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| 2:02
| It's 2:02 in Chicago or 58 minutes to 3:00. Is giving the time a new thing that Stan is doing? Was he told to do it by Drew? |
| 2:03
| Steve worked at an album oriented rock station in Detroit, doing mornings. It was called AOR because it wasn't classic rock yet. |
| 2:04
| Since Steve had been in radio since he was 16 he was accustomed to giving the time and temperature for every station he worked at. At one station, KROY, he had to say something like "It's 2:04 and 79 KROY Super Summer degrees" |
| 2:05
| Then Steve had to hit a button which produced a weird whoop noise. So Steve was very aware of having to give the time and temperature. |
| 2:06
| When he first got to the Detroit his program director told him not to give the time because it bums people out. He also said that taking phone calls bums people out. |
| 2:07
| So Steve didn't give the time and he didn't take phone calls, unless the program director was out of town. He ran another station in St. Louis and there was no way to monitor the station back then so Steve did what he wanted. |
| 2:08
| Eventually it caught on. The guy was sort of a Bizarro-world Drew Hayes. That never really occurred to Steve until now. |
| 2:09
| When it caught on Steve got a job at a station across town. |
| 2:10
| Stan just wanted to take a moment for another radio staple, thanking Panda Express for bringing in lunch today. Is Stan on crack or something? Steve's right in the middle of a bit. |
| 2:11
| It came up on Stan's computer screen so he had to thank them. All that should be done during Stan and Terry's show anyway. |
| 2:12
| Stan didn't even have any Panda Express and Terry's in Arizona so it must have been Bonnie who was hooked up with the free lunch. |
| 2:18
| There's Panda Express somewhere around here but all the food is gone. It's just empty containers. |
| 2:19
| Who doesn't throw out the containers? It seems like the person who takes the last food should throw the stuff out. There are some noodles left, Brendan should save them for Matt. |
| 2:20
| Steve almost called Matt Bratt because he was thinking of Brendan. Although together you could call them Bratt, like Brangelina or something. |
| 2:21
| What would Steve and Buzz be? Steve would like to be Scuzz but there's no C in anyone's name. |
| 2:22
| That station Steve was on in Detroit, where they told him not to tell the time and take calls, was interesting. Once he dropped his wallet in the toilet and then talked about it on the air. |
| 2:23
| Steve was told not to do that either because people didn't want to hear about it. Eventually all that stuff caught on and Steve went to work at the other rock station in Detroit. |
| 2:24
| Then eventually Steve's bosses from the old station picked him up in a limo and drove him around like he was going to be whacked. The just wanted him back though which is when Steve realized he had something. |
| 2:25
| They offered him more money than W4 was paying him, but Steve liked that situation because Lee Abrams was working there and he got Steve. |
| 2:26
| Lee Abrams was eventually a consultant at The Loop. Buzz remembers a staff meeting with him where he told all the on-air guys that they were like a street gang. He actually wanted everyone to get leather jackets. |
| 2:27
| When Steve first got to The Loop Jesse Bullet was doing mornings and was also the program director. The week before Steve was on the air Jesse made him come down and watch him work. Then he gave him all these tapes to listen to. |
| 2:28
| So Steve got done with his first show and he was looking for some reassurance from somebody. So Jesse calls him into his office to go over the skimmer tape. |
| 2:29
| Steve filled up the entire tape but that's not what Jesse was looking for. So he plays the tape and pulls out a stopwatch. After a minute he stopped the tape and told Steve that if he can't say it in that time he shouldn't be saying it. |
| 2:30
| Jesse didn't hire Steve, the consultant made him do it. So Steve told him he'd have to quit because he couldn't say what he needed to say in a minute. So Steve quit hoping that Lee Abrams would step in. |
