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| 5:28
| Every time Steve hears Under Pressure it makes him mad that they ripped off Vanilla Ice. |
| 5:29
| Steve knew Buzz wouldn't get that joke but he's on his way to explaining that joke via audio. |
| 5:30
| Vanilla Ice ripped them off of course but in Steve's mind it's funnier to think that Queen ripped off a talentless moron from MIami. Say what you will about Queen's weird mustaches and spandex coveralls, they were talented. |
| 5:31
| It seems like Freddy Mercury was the most talented and apparently quite sexual. To Steve's knowledge Freddy Mercury was one of the first people he heard about who had AIDS. |
| 5:32
| It seems like he had sex with a lot of people, maybe everyone in Europe. He might have even had sex with that monkey in Africa. |
| 5:33
| Good morning everyone and welcome to AIDS talk. The first person Steve knew personally who had AIDS was Aaron Gold. He wrote a gossip column in the Tribune which eventually became the Inc column. |
| 5:34
| Aaron was always very nice to Steve, especially when he first came to town and everyone said he had no talent. They said the same thing about Elvis but Steve came out the other end without the drug overdose. |
| 5:35
| Steve's going to a Christmas party today and he's only looking forward to the fellowship. He's not going to get hammered. Buzz is wondering if he's looking forward to the lunch. |
| 5:36
| The way the lunch was described to Steve didn't sound great. It had the feel of mostaccioli in those disposable tins and some really watery fried chicken. Although maybe it will be better than that. |
| 5:37
| We're coming from a station, WCKG, that was losing $4 million annually. Their Christmas parties for the last few years involved pieces of bread, with ketchup on them, cut into a hundred pieces. |
| 5:38
| Most people went to the party for the open bar which usually only lasted an hour anyway. Buzz can't believe it's Christmas already. |
| 5:39
| That's probably because of the new station and the new time slot. Right now the only thing Steve is focused on is getting up early in the morning. And then at 2:00 every afternoon he thinks he should be on the air. |
| 5:40
| Steve will be taking a nap before he goes to the party because he needs to be refreshed. Eddie and Jobo are going to be hogging all the attention so Steve and Buzz should probably go tanning and then put on their muscle shirts and bling. |
| 5:41
| For security purposes Steve will not reveal where the party is. Eddie and Jobo have a stalker and the floor where B96 resides is closed off unless you have a pass. The other CBS floors in the building are open to anyone though. |
| 5:42
| Steve would be grateful if he had a stalker, not fearful. They're so muscular, what are they afraid of? |
| 5:43
| Steve did tan the other day but just to lay down a base. He won't be able to compete with Eddie and Jobo though. Buzz had no idea they tanned. |
| 5:44
| They're tanned, almost orange, and when you see them it seems like you're meeting a movie star. Buzz may have seen one of them once. He sees Ramblin' Ray all the time now. |
| 5:45
| As it turns out, Ray and Buzz use the bathroom at the same time. They have the same size bladder although Ray is shorter than Buzz. |
| 5:46
| Ramblin' Ray will not be at the party today, they have their own party. It's just The B, or WBBM-FM and Jack. WBBM-AM is too cool to have a party with anyone else. They are the top-billing, top-rated station in Chicago but that's only because people listen to the traffic. |
| 5:47
| US 99 is having a party with Fresh FM since as far as Steve can tell that station is just one kid sitting in a studio playing Alanis Morissette. Steve's not sure what else they play but Pete would know since he's a 40-year old woman. |
| 5:48
| Pete has heard some Alanis, some John Mayer and of course his favorite song Bubbly. It crinkles his nose or curls his toes or whatever. Of course Buzz likes the song too, maybe he and Pete could slow dance at the party. |
| 5:49
| Hearing Bubbly makes Steve want to give Pete a hug. Pete saw that it was one of the most downloaded songs of the year. Probably by teenage girls though, they're the ones doing all the downloading. It's OK though, that's part of Pete's sensitive side, which is apparently his only side. |
| 5:50
| Will that song make Pete's year-end compilation? Every year he makes a list of top songs that no one asked for, then burns them onto a CD that no one wants. Then he tries to force it on everyone else. You either have to listen to it or pretend you listened to it. |
| 5:51
| Will the list end up on Dahl.com at some point? Because every year Ed puts it up there and Steve gets mad. There are no links to buy the songs on iTunes so Steve's not making any money and tells Ed to take it down. It happens every year. |
| 5:52
