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| 5:31
| That's some Rush right there with Tom Sawyer. Steve has a lot of information about this song, it's a 1981 hit by Canadian progressive rock band Rush. |
| 5:32
| Every November Bob and Ron celebrate Progvember which irritates Steve because they can never define what prog rock is. They should just say it's Rush. Whatever it is, Steve doesn't like it. |
| 5:33
| Steve doesn't like any prog rock, including Rush and Yes. Any music with that wailing synth sound is irritating. "We're playing 16th notes!" That's so cool. |
| 5:34
| The song was named for Mark Twain's literary character of the same name. So far Steve hasn't read anything he didn't know already but he'll keep going. |
| 5:35
| The song relies heavily on Geddy Lee's synth player. Does that mean that Styx is a prog rock band as well? Buzz is prepared to name a lot of bands as prog rock, including some that Steve might like. He also doesn't like that entire 80s sound. It's all crap! |
| 5:36
| Steve doesn't like any of the songs that he has the option of playing today. Todd Cavanah might be repeating on him too. There's a Three Doors Down song but it could be a different one. Steve doesn't know the names of their songs, just that he doesn't mind them. |
| 5:37
| Don't all Rush songs rely heavily on Geddy Lee's synth playing? Lee calls Tom Sawyer a "quintessential Rush song" Should you say that about your own music? |
| 5:38
| The song was written by Lee, Neil Peart and Alex Lifeson in collaboration with Canadian lyricist Pye Dubois. They had to bring in a special lyricist? |
| 5:39
| It sounds like Jim didn't have his requisite discussion with Buzz to clear his throat. They did talk about movies but maybe Jim should do something to irritate Buzz and make him yell. Buzz and Jim both saw Cloverfield, number 1 at the box office over the weekend. |
| 5:40
| Steve knows that Cloverfield is a movie but that's about it. It features the girl from The Office and it's about a monster destroying New York. Which girl from The Office, Pam? |
| 5:41
| Actually the girl was from The Class, that show Pat Dahl worked on. It was the girl Buzz liked on that show but Steve can't remember who it is. He could call Jim but then the Tom Sawyer talk would be over. |
| 5:42
| Steve has seen the trailer and it looks good but all he does is watch the trailers. He doesn't have time for movies. Well he does but he doesn't like going to the theater because the people irritate him. The ushers do nothing about the irritating people either. |
| 5:43
| The other night at the Hawks game there was a guy who had his feet up on the boards, sitting sideways like a girl, and no one did anything about it. Then there was another group of guys hatching a plan to sit in the front row. |
| 5:44
| Steve went to tell the usher about what was going to happen but he never showed up to do anything about it. |
| 5:45
| OK, back to Tom Sawyer. The song came about during rehearsals at Ronnie Hawkins' farm near Toronto. Who is Ronnie Hawkins? Buzz is pretty sure Ronnie Hawkins and the Hawks were a forerunner to The Band. |
| 5:46
| As a Twain reference the song can be considered an abstract commentary on free-thinking. That's very deep but also full of it. Steve had no idea this much went into a Rush song. You'd think they would worry more about their looks. |
| 5:47
| Ronnie Hawkins sang Who Do You Love on The Last Waltz. He might have written it too. Can we stop with this Rush stuff now? Sure it's 5:46 am on Martin Luther King day but there are still people out there wondering what we're talking about. |
| 5:54
| Ronnie Hawkins did not write Who Do You Love, Bo Diddley did. Ronnie Hawkins is just some Canadian guy. He did write Mary Lou "she took the keys to my Cadillac car..." |
| 5:55
| Steve would just like to say that the Cadillac they're giving the Super Bowl MVP is a girl's car. One of the ads features that Kate Walsh, from Greys Anatomy, talking about the car turning you on. That means it's a girl's car. |
| 5:56
| Sure Steve drives the same car that Carmella Soprano has but she didn't get a Turbo. |
| 5:57
| Our own Pete Zimmerman has a Rush-related story. When he was 20, about 30 years ago, he wanted to take guitar lessons. The teacher asked him what he liked so he said classic rock, stuff like Led Zeppelin and the Rolling Stones. The instructor said that he listened to Rush and Yes and other prog rock bands. Pete didn't even know they played acoustic guitar. |
| 5:58
| Pete quit right after that. Also-just like when Steve took lessons from John Spiegel-Pete was creeped out by the guy's long fingernails. Does Pete have Hot Potato Mouth? It seems like he was having trouble saying Spiegel. |
