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| 5:30
| That's Boston which seems obvious. If you're a DJ you say the obvious. That was Foreplay/Long Time from the self-titled debut album from Boston. |
| 5:31
| Steve's gotten away from Casin' the Hits as Casey Kasem used to do. He'd like to get back into that because he feels that his future is as a syndicated top 40 DJ. |
| 5:32
| Steve's a musicologist and a gynecologist. Come by the office for a pap smear and a round of Name that Tune. |
| 5:33
| Steve's neighbor across the street is a plumber and a pump expert which is his dream come true. When he was over the other day he saw a Gold Record Steve had from Cheap Trick. It was just laying there by the furnace. |
| 5:34
| It only took two months for Boston to earn an RIAA Gold Record in 1976. It went Platinum after 3 months. |
| 5:35
| Tom Scholz began to learn guitar and various instruments at age 21 during the recording of the album. Scholz was satisfied with the demos and wanted to use them as the final album but Epic said it had to be recorded in a professional studio. That's where you just lie and tell them you've recorded new stuff. |
| 5:36
| Producer John Boylan (who also produced Little River Band among others) told Scholz that he'd have a makeshift band record studio arrangements while Scholz recorded multitrack recordings at home. |
| 5:37
| Boston is trying to get Mike Huckabee to stop using one of their songs on the campaign trail. They're Obama supporters. Steve doesn't think you can just get someone to stop using your song like that. No matter how much noise you make he won't stop, that's not how he rolls. He still thinks he's going to win the nomination even though it's mathematically impossible. |
| 5:38
| Buzz can't think of the song though. It could be More Than a Feeling or maybe it's Don't Stop Believin'. That's actually Journey. Maybe it is Journey then. |
| 5:39
| You can't just ask someone to stop using your song, unless Huckabee is using it in campaign ads on TV. Here's what Steve knows about songwriting. When write a song only you can play it. |
| 5:40
| Once you record and publish the song though, anyone can perform it. Either Huckabee or the venue he's speaking at probably has a BMI license which allows him to play the song. |
| 5:41
| Buzz remembers John Mellencamp trying to get someone to stop using one of his songs. Maybe it was Mellencamp that Huckabee is using. Or it could be McCain. |
| 5:42
| Buzz was Right all along, it was a Boston song, More Than a Feeling. Tom Scholz write a letter to Mike Huckabee asking him to stop using the song at rallies and campaign appearances. He is impressed that Huckabee learned the bass part of More Than a Feeling though. |
| 5:43
| Steve didn't know Huckabee could play bass. He's probably hoping you'll be hearing the bass in the halls of the White House. It doesn't seem like a Boston song is going to be the thing that gets him into the White House. What does "I see my Marion walking away..." have to do with anything? |
| 5:44
| All Steve knows about Mike Huckabee is that he has a lifetime half-off discount at Wendy's and when he and his wife moved out of the Governor's mansion in Arkansas they registered for items to furnish their new house. |
| 5:45
| Steve has the lyrics to More Than a Feeling. "I looked out this morning and the sun was gone, turned on some music to start my day." What does that have to do with anything? |
| 5:46
| Steve doesn't feel good about a President who plays bass. Bass players are flaky. Steve would rather have a rhythm guitar player although when it comes down to it you don't want any musician as your President. He never really liked seeing Clinton playing the sax either. |
| 5:47
| Steve cranks up More Than a Feeling. There's a lot of bass there but Steve's enhancing it for your listening pleasure. It doesn't seem like Huckabee would be able to play that though. |
| 5:48
| Tom Scholz invented the Rockman which is something you can plug into your guitar and then hear it through the headphones. It had distortion and everything. Now they have them where you can play along with songs on your iPod. It's really loud but only in your head. |
| 5:49
| Steve uses the JamPod. Buzz likes the name and the concept. Steve just lays there playing guitar to his favorite songs. It's an exciting life he leads. |
| 5:50
| Well good luck to everyone there. It seems like an unnecessary diversion since Huckabee won't be around much longer, especially with the Mitt man throwing his report behind McCain. |
| 5:51
| McCain seems like he's about 4 feet tall next to Romney. He also looks like Romney's grandfather. That might not be the look you want for McCain. At least at the debates everyone was seated. |
| 5:52
| Buzz saw some Liberal blogger or something asking if we really want an old coot in the White House. That's not really a great political argument but it's something to consider. Wasn't Reagan really old when he took office? |
| 5:53
| At least McCain has the hot wife who owns a Budweiser distributorship. That'll save a lot of money when they have parties at the White House. |
| 5:57
| Caller Dan had a Rockman when he was a kid. It has distortion, overdrive and an input that allowed you to plug in a mic or a Walkman. You looked so cool with the Rockman and the Walkman on your belt. |
