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		Thursday, March 29, 2007



2:02	WCKG is giving away a 5-year rental of a villa at the Grizzly Jack resort. It's 4 weeks per year so that's 20 weeks.
2:03	Steve saw an ad for that place on TV today it looks pretty cool. It seems like the kind of place where fun and nature collide.
2:04	Matt and Brendan are very chatty today. Are they tuckered out from their one-hour show today?
2:05	Steve saw that Matt and Brendan had a producer of color today. HIs name is Floyd and he's doing a great job. Floyd is very popular in Chicago right now, at least with last names.
2:06	Matt and Brendan were talking about Spring Break today. Spring Break was never that big of a deal when Steve was a kid but it's huge now.
2:07	They were also talking about foam parties which is where you get locked in a room that has suds up to your chest. There's a lot of grinding going on but no one is really nude.
2:08	Matt was looking for a foam party around here but it seems like they only do them at that Spin place in Boys Town.
2:11	Well it must be Thursday because Steve has a list of 21 songs in front of him for no reason. Well at least no good reason.
2:12	Pete is sitting across from Steve, he's the one who made the list of 21 songs even though we'll only play one.
2:13	Pete makes the list for several reasons. One is that he has no life and the second one is that he likes to have a keepsake CD for this particular week in his life.
2:14	Pete is using Steve to make his own mixtapes because he doesn't have the discipline to do it on his own. He's doing it for his own self-love and the corpses of the women he brings back to his apartment. He's like Jeffrey Dahmer with a taste for the ladies. Pete never knows what he wants to play. Steve wishes he had the luxury to be this hair-brained. Instead of making mixtapes for Steve Pete should be on MySpace meeting women and making mixtapes for them.
2:16	Pete loves being in the studio though. It's good to have him here but he's crazy as hell. No one is going to see these 20 other songs even though Ed and Pete tried to sneak it on Dahl.com.
2:17	All of this stuff with Pete was encouraged by Curt the former webmaster, who was also weird and anti-social. He used to post Pete's yearly list of 100 acceptable songs.
2:18	Steve's still trying to recover from a mixtape Pete gave him two summers ago. No wonder he's also so down. Pete's willing to accept that he's weird but he's never down when he's here.
2:19	Pete is like our Tom Dore. He's never going to get that job at XRT and he's going to be stuck getting tapes for Steve for the rest of his life. Doesn't Pete want to get on a radio station where he can play these songs? Or does he not want to make them popular.
2:20	Maybe Pete should get on one of those internet radio stations instead of bringing his hobby in here. This isn't Hobby Corner. We're not going to be building a model airplane tomorrow.
2:21	This is a very momentous week for the kind of music Pete likes because Modest Mouse's new album was #1 on the Billboard charts. Steve doesn't really like those guys because there are too many of them in the band. He's
2:22	A few weeks ago Arcade Fire had the #2 album and before that the new Shins albums did very well. He feels the tide is turning for music. Of course that means he's driving people away from radio. Good work!
2:23	Today's show open featured various TV shows that mentioned some of Pete's favorite bands.
2:24	Steve does like some of the bands that Pete likes and he's still going to be his date for the Arcade Fire concert. Right now he's torn between trying to get better tickets or just using the ones Pete has.
2:25	Steve needs to be on an aisle and Pete's seats are in the middle. Pete thinks that Steve would enjoy the experience of sitting in his seats at least for the first few minutes.
2:26	If there are crazy girls dancing around them taking their shirts off that would be fine. Steve thinks he could call Jam and get better seats though.
2:27	Pete just wants to make sure that Steve actually wants to go to the show because he thinks he could use the tickets to his advantage and go with a girl.
2:28	Pete would rather go with Steve though. Over a girl? Maybe they should dump Jim kid and his black girlfriend and get a couple of hookers.
2:29	Pete's MO would be to forget about having the tickets until the night before, and then go out to a bar and try to find a date. That's not a bad idea.
2:30	We are trying to get Arcade Fire in here because they're just going to be down the street at the Chicago Theater. Mary's reminding Steve that the we might be doing a remote that day.