| Are they serving liquor at the Jack/B96 party? Not that Steve cares, as long as he has some sugar-free Red Bull he's fine. Buzz will be sipping a Coke since the party starts at 2:00. |
| 5:54
| Steve's sure Buzz will be glad to attend the WCKG Death Party. That was mentioned in Feder's column today which is the first thing Buzz reads in the mornings. |
| 5:55
| Steve's blogging his heart out everyday but it's Feder that Buzz reads first. He just wants to make sure he hasn't been fired. If someone was going on, Steve would tell Buzz about it long before it was in Feder. Didn't he tell him about the switch to mornings? |
| 5:56
| A proper funeral has finally been planned for WCKG which recently switched to Fresh FM, WCFS. What are they going to do with those call letters when that format fails? It probably won't fail although the station went down in recent ratings. That's probably because Steve and Buzz left. |
| 5:57
| Actually that's why it happened, that's some of the stuff Steve learns in the pipeline. Todd Cavanah does a nice job of explaining all that. Unlike Drew who would tell you you're in first but still make you feel bad about it. |
| 5:58
| Steve ran into Drew and Rod Zimmerman yesterday. Steve asked Rod if he's coming to the Christmas party today and he said he wasn't. If he goes to that one he has to go to all of them. Merry Christmas Mr. Potter. |
| 5:59
| Then Steve ran into Drew who was on his way to workout. You don't want to be around for that because he's always sporting his bandana. He thinks it's a pirate bandana but he looks like Aunt Jemima if she had that skin condition Michael Jackson does. |
| 6:00
| Then he gets on the elliptical and goes really fast. He tries to read although it doesn't seem like he'd be able to. Steve talked to Drew for a few minutes and he managed to make everything depressing. |
| 6:01
| Steve didn't want to talk too much about how good things were going to Drew though. He tried to give Drew credit for how things at WCKG were going since it seemed like it was ready to pop before they pulled the rug out from under them. |
| 6:02
| Drew is now the news director at WBBM-AM which seems like a demotion. But Drew likes doing it so it's not really a demotion. Steve thinks he sent Drew on his way happy. Steve left wondering what went wrong at WCKG. |
| 6:03
| Staffers who worked at WCKG through it's various formats will assemble at Alcock's at 411 S. Wells. Is that a long a or a short a in Alcock's? Pete? You're part of the bar scene. |
| 6:03
| Pete says the short a, he's been there before. They have a lot of Mick Jagger stuff on the walls. It's frequented by a lot of traders. Fur traders? |
| 6:04
| Who arranges a party like this and who would go to it? Buzz wants to know why he didn't get an invitation. Steve sort of wants to go just to see who's there but they all probably hate him because he's a radio cockroach. |
| 6:05
| Headlines with Buzz |
| 6:06
| Today is the day that the big steroid report is released by former Senator George Mitchell. It's likely to include 60-80 names of current and former players who used steroids. |
| 6:07
| Steve's just been told by Ed Silha-our IT guy and so much more-that the WCKG party is being planned by all the sales people who used to work at there. |
| 6:08
| One would argue that because those sales people couldn't sell ice water in hell is the reason they're having this party. |
| 6:09
| Ed was copied on an email invite and the list was quite extensive but he didn't recognize most of the names. It seems like most of the people were the ones who left right before the switch from classic rock to talk. |
| 6:10
| It sounds like a Steve Dahl Haters convention. Ed will be there, and Dan and Ali and those girls from Apple. |
| 6:11
| The most recent names on that list were people who seemed to get how to sell Steve. Who were those people? It doesn't seem like anyone got how to sell him. How hard is it to sell Howard Stern and Steve Dahl? |
| 6:12
| They should at least have Rover in a dunk tank at the party. Let us know how it goes Ed. That wasn't as revealing as Steve thought it would be. |
| 6:13
| It seems like it's just all the people who left the station because they didn't pay well. Who cares though, why even have a party like this? Theoretically 30 or 40 people lost their jobs, why have a party for that? |
| 6:14
| OK back to the headlines. The New Jersey general assembly is expected to vote on whether or not to abolish the death penalty in that state. |
| 6:15
| Ike Turner is dead, so far Tina has refused to comment. Hasn't she done enough? Ike is credited with writing the first rock and roll song ever. Don't you the Father of Rock and Roll to be an abusive drug addict? |
| 6:16
| From Tallahassee, Florida, the war on saggy pants continues. A bill in the Florida Senate would make it illegal to wear saggy pants. |
| 6:17
