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| 5:31
| That would be your Cars there. Buzz loves The Cars and the nightlife, let's go. Steve doesn't have to tell Buzz this because he is also a DJ/newsman/bluesman but Let's Go was the 1979 single by The Cars. |
| 5:32
| It was written by Ric Ocasek and produced by Roy Thomas Baker. Isn't he the guy in Walking Tall? That was Joe Don Baker. Look at Steve, right out of the box. Buzz loves when he goes filmic on him. |
| 5:33
| Cars bassist Ben Orr was on lead vocals for the song about a 17-year-old driving student and her budding interested in "the nightlife". What the hell kind of song is that? |
| 5:34
| The song is told from the perspective of a teenage boy who wants to ask her out. Many times Steve sits down to write a song and he has nothing. Maybe he needs to dial it down to completely stupid. How about a song about a milkman with an unrequited love for a housewife? |
| 5:35
| Steve did not catch any of that in that song. It was the opening track of the Cars' second album Candy-O. The song was a bigger success in Canada where they're stupider. |
| 5:36
| Steve's wandering into TMI territory with this one. The information Mark is pulling up keeps getting stupider. Mark is of course our information director. He runs a private blog with all this information. Most blogs are private but Steve knows for sure that at least he and Buzz read it. |
| 5:37
| That pages makes Steve and Buzz sound like they know what they're talking about. Buzz likes to attribute things to Mark but Steve doesn't like to. |
| 5:38
| Let's Go was also performed by The Chipmunks. Steve could probably recreate that for you, standby. It was a song on The Chipmunks' comeback album Chipmunk Punk. |
| 5:39
| The song's rhythm hook, just before "Let's go!" was also used in the John Fogerty song Centerfield. Ocasek is not credited on that song, nor should he be. That hook is just a clapping football cheer. |
| 5:40
| Many times Steve heard that on a Friday night when he was playing football as a kid. The cheerleaders they had couldn't have been more disinterested. They were girls from an all-girls private school but they all had boyfriends. |
| 5:41
| Steve's team was the Highlanders. At the time he didn't know what they were but as it turns out they're kind of badasses. Now that schools is the Rebels. |
| 5:42
| Steve has the lyrics for Let's Go which he'll perform as the Chipmunks. What does this have to do with driving school? |
| 5:43
| You can see why the Chipmunks album wasn't very popular. They're still around though. They had a movie out for about a week around Christmas. Buzz saw it. It was embarrassing for everyone involved. The kid liked it though. |
| 5:44
| Steve's a big fan of the original Chipmunks with Dave Seville. He likes to slow it down because you can hear Dave doing a three-part harmony. |
| 5:45
| Steve will try to come up with something. It seems like iTunes only has their Christmas music but maybe there's something about President's Day or even going back to Martin Luther King day. They do a great version of We Shall Overcome. |
| 5:51
| Steve has to say that the highlight of every afternoon for him is at 6:30 when he can watch King of Queens on The U. Buzz is pretty sure The U has gone high def. They have but King of Queens wasn't shot in HD. It still looks better though. |
| 5:52
| At 4 pm Steve watches the channel 7 news. He also watches the 4:30 news which is basically the same as the one at 4. Then he watches the 5 pm news with Alan Krashesky and Linda Yu. It makes him really hungry for Chinese and Polish food. |
| 5:53
| At 5 pm is Ron Magers and Cheryl Burton. Then he switches to the network news on NBC because Charles Gibson, on ABC, is a pompous ass. Steve likes Brian Williams and for some reason he's always expecting people to call him Bryant, like Bryant Gumbel. |
| 5:54
| Then Steve stays on NBC for 6 pm news which is now in HD. When they switch from network back to local there's a huge popping noise. There are a lot of technical difficulties on NBC since they switched to NBC. It's a fun ride though. |
| 5:55
| Yesterday they had Natalie Martinez out at Midway. It's funny because yesterday Steve was bragging about how there are never any major delays at Midway and then they canceled all flights. It looked like everyone at the airport had gone home and turned the lights off. |
| 5:56
| After Natalie's report they cut to pre-shot footage without any audio. It was just Natalie's mic, still on. Steve was waiting for her to swear but she didn't. |
| 5:57
| The 6 pm news on channel 5 ends early for some reason. They like to do that cheating thing where they try to get you to watch early. That's when Steve switches over to The U and catches the end of George Lopez. |
