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		Monday, October 8, 2007



2:02	Stan is looking to cozy up to Hugo Chavez in hopes that he'll sponsor the show. A lot of celebrities are buddying up to him.
2:03	Celebrities are going down to Venezuela to stick it to Bush also. Does Stan speak Spanish?
2:04	Stan's willing to learn but someone who hassles the U.S. so much probably knows English. Castro knows English too.
2:05	Stan thought Castro went to Harvard or something. He does know he played minor league baseball. He sure does know a lot about South American dictators.
2:06	It doesn't seem right that all these celebrities are going down to Venezuela. Maybe the next time Spielberg goes down there we shouldn't let him back in.
2:07	Steve's fine with Sean Penn, Kevin Spacey, Steven Spielberg and Harry Belafonte not being let back into the country. Don't we have a bone to pick with Venezuela.
2:08	Bush has a bone to pick with them but Stan doesn't think he speaks for all of us.
2:09	It seems like Chavez is more interested in movies than a radio show in Chicago. What do Stan and Terry bring to the table? Not chicks, that's for sure.
2:12	It's Blue Monday and we're having a blues guest, Stinking Earl. Actually it's Smilin' Bobby and he smiles all the time. It's not just a clever nickname.
2:13	Mr. Skin is also stopping by today, he has a new book out, The Skintastic Video Guide.
2:14	Tom Thayer will of course be on at 5:00 which is enough for Steve. That's three days worth of stuff right there, he doesn't even need to think about anything.
2:15	Remember last week Jim kid said he had allergies but they seemed very bad for allergies. Buzz thought he looked horrible. Jim doesn't look great normally, he's very mopey and pale.
2:16	Buzz apparently caught something from Jim though but it could just be the allergies from the heat. Steve's recommending the Alavert, it melts in your mouth.
2:17	Buzz is on some other medication for the stones but it seems like the Alavert worked for Jim. Also Steve likes pill taking and he's pretty sure Buzz does as well.
2:18	It's very cold in the studio today and Steve feels bad about that when Buzz has a cold. Buzz actually doesn't feel it today. It usually gets warmer as the day goes on though.
2:19	A few weeks ago when Kevin Pang was in it was really cold in the studio. Even he remarked to Buzz that it was like a meat locker in the studio. You talkin' to meat?
2:20	Also, Patrick Bertoletti won the Waffle House competition over the weekend and he'll be calling in. Steve really doesn't need to even be here, he'll be in his office.
2:21	Buzz is wondering if Steve has any thoughts on the marathon. Aside from the heat yesterday the air quality was really bad. It seemed like a bad day to run a marathon.
2:22	Steve runs at about 3 miles an hour, for an hour. He imagines that most marathon runners are in the 6-9 mph range. Steve was very tired after an hour yesterday.
2:23	That guy who died had a heart problem. It seems like you have to stop running if you can't go any longer.
2:24	It doesn't look cool when you're in a wheelchair wearing a space blanket. A lot of people were complaining that there wasn't enough water either. Some woman had to pour her own Gatorade.
2:25	Buzz couldn't believe they stopped the marathon short yesterday. What about all those people who trained but didn't get to finish?
2:26	Steve thought he heard that if you were halfway done when it was over they let you finish. What a weekend it was for Chicago sports though. Good news for the Bears, bad news for the Cubs and mixed news for the marathon.
2:27	Steve likes seeing all the people complain about the marathon in their short shorts about something they don't really have to do. It would be like Steve and Buzz trying to play softball at Wrigley Field on Saturday during the game just to prove they could.
2:28	Steve didn't think they'd be able to top the slip-and-slide finish from last year but it seems like they did.
2:29	Steve was running the calculations on how long it would take him to finish the marathon at his top speed of 3 miles per hour. It would probably take him 8 or 9 hours. He could keep going but why would he? He's good with his 1 hour a day.
2:30	Steve's reading something that says yesterday's conditions were moderate. That's from AirNow.gov. Buzz saw "unhealthy" on AccuTron Does he mean AccuWeather? Why doesn't Mark just call in and tell us since he's the one who sent Steve on this wild goose chase.
2:31	Mark Czerniec is on the phone, his info is from the U.S. government but Buzz can't trust them. Steve sees AccuWeather bumping it up to unhealthy just to cover themselves. Otherwise a Buzz Kilman tries to sue them. First it takes his lawyer 6 months to figure out it's AccuWeather, not AccuTron.
2:32	Mark also saw that people were pouring most of the water over their heads which is why there wasn't enough to drink. Steve likes to pour Gatorade on his head because it's sticky. Plus the electrolytes are good for your scalp.
