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| 2:03
| Steve got a shout-out on the WGN Morning News today but it was only because there was a dog fashion show featuring one animal that had a Hawaiian shirt on. Stan points out that Steve doesn't even wear Hawaiian shirts any more. |
| 2:04
| Steve's glad to know he doesn't wear Hawaiian shirts any more. Ana Belaval looks like a parrot. Ugly guys have a much easier time getting laid then ugly girls. She does have a husband though. |
| 2:05
| Ana got off to a bad start with Steve. Frijole Joe randomly brought her in one week during Burrito Question, but she brought her husband along. If you want Steve to think you're hot you can't bring your husband. |
| 2:06
| She's not that ugly but she does have a bit of a toucan nose. She has acknowledged that though. |
| 2:07
| Steve never issued an edict that he wouldn't wear Hawaiian shirts any more. He doesn't do too many personal appearances any more though. He does have a few Tommy Bahama shirts that he wears though. He might wear one to Atlantis tomorrow to impress the strippers. |
| 2:08
| Stan has been hearing the promos for Steve's upcoming gig although he didn't want to screw the pooch and say too much. |
| 2:09
| Steve would like to say something to Stan that would really free him up. He's not trying to be mean here either but Stan doesn't have to kiss his ass any more. Steve gets that he has a hard time being in between Garry and Steve. |
| 2:10
| No matter what Stan does for Garry he could still stab him in the back. Steve's love for Stan is unconditional, he's like a dog. |
| 2:11
| Stan just likes everything to be groovy, he doesn't want to get into an escalating slapping match with anyone. |
| 2:12
| Garry is in the studio. He's threatening to go out to California and straighten Steve out. |
| 2:13
| Stan no longer has a fire extinguisher in his car because he's got a BMW. He still has the station wagon because he's a family man. For some reason he still likes the manual transmission even though it seems pointless. |
| 2:14
| Stan always tells Garry the history of whatever it is they're talking about during their cross talk. That's because Stan is working on an online Negropedia. It's sort of like WIkipedia. |
| 2:15
| Is Terry covering the section on white women in the Negropedia? Lovie Smith is their finest example. |
| 2:16
| Steve's always wanted to know how Lovie go that scar on his face. He didn't think he should ask him at the Bears Fan Convention because Lovie seemed annoyed that he had to talk to him. |
| 2:17
| Why is Garry still here anyway? His show ended at 11:00 today. |
| 2:18
| Garry's here writing the show for tomorrow. He's not in Rover's old office though, that place still has a lot of bad mojo. Actually it has no mojo. |
| 2:19
| There's still a lot of stuff leftover from Rover and his people like a video game machine and some bricks he used to throw at someone on the show. He also had someone who used to eat light bulbs. |
| 2:20
| Garry is in Kevin's old office. There isn't really an office here that doesn't have bad mojo in it. Garry was told that the office belonged to someone after Kev but before him. |
| 2:21
| Stan's pretty sure the office belonged to the National Sales Manager. He really does know too much. |
| 2:22
| Garry's show is going pretty well. Stan outed his partner Jim as having a toupee but Garry had no idea. Now that he knows he can't stop looking at it. |
| 2:23
| Stan does need to relax though. Steve's advice to him is to stop reading and start drinking. |
| 2:30
| Song: Road Runner, Aerosmith |
| 2:34
| That song was celebrating the road running activities of Steve over the weekend. He drove to and from Des Moines over the weekend. |
| 2:35
| Steve always enjoys a good road trip although he had a few problems with his car. Several different sensor lights went on so Steve had to come back this morning and make some calls. |
| 2:36
| Steve likes to drive but he doesn't like seeing his tailgate light going off every 10 minutes. Plus he had his guitar and amp in the back so there was a concern that the tailgate really was open. |
| 2:37
| The guys at the dealership are working hard to fix the problem but at some point they're going to have to fix something really big. |
| 2:38
