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| 2:02
| Steve was late getting into the studio because he was talking to an engineer. Pete was very nervous but no one listening knows that Steve was late. This is why Pete isn't in showbiz. |
| 2:03
| When you're on stage no one knows what's going on backstage but Pete insists on telling everyone that he was nervous and wet himself and then a monkey exposed himself to him. |
| 2:04
| All week long Pete is always springing things on Steve at the last minute and this is Steve's chance to get back at him. |
| 2:05
| Engineers are talkers but the guy Steve was talking to actually seems interested in fixing what's wrong. |
| 2:06
| Steve still wants a device that you hook up to the telephone to record Brendan and the caller. It would also play a recording to let callers know that they're being recorded and it could be used on the air. |
| 2:07
| Steve went through the manual for that phone and it says there are no devices that you can hook up to do that. It could be another manufacturer which is where the $30,000 price tag comes from. |
| 2:08
| It doesn't seem like a call screener would cost $30,000 but the one we have now seems to be defective. Maybe we could return it. |
| 2:09
| Steve feels that Brendan screening phone calls would be a really good bit. He can say that without fear of someone stealing it because you actually need Brendan for the bit. |
| 2:10
| If Steve got the device with the auto attendant then he could bypass Drew running it by legal. When Drew runs it by legal it keeps running right into the Atlantic Ocean. |
| 2:11
| Steve got sidetracked with the engineer talking about a leak in the studio that's letting outside air in. It explains why he's always being choked by bus fumes and why there's so much static electricity in there. Steve's been right all along and he was fascinated by how right he was. |
| 2:12
| A lot of the younger engineers used to be J's so they tend to be a lot more helpful. |
| 2:13
| The last time Steve was being choked by bus fumes a guy from the city called in and said he'd be filing a complaint so maybe that's what happened. |
| 2:14
| Mary wanted to point out that the engineer said someone on the 9th floor complained about the bus fumes which is why they're doing something about it. Before Mary even started talking, Pete was giggling. Does he know that people can hear that? |
| 2:15
| Steve was the first one to notice it but they must think he's crazy and that there's always something wrong. There is always something wrong though. You can't pay Steve to notice stuff and then not believe him when he does. |
| 2:16
| Steve would like to thank Eddie and Jobo for complaining about the bus fumes. We don't want to lose 2 valuable assets like them. We need two 60-year old guys playing hip-hop and asking girls about their panties. |
| 2:17
| We really need to get that recorder for the call screener though. Brendan screening calls is a bit you could syndicate and ride right to the top. |
| 2:18
| Sometimes Steve goes out in the hall during the breaks just to listen. Steve complains about Brendan but he deals with a lot of malcontents so it's a tough job. |
| 2:19
| Pete was watching channel 2 news and the screen went blank. Then it came back and it was an empty newsroom. Then it went blank again and you heard Diann Burns saying "you can do whatever you want" |
| 2:20
| Steve doesn't watch channel 2. If it came on he'd probably shoot his TV. Antonio Mora is like his Robert Goulet. |
| 2:21
| When they did the sports none of their graphics or tapes were working so Diann and Antonio were just making sports small talk with Mark Malone. He played in the NFL ya know. |
| 2:22
| Mark Malone is like one of those guys who went to Harvard because he talks about being in the NFL all the time. Whenever you're at a party you can tell who went to Harvard because they walk up and tell you. Then Steve goes "Harvard? Harvard, Illinois?" and that gets them really mad. |
| 2:23
| Pete enjoyed it yesterday when Steve was talking to that caller about hepatitis A. The guy was a doctor but Steve didn't call him doctor and he went into a tailspin. |
| 2:24
| It's Thursday which means it's time for Pete's Music Snob Corner. We're back up to a CD of a bunch of songs. Last week Pete mentioned Arcade Fire in his blog so Steve watched them on SNL and he actually really liked them. |
| 2:25
| Now that Steve likes Arcade Fire we'll probably never hear from them again. Pete played an Arcade Fire song in January but there's another one on the CD today. |
| 2:26
