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| 2:01
| Steve has to use the bathroom so Stan can take a phone call if he wants to. Terry's just trying to get out of here. |
| 2:02
| Did Stan just take a call from Phyllis Diller? That's cool. You can always count on a bad call waiting for Stan. |
| 2:03
| Stan and Terry were speculating that Lance Briggs might have pulled a Teddy Pendergrass when he crashed his car. What does that mean? This is Steve's show, don't drag him into this. |
| 2:04
| What kind of irresponsible broadcasting is that? Lance can still sue Stan for saying that even if he thinks it's in code. Are they nuts? Do they think they can't be prosecuted because they're black? |
| 2:05
| Steve doesn't need Mark Czerniec giving him the Teddy Pendergrass Wikipedia entry. Everyone stop! Is Steve the only one around here who has something to lose? It seems like he is which is scary and exhilarating at the same time. |
| 2:06
| Steve has decided that Lance was probably just seeing what his car could do, it's a very fast ride. If there was someone else in the car both of the doors would have been left open. |
| 2:07
| By the way Terry, the white pants are very slimming. Steve thought there was an ice cream truck nearby. |
| 2:08
| That area of the Edens where Lance crashed is slippery and curvy and they just had some flooding too. Plus that Lamborghini is like a jet on wheels. |
| 2:09
| Lance crashed a $350,000 car but that's what he makes in one game so he should be OK. |
| 2:10
| Stan wanted to ask Steve a question about Northwestern since he has an "in" there. Steve doesn't have an "in" there, Pat Dahl just went there and they treated Steve horribly. |
| 2:11
| Does Stan think Steve has an "in" just because he's a rich white man? He paid for Pat to go there but they don't even let parents look at their student's grades. |
| 2:12
| Stan and Terry are trying to get Shorty, Terry's ventriloquist dummy, an honorary degree at Northwestern. They act all hoity-toity but they gave an honorary degree to Edgar Bergen's dummy Charlie McCarthy. |
| 2:13
| Terry should bring Shorty back. It was a mistake to ever get rid of him. He should have no problem getting an honorary degree at Northwestern because he's not white. |
| 2:14
| Right now Shorty goes to Malcolm X College, not that there's anything wrong with that. They have a great football team, their helmets look fantastic with that big X on them. |
| 2:15
| Do they have a football team? If they did they'd probably be pretty scary. They might have a basketball team. They do have a midnight basketball league. Steve was once there for the championship game which scared the wits out of him. |
| 2:16
| Steve was there with the guy who started up the program. He thought it was a cool idea but he was still scared because it was all gangbangers coming together in one place at midnight! |
| 2:24
| Song: Wreck on the Highway, Bruce Springsteen |
| 2:28
| Jesus Pete! That's a very down way to start a show Zippy. As it turns out a lot of car crash songs are sad. Could Pete turn the TV down before he talks to Pete? |
| 2:29
| Steve would have gone with Last Kiss or Dead Man's Curve. Or he could go with that from the album that even Bruce Springsteen doesn't listen to because it bums him out. |
| 2:30
| Actually that's from The River. Every time Steve hears a bad Bruce Springsteen song he thinks it's from Nebraska. Bruce has a new album coming out soon but Steve doesn't care about him any more. |
| 2:31
| Did Pete get that one from Dan Falato? He ran it by Garry first and then Billy Murray and Harry Shearer. |
| 2:32
| That one is a downer, that's all Steve is saying. He had to stop Buzz from going Owen Wilson on us. |
| 2:33
| Back when people used to edit actual reel-to-reel tape there were a lot of razor blades around radio stations. Those were very convenient for doing coke or for suicidal DJs and there were a lot of them. |
| 2:34
| Actually when Steve first got to WCKG the production guy killed himself but that was with a gun. He was a really good production guy too, we could use him around here to lighten John Castino's load. |
| 2:35
| The other production guy at the time was very distraught about it because he was really close with the guy. That other guy has gone on to be way more successful that he should be for someone who can't speak English properly. |
| 2:36
| He's the guy who does those Comcast commercials. His speech impediment has gotten a lot better over the years. |
| 2:37
