The Dog House (talk show)

The Dog House starred Jeffrey "JV" Vandergrift (born March 16, 1968) and Dan "Elvis" Lay. The two met in 1993 and have been radio cohosts together for over 15 years, (along with JV's high school friend and show producer "Hollywood" Lance Otani) starting on Hot 97.7 in San Jose, California. In 1995, program directors Michael Martin and Joe Cunningham of Wild 107 eagerly hired them to fill a timeslot vacated by Mancow Muller. The Dog House quickly became a household name after joining Wild 107.7 (which subsequently moved to Wild 94.9), as they became the #1 rated morning show in the Bay Area{{cite news |url = http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=%2Fc%2Fa%2F1998%2F05%2F18%2FDD56981.DTL |title = Correction |publisher = San Francisco Chronicle |date = May 18, 1998 |accessdate = April 19, 2008 |archive-date = March 4, 2023 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20230304052000/https://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/Correction-3006632.php |url-status = live }}The Doghouse is the top-rated morning program in the Bay Area in the demographic age groups 12-24 and 18-34. receiving higher ratings than Howard Stern;{{cite news |url = http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=%2Fc%2Fa%2F1998%2F05%2F29%2FDD44392.DTL |title = Stern Is Moving To KITS |publisher = San Francisco Chronicle |date = May 29, 1998 |accessdate = April 19, 2008 |first = Jerry |last = Carroll |archive-date = June 4, 2011 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110604144610/http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=%2Fc%2Fa%2F1998%2F05%2F29%2FDD44392.DTL |url-status = live }} [Stern's] show is second to KYLD'S "Doghouse" in the morning slot. only to be terminated nearly a decade later due to off-air controversy. Shortly after being fired from Wild 94.9, they helped launch KIFR at the end of 2005 before moving to New York City, where they joined 92.3 Free FM. The new show went under the title JV & Elvis during the first few months until the hosts revived The Dog House name. Two years later they were fired again by CBS Radio in New York for an on-air prank.

The Dog House hosted a show on [http://www.doghousefm.com/ their website]. It was a multimedia broadcast enabling JV{{nbsp}}and Elvis to display pictures and video as well as audio. On May 15, 2008, Elvis left, expressing a desire to return to terrestrial radio. JV{{nbsp}}continued to host the show alone. On February 16, 2009, JV{{nbsp}}announced he would be coming back to Wild 94.9 (KYLD), the same station that he and the Dog House were fired from in 2005. JV's{{nbsp}}show started on Monday, February{{nbsp}}23, and aired 6 am{{snds}}10 am.

On Monday morning, October{{nbsp}}12, 2009, Elvis restarted The Dog House as his morning show on KFRH/KREV basing it both in Las Vegas (KFRH) and the San Francisco Bay Area (KREV). The show rotated its broadcast home between studios in the two cities.

In August 2014, the duo announced that they would be restarting The Dog House show, this time starting with weekly podcasts using the online-based Stitcher Radio. They have since aired several podcasts, but have repeatedly stated that they want to focus more on talk radio, rather than "stunts, pranks, etc". To advertise their reunion, JV, Elvis, and Natasha{{nbsp}}Yi co-starred in a short film series called "Behind the House".

{{anchor|JV}}

Host JV (Jeff Vandergrift) and Elvis (Dan Lay) both co-hosted The Dog House radio show.

JV was married to model and actress Natasha Yi. The two married following a live on-air proposal in San Francisco.{{Cite web |url = http://www.923freefm.com/ |title = 冷瞳小說-免費小說在線繁體小說 |website = www.923freefm.com |access-date = December 13, 2006 |archive-date = December 15, 2006 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20061215113801/http://www.923freefm.com/ |url-status = live }}

JV shared health details on Wild 94.9 on April 4, 2022, that he was suffering from Lyme disease which was severely impacting his brain and life. He mentioned it again in late February 2023 and a few hours later, JV went missing. His wife, Natasha Yi, has not heard from him and she released this statement:

{{blockquote |quote = Thank you to our friends and the entire {{nowrap|i-HeartRadio}} family and listeners for your love, support and prayers. I can feel your love and energy for JV, and I am so grateful for it. The amount of compassion for the physical torture JV has been going through for the past two years has been overwhelming.

I have been in so much pain and fear and I know all of you have been so scared and concerned for JV as well. JV and I have always considered this community part of our family, so I want to let you know that personal information has recently been discovered that leads us to believe JV will not be coming back. I tell you this with incredible pain and sadness in my heart.

At this time, JV officially remains missing according to the SFPD [San Francisco Police Department], but no foul play is suspected in his disappearance. We are incredibly appreciative for the SFPD's ongoing efforts in locating JV and they have asked us to keep the details to immediate family only. I know how painful this is for you to hear – please know that I have you in my thoughts.

