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| 5:30
| Billy Joel, Movin' Out. You know how you can tell he's moving out, the car is going. It's theater of the mind and theater of the theater because there's a musical called Movin' Out. |
| 5:31
| It's not really a musically it's just a bunch of Billy Joel songs and people dancing. It's sort of like that ABBA thing. As you can imagine the songs are weird when you're stringing the songs together. |
| 5:32
| Normally you have the book, or story, and then the songs are built around that. It's the Rogers & Hammerstein way. |
| 5:33
| Steve stayed in the room at The Omni where Rogers & Hammerstein wrote Oklahoma. There was a plaque on the wall that noted that and Steve imagined that wasn't all they did there. He kept his shoes on the whole time. |
| 5:34
| Steve could tell you about Billy Joel but does he really need to? Buzz remembers reading a Rolling Stone article from way back, around 1972, about a really bitter piano player who was working New York bars. He was always complaining that he wasn't a big superstar and that man was Billy Joel. He's the piano man. |
| 5:35
| An older manager lady, a cougar, took Billy under her wing, made him famous and then he dumped her for Christy Brinkley. She still looks hot and she's older than Steve! She says she eats whatever she wants but just has a lot of sex. |
| 5:36
| Movin' Out (Anthony's Song) is about the singer's disgust with the upwardly-mobile bourgeois aspirations of working and lower-middle class New Yorkers who take pride in working long hours in order to afford the signs of having "made it" What does he care? |
| 5:37
| Steve sees here that according to WBBM-AM traffic at 5:08 AM the roads are very slippery and crashes are occurring every 5 seconds. There are too many to report, it seems like they just gave up. |
| 5:38
| Steve heard a traffic report right before he had to commit to a route to take and he heard the Stevenson was shut down at Damen. He got on the Eisenhower which seemed fine. |
| 5:39
| Steve doesn't understand why there isn't a service that calls him and tells him his route is shut down. There are so many different traffic reports from so many different sources that it's hard to pin down a good one. |
| 5:40
| If you're coming in on the Eisenhower that left lane is cleared because of Steve. He did hit Chuck Goudie's pothole though. He can see why he set up a camera there for 2 weeks. It was brutal and that was after the fix. |
| 5:41
| The filling they used for the hole is already coming out. Someone might want to invent a better way to patch things because it doesn't seem to take. This year has been far worse than normal though. |
| 5:42
| Once you're upon the pothole it's too late so you have to go through it. Some part of Chuck Goudie's video could end up on American's Funniest Videos with the proper editing. |
| 5:43
| So far no one is calling in with traffic information. There has to be some sort of service, even if you have to pay for it, that's worthwhile. This is a research project that Steve could put Tina on. We could send her to the library everyday as soon as it opens. |
| 5:44
| Buzz doesn't think she'd mind that. She can't instant message at the library though so it would cut down on her social networking. Steve can't prove that she's IMing about nonwork things but he might start spying on everyone. At the very least it'll be exciting. |
| 5:45
| Now there are a ton of calls coming in. There can't be that many traffic services can there? Maybe Steve needs to give out the numbers more often. Maybe people are still calling Fresh FM? |
| 5:46
| Jack gives the number out a lot but Steve tunes him out out because he's a smart ass. Plus he's always touting about the commercial free music after the show. If you don't like this show, wait until 10. Steve and Jack have an iffy relationship. They need each other but don't like each other. |
| 5:47
| Steve doesn't even know where to go for traffic information on the air. Metro is completely useless. They're the people who aren't fit for radio, so they go work at Metro. Brendan is more equipped to work in radio than they are. |
| 5:48
| Steve didn't mean to drag Brendan into this. Take any loser here, Steve included, and they're better than Metro. You can even put the guy who works down the hall playing Alanis Morissette records in that category. |
| 5:49
| Steve can never figure out where to go to get good traffic information. He knows he shouldn't admit that, that's why he has Jim answer the phone "traffic center" to give the illusion that we have a traffic center. Steve calls down to the traffic center but there are too many accidents to report. It's down to an accident every 3 seconds. OH MY GOD! |
| 5:55
| Did you hear Jack at the beginning of that last break touting that 10 am crap? It's like he waited for Steve to say something about it and then pounced. He's a jerk. |
| 5:56
| Ben Gay is here, he just had to pop in because he saw something very disturbing. Ben's been here since yesterday which is his normal day to appear. He stayed in the Green Room last night and may have had a party with some of the gay employees who work here. |
