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| 5:30
| That's The Pretenders right there, who Buzz loves of course. The other day Steve said to Todd Cavanah, "T-Dog, can we start the show with The Pretenders?" Steve calls Todd T-Dog now that Terry Armour has passed away. Steve always needs a T-Dog in his life. |
| 5:31
| Steve was going to call Buzz B-Dog but he figured he could do it once before he pulled him aside and said "if you ever call me that again I'm gonna punch your lights out." |
| 5:32
| So that's The Pretenders and Don't Get Me Wrong. Buzz feels that's their penultimate song. It was a fairly big hit for them, it got up to #10 on the U.S. charts. |
| 5:33
| Steve makes fun of The Pretenders but in their daily meetings Todd would probably tell him that they test well with listeners. Steve complains about The Pretenders or Def Leppard but he listens to the whole song. |
| 5:34
| Todd is always testing songs. There's a room in the building full of monkeys wearing headphones, listening to music. |
| 5:35
| Steve had a failed experiment with his coffee today. He brings some from home in a travel mug with some ice cubes to cool it down. Steve doesn't like watered down coffee but it's way too hot otherwise. |
| 5:36
| So Steve had the idea to put his travel mug in the freezer overnight, then it would cool his coffee to the perfect temperature. |
| 5:37
| The mug was very cold when Steve poured the coffee in so he thought, mistakenly, that he had succeed in cooling things down. He didn't test the coffee before drinking it and it burned his mouth. He almost spat it out all over his car, that's how hot it was. |
| 5:38
| Steve was thinking over the weekend that he'd get some of that stuff that Captain Kangaroo used to use to freeze stuff. What's that stuff called? Is it CO2? He always dipped a rose in and then shattered it because it was frozen. |
| 5:39
| Steve's been told that Jim knows the answer. Can't he just come down here? Does Steve always have to call him? |
| 5:40
| Steve might have told Jim that he likes to call him on the air but he doesn't have to do it every time. Jim just likes to sit down there like a little king, hoarding his information. |
| 5:41
| Steve calls down to the newsroom. Jim could come down once in a while. What happens is that Jim IMs the info to Mary who then gives him credit because she thinks it's funny when Steve calls down there. |
| 5:42
| Liquid nitrogen is what Steve is talking about. Jim just saw it featured on an episode of Monk with Andrew McCarthy. |
| 5:43
| While Steve has Jim on the phone, he's not chatting with any 13-year-old boys online is he? Steve's checking with all his male staff members to make sure that's not going on. |
| 5:44
| If he's going to talk to 13-year-olds online they should be girls, that seems at least slightly less embarrassing for the show. Radio Boy on Kiss FM was allegedly talking to boys. Jim has a nickname too which makes it even more embarrassing. |
| 5:45
| All the stories call him Radio Boy so that's what will happen to Jim. Although it might be funny to see Jim rolling up to the To Catch a Predator house. |
| 5:50
| Good work on that drop Pete, that was from last night's episode of 30 Rock. That's a good turnaround. |
| 5:51
| While Pete is on the line, he's not talking to any 13-year-old girls or boys online is he? We don't need Production Pete's name splashed all over the papers. |
| 5:52
| The nickname is what makes the story even bad. Radio Boy sounds like a morning zoo radio show name. Not that Jim Kid or Production Pete are that much better but they're better than Radio Boy. |
| 5:53
| Steve feels those nicknames are more descriptive of what we're doing around here. No one else on the show really has a nickname. Steve doesn't call Adam Bossypants Adam. |
| 5:54
| With all due respect to Ed, he could be the one doing it since he's the most hard-up. He was working Janet's nephew at Pat's wedding. |
| 5:55
| Steve's favorite image from the wedding was Brendan working their neighbor. He was Dirty Dancing with her and it got to the point where the girl's brother had to break it up. Since it's Brendan he just moves on to the next girl. |
| 5:56
| Steve left the reception to go let the dogs out and when he came back Brendan was outside smoking. He was one the last few people down there, still trying to make something happen. |
| 5:57
| There was one girl left and a few guys, two of whom were her brothers. You have to like those odds. The brothers had actually tricked their sister's boyfriend into arm wrestling one of them, then beating him in front of her. |
