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| 5:31
| It's a nice day for a white wedding, not that Steve has to tell Buzz that. No one likes a wedding, or Billy Idol, more than Buzz. He likes the sneer, he likes the bleached hair, he likes all of it. |
| 5:32
| Steve met Billy Idol once, he interviewed him. He seemed to have a bit of a runny nose although Steve might have had one as well. The the good thing about a sneer is that if you have a runny nose it goes right into the sneer and then you can uptake it. You want to get it off the face. |
| 5:33
| Of course this is the part where Steve tells everyone about the song that just played. He's hoping to become the next Casey Kasem. |
| 5:34
| White Wedding was from 1982's self-titled Billy Idol. According to The Big 80's episode one on VH1, Idol claims the song was written to show his displeasure with his sister's fiance. Imagine having him as your brother-in-law. You know you could probably take him too but you can't. |
| 5:35
| The video features Idol's then-girlfriend as the bride. In a memorable scene Idol forces the ring on the bride's finger, cutting her knuckle. That's so deep and symbolic. |
| 5:36
| The song was used in the movie The Wedding Singer. After Sandler's character is dumped at the altar he tells some friends to "turn this crap off". Idol later appears in the movie and helps get Sandler and Drew Barrymore's characters together. |
| 5:37
| The song was recorded by Herman's Hermits on a 2002 album When Pigs Fly: Songs You Never Thought You'd Hear. This seems like an album Steve should have. |
| 5:38
| What are the odds that Steve could find Herman Hermit's cover this quickly and then play it. |
| 5:39
| Standby for a double clearing Buzz. Buzz doesn't have to clear his throat but Steve just wants him to know that all mics are off. |
| 5:40
| Also on When Pigs Fly, Jackie Chan and Ani DiFranco and Jackie Chan singing Unforgettable. That's the one Natalie Cole sang with her dead father right? |
| 5:41
| Unfortunately the sample never gets to the part where Jackie Chan sings. He'll have to buy that one. How about Devo doing Ohio? |
| 5:42
| Call Me by the Box Tops doesn't seem that weird. How about Shock the Monkey by Don Ho? |
| 5:43
| As it turns out, we have this album in our archives. So Steve will be able to play the entire Unforgettable, or at least up to the Jackie Chan part. |
| 5:44
| Until then, how about Carry On My Wayward Son by The Oak Ridge Boys. Steve really hates The Oak Ridge Boys. He hates their sound, he hates their look. For a time they always sang the National Anthem at important Sox games, like opening day. It's The Oak Ridge Boys! That's insulting! |
| 5:45
| How about Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap by Lesley Gore? It's my party and I'll puke if I want to, puke if I want to. And now Ani DiFranco and Jackie Chan singing Unforgettable. |
| 5:46
| Hey Jackie, no MSG on that! It wasn't as funny as it could have been. He really dialed down the accent. It would have been better if he Jerry Lewised it a little bit. |
| 5:52
| It's time for the Dahl.com web poll. Every day during the show you can go vote on the web poll in the web poll pod, if Steve can use the Dahl.com parlance. If Buzz ever has a website he should feel free to use that parlance as well. |
| 5:53
| On Friday 50% of the people who voted said they'd eat breakfast pizza. Steve wouldn't eat it. Breakfast burrito, yes, but he's not ready to make the jump to pizza. |
| 5:54
| Steve also got a recipe for breakfast pizza from a listener. It included ranch dressing which made Steve dry heave. Breakfast calzone? Yes. Steve needs his breakfast foods a little more self-contained. |
| 5:55
| If Steve doesn't remember to give the results of the poll after 9 am today, or towards the end of the show, someone should come in and hit him in the head with a bat. |
| 5:56
| Today's question "did you know that the Miss America pageant was this past Saturday?" Steve didn't know but he understands it was very free-wheeling. He could have used something to watch. |
| 5:57
| Apparently they've thrown out a lot of the rules to make it more interesting. They could wear what they want, say what they want and someone might have even had sex on stage. |
| 5:58
| Steve is embarrassed to say that he watched Benny & Joon which he actually liked. Although if someone like Johnny Depp walked around acting like Buster Keaton he'd get the crap beaten out of him everyday. |
