This week's show marks a milestone for Who Asked You?, our first live broadcast on Internet radio! As we've mentioned before you'll be able to now hear the show a whole day earlier if you don't want to wait until 3pm/PT Monday to hear our soothing voices. Our show went live last night at 8pm/PT on "ErrorFM Live." The station recently rebranded itself and is putting more emphasis on live content. So not only can you hit their site and hear us Sunday evenings live, but you can log into their chat room and interact with us... sort of... when Chase reaches for the keyboard anyway.
What's in store for you on the first live, but 126th regular show? The answer to that is as follows. You all know us... we enjoy a good tirade, especially when it's not our own. And we've got a doozy for you this week. It was recently in the news that Mel Gibson split from Oksana Grigorieva after a short romance, oh yeah... and a child! Well Mel must've been drunk, according to some reports and he called up Oksana to let her have it over the way she dresses and her breast implants. Little did Mel know she was taping the conversation for everyone's entertainment. You'll hear the uncensored bashing on today's show. And Mel even makes a reference to the Who Asked You? hometown, Las Vegas! Of course he adds whores in there with it, but hey! It's Vegas! We're used to that.
The main focus on today's show is a couple of stories involving some regular guys who put their jobs in jeopardy over something they posted online. The first story revolves around a young man who was a mascot for the Pittsburgh Pirates. He vented his frustration on Facebook regarding the contract extension of some folks (his bosses) he felt weren't doing their job. A 12 game losing streak? Yeah... they aren't too good at what they do. Nevertheless, the truth hurts. And when the powers that be got wind of this guy's Facebook posting, he got fired.
A similar case out of Missouri has pitted a YouTube poster against his employer, Best Buy. In this case he created some funny-ass videos (one of which is the inspiration for this episode's title) illustrating the idiocy of people when it comes to smart phones and how none of them do their research and just flock to one particular brand because it's "what's cool" *cough* iPhone *cough*. Because Best Buy doesn't want its employees badmouthing its customers, they've given this guy an ultimatum regarding his part-time job there. This launches one of those half-an-episode conversations about where the line should be drawn in this new online world. Should employers have the right to fire their employees for stuff they post online outside of work? We dive into this topic and we want you to give us your opinion too. You can vote on the We Ask You Online Poll and if you have something else to say about it, send us an E-Mail.
Sometimes you don't need to post bad things online to get fired. Sometimes you just need to steal over a million dollars from your employer. And you get bonus firing points if your boss is a church! Meet Reverend Kevin J. Gray. He feels as though his church owes him a little somethin' for all the trouble they've put him through over the years. You will not believe the "sins" this guy committed against his own parish. There's a list of them! And we'll tell you all about it.
Because we spend so much time talking about employers and their firing power we don't get to some of our other content on this week's show. You can look it up for yourself, E-Mail me for it or just wait and maybe we'll have it when we return with new shows on July 25th... I don't care.