| 2:31
| So by 10:10 AM Steve had quit The Loop on his first day and was walking to the elevators with his cardboard box full of stuff. |
| 2:36
| Steve forgot to mention that one of the reasons he didn't go back to WABX in Detroit is because he was throwing up blood in between breaks. |
| 2:37
| Steve had moved from California to work at WABX. Before he even started working they changed from a true underground station to something more like the Lite FM. |
| 2:38
| So all of these beloved icons were fired or forced into the new format. Eventually they went to rock but Steve was still on the old format and it was working, even though the guys didn't want him to give the time or take calls. So all that caused Steve to throw up blood. |
| 2:39
| If Steve could continue to be nostalgic, could Pete try to find in the archives a copy of a parody song Steve did for his first day at The Loop. |
| 2:40
| Steve referred to himself and the voices he did as Steve Dahl & Company so he recorded a parody of Bad Company. |
| 2:41
| Pete's coming up with nothing in the database, it doesn't even seem familiar to him. In Steve's mind it's on 20 Years in the Can. |
| 2:42
| Song: Bad Company, Bad Company |
| 2:46
| It was easy to do parodies back in the day because every song had a full section in it without lyrics. That's what Steve did with Do You Think I'm Disco? too. |
| 2:47
| Pete didn't find the song. He has something from Steve's first day at The Loop but it's not the song. It does have the characters and it's funny. |
| 2:48
| Steve doesn't really want to hear it but he could play it anyway. How long is it just so Steve can brace himself? |
| 2:49
| The track is over 3 minutes long, that's too much for Steve. If you can't say it in a minute it's not worth saying. |
| 2:50
| Steve feels bad for Pete and Mary and everyone else working here because he remembers stuff we don't have and doesn't remember stuff we do have, like him and Garry on a bike behind Jim Rose. |
| 2:51
| Pete's sure it's around here somewhere. Joe Kraslen did what Steve feels is a bad job of labeling a lot of stuff. So it could be under something else. |
| 2:52
| Steve should probably have the database in the studio. It's fun to look up his old stuff, he just doesn't want to hear it. If he sees a summary he'll remember what it is and then make it better than it was. |
| 2:53
| If Pete types in jingle a whole bunch of stuff comes up on the page. Not everything has an mp3 with it though. What kind of database is that? |
| 2:54
| Steve thought there was a database with mp3s in it. He knows there are CDs that are in order that Joe Kraslen spent hours designing labels for and they should be in order. |
| 2:55
| There's new a archivist who's also blind. That means he has the heightened sense of hearing but we have to drive the tapes out to him. Steve told Ed to put the tapes in the wrong box to confuse him but that would be mean. |
| 2:56
| Ed Silha is on the phone and he doesn't think Steve should make fun of Tom the archivist. OK Janet. |
| 3:00
| Steve has not taken control of the database, he left that in control of Pete. He doesn't want to get bogged down in it. |
| 3:01
| Generally speaking though eventually everything that's on CD will be in mp3 form in the database. We're working on it. Steve says we because he's paying for people to do it. |
| 3:02
| Pete has a lot of faith in Ed, he'll get this done. Steve's not disappointed though. It might not have been set up properly by Joe Kraslen. |
| 3:03
| This causes problems for Ed because he still hangs out with the club of people who used to work for Steve and hate him. Ed's pretty good about being Switzerland in these situations though. |
| 3:04
| Friday nights are probably the nights they all go to Emilio's and graze on tapas and drink Sangria. |
| 3:05
| So Pete has a recording of Steve's first day on The Loop. Has Pete listened to it, is Steve going to be embarrassed by it? |
| 3:06
| Pete thinks Steve is very critical of himself. What he thinks is funny Steve might not think is funny. |
| 3:07
