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| 5:28
| It's not 5:30 yet which means Buzz won't start talking for another two minutes. Buzz will actually start talking today. That's some free Buzz Kilman on a...is it Tuesday or Wednesday? |
| 5:29
| All the days seem the same at 4 am. Steve now wakes up 5 minutes before his alarm goes off which he thinks is awesome. |
| 5:30
| Steve doesn't have an alarm clock that lights up and it's battery operated. How can he tell when the battery is running low? |
| 5:31
| Steve gets up and goes into the bathroom, sometimes turning on the lights. Sometimes the lights are too much and he feels like he's at Gitmo or something, about to be waterboarded. |
| 5:32
| Waterboarding has made it on to Prison Break, just this week. They waterboarded some girl, but not just for fun. |
| 5:33
| The show started off with Two Tickets to Paradise by one Edward Money. Steve's pretty sure it's just Eddie Money. |
| 5:34
| Eddie Money's on the county fair circuit. There was also a Jack-sponsored concert with him that Buzz some how missed. It was right when we started, plus Buzz doesn't pay attention. Steve only knows about it because he has a meeting everyday. |
| 5:35
| Buzz was looking for Steve in the Pilates room at the gym yesterday but didn't see him. He was in there but he was way in the back on the operating table. Steve told his instructor that people are making fun of him for taking a Pilates class and it's really hard work. She agreed that was unfair. |
| 5:36
| Steve wore shorts to Pilates and there weren't any mishaps as far as he can tell. On Thursday Steve's going to ask her to dim the lights in the room. |
| 5:37
| Steve wants the lights dimmed so people like Buzz can't just watch him like it's a circus freak show. Does Buzz actually workout at the gym or does he stalk around like a panther? |
| 5:38
| Based on how closely you work with the instructor in Pilates, Steve would only take it from a girl. When a girl is your instructor it seems like whatever you're doing is for her. If it was a guy it would be like they were in prison. |
| 5:39
| Buzz is welcome to come by and check Steve out if he wants. He might not want to see Steve in some of those stretching positions though. |
| 5:40
| Steve needs to talk to his instructor about calling it Extreme Stretching since everyone is making fun of him. It's really hard work though and she only gives him a one second rest in between sets. |
| 5:41
| Steve also got talked into doing some cardio by his instructor. He was made fun of because he didn't want to get his shoes in his locker. He doesn't wear shoes for Pilates so why would he want to go all the way back up to the lockerroom? |
| 5:42
| Steve got on an exercise bike without his shoes on and it was fine. None of the bikes have those straps on the pedals but he doesn't go that fast anyway. |
| 5:43
| The hardest thing about Pilates is trying not to have an embarrassing incident since there's a lot of leg lifting. That's the most frightening thing because Steve doesn't like to do that in front of anyone, especially a woman. |
| 5:44
| Buzz watching Steve pales in comparison to something like that happening. Plus Steve's pushing his luck by having the chorizo breakfast burrito everyday. |
| 5:45
| Buzz should feel free to look in on Thursday. Yesterday Steve was in the back on one of the three torture tables they have in there. When he looks into the room and it's dim, it looks like a great place to nap. |
| 5:51
| Steve feels that every time he talks about working out Pete plays drop that impugns his manhood. Pete thinks he's Rocky because he runs every morning before the show. |
| 5:52
| Pete says he admires what Steve is doing, which he always says when this is brought up. Pete can't really make fun of Steve until he gets a car. |
| 5:53
| Everyone went to Whirlyball last night, how did that go? Steve was worried everyone would be late but only Stephanie was late. He'll have to talk to her about that. |
| 5:54
| Steve was thinking last night that it's sort of unfair, and this was probably Jill's idea, to schedule a Whirlyball tournament from 6:30 to 9:30 for the entire staff of a morning show out in Vernon Hills. |
| 5:55
| Then she can bring in some buffalo wings and her and her mom can overdose on those. In Mexico they overdosed on guacamole and the paramedics had to be called. |
| 5:56
| Pete can only imagine how distracting it must be for Steve and Buzz to broadcast in front of two people who were sleeping. That was nothing compared to David Hochberg in an increasingly smaller tank top with more chest hair. |
