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		Monday, August 6, 2007



2:02	If Stan grew up with Kareem Abdul-Jabar he'd probably want to call him Lew. Steve thinks he'd call him Kareem.
2:03	Stan has a question for Steve. He recently saw himself on TV and noticed how white his beard looked. He's wondering if Steve ever thought about coloring his hair.
2:04	Stan's son was involved in a city golf tournament which was being covered by WGN. Stan went along as a parent/chaperone. Is there a short version of this story?
2:05	Terry told Stan that the last time he was growing a beard he was unnerved by how white it was coming in. Stan and Terry talk about their beards? Who does that?
2:06	Stan shouldn't talk about coloring his beard he should just do it. Most of those hair-coloring kits have a gradual plan so no one even notices.
2:07	Steve doesn't even recall caring about going grey. Now the white hair is part of his look. Steve prefers to think of his hair as silver.
2:08	Who's Stan trying to look young for? He's an older guy. Did someone think Jeffrey was Stan's grandson? Depending on where Stan grew up Jeffrey could be his great-grandson.
2:09	Stan should just give the beard-coloring a try. He talked to Walt Frazier about it when he was in studio a while back. Has Stan talked to everyone about this? Walt Frazier?!
2:10	Stan was wondering if anyone ever came to Steve asking him if he wanted to color his hair. Some people have asked him if he colors his hair to get the silver color. Steve doesn't even comb his hair.
2:11	Caller Tom is in the air with Stan & Terry and Steve Dahl on 105.9 WCKG, The Package. He uses a hair coloring kit that colors in immediately and lasts for about a month. The black coloring is really black though.
2:12	When you first put the black coloring in it looks like you have shoe polish in your hair. That might look OK if he was going to a costume party.
2:13	Steve can't take much more of Tom's call. How can Stan and Terry let him stay on this long? Steve's not even black and he was offended by that guy.
2:14	Stan and Terry are like the Jackie Robinson and Larry Doby of radio. Terry would prefer to be Larry Doby because Jackie could be a bit of a hothead, as Hawk likes to say.
2:15	If Stan wants to color his hair he should just do it. Stan has the video from WGN if Steve wants to see it.
2:16	Terry saw the video and it is pretty shocking to see Stan's white beard.
2:25	Song: Floating Bridge, Big Daddy "O"
2:29	That's basically a Delta Blues song but Big Daddy "O" really puts a feel-good spin on it.
2:30	Big Daddy "O" likes to turn a negative into a positive and that's what we need right now. The bridge thing doesn't seem that bad but it looks really bad. Plus it's everyone's worst fear.
2:31	Steve feels that a bridge collapse that's been overlooked in all of this is the Sunshine State bridge in Tampa Bay. Steve hasn't been down there in a while but the last time he was there you could drive over the new bridge and see where the old bridge had collapsed.
2:32	Steve recalls that being a huge disaster but because they don't have video of it no one revisited it. Steve recalls that being a spectacular collapse.
2:33	Steve has set up an HD camera on the Congress bridge since it has a 2 rating out of 100. As we learned last week even the ironworkers working on it don't want to cross it.
2:34	Buzz is scheduled to go on that bridge this week so if it does go down Steve will have great footage for his heirs.
2:35	Steve is still troubled that this was a story for about 2 minutes and that's it. Lollapalooza is great and all but the bridge is rated a 2 out of 100.
2:36	Steve has been scouring the list of bridges and planning alternate routes for himself. It would be great if the bridge ratings were on his GPS so he would know if he was coming up on a 5 or something.
2:37	Buzz should bring a microphone so he can do reports as he's trapped in his car. There's water there too so that's all of your fears at once. Although it seems like falling into the water allowed a lot of people to escape their cars.
2:38	On the Today's Show on Saturday they interview the big, bald-headed guy who looked like he worked out. That's an image for all time, he's probably glad he spent all that time at the gym.
2:39	The guy was really interesting and added a certain level of humor to his experience but it didn't seem to be what the Today's Show people were looking for so they quickly ushered him off.