| 5:58
| Tom Scholz sort of invented all that stuff so he's probably living off that money. It frees him up to hassle Mike Huckabee. |
| 5:59
| John McCain was using Our Country by John Mellencamp. That's not a good choice because it's sort of anti-Republican. If anyone bothered to check the lyrics they'd know that. |
| 6:00
| "There's room enough here for science to live" that's stem cell research. Then "and there's room enough here for religion to forgive." No wonder the Republicans hate him. |
| 6:01
| It's sort of against everything that's going on right now. It's an anti-war song. It's not just a Chevy commercial, it's a Liberal political statement. |
| 6:02
| Some Conservatives do accuse McCain of being too liberal. Who else are they going to vote for though, the black guy or the woman? It's not going to happen. |
| 6:03
| You don't hear much about Ron Paul any more though. He has a horrible singing voice. You know Steve, for a local election he writes in Bozo and for the national election he writes in Mickey Mouse. He likes to keep it relevant. |
| 6:04
| Time for today's web poll. Yesterday's web poll was, of course, "are you planning on spending An Evening with the Stars?" That was Spike Manton's Academy Awards gala which was almost reduced to mingling if they didn't have a ceremony. Spike called in yesterday, he was as annoying as ever. |
| 6:05
| Richard Roeper will be featured at the gala, reporting from his seat at the Oscar's. He'll also be on the show next week to talk about the Oscar's. Buzz will get his picks together. |
| 6:06
| Steve's seen a few of the nominated movies because he's a member of SAG. Before the Devil Knows Your Dead is really depressing. Steve watched it on one grey afternoon. It's just one bad idea after another and every idea comes to fruition. You do get to see Marisa Tomei naked though. |
| 6:07
| 53% of the people said they would be attending An Evening With the Stars. That had to be Spike voting in his basement. |
| 6:08
| Today's web poll is "will you purchase any Chicago 2016 gear?" The Chicago 2016 committee kicked off it's merchandising effort to help land the Olympics and Parolympics games. |
| 6:09
| Why do they always mention the Parolympics with the Olympics? Steve parked in a handicapped spot on Monday night at the March of Dimes thing but it was where the doorman told him to go. It was in the bowels of the Hyatt and there were 30 other spaces open. |
| 6:10
| Steve wanted to get out of there before everyone else. When he left Mark Czerniec was standing there waiting for his car. He wouldn't want to see Steve waiting in line for his car though. |
| 6:11
| On one Hawaii trip Steve had to wait in line at the hotel to check in and none of the listeners would give him cuts. He got cuts at the rental car place but at the hotel all the guy listeners got their shorts in a bunch and had to post-up in front of their wives. A real guy knows when to defer. |
| 6:12
| An online store selling t-shirts, jackets, and hats emblazoned with the new six-pointed star logo and the "stir the soul" slogan. Steve has a hat with the original, illegal logo with the torch and flame. |
| 6:13
| The IOC made them change the logo because you can't use the torch or flame until you've got the games. You'd think someone on the Chicago committee would have figured that out before hand. |
| 6:14
| Steve's money is on Chicago winning the bid and he wants to win. Why not? It seems fraught with things that could go wrong to Buzz. The more things you do, the more things go wrong. |
| 6:15
| That's an interesting philosophy Buzz has. Steve's a go-getter. Plus a lot of the money seems to be private money. Steve's a pickpocket too, that'll give him something to do. |
| 6:20
| Live read: Laz Parking |
| 6:21
| A lot of people come in from out of town to go to the Auto Show. Or they're people from the suburbs who actually go to comparison shop. It's much easier than going to the dealership. Those are the Consumer Reports types. |
| 6:22
| Steve only goes to the Auto Show to see the models but he usually doesn't go. Buzz used to like seeing the concept cars but those cars never get made so what's the point? |
| 6:23
| Buzz remembers visiting the auto show in Bath, New York. He was so disappointed in 1957 when the concept car he saw, with the fins, never came out. It's time to let it go Buzz, that 51 years ago. |
| 6:24
| The parking spaces in the Millennium garages are huge. You don't want to bang your car door up. That's why Steve always carries a bat in his car. |
| 6:25
| Steve carries a full-size bat but Buzz only carries the mini bat. Steve feels the mini bat is more of a weapon than the full-sized bat. |
| 6:26
| The mini bat is more like a blackjack. A guy got killed after a Cubs/Sox game because of one of those mini bats. A Sox fan shot a Cubs fan. |
| 6:27
| On Monday when Steve was at the Hilton for the Comcast event they got him a room. He was going to stay overnight but he decided to just go home. He did let Matt use his room though. |
| 6:28
| Steve was listening to Matt and Brendan's webcast on Tuesday. Matt used to be "our own Matt Dahl" but he doesn't work here any more. But Brendan works on both shows so he's shared. They had a show together on WCKG before it became W Fresh. |