| 5:57
| Steve's going to talk to Jill, in a nice way, about keeping it simple. 9:30 seems too late for the entire show staff. Pete's pretty sure he was dropped off around 11 by Brendan. |
| 5:58
| On the other hand 9:30 isn't too late for everyone else. If we did it in the afternoon only people who did morning radio shows would be able to come. |
| 5:59
| The highlight for Pete was Brendan MCing the entire event. He's pretty sure Matt and Brendan will be successful but if for some reason that doesn't work out, he could do something like that. |
| 6:00
| Brendan's good at that stuff because he doesn't care what anyone else thinks about him. Were there a lot of people there? Were the Whirlyball people happy? Did Jill throw down some wings? |
| 6:01
| Pete didn't see that but you usually don't see it. You just see her and her mom passed out in the corner. |
| 6:02
| At one point yesterday Steve thought about going up there. They had good support from all the Jack people. Steve's just kidding about Jill but she does make things complicated. Everything is a treasure hunt with her. |
| 6:03
| Steve calls up to the office, nice of Stephanie to show up finally. She's blaming Brendan who might have given her a concussion while playing Whirlyball. Then who knows what happened after that. |
| 6:04
| Stephanie got here at 5:30 so technically she was here on time. There's still going to be a meeting about it after the show. She should have a few cocktails beforehand. |
| 6:05
| Did Pete have some beer and wings last night or was he still following his deprivation schedule? Pete had a bowl of cereal right before he left, that's quite a life he's got. No car, no girlfriend, eating cereal. |
| 6:06
| So who was a good player last night at Whirlyball? The Steve Dahl team was undefeated. Ed scored the only two goals in the first game so of course he became an expert for game 2. Was Ed shouting GOOOOOOOOOOOOAL every time he scored? |
| 6:07
| Steve calls down to the newsroom. After the first game Ed was suddenly a Whirlyball expert. Did he pull out his clipboard to strategize? Ed doesn't really play defense, he just parks under the goal. He's a forward, a winger. So there's no offsides in Whirlyball then? |
| 6:08
| Everyone's OK then? Jim had a minor scrape and was bleeding but he's not sure how that happened. It could have been from a chicken wing, they're very pointy. |
| 6:09
| Steve was told Jim spent a lot of time stuck in a corner. That was for the first game when he took car number 10, for Ron Santo. It didn't work out for him but it didn't work out for Santo either. Jim stuck Penny with that car in the second match and she also went nowhere. |
| 6:10
| Jim felt he redeemed himself in the second match scoring a goal on three shots. They only have 10 cars to play with? That sales guy Jaime played in one of the matches and his car actually broke down and had to be switched out. |
| 6:11
| That Jaime seems very high maintenance. There's one on every sales staff. Steve can see him getting together with Jill to make the whole event uber-complicated. The original plan was for Pete, Brendan, Jim and Ed to play on a team with a selected listener, against two listener teams. |
| 6:12
| Then Steve brought Penny in for the Dahl Show team, even though she's been ratting him out to the engineer lately. She told Steve the engineer that he was overmodulating and then he came in and changed the mic settings. Steve noticed the change right away yesterday but he worked through it for three hours. |
| 6:13
| Steve heard Pete is now known as The Slasher. He's know as that in the Rogers Park area, they just don't know it's Pete. There was an altercation with someone on the listener team. |
| 6:14
| A ball went rolling into the corner and Pete and the listener went for it. Pete was about to scoop it up and the guy rammed into his scooper. This sort of sounds like white trash polo. They might want to consider that as a marketing slogan. |
| 6:15
| So the guy ended up with the ball and Pete hit his scooper with his. So he slashed him. Did he have to go into the penalty box? The guy was really upset with Pete and started swearing at him. Pete started laughing at him because he thought he was joking but he wasn't. |
| 6:16
| Was the listener hurt or anything? He won't be suing anyone? The guy complained to Brendan afterwards and then left in a huff. |
| 6:22
