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| 5:30
| That's KISS of course, Rock and Roll All Night. Buzz is having his mic attended to, it fell of it's mooring. There were also new windscreens attached, it looks more like Steve and Buzz are in a recording studio. |
| 5:31
| Is Buzz refusing to talk into the mic? The old windscreen was just a sponge which seems dirty. It probably was dirty. |
| 5:32
| Steve had to buy the windscreens himself because the station isn't allowing for any capital expenditures until after the first of the year. He bought five of them because there are five microphones and Steve likes everything to be the same. |
| 5:33
| The old sponges were kept just in case we didn't like the new windscreens. It seemed like Buzz was on the verge of a meltdown because of it. |
| 5:34
| The new screen is a plastic hoop with nylon stretched over it. It helps stop P popping. Back in the day people used to take a cross-stitching hoop and stretch pantyhose over it. |
| 5:35
| Buzz can't believe Steve cares about the look of the windscreen. He just wants it to look cool when people come by for the tour. |
| 5:36
| Steve had to give Steve the engineer something to do yesterday so he installed the windscreens. He had previously broken his heart after asking for an equalizer. |
| 5:37
| On somedays Steve likes to hear the high end and sometimes he likes to hear the low end. The whole goal when you're in the studio is not notice how you sound. |
| 5:38
| Steve the engineer got a really complicated equalizer, the kind the use for an entire station. So it was overkill. He installed it on Monday so it was here when Steve came in yesterday. |
| 5:39
| The first thing he noticed was that there was a hum, which he worked through for the first 5 minutes. He didn't complain either. Steve knew there was another place to plug his headphones in but then he wouldn't be able to hear Mary. |
| 5:40
| So Steve unplugged the entire equalizer. When Steve the engineer came down he was expecting Steve to say how great it was but instead he went nuts. Steve the engineer said he heard the hum, didn't think Steve would like it, but left it in anyway. Then Steve went nuts on him. |
| 5:41
| Steve might have hurt the engineer's feelings but then he came back later with Jack t-shirts to buy everyone off. He did buy Buzz off with a B96 t-shirt. |
| 5:42
| Steve's on a new trucker speed, can you tell? He's thinking of switching to the pharmaceutical grade like the hockey players use. |
| 5:43
| Steve's also back to courting the girl at Dunkin' Donuts. He figured that absence would make the heart grow fonder. He ordered a black iced coffee and she said "black ice" which sort of ties in with the weather. |
| 5:44
| Steve gave her a five and left the $2 and change as a tip. He's thinking about going breakfast sandwich but he doesn't want to wait for it. |
| 5:45
| Buzz didn't even know they had breakfast sandwiches. They have a full array of items. It seems like the girl at Dunkin' Donuts knows who Steve is though. |
| 5:46
| Steve can't even tell if the girl is cute. She might look like a Pakistani dude but she's got a nose ring which he finds hot. It's hot in a going to the Middle East kind of way. Is that the Middle East? What do you call India and Pakistan? Buzz thinks it's the Far East. |
| 5:47
| Steve went tanning yesterday, Buzz hasn't even noticed. It's early though, he hasn't woken up. When you go to a shopping center at 7 pm you don't get the A crew, anywhere. |
| 5:48
| Tyrone's checking in with some traffic. He also wanted to say that he's offended by the term "black ice". They always say it's the most dangerous kind of ice. Someone needs to call Al Sharpton. |
| 5:49
| Buzz is wondering what Tyrone is doing up so early. He's actually still up from last night. As far as he can tell there's no black ice. |
| 5:50
| The weather people were hypin' it up all week but there's no ice anywhere! And they refuse to admit they're wrong! |
| 5:51
| And can't they call it invisible ice? Black ice just isn't right! |
| 5:57
| Caller Mike is a police officer and he loves the Dunkin' Donuts breakfast sandwiches, they're fantastic. That means a lot coming from a police officer. |
| 5:58
| The best thing about the sandwiches for Mike is that they come on a croissant. Steve loves when Mike speaks French. |
| 5:59
| You can get sausage or bacon on those sandwiches. Mike automatically becomes known at a Dunkin' Donuts being a police officer so he knows where Steve is coming from with this girl. |
| 6:00
| The Dunkin' Donuts he goes to knows exactly what kind of sandwich he likes. He prefers ham on it. |
| 6:01