| Arcade Fire is playing three shows at the Chicago Theater so they must be pretty popular. Steve wouldn't mind walking over there after the show with Pete in their tight t-shirts. Steve probably wouldn't fit in if he was wearing a tight White Sox t-shirt. It doesn't seem like Sox fans would be alternative music fans. |
| 2:27
| Song: Keep the Car Running, Arcade Fire |
| 2:30
| The new Arcade Fire album comes out March 6th. Pete needs to get a life. The only way Steve knows when new stuff comes out is that iTunes sends him an email that it's New Music Tuesday. |
| 2:31
| Pete will not be going to all three Arcade Fire shows because the Ticketmaster fees are pretty ridiculous. Someone from the station can probably get Pete tickets though. He's Pete! |
| 2:32
| Pete has two tickets for Friday and he'd be happy to bring Steve along. Jim and his girlfriend are also going so it could be a double date. |
| 2:33
| What goes on at an Arcade Fire? Do they smoke pot at the show? Does anyone air guitar? |
| 2:34
| Jim kid is informing Steve that the lead singer of Arcade Fire, Win Butler, is the grandson of Alvino Rey. That guy could make his steel guitar talk and say his name. |
| 2:38
| That was some fine work on the CBS news. Mark Malone was just kicking back. Buzz actually heard a little Oprah coming from Mark Malone. |
| 2:39
| We need a new Oprah and Mark is pretty full of himself so he's got a good head start. He's also not as rich as Oprah so he won't be lecturing about "giving back". Oprah is a billionaire, she can afford to give back. She also doesn't have any kids. |
| 2:40
| Steve tries to give when he can but he doesn't need a lecture about it from Oprah. |
| 2:41
| Pete plays the audio again but Steve doesn't hear any Oprah. Buzz just noticed Mark Malone elongating one particular word which is something Oprah does. |
| 2:42
| Steve's favorite Mark Malone moment was when he was hosting the New Year's Eve Train show with Eric and Kathy. They were talking about their favorite Train songs while the band was playing. |
| 2:43
| This could be one of those instances where Pete has the tape and it's not as good as Steve is describing it. Steve feels that he has the right to reconstruct what happened after sitting through several of those New Year's Eve specials. |
| 2:44
| Actually Steve's favorite Mark Malone moment of all time was at a New Year's Eve show when he was wearing a "vintage" Bob Dylan t-shirt with a sport coat and pressed Levi's. |
| 2:45
| Mark was bragging about how it was a vintage shirt from a 1962 Bob Dylan tour. They didn't have tour t-shirts back then and he probably wasn't even touring in 1962. |
| 2:46
| OK it was actually 1963 that Mark Malone claimed the shirt was from. If he was touring in 1963 he was probably playing in coffee shops and didn't have merchandise. |
| 2:47
| He probably spent a lot of time stumbling from town to town by himself, staying in Motel 6's and wondering why they cost $18 per night. Actually back then they probably still cost $6 per night. |
| 2:48
| They shouldn't call them Motel 6 any more because the rooms are up to $39 a night. |
| 2:49
| Motel 6 was founded in 1962 and rooms cost $6 a night. They also had coin-operated black and white TVs which lasted well into the 80s. |
| 2:50
| In the 80s they put in color TVs with free cable and HBO. |
| 2:57
| Steve is so pleased with himself for being right about Motel 6 only costing $6 per night when they first opened up. |
| 2:58
| Pete likes the band Yo La Tengo and they have a song about Motel 6. Steve can't believe he has to remind Pete about this. Apparently he's only down for one music segment per week. |
| 2:59
| Buzz wants to know how much a room at Motel 6 costs now. He's curious how it went from $6 to whatever it is now. |
| 3:00
| The current rate is about $39 a night. That's going to change Buzz's view on the cost of other hotels. |
| 3:01
| Motel 6 allows pets in their rooms which is always a good idea. |
| 3:02
| The Yo La Tengo song, From a Motel 6, is a parody in name only of the Bob Dylan song From a Buick 6. That's not really a parody is it? We have come full circle though. |
| 3:03
| Steve tried to pre-screen the lyrics to the Yo La Tengo song and it seems OK. Does Pete have anything to add? |
| 3:04
| According to Mark Czerniec, who enjoys translating things, Yo La Tengo means " have it" The lead singer is a big baseball fan and he used to go see games in Mexico. Yo la tengo is what the players shout when they're going for a pop-up. |
| 3:05
| When Steve was in Little League the coaches told players to shout "I've got it" but the other players were supposed to say "you take it". No one ever did though because it sounds creepy. It would probably prevent a lot of on-field collisions though. |