| That's a drop from My Boys, that show Pete likes. Steve had to fill out this long questionnaire about this show to see if they could buy some live reads and they didn't. |
| 6:23
| Steve even lied and said he liked the show but he doesn't. Hopefully it's been canceled. It seems like all the shows are canceled. |
| 6:24
| Steve's pretty sure the producers aren't giving in on that writer's strike. The guys who Pat Dahl worked for just lost their development deal with NBC. This is all for a few cents on a YouTube download. |
| 6:25
| So that's probably enough about Whirlyball right? Steve does have some info about the Whirlyball cars, Whirlybugs. It can propel you at speeds of up to 3 or 4 miles an hour. Or you could get stuck in the corner like Jim while his family looks on. |
| 6:26
| Steve calls down to the weather center. Buzz thought Jim said leather center. Jim's family came out to Whirlyball to support the show, they're listeners. |
| 6:27
| Was it sort of like when an athlete plays in his hometown and he has to set aside a bunch of tickets for all of his family members? They were there to see the second match where Jim scored a goal though. |
| 6:28
| Jim's parents didn't see his laser tag triumphs though. They played laser tag afterwards? What time did they leave? Jim left with Tina and Stephanie around 9. That's none of our business. |
| 6:29
| Buzz is wondering if Tina and Stephanie work well together. Don't even go there Buzz. He'll be gone right after the show is over while Steve sits in a meeting with the meanest woman ever from HR, Tina and Stephanie crying and Jim fielding calls from his girlfriend. |
| 6:30
| Pete went home with Brendan, they stayed on for a third Whirlyball match. Pete's undefeated at Whirlyball but he took 40 shots without a goal. Whirlyball is supposed to be team-building but it doesn't sound like it. |
| 6:31
| Steve's having trouble dialing the phone because he's an idiot. Apparently Jim thinks that's funny. He only thinks it's funny when Steve says it. Probably because that's what Jim is thinking all day. |
| 6:32
| Penny apparently kicked Pete's ass at laser tag right? She has 100,000 points and Pete had two? Pete was terrible but he thinks his gun was broken. We've heard that about Pete, from some of the ladies on the Mexico trips. |
| 6:33
| Pete doesn't believe in guns, he's usually opposed to violence. Unless it can be done passive-aggressively and lose us a listener. |
| 6:34
| There are some photos on Dahl.com and one of them includes the guy Pete got into it with. He was wearing a Blackhawks jersey. That's hardcore. He might have been into the hockey and thought it would translate to Whirlyball. |
| 6:35
| Steve probably brought the listener in with his hockey talk and now Pete hurt his feelings and sent him away. |
| 6:36
| So Pete had a very low score in laser tag, he got shot a lot. That's probably because he throws around a lot of passive-aggression. Steve understands even Adam kicked Pete's ass but he's very aggressive for a little fella. He's like a jockey, sinewy and aggressive. |
| 6:37
| Steve's going to call down to Adam's office just to make sure he checks in with everyone. Plus it'll give him a chance to mention the coffee mugs. |
| 6:38
| Steve got a complaint email from a listener yesterday. It was a name Steve recognized which is never good. He was complaining that the $15 price for the mug is fine but the $7 in shipping is too much to pay. The shipping is the one thing that's non-negotiable. |
| 6:39
| One the one hand Steve couldn't believe it cost $7 to ship the mug but on the other hand he was impressed. Where else are you going to get a Steve Dahl Show mug, it's a collector's item. |
| 6:40
| If the shipping is too much then order more items and amortize the cost. Get two mugs, you'll probably break one eventually. |
| 6:41
| Adam sent Steve way too many choices for the Steve Dahl Show travel mugs too. He should just pick one option and send it to Steve. Adam did pick one option but there were also a bunch of them below that distracted him. |
| 6:48
| Steve's never played Whirlyball or laser tag because, like Pete, he tends to get aggressive. There's no reason to expose people to that. |
| 6:49
| Sometimes, aggression has a mind of it's own. Buzz remembers playing softball in high school against a younger group of kids. Their coach was being really irritating and ridiculing Buzz's team. |
| 6:50
| Buzz hit a really high fly ball and as he was rounding second this kid was about to get the ball, which would mean he'd be out. Buzz decided to chase the kid down and smacked in to him as hard as he good. |
