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| 2:02
| Matt is out at the Jiffy Lube in Oak Lawn tomorrow. Steve can't come out and say hello but other people can. Matt will be calling to bring the excitement to Steve via telephone. |
| 2:03
| Yesterday Matt had to talk to Ben Gay which was interesting. Ben was very aggressive and now he and Matt have a date at the Italian Village. He likes the young stuff. |
| 2:04
| Brendan's energy level is high today but he hasn't eaten his Uncrustable yet. Those things are pretty good. Janet used to buy those for the boys and freeze them then they'd thaw by lunch. Steve used to eat them frozen, they were very similar to ice cream. |
| 2:05
| Ed Silha was making fun of Brendan for eating Uncrustables and called them gay. He would know. |
| 2:06
| What's gay about an Uncrustable? Steve gets a lot of emails from gay listeners wondering why Steve uses the word gay so much but by gay he means lame or unmanly. Although some of the gay guys are very manly. |
| 2:07
| What does Ed know anyway? Aren't there restaurants that serve nothing but peanut butter and jelly sandwiches? Ed probably means the sandwiches are unmanly which isn't fair to manly gay guys. |
| 2:08
| Of course one of the advantages of being gay is you don't have to be manly. Being a dude can be a real hassle because you have to keep up that tough guy persona. |
| 2:09
| Matt told Steve to watch the extra features on the Borat DVD but he hasn't gotten around to it yet. |
| 2:11
| Steve is trying to get his NCAA brackets filled out even though the games have started. He doesn't know the outcome of any of them. Tina is running the pool this year and it seems like that's all she's doing. |
| 2:12
| Tina sent Steve an email last night saying she needed his brackets by 11:00 AM today. She also seemed upset that he didn't want to be in it. |
| 2:13
| Steve's trying not to look up at the TV or at Mark Czerniec's page because he doesn't want to cheat. He won't win anyway but he still doesn't want to cheat. |
| 2:14
| Sometimes Pete gets a coffee along with Steve's pick-me-up and refuses to Google the answer for the trivia game on the side of the cup. Steve has no problem doing that because it's just a free donut. |
| 2:15
| Steve was trying to figure out a new system for the brackets earlier in the week. The worst part of that was listeners kept sending him really complicated ideas to revamp the brackets. Steve felt bad for not reading them but it gave him a headache. |
| 2:16
| Steve decided to just go with Tina's bracket pool since he's basically paying her to run it for at least this week. Now that Tina is going through commercial log for Brendan she's up here all the time which means a lot of chit-chat. |
| 2:17
| Pete thought that Tina was coming to him for advice about her problems but as it turns out she tells everyone the same thing. |
| 2:18
| Yesterday Pete gave Tina some advice but then he walked down the hall and heard her asking Jim about the same thing. She was probably asking Stephanie the same thing as well. |
| 2:19
| Steve can see not wanting advice from Pete but Jim? Although Jim is a little more normal than Pete, seemingly. He's go the black girlfriend and all. Everyone around here is pretty weird, it's like the Land of Misfit Toys. If you put everyone together you'd have a normal person. |
| 2:20
| Pete tends to pick upsets because he doesn't have any rooting interest in any of the teams in the tournament. |
| 2:21
| Steve saw that his list of music for today was face up and Pete's was face down like he was going to surprise himself with this own list. |
| 2:22
| Pete is very proud of today's list even though we'll only play one song from it. It's a waste of time for him to put an entire CD together but Steve forgot he's making mixtapes for himself so he can look back on what he was listening to during any give week. |
| 2:23
| Pete structures the CD as if he had a fake radio show. Remind Steve never to listen to that. |
| 2:24
| Pete was building today's song off Steve's column in the Tribune today. Steve's really mad that he got the make up of the Black & Tan wrong. He would have never thought that the Guinness stayed on the top since it seems heavier. |
