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| 5:30
| Buzz, there's got to be a misunderstanding. Good to hear that...is it Phil Collins or Genesis? Whatever! |
| 5:31
| It's Genesis of course. Was that one of the songs from American Psycho? Do we happen to have that tape available Pete? |
| 5:32
| Pete did make the Jack/B96 Christmas party yesterday. It should be B96 first since they're bigger. They certainly have a lot of people working for them, most of them young and in hoodies. |
| 5:33
| A lot of the hoodies have Olde English lettering which seems gang-related. Buzz remembers it was Lee Abrams dream to have street gangs on the radio. |
| 5:34
| Since we're not broadcasting at a radio convention Steve will have to explain who Lee Abrams is. He was a consultant at The Loop but he also worked at a station Steve worked at in Detroit. |
| 5:35
| When Steve left Detroit for Chicago he wrote Lee a nice note which was probably one of his best career moves. Later on Lee came to Chicago and started up The Loop. |
| 5:36
| Buzz has apparently never forgot the meeting Lee had with the on-air staff where he told them he wanted them to be a street gang. There might have even been leather jackets. They did sort of become a gang but they didn't kill anyone or sell drugs. They did buy drugs though. |
| 5:37
| Steve thought it was a laughable concept since Lee was talking to a bunch of middle class white guys. It was Steve and Buzz, Garry, Mitch Michaels, Sky Daniels, Les Tracy (who had a collection of panties at his house) and that Danielle woman who did overnights. |
| 5:38
| Every morning Steve came in and she offered to have sex with him. He never took her up on it though. She wasn't much of a looker plus she'd been up all night but Steve appreciated the offer. It was very casual, like she was offering him a cup of coffee. |
| 5:39
| Steve declined, he had to keep his eyes on Buzz and make sure he didn't fall asleep. Of course Buzz was allowed to smoke in his room so he never fell asleep. It almost looked like there was a smoke machine in there. |
| 5:40
| Pete has the American Pyscho audio ready. Not only is it good writing but you have to hand it to Christian Bale for that performance. It seems even better when you find out he has an Australian accent. |
| 5:41
| Christian Bale made Steve like the Batman movies again. He's in the next one too that was filmed here. |
| 5:42
| Is Misunderstanding on the album that he says he likes in American Psycho? Was that Duke? Steve's having some memory trouble this morning. It could be waking up early and taking the trucker's speed. |
| 5:43
| Steve also did a lot of weird eating yesterday, mostly candy and pasta, at the holiday party. You have to call it a holiday party so as to not offend anyone. |
| 5:44
| Steve and everyone else from the show arrived at the party as an entourage. He didn't realize it was a sitdown dinner and he also didn't know that Peter and Todd would be up working the room with wireless mics with The B mic flags. |
| 5:45
| So Steve walks into a room with 200 people and everyone looks at him because he's on the same end of the room as Peter and Todd. The rest of the staff was frozen at the door but Steve walked all the way in and then Todd shoved a mic in his face. |
| 5:46
| Buzz thought it would be more of a walk-in/walk-out type thing. The last few years at WCKG weren't as organized. This was more like a wedding reception. |
| 5:47
| Steve tried to say a few funny things but he didn't think it was appropriate since he's the newcomber. Somehow Buzz ended up in the back of the room but Steve was in the front of the room. |
| 5:48
| Adam brought Steve and the rest of the staff in through the front door and he had cleared part of a table for them. God knows what Adam said to them to get them to move. |
| 5:49
| As soon as Steve sat down he won an award for "Jack's Undiscovered On-Air Talent." That's sort of an inside joke because Steve has been complaining that there are no promos for this show throughout the rest of the day. |
| 5:50
| Todd likes the way things are on his station, he's very reluctant to make any changes. This show is more like a ratings booty call. |
| 5:51
| Steve was starving when he got in there but he couldn't get to the food because Todd and Peter were right in front of the table. |
| 5:52