Please forgive my silence during this time – my heart is utterly broken, and the pain feels unbearable. I will do my best to provide updates and I ask for you to please keep JV in your thoughts and prayers.{{cite news |url = https://abc7news.com/wild-949-radio-host-jv-jeffrey-vandergrift-missing-final-show-update/12910975/ |title = Wild 94.9 host shared heartbreaking details about health during final show before he went missing |last1 = Behle |first1 = Brandon |date = March 3, 2023 |website = abc7news.com |access-date = March 3, 2023 |archive-date = March 4, 2023 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20230304085229/https://abc7news.com/wild-949-radio-host-jv-jeffrey-vandergrift-missing-final-show-update/12910975/ |url-status = live }}}}On March 23, KYLD announced that he had died.{{Cite web |title=JV's Body Found In The Bay, Near Pier 39 {{!}} WiLD 94.9 |url=https://wild949.iheart.com/featured/trending-in-the-bay/content/2023-03-23-jvs-body-found-in-the-bay-near-pier-39/ |access-date=2023-03-23 |website=Trending in the Bay |language=en}} His body was discovered the previous day in the San Francisco Bay, near Pier 39.{{Cite web |title=Missing Wild 94.9 DJ Jeffrey 'JV' Vandergrift found dead at Pier 39 in San Francisco |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/missing-wild-94-9-dj-jeffrey-jv-vandergrift-found-dead-at-pier-39-in-san-francisco/ |access-date=2023-03-23 |website=www.cbsnews.com |date=March 23, 2023 |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |date=2023-03-23 |title=Missing radio DJ Jeffrey 'JV' Vandergrift confirmed as body found in water at Pier 39, officials say |url=https://abc7news.com/jeffrey-vandergrift-jv-missing-dj-sf-body-found/12997174/ |access-date=2023-03-23 |website=ABC7 San Francisco |language=en}}

• "Hollywood" (Lance Otani){{cite news |url = http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=%2Fc%2Fa%2F1998%2F05%2F15%2FDD62431.DTL |title = Wild Dogs |publisher = San Francisco Chronicle |date = May 15, 1998 |accessdate = April 11, 2008 |first = James |last = Sullivan |archive-date = March 4, 2023 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20230304052000/https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/WILD-DOGS-Really-raunchy-antics-that-outrage-3006137.php |url-status = live }}{{snd}}Producer for the show during its run at Wild 94.9, Hollywood was considered the third member of the Dog House beside{{nbsp}}JV and Elvis. Having a wife and several children, Hollywood chose not to move with the show to New York.

• "Big Joe" (Joe Lopez){{snd}}The street guy for The Dog House during the Wild 94.9 and previously KHQT, Hot 97.7 era.
• "Hammerin Hank" (Henry Ochs){{snd}}A fan of The Dog House who is on the autism spectrum and was hired as an intern at KYLD and even received his own radio show on Sunday afternoons. He now hosts a radio show twice a week on 89.3 KOHL in Fremont and is also the station's Public Service Director. He also hosts a weekly Podcast called "The Hammerin Hank Show" for a Podcast company called Ride The Wave Media."
• "White Menace" (Jason McMurry){{snd}}Assistant producer for the show at Wild 94.9. He later became a member of The Woody Show on ALT 98.7 (KYSR).{{cite web |url = http://www.sfweekly.com/2003-07-09/news/of-love-and-natalise/3 |title = Of Love and Natalise |publisher = SF Weekly |date = July 9, 2003 |accessdate = April 14, 2008 |archive-date = June 10, 2011 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110610072848/http://www.sfweekly.com/2003-07-09/news/of-love-and-natalise/3/ |url-status = live }} the Doghouse morning show, which that day features Elvis, Hollywood, Show Biz, and White Menace.
• "Showbiz"{{snd}}Currently co-hosting mornings on KDON-FM (102.5).
• "DJ Greg Lopez"{{snd}}Currently DJing in Las Vegas (Sin City).

Throughout its history, the show had a feud with Brad Kava, a broadcast columnist for the San Jose Mercury News. The station once responded to his negative reviews of The Dog House with a large ad in the newspaper that read: "FUN RADIO IS BACK Bringing You a Mad-Kap Cup of Morning Java!" with two hands framing a photo of JV & Elvis. But when folded inward, similar to a MAD fold-in, the ad then read "FUCK Brad Kava" with the hands forming an upraised middle finger.{{cite web |url = http://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/10.16.97/beat-9742.html |title = Radio Rumble |work = MetroActive |date = October 16, 1997 |accessdate = September 20, 2006 |archive-date = November 12, 2006 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20061112022320/http://metroactive.com/papers/metro/10.16.97/beat-9742.html |url-status = live }} Over 10 years later, the Dog House invited Kava as a guest on their internet show to work out their differences; Kava even praised the show, saying they were "pioneering a new medium".{{cite web |title = Doghouse and Me: Time to Bury the Hatchet |url = http://kavasradiosoup.blogspot.com/2008/04/doghouse-and-me-bury-hatchet.html |date = April 7, 2007 |accessdate = February 26, 2009 |archive-date = July 8, 2011 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110708044949/http://kavasradiosoup.blogspot.com/2008/04/doghouse-and-me-bury-hatchet.html |url-status = live }}

