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Friday, June 1, 2007

     
 
2:00 When Steve comes into the studio for the cross talk Stan turns his mic on because he's a control freak. Then Steve has to turn it off to sit down and then turn it back on.
2:01 It's cute that Stan thinks Steve doesn't know how to turn his mic on. He needs to admit he's a control freak. Steve is too, he thought Stan looked familiar.
2:02 Steve has some more cicadas for Matt and Brendan that he'll just leave in the studio. He's not sure if they're going to keep eating them but it's been funny to hear them puke. It's the same gag reflex Steve has when he eats sushi.
2:03 Stan wanted to know if Steve has played his cicada song yet. He's played it a few times but he keeps forgetting he has it. Bonnie brought the CD in and it has some nice cover art. Stan thought Steve actually released it as a CD but it's just something Joe Kraslen did in-house.
2:04 Joe is Steve's former archivist. He wasted a little too much time on the small details like making artwork for the Cicada CD. He was big on album design.
2:05 Steve is currently in negotiations with a legally blind archivist. He won't be wasting time on album design.
2:06 Stan started Cicada but Steve didn't have his headphones on. He doesn't appreciate not having the opportunity to talk up his own song.
2:07 Did Stan really think Steve hadn't played his CIcada song yet? He's been waiting 17 years to play it! It's like Steve is on Stan's talk show and he's consulting his note cards for questions.
2:08 Terry thinks he's cute that Stan cares this much about Steve. He doesn't really care though because he didn't know that Steve's already played CIcada a few times. He's too busy having his union lunch to listen to the show apparently.
2:09 Stan and Terry have a Spanish soap opera on right now. There's a woman tied to a bet with rope and a guy laying on top of her sleeping. It's hot.
2:10 A lot of guests have remarked on the Spanish soap operas when they come into the studio. Guests? Like Don Cheadle? What movie did Stan and Terry see yesterday?
2:11 Stan and Terry saw Hostel 2 and then Terry interviewed the director Eli Roth. They're not really the target audience it's more for the kids.
2:12 Buzz is into those kind of movies too. Everyday a ton of people call in wanting to talk to Buzz about those movies and we have to filter them out.
2:13 There were a lot of younger people in the screening room. They always know when something is going to happen so they start laughing right before. Meanwhile Terry's yelling at the screen "DON'T GO IN THERE!"
2:14 Eli Roth wasn't on the show, Terry just talked to him for the Tribune. Stan and Terry were told by the PR person that Eli is not doing radio interviews right at the moment.
2:15 Steve really hates PR people. Why wouldn't they want free publicity on a radio show? This was actually the studio's PR people not the local people.
2:16 Steve hates national PR people more than local PR people. The ones in New York are the worst, they don't even think LA revolves around them. Then they come here and say things like "wow, I really love this city it's so great."
2:17 Stan is busy with Jeffrey's baseball games all weekend. How's his batting average? Stan might also head out to Road America for some motorcycle racing. Is Stan in a race?
2:18 Michael Jordan will be out there, he co-owns a racing team called Jumpman. Steve doesn't like motorcycle racing because the racers always have their feet on the ground. It's really unsettling.
2:26 Song: Tropical Drink Song, Steve Dahl & the Dahlfins
2:30 That's' the lovely and talented Steve right there. Steve couldn't be more sick of himself. It comes in waves though, sometimes he thinks he's cool. Most of the time he's sick of himself though.
2:31 Steve's in too deep to back out now though he'll just have to roll with it.
2:32 Atlanta lawyer Andrew Speaker apologized during an interview with Diane Sawyer today but said that he was told it was OK for him to fly. He also has a tape recording of the conversation he had with his doctor. Why would you tape a conversation with your doctor? That just shows you know you were doing something wrong.
2:33 Steve turns on the Spanish-language soap opera that Stan and Terry were watching. It's very compelling but also has a porno feel to it.
2:34 They should have a SAP channel in English because Steve would watch this show. They could have a whole cast of American actors to voice the parts like on Iron Chef.
2:35 Buzz isn't familiar with Iron Chef, he's never even heard of it. How has he never even heard of it?