| Would a Jimmy Mac care if a John Castino killed himself? Because he seems just about on the edge of doing that everyday. He's very high strung but he does good work. |
| 2:38
| If Steve every comes in and sees Jimmy Mac crying he'll know why. There are actually several reasons why he'd be crying though. |
| 2:39
| At the risk of boring everyone with this, does Buzz want to talk about Lance Briggs? Is there anything to talk about? Steve's just going to read the article from the Trib since he works for them. Steve just filed a story on Sunday for next Thursday, he's a little ahead of things. |
| 2:40
| Steve wanted to do a story on dogfighting but he was told it wouldn't be timely. Had it been in this Thursday's paper it would still be timely. Steve feels that they were worried he'd upset animal people. |
| 2:41
| Steve fully intends to do an article about dogfighting because it is a vice. Steve's editor is very nice and she's a fan so that makes it much easier. |
| 2:42
| When Steve told her he wanted to do a dogfighting article a few weeks ago she said it wouldn't be timely so then he decided to do an article on something else. |
| 2:43
| Steve's editor also put him in touch with a guy who was going to do an article about fish tacos. She thought they might be able to work together on something except the guy wanted to have a debate about which style was better. |
| 2:44
| The guy was writing an article in favor of the fried, Baja-style of fish tacos but that's the one Steve prefers. One of Steve's fondest memories from childhood is going to Baja and eating fish tacos from a family who sold them by the side of the road. |
| 2:45
| Back then you didn't eat vegetables when you were in Mexico so Steve was positive that the tacos only consisted of fried fish and a tortilla. Then the guy wanted to debate Steve about that. |
| 2:46
| So Steve wasn't going to fake it with a cherished childhood memory. Maybe the guy's article about tacos will be in the paper this week though. |
| 2:47
| Steve already wrote another article about tacos anyway. How could his editor forget that so quickly? |
| 2:48
| Mark Twain hasn't written a book in a hundred years and just like his work, Steve's article on tacos is timeless. If people are clamoring for a taco article than just reprint his. |
| 2:49
| Steve got a flurry of emails from the other writer, Kevin Pang. The first one starts right off the bat saying that fried is the way to go with fish tacos. Steve knew right there that he was out. |
| 2:50
| Then he tossed out a few more ideas that they could debate and Steve they sounded good and he'd do whatever he wanted. Steve couldn't have been more cooperative. He's Mr. Cooperation. |
| 2:51
| In the next email Kevin asked Steve how he likes his fish taco. Steve even responded that he likes them grilled of fried without breading. So he was still trying to cooperate. |
| 2:52
| Pang refers to that as non-Baja style. In Baja they fry the fish in beer batter, top it with cabbage, white cream sauce and a squeeze of lime on a corn tortilla. That's not the original style though, Steve is one of the found fathers of the fish taco. |
| 2:58
| Steve hasn't had a fish taco since the Baja Fresh closed across the street. It seems like a downtown location would be good for anyone but it didn't work out for them. |
| 2:59
| Steve doesn't know of any good places to find a fish taco but people are welcome to call in with recommendations. |
| 3:00
| Steve always drives by places that look like they might have good fish tacos but he never has the time to stop. |
| 3:01
| Former WCKG general manager Terry Hardin was always touting Rubio's in San Diego. Actually Steve had forgotten all about how much he liked fish tacos until he went into Terry's office one day and he was eating them. |
| 3:02
| Steve doesn't like to eat fish normally so he made fun of Terry for eating the fish tacos, then he remembered he liked them. Then Steve and Terry bonded over fish tacos and Terry told him about Rubio's. Then every time Terry went to San Diego he told Steve he was going to Rubio's. |
| 3:03
| Terry had fish tacos from Baja Fresh so Steve sent out of them and they were great. Sadly over the course of a year they went down in quality. Tina could be to blame though since she always went to get them and she easily gets on people's nerves. |
| 3:04
| Then the lowest point was when Steve got a fish taco that someone had accidentally put oregano on. Oregano! |
| 3:05
| Steve really doesn't want to take a call about good fish taco places in Southern California. Although he does remember a really great fish taco he had in Seal Beach. |
