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| 2:03
| Coyote must like Arizona Iced Tea because that coyote was parked right in front of the beverage cooler at Quizno's. |
| 2:04
| Stan remembers Steve talking about how he thinks there are coyotes around his house but no one believes him. Steve was actually talking about wolves and he knows the difference between the two because he grew up in California. |
| 2:05
| Stan has no idea how the coyote got to Chicago. Didn't he just do a 3 hour show, wasn't that covered? Stan's a city-dweller, he only knows about rats. |
| 2:06
| If you go north on the Chicago river you hit forest preserve. They also had some problems with coyotes in Chinatown but they might have taken care of it in a different way. |
| 2:07
| The coyote seemed cool about everything yesterday, at least until the animal control people put something around his neck to drag him out. He was just looking for a lady, caught a whiff of some teriyaki chicken at Quizno's and took it the wrong way. |
| 2:08
| Coyotes are normally nocturnal animals but this one seemed to have no problem walking around downtown in the middle of the day. |
| 2:09
| Steve heard that they're taking the coyote to some rehab center in Barrington, apparently it has a drug problem. The other coyotes probably thought this one was pretty messed up if it was walking into a Quizno's. |
| 2:10
| They'll probably end up releasing the coyote back into the wild. Frank Mathie actually did a pretty good piece about it last night. |
| 2:11
| Pete points out MIchael Sneed's column in the Sun-Times today. Steve's having a hard time finding it because they redesigned the paper. They have a new photo of Michael Sneed and she looks like Steve. Steve is a better looking female than she is. |
| 2:12
| Michael Sneed issued a warning to authorities that she'll be checking the progress off the coyote to make sure they make good on their promise to release it back into the wild. |
| 2:13
| Normally she only cares about people eating at Gibson's but her standards aren't as high for animals. |
| 2:14
| There are like a hundred people hanging out in the hallway and now they're lurking near Steve's studio. |
| 2:15
| They're here for Terry. Is it take your out-of-wedlock kid to work day? Terry's getting laser eye surgery and some people want to film something for it. |
| 2:16
| That still doesn't explain why all these kids are here. Steve thought he was waiting for a school bus. |
| 2:19
| Song: Sail On Sailor, The Beach Boys |
| 2:22
| We won't get to watch any more footage of the British sailors having lunch with their Iranian captors. We also won't get to see that woman smoking in her burqa or the guys pointing to the map to show what they did wrong. |
| 2:23
| Maybe those guys didn't want to get released, it seemed like they had it knocked over there. |
| 2:24
| The Iranian president, who's name Buzz isn't going to try to pronounce, met with the sailors and asked how they were enjoying their forced vacation. He did a meet-and-greet with them. |
| 2:25
| Steve saw something on the news last night about how we're funding a bunch of Pakistanis who are going into Iran and beheading generals. |
| 2:26
| Steve wants to finish this coyote thing before he goes any further. First of all though he'd like to say out loud that Stan is irritating. |
| 2:27
| Stan had it wrong that Steve thought there were coyotes around his house. Then when Steve corrected him, he threw it back on him by saying "what's the difference". Then Terry's just trying to get the show over with because he wants free laser eye surgery. |
| 2:28
| It's funny when the papers say the coyote walked into a downtown submarine shop, like it was looking to buy a 4 person submarine to tour the Great Lakes with. |
| 2:29
| The coyote was taken to a rehabilitation center in Barrington, which is where they take animals that are drug addicts or alcoholics. "Hello my name is Quizno and I'm an alcoholic and a drug addict and maybe a sex addict." |
| 2:30
| The coyote was named Adrian after the overnight guy at the animal control shelter. Buzz thought he heard they named it Quizno which is a great marketing idea. It would be confusing to name it Quizno one day and Adrian the next. |
| 2:31
| Pete was watching NBC news-probably because he likes to track what Buzz is seeing-and Amy Jacobson reported that they had initially named the dog Quizno. |
| 2:32
| This morning employees of the Quizno's visited the animal at the shelter and brought him a prime rib on garlic bread sandwich. Steve could go for one of those now. |
