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| 2:04
| Here we go again with Stan and Terry trying to act white. Stan says he likes the new Fall Out Boy CD. How does he not know what song is playing in his rejoin though? |
| 2:05
| For Steve's rejoin music it says the name of the song and the artist but not for Stan and Terry's show. Maybe it's because Stan and Terry have a different person out in the hallway everyday. |
| 2:06
| Stan and Terry have trouble finding interns. That's because there's nothing to do. Stan's trying to keep it very professional, he wants them out there learning and maybe taking notes. |
| 2:07
| Terry has the interns opening the mail he gets at the Tribune and lets them keep a lot of the free stuff he gets. The only other thing the interns do is carry all the cardboard cut-outs back and forth. Steve's been run over by some kid carrying a cardboard cut-out twice. |
| 2:08
| Terry was wondering how Steve gets turned on to new music. It used to be his boys but now with the iPods he never hears what they're listening to. |
| 2:09
| Pete and Mary are usually finding new music for Steve but sometimes he just goes onto iTunes and finds stuff. |
| 2:10
| Terry knows that Stan has to monitor a lot of what Jeffrey is listening to. Is Terry writing an article or something? |
| 2:11
| Stan and Terry had a guy from Fall Out Boy on the show but Stan never started listening to them until Jeffrey did. Steve tried to like them because they're from Chicago but he doesn't. |
| 2:12
| Jeffrey does complain whenever Stan wants to listen to something like The Sandpipers. He says "do we have to listen to this old stuff again?" It's nice of him to leave out "gay". |
| 2:13
| Matt Dahl's graduation is coming up this weekend. Steve doesn't know anything about it except what time it is and where it's at. He still doesn't think Matt's going to graduate though. |
| 2:14
| Stan wants to know if he's bringing an air horn to the ceremony. Why does Stan always have to drag Steve into whatever world he wants to live in. |
| 2:15
| Steve would like to get to the ceremony just as they're starting the D names. All that other stuff is really boring. |
| 2:16
| Steve just noticed that Terry has a patch of skin on his face that's much lighter. It's a birthmark but it looks like he had a little Band-Aid there. |
| 2:17
| Stan and Terry had the St. Pauli Girl, Bobbie Sue Luther, on the show. Is she any relation to the religious icon? They also got a new cardboard cut-out for their collection. That's probably what Steve was run over by today. |
| 2:18
| The interns carry the cut-outs in front of them so they can't see anything. Stan doesn't want any cut-outs that are damaged in anyway. He can't look at that imperfection all day so he has to throw it out. |
| 2:19
| In Stan's head the people in the cut-outs are really here. That's probably why they've had so many interns quitting, one day is enough. Stan also likes to arrange the cut-outs in a certain way. Steve has stepped into a big pile of crazy here. It's better that Stan is doing all this with cardboard cut-outs and not real people. Stan seems to have a a very cinematic vision though, maybe he should become a filmmaker. They're filming the Batman sequel right below the building. |
| 2:21
| It seems like the Batman sequel isn't filming until the night time. Terry has heard from various sources that Christian Bale has been spotted eating at various restaurants around town. There's a guy that Steve would actually like to meet and talk to. |
| 2:22
| You can actually hang out on Lower Wacker and watch the filming. They keep you pretty far away but the police were instructed not to be too forceful since the movie sets are turning into a tourist attraction. |
| 2:23
| Maybe Stan should bring all of his cardboard cut-outs down to the set and introduce them to Christian Bale. |
| 2:30
| Song: Beverly Hills, Weezer |
| 2:33
| Weezer? Buzz doesn't even know her! Buzz likes Weezer and so does Steve and it all ties in with Paris Hilton. |
| 2:34
| Steve saw Buzz out in the hallway when he was talking to Stan and Terry. He wasn't sure if he was trying to get word to him but he assumes as his friend and co-worker, Buzz feels for him. |
| 2:35
| Sometimes Buzz feels for Steve when he's talking to Stan and Terry. Stan was asking Steve about his big weekend coming up but it's only Tuesday. How do you respond to that? |
| 2:36
| Stan and Terry have a fake thing going where they act like they care about Steve but they only care about themselves. That's fine but it's a weird fake-allegiance to Steve because they started on his show. |
| 2:37
| If they want to haul their asses down to Mokena and see Steve's show then they'd have something to talk about. Maybe Stan should spend less time with his cardboard cut-outs. You have to accomplish something before you're that quirky. Installing HVAC systems for 30 years is not enough. |
