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| 5:30
| A lot of people don't know that Boys of Summer was written about Buzz. It was during his fling with Don Henley. Was that six months long? |
| 5:31
| Six days, six months, six years, who remembers back then. That's a little Jack music right there. Steve's been listening to Jack a bit but there's a little too much dance music on the weekends. |
| 5:32
| Buzz thinks Steve doesn't like the dance music because he doesn't dance. Todd Cavanah is a bit of a metrosexual and they tend to lean towards the dance music on the weekends. |
| 5:33
| Buzz dances but only around the house with the rest of the family. He's smart enough to not dance when he leaves the house. Thinking back through Buzz's dating past he only danced when there was a girl involved. |
| 5:34
| There was one night at Exit where he danced with a girl but he didn't pull anything out of there. He should have gone back though. When a Buzz Kilman hits Exit in his billowy shirt good things are gonna happen. Why does Steve see him dancing like John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever? |
| 5:35
| Steve doesn't like to dance, publicly or privately. If you want to dance you sort of have to go nuts. Pat's getting married in a few weeks and there's a lot of pressure to dance at weddings in general but more so when it's your son. |
| 5:36
| Steve's planning on going into the garage and breaking his own leg so he won't have to dance. He'll put his leg up on a table and hit it with a sledgehammer. Janet's big concern now is that everyone in the family will break their leg before the wedding. She slipped at the Merchandise Mart the other day. That gave Steve the idea to break his own leg. |
| 5:37
| If Steve breaks his leg he won't have to walk down the aisle or do any of the dancing. He'll just hire a valet to push him around. |
| 5:38
| Dancing at weddings can be awkward. Buzz remembers that he and Aimee ended up picking a 6 minute song for their first dance. That was Stairway right? It was beautiful. |
| 5:39
| They picked a Garth Brooks song, which Buzz likes, but after a few minutes he couldn't take it any more. Buzz can never remember the name of the song although it seems like he should know it. |
| 5:40
| Steve's going through the Garth Brooks songs and he can't find any that are 6 minutes long. |
| 5:41
| Steve doesn't remember what song he and Janet danced to but it was probably something by Stevie Wonder. Steve still gets a lot of grief for hiring a bad wedding band and all they knew was stuff from Talking Book or Songs in the Key of Life. |
| 5:42
| Steve was at the hockey game last night. He actually has an email to read but he should probably take a break. He also promised a guy he ran into at the game last night that he'd play Bolingbrookville between 5:30 and 6:00. The guy seemed pretty impressed that Steve could play the song whenever. |
| 5:48
| Steve is sorting through his emails, including the 100,000 or so that have the Drew Peterson/Cowardly Lion comparison. You know they look alike. Weren't Steve and Buzz the first ones to say that? Now it's all over the internet and they're not getting credit. |
| 5:49
| Steve's having trouble finding the email he was looking for. He needs to call up to the office to discuss some procedural issues. |
| 5:50
| Stephanie shouldn't wait until Monday morning to delete a bunch of emails out from under Steve. Didn't they talk about deleting the oldest ones first? |
| 5:51
| Stephanie was deleting old ones from the bottom but then there were a bunch of old ones on the top. That's very illogical, did Tina and Stephanie cook that one up? |
| 5:52
| Steve was looking for one from a guy who accused him of causing the Hawks to start losing now that he has season tickets. Stephanie might have deleted that one though. |
| 5:53
| What happened was that Steve purged his emails and a bunch of old ones showed up. Of course now everyone knows that Stephanie is answering Steve's emails. It's OK though, she's been here for a while so she's qualified. |
| 5:54
| Anyway the emailer accused Steve of bringing the Hawks bad luck and also said that every other team he has season tickets for sucks because of him. Steve was going to point out that he bought his Sox season tickets in 2005 and they went on to win the World Series, then he bought Bears season tickets last year, they went to the Super Bowl. |
| 5:55
| Then the guy asked Steve if he had Bull season tickets, which he doesn't. Steve can't go to Bulls games, it's too nerve-racking with the gym shoe squeaking and everything. Plus they wait until the last few minutes of the game to dial up the crazy. |
| 5:56
| Steve's going to make this an official Mailbag segment although he did promise that guy that he'd play Bolingbrookville between 5:30 and 6:00. The guy does listen after 6:00 though. |
| 5:57
| Steve looked the guy right in the eyes-as he was pouring a beer from a bottle to a cup so he could take it out of the bar- and promised that he'd play the song between 5:30 and 6:00. |