| 5:58
| Buzz heard reports that Steve was spotted on the dance floor. It was against his will, which is exactly what Buzz said when he heard about. Steve was barely moving out there, he was like a quadriplegic in a wheelchair. |
| 5:59
| Steve doesn't like being told that he has to dance. The one good thing about being sober is that when everyone else is getting drunk around you, you can easily get out of stuff. |
| 6:00
| There are some people on hold who have tips for cooling down coffee but Steve has a story to tell, it's burning a hole in his head. |
| 6:01
| Brendan never made anything happen at the wedding but he was there until the very end. Steve has the feeling that he closes a lot more than we hear about. |
| 6:02
| Sometimes the timing is off in the mornings and the songs end early or late. Penny, Steve's level rider, gets in at 5 am and tries to get things to end on time at 5:30. |
| 6:03
| Mary went in there today to get the commercial log, around 3:15, and the guy who was in there was asleep. It wasn't on accident either, he'd set up three drafting stools and was laid out on them. |
| 6:04
| So that's why the songs aren't always ending on time, because the guy is asleep down there! Penny can't always recover and get the songs to time out properly. |
| 6:05
| You can't sleep on the job though, not on purpose at least. Brendan worked at Ethan Allen Furniture and he actually got fired for sleeping on the job. |
| 6:06
| Buzz once worked at a shipyard in Florida and he would sleep on the job. He loved the job and he always got way ahead of himself. So he'd sneak off and fall asleep in one of the boats. |
| 6:07
| Eventually Buzz became concerned that he was oversleeping or that he'd be caught and fired so he quit. He couldn't take the pressure of being a slacker. |
| 6:08
| Steve would occasionally fall asleep when he was doing overnights. And back then they were using records so by the time he woke up the needle was on the dead groove. |
| 6:09
| Steve's not advocating that anyone get fired because then he'd be just like Al Sharpton. Of course if it was Penny doing it Steve would just have a few words with her. But when it's some smart-ass giving Steve a hard time, it's different. |
| 6:10
| There's a flow chart around here and Steve's at the top. Jim kid mistakenly thinks he's at the top since Steve always has to call him for information. Of course Steve told Jim that he likes to call him so there's some flaw in his logic. |
| 6:11
| Steve just likes to think of Jim down there as a king in a velvety robe. Plus he's got the rotating greetings of newsroom, weather center and traffic center. That makes it seem like something is going on down there but really it's just Buzz with a day old newspaper reading Stella's column. |
| 6:12
| Caller Daniel was in the Navy. When they'd want their beer to get cold they'd quickly dip the cans in some CO2 and when they hoisted it up they'd all be cooled off. |
| 6:13
| That must have been a lot of beer if they're hoisting it up. It sounds like an entire palette of beer was lowered in. That's old school Navy right there. |
| 6:14
| Steve's friend Swifty, his dad was in the Navy and stationed at Pearl Harbor during the attack. He woke up in the middle of the attack, on his PT boat which was anchored somewhere in the harbor. |
| 6:15
| Him and the crew were sleeping one off because they used to drink the Torpedo Juice which was an alcohol that fueled the torpedoes. Steve always gets in trouble when he mentions this but Swifty said that his dad said a lot of those guys were below deck on that day because there was a lot of drinking going on. |
| 6:16
| It happened on a Sunday morning so they'd been out Saturday night in Honolulu. Steve never meant anything bad about it, he just thought it was an interesting historical fact. Steve would have been one of the guys who went down in the Arizona because he would have been in his bunk sleeping one off. Buzz would have probably been in a nearby bunk. |
| 6:21
| As soon as Steve compliments Pete on the quick turn around with the 30 Rock drop he comes in with a Scrubs drop. Steve hates Scrubs drop, they're too visual. There's way too much mugging going on on that show. |
| 6:22
| So Steve's tried various ways to cool down his coffee. The ice cubes water the coffee down and the metal travel mug retains heat but apparently not cold. |
| 6:23
| The travel mug was very cold and stayed cold but the coffee still scalded Steve's mouth. Buzz is surprised he doesn't have Hot Potato Mouth. |
| 6:24