| 5:59
| It also featured that Proclaimers song, is it called 1000 Miles? Pete sings a few lines, he thinks it's called 500 Miles. Would Pete like to sing some of the song with Steve? |
| 6:00
| Kirsten Haglund, Miss Michigan, won the Miss America pageant on Saturday. Buzz is so proud since he was born in Michigan. His mom got them out of there when he was 3 months old. |
| 6:01
| Haglund grew up in a pageant family, as did Steve and Buzz. Her platform will be to bring attention to eating disorders. |
| 6:02
| The crowning took place at the Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino. It aired on TLC and capped a four-week reality series Miss America: Reality Check. How did Steve not know about this? They had to make a change now that they're competing with Miss Universe, the slutty pageant. |
| 6:03
| The usually tame pageant featured contestants mostly in black bikinis, some striking provocative poses. One contestant, who served as an Army medic in Afghanistan, did 10 push ups on stage. How did Steve and Buzz miss this?! |
| 6:04
| Contestants were asked about binge drinking, HIV, and Jamie Lynn Spears pregnancy during the question and answer section of the event. All pressing issues for sure. |
| 6:05
| Entertainment Tonight reporter Mark Steines was the MC of the show. Is that the guy who used to be in Sugar Ray? Pete says that's Mark McGrath. He does have an entertainment show though right? |
| 6:06
| Steve gets all those shows confused. There are so many of them and they're all on at 6:30 which is when Steve switches over to King of Queens. There's always so much information on those shows. It seems like you've seen everything but you've only been watching for 5 minutes. |
| 6:07
| The pageant, plus the reality TV show, will be rerun on Sunday which is also Super Bowl Sunday. Steve will have to TiVo that. |
| 6:08
| Caller Kevin is on his way into work. Steve got up to 104 on his way in today. He had to get by one of those guys who was doing all the crazy driving in the left lane even though he was getting off at the next exit. |
| 6:09
| Steve wanted to get off at that exit and follow the guy but he didn't have the time. |
| 6:10
| Kevin tuned into the pageant just in time for the talent contest, it was fantastic. Steve's TiVoing it. He was looking for something to watch on Saturday. He ended up watching Benny and Joon, which he liked, and All the Pretty Horses. |
| 6:11
| That one got some bad reviews but Steve actually liked it. It was written by that Cormac McCarthy guy who also wrote No Country for Old Men. Plus it's directed by Billy Bob Thornton. |
| 6:12
| Steve's on a Billy Bob Thornton tear lately, he just watched Mr. Woodcock. Buzz is recommending One False Move, it was Billy Bob's breakthrough role. |
| 6:13
| Steve's thinking of reinstating his Netflix account now that he has his afternoons free. If anyone cares. He doesn't want to go to Blockbuster and deal with that. |
| 6:14
| Steve's never seen Brokeback Mountain but there was a point in All the Pretty Horses where Henry Thomas, who's quite handsome, said "I never quit you" to Matt Damon |
| 6:15
| Song: I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles), The Proclaimers |
| 6:19
| That's some wake-up music, from Benny and Joon. Steve had never seen it but he liked it. |
| 6:20
| One False Move was co-written by Billy Bob Thornton and also featured Bill Paxton. Gene Siskel said it was his favorite movie of 1992. |
| 6:21
| Steve used to get Netflix but his email seems to have been purged. Steve's pretty sure his children abused his account. How hard is it to watch the movie, put it back in the envelope and send it in?! Really! How hard is it? Even today Steve will go through media drawers at home and find old Netflix envelopes. C'mon! He used to get phone calls from the Blockbuster in Champaign because Mike hadn't returned something. |
| 6:22
| Steve's going to get One False Move as soon as he's set up on Netflix. It's hardcore but is it bloody hardcore? Steve doesn't really like that. He tried to watch Eastern Promises but it started with a throat slitting. Can't they just show the guy walking into the barbershop with a razor and maybe a little blood? Steve doesn't need to see the gaping wound. |
| 6:30
| Steve has seen One False Move and he liked it but he's going to see it again. He didn't know enough about Billy Bob Thornton when he first saw it though. |
| 6:31
