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| 2:01
| Stan was worried about Steve today because he knows he likes to wear shorts and the temperatures have been low lately. It sounds like Stan was fantasizing about Steve. |
| 2:02
| The temperatures are going back up so Stan was worried Steve would catch a cold. He's got a big show coming up! |
| 2:03
| Steve doesn't have any feelings below his waist. Plus 50º isn't that cold. Does Stan realize how gay this sounds? Everyone else can see that. Steve does feel cared for though. |
| 2:04
| With Buzz down this week Stan was worried about Steve. He probably won't catch kidney stones from wearing shorts this week. |
| 2:05
| Steve's about ready to switch over to his Fall look which means a hoodie and shorts. He'll sport that look until it gets into the 40s. |
| 2:06
| Terry thinks that's a white guy thing. After a long winter the white guys are the first ones in shorts, grilling outside when it hits 40º. That's because black guys are built for warmer climates and white guys are built for colder climates. |
| 2:07
| Technically Stan's from Jamaica but if you go far enough back you get to the motherland, Africa. That's the place Terry has said he has no desire to visit. Steve doesn't blame him, based on what he's seen on TV. |
| 2:08
| Terry wouldn't feel comfortable over there as a larger gentleman. The larger guys are the ones everyone hates because they're usually the dictator types. The Back of the Yards is about as far back as Terry wants to go, that's his motherland. |
| 2:09
| Steve wouldn't mind going to Sweden, the girls are hot and they have great meatballs. Suddenly Stan realizes why Steve enjoys massages so much, it's his Swedish heritage. |
| 2:10
| Steve's not aware of any differences between a normal massage and a Swedish one, but he does like them. Currently he's very into PBS' Tina Nordstrom, who hosts a cooking show. |
| 2:11
| As Steve is talking he's hearing someone typing, is there a court reporter in the studio or something? Terry was just looking up Tina Nordstrom online, she is hot. |
| 2:12
| One of WTTW's HD channels is an endless loop of cooking and travel shows and a few weeks ago Steve happened on an entire day about Sweden. Does Terry have a mic on his mouse and keyboard? Or is the mic just too sensitive? |
| 2:13
| Is Stan running Terry's mic too hot? Your best bet is to always pot him down a little lower. Stan and Terry's studio is actually on a list of complaints Steve had. They always come in too hot. Matt sounds fine so Stan must have them both potted up to high. |
| 2:14
| Stan's wondering why the HD WTTW doesn't show the same programs as the regular WTTW. The HD channels are there to expand the line-up but one of them mirrors what's on the regular WTTW. |
| 2:15
| Stan should get an antenna to get all those HD channels. It all comes through the air which is pretty cool. WGN has a music channel too. Stan's an engineer he should have no problem hooking it all up. |
| 2:16
| Stan's wondering if Tina Nordstrom is related to the department store. That's probably a common name over there. So is Dahl though. At one point though Steve's family's last name was Anderson but his great-grandfather said it was too common and changed it. |
| 2:17
| Turns out Dahl is also a very common name. Stan sees the name all the time, it must be catching on. Steve's going to change his name back to Anderson though. |
| 2:18
| What are Stan and Terry up to today, any movie screenings to attend? Stan actually has to go home and deal with some networking issues. Tonight Terry's going up to The Glen to report on night life in Glenview. |
| 2:19
| The Glen used to be the Glenview Naval Base. Now it's a shopping center. Stan heard they left one of the runways intact to add to the ambience. Is it a go-cart track or something? |
| 2:20
| Terry's taking his wife with him tonight so that he can get away with going to The Admiral for Monday Night Football by himself. |
| 2:21
| Terry was at the Sox game on Monday night and all he and his buddies were talking about was the nude field goal kicking. Steve hasn't locked in the Monday Night Football schedule yet but he does have some ideas about improving the field goal kicking. For instance, making two girls act as the goal post. |
| 2:22
| Steve wouldn't be surprised if this nude field goal kicking catches on across the country. They could do it at Arena games but probably not in the NFL. Of course in the NFL guys are being paralyzed. |
| 2:23
| Yesterday Steve accused Kevin Everett's doctors of misdiagnosing him. Turns out they did exactly what they were supposed to do, lowering his body temperature to stop the swelling. |
| 2:24
| Caller Jeff wanted to let everyone know that there are no runways at The Glen but they kept a few buildings like the Navy chapel and one of the hangars. |