| 5:57
| Ben wanted to invite Steve to his next party since he just saw him eating a banana during the break. Steve couldn't get the banana open so he bit it like an orangutan on Orangutan Island. |
| 5:58
| Buzz has heard that monkeys, and some people, peal from the bottom so those fruity string stay on the banana. Ben resents "fruity strings" but he likes to eat them. |
| 5:59
| Whenever Steve and Janet are in Florida she's always pushing bananas on him. He doesn't know why either. She goes to the grocery store and always buys bananas, it's like it's in the bible or something. She never eats them though. |
| 6:00
| Buzz has half a banana every morning and then saves the rest for the next day. It doesn't get funky if you keep it in the peal. What about ants or fruit flies? |
| 6:01
| Steve's new to the banana world so he won't question Buzz's knowledge. If he had a banana he eats the entire thing. Not the peal, that would be hideous, but he would if he could. With an apple he eats the entire thing including the stem. |
| 6:02
| Steve's on this third banana, he had one before he went scuba diving, one before he went to the airport and one today. He also had a frozen banana over the weekend. Those are dipped in chocolate. |
| 6:03
| As a kid Steve used to go to Balboa Island which was famous for frozen bananas. They were even featured in that Arrested Development show that Pete and Jim liked. |
| 6:04
| Steve worked in that area handing out fliers for a record store. Then he took his earnings and invested them in frozen bananas. Not a frozen banana stand though, just the bananas. It seems like a kid sitting in his room eating 3 frozen bananas is a cry for help. |
| 6:05
| Eventually someone heard Steve's cry and his parents took him to his pediatrician who prescribed speed. He lost weight and his grades soared but when they took him off he crashed. No one ever thought to take away the bananas. |
| 6:06
| Steve got to the point where he was just scraping the chocolate off the banana. Then he was scheming to get a vat of chocolate so he could keep dipping his banana in. |
| 6:07
| As Steve got older he found that he could only eat frozen bananas in private. They're a bit phallic, and interracial. |
| 6:08
| Caller Wayne is a bit fidgety. He's recommending GCMTravel.com/gcm/maps_chicago.jsp...OK, Steve's got it. Steve sees that it's run by Rod R. Blagojevich so it can't be that good. He'll probably end up with a lot of emails about kids Rod is trying to help. |
| 6:09
| There has to be a better way for people to get traffic. We have all kinds of satellites in the sky, they can't give traffic? |
| 6:10
| A lot of people were calling in about GPS, what if Steve got a GPS with traffic and kept it in the studio? His iPhone gives real time traffic. Screw it, right?! There has to be a way to give real time traffic though. |
| 6:11
| Caller Dan is waiting to go to work. Is he a fireman or something? He's just downtown waiting to go into the building. He got there early so he's listening to the show which we appreciate. |
| 6:12
| Dan saw something on the Today's Show that looks like a GPS but it's only for traffic. He can't remember the name of it but it has a map of the Chicagoland area and you pay a monthly service which updates the device with traffic hot spots. Could Steve wear it around his neck like bling? |
| 6:13
| Usually they have that stuff on their website and it was just on about a week ago. Was its a weak back? There's another joke, Steve has at least 2 of them. Over the holidays Pat Dahl said Steve only had one joke although he can't remember the circumstances. |
| 6:14
| That was a pretty good payoff for the guy not knowing the name of the device. But the guy is listening in his car instead of going into work. Steve's like Judge Mathis, he has to weigh all of the evidence and make a ruling. Plus he's black, a lot of people don't know that. Steve should probably highlight that during Black History Month. |
| 6:15
| Steve saw today that there's a dust-up about Black History Month involving Jesse Jackson's daughter. Buzz didn't even know he had a daughter because the sons are so well known. Jesse Jr. had the lapband surgery and Yusef owns a Budweiser distributorship downtown. He has a daughter, Santita. Steve thought that was an island off the coast of Florida. |
| 6:16
| From Feder's column today in the Chicago newspaper Sun-Times. Santita Jackson was suspended as midday host at WVON, which stands for Voice of Negroes. Buzz knows that thanks to Stan Lawrence. That's how Steve knows too. |
| 6:17
| Jackson was suspended as midday host after a dispute over Black History Month features on the radio station. |
| 6:18
| Jackson was asked to record a series of vignettes for Black History Month. That sounds like a good idea. She asked that they only air on WVON and a heated exchange ensued. |
| 6:24
| Steve used to have Stan and Terry do Black History segments during the afternoon show. Terry has passed away so it would be tough to get him to do it, although it would be a ratings getter. |
