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| 5:31
| That's The Smithereens and A Girl LIke You. Not a girl like Buzz though, he's a man. |
| 5:32
| Steve has information about The Smithereens but it doesn't seem that interesting. A Girl Like You is track 1 from 1989's 11, inspired by Christopher Guest's quote "This one goes to eleven" from This is Spinal Tap. That's sort of interesting. |
| 5:33
| The Smithereens are a rock band from Carteret, New Jersey. Steve thinks he likes them but he doesn't know much about them. He's pretty sure that's the only song Jack has for us. |
| 5:34
| So Steve was getting a cold yesterday but he's pretty much over it by now. Buzz can't believe he can get over it in 24 hours. He's a man of steel. |
| 5:35
| Steve knows who got him sick too. When he flew home from Florida last Monday the guy behind him coughed the entire time. If Steve could find out from the airline who was in that seat he'd hunt the guy down. |
| 5:36
| Steve's not trying to show off-he has 3 million miles and makes a good living-but you'd think people would cover their mouth when they coughed in first class. He can see it happening in coach though, it's a no man's land back there. There are goats wandering around, chickens, dead babies, dead Haitian women. |
| 5:37
| That woman who died on the flight from Haiti was brought up to first class for the remainder of the flight. If Steve was in first class he wouldn't have been happy that they brought a body up to first class and laid it across the seats. |
| 5:38
| Steve was surprised to learn that American flew to Haiti. American Airlines, your Haitian vacation destination. There probably aren't a lot of people upgrading to first class when they fly from Haiti though. |
| 5:39
| Steve's going to go with the full story on this woman since we're here until 10. American defended it's staff as professional and its equipment as sound after the in-flight death of a passenger. An in-flight death is like an in-flight movie. At least it will give people something to talk about. |
| 5:40
| Steve's not sure if you get a movie on a flight from Haiti to New York. He didn't have one from Florida to Chicago. There wasn't even a radio channel to listen to. No oxygen tanks, no movies in coach. Steve's surprised they still have seats back there actually. |
| 5:41
| Carine Desir was pronounced dead on a nearly full flight from Haiti to New York by a pediatrician. He tried to use the plane's defibrillator to revive her. |
| 5:42
| The doctor was one of several medical professionals who stepped in after flight attendants asked if there were any on board. How many doctors were on this flight? Buzz thinks that doctors are the people going to Haiti. That makes sense, it's godforsaken. |
| 5:43
| Steve's been to Haiti on a cruise and they have a special fenced off area that you can go to. Even the people at the market there seem pretty desperate. |
| 5:44
| Desir complained of not feeling well and being thirsty after her in-flight meal. At least she got a meal on the flight. Desir's cousin flagged down a flight attendant who brought her some water. Sometimes it's hard to get the water if the cart is blocking the aisle. |
| 5:45
| A few minutes later Desir, a nurse herself, said she was having trouble breathing and asked for oxygen. Her cousin remembers her saying "don't let me die." Buzz has said that from time to time. So has Steve, usually with his head in a toilet. |
| 5:46
| Caller Chris wanted to let Steve know that the MD-80 doesn't have audio or video capabilities. There are a lot of them in American's fleet too. Who purchased those for the company?! |
| 5:47
| It's not snowing as much any more. The winter storm warning has been canceled. Steve was lectured by the WBBM-AM traffic reporter on the way in. He said that people might think the roads aren't bad but they shouldn't kid themselves. Everything was fine where Steve was driving. |
| 5:48
| The guy was probably just geeked because he thought it would be a bad traffic day and it wasn't. Then he took it out on Steve. Don't kid yourself?! |
| 5:55
| Made has perhaps one of the best airline sequences ever filmed. |
| 5:56
| Don't forget today when you hear the horn that plays when the Blackhawks score a goal, be the 10th caller to 616-1043 and you win a pair of tickets for the March 5th game. That might be the game where Steve drops the puck. |
| 5:57
| The thing that Steve has makes it seem like he's playing in the game. He's just dropping the puck and then leaving the ice and taking off his Blackhawks jersey. Steve would prefer not to even wear the jersey. Buzz thinks that would be derigeur. |
| 5:58
| When Steve threw out the first pitch at a Sox game he didn't wear a jersey. And much to Buzz's surprise he threw a strike. It was clocked around 96 or 97. |
| 5:59
| If Steve was an athlete he wouldn't want other people wearing his jersey. It's not like the players make money if people buy their jerseys. All that money goes into a pool and the owners get it. Steve still gets mad when he sees people wearing bootleg Disco Demolition jerseys. |
| 6:00
| You can also enter to win at IKnowJack.com. Don't email Steve with sob stories asking for tickets though. There are 25 pairs to give away online and 25 pairs to give away on the phone. |
| 6:01
| Over the summer Steve could give away more tickets for Dahlfins shows because they were trying to fill the place up. There's a difference between a concert at a bar and a hockey game at the United Center though. |
| 6:02
| Steve feels bad though because it's in his nature to want to give people what they want. He's a giver and a Parrothead. |
| 6:03
| As Steve mentioned before the break he was admonished on the way in by the WBBM-AM traffic guy. He told listeners not to kid themselves, the roads are bad. How good of a traffic reporter can he be, he just reports tips from listeners. Steve could do that but he wouldn't be touted as a traffic source because he doesn't do it every 10 minutes. |