| 2:29
| Steve was just telling Terry during the break that The Glen will be pretty empty what with today being a Jewish holiday. Probably a good time to go though because he'll be paid a lot of attention and he can just fake that there were a lot of people there. |
| 2:30
| Steve has to write his article about fish tacos for the Tribune. He actually interviewed his parents about for the article. |
| 2:31
| Terry's writing his check to buy Steve's Sox tickets for Friday. Steve almost feels bad about charging him but it could be the game when Jim Thome hits number 500. Maybe he should charge double. |
| 2:32
| Steve was supposed to go but he doesn't really care that much. Plus it's supposed to rain tomorrow. If you're drinking and there's a rain delay it's not a big deal, there are a lot of places to seek cover and wait it out. |
| 2:33
| The game starts at 7:00 tomorrow anyway so Steve probably won't get there until after Thome's first at-bat. It could be all over by then which would be really irritating. |
| 2:34
| Buzz will not be in today. There are some sketchy reports coming out of the Kilman household about what happened but supposedly Buzz tried to pull out his shunt or stent or stint. Steve's been corrected several times about what it's actually called. |
| 2:35
| Steve has no idea how Buzz attempted to remove it, maybe with a pair of pliers. He had to go to the emergency room this morning and he was asleep at home the last time Aimee called in. |
| 2:36
| Steve's money is on Buzz coming back on Monday. It's like a diet, you don't want to start it on a Friday. It seems like Buzz is having a complication which could be serious so it's better he doesn't come in. |
| 2:37
| Steve doesn't know if a Buzz Kilman whacked-out on painkillers decided to pull it out or maybe he didn't it in his sleep. Steve doesn't want to think about it, it's giving him the willies. |
| 2:38
| Steve has been drinking a lot of water because he doesn't need anyone messing around down there. That's a one-way tunnel. |
| 2:39
| Steve still wants to know what happened though. He might be better off talking to Piper for the full story. |
| 2:42
| On Deadwood, Al Swearengen had kidney stones. He tried various remedies one of which was a great idea but didn't get the job done. When you run a house of prostitution you have various methods available. |
| 2:43
| Caller Michael believes that if Buzz had the same procedure he did they attached a string to the stint. |
| 2:44
| Apparently Michael's procedure prevented him from going through puberty because his voice is very high. Steve's actually talked to Michael before, he's the one who made him that nice wood inlaid White Sox box. |
| 2:45
| Michael's sick but he's still alive so that's good. Most of his days are spent sitting around the house listening to Steve. That doesn't sound too good though. That's what most of Steve's days are spent doing. Michael had pancreatitis that eventually became diabetes. Steve has pancaketitis. |
| 2:46
| The stint is on a string so Buzz could have accidentally rolled over on it and pulled it out. |
| 2:46
| Steve doesn't really want to hear any more about this stuff. He does still have the box Michael made for him. |
| 2:47
| It would be hard for Steve to not pull on the string so he can see Buzz's point. It's just waiting to be pulled. |
| 2:48
| Steve can see Buzz taking tomorrow off though, unless he has a burning desire to come in and tell his story. Maybe we could tie him up in a straight jacket so he won't pull on the string. |
| 2:49
| It's Thursday which means it's time for Music Snob Corner. Every Thursday Pete introduces us to a new song because he likes the new stuff. He likes the new stuff before anyone else does then when it gets popular he drops it like a hot potato. |
| 2:50
| Pete derives his self-image from being on the cutting edge of music. Then when it gets popular he moves on to something that everyone else will like in 3 years. |
| 2:51
| Actually today one of the songs Pete wanted to play was by Kanye West, who's very popular. He's also involved in a fake feud with 50 Cent about who will sell the most albums this week. |
| 2:52
| Pete wanted to play a new Kanye West song today because he samples Steely Dan and Steve likes them. Pete still has a CD of 15 songs and Steve is noticing a theme in them. Is that because Steve took away the show open? Or do we always have a theme? |
| 2:53
| Also on the CD is Lake Michigan and Eyes by Rogue Wave. Lake Michigan is very important this time of year, plus the Bears will be playing right on it this Sunday. |
| 2:54
| Pete selected Eyes because it was featured in several episodes of Heroes but he thought he was overthinking that a little bit. That seems like good thinking to Steve. |