| 3:06
| Caller Eric was hoping Steve could remember the name of the place in Seal Beach. He's been there, it's right on the PCH, but he can't remember what it's called. |
| 3:07
| Steve used to ride his bike up to that area as a kid if anyone cares. He also lived in Huntington Beach during his first marriage. Actually, that might have been before he was married and he was living in sin. |
| 3:08
| Steve's priming the pumps with this fish taco talk. A lot of the time after a hiatus people forget they can call in to share their thoughts or have them stolen by Steve and Buzz. |
| 3:09
| OK that was actually a good call. Eric is a very good listener, he kept up through the entire call. |
| 3:10
| Caller Ted doesn't imagine Steve will be going down to The Cell any time soon but Pancho Pistolas has great fish tacos. Steve will go down to The Cell but only to kill someone. 3 home runs in the 7th inning, big deal! |
| 3:11
| Maybe Steve will just go to Pancho Pistolas instead of the the Sox game. When he broadcast from there during the World Series he had too many chili rellenos and bad things happened to him. |
| 3:12
| Steve didn't know that could happen to you just from eating too many peppers and they weren't even that hot. It lasted for several days too. |
| 3:13
| Steve's going to take one more call and then he has to start thinking about Taco Bell. Although they might want to start thinking about adding a fish taco to their menu. On the other hand, why would they want to mess around with fish because everything is working for them. |
| 3:14
| Caller Mark is recommending the fish taco at the Rock Bottom Brewery. There's one downtown but they're all over the place. |
| 3:20
| Steve was searching through the show logs which by the way you can read through on Dahl.com. It's funny to read through, even for Steve. It's like when you're on vacation and you have to take a picture. While you're taking the picture you don't want to be doing it but then you look back and you remember how fun it was. |
| 3:21
| It's from 3:01 PM on 2/28/06, almost 2 winters ago. Terry Hardin was pitching a Spring Training for Guys trip in lieu of the canceled Hawaii trip. Of course that Spring Training trip never happened either. |
| 3:22
| Terry's idea was baseball, golf, strippers and spa days. Guys don't take spa days though. |
| 3:23
| Steve's not going to give the time as he reads the log, or should he. Does that make it sound more like a captain's log or something? |
| 3:24
| The trip was only going to be Steve, Spike and Mary broadcasting poolside. How did Buzz miss out on this trip? |
| 3:25
| Dan Falato actually went out to Arizona to scout locations for the broadcast even though it never ended up happening. |
| 3:26
| Steve surmised that Dan was really going out there to make new connections with baseball players for Grover. At the time Dan was producing Grover and we all know how well that turned out. |
| 3:27
| If you read this show log in court Steve would be put away. It makes Steve look like he has a persecution complex. |
| 3:28
| Also on this day, Steve had two fish tacos without sauce on them. That's the whole point of the fish taco! |
| 3:29
| Steve really could be committed with this document. It should be destroyed not put in an archive. |
| 3:30
| To make matters worse on that day-because how could it get worse-Steve got a piece of cabbage lodged in his throat. They weren't properly lubricated. |
| 3:31
| Steve remembers when he told Drew he wasn't going to Spring Training and he was crestfallen. The travel arrangements weren't great. |
| 3:32
| Also on this day, Steve's dedicating songs to himself. In this case, By the Time I Get to Phoenix by Jimmy Webb. |
| 3:33
| Then Ron Lewis was in Steve's office hanging out. This is just like what happened yesterday. |
| 3:40
| On the phone is Mark Schanowski from Comcast Sportsnet. Mark really appreciates Buzz's energy on their promo too, it crackles. |
| 3:41
| Very big series at Wrigley starting tonight. It's sort of sad what happened to Milwaukee. Everyone was talking about their first trip to the playoffs since 1982 and now it doesn't seem like they'll get in. |
| 3:42
| The Brewers have been played sub .500 baseball since their high water mark earlier in the season. |
| 3:43
| Of course 83 wins could get someone the division in the Central. It doesn't give your fan base a lot of hope going into the playoffs but there really isn't a powerhouse in the NL so anything is possible. |
