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| 2:00
| Steve's not talking to Stan and Terry until Buzz gets here. What part of 2 o'clock doesn't he understand? |
| 2:01
| Buzz still hasn't passed his kidney stone but he hasn't been milking his ailment. He does have some good drugs though. |
| 2:02
| Stan was wondering if the hospital sent Buzz home with a strainer for the kidney stone. Steve and Buzz don't talk about that kind of stuff. |
| 2:03
| Stan did some reading about kidney stones but only as a means to prevent them. The best way is to drink plenty of water. Steve read yesterday that any liquid counts towards that, including coffee. You just have to drink enough of it. |
| 2:04
| The only way to prevent kidney stones is to drink plenty of water, at least according to Stan's research. That's not much reading is it. Stan's reading also said that coffee doesn't count. |
| 2:05
| Supposedly passing a kidney stone is the closest thing men can experience to the pain of child birth. Buzz does look very radiant and glowing. He's in his third trimester. |
| 2:06
| If you look up kidney stones on Wikipedia Buzz is now listed as a famous kidney stone sufferer. |
| 2:07
| Buzz is here now. He heard Steve talking about famous kidney stone sufferers and thought he should get in there. Buzz can't believe he's on there! |
| 2:08
| Then if you click on Buzz's name it takes you to a separate entry about him. Steve reads Buzz's entry. He's not only a famous kidney stone sufferer, he's also known for his spoofs! |
| 2:09
| It's almost like Buzz wrote this entry himself. It has a lot of stuff from a bio Buzz wrote for WLUP. |
| 2:10
| According to the Wikipedia entry, Buzz's run on the midday show with Wendy culminated with the Blobus Festivus music and variety show. You can pretty much write anything you want on these things. |
| 2:11
| Steve did not know that Buzz and Tony took their Drive In Reviews show to Comedy Central. That was right in the mid-90s though. Was Swifty involved with that? |
| 2:12
| Buzz was on Comedy Central for two years, how did Steve miss all that? Well he knows how he missed it but he did watch a lot of cable. |
| 2:13
| Everyone alright in Stan and Terry's studio? Steve heard coughing, is Stan giving Terry some sort of hernia test? Is this part of his reading about kidney stones? |
| 2:14
| Terry noticed the kicker at the end of the Wikipedia bio. Steve really doesn't like when people are reading along with him. It's even worse when they read ahead. |
| 2:16
| Are we not doing Pete's music segment any more? Because Steve couldn't help but notice he wasn't in the studio. |
| 2:17
| Pete wasn't sure if the segment was canceled. Did Steve say it was canceled? Steve knew there would be some sort of fall out from canceling the tapes and this is it. |
| 2:18
| Just out of curiosity, why would Steve cancel the segment and not tell Pete? He told him about the tapes being canceled. Does he have a song to play? |
| 2:19
| Pete has a song for today but he doesn't have a great CD of songs. Everyone thinks Steve is crazy but it's Pete that's the total nutjob. |
| 2:20
| Where's Buzz at? Steve's going to need him in here for everything, he can't do this alone. He needs Buzz because he's not crazy either and he knows Steve isn't crazy. |
| 2:21
| Does Pete feel like he's gotten his pound of flesh or does he need more? Psycho! Steve's not aware of any plan to cancel Pete's segment. Buzz saw this coming the moment Steve canceled the tapes. |
| 2:22
| Steve saw it coming too because Pete is the most passive-aggressive person he's ever met. It's a mean passive-aggressive too. Deep down there's dart boards with pictures of Steve on them. |
| 2:23
| Buzz has been waiting since Tuesday to see what was going to happen today. It's not too late to cancel it though but then Steve will cancel all his Thursday appointments. Then Pete will have an angry Chef Hans to deal with. |
| 2:24
| Pete has a song by a band that will be in town this weekend for the Hideout Block Party. It's the last big festival of the summer. The Hideout is a very small club in an fairly industrial area. |
| 2:25
| Industrial areas are so cool aren't they? Buzz never thought of that area as being industrial. It used to be when the bar first opened and it was frequented by people working the factories. |
| 2:26
| Pete feels The Hideout is fairly industrial, it's right at Wabansia and Elston. Steve doesn't even know, he just gave an interview for a magazine he's never heard of, Time Out Chicago. |
| 2:27
| Buzz and Pete think it's pretty big but Steve's never heard of it. The girl interviewing him had a bit of an attitude but it was about a charity thing Steve is doing. |
| 2:28