| 5:58
| Song: Bolingbrookville, Steve Dahl |
| 6:01
| Alright, there you go. Steve got most of that one in before 6:00. Steve's not sure if he'll see that guy again at a game. All the grown men in hockey jerseys look the same to Steve. |
| 6:02
| That song was recorded with a Shure SM-58 microphone, which Steve keeps along with his other recording stuff in a drawer in his house. |
| 6:03
| Matt and Brendan are doing a webcast from Matt's apartment today. It's not a porno webcast, although it could sound untoward. Matt was scrounging around for mics yesterday and Steve didn't want to give him that one. |
| 6:04
| Whatever Steve gives Matt, he'll never see again. The only thing Matt remembers to bring back home is his dog, Walter. Then when Steve says he doesn't want the dog to come to the house Janet accuses him of putting up a wall between him and Matt. Once Steve gets his earplugs from Walgreen's he'll be fine. |
| 6:05
| Steve didn't want to part with that microphone but at the same time he didn't think it was right to withhold them. Pete has at least 6 of those in his studio, he should give them to Brendan so Steve can get his back. |
| 6:06
| Pete should feel free to freshen up the audio from Bolingbrookville, there was some great stuff over the weekend. He was en fuego. He had the great joke "How many Drew Peterson's does it take to screw in a light bulb" as he was changing bulbs on his porch. |
| 6:07
| But then he did crying Drew talking to a cute female reporter. He'll only talk to cute female reporters who are local and any network reporters. |
| 6:08
| OK, back to the email. The first email is from someone who misses Steve's afternoon show. Steve can't take anyone telling him that any more. Everyday between 2:00-7:00 Steve is driven nuts knowing that he turned over the #1 audience in afternoons to a bunch of knuckleheads. |
| 6:09
| Buzz was thanked by one of those people the other day. It does make Steve feel a little better knowing those other shows couldn't get ratings on their own. |
| 6:10
| Steve tells people to listen to the podcast in the afternoon but then people complain that not all the audio is on there. Steve knows that. Last week he had to lobby to get promos for this show to air throughout the rest of the day on Jack. |
| 6:11
| Steve and Buzz might need to put up some ratings at the station though. Right now it seems like they're Jack's dirty little secret although Todd seems impressed that they do a good show everyday. |
| 6:12
| This week Steve's going to work on getting all the audio on the podcasts. Pretty soon podcast listeners will count towards ratings so it seems like it's in everyone's best interest to make that happen. |
| 6:13
| OK so this emailer can only listen from 8:30 to 9:00 every morning but she got to listen more in the afternoons. Steve does care that people miss the afternoon show. It would be like if he lost a limb and people said "hey remember how great it was when you were walking around everywhere?" |
| 6:14
| The emailer says she always hears David Hochberg or the Townstone Financial live read when she's listening between 8:30 and 9:00. Steve doesn't always read that between 8:30 and 9:00 but there are some people who really hate David. Steve thinks it might be anti-semitism. |
| 6:15
| The next emailer has a joint email address with his wife which Steve always thinks is weird. Sometimes he thinks that's a guy who's just hiding some really weird internet stuff he's into. |
| 6:16
| This emailer was hesitant to correct Steve, even though he sent the email anyway. In Steve's blog he spelled Shure without the H. He also wanted to correct Buzz who says The Mity Nice Grill but it's just Mity Nice Grill. Those are some huge mistakes Steve and Buzz are making. |
| 6:17
| The emailer was hesitant to correct that but again, he couldn't wait to fire this one off at 10:00 PM last night. |
| 6:18
| Steve would rather have the blog corrected then not corrected though. He counts on Ed to catch some of those, he claims he was a journalism major. Ever since Steve hired Adam Ed has become the jilted lover. |
| 6:19
| As it turns out Adam is a little bossy pants. He's like 3 feet tall and he's walking around like Napoleon. He's even bossing Steve around! He uses the same incendiary language that Ed does too. |
| 6:20
| Computer guys never really play well together. Adam's a bossy pants but sometimes you need that to get things done. He got those coffee mugs for starters. |
| 6:21
| That might be where the issue began. Ed designed the mug but the supplier was going to charge $8 or $9 a mug which is too much. Where's the profit? Adam got the price down to $3 a mug. |
| 6:22
| Steve calls down the Adam's office. The way that Ed might prevail is that Steve hasn't seen a single mug yet. They're being delivered today but we were pre-selling them on Dahl.com. |
| 6:23
| Why does Steve see Ed waiting in the loading dock to intercept the mug delivery and then sink the boxes into the Cal-Sag channel? |
| 6:28
