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| 5:31
| You can't go wrong starting your day with Rio by Duran Duran. This station plays entirely too much Duran Duran. How does Steve know that? Because he monitored the station for two weeks during the hiatus listening for a Steve Dahl Show promo. He didn't hear one. |
| 5:32
| One Duran Duran song is more than enough for Steve, he's not gay. Not that you have to be gay to like them. The general manager, Peter, likes them. They're his favorite band actually. It just bums Steve out that he's working for guys who are 20 years younger than him. |
| 5:33
| They play too much Duran Duran and Def Leppard. Buzz loves Def Leppard because of the one-armed drummer. You'd think they'd hire an extra arm for the studio albums. |
| 5:34
| Rio is one of Duran Duran's most recognizable songs and music videos. It's also an annoying song. It was released worldwide in November of 1982 when Steve and Buzz were doing way cooler stuff. |
| 5:35
| The song was reissued in March of 1983 when Steve was also busy doing other stuff. The musical hook for Rio is well-known among Duran Duran fans and synthesizer enthusiasts, of which Buzz is one. |
| 5:36
| The hook was produced using an arpeggiator which is a software tool that can play individual notes in a chord in a chosen pattern. Or you could just use a piano for that. |
| 5:37
| Duran Duran filmed the video for the song in Antigua, even though according to the lyrics it takes place on the Rio Grande. They could have just gone to Texas. |
| 5:38
| There's a light bulb burnt out in the hallway which for some reason drives Steve nuts. He comes in and Brendan is just sitting there in the dark, waiting for the phone to ring. He just turned 30 over the weekend and he might be a little down. Steve gets where he's coming from but it'll be OK. |
| 5:39
| We sent TIna, the Polish girl, to find a new light bulb. How many Tina's does it take to change a light bulb? Turns out just one but it takes a really long time. But everything is fine now. |
| 5:40
| Buzz only got the invite for Brendan's 30th birthday last night. By that he means he only checked his email last night right? As far as Steve knows the email was sent last Thursday. |
| 5:41
| It was cute because Brendan's mom asked for permission to email everyone an invitation. Unless she's going to hack into the email server she doesn't need permission. |
| 5:42
| Had Buzz known about it he would have been inclined to go since it's in his neighborhood. Steve was thinking of going but then he heard there was no good parking. It was also a surprise party thrown by Brendan's mom which didn't seem fun. |
| 5:43
| Steve knows Brendan's mom from back in the early 80's but not in that way. Some people say Steve is Brendan's dad but he's not. Maybe he should have gone and worked Brendan's mom. |
| 5:44
| OK back to Rio because there's one thing Steve doesn't want to miss. Short segments of the video show band members trying to live out their assorted daydreams, only to be teased, tormented, and made fools of by a body-painted vixen. |
| 5:45
| Didn't someone from Duran Duran flip their boat over and get trapped underneath it? Steve remembers being disappointed that the guy didn't drown. Apparently they're all still alive because they recently reunited. |
| 5:46
| That was at the Chicago Theater and it was mentioned on the ABC7 news since it's right across the street. You can see it from the window or you can just walk through the big hole left in the window. |
| 5:47
| Buzz has seen a movie directed by Russell Mulcahy, Resident Evil: Extinction. Of all the things Steve just mentioned, that's what Buzz knows. Steve doesn't see those movies, the trailers alone scare him. |
| 5:48
| There's that one trailer where you get a phone call and then you turn into a zombie! Over the hiatus, with the family around, Buzz felt compelled to see quality films so he missed that one as well as Alien vs. Predator. Steve's sorry he has a family, but they're all busy now so maybe he could take in a matinee this week. |
| 5:49
| They have matinee's down here right? It'll give Buzz a chance to work the old ladies. He'll put a hole in the bottom of his popcorn tub, Steve knows how he works. |
| 5:52
| Steve missed what that drop was from but he heard Simon Lebon's name mentioned. What was that from Pete? |
| 5:53
| It was from 30 Rock. Pete talking is so funny it's going to make Steve pass out. He had some sort of problem on Friday but it sounds a lot better now. Whatever happened to him he can't lose it. |
| 5:54
| Everyone from the show went to Terry Armour's viewing or wake. Buzz says it was a visitation, that's it. After that everyone went out to dinner at Smith & Wollensky for a staff dinner. |
