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| 2:02
| Steve's been listening to Stan and Terry but he can't figure out the problem they're having. |
| 2:03
| When Stan was a kid and his parents gave out their phone number you gave people the exchange like Hudson. Stan and Steve are about the same age but Stan looks much younger. |
| 2:04
| The reason there are letters on the phone is to spell out part of the exchange. How hard is this to understand? When you dial 1-800 MATTRESS you dial the corresponding numbers and leave off the last S for savings. |
| 2:05
| Stan has all of his files at home from when he used to work for the phone company so he knows all the exchanges. We don't need to get that in depth here. |
| 2:06
| Steve's exchange was Sycamore and his grandparents was Walnut. Steve also remembers when the operator would call from one exchange with a person-to-person, long distance call. |
| 2:07
| Back then long distance calls were really expensive so you'd tell the operator to call back and then gather your family to talk to whoever was calling. |
| 2:08
| The first two numbers in Bonnie's phone number are 8 and 7 so if she wants to have fun she can still use the exchange name. Stan will have to go home and consult his files and figure out what exchange she's in. |
| 2:09
| Stan thinks he remembers that it was the Usher exchange. At some point they added a 7th number because there were so many phones. |
| 2:10
| Stan remembers the number you were supposed to call to make your phone ring also. It's something only the phone company was supposed to know but most kids figured it out. |
| 2:11
| Steve remembers making prank calls as a kid. After about the 4th time you called someone the operator figured out what you were doing and came on the line. |
| 2:12
| Back then it was a big deal to talk to someone on the phone. Now the only time Steve's kids call is when they're driving to work and that's because they're bored. It's like Steve is their personalized radio station. |
| 2:13
| Steve also remembers his aunt having a party line which meant that 3 or 4 houses shared the same phone line. |
| 2:14
| Sometimes you'd be on a phone call and someone else would come on and say they needed to make a call. Then you'd get into an argument about who's call was more important. |
| 2:22
| Steve would imagine that drop from the Family Guy was inspired by the great Don Ameche/Henry Fonda movie about Alexander Graham Bell. |
| 2:23
| In the movie Ameche, playing Bell, spills some acid on himself and then Fonda tells him to take his britches off so he can rub some lard on the wound. |
| 2:24
| When the movie was made britches still met britches and lard still meant lard but maybe gay didn't mean gay. |
| 2:25
| That's from the 1939 classic The Story of Alexander Graham Bell. That one scene with the lard is pretty much all you need to see though, the rest of it doesn't seem to believable. Bell was probably |
| 2:26
| Buzz is not here again today but Steve's pretty sure he's not in the hospital. His story, which he's sticking to, is that he hasn't slept for days. He does have narcotics which should make you fall asleep. |
| 2:27
| Of course if you've been in the hospital for two days and they've just done something bizarre to your plumbing Steve can see how you'd want to take a day off. |
| 2:28
| However if it were Steve he'd pass the stone on the air because it would make for some great radio. |
| 2:29
| 1939's The Story of Alexander Graham Bell features Don Ameche as Bell, Loretta Young as Mrs. Bell and Henry Fonda as Thomas Watson. The real Mrs. Bell probably wasn't as hot as Loretta Young becuase if she was the only thing Alexander would have been inventing was ways to get her sweater off. |
| 2:30
| Reading the synopsis of the movie it does actually sound like a compelling movie. Steve really only remembers the scene with lard. He can't imagine sitting down and watching a movie from 1939 though. |
| 2:31
| Maybe they need to remake The Story of Alexander Graham Bell. Get Ben Stiller on it as soon as he's done with Heartbreak Kid. Why is Ben Stiller doing that movie? He's Ben Stiller, he shouldn't do remakes. Plus why are they remaking it? |
| 2:32
| Steve is wondering what the rival telephone company was that tried to ruin Bell in The Story of Alexander Graham Bell. If only Stan were here, he'd probably know the answer. |
| 2:33
| So Buzz isn't here today but Steve will soldier on. Neil Steinberg is coming in a little later. It's always interesting to have him on because he has a death wish and at any moment things could go bad. |
| 2:34
| Pete's laughing but he shouldn't because if Steve loses his job then Pete won't have a job either. |
| 2:35
