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| 1:59
| How long have we been off the air? Things are really falling apart around here. Pete was panicking as you can imagine. |
| 2:00
| Steve was down in the Green Room reading the Tribune on his iPhone. He's Mr. Technology, that's what the kids call him. |
| 2:01
| He was reading an article about the River East movie theater being robbed by gunmen. |
| 2:02
| Everything on the computer that runs the commercials is red which also caused Pete to panic. Red usually isn't a good thing. In the morning when Pete does the commercial log there are red lines for the live reads and he takes those out because he doesn't like the look of it. |
| 2:03
| Steve has no idea what Pete is talking about but he doesn't need to know. That's why he has Pete and Mary and everyone else. Someone knocked on the Green Room door, Steve opened it and no one was there. Then he looked down the hall and Mary told him he might want to get on the air. |
| 2:04
| Buzz didn't know his movie theater had been robbed. Did anyone find his wallet? |
| 2:05
| Could anything else go wrong around here? Isn't Drew still in charge? Shouldn't he be out in the hall figuring this out. |
| 2:06
| Drew's here but he's like a first responder at a fire. He does nothing to prevent it. He was probably in his office making phone calls, trying to get out of this market. |
| 2:07
| Steve feels bad for Drew but he still has a job at WBBM. And he's still in charge until the end of the week. Although yesterday when Steve freaked out because all of the commercials were a minute long someone should have come down to emiliarate that. Instead Drew sat in his office laughing. |
| 2:08
| Buzz has never heard Steve doing the Drew impersonation while laughing. Steve would like to continue on with the Drew impersonation at Jack. Todd Cavanah doesn't seem to have a distinct enough voice for an impersonation but he claims Eddie & Jobo do one. If they can do one then it must not be that distinct. |
| 2:09
| Two gunmen robbed the AMC River East theater at 9:40 AM this morning. Steve's going to say it's an inside job. Someone probably knew when they make the money drop and it's probably Thursday. That's money left over from the weekend too. How does this detract from the weekend box office? |
| 2:10
| The men forced one of the four employees to open a vault and then tied the 4 employees up. You would think they would tie everyone up before they went for the vault. |
| 2:11
| Buzz would have never thought that the movie theater would get robbed. That's probably why he didn't become a robber's apprentice down in Miami. |
| 2:12
| The movie schedule for this afternoon was canceled and management is still trying to decide about tonight. They're not going to get the money back keeping the theater closed are they? |
| 2:13
| Beatrice Glover, age 70, came from the Southside to shop and catch an early showing of Rendition. What movie is that? |
| 2:14
| 20 minutes before the movie started the theater hadn't opened yet so she left. She could have come here or something. |
| 2:15
| Steve's not a police officer but he's guessing it's an inside job. That's probably why it's still shut down, they're collecting evidence. Maybe they'll find Buzz's wallet. |
| 2:16
| Buzz has replaced everything in his wallet and he's working on getting the license. Is Jesse White helping him out with that? Buzz was a former Tumbler so he has a certain entrèe with him. The wait is down to 6 minutes but he can go up to Jesse's office and tumble for him |
| 2:20
| Good news Buzz, the breaks are long today. We've added some of our own content to Dahl.com. |
| 2:21
| Can Steve make a suggestion to Buzz? He should leave his headphones on and just walk around with them like Larry Lujack. They seem like a hassle to put them on. |
| 2:22
| Either that or Buzz should factor in some time to put the headphones on. He works on a hairpin margin but he still thinks he has the old headphones. Watching Buzz put these new ones on is like watching a kid get ready for the prom. |
| 2:23
| Every night at Dahl.com we post a short clip, or teaser, from the show. So we've included those today. The last one was when we talked to Chef Hans about suggestions for a Kentucky Derby party. Steve suggested horse burgers. |
| 2:24
| Coming up next is a clip from 5/11/07, Steve's talking about fireworks and fireworks safety. This might have been around the time that that kid blew off his head at a bachelor party. |
| 2:25
| Live read: WCIU |
| 2:26
| Steve was trying to make a call but he dialed the wrong number. It's Jim in the newsroom. Then he did it again! Steve almost did it for a third time but for comedic purposes. |
| 2:27
| Steve was trying to call Drew but he's not answer. Someone told Steve Drew's feelings were hurt. Why now? The commercial computer broke right before 2:00 so Steve had to run in and talk. |
