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| 2:02
| Stan was wondering if Steve has closed down the pool for the summer. Steve's doing that tomorrow. |
| 2:03
| It's supposed to be nice this weekend but pool openings and closings are strictly scheduled. He can't keep changing them if there's a nice day. You have to bite the bullet and shut it down. Steve turned off the heater which always helps. |
| 2:04
| Speaking of pool heaters, Stan saw something about solar-powered heaters for pool so you can keep it open year-round. Steve has never thought of doing anything like that. |
| 2:05
| It seems like solar-heating your pool is too complicated. It's hard enough getting someone to fix a regular heater. |
| 2:06
| It's not just solar power for the heater, they also have it the pumps and the lights. Almost everything in Steve's backyard is squirrel-powered. The best thing about the squirrels is you can eat them when they're done working for you. |
| 2:07
| Stan's eaten squirrel before, it's very greasy. Steve can't wait to have some based on Stan's recommendation. |
| 2:08
| Stan's uncle Clark used to hunt squirrel. It's two extremes in the Lawrence family, squirrel-hunting and solar power. |
| 2:09
| Terry thought squirrel was a delicacy in the South. It's not a delicacy, it's just what people eat because they have no money. |
| 2:10
| Steve actually has had squirrel, it's like greasy chicken. The hardest part is getting past the fact that you're eating squirrel. It's like that with any wild game. |
| 2:11
| There are some people by Steve who have solar panels on their house. They look ugly and they probably don't work. Plus it makes you look like a cheapskate, trying to get free electricity from the sun. |
| 2:16
| That's a drop from My Name is Earl. Steve doesn't watch that show as much as he used to. He doesn't mind ongoing bits but Earl had too many ongoing bits. |
| 2:17
| The Office has ongoing bits but each episode can pretty much stand on it's own. Buzz finally watched 30 Rock after taping the entire season last year and not watching it. It's a great show. |
| 2:18
| Is he talking about 30 Rock, the show that won the Emmy? It's a really good show. Alec Baldwin has completely let himself go for that show and it's great. |
| 2:19
| 30 Rock is on before The Office or after? Steve could probably call our TV expert Jim. He could bring Pete on in this as well. |
| 2:20
| 30 Rock is a single-camera sitcom, like The Office. Was Scrubs the first single-camera sitcom? Pete's pretty sure it is. |
| 2:21
| Steve thought he had Jim on the line but he's not there. Didn't he answer the phone? Jim is back on the line. 30 Rock is on at 7:30 before The Office. He's pretty sure Scrubs was the first single-camera sitcom. It's a groundbreaking show which is why Pete uses drops from it all the time. |
| 2:22
| Steve is also all caught up on Heroes and he has to say this season is kind of boring. He's sick of Hiro in Japan, he's sick of The Petrelli's and Mohinder and Parkman living in that apartment is creepy. |
| 2:23
| Jim likes the stuff in Ireland with Peter using all his powers. That's OK with Steve but they should have gotten a hotter Irish chick, she's already gone Potato. The guy playing her brother is hotter. |
| 2:24
| Steve does still like the cheerleader story with her dad working at a copy store, hassling his manager. He also liked the part where Sylar killed the girl who can change shapes and she turned out to just be some fat chick in sweat pants. |
| 2:25
| There's no urgency or impending disaster for this season. The boogeyman storyline is the same as the Sylar storyline from last year. This week the little girl said the boogeyman is Parkman's dad. Maybe Steve hasn't seen the episode yet. |
| 2:26
| Steve can't watch any more of Hiro in Japan, he doesn't want to read his TV shows. Jim read that Hiro was in Japan for 8 episodes so they still have 4 more of him in feudal Japan. Or futile Japan. |
| 2:27
| Jim is all over Heroes but it's not getting things done for Steve. He prefers something like Journeyman that's a little more self-contained. |
| 2:34