| 2:25
| Steve's never had a Black & Tan, who would order one? In Ireland they don't even mix them, they just do it for the American tourists. |
| 2:26
| Steve didn't see anyone drinking Black & Tan's in Ireland. Just people drinking beer, passing out on the bar for an hour and then waking up and drinking some more. All of them bring their kids to the bar too and they're just running around. |
| 2:27
| Everyone in Ireland as either a drunk or a recovering alcoholic. Steve had to broadcast from a bar when he was over there and it was just after he'd quit drinking. Plus Joe Kraslen was his engineer. |
| 2:28
| Dave McBride was in Ireland with his wife so they would spend all day sightseeing and then be exhausted during the broadcast. |
| 2:29
| Steve was there during St. Patrick's day and Guinness was giving the bar away in a contest. It was a local bar so all the regulars were really angry that their bar was being given away. |
| 2:30
| The Guinness rep was a short Jewish guy from New York who accused Steve of being an anti-semite. He's not an anti-Semite, the guy was a short Jewish guy from New York. |
| 2:31
| Then after the show that one sales guy Steve Scheu would call and tell him he was going to lose them the Guinness account. He was always trying to run power trips on Steve. |
| 2:32
| In honor of Steve's Tribune column Pete decided to go with a Pogues song. Steve likes the Pogues. Steve Earle, during his Irish period, worked with the Pogues and produced one of their albums. |
| 2:33
| Pete didn't know about the Steve Earle/Pogues connection. Is he mad that Steve knew something he didn't? Pete's probably writing "prove Tubby wrong today" on his notepad. |
| 2:34
| Song: Streams of Whiskey, Pogues |
| 2:37
| That was a pretty upbeat song. When Steve was there he didn't see anyone that happy. Pete recently saw a documentary about The Pogues and one of them said they could have never had success in Ireland with their kind of music. |
| 2:42
| As Steve went into that break Buzz mentioned that he was a little irritated because he was just about to launch into his slam on Irish music. |
| 2:43
| Buzz is old enough to remember a time when there was no rock & roll and it seems like he was forced to listen to music like that. Now everything's come full circle and it's cool to listen to the Pogues. |
| 2:44
| All of the Irish music sounds the same to Steve. It drives Buzz slightly nuts just having to listen to Irish music and he imagines you have to be drunk to sing it. Buzz will witness that firsthand when the Larkin & Moran Brothers are here tomorrow. |
| 2:45
| Every time the Larkin & Moran Brothers are here, Steve gets emails from actual Irish guys who say they're not playing authentic Irish music. |
| 2:46
| Tomorrow is St. Patrick's day on the show, unless Buzz wants to do a Saturday show. Pete started the celebrations a day early since that's how he does it. Chef Hans is also bringing in corned beef and cabbage today so the festivities have begun. |
| 2:47
| They already had the South Side parade last Sunday which seems like the more fun of the two. The downtown parade has become too sanitized. |
| 2:48
| As Steve mentioned earlier he got something wrong in his Tribune column today. Who would have thought that the Guinness floats to the top? It seems much heavier than Bass or Harp or whatever they use. |
| 2:49
| Steve would like to know what's in Guinness that makes it float to the top but he'll leave that up to the listeners or Mark Czerniec. Even though Steve doesn't drink any more he takes pride in his knowledge of alcoholic beverages. |
| 2:50
| Steve never ordered a Black & Tan because it seems like a waste of time. It still bums him out that he got it wrong but the Tribune is going to print a correction and they changed it in the online edition. |
| 2:51
| Steve made a joke about an Iraqi Car Bomb but his editor took it out. Steve said he didn't think there'd ever be a drink called an Iraqi Car Bomb because Muslims don't drink. He didn't argue that they were editing him though. |
| 2:52
| Everyone is afraid of printing something about Muslims because they'll end up in a jihad. |
| 2:53