| 5:58
| Peggy Kusinski was filling in for someone at 6 pm and she did a story about Michael Vick. He gets to keep his signing bonus from the Falcons. Then she clarified that it meant he doesn't have to give it back to the team? Really?! |
| 5:59
| Last night on King of Queens Doug lost a bunch of weight and all the women thought he was hot. They went to a resort that Doug thought they'd been to but it was actually with another woman. |
| 6:00
| As promised, Steve downloaded some Chipmunks music. He's already spent $2 on the show, what has Buzz done?! |
| 6:01
| The first thing Steve downloaded is a Chipmunks hip-hop song, which he doesn't need. He assumes they don't swear. |
| 6:02
| You can hear Dave Seville sing each part if you slow the song down. Buzz is wondering if there's a way to compare each distinct Chipmunk voice. |
| 6:03
| Steve never met Dave Seville but he met his son. Dave's real name was Ross Bagdasarian. Steve met his son which was good enough for him. The kid inherited the entire Chipmunks empire, how great of a thing is that to give to your kid? |
| 6:04
| Steve's got some Alvin for President stuff on iTunes. Dave had to speak really slowly when he was doing the Chipmunk voices. This one has different chipmunks coming in too. |
| 6:05
| There you go, three part harmonies. This is some crazy stuff. Buzz is surprised he was able to maintain sanity for so many years. |
| 6:06
| Imagine if you're just tuning into the show right now. What the hell?! |
| 6:07
| See? Pretty cool. And back in the day he was doing it with an old school tape recorder. You can do it all electronically these days. |
| 6:08
| Were they chipmunks in the movie cartoons more more computer-animated? Buzz is pretty sure they were more like Pixar cartoons. They fooled him though. |
| 6:09
| There were a few funny bits involving the chipmunks in the movie. Steve saw the trailer and he didn't mind seeing it. |
| 6:10
| Ross Bagdasarian Sr. died when he was 52, sadly. Bagdasarian was in the musical Time of our Life, written by his famous cousin William Saroyan. |
| 6:11
| Bagdasarian later wrote the song Come on-a My House sung by Rosemary Clooney. She was like the first MILF. |
| 6:12
| Witch Doctor was Bagdasarian's first experiment with speeding up a song to get the comical, squeaky effect. That led him to record The Chipmunk Song. He won two Grammy's for that. |
| 6:13
| Caller Steve wanted to let Steve know that Come on-a My House is the theme song for Girls Next Door. |
| 6:14
| That's the show where Hugh Hefner pretends he's nailing 5 girls. Steve doesn't like that show. Hef can't even get his robe on these days. Those girls aren't that hot either. |
| 6:15
| All the shows on E! have too many commercials anyway. Steve has a problem with Playboy anyway. He's been here for 30 years, they're based here, and they've failed to do anything with him or recognize him. Steve likes nudity! |
| 6:16
| There might have been a photo shoot Steve and Garry went to but that's it. Do the girls on that show do stuff with each other because Steve would watch that. |
| 6:17
| Steve's never been invited to any other parties though. He couldn't even get into the Playboy party at the Super Bowl last year. |
| 6:18
| Steve has met Christy Hefner many times! He can see their building from here! Steve did end up getting a seemingly better invite to the Penthouse party but they didn't get into that either. |
| 6:19
| When they arrived it was just Brendan and David Hochberg leading them into a room with no exit. |
| 6:28
| That's NBC 5 having some audio problems. Bruce Wolf was on the air when he wasn't supposed to be, then Ginger Zee wasn't on the air when she was supposed to be. |
| 6:29
| All Bruce was doing was making fun of the misspellings in the graphics. They're lucky that's all he said. |
| 6:30
| Should Steve do the news now or the web poll, it's up to Buzz? Steve doesn't want to always do the web poll first while Buzz is sitting on the news. Buzz likes the web poll, let's do that. |
| 6:31
| Yesterday's web poll was "have you ever been offended by an advertisement in a retail store?" 90% said no, the question was related to photos in an Abercrombie & Fitch store. |
| 6:32
| Today's web poll question is "have you ever had insomnia?" Steve takes the Ambien, just call him Heath Ledger. If Steve's ever found dead, call the Olsen twins first. |
| 6:33
| He's not sure which Olsen twin, he can't tell the difference. Which one is crazier? Call that one. Or actually call both of them if possible. That way it'll look like Steve was doing both of them. |
| 6:34
