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| 2:02
| Matt is out of time, although he's gone overtime. He could stay on until 3:00 for all Steve cares. |
| 2:03
| Actually Matt can't stay on until 3:00 but he would if he could. When Steve first started off in radio he was always hassled for running late even though the guy after him was just playing classic rock records. |
| 2:04
| Matt and Brendan are on tomorrow for their Saturday show and then on Sunday before the Rush game live from the Allstate. That's a 7-day work week. |
| 2:05
| Matt's also doing another Jiffy Lube appearance today. Is he getting paid for all this because he hasn't come to Steve for help with negotiations. |
| 2:06
| Steve's willing to take the standard 10% for helping Matt negotiate. He doesn't care if he goes a little past 2:00 though. Steve's dream is to one day have Matt and Brendan be so popular that they'll be on until 3:00 and he'll still get paid the same amount. |
| 2:07
| Does Dan come out to the Allstate with Matt and Brendan? He usually goes to the sporting events and he'll give Matt the break sign. |
| 2:08
| Steve's been meaning to go out to a Rush game, maybe he'll go on Sunday. 2:00 seems like a perfect time for a game. |
| 2:09
| Now with no football there's nothing for Steve to do on Sundays. He is winning the NCAA pool so he's interested in that. |
| 2:10
| Steve filled his bracket out after the first round has started and he got all of the picks right so far but he didn't cheat. Tina, who's in charge of the pool, has put an asterisk next to Steve's name to indicate he picked after the tournament started. |
| 2:11
| Steve took everyone out to dinner at Smith & Wollensky a few weeks ago, why would he cheat them all in this tournament? |
| 2:12
| Matt's never seen Steve watch college basketball. He watches it sometimes and he was into it when U of I was doing really well. |
| 2:13
| Matt's not in the NCAA pool with everyone else but he's thinking of joining a NASCAR fantasy league with Jimmy Mac. |
| 2:16
| Song: Arthur Guinness, Larkin & Moran Brothers |
| 2:18
| Well there ya go, that's the Larkin & Moran Brothers. That's basically the Unicorn Song but they inserted Guinness in place of unicorn. |
| 2:19
| Steve has figured out that the Larkin & Moran Brothers are the Irish Jimmy Buffett. Jimmy's all about margaritas, the Larkin & Moran Brothers are all about Guinness. |
| 2:20
| There are 6 members of the band crammed in Pete's clown car studio. Right before the show Steve ran into Dan Larkin's son coming out of his Green Room bathroom. He actually thought it was Dan because he looks just like him only younger. |
| 2:21
| The kid wanted to shake Steve's hand but he didn't hear any washing so he was hesitant. |
| 2:22
| The band is also traveling with Father Bill McFarlane. They're traveling with their own priest so they can always be confessing. Another part of the band's racket is that they always keep their wives knocked up so they can't come to the show where the boys party with drunk Irish girls. |
| 2:23
| Father Bill is the one outside the studio wearing a Hawaiian shirt. When the boys first met him he was a bartender. He must have had a really bad month to go from bartender right to priest. |
| 2:24
| The Larkin & Moran Brothers are playing the Kerry Piper again this year but with a bigger tent since they sold it out last year. With St. Patrick's day on Saturday it's really the perfect storm of drinking. |
| 2:25
| On Friday you can go to the Forever Green ball at Navy Pier and then still have Saturday to party some more. By Sunday you're pulling everything together and recovering. |
| 2:26
| The band has a new CD out but when Steve was listening to it he thought it was the old one. |
| 2:27
| Steve wants to grab a couple more songs from the band but he also wanted to ask them about this whole Black & Tan/Half & Half thing he got caught up in yesterday. |
| 2:28
| Steve doesn't want to lose his cred as a drinker but it just seems like the Guinness would float to the bottom since it's heavier. Real drinkers don't have time to wait for a bartender to mix something like that. |
| 2:32
| The Larkin & Moran Brothers are here. You know why they're called that? Because there are Larkins and Morans in the band. |
| 2:33