| So after the presentation Steve was the only one eating other than Jill. No one works a buffet like Jill. And apparently no one works an open bar like Jill either. |
| 5:53
| When Steve left Pete, Brendan and Jim kid were at the bar with Jill and some other female sales girl. They were also with the sales guy who Steve has identified as the biggest troublemaker. |
| 5:54
| Pete says that was Jamie. He asks a lot of dumb questions. At the meeting where Steve met the sales staff he was asking him if he did charities. Then he said he worked with a diabetes charity but Steve didn't know what he was looking for. He said Steve could get an appearance fee to do something with the charity but Steve doesn't really do that. Did he send the guy to Buzz? |
| 5:55
| Then he was asking Steve if he'd be interested in driving a Porsche from a dealership on the Northside. Steve kept telling the guy that he already had the car but he kept asking him if he was interested. |
| 5:56
| Steve's already talked to that dealership anyway. The owner's son is a listener and he says his dad hates Steve because they were on a flight to Hawaii together. So if Steve got the car they wouldn't be able to tell the dad. |
| 6:00
| How right-on was Steve's prediction about the buffet menu at the Christmas party. Buzz said that to Stephanie as soon as he saw the spread. |
| 6:01
| There were two kinds of pasta and a roasted chicken. Any time chicken goes into one of those dishes it gets really wet. |
| 6:02
| Steve had some chicken but mostly he had carbs. When he got on his scale this morning it laughed at him. That's not even a feature of the scale, it developed it's own response to Steve. |
| 6:03
| They did have little mini pizzas that were pretty good too, Steve had some of those. By the time Steve got there the chicken was down to the wings and thighs, the parts Steve doesn't really like. |
| 6:04
| Steve grabbed a leg which he normally doesn't like to eat. Something happens to the legs where the marrow from the bones leaks out. And in general chicken legs have a different feel to them. There's something wrong with our poultry. It might be because they're not free-range. |
| 6:05
| OK, today's web poll question "what is your favorite gag item?" The options are fake vomit, a Whoopie cushion and a joy buzzer. Buzz's daughter loves Whoopie cushions, she likes to plant them throughout the house. Buzz really need to pitch someone on a reality show. |
| 6:06
| Buzz doesn't normally like to tell kid stories but he wanted to tell one if that's alright. No, it's not alright Buzz. |
| 6:07
| Buzz's daughter takes karate and she has a green belt. They've just begun sparring and at the end of the class she sparred with an 8-year old who was also a brown belt. |
| 6:08
| Right away the kid hit her right in the face and she just stood there, getting ready to cry. Then she stopped crying and turned into little fists of fury. The teacher had to break them up and the kid was freaked. |
| 6:09
| What a nice story. It's actually a lovely holiday story. Steve assumes the reason Piper is taking martial arts is so she can defend herself on dates. It sounds like Buzz is well on the way to achieving his dream of Piper not dating until she's 40. |
| 6:10
| So Piper enjoys the Whoopie cushions and apparently Buzz is powerless to stop her. She'll probably beat him up. "Put back the Whoopie cushion old man!" |
| 6:11
| A building on the West Side holds a secret that appeals to 12-year old and 12-year olds at heart. |
| 6:12
| This building is the capital of fake vomit, where it's still handmade. They also make pepper gum, chattering teeth, and oversized everything at Fun Inc. on Grand Avenue. |
| 6:13
| It's good to know they make fake vomit right here in Chicago. The fake vomit does look pretty real. Steve remembers how the package told you to sprinkle water on the fake vomit to make it look more realistic. |
| 6:14
| Sometime in the late 50's or early 60's an employee of Marvin Glass, a Chicago toy inventor, pitched the fake vomit idea using latex or foam. Glass thought it was disgusting. |
| 6:15
| At a later meeting the employee barged into a meeting with H. Fishlove & Co. and slapped a disc of fake vomit on the table. This sounds like it should be a movie. The Fishlove people loved it and Glass thought it was disgusting no more. |
| 6:16
| Buzz gets his fake vomit at Uncle Fun but maybe he should start going to the factory on the West Side. |
| 6:17