2:33	There was a woman from Minnesota complaining about having to pour her own Gatorade and another woman who said she had to use a dirty cup. If Steve was Gatorade or Hinckley & Schmitt he wouldn't be happy with what he got for sponsorship.
2:34	If Buzz could go back to the air quality thing, he's on AccuTron right now and it says "unhealthy for sensitive groups". The government website says the same thing for the most part.
2:35	AccuWeather probably likes to jerk it up a little bit, just to get people to their site. It works for Fox News. You want to scare the hell out of a Buzz Kilman.
2:36	It seems like if you go outside and it's hard to breathe and it's hot you should just give up on the marathon.
2:37	They're showing the guy who died on CLTV. Someone was pouring water on him at some point.
2:38	Mark is waiting for Steve to ask if someone can tell us if global warming is real or not. Mark thinks this weather proves it, it's never been this hot in October.
2:39	This weather still isn't enough proof for Steve. He would like someone to tell him if global warming is real though. He won't be swayed by one bad marathon though.
2:43	Steve read the thing about the woman having to pour her own Gatorade online this morning in the Tribune.
2:44	What kind of world is it where people have to pour their own Gatorade? Buzz didn't know they gave you Gatorade at the marathon. They do charge people money to enter.
2:45	Ron Santo foreshadowed all these water issues last week during the Cubs game when he couldn't find a cup of water during the game.
2:46	Steve didn't hear the end of the game on Saturday but he did hear Ron Santo sing the 7th Inning Stretch. It did seem like he was still trying to get the crowd into it. Steve imagines he was heartbroken, even though it wasn't a very close game by the end.
2:47	Whenever Steve had to run in gym class he'd put some money in his athletic supporter, in the pouch. You never know when an ice cream stand is going to pop up along the way.
2:48	Along the marathon route fire hydrants were opened to keep runners cool. Marathon organizers say they provided more than enough water for runners.
2:49	Based on what Steve saw there was a lot of water everywhere at the marathon. Buzz has never heard for a water shortage at a marathon.
2:50	Steve can see people pouring multiple bottles or cups of water on their heads. One marathon spectator has been going for 10 years and has never had to hand out water before. So maybe Buzz was right. He is our marathon expert.
2:51	Caller Michael is just working his butt off, like a marathoner. Everyday is a marathon.
2:52	Michael wanted to let Steve and Buzz know that there's a $150 entry fee for the marathon. That covers your water and Gatorade. Multiply that by 45,000 and that's a lot of money. Michael thinks someone's probably taking a little off the top though.
2:53	It probably costs the city more than that to put the marathon on because of all the street closings and security.
2:54	Michael said he didn't need Steve's cheesy prizes and then hung up. Was he mad because Steve proved him wrong?
2:55	Cheesy prize? It's a $100 gift certificate but you probably could get cheese with it.
2:56	Caller Greg is wondering what the IOC is going to think after what happened at the marathon. Daley is probably sweating like one of the runners.
2:57	Would Greg like one of Steve's cheesy prizes? That's the lamest thing anyone has ever said to Steve.
2:58	Caller Joyce thinks all these marathon people are big crybabies. The guys in Afghanistan and Iraq are in extreme heat, hauling 40 pounds of gear and they don't get to stop for water breaks. Joyce really dialed it up there.
2:59	Steve thinks the marathon is just an excuse for guys who want to be Hooters girls to wear the short shorts. It's not a good look. Would Joyce like one of Steve's cheesy prizes?
3:00	This does look bad for the Olympics though since it's only 1 event. It's especially bad coming on the heels of Peter Ueberroth's comments that Chicago was probably in 4th or 5th place for consideration.
3:01	The marathon is just one Olympic event. Plus, FYI, it gets super hot and muggy here in the summer.
3:02	They did move the marathon up this year, normally it's at the end of the month. That was a mistake.
3:09	Steve ended up watching most of the Cubs game on Saturday but he was doing some craft activities for Pat's wedding. He was sitting in Pat's in-laws basement folding doilies.
3:10	Steve's not sure if he can even talk about this but at some point on Saturday he was folding doilies so he they can be taped into paper bags.
3:11	Steve would like to do some post-mortem on the game because he feels that certain people used his name to get tickets to the game. Last year Pet stole the New Era hat connection from Steve. He acts like he doesn't know what's going on but really he's back there with everything anyone wants like New Era hats and rooftop invites for Cubs games.
3:12	Pete's laughing but it's not funny. There's going to be a full investigation and delousing of Pete's studio. All of his tapes are going to be gone.
3:13	Some guy who owns a rooftop invited Pete and Jim to the game on Saturday and they were going to bring Brendan and also Steve. Steve gathered from Matt that the invite was from him though but it didn't sound like that last week.