2:40	You could tell the bald guy was irritated about being ushered off too. It takes forever to set up one of those interviews and it was in his house.
2:41	The people the Today's Show has on the weekend are total chaches. The girl was cute but the guy was a total chach.
2:44	John McCain (washed-up presidential candidate) pointed out that the $20 billion in a transportation bill went mostly to pork-barrel projects. Had it gone to repairing bridges this might have not happened.
2:45	The bridge collapse was a tragedy but not as big as it was supposed to be. Steve's hoping for more from the Utah mine collapse.
2:46	The main thing they should be talking about is how safe school buses are. They bus fell 40 feet and didn't flip over but does the school bus industry get a shout out? No!
2:47	Every seat on a school bus is like a mini-roll cage. There are do-gooders who want to put seatbelts on school buses but that would ruin the whole roll cage thing.
2:48	Steve loved smelling the fumes in the back of his school bus. You would think someone would have done something about that but no one did. Twice a day, on the way to and from school, Steve would go do the back of the bus to smell the fumes. He'd also wait until the last minute to get on his bus so he could walk among the other buses and smell their fumes. Steve hated school so much but the fumes smelled so good and look at him, he's completely normal.
2:50	Live read: Cheeseburger in Paradise
2:51	This seems like copy for a Friday that someone didn't bother to change. Keep up the good work down there in sales! It's the hardest working group in showbiz!
2:52	Buzz thinks there's a lot of new people in the sales department. Steve doesn't really know any of them and they don't know him and they don't care. Steve knows a few of them but what is there to know really?
2:53	Buzz has known former sales guy Mitch Pink for 15 years and he didn't even say goodbye when he left. That's why Steve doesn't want to get to know anyone down there, he doesn't want his heart broken.
2:54	Buzz came in one Monday morning with a sales lead for Mitch. It was guaranteed money but he was gone. Steve recommends giving it to Lindsay, she's the best one back there. That's the only one he really knows.
2:55	Mitch had Steve land him the Gierczyk account then took the commission check and split. Steve went all the way up to New Buffalo to close it and Mitch didn't even show up.
2:56	Mitch is now at Comcast. Steve knows people over there, he could probably have him beat up. Dan Jiggetts would really throw a scare into him.
2:57	Caller Fred has some info about school bus exhaust. There are two types of smells, one that's like truck exhaust and one that's like car exhaust mixed with a noxious vinegar smell. Steve's school bus smelled like the first one which is the better one.
2:58	Suddenly Buzz feels very left out here. Fred is a school bus driver, is that so he can stay close to the fumes? He used to be a locomotive engineer, those are good fume smells too.
2:59	Steve doesn't hang around railroad tracks because he has an urge to throw himself in front of one. He thinks "how bad can it be?" It's like when you're on a balcony and you think you could survive the jump.
3:00	Fred is no longer a conductor but it was the best job he ever had. He used to work at the yard down near Midway putting trains together. It takes a long time to put the trains together and people who live in the area don't really like you.
3:01	Trains don't have cabooses any more because the railroad companies don't want to pay for that many people to work the crew. There are only 2 guys on most trains and they're trying to get that down to 1. That doesn't seem like enough people for a train.
3:06	Up until now we haven't announced where the next Steve Dahl & the Dahlfins/Nadas/Buzz Kilman gig will be.
3:07	No announcement was made before Lollapalooza as to not confuse people who might show up in Grant Park expecting to see Steve.
3:08	Steve watched most of Pearl Jam's performance online last night. Eddie Vedder was really good with the crowd.
3:09	There are a couple people on hold but Steve's not going to take the calls. Jim says that lead is what gives bus exhaust it's smell. Lead is never good. Mark says there's a hotel in Baraboo, Wisconsin that's all cabooses. No thanks.
3:10	Steve would be interested in taking an Amtrak luxury class train out west but he doesn't know when he'd have the time. Buzz's gourmand friend only travels by luxury rail.
3:11	The next Steve Dahl & the Dahlfins show will be on August 18th at Austin's Saloon in Libertyville. We're giving away tickets again, call in every time you hear one of Steve's songs, one of Buzz's songs or a Nadas song.