| 5:59
| Steve likes John Spiegel but the long fingernails, just on one hand, gave him the willies. Then Steve found out they were fake which actually made it worse. |
| 6:00
| Does Steve want to get into Andy Frain bashing? There's a guy on hold who had problems getting rid of a drunk at a Cubs game. Steve should probably take the call, just to encourage other people to call in. |
| 6:01
| The guy hung up on Steve. At least give him a minute to work through it, don't just hang up on him. |
| 6:02
| Alright time for today's web poll question "Do you have MLK day off?" The options are yes, no and you do? Ed added that one, he's on pain medication and needs to be ignored. |
| 6:03
| We could have had the day off but it seemed to Steve like we should work. It's becoming more and more of a holiday though. We took it off a few years ago and Steve felt guilty about it. The ultimate definition to Buzz is whether or not the schools have off. That's why he's always trying to take the summer off. Every June 14th he tries to get out of here for summer break. |
| 6:05
| It's Martin Luther King day of course. When Steve came in it was snowing, he's dreaming of a white Martin Luther King day. |
| 6:06
| All city and municipal buildings are closed and the post office is closed although you can still get express mail. Big deal. Ever tried to send something express mail? It's supposed to arrive the next day but it doesn't and there's nothing you can do. You can't track it. |
| 6:07
| It seems like this holiday is reaching critical mass, we might have to start taking it off. The meters do have to be fed which is usually an indicator for Steve. |
| 6:08
| Steve was thinking about all the new listeners we could get this morning but then he realized that no one would want to get up that early when they don't have to. There were the same amount of people on the road today. |
| 6:09
| Someone is going to have to establish MLK as a full-on holiday. Because President's Day is a fake holiday. Maybe people should start exchanging gifts. |
| 6:10
| Meters will have to be free and the trains will have to go to weekend schedule before Steve decides to take the day off. |
| 6:11
| Steve and Buzz are here and they're going to be on channel 32 which is doubly wasting their time. Had Steve put all of this together beforehand he probably wouldn't have come in. |
| 6:12
| Caller Rory is someone who's up early. The garbagemen are out today along with Steve and Buzz. Garbagemen and Broadcasters, that could be the name of Buzz's next blues album. |
| 6:13
| Rory has a suggestion for Steve's Blackhawks ticket problem. They need to have some sort of glass pass. The difference in price between the first and second row is pretty big. |
| 6:14
| Steve's going to need an off-duty police officer stationed at his tunnel. Otherwise he'll have to do something about it himself. |
| 6:15
| Caller Mike is a police officer. The city is never going to give up the meters on Martin Luther King day. It's a big enough deal for them to lose revenue on Christmas or the other holidays. |
| 6:16
| The city also has Department of Revenue vans, with cameras on both sides, scanning streets for cars with more than 3 tickets. Mike sounds a little disgruntled, maybe he should take the day off. |
| 6:17
| Mike would be more than happy to be the cop on duty at the Hawks game in Steve's section. He understands where Steve is coming from. There's a reason the front row costs more, because it's the front row! |
| 6:18
| Caller Sandy doesn't have today off either, she works for a check printing company. Can she print up some checks for Steve and Buzz with other people's info on them? |
| 6:19
| Does Sandy's company print up colorful checks? They have DIsney and Martin Luther King checks. Doesn't Buzz have the DIsney checks? |
| 6:20
| Had Steve known about the MLK checks he would have switched to those checks for today. It would take him about 3 years to get through a pack of checks though. |
| 6:21
| Steve never has to write checks but when he does he always writes the amount on the wrong line or something like that. |
| 6:28
| Coming up around 6:50 Steve and Buzz are going to be on Fox 32. Steve was watching Fox just now and saw himself which in and of itself is troubling. But then he saw himself doing something troubling as well. |
| 6:29
| Hey there's the girls in the bikinis at the Packers game. Did they have coats that they put on or were they in bikinis the whole time? |
| 6:30
| Steve loves when they call him a legend, he doesn't even have to get that started on his own, the ball is already rolling. |
