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Straight From the Mouth


The Morning Mouth's May Interview with Stu, Tiffany & Jimbo
(Reprinted by permission; Copyright © 2005 Talentmasters Inc.)

I understand you've been together since 1997. Were all of you together from the start?

Tiffany: The previous Program Director tried us out together for about four months. We were thrown together as a fill in experiment before they got a different morning show. We loved each other and clicked from the beginning but the decision was made to hire a different morning show so I went down to San Diego and did two years of country at KSON. These guys were still here in a different capacity.

Jimbo: I don't know if I loved Stu, but I always got a contact tie when I stood next to him.

Stu: I've been here forever (30 years) and I was doing middays at the time and I had heard that middays is where you go to die and that was not where I wanted to end up.

How far is Riverside, CA from LA?

Tiffany: About an hour.

What's the trick to competing in the shadow of such a giant city like Los Angeles?

Tiffany: We have something going for us in that people here know that were actually here. People know that Mark and Brian are coming out of L.A. and they know that we are here and that we are their show. We work at keeping it local. For instance, we have a huge parking lot party where we invite our listeners and end up getting a couple thousand people.

Jimbo: We call them "Take Out Keggers."

Stu: We do this three or four times a year.

Tiffany, it's unusual to find a female with such a prominent role on a rock show that targets males. How did you made it work?

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now to help drive the show than I have had in the past.

Jimbo: She is surrounded by man candy the most attractive men in radio.

Stu: Tiffany is like one of the guys but with much better parts.

Jimbo, you were the last single person on the show until six month's ago? Belated congratulations.

Jimbo: Yeah, I got married six months ago. I actually married a Bud girl that I met at a party. She asked me if I was a radio guy and I said yes, then she asked if I'd take requests and I said yes, and then she asked me if I could go sit by someone else. This is a true story.

Who does what on the show?

Tiffany: Stu does all of the formatic stuff and Jimbo is the funny guy. I'm the normal one, but funny as well.

What about the producer?

Tiffany: Yes, that would be Sack.

What did you do on the air this morning that kicked butt?

Tiffany: We have a contest called "None of Your Damn Business." We stole it from The Morning Mouth or Morning Show Boot Camp.

Stu: You call up and ask us anything you want. How you win is if we are not comfortable answering the question we say "It's none of your damn business!" That's how you win.

Tiffany: We'd like to thank whoever we stole this from because it takes us in so many different directions. It really has been a success for us.

What are some questions that resulted in winners?

Stu: Um somebody asked me once which one of my kids would most likely be gay? I did not answer that.

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Tiffany: Someone asked me once why I went to jail, I did not answer that.

Why did you go to jail?

Tiffany: None of your business!

Jimbo: Someone asked me which nun at my church I would have sex with? That was a winner. I've never thought of it and I hope I never do.

Following the whole Janet Jackson debacle, has your management plugged in any additional safe guards? Are you on delay?

Tiffany: Most of the time we are not on delay but we've had to create more creative euphemisms for a lot of that stuff. We kinda had a certain built-in protection and we address things in a good natured way. This way, it never comes off as vulgar.

Jimbo: We do have a lot of parents that come up and say that they listen with their kids so we try to think of ourselves as like an audio tobacco company trying to recruit the young so we can have them for life.

Give us some other show pieces?

Tiffany: We had one last week. Two jocks on our staff are expecting and they are married to each other. Anyway, she was three weeks late and our guy called her up and impersonated a doctor and told her that she had three to four more weeks to go because they had accidentally misread the sonogram. She cried and went crazy and basically hates us now.

Jimbo: It was kind of mean spirited but fun at the same time. We've also given away 'Boobie Prizes which raised money for breast cancer. We had a Hollywood artist come out and make plaster casters of some girl's torsos. The boobie prize was the actual plaster cast.

Tiffany: We did Jimbo's ass one time and gave away Jimbo's golden holiday pressed ham.

Jimbo: And believe it or not, it now sits in a local restaurant.

Tiffany: Yes, Jimbo's golden ass cast with his signature on it.

What size ham did that turn out to be?

Tiffany: Extra large!

Stu: You know how some shows have someone do all their stunts? Well, all of us get humiliated at one point or another, that is pretty rare. We're all kind-of stunt boys at one time or another.

Did any of you ever end up in a stunt that you wished never happened?

Jimbo: I had to be a prostitute on one of the busiest streets.

Tiffany: He's a broad shouldered, hairy, masculine guy and we put a fat chick pony tail on him and put him on the street. I would have died.

What are some of the more amazing stunts you've pulled off as a show?

Jimbo: We put our producer in a body cast and he had him go to a truck stop where we kept giving him coffee til a trucker took out his willie for him and helped him pee.

When you do stuff like that is there any fear that someone is going to turn you into the FCC police?

Tiffany: Everyone is afraid of that in this business, but you try to approach things in a way that people are going to chuckle at and you're not going to get that ewwwww factor.

The Morning Stiffy?

Tiffany: Stiffy is a combination of Stu and Tiffany.

Describe a typical Stiffy day?

Tiffany: I head in an hour earlier than everyone else. We run a bestof from five to six and then we are on live from six to ten.

Do you like listening to yourselves via bestof show on the way to work?

Jimbo: I still get a kick out of it actually. I tell whoever I am in the car with to shut up because I want to hear.

Who are you with in the car at 5:00 in the morning?

Tiffany: Actually Jimbo is in the car with Sack because we don't pay him enough to have his own vehicle.

When and how do you actually decide what you're going to do the air each morning?

Tiffany: We're here for a long time after the show.

Jimbo: We leave between noon and 1pm. We would rather plan when we are awake instead of asleep and drinking coffee.

In your preshow meeting, do you also review that day's show to see what worked, didn't work, etc.?

Jimbo: The way our meeting works is we will take the stuff that worked and make it part of the best of show, but that is the only time we really listen to the tapes.

Do you ever do things on the air and wonder if they'll ever come back to haunt you?

Tiffany: Yes! I've been in radio 15 years (lots of "Oh God," from show members...) and there is only one thing -- and you know me to be a no-holes-barred kind of person, I have no shame, my family lives in Ohio. Anyway, we had a porn star in the studio who had a video out called "Secrets of the Sexual Surrogate." Anyway, she taught me how to do the UFO -- the ultimate female orgasm. Basically, it was a connect the dots exercise, from G spot to C spot to L spot... and we did it on the air and it's a very graphic piece of tape. I'm so embarassed by it, and sadly, we taped it. They (other show members) can only replay it when I'm on vacation. I'm so embarrased.

Jimbo: Whenever she's gone, people immediately call and say "Play the UFO tape!

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