2:36 Steve explains Iron Chef to Buzz. It ends up being pretty weird because of how they dub it in English. Does Pete have any Iron Chef drops?
2:37 Steve would like to just take some time to let it sink in that Buzz doesn't know what Iron Chef is. Whatever it is he does to isolate himself like this, he should start teaching it. It's like he's been in a coma for the last 10 years.
2:38 It's just funny because the Japanese people talk much faster than the American people so they're just trying to catch up. There's this Chairman Kaga guy and he built Kitchen Stadium.
2:39 Jim kid is on the phone to let Steve know that Food Network now airs Iron Chef America that features Chairman Kaga's nephew who has built his own Kitchen Stadium in Vegas. They just added infrared grills.
2:40 What does Buzz do when he goes back into the news room that helps him avoid this stuff? Does he shoot himself up or something?
2:41 Iron Chef America features chefs like Bobby Flay competing against other lesser known chefs. Buzz doesn't even know who Bobby Flay is.
2:42 The original Iron Chef was popular in Japan but became a cult hit in America, partly due to the dubbing which made it seem like an old Japanese martial arts movie.
2:43 Pete has some tape of the original Iron Chef but it's a little loud. Steve thinks Buzz would really like it, plus there are knives!
2:44 Steve can't remember why he started talking about Iron Chef. It was the overdubbing Spanish-language soap operas.
2:45 A few years ago there was a new Columbian soap opera airing on Telemundo and it was sort of a big deal. Larry Wert also managed Telemundo because it's part of NBC.
2:46 Steve called over to Larry and suggested that he get the scripts from a week's worth of shows, find some actors and make an SAP in English. Larry thought he was crazy.
2:47 People always think Steve is crazy when he has an idea like that. At first Steve always had to fight for his ideas but you'd think by now people would take a suggestion even if they didn't really get it.
2:48 It's like the thing with The Package. At some point Steve doesn't really want to fight this much for it. He'd rather they call the station something else so he can make fun of it.
2:52 Iron Chef is pretty mainstream but Steve prefers his Buzz Kilman not knowing what it is.
2:53 Buzz said he's going to try to watch Iron Chef tomorrow but it won't be the Japanese version. The American version isn't as good but it is hosted by that Alton Brown who hosts another show on Food Network. Steve can't remember the name of that one but it has a lot to do with the science behind food. Jim kid will probably call in and tell him.
2:54 Jim kid is on the phone again. The Alton Brown show is called Good Eats and it's also a great show.
2:55 Buzz is surprised that Jim has never mentioned any of these shows to him since they talk TV quite a bit.
2:56 One thing that Buzz has going for him is that Dave McBride was really into Iron Chef, like really into it. At some point Steve didn't really care that much.
2:57 Steve doesn't think Buzz would be interested in Iron Chef America. He won't enjoy the cockiness of Bobby Flay. Steve sort of remembers hearing that William Shatner was going to be the host of the American version though. Maybe Jim can call back again.
2:58 Jim doesn't remember anything else about William Shatner other than that he was supposed to be the American version of Chairman Kaga.
2:59 Steve sort of remembers that all happening right around the time that Shatner's wife drowned but he could have his timelines confused.
3:00 MIke Dahl is on the phone to report that things are melting down at Wrigley Field. Carlos Zambrano just punched Michael Barrett.
3:01 Barrett allowed a passed ball and then tried to throw someone out at second causing the ball to go into center field. Once they got into the dugout words were exchanged and then Carlos lost it.
3:02 Has Pete been monitoring that? Does he have it on tape for Steve? Mike can see how the Cubs would be down after giving up 5 runs in one inning. Lou didn't get involved though, he was probably just sitting at the end of the bench wondering what's going to happen next.
3:03 Mike can't believe how bad the Cubs are, they're just so fundamentally wrong. They don't run the bases well, they're not hitting, they're not playing defense.
3:04 Mike shouldn't use this as a launching pad to start bashing the Cubs, the Sox are just as bad. Mike thinks the Cubs are different becuase they're just giving games away.
3:05 Steve doesn't really want to get into all this but if Mike does he should call Pat Dahl. Steve's watched a lot of Sox games this year and they also suck. Steve just wants his season ticket money back but that's not going to happen.
