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She always brought the laughs, the upbeat personality, and sometimes a bit too much early-morning energy for the crew to even handle in the studio. Now, she is moving on to a new chapter in her life.

On Friday, September 1, Wacky Jacquie bid farewell to the MJ Morning Show, Q105, and the Beasley Media Group for the final time. A sales assistant for the radio station complex in St. Petersburg, FL, Jacquie made numerous appearances on the show in her brief stint with Beasley. She has a highly infectious laugh, and she has designed some very clever, hilarious graphics featuring the members of the morning show for various holidays. Plus, Fester claims she had the best candy jar game going on in the office.

At one point, Fester made some comments about Jacquie during a Facebook Live stream that almost turned her into an enemy of the crew. He said that he could only handle her “in small doses” due to her highly energetic personality. After Jacquie shed a few tears over the incident, the two later went out to lunch and apparently made up.

A few months ago, Wacky Jacquie thought she was on the brink of being terminated from her sales job. She admitted to posting some not-so-flattering comments on social media about some of her colleagues and superiors, and she apparently had meetings with some of the higher-ups. Fortunately, they retained her for the time being, and she was able to part ways with the company on her own terms.

Jacquie decided to move back to her native Ohio – the town of Mansfield, specifically – where her sister lives. Fester joked that this is the perfect name for a place for Jacquie to be as she is in search of a man. Hopefully we will still hear her voice on the air if she decides to call in, and she promised to still contribute some graphic design work to the program. We wish Wacky Jacquie all the best in her future endeavors!

Creative Loafing, a popular publication in the Tampa Bay area, is running its annual “Best of the Bay” contest for 2023. A wide range of people, places, businesses, and services from around the area are in the running to be named the “best of the bay” for this year.

In the “best radio show” category, the MJ Morning Show on Q105 is among the shows up for a vote. Click here to vote for the MJ Morning Show. Voting ends on August 31, 2023. Winners will be invited to a reception at the end of September to be recognized.

Let’s make sure MJ and the crew get all of our votes to win this awesome award!

Since the MJ Morning Show came back in 2020, and especially more recently, MJ has made comments to Froggy about how he carries himself as a member of the show. Below are just a handful of things he has criticized him on:
1) Not saying much at the beginning of the show — MJ will ask Froggy why he hasn’t opened his mouth for five minutes or so into the opening segment of the program. Froggy will often retort by saying that MJ and perhaps Fester and Roxanne have been monopolizing the conversation, and that he simply can’t get a word in edgewise.

2) Not saying much at times during the rest of the broadcast – In addition to the opening segment, MJ will point out that Froggy hasn’t uttered a word during a stretch of time, such as 15 or 20 minutes. There are times when this falls during a call-in segment where listeners phone in about a certain subject. At other times, maybe Froggy just doesn’t have much to add about the topic at hand.
3) Looking at his phone — We’re all guilty of it, but MJ seems to complain about Froggy using his phone and sometimes watching YouTube videos during the show. Some of this might be related to show prep or looking up something for the show. (He claims to follow hundreds of YouTube Channels across a wide range of subjects.) However, the crew doesn’t hesitate to give out Fester’s cell number, which he will then pick up to look at the texts coming in after the number is mentioned.
4) Taking time off — On occasion, Froggy takes a sick day. MJ tends to question the legitimacy of these days off and wonders if he is simply taking a long weekend if they are on a Monday, Friday, or a day before or after vacation.
5) Using medical marijuana — Froggy is a card-carrying medical marijuana user. While he jokes about needing it for Peyronie’s disease, flat feet, or other ailments completely unrelated to its benefits, MJ likes to razz him for wreaking of pot at times.
6) Failing to bring enough material to the show — Fester, Roxanne, and Andrew regularly send MJ e-mails with links to stories and other ideas to talk about on the show, Froggy apparently never submits such content ideas the night before each broadcast. He also brings bits to the show like “Eight-Bit Hit” or “The Truth Booth.” But MJ doesn’t seem to be satisfied with the amount of his contributions of material nor the frequency of such bits.

7) His driving habits — On multiple occasions, MJ has observed Froggy driving over curbs and looking at his phone while behind the wheel. He even captured one of his curb-driving moments on video.

So, knowing all of these things MJ likes to nitpick Froggy on, you could argue that he seems to view Froggy as an easy target to chastise for some reason.

MJ has been pulling double duty on the air for the better part of two decades. On October 1, 2001, he launched The Schnitt Show, his afternoon conservative talk radio show. This was seven years into hosting the MJ (and MJ & BJ) Morning Show during its first run. He hosted both shows until the MJ Morning Show went off the air on February 17, 2012. He continued with the afternoon program for a few years until going back to double duty in 2015 when he teamed up with Len Berman to host a morning show on WOR-AM in New York City. After departing from that program in 2017, he once again went back to only working as Schnitt. But in October of 2020 when the MJ Morning Show returned to the airwaves on Q105, it was once again back to wearing two hats.