| Caller Mark is almost positive that the rival phone company was Western Electric. It sounds like Mark is re-enacting a scene from The Story of Alexander Graham Bell but it was just the radio echoing. He's in his hallway painting the walls with a Navajo White paint. |
| 2:36
| Steve remembers they had a big factory out in Cicero. That big boat that tipped over in the Chicago River was full of people on a Western Electric company picnic. Steve can't remember the name of the boat so now all the history people will be calling in. |
| 2:37
| When Mark paints the baseboard does he lay down because that's what Steve would do? What Mark should do is invent some sort of wheeled, baseboard creeper that you can kneel down on. |
| 2:38
| Stan's in the studio to answer some questions. The Eastland was the boat that tipped over in the river. |
| 2:39
| In 1875 inventor Elisha Gray sold his interests to Western Union, including the caveat that he had filed against Bell's patent for the telephone. |
| 2:43
| Steve has an interesting fact about the Eastland. He always ends up talking about this but it's kind of interesting since it happened right up the street. |
| 2:44
| On July 24, 1915 the Eastland, the Theodore Roosevelt and the Petoskey, probably named after Petoskey, Michigan, were hired to take Western Electric employees to a picnic in MIchigan City. |
| 2:45
| Passengers began boarding the Eastland at 6:30 AM and by 7:10 it had reached capacity. If Steve were there he would have taken the South Shore to Michigan City, he doesn't wake up at 6:30 AM to get on a boat. |
| 2:46
| By the time the boat reached capacity it had begun to develop a list to the port. That's probably because everyone was on the side looking at the river. |
| 2:47
| Steve always thought the boat sunk at Michigan and Wacker but it was actually at Michigan and Clark. |
| 2:48
| A listener called in with this tidbit but wasn't able to hang on. They must have watched a WTTW special about the Eastland disaster. Steve wouldn't mind seeing something like that. |
| 2:49
| By all accounts there were no famous people on the Eastland although George Halas was scheduled to go to the picnic as a summer employee of Western Electric. |
| 2:50
| Halas woke up late and missed the boat. So a Steve Dahl and a George Halas don't like to wake up early and get on a boat. |
| 2:51
| It's a good thing George Halas didn't get on that boat. It would have changed everything. Steve probably wouldn't have been at The Admiral last night hosting a Monday Night Football event if Halas had gotten on that boat. |
| 2:57
| Steve's going to be giving away tickets for the next Dahlfins show on September 29th at the House of Blues Back Porch Stage. They're not VIP tickets though, those are only for the beach party. |
| 2:58
| Steve feels it's a mistake to have a VIP section at the beach parties. At the last one a non-VIP stabbed a VIP. It was like our Altamont. |
| 2:59
| The Back Porch Stage is a more intimate room. You can't see anything when you're up in the main room with all the boxes and the Foundation Room. How's that for rationalizing being in the smaller room? |
| 3:00
| There is a VIP section at the shows for people from the station but so far no one at the station has been except Matt Dahl and Drew Hayes. Stan and Terry haven't come out, nor has Garry. Maybe they don't want to see just how talented Steve really is. |
| 3:01
| John Valenta's standing outside the studio looking at the TV just to make sure it's not working. This happens everyday and it has happened ever since Comcast made us switch over to cable boxes. |
| 3:02
| During the breaks when you hear Steve say something clever from the last show be the 10th caller to win tickets. |
| 3:03
| Buzz has played the Back Porch Stage and he says it's great. It holds about 500 people which is perfect. |
| 3:04
| Tonight Bob and Ron are at the Hunt Club giving out tickets. Steve might actually have to show up for that. They'll show up and people will think they're applying to be bus boys. |
| 3:05
| Caller Tom wanted to let Steve know that there's a WTTW special about the Chicago River and one of the bonus features is a special about the Eastland. |
| 3:06
| Tom won a stay at Grizzly Jack's from the prize wheel. Steve always tells Buzz he should take Piper there but his excuse is always that she's not old enough. That's his excuse for everything, he just doesn't want to take her. |
| 3:07
| Caller Mark wanted to let Steve know that Harpo Studios is believed to be haunted by ghosts of the Eastland disaster. It used to be the Armory which housed a temporary morgue. Steve used to have that Ghost Hunter guy on the show and he might have mentioned that. |
| 3:08
