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| 2:00
| Terry went down to King's Row to get his haircut today. How can you go wrong with a place called King's Row? |
| 2:01
| Shirley gets a lot of calls from people wondering what King's Row is. Some think it's an escort service. That's actually how Steve ended up there. |
| 2:02
| Actually Shirley's husband, who's a huge Chicago cop, is a fan and that's how Steve got turned onto the place. |
| 2:03
| Terry went to pay for his haircut and Shirley said "don't worry it's taken care of." She said that Steve told her "Terry's my guy, take care of him." No one has ever done that for Terry. |
| 2:04
| Stan is pouting now because he did the same thing for Terry's birthday. |
| 2:05
| Shirley actually recommended a hair chemical that Stan has been touting. Terry wants his hair to be nappy. His hair is nappy like a doll's hair. |
| 2:06
| Stan and Terry played some of the Petey Greene eating watermelon video but they had to do some editing. |
| 2:07
| After Steve mentioned it the other day Terry really thinks Tim Meadows' The Ladies Man is based on Petey Greene. Stan's not sure if Meadows is from the East Coast though. |
| 2:08
| Stan's radio influence is Herb Kent. Steve thinks another one of Stan's radio influences is on the phone, Garry Meier. |
| 2:09
| Garry still wants to call this place the Radio Rat Pack or the Radio Rat Package. There's no use pitching that to Drew, he won't be talked off the FM Talk thing because he has no vision at all. |
| 2:10
| All Steve and Garry and Stan & Terry can do is do a a good show and work around the visionless. In a way they're like nurses. |
| 2:11
| Garry actually called in because he heard Steve might be talking about their trip to the Indy 500. |
| 2:12
| Steve, Garry, Tom Thayer and Jimmy Webb drove down there in a Winnebago with Cub Shaver. |
| 2:13
| They drove down on a Friday night and by 6:00 AM when they got to the hotel Steve and Jimmy were not in good shape. |
| 2:14
| As you can imagine Garry was really annoyed by that. For the race they somehow ended up in Arie Luyendyck's sky box to watch the race. Stan remembers Steve and Garry later talking to Arie on the air from time to time. |
| 2:15
| It seems like Terry is trying to take up the Steve Dahl mantle although he seems like the type who's drunk on two beers. |
| 2:16
| Steve doesn't really remember being friends with Arie Luyendyck, he just called into the show twice. |
| 2:17
| Steve thought he saw a cardboard cut-out coming into the studio. The cut-outs now come in and out with Stan and Terry. |
| 2:18
| Steve doesn't care what Stan and Terry do to Matt and Brendan, they have their own show. They're just trying to start a little something with Stan and Terry though, like when you kidnap another school's mascot. |
| 2:19
| Terry sent Matt a somewhat threatening email about it, not thinking he'd read it on the air. Matt is a Dahl, any email you send them will be read on the air. |
| 2:20
| Terry also called in last night and threatened Skynyrd anonymously. Stan on the other hand is lying in wait to pay them back. |
| 2:21
| Someone called into Matt's show last night to tell him that Stan is probably lying in wait. Maybe something will happen to Matt as he's crossing the stage to get his diploma, you never know. |
| 2:22
| Steve doesn't care what Stan does but nothing at the graduation, that's all he asks. Steve is only a few weeks away from having all his kids out of college and he doesn't want to mess that up. |
| 2:30
| Song: Shades of '45, Gary O' |
| 2:34
| That song is about the Enola Gay and you know what that did. It dropped the big one. |
| 2:35
| Buzz once interviewed the pilot of the Enola Gay and he was fine with what he did. He was following orders, that's all. If you were one of the people who designed the bomb you might feel differently though. |
| 2:36
| If you're the pilot all they do is tell you to drop the bomb and get out of there as fast as you can and don't look back. |
| 2:37
| Pete put together a nice Memorial Day tribute and that's one of Steve's favorite songs. Pete probably knows that. |
| 2:38
| Hearing that song and making Garry Meier mad again made Steve really happy. He tapped into some inner-rage when retelling the story of the Indy 500 trip. |
| 2:42
| Steve saw Buzz hustling back down to the studio and he appreciates it. He'll just tell him now that all of the breaks today are about a minute shorter than normal so he should adjust his internal timer accordingly. |