| The bill's sponsor, Senator Gary Siplin, believes that kids wouldn't wear saggy pants if they knew the origins of the look. In prison people hang their pants low if they're "available" that night. |
| 6:18
| Steve will be wearing saggy pants with his boxers sticking out to the Jack/B96 Christmas party just so he can fit in with everyone else. |
| 6:19
| At the hockey game last night Steve and Matt saw the weirdest thing ever. They were in the bathroom and at one urinal there was a man with his pants and underpants all the way down around his ankles. At least the guy next to him said "that's how my 10-year old son goes to the bathroom." |
| 6:20
| Alderman Danny Solis and Alderwoman Helen Schiller are serious about getting rid of pigeon droppings. They want harsh fines for people who feed pigeons. |
| 6:21
| The headline seemed too good to be true, South Korea had cloned cats that glow in the dark. Who wouldn't want one? |
| 6:22
| South Korea did clone cats but they only glow in the dark when exposed to a black light. |
| 6:29
| Steve likes the pigeon drop from 30 Rock but he'd like to hear a little more Ike Turner from What's Love Got to do With It? |
| 6:30
| Pete actually doesn't have the movie which surprised him. Steve asked him to grab it yesterday and Pete figured he'd get it before work, forgetting that he goes to work at 2:30 am. |
| 6:31
| Steve has done that a few times lately. He'll send Stephanie and Tina an email with some stuff he wants them to get and then they freak out because they can't get it until 9:00 or 10:00. |
| 6:32
| Part of Pete wanted to blame Steve for purging all his VHS tapes, thinking he had that movie somewhere in there. In Steve's world a Pete Zimmerman finds out that Ike Turner died and then goes to his all-night Blockbuster to get the movie. |
| 6:33
| Is Pete sure we don't have that drop? Did he look through the database? Sometimes Steve thinks that Pete doesn't like to use the database because he didn't create it. It was created by Steve's former archivist who didn't understand the concept of the keyword. |
| 6:34
| Pete looked for the audio on YouTube and all he found was amateurs who had done their own versions of the scene. Buzz wouldn't mind hearing some of those until we found the real one. |
| 6:35
| OK, time for the web poll. Today's question is "when using a public restroom do you feel pressured to make a purchase?" As always any questions Buzz might have about the question are answered by an article. |
| 6:36
| Have you ever walked into a bathroom and then decided you could wait? A new website offers reviews and locations of clean bathrooms. |
| 6:37
| The question isn't about vending machines in bathrooms. If you need to use the bathroom and you stop in a McDonald's, do you feel the need to make a purchase at the restaurant? |
| 6:38
| Steve sometimes feels like he should get something at McDonald's if he stops there. He's also thought about carrying a McDonald's bag around with him in case he has to stop. |
| 6:39
| MizPee.com is a female friendly website that helps women find the cleanest, closest bathrooms in their area. |
| 6:40
| For instance, one woman was looking for a bathroom on Michigan Avenue and found one at the Intercontinental Hotel. Who needs a website for that though? Everyone knows that luxury hotels have great lobby bathrooms, it's key. |
| 6:41
| Other options include the Rock & Roll McDonald's or at the nearby Jewel. A lot of people don't know that supermarkets have bathrooms that customers can use. |
| 6:42
| A lot of the time the bathrooms are in the break room so you get to go behind-the-scenes at Jewel. Buzz always enjoys that. |
| 6:43
| This website isn't very friendly to Steve's browser. He doesn't really feel like registering on the site either, it seems like that'll eventually be used against him. "I think it was Steve Dahl!" "Well, he is registered on MizPee.com" |
| 6:44
| Steve's dream is to retire and open up Bathrooms Across America, a club you can join which gives you access to clean bathroom facilities across the country. Buzz would join something like that right? How much would Buzz pay and how many bathrooms would he need in the area? Steve's goal is to have 30 in the Chicagoland area. |
| 6:46
| The website was conceived by Peter Olfe after a visit to a nasty bathroom. Then why did he gear it towards women? Men's bathrooms are always nasty, they're the ones who need help. |
| 6:47
| There are some men's bathrooms that are very funky and you don't want to be doing anything in there except taking a leak. |
| 6:48
| Of course your butt is impervious to a lot of the funky stuff you might find on a toilet seat. It's designed to be that way! You're not going to be touching your butt after you sit on a toilet seat, you just put it back in your pants. |
| 6:49
| Steve told Buzz about that a while back and it changed his life. Sure it might be funky but it's not dangerous. |
| 6:50