| 5:55
| Buzz wasn't there because he always has something going on. All of Thursday was out for him, he was babysitting. He had nonrefundable tickets for his house. |
| 5:56
| It was actually a big day for Buzz, Piper was testing for her green belt. She's now one step closer to becoming a trained killer. Or a lesbian. Buzz needs someone to protect him in his golden years. |
| 5:57
| At dinner Pete was coughing a lot which Steve didn't appreciate since he was right next to him. He sounded sick and then the next day he thought he had strep throat. |
| 5:58
| Steve's going to have to work on something with this voice. There's a slight lisp, it's a bit nasally and there's a hint of retardation. Pete needs to stop talking or Steve is going to pass out. |
| 5:59
| Luckily S & W has Coke so Pete was able to partake in a beverage. At the last staff dinner they only had Pepsi which sent the waitress into a tailspin. |
| 6:00
| Pete was feeling sick and he just wanted to have a salad but after the last dinner he felt the need to really power down so he had a steak. |
| 6:01
| On Friday things got way worse, Pete woke up and he couldn't talk or swallow. He went to a Rogers Park urgent care facility which Steve imagines deals primarily with light bulb removal. |
| 6:02
| In the waiting room the patients are watching Jerry Springer which doesn't instill confidence in Pete as a patient. |
| 6:03
| The nurse checking Pete out told him he should probably go to the emergency room. When the nurse tells you to get out you should listen. He was diagnosed with strep throat and got some medication. |
| 6:04
| Buzz is wondering if Pete's uvula is swollen. Is this turning Buzz on? Turns out Pete had an abscess in his throat which had to be removed. |
| 6:05
| So Pete went to the emergency room and as soon as he started talking the doctor said "you've got mashed potato mouth!" Then he called some interns in to check Pete out. Were they laughing at him? |
| 6:06
| After that they took care of Pete and now he feels 100% better. He doesn't sound 100% better but he does sound 100% funnier. |
| 6:07
| How did Pete get the infection in his throat? He remembers asking but he can't remember now. |
| 6:08
| Pete's mad that he didn't go to the emergency room right away on Friday but then Steve would have missed out on the funny voice. So it works out great for him. |
| 6:09
| Buzz thinks the magic letter for Pete might be D, he's having the most trouble with that one. Can he try to say everything with a D? Steve's noticed a crazy wheezing that goes along with it. |
| 6:10
| Pete went to a doctor that was recommended to him by a friend but it was all the way on the Southside. He walks in with a throat issue but other people had worse problems. There were a lot of cops around the hospital. |
| 6:11
| Pete has good healthcare here, has he ever heard for Northwestern hospital? They've got good doctors just walking off the street. |
| 6:12
| Is Pete hideously disfigured after the procedure? He sounds hideously disfigured, is Steve going to walk into the studio and see that his jaw is missing? |
| 6:13
| At the dinner Brendan was wondering how sick Pete could be if he was having a steak dinner. Brendan really comes to life at those staff dinners, he gets a few beers in him and starts ordering lobster tails. |
| 6:14
| Brendan later told Pete, in confidence, that he was just kidding about the sick stuff. He was just going for the joke. He also said something about Pete ordering a vegetable sandwich. |
| 6:15
| How much more time does Steve have with this voice? Does Pete feel like he's getting better? Could we inject him with something that keeps the voice intact? Maybe we could record some stuff with Pete's voice, perhaps for some show promos. |
| 6:16
| Steve didn't hear a single show promo during the two weeks we were off. It's funny that Brendan's mom asks permission to email everyone on the show but any idiot can email Steve to complain about hearing too many songs during the Best of. |
| 6:17
| Some guy was livid because he had to listen to Stevie Nicks' One Winged Dove. Who cares? In the time it took the guy to get mad and then complain the song was over. How bad can one song be? |
| 6:18
| The guy was complaining that he heard 3 songs in a row after 9:00 one day. Steve doesn't even get up that early to listen to himself. |
| 6:19
| So this guy heard Stevie Nicks, although he said Fleetwood Mac, but unfortunately was unable to drive into oncoming traffic since there were no cars on the road. How could anyone care that much about a song? |
| 6:20
| Instead the guy tuned over to Johnny B which Steve feels is much more painful than a Stevie Nicks song. The guy has been a listener since before Disco Demolition, which they always say after they rip you. |