| 2:38
| Stan was serious when he was talking about posing his cut-outs, Steve saw it in his eyes. Steve felt like that nude Vietnamese kid must have felt right before he ran away from Jeffrey Dahmer. Then the cops found the kid-who was bleeding from a place you're not supposed to bleed from-and returned him to Dahmer. |
| 2:39
| You would hope those police officers aren't cops in Milwaukee any more but everyone makes mistakes. If Steve were a cop he'd air on the side of the nude, bleeding Vietnamese kid. |
| 2:40
| There's a very loud siren going off but it seems like it's outside the building. Buzz thought it was a fire alarm. He's on edge now because of all the fake weather reports. No wonder the weather predictions haven't been right lately. |
| 2:41
| The best case scenario in that Dahmer thing was if he had adopted some Vietnamese kid. Even if that was the case, it doesn't seem right if the kid is bleeding and nude. There's no good way to spin that. |
| 2:42
| Dahmer eventually got killed in prison which took the fun out of it for Steve. He enjoyed checking up on Dahmer just like he enjoyed checking up on Richard Speck. Remember that video where had big breasts, hanging out in his cell with those two little black guys and a mound of blow. |
| 2:43
| Imagine what would have happened if Dahmer had stayed alive in prison. Something weird probably, like him eating his cell mate. |
| 2:44
| Dahmer didn't plead guilty though. Steve hates when the mass-murderers plead guilty because then there's no trial. |
| 2:45
| It's like that BTK guy out west, we don't even know what his name is. That's just not right. |
| 2:48
| Jeffrey Dahmer plead not guilty by reason of insanity with the evidence overwhelmingly against him (i.e. the pickle barrel). Steve remembers the trial because of that one woman shouting "I hate you Jeffrey!" |
| 2:49
| Dahmer argued that his necrophiliac urges were too strong to control. He had sex with live people too didn't he? How do you get a taste for the dead guys without having sex with the live guys. A couple of the guys got away though. Steve and Buzz got away, barely. Steve knew there was something wrong when Dahmer told him to lie perfectly still. Steve likes to move around a little bit. |
| 2:50
| Steve has been stymied in his efforts to bring in the sounds of the cicadas. He has a microphone with a flash disk and he was unable to sync that up with his computer and download what he's recorded so far. |
| 2:51
| Then Steve reformatted the disk on his microphone which erased everything. He was trying to get Ed to help but he doesn't have the same urgency about the cicadas because he lives in the city. They're starting to die out though. |
| 2:52
| The last time the cicadas were around Buzz was out in the suburbs a lot. Was he nailing some chick who lived out there because that's the only reason he should be out there. |
| 2:53
| The cicadas are really loud out by Steve. This is where he would play what he's recorded. |
| 2:54
| This is the same microphone Steve used to record his trip to Shorty's when he was down in Florida. |
| 2:55
| Steve shouldn't have deleted all the stuff on his microphone, it was stupid. Ed could have probably done something. He should get down here as soon as possible and figure this out. |
| 2:56
| There is a website that has recordings of cicadas in Glenview. Some guy has a mic hanging out a of a tool shed. |
| 2:57
| Maybe this website is enough, Ed could probably cancel his trip down here. |
| 2:58
| Ed Silha is on the phone, he didn't know Steve had deleted the cicada sounds he recorded. He'll still come down here and try to figure it out though. |
| 2:59
| Ed was just talking to Steve's new archivist, who's blind. He can see but he can't drive. Does he have a heightened sense of hearing because he's blind? |
| 3:00
| It sounds like someone is coming into the tool shed where this microphone is. Maybe he needs some gardening tools. It would be funny if whoever was in the shed started talking to Steve and Buzz. |
| 3:04
| Steve loves the story of Brant Miller being attacked by one cicada. Steve's had sex with 300-400 cicadas over the last week, they fly on him when he's walking/running. |
| 3:05
| You might recall a couple of weeks ago that Steve accused Jeff Schwartz of being a liar after he sent Steve a photo two cicadas butt-to-butt. Steve thought he'd gotten that photo from someone else and that it was all over the internet but Jeff said he took it himself on his driveway. |
| 3:06
| Apparently that's a pretty common sight and Jeff did take the picture. Buzz remembers another false statement Jeff made a while back but he can't remember what it is specifically. Steve didn't want to make this worse. |
