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| 2:03
| Stan and Terry are wrecking the beginning of Steve's show. He doesn't come in at 1:30 and wreck the end of their show with a phone call like that. |
| 2:04
| Stan got a bike and he doesn't want to put it together because he's worried about voiding the warranty. He really is an idiot. Just put it together! |
| 2:05
| Stan is torn between putting it together and having someone else do it because Cynthia told him he's too old to do it. Stan got a bike shipped to him which is why it's not together. |
| 2:06
| Who gets a bike shipped to them? Just go to a bike shop! Stan bought the bike with his credit card points. He never flies anywhere so it's the only way to use his points. |
| 2:07
| He should sell them to Steve then. Terry used his points to upgrade to first class for his trip to Hawaii. He only upgraded himself too, not his wife or her parents. Hell yeah! That's how Terry rolls! |
| 2:08
| Terry did go back to coach periodically during the flight to check on his wife and in-laws. Did he have a cocktail in his hand? |
| 2:09
| Terry's wife was very far back, near the galley where you buy food when they stop bringing the cart through. She was in row 56 which is very far back. At least she's close to the snacks. |
| 2:10
| Stan actually doesn't mind sitting in the very back row of the plane because he never reclines his chair. Stan's observations are crazy. |
| 2:11
| Steve heard Terry complaining about his return flight yesterday. It stops in Kona where you have to get off and wait in line to be reinspected and then get back on. |
| 2:12
| The first time that happened to Steve was on a trip with the show but you could choose to stay on the plane. |
| 2:13
| Steve's not completely sure about this so maybe someone will call and correct him but they might have to stop in Kona to refuel. |
| 2:14
| First class to Hawaii is really nice, you're eating all the time. Steve still had to go back and get a snack at some point during the flight. There's a moment in between the food and the first movie where all the flight attendants sit down and start bitching about how hard their jobs are. Steve usually stays on them. |
| 2:15
| Terry had a good time in Hawaii but he also complained about too many kids on the flight. Steve has kids so he never noticed. |
| 2:16
| These kids were bratty, snooty frequent-flier kids. When Terry was that age he was lucky if he got to go to Memphis for two weeks. There are a lot of entitled kids these days. |
| 2:17
| That's a sweet move upgrading yourself and not your wife. A lot of guys wouldn't have the guts to pull the trigger on that, Steve included. |
| 2:25
| Song: Red Hill Mining Town, U2 |
| 2:30
| Steve thinks that song is about a mining town but he can never understand what Bono is singing. All of their songs sound the same although that's not necessarily bad. |
| 2:31
| Buzz is wondering if you'd call that anthem rock. You probably could, everything they do sounds like an anthem. |
| 2:32
| Nowadays it takes 5 people to make a disaster. 4 is just a car accident. People like when things collapse. |
| 2:33
| Steve likes the guy who owns the mine. At first he comes out and it seems wrong because he's talking about himself and how he built his company but as he continues you can tell that what he's doing is right. It doesn't fit in with the 24-hour news cycle coverage though. |
| 2:34
| First he comes out and talks about himself, then he criticizes any media outlets reporting erroneous information. Today he singled out Fox News and an AP reporter by name. You don't see that very often. |
| 2:35
| During the show open Pete had a tape of the owner stopping his press conference because there was too much commotion. That happened at least twice, once because there were helicopters making noise. It also seems like the local sheriff is the guy's bitch. |
| 2:36
| The mine owner is also mad because it was an earthquake that caused the mine to collapse but no one is reporting that. He also comes out right away and says that the guys in the mine could be dead which is old school. |
| 2:37
| Most press conferences in situations like this are tailored for CNN or Fox. This guy is to a certain extent but he's just using the press conference to get information out and then rip on anyone who's got bad info. |
| 2:38
| A lot of times the person giving a press conference gets so melee-mouthed trying to cover their own ass but this guy isn't trying to cover anything. He was a miner, he's been in similar situations and he knows how dangerous it is. |
| 2:39
| Steve has some info about Red Hill Mining Town from Bono. Steve just text messaged him, they're friends. Steve is very involved in all the Darfur stuff although he's trying to get out of it. He thought it was about fur, not people. |
