Chet Buchanan has been hosting the “Chet Buchanan Show” on 98.5 KLUC in Las Vegas since 1999. Having worked in the same building with him for years, I have always said he could be the Mayor of Las Vegas.
His work ethic challenges that of Seacrest, and his notoriety as a Vegas celebrity is second to none. His side hustles would take up the entire column if I were to list them all, but most notably, and oddly, something I did not know about him but I found endearing, was that when his father passed away, he took over the family farm outside of his native city Seattle.
“We built a spectacular studio that I do the show from about 40% of the time,” he explains. “That allowed me to become the Public Address Announcer for the NHL’s Seattle Kraken, which is a dream come true. Doing NHL hockey in my hometown in the building I practically grew up in? Come on!”…