| 6:51
| Buzz gritted his teeth as he hit the kid which left teeth marks in his forehead. He went flying and when he got up blood was streaming from his head. Buzz was horrified at himself. |
| 6:52
| Buzz should have gone after the coach, that's what Steve used to do. That's why his football coach broke his arm and his baseball coach hit him with a bat. Steve's aggressive but he's not passive. |
| 6:53
| News with Buzz |
| 6:54
| Mitt Romney, who gives Steve the willies, declared a comeback for America after he won Michigan. What does this comeback entail, everyone getting sweet haircuts and acting like car salesmen. |
| 6:55
| President Bush is on the final stop of his Mideast tour, lobbying for lower oil prices. Hillary Clinton touched on that in a debate in Las Vegas last night. |
| 6:56
| She wants an energy plan but in all fairness to Bush, why not do both? It can't hurt to drop the oil prices while you get this 20 year energy plan going. At some point even a Republican is going to have a problem with spend $80 to fill up his car. |
| 6:57
| The ACLU is trying to help out Larry Craig, citing a Minnesota Supreme Court ruling saying sex in public bathrooms is a private act. You can still look through the crack though can't you? |
| 6:58
| Governor Blagojevich again called on lawmakers to back his plan to make transit free for all seniors. How much does Buzz hate this guy right now? Steve hates him, even the seniors don't want it. They know they can pay for a $2 bus ride. |
| 6:59
| The system is short of money anyway and now it's going to cost them $20 million a year to give senior's free transit. No one was even asking for free rides. It's like he just came up with it the night before. |
| 7:00
| Pretty soon you'll be able to see Oprah 24 hours a day, she'll have her own TV network. It's actually called OWN, the Oprah Winfrey Network. |
| 7:01
| Another thing about that free ride for seniors, it's only for seniors around here. So there will have to be some cross checking with your residency to get you the free transit card. It sounds like an administrative nightmare. |
| 7:02
| Can't we impeach Blago? How much longer does he have in office? Wasn't all that Judy Baar Topinka stuff last year? |
| 7:03
| The good news for Buzz is that he qualifies for free transit. Every time Buzz and Aimee go to the movies, she tries to get him a senior ticket. She actually stops the proceedings as they're buying tickets to see if he qualifies. |
| 7:04
| A girl in Tampa Bay was charged with brandishing a knife in order to get a burger from a Burger King. She told police she was very hungry. |
| 7:05
| Maybe it was one of those Burger King commercials gone bad. They tell you they no longer have Whoppers and then offer up a Big Mac. |
| 7:06
| Apple has introduced the thinnest laptop ever. It has also offered first run movie rental downloads with an increased download speed. |
| 7:07
| Song: Livin' in the USA, Steve MIller Band |
| 7:19
| Steve thought he read somewhere that the free transit for the elderly would save someone about $100 a year. What exactly is Blago making into lemonade though? |
| 7:20
| Theoretically the more you charge in sales tax the more business you'll chase out of Cook County. People are going to buy their cars elsewhere because of how high the taxes are in the city. |
| 7:21
| The motivation for Rod seems to be to get old people to vote for him. Buzz also thinks he wants something in return since he initially promised not to raise the taxes. |
| 7:22
| Ben Gay is here, he's filling in for Pat Boyle. Ben would normally be on today anyway. He's lobbying very hard to get a permanent job, first here and then on Comcast. |
| 7:23
| Steve's coming back into the studio, he wants to take a few phone calls. He can do whatever he wants, it's his show. |
| 7:24
| Steve would like Ben to leave. That's fine, he'll go put some more cream in his coffee. |
| 7:25
| Steve was trying to get the caller on hold but he had his radio blaring. All of that for an idiot. |
| 7:26
| John, who lives in Rogers Park, said that if you buy a car in the suburbs you still have to pay city taxes. It's not Steve's problem if you live in Rogers Park though. |
| 7:27
| See Pete, those are the caliber of people who live in Rogers Park. He shouldn't expect his property values to go up any time soon. |
| 7:28
| The other call was a guy who had a theory about Blago doing all this to increase ridership. Steve was complaining about the lack of calls but he needs better calls than this. |
| 7:29