| 2:43
| A minute doesn't seem like much but it does when you've been in radio for as long as Steve and Buzz have. You have to adjust your internal clock. When Steve's watching TV he instinctively knows when the 90 second commercial break is up and he can go back to what he was watching. |
| 2:44
| Even though the commercial breaks are shorter that didn't stop all of the sales people from leaving at noon today. When did Memorial Day weekend get stretched to 4 days? |
| 2:45
| The traffic wasn't any better or worse when Steve came in at 11:00 today. He did see a lot of out-of-state plates though, mostly Missouri. He did see one plate that seemed to be going in the wrong direction based on what state it was from. |
| 2:46
| Steve also saw a few North Carolina plates. Is there a Civil War re-enactment going on? Buzz saw a Connecticut plate on his way down to work. AImee's sister is in town from Connecticut but it wasn't her car. |
| 2:47
| Is Connecticut the Keystone State or is that Pennsylvania? Keystone State is right on their license plate. Illinois has Land of Lincoln on their license plates which isn't bad. |
| 2:48
| Steve has the Rt. 66 license plate which is pretty cool. There are a lot of good licenses plates available in Illinois. |
| 2:49
| Caller Rick wanted to let Steve know that Connecticut is the Constitution State. |
| 2:50
| Rick lives in Indiana and vanity plates are really expensive, the price is based on the size of your car. |
| 2:51
| That Jesse White has a lot of options for vanity plates in Illinois and the best thing is that he's made a lot of things available by mail. |
| 2:52
| Rick should move to Illinois, the license plates are cheaper and we have much better options. Indiana has that stupid one what looks like it's in crayon and drawn by a kid. |
| 2:53
| Steve shows Buzz a picture of him and Jesse at the Escoffier dinner. Steve sat next to Jesse and he was really funny. |
| 2:54
| Jesse does a great job as Secretary of State. He's sort of like Rain Man about it though. |
| 2:55
| Steve is looking at other options for vanity plates including one for mammograms and breast cancer. Steve might be interested in that one if there are breasts on it. It's actually just a pink ribbon. |
| 2:56
| The other day Buzz saw a cement truck that had been painted pink in support of breast cancer awareness. |
| 3:01
| Live read: Cheeseburger in Paradise |
| 3:02
| Steve really hit the post on the chorus refrain. Hell yeah! Happy Memorial Day weekend! |
| 3:03
| The second post wasn't as good as the first one but it was enough to keep Steve happy. |
| 3:04
| Steve might have sampled all 50 items on the menu when he was at Cheeseburger in Paradise. They cut it up into small pieces so it didn't seem like he was eating that much. |
| 3:05
| Steve's weight is down to a 2-year low. The number would probably still shock Buzz though. Steve still feels good because any weight he is adding is muscle weight. |
| 3:06
| Steve might be breaking up with his trainer though, the guy sort of annoys him. Today he was asking Steve about the Pentium chip in the Apple computers. He's sort of like Eddie Murphy in Coming to America. He learns everything from TV and a lot of the questions he asks are non-essential. |
| 3:07
| He wanted to know if the chip in the Apple computer is the same as the chip in the PC. It's made by the same company but it's not exactly the same. Then he wanted to know if the next Apple operating system will be named after a jungle animal. Who cares? Steve can't be answering these questions, he's working out. |
| 3:08
| Steve's not really going to break up with his trainer, he's very good. Sometimes Steve is at the gym and he looks around and thanks God that some of those other people aren't his trainer. |
| 3:09
| Ed Silha is on the phone. Steve thanked Ed becuse earlier in the day he installed a new broadband cellular card on Steve's Mac laptop. When the laptop first came out there was no wireless card that fit the slot on Steve's computer. Now he can get online anywhere he goes. Ed also installed a back-up modem for emergency situations. |
| 3:10
| Ed says that the Intel processors in the Apple is the exact same thing on the PC. You can run Windows discs on the Apple if you want without any third-party software. |
| 3:11
| That's what Steve's trainer asked him today but he seemed to know the answer. What's he doing working at a gym, he should be up at the Apple Store working as a Genius. |