| 2:55
| The last few songs on the CD are just there to fill things out, they don't tie into anything. Is Harmonicas and Tambourines about hating those instruments? |
| 2:58
| Alright back to Music Snob Corner. Steve was just talking to John Valenta about some engineering issues. We've got some new IDs coming down the pipe tomorrow for the HD station. |
| 2:59
| When Steve was a young broadcaster the station IDs used to have to run within 2 minutes of the top and bottom of the hour. Now they just have to run during a natural break as close to the top of the hour as possible. |
| 3:00
| Pete always gets annoyed during a Sox game when they take a station ID right in the middle of a play. They don't really have to do that though, it's just old school broadcasting. |
| 3:01
| Pete's going to choose the Kanye song today. The profanity has been edited out but hip-hop still worries Steve. Steve was watching the VMAs on Sunday and every other word had to be bleeped out. |
| 3:02
| FCC standards are supposed to reflect community standards but one could argue that since 20 million people are buying these CDs, those are the new community standards. It'll never happen though. |
| 3:03
| In the song Kanye is sampling Kid Charlemagne by Steely Dan. How does that pass for talent? He just took one of their samples and wrote around it. Steely Dan's probably happy because they'll make a ton of money off of it. |
| 3:04
| Song: Champion, Steely Dan |
| 3:05
| Steve's stopping the song. There's no way this is talent. Not that it's bad but it's not talent. This does not make you a musician. Maybe a poet with an editing machine. |
| 3:06
| Song: Champion, Steely Dan |
| 3:09
| Whatever. Steve's just saying he doesn't get it. He doesn't care if it makes him seem old or stupid, he doesn't like it. It's laughable. Anything where they're sampling someone else is laughable, even that Standing in the Closet idiot. |
| 3:10
| There's some talent in there, Steve will give him that. It's like word jazz. Steve has to question Brendan because that's all he listens to. It seems addled. |
| 3:11
| Brendan mostly listens to the really hardcore stuff. Kanye is more intelligent than most rappers out there. Even Snoop seems silly to Steve. |
| 3:12
| Apparently some Lake Michigan boaters were upset at Snoop because he was playing at Northerly Island on Labor Day weekend. They were sitting there and they didn't like hearing all the profanity. |
| 3:13
| It's funny to think of all those boaters getting drunk on the lake, trying to hear free music and they get upset. |
| 3:14
| Steve wants to play another song, how about Lake Michigan? He's never heard a song about Lake Michigan but he has heard a song about Lake Superior. |
| 3:15
| Pete seems panic stricken about playing this song. It's not really about Lake Michigan. It's not like it mentions Lake Michigan having a lot of perch. |
| 3:16
| Song: Lake Michigan, Rogue Wave |
| 3:18
| Steve wrote half of a song about Lake Michigan but he never finished it. He probably should someday. It's called Surf the Great Lakes, there might be a demo of it somewhere. |
| 3:19
| Steve would like to hear that other song on Pete's CD after the Kanye song. And he doesn't hate Kanye it just seems like maybe he should take a measure from a Steely Dan song and not the whole thing. |
| 3:20
| Pete's wondering how many people will even recognize the sample. Maybe it'll get more people interested in Steely Dan. Probably not but if Brendan comes in Monday asking to borrow a copy of Aja maybe Kanye has something. |
| 3:21
| Song: Favorite Thing About Jane, Jyro Jets |
| 3:23
| That's a good one. Sort of reminds Steve of Fountains of Wayne. |
| 3:24
| Good news for Pete, the Reds beat the Cardinals 5-4 today. That's an 0-7 road trip for the Cardinals but it just worries Pete. That means they're due for a win. |
| 3:25
| Steve doesn't want to jinx the Cubs but he watched most of that game last night. It seems like a good sign when all that weird stuff happens and you still win a game. |
| 3:26
| The Cardinals are decimated by injuries but none of it will matter if they beat the Cubs this weekend. They could still play spoilers or even get back into the race. |
| 3:27
| It's all very exciting though. Better than just looking forward to Jim Thome's 500th home run. Pete's mood changes almost everyday so in a way he'd rather not care this much. He doesn't want to be hanging on every pitch like George Will. |
| 3:28
| Pete likes the playoff hunt though. He should enjoy it while he can. The Sox went from winning the World Series to having a pretty good 2006 to 2007 where the games haven't counted since July. |
| 3:29