| 3:06
| Steve found the lyrics online but he's still nervous about a song he doesn't know. He could leave the studio and by the time he's back it's converted into a fruit stand. The song on iTunes say "clean" but that just means "clean out your desk". |
| 3:07
| Buzz's daughter is listening to a lot of hip-hop and she's starting to learn the lyrics. It would be Buzz's job as a parent to keep her away from that. Is he trying to be her friend? |
| 3:08
| Piper has all the dance moves down and she can read the read-out on the HD radio so she knows who the artist is. She loves Snoop and R. Kelly, which is always something you want to encourage in a 5-year old white girl. |
| 3:09
| It's pretty safe to assume that anything Piper is hearing on the radio won't have any profanity in it. If Buzz hears anything he doesn't like though he'll be on the phone to the FCC right away. |
| 3:10
| Wasn't Buzz the guy who was recommending a Super Bowl song with a profanity in it? |
| 3:15
| Didn't Steve and Pete have a Gilmore Girls discussion last night? Steve can't have every one of this thoughts reiterated with a Gilmore GIrls drop, he'll have to have a sex change. |
| 3:16
| The fact that Yo La Tengo was mentioned on the Gilmore GIrls makes Steve not want to play their song. |
| 3:17
| Gilmore GIrls isn't a bad show but it's not something you want to admit watching. Buzz has never seen an episode but they sound nice. |
| 3:18
| Steve doesn't want to hear any Grey's Anatomy drops, he's staying firm on that. Pete is fine with that, even though the show is so good. |
| 3:19
| How can Pete say that out loud? It's not going to do him any good. Girls don't date guys who watch Grey's Anatomy. They want to talk about Grey's Anatomy and then go get nailed by a real man. |
| 3:20
| Song: From a Motel 6, Yo La Tengo |
| 3:23
| That seems like a good song but you can't pick up any of the lyrics. Luckily we have Bill Kurtis to read us the lyrics. Buzz thought Steve was going to say that Bill Kurtis was at a Motel 6. He can be if that's what Buzz wants. Maybe they could throw a few quarters in the Magic Fingers. |
| 3:24
| Bill reads the lyrics to Yo La Tengo's From a Motel 6. One of the lyrics is "Blank stare at the TV- THE HOWLING II's on Channel 3" What does that mean? |
| 3:25
| Bill just wanted to point out that Lost ripped off Little Miss Sunshine last night, which is a new low for them. |
| 3:33
| Pete's choice of a drop from Little Miss Sunshine is ruining the movie for Buzz. Fortunately he's not paying attention. Apparently we're also playing the entire movie. What's going on in there today? |
| 3:34
| Steve would like to say that last night on Lost, when they stole the Volkswagen bus thing from Little Miss Sunshine, they didn't have to go 100 miles per hour down a hill to get it started. |
| 3:35
| The fat guy and the rock and roll guy could have started the car as soon as they started down the hill but instead they waited until just before they were going to hit a bunch of rocks. |
| 3:36
| In Little Miss Sunshine they had to start the van in third gear by pushing it, but you can't push a bus up to 35 mph. |
| 3:37
| The one good thing about Lost is when they started the van up Shambala by Three Dog Night started playing on the 8-track. Buzz doesn't know that one. Steve knows a lot of these songs because he had to play them all the time. |
| 3:38
| Three Dog Night had a hit with Shambala but it was written by B.W. Stevenson who wrote My Maria. Buzz doesn't know B.W. Stevenson either. |
| 3:39
| The question now is does Steve want to play Shambala by Three Dog Night or B.W. Stevenson. Or does he want to play My Maria by B.W. Stevenson or Brooks & Dunn? |
| 3:40
| Caller Pat can't believe that Buzz didn't recognize the lyric in From a Motel 6 about the Howling 2. Pat is one of the crazy horror film guys. Buzz created this monster. |
| 3:41
| Are Buzz's headphones plugged in today? |
| 3:42
| The other day Buzz was approached by a guy in the Aon Building, asking him why he didn't do Drive-in Reviews any more. Buzz used to have a website with the Drive-In Reviews but he only did them because he had compiled a nice collection of quality kills from horror movies. |
| 3:43
| Steve needs to correct some misinformation that he put out there. Steve isn't mad about the misinformation because when he corrects it he gets twice the mileage out of it. Maybe he's doing it subconsciously. |
| 3:44
| Shambala was written by poet Daniel Moore and it was recorded by B.W. Stevenson and Three Dog Night. |