3:12	Steve was looking online to see how much people are charging for concerts and he's still good with $35. When people Steve's never heard of are charging in the low $20s he's good with $35.
3:13	Steve might even bump it up to $37.50 and that's without service charges. So probably $45 total. That's almost $100 in free tickets if you win.
3:14	So be the 10-14th callers to win tickets to the show when you hear one of Steve's songs or Buzz's songs or a Nadas song.
3:15	Song: Margarita, Steve Dahl & the Dahlfins
3:19	Steve's looking at Austin's online and the show is in the Fuel Room, which looks quite nice.
3:20	Everyone seems to have a good time at the shows including Steve and he's the benchmark. Steve has a good time and he remembers everything that happened the next day and doesn't have to apologize to anyone.
3:21	Steve might play 2 songs per day or he might play 4, it all depends. He doesn't play his own songs enough so this is a good way to do that.
3:22	Steve's recording a new album, as they say. He's got new songs and parts of songs he'd like to re-record.
3:23	The Nadas want to do an album with Steve but they're busy and he's busy so they're trying to figure it out. He has spent time on the weekends working on his songs and looking cool.
3:24	When you're doing gigs you get to going into Guitar Center and look cool although the last time Steve was there he wasn't treated very well. Guys who work at Guitar Center don't like people coming in who know what they want because then they don't get to show off.
3:25	Guys at Guitar Center also ask you a lot of unnecessary questions. They're like the guys at RadioShack only with acne and bad dye jobs.
3:30	Buzz was shocked over the weekend when he learned that his new Mexican restaurant charges $7 for a shot of regular Jose Cuervo tequila.
3:31	Buzz always orders a double and takes a half shot at a time. That's 4 healthy, albeit powerful, gulps. By the end of the dinner you've got a good tequila buzz going. If you can get that right it's a good buzz to have.
3:32	Buzz got the check and looked at it but couldn't figure out the math so he just paid the bill. He couldn't stop thinking about it so he got home and made someone else call to see how much a shot of tequila was. Was that someone else Aimee?
3:33	Aimee had an entire scenario when she called the restaurant. She started out asking how much a pitcher of margaritas was and then moved on to shots.
3:34	So that's $28 for two double shots. You could buy an entire bottle for less than that and sit out front drinking it. Buzz and Aimee both do double shots and then Buzz has one more after dinner. So that's $42 he's paying.
3:35	That price must be what they charge for the really fancy tequilas but don't drop it down for Jose Cuervo. Buzz doesn't want to give up his Mexican restaurant just because of this. Maybe he should talk to the waiter about it.
3:36	This just reminds Steve of Raul's and how great that place was. That place was the standard and Buzz is never going to get there again unless he's in Mexico.
3:37	Buzz once saw Raul chase his little lady around the kitchen during an argument. He also saw him refuse service to a table of yuppies who were condescendingly speaking to him in Spanish.
3:38	Steve doesn't even remember where Raul's was other than on Webster, near the EL. RIght now it's a place called McGee's which doesn't sound Mexican.
3:39	Steve was there the night Raul chased his wife around the kitchen. She did all the work in the kitchen while he just worked the front of the house.
3:40	Maybe $7 for a shot of tequila is pretty standard right now. Steve hasn't had a drink in 12 years so he's not sure.
3:44	Steve did some recon during the break to figure out the price of a shot. He could probably ask Pete and Jim but they might both have IVs in rehydrating from the weekend. Brendan seems to know though.
3:45	Pete doesn't really drink shots unless someone else is buying it for him. And only then if it's something like Sex on the Beach.
3:46	Brendan usually pays between $5 at a regular bar to $7-8 at a trendy place for a shot. Then they have those drop shots like Jaeger Bombs. So Buzz is probably paying a standard price.
3:47	When Steve was still drinking shots were usually $3.50 but that was 12 years ago. So Buzz isn't being ripped off. He might have to bring the flask with him to the Mexican restaurant.
3:48	Buzz is paying $42 for tequila shots and probably $28 for the food so the flask is probably OK. It'll be exciting for him to go into the bathroom, find a stall and start drinking from his flask.