| Steve doesn't like doing charity things because of all the knuckleheads that are involved with it. Charities are just an excuse for people to see and be seen. By the time the event actually occurs Steve can't help but break bad on everyone involved. Then Steve's up on stage at Gilda's Club with a list of people he'd like to see get cancer. |
| 2:29
| Jen Scheff is an example of one of these people. She was listed in the ad for this event about Steve and Garry's names. What is she famous for, The Bachelor? She needs to go back to being a file clerk or whatever she was. |
| 2:30
| This is why Stan and Terry need to lay off some of the celebrity worship because it just makes people famous who shouldn't be famous. |
| 2:31
| Pete thinks it's all part of the Billy Dec celebrity culture. Billy Dec, the guy who's so insecure that he has to wear a hat to a formal event? That guy shouldn't be famous either, he should just run some clubs in the city and that's it. |
| 2:32
| Pete might recall that a few years ago Steve did a charity event for Harry Teinowitz. Harry pitched it as raising money for child abuse and when Steve got up on stage he said "how expensive can it be to abuse a child? Just get a belt" And he was mercilessly booed off stage. Then the comedian Jeff Altman asked him if he was on crack. |
| 2:33
| Steve just hopes to god that when he's at the Gilda's Club thing he doesn't go into his Jen Scheff hunk. It didn't even work out with her and that Firestone guy! |
| 2:34
| Pete hasn't heard about Jen Scheff in a while. Occasionally you hear about Bill Rancic although you really shouldn't since Trump fired him. |
| 2:38
| A guy called during the last segment and said The Hideout is near Finkl Steel so it used to be an industrial area. Now it's cool to live in those areas. Then you can have huge doors and steel all around you and one of those big elevators in a cage. |
| 2:39
| Caller Shawn was just telling Brandon that Jen Scheff wrote a book about dating. First of all it's Brendan and second of all, Steve doesn't need to hear what the listener told Brendan. |
| 2:40
| Did she write a book about dating on TV or something? At this event Steve is either going to go up there and unleash all of this stuff or he'll talk about it so much beforehand that by the time he gets there everyone hates him. |
| 2:41
| Just so Buzz knows, we're experiencing our daily cable outage, sponsored by Comcast. Right now we're missing "Is My Teen Niece Sleeping With My Husband?" which is a topic that interests Buzz since he used to date his niece. It wasn't a blood relative, it was the daughter of his godfather. |
| 2:42
| She was significantly younger that Buzz too and he'd always introduce her as his niece, which would surprise people. The whole relationship began to unravel when Buzz refused to see Terms of Endearment. |
| 2:43
| Buzz is the guy who should be writing a dating book. Maybe Buzz Like Me. |
| 2:44
| So on to Pete's song. The Hideout Block Party is this weekend and Pete will be there. Will he have his back rub booth open at the festival? |
| 2:45
| One of the bands playing this weekend is The Frames, a hugely successful Irish band. Define "hugely successful"? If you lived in Ireland, The Frames would be the second most popular band behind U2. That's probably a huge drop-off though. |
| 2:46
| What about Del Amitri, they're not as popular? Or The Pogues? Or Dexy's Midnight Runners? |
| 2:47
| The singer of The Frames is a guy named Glen Hansard who's in a movie called Once that came out over the summer and got tremendous reviews. Pete highly recommends it. |
| 2:48
| Pete says it's the perfect movie which to Steve means it's a chick flick. It was so good Pete gave himself a backrub. Steve heard some guy fawning over it on XRT. The guy broke down. |
| 2:49
| The song today is something The Frames recorded on a previous album and then Hansard re-recorded for the movie soundtrack. Pete was reluctant to play the song from the soundtrack because the movie effected him so much. |
| 2:50
| That's a lot of thought Pete put into a segment he thought was going to be canceled. Pete didn't make an entire CD of songs though but he wanted to, in case Buzz wasn't here and Steve would need something to go to. |
| 2:51
| Song: Falling Slowly, The Frames |
| 2:54
| You know how you can tell The Frames are Irish? The fiddle. It's good that Pete didn't bring in the slow version of that song. It was a good one though. |
| 2:55
| Is the movie Irish? Do they have Irish accents? The director used to be in The Frames and they do have Irish accents. The girl is Czech though. |
| 2:56
| Pete sort of feels about Once the way that Buzz's former girlfriend/niece felt about Terms of Endearment. If he was out with a girl who didn't like the movie he's not sure if he'd be able to continue on. |
| 3:00
| When Steve was in Ireland all the food was grilled cheese sandwiches cooked in bags. What a miserable place. There was nothing in Ireland for Steve since he doesn't golf and he's not Catholic. |