| The exact blend of fake vomit is a secret of course, much like the 12 herbs and spices in KFC. It starts with a drum of latex and then bits of course foam are dropped in. |
| 6:18
| At Izzy Rizzy's House of Tricks on the South Side, where Steve gets all of his gag items, Fun Inc's fake vomit is the best seller among the fake vomit available. |
| 6:19
| Fake vomit, made in Chicago. And that's Steve Dahl's Someone You Should Know. |
| 6:26
| Headlines with Buzz |
| 6:27
| Bud Selig responded to the Mitchell Report saying players will be disciplined on a case-by-case basis. Jose Canseco, who's mentioned in the report, said that at the height of steroid usage 80% of players were juiced. |
| 6:28
| Steve doesn't really get the point of this report, he doesn't really care. Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire weren't even mentioned in the report. |
| 6:29
| George Mitchell seemed pretty measured throughout the press conference. He's the guy who put Ireland back together, that's definitely something. |
| 6:30
| He might have come down a little harder on MLB than Selig was expecting though. He was telling people not to focus on the names and of course everyone focuses on the names. |
| 6:31
| You can't stop steroids. Every time they develop a test to detect steroids, someone comes up with a new steroid that's undetectable. Steve doesn't care if Glenallen Hill or Jim Parque were on steroids. |
| 6:32
| Steve just wants to see good baseball, he doesn't care what they're on and he doesn't care what happens after their playing careers are over. Most baseball players are jerks anyway. |
| 6:33
| Steve doesn't care about Cooperstown either, it's not like he's ever going there. Why would he go all the way to Cooperstown to see Babe Ruth's bat? |
| 6:34
| George Mitchell had some good advice which was to forget about it, start over and try to get people off the stuff. |
| 6:35
| Emails from former astronaut Lisa Nowak to astronaut Bill Oefelein reveal nothing untoward going on. They were involved but they kept it professional. |
| 6:36
| Democratic presidential candidates debated in Iowa last night. Watching all this stuff has made Steve realize that we have way overempowered the people of Iowa. |
| 6:37
| There was some guy talking about how he didn't like what Mitt Romney was saying, he's just some fat idiot from Keokuk. |
| 6:38
| Todd Sauerbrun, a little tipsy last weekend, got into a cab face-first and according to the driver could barely sit up. Then the Denver punter objected to the music being played in the cab and smacked the cabbie on the back of the head. Then he was driven to the police station. |
| 6:39
| CTA workers are threatening to strike on Monday which could be a nightmare. The head of the union is hoping riders won't blame the workers. Who else would they blame? |
| 6:40
| Steve's pretty sure everyone on the show except for himself, Buzz and Mary take public transportation to get to work. It's something like 50% of the people in this city who take public transportation. There will be no parking spaces on Monday! |
| 6:41
| Yesterday the Illinois legislature was preoccupied with the idea of purchasing Wrigley Field. Mayor Daley doesn't like the idea. |
| 6:42
| Why does the state need to buy Wrigley Field? It's a landmark building, it's protected. Plus if you're buying the Cubs you want Wrigley included in the sale. |
| 6:43
| Time Magazine has come up with the top 10 most awkward moments for 2007. Are Steve and Buzz on there? Number one on the list is the president of Columbia University inviting Iran's president to speak at the school. |
| 6:44
| Number two is Paris Hilton crying for her mom in court. David Hasselhoff is at number 4 but that would be Steve's top awkward moment. |
| 6:45
| The state does own U.S. Cellular but if you're buying the Cubs it seems like you'd want Wrigley included. Plus how can the state pay as much for Wrigley as other bidders? |
| 6:46
| Japanese scientists have developed fearless mice. Like Mighty Mouse? They can do everything except fly and sing. They show no fear in the face of felines which is unfortunate because they're going to get eaten. |
| 6:54
| Live read: The Little Guys |
| 6:55
| Song: Bolingbrookville, Steve Dahl |
| 6:59
| Steve still keeps thinking to himself, if Stacy did run off with some guy, why hasn't anyone reported that he's missing? |
| 7:00