| Steve has rejoined Netflix but he had some tough choices to make. For starters, which plan should he join? Where he's run amok before is having too many movies available to him all at once. |
| 6:32
| Steve went with two movies at a time, that way he can have one coming and going all the time. Buzz would want more at once because often times he'll stop watching a movie after 10 minutes. Steve keeps watching if he doesn't like something but he thinks he'll learn something about the creative process. |
| 6:33
| There's a video preview of the movie on Netflix, would they include profanity? Steve has the dump button but the last time he hit it the lights didn't go on. Usually the lights go on indicating something has been dumped. |
| 6:34
| Steve's going to put this movie on his queue, will they just send it to him? What does "order your queue" mean? How can Steve not understand this, it was just explained to him on The Office. |
| 6:35
| Steve calls down to the weather center, does Jim know how to work the queue? Steve only wants one movie at a time, he wants one to be coming or going at all times. |
| 6:36
| Ordering your queue just means to put movies in order of preference. Steve only has one movie on his queue though. Steve gets into problems when he has more than one movie because he'll lose the other one. |
| 6:37
| What other movie should Steve put on his queue then? |
| 6:38
| Caller Matt is reminding Steve about the HD rentals on iTunes. They don't have that many movies yet so probably no One False Move. |
| 6:39
| They have that Apple TV thing but Steve's not going to go through all that. Then he has to buy something else and figure out how to install it. DVDs are the way to go. |
| 6:40
| Matt is traveling this weekend so he's going to rent a few for the trip. They're going to Oklahoma City so it won't be too exciting. Matt's song is a BMX racer so that's why he's going there. Maybe they have a movie about BMX racing? |
| 6:41
| Steve saw something on NBC yesterday, as they were trying to fill Sunday up with something. If the NHL was smart they would have put their All-Star game on a main network in the afternoon. Instead it was on at night on Vs. |
| 6:42
| Steve watched some special about a stupid dirt bike race that took 18 hours. It didn't seem like a real sport but they were passing it off as one. |
| 6:43
| Caller Rich lives in Twin Lakes, Wisconsin. Steve used to do shows up there, Buzz did too. There was a club in between the two lakes and back in the day you only had to be 18 to drink. |
| 6:44
| Rich wishes he would have been around to see Steve play. They worked the border towns a lot because of the younger drinking age. It was one of those places where you were on a riser that wasn't too high off the ground but your head touched the drop ceiling. It wasn't a place designed for performances. |
| 6:45
| They did have them though and it was exciting and good money. It was a long time ago though. The place probably isn't there any more. Steve doesn't remember the town though. He remembers it being pleasant when he'd go up for the "sound check" |
| 6:46
| Rich was calling to recommend Mel Gibson's Apocalypto. Mel's not in it and there are subtitles. Is it bloody? Steve really prefers a good comedy. |
| 6:47 | Caller Jim was just in Twin Lakes, after coming back from skiing, and that bar in between the lakes is no longer there. |
| 6:48
| It was the Edgewater Ballroom and now it's a bunch of condos. Steve's head still hit the ceiling even though it was a ballroom. |
| 6:55
| Steve's not sure about that Apocalypto. Buzz enjoyed it, Mel Gibson is a good filmmaker. |
| 6:56
| It took Buzz a long time to actually watch it because he didn't want to deal with the subtitles. Reading is for losers. |
| 6:57
| Steve watched some of the Screen Actors Guild awards last night. He's in the guild but he wasn't invited. |
| 6:58
| And Steve just had a pivotal roll in Someone to Eat Cheese With. He doesn't read any of the mail he gets from them, maybe he missed his invite. |
| 6:59
| He probably didn't get invited, they won't even send him screeners of movies. You have to be in SAG even if you're doing a favor for Jeff Garlin. Steve filmed a part for Let's Go to Prison but it was cut from the movie. |
| 7:00
| Steve also filmed a scene for Outing Riley but he's not sure that even came out in theaters. According to Brendan Outing Riley is on cable, he saw it on the gay channel as he was flipping through the cable guide the other day. |
| 7:01