| Steve has a new thing that he's doing which is booking flights. Steve used to be obsessed with collecting miles, now he's booking flights for himself using the miles. Last night he booked a flight to LA on two airlines. |
| 6:35
| Steve put the booking on hold at American but couldn't figure out how to do it on United so he just bought the ticket. Steve might go visit his parents, he hasn't been out there in 3 years. |
| 6:36
| This would be the perfect time for Steve to get invited to the Playboy mansion. |
| 6:37
| Steve can't stop booking flights with his miles. Then he tries to decide if he should buy coach and upgrade. He gets into a dither but luckily the Ambien kicks in. When he wakes up his computer is open and all these flights and rental cars are booked. |
| 6:38
| Steve was going to call customer service at United to figure out how to hold the ticket but he didn't want to get someone in India or Buzz. Last week Steve mentioned that people were outsourcing customer service and doing it from their homes. At least Steve would be able to understand Buzz if he got him. |
| 6:39
| Steve's going to try to go to LA this weekend. He can leave early on Friday afternoon, he just wants to make sure he gets the seat he likes. He likes to be near the bulkhead in the front. |
| 6:40
| Of course the seat on the left side has a little more room so Steve spends the entire flight obsessing about it. And if he's not near the bulkhead he'll stick his arm out and try to measure how much room he has compared to the bulkhead seat. |
| 6:41
| On the way out to Vegas for Pat Dahl's bachelor party he upgraded Mike and Matt so they could fly with him. The stewardess moved Steve back to the third row so he could sit by the boys. He doesn't want to sit with them, he wants to be near the bulkhead. |
| 6:42
| Steve just has to make sure he can get where he wants to be in 1B. The only thing that would stop him from going is that he needs to be back on Monday for the Comcast Sports Awards. |
| 6:43
| Steve's going to take a break then finish up the web poll and get to the news right at 7. |
| 6:49
| The reason Steve mentioned Buzz working customer service at United is that a lot of companies are bringing those jobs back from India because no one can understand the people. |
| 6:50
| Steve likes to imagine Buzz sitting in his backroom working for Comcast or American. |
| 6:51
| Yesterday United announced they'd be charging $25 for extra luggage but that's only if you have the really cheap, nonrefundable tickets. That won't effect Buzz though, all he packs are this thongs and his sandals. |
| 6:52
| Of course this announcement will mean more knuckleheads bringing huge carry-on bags with them. They shouldn't let you have carry-ons, everyone should have to wait. |
| 6:53
| The people who only bring carry-ons, like the business guys, think they're so cool because they're in a hurry. |
| 6:54
| When Steve was in the third row on the flight to Vegas he didn't mind having somewhere to put his stuff. He doesn't like when people recline on him though. The only way to stop that is to cross your legs. |
| 6:55
| If you put your seat back when Steve goes to the bathroom you'll get a lot of him using it to balance himself on when he returns. It's a bumpy ride. |
| 6:56
| OK back to the web poll. It happens to everyone, you can't sleep. Or when you do sleep it seems like a microsecond passes before the alarm clock goes off. That's what happened to Steve last night. |
| 6:57
| If you can't sleep, think about what you had to dinner the last night. Spicy foods can keep you up with heartburn or indigestion. Really? Did you have to go to college to learn that? |
| 6:58
| A big dinner can also keep you up. Overtaxing your digestive system takes hours to settle down. |
| 6:59
| Raucous veggies can also keep you up. If you are going to eat foods that cause gas, like beans, cauliflower and broccoli, do it in the middle of the day. Nothing like a big plate of Brussels sprouts before dinner. |
| 7:00
| Eating too quickly can also keep you up. Swallowing air can cause tummy troubles. |
| 7:01
| Alcohol may make you drowsy at first but later it disturbs your sleep. That's probably because you're up vomiting. |
| 7:02
| Finally, stay caffeine-clean for at least 12 hours before going to bed. 12 hours! So if Steve goes to bed at 10 pm he can't have coffee after 10 am? Who consults the author of this article? |
| 7:03
| If you're still up all night cut caffeine out of your diet for 2 weeks. Who has 2 weeks to spare to experiment with their body chemistry? |
| 7:04
| Getting 6-8 hours of sleep every night can make your RealAge as much as 3 years younger. Steve usually gets 6 hours but he doesn't mind 5. He looks young anyway, doesn't he? |