| That Adrian Pasdar guy from Heroes is married to Natalie from The Dixie Chicks. Steve only knows Adrian Pasdar from Top Gun. Buzz remembers him from a short-lived show where he played a TV exec. |
| 2:35
| Song: Not Ready to Make Nice, Dixie Chicks |
| 2:39
| The Dixie Chicks won a lot of awards for that song. They do that in Hollywood if you say the President sucks or if you're gay or something. |
| 2:40
| Speaking of that, did Buzz happen to see Ellen DeGeneres breaking down about the dog? It seems like she gets a free pass because she's gay but the animal people don't care what you are, they just care about the animals. |
| 2:41
| Ellen adopted a dog from a shelter but it didn't get along with her cats so she gave it to a friend of hers. His daughter fell in love with the dog but then the shelter found out about it and took the dog away. |
| 2:42
| Ellen's breakdown looked like a SNL skit to Buzz. Even lesbians shed tears. Her wife is that hot Portia de Rossi. There's a lesbian couple Steve wouldn't mind seeing in action. |
| 2:43
| The animal people are just nuts. When Chamois was a little older she ran away and the police too her to a shelter. They wouldn't release the dog until Steve paid $300 to have a chip implanted in her. |
| 2:44
| Buzz is a proponent of planting microchips in children. They do have the technology. |
| 2:45
| It couldn't have been more obvious that the dog was Steve's but they still wouldn't give her back. Then Steve got a lecture from the woman at the shelter because some listeners had called with threats. |
| 2:46
| 6 months later the dog had to be put down because it was sick. Steve wanted to take the microchip out and put it in their new dog but apparently they don't do that. |
| 2:47
| The chip must be a big money maker for the shelters. They should just say that though. |
| 2:48
| The dog Ellen adopted was removed from the home of her hairstylist on Sunday. Isn't the whole point of these shelters to place dogs in homes so they aren't euthanized? |
| 2:49
| The owners of the Paws Boutique in Pasadena where they handle the animal rescue agency were besieged with email and telephone threats to give the dog back. |
| 2:50
| The Moms and Mutts adoption agency has a rule that prohibits people with children under the age of from adopting small dogs. |
| 2:51
| How small is a Brussels Griffon terrier? Who cares if it is anyway? What are the kids going to do, eat the dog? |
| 2:52
| Has this episode of Ellen with her crying aired yet? Because Steve saw a clip of it on NBC last night. |
| 2:53
| The crying episode aired yesterday morning. Did she dance after the crying to cheer her up? Or did they play the Earth, Wind & Fire song and she just sat there? |
| 2:59
| It doesn't sound like Ellen DeGeneres is trying to pull a power trip on the adoption agency people. When you're on TV though it's a power trip. |
| 3:00
| Those animal people need to lighten up though. Although this is why they deal with animals, because they don't know how to deal with people. |
| 3:01
| Animals aren't deep thinkers like most people. You give them food and they like you. That's how Steve is too though. |
| 3:02
| What are all these calls on hold? Because Steve doesn't want to get involved in some crazy dog thing. |
| 3:03
| Does Steve really want to talk to, Kraig, who's on the side of the rescue agency? Who spells Craig with a K anyway? Brendan says he's not really on the side of the agency. |
| 3:04
| Caller Kraig's mother spelled his name that way. Kraig didn't hear the part about Ellen signing a contract with the adoption agency. He does think that you could get a new dog for the kids and they'd be fine. |
| 3:05
| Steve thinks girls hold on to things longer than boys do. Boys would probably just say the new dog was better than the old one. |
| 3:06
| Should Steve give a spin for this call? Brendan screened it so Steve's inclined to give him a spin. Maybe he'll give him a spin and then take the gift certificate away from him. Then Kraig will go on his local public access station and cry about it. |
| 3:07
| Steve really doesn't want to get into all this though. It seems like if you're trying to put dogs into loving homes and a dog is in a loving home then your job is done. |