| 3:45
| After hearing some of the B.W. Stevenson version Steve doesn't want to play it. Buzz thinks Stevenson's voice is unusual but could be mistaken for irritating. That's often said about Steve as well. |
| 3:50
| Steve liked on Lost when Shambala and it looks good in HD but the show has lost it. The van didn't need to be careening down a hill at 80 mph to get it started. |
| 3:51
| That would have driven Buzz nuts if he had seen the episode because he used to drive VW's. |
| 3:52
| Maybe the brakes weren't working and Steve missed that part. Jim watches the show very closely, maybe he knows. |
| 3:53
| Buzz stopped watching Lost because it was getting his blood pressure up. Steve saw an interview with the producers and they seem like complete morons. |
| 3:54
| Song: Shambala, Three Dog Night |
| 3:57
| Steve had a '59 Chevy pick-up truck that often had a battery that didn't work, so he had to give it a little push before he could start it. WIth a half-ton pick-up he need a little bit of a hill though. |
| 3:58
| Clearly whoever wrote last night's episode of Lost knows nothing about cars, even though the whole episode was about knowing about cars. |
| 3:59
| They also found a bunch of old beer in the van from the 60s which probably would have gone bad by know. Beer doesn't get better with age. |
| 4:00
| The sad thing is there's nothing else to watch on Wednesday night. Lost is experiencing their worst ratings ever and it couldn't happen to a nicer group of idiots. |
| 4:01
| Lost was good when it started but something happened. Heroes is still good, even though it was created by the Crossing Jordan guy. |
| 4:02
| That Heroes is really good although Steve is concerned about what's going to happen to the cheerleader's dad. Steve doesn't want to see him switched out with Eric Roberts. Steve doesn't mind Eric Roberts but he doesn't want to see the dad's memory get wiped by The Haitian. |
| 4:07
| One of the producers of Lost used baseball as a metaphor for the show. Even if you don't know a lot about baseball you can still watch it and enjoy it. |
| 4:08
| Headlines with Buzz |
| 4:09
| Steve thought it was pretty cool the way McCain announced he was running for president on Letterman last night. Even Dave thought it was cool. |
| 4:11
| Will Anna Nicole's casket have two bumps on the top where her boobs are? |
| 4:13
| Renowned physicist Stephen Hawking will take a ride in the Vomit Comet, an airplane that simulates weightlessness. |
| 4:14
| For $3400 you too can take a ride on Zero G's Vomit Comet. Steve's not paying that much money for anything with vomit in the name. |
| 4:21
| It seems unfortunate that John McCain can't go on TV and have a normal conversation without people picking apart everything he says. |
| 4:22
| A lot of candidates don't show their true sides until after they've lost, like Bob Dole. It was nice to see McCain show what he was really like before the election. |
| 4:23
| At least John McCain was actually in a war. It's not like he ran off to Oklahoma to join the National Guard. |
| 4:24
| It seems like you're better off not trying to apologize. Steve just tried to apologize for McCain and even that was complicated. |
| 4:25
| Usually the Republicans are pretty good with the talking points though so it's kind of surprising that he messed up. |
| 4:26
| It has to be other Republicans taking McCain to task now though. When he ran in 2000 George Bush took him down hard. |
| 4:27
| How can a draft dodger take down a guy who spent 5 years in a Vietnamese prison? |
| 4:28
| It was really foggy downtown earlier in the show but it has since cleared up. Steve's head hurts because of the change in weather. |
| 4:29
| There's a high wind advisory that's supposed to last until 6:00 PM tomorrow. Can't they narrow it down a little? |
| 4:30
| Steve doesn't care about the weather unless he's traveling. And now with that Flight Stats website he doesn't care at all. |
| 4:31
| Steve can't tell what the weather is any more when he watches the news because of all the hyperbole and small talk. The anchor is either thanking the weather person or is mad at them and it makes the actual forecast very confusing. |
| 4:32
| They talk about the weather like there are actual glaciers melting downtown, then every anchor person has their 2 cents about how the weather effects them. Then they throw it over to some reporter standing on the Dan Ryan to inform us that the rain is still falling from the sky to the ground. |
| 4:36
| Steve has some political calls on the line but he doesn't want to take them. They should call Roe Conn. |
