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| 2:02
| Song: In
the Sun, Michael Stipe & Joseph Arthur |
| 2:06
| On Steve's screen it says that song is M. Stipe
and Joseph Arthur and it's called In
the Sun. That's all it says.
Could Pete possibly come in and explain it? |
| 2:07
| Steve misses Pete's laughter because he gets him.
Buzz gets Steve but he's very busy. Wendy just doesn't get Steve
though. |
| 2:08
| If you go to iTunes and buy that song all the proceeds
go to the Hurricane Katrina rebuilding in New Orleans. Don't they
already have enough money? |
| 2:09
| On CNN today Soledad O'Brien was in New Orleans
covering Mardi Gras which seemed really inappropriate. She was covered
in beads but there wasn't any flashing going on. |
| 2:10
| Soledad was sort of the elephant in the room because
she's cute, she was up on a balcony and everyone was throwing beads
at her but no one said anything about how traditionally a woman would
be lifting her shirt up to get those beads. |
| 2:11
| There were some people mad about the Zulu Parade
because it seems like an inappropriate name. There were people marching
in the parade wearing black paint on their face but a lot of them
were black people. Everything is turned upside-down in New Orleans. |
| 2:12
| In the Zulu Parade one of the entrants was wearing
a hard hat and a t-shirt that said "Levee Inspector" but he was pretending
that he was blind. |
| 2:13
| It seems like the people on CNN should just lay
off and let the people of New Orleans just do their own thing. It
does provide everyone with a lot of great footage though. |
| 2:14
| Emeril was on Good
Morning America talking about
how tough things have been for him but how tough can they be? Maybe
the restaurants a little slow but he's probably in a good financial
position to ride that out. |
| 2:15
| The thing that really throws Steve off about GMA is
that Mike Barnes, former sports guy on WGN, is now doing the weather
for the entire country. He obviously doesn't know anything about
the weather since he used to do sports. |
| 2:16
| There's a guy on hold who says Emeril only has four
restaurants but that doesn't seem right. He has an entire empire
of restaurants. Steve can think of at least three of them. |
| 2:17
| Caller Joel actually meant that Emeril had 3 or
4 restaurants just in New Orleans. |
| 2:18
| Steve saw somewhere on the internet today that Brasserie
Jo is serving some sort of special apple beignet dessert. The money
from it will be going to charity so once again they have too much
money down in New Orleans. |
| 2:19
| Caller Mark saw Britney Spears on GMA this
morning and she did do one song. Then she was meeting with some girls
who were displaced by the hurricane. What's the point of that are
they going to live inside of her or something? |
| 2:21
| Didn't Britney just get busted a few weeks ago for
driving her car with her baby on her lap while eating some chicken
wings and smoking? |
| 2:22
| Last week Steve was talking about the cracked base
of the prize wheel and Wendy volunteered to get a nice skirt to cover
it up. She brought one in today and it looks pretty good but Steve
wouldn't mind dressing it up a little bit. Maybe he could put some
Mardi Gras beads on it today. |
| 2:29
| After GMA Oprah came on and her friend Gail was
in studio. Buzz isn't familiar with her. Oprah managed to work in
several references to all the stuff she owns. We get it, you're loaded. |
| 2:30
| Gail was on talking about a list in GQ featuring
the top 20 hamburgers in the country. It had the feel of a Steve
and Buzz road trip but they'd have to crisscross the country several
times. |
| 2:31
| The #1 burgers on the list was a place in South
Florida right by the condo. Steve was so mad that he didn't stop
by when he was down there. |
| 2:32
| The place is called Le Tub and it's a dive, but
not a fake dive like Dick's Last Resort. |
| 2:40
| Fuddrucker's makes a good burger but Buzz has a
problem with the bun. It's too big and it has a weird consistency. |
| 2:41
| For years Steve thought Fuddrucker's was a strip
club. He's only been there once and was incensed that he had to make
his own burger. The kids loved it though but there was no bar so
that's probably why he only went there once. |
| 2:42
| Caller Mike wanted to remind Steve about the comments
Oprah made about her place in California. It's bigger than the White
House and she calls it the Black House. No one stops her either,
they just keep on clapping. |
| 2:44
| Caller Chuck wanted to let Steve know that the GQ
place in Chicago is on Wells just North of Van Buren. |
