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| 2:02
| Was Terry dressed as Fat Elvis on Friday night at The Cell? |
| 2:03
| Stan and Terry are talking about Elvis but the anniversary of his death isn't until later this week. The pilgrimage is beginning now. |
| 2:04
| Stan didn't know about the double A in his middle name. He thought it was spelled with two a's but only had one A on the gravestone. |
| 2:05
| Steve doesn't even care about Elvis any more, that was back in the 80's. Steve was fascinated by Elvis but he wasn't necessarily a fan. |
| 2:06
| Steve was only interested in Elvis' death when it was all fresh and he died going to the bathroom. Then they changed it and redid Graceland and now it's all different. |
| 2:07
| The thing with Elvis' middle name might be something knew but forgot about. He does know that Elvis is buried in what used to be the barbecue area at Graceland. |
| 2:08
| His mom and dad might also be buried in the barbecue area. Steve's not sure about the brother though. All he knows is that Elvis took a lot of drugs and played racquetball stoned. |
| 2:09
| Steve did Greetings from Graceland in 1981 so he doesn't remember everything. He remembers good stuff like making monkeys have sex with chicks. |
| 2:10
| Stan and Terry talked to Peggy Lipton and she said a lot of the stuff like the white cotton panties wasn't true. Maybe he was just willing to overlook that for her. |
| 2:11
| Steve knows about the crazy Elvis stuff like him poking a girl in her breast with a pool cue and injuring her. She interrupted the game! |
| 2:12
| The first story that came out after he died was that it was an arrhythmia while going to the bathroom. Then immediately it was changed and never heard about again. |
| 2:13
| Then they redecorated the Jungle Room and made it look normal. When Steve and Garry went down there it wasn't like it is now. You could buy copies of the original death certificate and a set of 8 x 10 photos of the interior of the house. |
| 2:14
| Steve and Garry almost got a tour of the house from Elvis' cousin Jesse but he backed out at the last second. |
| 2:15
| Steve did go back to Graceland for the 20th anniversary of his death but it was way too creepy and commercialized. |
| 2:16
| Steve was down there with his producer at the time, Shemp. The shows were pretty good but there was one point where Shemp told Steve the most boring story he'd ever heard about redecorating his apartment. |
| 2:17
| Stan was wondering what the difference between Memphis and Chicago-style barbecue was. Steve thinks Memphis has a rub on it with no sauce. |
| 2:27
| Song: Air Conditioned Room, Buzz Kilman & the Blues Rocket Scientists |
| 2:32
| That song is very appropriate in the dog days of summer. Plus Steve and Buzz are in an air conditioned room. It's almost too cold but that's the way Steve likes to start the day off, chilly. Chilly today, hot tamale. |
| 2:33
| That song also triggered the contest of the Dahlfins ticket giveaway. That girl Mary-Angela is back. Right off the bat she was put to work. |
| 2:34
| Mary-Angela is back answering phones down the hall even though Steve asked Adam to keep them in promotions. There are a lot of Groundhog's Day moments at WCKG though so Steve's not surprised. |
| 2:35
| Steve doesn't feel like dealing with all of that today so she can stay down there. His bawdy, ribald behavior during breaks will be stifled because she's there though. Steve thought about bringing her under the tent but that could get him in trouble. Drew would freak out. |
| 2:36
| On Friday at Papi Chulo's Drew was really working some blond girl twice his size. One of the mics was picking up someone in the crowd talking really loudly and it turns out it was Steve. |
| 2:37
| There were a few Papi Chulo's regulars who were put out that the show as broadcasting from there including the one guy who yelled "say something funny." So Steve told him his fly was down, which it was. |
| 2:38
| Then the guy zipped up and started making gestures with his crotch. There's really nothing you can say to "your fly is down" though. |
| 2:39
| Steve hopes that Drew didn't get in trouble for being called-out on the air. How was the ride home on Friday though? Was Drew mad because he was close to closing it? |
| 2:40
| Buzz did take note of the kind of car Drew drives but he's not sure he wants to reveal it because of how freaked out he was about it. Everyone knows what kind of car Steve drives, it was sitting in the parking lot all day. |
| 2:41
| Steve did get several emails from listeners informing him of the proper pronunciation of Porsche, with the a sound. That was Steve's weekend, replying to those emails. |
| 2:42