| 2:28
| Then the engineers had to take him back to his office, lay him down and put a wet cloth on his face. Drew's a little down because of what's happening at the station. He had high hopes. |
| 2:29
| As a survivor, Steve can't really focus on that. He feels bad but he can't take it home with him, he's like a cop. |
| 2:30
| Last night at the team dinner Steve blamed Tina for not telling him or Mary about the one minute breaks. But she told Pete when she found out and he didn't tell anyone. So maybe it's his fault. |
| 2:31
| Pete didn't want to start the show off negatively. But if he'd told someone we could have figured out a way to lengthen the breaks. |
| 2:32
| What did Pete think was going to happen if he told someone? In the future that warning should be given unless Steve is on news radio. |
| 2:33
| Certainly listeners are getting their fill this week but it's hard to talk for almost an hour straight. Steve's not advocating that they have so many commercials that it wrecks a show but 1 minute breaks aren't long enough. |
| 2:34
| For some reason there's a big different between a 3 minute break and a 1 1/2 minute break. Well obviously it's twice as long but it feels like those dreams you have when you can't get anywhere. |
| 2:35
| Steve couldn't believe that Tina said that and then Pete pretended like he didn't hear it while drinking his Dirty Tire beer or whatever it's called. |
| 2:36
| The Tavern at the Park has good food but at night you can't get into this building from any entrance except the one in the back. And there's not even a guard back there to see who comes in. |
| 2:37
| It's just as stupid as having to swipe your key card to come in everyday while guests can do whatever they want. |
| 2:38
| In order to get to the restaurant Steve had to go out the side entrance of the building on Randolph. But later at night that entrance is closed. There's also a way to get into the restaurant without leaving the building but that's closed off at 7:30. |
| 2:39
| That area is also how you get to the Illinois Central. Does no one take that after 7:30? |
| 2:40
| Steve's a little disappointed that Jim DeCastro didn't negotiate a better deal where all those closings weren't going on. |
| 2:41
| So we had the dinner and there were about 10 people. It was in private room but there were windows with blinds on them. Steve likes to strip for the staff at some point with some rocking hip-hop. |
| 2:42
| It starts off with Pete ordering a Coke. All they have is Pepsi so he says that's not OK. Everyone thinks he's kidding but he's not. Even Brendan said there's no difference. The waitress never recovered from this exchange though. |
| 2:43
| Then Pete asked if they had Dr. Pepper which they didn't. That's how we knew Pete was kidding. No wonder Pete is alone, seriously. Steve likes Coke better than Pepsi but who cares? |
| 2:44
| The only person who was drinking was Ed Silha so the whole meeting was basically him and Steve. Ed responded to everything Steve said, even if it had nothing to do with him. |
| 2:45
| At one point the waitress had to figure out who was the big man at the table. She might have thought it was Ed at one point. Plus him and Steve were sitting across from each other. Next time Steve's coming up with a seating chart. |
| 2:46
| Ed is on the phone, do we have to go through all of this? Ed was just trying to get the conversation going because no one was saying anything. That's because everyone knows not to say anything, they just let Steve talk! |
| 2:47
| Steve's not really mad, he's just here until 7:00 on a dying station. He's going to make fun of everything today. This is how he wants his Ed Silha anyway, drinking his glass of Chivas, in his sportcoat. |
| 2:48
| Steve's going to move back to making fun of Pete because he's the one who deserves it. |
| 2:51
| There are no funny tapes yet because they're still working on the computer. Steven the engineer is on the job, he's sort of like Steve's doppleganger. Steve wanted to become an engineer because of his love of electronics. |
| 2:52
| Steven's our new engineer and he's a nice guy and he just fixes stuff. He doesn't give you the history of electricity or how cavemen discovered fire. |
| 2:53
| So we're at the restaurant for the team dinner and Pete, in whatever character he plays when he won't drink a Pepsi, throws the waitress completely off. We could have had a fun night with her and of course Steve can't overcompensate by getting a double Jack Daniels or doing some blow off the table. |
| 2:54
| Steve has never refused Pepsi even though he prefers Coke. It seems unnecessary. Worse case scenario Steve would take it and not drink it but he doesn't really care. As Brendan said, bar Coke and bar Pepsi taste pretty much the same. |
| 2:55