| Alright Ben Gay is back. He and Steve passed like ships in the night. They barely fit through the doorway. |
| 7:30
| Ben has applied for the job of holiday decorator at Macy's downtown. He could use the money around Christmas. Isn't it about time we had window displays featuring nude elves? They put their elfin boots on one leg at a time. |
| 7:31
| The Bulls lost 102-88 last night, seems like benching Joakim Noah was a great idea. |
| 7:32
| Ben feels the Bulls woes started right away with the Kobe trade talk. They should have just traded for him. |
| 7:33
| The loss caused a lockerroom dispute between Noah and Ben Wallace that had to be broken up by Luol Deng. Noah was mad that players on the bench showed indifference that they were losing late in the game. |
| 7:34
| It seems like that Noah kid has the right attitude getting up in Wallace's face like that. Ben Wallace doesn't care, he gets to wear his headband so he's happy. |
| 7:35
| Maybe the Bulls can join the WNBA, they might have a chance in that league. They're in Miami tonight to take on the Heat. This is like an all Bulls show here. |
| 7:36
| The Heat are one of the few teams in the NBA with a worse record than the Bulls. Shaq is coming back tonight from a hip injury. |
| 7:37
| The Blackhawks take on the Blues tonight at the United Center although Ben's copy says they don't play. Brendan missed a crucial word when he was writing the story. |
| 7:38
| Luckily Ben knows there's a game tonight. Patrick Kane's parents mistakenly made Ben his Chicago guardian. |
| 7:39
| Ben's picking him up around 3 pm, they'll hit the Billy Goat and then he'll drop him off a little further down Madison. Ben can't get too close to the stadium, there could be a problem if Savard sees him. |
| 7:40
| Patrick Kane was also named to the NHL's Young Stars team, of which Ben is the coach. |
| 7:41
| Richard Dent, The Colonel, is one again one of the finalist for the football Hall of Fame ballot. They called him The Colonel because he did one thing right which is sort of a knock on him. |
| 7:42
| After being pulled over for doing 100 mph the other night LeBron James dropped 50 points against the Memphis Grizzlies. Brendan writes Ben's sports for him in the mornings, because he's a sleepyhead. He should probably group all the basketball stories together in the future. |
| 7:43
| Tom Brady is calling the Jessica Simpson blame game ridiculous, referring to Tony Romo of course. Brady says that everyone in the NFL has a life outside the game. He's one of the deeper thinkers in the game. |
| 7:44
| Pacman Jones has been accused of punching a woman in a strip club. This guy needs to stay away from the strip clubs, can't he get women to come to him and get naked? |
| 7:52
| Steve caught some exquisite Dan Dierdorf over the weekend, was that during the Colts game? |
| 7:53
| He was with Greg Gumbel, saying all the obvious stuff that everyone knows. It has to be said anyway. Stuff like football being a rough and tumble sport. |
| 7:54
| Another thing he does is pick each team to win the game about 10 times. They sort of cancel each other out though. |
| 7:55
| You don't see this on TV but during every commercial break someone has to come in and squeegee the window in the booth because Dan spits all over it. |
| 7:56
| If that was on the air Dan would probably telestrate the guy squeegeeing the window. Most people prefer to go clockwise when squeegeeing. |
| 7:57
| Dan will be on again this weekend but they don't tell him where he's going until Thursday or Friday. If he knows too far in advance he'll overthink everything. |
| 7:58
| Sometimes they just pick him up and bring him to the game. He could end up calling American Gladiators, who knows. |
| 7:59
| It's always interesting when someone with a speech impediment decides to get into broadcast. |
| 8:00
| Caller John has a question for Dan. About 10 years he met Dan at a bar downtown after a Vikings/Bears game. |
| 8:01
| This was back during the Monday Night Football games when he was calling games with Frank Gifford. Dan wasn't Frank's wingman back in those days, he didn't need one. |
| 8:02
| John went up to Dan and told him he was a big fan. Midway through the conversation some spit flew out of Dan's mouth right onto John's forehead. He didn't want to be rude and wipe it off so he just left it there the whole time. |
| 8:03
| Live read: Townstone Financial |
| 8:04
| Steve hasn't done the web poll yet but he also heard Bob and Ron chortling in the other room when he was engaging Pete earlier. |