| 7:05
| Buzz doesn't think so although he doesn't really know what young looks like. The other day he saw a guy who must have been in his 40s but he had one foot in the grave. |
| 7:06
| Those are all dopey-ass suggestions though. If Steve eats food it usually helps him fall asleep. |
| 7:07
| News with Buzz |
| 7:08
| The National Weather Service has issued a storm warning from 6 pm tonight to 6 pm tomorrow. Heavy snow and sleet are expected. When Steve got home last night he had to do some snowblowing. |
| 7:09
| Steve is not happy with his plow guy. Not only does he not hit Steve's house first, he didn't even come yesterday. They'll be having a talk today. Steve's the most important guy on his route, he should be plowed first. |
| 7:10
| Even if there are doctors on his route Steve's more important. There are other doctors at the hospital, there's no other morning guys here. It's just Jack and he's on tape. |
| 7:11
| Today is Super Tuesday. Does that tie in with the Super Bowl, is that why they call it Super Tuesday? Steve knows there are a lot of states with primaries today though. |
| 7:12
| Barack Obama has won Indonesia. Does that count? They're not part of this country, is that just absentees? Or was there a revolution overnight that Steve wasn't aware of? |
| 7:13
| George Clooney has thrown his support behind John McCain. Did Buzz say McCain? He meant Obama. Steve's relieved to hear that. |
| 7:14
| Steve likes George Clooney, he'll give him that stuff in Africa, but he doesn't care who he votes for. Hillary Clinton has lost Michael Moore's support. Steve doesn't care who he votes for either. |
| 7:15
| All these celebrities just feel guilty because they make so much money. Can't they just give back quietly? Although in the case of Darfur it's good to draw attention to it. |
| 7:16
| What happened to the days where you didn't say who you voted for? When Steve was a kid that was a big deal. |
| 7:17
| Some New Yorkers will be busy attending the Giants Super Bowl parade today while Patriots fans will not have a parade to attend. The Canyon of Heroes is what they call the parade route. |
| 7:18
| A description of the suspect in the Lane Bryant shootings has been released. You'd think if you're going to shoot 6 people you wouldn't have so many identifying features. Of course he probably didn't think anyone would survive. |
| 7:19
| Authorities haven't released the name of the woman who survived but then her parents gave an interview to their hometown newspaper. |
| 7:20
| Bobby Knight unexpectedly resigned from Texas Tech yesterday, his son Pat will take over. |
| 7:21
| A Federal judge in Maryland has cut in half the money that the Westboro Baptist must pay the family of a marine who's funeral they protested. So now instead of having to pay $10 million they don't have, they only have to pay $5 million. |
| 7:25
| Buzz would like to give Steve a more in-depth look at the voting numbers in Indonesia. 75 out of every 100 Americans living in Indonesia went for Obama. Those have to be absentee votes right? |
| 7:26
| Buzz isn't seeing the word absentee anywhere. It has to be though since Indonesia isn't part of his country. |
| 7:27
| Live read: Gladstone Homes |
| 7:28
| Steve had an interesting thing happen to him last night. A few weeks ago at a Blackhawks game Chef Hans brought Cliff Correl over to talk to him. |
| 7:29
| Cliff is the president of the Blackhawks Alumni Association and Hans asked Steve to come to some dinner and say a few words. Steve likes when Hans come over and he likes when his girlfriend comes over as well. Steve will say anything to keep the conversation going because she bends over to talk to him. |
| 7:30
| Steve didn't hear anything else from Chef Hans. The only way to get in touch with Chef Hans is through Brendan. Apparently he's the only one who can understand him. |
| 7:31
| Last week Steve had Brendan call Chef Hans because he was having a problem with a Lufthansa ticket that he needed upgrade. He figured Hans would know someone since he knows people at Swiss Air. |
| 7:32
| Brendan also asked Hans about the Blackhawks dinner. Steve made sure to check with Brendan and make sure that Steve wasn't the keynote speaker. |
| 7:33
| After King of Queens Steve decided that maybe he should go check this dinner out. For some reason one thing stuck with him, Hans saying "you'll be out of there by 8:30" |
| 7:34
| Turns out Steve was the keynote speaker so it's a good thing he showed up. When he arrived at 7:30 Hans was waiting outside for him. |
| 7:35
| At first they offered Steve dinner so he thought he'd just eat and be out of there. But then Cliff asked him how he wanted to handle the speech. |