| 3:12
| Why didn't Steve's trainer just tell him you could run WIndows stuff on the Pentium Apple? At some point Steve doesn't really care about that stuff, he just wants to know his computer works. |
| 3:13
| Ed Silha is laying low this weekend, just watching the Cubs and hoping they'll win a few game. Steve thinks he needs to get out and meet some ladies. |
| 3:14
| Ed did meet a woman at the Dahlfins show last Saturday and he's exchanged a few emails with her. Ed was busy taking pictures so he didn't have too much time to talk to her. |
| 3:15
| Steve doesn't really care if Ed stops working to get laid. He wouldn't mind a few pictures of that though. |
| 3:16
| The woman was there with her dad too so Ed didn't have much chance to break her away from that. She actually emailed him after the broadcast. So what's the hold up? Ed needs to be aggressive. |
| 3:17
| Women say they don't want aggressive guys but they really do. Look around, all the guys with hot girls are the aggressive ones. |
| 3:18
| Ed needs to make something happen soon or else he's going to explode. He's going to Maui in a month but he's going alone. |
| 3:19
| Maybe Tom Thayer can get him hooked up with some surfer chicks. Has he seen that Maui Fever show? Those guys are all morons and the girls totally go for it. |
| 3:20
| Buzz doesn't understand going to Maui alone. Steve can see it being really frustrating because all the women are half-naked. Maybe he can break up a marriage while he's there or something. |
| 3:21
| Ed is a nice guy but he has a tendency to sort of take over and not even know it. He even does that when Steve is around. |
| 3:22
| Maybe Steve and Buzz can get a pro for Ed without telling him. Then he'll come back with tales of a girl who just walked up to him while he was at the pool. She would only visit him in one hour increments though. |
| 3:27
| Coming up later today Steve will be announcing the location of the next Steve Dahl & the Dahlfins/Nadas/Buzz Kilman show on June 9th. |
| 3:28
| Steve was involved in a weird conversation about Buzz yesterday. Someone asked him if he wanted Buzz involved in the next show. Of course he does! |
| 3:29
| Before the first show Buzz was led to believe that The Blues Rocket Scientists would be opening for Steve. With all due respect to Buzz and his band that's not what Steve wanted. It all ended up working out fine though. |
| 3:30
| Since Steve didn't plan on having Buzz and his band opening for him people thought he didn't want Buzz there at all. That's totally different though. |
| 3:31
| Beginning Tuesday the station will start giving away tickets to the next show. Based on the show last weekend Steve would charge upwards of $30 for tickets but they're all free. |
| 3:32
| Steve's going to put a $34.99 price tag on a ticket because it's at a bar. If it were at an actual concert venue it could be up to $40. You can't charge as much when some people end up standing right in the entrance to the kitchen. |
| 3:33
| Steve did habla with a few of the guys in the kitchen. He should have played a little Mexican Hat Dance for them. Steve plays a little for Buzz on the guitar. |
| 3:34
| Steve learned that one back in third grade when he was in the glass with the fourth graders who were held back a year. They had a special presentation about Mexican culture and Steve fell down in front of everyone. |
| 3:40
| On the phone is Gail Fischer from Comcast Sportsnet. They've got the White Sox hosting the Devil Rays tonight. The Devil Rays have a possible phenom pitcher taking the mound tonight. |
| 3:41
| The pitcher is 3-0 but it's still the Devil Rays. That team looks like they're wearing softball uniforms. |
| 3:42
| AJ is catching for Mark Buehrle for the first time since their falling out last weekend. Was it really a falling out? Ed Farmer said it wasn't a big deal but that's what he's supposed to do. |
| 3:43
| Gail's job is to stir the pot a bit so she has to say they had a bit of a falling out. |
| 3:44
| The Cubs are out in LA to play the Dodgers. They won a close one last night in San Diego. |
| 3:45
| Luke Stuckmeyer will be doing a story about the Ernie Banks statue. They're having trouble getting Ernie to hold still while they dip him in the bronze. |
| 3:46
| It's probably a pretty good living being Mr. Cub and he's been really loyal to that team so it's nice they're doing that for him. One person they really should dip in bronze is Ronnie Woo-Woo. |
| 3:47