| 3:44
| The Cubs have their rotation pretty well set for the series with Rich Hill tonight. Meanwhile the Brewers don't know who's pitching tomorrow and Thursday. That's not really what you want going into a Wrigley Field where everyone will be out of their mind. |
| 3:45
| This is such a big series that Comcast is taking their show on the road. Mark should tell Dan Plesac to wear a hat, his head just looks better that way. He can wear a hat on TV right? |
| 3:46
| Anything new on the Lance Briggs thing? Originally he tried to claim the car was stolen. It's worth a try right? |
| 3:47
| You'd think after not talking to the media for the entire offseason Lance would have gotten his story together. Instead he goes out and says that he basically falsified a police report. |
| 3:48
| Lance is very lucky that he walked away from this thing and didn't get arrested. |
| 3:49
| Steve found it refreshing that Lance came out and said what happened. Buzz just thanks God that no alcohol was involved. |
| 3:50
| If Lance was drinking and cops had been on the scene he would have been suspended for 4 games. That's 4 Lamborghini's! Good thing he put that first check from the new contract in the bank. |
| 3:51
| Do we have that Lance Briggs press conference? Has that been on TV yet? Pete only has a 20 second clip from CLTV. |
| 3:52
| Comcast is still a little proprietary with their audio. Steve lives in a world where they send that to him right away and he plays it and people tune in. Do you think Jim is typing all of this right now? And then in a year Steve will read it from the show log, think the same thing and still not have any audio. |
| 3:59
| Steve's TiVo remote is controlling both TVs in the studio for some reason. Ed from The Little Guys can't come in because he was having chest pains. |
| 4:00
| Apparently that didn't stop him from coming over to Buzz's house and scouting locations for his surround system. |
| 4:01
| When Steve hears that someone has chest pains he expects them to be laid up for a while. |
| 4:02
| Steve had the press conference of the Idaho senator saying he's not gay. You don't have to be gay to want to have sex with a dude in a bathroom. |
| 4:03
| It's like those guys in the forest preserves. They're just hard-up. Of course if you touch it then maybe you are gay. |
| 4:04
| Do you really need to read that you love your family off of a piece of paper? |
| 4:05
| Idahoans? Is that what they're called? According to the senator there are still plenty of things left to do in his term. Like sweet cruising bathrooms in his office building? |
| 4:06
| Headlines with Buzz |
| 4:07
| Former astronaut Lisa Nowak will be using the insanity defense. According to her attorney she suffered a single episode of major depressive disorder, severe insomnia and obsessive-compulsive disorder. Who doesn't? |
| 4:08
| The Bears will not be disciplining Lance Briggs for leaving the scene of an accident early Monday morning. |
| 4:09
| Briggs' car is in bad condition according to Tony Lundin, who owns the body shop working on his car. He was on the NBC news last night talking about the damage when they suddenly cut away. |
| 4:10
| Fortunately we have Tony Lundin on the phone to finish his his damage report. |
| 4:11
| Tony had no idea he was cut-off mid-report on the NBC news last night. It had to be somewhat disappointing for him. |
| 4:12
| So is the car totaled? If Steve had a car like that damaged he'd want a new one. |
| 4:13
| Tony didn't know the car was Lance's at the time. He and his brother towed it from the scene of the accident. They hooked the crane up to the car and actually lifted it off the side of the road onto the Devon overpass. |
| 4:14
| Steve has the full audio of Tony's report and him being cut off. He seemed a little upset about it but at least he got to meet Anna Devlantes. |
| 4:15
| Finally, one of the most watched videos on YouTube is of Kate Upton, a Miss Teen contestant from South Carolina. Steve hasn't seen it, he only watches YouPorn. |
| 4:16
| The question was why people in the U.S. can't find their country on a map. Seems like an easy enough question right? |
| 4:17
| This girl sounds hot. She came in 4th place so she must be hot. She's 17 which is legal in South Carolina. |
| 4:18
| They only ran 10 seconds of the answer on NBC before they cut it off. Once again Steve would like to remind Buzz that every night on ABC Cheryl Burton is featured with plunging necklines. |
| 4:19