| 2:40
| According to Bono the song is about the 1984 UK mining strike. Buzz is wondering if we have the Bee Gees' New York Mining Disaster, 1941, it's one of his favorites. Steve also likes that song but does anyone ever tell the Bee Gees that? No, they just talk about Disco Demolition. |
| 2:44
| The questions that the mine owner gets are also much better because they're all scared of him. They're all chickens anyway but sometimes they're allowed to run rampant instead of just reporting the story. |
| 2:45
| As it turns out Darfur means "home of the fur" which Steve will not incorporate into his bit about trying to get out of helping that cause. |
| 2:46
| Does Buzz want to hear that Bee Gees song now? We have other songs to give away for the Dahlfins concert. |
| 2:47
| Also, we now have a young man answering the contest line all day down the hall. Buzz was wondering what he was doing down there. |
| 2:48
| Previously there was a giveaway during every break but then we were getting no callers. That started to become an irritation to Steve and not a sand-in-the-oyster irritation. It was a sand in Steve's underpants irritation. |
| 2:49
| Steve may switch back to doing giveaways during every break. People are still going to call the normal line wondering if they won tickets though. |
| 2:50
| Steve's only giving away tickets three times today so he told Adam that we could just call the kid down here but he said no. Steve was under the impression that the contest line would be back in the promotions department. |
| 2:51
| Steve could give out the number now so that kid will have someone to talk to. It's (312) 565-WCKG. This is not a contest right now. Buzz would like to look out into the hallway and see if the phone is ringing. Steve could probably call down there. |
| 2:52
| Steve's trying to call down there but the line is busy. Buzz needs to get back in the studio because he'll just attract people like Drew who's here to fix the problem, even though he's had all day to do it. |
| 2:53
| Buzz can confirm that all the lines were ringing and lit up but the kid wasn't answering them. So he's an idiot. Maybe that's why Adam didn't want him down there. |
| 2:54
| He was probably told by Drew that it's illegal to answer the contest line when there's no contest going on. The rules don't even make sense to someone unless you've studied radio both on and off the air. |
| 2:57
| The phrase "longtime listener, first time caller" was developed by Steve and Garry but they never get credit for it. Garry doesn't need credit but Steve does. Steve also developed "you're in the air" which is now commonly used around the station without any sort of deferential tip-of-the-headphones to Steve. |
| 2:58
| That kid is still down the hall but now he's answering the phones. During the break Drew, Adam and John were hovering around him. John did tell Steve he'd replace his phone module in the studio because the current one is not working. |
| 2:59
| Steve would like to have the kind of relationship with John in which he tells him something isn't working and it gets replaced, in addition to giving each other back rubs and burning each other's initials into their flesh with a soldering iron. |
| 3:00
| When Steve says something isn't working he's not lying, it's really not working. The phone in the studio wasn't generating proper tones which is why Steve has been having problems dialing out. |
| 3:01
| Steve also learned that the contest line shows up down the hall and in Jill and Adam's office so technically they could be answering the phone or the kid could be doing it in one of their offices. |
| 3:02
| The kid answering phones seems like a nice enough kid and he was excited when Steve left the studio to interact with him. He's answering phones now so Steve could probably call him. |
| 3:03
| Song: New York Mining Disaster, 1941, The Bee Gees |
| 3:05
| There ya go Buzz, that one was all for you. All 2:11 of that song. Buzz forgot how short that one was. That's how things used to be back in the day. |
| 3:06
| That one was the Bee Gees first big hit in the U.S. Then they went on to have their records blown up by Steve. |
| 3:07
| Buzz remembers being in a record store trying to figure out what that song was. Steve can see a bell-bottomed Buzz Kilman wondering around a record store in 1967, quote song lyrics to the guy who worked there. |
| 3:08
| The record store Buzz frequented was also a head shop owned by Mike Lange who went on to put on Woodstock. He was the guy with the speech impediment who made all the stages announcements. |
| 3:09
| One thing Steve will say about the new contest line is there's no way of putting a caller on the air. That's actually good because now there's no chance that the irritating people who call constantly will end up on the air. |