| 6:29
| Has Buzz seen the cloth banners that they've hung around the station for Fresh FM? Just in case they forget who they are they have the banners up. Steve just read in Feder that Fresh is going to have on-air personalities. Just more people to mingle with in the mornings. |
| 6:30
| Now they just have a kid down there playing Alanis Morissette songs. That's probably what the on-air personalities will be doing anyway. Those Fresh FM commercials are really annoying. Maybe they should have had some TV commercials for WCKG though. |
| 6:31
| Buzz is looking forward to having someone else on the floor who's doing mornings. Maybe they can go out for post-show breakfast. |
| 6:32
| Steve might have to take Ramblin' Ray out to breakfast next week. Steve saw him today and he didn't look happy so he said "cheer up." Then Ray laid on him that a buddy's friend was shot at NIU. What are the odds Steve would say "cheer up" on that day. |
| 6:33
| The guy's friend wasn't killed though but he was taken to that hospital with the funny Indian name. Buzz doesn't know the name. So this story probably won't be in the news then? |
| 6:34
| So Steve's listening to the Matt Dahl webcast on Tuesday when he hears him talking about clogging the toilet in the hotel room. It's very hard for Steve to listen to Matt because he sounds like the young, arrogant Steve Dahl. Buzz actually heard this earlier in the week and thought he was listening to old Steve and Garry. |
| 6:35
| And yet they can't find a job. Is Buzz's agent any good? Every week he keeps telling Matt "next week, next week." Steve's about ready to bust into his office with his bat. |
| 6:36
| Steve really needs Matt to find a job because he doesn't want to hear about it any more at the house. Matt followed Steve's career path which isn't a popular choice at the house. The only really acceptable careers are doctor and lawyer. |
| 6:37
| So Matt plugged up the toilet in the room Steve gave him and then it overflowed. |
| 6:38
| Steve's boys have problems with toilets, he thinks they overwipe. Steve's never had a problem with a toilet but they constantly do, even at home. When Pat comes home you have to buy a case of toilet paper. He likes to pad the seat with toilet paper though, even at his parent's house. Your butt is designed to withstand a lot of germs. There's no place there for a germ to do you any harm. |
| 6:39
| Steve's not sure if he has the stomach to hear the rest of this. Brendan sounds upset. Steve's not sure if Matt had his girlfriend there but that's not good if he did. He can't even go to the bathroom right. |
| 6:40
| Matt's trying to pretend it's not the overwiping but it is. All three of them overwipe. Back in the day there was a gag item that was a fake envelope that said "herpes test results" on it. |
| 6:41
| Someone gave that to Steve and the housekeeper found it. She decided Steve had herpes and taught Pat to go to the bathroom without touching the seat. She was a hillbilly though. |
| 6:42
| Steve might have called her a hillbilly idiot when he found out what had happened. Then she quit. |
| 6:43
| These kids today, the things they say. No wonder they can't get a job. Who talks like that? The kids. |
| 6:44
| Steve should invent a traveler plunger for situations like this. Buzz has an 18 inch plunger, that seems short enough. |
| 6:45
| 18 inches seems like a standard size to Steve. What kind of plunger is a normal size? Does Buzz have a 6 footer at home? |
| 6:46
| With all due respect to Buzz it seems like he just picked up a regular-sized plunger. He actually got three of them because he was learning to juggle. Juggling was something Steve never wanted to pursue but Buzz is circus people. |
| 6:47
| Imagine how mad Steve is listening to this. He gave Matt his room to use and he can't even go to the bathroom properly. You can't try to flush again, that won't work. Didn't Steve teach these kids anything? Apparently he didn't. Was he supposed to give them flushing lessons? They'd have to learn how to sit all the way on the toilet first since Steve doesn't have herpes. Why did Steve have that woman watching his kids? He could have had a dog watch the kids. |
| 6:48
| This is one of those industrial toilets with the jet flush, like we have in the building. It wasn't just a regular toilet that you have at your home. |
| 6:49
| Matt was also making some coffee for himself with the complimentary coffee maker in the room. Did they not learn anything from Steve? Don't they know how filthy those carafe's and mugs are? They wash them with the same rag they use on the toilet! Do not make coffee in your room! |
| 6:50
| Matt had to leave the hotel and get to his apartment for the podcast. So this must have been going on around 11 am. He sleeps until 11? |
| 6:51
| Matt tried to fix the problem with an unfurled coat hanger which is something he learned from Pat Dahl. There's a guy who knows his way around the bathroom. He clogs up everyone's toilet. He clogged up Mike Dahl's toilet which is when he first used the coat hanger trick. |
| 6:52
| The thing that made Steve really mad is that the room was under Steve's name so everyone would think he was responsible. When Steve was going down to do the awards he saw the maid and told her he wouldn't be checking out. |