| This must be some oft he stuff that caused Jesse Bullet to pull Steve into his office. Steve knew there was something wrong with him when he made him come in and watch him do a morning show for a week. |
| 3:08
| At that time Steve hadn't found much success in Chicago but he was very successful in Detroit. They should have been watching him instead of some guy from San Diego. |
| 3:09
| All the TV stations are doing it now but radio sort of pioneered studios with windows. It was set up so the DJs could get chicks off the request line. Sure you could hear their voice but eventually you had to see what they looked like. |
| 3:10
| On the Today's Show they don't even know what the window is for. Matt Lauer should only be using it to get good-looking tail. |
| 3:11
| Why does Steve keep seeing Mike North on CLTV? Is he talking about the Cubs? He's already written them off for this year apparently. |
| 3:12
| Jim was telling Pete that he heard Mike North spend some time this morning talking about the Mets collapse. Did he forget that he didn't get the job in New York? |
| 3:13
| Steve loves Jim Wagner on CLTV. He's been there for 30 years and he's never going anywhere. Pete thinks Steve's Jim Wagner is right on. |
| 3:14
| Steve wants to go back and catch El Norte in all his glory. He'd like Jim Wagner's lead in too. Why is Blago standing in front of Wrigley Field at night? Is he just standing there doing interviews? |
| 3:15
| Maybe he just needed some hair gel. There was no game there last night, there's no game tonight, what's he doing there? It has the feel of WGN sending him out there. |
| 3:16
| Why is there a Fudge Pot sign on the screen with Mike? They make a great caramel apple if Buzz would like a treat. It wouldn't wreck his dental work either. |
| 3:17
| Mike's selling some sort of new candy at the Fudge Pot. He might want to just focus on his show. He's got Papi Wear and kibble and now candy. What about the show? |
| 3:18
| Mike thinks that the Cubs history plays into why they're losing. He does think that the Cubs will pick up another pitcher in the off-season though. |
| 3:19
| The reason the Cubs are losing is because the D-Backs won 90 games this year. Once again after last night Steve can see why they won that many games. They're just a good fundamental team. |
| 3:20
| Pete thinks the Cubs are still going to win though. Anything is possible. Lou brought the Mariners back from a 2-0 in the ALDS but it's never happened in the NLDS. |
| 3:21
| Speaking of which, Pete mentioned getting invited to a rooftop for tomorrow's game if Steve still wants to go. Steve is looking to get out of something tomorrow. He would be Brendan's date and Jim would be Pete's date. |
| 3:22
| Does Steve have to be Brendan's date? Sure he puts out but then afterwards he keeps calling. Doesn't he know what it was? They were just on the rooftop, under the bleachers. |
| 3:23
| Steve has to go to something at Pat's in-laws house, they're putting together invitations for the wedding. Steve's not even sure if they have a TV. |
| 3:24
| Caller Harry wanted to point out that the Padres took 3 straight from the Cubs in 1984. That was for the NLCS though before the Wild Card. |
| 3:25
| Caller Tom thinks that Mike North is starting to sound more and more like Chris Farley's motivational speaker character on SNL. Steve can sort of see what he's saying. Pete has a little Matt Foley for a side-by-side comparison. |
| 3:26
| Steve was up late watching that game and even he was upset. That Lilly fella sort of lost it though, you can't throw your mitt like that. Steve's never seen that in professional sports. |
| 3:27
| Steve hopes everything works out well for Tom this weekend. Tom wanted to add that he loved Buzz's kidney stones show. We'll try to do it every year. |
| 3:28
| Steve did want to say, hopefully to make Pete and Tom feel better, is that it seemed like the Cubs really bounced back from bad losses down the stretch run. Like in that last week, they went to Florida and got swept but then bounced back and beat the Reds. |
| 3:29
| Pete thinks the Cubs will win the two games and Wrigley and put all the pressure back on the Diamondbacks. |