| Buzz thinks guys can disappear a little easier. Or maybe he's just got her stashed away somewhere. That seems unnecessary, can't she just leave her husband? |
| 7:01
| Logically if Buzz ran off with some woman we'd hear about him being missing. Buzz isn't biting on this concept. |
| 7:02
| Before Buzz was married he was just wandering around, doing whatever. |
| 7:03
| So yesterday we had the big B/Jack holiday party at Dave and Buster's. Steve met Julian, the Night Ninja. He seemed like a nice enough kid. They were talking some hardcore radio stuff. |
| 7:04
| Julian was seeking some advice from Steve, he wants to be a personality. Steve's advice was to keep dropping a song but then he remembered that Julian is working for Todd. |
| 7:05
| Steve got an email from Julian who appreciated Steve's down-to-earth manner. That's always how Buzz describes Steve. |
| 7:06
| Julian had a chance to come up here and see Steve's studio. How did he get up here? Did Pete bring him back here? It has the feel of someone bringing someone back here to do something. |
| 7:07
| You never know with Pete. When he gets drunk it's any port in the storm. Pete says he was on his best behavior. Was he? |
| 7:08
| Eddie also came up to Steve and introduced himself, he's a nice guy. They shared a nice moment a few years ago when they were both in the audience at The Lion King musical. |
| 7:09
| Steve was just coming off working with Dennis DeYoung at Soundstage. They had spent way too much money allowing Dennis to keep editing and re-editing his performance and Steve quit when they wouldn't cut him off. |
| 7:10
| A few months later Steve is at The Lion King and during intermission Dennis comes up to Steve and starts screaming at him. Eddie was sitting right behind him. |
| 7:11
| Jobo wasn't there because he sort of has social anxiety disorder. Jobo was sort of a legendary partier and he's sober now. It's hard for him to go out to these events now that he's not drinking. |
| 7:12
| He was also at a live remote all morning which must have been tough for him. Steve was thinking he should take Jobo out to lunch sometime since he's also sober. |
| 7:13
| The highlight of of the party for Buzz was seeing Todd Cavanah's dragon jeans. Buzz thought it was more of an outline but it's a very detailed patch. It looks like the kind of thing that's on the back of a jacket of a guy who was in Vietnam. |
| 7:14
| Even though Buzz was in the back of the room he still was pointed out by Todd and Peter. Buzz was actually happy that he got pointed out because then it's on record that he was there. |
| 7:15
| Somehow Pete got to the back of the room with Buzz even though he came in the same door as Steve did. |
| 7:16
| The rest of the staff was just standing there with Steve as they walked in. Then Adam had cleared a bunch of people away from a table, God knows what he said to them. Mr. Bossy Pants! |
| 7:17
| Steve calls down to Adam's office. Before Steve got there Adam just mentioned that Steve was coming with his entourage and they'd probably want to sit at a table and eat. He just cleared off some accounting people. |
| 7:18
| Great, Steve won't be getting his paycheck now! It also looked like Steve was trying to make a grand entrance but he wasn't. He didn't know it was a sit-down dinner. |
| 7:19
| After dinner everyone went to go play games. Steve didn't think he wanted to play videogames be he liked it. He wasn't very good, he got beaten by Brendan and was terrible at skee-ball. Mary beat him at a football toss game and then when he tied her she refused to let him play. Steve played a racing game and a motorcycle game also. Hopefully there are no pictures of Steve on top of the motorcycle. |
| 7:19
| Those games are all pretty fun but Steve usually has a snooty attitude about games. Buzz also has a snooty attitude but occasionally Piper pulls him into playing. He enjoys watching her shooting people in the game. Buzz really needs to see someone, he has some issues he might need to work out. It's not right that he enjoys watching her kick someone's butt in karate either. |
| 7:20
| It's fun to play those games for an hour or so, especially with work people. You don't normally do that stuff with work people so it's completely out of the ordinary. |
| 7:21
| Steve went downstairs and Lucy and Ethel (Tina and Stephanie) couldn't get out of the photo booth. There's a weird love-hate-love thing with them. |
| 7:22