| Steve can't imagine any of his listeners seeking out and trashing Drew's car at the broadcast. |
| 2:43
| Is Drew an aggressive driver? It seems like he would be because he's short. Was there any tailgating? When Drew looks over to talk to you does the car go in that direction? |
| 2:44
| Steve stayed at Papi Chulo's and had some mini tacos which were delicious. There seems to be one company that makes mini tacos for all the bars because they all taste the same and replicate the Jack-in-the-Box taco experience pretty closely. |
| 2:45
| Then Steve headed home a little dehydrated. He and Buzz were out in the sun all day long. Buzz was probably a little cooler in his white jeans. Steve really felt bad for May or May Not but they seemed fine with it. |
| 2:46
| Steve calls Jim. He was at May or May Not's show on Friday night. It was a good time and they gave Steve a shout-out. It wasn't the girl though it was the short dude who sort of looks like Buzz. He looks like Buzz if Buzz were 20 years younger, shorter and a horse jockey. |
| 2:47
| Last night was the season finale of John From Cincinnati. Jim thought it was fantastic. Pete agrees, if that's the last episode ever he'd be fine with it. |
| 2:48
| Steve doesn't even care that he doesn't know what it's about either. It doesn't seem like you can ever really understand it since the people doing the show don't even understand it. |
| 2:49
| Steve hates to bring this up again but over the weekend he was able to pinpoint exactly what went wrong at the Lollapalooza broadcast which caused Pete and Jim to clam up and barely say anything for about 20 minutes. |
| 2:50
| That new kid who works in promotions was at the broadcast with them and they started clamming up as soon as Steve started making fun of him. He's a big, hulking black guy so Pete and Jim were probably afraid of him. |
| 2:51
| And when Steve said that someone's headphones were up too loud and he could hear himself it was probably the kid's headphones since he was sitting there the entire time watching them. |
| 2:52
| He was also at Matt and Brendan's appearance on Friday night and some girl walked up to him and said "you remind me of someone but I don't know who." He said Fat Albert, which makes Steve actually like him a little bit. |
| 2:55
| There's really no good way to get drop-ins from John From Cincinnati but that was a good one. |
| 2:56
| Live read: Cheeseburger in Paradise |
| 2:57
| Steve would like to again object to the copy in this live read which says "spend your weekend". It's Monday, should it really say that? |
| 2:58
| On Thursday Steve and Buzz will be down in Bourbonnais. Tom Thayer will be there as well. Buzz hasn't really been notified about the broadcast. Can he make it? |
| 2:59
| Buzz will have to factor in travel time but he'll be with Drew so it'll fly by. The Bears have an evening practice so there will be a ton of people around. |
| 3:00
| Steve felt pretty good about what he saw on Saturday night. Buzz was impressed with Grossman and Orton. He was worried about Cedric Benson though. |
| 3:01
| Early in the game Benson took a very hard hit from someone on the Texans. Coach said that as a running back you wouldn't forget who hit you. Not 10 minutes later on another run Benson leveled the guy who hit him and moved on. |
| 3:02
| The most awkward part of the broadcast for Steve was when Coach was lecturing G-Reg. There's probably a certain level of jealousy because Coach and G-Reg are both tight ends. |
| 3:03
| Specifically Coach told him he had to work on his blocking which seemed inappropriate for a sideline interview. G-Reg looked stunned but then again he always looks stunned so he just rolled with it and said thank you. |
| 3:04
| Brian Griese looked good after his interception but Steve would rather see Orton as the back-up. Kyle has the look of a guy who doesn't want to be the back-up though. |
| 3:05
| Kyle's drink of choice is the White Russian but it's a tribute to The Big Lebowski. You really need to explain that right away or else you face several days of wondering why he's drinking a White Russian. |
| 3:06
| Hopefully Pete can find the snippet with Coach and G-Reg. It seemed like Greg knew he shouldn't be talking to anyone since the game was still going on. Coach twice went off on these rambling diatribes, it was mucho awkward. That's Coach though, that's why we love him. |
| 3:10
| As a guy who's been hammered many times, it sounds like Coach was hammered when he was talking to G-Reg. |
| 3:11
| Buzz once cornered John Candy in a bar and lectured him on how to handle his career. Steve is familiar with that conversation. Once at Excalibur Steve lectured Crowded House about how to handle their career and then they broke up shortly after that and didn't reunite for 15 years. |