| Steve's working through the pain but he feels his breakfast burrito won't taste as good as it normally does. |
| 6:25
| Steve's trying out a new eating schedule where he doesn't eat after 7:45 at night. When he did afternoons it was much easier. He'd wake up and not eat until dinner. |
| 6:26
| Now Steve has no idea when he's supposed to eat during the day. He was mentioning all this during his Pilates class yesterday. |
| 6:27
| When you're doing Pilates and you have a big stomach it gets in the way, so you become self-conscious of it. |
| 6:28
| Steve has CLTV on in the studio although he doesn't know why because it's worthless. There's some weird commercial on with Billy Dec. It might be something for the Red Eye, he's in a club and there's a girl dancing on the bar with a Red Eye. |
| 6:29
| Steve got a bizarre email from Billy the other day because he's on his mailing list. It was something about nominating yourself as an Influence Maker but Billy's too busy to review the nominations so send it to his assistant. |
| 6:30
| So Steve was telling his Pilates instructor that he's gained weight because of the new morning schedule. She told him he needs to go to bed hungry and then Steve replied that if he wanted to do that he'd move to a Third World country. |
| 6:31
| She laughed but then said that he should try to not eat after a certain time, before he goes to bed. So last night Steve stopped eating after 7. There may have been a brief flurry of eating before 7 though. |
| 6:32
| When you eat right before you go to sleep it all turns to fat. Buzz has also experienced some weight gain because of the new schedule. Steve really doesn't like to hear skinny guys complaining about their weight. |
| 6:33
| Buzz leaves work everyday, goes home and then does a few things and goes for a run. After he takes a nap he wakes up and immediately wants to eat something. Steve's going to stick with not eating after 7. |
| 6:34
| Steve has to mention that, on Buzz's recommendation, he checked out Mr. Brooks. It's one of the greatest movies he's ever seen. The script was great, the actors were great. Even Dane Cook was good! |
| 6:35
| Buzz didn't enjoy any movie as much as he enjoyed Mr. Brooks. He's not saying it's the best movie, just the most enjoyable. |
| 6:36
| Steve actually had to pause the movie to have his weekly phone call with Ron Lewis. Ron hasn't been getting the calls lately because of the new morning schedule and it seems like he missed them. |
| 6:37
| Steve was in such a hurry to get back to the movie though that he agreed to a bunch of stuff that Ron asked him to do. |
| 6:38
| Caller Ken's has a tip for cooling down Steve's coffee. He should make himself some ice cubes made of coffee, keep them in the fridge, and then put a few in his mug. |
| 6:39
| That's genius! It's so simple and yet it's genius! Ken would never do it because he's a man, but Steve can do whatever he wants. Steve doesn't really appreciate his manhood being called into question. |
| 6:40
| Steve only has a 24 minute drive so he needs to cool his coffee down quickly. |
| 6:41
| Caller Jerry was going to suggest Steve put a little coffee in the bottom of the travel mug, then freezing it. |
| 6:42
| That cuts out the ice cube tray, Steve wouldn't know where to get one anyway. Do they still make them? |
| 6:43
| Jerry's wondering why Steve isn't using a Steve Dahl coffee mug. Adam's probably squirming down in his office wondering why Steve isn't mentioning the mug. Who cares about the travel mug?! |
| 6:44
| Maybe there should be a Steve Dahl travel mug, with a built-in chiller that you can plug into your lighter. The thing about Adam is that he'll probably have something put together by Monday. |
| 6:45
| Steve calls down to Adam's office. He'll do some research and come up with something. Steve likes the new travel mugs with the polished metal look. How are the mugs selling? |
| 6:46
| Adam ordered 150 mugs and there are about 100 left. Steve feels embarrassed by that. He's a big personality! Does Adam call his parents and tell them what a failure Steve is because he can't sell mugs? |
| 6:47
| Every morning Stephanie brings Steve his coffee in a styrofoam cup, maybe she should put it in a Steve Dahl mug to remind him to mention them. |
| 6:48
| Styrofoam doesn't seem professional but that's what we have in the Green Room. Steve put those in there because Matt and Brendan used to drink coffee in there, even though they claim that they don't. Maybe we should stock the Green Room with Steve Dahl mugs. |
| 6:49