| So Steve can't do anything he'd normally do to compensate for what Pete is doing. Plus he's on a diet so he doesn't really want to order appetizers. Then guess what Pete orders for dinner? This is at a place that has steaks and burgers and other sandwiches. Brendan had a pot pie that was the size of a baby. |
| 2:56
| Steve had braised short ribs and Pete had a vegetarian sandwich. And then it's over. No waitress is going to respect a guy hanging out with a guy who won't drink Pepsi and orders a vegetarian sandwich. |
| 2:57
| Next time Pete should just drink water and we'll tell the waitress that he's being punished or something. |
| 2:58
| Pete says the sandwich was very hearty but Steve didn't notice. After he heard what his order was he tried not to look at him. Although Brendan did pull off the chicken pot pie. Because that could go either way on you |
| 2:59
| Pete tries to say on his routine during the week and that includes not eating differently than he normally does. |
| 3:00
| And after the Pepsi debacle Pete asked for Dr. Pepper. Could he be any more obscure? |
| 3:01
| So Steve demanded that Pete get something to drink and Pete asked what kind of beer they had. She must have surmised what she was dealing with so she threw a really obscure beer at him, Fat Tire. At first Steve thought she was insulting him but it's a beer. |
| 3:02
| Then Jim started defending Goose Island beer after Stephanie tried to order some of it. |
| 3:03
| By then the waitress was so sick of the table. After dinner she asked if anyone wanted anyone else and Steve assumed she was still talking about dinner. Then she brought the bill. |
| 3:04
| So Steve asked about dessert and then had her go get some menus for that. But she recovered nicely. She was dealing with a roomful of idiots. The damage probably started with Ed at the bar and then continued with Pete. |
| 3:05
| Jim says that he was just defending Goose Island, it's a Budwesier company. Steve doesn't care, they don't advertise. Stephanie tried to order a Goose Island and they didn't have it so she's taking a page from Jim and Pete's book. |
| 3:06
| Pete thinks Jim is more of a beer snob than he is. How can Jim be a snob about anything? |
| 3:07
| Brendan says that Ed was at the bar before everyone else arrived trying to order some Templeton Rye. Was he explaining the story of Templeton Rye to the bartender? |
| 3:08
| Song: All For You, Sister Hazel |
| 3:10
| See now Steve thinks that should be Pete's song, it's obscure enough. Not really but it's from the Jack playlist. |
| 3:11
| The computer with all the funny tapes on it crashed and they're still working on it. Steve suspects sabotage. |
| 3:14
| Bulls GM John Paxson put to rest the Kobe Bryant rumors, saying there is no deal to be made. |
| 3:15
| Buzz heard the TV stations promoting "new rumors" in the story. He was hoping it was something about Kobe being a crossdresser. |
| 3:16
| Pete sort of wanted Kobe on the team, all the talk got him excited. Steve couldn't figure out why they'd bring him here since the Bulls have already sold all the tickets for games. |
| 3:17
| Kobe seems pretty good though. He's arguably the best guy playing right now. Plus it'd be exciting to have him in town for all the good stories. His wife would probably get a lot of new jewelry. |
| 3:18
| Live read: Balance for Life |
| 3:19
| Alright we're still giving away tickets for the last Dahlfins gig at Durty Nellie's on November 17th. Listen for the clip of Steve saying "Whoa Nelly" during the breaks. |
| 3:20
| It's Music Snob Corner, that's what we've been trying to get to. The AudioVault has been down all day though. Steve thinks it's sabotage because it went down at 1:55 PM. |
| 3:21
| When people leave are we confiscating all of their security passes? Pete ran into a celebratory Terry Armour and Bonnie after the show on Tuesday and they both said they still had a week left at the station. So Pete has no guy code left? |
| 3:22
| This is the loosest mass firing Buzz has ever seen. Steve doesn't need people coming back here drunk after hours. Normally when you get fired they strip you, hose you down and send you out shivering clutching your shoes. |
| 3:23
| Bonnie seems like the type of person who would come back here to visit. We frown on that of course. |
| 3:24
| Pete is a little concerned with all the other people running the Best of Dahl this week, if they have nothing left to lose. Steve's not sure who's staying and who's going. |
| 3:25
| At one station Buzz worked at the program director, after he got fired, hit the bulk eraser and all the tapes were empty. That's a devastating weapon to have. |
| 3:26
| When Steve came in today mini Paul Konerko was running the board but he's pretty sure he's survived the mass firing. |
| 3:27
| Mary is saying we need to take a break but the computer says we don't. Remember each break features a delightful clip of Steve and Buzz doing something. |
| 3:28
| If it wasn't for that all the breaks would be about a minute or so since everyone pulled their advertisements. |