3:06 Mike and all the Dahl boys have a lot of hatred for the Cubs and Steve doesn't think he instilled that in them. It was probably Pat Dahl.
3:07 Steve has been watching Sox games all year and they have their own problems. They're lethargic, they're not hitting, they miss the cutoff man a lot.
3:12 Steve saw the Barrett/Zambrano fight. Zambrano walks off the field and does that pointing-to-the-sky thing even though he just gave up 5 runs. Then he goes into the dugout and points at Barrett then points to his head.
3:13 Then Barrett points out to the outfield possibly indicating that he gave up all those home runs. Then they really got into it.
3:14 Buzz thought he saw Zambrano slap Barrett. Baseball fights aren't really full-blown boxing matches.
3:15 Pete concurs that it was more of a slap than a punch. Is Buzz trying to say that the Cubs fight like bitches? Is Barrett still in the game? It doesn't seem like you'd want to take him out.
3:16 There was some talk earlier in the week that the other catcher, Henry Blanco, would play today. Zambrano has a much lower ERA with Blanco than with Barrett so maybe there was some animosity there.
3:17 Steve likes Barrett but Pete doesn't think he's a very good catcher. They didn't really get him for his defense though. Steve just likes how Barrett tapes up his fingers.
3:18 Caller Ken wanted to let Steve know that Koyie Hill is catching for the Cubs now. Henry Blanco is on the DL with a herniated disc.
3:19 The Sox are just as bad too right now. There's no infighting but maybe there should be. It seems like it's about time for a Rob Mackowiak towel party.
3:20 Ken said he picked 18 which is what the wheel landed on but Steve thought he said 8. Jim kid says he picked 18. Is he sure? If he's wrong it's coming out of his paycheck.
3:21 Caller Mike has been hearing that commercial on the station where Michael Barrett talks about a great player Zambrano is. It takes on a whole new meaning now.
3:22 Mike thinks the writer of that commercial deserves some sort of award. There's a chance Barrett and Zambrano were friends at some point. Steve thinks Zambrano still hasn't recovered from having his eyebrow waxed by AJ.
3:29 Steve was trying to think which White Sock he would want attacking a teammate. His least favorite players are Alex Cintron and Rob Mackowiak so he'd like to see them get into it and then have no one stop it.
3:30 The fight is already on the Tribune website. Zambrano was frustrated following 2 errors that allowed runs to score in the first and second.
3:31 In the third inning Barrett's passed ball and throwing error led to more runs scoring.
3:32 The guy Steve really feels bad for is John McDonough. He was the marketing director but now he's the interim team president. That means he'll probably get whacked when the team gets sold.
3:33 He is only an interim president so maybe he can go back to being the marketing director.
3:34 The Cubs are now owned by Sam Zell but he has to sell because he owns a piece of the White Sox as well. He's a Sox fan as all of your rich, powerful men are.
3:35 Steve wishes he owned a piece of the White Sox, they have such a sweet parking lot.
3:36 Who is Tom Zibakowski and why is he singing the 7th Inning Stretch? He's not very good at it.
3:37 Zibakowski plays for Notre Dame and he also boxes. So this guy gets to sing and Steve doesn't?
3:38 The Cubs do have really hot fans, but they're surrounded by shirtless chaches. Those women are just ripe for the pickin'.
3:42 Steve's trying to work his way back to the beginning of the show when he started talking about the guy with TB. He got sidetracked talking about Mexican soap operas.
3:43 Steve and Buzz were watching El Gordo y La Flaco. To Steve that means The Fat and the Thin but it might be Thick and Thin. Buzz always thought gordo meant head.
3:44 Steve knows gordo means fat because it was one of his many nicknames growing up in Southern California. Steve's going to play a New Pornographers song that ties into all this. Also, Pete was right they're The New Pornographers.
3:45 Has Pete been going through the tape boxes and pulling stuff out because there's a half-empty one in his studio. It's about time to throw out another box too.
3:46 Steve's still watching the Cubs game and they're showing a replay of the fight. After Barrett and Zambrano walked towards the clubhouse Derrek Lee ran down the tunnel, he must have seen something going on. Someone could be dead for all we know.