| 3:07
| Steve did have a 15 minute conversation with Jeff today about who was going to be hired at The Loop to replace Zakk Tyler. Jeff's in LA, why does he even care? |
| 3:08
| Steve needs to get out of radio and into film or at least high-end TV, he's sick of radio people. He doesn't want to deal with any more Drews, Dans or Jeffs. You know that Drew and Dan were having the same conversation in their office today. |
| 3:09
| Steve called Jeff today for a completely different reason too. He called him yesterday but his phone cut out so Steve didn't call him back. Then Jeff sent him an email today that said "are we ever going to talk again?!" |
| 3:10
| Steve might need to break up with Jeff, he's a psycho girlfriend. Then Steve called him and all he wanted to talk about was The Loop. |
| 3:11
| Steve didn't really want to talk about this but now Mark Czerniec has posted a story on his page. Buzz only reads Feder so that's how he knows what's going on. Steve reads it occasionally but he doesn't like seeing himself referred to as a "heritage personality." |
| 3:12
| Why does Steve has to talk to Jeff about this? He doesn't care about this stuff, only himself. Jeff just wants to get back into radio and he's lonely in LA. |
| 3:13
| He said that yesterday he had breakfast with Cameron Diaz and Hillary Swank. He wasn't sitting with them though, they were just in the same restaurant as him. He was so surprised that they were eating a regular breakfast too. |
| 3:14
| Live read: Cheeseburger in Paradise |
| 3:15
| Steve would really like to find a karaoke version of Cheeseburger in Paradise where someone is singing the full chorus. It's really hard for him to hit the post on the refrain of the chorus. |
| 3:16
| Steve doesn't care who replaces Zakk Tyler at The Loop. He doesn't care if it's Kevin Matthews or whoever. |
| 3:17
| Steve did check out Tyler's website and he was bragging about how he beat Steve and Buzz in the ratings. Even if he did, he's not on the air any more. |
| 3:18
| Then Steve tried to find some audio of the guy to see if maybe he was good but it was all pulled off The Loop's website. Maybe that's why Steve got mad at Jeff, because he'd been pulled into the whole thing earlier. |
| 3:19
| He did find a parody of Bad Bad Leroy Brown about Alex Brown on Tyler's website. It was right as the vocals started on the song that Steve vowed to never do a parody song again. |
| 3:20
| Actually it might have been a little further in with the lyric "a man named Alex Brown" that Steve decided to never do a parody song again. It's also when he realized why he's a "heritage personality" |
| 3:26
| Steve feels bad now because he yelled and Mark took the Zakk Tyler story off his page. That was the Phil Rosenthal version though. Apparently it's big news when this guy gets fired. |
| 3:27
| Steve wasn't really mad at Mark, hopefully they're OK. Steve likes Mark but he hasn't seen him in a while. He usually only sees him at parties and he hasn't had a party in a while. |
| 3:28
| Phil had this story on Friday which means he scooped Rob Feder. Ouch! That's what they do at the Tribune, ears always too the ground reporting the news ahead of everyone else. Everyone at the Trib was schooled on that while attending Medill. |
| 3:29
| Steve turned the cicada sounds off on that website but he can't figure out how to turn it on. You'll recall that earlier someone came into the shed where a microphone has been placed to record the cicadas. |
| 3:30
| Buzz was thinking that maybe it was a giant cicada that was rustling around in the shed. Anything's possible. |
| 3:31
| All of that led Steve to a song to play. |
| 3:32
| Song: Tend My Garden, James Gang |
| 3:36
| Steve has figured out what this website is where he found the cicada sounds. It has feeds from microphones all over the world of different sounds. |
| 3:37
| On the cicada page it says that the recording is stopped so maybe someone else did that. Or Steve could have stopped everything. That's too bad because it would be fantastic if Steve could make it work. But he can't so it sucks. |
| 3:38
| You gotta think after a guy gets fired after 2 years at The Loop he wonders why Steve and Buzz are still on the air. They just are, they can horse around and it doesn't matter. |
| 3:39
| Steve's going to take a break and reboot his computer. |
| 3:43
| Steve is back on the website and on the verge of hearing something from Oslo. Steve can't tell what it is because the text isn't readable. He doesn't want to mess with it either. |
| 3:44
| There are 3 different microphones in the Chicago-area on this map. If the icon next to the city is orange that means the mics are working. All of the ones in Chicago have stopped. |
| 3:45