| 3:10
| There's a cadre of about 100 people who call nonstop, all day long and then get mad when they have nothing to say. Now they're calling Dan down the hall. Steve's not sure if that's his real name, Dan Falato might make everyone else refer to themselves as Dan. |
| 3:11
| Even though Steve is saying that people who call the contest line can't get on the air those same 100 people who call all the time will still call it. The people who call all the time are oblivious, Steve's surprised the new number even registered with them. |
| 3:12
| If they hear a new number it probably gets to them on the path of least resistance like electricity. They know nothing good happened on the old number. On the old number hey weren't winning anything, they weren't getting on the air and they were being told by someone who on their surface seems like a dolt that they have nothing to offer to the show. |
| 3:13
| Live read: Arby's |
| 3:14
| Steve is currently eating a toasted turkey bacon club. There's something about the combination of turkey and bacon that Buzz loves. Steve's has no mayo but there's another one in the kitchen with mayo if Buzz is interested. |
| 3:20
| Steve had to go ahead and finish that half a sandwich. It doesn't need mayo either, the Swiss cheese gets it just the way you want. |
| 3:21
| That's your standard club sandwich, turkey and bacon, it's from God. That's all you need. It's one of the Ten Commandments too, "thoust shalt havest a club sandwich featuring turkey, bacon, lettuce and tomato." |
| 3:22
| Steve gets really bummed out when people put beef in a club sandwich. That happens a lot at hotels for some reason. All you need is turkey and bacon, maybe some onions or avocados but that's it. No beef, no ham. |
| 3:23
| According to Mary Buzz hurled two separate club sandwiches at her because there was no mayo on them. Of course hurling to her could just be slamming the sandwich down on the plate, putting on his headphones and giving the silent treatment. |
| 3:24
| Buzz wouldn't throw a sandwich at a girl. Steve has seen him throw donuts at Jim but those don't hurt. |
| 3:25
| Live read: Dirty Jobs |
| 3:26
| Steve had to come in early to take a meeting about these live reads which he's more than happy to do. That being said, everything he was told not to say during the live read is in the copy. It seems like it was be easier to make the sales person take the meeting and then pass that info along to Steve. |
| 3:27
| Steve talked to a very nice woman, Brandy, in New York about what they wanted to accomplish with the live reads. Steve likes Dirty Jobs and he likes that Mike Rowe guy. Steve took notes about what they didn't want him to mention and now those are all in the copy as talking points. It's like the sales people are taunting him. |
| 3:28
| Tonight on Dirty Jobs Mike will be painting the Mackinaw Bridge so it's as timely as today's headlines. That's a big, scary bridge that sways a lot because of high winds. Plus Mike is afraid of heights. |
| 3:35
| Caller John has some info about the Mackinaw Bridge. It connects the Upper Peninsula to the rest of Michigan but you can't get off the bridge and onto the island because there are no cars allowed there. You have to take a ferry to the island. |
| 3:36
| It's none of Steve's business who John goes to the island with. Does the bridge start in Mackinaw City? Steve was going to play a Bob Seger song becuase it's the only one he can think of that mentions Mackinaw City. |
| 3:37
| Song: Roll Me Away, Bob Seger |
| 3:42
| How many songs are there that mention Mackinaw City? That's a good one but Steve doesn't condone the drinking and driving. |
| 3:43
| That's a great story in that song if it's true. It probably is and it's something you'd want to write about. Maybe he wasn't married when that happen or maybe that didn't matter. He's Bob Seger dammit! |
| 3:44
| A few months ago Bob Seger was making the rounds on the talk shows and he seemed very congenial and not like a celebrity at all. Steve knew him back when he lived in Detroit and he was a nice guy for a zillionaire. |
| 3:45
| The story in the song has to be true then. When Steve hears it it sounds like a great time. He wouldn't mind doing something like that but he'd have to take the long way to get to Mackinaw City, up through Wisconsin. Plus he doesn't drink any more so it would be "12 hours out of Mackinaw City, stopped in a bar to have me a Diet Coke." |
| 3:51
| On the phone is Pat Boyle from Comcast Sportsnet. They're getting ready for another Cubs game tonight on Comcast. Last night was a little disappointing but they're still 1 game back. |
| 3:52
