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| 2:05
| Song: Dandelion, The
Rolling Stones |
| 2:15
| As Steve chronicled earlier, yesterday's song was
Rain Dance by the Guess Who,
coming off of an open about the Illini going to the big dance. Today
was even more complex of a tie-in. |
| 2:16
| Jeff has up his role as program director to totally
focus on coming up with a song for the beginning of the show. |
| 2:17
| Today Jeff and Pete decided to think about what
what direction the show might be going in today. They came up with
the Dan Rather story and what is he being accused of? Lying. So Dan
and lyin'. Steve's going to have to take away Jeff's duties after
this. Brendan will have something for him to sign on the way out
of the studio. |
| 2:18
| Jeff wanted to record himself saying "is" and then
Pete could insert it into the song and it would sound like they were
saying "Dan is lyin'". |
| 2:19
| Jeff is looking very sporty in his tan vest today.
He sort of looks like a duck hunter. |
| 2:20
| Jeff's look also recalls an Indira Gandhi. It's
sort of a Nehru jacket, like something Peter Sellers wore in a movie. |
| 2:21
| Jeff's gotta be driving Pete nuts with this music
stuff. Every 20 minutes he's calling Pete about the song. |
| 2:23
| Steve's totally fine with Jeff picking the song
everyday. He wouldn't have even minded if Jeff would have used the
version where he was saying "Dan is lyin'" in it. Although Steve
understands why they didn't use it because he didn't respond well
to Jeff's version of TNT. OY! |
| 2:24
| The TNT was the reason Steve thought about expanding
Jeff's musical duties. |
| 2:25
| Steve only has the edited version, which he had
commissioned. It works better edited, otherwise it's just the whole
song and then Jeff doing the "Oys" |
| 2:26
| Pete's outside the studio staring in like he's at
the Shedd Aquarium. |
| 2:27
| Caller Mary doesn't want to take away from Jeff's
fabulous choice of the opening song, but she thought he'd go with
What's the Frequency Kenneth? |
| 2:28
| The beginning of the show didn't really go that
well because Jeff did his entire rap already in the Green Room with
Steve before he went on. Steve always gets mad when he comes down
here early because everyone's walking around doing the show in the
hallway. |
| 2:39
| Live read: Apple Vacations |
| 2:40
| Did Neil Diamond do a song about Cortez the Killer
or was it Neil Young? |
| 2:43
| Steve can always tell when Janet is drunk because
she starts yelling at him about stuff. In Mexico, she was yelling
at him because he never takes her car to get washed. |
| 2:44
| It doesn't matter what else Steve does, it's just
about getting her car washed. If that's the case, he'd like to get
back all the jewelry and gifts he bought for her. |
| 2:45
| Steve doesn't like going to the car wash because
everything is so ritualized there. All these rich white dudes have
to stand there and follow their car through the car wash. |
| 2:46
| Janet says she doesn't like going to the car wash
because all of the workers there lear at her. |
| 2:48
| That one night in Mexico, everyone was drinking
really strong Margaritas. It's sort of funny when everyone is drunk
but you. Even Jim Peterik was hammered. |
| 3:07
| Steve's chair got lowered during the break. It's
like he's down on the floor or something. |
| 3:08
| Steve is supposed to be getting a new studio during
the Hawaii trip. Right now, everything is elevated like they're at
a drafting table or something. There's no reason to be high up like
they are. |
| 3:09
| Steve's set up in Florida was really sweet. He was
in a nice comfortable chair with his computer on an ottoman. Of course
there's a school of thought that says you should be standing up during
your show because you have more energy. |
| 3:11
| We are back to full half strength on the phone lines.
We're supposed to have 10 incoming lines, we have 5 now. Yesterday
we had 4 though. |
| 3:12
| The new studio seems like a done deal though. Steve
tried to make sure Kev didn't give any input because he always has
weird ideas like a leather hammock. Steve wouldn't mind a deer head
in the studio though. |
| 3:13
| Kev also has weird equipment ideas, like a box he
could get in for when he does the Devon voice. So then there'd be
a huge box in the studio. |
| 3:14
| Live read: Blue Man Group |
| 3:15
| Steve went to see Blue Man Group last month. It
was really good, except during the moments when the Blue Men came
into the crowd to pick people for audience participation. Steve didn't
want to be picked, but then when they didn't pick him it sort of
bugged him. He's a complicated man, like Shaft. |
| 3:25
| Arrested Development is pretty funny, but mainly
because of David Cross. |
| 3:26
| Steve's going to a retreat on Friday with Columbia
College since he's on the board of directors. |
| 3:27
| Apparently the Boeing guy had his affair at a Boeing
corporate retreat. Steve got a lot of silent grief from Janet yesterday
for saying that he didn't think anything was wrong with the affair. |
| 3:28
| Mainly, Steve just likes to reminisce about the
time when white men freely roamed the earth. |
| 3:43
| Steve remembered that Pete McMurray stands when
he does his show. It'll be funny when we get the new studio and Pete
has to stand then gets sleepy. Steve can't really do a Pete McMurray
impersonation, nor should he have to. Every time he does it, it comes
out sounding more like Jeff saying "buddy!" He can also do Kev saying
"hey buddy" but he can't add a third "buddy" to his repertoire. |
| 3:44
| Steve just asked Jeff to do a favor for him. Everyone
around here calls him Dahl and it sort of annoys him. It's a carry-over
from the Mike Disney days and there's only one person still really
keeping it alive. |
| 3:47
| There's an AMBER alert coming over the air, but