| Steve needs to close up the Mailbag. That was three emails even though he had to paraphrase the first one. Again just for the record he bought Sox tickets in 2005 and they won the World Series. He bought Bears tickets last year and they went to the Super Bowl. |
| 6:29
| Steve only just got Hawks season tickets and sure they're on a 5 game losing streak but they won the first 2 games. Hockey is crazy and as it turns out that second intermission isn't as bad. |
| 6:30
| Last night the Zamboni driver remembered that he knew Steve and gave him a wave through the glass. Steve knew him from the Stadium, he used to go to a lot of Hawks games. |
| 6:31
| On Friday Mike Dahl, of Comcast Sportsnet, unearthed an old video of Steve and Garry, Puckheads. |
| 6:32
| If Steve still did the afternoon show he wouldn't want to go to a hockey game after finishing the show at 7:00. But now he's ready to come back down here and go to a 7:30 game. |
| 6:33
| People have been asking Steve how he likes getting up early. He actually likes it a lot. He wakes up at 4:00, he's got all his clothes laid out and when he gets here no one else is around. |
| 6:34
| Steve is guessing that once the baseball season starts he'll go to more Sox games too. When you finish a show at 7:00 you don't want to go to a 7:11 game. |
| 6:35
| Steve thinks he has hockey all figured out now. He listens to the post-game with Troy Murray on the way home and he talks about a lot of stuff. He's a former player so he knows a lot plus he's always taking calls from disgruntled fans who have very specific questions. |
| 6:36
| Steve's very close to taking skating lessons and not just because he wants a broken leg for the wedding. He thinks he'd like playing hockey and they have leagues for old people. Those guys have probably been skating for a while but Steve's a quick learner and he's huge so all he'll have to do is get himself going in the right direction. Plus you get a stick to hit people with. Steve sees himself as one of the goons on his team. He's sort of insane and it doesn't take much for him to go completely berserk. |
| 6:37
| Caller Dave wanted to throw Steve and Buzz a shout-out. They make his mornings. He likes the afternoons but he likes the mornings better. There was nothing but bonehead radio before Steve and Buzz got here. |
| 6:38
| Dave just wanted to be a little more positive since everyone was being so negative about the mornings. People weren't really being negative, they just missed Steve in the afternoons. |
| 6:39
| It seems like being on in the mornings has put Steve and Buzz a little more into the mainstream but there hasn't been much marketing. Jill from WCKG was hired at WJMK but so far Steve hasn't seen any marketing going on. Dave was in Florida working for a month and when he came back Steve wasn't on WCKG. That's what Steve is talking about. |
| 6:40
| Jill's a banner hanger and that doesn't do Steve any good. She'll probably just tell Steve they don't have money for marketing. It doesn't seem like there's any going on though other than Steve telling people he runs into what happened. |
| 6:41
| Yesterday Steve was out for a run and his neighbor flagged him down to ask where he went. This is Steve's neighbor and he doesn't even know! At least Jill could follow Steve around in the Jack Hummer with a loudspeaker telling everyone about the move to mornings. |
| 6:48
| It's Blue Monday and maybe some headlines with Buzz coming up if he's ready? |
| 6:49
| Headlines with Buzz |
| 6:50
| Two communities 80 miles apart in Colorado are reeling after shootings at places of worship which left 5 dead. At one incident the shooter was killed. |
| 6:51
| Maybe it's the same shooter? Steve doesn't know the timeline but they probably would have figured that out. |
| 6:52
| Michael Vick will be sentenced today, as will Conrad Black who faces up to 30 years. He's not the least bit scared of going to prison. What's he going to say? He can't go in saying he's afraid, he'll be raped the first day. That's what happened to Steve. Next time he's going in as a badass with tattoos and everything. |
| 6:53
| NASA scrapped yesterday's shuttle launch which means Dan Tani will be up there until January. We'll have to talk to him during the holidays. Buzz imagines it gets lonely out in space. |
| 6:54
| Steve thought Dan said that the woman and the Russian guy on the ISS are going home on a Russian shuttle but they'll probably be replaced by two other crew members. |
| 6:55
| Steve feels that NASA needs to redesign the shorts that the astronauts are wearing. They look like Hooters shorts. |
| 6:56
| Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee addressed comments he made in 1992 that AIDS patients should be quarantined. |
| 6:57
| Meanwhile Oprah took to the campaign trail with Barack Obama in South Carolina. What's with everyone talking like a preacher if they're black and on stage? Oprah doesn't normally go preacher on her show and Barack went to Harvard. He probably didn't talk like a Southern preacher at Harvard. |