| If there are ever guests on the show, we could give them coffee mugs. Steve hopes to never have a guest on the show though because all they do is talk which prevents him from talking. Maybe it'd be OK if we were selling mugs to the guests. |
| 6:50
| In addition to his prize wheel prize, caller Jerry has won a movie from Buzz's collections. He'll be going home with Antibodies, starring Lance Henriksen and Robin Givens. |
| 6:56
| Pete has a lot of coffee drop ins. He's probably been sitting on them for years waiting until we moved to mornings. |
| 6:57
| Steve didn't really appreciate his manhood being called into question by that caller. His coffee is just way too hot. If Steve needs to prove his manhood though he'll inject hot coffee right into his neck. |
| 6:58
| Steve doesn't put cream in his coffee and it goes right into the travel mug. Buzz puts his in styrofoam which dissipates the heat. Buzz also has about a half hour in the morning of quiet time where his coffee can cool down. |
| 6:59
| Steve gets up, takes a shower and then comes into work so he doesn't have any quiet time. |
| 7:00
| Steve's still running into bad drivers every morning. Today, on a 4 lane surface street, there was a guy coming from the other direction, trying to turn left after the light turned by beating the oncoming traffic. |
| 7:01
| Steve's car is very fast off the line so he flashed the guy his brights. Steve has sweet brights on his car, it looked like someone had dropped a flare in the guy's passenger seat. |
| 7:02
| Steve needs a better horn on his car though. Based on how powerful and fast the car is, it's a very weak horn. He'd really love to have the same horn they use at Hawks games when they score a goal. |
| 7:03
| Maybe Steve should get an air horn or something. Buzz thought those were illegal to use though. |
| 7:04
| Buzz was once sitting on Ohio Street, on a Saturday night, and the traffic was backed up. That's probably because he was on Ohio on a Saturday night. |
| 7:05
| Buzz started honking his horn, not seeing that two cars in front of him was a cop. When the traffic cleared Buzz got pulled over. Was this one of those Saturday night/drunk driving evenings for Buzz? |
| 7:06
| Song: Take the Money and Run, Steve Miller Band |
| 7:10
| Caller Jason drives a tractor for a living. He's suggesting a train horn for Steve's car. It's 6 horns together with an air compressor. |
| 7:11
| These horns are an attitude adjuster, it's just what Steve is looking for. Where would he find something like that and how much do they cost? |
| 7:12
| The horn will run Steve about $300 but he could get one anywhere, there are a lot of distributors. |
| 7:13
| Steve could leave his house in the morning and then call Janet a few minutes later and have her listen for the horn. Janet probably wouldn't go outside if Steve asked her to listen for his horn. |
| 7:14
| Where does Steve mount something like his though because he just has the Porsche? |
| 7:15
| Steve's looking at the I-80 truck stop website and they've got a 6 trumpet horn for sale. This is what Steve's looking for. |
| 7:16
| Caller Phil is recommending Hornblasters.com, they sell train horns and other air horns. There's also some great video on the site of people being scared by horns. |
| 7:24
| During the break Steve was watching videos on Hornblasters.com. He almost passed out from laughing so hard. |
| 7:25
| All the videos are just people driving around scaring people with their car horn. It's probably all guys, Steve can't see girls doing this. |
| 7:26
| They just drive to coffee shops and food courts and honk their horns, then scare people. |
| 7:27
| Buzz is wondering if any girls get scared by horns and are then lured into their web. |
| 7:28
| Buzz gets the feeling that Steve has finally found a way to fill up the empty hours. He'll be combining his two favorite things, driving and scaring people. |
| 7:29
| The website also has sound samples of their various horns. Their flagship horn has a Blackhawks feel to it. So far Steve likes the three-chime horn. That has Steve written all over it. |
| 7:30
| Caller Rick wanted to let Steve know that the Hawks mount a horn under the scoreboard. Maybe Steve could borrow it since they don't seem to need it any more. |
| 7:31
| Live read: Whirlyball |
| 7:32
| Steve's received a couple of emails from people who said that since Steve has one of the early Blu Ray players, he might not have the updated firmware which is why his Superbad DVD didn't play. |
| 7:33
| Steve sent an email to David from The Little Guys and he thought Ed from The Little Guys but it was actually Ed Silha. Ed answered back and had all the info Steve was looking for. |