| Buzz tunes in for the stuff like Bruce Wolf's exchange with Alison after the story about the drug-sniffing dog. Does Steve have that in the studio too? Pete has to grab that one. |
| 4:20
| Pete has the entire thing but he didn't want to play the set-up again. Are we under a time crunch or something? |
| 4:27
| What would we do without the channel 5 news around here though? |
| 4:28
| Steve's looking at the video of that Miss Teen contestant and she is hot. She was on the Today's Show this morning and they were trying to make her feel good. |
| 4:29
| As is usually the case the girl looks better in real life than all gussied up for the pageant like JonBenet Ramsey. All those contestants look like high-priced call girls which isn't that bad either. |
| 4:30
| On the Today's Show they say that the whole thing isn't that big of a deal to make her feel better. Of course if it wasn't that big of a deal then she wouldn't be sitting there on national TV. |
| 4:31
| Does she really have to apologize for her answer anyway? She's just a hot, nervous, 17-year old girl. Steve's fine with that. |
| 4:32
| If Steve was Matt Lauer he'd just ask her if she was seeing anyone. |
| 4:33
| Kate Upton said that she was surprised by the question. Why didn't she ask them to repeat the question? They will repeat the question, Steve knows from his days on the pageant circuit. He was Miss Oregon. |
| 4:34
| Now they're showing footage of her in her bathing suit. Buzz will have to get up and look at that. |
| 4:35
| She is pretty hot in her bathing suit. OK, it's dirty old men on 105.9 WCKG, tune in. Two old men leering at footage of a Miss Teen contestant on the Today's Show. It doesn't get any more pathetic than that. |
| 4:36
| Then Matt initiates contact with her after she answers the question again. He's newly single isn't he? |
| 4:37
| Song: Maps, Yeah Yeah Yeah's |
| 4:40
| Pete needs to come in and sell the bill of goods on that song. Pete sold him on that song because it was about maps. Steve didn't hear maps mentioned once in that song. |
| 4:41
| Steve's going back through the song now. He doesn't really hear "maps". Buzz thinks it's ingenious because you can't hear what they're trying to say. |
| 4:42
| Then Steve sees the CD and it has the parental advisory warning. So he goes through the booklet but it's just a bunch of stupid paintings. |
| 4:43
| According to Pete that song was a huge hit. In what country? |
| 4:49
| Steve's looking for another song about maps to get the bad taste out of his mouth. How does that last one go again Pete? |
| 4:50
| The whole time Steve was waiting for them to say "maps". Then he was worried he'd played the wrong song and that it was the one with the profanity. |
| 4:51
| Steve's comment on the lead singer of Yeah Yeah Yeah's because he saw them on Letterman. He said the girl looked freaky because she wears gloves. |
| 4:52
| Pete has Maps and Legends by REM as another option. Steve would have brought that one in first instead of the song that only Pete knows. Pete and Dan from Ravenswood. |
| 4:53
| Caller Dan is 37 and he thought the Yeah Yeah Yeah's was a good choice. Pete and Dan need to start acting their age. Steve does have a new friend for Pete though, Ravenswood is pretty close right? |
| 4:54
| Steve actually didn't mind the song, especially now that he knows it was the freaky girl with the gloves singing it. |
| 4:55
| Live read: Gierczyk Properties |
| 4:56
| Steve's looking at the calls on hold. He primed the pump nicely with that fish taco segment. |
| 4:57
| Caller John thinks Pete selected the perfect song. The singer didn't make any sense in the song and neither did the Miss Teen contestant. |
| 4:58
| Is Pete's thinking that advanced? Steve just likes to hear Pete sing the song. Scott has a deeper bass voice to harmonize with Pete. |
| 4:59
| That guy has some nice pipes. During the screening process he probably gave Brendan a run for his money. |
| 5:00
| Caller Joel is driving home, listening to the show. The drive is horrible. Steve's stalling right now trying to download his idea. |
| 5:01
| Joel's idea is Johnny Cash's I've Been Everywhere. It's not on iTunes though. |
| 5:02
| It's time for the Five O'Clock Taco Bell. It's Tuesday which means Buzz joins Steve and eat whatever he eats. Today it's a very festive burrito, just the way Steve likes it. |
| 5:03
| Steve doesn't need any more songs about maps though. That song he played was perfect, she said "maps" a ton of times. How does that goes again? |
| 5:04