| 3:32
| Ted Lilly said that throwing his mitt down helped him refocus but that didn't really work did it? It was impressive in it's own right but that image is just another thing to add to the Cubs myth. Didn't Moises Alou throw his mitt after the Bartman thing? Pete doesn't remember. |
| 3:33
| Steve really wants the Cubs to win, he has no interest in them not winning. Steve's pretty sure Moises threw his mitt though. Maybe Jim remembers. |
| 3:34
| Lilly threw his mitt after giving up a 3-run home run. He threw the absolute wrong pitch in that situation. Maybe having Kendall as the catcher would have made things different. Kendall probably wouldn't let Lilly shake him off. |
| 3:35
| Jim remembers Moises throwing his mitt, he'll never forget the image. Pete was at the game so maybe he didn't see it happening. |
| 3:36
| Jim will never forget Moises freaking out like a little girl. Ted Lilly sort of did too but Jim liked his mitt toss better. Still you have to keep your cool, it doesn't help the rest of the team. |
| 3:37
| Jim heard that Mark Grace was criticizing the Cubs for hanging their heads last night. He read it somewhere on the interweb. |
| 3:38
| Steve loves when the kids use other terms for the internet. Jim does it and Pete does it. Pete says "internets" and Mark Czerniec has some other funny term. Steve gets it, they're younger and hipper than Steve. Why don't they just call him Wally then? |
| 3:39
| Jim was bumming Pete out via text message because he said he turned the game off. He turned it right back on though. You can't turn a baseball game off, anyone can score 6 runs in an inning. It seemed like they were going to come back. |
| 3:40
| Steve really thought they were going to come back last night, see he's rooting for them. He stayed up very late last night and he was so tired this morning. He had to get a giant cup of coffee just to stay awake today. |
| 3:45
| On the phone is Luke Stuckmeyer from Comcast Sportsnet. He's a little tired after last night's game. Everyone is tired. |
| 3:46
| Steve didn't get to see the pre-game last night but he wanted to see if anyone would walk up behind Len Kaspar and Gail Fischer once they realized they were on TV. |
| 3:47
| There was no pre-game last night. On Wednesday Luke was watching it with Dan Plesac and laughing at it. The best one was the old woman who realized what was going on and almost walked in between Len and Gail. |
| 3:48
| Luke handled it well though, he told Len and Gail to say hello to their new friends. Then he tries not to look at Dan Plesac's hair plugs. |
| 3:49
| Steve thought someone told him that Dan Plesac moved his hands around too much and now he keeps noticing that. |
| 3:50
| They don't really need pre-game unless something really big happens. If Rich Hill can't pitch tomorrow then Comcast will break in with it. |
| 3:51
| The Cubs will probably start Jason Kendall tomorrow. A lot of people are wondering if Ted Lilly would have brushed Kendall's pitch call off last night before he gave up the home run to Chris Young. |
| 3:52
| You can't argue with putting Soto in though because he's the only guy hitting the ball. |
| 3:53
| So who takes Ted Lilly out for his new mitt then? Does Lou do it? |
| 3:54
| There's still a chance for the Cubs. Luke thinks if they win the next two games then all the pressure is on Arizona. That's exactly what Pete says but Steve thinks the pressure is always on the Cubs. |
| 3:55
| And of course the Bears are in Green Bay this weekend. Steve doesn't really even know what to think about the game. |
| 3:56
| Also today, Peter Wirtz resigned as president of the Blackhawks. But Rocky Wirtz will be taking over the team so Steve still has connections over there. |
| 3:57
| Live read: Saturn |
| 3:58
| Steve sort of feels like these commercials are supposed to be pre-recorded. |
| 3:59
| Steve has a feeling that someone put Rorschach and Rohrman together. It could be Jeff Schwartz, he might be consulting for Bob Rohrman. |
| 4:00
| It would be just like Jeff to make the commercial this complicated. |
| 4:07
| A year ago, Luke Stuckmeyer wouldn't be ad-libbing the way he does but that's what his time with Steve and Buzz has done with him. |