| Steve has really been enjoying that video of the minor league hockey player trying to beat up a fan. He's not sure what team the guy is on though. |
| 3:48
| The fan think he's protected by the Plexiglas on the ice but he's not. The hockey player has a stick, padding, a helmet and razor sharp skates and his blood is up. |
| 3:54
| Pat Dahl is going to be working on that My Boys show for a few weeks. Steve told him his job is to make the Chicago references sound better. |
| 3:55
| Live read: Salvation Army |
| 3:56
| Song: Aloha Friday, Steve Dahl & the Dahlfins |
| 4:00
| That song was from last Saturday's concert. Steve's going to announce the location of the next show at 5:00 and then the ticket giveaways will begin on Tuesday. |
| 4:01
| Remember Steve is putting a $34.99 price on those tickets. If they weren't all free that's how much he'd charge for them. |
| 4:05
| About a month ago Steve got a questionnaire from the sales department about TBS shows. TBS wants to know if Steve watches their shows to see if they want to broadcast. |
| 4:06
| Steve thought about mentioning that Pat works on My Boys. That would certainly give Steve a leg-up on getting them to advertise. Plus we always use drop-ins for that show. |
| 4:07
| Headlines with Buzz |
| 4:08
| This just in, Rosie has left The View 3 weeks before her contract was set to expire. This comes a day after Rosie's head writer drew mustaches on pictures of Elizabeth Hasselbeck. |
| 4:09
| Steve already figured she was gone so he stopped watching. She left with a flurry though and he's not talking about a DQ treat. |
| 4:10
| Presidential candidate John McCain has stated that voting against the war-funding bill is the same as waving a white flag in Iraq. He's also said that Barack Obama doesn't know the difference between an RPG and a bong. |
| 4:11
| Buzz has to admit that he doesn't even know what an RPG is. Steve doesn't know what the R stands for but the rest is propelled grenade. Maybe it's rocket? You wouldn't want to mistake one of those for a bong for sure. Also you wouldn't want to bring your bong out on the battlefield. |
| 4:12
| During Vietnam there were probably a few guys who confused an RPG for a bong. That's probably where McCain got the idea. |
| 4:13
| In L.A. authorities have finally captured Reggie the alligator after a three year search. That's when you really miss a Steve Irwin. |
| 4:14
| This year beaches in Chicago will feature the BigBelly garbage bins, a solar-powered garbage container that compacts refuse. Steve saw that on the news today, people were standing around it like it was the obelisk from 2001. |
| 4:21
| Caller Sally has some more information about Rosie's departure from The View. |
| 4:22
| After Rosie's fight with Elizabeth she went into her dressing room and tore the place apart. Then her writer drew the mustaches on the pictures of Elizabeth. |
| 4:23
| It really some of the highfalutin off Rosie when she does all that stuff. She's trying to act like some great political mind but apparently she's not. |
| 4:24
| Steve is seeing conflicting reports about the dressing room too. Something he has says Rosie trashed Elizabeth's dressing room. |
| 4:25
| One story says Rosie trashed her dressing room and the other says she trashed Elizabeth's. Maybe Mark Czerniec could call in and sort this out. |
| 4:26
| Steve Googled "Rosie's dressing room" and he still got conflicting reports. That TMZ website probably has some good stuff on it. |
| 4:27
| Mark Czerniec is on the phone and he doesn't know what's going on either. The original story was in the NY Post but ABC is denying all of it. |
| 4:28
| Could Mark send the Post article? He probably doesn't like sending them to Steve because he reads them as gospel and then they become gospel. Then there are so many people listening and it becomes gospel to them. |
| 4:29
| Mark has some sort of mistaken notion of integrity that Steve and Buzz are operating under. |
| 4:30
| Mark knows that Steve doesn't like reading something and then finding out later that it's not true. |
| 4:31
| In this case Steve doesn't really care if he finds out later that it's wrong. If it's a devastating storm or something he wants to know what is true. Rosie trashing Elizabeth's dressing room and maybe stealing a pair of her panties though, he has no problem reading it. |
| 4:32
| In fact Steve is going to say that right now he heard Rosie stole one of Elizabeth's thongs as a souvenir. Steve can see Elizabeth wearing a thong or maybe even nothing. |