| You'd think Pete would be ready to sing since Steve keeps asking him to do it. Instead it's a 30-second wait every time. |
| 5:05
| Patrick Bertoletti is on the phone. You talkin' to meat?! Patrick will be competing in a jalapeño eating contest in Chicago in September. Steve didn't know Chicago was known for jalapeño. |
| 5:06
| Patrick thinks he could eat about 200 jalapeños. Steve was just going to suggest "a couple hundred" as a joke. He can really eat 200? That has to be a rough re-entry. |
| 5:07
| Patrick trains for the contest by drinking a lot of milk or milk shakes to coat is stomach. You really have to coat your stomach lining. |
| 5:08
| Those are pickled jalapeños also. Patrick also wanted to introduce Steve and Buzz to the Black Widow because she'll be in town for the contest. |
| 5:09
| Patrick thinks Buzz would really hit it off with the Black Widow. Is that because she's weird? |
| 5:10
| Patrick's in the "nothing to lose" category. He's going to call in and talk about eating 200 jalapeños and what happens after and then take Steve down. |
| 5:15
| Steve loves Patrick but he's a bit of an idiot. He's sitting around thinking about eating 200 jalapeños. He's not really an idiot. Can Steve say he's a dope? Patrick would probably admit that but he doesn't need to call in to admit it. |
| 5:16
| Good news for Pete, we might have a love connection in-house for him. It's Tina though. She loves Maps by Yeah Yeah Yeah's and never knew what they were singing. She thought it was just moaning. She probably likes Pete's singing though, he better be careful when he goes up to the office to change the tapes. He's very vulnerable up on his tippy-toes. |
| 5:18
| Steve should probably play the other song about maps at this point. When Brendan brought it down he said "you want the Cash?" Steve thought he was talking about the money he still owed him. |
| 5:19
| One month Brendan went a little berserk and charged a whole bunch of stuff to his corporate credit card. Brendan didn't try to get out of it and he's paying Steve back. |
| 5:20
| It's crazy to Buzz that Brendan didn't try to get out of it. He should have blamed Pete or Jim or something. |
| 5:21
| Brendan has tried to get out of the payment plan a few times, saying he spends a dollar a day on newspapers. He's now paying Steve back $5 a week but that's going to take forever because the bill was about $1700. There was crazy stuff on there like trips to The Admiral. |
| 5:22
| Brendan's a funny kid. He's funny when he's on with Matt. They're both going to owe Steve 20% also. Matt's still living rent-free too! |
| 5:23
| Steve needs to start cracking down but he doesn't have the time. He also doesn't really care but at some point he's doing them a disservice by not cracking down a little. |
| 5:24
| Matt will probably try to get out of paying after the power outage in his building. He'll say it was a sub par building he's living in. The developers did go bankrupt but not before they built themselves three houses in Burr Ridge all interconnected with draw bridges. |
| 5:25
| Ed Silha suggested a parody of I've Been Everywhere that Spike did but Steve doesn't feel like playing it. We've talked about Spike enough already this week. It doesn't help that all of Spike's email and website stuff is on Ed's servers. |
| 5:26
| Song: I've Been Everywhere, Johnny Cash |
| 5:28
| That song might have been done as a joke originally but Johnny Cash can make anything sound cool. Does Spike's version sound as cool? Does anyone else know who Spike is any more except Ed and Ron Lewis and Pete? |
| 5:29
| Steve likes Spike but he was crazy the last time he was here. He was pushing that play of his and he was hardballing Steve for money via email. |
| 5:30
| He's sort of in the "dead to me" category to Steve but he can be brought back to life. |
| 5:31
| Ed Silha maintains a lot of relationships with people who are really dead to Steve. He likes to get together with that club of people who like to get together and talk about how much they hate Steve even though he's the reason they all know each other. |
| 5:32
| So this parody song is actually the Sons of the Never Wrong for the Leaving Iowa play. Ron Lewis will be having them on his show this week by the way. |
| 5:33
| Steve's already sick of this song. Ron says the Sons of the Never Wrong are fans of the show. So is John Wayne Gacy, who cares? |
| 5:34
| Steve doesn't want to see Ed online for 48 hours after this. Ed is the commissioner of our Fantasy Football league. Last year Brendan did it and he didn't actually get the league up and running until the second week of the season. |