| Mark was on the Richard Crow Ghost Hunter tour where he also learned that the House of Blues is haunted. |
| 3:09
| Steve was trying to get his megaphone working to do the Ghost Hunter but it's not working. Steve only needs to use this thing a few times a year and it never works. |
| 3:10
| There was a time when Pete used to check the megaphone everyday by turning it on and blowing in to it. Steve might have told him to stop doing it everyday so Pete stopped doing it all together. |
| 3:11
| The only other megaphone Steve has is the giant one that Tina bought him which is way too big and loud. |
| 3:12
| At one point during the Ghost Hunter tour Crow gave out cookies and milk which was a little creepy. They also stopped for dinner at the Billy Goat although there was no haunting story tied into it. It seemed like it was just a place where Crow could get free food. |
| 3:13
| Actually this big megaphone isn't that bad. Plus it turns itself off. The reason the other one never works is because Steve uses it and then forgets to turn it off. |
| 3:14
| Caller Laurie was not on the Eastland but her grandmother was. Her brother worked for Western Electric and they were going to the picnic. |
| 3:15
| When they arrived her grandmother had a really bad feeling and tried to talk her brother and best friend out of getting on board. People always say that after something happens don't they? |
| 3:16
| Laurie's grandmother managed to convince her friend to not get on board but her brother wouldn't listen because he wanted to get to Michigan City. He went under the deck to listen to a jazz band and he was one of the 844 people who died. |
| 3:17
| Laurie's grandmother was standing along the river as the boat capsized and she could see faces in the portals of people who couldn't escape. There's another survivor call on hold that has a more happy ending. Although Faces in the Portal will be the name of the next Dahlfins album. |
| 3:18
| Caller Steve's grandmother was on the Eastland and went into the water when it capsized. Some guy jumped into the water to save her. |
| 3:19
| Steve's grandmother is also featured in a display about the Eastland at the Chicago History Museum. Steve needs to get up there sometime, he's never been. |
| 3:20
| Of course before last night he'd never been to The Admiral where he had a great time. The had a fantastic deep-friend macaroni and cheese dish. That's how macaroni and cheese is supposed to be. |
| 3:21
| They also have this announcer at The Admiral who just walks around with a mic talking to you in a normal voice. Then suddenly he's talking in the loud announcer voice telling you to go into the backroom with Crystal to get a private one-on-one dance. |
| 3:22
| Steve's not sure he can really recreate how that guy sounded. He was trying to get him on the show today because he's pretty funny. Maybe Adam from promotions can come in and recap the evening though. |
| 3:26
| Joining Steve is Adam from promotions. The last time he saw him was at about 2:00 AM when they were leaving The Admiral. |
| 3:27
| Steve didn't get up there in time for the first halftime because there was a lot of traffic on the Kennedy. After the first game they did a nude field goal competition which is an interesting concept. |
| 3:28
| Tony is the name of the announcer and he looks like one of the guys in the Doobie Brothers. Steve can't really figure out how to do the guy's voice without swearing or saying something dirty. Tony didn't do anything like that though. |
| 3:29
| At first Steve didn't even know the guy talking to him was the same guy doing the announcing because his voice sounds so different. |
| 3:30
| Tony really wanted Steve to stick around and watch the girls shower on stage but that last game went very late. |
| 3:31
| Steve's glad he stuck around though. You can tell they're very proud of the shower. They're also in talks to have Steve back next week. |
| 3:32
| Tony was encouraging Steve to work blue but he didn't really want to because it didn't seem necessary. There are naked women on stage after all. Plus Steve wants the ladies to think he's a gentleman. |
| 3:33
| Steve didn't really recognize any of the songs they were playing in the club though. It seemed like all current stuff. |
| 3:34
| Steve was very surprised when another girl got on stage during the shower. Steve assumed the drains on stage were for the shower but they were actually for the fog machine. |
| 3:35
| The fog machine might actually heighten the field goal kicking competition. They weren't very good kickers but every time they made one they jumped up and down in celebration. |
| 3:36
