Jason Howell

Jason Howell produces the Buzz Out Loud podcast and has become a third co-host on the show. 
==Early Life==
In fifth grade, Jason used BBSes to find games for his Commodore 64. While doing this, he gained access to a calling card number, which he used to connect to foreign bulletin boards to get games not available in the United States. Soon after, he was visited by Secret Service agents, who confiscated his computer. There is no evidence that he ever gained access to the Department of Defense's War Operation Plan Response computer, or that he had a girlfriend who looked like Ally Sheedy.
 
==Family==
On January 29th, 2010, Jason and his wife had a beautiful baby girl; Lucy Jean Howell, or Raygun02 in #CNETFans, congrats Jason! We can't wait to see her, and have a nice time off! Tom Merritt's Congrats on the BOL Blog- 
==Education==
Jason graduated from San Francisco State University's Broadcasting and Communication Arts program with a bachelors degree in radio and television on May 23, 2004. His GPA upon graduation was a 3.97. Ten years before, he had been a freshman at Boise State University studying mass communications.
==CNET Career==
Jason came over to CNET.com from ZDNET.com to take over the role of Podcast Producer. While Veronica Belmont was still at CNET, Jason would help prepare the show, but Veronica still operated the audio board and edited the show. Upon Belmont's departure on July 20th, 2007, Howell took over the audio engineering. Jason first officially co-hosted the show on Episode 596 with Molly, dubbed the "Jollycast" by the hosts. The initial air date was November 2nd, 2007 . Tom Merritt was on vacation. Howell's previous job had been at Asphodel Records in San Francisco, where he had been an intern focusing on audio engineering .
At the start of the September 7th, 2010 BOL episode, Jason announced he will be leaving CNET and Buzz Out Loud on September 24, 2010 to work with Tom Merritt at .
==Music==
Howell is a techno/remixer who releases under the name Raygun. The musical talents of Raygun first appeared on disc with Zer0 G Records’ release of The Sound of Words. A review of the album by wordandsound.net said
a two tracker… that’s already drawing raves and comparisons to the work of Ricardo Villalobos and Luciano.
 . His latest release, entitled Raygun - The Remixes EP was released on July 15th, 2007 under the East German label Night Drive Music. 
Album Name 	Label 	Date
The Sound of Words 	Zer0 G Records 	June 2004
Hedfok 	Infamous Light Recordings	November 2004
Velosophy EP 	Night Drive Music 	March 2005
Q on the Turn Remixes 	Jah Love Recordings 	October 2005
Girl from Cuba EP 	Jah Love Recordings 	June 2006
Bar Groove EP 	Tarantic Records 	January 2007
Blessed Dub 	Tarantic Records 	May 2007
Raygun - The Remixes EP	Night Drive Music 	July 15th, 2007
 
==References==
==See also==
*Buzz Out Loud
*Tom Merritt
*Molly Wood
*Veronica Belmont
==External links==
*JasonHowell.net
*Jason's Social Networks: MySpace, Twitter
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