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| 5:33
| There you go that's Kansas and Carry On my Real Weird Son. Steve's ashamed of Buzz for asking how much was left in that song. He's Buzz Kilman, he's been in the classic rock business for years! |
| 5:34
| Kansas is also responsible for Dust in the Wind. That song dogged Buzz across the country when it first came out. |
| 5:35
| The thing that's really bumming Steve out is that we don't get to do school closings, or stool closings as he almost said. It's not going to snow until tomorrow. |
| 5:36
| Buzz hasn't done school closings for years but he'll probably develop a taste for it again. Steve feels they'll be very good at it. Buzz will read the school name and then of course he'll know the school's fight song. |
| 5:37
| It's only supposed to snow an inch or two tomorrow but the way they've been talking about it for the last 3 days it seems like it's supposed to be 10 inches. |
| 5:38
| We could probably play up the Pace Bus strike but it's only one garage from Jefferson Park to the lake and then Buffalo Grove to Arlington Heights. |
| 5:39
| Steve was trying to figure out how that would affect our listeners. Can you listen on the bus or the train? Pete says you can but he doesn't listen to anything. |
| 5:40
| Pete sees people listening to some sort of listening device but he's not sure if it's a radio. He doesn't like to think of people not listening. Steve's going to need to hear from someone who is actually on a bus or train listening. |
| 5:41
| It seems like it's getting harder to find a portable device with an FM radio though. No one really wants them, they'd rather have an mp3 player. We could have podcasters but they won't know about the strike until tomorrow. |
| 5:42
| Pete turned the TV down in his studio but now it's too quiet. When the TV is louder you also get Pete stuttering, it's the full package. Plus Pete doesn't even really want to be talking to Steve because he's worried he's missing something on the news. |
| 5:43
| There's a lot of breaking news out there, it's Thanksgiving which means travel will be bad. Steve's sick of hearing that story. First they'll talk about how high gas prices are and yet people will still drive. Then they'll talk about how crowded the airport is. If there's bad weather, guess what? Planes will be delayed. |
| 5:44
| Steve doesn't think there are any more flights during the holidays it's probably just more knuckleheads who don't fly very often clogging things up. Pete seems like one of those knuckleheads with his giant carry-on bag. |
| 5:45
| Pete has discussed this with Steve before, he checks all his luggage. That's probably because he has liquids he doesn't want confiscated, various lubes and probably some GHB. |
| 5:46
| Now the TSA is advising people to pack their bags more neatly, in layers. Steve does that already. He was also offended when Brian Williams said no one packs their bags in layers. |
| 5:47
| Buzz just assumed everyone packed their bags in layers, not all willy-nilly whenever you think of something you need to bring. Steve also cinches up the crisscross straps on the inside of the suitcase. If you pop his suitcase open it's a thing of beauty. |
| 5:48
| Then when you arrive at your destination everything is perfectly arranged. If a TSA person actually opened it they probably wouldn't even want to mess with it because it looked so great. They'd call co-workers over to have them look at it and then take pictures with it. |
| 5:52
| There are some people who listen to us on the train. Buzz knew it! |
| 5:53
| Caller Donovan (Hail Atlantis!) has called before, he's the only guy named Donovan who calls the show. Can he change his name in the future, Steve's getting sick of playing the clip from Atlantis every time he calls. |
| 5:54
| Donovan lives in Kingston which is not in Jamaica but near Rockford. He listens to the show on the FM radio on his phone but not really on the train. What kind of phone has an FM radio? |
| 5:55
| It's a Sony Walkman phone, the W300I, it's their answer to the iPhone. Steve would like to see Apple put FM radios in iPods but that'll never happen. |
| 5:56
| Donovan won a MasterCard gift card but it was made complicated by Jill who's from the Jeff Schwartz school of radio. Buzz's copy says it's one card for you and one for your friend. |
| 5:57
| Caller Dale is under court supervision for the next three weeks. He drives to Joliet and then takes the train to The Loop. He has an iRiver with an FM radio and he listens on the train. |
| 5:58
| Dale is glad that Steve is back on in the mornings, Spike O'Dell can only take him so far. Steve's listened to that show, he doesn't have to do anything. All he does is introduce news and commercials and then talks to some Republican politician. |
| 5:59
| Dale listens for the Farm Report. He lives out in the middle of nowhere and needs to be able to talk to people in the bar. Why does Dale live 2 hours from Chicago? |
| 6:00
| Dale and his wife wanted property so they bought a house on 25 acres. Doesn't he know that the reason it's so cheap out there is because no one wants to live out there? |
