Fred Reiss

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He currently does a weekly news humor show on 98.5 KFOX (visit www.kfox.com to hear it on-line or podcast it for free); and, he also does news fill-ins on the Greg Kihn morning show.

Fred's Weekly World Update has commentary, conversations with Fred's Dad, as well as interviews (such as DIck Cavett, Jonathan Alter, Carly Fiorina, and numerous book authors and people in the news.

Fred has been in radio for eight years.

I can converse with anybody.

He hosted a morning-drive news show, as well as a afternoon and morning drive talk and call-in show. He done many formats, big band, easy-listening, alternative rock, classic rock, and jazz.

He also did public affairs for ten stations in Northern California.

Fred Reiss is also a PEN-AWARD winning novelist. His novel? "Surf.com." The book is set in Santa Cruz and describes how local surfers try to prevent the dot-comers of Silicon Valley from destroying their town and surf spots. It's funny.

Fred has also written "Gidget Must Die," and "Insult and Live!"

These books can be purchased at fredforyourhead.com

I worked as a journalist for seven years in Connecitut, where I was nominated for the Pulitizer Prize by my paper for my first-person series on my bout with testicular cancer.

My other dead-end jobs include, working in a wearhouse, cleaning toilets, painting dormitories and industrial equipment, surf shop employee, Wine-tasting room supervisor, a cubicle wonk for Manufacturers Hanover Trust, and a brief but futile stint in advertising for Macy's as well as Bloomingdale's in NYC.

I'm working on a new novel and looking to host a radio show that will let me do my unique form of humor and observations.

I have survived from testicular cancer. I had the disease at age 28. I vowed to quit my job as a journalist, move to California, surf, do stand-up comedy, write books, and go to Australia (See Aussie is the only thing I didn't do.)

I graduated from Antioch College with a literature and theater degree.

What's your favorite public radio show?

NPR's "All Songs Considered."

What's your secret talent?

Throwing M&M's fifty feet in the air and catching them in my open mouth.

What song is stuck in your head right now, you know, a music wedgie?

"Way Back Into Love," the theme song from "Music and Lyrics. The damn thing is appy and hooky, and written by the guys who did that addictive sountrack from the Hanks' film 'That Thing You Do.'

What sound is most characteristic of where you live?

Cats rearranging the kitty litter.

What's your favorite sound memory?

The surf

Which station do you listen to most?

Believe it or not, NPR for news.

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