3:49	Buzz's new favorite Mexican restaurant is Fiesta Mexicana. They've got a great molè sauce and a friendly staff.
3:50	Brendan can leave now. He looks like he's ready to stay in for the whole show, nodding along. Who needs Steve? Buzz was actually taken in by the nodding head and started talking to him.
3:51	Steve's getting a lot of calls about this but he doesn't feel like taking them. Brian says that some places have tequila lists like wine lists. We knew that. Maybe we shouldn't be so liberal with the prize wheel giveaways because we get a lot of "duh" calls. Maybe Steve should talks to Brian because he wants to hear his response.
3:52	Steve's getting wise to this scam. People call in anytime something remotely ties in because they know they can get a gift certificate.
3:53	Caller Tim wants to know if anyone else still drinks vodka. He was told it was a girl's drink by Mary. Buzz's dad used to drink a fifth of vodka a day.
3:54	Vodka is sort of a girl's drink unless you're an alcoholic. Vodka is only for breakfast unless you have a drinking problem. People seem to think you can't smell vodka and it's clear so it looks like water.
3:55	Caller Chip thinks Buzz should order tequila straight up, he'll get more tequila. Isn't a shot straight up?
3:56	Chip is a bartender. If you order it in a shot glass you get an ounce or an ounce and a half. If you order it straight up in a rocks glass you might get some extra tequila.
3:57	Then Buzz could bring two shot glass and measure to make sure he's getting the right amount.
3:58	Caller Matt and his wife stopped at Senior Tequila's last week. Two big margarita's cost $34.50. Did they have a lot in them, were they hammered?
3:59	Tequila prices are skyrocketing because of a shortage. There's some sort of drought in Mexico and all the plants are dying.
4:00	That grappa really gets you hammered at an Italian restaurant. That's what Steve was drinking when he partied with Don Ho.
4:05	The tequila shortage is being caused by farmers who want to plant corn instead of agave cactus. That's because you can make more from corn than agave because of the whole biodiesel craze.
4:06	On the phone is Kerry Sayers from Comcast Sportsnet. Steve and Buzz are already making her laugh, it's a good day when she talks to them.
4:07	Cubs Nation has their hands over the panic button now that Soriano could be out for up to a month.
4:08	It did seem like the wheels came off a little bit last night for the Cubs after Soriano came out. He was the big free-agent signing and he really helped the Cubs get to where they were in June and July.
4:09	Steve felt bad for Soriano because he was really hustling out there which is how he got hurt. On a night like last night Kerry thought it would be cramps at first.
4:10	Kerry Wood did a good job last night, it was good to see him back. A month ago he was looking at another surgery and then one day he went to play catch and felt better.
4:11	It's also amazing that he's not mentally out of it after so many trips to the DL and so many surgeries. If he stays healthy he could really help out the bullpen.
4:12	Then Tom Glavine got his 300th win which was exciting. ESPN should try to show his wife a little more. They showed her more than they showed Brady Quinn's sister whenever Notre Dame played Ohio State.
4:13	The last time Steve and Kerry spoke he was potentially jumping off the bandwagon for good. Steve wants to be on the bandwagon in the sense that he has a lot of tickets left this season.
4:14	The Sox are 10 games out which is a lot to make up. They've made up a lot of games in the last 2 weeks though so anything is possible.
4:15	The Bears had their Family Night at Soldier Field last night. Kerry likes the way the Bears are shaping up this year. At least on paper they look better than last year's team.
4:16	Kerry is really warming up to Steve and Buzz. They got off to a bad start when Steve thought she was shopping.
4:22	Live read: Balance for Life
4:23	Mary's sister is on Balance for Life and she called her today complaining that her snacks were a muffin and cheesecake. She couldn't believe this was a diet but that's what it is.
4:24	You stay on Balance for Life and pretty soon you're looking like Buzz Kilman. Maybe without the beard for the ladies.
4:25	Headlines with Buzz
4:26	Mia Farrow has offered to exchange herself in exchange for a respected rebel in Darfur. No one will ever go for that though so he can say it and it looks good.