| 7:34
| So Pete, Brendan, Jim, Ed and Penny from Jack FM will be at Whirlyball in Vernon HIlls next Tuesday. Jack FM gave everyone really nice Jack FM gym bags at the Christmas party. |
| 7:35
| Buzz has been using his bag when he works out, he likes that it says CBS staff. Steve doesn't want to use a gym bag with the name of the radio station on it. He feels he's a little more high profile than Buzz. |
| 7:36
| When you see Steve there's no mistaking it's Steve, it's just his look. Some people might confuse Buzz for Eric Clapton. Last week Buzz saw some suburban fire chief that looked just like Steve. There are some guys who have Steve's look though. Buzz thought maybe Steve was moonlighting as a fire chief. |
| 7:37
| Today is the last day to sign up for a chance to play against the staff Whirlyball team. The good news is that even if you lose, you could still get a long, awkward hug from Pete, as long as he's had enough to drink. Will a Pete Zimmerman be drinking next week? |
| 7:38
| Pete's not sure if he'll drink since it's a Tuesday night. He might want to consider spreading things out a bit. He abstains all week and then on Saturday he cuts loose. One of these days he's going to get arrested. |
| 7:39
| Pete will cut loose on Tuesday but he won't be drinking. Just so everyone knows the only time Pete cuts loose is when he's drinking. |
| 7:40
| How about the web poll question and then a break and then news? Today's web poll question is "would you be a male cheerleader?" There's a picture that goes along with the story of a male cheerleader looking up a female cheerleader's skirt. So the answer is yes. |
| 7:41
| A 2005 gender discrimination claim against East Hardin Middle School in Kentucky has been settled. |
| 7:42
| Melissa Barner filed a claim against the school after he son wasn't allowed on the school's cheerleading squad. |
| 7:43
| Most schools have men on cheerleading squads but probably not in middle schools. It seems like that doesn't start happening until college or maybe high school. |
| 7:44
| Buzz remembers one of his male classmates, in 8th grade, standing up and telling everyone he wants to be a ballet dancer. His life was ruined. It does seem like a waste that these guys get to look up girl's skirts as college cheerleaders. |
| 7:45
| Of course Steve has heard from male cheerleaders that they get more tail than the football players. They are in much closer proximity. |
| 7:46
| And of course President Bush was a male cheerleader and look where it got him. It probably helped him with the ladies too, that Laura Bush is a looker. |
| 7:53
| That's a drop from The Matador with Greg Kinnear and Pierce Brosnon. Buzz recommends the horror and thriller movies, Steve recommends the comedies. |
| 7:54
| Buzz also recommended The Matador but Steve watched Mr. Brooks On Demand yesterday and it was great. |
| 7:55
| Caller Fred was a high school and college cheerleader. It was a great gig because you get the girls from the proximity affect. |
| 7:56
| There's lots of touching and traveling and then consoling cheerleaders when they have sex with a football player and he never calls her back. |
| 7:57
| Fred probably had success with about 50% of the cheerleaders, but that was also over 4 years so there were older and younger cheerleaders. |
| 7:58
| That's probably why they don't have male cheerleaders in the NFL. Tony Romo doesn't need that when he's playing football. |
| 7:59
| Because Fred was a male cheerleader he's also getting a movie from Buzz's collection. This time it's Hollow Man 2 with Christian Slater. |
| 8:00
| Caller John is a basketball official. At one of the games he was working the male cheerleaders were actually football players. |
| 8:01
| It's time for the Eight O'Clock Taco Bell. Steve and Buzz are having tacos today, even though it's not Taco Tuesday. |
| 8:02
| Buzz has been craving a taco all week long, everyday he asks Mary about it. Usually she's very strict about the format of the Eight O'Clock Taco Bell. |
| 8:03
| Monday is Manager Monday, then Taco Tuesday, Sauce Packet Wednesday, and Make-a-lunch-date with Steve Thursday. Friday is the Weekend Kick-off which will involve a taco. So it wasn't Buzz's cravings that got them the tacos. |
| 8:04
| Mary's very cinematic with the Eight O'Clock Taco Bell, she's like Steven Spielberg. |
| 8:05
| Buzz won't be able to do the news while he's eating a taco, let's play a tune. The taco seems like the perfect thing for breakfast. Taco Bell should open up early and start selling tacos. |
| 8:06