| 3:31
| Alright back to Music Snob Corner. We've had a delightful chat but it'll all be undone but Pete's extremely obscure song. He thinks he picked a song that people will like but not enough to make a living off of. |
| 3:32
| Pete also brought in a novelty song after reading Steve's blog about the McRib sandwich. He had one for lunch today. |
| 3:33
| This isn't counting as Pete's song though, he just wanted Steve to hear the McRib part. He only has to listen to about 30 seconds of it before that. It is a Dr. Demento favorite but that's not really swaying Steve. |
| 3:34
| That was pretty funny but Steve doesn't need to hear the song. At home though Pete doesn't think that's a novelty record does he? Steve can see him dancing to it in his Go-Go boots. It has everything Pete likes, the female voice, the tortured syntax. |
| 3:35
| Today's song is by My Morning Jacket which Pete thought was appropriate since we're moving to mornings on Jack. Steve loves when Pete overthinks things. That would work if we were on TV and could keep flashing the name of the band. |
| 3:36
| Steve is familiar with My Morning Jacket, out of Louisville, Kentucky. The song is One Big Holiday but it doesn't really tie in. |
| 3:37
| Song: One Big Holiday, My Morning Jacket |
| 3:41
| My Morning Jacket! Morning, Jack, get it? Steve's familiar with that song from a movie soundtrack maybe. Steve's heard it on his iPod but he's not going to go to bat for it with Todd Cavanah. |
| 3:42
| It's not that it's a bad song but Steve's not willing to sit through a half hour meeting over it. Todd's been talking to Steve for 2 weeks about songs he's going to play. But it's not even which ones but just making sure he's notes it. |
| 3:43
| Steve's gotten about 10 emails to not cancel Music Snob Corner. They're mostly from chicks, probably ones he nailed and let live. |
| 3:44
| If we could just come up with a definition on the segment. Like maybe it's a new song that Pete likes and it's just a snippet. |
| 3:45
| Todd is very concerned about the music. Steve just figures that if he stays focused on that then he won't bother us about anything else. |
| 3:46
| When Pete and Mary went down there yesterday Todd brought up Pete's music 3 times. He's very concerned about all of it, he didn't even want to leave for Montana. |
| 3:47
| Todd doesn't even care if we play music or not but if we do it would make him really happy if it was something from their playlist. Steve likes all of those songs anyway. |
| 3:48
| Pete says it's fine but he has the feel of a guy who thinks Steve is giving in to the man. Mark Czerniec is the same way. |
| 3:49
| Todd used to work in the record industry so all he cares about is music. It might have even taken him some convincing to think the morning show was a good idea. |
| 3:50
| So it seems like a good idea for Steve to play stuff from their playlist if he's going to play something. At least initially it'll be like that. There's always a feel out period. |
| 3:51
| Steve could start there on Monday and be a jerk and do whatever he wants but he just saw 80 people get fired so he's going to play things close to the vest |
| 3:52
| But we can work something else out with Pete, maybe a nice podcast or something. |
| 3:53
| What it really comes down to is that Steve's not going to play something just to humor Pete. He might do it to humor himself though. |
| 3:54
| Of course then Pete can't run his scam where he plays his song and all the women thing they can fix him. Then he fixes them for one night and it's for keeps. |
| 3:55
| The other option is for Pete to go over the list and see if there's anything on there he can pass off as a Music Snob song. |
| 3:59
| Caller Mandy, you came and you gave without taking, thinks Pete should have a Music Concession Corner. Every week Steve will pick a song to make him play off the list. |
| 4:00
| Alright Pete, get back in here, you've been resurrected. All the ladies care about is Pete, not the music. They won't even hear the music once he fires up the chainsaw. |
| 4:01
| American Psycho is actually based on the life of Pete Zimmerman. You should see how obsessed he is about his business cards. |
| 4:02
| We'll have to know what song it is in advance so we can tell Todd and he can mark it off so it doesn't get replayed too quickly. |
| 4:03
| We could play the iTunes 30 second clip of what Pete would like to play and then the full song that he's conceded to playing. It'll be good for him. |
| 4:04
| Steve had to fight to be on until 10:00 AM on mornings. Steve told them that he didn't want to be Jack's dirty little secret. They wanted him off by 9:00 so they could go back to music. |
| 4:05
| And right now Buzz is thinking, incredulously, that Steve could have had him off by 9:00 AM! In order to counter-act Steve being on until 10:00 Jack will be commercial free at 11:00. |