| 2:54
| Caller Mary went to Le Tub in the 80s. Why didn't
she tell Steve about this earlier? |
| 2:55
| Based on what Steve saw on Oprah, Le Tub looked
like a fun place to hang out and get drunk. |
| 2:56
| Steve likes to work off of a list so this GQ thing
is perfect for him. When he's on a plane reading one of those inflight
magazines he sees a list of the best steakhouses and then wants to
go to everyone. |
| 2:57
| Unfortunately Steve's family isn't the kind who
would be in for a vacation that involved hitting all the best steakhouses
in the country. For one thing it's not very healthy. Maybe if Steve
walked from steakhouse to steakhouse that would be better. |
| 3:06
| Steve didn't stay with Oprah long enough this morning
to see what she does first thing in the morning. |
| 3:07
| Actually Steve did see that segment but didn't even
realize it. It had something to do with some guy playing a harp and
another guy singing. Maybe it's like her alarm clock or something. |
| 3:08
| In order to live like Oprah you have to have about
a billion dollars but the viewers just keep encouraging her. It makes
sense encourage her up to the first $500 million but after that she
needs to dial it down a little bit. |
| 3:09
| Steve's not going to Hawaii this year and in order
to make up for that Terry Hardin pitched a Spring Training trip for
guys. Of course that never happened either. |
| 3:10
| The Spring Training trip has come down to two days
in Tucson. One of those is spent in the hotel because the Sox have
the day off. The next day, St. Patrick's Day, is a game against the
Cubs so the players will be fairly unavailable unless Steve sets
up right on the field. |
| 3:11
| Baseball players are fairly difficult to talk to.
They're the most coddled of all the professional athletes because
their job isn't that dangerous, you don't have to be in that good
of shape and it's pretty much all based on hand-eye coordination. |
| 3:12
| Right now the trip is Steve, Spike and Mary going
to Tucson and hanging out at the pool on the first day, then at the
game on the second day and then flying home Sunday with a stopover. |
| 3:13
| Here's the worst part about this trip. Dan Falato
is going out to Arizona tomorrow to scout locations for the broadcast.
That seems like a waste of time because on day one they're by the
pool and on day two they're in a press box. |
| 3:14
| Instead of wasting that money sending Dan out there
early they should be spending it on getting Steve a nonstop flight
out there. Plus he's probably just doing it to make some connections
with baseball players for Grover. |
| 3:15
| The only way to get this done is for Steve to book
the tickets and rooms himself and then have the station reimburse
him. They'll probably never do that and he'll end up in a first floor
room right off the elevator. |
| 3:17
| The whole point of this trip was to placate Steve
but it's just making him mad. If he has to stop in Denver he can't
guarantee he'll get on the flight back to Chicago. He might just
stay there because he loves the omelets |
| 3:19
| There's a lot of stuff going on behind Steve's back
with this thing. Dan doesn't have any active baseball connections
so he's probably trying to refill his quiver so to speak. |
| 3:24
| It just doesn't seem like there's anything to be
gained by going to Spring Training. Maybe if Steve set up at the
golf tournament the Sox will be at on Thursday that would be good
but Dan probably isn't scouting those locations. |
| 3:25
| Steve can be difficult with his travel arrangements
but he feels that he's at the point in his career where he's earned
that right. |
| 3:32
| Jim said he overheard Dan talking about getting
press passes but he wasn't sure what for. Was it this week because
that seems like a little late to be getting press passes. |
| 3:33
| Steve, Spike and Mary would get into Phoenix at
around midnight on a Wednesday then drive two hours to Tucson. Then
they'd do the show poolside on Thursday and be at the park on Friday. |
| 3:34
| They might not Steve in the press box because they're
probably afraid he'll talk about what's happening during the game.
That means Dan will just set Steve up in the concourse by the men's
bathroom. |
| 3:35
| No one listens to Steve or asks for suggestions
even though they're paying him a lot of money to do what he does.
Actually they ask him what he thinks and then say "well that's not
what we think" and then move on. |
| 3:36
| The flight out of Phoenix is at 7 on Saturday morning
so they'd have to wake up at around 3 AM for the drive from Tucson.