| There are a lot of people calling in to talk bathrooms but Steve needs to take a break. It's a bathroom break and there's a clean one right down the hall. |
| 6:57
| During the break all the bathroom calls seem to have dropped off. The only one Steve remembers seems to be a lie. |
| 6:58
| A guy called in and said if he needs to use a bathroom he'll check into a hotel room, do his thing and then tell the woman at the front desk that the room is unacceptable and he can't stay there. No one would go through all that trouble just to use a bathroom. |
| 6:59
| Caller Pat is an outside sales rep and it can be tough to find a bathroom, especially downtown. Sometimes he's in the West Loop near the Fulton Street markets and they won't let you use the bathroom. |
| 7:00
| There has to be a fast food restaurant somewhere in that area. Pat has seen a Dunkin' Donuts but they don't have bathrooms. |
| 7:01
| Dunkin' Donuts have bathrooms, they all do. Anywhere that's serving food has a bathroom. Steve can't talk to Pat any more. He was hoping to mentor him but he doesn't seem interested. |
| 7:02
| Caller John was the guy who said he stops at a hotel to use the bathroom. He's driving down the expressway, sees a hotel and stops there. He checks into the room, uses the bathroom and then takes a shower. |
| 7:03
| Takes a shower?! He's just perverted then, this is something totally different. Steve can't talk to John any more either. |
| 7:04
| Pat Boyle is on the phone. He's not buying the story either. If you have an urgency you're not going through the process of checking into a hotel room. |
| 7:05
| All hotel lobbies have bathrooms anyway, that's your safest bet. Steve likes the Mobil stations at the tollway oasis. |
| 7:06
| The truck stops have gotten a lot better too. It's a definite improvement from the bathrooms with the half-stalls. A guy could be on the toilet and you could still see his head. Steve would rather have Larry Craig action going on in there than see that. |
| 7:07
| Steve sees Pat on Comcast all the time, they must work him like a dog. Does he need representation? |
| 7:08
| So Mark Prior is finished, at least with the Cubs. He was nontendered last night, probably because he has a tender arm and a tender ego. He still hasn't signed Steve's figurine from Just Ducky II. |
| 7:09
| Pat thinks that incident tells you everything you need to know about Mark Prior. If people come to see you, you owe it to them to make sure all those people see you. |
| 7:10
| When Steve does a remote broadcast he always stays and talks to people afterwards. Buzz is gone right away, he's our Mark Prior. |
| 7:11
| This Japanese fella better be good for all the money the Cubs are paying him. It seems like a lot of pressure to come to a country where you don't speak the language, to a town that puts a lot of pressure on their athletes. |
| 7:12
| There's a pretty good success rate for the highly touted Japanese players that come over. |
| 7:13
| Aaron Rowand won't be back, he's going to the Giants. It dawned on Steve yesterday that Pat Boyle said to him "your Sox are in trouble" but they didn't really talk about it. |
| 7:14
| The Sox haven't done much this off-season other than getting Orlando Cabrera and Scott Linebrink. Kenny Williams came into the off-season talking a big game, saying he'd do whatever it took and so far he really hasn't. |
| 7:15
| Meanwhile the other teams in your division have improved themselves. The Tigers got Miguel Cabrera and Dontrelle Willis from the Marlins. |
| 7:16
| Then we've got the Mitchell Report coming out today, there were probably 60-80 guys who didn't get much sleep last night. |
| 7:17
| Steve was at the Hawks game last night, they won. Savvy said the team needed to be more physical and they were. It was awesome. |
| 7:18
| There was one fight right by Steve that turned into two fights. There were a couple of Kings fans behind Steve who said "maybe we can get back to hockey now?!" That's probably becuase his team was getting pummeled. |
| 7:19
| Pat is recommending James Wisniewski as a good guest if Steve's looking to have a Blackhawk on the show. They've got a funny video him that airs at the games, he's working at a hotel and walking around in flip-flops, it's very high-concept. |
| 7:20
| The Bulls lost last night, they blew a15-point lead to the Pacers. That game was sort of turned around after Tyrus Thomas was involved in a fight and got ejected. |
| 7:21
| Joe Namath is going to graduate from the University of Alabama. It seems like it worked out for him so far though. It just gives Pat a chance to play one of the great drunk broadcasting moments ever. |
| 7:22
| You'd think someone would stop Joe Namath once they realized how drunk he was. Buzz feels it's up to the broadcaster to make that decision. They even go to a play in the middle of it, they should have never thrown it back to Suzie Kolber. |
| 7:23