| 6:25
| Stan is out of the radio business and has gone back to being an engineer. Not a train engineer but an HVAC engineer. He does systems for large buildings. It doesn't seem right to drag him back in right now. |
| 6:26
| Stan seemed a little bitter which Steve can understand. He and Terry had a great thing going and then the station went under, then Terry died and then Stan got a new job in engineering. Just when he's out Steve can't drag him back in. |
| 6:27
| It didn't seem like Stan handled the pressures of the daily show. The hardest part isn't being here now, it's coming back the next day. |
| 6:28
| It's not like Steve's not celebrating Black History Month privately. He can't wait to get home and put on his dashiki and listen to some Black Lady Mambazo or whatever it is, or just a Paul Simon record. Maybe Steve is thinking of his Kwanzaa celebration. Black History is more like Booker T. Washington, they have a peanut fest. Steve is eating a lot of peanut butter on a spoon, that's his comfort food. He likes peanut butter and OJ, it's like a peanut butter and jelly in your mouth. |
| 6:29
| Live read: Chicago White Sox |
| 6:30
| Steve hopes that Nick Swisher shaves his beard. He's got that look where the sideburns go into the beard. It's like one big sideburn. Let's call it a monoburn. |
| 6:31
| Steve's feeling good about the upcoming season, he always tries to be optimistic. They've already got his money and they've had it for several months. People complain that the team hasn't made many positive moves but the thing is you never know. It takes a special formula. |
| 6:32
| Look at the Yankees, they have the best team money can buy and they don't always do well. You look at the 2005 White Sox and you didn't think they'd win the World Series. Steve just wants the Sox to be competitive, he hates when they're in last place. |
| 6:33
| Caller Dale didn't want to correct Steve but it was George Washington Carver who was the peanut guy. |
| 6:34
| Carver did a lot with peanuts but he didn't invent peanut butter. Steve wasn't really doing a Black History tribute at home. There really is someone named Booker T. Washington and not just the guy from Booker T & the MGs. |
| 6:35
| So we're straight on that right? Carver was the peanut guy but didn't invent peanut butter. Steve figured that, the peanut is enough right? |
| 6:36
| Now Steve wishes Pat Boyle was on so he could play Peanut Butter Jelly Time. He doesn't get up this early, somehow he's worked himself into a cake slot on the show. |
| 6:37
| He is up until about 2 am every night so Steve doesn't want to push him too hard. Although when he calls in he still on the Ambien and sometimes he says weird things. He's sleep broadcasting. |
| 6:38
| News with Buzz |
| 6:39
| John McCain and Barack Obama continue their primary streak, they both won in Wisconsin and are projected to win Hawaii. |
| 6:40
| Can Tyrone check in with some traffic? If Steve needs traffic he can call Tyrone at the crib, he's a light sleeper. He likes sleeping with white women, that makes him a light sleeper doesn't it? |
| 6:41
| Steve's very lucky he got that traffic report that said the Stevenson was shut down at Damen. Tyrone does a lot of traffic reports on the radio and he never knows what he's talking about. It seemed like accidents every 5 seconds was an exaggeration though. |
| 6:42
| Tyrone would have been happy to do Black History segments but no one asked him. Jack might be a racist though, it seems like that to Tyrone. He's probably the first guy to try to talk to a brother when runs into one in a club though. |
| 6:43
| Buzz thinks Jack is that way to everyone, black, white, Hispanic. So he's just a jerk? That's fine with Tyrone. Why don't they just call it Jerk FM? |
| 6:51
| We got a tip from a listener about a classic throat clearing on the channel 5 news. That was Elie Pai Hong. Apparently she got some pie down the wrong hong. They didn't do her any favors cutting off her mic either. |
| 6:52
| They've had a lot of audio problems since the switch over to HD. It's like everything is mislabeled. The right mic is never on. Someone is always talking off mic or the person |
| 6:53
| George Washington Carver invented more than 300 uses for the peanut. Steve's looking for a list so he can do it as Forrest Gump. 300 uses and he didn't invent peanut butter? How did he miss that? |
| 6:54
| According to what Steve has he did invent peanut butter. Some of the items including peanut butter, paper, ink and oils. Buzz is pretty sure he's using peanut oil for the beignets. Steve doesn't think Aimee would use peanut oil, it's the most unhealthy oil unless you want to get into lard. |
| 6:55
| The most famous of Carver's research took place until after he arrived at Tuskegee in 1886 however he did not patent peanut better because he believed food products were a gift from God. Steve has a feeling that Peter Pan didn't feel that way. |
| 6:56
| The 1800 date for inventing peanut butter proceeds all other peanut butters but does not proceed the Incas. They had to be from outer space right, they had it way too going on. Remember Landing Strips of the Gods? Steve believes all that. |