4:27	The U.S. government can no longer account for more than half of the small arms given to Iraqis.
4:28	Three Delaware State University students were found killed, execution style, behind a high school in New Jersey.
4:29	The woman prosecutors claim was in a video with R. Kelly is prepared to testify that she did not have sex with the singer.
4:30	Kelly refers to the girl as his goddaughter in album liner notes. She's also the daughter a someone who played bass in Kelly's band.
4:31	The girl's aunt told the Sun-Times that the girl in the video was her niece. Steve can't remember if there was sex in the video. At the beginning there was a really hot chick but then he taped over that.
4:32	Hundreds of people were stung over the weekend as jellyfish washed up on a beach in New Smyrna, Florida. Steve and Buzz go to the beach in Old Smyrna so they never have that problem.
4:33	A new Forbes magazine ranking reveals that Matt Damon delivers the most bang for a studio's buck based on box office returns and his salary. Sounds like Matt Damon should start asking for more money.
4:34	Buzz saw The Bourne Ultimatum over the weekend and it was an action-packed thrill-ride.
4:35	He also saw Underdog and came to a troubling realization right away when he realized it was a Jim Belushi movie. He's not one of the voices either he's acting in the movie. Steve thought it was a cartoon but it's real dogs that are talking.
4:36	Jim is known for his work with dogs in movies. He has turned in some great performances throughout his career. He turned in a great one for Underdog too.
4:37	Buzz saw Underdog on Saturday with Piper and then The Bourne Ultimatum with Aimee on Sunday. He did not have a hot dog.
4:38	Buzz tries to avoid the hot dog at the movie theater but sometimes he can't help himself. Steve's going to have to take out insurance in case something happens to Buzz. Is that how he wants to die, a bad movie theater hot dog?
4:43	Steve has the perfect song to tie in with the Mia Farrow story that Buzz did in the headlines. She wants to go to Darfur and trade herself for a guy in jail named Suleiman Jamous.
4:44	Song: Soolaimon, Neil Diamond
4:49	They're probably not going to take Mia Farrow in trade for this Suleiman guy. She probably wouldn't eat much but he's a political prisoner.
4:50	Everyone's caught up in the Darfur thing. Steve's not and he's fine with that. He doesn't need another thing on his plate that he can't fix and has to try to comprehend. Leave that up to George Clooney.
4:51	Steve does think he looks like a fat, lesbian Mia Farrow.
4:57	You know who else is into the Darfur thing? Sut! Actually it's Sut's daughter but he's backing her. What's the greatest city in the world Buzz?
4:58	Is Darfur a country or a city? It has to be a country. The Africans don't do themselves any favors by constantly changing the name of their countries.
4:59	Darfur is a region in Sudan. This is not be confused with the crisis in Somalia. That's probably the worst place in the world right now. That's too bad because Steve just bought a condo there over the internet.
5:00	Don't forget when you hear one of Steve's songs or one of Buzz's songs or one of The Nadas' songs be the 10th-15th caller to win tickets.
5:01	Saturn of Libertyville is one of the sponsors of the show. Matt Dahl's been looking for a new car and Saturn has a pretty nice looking SUV.
5:02	Saturn also has a sports car that Buzz saw and chased down much to the dismay of his passenger. Was this before or after the tequila?
5:03	Buzz is talking about the Saturn Sky, as shown right around $25,000. Then he can rent Steve's tandem parking space. Matt is also in there so he'd have to arrange with him about getting cars out. Based on the way Matt drives he should be the first car pulling in.
5:04	Caller Johnson is from South Africa. Is Darfur a country, a region or a city? It's a country.
5:05	Johnson had some info about the Sky. It's very similar to the Pontiac Solstice although he'd read the Solstice is a better car.
5:06	That's probably enough of this phone call. We don't do that in this country. Also in this country, guy's aren't named Johnson. He'll still get a spin of the wheel though.
5:07	Tyrone's checking in with some traffic. He's up high, floating through the cloud of marijuana smoke above Lollapalooza.
