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If you grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and you’re in your late 20′s to early 30′s, your familiar with Wild 94.9′s The Dog House, with the team of Elvis, JV and Hollywood. As to what happened with The Dog House after the 90′s, JV says it best on his MySpace page: “After The Dog House was fired in 2005, we went to New York. We were kicking ass there, but ran into an unfortunate incident that led to us being fired AGAIN!!”
What it doesn’t say: it was due to a prank call to a Chinese restaurant that involved anti-Asian remarks.
It would be easy blog post to write that JV is racist towards Asians; their prank calls — which were also done in the Bay Area — were always malicious, and the Chinese restaurant prank call which got them fired is absolutely unlistenable. But if The Dog House were ever that mean-spirited in the Bay Area — where a third of the young adult population is Asian and Pacific Islander — the shit would never fly and they wouldn’t have been reached the popularity they did in the 90′s. Someone in radio once told me that the primary demographic for Wild 94.9 was a Latina or Filipina in her early 20′s, and the morning team seemed to reflect that well; they once fired their traffic girl on-air after she said derogatory statements about Filipinos. Their radio producer while at 94.9 was a friend of theirs from high school, an Asian-American guy nicknamed Hollywood.
Reading the various comment threads it sounds like a there’s a discrepancy between San Francisco DogHouse fans of the late 90′s — Bay Area people who miss their crazy-ass radio show when they were in high school and now have kids of their own — and his New York fans, asking Elvis to become “a weatherman at a Chinese station, ‘crowdy wit a chance of eggroe.’” (Also: What the FUCK does that even MEAN?)
As to where original DogHouse team is now, it looks like they’ve gone their separate ways: Elvis “left the show, got some new head shots and started auditioning for commercials and stuff.” A quick Google search reveals that Hollywood looks like he’s in the controversial world of… police dispatching. As to JV, he’s DJ’ing solo at Wild 94.9 as well as broadcasting a show on Revision3, the same company that produces DiggNation; what he’ll say or do will be anyones guess, but the interesting thing about the Internet is that if he pulls the things he did in New York, the entire Internet will be there to call him out on it. It’s the internet, after all.
And as for me? I stopped listening to Wild 94.9 years ago.
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to JABB and anyone else who needs a reminder: JV is the husband of an idiotic apologist sow/import model named Natatsha Yi. She defended her husband throughout the whole ordeal. After all, he couldn't be racist because he married her right? I'm glad asian american "activism" worked these issues out...oh wait..
to JABB and anyone else who needs a reminder: JV is the husband of an idiotic apologist sow/import model named Natatsha Yi. She defended her husband throughout the whole ordeal. After all, he couldn't be racist because he married her right? I'm glad asian american "activism" worked these issues out...oh wait..
Jabb: Actually, she's Korean.
Jabb: Actually, she's Korean.
I caught JV on the radio this morning. he refers to his colleague as 'Some Dumb Deush Bag'. Although his colleague is Mexican. JV takes a spin on his colleague's nickname to mimic a (supposedly) 'Chinese' sounding name.
Let's hope it doesn't get any farther.
I hear JV's girlfriend is Filipina?
I caught JV on the radio this morning. he refers to his colleague as 'Some Dumb Deush Bag'. Although his colleague is Mexican. JV takes a spin on his colleague's nickname to mimic a (supposedly) 'Chinese' sounding name.
Let's hope it doesn't get any farther.
I hear JV's girlfriend is Filipina?
Shock jocks always pander to the lowest common denominator. Most of the time, it's to racist, sexist, and homophobic douche bags.
At the same time, does anyone remember the Hot97 debacle in NYC? This occurred shortly after the tsunami of 2004. That marked another low point in APA-Black American relations. I'm just glad that incident was not our doing, since we have the asshat Ken Eng and the creator of 'Ghettopoly' to thank for all the previous lows.
Shock jocks always pander to the lowest common denominator. Most of the time, it's to racist, sexist, and homophobic douche bags.
At the same time, does anyone remember the Hot97 debacle in NYC? This occurred shortly after the tsunami of 2004. That marked another low point in APA-Black American relations. I'm just glad that incident was not our doing, since we have the asshat Ken Eng and the creator of 'Ghettopoly' to thank for all the previous lows.
Great post, Ernie.
It just seems a bit sad that JV (and other supposed shock jock DJs) was clearly pandering to their supposed audiences and biting off that annoying trend of offending everyone in order to get high ratings. I stopped listening to most of those radio stations years ago since I was tired of hearing all the racist, homophobic, sexist, etc. bullshit daily. It may have been great for the high school and 20something crowd at the time, but at the same time the quality of supposed hip-hop went down significantly, so I never had a reason to continue listening to those stations after the mid-late 90s when it became less about the music and more about offending everyone.
While I don't think I'd listen to JV's show either, I'd probably adopt a similar wait and see attitude to see what happens to the show.
Great post, Ernie.
It just seems a bit sad that JV (and other supposed shock jock DJs) was clearly pandering to their supposed audiences and biting off that annoying trend of offending everyone in order to get high ratings. I stopped listening to most of those radio stations years ago since I was tired of hearing all the racist, homophobic, sexist, etc. bullshit daily. It may have been great for the high school and 20something crowd at the time, but at the same time the quality of supposed hip-hop went down significantly, so I never had a reason to continue listening to those stations after the mid-late 90s when it became less about the music and more about offending everyone.
While I don't think I'd listen to JV's show either, I'd probably adopt a similar wait and see attitude to see what happens to the show.
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