Raised in Arcadia, California, he pursued an English degree at Pasadena City College before moving to Orlando in the early 1970s, where a demo tape secured his first DJ position at WBJW and launched a decade of radio work across Florida, New Orleans and Miami. After debuting a weekend talk show on KFI in Los Angeles in 1989, he created the controversial on-air persona Iraqi Raj Fahneen, expanding…