Steve and DC

In 1992, Shannon and Chymes were involved in a highly publicized morning show stunt called "The Wheel of Whoopie," which had several city locations listed on the wheel. The winning couple would take a cell phone, go to that location, and engage in sexual relations, with the audio from the act being broadcast live over the air. Chymes told Kidd Kraddick's "The Morning Mouth" magazine that the audio was mostly "an occasional groan or grunt but mostly it was (things) you had to imagine." The FCC became involved but the station managed to avoid a fine by firing the station's program director (who was in Canada for the World Series and had no knowledge of the stunt) and the show's producer as a show of good faith.[13]

In 1993, Chymes and Shannon were fired by WKBQ (104.1 FM) after using a racial epithet at a black female caller. The incident proceeded from a discussion about why Martin Luther King Jr. had been shot instead of Jessie Jackson, who was also present at King's assassination.[14] After several months and "racial sensitivity" classes, the duo returned to the air.[3]

In March 1994, Chymes and Shannon aired an interview with a woman who was being harassed by a St. Louis weatherman, Bob Richards, after she ended their extramarital affair. The interview aired several times. Though the affair and subsequent harassment was already public knowledge, Richards, who had heard and was reportedly devastated by the interview, committed suicide two days later. Shannon and Chymes were widely condemned by competing media outlets for airing the interview. However, Steve & DC maintained that the woman had the right to have her side of the story be told. .[15][3][16]