Thursday, Januarty 18th
Hey everyone. We have a lot going on tonight, including tickets to the A's FanFest. Most importantly, we will be speaking to Roger Dreyer, the family's attorney in the water intoxication case.
7pm: So, in preparation for the interview with Mr. Dreyer, we play a clip of his press conference earlier today. It is pretty vague, and basically he attacks the "trash media." We also play the audio of the incident once again, demonstrating the dj's utter disdain for the listeners' welfare.
We start talking about how long you have to wait at the Emergency Room. If you went in with water intoxication, unless you told them, you would probably die waiting for three hours.
Ok, so Roger Dreyer is on the phone with us now. He says that the immediacy of the suit, is a result of the huge reaction of the media. In hiring an attorney, they are able to take the burden off themselves, and hand it to him. Furthermore, this is also the reason for the press conference being so soon.
The family has also taken a restraining order against the press camping out on their lawn, and generally being overly aggressive. Dreyer, does however, say that the media has been extremely helpful in the situation as well, by helping them get information.
Chris and Brad point out that they have done contests themselves that were dangerous and unnecessary. Dreyer's response to this, is that the responsibility falls not on the djs, but on the management, for pushing the talent to these lengths.
In response to the question of whether this contest happened quickly, Dreyer says that it was clear that they had time to prepare for this. Therefore, they had time to figure out the danger involved in this contest. He says that the Entercom has not been forthright with the information regarding how this contest went down. They have not even given him a copy of the release, that they claim to have.
Dreyer also fills in some of the gaps of the audio we have. He says that there were in fact three medical professionals that called in to say that the contestants were at risk. He, further, says that the djs responded with a glib, uncaring attitude. They asked one nurse why she would not come down, and she said, "I don't want to die." Entercom has not given Dreyer the raw audio, that is necessary for a fair evaluation of the case.
Already, CBS has enacted policy that all contests will now have to be run by legal, before being put into action. This can limit options, but will protect listeners and the air personalities in the long run.
The guys ask about Jennifer's own accountability for her death. Dreyer says that the system is set up, so that they are to take that into account. He says that in order to do so, all of the information must be provided. Additionally, he claims to look forward to the challenge of this argument. On this subject, Chris asks at what point of water intoxication does Jennifer lose her capacity of decision making? Dreyer says that it does not affect judgement as alcohol does, but that it does make you light-headed and drowsy, as the body is slowly shutting down.
Brad asks if there is any waiver that could protect the station from liability in this situation. He says that it is possible, but that said waiver would have to specify the danger of water intoxication. Everyone agrees, that it is unlikely that the contest would have occurred, had this been included in the waiver.
When asked why a press conference, as opposed to just a statement, Dreyer says that this is a means of getting attention to the family's need for privacy. Brad asks what reason Dreyer has to come on radio shows? He says that he thinks the discussion needs to be in a public forum, and that he wants to respect the media's need for information.
KDND has put the flag in front of their station at half-mast. Everyone agrees that it seems contrived. Furthmore, Entercom has made a donation to the upcoming memorial service, of which Dreyer doubts the integrity.
8pm: We ask callers what they think about the lawsuit. How much, if any, do you think the family should get in the lawsuit? Throughout this, I have been mining through financial data, trying to find out the net worth of Entercom. Yeah, I am no financial analyst. This is really confusing.
Anyway, the calls go back and forth. A lot of people think that they should get around $10 million, but I'm sure they will definitely go for more than that.
Others, including Dan, think that they should not get anything. They are sticking to the idea of personal accountability. Jennifer was never forced to drink the water, therefore the responsibility lies on her shoulders.
Sorry, that this hour is somewhat incomplete, my mind has completely shut down as a result of all of these financial websites.
9pm: The guys read an email from Angela, a friend of Jennifer Strange. She is disturbed by people's comments questioning her intelligence. Angela says that Jennifer was intelligent and had a strong sense of judgement, and that she was unaware of the danger involved.
Ok, so I found an article about an ex-Playmate's book coming out. It details Hugh Hefner's sexual exploits with the Playmates. It is really creepy to hear about this. Ewww. The points that stick out:
- Hef has the girls be on top
- Holly goes last with some backdoor action
- The house residents must have sex with him on Wednesdays and Fridays
- They have to wear identical pink pajamas
- He does not wear a condom, even though he has sex with up to 12 girls in a night
Coming back from break, they talk about the layout of CBS radio. Each of the station has its own pod. We have a big hallway that connects us all. We are right next to Movin 99.7. This is station that plays in the hallway, always. Today, a disco ball has been installed right next to the doorway to our pod. Apparently, they have tried several different balls until they settled on the traditional model, but it does not turn.
Ok, so Brad has a new fear for his daughter. He is afraid of her going into the water by his house. He is terrified about the sharks and the riptides. Dan takes this opportunity to scare the hell out of Brad, by explaining that his area is teeming with sharks. I think Brad is a little upset by Dan and Chris joking about his daughter's wellbeing.