| 6:58
| Steve has some more Oprah audio from the weekend. She says "South Carolina" about 10 times. You know where they were? South Carolina, fortunately. |
| 6:59
| Time for today's Dahl.com web poll, which ties in with the Oprah/Obama stuff. "Who would be more fun to get high with?" and the options are Oprah, Obama and Steve Dahl, back in the day. Although depending on the circumstances and what we'll get high with, Steve might roll with you. |
| 7:00
| OK back to the speechifyin'. It's just so funny that they talk like that, especially Oprah. Where's the Oprah who got up at the Tony's to introduce The Color Purple. She couldn't have been more full of herself. She knows her audience. |
| 7:01
| Oprah was born in Mississippi and raised in Tennessee which has nothing to do with South Carolina. Both of those states are actually close to Illinois than South Carolina is. |
| 7:02
| She knows what it means to be born in the South, in 1954. What does that mean? Steve loves how she includes herself in everything. Is she trying to signify that she was part of the Civil Rights movement? |
| 7:03
| Barack Obama is no better, he gets up on stage and does the same stuff. He totally gets off on it, it's like he's doing a character. |
| 7:04
| Barack is heading to LA today to campaign with the Goo Goo Dolls. That has to make Brad Pitt feel awful. |
| 7:05
| Oprah's stepping out of her pew to campaign which doesn't mean she stinks. She was raised in the church and baptized when she was 8. How is that different than anyone else? |
| 7:06
| Oprah has been disappointed by politicians in the past, she's been apathetic. But then she realized that apathy is the attitude that disappointment is normal. Who wrote that one for her? Maya Angelou? The audience didn't even realize what a clever line that was. |
| 7:07
| Steve is guessing Oprah has never voted before. Now she believes there's a new vision for America. What exactly is this vision? Steve gets that Obama is a new face in politics and he's not an insider but it seems like you have to be an insider to get things done. |
| 7:08
| Andrew Young, Atlanta's former mayor, says that you need to put the hardcore politicians around Barack otherwise he'll be crucified. Buzz is up on all the Andrew Young quotes but he was pulled in by the headline where he said Bill Clinton is blacker than Obama. |
| 7:09
| Did Oprah just realize she could vote? Someone should ask her if she's ever voted. |
| 7:10
| Buzz is wondering if Pete has the Oprah/Tony speech, he'd like to do a comparison with this. |
| 7:11
| In the meantime we can go back to the Oprah in South Carolina stuff. We have one Congress and one president in this country. Wait, Steve needs to write this down. |
| 7:12
| Caller Liz wanted to let Steve know that Oprah hasn't voted in an election since 1988. That's one more time than Steve thought. There hasn't been much going on in the last 19 years. |
| 7:13
| Steve's going to take a break and then get back to this Oprah stuff. Then Obama comes on and talks like Oprah. |
| 7:14
| You need to be an insider to be president. And you can't just go in there and change stuff. The Clinton's tried that and they got a few things done but it was brutal at first. Then they finished him off with an impeach mean for doing stuff in his office that the rest of them do anyway. |
| 7:22
| There's Oprah from the Tony's, she had a New York/Broadway accent going. She's sort of like a chameleon. |
| 7:23
| Live read: The Little Guys |
| 7:24
| Caller Kevin was thinking the same thing about Oprah, whoever she's with she's talking just like that person. |
| 7:25
| Kevin was trying to go to sleep and his girlfriend was watching the news. They were talking about Oprahpalooza. If her voice was just a little deeper she would have sounded just like Barack Obama. |
| 7:26
| Steve gives his best to Kevin's girlfriend. Kevin already gave her his best. That's exactly how Steve imagined that would play out. |
| 7:27
| Pat Boyle is on the phone. Pat's favorite Oprah stuff is her "Favorite Things" episode. "YOU'VE GOT TO GET THESE SLIPPERS!!!!!" |
| 7:28
| She should have introduced Barack as one of her favorite things. "YOU'VE GOT TO GET THIS MAN AS PRESIDENT!" |
| 7:29
| As everyone knows, Oprah likes books. Doesn't everyone like books? Steve doesn't, he was trying to read a book but the dog knocked it off the chair, he lost his place and then gave up. |
| 7:30
| Pat's a little fidgety today. Should Steve put him on hold? God knows what he's doing. He's probably in his underpants. |
| 7:31
| And now Obama's finally coming out and he's shaking hands with everyone. IT'S OBAMA TIME! |
| 7:32
| Oprah can pretty much say anything and they're going to love it. She could drift into old movie reviews. |
| 7:33
| Eventually he hurries up to the stage after realizing he's left Oprah hanging like a sleeve for a minute and a half. He'll hear about that on the G4 when they head up to New Hampshire. |
| 7:34
| At the end they do some shots from behind Oprah, hopefully they reinforced that stage. |