| Song: Kryptonite, 3 Doors Down |
| 8:10
| Headlines with Buzz |
| 8:11
| Snow fell for the first time in Baghdad for the first time in many people's memory. They're dreaming of a white Ramadan, just likes the ones they used to know. |
| 8:12
| Citizens took it as a good omen for things to come in their country. So all we had to do was drop some snow over there and it's a complete turn around? |
| 8:13
| John Kerry is turning his back on his 2004 running mate John Edwards to endorse candidate Barack Obama. |
| 8:14
| Buzz was watching the footage of that announcement on CNN yesterday, Barack and Kerry were hugging, it was very awkward. We call that Barawkward. |
| 8:15
| A CTA funding bill was almost signed by the governor yesterday, then Blago demanded the General Assembly include a provision giving all senior citizens free rides on public transportation. Blago is such a tool. |
| 8:16
| The only reason he's doing this is to get old people to vote for him. Even if an old person doesn't use public transportation they'll still vote for him. All old people want is free stuff, that's how they are. |
| 8:17
| It's $2 to ride the CTA, that's nothing! He's just sucking up to old people. If you can't afford the $2 to get somewhere you shouldn't go there in the first place. |
| 8:18
| And of course who's going to say no to Blago now? No one wants to come out against old people. Steve would though, elect him! |
| 8:19
| A new study from the University of Chicago about prostitution in the city shows that street-level workers are often forced to service police officers and vary their prices depending on race. Is Steve's name mentioned anywhere in that study? |
| 8:20
| Debra LaFave got a slap on the wrist for probation violation yesterday which sounds hot. Her parole officer wanted her to do 15 years in prison. |
| 8:21
| Steve has ordered Gorgeous Disaster: The Tragic Story of Debra LaFave, written by her ex-husband. If it's as interesting as Steve thinks it'll be, he'll read some of it on the air. |
| 8:22
| Steve is hoping this book is the new Unimaginable Life by Kenny Loggins. Turns out it was an unimaginable life since Kenny divorced his wife. |
| 8:23
| Never marry the woman who's giving you enemas. Keep your friends close but your enemists far away. The whole book was Kenny Loggins complaining about how his wife wasn't that hot but he loved her anyway. |
| 8:24
| Director Steven Spielberg is planning on making a movie about the 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago. Comedian Sacha Baron Cohen is reportedly going to star at Abbie Hoffman. He should play Hoffman as Borat. |
| 8:25
| Buzz thinks Abbie Hoffman was funny enough on his own. Steve will take his word for it because he doesn't really remember. Buzz is 10 years older than Steve. At that time Steve was mostly concerned with how to get to Woodstock and take advantage of some of the nudity. |
| 8:26
| Live read: Templeton Rye |
| 8:27
| The Templeton Rye team is coming to Chicago for a bar crawl. Are they traveling on The Nadas tour bus? |
| 8:34
| Pat Boyle from Comcast is on the phone. He thinks Steve and Buzz sound great today. |
| 8:35
| Steve's going to the Hawks game tonight although maybe he should stop going. He might be distracting the team because he's so handsome. |
| 8:36
| Pat was talking to an unnamed Blackhawks front office guy and he heard that a certain radio host will be honored on Radio Legend Night in March. Sure Steve's being honored but so are 5 other guys. Who are those 5 guys though? |
| 8:37
| Steve doesn't know what's going on but he assumes he'll be booed by the crowd. They booed Chris Chelios on Sunday and he didn't even do anything. |
| 8:38
| The Blackhawks asked Steve to do it though so he's going to do it. He's not shooting a puck during an intermission though so that could cut down on the booing. |
| 8:39
| Steve's taking part in the pre-game puck drop so at that time a lot of people will still be out in the concourse getting brats and beers. |
| 8:40
| Steve's hoping he won't be able to hear the booing. Most of it will probably come from the guys in the upper deck. They can't even see the game from up there so they'll just start booing the fat guy on the ice. |
| 8:41
| Steve's going to bring street clothes to change into so no one recognizes him at his seats. He might wear a wig as well. |
| 8:42
| Does Pat know who the other 5 guys are? One of them is MIke North, is he really a legend? |
| 8:43
| Steve's just kidding, it's not his place to say who's a legend and who's not. Pat reminds Steve that Stella Foster called him a legend in her column yesterday. |
