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| 2:35
| Song: Cruel, Calexico |
| 2:39
| Steve feels like he's on a ride at Disneyland after
that one. It doesn't get much gayer than that. |
| 2:40
| Steve didn't get to hear too much of Pete's intro.
He has a beef with Anderson Cooper, who stole a line from one of
Pete's previous segments about Yo La Tengo. |
| 2:41
| Pete said Yo La Tengo was the second best thing
to come out of Hoboken, Sinatra being the first. Anderson used the
exact same line for his celebrity playlist on iTunes. |
| 2:42
| Steve was down the hall meeting the girls from Prairie
Rock Brewery who brought some food and beer. Pete's welcome to take
them because he likes the microbrews. Plus Goose Island is owned
by Budweiser now so that doesn't fit in with his style. |
| 2:43
| If Steve were Budweiser he would have bought Goose
Island under some sort of trust or something. |
| 2:44
| Steve met the sales girl for Prairie Rock at the
same time he met the girls from Prairie Rock which was sort of weird.
Apparently, the sales girl also looks like Buzz's wife. From time
to time Pete will get a memo in his mailbox that someone from sales
is leaving and he had never even met them. |
| 2:45
| There was a woman here who used to come around and
introduce new employees to everyone else, and Jeff Schwartz also
did that but it doesn't happen any more. You would think Steve would
be one of the first people someone would be introduced to but they
might be scared of him. |
| 2:46
| Steve was giving the sales girl a hard time because
she drank some of the root beer they brought in for him, but he was
only kidding. It's a giant half-gallon jug so he can probably spare
some. Of course now he's given her a story that she won't have to
tell to the police. |
| 2:47
| Buzz noticed how professional sounding Pete's segment
is, but he couldn't be happier with the whole thing because it means
he doesn't have to work for a half hour after he gets here. Steve
definitely heard him remarking "it doesn't get any better than this!" |
| 2:48
| Prairie Rock will be hosting a brew fest at their
Schaumburg restaurant this weekend. It sounds like it's right in
Pete's obscure beer wheelhouse. |
| 2:56
| If Steve were a beer drinker, he'd probably lean
towards the microbrews that are different and interesting. It's like
people who are really into wine. It might hasten the descent into
alcoholism that way. |
| 2:57
| Steve knows a lot of people who are really into
wine and are borderline alcoholics. The only thing that keeps them
from going over the edge is that they're actually into wine and there's
something |
| 2:58
| Steve is really enjoying the Prairie Rock root beer.
Buzz could really go for a root beer float but he doesn't need any
more food. He had a half hour at the trough and we might need to
get him up and running around the station to wake him up. |
| 2:59
| Buzz actually didn't partake in any of the food
because he brought his turkey sandwich. Wendy claims she only had
a salad but Steve feels that once we pull the security cameras we'll
have an entirely different story. |
| 3:00
| Buzz might have to have some of the pulled BBQ chicken.
As it turns out, Buzz loves his meat pulled. |
| 3:01
| Pete can move the beer from the studio if he wants.
Mary made Jim bring it into the studio and he was acting like she
asked him to move a piano. |
| 3:02
| Pete also had a little trouble just now lifting
up the cooler. C'mon! These guys need to start working out. Jim actually
tried to blame it on the structural integrity of the cooler. |
| 3:03
| The White Sox traded a minor leaguer to Boston for
a veteran relief pitcher. Last night they send a guy down to the
minors because he didn't hit a batter on the Rangers. |
| 3:04
| Last night the guy who started for the Rangers hit
AJ Pierzynski twice so Ozzie called in Sean Tracey to plunk Hank
Blalock. He couldn't get it done so Ozzie took him out and berated
him. |
| 3:05
| It's not that hard to hit a batter but instead this
guy got sent back to the minors and now he's going to have a reputation
for being a wuss. He doesn't even have a good story to tell. |
| 3:06
| The guy was pulled after one out anyway but all
Ozzie wanted him to do was hit a guy. That seems like a great story
to be able to tell people anyway. |
| 3:07
| They need to have a phone in the dugout where the
young guys can call their parents. If Sean Tracey calls his dad he'll
be set straight and hit the batter. |
| 3:08
| Brendan has a guy on hold and the comment is stretching
into several boxes. What happened to keeping it in one box? Didn't
Steve talk to him about that? |
| 3:09
| The guy on hold thinks that Sean Tracey was worried
about the batter charging the mound. Who cares? He would have been
thrown out by the time anything went down. |
| 3:10
| Buzz was wondering who the batter was. Is he someone
a pitcher would be afraid of? |
| 3:11
| Pete is trying to tell Steve who the batter was
but it's muffled and for some reason Buzz's next question that Steve
doesn't know the answer to sounds like it's coming through the intercom. |
| 3:12
| Steve couldn't be a bigger Sox fan but Buzz always
manages to ask a question that he doesn't have an answer to. |
| 3:24
| Steve got an IM from Ron Lewis, who was listening
to El Norte today. He was talking to Barry Rozner about the incident
and they both agreed that Ozzie shouldn't have put Sean Tracey in
that position. |
| 3:25
| Caller Richard is hoping Sean Tracey is on a Greyhound
back to Charlotte after last night and that he still hasn't got there. |
| 3:26
| Caller Steven thinks that no Sox pitcher should
worry about a batter charging the mound with AJ behind the plate.