| It's like how the Iranians are mad at the producers of that movie 300. One of their government officials actually believes that it's a conspiracy to disseminate negative information about Iranians. |
| 2:54
| Caller David has an actual Irish accent and he's also muffled. Steve loves the accent but it sounds like he has a rag in his mouth. Has he been abducted? |
| 2:55
| The reason Guinness floats to the top of a Black & Tan is because it's carbonated with a mixture of nitrogen and carbon dioxide, while Bass is just carbonated with carbon dioxide. |
| 2:56
| Now that Steve looks at his column some more he's noticing they took out a ton of his car bomb stuff. Is he going to have to go to the Sun-Times? |
| 2:57
| When the editors send the article back to Steve it's very hard for him to tell what's been taken out. He just looks at the word count because he really doesn't want to know what was taken out. |
| 2:58
| Steve wouldn't really care about his joke being taken out if he hadn't messed up the Black & Tan thing. |
| 2:59
| Steve could have written way worse Irish stuff too, like his theory about how Irish girls are cute when they're younger but look like potatoes when they're older. |
| 3:00
| Next year Steve's writing his column about that phenomenon. Buzz doesn't think it'll ever see the light of day. |
| 3:07
| Steve doesn't know what happens to those Irish girls when they go off to college but they come back with the potato faces. Maybe they get a little too Irish in college. |
| 3:08
| A lot of times the girls come back from college knocked up too. Steve's seen it happen in his own area. |
| 3:09
| Caller JIm thinks Steve should employ the Groucho Marx method of screenwriting. Groucho would put in jokes that he knew the censors would take out so they'd focus on those instead of the ones he really wanted in there. To Steve there's no such thing as extra jokes. Just like there's no extra cocaine. |
| 3:10
| Steve doesn't think anyone is really going to care about the Black & Tan mistake except those people who emailed him about it. And even those people blamed the editor. |
| 3:11
| Terry Armour also said it was the editors fault but Steve doesn't want to do that. It has been changed in the online edition which is the permanent record. When the scholars look back on Steve's work and what led to the fall of modern civilization they won't find clues in that article. |
| 3:12
| That was Steve's first big factual error in one of his columns, to which Terry responded "welcome to my nightmare." Steve gets the feeling that there are a lot of factual mistakes in Terry's columns, he doesn't seem too precise. |
| 3:13
| Buzz thinks that the two people who emailed Steve about the mistake must be the only two people reading the Tribune that know the Guinness rises to the top. |
| 3:14
| One of the guys who emailed Steve had beer in his email address so he might be one of those homebrew guys. |
| 3:15
| It seems like homebrew guys are on the internet a lot. They're very close to being guys who make bombs. Instead of fertilizer though they went with yeast. |
| 3:16
| Steve did just get another email about the mistake but it's more positive. One of the other things cut out mentioned car bombs on the streets of Dublin but Belfast is more known for the car bombs. Maybe Steve didn't do his research. |
| 3:17
| Song: Where the Streets Have No Name, U2 |
| 3:26
| Tonight is a television first courtesy of The Office. They're billing tonight's 2 episodes as a newpeat. The episodes are old but they're adding new material to make it an hour long. |
| 3:27
| Steve has one more email about this Black & Tan thing. In Ireland if you ordered one you'd get punched in the face. The real term is a Half & Half because it's half Guinness and half lager. |
| 3:28
| The Black & Tans were an English regiment that occupied island. This girl also included some Wikipedia entries but Steve needs to stop. |
| 3:29
| Steve doesn't even want a clarification printed in the paper because they look stupid. Remember when Feder had Jimmy Mac as a producer in his column. Then Mac made him change it to production director. |
| 3:30
| Rob gets away with mistakes in his column by printing the correction as a "Devotion to Accuracy". If he was really devoted to accuracy though he would have called Jimmy Mac before he wrote the column. |