3:14	The guy was a huge fan of Steve's and wanted him there but also extended the invite to Pete and Jim. Pete told him he wasn't coming on Friday because he had something he couldn't get out of. Steve was folding doilies in someone's basement watching a standard definition TV.
3:15	Steve just feels bad for the guy because these were 4 seats he could have sold that were used by knuckleheads. And Matt Dahl dodged his responsibilities as a best man. If one person from the family doesn't show it's fine but with two missing they'll notice.
3:16	There were also signs on the rooftop that says "Welcome WCKG" or something. Pete gets that everywhere he goes though. The whole thing was set up for people from WCKG. The guy was talking to Garry and Randy and even Jill. Buzz doesn't know who Randy is.
3:17	C'mon Buzz! Randy Salerno, of the Salerno Butter Cookie Fortune! So he was trying to get a WCKG thing happening because he's a huge fan of Steve's. Matt Dahl said it was fun.
3:18	He even called Pete and had him get there early to beat the crowd. They had front row seats but were unable to save one for Bonnie.
3:19	It sounds like Pete doesn't approve of Bonnie being there. It's sort of how Steve doesn't approve of these guys going, Wasn't Terry supposed to be getting playoff tickets?
3:20	Pete was perturbed because Bonnie thought the game started at 4:00, not 5:00 so she didn't even know the game time. She must be on Mountain Time.
3:21	Even after that first pitch home run they still had the food and drinks on the rooftop. The food was good and it's a nice set-up. The rooftop is in the perfect position too, you can see everything. It's right down the foul line in right field, next to the building where the Torco sign used to be.
3:22	Is there an elevator? Because those stairs at Murphy's were brutal. It's not that Steve can't go up the stairs he just doesn't want to. They need a halfway point or something.
3:23	They actually do have a halfway point which is indoors and air conditioned. Then there's another level underneath the bleachers and then there's the bleachers.
3:28	Steve thought Lou had some good things to say in his post-game press conference on Saturday. They got beat, that's all that happened.
3:29	On the phone is Lawrence from Skybox on Sheffield. The guys from the show were on their best behavior and he didn't hear any complaints about them standing up.
3:30	Lawrence extended the invitation to Pete a couple of weeks ago. He doesn't feel taken advantage of either. Steve just doesn't want to mess it up for next year.
3:31	Lawrence doesn't know Steve but he feels if he could get him up there and paid it'd be really good. Lawrence does know Steve!
3:32	For a regular season game a ticket costs about $150, depending on the food. Next year there will be an elevator. Steve can make it all the way up, he just likes to complain. There's also a business center to send emails or whatever. Steve's always trying to close a movie deal.
3:33	Steve just wanted to make sure Lawrence didn't feel taken advantage of. Bringing Catman was really pushing their luck, he's not affiliated with the show. He's just trying to take away people's dates.
3:34	Steve doesn't mind going up there to watch the Cubs, maybe for the Crosstown Classic. He'll just go up there to eat. Was Catman working the lobster tail? He'll work any sort of tail.
3:35	Live read: Balance for Life
3:36	Steve's been having some trouble on the weekends but yesterday he put in place Balance for Life methodology. He was able to get himself under control today.
3:37	There wasn't a day last week that Steve didn't gain weight but this morning he was back on the right track. Steve had some chicken and peanuts but only 3 pieces of pizza yesterday.
3:45	On the phone is Dan Jiggetts from Comcast Sportsnet. Dan thought Buzz was dissing him but for some reason he doesn't read that thing any more.
3:46	For some reason that thing expired and no one has tried to get it back and everyday it has to be explained.
3:47	Just so Dan knows Steve watched all of the Post Game Live yesterday. Steve's been invited to be on the show but does Dan really want him there? He'll mess it up.
3:48	This coming Sunday Post Game Live will be tapes at the Cadillac Club. They might also do it there for the Lions game.
3:49	Everyone was trying to avoid saying last night was a must-win game. If you lose the must-win game then it feels like your season is over.
3:50	Saturday for the Cubs was a must-win because a loss means they go home. Dan was disappointed to see the Cubs lose, he was hoping it'd keep going a little bit.
3:51	That was an exciting game last night. Dan wasn't sure what was going to happen at halftime but apparently Lovie went nuts. Even he said he went nuts.
3:52	Dan remembers when he first got here and the team was struggling a little bit Jack Pardee told them during one halftime that he was going to head down to Lower Wacker and find some better players.
3:53	Last night on Post Game Live Brendan Ayanbadejo said that Olin Kreutz came up to him and the other captains and told them to start playing like captains. What do you say to Olin Kreutz, he'll break your jaw!