| So back to this Black & Tan thing. The Black & Tan's were an English regiment that terrorized Irish people during the early part of the last century. |
| 2:34
| In Ireland they call it a Half & Half which is what Steve should have said. He just went to the Guinness website and they're really trying to get you to buy Harp because they distribute it. |
| 2:36
| There's also the Irish Car Bomb which is a shot of Jameson and Bailey's dropped into a pint of Guinness. Mike Dahl drinks those. |
| 2:37
| Steve's getting a lot of angry emails about the Black & Tan thing but he's not trying to be a poser. |
| 2:38
| Are the boys looking for representation because Steve's putting together his own stable. He represents himself quite well too. |
| 2:39
| In addition to all the Black & Tan emails now Steve is going to get emails from real Irish people complaining that the Larkin & Moran Brothers don't play authentic Irish music. |
| 2:40
| Steve's heard authentic Irish music and it's boring and depressing. |
| 2:41
| Song: Paddy Public Enemy No. 1, Larkin & Moran Brothers |
| 2:45
| That song was actually written by Shane McGowan of the Pogues. Those guys are from London but they're similar to what the Larkin & Moran Brothers do. The only thing they're missing is a drum guy. |
| 2:46
| The Larkin & Moran Brothers also got rid of their tin whistle on Steve's suggestion. That thing is the worst instrument along with the bagpipes. |
| 2:51
| Steve watched a few episode of the Black Donnellys and he likes the concept but the kids don't seem tough enough to take over a neighborhood. They're a little too pretty and Hollywood. |
| 2:52
| Steve wanted to talk to Father Bill, the Larkin & Moran Brothers personal priest. Steve would like to talk to him but he doesn't have anything to confess. |
| 2:53
| Steve's wondering what led Father Bill from bartending to the priesthood. Was it a bad month? |
| 2:54
| Father Bill has wanted to be a priest since he was 12 and he finally decided to enter the Seminary. Does he have nuns always doing stuff for him? If you ask one to get you a beer they can't say no. |
| 2:55
| Steve's a Universal Life Church minister. How many weddings has Father Bill performed? Steve's done 60. |
| 2:56
| Father Bill has been ordained for 2 years so he's only done 12 weddings. He has done about 60 funerals though. Steve hasn't done any of those, that's not something he wants to mess with. |
| 2:57
| Steve has almost the entire Catholic mass memorized even though he's not Catholic. He knows that once they go up for communion it's almost over. First you have to get through the awkward handshake. |
| 2:58
| Whenever Steve's at a Catholic church he knows that he's shaking hands with people who don't like him. He's supposed to say "and also with you" but he can't do it. |
| 2:59
| When Father Bill first got to his church he told parishioners that short priests give short homilies. A lot of people go to church for the dogma but Steve likes a good homily. |
| 3:00
| Song: Paddy Visits Galway, Larkin & Moran Brothers |
| 3:03
| Steve's heard that song before and it's about one of the band members who went a little wayward on a visit to Ireland. They can't say who it is because that person is now married. |
| 3:04
| Steve can guy code the whole thing right now. It sounds like the guy had a lot of fun but nothing like that happened to Steve when he was in Ireland. |
| 3:12
| The Larkin & Moran Brothers have come and gone. Steve likes those guys because it seems like they have a lot of fun. |
| 3:13
| Those guys are the Jimmy Buffetts of Chicago Irish music. Instead of singing about margaritas they sing about beer. |
| 3:14
| That analogy just occurred to Steve today and now he's got big plans for them. Jimmy Buffett can't go on for ever. |
| 3:15
| Steve's first step is to de-Irish the music a little bit. They should slow down the songs a little. Steve doesn't really have big plans for them though. |
| 3:16
| Buzz is very bitter about Irish music. There are going to be 3,000 people at Navy Pier tonight so someone has to like it. |
| 3:17
| Irish music is no more obscure than blues music. Steve can see Buzz dressed up like Michael Flatley. |
| 3:18
| Buzz has to admit that Irish girls dancing are pretty hot. That would all be part of the show, it 's not just them in their driver's caps. |