| 4:08
| Steve is being pressured into playing the audio from his first day at The Loop. It was almost 2 hours ago! |
| 4:09
| Then Steve got an email proving that the people pressuring him to do it are right. The emailer says Steve "pulled a Howard" today. He mentioned playing the audio at 3:08 so it was an hour ago. |
| 4:10
| The emailer pulled into her garage and sat there waiting for Steve to play the audio. Then she had to get out of her car because she had to use the bathroom. |
| 4:11
| She's worried that Steve's going to play it while they're eating dinner because her husband turns off the radio during dinner. What kind of husband does that? |
| 4:12
| Steve couldn't find the parody of Bad Company he did for his first day on The Loop. What Pete came up with was some other audio of Steve's first day on The Loop. |
| 4:13
| Steve made the jingle after sitting and watching Jesse show him how to do his show for a week. So Steve wanted to just let Jesse know right away how he was going to do things. |
| 4:14
| Is Steve supposed to comment on this as it goes along? Because he doesn't want to listen to it. The first voice is Trudy, who did overnights at The Loop. |
| 4:15
| Isn't that enough? Please! It was weird for Steve to do the voices in front of someone he didn't know. |
| 4:16
| Can't that be enough? Please! Pete says it's almost over. How almost? |
| 4:17
| There's a lot of Larry Lujack table slapping on this tape. |
| 4:18
| Steve really can't listen to this any more. It's going to put him in a bottomless pit that he won't be able to crawl out of. |
| 4:19
| That's Les Tracy in the studio with Steve. Buzz doesn't remember him, he might have been gone when he got there. Les lived in the Seneca and had a collection of panties. They were trophies from various women that he kept in a box. |
| 4:20
| When Buzz hears that tape it reminds him a lot of Matt, especially the voice. |
| 4:21
| The highlight of having Jesse Bullet around is that he had a really young wife. This is not something Steve wants to remember actually but he got trapped into it by Janet. |
| 4:22
| His wife got breast implants and one time he grabbed Janet's breasts just as a comparison. Steve just sat there because he needed the job. His reaction time might have been a little slowed too. |
| 4:23
| Why would Steve want to remember that? Now he really is going to go kill himself. |
| 4:24
| He'd like to think that Steve was told about that afterwards but he can't be sure. Now he needs to know that. |
| 4:25
| Steve calls Janet. She's pretty sure he found out about the breast-touching afterwards. |
| 4:26
| From no one when this story is retold Steve's going with the fact that he was told what happened afterwards. |
| 4:27
| Steve sort of remembers wanting to go back and do something about it but was stopped by Janet and Garry. |
| 4:28
| Is that tape over or does Pete have some audio of Steve in the hotel room telling Jesse Bullet to grab a handful. |
| 4:29
| Janet doesn't seem scarred by the whole thing though, she probably thought it was medical. The only thing medical going on in there were the drugs and they weren't even pharmaceutical quality. |
| 4:36
| Headlines with Buzz |
| 4:37
| President Bush told reporters that the U.S. doesn't torture captives but they use interrogation techniques employed by professionals. |
| 4:38
| Marion Jones in court today to admit that she used steroids in the past. In 2004 she denied every using steroids. She also did it in the third person. |
| 4:39
| Al Sharpton wants Isiah Thomas to apologize to black women everywhere. It's good to know he'll go after anyone. |
| 4:40
| Barack Obama has an explanation for why he no longer wears an American flag pin. Obama says that the pin is sometimes used as a cheap tool that people hide behind. |
| 4:41
| Steve sees what he's saying but it seems way too complicated for the campaign. The Republicans are going to take that and put it in the simplifyin' machine. |
| 4:42
| Some experts believe Al Gore is a front runner for the Nobel Peace Prize. Buzz would love to see him get the trifecta of Oscar, Emmy and Nobel Prize. |