| Steve can play some Amsterdam for Buzz. Those are really Amsterdamians we're hearing. Hopefully they don't say Amsterdammmit. Let's see what's going on in Hong Kong. |
| 3:46
| Steve wants a microphone on this system! He's just glad he's not an idiot, someone did actually stop the cicada tape and now he's figured out the entire system. |
| 3:47
| Steve will be calling these people tonight and demanding that they keep their mics on at all times. Maybe they don't have enough bandwidth to have all of them on at once. |
| 3:48
| This is kind of cool. For Steve this is better than a webcam since he's on the radio. Steve might have to donate some money to these people. |
| 3:49
| Does Buzz want to go back to Hong Kong? It wasn't really exciting enough for him, too quiet. That's why Steve and Buzz left Hong Kong's Sheung Wan district, it was too quiet. |
| 3:50
| Steve wants a mic on this system and he'll hang a high-quality one too, not some cheap $3 model. Steve gets the feeling that all of these mics were hung by nerd scientist guys. |
| 3:51
| What are the odds that all of the local microphones stop just as Steve finds this website? |
| 3:52
| Steve accidentally had all the active feeds on at once. It would be cool if he could have all of the feeds throughout the world at once. |
| 4:00
| The White Sox are on Comcast on Friday. They're dead to Steve thought. |
| 4:01
| On the phone is Dan Jiggetts from Comcast Sportsnet. The good news for Steve is that the cicada mic is back on. |
| 4:02
| Dan hasn't heard any cicadas yet but he might not live by old trees. |
| 4:03
| Steve doesn't care about the White Sox. They've already got his damn money so they'll have to do something to get him back. |
| 4:04
| Dan had El Norte on Chicago Tribune Live last week and he's raised the white flag. Steve has too. |
| 4:05
| Steve will give the Sox some time to get it together but he's not going to watch them get it together. |
| 4:06
| After Philly the Sox play Pittsburgh, Florida, the Cubs, Tampa and KC to finish out the month. Then they play Baltimore before the Twins series. Dan's willing to give the Sox until the All-Star break to get it together. They'll probably be 20 games out by then. |
| 4:07
| Steve wants the Sox to do well he's not one of those people who wants them fo fail. The Cubs are rolling right now, they won last night again. |
| 4:08
| Steve wouldn't be proud of the Cubs for winning their division but it wouldn't be the worst thing. He's watched a few Cubs games recently because he likes Lou and he likes Len and Bob. |
| 4:09
| Steve likes Hawk and DJ but they need to stop talking about themselves so much. Steve talks about himself but he doesn't have a baseball game that he's supposed to be describing. Someone needs to feed them information about the game that's going on. |
| 4:10
| Steve plays the tape of Hawk and DJ talking about elbow pads. It's a perfect example of what Steve's talking about. |
| 4:11
| The Sox aren't playing well so maybe there's nothing else for them to talk about. Steve loves Ozzie but at some point last night he should have put Jim Thome in. |
| 4:12
| It doesn't seem like baseball managers really know anything, they just sit there in the dugout compulsively chewing and spitting out sunflower seeds. If Steve did that at work he'd be locked up. |
| 4:13
| The cicadas are still there which is good. Steve fired off an email to the guy and the mic was turned back on. That can't be a coincidence. |
| 4:14
| Steve told the guy he was playing the cicadas on the radio and that's probably why the mic was turned back on. |
| 4:20
| Pete needs to knock it off with the White Sox stuff. They're dead to Steve. |
| 4:21
| Pete thinks Steve should support his team. They're in a tough division! Pete doesn't want the Sox to be dead because if they're dead he can't torture them. |
| 4:22
| Pete would like the Sox to be competitive. The Cubs are tied for second place but they have almost the same record as the Sox. |
| 4:23
| Steve will have to tell Ed Farmer that he doesn't want to talk about the White Sox. Ed will probably be able to come up with something else to talk about. Or maybe he won't even call just because of how bad the Sox are playing. |
| 4:24
| The highlight of last night's Sox game was a Tadahito Iguchi single. Then Hawk and DJ named him player of the game. You can't name him player of the game if the team loses. |
| 4:25
| Live read: Fitness Factory Outlet |
| 4:26
| Last night on the news Steve saw a fire in Park Forest or Oak Forest or wherever it was that Garry Meier lived when they first hooked up. And by hooked up Steve doesn't mean having sex. That was much later. |
| 4:27
| The building that was on fire looked like the same place where Garry had a condo. It was called Canterbury and it had that fake-Tudor look. Garry had the big pine chairs with the knobby, round caps on the arm-rest. Once Steve was tapping his ring on the furniture and he dented it. Garry totally freaked out. |