| 3:12
| That was also the night that Murphy in the Morning's girlfriend had a jar of amyl nitrate. It was in liquid form and one quick smell made your heart leap up into your throat. |
| 3:13
| Song: Elvis, Sister Hazel |
| 3:17
| Buzz has a 10 foot by 10 foot Velvet Elvis, it's gorgeous. It's so big that it's not hanging up though, it's rolled up. |
| 3:18
| Buzz used to bring it out on stage and do special tributes to Elvis. He had it commissioned as a backdrop for his shows but eventually he took it down because it was so great looking. |
| 3:19
| Steve has room in his office for a 10 x 10 Elvis. It might be a little oppressive to have around all the time though. |
| 3:20
| Buzz could probably make a fortune selling it on Ebay. Steve has a much smaller Velvet Elvis with the sweet burnt pine frame. |
| 3:21
| Buzz is involved in an Elvis tribute this Thursday at the House of Blues with Mark Hussman. In some press materials Buzz is listed as the host but he'll only be host for a short time. Rick can go on for up to three hours, he can't stop himself. |
| 3:22
| Steve would love to see Buzz do In the Ghetto but he doesn't do late Elvis. There are Elvis impersonators who will argue with each other about which one does the best early, middle or late-period Elvis. |
| 3:23
| Steve hasn't been around an Elvis impersonator for quite some time and he's good with that. Once every 10 years is about enough for him. |
| 3:24
| In many ways Steve is an Elvis impersonator because he has the jumpsuit. He still has Buzz listed as a producer on his one man show Elvis: The Last 90 Minutes. Steve has everything he needs for that show which is a toilet and a jumpsuit. Buzz is eyeing a January premiere for the show. While everyone is celebrating his birthday they'll be celebrating his death. |
| 3:30
| They mentioned Elvis' death on The Bronx is Burning last week. Buzz hasn't had a chance to watch it yet but with 500 cable channels it'll be in syndication somewhere. |
| 3:31
| They even syndicate American Idol and everyone knows the outcome of each season. In a few years though the networks are going to be in trouble because reality TV doesn't syndicate as well as sitcoms or dramas. |
| 3:32
| What's the point of watching that show with the tennis player when you know he picks the younger woman over the older woman. |
| 3:33
| Buzz would be interested in seeing that Flava Flav/Brigitte Nielsen show though. Steve had his fill of them on the Surreal Life. Steve would have gone with Corey Feldman over Flava Flav. |
| 3:34
| Buzz has also been enjoying the reality show with Corey Haim and Corey Feldman. The only reality TV shows Steve watches are cooking shows. |
| 3:35
| Steve saw a very disturbing thing over the weekend on the Food Network with Alton Brown. He's sort of works up the scientific and historical aspects of the food he's making. Maybe Mark Czerniec could call in on this. It also seems like |
| 3:36
| Steve likes Alton Brown but he's not sure about his other show Feasting on Asphalt. It had a weird Wild Hogs feel to it. It's Alton and his entire crew on motorcycles. They weren't Harley's either, they seemed like Goldwings or something. |
| 3:37
| There was a creepy scene at a campsite where Alton made breakfast for his crew in an RV that they have with them. He seemed hesitant to reveal they had an RV with them but he had no choice. |
| 3:38
| In the process of making breakfast Alton threw a hissy fit because he had no salt. Then he sent someone from his crew off to get salt. The guy returned saying "you're not going to be happy, it's not kosher or sea salt." It was just regular salt, the kind that everyone everywhere uses. |
| 3:39
| Then when he was done cooking he almost threw the food down on the picnic table and said "breakfast is served!" like an angry wife. Steve found the whole thing very troubling. |
| 3:40
| It's troubling that dudes are camping to begin with. Plus he made a very fancy breakfast in a skillet with eggs and sausage. It didn't seem very fancy to Mark because nothing on the trip is supposed to be fancy. |
| 3:41
| Mark loves the show and he loves road trips so Steve's not going to sway him. It doesn't seem like a breakfast with head cheese is very fancy though. |
| 3:42
| It was just weird that the guy was afraid to bring Alton Brown regular salt. When is a guy afraid to bring another guy salt? |
| 3:48
| On the phone is Chuck Garfein from Comcast Sportsnet. He's overwhelmed by the mediocrity of the Cubs. |
| 3:49
| Chuck's not saying this as a bitter Sox fan, he's saying it as a journalist. The media in this town isn't used to a good baseball team so they tend to overblow it a bit. |
| 3:50