3:47 Song: Sing Me Spanish Techno, The New Pornographers
3:50 In Spanish, Laurel & Hardy are called El Gordo y El Flaco. Steve wouldn't mind seeing some Spanish-dubbed Laurel & Hardy.
3:51 Steve and Buzz might want to start calling themselves El Gordo y El Flaco just to pick up some Hispanic listeners.
3:52 Caller Izzy wanted to let Steve know that El Gordo y La Flaca is a Spanish-language entertainment show. It features a fat guy and a skinny woman. He's not sure what the novella was called that he was watching but it sounds hot.
3:53 It doesn't sound like Izzy is going to make the Dahlfins show, but he didn't say anything he just took the tickets. That's what Steve is looking for.
3:54 Maybe he is going and he was just awestruck. Is he going? Brendan, put him back on hold, please.
3:55 Izzy is going to the show. What does Izzy think about Steve and Buzz calling themselves El Gordo y El Flaco? They need to steal some listeners from El Pistolero.
3:56 La Ley means The Law in Spanish so it doesn't even matter what you call your station. You just call it something and tell your listeners what it means.
3:57 Izzy still refers to WCKG as The Package when talking to friends. He also has an autographed picture of Steve when this place was The Funhouse. That might have ruined The Package for Steve.
3:58 Steve kept telling Jeff you couldn't call the station something with that many syllables. He was just trying to get us out of 9/11. He did get us out of 9/11 so who is Steve to complain?
4:01 Steve finally watched the season finale of Earl last night. For some reason that show had fallen out of favor with Steve but when you go a few weeks without new TV you start to appreciate things like Earl.
4:02 Buzz is wondering why some episodes of The Office are 43 minutes long. That's because it's super-sized. Buzz thought it was an hour long episode with all the commercials removed but then he remembered his TiVo didn't do that.
4:03 Steve is watching the news on Telemundo, check out the anchor babes Buzz! They've got short dresses on and they're sitting at a glass desk. The camera is shooting as much below the table as above it. That's some good news right there!
4:04 These aren't the local Telemundo anchors though. They just shut their laptops for some reason, probably because you couldn't see their chests.
4:05 The field reporter is no slouch either. Steve thought she was reporting from Iraq but it's some sort of riot in Mexico.
4:06 Headlines with Buzz
4:07 Another record day on Wall Street. And The Dow may be sold to Rupert Murdoch.
4:08 He's just buying Dow Jones which is the Wall Street journal. It sounds like he's buying the New York Stock Exchange though.
4:09 President Bush is recognizing June as Black Music Month.
4:10 Mark Czerniec is on the phone. Dow Jones is a reporting company but when you quote the Dow Jones you're talking about the average of 30 stocks which have been chosen to represent everything.
4:11 Jack Kevorkian was released from a Michigan prison today. He looks like Mr. Rogers leaving prison in that blue cardigan. It's the same sweater he was wearing when he went in.
4:12 TB patient Andrew Speaker is apologizing for traveling on a Transatlantic flight. Has he apologized for being a chach?
4:13 Speaker says he has a tape recording of his doctor telling him it was OK to fly. Why would you do that unless you were about to do something wrong.
4:14 Steve saw his fiance on Good Morning America. She's not bad but she's much better looking with the mask on. She was crying about how hard their honeymoon was. They didn't even get married in Greece because they didn't have the right paperwork. The whole thing was a joke.
4:15 And a report out of Chile where scientists believe that the venom of certain spiders can be used for contraception. For years farmers have reported increased virility after being bitten by a spider.
4:16 Donnie Devoe, The Freakin' Puerto Rican on 92.3 in Chicago, was arrested Wednesday in Calumet City after he became unruly at a Pepe's Taco Restaurant. Remember the jingle for that place? "Pepe's Tacos are very good tacos"
4:17 Every time an article starts out "A popular Chicago-area radio personality..." Steve thinks it's going to be about him.
4:18 Sgt. Pepper was released 40 years ago today. That makes Steve and Buzz very old.