2:31	Drew keeps coming to Steve with an idea for a live remote from Wrigleyville for the Crosstown Classic. Steve doesn't want to be sitting in a bar during the Cubs game with a bunch of people who can't get into the game.
2:32	A couple of years ago Steve did a broadcast from Heaven on Seven for Cubs opening day with Kevin Matthews.
2:33	It's up to Pete what he wants to do with the Arcade Fire tickets. Steve is an old man, he has a going problem, so he needs to be sitting on the aisle. He's like those guys driving around in the Mustang with the water bottles.
2:34	Pete thinks that for show purposes, Steve would get a kick out of sitting in his seats for at least part of the concert.
2:35	There's a show at the Empty Bottle-Peter Bjorn and John-coming up that could be a trial run for Steve and Pete. Is that place near the Admiral?
2:36	Pete doesn't really like strip clubs. He went to one with Steve when he first started here but it was a WCKG-sanctioned live remote. Pete felt very uncomfortable because he'd never been around that many women, naked or clothed.
2:37	In general Pete prefers to go places where there's a chance he could meet a girl. He shouldn't rule that out at a strip club though.
2:38	Pete will go to a strip club if Steve comes to the Arcade Fire. They can go to the Empty Bottle show too. Steve needs to get out and start doing stuff. Pete is also trying to do more stuff.
2:39	Buzz doesn't think Steve would like the Empty Bottle because there are no seats. No seats?! Can Steve bring a camp chair or something?
2:40	Steve can handle a standing room only show at the Empty Bottle. The show is on Tuesday May 8th. Steve once saw Lowen & Navarro at Martyrs' and he stood the whole time.
2:41	Pete's excited to spend some quality time with Steve. What if they end up becoming lovers, wouldn't that be weird? They both like softball and there are other common interests like music and radio. They might be perfect for each other.
2:42	Pete wanted to rock out today because he hasn't done so in a while. Today's band is the Silversun Pickups who are opening for Snow Patrol on Monday. Steve likes Snow Patrol, why aren't they going to that?
2:43	Pete couldn't get tickets before the show sold out. Why doesn't he use Steve's ticket hook-up? He won't take advantage of that but he did take advantage of that listener in Mexico.
2:44	As it turns out Pete picked a blabber-mouth. Steve doesn't need to hear what Pete was doing while he's trying to eat a chimichanga.
2:45	Steve didn't see the Silversun Pickups on the list because he can't tell what is the name of a band and what is the name of a song. Normally Pete has the name of the band second but today's it's first.
2:46	In Pete's world Well Thought Out Twinkles could be the name of a band but it's today's song.
2:47	Song: Well Thought Out Twinkles, Silversun Pickups
2:51	Next week Pete will format his list song first, band second. Pete just wanted a switch from the monotony. The real monotony is the unnecessary list of 21 songs every week.
2:52	Live read: Grizzly Jack's
2:53	Buzz thinks it's great that Steve and Pete are going to go to concerts together. They went to a baseball game last year and had a great time.
2:54	Stephanie's going to Snow Patrol, maybe Steve can go with her. The kids are going to start wondering how to get Steve to stop coming to concerts with them.
2:57	Buzz looks good today and he feels good. Are there any concerts he'd like Steve to attend with him?
2:58	Steve is looking at the WCKG website, which is still in and of itself irritating because of the clicking noises. The idiot who came up with Free FM and the stupid sounds on the website got fired 6 months ago. Can't we change things now?
2:59	WCKG maintains it's own website but it's not reflective of what we're trying to accomplish.
3:00	"Spread the Virus" is not a good marketing catch phrase for O & A but they're still using it. It doesn't seem to be working though. A virus is not the way you want to start off your day.
3:01	Garry's slogan is "You've Found the G Spot" which seems extremely gay to Steve.
3:02	The website still says that Steve is a member of the Broadcast Hall of Fame but he's not. He's not even on the ballot this year.
3:03	Steve would prefer not to have any association with the Hall of Fame. They don't even have a physical building for their museum.
3:04	Steve doesn't know who to talk to about this so he's going to call Jill from marketing. He's going to be calling a lot more people from now on because he doesn't have time to take meetings. Steve doesn't leave messages either so he's going to call someone else.