| 6:53
| Imagine what they think about Steve at the Chicago Hilton and Towers. Especially coming off that shining appearance on TV. But now they think he's a toilet clogger. |
| 6:54
| Matt should have called maintenance, identified himself and told them that his dad was gracious enough to give him the room and he's clogged up the toilet. |
| 6:55
| So if anyone over at the HIlton is listening right now and could pull up Steve's record and delete that note, that would be good. They probably thought Steve was getting his freak on or something. Plus he parked in the handicapped space. They might not let him back. |
| 6:56
| It's distressing enough for Steve to listen to Matt because he reminds him of a young version of himself. He's reminded of all the mistakes he had to make when he was younger. Steve picks and chooses his spots and he just happened to listen to that. |
| 6:57
| Buzz came into the office the other day and heard Jim playing the webcast and wondered why he was listening to Steve and Garry. Steve keeps telling Todd Cavanah to hire the magic. He does think they're good though. Steve just needs Matt to find a job. |
| 7:03
| News with Buzz |
| 7:04
| The top story today is the tragic shooting at NIU. 7 people were killed including the shooter. The names of 4 victims have been released. |
| 7:05
| The shooter has been identified as a 27-year-old former grad student at NIU who is currently enrolled at U of I. After the shooting he turned the gun on himself. Why didn't he just do that in the first place? |
| 7:06
| He probably sees all the coverage on TV of these shootings, going all the way back to the clock tower in Texas, and knows he can besmirch the name of a school forever with a shooting like this. Steve doesn't trust the grad students. The kid was probably going for his third degree. |
| 7:07
| Steve watched a lot of the coverage of this yesterday. They kept talking to NIU students and they were asking them really stupid questions. Steve's favorite question was "do you think he was aiming at anyone specific?" How would they know? |
| 7:08
| Rod Blagojevich has declared a state of emergency at the school. Why? Is this just another way to make him look good? It also opens the Governor's Emergency Relief fund which reimburses local agencies for any expenses incurred during this. |
| 7:09
| Chuck Goudie's big thing was the warnings not heeded at NIU. In December someone scrawled something about a school shooting in a bathroom at NIU and then finals were canceled. Steve's guessing the scrawl they found was put there to cancel finals. |
| 7:10
| Then they were talking to the dad of a student who found something on a bathroom wall. When did we start taking everything written on a bathroom wall seriously? Sometimes Steve will meet a guy at 3 am though. |
| 7:11
| They're trying to pin this thing on someone. How about pinning it on the crazy guy who shot everyone? |
| 7:12
| President Bush is pressuring lawmakers to pass a bill for warrantless wire tapping. He's leaving for Africa tomorrow but is willing to put his trip off to sign the bill. Buzz doesn't know why he thinks that trip to Africa is funny. Probably because he's going on safari instead of to the bad parts. |
| 7:13
| Mitt Romney has endorsed Senator John McCain for President. It's an effort by Romney to get Republicans on board with McCain. Who else are they going to vote for? They're just saying that to get the other Conservatives on board. |
| 7:14
| One of Hillary Clinton's most prominent black supporters may be switching team. Congressman John Lewis announced he's planning on casting his superdelegate vote for Obama. |
| 7:15
| As Steve knows, Buzz has far-flung correspondents throughout the world who try to keep him updated as much as they can. He received this story from Jim Urich about the death of Larry LaPrice, the man who wrote the Hokey Pokey. The most troubling part of his family was getting his body in the coffin. |
| 7:15
| Several Cicero partygoers have received a settlement from the city after police sprayed pepper spray in a house. |
| 7:16
| A Wheeling man will have to stop roasting pigs for public consumption. This guy is sure getting a lot of coverage for this. A judge has ordered him to stop roasting pigs or he'll be subject to a fine. |
| 7:17
| Steve saw that guy's set-up, it looked like he was roasting the pig in his garage. It looked sort of funky. Plus he doesn't do it for himself, he does it for his church and charges them for it. |
| 7:23
| That was a drop from yesterday's coverage on ABC of the shooting. Linda Yu was talking to a student who had seen on CBS that 15 people were dead. Then she apologized for watching CBS. She should. |
| 7:24
| You know what really annoys Steve about Pete, other than the really loud TVs, is the way he swings his mic out of the way when he's done talking like "thank God that's done!" He does the same thing when he comes into the main studio, pushing Steve's mic out of the way. |
| 7:25
| Michelle Gallardo really irritates Steve, especially the way she overpronounces her name. She doesn't say every Spanish word like that, just her name. |
| 7:26
| She's so irritating and not that hot either. Why not grab someone from Univision or Telemundo? It seems inappropriate for her to be doing that at a school shooting. What does it prove other than that she can trill her R's? |