| 6:04
| Caller Jeff has that WBBM tip line number programmed into his phone just so he can call in if he sees something. That way on his way into work he only has to hear the traffic once instead of three times. Then he can switch over to Steve. |
| 6:05
| Steve doesn't want to be mean to Jeff, maybe he's nervous, but his plan seems flawed. So Jeff's driving in and he sees a traffic accident and calls it in. Then people hear that report and avoid the area. |
| 6:06
| Since people are avoiding the area that means less people on the roads for Jeff. That still seems convoluted to Steve, how about a spin of the wheel to make this stop? |
| 6:07
| Mary wanted to add something about the traffic tipsters. On the way home from work yesterday she saw a car get hit by a train. How delightful. Within a minute of that she heard that reported on WBBM by a traffic tipster. So is she saying people should switch over to WBBM? |
| 6:08
| People call in with traffic tips in the morning and Brendan passes them on. Jack doesn't take those calls in the afternoons though. For some reason when Brendan screened the call all he had up on screen was Jeff's name and then where he was from. That's the least important thing to Steve. Is Brendan hoping to one day answer calls at The Score? |
| 6:09
| Can Steve go back to that lady on the flight from Haiti? He wants to get this dead lady off his plate. |
| 6:10
| Airline spokesman Charley Wilson (like Charley Wilson's War?) said Desir's cousin flagged down a flight attendant and said she had diabetes and needed oxygen. Don't you need insulin for diabetes? |
| 6:11
| The flight attendant said that they normally don't treat diabetes with oxygen and she'd have to check with someone. The flight attendant can't just start administering oxygen. She probably has to check with the pilot. If Steve's a pilot he would want to know if someone had whipped out the oxygen. |
| 6:12
| Three minutes later the condition had worsened and they immediately began administering oxygen. So they had oxygen on the flight? Why would they have empty oxygen tanks? Who would you believe, stupid Haitians or American Airlines? |
| 6:13
| Steve has 3 million frequent flyer miles. He's a mile idiot savant. Where does Buzz want to go? Steve can break off miles for him right now. |
| 6:14
| When Steve flew to Hawaii over the summer he had to supplement his meal by walking to the back of the plane and buying something. It was a 777 so it was about a mile's walk. The back of the plane is where the drunk guys hang out and work the flight attendants. |
| 6:15
| Steve bought 4 boxes of trail mix bars and the flight attendant couldn't believe it. She thought he was Howard Hughes because he spent $20 on trail mix. |
| 6:16
| Steve brought the trail mix to the boys who were in coach. They do lobby to get into first class though. They're getting a free flight to Hawaii and week's stay, they're going to fly coach. |
| 6:17
| Flight attendants are trained not to give oxygen to every passenger who requests it, instead using airline criteria to decide when it's needed. That makes sense since oxygen is highly flammable. |
| 6:18
| Two tanks were used on Desir and both of them worked properly. The FAA requires that commercial flights carry no fewer than two oxygen dispensers. The main goal is to have it available in case there is a rapid cabin decompressions. |
| 6:19
| It's up to the airlines to maintain the canisters. So there might not be oxygen when those masks drop down from the ceiling? |
| 6:20
| Two medical professionals on board said the defibrillator showed that Desir's heartbeat was took weak for the unit to work. Desir's cousin, Antonio Oliver, asked that the plane land right away so they could get her to a hospital. OK Captain Oliver. |
| 6:21
| During that time Desir collapsed and died. Her body was moved to the floor of the first class section, near the bulkhead. They would have probably asked Steve to change his seat had he been on the flight. |
| 6:28
| One time Steve was on a flight going to Hawaii. It was a three cabin plane and Steve wasn't in first class so he was already mad. He was in business class, which is nice, but if someone else has something he doesn't have he wants it. |
| 6:29
| He could have had first class, it was the same price, but he didn't book ahead. This was back in the days where you could smoke on the plane too. What a stinky nightmare. |
| 6:30
| There was a guy up in first class who had emphysema and had to have an oxygen. The woman across the aisle from him was smoking. So Steve pointed out the problem with that to the flight attendant. She told him to sit down and then Steve made his case to several other people. |
| 6:31
| Everyone said it wasn't pure oxygen so there wasn't anything to be worried about. It's still oxygen, it's highly flammable! |
| 6:32
| When Buzz was working as a surgery orderly in MIami they had tanks of nitrous and oxygen. If you came in on a Saturday hungover a few hits of the oxygen tank would really help you. |
| 6:33
| Of course if you were hungover you might make a mistake and once Buzz grabbed the wrong take and took a hit of nitrous. He only smelled the nitrous and then whipped the mask off and everything went dark. |
| 6:34
| Live read: Woodfield Nissan |
| 6:35
| Does Buzz want to do the news or the web poll? He likes to do the web poll first just so he can organize himself a bit. Steve needs to find yesterday's results first. A lot of people email Steve wondering where the web poll goes. It's only up on the website from 5:30 am to 10 am. |
| 6:36
| Yesterday's question was "are you a member of the Polar Bear Club?" 98.5% said no. So some of our listeners are members of the Polar Bear Club. That seems like a heart attack waiting to happen. |