| 2:33
| Steve saw a pretty clever report about the coyote by Frank Mathie. Pete is now saying it's Paul Mienke but he did it in the intercom. |
| 2:34
| What does Steve have to do to break Pete of this habit? Steve already has a throbbing headache and it's worse now. |
| 2:35
| If Pete only has something short to say, like Paul Mienke, he likes to use the intercom. It takes Pete so long to say anything though. |
| 2:36
| The veterinarians at the shelter rejected the sandwich probably because they have to pretend like it shouldn't be eating that stuff. |
| 2:37
| Coyote's scavenge in people's garbage though so a prime rib sandwich is a step up. |
| 2:38
| Did we ever figure out of Quizno's manager Bina Patel was a man or a woman? |
| 2:39
| The Quizno's was closed today so it could be cleaned and sanitized. There are probably dirtier people who go in that Quizno's everyday. |
| 2:40
| The only thing Buzz is missing in this story is video of the coyote. It might even supplant the Abbate beating video. |
| 2:41
| Steve saw video on the news last night but he's not watching NBC because it's not real news and it's not in HD. |
| 2:42
| There's video of the coyote sitting in the Quizno's and then more video of the coyote freaking out as they drag it out of the restaurant. |
| 2:43
| You can't put something around a coyote's neck like that. When coyotes or other dogs fight each other, they go for the throats. |
| 2:44
| People are probably just seeing the video of the dog being dragged out so it's just adding on to the Abbate stuff. All over the world people probably think we also beat up our dogs. |
| 2:48
| REO Speedwagon is here today. They were working hard to get in the main studio but all the musicians go into Pete's studio, they're not being slated. |
| 2:49
| You can't have eye contact with Steve anyway because he's looking down, ashamed of himself. His face is being blocked by computer screens anyway. |
| 2:50
| On the news on Friday night Steve saw the back of his head as he was talking to Lovie Smith. That was after Lovie got the mic out of his crotch. Steve got the feeling that Lovie didn't want to be talking to him. |
| 2:51
| Once Lovie started talking to Steve and Buzz he realized everything was fine. Enough bad stuff has been going on lately so it makes sense if he's a little gun shy. |
| 2:52
| Yesterday Steve said that he was on a softball team that beat REO Speedwagon but now he's not sure. For sure he and Buzz were on a team that beat Journey. |
| 2:53
| Buzz never actually played in any of the games but he still wanted to be able to say that the team beat REO Speedwagon. Steve probably played too much as it turns out. |
| 2:54
| Jeff Schwartz is on the phone, apparently he has an answer for Steve and Buzz. The Loop did beat REO Speedwagon in a softball game and Jeff has some great pictures if he can find them. He doesn't remember how Steve did in the game though. |
| 2:55
| Jeff could probably incriminate a lot of people with those photos. That's probably just chalk! Steve doesn't care what he looks like in those pictures because he knows he looks better now. |
| 2:56
| Jeff's nickname back then was Jive Snoot. It's amazing that in one career you can go from being called Jive Snoot to Spaceball. Jeff was nicknamed by a couple of record execs. He even had a t-shirt with his big hair and glasses on it. |
| 2:57
| The band has sent 4 different guys to try to get into the main studio but it's nothing personal. Bands are never in the main studio. Even when the Stones were here they weren't in the main studio. They bitched and they moaned and they snorted their dads but they didn't get into the main studio. |
| 2:58
| Now Keith Richards is denying that he snorted the cremated remains of his dad. Why would anyone care if he did anyway? A worse PR gaffe for Keith Richards is falling out of a coconut tree and landing on your head. |
| 2:59
| REO Speedwagon might not be ready yet because there are a lot of them here. They're also completely chickless, it's a total sausage fest. What kind of rock entourage travels without any ladies? |
| 3:04
| Joining Steve in the Music Studio are Kevin Cronin, Bruce Hall and Neil Doughty from REO Speedwagon. |
| 3:05
| The last time Kevin was here he hung with Steve but now he was instructed to not have any eye contact. Steve will make eye contact during the break but the guys will find that it makes them uncomfortable. |
| 3:06
| REO has a new album out, their first one in ten years. That's probably the last time Steve saw Kevin. |