| 5:35
| On the other hand Ed is like the Pete Roselle of Fantasy commissioners. Steve has the 400+ emails to prove it. But everyone is involved now and having fun. |
| 5:36
| The draft is still going on but Pat Dahl is picking for Steve now. He can't take another year of Pat haranguing him for the choices he made. |
| 5:37
| The last time Pat was home he spent everyday in the living room looking at Fantasy baseball and football sites. So Steve told him he should try to get a job writing for one of the sites and he did. That's good fathering right there. |
| 5:38
| Ed's doing a good job though and Steve likes Spike. He's in Steve's timeout chair for about 3 more years though. |
| 5:39
| Where did Pete go? Where does he get off just dropping out in the middle of the middle of a bit? |
| 5:40
| Steve was done with Pete but still. Pete was looking for some hot audio, a pitcher on the Phillies had an Ed Lynch-like outburst after pitching a bad game. |
| 5:41
| Pete feels this audio will be up there with the Ed Lynch audio, it's requiring a lot of editing on his part. |
| 5:42
| So we're all clear on the fact that Steve still likes Spike right? He just doesn't want to hear any more of his handiwork. He doesn't understand how a guy living in Illinois could write a play called Leaving Iowa and try to produce it in Illinois. Why not just write Leaving Illinois? |
| 5:46
| Steve didn't like that High Fidelity movie. He thought he would but it's too self-consciously hip. Buzz has never seen it so they can't have a point/counter-point thumbs up/thumbs down debate. |
| 5:47
| How about that thumbs up/thumbs down thing? ABC is renegotiating Roger Ebert's contract and since he and Gene trademarked the thumbs they're not using them for the time being. |
| 5:48
| It seems like ABC might be trying to get out of paying Roger for his sick time. Sick or not though, he's still the man. |
| 5:49
| And just for the record Steve loves Ed. He was out at his house on Sunday for 4 hours fixing a computer issues. |
| 5:50
| Steve was on iTunes the other night because he realized that he hadn't heard about any new Jimmy Eat World albums recently. Steve searched but to no avail. |
| 5:51
| Then today he got an email from iTunes telling him he could pre-order the new Jimmy Eat World album. They're probably one of Steve's favorite contemporary bands. Pat Dahl turned Steve on to them but now he hates them. |
| 5:52
| Turns out they have a new song available from the album which Steve is going to play now. It's the title track. |
| 5:53
| Song: Big Casino, Jimmy Eat World |
| 5:56
| Steve just pre-ordered their new album and also noticed they're embarking on a world tour. Steve will have to go see them. Pete's probably rolling his eyes right now. |
| 5:57
| Pete says he liked that song but he probably doesn't like most of their stuff because it's melodic and you can understand what they're saying and it follows the standard verse-chorus-verse format. |
| 6:00
| Time now for some sports. Alfonso Soriano returns to the top of the Cubs line-up as they take on the Brewers. That's pretty good timing for the Cubs. |
| 6:01
| First basemen Derrek Lee knows the importance of this series with the Brewers. Even Steve knows that. |
| 6:02
| The White Sox are apparently still playing somewhere. At this point you'd think they'd just pack it in and go home. Of course now they'll probably come on strong. |
| 6:03
| Tiger Woods rang the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange this morning. It doesn't say why he was there though, Brendan left that out. And now he's probably down getting ready for his show. |
| 6:04
| Brendan is actually still out there. He doesn't know why Tiger was there other than that there's a golf tournament somewhere nearby. |
| 6:05
| Ed Farmer is on the phone. He was waiting to call in until the Sox had a good game. He couldn't call in after the most recent Boston Massacre. |
| 6:06
| So what's the deal with AJ and Greg Walker? Ed can't really talk about it but that stuff happens all the time. |
| 6:07
| Steve feels bad for Ed knowing he has to call a games like he did over the weekend. At some point what else is there to talk about? |
| 6:08
| Did AJ hit his home run yesterday before or after the fight with Greg Walker? |
| 6:10
| Tonight the Sox are playing the Rangers, so that's two last place teams right there. Does Ed at least have fun when he goes to Dallas? |
| 6:11