| Back in the WCKG offices there's a calendar of events and there was a tentatively scheduled Dahlfins gig that also fell on the night of the World Series. So Pete was worried about a scheduling conflict. Then the gig got rescheduled so it didn't matter. |
| 3:30
| Steve likes to go down there sometimes and see the different ways they're trying to make money off of him. Steve Dahl's next breath, $500. Then there's the Garry Meier bee pollen endorsement. Hi-hive me?! What the hell is that? |
| 3:33
| That's some nice Ron Santo audio right there, you gotta love him. It was an exciting Cubs game last night, even Steve was into it. There's really nothing else to watch though. |
| 3:34
| Steve watched the game and then Californication which is a good one. There's a lot of naked girls on there. Pete is watching the show too. |
| 3:35
| Steve calls down to the newsroom. Jim is not watching Californication because he doesn't have Showtime. Is he Amish?! Jim loves Dexter and David Duchovny but up until recently there weren't any shows he really wanted to watch on Showtime. There's no excuse for Jim to not have Comcast, he's in the media! |
| 3:36
| Californication is on On Demand also but Jim probably can't get that if he's not subscribed to Showtime. Speaking of On Demand, Steve wants to know where episode 3 of Hard Knocks is. He can't watch episode 4 until he sees episode 3. |
| 3:37
| Buzz is not here today, he had some sort of episode where he tried to pull out his stint which seems like a bad idea. The string on that thing should be so short that no one but a doctor can get it out. |
| 3:38
| Buzz is home resting and he'll either be in tomorrow or Monday. Steve's money is on Monday, he should rest up anyway. We don't need a relapse. |
| 3:39
| Caller Gina works for Comcast and she wanted to let Steve know that sometimes there's a program On Demand with a glitch so they pull it until they can fix it. The alternative would be to leave it up and then have people calling to complain. |
| 3:40
| Steve wanted to watch all the episode of Hard Knocks so he would know all he can about the Chiefs to prepare for the game on Sunday. |
| 3:41
| Steve has been wrongly blaming Comcast for his daily cable outages. Turns out it's his antiquated TiVo which is being replaced tomorrow. |
| 3:48
| On the phone is Gail Fischer from Comcast Sportsnet. Steve was just watching her last night thinking that he'd rather talk to her over Josh Mora. |
| 3:49
| The Cubs are on Comcast tonight, finishing out their series in Houston. It's been a nail-biter so far. It sort of reminds Steve of the 2005 White Sox. |
| 3:50
| It seems like everything went the Cubs' way last night but that hasn't been happening lately. |
| 3:51
| Gail's going to St. Louis this weekend to cover the next Cubs series. It's not as meaningful as it was before the Cardinals 0-7 road trip but the Cubs still need to win. They need to take at least 2 of 4 games and then just worry about the Brewers. |
| 3:52
| Last night Lou stole one of Hawk Harrelson's lines and said Cliff Floyd was his pick to click before the game started. Steve really likes Lou. It's no coincidence that the Cubs are winning now that he's their manager. |
| 3:53
| The Sox are off today so Jim Thome will have to wait one more day to hit his 500th home run. Steve feels the Sox have been off since April. |
| 3:54
| Billy Jack will have a report from Halas Hall today. Everyone is still talking about the Chargers game even though that was last week. Cedric Benson still has something to prove though. |
| 3:55
| Now Devin Hester is a little miffed because he didn't get in the game too much on Sunday. Steve would like to see him and Garret Wolfe get more playing time. |
| 3:56
| Greg Olsen probably won't play on Sunday but Steve would like to see him get in there. On Sunday he was dressed in street clothes on the sidelines but then after the game, going to the bus he was in a suit and it looked like he'd showered with the rest of the team. |
| 3:57
| Gail's been meaning to ask Steve if he was mad about the iPhone price drop. He does get a $100 store credit but as a longtime Mac user he's used to them doing stuff like this. |
| 4:04
| You can't not like Lou Piniella, at least Steve can't. He can't help himself. |
| 4:05
| Song: Ooh La La, Faces |
| 4:08
| There's a Rod Stewart version of that song but Steve prefers Faces' version. |
| 4:09
| Headlines with Buzz Steve |
| 4:10
| Buzz Steve is going with the local headlines today. |
| 4:11
| A federal appeals court has ruled that the city has the right to move a cemetery standing in the way of expansion at O'Hare. The 150-year old cemetery has about 1300 people buried in it. |
| 4:12
| The church that owns the cemetery argues that moving the cemetery would be a violation of religious freedom. But all the people are dead. Plus if the cemetery is 150 years old who's going to visit those graves. They could leave the bodies there and just pave a runway over it. |
