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| 2:00
| Stan and Terry were talking about playing with dolls which doesn't seem good. Stan was wondering when Terry last saw a Barbie doll. Probably when he was 10 right? |
| 2:01
| Terry's wife actually has a large collection of valuable Barbie dolls but they're all in boxes. That's pretty creepy, she should get rid of them. |
| 2:02
| Or she could bring them in and Jimmy Mac could bring in his Star Wars toys and they could have a play date. That's if she can get away from selling opera tickets. |
| 2:03
| Terry's wife sells tickets for the Chicago Symphony. Steve is on their calling list because Matt Dahl wanted to see some too-cool-for-the-room jazz band. |
| 2:04
| Now Steve just ignores their calls. It seems sort of uncool for the Symphony to be calling people like that. Is there anyway Steve could get off the call list? |
| 2:05
| Steve's not really interested in seeing live jazz but it's not that he dislikes jazz. The first time they called Steve was excited because he thought they'd want him to sit in with them. |
| 2:06
| Stan and Terry were talking about Barbie dolls because of all of the problems with Mattel toys that have too much lead in them. |
| 2:07
| Stan thought Mattel should release a collectors line of lead-based Barbie dolls. Is lead really that bad? When Steve grew up there was lead in the gasoline. There was lead paint in the first apartment Stan lived in,in the ghetto. It's fine as long as you aren't eating the paint chips. |
| 2:08
| If you're eating paint chips that's just natural selection. If you're swallowing magnets then you're an idiot. We don't want you to grow up and then hold raffles to get you to come to school. |
| 2:09
| They have to have raffles just to get kids to come to school in Chicago, which seems ridiculous. Come to school, get a toaster! |
| 2:10
| Then they have various famous people at the school to welcome kids. They didn't ask Steve because he would have just told the kids school isn't work it. Start working at McDonald's and in four years you're an assistant manager. |
| 2:11
| Steve thinks reading is for losers which Arne Duncan isn't down with. If you're begging kids to come to school, what good are they? They only want kids to show up on that first day so the schools will get more money from the state. It's all based on first-day attendance. |
| 2:12
| It seems like Steve has stumbled into that Stan and Terry don't want to be un-PC about. They had Arne Duncan on the show which is one of the problems with having too many people on the show. They can't say anything bad about anyone or else the guest rumba line comes to a screeching halt. |
| 2:12
| Stan was going to call in yesterday when Steve was talking to that guy from New Zealand. They had the girl from Eagle vs. Shark on recently. |
| 2:13
| Of all the segments in yesterday's show that was Steve's least favorite so he's glad Stan didn't call in to further complicate matters. The guy on the phone didn't even sound like he was from New Zealand and after 6 months of pushing Flight of the Conchords on Steve, Pete couldn't find any good examples of their New Zealand accents on the show. |
| 2:14
| Was Eagle vs. Shark one of the many screenings Stan attends? There's one coming up next week for Someone To Eat Cheese With if Steve is interested. |
| 2:15
| Steve would feel really uncomfortable going to a screening of a movie he's featured in. |
| 2:16
| Jeff is coming to town soon to do press for the movie. Terry thinks he's trying to time it so the Cubs will also be in town. Are they trying to ask Steve if they can have him on their show? |
| 2:17
| If Jeff comes into town Steve would probably have him on the show but not just because of the movie. If Stan and Terry wanted to have him on too they could since they'll probably focus mostly on the movie. |
| 2:23
| So Buzz is here and right now he couldn't feel better. Steve didn't drag him into the crosstalk today because he's ailing but in the future he's not doing it alone. It's a nightmare but not a bad nightmare. It's more like how a doctor needs a nurse in the room, just to have a witness. |
| 2:24
| Buzz has not passed his kidney stone yet. It's gonna be days until it passes, if he's lucky. It doesn't hurt right now but it starts to hurt if it gets stuck somewhere and there's a back up. Steve really doesn't like thinking about that. |
| 2:25
| The stone is out of Buzz's kidney which is what he was feeling yesterday. Buzz has a bottle of water with him but he doesn't drink enough of it. He feels that's why he has the stone in the first place. |
| 2:26
| Steve drinks a ton of water because he likes going to the bathroom. It's kind of all he has left. When he's on a long flight, like to Hawaii, he probably goes 40 times. It's something to really look forward to. |
| 2:27
| The only time Steve doesn't like going to the bathroom is at sporting events when there's not a handy bathroom. At Sox games he sort of has to go far to get to a bathroom so he watches his fluid intake. |
| 2:28
| He only has to pass 4 people to get to the aisle at a Sox game but people these days don't get up when you're trying to leave. Everything is an imposition. |
| 2:29