| The whole thing is heightened for Steve because he knows if this girl had an affair with him she'd be burned alive. |
| 6:02
| Mike also wanted to say that Steve's Drew impersonation has turned a lot of guys he knows on to the show. It's a lot easier to listen in the afternoon because it's a little quieter. |
| 6:03
| Mike tried to donate to Drew's legal aid fund but the website was down. He still wondering how Drew got the $75,000 in that safe. |
| 6:04
| If Drew were a Chicago cop he'd go to one of those bars with the cop groupies. Mike is not recommending that. He's not married but it's usually not a good idea. Most of the time you wake up the next morning trying to chew your arm off to escape. |
| 6:05
| A breakfast sandwich sounds good but Steve already had a buttermilk clump. Officer Mike really talked it up though. |
| 6:06
| Steve wouldn't mind the egg because it's more of an omelet deal. Although lately he's been eat Egg McMuffins even though he's not a fan of the egg whites. And get ready for this Buzz, he's putting mustard on it. |
| 6:07
| Buzz is still eating mustard on turkey sandwiches thanks to Buzz. He thought it would be a chore but it's not. Mustard works on a lot of things, including fried eggs. It can't be scrambled eggs though, it has to have the albumin. Of course that name makes Steve want it less. |
| 6:08
| Live read: The Little Guys |
| 6:09
| According to Steve's sources, India is in South Asia. This is from Mark Czerniec who's worded it in a very mean way. Seems like someone got up on the wrong side of the bed. |
| 6:10
| So it's South Asia. Is it Southeast Asia? Mark Czerniec is on the phone, he got out of bed on the same side as always. The condescending side? He might be locked in his house in Racine but he's 50 times smarter than Steve! |
| 6:11
| Steve has actually stumbled on a very interesting problem. India is not in the Middle East, it's not in the Near East, it's not in the Far East. All those terms are fairly antiquated though but even still India is not part of any of them. |
| 6:12
| Now that Mark says it that way it doesn't come off like Steve is the stupidest guy on the planet. |
| 6:19
| There's a guy on hold who tried to get through yesterday. He won the bonus prize, took two girls to L-Woods and ate a ton. |
| 6:20
| Is that supposed to get Steve off or something? The two girls is hot but it's not hot that they ate a ton. Two girls full of creamed spinach? That sounds gaseous. |
| 6:21
| Caller Carlton took two ho's to L-Woods. Steve remembers when Carlton won. They eat like they'd never eaten before and then there was a flesh rampage afterwards. |
| 6:22
| Steve's going to give Carlton another spin because he doesn't want this well drying up on him. Two girls at once? Why don't Steve and Buzz roll like that? A jar of condoms on one side, Rolaids on the other side. |
| 6:23
| He called those women ho's right? Buzz gets the feeling he didn't mean that as a derogatory term. |
| 6:24
| Steve wanted to ask Pete about his Dunkin' Donuts girl. There's a girl working at the train station and she's actually a cute, Gen Y girl. Pete's a 40-year old Gen Xer though. |
| 6:25
| Pete says he's 36 but he's been saying that for years. He'll be 37 in January and he might be going away that weekend. Where's he going? |
| 6:26
| Pete is maybe going to New York. So he's maybe going somewhere and it's maybe New York. That's where that girl lives that he refuses to call his girlfriend right? |
| 6:27
| There's actually a new Aaron Sorkin play on Broadway that Pete wants to say. Is it called Mushrooms & Self-Indulgence? |
| 6:28
| When Pat Dahl was in town recently the boys went to L-Woods. They like to go there but it's sort of tough to get to because it's across town and there's no direct route. |
| 6:29
| Steve might have been getting a massage but he's not sure he would have gone anyway. He did leave them a message asking them to pick something up for him. |
| 6:30
| Then Pat Dahl took the message, put it over music and sent it back to Steve as Steve's Ballad. As with everything in the house it's passed off as an homage but it seems like mocking to Steve. |
| 6:31
| Steve ordered ribs, some creamed spinach and a strudel, that's just an order! That's mocking right? It's pretend love and Pat says "you're adorable" to him. What does that mean? |
| 6:32
| Buzz wants to hear it again. That's just because he likes to mock Steve too. It's just a candid moment where Steve's trying to get himself some food. What makes it for Buzz is when he ads on the creamed spinach. |
| 6:33
| You can hear Steve struggling a bit with the creamed spinach. And of course he has to identify himself as "dad" which only sets him up for more mocking. |
| 6:34