| 6:01
| Steve doesn't have 25 acres but he lives in a very desirable location. He's just kidding though. Where does Dale work downtown? |
| 6:02
| Dale works for a law firm in The Loop. He actually talked to Steve a few years ago about some intellectual property stuff. He was trying to get a copy of Pet Fish Sticks. |
| 6:03
| Steve has some people in LA who deal with his IP stuff but they're very expensive and a little snotty. |
| 6:04
| Steve's not really going to hire a lawyer of an email he gets at Steve@dahl.com. It just doesn't seem like the right place to find a lawyer. |
| 6:05
| Caller Patrick has some info about the Mastercard gift card thing. It's a holiday promotion they're running across the country. |
| 6:06
| If you buy something with your Mastercard then you could possibly get the same thing for a friend. |
| 6:07
| So Buzz had the right copy, he shouldn't change it. Steve probably had the whole thing explained to him because he got a look from Mary when he brought it up. |
| 6:08
| Steve does remember the meeting and he really liked it because it was with the entire Jack sales staff. Everyone was really excited to meet him except for one girl who he fixated on the entire time. He couldn't figure out if she hated him or if she was scared or dead. |
| 6:09
| On the phone is Pat Boyle from Comcast Sportsnet. Steve thought we'd have Pat on earlier today to put him through his paces. |
| 6:10
| Pat calls in at about 9:00 everyday and he sounds very sluggish. Plus some people who listen to the show earlier in the morning get to hear him now. |
| 6:11
| Steve has noticed with the new morning show that everyone is trying to get booked on the show after 8:00 AM. Steve would love to come in after 8:00 but he can't. |
| 6:12
| So Pat was right about that John McDonough thing yesterday. He had the early scoop but it did seem crazy to him at first. |
| 6:13
| It makes perfect sense for McDonough to go to the Blackhawks though. The Cubs are going to be sold and the new owner will probably want to be president. The Blackhawks are family-owned and they have nowhere to go but up. |
| 6:14
| John McDonough made the Cubs what they are today. He made it so that people from Iowa or wherever will come all the way to Chicago to see the Cubs no matter how bad they are. He turned losing into winning. |
| 6:15
| Pat's sources tell him that one Steve Dahl may be making his way to the United Center one day soon. Steve hasn't cleared that with the family yet. |
| 6:16
| John McDonough will be on the show a little later today. Steve feels that John left the Cubs because they wouldn't let Steve sing the 7th Inning Stretch. |
| 6:17
| There must have been an edict issued from high up in the Tribune that Steve can't sing the stretch. Maybe John can finally tell Steve about it. Maybe Steve doesn't want to know. As it turns out he doesn't really want to sit through an entire Cubs game dreading what he has to do. Plus he's not even a Cubs fan! |
| 6:18
| There's nothing much going on with the Bears. They're bad but it could be worse. We could have Nick Saban as the coach. He was Jerry Angelo's top choice. |
| 6:19
| Buzz is of course familiar with Nick Saban. He slithers from job to job ruining every team and program. He left the Dolphins and now he's ruining Alabama's program. |
| 6:20
| After consecutive losses to MIssissippi State and University of Louisiana-Monroe Saban compared the losses to catastrophic events in U.S. history like Pearl Harbor and 9/11. |
| 6:21
| Down in Alabama two consecutive losses like that are probably viewed as the same as those catastrophic events. |
| 6:22
| Somehow the guy keeps surviving and getting new jobs. He always slithers out right before the hammer comes down. |
| 6:23
| The Bulls lost last night, they're as bad as the Bears right now. The good news is that they're playing the Knicks on Saturday and they're just as bad. |
| 6:29
| Mastercard's new promotion, the Joy of Giving, gives people the chance to win something for themselves and something for a friend or family member. |
| 6:30
| Dateline Purchase, New York. They have a town named after purchasing? That's like Halas Hall being on 100 Football Drive. |
| 6:31
| This is from the Hispanic PR Wire where Steve gets all his news. It seems like all this stuff was said to Steve in the meeting but he was focused on that one woman who didn't like him. |
| 6:32
| There's a lot of PR speak in this thing, they should cut it down a bit. But that's what we're involved with, joining it already in progress. |
| 6:33
| Nine winners can choose from a pool of four prize packages including cars, exotic giveaways and four pieces of exquisite jewelry, as opposed to crummy jewelry. Steve and Buzz tried to do a promotion with crummy jewelry and it didn't really work. |
| 6:34
| There are a few calls on hold that Steve wants to take before we get to the headlines. Earlier Steve was talking about the Pace strike and how everyone's making a big-ass deal about it. |
| 6:35