| Steve was on a flight once and the guy next to him wouldn't get up when he had to use the bathroom. He said Steve had gotten up too much already. Steve had no choice but to crush his knees to get by. They took him off in a wheelchair. |
| 2:30
| Steve's willing to work around a girl who won't get up but if it's a dude he'll step right on his feet. |
| 2:31
| So Buzz is going to drink a lot of water, that's all he can do really. The doctor did give him a very strong pain medication. Did he get some for Steve too? |
| 2:32
| Buzz looked at the prescription bottle today and it's Hydrocodone with Tylenol. He thought it was 325 mg about hydrocodone but when he called the hospital to ask them about it it was shown that he didn't know what he was talking about. Buzz told the nurse 325 wouldn't be enough and it would be like fighting a forest fire with a squirt gun. |
| 2:33
| The 325 mg refers to the Tylenol and the Hydrocodone is about 1000 mg. So if Buzz feels the pain coming on he'll pop and pill and we'll see what happens. He might have to leave though. |
| 2:34
| Buzz has the pills with him but they're back in the newsroom where Jim can get to them. Buzz knows how many are in the bottle though. Jim will have to go through our box of placebos and replace any that he takes. |
| 2:39
| Last year's Super Bowl was the one bathroom experience that didn't pan out for Steve. He planned it out to hold it until halftime but it turns out he missed the best part, Prince's performance. |
| 2:40
| That was really the best part of the entire game after the Devin Hester runback and then Thomas Jones run. Steve got back to his seats and there were guys who knew him from Chicago who said it was the best thing they'd ever seen. |
| 2:41
| Steve probably could have gone right in his seat because he was drenched from the rain. No one would have even noticed. |
| 2:42
| As a grown man with most of your faculties still intact you can't do something like that though. Even if no one else who know, you'd still know. |
| 2:43
| Steve has a great bathroom here though. He's not sure how Drew's investigation into who's using his bathroom is going though. Dan Falato admitted on Garry's show that he uses a private bathroom somewhere on this floor. |
| 2:44
| Steve's bathroom is the only private bathroom on the floor. Steve called Drew and at first it seemed like he would get right on it but by the end of the phone call he was waffling. Drew's like a guy who vacuums his way out of a room. Steve likes to leave his mark though. |
| 2:45
| Aimee and Piper were listening yesterday when Steve did the news as Buzz. Aimee said Piper went nuts, but a good nuts. She loved when Steve called himself a fat jerk as Buzz. |
| 2:46
| Would Buzz like to know about hydration? This is from Health Services at Columbia University. In 2004 the Institute of Medicine issued new hydration guidelines. |
| 2:47
| They suggest that women drink 91 ounces of fluid per day and men drink 128 ounces per day. Now however, all beverages count. So all Buzz has to do is drink 16 cups of coffee. |
| 2:48
| Steve figures water has to be good for you because when he gets a massage they give him a bottle of water to drink so he can expel all the toxins. Therefore if you drink water all day, that's also good for you. Steve just likes water too. He's lowered his expectations that much. |
| 2:49
| Too bad we couldn't have Buzz hooked up to an x-ray machine to watch the progress of the kidney stone, assuming their is progress. Buzz hopes there will be progress because if there isn't, they have hideous alternatives to remove it. |
| 2:50
| Steve reminds Buzz about Swearengen's kidney stone on Deadwood. That was really bad but that was way back in the pioneer days. |
| 2:51
| Steve replayed Buzz saying "I gotta go" several times yesterday. Would Buzz like to hear the pain he was in? Steve was relieved that it was just a kidney stone and not something way more serious. |
| 2:52
| Buzz remembers sitting in the studio during the segment and Steve was just rolling about something. He was sitting back realizing he wasn't adding anything as he was trying to breathe very deeply. |
| 2:53
| Steve was making fun of Pete, saying his life was in a bucket. Jim was also in there and he looked very scared. Steve can't really see Buzz from where he is but he could see Jim and he looked wide-eyed and terrified. Jim's always scared to be in the studio anyway though. |
| 2:54
| Steve calls down to the newsroom. Jim was in the studio giving Steve that t-shirt and then Steve was making fun of Pete for living his life in a bucket. He needs to spread out his drinking throughout the entire week because he does it all on the weekends and does thinks to people that could get him arrested. |
| 2:55
| Why is Steve looking at video of people pulling their pants down on CNN? There's a guy coming out of the water with his pants down, and then a guy in Pamplona having his pants torn off by a bull. |
| 2:56
| As Dan Falato's archivist, Jim would know what time Dan is here until everyday. Jim gets in at 10:00 and Dan is still here. He usually leaves around 12:00 or 12:30. That's not a very long day for Dan. |
| 2:57
| Today Dan took Pete to task for false information he spread on the air yesterday about a dinner in Mexico with Steve Trachsel. Dan claimed that while in Mexico a few years ago, Pete had dinner with him and Trax and Mrs. Trax. |
| 2:58