| So back to Pete's Dunkin' Donuts girl. She's a Gen Y girl with a ton of piercings. That seems dangerous when working with donuts. |
| 6:35
| The girl has been aloof so far. Hasn't he had issues where the girl ignores him because she's talking to dudes who have been out partying? One time she was too busy to make donuts. She should be turned in for that. |
| 6:36
| Steve learned from Todd Cavanah that Eddie and Jobo are going to do a series of 12 broadcasts from Dunkin' Donuts stores. That hurt. It's like the Dunkin' Donuts woman has forgotten about Steve all together! |
| 6:37
| Pete's been going to the Dunkin' Donuts downtown instead of the one up by Loyola. He scopes it out everyday to see if there are dudes working her. |
| 6:38
| Pete should turn the girl in and then tell her it was him. If she has piercings she might get off on that. |
| 6:39
| This might sound weird but Pete has gotten into some light peeping while on the train. Suddenly Pete's train ride with sleeping bums is starting to sound a little better. Steve still doesn't get how those bums get on the train. |
| 6:40
| Pete gets on the train at around 2:30 and since it's a raise platform he's able to see into some apartments. If a light comes on he moseys over to see what's happening. He hasn't seen much though. |
| 6:41
| 2:30 am on a Thursday after people are coming back from the bars might be a great time to look though. Does Pete need a pair of field glasses or something? |
| 6:42
| Pete doesn't want a girl who can't even remember to make the donuts though. Steve's girl might not be as cute but she's always back there making the donuts. |
| 6:43
| Steve's sorry that happened to Pete but at least it's led to some light peeping. He has no doubt it'll lead to heavy peeping also. It could just as easily be a dude that Pete sees but as a peeper you don't want to have that defeatist attitude. |
| 6:44
| Chances are if there's a dude there could be a girl nearby. Or there could be another dude. Just the other day as Pete was leaving the building to come to work he came across two dudes in the lobby making out. |
| 6:45
| He was come down the hall and heard people talking and giggling and then realized it was two guys. He was debating if he should just wait until they left or just go by. |
| 6:46
| He wanted to make some noise so they'd know he was coming down the stairs so he hit his elbow on the wall. Is that so they'd know he was rough trade? |
| 6:47
| Pete didn't see any making out but he could tell that something was going on, as if one guy had just got the other guy to come home with him from the bars. He's hoping to get to the bottom of it when the building has their annual holiday potluck. He'll get to the bottom of it alright! |
| 6:48
| Hey Pete, good news on your peeping! |
| 6:49
| Caller Rick is out driving his truck, he's heading up to Wheeling right now. He hauls cardboard and corrugated boxes. Steve often enjoys breaking up boxes for the recycling bin. It's amazing how well-constructed some boxes are. |
| 6:50
| Rick was at Target and came across a binocular with a digital camera on it. That sounds perfect for Steve and Pete's peeping needs. Buzz is wondering if it has night vision. Steve doesn't want nigh vision. If the lights are on it seems like it's fair to intrude. |
| 6:51
| Rick wanted to say hi to his stepdaughter. Steve's not going to do what Rick thinks he's going to do. He wouldn't do that to someone's daughter. |
| 6:52
| Normally a guy wants to say hi to his wife and Steve says "yeah sure but she's down the hall washing up right now". He won't say that to a daughter or a stepdaughter. |
| 6:53
| Caller John used to do safety checks at Loyola apartments. Pete should keep peeping, he'll see something good eventually. John used to have to check on smoke detectors and fire alarms in the dorms, you know how those college kids can be. |
| 6:54
| Most of the time John would go to an apartment and no one would be there. Sometimes the people would tell him to wait a few minutes and sometimes a girl would come to the door in a bra and panties. |
| 6:55
| Once a girl was in the shower and told him to come in. It was hard not to look, the bathroom door was open but there was still a shower curtain. Steve gives John a lot of credit for leaving the apartment at that point. |
| 6:56
| Live read: Gladstone Homes |
| 6:57
| Steve's looking at the Bushnell 10 x 25 Image View Digital Binocular camera at $59.99. That's very affordable, we should all have them. |
| 6:58
| The binoculars allow you to get a closer look and explore nature beyond what is readily available to the naked eye. Everything in this description sounds like it's perfect for the light peeper. Even the brand sounds like it. |