| 6:21
| If you've been listening for over 30 years you'd think this guy would be able to spot Steve one 4 minute song. Is Steve charging for this? Is there a slot in your radio where you have to put money in?! |
| 6:22
| So 30 years of listening means nothing because of one Stevie Nicks song? That seems a bit harsh right? Steve responded because sometimes he can't help himself but he tried to be professional. |
| 6:23
| He told the guy his reaction was maybe knee-jerk and harsh and then he got a really long response in return. |
| 6:29
| OK so back to the guy who broke up with Steve because we played Stevie Nicks during the Best of? The guy responded that he didn't want to get into a whole dialogue but he couldn't believe Steve's show would be playing Stevie Nicks or any song at all. |
| 6:30
| The listener would prefer to hear Steve and Buzz being enormously entertaining, which they appreciate. He also knows that the show is a square peg trying to fit into a round hole on the station. Steve doesn't feel that way. Buzz feels we fit perfectly into a morning slot between 5:30 and 10:00 AM. |
| 6:31
| The guy then exclaims that it's human nature to long for the past, no? Who talks like that, other than French people? He feels that Steve has always stood for irrelevance. Does he mean irreverence? |
| 6:32
| Steve feels he's always stood for irreverence. Steve's getting all of this when he's on vacation, getting ready to go to Terry Armour's funeral. |
| 6:33
| So it's cute that Brendan's mom asked for permission to email Steve and Buzz but she doesn't need to. Anyone can email Steve with stuff like this. We need to shut down the internet or at least license people for it. It's the information superhighway, you still need a license to drive. |
| 6:34
| All of this just makes Steve want to play the Stevie Nicks song all the more. That'll really ruin that guy's day. |
| 6:35
| Caller Pam offers Steve condolences on the passing of Terry. Steve keeps saying thank you when people offer condolences but he doesn't know what else to say. At the wake people kept thanking him for coming and he said "my pleasure" which he didn't really mean either. |
| 6:36
| Pam likes hearing Stevie Nicks and some of the older songs. Steve does too, he just doesn't like Duran Duran. If this listener was so entertained by Johnny B you'd think it wouldn't matter what Steve played. He'd just want to bang on the drum all day. |
| 6:37
| Song: Edge of Seventeen, Stevie Nicks |
| 6:44
| Headlines with Buzz |
| 6:45
| The countdown begins for the country's first primary tomorrow in New Hampshire. In some polls Barack Obama is 10 points ahead of Hillary Clinton. |
| 6:46
| Whether or not lethal injection is cruel and unusual punishment is one of the cases on the Supreme Court's docket. It certainly is unusual. |
| 6:47
| According to Drew Peterson's lawyer another person has spotted Stacy Peterson, this time at a mall in Kentucky. What has Drew been saying all this time? Look at that Indian broad who went missing over the hiatus and then she came back. |
| 6:48
| Hopefully this is the sort of thing that gets Drew back on the cover of The Enquirer. He was voted as the most interesting story of 2007. |
| 6:49
| Steve has some information about Pete's throat problem. Should he do it as himself or Drew? Buzz says Drew. According to the American Academy of Otolaryngynecology, these are the symptoms of tonsillitis. |
| 6:50
| Symptoms include an abscess, severe throat pain, fever, drooling, trismus (which is not Christmas) and muffled voice quality. Was Pete drooling as well? There was some drooling. |
| 6:51
| OK back to Drew Peterson. He was the #1 story last year, thanks to his tireless work. Also it was the last big story of the year. That's why they put out all those movies that get nominated for Academy Awards in December. |
| 6:52
| Did Buzz see the story about Drew's neighbor, the mouthy one, getting all those photos of Stacy taped to her mailbox? |
| 6:53
| Who could have done that? It seems completely inappropriate. It wasn't Drew, that's for sure. He doesn't have a computer to print any photos out, it was confiscated. |
| 6:54
| He can't go to the police station to make copies either since he was fired. The kids did get their iPods back, Drew bought them all $25 iTunes gift cards. |
| 6:55
| Before President Bush embarks on a trip to the Middle East tomorrow he'll visit Chicago to mark the 6th anniversary of the No Child Left Behind Act. |
| 6:56
| Chicago had record temperatures yesterday. When the weather gets like this Steve feels bad for all the people who died shoveling snow. It's going to melt eventually. Steve shoveled but he did that as his cardio workout. |
| 6:57