| 7:36
| Steve doesn't want to come off as Joe Hockey, he's only had his season tickets for 8 weeks. Steve just got up there and talked about how he used to go to Kings games as a kid but they were empty. |
| 7:37
| Then Steve mentioned how he used to go to Hawks games in the 80s but usually just to drink. Then he stopped going because they stunk but he came back because Rocky was making good moves. Then they opened it up to Q & A. |
| 7:38
| One question was from a suburban banker asking Steve how long he's known Stevie Starlight. Steve plays clubs and he's filthy and he hates Steve. Steve doesn't like him although he doesn't know him either. |
| 7:39
| That got another guy thinking about Joe Walsh so he wanted to hear a Joe Walsh story. There are no Joe Walsh stories Steve would tell except for the one about the AA meeting. |
| 7:40
| But then someone asked Steve about Disco Demolition so he got to talk about that. It made him think he should have a few stories to go to if he's ever in a situation like that again. It was good practice for the Comcast thing anyway. |
| 7:41
| Steve thought he did an OK job. Chef Hans introduced him and started with an Obama joke. |
| 7:42
| Song: Every Morning, Sugar Ray |
| 7:45
| That's some fine Jack Music right there, which you can hear every afternoon. When you listen in the afternoons Steve and Buzz get credit, it's the halo effect. |
| 7:46
| Everything else in afternoons is crap. Aimee loves the tunes, she listens to Jack. Another happy customer. |
| 7:47
| The guy from Sugar Ray is the host of Entertainment Tonight or something, he's on TV everyday. Buzz doesn't know him. Apparently he's left the music business. |
| 7:48
| In the long-run Entertainment Tonight is probably a better choice. Plus he might get to see Mary Hart naked every once in a while. |
| 7:49
| Mark McGrath is the host of Extra with Nancy O'Dell, that's even better. All those shows seem like the same thing to Steve. They all look the same, do the same stories and are on at the same time. |
| 7:54
| That's the Snoop Dogg reality show, they went ice skating in a recent episode. Steve's a little disappointed by that show, it all seems fake and his whole family is in on it. |
| 7:55
| In the first episode the cleaning lady quit, everyone made a mess and then Snoop had to clean it up. Then he went to a blind acupuncturist. It's just a series of bits. His real life would be much more interesting but Snoop probably doesn't want people to see that. |
| 7:56
| Live read: Townstone Financial |
| 7:57
| The guy in this live read is getting divorced in his 50s. Steve and Buzz would probably go prostitute at that point right? |
| 7:58
| That's sort of like dating only your date puts out on the first date, before it even starts. Who knows, you could end up even liking the girl. Don't fall in love with a prostitute, it's expensive and probably heartbreaking. |
| 7:59
| There are people Steve knows who moved to a new house 6 months ago but haven't sold their old one. He sees signs for houses reduced by $50,000 which makes Steve want to buy just to save the money. |
| 8:00
| Steve almost got killed by a real estate agent over the weekend. He was out for a run and this car came up behind him and stopped right in front of him. |
| 8:01
| Then she got out and planted a sign for an open house. Steve asked her if she thought an open house on Super Bowl Sunday was a good idea and she scowled at him so he called her a bitch. |
| 8:02
| Who's going to go to an open house on Super Bowl Sunday? Of course if you don't want to watch the game then you probably would. |
| 8:03
| Steve should have gone back and menaced her. He has every right to see the house as much as the next person. |
| 8:04
| Time for the Eight O'Clock Taco Bell. Today Steve and Buzz are having the Cheesy Potato bites. They were supposed to have them on Friday but the weather was bad and they didn't want to send anyone across town to get them. |
| 8:05
| Steve's pretty sure his Thursday Taco Pal turned him on to the Cheesy Potatoes. Buzz isn't sure, he's very busy. That was more of a rhetorical question but Steve appreciates a response. |
| 8:06
| Caller John's wife is a realtor. She had an open house on Sunday and he was pleading with her to just stay home and watch the game. |
| 8:07
| The open house was packed though. Steve figured they'd be packed as soon as he said no one would be there. |
| 8:08
| That's probably the 10% of people who didn't watch the Super Bowl. They missed the Paula Abdul song too. The song sucks but she's still hot. |
| 8:09
