Fans of Regis Philbin's morning TV show know that each day they make a call to a randomly chosen viewer. The viewer is asked a trivia question, and wins a prize if he gets the answer right. A few years ago, I got to be the "trivia caller" one day!
This was back in the days before Kelly Ripa, when Regis' co-host was Kathie Lee Gifford. On this particular day,
Regis was on vacation and Robin Leach of "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous" was filling in for him. My
conversation with Kathie Lee and Robin was really fun!
Click here to listen to it!
Sometimes they give away great prizes on the show,
but this was NOT one of those days! The prize that day was a purse! It was so ugly that neither my
wife or daughter would use it.
For many years I was a professional radio announcer and disc jockey. My radio career included
work in San Francisco and San Luis Obispo, California.
In San Luis Obispo I was Program Director at KLZZ (known as "Class-101").
Here's a clip of what I sounded like on-the-air, from a New Years Day 1990 KLZZ broadcast
during which I counted down the biggest hits from 1989.
My first paying on-the-air job was in San Luis Obispo at KVEC, where I was a news announcer and disc jockey. My training came at the local college station, KCPR, where I also served as Program Director and won the "broadcaster of the year" award. I had some interesting experiences at KCPR... click here to read more about them.
In San Francisco, I spoke as an in-studio guest on numerous occasions during the Lee Rodgers program on KGO. Lee and I discussed the latest innovations in consumer electronics.
Looking back on it all, my luckiest break in radio was quite early in my career: landing a job at K101 in San Francisco
when I was just an eager college radio amateur in 1976. I began as a flunky and gopher, and later got to actually run
the controls in their main on-air studio. Pretty fun stuff for a college kid!
A few years ago I was interviewed by a video production crew for a show on VH1 about the early days of Weird Al Yankovic. Weird Al worked at Cal Poly's campus radio station when I was the Program Director there in 1977.
(Read my college radio anecdotes here) In fact, Al recorded his first hit record in the
bathroom across the hall from the radio station! In case you're not familiar with Weird Al, he is famous for doing
parodies of popular songs. Six of his comedy albums have sold more than a million copies each.
So, VH1 set out to interview many of the people that knew Weird Al in the early days. They had a hotel suite in
San Luis Obispo which they turned in to a little TV studio, and I sat down and told them a few good Weird Al stories from
his Cal Poly days. I managed to come up with a few lines that were good enough to make it in to the final
production... they used three very short clips of what I had to say in the show,
which was broadcast in late-July. Unfortunately, I don't have any audio or
video clips of it for you to see here... I just wanted to share the story.
Now I have a little treat for you... Cocker videos!
This is a part of my web site that I don't tell anybody about... it's something of a reward for anyone who takes the time to explore my site so fully that they actually find it!
This is my collection of Cocker Spaniel videos. There are lots of short videos of puppies wrestling and older dogs doing cute things. If you like Cocker Spaniels... you'll love these! The videos are in Windows Media format, so if you have any trouble viewing them... get the latest edition of the free Windows Media Player here. Click on one of the links below to see a video.
 Fight! Fight! Fight! 67 seconds - 7.1 mb Three week old puppies show off some amazing moves! |
 A Tribute To Abby 4 minutes -- 10.6 mb A slideshow saluting the best dog we ever had |
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 Slideshow: Mr. Blue 2.5 minutes -- 3.8 mb A tribute to the pup known as "Blue Elvis" |
 Will it go round in circles? 36 seconds -- 4.4 mb |
 Let's Hear It For Charlie Boy 4 minutes -- 5.9 mb A slideshow salute to the big pup from Abby's 2006 litter |
 10-week-old puppy rolls over 11 seconds -- 1.9 mb |
 3 sleepy puppies 40 seconds -- 2.9 mb |
 Off and running! 32 seconds -- 1.34 mb |
 Boys will be boys! 37 seconds -- 1.0 mb |
 Two puppies - one chew stick 68 seconds -- 1.89 mb |
 Charlie can't stop chewing 25 seconds -- 1.73 mb |
 A puppy doing some serious drinking 34 seconds -- 980 kb |
 Morgan is very patient 56 seconds -- 1.59 mb |
 Kung-Fu puppies 41 seconds -- 1.18 mb |
 Jump! 26 seconds -- 1.4 mb |
 A puppy is born 25 seconds -- .5 mb |
 Kittens drive Reese crazy 30 seconds -- 1 mb |
 Reese is the brown-eyed girl 28 seconds -- .97 mb |
 Abby says PLAY BALL 33 seconds -- 1.5 mb |
 Puppies wrestling 17 seconds -- .87 mb |
 Sleepy puppies playing 14 seconds -- .5 mb |
 Our cat teases Joanna 12 seconds -- .5 mb |
 Morgan wants to get the cat 15 seconds -- .8 mb |
 Morgan Wants To Have Fun 13 seconds -- .89 mb |
 Our friend's puppy, Suzie 30 seconds -- 1 mb |
 Our friend's litter of puppies 22 seconds -- 1.4 mb |
 Wally swimming 9 seconds -- .7 mb |
 Morgan Plays Upside Down 11 seconds -- 1 mb |
 Bless The Beasts" Slideshow 3 minutes -- big file: 6.8 mb |
If you enjoy these videos, please take a moment to send me an email and let me know.
My email address is
jimzim@charter.net
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