| 3:19
| Maybe Steve does have big plans for the band. He's envisioning a staged Catholics versus Protestants fight before the show. |
| 3:20
| Buzz denies that he likes Irish music but he's been using Irish Spring soap for years. Steve used to use a soap called Nazi Midnight but it didn't smell very good. |
| 3:24
| Is Buzz just going to get crankier and crankier the more we play Irish music? Pete has Irish music in every rejoin but we should have blues rejoins for every Blue Monday. |
| 3:25
| Pete's not responding to that suggestion, he's probably dismantling the studio from the Larkin & Moran Brothers. He won't be happy when he hears about it though, it's just more work. |
| 3:26
| Pete's already mad that Steve cut down his Music Snob Corner page on the website. Ed put together a page that would feature every song on the CD that Pete makes every week but who cares about that? |
| 3:27
| Steve just wants a link to the one song that Pete selects every Thursday. If listeners want to know what's on the entire CD they can meet Pete at a bar. |
| 3:28
| Steve went to the page yesterday and it had the whole list that he was given in the studio yesterday plus a dreamy picture of Pete. Ed might have fallen out of love with Steve and in love with Pete. Pete doesn't hassle him about the ice cream shooters and Ed likes a man who holds his coffee cup with two hands. |
| 3:29
| The one song that Pete plays every Thursday is obscure enough for Steve. Plus the list on Pete's page didn't have all the songs that were on the list that Steve had in the studio so he knew he had to nip it in the bud. |
| 3:30
| Steve doesn't like having the list of 22 songs because it throws him off. He's a very purposeful person so he just wants a CD with one song on it. |
| 3:31
| Pete doesn't devote a lot of time to making those CDs and he gets all his work done. He should spend his extra time speed dating though, not making mixtapes for himself and Ed. |
| 3:32
| Pete likes to make a CD with different choices in case something else comes up in his and Steve's conversation. Steve doesn't buy that, Pete is a music snob and he likes to make lists. |
| 3:33
| Ed is a music snob also but Pete probably doesn't think Ed is as much of a music snob as he is. Ed seems to only like bands that he's met while Pete's snobbery is more from afar. |
| 3:34
| Between the three music snobs on the staff none of them really agree on anything. Jim's sort of a music snob but he's a little more mainstream. He'll go to a Lollapalooza but Pete won't. |
| 3:35
| Matt Dahl is a music snob and Pat sent him to audition wedding bands but he didn't like any of them. Mike Dahl is the man for that job because he's Mr. Frat Boy. Matt just said all the bands were cheesy all wedding bands are cheesy. |
| 3:38
| Steve thinks he accidentally caused some trouble in the ranks of the Larkin & Moran Brothers. When Steve went into the Green Room after they were leaving Joe Larkin was in their talking to his wife who wanted to know which band member Paddy Visits Galway was about. |
| 3:39
| Steve apologized but he just assumed that the song had been played enough that all the wives had heard it. Apparently they don't pay attention to the lyrics but they also introduce the song with a story about a wild night in Galway. |
| 3:40
| The band is traveling with a priest so technically that absolves them of a lot of stuff. |
| 3:41
| Pete's in for the Blue Monday music in the rejoins, that sounds like a great idea. |
| 3:42
| Steve's going to be talking to someone from Comcast shortly. Mike Dahl sent over some footage from the promos they filmed here on Tuesday. |
| 3:43
| Not only has Mike Dahl been saying that Steve's hair looked bad but he also said that Steve should have shaved his beard. |
| 3:44
| Steve plays the promo for Buzz. He doesn't think his hair or beard looks bad at all. |
| 3:45
| The prize wheel looks great in the background too. Steve usually has mixed emotions about the wheel but he loves it when he sees it on TV. |
| 3:46
| Steve doesn't care what he looks like he just wants people to tune in. They won't see what he looks like when they're listening and there are way uglier people in radio than him. Steve Cochran comes to mind. |