| 6:37
| Today's question is "have you ever taken a trip by train?" Buzz has and he'd like to take another one. They have a nice one to New Orleans, The City of New Orleans. Illinois Central Monday morning rail, fifteen cars and fifteen restless riders. Three conductors and twenty-five sacks of mail. |
| 6:38
| Good morning America how are you? Don't you know me I'm your native son. It sounds like a fun ride until it derails. That's the problem with trains, they derail a lot. |
| 6:39
| Steve took the Amtrak Bullet Train from Boston to New York. It has to slow down to let other trains pass so it's high speed for most of the way. Steve did take the Chunnel train in Europe, that was sweet. |
| 6:40
| One minute you're in London then you're in a tunnel and then you come out in Calais. Then you start thinking about D-Day and all the soldiers who did this and you feel guilty because you're mad that you're not in first class. |
| 6:41
| It's been hailed as the future of mass transit and ridiculed as a big gamble on little more than amusement park ride. The project in question is a magnetically levitated train from Las Vegas to Disneyland. It's Las Vegas Disneyland? |
| 6:42
| The project would be the first MagLev train in the nation. Ten million Californians make the 250 mile drive to Vegas each year. Most of them take a clogged Interstate 15 that can slow to a crawl and make the drive up to 5 hours. |
| 6:43
| For nearly two decades the main plan has been the MagLev train which would take riders between LA and Vegas at up to 300 mph. But a delay in Federal funding has given traction to a cheaper diesel-electric alternative. |
| 6:44
| That train would take riders between Las Vegas and the town of Victorville, California. Who would want to do that? Victorville is 1 1/2 hours from LA. |
| 6:45
| Nevada GOP powerbroker Sig Rogich is pouring millions into the project. Sig Rogich sounds like a Vegas guy. He's courting lawmakers including Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. Wasn't he a porn star? |
| 6:46
| The most recent delay in the MagLev train was a drafting error that blocked $45 million for the project. $45 million for a train that doesn't even exist?! |
| 6:47
| Does MagLev need a rail or does it just work on the existing rail? It's like when you put two magnets together and they push apart. |
| 6:48
| A train running between LA and Vegas doesn't guarantee success. Amtrak shutdown their Desert Wind line in 1997 because of low ridership. You have to give Amtrak credit, they always have sweet names for their trains like the Empire Builder. |
| 6:49
| Steve wouldn't mind taking a train somewhere, Amtrak has some nice accommodations. There's a guy he knows who works PR for Amtrak and he always wants him to travel. Steve doesn't know where to go. Steve's not going to New Orleans until they get that place repaired. He doesn't drink though, what will he do? Steve can go to Heaven on Seven and get muffins there. |
| 6:50
| Buzz had a friend who made the trip from Miami to Chicago but that's 24 hours. Steve would do that if he had a nice room and maybe a big pile of blow. Does Buzz know the name of that line? It's probably something cool like The Citrus Express. Steve will look it up during the break. |
| 6:54
| That's Howard Cosell, losing it. Has Buzz heard the entire thing? Would he like to hear it now? Pete has the whole thing but he might have to relisten for profanity. |
| 6:55
| It's a good tape, Steve hasn't played it in a while. Cosell totally losses it. It's like that Chris Berman tape on YouTube. Buzz hasn't seen that one yet. Someone's been sitting on it for 8 years. |
| 6:56
| Berman's doing some sort of update and someone walks in front of his desk below the camera. He just loses it and there's a lot of profanity. Steve's pretty sure we don't have an edited version of that. |
| 6:57
| Maybe Berman was imitating Cosell's rant. It might be good to play them both so Pete will have his work cut out for him with the Berman rant. |
| 6:58
| Steve's been looking for the names of the trains to Miami. He sees City of Miami but it was called The Southwind and The Floridian. They might just call it the daily train from Chicago to Miami now. |
| 6:59
| Steve took the Acela Express from Boston to New York but it's not really a high speed train. You've got your California Zephyr, your Amtrak Cascades, your Capital Limited, your City of New Orleans, your Empire Builder, your Heartland Flyer (nice!), your Hiawatha, that's Chicago to Milwaukee. |
| 7:00
| You've got your Maple Leaf from Toronto to New York, your Pacific Surfliner, your Texas Eagle. Now we're going to get all the train freaks calling in. That's the only bad thing about talking about trains. They're crazy creepy and very detailed. |
| 7:01
| Remember that one train crash in the yard a few months ago. WBBM-AM had a train groupie on the line and he had way too much information. They'd already closed the scene off so the guy was nearby but he still knew everything. |
| 7:02
| Trains attract that because it's arcane technology. They're one step away from re-enacting the Civil War. Buzz's friend, Lenny Pincus, does that and writes books about the Civil War. |
| 7:03
| Steve's not sure why Buzz still calls Lenny a friend. He owns a record studio, Hubbard Street Recording and when Buzz had a show on The Loop he used to appear on it. Knowing Buzz, he probably became friends with him so he could record for free. Oh wait that's Steve. He knew it was one of them. |
| 7:04
| We called Lenny on the air once with a question and he said he was recording and too busy. |
| 7:05
| Caller Sue called to tell Steve that the original owners of the train lines like the Union Pacific named their lines. Her husband is a train geek. Steve secretly likes trains but in order to be public about it you have to have a big bushy mustache. Sue's husband has that right? Or huge pork chop sideburns. |