| 7:27
| Alright thanks Pete, go back to the loud cartoons on your TV. Swing the mic out of the way too. |
| 7:28
| Live read: Woodfield Nissan |
| 7:29
| Caller John has some info about the Wheeling pig roaster. He has 5 roasters and they're all in his garage. There was some question about running water out there, not that you'd need that if you're cooking pigs. |
| 7:30
| There are a lot of "somethings" in this conversation. But you have to have running water if you're cooking for as a business. |
| 7:31
| Steve wouldn't mind a more detailed article about the pig roasting. John had a good lead but he was a little vague. When Brendan's screening the call and the guy uses "something" 10 or 15 times he should skip it. |
| 7:32
| Steve got a massage last night. Normally he does it during the day but there was a book club meeting at the house so he had to evacuate. Buzz is wondering what book it was. |
| 7:33
| Steve doesn't know the name but it's something about Frank Lloyd Wright being a womanizing jerk. Wouldn't you be if you were him? |
| 7:34
| Steve's Pilates girl was mad at him because he skipped their appointment on Tuesday. So she made him to really hard stretches and he almost fell off the table. |
| 7:35
| Steve thinks he might a pet project for the Pilates girl but they don't have to do it all before next week. |
| 7:36
| The massage girl gets mad at the Pilates girl. Steve's trying to work some sort of smackdown that he'll videotape. |
| 7:37
| Steve was getting a massage for four hours. It's not really a massage it's more stretching. Laying there for four hours gave Steve a lot of time to think. He remembered that at the Comcast Awards he showed some clips of himself on Comcast or it's various incarnations. |
| 7:38
| The first one was his recent appearance on Chicago Tribune Live. Then the appearance of Steve and Garry as Puckheads and finally an appearance with Steve McMichael. |
| 7:39
| Steve forgot to ask for the final clip of Disco Demolition which would have paid it off but violated the rule of threes. |
| 7:40
| Caller Ryan was calling about lechongate, the pig roasting thing. Ryan has Filipino neighbor and they've been tracking the story. The Trib has had 5 stories about it. |
| 7:41
| The quote they had today is that the inspector noticed motor oil and pesticides next to the salt and pepper. |
| 7:42
| There was the initial article about the guy getting arrested for roasting 5 pigs. Then John Kass picked it up and wrote a huge column about it. He's a barbecue enthusiast and was worried about his being prevented from cooking ribs in his own backyard. John Kass is an idiot. |
| 7:43
| Steve's pretty sure the main issue is that the guy is making and selling these roasted pigs. You can do it on your own in your backyard and if you want to add some motor oil you can. |
| 7:44
| "I want you to celebrate your traditions. They're wonderful traditions and should be celebrated with glee." That's what Judge Joel "Good Times" Greenblatt told Amante Enad before declaring him guilty. So it's a good news, bad news thing. |
| 7:45
| The village called three health inspectors as witnesses to make their case. They all said it was a risk to the public. On inspector said she found motor oil and pesticide next to garlic and seasoning salt. That has to be the garage, you don't keep motor oil in your yard. |
| 7:46
| After inspectors found 5 pig roasters on his property in August he was given a $25 fine. That's getting off easy, only $5 per pig. |
| 7:47
| He got another ticket in October after inspectors found one of his pigs in a Wheeling market. You can't sell them to a market! |
| 7:48
| Enad trembled as he provided his own defense, which doesn't sound good. He told the judge that he was confused by the village's warnings. He thought he was told he could continue roasting pigs if he didn't sell them. Apparently in the Philippines no means yes. |
| 7:49
| Greenblatt sentenced Enad to two $500 fines but he won't have to pay them unless he's caught roasting a pig before his September 8th court date. They couldn't be any more accommodating to this guy. |
| 7:56
| Steve knows you can roast pigs if you want because the Hungry Hound was in here one day talking about a pig roasting seminar he was conducting. |
| 7:57
| Sometimes Steve thinks he wants the Hungry Hound on the show but he's a bit of a prima donna. |
| 7:58
| You'd think John Kass would know that you can roast a pig in your backyard. It's embarrassing. The guy in Wheeling was roasting and selling pigs which ended up in supermarkets. That's different than smoking a few racks of baby backs in your yard. |
| 7:59
| Sometimes it's fun to feel like you're being persecuted. John Kass lives right by Steve, no one out there is being persecuted. He is Greek and there's no Greek Orthodox Church nearby. Maybe that makes him feel persecuted. |
| 8:00
| Caller Bill's wife is from the Philippines, she's a LBFM. Steve can look that up on his own. He was at a pig roast with his wife and they were trying to get him to eat a dish that's popular over there. Did Bill meet his wife in the service? |
| 8:01