| 3:47
| Periodically Steve Cochran is on CNN because he's a liberal arguer guy so Buzz is forced to look at him. He's definitely got a face for radio. |
| 3:48
| Steve will film more promos if that's what Comcast wants but in the meantime the one they have now is fine. Mike's been fixating on Steve's hair for 3 days but he doesn't care. Mike's in TV so he cares what he looks like. He gets a haircut every two weeks. |
| 3:49
| Isn't that the same intro we had for yesterday's Comcast Sports Report? It definitely sounded the same. Do we need to have that everyday? It does sound more professional which might make a Gayle Fisher want to be on more. |
| 3:50
| The last time Steve saw Gayle was a few weeks in Arizona where Ronnie Woo Woo had somehow latched on to her. |
| 3:51
| Ronnie Woo Woo made some much noise while he was at Spring Training that the Cubs media relations people had to ask him to stop. They actually have footage of that at Comcast and he's very loud. |
| 3:52
| There's quite a bit going on today. There are a few tournament upsets to talk about. Notre Dame lost to Winthrop. Winthrop? Where's that even at? Wisconsin is also in a little bit of trouble, they're losing to Texas A & M Corpus Christi. |
| 3:53
| Mark Prior made a start in a minor league intersquad game today. He pitched 4 innings. Was he pitching to anyone over the age of 16? |
| 3:54
| There's also talk about the NFL suspended Tank Johnson. There's a standard 4 game suspension for jail time. |
| 3:55
| The NFL has this code of conduct that they want players to adhere to but the sport is all about trying to paralyze people. |
| 3:56
| Gayle doesn't feel sorry for Tank but Steve and Buzz both feel that he wouldn't be going to jail if the Bears had won the Super Bowl. |
| 3:57
| Steve heard that Tank gets his own cell because he's well-known. That made wonder if he was well-known enough to get his own cell at Cook County should he ever have to do time there. Maybe the sheriff should publish a list of those people who'd get their own cell if they were locked up. |
| 3:58
| Lovie and Urlacher both dressed up in suits and showed up to court hoping to convince the judge to be lenient on Tank. If Steve's ever in that situation Buzz will probably show up and make things worse with his antics. |
| 3:59
| It wasn't until last night when Buzz saw the prosecutor that he realized Tank deserves to do time. He was on probation so he shouldn't have had a gun but he was collecting an entire arsenal. |
| 4:00
| Steve thinks that jail will be good for Tank. He'll definitely lose some weight and the workout facilities are great. |
| 4:01
| Caller Dave wanted to let Steve know that WInthrop is in South Carolina. They're in the Big South conference. |
| 4:02
| Steve wants to take a call that Brendan has been screened but he doesn't want to get anyone in trouble. Caller Teresa is a Cook County Corrections officer and Tank is under her supervision. |
| 4:03
| If Steve ever ends up in Cook County her and Teresa will share a cell. Wow! Steve's not sure he wants to talk to her, it sounds like she could get herself in trouble. |
| 4:04
| Brendan needs to double-check with Teresa just to make sure she can go on the air because if Steve ever ends up in Cook County she's his hook up. It's only a matter of time before he ends up there for something. He wants it to be like in Goodfellas only he'll be making Swedish meatballs in his cell. |
| 4:07
| Steve had Brendan talk to Teresa and she decided maybe she shouldn't go on the air. She should call back and get a prize though. |
| 4:08
| If Steve really was the jerk that everyone says he is he would just let Teresa go on the air. He has a feeling that she'd get fired for talking about Tank though and she's a loyal listener. |
| 4:09
| Steve also doesn't want to lose his hook-up at Cook County because he wants to be able to make Swedish meatballs in his cell and listen to ABBA. |
| 4:10
| A few years ago a listener who worked for an airline called in and Steve didn't think she should be saying what she was saying but she said she'd be fine. She ended up losing her job though. |
| 4:11
| If Steve feels uncomfortable for a listener they should trust his instincts. Conversely he'll trust Teresa's instincts if he's ever locked up. If she says he should be someone's prag he'll do it but he'd rather have his own cell. |
