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12/10/2008
Kent Voss was born on the banks of the Mighty Mississippi River in Clinton, Iowa. For the geographically challenged, that is nowhere near California. At the tender age of 11 he moved to the Valley of the Sun, Phoenix, Arizona. There, he first heard the dulcet tones of a particular morning DJ emanating from the radio of his pick-up truck. That morning DJ was his inspiration to get into radio.
After graduating from Arizona State, he began his radio odyssey in Phoenix, where he met ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel. They moved on to Seattle where Voss hosted a morning show with Kimmel as his co-host (“The Me and Him Show”). They were fired because the General Manager couldn’t stand the sight of them. Tampa was next…where again Voss and Kimmel were fired, mainly because yet another General Manager couldn’t stand the sight of them. While in Tampa, Voss tricked a woman into marrying him and joining his traveling odyssey. He moved on to Houston, Dayton, and Philadelphia doing radio shows in all 3 cities. Two sons known only as Lippy and Louie joined the caravan in Pennsylvania. When the Philly station changed formats, it turned out that Voss now had a lot of mouths to feed and no job so he headed west to California to work for his old friend Jimmy Kimmel. He wrote for the last real season of “The Man Show” and was a coordinating producer for “Crank Yankers” for 3 seasons. During this time, through Kimmel, he would meet the morning DJ that had unknowingly sent him off on this traveling odyssey.
The morning DJ agreed it might be a good idea for them to work together and they did at KCBS/Los Angeles. Once again, a format change brought an end to that experiment. By now Voss added a daughter to his caravan. She is known only as “Lerlene.” Mr. Morning DJ then asked Voss if he would be interested in moving to Chicago. So the Voss caravan was off… again. And the name of the morning DJ that started the whole odyssey for Kent Voss some 25 years ago? John Francis Brandmeier. But you probably know him as Johnny B. And now you know the rest of the Story.
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