| 7:06
| Steve wants to know the name of the train to Miami because somewhere in the back of his mind is Orange Blossom Special. That is a sweet name for a train line and it's a song. |
| 7:07
| Look at Steve, he's wandered into this train thing with the wife of a train geek. He's not going to be happy when he hears about that. |
| 7:08
| News with Buzz |
| 7:09
| A winter storm warning for Northern Illinois has been canceled. Light snow and flurries will continue throughout the morning with only an inch of snow expected. |
| 7:10
| 4 inches fell at O'Hare and caused flight cancellations. Looking outside it doesn't look too good. It looks flight-cancellation bad. |
| 7:11
| The New York Philharmonic is making history as the first American cultural group to play in North Korea. It started with both country's National Anthems then Wagner, Dvorak and finally something from An American in Paris, which seemed weird to Buzz. |
| 7:12
| Condoleezza Rice is scheduled to meet Chinese leaders today discuss North Korea's nuclear capabilities. And finally from Beijing a 10-year old boy is lucky to be alive after having his arm ripped off by a lion. There have been several attacks at Chinese zoos because they don't have the same safety standards that we do. |
| 7:13
| Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama will square off in their last debate tonight in Ohio. That Hillary Clinton is losing it. How does that help her? People won't vote for her because of that. |
| 7:14
| A photograph circulating on the Internet, and on the cover of the Sun-Times, shows Barack Obama dressed in traditional garb during a trip to Africa. It's raising questions about what constitutes a smear. Steve would say that does. |
| 7:15
| The clothing doesn't look Kenyan though, it looks Osama bin Ladenish. The Clinton campaign is denying they released the photo. One of the things Barack Obama is able to do well is put things in the simplifying machine. |
| 7:16
| He explained the photo saying he was in African, his father was Kenyan, so he's wearing that outfit. Hillary had to have released that photo though. |
| 7:17
| Steve's interested in seeing this debate tonight. Last time Hillary went all conciliatory on Barack and it didn't work for her. What is she going to do tonight? |
| 7:18
| The tragedy of NIU brought out the Cross Guy. Can't someone get a court order against him? Steve wouldn't appreciate that if he had a kid gunned down. He'd also like to say that the wider crosses at the Lane Bryant shooting were uncalled for. He also misspelled someone's name. |
| 7:19
| Sometimes he makes crosses for people who died and they turn out to be Jewish. So he had to go make a Star of David. How about some research first? |
| 7:20
| There was a girl giving out Husky Hugs on NIU's campus yesterday. It sort of seemed to trivialize the whole thing. Steve might drive out there today and get a hug though. |
| 7:21
| It seems weird that the media is out at NIU talking about how long it'll take for the students to get back to normal. How about when the TV crews leave? There were also a lot of grief counselors out there. Where do they all come from? Do they parachute in from an airplane? |
| 7:22
| Who is so footloose and fancy free that they can become a grief counselor at the drop of a hat? No one you want to take advice from. |
| 7:23
| A one-and-a-quarter sales tax hike for Cook County is off the budget discussion table. Reverend James Thomas and other ministers are urging the Finance Committee to approve a plan. Steve has a question about that 18% across the board cut. Why can't they just got through the budget and cut unnecessary stuff? Why does it have to be across the board? |
| 7:24
| A judge has identified Governor Blagojevich as Public Official A in the Tony Rezko trial. There had to be a time when Rezko thought he was the man. And now he's in a county lock-up sharing underwear. |
| 7:25
| Steve did a little research on that underwear thing. His complaint is that he has to wear underwear that's been used by someone else and then laundered. He needs his own underwear in prison?! |
| 7:26
| Here's some news with more sizzle than global warming. Did Buzz write that? Did Jim write it for him? Scientists at the University of Sussex believe the Earth could be vaporized by the sun unless our orbit is changed. |
| 7:27
| Luckily it won't happen for about 7 billion years. That still makes you wonder about stuff, like God and eternity. |
| 7:28
| In a final note a man in Wisconsin clearing snow from his driveway with a torch accidentally set the garage door on fire. Just so you know Steve's garage door is made of metal. He almost set his fence on fire with his torch though. |
| 7:29
| It seems well worth braving those hazard for the thrill of using a blow torch to Buzz. |
| 7:35
| Don't forget, when you hear the Blackhawks air horn be the 10th caller to 616-1043 to win a pair of tickets to the March 5th game against Anaheim. That's also Steve Dahl Radio Icon night. Steve will be there dropping the puck. |
| 7:36
| It's just a ceremonial puck drop. Some people drop the puck, some people just hold it for the photo and then walk off the ice. |
| 7:37
| When Steve threw out the first pitch at a Sox game he practiced throwing beforehand. He threw a strike which even Esteban Loiza recognized. Steve also practiced shooting a hockey puck when he had to shoot one at a Hawks game. |
| 7:38
| Steve doesn't want to embarrass himself even though he does that here everyday. Maybe he doesn't want to do it somewhere that he's not supposed to be. |
| 7:39
| Steve got an email yesterday from someone who wanted to know which players he would be dropping the puck for. How would Steve know, plus he probably doesn't get to pick. |
| 7:40