5:08	At I-355 and I-88, which is also the Ronald Reagan tollway, there's a car fire backing up traffic on both sides. A lot of people don't know that I-88 is the Ronald Reagan tollway because it goes to Dixon, where he was born.
5:09	It looks like I-355 just ends but that can't be possible. Where does it go?
5:10	Caller Jerome has some info about I-355. Eventually it'll go to Joliet. What about I-88? Did that used to be I-5?
5:11	They couldn't call it I-5 because there's an I-5 in California.
5:12	It's time for the Five O'Clock Taco Bell. Joining Steve today for Manager Monday is Drew who's manager of something.
5:13	Steve thought he heard Drew say "ooh" but it was Buzz. Steve's having trouble dialing Drew's number even though it's in-house.
5:14	Now Drew is trying to call Steve but he doesn't want him to do that. He's not a very good listener is he? That's probably why he calls it "monitoring" when he's listening to the station.
5:15	Drew needs to get this phone system fixed. He's the most ineffectual manager Steve has ever worked with. Maybe not the most ineffectual but he's up there.
5:16	Is this going to be fixed in Steve's lifetime? If he were to go back in the show logs he'd find at least 60 references to the phone issue. Maybe Drew needs to write this stuff down like that guy in Memento.
5:17	Steve doesn't want to take anything away from the grande quesadilla. Drew's having the chicken today. The sound of Drew eating grosses Steve out, he shoves the whole thing in his mouth at once.
5:18	Drew smacks his lips when he eats which is something a lot of Jewish guys do. They learn it in shul.
5:19	Drew went to Taco Bell on Friday night with his son. His wife didn't know about it until now.
5:20	Drew must have hit one of the buttons has he was hanging up. Is that his sign-off sound?
5:24	Allison Rosati was having a little trouble saying Ving Rhames name but eventually she got it right. Did Buzz call her?
5:25	Hopefully that wasn't too disturbing listening to Drew eat. Steve found it slightly nauseating, it was like being on a Tilt-a-whirl.
5:26	Buzz feels that Drew might have been stepping up the eating because Steve perfected doing that on the air.
5:27	Steve was trying to play one of Buzz's songs but the CD seems to have gone bad. Is that possible? While Jim runs another one down here Steve's going to try to get it to work.
5:28	Buzz is surprised Steve doesn't have the CD in his iTunes library. He certainly would have imported it but he wasn't sure if he was allowed to.
5:29	Song: Walkin' By Myself, Buzz Kilman & the Blues Rocket Scientists
5:31	Buzz's band is still together but he pulled all their CDs off the market because they sound a lot better now. Steve didn't know you could do that.
5:32	That song of course fired off the contest to win tickets to the next Dahlfins show on August 18th. Be caller 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 15 to win tickets.
5:37	Just so Pete knows we played that Simpsons drop on Friday about Hullabalooza. She did it effortlessly too while Pete was sitting in Grant Park eating his nectarine.
5:38	Has Pete fully recovered from Lollapalooza? He doesn't really have any interesting stories to tell about what happened after the show.
5:39	There certainly weren't any interesting stories to tell during the show. That's all Steve was expecting from Pete and Jim though. Pete's pouting in the other room though. Do they think they were celebrity interviewers?
5:40	Pete's fine when he's in the studio but once he's out of the studio he's just a guy walking around with a bag of fruit. He has a 50/50 chance of being arrested by a cop who sees him on the street.
5:41	Pete's fine with what happened Friday, he was hoping to not bring it up again. That's not his choice though. It's like interviewing Steve and he won't talk about his wife or tantric lovemaking.
5:42	Friday was fine, Steve didn't expect them to do anything except sit at a table in a tent. They both seem scarred by what happened.
5:43	After the show on Friday Pete stayed and watched LCD Soundsystem and Daft Punk. Steve read good things about LCD Soundsystem, he heard they had the place rockin' with dance music. Was Pete dancing his fool-ass off?
5:44	Pete was waving back and forth and bobbing his head. That's a form of dancing, if you're paralyzed. Jim headed over to the Lollalounge with his girlfriend. He didn't get a massage because there was no one there when they arrived.