| 4:37
| As someone who served in Vietnam, it doesn't seem like John McCain meant to say that the people who died in Iraq wasted their lives. |
| 4:38
| Caller Chris wanted to let Steve know that McCain's plane was shot down over Vietnam, which caused him to break both legs. He landed in a village and was beaten by the village's residents, then he spent his 5 years in the Hanoi Hilton barely able to watch. |
| 4:39
| Steve wants to play some Billy Joel even though he knows Buzz hates him. Buzz doesn't hate BIlly, he just thinks all of his songs sound the same. He's also trying to steal Buzz's look but can't pull it off because he's too fat. |
| 4:40
| Song: Goodnight Saigon, Billy Joel |
| 4:46
| That song ends with the helicopter sound and then some tinkling and crickets. Crickets are Billy Joel's signature sound. |
| 4:47
| For some reason that caused Steve to laugh and cough up some of his delicious Balance for Life. It's always good the second time around. |
| 4:48
| Steve heard a funny story about Buzz during the song. Apparently yesterday he asked Brendan to bring him a 1 liter bottle of Evian water everyday because he's concerned he's not drinking enough water. |
| 4:49
| There are now two bottles in the studio because Buzz didn't drink his first bottle yesterday. The order was rescinded by Buzz after he didn't drink any of the water but apparently the order never went out so the water kept coming. |
| 4:50
| Normally Buzz would get a Gatorade bottle, clean it thoroughly and then fill it with water. Is Buzz scared off by the exorbitant price for water in the studio? Steve's like a hotel, if Buzz wants water he's going to pay more for it. |
| 4:51
| Steve and Buzz could each have a bottle and see who could drink it fast enough. Of course then they'd spend all day running into each other going to the bathroom. |
| 4:54
| We've got some short breaks on our hand. That's why Steve had to throw down a 7 minute Billy Joel song. Steve can't even get out of his chair in two minutes. |
| 4:55
| Today is not he day to be drinking a lot of water. Steve and Buzz will need those astronaut diapers. Maybe they should get a few of those and drink a ton of water. |
| 4:56
| Buzz doesn't have time to drink a lot of water today, he's very busy. There has to be a way for Jim to bring the audio into the studio so Buzz doesn't have to go down there during the short breaks. |
| 4:57
| Buzz enjoys the challenge of trying to listen to the audio in the office. Steve's just saying that if Buzz wants to listen to it in the studio he wouldn't mind. |
| 4:58
| Chef Hans is here so we've got Meat Talk coming up. He's back from his two week trip to Switzerland, although it's hard to tell if he's well-rested. |
| 4:59
| Hans spends a lot of time pretending he's Swiss. It was either that or going to Brazil. |
| 5:00
| Steve and Hans have their big Escoffier dinner coming up. Everyone is encouraging Steve to go to it but it's just because they like to see him suffer. |
| 5:01
| Maybe suffer is the wrong word but there are people who like Steve to do things he wouldn't normally do because it's interesting. He also heard from a woman who said he husband owns Mark Shale and she can get him a tux. |
| 5:02
| Drew was of course using a Mark Shale canvas bag to bring his clothes to the gym. It wasn't even one of those bags they give your wife to shut her up when she finds out how much the suit costs, it's just a bag for your shoes that you're supposed to throw out when you get home. |
| 5:03
| Steve will have to talk to Chef Hans about all this. He was really put off by one of the guys that Hans brought in. There were two guys with Hans and one of them was a fan but the other guy wasn't. If it's going to be a whole room of those kind of guys Steve isn't interested. He seemed like the alpha male of the group. |
| 5:04
| Steve was also put off after he read what goes on at his induction. First he has to pick a seat and then stand behind it which seems embarrassing. Plus it's a total sausage fest with only two women and Steve probably wouldn't be able to get near them because Hans would be all over him like breading on schnitzel. |
| 5:05
| The other problem is that Steve has already talked about this dinner and the memory of what he said always seems to be worse than what he actually said. |
| 5:06
| Steve could really use a Dunkin' Donuts pick-me-up right now. There's some sort of scratch-off contest on Steve's coffee. It's a trivia question, what year did the Twilight Zone debut on TV? Steve can just look it up on Google! |
| 5:07