The guy would never make it to the mound especially after AJ had
been hit twice. |
| 3:28
| Live read: Brazazz |
| 3:37
| Steve was watching the Sox game on TV last night
and Hawk and DJ didn't mention the fact that Ozzie sent Tracey in
to plunk Blalock. Ed Farmer was all over it but that's probably because
he was a pitcher. |
| 3:38
| Buzz isn't really a big baseball fan so he's only
recently become aware of the mechanics of throwing and batting. 5
years ago he wouldn't have believed you if you told him that a manager
told a pitcher to hit a batter on purpose. |
| 3:39
| Hawk and DJ were too busy offering personal stories
about their playing careers but Ed was all over the bean ball
incident. When the game goes bad for the Sox Hawk and DJ they don't
even bother talking about it. They're just sending out personal messages
to loved ones. |
| 3:40
| Pete watched most of the Sox game last night and
Hawk and DJ didn't talk about the incident at all, even though there
was a shot of Ozzie yelling into the bullpen phone. Steve just figured
that they had sent in the wrong pitcher. |
| 3:42
| Song: Migration, Jimmy Buffett |
| 3:53
| Steve is done with baseball talk so Pete should
stop putting baseball drops up. It's like we're on The Score. |
| 3:54
| Pete just wanted to get that drop of Hawk up there
because he's coming out against the DH. You might recall a short
time ago Pete said that the maddest he's ever been at Steve is when
he said he liked American-style baseball. |
| 3:55
| Pete still gets mad when he remembers Steve saying
that. If there's no DH, where does Jim Thome go? Steve wants to keep
him in the line-up as long as he can. |
| 3:56
| Steve now appreciates Pete's condescending baseball
attitude, as well as his condescending attitudes towards beer and
music. |
| 3:57
| Steve used to be mad about the DH but he grew to
like it. Getting rid of the DH would probably cut down on the number
of hit batters though. |
| 3:58
| When is Michael Barrett going to serve his suspension?
What's taking so long? You gotta assume he's trying to get it cut
down to no games but he'll settle with 5 and blame it on a nervous
twitch. |
| 3:59
| Some people feel that MLB doesn't want Barrett playing
in the Cubs/Sox series because it'll cause too much tension. Steve
thinks that'll be cool as hell though. |
| 4:00
| It seems like Barrett playing in the Cubs/Sox series
would be the most exciting thing about the games. |
| 4:01
| Even if nothing happens all the tension will be
really exciting. |
| 4:11
| There wasn't much to the George Carlin/Ann Coulter
appearance on Leno last night. The promos made you think something
was gonna go down but it didn't happen. |
| 4:12
| It was really irritating to watch nothing happen
after sitting through the first half hour of the show which is full
of a bunch of stupid stuff and George Carlin's "clever" stand-up
routine. |
| 4:13
| Live read: Deep Discount DVD |
| 4:20
| Headlines with Buzz |
| 4:21
| The new fines for indecency pretty much seem like
a career ender for any guilty broadcaster. They should have just
doubled it instead of tripled it. |
| 4:23
| Ben Roethlisberger is out of the hospital and out
several million dollars for a Campbell's Soup commercial he was supposed
to do. They should have done a commercial where he's eating soup
out of a motorcycle helmet. |
| 4:27
| Bad news from Sugar Creek, Wisconsin where Theodore
Junker will not be opening his Hitler Museum. |
| 4:28
| Buzz was disappointed by this news because he was
going to be in the area of the museum and wanted to be on hand for
the opening. |
| 4:35
| Steve was just talking to the Kostrubala family
during the break. They were asking where Buzz and Wendy sit and Steve
told them in the studio, but that during the breaks they retreat
to their office because they like to talk about him. |
| 4:36
| The Kostrubala's won a contest with the Schaumburg
Flyers to meet Steve before going to the game. They could have met
Steve at the game if the Flyers would have paid him an appearance
fee. |
| 4:37
| It's sort of exciting to see the studio though and
the boys liked spinning the prize wheel. Buzz's mother-in-law is
coming into town to see the studio and meet Steve but unfortunately
he'll be on vacation. |
| 4:38
| Steve would be willing to come down to the studio
during the hiatus, or maybe Jim could just pretend that he's Steve
while he's running Best of. Jim actually looks older than Steve.