Chris was listening to the gravy donuts show the other day, after the Jennifer Strange incident happened. He realizes, that he has wasted his dream. For his whole life, Chris has dreamt of doing the play-by-play at a baseball game. However, the only play-by-play he has ever done, has been gravy donut competitions and slip n slide contests with coleslaw.
Dan had an interesting thing happen to him the other day. He was at BART, and saw two female cops beating a guy with a truncheon. After being beaten, he pulls out a pirate's gun. At this point, the cops go crazy. An enormous male officer, pounces on him, and arrests him. The best part, however, is Dan's reaction when he sees the gun. He does not drop to the ground, or run to a child's protection, he says, "Oh."
10pm: Ok, it is now time to play Terminal Choices, it is like Would You Rather? on crack. We start with Brad.
Either way, you are gunned down on the street corner. Random act of senseless violence or the conclusion of having been hunted for two years?
Brad says: Random violence, because he does not like to lose.
Your eyelids are glued open, and you are locked in a vice: An hour of a tender gay porn or a degrading gay porn?
Brad says: Degrading, because he does not want to see carressing.
Set for the rest of your life in your wildest dreams or married until you are eighty?
Brad says: Married until he's eighty. Not because she might be listening, but because he would not make it past 2 years with that much cash.
Now, Brad has one for Chris. You have to either pull out all your teeth with pliers, or yank out an eye with your hands? And you have to live with the results.
Chris says: Eye, because he can still eat and gets to wear the patch.
So, they make one up now: Tom Leykis feeding you like a mother bird or you sponge bathing Tom with wetnaps?
They make me answer this one: I say, feeding like a mother bird, because it would be over quicker. Dan says: the wetnaps because you could zone out.
After break, this all changes for me, because I learn that this would be everyday for the rest of my life. That, the only food I would have, would be from Tom's stomach. Ok, I'm going for the spongebath, because at least afterwards I can go get wasted.
Michael in San Jose comes up with one. Either once, have to slide down a razor bladed railing or be serenated to sleep nightly by Barbra Streisand? There is no choice in this one, because Chris sends Michael to the Pit of Mediocrity for that one.
Mac in San Jose asks: Would you rather be eaten alive from the feet up by ants or have to spend a season in the Black Hole at Raiders stadium wearing a Niners jersey?
Both guys say the ants, because Raiders fans are so obnoxious.
Ok, here are the choices I came up with: Hanging from a tree with a piece of meat attached to your junk, with a pit bull within reach. The other: Submerged in a box full of non-lethal but biting wolf spiders.
Chris and Brad both choose spiders, I choose pit bull.
And with that, we are done. I apologize to my mother, have a good night.
7pm: So, in preparation for the interview with Mr. Dreyer, we play a clip of his press conference earlier today. It is pretty vague, and basically he attacks the "trash media." We also play the audio of the incident once again, demonstrating the dj's utter disdain for the listeners' welfare.
We start talking about how long you have to wait at the Emergency Room. If you went in with water intoxication, unless you told them, you would probably die waiting for three hours.
Ok, so Roger Dreyer is on the phone with us now. He says that the immediacy of the suit, is a result of the huge reaction of the media. In hiring an attorney, they are able to take the burden off themselves, and hand it to him. Furthermore, this is also the reason for the press conference being so soon.
The family has also taken a restraining order against the press camping out on their lawn, and generally being overly aggressive. Dreyer, does however, say that the media has been extremely helpful in the situation as well, by helping them get information.
Chris and Brad point out that they have done contests themselves that were dangerous and unnecessary. Dreyer's response to this, is that the responsibility falls not on the djs, but on the management, for pushing the talent to these lengths.
In response to the question of whether this contest happened quickly, Dreyer says that it was clear that they had time to prepare for this. Therefore, they had time to figure out the danger involved in this contest. He says that the Entercom has not been forthright with the information regarding how this contest went down. They have not even given him a copy of the release, that they claim to have.
Dreyer also fills in some of the gaps of the audio we have. He says that there were in fact three medical professionals that called in to say that the contestants were at risk. He, further, says that the djs responded with a glib, uncaring attitude. They asked one nurse why she would not come down, and she said, "I don't want to die." Entercom has not given Dreyer the raw audio, that is necessary for a fair evaluation of the case.
Already, CBS has enacted policy that all contests will now have to be run by legal, before being put into action. This can limit options, but will protect listeners and the air personalities in the long run.
The guys ask about Jennifer's own accountability for her death. Dreyer says that the system is set up, so that they are to take that into account. He says that in order to do so, all of the information must be provided. Additionally, he claims to look forward to the challenge of this argument. On this subject, Chris asks at what point of water intoxication does Jennifer lose her capacity of decision making? Dreyer says that it does not affect judgement as alcohol does, but that it does make you light-headed and drowsy, as the body is slowly shutting down.
Brad asks if there is any waiver that could protect the station from liability in this situation. He says that it is possible, but that said waiver would have to specify the danger of water intoxication. Everyone agrees, that it is unlikely that the contest would have occurred, had this been included in the waiver.