| Steve won a free donut, so he's broken even for the day. He's already on his way to recovering some of his stock market losses. |
| 5:12
| Chef Hans from Smit & Wollensky is here for Meat Talk. His vacation was great. He spent 4 or 5 days in Switzerland and the rest of the time in England. He's kind of like Buzz now. |
| 5:13
| The general manager of Swiss International asked Chef if he was going to do what Buzz did. The guy gave us free round trip tickets and Buzz didn't even have a story about Switzerland. |
| 5:14
| Steve has a follow up from the emailer who said he was listening in Kazakhstan and complained about the loud bell during Meat Talk. |
| 5:15
| You'll recall that in the original complaint, the listener though Chef Hans was a Swedish chef bit that Steve did. |
| 5:16
| The guy does live in Kazakhstan and works for a petroleum country. He listens via podcast which is why his email complaint was somewhat delayed. |
| 5:17
| Then Steve got another email from a female listener in Kazakhstan. Steve's very close to doing a broadcast over there. |
| 5:18
| The highlight of Hans' trip was going to his friend's birthday and rubbing elbows with the Queen's priest. Now he's doing some English name-dropping. |
| 5:19
| Before we get to Meat Talk, Buzz has an issue he needs to discuss with Chef Hans. |
| 5:20
| A few weeks ago during a Meat Talk segment Buzz had a question about reheating a cheeseburger that he managed to parlay into a free dinner at S & W. |
| 5:21
| Buzz didn't have the proper documentation but when he called to make the reservation the woman knew who he was. The dinner was great but at the end of the meal Buzz was presented with a check. |
| 5:22
| Steve doesn't want Hans to apologize for this, he just thinks it's funny that Buzz is tracking this thing down like a bloodhound. |
| 5:23
| Steve took the staff to dinner at S & W two weeks ago and he was glad to pay for the dinner. |
| 5:24
| Steve had a great dinner but he unfortunately went with Ed Silha who thinks he owns the place. |
| 5:25
| Dealing with an alpha male is bad but Ed isn't even an alpha male but he thinks he is. |
| 5:26
| Brendan also goes to S & W a lot. The waitress was talking to him about the marbling of his steak, like he actually knows the difference. |
| 5:27
| It seemed like the waitress was taking pity on the non-alpha males at the table. |
| 5:28
| Then Pete ordered coffee and drank with with both hands on the mug like Jennifer Anniston from Friends. Plus Ed ordered ice cream shooters. Who does that? |
| 5:29
| Pete and Ed were also drinking their Coke with little bar straws. Steve likes these guys and he's just trying to school them in the manly arts. |
| 5:30
| Steve's not sure who actually listens to him. Pete probably does but Ed is just living large ordering ice cream shooters. |
| 5:31
| Otherwise it was a great dinner, although Steve feels he was shorted a few pieces of bacon on his salad. Also, S & W should have A1 as well as their own steak sauce. Steve likes A1 on his onion rings, that's the way to go. |
| 5:32
| It was actually Ed who yelled at Steve for trying to get some A1. |
| 5:33
| Steve thought Buzz won the dinner only for theatrical purposes. No one actually expected him to take them up on the offer. |
| 5:34
| Steve saw Hans Jr. at the dinner, he's always disappointed that he doesn't have an accent. Even though he was born here Hans should have taught him the accent. As a duo Hans and Hans Jr. could really go places if they both have the accent. How great would it be to watch a show on the Food Network where one guy has a Swiss accent and the other guy is faking his. It's very high concept. |
| 5:37
| After hearing the tape it does sound like Buzz won. Buzz wasn't paying attention so Steve plays it again. |
| 5:38
| Buzz further pursued the free dinner in the hallway. Steve forgot about Buzz's relentless nature when he has something to gain. |
| 5:39
| Steve likes S & W's steak sauce but they should also have A1. S & W's is more like that HP stuff they have in England. Hans went past the House of Parliament when he was over in London. It's hard not to though. |
| 5:40
| Steve hasn't had a chance to pre-screen the Meat Talk questions for today. The first one is about larding roasts. That would be injecting pieces of fat into the center of the meat. |
| 5:41
| Usually you lard pork and beef butts. Steve loves when Hans says butts. Larding is like marbling your own meat, if you'll pardon the expression. |
| 5:42
| The next emailer received some Allen Brothers steaks and is ready to enjoy them now that it's getting warmer. He wants to know the best way to thaw steaks though. |
