Rusty Humphries

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Born in 1966 Ralpsh "Rusty" Humphries has been in the radio and music business since the age of 15. The nationally syndicated talk-personality can be heard through The Talk Radio Network and is featured on over 250 radio stations nationwide and growing. The Rusty Humphries Show is featured in such cities as San Francisco, Tampa, Houston, Orlando, Seattle, Oklahoma City, Atlanta, Norfolk and Honolulu. He's also heard on XM.

He's been a contestant on The Wheel of Fortune, a tour guide at Universal Studios in Hollywood and ran for candidate for U.S. Senate. He has done numerous charitable activities such as working with US Troops in Iraq, by sending school children needed school supplies. He's sent US Troops DVDs for their enjoyment. Taking a local cancer cluster of 16 children and their families to Disneyland, he also assisted in bringing The Moving Vietnam Wall to his community. Rusty helped the State of Nevada raise 1.5 million dollars for the WWII Memorial in Washington DC and as been involved in countless other charitable projects.

Contents 1 Early Life and Career 1.1 Early life 1.2 Career 1.3 Polical Views 1.4 Personal life 2 Criticism 2.1 Misc. 3 External links

[edit] Early Life and Career

[edit] Early life

Born a child of the 1960's, Rusty's father was killed in the Vietnam War. Rusty often mentions in his radio show how the loss of his dad as a young boy affects his life.

[edit] Career

He has hosted radio shows in New York City, Dallas, San Diego, Atlanta and Ft. Wayne, Indiana. Humphries has also worked at radio stations in Chicago, Los Angeles, Seattle, Kansas City and Portland, Oregon.

His on air broadcasts have taken him to Iraq, Kuwait, England, Cuba, Mexico, Italy, Israel including Gaza and The West Bank where he held live on the air interviews with terrorsts Hamas members and Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade members.

Humphries' has been named one of America's 100 Most Important Radio Talk Show Hosts eight years in a row, was nominated as Talk Personality Of The Year by Radio and Records. Humphries was inducted into the Nevada Broadcasters Hall of Fame as its youngest inductee ever. He was ranked as one of the "ten most listened to" radio talk show hosts by Talkers Magazine.

After his two well-attended "Rusty Humphries' Salute to the American Veterans" concerts that drew a sold out crowd on Veterans Day in 1999 and 2000, Humphries was named "Reno's #1 local entertainer.

For more than 10 years Rusty was the Executive Director of TM Century Morning Show Services. His company provided parody songs, music and jingles to over 300 morning radio shows in America as well as another 500 worldwide via The Armed Forces Radio Network.

Humphries has produced 5 musical CD's including "Bomb Iraq - Rusty Humphries Takes on the Terrorists" the largest selling CD in laugh.com history ^{[citation needed]} he sold over 12 coppies. His CD "Greeting From America - Wish You Were Here" was a "best of" collection made specifically for the troops in harm's way, it featured songs and well wishes from radio listeners from across the country.

Rusty is currently working on growing his syndicated radio show, which recently got its 59th listener, a book, a failed concert tour, a TV show and considers his passion for children's and veterans issues to be the most important parts of his career.

[edit] Polical Views

Humphries is self identified strong family oriented Christian Conservative. He does not believe in homosexual marriage or unions. He strongly opposes Illegal Mexican Immigration in the USA but supports legal immigration and a guarded wall on the U.S. border with Mexico. He strongly opposes abortions and people who tend to know what they are talking about.

[edit] Personal life

Rusty is a singer/songwriter. In addition to writing more radio morning show jingles than anyone alive [not verified]. His song, Do The Bart Simpson, made national charts and was the inspiration for The Simpson's Multi-platinum CD^{[citation needed]}.

[edit] Criticism

Humphries, while a self-proclaimed supporter of veterans and current members of the armed forces, did not serve in the military himself. His explanation, as outlined in a famous tete a tete with a caller on Reno's KKOH radio station, was that his mother and grandmother begged him not to enlist. The legendary exchange between Rusty and the listener came shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Rusty was criticized for challenging local youths who didn't wish to serve in the military despite the events of 9/11. The caller pointed out that at the time, Rusty was still old enough to serve in the National Guard and should set an example by enlisting. [As of June, 2006 the Department of Defense has capped the age of enlistment at 42, which still makes Humphries eligible for service]

[edit] Misc.

On April 18, 2005, Humphries claimed to be the first nationally syndicated radio talk show host to visit Iraq. However, Al Franken broadcasted from Iraq while on a USO tour in 2005 . After hearing of this development, Rusty joked, "Well, I was the first nationally syndicated radio talk show host with listeners to visit Iraq." When in fact Al Franken has many more listeners then "stand up comedian" Rusty. He also once claimed to be abducted by Aliens "they tell me what to say on my radio show."

[edit] External links

• Rusty Humphries Official Page
• Rusty Humphries Biograpy at About.com
• Rusty Humphries on myspace.com
• About Rusty
• CNN.com Al Franken goes to Iraq on USO Tour