| 4:13
| Steve doesn't like seeing that runway when he's on a plane that's taking off. It's not a good way to start a flight when the plane is rumbling and shaking and you're making a steep climb. |
| 4:14
| Mayor Daley is in the local news a lot today. He's behind the airport expansion and also he and Arne Duncan are stepping up efforts to curb violence among students. |
| 4:15
| Daley and Duncan were at Julian High School, named after Buzz, to unveil a new PSA featuring Blair Holt, a student who was shot to death on a CTA bus last Spring. How can he appear in a PSA if he's dead? |
| 4:16
| Police say a fire on the 2400 block of West Lunt Avenue may be arson. There's that old joke "Regina, Paulina and Lunt..." That's pretty much all you can say on the air though. |
| 4:17
| School district 211 may be facing a teachers strike according to union president John Braglia. |
| 4:18
| The competition for the 2016 Olympics has gotten a little stiffer. 2 more cities will be announced by the IOC on Friday. Prague and Monterey, Mexico have already become finalists, joining Chicago; Madrid; Tokyo; Rio; Doha, Qatar and Baku, Azerbi...Azerbi...Overbydere. |
| 4:24
| That's a nice drop of Robert Novak choking on Crossfire. Pete says it's from the file but Steve doesn't know what that means. It's from a while ago but Steve has never heard it. |
| 4:25
| Steve would like to hear that again. He likes to hear people make mistakes as long as he doesn't make one himself right after. |
| 4:26
| It sounds like Novak is hearing some bad audio coming back to him or he's having a stroke. He recovered but Crossfire never did. It made way for the Situation Room. People probably got tired of watching the same people argue everyday. |
| 4:27
| Steve feels the phrase "jump the shark" has jumped the shark but he's going to use it anyway. Crossfire jumped the shark when Jon Stewart went on there, took on Tucker Carlson and won. |
| 4:28
| Live read: Gierczyk Properties |
| 4:29
| Caller Kathy has a PSA for Steve. For most men over 35 PSA stands for prostate-specific antigen. |
| 4:30
| Kathy seemed a little preachy, Steve just wanted to talk about it. Steve has had his tested, inadvertently when he had his blood tested. |
| 4:31
| Was Kathy that preachy when Brendan screened the call or did she get that way when she was on hold? Kathy must be a nurse. Nurses can go too ways, preachy or hot and giving you a sponge bath. |
| 4:32
| One story not mentioned during the headlines was Stroger's godson, Orlando Jones, being found dead on a beach in Michigan. It's not the same Orlando Jones the actor. |
| 4:33
| Jones was found dead on a beach in southwest Michigan today. That's not exactly a Discover Michigan ad is it? Do we even know if John Stroger is still alive? |
| 4:34
| Jones was chief of staff to John Stroger who was succeeded by his very capable son Todd. |
| 4:35
| All this Cook County stuff seems pointless to think about because there's no way to stop it. If you live in Cook County they're just doing whatever they want with your money and they don't answer to anyone. And there are enough people working in Cook County to keep them all in office. |
| 4:41
| Today is Thursday which means, in addition to Meat Talk, Steve talks to a Taco Pal at 5:00. Patrick Bertoletti is also stopping by, he's competing in a jalapeño eating contest. |
| 4:42
| If you want to be Steve's Taco Pal, go to Taco Bell and order a Burrito Supreme, double meat, no beans and no sour cream. |
| 4:43
| That girl who was Steve's Taco Pal two weeks ago, Leela, was at Bandito Barney's on Friday. She was very excited to meet Steve and the entire staff of the show was excited to meet her. With all due respect to other Taco Pals, Leela was the best one. |
| 4:44
| Caller Jim thinks he knows what happened to Stroger's godson. He probably went for a swim after lunch and then had some water in his ears and wanted to get it out with a gun. Steve would have used rubbing alcohol or a Q-Tip. |
| 4:45
| Here's one thing Steve doesn't get. In the months since the Deerfield Village Board agreed to bring a circus to town a group of residents have spent their time trying to persuade neighbors to stay away from it. |
| 4:46
| The group claims that performance elephants are treated poorly and have created a website and distributed hundreds of t-shirts and bracelets to help their cause. |
| 4:47
| Opponents say they are still overwhelmed by the interest and encouragement from their neighbors. What else are you going to say when the crazy lady with the bracelets and t-shirts rings your doorbell? This is why Steve doesn't answer the door. |
| 4:48