| 3:01
| Plus he was there as part of a Guinness promotion to give away a neighborhood pub. By the time Steve did his show everyone in the pub was drunk and angry that their pub was being given away in a contest |
| 3:02
| Steve wasn't drinking either so it was really tough. It didn't seem like a terrible place if you were drinking. |
| 3:03
| Steve was drinking some sort of orange energy drink they have other there and he got pretty whacked on that. Then he couldn't sleep. |
| 3:04
| They did have good ice cream and that's pretty much all Steve ate. When he got back on the plane to go home the button popped on his pants. |
| 3:05
| When you fly business class they give you a toiletries bag so Steve took the sewing kit and looped a lot of thread around his waist to hold his pants up. |
| 3:06
| That was also the trip where Steve got a massage in the hotel and the woman told him he was fat. She might have just been surprised that Steve could pack so much into the clothes he was wearing. |
| 3:07
| Steve also got into a fight at the airport in Ireland. He came up behind a group of business travelers carrying a bunch of big tubes. One of them told Steve to go ahead of them but when he did another one started yelling at him. Steve did not relinquish his new place in line though. |
| 3:08
| In Ireland Steve was drinking Lucozade which is an energy and sports drink. Steve drank a lot of it. |
| 3:09
| The only other snack he remembers was pork rinds which he doesn't find appetizing. Guys would drink all day, eat pork rinds and then fall asleep in their chair. |
| 3:15
| Steve will be up at the Admiral on Monday night for the kickoff of Monday Night Football. There are two games that night which means two halftimes. |
| 3:16
| Steve was told by Drew today, during his weekly meeting with Drew and Jill, that WCKG would be carrying the first game but not until an hour into it. |
| 3:17
| First Drew said that it was the way they wanted to do it but then he just admitted it was for the money. It just seems like you'd want to carry one full game if there are two of them that night. |
| 3:18
| The first game starts at 6:00 central time and it occurred to Steve that with the show ending at 7:00 he might not make it up there for the first halftime show with the nude field goal kicking contest. So Steve will probably study the tape from the first contest for when he hosts the second one. |
| 3:19
| Today Steve will be giving away passes for the event on Monday. Steve's initial idea was to have dudes send in nude pictures of their wife or girlfriend but that probably wouldn't get past legal. |
| 3:20
| Steve will probably just do a text-to-win but he's still clinging to the idea of getting candid nude photos. There are probably dudes who would send nude photos of their wife or girlfriend for a $750 gold card at The Admiral. There are probably dudes doing it right now. |
| 3:21
| The card also gives you free admission and preferred seating. Plus a VIP lounge pass so you don't have to wait in line. Also, 20% off all products in the Admiral store and invitations to special events at The Admiral. |
| 3:22
| It's time to talk to Ed Farmer but first of all Brendan, or Brandon, needs to make sure that Angela, former stripper, stays on hold. |
| 3:23
| Ed wouldn't mind following the stripper on the show. The Sox lost today on a hit by pitch that eventually scored. Steve didn't even know they were still playing. |
| 3:24
| Ed's up in Detroit and he likes it there. If he mentions Steve's name he gets carte blanche everywhere. The Sox are coming home for the weekend series against the Twins. |
| 3:25
| Steve will not be there at all this weekend, he'd rather be in a coma. Ed thought Steve said he'd rather be in Tacoma. That'll work too. |
| 3:26
| Steve heard that Ozzie Guillen signed a contract extension. There's nothing official but it was first reported by Bruce Levine this morning. He's also the one who said Podsednik was going to the Cubs. |
| 3:27
| This is the time of year when season ticket holders give up their seats to friends or co-workers. Then the people get hammered on the free alcohol. This is when a Ligue happens. |
| 3:28
| It's a different kind of crowd at this time of the year. People keep drinking beer because they're so amazed that people keep bringing beer to their seats. |
| 3:29
| Steve's still listening to Ed and Chris and they're doing a great job, even though there's not a whole lot to say. |
| 3:30
| You can't really talk about Notre Dame either. How about Appalachian State, that was pretty exciting. |
| 3:31
| That's in Boone, North Carolina. Ed could talk about that when they bring in Boone Logan. Then right into Boone's Farm. That sounds like high school drinking for Steve Dahl. |
| 3:32