| 3:31
| Steve could do a mailbag segment but we're already pretty behind in the breaks. Pete's Thursday segment seems endless lately because his stammering is getting worse. At this point Brendan talks faster than he does. |
| 3:32
| Pete's stammering is the result of him working on his timing. He's going in the wrong direction though. It's like when you take golf lessons, you get worse before you get better. |
| 3:33
| Last night at about 5:50 Steve was going to do a mailbag and then he was told the show was over at 6:00. He'd forgotten all about it so when he found out it was very exciting, like a snow day. |
| 3:34
| Steve doesn't like when the show ends early but it was good to forget about it yesterday. Buzz doesn't care if the show ends early, it just gives him more time to go home and bid on new amplifiers. |
| 3:35
| Steve likes to end the show exactly at 6:00 or 7:00 for a Bulls game. Last week he got a little jammed up with a Rush broadcast and he couldn't stop talking, even though people were telling him to stop. |
| 3:36
| Last Friday's Aloha Friday theme started a little late because Steve forgot it was longer. Even though it was just a Rush game and not a Bulls game on the NBA network, Skynyrd still started it exactly at 7:00. Steve was a little mad about that but he didn't punch Skynyrd. |
| 3:42
| Steve didn't recognize the last tape in the Comcast intro. It was Scott Podsednik (twinkle toes) talking about his groin injury. Steve doesn't care how bad his groin hurts, he needs to run normally. |
| 3:43
| On the phone is Mark Schanowsky. He's watching some college basketball right now, but Steve hasn't finished filling out his brackets yet. That's sort of a counterproductive sports report so Steve should finish it up. |
| 3:44
| Mark tells Steve to go with the favorites for the first round. He has Georgetown going all the way to the championship so Steve will take that too. |
| 3:45
| Mark had Old Dominion going to the Sweet 16 so he's already wrong there and he's a sports guy. |
| 3:46
| When you're filling out a bracket your best bet is to go with your first choice. It seems like every time you go back and make a change it blows up in your face. |
| 3:47
| Steve saw something on Real Sports about the Wisconsin basketball program and he really liked the coach they had up there. It seems like he's really got it together. |
| 3:48
| There's really nothing going on at Comcast Sportsnet today, they're crossing teams off their brackets like everyone else in the country. |
| 3:49
| Mark Prior's making his minor league Spring Training start tomorrow. Mark feels bad for all the Cubs fans who though Prior would be their teams salvation. |
| 3:50
| Steve thinks Prior is a headcase though. When Steve was working in Detroit he was friends with Mark Fidrych. He had a great first season but then he became a headcase too. |
| 3:51
| The only thing the Bears are doing to break Steve's heart today is that Tank Johnson's hearing is going on to determine if he's doing any jail time. |
| 3:52
| Buzz doesn't think that Tank would even be having this hearing if the Bears had won the Super Bowl. |
| 3:53
| The Sox are off today so they're trying to regroup and find their fifth starter. Steve thinks they should try looking in Philadelphia. |
| 3:54
| One rumor Mark has been hearing around MLB is that the Sox might try to trade the Phillies for Jon Leiber and Aaron Rowand, although he's not sure who he'd have to give up. |
| 4:00
| Headlines with Buzz |
| 4:01
| That Khalid Sheikh Mohammed doesn't look so great these days. Steve's seen photos that look like they're from a yearbook and he looks fine but then there's that one where he's all fat and sloppy. |
| 4:02
| Mohammed has probably slimmed down a little bit since he's been in Gitmo for a few years. He confessed to masterminding the 9/11 attacks as well as killing Daniel Pearl and attempting to assassinate two presidents. |
| 4:03
| If he really did mastermind all that stuff then it seems like we don't need to look for Osama bin Laden. |
| 4:04
| Hillary Clinton is now saying that if she was president she would leave a limited number of troops in Iraq. Limited like 4 or 5? |