| The problem wasn't too bad on Friday because Steve just had it fixed on Thursday. Then he went over a pothole and that must have messed everything up. |
| 2:39
| It was hard to be cool when Steve was driving The Nadas around Des Moines in his sweet car with the tailgate thing going off constantly. Steve explained that in the big city everyone leaves their tailgates open as an act of defiance. |
| 2:40
| Steve has to move the VU meter display because he can't see it. When he got the second monitor added for his computer John Valenta took the VU meter down. |
| 2:41
| When Pete is in the studio to star the show everyday he can't see it without squatting down or putting his head on the table. Steve put it on top of the speaker so Pete could see it but now it's bothering him. |
| 2:42
| There's a new engineer working at WCKG and Steve met him last week. He was listening to all of Steve's problems and seemed intent on fixing him but when he saw him last week he said he was waiting for John to come back to mount the VU display. |
| 2:43
| What's the point of having a new engineer if he still has to wait for John to do stuff? John has way too much vacation time, he's never here. You know you have too much vacation time when your taking Mondays off. |
| 2:44
| Steve's not sure what Garry Meier is on but he'd like some for himself and Buzz. He's the same way off the air too. |
| 2:45
| Steve prefers to deal with Buzz's laconic pace, Garry is just way too much work. |
| 2:46
| While Steve was out for a run today he spotted one of his neighbors walking 2 dachshunds. That's not a good look for a guy. Sometimes people will stop and talk to Steve which means he has to stop and take his headphones off. |
| 2:47
| The guy told Steve that he tuned into the station the other day and heard Garry. They he said "we really miss you guys" and wanted to see a Steve and Garry reunion. |
| 2:48
| That sort of makes Steve feel weird since he's been doing stuff on this station for 10 years. Steve likes having Garry come in though. |
| 2:54
| People still ask Steve if Garry's appearance on the show last August was orchestrated beforehand. As far as Steve knows it wasn't, but it seems like maybe Drew and Dan could have had something to do with it. |
| 2:55
| Steve doesn't mind if things are orchestrated but he doesn't want to be the one doing the orchestrating. It ended up working out fine. |
| 2:56
| Off the air Steve and Garry both vowed to work Stan a little harder. Stan is on the edge of crazy but he can't fully commit to it. |
| 2:57
| Minutiae is only funny if you're commenting on how crazy you are or how crazy someone else is. Otherwise you just sound like an NPR show. |
| 2:58
| Steve listened to a lot of NPR on his way to and from Iowa. NPR is very popular in podunk places because the people think if they listen to it it makes them seem less podunk. |
| 2:59
| Steve would like to go back and restate the chain of events for Garry Meier's appearance at Oak Street Beach. Drew told Dan who IMed Jim kid who IMed Mark Czerniec who told Mary. |
| 3:00
| So Drew could have been behind the entire thing. Drew and Garry have a certain fondness for each other. Often times you'll find the two of them in one of their offices picking things off each other like a couple of apes. |
| 3:01
| Steve doesn't have anything he needs picked off him. He does have a bump right under his eyebrow. It could be a mosquito bite, there was a lot of flooding in Des Moines last week. |
| 3:02
| Steve and the band went to an ice cream place in Des Moines that was on the list of 100 Things to do in Des Moines. It wasn't Whitey's where Brendan worked in college. |
| 3:03
| Steve didn't have anything because he'd just eaten dinner but he waited while everyone else got ice cream, being bitten several times by mosquitoes. Steve would like to recap his weekend in chronological order, otherwise he'll forget stuff. |
| 3:04
| When Steve was talking to Stan he mentioned the promo for Steve's upcoming gigs. Stan was worried he was saying too much before the official announcement, which is when Steve told him he could stop kissing his ass. |
| 3:05
| Steve wants to make the announcement now but like everything else that comes out of the promotions department, it's uber-complicated. The information that Steve has does not tell people how to get tickets, only the when and where. |