| 4:06
| All music guys are like this. When Steve and Garry first got to The Loop they were on from 2:00-5:00 because Greg Solk didn't want to interrupt the Five O'Clock Traffic Jam. Imagine how that makes you feel. |
| 4:07
| So when you find a music guy who will let you stay on until 10:00 and doesn't require you to play music you have to make concessions. We don't want people hating us. |
| 4:08
| One day this week Steve played Jimmy Eat World but he was also talking about Music Snob Corner. Todd said he liked it probably because he was talking about canceling the segment. |
| 4:09
| Then Todd asked Steve about the "weird" Jimmy Eat World song he played. Steve pinned it on Pete, just like he said The Package wasn't his idea. |
| 4:10
| Steve should have never told Buzz that he fought to keep them on until 10:00 AM. That'll haunt him. |
| 4:13
| We're going to talk to Josh Mora from Comcast Sportsnet in a minute but first Steve has to make a listener note. |
| 4:14
| Somebody, somewhere, put in a cancel order for the contest line for WCKG since they won't need it any more. Someone said the phone company arrived early to shut off the line but it's November 1st. The phone company doesn't do stuff early. It's not like they wait until the 4th or 5th to do something. |
| 4:15
| So when you hear the "Whoa Nelly" call 591-WCKG instead. Systems keep shutting down around here though. it's like being Terri Schiavo. |
| 4:16
| Josh Mora is on the phone. He's amazed at the wonkieness of corporate guys. They never make it easy. |
| 4:17
| Josh was on the Empire Sports Network in Buffalo. The corporate guys were in the process of severing them and the flunky handing out their severance packages tried to sell them on the fact that they were being replaced by the NFL Network and how this was the first time it had been in the area. |
| 4:18
| But now Josh is back and he's got free cable. Mike Dahl also gets free cable and internet. He doesn't get free phone though and he gets really bad cellphone reception in his apartment. |
| 4:19
| As a result, every phone conversation with Mike is actually a series of 300-400 phone calls. He gets in about one word per call and he's yelling the whole time. |
| 4:20
| Josh wonders what Steve and Mike talk about on the phone. Usually it's just normal stuff although the last time he wanted a restaurant recommendation in Washington, DC. |
| 4:21
| Steve told him he didn't know any but then Mike called back and demanded he give him one. |
| 4:22
| So what's going on at Comcast? Kobe's not coming, at least for the time being. The fury of speculation has been obscene. If you thought about it logically it wasn't a viable trade. |
| 4:23
| Josh still never gets that the phone call is not a promo for Chicago Tribune Live. He's a nice guy but the show comes on at 5:30 when this show is still on. |
| 4:24
| Steve's going to take a break and them some headlines. This break will again feature a short audio highlight from Dahl.com. Every night after the show a different clip from that day gets posted. |
| 4:25
| The breaks were very short otherwise. You can't talk for almost 5 hours straight and make sense. It's already 24 hours of Steve Dahl so we're past overkill. |
| 4:29
| Steve's autographing some things for his final days at WCKG. They might become collector's items one day. |
| 4:30
| Steve has one for some woman's 40th birthday. Buzz got one too. Steve's being told by Mary that Buzz is being a bit of a prima donna about the photo he's supposed to autograph. |
| 4:31
| They've shown Buzz two photos and he doesn't like either of them. The one Steve has isn't a great one but he doesn't even care. There are so many photos of him looking bloated that he doesn't care. |
| 4:32
| This one is a picture of Steve and in the background is a guy taking a picture of a girl and Stony is also back there. |
| 4:33
| Steve's also got one to sign for a guy who's going in for heart surgery. Steve was going to write "pace yourself" but he'll probably go with "I should have sent you a plaque" |
| 4:34
| Headlines with Buzz |
| 4:35
| You won't have Martina Hingiss to kick around any more. She's been accused of using cocaine during Wimbledon and is retiring from tennis. |
| 4:36
| Don Imus will be back on the air December 3rd on WABC. |
| 4:37
| A new poll says that if the elections were held today Hillary Clinton would beat Rudy Giuliani. |
| 4:38
| Lane Garrison, Tweener on Prison Break, has been sentenced to 40 months in jail for vehicular manslaughter. Didn't they have some other problems on that show? Wasn't a producer found dead when they were filming here? |
| 4:39
| Joe Torre was hired as manager of the Dodgers, does Buzz care? |
| 4:40
| PETA is gearing up to protest the arrival of the Ringling Brothers & Barnum & Bailey Circus. Do we have to hear from them every time the circus comes here? |
| 4:41