Why would they think Steve would be interested in this? |
| 3:37
| Terry Hardin is here today and he doesn't even know
Steve's talking about him. He probably doesn't even know which Infinity
radio station is broadcasting from his studio. |
| 3:38
| Speaking of that, Steve just ate his fish tacos
and there was no sauce on them. What happened Tina? The whole point
of fish tacos is the sauce they put on the cabbage. What's he supposed
to do now, throw them back up? |
| 3:39
| What happened? Doesn't anyone care? Steve likes
Tina but food isn't a priority for her. That was the only thing he
was looking forward to today since he's going back on Balance for
Life tomorrow. |
| 3:41
| Just to make matters worse Steve has a piece of
cabbage stuck in his throat. It probably wouldn't have happened if
the cabbage was properly lubricated with the sauce. Now how's it
going to come lose? |
| 3:42
| The only way to dislodge the cabbage is to throw
up. At least that way he can start over and get some fish tacos with
sauce on them. |
| 3:43
| Of course during the break Drew will come in and ask Steve
if he's still in for Spring Training. Then he'll say "no charge for
the bit". |
| 3:44
| Maybe Dan could just go out there and do call-ins
from Spring Training. He used to do a radio show on WGN where him
and Mark Czerniec just ripped Steve, so he has some experience. |
| 3:45
| The happy ending to that story is that Dan is now
in management and Mark works for the show. Steve and Dan have drifted
apart a little bit but Steve and Mark couldn't be closer. |
| 3:46
| Steve's gonna send this one out to himself. |
| 3:47
| Song: By
the Time I Get to Phoenix, Jimmy Webb |
| 3:51
| Drew was just down by the studio and he thinks Steve
is still going. Maybe there have been some updated travel arrangements
he doesn't know about. |
| 3:52
| Ron Lewis is here for some reason but Steve can't
figure out why. He was probably hanging out in Steve's office in
his underpants listening to Dar Williams. |
| 3:53
| Ron and Drew sort of look alike do they ever go
out and run the twin game, try to pick up chicks? |
| 3:54
| Maybe Ron Lewis is the third guy for Stan and Terry.
Steve had an idea about how would be a great third guy but of course
no one will listen to him. |
| 3:55
| For example Steve picked the girl that The Bachelor
would choose after the first episode and he was right! |
| 3:56
| Fred Winston would be a good third guy fro Stan
and Terry. He's still under contract with Infinity and right now
he's hosting an internet radio show. |
| 4:02
| You can see why people want to see a girl get her
heart broken on The Bachelor. |
| 4:03
| It wasn't easy watching The
Bachelor last night.
It seems really mean and sad to watch some girl have her heart broken
on TV. Plus it was a tragedy waiting to happen. |
| 4:04
| Referring from the Steve Dahl Show log from January
10th at 3:10: "Steve is guessing that The
Bachelor will end up with
the kindergarten teacher from Nashville but there's no reason he
can't get on that Canadian chick in the meantime." |
| 4:05
| Everyone on The
Bachelor acts like no one is having
sex but Steve isn't certain. They do show them making out but that's
it. |
| 4:07
| Buzz feels no sadness for any of these women because
they went on TV to find their husbands. |
| 4:10
| Caller Carrie wanted to let Steve know that there
are still a few Bachelor couples who are still together. |
| 4:11
| Steve really lost interest in The Bachelor when
that Bob guy was on. His whole thing was that he was a dork but he
was funny. |
| 4:17
| Live read: Sloane Vision Center |
| 4:27
| Caller Randy says there is website where you can
gamble on reality TV shows, movies and celebrity deaths. |
| 4:29
| Headlines with Buzz |
| 4:30
| It's Fat Tuesday. Hey! Steve doesn't appreciate
that. |
| 4:42
| For some reason CNN has based themselves in the
French Quarter for Fat Tuesday even though that area wasn't really
damaged by the hurricane. They had the strip clubs up and running
two weeks later. |
| 4:43
| Meteorologically speaking, tomorrow is the first
day of Spring at least according to Tom Skilling. Steve wasn't sure
that that meant though. |
| 4:44
| On-air Pete tried to tell Steve how to pronounce
meteorologically over the intercom but of course he was at the same
volume as all the loud TVs behind him which is really a pleasure. |
| 4:45