| Then Steve wondered if people who take the train or bus listen to the show. It seems like radio people should spend their money getting radios on iPods instead of getting people into HD radio. No one has an HD radio! |
| 6:36
| Caller John takes the train in from Brookfield and listens to the show on an FM radio attachment for his iPod. John misses the show in the afternoons but the morning is perfect for him. |
| 6:37
| Steve's having some separation anxiety with the afternoon show himself. |
| 6:38
| Steve went to workout yesterday at the club by his house. His card no longer works though. It took him 4 weeks to get a new card and yesterday he was told the account was canceled. |
| 6:39
| Steve needs to get on a machine before 4:00 because he doesn't want to deal with the people who come in at 5:00 and belong to some cardio club. That gives them a right to the machine before other people so Steve spends the entire time waiting for a confrontation even though it never happens. |
| 6:40
| Steve got behind a monstrosity on the treadmill again yesterday. Is he so fat that the woman with the fattest ass in the health club thinks it's OK to get in front of him? |
| 6:41
| No hot woman ever gets in front of him. He must look like a complete lech. |
| 6:42
| Yesterday Steve decided to just get to the gym at 4:00 so he wouldn't have to worry about the cardio club. |
| 6:43
| Steve was on the treadmill behind the post so he doesn't have to worry about who's in front of him. It's not inspiring to have someone unattractive in front of him. It makes him want to quit because he's already better off than that person. |
| 6:44
| Would it be wrong for Steve to hire a hot chick to workout in front of him? Because quite frankly he'd like to see a nice ass. |
| 6:45
| He doesn't want to see a dude's nice ass either because that's just confusing. Then is he working out for the dude? |
| 6:46
| Mark Czerniec is saying that about 2200 people will be affected by the Pace strike. If Steve does the math that's about 100 listeners. |
| 6:47
| This seems like a bad time to go on strike but they're teamsters, they don't care. |
| 6:55
| Steve's favorite thing at the club is the dudes who do the elliptical machine. Certain people do it super fast which looks even weirder. |
| 6:56
| There were two guys doing the elliptical super fast in hoodies. It looked like they were training to run away from the cops after a bank robbery. |
| 6:57
| Drew does the elliptical super fast as well. It's great for your knees but it looks dopey. If you do it slow it just looks like you're practicing for a space walk or skiing. |
| 6:58
| It looks stupid but it feels even stupider when you're actually doing it. Buzz tried it because he's always interested in preserving his knees. |
| 6:59
| Barack Obama topped Hillary Clinton in the Iowa polls for the first time yesterday. Those polls are kind of screwy aren't they? It's just a caucus and at this point 1 in every 3 people in Iowa have met a candidate so it seems skewed. |
| 7:00
| Last night in New Hampshire Barack Obama admitted to drug use in his youth while speaking to a group of high schoolers. |
| 7:01
| Prosecutors want Michael Vick to pay more than $1 million to care for the dogs confiscated from his dog fighting ring. And that's for 54 dogs? |
| 7:02
| Foggy weather is causing delays at both airports so call ahead before you leave. In case no one knows, the airports are going to be very busy because it's the holidays. |
| 7:03
| Steve's doing the math on those dogs, $1 million doesn't seem like enough for 54 dogs. Can't they put the dogs up for adoption? It seems like the prosecutors are being mean-spirited but no one will say anything because it's about dogs. |
| 7:04
| Drew Peterson's resignation from the Bolingbrook police department has been accepted but the chief of police says he's brought shame on the entire department. |
| 7:05
| Meanwhile Steve's sitting on a gold mine, he's got the article about the woman who said no to Drew. Steve's not sure if he knows the woman, she might be a listener. |
| 7:06
| The doctor who operated on Kanye West's mother walked off Larry King Live after receiving a letter from her family. He was asked to not appear on TV to talk about what happened. |
| 7:07
| He got a letter in the middle of the show? Why is he getting letters delivered to Larry King Live? |
| 7:08
| Steve saw that Kanye is still touring because he broke down crying in France or something. |
| 7:09
| Alright it's time for today's web poll question "Which do you prefer" and the options are white or dark meat and that's for turkey, not dating. |
| 7:10
| Steve does not like dark meat. Buzz has heard that it's more moist. Janet's entire family likes dark meat but they also don't like Chinese food. The modern turkey is engineered to have more white meat. |
| 7:11
| The dark meat is somewhat higher in calories and it has a lot more fat. It also has less protein. So it's less healthy which was also Steve's radio name back in the day. |
| 7:12