| 3:07
| REO's new album Find Your Own Way Home was released yesterday exclusively at Wal-Mart yesterday. |
| 3:08
| If Steve was in a band he'd still want to sell physical CDs. Downloads are cool and all but you want to sell the CDs. |
| 3:09
| When you have the album you have the liner notes and the sweet picture of the band to attract the ladies. |
| 3:10
| When the band was walking in today they saw some really awful pictures of themselves from the early 80s. Steve always forgets that there are still photos up in the hallway from when the station was still classic rock. |
| 3:11
| Kevin wouldn't mind doing a photo demolition with Steve. The band can take those photos home if they want to. |
| 3:12
| Kevin likes the Music Studio even though there are stacks of CDs that look like they're about to fall on him. If Pete wasn't working for Steve he'd be one of those guys on Lower Wacker. |
| 3:13
| Song: Ridin' the Storm Out, REO Speedwagon |
| 3:16
| Kevin forgot to say "LAST SONG PEOPLE!" at the beginning of that. |
| 3:22
| Steve tried to go into the studio during the break to talk to the band and Mary was in there posing for photos. It didn't seem like they were missing him at all. |
| 3:23
| The band was supposed to tour with Boston this summer but then Brad Delp committed suicide and the tour is off. |
| 3:24
| REO will definitely be in Chicago this summer though. Steve thinks they should play at that amphitheater at Northerly Island. |
| 3:25
| Tonight the band will be at the Wal-Mart in Elk Grove Village, shaking hands, kissing babies and signing CDs. |
| 3:26
| Is Kevin going to be wearing one of those blue vests and greeting people as they come in? |
| 3:28
| Kevin and Jim Peterik wrote a song together for the new album. Normally Kevin writes completely sober but he wrote the first line to this song while sampling some adult beverages. |
| 3:29
| Then Jim came out to California and they wrote the rest of the song. Jim hasn't heard the finished product yet. |
| 3:30
| Song: Dangerous Combination, REO Speedwagon |
| 3:34
| Steve hasn't heard the new album yet because he just got it but he can tell that one is going to be good with the full band. Not that it wasn't good there though. |
| 3:36
| There are two photos of REO Speedwagon hanging on the walls in the hallway. In one of them Kevin is singing next to Gary and his hair is huge. |
| 3:41
| REO's new album is available at Wal-Mart exclusively for the next three weeks. They'll be at the Wal-Mart in Elk Grove tonight and they will be jamming in addition to signing autographs. |
| 3:42
| Steve thinks it's pretty cool that the band still enjoys playing and that they still like making new music. |
| 3:43
| It's probably good to be around for a few cycles because by now nothing surprises them and they can do whatever they want. |
| 3:45
| Song: Smilin' in the End, REO Speedwagon |
| 3:49
| During that song Buzz asked Steve if it was a new one or an old one. Buzz said it was good and enough to make him a fan. |
| 3:50
| Buzz doesn't have a lot of mainstream tastes so for him to like something is a big get. |
| 3:57
| Steve's going to play the album version of Smilin' in the End whenever the band gets back into their van. |
| 3:58
| Steve's favorite part of yesterday's show was when Jim kid came in at the last moment with the news audio but it was the same cut as from the headlines. |
| 3:59
| Jim made a big deal about putting the CD in but it was the same CD! He took it out and brought it in a minute later. Then he thought Steve wouldn't notice. |
| 4:00
| Jim also does that thing that Pete does where he tiptoes around the studio. It's quieter but it takes so much longer and it seems louder. It's like they're doing a Cirque de Soleil performance. |
| 4:01
| Headlines with Buzz |
| 4:02
| The good news is that Iran has released the British sailors they've been holding hostage. Those people should be tried for treason and hung in Trafalgar Square. |
| 4:03
| Three Yale students spent the night in jail after being arrested for burning the American flag. It's not illegal to burn the flag but they're being charged with second degree arson and criminal misconduct because they took the flag off someone's house. You really need to bring your own flag to a burning. |
| 4:05
| The O'Brien's (Miles and Soledad) are out on CNN"s morning show. They are neither brothers nor are they married but they're both unemployed. |
| 4:06
| Soledad will actually stay on at CNN as a reporter. That Miles O'Brien has always been a pompous ass and Soledad started to get a little pompous herself. |
