in his usual Friday evening time slot, it was an odd mix of local politics and sports, with Montanaro attempting to discuss both subjects seriously. The program was regularly derailed by prank phone callers who jammed the WFAC-TV phone lines. Finally, the members of ″The Inner Circle″ had enough of Montanaro's on-air attacks and attempts to force Michaud's program from its long-standing Thursday evening time slot. Many members of both the Talking Sports and The Lone Shark cast and crew began verbally attacking Gus Montanaro during the broadcasts of their programs (Bill Arciprete and Peter Vouras kept out of the fray on VoxPop). The conflict then escalated even more when Montanaro began calling Talking Sports to argue with Rod Michaud on the air. During this period of conflict between producers at WFAC-TV, Rachel Olschan joined Gus Montanaro's crew as a production assistant. Olschan knew nothing of the conflict, joining Montanaro's crew only to get the working experience of being on the production crew of a local television program. Olschan worked as a crewmember on Montanaro's programs for a few weeks, when one evening she arrived at the WFAC-TV studio over an hour early to work on another program. When Olschan entered the studio, the Sports Line crew was setting up the studio for an imminent live broadcast, so Olschan offered to assist with the production. Host Rod Michaud and his crew regularly referred to their group as ″The He-Man Woman Haters Club″ – a reference to the all-male group in the ″Our Gang″ short films. During that evening's broadcast, Michaud noticed Rachel Olschan in the control room and asked her to come into the studio. Michaud had Olschan sit in the program's “guest seats” – two or three seats in the studio that were positioned near Michaud in such a way that they allowed him to speak casually with whoever sat in the seats. Anyone who sat in the “guest seats” was on–camera and on-microphone. As Michaud talked with Olschan, he began referring to her as ″Darla″, because the original ″Darla″ in ″Our Gang″ was the only female allowed in ″The He-Man Woman Haters Club″. As she returned to the control room for the rest of the program, Michaud asked Olschan if she was going to continue to work as a crewmember on Sports Line and she said that she would. The next evening, Olschan returned to WFAC-TV to work