| 8:44
| Pat has backed Steve into a corner with this legend stuff here. A legend doesn't refer to himself as a legend. |
| 8:45
| Illini lost to Wisconsin, they're really struggling lately, they've lost 4 in a row and they're 8-8. |
| 8:46
| Is that Rashard Mendenhall kid really going to go back to school and finish his degree? He seems like a pretty slick guy, he'll probably do it. |
| 8:47
| This is the weekend when Steve actually starts watching the NFL playoffs. The point spreads are very big for all the games, at least one touchdown. |
| 8:48
| Anything else for today? Steve doesn't really know about sports today, he's fixated on the train horn for his car. |
| 8:49
| Steve wants one that sounds like the Blackhawks air horn. Not only do they use that for goals but they also use it when there's 5 minutes left in the intermission. |
| 8:50
| When that 5 minute horn goes off Steve goes to the bathroom, it's the perfect time, there's no line. Plus he gets to watch the Zamboni which is very relaxing and Zen. |
| 8:51
| Both Zamboni's have a Zamboni rider. It might be a Budweiser thing or something you pay for. It's funny to watch adults on there because after a few minutes they realize how stupid it looks for a grown-up to be sitting there while the Zamboni goes around the ice. |
| 8:52
| Steve used to say that the NHL needed to eliminate the second intermission but he actually likes it now. He uses that time to learn more about hockey. |
| 8:53
| When Steve used to go to hockey games he'd start drinking and then he'd get up and go get something and he'd miss half the period. It was really hard to pay attention to a game when he was drinking. |
| 8:54
| Steve's seats have a waitress which is sweet. It's only the first row too. Every night there's a different person behind Steve who tries to order from the waitress but gets denied. |
| 9:00
| Live read: Whirlyball |
| 9:01
| Pete, Brendan, Jim, Ed and Penny will be at Whirlyball next Tuesday. There will be Jack music and food. Not Jack food, Steve's not sure what that would be anyway. |
| 9:02
| If we were out west, or if Jack in the Box were in this market, they could be a sponsor. At this point Jack food would probably have Monterey Jack cheese on them. And the drink specials hopefully include Jack Daniels. |
| 9:03
| It's Whirlyball's 15th birthday which is their golden birthday. Isn't golden the 25th birthday? Either way, they're golden with Steve. |
| 9:04
| Song: I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For, U2 |
| 9:08
| Steve's been reminded that it's Whirlyball's golden birthday because they're turning 15 on the 15th of January. Steve feels the golden birthday is a fairly new thing. |
| 9:09
| Mary and Brendan were looking at Steve like he's nuts for not knowing what a golden birthday is. It must be a new-fangled thing that the kids are doing. |
| 9:10
| Steve and Buzz will never have their golden birthday, they're way past it. Buzz will never be 19 again and Steve will never be 20. |
| 9:11
| The golden birthday seems like a weird thing to celebrate though. Someone invented it and everyone else bought in. |
| 9:12
| What's the golden anniversary then? Is that 30 or 50? 25 is the silver for sure. Buzz doesn't think he's going to see either one of those. He doesn't know that for sure does he?! |
| 9:19
| The anniversary thing goes like this, silver is for the 25th, gold for the 50th, diamond for the 60th and 75th, your 80th is oak, that's the coffin and the 90th is granite, that's your headstone. |
| 9:20
| Steve felt old the other day when he read the article about the new driver's licenses for people born after December 1st, 1964. |
| 9:21
| Americans born after that date will have to get more secure driver's licenses in the next six years under new security rules to be unveiled on Friday. |
| 9:22
| Homeland Security has spent years crafting regulations for the REAL ID Act. It's designed to make it harder for terrorists, illegal immigrants and con artists to get government IDs. |
| 9:23
| Why don't people born before 1964 have to get these IDs though? Steve's relieved he doesn't have to but are they just assumed people in their 50s won't be terrorists? |
| 9:24
| Steve's going to feel old if he doesn't have the hip, new driver's license though. Based on this article it seems like the whole thing is several years away though. |
| 9:25
| Steve does like his current driver's license with the hologram on it. It features a very fetching photo of him too. DIdn't the old license used to have a holographic penny on it? |
| 9:26