| Bill's wife got married to a servicemen who brought her over here and tried to keep her in a farmhouse and not let her get Americanized. This call's getting too weird for Steve. He just looked up LBFM online. The first thing that comes up on Google says "here are two more links to free Filipina LBFM galleries of Asian bargirl" |
| 8:02
| Whoa! Remind Steve to book a trip to the Philippines. Is Buzz looking at the same page he is? There was too much information in that call. Even the stuff about the serviceman she married was too much info. |
| 8:03 | It's time for the Eight O'Clock Taco Bell. It's Friday which means it's the Weekend Kick-off. Steve and Buzz are both enjoying original tacos. |
| 8:04
| You can go more exotic but there's something great about the original taco to Buzz because it's a classic. |
| 8:05
| Steve wouldn't mind a taco right when he rolls out of bed. It's almost breakfast. It's nature's perfect superfoods. |
| 8:06
| That would be the sound of Buzz crumpling up his Taco Bell wrapper. When Buzz wakes up on Tuesdays and Fridays he immediately begins craving tacos. |
| 8:07
| Live read: Townstone Financial |
| 8:08
| Yesterday Steve got an email from David. It wished him a Happy Valentine's day which is inappropriate from one guy to another. |
| 8:09
| David had a column in the Sun-Times yesterday. That made Steve think they'll give a column to everyone. People probably said that about Steve but he's in showbiz. |
| 8:10
| David is available for an interview today at 8 am. If Steve doesn't want to do the interview he'll call Eric and Kathy. |
| 8:11
| So Steve went to the Sun-Times and see the column and it's just an ad. David Hochberg is on the phone. It's an ad but a well-written ad. |
| 8:12
| David is completely out-of-control. He's still working with Jeff Schwartz which is why he's out-of-control. |
| 8:13
| It's a well read column, or at least by Buzz, David and Jeff. Buzz needs to stop reading the Sun-Times, it's nothing but trouble. There's a real paper in Chicago, it's called the Tribune. |
| 8:14
| The Tribune is the one that has the headline "6 Dead in NIU Shooting" while the Sun-Times has black cover with a person crying and in giant letters "WHY?" |
| 8:15
| Buzz thinks there's a reason why ads are a certain format and articles are another format. He doesn't think anyone will take the time to read an ad. Buzz has decided to wander down an "I went to journalism school and you didn't" road which Steve won't wander down. |
| 8:16
| All Steve is saying is that David is out of control. He seems very close to declaring Martial Law in Skokie. |
| 8:17
| Was it all part of David's plan to get right next to Feder's column? When did he move to the Business Section anyway? He should be in the Gossip Section. |
| 8:18
| Phil Rosenthal is in the Business Section but he actually reports on the business end of radio, not just press releases from guys who are doing weekend shows. |
| 8:19
| Steve tries to avoid Feder unless he's being abused or unless David or Buzz brings him up. Although it was sort of abusive that Feder mentioned the Comcast Awards but didn't mention that Steve was hosting. |
| 8:20
| Buzz will be happy to know that William Kelly, the David Hochberg of gossip, will host his Upscale Chicago radio show on WIND. So now he and David are back together again. |
| 8:21
| This is the kind of important stuff that Rob Feder reports on. David welcomes Dan and his team to WIND. It's actually William, he's a real twerp. David never met him at WCKG but he didn't hang out very late. |
| 8:22
| William Kelly does usually have a lot of naked girls around him but they're usually quite unattractive so it balances it out. |
| 8:23
| It's an advertisement! Buzz is right, only David and Jeff Schwartz will read it. Although he ended up on here for 20 minutes. It felt like the longest 20 minutes of the day. The clock in the studio was actually moving backwards. |
| 8:24
| Steve is actually relieved to know it's only an advertisement. David just wants to be in showbiz and of course Steve just wants to own a bank. All you do is sit back in your office and make money. |
| 8:31
| Steve and Buzz were both introduced to David by Wendy Snyder. She spent 2 weeks trying to get Steve to meet David thinking she'd get a favorable loan. |
| 8:32
| David doesn't roll that way. He's not going to shave a point off your loan just because he met Steve. She did suck Buzz into it and he borrowed money from David to pay off a credit card bill. |
| 8:33
| Buzz had an $8,000 credit card bill, God knows from what. It was a culmination of Christmas and several vacations. Were there some amps purchased as well? |
| 8:34
| David refinanced Buzz's entire property and tacked on the $8,000. He's paid the $8,000 off of his principal though but he still has to pay interest. It's less interest than he'd pay with the credit card though. |
| 8:35
| Steve knows this stuff. Next time Buzz needs $8,000 he should come to Steve. He's like the Godfather. He'll give him the money but some day he might ask him to do a favor. |
| 8:36
| Buzz complains that he borrowed the $8,000 grand but he's still paying way less interest than he was before. |
| 8:37
| Live read: Fresh Diet |
| 8:38
| Steve's still waiting on The Nubian to get a juke mix of Peanut Butter Jelly Time. In the meantime he'll go back to the original one. |
| 8:39