| 6:57
| And that has been another Black History Month Moment on the Steve Dahl Show. He'd still like to get a list of the peanut uses so he could read it like Bubba from Forrest Gump. |
| 6:58
| We should get back to the news right? We've got the numbers in from Hawaii, Barack Obama dominated the Hawaii caucus. Steve thought he already heard about Hawaii. Buzz is getting his info from Tom Thayer who just woke up. Barack has won every primary since Super Tuesday |
| 6:59
| MSNBC is apologizing for an incident on Hardball in which a photo of Osama bin Laden was flashed on the screen during a story about Barack Obama. |
| 7:00
| Meanwhile Barack Obama's camp is clearing up something his wife said last night. Is this what the Clinton camp is doing now, parsing everything they say? This one actually went straight to the Republicans, John McClain's wife commented on it last night. |
| 7:01
| John McClain? He's the guy from Die Hard. Buzz has to stop doing that because Steve can't keep correcting him all the way until November and longer if he gets elected. |
| 7:02
| Michelle Obama said that she's finally proud of her country because hope is making a comeback. That doesn't seem that bad. The Republicans are saying they've always been proud of their country. |
| 7:03
| Buzz doesn't think you can say that, even if it's true. If Steve was black he's not sure if he'd be proud of his country. Of course her husband went to Harvard and they've got a sweet house in Hyde Park with a side yard they bought off Tony Rezko. |
| 7:04
| NASA has a good weather forecast as the Space Shuttle Atlantis prepares to land. DId Buzz say Atlantis? Hail Atlantis! |
| 7:05
| Meanwhile skygazers in North America should be able to see a total lunar eclipse, weather permitting. Steve hopes we can see that, what's the weather supposed to be like tonight? |
| 7:06
| In other good news, Duane "Dog" Chapman is getting another chance and A & E will put his show back into production. Steve doesn't like that look of his. He is a bounty hunter though, when he breaks down your front door armed to the teeth that's the look he wants to give you. |
| 7:07
| Steve's looking at a weather report for tonight. At the time of the eclipse, around 9 pm, it'll be a toasty 5º and only 12% sky cover. So we should be able to see the eclipse. |
| 7:08
| Caller Patti was watching WGN with the volume off and the show on. Because Steve and Buzz don't know what they're talking about so she needs to see it on TV? That's a safe bet. |
| 7:09
| Patti just likes to have something to look at while she's curling her hair. She should try doing it topless. Patti's sick of looking at them, she seems them all the time. Plus there's the monthly self-examine. It's expensive to pay a doctor for that every month. That's why Steve and Buzz are trying to set up their mobile breast exam service. They have a few legal hurdles to overcome. |
| 7:10
| Patti saw on WGN that we'll have clear skies tonight so we'll be able to see the eclipse. Wind chill will be -8º. |
| 7:11
| Patti loves the show in the morning, it keeps her going until 10 o'clock. That's a perfect listener right there. Patti tells Steve to keep warm but he doesn't have to worry because he never goes outside. He goes from his garage at home to the garage in the building, through the tunnel to the gym and then back to the garage to leave. |
| 7:13
| There is a part of Steve that wants to go out in the front yard and look for part of his landscape light that was disconnected by the plow guy. Steve still hasn't fired up the flamethrower yet. There was a big thaw over the weekend. He does have some frozen dog doo he needs to take care of. |
| 7:14
| He doesn't feel like doing that by hand and he doesn't think the dogs are going to help him. Steve should let Patti go, she'll be late for work. Is Patti topless now? She's actually wearing a robe. |
| 7:15
| A Florida man said he only meant to scare his girlfriend when he tied her up. She later died. That'll scare her. Buzz doesn't want to talk about the robe, he's just ready to move on? |
| 7:16
| Lawyers for Tony Rezko will be allowed to use admissions of drug use against the government's star witness. |
| 7:17
| Former middle school teacher Alenna Ward was sent to prison for 6 years yesterday for having sex with 5 teenage boys. People complain about our education system but we're locking up our best teachers. No child left not touching her behind. |
| 7:18
| She met the boys at the school where she taught, at a hotel, at a park and behind a restaurant. One of the sister's of the victims feels justice has been served. |
| 7:19
| Steve can see how that would be bad if a guy did it to a girl but not if a girl did it to a guy. Steve's a guy, you just roll with it. If Steve was 15 and nailing his teacher that'd be all good. When you're 15 and a guy that's all you're trying to do. |
| 7:26
| Live read: Fresh Diet |
| 7:27
| Steve's having his breakfast right now, ricotta-filled crepes with some sort of peach nectar. Buzz wonders how Steve pronounces crepes. Steve and Buzz both say cray-ps. The proper way is creps. |
