Easy RPB. The "blown slave" comment is a reference to the I guess not-so-famous slip of the tongue by Chip Carey. Sheesh.

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Yeah guess I missed that one...sorry.


I like AC/DC just fine...

I agree, SID. This is a potentially explosive revelation on Webby's part. If North either was a part owner or was telling prospective employees he was a part owner to shift the focus off of Hernandes, he's going to have very big legal problems on his hands.

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North also knew there was no real money coming in, yet was offering pretty big salaries with 2 year contracts. This has smelled since the beginning.

that was entertaining radio with Chet and Tom Shaer. I'd love to have Chet try to take on Bernstein in the talk-over...I think Chet could be good in small doses. He's certainly likely to work for peanuts at this stage...

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So was North luring talent to Webio while knowing it would eventually blow up? Was his hope that he could take over the operation and have easy access to a desperate staff, whom he could then pay at a much lower rate?

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If I'm not mistaken, when he was yammering on Roe yesterday, North said the same thing ... he was offered a 30% stake with no money invested. He alluded to it twice when Roe pressed him for North's role, and North (badly) acted like it wouldn't be polite to speak about it, but then after the subject had essentially passed, North was very quick to talk over Roe to get into the 30% deal.

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Interesting. Thanks for the info.

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We need our resident legal scholars here who spent dedicated time on K's to weigh in on this. Will a verbal agreement to allocate 70% to the cash partner and 30% to the expertise partner constitute a valid K?

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Offer/Acceptance/Consideration?

If offered the 30% stake as an inducement to sign North on to the company, then North joining the company would be valid consideration, provable in court. However, if were already under contract and working for the company and came in one day and said "how'd you like 30% of this here webio thingamadeal?" without assigning North any extra duties or a longer term contract or anything that North wasn't already doing under North's employment agreement, then it's less likely a court's going to find a valid, binding contract.

Jesus Christ ... ... if they'd written word problems in school like NearWessSideHussra just did, I'd be making more money than even JohnKirk and be too busy to write about it here!!!

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Outstanding! Where on the NWS do you Hussre, NWSH?

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Don't forget the infamous voice mail he left Mac when The Score was just starting up. Pretty nasty. Ironically it led to North stating on the air that he told management that they should never hire Coppock (Chet was out of another job at the time).

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I also liked the line that Chet laid out about Shaer being self-centered. Coming from a guy who wore (and still might) a full length fur coat.

Aaahhh, you can't beat the big rock candy mountain.

Props to Meat for asking Chet the "anger toward North" question.

Great interview. Was feeling sorry for Chet until I came on this board and found out that he's a self-centered anti-semite. I do have a slight logic problem with one of the points Dan had during the interview. After Chet spewed venom at Tom Shaer for a solid two minutes, Dan sort of defended Shaer by saying, "Maybe he just didn't like you." I'm not passing judgment either way here but I have to ask Dan....does that make it okay? I mean something must be said for integrity and empathy. And yes, you can be empathetic toward someone you don't like. So if Tom Shaer is guilty of what Chet accuses him of, then simply saying "He doesn't like him" is not a good excuse.

I guess I sound naive. But Chet's point throughout was that Tom Shaer is a dick for doing what he did. So even if Tom Shaer didn't like North or Chet, doing what he did STILL makes him a dick, no?

Chet came across as the uberdouche. I love this. None of this is North's fault, or the webio employees' fault, but it's the fault of Tom Fucking Shaer. Why not blame Tom Webb for not communicating from the dead about this?

It's Al Gore's fault for inventing the internets!

Shaer said he had talked to the FBI and they had told him that they had nothing on him and "sometimes people turn their life around". He said he had no reason to call anyone up because he didn't know they were hired until after the deal was done, plus what was he going to say? "Hey, about 11 or 12 years ago I had the FBI call me about him". Then the response would have been "Sour grapes Shaer, you're pissed you didn't get asked to the party".

And anyway, THIS SHOULD HAVE BEEN HANDLED BY BEBE AND NORTH!!!! If you are going to go into a partnership with someone and are also going to involve your friends/former co-workers, then it is up to YOU OR YOUR LAWYER to find out if your potential partner is on the up and up and has any problems in the past that would throw up a red flag in regards to doing business with him or her. This should not fall on the shoulders of someone who dealt with him/her a decade ago.

Way too many people are giving North a pass because of the Madoff angle. And what happened to "the code of the street"? I guess it doesn't apply when North ends up looking like the dumbass. Then it's every man for himself.

Good attempt Spiegs but you guys let him off the hook on not blaming North. Chet seems desperate and sounded like someone that will now be drinking every waking hour.


Sorry Dan but you should have told Chet the naive virgin excuse wont fly.

Good chemistry guys! Should be a good show.

Mac - you're no longer a C-List Celebrity.

The trib is streaming your show http://www.chicagotribune.com/webio