Hot Rod Thompson

I have moved all over this country, into various houses and the most interesting thing I have ever found upon a move in was a broken kid's toy. I'm sure if I dug harder there might be more, but quite frankly I'm too lazy to start digging and I am definitely not tearing down walls or breaking up floors...

In my teens to early 20's, my friends and I tried all sorts of things that were probably not the wisest ideas in the book. Fortunately enough, we all lived to tell the stories. From jumping from one pickup to another at 65 mph, to literally jumping our pickups, we had enough as young adults, or shall I say immature kids, to put a headstone over our heads...

Raising kids is not easy. In this day and age it seems to be getting only harder. Technology that some would say make our jobs as parents more easy has only put our children more at risk. What bothers me is when I see a parent give in because they don't want to deal with the confrontation...

I understand that with my larger family it can be hard to get a fast food order right. On the other hand, with the computer technology that fast food places are using, it really shouldn't be an issue, right? Billings has actually been pretty good about this and I want to thank the fast food restaurants that my family and I have visited for getting it right...

My family and I live very close to the Yellowstone River. Lately the pollen has literally been flying. We can sit in our living room and looking out our front window it has been so thick it almost looks like it's snowing at times. Waking up in the morning, some of it collects on the edges of our lawn just waiting for it's next venture...

There's lots of things to love about working at the top of DoubleTree in downtown Billings. One of those things is seeing the changing of the seasons for the whole city. Over the past couple of weeks things have been getting more and more green and I love it...

Summer is on the way and I have come up with my top 5 things we must do in Billings before the the cold chill comes back on. Go Swimming At Least Once Summer wouldn't be summer without hitting the pool, lake or river. There's an unwritten law somewhere that says we must swim...

There are some of us that look over our life and are proud of what we have done. There's also those things that we haven't done but want to so bad before it's all over. I want to get on the back of a motorcycle and tour the country. I want to be able to say that I have ridden in most of the states in this country if not all of them...

I am coming up on a year with Cat Country 102.9 and I couldn't be more excited about that. I started on this station in July of 2015. It's hard to believe it's already pretty much been a year with you here because it seems like I started yesterday...

I got home the other night knowing that my week is going to be super busy. I thought I would sit back in my recliner and just enjoy the evening watching shows with the wife and kiddos to relax in preparation for what was to come. Little did I know...

Let's face it dads, when it comes to taking care of the kids it's mom who does a great job at handling things. But when it comes to mom not being able to do it, who is the first on the list to step up? We are. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, we as the fathers of our kids are not good at this task...

As I was driving home from work the other night I just about saw my butt pass before my face...literally. I was on Main St in the Heights  and traffic was fairly slow at the time. The vehicles ahead of me started to brake so I did the same...