| That's not going to change Buzz's desires at Thanksgiving. He's a breast man, aren't we all? The dark meat seems like the part of the turkey you're supposed to throw out. The only attraction to the dark meat is gnawing on the leg like Henry VIII. |
| 7:13
| The legs aren't good any more because the turkeys have been genetically engineered for more white meat. |
| 7:14
| Turkey breasts are huge these days. If those birds had any self-awareness they'd all want breast-reduction surgery. |
| 7:20
| On the phone is John McDonough, the new president of the Blackhawks. Steve thought John was pretty funny yesterday talking about how the Cubs would win the World Series now that he's left. |
| 7:21
| Steve first met John when he was working for the Sting. Then he joined the Cubs after that. |
| 7:22
| Steve's right there with John, he's been sniffing around the Blackhawks as well trying to get tickets. John can hook him up. |
| 7:23
| Someone in the Cubs organization was keeping Steve and John apart but now with the Blackhawks they can be together. |
| 7:24
| Rocky has made some great moves since taking over the team and hiring John was a great move. He's a marketing genius! John doesn't think he's a marketing genius but Steve does. |
| 7:25
| A genius will never say they're a genius. They might not even recognize they're a genius. |
| 7:26
| John's wondering how the new time slot is going? Steve and Buzz both like it. Steve wouldn't mind having a hockey game to go to though. He and John could watch the game and talk hockey. |
| 7:27
| Steve thinks the first thing John needs to do is get the hockey game down to 2 halves. That second intermission is a killer. Steve's other thought was getting Pat Foley back with the team. |
| 7:28
| John really appreciated the email he got from Steve after the Cubs clinched the Central. He was probably the only one who wasn't asking for something. |
| 7:29
| It was an interesting season with the Cubs last year. There wasn't a single moment where the Cubs ever really felt comfortable, no lead was big enough. It was very exciting though, even for Steve who's a Sox fan. |
| 7:30
| The Sox are making some moves but it's going to take a lot more for Steve. They've already got half his money though. |
| 7:31
| When Steve comes to Hawks games will he get to eat dinner with John in the secret dining room? John has to find out where it is first but then Steve is welcome. |
| 7:32
| John is wondering what the odds are of getting Buzz out to a Hawks game this year. Steve got him to a few Sox games and they stayed for the entire time. |
| 7:33
| Steve would like to get some Blackhawks tickets though, it seems like they're right on the verge of happening. |
| 7:34
| Steve likes to jump on a bandwagon when no one else is on it. That way when everyone else gets on it people think he's been there the whole time. |
| 7:35
| Alright, Steve's sitting on some Drew Peterson gold. Should he begin now or take a break first? If Stacy Peterson left Drew for another man then why aren't we hearing about a guy who's missing? |
| 7:36
| For you to run off with someone that other person had to have something going on before you ran off. Buzz thinks the guy could be a stray dog so it's still possible. |
| 7:37
| Live read: The Little Guys |
| 7:42
| Steve's never heard of a curse with the Blackhawks but it could be good for business. The curse certainly helps the Cubs get people into the stadium to watch the grass grow. |
| 7:43
| It's a little cold in the studio and for that Steve apologizes. He tried to crank the heat up because he was really cold. You know it's cold when Steve feels it. |
| 7:43
| Do we still have a sun? Would it kill the sun to come out even for a minute or two? Steve's going to have to start tanning again and not just for the color. He's going to commit suicide if he doesn't see the sun soon! Steve picked up some color and Vegas and he's not talking about chips. |
| 7:44
| Yesterday when Steve was driving home from the gym at 5:00 it was pitch black out. He thought he was a coal miner. |
| 7:45
| Live read: Townstone Financial |
| 7:46
| We'll be talking to Jeff Joniak at 8:00. Steve's not sure what there is to talk about though, maybe his holiday plans? |
| 7:47
| At least Jeff doesn't have to travel with the team though. Buzz gets the feeling he likes to travel. He does seem a bit henpecked but aren't we all? |
| 7:48
| OK on to Drew Peterson. He gave Kyle Piry an engagement ring and picked out a China pattern with her. Steve doesn't see Drew as the type to pick out a China pattern. He sees it going down at Service Merchandise though. |
| 7:49
| In the end Piry was able to resist Peterson's charms and didn't become the next Mrs. Peterson. Piry says that after they broke up Peterson followed her and stalked her. He probably doesn't like people breaking up with him. He does the breaking up and then the women are devastated. |
| 7:50
| Piry said Peterson used to pull her over on a Friday or Saturday night and give her tickets for having bald tires. They were crazy about that stuff in Bolingbrook. Or maybe Peterson was in love with Steve. He got locked up for having unpaid parking tickets. |
| 7:51