| 8:05
| It's always nice to have people laughing but weird that Pete just decides to turn it off midway through the bit. |
| 8:06
| It seems like that sends a subliminal message to listeners that what's going on is no longer funny. Bob feels today's audience is more sophisticated. These questions aren't for him. |
| 8:07
| Pete made the decision to turn the mics off himself. If people are laughing Steve would like to keep it going unless he gets tired of it. |
| 8:08
| Bob needs to see a doctor, that's all Pete is saying. Bob has a hacking cough so Pete decided to turn them both off. |
| 8:09
| It's time for the Eight O'Clock Taco Bell. Is Buzz craving a taco today? It's Sauce Packet Wednesday and ironically Buzz has a sauce packet. That's coincidence, not irony Alanis Morissette. |
| 8:10
| While not the same as having it on a sweet taco, the sauce is pretty good on it's own. |
| 8:11
| Today's web poll question is "do you Mac or PC?" Steve can't decide if he should include Bob and Ron on this. They probably don't even have computers, they still play their music from vinyl. |
| 8:12
| On the other hand, they're creative people so maybe they know about Macs. Steve's not going to include them on this one. |
| 8:13
| Thousands gathered at the Macworld expo yesterday. Mac sales are up as the company gets closer into the mainstream. You know why, because of iPods. |
| 8:14
| Steve only uses Macs but even he wouldn't go to Macworld. It looks like a cult the way Steve Jobs gets up on stage and strolls around. |
| 8:15
| A lot of people say they would have changed to Mac's earlier if their Mac-loving friends weren't so pushy about it. |
| 8:16
| That sounds like Buzz. He won't switch to Mac because Steve tells him to do it all the time. When Buzz finally does switch he say to Steve "Why didn't you tell me?!" |
| 8:17
| Sidney San Martin was first in line, a day before Macworld opened. He's a Mac devotee but is also starting up a website called iLife. He's probably going to get a cease and desist order from Apple since iLife is the name of one of their software programs. |
| 8:18
| The second person in line is Richard Trus who's hoping to get a meeting with Steve Jobs. He probably meets with the first few people in line every year. |
| 8:19
| It might take Apple a few tries but they usually get it right. Yesterday Steve jobs whipped that new laptop out of a legal folder. |
| 8:20
| That movie download service is going to be huge though. Blockbuster should probably just close up shop. |
| 8:28
| Not only is it funny when Kelly explains Netflix to Ryan on The Office, it's also product placement. It's genius! |
| 8:29
| Alright let's say hello to Bob and Ron, officially. There was a big blow to the dogwalking community this week when that dogwalker van was stolen with dogs in it. |
| 8:30
| Of course that was a dogsitter, not a dogwalker. Bob will dogsit for some of his clients, he's full service. |
| 8:31
| That dog story got way too much publicity yesterday. Then that Colin Hebson guy was all over the place. Colin was David Hochberg's go to real estate guy when he had a show on WCKG. |
| 8:32
| Steve's been trying to get Matt Dahl to hire Bob and Ron to walk or watch his dog. Every time Matt comes out he brings the dog. |
| 8:33
| Steve doesn't want the dog in the house but then Janet accuses him of driving Matt away. So maybe when Matt comes out to the house he could contract Bob and Ron to watch the dog. |
| 8:34
| Of course Steve would have to pay Bob and Ron but he's willing to make that happen. He'd like for it to happen on a regular basis as well. |
| 8:35
| Yesterday Buzz reported that Kathleen Zellner's dog was one that got stolen and Steve corrected him. Turns out it was Kathleen's daughter who's dog went missing. |
| 8:36
| Kathleen Zellner looked hot on the news last night. Maybe she has a look for her lawyering and a look for around town. |
| 8:37
| Steve's been watching a lot more NBC news now that it's in HD. That Paula Faris looks great in HD. |
| 8:38
| Buzz thought she was pregnant which just adds an extra glow. Wasn't she just pregnant though? If she's not pregnant she needs to slim down a bit. |
| 8:39
| Caller Jim sounds like he's in an iron lung. He's actually just a big fan, over 500 pounds. That's huge! What are we going to do about that? |
| 8:40
| Jim lost 5 pounds this week. That probably happens whenever he goes to the bathroom though. He's trying though, Steve is his inspiration. |
| 8:41
| Turns out it's as easy as burning more calories than you consume, that's how you lose weight. |