| The Cubs are still 1 1/2 games back but if they make the playoffs who knows how far they'll make it. |
| 3:51
| Steve doesn't follow the NL Central too closely but it seems like the Cardinals are on the verge of getting it together. They're only 5.5 games out and they play Milwaukee next. |
| 3:52
| It's looking like Scott Podsednik will stay with the White Sox after all. Why was that such a big deal, almost everyone gets put on the waiver wires and a lot of them are claimed. It's very rare that the trade goes through. |
| 3:53
| The big story today is that Jose Contreras has cleared waivers. That means he can be traded to any team so there's a better chance of that happening. |
| 3:54
| He probably won't go anywhere based on Gavin Floyd's performance yesterday. Against the Tigers he looked like Cy Young but yesterday he looked like Neil Young. |
| 3:55
| Right off the bat Steve Stone knew what Cliff Floyd was doing wrong in that game, why can't he tell someone? Steve meant Gavin Floyd. Why do we need two guys named Floyd in this city? |
| 3:56
| Chuck wants to know why the Bobby Jenks story isn't on the front page of every paper everywhere. He has tied the major league record for 41 straight batters retired. |
| 3:57
| The other guy to retire 41 straight was a starting pitcher but Jenks is doing it at the end of a game, usually in a high-pressure situation. |
| 3:58
| The Cubs are off today and have the Reds in town for three games starting tomorrow. Aramis Ramirez is expected to be back in the line-up. |
| 3:59
| The Cubs play Milwaukee three more times and they play the Cardinals a few more times as well so they'll be interesting to watch. |
| 4:00
| The Cubs just finished playing a suddenly good Colorado team. No one did them any favors by peaking them two weeks ago. That's not going help your game. |
| 4:01
| Chuck just did a story about the It Factor in professional sports. It seems like the Cubs had It two weeks ago and then Soriano went down and they lost it. |
| 4:02
| The Sox had It in 2005. Steve thinks Aaron Rowand was the It Factor in 2005. They'll be looking for a center fielder next year so there's a chance they could get him back. Steve likes Jerry Owens in center and he likes that Danny Richar kid too. Someone he doesn't like is Juan Uribe if Chuck wants to pass that along. |
| 4:03
| The Bears offense looked good on Saturday night. They threw to 17 different receivers. Buzz even caught a pass! |
| 4:04
| Chuck didn't see the Coach/G-Reg interview, he should have someone rack that up for him. Steve can't prove it but it seems like Coach was in the cup doing this game. It sounds like something you'd say to someone at a bar at 1:00 AM. |
| 4:05
| There's no baseball tonight but Chuck went into the Comcast vault and found some video from 1990 that he believes made the world stop spinning for a brief moment. It involves Ozzie Guillen, Craig Grabek and Nolan Ryan. |
| 4:06
| The Stone Pony did a really good job this week with Hawk, he kept him in line. Why did DJ take a week off because his wife popped out a kid? Being a baseball announcer is a built-in excuse for why you don't have to be there. |
| 4:12
| Caller Sean has some information about Darin Jackson. This is his fourth kid and it was a planned c-section. |
| 4:13
| Caller Matt has some salt info. Before the sports Steve was talking about Alton Brown on Feasting on Asphalt, not having any salt. That Chuck Garfein is quite the talker, Steve had to give him the heave-ho three different times. |
| 4:14
| Matt would equate Alton's problem with sending someone out for wine and getting a bottle of Thunderbird. |
| 4:15
| Matt had a cooking demonstration at his house with some of his friends and part of it was a tasting of several different kinds of salt. You could definitely notice a difference between regular salt and sea salt or kosher salt. Can Buzz see Steve's eyes rolling back in his head? |
| 4:16
| Matt does want to recommend something called bacon salt. It tastes like bacon and you sprinkle it on your fries or eggs or whatever. |
| 4:17
| Steve's got the bacon salt website up on his computer and it doesn't look as fly-by-night as he thought it was going to be. |
| 4:18
| Matt's a salt snob isn't he? Steve always uses regular salt except for when he cooks steak. With that he uses something called Reese's which is a combination of kosher salt and some spices. |
| 4:19
| Steve knew there was a difference between varieties of salts but it was funny to see Alton Brown throw a hissy fit about it. |
| 4:20
| Regular salt tastes different because the iodine. Iodine is good for you and the reason they started putting it in salt is because people weren't getting enough of it. Now look at us, we're a race of superhumans. |
| 4:21
