All Star 2009: Joey Boy from The Nutz in the Morning
By Ms Rivercity • Feb 12th, 2009 • Category: All Star 2009 special edition 191 views.jpg)
The Nutz in the Morning wake up Phoenix Monday through Friday on 98.3fm with their crazy comedy and live mixes. Joey Boy, Lady La, and DJ Knick Knack will also be making club appearances all week long during the All Star festivities.
When can people listen to your show?
You can catch me 6-10 am Monday thru Friday. My partner Lady La does the show with me. We do a couple of live mixes with our DJ Knick Knack. He does the 6:30-8:30 local mix. We’re the only station in town that does live mixing.
Why do they call y’all The Nutz and who came up with the name?
It’s a name I came up with in ’95 or ’96. At the time I was listening to Dr. Dre’s album The Chronic and he had the song “Deez Nuts.†Originally we were called Deez Nutz. It’s a play on words. We’re kinda nuts on the radio so that’s the other way you can take it. It has a double meaning. We’re all pretty nuts in our own way on the morning show.
Was this your first radio show?
My first gig where I came up with Deez Nutz in the Morning was at the station where I started, which was Power 106 in L.A. Working at 106 was kinda like my college. When I was there Big Boy was afternoons, the Baker Boys were the morning show. Those are some veterans still making noise. That was my first gig a little over ten years ago.
Was Lady La with you in L.A.?
No, I met her in Phoenix. She hit me up on Myspace asking about an internship. I told her to stop by a club I was at so we could talk. Within five minutes we just clicked. She was only like 20 when I met her, she was going to ASU. She represented the listener I was trying to talk to. One thing I learned in radio is that you can teach radio but you can’t teach personality. She had personality, she had sass, so I taught her radio. It worked out well. Me and her are killing mornings and we’re on the scene all the time.
What’s your agenda for All Star Weekend?
Wednesday night I’ll be hosting a strip club party with Too Short at Babylons. If you listen to the show, I’m a friend to the strip club and the strippers are friends to me. And Thursday thru Sunday night we’re broadcasting at Club Rain in Scottsdale. Thursday night is a Latin theme with Baby Bash and Nina Sky. Friday night is up in the air but the promoter has brought up a few big names. We might try to get Lil Jon to actually DJ the party. Saturday night is our party with Chris Brown and Sunday night I’m hosting a party with Busta Rhymes. We have an afternoon DJ that’s going to be doing broadcasts with Ludacris one night, another night with Young Jeezy, and maybe some other people.
Is there anything else you want to add?
You can catch the show on the site Power983fm.com. It’s a high energy show. We do bits like Drunk Phone where we run back our favorite drunk messages from the night before. We have live mixing. When people are in town we’ll let you know the hot spots during the week. I’m also the music director at the station and I have a lot of relationships with artists managers so while the artists are in town I’m gonna try to take ‘em out to the high schools and talk to the kids.
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