3:05	Buzz is wondering if he'll call Adam. Doesn't he know how this bit works? Buzz didn't think he'd go lower with the next call. Adam seems to be one of the only people around here who gets stuff done. Going up scares Steve also.
3:06	Stan and Terry's slogan is "Relaxed like The Temptations." What does that mean? Is it because they're black? The Temptations do seem relaxed when they perform on stage.
3:07	The other slogans are somewhat offensive to Buzz but Stan and Terry's is just meaningless. Do you want to have a meaningless slogan? It's like "Coke, it's a liquid."
3:08	Steve came up with a slogan, "Been Here, Done That" but the website has it "Been There, Done That" which combined with the Hall of Fame thing makes Steve seem really old.
3:09	Adam can come in if he wants but is he going to get all trembly? Someone needs to do something because Drew is just walking around giving Garry another tour of the station. Right now they're on Segways.
3:10	Adam maintains the website. He probably can't change the O & A slogan without permission. He has Steve's permission to change it to something better than "Spread the Virus".
3:11	According to Adam Garry and Drew came up with the "You Found the G Spot" slogan. That's the best answer ever. Did Drew come up with that when they were exiting the men's room with the brown paper bag?
3:12	Stan and Terry also came up with their own slogan. Adam will change Steve's slogan though. What about Matt's? Instead of "A New Generation" how about " Riding his Dad's Coattails"?
3:13	Steve's also not in the Hall of Fame and he doesn't want to be either. He was thinking about it last night, there isn't even a museum, it's just Paul and Angel Harvey wrapped in a Persian rug in Bruce Dumont's trunk.
3:14	What else is Adam working on? Are they designing G spot magnets for Garry?
3:15	Matt was thinking "Nepotism at its Finest" for his slogan. His brothers are hassling him about riding Steve's coattails but they are benefiting from the same thing.
3:16	Matt should probably get out of the studio before he ruins his career. Drew is not going to like people making fun of Garry's slogan and he'll be looking for someone to take that out on.
3:17	Caller Mike teaches web design classes and he's used WCKG's website as an example of poor design.
3:18	Dahl.com is used as an example of a good design for a website. Everything is right there in front of you and there's new content everyday. Mike can't show O & A's website because there are pictures of naked women on there and he works at a Catholic school.
3:19	Steve feels bad for Adam because he's just doing what people tell him to. He did have that sweet answer for Garry's slogan though.
3:20	What dude is going to want to listen to a show with that as a slogan? Maybe some girls will though.
3:21	If there were cameras in the studio you'd see Steve cradling his head in his hands right now.
3:25	Steve and Garry split in 1992. They've been apart for longer than they were together.
3:26	Hopefully Adam doesn't get into any trouble for what he said. He's more truthful than Alberto Gonzales though.
3:27	Live read: The Little Guys
3:28	Steve feels bad depriving Ron Santo of the tape of the Broadcast Hall of Fame calling to tell him he didn't get in. Steve always plays the tape of Ron not getting into the Baseball Hall of Fame and then Ron plays the tape of Steve not getting in.
3:29	Maybe they should have a gentleman's agreement where they only play the tape of the first time it happened.
3:30	Steve's not on the ballot this year and he doesn't want to be. He doesn't understand what he did to get removed from the ballot since he was on it last year.
3:31	Steve really doesn't care about the Broadcast Hall of Fame. Sometimes he says he doesn't care but you can tell he does, but in this case he really doesn't care.
3:32	Steve sort of got tricked into caring last year but he doesn't any more. Buzz thinks he'll care more once there's an actual museum.
3:33	Jeff is the one who tricked Steve into caring because he's very sentimental. Steve wouldn't want any kind of award until he's done. How do they know what he's going to do next? Or he might disgrace himself at a moment's notice.
3:34	Steve just signed up for a service called Answer Tone. When you call him instead of ringing it plays Hello There by Cheap Trick. Jeff Schwartz has one that plays Stuck in the Middle with You. Get it? Because he's a Jew.