| 4:12
| Steve would need the bottom bunk in prison because from time-to-time he falls out of bed. It would be embarrassing to fall from the top bunk in prison plus Steve is still a bed-wetter. |
| 4:13
| The way people are these days Teresa's bosses probably wouldn't want her talking about Tank on the air. Jeff Joniak had to call the Bears yesterday before he could go on with Steve. Then he got all panicky when Buzz told him that Tank wouldn't be going to jail if the Bears had won the Super Bowl. |
| 4:14
| Say what you will about Tank but he could have pinned all the gun stuff on his dead friend and he didn't. |
| 4:15
| Steve wanted to point out that Buzz can say all he wants about Irish music and all that stuff but Michael Flatley was pulling the same tail that Brian Urlacher was. It's problematic tail but still tail. |
| 4:20
| Teresa called back during the break and she was very appreciative that Steve was thinking about her job safety. |
| 4:21
| If Buzz ever does time Steve's going to buy all of his amps off of Aimee for pennies on the dollar. |
| 4:22
| Headlines with Buzz |
| 4:23
| Valerie Plame appeared before Congress today. She's pretty hot. Maybe it's helpful to be hot if you're a spy. |
| 4:25
| The pregnant woman who sold her stomach as advertising space to get to the Super Bowl has given birth to a boy. |
| 4:26
| Steve saw that woman when he was down in Miami but he can't remember if you could see her stomach. It was very cold and rainy so that could be child endangerment. |
| 4:27
| The baby was named Pierce Myles Gordon. Had the Bears won though he would probably have a Bears middle name like Lovie. |
| 4:28
| As it turns out she was displaying her belly. Steve wasn't really looking at it because it seemed inappropriate. If she wants him to look at something she should have pulled her pants down. |
| 4:33
| Steve's trying to get to iTunes to download a song-because he doesn't mind putting money back into the show-but it's not working. Sometimes the iTunes store gets a little goofy. |
| 4:34
| Matt Dahl is on the phone from the Jiffy Lube in Oak Lawn. He was a little late getting down there even though he thought he gave himself ample time. |
| 4:35
| Hopefully this won't mess up the love affair between Matt and Jiffy Lube. Matt hasn't spoken to anyone yet but he did see a few secretive conversations going on. |
| 4:36
| Friday afternoon is a busy time on the roads plus a lot of people are going to Midway. |
| 4:37
| Matt offered to stay late although a few people already came to see him and get their oil changed but he wasn't there so they left. |
| 4:38
| The good news is that Adam is out there with him so he'll smooth things over. He's quite the talker. |
| 4:39
| Matt's run into this problem before with being late though. You can't make it out to Oak Lawn from downtown in under an hour on a Friday during rush hour. |
| 4:41
| Song: Jailbreak, Thin Lizzy |
| 4:45
| Steve's not recommending a jailbreak for Tank Johnson. He's already served one day and he probably didn't get into trouble so that's already one day off his sentence. He'll be out in 60 days. |
| 4:46
| Steve was reading about the menu for Cook County and it doesn't sound too bad, stuff like eggs for breakfast and sandwiches for lunch. It's probably less than Tank normally eats so he's going to come out of there a lean, mean, fighting machine. |
| 4:52
| Stan and Terry were talking about Tank's prison sentence today because they've both had the bologna sandwiches from Cook County. Terry was actually locked up there for a short time after someone called him the n-word at a Sox game and he got into a fight. |
| 4:53
| You can't call someone the n-word and get away with it unless it's Terry Armour apparently. He was only there for an hour and a half though. When he tells the story it's 3 hours because it felt like such a long time. |
| 4:54
| Terry was surprised that the White Sox were charging him but they probably charge everyone these days. He eventually got the charges dropped as well he should have. You can't call someone the n-word. |
| 4:55
| The guys who called Terry the n-word weren't even supposed to be in the seats where they were. Automatically those guys are at fault. |