| At some point they stopped making field goals and there was no pay off. Necessity being the mother of invention though, the girls started spanking each other as punishment for missing. |
| 3:42
| Steve believes we played the drop-in from the last Dahlfins concert during that break which started up the contest for tickets. |
| 3:43
| On the phone is Tony from the Admiral Theater. He's just hanging around, basking in the glow of one hell of a Monday Night Football party. |
| 3:44
| Is Tony talking in his regular voice right now or his Admiral voice? Tony's in his regular voice now but he can switch to the Admiral voice. |
| 3:45
| Tony's got his whole rap down because he does it so often. He's talking to you about something and then suddenly he gets word in his earphone that the song is ending. |
| 3:46
| Tony has a little envelope with all of the girls names written on it. One girl was named Garnet which is not even one of your precious stones. |
| 3:55
| On the phone is Pat Boyle from Comcast Sportsnet. He's amazed at Steve's Buzz impersonation. |
| 3:56
| Steve has recovered from his Monday Night Football gig but he still hasn't recovered from the Bears game. He watched every minute of Comcast's post-game and it was great. |
| 3:57
| Steve didn't care for Jim Miller though. First off his phone rang and he wouldn't cop to doing anything wrong. Then he has the bad goatee. His commentary was good but Steve didn't like his attitude. Maybe Jigs can work him down a little bit. |
| 3:58
| Pat Boyle wasn't that bothered by the loss but by the Mike Brown injury. They were the first ones to have the post-game interview with Mike Brown. They did tease it for two breaks which seemed like a bit much. |
| 3:59
| The Bears say they have depth at safety but until Pat sees someone step up against the run he won't believe it. The Mike Brown injury is just proof of what a brutal sport football is. |
| 4:00
| That guy on the Bills was paralyzed from the waist-down on Sunday. People are complaining about Rex Grossman but at any moment he could be paralyzed. |
| 4:01
| The Bears were not good at stopping the run last year after Mike Brown went down so it'll be interesting to see what happens now. We could really use Chris Harris though. Steve's missing Thomas Jones too though. |
| 4:02
| The attitude Steve talks about with Jim Miller is sort of what bothers Pat about Cedric Benson. |
| 4:03
| Also on Comcast today, a story about Brian Urlacher's latest problems with the mother of his son. They were both ordered by a judge to go to parenting classes and they didn't. It would be interesting if they had to go together. |
| 4:04
| Forget about parenting classes, they should send Urlacher to planned parenthood classes. |
| 4:05
| The Cubs start another huge series in Houston tonight but they're all huge down the stretch run. The Cubs are back in first place now, tied with the Brewers. |
| 4:06
| Pat noticed that they're doing a few post-game shows from Soldier Field so maybe Steve could stop by after the game. |
| 4:07
| Pat was just handed some late-breaking news. Ozzie Guillen has received a contract extension through 2012. Pat's not hearing a lot of excitement from Steve. |
| 4:08
| Steve hasn't been too impressed with Ozzie this year. He's just sitting there in the dugout not doing anything. Can't he at least act like he cares? |
| 4:09
| Steve can't really give this a thumbs up or a thumbs down because it's hard to tell what's what. |
| 4:10
| Billy Jack did a great job on Sunday in a bad situation, stationed in the hallway between the Bears locker room and the team bus. |
| 4:11
| Billy Jack wisely chose not to focus on Jerry's GQ after the game although it doesn't seem like Jim Miller should have won. He was dressed like a pimp. |
| 4:12
| Coming up the great Neil Steinberg will be joining Steve. He just saw him pacing the hallway, always with a smile on his face. |
| 4:16
| Alright Neil Steinberg was here. Steve was just telling him that he and Leslie Baldacci sounded great filling in for Stan and Terry. |
| 4:17
| It was easy for Neil working with Leslie. She's not afraid to be smart. Steve told Drew they sounded great but he didn't listen to him. WCKG probably doesn't may much anyway. |
| 4:18
| Drew didn't even lie to Neil about a future at the station for him. Drew's not very good at picturing the future. It's all very gloomy, there's no money, everyone's going to die. |
| 4:19
| Neil's still working at the Sun-Times, somedays it's easier than others. Neil got his column done early so he could come over today. |
| 4:20
| Tomorrow's column is about September 11th and Neil putting his flag out, hand over heart and then worrying about his neighbors thinking he was weird for being so patriotic. It was a riff on how patriotism has been hijacked by patriots. |
