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| 2:03
| Its Matt's last night of Spring Break so he's thinking of hitting a strip club. The idea of going with Steve doesn't sit well with him though. |
| 2:04
| They can go together but Steve will be in the VIP room so he won't even see Matt. Steve just heard an ad for Diamonds where Brendan used to host the amateur night. |
| 2:05
| That's also where Brendan drove the drunk stripper home from and nothing happened. A ride home at least guarantees you a free lap dance in her living room. |
| 2:06
| It's probably good that nothing happened between Brendan and the drunk stripper because he'd probably be in prison now. |
| 2:07
| The only time Matt has been a strip club was in Vegas with Brendan. Brendan really works it in there. |
| 2:08
| The Admiral was waiting for Steve to come out last week but he couldn't make it. It's probably better that he doesn't go with Matt also. Matt just wants to go with Steve because of his bank roll. |
| 2:09
| In Miami Steve told the boys he would take them to a strip club but that was just to get them to leave the filled-to-capacity Penthouse Party. That whole area was a like a prison yard and a fight was about to break out. |
| 2:10
| Then to add insult to injury when they got back to their car some dude was nailing his girlfriend, who couldn't have been more willing and compliant. |
| 2:11
| They ended up not going to the strip club because Brendan decided to stick around South Beach. Matt didn't want to go to a strip club with Pat anyway because he acts really weird and does all this crazy stuff then somehow pins it on you. |
| 2:13
| Song: Radio Song, R.E.M. |
| 2:18
| The theme seems to be radio but Steve doesn't know why. What inspired Pete today? |
| 2:19
| Pete read Steve's blog today as he's want to do. Buzz won't read the blog or at least he's about a year and a half behind. He gets very backed up on the sci-fi movies. |
| 2:20
| CBS radio has a new president, plus there's all the Garry Meier stuff. That's what Steve thought but he just wanted to involve Pete in the show early on and get him involved. Wait no, that's Buzz. |
| 2:21
| Buzz was divulging a harmonica player trade secret to Steve and Matt in the hallway. It's not going to be a secret if he keeps telling everyone. Steve and Matt can't be trusted. |
| 2:22
| All Steve will say is that Buzz found a pedal that he's been using and he thinks that once harmonica players hear it, they'll want one of their own. There are tons of pedals out there so Buzz is going to get a box to put it in. |
| 2:23
| Buzz is being careful who he tells about the pedal though. Matt is a drummer but he does have a Bassman amp like Buzz uses with the pedal. Matt's amp is currently locked away in Steve's home studio. He won't get it back until he repays his college tuition. Steve's decided he's going to make all the boys pay him back. |
| 2:24
| Steve calls Drew to check on the Garry Meier deal. There's nothing new to report. Steve set a 5:00 PM deadline for the deal to get done. There are several people in Drew's office asking about the deal as well including Steve's favorite engineer Steven Wright. The comedian? |
| 2:25
| Drew has less than 3 hours to get it done so he should get the engineer out of his office, put the Quizno's away and make it happen. After the deadline passes Steve's going to start breaking bad on the whole thing. |
| 2:29
| That 30 Rock show is pretty funny but it's not on right now. Is the season over or it is just on hiatus? It seems like all the shows are on hiatus right now because it's the beginning of pilot season. |
| 2:30
| The funny thing about pilots is they're often written and produced way before the actors have any chemistry or before the entire show is staffed. |
| 2:31
| It seems like you should reshoot your pilot after you crank out 6 or 7 shows and then run that first because it will reflect your best effort to date. |
| 2:32
| Steve doesn't know who to tell about this other than Pat Dahl. When Steve gets out there to do his sitcom Just Call Me Buzz that's how he's going to do it. |
| 2:33
| Dateline Ottawa, Canada. A woman has become violently ill after eating some of her dog's food. |
| 2:34
| These pet food guys are marketing and PR geniuses. Menu Foods has had one press conference and you can't even find out which companies they make food for. |