3:54	How about that guy who took out Trent Green yesterday and then kept celebrating after he went down? Defensive linemen really don't like when you take out their knees though.
3:55	That could be a career-ending injury for Trent Green, who's suffered a lot of concussions over his career.
3:56	Brian Griese had a really good game last night but Dan gave him a C+ on Post Game Live. He's a hard grader.
3:57	Dan just wanted to leave him some room because he has a feeling he's going to get even better. That read he had on Des Clark was incredible. And he hit G-Reg in the end zone!
3:58	Dan doesn't want to remind anyone about Olsen's rap song. It seems like you're better off just remembering the G-Reg part.
3:59	The Bears have today off so the players don't need to show up unless they have an injury and need that worked on.
4:00	Does Dan really want Steve to come out on Sunday? He'll do whatever Dan says. Steve's back on the Jim MIller bandwagon. He really liked what he said last week about Griese's problems and it gave him home for the future.
4:01	Last week Griese had one bad read, this week he had a great read and it made all the difference in the world. Plus the running game wasn't stellar but they stuck with it and kept pounding it.
4:02	It doesn't seem like Benson is ever going to be one of those running backs who runs for 100 yards every game. He is a work horse though, he just kept pounding away.
4:06	Alright it's Blue Monday and Buzz has arranged for a guest, Smilin' Bobby. You can hear the smile in his voice.
4:07	Smilin' Bobby has a CD release party this Friday at Rose's on Armitage. Also joining Smilin' Bobby is B.K. Read, one of the Hidden Charms. It sounds like B.K. has a radio background, Steve can always tell from the voice.
4:08	Back where B.K. used to do radio they always said "more platter, less chatter." It must have been a long time ago because we don't play records any more.
4:09	Smilin' Bobby also did the Katerina's gig with Buzz last month when the Upscale Chicago crew showed up. Pete has a highlight from the interview with William Kelly.
4:10	Someone has to put a stop to that guy. He does seem like the self-destructive type but it's not happening fast enough for Steve.
4:11	Smilin' Bobby and B.K. Read perform You're the One.
4:14	Steve went next door to check out Smilin' Bobby and B.K. read and Bobby was turned around looking out the window. No one ever turns around when they play in there. He was smiling too.
4:15	Bobby's not from Chicago, he's from Cornbread, Arkansas. Steve loves the Delta Blues, as Buzz knows.
4:16	Smilin' Bobby and B.K. Read perform Lookin' Good Tonight.
4:20	Does a Buzz Kilman go out and jam with Smilin' Bobby on Friday night? He'll probably head out to Rose's on Friday but they'll have a lot of special guests.
4:26	Who lets that flippin' moron from Upscale Chicago into their bar with a flippin' camera? We need to start ignoring him, FYI.
4:27	Because now Steve's getting emails from people saying William Holden or whatever his name is will be promoting Steve and Garry on his show.
4:28	Mr. Skin is here, he has a new book out called Mr. Skin's Skintastic Video Guide. It's features the 501 best movies for sex scenes.
4:29	Mr. Skin has been running the website for 8 years and he always sees the Roger Ebert video guide so he decided to put out his own.
4:30	Buzz is wondering if Mr. Skin has gotten any sales feedback yet from the book. He imagines it'll be a hot seller.
4:31	The book was a lot of work mainly because he had to narrow it down to 501 movies. One of the main criteria for the movies was that they had to be readily available on DVD in the U.S.
4:32	Not only does the book list movie title, actresses naked and what body parts are shown but there's also a tally of the number of times the body parts are shown.
4:33	After all the research the movie that shows the most breasts is Caligula. That's sort of a porn but Malcolm McDowell and Helen Mirren are both in it.
4:34	Caller John is South African and he just saw an article about Mr. Skin in a South African paper. What if Nelson Mandela has the Skintastic Video Guide? How great would that be?
4:35	Reuters just did an article about the video guide and it was picked up by a ton of papers so that's probably how the article ended up in South Africa.
4:36	You can access the website from anywhere in the world. Sometimes the web guys come to Mr. Skin to let him know where the web traffic comes from and there are always some weird places in the Middle East or something.
4:37	Is that Pete McMurray getting all the good press for Mr. Skin? Steve's been getting a lot of emails from Pete that are borderline gay. Mr. Skin can come in whenever he wants, Steve doesn't need a rundown from Pete about what shows he's been on.
4:38	Steve and Mr. Skin go way back. He stole them from Spike and Harry. Mr. Skin was in a bar and Harry overheard some guys quizzing him about nude scenes. So he was just giving it away for free back then.