On September 28, 2006, The Opie & Anthony Show, which immediately precedes The Dog House, was extended half an hour into The Dog House's time slot and CBS Radio played fifteen minutes of commercials before The Dog House was allowed on the air. JV and Elvis complained on the air about having to wait, which prompted Opie and Anthony to call into the show. The hosts from the two shows then engaged in a bitter argument.{{cite web |url = http://www.zshare.net/audio/the-dog-house-vs-oa-mp3.html |title = Dog House vs. O&A (audio) |work = zshare.net |access-date = October 24, 2006 |archive-date = March 4, 2023 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20230304052002/https://www.zshare.net/what-happened-to-the-old-zshare-file-hosting-website/ |url-status = live }}Free FM Feed{{cite web |url = http://afro202.com/archives/xm-oav/ONAXM-09-28-06-(OnA-vs-JVnE).mp3 |title = Dog House vs. O&A (audio) |work = oavirus.com |access-date = October 20, 2006 |archive-date = December 13, 2006 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20061213100236/http://afro202.com/archives/xm-oav/ONAXM-09-28-06-%28OnA-vs-JVnE%29.mp3 |url-status = live }}XM Feed The following day, Opie and Anthony intentionally ran overtime by almost twenty minutes to anger The Dog House. In response, The Dog House fans showed support for The Dog House during their on-location broadcast (live from the Javitz center) by shouting chants such as "Opie and Anthony suck". The two shows later made up their differences after Don Imus was fired by CBS.

On April 20, 2007, JV replayed a six-minute-long segment of a prank call to a Chinese restaurant that was first broadcast on April 5. The call featured an exaggerated voice using racial stereotypes (examples include "Chinese man, tell me about your tiny egg roll... your tiny egg roll in your pants", "Should I come to your restaurant so that I can see you naked... that way I can see your hot Asian spicy ass", and "You are a very nice Chinese man... probably can't drive for shit, but who cares."). Several Chinese American special interest groups, including the Organization of Chinese Americans, were outraged by this segment, describing it as "racist, vulgar and sexist".{{cite web |url = http://www.cctv.com/english/20070423/104459.shtml |title = Chinese Americans outraged by CBS radio |publisher = CCTV |date = April 23, 2003 |accessdate = April 24, 2007 |archive-date = April 25, 2007 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070425211038/http://www.cctv.com/english/20070423/104459.shtml |url-status = live }} On April 23, the duo were suspended indefinitely without pay. JV apologized on the show the following Monday.{{Cite web |url = https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cbs-radio-suspends-2-for-racial-prank/ |title = CBS Radio Suspends 2 For Racial Prank |access-date = April 24, 2007 |archive-date = April 27, 2007 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070427111137/http://www.showbuzz.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/04/24/people_hot_water/main2720242.shtml |url-status = live }}

The show was later canceled, with CBS Radio spokeswoman Karen Mateo stating: "The Dog House with JV and Elvis will no longer be broadcast."{{cite web |url = http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2007/05/13/2007-05-13_dog_gone_cbs_axes_radio_show_after_prank.html |title = 'Dog' gone! CBS axes radio show after prank |work = New York Daily News |date = May 13, 2007 |accessdate = April 15, 2008 |archive-date = April 10, 2008 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080410194833/http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2007/05/13/2007-05-13_dog_gone_cbs_axes_radio_show_after_prank.html |url-status = live }}

At KYLD, The Dog House branched out into comedy CDs and DVDs, most of which were given away to listeners or sold by local music shops and online.{{cite web |url = https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00000IAD8 |title = Amazon.com: How Many People Must Get Dissed |website = Amazon |accessdate = April 24, 2008 |archive-date = March 4, 2023 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20230304052000/https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00000IAD8 |url-status = live }}{{cite web |url = https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000FGC6EC |title = Amazon.com: Radio Kings 2 |website = Amazon |accessdate = April 24, 2008 |archive-date = March 4, 2023 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20230304062001/https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000FGC6EC |url-status = live }}

• 1995{{snd}}Doghouse Bites Vol. I
• 1996{{snd}}Doghouse Bites Vol. II
• 1997{{snd}}You Want Trouble?
• 1999{{snd}}How Many People Must Get Dissed?
• 2002{{snd}}Stop Eye-Balling Me Boy!
• Still The King{{snd}}Doghouse Greg Lopez
• King Of Turntables{{snd}}Doghouse Greg Lopez
• Traffic Jams Vol. 1{{snd}}Doghouse Greg Lopez
• Mix Allstars{{snd}}The Doghouse
• Afterhours (multiple){{snd}}Doghouse Greg Lopez

• 1997{{snd}}Dog House Raw (VHS)
• 1997{{snd}}Doghouse Too Raw (VHS)
• 1999{{snd}}Radio Kings (VHS)
• 2001{{snd}}Radio Kings 2 (VHS)
• 2003{{snd}}Maybe You Should... (DVD)

{{Reflist}}

• {{Official website}}
• [http://www.jvsworld.com/ JV's World] - JV's Site (broken link - no longer up)
• [http://www.elvisonradio.com/ Elvis on the Radio] - Elvis' Site (broken link - no longer up)

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