| 4:33
| Mark is trying to be all official about this. If there's a story about the war that's one thing but Steve doesn't mind making stuff up about Rosie. Who cares? What's she going to do, call up and yell at Steve? |
| 4:34
| Rosie's chief writer was allegedly caught yesterday drawing mustaches on pictures of Elizabeth that hang in the lobby of The View's offices. Rosie was not in the building at the time. |
| 4:35
| Rosie O'Donnell is really self-destructive. This article is still vague about whether Rosie trashed her own dressing room or Elizabeth's but ABC is denying it. |
| 4:36
| Yesterday Rosie took the day off to celebrate her partner's 40th birthday. Rosie calls her partner her wife though which is where you lose Steve. Steve's fine with them being married but it seems inappropriate to use "wife". They're two girls which means two wives. A wife has to be a girl and a husband has to be a boy. |
| 4:38
| There is a video on Rosie's website with three women on it. They don't swear do they? |
| 4:39
| Rosie sort of looks like Steve if he were video blogging. All he needs to do is dye his hair and put some sunglasses on and he'd look just like her. |
| 4:40
| This video is riveting. Steve doesn't like hearing girls talk about this stuff. As far as he's concerned they don't do that stuff and they don't use the bathroom either. When they're in line for the bathroom they're just waiting to go look in the mirror. |
| 4:41
| It sounds like they could use a man in Rosie's household. She does look like a man, it's not a good look for her. |
| 4:42
| Best of luck to Rosie though. The View was really good with her, Elizabeth, Barbara Walters and Joy Behar. |
| 4:43
| Why wouldn't you want to stay on a hit show that only takes an hour out of your day? You're done by noon and you get to sniff around Elizabeth Hasselbeck. |
| 4:44
| Rosie seems crazy enough to trash Elizabeth Hasselbeck's dressing room although she might have trashed her own if she knew she was leaving. |
| 4:45
| Buzz doesn't think Rosie could trash Elizabeth's dressing room and still keep the lid on the whole thing. At the very least she went in and stole a pair of her panties. |
| 4:49
| We've got the big announcement for the venue of the next Steve Dahl & the Dahlfins/Nadas/Buzz Kilman show coming up. In order to get people jacked up for the announcement Steve is going to play another song from last Saturday. |
| 4:50
| Steve will play Flying Over the Ocean. Steve originally wrote that song in a key he can no longer sing in. The Nadas helped him move that one a step and a half. |
| 4:51
| Song: Flying Over the Ocean, Steve Dahl & the Dahlfins |
| 4:55
| Steve forgot that was the song he messed up the most. He switched the verses around a little bit and you can also hear him going back to the old key. |
| 4:56
| Steve might have to go back to the higher key. The problem is that he starts off higher at the beginning. He could just start it lower. |
| 4:57
| One thing that happens when you're on stage is you get your adrenaline going and you sing better. |
| 4:58
| Steve will have to work it all out with The Nadas. Maybe he should just man-up and take the capo off. Who said that, Bruce Willis? |
| 4:59
| It'll keep getting better as the shows go on. Steve and The Nadas will be adding a few more songs to the repertoire for the next one. |
| 5:00
| Steve doesn't like to expose that falsetto side of his voice. It sort of sounded like Steve was trying to keep his voice really low on Saturday. He sounded like Brendan. Now he knows what he goes through everyday. |
| 5:01
| Steve really thought it sounded fine on Saturday but hearing it again...he tried to hurl himself out of one of the studio windows but luckily they don't open. |
| 5:02
| Steve got several emails from people who were at the show and had never tried Bud Select until that point. They all found it to be excellent. Steve has never had Bud Select because it was invented after he stopped drinking but Buzz had some and liked it. So it sounds like we're selling beers. |
| 5:03
| Caller Keith wanted to let Steve know that it was Denzel Washington who said "man up" in Training Day. Bruce Willis said "cowboy up". |
| 5:04
| Keith also enjoys the higher key of Flying Over the Ocean. What Steve has to do the next time he's rehearsing with The Nadas is to get some adrenaline shot directly into his heart a la Pulp Fiction. |
| 5:05