| 4:05
| Angelina Jolie has adopted a third child, this time from Vietnam. Brat Pitt has to love that. He was probably thinking they were getting some Vietnamese take-out and instead they adopted a kid. |
| 4:06
| Last night's viewer question on Fox news was whether or not Angelina Jolie should be able to adopt another kid. How is Steve, or anyone else for that matter, supposed to know that? |
| 4:07
| The public smoking ban has gone into effect in Cook County today, except in Skokie. The loophole in that law is that the individual towns can pass their own legislation that allows for smoking in designated spaces. |
| 4:13
| We're getting a lot of phone calls right now, did Steve say something wrong? Usually when the phones light up like that it's because he said something wrong. It's actually a Bulls ticket giveaway. |
| 4:14
| Steve feels really bad for those kids who hit the steal median on Lower Wacker, but it seems like it was the driver's fault. |
| 4:15
| The kid was probably driving one of those Fast & the Furious cars and he wanted to go fast on Lower Wacker. You don't get from Chinatown to the Northern Suburbs on Lower Wacker. |
| 4:16
| The kid was revving his engine at the stoplight and then he took off and fishtailed on wet pavement into the median. |
| 4:17
| It really irritates Buzz that the kids in the other car were saying he wasn't speeding. It's obvious they were down there to race. Steve really feels bad for the girls in the car because they were just passengers. |
| 4:18
| There has to be some culpability here though. Everyone is acting like someone jumped out of the bushes and killed these kids but people are on Lower Wacker in those cars driving like maniacs. Steve's not saying they kid deserved to die but if he's speeding on Lower Wacker on wet pavement he's going to get into an accident. |
| 4:19
| Steve's also not impressed with that kid's Asian Jesus. Hopefully he's not an art major or anything. |
| 4:20
| There's also stuff in the paper about how the accident occurred on an old part of Wacker that wasn't part of the new renovation that included brighter lights. Brighter lights had nothing to do with the accident. That's not even an old part of Lower Wacker. |
| 4:21
| It seems like the kid was at fault in the accident. Your car doesn't burst into flames after hitting a median unless you're going really fast. |
| 4:22
| Left out of all the articles on this is all the Fast & the Furious kids who are driving really fast down there. Almost every night when Steve leaves work he almost gets killed by some kid in one of those cars. |
| 4:26
| On Entourage Jeremy Piven's agent is Asian and has one of those Fast & the Furious cars. Steve sees a lot of Asians and Latinos driving those cars. |
| 4:27
| It seems like the newspapers are blaming Lower Wacker for the accident, as if it's taken another life. |
| 4:28
| Steve goes home that way all the time and if you're on Columbus he goes by that intersection and it's completely fine there unless you're going to go from zero to 60 in a few seconds from a stoplight. That's what causes the car to burst into flames. |
| 4:29
| Those cars have too much power for how light they are plus a lot of them have nitrous tanks to increase the speed. |
| 4:30
| A lot of people don't come down against the kids, and Steve's not against them. He's just against the Fast & the Furious mentality. |
| 4:31
| Steve doesn't like seeing Lower Wacker maligned like this. He loves that street plus you've got the Blues Brothers and Batman Begins. |
| 4:32
| Song: Life in the Fast Lane, Eagles |
| 4:36
| Sometimes guys in the band say The Eagles and sometimes they say Eagles. It's definitely Life in the Fast Lane, not Life in Fast Lane. That's how Borat talks. |
| 4:40
| Live read: Arby's |
| 4:41
| It's very hard to talk about Arby's while you're eating Arby's but that's not going to stop Steve. |
| 4:42
| How about a mailbag, Steve promised one earlier. |
| 4:43
| The first emailer is a longtime listener, since the Insane Coho Lips days. He loves when Steve makes fun of Drew and the sales staff. Lucky for this guy there's no shortage of material from them. |
| 4:44