| At one point Peterson arrested Piry at her workplace for amassing too many unpaid parking tickets. It's the same pattern of harassment Steve experienced and he didn't even get to have sex with anyone! |
| 7:52
| The trumped up chargers were eventually dropped. Steve didn't know you could drop the charges from parking tickets. |
| 7:53
| Peterson declined to talk about Piry saying only that he was engaged to her and remembered her. Buzz wishes he could remember all the people he was engaged to. |
| 7:54
| Peterson has said he's done nothing wrong and claims Stacy left him for another man. Steve would have said she left for another woman, it's spicier and less-damaging to his image. |
| 7:55
| Maybe Drew and Stacy had some woman over and they made a connection. They took their mutual love of Drew and applied it to each other, knowing they couldn't both have him. |
| 7:56
| Piry first met the handsome, mustachioed police officer when she was in her 30s. Buzz objects to a journalist putting that spin on the whole thing. He looks like the Cowardly Lion in most photos. |
| 7:57
| There are some photos where he looks handsome, like when he's in the Parrothead shirt. |
| 7:58
| At the time they met Piry was working at a gas station and Drew came there to investigate a gas theft. Then he asked her if she was available to date. She says he used to like to stand in front of the mirror looking at himself. So? What's it to you?! |
| 7:59
| After only a few months of dating Peterson asked her to marry him and she said yes because she was young and smitten. Isn't that how it always is? |
| 8:00
| After 4 months of being engaged Piry called it off because she wasn't ready to be stepmother to his children. He probably just wanted a babysitter so he could go out and work and meet broads. |
| 8:01
| After the break up Peterson was devastated and Piry took pity on him, ending up in his bed a week later. Once there she found a long black hair. |
| 8:02
| Steve should go to Jeff Joniak now and then finish this up later. What if those long black hairs belonged to Kathleen Savio? |
| 8:03
| When you hear all those highlights from last Sunday it sounds like the Bears won the game. Jeff is irritated just hearing that, they should have won! |
| 8:04
| Were Jeff and Tom fighting on Sunday? Tom wasn't in any of those highlights. There are always off-field issues with Tom and Jeff because Tom doesn't like the way Jeff lives his life. |
| 8:05
| Tom called Jeff's cellphone and he didn't hear it because he had the radio blasting. When Tom called back a second time Jeff heard it and then got a lecture about how you should answer your cellphone if you have one. |
| 8:06
| Jeff apologized but Tom said this was a discussion. He's always trying to arrange Jeff's day in order to squeeze every moment out of it since he feels he's a time-waster. |
| 8:07
| Jeff had the Dave Matthews cranked up when Tom called, he was just looking for a little break from everything. Dave Matthews?! Now Steve can see why Tom was yelling at him. |
| 8:08
| What Dave Matthews cut does a Jeff Joniak put on when he's trying to forget about the world? Jeff doesn't know the names of the songs, he just puts the CD in. This wasn't during the Steve Dahl Show was it? |
| 8:09
| Jeff got off to a late-start yesterday because of some domestic responsibilities so this was post-10:00 AM. That's probably what Tom really has an issue with. |
| 8:10
| Tom is all in favor of Jeff spending time with his daughters though. Tom loves the Joniak girls, he's offered to babysit them many times. |
| 8:11
| That sounds fake, just a way for Tom to get away with how he gets to do whatever he wants including nailing all these chicks. |
| 8:12
| Tom offered to have the girls come downtown with him. It sounds like he's just going to use them as bait to pick up women. They'll set up in a park or something. |
| 8:13
| Tom was in the Sun-Times today, he wrote a column about what Joliet Catholic means to him. Steve doesn't want to read this though or he'll get beat up. Tom's probably a good writer though, he did go to Notre Dame. |
| 8:14
| Jeff has many stories about Tom's studies at Notre Dame. He's not sure if he should tell any though or he'll get beaten up. Tom is very proud of the fact that he was always able to resell his textbooks as new because he never took them out of the plastic wrap. |
| 8:15
| Jeff's backpedaling now because he's probably afraid of catching a beating on Sunday. Actually it'll probably happen today up at Halas Hall. |
| 8:16
| Steve has known Tom for a while and he's sure that all this is just a way for him to make Jeff feel more included. Steve imagines that a Brian Baldinger is very exclusionary. Jeff's practically an '85 Bear! |
| 8:17
| How does Jeff talk to fast when he's calling the game? There was a little bit of it on the Cedric Benson touchdown call. |
| 8:18
| Jeff was just so shocked that Benson finally got off a run like that and scored a touchdown. And then they took him out of the game. |
| 8:19