| 3:08
| Steve was talking about potato chips yesterday and a listener sent someone in. Mary wants Steve to approach this bit in a different way. The chips were sent out based on a Thought for the Day from October 1st. |
| 3:09
| On that day Steve's Thought for the Day was "I was so upset by what was taking place during the Bears game yesterday, that I ate my weight in tortilla chips and salsa." |
| 3:10
| A lot of people feel inclined to respond Steve's Thought for the Day by adding on to it or rephrasing it their own way. It's the same people everyday. Steve is looking at his email for the first time since he sent out today's Thought for the Day and Bob Remington has already checked in. He responded every single day. |
| 3:11
| Steve used to write back to every person who responded to the Thought for the Day but he stopped doing it. However that didn't stop the regulars from responding every single day. |
| 3:12
| So this woman sent Steve a response to the Thought for the Day from October 1st, this didn't come from yesterday's conversation. Is Mary good with that? She was having a drawn out conversation with Steve in his headphones about it. |
| 3:13
| Caller Kelly Googled "Bob Remington", turns out he's a local musician in the Lake Bluff area. He's actually invited Steve to his gigs. Steve doesn't even want to go to his own gigs, why would he go to someone else's? |
| 3:14
| Kelly sounds like he has his own thing against Bob Remington. Steve doesn't know enough to make fun of him though. Is Kelly a failed musician or something? |
| 3:15
| Kelly can't help but rip on Bob here, he's talking himself out of a gift certificate. What does Kelly do that he's so bitter? |
| 3:16
| Kelly works for a hotel sales company. Does he work for that American Hotel Supply company? Kelly's very cynical, his co-workers must hate him. |
| 3:17
| Kelly really had a bone to pick with Bob Remington. Bob is the vocalist and guitar player for the band Zipperhead. He's getting way more pub than Steve ever wanted to give him. |
| 3:18
| OK so back to the snacks. After that Thought for the Day listener Lisa sent Steve a reply that she couldn't agree more. |
| 3:19
| She also added that her food company makes tortilla chips, kettle chips, salsa and hummus. |
| 3:20
| Then Steve got a box of chips from her today with a note attached in the nice girl handwriting. |
| 3:21
| There are a lot of weird flavors to these chips so Steve doesn't know where to begin. Should he start with the steak sauce potato chips? Steve likes steak sauce on potatoes so those should be good. |
| 3:22
| The chips smell like steak sauce but they have more of a BBQ flavor. Steve likes them but Buzz doesn't think they're for him. Maybe we should conduct the rest of this taste test off the air and not break this woman's heart. |
| 3:28
| This whole Larry Craig thing is ridiculous. Buzz thinks the arrest was ridiculous as well though. He always comes down on the side of the perverts. Buzz just thinks the police made up these arbitrary signals like foot tapping and then arrested him. |
| 3:29
| Steve's not prepared to argue the righteousness of the bust but all the comedy is based on Larry Craig in a bathroom looking for sex. |
| 3:30
| Buzz just thinks that you should be able to whatever as long as you're nothing bothering anyone else. |
| 3:31
| Buzz wants some hard evidence about what these signals are. That's a really unfair set-up that Buzz just gave Steve. |
| 3:32
| It just seems like you're not supposed to have sex in public washrooms, that's what Steve thinks. |
| 3:33
| As a teenager Buzz was seriously solicited in a public washroom. It involved a lot more than just foot tapping. It was all presentation actually. |
| 3:34
| Steve gets what Buzz is saying, someone needs to whip something out to get arrested. Quite frankly Steve doesn't care if guys have sex in the bathroom as long as they don't involve him. |
| 3:35
| By the way these three grain tortilla chips Steve is eating are good. The woman's company is Plocky's. The steak sauce chips weren't for them but a lot of these flavors seem like something that would suck in other women. |