3:35	Yesterday Steve got an email accusing him of sounding jealous that Garry has his own show. She thought Steve wanted Garry on the show with him and Buzz.
3:36	As it turns out this girl was trying to reply to an email she sent to her friend but instead sent it to Steve. So these listeners were talking about the show behind Steve's back?
3:37	The listener likes the show as it is with just Steve and Buzz and is glad she read things wrong.
3:38	This new line-up is the perfect situation for Steve. If Garry's show does well it will only help Steve because it's good to be surrounded by other shows. Plus Steve and Buzz have a 5 hour show so they can never be topped. Finally, they get to make fun of all of it because it's just the two of them in the studio. They've hit the comedic g spot.
3:41	Steve's going to call Jeff right now and hopefully he doesn't answer, for many reasons. When you call him it says they're looking for the caller while hearing a song.
3:42	Jeff has changed the song to House of the Rising Sun. He doesn't have a job, should he be spending $2 a day on new songs? Did he change the song because the sun came out?
3:43	Song: Surrender, Cheap Trick
3:46	Steve and Brendan share a computer screen and a brain and genitalia. Steve has some software update box on his screen and it's driving him nuts because he's Mr. Update. Is it on Brendan's screen?
3:47	Every time Steve installs an update it crashes his system. Already bad stuff is happening, he doesn't want to screw up the call screener.
3:48	Steve does the recommended update. He does that with iTunes as well. Bad stuff is happening already. Steve never updates Windows computers because he has an Apple. And by that he means a computer. Steve doesn't like apples this time of year because they're too mushy.
3:49	Buzz will not eat a mushy apple but there's no way to tell until you've bitten into it.
3:50	No one is calling in right now because people are so riveted by a man updating the software on his computer.
3:51	Caller John has a way to test if an apple is mushy. Just flick it with your middle finger. If it sounds hollow it's mushy.
3:52	If we're going to test Buzz's apple he'd like to flick it himself. If Jim brings it in here he's going to have to touch it though?
3:53	Buzz's apple sounds crisp. He's going to bite into it prematurely to see if it's crisp. And it is!
3:54	Steve was at a produce market the other day in a town that's even more well-to-do than Steve's.
3:55	There was a customer who kept calling one of the employees by name and asking him how all the different fruits were. He wanted to know how the grapes were and how they were frozen. What's the guy going to say about the grapes if they're in his store? He's not going to say they're bad.
3:56	Steve had to leave after that because it's obvious that this upscale market in a trendy suburb is going to have the best fruit. Plus the guy wasn't even an old man either, he was some 35-year old. Is that guy a yuppie? What else would you call him except a jag?
3:57	Yuppies are Steve's age aren't they? This was one of those guys who would jog with his kid in one of those running strollers.
4:02	Buzz seems upset because he's scrambling to get the headlines together. Jim should come to Buzz.
4:03	Jim already did his work but he didn't announce to Steve that there was news audio. They're supposed to tell Mary about this stuff but they're very shy.
4:04	Buzz actually had some late breaking audio although Steve sees what it is and it's been around since last night. Buzz creates a sense of urgency around his audio to make it seem fresher.
4:05	People are calling in to classify the guy that Steve saw in the grocery store. It's not a metrosexual though.
4:06	Steve has an answer, the guy was a DINK which means dual income no kids. If this guy is asking about frozen grapes he probably doesn't have kids.
4:07	Caller CJ calls those kind of guys tools. She works at a restaurant in a very affluent suburb and these are the kind of guys who ask how fresh the salmon are.
4:08	These are people who have bought into everything they read in a magazine. Steve likes tool but he's going with DINK. If you have kids you don't care how fresh the salmon is.
4:09	It's worse if these people have kids because they come into the restaurant and little Sarah wants crab legs and little Ethan wants chicken but only if it's free-range. It makes Steve want to go live in a trailer park.
4:10	Caller Marty has heard DINK and the add-on is DINKWAD, dual income no kids with a dog. Those are the people who tie their dog up outside the bagel store because they think everyone walking by wants to be barked at.