| 4:21
| Then Neil segues into the handicapped people who blocked off the AMA building to bring attention to their cause. Seems sort of ironic to do that. |
| 4:22
| The issue is about money and how to get more of it. In order for some handicapped people to get more benefits they have to go into a home. They don't want it to be like that. |
| 4:23
| This is a subject Neil almost didn't touch because he's probably going to get a lot of angry emails about it. |
| 4:24
| It's sort of like with Michael Vick. If you said anything other than that he was the most heinous person whoever lived then people were up in arms. It's like what Whoopi Goldberg said. |
| 4:25
| Neil was going to say something about the culture of dogfighting in Chicago but he decided not to. |
| 4:26
| It's sort of like the PETA people too. They're all up in arms about places where animals are raised and slaughtered but if they didn't have those places then these animals wouldn't even be alive in the first place. |
| 4:27
| Neil paused to smoke a cigar in the plaza today and he noticed that the street in front of the building is called Canada Place. |
| 4:28
| The Canadian consulate is in the building. Neil couldn't believe that was there, Canada hates us more than the Taliban. |
| 4:29
| Steve's pretty sure that there's a part of the parking garage that is part of Canada because there's a Canadian flag there. |
| 4:30
| Steve hopes that one day that street becomes Steve Dahl Place, maybe with a nice statue. |
| 4:31
| It's always weird for Neil to see someone he knew as a statue like Kup or Jack Brickhouse. Neil's not speaking ill of Kup but it seems like a weird choice for a statue. What about Nelson Algren or Carl Sandburg. |
| 4:32
| It seems like journalism is a very disposable career. Neil was teaching a journalism class at Loyola last Spring and only one student knew who Mike Royko was. |
| 4:33
| That's why it sucks to be old and people are ready to die. Neil's only 47 and he's starting to see how that starts. The Sun-Times hasn't collapsed yet though but he can see how journalism is changing. |
| 4:34
| Neil's trying to enjoy himself and has given himself up for dead. He went out to Fermi Lab yesterday for a story because he's trying to do stories that are fun for him. |
| 4:35
| Sometimes when you have nothing to lose you write your best stuff. Neil is actually happy most days which is a weird feeling for him. People don't like when he writes a nice, sweet column either. |
| 4:36
| Neil tries to be sharp as opposed to people who are too afraid to say certain things. Everyone's afraid to say things and then certain groups run roughshod. |
| 4:37
| If Neil said something bad about motorcycle riders he'd get all these letters from motorcycle riders. That happened to Steve and Buzz a few weeks ago when they said they were annoyed with bicyclists who took up too much road. |
| 4:38
| Neil doesn't know why he reads the negative letters. He used to respond nastily and then they'd send the response to the publisher and he'd be called in. |
| 4:39
| Now the publisher is on the way to jail. People from other media outlets are calling Sun-Times reporters and asking them if everyone is happy in the newsroom. Why would anyone be happy about that? The whole thing was a mess. The stock prices of the Sun-Times went down and no one knew what was going to happen. |
| 4:40
| The Sun-Times is still thriving and circulation is up. It's good to have two papers in town. Neil grew up in Cleveland and when the Cleveland Press folded there was only one paper in town. |
| 4:41
| The Trib won't put Angelina Jolie on the cover, that's what the Sun-Times is for. Neil thought that was a mistake. |
| 4:46
| Neil is no longer writing for the New York Daily News. They fired his boss Mort Zuckerman so he was out. Neil had a great time going out there though. |
| 4:47
| Neil is not running the Sun-Times but the guy who's doing it is doing a good job. Everyone is trying to figure out how to save newspapers. |
| 4:48
| One thing that's really hurting newspapers is that people are advertising for free on places like Craigslist or selling their stuff on eBay. |
| 4:49
| The newspaper online is growing all the time. Pretty soon they're going to be putting a video of Neil's daily joke on the Sun-Times website. |
| 4:50
| There's the issue of giving people something for free online that they usually have to buy in print. It's sort of like Napster though. People were worried about that destroying the music industry but now people just pay for music on iTunes. He sees something similar for newspapers. |
| 4:51
| Steve reads both papers online everyday but he still has both papers delivered to his house. |