| Ben Gay is here, should Steve take a break or just bring him in now? He's out there enjoying some Cheesy Potatoes. |
| 8:10
| Ben loves Cheesy Potatoes, especially the sour cream. Ben's very excited, he'll be a model at the Auto Show. His job is to show how much trunk space there is. |
| 8:11
| Ben was out in Arizona for the Super Bowl but he's been banned from the stadium. He tried to sneak in when they rolled the grass in. |
| 8:12
| Ben flew back this morning along with a lot of the other Chicago media. Ben had to dress as a flight attendant just so he could get back on Southwest. |
| 8:13
| Ben doesn't do very well so he has to pay his own way out to Arizona. That's why he took on the extra job at the Auto Show. |
| 8:14
| Ben is right in the middle of a downward spiral, he doesn't think things will be looking up for a while. He's hoping to get arrested, he'd do well in prison. |
| 8:21
| Ben was in the background when Paula Abdul was talking to Ryan Seacrest and Randy Jackson. Ben would love to get into Ryan Seacrest's pants. |
| 8:22
| Buzz doesn't watch American Idol but he always means to watch the auditions. It's too late now but that's the best part. |
| 8:23
| Last week there was a contestant who was an arm wrestling champion. She wanted to arm wrestle Ryan Seacrest. |
| 8:24
| The girl was arm wrestling other people on a chair and unfairly leveraging her body to beat everyone. |
| 8:25
| Seacrest had the sense to demand a hi-top table to arm wrestle her on but they didn't show who won. Maybe they didn't want to show him beating a girl but that whole show is beating up on people. |
| 8:26
| Bob Knight resigned as coach of Texas Tech, his son will take over. So now his son can berate people. |
| 8:27
| Ben played for Bobby Knight at Indiana. That's where it all went wrong for him. Bob called him The Swish, which is a basketball term, but he didn't appreciate it. |
| 8:28
| Ben could have taken him too, that's what's most irritating. He can bench press over 600 pounds as Buzz knows. |
| 8:29
| Ben played in the 60s when they had the very short shorts. Apparently the black athletes need more give in their shorts but everything Ben had fit neatly under his cup. |
| 8:30
| Pat Knight said the stress of the job was getting to his father. |
| 8:31
| The Bulls beat the Sonics in Seattle last night thanks to Joe Smith's 25 points. Of course the Sonics are a worse team than the Bulls. |
| 8:32
| High school athletes signed their letters of intent yesterday. If all goes as planned Ron Zook believes he could have the best class he's ever had. He's a good recruiter but not a good coach. |
| 8:33
| By the way, Kirk Hinrich left the game early with bruised ribs, which are delicious. |
| 8:34
| Randy Moss and Tom Brady have dropped out of this weekend's Pro Bowl. And how about that Bill Belichick leaving the game early? |
| 8:35
| He went with a red hoodie instead of a grey one at the Super Bowl, a lot of people in New England are saying that jinxed the team. |
| 8:36
| Michael Vick can keep all but $3.75 million dollars from a signing bonus he got from the Falcons. |
| 8:37
| Buzz is wondering if we know why he gets to keep most of that money? Because a Federal judge said so. But the signing bonus isn't part of his contract. He only got that for signing a contract so that's why he gets to keep it. |
| 8:38
| Roger Clemens will testify in Washington today, behind closed doors. It comes a day after his workout partner, Andy Pettite, gave over 2 hours of sworn testimony. |
| 8:45
| Steve was watching Friday Night Lights on Friday. Janet reads too much and she said that was the last episode. |
| 8:46
| Steve couldn't believe it was the last episode, they couldn't leave him hanging like that. Turns out it wasn't the last one though. |
| 8:47
| This Friday might be the last episode. When you think it's the last episode you start worrying about them tying up loose ends. |
| 8:48
| But then it wasn't the last episode. Steve's not sure how many are left. It's probably not doing well in the ratings just because no one is watching TV any more. |
| 8:49
| Steve calls down to the newsroom. Friday is the last episode of Friday Night lights, at least for the time being. It'll feature show creator Peter Berg as Tami's ex-boyfriend. |
| 8:50
| It's a really good show and they finally got it on Friday nights. Friday is right in the title! |
| 8:51
| It's a great show, hopefully they'll renew it. How about that Landry? You have to go after Tyra, even if the girl he was dating was cute as well. She'll be on the back burner, he's a football player now. |
| 8:52
| Steve has the American Idol arm wrestling video. Ryan Seacrest has pretty big guns. Buzz is hoping those are just cysts. |
| 8:53