| 4:07
| Sam Zell, visiting the Chicago Tribune today, said his office will be a great place to park his motorcycle. |
| 4:13
| Live read: Arby's |
| 4:14
| Buzz was enjoying one of the sandwiches that Arby's brought in today. He just wanted a taste but it totally engulfed him. |
| 4:15
| Buzz has the giant Arby's cowboy hat thought balloon above his head right now, he can't shake it. |
| 4:16
| Steve's going to play some classic REO first while he eats his Arby's and then he'll play something from their new album. |
| 4:17
| The band didn't take the photos that were hanging in the hallway of the station. Buzz never knew who was in those photos. Every time Steve walked by them he thought it was Led Zeppelin. |
| 4:18
| Buzz has spent a considerable amount of time staring at those photographs, wondering what band it was. It screams spandex to Buzz though. |
| 4:19
| This station hasn't been classic rock for 10 years. What we need to have in the hallway are photos of famous talking people. For starters, they could alternate photos of Steve and Buzz and then Steve in spandex then Buzz in spandex. |
| 4:20
| Song: Roll With the Changes, REO Speedwagon |
| 4:25
| Steve has his settings wrong on his computer so the song just started fading out. Apologies to Kevin, Steve will just play the end again. |
| 4:31
| First off Steve would like to say to our own Pete Zimmerman that REO sounded great today. He doesn't approve of successful bands but he went ahead and mixed them anyway like they were virtual unknowns. |
| 4:32
| Right now the band is heading out to Wal-Mart for a CD signing and concert. And if you're going out there to get an autograph, it's not cool to bring an old album. Etiquette dictates that you buy the new album their promoting. |
| 4:33
| Song: Smilin' in the End, REO Speedwagon |
| 4:37
| Steve wants to play the song Kevin wrote with Jim Peterik, Dangerous Combination. He might not have been listening earlier, he was probably getting his hair frosted or something. |
| 4:38
| Song: Dangerous Combination, REO Speedwagon |
| 4:43
| Steve has a bunch of different REO CDs in the studio and he keeps saying that the song is the name of the album. |
| 4:44
| Is Buzz interested in seeing the White Sox break Steve's heart? They lost already but Steve has it on TiVo. It was the bottom of the 9th, Cleveland was up 8-7. |
| 4:45
| With 2 on and 2 outs Joe Crede steps to the plate. At the very least you'd like to see him hit a single to tie the game but a home run ends the game. |
| 4:46
| Not only was Steve's heart broken but so was Hawk's. The Indians outfielder made a spectacular catch off the wall. That's two in a row for the Sox plus it's cold and it's snowing out. |
| 4:47
| The Cubs are playing tonight in Cincy though and the Bulls are on at 6:30 which means we have a hard, early ending for the show. That's a confusing thing for Buzz to hear. |
| 4:52
| Steve has no idea what Ozzie just said but he didn't sound happy. He did say that it's only been two games so he's not hitting the panic button. |
| 4:53
| Still though, why are the Sox breaking Steve's heart like that? Buzz feels that they're bringing him down only to lift him up in dramatic fashion. |
| 4:54
| Steve likes to do things in three and he's already played three REO Speedwagon songs. Plus they played three songs live. Steve would like to play three songs from the new album though because it was cool that they came on the show and that they requested to be on. |
| 4:55
| Buzz noticed that the band didn't mind talking about the softball game but they tried to make it seem like they didn't lose. |
| 4:56
| Live read: Arby's |
| 4:57
| Steve's not sure what song to play because they dropped off a ton of CDs. Steve comped them on the interview but he's going to be charging for the airplay. Someone should ad this to their bill but Mary's not even here, the band took her with them. |
| 4:58
| Song: I Needed to Fall, REO Speedwagon |
| 5:01
| During that song Steve was slow dancing with himself and eating a piece of year old candy. Buzz loves aged candy. |
| 5:02
| During Easter Reese's puts out those Easter eggs with the peanut butter inside, which Steve loves. He was in the Green Room and thought maybe there was a new bag in there. |
| 5:03
| The bag in there was open but he still had a few anyway. Upon further examination Steve realized they were a year old but he still ate 4 of them. |
| 5:07