| Pete says he's not guilty on those charges. Dan said that he and the Trachsel's and Mrs. Dan had dinner with Pete, Ed Silha, Jim Peterik and Mark Zarang. As a Cubs fan, Pete would remember having dinner with Steve Trachsel. |
| 2:59
| He would also remember Dan trying to get out of picking up an 8-person dinner tab. That's really something to see because with that many people he also involves his wife. It's like they're running a con on you. The bill comes and they're gone, you go out to get a cab and they're already in one. |
| 3:00
| Dan actually made a point, several times, to point out that he paid for the dinner. Why would he even bring that up then? He probably expensed it and is worried that if Pete says he wasn't at the dinner, Drew will review the paperwork? |
| 3:04
| Steve feels that Scrubs has supplanted Gilmore Girls as Pete's go to source for drops for the show. Steve doesn't really care either way. It's not that he hates Scrubs but it seems like the people on the show are way too self-conscious about what they're doing. |
| 3:05
| Steve tries to make a point of watching Scrubs but it's had a very checkered past in terms of timeslots. It's one of Pete's favorite network shows though. Is that because it's not popular? |
| 3:06
| You know what's a popular show, Two and a Half Men. Steve would like to hear more drops from that show. Pete points out that The Office and 30 Rock don't get very high ratings either. They're only on because of the iTunes downloads. |
| 3:07
| This year, NBC is launching it's on website for downloading their shows which seems like a huge mistake. Why would Steve want to get an account on a totally new service? |
| 3:08
| Steve doesn't dislike Scrubs but it seems like everyone on the show feels like they're too cool for the room. Everyone on there really hams it up too, it's like a Marx Bros. movie. |
| 3:09
| More drops from Two & a Half Men though, that's where Steve and Buzz are coming from. Buzz is still waiting for drops from The Closer because there's a character on there named Buzz. |
| 3:10
| Steve has finally figured out that Pete plays all these Scrubs drops because he think he's furthering the cause of the show. It's the same thing he does with the music. |
| 3:11
| Steve was going to play a Van Halen song about Cabo and as he was searching for it he was reminded of the fine Cabo theme song he found on iTunes. |
| 3:12
| Song: Cabo Wabo, Van Halen |
| 3:17
| There's nothing on Buzz's TV right now and it's not because of Steve. This is just part of the daily cable outage. It happens at different times everyday, but it happens everyday. |
| 3:18
| Comcast made the entire building get cable boxes and yet the cable goes out everyday. |
| 3:24
| Buzz Kilman is here today, but yesterday he left us because he thought he was passing a kidney stone. |
| 3:25
| Buzz went to the hospital and got some painkillers. After that first dose at the hospital he had no problems. Now it's not hurting any more but he's not on anything. |
| 3:26
| The kidney stone only hurts when it gets caught up on something. It gives Steve the willies just thinking about it. Buzz was just thinking about kidney stones and couple of weeks ago and now he has another one. He's like Firestarter, he thinks something and then it happens. |
| 3:27
| The doctor wasn't sure how long it would take to pass the stone. It could take a few days but eventually there are other options to get the stone out. Steve's willing to do whatever Buzz needs him to do though. If he needs to boil some water, he will. |
| 3:28
| It would drive Steve nuts knowing that the stone was still up there. He'd have a coat hanger up there trying to get it out. |
| 3:29
| Steve doesn't know what he's talking about. He got his thing caught in his zipper when he was 9 and he still has phantom pains from it. |
| 3:30
| That's why your parents tell you to wear underwear, so you don't get your thing caught in there. But in the summer in California you might not be wearing underwear. |
| 3:31
| At the time the only other person at home was Steve's mom and she wanted to get Kent Papelka, the contractor turning their garage into two bedrooms, to help him out. Steve didn't want Kent Papelka in there with him so he just bit the bullet and did it himself. |
| 3:32
| Steve thought it was very savvy of Buzz to decline Drew's ride to the hospital. It's when Buzz is in pain that Drew would get his meat hooks in him, suggesting show ideas, trying to get a daily segment. |
| 3:33
| Is Drew even here today? Steve hasn't seen anyone, is this a holiday? Steve calls down to Drew's office, he is here but he just got back from a meeting at WBBM. Does Drew know that the cable in the studio goes out everyday? |
| 3:34
| Today during the Noon Business Hour Regine Schlessinger made Sherman Kaplan mad. Drew was wondering if she said she was friends with David Hochberg. |
| 3:35
| Why doesn't Drew just let Steve handle the jokes OK? Just strap in and enjoy the ride. |
| 3:36
| They were talking about the U.S. Treasury and Sherman said something about their motto. Then Regine said "you go to the head of the class" which Sherman seemed a bit taken aback by. Steve could tell he wanted to tell her off but of course he didn't. |
| 3:37
| Steve still thinks that Steve Miller should have a "woo woo" tape that plays every time he says his name. Steve looks like Clutch Cargo in his staff photo by the way. Everyday Steve gets off the elevator he sees all of their photos right there. |
