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The Crazy Fish, also known as Andy Delgado, comes to work dressed in jeans and a Mickey Mouse T-shirt. Delgado has a job that makes him famous, but few people know what he looks like. He works as a disk jockey for ra dio station KTAW-FM. From midnight until six, while most people sleep, Delgado does his job, and despite these weird hours, he must love his job. He has been a D] for 12 years. Delgado does his job in an 8- by-10 room with blue carpeted walls. On one wall is the- mixing board with a microphone, tele phone and “all those buttons” that Delgado is so fond of. Mounted on 55-gallon drums on either side of the board are the turntables. The other three walls hold shelves with albums, 45 s and tapes of commercials called “carts.” On various places on the wall, between the shelves and the board, are posters of Scandal, Mi chael McDonald, ZZ Top, Van Halen, Led Zeppelin, Rick Springfield, Toto, Dolly Parton, Hall and Oates, Squeeze and Budweiser. In the middle of the floor is a stool, but Delgado is usually too busy to sit down. Delgado plays those records and commercials, he answers that telephone, and most importantly, he uses that microphone to com municate. “I like relating to people,” Del gado says. “When I’m on the air I feel like 1 m talking to people.” Delgado says talking to people is his favorite part of being a DJ. 12 At Ease, April 27 “In high school and grade school I was not very popular so I set out to be popular,” Delgado says. “I took speech and drama courses because I wanted to be a radio announcer.” Defgado, AO, started working at KVOF-AM, the student radio sta tion at the University of Texas at El Paso, in 1972. From there he says he moved up to the universi ty’s Public Broadcasting System station and later to a professional station in Fabens. After half a year at Fabens, Delgado says he got a job at KSET-AM in El Paso, where he became one of the top DJs in the city. In 1982, ten years after he graduated from Ysleta High School in El Paso, the “not very popular” Delgado was asked to be master of ceremonies at his class reunion. Delgado has worked at KTAW for six months. He says he likes the people he works for and he likes the area. Delgado’s audi ence must like him, too. In a six- hour shift he gets about 60 phone calls, quite a lot for his time slot. Who makes these calls? Mostly women and Aggies he said. Delgado says one of the reasons he likes the area is Texas A&M. He says he plans to enroll in the university and to get a degree in education. Delgado says he would like to be a coach in el ementary school. As a lifeguard at El Paso, he says he used to teach children to swim and that is how he got his nickname, “Fish. ” “Stand by,” Delgado says. He is about to go on the air. He puts on his headphones — he has had this pair 12 years — and he an nounces the title of the song he just played. “That was music from Hall and Oates, Family Man,” Delgado says. “I’m a family man and Tm available. He switches off the microphone and cues up another record. “That’s why they call me the ‘Crazy’ Fish,” Delgado says. “I do a lot of crazy things. ” The phone rings and Delgado answers it. The voice on the other end of the line belongs to a girl who goes to Bryan High School. Delgado says he meets many peo ple this way. Sometimes, he said, people call up and want to meet the DJ. He said he never turns down these people since it is a good opportunity for him to make friends. “Actually,” Delgado says, “A DJ is a friend of the whole town. ” “I hate this song,” Delgado says as he cues up another record, Thomas Dolby’s “Hyperactive.” “But I play it anyway.” He says KTAW has a set format that all of the DJs must follow. This format usually calls for an oldie, a song by an established band and cou ple of songs currently in the top 40. If a person has a request that fits into the format, Delgado says, he tries to play it. Delgado says being a DJ is not an easy job. Playing records and commercials, reading announce ments, answering the phone and standing up for six hours is hard work. Delgado says he doesn’t let all of the pressures of the job get in the way of his enjoyment of his work. “In this fast paced business you’ve just got to do it,” Delgado says, “Otherwise you’ll just go crazy.”