| Caller Pat was wondering if Steve and Buzz caught the Comedy Central roast of Flava Flav. |
| 4:22
| Steve always gets the feeling that a lot of the best stuff on those roasts are cut out for the broadcast. |
| 4:29
| Brigitte Nielsen came out of rehab to appear at the Flava Flav roast. Buzz is wondering why she was in rehab, she's a mountain of a woman. |
| 4:30
| Nielsen's spokesman said that she was in rehab on her own free will. It doesn't say what is though. |
| 4:31
| Headlines with Buzz |
| 4:32
| Karl Rove has resigned his position in the Bush administration. He's probably just moving on to help the next Republican who's running for president. |
| 4:33
| Everyone who talks about Rove says he's really tired. Who wouldn't be tired after taking that knucklehead to the White House. |
| 4:34
| Hope is fading for the safe rescue of 6 miners in Utah. A third shaft is being dug to communicate with the miners. Why don't they just dig a bigger hole and rescue them? Steve is officially tired of the guy who owns the mine. |
| 4:35
| NASA is trying to figure out how to repair chipped tiles on the bottom of Space Shuttle Endeavor. |
| 4:36
| They also have those don't they? They're only making a big deal about it because of the one that blew up a few years ago. Steve's just excited for the drunk spacewalk. |
| 4:37
| A woman, her son and his friend are suing McDonald's for $10 million after they mistakenly put cheese on the burger of a customer who was allergic to cheese. |
| 4:38
| Don't you look at something before you eat it? They claim the burger was eaten in the dark and the cheese was not noticed until it was too late. |
| 4:39
| If you're that allergic you should be eating everything at home or at least with the lights on. |
| 4:40
| According to the New York Post Angelina Jolie is giving up the gay life. She's no longer going to S & M sessions or having affairs with women. What?! |
| 4:41
| Steve wasn't aware of any of that. What he does know is that Jolie and Brad Pitt got to the Field Museum after closing time. The whole place was reopened for them and they only stayed for an hour. That's not enough time to see anything in there. |
| 4:44
| Brad and Angelina also went to Japonais which is some sort of see and be seen sushi restaurant. Not that Steve has to tell Buzz that, he's probably there every night. |
| 4:45
| We shouldn't be known for our sushi should we? If they want to go have a garbage salad at Morton's that's another thing. |
| 4:46
| Back to that cheeseburger story. The son and his friend had Happy Meals and took them home to eat while watching a movie. |
| 4:47
| After her son began having a reaction to the cheese she called McDonald's to complain. Then she realized her son needed medical attention and took him to the hospital. How do you get the number to McDonald's? Is it listed? |
| 4:48
| When McDonald's gets sued for something like they should dress their attorney as Ronald McDonald. |
| 4:49
| Live read: Gierczyk Properties |
| 4:50
| Live read: Balance for Life |
| 4:51
| This morning Steve had something like an apple pancake from Balance for Life. It's not really a pancake it's more like corn bread. Steve also had three pieces of turkey sausage. |
| 4:52
| Caller Ron wanted to let Steve know that the number of the McDonald's store is on every receipt in case they get your order wrong. Steve always checks at the restaurant. |
| 4:53
| Ron is allergic to peanuts and he always checks his order just in case some teenager got it wrong. Buzz is wondering how severe Ron's allergy is. If he kisses someone who just ate a peanut butter sandwich, will he have a reaction? |
| 5:00
| Is that Buzz on harmonica in the rejoin? It's probably Howard Levy. Whoever it is Steve liked it. |
| 5:01
| Buzz considers Howard to be the greatest harmonica player in the world and he's right here in Chicago. Howard invented some techniques that changed harmonica playing, like the overblow. Buzz can't do it and he can't even explain it. |
| 5:02
| It's time for the Five O'Clock Taco Bell. It's Manager Monday which means Steve will be talking to a Taco Bell manager. |
| 5:03
| On the phone is Jerry Brown, he's a regional manager for several Taco Bells. Right now he's at the restaurant in Bourbonnais. That's probably the one Steve will get his Taco Bell from on Thursday. |
| 5:04
| Steve's having the Grande Quesadilla on the thick panadero bread. Steve never though about putting hot sauce on the quesadilla but he'll try that now. |
| 5:05
| Taco Bell has opened up whole new worlds of food to Buzz. He was just raving about it to a friend of his and the guy looked at him like he was from outer space. Taco Bell's been doing that for years! |
| 5:06
| Song: Ayatollah, Steve Dahl |