| Then Steve gave the girls a ride back to the station in a limo he'd rented. That might have been overkill. Back in the day those girls wouldn't have been safe in a limo after the Christmas party. |
| 7:23
| Everyone at B96 and Jack seemed really nice though. The Jack people seem excited to have the show on the station. It's a definite change from the last few Christmas parties at WCKG, which doesn't even exist any more. |
| 7:24
| There was karaoke at the WCKG Christmas parties but things haven't been great since Stern left. It was nice to go to a positive Christmas party for a change. |
| 7:25
| There were free drinks at the party too, Steve thought he saw Pete with one of his trendy beers. It was just a Miller Lite though. When Pete arrived Steve the engineer had a beer waiting for him. |
| 7:30
| Steve was disappointed last night that there was no new Office episode. The NBC promo was misleading but it was still a funny episode. |
| 7:31
| Live read: Jacob Ruth |
| 7:32
| Did Pete get hammered at the party last night? Or did they just have a few beers? Did Pete stick around long enough to talk to that sales guy? |
| 7:33
| Pete had already met him at a Dahlfins show. He asks a lot of inappropriate questions. At the sales meeting he was asking Steve if he did charity work. Why is he asking this question at the sales meeting?! |
| 7:34
| Then last night he's asking Steve if he wants to drive a Porsche, the same kind of Porsche he already has. Why would Steve drive a car he already has? What would he do with the car he has? |
| 7:35
| The sales guy, Jamie, asked Pete if he'd be willing to drive a Volvo. The guy is a big fan of Steve's according to Pete. |
| 7:36
| That's fine but if you have an idea get the whole thing done first then come to Steve. Don't come to Steve with an idea for something you haven't worked out. Plus the guy who owns the Porsche Exchange hates Steve, according to his son. |
| 7:37
| There are 5 Porsche dealerships in Chicago so that means 20% of them hate Steve. If there's a cooperative buy from all the dealerships it won't happen becuase one guy hates Steve. |
| 7:38
| Jamie was pitching Pete on driving a Volvo so it least it was a drop down from Steve's Porsche. How late did Pete stay there? |
| 7:39
| Pete was there until about 6:00, right after Steve left. Steve calls down to the newsroom. There was a moment during the party when Jim kid was talking to a black girl and Steve thought he really did have a black girlfriend. |
| 7:40
| That was actually Erica from Eddie and Jobo's show, she was very nice. Everyone was very nice at the party. Was Jamie trying to get Jim to drive a Ford Escort or something? And maybe Brendan could get a bike. |
| 7:41
| Jim stayed at the party until about 5:30 and then drove Brendan home. Jim has a car but he rarely uses it, it's a '92 Cavalier. That also describes Jim's attitude, Cavalier. It's not just a car, it's a lifestyle. |
| 7:42
| Anything else Steve needs to know about? When he left it was Jim, Pete, Brendan, Jill from marketing who could smoke at the bar and some sales girl. Jim is glad Jill found a new smoking pal. |
| 7:43
| That big tall guy was also there but Steve didn't see him smoking. He had hideous tobaccos breath, as if he'd eaten a tobacco plant. Pete saw a pack of American Spirit on the bar that were Jamie's. What's American Spirit? Steve's never heard of that. It must be flavored or something. |
| 7:44
| Steve couldn't have been more clear that he already had the car the guy was pitching him on. He seems like a go-getter though so Steve doesn't want to discourage him. |
| 7:45
| Whoever that girl was at the bar, she had the look of Pete's next conquest. He'd make a one-time exception for a smoker. |
| 7:50
| Caller Paul loves Steve in the mornings. Hearing that Sky Daniels tape yesterday made his day. |
| 7:51
| Paul wanted to let Steve know that American Spirit is an all-natural cigarette. Steve should say on Jamie's behalf that he seems like a good salesmen. He brought in Gladstone Homes. |
| 7:52
| The fourth quarter has already been sold so anyone who can bring in someone new is a good salesmen. |
| 7:53
| Whoever that blond sales girl is, she's lucky she was with Jill. Otherwise she'd be in a blue barrel in Pete's living room right now soaking in hydrochloric acid. It puts the lotion on baby. |
| 7:54