| Did Steve see Buzz at the gym yesterday? He can't see anyone there unless they're 6 inches in front of him. |
| 8:54
| Live read: Kent Dean |
| 8:55
| It's always good to have representation, especially in some sort of traffic-related problem. |
| 8:56
| Steve's favorite thing lately has been the campaign ads for State's attorney. They rip the other candidate and then the very next ad is the other candidate. Steve can't tell what's going on. |
| 8:57
| These ads are on all day, Steve can't keep track of any of them. That one Suffredin guy looks like he's wearing a piece too. The |
| 8:58
| There's one ad that looks like a Jib-Jab video with Stroger and that Berrios guy. Then those guys have an ad ripping the Jib-Jab ad. |
| 8:59
| Somehow people will get elected. Steve used to vote for people who advertised on he show but no one does that any more. Do Steve's listeners not vote? |
| 9:00
| Hopefully Steve doesn't run afoul of the law after he's made fun of all the State's Attorney candidates. |
| 9:01
| Those campaign ads are huge money for the TV stations running them though. And they don't care if some ads are back-to-back either and they get to charge the highest published rate. |
| 9:02
| News with Buzz |
| 9:03
| If you're planning on voting today you should probably do so before nightfall. Is that because the polls will close? |
| 9:04
| The National Weather Service has upgraded the watch to a storm warning which starts at 6 pm. |
| 9:05
| Steve likes voting in that little booth that's just a suitcase you open up. Although last time he had one of those new-fangled machines. The ladies at the polling place love Steve, plus he'll be showing up with a new haircut. |
| 9:06
| Barack Obama was the big winner in Indonesia, he got 75% of the vote. Steve still doesn't get this Indonesia thing, where do those votes count? |
| 9:07
| Buzz doesn't know either but Mark has some info on his page. He's the one who keeps dragging this in here! Can't Mark just call in? Buzz just wants to say Indonesia which is unfair to the rest of us. |
| 9:08
| Mark Czerniec is on the phone, it's Super Fat Tuesday. Indonesia counts in the Democratic party, they have delegates and are counted as a state. |
| 9:09
| They're trying to generate the same buzz as Dixville Notch in New Hampshire. |
| 9:10
| Caller Sal thinks this Indonesia story gives new meaning to Tsunami Tuesday. How about that ice storm in China? |
| 9:11
| Steve might have been wrong earlier talking about TV stations charging the highest rates for campaign ads. It might actually be the lowest rate so it's not a moneymaker at all. |
| 9:12
| It doesn't change the fact that they run campaign ads constantly and often back-to-back. |
| 9:13
| Voters in San Francisco will decide today whether or not the city should acquire Alcatraz Island. If they vote yes the city will buy it from the Federal Government and turn it into a place of piece. |
| 9:14
| It's pretty cool right now though. Are they going to turn it into something like Navy Pier? |
| 9:15
| It's Fat Tuesday which means the last chance for a Mardi Gras party in New Orleans. |
| 9:16
| A Baltimore judge has cut in half damages that the Westboro Baptist Church has to pay to the family of a dead Marine. The church protested the Marine's funeral. |
| 9:17
| Buzz just saw a documentary about them, it's basically just an extended family of nutjobs. |
| 9:18
| Steve wants to know how that Joran van der Sloot kid got Natalee Holloway. He's not that good looking. Maybe she just went for the Dutch accent. |
| 9:19
| Police in Tinley Park have released more information about the suspect who killed 5 women at a Lane Bryant store. |
| 9:27
| It seems like Hillary got Bill to back down a little bit on the campaign trail. It was interesting though. |
| 9:28
| Steve's not sure if he has any good emails for a Mailbag. He can go through the latest batch and see if any of those are interesting. They're not going to be though, people are very boring lately. |
| 9:29
| One guy wants to tell Steve who to vote for for State's attorney. He's a friend of Bob Mylon so Steve's guessing he'll tell him to vote for Bob Mylon. |
| 9:30
| Steve won't be saying who he's voting for, he's old school. Plus what he says shouldn't influence anyone else with voting. He doesn't even have it all figured out for himself. |
| 9:31
| These days everything is 50/50 so Steve wants to get right in the middle. |
| 9:32
| There's some junk mail and then something in Spanish. Steve has no idea what it says. |
| 9:33
| Buzz is wondering why he'd get stuff like that. Why does he get male enhancement emails? He always assumed someone recommended him. |
| 9:34