| 4:56
| Steve has two Rons from Mokena on different lines. Is that just a coincidence or what? Brendan made a typo. |
| 4:57
| Caller Ron (the real one) was listening to Stan and Terry today. Terry was at the lock-up at The Cell and then end up at the precinct lock-up. |
| 4:58
| Tank gets his own cell in prison plus he's separated from all the other prisoners and he's in the yard by himself for only an hour. That's how Steve would like to serve his time. He doesn't need to be outside. He'll just stay in his cell all day and work on his self-pleasuring. |
| 4:59
| Steve could really use a pick-me-up right about now. He's been receiving emails from pick-me-up devotees recently and they're all positive. |
| 5:00
| The first email starts off mention the Thought of the Day and that's also positive. As of late Steve has been accused of spamming people with the Thought of the Day as well as begging for listeners. |
| 5:01
| Steve's not begging for listeners he's just reminding people to tune in. Plus, this is a popularity contest so Steve wants the most people listening to him. |
| 5:02
| The emailer goes on to say that as he was walking down the street the other night and wanted a snack. He ended up getting a donut from Dunkin' but no coffee because it was too late. |
| 5:03
| The emailer also sent along a few email addresses of friends who he thinks would enjoy the Thought of the Day but Steve doesn't want to deal with that. |
| 5:04
| Caller Johnny has some information about the famous Cook County bologna sandwich. He was there just long enough to be served one and the meat was about 3/4th of an inch thick and had been sitting out for a few days. |
| 5:05
| Johnny didn't want to eat the sandwich, or drink the coffee, but the guys who had been there for a while immediately were asking him if they could have his sandwich. It's like they were at Portillo's. |
| 5:06
| Johnny was waiting to go to court and was taken in at night so he had to stay over. If they don't have to arraign you, they won't until the morning just to keep you in there. |
| 5:07
| Steve was at the Cook County jail to film a scene for Let's Go to Prison and just being in a court room was scary enough. At the judge's desk was a notepad with several offender's names, what they'd done and when they were getting out. |
| 5:08
| Steve wouldn't have drank the coffee either because then he'd have to go to the bathroom in front of everyone else. |
| 5:09
| Buzz can't believe Tank is doing his time in Cook County, that's not a place you want to be. The problem with a county jail is they don't have long-term facilities. |
| 5:10
| When you go to a state prison they're geared up for people to live there for an extended period. The county jails are the worst. The food's always bad too. |
| 5:11
| Steve and Johnny have been talking about how bad county prisons are for the last ten minutes. Buzz was talking about county jails as opposed to the nicer state or federal pens where you can stretch out a bit. |
| 5:12
| Buzz is watching too many James Cagney movies, you can't stretch out at any prison. |
| 5:13
| Buzz doesn't want to besmirch all prison here. He picks the weirdest things to take a stand on. Buzz doesn't even think they'll have a bed that will fit Tank. |
| 5:14
| This is what Steve has just been talking about, the bad conditions out there. This gentleman on the phone didn't even want to eat his delicious bologna sandwich. |
| 5:15
| Johnny was in jail on a minor drug charge but he's out now on the straight-and-narrow. Doing any time in Cook County will scare you straight, that's why Steve and Buzz do their Scared Straight lectures out there. |
| 5:16
| This is all very disconcerting because Buzz's whole thing is people should get popped for harder drugs just so they end up in bigger prisons. |
| 5:17
| Johnny just wanted to add that he gets a pick-me-up from Dunkin' all the time. That donut and coffee gives you a nice head of steam. |
| 5:25
| On the phone is the voice of the Chicago Rush, Tom Dore. Steve was wondering who engineers the Rush games because every time Steve sees a highlight Tom sounds distorted. A Tom Dore doesn't deserve that. |
| 5:26
| On the phone is Matt Dahl from the Jiffy Lube in Oak Lawn. Tom can't believe he called him Mr. Dore. |