| 3:36
| Steve could see Janet coming home with steak sauce potato chips or sun-dried tomato or pesto. They have pesto toothpaste at home. |
| 3:37
| Live read: Broadway in Chicago |
| 3:42
| If Steve's gay he doesn't like being associated with dudes getting it on in bathrooms. It's not gay it's perverted. |
| 3:43
| Steve doesn't know if Larry Craig is gay or not but it seems like dudes who get it on in a bathroom are doing that because it's easier. You can't go into a bathroom or hang out and a forest preserve and have sex with women. |
| 3:44
| Steve just thinks there are a lot of guys who are losers and can't get chicks so it's catch as catch can. Maybe Buzz can't identify that becuase he doesn't have to deal with it. |
| 3:45
| Imagine if you're some loser insurance salesmen, living in the suburbs, can't get women, can't afford a hooker, wouldn't even know where to find one, been divorced for 12 years. So you go to the forest preserve. |
| 3:46
| How about you're reluctantly gay then? Steve thinks that some dudes just have urges. There are dudes that have sex with animals! |
| 3:47
| Steve's just saying if he were gay he would be offended by all of this. It seems like having sex in a men's room is meeting some very base need that goes beyond your sexuality. |
| 3:48
| Buzz wishes he could remember the name of a movie he saw, it's Italian. Some guy hires a house boy and he likes him but it turns out the house boy is nailing everything in sight. Terrence Stamp played the house boy. It sounds like a Disney movie. |
| 3:49
| Steve can only imagine what Chuck Garfein is thinking as he's waiting on hold. Let's find out. |
| 3:50
| On the phone is Chuck "Wonder Years" Garfein from Comcast Sportsnet. Steve also has With a Little Help From My Friends by Joe Cocker for the segment. Whenever we chat with Chuck he likes to relive moments from his youth at Homewood-Flossmoor high school. |
| 3:51
| Chuck did want to ask a quick question about the Senator Craig stuff. What was Larry Craig going to say to the people for Idaho? |
| 3:52
| It seems like the forest preserve is the safer place to go after the Larry Craig arrest. |
| 3:53
| Chuck wonders if they take all that into consideration when they're building a forest preserve. You need a lot of bushes and areas with bad lighting. These people are taxpayers too. |
| 3:54
| Steve needs to take a break before he continues talking to Chuck. |
| 4:01
| Chuck thought Wonder Years got way too overdramatic with the narration. He's breaking bad on his own show? |
| 4:02
| Chuck liked the show but he lived his own wonder years, as we all know by now. |
| 4:03
| Live read: Broadway in Chicago |
| 4:04
| Steve's thinking of trying out for Jersey Boys as Frankie Valli. This is like being there for Buzz. Steve could pretty much do a one-man Jersey Boys. |
| 4:05
| Chuck has heard Ed Farmer talking about Jersey Boys, he's a big fan of it. Ed will talk about anything though. Steve's just hoping he doesn't call in today. He's at home with nothing to do, imagine what he'll want to talk about. |
| 4:06
| OK so back to Chuck and the sports. According to the Tribune the Bears were dangling Rex Grossman as trade bait for a second round pick. |
| 4:07
| Obviously Rex is still on the team so no one wanted him for a second round pick. He's going to end up working at Home Depot next year. |
| 4:08
| Anything going on at Halas Hall this week? Any big plans to improve things other than "stay in your gaps"? |
| 4:09
| Why do players needed to be reminded of that every other week? Steve knows that and he's not even a football player. |
| 4:10
| Last week they said that was the problem after the Green Bay game and then they forgot about it against the Vikings. |
| 4:11
| Chuck doesn't know what to expect on Sunday but once again, just like before the Green Bay game, everyone is saying the season is on the brink. |
| 4:12
| Martin Havlat, the Blackhawks best player, will not have shoulder surgery so he should be back in a month. |
| 4:13
| This is about the best Chuck has felt about the Hawks in a while. They're off to a 3-2 start and they've got two great rookies who were both born in 1988. |