| 6:31
| When they promo Steve though he's on mic and he's touching it way too much. Stop touching the mic! |
| 6:32
| So those girls had to have coats right, otherwise they'd be dead or at least frost bitten. That Tom Coughlin guy might have to have his cheeks removed. It sort of looked like he had Vaseline on his face, would that protect him? |
| 6:33
| Headlines with Buzz |
| 6:34
| Thousands of demonstrators and three Presidential candidates will participate in a March in South Carolina. Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and John Edwards will all participate. |
| 6:35
| The Giants will face the Patriots in the Super Bowl. The Super Bowl seems like a done deal although that's probably what Dallas and Green Bay said as well. It's a good thing the Giants kicker made that last field goal or he'd be a dead man today. |
| 6:36
| Someone asked Buzz if he thought Bret would retire. It seems like he's having so much fun. His only regret is probably that it was too cold for him to cry, the tears just froze. |
| 6:42
| Steve's still touching his microphone too much which does not look good on TV. It makes him look crazy actually. |
| 6:43
| The other thing Steve does is constantly adjust the mic levels. What else is he supposed to do, he's just sitting there talking. |
| 6:44
| Steve needs to call over to Fox 32 right now. George Serantos, Steve and Garry's former engineer, is just rolling out Steve and Garry jingles. George won't let it go, that's his one claim to fame. |
| 6:45
| George was probably the best engineer Steve and Garry had. Your life was in the hands of the engineer and there were a few not-so-great engineers. There was one guy who thought aliens were coming down through the ceiling tiles to take photos of him. |
| 6:46
| There was one engineer who Steve always made fun of him because he was the worst of them. Eventually Steve got hauled into a meeting with the head of the engineer's union. |
| 6:47
| Steve wasn't in the union though so there was nothing they could do to him. He called the meeting a Kangaroo Court. Then the union head said that if Steve died today, that engineer wouldn't come to his funeral. Steve told him that they wouldn't miss him because Steve's funeral would be huge then he walked out. |
| 6:48
| Alright, back to the news with Buzz. In celebrity news Keifer Sutherland is out of jail and actress Suzanne Pleshette died. |
| 6:49
| It's also Stacy Peterson's birthday today, wherever she may be. There's also new evidence that could point to Drew's involvement. What evidence? Who has the evidence? |
| 6:50
| Stacy's family also had a surprise party for her and Drew was not in attendance. He didn't want to sit there, waiting behind the chair for her to arrive. All the balloons would deflate anyway. |
| 6:51
| Britney's relationship with the paparazzo could be over. She's filed a restraining order against him. |
| 6:52
| This is the guy who got involved with Britney at the behest of his wife just so he could possibly get naked photos of her. He has then and now he wants to sell them. |
| 6:53
| Steve ended up watching Entertainment Tonight or Extra on Friday and the whole show was a Britney Deathwatch. |
| 6:54
| Fox is having some signal problems right now which is why Steve and Buzz aren't on. |
| 6:55
| Jim's tinfoil hat is causing the signal problems. He refuses to take it off because the signals bounce right off it. He does look fantastic in it though. |
| 6:56
| Steve is surprised that more people don't have signal problems, they're just pointing their antenna out the window. WGN had signal problems as well. |
| 6:57
| Caller Sean is on his way to work, he's remodeling the Allegro Hotel. Right now it's pretty much gutted but it'll look good when it's done. |
| 6:58
| Sean was calling in about Vaseline. Normally Steve doesn't take calls from men about Vaseline but he will today. A lot of people use Vaseline as a wind block. |
| 6:59
| Based on that chart Steve was looking at on Friday it seemed like there should have been a lot of frostbite yesterday. Steve was waiting for a finger to fall off, anything. |
| 7:00
| Sean has a joke for Buzz. No jokes for Buzz, this is a guy who was suspended for a week for a Cinco de Mayo tribute that went bad. |
| 7:01
| All anyone has to do is wait Steve out and they can tell their joke. OK, the joke is what's the difference between a dead hooker and a Ferrari? There's no Ferrari in Sean's garage. |
| 7:02
| Caller Jan works at a doctor's office. Whenever there's a holiday everyone tries to get their kids in for appointments. |
| 7:03