| Deerfield resident Sandy DeLisle, who really should live in Lisle, felt the circus was a very antiquated form of entertainment for such a progressive community. Deerfield is progressive? Is the whole town a hologram or something, is that how progressive it is? |
| 4:49
| The group believes elephants are too large to be transported to suburban destinations. Maybe if they were in a mini-van they'd be too large. |
| 4:50
| Officials from Deerfield foundations were hoping to raise up to $20,000 from the circus performances for teacher grants, special ed programs, scholarships as well as playgrounds and other park programs. Just some heinous stuff they're trying to do. |
| 4:51
| It seems like if this Skip the Circus group would have just donated $20,000 instead of spending it on websites, t-shirts and bracelets they would have called off the circus. |
| 4:55
| Steve is still looking for a Taco Pal. While there's no way for him to know if you didn't order the Burrito Supreme the way he likes it, you'll know and you won't enjoy it as much if you're not sharing in Steve's experience. |
| 4:56
| A lot of the times Steve does sports after he eats his Taco Bell but it just occurred to him that he should probably do the sports before. |
| 4:57
| The Cubs are looking to win the rubber game against Houston tonight. Apparently it's condom night down there. WIth the Brewers off today the Cubs could take a half game lead with a wictory. |
| 4:58
| The Cardinals lost today, ending their road trip 0-7. Are they 4 games out now? |
| 4:59
| Gale Sayers will join Mike Ditka in Washington on Friday to testify in front of Congress about the much maligned NFL players pension fund. |
| 5:00
| Portland Trailblazers rookie Greg Oden will miss the entire 2007-2008 season after undergoing knee surgery. |
| 5:01
| LeBron James underwent Lasik eye surgery last weekend in LA. Renowned eye surgeon Dr. Kerry Assil performed the surgery. Steve knows a proctologist with a very similar last name. |
| 5:02
| A woman and her son were bitten by a dog at the house of Cincinnati Bengal Deltha O'Neil. That's Deltha, not Delta like Delta Burke. |
| 5:03
| The woman called police from her cellphone but hung up before they were able to get her whereabouts. This is why Steve told his boys they need land lines. Matt Dahl's cellphone doesn't even work in his apartment so whenever you talk to him he's yelling. It's very relaxing. |
| 5:10
| It's kind of sad, at least from Steve's point of view, that no one wants to be his Taco Pal today. That hurts. |
| 5:11
| Song: Life is a Carnival, The Band |
| 5:14
| Steve's sending that one out to the people up in Deerfield who are trying to stop the circus from coming to town. They could have just donated $20,000 to a few foundations but it's not as fun as making signs and t-shirts and sticking up for elephants that you don't even know for sure are being abused, nor do you know those elephants personally. |
| 5:15
| It's time for the Five O'Clock Taco Bell. Steve's Taco Pal for today is Ingrid. Does Steve have his big burrito out? |
| 5:16
| Ingrid has decided to go with the Cheesy Beefy Melt which is also very good. Steve has his thing and Ingrid has hers and this is why we live in America. |
| 5:17
| Ingrid might be on to something with her "you get what you want, I'll get what I want" idea though. Steve's burrito order might be a little too specific although Ingrid's boss ordered it his way last week. |
| 5:23
| Chef Hans is here for Meat Talk, he wants to know how Buzz is. He should be fine but he accidentally tried to pull out his stint. That's a bit of a setback but he should be here tomorrow or Monday. |
| 5:24
| Maybe Hans should send him a nice juicy steak. Steve's not sure what Buzz is eating, he doesn't have a lot of details. They run a very loose operation up in Kilmanville. |
| 5:25
| You'd think if a guy took a week off of work there'd be a little more info. Steve's working his ass off in here, something medical might happen to him! |
| 5:26
| Steve had to double down on being mean to Buzz in order to head off Chef Hans getting too maudlin, like he did during the Eddie Schwartz radiothon. He was starting to shift into Jerry Lewis. Steve loves Buzz and when he's ready to come back, he'll be back. |
| 5:27
| Hans was ready to go Hansie Maudlin on Steve and he can't have that. That's how he is though, he's a giver. |
| 5:28
| As we speak REO Speedwagon is having dinner at S & W with the Doobie Brothers. Steve saw that REO was on some sort of barge on the lake with Johnny B and he thought to himself "so that's what I get for helping Kevin Cronin out?" |
| 5:29
| Steve didn't even get a phone call from Kevin that he was in town. Hans' mother always said that what comes around goes around. It seems that it already has gone around if you're playing on a barge with Johnny B. |