| 6:59
| It says it's a .35 megapixel camera but that can't be right. Camera phones have more than that. |
| 7:00
| Buzz isn't up on all that stuff. He's involved in getting a camera for Aimee for Christmas. He was going to buy one with his frequent flyer miles but Steve talked him out of it. |
| 7:01
| Buzz wants to use the miles for a European vacation. It might just be a weekend thing and he might go himself. He realized that he needs to get to Amsterdam before that whole thing dries up. What's going to dry up, Europe or Amsterdam? |
| 7:02
| Buzz has been reading about authorities cracking down on all the stuff going on in Amsterdam so he realized he had to get there. Steve would go to Amsterdam with Buzz. |
| 7:03
| Mark Czerniec is on the phone with some pixel info. The binocular captures photos that would be good enough for Pete to post on his blog. Pete could check out all the photos on the train ride in and delete the ones he doesn't think Steve will want to see. |
| 7:04
| Headlines with Buzz |
| 7:05
| Much of the Midwest is glazed in ice although Chicago didn't get any at all. Oklahoma City is not part of the Midwest. |
| 7:06
| They did cancel 600 flights at O'Hare though. Steve saw two guys who had been in Ireland for a couple of months (and what is that?!) and were stuck at O'Hare for 10 hours trying to get to Nashville. |
| 7:07
| Nashville is only a 5 hour drive, why would you wait for 10 hours at the airport to fly there?! Maybe they don't have the funds to rent a car as well but if you can't change your plants like that you shouldn't be flying. |
| 7:08
| A hearing today could determine if items seized from Drew Peterson by the police will be returned to him. Early reports indicate he could get his iPod back. |
| 7:09
| There are also reports of an accidental shooting at the Peterson house over the summer. Drew fired a round in the garage which nearly hit Stacy. |
| 7:10
| Drew has also put up a new website asking for money for his legal defense fund. According to his lawyer, Joel Brodsky, the site received 1 million hits and crashed. |
| 7:11
| They've got the nice Parrothead photo up there now. A million hits doesn't mean a million dollars though. Most of that is probably outrage. |
| 7:12
| They have several donation options from $5 to $250 for the platinum members. Drew told Brodsky they should give gifts for people who donated $25 and above. How about a Stacy Comeback boomerang for $25? For $250 you might even get a phone call from Drew. How great would it be if Drew was your voicemail message? "We can't find Buzz right now. Buzz..come back." |
| 7:14
| What about a line of tropical shirts, like Tommy Bahama? You could call them Drew Bolingbrook. No one calls Drew Drewey, or he'd shoot them. But something like Drew Bolingbrook would work. |
| 7:15
| Maybe a nice glass vial with a mustache hair in it for the higher donations. Like Angelina Jolie and the vial full of Billy Bob's blood. |
| 7:16
| Bad news for Mike Ditka. The Football Hall of Fame Assistance fund has been dismantled after a report showed that only a small portion of the money had been distributed. |
| 7:17
| Coach assures everyone that the money is all still there and will be distributed eventually. Didn't he completely meltdown during his press conference though? Maybe we'll have that audio during the sports. |
| 7:18
| He threw down a hardcore quote that you could tell was from one of his motivational speeches. It wasn't inappropriate for what he was saying though. |
| 7:19
| Buzz saw a brief highlight on CLTV but they weren't reporting it on NBC. That's of course Buzz's Grey Lady. It's Buzz's New York Times but it's the stupidest news ever. |
| 7:20
| Lisa Parker, who does their special reports, had one about Sears failing to deliver on promises to consumers. It was all bad news but for the entire time she's in front of a backdrop that says "Target" but it's the name of the segment, not the store. It's confusing though. That's another clue Buzz shouldn't be watching that news. Steve wouldn't be surprised if Larry Wert sold that to Target. |
| 7:25
| Steve thought he heard somewhere that Ditka had only give out $57,000 from his charity. He's the one dissolving the charity and he faced the music so you have to give him credit for that. |
| 7:26
| In life you have to look at the man in the mirror. C'mon gang! Steve and Buzz got to hear Ditka give the Man in the Mirror speech at some CBS radio feel good event. |
| 7:27
| Buzz was glad he got to hear that speech, it was almost like a golden sports moment. He was sitting next to Ramblin' Ray. Did he break down and cry? |
| 7:28