| Pat Boyle from Comcast is on the phone. He likes the old school Peanut Butter Jelly Time. |
| 8:40
| The Hawks won last night, they scored 6 goals. That's 13 goals in two games. It seems like they have their stuff together. It's no coincidence that they're winning and Toews is back. He's the man. |
| 8:41
| Steve probably won't lose any sleep now that Khabibulin is day-to-day. Steve saw Savard say that Khabi could have played last night if necessary. |
| 8:42
| Pat is not going to beat Steve on the hockey talk. Just so Pat knows, Khabi's other nickname is Nik. That's a third tier nickname that the players have to adopt now that the fans call him Khabi. Pat can use that at the anchor desk if he wants. |
| 8:43
| Steve liked the other night when Josh was doing the post-game. Eddie Olczyk made a big deal about the fact that Byfuglien didn't have a hat trick. Then when he threw it back to Josh Mora he said Byfuglien had a hat trick. Then Eddie jumped all over him. |
| 8:44
| So the Hawks have a big game on Sunday, it's sold out. They're 4 points out of the playoffs and facing the Avalanche, who are ahead of them in the standings. |
| 8:45
| Cubs pitchers and catchers had their first workout yesterday and Sox players report tomorrow. Storylines are always sketching when spring training begins. |
| 8:46
| Earlier in the week it was Ryan Dempster's World Series prediction, now word is coming out that Aramis Ramirez was featured in an article in a cockfighting magazine. So Pat can imagine PETA will be out protesting when Aramis shows up to camp. |
| 8:47
| Cockfighting is legal in the Dominican so it doesn't seem like a big deal. It probably wasn't the best idea for him to do a full-length interview with La Rava, the cockfighting magazine. Steve and Buzz both subscribe, they learned Spanish just so they could read it. |
| 8:48
| There are also some exaggerated reports coming out of Mesa about Carlos Zambrano's weightloss. He lost 7 pounds in the offseason. That's just a high fiber diet! Steve's always fluctuating 7 to 10 pounds on any given day. |
| 8:49
| If Pat was a professional athlete he wouldn't even let it out there that he'd lost 5 pounds. It sounds like Carlos was just showing off to Gail Fischer. He's from Venezuela, they don't even have food down there. He'll put that weight back on in Mesa. |
| 8:50
| Ozzie says his drink of choice when he's in Venezuela is coconut milk and rum. That sounds fattening, you could probably stay fat on that. Or is coconut milk just the watery stuff in the coconut? Steve was thinking of coconut syrup. |
| 8:51
| The coconut milk is not the watery stuff in the coconut, it's derived from the meat of the mature or MILF coconut. The stuff inside is just something funky you'd want to pour out. |
| 8:52
| Or you'd drink it if you were on a deserted island. Buzz has drank it because he's been on a deserted island. |
| 9:00
| That's Eddie Olczyk coming down hard on Josh Mora on Comcast last night. |
| 9:01
| Eric Zorn has a blog on Tribune.com and he noted that Steve's mention of Drew Peterson in his column yesterday was the first in a major newspaper since a column Matt Wallberg wrote last Friday. |
| 9:02
| The five day drought was the longest since the story broke that Drew's third wife, Stacy, had disappeared. Isn't she his fourth wife? |
| 9:03
| Drew's heading out this weekend. Valentimes day was rough on him. Last year he gave Stacy a Glock because nothing says I love you like a Glock. It would have been nice to have that Glock to caress on Valentime's day but it was taken from him. |
| 9:04
| Drew might head to Buffalo Wild WIngs. They're very good about removing all the hair that shows up on some wings. As you know Drew doesn't like hair. |
| 9:05
| Buzz is glad to know where Drew will be in the future. It's good for people to know in case they want to stop by. |
| 9:06
| Did Buzz have a nice Valentime's day? He took his two girls out for spaghetti. Drew has the rugrats at home, he just got himself a Whitman's Sampler from the pharmacy. |
| 9:07
| Drew likes to use the top of the box as a road map for what he's going to eat. Although sometimes he likes to mix up the candies and play Concentration. Sometimes he doesn't do well and mixes up a cream with a caramel. What are you gonna do though, that's life. |
| 9:08
| News with Buzz |
| 9:09
| 7 people are dead, including the shooter, after a gunman opened fire in a classroom at NIU. |
| 9:10
| The gunman was a distinguished student at NIU's Sociology department, winning several awards, before leaving the school. |
| 9:11
| They have his name now too, Steven Phillip Kazmierczak. There's a press conference coming up that Steve can put on. |
| 9:12
| Governor Blagojevich has declared a state of emergency at NIU, thank God. It opens up the state fund to reimburse local agencies for costs incurred in an emergency. That guy is such an idiot. Who was even thinking about that yesterday? |
| 9:13
| This is just a way for Blago to insert himself into this thing. It seems like that fund is supposed to be for stuff like flooding. |
| 9:14
| The Protect America Act expires at the end of the week. President Bush would like an extension to the act that allows for warrantless phone taps. |
| 9:15
| President Bush has ordered the military to shoot down a disabled satellite before it crashes onto Earth. They're hoping to prevent the release of toxic fuel from the satellite. |