| 5:43
| Hans recommends a 48 hour natural thaw in a refrigerator. If you need it quick, you should put it under lukewarm water while it's still in the bag. It should be thawed in 45 minutes to an hour. Steve knows that thawing it on the counter separates the juices from the meat. Who's Mr. Meat? Say his name Buzz! |
| 5:44
| The next email seems like a fake question to get a free dinner. They're looking for a recipe for stuffed pork chops. How about looking on the internet? |
| 5:45
| The next emailer and her husband are having a disagreement about which side of the roast goes on the top while cooking. She thinks the fat goes on the bottom, he thinks it's on the top. |
| 5:46
| Hans thinks they're both right. He's like Dr. Phil, bringing them together. You can put the fat side down and then when it's halfway done you switch it around. |
| 5:47
| Caller Sarah has an idea for Hans. He should call the house steak sauce Hans 57. |
| 5:52
| Steve's just kidding Buzz about all that dinner stuff. He remembers giving it to him and thinking he deserved a little taste. |
| 5:53
| Buzz knew going into the dinner situation that it was iffy. Part of the entertainment was seeing what was going to happened. |
| 5:54
| Steve doesn't like to be comped and he never redeems gift certificates. Buzz doesn't like to be comped either although he will redeem a prize. |
| 5:55
| Steve is a little more visually well-known that Buzz. Plus Buzz usually goes to the same place for dinner and it's very cheap. |
| 5:56
| The only thing Buzz has a problem with when he's comped is paying the tip in cash. He doesn't like parting with cash but it doesn't even occur to him to put the tip on a credit card. |
| 5:57
| Live read: Townstone Financial |
| 5:58
| Jeff is now consulting David Hochberg with his advertising and Steve would like to lodge a complaint. Steve used to do two Townstone live reads per day and now he's down to one which takes money out of Steve's pocket. |
| 5:59
| Steve has noticed pre-recorded Townstone commercials because Jeff is trying to make David Hochberg the Empire Carpet guy of loans. |
| 6:00
| Steve keeps thinking that Chef Hans does sports but he doesn't do it any more, just Meat Talk. Steve has some sports if Buzz wants any. |
| 6:01
| Steve just had a disturbing image outside the studio. He thought Drew was back but it's just Ron Lewis, Drew's older, more handsome brother. |
| 6:02
| Steve has no idea why Ron is here though. This is probably one of those fake meetings he has so he can come downtown and hang out. Was he in Steve's office ordering people around? |
| 6:03
| Ron had a few meetings downtown and then he went over to one of Steve's storage lockers to find some missing art. |
| 6:04
| Where's Ron going now? He's all dressed up like he's going to a hootenanny. |
| 6:05
| Since Buzz is at Bill's Blues tomorrow night Ron will probably stopping by. Does he play an instrument? Maybe he could be Buzz's opener. |
| 6:06
| Caller Rob works in the food industry and he doesn't mind when people tip with credit card since they get paid in cash at the end of the night. |
| 6:07
| Ron has some important documents for Buzz to sign so he can call someone on his behalf. Ron has to call AFTRA for Buzz. Is he trying to get a union here? |
| 6:08
| Now on to the sports. After signing his contract extension, Lovie Smith said he still has something to accomplish. |
| 6:09
| Jerry Angelo also got an extension through 2013. It seems like they could have done that on a different day and let Lovie get the limelight. |
| 6:10
| The Bears were accused of being racist but they're an NFL football team. It's not about race, they're just really cheap. |
| 6:11
| Jerry Angelo's head is too big for his body, he needs to put on some weight. |
| 6:12
| The Cubs lost their Cactus League opener to the Giants at Ho Ho Kam park. There's a picture of Steve standing at Ho Ho Kam from his trip to Arizona, trying to crack a smile. |
| 6:13
| Steve keeps calling Gavin Floyd Cliff Floyd. What are the odds there are two Floyds in Chicago? Buzz thinks there are probably more than two. |
| 6:14
| Steve was actually referring to baseball players named Floyd. There are probably a lot of people named Floyd in Chicago. |
| 6:20
| What was that drop Pete just played? It's from The Break-Up but Steve doesn't know why he played it. |
| 6:21
| That was the scene filmed at S & W. That movie had everything Steve doesn't like in a movie. If he's going to watch a movie like that he wants to see people get back together. |
| 6:22