| That Joe Namath tape reminds Steve of the Sky Daniels tape when he's talking to the new drummer for The Who. |
| 7:30
| There's a lot of good Drew Peterson stuff today, the guy won't stop giving. |
| 7:31
| Song: Bolingbrookville, Steve Dahl |
| 7:35
| Drew Peterson said Wednesday that Stacy had a big crush on the Naperville pastor who she confided in. Every time she went to go see him she was all dolled up. The guy is a quote machine. He had to dial it up a few notches to get the press back. |
| 7:36
| According to the pastor Stacy told him in August that Drew had told her that Kathleen Savio's death was not an accident. Do they have to keep repeating all this stuff? It's like how they always refer to Paul McCartney as "former Beatle Paul McCartney" |
| 7:37
| Joel's getting the word out there to get the press back to the media. Maybe they should order some pizzas for the media like TO did. |
| 7:38
| Martha Stewart gave the media in front of her house lemonade but that seems fruity. 3 or 4 pies would be good plus one for Drew of course. |
| 7:39
| Brodsky told MSNBC that he knew of a connection between Stacy Peterson and the pastor but was unsure of the validity. |
| 7:40
| Stacy's family's spokesperson, Pamela Bosco, was unfazed by those comments feeling it was just another attempt by Brodsky to distract from the real issue. Isn't that his job? |
| 7:41
| Peterson also denied claims made by his former fiance, Kyle Piry. Drew a said Piry was bitter after being spurned by him. She was probably mad that she no longer had access to the Drew Peterson love machine. |
| 7:42
| Peterson told reporters that he began to distance himself from Piry after he found out she was dancing at bachelor parties. Piry said Peterson was an idiot. |
| 7:43
| Peterson also denied a report that he fired a gun in his bedroom that went through the floor and narrowly missed Stacy. Stacy was probably startled by the gun shot and then dropped the can of soda she was getting for Drew. |
| 7:44
| Stacy's half-sister reported the incident to Bolingbrook police who then launched their own investigation. |
| 7:45
| Steve needs to put that aside for a moment because Jesse White is on the phone. Is Jesse going to the Escoffier Dinner because Steve wants to sit by him again. |
| 7:46
| Jesse's giving out food for the holidays, he's been doing it for years. He gives out thousands of hams and turkeys to needy families and the elderly. |
| 7:47
| Growing up Jesse's family was on public aid and now that he's become successful he wants to give back. |
| 7:48
| Steve wasn't about to get into the frozen turkey thing with Jesse White. He has a feeling they're not frozen anyway, they go right to the senior citizen's homes. |
| 7:49
| Plus they're giving food to people who have houses. Also, Steve and Buzz don't want their driver's licenses pulled. |
| 7:56
| Was that a friend of Drew's saying it was Stacy who accidentally fired the gun? It was Steve Carcerano, he's been making the rounds on TV. |
| 7:57
| Peterson also said Wednesday that the shooting incident in August was the result of Stacy accidentally firing a gun he'd given her as a gift. No good deed goes unpunished. |
| 7:58
| Drew said all this in an interview in his home. He's opened his home to the media, it just looks much better. Drew's learned a lot about the media throughout this entire thing. He'll probably open a media consulting business when this whole thing is cleared up. He's a master media manipulator, it'll say that on his business card. |
| 7:59
| As soon as Stacy and her boyfriend are found Drew's going to move on to other things. Drew's website has been shut down though. |
| 8:00
| Drew says Stacy had a fascination with guns and he bought her a Glock for Valentine's day. Nothing says love like a Glock. That was their little joke. Stacy's a jokester too, you have to be to marry a jokester. |
| 8:01
| Stacy's step-sister said that in August, Stacy was in the garage getting a soda for Drew. A shot was fired from the bedroom, piercing the ceiling and going through to the garage floor. |
| 8:02
| Drew says that he and Stacy were in the bedroom together and that she probably made the story up because she was embarrassed for accidentally shooting the gun. |
| 8:03
| Drew pointed to a bullet hole in the ceiling which he never got around to fixing. It's a good thing too, it's a great photo op now. |
| 8:04
| The bullet hole is all part of the tour of the house. It's almost becoming a museum. Eventually it could become something like Graceland only Drew would be on the tour. |
| 8:05
| Cassandra Cales stands by Stacy's story and calls Drew's account of the events "idiotic". That's the second time today that Drew's been called an idiot. It's sort of the perfect word for him. |
| 8:06
| Peterson should learn next week if items seized by police last month will be returned to him. |
| 8:07