4:19 Buzz remembers buying it, walking out of the store and some kids asking him what he bought. Then he opened up the record and the kids said "who are those freaks?"
4:20 Steve has Comcast Sportsnet on in case Lou Piniella says anything about the Zambrano/Barrett fight. Also Chuck Garfein's going to be calling in.
4:21 CLTV has The Freakin' Puerto Rican on right now. The current anchor is that one lethargic guy who's finally realized that he's never going anywhere but CLTV.
4:22 Freakin' claims he doesn't even own a water gun, let alone a real good. He sort of has a Mancow feel to him. He's also wearing a Yankees hat which isn't going to get him any sympathy.
4:23 Caller Leonard wanted to let Steve know that this particular Pepe's, which has very good tacos, doubles as a dance club on the weekends. Freakin' used to DJ there.
4:24 The place is wall-to-wall people and the crowd is very hostile. Why are people going there? It can't just be for the tacos.
4:25 If Steve was down in that area he'd go right to Atlantis. Isn't it about time for Steve to do another appearance there?
4:26 A-Rod's coming into town next week maybe Steve can meet him there or something.
4:32 That Andrew Speaker guy is a total chach. Him and his dad recorded doctors telling him it was OK to fly. They had to know they were doing something wrong.
4:33 Buzz doesn't understand this story at all. How did the guy get TB? It seems weird that his father-in-law studies TB.
4:34 When you're getting married you have to get a blood test so it probably started with that.
4:35 It's hard to keep track of all this when Speaker is on TV crying and then Steve learns his wife isn't as hot as he'd previously thought.
4:36 What kind of lawyer flies coach? Unless it was business class. They were on an international flight.
4:37 Live read: Salvation Army
4:38 Health officials in Atlanta advised Speaker not to fly. Then his father asked them if they were saying that because he's at risk or to cover themselves.
4:39 They said they were covering themselves, but they still advised him not to fly. Don't you think you should listen when someone says that?
4:40 There's a chance that Speaker and his father illegally taped the health officials. It's illegal in many states to record someone without their consent.
4:41 Buzz is wondering the origin of the word chach. Steve was actually just arguing with his boys about that the other night. He thinks it comes from Chachi of Joanie Loves Chachi . They think it's spelled chotch and therefore has more to do with "crotch".
4:45 That was a drop featuring the chach's dad. Pete also spells it chotch but Steve still thinks it's chach like Chachi. That's also what the Urban Dictionary says.
4:46 From that website: "Noun-A person (usually male) who attempts to exhibit a cool and popular look but generally comes across as either an a_____ and/or a total loser." It also says it might derive from Chachi.
4:47 Caller Debbie was on a cruise with her daughter where you can put your kids in a nursery. Buzz is suddenly very interested.
4:48 When Debbie came home she took her daughter to the doctor for a check-up and she tested positive for TB. That's free of charge right becuase the cruise was all-inclusive. As soon as that happened the doctors were on the phone with the health department.
4:49 Steve feels like he might have taken the wrong call. This is one family's struggles with TB.
4:50 Caller Natalie sounds like she's calling from a bathroom. She's actually in her loft. Natalie read an article that said Speaker bruised a rib and while he was being checked out they happen to find out he had TB.
4:51 This guy seems like the kind of chach who plays lacrosse so that's probably how he bruised his rib.
4:52 Maybe Steve should have taken Debbie's call after Natalie's. What's happening in Natalie's loft today? She thinks Steve and Buzz should come over. Steve can come but he's not sure if Buzz can. He doesn't really want Buzz there either.
4:53 Now Steve wants to know how Chach Jr. hurt his ribs. He probably got punched or something.
4:56 Steve can't keep track of all these mopes on Good Morning America. That was the main Chach but he had a mask on. He sounds like an old man but it's been a real ordeal.
4:57 So we've heard from the Chach, his dad and the Chach's father-in-law. Although it's not really his father-in-law because they were never properly married in Greece.
4:58 Steve wants to know who tape records a conversation with health officials and asks them leading questions about whether or not the Chach can fly.
4:59 Live read: Townstone Financial
5:00 Steve's got some Lou Piniella from the post-game press conference today, talking about Zambrano.