| Steve thought this phone call would be about how the doctor's office is booked solid with people suffering from frost bite. |
| 7:04
| Jan was just calling to say that she's also on her way into work. This is why were here then, working for her. |
| 7:05
| This holiday is reaching critical mass though. Steve's going to need free parking meters and a weekend schedule for the CTA before he takes the day off. |
| 7:06
| Song: We Will Rock You/We Are the Champions, Queen |
| 7:11
| Steve and Buzz are supposed to be on Fox today but they're having problems getting a signal. They're not in the newsroom or Adam's office though. Who's office is it? |
| 7:12
| That used to be Skynyrd's office, he was a producer on the former WCKG. He was called Skynyrd because he once had a mullet. Once you have a mullet that stink stays with you. |
| 7:13
| If they can get into the corner office of the WCFC general manager then they can get a signal but the door is locked. Steve told them to get security and unlock it, he'd take full responsibility. There are no good ideas in there to steal anyway. |
| 7:14
| Bret Favre was also wearing Vaseline on his face yesterday. Buzz thought he saw him stuffing a Kleenex in his nose and it wasn't a good look. |
| 7:15
| He was also wearing one of those Gator things over his neck and mouth. Steve would have gone with a ski mask, it's scary as hell and it's warm. |
| 7:16
| That was a pretty good game yesterday, the second one. Steve didn't really pay attention to the first game because he can't pay that much attention to two games in a day. |
| 7:17
| The only thing that drew Steve into that first game is knowing how much a Patriots win would annoy Buzz. He's so sick of hearing about the '72 Dolphins. Plus as a guy who was blamed by Coach for ruining the Bears perfect season in '85 he needs this to get him off the hook. |
| 7:18
| If the Patriots win the Super Bowl will that be enough for Buzz? It's actually already been ruined for Buzz. He can still hold on to the fact that the Dolphins were the first to do it, plus their winning streak extended into the next season. Of course their season was shorter back then. |
| 7:19
| Buzz feels that this will be it for all those Dolphins players who get together every year to drink champagne when the last perfect team loses. They're going to start dropping like flies now that they don't have that to live for. |
| 7:20
| It's creepy that grown men get together to drink champagne. It seems like that's how gay pornos break out. |
| 7:26
| So Fox is still working on getting a signal. It's OK if they can't get it, Steve and Buzz are available for next Monday. |
| 7:27
| We must have been the only people who didn't think this was a holiday. There needs to be a get-together where people decide if this is a full holiday. |
| 7:28
| Live read: Kent Dean |
| 7:29
| How about a Mailbag? |
| 7:30
| The first email was sent to Steve and Patrick Elwood, who was here on Friday. He was talking about that St. Baldrick's Day charity where people shave their head. |
| 7:31
| Steve has thought about shaving his head but he doesn't want to do a pledge drive because it seems like an administrative nightmare. Maybe he'll just sponsor Patrick. |
| 7:32
| The emailer is the doctor who Patrick mentioned on Friday. She's going to shave her head if the high schools involved in the Fox challenge meet their goal. Her husband didn't know about it though and nearly drove off the road listening to the show on Friday. |
| 7:33
| The doctor was going to call her husband and let him know about 10 minutes before her head was going to be shaved. So Steve saved her having to break the bad news. |
| 7:34
| That's from Mary Lou Schmidt, MD. Buzz points out that's the second Mary Lou mention on the show today after the Ronnie Hawkins stuff. Just when Steve thinks Buzz isn't paying attention he says something like that. |
| 7:35
| The next emailer is recommending a travel coffee mug for Steve that auto cools your coffee. Steve's been having issues when he makes coffee at home and it's too hot to drink. |
| 7:36
| Buzz is wondering if Steve puts cream in his coffee. Does he look like a girl? Is he wearing lipstick? |
| 7:37
| The Bru Go has a chamber on the top of the mug that lets coffee in to cool it off to 150º. You can also sip the coffee directly or lock it completely. |
| 7:38
| Steve's having trouble deciding what color to choose, there are so many options. That seems silly to Buzz. |
| 7:39
| There's also a nice video on the website. |
| 7:40
| Steve's pretty close to selecting the Cobalt travel mug. It's $19.95, in stock. Does Buzz want one too? |
| 7:41
| That was a very helpful email to get from someone so thanks to Karen for that. |