4:39	Harry invited Steve on their show but it was on in the middle of the night. The big break came when Steve wanted him on the show. Then people started coming up to Mr. Skin and saying they heard him on Steve's show.
4:40	Then about a year later Howard Stern had him on his show and he's the one who gets all the credit.
4:43	Someone sent Steve a crazy email about how he was supposed to confront Mr. Skin about how he was involved in Knocked Up but didn't mention the nude scene in it.
4:44	It seemed crazy and Steve was just going to ignore it. It's from one of those internet crazies. He claims that the last time Mr. Skin was on he conspicuously failed to mention a very graphic nude scene in Knocked Up. "Conspicuous" is a conspiracy word.
4:45	The nude scene was child birth, it wasn't Katherine Heigl and it might have been a prosthetic anyway. Child birth is not skintastic.
4:46	For anyone who hasn't seen Knocked Up Seth Rogen's character is trying to start a website like Mr. Skin. They even show the website in the movie and he didn't have to pay for it. It's great product placement.
4:47	Finally the emailer feels that the producer's put the child birth scene in there to mess with Mr. Skin. Steve has got to stop reading these emails.
4:48	It seems like this guy was just mad because he thought it was Katherine Heigl and was getting off on it. As if she got pregnant just for the movie role and then let them film the child birth.
4:49	Who sits down at 2:40 on a Monday afternoon and jots this down?
4:50	Caller Rudy wanted to ask Mr. Skin about Natalie Portman's nude scene in the new Wes Anderson movie.
4:51	Wes Anderson released a 15-minute short film that features Natalie Portman's first nude scene. Right now it's only on the internet. She's the most popularly searched actress on Mr. Skin because of this short film.
4:52	The website has stills from the short. Mr. Skin made that decision because it's from a short film.
4:53	Caller Tom's first question is one Steve doesn't approve of. He doesn't want to know what movies feature Whoopi Goldberg nude. He also wanted to know about Amy Smart and Lisa Bonet.
4:54	Amy Smart is nude in Road Trip. Lisa Bonet was nude in Angel Heart right at the height of her 80's popularity.
4:55	Caller John was wondering how Mr. Skin knows if someone is using a body double and how they make that distinction.
4:56	If you have nudity and don't see the actresses face that's a red flag that she's using a body double. When you go to the website it always says if there's a body double.
4:57	No body doubles made the list in the Skintastic Movie Guide. Buzz is wondering if Flashdance made the book.
4:58	It did not. There are body doubles in the movie though and the dance scene is pretty good.
4:59	One of the best decisions Mr. Skin ever made was right before the launch of the website. He decided to allow non-nude scenes like wet t-shirts, bikinis and underwear because there are some good ones out there.
5:00	It's time for the Five O'Clock Taco Bell. It's Manager Monday and on the phone is John, manager of the Taco Bell on Randall Road in Batavia.
5:01	Steve's having a Cheesy Beefy Melt today.
5:10	Tom Thayer was en fuego last night. They had a lot to talk about during the first half. Where does Jeff get off breaking bad on Tom?
5:11	It was so fun watching the Bears come back last night. It was really unexpected for them to have a big second half like that. When they needed a big play they made it and it ended perfectly.
5:12	McGowan just jumped up and took that ball from the receiver. Tom could really see from the broadcast thing how that whole thing was unfolding.
5:13	Steve doesn't know what Lovie Smith said to those guys at halftime but it really worked. Tom's still trying to figure out what he said. That was a really bad first half that the Bears played though.
5:14	Doug Coletti told Tom that Peanut should be the MVP of the game but Tom went with Griese. That's a good choice too though.
5:15	The Bears still have to beat Minnesota. If they don't do that than this week was all for naught, just a pacifier for the Cubs loss.
5:16	Steve's really looking forward to next Sunday's game against the Vikings. That second half last night was very impressive. Lance Briggs was two people, he had 16 tackles last night!
5:17	Last night on TV they showed Brian Griese talking to Pep Hamilton several times. Kyle Orton was in that group as well but they never showed Rex Grossman.
5:18	They did show Rex with the earphone a lot telling other guys what the play would be. Tom thinks Rex is really in tune with the game charting the plays and staying involved just in case he has to go in. Will he ever get a chance to start for the Bears again or any other NFL team?
5:19	Tom thinks Rex will start somewhere in the NFL. Steve saw some pretty bad quarterbacking yesterday so there are teams who would kill to have him.
5:20	The sick thing about it is that you hope Rex doesn't play for the Bears again because that means something happened to Griese.
5:21	Steve likes that the Bears stuck with the run even though it wasn't really working. That was one of Tom's keys to the game last night, even if it was boring or not pretty.