5:01 There was also a fight in the clubhouse which is probably why that Hill kid came running out to grab Lou.
5:02 It seems as if the Lucky Charms leprechaun is asking Lou questions. Steve feels bad for Lou, look at the poor guy. Everyone in the press conference is overanalyzing everything.
5:03 And now Bruce Levine is making an appearance, probably asking a horse bleep question.
5:04 Lou is quite handsome, he's got dreamy bedroom eyes.
5:05 Barrett's lip got cut up in the locker room so there must have been a lot more fighting going on. He probably had all this catcher's equipment off at that point.
5:06 Lou is so mad that he's actually very calm. Steve would like to correct something that was said earlier also, Lou was involved in breaking up the fight.
5:07 Bruce Levine asks another horse bleep question about the Cubs being disorganized on the field. He's a real troublemaker.
5:08 Steve needs to record this so he'll always have it. Pete probably has it too. Lou gets a little nutty at the end, Pete's going to grab that.
5:09 It's time for the Five O'Clock Taco Bell. Yesterday Steve got an email from Mike P who said he's having a Pavolvian response to the dinging of the Taco Bell bell.
5:10 Mike finally sampled one of the new quesadillas that Steve and Buzz have been touting all week along with a Dr. Pepper.
5:11 Steve didn't get a Dr. Pepper today but it would really hit the spot. Buzz has one on his desk but it's warm.
5:12 We've got Mr. Skin coming up in a few minutes. Steve keeps being told that he's in a movie but he's not, he's just mentioned. That's not really the same thing but his PR person is very aggressive.
5:13 Mr. Skin has a dinner engagement at 6:00 so he can't say long, which is fine. Buzz wants to know if we know where he's having dinner. He's very inquisitive today but he's not doing anything to find the answers, he just keeps asking Steve.
5:14 Mr. Skin is here. He's not in Knocked Up but Jeff Schwartz keeps saying he is. Skin thinks that Knocked Up will be to MrSkin.com the way ET was for Reese's Pieces.
5:15 It's funny that Mr. Skin has a PR guy. He informed Steve that Mr. Skin would be talking about Knocked Up as well as who's naked in movies this summer which Steve doesn't really need to know.
5:16 There's a lot Steve can't talk about to Mr. Skin. The last time he was here they actually got into an argument about what you can and can't say on the air. Skin was quoting all this legal jargon to him.
5:17 Skin might want to proofread this press release it sounds a little gay. Not that Skin is gay, he's very hetero. If there was a hetero flow-chart Skin would be at the very top. He's taken his sick hobby and turned it into a multi-million dollar empire. Plus he's a Sox fan.
5:18 According to the press release, Knocked Up director Judd Apatow made a bee-line for Mr. Skin at the premiere.
5:19 Knocked Up feature's Seth Rogen who's "laugh out loud" funny according to the press release.
5:20 In the movie Seth Rogen's character wants to create a website that only shows the nudity from movies. Then at the end he finds out it already exists.
5:21 What Buzz really wants to know is where Skin is going to dinner and who with. Some of his wife's former business associates are in town and they're going to dinner.
5:26 Buzz heard in an interview with Seth Rogen where he said he's not really an actor, he just says he finds roles that depict what he's really like.
5:27 Mr. Skin doesn't really care that he's not actually in Knocked Up, he just wants his website in there. Jeff is the one who keeps saying he's in the movie.
5:28 Skin has been business partners with Jeff for a while and he can't understand how Steve has dealt with him all this time.
5:29 Apparently Jeff also tells Skin that he loves him. So he's not just saying that to Steve?!
5:30 Steve has done a little more research on who Mr. Skin's PR guy is. It's Pete McMurray. It's nice that Skin gave him a job.
5:31 Pete's not Skin's PR guy, he just coordinates all of his radio interviews. He does a ton of them every week.
5:32 Steve was telling Buzz the other day about Norma Jean & Marilyn, one of the most fantastic nude-a-paloozas he's ever seen.
5:33 Ashley Judd is also naked in Bug which is out now. There's some great nudity in there and they linger on it.
5:34 Pete McMurray sent a few clips over from Knocked Up including a scene with Harold Ramis. Did he bee-line them over?