| 3:38
| Drew has begun his investigation into who's using the Green Room bathroom. Dan told Drew that when Dan Akroyd was here they were in an elevator with a guy from Deloitte & Touche. So he drops a Dan Akroyd in to throw Drew off. |
| 3:39
| Drew believes Dan is using the WBBM bathroom. That's also a bathroom Dan shouldn't be using. It's only for Steve, Sherman Kaplan and news anchors on WBBM. |
| 3:40
| Drew feels that Dan would have fessed up to him about it. He really is delusional. |
| 3:41
| Does Drew keep receipts for all the expense reports? He might want to pull the one from a few years ago in Cabo. Dan expensed a dinner for 8 at Sammy Hagar's place but it was only a dinner for 4. |
| 3:42
| What does Dan Akroyd and Deloitte & Touche have to do with the private bathroom? Do they do accounting for the Blues Brothers? Drew needs to listen back to this when he gets a chance, just to hear what it sounds like. |
| 3:44
| On the phone is Josh Mora from Comcast Sportsnet. He's hosting Chicago Tribune Live today which means he's wasting most of this beautiful day indoors. It's nice out, Steve thinks he'll leave it out. |
| 3:45
| Steve's been on Chicago Tribune Live with Sam Smith, he's kind of a jerk. Steve feels he won him over but for a guy who's only 4 feet tall and writes about basketball he's got an attitude. |
| 3:46
| Steve doesn't really like playing basketball, it's too much running. When he was growing up in California everyone played baseball more than any other sport. It was every kid's dream to play baseball in the big leagues. |
| 3:47
| Steve doesn't really care about the Cubs but he doesn't care about the Sox either. He doesn't hate the Cubs and he sort of feels bad that they're not doing too well lately. |
| 3:48
| There's a pretty good mix of people at Comcast who are Cubs or Sox fans. Some of the Sox fans are giving Cubs fans endless needling about this recent losing streak. |
| 3:49
| Josh cared a little bit about the Sox in 2005. His step-brother is a Sox fan so it was fun to watch him enjoy all that. |
| 3:50
| A lot of people on the staff are Cubs fans so Steve feels bad if they're losing. They don't really talk to Steve about any of it though because he may have lorded 2005 over them. Steve might have also enjoyed the Bartman thing a little too much. |
| 3:51
| We need to get down to one team in this town, this two-team baseball thing is killing us. It's always been complicated for Steve with baseball. Growing up in LA he loved the Dodgers but his grandfather hated them once they moved from New York. So he liked the Angels. |
| 3:52
| Steve certainly doesn't want the Cubs to lose although when they're doing well then WGN's ratings improve. It seems like the best thing is for the Cubs to be way out of it or way ahead in the standings. If they're sort of clinging then everyone tunes in to hear what will happen. |
| 3:53
| Josh certainly doesn't like the lack of momentum the Cubs have going for them right now. It seems like the Cardinals have most of the momentum even though the Brewers are slightly close to first place. |
| 3:54
| It seems like a bad idea to make Carlos Zambrano go out there and make a fake apology. Josh thought he sounded pretty contrite though. |
| 3:55
| The Bears are practicing today, getting ready for the Charges. Rex will be on Chicago Tribune Live today. Dan Pompey, the Bears writer for the Trib will also be there. That means Sam Smith will be overcompensating because of all the football talk. |
| 3:56
| Steve's always welcome on Chicago Tribune Live but it's difficult for him to get over there because it airs during his show. |
| 3:57
| Steve was on the show last December during his hiatus. Maybe if they paid for him to be on he'd come back. |
| 4:05
| That was a drop-in from Steve's appearance on Chicago Tribune Live. The smart mouth Buzz heard was Sam Smith. |
| 4:06
| It's weird to be on that show because while you're making a comment they start running highlights. Steve doesn't even remember if the highlights related to something he was talking about. |
| 4:07
| Pete says they were talking about the Bears and their final game of last season versus the Packers. The whole thing was a blur to Steve. It's a blur from the minute you step onto the stage and Dan Jiggetts is wedged into an office chair. Then the sportswriters start in with their smart-alecky comments. |
| 4:08
| Steve really doesn't need to hear himself on the show again though, it wasn't his best performance. Pete knows that which is why he replays it so often. |
| 4:09
| It was very disconcerting to see video clips start up when you're trying to talk. Plus it's rude since people want to see Steve. That's why he put on a nice shirt and combed his hair. If people wanted to see Bret Favre's ass, he'd come to the show looking like that. |
| 4:10
| Steve doesn't really care if Pete replays audio from Chicago Tribune Live though. That Josh Mora was a handful today though. He had a snappy comeback for everything. |
| 4:11
| Well Buzz is here today but he's still working on passing that kidney stone. He's also working on the headlines. |
| 4:12
| Headlines with Buzz |
| 4:13