| 4:28
| It's not Steve's fault that Garry had pine furniture that dented easily. How about getting something made of hardwood? |
| 4:29
| Caller Mark remembers that Garry used to live in Scarborough Faire. That place sticks out like a sore-thumb in Oak Forest. It looks like Medieval Times. |
| 4:30
| A fire hit the three-story Shibui (shattered, shattered) condominium building on Peggy Lane. |
| 4:37
| A couple of things. First off, when Steve says the Sox are dead to him it's not the same as when Bernie Mac said that he's done with the Sox. Steve's a season ticket holder and the Sox have several thousand of his dollars. |
| 4:38
| A few people have emailed Steve asking him how he can say the Sox are dead to him. It's not like they've called to apologize for their poor play so he has every right to complain and say they're dead to him. Bernie Mac is just a guy who gets free tickets and then leaves the World Series game early when it starts to rain. |
| 4:39
| Steve had the cicadas on the cue speaker during the break and it sounded just like his backyard. He had Ed here too and they're working on getting the microphone working. |
| 4:40
| It sounds like someone just came into the shed again. It'll be really weird if he starts talking. |
| 4:41
| We've got headlines to do but first Steve would like to read about a local musician breaking bad on someone. At a concert at Schubas, Fall Out Boy's Pete Wentz got into a fight with a heckler in the crowd. |
| 4:42
| According to a Schubas patron someone in the crowd started calling Pete Wentz a sell-out, asking him where his girlfriend Ashlee Simpson was and making fun of his hoody. Steve didn't know Pat Dahl was in town. |
| 4:43
| Wentz laughed off the incident and jarred with the heckler. But as the band finished their last song and walked off the stage the incident started up again. This is all according to MTV news. It's funny when MTV pretends like they do news. |
| 4:44
| One concertgoer saw Fall Out Boy's security pounding on this guy and left him bleeding from his ear and nose. |
| 4:45
| Wentz told MTV news that the story that quickly circulated on the internet was false. He said that the guy was heckling him as were several other people. Why would you go to their show to heckle them? |
| 4:46
| Wentz said that as he walked out the side door of Schubas he had to pass by the heckler. Why was the guy still there? Security should have thrown him out right away. |
| 4:47
| Is the heckler did grab Wentz Steve can't blame him for punching the guy. Where Steve is from he'd get to punch you as soon as you started heckling him. |
| 4:48
| Steve might have had to make fun of the guy for wearing a hoody indoors though. Is that necessary? You can't call him a sell-out for having sex with Ashlee Simpson though. Having sex with a sell-out doesn't make you a sell-out. |
| 4:54
| It's time for the (almost) Five O'Clock Taco Bell. Steve needs to turn off the cicadas first. |
| 4:55
| Steve has the extreme cheese and beef quesadilla in front of him and he won't be able to wait until 5:00 to eat it. |
| 4:56
| These quesadillas sort of remind Steve of Rick's Burritos. He was trying to figure out last night what about the quesadilla seemed, as Stevie Nicks once said, "hauntingly familiar." |
| 4:57
| Buzz is wondering if we'll ever institute the serving of tequila during this segment. Taco Bell might not like it since they don't serve tequila in their restaurant. |
| 4:58
| Song: This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race, Fall Out Boy |
| 5:01
| Earlier today on Stan and Terry's show Steve said he didn't think he liked Fall Out Boy but he liked that song. Maybe he should give them a second chance. They're local boys, they're feisty, they like to wear hoodies indoors. |
| 5:02
| Is Buzz ready for headlines because Steve is ready for him. Does he want to do headlines with or without cicadas? |
| 5:03
| Headlines with Buzz |
| 5:04
| White House spokesman Tony Snow is denying that the President's watch was stolen even though video of him being mobbed by Albanians says otherwise. They love Bush over there! He could run for President of Albania and win. |
| 5:05
| Snow claims Bush took off the watch and put it in his pocket. Buzz saw the video, one second he's wearing a watch and the next second he's not. |
| 5:06
| Everywhere you go in Europe they tell you to watch out for the gypsies. Where are they from? Albania. |
| 5:07
| It seems unfair that there's an Iraq and an Iran right next to each other, it makes it hard for us to remember. Stevie Wonder did alright with it though, "Iraq, Iran, Eurasia..." |
| 5:08
| Paris Hilton's parents are busy planning a Get Out of Jail party for their daughter. It's good to see where their priorities are. No wonder why she's so screwed up. |