| 5:08
| Steve doesn't normally say "ciao" but it felt appropriate in that song. As Steve was listening to that song he thought it would be a good one for The Nadas to learn. |
| 5:09
| The Nadas are pretty facile, they learn quickly. Steve's been rehearsing his songs for 10 years trying to commit them to muscle memory. |
| 5:10
| You'd think it would be much easier to memorize your own songs but it's not. Steve has to play his own songs more than someone else's to memorize them which isn't fair. |
| 5:11
| People have been pretty good about calling the contest line for a giveaway. When Steve played that song the content line didn't light up which Steve takes to mean we have smart listeners. |
| 5:12
| We even fly in an intern to answer the contest line, Maya Angelou. Everything she says is in a rhyme. Actually her name is Mary Angela. She no longer hangs out down the hall all day either, she just comes down for the giveaway. |
| 5:13
| She needs to be down in promotions just to separate Jill and Adam. Steve wasn't kidding when he said Jill looked good on Friday. She had a very natural, girl-next-door look only with a lot of cleavage. |
| 5:14
| That being said Jill could still kick your ass. She proved that at North Beach when she kicked those hip-hop guys out of Steve's dressing room. |
| 5:15
| We also learned on Friday that Adam is pretty tough, he kicked that guy off stage twice. Eventually Steve went down and talked to the guy who was a little hammered. He was a nice enough guy though. |
| 5:16
| We might want to think about security for these remotes, maybe an off-duty cop. An off-duty female cop would be even better. |
| 5:17
| Steve feels weird having a little feller working security too. Normally Steve would do it as the alpha male but he can't do that and the show and then maybe get arrested. A lot of people think that if the show's in a commercial break you have free time. |
| 5:18
| Steve's favorite part of the show was when Tina sat right next to him, almost too close, throughout the entire show. He would go to the back of the stage in the shade and she would just stay there instead of high-tailing it out of there. |
| 5:19
| Buzz just met Tina's sister today, she was very effervescent. Was she here just to meet Buzz? |
| 5:24
| Live read: Townstone Financial |
| 5:25
| You'll recall that Steve and Buzz talked to David Hochberg on Friday, fresh off blowing Sherman Kaplan's mind on the Noon Business Report. |
| 5:26
| David was calling for all financial institutions to freeze their rates for 18 months. It was the first person Steve has ever heard Sherman argue with or hang up on. David didn't seem to mind either, he just keeps rolling on. He's like the Mississippi river. |
| 5:27
| Steve wonders if we'll ever hear about Craig Stebic in a Townstone live read. What ever happened to Amy Jacobson? It's like she never even existed. |
| 5:28
| Buzz loves The Jake but he is completely entranced by Laura Jiggetts. |
| 5:29
| Steve would like to once again remind Buzz that he's missing out on Cheryl Burton in Hi-Def on ABC. Every night she's doing something to highlight her cleavage, it's like softcore porn. |
| 5:30
| Occasionally the buzz is ruined by Sarah Schulte who shouldn't even be in radio. If you're going to run babes, run babes. Laura Jiggetts in HD would probably be pretty good too though. |
| 5:31
| Steve can't believe CBS and NBC aren't in HD, it's a joke. Sometimes Steve watches ABC news without the sound. He knows the day's news, the real news is that Cheryl Burton has found a sweater to wear in the summer that's completely appropriate and yet somehow still highlights her cleavage. |
| 5:37
| Live read: Frame Warehouse |
| 5:38
| Frame Warehouse sent Steve a framed photo from the Columbian Exposition and a real admission ticket. That's over 100 years old. |
| 5:39
| Paul Haemer owns Frame Warehouse, he used to own Haemer Guitars. He's really good with the woodworking, he made the five-neck guitar for Rick Nielsen. |
| 5:40
| Steve sometimes wishes he would have been alive to attend the Columbian Exposition. |
| 5:41
| Time for some sports. The Sox and Cubs are off today. For the Cubs it's there first day off in 3 weeks. They host the Reds tomorrow at Wrigley. |
| 5:42
| The Sox embark on a 6 game road trip tomorrow stopping in Oakland for three days first. |
| 5:43
| Sox players are not ready to give up their season yet. Javier Vazquez says the team does not consider themselves spoilers. They're not good enough to be spoilers. Jermaine Dye thinks the team is still in it. In what? In the American League? |
| 5:44
| The NFL has announced they still haven't completed their investigation into allegations against Michael Vick. So they're announcing nothing? |