| Eagles coach Andy Reid's youngest son has been sentenced to jail for 23 months after he crashed his car while high on heroin. |
| 4:42
| This morning police found 80 pills in his cell that he said he smuggled in in a very sensitive body cavity. Was it his ear? |
| 4:43
| Dog the Bounty Hunter has been canceled by A & E after a tape of him usually racial slurs has surfaced |
| 4:44
| Dog, talking to his son, told him he had to break up with his black girlfriend. How does that tape surface? |
| 4:45
| Steve has more on that if Buzz is interested. Civil rights leaders are calling for his show to be canceled. Any guess on who that is? Dog says he was set up. Just like OJ! |
| 4:46
| Dog was concerned that his son's black girlfriend would set him up if she heard the language he uses. |
| 4:47
| Columbia Pictures will begin production on a movie about Julia Childs. Buzz's pick to play her would be Dan Akroyd but they're going to Meryl Streep. |
| 4:48
| The movie is actually about a bored secretary who sets out to make all the recipes in Childs' book Mastering the Art of French Cooking. |
| 4:49
| Buzz is looking forward to seeing Streep as Julia Childs though. He of course co-starred with her in The Manchurian Candidate. |
| 4:52
| As far as Steve can tell the rest of this station is dead. Steve can't even find Drew to make up with him. Apparently his feelings were hurt when Steve said he's not doing anything. |
| 4:53
| Drew isn't doing anything though. Yesterday we had 1 minute breaks and we have them today to so we had to put in our own content. Steve doesn't even know if those clips are funny because everywhere he turns he's on the air. |
| 4:54
| Buzz has another source of Steve audio because periodically he'll go back into the office and Jim is working on the podcast. It's very disorienting. |
| 4:55
| Song: Semi-Charmed Life, Third Eye Blind |
| 4:58
| That's from the Jack playlist. You had Sister Hazel and then Third Eye Blind, that's the S and T in Steve. He can't tell you what's coming up next but Chef Hans will be here. |
| 4:59
| Steve hit the break but the audio clip was one we'd played already. There was a computer malfunction earlier today. Should Steve just move on or does Pete have the time to load another one? |
| 5:05
| Alright Chef Hans is here for Meat Talk. Steve's going to bring out the cowbell for the final installment on WCKG. |
| 5:06
| Steve has some bad news. Neither Steve nor Mary have begun the experiment of dry-aging their own meat. Neither of them wanted to mess around with bacteria and botulism. |
| 5:07
| Steve would rather let the professionals hire the dry-aging. If he wants a steak he'll go to Smith & Wollensky. |
| 5:08
| Is Hans really part of this University of Kansas experiment or did he just get some junk mail with a bag in it? |
| 5:09
| Steve also saw that Hans brought him something. That's always unnecessary but Hans is very generous. |
| 5:10
| A few weeks ago we were talking about knives so Hans brought him in a knife steel. It's supposed to be made of the best steel in the world. |
| 5:11
| That's great but when are the knives going to get here? Hans showed Steve the steel and he figured he was saving the knives for on the air. Then Steve reached in there and it was just a picture of Hans in a knife ad. |
| 5:12
| It's a very nice steel though. Steve likes to keep a sharp knife out at the house. |
| 5:13
| There's a certain way to work a blade across the steel which Hans will demonstrate. You're always taught to hold a blade away from you but when you sharpen you bring it towards you. |
| 5:14
| That's a nice gift, Steve will use it for the holidays. That's holidays, not hollandaise. |
| 5:15
| Steve got an email to his normal address that he forward to MeatTalk@dahl.com. Steve needs to log in to that, you have to wonder why it's password protected. |
| 5:16
| The first emailer has an important question about meat preparation. His wife's birthday is coming up and he asked her what she wants the meal to be. It's not Steve and Chef though. |
| 5:17
| The emailer's wife wanted Swiss Steak which her mom used to make for her as a kid. The way she described it though, it sounded like it was and over hamburger. |
| 5:18
| You could probably take some cube steak and then brown it in the oven. Then make a gravy and add some potatoes or vegetable. |
| 5:19
| Hans wouldn't make that for his enemy though. He should buy a decent steak, sautee it and get some vegetables. |
| 5:20
| The next emailer is looking for a reference website that will tell you were different cuts of meat come from. This is sort of a ridiculous question. Don't answer it Hans. |
| 5:21
| What kind of question is that? It sounds like a guy who's just looking for a free dinner. |
| 5:22
| The final emailer wants to know what the most overlooked, underrated cut of meat is, other than Steve. |
| 5:23