| The emailer also wanted to let Steve know that Ben Gay's car is an MGB Spitfire not an MG like he said yesterday. MG sounds better but maybe he should have a Mini Cooper. |
| 4:45
| Today's Thought of the Day was about Chef Hans. Buzz dwelled on it for quite some time but was never able to fully come to grips with it. It was both muddled and existential. |
| 4:46
| There are a lot of disgruntled people on the Thought of the Day mailing list though. Most of those people joined up just to hate Steve and then he shut down the forum so when they get an email from him out of nowhere they're really mad. |
| 4:47
| Buzz hates to interrupt the mailbag but he's coming down to the final minutes of his eBay auction. We shouldn't say too much about it or else someone will swoop in and buy it out from under him. |
| 4:48
| Buzz isn't even sure he wants the amp any more but it's too late now. The auction is over but Steve can't tell if he won because he can't log in. |
| 4:49
| Steve thought Buzz was stopping the mailbag to talk about Tank Johnson but then he remembered the auction. Tank got 4 months in prison but it could have been a year. |
| 4:53
| Buzz won the auction, paying $738 for his new amp via Auction Sniper. Buzz looked at the bid history and the last one before his came in 2 hours ago so there was no one waiting to swoop in. |
| 4:54
| Buzz couldn't be happier with himself for winning this bid. He also had help from Ed Silha and the listeners who suggested the bidding robot. He'll have to bring the amp in and treat us all to a jam. Buzz has now spent $1200 on two amps that he really doesn't need. |
| 4:55
| Steve has to talk about Tank Johnson at some point, even though it's not as important as Buzz's amp. Where does he keep those amps? Are they on display in his house? |
| 4:56
| Tank was ordered to serve 4 months at the Cook County jail but he could have done up to a year. Do they even have a bed that he'll fit in? It always says pleaded in the paper but shouldn't it be pled? |
| 4:57
| Steve has a lot going on right now, standby for a phone call. |
| 4:58
| Caller Nancy was just walking down State Street and there were fire trucks all around the Macy's with smoke coming out of the 6th or 7th floor. |
| 4:59
| With all this action going on Steve could really use a pick-me-up. Steve is being paid to eat a lot of food today, first Arby's, now Dunkin' Donuts. How will he keep his girlish figure? |
| 5:00
| Caller Leonard thinks Tank's judge did Bears fans a great service because 4 months gets him out right before mini-camp. |
| 5:08
| It's ironic that in the Wrigleyville apartment fire everyone has sympathy for the crazy homeless lady who was burning her shoes to keep warm but in the Lower Wacker crash everyone is blaming the road. |
| 5:09
| Every time Steve rings the cowbell he gets complaints from podcast listeners. Apparently there's no limiters on the podcast so it's as loud on there as it is in the studio. So for all the podcast listeners out there, get ready. |
| 5:10
| Caller Hank wanted to let Steve know that Tank could get out of jail early for good behavior. If you're in Cook County jail for a real long time though and Tank Johnson waltzes in, you're going to mess with him. |
| 5:11
| Steve is eating again, Chef Hans has brought in corned beef. It's the tenderest corned beef Buzz has ever had and it's on toast to keep the bread from getting soggy. |
| 5:12
| Hans explains how to make corned beef at home. It's really easy to get brisket because Dominick's always has it packaged and ready to go. |
| 5:13
| Hans could open a deli with this corned beef. |
| 5:14
| Steve's watching ABC right now and he hasn't seen anything about a fire at Macy's. Right now they're running a story about necklaces that are being recalled. |
| 5:15
| Steve's not disputing what he caller said though, he just hasn't seen anything about it yet. She did say it was on the 6th or 7th floor so maybe someone in the food court was burning something. |
| 5:16
| So we did get the scoop but it might not be a real scoop or one that anyone wants. |
| 5:17
| Steve counts the corned beef recipe as enough for Meat Talk. That Swiss chocolate Hans brought last week was great too. Can we get some more of that? |