When asked why a press conference, as opposed to just a statement, Dreyer says that this is a means of getting attention to the family's need for privacy. Brad asks what reason Dreyer has to come on radio shows? He says that he thinks the discussion needs to be in a public forum, and that he wants to respect the media's need for information.
KDND has put the flag in front of their station at half-mast. Everyone agrees that it seems contrived. Furthmore, Entercom has made a donation to the upcoming memorial service, of which Dreyer doubts the integrity.
8pm: We ask callers what they think about the lawsuit. How much, if any, do you think the family should get in the lawsuit? Throughout this, I have been mining through financial data, trying to find out the net worth of Entercom. Yeah, I am no financial analyst. This is really confusing.
Anyway, the calls go back and forth. A lot of people think that they should get around $10 million, but I'm sure they will definitely go for more than that.
Others, including Dan, think that they should not get anything. They are sticking to the idea of personal accountability. Jennifer was never forced to drink the water, therefore the responsibility lies on her shoulders.
Sorry, that this hour is somewhat incomplete, my mind has completely shut down as a result of all of these financial websites.
9pm: The guys read an email from Angela, a friend of Jennifer Strange. She is disturbed by people's comments questioning her intelligence. Angela says that Jennifer was intelligent and had a strong sense of judgement, and that she was unaware of the danger involved.
Ok, so I found an article about an ex-Playmate's book coming out. It details Hugh Hefner's sexual exploits with the Playmates. It is really creepy to hear about this. Ewww. The points that stick out:
- Hef has the girls be on top
- Holly goes last with some backdoor action
- The house residents must have sex with him on Wednesdays and Fridays
- They have to wear identical pink pajamas
- He does not wear a condom, even though he has sex with up to 12 girls in a night
Coming back from break, they talk about the layout of CBS radio. Each of the station has its own pod. We have a big hallway that connects us all. We are right next to Movin 99.7. This is station that plays in the hallway, always. Today, a disco ball has been installed right next to the doorway to our pod. Apparently, they have tried several different balls until they settled on the traditional model, but it does not turn.
Ok, so Brad has a new fear for his daughter. He is afraid of her going into the water by his house. He is terrified about the sharks and the riptides. Dan takes this opportunity to scare the hell out of Brad, by explaining that his area is teeming with sharks. I think Brad is a little upset by Dan and Chris joking about his daughter's wellbeing.
Chris was listening to the gravy donuts show the other day, after the Jennifer Strange incident happened. He realizes, that he has wasted his dream. For his whole life, Chris has dreamt of doing the play-by-play at a baseball game. However, the only play-by-play he has ever done, has been gravy donut competitions and slip n slide contests with coleslaw.
Dan had an interesting thing happen to him the other day. He was at BART, and saw two female cops beating a guy with a truncheon. After being beaten, he pulls out a pirate's gun. At this point, the cops go crazy. An enormous male officer, pounces on him, and arrests him. The best part, however, is Dan's reaction when he sees the gun. He does not drop to the ground, or run to a child's protection, he says, "Oh."
10pm: Ok, it is now time to play Terminal Choices, it is like Would You Rather? on crack. We start with Brad.
Either way, you are gunned down on the street corner. Random act of senseless violence or the conclusion of having been hunted for two years?
Brad says: Random violence, because he does not like to lose.
Your eyelids are glued open, and you are locked in a vice: An hour of a tender gay porn or a degrading gay porn?
Brad says: Degrading, because he does not want to see carressing.
Set for the rest of your life in your wildest dreams or married until you are eighty?
Brad says: Married until he's eighty. Not because she might be listening, but because he would not make it past 2 years with that much cash.
Now, Brad has one for Chris. You have to either pull out all your teeth with pliers, or yank out an eye with your hands? And you have to live with the results.
Chris says: Eye, because he can still eat and gets to wear the patch.
So, they make one up now: Tom Leykis feeding you like a mother bird or you sponge bathing Tom with wetnaps?
They make me answer this one: I say, feeding like a mother bird, because it would be over quicker. Dan says: the wetnaps because you could zone out.
After break, this all changes for me, because I learn that this would be everyday for the rest of my life. That, the only food I would have, would be from Tom's stomach. Ok, I'm going for the spongebath, because at least afterwards I can go get wasted.
Michael in San Jose comes up with one. Either once, have to slide down a razor bladed railing or be serenated to sleep nightly by Barbra Streisand? There is no choice in this one, because Chris sends Michael to the Pit of Mediocrity for that one.
Mac in San Jose asks: Would you rather be eaten alive from the feet up by ants or have to spend a season in the Black Hole at Raiders stadium wearing a Niners jersey?
Both guys say the ants, because Raiders fans are so obnoxious.
Ok, here are the choices I came up with: Hanging from a tree with a piece of meat attached to your junk, with a pit bull within reach. The other: Submerged in a box full of non-lethal but biting wolf spiders.
Chris and Brad both choose spiders, I choose pit bull.
And with that, we are done. I apologize to my mother, have a good night.
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