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CJ
Weekdays 6am - 9am
Email:
cj@kkdm.com
CJ's Bio
LITTLE KNOWN FACT ABOUT ME: I'm a closet WHAM fan.....and I even know the name of "THE OTHER GUY".....Hey, everyone has their guilty pleasures. If you don't know who WHAM is go ask your Mom or Dad. A close #2 is that I can't spell to save my life.

MOST ANNOYING HABIT: I chew my finger nails. Wish I could quite, not even a nervous habit....I just do it. A close #2 is that I can't spell to save my life.

HOW DID YOU DECIDE TO BE A DJ: I think I've been through this before but I'm pretty sure it's a fact of my love of music. When I was a kid I used to have my boom box everywhere which in turn led my dad to dub the boom box my "LIFE SUPPORT".

WHAT WOULD YOU BE DOING IF YOU WEREN'T ON THE RADIO: I often joke about running the drive through window at a fast food place but to be semi serious I don't know. Radio has been a very cool experience and I always meet really cool people. I'm going to guess I would be selling used cars. So, remember what I look like because someday I might need your business!

THE STUPIDEST THING YOU'VE EVER DONE: I can't decide if it's waving at that girl in the lunchroom that I thought was waving at me, only to realize it was someone behind me. It might have been the time I went into the womens bathroom accidentally at the McDonalds in Fort Dodge. When my mom came in to tell me I was in the wrong place I told her she was in the wrong room...she proceeded to correct me. There was also a nasty rash of vandalism around my home town one summer. I might have known more about that than I should have.

FAVORITE KISS 107 FM MOMENT: Actually, I have many. Usually they happen on the 15th and 30th of every month! Seriously though, probably some of the most fun I have had working for KISS has been the 4th of July Parades in West Des Moines when everyone busts out the water guns. It's a bummer working on holidays but that really makes it much more tolerable. By the way, if we soaked your Grandma last year, we're sorry.

RADIO BACKGROUND: I've been at KISS 107FM long enough now that I believe the statute of limitations has expired on having to mention the other stations. I will say this, one of them was a twangy country station that did a lot of funeral announcements and market reports in north west Iowa (I'm so embarassed by my time there I don't even want to mention that it was Sheldon, IA) on another station I played Big Band music (hometown station in Humboldt, it was my "BREAK" into commercial radio). It was cool. Thankfully I escaped.





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How Medals are made
Wednesday 08-20-2008 7:32am CT

I have been SO bad about keeping up my blog. Vacation, then state fair and just all around busy as we wrap up the end of summer. With the end of the Olympics near I want to send out a HUGE congrats to Shawn Johnson on finally getting the gold. Total sadness and dissapointment for Lolo missing out on her medal and props to every athlete that have had enough ability and determination to make the olympics. Somehow this past summer I ended up on this totally random Email list. Most people would view it as spam but there is some fairly interesting stuff that I get so I haven't taken myself off of the list. As I work a little harder to try and keep my blog up I'll post some of those pix because they are fairly interesting. The first example of the mail I get is how the medals are made for the Olympics. You may have already seen this but it's worth looking at again, very cool.

































Vacation time?
Monday 07-14-2008 12:41pm CT
Yesterday was the PERFECT summer day. It was so wierd, I got up to grab the paper off the front porch and it just SMELLED LIKE VACATION. If you have ever been on vacation in Denver or Seattle it just felt like that. Low humidity, light breeze and perfect temp. Maybe it really felt like that or maybe I'm just really wound tight for Vacation coming up (to Seattle). I'm excited but bummed at the same time because I usually take vacation days near the end of summer so it's just another sign that 08' is zipping by way too fast. Oh, by the way if you have been to or lived in the Greater N.W. and have some tips or ideas on what to do in Portland let me know. We booked our flight through there and will be spending about a day and 1/2 in the area and want to know more. Last year when we were out there we saw the falls just North of town on the way to Seattle, some underground cave called Bat Cave which was a lava tube (I kept having freaky thoughts of the monster sucking me to the back of the cave before it moves on to the rest of my party) and saw Mt. Saint Helens. I'm cool in the Seattle area on finding things...the market is super cool although I have a tough time keeping my directions straight because it's so twisty out there around all the water.
Dj'd a wedding
Saturday 07-05-2008 5:29pm CT
Ok, so Saturday night I Dj'd a wedding for a friend of a friend. One of those deals where it's "your in radio right....how about you DJ our wedding...". Anyhow, the place where the reception was held required that a police officer from that town was hired to make sure that the crowd didn't get unruly or out of control (The groom and two of the guys that stood up with him were Iowa State Troopers). Anyhow, the officer on duty to supervise the fun I think was named Jessica. no offense if you are a police officer named Jessica, it's just one of those names that I find hard to take too serious as a police officer. When I think of Jessica I think of the happy, spunky, chearleader type (I know, I know....terrible stereotype). Signing my name on thel ine for speeding, seatbelt or whatever other infraction I'm stopped for would just cause a chuckle as I sign on the line that I was picked up by officer Jessica. Now, I do want to appoligize a bit but if we are continuing with the stereotyping, lets turn our attention to our governor. When I hear the name "CHET" all I think of is the bully big brother in the 80's movie WIERD SCIENCE....or some pretty boy on the ski slopes in those cheesy 80's teen movies. I'm going to try and dig myself out of this ... Chet, even though I have a stereotype I voted for you.