| They wanted to get Peterson in the game more but that's just because Cedric Benson sucked. But he finally gets in some good runs and they still take him out! |
| 8:20
| Jeff thinks Benson played a little differently on Sunday knowing some of his carries were going to be taken away. |
| 8:21
| Should we eve care any more? Jeff still cares. As Tom says every game brings great interest and intrigue. That's the beauty of football. 2 weeks from now we could have a completely different view of this thing. |
| 8:22
| Steve would imagine that Tom and Jeff have picked up a lot of listeners in the last two weeks because Matt Vagesarian and JC Pearson are the worst announcers of all time. They make Dick Stockton seem like John Madden. |
| 8:23
| Steve has another way to sync up the radio to the TV. If you buy the streaming radio package on NFL.com it syncs up because of the online delay. Then you can take your TiVo or DVR and get it synced. |
| 8:24
| Jeff has to cover the morning practice at Halas Hall tomorrow before Thanksgiving gets going. Steve thinks they need to start practicing on Mondays until they start winning. |
| 8:25
| Really they should be practicing on Sunday night. How about practicing on the plane, it could be like a a gauntlet. |
| 8:26
| Jeff is stunned that the holidays are here already. That's probably because he's been mired in a losing Bears season and he's listening to Dave Matthews to lift his spirits. |
| 8:27
| Occasionally Jeff pays attention to the lyrics and a lot of his music is about death. And that's what he's listening to to lift his spirits?! |
| 8:28
| It doesn't help that the sun hasn't been out for a week. Steve's hitting the tanning parlor today, he needs some uplifting rays of sun. |
| 8:29
| It's Joniak tradition to go get a Christmas tree on the day after Thanksgiving so they'll be doing that on Friday. The sad thing is they go out and get a fake tree. |
| 8:30
| The Joniaks always go with a real tree. Steve's trying to get a real tree in the house but Janet keeps saying no. Buzz is sort of surprised Steve wants a real tree. He might only want one because he can't have one. |
| 8:31
| Buzz loves the fake tree they have in the house, it looks perfect. It went up yesterday although he didn't actually do anything. |
| 8:32
| Steve really just likes the smell of the real tree. He also likes the smell of a fireplace and he doesn't have either of them. |
| 8:37
| Peanut Tillman says he won't let his abject failure ruin his Thanksgiving. Steve feels if he lost the afternoon show because of bad ratings and then ended up doing overnights it would wreck his Thanksgiving. |
| 8:38
| It's ruining Steve's Thanksgiving that the Bears are playing so badly. It seems weird and inappropriate for Tillman to say it won't ruin his Thanksgiving. |
| 8:39
| Speaking of weird and inappropriate, Chef Hans is here. He's very busy because Smith & Wollensky is one of the few restaurants open on Thanksgiving. They have 700 reservations for tomorrow including Steve's. |
| 8:40
| So you can have turkey and all the other Thanksgiving food like you made it at home or you can go with steak. Steve's going with steak but he's not sure what cut. |
| 8:41
| Steve might go bone-in filet or bone-in cajun ribeye. Steve likes the concept of working a steak on Thanksgiving. |
| 8:42
| The turkey menu comes with a 10 ounce filet. Steve's looking forward to dinner tomorrow. |
| 8:43
| Hans will probably be up at 4:30 tomorrow so he can get in early and put the turkeys in. Then the sous chefs will come in and take all the meat off the bones and make sure they're ready to go for the 11:00 AM opening. |
| 8:44
| Mary's wondering where Chef's cute sous chef is. That's actually his son who normally comes in with the full turkey. Steve was actually expecting that today but Hans woke up early so he only had time to make a turkey breast, which he put in sandwich form. |
| 8:45
| Buzz was wondering how many turkeys S & W runs through on a Thanksgiving. Hans starts with about 60 turkeys and then at about 2:00 or 3:00 he knows if he needs to make more. They makes breasts and whole turkeys. Did Drew Peterson give Hans some breasts to cook? |
| 8:46
| How does Chef feel about John McDonough going to the Blackhawks? Hans knew John McDonough when he worked for Der Schting and when Dallas Green was looking for someone to do marketing for the Cubs he put in some kind words about John. |
| 8:47
| By the way, Chef just dropped a Dallas Green on us. Hans was a big Sting fan and they used to do all their press conferences at Lawry's when he worked there. |
| 8:48
| Now everyone does their press conferences at S & W. |
| 8:49
| Sometime tomorrow morning Hans will head down to La Rabita Children's Hospital and cook some turkeys for the kids there. |
| 8:50
| Hans is a nice guy. As it turns out all the people Steve's known in Chicago for a long time are nice guys. |
| 8:51
| After a while you weed out all the jerks and all you have left is the nice guys like Chef, Tom Thayer and John McDonough. |
| 8:58
| You have ruined another Thanksgiving Jim Morrison! |
| 8:59
| Live read: Comcast |
| 9:00