| 4:43
| Love in the Time of Cholera is the latest selection for Oprah's Book Club. Did she think it was Love in the Time of Collared Greens? Does she know it's about disease? |
| 4:44
| Although we missed it, yesterday was the 50th anniversary of the launch of Sputnik. Buzz has put together a special audio presentation. |
| 4:45
| Song: Sputnik, Jerry Engler |
| 4:46
| That was a fine special report on Sputnik even if it's a day late and a dollar short. Buzz probably spent a dollar on the song though. Actually Buzz got Jim to buy the song so Steve spent a dollar on it. |
| 4:53
| Steve gets the Barack Obama thing but his message seems too complicated. Why can't he wear the pin and explain his views on patriotism. |
| 4:54
| Live read: WCIU |
| 4:55
| Steve will see Buzz's Sputnik song and raise him. |
| 4:56
| Song: Telstar, The Tornados |
| 4:58
| Buzz's was good too so maybe Steve didn't raise him, he just called him. |
| 4:59
| Steve had the wrong settings on his computer so the next song just started up. Steve wants to play that one later. He has to set it to repeat when Chef Hans is here because he can't loop the track. This program could run an entire radio station though and one day it very well might. |
| 5:00
| It's time for the Five O'Clock Taco Bell. Steve couldn't decided what he wanted to so he ordered two items. He won't eat both of them. |
| 5:01
| Steve ordered the Nachos Bell Grande and the taco salad. You can't go wrong with a taco salad, Steve's going with that. He's not sure he's ever had one from Taco Bell. |
| 5:10
| On the phone is Jeff Joniak. The Bears need a victory, that's the understatement of the century. |
| 5:11
| It shouldn't be a problem up in Green Bay, they're 4-0 this year. It's a lay-up! Jeff thinks it is a lay-up, the Bears are 3-0 up there with Lovie Smith. |
| 5:12
| The Packers don't have a running game but neither do we. The Bears do have Greg Olsen and Devin Hester and Mark Anderson and Brian Urlacher. |
| 5:13
| It seems like maybe Lovie Smith has control of his offense again. Jeff's not sure why but he has a really good feeling about this game. Is he drunk? He's not driving drunk is he? |
| 5:14
| At the beginning of the week Jeff was in a very foul mood and some of his colleagues were wondering when he'd jump off the top of a building. |
| 5:15
| Steve hopes that Benson and Griese can have break-out games. He doesn't want to see another game where the Bears run 53 passing plays. |
| 5:16
| The Packers lead the league in pass attempts. Some people say that the league has changed and you can win on the pass but Jeff thinks you need balance. |
| 5:17
| Jeff doesn't think Vasher will play but Tillman and Briggs did practice today. That's a good sign. |
| 5:18
| Steve has another Delay Play to give away, right now. The 1,059th person to text the word Bears to 41059 wins the Delay Play. A lot of people ask Jeff about this thing. |
| 5:19
| The Delay Play takes the radio broadcast and delays it so you can sync it up to the TV. |
| 5:20
| Steve can't take another week of Dick Stockton telling him what's what. That game last Sunday was terrible. |
| 5:21
| So Jeff feels good about Sunday. As he and Tom always say you pass to score and run to win. Maybe Tom should remind Ron Turner about that during the game just in case. |
| 5:22
| One of the problems the Bears are having with the running game is they're not getting enough yards on 1st down. |
| 5:23
| That being said it seems like every aspect of the offense is out of sync. The Bears have big play potential but it hasn't manifested on Sundays. |
| 5:24
| Then the offense isn't on the field for long enough and the defense gets tired out and injured. |
| 5:25
| It would be nice for the Bears to beat the Packers in Green Bay. It would save face for Lovie too because the first thing he said when he got here was that they were going to beat the Packers. |
| 5:26
| Jeff didn't realize that the Bears had started the season 1-3 in four of the last five years. |
| 5:32
| Steve's going to say that Sunday is a must-win but what does he know? |
| 5:33