| 2:35
| The other thing is that your pet dies suddenly you can't really tell why. Veterinary medicine hasn't really advanced to the level of human medicine. |
| 2:36
| The go to file footage on the news is empty store shelves where the pet food used to be and then the people who are suing. This is a huge story though, there's rat poison in pet food! |
| 2:37
| While Buzz specializes in news from Britain Steve is trying to carve his niche with Canadian news. It's sort of like British news only it's on the same continent. If Buzz had to do it again he'd choose Canada. |
| 2:38
| The front page of one of the London tabloids today features Prince William posing with two women. He clearly has his hands on one of their breasts. |
| 2:39
| Steve can't even find the Menu Foods website, it's fairly obscure. Plus the company rounded up a bunch of cats and dogs and tested the food on them which resulted in 7 animal deaths. |
| 2:40
| The only thing on the Menu Foods website is a link to the recall information. Then you have to click on another page to find which companies sell the food. |
| 2:41
| The Menu Foods website has a picture of a bunch of puppies eating Menu Food like everything is fine. You can lead a dog to rat poison but you can't make it eat. |
| 2:42
| Whoever came up with this is a genius because nothing on this website makes it seem like anything is wrong. There are dogs and cats eating next to each other! |
| 2:43
| Caller Richard is an insurance adjuster. When settling a claim involving the death of animal, the animal is treated as property. As a result, that property depreciates with age. |
| 2:44
| It's like if you're sofa burned up or something. Buzz does love his sofa but if it burned up he'd probably get a check for $100 because he's had it for 30 years. |
| 2:47
| Steve never finished the dog food story, he was just using it as a jumping off point. |
| 2:48
| Since Steve is working the Canadian news to combat British news, some of his stuff will be in French. It's going to sound way more exotic than Buzz's news. |
| 2:49
| The Canadian woman noticed that her dog wasn't eating it's food so she ate some of it, in an effort to trick the pet into thinking it was people food. Do dogs really think like that? |
| 2:50
| The nice thing about Steve's Canadian stories is that they haven't had an outcome yet. |
| 2:51
| Menu Foods recalled 60 million cans of dog food. They're a Canadian company so that's probably why they aren't being held accountable here. |
| 2:52
| As it turns out Steve has tapped into a hot bed of news in Canada. Steve's claiming France as part of it since they settled Canada. He might be willing to give up the Vancouver area because it doesn't seem that exciting. |
| 2:57
| So Buzz has Vancouver and Britain for the news and Steve has the rest of Canada and France. |
| 2:58
| Steve has a dog song to play because he likes to tie it in. It's not a classic dog song but it's by a band that Steve likes and has been on the show, The Format. |
| 2:59
| Song: Dog Problems, The Format |
| 3:03
| When Steve first heard The Format's album he thought it was very heavy on the calliope and sounded like circus music, but it grew on him. |
| 3:04
| The day The Format came on the show was at the Oak Street Beachstro when Garry Meier showed up. They didn't know what to make of all the hubbub surrounding that plus the Air & Water Show was practicing so it was very loud and confusing. |
| 3:05
| So that's the dog and cat food hunk right there. It must be easier to hide out in Canada than it is here. They seem to have a different legal system up there which is why prescription drugs are cheaper. |
| 3:06
| Jerry Angelo and Lance Briggs met last night over the contract dispute but nothing was resolved. Angelo offered to remove the franchise tag after the 2007 season but that wasn't enough for Briggs or his agent Drew Rosenhaus. |
| 3:07
| The Bears could put the franchise tag on Briggs in 2008 as well but Jerry Angelo said he wouldn't place it on him if he played the full 2007 with the Bears. Buzz thinks that someone is being unreasonable in this situation but doesn't know who it is. |
| 3:08
| Lance Briggs is the one being unreasonable here. Steve's 5:00 PM deadline hasn't passed yet so he can't draw any parallels to what's going on here. |
| 3:09