| 5:30
| Hans report that REO has a very creepy manager who Mary might know from when he was here. You gotta like Chef breaking bad on someone while they're eating in his restaurant. |
| 5:31
| He wasn't rude to Hans he just came off as a Santa Monica beach bum. What about the Doobie Brothers, are they well-represented? |
| 5:32
| Hans shouldn't comp them though, all those guys make enough money to pay for a meal. In fact he should double their bill, they'll never know. |
| 5:33
| Matt and Brendan are at Four Farthings in Lincoln Park tonight from 10:00-12:00 tonight giving away tickets to the next Dahlfins gig which is also at the House of Blues. |
| 5:34
| When Steve has his show he'll send his long-haired manager down to S & W at 8:00 AM to make reservations for 40. Steve doesn't have a manager so it'll just be him in a wig. |
| 5:39
| Tomorrow S & W is hosting the Brian's Song reunion with James Caan and Gale Sayers, among others. |
| 5:40
| Steve has a few meat-related emails if Hans would like to answer them. The first one is about Hans' experiences preparing meals at the United Center. Did Hans only prepare meals for opponents or for the Bulls and the Blackhawks as well. |
| 5:41
| Hans closed the old Chicago Stadium and opened the new one. During the regular season Hawks players don't get a meal at the stadium, that's only during the playoffs. Hans did make food for the press though, they were fed very well. |
| 5:42
| The Bulls coaching staff ate in the Sonia Hennie room at the old stadium but he did not feed the entire team. Every once in a while the locker room manager, Johnny Linganowski would call Chef up and want some food. If Hans is going to drop a name can he make it someone Steve knows? |
| 5:43
| Hans often served food to Madonna when she was courting Dennis Rodman. Rodman told him to give her whatever she wanted. Rodman was probably already doing that though. |
| 5:44
| The next emailer wants to know how to prepare doves. This is normally not Poultry Talk but Steve thought the email was interesting. |
| 5:45
| When Hans was a kid they would just remove the breast meat from the dove and cook that like it was chicken. That has to be little though. Steve knows something about doves. When he was a kid he worked at a ranch in the summer. |
| 5:46
| They had doves at the ranch and the foremen would hunt them. His wife just put them into a Mexican stew. |
| 5:47
| That reminds Hans about a lovely couple that came into the restaurant over the weekend. They were from California and knew Hans from the Tam O'Shanter. |
| 5:48
| They had also been listening to Steve since he was on in California and now they live in Chicago. Hans forgot to ask what their name was though but it was an incredible story. |
| 5:49
| The last email wants to know how to tell when your meat has crossed the line to inedible. Usually when it starts smelling different you shouldn't eat it. When in doubt, throw it out. |
| 5:56
| Steve is going to need some sort of warning from Pete before he plays 1971 Steve. |
| 5:57
| There are 4 or 5 things from that era that went wrong and Steve has all of them on tape. |
| 5:58
| Steve fixated on that moment for a month. Pete likes it becuase it shows Steve winging it. |
| 5:59
| Steve didn't recover after that moment and he didn't recover for the next several weeks. It was a downward spiral. |
| 6:00
| We don't really need to talk this out, Steve would just appreciate a warning in the future. |
| 6:01
| Live read: Townstone Financial |
| 6:02
| Song: When Doves Cry, Prince |
| 6:08
| When Steve worked on that ranch in California they might have had quail but it's probably similar to dove. |
| 6:09
| Don't forget Matt and Brendan are at Four Farthings tonight on Lincoln and Cleveland giving away tickets to the next Dahlfins show at the House of Blues Back Porch Stage. |
| 6:15
| Patrick Bertoletti was on the channel 2 news yesterday morning, sporting the Steve Dahl hoodie. |
| 6:16
| It's funny that when Steve was paying Patrick he wouldn't wear anything with this name on it and now that he's not paying him, he wears it. |
| 6:17
| Patrick blew everyone on channel 2 away by eating an entire can of jalapeños. Steve thought it was funny that Randy Salerno was eating hot tamales along with him. Then Randy made Ed Curran count how many jalapeños Patrick had eaten. |
| 6:18
| Patrick is in a jalapeño eating contest thing Sunday, put on by La Costeña. He holds the 15 minutes and 5 minute records for jalapeños. |
| 6:19
| Patrick will probably eat 8-10 cans of jalapeños on Sunday. The good news is that there are only 130 calories per can. It's probably very filling. |
| 6:20
| Patrick graduated culinary school about 5 months ago and now he's working for Chef Freddy's which is a catering company. |