| The judge will review case law presented by both sides before making a decision. You'd think he would have done that already, he's had a few weeks to do it. |
| 8:08
| Drew's side says that the 4 search warrants executed against him were too broad. And Drew likes broads but not broad search warrants. |
| 8:09
| Peterson's side also argues that authorities have had more than enough time with the items seized and that they could only confiscate his guns if they believed they were used in the crime. |
| 8:10
| Buzz read something in the paper the other day that, according to Drew, the kids don't even miss Stacy. |
| 8:11
| Stacy was a disappointment to the kids and she couldn't keep a good house. Drew expects his women to keep a good house because his mom did. |
| 8:12
| It's not like Drew is very messy. But if he's trimming his mustache and a few hairs remain in the sink he doesn't clean it up. |
| 8:19
| Live read: Townstone Financial |
| 8:20
| David Hochberg may have finally pulled the trigger on the Drew/Stacy concept. Yesterday the people's names were Drew and Stacy but the ages were different and they were in Chicago. |
| 8:21
| Steve accused David of chickening out and then he called in and denied it. He later admitted that he did chicken out. |
| 8:22
| This one is much better though. It says they live in Barrington but he must mean Bolingbrook. |
| 8:23
| Live read: The Little Guys |
| 8:24
| Steve's seeing something that has his name on it. It's from some sort of Find Stacy Peterson forum. Steve might need Mark's help on this. |
| 8:25
| Steve's name is mentioned in this forum which he doesn't really need. Buzz feels it's unavoidable. |
| 8:26
| Mark Czerniec is on the phone. Find Stacy Peterson is run is the official website and Cassandra Cales spends a lot of time on there chatting about it. |
| 8:27
| People from around the world have registered for the website. Is that in case Stacy is in Czechoslovakia or something? |
| 8:28
| If the people like the impersonation though then it seems like it's OK. There's one post from Flygirl about the impersonation. |
| 8:29
| Flygirl used to live in Chicago and recently rediscovered Steve. She says that people love Steve or hate Steve. Is that necessary? |
| 8:30
| Flygirl suggests that if you want to lighten the mood, there's nothing finer than a truly funny wit making endless fun of a dolt. Dolt? Earlier today he was called an idiot. |
| 8:31
| Live read: Jacob Ruth |
| 8:32
| There are only 12 days left until Christmas. Are Steve and Buzz going to start their 12 days of Christmas? Will Buzz calculate the price of the gifts given in the song? |
| 8:33
| That's a go to radio bit these days. It seems like the AP does it for you but if Buzz finds it Steve can do something with it. |
| 8:41
| Live read: Medical Hair Restoration |
| 8:42
| Steve's not sure if he'd want to get the gift of hair from Santa. He's old, he's shaky, he's up all night. You're better off going with the professionals. |
| 8:43
| Santa seems like a bit of a jerk when it comes to hair anyway, always showing off with that beard. |
| 8:44
| Imagine Santa delivering some hair to Buzz's house and he's in the bedroom asking Aimee to run her hands through his hair. He's sort of a jerk. |
| 8:45
| Santa's a superhero and as we know all superheroes have a dark side. The hair thing is probably his dark side. |
| 8:46
| Headlines with Buzz |
| 8:47
| The long awaited, much anticipated Mitchell Report will finally be released later today. As many as 80 current and former baseball players will be named. |
| 8:48
| The Golden Globe nominations have been announced. Among the nominees for best picture are American Gangster, Atonement, Michael Clayton, Eastern Promises, The Great Debaters, No Country For Old Men and There Will Be Blood. |
| 8:49
| Steve hasn't heard of any of those movies other than American Gangster. Buzz saw Eastern Promises, it's about the Russian mob. Steve did want to see that one. No Country For Old Men had the best villain Buzz has seen all year. |
| 8:50
| Brendan says The Great Debaters is the new Oprah movie, it's about a debate team. Steve's going to guess that it's about underprivileged black kids who overcome adversity. |
| 8:51
| Steve has yet to see American Gangster but his Blu-Ray copies of Superbad and that Chuck and Larry movie are on their way. What was that one called? Something precedes Chuck and Larry in the title. |
| 8:52
| It's I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry according to Brendan. How's that podcast going by the way? So far, so good. Steve's heard it, it sounds good. |
| 8:53
| Al Sharpton is at the center of a federal investigation. The FBI and the IRS are looking into whether or not he misappropriated some funds. |
| 8:54
| The girl known as the Angel with Wings, because of a third arm growing out of her back, had successful surgery to have the extra appendage removed. Why would you want to do that? |
| 8:55