4:11	DINK only applies to the ones who are jerks. If you're a DINK that flies under the radar Steve doesn't care. But if you're yelling across the produce section to see how the grapes are frozen, that's a problem.
4:16	Steve was driven to work today by a My Chauffeur limo because his car is still in the shop. Stephanie from the office is still in training and didn't know that when Steve says order the part for his car, they need to order the part.
4:17	Steve's car thinks the back hatch is open but the mechanic drove it around and it didn't happen. Steve doesn't care though, he just wants them to order a new part.
4:18	There's going to need to be strippers in the limo tonight though because Steve's getting a little bored. The driver tries to have small talk but he can't really hear him.
4:19	Steve is getting a lot of calls from people with various acronyms for people. Another variation is dual income nanny and kids.
4:20	Caller Jeff's acronym works either way for DINK. They're the people who read all that stuff about wine or whatever and then start buying into it.
4:21	Jeff also works in food service so he just ignores those people. Steve doesn't need some DINK monopolizing his time with dumb questions about grapes.
4:22	Caller Ann's variation is the DOINK, dual income one nerdy kid. If you're a DINK with a kid he's probably really neurotic.
4:23	On the phone from Comcast Sportsnet is Beltin' Bill Melton! He'd like to take number 7 on the prize wheel. Bill won an overnight stay at Grizzly Jack's. Steve can see him coming down the flume slide in his Speedo.
4:24	This is the third year the Sox have had a tough spring and people are getting disappointed, especially after last year.
4:25	The most important thing is that the Sox are coming home healthy, other than Toby Hall.
4:26	The year that the Sox won the World Series they didn't have a great Spring either.
4:27	Bill is the Sox specialist so we only talk Sox. He was a White Sock so he knows his stuff.
4:29	Steve has divided up all his tickets up for the year. He has 41 games and he sold 40 to his friends.
4:30	Everyone is very easy to deal with except David from The Little Guys, who has all sorts of ticket requests. He was accommodated with about 80% of them.
4:31	David is down for 10, then Mary's father-in-law plus Steve's Japanese friend Shu.
4:32	Steve feels he was very fair with his ticket distribution though. David isn't a Sox fan so all of his requests are for other AL teams he wants to see.
4:35	Headlines with Buzz
4:36	The Senate has defied President Bush and passed a war spending bill. Bush has said he will veto the bill.
4:37	Last night at the White House Correspondents dinner Karl Rove was seen dancing and rapping on stage.
4:38	There was some funny stuff on there that Bush did though. Steve doesn't know how funny he'd think any of it was if his kid was killed in Iraq. That Karl Rove is very creepy though, Steve wouldn't be surprised seeing him on To Catch a Predator.
4:39	Buzz got a very racist vibe from the Karl Rove thing, all it was missing was black face. It seemed sort of like one of those pimps up hoes down parties they have at frat houses.
4:40	Buzz questions the judgment of having Karl Rove doing a hip-hop routine on stage. Steve agrees with that but it doesn't seem racist. Buzz is like our Jesse Jackson.
4:41	Pete plays the Bush clip but there's no punchline. Everyone is jumpy around here now that Buzz has said this thing is racist but as a rule Steve likes to hear the punchline.
4:42	Just out of curiosity why would Steve remove the punchline? Was the length of applause too long?
4:43	It's pretty standard for a white guy to do a hip-hop routine at something like this.
4:44	Buzz was also horrified in Bulworth when Warren Beatty started rapping. If he's not laughing he goes to racism.
4:45	Steve thinks the whole thing is inappropriate but not because it's racist. Karl Rove is Bush's puppet master but he's not happy with that so he has to go out there and rap. How about he shave his head too since he's almost bald.
4:46	One thing Steve forgot to mention during the Valerie Plame thing. When she was testifying there was some guy behind her dressed like Jackie Kennedy. How do you even get in there dressed like that?
4:47	Today a reporter asked Broward County coroner Dr. Joshua Perper what was wrong with his head.
4:48	Steve never noticed anything wrong with his head but it's apparently misshapen from being dropped on his head as a child.
4:49	It now appears that the latest incident of off-duty cops beating people up was sparked when one of the victims started hassling one of the cops for crying.