| Rosenhaus wants a trade of a long-term deal for Briggs. The Bears offered him one before the 2006 season but he turned it down, which is why they put the franchise tag on him. |
| 3:10
| Buzz is so irritated by this whole thing that he doesn't even want Briggs on the team. He might get his wish according to Fox Sports. They said that the Washington Redskins are willing to trade their #6 pick for Briggs and the Bears #31 pick. |
| 3:11
| Lance Briggs is a good player but he's not blocked that often so he's free to roam around. If you put a good athlete in that position anyone could do as well as Briggs has. Steve might not have said that a few weeks ago but he's sick of Briggs and wants him gone. His deadline for Briggs has already passed. |
| 3:12
| Buzz would love to see Briggs sit out the season and not get paid a dime. The Bears can't make him sit out without paying him, but he will do it himself and get nothing. |
| 3:13
| Lance Briggs turned down a 6-year, $33 million deal from the Bears but it doesn't say what the signing bonus was. That's key because NFL contracts aren't guaranteed. |
| 3:14
| The Bears also will not find out this week if Tank Johnson will be suspended during the 2007. They might not even find out before the draft as commissioner Roger Goodell is re-evaluating the conduct policy. |
| 3:15
| Caller Jim is a longtime listener so he's a little nervous. Steve's nervous too so it's fine. |
| 3:16
| Jim thinks Lance Briggs seems to have gotten a little big for his britches, just like Roosevelt Colvin. The common thread with those two is they played next to Brian Urlacher. |
| 3:17
| Caller Tim is wondering how all of these contract negotiations are effecting Steve's buddy Shu, the Japanese Lance Briggs. Steve worked out with Brian Urlacher today or he thought it was him because he had a Urlacher jersey on. Who wears a jersey to workout? |
| 3:18
| Buzz has a Bears jersey with his name on it and he was thinking of wearing it on Friday to the convention. |
| 3:19
| Steve saw Shu last week but didn't really talk about it. He'll make the necessary adjustments though. Shu might have been a weak side linebacker during his high school football games so he'll probably go with whoever replaces him. |
| 3:20
| It's nice that Tim is worried about Shu, the Japanese Lance Briggs. Steve called him that all season until he actually got to know him and learned his name. |
| 3:21
| Shu told Steve that he's going to make a killing in Japan. |
| 3:26
| Guys like Drew Rosenhaus are wrecking sports. He can't even play sports. |
| 3:27
| Steve, Buzz and Tom Thayer will be broadcasting from the Bears Fan Convention on Friday. Steve has some passes to give away to the sold out event. It's never sold out before. |
| 3:28
| The 1,059th person to text Pass to 41059 wins a four pack of passes. |
| 3:29
| Buzz is wondering if he's going to see Kyle Orton on Friday. He was there last year so he'll probably be there this year. |
| 3:30
| Buzz has some business to discuss with Kyle, beard stuff. Maybe we could put a call in to him and have him come over early. Steve wouldn't mind having Jerry Angelo on either. |
| 3:31
| Steve had Lovie on last year as well as Brian McCaskey. Steve doesn't want Brian McCaskey on again because he still owes him one of those Bears hats with the script B on it. |
| 3:32
| Every time Steve sees Brian McCaskey he tells him that he owes him a hat but still nothing. |
| 3:33
| Steve has a list of the players attending the convention just so Buzz isn't grumpy when he shows up. Buzz is usually grumpy anyway unless he's talking about amplifiers. |
| 3:34
| Maybe we could put Buzz out at Cook County jail to handle the Tank Johnson interview. |
| 3:35
| It says that Kyle Orton will only be there on Saturday. Who's going to be at this thing then? Steve's not going to talk to Adrian Peterson for 45 minutes. |
| 3:36
| Moose is going to be there on Friday only which will be good. |
| 3:37
| The Jiggler will be there on Friday, he could easily kill an hour on the show. |
| 3:38
| Billy Jack from Comcast is going to be there and the players love him. Whatever guys we can't get with Thayer we can get with Billy Jack. |
| 3:39
| If Brian McCaskey doesn't have Steve's hat he's not going to be happy. It's just a hat but it's become this huge thing because McCaskey brings it up every time he sees Steve. |
| 3:40