| Buzz remembers a Judd Nelson movie where a guy had a third arm which he was able to parlay into a successful career as a stand-up. |
| 8:56
| PETA has begun a new Got Puss? campaign to draw attention to the dangerous amount of sematic cells in most of the milk sold in this country. |
| 8:57
| Steve recently saw something on HBO about PETA and the woman behind a lot of these campaigns, like Got Puss? If you see it it'll drive you nuts because all the woman is looking for is attention. |
| 8:58
| The woman is even mean to the people who try to help her cause. She's mean to everyone except animals. |
| 8:59
| In one of the segments she's in Paris with some helpers and they're targeting stores of famous designers. They're going up to the stores and splashing red paint on the windows. |
| 9:00
| Then they're taking coats from the stores and spilling red paint on each other. It seems like they have to pay for the damage they do, plus they've ruined these coats so the animals died for nothing. |
| 9:01
| The documentary is called I Am an Animal: The Story of Ingrid Newkirk and PETA. Newkirk has directed in her will that her skin be turned into wallets, her feet into umbrella stands and her flesh turned into "Newkirk Nuggets" and barbecued. Buzz would buy a wallet. Steve would buy an umbrella stand. |
| 9:02
| Caller has also seen that documentary. The woman seems very hateful. She went off on some kid who went to a turkey farm and couldn't get any video. She wanted him fired. |
| 9:03
| Tina Turner is refusing to comment on the death of Ike Turner. Hasn't she done enough damage already? |
| 9:04
| Tyra Banks is saying that Britney Spears should just kill herself because her behavior is setting a bad example. She thinks she should follow Marilyn Monroe's lead. |
| 9:05
| She's a talk show host now? Wasn't she just a supermodel? That seems really mean, it just makes Steve want to help Britney even more. |
| 9:06
| Caller Rob worked at a testing lab for a construction company. They had all these sweet anti-PETA posters, one of them said "Thanks to animal testing, you can now protest for 26.3 more years." |
| 9:07
| That Got Puss stuff has to ruin Pete's egg nog. |
| 9:08
| We've got the big Jack/B96 Christmas party today. Buzz is going because it's one of his two immutable laws of Chicago radio. Always go to the Christmas party and never bad rap Steve. And look at Buzz, he's been in Chicago for 27 years. |
| 9:09
| Steve's been going to the Christmas party for the last few years. Sometimes you forget about all the other people who make the station run. So far all the people Steve's met from Jack seem really nice. |
| 9:10
| Eddie and Jobo are showing up and they're superpowers. Steve and Buzz need to be there to represent Jack. How quickly can they get fur coats? |
| 9:11
| Steve would like to find out from the staff who's going to the party. Buzz can't imagine anyone not going but Steve's not so sure. |
| 9:12
| Pete is not going to the party so right out of the box there's one. It's at an inconvenient time for Pete. Steve thinks it's because Pete can't get hammered and nail chicks. It's right in the middle of Pete's napping and running time. |
| 9:13
| SInce we just started on this station maybe Pete should go to the party. Pete's always gone to the Christmas party and he feels that his radio career has never taken off. |
| 9:14
| He still has a job though doesn't he? And he's been getting raises on a fairly regular basis. What was he expecting, a job as general manager? |
| 9:15
| The party is also right in the middle of Steve's napping and running time but he's making arrangements to do that later. |
| 9:16
| Buzz's rules for Chicago radio usually apply to on-air personalities. He would feel weird dictating what off-air people should do. |
| 9:17
| Steve's not going to tell Pete what to do either. He needs a guy who's crazy enough to come in everyday setting tapes, checking tapes, keeping tapes. 360 days of the year it works out for him. |
| 9:18
| Pete likes his routine and his routine works for him. Brendan's going because it's an open bar. Mary's going too. |
| 9:19
| Steve calls down to the newsroom. Jim is coming but he's not bringing the black girlfriend, she's working. Buzz was going to bring his wife but Steve thought it was just staff only. |
| 9:20
| Aimee's going to be heartbroken, Buzz told her she had to come. He promised her a free lunch too. |
| 9:21
| Steve's pretty sure it's staff only, that's why it's in the afternoon. It's not like they'll refuse to let Aimee in though. |
| 9:22
| So Jim's coming to the party. It's cutting into his napping and videogame playing time, luckily it's not cutting into his running time. |
| 9:23
| Steve calls up to the office but he's pretty sure he knows the answer. Lucy (Tina) and Ethel (Stephanie) are both coming. Tina really wants to meet Eddie and Jobo. |
| 9:24