| Plus you've got the surging White Sox who are only 10 games back. Pat has to wonder what it would have been like if the Sox had played this way all year. Steve believes it's not over yet but he's got a lot of tickets left. |
| 3:53
| The Cubs struck out 13 times last night and were 0-10 with runners in scoring position. They need to figure out a way to manufacture runes. |
| 3:54
| A lead-off walk in the 10th inning came back to haunt the Cubs last night. As Hawk always says the lead-off walk always comes back to get you. |
| 3:55
| The Bears traded away Dante Wesley to the Patriots for a draft pick. Jerry Angelo seems really good about storing things for the future. He lost a draft pick earlier in the summer and got one back with the Chris Harris trade. |
| 3:56
| The Patriots made the trade because Asante Samuelson is holding out. Someone should tell him that the hold out thing doesn't work. |
| 3:57
| Last year the Patriots had their wide receiver hold out and then they traded him to the Seahawks. Pat can't remember his name though. It was Deion Branch although Steve had to be told that by Mary. |
| 3:58
| The Bears first pre-season game is Saturday so we're right back into it. Steve watches every pre-season game, he can't get enough of it. |
| 3:59
| Is Steve still going to do post-game for Comcast during the Bears season? He still hasn't received his credentials. |
| 4:00
| Pat brought that up over at Comcast and they're hoping for some sort of Steve Dahl presence during the post-game. Can Pat make sure the Bears know that and get him a better press pass than the one Drew has? Drew's pass is worthless, it only gets him into the bathroom. |
| 4:01
| Even if Steve has a press pass he probably won't use it. He's had one all year with the White Sox and he's never used it. That's the best way to keep Steve out, give him what he wants. It's only when he's told he can't go somewhere that he wants to go there. |
| 4:02
| Steve couldn't help but notice during that Bob Seger song that people were calling in to win Dahlfins tickets. Apparently they thought Steve sung it, or The Nadas or Buzz. They were also calling Dan down the hallway but that's not his real name, it's just what Dan Falato calls all show support people. |
| 4:03
| If you don't know that it's Bob Seger who sings Roll Me Away Steve doesn't want you at his concert. |
| 4:04
| Song: Coconut Suzie, Steve Dahl & the Dahlfins |
| 4:07
| That song triggered the contest and callers 10-15 won tickets for the next Dahlfins show. |
| 4:08
| Buzz is very excited to play the Fuel Room. Steve looked at it online and it seems very nice. |
| 4:09
| It took a while to get used to it but Steve's having fun up on stage. Steve reached the point during the last show where he realized it was more fun to be sober on stage. |
| 4:10
| Just standing up there playing took a while to get used to. You play a song, you swear a little in between them or make graphic depictions of sex then you play another song. |
| 4:11
| Steve has learned to ignore what The Nadas say to him on stage also. They were quite convivial when they were on the show in Mexico but by 9:30 at night on stage they're quite hammered. |
| 4:12
| Buzz was having such a good time at North Beach that he forgot why he was there. Does he want to go on at a different time during the show? |
| 4:13
| It's only a two hour show so it shouldn't really matter. The last time Buzz got up on stage and had some amp problems. For a guy who collects amps he sure has a lot of problems with them. Thus is the nature of the 50 year old amps. |
| 4:14
| At North Beach the amp wasn't plugged in so it wasn't really an amp problem. |
| 4:15
| Live read: Cheeseburger in Paradise |
| 4:20
| LIve read: Balance for Life |
| 4:21
| Headlines with Buzz |
| 4:22
| Buzz sounded like a cowboy the way he said Utah. They're estimating that it could take 3 days to reach the trapped miners. |
| 4:23
| There are still 8 people missing from the Minneapolis bridge collapse. So that means it's probably 13 people dead right? Why don't they start preparing us for that like the mine owner? |
| 4:24
| The mine owner starts off every press conference, after reading his manifesto, by saying that the miners could be dead. |
| 4:25
| Al Sharpton has begun his crusade to clean-up hip-hop music. And the New York City council is looking to ban the n-word, the h-word and the b-word. |
| 4:26
| You can't do that! You really can't ban the b-word in New York because there are a lot of them there. |
| 4:27
| Luckily there's still the c-word, that always draws a crowd. That's exactly what Aimee said this morning to Buzz. |
| 4:28
| An Iowa woman fed up with her 2-pack-a-day smoking addiction called the local police and asked them to lock her up for several days so she couldn't smoke. |