| 4:14
| Chuck has not been watching the ALCS, for some reason it's not doing anything for him. Steve thinks that part of it is that the Indians are in the White Sox division so it's kind of irritating. |
| 4:15
| Chuck was told by someone from the Indians organization that he didn't think the team had much this year. If you look at their line-up and the pitching you sort of wonder. |
| 4:16
| Last season Fausto Carmona was 1-10 and this year he won 18 games. It sounds like Chuck is overcompensating after he said he wasn't watching the ALCS. |
| 4:17
| Now Chuck doesn't want the Sox to go anywhere near Carmona. Lucky for them they're nowhere near him. They're all in Arizona playing golf. |
| 4:18
| Chuck's wondering if Steve watches college football on the weekends. Steve feels like he's on a long bus ride with Chuck making small talk. |
| 4:19
| Steve watches college football sometimes. He tried to get into U of I but the whole thing with 2 quarterbacks is hard to follow. Steve needs a little more stability in his teams. |
| 4:20
| Kobe Bryant has now come out and said he wants to play for the Bulls. Steve doesn't want him, he doesn't like his attitude. He doesn't seem like a team player. |
| 4:21
| Steve just doesn't like him and not just because they were staying at the same Colorado hotel and Kobe really held up his room service. It was an hour late and the cops delivered it. |
| 4:28
| Live read: Bob Rohrman |
| 4:29
| Steve heard Garry referring to this live read as a performance piece when he read it. |
| 4:30
| Headlines with Buzz |
| 4:31
| President Bush is warning world leaders that they must prevent Iran from getting nuclear weapons if they want to "avoid World War III" |
| 4:32
| Bush also presented the Dalai Lama with the Congressional Gold Medal, he is the first sitting President to meet with the Lama. The Chinese are hopping mad about it. Hop-sing mad about it! |
| 4:33
| Turns out Dick Cheney and Barack Obama are distant cousins. That revelation courtesy of Cheney's daughter who's doing research on relatives. HOW 'BOUT THAT?! |
| 4:34
| 21 schools in Virginia are closed after an outbreak of a superbug strain of staph infection. Experts believe the bug could kill more people than AIDS by the end of the year. Sounds great! |
| 4:35
| How do you know if you have a staph infection? How do you prevent it? Can you wear condoms on your hands? |
| 4:36
| Steve actually has some ways to prevent staph infection. Keep your hands clean by washing them thoroughly with soap and water or an alcohol--based hand cleaner. Also keep all cuts and scrapes clean and covered with bandages. |
| 4:42
| Live read: Admiral Theater |
| 4:43
| Steve went up to The Admiral for a Monday Night Football party and he thought he was supposed to be nude as well. It was really awkward. |
| 4:44
| It's all nude so Steve took his clothes off and they were like "what are you doing dude?!" |
| 4:45
| It's time for the Five O'Clock Taco Bell at 4:45. Steve's doing it a little early because Steve Dolinsky is coming in at 5:00. |
| 4:46
| Today's Steve's going with the Burrito Supreme, extra beef, no beans, no sour cream. |
| 4:47
| Steve wouldn't mind hearing the entire Joe Cocker song while he finishes his Burrito Supreme. |
| 4:48
| Song: With a Little Help from My Friends, Joe Cocker |
| 4:53
| Ze madmen, ze Englishmen, ze Joe Cocker. Steve's pretty sure that's how Joe Cocker was introduced on that live album. |
| 4:54
| Bob and Ron will be on later and he's pretty sure they're here right now. Buzz saw them in the kitchen preparing for their segment. What's the number down there? Steve will just call Jim kid. |
| 4:55
| Jim's going to put Ron on the phone he looks less high. Bob is the bigger Black Creek fan though so maybe Steve should talk to him. |
| 4:56
| Steve just wanted Bob to know that With a Little Help from My Friends was part of the Black Creek setlist. It sounds like every one of their songs was a showstopper. |
| 4:57
| Black Creek jammed that song out, as they did with all their songs. You had to when you were playing a 3 hour school dance. |
| 5:02