| The next Dahlfins show will be at The Pearl Room in Mokena on June 9th. Steve will have Flying Over the Ocean in the old key and he'll add a few more songs. |
| 5:06
| Buzz does not have a gig that night so he will be in attendance for the duration, probably yelling things at Steve with Ed Silha. |
| 5:07
| Steve was going to have The Nadas do a few more songs when they open for him but they really hammed it up on Saturday. There were a lot of stories about their childhood and their songs coming from the heart. C'mon guys, just play the songs! |
| 5:08
| They never mention Dahl.com on the copy. More people go to Dahl.com than to WCKG's website. WCKG's website sucks too although Drew says he's working on it. |
| 5:09
| How long can it take to change a website? Drew probably doesn't want to hire anyone to do it so he puts Adam from promotions on it. The website is embarrassing though. Steve works here and he doesn't even get what they're trying to do with it. |
| 5:10
| Steve will giving tickets away during the show when you hear Buzz introducing Steve on stage. It seems weird though that you have to listen to call in and win tickets but you can also just go to WCKG's website and register. |
| 5:11
| Everyone who registers wins a ticket so what's the point of doing a contest? Steve would like to see some sort of trivia contest online. |
| 5:12
| They just want people to register on the website so they can get their emails and send them dopey birthday greetings. |
| 5:13
| Buzz thinks this can all be figured out at the brainstorming session. Steve's not going to that any more, he sort of got into it with Drew yesterday about The Package. |
| 5:14
| Drew actually agreed to just call it The Package but he still wants Steve to come in pitch the change to a bunch of underlings. He's not going to do that. Then Drew told him that everyone would probably poke holes in the idea. |
| 5:15
| Steve doesn't want to talk about The Package any more because if something else bad happens they'll try to pin it on him. Steve's not going to talk a bunch of underlings into using his idea. |
| 5:16
| Steve's going to give them this idea for free and then they can run with it. Drew thinks FM Talk is genius. It might have been in the 70s when there was a big difference between AM and FM. Now no one cares about that. |
| 5:17
| A lot of people still think WCKG is classic rock so they need to do something. FM Talk doesn't mean anything. Drew would argue that The Package doesn't mean anything either. What does The Loop mean or The Drive? |
| 5:18
| The station tells you what it is. The Drive is the soundtrack of your life. No one says FM Talk in conversation. Steve invented FM Talk! If he gives you advice on what to call this station you should listen to it. |
| 5:19
| The other problem is that Garry wants to call it the Radio Rat Pack. You can't do that either, people will think we play nothing but Frank Sinatra records. |
| 5:24
| As Buzz said in the hallway "either you hear it or you don't." Steve's going to trust his ear over those of others. It's held him in good stead with the possible exception of singing Flying Over the Ocean in the wrong key. Even he heard that eventually. |
| 5:25
| Live read: Townstone Financial |
| 5:26
| Live read: Gierczyk Properties |
| 5:27
| Buzz thought those were both fine live reads, does Steve have any more to do? Steve had a little practice because he came in early to record live reads for Monday. |
| 5:28
| Steve is going to play one more song from last Saturday just to get the bad tasted out of his mouth. |
| 5:29
| Song: Mai-Tai Roa Ae, Steve Dahl & the Dahlfins |
| 5:37
| Steve already misses King of Queens but luckily it's on WCIU every night. With the new episodes Steve can watch them 3 or 4 times. He does that with The Office too. |
| 5:38
| Time for some sports |
| 5:39
| The White Sox host the Devil Rays tonight. Mark Buehrle takes the mount against mini-phenom James Shields. |
| 5:40
| The Cubs open a three-game series against the Dodgers in L.A. tonight. The last time Cubs first basement Derrek Lee visited Dodger Stadium he broke his wrist in a collision with Rafael Furcal. |
| 5:41
| Steve thought Derrek collided with Scott Eyre. Let's hear the call again. Santo was despondent over the injury and this is a man who's faced adversity. |
| 5:42
| Bulls forward Andres Nocioni will not play on the Argentinean team this summer so his foot can heal. |
| 5:43
| Three women will race in the Indy 500 for the first time in the event that dates back to 1911, when there were no women. |
