After his family re-located to Washington State, a school field trip took Scott into a radio station at the age of 12, and that was the moment it was solidified…Radio was his calling.  Able to take summer classes at the vocational school in the Tri Cities, he got his first on-air experience at 88.1 The Alternative, based in Kennewick. His radio teacher at the time saw his passion for radio and invited him back each summer after that, and then eventually taking the official class his junior and senior years.

Trying to get a foot in the door of a commercial station, Scott quit his job at a certain “chickin’ dippin’ fast food joint” so he could follow his radio dream.  A school project got Scott to job shadow Curt Cartier at 97 Rock in the Tri Cities during his junior year of high school. Tired of working overnights at an oldies radio station on the weekends for almost 2 years, Cartier gave him a chance at rock.  Years of learning the ropes of radio and sacrificing thousands of non-paid hours, Scott got on the air full-time in 2002.  With three different ‘Scotts’ in one building, as the youngest, he got pegged with “Scotty”…but that wasn’t enough.  Walking past Cartier’s office one day, Curt called him “Bunz.”  Scotty gave Curt the WTF look, when the 2 C’s responded back with, “Ya know, like the Bunz of Steel videos.”  Obviously, the name stuck.

The flame of “The Twice As Much Rock Morning Show” was passed to Scott when GA, *whom decades prior gave Cartier a shot in rock radio* stepped back from radio to spend more time with his family. But taking the reins of a heritage Spokane rock station isn’t all there is to Bunz; remembering where he came from and looking forward to the future, Scotty has a deep love of military equipment, and in his free time, frequently enjoys looking up to see Air Force jets fly around Spokane just to say, “America, F–K YEA!”