| 4:52
| To Neil it doesn't really matter where you're ready something, just that someone is writing something you want to read. |
| 4:53
| The thing that Steve likes about reading the paper online is that it's up-to-date. The Sun-Times is trying to do a better job about that too. |
| 5:00
| That's a drop from Californication. Neil doesn't watch any TV shows. He goes home and his kids are playing Destroy All Humans 2 and he's trying to play chess. |
| 5:01
| Californication is good, it's about a writer who sort of reminds Steve of Neil except without the womanizing. |
| 5:02
| Live read: Gierczyk Properties |
| 5:04
| It's time for the Five O'Clock Taco Bell. Steve has a taco for Neil of course. It's a Ranchero Chicken Taco, fresco-style. |
| 5:05
| One thing Neil loves about Taco Bell is when they ran that newspaper ad saying they'd bought the Liberty Bell and renamed it the Liberty Taco Bell. |
| 5:06
| Steve and Neil were going to talk about 9/11 but it doesn't seem right to do that with a mouthful of tacos. Neil just swallowed his taco so he can talk. |
| 5:07
| It seems like this year everyone is very nostalgic about 9/11, as if they miss the days when everyone felt sorry for us because of what happened. |
| 5:08
| Bush had to do something after 9/11 and some of it worked out and some of it went horribly wrong. But we had to do something otherwise we'd just be Canada. |
| 5:09
| Steve doesn't like people showing the Osama bin Laden tape. It doesn't seem like we should be giving him a forum for his propaganda. |
| 5:10
| Steve also thought they should have rebuilt those towers right away, get the skyline back to what it looked like before the attacks. |
| 5:11
| It's been 6 years and they're now finally starting to do something at Ground Zero. |
| 5:12
| Steve was watching all the coverage and one thing that's hard to take is all the wallowing. If he were a terrorists seeing this on TV he'd be having a party because it's still effecting us. |
| 5:13
| Meanwhile there are still people in New Orleans who don't have anywhere to live 2 years after Katrina. |
| 5:14
| Steve understands what 9/11 meant, he was on the air that day and he didn't like it. He's willing to do whatever it takes to fight that but he doesn't like the wallowing. If a terrorist sees that he must think his side is still winning. |
| 5:15
| A lot of it is the news media because they have this beast to fuel. All Steve is saying is that we need to put on more of a game face and show the terrorists that it's going to take more than that to take us down. |
| 5:20
| Alright Neil Steinberg is here and Buzz is at home resting. Neil hopes Buzz is feeling better. He's probably not listening becuase that would be like being at work. |
| 5:21
| Buzz might be back tomorrow but he didn't know for sure. |
| 5:22
| Live read: Balance for Life |
| 5:23
| There were a few people on hold but Steve forgot that he wanted to ask Neil about his new book. |
| 5:24
| Neil just sent it off to the publisher. It's called Drunkard: A Hard-Drinking Life and it's supposed to come out in June. |
| 5:25
| It's Neil's story and when he first entered into this whole thing he thought it would be a good story. Luckily he took notes. The book starts off with Neil in a holding cell. |
| 5:26
| Neil would rather tell the story of him winning a Nobel Prize but this is the story he was presented. Steve thinks it'll help people who read the book. It's not a stark story though. He's not on meth selling himself on Halsted Street. |
| 5:27
| Steve only went to one AA meeting and he didn't like it. He hadn't had a drink in 5 years but they told him he was still on step 1. |
| 5:28
| Neil found AA very helpful but at some point there were other reasons for him to not drink. |
| 5:29
| Neil did get the sense that there were certain places that preferred you drank everyday and went to a meeting as opposed to not drink and not go to any meetings. |
| 5:30
| At the meeting Steve went to they made it seem like eventually he'd start drinking again and end up homeless and living in a forest preserve. |
| 5:31
| Steve did read the Big Book and he found that very helpful. |
| 5:32
| Neil has been sober for a year and a half. It's a day by day thing and it's not so bad. He seems his friends who still drink and he doesn't envy them too much. |
| 5:33
| Writing the book has also helped Neil a lot. He's lucky that this is right in his wheelhouse and when something bad happens he can write about it. |
| 5:34
| Having a 5 hour radio show everyday really helped Steve because he was able to vent about stuff. |
| 5:35
| After going to the one AA meeting Steve did realize that even though he didn't go through the program, his mind sort of worked that way anyway. |