5:22	Tom thinks that within a couple of weeks Cedric is going to come up with a 130-150 yard game.
5:23	Timing is the key to running in the NFL so they just have to be patient and work all that out. The more Cedric gets to see the same defenses and shifts the better he'll be able to anticipate the holes to get through.
5:24	It certainly helps that Greg Olsen made some great catches last night. The exciting thing about getting Olsen involved is that it forces defensive coordinators to cover the middle of the field better which opens up the side of the field.
5:28	Steve imagines that it's pretty scary when Lovie Smith yells at you since he's so calm normally. Lovie has a reputation for removing someone from their job if they're not doing well which Tom thinks is a good thing. That's how it was when he played here.
5:29	Did Adam Archuleta not play that much in the second half? Steve noticed him in the first half missing a lot of tackles, probably because of the cast on his arm.
5:30	It's probably a good thing Steve didn't hear much from him in the second half. He was involved in a lot plays though. The Packers went to a short field game plan in the second half so it was more linemen and linebackers involved in the plays.
5:31	At one point last night Tom wanted to check the yards gained for inside versus outside routes. Does Tom want Steve to come over after the show tonight and chart the routes? He'll bring pizza and his DVD player and they can use the coach's clicker.
5:32	Tom's point was that he wanted to see Benson's production going up the middle versus to the outside.
5:33	It seems like if they want Cedric to go outside they need to throw him a quick pass. He should be saving his strength for pounding up the middle.
5:34	The other option is to get Garret Wolfe in there for those short passes to the outside. The had a good catch last night and then had the face mask penalty tacked on to the end. He said he could have broke the tackle without the face mask.
5:35	Cedric can make the outside runs but it seems like he'll get more production going up the middle.
5:36	Do the Bears fly up to Green Bay or take the bus? They drive to Appleton and then fly back to Chicago after the game. Do they have a regular bus or one of those sweet buses?
5:41	Steve loves when Tom gets mad during a game. Not only was he a player but he's a fan. It's fantastic.
5:42	Caller Patrick is doing fantastic after last night. He looks forward to this segment every week.
5:43	Patrick's new favorite Bear is Israel Idonije, it seems like he brings an intensity regardless of what the score is.
5:44	Israel is a huge asset for the special teams and the defense. He adds to the depth of 4 or 5 different positions.
5:45	Caller Drew has noticed that when Cedric Benson goes to the outside and gets into a one-on-one situation he goes out-of-bounds. Why doesn't he use that shoulder to get a few extra yards.
5:46	Tom thinks that when running backs coach Tim Spencer watches the game tape today he'll see that. Cedric needs to develop a better instinct and turn the situation into a challenge.
5:47	At Texas they had a big abusive offensive line so Benson probably didn't even have to go to the outside. Drew's wondering if Benson ever played with any intensity at Texas.
5:48	Drew is really down on Ced today. What's his nickname when he calls The Score?
5:49	Last night Doug Coletti gave Tom a stat comparing Thomas Jones production at this point last year to what Benson has so far and they were very similar.
5:50	Tom has been sticking up for Cedric in the last few weeks when people were down on him. He does want to see Wolfe and Peterson get more involved though.
5:51	Hester ran a few good decoy routes last night and he threw a great block as well.
5:52	Caller Scott is proud to wear his #57 jersey on Sundays but it's a Kreutz jersey. That doesn't count!
5:53	Steve saw a #57 Thayer jersey a few weeks ago. They're pretty tough to find though.
5:54	Scott didn't think Favre ran the 2-minute offense very efficiently last night at the end of the game. Favre must have thought he'd have more chances to go to the end zone.
5:55	It seemed like the Packers offensive line was a little warn out in the second half last night.
5:56	Favre never gets panicky though. He did have that play in the end zone and it wasn't a Hail Mary either. The Packers receiver had it but McGowan grabbed it out of his hand.
5:57	On the drive the Packers had right before the last one Favre made what Tom thought was a mental error. He got hit in the back and then chewed out a lineman who missed the tackle. That guy has been blocking for Favre for years though so it seemed unfair.
5:58	Steve's going to give away a Delay Play right now. Tom needs to get one for his parents so they can listen to him while watching the games.
5:59	Be the 1,059th person to text message radio to 41059 to win the Delay Play.
6:05	Steve's microphone is busted, probably from wear-and-tear. He's going to play a song while he fixes it. It seems like the thread on the bolt in the stand is stripped. Buzz might notice that Steve's stand is longer with a wider stance. Buzz's is shorter but powerful.
6:06	Song: Run, Collective Soul
6:10	Run, get it? For the marathon Buzz. Get it? Steve's still working on fixing his microphone so right now he's holding it like a Vegas entertainer. It's not really meant for that though, holding the mic makes it hard to do other stuff.