5:45	Jill was really pitching the massage thing to Steve, how hard is it to get a massage, especially if you're with Pete. Steve's always a 6-pack away from a massage from Pete, if we can talk about that.
5:46	Pete did not come to the Lollalounge because he ran into someone he knew. Jim and his girlfriend had some food and some beer and some wine and watched LCD Soundsystem and Daft Punk. Jim's black girlfriend was dancing but Jim wasn't. Did he just get off watching other guy's dance with her?
5:47	Who did Pete run into, Catman? Were they workin' some ladies at Lollapalooza. It was actually a female friend who he knew was going to be there. Pete really wanted to go home though after the show.
5:48	It wasn't that bad on Friday though. Pete didn't want to even go to Lollapalooza though, it was like sending a kid off to school. Everyone back here did fine without them.
5:49	Pete was more worried about how things would go at Lollapalooza but he's his own worst critic.
5:50	Actually Buzz is Pete's worst critic based on some of the things he was saying during the breaks on Friday. He wants Pete committed to a mental institution or at best on Prozac, regardless of sexual side effects.
5:51	The only person Steve would have wanted to talk to was Eddie Vedder. Steve watched most of Pearl Jam's set online and he was amazed how quiet the crowd was when he talked. Steve's never seen anyone control a crowd that well.
5:52	Jim left early during Pearl Jam's set because he was exhausted. Brendan ran into him as he was leaving and he seemed quite dejected because of the Soriano injury. Was Jim heading up to Northwestern to meet Soriano before his MRI?
5:57	Steve thought everything went fine on Friday. There was that point in the middle when they were only giving one word answers and Steve had to yell at them. That inspired Jim to tell Steve and Buzz about the denim lounge.
5:58	Pete and Jim were set up to fail and Steve thought they knew that. Maybe they did but at some point they seemed to be frustrated that they couldn't get anyone to talk to them.
5:59	The only person Steve would have wanted to talk to was Eddie Vedder and who knows what he would have done, maybe started talking about the war and Bush.
6:00	Maybe Steve shouldn't have gone to Pete and Jim so often but he was fascinated with them sitting there. It's hard to sit somewhere for 5 hours and observe everything going on.
6:01	Maybe next time Pete and Jim are talking behind Steve and Buzz's back about how much money they're paid they'll remember what a hard job it is. Buzz doesn't think Jim had a problem.
6:02	Steve doesn't want Pete to go off the deep end here. Was he hoping to launch a career as a music critic after Friday?
6:03	What was the best case scenario for Pete? Did he think it would be a constant line of people to interview? There was nothing going on in that media area so they were just sitting there in a tent with headphones on.
6:04	Meanwhile Jill and Drew and everyone else from the station were just sitting there staring at them, having their own party. That's what it's like for Steve and Buzz at a live remote. They're just in the background of a party everyone else is having.
6:05	Hopefully Pete is alright because we've got a lot of other concerts to send him to. Steve wrongly thought that Pete was into something like Lollapalooza but it's just a game he talks. He really just wants to sit in his apartment and listen to music.
6:06	Jim has his black girlfriend come down and then they go to the Lollalounge, knock back a few beers, have some pizza. Then he gets to watch black guys dance with her. Meanwhile Pete's trying to figure out how to get out of there so he can go and hang himself.
6:07	Live read: Townstone Financial
6:08	Time for some sports. The Cubs are in Houston tonight to take on the Astros. Rich Hill faces Wandy "everyone knows it's Wandy" Rodriguez. That reminds Steve that he forgot to do his Lee Hazelwood tribute today.
6:09	Cliff Floyd is likely to start in left in place of the injured Alfonso Soriano. Mark DeRosa said that someone needs to step up and fill the void. Steve should probably say what's wrong with Soriano right? It's good to have Brendan back!
6:10	The Cubs think he has a strained quadricep and could miss 2 week to a month. It could be worse, it could be his hammy. Either way it's bad if it's your wheels.
