In audio recording, radio hosts talk about water-drinking risks

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Jennifer Strange complained on-air Friday that she had a headache and felt lightheaded, but offered to drink even more water if hosts of KDND's "Morning Rave" wanted her to.

The haunting exchange that preceded her death several hours later is captured in a recording of the show The Bee obtained on Tuesday.

The four-hour and 40-minute recording indicates that the show's hosts knew of the dangers of water intoxication -- even discussing a case two years ago in which a student at California State University, Chico, died after drinking too much water during a fraternity hazing.

"Maybe we should have researched this," one of the DJs is heard saying before the contest started.

In a groggy conversation with a co-host of the "Morning Rave," Strange, 28, said after dropping out of the contest that her head hurt, but that "they keep telling me though that it's the water, that it will tell my head to hurt and then it will make me puke."

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Someone in the background was heard asking about "that poor kid in college," apparently referring to Matthew Carrington, who died in 2005 after an all-night fraternity hazing.