| What was Brendan doing watching that channel? The movie is on Netflix, Steve has just added it to his queue. He's mentioned in the cast list. |
| 7:02
| News with Buzz |
| 7:03
| Good news for John McCain, he just pulled ahead of Mitt Romney in the latest polls. He's also gotten the endorsement of Florida's governor. |
| 7:04
| That Mitt Romney reminds Steve of J. Peterman. Buzz liked Peterman but he wouldn't want him as President. |
| 7:05
| Ted Kennedy will endorse Barack Obama. Does that matter any more? It does within the party. Caroline Kennedy also endorsed him. People pronounce it "Carolyn" but it's Caroline. As in Sweet Caroline. Steve's pretty sure that song was written about her, but not in a creepy way. |
| 7:06
| No Country for Old Men and The Sopranos were big winners at the SAG awards last night. How is The Sopranos still winning awards, it hasn't bee on in two years. Daniel Day Lewis and Julie Christie were also winners. Julie Christie is still hot. |
| 7:07
| Owen Wilson was spotted hanging around an LA headshop over the weekend. He was he looking for another bromance? |
| 7:08
| According to someone at the shop he purchased a $200 bong. You can still buy bongs out there? You can't buy them here. |
| 7:09
| Prescription pot is legal out there though. Pat Dahl actually got a prescription just to see if he could do it. And he got one for hypertension. |
| 7:10
| When Steve gets Outing Riley is Buzz going to want to see it? Because Steve ended up taking a role that was supposed to be Buzz's. |
| 7:11
| Buzz was too cheap to rejoin SAG so he couldn't be in it. Then he had to rejoin anyway to be in a Jonathan Demme movie. |
| 7:12
| Buzz and Wendy Snyder ended up in a bar scene in Outing Riley but their lines were dubbed in by other people. |
| 7:13
| Buzz also did some voiceover work for the trailer of Tapioca, a local movie with Ben Vereen. |
| 7:14
| Does Buzz swear in this trailer? You never know with him. You can't hear a word of this thing, the audio is out of phase. |
| 7:15
| Buzz feels the poor quality of this trailer is sullying his reputation has a voiceover actor. This is probably why he's not getting any more work. |
| 7:23
| Steve tried to play Buzz's voiceover from the Tapioca trailer but he couldn't understand anything. He might want to talk to the guy who runs that website, it's out of phase. |
| 7:24
| Steve just wanted to highlight Buzz's film work since he took his part in Outing Riley, which Brendan happened upon "accidentally" over the weekend. |
| 7:25
| While searching for Tapioca Steve can across Topless Tapioca Wrestling which is a DVD. Steve probably can't get that one on Netflix. They don't have porn right? |
| 7:26
| Steve doesn't really need porn in the afternoon. Is that what he really wants to be doing? He can see now, getting off at 10 am, why he became a drinker. |
| 7:27
| Back in the day, especially when they were doing shows at the Carnegie Theater, it seemed like the party should just keep going. Steve's tried to supplant that with working out everyday. |
| 7:28
| Buzz's afternoon is slowly shaping up. It includes about an hour and a half or two hours of TV watching, starting around 1 pm. Steve watches TV all afternoon. Eventually he's watching the news starts at 4 pm. |
| 7:29
| Speaking of news did Buzz see the Drew Peterson interview on Fox over the weekend? |
| 7:30
| Ed Silha (S-I-L-H-A, party of one) is saying that Adult DVD Empire is the Netflix of porn. Does Steve want to get involved with that? The next step seems like having a drink. |
| 7:31
| Now that Steve thinks about it ending the show at 7 pm and not having to work until 2 pm the next day is just as bad. But there's no bar in this building. At the Hancock the loser bar was right in the basement. |
| 7:32
| Steve gets the concept of Topless Tapioca Wrestling, he probably doesn't need to see more than 2 minutes. Buzz thought Steve was talking about Tapioca. That just seems like a bad independent movie about some homeless guy. |
| 7:33
| Steve will try to play the trailer one more time. Buzz's "in a world" kills. He's the next Don LaFontaine. It still doesn't sound good. Plus Buzz thinks his work has been cut up. It's just like when he was mixed down on that Blue Monday. |
| 7:34
| Don LaFontaine is in a Geico commercial. Steve never knew they were owned by that Warren Buffett guy. |
| 7:35