| 7:42
| The final emailer should be working but instead he's listening to Steve. Urinating in public is illegal if you're over the age of 16. |
| 7:43
| Last week Steve drove out to his massage and he had to go to the bathroom for the entire time. You should be able to go on the side of the road but it's illegal. |
| 7:44
| Steve finally got off the expressway and saw a Dunkin' Donuts. Then a limo pulled up and 9 people got out, all having to use the bathroom. They knew Steve too but they wouldn't let him cut. |
| 7:45
| Steve can't even tell Buzz what happened after that. It occurred to Buzz over the weekend that he never heard the end of this story. |
| 7:46
| If they're not going to make public urination legal then Steve will need a different set-up in his car. Maybe a catheter tube that goes down through the floorboard. |
| 7:47
| Steve knew a guy who was an alcoholic and he rigged his car up so there was a reservoir of vodka in place of washer fluid. Whenever he hit the wipers the vodka would come through a tube into the car and he could drink it. |
| 7:53
| Live read: Townstone Financial |
| 7:54
| 500 is not a good credit score right? Steve doesn't understand the scale because it doesn't start at zero. That would be too easy. |
| 7:55
| Buzz would like to find out his credit score but he's been told that if you check it too often it actually goes down. David could probably check it for him though. |
| 7:56
| Did Steve close the Mailbag? He didn't and it's important to close it. |
| 7:57
| We've got the Eight O'Clock Taco Bell coming up and it's Manager Monday. |
| 7:58
| The Fox crew has given up trying to get a signal going out. They're a good crew too, those are the guys who used to come to Steve's house when he was on Fox Thing in the Morning. |
| 7:59
| Steve thought he looked good today though. Buzz tried to dress as crazy as possible knowing he'd be on TV. |
| 8:00
| There was a guy on COPS on Saturday who was wearing the most outrageous outfit Steve has ever seen. It was a multi-colored shirt with multi-colored pants. He looked like a clown but he wasn't a clown, he was just a lowlife involved in an altercation with another lowlife. |
| 8:01
| Did Pete happen to see that? Pete doesn't watch COPS although he thinks he should every time Steve mentions it. |
| 8:02
| Steve's going to pitch Todd Cavanah on a fiber optic line so TV crews can just patch into that and get an outgoing signal. Todd will go for it because it means Eddie and Jobo can be on TV. |
| 8:03
| The Eight O'Clock Taco Bell has become the 8:03 Taco Bell which is fine with Steve. He just doesn't like it to be early. |
| 8:04
| On the phone is Joe Haines from the Taco Bell in Miller, Indiana. Where's that at? Is it in the truck stop? |
| 8:05
| Is Buzz ready with some news? Steve doesn't have any new audio which Buzz needs. It's actually coming in right now. |
| 8:06
| News with Buzz |
| 8:07
| Barack Obama is taking on Bill Clinton and says his support of his wife is troubling. |
| 8:08
| Pregnant women who consume at least two servings of caffeine a day run the risk of a miscarriage. That's another reason Steve is backing off the caffeine. |
| 8:09
| Eugene Sawyer is being remembered as a kind soul. He passed away over the weekend. |
| 8:10
| Friends and family gathered for a candlelight vigil yesterday for Stacy Peterson's 24th birthday. |
| 8:11
| Those in attendance prayed for Stacy's return. Hopefully it wasn't a surprise party. Did they have the Drew Peterson piñata? |
| 8:12
| Not surprisingly Drew wasn't in attendance. He didn't know what to get her. What do you get for the girl who's missing, a GPS? |
| 8:13
| Drew remains the prime suspect but so far what do they got on him? Nuthin! Bring it, let's get this over with. If you have something lay your cards on the table. |
| 8:14
| The state police told the Bolingbrook police chief that they had something on Drew but didn't say what. |
| 8:15
| Todd Stroger is prepared to give up the County's control of the hospital that bore his late father's name. |
| 8:16
| Steve actually heard something over the weekend that made him like John Stroger. It might have been Forrest Claypool who said that Stroger just wanted to take care of the people he knew. |
| 8:17
| He didn't think there was anything wrong with taking care of your friends and family which Steve can understand. It's what anyone would do in his position. |
| 8:18
| They need to do something with that hospital because it's creepy as hell. They County could rent it out as a haunted house. Imagine how scary it is at night, completely empty. It's probably scary during the day. |
| 8:19