| Steve spent a ton of money on those Skyline seats, he should at least get a hat for that. Although they do send him a lot of other cool stuff. He just got a football with his name on it like he was a player. |
| 3:43
| On the phone from Comcast Sportsnet is Kerry Sayers. She missed Steve last week but she didn't get picked for the rotation because she was shopping. |
| 3:44
| That Drew Rosenhaus is bad news but he knows how to work it. When everyone thinks the guy who represents you is a jerk you might want to stay away from him. |
| 3:45
| There are reasons why GMs don't want to deal with Drew Rosenhaus. The whole thing seems like a bad idea but what does Steve know? |
| 3:46
| Now Briggs is upset with the media because it's always their fault. The better way for him to handle this would have been to keep his mouth shut, like Thomas Jones. |
| 3:47
| A couple of weeks ago when Briggs was on ESPN he told them that Rosenhaus told him not to go public with this. Then when they were done with him you could hear someone say "that went exactly the way we wanted it to." |
| 3:48
| Kerry doesn't remember the signing bonus the Bears offered Briggs last year but they still offered him something very competitive. Now he's saying he'll sit out 10 games and play the last 6. |
| 3:49
| A lot of interesting stuff with the Cubs and Sox too. Kerry Wood is injured, again. How many different ways can a guy get hurt? |
| 3:50
| Fortunately the Cubs have learned their lesson and aren't counting on Wood and Prior this year. Piniella said that he's waiting until Prior's start tomorrow to name the fifth starter but it'll still probably be Wade Miller. |
| 3:51
| The rest of the Cubs team looks pretty strong. The fans have a lot of reason for optimism. |
| 3:52
| It should be interesting for the White Sox too. Kenny Williams said that the national media gets what he's doing but the local media doesn't. He has made some great moves in the past though. |
| 3:53
| Kerry is not on the schedule to talk to Steve next week. Someone is probably trying to keep them apart, like Romeo and Juliet. |
| 3:54
| Since Kerry mentioned playing rugby in college Steve has watched some on YouTube. It's not as hot as he thought it would be. Maybe if the girls were all hot and nude it would be more interesting. |
| 3:59
| It seems like Piniella is being politically correct about Wood and Prior which is pretty impressive. Steve wouldn't be doing that because those two are washed up. |
| 4:00
| Even the dye-in-the-wool Cubs fans are probably fed up with the two of them. A Pete Zimmerman is probably sick of them. |
| 4:01
| Pete is fed up but he's still sort of rooting for Woody because of all the surgeries. Steve's met him and he's a bit of a jerk. Prior has never had any major injuries though and he's a jerk for not signing those figurines. |
| 4:02
| Song: Boys of Summer, Don Henley |
| 4:06
| That's your go to baseball song. Then you go to Centerfield and after that it falls off very quickly. |
| 4:07
| Steve calls Drew to remind him about the 5:00 PM deadline. There's nothing new to report but the deadline is out there, at least via the airwaves. |
| 4:08
| Did Drew have engineers in his office because Garry has outrageous equipment demands? |
| 4:09
| Steve calls Drew back just to make sure he knows that the Green Room is off limits to Garry. Also, if Garry ends up in Terry Hardin's old corner office that's allegedly Rod Zimmerman's, Steve is going to burn the place down. |
| 4:10
| Rod never uses that office which makes you realize how little power Drew wields around here. He can't even get an empty office. |
| 4:11
| The Green Room is in Steve's contract so he's not worried about it. Plus that Dan Mason guy likes him. Steve already sent him a suck-up email as well as a thank you email to Joel Hollander. |
| 4:12
| Tyrone's checking in with some traffic. He should have looked at his sheet before he read it and now he has to decipher it. |
| 4:13
| The Tri-State is backed up but that's all the sense Tyrone can make of his report. It seems like it was written by someone from the North Shore who doesn't know a thing about the West Side. |
| 4:14
| 294 is bad between Hinsdale and 111th southbound and from Roosevelt to Ogden, which is further north. That should have gone first. This is from Shadow and they don't know squat. |
| 4:15