| 5:27
| Matt and Brendan will be out at the Rush game on Sunday which is now sold out. The Rush are 5-1 in their history when they sell out the game. |
| 5:29
| Steve heard something about how Big Cat was mad at the other team's broadcasters because they were eating some of their food. That's not their food to grab. |
| 5:30
| Big Cat just glared at one of the guys and he almost had a heart attack right there. There's so much food there so he doesn't really care, he just likes messing with people. |
| 5:31
| The New York Dragons are coming in Sunday and the game starts at 2:00. It is sold out but it'll be broadcast on WCKG. |
| 5:32
| Someone should check into that distortion though because everyone around here notices it and we're getting the audio right off the WCKG feed. |
| 5:33
| Live read: Arby's |
| 5:34
| During Lent Steve's radio name is Skip Meat. |
| 5:39
| Drew already left but if he's listening he should call in about the distortion during the Rush game. |
| 5:40
| We were talking about prison before and Steve told some of the callers to hang on. Do we want to talk more about prison? |
| 5:41
| Caller Jeta wanted to let Steve and Buzz know that people in Cook County don't wear orange jumpsuits, that's only when they're being transferred. |
| 5:42
| Buzz's prison knowledge is pretty good even though he's never done any time. |
| 5:43
| Caller Chuck delivers food to the central warehouse which supplies food to the Cook County jail. One day while he was there they were dropping off bologna. |
| 5:44
| The bologna came on pallets of really long pieces that they slice up and put on the sandwiches. |
| 5:45
| Caller Chris' stay in Cook County wasn't as pleasant as the first caller, Johnny. He didn't want his sandwich but someone just came up and took it from him without asking. |
| 5:46
| Chris spent an entire weekend locked up which was horrible and terrifying. Someone used the bathroom and the toilet overflowed so that guy was beaten. |
| 5:48
| Caller Gordon spent 20 days in Cook County but the original sentence was for 40. That's just like Tank Johnson. |
| 5:49
| Not surprisingly, the food is horrible. In the morning you get grits and toast with cold coffee. Steve prefers his coffee cold so that doesn't sound too bad. |
| 5:50 | Lunch is the bologna sandwich with a package of yellow mustard and a Kool-Aid packet. As long as it's yellow mustard that doesn't sound too bad. If Steve got Dijon he'd go nuts. |
| 5:58
| On the phone is Matt Dahl from the Jiffy Lube on 95th Street in Oak Lawn. People have been showing up steadily so everyone is happy. |
| 5:59
| If you get your oil changed at this Jiffy Lube you also get a free car wash. |
| 6:00
| Time for some sports. |
| 6:01
| The Sox are leading the Cubs 6-3 in the 8th inning. Scott Podsednik (twinkle toes) lead off and went 1-3. Javier Vazquez gave up three runs and Angel Guzman gave up 5 for the Cubs. |
| 6:02
| Steve needs to update his bracket. Right now he's leading the pool with 14. Notre Dame ought to be ashamed of themselves for losing to Winthrop. Plus their football team sucks. |
| 6:03
| Steve picked Creighton over UNLV. He might have been seduced by the Creighton name, like Crate & Barrel. He got that one wrong. |
| 6:04
| Is Tina still here because she needs to total the points. She should be here 24 hours a day totaling scores until Steve wins. He feels very good about his chances. |
| 6:05
| News with Buzz |
| 6:06
| The Secret Service arrested a man who scaled a White House fence with a package that he claimed contained a bomb. |
| 6:07
| Mayor Sheila Dixon of Baltimore has called a press conference to discuss the arrest of a 7-year old Gerard Mungo who was handcuffed and taken away while sitting on a dirt bike. Remember that band Mungo Jerry? |
| 6:08
| Allegedly the boy was spotted riding the bike earlier but when police arrived he was just sitting on it. |
| 6:09
| It seems like the police could have restrained a 7-year old without the handcuffs but maybe he was being a wiseacre and they wanted to teach him a lesson. |
| 6:12
| There may be new evidence about the death of Anna Nicole Smith. A fax obtained from Smith's personal psychiatrist lists drugs that were being sent to her home in the Bahamas. |
| 6:13