| 5:45
| Russian tennis star Maria Sharapova announced plans to visit the site of the Chernobyl disaster, which drove her family from the country before she was born. Why not just stay away from something like that? |
| 5:52
| Steve would still like to say that the weekend show with Ron and Tim infringes on Bob and Ron. Steve saw Drew but he always comes in at a very inopportune time. |
| 5:53
| Today Drew came in just before he left to tell Steve how great the show was on Friday. Of course you don't want to stop him when he's saying that. Then Drew goes on to remind Steve how uncomfortable he was in the heat. |
| 5:54
| Drew didn't over up a solution to make sure that didn't happen again. They could face the stage somewhere other than west. It is called Sunset Bay Marina though. |
| 5:55
| Steve's not sure if he's supposed to stay where the next one is but hopefully it's not facing the sunset. It might not be as hot by next month though. |
| 5:56
| Steve keeps meaning to ask Drew about the Ron and Tim show. Plus Bob and Ron are going to get bad press as dog walkers because of that one dog walker who stole from a client. Bob and Ron are icons in the dog walking community. |
| 5:57
| A woman stole a coat from a client and then wore it back to the person's house. Apparently you don't need a brain to be a dog walker. Who wears a coat in the summer anyway? |
| 5:58
| NBC had a great photo of the dog walker last night. She's quite burly, probably from all the walking. |
| 5:59
| Buzz went to North Halsted Market Days yesterday where he saw a lot of burly women. Buzz took Piper, it's the second festival she's been to this summer, the other being the Peace & Hemp Festival. |
| 6:00
| At one point as Piper was enjoying her first ever brat, she looked over and said to Buzz "that girl over there doesn't look like a real girl." Turns out it was a big burly guy in a wig. |
| 6:01
| Buzz sort of forgot what to expect at Market Days, he was just there to see Kathy Richardson play with Big Brother and the Holding Company. How could Buzz forget what Market Days is? |
| 6:02
| Police say 21-year old dog walker Jillian Robertson stole thousands of dollars in clothing, computers and digital cameras from clients homes. |
| 6:03
| Joel Spainhour, owner of Tucker Pup's Dog Activity Center, called several customers and they were all missing things from their house. Tucker Pup's has to be a direct competitor for Bob and Ron. They're probably already spreading leaflets about this. |
| 6:04
| Song: Coming Home, The Nadas |
| 6:14
| Something funny happened to Steve today involving a check. He doesn't really do banking. When he has to write a check he normally puts the person's name on the wrong line or signs in the wrong place. |
| 6:15
| Today Steve got a check from Terry Armour for some Sox tickets he bought. Steve decided to sign it over to Stephanie so she could cash it because he didn't have any cash. |
| 6:16
| Turns out they don't do that any more. Since when? Steve's been doing that for all his life, at least until 20 years ago. What are the lines on the back of check for then? |
| 6:17
| Now Steve knows that you can't sign a check over to a third party. Stephanie tried it at Steve's bank and at her own bank. |
| 6:18
| Steve doesn't want to live in a world where you pay to the order of someone and they don't get paid. |
| 6:19
| This is sort of Steve's Buzz Kilman moment where he realizes something isn't the way it used to be. |
| 6:20
| Caller Donovan (Hail Atlantis!) has some info about the back of a check. The lines on the back can only be signed by the person who the check is made out to. |
| 6:21
| Everyone in the office looked at Steve like he was crazy for signing the check over to someone else. They're all a lot younger though. |
| 6:22
| News with Buzz |
| 6:23
| Karl Rove has resigned his position in the Bush administration. There's one guy who would look much better bald, maybe with a nice diamond-encrusted elephant earring. |
| 6:24
| Steve got an email last week but didn't follow up on it, are any of those guys trapped in the mine polygamists? That would be a lot of wives at the site of the collapse. |
| 6:25
| Someone sent Steve an email saying that one of the trapped miners was a polygamist and that the show Big Love was based on him. |
| 6:26
| Steve has watched a few episodes of Big Love but it's not getting the job done for him. In his mind if you have three wives everything is great but in the show it's not great. |
| 6:27
| OJ Simpson's hypothetical account of the murder of his wife and Ron Goldman will be repackaged and eventually released. The rights to the book are now owned by the Goldman family. |
| 6:28