| Someone also emailed Steve to tell him how he could hold a ticket on the United website. She must work for them, she seems to know a lot. |
| 9:35
| Steve looked all over that site, he couldn't figure out how to do it. He didn't want to call India and end up talking to someone he couldn't understand. |
| 9:36
| Steve got another email from Mender who used to be on Pete McMurray's show. He's currently in charge of PR for a comedy club inside Dave & Buster's. That's too many hoops to jump through. |
| 9:37
| He keeps emailing Steve about people he'd like to book on the show. Generally Steve doesn't like having people on, especially comics. They're only in town for a day and they'll say anything. |
| 9:38
| Comedian Matt Davis is coming into town before Valentine's Day. He's been touring since he was 17. How old is he now, 43? That's a failure! |
| 9:39
| He's also toured with Dave Attel, a comedian that most people barely know. The other comedian has been on Conan O'Brien and just got off a Carnival Cruise tour. Does he read this back before he sends them? |
| 9:40
| Another guy sent Steve a Sox World Series parody song. Also, parody is spelled p-a-r-o-d-y. This guy spelled it right but a lot of people don't. |
| 9:41
| Is Steve just getting his email from 2005 now? And yet he's downloading the song right now. It's called The Season of my Life. Steve's guessing it's a parody of the Green Day song. |
| 9:42
| Oh my God! Steve's email ID has won $1 million U.S. in a computer lottery! It has a ticket number and a batch number, Steve has won! Buzz is wondering if he'll do |
| 9:43
| Finally Steve got an email from a deaf woman, Mrs. Serena Adams. She wants to donate 6.5 million pounds to Steve for the Universal Life Ministry. |
| 9:44
| All Steve has to do is give her his account information and the funds will be wired to him. Steve and Buzz will be shopping for a jet by day's end. |
| 9:51
| Are we really getting 8-12 inches of snow tonight? The storm will not need any male enhancement. |
| 9:52
| The storm warning is in effect from 6 pm tonight until 6 pm tomorrow for Northern Illinois and Southern Wisconsin. |
| 9:53
| Buzz hopes that doesn't happen. He just doesn't want to do the school closings. Steve feels we have that all figured out, just read the funny ones. |
| 9:54
| Steve had some calls to take but then during the break Adam came down with two boxes of his new business cards. Steve calls down to Adam's office. |
| 9:55
| Adam has two boxes with about a thousand cards in each one. Pete and Jim also got business cards which is troubling. |
| 9:56
| Steve calls down to the weather center. It's not as troubling that Jim has them because he has a girlfriend. Who knows what evil Pete will do with those cards in Steve's name and in the name of Jack FM. They'll be found rolled up and shoved in someone's throat. |
| 9:57
| Pete's card is a nice bone. Does he know we're on the air? They're bone white, he's doing an American Psycho bit. They're actually blue though right? Pete doesn't need to see the color, the next time he sees them they'll have blood on them |
| 9:58
| What do Pete and Jim do with business cards? What were they thinking when they said yes. Pete must have had a specific plan right? Pete just threw out his old ones. It does bring an air of professionalism to a murder scene or a screaming victim. |
| 9:59
| Does Buzz want business cards? He's had the same WCKG cards since he came to the station but now those really can't be used. |
| 10:00
| All Steve asks is that they use them judiciously. God forbid they're traced back to Steve. It doesn't say Steve Dahl Show on it does it? Jim's cards say Steve Dahl Show, as do Adam's. |
| 10:01
| Steve has one of Jim's business cards, it says he's Assistant Technical Producer. Is it hard to read the lettering or is it just Steve? Buzz can't read the address or any of that stuff but they're old. The gals at Butch McGuire's will have no problem with it. |
| 10:02
| In one hand they'll have a Pinot Noir and in the other Pete's business card while he sizes them up for handcuffs. |
| 10:03
| If Jim's the Assistant Technical Producer then Pete must be the Technical Producer. DId Pete and Jim cook those titles up themselves? Brendan didn't get business cards either and he uses them the most to get laid. |
| 10:04
| Look out ladies, Adam has a thousand business cards. They won't even know what hit them. Steve's card could say "Steve Dahl, Steve Dahl Show, Steve Dahl." Or it could just say he was the host. |
| 10:05
| There was a guy on hold who says there's a woman running for office in Villa Park named Barb Dahl. No relation to Steve. He'll just drive through there and pretend there's an ad campaign for him. |