| Whatever day that was, Steve shoveled for about an hour and then fired up the snowblower. Once you get the heart rate up snowblowing keeps it going. |
| 6:58
| That must have been New Year's Day. After he snowblowed he went to Builder's Square. Actually it was Home Depot, there's no such thing as Builder's Square. |
| 6:59
| Steve was looking for salt but they didn't have any. They were still out after the ice storm from a month ago. Restock! |
| 7:00
| Then Steve went to an independent hardware store that was closed but posted a sign saying they had salt. Steve could see it stacked in the back, he almost broke in and stole it. He would have gone back to pay for it but they had cameras and probably wouldn't have believed his story. |
| 7:01
| Finally Steve found some at a gas station but when he went to pay for it the guy behind the counter said they were out. It was sitting right outside but the guy didn't believe him so he had to get up and go outside to see it was there. Steve tends to oversalt, he just can't stop himself. |
| 7:02
| Steve's going to buy a pick-up truck and a plow and plow everyone's driveway. That'll be his thing, his neighbors will call him the Snow Angel. Everyone has circular driveways so it'll be a serpentine route. Steve would also get a salt dispenser on the back of the truck. He'll have a snowblower on the back of the truck as all professionals do. That's his plan, it's exciting to think about. |
| 7:03
| This is what happens when you have 2 weeks off and you don't go anywhere, you just stay home. |
| 7:04
| A major catalytic converter theft ring has been busted. There's big money in catalytic converters. Buzz saw something on channel 5 of it, they're made of some precious metal. He's thinking plutonium but that's not right. |
| 7:05
| Caller Paul is a big fan, 6'3", 210 pounds, that's pretty big but it sounds more like he's in shape. He needs to bulk up a little more maybe. |
| 7:06
| The valuable metal in catalytic converters is platinum. There's some sort of chemical reaction with platinum and the gasoline. Do they really work or is that just something people made up? |
| 7:07
| They're apparently very easy to steal, people get right under the car with a cordless saw and take them out. Maybe that's what Steve will do in the afternoons. |
| 7:08
| Paul has won the bonus prize so we'll be fattening him up. He's actually won a new bonus prize, a party for 20 at Whirlyball. They do have food there. |
| 7:09
| Steve sent Buzz a story about a pork chop. Buzz would like to do a Blues News about it because it seems perfectly suited for that purpose. |
| 7:10
| Steve remembers one of the best Blues News segments ever involved someone being stabbed with a pork chop. |
| 7:11
| Steve didn't read the article but he recognized it's value and passed it on to Buzz. Hey, Hot Potato Mouth, where's the Blues News music?! |
| 7:12
| Pete had an abscess removed from his throat so he has Hot Potato Mouth. Making fun of Pete is like making fun of the deaf woman on ABC but without the guilt. It's totally guilt-free! |
| 7:13
| Steve will look for the music during the break. He really just wanted to hear Pete talk some more. Is there any way we can make this permanent? |
| 7:14
| Pete's trying to make things sound normal and he's giving a lot of one-word answers. No one word answers today! |
| 7:15
| Hot Potato Mouth is a medical term, that's what Pete's doctor identified it as when he started talking. Then he brought some other doctors in so they could hear him. Then he filled up an operating theater full of people and made Pete read from The Great Gatsby. |
| 7:22
| OK Steve has found the original Blues News music which he's most comfortable with. It's in the key of A just so Buzz knows. |
| 7:23
| First of all Steve will make sure Buzz is mixed in properly. The last time we had a blues guy in Pete didn't have him turned up loud enough and Buzz wasn't happy at all. |
| 7:24
| OK here we go. Tell it Buzz! Is that too much reverb on the mic? |
| 7:25
| In Ardmore, Oklahoma a food fight led to an arrest after a man allegedly stabbed someone else with a pork chop bone. |
| 7:26
| Is Steve supposed to try to rhyme these sentences or no? Whatever's easiest. |
| 7:27
| Tell it Buzz! A man was stabbed in the neck with a pork chop bone! |
| 7:28
| Police arrested 38-year old Tony Willis, uh huh. Police say Willis had blood on his clothing and a search of the man turned up a bone believed to be used in the attack. |
| 7:29
| Police have not released the name of the victim. He was treated at a hospital and released. And there you have it. There used to be an ending to the music. |
| 7:30