| It might have been along with something called Bailey High but he can't remember what that even was. You'd get really hammered on it in a bad way. |
| 3:33
| You felt bad that day and the next day. Ed thought maybe a bottle of Bailey and 50 White Castles could set you up for a week though. |
| 3:34
| They didn't have White Castles in LA but they did have Jack in the Box |
| 3:35
| Ed's trying to stay in good spirits, that's all you can do. It seems to Buzz like Ed is almost disconnected. |
| 3:36
| Steve was watching the Cubs last night and rooting for them against his own birthright Dodgers. Steve must admit that when the Cubs play the Dodgers it's very confusing because their uniforms look like the American flag. |
| 3:37
| It seemed very exciting and the people there were very happy. Steve remembers those halcyon days, not that he was on halcion. |
| 3:43
| Another reason Steve kept confusing the Cubs with the Dodgers is that Juan Pierre is on the Dodgers. He was part of the all-French outfield, which is no more. |
| 3:44
| The Cubs still have Jacque Jones and Matt Murton but they don't play together very often. |
| 3:45
| Juan Pierre let a ball go by him, just like the old days. He was great on Florida, stunk when he came to the Cubs and now he's good on the Dodgers. |
| 3:46
| Steve was rooting for the Cubs but he got confused by his own all-French outfield concept. |
| 3:47
| Pete's still making Steve work for this though. He's still taking his pound of flesh. If he wants more he can come up to The Admiral. |
| 3:48
| Pete doesn't think he should go up there. He doesn't drink during the week anyway. They don't have a bar though so that's perfect. That means they're all-nude. |
| 3:49
| The only other time Pete has been to a strip club is with Steve but that place wasn't all-nude. As a guy who doesn't drink why would he want to go to a strip club with alcohol? |
| 3:50
| Caller Angela is a former stripper. She has an idea about how Steve could give away the gold card for The Admiral. |
| 3:51
| Steve's just going to go with the text-to-win for the time being. He just wanted to talk to Angela because it said she was a former stripper. |
| 3:52
| Angela has called in before, she went to The U and was a stripper while in college. |
| 3:59
| The word to text is Dancer. Text it to 41059 and be the 1,059th person to do so and win the Admiral gold card. |
| 4:00
| Song: Kiss This Thing Goodbye, Del Amitri |
| 4:04
| Earlier in the show Pete played a song by The Frames and said they were the second most popular band in Ireland after U2. Then Steve wondered how Del Amitri ranked. They might not even be together any more. |
| 4:05
| Buzz should bring his harp tomorrow because Steve has written a blues song about his kidney stone. |
| 4:06
| Headlines with Buzz |
| 4:07
| Idaho Senator Larry Craig has made yet another turn around and will now resign from Congress. What's with this guy? Does he just like being in the news? |
| 4:08
| What we have learned from this is if you're in a men's room, wait for the tap back. If there's no tap back then move on. |
| 4:09
| If the cop taps back and then arrests you that has to be entrapment right? Because otherwise you're just picking up dudes in public. |
| 4:10
| Caller Anne-Marie wanted to tell Steve that Del Amitri is Scottish, not Irish. He just met they're from the UK. It's all the same thing. |
| 4:11
| If you're just meeting dudes in a bathroom and then going elsewhere that's not illegal. It's like a dating service. Steve might call his dating service It's Just Toilets. |
| 4:12
| It seems like it's entrapment though. It's like on COPS, you get arrested if you ask the prostitute "how much"? That doesn't seem right. |
| 4:13
| This just in, the Dodgers beat the Cubs 7-4. The Sox lost too. Ryan Dempster gave up a three-run home run in the 9th. |
| 4:14
| Meanwhile supporters of Senator Craig are calling for a boycott of the Minneapolis Airport. Is that a group of dudes who like to have sex in men's rooms? |
| 4:21
| Steve still thinks it's weird to announce you're running for President on the Tonight's Show. Steve was watching Letterman anyway because Larry David was on. |
| 4:22
| Danny DeVito was also on and spent the whole time talking about his new restaurant in South Beach and not talking about It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia which probably irritated the FX people. |
| 4:23
| Steve's watched that show a few times and it's not bad. The thing with TV now is that they'll probably air the same episodes so many times that you can't miss it. |
| 4:24
| Steve's already given away one Admiral gold card and he'll give another away right now. The word is Nude, text to 41059 to win. |
| 4:25
| There's a video Steve has seen on the Tribune website of a woman trying to cut around one train, not realizing there was another one coming from the other direction. |
| 4:26