6:11	No one hear can get the nut back into the mic stand or whatever. It doesn't seem like there's anyone here to fix it either. Steve's going to take a break and try to fix this thing.
6:16	Steve got a new stand and the microphone situation has been figured out for now. Steve might keep the new stand, he likes it. It sort of has a Steadycam feel to it.
6:17	In Steve's mind there's an engineer on standby ready to fix anything that's broken. Really though it was Steve and Mary trying to fix the mic stand while Pete stood there holding the stand, bumping it into the track lighting. It had a Keystone Cops feel to it. Pete gets a little panicky, has he noticed that? He's not exactly a calming presence, he kept saying it wasn't going to work.
6:18	It would have been easier to fix the mic stand if Steve could have found a tool kit. He went into the engineering room and they didn't have any tools. That's just further proof that they don't really do anything.
6:19	News with Buzz
6:20	The Wisconsin Attorney General says 20-year old Tyler Peterson is solely responsible for the shooting that left 6 dead. One of the survivors says this sort of thing isn't supposed to happen where they live. It's not supposed to happen anywhere is it?
6:21	Marion Jones has given back all the medals she won at the 2000 Summer Games in Sydney.
6:22	Presidential candidate Fred Thompson is slipping in the polls. Why wouldn't he, no one knows who he is!
6:23	Can Steve say something else about the mic stand. Mary is fully capable of fixing the problem but she has to fend off Pete who's bumping into everything and Steve who just wants to throw the mic stand.
6:24	Last week he threw his headphones and they did a Napoleon Dynamite/tetherball thing and swung back around, hitting him in the head. That's when the door slamming starts.
6:25	Buzz was down in his office last week when the door slamming started up. He sort of enjoys it because he doesn't get to do it that often.
6:26	All of that started because Steve brought up the Cavemen show even though he hadn't seen it yet. Then he and Pete couldn't talk on the air because the studio was set up for Terry Armour being in Arizona, which is completely unnecessary. Terry also sounded terrible even though it was on an ISDN line.
6:27	Steve feels that he handled the whole thing very maturely with Pete. Instead of going into Pete's studio to strangle him they had a nice talk about everything. It's safe to say we'll never be hearing drops from Cavemen again.
6:28	Steve also told Pete to get more involved when there are problems which he did today. He came in to hold the mic stand and bump it into the lights and he also brought Steve a can of WD-40. Steve's not even sure why he asked for WD-40 but Pete brought in a giant can. That's enough WD-40 for an orgy.
6:29	Steve likes the new mic stand, he's going to keep it. The gold springs really sets it apart from the other mic stands. Pete's wondering if it's a new one because he unwrapped it from it's packaging in the engineering room.
6:30	That's also part of Steve's dream, to have new equipment on standby just in case. He can't believe there's not an engineer here though.
6:31	Pete noticed that the engineer from WBBM, Bill, was working in the studio last night for the Bears game. Maybe he took today off since it's Columbus Day.
6:32	That's really a stupid holiday, no wonder there are budget problems in the city and state.
6:33	Steve just wanted to bring that so he could mention the tetherballing of his headphones. If he was teaching a class at Columbia he'd put that in the curriculum, don't throw something that's attached with a spring cord.
6:34	An autopsy revealed that the man who died during yesterday's Chicago Marathon had a faulty heart valve. However an investigation has been launched into the lack of water during the event.
6:35	An employee at Atlanta's airport had an iPod Nano in his pocket when it started a fire, burning a whole in his pocket.
6:36	It appears that a U.S. Attorney in Florida who allegedly flew to Detroit to have sex with a 5-year old has killed himself while in custody.
6:37	A Holocaust survivor has donated a hollow tree trunk to a museum in Israel. The man hid in the tree trunk for 9 hours.
6:38	Britney Spears has applied for the job as a bartender in a Santa Monica hotel. Now that Kevin has the kid she's free to bartend.
6:39	Britney's mansion was robbed over the weekend and it's believe that the culprits stole sex tapes that could depict her with another woman. That might get her out of bartending and back into showbiz.
6:40	In Lake Bluff a sailor at the Great Lakes Naval Station is recovering after a Metra train severed his arm. Now he's going to be in the Arm-y.
6:41	Live read: Balance for Life
6:42	Live read: Townstone Financial
6:43	Steve has some sports but there was a Lovie Smith cut that Buzz had for the news. Does he want to play it now?
6:44	Buzz was watching the post-game press conference and he feels that Lovie might be a linguistic pioneer.
