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"I guess this means back to the United Shuttle," Jym said during Fleet Week, when he tried to find HBO on this Stealth fighter's communications console, but inadvertenly pulled the ejection-seat handle instead. (U.S. Navy photo)
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Jym's real bio...
Until the first round of Christmas 2001 firings (euphemistically known as "restructuring"), Jym Dingler helmed* the 9-noon Mix show. Before Mix 106.5, he was on Big 98.1 KBGG, KSFO/KYA afternoons, KKIS mornings, KFRC afternoons/evenings, and X-100. He's also worked in talk radio. Jym came to the Bay Area in 1990 from WLRW, Champaign, Ill.
He's a voice actor in one movie so far (Henry Selik's Monkeybone), and in regional and national commercials, CD-ROMs, and books on tape (Majestic, McDonald's, Corn Nuts, Carmen Sandiego, Nintendo, Dr. Seuss, Warren Buffet Speaks and many more). He's done stand-up and improv-comedy, including a Punchline gig. He wrote gags for Jay Leno and was lead writer/editor for a national radio-prep service.
He was drummer and backing vocalist for the Grammy Award-winning group Petra in 1979 and he's studied and performed African big-band and jazz percussion. Jym's musical equipment includes acoustic drums and Simmons SDX digital drums (sure, it's cranky British technology, but this kit was used on a Doobie Brothers album).
Jym has a B.A. in Speech Communications and Radio/TV from Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, graduating summa cum laude, and a degree in visual communications and graphic arts from the Art Institute of Atlanta.
He and wife Vicky live in coastside Pacifica, Where The Fog Is Thick And The Living Is Good©. If the San Andreas Fault goes, they'll relocate (along with their house) to Point Reyes, somewhat nearer to Bodega Bay, filming site of Alfred Hitchcock's classic, "The Birds."
*Adding the suffix "ing" to helm creates "helming," an example of the verb form known as the gerund. For example, "dogging" my steps, "vegging" out. If you have others, please relate them in detail to the cast of TV's "Enterprise."
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