| 5:18
| The first question is about tenderizing meat. This emailers mom and grandmother used to tenderize meat with a special metal mallet. |
| 5:19
| When you pound out meat with a mallet it's for making cutlets. Usually you flatten it out to make it thinner so you can roll stuff up in it. |
| 5:20
| The next emailer is planning a wedding and wants to know the difference between medallions and filet mignon. Some of the people in the wedding don't like rare meat. To that, Steve would say "who cares?" |
| 5:21
| A filet can be from 8 to 16 oz while medallions are 3 to 4. They're also from the smaller end of the tenderloin. |
| 5:22
| Standby for a breaking story. Jeff Joniak is on the phone and the Bears off-season fun continues. |
| 5:23
| Buzz has asked everyone else this, so he's going to ask Jeff. If the Bears had won the Super Bowl, would Tank Johnson be going to jail? |
| 5:24
| Buzz thinks the prosecutor wouldn't have even asked for jail time if the Bears had won but Jeff disagrees. |
| 5:25
| Steve sides with Buzz on this one. The gun arrest was definitely Packers fans but the jail time is because he broke probation and that was in Skokie and there are a lot of Bears fans. |
| 5:26
| The NFL is probably going to suspend Tank Johnson so we won't be seeing him until October. |
| 5:27
| Hans wanted to let Jeff know that one of his buddies is coming to dinner at S & W tonight, Barry Alvarez. Jeff has actually never met Barry but that's what Hans does, it's the name-drop pick and roll. |
| 5:28
| Hans also met Melissa Milano but he doesn't know who she is. Doesn't he mean Alyssa Milano? |
| 5:29
| Back to Meat Talk. If you're having a wedding at a banquet hall you're not going to have problems with rare meat. They cook it all at once so just ask for medium well. |
| 5:35
| Steve's scene from Let's Go to Prison is in the deleted scenes on the DVD. It's a big part, he can't believe it was taken out. |
| 5:36
| Buzz thought he'd hear some Dick Cheney in the judge part but |
| 5:37
| Stephanie from the office is down at the so-called Macy's fire but there's nothing there. She does have the megaphone with her just in case there was something going on. She should start giving people the all clear. |
| 5:38
| There was no fire so Steve's going to revoke her dinner. We can't pay off on a bad scoop. Buzz thinks someone should call Macy's before we revoke it just to make sure. |
| 5:39
| Steve's going to need to see an actual wire story about a fire, he's not going to settle for some knucklehead on the Macy's switchboard. |
| 5:40
| Live read: Townstone Financial |
| 5:41
| David is actually referencing someone from yesterday's live read in today's story. He's getting a little big for his britches if he thinks these things can be serialized. |
| 5:42
| It's not like David is a showbiz icon or anything. He definitely seems like the kind of guy who can get too big for his britches really quickly. |
| 5:43
| David's other problem is that he's got Jeff Schwartz consulting for him. Now it's a vicious, psychotic circle of maniacs pumping up other maniacs. |
| 5:44
| Caller Al wanted to let Steve know there was a small fire at Macy's on the 5th floor today. There were 7 fire trucks and 2 ambulances so that sounds like a fire. |
| 5:52
| Stephanie really showed Steve something by blaring the megaphone and siren right there on State Street just because he asked her to. |
| 5:53
| Song: Firestarter, Jimmy Eat World |
| 5:59
| Steve was hoping to do news right now but then he realized that Buzz probably still hasn't come down from his amplifier purchase. |
| 6:00
| Buzz got off all the amplifier sites about 20 minutes but he should have been off about an hour ago. Buzz can be ready for the next segment. This is the next segment and it'll go on for about 20 minutes. |
| 6:01
| Steve can do sports he just thought it would be funny to tease him since he knew he wasn't ready. Buzz has been on an emotional high for the past two days and now he's searching for another kick or he was 20 minutes ago. That's not enough time to do the news unless he does it about amps. He might be looking to sell one via Uncle Buzzy's Amp Shop also. |
| 6:02