| MIke Ditka will dissolve his charity in the wake of a report that it had only give a small amount of money to needy retired NFL players. |
| 7:29
| According to a report in USA Today the charity had collected $1.3 million but had only netted $315,000 after expenses. That's a lot of expenses. That's why Steve doesn't donate to charity. |
| 7:30
| Ditka appeared in Minnesota with several former Vikings stars to publicize the Gridiron Greats fund. |
| 7:31
| Steve thought he saw Ditka wearing purple but was that just file footage? Steve was thinking he was wearing purple because of Prince. |
| 7:32
| Steve can't remember where he saw Ditka in purple. At some point he did turn on NBC just to figure out what Buzz saw in it. Pete watches it for Brant. Steve's not getting the weather from him. |
| 7:33
| When Steve first met Brant he was spinning records at WLS. He might be a meteorologist by now but Steve's not getting weather from him. |
| 7:34
| CBS2 is a fun newscast to watch because everyone is so downtrodden and beleaguered. They try so hard to act like they're not though. At any moment you feel as if Antonio Mora is going to pull out a gun and off himself. |
| 7:35
| Yesterday they had Vince Gerasoli doing a story about a municipality using beet juice to melt the ice. Any time he's on it's very theatrical. He was the one feeding Lin Brehmer duck quesadillas and a few New Years Eve's ago he was on a piano singing torch songs like LIza Minelli. |
| 7:36
| The beet juice costs 3 times as much as the salt so the whole thing seems pointless. It's not like salt is bad for us. Then Vince had two Pyrex containers of ice, one he'd treated with beet juice an hour before and one a few minutes before. |
| 7:37
| In a later newscast he revealed the results of his experiment. It was at that point, after Antonio said he wouldn't be putting beet juice in front of his house, that Steve thought he was going to off himself. |
| 7:38
| Steve has been reheating everything in the microwave using Pyrex measuring cups. It doesn't get hot in the microwave. Buzz laughs now but he should try it. |
| 7:39
| Live read: Jacob Ruth |
| 7:45
| Can Pete replay the beet juice audio again? |
| 7:46
| Live read: Townstone Financial |
| 7:47
| Steve has been getting a lot of positive feedback on the Drew Peterson impersonation but he still gets 1 or 2 people everyday saying he needs to stop doing it. Steve can't stop now though. |
| 7:48
| Some people are just mad that Drew's still out there. It's not Steve's job to judge though. |
| 7:49
| Today's live read is about Drew and Stacy but Stacy is 42 and their house is in Chicago. Steve changed Stacy's age to 23 but then he saw the house was in Chicago. Some of the facts have been changed to protect the innocent. |
| 7:50
| And speaking of monsters, Bob and Ron are here. They've also brought Steve a present. Steve feels weird whenever they bring him something. Usually it's food and Steve throws it out. Buzz thinks Steve will love it. |
| 7:51
| Ron is always coming in with weird stuff. Some girl he knows used to have a bakery but it was closed down by the health department for totally bogus reasons. |
| 7:52
| Bob and Ron have made a donation to Drew Peterson's legal aid fund in Steve's name. The certificate is suitable for framing, Drew is not. |
| 7:53
| This is fake right? Did Buzz think it was real? Because he's the one who led Steve into a visual joke. First of all, Bob and Ron don't have $50 to donate. Nor do they have a credit card or Pay Pal account to make the donation. |
| 7:54
| Today is Rob Tyner's birthday, he's the lead singer of the MC5. He has a great afro. |
| 7:55
| It's also Paul Rodgers birthday. Steve wants to play cut #1 today, is that going to mess Bob and Ron up? Todd Cavanah is here and Steve thought he was going to yank Bob and Ron but he's just talking to Chef Hans. |
| 7:56
| Steve thought that we should play something from the Jack playlist since Todd is here. Not that we can't play something else but it seems like a better way for Bob and Ron to meet Todd. |
| 7:57
| Steve was talking to Todd yesterday and he doesn't like any music from the 60s. Not even from 1969. |
| 7:58
| Bob also wanted to mention that it's Jeff "Skunk" Baxter's birthday. Not only was he a great musician but he was also a great actor as evidenced from his performance on the What's Happening episode where Rerun is bootlegging the Doobie Brothers concert. |
| 7:59
| Steve always thought it was weird that Rerun, a black guy, would want to bootleg a Doobie Brothers concert. Bob remembers that it was Mr. Dunbar who pressured him into doing it. He was black as well so it's still fundamentally flawed. Apparently Bob has the entire episode memorized though and could run the dialogue right now. |