| Steve hasn't filled out anything on the back of his license though but he is an organ donor. He can't wait to show people his license when they ask for it just because of how fetching he looks in the photo. |
| 9:27
| It's hard to sign the back of the license, ink doesn't really stick to it. Plus Steve needs two witnesses if he wants to be an organ donor. Should he only donate certain organs or tissue? Should he put "johnson" on there as a joke? The cops and paramedics would get a laugh at the accident site. |
| 9:28
| Steve's not sure if he wants to donate his organs, he's given enough. Plus he's a celebrity, there should be a charge for his organs. He can't just give away his eyeballs for free. |
| 9:29
| Terry Armour was an organ donor which Steve was impressed with. He was talking to Terry's mom all about it. Steve will sign his license he just doesn't want to do it now. He always told Jesse White that he was an organ donor. If Steve were to die Jesse would find out and be mad. |
| 9:30
| Steve hasn't really talked much about Terry Armour but he doesn't know what to say. It was sad and Steve finds himself missing Terry already. |
| 9:31
| Steve has some audio of what seems like the first every Stan and Terry show. They were filling in for Steve and possibly Buzz. |
| 9:32
| The audio is from 2000 so that was before Buzz. There's no exact date in the archives though, it was entered as January 1st, 2000. Steve only listened to a little of it and he comes on at one point and it sounds like he's on a remote hook-up. They mention Abe Lincoln so it might have been around his birthday, in February. |
| 9:33
| So this is the first time Stan and Terry did a show together. They were sounding good on their own show on WCKG. The reason that station went under is because of Rover. |
| 9:39
| There ya go, the very first Stan and Terry Show, filling in for Steve. Steve's thinking he was probably in Florida and he even left those guys some topics to talk about. |
| 9:40
| Bob Teitel's in town which made Steve think that they need to get together and write a movie about Terry and his wife going downstate to White County to visit the in-laws. |
| 9:41
| Bob Teitel was in studio when Terry recounted the tale of visiting his wife's in-laws. Steve actually sat next to a few people from White County at the funeral. They asked how Steve knew Terry and he told them from work. They were surprised that Steve knew right away that they were from White County. |
| 9:48
| News with Buzz |
| 9:49
| Steve's got some Drew Peterson, he's not sure if he should do it before the weekend. Buzz has the same story, it's the clemency thing. That counts as news right? |
| 9:50
| Steve will do it as Drew because that's what the people demand. Joel Brodsky is demanding clemency for Stacy if she ever returns. She vanished 2 1/2 months ago, doesn't time fly? |
| 9:51
| That letter Drew got from the guy claiming he saw Stacy in Kentucky was addressed to Joel Peterson. That's proof positive that at the very least Drew didn't write it. The person went with a cross between Drew and Joel Brodsky. |
| 9:52
| Brodsky pointed out that the county could sue Stacy to recoup expenses in the search for her. That must be why Drew transferred all that money, it was just to protect her. |
| 9:53
| When Stacy does come back Drew is going to be a little grumpy. Maybe he won't order a pizza with half the toppings she like and half the toppings he likes. |
| 9:54
| Those are usually the kind of concessions Drew would make for a broad. Broads Buzz! You can't live with 'em, you can't live with 'em. |
| 9:55
| The rest of this article is just rehashing what we already know about the case. |
| 9:56
| Drew's just had some bad luck with women lately. First Kathleen slips in the tub. Drew always told her to get those gripping strips on the tub but she didn't like they way they felt on her butt. |
| 9:57
| Then Stacy goes missing and runs off with some jerk. Drew and Joel have to be thinking that she's getting sick of her time with this jerk, even though there isn't another jerk who's been reported missing. |
| 9:58
| Marion Jones is expected to be sentenced today for lying about steroid use as well as a check fraud scheme. It seems like giving back the medals was bad enough. |
| 9:59
| More layoffs are expected at the Sun-TImes. 7 people were laid off yesterday and more are expected today. |
| 10:00
| In what might be the most extreme case of drunk driving an Oregon woman registered 9 times the legal limit for the state. She was found in her car, passed out, which had crashed into a snow bank. |