| Since the show ends at 6:30 we're jamming a few things in here which is cool. One of the things we're jamming in his Bob and Ron but Steve forgot he has to do something else. |
| 5:08
| We'll also be talking to Pat Boyle from Comcast and maybe even hearing from Ben Gay. Buzz also has to do the news, there's a lot of stuff breaking. And there's the news too. |
| 5:09
| Live read: Townstone Financial |
| 5:10
| Alright Bob and Ron are here and Bob said there's nothing much going on. He couldn't come up with anything in the week since he was last here? |
| 5:11
| Ron is celebrating Passover. Steve just learned last week that he was Jewish. Ron looks like an Arab though with the beard. He might want to Jewish it up a little bit, maybe a silk shirt or something? Hasidic might not be the look he should go for, how about a Bulls Sweater Club guy? |
| 5:12
| This just in, Ben Wallace will miss tonight's game against the Pistons. He was taken to the hospital with inflammation in his sinus. Steve knows how to fix that really fast. |
| 5:13
| Bob and Ron found a special track for Steve called The Ballad of Ben Gay. It's a novelty number by Ben Gay & the Silly Savages. |
| 5:14
| Steve plays some of the song. It sort of sounds like Mike Love singing but it's no one that Bob or Ron know. Bob says the whole song can be played on the air but he doesn't sound confident. Can you trust a dog walker who has nothing to lose? |
| 5:15
| This is some old school gay bashing right here. Steve's pretty sure he's heard this song on Dr. Demento. |
| 5:16
| It seems like every week someone from The Band is celebrating a birthday. This week it's Richard Manuel. |
| 5:17
| Ron often gets mistaken for Richard Manuel. Steve thinks he looks like a half-pint Osama bin Laden. Of the two of them Bob got the height, he looks like Ichabod Crane. |
| 5:18
| Another weird looking guy, Leon Russell, is celebrating a birthday this week. He always looked weird and now he looks like Gandalf the wizard. |
| 5:19
| Song: Tight Rope, Leon Russell |
| 5:21
| Buzz and his guitar player John Spiegel were supposed to open for Leon Russell at the Abbey Pub but he never showed up. The Abbey is of course owned by Pat Loony who's the real Steve Bartman. Steve just saw that video last night and Loony goes for the ball but Bartman took the rap. |
| 5:22
| As it turns out, Leon's bus broke down and it could have been fixed but he won't let anyone else work on it. Buzz and John just went on with out him, they didn't need that long-haired freak. |
| 5:23
| Steve once played a show somewhere on the Southside. It was a really long time ago because Marcus was there. The club had a loading dock and Marcus hurt himself pretty bad running right off of that thing, wearing a nurses outfit. |
| 5:24
| Leon actually constructed a tunnel for himself made of garbage bags because he wanted to get from the stage to his dressing room without anyone seeing him. |
| 5:29
| Buzz exited the studio with 30 seconds remaining on the Leon Russell song and now he's late getting back in for the Comcast Sports Report. His timing is off today. |
| 5:30
| Buzz was telling his Leon Russell story and he must have though it was so good that he had to leave when it was over. Then he came running back into the studio holding a cup of coffee. It didn't look ridiculous though, it was very smooth. |
| 5:31
| Buzz's script is all wrong, it doesn't reflect that Ben Wallace is sitting out the game tonight. That's OK though. |
| 5:32
| On the phone is Comcast's Pat Boyle. Steve wants to know why the Sox are breaking his heart. They've given up 20 runs in two games and used pretty much every pitcher. |
| 5:33
| Steve really doesn't like that McDougal guy right now. He looks like Kenny Loggins or an anorexic lumberjack. |
| 5:34
| Mary's father-in-law went to the game today, that's hardcore. He can have the tickets for tomorrow too. |
| 5:35
| Comcast has the Bulls game tonight in HD. Normally technology is driven by pornography but in the case of HD it's sports that is driving it. |
| 5:36
| Steve got Comcast cable just so he could get Comcast Sports in HD. That's a smart move on their part. |
| 5:37
| Buzz has the HD but he's still watching NBC news which is not in HD. |
| 5:38
| The Cubs are on at 6:10 tonight on Comcast Sportsnet Plus and the Bulls are on Comcast. |
| 5:39
| The Lance Briggs deal is off because the Redskins weren't willing to give up anything more than their #6 pick. |
| 5:40
| As a Sox fan Steve is a little worried about the sale of the Cubs. What if someone buys them who actually cares about winning? |
| 5:41