| Steve took Buzz into the Green Room during the break to show him the broken toilet seat. Yes Steve has a Green Room with a toilet so there. He once had a guy who's only job was to get him Reuben Sandwiches according to Mancow. |
| 7:41
| The building installed a new toilet seat which is too big for the toilet. There's a shelf over the toilet so you can't put the seat up all the way. You'd think whoever installed the seat would try to put it up once and realize it was too big. |
| 7:42
| This wouldn't be a problem if Steve was a girl. He has pretty good aim though but he shouldn't have to deal with that. Going to the bathroom is a three-handed procedure and Steve's not trying to brag. |
| 7:43
| One hand puts the seat up and then another hand for your thingy, to aim. Then a third hand to keep your shirttails up since Steve doesn't tuck in. Steve might need a valet to hold the seat up now. |
| 7:44
| Maybe that would be punishment for Pete, Brendan or Jim, holding the seat up when Steve goes to the bathroom. He couldn't do that to any of the girls here, that would be sexual harassment. |
| 7:45
| Pete has manhandled Steve several times when he's drunk, that probably wouldn't be punishment for him. It seems like they really just need to install a new toilet seat that actually fits though. |
| 7:46
| It probably cost $300 to have that seat installed because everything is union around here. It'll cost another $300 to have a new seat installed. Buzz had a plumber at the house last week, he couldn't believe the cost. |
| 7:47
| If the plumbing problem isn't too tricky the little woman takes care of it, she has a plumbing background. She started driving the supply truck around and then when they found out she had a knack for numbers they put her on the books. |
| 7:48
| She was still rubbing shoulders with the plumbers so she picked up a lot of information. So she likes to plumb from time to time. Steve has tried to do some plumbing work, it's hard stuff. That's why plumbers charge so much, you can't do it. |
| 7:49
| Live read: Townstone Financial |
| 7:50
| Steve's got some phone calls coming in and some emails but he should probably take a break first. The winter storm warning has been canceled although it doesn't look like it. It was a relief to Buzz because last night he thought the snow would be overwhelming. |
| 7:51
| Steve did too, he woke up at 3:30 am and the roads were fine. Then that idiot on WBBM told Steve that if people thought the roads would be fine they were kidding themselves. Don't kid yourself! Idiot! |
| 7:57
| Caller Mark got Steve going with the David Hochberg thing from before. This isn't what Mark called in about though is it? His topic was that Kelsey Grammar fell on the ice at the Chicago Stadium. That's what he wants to talk about. |
| 7:58
| Steve wasn't talking about bailouts, he was talking about how you can get a loan without credit or collateral. |
| 7:59
| What was that? His blood was boiling and we never got the Kelsey Grammar story. |
| 8:00
| You can't change topics like that. You can't go from Kelsey Grammar to mortgage bail outs. |
| 8:01
| Luckily Steve and Buzz have tacos to take their little pea brains off of that. Well Steve will say that about his brain, he can't speak on Buzz's. |
| 8:02
| Today Steve and Buzz are having chalupas from Taco Bell. That chalupa shell is good. Steve doesn't think he's ever had one of these, is this a new item? |
| 8:03
| If you ever have a good sauce packet idea or want to be Steve's Taco Pal you can email him at Steve@dahl.com. |
| 8:04
| Mark is back on the phone, is he refocused? Mark has a great Kelsey Grammar story. Steve gets what he was saying but we don't deal with these topics here. |
| 8:05
| Does Mark need a bail out, because Steve and Buzz can loan him some money. The interest rates are very high and Buzz is a leg breaker. |
| 8:06
| Mark was at a Hawks game about 20 years ago. During an intermission Kelsey Grammar came out on the ice to do something. He had a cocktail in his hand which he put down. Then he started waving and immediately did a face plant, breaking his nose. |
| 8:07
| Because Mark went to great lengths to call back and he manned up Buzz is going to give him two tickets to see Jimmy Buffett. Look what Steve just did for him. Maybe Mark will see Drew Peterson there, he's a Parrothead. |
| 8:08
| When Steve goes to a Hawks game he alternates between Mike and Matt and sometimes Janet. Steve doesn't drink so he's basically sitting there the whole time. He gets up to pee with 7 minutes left in the intermission although lately it's been crowded all the time. |
| 8:09
| During the intermission two guys come out and unhook the nets from their moorings. They don't have skates though, they just wear a special kind of shoe. Steve told Matt he wanted to get a pair and he looked at him like he was an idiot. |
| 8:10
| Matt must have thought Steve wanted the shoes for the puck drop. There's ice everywhere, hasn't Matt been outside?! |
| 8:11
| Caller Dan got to work without flipping his car in a ditch but the bad news is he's at work. The roads weren't bad today though right? Don't kid yourself, they're bad! It's warm out so there's no ice, just idiot drivers. |
| 8:12
| Steve was wondering who he'd drop the puck with, it's traditionally the captains of each team. Who's the captain of the Hawks though? Steve never sees C's on any jerseys just A's. |
| 8:13
| They have programs at the games but Steve thinks they should come with his seats based on what he's paying for them. Buzz needs to come a game with Steve though, just to see his impressive game-leaving maneuver. |
| 8:14
| Dan won an L-Woods gift certificate. Steve's going to give him a rib tip (no pun intended), try the St. Louis-style. Steve had them on Thursday, so did Buzz. |
| 8:15
| Steve wasn't sure if Buzz liked the ribs though because he heard him say to Danny "I'm a growth hormone kind of guy."