| Caller Keith wanted to wish Steve a happy birthday plus 1. He didn't want to call yesterday since he's a dude. |
| 9:01
| Keith was wondering if Chef Hans would let Steve take his annual turkey neck in the pants photo at Smith & Wollensky. Buzz was wondering if he'd get a turkey neck to go. |
| 9:02
| Gentleman! Steve blogged about this today already. The answer is no, Steve will not be taking that photo. He feels that violates some health codes as well as decency codes. |
| 9:03
| There's probably an old photo in the archive but Steve doesn't think there'd be a demand for it. Buzz disagrees. |
| 9:04
| Steve wanted to go get a turkey caller from Bass Pro Shop but he's afraid to go to Bolingbrook. He thought he saw Drew Peterson at his health club the other day. |
| 9:05
| Steve calls down to the newsroom. We've got headlines coming up with Buzz, he'll of course be telling us about the busy holiday travel. As it turns out a lot of people travel over the holidays and it'll be even worse if the weather is bad. |
| 9:06
| The stores are also going to be packed with people on Friday. Everyone will say they won't buy as much as they normally do but they will anyway. Thank God for Drew Peterson, at least there's some real news to report. |
| 9:07
| Steve was talking about cutting down a Christmas tree, which he's never done. Steve feels he'd be allowed to get a real tree but then he'd have to be in charge of it. He just wants to bring it in and have someone decorate it. As it is now Steve doesn't have to do anything with the tree and he gets to complain about it. |
| 9:08
| Steve has learned that Jim's parents are meeting the black girlfriend's parents on Friday. Is this a prelude to some sort of romantic thing he's going to do? He's not proposing is he? Because a lot of guys get caught up in the holiday season, like our own Pat Dahl. |
| 9:09
| Jim can propose if he wants but his family frowns on interracial marriage don't they? They've been going out for two years and the parents haven't met? Is that because his dad always says the n-word. "Dad, take the hood off!" |
| 9:10
| Jim's family and his girlfriend's family have separately gone to cut down Christmas trees so he thought he should bring them together. Jim doesn't actually have a black girlfriend though. |
| 9:11
| It was initially disappointing for Buzz to learn Jim didn't have a black girlfriend but she's nice and attractive so she overcomes it. Dan Falato was the one who told Steve, in secret, that Jim had a black girlfriend. |
| 9:12
| It seems weird to Buzz that Jim would have a black girlfriend, he doesn't seem socially cutting edge. Steve disagrees, he thinks Jim could bed a black woman anytime. Or a woman of any race really. Steve would be surprised if he walked in with a Turkish girl. |
| 9:13
| Where does Jim go to cut the tree down? Maybe Steve could come with, what a great ice-breaker that would be. Jim's family goes to Harvard which is pretty far away. Buzz is wondering if Harvard is near Harvey. He goes through Harvard, isn't that the one that has problems? |
| 9:14
| What kind of problems do they have in Harvard other than Buzz passing through to buy a truckload of pot? Harvey is south and there is problems down there. |
| 9:15
| So they tie the tree to the top of the car like a deer? How long does the tree last because Steve's always told it's a fire hazard? As long as you water it it lasts through the season. |
| 9:16
| That's where Steve starts to lose interest, watering the tree. Jim suggests one for the office. That sounds like a lot of work for the office staff. What about tree size? |
| 9:17
| They have all sizes of trees at the farm. What size tree does the Ruffatto family purchase? Do they get a big 30 footer for the mansion? Jim's family usually gets a 7 footer but the girlfriend goes bigger because she has high ceilings. |
| 9:18
| How many trees are they getting? This trip doesn't sound very green. Right now there's a polar bear that can't breath. How many cars do they have to take to bring these trees back? Maybe they should get a flat bed truck or a train car. You could build a log cabin with all those trees. |
| 9:19
| How do they cut the tree down? Do they use a chainsaw? The chainsaw would be too quick, there'd almost be no point in going up there. All the trees would come down in no time. |
| 9:20
| So that's Friday with Jim's family and the girlfriend's family. That includes his brother too as well as Uncle Ray. Steve is really tempted to steal a tree from the roadside. |
| 9:21
| Buzz has seen some trees on the roadside that are decorated for the holidays. It seems like all that stuff happens up north where Steve doesn't go. The Stevenson doesn't have that stuff, it's just a godforsaken wasteland. |
| 9:22
| It sounds delightful to have a nice decorated tree on the road but Buzz thinks it looks like it was decorated by mental patients. Is that sanctioned by the city? Because maybe the trees are decorated by union city workers. Mental patients would spend a lot of time trying to get it right. City workers would just throw some lights up and then go have lunch. |