| 7:35
| Buzz has a few more stories but first Steve would like to publicly complain about something. The newspaper he gets every morning is addressed to Tina. So she lets Steve read it? |
| 7:36
| Buzz thinks the paper is more likely to be stolen if Steve's name is on there. Buzz doesn't think it's that big of a deal though. |
| 7:37
| Now that Steve says it out loud it doesn't seem like a big deal. If Buzz isn't backing him then it seems stupid. |
| 7:38
| Al Sharpton is threatening to sink Chicago's Olympic dreams if they don't turn their attention to police brutality. What if we just beat him up? That'll shut him up. |
| 7:39
| The Joliet woman who claimed Michael Flatley raped her will have to pay him $11 million. Some of that is Lacher's money. This might be the time for him to step up. |
| 7:40
| Classes have been canceled at NIU after some troubling graffiti was found over the weekend. This is finals week at NIU, coincidence? |
| 7:45
| Oprah was down in Savannah for her "Favorite Things" and she threw down a little Southern accent. Everyone does that but Oprah is very pronounced. |
| 7:46
| Alright Pat Boyle from Comcast Sportsnet is on the phone. It was nice to not have the Bears game yesterday. |
| 7:47
| The NFL might need to rethink the Thursday night football thing. At this point in the season most teams aren't equipped for that quick turnaround. If they want exclusivity they should move the game to Saturday. They don't even have college games at this point in the year. |
| 7:48
| The extra time also allowed for the newspapers to have more time to rip into Ron Turner. Steve thinks there's a good chance Turner will get canned. He was a McCaskey family corporate shove down. |
| 7:49
| They need to get rid of Turner and bring back Rivera and Thomas Jones. As it turns out that Thomas Jones trade was huge. Jones is a bull, he's a warrior, he's a leader. Cedric Benson is none of those things. He's a lid of pot away from being Ricky Williams. Do they sell pot in lids any more? |
| 7:50
| There was some good football yesterday though. Steve saw the Dallas and Green Bay games and then some of the Pats game before he went to the Hawks game. |
| 7:51
| The Hawks have lost 4 in a row but they've played some really good teams. They're outshooting their opponents but they're not beating them. |
| 7:52
| Norm Van Lier shot the puck during intermission last night, the game was on Comcast. |
| 7:53
| Buzz is wondering if there's any talk about this incredible run the Dolphins are on. They're about to become the only team that went undefeated in one season and then defeated in another season. |
| 7:54
| The Dolphins will play the Patriots in two weeks but it doesn't seem like anyone is going to beat New England. Yesterday's game looked like Tom Brady and Randy Moss were just messing around in the backyard. |
| 7:55
| Bill Belichick is so arrogant that he actually ran a play that the Steelers ran in the playoffs two years ago. And it worked! |
| 7:56
| Steve loves when Pat comes in with the stats of course. Tom Brady has 5 interceptions for the entire season. 5! |
| 7:57
| There's one stat Steve would have liked to know about last February, the one about 6 of the last 7 Super Bowl losers not making the playoffs in the following year. That might have tempered Steve's enthusiasm a little bit. |
| 7:58
| Steve hopes the Bears lose their last 4 games just so some big change happens with the team. We'll get a better draft pick too. |
| 7:59
| If Kyle Orton comes in though Steve would like to see them win. It would be great if he was our franchise QB. |
| 8:00
| The Bulls beat the Pistons on Friday but then they lost to the Celtics on Saturday. Pat was at the game on Saturday, it doesn't seem like they have enough star power on the floor. |
| 8:01
| The Bulls had a chance to get Kevin Garnett a couple of years ago and they didn't pull the trigger. |
| 8:02
| Steve was accused, via email over the weekend, with cursing the Hawks, Bears and Sox by buying season tickets. Once again he'd like to point out that he bought Sox tickets in '05 and they won it all. He bought Bears tickets last year and they went to the Super Bowl. |
| 8:03
| If the Hawks make the playoffs Steve is taking credit for it. He can't guarantee what will happen next year though. |
| 8:04
| Pat thinks Jack should put together some sort of promotion at Hawks games for Steve. He could drop the first puck or something. |
| 8:05
| Steve just wants to go to the games, he doesn't want to be on the ice. He'll just get booed, they always boo the fat guy. The cast of Jersey Boys dropped the puck the other night and they were all booed. Steve wouldn't be surprised if they all went back to their hotel rooms and committed suicide. |
| 8:06
| Song: Bolingbrookville, Steve Dahl |
| 8:09
| Come home Stacy! That's all Drew is asking! At some point here today Drew is available for an Ask Drew segment. |
| 8:10
| As a newsman Buzz has full access to Drew for any questions he might have for him. |