| 4:29
| The police wouldn't take her so she turned to her family, got a pair of handcuffs and asked them chain her up in her bathroom for a week with food and water. |
| 4:30
| The family members wouldn't do it because they were worried someone would break in or the house would set on fire while she was locked up. Steve would be willing to sit in her living room and guard the house. He could probably rehearse with The Nadas and still watch the house. |
| 4:35
| What happens during Christmas in New York when Santa can't say "ho-ho-ho". Steve doesn't want to see Sant busted for that but it's entirely possible that it could happen. |
| 4:36
| That law seems completely ridiculous. What you have to do is make it so people don't want to hear the word. |
| 4:37
| Song: Dancing Lucinda, The Nadas |
| 4:42
| The Nadas are quite good but Steve feels he's bringing them down by making them play his songs. That doesn't stop him from constantly asking them how many songs they've done already in a show. |
| 4:43
| Steve hasn't talked to those boys in a while but he wants to add another song to the playlist. |
| 4:44
| There's a guy in California who's be doing chord charts for all of Steve's songs and he sent one back that was wrong. So Steve's waiting for the corrected one before he can send it to The Nadas. |
| 4:45
| It's pretty impressive to see one of your songs written out like that on a chord chart. |
| 4:46
| Blue Planet has 6 chords although 3 of them are in the bridge. Aloha Friday has three chords, the D, the A and the G which are apparently Steve's go to chords. |
| 4:47
| When Steve was watching Pearl Jam on the AT & T webcast they played Better Man, one of his favorite songs. All they use in that song are the D, A and G chords. |
| 4:48
| Steve was really impressed by Pearl Jam's lead guitarist, he's really good and he never noticed it before. Is that the factory guitar player? Steve would ask Brendan and Pete but they don't know so he'll call Jim. |
| 4:49
| That is the factory guitar player. The only guy not factory is the drummer, they've had several over the years. Just like the Dahlfins or Spinal Tap. When Steve first went to Des Moines to rehearse with The Nadas their drummer was lying on the floor with a broken hand. They made him tape a drumstick to his hand for rehearsals. |
| 4:50
| Then later that weekend they got a different drummer. For the Dahlfins shows they've gotten a third drummer, Ian, who's very good and has a foxy wife who's a weather girl in Des Moines. She was at the North Beach show with her cute friends but they were all drunk and talking. They don't look so cute when they're in the audience not paying attention. |
| 4:51
| The cutest couple Steve saw in the audience was Brendan and Chef Hans and of course Jim and his black girlfriend. Steve didn't see Pete, he was probably waiting in the dressing room to give Steve a massage. Did Pete get his peaches today? |
| 4:52
| Pete did not get peaches today because he went in the wrong entrance and missed the Farmer's Market. He's officially crazy right? He's been thinking about these peaches days and he doesn't even get any? Pete actually forgot about it because he went to Borders after getting off the train to buy the new Okkervil River CD. It sounds like something they'd have there. |
| 4:53
| Steve almost bought Pete some fruit but was worried about sending him into a tizzy if he bought his own peaches. He would have too many and wouldn't know which ones to eat and then they'd all rot. |
| 4:54
| Steve knows that Pete had a rough spot on Friday and then probably carried it through the weekend. Then it all came out yesterday on the air. |
| 4:55
| Steve sent Pete a few emails last night to make him feel better. He addressed them to Zippy which is apparently Pete's nickname among his friends. In the emails Steve suggested that he, Catman and Pete go out and get some skank, although he accidentally typed shank. |
| 4:56
| Then Steve had to send a correction back that said skank. Pete responded that skank is probably better than shank. Steve replied that you shouldn't overlook shank. |
| 5:00
| Does Pete know that Okkervil River is on iTunes? Or does he like to have the physical CD? |
| 5:01
| It could have saved him time and he could have gotten his peaches. Doesn't Pete know about time management? |
| 5:02
| When Pete knows that a new CD is coming out he goes to Amazon and puts it in his cart. But then he saves it for later and never ends up buying it. Steve has recently realized that Pete is all about no pay off, he just likes to torture himself. He's like Sisyphus. |
| 5:03
| It's time for the Five O'Clock Taco Bell. Steve and Buzz are both having double-meat burritos. |
| 5:04