No amount of tight t-shirts can make him look younger. |
| 4:39
| Brendan keeps turning his mic on and off and random
intervals to capture the behind-the-scenes goings on for Mr. Kostrubala
trying to pronounce his name for Steve. What happens if he starts
swearing? |
| 4:40
| Kostrubala is a Polish name but everyone thinks
it's Greek. When he orders pizza he just says his name is Kost. That's
his pizza name. |
| 4:41
| The Kostrubala's won the contest by joining the
WCKG Insider's Club on WCKG.com. |
| 4:42
| They have this funny thing on the WCKG website called
"Group Vibe" where people just put in random words that post to the
home page. They're usually negative words though, like today's "Lame" |
| 4:43
| At the top of the page they have pictures of Grover,
Steve, Penn and Tom Leykis, but no Stan and Terry which seems wrong. |
| 4:44
| Wendy thinks Steve is the most handsome of everyone
on the home page. Steve concurs. He's like the Brad Pitt of WCKG. |
| 4:52
| Live read: Apple Vacations |
| 4:54
| Live read: Famous Dave's |
| 4:55
| Mike Dahl was once on a softball team called The
Seasoned Meats. Pat's team in LA is called The Seasoned Meats West. |
| 4:56
| Steve's looking at the Dahl.com forum because has
has to approve some posts, or not approve them. There's one about
Oprah and her magazine called "Oprah's Magazine" |
| 4:57
| The thread starts off with KS Chaffs joking about
Oprah always being on the cover of her magazine. It's a good question
to ask women. |
| 4:58
| The next reply is a guy who points out that Steve's
picture is always on the home page of Dahl.com. A website is not
the same as a magazine, plus Oprah's magazine isn't promoting her
show, it's promoting a magazine. |
| 4:59
| You have to wonder why someone would even bother
posting this on the forum. It's not going to get approved anyway. |
| 5:00
| The guy goes on to point out the various other places
where Steve's picture is on the website and then he accuses Steve
of being the pot calling the kettle black. Steve hates the internet
and he hates the people on the forum who act like this. |
| 5:01
| A lot of the people on the forum are like postal
workers. Day after day everything is fine and then one day 6 people
are dead. Steve's going to have to shut this guy down based on this
post and the posts in his history, mostly pro-Howard Stern stuff. |
| 5:02
| When Steve removes a member from the forum he has
several options, his favorite being to delete the member and delete
all of his posts and anyone who replied to his posts. It's like he
never existed. Then when the guy tries to sign up again Steve will
know it's him and he'll be able to reject his membership. |
| 5:04
| Lately there have been a lot of posts about Ann
Coulter that Steve's getting pretty tired of. There's also a guy
named Ronstock who posts too much. He was the guy who called into
Pete McMurray's show a while back because he was having his foreskin
reattached. |
| 5:05
| Ronstock never says anything bad about Steve but
he's thought about whacking him just because he posts so much. |
| 5:06
| There's obviously a difference between O Magazine
and Dahl.com but the beauty of crazy people on the internet is that
an argument about it can go on forever. |
| 5:07
| These are the same people who would ask the teacher
stupid questions when you were in school, stopping her from ending
the class. Buzz recently ran into a person like that at Piper's pre-school
orientation. These people can also be found at condo board meetings. |
| 5:14
| Just for the record Steve does think that O Magazine
and his website are the same but it's fun to make fun of Oprah because
she's Oprah. The guy is right, but why does he have to bring Steve
down? |
| 5:15