| A B-52 flew over the U.S. with unauthorized nuclear bombs today. Steve's not really upset about that but it seems ironic that we went to Iraq looking for this stuff and here it is flying over our country and no one knows about it. |
| 4:14
| Idaho Senator Larry Craig may not resign from Congress after all. That's probably because they have a great men's room at the Capitol Building. |
| 4:15
| Actor Fred Thompson won't be at the presidential debate tonight but he will have a commercial airing during it. Then he'll officially announce his candidacy on the Tonight's Show. Jay Leno? Is that what it's come to? |
| 4:16
| Steve Fossett, still missing. The woman who gives out information from the Civil Air Patrol is very negative and hardcore. |
| 4:17
| A Denver doctor has written to federal authorities about a link between fumes from microwaved popcorn and lung disease. Is that called Butter Lung? |
| 4:18
| Nepal Airline officials have already confirmed that two goats were slaughtered because one of their planes was malfunctioning. Mark Czerniec did this story yesterday. Steve was Nepalled by it. |
| 4:19
| Chicago police have charged 31-year old John Hailey with murder after he allegedly pushed a Vietnamese fisherman into Lake Michigan. |
| 4:20
| Dateline Waukesha, Wisconsin, a 17-year old Muskego high school senior is being held on a million dollars bail after being accused of holding a 20-year old woman hostage and telling her how he'd kill her for several hours. |
| 4:21
| At one point the two did engage in sexual contact and there was a time when the woman was locked out of the man's house before choosing to come back inside. |
| 4:26
| All Steve is getting out of Pete's studio is Bob coughing. Steve has the studio up but he thought Pete would have them down. Instead it's just Bob coughing. |
| 4:27
| Time for Bob and Ron, one of whom has a cough. Maybe both of them. It probably wasn't that loud but Steve could hear it. Buzz thought it was someone with black lung. Steve was getting ready to get back into the black lung stuff and then he heard a cough. |
| 4:28
| Pete's just in there overthinking things, worried that Bob and Ron are going to be cut off. Who cares? If they weren't cut off you still wouldn't be able to understand what they were saying. |
| 4:29
| Steve listened to their show once, totally sober, and he couldn't understand a word they were saying. That was because the grown man who's their board op had them turned way down. |
| 4:30
| That kid mouthed off to Steve a few weeks ago after he screwed up the switchover between Steve's show and Matt Dahl's show. Steve sarcastically told him "nice job" along with some other choice words and he responded "well I'm still here". And yet he is still here. |
| 4:31
| Lots of rock history today, tons of birthdays and other good stuff. Are they still using that old book or have they gone online yet? |
| 4:32
| Bob and Ron still use the book but they also cross-check with multiple online sources. Why are they using the book at all? Do they just carry it around to impress the chicks. |
| 4:33
| This is why Bob and Ron are still walking dogs. And now they even have robotic dogs. If Michael Vick had used robotic dogs he wouldn't be in all this trouble. |
| 4:34
| Speaking that, what's the big deal with this Whoopi Goldberg thing? All she said was that Michael Vick came from an upbringing where stuff like dogfighting was prevalent, in the South. Bob thought she just meant that the South is a backwards place. |
| 4:35
| Steve really doesn't need any of Bob's pithy comments, he can just stay out of this thing. It's the dog people though, they get crazy about this stuff. |
| 4:36
| Steve got a nice email today regarding yesterday's Thought for the Day, about Carlos Zambrano. Steve gets so many unsolicited emails from PR people and he just deletes them. |
| 4:37
| Sometimes these PR people can't believe they're on Steve's mailing list and get so mad about it that they have to respond. So this guy asked Steve to stop sending these messages. |
| 4:38
| Steve responded with information about how to unsubscribe as well as pointing out that he gets unsolicited email from this guy all the time. |
| 4:39
| The guy sent Steve back a response that as someone in the media he should be doing something substantive with his role in the media. Turns out this guy is a know-it-all environmentalist guy. |
| 4:40
| So Steve responded and then had him blocked so he gets the last word in. |
| 4:44
| There's a severe thunderstorm warning in the area until 5:15. |
| 4:45
| Alright back to Bob and Ron. Are they there? Does Steve have to beg for them to talk now? |
| 4:46
| This week we celebrate the birthday of Don Brewer, shirtless drummer of Grand Funk Railroad. It's also John Stewart's birthday this week, he was Steve's first radio interview. |
| 4:47
| It's also Clem Clemson's birthday this week from Humble Pie. Bob and Ron recall that Steve mentioned Clem in the John Stewart interview. That's pretty inside but maybe Pete has a drop from it. That's Bob and Ron, they're high and inside. |
| 4:48
| But today's song was chosen especially for Buzz, it's Roll Away the Stone by Leon Russell. Steve was actually going to play this yesterday. |
| 4:49
| Song: Roll Away the Stone, Leon Russell |
| 4:51
| Bob and Ron are hoping the kidney stone comes out nice and easy for Buzz but that's not really how it happens. They're probably just hoping it comes out so they can have his drugs. |