| Two of the women's children died and they have the whole thing on the Tribune website. |
| 4:27
| A woman driving her kids around in a car should not be trying to race a train at an intersection. |
| 4:28
| Buzz is wondering if Pete is now racing to find the Paul Butterfield classic Two Trains Running. |
| 4:29
| Steve's not sure if we have that but he does have another good song about two trains. Remember when Eric and Kathy had Train on their New Year's Show. They kept saying Train was one of their favorite bands as they continually talked over them. |
| 4:30
| Steve thought he had Two Trains by Little Feat but it's not on his computer. Buzz would rather hear that one. Does Pete have the Eric and Kathy tape? It's never as good as Steve remembers it because they're not actually interrupting the band. |
| 4:31
| Pete needs a minute to find the Eric and Kathy tape. In the meantime Steve could talk about how Mark Malone came to the broadcast dressed in jeans, a sport coat and a fake vintage Dylan tour shirt. |
| 4:32
| Does Eric still have the fake kidney stone? Buzz thought that Eric did that to mock him. Everything those two do mocks Steve and Buzz, even if they don't realize they're doing it. |
| 4:33
| Dan Falato claims that Eric is a big fan but that seems like a license to steal other people's materials. |
| 4:34
| Susan Carlson is in the Eric and Kathy drop. She's the one that Ed Silha wanted to date. Then Stan and Terry tried to hook them up on the air but it didn't work out. |
| 4:35
| Susan's a little too bug-eyed for Steve. If he wanted to date a lizard he'd go to the zoo. |
| 4:36
| Song: Two Trains, Little Feat |
| 4:38
| Steve can get the Paul Butterfield song if Buzz would like to hear it. That one features the word train a lot more but the Little Feat one is still good. |
| 4:39
| Caller Kathy (of Eric & Kathy?!) was listening to The Mix this morning. Eric got his test results back and he has an infected ulcer. He seems so calm, cool and collected on the outside but apparently he's churning on the inside. |
| 4:40
| Kathy needs to stop listening to that drivel. She's better off having nothing on the radio. One day she'll look over and her brain will be in a bucket in the passenger seat. |
| 4:41
| There's a guy on hold who says there's a billboard featuring Kathy and Pink and they both look awful. What kind of observation is that to make for a guy? |
| 4:42
| It's Thursday which means Steve shares his Taco Bell menu item with a listener. So he'll need someone to go out and get the new Cheesy Beefy Melt. |
| 4:43
| Make sure to time it out so you order the item, get it and then are in your car when you call in. Steve can't condone people driving around and eating either. |
| 4:44
| Song: Two Trains Running, The Paul Butterfield Blues Band |
| 4:51
| On the phone is Pat Boyle from Comcast Sportsnet. The Cubs lost, blowing a 4-2 inning. Howry gave up a home run in the 8th and then Dempster gave up a 3-run in the 9th. |
| 4:52
| The wind was really blowing out today which just shows how quickly things can turn around. Jason Marquis pitched a great game and came out in the 7th. |
| 4:53
| With the Brewers off today the Cubs are now in a tie for first place with them. The Cardinals are up big against the Pirates too. |
| 4:54
| No need to talk about what happened to the Sox in Detroit today. Steve talked to Ed earlier and he didn't even want to talk about them. |
| 4:55
| Pat had an idea that no one wants to talk about the White Sox last night when former NHL goalie John Van Biesbruck jumped into the broadcast booth with Hawk and DJ. |
| 4:56
| We've got the Bears on Sunday so that's something to look forward to. The Bears are all upset about the Nike commercial which doesn't really make sense since Tommie Harris was in it and he knew what was going on. |
| 4:57
| Just so Buzz doesn't feel bad about the time he and Bruce Wolf were duct taped in a shower, Steve saw something similar on that HBO show Hard Knocks. |
| 4:58
| The Chiefs first-round pick held out and got to camp late so everyone else had to haze him. The duct taped him to a goal post, wrapped in him in cellophane and then dumped a bucket of ice water on him. |
| 4:59
| Pat can't see what benefit the Chiefs have to doing a show like this because of how candid everyone is. |
| 5:00
| It doesn't seem like the Bears would work on this show though. It seems better for a team that has nothing left to lose. |
| 5:01
| Steve feels pretty good about Sunday's game but he's always optimistic about the Bears. He was even optimistic during the Wannstedt administration. |
| 5:02
| The Chargers have a new head coach so who knows what could go wrong for them. If you have to play a top tier team it seems like you'd want to play them early. Plus Ron Rivera is out there now. |
| 5:03