| Live read: Townstone Financial |
| 5:34
| This live read features Ken and Dixie from Herscher. Steve has no idea where that is but it's probably on the Herscher Highway. |
| 5:35
| What is PMI? If Buzz had to guess he'd say prime mortgage interest. It's actually private mortgage insurance. |
| 5:36
| Steve feels that putting PMI in the copy was unnecessary and just a way for David to call in. We don't need him though. |
| 5:37
| Steve has a song to play that mentions Dixie. Also there's a guy on hold who knows where Herscher is. We also had that audio yesterday of Ron Santo and the Dixie Cup. |
| 5:38
| Caller Tom lives in Joliet but Herscher is near Bourbonnais. |
| 5:39
| Song: Baby Blue, Badfinger |
| 5:42
| Badfinger still tours but the only guy in that band Steve cares about is dead. He killed himself for some reason. |
| 5:43
| Back in the day when someone killed themselves we didn't get a full rundown like we do these days. Even when you don't kill yourself you get a full rundown. Look at Owen Wilson, we know everything that went on. |
| 5:44
| Apparently Owen was out and about at the premiere of the new Wes Anderson movie so that's good news. |
| 5:45
| Also don't forget that Someone to Eat Cheese WIth is at the Music Box starting tonight for the next week. Jeff Garlin will be there tonight and tomorrow for Q & A. |
| 5:48
| The Sant didn't even do the "oh nooooooooooooooo" after the Chris Young home run yesterday, he was just angry. |
| 5:50
| Steve forgot to ask Jeff or Tom this week if they went to Carl's Chophouse in Detroit. |
| 5:51
| Caller Carl wanted to know if Steve saw Ebert's review of Someone to Eat Cheese With. He's mentioned in the cast list and by name in the review. |
| 5:52
| Steve didn't see that but he'll look for it. Is that in the weekend section? How does Steve have a paper with something cut out of it? |
| 5:53
| Ebert gave the movie three stars. He's mentioned at the very end of the review: "Sometimes they are. Tim Kazurinsky plays Bill Bjango, a name that stirs trains of thought, and there is a cameo role for talk jock Steve Dahl, who may not be a Second City alum but certainly provides air time for the troupe." |
| 5:54
| He's also in the cast list though. It's only one line and then a sweet look back at Jeff. |
| 5:55
| Buzz gave Carl a Mon Ami Gabi gift certificate because he seems French. Is that because Carl sounds |
| 5:56
| Carl had that familiarity-breeds-contempt feel to him. Apparently Brendan doesn't hear that when he screens the call. Kudos to Buzz on the French restaurant. That's on par with Steve's "handicap mean". |
| 5:57
| Steve has been getting emails from people in the handicapped community who know other handicapped people who are handicap mean. |
| 6:01
| Jeff Garlin was working over Blago on the channel 2 news this morning. The Garl Man, working over the Blag. It wasn't in a mean way either. |
| 6:02
| Time for some sports with Steve. The Cubs are down 2-0 against the Diamondbacks. Everyone probably knows that though. |
| 6:03
| Rich Hill takes the mound against Livan Hernandez. Steve's pretty sure that at some point in Livan's career he was a World Series MVP. |
| 6:04
| Lovie Smith believes Sunday's game could be a turning point for the Bears. One way or another it will be. |
| 6:05
| Ozzie Guillen fired third base coach Razor Shines today. That must have been what was holding them back. |
| 6:06
| The Blackhawks announced that W. Rockwell Wirtz will take over the team. |
| 6:07
| Following the guilty verdict in his sexual harassment trial, Isiah Thomas may lose his status of spokesperson for National Popcorn Popping Month. That's going on right now. |
| 6:08
| Isiah Thomas owns two popcorn companies and loves popcorn year round. However a group of popcorn company owners are circulating a petition to have him removed as spokesman. |
| 6:09
| Buzz has his own popcorn issues at home. Every babysitter he ever hires can't wait to pop some popcorn and stink up his entire house. He gripes about it at home and at work. Yesterday he went home and what did he find but a box of popcorn on the table. Why provide the babysitters ammunition? |