| 4:57
| Bob and Ron are like Pete because they always burn a CD with more songs than they're going to play. They usually have 9 to 10 songs because sometimes Steve changes things up on them. |
| 4:58
| A lot of the stuff they like that's on vinyl is right in Steve's wheelhouse. Today's disc might be their best one ever. Steve's going to go with some Quicksilver Messenger Service. |
| 4:59
| But before that, it's time for the Five O'Clock Taco Bell. Just a reminder, tomorrow is the last day for the Grande Quesadilla. Buzz feels it's their finest creation yet but he doesn't know what they plan to introduce next. |
| 5:00
| Steve does though. Starting tomorrow, it's a new dawn in the words of Jefferson Airplane at Woodstock. Tomorrow? Does that mean that today is the last day for the Grande Quesadilla? |
| 5:01
| Tomorrow is the first day for the Cheesy Beefy Melt. It's like a burrito only cheesier and and beefier and ricier. Buzz is going to love this thing. |
| 5:02
| Song: Pride of Man, Quicksilver Messenger Service |
| 5:06
| Quicksilver Messenger Service had an album called Happy Trails and an entire side of the album was one song. It was called Who Do You Love pts. 1-5 or something. |
| 5:07
| As a young DJ you could track that entire thing on the air. And it was really good too, not just a nice 24 minute break. |
| 5:08
| Buzz is surprised Steve worked at a station with such an open format. Steve was lucky enough to work at one of three underground stations in the country. It turned out really well for him because it made him realize that he wanted to work at a station with some structure. |
| 5:09
| By starting off at a place with no structure, as a young kid, Steve was able to go to a station with structure and then break it down a little bit. It was so underground that they wouldn't even sell ads to any companies. It was all just ads for record stores. |
| 5:10
| Caller Mark has a shocking development to report. He was riding in a cab this morning and the guy had Eric and Kathy on. It was a white cab driver. It must have been a gay white cab driver. |
| 5:11
| They must be copying Buzz because Eric was complaining about a pain he had that might be a kidney stone. Not Buzz's stone hunk! He's had to leave the air before because of a kidney stone. |
| 5:12
| Mark didn't hear the end of it but Eric was nowhere near as entertaining as Buzz when he called in from the hospital. |
| 5:13
| Buzz felt he could have done a much better job on the phone. He should have incorporated the nurse! Once she realized what was going on she would have really gotten into it. Steve thought it sounded fine. |
| 5:20
| Ben Gay is here and he's being a little somber, as to not excite Buzz. The more action the better for Buzz though. Really?! Because Ben feels he has a possible solution to this problem but he can't go into it on the air. He'd even be willing to suspend his protest of Jerry Lewis to help Buzz out. |
| 5:21
| Ben's not sure where they'll be protesting since Jerry isn't relevant any more and doesn't pertain to anything. It seems unfair to protest at Children's Memorial or something. |
| 5:22
| Ben is dressed as a nurse today but a female nurse. He loves the hat, it's so 1950s. |
| 5:23
| The Cubs host the Dodgers again tonight. Ben's hosting a few Dodgers after the game but he can't get into it. Ted Lilly takes the mound against Eric Stults. Isn't that the fella who was in Mask with Cher? |
| 5:24
| The Sox are in Detroit tonight. Gavin Floyd takes the mound against Kenny Rogers. He's not only a singer, he's a pitcher too. |
| 5:25
| This Sunday, Bears offensive coordinator Ron Turner will face off against his big brother Norv "Pizza Face" Turner who's the new head coach for the Chargers. It looks like someone put out a fire on Norv's face with an ice pick. Ron is the handsome Turner brother and that's not really saying much. |
| 5:26
| Tiger Woods met with the Chicago media today, he's participating in the BMW Challenge which is not a car race. It used to be the Western Open and it used to be at the beginning of the summer. |
| 5:27
| The tournament will now only be in Chicago every other year and Tiger Woods things it's a shame. |
| 5:28
| Miami Heat center Shaquille O'Neal filed for divorce from his wife of 5 years today. |
| 5:29
| Two female athletes at Baylor University in Waco (or is it Wacko) Texas were charged with beating a woman in a park. |
| 5:30
| The two athletes, a basketball player and a volleyball player, confronted the woman, one of them punching her in the face. The victim then pulled a knife to defend herself but set it on the ground. That's a tough volleyball team. |
| 5:31
| Former Cubs and Phillies closer Mitch "Wild Thing" Williams has unveiled a new line of salsa. No thank you! Ben doesn't want anything to do with that guy, he's dirty and hairy. |
| 5:32
| Recently released from the New England Patriots, kicker Danny Bauer took out his frustration on his 52-year old father. |
| 5:33
| Police responded to a 911 call about 2 men fighting in the parking lot of a fast food restaurant at 4:00 AM. |
| 5:34
| Bauer told police he'd recently been cut by the Patriots and wasn't handling it too well. |
| 5:35
| That's a sad story when a football player beats up on his dad. And not a real football player either, just a kicker. That was also Ben's kicker story. |