| Buzz remembers getting the old Blues News stories off the local news wire. The stories often had a lot of irrelevant info like addresses and phone numbers and what the arresting officers had for breakfast. |
| 7:31
| Steve was trying to get free access to City News Service but they wouldn't give it to him. He kept telling him that the Blues News was the only thing keeping them in business but they didn't believe him. And now they're out of business. |
| 7:32
| It was really expensive to subscribe to it especially since the afternoons were full of press releases. |
| 7:33
| Live read: Whirlyball |
| 7:34
| Pete, Brendan, Jim and Ed (SILHA, S-I-L-H-A, party of one) will be at the Whirlyball in Vernon Hills next Tuesday. 10 listeners will have the chance to compete against Pete, Brendan, Jim and Ed. |
| 7:35
| Buzz has had a lot of fun at Whirlyball and he's never even played. Whirlyball seems like the kind of environment where an Ed Silha flourishes. Maybe he's so good that the team is handicapped with only 4 players. |
| 7:36
| Will Pete still have Hot Potato Mouth by next week? He's hoping it's gone by Wednesday but who knows. |
| 7:37
| Buzz has never known Ed Silha to make an appearance on behalf of the show or the station. We needed 5 to make a team and Adam wouldn't do it. He said he'll take photos instead. |
| 7:38
| Brendan wanted to make Ed the team captain, if you've ever seen him bowl you'd know why. We still need a fifth player though. |
| 7:39
| Buzz detects some animosity between Ed and Adam. They've both been helping Steve with his computer after it crashed and they've argued every step of the way. They don't even disagree most of the time but they still argue. |
| 7:40
| Steve was thinking that Penny would make a great 5th person for the team, she seems aggressive. We're still in the same studio that we've always been in and Penny runs things downstairs. Steve got the Fresh FM newspapers today, they felt softer. Is soft a word you want to bandy about, unless you've giving out prescriptions for Viagra? |
| 7:41
| They dropped a wire downstairs and Penny is in the studio running everything. She also rides Steve's levels. |
| 7:42
| Steve calls down to the Jack studios. He won a $50 gift certificate at the Jack Christmas party and promised it to Penny. Steve was afraid to bring it to her because he thought they'd have sex in the control room or something. |
| 7:43
| So Steve had it delivered to her, they need to be kept apart like dogs in heat. Or a dog in heat. Would Penny like to be involved in the Whirlyball thing? |
| 7:44
| Penny was thinking the team could use a woman and it seems like she can hold her own. How are Steve's levels today? |
| 7:49
| Live read: Townstone Financial |
| 7:50
| Steve remembers when David first started advertising on the show, there was some kind of loan where you didn't need to verify your income. Times have changed though. |
| 7:51
| Alright time for the web poll question of the day. Today's question is "how much of your daily caloric intake is from beverages?" Today we're looking out for the listener with the web poll. |
| 7:52
| Starbucks has introduced a new "Skinny" platform to its drink selections. Before Pat's wedding Steve had to go to the bank to get cash for tip money. |
| 7:53
| The bank was connected to a Starbucks so Steve went in and got some. What a great story right? Steve asked the bank teller how she resisted getting Starbuck's everyday and she said after a while she didn't smell it. |
| 7:54
| Steve had a check from Janet written out to cash which means he has to show his ID to cash it. He'd rather just fill out the check himself. The bank teller saw his name on the check, knew who he was but still asked for an ID. |
| 7:55
| Steve got some coffee and then went to the butcher shop. He pulled number 57 but they were only on 46. So we went to the deli counter to get that stuff, all the while keeping his eye on the butcher counter. By the time he was done with his deli order they called his number at the butcher counter. |
| 7:56
| After that Steve impulse bought some original Wheat Thins, these are the crazy things he's doing out in the suburbs. They're trying a lot of weird, new flavors with Wheat Thins but Steve prefers the original. It's the best cracker in the world, why mess around with it? |
| 7:57
| All the while Steve was carrying his coffee around, he felt very yuppie. He so wishes he had a North Face vest on. |
| 7:58
| The "Skinny" platform is just an easier way to say you want your latte with skim milk and that wretches sugar free flavored syrup. |
| 7:59
| This article is by Monica Eng, one of the Eng sisters. They're twins and Roger Ebert dated their mom. Steve knew the Eng sisters when they were younger and illegal. |
| 8:00