5:35 Mr. Skin actually gets a lot of screener copies from the studios. How does he get those and Steve doesn't?
5:36 The studios love the website because it's free publicity. There are no legal issues because it's fair-use.
5:37 Now Skin has an entire team of lawyers making sure that he's not violating any copyright laws.
5:38 When Skin was out in LA for the premiere Jeff and his wife actually stayed in their hotel to watch the finale of 24. What did he do that for? Steve told him he didn't even care about it.
5:44 Steve made a comedy called You're Getting an Abortion but the title really turned people off.
5:45 Caller William has a question that's purely for curiosity's sake, not because he's a freak.
5:46 William wanted to know who the oldest actress was that did a nude scene. There's a clip of Jessica Tandy taking a skinny dip in a 1994 movie.
5:47 Mr. Skin does not discriminate on his website. If you're over 18 and you're a woman and nude in a movie it'll go up on a site.
5:48 William was also wondering if there's any nudity in the new Lindsay Lohan movie. As a rule of thumb when an actress says she's playing a stripper in a movie that usually means no nudity.
5:49 William keeps getting shocked by all of these answers but he's the one asking these questions.
5:50 Steve's a Helen Mirren fan, he wouldn't mind seeing her naked especially after her appearance on The Oscars.
5:51 Back in the early 70's Mirren was in a movie called Age of Consent that featured some great nudity. She was also in Caligula.
5:52 Remember when Steve launched MrClothes.com? It was just actresses fully-clothed but no one really cared about.
5:53 Caller Randy had a question about a movie with Alyssa Milano where she did a really hot lesbian scene. That was Embrace of the Vampire.
5:54 Randy couldn't believe how far they let Milano go in that movie. Maybe he needs to head to a chat room and talk about this stuff.
5:55 Steve's going to get everyone a three-day pass for MrSkin.com as well as the Dahlfins tickets and a dinner gift certificate. Just so he knows Steve will be nude at the Dahlfins show.
5:56 There was a girl who called in and wanted to know about male nudity but there's none of that on MrSkin.com. Buzz might be able to help her out though.
5:57 Caller Mike had a question about Jane Seymour, Dr. Quinn. In the 80s she did a movie with Tom Selleck called Lasseter.
6:06 It's time now for Steve to get another box of tapes from Pete's studio.
6:07 You'll recall that Pete took all of his tapes, put them in boxes and stacked them in his studio. It's more cubist than abstract.
6:08 Pete can't part with his tapes even though yesterday we found some really old stuff, like episodes of Whoopi Goldberg's sitcom.
6:09 Steve finally located the actual trash compactor in the building where Tina and Stephanie will now be taking the discarded boxes.
6:10 Pete would have gone back and got the first box the other night if he could find it.
6:11 Steve's on his way into Pete's studio. Buzz wonders if he's thought of barring the door to prevent him from getting in.
6:12 Steve can't even read the note on 7/12/04, Pete will have to come and tell him. It's a tape of the A&E show Family Plots along with Airline. None of those are keepers.
6:13 On 9/20/04, episodes of North Shore, Las Vegas and LAX. That was the Heather Locklear show.
6:14 6/10/03, a scant 4 years ago. Pete feels it's unfair to only grab shows from the summer. That's why we should throw this stuff out. On that tape is Lucky, Crank Yankers, South Park, Chappelle, Letterman, and Reno 911. That's all comedy gold.
6:15 10/14/03 we've got Whoopi and Happy Family, the show Pat Dahl worked on. Also Frasier and Good Morning Miami. Steve actually liked that one but it had a lot of trouble.
6:16 10/21/03 the same shows as the week before. Steve can safely say we don't need any of these but he'll grab one more.
6:17 On 7/15/03 Real World and The Osbourne's. Steve's going to say that this box can go. Buzz concurs.
6:18 Pete held on to his VHS tapes of Freaks and Geeks for years because it wasn't on DVD. He can plead all he wants but Stephanie is wheeling the cart out of the studio and toward the trash compactor. Maybe he could hurl himself in front of the cart or something.