| Buzz knows how stupid and dumb radio people are, even the successful ones him and Steve. Now imagine people that are so dumb that they can't even do what Steve and Buzz do. Those are the people working at Shadow. |
| 4:16
| There was a stall on 294 at 111th which is causing a back-up on the southbound lanes. |
| 4:17
| The 294 back-up spread to the Stevenson, which is backed up to Cicero. All this from a stalled car, it's hideous. This is why we need some means to blow these vehicles up and get them off the road. |
| 4:18
| Tyrone has offered to pick these stalled cars off the road which the hook and chain on his choptater and carry them into a roadside ditch. |
| 4:19
| Tyrone's been sitting on his Lay-z-Boy on his back porch like Tank Johnson, shooting at stuff in his backyard. |
| 4:20
| Tyrone just shot a bunny, or a kid he can't tell the difference. He loves pretending he's Tank Johnson though. He's gonna need some more tattoos. |
| 4:25
| Steve and Buzz are taking a My Chauffeur limo to the Bears convention on Friday. Even though it's only three blocks away Steve plans to party very hard. |
| 4:26
| Headlines with Buzz |
| 4:27
| This just in, the Netherlands may ban psychedelic mushrooms after the death of a teenage boy who was using them. Steve can see how this is much more important than the U.S. warships off the coast of Iran. |
| 4:28
| Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is in town to give a talk at the Dirksen Federal building. Awkward! That's the same building where Patrick Fitzgerald works. |
| 4:29
| Gonzales is in town to talk about Project Safe Child which is the thing he's hiding behind to distract people from all those fired U.S. Attorneys. |
| 4:30
| A MySpace user known only as Jae is on the 9th day of a hunger strike in protest of American Idol contestant Sanjaya. She said she will end the hunger strike when Sanjaya is finally voted off. |
| 4:31
| Steve's OK with this hunger strike, he wouldn't mind seeing American Idol build up a nice body count. |
| 4:35
| It's time now for the 24 Report with Jeff Schwartz. Jeff loves the 24 music, he thinks it could be played in a dentists office. |
| 4:36
| Jeff is giving last night's episode 2 thumbs down. Steve feels the entire show is sucking. Pete normally gives Steve a detailed Post-It for all three cuts but he didn't even get that today. |
| 4:37
| Pete didn't do the list because he couldn't find a Post-It note at first, and then he forgot all about it. |
| 4:38
| Steve saw the whole episode last night and it doesn't seem like there are any clips to even play. |
| 4:39
| Steve really misses Heroes and 24 is not holding his interest at all. |
| 4:40
| Jeff was really hoping World War III would break out last night. That thing with Jack flying the drone plane last week was really stupid too. |
| 4:41
| Then you have the Vice President trying to start another war and people are waking up the president from his coma to stop the attacks. |
| 4:42
| Jeff told Sue last night that if he's ever in a coma, bring him out of it because President Palmer looked great. |
| 4:43
| Jeff keeps forgetting this report isn't about him. We don't need to know about his medical problems, this isn't Humana. |
| 4:44
| Jeff finds it very ironic that the Vice President on the show is trying to contact the Attorney General to have the President removed from office. |
| 4:45
| Jeff's off the phone already. He's probably doing the 24 Report with Dan McNeil right now. |
| 4:46
| Even though 24 sucks it's still fun to talk to Jeff. Steve really feels bad for Jeff's wife, who has to listen to all this crazy stuff like him asking her to put him in a coma. |
| 4:47
| Steve has another 4 pack of tickets to give away to the Bears Fan Convention. The 1,059th person to text message Punt to 41059 wins the passes. |
| 4:51
| On the phone is Neil Funk, the voice of the Chicago Bulls. How about that Ben Gordon game-winner on Sunday? |
| 4:52
| Ben missed a few on Sunday but Scott Skiles is going to look for him to make that last shot to win the game. |
| 4:53
| The Bulls have done really well since the last time Neil was on the show. The Bulls have gotten some of their confidence back. |
| 4:54
| The Bulls have the Pistons and Cavaliers coming up next. Those are both teams that the Bulls could face in the playoffs. |
| 4:55