| For $3.10 Monica got a tall latte with the new mocha flavor. The drink was thin, weak and infused with a weird chemical flavor. This probably isn't a live read for Starbucks then. |
| 8:01
| If you're watching your weight, try the original skinny drink, black coffee. You can still pour some half and half in there, it's only 80 calories. |
| 8:02
| The new thing on the Tribune website is they let people comment on every story which seems like a mistake. A lot of the people who comment on Steve's stories hate him. |
| 8:03
| If you're a journalist and you spend all this time researching and writing an article, it's all undone when they let any nutcase comment on the article |
| 8:04
| Alright it's time now for the Eight O'Clock Taco Bell. Buzz probably wasn't expecting that was he? |
| 8:05
| Steve probably won't be having a taco everyday but he's been up since 4:00 AM and he's ready for a taco now. |
| 8:06
| Anytime Steve wants a taco Buzz will have one. How about tomorrow for Taco Tuesday? |
| 8:07
| Steve can't wait to get a taco today. He's going to finish the show, workout and then get a taco. |
| 8:08
| Buzz's trainer told him that you really need to have a substantial meal an hour after you work out. Luckily Steve knows right where a Taco Bell is. |
| 8:09
| Steve feels like playing some Jack music right now, how does Buzz feel about that? We've got some Nickelback cued up that Steve would like to hear. |
| 8:10
| Hot Potato Mouth will have to grab the song for Steve though. Steve was looking at his computer and Pete wasn't grabbing the song. He probably hates Nickelback. |
| 8:11
| Steve's being told that Pete has something to read. Ed has sent over some text from The Great Gatsby but it's some weird part that Steve doesn't recognize. Why didn't he just send over the beginning, that's what most people read. |
| 8:12
| Buzz would recognize the beginning if he heard it. It doesn't sound like that's what Pete has. |
| 8:13
| Song: Someday, Nickelback |
| 8:16
| Buzz really danced his ass off to that song. Steve likes the Nickelback. |
| 8:17
| Would Buzz like some more info about that song? Don't we only do that for the first song? Steve doesn't want to do that for every song. |
| 8:18
| The information is not very interesting, Mark might be mocking Steve. He's quite the mocker. |
| 8:19
| The lyrics of Someday chronicle a failed relationship, as most lyrics do. |
| 8:20
| In the music video we get the same impression. A woman is packing her suitcase and leaving her boyfriend who steps in spilt milk but doesn't leave a footprint. |
| 8:21
| The woman cries in her car and the boyfriend tries to get her to come out by she leaves crying. She looks in the rearview mirror and sees nothing. OH MY GOD! |
| 8:22
| Who thinks about all this in a video? |
| 8:23
| That was the first line of Great Gatsby that Pete was reading. For some reason Steve thought the first line was "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times". Buzz thought that was something from Dickens. Isn't it from a Hemingway novel? |
| 8:24
| It's from Tale of Two Cities. For some reason Steve was thinking Emily Dickinson. |
| 8:25
| Steve had no idea the Someday music video was some complex. Who let these guys have cameras? It's bad enough they have instruments and recording devices. |
| 8:26
| What if like there's a guy and his girlfriend is leaving and he tries to go after her and steps in some milk and there's no footprint. Then she's like in a car and he's trying to get her out but she drives away and when she looks in her mirror the guy's not there. |
| 8:27
| Steve's doing a voice of what he feels the guy from NIckelback sounds like. They might be Canadian though. |
| 8:34
| Steve just finished watching the video, it's not as lame as he described it. It's all intercut with Nickelback rocking too. |
| 8:35
| Pat Boyle is on the phone. He feels the Canadian Nickelback guy is the birth of a new bit. The only bit Steve is taking from today is Hot Potato Mouth. |
| 8:36
| Pat feels Pete's voice problems might cut into the dating scene. As far as Steve can tell Pete doesn't say much when he hates. He just gets the girl drunk, brings her home and then kills her. |
| 8:37
| Pete's problems aren't totally over yet, he still has to see an ear, nose and throat specialist. Steve thinks he should let it fester for a bit. |
| 8:38
| If Pete could talk like this without the pain he'd be fine. Steve doesn't need to know about the pain, then it's not guilt-free. |
| 8:39
| So the Bears ended the year on an up note. Steve thought it was unfair that Kyle Orton didn't get any credit for the way he played. |
| 8:40
| In that Green Bay game there's really nothing anyone can do but he played better than Brett Favre. He did great in that Saints game though. |
| 8:41