| Why was Rivera fired anyway, Steve feels like we never got the full story on that. Rivera was never Lovie's guy but the Bears went with him because of his pedigree. |
| 5:04
| Bob Babich is Lovie's guy so they kept putting him in different positions on the team hoping that eventually Rivera would get a head coaching job somewhere. |
| 5:05
| Pat would certainly take the Bears in the points on Saturday. He's thinking Bears plus 7. |
| 5:06
| Steve was supposed to do some sort of post-game thing with Comcast but it never panned out. That's OK with him though because he wouldn't want to do it every Sunday. |
| 5:07
| It's time for the Five O'Clock Taco Bell. It's also Taco Pal Thursday and Steve has a Taco Pal on the line, Bob. |
| 5:08
| Steve is enjoying the new Cheesy Beefy Melt from Taco Bell. |
| 5:13
| When Steve first saw that Nike commercial he was trying to figure out when LT ran over the Bears defense like that. |
| 5:14
| Steve has since been told that other than Tommie Harris, the rest of the guys in Bears jerseys are just actors. He has since gone back and watched it again and it still looks real, which is the whole point of it. |
| 5:15
| Caller Leela was Steve's Taco Pal last Thursday. She was so great that Buzz got compliments about her from listeners. They'd never heard a taco shell crunch the way she crunched it. |
| 5:16
| Leela has a Cheesy Beefy Melt and a taco and she's still waiting to eat them. It's like Steve cheated on her with Bob. Does Steve want to know what it says on her sauce packet? |
| 5:17
| Steve's not sure if he knows where to take this, at least on the air. He didn't feel a connection with Bob the way he felt with Leela. |
| 5:18
| Steve would like to say that Taco Pal Bob doesn't need to call back next week and reminisce. It would be really creepy. |
| 5:19
| Chef Hans is here for Meat Talk. He just called Luigi and gave him condolences on the death of Pavarotti. |
| 5:20
| Well that's a quality Luigi name drop for no reason. Buzz might recall that Luigi used to come in every week for football picks. It started as Luigi's segment because he was tight with then-producer Dan Falato. |
| 5:21
| It was fine but Steve felt it needed to be spiced up a little more so he brought in Chef Hans. He completely took it over with his funny accent. Luigi's accent is funny but not as funny as Hans'. |
| 5:22
| Steve always felt bad that Luigi got pushed out of his own segment. He also left the country. Dan also made it very complicated because each person was playing for a listener. |
| 5:23
| It also helped that Hans brought food in every week. That really came in handy when Phil Rosenthal was strapping on the feed bag. |
| 5:24
| Hans doesn't bring food in any more but he would if Steve asked him to. Luigi never brought food in though. |
| 5:25
| Hans remembers Luigi bringing food in a few times but Steve's not going to give him fake credit. |
| 5:26
| A lot of the time Luigi wouldn't even be here, he'd call in from San Francisco or something. |
| 5:27
| Why is Hans talking up Luigi so much? He won, the segment is his. He won with his thick, fake accent. Of the air he sounds just like Steve. The accent is part of his Little Swiss Winemaker character. |
| 5:28
| Hans' name came up in a marketing meeting today. Hans had an idea about the show going to Switzerland for a winter carnival. The week that it's going on doesn't work because it's Super Bowl week. Steve still wants to go though because of how much Buzz has been talking up Switzerland. |
| 5:29
| Plus, why go to Switzerland in the winter? It'll still be winter here. How about something in the summer? |
| 5:30
| If they want to move the carnival then we can talk. How much clout does Hans have in Switzerland? |
| 5:31
| S & W got taken over by their new ownership and everyone seems very nice. The new owners sent over some welcome gifts to upper-management. Hans got a gourmet basket. With cheeses and sausages? |
| 5:34
| Alright continuing on with Meat Talk featuring Chef Hans from Smith & Wollensky or Smit & Wollensky as he calls it. |
| 5:35
| The first emailer is a design engineer for a food service company. A few years ago after the NRA convention he went to dinner at Rosebud. Steve saved this letter but already he lost interest. He doesn't need to know someone's pedigree, just ask the question. |
| 5:36
| The emailer had a portabella mushroom steak. Is it -bella or -bello? Buzz thought it was -bella. It's actually -bello. |
| 5:37
| Why did Steve save this letter it's not even about meat, it's about fungus. This isn't Fungus Talk. |
| 5:38
| The emailer says that the mushroom cap had the same flavor as the steak but he's been unable to replicate that at home. This is why they have restaurants. |
| 5:39
| The emailer wants to know how to replicate the flavor of that succulent cap. That might be why Steve saved the letter. |
| 5:40