| Steve's going to play a song off of his fancy DJ
software just to see if it still works. The song might stop in the
middle though and at that point Steve won't really know what to do
other than throw his computer away and get a new one, even though
he just got a new one. |
| 4:46
| The latch broke on Steve's previous computer but
if he would have just waited a week it would have been fixed. Steve
can't have a computer with a broken latch, he doesn't feel good about
it. |
| 4:47
| Steve went ahead and ordered a new computer and
then didn't tell anyone in the family because then they'll think
they're being cheated out of their inheritance. No one really worries
about their inheritance in Steve's family but they do think everything
that's Steve's is also theirs. |
| 4:48
| The boys probably will end up with everything that's
Steve's unless he does one of those reverse mortgage things and then
they'll have nothing. Steve's already provided for them. He put them
through college, taught them how to puke and tried to instill the
guy code in them. That last one didn't really work out since Janet's
always playing them against each other. |
| 4:49
| Right now the boys are involved in a cover-up relating
to Steve's PayPal account. Some money is missing from it and they're
all claiming they don't know what happened to it. Steve knows exactly
what happened to the money but it's fun to watch the boys covering
it up. |
| 4:51
| Live read; Townstone Financial |
| 4:52
| Maybe instead of going to Spring Training Steve
will fly out to Arizona with David Hochberg and buy some property. |
| 4:54
| Song: Let's
Get Lost, Atherton |
| 4:55
| Well there ya go, the song stopped. Then it starts
up again right away. Steve officially gives up. Ed Silha might be
able to help but he's not as good with Mac's as he is with PCs. |
| 4:57
| Ed's welcome to take a crack at Steve's computer.
At the very least Steve wouldn't mind seeing him take a hammer to
the thing as long as he videotapes it. |
| 4:58
| Song: Let's
Get Lost, Atherton |
| 5:02
| Steve can't believe what just happened. He was playing
the song and then in the middle of it is an ad for Spike's play comes
in through Pete's studio which is still up in Steve's studio. |
| 5:03
| Steve couldn't even play the interruption on the
studio down the hall and Mike Puh-ppppppuhhhhhh-file. It was Pete,
our own Pete, trying to impress Spike. |
| 5:13
| Spike had sent Pete an mp3 of the Leaving
Iowa commercial. It won't be airing in Chicago though, they're
saving the radio ads for places like Madison and Dubuque. |
| 5:14
| Spike is buying Leaving
Iowa live reads in Chicago.
The last time he tried to buy a live read on WCKG but his calls were
never returned. Jeff Schwartz was going to hook him up with one of
the sales reps so that explains why it never happened. |
| 5:15
| Jeff was going to hook Steve up to and then he just
split. |
| 5:16
| Maybe Steve should just play the commercial. He
gave him a nice shout-out in his blog today so he might have to start
charging Spike for all of this. |
| 5:17
| Now that Steve wants to play the commercial he doesn't
have it. Pete wanted him to play it from the studio. He's totally
washed his hands of Spike. |
| 5:18 | Steve's plan was to have Pete play it so he
could stop it and make fun of it. When did Pete put the thinking
cap on? That's the one that Steve normally wears with the fake
wires coming out of it. |
| 5:19
| Pete isn't responding, is he alright? One thing
Spike has noticed in his short time back here is that Pete needs
to have background noise in order to work and it has to be really
loud and off-putting. |
| 5:20
| Spike thinks Pete might be borderline autistic.
He needs background noise in order to soothe him. It's sort of
a Mel Tillis thing. |
| 5:21
| Steve had a CD incident in his studio. Was it
one of his leaning towers of crap? Pete was trying to reach over
to hit a button and all of his sweet obscure music got knocked
over. |
| 5:22
| Pete has giant piles of stuff in his studio. You
could write a dissertation on what's going on in there. He'd be
like Darwin. He's building walls around himself and they're not
metaphorical. |
| 5:23
| Pete should perform The
Wall at the Empty Bottle. He could sing a line and
then put another tape on top of the wall. It would kill. |
| 5:28
| Steve doesn't really have to play the commercial
but you can hear it at LeavingIowa.com.