| 9:16
| A California man is charged with making 30,000 prank calls to 911. That's a lot of calls. Has anyone even made that many phone calls in their lifetime? |
| 9:23
| According to Mark's page WBBM is still waiting for a press conference at NIU. NBC is checking their white balance. |
| 9:24
| It's not on TV yet, NBC still has the white balance. Steve's not sure what will be accomplished by the press conference. |
| 9:25
| What was accomplished by some of that coverage yesterday. The guy Warner Saunders talked to at one of the hospitals said that no one was dead. |
| 9:26
| Steve got Buzz a t-shirt from the fire department in Chinatown and they're awesome. Wait until he sees it. |
| 9:27
| Steve was supposed to stop by the firehouse on Sunday but because it was so cold the doors were closed. |
| 9:28
| Steve knew he could go in the side doors but he didn't really want to. It seems easier to go into a firehouse through the giant open doors where guys are hanging around and checking out Asian chicks. |
| 9:29
| Live read: Woodfield Nissan |
| 9:30
| Steve has the firehouse shirt. It's your standard dark blue Chicago Fire Department shirt on the front. |
| 9:31
| But on the back you've got your Chinese lettering and a dragon. That's the best t-shirt ever! |
| 9:32
| Steve's going to Florida for the weekend and he threw the shirt in his luggage. Normally he doesn't like to wear an unwashed t-shirt but he'll be running in it this weekend. |
| 9:33
| Steve's going to base himself out of Chinatown, it's very mysterious. Coincidentally the t-shirt is made on Buzz's favorite t-shirt brand. |
| 9:34
| Buzz has a large but Steve can get something bigger. It seems like a large large which will probably work for Buzz. |
| 9:35
| Buzz's daughter is going to love this shirt because of the dragon. He really needs to bring her to Chinatown. |
| 9:36
| Todd Cavanah was just at a business lunch in Chinatown this week. Steve's going to lead the resurgence of Chinatown in Chicago and then he'll be beloved down there. In a few years the dragon on the t-shirt will be him. |
| 9:37
| Alright Steve's got the press conference, he's stealing it from CBS. He's going to keep the theft in the family. |
| 9:38
| It seems like a bad way to start a press conference off by asking if everyone can hear you. And who's the guy laughing in the back? |
| 9:39
| When they start these press conferences for tragedies by thanking law enforcement, is that just a way to get the audience on your side and calm yourself down? |
| 9:40
| Steve was thinking about yesterday during the coverage was that it's tragic because you don't send your kids off to school to get killed like this. |
| 9:41
| Steve kept thinking about Annie Glidden Road, which is the road you take to get to the school. It's one of the weirder road names. |
| 9:42
| Steve wouldn't accept grad students unless it was an MBA. A Sociology graduate degree just means you don't want to be in the real world? That's how Steve would start off his press conference. |
| 9:43
| NIU is sort of a dreary-looking campus. It is winter but the brick is not a good look. They do seem to have a nice pathway system. |
| 9:44
| Caller Bill's daughter was at NIU but she was nowhere near the shooting. That's good because again you don't send your kids off to school to get killed. |
| 9:45
| Bill went to NIU and he still has Annie Glidden Road in his head 30 years later. He's pretty sure Annie Glidden was the husband of the guy who invented barbed wire. |
| 9:46
| So the wife of the barbed wire inventor got a road at the school? She must have donated a bunch of money to the school. |
| 9:47
| Buzz saw something about how some parents were going to transfer their kids to a different school. It seems like the last place another shooting would be is a school that just had a shooting. |
| 9:48
| Joseph Glidden invented barbed wife by using a coffee mill to attain the barbs. He attained a patent in 1874 was became embroiled in a legal battle over whether he really invented it. |
| 9:49
| By the time of his death in 1906 he was one of the richest men in America. Buzz imagines he was one of those most reviled as well just because of all the problems barbed wire caused back them. Buzz just went Old West Buzz right there. |
| 9:50
| Glidden married Lucinda Warne in 1851 so maybe Annie was his daughter? Inadvertently, Glidden invented the barbed wire tattoo as well. |
| 9:56
| OK Back to the press conference with John Peters. Not the movie producer, the president of NIU. |
| 9:57
| It seems like he might be a little mad because Chuck Goudie keeps reporting about threats written on the walls of bathrooms not being taken seriously. |
| 9:58
| As Steve said earlier today, when did we start taking everything written on a bathroom wall seriously? Steve has seen plenty of bad stuff written about himself and Buzz on a bathroom wall. Some of them in the building, some written by Buzz. Steve showed up that one day at 3 but Buzz wasn't there. |
| 9:59
| Can Pete find that second Chuck Goudie thing? Steve wants to know what the second message said on the bathroom wall. It said "February 7th has ended February-?-08". That could be something but what are you supposed to do about it? |