| 5:40
| Steve is speaking for Neil, who's not here any more, but they're not trying to bad rap AA. If it works for you that's fine. |
| 5:41
| Live read: Townstone Financial |
| 5:42
| Tomorrow Dr. Dog will be on the show. Here's a little bit of their music if you don't know them already. |
| 5:43
| Song: I Hope There's Love, Dr. Dog |
| 5:47
| Steve hadn't heard that song before. It sounded like a song that was really going to break into something and it never did. |
| 5:48
| The good news is that Pete can do a bad job engineering the song and they won't even notice because that's what they're looking for. |
| 5:49
| Pete liked the song, he thought it had a good melody. Maybe at a funeral. Is that what the kids are going for, the distortion sound? Pete would never play that song on his Thursday segment for fear of retribution but he would listen to it at home. |
| 5:50
| Song: Ain't it Strange, Dr. Dog |
| 5:53
| Dr. Dog is opening for Wilco tomorrow night at Millennium Park. Are Steve and Pete going to that? Because Tweedy will probably ask Steve up on stage to jam and it'll be embarrassing. |
| 5:54
| Dr. Dog has been on Steve's iPod for 3 months and he's been told to listen to them but hasn't. He's been having some iPod problem lately but he likes their songs. |
| 5:55
| Pete thought that second song was very Beatles-esque. Steve doesn't think that's something the band would want to hear. That's something you keep to yourself. But Pete can try it out on the band if he wants tomorrow. |
| 5:56
| It's funny to Steve because when he was younger and in a band all of their recordings sounded distorted like that first song. They all dreamt about having really clear-sounding recordings. |
| 5:57
| Caller Tino thinks that Dr. Dog would start crying if Pete told them they sounded like the Beatles. He's listened to their other stuff and a lot of it sounds like Beatles songs. So it's a good cry. Maybe Steve should tell them they sound like the Beatles. |
| 5:58
| Can a Steve Dahl wander over to a Wilco concert and get in? Tom Thayer always tells Steve to come up to the booth at Bears games and doesn't think he needs a press pass to get up there. |
| 5:59
| There was a time when all the security guards in town were Steve's age but it's not like that any more. Steve's best bet is still a cop letting him into something. |
| 6:00
| Tino thought he wasn't hearing someone's laugh today. That's because Buzz is out again today. He won't be in tomorrow either because he has a shunt and it's making him go to the bathroom too much. |
| 6:01
| Song: The Way the Lazy Do, Dr. Dog |
| 6:08
| Mark Czerniec is coming up with the news in a few minutes. Steve has also written a few new verses to the Kidney Stone Blues which he'll jam on after the sports. |
| 6:09
| The Cubs, tied for first place with the Brewers, are in Houston tonight to face the Astros. Jason Marquis takes the mound against Brandon Backe. |
| 6:10
| Lou Piniella said he's going to shave his beard because people keep asking him about it. That's one way to go. Whenever Steve doesn't shave it bugs him when people ask him about it. Why do they care? |
| 6:11
| Carlos Zambrano has revealed that he has changed his pre-game ritual to focus on the game. He has begun listening to soft, Latin contemporary Christian music. Steve didn't even know that existed. You would think he'd change his release point. Or he could listen to soft Latin contemporary Christian music. |
| 6:12
| The White Sox signed manager Ozzie Guillen to a contract extension that will keep him in Chicago until 2012. |
| 6:13
| The Bears elevated defensive tackle Antonio Garay from the practice squad and signed cornerback Adebola Jimoh to the 53 man roster. |
| 6:14
| Rookie tight end Greg Olsen was saddened by the news about his former Miami teammate Kevin Everett who was badly injured in Sunday's game. However today Everett's doctor said he has regained voluntary movement in his arms and legs. That's good news. |
| 6:19
| Mark Czerniec is on the phone to do some news. What's going on up in Racine tonight? |
| 6:20
| Mark's just watching the Creeping Charlie die. Is that Mark's neighbor? It's actually a weed in his lawn to which he's applied some serious chemicals. |
| 6:21
| The other day Steve was out for a run and some guy with mirrored shades was spraying chemicals all over his lawn. Then it was going right into Steve's face which seems bad. |
| 6:22
| The guy must have had a death wish because he wasn't wearing any protection other than the shades. He looked like the neighborhood on King of the Hill only without the trucker hat. |
| 6:23