| Hans recommends buying a large portabello and cleaning out the inside with a spoon. Put a little olive oil and salt and pepper in there and then put it in the broiler, cap side down and then flip. Then slice that up and put it next to the steak. |
| 5:41
| Alright that's enough of Fungus Talk. Mushroom's can kill. |
| 5:42
| The next emailer was just on an out-of-town golf outing with a bunch of dudes, one of whom has a culinary background. There are so many things wrong with that sentence. |
| 5:43
| The bought a slab of meat and then the guy wrapped it in paper towels, saying it was a poor man's way of dry-aging. You really don't want to leave meat out like that. Dry-aging has to be done by professionals and it takes weeks. |
| 5:44
| You could wrap the steak in cellophane or parchment paper and put it in the fridge though. |
| 5:45
| You're better off just having a butcher age it for you. If you ask them, they'll do it for you. |
| 5:46
| The last emailer has been told that before you put your meat on the grill you should oil the grates to prevent sticking. They've also been told to only oil the meat. So which is the best way? If you oil the grates should you do it when they're hot or cold? This is from Todd who wants more cowbell. |
| 5:47
| You want to oil the grates when they're hot. It's not wrong to put a little bit of oil on the steak if you haven't done anything to the grill though. |
| 5:48
| Steve's going to give away another Admiral $750 gold card. Steve will be there on Monday for the big Monday Night Football kick-off. He's not sure if he'll make it for the first halftime nude field goal kicking competition. |
| 5:49
| If, God forbid, Steve doesn't make it to the first one he'll grab the replay tape as soon as he gets there and then retire to a secluded location with the girls to go over how they can improve things. |
| 5:50
| Text the word Boobs to 41059, be the 1,059th texter and you win the card. |
| 5:51
| Live read: Townstone Financial |
| 5:52
| It looks like this one is going to be complicated. It's about "George" who's occupation is President of the United States. Is this where David makes his political statement? |
| 5:53
| Buzz is glad to see David finally getting his feet wet. Can't he just let Steve handle the broadcasting? Do you see Steve out there loaning people money? |
| 5:54
| Steve forgot that last week David called in and said Bush's new plan was actually going to help. Steve called it a fake plan. |
| 5:55
| Song: Gone Dead Train, Crazy Horse |
| 5:58
| That's our third song for the woman who tried to get around that oncoming train and did, only to be hit by another train coming in the opposite direction. |
| 6:02
| Was that Bill Kurtis from today's Cubs game? What was he doing at the game? |
| 6:03
| Kurtis threw out the first pitch and then sang the 7th Inning Stretch. Bill Kurtis? C'mon! And then he's sitting there explaining baseball to everyone. |
| 6:04
| There's a part in the interview with Bill where Len Kasper brings up a Dandy Warhols song that Kurtis is featured talking on. That's obscure, even for Pete. |
| 6:05
| Bill then responded that he was introduced to the Dandy Warhols by David Bowie, but he says it like Booie. Steve has no idea what Pete is talking about but it's paying off great. |
| 6:06
| Pete plays the tape. Apologies, it did pay off. |
| 6:07
| Last night on the Cubs game Wayne Messmer sang the 7th Inning Stretch. He said to the crowd that they were the greatest Cubs fans in the world. Aren't they the only Cubs fans in the world? The only Cubs fans are Cubs fans. |
| 6:08
| Pete plays Bill Kurtis singing the 7th Inning Stretch from today. Steve was looking on his machine for the Wayne Messmer "I've got your house in Pooh corner!" but he can't find it. |
| 6:09
| Caller Mike was at the Cubs game today and after the stretch Bill was throwing stuffed cows out of the booth, probably relating to his Tallgrass Beef which is apparently the best kind of beef. |
| 6:10
| Are you allowed to throw stuff into the crowd like that? Pete says they were actually stuffed bears, at least according to what Bill said. |
| 6:11
| Could Steve hear the part about the stuffed bears? Is there any way he could put his machine further away from the microphone? You can hear him getting on a double decker bus to get over there. |
| 6:12
| Speaking of double decker buses, who says they're allowed to go on Lake Shore Drive? Everyday Steve is stuck behind one going about 5 miles an hour. |
| 6:13
| Alright Pete's got the next clip. Bill says he brought along stuff bears. Steve could see Donna making him do something like that. |
| 6:20
| Wayne Messmer was probably trying to say that Cubs fans were the greatest baseball fans in the world. Or else he was saying the ones who were there last night where the greatest Cubs fans in the world. That seems unfair to the fans who showed up today. |
| 6:21
| Live read: Gierczyk Properties |