| 8:11
| For the first time in 40 days the people at Pheasant Chase Court were free of the media. News crews pulled up stakes on Sunday night. Wasn't Drew giving them enough? He was out there with the nice "you're watching Fox news promo" and then he was changing the light bulb on the front porch! |
| 8:12
| Drew showed off some of his stomach when he changed the light bulb, for the ladies. He might be back on the market. |
| 8:13
| Just a few months ago Drew probably imagined that all his Sunday nights would be as sleepy. But for the last 6 weeks he's been the crowd pleaser for the media. |
| 8:14
| And hasn't he pleased the crowd? Sometimes he went out as Drew the jokester, sometimes he was a little sad and sometimes he just told it like it is. He got Stacy a boob job and braces and hair removal. |
| 8:15
| Maybe Drew should call Amy Jacobson for an exclusive. Perhaps she'd like to freelance. Drew is way better looking than Craig Stebic. Lisa Stebic was good looking but Stacy is way hotter. |
| 8:16
| Who's got the hotter missing wife?! It's Drew! He'd probably take a shot at Lisa Stebic if he had the chance though. |
| 8:17
| Is there an answer to the "how many Peterson's does it take to change a light bulb" joke? It's just one, that's an implied punchline. |
| 8:18
| These were supposed to be the golden years for Drew Peterson who's now 53. Are they really the golden years? He only retired because she went missing. |
| 8:19
| Pam Bosco, spokesperson for Stacy's family, said the search for Stacy will continue today though. And it seems like a great day for it. |
| 8:20
| Drew will be in court this week attempting to get back 2 cars, 11 guns, ammo, computer equipment, CDs and school books that were seized from his house. He needs to have his guns and his kids need their iPods. Drew's not in the position to buy new ones because he's not getting his pension yet. |
| 8:21
| The media must figure viewers only have a 6 weeks attention span with this stuff. If they all left at once it must have been an agreement between everyone. There's not much going on right now. |
| 8:22
| The media seems to be copycats. If you're ever watching the news and flipping to different stations they're all doing the same stories. |
| 8:23
| Maybe Steve will set up out at Drew's house. Maybe he'll get invited in to order a pizza and get a tour of the house. |
| 8:28
| Drew put the Christmas tree up over the weekend and it was emotional for him. As you can imagine it went very smoothly, there was no yelling or fighting. It seems like the best part is getting the tree on your car, after that it's all downhill. |
| 8:29
| Our own Jim kid went to go cut down a Christmas tree a few weeks ago. Steve calls down to the newsroom. |
| 8:30
| Jim corrects Steve, he didn't actually get a tree. His girlfriend did though and his parents did. Steve feels like he's in a grand jury hearing here, he has to ask the right questions. Jim didn't get a tree for his apartment but his girlfriend got one. |
| 8:31
| The best part is getting the tree on your car though right? After that you get sap on your hands trying to put it up and then it's crooked and you can't straighten it and then there are needles all over the ground. You just killed the tree, why are the needles falling off already?! |
| 8:32
| Jim's parents met his girlfriends parents while cutting down trees, how did that go? Did they all enjoy some apple cider and donuts afterwards? Jim did have an apple cider donut and some free hot cocoa. Everything went well though and afterwards the families went to Portillo's. Was it a Portillo's/Barnelli's combo? |
| 8:33
| Jim went with the Italian beef but he should have gotten a beef and a hot dog. In those situations your best bet is to go with the combo. Buzz had no idea there was a beef/hot dog combo! |
| 8:34
| How long has Buzz lived here? It's a beef and sausage combo. He's never had one in the 30 years he's lived here. Does he know the difference between sweet and hot peppers? Does he know what dipped is?! |
| 8:35
| Speaking of cocoa, Steve was in Pete's studio earlier and it was very quiet and Pete was two-handing a cup of coffee. It was like one of those International Coffees commercials where the two women are talking about how it's "their time." |
| 8:36
| What kind of coffee is Pete running through the perculator? He finally got the Intelligentsia, from a listener, so that's what he's using today. How do all the listeners short circuit Steve and get to Pete? Steve's the one who made Pete Zimmerman palatable to the ladies. |
| 8:37
| Pete is also getting some egg nog from a listener. Why doesn't anyone get Steve anything? His trainer is always talking about getting him some Intelligentsia coffee but he never comes through. It's right across the street, just go get it! |
| 8:38
| Live read: Townstone Financial |
| 8:39
| Didn't that emailer complain that she always hears the Townstone live read when she's listening between 8:30 and 9:00? |
| 8:40