| Steve won an award at the party, Jack's Undiscovered Talent. The award was a $50 gift card. It's sort of an inside joke though because there are no promos for this show throughout the rest of the day. |
| 7:55
| Steve likes Todd but he's a music programmer. He programs Jack by hand. You could pick a random time of day in the last week or in the next week and he could tell you what's going to play. |
| 7:56
| So Todd can't really figure out where to fit in a Steve Dahl Show promo. He's going to do it but he's having a hard time letting go. There's some word Todd has for the promos but Steve can't remember what it is. |
| 7:57
| Steve calls down to the Jack studios. Penny won an award as well for Jack MVP, she got a $25 gift card for Borders. The promos are called liners and there are different categories for them. |
| 7:58
| Mary also won an award and she was very embarrassed. If she could have crawled under a table she would have. |
| 7:59
| Mary also won $25 from Borders for Brains of the Operation, which is actually true. Steve doesn't need to pay at Lettuce Entertain You restaurants anyway. He could give the gift card to Penny but her and Mary would have to team up and give him $50 back. |
| 8:00
| Steve will give Penny the gift card anyway, just for riding his levels. The phone calls are coming in a little hot but that's not Penny. Steve the engineer might need to fix that but he's not talking to Steve right now. |
| 8:01
| Steve said that Steve the engineer was following him around like a cat who he'd put milk out for. He doesn't mind if Penny follows him around because she's not a dude. |
| 8:02
| Live read: Townstone Financial |
| 8:03
| Steve has received some David Hochberg hate mail, he'll have to find it. He should have looked for it before he started this. |
| 8:04
| Buzz can't imagine how David Hochberg engenders that much hate. Steve feels that part of it could be anti-semitism. Or maybe it's just people who can't get a loan. |
| 8:05
| Steve will look for it during the news. |
| 8:06
| Is Buzz ready for the news or should we take a break? Buzz would prefer a break, he has some fresh sound he'd like to uncork. |
| 8:07
| How about some Jack music? That's what it's all about. Steve thinks he doesn't want to hear the 80's music on Jack but then Tainted Love comes on and he's singing along. |
| 8:08
| Song: Roll to Me, Del Amitri |
| 8:16
| News with Buzz |
| 8:17
| A Nor'easter is heading towards the East Coast so make arrangements if you're traveling there. |
| 8:18
| Steve found the David Hochberg email. He starts off saying how she loves the show and won a trip to Cancun from Steve. She tried to thank Steve personally at the studio but she couldn't get past the front desk. |
| 8:19
| The only time she walks out of the room is when the music comes on for the Townstone live read. |
| 8:20
| Steve doesn't know why some people don't like David. He's a fan of the show and when he's on the show it's because Steve wants him on the show. |
| 8:21
| Sometimes it seems like Steve doesn't want to talk to David so maybe people are picking up on that. But if Steve didn't want him on the show he wouldn't be on the show. He does have some control. |
| 8:22
| Two students were killed in an overnight shooting in a dorm at LSU. |
| 8:23
| Bud Selig said the "roid warriors" mentioned in the Mitchell Report will be disciplined. He really called them roid warriors? That sort of trivializes the whole thing. Maybe he was trying to be schtreet. He is from the hard-scrabble streets of Milwaukee. |
| 8:24
| New Jersey governor John Corzine will sign into law a bill abolishing the death penalty in that state. |
| 8:25
| Todd Sauerbrun, punter for the Broncos, was tipsy on Saturday morning when he got into a cab to go home. The driver says Sauerbrun was unable to sit up straight and it got worse when the football player objected to the music being played in the cab. He subsequently smacked the cabbie in the back of the head. |
| 8:26
| One of Drew Peterson's adult sons appeared in court yesterday. Steven Peterson, a police officer, testified in front of a Will County grand jury. |
| 8:27
| A report in the Sun-Times says that Mayor Daley's son Patrick has a secret interest in a sewer inspection company. That company got several city contracts which were signed off on by the mayor himself. |
| 8:28
| A Booth Free School teacher barricaded herself in a classroom after she mistook someone singing a Guns 'n' Roses song over the PA as a threat. |