| 8:48
| That's from Knocked Up right there. Steve's been trying to watch a movie in the afternoon. |
| 8:49
| Yesterday he came home, went to On Demand and demanded Hot Rod with Andy Samberg. |
| 8:50
| Steve's time would have been better spent writing a better movie than Hot Rod. He could have written a better movie in 90 minutes! |
| 8:51
| There was nothing funny in this movie, NOTHING! Blades of Glory is lame but there's some funny stuff. It's not like Steve doesn't want to laugh either, he's not jealous of Andy Samberg or something. |
| 8:52
| How could nothing in the movie be funny at all? Andy Samberg did a few of those digital shorts on SNL and Steve gets the feeling Hot Rod started as a digital short. |
| 8:53
| The movie was also a complete waste of that cute redhead in Wedding Crashers, Borat's wife. Whoever wrote that movie should be drummed out of the business. |
| 8:54
| Alright Bob and Ron are here. It's a big week in vinyl, there's an article about it's resurgence in Time this week. Resurgence? So now 2 out of a million people will be buying records. |
| 8:55
| Yesterday was Don Van Vliet's birthday, from Captain Beefheart. Steve's favorite Captain Beefheart song is Bat Chain Puller. Has Buzz ever heard that song? Steve's going to track it down, playing it would really freak out Todd Cavanah. |
| 8:56
| Today also marks the anniversary of one of Paul McCartney's many drug busts. This time the year was 1980 and the country was Japan. |
| 8:57
| Today is also Ronnie Van Zant's birthday of Lynyrd Skynyrd. |
| 8:58
| Song: I Ain't the One, Lynyrd Skynyrd |
| 9:03
| Roger Ebert gave that Hot Rod movie 3 stars! He was probably on pain medication or something. |
| 9:04
| Ebert said that the movie was funny because it's sincere. Throughout the entire movie the Andy Samberg character keeps getting into accidents that would have killed a normal person. |
| 9:05
| News with Buzz |
| 9:06
| Mitt Romney won the Michigan Primary. John McCain did alright considering Romney's dad used to be the governor of the state. |
| 9:07
| The Chicago public health department shows there were only been 54 violations in the first week of the statewide ban. |
| 9:08
| Most people don't smoke so most people like the ban. For two years we heard about bar owners not wanting the smoking ban. Most bar owners smoke, they probably just didn't want to have to go outside at their own bar. |
| 9:09
| There's some speculation that people are reluctant to rat-out their fellow patrons who are smoking which Buzz finds inadmirable. |
| 9:10
| What Steve really doesn't like is the gauntlet of smokers he has to go through from this building to the Aon to workout. Everyone is 15 feet from the door but at some point you still have to go through those people. |
| 9:11
| Plus all the smokers make the elevator's reek of smoke and they don't look good either. It's not a good look. All the smokers should be in an underground cage or something. |
| 9:12
| Governor Blagojevich is calling on seniors to back his plan to give them free transit. What a tool he is. |
| 9:13
| As much as Steve wants to say Blago is a tool, he's pretty sure the "hold your nose and take a free bus" comment was in response to an old woman who said that old people who have money take limos. |
| 9:14
| Maybe Pete or Jim know about that? Pete's not sure what Steve is talking about, nor is Jim. Jim saw some video of him giving a really long and rambling answer that ended with that comment. Sort of like this? |
| 9:15
| It just seemed like that woman had a sort of haughty attitude so maybe he was just trying to knock her down a bit. |
| 9:16
| If you have a chance to watch Blago in action check out how he holds a mic. He does the three finger hold with the Pinky out, Wayne Newton style. |
| 9:17
| Oprah's getting her own TV network, OWN the Oprah Winfrey Network. So now she can do whatever she wants on that channel. |
| 9:27
| Steve wasn't really paying attention, was that drop what Steve was talking about? The woman was talking about limos but his response about holding your nose was to a different woman. |
| 9:28
| Chef Hans is here for Meat Talk. He's almost a senior citizen so he'll be able to enjoy free transit as well. |
| 9:29
| Hans took the bus a few times over the summer when his car was in the shop. He can swing the $2 though as can most seniors. It seems like the seniors are offended that Blago thinks they can't swing that. |
| 9:30