| 7:28
| Buzz runs into this problem every time he's at the crepery or craypery. He's only there a few times a decade. The crepery is very romantic and it's faster than fondue. 45 minutes, you're in, you're out. |
| 7:29
| Steve does have the list of peanut uses but it's only 100, not 300. Steve's going to read it as Bubba Gump from Forrest Gump. Although that wasn't his name in the movie. |
| 7:30
| Steve finds that disturbing, they just changed the name for the restaurant. Maybe he didn't have a last name in the movie? |
| 7:31
| In the movie he was Bubba Blue, Steve can see why they didn't call the restaurant Bubba Blue's, that would be confusing. |
| 7:32
| Steve reads the list. There are lots of repeats on here, Steve can see why they cut the list down. This does have the Forrest Gump feel, just as Steve imagined. |
| 7:33
| Time for today's web poll. Yesterday's question was, of course, "have you seen the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue?" The no's have it at 54% |
| 7:34
| Steve has a copy in his briefcase but he hasn't looked at it. He doesn't need a swimsuit and he doesn't want the torture. |
| 7:35
| Today's web poll question is "is your body red carpet ready?" If stars can slim down or get less puffy in a quick amount of time why can't everyone else? |
| 7:36
| The first step is to up your cardio. You can slim down by burning more calories than you consume. It took Steve almost 50 years to figure that out. |
| 7:37
| Aim for 5-7 hours a week of cardio. That's a lot of working out. Buzz does yoga, so he says. We've never seen it though. Steve sees him lurking in the gym but he can't see well enough to see what he's doing. All Buzz does is walk around with his gloves on. |
| 7:38
| Mostly it seems like Buzz is trying to peep Steve doing pilates. He doesn't want to see that though. There's that one trainer who Brendan went over to take a photo of, Buzz sees her all the time. |
| 7:39
| Buzz sees this girl all the time. Steve thinks she's oblivious. Buzz thinks she has to know that he's behind the whole thing, even though he wasn't happy with the photo Brendan took. |
| 7:40
| Yesterday the gym was very empty and Buzz felt they'd cross paths, which they did. He was compelled to not ignore her. For the first time since that incident occurred they shared a glance. |
| 7:41
| Steve's pretty sure she doesn't know who he is or who Buzz. She smiled slightly at Buzz and it could have been a sneer indicating she knew he was the pervert who sent Brendan over. |
| 7:42
| Steve was on the exercise bike in that room with all the weights, doing the 5 minutes to get his heart rate up that he doesn't want to do. He just does it because he doesn't want to argue about it. |
| 7:43
| So Steve's on the bike and the girl Buzz is talking about puts her victim on a bike two down from him. Steve's trainer starts working the other trainer and the girl starts getting territorial about it. |
| 7:44
| Steve's trainer might be an up-and-coming Buzz Kilman. His ex is now his roommate and he can do whatever he wants. |
| 7:45
| So the other person is getting upset that Steve's trainer is working her trainer. Then he makes some inappropriate comment about how he's going to make the girl wear a Catholic school girl outfit. Then he says he should make Steve wear that outfit. |
| 7:46
| That's when Steve shut the whole thing down. It was inappropriate to say that about the girl and really inappropriate to say that about Steve. He doesn't think they'd have a skirt to fit him though. |
| 7:52
| Live read: Townstone Financial |
| 7:53
| Steve doesn't think this live read is going to end well. Buzz didn't know two cops could make as much money as these people do combined. |
| 7:54
| Drew made that much in his time. Not any more though. And his pension is tied up currently. |
| 7:55
| Drew's family never want for anything, except maybe Stacy. Drew did alright though, he made about $90,000 a year. |
| 7:56
| It's too bad those people didn't call David Hochberg though, he could have helped them out. |
| 7:57
| The make-up sex that Drew and Stacy will have when she returns will be mindblowing. First there will be the anger but that's to be expected. |
| 7:58
| Drew thought she'd be back by Valentime's day. He's prepared to fly them to a Jimmy Buffett show, wherever he's playing. |
| 7:59
| Maybe Buzz wants to come workout at Lifetime Fitness sometime? He can tell Drew what all the girls are thinking since that seems to be what he's good at. |
| 8:00
| Then they could head over to Buffalo Wild Wings for a pitcher of beer and some wings. Or maybe Buzz prefers Ted's Montanan Grill. Has he ever had buffalo? |
| 8:01
| Hey look, the shuttle is landing. Drew should probably step back and let Steve handle this. Or maybe he should take this. |
| 8:02
| No one from NASA is talking, it's just birds. They sound like Florida birds to Buzz though. |
| 8:03
| There go the double sonic booms. The birds are gone though, the sonic boom is probably their warning to get out of there. |
| 8:04
| Drew's an experimental pilot, did Buzz know that? |