| Buzz always marvels and the various combinations of meat and cheese that Taco Bell has come up with. There are also Dr. Pepper's in the fridge in Steve's Green Room. That's another discovery Taco Bell has made, it's key to the experience. |
| 5:05
| There are still Dr. Pepper's left over from when David Hochberg brought in that 12-pack with all the flowers. The only reason David was even allowed to bring all that into the studio was because Drew was tanking so hard on his own. |
| 5:06
| There's nothing funny about a many giving another man flowers. It might be some sort of attempt at domination by David but Steve didn't allow it. |
| 5:07
| Steve would gift the new Okkervil River CD to Pete but he wouldn't even enjoy it because he wants the physical CD. You can't even help him out of his misery. |
| 5:08
| Pete can't keep depriving himself like this, he's going to explode. C'mon Zippy! |
| 5:09
| Pete's nickname puts a whole new spin on this for Buzz. Of course he's called Zippy by a guy named Catman. They both enjoy hanging out at Butch McGuire's hitting on women |
| 5:10
| Steve's sending Pete and Jim to the South by Southwest music festival based on how good their coverage of Lollapalooza was. |
| 5:11
| Pete's actually excited about that although Steve's not really sending them. After Friday he's never sending them anywhere. Why would Pete want to go to Austin anyway? It's just a college town on crack. |
| 5:12
| Steve's going to gift the CD to Pete but he won't be putting their names in caps, because it's the internet and their informal. Based on what happened at The Pearl Room concert they should be common law married. They don't have common law marriages in this state though. |
| 5:13
| Put Steve down for the whole Recall Blagojevich campaign. Steve voted for that guy but he's weasely. Maybe we could replace him with a foreign-born bodybuilder. |
| 5:14
| Steve would say his trainer Cornell could do it but he's not a citizen. Today Steve's trainer for got what weight he lifts. He could just ask Steve since he has a lot of other people to work with. |
| 5:15
| It's really hot in Steve's gym so he had to stop early because he got tired. Then Cornell called him a quitter which was really irritating. Steve didn't ask Cornell to go easy on him but he lifted less weight anyway. He didn't know he'd be called a quitter though. |
| 5:16
| Cornell was all out of sorts because he didn't have his protein shake for the day. Then he yelled at Steve for not eating breakfast. |
| 5:17
| Tyler from The Nadas just let Steve know that South by Southwest has awesome food. So what? Tyler needs to focus more on being The Nadas road manager, maybe get rid of that mohawk. |
| 5:18
| Steve just got a message from iTunes informing him that Pete has already bought tracks from the new Okkervil River CD. Now it won't let him send the entire album. There's never a payoff with Pete! |
| 5:19
| Steve can't get a dial tone on the studio phone which is not encouraging. How can Steve not have a dial tone? |
| 5:23
| Governor Rod R. Blagojevich said he's OK with allowing Illinois voters to recall a governor. |
| 5:24
| However he says that Senator Dan Cronin's motives are "Republican partisan politics." There aren't enough kids out for Blago to hold up and block him from this. The guy is completely useless. |
| 5:25
| Live read: Townstone Financial |
| 5:26
| David's been getting a little too dirty in his live reads lately which throws Steve off. Someone might need to throw him some chin music again. |
| 5:27
| Last week one of the seven words was in the copy. Doesn't anyone from the station approve the copy? |
| 5:28
| Of course they don't! Any of them would sell their mother to get a sale. |
| 5:29
| Steve has a feeling that the new contest line has somehow blown out the main contest line and he's unable to call anyone. |
| 5:30
| Steve was trying to call Stephanie up in the office to put him through to Ron who was in his office all day. He had a meeting that ended early so he swung by Steve's office to do a few things. |
| 5:31
| Ron needs to schedule his meetings better. Steve just wanted to hassle him a little bit. You know he just sits there telling Tina and Stephanie what to do. |
| 5:32
| Ron Lewis is on the phone. He's still in Steve's office doing some work until he leaves for the Sox game. |
| 5:33
| Ron asked Stephanie but she was probably afraid to say no. Can't he go hang out in a hotel lobby or a Starbuck's? |
| 5:34
| Ron walks in and right away he asks Stephanie if he can work from Steve's office. By the time word gets down to Steve Ron's already ensconced. |
| 5:35