6:45	Lovie said "on the other foot" but it sounded like he meant "on the other hand". Somebody said it was a Texas thing. Steve likes it, he likes whatever Lovie does as long as they win. He could kill somebody and Steve wouldn't care. In fact he'd help him.
6:46	The Bears had the entire day off after last nights 27-20 victory at Curly Lambeau Field.
6:47	Bret Favra set the record for most interceptions by a quarterback after he was picked off by Brian Urlacher and Brendan McGowan. NBC didn't show that graphic last night.
6:48	Steve likes Bret Favre but he was tired of hearing about all his adversity last night. He had a great game after his dad died, his wife had breast cancer. They need to have those stories though.
6:49	Isn't it enough of a story that he's back and he's playing well again. His daughter is really hot and she's in college so she's legal. What better way to get back at Bret Favre. Steve can't remember where she goes though.
6:50	The Bulls open pre-season play against the Bucks tomorrow in Milwaukee. They'll be back in Chicago on Friday to take on the Mavericks.
6:51	The Cubs season is done and they will take some time off before looking forward to 2008. It's called the off-season.
6:52	Game 4 of the ALDS between the Indians and Yankees is tonight at Yankee Stadium.
6:53	Actor and sworn Bears fan Ashton Kutcher was a guest of Bret Favre at last night's game. Steve saw Justin Timberlake last night too. He shouldn't be allowed on the field after that Super Bowl thing.
6:58	John Madden called Lovie Smith Lovie Bear before the game last night. Steve's pretty sure that was an accident but maybe there's something going on in the Madden Cruise that he doesn't want to know about.
7:00	Pat Dahl was home over the weekend and Mike and Matt came out to watch the game. Matt brought his dog which Steve is very against.
7:01	Steve's not against Matt having a dog but every time he brings it to the house that means he's that much closer to leaving it there permanently, like he did with the hamster.
7:02	Matt always has some cockamamie excuse for why he brings the dog out. Then he and Janet go out into the yard and play with it for 2 hours. Steve can't even sit out in his yard because there's a stray dog out there.
7:03	It's the ugliest dog Steve has ever seen too, it looks like Santa's Little Helper on The Simpsons.
7:04	Steve didn't want Matt to bring the dog into the house because he thought it would fight with the other dogs. Steve was reassured that the dogs got along in the front yard so they'd be fine.
7:05	So Steve goes up to bed, thinking Mike and Matt had left. Then he hears the dog fight breaking out. So Steve went down there for the "I told you so" and instead Matt snapped at him like it was his fault.
7:06	It was Steve's fault because of his bad attitude. So there he is being called names and Janet's just standing there. If Matt had called Janet those names Steve would have had to throw him out of the house.
7:07	No one listens to Steve, he might as well just be in a coma in the sun room. All they care about is whether Steve's paycheck gets direct deposited.
7:08	Then Pat Dahl told him he wasn't funny. He said Steve's only joke was the "I got a weak back" joke. Steve didn't even know how they got to that. Plus all night long they were homoerotically wrestling and smelling each other.
7:09	Pat always wants to go back and watch something in the game that he thought was funny. like the really ugly female cop on the sidelines. Steve said there wasn't that much of a payoff and that's where the thing about him not being funny came from.
7:10	So then Steve had to throwdown. Pat's going to sit there watching Steve's 50" plasma TV, there on plane ticket Steve bought him and say he's not funny?
7:11	Then the whole night ends in a dog fight. Matt thought it was a mistake to stick around after Steve went upstairs but he was trying to steal one of his caramel apples.
7:12	The real mistake was Matt bringing the dog out to the house. Steve doesn't live in a world where dogs get together. Janet's always trying to get her friends to bring their dogs over.
7:13	Next time Matt will leave the dog at home but he better see Steve in the backyard. It doesn't matter if Steve is in the backyard, he can do whatever he wants.
7:14	Sometimes Steve wants to put himself in a coma just so his family will realize what they're missing. But they'll probably figure out how much money they'll make when he dies and pull the plug.
7:15	The boys might have lost Steve on a pizza mutiny. Pat Dahl wanted onions on the side. Who orders ingredients on the side on a pizza?! Then the whole time Janet, who thinks it's so wonderful to have the family together, is sitting in the other room watching Desperate Housewives. She wouldn't even come in the room to normalize things.
7:16	Then Mike Dahl had gone to Johnny's Beef so every 5 minutes it was like a sewer main had broken in the room. Matt thought it was a great day but that's because he got to do everything he wanted and capped it off with a sweet dog fight which he got to blame on Steve.
7:17	Then Steve gets hassled for coming downstairs after the dog fight in his boxers. All game long the boys are humping each other and smelling each other and pulling their pants down and Steve can't come downstairs in his boxers?!