| 8:05
| A 3 million mile trip? Do they get frequent flyer miles with that? Because that would be a lot of miles. |
| 8:06
| There you go Buzz, Drew called the space shuttle in for him. Hopefully he didn't mind. Lombard native Dan Tani is back on Earth. |
| 8:07
| There are more jets flying around the shuttle, that might be fighter jets looking to shoot down terrorists. |
| 8:08
| Bob and Ron are here, it's pretty dangerous days for dogwalkers. Standby, Steve doesn't care about that. |
| 8:09
| It's time now for the Eight O'Clock Taco Bell. It's Sauce Packet Wednesday, don't forget about the Taco Bell Fiesta platters. |
| 8:10
| Alright back to the knuckleheads. As Bob was saying it's dangerous times for dogwalkers, everything is covered in ice. |
| 8:11
| Bob and Ron will have to get those spikes for their shoes and for the dog's feet. |
| 8:12
| We're currently on day 5 of Buzz having the Golf Channel on his TV. He noticed yesterday but it's still on the Golf Channel today. He keeps waiting for a weather report. |
| 8:13
| Right now there's a Chuck Norris infomercial on. That's the one with Christy Brinkley on it which is why Buzz left the channel on. Could Steve change it to CNN though? |
| 8:14
| That's going to make all the difference for us. According to Buzz's sources at the Golf Channel the polls are still open but Michelle Wie is having a great game. |
| 8:15
| This Chuck Norris thing is just a Pilates machine. Buzz doesn't think the sound is going to enhance Steve's experience. There's Christy doing the workout for her friends though. |
| 8:16
| Steve will get it back to CNN before Buzz buys one of these workout machines. Right now Steve's TV is on snow. |
| 8:17
| Maybe Pete or Brendan could change the channel since they're the ones who are always in here watching TV. |
| 8:18
| Steve needs to take a break. Can Bob and Ron stick around or do they have pressing matters to get to? Is there a dog that has to poop and can't wait? |
| 8:24
| Buzz is all hooked up with CNN now. Steve's sure it's going to change all of our coverage. No wonder Buzz wasn't getting those Hawaii numbers. |
| 8:25
| Steve's questioning Bob and Ron's song choice for today. They just got Todd Cavanah on their side, do they want to go with Fresh Garbage? |
| 8:26
| Do they have any Duran Duran or Culture Club? Todd's a metrosexual. |
| 8:27
| Bob suggests Mr. Skin by Spirit, that's the first song they bonded over Steve with. Do they think the listeners actually care about that? |
| 8:28
| Steve was broadcasting at Arlington and Bob and Ron showed up with a mixtape that had that song on it. They won his heart with a mixtape. That was before iTunes so Steve didn't have the Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus in his possession. |
| 8:29
| Ron was just thinking the listeners would like something new and different and classic. If they said that in a meeting with Todd and Rod Zimmerman they'd be thrown out of the window. |
| 8:30
| Steve thinks they should go with Spirit but they can play whatever they want. The only song on here that Todd might like is Styx but Steve can't play that. |
| 8:31
| Steve wants to play a longer song, he needs to kill sometime. It's only 8:30! He accidentally got up a 3:30 today. Buzz couldn't tell though but he's also on a lack of sleep. |
| 8:32
| Buzz is on 3 1/2 hours of sleep. What time does Buzz Kilman power down? Last night Buzz went to sleep around 11 but he didn't really nap. |
| 8:33
| He was sitting on the couch with The Peeper watching Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet the Werewolf. That's also what Steve was watching with his dogs. He heard himself snoring a few times but he wasn't sleeping for every long. |
| 8:34
| Before Buzz went to bed he watched some TV. Was it something scary? It was the news and since he watches channel 5 that is scary. He was in bed by 11 and just laid there getting more and more awake. |
| 8:35
| He got up at 12:30 and didn't get to sleep until 12:45. Buzz had the brief nap after 2 pm. That's a little late for a nap though, 2 should be the cut off. |
| 8:36
| Caller Mark is wondering if Buzz's snub by Richard Roeper is keeping him up at night. Perhaps it was there in the back of Buzz's mind. It was on Steve's mind. |
| 8:37
| Something that Steve has thought about doing-although this might be dopey and she's not sure he should even say it-is downloading meditations off iTunes. They put you to sleep because it's boring. |
| 8:38
| There are so many of them on iTunes and Steve usually falls asleep just looking for them. |
| 8:39
| Maybe Bob and Ron should go with track 6 today since Steve's talking about meditation now. |
| 8:40
| Bob thought Steve used Ron Lewis to put him to sleep. That's Ron Lewis, Steve's accountant and a folklorist. |
| 8:41
| Does Pete have some Ron Lewis handy? This is another thing Bob has brought up that Steve has to explain. |
| 8:42
| Bob and Ron aren't much better than Ron though. Maybe Steve should try Ron with some meditative music underneath him. |
| 8:43