| Who's going to manage the building though and what are they going to do with it? Isn't there some effort to restore it? |
| 8:20
| One of Liberia's most notorious rebel leaders, General Butt Naked, has confessed to 20,000 deaths. |
| 8:21
| He was called Butt Naked because of his platoon's practice of charging naked into battle. That'd be pretty scary, a bunch of dudes running at your naked. |
| 8:22
| That's sort of why Steve hasn't seen 300 yet, he's afraid there's going to be a lot of in-battle nudity. |
| 8:30
| Song: You Get What You Give, The New Radicals |
| 8:35
| Steve takes back what he said earlier, Stroger Hospital is closer to Damen, not Paulina. |
| 8:36
| Steve's getting to know that whole area as he uses the side streets to get to and from Hawks games. Everyone uses the Eisenhower to get to the game so you have to find another way in. |
| 8:37
| Steve wouldn't normally correct himself but he's proud of his knowledge of that area. One tip Steve does have, if you're coming from the west, is to get off the Eisenhower on Paulina, not Damen. |
| 8:38
| Then Steve goes over to Wood Street, Wood is key here, key. It's all about Wood. Steve might have to lay off the coffee here. |
| 8:39
| Alright, Pat Boyle is on the phone, Pete has ordered the Family Guy DVDs so we'll have a better version of the Peanut Butter Jelly song, Pat's theme song. |
| 8:40
| So we've got our Super Bowl match-up although it's not exactly what Buzz wanted. Steve was disappointed that Favre didn't make it in but he likes Eli Manning. |
| 8:41
| Eli puts up with a lot of garbage from New York fans. What we do to Rex Grossman is nothing. He's Rex minus the charisma if that's possible. Eli played really well yesterday and he didn't turn the ball over which helped. |
| 8:42
| The Giants have been rolling since they got into the Super Bowl. Playing that last game against the Patriots really helped them out. |
| 8:43
| The Giants almost beat the Patriots in that last season game and now we get a rematch, plus some sweet Tom Petty. That seems like a drop-off in Halftime show entertainment. |
| 8:44
| Steve felt bad for Favre because it was too cold to cry. He did throw that interception though and he knew he did that. It was a bad throw he made anyway. |
| 8:45
| It's a little unfortunate that the whole game was dominated by the weather. It seems like we're deciding who gets into the Super Bowl based on who's fingers responded to the cold. |
| 8:46
| Stop whining Pat! Steve has another question. Do they wheel the grass out of the stadium in Arizona so it can get sun and then roll it back in? They'll probably show that on Super Bowl Sunday. That's awesome. |
| 8:47
| With 7 hours of Super Bowl pre-game they can probably show you the entire process of putting the grass back into the stadium. |
| 9:00
| The Patriots are 13-14 point favorites for the Super Bowl and Pat will be there covering it. He'll call in with some local flavor. |
| 9:01
| The Bulls lost Friday but won on Saturday, beating Detroit. Just like the Hawks they seem to have Detroit's number. |
| 9:02
| The Bulls are in Memphis today and they're playing in the afternoon because it's MLK day. That was King's dream, basketball in the afternoon. |
| 9:03
| The Blackhawks beat Phoenix on Saturday night in a shoot-out, they've won 4 in a row. The shoot-out is really cool, it's something they've added in the last few years. |
| 9:04
| The shoot-out just makes things more exciting. There's nothing worse than paying to go to a game and then leaving without a winner. |
| 9:05
| Pat did go to the Cubs Convention over the weekend, fans are even more jazzed up than normal. That's probably because they got Fukudome. |
| 9:06
| It's amazing to see how much the Cubs Convention has grown since it started. It's sold out every year now, as is the Sox Convention. Of course they just copied the Cubs. |
| 9:07
| The Hawks will be having their own convention sometime in July. So it'll be really warm by that time and people will be thinking about hockey. |
| 9:08
| Steve likes winter because without it, there'd be no hockey. WIthout winter hockey doesn't have a rink?! |
| 9:09
| Buzz is wondering if Pat saw the fight on Saturday. Did Golatta hit his opponent below the belt? |
| 9:10
| If Buzz likes boxing he needs to get out to a Hawks game. Steve will take him but it'll have to be a Friday game right? |
| 9:11
| Buzz is going to come to Radio Icon night right? Buzz didn't know Steve was doing that. Mike North already had his game, even though he ripped Bill Wirtz more than anyone after he died. |
| 9:12