| 3:06
| Steve was told by the Budweiser people that they wanted something about it on the air today. This info sheet has the feel of something they're rushing to get out just to have something for today. Meanwhile Steve spent the entire weekend working with The Nadas for these gigs. |
| 3:07
| With something like this the whole thing will balloon out of control right in front of Steve's face and there will be a thousand different ways to get tickets. They'll usually make it easier to get tickets by going to a bar than listening to the show but they have different needs than Steve. Steve just wants to get people to listen to the show. |
| 3:14
| Steve's been talked into rethinking his position on the concert announcement. He already knows all the info so for him it doesn't seem like that big of a deal. |
| 3:15
| The Nadas have agreed to call themselves The Dahlfins. Over the weekend they were talking about costuming, like matching grey suits or something. |
| 3:16
| Steve's plan for the show is to have The Nadas come out and do 5 or 6 songs as a band. Then Steve comes out and does 10-11 songs with them. There's a lot of banter in between songs so he might not even get to that many. At some point during that Buzz will also come out on stage. |
| 3:17
| The first show will be at the Cubby Bear North on May 19th from 9:00 PM to 11:00 PM. It could go a little longer than that though. Buzz has a weird look on his face, like this is all new info to him. |
| 3:18
| There's a helicopter that looks like it's coming down in between the buildings. Buzz saw that earlier when he was coming in, along with a bunch of fire trucks along the river. There's some sort of pod attached to the front of it but he's not sure what it is. This is the natural curiosity that propelled Buzz into the news business. |
| 3:19
| Tyrone is checking in, he's in the helicopter which he stole earlier today. He's not sure what that pod on the front is but as soon as he figures out how to eject it he will. |
| 3:20
| Tyrone's wondering when he gets to go up on stage at Steve's first gig for the Tyrone Williams Soul Revue. He features a little Curtis Mayfield, a little Ohio Players and even back to Otis Redding. |
| 3:21
| You can listen all week to win tickets to the show. There are a bunch of different ways to get tickets including on the air, online and at various stores. All the tickets will be free. |
| 3:22
| Steve drove to Des Moines on Friday night. He was able to listen to the Bulls game up through the 3rd quarter. He lost the signal somewhere around Richmond or maybe DeKalb. |
| 3:23
| Steve pulled off the road near Richmond to use the bathroom. He drinks a lot of water during the show and as a result he had to stop about 10 times during the drive. |
| 3:24
| Richmond might not be the right town, that could be where Mary's husband is from. It must have been a pretty big town because they had a Bennigan's. Steve wasn't really paying attention so he only caught the ass-end of the name. |
| 3:25
| Now everyone is IMing Steve with names of towns where he might have stopped. Ed Silha is asking if it was Rochelle, IL. Steve has no idea if that's where it was. |
| 3:26
| Buzz actually had Ed over at the house of the weekend. Aimee called him to fix some computer problem that Buzz wasn't aware of. That's shocking. |
| 3:27
| It's weird to come home and find Ed Silha in your house. Hopefully he was there to fix a computer problem and not for something else. |
| 3:28
| Ed actually road his bike up there because he enjoys doing that on Sundays. The more Buzz talks about it the fishier it sounds. As long as his computer works though it's OK. |
| 3:29
| Steve stopped at a gas station to use the bathroom and fill up his tank. He got two small bags of Corn Nuts because he didn't notice the large ones until his trip back. Had his brain not been fried from doing the show all day he would have remembered to get a bottle of Lipton raspberry iced tea, which is his beverage of choice with Corn Nuts. |
| 3:30
| Caller Rod thinks the town Steve stopped in was Rock Falls. That sounds very familiar to Steve. |
| 3:31
| Steve's GPS told him to go a different way to get back on 88, which took him through some back roads police checkpoint. Steve didn't have anything in the car to worry about, which was nice, but he still didn't want to deal with going through a check point. |
