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Java Joel (born Joel Murphy, September 30,
1974) is an American radio personality. He hosted a
nightly weeknight radio program called The Rubber Room"on
WKSC-FM 103.5 Kiss FM in Chicago, Illinois. His show was also heard
in other cities such as WKGS/Rochester NY, WAKS/Cleveland, WKST/Pittsburgh, KKRZ/Portland Kiss FM/Tulsa, and Kiss
FM/Cincinnati.
The Rubber Room had 3 main members: Java Joel, the
host; Jdogg, producer/sidekick; and Silly Jilly, female sidekick.
Many other people stopped by the show including Chris Kelly, Alex,
Camps, Joe V, and Joey T. In April 2003, The Rubber Room made
national headlines after Java interviewed pop singer Justin
Timberlake and angered him, which resulted in Timberlake
telling Java to "take a valium bi*ch". Java has won numerous awards
such as the Silver Dome Award and the Jock Conference Slammer
Award.
Java Joel was fired from WKSC on January 11, 2005 when at about
9:30PM he played the Mr. Belvedere theme song and made an
inferred racial remark regarding African-Americans.
Since his firing, Java has appeared on stations in Philadelphia,
Y-103.9 (Crystal Lake, IL) and 102.3 XLC (Waukegan, IL), WCKG
(105.9FM) Chicago. Most recently, Java has been hired as a weekend
fill-in at WKIE/WDEK/WRZA (92.7/92.5/99.9) "Nine FM" as well as
afternoons on WYUL "94.7 Hits FM" in the Montreal market. On August
4, 2006 Java Joel was hired as the night time DJ on WAKS/-96.5 KISS FM Cleveland.
In 2009, amid the Chris Brown assault
allegations, he decided to pull all Chris Brown music off of his
show, thus starting a station wide boycott of his music.
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