| 5:44
| Jose Canseco is reviewing entries for a a new reality TV show he's pitching called Win a Day with Jose. Contestants submit ideas for what they'd do with Jose Canseco if they could spend a day with him. |
| 5:45
| One contestant wants to take Jose to a Giants game and yell "steroids" at Barry Bonds. Another one wants him to be a Chippendale's dancer. Steve's just glad they gut his entry. |
| 5:51
| Live read: Walter E. Smithe |
| 5:52
| Buzz has seen the Smithe Brothers everywhere. They have a new ad that features their heads on cicada bodies. |
| 5:53
| Last night when Steve got home some of the neighbor kids were watching a cicada crawl up a tree trunk. |
| 5:54
| There aren't a lot of cicadas in Steve's neighborhood because most of the trees are pretty new. He's going to drive over to LaGrange and record some cicada sound though. |
| 5:55
| It was cute to see these kids watching the cicada. Steve should have walked over, grabbed the cicada off the tree and eaten it. That would have given those kids something to talk about for the rest of their lives. |
| 5:56
| There probably won't be any by Buzz although there could be some in the park. He distinctly remembers them 17 years ago, the sound was deafening. |
| 5:57
| Pete probably doesn't know where that original cicada tape is though. He might want to find it because we only have about a three week window. Then he'll be kicking himself for 17 years. |
| 5:58
| Hopefully Steve can find a bunch of cicadas or he could just record one of them and multi-track it. |
| 5:59
| Caller Kurt wanted to let Steve know that the new Smithe brothers commercial is a parody of a Cars song. It's a sad day when the Smithe brothers are over Steve's head. |
| 6:00
| The new ad is on Dahl.com but Steve is having trouble getting to it. For some reason it's asking him to login which doesn't make any sense. It's his website! Maybe it's Ed, he's mad because he can't get laid and he's taking it out on Steve. |
| 6:01
| Buzz isn't ready for the news so Steve has a song to play. It's not one of his, thank God. We're done with that. |
| 6:02
| Song: Boats to Build, Jerry Jeff Walker |
| 6:05
| Song: Boat Drinks, Jimmy Buffett |
| 6:08
| Steve's having some computer songs. He was trying to play three boat songs and the transition between the first and second one was crummy. Then the third one didn't even start up. |
| 6:09
| Steve has a gremlin in his computer but you can't blame Ed Silha for this one. |
| 6:10
| Ed SIlha is on the phone. Why does Steve have to log into his own website to see the Smithe brothers ad? |
| 6:11
| Ed has no idea why that's happening because Dahl.com doesn't even have a login section. |
| 6:12
| Ed did it on purpose because he can't get laid right? And he also messed up Steve's software too! |
| 6:13
| Ed was walking from the office to his condo and was listrening when Steve was havinf problems but couldn't call in. Steve wanted to call Ed's voicemail anyway just because it's funny as hell. |
| 6:14
| There is definitely something wrong with Steve's computer because now he's getting a low battery warning and it's at 100%. Steve has a long weekend to figure it out and also to think about this last hour over and over and over. |
| 6:15
| Steve does have the Walter E. Smithe commercial. He still has the third song to play as well. It feels like it's 100º in the studio right now but that's just because he's irritated. In the business they call that flop sweat. |
| 6:20
| Steve is pretty sure he has his software fix so indulge him while he segues from the Jerry Jeff Walker to the Jimmy Buffett song. Steve is Mr. Segue so he can't have a bad one. |
| 6:21
| Now Steve will do the segue from Boat Drinks to Come on Down to My Boat. |
| 6:22
| Song: Come on Down to My Boat, Every Mother's Son |
| 6:25
| Song: Trains and Boats and Planes, Fountains of Wayne |
| 6:28
| Steve was going to play a quick Little Feat song and the segue was screwed up again. Buzz is right he has the whole weekend to figure it out. |
| 6:29
| Steve tries the segue again and now it's fine. He's going to go down to Champaign and kill that kid. |
| 6:34
| News with Buzz |
| 6:35
| Senator John McCain said today that the no votes on the Iraq war funding bill that came from Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama were the same was surrendering to Al Qaeda. |
| 6:36