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| 8:16
| Caller John wanted to let Steve know that Marty LaPointe will be at the puck drop with Steve along with that Pronger guy for the Ducks. He thinks Steve should wear gloves out on the ice, drop them and get into it with Pronger. He'll get cheers for that but he'll probably get beat up. Maybe one of the Hawks will rush to his defense though. |
| 8:17
| Steve was at a playoff game at the old Stadium with Garry Meier. John imagines that must have been some party. He doesn't have to comment on every word Steve says. He appreciates that he's hanging on every word Steve says because Buzz is just staring out the window looking at the snow. |
| 8:18
| Where was Steve at? He was just kidding about Buzz staring out the window. That'll probably come back to haunt him during his next contract negotiations. Rod Zimmerman probably wrote that down and will bring it up when Buzz renegotiates. |
| 8:19
| So Steve was walking out the Stadium with Garry, his then-girlfriend and Laura Witek who got drunk and lost. He was looking for her because the Stadium parking lot probably isn't a great place for a drunk girl to be wondering around. |
| 8:20
| So Steve's walking around and these three guys start making fun of his Hawaiian shirt. One of the guys was wearing an Andy Williams sweater and saddle shoes. When you're drunk 3-to-1 doesn't seem that bad. But the fans had Steve's back in that parking lot. One guy yelled "what are you doing to the Stever?!" and then a group came over to help him. |
| 8:21
| All the while Garry was sitting there in the limo just staring at him. Turns out he didn't have his back which should have been an indicator. Steve wouldn't have sat in the limo if that was happening to Garry. |
| 8:22
| A good fan will go the distance. It also happened to Steve at Comiskey Park once. It was when Pat was younger and it was still at a time when he had to help him go to the bathroom. If you're a dad you have to do that. |
| 8:23
| Someone was trying to talk to Steve but he was sort of busy helping Pat. The guy started lighting into him about being too good to talk so another guy came over said "What are you doing to Stever?!" and then clocked him. Then a hardcore, someone-was-going-to-die fight broke out. |
| 8:24
| Caller Melissa fell on the ice last Wednesday at the Hawks game. Steve was watching that last week, he remembers her walking off with Eddie Volkman. He didn't see her fall though. Her boyfriend didn't either. |
| 8:25
| Steve just remembers thinking how hot it was that she was on the ice in high heels. The embarrassing thing for her must be that she walked off the ice with Eddie. |
| 8:26
| Does John McDonough or Rocky or someone else ask that the girls wear short skirts and high heels? |
| 8:27
| That crowd is getting really rough at the games, they're even booing the kids when they shoot the puck. |
| 8:28
| Since no one saw Melissa fall Steve would just leave that part out of the story. Then it's a happy ending. |
| 8:34
| The winter storm warning was canceled but what we're seeing downtown is lake effect snow, isn't that right Buzz? |
| 8:35
| Buzz was very concerned this morning that his cab wouldn't come. Chances are if is cab doesn't make it then his car would also be buried. There's a bus route but Steve doesn't want to think of a Buzz Kilman taking the bus to work. That's when he should think about snow shoes but it wouldn't get him to work any quicker. He'd have some great stories from his journey in though. |
| 8:36
| Steve stopped for gas on his way in today. He didn't feel like doing it yesterday because he wasn't feeling too well. Buzz is amazed at Steve's miraculous recovery today though. |
| 8:37
| People are going to say it doesn't work but Steve took a ton of vitamin C yesterday afternoon. If he could only find out who that guy was who was coughing for the entire flight. |
| 8:38
| There are two things Steve always wants to do but he can't. One of them is wearing a surgical mask whenever he flies and the other is stuffing a napkin in his shirt when he eats. That's how they did it at the Escoffier dinner but if you do it anywhere else people look at you like you're nuts. |
| 8:39
| People laugh at you when you do that. Even though Steve works for laughs in real life he just likes to be a regular person. |
| 8:40
| Live read: Chicago White Sox |
| 8:41
| Mike's out in Tucson doing some stuff for Comcast. They're called interstitials where they film players swinging the bat and then use them throughout the season. |
| 8:42
| On Sunday Mike sent Steve a text message that he was out to dinner on Sunday and Octavio Dotel was at the table across from him. He wanted to know if he should introduce himself since he'd be filming all that stuff the next day. |
| 8:43
| Steve told him not to but then he was disappointed to learn that the next day Mike didn't introduce himself to Jim Thome. Steve set all that up at the Comcast Sportsnet Awards and he didn't introduce himself?! |
| 8:44
| That can only mean one thing, Mike was embarrassed by what Steve did at the Comcast Awards. That's the perfect opportunity otherwise, carpe Thome! Steve sets it up, he knocks it down, they don't roll that way any more? |
| 8:45
