Lloyd Lindsay Young, Date of Birth
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American weather presenter
Date of Birth: 04-Sep-1941
Profession: radio personality
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Virgo 
About Lloyd Lindsay Young
- Lloyd Lindsay Young, known as "Double L" (born September 4, 1941) is an American weather reporter who gained notoriety for his over-the-top delivery and antics.
- He is the father of former KGET-TV weatherman George Lindsay Young, with whom he worked for several years in New York. Young grew up in Hollywood, California.
- He attended Los Angeles City College and has been in the broadcasting business since 1962, when he started at Bakersfield, California radio station KWAK AM 970.
- He spent three years at WFIE Channel 14 Evansville, Indiana, leaving in late 1980, then was at KGO-TV in San Francisco from 1981 to 1983.
- He also spent twelve years at WWOR-TV, channel 9 in Secaucus, New Jersey, through October 1, 1995.
- In his ascendancy, he was seen on KIFI-TV, Idaho Falls, and heard on KNAK, Salt Lake City; his break came when the San Francisco station's news manager heard him when on a skiing vacation in Sun Valley in the 1970s.Starting in 1996, while living and working in Bakersfield, Young was also a weatherman on KGO 810 radio out of San Francisco on the afternoon drive-time newscast; he added the morning drive-time slot in 2009, replacing the retired Leo Ciolino.
- On December 1, 2011, KGO fired Young as well as many talk-show hosts.Young was the television weatherman at KERO in Bakersfield, California until September 2008.
- He was replaced by former KERO weatherman Rusty Shoop.Between 2012 and 2016, Young was heard on KKSF-AM in San Francisco.
- He was let go in July 2016 after KKSF-AM became an ESPN Deportes station.His trademark intro is "Hellooooo (insert city name)", which he started doing in Idaho.
- He is also known for his outrageous weather pointers, including icicles, mannequin legs", and a six-foot model of the Empire State Building with attached King Kong.
- His wild weather routine has earned him guest spots on Geraldo and The Howard Stern Show. Young had cameo appearances in the films Working Girl and Age Isn't Everything.
- Young also introduced George Carlin in his stand-up special What Am I Doing In New Jersey? It is Young who says "it's a trip, it's got a funky beat, and I can bug out to it" in the Beastie Boys song "B-Boy Bouillabaisse" (in the "Mike on the Mic" segment) from the 1989 album Paul's Boutique.
- According to author Dan LeRoy in his book on Paul's Boutique, the group commissioned Young to appear on the album when they became a fan of his work on WWOR.
- The introduction to their song "Hello Brooklyn" may have also been influenced by Young's trademark calls.
- Also, Young's voice saying "bug out to it" can be heard in a sample (at 1:11) in the Beastie Boys song "Three MC's And One DJ" on their 1998 album Hello Nasty.
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