| Don LaFontaine has a website with a lot of his work on it. Buzz is going to need his own website for starters. Maybe we should try to get LaFontaine on the show to give Buzz some pointers. There's no reason he couldn't do voiceover work. He's the local "in a world..." guy isn't he? |
| 7:36
| We should try to get the guy in then. He's pretty funny, Steve's heard him on other radio shows. He's got a good sense of humor about it but he also pulls down $5 million a year. |
| 7:37
| Brendan has got to try to do more with his voice. Can he give us an "in a world"? |
| 7:38
| Brendan took voice classes and then went to New York to nail his teacher. He went to go meet with her at least. Where's his demo? Didn't he do an "in a world" on there? |
| 7:39
| Brendan might have a demo back in his office, he might. He'll go look for it now. |
| 7:40
| Drew Peterson walked off an interview with Shepard Smith on Friday after the questioning turned to the blue barrel. There were reports on Friday that a woman's body had been found in a blue barrel on the Southside. |
| 7:41
| Turns out there was no blue barrel and it's not Stacy Peterson. Joel Brodsky guaranteed that it wasn't Stacy. |
| 7:42
| Drew was on Fox to talk about the Dating Game. It seemed like he just wanted to say mean stuff about Steve. He was also rocking a sweet Buzz Kilman beard. |
| 7:43
| People kept calling it a contest but it never was a contest. Every day there's an audio clip on the website and on that day Jim put one up from when Drew was on. Because of the photo he used it looked like an entry form, but it wasn't. |
| 7:44
| You'd think Jim would check with someone before he did it. But he just does what he does and then goes home. He's like a plow horse. So Steve had him take it down. |
| 7:45
| Last night on Breaking Bad they were looking for a blue barrel. Buzz finally saw the full episode, it was great. |
| 7:46
| Drew tried to steer the questions in the interview back to the contest but Shepard Smith said he'd never agreed to limiting anything. That's when Drew said "thank you Mr. Shepard" and walked out. Isn't it Mr. Smith? |
| 7:47
| Steve's going to take a break and then play the audio from the interview. Drew said some things that hurt his feelings. |
| 7:52
| Steve would like to play the Drew Peterson drop again just so Buzz can hear it. He's standing outside the studio and won't come back in until it's done. |
| 7:53
| So there's Drew, standing in front of the pad in B-brook, sporting the Buzz Kilman beard. |
| 7:54
| Steve has learned that there's no way to fast-forward through the commercials on these videos. It seems like there should be a way. |
| 7:55
| Steve accidentally clicked on the raw video feed which is just Drew's answer. So we could cut together out own video? It's just like Mancow. |
| 7:56
| Drew tells Shepard that Steve's been criticizing him for the last few months. It was creepy for Steve to hear his own name, he had to turn it off at that point. |
| 7:57
| It's not really criticism is it? They're trying to turn it around and make it seem like Drew is a victim of Steve. |
| 7:58
| Drew says he called the show to take some air out of Steve which is no small task. Is that because Steve is fat or because he has a lot of hot air? Steve took it to mean he's fat which hurt because he's been working out. He'll challenge Drew to a Pilates duel downtown, any time and print it! |
| 7:59
| Then Drew says he could hear Steve and Buzz wetting themselves when he called. How does Buzz feel about that? Buzz is waiting to hear about what they were wetting themselves over. Steve can't rewind, he has to go all the way back to the beginning. |
| 8:00
| Now that Buzz hears it all the way through he disagrees with it. Steve will give them "frazzled" when he called in but not wetting themselves. |
| 8:01
| Shepard starts asking about the Stacy being missing and how the kids are handling it. They tell her she's on vacation. |
| 8:02
| Drew won't say where she is on vacation, that's personal. |
| 8:03
| Then Drew decides he's had enough of the interview and asked to be unhooked. They leave the audio on while they're unhooking him too. |
| 8:04
| Then Drew goes back to his house, camera still on him, and tries to get in through the garage door. Why did he do that, it just took longer. |
| 8:05
| Steve likes the hoody look that Drew is sporting though. You can't tell at first that it's an Old Navy hoodie. |
| 8:06
| Peanut Butter is on the phone. Steve requested a hot mix of the Peanut Butter Jelly song from Todd Cavanah. So be looking for that this week. |