| Among the drugs on the list were Dilaudid and Demarol. |
| 6:16
| And finally, Irish eyes will be smiling all over the city tomorrow as the city kicks off the annual St. Patrick's day parade. Steve loves when Buzz does his human interest stories. |
| 6:18
| A little more on the kid in Baltimore. His mother claims that her son was sitting on a dirt bike when a cop yanked him off by the collar. Then the mother started yelling at the cop to let go of her son. |
| 6:19
| It sounds like the mother escalated it a little bit. |
| 6:22
| Song: In the Summertime, Mungo Jerry |
| 6:26
| Sending that one out to Gerry Mungo out in Baltimore. |
| 6:27
| Live read: Townstone Financial |
| 6:28
| David has taken the idea of serializing his live reads and run with it. |
| 6:32
| Buzz's St. Patrick's day plans including Mexican food. That's what they do every year and every Saturday. |
| 6:33
| Buzz doesn't really drink enough to fully enjoy St. Patrick's day, plus he prefers tequila. Lately he's not even drinking too much tequila. |
| 6:34
| Buzz has never heard anyone in his family mentioning any Irish heritage but tomorrow there will be a little Irish in everyone. Steve doesn't have any plans because he doesn't drink and he had the best corned beef ever from Chef Hans. |
| 6:35
| Steve found himself wanting to come back downtown last night and seeing if there was any left. He had a whole sandwich so he skipped dinner. |
| 6:36
| Time for a mailbag! |
| 6:37
| The first letter is about the Wake-Up Call at 5:00 AM. The listener enjoys them but it seems like they always come from the first half of the show. So it's a compliment, but it's couched. |
| 6:38
| Steve has no idea what goes into the Wake-Up Call but he can see Jim trying to wrap all that up early so he can get out of here. He doesn't get paid extra for staying late to work on that because he told Drew it wasn't extra work. |
| 6:39
| Maybe Jim would like to come down here and defend himself. |
| 6:40
| Jim takes material from whenever. Steve thinks he wants to just get out of here so he can go hang out with this black girlfriend. |
| 6:41
| Jim has seen emails about the Wake-Up Call and people complain about the material being from early in the show or later in the show. How would these people know? |
| 6:42
| The next email is another complain about the Thought of the Day email. How hard is it to figure out what this thing is? It says it right in the subject line. |
| 6:43
| The next email points Steve to a book Chris Hanson wrote that might be good for Bill Kurtis to read. |
| 6:44
| Steve likes to do things in threes but he's got one more email left. He's not going to count the Thought of the Day complaint as an email. |
| 6:45
| The third emailer thinks that in the wake of the Tom Delp death, Eric Clapton should join the band. They could call themselves Boston Cream. If they got Peter Frampton they could be Boston Cream Pie. |
| 6:49
| Pete is spent because he was doing the Larkin & Moran Brothers earlier. He really was doing them too. He thinks he has a contact buzz because they might have been hungover. |
| 6:50
| It was fun having the Larkin & Moran Brothers in today. When Steve first came to Chicago he couldn't believe what went on here during St. Patrick's day. He didn't like the green beer, it always seemed like it would come out looking the same way it went in. |
| 6:51
| Steve assumes they still close down Division Street but he hasn't been up there in a while. |
| 6:52
| Steve is thinking of heading over to Navy Pier tonight to see the Larkin & Moran Brothers. They've got a priest with them now, what's the worse that can happen? |
| 6:53
| So apparently the Larkin & Moran Brothers were drunk last night, they're probably drunk now and then tomorrow is St. Patrick's day. They're probably drunk all the time but it's more of a maintaining buzz like Jim Koch. |
| 6:54
| The gig at the Kerry Piper starts at 10:00 AM tomorrow but the bar has wisely put them up in a hotel right across the street. |
| 6:55
| It seems like they don't need the full band on stage at all times either but there's a lot of overkill. |
| 6:57
| Before we go, Steve's going to play one more Larkin & Moran Brothers just to get everyone in the mood. |
| 6:58
| Song: Waiting on a Pint, Larkin & Moran Brothers |