| 5:09
| Paris' dad Ricky has already contacted several clubs in Vegas about hosting the party. How do they know she's going to make it? What if she gets shanked? |
| 5:10
| Has Buzz heard the quote Barbara Walters read from Paris? It's clear that Paris only read the first two pages of The Secret and totally bought into it. |
| 5:11
| Authorities are no closing in on the identity of the man who phoned in false weather reports for the National Weather Service. Is it illegal to do that? |
| 5:12
| Pete plays the Barbara Walters/View tape. IT'S VERY LOUD! |
| 5:13
| Caller Joe read a blurb about the fake weather thing last and then heard more about it on the radio this morning. Authorities are comparing it to a bomb threat. It doesn't seem like they'd be able to convict someone for that. |
| 5:14
| Joe thinks it's a conspiracy by the National Weather Service. They found some poor schmuck and are pinning their bad predictions on him. The weather hasn't been right at all lately. |
| 5:15
| Steve thought the NWS was using professionally trained weather spotters. If he would have known any knucklehead with a computer could make a report he would have stopped paying attention long ago. |
| 5:16
| Dan Rather has accused Katie Couric of "dumbing down and tarting up the news". Maybe he should have done that. |
| 5:20
| On The Shield they have an Albanian mob, they're brutal. First they kill your family and then let you suffer. Then they kill you. |
| 5:21
| Steve went back and watched The Sopranos finale again and came to the realization that it was genius. He had a few thoughts on it. The ending could mean that Tony will always be paranoid and suspecting that anyone who walks through the door could be the person who kills him. |
| 5:22
| David Chase has often said that The Sopranos was an homage to The Godfather. When Tony and Bobby were talking about what it's like to be whacked Tony said that everything just goes black. So maybe he was whacked. |
| 5:23
| It's up to the viewer to decide but either way it was a great ending. Then there are people calling HBO to complain and someone of them even cancelled their subscription. Those people shouldn't have had HBO in the first place. |
| 5:24
| One thing that's being overlooked is the whack on Phil Leotardo. How great was that? He gets shot in the head and then his head is crushed by his own SUV. |
| 5:25
| Caller Shawn had a correction to make. On The Shield it's the Armenian mob. Steve thought Albanian sounded wrong but he didn't have a better answer for Buzz. |
| 5:26
| The Albanian's are just gypsies. Although Steve wouldn't mind being able to take a watch of someone's hand like that. |
| 5:27
| Today on Steve's blog he put 10 links to various websites. A blog it supposed to have a lot of links but Steve's usually doesn't. The first link was to the only interview David Chase did after the finale. |
| 5:28
| The David Chase interview really dispels a lot of the urban legends that are already circulating about the finale. And maybe that one guy in the burger shop did go into the bathroom, grab a gun and whack Tony. |
| 5:29
| The first time Steve watched the episode he didn't really notice when the episode ended because he wasn't expecting it. It cuts out as soon as Meadow walks in and he looks up. |
| 5:30
| Steve was going to wait for Ed Farmer to call in before he did the sports. He might have killed himself after that game last night. Does Buzz want sports with or without cicadas? |
| 5:31
| The White Sox are in Philly again tonight. Jose Contreras starts for the Sox. Juan Uribe is out of legal trouble in the Dominican Republic but said he did not pay off his accuser. He probably had someone else do it. |
| 5:32
| Some White Sox players got into an argument with Patti LaBelle and her entourage at the Capitol Grill in Philadelphia on Sunday night. It's good to see they're focused on the important stuff. |
| 5:33
| The Seattle Mariners visit Wrigley Field for the first time ever tonight. Rich Hill starts against Jarrod Washburn. |
| 5:34
| Cubs outfielder Alfonso Soriano took over the third spot in balloting for the All-Star game, pushing Barry Bonds into fourth place. |
| 5:35
| The Bears signed Obafemi Ayanbadejo, other brother of Brendan Ayanbadejo. |
| 5:36
| Kobe Bryant had the top-selling NBA jersey this season, a spot formerly held by Dwayne Wade. Maybe Wade needs to commit some sort of felonious act in a hotel room. |
| 5:37
| John Daly's wife alleges that the golfer assaulted her last week and then scratched up his own face to cover up the attack. Why would he do that? |
| 5:38
| Spurs guard Tony Parker and actresses Eva Longoria have spent $3,750 on a cake for their upcoming wedding. Dan Falato's going to be thrilled by this news, he loves the high-end cakes. |