| 5:40
| Steve didn't hear that drop, what was it? It was some double-entendre stuff about golf Great, Steve loves that stuff. Keep it coming! |
| 5:41
| Live read: Townstone Financial |
| 5:42
| Steve already played one of the songs from the sweet disc that Bob and Ron brought in today. He'd like to play another one if he could. |
| 5:43
| Song: Them Changes, Band of Gypsys |
| 5:48
| That's a pretty good version of that song. Steve's pretty sure that was recorded at the Filmore West one New Year's Eve. Buzz once passed out at the Filmore West and was woken up by a janitor. |
| 5:54
| We just ran a promo for the last beach broadcast but it just repeats itself twice. Is that some sort of marketing concept where you repeat things? |
| 5:55
| Steve sees Pete fiddling around with the computer, was he trying to pull that up? Pete wanted to listen to it first before Steve played it. |
| 5:56
| The promo has been deleted in the two minutes since it aired. So it must have been a mistake right? |
| 5:57
| Steve's pretty sure that promo has been like that for two weeks and yet they're only changing it now. |
| 5:58
| Drew doesn't even care about Steve. He comes down here and ask how he's doing and he's shocked that Steve can do the show by himself. He's a professional, he can soldier on. |
| 5:59
| By the way, that Band of Gypsys show was at the Filmore East. Steve never went to either of them. |
| 6:00
| Live read: Gierczyk Properties |
| 6:01
| Buzz has news but he doesn't have the actual copy. Jim brought the audio in, did he happen to bring in the copy? |
| 6:02
| News with Buzz |
| 6:03
| Three men in Germany have been arrested in alleged plots against U.S. targets. Is that like Rammstein Air Force Base? |
| 6:04
| 5 hours went by before U.S. officials realized that nuclear warheads had been strapped to the wing of a B52 bomber and flown over the U.S. The warheads were on their way to be decommissioned. |
| 6:05
| In Utah the Civil Air Patrol has joined in the search for adventurer Steve Fossett. |
| 6:06
| During the closing arguments in the Phil Spector trial the prosecutor attacked the defense for their tactics in the trial. Is that thing still going on? He's guilty! |
| 6:07
| President Bush tells the author of a new book about his presidency that he tries not to wear his worries on his sleeves. The low IQ probably helps with that. |
| 6:08
| Larry Birkhead says that a section of a new book about Anna Nicole Smith detailing an affair he had with Howard K. Smith are completely false. |
| 6:09
| Apple has introduced a touch screen iPod that can surf the internet wirelessly. They also introduced a new iPod nano that can play video. That touch screen isn't a phone though, it's just like a mini computer. |
| 6:10
| Mayor Daley is interested in implementing a bike drop-off program, similar to what they have in Paris. Under the program a person could rent a bike on one side of town and drop it off on another side of town. |
| 6:11
| That's sort of what Pete does with his I-Go car share program. That doesn't sound like a bad idea, as long as you don't mind driving around in a car that says I-Go on it. It helps if you don't mind waiting for a knucklehead like Pete to drop the car off and if he's been drinking he probably didn't clean it. God knows what else would be in that car too. |
| 6:12
| It works out for Pete because he doesn't need a car too often in the city. It's very expensive to have a car in the city anyway. |
| 6:13
| The last time Pete used I-Go was to drive out to Mokena to visit some friends. They must have been proud to have that in their driveway. |
| 6:14
| That guy who owns the company heard Pete talking about signing up for I-Go so he sent him an email. He didn't offer him anything like a free membership though. You have to think their profit margin is pretty small though. |
| 6:15
| Too much time in front of TV early in life can cause ADD in children? Huh? What did Buzz say? Steve wasn't paying attention. |
| 6:16
| The creation of a human/animal embryo for the purpose of medical researched has been approved by British authorities. The procedure involves injecting a human embryo into an empty animal egg. |
| 6:17
| The result would be something 99.9% human and .10% animal. Buzz is just looking forward to the day when parents can decide if they want their child to have just a little bit of tiger in them. |
| 6:24
| If you're a skinhead it seems like you'd have something against Vietnamese people. There are skinheads who have nothing to do with that sort of thing. They're called Hari Krishna's. |
| 6:25
| It doesn't really matter if that guy didn't get charged with a hate crime since it's still first degree murder. |
| 6:26
| It's time to open the mailbag. The first email is about last Friday's show. Steve and Buzz were telling stories about the ways people could be transported home after drinking too much at a party. |
| 6:27
| That lady called in with a story about Little Richard being transported around a Nashville hotel on a bellman's cart. Then Steve told the story about being carted around on a bus cart by Joe Walsh and Swifty. |
| 6:28
| It reminded the emailer about a time that Steve and Garry were hired to do a personal appearance at a company. The emailer's friend worked at the company and had a bad habit of overserving himself. |