| 8:07
| Pat just likes following Drew. Is he going to walk off if Steve asks him about something he doesn't want to talk about. He never agreed to talk about NHL hockey! |
| 8:08
| So the Bulls played yesterday but the game was blacked out because it was supposed to be a national game. What did Comcast air instead, girl's high school lacrosse or something? |
| 8:09
| The Bulls had a rough weekend, they're now 9 games under .500. But they're still 1 game out of playoff contention. They need to re-examine the playoff system. |
| 8:10
| Then Reinsdorf did an interview with Rich King and now it's starting to come out that Skiles came to them and said they needed to make a change. He also said they need a new voice. |
| 8:11
| Then he later clarified and said that Skiles told him they "might need a new voice". That totally changes things doesn't it? |
| 8:12
| Buzz is surprised that Skiles would say that if it's true. It doesn't seem like he'd admit that he'd lost control of the team. Turns out Skiles was keeping a lid on things on that team. |
| 8:13
| There also might have been some problems between Paxson and Skiles in terms of who should be playing. |
| 8:14
| SoxFest wrapped up last night. Steve didn't think the fans were that hard on Kenny Williams. Things actually got pretty rough for Kenny on Friday night. |
| 8:15
| Steve saw something on the news on Friday where they said they let him off easy and didn't really take him to task. Although Jermaine Dye had to step up and defend him and he never says anything. |
| 8:16
| Farmio had to step in and quell the crowd a little bit. They basically said that what Torii Hunter got was a ridiculous amount. |
| 8:17
| The other issue was third base. They basically said that either Crede or Josh Fields wouldn't be with the team when the season started. |
| 8:18
| Can Steve interrupt the sports for the Eight O'Clock Taco Bell? On the phone is Tom Hermanson, manager at the Taco Bell/Long John Silvers in Fox Lake. |
| 8:19
| Tom's Taco Bell is open at 9 am so people in Fox Lake will be able to get a taco shortly. |
| 8:25
| Pat Boyle, Peanut Butter, is on the phone. Pat signs all his emails PB which means peanut butter in Steve's world. Pat's a little nutty but he's also smooth and creamy, at least that's what Buzz says. |
| 8:26
| Live read: Townstone Financial |
| 8:27
| Live read: Woodfield Nissan |
| 8:28
| The first 15 minutes of Kenny Williams fan fest Q & A were spent in an exchange between two fans and Ed Farmer. |
| 8:29
| It had the feel of Morton Downey Jr.'s talk show. Ed sort of has a Morton Downey Jr. feel to him, he sort of looks like him. |
| 8:30
| Steve doesn't know where he heard that it was a love fest on Friday. He thought everything was fine after he heard that and then he started focusing on the body they found. |
| 8:31
| Steve almost went over there because it's pretty close to his house. He doesn't have a press pass but he was going to bring Natalie Martinez some cocoa. |
| 8:32
| On Thursday after the show Natalie was waiting in the lobby for Steve all morning to interview him. |
| 8:33
| Emailer Joe sent Steve and email Friday suggesting a disguise Steve could have warn to evade Natalie, a bandana and sunglasses. The Drew look. |
| 8:34
| Steve was supposed to workout on that day and he never wants to do that. But with Natalie Martinez there he had an excuse not to. |
| 8:35
| Of course he could have gone through the freight elevator, down to the lower lobby and then to the Aon Building. |
| 8:36
| Steve did shovel snow that night so he had a workout. He always has an ambulance on standby for that, just in case. |
| 8:37
| So the Super Bowl is Sunday. Is Tom Brady the only thing they have to talk about? Pat doesn't get the big deal since Tom Brady has been on the injury report every week of this season and the last 2 before that. |
| 8:38
| He didn't practice last week but he doesn't need to practice. He's Tom Brady. It doesn't seem like he should have to exit the plane at the back either. |
| 8:39
| Steve knows it looks cool for them to exit the plane on the jetway but it seems dangerous to have them going down those stairs. |
| 8:40
| The Patriots arrived in Arizona last night. Do they get to the crummy hotel or do the Giants? Because last year the Bears had the crummy airport hotel. |
| 8:41
| That was by choice according to the team. One of the problems that Super Bowl teams have is keeping their players away from a lot of those distractions. |