| 8:00 | Song: Fire and Water, Free |
| 8:05
| Did Steve see Bob and Ron bonding with Todd Cavanah during that song? They were talking about Keith Moon passing out at The Who show at the Cow Palace and then a fan had to come on stage. Was he trying to pretend that he liked music from the 60s? |
| 8:06
| Is Buzz having lunch with Todd too? They're getting together, is Buzz going to air some grievances he has? Bob and Ron were probably telling him that they work much cheaper than Steve and Buzz. |
| 8:07
| Until last week Buzz didn't even know who Todd was. He saw Todd and thought he was a soap opera actor. He was wearing a turtle neck. |
| 8:08
| It's killing Steve wondering what Buzz was talking to Todd Cavanah about. It's like when Buzz was renegotiating his contract with Terry Hardin, former WCKG general manager. |
| 8:09
| Bob is responding as if he thinks Steve is talking to him about this. How could he possibly construe that? |
| 8:10
| Buzz saw Steve talking to Terry Hardin, who's hair looks similar to Garry Meier's. Buzz thought it was Garry, and this was before the reunion, so he signed his contract. |
| 8:11
| Time for today's Dahl.com web poll question, "what is your favorite bowling movie?" The options are Kingpin, Big Lebowski (maybe a tribute to Kyle Orton) or Bowling for Columbine. |
| 8:12
| That's a tough choice for Buzz, he loves all three movies. Maybe Buzz could discuss them over lunch with Todd Cavanah. |
| 8:13
| Buzz really knows how to work the executives doesn't he? What does he want? Is Buzz looking to get into their prize closet and go Christmas shopping? |
| 8:14
| Buzz brought Piper a B96 t-shirt yesterday and she went nuts. Turns out she has station loyalty. |
| 8:15
| How can Buzz let her listen to Eddie and Jobo but not make her listen to this show? Does he know they have a segment where they ask women to send their panties in? |
| 8:16
| Back to the web poll question. A regular customer at Abberdeen's Kittybrewster and Woodside Bowling Club, in Britain, was locked in a bathroom for 4 days. |
| 8:17
| Having no food David Leggat subsided on tap water to keep him going. Sounds like the bathroom is a one-holer. |
| 8:18
| Even if there's a toilet and a urinal it's still a one-holer to Steve. Unless there's proper screening and separation of the urinal and toilet it's a one-holer. |
| 8:20
| Caller Ryan wanted to tell Steve about Lebowski Fest which will be in Chicago this year. He's never been before but it sounds great. |
| 8:21
| People get together and watch the movie and bowl and there's a Creedence cover band. Steve could be up for something like that. |
| 8:22
| Steve's been to the Lebowski Fest website before, they have some sweet t-shirts on there. |
| 8:23
| Back to the man stuck in the bathroom. After 4 days the cleaning lady showed up and had to get in there for her cleaning supplies. |
| 8:24
| She couldn't open the door so she had to call someone. Leggat is recovered from the experience and was glad he was trapped somewhere with a toilet. He only wishes he was trapped behind a bar. |
| 8:31
| Chef Hans is here and he's situating himself in his Zubazz pants. He's not wearing cologne today which is much appreciated. Steve and Buzz prefer his natural musk. |
| 8:32
| Live read: Jacob Ruth |
| 8:33
| Steve's starting to feel a little upset that Hans isn't coming to visit him at Hawks games. They've been losing lately so Chef hasn't been in the mood. |
| 8:34
| Hans will stop by tonight but he also has to say hello to the reporters who cover the LA Kings. That's also why Steve misses Chef Hans, the name dropping. |
| 8:35
| Hans doesn't think that's name dropping, they're former colleagues. They all started a charity with Wayne Gretzky. |
| 8:36
| Hans has a presentation he'd like to make to Steve. Hans is so ceremonial, that's how they do it in the Escoffier Society. |
| 8:37
| Steve is sitting on the Escoffier dinner invite. Hopefully Hans got one and wasn't kicked out for asking Steve to join. |
| 8:38
| Hans is still trying to figure out who to invite. He wants to bring Buzz but he's not sure if he'd come. Don't we go through this every time? |
| 8:39
| Steve was thinking of bringing Patrick Bertoletti but he's not sure he can spend 4 hours with him. He's kind of a knucklehead. |
| 8:40
| If Hans doesn't have someone specific in mind Buzz is going to suggest his gourmand friend from Miami. He would definitely fly up for something like that. |
| 8:41
| That sounds great to Steve. Him, Patrick Bertoletti, Buzz's friend and Chef Hans. Plus Jesse White and his girlfriend Cookie, if they're still dating. |
| 8:42