| Sox games are a fun place to go and they have parking which is key to Steve. Sometimes Buzz is out and about and runs into a parking problem. He's thankful he's not Steve because he'd either shoot someone or cancel his plans. |
| 8:46
| There are spaces Buzz knows of that might be illegal but rarely get ticketed. Sometimes he gets a ticket and he pays it. |
| 8:53
| That's Mayor Daley talking about people not paying parking tickets. Buzz's tickets always get paid though. |
| 8:54
| Parking is key to Steve and he'll pay a premium for it. Buzz has realized that pinching pennies never pays off but he continues to do it. Just last Saturday he was going out to dinner and couldn't find parking. |
| 8:55
| For Steve the choice of restaurant would depend on the parking situation. He pulls up and there's a valet that's only $8 which is dirt cheap. But it was only for two restaurants and Buzz wasn't going to either of them. |
| 8:56
| The full valet fee was $20 so Buzz drove off. But as he was driving off he knew he was making a mistake. Buzz needs to take control of his parking. Right now the parking is controlling him. |
| 8:57
| Buzz needs to roll up and take control of that valet right away. He should have given him $20 and that way the Buzzmobile is waiting for him outside the restaurant when he leaves. |
| 8:58
| Growing up in California there was never a parking issue so Steve can't deal with it here. He's not comfortable if he doesn't have a nice, properly arranged parking space. Otherwise he's anxious the whole time. Sometimes if he doesn't have a great spot he keeps his eye on the lot and will move his car if a better one opens up. |
| 8:59
| It might be a sickness that Steve has. Buzz says he'll do that but he's just joking. It seems much easier for Steve to be happy with his parking spot so he'll have a good time at dinner. |
| 9:00
| That's just Steve though. Everyday he wakes up with a shrieking zombie in his head telling him what to do. So he goes and moves the car. No one else sees that though. They like a good parking space, what else can he do? You have to accommodate them. |
| 9:01
| Live read: Woodfield Nissan |
| 9:02
| Ben Gay is here and he's quite the bundle today. Buzz loves his galoshes. Ben calls them his rubbers. This is Ben's So'wester gear although sometimes he wears it to the clubs. It saves him a lot on dry cleaning bills. |
| 9:03
| Ben likes the hood too. If he puts it all on and zips it up he looks like one of those guys fighting oil well fires. It's a good look. It's really coming down out there, very flaky. Ben likes to think of it as God's dandruff but that never caught on. No one likes to think of God as having skin problems. |
| 9:04
| The White Sox Jerry Owens tweaked his right groin in the second inning of an intrasquad game and left as a precautionary measure. They're really focusing on some small stuff out there between this and Mark DeRosa's heart murmur. It's not even a murmur and he's had it since he was 16. |
| 9:05
| Owens is battling for full-time duty as a leadoff hitter. He wants bunting to be part of his daily game. There's some nice Baba O'Reilly going on in the background in the Sox lockerroom. Teenage waistline, it's only teenage waistline. |
| 9:06
| Ben is not in Arizona now though, he's been banned from the entire state. He can't even change planes at Sky Harbor Airport or fly over the state. It involves a school busload of Native American kids and a fifth of Maker's Mark. |
| 9:07
| Ben was watching some of the coverage last night and on the field, next to the pitchers mound was a sign with the number 4 on it. No one explained it and Ben has never seen it before. |
| 9:08
| Mark DeRosa flew to Chicago on Monday and boy are his arms tired. Buzz loves that joke. He came here to see a cardiologist. You'd think they've have good cardiologists in Arizona though. |
| 9:09
| Why didn't he just keep this to himself? Is he hooked up to a heart rate monitor that's displayed on the scoreboard? |
| 9:10
| He's expected to have a procedure and could be back to playing on Monday. That's a pretty quick recovery for heart surgery. Buzz has had the same thing happen to him all his life. He would probably freak if it didn't stop after 10 minutes. |
| 9:11
| Caller Vince has some info about the #4 on the White Sox field. It was actually a sign on the back of the fence, like they have on Little League fields. That makes sense. It's very interesting though, a really lazy way for channel 7 to get a shot. |
| 9:12
| Would Vince like a prize? How does this go exactly? Vince selects a number and then Ben gives that wheel a great big spin. Ben might need to stand up and put some weight into the spin. |
| 9:13
| The wheel needs to go around at least once. This is taking a lot of energy out of Ben. He's getting an irregular heartbeat here. |
| 9:14
| 1, 2 and 3...oooh! That was quite a release for Ben. After all that the wheel didn't even land on Vince's number. He still wins though. |
| 9:15
| The Blackhawks take on the Coyotes tonight and GM Dale Tallon said he's been working the phones trying to make a trade to improve his team. |
| 9:16
| That Dale Tallon is a handsome man. He might be the one who got Ben banned from the United Center. |
| 9:17