| 8:29
| Pat Boyle is on the phone. |
| 8:30
| Live read: Jacob Ruth |
| 8:31
| The big news in sports is the Mitchell Report. Steve doesn't really care about it although he agrees with Mitchell, MLB should just move on. |
| 8:32
| It seems like the only way to stop steroid use is jail time since it is illegal. It doesn't seem like that's going to happen though. |
| 8:33
| There's nothing shocking in there though. You don't get better as you get older but some how Roger Clemens did. |
| 8:34
| There's nothing really new in this report. They need to figure out how to test better. They can ban HGH but they don't test for it. |
| 8:35
| You can test for HGH but it's very expensive. The inflated power numbers got more fans in the seats. They could have just juiced the ball though. |
| 8:36
| For a time both the balls and the players were juiced. Steve doesn't care, he wants his players juiced. |
| 8:37
| Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa basically saved baseball after the strike. |
| 8:38
| Steve does care about all this but what is he supposed to do about it? He watched the press conference, he read a bunch of stuff about it but he has no control over it. |
| 8:39
| Steve likes to go to baseball games so he's chosen not to think about it. What irritates Steve is that Jim Parque took something and he still wasn't good. |
| 8:40
| All the guys are getting dimed out are responding by saying that the two main witnesses, the trainer and the clubhouse guy, aren't credible. |
| 8:41
| The Yankees trainer said he's injected Clemens several times over the years. In the butt? |
| 8:42
| Whatever it is hopefully they get it cleared up. Steve's known about it for the last 10 years. Plus when you know someone is juicing you can yell great stuff at them. |
| 8:43
| It may explain a few things about some players like Glenallen Hill hitting the ball onto the roof of a building across from Wrigley. |
| 8:44
| Everything over time seems to self-regulate but it's good they're on the case. Is that a good opinion? |
| 8:45
| If steroids got the White Sox out of the cellar Steve would be happy to shoot every one of them in the butt. Last year he wanted to shoot them all in the head. |
| 8:46
| Bulls play the Knicks tonight at the UC. We won't see the Bears until Monday but Hester, Ayanbadejo and Hester all lead their positions for Pro Bowl voting. |
| 8:47
| We talked to Kyle Orton this week but off the air. He said he didn't want to go on the air which seems like a good idea. |
| 8:54
| Live read: Medical Hair Restoration |
| 8:55
| Buzz ran down the hall so he's completely out of breath. Was that on purpose? Is he working out down there? Does he need some oxygen? |
| 8:56
| Live read: Bolingbrookville, Steve Dahl |
| 9:00
| It's all quiet on the Drew Peterson front today, right Buzz? Drew's not happy about his son being called back to testify. |
| 9:01
| Buzz feels we're not hearing everything about why the website was shut down. If it was making money for him why would they shut it down? |
| 9:02
| The good news is that the other kids got their iPods back. Drew still needs his car and probably Stacy's car for when she comes back. |
| 9:03
| If Drew had his car he could go over to Home Depot and get some Sakrete to patch up the bullet hole in the garage floor. |
| 9:04
| There was just something on CLTV about Drew. It seems like it's all stuff we know though. They've got the Parrothead photo. |
| 9:05
| How does Buzz feel about Drew's trench coat? He went with the dark one with the epaulets. It gives him a police dress look. |
| 9:06
| Time now for Pizza Tragedies. Steve forgot to grab the Elmo doll. Some guy emailed Steve because he's trying to track down an Elmo Pizza doll. |
| 9:07
| It seems like the guy wanted Steve to give up his Elmo doll. C'mon man! Buzz has never seen Steve covet anything like he's coveted the Elmo doll. |
| 9:08
| There was an article in the Trib yesterday about deep-dish pizza in Chicago being on the wane, not the rise if you'll pardon the expression. |
| 9:09
| The new pizza places opening up in Chicago seem to be thin crust, especially that Neopolitan-style. Buzz only knows deep dish and thin crust, what exactly is Neopolitan? |
| 9:10
| It seems like Neopolitan is more traditional Italian pizza. The crust is much thinner and crispier. Steve likes it and it seems like we don't need any new deep-dish places in Chicago. |