| 9:23
| Caller Chris and a buddy once cut down a decorated tree on the side of the expressway when they were in college. Turns out the city sprays the tree with something to make it smell really bad. |
| 9:24
| So they got the tree home and they thought they'd done a good job but then the apartment started to stink. So Steve's not the only one who's thought of stealing a decorated tree. |
| 9:30
| Before the end of the day we need to play the turkey fryer drop. That's standard in the industry, or at least standard on the Steve Dahl show pre-Thanksgiving. |
| 9:31
| The drop is a video from UL showing why turkey fryers are so dangerous. You'll recall that a few years ago a listener called in to say that he was frying a turkey in his garage and it tipped over, killing his dog. He actually had to go to jail for killing the dog. |
| 9:32
| It doesn't seem like you should have to go to prison for accidentally killing a dog with your turkey fryer. The dog might have even knocked the thing over. |
| 9:33
| Right now it's time for Bob and Ron for This Week in Rock History. Bob knows yesterday was Steve's birthday but they're always a little slow. |
| 9:34
| Bob and Ron have a special gift commissioned for Steve that involves his three favorite things. |
| 9:35
| In the future Steve's going to say come in on the actual birthday with the gift. Also next week Steve's penciling Bob and Ron in for a 6:00 AM appearance, he's tired of everyone coming in after 8:00. |
| 9:36
| Steve wants Bob and Ron to be up all night and then get an hour of sleep before coming in so they'll feel really awful. |
| 9:37
| Bob and Ron's gift is a bobblehead dolphin that looks stoned. It appears to be new but a lot of times Bob and Ron give you used gifts. There was that one time they gave him half-cooked steaks. |
| 9:38
| On November 20th, 1973 at The Who's concert at the Cow Palace in San Francisco, Keith Moon took a bunch of horse tranquilizers and passed out. Then Pete Townsend had to ask if anyone in the crowd knew how to play drums. Bob and Ron tried to track that guy down and have him on the show. |
| 9:39
| Today is also Norman Greenbaum's birthday, Bob and Ron had him on their show once. As the Coach says, the past is for losers. Does every piece of rock history have to be connected to Bob and Ron's old show? |
| 9:40
| It was also Joe Walsh's birthday yesterday, the same as Steve's. Since it was Steve's birthday yesterday they thought they'd let him pick out the song. Steve wouldn't mind hearing Spirit in the Sky |
| 9:41
| Bob and Ron transferred this song from the original vinyl. So that means it'll sound inferior. |
| 9:42
| Song: Spirit in the Sky, Norman Greenbaum |
| 9:46
| That sounded pretty good off the vinyl but Steve can't tell if it's any better than a CD. Steve played the song off a CD so how is it any different? |
| 9:47
| That's fine if Bob and Ron want to live in their fantasy world where one man's garbage is their gold. |
| 9:48
| Get prepared to be jealous Buzz. Jack's program director, Todd Cavanah brought Steve two gifts. Todd was in Vegas last weekend and Steve arranged to buy him dinner at Joe's Stone Crab. |
| 9:49
| Todd has a ranch in Montana and he brought Steve back a pair of sheepskin slippers as well as a sheepskin blizzard hat with the earflaps. This is the exact kind of hat Buzz is looking for! |
| 9:50
| Buzz has a hat with earflaps but it looks like something a prison guard working at the Gulag would wear. You can't wear that in Chicago. |
| 9:51
| Matt Dahl said he saw Bob grocery shopping the other day. He said it was weird to see Bob in real life, interacting with other people besides Ron. At least when he's with Ron it's more like a circus act. |
| 9:52
| Bob had some turkey and swiss cheese in his basket, that's all he eats. Will he be using that turkey tomorrow for his Thanksgiving dinner? He'll lay it on the plate just so and then start talking to his Jerry Garcia blow-up doll. |
| 9:56
| There you go, that's the turkey fryer audio. Buzz would like to hear from that guy who went to prison. He got out after 18 months but apparently he doesn't want to relive it. They do sell turkey fryers that are safer but they're more like pressure cookers. |
| 9:57
| We never got to headlines, is there anything we need to know? The two current presidential candidates that voters would most like to have Thanksgiving dinner with are Hillary and Rudy. Steve would rather have dinner with Bill Clinton and Dubya. That would be a fun time. |
| 9:58
| Steve never finished up the story about Drew Peterson's girlfriend. She was arrested for having too many parking tickets, just like Steve. Steve's guessing that Drew was the one who arrested him. He only had to wait 27 years to get back at him. |
| 9:59
| Shortly after her arrest Peterson stopped following Kyle Piry. She is now happily married and following the case in the media. |
| 10:00
| Steve still thinks we should search the strip clubs for Stacy Peterson. A lot of times those girls just stay in hotel rooms near the clubs. That's a search that even Drew could get behind. |