| The Bulls lost to the Mavericks last night, dropping them to a season-low 12 games under .500. Interim coach Jim Boylan was pleased with his team's effort though. This guy is an idiot, he's pleased with losing?! |
| 9:18
| Official Monty McCutchen ejected Kirk Hinrich in the first quarter after a simple out-of-bounds call. Brendan's a bit of a basketball idiot savant. It seems like we covered the basketball with the Jim Boylan audio but Brendan brought us into some issue he had with Kirk being ejected before he even scored. Ben does like to score before he's ejected though. |
| 9:19
| The Bears agreed to a one-year extension with Kyle Orton, who will compete with Rex Grossman for the starting job. If they give him a fair shot Ben feels he'll win the job. |
| 9:20
| Floyd Mayweather will take part in Wrestlemania 24 this year. Buzz can't believe it. Boxing is over Buzz, check out hockey if you like fighting. They're paying him $20 million, they're overestimating his drawing power. |
| 9:21
| It doesn't seem like that's going to pay off for the WWE but they get what they deserve. Ben will be watching because he gets all the pay-per-view channels for free. You don't even want to know what he had to do for that. |
| 9:30
| Caller Dave is out in Deerfield, where things are snowy and wet. He's glad that he works overnights and can come home and listen to Steve while knocking a few back. |
| 9:31
| Dave says hello to Buzz. He loves cookies like Buzz, he's waiting for his Girl Scout Cookies. Steve ended up buying a few boxes because a girl came to the door with her mom. It was hard to say no to that. |
| 9:32
| One thing Steve noticed this year that troubled him is that the inside of the Thin Mint is now a chocolate cookie. It used to be white though. |
| 9:33
| Steve is being told by a former Girl Scout that he's 100% wrong so he'll sit down. The former Girl Scout is Pete by the way. Now he's a troop leader. |
| 9:34
| Dave was calling in about Floyd Mayweather. He'll be wrestling someone who's over 7 feet tall and over 400 pounds. Sounds like he's going to lose. |
| 9:35
| In a preliminary match over the weekend Floyd beat that guy up but he was o his knees at the time. Dave imagines the guy will be on his feet at a full 7 feet for Wrestlemania. |
| 9:36
| Why would you stay on your knees if you continue to get beaten up though. It's all part of the showmanship. They're just doing this to get people to watch. |
| 9:37
| Now that Steve thinks about it he saw a little of that on the news over the weekend. He only saw the end where someone was leaving the ring and then the sportscaster was shaking his head in disgust. It must have been that. |
| 9:38
| Now Steve wants to watch it though. Buzz would like to see Floyd Mayweather hurt and humiliated but it's probably all been predetermined. |
| 9:39
| Earlier in the show Steve played some of the Howard Cosell rant and then mentioned the Chris Berman video that's circulating. |
| 9:40
| Berman is sort of like Howard Cosell, he's got a lot of bombast. First Steve's going to play the Howard Cosell rant. |
| 9:44
| That's a good one. Howard had a train to catch! It sounds like they were screwing mics in and out. |
| 9:45
| Now on to the Chris Berman tape. Pete cleaned it up right? Steve knows he doesn't have to ask but if something goes wrong it's on Pete. Is he comfortable with that? |
| 9:47
| The Chris Berman tape is pretty similar to Howard Cosell. Neither of them are as good as the Casey Kasem tape though, that's just free-flowing rage. We have that too. |
| 9:48
| Pete's sitting on a ton of good Steve Dahl raves, he's gone completely berserk in his presence. Steve makes Cosell and Berman look like lightweights. And Casey Kasem for that matter. Steve's had the benefit of hearing their fine work. He's heard them all: Orson Welles, Jack Brickhouse, Buddy Rich, Paul Anka. He incorporates them all into his rants. He stands on the shoulders of giants. |
| 9:54
| What is Pete playing over there? Is that something we're supposed to be playing? Is he just playing whatever he wants over there? |
| 9:55
| 2, 2, 2's up in Canada, they have aspirin with Codeine on them. Steve used to get those when he was up in Canada himself. |
| 9:56
| Is Pete the new Joe Kraslen, playing whatever tape he wants no matter how much trouble Steve gets into? |
| 9:57
| Steve likes to go with the tapes everyone else hasplayed so there's no trouble. If Howard Stern doesn't play the Pat O'Brien tape then Steve doesn't play it. Steve likes to have someone else play it, someone bigger. Howard Stern is a bigger target. |
| 9:58
| You'd think Pete would run that Berman tape by Steve before he played it. Pete thinks Steve is probably right. He is. |
| 9:59
| The Casey Kasem tape is from when he would record the intros and backsells for the top 40 countdown. It may come as a shock to Buzz that Casey wasn't there for the whole time. |
| 10:00
| Buzz remembers Jeff Schwartz trying to get him to do the Blues Jam at WCKG. Jeff told him that all he had to do was record the intros and backsells but Buzz knew he'd want to be there for the entire hour hearing the songs. |
| 10:01
| Casey couldn't be more disconnected from the top 40 show he's doing. He's recording his parts in some separate studio where they're piping in the intros and outros of the songs. |