| In Dallas the team stays at the Four Seasons which is Ed's favorite hotel. He woke up this morning and called room service because he was hungry. |
| 6:12
| Ed told the girl on his phone that he wanted a 15-pound Butterball turkey just to test her. She said she could do it but it would take a few hours. |
| 6:13
| Ed doesn't have to share a room with Chris Singleton, he's a big boy now. It would be funny if they had to share a room with two double beds though. |
| 6:14
| When Ed was a player he had to share a room with Jim Morrison in Seattle. They had electric blankets at the hotel and Ed used to get up in the middle of the night and crank Morrison's blanket up all the way. |
| 6:15
| Then Morrison would get up in the middle of the night and say it was too hot in the room and turn down his blanket. |
| 6:16
| Then Ed would wait until he was asleep again and turn the blanket back up. |
| 6:17
| So Ed's in Dallas and it's about 107º outside according to the temperature reading he's looking at. |
| 6:18
| Is there any way Ed could talk to Jerry Reinsdorf about getting some of Steve's money back? He'll listen to Ed right? |
| 6:19
| Right now in the next 5 weeks of the season the guys who just came up to the big leagues have a chance to prove to Ozzie and Kenny Williams that they belong there next year. |
| 6:20
| Steve has a list of guys he thinks don't belong on the team next year. Bobby Jenks isn't on that list though, he's been great this year. |
| 6:21
| Steve doesn't want his bitterness carrying over to Ed's broadcasting tonight. He's got a game to call. |
| 6:29
| Steve has one more story for sports and then we'll get to the news. |
| 6:30
| Live read: Townstone Financial |
| 6:31
| Finally in sports, Phillies reliever Brett Myers apologized today for calling Sam Carchidi a retard during a heated exchange Saturday in which the pitcher had to be restrained by teammates. |
| 6:32
| The reporter came off a lot better than Bruce Levine. The reporter fired back "how do you spell 'retard'" which is a good rejoinder. |
| 6:33
| It also seemed like the reporter didn't want to leave the locker room but Buzz also got to hear his favorite part where the other players try to get the guy out of there. |
| 6:39
| The Bears new QB coach, Pep Hamilton, sort of sounds like Lovie Smith Jr. |
| 6:40
| News with Buzz |
| 6:41
| Buzz is quoting Senator Larry Craig here when he says "I am not gay, I never have been gay." That seems like a mistake to Steve. |
| 6:42
| He should have said he wasn't a pervert and was just trying to use the bathroom. Plus the whole thing has been adjudicated so why have the press conference? |
| 6:43
| It seems like if you touch it on purpose you're gay but that's just Steve. It does seem like the guys who cruise forest preserves are doing it for the thrill of something that seems wrong. |
| 6:49
| Back to Buzz in the news room. |
| 6:50
| Presiden Bush warned of a nuclear holocaust in the Middle East if Iran continued to build up their arsenal. |
| 6:51
| Did Bush really say "nuclear holocaust"? That's pretty hardcore. |
| 6:52
| Miss Teen South Carolina's answer to a pageant question is one of the most popular videos on YouTube. Kate Upton said she drew a blank. She drew more than a blank. |
| 6:58
| How's Owen Wilson doing? He's recovering and asking that everyone respect his privacy. He's a movie star though, we can't do that. |
| 6:59
| If he wants his privacy he should stop making movies. |
| 7:00
| DMX is said to be devastated by the loss of his dogs. He thought they were all buried in his backyard. |
| 7:01
| Nearly one-quarter of Illinoisians are obse according to a new report by the Trust for America's Health. Stop looking at Steve Buzz! |
| 7:02
| Steve loves these stories because they show the stock footage of fat people on the news. The fat people never know they're being filmed either until they end up on the news. |
| 7:03
| How was Matt and Brendan's hour off? What did they do, have a few sandwiches? |
| 7:04
| Brendan actually brought some apples to snack on from the farmer's market. Did he pay for them with Steve's credit card? Buzz was wondering if Brendan saw any snickerdoodles down there. |
| 7:05
| Steve was down there earlier buying some peaches for Pete. They're practically lovers now after that backrub at the Pearl Room. Steve didn't see any snickerdoodles but the girl who sold him the peaches did not seem like a farmer. |
| 7:06
| She had spikey hair and when she bent over to give Steve the peaches, if you'll pardon the expression, she bent down and he noticed she wasn't wearing a bra. |