| Buzz only bought two amps but he's acting like he killed someone and needs Steve to help him dispose of the body. Steve probably has 5 or 6 amps and he's not even a gigging musician. |
| 6:03
| Buzz has wet Steve's whistle and now he wants a Kustom amp like the one he had as a kid. Luckily Steve can't remember his eBay password, or his login to get his password sent to him. |
| 6:04
| Buzz would love it if Steve could take an amp of his hands but he already has a Bassman. |
| 6:05
| The Cubs beat Seattle 9-5 today with Cliff Floyd hitting a 3-run homer. What are the odds that both the Cubs and Sox would have a player named Floyd? |
| 6:12
| Steve needs to look over his bracket to see if he picked any of the winners. Now that he's in it, he's into it. |
| 6:14
| Buzz didn't fill out a bracket because he doesn't believe in basketball. He does gamble though. |
| 6:15
| News with Buzz |
| 6:16
| Despite pleas of leniency from Lovie Smith and Brian Urlacher a judge sentenced Tank Johnson to 4 months in jail. |
| 6:17
| The alleged mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, has also said he beheaded Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. |
| 6:20
| Buzz better not let Aimee hear him say he doesn't like basketball. |
| 6:21
| Aimee knows Buzz doesn't like basketball and she's learned to live with it along with many other things. |
| 6:35
| Ex-Bulls wife Kendra Meeks Davis was found not guilty in a road rage case. She's the wife of Antonio Davis. |
| 6:36
| This is the same woman who got into it with that Axelrod kid at the Bulls game so she seems like a bit of a hothead. |
| 6:37
| We might already have an open mailbag but Steve's going to open it again just to be on the safe side. |
| 6:38
| Steve left off on an email about the Thought of the Day emails. Today's was about Chef Hans coming in for Meat Talk. |
| 6:39
| A lot of the people on the mailing list were people who registered for the forum. There are a lot of angry, disgruntled people out there since Steve shut it down. |
| 6:40
| There was one guy on the forum who couldn't stop talking about satellite radio so Steve booted him. Then he was mad for getting an email from Steve. |
| 6:41
| All these people have to do is unsubscribe from the email list. Of course when they send him an email they get back on the list so they're just perpetuating something they don't want to happen. |
| 6:42
| The first email starts off "I got so many friends I can't even keep up with my fans? OK Mr. Narcissist" although in the email narcissist is spelled wrong. Steve doesn't even know what that means since the Thought of the Day goes out to fans of the show. |
| 6:43
| The next email starts out "what the hell is this?" even though it clearly says what it is. It's the Thought of the Day. |
| 6:44
| The final one is a note to say that Steve is the hottest man around and he wishes he played on the other team. Even the dudes are diggin' Steve right now. |
| 6:45
| Song: Try a Little Tenderness, Otis Redding |
| 6:49
| That was from the Monterey Pop Festival and Otis Redding died not long after. If you're going to leave something behind you want it to be that good. |
| 6:50
| Otis Redding's plane went into Lake Mendota up in Wisconsin. Cheap Trick was supposed to open a show for him but back then they were known as the Grim Reapers. |
| 6:54
| Some bad news for Cubs fans. First Mark Prior and now Kerry Wood again. The Cubs announced, reluctantly, that the one time ace won't throw for the next 2 or 3 days because of arm soreness. |
| 6:55
| Wood put strain on his arm trying to avoid a hole on the pitching mound. It sounds like he did the same thing as that Gavin Floyd only Wood didn't fall off the mound. |
| 6:56
| Why do they even have to tell anyone he's going to sit out a few days? Who's going to know his triceps are sore? Brendan thinks Wood would probably tired of Prior getting all the attention. |
| 6:57
| What kind of pitcher's mound has a hole on it? Don't they have people who take care of this kind of stuff? |
| 6:58
| Steve hit a pothole on the way home last night that was hardcore. It was rectangular and looked like it had been patched but then the patch fell out. It was hardcore in a bad-for-your-car kind of way. |