| Buzz imagines they'll want to do a TV movie once the book comes out. Steve would like to see Don Cheadle as OJ but maybe he only does movies now. |
| 6:29
| Jessica Simpson wanted a Mexican baby for her 16th birthday. When her family first visited the Casa Hogar orphanage in Mexico she told her dad she wanted to adopt a baby that had been found in a dumpster. |
| 6:30
| Simpson, now 26, said she would one day like to adopt abroad. Steve wouldn't mind adopting a broad, maybe someone like Angelina Jolie. |
| 6:31
| Speaking of Angelina Jolie, she has reportedly given up her kinky lifestyle according to the New York Post. She will no longer go to S & M sessions or have flings with women. |
| 6:32
| In other Angelina Jolie news the actress went to the Field Museum after closing time with Brad Pitt but only stayed for an hour. There's really not much to see there. Maybe they picked up some sort of kinky, medieval sex toy like a mace or a sarcophagus. |
| 6:33
| Steve heard she adopted one of the baby mummies at the museum, she just can't help herself. |
| 6:34
| Somewhere Billy Bob Thornton has to be seeing all this and laughing about it. He probably emails Brad Pitt to let him know he's still got that vial of Angelina's blood if he wants it. |
| 6:45
| Live read: Balance for LIfe |
| 6:46
| Balance for Life is a great way to lose weight or maintain your weight. If Steve goes home tonight and has a pizza for dinner he'll have more Balance for Life waiting for him the next day. |
| 6:47
| Steve's feet have been hurting him lately and he couldn't figure out why. Then he looked at the bottom of his shoes and saw that he'd blown them out. There were holes in them! |
| 6:48
| Steve felt proud of himself for blowing out his shoes. Buzz's shoes usually last about 3 months and then he needs a new pair. |
| 6:49
| Steve came down to the office early today and grabbed another pair of shoes from the closet. Then he walked along the lake. The last time he did it in June the lake front was packed with people. Now there's barely anyone out there. |
| 6:50
| Steve shows Buzz his blown out shoes. He can keep them if he wants, maybe get them bronzed or something. Buzz once bronzed a pair of his running shoes but someone did a bad job and they turned green. |
| 6:51
| Steve got down to the Shedd Aquarium and then turned around. On Steve's way back there was some alternative rock guy with a backpack on, wearing flip-flops with a digital camera. |
| 6:52
| He was walking stride-for-stride with Steve which really bugged him. Steve would speed up and the guy would catch him and he kept doing that. So Steve just pushed him into the lake. |
| 6:53
| Not really, Steve just slowed down to let the guy pass. He was really creeping Steve out though, he had a shaved head and a beard and a really tight t-shirt like the kind Pete and Jim wear. |
| 6:54
| It's like the guy was taunting Steve because he was wearing flip-flops. Lollapalooza was last weekend! It was like they were swans and they'd just mated or something. |
| 7:00
| Steve's not sure why the alternative rock guy was taunting him. He was just minding his own business, listening to his iPod, wishing he had money on him to stop at a snack bar. |
| 7:01
| For those of you keeping score, Steve has spent the last month trying to get two parking passes for New Buffalo from Matt Dahl. |
| 7:02
| Steve was up there over the weekend and really could have used one. Instead he had to get a temporary one which he put in his back pocket when he was running. Then it got all sweaty and he had to dry it in the microwave. |
| 7:03
| Matt's very sorry about all this. He was sorry when Steve called him in New Orleans and sorry when Steve called him over the weekend. Now Steve finally has Matt cornered, he has his backpack here and he only has one pass. |
| 7:04
| These kids today, they don't appreciate anything. Matt would like to extend heartfelt thanks from the Matt Dahl Show to Buzz for making them beignets on Saturday morning. |
| 7:05
| So Buzz gets thanks for throwing some dough in hot oil and Steve doesn't get thanks for paying for college or the circumcision or anything like that? Why can't Steve be more like Buzz?! |
| 7:06
| Steve got himself a free donut at some street fair in downtown New Buffalo on Saturday. The guy working the donut stand was a fan. |
| 7:07
| Did Buzz usher them out as soon as the were finished? Or was he just pacing by the door the entire time? |
| 7:08
| After beignets and milk Matt and Brendan got a tour of the condo. It ended with a martial arts demonstration from Piper. All you have to do is name a move and she executes it on her dummy, which is wearing a Loop t-shirt. |
| 7:09
| If To Catch a Predator ever comes to Chicago all the guys will be wearing Loop T-shirts. |