| You can't have music under Ron because you have to hear the crazy stuff he's saying. He just mentioned Freckle Records! |
| 8:44
| It doesn't seem like Ron does any research for his show. Hopefully he's a little more precise with Steve's taxes. |
| 8:45
| Steve calls up to his office. Why is Tina answering Steve's own phone? Ron was on his way to the phone so she picked it up. |
| 8:46
| Ron's working in the lobby area of Steve's office, not his actual office. He's probably up there ordering Tina around, telling her to answer the phone. |
| 8:52
| Live read: DeVry University |
| 8:53
| Did that Nubian feller send Pete the new Peanut Butter Jelly Time? Steve heard he sent it to Pete but not to him. |
| 8:54
| Pete has it, why didn't the guy just send it to Steve. Pete likes it and he thinks Steve will like it as well. |
| 8:55
| Steve likes it although the Nubian might be mocking him at some point. It's all mixed up the way he likes it though. |
| 8:56
| Steve doesn't know how to stop it so he's just going to turn it off. It's a little busy. |
| 8:57
| We need to develop some sort of personality for Pat since he doesn't have one. Sadly we're reduced to this. |
| 8:58
| Steve watched the Blackhawks last night, that didn't end well. Steve's never seen a hockey game on Versus and it was enjoyable. |
| 8:59
| They're back in action tonight at the United Center, Pat assumes Steve will be there. Didn't we go through this, Steve doesn't want to give out his whereabouts. Then everyone comes to talk to him. |
| 9:00
| There was a fight 2 seconds into the game, they're doing a lot of that lately. Savard has been putting the 4th Line out there to start the game and get things going. |
| 9:01
| You have to wait until after the puck drops to start he fight or else you'll be gone for the whole game. Buzz doesn't understand how they can justify the fights in hockey though. |
| 9:02
| It seems more like wrestling to Buzz because it's prearranged. So Buzz likes boxing but only when it's an actual boxing match. It's much more than that though. |
| 9:03
| No one says the fights are spontaneous. Sometimes they are but a lot of the time the players go in wanting to fight. There are all sorts of reasons going into the game for why players would want to fight each other. |
| 9:04
| Sometimes the guys are lipping off at each other before the puck drops. |
| 9:05
| It's not that Buzz doesn't like it, he just doesn't understand it. It seems like it's just boxing on fake ice wearing skates. |
| 9:06
| Steve doesn't like it when the Blackhawk loses, especially when they start the fight. Steve thinks Buzz would like it if he saw it. |
| 9:07
| Sometimes if someone on the other team goes after someone like Kane or Toews, when the next line comes out and there's a fight you know why. |
| 9:08
| Plus the guy who got in the fight last night was new to the Blackhawks and probably wanted to impress his teammates. |
| 9:09
| To Buzz the best sports grudge is the one Ed Farmer had against that guy who hit a home run off him. Two years afterwards they were on the same team and Ed beaned him in batting practice. |
| 9:10
| Steve needs to take Buzz to a hockey game but he's afraid to because of stuff like this. Buzz will be sitting there wondering how much more time is left. Plus it's late, Buzz will probably cut out after the second period. |
| 9:11
| The whole thing is completely insane though. They're not even on real ice. They froze something indoors for these guys to skate around on! |
| 9:12
| Steve's going to the game tonight with Matt Dahl. Chef Hans is going to be there with a whole group of chefs from that Escoffier Dinner though. Steve's still trying to get out of that. |
| 9:13
| There's a fighting theme in sports today. Last week we talked about Aramis Ramirez involved in cockfighting in the Dominican. Is Buzz OK with cockfighting since there's no back story for the roosters? |
| 9:14
| It's legal in the Dominican Republic, Steve doesn't see what the big deal is. He didn't want to talk about the cockfighting but Pat has a feeling this story isn't over. He'll probably be heckled on the road. |
| 9:15
| Whale slaughter is legal in Japan, are people going to hassle Fukudome? Of course he's not on the cover of a whale slaughter magazine. |
| 9:16
| You'd think Aramis would want to tone down the cockfighting a bit though, not appear on a cockfighting magazine. |
| 9:17
| Lou also talked about getting a few drinks before he made his plans for the Spring. Yesterday he mistakenly said it's good to get off to a bad start so you can rest your players. |
| 9:18
| What he meant was that it's good to get off to a fast start so you can rest your players. That seems way worse than cockfighting! |
| 9:26
| Live read: Illinois Lottery |
| 9:27
| Steve's getting some lottery tickets and he will not be donating the money to charity. He'll buy a big ass boat or something. |
| 9:28
| Chef Hans is here along with Chef Steven Henry from the Palmer House. He needs to get closer to the mic though, like Steve is. Steven's not from this country is he? |
| 9:29
| It's Chef's dime and Chef's dance floor as Chet Coppock would say. Steve will help him out a bit, the Escoffier Society dinner is on Sunday. |