| 3:32
| The police ended up waving him through for some reason. Steve thinks it's because he has Rt. 66 plates, which look like out-of-state plates. They probably only wanted to bust locals. |
| 3:33
| The Mobil station where he stopped was one of those places where all the locals go to buy their beer and cigarettes and they all have mullets. This is the heartland? |
| 3:42
| On the phone is Kerry Sayers from Comcast Sportsnet. As Steve predicted on Friday the Bulls swept the Heat. |
| 3:43
| Steve originally had them winning in 5 but last Tuesday's win was so convincing that he changed his prediction. |
| 3:44
| Most people thought the Heat would win at least one game at home but they didn't. Dwayne Wade was a shell of his former self but he did look sweet in that danskin. |
| 3:45
| It was really hard for Steve to get any info about the Bulls game on TV in Iowa. The only thing they care about is college football. |
| 3:46
| The Bulls seemed to take the victory in stride for the most part, there was no huge bench-clearing celebration after the game was over. They want more than just a first round series win. |
| 3:47
| The second round against the Pistons won't start until the weekend which means at least 5 days of talking about it. That's why Steve doesn't limit himself to just talking about sports. Unfortunately they put sports right in the title at Comcast Sportsnet. |
| 3:48
| Kerry has enjoyed Steve's commercial that's running on the station. She didn't notice his hair looking particularly disheveled but Mike Dahl was very concerned about it. |
| 3:49
| The Bears had another good draft over the weekend. They seemed to address most of their depth concerns except QB and wide receiver. Last night the Bears did sign free agent Chris Leak, who's another Florida alum. |
| 3:50
| The Bears grabbed another tight end, Greg Olsen, from MIami. They're known for their tight ends like Jeremy Shockey and Kellin Winslow. He has speed and he can catch the ball but he doesn't block well. |
| 3:51
| The first round selection was Garrett Wolfe from NIU. They say he's small but that doesn't make him any easier to catch. Jerry Angelo compared him to Warrick Dunn. |
| 3:52
| Steve doesn't want to talk about the Sox because they had a bad weekend. Then the Cubs had last night's game against the Cardinals cancelled because of the player who died. |
| 3:53
| Steve can't tell if Kerry hates him or loves him. It could be a love-hate thing, although she seemed quite taken with the promo running on Comcast. So take that Mike Dahl! |
| 3:54
| It's good to hear the promo is running although Steve's never seen it during the major events like Bulls or Sox game. He got an email from a listener who said he saw it at 7:30 AM on a Sunday morning. |
| 3:55
| Steve had Drew looking into it but of course that didn't go anywhere. |
| 4:01
| Live read: Gierczyk Properties |
| 4:03
| Steve feels he might need to practice with The Nadas a few more times before the first gig. |
| 4:04
| Steve does have a plan for more rehearsals that involves a jet. Right now Drew is working on it which means there's a 50/50 chance that it gets done. That's still a better chance than when the sales girl with the annoying voices was working on it. |
| 4:05
| For some reason Drew is in the mood to make Steve happy today. Maybe he finally realized how important he was around here. |
| 4:12
| We're in the middle of a Gierczyk binge right now. Steve just did a live read, then there was a recorded spot during that break and now Buzz has a 10 second read. |
| 4:13
| Headlines with Buzz |
| 4:14
| The number of troops killed in Iraq this month has risen to 104. |
| 4:15
| Queen Elizabeth has scheduled a visit to the Virginia Tech campus while she's in the U.S. next week. Why? It's already over. If you're going to get there before and prevent, that's a good trip. But going there and saying it's bad, everyone knows that. |
| 4:16
| Washington, D.C. madame Deborah Jeane Palfrey who was indicted in February on racketeering charges is insisting she ran a legal escort service. |
| 4:17
| The madame has also given her entire client list to ABC news. Steve gets why a madame would keep records, seemingly so she'd know what her clients like, but it seems really unprofessional. |
| 4:18
