Spaulding wrote:
I don't understand the he should have cleaned it up part. Is he suppose to stay there in his poopy pants with poop running down his legs and wipe up the studio? Or is he suppose to come back to the studio pantsless and clean up?
I don't know what I'd do if I shit my pants but I'm damn sure I'd be embarrassed. I don't know why the producer cleaned it up. That makes no sense.
ok spauldo, i'll buy that you've never tried weed..... but surely you've shit yourself, right? we've all done it at some point, and this isn't a cheeky attempt to be a technical bastard that all references the fact that we were babies at some point (that weren't raised by miryam "blossom" bialek cuz her kids are perfect, just like her arms are hairy. feminism: HOOOOOOO!!!!!!! </thundercats>)
i haven't full on shit myself, but i've had a couple'a "sharts" in my day (and if you can't decode the portmanteau that is a "shart" then you are a shitty person that i don't give a fart about) and i can tell you that the first thing you aim to do is separate the affected under/garments from the ass. you have to dry the crack otherwise you're only going to compound the problem which, well, compounds the problem.
personally, i can remember driving to the nearest big box store, which happened to be a walmart, and str8up telling the greeter to go fuck themselves as i darted to the men's dept and got a brand new pack of boxer briefs, bought them in under 3 minutes, then went into the bathroom and grabbed a wad of towels, wetting some, and cleaning off the affected area/s before popping on the new undies and throwing away the affected pair. like the blues brothers before me i was on a mission from god so i felt sorry for anyone who got in my way, traffic, pedestrians, or otherwise.... once you've got that unfresh feeling it's just some kind of catharsis to plow through anything in your path until you get your reprieve.
without reading beardown's deadspin article or any of the threads on les' shittery, i can only assume that this happened in the middle of a shift and therefore he was unable to just up and GTFO to get a new pair of underwear. idk how tight he and the legendary "kathy" are (as i assume she already must be some sort of a saint for putting up with les' first/true love: sports) but i'm assuming this happened late enough to where she was either passed out or it was impractical to bring in a replacement pair of underwear.... nor are there interns there who are able to find some 24hr place in the loop that would have such things (as a matter of fact, really, where would you go at 3:30am to find a new pair of boxer/s/-brief/s? does jewel carry them? are there 24hr targets/walmarts in the downtown area? i doubt it) so this would mean she would have to rush out from wherever she is and then find a way to park (i can picture doubleparking with flashing lights and an officer comes up to ticket her or the tow-truck arrives and she's like STAND BACK THIS IS OFFICIAL CBS RADIO BUSINESS WE HAVE A DEFCON 4 EMERGENCY ON AIR AS MY MAN LES GROBSTEIN HAS SHIT HIMSELF AND AM I HIS ONLY REPRIEVE!!!)
so TL;DR = les was on his own for this one, i reckon.
now if you lot are talking about shit/piss/shart running down his leg/s and leaving a mess for the janitor, this might just be so bad that he basically had to acknowledge it and live with it. i reckon there comes a point where it's bad enough to just say "it is what it is" and you let it go and remember that "the show must go on" because you just can't stick an intern on the air and expect him to carry the show.... you'd end up with adam berger live on the score live! or whatever..... so ever the consummate professional les had to man it up, figure that CBS has the $$$ to replace the affected upholstery / soiled-floors and just kind of own it..... and methinks that's what happened here, unless les has some weird proclivities where he's touchy about cleaning up his messes and he was a real dick to those who had to deal with hour/s old fecal matter?
yeah i mean without underwear and with a rigid commercial-lite break schedule your best bet is to run to the bathroom, throw out the underwear, soap and wash your ass / legs / pants (figuring all kinds of soapy water showing marks on the pants >>> actual shit staining) and then go commando for the rest of the show. i would have used lots of newspaper and lysol / febreze / etc. i also would be buying a new wheeled-chair (or whatever a CBS studio issue chair is) and getting the backup chair in place because after that moment that chair is now mine even if it costs $300.....but les is thrifty so maybe that never crossed his mind and that became the impetus of the problem/s here? i mean if he soiled the chair and then rinsed it off with water/soap and didnt even bring in a replacement chair leaving an unholy mess of stank for M&H (turnabout IS fair play, eh?) then yeah it's some sort of a party foul on les and at the very least he's gotta buy a new chair and wear the infamy for the rest of his days there....
but if he immediately ducked to the bathroom and ditched the underwair and overwashed his affected areas and made liberal use of newspapers and/or plastic bags and made sure a can of air freshener was procured / used and bought himself a new chair, then he's all good in my eyes.... what can do you do at that point? you can't just disappear mid-shift and say "grobber shit himself so i'm adam harris and welcome to score overnights live on the socre!" adam berger couldn't make it out there on 30min notice, not to mention that i doubt the score has 1-day contracts or anything.... so the key is immediately getting the fuck out of the affected area/s, ditching the underwear, overwashing the affected area/s, and if there's a chair being soiled congrats les it's your new chair.
anything short of that deserves your eternal ridicule and/or scorn.... and guessing by the furor here and the multiple threads going multiple changes and deadspin reporting on it, something tells me that les tried to go the el cheapo route and downplay everything figuring a fee wipes and a few sprays of febreze would cover it all.... and welp, if so then it's totally on him and i love you love your show les but i gotta join the masses in saying that shit happens (literally in your case) but when it does happen, you have to GTFO and get rid of the underwear and if it happened on a chair YOU HAVE TO BUY THE DAMN CHAIR AFTER YOU GET IT THE FUCK OUT OF THE STUDIO. period carriage return new paragraph.
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Curious Hair wrote:
Les Grobstein's huge hog is proof that God has a sense of humor, isn't it?