| Steve Dolinsky is here. Last Friday during the segment about Polish food Alan Krashesky was the anchor. You have to go with Krashesky if you want the good Polish pronunciations. |
| 5:03
| That Polish food looked great last week, especially the bacon on the pierogis. Steve Dolinsky has learned that bacon and sour cream were both options for pierogis. |
| 5:04
| Steve Dolinsky was amazed, going to al these Polish restaurants, that the waitresses were all thin as a rail. They're hot too. Where are all these hot Polish women coming from? |
| 5:05
| Steve Dolinsky was trying to find Polish restaurants that weren't buffets. Steve used to go out to the Old Warsaw, somewhere in the Western Suburbs, it was $5 for all-you-can-eat. |
| 5:06
| The Old Warsaw is in Broadview. There also used to be a Bobak's by Steve but apparently there was a feud between brothers and now it's something else. |
| 5:07
| It still probably has the same products and the store and restaurant. Plus it's a great place to meet hot Polish chicks. |
| 5:08
| Bobak's has quite a sausage empire because they supply sausages to all the Maxwell Street food stands. |
| 5:09
| Steve Dolinsky brought in some fish tacos from Bon Bon. Buzz was going to town on it. |
| 5:10
| Steve Dolinsky also brought in some tres leches cakes. They come in individual sizes which is much better for him. |
| 5:11
| Steve Dolinsky is going up to Highland Park for a segment shoot. He can't really say where he's going though. |
| 5:12
| They make one tres leche cake with Rompopè which is a Mexican liqueur. That's not the one Steve got is it? |
| 5:13
| Steve got an email from a disgruntled listener who was objecting to something said last week about chocolate. |
| 5:14
| Who takes objection to stuff like this and then writes an email about it? Steve Dolinsky usually just throws these things out. |
| 5:15
| Last week Steve Dolinsky said something about the larger candy companies watering down their chocolate a bit. |
| 5:16
| The emailer says that many companies water their chocolate down or use lower quality fats. Isn't that what we said last week? |
| 5:23
| Steve's not sure what happened but the commercial computer stopped. It looks like Pete is horsing around with it in the other room. |
| 5:24
| Pete hit the wrong button but it should start up at any moment. No problem, we're here 'til 7:00. |
| 5:25
| The commercials started up again but Pete, in his infinite wisdom deleted the rest of the spots from the commercial break. |
| 5:26
| Pete didn't delete anything, he has no idea why it just stopped. Someone needs to go in there and hit Pete with a bat because Steve can't deal with this. |
| 5:27
| Steve is officially putting Steve Dolinsky in charge of his own microphone. Buzz might have to show him how to do it though. |
| 5:28
| Steve went to hit his cough button but accidentally hit the dump button. He has no cough button! |
| 5:29
| Caller Steve has some info about the Bobak situation, it's a feud between two brothers. When one brother took over the retail end of the company he refused to buy sausage from the sausage-maker brother. |
| 5:30
| The sausage-maker brother filed an injunction against his other brother and won so they had to take down all the Bobak's signs at the store. |
| 5:31
| Hopefully the store about by Steve still has hot Polish chicks shopping there. It doesn't have a Polish name, it's something like Fresh Country Market. That's so generic. |
| 5:32
| There's one of their stores that Steve passes on the way home from Sox games, if he's taking side streets. He's always mad that he ate at the game because first it's the great Mexican places and then it's the Polish places. |
| 5:33
| Steve would like to do some sort of Taco Tour. They'd only be able to eat one taco per place though. They had that whole section in the Tribune about it and the best place was down near The Cell |
| 5:34
| Steve has a crack staff of people who can organize this whole thing. "What's in it for Steve" will come up on their computer screens in Biblical lettering. Once they figure that out they'll get right on it. |
| 5:35