| He also said that Obama wouldn't know the difference between an RPG and a bong. That's the sweet Republican talk already kicking in. How do you even respond to that? The main difference is if you took a bong to the battlefield you'd get bong water on your uniform. |
| 6:37
| Steve has some cicada noise. The first one is a solo cicada that sounds like a can opener. |
| 6:38
| After not being seen in public for months radical Muslim cleric Maqtada al Sadr has called for the withdrawal of all U.S. troops from Iraq. |
| 6:39
| We had snipers there to take him out right? That's all we need to do. Then his followers will riot and we can take them out and then we're halfway to a solution. |
| 6:40
| Why does anyone care what Donald Trump thinks about Rosie O'Donnell? His show has already been cancelled. |
| 6:41
| NASA is sending astronaut Bill Oefelein back to the Navy after the embarrassing ordeal that unfolded, in a diaper, back in February. |
| 6:42
| Mark Czerniec is making this Apprentice thing his cause celebre. Trump quit The Apprentice but is moving on to another show on NBC. |
| 6:43
| Who cares about The Apprentice? None of those people get jobs. Bill Rancid came to Chicago to run the Trump Tower project and then Trump had to come here and sell condos. |
| 6:44
| That show is stupid and reality TV is stupid. Those shows have no syndication value. |
| 6:45
| An Alabama boy used a pistol to kill what may be the largest hog ever found. The hog weighed 1,051 pounds and was over 9 feet long. That sounds like Steve's prom date. |
| 6:53
| The other night Matt was troubled after having some technical difficulties. It bummed him out but Steve talked to him about it. |
| 6:54
| Today Steve had technical difficulties and he's fine about it. Of course Steve has a 5 hour show too. Matt's problem involved the CD player which is station equipment. So that makes it worse than Steve's problem? |
| 6:55
| Steve was on with Stan and Terry talking about the cardboard cut-outs. Terry seemed to be more mad about the Katarina Witt cut-out than Stan because it's his. |
| 6:56
| Stan seems mad in general but that could just be because he chose radio over engineering. Radio makes no sense. Steve's sitting here and his own kid is smart-mouthing him. |
| 6:57
| Now Stan and Terry are shuttling the cut-outs to and from the studio everyday. Someone called in last night to warn Matt that Stan will get back at him when he least expects it. Today Stan alluded to something happening at Matt's graduation but Steve asked him not to do that. |
| 6:58
| Buzz feels that whatever happens needs to happen on the air but Stan is crazy. He had a crazy look when he was talking about the graduation today. However they backed down by removing the cut-outs from the studio everyday. |
| 6:59
| Matt walked by Bonnie's office today and the door was open and all the cut-outs were stacked in there. He didn't decapitate any more yet. It could be a trap though, like he walks in there and they explode. |
| 7:00
| Matt and Brendan should deal with this whole thing on the air because it has the feel of something that's ready to blow-up. Whatever they do they should do it on the air. Matt is trying to do it but Stan is so mad that he keeps taking it off the air. |
| 7:01
| Maybe Stan's revenge was messing with Steve's computer or something. They got sidetracked talking to Garry during the cross talk. |
| 7:02
| Matt and Brendan will be filling in for Stan and Terry on Monday. That sounds like a good time to call Stan while he's at home, wearing nothing but his BBQ apron. |
| 7:03
| There needs to be some sort of outcome whereby Stan and Terry feel like justice has been served. Maybe Brendan could stand in their studio for a few mornings as a cut-out. |
| 7:04
| Matt is going to Indy this weekend and he called Steve for some hotel advice earlier in the week. Steve thought he heard Matt call Janet yesterday and ask her for other hotel advice. |
| 7:05
| Matt just heard that the hotel Steve recommended was under construction. Steve still says go with that place. If it's the bathroom he can go out the window. |
| 7:06
| Brendan is not going with, he's got a wedding. Not his own though. Steve's only advice to Matt is to pace himself. The inclination is to start drinking right when you get there at 8:00 but the race doesn't start until 11:00. |
| 7:07
| The last time Steve was down there he accidentally started drinking at 8:00 PM the night before. That was the longest day, not D-day. |
| 7:08
| There was probably a statue erected at the race track to Steve, the Most Hammered Guy Ever. |