| Just like the attorney-client or doctor-patient confidentiality, Steve feels the john-madame confidentiality agreement is sacrosanct. |
| 4:19
| The good news and the bad news is that Prince Harry will be deployed to Iraq according to Britain's Defense Minister. Those people over there want to kill everyone but they specifically know what Prince Harry looks like. They'd probably like to get him in a can. |
| 4:26
| Steve stands by what he says about the D.C. madame. If you're providing an illegal service that men can't help but resist it's unprofessional to keep records and then rat everyone out when you get caught. |
| 4:27
| Buzz seems to be siding with the madame on this one, possibly because he once went to a whorehouse in New York and didn't get laid. |
| 4:28
| Buzz wouldn't mind hearing the names on the list. He doesn't even care about what's right though. Steve also wouldn't mind hearing the names, all that being said. |
| 4:29
| What isn't right to Buzz is that it's illegal to go out and rent a prostitute. Steve didn't know this was going to be a sticking point. |
| 4:30
| Steve's a little more old school in his way of thinking. Part of the service the prostitute provides is that if she gets arrested she doesn't rat out her johns. Conversely if the john gets arrested he doesn't rat out the prostitute. |
| 4:31
| When you're involved with something like this it probably doesn't seem like they're keeping records. If they're going to have that as a fallback in case they get arrested they should tell the john so he can make his own fallback plans. |
| 4:32
| Live read: Balance for Life |
| 4:33
| Steve gave Buzz a snack, even though he's being disagreeable. He was hoping that if he ate something he'd be more agreeable. Instead he's coming down on the side of madame's outing johns. |
| 4:34
| Buzz's snack is the chicken salad pita crisp. That was the one Steve intended for himself but somehow Buzz got it. That's been happening a lot lately, Steve might have to start marking the one he wants. |
| 4:43
| Today is the 30th even though Steve's watch says it's the 31st. The day has been wrong on his watch since last Tuesday when he tried to synch his watch up with Pete. |
| 4:44
| As it turns out they didn't need to synchronize because Mark Zarang had the correct time on his console. Pete still thought it was one of the best hard-endings ever. |
| 4:45
| It doesn't really matter that Steve is synched up because Pete is the one who has to start the music. |
| 4:46
| There's a hard end tonight for the Rush game although it's not really a hard end. The only reason there's a hard end on Bulls games is because there's a network feed. |
| 4:47
| A few weeks ago before a Rush game Steve forgot to time out the theme so it ended 2 seconds after 7:00. Skynyrd started up his studio exactly at 7:00 though, cutting the theme off. |
| 4:48
| Skynyrd apologized as he was leaving although Steve feels that he did it on purpose. Tom Dore can't wait 2 seconds?! Pete feels Skynyrd might have orders from higher up. |
| 4:49
| That's the kind of thing that could ruin Steve's weekend. He had to make a split-second decision to start yelling at Skynyrd and calling him every name in the book or just going home. |
| 4:50
| Steve was on the fence about Arena Football until he talked to Coach last Tuesday. His complete lack of desire to talk to Steve made him an F-A-N fan of Arena. |
| 4:51
| Pete's heard rumors that Coach could be roaming the sidelines for tonight's game. There are no sidelines! |
| 4:55
| Steve finally found out what the helicopter was doing around the building. Buzz also saw that story. He doesn't seem to interested in hearing about it though. He saw the helicopter when he was coming in and he saw fire trucks near the river. He didn't follow up on it though. |
| 4:56
| Buzz tried to follow up but he couldn't find anything. As it turns out the news department is just him. Oh no! |
| 4:57
| A 1:45 witnesses spotted a body in the river, which would be right around the time that Buzz was coming in. For some reason he thought people were gathered around the river because it was nice off. Maybe some knucklehead just jumped in because it was nice. |
| 4:58
| Authorities are trying to determine if it's the body of a man who was spotted jumping off the Columbus Avenue bridge in early April. Was that just a fun-time leap into the river? |
