as a foreign field producer for CNN.

“I loved Rome but I had grownup visiting my grandparents in Kerrville and I loved it too,” Turner said. “I was undecided where I was going to end up.”

His mother’s family had spent many years in Cody visiting Yellowstone Park. She told him he should come take a look.

“I was the only one who had never been here,” Turner said, “So I spent four days driving here from Tulsa.

“Mom told me to stay at the Irma that it was a great place,” he added “and to be careful because they had strong drinks.”

Turner checked into the Irma on November 3rd, 2001, planning to stay 3 days. He stayed 2 weeks.

“I absolutely fell in love with the town,” he said. “And when I left I had 3 invitations for Thanksgiving dinner from complete strangers.

“That’s why I love Cody,” he added. “The people make it special.”

Turner went to Washington D.C. to care for his father, Ed Turner. The elder Turner died 6 months later and Turner found himself beginning to search for a house in his future home.

“I did a Google search for ranch, water and trees,” he said. “It came ip with a ranch outside of Clark that was perfect.”

Turner spent several months putting his dad’s estate in order. When he was ready to move to Cody in 2003, the ranch was still available.

“I had just started dating my wife Rene back in Atlanta, but I knew I had to move on the ranch before someone else did,” Turner said. “I moved here and we continued to date. I proposed at the ranch when she brought her kids to visit for Thanksgiving 2003.

“I was popular because I brought my own woman,” he said of moving to Cody. “I didn’t pluck one from the local population.”

Turner began at CNN as a copy boy. This despite the fact his dad was one of the founders of the 24-hour news network.

“It was dad and three of his friends who had talked about forming a network” he said. “one of the guys met Ted Turner and pitched him the idea since he had just started the Superstation in Atlanta.

“Ted loved the idea and hired Ed Turner during an Atlanta Hawks basketball game,” he added.

Turner worked his way through the ranks of the network.

He became CNN’s lead field producer during Desert Shield, and Desert Storm for which he won a Peabody award. He coordinated CNN’s Somalia Invasion for which he won an Emmy and he was the producer during the Siege of Sarajevo.

“Yugoslavia was my last war,” he said. “We had to evacuate after our photographer was shot. I’d had enough of war coverage.”

Once in Cody, Turner began to think about making his dream of having a radio comedy show come true.

“I fell in love with old radio programs,” he said. “My mom bought me tapes of them when I was a kid and I would listen to them in the car on trips.”

Turner conceived the idea of “Comfort Food: Meatloaf and Mashed Potatoes for Your Mind.”

The KODI radio variety show recently celebrated its first anniversary.

“I wanted to do something fun,” he said. “I approached the guys at the Big Horn Radio Network and they loved it. But they told me I had to find a sponsor to pay for it.”

He approached Dick and Andy Nelson at First National Bank and they liked the idea and signed on as the main sponsor.

“I had a proposal ready and went to lunch with the Nelsons,” Turner said. “Before I could make my pitch Dick told me they loved the idea and would do it, so we should just have a nice lunch.”

Turner went to John Darby at the Irma and asked if they could broadcast from his historic hotel.

“He liked the idea, so we went live from there and we’ve had such a good time ever since.”

Turner enjoys living in the Cody area, now on the North Fork, because to him it still represents the Old West.

“This is still like the Wild West,” he said. “You can come here and make your life your way. I’m proof of that.”

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Radio Daily News chose Comfort Food Host,producer,writer Chris Turner as their November 7th "Radio Personality of the Day". Radio Daily News is the #1 website for news an information for what is going on in the world of radio. I am very, very honored to be selected for this....honor! Thankyou Larry Shannon!