| Caller Adrian (YO!) wanted to let Steve know that Tio Luis was the taco place mentioned in the Tribune. That's at Archer and Western. It's just OK though. |
| 5:36
| If Adrian is going for tacos he hits Cinco Hermanos in Berwyn. It's right near Freddy's Pizza, which invited Steve to come out for a meatball sandwich. |
| 5:37
| Maybe they could hit that area as part of the Taco Tour. They could lay down a good base of tacos and meatball sandwiches. |
| 5:38
| Caller Rick is looking for good steak place in the Lemont area. It seems like every caller has been from Lemont today. |
| 5:39
| Steve Dolinsky doesn't really know steak places in the Southwest suburbs. Would he be willing to come into the city? Last week he mentioned The Custom House on Printer's Row. |
| 5:40
| Steve Dolinsky could take one more call. Steve likes to do things in threes though, does he have time for 6 more calls? |
| 5:41
| We'll need to take a break but Steve can have him out of here by 6:00 so we can take the rest of the calls. |
| 5:48
| Steve had 3 calls ready to go but someone hung up who wanted to ask about chili. He wanted to take that call. |
| 5:49
| Steve Dolinsky would have recommended Lindy's for chili. That's Steve and Buzz's favorite place too so end of discussion. |
| 5:50
| Caller Craig saw The Hungry Hound segment about west side barbecue places and he wanted to know where some of them were. There was a place called Honey 1 on the west side but now it's on Western Avenue up north. |
| 5:51
| That's not gritty enough for Craig. There's another place on the south side but Craig lives west. |
| 5:52
| Craig heard The Hungry Hound on NPR about a year ago. Why doesn't he go to the website then?! |
| 5:53
| Honey 1 is probably one of the places since it used to be at 5200 W. Division. What kind of conversation are we having with this caller? Steve doesn't care what his route to work is. |
| 5:59
| Ben Gay and he's fantastic. A dear, dear friend of his is in town performing in Jersey Boys. |
| 6:00
| Ben already saw the production on Broadway. He thinks Buzz would like it, he's from the do-wop era. |
| 6:01
| You'd think that the people in Jersey Boys would stay at the Four Seasons but they don't. |
| 6:02
| Ben's friend was in Forever in Plaid in Chicago for quite some time. Buzz thought that was something about lesbians but it's actually about 50's all-male singing groups. |
| 6:03
| How about some sports? Bears superstar Devin Hester was named special teams player of the week this week. It's the second time he's won the award this year and the fifth time for his career. |
| 6:04
| The Bears take a 2-4 record into their game against Philly this Sunday. The Eagles are 2-3 and are having a similar season to the Bears. Ben's still picking the Eagles though. |
| 6:05
| Yesterday brought reports that Kobe Bryant had cleaned out his locker at the Lakers training facility. |
| 6:06
| Today team officials corrected that report saying Kobe had cleaned his locker. Doesn't he have people for that? |
| 6:07
| The Lakers are also denying reports that Kobe is upset with the team and wants to be traded. |
| 6:08
| Steve said he didn't want Kobe here. Ben heard Steve had a run-in with Kobe on that infamous night in Colorado. |
| 6:09
| Steve was waiting for over an hour for his room service. Turns out the girl was held up in Kobe's room. Steve actually went to his room and stole Kobe's cheeseburger. |
| 6:10
| Pitt head coach Dave Wannstedt has a torn Achilles tendon and will have to coach this Saturday's game from the press box. Ben's pretty sure his team actually strung him up and cut his Achilles tendon to get him off the field. |
| 6:11
| A woman has accused New Jersey Nets star Jason Kidd of groping her at a trendy New York night club. Isn't that what they do in those places? That's just dancing. |
| 6:12
| The woman alleges that Kidd walked up to her and grabbed her privates, and that's not referring to someone she was with who's in the military. What are "privates" on a woman anyway? That doesn't really sound like a news term. |
| 6:13
| 21st Street in Denver will temporarily be renamed Rockies Road for the World Series. Why not just keep it Rockies Road? |
| 6:14