| The Bulls are solidly in the playoffs this year as opposed to the last few years when they were struggling to get in. That takes some of the pressure off of it. |
| 4:56
| Steve and Buzz still haven't been to a Bulls game yet. Neil assumed that they were either waiting for Wennington to offer to pick them up and drive them to the game or for the playoffs. |
| 4:57
| Neil has been told that Drew has plenty of playoff tickets available so Steve shouldn't have any problems getting some. |
| 4:58
| Neil thinks that Bill or Steve Kashel would be willing to let Steve and Buzz have their seats for part of the game. |
| 4:59
| Steve's wondering if Neil has a feud with Tom Dore. Tom was breaking bad on Neil last Friday but Steve put a stop to it. Neil refers to Tom Dore as Doofus. |
| 5:00
| Tom couldn't be more disinterested when he calls in. He doesn't even know the Rush schedule. When Neil gets off the phone he's going to look for the Rush schedule and send it to Tom. |
| 5:02
| Sometime last week Neil went a little nuts on Mike Pfile (Skynyrd) for feeding him some info on the air. |
| 5:03
| Mike is always feeding Neil stuff he doesn't need, a lot of the times it's wrong. Steve can put an end to that on this end right now if that's what Neil wants. |
| 5:04
| Neil can't remember what Mike told him last week but last night he got a ton of bad information about another NBA game going on. They had everything all wrong. |
| 5:05
| According to Pete it wasn't Mike feeding him bad facts it was the tubby kid who eats the Monte Cristo sandwich before every broadcast. |
| 5:06
| Neil doesn't need people back here feeding him bad info, that's what he's got Bill Wennington for. |
| 5:07
| Steve likes talking to Neil Funk and he likes that he called Tom Dore Doofus. It seems like Neil doesn't like being bothered by the kids back here either. |
| 5:08
| Pete doesn't have that Mike Pfile tape ready, it would be better if we did it coming out of the break. |
| 5:11
| Bill Wennington was the one who blamed Mike for the bad info which is why Neil said he doesn't know anything. |
| 5:12
| The kid who eats the Monte Cristo sandwiches hosts a Bulls podcast that's on the WCKG website. It seems like we're wasting out resources on the wrong stuff. |
| 5:13
| Steve just realized his 5:00 PM deadline has passed so he calls Drew to see if the deal is done. |
| 5:14
| The deal is done, Garry will be on from 8:00-11:00. Is that at night because maybe we should start him off there at least for now. Steve would like to just step back and appreciate the 5:00 PM deadline. |
| 5:15
| Drew runs through the entire line-up. Are Steve and Buzz still on it? From 5:00 AM to 8:00 AM O & A will be on live. After that The Garry Meier Show from 8-11. Then Stan and Terry from 11-2, Steve and Buzz from 2-7 and Matt and Brendan from 7-9. Then what happens at 9, we shut the station down? |
| 5:16
| OK back to the Bulls podcast. It's called Lunchbox's Bulls Highlights. Steve didn't know that kid had a nickname. |
| 5:17
| His real name is Jeff Mangurten. Steve's wearing a mangurten right now because it's very slimming. Jeff has his own podcast, not only like Steve and Buzz. |
| 5:18
| Steve plays the podcast, which features some of the same highlights Pete just used for the Neil Funk intro. Is Pete stealing highlights from him? |
| 5:19
| The kid is actually working the food he eats into the show. Now Steve is starting to like the kid. |
| 5:20
| Steve can't get this thing to stop so he can talk about it. He wants to hear more about the food that the kid eats. |
| 5:21
| This kid is showing Steve something by working the food he's eating into the highlights. |
| 5:22
| Ed Farmer is on the phone to make sure Tom Dore hasn't upset Steve today. Neil Funk called him Doofus so it's all good. |
| 5:23
| Ed likes Tom, but he won't break bad on anyone, he's like a celebrity. Ed can break bad on people, he just broke bad on some guy at the airport last week. |
| 5:24
| Ed had a run in with some guy in the security line. The guy told him he was in the wrong line. There were two lines so Ed went into the shorter one, crazy him. Then he hears some guy saying "hey you, the line starts back here" |
| 5:25
| There were two lines and Ed pointed that out to him. Then the guy came up to make sure Ed heard him. |
| 5:26