| 9:11
| Buzz doesn't like all the cheese in the deep-dish. So he's part of the problem. He should try Neopolitan, although Buzz is a guy who likes Domino's. |
| 9:12
| Buzz hasn't had Domino's in a while but that's only because Steve shamed him out of it. He also found a new thin crust place that he likes. |
| 9:13
| Neopolitan seems to be cooked in a wood burning oven as well. Other than that Steve doesn't really know how to describe it. It seems like the Neopolitan places have fancier ingredients like prosciutto. |
| 9:14
| It doesn't seem like you can improve on what Lou Malnati's or Uno's or Due's have done already. And for Steve's money the best thin crust is Home Run Inn. |
| 9:15
| There's something from a blog on CalorieLab.com. There's a blog from a concerned mother which Steve found irritating. The woman's 3-year old daughter serves pizza once a month. |
| 9:16
| At the beginning of the year the school collected $45 from each child for the monthly pizza day. What is pizza day? Once a month the kids get pizza, pretzels, cookies, juice and carrot sticks. |
| 9:17
| The woman didn't pay and on pizza day she sends her daughter to school with a homemade pizza on whole grain whole wheat pita, watered down juice, yogurt and fruit. |
| 9:18
| This is actually a guy who wrote this blog, not a woman. Who cares?! |
| 9:19
| Finally, dateline Eastpointe, Michigan. Police used a battering ram to break down the door of an Eastpointe apartment after it's occupants refused to pay for a delivery of pizza, ribs and shrimp that came to $17. That's a good deal. |
| 9:27
| Has Buzz ever had pizza margherita? That's with mozzarella and basil and slices of tomato. If he has that would be Neopolitan-style. |
| 9:28
| Buzz rarely gets past pepperoni on his pizza. What about mushrooms? Mushrooms and pepperoni on pizza, it's great! |
| 9:29
| A lot of people don't like mushrooms because they're a fungus. Mushrooms don't have taste, at least to Buzz. |
| 9:30
| Buzz has tried the well done pizza. He needs to put the pepperoni on top of the cheese because then it makes it crispy. It takes on a bacony feel to it. |
| 9:31
| Pepperoni under the cheese is sort of a Chicago thing. Everywhere else Steve has lived they put the pepperoni on top of the cheese. |
| 9:32
| Live read: Allen Brothers |
| 9:33
| Caller Mark lives in Bolingbrook near Drew Peterson's house. He was reading the local paper today and while perusing the police blotter he saw something going on at Pheasant Chase Drive. |
| 9:34
| Someone stole some traffic cones from the one block of Pheasant Chase Drive valued at $30. That has to be Drew's house. |
| 9:35
| Bolingbrook just got a Home Run Inn Pizza, looks like Steve picked the wrong time to move out of there. Mark actually owns a Rosati's which is also good. |
| 9:36
| Steve needs a Rosati's and a Home Run Inn where he lives. There's a White Hen that closed down by Steve, it's the perfect place for a Rosati's. |
| 9:37
| Caller Steve needs some advice. His girlfriend is having a work party at Harry Caray's in Lombard next week. He's a New York Strip kind of guy but he's wondering if he should go with Tallgrass or corn-fed. |
| 9:38
| Steve would go with the corn-fed beef. Bill Kurtis does not appreciate that recommendation. |
| 9:39
| Wait, let's get the Bill Kurtis music on so no one thinks this is Oprah Winfrey talking. Tallgrass is Bill Kurtis' beef, from livestock that he has raised. |
| 9:40
| Growing up out West Steve had a lot of grass-fed beef but he prefers corn-fed. |
| 9:41
| There's a Harry Caray's in Lombard? They've also got a Ditka's out there now. |
| 9:44
| Caller Jason wanted to let Steve know that he was just finishing up some Christmas shopping and there were some Pizza Elmo's at the Target in Darien. |
| 9:52
| Caller Michelle just drove by Drew Peterson's house and there's an Excursion out there but no media trucks. |
| 9:53
| What did Drew do wrong? Is Michelle married? Drew should know that, she helped tow Michelle's husband out of their driveway a few years ago. |
| 9:54
| Does Drew helping Michelle's husband make her have any sympathy for him at all? |
| 9:55
| Michelle still has no sympathy for Drew even though he towed her husband's car out of the driveway. |
| 9:56
| Michelle has another pizza place recommendation for Steve though. |
| 9:57
| Live read: Medical Hair Restoration |