4:50	The guy called the cop the p-word and it was printed in the Sun-Times in full. Steve doesn't think he can say that word though.
4:51	The cops were probably drunk if one of them was crying, it's shocking those guys weren't killed. Steve wouldn't mind beating up some traders.
4:52	American Idol contestant Sanjaya was once again not voted off the show. Apparently there's some group of people trying to keep him on the show just to mess it up.
4:53	Then Simon Cowell is threatening to quit the show if Sanjaya wins because it threatens the integrity of the show. OK!
4:56	George Bush killed at that dinner last night, he's a funny guy. It just seems like weird that it gets all this publicity while people are being blown up in Iraq.
4:57	Everyone has to let off steam but it just shows you how disconnected everyone in DC is.
4:58	Do we want to talk to people who have ways for Joshua Perper to fix his head? Buzz would like to hear from at least one person.
4:59	Caller Kim has a friend who has a dent in the head. A lot of the time the dent is caused by a removal of part of the skull. Now they have synthetic bones to replace the missing piece.
5:00	Song: Someone to Love, Fountains of Wayne
5:04	Chef Hans isn't here today because he's in Taipei. He kept saying Taiping but there's no such place. We could have fake Chef Hans come in though.
5:05	Live read: The Little Guys
5:09	Steve started up the Meat Talk music too soon.
5:10	It's time for Meat Talk 2007. Get ready for the cowbell if you're listening to the podcast. Steve can guarantee that the engineers haven't done anything to limit the audio on there so it's not so distorted.
5:11	Does Steve feel like talking like Chef Hans today? He's wery, wery sad about the Tony LaRussa thing, he's a class act.
5:12	The first emailer is shopping for a new gas grill. The one he's looking at has an infrared side burner for searing.
5:13	Steve was thinking that Hans probably doesn't know anything about grills but then realized he was Chef Hans this week.
5:14	Steve is currently looking at a grill that has that feature but he doesn't know what it does. This was all in the blog today which Buzz has of course read.
5:15	Every time Steve gets a new grill he has to argue with Janet. He wants a Weber but she thinks that you shouldn't keep getting the same kind, even if you like it.
5:16	Steve has no idea what the infrared burner does but it probably does something. Hans doesn't know either because he has Guatemalans cooking for him. They're all class acts.
5:17	Caller Tom has some info about the infrared burner. It's just a metal grate that heats up to the highest temperature possible.
5:18	Steve would rather cook with charcoal but he just doesn't have the time. The Weber technology has advanced pretty far to where it tastes just as good but Steve doesn't know if he can go infrared.
5:19	Steve hasn't heard a peep from Weber and they're in Palatine!
5:20	Caller Bob sells grills but he doesn't sell Weber's. He does tell people that Weber is the best, that's what he owns. The infrared is good for rotisserie cooking.
5:21	A grill that's all infrared is to cook things fast but Bob doesn't believe in that. It should be slow and low.
5:25	Steve's life really is like King of Queens. Steve wants a new one and Janet tells him to get it fixed. She also says it's boring that he keeps getting a Weber. It's not boring, it just means he found something he likes.
5:26	The Weber that Steve wants is much cheaper than the Viking grills that do the same thing. Being Swedish you would think Steve gets a discount on VIking grills but he doesn't.
5:27	The next question is about aging steaks in your house without getting salmonella. You don't really want to deal with aging your own meat and you also shouldn't let your meat loaf.
5:28	Most butcher shops age their own beef or you can get it from Allen Brothers. Dry aging beef is just a controlled rot, you don't want to be messing around with that.
5:29	Caller Tom is the VP of sales at Weber. Finally, someone is listening to Steve's pleas.
5:30	Tom was disconnected, that's great. Steve doesn't want a discount on a grill though. He might have hung up when he heard the kind of grill Steve wanted.
5:31	Tom is back on the line. There's a new Summit 650 with an infrared rotisserie.
5:32	Tom can tell Steve is a Weber man. Finally! It's taken Steve 30 years to get to this point. Hopefully this is the beginning of a beautiful relationship.