| Steve says that now but he'll probably have a great time. He had a great time last year and he got to eat Cookie's veal. |
| 8:43
| Steve was told that Hans would be telling Buzz about pan frying steak. He's already had one bit approved and now he's come in with another one. |
| 8:44
| Hans brought Steve a Frederick Dick utility knife. There's a Euro taped to it, that's for good luck. You should take that off before you use the knife. |
| 8:45
| A few month ago Hans brought Steve a sharpening stone and of course he was ungrateful and wanted to know where the knife was. And now Hans brings the knife and Steve was ungrateful before he presented it. |
| 8:46
| Hans had an apprentice at Lawry's and he's written a book about Chicago street food. He mentions Chef in the book. |
| 8:47
| Hans' name is spelled wrong but that's OK. It's Ashbacher right? |
| 8:48
| There's some really nice stuff about Hans in there. Even some third-party name-dropping. |
| 8:49
| Steve's going to take a break before we get to the pan frying. Hans is stretching into two segments now. |
| 8:55
| OK Chef Hans is here. Steve has an email from the guy who wrote the Chicago street food book but he lives in San Diego. |
| 8:56
| Living out in San Diego he really misses hearing the show. Apparently he doesn't have access to a computer with internet. |
| 8:57
| Now Steve is scanning the book for his own name. Apparently the author ran into Joe Walsh and he says hi. He's doing his own name-dropping now. |
| 8:58
| Chef didn't know who Joe Walsh was. He's in Eagles but Chef is a sports chef, not a rock chef. |
| 8:59
| OK now tell Buzz how to pan fry an steak. Buzz is never going to use his Weber. |
| 9:00
| Hans is recommending a cast-iron skillet but Buzz could use any kind of pan. Hans is way too accommodating, just get a cast-iron skillet. |
| 9:01
| Someone sent Buzz an email, which Steve also got, from a guy who puts the steak in the oven. That's not even funny, just delete that email. |
| 9:02
| Steve's bringing Pat Boyle in on this conversation. Hans wants to make sure Buzz is paying attention. He is staring out the window. |
| 9:03
| So you take the pan and get it up to about 275º, that's a medium heat. Cook each side for about 4 minutes each. Longer if you want it well done but no one wants it well done. |
| 9:04
| Then you can make steak au poivre by pouring some water or wine in the bottom to get a nice juice. Then you could make steak au poivre |
| 9:05
| Steve thinks that might be a little too complicated. There's no way Buzz is going from never having grilled steak to making steak au poivre |
| 9:06
| Alright Pat Boyle is on the phone. He's a little hungry right now. You really need to deglaze the pan with a liquid to finish off the steak. Is Chef hearing Steve's cooking terms here? |
| 9:07
| So Cubs landed that Fukudome guy. Steve thought that was an indoor stadium in Japan. Turns out everyone was saying his first name wrong. Steve wouldn't want to mess that guy up. He's just going to call him that Japanese guy. |
| 9:08
| Lou's going to have a field day trying to say Fukudome's name. Pat is predicting sushi vendors and sake at Wrigley Field. They'll probably start making samurai swords with Cubs logos. |
| 9:09
| Pat's imagining that on WGN broadcasts they'll have the Happy Ending post-game sponsored by the Cubby Bear bath house. That's a stereotype Pat! He could have easily gone with Ron of Japan. |
| 9:10
| The Japanese love Lou Piniella because he took Ichiro under his wing. Fukudome is a great hitter and he'll probably play right field. |
| 9:11
| Since he was coming from Japan he could choose any team he wanted to so he went to the highest bidder. Once again the White Sox missed out on a free agent. |
| 9:12
| According to several sources it's believed that the Cubs will be sold in the first half of 2008. At least 15 groups of people have shown interest in the team, including Steve and Buzz. They're hoping Wrigley is included in the sale, it seems like a real fixer-upper. |
| 9:13
| Pat has some Bears audio for us today. Kyle Orton is starting on Monday but Rex Grossman has now come out and said he wants to stay in Chicago. |
| 9:14
| Steve still thinks Kyle Orton needs to shave and get a haircut before he goes on national TV on Monday. He doesn't want that to be the whole conversation if he calls in though. Pat thinks he might be doing it for the twentysomethings out there. Buzz doubts even they'd like that. |
| 9:15
| Caller Robert wanted to let Steve know that Peanut Tillman shaved his head. He looks like a 10-year old. |
| 9:16
| We still don't know who the third QB will be on Monday but Lovie is being very secretive about it. |
| 9:17