Maybe you could buy some tickets also and help save a man from financial
ruin. |
| 5:29
| Was Spike checking ticket sales when he first got
here because Steve thought he saw a happy Spike. Actually that was
just a facade. |
| 5:44
| Live read: Laser Concepts of Chicago |
| 5:45
| Wendy has tried to quit smokin' several times. Steve
loves when she drops the g's, it sounds way more conversational. |
| 5:47
| Eddie Schwartz is sick and by that he means he's
ill. He also has no health insurance. Steve feels his life started
to unravel when he was hired at The Loop without ever knowing what
he sounded like. |
| 5:48
| Eddie got hired based on Steve and Kevin doing the
Eddie character and then when Steve kept making fun of him they tried
to get him to stop. |
| 5:49
| If Eddie had just stayed at WGN he'd still have
health insurance and it would be fine. |
| 5:50
| Drew was telling Steve about various benefits and
funds for Eddie but he just tuned him out because he gets sidetracked
easily. |
| 5:51
| Steve commissioned a fundraising CD for Eddie where
it's just him making fun of him. Steve's always done that so he can't
really do some sappy tribute. All of the money from the CDs goes
to Eddie though. |
| 5:52
| Is the Joe Kraslen Productions logo going to be
on every CD because that's not going to work. Joe Kraslen Productions!
It's just Joe sitting in his bedroom with an mp3 player and a giant
pair of headphones. |
| 5:54
| Drew has made the ordering process unnecessarily
difficult though. He got really paranoid that people would order
the CDs online and then if they didn't get them they'd report Steve
to the government and he'd be accused of stealing from a charity. |
| 5:55
| You can't order the CD online so already it seems
difficult to get this CD. Steve thought you could order the CD online
and maybe download it too. It sounds like Drew is accusing Steve
of stealing from a charity. Why would Steve set this whole thing
up? |
| 5:56
| So where does Spike Pony Express his check to? He's
actually not that far off. If you donate $10 or more to Eddie you
get a copy of the CD. You have to send the donation to the Eddie
Schwartz Fund. Drew says it's much cleaner. |
| 5:57
| Steve's online store is already set up and ready
to accept credit card orders but apparently that won't work. Steve
sells stuff everyday and it always gets shipped out. Why? Because
someone ordered it. |
| 5:58
| Finally, only checks and money orders will be accepted.
No cash Drew? |
| 6:02
| Then when the CD doesn't do well Drew's going to
worry that it's a gauge of Steve's popularity. Steve can tell him
right now it won't do well because it's too complicated. |
| 6:13
| Stan & Terry's Black Pages of American History:
Steal
My Kisses, Ben Harper |
| 6:23
| Live read: Sloane Vision Center |
| 6:24
| Live read: Balance for Life |
| 6:33
| News with Buzz |
| 6:34
| Buzz's pessimism about the war isn't help anything! |
| 6:35
| Steve has tape for Buzz but it's labeled "Senate
Iraq". Steve's going to play it anyway because it's bound to be good. |
| 6:38
| Clarence Thomas must have been going nuts today
when Anna Nicole Smith appeared at the Supreme Court. |
| 6:39
| Buzz almost turned on Anna Nicole because she really
let herself go. Then he realized that you can't drop someone just
because the good times are gone. |
| 6:40
| Steve should get a street named after him before
a former Black Panther. |
| 6:42
| Howard Stern is being sued for $500 million for
not disclosing the details of his new contract to his old employeer.
$500 million? Is that all? Howard should probably just come back
to Infinity. |
| 6:49
| Based on that audio it sounds like a no from Daley
on the Black Panther street naming. If they name a street after that
guy Steve's going to demand a street of his own. He doesn't want
to off any pigs either unless it's a slab of baby back ribs. |
| 6:50
| Steve and Buzz never made it over to the Berghoff.
The last time Buzz was there they had added onions to the gravy and
it wasn't as good. There's a 50/50 chance the onions were always
there and Buzz never noticed. |
| 7:00
| Spike never did sports but that's just a pretext
for Spike to come in. Or is it a pretense? Maybe it's both. |
