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Show THE DAILY CHRON ICLE UTAH K if ' i I i! Fi I Vrmm JLJ JL JL !'" I U Student Shouts His litm n mm"" , mn nummjmii Way Into Local Conservative Talk Show Ma JAMES GARDNER Chronicle Feature Editor g "For being sneaky, no one beats the vast into screams the Jones Jason conspiracy," left-win- mic. he's referring to Waxing the loss of his notes for last week's show. He cons jures the image of a stealthy cadre of liberal his he while car to droye moving entering work. Tney nabbed his notes and slunk away in an attempt to undermine the talk show host's conservative rant. "I'd gladly trade in my membership to the right-win- g conspiracy just to attend the liberal g programs," Jones jokes. Of course the agents were unsuccessful, insists the host of KTKK AM 630's Radio X, "because everything is contained in my razor-shar- p nin-ja- secret-trainin- mind." And that mind juggles many tasks. In addition e to working two jobs the radio stint and one as a computer-la- b assistant in Heritage e Commons Jones is a U student studymass communication. ing Tonight he has his notes and has revealed prior to the show that he intends to discuss the recent China debacle, the Cincinnati riots and Planned Parenthood. So after his intro, which employs a Public Enemy sample with Flavor Flav demanding that this time "the revolution will not be televised" and Jones screaming yes screaming, not noting, not even announcing "I'm baaaack!" and "I am n riot!" he breaks into the recent situthe ation in China: "How embarrassed would you be if you were the Chinese government?" He then spins into a diatribe about how Bush handled things nicely and the Chinese are practically war criminals. Onto the Cincinnati riots and the apparent racial overtones therein: "The law of physics part-tim- full-tim- one-ma- isn't racist," he insists. "It makes me mad that we can't talk about vhat's going on in America without being called racist" After a commercial break and a sampling of Run D.M.C., he then takes his first caller. She's a frequent caller, an African American woman who says she doesn't always agree with Jones hut finds him to be "reasonable." She goes on about how a brick is not a deadly weapon. Jones doesn't quite follow her disjointed comments and his face shows it. But he's patient, never interrupting her, letting her speak her mind. She asks if he's read a recent article in The Salt Lake Tribune. "Unless it's a novel, I don't read anything on dead trees I guess that makes me an environmentalist," he jokes. According to KTKK assistant program director Kristin Perry, Jones provides a fresh thrust of energy to the station. "It's different than most of our programming. Most people listen to for the conversation. Jones' show doesn't do too much with callers; it's mostly him," she says. "My show gets a lot fewer callers because people would rather listen to me," Jones says. His radio career began at Weber State University, where he created a conservative talk program with a fellow student with whom he later had a falling out. "He was a crusader. He wanted to go out and change the world, and I just wanted to do good radio. So we had a big fight over creative differences, and he got angry and stalked off and didn't talk to me for six months." After that, a long series of coincidences brought Jones to Salt Lake and eventually on the air at KTKK. Now, every Monday and Friday night, between g and 9 p.m., he transmits his 7 message across the valley. is amazing to behold. He Jones' lk right-win- I f-F- " HIHIIIIIHllliaiMTTriHI?! fA M U student Jason Jones is the host of Radio y'limimijip imib wii httpV7garaes.sohu.comfightganieflg hi3.swf Chronicle Feature Columnist If you are like me, by this point in the semester you are so worn out that you don't have the time or energy to read high-broWeb content by The Washington Post or w L.A. Times. Wouldn't you much rather see a hilarious Have you ever wanted to see stick figures beat each other up? Then look no further. 7 Part Jackie Chan, part Matrix, this site has e everything anyone could want in a for maybe gender equality. fight, except Yes, all the figures are male, or else they are very masculine, bald women. There is graphic violence of course, but it is tasteful CHRONICLE FEATURE EDITOR stick-figur- JAMES GARDNER miiiiiiimijj'" KTKK 630 AM. -' "'':"'";"""y"r':; j says. deep breaths. Gesturing sometimes violently and staring at nothing in particular, he jets from one topic to the next, never missing a beat. The trick, he reveals, is to be prepared, to already know what to talk about beforehand, so that on the air one's personality can come through. "I read six different news sites a day and hit every story that seems interesting," he says. He spends between two and three one-hahours reading the daily news. On show days he puts in an additional two hours to print out stories and highlight what he really wants to talk about. Also key to his ability to maintain a virtually p rant is drawing connections between seemingly unrelated topics. "In talk, you're so concentrated in the immediate instant of the news that most people don't have time to draw out larger pictures or to relate how events have changed. I like to have the opportunity to bring in more information," he If one remains educated and up to date on a topic, Jones insists, then there are always other things to bring into it. "The trick is remembering it all. And I guess that's just something I was born with, this ability to remember a lot of stuff and have it available for recall. It's not something I developed, it's not something I worked at, it's just a talent I was born with," he says. Although no formal statistics have been gathered, Perry estimates that Jones' audience is younger than that of other shows on the station. "It's younger people and young and middle-ag- e men, maybe between 25- - and she says. y show," Jones "My show's a pretty "You listen talk hosts and show to most says. from sedate, they're pretty reading newspapers and stuff. That's their shtick. That's fine, but I would be bored listening to that and I'd be bored lf two-ho- non-sto- ur A BRENT OLSEN on X shouts constantly, only pausing to take sharp, ly handled. cartoon in a foreign language or read crazy stuff that isn't on the syllabus? Of course you would. So try these sites on for size. mn site, companion http:games.soku.conifightgamefight2.swf, allows you to fight by pressing the space bar, but it is a bit buggy and does not seem to support all platforms. It also features more animated blood than the first site. I give these two sites two stick-figur- es high-energ- see RADIO, page 8 future in America. Warning: A certain gesture that some find offensive is found on this one-finger- ed site. It also contains a reference to new favorite "All Your Base Are Belong to Us," which just happens to be the next pop-cultu- re site. up. httpjsb.xrgaming.Jietiiownloadsvid ecplka.sw In this musical number- - reminiscent of the dream sequence from "Singing in the Rain" weirdness reigns. I have no idea what language the song is in. but who cares when it has a dancing Pee Wee Herman, floating Harry Potter heads, boss and talking airplanes, a dancing pacemakers. Sites like these show that surrealism has a tap-danci- ng hitp:www.planet tribes.comaiiy-ourbas- e The official home of the "All Your Base Are Belong to Us" craze. Don't know what "All Your Base Are Belong to Us" means? The line comes from the introduction to a poorly translated English version of the Sega Genesis game, "Zero Wing." The intro to this game has been turned JGARDNERCHRONICLE.UTAH.EDU see WEB SITINGS, page 8 58W041 |