| Is Hans thinking or is he just refusing to answer? Steve really liked that tri-tip Hans gave him, that seems underrated |
| 5:24
| Deep Dish is texting Mary things like "braise like pot roast." She needs to block him, he's just a knucklehead with a mohawk. |
| 5:25
| Is Patrick trying to one-up Chef Hans or just talk about him with Mary behind his back? |
| 5:26
| Why doesn't Patrick just call in if he wants to have cage match with Chef Hans. He's still texting Mary too, it's really irritating. |
| 5:30
| Alright we've got Patrick Bertoletti on the phone. What's he doing out there? If he has something say he should call in. |
| 5:31
| First off we should say Patrick is in awe of Chef Hans, he doesn't know anyone like him. Patrick went to chef college, or was it clown college? |
| 5:32
| Patrick learned that Swiss Steak was usually prepared like pot roast but it was in cube form. Hans is wondering where Patrick is going to school. Is he going to have their license pulled? |
| 5:33
| Patrick went to Kendall College, which is one of the best in the city. Steve didn't know they had a special ed program. |
| 5:34
| Patrick is now working at Freddy's Catering which is helping Chef Hans out at the March of Dimes benefit. |
| 5:35
| What's Patrick doing, is he just walking around his studio apartment in his Army boots and underpants? |
| 5:36
| Patrick is actually wearing his Waffle House belt and a banana hammock. This is the kind of stuff he should be texting to Mary. |
| 5:37
| Buzz just took his headphones off after Patrick said banana hammock. Patrick didn't even think Buzz knew what they were. Of course he does, he's wearing one! That's why Steve doesn't go into the bathroom with him. |
| 5:38
| So Patrick was in the Krystal competition but he came in third. What happened?! He's ranked 2nd in the world, he needs to do a little better. |
| 5:39
| Steve wants Chef and Patrick to get along if he's going to be his date for the Escoffier dinner. He'll need to start texting Steve a bit more to soften him up too. At the dinner Hans and Patrick will be sitting on either side of Steve along with that guy Hans knows who looks like Lex Luthor, plus Jesse White and his girlfriend Cookie. |
| 5:40
| Patrick is really looking forward to the dinner, he's a hero of his. Who, Hans or Escoffier? |
| 5:41
| Both are heroes to Patrick. That's so crazy of him that one of his heroes is Escoffier, they guy who basically invented French cuisine. |
| 5:42
| Hans is looking forward to meeting Patrick. They've actually already met but Hans probably dismissed him because of the way he looks. |
| 5:43
| Maybe Buzz should be Steve's date to this dinner. |
| 5:44
| Patrick's next competition will probably be the Wing Bowl in Philly. That's not even an IFOCE-sanctioned event though! It's just some competition put on by a radio station. It's fixed too! |
| 5:45
| Chef would like to invite Patrick to come by the restaurant at 7:0 AM on a Thursday or Friday morning and cut some meat in the back room. Patrick will come out of there without a mohawk. |
| 5:46
| Patrick would love to come work with Hans. Steve gets the feeling that Patrick is probably a good chef. |
| 5:47
| Hans could see that as a good segment for a Thursday morning. Patrick could come by the restaurant and he could call in. Maybe Brendan could be the commentator. |
| 5:53
| Patrick's a good kid but he's a knucklehead. |
| 5:54
| Song: Already Gone, Eagles |
| 5:58
| Steve sees what Patrick was on to with the Swiss Steak thing. According to Wikipedia it's a method of preparing beef by rolling or pounding it and then braising it in a cooking pot or in the oven. |
| 5:59
| You could probably use a Dutch Oven. Buzz doesn't have one of those but he does have a crock pot. That'll work. |
| 6:00
| Are we going to talk about this Bolingbrook thing? Because Steve's fascinated by some of the details. Like the fact that the girl is 17 and she works at a hotel. |
| 6:01
| The boyfriend says she's probably fine and just off with some other guy. There were also some mysterious circumstances surrounding the guy's previous wife. She died in a bath tub. |
| 6:02
| Steve lived in Bolingbrook for quite some time and was brought in for not paying parking tickets. This guy was probably on the force back then. |
| 6:03
| There was another time when someone gave Steve some fireworks at a Breakfast Club show. He brought them home, put them in his garage and then the cops showed up. |
| 6:07
| Live read: Townstone Financial |
| 6:09
| Steve has sports he could do but he's fascinated by this Bolingbrook stuff. Probably because he used to be a resident and he was pinched there a few times. |
| 6:10
| Steve's interested in stories like this, waiting to find out what happened. He's in it for the long haul. He still hasn't given up on the Lisa Stebic thing either. |
| 6:11