| At some point though Oprah doesn't really need the
publicity any more but Steve does. And he doesn't want to live in
a world where you can't make fun of Oprah. If Steve had a billion
dollars you'd never hear from him again. |
| 5:16
| Steve is full of himself, but it's not as bad as
Oprah. It's not like he holds Legends Dinners and invites all the
people that have inspired him over the years. |
| 5:17
| Caller Tyrone has some traffic to report. He's going
to get the sweet Tyrone intro music too. |
| 5:18
| Tyrone is driving around in a red Neon. What happened
to his real car? A red Neon is giving Tyrone's everywhere a bad name. |
| 5:19
| Tyrone actually called in because he won the Opie
Otterstad White Sox print. Tyrone would also buy an S Magazine if
Steve put one out. He wouldn't mind him being on the cover every
month either. Maybe wearing a cocktail dress or something? |
| 5:20
| Steve has been working on some music for the sports
but he's not sure if it sounds sporty enough. He likes the music
though. |
| 5:21
| The Cubs lost 3-2 today at Wrigley Field. Buzz finds
the music interesting but he's not sure it fits with sports. It sounds
like a music bed for the Gay Games sports report or something. |
| 5:22
| Today is Dusty Baker's 57th birthday. |
| 5:23
| The Sox finish their series against the Rangers
tonight in Texas with Mark Buehrle taking the mound. |
| 5:24
| The music has yet to grow on Buzz. It sounds like
Sports on Venus. He likes it, but it doesn't work for sports. |
| 5:25
| Wendy can't stop laughing at the music. It sounds
like something from My Favorite
Martian. |
| 5:26
| Steve likes this music. He wants it playing throughout
the entire show. |
| 5:35
| Live read: The Little Guys |
| 5:36
| Time now for Meat
Talk with Chef Hans. |
| 5:37
| Bells are ringing, birds are singing and Roethlisberger
is stinging. Is that all Hans has for today? |
| 5:38
| Ostensibly, this is the segment where listeners
call in with meat-related questions for Chef Hans. Hans has brought
his meat book with all the different cuts listed. |
| 5:39
| Steve feels that he needs to take a more active
role in Meat Talk but Hans won't relinquish his position. He's leaning
in and ready to go. |
| 5:40
| Caller Dierdra works in New Buffalo but lives in
the city. That's quite a commute. |
| 5:41
| Dierdra wanted to know the difference between a
short rib and an English rib. That's actually something Hans doesn't
totally know. He'll have to look it up in the Book of Cows. It's
like the Cow of Hans. |
| 5:42
| Hans can't find anything about an English rib in
his book, but he's looking under pork. Dierdra's mom said at dinner
last night that there was an English rib but her dad didn't believe
her. |
| 5:43
| Hans thinks that she might be confusing the English
rib for the English cut. |
| 5:44
| Maybe Brendan could put up more callers with questions
that Steve and Hans don't have an answer to. |
| 5:45
| There's a good chance that Dierdra's mom is crazy
though. |
| 5:46
| Wendy wanted to know about searing. Is it important
to sear the meat at a high temperature at the beginning? |
| 5:47
| Wendy's information is correct. Sear the meat at
a high temperature on both sides. |
| 5:48
| Steve's going to take a break and if he can't get
out of here and into his car by the time the break is over we'll
continue with Meat Talk. |
| 5:57
| During the break Hans took the meat book from the
studio, possibly to do some research. He was boning up on his meat
knowledge. |
| 5:58
| Live read: Cingular |
| 5:59
| Caller Mary thinks Steve is always right. It's really
quite a burden but he handles it well. |
| 6:00
| Mary is getting ready to grill some baby back ribs
and wanted to know if it's better to keep the membrane on or off.