| Do the Bears really want their complete roster back or is that just a bargaining ploy? Are they that stupid? What does Kyle Orton need to do to get the starting job? |
| 8:42
| He's 12-4 as a starter or something like that, doesn't that mean anything? He lead an offense that was terrible all year to two wins, he knocked the Saints out of the playoffs and knocked the Packers out of home field advantage. |
| 8:43
| Kyle Orton is someone the Bears need to take seriously. The organization is really bad at rethinking their original position. They drive it right into the ground like Rex Grossman or Cedric Benson. |
| 8:44
| It was driving Steve nuts for a week that Kyle Orton wasn't getting any credit. It went right from the game to the post-mortem from Lovie and Jerry Angelo. Jerry Angelo is an idiot. He looks like one of the ants in A Bug's Life! |
| 8:45
| It seems like the Bears know what they have in Kyle Orton. Just to remind everyone, in what round did Tom Brady get drafted?! And he's undefeated! |
| 8:46
| And that undefeated Dolphins season is finally a thing of the past. They won 14 regular season games, the Patriots won 16. Buzz feels it doesn't matter until the Patriots win the Super Bowl. |
| 8:47
| The Bears will actually pick 14th in the draft. So that win against the Saints cost them a few spots. But the Saints seemed mad that they were knocked out of contention. |
| 8:48
| The Sox got Nick Swisher which should be good. Steve doesn't like his name, it's not very manly. He's got an Aaron Rowand feel to him. It's still not enough though. |
| 8:49
| There's talk of dealing Paul Konerko, they'll have to trade someone, there are no free agents left! Steve would hate to see Konerko go, he doesn't recognize many players on the team any more. |
| 8:50
| Steve was at the Hawks game last night, it was their biggest crowd of the year but unfortunately they lost. From Steve's seats he saw Khabibulin hit some guy in the nuts with his stick. It's just slashing so it's only a 2 minute penalty. |
| 8:51
| While Steve was at the game Roger Clemens was on 60 Minutes defending himself against the steroid charges. |
| 8:52
| Clemens said he'd be willing to take a lie detector test to prove he's not lying. Steve once had to take a lie-detector test when applying for a job at a record store. |
| 8:53
| Steve failed the test even though he wasn't lying at all. Steve's not sure why they made him take a lie detector at a record store. |
| 8:54
| The National Championship game is tonight, LSU vs. Ohio State. After 6 months the college season is finally over. |
| 8:59
| It seems like the Bears need major changes, not minor changes. They did have a lot of injuries though. |
| 9:00
| Watching the Rose Bowl it seemed like the Illini was using Ron Turner's playbook. That game was not pretty, they didn't look like a team that deserved to be on the same field as USC. |
| 9:01
| And then Rashard Mendenhall announces he's leaving for the NFL a few days later. There's no "I" in team but there are three in "Illinois" |
| 9:02
| The Bulls fired Scott Skiles during the hiatus. Steve loves a good Christmas Eve firing. And Scott Skiles just shrugged his shoulders. What does he care that he got fired on Christmas Eve? |
| 9:03
| In the NBA the players basically run things. Ben Wallace probably didn't like being ordered around by a shrimpy white guy. |
| 9:04
| Was Jalen Rose on the Bulls? Steve sat next to his brother at Terry's funeral. It seems like people want Steve to say something about Terry but he doesn't know what to say. |
| 9:05
| Steve can say that Terry's mom is a great woman. She's very nice and very funny, you can see where Terry gets it from. Steve might take her to a Sox game next summer. |
| 9:06
| Steve didn't know what to say at the funeral but he did point out that for 46 years old he sure left an impression. |
| 9:07
| The service was at the funeral home and it wasn't big enough for how many people showed up. They had an overflow room where Buzz was since he didn't get there early enough. |
| 9:08
| Buzz couldn't hear anything in the overflow room so he missed Rick Kogan reading his obituary. |
| 9:09
| Steve's favorite thing about the funeral was Cheryl Burton coming in the back door looking hot. It turned Steve's head and Jalen Rose's brother's head. |
| 9:10
| Pat's wondering if Janet Davies was there. Steve doesn't want to think about The Joker while he's thinking about Cheryl Burton. |
| 9:11
| Pat's radio transitions are still a little clumsy. He was just wondering if Steve saw Janet Davies on the New Year's Eve show. He heard it was spectacularly bad. Mark Giangreco called in sick, probably a good move for him. |
| 9:12
| Steve saw Mark at the game last night, he left early. Of course Mark saw Steve eat two brats so he has that on him. |
