Busey's father Emerson worked for many years for the now-demolished Kennedy Foundry in Owen Sound, and was credited for inventing the “Shaper Plane”, a machine that would shave down large ship propellers to their desired final shapes.
As a youth Busey delivered The Globe and Mail in the morning and The Toronto Star and Owen Sound's local Sun Times in the evening on his bicycle.
At the age of 13, Busey entered the Industrial Program at Owen Sound Collegiate and Vocational Institute, where he took instruction in cabinetry, electrical, plumbing, motor mechanics and drafting.
After less than a year, Busey received another promotion and, with his wife Frankie, moved to Orangeville, where he assumed the role of store manager—at age 23, the youngest in the entire Beaver Lumber chain.
At the time, Saveway was a brand new cash-and-carry arm of the Beaver Lumber Group, and Busey was supervising the changeover of four locations: Ladner, Langley, Burnaby and Surrey.
In addition, Busey was responsible for the supervision of Beaver Lumber stores in Prince George, Fort St. John, Chetwynd, Vanderhoof, Whitehorse and the Yukon.
Less than two years later Busey opened a satellite location on Scott Road in Surrey, which he called Ye Olde Hardware Store.
The radio program became more popular than he had imagined, and eventually CJOR set up a small studio in Busey's office at the Build-It Centre in Delta.
His career as a radio personality continued with CJOR, until he was approached by a Canadian FM network called CKO, which would broadcast The Build-It Show right across Canada.
After his 10-year contract with BC Hydro came to an end, Cloverdale Paint became the new sponsor for Busey's radio program, which was renamed the Home Discovery Show.
The Home Discovery Show was more popular than ever, and was heard live on Saturday and Sunday mornings in nearly every major-market radio station in Canada between B.C.
In the spring of 2008 Busey also created TheHouseSmart.com Show, which airs Saturday mornings at 5 a.m. (Pacific Standard Time), focusing on the questions posed via emails that he receives on a weekly basis.
To date, 118 episodes have been taped and still air today on stations all over Canada, Japan, the Netherlands, Germany and South Korea.