6:21 On the phone is Chuck Garfein from Comcast Sportsnet. Chuck was at Wrigley today where Carlos Zambrano and Michael Barrett slugged it out.
6:22 Zambrano gave up a ton of hits today which is probably why Barrett was pointing at the scoreboard.
6:23 Zambrano told Barrett to use his head then Barrett told Zambrano to look at the scoreboard and all the hits. Then Zambrano bitch-slapped him.
6:24 Then they were sent to the clubhouse where the fight escalated. That's where Barrett got a busted lip. The equipment guy ran into the dugout to get some help and that's when Derrek Lee ran up the tunnel like Batman.
6:25 Talking to the players after the game they all said this sort of thing happens in sports more often than you'd think. Most of the time it doesn't end up on camera though. It happens a lot in baseball because they play so many games in a season.
6:26 Lou managed to make it through the post-game press conference but he got a little irritated at the end. That's probably because he had Bruce Levine riding him the whole time.
6:27 Before the game people kept asking Lou when he'd finally erupt and lose his temper. He was willing to talk about it too but who would have thought that the thing that caused him to explode was a fight between two of his players.
6:28 It's funny that Lou refers to everything going on as "silliness" like it's a cartoon.
6:29 The last shot-heart-round-Chicago also involved Michael Barrett and AJ Pierzynski last year. Barrett's a bit of a hothead on the field but off the field he's a nice guy.
6:30 It seemed like Barrett was trying to avoid getting into a fight but at some point he realized he had no choice.
6:31 The Cubs made a valiant attempt at a comeback but still lost the game 8-5. Chuck is very disturbed with the similarities between the Cubs and the Sox right now, on and off the field.
6:32 The Sox are up in Toronto tonight. The Sox and Cubs have both lost 5 games in a row now.
6:33 Buehrle pitched a great game last night but the hitting wasn't there. Why do they keep pitching to Frank Thomas though? He only lives to hit home runs off the White Sox.
6:34 Ozzie seems extremely unfocused this year, like he's reading too many Jay Mariotti columns.
6:35 That was really bad with Erstad last night too. If you watch the replay you can hear a popping noise. What kind of God lets that happen to Erstad and not Rob Mackowiak?
6:36 We should find out tomorrow what sort of disciplinary action will be taken against Zambrano and Barrett. Steve doesn't think Barrett should get in trouble, he was just defending himself.
6:37 We don't really know what happened in the clubhouse but they probably shouldn't have been in there together at the same time. What if they were fighting nude? Chuck should bring that up tonight when he's on with Bill Melton.
6:38 It's sort of funny out a fight energizes this town. We really like fighting here.
6:39 Live read: Cheeseburger in Paradise
6:40 It's weird that Steve is having trouble saying the name of the restaurant here. He'll try to hit the second post a little better.
6:44 That was The Riot weighing in on the Zambrano/Barrett fight.
6:45 Live read: Jab Real Estate
6:46 You can't go wrong buying your own place if you can swing it. Buzz was wondering about Matt Dahl's Puckered Pickle shirt, they're sponsoring the remote tomorrow with Matt for Jab Real Estate.
6:47 News with Buzz
6:48 Andrew Speaker has apologized for igniting a potential health scare by flying to Europe with TB.
6:49 It seems like Chach and Chach Sr. are setting themselves up for an absence of malice defense for when they get sued. They have the tape recording the health officials saying it's OK for him to fly.
6:50 Today is the first day of hurricane season. There's already a tropical storm in the Atlantic that they're looking at.
6:51 California is now allowing conjugal visits for gay prison inmates. It doesn't seem like that's necessary.
6:56 Steve brought Matt and Brendan some more cicadas but he's not sure if they're still eating them. He hates to keep forcing the cicadas on them but it's funny to hear them hurl on the air.
6:57 This will be the last night that Matt and Brendan eat cicadas. It's getting harder and harder to find the bugs though.
6:58 Matt and Brendan were out in Mokena last night and they did not get as many as they did 17 years ago so maybe it's a bit of a bust.
6:59 Matt brought in a Fry Daddy to prepare the cicadas tonight. They have not acquired a taste for them, it's still disgusting.

 

 

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