Steve's just going to read it himself in the robot voice. |
| 3:52
| Steve reads about the Boeing affair. Boing! |
| 3:53
| The woman Stonecipher had an affair with is a looker,
but she looks like a smoker. She has those lines on her face that
smokers get. |
| 4:03
| Earlier Steve was talking about the opening song
and how Jeff wanted to record himself saying "is" so it would sound
like the Stones were saying "Dan is lyin'" but the idea was nixed
either by Jeff or Pete. Steve wasn't at the meeting where they decided
to take the funny out of the show. |
| 4:04
| Upon hearing the new version with Jeff in it, Steve
takes back what he said about taking the funny out of the show. They
were better off just leaving it as is. |
| 4:05
| Headlines with Buzz |
| 4:07
| Steve wants to know if maybe Pete edited that song
to sound really bad just to prove his point about it being a bad
idea. |
| 4:08
| Pete's trying to explain the editing process he
went through but he's taking forever to do it. Did he take Brendan
Pills today? |
| 4:09
| Pete will have a new version of it edited in 30
seconds. For the record, Steve doesn't blame Pete for editing it
badly, it's what he would have done. |
| 4:11
| Steve's waited much longer than 30 seconds for the
re-edit of the Schwartz song. |
| 4:24
| Live read: Blue Man Group |
| 4:25
| Song: Where
Are You Going?, Dave Matthews Band |
| 4:29
| Steve was trying to talk to Wendy during the song,
but she was distracted doing something on the computer. In mid-conversation
she just stopped talking to him. |
| 4:40
| Steve likes Dave Matthews, but a little bit goes
a long way. Every song is like 10 minutes long except the one we
just played. |
| 4:42
| Steve thinks that regardless of whether Michael
Jackson did anything untoward with his young guests, it's still weird
to have some 12 year olds come over to your house. |
| 4:43
| Johnny Salad really dropped the ball on the first
day of the Michael Jackson trial. He also wanted to come down here
live for the reading of the Robert Blake verdict but that seems like
a bad idea to Steve. He doesn't know when that verdict will be read
and he doesn't need a Johnny Salad hanging around all week. |
| 4:44
| Johnny won't call in now because he was hurt by
Steve's rebuff. He's probably sitting in a Starbucks now eating a
lemon square and drinking a mocha. |
| 4:52
| Michael Jackson isn't much younger than Steve but
if he ever had a bunch of 10 year old boys over, he'd be thrown in
jail. Even if he just invited them over to watch West
Wing, then
he went up to his bedroom alone, he'd be thrown in jail. |
| 4:55
| It should be a red flag that Michael Jackson has
an alarm that warms him when someone is approaching his bedroom.
If someone comes towards the door they hear an alarm and then a VCR
turns off, two flies zip up and a magazine drops to the floor. |
| 5:02
| Your Daily Dose of Rock History with Bob & Ron-
Good
Thing, Paul Revere & the Raiders |
| 5:15
| Steve was interested in what the Tonight Show was
doing with the Michael Jackson jokes, but once they had Roseanne
on he lost all interest. |
| 5:16
| Live read: OnStar |
| 5:22
| Steve's going to STIVO the Dan Rather sign-off. |
| 5:23
| It would probably be a good idea to air the Dan
Rather retrospective before his sign-off, not after. Afterwards,
no one cares. |
| 5:24
| It'd be sweet if Rather blew his brains out as the
sign-off, like that R. Bud Dwyer guy. |
| 5:25
| Caller Rich is an attorney and he has some info
for Steve about the Michael Jackson trial. |
| 5:30
| A shorter version of The
Passion is opening on
Friday. In this one, Jesus comes back in two days. |
| 5:37
| Buzz makes Steve call him "daddy". It's kind of
creepy, but it keeps Buzz happy. |
| 5:38
| Song: What's
the Frequency, Kenneth?, R.E.M. |
| 5:42
| Steve feels there's going to be a big breakdown
during Dan Rather's sign-off. |
| 5:44
| Buzz once had lunch with Walter Cronkite. He was
about 4 or 5 years old. |
| 5:56
| Steve has the audio of Dan Rather's sign-off. |
| 5:58
| Buzz should have taken the bet that Dan wouldn't
break down because he would have won. |
| 6:01
| Steve has something from Yahoo about the story behind
What's the Frequency, Kenneth? |
| 6:02
| Steve used to think Dan Rather was cool and then
he realized what the guy was really doing. It's the same thing with
Jesse Jackson. When you live in LA you think he's doing great things
like Martin Luthor King, but when you live here you realize his real
intentions. |
| 6:05
| Steve didn't know the guy who punched Dan Rather
in the head and asked him "what's the frequency Kenneth?" was in
jail for killing an NBC stagehand. |
| 6:07
| Steve also didn't know that the song What's
the Frequency, Kenneth? slows down at the end because the
bass player didn't feel good and had to be rushed to the hospital.
Wendy loves all this insider rock stuff. Is she being sarcastic? |
| 6:08
| Steve couldn't really tell that the song slows down,
so he'll have to listen to it again. |
| 6:09
| Steve still can't tell the song slows down and he
doesn't really want to keep listening to it. |
| 6:23
| Live read: L-Woods |
| 6:27
| News with Buzz |
| 6:33
| Today Michael Jackson was wearing a black textured,
almost fish net armband with a camo vest underneath his jacket. |
| 6:45
| Steve thinks the citywide WiFi would be pretty sweet
even if you had to pay for it. |
| 6:47
| Buzz left out some compelling audio about Dan Rather
from his newscast. |
| 6:48
| Steve reads about the Chicago WiFi plan. It's not
free, but it'd be cheaper than any internet service providers. |
| 6:49
| Steve's not sure how much WiFi costs at Starbucks
or McDonald's, but he doesn't ever go into those places, he sends
people. He does go to McDonald's, but only through the drive-thru.
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