| 8:42
| It didn't seem to be a problem for the Colts but they have cheerleaders so maybe they don't have to worry about distractions. The Bears need to get cheerleaders, Steve can't take he middle aged drum corps any more. |
| 8:43
| Steve's hosting the Comcast Sports Awards for the March of Dimes charity. He and Pat have to work out a routine. |
| 8:44
| Song: Hey Jealousy, Gin Blossoms |
| 8:47
| That's the Gin Blossoms, they're from out in Arizona. The lead singer killed himself. |
| 8:48
| The Giants are staying at the Sheraton Wild Horse Pass Resort. It doesn't look that bad. Actually it might be nicer than the Patriots hotel. |
| 8:49
| Steve was at the Bears hotel, it wasn't bad but it was near the airport. It seems like you're better off being on the beach. That way you can take walks on the beach with your baby mama. |
| 8:55
| Steve was wrong about the Gin Blossoms, that guy's not dead. They were formed in Tempe, Arizona in 1987 and took their name from a photo of W.C. Fields with the caption "W.C. Fields with gin blossoms". |
| 8:56
| They had several hits in the mid 90's and broke up in 1997. They reunited in 2002, released a DVD and started touring again. |
| 8:57
| The replaced someone in the band but no one died. That's good for Steve because he likes them, although he didn't know about their latest album. |
| 8:58
| Steve's on the website for the Sheraton Wild Horse Pass Resort, it has some nice soothing music. This is the kind of stuff Buzz's wife plays during a massage. |
| 8:59
| Caller Dave wanted to let Steve know that Doug Hopkins, of the Gin Blossoms, did commit suicide. He was the lead guitarist and the main songwriter. |
| 9:00
| Hopkins suffered from chronic depression and battled alcoholism. When the band was recording it's debut album, New Miserable Experience, it was reported that Hopkins couldn't stand during recording sessions. |
| 9:01
| Steve was reading the wrong part of the Gin Blossoms' Wikipedia entry. Everything he was reading was after his death. |
| 9:02
| Dave's sorry to be the bearer of bad news though. Steve would rather be set straight. He doesn't want to find out he was wrong after the show. |
| 9:03
| Buzz is wondering how he killed himself. That seems like something for the news department to look into. |
| 9:04
| Caller John wanted to let Steve know that Hopkins killed himself with a shotgun to the temple, in Tempe. |
| 9:05
| That's pretty hard to do, to the temple. It requires really long arms or very facile toes. Was that before or after Cobain? Chris though it was after so it's a copycat. |
| 9:06
| Brendan informs Steve that Cobain killed himself after Hopkins, not before. Steve needs to invent a long-barreled shotgun for rock stars to kill themselves. Maybe a pedal at the end of the barrel. |
| 9:07
| Steve never really wanted to know this much about the Gin Blossoms but he has one more thing. From the Arizona Republic, Hopkins killed himself with a .38 caliber pistol in his mouth. |
| 9:08
| Steve couldn't have been more wrong about that all the way along and he apologizes. He's not going to make it as the next Casey Kasem if he doesn't know more about the music. |
| 9:09
| News with Buzz |
| 9:10
| President Bush will make his final State of the Union address tonight. It bugs Steve that there's a rebuttal from the other part after the State of the Union. |
| 9:11
| He doesn't care who the President is but it doesn't seem right to have a rebuttal. It's in the Constitution that the President gets to give the State of the Union, that's one of the perks. This rebuttal is political correctness run amok. |
| 9:12
| If you want to rebut the State of the Union do it at a bar or on cable. Otherwise get back to normal programming. |
| 9:13
| Rudy Giuliani says he's going to win tomorrow's primary in Florida, despite his plunging numbers in the polls. |
| 9:14
| Gordon Hinckley, head of the Mormon church, has passed away at age 97. |
| 9:15
| For the second time a church in Humboldt Park will give asylum to an illegal immigrant. |
| 9:16
| O'Hare is now the number 1 airport in the country for flight cancellations. Alright! |
| 9:17
| Two grade school boys in Chesterton, Indiana, mimicking a scene from A Christmas Story ended up with their tongues stuck to a metal flag pole. |
| 9:25
| Live read: Woodfield Nissan |
| 9:26
| That Rudy Giuliani stuff during the news reminded Steve that he has info about the cars of candidates. It seems like a good way to help people decide who to vote for. |