| David's funny when Steve is talking to him though. It doesn't always happen between 8:30 and 9:00 though. |
| 8:41
| Live read: Jacob Ruth |
| 8:47
| Our own Pete Zimmerman has a Christmas tree but it's fake. That seems even weirder to Steve. How tall is it? |
| 8:48
| It's a five footer which is pretty small. When Buzz was living alone, in his swinging bachelor days his tree was about 2 feet. That was the condom tree right? We all remember those days. |
| 8:49
| What does Pete decorate the tree with, human bones and shrunken heads? Killers always keep souvenirs from their victims so maybe he's got women's bracelets up there or something. |
| 8:50
| Pete has various decorations that he's acquired over the years. Didn't he go get a Marshall Field's commemorative ornament before they closed up? Should we all just chip in so Pete can get the surgery? He can use Steve's miles to fly to Denmark. |
| 8:51
| Pete spent a lovely Saturday evening watching the Christmas episodes of his favorite TV shows. Steve was forced into decorating the front door this weekend, he almost had a complete personality breakdown. |
| 8:52
| They just had the front door painted so Steve didn't want to hammer nails into it. But there's nothing at the hardware store to hang the wreath and garland up though. The 3M hooks only work above 50º. |
| 8:53
| Steve refused to accept the easiest, best way to hang the stuff on the door which is nails and twist ties. Ultimately he went that way but it was a horrible 2 hours before that where Steve was stomping around and trying to hurl himself off the roof. Then he gets no credit for decorating the door. If he'd had a gun he would have killed someone. |
| 8:54
| Steve's a perfectionist. A perfectionist can't put something up that's only going to be there for 3 weeks. If something goes up it's going up forever. Then Steve's up on a step ladder hanging the decorations and everyone driving by is seeing his fat ass. Every few minutes he'd go inside and start yelling "why are you making me do this?!" |
| 8:55
| Live read: Gladstone Homes |
| 8:56
| Headlines with Buzz |
| 8:57
| Colorado authorities are still trying to piece together two shootings at houses of worship over the weekend. The gunmen in the first shooting was killed on the other suspect is still at large. |
| 8:58
| It's gotta be the same guy! Case closed! |
| 8:59
| Al Gore was in Norway to receive his Nobel Prize. He said thank you and a few other things. Did he mention how cold it was? |
| 9:00
| Michael Vick is being sentenced in Richmond, Virginia today. The bad news is his judge is a dog lover. |
| 9:01
| The Los Angeles film critics gave out a bunch of awards over the weekend. The Romanian drama about a backstreet abortionist took best foreign film and Vlad Ivanov won best foreign actor. |
| 9:02
| Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood won best film. |
| 9:03
| Britney Spears was nearly busted for shoplifting. She took a lighter from a gas station and flashed it took reporters saying she stole it. Is she nuts? She later returned to pay for it. |
| 9:04
| Steve thought he read something last week, maybe in the Enquirer, where Britney was going to pay someone to date her. Steve thinks that maybe Drew Peterson should read us the Enquirer every week. |
| 9:05
| There's a winter storm advisory in effect today. How much snow are we going to get? Because Steve doesn't want to get up any earlier than 4:00. Of course Mary is up at 1:00 AM and Pete is up at 2:00 AM. |
| 9:06
| Brendan of course gets up at 5:15. Jim says he gets up at 3:30. What time does Brendan really get up? He's also up at 3:30 just to keep up with Jim. |
| 9:07
| Brendan seems to have improved a little bit over the last couple of weeks. Steve had to yell at him because his hangdog look was bringing him down. |
| 9:08
| Travel could become very difficult tomorrow morning. Steve might have to get a hotel room downtown then. Does Buzz want to hear the weather from Tommy Skillethead? |
| 9:09
| Freezing rain or sleet will develop by late tonight and continue into the morning hours. Rapid accumulation could occur on elevated objects like trees and power lines. So there could be power outages too. |
| 9:10
| Tommy accidentally said "WCKG listening audience" but it slid right by Buzz. The WCKG listening audience doesn't even exist any more. |
| 9:11
| Tommy meant to say the WJMK listening audience. Jack it up! And don't forget to wear your jackets. |
| 9:12
| Without any marketing Tommy Skillethead doesn't even know what station we're on. When Steve's out for a run in his neighborhood, completely covered up and unrecognizable, and his neighbor stops him to ask what station he's on, that tells him we need to get on the marketing pronto. |
| 9:13
| Britney Spears offered a hotel waiter $25,000 to be her boyfriend and appear in a music video with her. This is from some blog called Celebrity Cowboy which seems a bit stupid. |
| 9:14
| The blogger says she'd need more than $25,000 to date Britney if she were a guy. She's not a guy though! Steve would date her for free. He'd pay her $5,000 just to nail her. |