| 5:39
| The cake will be prepared in the U.S. and shipped to France, accompanied by a guard. It's good they're getting the cake here since they're not known for pastries in France. |
| 5:43
| Is there more to that Sopranos drop that Pete just played? Did Tony say something about everything going black? |
| 5:44
| Sometimes Pete cuts off a tape before it's over. He's a premature eradicator. Pete remembers the guy who called in yesterday and said that's what Tony said in the scene with Bobby and Tony on the boat but Pete didn't see that in the tape. |
| 5:45
| Is this Pete's way of proving the caller wrong? Steve thought he put this whole thing to bed 20 minutes ago and then here's Pete bringing it up again. |
| 5:46
| Caller Mike remembers a different scene where Tony said things fade to black from the first episode of this season. They were talking about a stuffed deer on the wall in Bobby's cabin. Steve remembers that too because he thought it might be foreshadowing. |
| 5:47
| That's the genius of David Chase though, he's got four knuckleheads talking about it now. Pete's arguing even though he doesn't have the tape ready to go. |
| 5:48
| Steve put this whole thing to bed and then Pete woke it up so it could go to the bathroom. Can't he ever just dispatch things? Is this because Steve is taking his tapes away? Screw you Pete! |
| 5:49
| Pete kind of wanted Steve to do that on Saturday night. The touching on Saturday was unwanted but it felt good. The ripple effect of rejection does not end. |
| 5:50
| Steve doesn't want to start a Sopranos discussion either, he's not Eric and Kathy. Does he look like Eric or Kathy? |
| 5:50
| If Pete says no one said anything about a fade to black then no one said it. During what time frame did Pete listen to it though? |
| 5:51
| Pete plays the tape but stops it right before it's going to seemingly prove that Steve was right. Pete says there's profanity coming up. Buzz will have to listen during the break. |
| 5:53
| Live read: Gierczyk Properties |
| 5:57
| Buzz looked at the tape during the break and Pete is right. Buzz is so sure he heard someone say "fade to black" or whatever. Pete has the tape though so he gets the victory. |
| 5:58
| Steve doesn't want to talk about the end of The Sopranos any more. He doesn't want to take any calls or play any more tapes. All he'll say is that it's sweet that every member of the Sopranos family, except Meadow, can eat an onion ring in one bite. |
| 5:59
| So Pete is victorious but it's a hollow victory. When Buzz was in there watching the tape Pete didn't even look at him, he just pointed to the screen. |
| 6:00
| Live read: Townstone Financial |
| 6:02
| David has really decreased the number of times his name is mentioned in these live reads. It's not every other word any more. |
| 6:04
| Caller Kathy wanted to let Steve and Buzz know that there's some new video of George Bush taking his watch off in Albania. That doesn't mean anything! It could be digitally doctored, they've had plenty of time to send it off to ILM. |
| 6:05
| Kathy saw the video on NBC tonight. It doesn't actually show Bush taking the watch off though, it just shows him putting his hand in his pocket and then the watch is gone. |
| 6:06
| Someone needs to shut down this internet, there's two versions of every single story. It's not going to stop Steve from playing Gypsy Eyes though. |
| 6:07
| Song: Gypsy Eyes, The Jimi Hendrix Experience |
| 6:11
| Steve is going in to Pete's studio to get another box but it's not as punishment. Steve's just aggressive, he's not passive. |
| 6:12
| Just to close out this thing with The Sopranos, all the confusion might be coming from a Toronto Sun article. Fans went back to the first episode and found the scene with Bobby and Tony talking about dying and Bobby says everything goes black. |
| 6:13
| Pete's going to consult the tape from the first episode. In the meantime Steve's going to grab another box. |
| 6:14
| Pete has never tried to stop Steve from grabbing a box because he knows it's the right thing to do. It'll all be over by the end of this week. |
| 6:15
| The box is very heavy, probably over a thousand pounds, but somehow Steve can lift it. Remember when Tom Thayer said the box only weighed 30 pounds. What a jerk! It's at least 70 pounds. |
| 6:16
| Is Pete going to come into the studio today or will he be enjoying it from the other room? Buzz likes to see Pete suffer. Everyone likes that actually, just look how enjoyable it is to Stephanie. |
| 6:17
| Pete checked the second to last Sopranos episode and there's no mention of anything fading to black. |
| 6:18
| On 7/25/03, Bill Maher and Def Poetry. On 7/26/03 Undefeated, boxing and Real Sports. That's all on a Post-It note that says "before we party it up, do something about this. Nice Post-It note. |