| 9:27
| Mike Huckabee wants the government to increase the miles per gallon standard for cars but he drives a Tahoe. |
| 9:28
| Romney opposes that. He drives a 2005 Mustang convertible and a Chevy pick-up. His wife drives a Cadillac crossover. |
| 9:30
| Steve doesn't know what a crossover vehicle is. It's like a sedan and an SUV. Is that like an Escalade? |
| 9:31
| You can't really fault him, he isn't pushing the fuel efficiency stuff. John McCain favors increased fuel efficiency standards and he thinks the electric car would sell like hot cakes. |
| 9:32
| McCain's wife drives a Lexus but his daughter does drive a Prius. McCain drives a sedan. Sounds better than Huckabee at least. |
| 9:33
| Rudy Giuliani doesn't drive. Never trust a guy who doesn't drive a car, like our own Pete Zimmerman. |
| 9:34
| Barack Obama who assaulted the auto industry for not investing more in alternative fuels but has a Chrysler 300 C in his garage. That's exactly what he was warning against. |
| 9:35
| After that was exposed he got a more PC Ford Escape Hybrid. Of course all of these people just want to get in the White House and then they'll make the changes they think they should make. But they'll probably get shot down because they don't have a mandate. |
| 9:36
| One of Buzz's friends has a Hybrid and he loves it. Buzz didn't think it would be that powerful though. Matt Dahl has one and he said it performs better. |
| 9:37
| It's interesting that Giuliani doesn't have a car. What kind of person doesn't have a car? Of course you don't really need one in New York. |
| 9:38
| Pete's thinking of getting a car, some sort of hybrid. He should go to Woodfield Nissan, that guy is a huge fan of the show. |
| 9:39
| Parking doesn't come with Pete's place but on street isn't an issue. Ed Silha doesn't have a car either but he also lives downtown. |
| 9:40
| Pete is inconveniently located in Rogers Park. He always needs to be picked up and he lives completely out of the way from everyone. If you need Ed to come out to your house he rents a car. |
| 9:41
| Steve has noticed on the WBBM-AM traffic lately that they're referencing the Jane Adams. He doesn't know what it is though. Is that the part of 90 that goes out to Rockford? |
| 9:42
| They might say the Jane Adams Tollway so Steve's assuming it's 90. He's not aware of any other expressways named after women but it's high time. Steve knows Adams did a lot of good things but she has a lot of stuff named after her downtown. |
| 9:43
| How about the Marilyn Monroe? And that would intersect with the Kennedy, just like in real life. |
| 9:48
| Caller Heidi is on her way to work, she's about to get on the Jane Adams. It's I-90 but it stops at 31. When did they change the name of it? |
| 9:49
| They changed it some time in the fall but seems to have just slipped it in there. It used to be called the Northwest Tollway. |
| 9:50
| Buzz is seeing on Mark's page that tollway officials approved the name change on Friday. Where is he seeing that? |
| 9:51
| The article Mark posted is from September. Steve saw that but he just wanted to let Buzz go. |
| 9:52
| Heidi wanted to say that she loves Steve and Buzz in the mornings. She's still trying to figure out what to do in the afternoons but that's not Steve's problem. |
| 9:53
| Steve suggests Jack in the afternoons. Heidi did move it up in her station presets. Is there any music she really likes or doesn't like? |
| 9:54
| Heidi thought Jack doesn't care but Steve knows he cares. He meets with him everyday, he cares. |
| 9:55
| OK, time for today's web poll results, the question was "did you know the Miss America pageant was held this past Saturday. 53.74% of the people said no while 46.26 said yes. |
| 9:56
| Tyrone's checking in with some traffic. Tyrone is doin' good, high in the sky. He heard Buzz talking about the Jane Addams, someone could have aksed him since he's the traffic reporter. |
| 9:57
| Buzz blames Steve, he didn't want to ask Tyrone. That's because Steve's a white devil. |
| 9:58
| As it happens there's an accident on the Jane Adams, westbound near Barrington Road. |
| 9:59
| Tyrone was at the ribbon cutting for the Jane Adams last fall. He cut the ribbon with his rotor blade then he went up to the tollway oasis and got himself an Auntie's Anne's pretzel. |
| 10:00
| We have George Ryan to thank for those tollway oases and he's in jail. He put pretzels on the tollway and we put him in jail. |