| Ed told the guy he was under the misconception that he was afraid of him. The guy grabbed Ed's right arm so he turned it down towards his thumb and told him he was going to be wearing his butt on his head on the way home. |
| 5:27
| The security guys weren't even watching so they didn't notice what was happening. Then the guy said something over his shoulder and Ed told he didn't want to hear any more and that he fights dirty. |
| 5:29
| When Steve's at the airport all bets are off. The only thing he cares about is getting to his seat on the plane. |
| 5:30
| Freddy Garcia was on Steve's flight down to the Super Bowl and he grabbed his carry-on bag for him. Now Steve is worried that messed up Freddy's arm. |
| 5:31
| Ed was reading about that Matsuzaka guy in Sports Illustrated. After he's pitched a game he's playing long toss the next day. |
| 5:32
| A lot of people say that the problem with pitchers today is they don't know enough. |
| 5:34
| Steve is very excited for opening day, even though he won't be there. He will be at the game next Friday though for the 7:11 start. |
| 5:35
| Ed's still working on the Rolex sponsorship when he reads the length of the game. |
| 5:36
| The Sox will be starting Jose Contreras against C.C. Sabathia on Monday. |
| 5:37
| The Sox are also holding off on Toby Hall's surgery until the end of April. That way if he responds to treatment they could have him back by August. |
| 5:38
| Ed still thinks the team looks good right now. They're not winning a lot of games but the regulars are out by the 6th or 7th inning. |
| 5:44
| Steve hates when Pete makes him cry by playing the Field of Dreams drop. Knock it off! |
| 5:45
| Live read: Townstone Financial |
| 5:46
| Someone sent Steve all the information about that new home lending law. David tried to call in but he's crazy about it and he couldn't get focused. |
| 5:47
| The guy who emailed Steve is a mortgage banker who also disagrees with the law. Credit counseling will be required for first-time home buyers or people refinancing their homes. |
| 5:48
| It only applies to someone's residence, not an investment or business property. So that means Steve's club house/strip club is OK. |
| 5:49
| At first Steve thought the law was the banks trying to get people to come back to them but this guy is a banker and doesn't like it. |
| 5:51
| This credit counselor thing seems like a scam. Todd Stroger's buddies will probably be given jobs as counselors. |
| 5:52
| Live read: Balance for Life |
| 5:53
| When Steve really wants to lose weight he does the two meals and one snack plan, with the bottle of water. |
| 5:59
| Song: White Houses, Vanessa Carlton |
| 6:03
| Steve was going to play Pink Houses but he was seduced by Vanessa Carlton. |
| 6:04
| You might recall that a few years ago Steve played that song and thought the opening lyrics had something to do with My Little Pony. |
| 6:05
| Dan said that they didn't and that he knew Vanessa Carlton's manager. During a break he called the manager who said Vanessa was out shopping but would call when she got back. Steve's still waiting for that call. |
| 6:06
| News with Buzz |
| 6:07
| Steve saw a funny report on CLTV about Albert Gonzales. He was at the Federal Building for a press conference on his Project Safe Child program but people kept asking him about the fired U.S. Attorneys. Gonzales cut his press conference short by about 12 minutes. |
| 6:08
| The Senate voted to reject an amendment that would have taken away timetables for the Iraq withdrawal. |
| 6:09
| Deadlines work, just ask Drew. Steve set a 5:00 PM deadline for the Garry Meier thing and it got done. The best thing about the Garry Meier thing is that Tom Leykis is gone. There's nothing more depressing for Steve than getting into the car and hearing that after he's just done 5 hours. |
| 6:10
| Buzz mentioned during the announcement that Rob Feder won't even be able to report it because he's on vacation. Rob has had some ill-timed vacations lately. |
| 6:13
| NASA scientists have a mystery on their hands. They have never seen anything like the hexagon shape on the North Pole of Saturn. |
| 6:14
| Buzz is thinking the shape is a large alien apartment complex. |
| 6:20
| Pope Benedict, addressing a church congregation in Rome, said that hell is a real place where sinners burn for all eternity. |
| 6:21
| How does he know that? Plus you can't burn for eternity. Eventually there will be nothing left to burn. |