| Steve would offer Ron his Sox tickets for tonight but he already has his own and is probably meeting a client. Ron is like the Jewish Pete. He's even got his love of folk music. Rogers Park is the same as Evanston too. Evanston is probably better though. Pete doesn't want to offend any listeners in Evanston but he's going to throw in for the RP. They've got more lesbians per square foot than any other neighborhood in the country. |
| 5:36
| Steve's trying to make another call and neither line is working. Buzz probably knows Steve well enough to know that he's almost at his breaking point. However he's keeping it together pretty well. |
| 5:37
| If you'd like to go to a taping of REO Speedwagon at the Soundstage studio, in the middle of freaking nowhere, text REO to 41059. The 1,059th through 1,068th texters win. |
| 5:42
| That's Sparklehorse on the rejoin music right there. They were at Lollapalooza and they wear horse heads on stage. When Buzz hears sparklehorse he thinks My Little Pony. |
| 5:43
| Just for the record Steve doesn't really care that Ron's using his office. Good call on the Starbuck's though. Next time he'll probably go to a Starbuck's and then text Steve from there. |
| 5:44
| Ron should at least be in the main room of Steve's office though. Steve's office is nice but it doesn't have a fireplace or a latte machine. |
| 5:45
| Steve pounded on the phone during the break to get it to work. He's not sure if that did anything though. |
| 5:46
| Song: Comiskey Park, Steve Dahl & the Dahlfins |
| 5:50
| Steve would like to say even 14 some years later that holding out that last note on the song was a bad idea. It sounds like Steve's entire lower torso was crushed in an industrial accident and he's screaming to be put out of his misery. |
| 5:51
| Steve had to call his office to figure out why no one was answering the phone. Turns out the Two Stooges, Ron and Stephanie, spend the entire time trying to decide who should answer. By the time they decide the phone goes to voice mail. |
| 5:52
| Steve has a question for Ron. He's been in Steve's office for almost 4 hours because his meeting ended early. What kind of meeting ends 4 hours early? |
| 5:53
| Ron had an IRS audit that went a lot quicker than he thought it would. Is the guy on his way to jail already? |
| 5:54
| Ron's actually sitting in a sky box tonight with Steve's investor guy at Mesirow. So really that's Steve's sky box invite right? |
| 5:55
| Steve and Ron will not be having their weekly phone call tomorrow, Ron's going out of town. Don't work too hard Ron! |
| 5:57
| Ron hasn't been on a vacation in a year but it's not really a vacation, they're going to look at colleges with his son. |
| 5:58
| That's a fascinating life Ron is leading. Steve has to apologize for calling Ron the Jewish Pete. Ron makes Pete look like Tommy Lee. |
| 5:59
| Buzz and his wife have invited Ron and his wife to dinner at their favorite Mexican restaurant. Is he just hoping to get Ron hammered so he'll pick up the tab on Steve's corporate card? |
| 6:02
| Steve missed the beginning of the drop because he was fascinated with Jim trying to load a CD into the CD player. It was clearly not loading but he refused to give up. |
| 6:03
| The CD didn't work so Jim has to make up another one. Plus he was reaching across Steve. If Pete ever sees that he's going to get jealous. |
| 6:04
| Live read: Gierczyk Properties |
| 6:05
| Steve's going to do the sports before the news. He'll do it as quickly as possible although there's still plenty of time. |
| 6:06
| Buzz doesn't have his audio anyway because Jim has to refinalize a disc. Jim refused to believe the disc had been burned improperly. |
| 6:07
| Steve Stone will fill in for Darin Jackson in the broadcast booth. Jackson is Arizona awaiting the birth of his child. Steve didn't even know he was pregnant. |
| 6:08
| Now the sports audio isn't working either. Steve calls down to Jim's office. He didn't burn the sports audio though, Pete did. |
| 6:09
| Pete can play the audio from his studio if Steve sets it up again. Steve's had just about enough technical difficulties for one day. |
| 6:10
| Steve's going to take a break and throw something at someone. Maybe he'll just throw his jar of peanuts at the wall. How great would that be? |
| 6:11
| If Pete could go down the hall and refill his water bottle it would just heighten it for Steve. That way Pete and Jim could both witness the peanut jar whizzing by and then exploding when it hits the wall. |
| 6:12
| This isn't Pete's fault, nor is it really Jim's fault but Steve needs someone to witness him throwing the peanuts. You can't get mad by yourself unless you're going to leave a hole in the wall. |
| 6:16
| Steve turned the lights off in the studio just to change the mood a little bit, make things a little more romantic. Would Buzz like some garlic bread or chianti? |
| 6:17