5:33	Steve just wants someone to know how much he loves Weber. When he goes to the hardware store to buy his grill they don't care. Steve wants to be in the factory touching warm grills.
5:34	Tom can probably arrange a factory tour. The charcoal grills are made out in Huntley and the gas grills are in Palatine.
5:35	The only thing Steve wants from Weber is the bond. He wants them to know that he loves Weber. He wants Tom to be out to dinner with some clients and tell them Steve loves Weber.
5:36	Buzz has the original Weber Kettle. He's into vintage amps and vintage grills. Steve loves the charcoal but with the show ending at 7:00 he can't do charcoal during the week.
5:37	Is that the end of Meat Talk? We did learn about infrared grills. It sounds like a good thing to use if you're doing a whole chicken.
5:43	Steve and Buzz will be at the Bears Fan Convention tomorrow. My Chauffeur is picking Buzz up at 12:45. The strippers better not be tired out by the time they pick Steve up.
5:44	Steve really doesn't want anything from Weber, he just wants them to know how much he loves them. You're not going to find a better grill anywhere than a Weber.
5:45	Steve grew up in Southern California he knows how to grill. Buzz somehow avoided the Weber as a kid. That's because he lived in Florida and old people tend to get cheap with the grills. They'll go with a lower end Charm-Glo and then you're dealing with lava rocks.
5:46	Steve recommends a chimney starter for Buzz's grill. He'll really enjoy BBQing, it's a much manlier pursuit than making beignets. He's gonna look great wearing his apron and nothing else. It's very primal, like the cavemen.
5:47	Steve can't wait for that sitcom with the Geico cavemen. Every time he sees the commercial with the two guys at the party arguing about switching to Geico he realizes how funny it'll be.
5:48	Stan and Terry were talking about the show a few weeks ago but Stan stanned it. Stanning is a new verb Steve just came up with. In this case, Stan started asking if the show would have cavewomen or black cavemen. Who cares? We don't need to know that stuff.
5:49	Live read: Townstone Financial
5:50	Steve wouldn't mind a tour of the Weber factory and he'd like to be involved in the grill industry somehow. Steve also has a dream about a Weber kettle that looks like him.
5:51	Steve drew a picture of the Steve Dahl Weber. HIs glasses were the tool holders.
5:52	Steve still has a grill that's in good condition. He was thinking of donating it to the people on Lower Wacker but they'll have to convert it from natural gas.
5:53	Weber does have a Simpsons grill so they do specialty items. The Simpsons might be a little bigger though. This is where Steve messes his connection up though, too many ideas.
5:54	Steve does have some crazy Mancow stuff. He gets a newsletter everyday called Inside Radio, about the business end of the industry. Steve worries about this stuff so Buzz doesn't have to.
5:55	Buzz is better off not knowing. Some of the stuff Steve reads in there keeps him up at night. He'll also be kept awake tonight knowing that Drew and Garry Meier came up with the "You've Found the G Spot" slogan.
5:56	People found the g spot in 1982. Women know where it is, they don't need guys any more. Why do you think they're always making out on those GIrls Gone Wild videos? They still have the injection molded replacements for guys both those are more of a tribute to what guys used to bring to the table.
5:57	Mancow advertises in Inside Radio because he's trying to get his show syndicated. Plus if you advertise they'll do an interview with you. That seems a bit unscrupulous but it probably happens everywhere.
5:58	Mancow still does a radio show, it's just not on in Chicago. He still lives here but no one wants him on the radio.
6:02	Steve has two things to read. The Mancow thing from Inside Radio caused O & A to talk about it.
6:03	After that woman died during that radio contest in Sacramento Mancow a "renowned radio host" started a nonprofit Foundation for Responsible Radio. Remember, he advertises in this newsletter everyday so they have to call him renowned.
6:04	Mancow wants to put an end to voyeur radio and wants the heads of the major media conglomerates to get together and come up with a list of 10 golden rules for radio.
6:05	It seems like he would have the list of rules before he started the foundation but then these people wouldn't take his calls.
6:06	Mancow feels that one of the rules should be to never put the lives of the people who matter (listeners) in danger.