| Steve's money is on Rich Melman buying the Cubs. He can raise funds like no one else and he's a huge Cubs fan. The Cubs need an owner who cares about the team. |
| 5:42
| There's some talk about Wrigley not being included in the sale. Pat thinks that whoever buys the team should tear Wrigley down, rebuild a new stadium in it's place and have the Cubs play at The Cell while that's going on. |
| 5:43
| Steve would love to see Cubs fans have to go to the Southside to see baseball games but they probably wouldn't like it. |
| 5:44
| Do we need to hear from Ben Gay today? He only comes here for Buzz so it's up to him. |
| 5:49
| Steve was ready to go but had the wrong music cued up. He sat there under the false impression that he was ready for four minutes. |
| 5:50
| Ben is wondering why it's always such a production. Can't we just get him on and off without all this trouble. |
| 5:51
| Ben is all bundled up in a sable coat and underneath he's wearing a chihuahua furkini. Those aren't even legal in this country, he had to go to Taiwan to get it. He's also wearing his Ugg boots but this will be the last time we see this whole look. Ben will wear the furkini over the summer though but not the coat. |
| 5:52
| Ben already heard a lot of sports when Pat Boyle was on but he has his own take on things. |
| 5:53
| The Sox lost today with Matt Thornton taking the loss. He is very handsome in that classic, chiseled, baseball player look. He seems like a bit of a toe walker too. |
| 5:54
| Yesterday's appearance by Jose Contreras was the shortest opening day outing for a starter on the White Sox since 1917. |
| 5:55
| The Cubs are in Cincinnati to take on the Reds. Ted Lilly faces off against Bronson Arroyo. He's the guy who used to have the corn rows when he was on the Red Sox. |
| 5:56
| Andres Nocioni says that he might be able to play against the PIstons tonight but he'll definitely be ready Friday against the Nets. |
| 5:57
| Ben has no idea what Andres Nocioni is saying, it's like we're on ESPN Deportes. |
| 5:58
| Ben heard that Lovie Smith had an interesting mic technique when he was on with Steve and Buzz last Friday. He was going with the crotch mic. |
| 6:00
| Yankees outfielder Johnny Damon is out indefinitely with a sore calf. Ben didn't even know he had a ranch. |
| 6:01
| Britney Spears was spotted at a Lakers game wearing a Kobe Bryant jersey as a dress with her two friends. Those are her breasts right? |
| 6:08
| Live read: My Chauffeur |
| 6:09
| Steve got the weirdest email yesterday. He gets a lot of weird emails but there was one in particular that was really weird. Steve would like to share it without opening the mailbag. |
| 6:10
| The emailer was listening to the show yesterday and, as a recovering addict, was startled to hear Steve slurring and lisping during the show. |
| 6:11
| Steve doesn't remember slurring or lisping during the show and the guy sent the email around 4:10. Buzz didn't hear any slurring or lisping at least on air. He hears it during the breaks but only because it makes him uncomfortable. |
| 6:12
| Sometimes if Steve hits the dump button and it's not set properly you'll hear everything slowed down and slightly distorted, but Steve didn't hit the dump button yesterday. |
| 6:13
| If Steve was slurring or lisping Buzz would have said something. Did Steve talk like Cliff yesterday? |
| 6:14
| Buzz loves when Cliff drops by but when he was here the other day the silence was deafening. Buzz was just sitting in stunned awe. |
| 6:20
| As Buzz knows we've got a hard, early end tonight which means Steve has to fire up the closing theme at 6:27:07. |
| 6:21
| Buzz just saw some disturbing news on Mark's page. Bob Clark, director of A Christmas Story, and his son were killed in a car accident on the PCH today. |
| 6:22
| One of Clark's first films, Dead of Night, was filmed right next door to Buzz's mom's house in Florida. That's sort of a tenuous connection. |
| 6:23
| For some reason Buzz was confusing A Christmas Story with the horror movie Black Christmas. Clark also directed the Porky's movies. You'd think that would lead in the obit. |
| 6:24
| News with Buzz |
| 6:25
| The other big news today is that Iran returned the British sailors they were holding hostage. Hopefully by now they're all hanging from a yard arm in Trafalgar Square. |
| 6:26
| Keith Richards is now retracting a statement he made last week that he snorted the cremated remains of his father along with some cocaine. Some people call cocaine booger sugar so that would have been a booger sugar daddy. |