| 6:21
| Patrick was trying to chat up Chef Hans about the Escoffier Society but he was blown off, probably because of how Patrick looks. |
| 6:22
| Steve thought it would be funny if he brought Patrick to the next dinner. It would be funny to see him in a tux with a mohawk. |
| 6:23
| Yesterday on channel 2 Patrick said he wasn't even sure how much money he'd win. It's not about the money for him. |
| 6:24
| Tomorrow in Houston Patrick is participating in a kolache eating contest. This is when the competitive eating season really heats up. It culminates with the Krystal burger competition in late October. |
| 6:25
| Patrick's walking around with a Crave Case of White Castle to prepare for that. They really don't like him coming in and ordering 100 burgers, it really holds up the line. |
| 6:26
| Patrick brought some food with him in case Steve wanted him to eat something. He doesn't have to do that though. |
| 6:27
| Patrick brought Steve a couple of t-shirts from recent competitions including the PB & J Fest and the pulled pork fest. These are sweet shirts. |
| 6:28
| Patrick holds the record for fruit-filled kolaches but the ones in Houston will be meat-filled. |
| 6:29
| Patrick recently competed in a rib-eating contest in Connecticut and beat Joey Chestnut a few times. He didn't win the entire thing though. |
| 6:30
| Patrick is still ranked #3 but now Joey Chestnut is ranked #1. That was following his win at the Nathan's hot dog contest. |
| 6:31
| It seems like Kobayashi only does the hot dog contest, he shouldn't even be #1 if he isn't the hot dog champ. |
| 6:32
| Patrick hopes to beat Kobayashi before he retires. His hot dog numbers went up a lot this year from last year. |
| 6:40
| On the phone is Mark Czerniec, up in Racine, Wisconsin where things are beautiful, quiet and picturesque. |
| 6:41
| Buzz has informed us that he is intending on being in tomorrow. So maybe Mark will want to tape this for sentimental reasons. |
| 6:42
| Mark's looking forward to Buzz's stent stories. From what he's read on the internet you're supposed to let a doctor pull those out. |
| 6:43
| News with Mark |
| 6:44
| President Buzz has announced plans to withdraw up to 57,000 troops before the end of next year. He also won't withdraw more than 20,000 by this December. |
| 6:45
| Orlando Jones, godson of John Stroger, was found dead on a Michigan beach from what police say is a self-inflicted gunshot wound. |
| 6:46
| The discovery comes 2 days after the FBI approached Jones about interviewing him. That's not the same Orland Jones who did the 7-Up commercials or had his own talk show or was the drum teacher in Drumline. |
| 6:47
| His lawyer had lunch if Jones on Tuesday afternoon and had no indication that he was going to kill himself. He's a lawyer though, not a psychiatrist. |
| 6:48
| A federal appeals court decision has paved the way for O'Hare expansion. The city of Chicago can now move a Bensenville cemetery, where Steve was playing on being buried, in order to make way for more runways on the western edge of the airport. |
| 6:49
| The hunt for missing aviator Steve Fossett in western Nevada could solve several older mysteries. Searchers have turned up half a dozen previously undiscovered plane crash sites. |
| 6:50
| Oil prices finished above $80 a barrel for the first time today and gas prices rose as refiners reported problems stemming from Hurricane Humberto. Steve thought they were already up to U but that's a silent H. They shouldn't have silent letters because then idiots like Steve thinks they're already up to U. Steve just wants a hurricane named after him. But it never gets that far. |
| 6:51
| Madonna and Britney Spears have been targeted as spreaders of "satanic culture" by the Popular Resistance Committees. You really don't want those guys knowing your name. |
| 6:52
| Steve gets Madonna but what did Britney ever do? She's just wondering around on stage in those boots that aren't made for walking. |
| 6:53
| In other Britney news, she was so worried about her VMA performance that she had her midriff spread with emergency fake tan. That poor thing. Does anyone know what she was on that night? |
| 6:54
| A Cambodian man was arrested after injecting a woman with his own blood in order to win her affection. |
| 6:55
| Matt and Brendan are down in studio whatever it's called. It says Main Studio on the read-out but Steve likes to think of his studio as the main one. |
| 6:56
| Matt and Brendan had their evaluations with Drew this week. They just use them to not give people raises. Steve does not get evaluated which he's fine with he would find it interesting and problematic. Then Drew would ask him what his goals for 2008 are. His first one would be to get out of this evaluation. |