| Police dogs searched the home of a Bolingbrook police sergeant. They also searched a lake near the home. They always go for the lake. That's where they found Helen Brach. That' Helen Vorhees Brach. Buzz always gets her confused with Jason Vorhees form the Friday the 13th movies. Steve can see that. |
| 6:12
| They met when he was 47 and she was 17, working at a hotel. Buzz can certainly relate all though the age difference is a little greater. |
| 6:13
| This isn't the first time Stacy Peterson, not unlike Laci Peterson, has disappeared. Steve and Buzz could probably do a Remembering Stacy song. |
| 6:14
| Stacy's mom vanished from Blue Island in 1999. Their marriage certificate lists her whereabouts as unknown. |
| 6:15
| Drew Peterson claims he last saw his wife at 9:00 AM on Sunday and that his wife called him to say she was leaving with another man. |
| 6:16
| Their love affair was steeped in scandal since she was 17 and a mote clerk when they met That's so sweet, she had the keys to every room in the place. |
| 6:17
| Their romance spelled the end of Drew Peterson's third wife Kathleen Savio. Soon after the marriage Savio was found dead in the bathtub of their old house. |
| 6:18
| There was no water in the bathtub but the cause of death was listed as drowning. |
| 6:19
| Peterson was previously indicted and fired form his job after allegations arose that he was trading secrets about undercover officers to a drug dealer. |
| 6:20
| The charges were later dropped and Peterson got his job back. |
| 6:21
| Peterson told NBC that his wife had been very short-tempered and seemed snotty. That's really not what you want to tell a reporter is it? |
| 6:22
| Peterson believes his wife left him and is now "where she wants to be." |
| 6:23
| This story makes sense to Buzz except for the part about the kids. Rarely does a mother leave her kids behind like this. She's probably just at IKEA, that place is huge. |
| 6:28
| Maybe they'll find Lisa Stebic while they're searching for Stacy Peterson. It's sort of the same area. |
| 6:29
| Live read: Cheeseburger in Paradise |
| 6:30
| It's good to have them back on the show. They're bringing food in tomorrow too for the final Aloha Friday on WCKG. |
| 6:31
| News with Buzz |
| 6:32
| Don Imus will soon be back on the air, starting in December on WABC. He was fired from CBS radio after making racial remarks on the air. |
| 6:33
| Martina Hingiss is retiring from tennis after being accused of using cocaine while playing. |
| 6:34
| President Bush is pushing hard for his nominee for attorney general to be confirmed by Congress. Michael Muckasey has run into problems with Democrats because he refuses to say whether he thinks waterboarding is torture. |
| 6:35
| Buzz really enjoyed on Heroes this week when they were interrogating that guy by threatening to steal his memories. |
| 6:36
| Steve enjoyed that but he's getting a little tired of all the samurai stuff. And couldn't they have found a hotter Irish chick? She's gone all potato face. |
| 6:37
| A jury in Baltimore has ordered an anti-gay church to pay $11 million in damages for protesting the funeral of a gay soldier. |
| 6:38
| The soldier's father said the ruling is not about the money but about trying to get the church to stop what they do. There's only like 5 people in the church anyway. |
| 6:40
| PETA has scheduled a protest tonight to draw attention to Ringling Brothers poor treatment of elephants in their show. |
| 6:41
| Is the circus even in Chicago yet? Or are they just showing up for a Wolves game or something? |
| 6:42
| Steve has seen some ads for the circus, they appear to be featuring some clown with his hair going straight up. Or is that the ringmaster? |
| 6:43
| Buzz is familiar with the show, he's not sure what the guy's name is but he's a clown and sort of the ringmaster. There is a regular ringmaster with a whip and everything. So the other guy is just his lackey? |
| 6:44
| Reports out of Hollywood that Britney Spears allowed a stranger to snort cocaine off her chest. Where is this going on?! |
| 6:45
| How does this stuff get out into the press? Who's the one has to tell everyone about it? |
| 6:46
| Musician Scott Kohler and 10 friends were invited to Britney's mansion where he said he'd like to sniff cocaine off her chest. Then Britney let him do it. |
| 6:47
| After that Britney allegedly did cocaine as well. Off her own chest? That's a long straw. |
| 6:48
| This incident took place the night before she passed a court ordered drug test so who knows if it's true. |
| 6:52
| In case Buzz is wondering, Scott Kohler is the lead singer of Earshot. If you're in that situation and you're not the guy sniffing cocaine off Britney's hooters you still shouldn't say anything to anyone in case you get to be the next guy doing it. |
| 6:57
| Steve has some samples of Earshot. Sounds like some really good stuff. Once again, even if you're not the guy snorting blow off the hooters you might be the next guy. Now no one is going to get to do it. |