This week on June 21, he announced during the first hour of his afternoon show that he would be putting the lid on the program after close to 22 years. His final broadcast will be on Friday, July 28, 2023. It marks the end of a highly successful syndicated radio show that has aired on dozens of stations around the country and was even picked up by XM Radio back in the 2000s.

This means MJ is kind of going full circle back to the days of only being a morning show host. What was also exciting to hear in his announcement is that he hopes to totally focus on and grow the MJ Morning Show into more markets through syndication. The first run of the MJ Morning Show was syndicated to several markets around Florida and was heard in St. Louis and Atlanta.

Plus, this potentially answers the question of whether MJ will renew his contract with Q105 which is up in December. It is very likely he would renew in another six months if he truly wants to focus on the show and continue to build its listenership. If not, by all accounts, he’d be essentially retiring from radio completely unless he were to land on another station in the future.

While it’s sad to see the end of a good thing he had going for much longer than most radio shows ever last, MJ Morning Show listeners should be encouraged by this news. He will now have more time and energy to put toward the morning show. Who knows what new bits or segments the crew might come up with. And if they do get a new studio for the crew, the sky’s the limit for possibilities.

Since Roxanne Wilder joined the MJ Morning Show with  its triumphant return to the Tampa Bay radio airwaves on Q105 in 2020, we have gotten to know she and her “perpetual fiancée” (whom MJ quickly nicknamed Dig Doug because of his work in real estate) quite well. The two have been together for nearly 14 years and engaged for about six and a half.

Over the past few years, Roxanne has dropped hints about finally getting married for a second time. She was briefly married to Paul Wilder, one of the first draft picks of the then-Tampa Bay Devil Rays, back in the early 2000s. The latest we had heard is that she and Doug were hoping to tie the knot this fall. However, the occasion came much sooner than that – and a bit unexpectedly.

Roxanne and Doug officially got married on Sunday, April 16, 2023 at Sand Key on Clearwater Beach. They had an officiant present to handle the legal strings, but it wasn’t clear if they had any other family members or friends present, aside from their two young daughters, Evelyn Jade and Davianna.

What was more shocking than their marriage was how the news was presented on the MJ Morning Show. On the morning of Thursday, April 20 at 7:36 p.m. ET, the crew was talking about a “Morons in the News” story regarding a high school student who had Photoshopped his teacher’s face onto pictures of nude female bodies. After Fester made a joke about the story, Roxanne awkwardly jumped in to exclaim, “Hey guys. I got married.” It literally came out of nowhere with no transition or Segway that she had any indication of speaking about it. She then went on to recount some of the craziness of her wedding day leading up to the ceremony.

This means that MJ will now have to refer to Dig Doug as Roxanne’s husband. It also means all four of the main crew members, aside from Andrew the producer, are now hitched with kids. Ultimately, we shouldn’t be surprised by how the news was delivered considering how erratic Roxanne seems to be at times on the air. That’s a big reason MJ had a jingle created to the tune of the old Sears jingle that says, “Come see the psycho side of Roxanne” instead of, “Come see the softer side of Sears.”

We all know that MJ has been quite successful in his radio career. Now spanning 41 years since he first cracked a microphone in a broadcast studio at age 16, he has worked in New York City twice, Los Angeles, and Tampa Bay, all of which are major radio markets. In addition, his afternoon show has been on the air for over 20 years with syndication to dozens of radio stations around the country over that timeframe. Of course, the MJ Morning Show (and former MJ & BJ Morning Show) was also syndicated to big markets like Jacksonville, Atlanta, and St. Louis.

Throughout his success, MJ has kept a tight lid on how much money he has made in his career. He has mentioned that the Crotchety Old Man prank call CDs netted him a nice chunk of change, going toward the house he built and still lives in. But he has also openly disputed what the Celebrity Net Worth site says about his overall net worth. Surprisingly, he recently revealed a handful of salary figures he has earned at previous points in his career. This discussion cropped up on the show when a listener commented on one of his Instagram photos of he and Michelle, claiming his wife only married him for the money. Here is a recap of those figures:

• At 97 Star in the Virginia Beach, VA area, he took home just $17,500 per year. This would have been in the late 1980s.
• He was hired to work at Pirate Radio as a producer on its morning show in Los Angeles where he worked from 1989 to 1991. During this gig, he earned $50,000 annually.
• In 1992, WOVV-FM in West Palm Beach, FL brought him on board where he would host his first morning show. His salary for that role? $42,500 per year.
• Fast-forwarding to early 1994, 93.3 WFLZ-FM, a.k.a. “The Power Pig,” hired him to come to Tampa where he would team up with BJ to form the MJ & BJ Morning Show. His starting salary there was $55,000.

We may never know what he has earned since the mid-1990s, but clearly there has been a major shift in the radio industry with a shrinking number of job opportunities and far less pay than radio personalities used to make. Because of this, it is pretty obvious that MJ and the entire crew are doing the current incarnation of the MJ Morning Show because of their passion for being part of an ensemble morning radio program. In addition, they each have other forms of income streams.