| 4:59
| You've probably got a 50-50 chance of surviving a jump into the river. Steve's glad he's not a police diver though. How do you get the image out of your head of a body that's been in the river for a few weeks? |
| 5:00
| Song: Try a Little Tenderness, Otis Redding |
| 5:04
| Live read: Cheeseburger in Paradise |
| 5:05
| Steve really has to arrange a field trip for the show out to Cheeseburger in Paradise. |
| 5:06
| Tomorrow Steve will be on a one-man field trip to the Atlantis Gentleman's Club. Buzz is welcome to come but Steve feels that strip clubs are a solitary experience. |
| 5:07
| Strip clubs aren't the kind of place that friends should hang out with each other. Steve keeps getting emails from listeners wondering what time he's going to be there. |
| 5:08
| Steve's not hosting an event or a contest, he's just going for their grand opening so that he can talk about it on the show. |
| 5:09
| Steve's not going to the strip club because he's a pervert. There are women working there who are single moms or who are paying their way through school and Steve's just trying to help. |
| 5:10
| Live read: Atlantis Gentleman's Club |
| 5:11
| Steve has music for this live read although he's not sure that Donovan's Atlantis is appropriate. |
| 5:12
| Steve's heading out to Atlantis right after the show tomorrow. He might head over to the gym and take a shower just to freshen up. |
| 5:13
| Actually Steve won't do that because it seems really weird. Plus he smells great after a show. |
| 5:14
| Steve's not trying to be anti-social when he goes out to Atlantis. He just doesn't want to be talking to a fan about the chance that he and Garry will get back together while the music is blaring. |
| 5:15
| Live read: Townstone Financial |
| 5:16
| Steve heard the Townstone Financial show last night on his way back to Des Moines where he was rehearsing with The Nadas for his first gig on May 19th at Cubby Bear North, sponsored by Bud Select. Steve's cranking them all out now. |
| 5:17
| Matt and Brendan are going to be doing some appearances to give tickets away to the show but there will be other days to win. |
| 5:18
| Why didn't Brendan know the exit that Steve got off on his way to Des Moines? Didn't he go to Iowa? Was he just not paying attention? |
| 5:19
| It's sort of cool when you're on 88 and all of the sudden you come up on the Mississippi, which is really wide in the Quad Cities area. |
| 5:20
| Matt and Brendan will be doing 18 appearances for the 6 gigs that Steve's doing. Is this Brendan's way of paying Steve back for the money he owes him? |
| 5:21
| Apparently that money has been in arrears for over a year. It's almost like Brendan is Steve's kid. At some point Buzz has to wonder if having cable is really worth owing all this money. |
| 5:22
| Steve doesn't really care about this but it seems like if he let Brendan off the hook he wouldn't be teaching him a good lesson. With his boys he could just take the car away from them but he can't do that to Brendan. |
| 5:23
| Steve's trying to wean his boys off the gravy train. Mike is pretty much off but Matt still gets away with it because he's still in school and Pat's in a shaky industry, job-wise. |
| 5:24
| Buzz likes to think he'll be a stern master when it comes to this stuff but it's hard to do with your own kids. Steve will unplug his boys but then he'll plug them back in and buy them a computer or something. |
| 5:25
| Steve even finds it hard to do with Brendan. He just wants him to be happy, that poor little kid with half an ear missing. It was bitten off in a bar fight. |
| 5:26
| So back to the Townstone Financial show. Last night's re-broadcast was without David Hochberg for some reason. Steve feels that if David can't be here, there shouldn't be a show. |
| 5:27
| Instead of David the home inspector and the contractor and the plumber were trying to do a show. Steve thought he'd tuned into a college radio station. |
| 5:28
| There's also a weird wedding show on Sunday nights. Eventually Steve turned over to a Christian station. Every time he listens to one of those he really likes a few songs and then he realizes it's about God. |
| 5:29
| Steve just gets really uncomfortable when he realizes it's a Christian song. The DJ said it was the "family station" which Steve took to mean Christian. Then his eyebrow went up like John Belushi in Animal House. |