6:07	This is a radio publication so anyone in the industry reading it thinks he's off his rocker. It might fly with his listeners though.
6:08	Mancow says this is not about ego. It seems like it's just a way for these radio execs to take his phone call.
6:09	Remember that time when Mancow sent someone to Steve's house to look for extra cocaine he'd thrown out?
6:11	Mancow says that when he came to Chicago he beat out people like Steve, Kev and Johnny B. That didn't really happen though, Steve beat him. Plus, Steve is still on the air here.
6:18	Mancow says that voyeuristic radio is a dying art form. That explains why he's not on the air any more.
6:19	O & A have issued a challenge to Mancow to give back all the money he made as a shock jock.
6:20	O & A went off on Mancow for his staged calls and guests. He once used Jim Norton to play a child molester.
6:21	Anthony then called into Mancow's show posing as Tony from New York to talk about the Iran hostage situation. He was instructed by the call screener to start his call "love you, love your show."
6:22	Anthony blew his chance to ask Mancow about the Inside Radio quotes by sticking to the Iran stuff and his call was dropped.
6:23	It was later learned that his call was dropped because someone tipped Mancow off about what was going on.
6:24	Anthony tried to call back as himself but the call screener wouldn't let him on, saying he'd made the last half hour of his life a living hell.
6:25	Mancow ran into a lot of trouble during his career because one guy who used to tape his show and send stuff to the FCC.
6:26	Now he's asking for people all across the country to do the same thing. He's building an army of snitches.
6:27	Caller Phil loves Steve and his show. Brendan told him to say that but not to mention it.
6:28	Phil's wondering what happened to Mancow and all his free speech stuff? Doesn't he have some sort of free speech tattoo?
6:29	Phil was one click away from winning the big prize, does that count as listener abuse? How could Steve take away $1,100 worth of gift certificates!
6:30	Steve hopes that he did a good job of portraying just how crazy this is. He's completely off his rocker and he's trying to take radio people down because he can't make it in this business any more.
6:31	Steve gets the thing about the golden rules but when you start forming a group of people to rat on other radio hosts, no one will want to hire you.
6:36	Mancow is about 2 months too late to jump on this Sacramento deal. Was Steve able to capture the insanity of the all this Mancow stuff?
6:37	The listener did a nice job of pointing out Mancow's free speech stuff. The best thing about all of this is that Mancow is doing a 5 hour show in Chicago that doesn't air here because no one wants it.
6:38	The craziest thing is that he's recruiting an army of snitches. That seems like the kind of thing Mancow was always against.
6:39	News with Buzz
6:40	Law & Order star Fred Thompson is considering a run for president. We've had an actor as a president before. Some even say he was one of the best.
6:41	One thing Steve doesn't get about this U.S. Attorneys thing is that the president appoints all of them. It's sort of like a patronage deal. So if he doesn't like them then he can get rid of them.
6:43	Steve never noticed The Perper's deformed head. Buzz didn't noticed it either and they both watched all the press conferences.
6:44	Now that Buzz knows about it he can tell it's deformed. When a reporter asked him about it he said he was not a Conehead and that he was dropped on his head as a baby by his aunt.
6:45	Buzz was also dropped on his head as a baby and was subsequently given the nickname Bumpy.
6:52	We've got a hard end tonight. Buzz loves the hard end.
6:53	Drew was just pitching Steve on switching Buzz's nickname back to Bumpy because he thinks it's better. Why would we change the nickname from something that everyone already knows?
6:54	Steve didn't want Drew coming in here after the break to talk about the nickname switch because he has no concept of time.
6:55	Steve predicts that Drew will be on Garry's show a lot. "YOU'VE FOUND THE D SPOT!"
6:56	Tomorrow Steve, Buzz and Tom Thayer will be broadcasting live from the Chicago Bears Fan Convention. They had a great time last year so it should be good tomorrow. Buzz is going with his double-zero Kilman Bears jersey.
6:57	Tom isn't supposed to come by until 4:00 but Steve wants him there the whole time. Tom is so polite so he thinks he's imposing on Steve but there's no one better to have with them. He knows football and he knows a lot of Bears players.

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