| Steve still has his sports music up which is fine with Buzz because he loves it. It reminds him of music in Werner Fassbinder movies. Steve composed it during his Fassbinder phase so Buzz is right on the money. |
| 6:23
| Song: Jump, Van Halen |
| 6:26
| That was Van Halen's Jump with David Lee Roth, failed radio host and guy that Steve used to beat up in 4th grade. |
| 6:27
| Steve thought he would play that one for the Cubs fans. If he was a Cubs fan he'd be pretty excited. Plus he's trying not to be a hater. |
| 6:28
| Frankly Steve is a little mad at the White Sox because of the Freddy Garcia trade. The guy they got for him fell off the mound. |
| 6:29
| There was a girl on hold who hung-up or got disconnected that wanted to say The Break-Up was two hours of people fighting and then not getting back together. |
| 6:30
| If Steve is going to watch two people fight for two hours he wants them to get back together at the end. Instead they just see each other on the street and are civil. |
| 6:31
| Caller Kathy called back. She didn't hang up on Steve. She was so disappointment watching that movie. |
| 6:32
| Vince Vaughn is funny in the movie, although it isn't believable that he and his brother's only goal is to have the biggest tour bus company in Chicago. |
| 6:33
| It's also frustrating to watch Vince Vaughn who's from Chicago and says he wants to remember his roots, then he makes a movie that really overdoes it on the Chicago references. Not all Chicagoans go to Cubs games all the time and eat Italian beefs and Uno's pizza all day. |
| 6:34
| Kathy did want to invite Steve to a Cubs game this year because she's a season ticket holder. |
| 6:35
| From the bottom of Steve's heart, he'd like to tell Kathy that there's a lot of emptiness that comes after a World Series win. It's the same feeling you get on Christmas night. |
| 6:36
| The Bears losing the Super Bowl is actually great for Steve because he has all that anger from sitting there in the rain and watching them lose. You can't beat that. |
| 6:37
| Maybe Steve will do a foreign exchange day and come to a Cubs game. He does like that John McDonough plus the Cubs got rid of their really mean PR girl. |
| 6:38
| Kathy is a Cubs fan but she still makes it to the South Side every year. It seems like only guys are polarized about the Cubs and Sox. The girls in the office are pretty polarized. Mary likes the Cubs and Tina and Stephanie like the Sox. Then the other girls in the office Pete, Brendan and Jim are Cubs fans. |
| 6:41
| Also in The Break-Up they went to the Weiner Circle, but they weren't even there at night when you get yelled at. |
| 6:42
| Buzz still hasn't been to Weiner Circle although he wants to go. Steve doesn't think he'd be yelled at, they only yell at the kids. Buzz doesn't want to get yelled at, it's really hardcore. |
| 6:43
| News with Buzz |
| 6:44
| 8 are dead after a tornado ripped through Enterprise, Alabama. |
| 6:45
| Steve has an updated body count in Alabama, it's now up to 13 dead. |
| 6:47
| Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is reportedly alive according to senior Taliban commander Mullah Dadullah. |
| 6:48
| Why don't we just snatch up this Dadullah guy when he's giving an interview, torture him and find out where Osama is? |
| 6:49
| The Florida girl who suffered from hiccups for 5 weeks has been cured. She tried every known hiccup cure old and new but nothing worked. |
| 6:50
| The girl even went on the Today's Show but seems to have been cured out of the blue. It sounds like the Today's Show was taken in. Maybe she saw Al Roker naked. |
| 6:51
| Buzz doesn't think she was faking it. What are the odds she'd be cured right after going on the Today's Show? |
| 6:56
| The hiccupping girl wasn't hiccupping during the interview which makes Steve think she was faking. If she really had the hiccups she would be doing it while she was talking. |
| 6:57
| Pete replays the interview. It definitely seems like she was faking. Maybe someone else saw it though. |
| 6:59
| Caller Karen saw the interview and the girl definitely seemed like she was in distress. She wouldn't hiccup while she talked or slept though. |
| 7:00
| That sounds too convenient for Steve. You read about people who can't sleep because they have the hiccups for 5 years. |
| 7:01
| Pete plays the tape again. |
| 7:02
| Steve needs Pete to stop the tape but he's not answering. Pete? Pete? PETE?! |
| 7:03
| Did Pete go home for the night? Steve is doing something in the studio with him and he turned the monitor down. |
| 7:04
| The girl was really switching between hiccupping and talking pretty quickly. It's like when Kevin Matthews did Jim Shorts. |