| Now that Steve thinks about it he thought Todd Cavanah told him that Eddie and Jobo don't usually come to the party. Tina also wanted to meet Stylz and Roman but they're on the air in the afternoons. Doesn't she ride the elevator all day trying to meet them anyway? |
| 9:25
| Steve the engineer is outside the studio, maybe he could come in. Steve likes an engineer with a radio voice. |
| 9:26
| Steve the engineer is really disappointed that Pete's not going, he was looking for a bar buddy. Be careful what you wish for. One minute you're Pete's bar buddy, the next minute you're in the back of an SUV with your pants down. |
| 9:27
| Pete's going to try to make it which means he won't come. Do Eddie and Jobo come to the party? They'll definitely be there this year since Steve and Buzz are coming. |
| 9:28
| Eddie was there last year but not Jobo. They were both doing a remote this morning in Indiana so Steve's not sure if they're coming. |
| 9:29
| Steve calls down to Adam's office, Mr. Bossy Pants. He's the bossiest employee Steve has. The other day he came into the studio and said we have 144 Steve Dahl Show mugs and only 10 pre-orders so he might want to start talking about them. Then he threw a mug at Steve. |
| 9:30
| Steve hasn't mentioned them yet today either but Adam didn't want to bring that up. They're high quality mugs, microwave and dishwasher safe. Steve the engineer has a mug and it says you're supposed to handwash the mug. |
| 9:31
| You only want to handwash if you want the mug to last which we don't. We want people to buy more of them. |
| 9:32
| Adam's going to the party so Pete is the only holdout. And Steve the engineer wants to party with him. It seems like you'd want to make friends with the engineer. If Buzz had a third radio rule it would be to make friends with the engineer. That's Steve's first radio rule. |
| 9:39
| Steve's selling some mugs online already. He just sold one to Tom Jankauskus. Steve feels like he's doing a pledge drive. |
| 9:40
| Tom might be a mug collector, like Buzz, because he bought the old mug and the new mug. |
| 9:41
| Live read: Allen Brothers |
| 9:42
| Buzz received some steaks from Allen Brothers along with a nice supply of the Wagyu beef hash. |
| 9:43
| Steve has one more thing he has to do. He's calling Penny downstairs, she's running the board for us. |
| 9:44
| Steve the engineer told Penny to be in the studio because Steve was going to call her which took some of the spontaneity out of it. |
| 9:45
| Steve thought he heard on the intercom that Penny wanted to spank him? Is that true? How about at the party near the fried macaroni? |
| 9:46
| Steve will be happy to know that Todd Cavanah is wearing the jeans with the dragon on them. Fantastic! The only thing better would be if he changed into the jeans for the party. |
| 9:47
| Pete's not coming for sure right? He doesn't care how many people he disappoints? Disappointment is part of his thing. Everyone else on the show naps and works out. Mary works out three hours a day and she's still going to the party. |
| 9:48
| Why doesn't he just stop on the way home just for a little bit. Pete needs to socialize more without alcohol. That road ends with a trip to a meeting. Hello my name is P-p-p-pete Zimmerman. |
| 9:53
| Last night on Buzz's NBC5 news they were talking to some guy from the CTA and he was at a meeting counting on divine intervention in the transit crisis. The CTA wants to lay people off but also buy new buses. |
| 9:54
| Just because they're laying people off and cutting routes doesn't mean they don't need new buses. That seems like a pointless argument. It's probably not great timing though. |
| 9:55
| Live read: Medical Hair Restoration |
| 9:56
| Steve assumes Ed Silha is coming to the party as well. He doesn't work for the station but he works for Steve. Tina and Stephanie also work for Steve but they're coming. |
| 9:57
| Mark Czerniec would certainly be welcome but Steve doesn't see him making the trip down to Racine. |
| 9:58
| Steve has a tanning hunk but he's going to save it for tomorrow. it involves tanning, getting a turkey breast and then going to blockbuster. |
| 9:59
| Steve can tell his tanning story, it's pretty short. It's still sort of awkward going there because he's a grown man. One of the thing that gets him there is the prospect of cute high school or college girls working there. |
| 10:00
| Much to Steve's surprise there were two dudes working there. They were quite nice though. Steve gave his name but his credits had run out last October. They had a 2-for-1 deal and apparently the free ones expire. |
| 10:01
| Steve had to buy a new pack of credits and the kid assured him they wouldn't expire. Since Steve spent $100 he got to pick out his own lotion. |
| 10:02
| Steve was not prepared to choose a lotion though, there were too many choices and he didn't really want to use one. They laid out a bunch of them for Steve and he went with Love Monkey. |
