As you probably have figured out, the podcasts have been moved to the site and removed from the old RSS feed that was supplying iTunes. Please head over to the podcast section of the site and start downloading. Oh, before you do, please read the stuff on that page, it explains a lot and will save you the trouble of emailing me a question.
Also, we have started posting new audio/video and for starters it's part one of the DBF Reunion 2 video... This is just awesome stuff. I hadn't watched it in a long time, and in rediscovering it I just was flooded with great and funny memories. We intended to sell this as a DVD, but right after we did this event, the FCC started their now famous "crack down" on morning shows and we made the call to just hold off and not add gas to that fire. So, this stuff has never been shown publically. Take note that while you watch it, pay attention to Kim. She had been hired just a couple of months prior to this event and the look on her face of "realization" is priceless.
Drunk Bitch Friday was really the proverbial "double edge sword". It was, without debate, a giant pain in the ass for all of us on the show. But when we had the right girl in the right mood and the wheels fell off, it was some of the greatest moments in show history.
The more we did it, the more the "suits" worried and came to us with more rules. To be fair, many of their concerns were legit and we came up with ways to safe guard the bit. In the end we had pages of legal documents, a cop on site, the girl had to bring a female handler and a staff member had to be with her the whole time. We had to rent them a hotel, limos and take all kinds of preventative measures. Funny, I used to tell the General Managers of our affilaite stations that would call with their concerns, "Look, I promise you, these girls are much safer here on a Friday morning than they are on their normal Friday night."
There are times I wish we still did DBF, but mostly I am glad it ended when it did because it just had all the fun sucked out of it because too many people not directly involved were determined to ruin it.
Posted: 1/16/2008 8:11:15 AM by Peter Welpton | with 7 comments