| 6:22
| Live read: Saturn |
| 6:23
| Time for some sports. Ryan Dempster gave up a 3-run home run to the Dodgers Andre Ethier, blowing a save and dropping the Cubs down to a tie with Milwaukee for first place. |
| 6:24
| Manager Lou Piniella said it was a tough loss today. Really? Steve's got a lot going on in the studio, you'd think people would be able to put the CD in the right player. |
| 6:25
| The Cardinals will move to 1 1/2 games back with a win over the Pirates. They were up 16-4 the last time Steve checked. |
| 6:26
| Rookie tight end Greg Olsen practiced today and will be listed as questionable for Sunday's game. Brian Urlacher said the first game of the season is always important but it's a long season. Another genius quote. |
| 6:27
| The NFL season kicks off tonight as the Saints play the Indianapolis Colts. |
| 6:28
| After today's practice the Tampa Bay Buccaneers will raise a team flag measuring 4,000 square feet at their practice facility. It will be the largest non-American flag to fly in this country. Maybe they should focus on football. |
| 6:29
| An oil painting of Michael Vick riding Barbaro just sold for $202 on eBay. Buzz could have totally bought that. |
| 6:33
| News with Buzz |
| 6:34
| Fred Thompson spent is first day on the campaign trail after announcing his candidacy on the Tonight's Show last night. He was in Iowa trying to drum up support. |
| 6:35
| An overnight tracking poll finds Thompson only two points behind Rudy Guiliani. |
| 6:36
| A new anti-dogfighting initiative was unveiled in Chicago today. Great! |
| 6:37
| The head of the coalition says that people involved in dogfighting could eventually turn their violence towards their children and others. Can she prove that? |
| 6:38
| Dogfighting is already illegal, do they need to hold a press conference to talk about the kind of people involved in dogfighting? Just arrested them. |
| 6:40
| Will Buzz be going to the remote in an ambulance tomorrow since he hasn't passed his stone? There will be an ambulance on the premises and Buzz will broadcast from a gurney. At all times he's carrying extremely potent narcotics. There's no way to get him to share is there? Because Steve might have a kidney stone too. |
| 6:41
| Steve had a meeting today with Drew and he mentioned the ambulance and thought it would be funny. But then it seemed like Drew thought he be the ambulance. That's not funny though. |
| 6:42
| The funny thing is that there's an ambulance sitting there. Drew seemed to think it was funny that he was the ambulance. |
| 6:48
| Steve still thinks the ambulance would be funny but once Drew got the laugh he totally backed off of it. He's only working the meeting for the laughs. He doesn't really want to spend money on an ambulance. |
| 6:49
| The last thing we'll hear Buzz say if he has to leave tomorrow is "I gotta go". Will he say it or will he just cue the CD? |
| 6:50
| Buzz would like to point out that he waited until the end of the segment before he told Steve he had to go. He's very professional. It came out of nowhere though which was great. |
| 6:51
| There was a lot going on during that segment and everyone was having fun except Buzz who was in pain. |
| 6:52
| Steve has a call on hold and he doesn't think he wants to take it. He's been looking at it for a minute trying to figure out what it means. |
| 6:53
| Someone called in with a funny story about a kidney stone. Steve doesn't think he wants that describe to him by a listener. Why don't we just call up the FCC, put them on hold and they can listen to the whole thing. |
| 6:54
| Buzz doesn't know the progress of the stone but he has a doctor's appointment tomorrow. Tomorrow? That sounds like a recipe for Buzz not showing up for the broadcast. |
| 6:55
| We could really use a CAT scan machine in the studio. We could see how people are doing or when someone is acting dopey, Steve included, just put their head in there and see if there are any fried brain cells. Drew might go for that since he didn't go for the ambulance. |
| 6:56
| We've got a band coming out to Bandito Barney's tomorrow too. Some local boys called The Backroom. They're very excited to be on the show, their parents are probably driving them out after school's out. |
| 6:57
| In addition to the band Buzz is looking forward to jamming with Steve on the Kidney Stone Blues. Steve will bring his guitar, or the tool of ignorance as he calls it. |
| 6:58
| Did Matt get that demand for rent today? Did he bring a check yet? Matt's done with school now and he has a job. |
| 6:59
| Matt was looking to do some negotiating though. Steve feels it was a rock bottom rent offer and if Matt doesn't like it he can have him evicted. David Hochberg knows some people. |
| 7:00
| Matt was hoping to get out of paying rent for September since the month has already started. |