| 6:15
| There ya go, Lovie Smith talking about Lou Piniella. Buzz loves the intermingling of sports. Lovie probably feels for Lou right now and vice versa. |
| 6:16
| Live read: Walter E. Smithe |
| 6:17
| News with Buzz |
| 6:18
| Marion Jones has plead guilty to lying to Federal prosecutors about steroid use. After years of denials she admitted today to using what is known as "the clear". |
| 6:19
| She offered a tearful and verbose resignation from the sport of track and field. It was heavily edited down though. |
| 6:20
| Al Sharpton says Isiah Thomas owes all black women in the U.S. an apology and maybe a tin of caramel corn. 6:21 |
| 6:21
| The White House continues to deny that the U.S. tortures captives. Dana Perino got into a heated discussion about it today at a press briefing. |
| 6:22
| It sounds like Perino got a little caught up there. |
| 6:23
| Authorities are investigating the death of a woman at Sky Harbor Airport in Phoenix last week. The woman was trying to board a plane, became unruly and was detained and put in a holding cell. |
| 6:24
| Forensic investigator Dr. Michael Baden was given asphyxiation as the cause of death but he doesn't believe it. |
| 6:32
| Song: Bananas and Blow, Ween |
| 6:36
| Speaking of bananas and blow, troubled actress Lindsay Lohan has checked out of a Utah rehab facility. She's bananas and there was blow involved, get it? |
| 6:37
| Most people who get arrested for DUI or drug possession do 5 years in jail. She gets to go to Utah and go hiking and rafting. |
| 6:38
| Another report says that Lindsay is planning to quit acting and go to college. It sounds like she's having the college experience already. |
| 6:39
| She's looking at schools on the east coast and NYU is the favorite. They've got the great film school and she's in the business. |
| 6:40
| Even with the college degree some insiders are saying it could take years of perfect behavior for Lindsay to begin acting again. |
| 6:41
| It's really hard to read something on the internet. You're trying to read something that's still and all these advertisements are jumping around. |
| 6:42
| What's that site for celebrity news? Steve goes to this one a lot he should probably bookmark. |
| 6:43
| X17 has photos of Lindsay leaving rehab. It looks like she has a bit of a gut on her. Or maybe she's pregnant. |
| 6:44
| Steve can see her breasts, quite nicely in the photo, but there's also a bit of a tummy. Or that could be a pregnancy. Maybe she's hoping the baby will ground her a bit. |
| 6:45
| Buzz heard that at the custody hearing for Britney's kids K-Fed showed up to court with an eye patch. |
| 6:46
| Steve wishes Lindsay the best but the whole thing seems tragic. Buzz can't see the college thing lasting just because she's such a talented actress. He always maintains that she should have won an Academy Award for her work in Freaky Friday. |
| 6:47
| Steve also has some more info about K-Fed. He had pink eye, hence the eye patch. |
| 6:48
| It seems like he could just tough it out instead of wearing the eye patch, which just draws attention to it. Just leave the shades on. |
| 6:54
| Buzz has checked out Californication and he doesn't like his David Duchovny like that. He doesn't want to watch him having sex. |
| 6:55
| Mark has something on his page about OJ's Rolex. Turns out the one that Fred Goldman got is a fake. Since it's only worth $100 it falls below an exemption and OJ gets it back. |
| 6:56
| OJ has all his bases covered. He's got the fake Rolex, he's living in Florida in case he needs to leave the country. You're already almost out of the country in Florida anyway. |
| 6:57
| Did Steve cover the Lindsay Lohan thing properly? Brendan thought he did a great job. Steve thought he wasn't doing it right because it all sounded so stupid but it is stupid. |
| 6:58
| There were rumors coming out of rehab that she was having a lot of sex. Steve remembers that now, he wanted to go to rehab. He's already not drinking, the program won't be a problem. |
| 6:59
| Matt heard she was running around rehab topless or naked. She has restless breast syndrome, Steve has restless leg syndrome. |