| If Hans could quote Nikita Khrushchev, "politicians build bridges even if there's no river." You don't hear a lot of chefs quoting Khrushchev any more. |
| 9:31
| The last time Steve and Matt went to a Hawks game Matt was telling him a story Hans told him about him having to wear a red hat to single him out for underage drinking. |
| 9:32
| Has Hans ever told this story before? Hans doesn't remember wearing a red hat. When he had to milk the cows he wore a hat to keep his hair out of the milk. |
| 9:33
| Hans did have to wear a red scarf for underage drinking. That's probably what Steve is talking about. If he doesn't have the exact article of clothing Hans doesn't put out? |
| 9:34
| Hans used to work for a winemakers, putting wine into barrels. The winemakers used to give him some wine and one time he had way too much. He was taking a cart into town, following a horse and hanging off of it. He was following a horse? Or was the horse pulling the cart? |
| 9:35
| Hans ended up with alcohol poisoning and was in the hospital for several days. His mom put a red scarf on him so bar owners would know who he was. |
| 9:36
| It was actually a very big story and the winemaker was fired from his job. Is this were Hans got a taste for fame? |
| 9:37
| Matt told the story like Hans had to wear a silly red hat because he got caught drinking. He didn't actually drink until he was 20 and in the Swiss Army. |
| 9:38
| Luckily you never have to go to war if you're in the Swiss Army, you just get those sweet knives. |
| 9:39
| It was actually because of the Swiss Army that Hitler went around Switzerland instead of through it. |
| 9:40
| If you're in the Swiss army and you leave you have to pay for every year you don't serve. That's probably worth the cost though. Does Hans still have his original knife? |
| 9:41
| Hans had a knife that he actually gave to John Candy. He was in town filming Only the Lonely and he was at a Hawks game. |
| 9:42
| Candy was eating in the Governor's Room and Hans opened a bottle of wine or something with the knife. Candy was really impressed by his use of the knife so Hans gave it to him. |
| 9:43
| Hans is going to try to make it to the game tonight. He has to do some stuff related to the new prime rib cart they're going to have at S & W. |
| 9:44
| No one works a prime rib cart like Hans though, he knows from his days at Lawry's. Hans once brought the cart up Michigan Avenue to the John Hancock where Steve was broadcasting from. |
| 9:45
| Tom Thayer was there and he ate two 28 ounce Chicago cuts, bone-in. So he had a two bone rib roast by himself, plus all the side dishes. |
| 9:46
| Hans met Walter Payton and Dan Jiggetts because they used to come in to Lawry's. Dan Jiggetts could probably put a hurt on a prime rib card. He probably still can. Steve could too, let's be honest. |
| 9:47
| Steve's not sure about Sweetness, it seems like he watched his weight more. Steve was watching NFL Network on Sunday and someone was doing a story about LaDanian Tomlinson. In some video they showed him running up a hill like Walter Payton. |
| 9:48
| Steve was getting mad until LT said he did it because of Walter Payton. Steve can never decide if he likes LT. It doesn't seem fair that he gets to wear that dark visor on his helmet. But then he said the thing about Walter Payton. |
| 9:54
| That's LT right there. Just as Steve started to yell at the TV screen LT mentioned Walter Payton. |
| 9:55
| Steve has to say that the Meat Talk we just did might have been Steve's favorite one ever. There were the stories, then Hans not knowing what Steve was talking about, but then the John Candy story really gives you a glimpse of his true nature. |
| 9:56
| Hans would give someone the shirt off his back or his Swiss Army knife. Plus he can cook a great steak. There wasn't too much talk about meat, other than the prime rib stuff. |
| 9:57
| A lot of the Meat Talk questions Steve gets are redundant so sometimes he wants to give them a rest. |
| 9:58
| Hans told Steve during the break that they estimated he drank a gallon of wine, as an 8 year old. Steve's surprised they didn't jail the guy who gave him the wine. |
| 9:59
| Plus Hans starts it all off with the Nikita Khrushchev joke but he said Mikita, like Stan Mikita. Hans probably doesn't even have a Swiss accent, he's just putting it on. He probably knows John Candy because he used to be at Second City. |
| 1-10:00
| The other night Hans and Hans Jr. were at the Hawks game. Steve is always disappointed that Hans Jr. doesn't have an accent but he was born here. He can put an accent on though if you ask him too. |
