Reuben Einar Spencer was born in Cleveland, Ohio to a fledgling cartoonist and his lawyer wife. Scott Spencer was the stay-at-home parent while his wife Mirae worked to support the family, and let her husband work on his cartoon business. Throughout Reuben's younger years, he was exposed to the zany and out-there ideas that his father had for his comic books, and it began to show when Reuben would spend his weekends at home helping his dad think up wierd stuff to draw.
The comic business for his father started to fail drastically when his mother eventually divorced his father, leaving for her business partner. Soon, the two were living in a motel and sharing a bed. Despite the personal and financial setbacks, Reuben flourished in personality and outlook. He enrolled in a music program in junior high, and a dance program around the same time. To the young man, it was just a way to meet more girls. He had to work to stay in the music and dance programs at his school, since he was a mediocre student at best, but once he put his mind to a goal, he often achieved it.
After barely graduating from high school, Reuben floated from job to job before his father eventually convinced him to enroll in college. He chose Communications, mainly because the classes seemed easiest. It was during his final days as a freshman at Cleveland State University that the bomb went off. Few can say that they truly profited from the horror and injustice of the disaster and the destruction of New York City, Reuben being one of them.
In this incident, several students from CSU had been on a trip to NYC to actually study for a week while working in the production offices for The Howard Stern Show. Reuben hadn't had the chance to go as he was on thin ice with the Academic committee for a prank involving water hoses and a lot of dry ice. Too poor to go have any real fun during his time being investigated for the explosive joke, he decided to study for once in his life. He didn't even know the bomb had dropped until someone told him that he'd be taking over the operations of the University radio station.
After an admittedly brief bout of mourning, Reuben began to build playlists and outline talk programs while filling the rest of the college's radio station with underclassmen and friends that were just bored enough to do the work for pocket change and free beer. However, this compensation just wasn't cutting it when the Linderman Act exploded just under half a year later.
Reuben "Revolting Rooster" Spencer now had a radio show that was spreading through the youth culture of Cleveland like a grassfire in the desert. He was a startlingly immature and hilarious shock jock type that still found time to cover issues as heavy as the Linderman Act. In fact, it was what really gave Reuben the most drive out of his semi-academic pastime. He featured local persons of interest, news anchors and even the Dean of Admissions(albeit begrudgingly) to discuss the progression of the "Evolved" into the "Registered," then into the "Vilified." Passionately outspoken against registering the Evolved for public scrutiny, Revolting Rooster and Friends was bombarded with threatening e-mails and messages. Reuben was eventually fired from his job at the University radio station and suspended for his conduct.
After his firing, Reuben maintained a reletively quiet existance at University. He still participated behind the scenes of the school radio station while continuing to work on his grades. In May of 2010, he graduated with degree in Communications and moved to Manhattan to ply his trade as a local disc jockey. Reuben was almost refused outright for any job he applied for, as his outspoken personality, political beliefs and failure to Register made him a very undesirable candidate for employment. Facing legal action and stagnation in some backwater town rather than the mecca of entertainment, he registered very late in the day on August 31st of that same year. Even though he did test positive for the SLC gene, he hated himself afterwards for bending to the will of The Man. At first, he had difficulty rationalizing the decision, but there was too much of a profit to be had from the gesture.
After all, it wasn't as if Stern was plugging up that huge hole in the radio industry anymore, right?