| 6:29
| The guy drank so much that he had to be taken away in an ambulance. As the guy was being carted off in a gurney he remembered Steve standing over him, wagging his finger and saying "I told you to pace yourself". |
| 6:30
| Also from last week, Steve and Buzz were talking about the $8,000 Buzz borrowed from David Hochberg to pay off a credit card debt. Steve feels that Wendy some how got Buzz sucked into that. |
| 6:31
| The emailer wanted to know if Buzz remembers renting a sofa for several years. It was from Swingles. Buzz finally realized he'd paid thousands of dollars in monthly payments for a $500 couch. |
| 6:32
| The next emailer is a senior at UConn, majoring in puppetry. Yes puppetry. His dad turned him onto the show and he recently discovered the podcasts. He wanted to know why he can't hear some songs or audio clips on the podcast but he can hear it on the stream. |
| 6:33
| The podcast is something that's actually made and uploaded so when you download it you have a copy. The stream is something different so it's different licensing. |
| 6:34
| We could probably get a license for the podcast but that probably won't happen. Steve can put the Mailbag theme on the podcast because he owns it. |
| 6:35
| If Steve knows he can put something on the podcast he tries to do it. Usually when there's a musician on the show they allow us to put their performance on the podcast. However we couldn't use Melvin Taylor's performance because he didn't write the songs. |
| 6:38
| If you're just joining us that irritates Steve because the show has been on since 2:00. Buzz is here today, this isn't a taped show. |
| 6:39
| Buzz is still working on passing the kidney stone. He went to the hospital yesterday, had a CAT scan and they discovered a 6 MM stone. They wouldn't give him the carat weight though. |
| 6:40
| Buzz is drinking plenty of water and he has his hydrocodone pills at the ready. That's 1000 mg of hydrocodone along with a little Tylenol to take the edge off. He also has a pill to fight the inevitable nausea. |
| 6:41
| Does Buzz have a way of recording the event should he pass the stone at home? There's not really much to hear unless Buzz is screaming which he probably won't. He's just going to bare down like a pioneer woman giving birth. |
| 6:42
| The only time it really hurts is when it gets hung up on something. Yesterday when Buzz had to leave the show was probably the worst he's going to sound. Can we hear that again? |
| 6:43
| Steve's looking at Mark Czerniec's page and he always does a rundown of what's on TV tonight around this time of the night. |
| 6:44
| Top Chef is on tonight, which Steve has been watching and thought he missed the end of. He clicked on the link and it was all people he recognized. Steve thought they were only down to two people but he's not sure if he's the only one watching. Pete and Jim aren't watching but Mark Czerniec seems to know. |
| 6:45
| Top Chef is still on and it's down to two people, the black guy and the Asian girl. There have been two weeks in which they haven't aired new episodes. |
| 6:46
| Caller Bob saw Top Chef last week. The two finalists tied in a competition where they both lost. |
| 6:47
| Mark likes Top Chef's host, Padma Lakshmi but he didn't at first. He looked her up on Wikipedia recently and found out she was married to Salman Rushdie. So Mark decided to make her a MySpace friend. |
| 6:48
| The very next day Mark learned that she was getting a divorce from Rushdie. He only intended her to be a MySpace friend, nothing more. It seems like Mark could be in play though. |
| 6:49
| Steve would like to recommend WTTW's digital channel, 11.3. It's all of their cooking and travel shows around the clock. If you're lucky you'll get New Scandinavian Cooking with Tina Nordstrom. |
| 6:50
| That's a perfect channel for Steve because it cuts out all the stuff he doesn't want to see and focuses on stuff like Mexico One Plate at a Time. |
| 6:51
| Caller Carol has some more Top Chef info. There are now 6 players left on the show. Any hot girls? |
| 6:52
| How about that one guy that started crying when he got kicked off. He was acting like some street tough guy from New York and then he's balling because he got kicked off. |
| 6:53
| There was also that one show on the Food Network where that guy got kicked off for lying about his military service. |
| 6:54
| Steve can't talk about this any more, his brain is going to turn to oatmeal. All of these shows seems exactly the same to him. |
| 6:59
| All of these cooking shows seem the same because they all have the same Benetton ad of contestants. They go out of their way to make it diverse which is cool but it's hard to keep track. |
| 7:00
| Of three shows Steve's favorite one is the one on the Food Network because the winner actually gets his/her own show. |
| 7:01
| Mark is right though that Padma Lakshmi is hot. She probably got tired of all the death threats and left him. |
| 7:02
| Matt Dahl's going to put his vote in for Everyday Italian on the Food Network. That Giada DeLaurentis is hot. It's not a competition though, it's just a women preparing a meal. |
| 7:03
| She's always just showing off a little bit of cleavage. That's why they call them meat cleavers, you need a little of that in the kitchen. |