| Pete Rose has vowed to give anyone who catches him gambling $100. So basically he's bet anyone out there $100 that he won't gamble? |
| 6:20
| Live read: Townstone Financial |
| 6:22
| News with Buzz |
| 6:23
| President Bush has warned world leaders that they have to prevent Iran from getting nuclear weapons if they want to avoid World War III. |
| 6:24
| Turkey's parliament has approved a measure to send it's troops into Northern Iraq. Can we just take a moment to appreciate Saddam Hussein's genius at keeping a lid on that whole area. |
| 6:25
| One guy and a couple of crazy henchmen kept the lid on the whole place and we've spend billions of dollars trying to do it. Plus he was from the minority religion! He even made us think he had nuclear weapons when he didn't! He just had a shotgun and a ball of string. |
| 6:26
| The Dalai Lama was in Washington DC today and Buzz has some music from his appearance. It makes Steve hungry for Chinese food. |
| 6:27
| Dick Cheney and Barack Obama are 8th cousins. Lynne Cheney uncovered that information as she was researching her memoirs. Who cares about her memoirs? |
| 6:28
| Buzz would have loved being there when Lynne told her husband that though. |
| 6:29
| A drug-resistant illness from staph infections has sounded a national alarm. Experts believe it could kill 19,000 by the end of the year. |
| 6:30
| Best Buy will pull all analog TVs off store shelves. Beginning in 2009 broadcasters will only transmit in HD. |
| 6:31
| Ellen DeGeneres' representative is being accused of leaving threatening voice messages with a pet adoption agency. |
| 6:32
| Two people have been arrested in the hit and run death of a Matteson man. Last week his severed legs were found on the side of the road. His body was later discovered nearby. |
| 6:33
| At first it was just the feet but then as time went on it was |
| 6:34
| The Fantastic Four better move over because there are some new superheroes in town. Did Buzz write that lead-in himself? |
| 6:35
| The 99 is a new comic book making it's debut in select cities including Chicago. Each superhero in the comic book possesses one of the 99 attributes of Allah. |
| 6:36
| So there are 99 different superheroes? That's too many to keep track of. How many does the Justice League have? |
| 6:42
| Alright Bob and Ron are here. Steve has switched to track 8 for today so they should plan accordingly. |
| 6:43
| First of all, happy Rocktober to everyone. Bob can't believe it's almost half over. |
| 6:44
| This week we celebrate the birthday of Don Stevenson, of the Stevenson Expressway. He was also the drummer for Moby Grape. Is Ron alright? |
| 6:45
| Ron has a lot of stuff going on this week. Don't we all. He was actually just thinking of all the great Moby Grape songs. Is he mad that Steve changed it? Because the only Moby Grape song he knows is Omaha. |
| 6:46
| On this date in 1990 for the first time ever the #1 album was only available on CD and cassette, not vinyl. The good news is that it was Vanilla Ice. |
| 6:47
| Also this week we celebrate the release of Fleetwood Mac's Tusk. It was a highly anticipated album that totally flopped. |
| 6:48
| Song: Tusk, Fleetwood Mac |
| 6:51
| Turns out that's a pretty cool songs. The drums are a little hot but that's what you expect. Steve might have made fun of it when it came out and then was yelled at by someone from Warner Bros. |
| 6:52
| They couldn't believe that he dared to make fun of Tusk. Steve can say whatever he wants and he doesn't care if they don't send him products. He can go to a record store if he wants something. |
| 6:53
| Ron's album comes out this Saturday and he's having a record release party at the Hideout. |
| 6:57
| The Matt Dahl Show is coming up. Brendan always says hello like he hasn't seen Steve all day. |
| 6:58
| Matt just watched a Lindsay Buckingham concert on pay-per-view. It's in HD with the surround sound. Buzz just got surround sound and Matt has it right out of college. |
| 6:59
| Matt always feels bad turning it on because he's in a high-rise. He shouldn't though, there's going to be thumping up there anyway, the neighbors might as well get used to it. It's Matt's thump palace. |