| 6:19
| The next tape features Monk episodes from late July through September of '03. Monk is dead to Buzz. |
| 6:20
| On 12/14/03 CBS from 6:00 AM to 12:00 PM. Pete thinks there's a lot of great stuff on there. On 8/01/04 American Candidate and Dead Like Me. Actually it's an entire month of episodes of those shows from August '04. |
| 6:21
| On reason Pete wants to save a lot of this stuff, other than that he's crazy, is because he wants to keep a lot of this stuff. The Sopranos DVDs are about $100. |
| 6:22
| Steve thinks he can swing the $100 for a season set. Pete wants to keep it for himself. Steve doesn't think he should be buying any of this stuff, he should just be using his corporate card. |
| 6:23
| Pete usually buys DVDs and CDs that he wants to keep in case he ever leaves here. Why doesn't he just buy the stuff for the show and then make a copy? Buzz points out that he could just steal the stuff if he ever leaves. Is that necessary? |
| 6:24
| We can probably get The Sopranos DVDs for free from HBO. Pete just doesn't want to bother anyone with that stuff. He doesn't want to establish himself as a pest. It doesn't matter as long as he's a productive pest. Plus without this show the station has nothing. |
| 6:25
| On 10/15/04 King of Queens, Raymond, Becker and Karen Sisco. No one likes Carla Cugino more than Steve, except maybe Buzz, and he still thinks this box should go. |
| 6:26
| And now here comes Stephanie to wheel the cart of tapes out of the studio. Buzz prefers to call her Smiley. |
| 6:27
| We've got the news coming up and Steve hates to do this but he has a crazy Sopranos email to read. Steve even asked Jim if he remembers hearing anything about "fade to black" and he also said he read it in the paper. Apparently we were all taken in by it. |
| 6:28
| The emailer says that you have to watch the ending really closely. You see Tony walking into the restaurant and sees himself sitting down. You know it's him because he's wearing different clothing. |
| 6:29
| Then Tony sits down and you see Janice walking in. Earlier in the show's run they tell you that Janice walked into a restaurant just as her father was being whacked. |
| 6:30
| After that the sports store owner who was in debt to Tony walked in. He's the guy who whacks Tony. Steve can't remember who played that guy. Was it Bulldog from Frasier? |
| 6:31
| The end is meant to signify the endless loop of the Soprano family. AJ will become Tony, Meadow will become Janice and Carmela will become Livia. |
| 6:32
| Steve's going to take a break and then Buzz can do a full-blown newscast. Is the news full-blown? |
| 6:36
| Live read: Balance for LIfe |
| 6:37
| News with Buzz |
| 6:38
| The international Space Station is sporting a brand new pair of wings. Astronauts installed new solar panels during a space walk. A space walk would be cool, it's like scuba diving in the air. |
| 6:39
| Homeland security head Michael Chertoff is warning New York City to prepare for a hurricane that could cause serious flooding in lower Manhattan. |
| 6:40
| What kind of crazy warning is that? |
| 6:41
| Paris Hilton's dad is shopping the idea of a Get Out of Jail party to Vegas hotels for his daughter. Originally he was asking the hotel to pay a $50,000 fee to host the party. Aren't these people rich? |
| 6:42
| Apparently word hasn't filtered out to Ricky that Paris has given up all the partying and found God. |
| 6:43
| Steve got a fake photo today that shows a nude Hillary and a nude Obama in bed together. He doesn't want to send it to Buzz because he doesn't want to be sending this kid of stuff. What if they trace it? |
| 6:44
| Buzz looks at the photo, it's not what he wanted to see. Sometimes he's wondered what's on top of those cankles. |
| 6:45
| By the way, it was Robert Patrick who played the sporting goods store owner not Bulldog from Frasier. People most listen to this show sometimes and think Steve and Buzz are monkeys. |
| 6:53
| It did say "fade to black" on The Sopranos after all. It sounded a lot like Jeff Joniak saying it but Steve and Buzz were right. Steve knew he heard that! |
| 6:54
| Steve's sorry he had to show Buzz the Barack/Hillary poster. It'll be tough for him to get that image out of his head. |
| 6:55
| Matt and Brendan are coming up next. Any cicada eating tonight? |
| 6:56
| Matt is proud to tell Steve that he's done with school and he'll actually graduate on Sunday. He'll actually graduate right? Because it won't be pretty if he doesn't. |
| 6:57
| Matt picked up his robe today along with a card that you spell your name phonetically on. Charles Man-SON. Does Buzz want to come up? Steve can probably get him tickets. |
| 6:58
| Matt thinks they might be serving beer since it's at the Allstate. Steve care about that but he wouldn't mind some nachos. |