| That was all smoothed over, like a Zamboni over ice. Steve has the whole schedule for Radio Icon night. He picked the Ducks because that last game against them was exciting. |
| 9:13
| It doesn't seem like the Ducks will be good because they're called the Ducks but they're big and scary. |
| 9:15
| Mike North night already happened and Steve was there. He'll be at all the games since he has season tickets. |
| 9:16
| Eddie and Jobo Night is February 20th. Will they both get extra small hockey jerseys for their puck drop? |
| 9:17
| Eric and Kathy Night is February 27th and Steve's night is March 5th. He's already invited Todd Cavanah to come to the game though. |
| 9:18
| Buzz will probably want to leave early anyway, plus he'll need a ride home. Steve and Buzz should go to a game though, Buzz will love the bratwursts. |
| 9:19
| Steve does feel that the United Center needs to change the bun for the bratwurst. Now it's more of a roll for Italian beef. He's tried to write his suggestions on a comment card but he can't find out where to put it. |
| 9:28
| Live read: The Little Guys |
| 9:29
| Steve's now on The Fresh Diet which is the company that purchased Balance for Life from Troy. |
| 9:30
| That all happened right when Steve switched to mornings so he was rudderless without it. |
| 9:31
| The food is really good, it comes in a nice package and it has the menu right on the side. The portions are a little smaller though. |
| 9:32
| There's a chance Troy wasn't paying attention at the end and might have been including more food in each portion. There was a time when there was too much food and Steve couldn't eat any more. |
| 9:33
| The customer service has been great though. For dinner Steve's having a tortilla wrap. |
| 9:34
| Steve accused Stephanie of signing him up for the women's diet which is only 1500 calories. |
| 9:35
| Steve likes the cooler that it comes in, all the foods and snacks fit perfectly in there. What Steve was eating before wouldn't fit in this cooler. |
| 9:36
| So Steve did not have a breakfast burrito today, that's probably 2,000 calories alone. Buzz was surprised that Steve was popping one of those everyday. |
| 9:37
| Steve was rudderless without the diet, plus he's been working out harder than he's ever worked out and was still gaining weight. |
| 9:38
| Fresh Diet isn't an advertiser but a delivery driver for them called in last week and gave it a ringing endorsement. |
| 9:39
| The delivery guy said that the food is even better but people have been complaining about the new cookies. Turns out they used to just buy the cookies from someone else. |
| 9:40
| Everyone out the hall was laughing at the one stuffed mushroom cap and the small quesadilla that Steve had today though. That didn't seem right. |
| 9:41
| The quesadilla does look small but it could just be because Steve's used to eating so much more. |
| 9:42
| He really likes the cooler though because it looks like it came from Peapod. Steve saw the Smithe Brothers on a Peapod commercial the other day which was bizarre. |
| 9:43
| Steve couldn't figure out the tie-in, except that the Peapod guys are making their own commercial. Maybe they're brothers? |
| 9:44
| Steve hasn't ordered Peapod since that female delivery driver refused to bring the food into his house. They even show the driver bringing food into your house in the commercial but she said she wasn't required to do it. |
| 9:45
| Caller John saw the commercial and the Peapod guys are brothers as well. The Smithe Brothers said they need to wear suits so they came back out in foam food suits. |
| 9:46
| You can see how Steve thought this was a hallucination. John couldn't even tell what kind of food it was though. |
| 9:47
| John won a gift certificate to Whirlyball. If he ever decides to get a team together Ed Silha could be a ringer. He's quite good as it turns out. |
| 9:54
| That's the Peapod commercial right there with the brothers sitting across the table form the Smithe Brothers. |
| 9:55
| The Smithe Brothers are in suits and the Peapod guys are in business casual clothing. Then they come back out dressed as peapods. |
| 9:56
| That's a wacky commercial, it has the feeling of the same agency that only deals with brothers. |
| 9:57
| It must be working because the Smithe Brothers are opening up a new store everyday. Peapod is a great service but Steve still hasn't been apologized to for the Threshold Incident. |
| 9:58
| Anything else we need to know Buzz? There was a plane crash in California, two small planes collided. |
| 9:59
| According to the Daily Mail, today is the most depressing day of the year. That's based on an equation that takes into account holiday debt, broken New Year's resolutions and the weather. |