| Pat's thinking of all the guys who played QB in the past. Moose played QB in high school, Bernard Berrian has played it before. Why not make Ron Turner the third string? Make him run the offense for a change. |
| 9:18
| The Bulls won big last night, finally. That game was actually boring, they won by like 30 points. It was like a Harlem Globetrotters game. |
| 9:19
| The Hawks host the Kings tonight and Steve will be there. Let's hope they can snap that losing streak. |
| 9:20
| Pat was at the game on Saturday and ran into several Dahl fans including the bartender at the Jose Cuervo club. Steve doesn't really stop there since he doesn't drink any more. |
| 9:21
| Steve drink of choice at Hawks games is Diet Coke or water. Sometimes he'll get a Coke if he wants to get real crazy. At that point in the day it's too late to have Red Bull since he needs to get to sleep earlier. |
| 9:22
| Last week Steve experimented with taking his sleeping medicine on his way home. Then he worried he'd end up like Patrick Kennedy as he was struggling to even get to the Eisenhower. |
| 9:23
| Live read: Medical Hair Restoration |
| 9:24
| There's no better Christmas gift than the gift of hair. Hairy Christmas Buzz! |
| 9:30
| Live read: Allen Brothers |
| 9:31
| Steve says give the gift of meat for Christmas. Have a meaty Christmas! |
| 9:32
| Buzz has spent a lot of time with the Allen Brothers catalog in anticipation of his pan frying. He came across something that he finds irresistable, the Wagyu corned beef hash. |
| 9:33
| Caller Anna is a twentysomething football fan and she does not like Kyle Orton's look. She doesn't know what Pat Boyle is talking about. |
| 9:34
| Anna prefers the QB-next-door look or even Bret Favre's serial-killer-next-door look. |
| 9:35
| Steve doesn't want to tell Kyle all this if he calls in but he'll have a hard time resisting. |
| 9:36
| Kyle needs to go with the Tony Romo/Tom Brady look as an NFL QB. |
| 9:37
| Does Buzz want to start up the headlines now or should we take a break first? |
| 9:38
| Buzz can do whatever is best for everyone involved. He's always thinking about other people. Let's start them now. |
| 9:39
| News with Buzz |
| 9:40
| Barack Obama has moved into a tie with Hillary Clinton in a New Hampshire poll. That has to be because of Oprah right? |
| 9:41
| Steve has floated the idea of Barack making Oprah his vice president to several people. He's serious about it though, it's not a joke. No one thinks that'll happen though. |
| 9:42
| What happened to Mike Huckabee, wasn't he leading everyone? This is just New Hampshire, he's big elsewhere though. |
| 9:43
| Steve saw something on the NBC Nightly News the other day about Huckabee. Steve feels that newscast is for old people since all the commercials are for drug companies. |
| 9:44
| According to the report Huckabee takes a lot of gifts from people. It's not illegal though, but it seems unethical. When his term as Arkansas governor ran out he and his wife put together a gift registry for stuff for their new house. That seems wrong. With ethics like that he really should be in radio. |
| 9:45
| Drew Peterson has launched a new website asking for donations for his legal defense fund. Buzz is wondering if there's any audio up there. |
| 9:46
| No audio yet, just the sweet Parrothead photo of Drew. Maybe Steve should send him an mp3 of Bolingbrookville. It could come on whenever you go to the site. |
| 9:47
| The money will be used to pay legal fees and also hire detectives to find Stacy. It seems like there are enough people looking for her already though. |
| 9:48
| Yesterday a former CIA agent told CNN that the U.S. uses waterboarding during interrogations. The agent even said he'd been subjected to waterboarding as part of his training. Some call it unpleasant, Steve calls it affective. |
| 9:49
| The agent also said that waterboarding was used on one of Osama bin Laden's top lieutenants who lasted for 30 or 40 seconds. The next day he gave up all the info he had. |
| 9:54
| Drew says he's under siege, hence the website. Has Buzz donated to the fund yet? |
| 9:55
| Buzz wants a certificate that says he donated though. The Comeback Stacy boomerang won't be enough. Buzz is really looking for Drew's signature. |
| 9:56
| $25 gets him the signature. For $10 you get a Drew Peterson magnet that looks like a bullet hole. That's to commemorate Drew accidentally firing his weapon and almost hitting Stacy over the summer. |
| 9:57
| Stacy was in the garage getting a soda for Drew who was in the master bedroom above the garage. The bullet reportedly went through the floor and struck the garage floor close to where Stacy was standing. |
| 9:58
| Live read: Medical Hair Restoration |