| 5:37
| Steve wants to play that Christian song if Buzz doesn't mind. There are some Christian songs that sound more metal but this one sounds like one that might be on The Mix. |
| 5:38
| Steve doesn't want Buzz to make fun of him after playing the song though. |
| 5:39
| Song: History, Matthew West |
| 5:44
| When you know it's a Christian song you can tell but Steve didn't know until the DJ came out and said it was Family Friendly Radio. Buzz didn't hear any overt Christian themes. There might have been a reference to the crucifixion but that didn't stop Buzz from rocking. |
| 5:45
| One thing that Steve doesn't like about Christian music is they write good songs. So does God give them better songs because they're writing for Him? Inspiration comes from somewhere so it seems like cheating if you're going to write about God. It seems like an unfair leg-up. Do the Christian guys get first dibs on the good rhyming schemes and licks? Is that why many rockers turn to satan for inspiration? because they know he won't short them on the good licks either? |
| 5:46
| So that was Steve's drive through some rough weather. He's not sure if it was a tornado but the temperature dropped about 30º in ten minutes. He couldn't stop driving though. Behind him the sun was setting into the storm, which was really bizarre to see. |
| 5:47
| Steve tried to take a picture of a rainbow with his camera phone but he's not sure if it turned out well. He almost killed himself trying to take and store the photo because his phone's camera is very complicated. |
| 5:48
| Tyrone is back. He returned the stolen choptater that he took for a joy ride. He never figured out what that pod hanging from it was. |
| 5:49
| Tyrone does have some traffic if Buzz wants to know. On eastbound I-80 at the Des Plaines river bridge two semis crashed. Tyrone prefers the French pronunciation of Des Plaines because he's French, or at least his sisters have French-sounding names like LaKanisha. |
| 5:50
| Although with La in front of the name that's more Spanish. Tyrone might have to tell his sisters to change it to Le. |
| 5:51
| They two trucks were trying to occupy the same place at the same time but that goes against the immutable laws of physics. |
| 6:00
| Live read: Balance for Life |
| 6:01
| Since Buzz got Steve's snack today he'll be snackless when he gets home tonight. Those are just the kind of feelings Steve has for Buzz. |
| 6:02
| Steve has been on Balance for Life for the last 3 years and he's kept 30 pounds off. He might have gained a few pounds back over the weekend but that's what happens when you go to the Flying Mango. |
| 6:03
| Steve was supposed to get the big pork chop at the Flying Mango but he chickened out at the last minute. |
| 6:04
| Tyler is The Nadas road manager. He does a great job as a road manager but he's sort of a goofball. Plus he wasn't even around when they were rehearsing. They could have used him to go get stuff. |
| 6:05
| When Steve got to his hotel in downtown Des Moines it seemed unusually crowded with high school kids. As it turns out downtown is completely dead late at night but the kids still enjoy "scooping the loop" which just means driving around some road loop. |
| 6:06
| Steve had no idea what was going on until someone told him. As it turns out while you're driving the loop you can ask girls to flash you there breasts. Steve almost got back into the car. |
| 6:07
| Steve accidentally had 2 McDonald's double cheeseburgers on his way to Des Moines. He stopped to get some gas and it was one of those gas stations with a McDonald's. |
| 6:08
| Steve waited in his car for a bellman, which he thought the hotel had since it's fairly expensive. After waiting for a while he finally went up to the front desk and there was one guy sitting in a low office chair with his feet up. |
| 6:09
| At night the one guy is the desk clerk, the bellman and the valet. Steve parked his own car in his huge garage that's free on the weekends. Apparently all the garages downtown are like that. Now Steve understands why The Nadas and that band Towncrier both freaked out when they were parking down here. |
| 6:10