| 6:22
| Steve heard somewhere that being burnt to death isn't as painful as you'd think. It hurts at first but once you're engulfed you feel nothing. It's probably like that with a lot of traumas though. |
| 6:23
| Caller Keith was going to confirm something Steve just said but he's not there any more. He was going to testify about the burning. Maybe he spontaneously combusted. |
| 6:24
| Alright Keith is back on the phone. He got cut off, he didn't spontaneously combust. Keith's mom used to work at a burn unit and if you're burning for long enough you lose all your nerve endings and don't feel anything. |
| 6:25
| All Steve was saying is that burning for eternity doesn't seem so bad. What's a few minutes of burning when you're looking at eternity? That sounds a lot better than going to heaven and having to face all of the dogs you owned throughout your life. Plus heaven sounds like some happy-ass Oprah show with her angels always showing up. |
| 6:31
| Steve's not sure how the Pope knows about burning in hell. He's God's rep on Earth but does that mean he's heard from Him recently about it? |
| 6:32
| In Steve's world hearing from God makes you crazy, not infallible. |
| 6:33
| AC/DC is not on iTunes but there's a copy of Highway to Hell winging it's way towards the studio. This seems like a good time to throw that down. |
| 6:34
| Steve has a few other versions of Highway to Hell to play. There's a bluegrass version by Hayseed Dixie. |
| 6:35
| There are some CDs left over from the WCKG classic rock days but they're in John Castino's studio and he's recording Bob Sirott's show in there. |
| 6:36
| Pete just put Highway to Hell up on the Audio Vault computer and then took it away. That's because Steve said he never wanted to play a song off of there again. He'll do it if it's the only option available! |
| 6:37
| The song isn't on iTunes, we don't have it in the library and John's studio is occupied. Steve has no problem walking in on John because he's always bugging Pete for stuff, spitting into a cup because he chews tobacco. |
| 6:38
| Song: Highway to Hell, AC/DC |
| 6:41
| You can't beat that one for a song about Hell. |
| 6:46
| Last year Steve discovered an Australian movie about three guys traveling to Bon Scott's funeral. He can't remember the name though. |
| 6:47
| Steve also bought an AC/DC concert DVD, they're very entertaining to watch. Buzz saw AC/DC once with Timothy Leary opening for them with his stand-up routine. |
| 6:48
| Steve was once at Zanies will Al Franken and Tom Davis. After their set they went upstairs to the backstage area to find Timothy Leary, in a three-piece suit reading the Wall Street Journal. |
| 6:49
| Time for a mailbag. The first letter is about the Garry Meier deadline, which did work by the way. It's a list of 5 possible sidekicks for Garry's show. |
| 6:50
| Number five is Chef Hans because Meat Talk once a week isn't enough for him. Number four is Wendy so she can not pay attention to him. Number three is Drew because he really wants to get back behind the mic. Number two is Pete because there has to be a reason why he was doing Mary & Pete Show. The number one sidekick is Matt Dahl. |
| 6:51
| Matt's going to be doing 7:00-9:00 PM with Brendan. Garry already has a sidekick, some guy named Jim Turano. Steve hopes their show does well, although not as well as his. |
| 6:52
| Glenn Beck will be on after Matt and Brendan. Steve's watched his show on CNN and it's not that bad. He's a conservative but he's not bombastic like Rush Limbaugh. |
| 6:53
| Steve's Thought of the Day today was "In a world filled with trouble and strife, isn't it comforting to know that there’s always a Steve Dahl Show there for you, filled with its own small-minded and self-serving trouble and strife specifically designed to take your mind off of the much bigger and more complicated trouble and strife in the world, which you can in no way control, and that would cause you even more trouble and strife if you were to think about it too much?" |
| 6:54
| Steve got an email suggesting a change in font size for the Thought of the Day. Steve will get right on that! Are people every happy with anything? |
| 6:58
| The final emailer loves the show with Steve and Buzz. However, he feels that working with Buzz must be like herding cats because he's a bit of a wanderer. |