| Pete's ready with the audio in his studio but it won't be anything earth-shattering. It's just Lou Piniella saying he was disappointed that the Cubs didn't pull out a win last night. |
| 6:18
| Pete was wondering if Steve's going to start the sports over or just go from the Cubs story. Why would Steve start that over again? Is Pete even ready with the audio? Is Steve the only one around here not on acid? |
| 6:19
| Brian Urlacher praised Bears rookie Greg Olsen today saying he was the best rookie he'd seen in his time on the Bears. |
| 6:20
| Those two are probably working in tandem right, picking up chicks at the Prime Minister, if that place is still open. G-Reg probably takes some of the heat off Urlacher too. You gotta thing there's going to be some sort of out-of-wedlock situation with Olsen. |
| 6:21
| Afternoon Pick Me Up will be making her racing debut this Friday at Arlington. This seems like something that was emailed to one of the staffers and then put in the sports. |
| 6:22
| As one of the owners of the horse Steve's wondering why he didn't get an email about this. Maybe he did. |
| 6:23
| Tennis star Mark Philippoussis picked the 26-year old vixen over the 48-year old cougar in last night's season finale of Age of Love. |
| 6:24
| Steve didn't have to watch a single episode of that show to know the guy would go with the younger woman after he had his way with the older one. |
| 6:29
| What are the odds Mark Philippoussis is going to choose a 26-year old over a 48-year old? |
| 6:30
| We're still giving way tickets to see REO Speedwagon's Soundstage taping. We haven't gotten to texters 1,059-1,068 because people aren't spelling REO properly. There are no spaces between the letters. |
| 6:31
| Live read: Racine Boat Show |
| 6:32
| An in-water boat show is a great way to check out boats. You go in the boat, it's in the water, the sales guy is right there ready to talk business. |
| 6:33
| Live read: Dirty Jobs |
| 6:34
| News with Buzz |
| 6:35
| The Washington, DC judge who drew national attention for his $50 million lawsuit against a pair of dry cleaners who lost his pants will probably lose his job. |
| 6:36
| Steve had Buzz's CD all ready and now it's unreadied itself. Steve's going to try again, he feels confident it'll work this time. |
| 6:37
| Another legal setback for OJ Simpson. The family of Ron Goldman has won the rights to any money Simpson makes from his likeness appearing in a football video game in which you can assign him to any number of teams including one called The Assassins, whose mascot is a hooded, knife-wielding figure. |
| 6:39
| The game features the likenesses of over 40 retired NFL players who can be assigned to any team in the game. Did they go with retired players so they wouldn't have to pay the NFL any money? |
| 6:40
| Adults reach for beer when they're binge drinking according to a new study. When you look up binge drinking is there a picture of Steve? |
| 6:42
| A Democratic presidential debate is underway at Soldier Field as we speak. It's being sponsored by the AFL-CIO. |
| 6:44
| Angelina Jolie is reportedly furious at husband Brad Pitt for agreeing to star in a movie with former fiance Gwyneth Paltrow. |
| 6:45
| Pitt and Paltrow starred together in Se7en, in which Gwyneth had her head cut off, and were once Hollywood's hottest couple. They were? That must have been before we started naming couples. |
| 6:46
| Jolie apparently hit the roof when she learned Pitt would star in a movie with Paltrow, believing she'd never got over him. |
| 6:53
| Is that debate on the field at Soldier Field? Steve saw them setting up on the news last night and it looked like it was on the field. |
| 6:54
| It has to be depressing to have a debate in there because there's no way it's full. |
| 6:55
| Brendan thinks Barack has the home field advantage tonight. Was he working on that one all day? |
| 6:56
| Steve doesn't really care about this debate. He can't get interested until it's down to two candidates. |
| 6:57
| A lot of people are predicting a Clinton/Obama ticket. They say the Democrats could win with that. Imagine the behind-the-scenes campaigning that would go one with a female and a black candidate. |
| 6:58
| Matt and Brendan will be out at Emerald Isle on Northwest Highway in Chicago tonight. They're giving away tickets to he next Dahlfins show at the Fuel Room. |
| 6:59
| Steve's machine is breaking down on him. What's happening around here? Does Buzz have a magnet in his pocket? |
| 7:00
| Buzz has no idea what Steve is talking about, everything sounds fine to him. It sounds fine to Matt too. So it's just Steve's own personal hell? |
| 7:01
| It must just be something in Steve's headphones but the sound keeps cutting in and out. Is Steve on TV or something? Has he been Buzzed?! |