| Once Steve got to his room he ordered a pizza from the Big Tomato and it was fantastic. Everyone in Des Moines thinks that the people at the Big Tomato are very rude but Steve must be used to it ordering around here. The Nadas were amazed that Steve was able to withstand the heat from the Big Tomato employees though. |
| 6:11
| Then Steve ate about 3/4th of the pizza, put the rest of it in front of someone else's room so people wouldn't think he was a pig and went to bed. |
| 6:16
| Steve was going to work out on Saturday morning but he didn't get to sleep until 3:00 AM. |
| 6:17
| Steve's hotel only had regular cable, even though it was fairly expensive. Too expensive for a place that only had one guy working at night and no kitchen. |
| 6:18
| One good thing was that Steve's room and the room next to his was separated by an atrium. It was a shared atrium although the neighbors didn't realize that so Steve saw them having sex. |
| 6:19
| Steve was really excited to get home on Saturday night but by then the neighbors had figured out that it was a shared atrium. Steve couldn't really see what was going on, but he understood the concept. |
| 6:20
| So Steve and The Nadas rehearsed all day Saturday. For dinner they went to a really good BBQ place and then the ice cream place. There were a lot of Drake students partying in the area but that didn't do Steve any good. |
| 6:21
| Steve only did a few of the 100 Things to do in Des Moines. He had the Big Tomato pizza and then he went to Snooky's Ice Cream. He didn't have any ice cream though so that might not count. |
| 6:22
| Steve did meet the mayor of Des Moines at Snooky's. He seemed like a real dork since he's the mayor and he's out getting ice cream. Jason had some business to conduct with him. |
| 6:23
| Then Steve came home and tried to get some info about the NFL draft. Steve was very happy that the Bears didn't deal Lance Briggs. |
| 6:24
| Now that the draft is over Lance Briggs can't be used to trade up which is bad for him. Jerry Angelo said Lance will play for the Bears so maybe there's something he knows. |
| 6:25
| Greg Olsen was on NBC news last night. Steve didn't like his first introduction to Chicago being Mike Adamle. |
| 6:26
| The band had a few drumming problems over the weekend. On Saturday their regular drummer broke his hand. The Nadas made him tape up his hand with duct tape and drum for five hours. Then on Sunday they got a new guy to fill in. |
| 6:27
| The Nadas have gigs every weekend up until the 19th but they're free during the week so this is Steve's plan. One night next week Steve will fly to Midway and hop on a Bluestar Jet after the show. It's about a 50 minute flight to Des Moines. |
| 6:28
| Steve could use about 6 hours to rehearse then they could fly him back. It's good for everyone involved. Otherwise Steve will have to meet them in Ames, Iowa and rehearse before a gig. |
| 6:29
| Steve really likes The Nadas, they get him. He likes working with them and it sounds good. |
| 6:30
| Steve can play some samples from the recording just to give Buzz a general idea of what it'll sound like. Steve's goal is to start off every song one octave lower. |
| 6:31
| Steve plays a sample of Aloha Friday. It's mixed for rehearsal so the vocals are sort of drowned out. The drummer sounds great even with the broken hand. |
| 6:39
| We've got a hard end tonight and Steve got a little backed up. That means Buzz might have to do a shortened news. Buzz will give the highlights of the news, depriving the people of the music they so love. |
| 6:40
| News with Buzz |
| 6:41
| The Supreme Court ruled that police in Georgia are not responsible for causing an accident in which caused a man fleeing authorities to become a quadriplegic. |
| 6:42
| Dutch police are not giving up on the Natalee Holloway investigation. It's been over two years since she disappeared and over the weekend police performed a thorough search of the property where one of the suspects, Joran van der Sloot, lives. |
| 6:48
| Steve probably needs to take another break because he's still behind on breaks. He does have a follow-up on that Jumpin' Willie Cobbs guy from the fan who's listening in Belgium. |
| 6:49
| Willie Cobbs is alive but suffered a massive stroke and was taken to St. Mary's hospital, where he's been all this time. |
| 6:50
| This is not the same Willie Cobbs who wrote You Don't Love Me, that's his cousin. |