| New Yorkers gathered at Ground Zero today to commemorate the 6th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. MSNBC ran the original coverage this morning from NBC and Mark had never seen it before. |
| 6:24
| Mark videotapes everything but he didn't throw in a tape for any of that stuff. He didn't want to watch it again because it was really hard to wrap his head around. It was still hard to watch today but one thing he did notice is that Katie Couric seemed to be the most levelheaded of anyone. |
| 6:25
| Steve knows that it was bad but we can't wallow in it any more. We need to rebuild those towers and drop a nuke on someone. |
| 6:26
| According to the AP President Bush will announce this week that up to 30,000 troops could come home by next summer. Is that just something for them to look forward to? |
| 6:27
| The main networks did not know any of the Petraeus stuff this week though. They've got more important stuff to do like soap operas. But if Paris Hilton goes to jail, call us. |
| 6:28
| Petraeus spent a second day on Capitol Hill where he was questioned by Congressman including Richard Lugar, inventor of the German lugar. |
| 6:29
| Steve would also like to say that we shouldn't be showing the Osama video on 9/11. Just mention there's a tape but don't show it. And how is it that he's able to deliver all these tapes but we can't find where he is? Those tapes are probably sent over the internet. Can't they put Chris Hansen on it? He can trace anyone on the internet. |
| 6:30
| Did Steve happen to see 20/20's exposè on Perverted Justice? They revealed that the police departments involved with them are acting inappropriately. Perverted justice is dictating what the police are doing. |
| 6:31
| The head of a union local is asking the public not to take it out on CTA bus drivers if threatened service cuts and fare hikes become reality. |
| 6:32
| A West Tennessee judge has ruled that Mary Winkler, convicted of shooting her preacher husband in 2006 can appear on the Oprah Winfrey Show. It'll be a very special Oprah Winfrey Show. |
| 6:33
| It seems like if you kill your husband and only get two months in prison you should stay off TV. It seems like she should stay off TV. |
| 6:34
| Kanye West is blaming MTV for Britney Spears less-than-stellar performance at the VMAs on Sunday. The rapper says they only wanted to exploit her and she wasn't ready. |
| 6:35
| Steve thinks Kanye is right but he still wanted to take her up to a hotel room. She looked pretty good, all things considered. She also had an Elvis look in her eyes. She should have done Are You Lonesome Tonight? |
| 6:36
| A suburban art teacher removed from his job at Fox River Middle School will not return until the school eliminates all animal products from the lunch menu. |
| 6:37
| Finally, a gifted parrot has died after 30 years of helping researchers understand the avian brain. The bird, purchased from a pet show in 1973 learned enough English to identify 50 different objects. |
| 6:43
| Alright it's been one week since Buzz embarked on his Kidney Stone Odyssey. He was at the hospital yesterday when they shattered the stone. Then they put a shunt in. |
| 6:44
| The shunt is coming out on Thursday and then Buzz will be in for the show. He didn't want to come in tomorrow becuase the shunt makes him go to the bathroom a lot. |
| 6:45
| Buzz is very prideful and he didn't want to wear a diaper but Steve thinks he should have. Of course if he didn't tell anyone he was wearing a diaper his pants would look weird. Buzz might think that he has a sweet ass. |
| 6:46
| Steve and Buzz performed the original Kidney Stones Blues on Friday at Bandito Barney's. Steve has since updated the lyrics and he'll play those after he plays the original. |
| 6:47
| Song: Kidney Stone Blues, Steve and Buzz. |
| 6:49
| It's hard to end a song with a guy who doesn't want to stop playing. |
| 6:50
| Steve performs an updated version of Kidney Stone Blues. |
| 6:57
| Steve can play the harmonica, he should have gotten one of those Bob Dylan neck mounts and jammed with himself. That would probably be disrespectful to Buzz, he's the harp player on the staff. |
| 6:58
| Matt and Brendan weren't on last night because WCKG joined the Monday Night Football game already in-progress. We didn't air the second game for some reason. Drew's a programming genius though so Steve won't question it. |
| 6:59
| Tonight is College Tail Monday where Matt reads a story as a college girl and then pretends to hit up as Brendan. Then Matt, as himself, gets mad that Brendan is getting all the attention. It's one of Steve's favorite bits of Matt's but it's also troubling. |
| 7:00
| Also tonight, Matt and Brendan will be talking to a Serbian female ping-pong player who's in Balls of Fury. |