| 9:15
| Steve thought he saw something in the Enquirer but he can't find the one he had last week. He must have thrown it out. |
| 9:16
| The Enquirer is right behind Steve, that's where he threw it out. Farrah Fawcett's cancer is back Buzz. There's a lot of stuff about Cindy Crawford in here too. |
| 9:22
| Alright this is from the Enquirer with Drew on the cover. Should Drew read it? WIthout the media presence at his house we won't have all the great quote from him. |
| 9:23
| Britney Spears offered a waiter $25,000 to be her boyfriend and appear in a video. The waiter says the whole thing is stressing him out. |
| 9:24
| What's wrong with guys today? How does it even come to her having to offer him money? Just go do it in the coat closet! |
| 9:25
| An insider says he's worried Britney will use him and he'll get hurt. There's a picture of him too, he's not that good looking. |
| 9:26
| Steve and Buzz can offer her their package deal for free. She probably doesn't want to go with the older guys though. |
| 9:27
| If this is true Britney seems crazy which is sweet. 9 times out of 10 the Enquirer is accurate. |
| 9:28
| A while back they actually upgraded their credibility a bit. At some point they realized they could be a legitimate celeb news source. |
| 9:29
| Steve was looking for Celebitchy which was a link on the Celeb Cowboy page but it's not on Mark's page any more. |
| 9:29
| Live read: Allen Brothers |
| 9:30
| Steve completely fried his brain trying to find the Celebitchy link. It's like on Heroes when the two mindreaders talk to each other. |
| 9:31
| Last night on Dexter he panned fried two steaks. He and his sister were moaning about how good they were but they didn't look good to Buzz. |
| 9:32
| It made Buzz wonder if it's possible to pan fry a steak and have it turn out OK. You probably can if you know how to but there's nothing better than grilling. |
| 9:33
| Steve can't believe he lost this Celebitchy link. One minute it was there and the next minute it wasn't. |
| 9:34
| Could Mark Czerniec call in maybe? The original link from Celeb Cowboy was sent by Brendan so right there Mark isn't happy. He wouldn't deign to put something like that on his page. |
| 9:35
| Mark Czerniec is on the phone. He took the link down before Steve even started reading it. What time does Mark get up in the morning? |
| 9:36
| Mark gets up at 4:50 but he has nowhere to go. He does have to gather news for his page and it's all there for Steve and Buzz right at 5:30. |
| 9:37
| Just for the record Buzz comes in with his own news. Steve knew he'd offended Buzz as soon as he said that. As soon as Buzz is up he's online checking the news. |
| 9:38
| Mark just wanted to throw in some positive words on pan frying steak. The French and Belgians have been doing it for years. It's very European. |
| 9:39
| If Buzz actually waits to learn to grill a steak he'll never do it. He needs to get himself a good skillet for the pan frying. |
| 9:40
| Mark is recommending Anthony Bourdain's Les Halles cookbook, there's probably a steak-frite recipe in there. |
| 9:41
| For the record, Mark would only need $10,000 to date Britney. Steve would pay her and imagine how freaky she'd be then. It would probably change the entire dynamic. |
| 9:42
| It seems like Britney would like an older guy, she needs a father figure. |
| 9:43
| Steve feels bad for Britney, she's just stumbling around LA and the paparazzi are everywhere. She can't do anything privately. |
| 9:44
| Buzz remembers that HBO special she did a few years ago. He had to watch it in installments because he couldn't handle it all at once. |
| 9:45
| Steve didn't even mind that thing she did at the MTV awards a few months ago. That's when everyone said she'd gotten chunky. |
| 9:51
| Is Buzz sure they were eating beef on Dexter? Dexter loves steak, it's right in the opening credits. |
| 9:52
| Live read: Jacob Ruth |
| 9:53
| Buzz should fry up a steak this week but he needs the right pan. Should Steve send someone out to get one? |
| 9:54
| Buzz would be glad to pay for the pan but he doesn't know which kind to get. So if Steve sent someone out they'd get the right pan. |
| 9:55
| We'll need to get Buzz some steaks too. And Anthony Bourdain's cookbook. Chef Hans probably knows how to pan fry a steak. |
| 9:56
| Hans will probably bring Buzz a pan and some steaks. That seems like a better idea than Steve sending someone on his payroll over to Macy's. Buzz feels he'd never hear the end of it. |
| 9:57
| The pan fried steak on Dexter didn't look good to Buzz. The coloring was spotty, it looked like a prison meal. |
| 9:58
| Chef Hans could probably get all that together for Buzz though. For some reason Brendan is the only person who knows how to get in touch with Chef Hans and he's not giving that up. That makes him priceless. |
| 9:59
| Brendan's slow delivery might be easier for Hans to understand. He needs to remind Hans about the cologne ban. Steve's not the only one who can smell it either. |