| 9:13
| Steve had a little mix up with his seats. He as asked by his now daughter-in-law if she could give her friend, who did a reading at the wedding, two Hawks tickets. |
| 9:14
| Steve mistakenly gave her the tickets for last night's game and then tried to get the back. His entire family was saying he couldn't do that but he managed to get two more tickets for the girl, right next to Joan Cusack, and he got his back. |
| 9:15
| Steve got tricked into having a second bratwurst. Matt ordered one for himself and then Steve had one. But then Matt brought his brat to the girl but Steve was stuck with his. |
| 9:16
| Live read: Whirlyball |
| 9:24
| Can Pete burn Steve a DVD of the ABC7 New Year's special? He might have to enjoy that in the comfort of his own home? |
| 9:25
| Pete feels that the special was great but it's nothing Steve hasn't seen already. |
| 9:26
| Steve watched the bowl game on New Year's Eve and then switched over to that motorcycle guy jumping a football field. That was unsatisfying so then Steve started seeking out New Year's specials. |
| 9:27
| First he went to Eric & Kathy but it was just the guy from Collective Soul who Steve finds irritating. He likes their music but the lead singer has a look Steve doesn't like. |
| 9:28
| Part of Steve wanted to fall asleep before the new year began. Buzz was out to dinner but got home before midnight. |
| 9:29
| Well if Steve has seen it already he doesn't need to see it again. If you've ever watched 190 North it's the kind of bad you expect from Janet Davies. |
| 9:30
| She's bad and she surrounds herself with bad people. It takes a Lou Canelis to make her look better. Usually he's out at a really hip club like Rockit but this year he was in Tinley Park. |
| 9:31
| News with Buzz |
| 9:32
| Anti-war protestors will greet President Bush today on his visit to Chicago. He'll be at the Horace Greeley elementary school on the Northside to mark the 6th anniversary of the No Child Left Behind act. It seems like Horace Greeley elementary should be on the West side. |
| 9:33
| Drew Peterson's lawyer received an anonymous letter from someone who said he saw and talked to Stacy Peterson at a mall in Kentucky. |
| 9:34
| Do we have time to read this article? Drew received a letter on Sunday from a person claiming he spoke to his missing wife and took a photo of her with his camera phone. |
| 9:35
| Stacy asked the man to mind his own business and not ruin her life. If this were an everyday sighting Brodsky wouldn't have mentioned it. |
| 9:36
| They get tips everyday from people who have seen Stacy in Greenland, Helsinki, Finland and Nairobi, Kenya. |
| 9:37
| Song: 1979, Smashing Pumpkins |
| 9:41
| That's some Jack music right there. Buzz is pretty sure the Smashing Pumpkins haven't been around since 1979. They were just reminiscing. |
| 9:42
| Steve and Buzz have been around that long. In 1979 Billy Corgan was just a yoot. |
| 9:43
| Steve's going to take a break and then open up the Mailbag. |
| 9:50
| Alright time for the Mailbag! Is it just Steve or is the music really loud? Steve could have turned it down but he didn't feel like it. |
| 9:51
| The first emailer is recommending Vitamin Water with added caffeine. It gives you a nice pick-up plus has all the vitamins necessary for sustained energy. |
| 9:52
| As it turns out Steve doesn't need the energy drinks, he's getting used to waking up early. He did have an issue with the coffee pot though. Janet usually sets it but she forgot what time he was waking up this morning. |
| 9:53
| Steve doesn't know how the coffee maker works and it was set to go off at 4:30. He fired it up and thought it was the kind that stops brewing when you pull the pot out. It wasn't so Steve burned himself trying to get his cup under the stream of coffee. |
| 9:54
| The next email is about the Washington Redskins winning their last regular season game by 21 points. The guys on the NFL Network went on and on about it. Then over the weekend they lost their first playoff game by 21 points and no one mentioned it. Steve did the math and noticed it was 21 points as well. |
| 9:55
| The final email is from a guy who points out that there's a Dollar Menuaire on the McDonald's website and he sounds exactly like Brendan. |
| 9:56
| The guy doesn't look like Brendan, it's a cartoon. But he sounds just like him and he's doing Brendan's bit. Maybe Brendan inspired the character. |
| 9:57
| Steve's going to have to talk to someone about this after the show. Maybe he could get Brendan hooked up with McDonald's. |
| 9:58
| Steve loves a good double cheeseburger and they're only $1. How do they do that for him? |
| 9:59
| Maybe McDonald's could sponsor the Matt Dahl Show podcast, that seems fair. |