6:11	Steve was watching Shark Week last week, or at least it was something on Discovery HD about sharks. There was a guy who was way too overexcited to be a scientist who kept throwing different things into the water like turkeys and smoked ham to see what sharks would eat.
6:12	Second baseman Eric Patterson, younger brother of Corey Patterson, was called up to take Soriano's roster spot.
6:13	Steve just played the news audio on accident, that's coming up in a few minutes. Steve doesn't recall being notified off the news audio, someone snuck in it in there.
6:14	Does Pete see what's happening to Steve? Does he think he's going to take this home with him? No, he's got Jim and Brendan to yell at too.
6:15	White Sox catcher AJ Pierzynski dined with Yankees Johnny Damon and Doug Mankiewicz last night in New York. Brendan is like the Sneed of sports. Did something transpire at the dinner? Does anyone know what they ate?
6:16	Brendan is off now for an hour before the Matt Dahl Show. Steve feels that an hour might be too much time to give Brendan. Neither of them do anything before the show. If Brendan is doing something for the show Matt gets mad because he's trying to keep him down, just like Steve taught him to.
6:22	Steve would like to ask Pete a question. As he was watching the coverage of the bridge collapse did he feel they were modeling their behavior and coverage after the Grey's Anatomy ferry boat sinking episode?
6:23	Pete's not responding. Steve would ask Buzz but he doesn't watch Grey's Anatomy.
6:24	News with Buzz
6:25	A banner day on Wall Street as the Dow closed up 286 points. Meanwhile financial analyst Jim Cramer went on a tirade on CNBC.
6:26	The Dow was probably up thanks to Jim Cramer's tirade.
6:27	Actress Mia Farrow has offered to exchange herself for jailed rebel leader Suleiman Jamous in Sudan.
6:28	Earlier Steve said Darfur. That's involved in this somehow. They should name all the countries in Africa after U.S. states, it would be easier to keep track of.
6:29	An investigation is underway to find the murders of three college students in New Jersey. They were found killed execution style behind a high school in Newark.
6:30	Presidential candidate Rudy Guiliani reportedly does not have the support of his daughter, who is a member of a Barack Obama Facebook group.
6:31	Haven't there been some problems in that family with moms and dads. That's a good reason to go with Barack.
6:32	Excessive weight is not believed to be a factor in the collapse of a Minneapolis bridge over the Mississippi. Steve's going to guess that it's the construction equipment on the bridge.
6:35	Whether you call it pop. soda or sodee, if you're drinking one in a State of Illinois building you'll have to have a Pepsi.
6:36	Steve has a feeling Buzz didn't write this one. He's not sure why he doesn't read these things beforehand. Who calls it sodee?
6:37	Does having Pepsi as the state's official soda solve the budget problem? Because that would be the only reason to have an official soda.
6:44	Steve got caught up in some Swedish stuff over the weekend. He was watching a WTTW digital channel that has a lot of cooking, crafts and travel stuff on there.
6:45	Steve got caught up in a Scandinavian Summer concept watching cooking and travel shows. He couldn't stop watching it.
6:46	The did show some lutefisk which is dried cod that you then soak in lye. Delicious! There were two dudes but also a cute Swedish girl. After about 3 hours the shows started repeating but Steve just kept watching.
6:47	Live read: Balance for Life
6:48	Live read: Racine Boat Show
6:49	In-water boat shows are a great way to look at and buy boats because they're all just sitting there in the water already.
6:54	Live read: Gierczyk Properties
6:55	Steve's having trouble reading this one. Normally it sounds like he's speaking his second language but today it seems like it's his third.
6:56	Son: Flying Over the Ocean, Steve Dahl & the Dahlfins
6:59	Matt and Brendan are only down to one show per day, they must be bored. How are they filling the day up?
7:00	Steve feels that Brendan's hour off between his show and Matt's show is too lenient. All he does is sit in their office eating a sandwich. He can do that while answering phones.
7:01	Then Brendan comes into the studio today to talk to Steve and Buzz and he acted like he was ready to stay there. Buzz was drawn in by Brendan's bobbing head and just kept talking to him. It seems like Brendan really gets you with the head bobbing but he doesn't.