Your best is to start scratching the membrane at the bone and then
take a paper towel and scrape it all off. |
| 6:01
| Mary also had a steak question. Does Hans prefer
the rib eye or the New York strip? Hans likes the New York strip
although some people prefer a butt steak. |
| 6:02
| Steve likes the bone-in rib eye. It's good to have
a little bit of fat in your steak. |
| 6:03
| Someone on hold wants to know what the best kind
of meat is for her sick husband. What kind of question is that? |
| 6:04
| Caller Sue's husband is very ill. No meat is going
to save him. Steve's going to put Sue on hold for a second and give
Brendan a 30-second head start to get out of the building. |
| 6:05
| Sue's husband doesn't like red meat so she has to
overcook it a little bit. She wanted to know the best meat for dinner
on Sunday. |
| 6:06
| Hans suggests taking steak and grinding it up to
make a chop steak. Then you can cook it well done. |
| 6:07
| Sue's husband has iron overload so he's not supposed
to eat red meat. This is probably going to be his last steak ever.
Magnets don't stick to Sue's husband but he has set off metal detectors
in the past. |
| 6:08
| Steve's not trying to make light of the situation
but the phone call is bringing down Meat
Talk. Buzz gets the feeling
that Brendan has been sitting on that phone call all week. |
| 6:11
| That was the best Meat
Talk ever! Usually Steve likes to do things in 3's but he
only took two phone calls during that segment. The last one counted
as 2 phone calls. |
| 6:12
| Live read: Townstone Financial |
| 6:14
| Every once in a while Steve gets a live read without
a happy ending. They can't all end well but that one worked out OK. |
| 6:15
| Sometimes the live reads sound so good that Steve
wants to get in debt just to see how David will get him out of it.
Maybe he'll pick up a million in gambling debt and see what happens. |
| 6:16
| Steve wants to play a song after that Meat
Talk,
just to lighten the mood a little. That was like a very special Meat
Talk, like that episode of Diff'rent
Strokes with Gordon Jump
as the child molester. |
| 6:17
| That was a two-parter in which Arnold and
his friend Dudley were at Gordon Jump's apartment in the back of
the bicycle shop jumping on his bed shirtless. |
| 6:20
| Song: Jump, Van Halen |
| 6:25
| Steve downloaded that song while he was talking
because we seem to have misplaced a CD of David Lee Roth singing
Van Halen songs in a blue grass style. |
| 6:26
| That CD has been sitting outside the studio for
weeks and now Steve finally wants to play it and it's gone. It might
be Grover's people, they're always using the producers area. Maybe
the tables should be electrified or something. |
| 6:27
| Steve keeps finding notes from Grover's show outside
the studio and they're not very impressive. Today's notes were questions
for the Thursday Hook-up. |
| 6:28
| Steve found a copy of Strummin' With the Devil.
He's not entirely sure why we need a bluegrass version of any of
these songs, but here we are. |
| 6:29
| Steve sees no point in this but David Lee Roth was
on the Tonight Show with
about 18 hillbillies playing Jump.
He's not even changing the way he's singing the song either. |
| 6:30
| Why is David Lee Roth doing this? Probably because
Van Halen won't play with him any more. |
| 6:31
| What bluegrass guy sings like David Lee Roth? |
| 6:39
| Live read: The Little Guys |
| 6:40
| News with Buzz |
| 6:41
| Bill Gates is stepping aside from the day-to-day
operations of Microsoft starting next year so he can commit fully
to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Steve can't imagine Bill
Gates involved in the day-to-day operations right now though. It's
not like he's there 40 hours a week trying to figure out where everyone's
getting lunch from. |
| 6:43
| One interesting thing about the new FCC indecency
laws. Commercial broadcasters are getting ready to go to the FCC
and argue that they can't compete with satellite radio and cable
TV. In turn that will get the FCC to start regulating satellite and
cable TV. |
| 6:44
| Commercial broadcasters have a compelling argument
and they'll probably win out in the end and it'll be really funny
when Howard Stern starts getting censored again. |
| 6:53
| Back to Buzz in the newsroom. |
| 6:54
| Several West Suburban train lines were shut down
this afternoon after a white, acid powder was discovered along several
tracks. If they know what it is why did they shut down the trains?
Maybe it was coke? Let's go do a couple of rails. |
| 7:02
| At the rate Britney Spears is going, Wendy will
be able to player her in the biopic. Steve already has trouble telling
them apart. Wendy actually looks better and seems smarter than Britney.
Plus she married a little bit better than Britney did. |