| 9:30
| Hans is demanding something from Mary, like he needs a sauce. He's got some paperwork he needs her to get him. Steve doesn't like Hans taking over his show like this. |
| 9:31
| If Aramis Ramirez wants to hire Hans he can make cockanoodle soup after the cockfighting. Not Coq au Vin? |
| 9:32
| Steve went to the Escoffier Dinner last year as Hans' guest. Then he was inducted into the society in a secret ceremony in a hotel room. He had to take his tux off and he'll never look at a bechamel sauce the same way again. |
| 9:33
| Presently Steve doesn't want to go and doesn't want to bring Patrick Bertoletti but he's sure he'll have a good time. This is coming on the heels of Steve being the featured speaker at the Blackhawks Alumni dinner without him knowing him. |
| 9:34
| This year the dinner is at the Palmer House HIlton and it's the 80th anniversary of the society so everyone is very excited. |
| 9:35
| As an official member will Steve get a sash? Because there were a lot of guys walking around in sashes. You have to be a disciple to get a sash. |
| 9:36
| In addition to Steve Jesse White will be at the dinner. Unfortunately Charlie Trotter can't make it. Hans does that a lot, he dangles Charlie Trotter in front of people. Hans probably doesn't even know Charlie. |
| 9:37
| There aren't enough girls in the Escoffier Society. Jesse's the only one who brings a girl. It's a sausage fest in tuxedos. When you go to this dinner you can't talk about each other, religion or politics. So you have to talk about how there's nothing to talk about. |
| 9:38
| If you sit next to Hans he'll find something to talk about. It's nonstop talking. Last year he talked to Steve on his left and some Swiss guy on his right. |
| 9:40
| Turns out Hans and that guy used to summer at the same lake in Switzerland when they were younger. They actually worked at resorts on the same lake, Lake Beal. Did Buzz go there when he went to Switzerland? He probably just flew over the lake. He used Hans for his first class airfare to Switzerland and then hightailed it to France as soon as he landed. He should have a travel special on PBS. |
| 9:41
| Does Buzz know what Steve's eating on Sunday? He'd like to know all 11 courses. Steve might not get to all 11 today. |
| 9:42
| They're starting with wild boar. Steve's back in for that. Then you've got your consummé. It's a hard dish to keep warm and you always get criticized for that. They're taking ox, venison and pheasant bones and reducing that. |
| 9:43
| Escoffier came to the Palmer House 80 years ago and met the chef at the time. He was the head of the Chef's Association of Chicago and awarded an honorary membership to Escoffier. |
| 9:44
| Escoffier's grandson will be at the dinner on Sunday. He's not a chef though, he's just living off the Escoffier name. |
| 9:45
| César Ritz was Swiss and he and Escoffier entered into a partnership, opening the Carlton Hotel. It was there that Escoffier invented Peach Melba. |
| 9:46
| The main course on Sunday will be a suckling pig filled with Granny Smith apples and a mir poir. |
| 9:47
| Steve's looking forward to the dinner. Buzz knows that the brownie was invented at the Palmer House. That's a valuable piece of information. |
| 9:48
| It was invented for Bertha Palmer during the World's Fair. She wanted something to feed the guests that was different than normal desserts. |
| 9:49
| There's a lot of history at the Palmer House. Steven's always finding things in little corners of the hotel that haven't been visited in a while. He's found a lot of old supplies and menus from the kitchen. |
| 9:50
| There are always people coming to the Palmer House for their wedding anniversary. They're charged the same amount they were charged when they honeymooned there however many years ago. Usually it's $3 or $4 a night. |
| 9:51
| Steven was telling Hans on the way over that if Steve and Buzz ever wanted to be guests at the hotel they were welcome. |
| 9:58
| Steve thought the name of the chef at the Palmer House in 1927 was Amis and that Les Amis Escoffier was a combination of the two names. Steve was thinking like it was a showbiz co-bill. |
| 9:59
| Escoffier introduced discipline and sobriety where that had been disorder and drunkenness. That seems key. He also replaced the practice of serving all dishes at once with serving them in order. That also seems key. |
| 10:00
| Also for the record, Peach Melba is peach and raspberry sauce with vanilla ice cream. He also invented Melba toast for Dame Nellie Melba who he was apparently nailing. |
| 10:01
| Steve will have to ask the grandson about that but hopefully Steve won't have to talk to him on Monday. The guy's not even a chef! |
| 10:02
| Steve's going to that and he's excited. He always thinks he won't have a good time somewhere and then he likes it. That's the way he is though. He feels stupid for dreading something but he always likes it. |
| 10:03
| There's a 22 car pile-up on the Indiana tollway. Buzz understands that there was an accident every 5 seconds and there were too many to report. |
