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| 5:31
| Bryan Adams, Summer of '69. That song pretty much describes what Steve was doing that summer, playing in a band. No one got married like in the song. Steve just got kicked out. They said he wasn't good enough. |
| 5:32
| Buzz doesn't think that's enough of a reason to kick someone out of a band in 1969. He was probably better than a lot of people playing at the time. The band wanted to get into prog rock, they were more interested in playing a million 16th notes. |
| 5:33
| They're probably sorry they kicked him out now though. Steve sort of knows where the rest of his bandmates ended up and he's the only one who made it in showbiz. The rest of them have straight jobs. |
| 5:34
| Now Steve has his own band and he can kick people out if he wants. Although his band is also The Nadas so if he kicked one of them out it might cause a problem. From time-to-time he's thought of kicking the drummer or bass player out of the band though. |
| 5:35
| Would Buzz like some info on Summer of '69? It's by Canadian singer/songwriter Bryan Adams. Buzz didn't know he was Canadian. It's become one of his biggest hits. |
| 5:36
| The song was written by Adams and Jim Vallance and released on his album Reckless in 1984. In 1985 the song became a hit in the US, reaching #5. So far there's nothing interesting about the song. |
| 5:37
| In his recent Anthology, Adams stressed that the song has nothing to do with the year 1969 since he was only 10 that year. He calls the song "a double entendre, it's about sex." Oh no! Steve was not doing that in the summer of 1969. His band was a sausage fest. There was one girlfriend amongst all the band members. That's not enough. |
| 5:38
| Steve always thought the song was about a few guys playing Louie, Louie in their garage. Bryan did always seem a little too young to be rockin' in 1969. The first thing Mark Czerniec does today is ruin this song for Steve?! |
| 5:39
| Steve's band wanted to start covering bands like Yes. When they kicked him out Steve actually said "who wants to hear Roundabout at a high school dance?" |
| 5:40
| Steve was actually kicked out of the band after he drove with a bandmate to a Yes concert. It happened right after they'd stopped at Jack in the Box. Steve's standard order there is 3 tacos, onion rings and a vanilla shake. Steve's still working off fat that he put on when he was 16. |
| 5:41
| So Steve gets kicked out of the band as they're eating tacos and then they have to drive the rest of the way home. Steve had just bought a new amp too, which he had to take out a loan to purchase. Steve did all the heavy lifting in the band because he had a pick-up truck, he arranged all the gigs and he picked up the PA system. |
| 5:42
| A few months after Steve got kicked out he went to one of the band's gigs that was in someone's garage. It was a show for a guy who just came home from Vietnam and they weren't getting paid. |
| 5:43
| The other reason Steve got kicked out was because he was also working at a radio station at the time. They didn't think he had enough dedication to the band. Steve was smart enough to know that a mediocre ability to write and play music wasn't going to get him through life. Radio had more potential. |
| 5:44
| Steve is very disillusioned now that he knows Summer of '69 is about sex and not about some guys playing in a band in their garage. If Bryan Adams was 10 in 1969 he probably wasn't doing that either, it seems a little advanced. Unless it's something that happened on accident, when they were naked and tumbled or something. |
| 5:45
| The key to the song and a lot of what Adams has told us is in the middle eight "Man we were killin' time, we were young and reckless/We needed to unwind, I guess nothin' can last forever..." |
| 5:46
| The "Jimmy" referenced in the song is Jim Wesley, Adams' drummer in the early days. He quit the band and started selling carpet. That had to be a hard decision to make. The music just wasn't happening, carpet was calling. He quit the band in 1981, he probably killed himself by 1983. |
| 5:51
| Potbelly's is a sponsor. Steve could go for one of their double turkey sandwiches right now. They have great milkshakes too. On the straw they have a little sugar cookie. Steve usually doesn't think it's acceptable for a man to use a straw in public unless his jaw is wired shut or if you're drinking a shake. |
| 5:52
| How is Pete coming along on his straw usage? He's still drinking his coffee two-handed like Jennifer Anniston on Friends. And at show dinners he's often spotted sipping Coke out of the bar straw. The only reason that bar straw is in there is to give you something to take out. |
| 5:53
| Pete has stopped using the bar straw. Has Pete found that he's getting more tail now that he's following some of Steve's advice? Last night Pete had a Coke at the Hawks game and those fountain drinks come with straws. He didn't know what to do in that situation. |
| 5:54
| Steve understands the dilemma because on the one hand you want to keep the lid on since there are people around. Steve's move is to take the straw out and hand it back to the waitress and then keep the drink on the floor with the lid on. Whenever he wants a drink he takes the lid off. Pete was considering that move but didn't do it last night. |
| 5:55
| The move is a bit cumbersome though. But it's OK to use a straw in that situation if you want. Or if you're drinking a shake. You have to use a straw with a shake because it's so thick. Plus you'll look worse with shake all over you. |
| 5:56
| Pete doesn't mind using a straw at the movies because it's dark. Even at the movies last week Steve didn't use a straw. Maybe Pete is just so sophisticated and sure of himself. What kind of grown man worries about drinking out of a straw?! |
| 5:57
| Time for today's web poll. Of course yesterday's question was "are you an early bird or a night owl?" It's pretty much 50/50. Steve recently learned that most people get up at 5:30 every morning. Suddenly getting up at 4 am isn't that big of a deal. STeve can't even complain about it. |
| 5:58
| Today's web poll question, getting a little more serious is "do you support mandatory minimum sentencing in drug cases?" Steve's guessing Buzz doesn't believe in them. |
| 5:59
| A new federal rule took effect this week that has made about 350 inmates sentenced for crack cocaine offenses in Chicago eligible for reduced sentences. It seems like being a crackhead is a bad enough punishment. |
| 6:00
| The worst part of COPS is when they bust a guy right after he got high, or even worse right after he just copped the drugs. At least when they're high they don't realize they're going to come down in lock-up. |
| 6:01
| Current drug laws passed in the 1980s established a so-called 100 to 1 ratio. 5 grams of crack is treated the same as 500 grams of powdered cocaine. That's just not fair. Cocaine is better anyway. |
| 6:02
| As far as Steve knows he's never done crack. The story about the baggie ban in Chicago is making national headlines. And it's making us look like idiots here. |
| 6:03
| Civil rights advocates have long argued that those laws unfairly gave tougher sentences for the smokable form of cocaine, which is popular among urban minority drug users. |
| 6:04
| Department of Justice officials have criticized the new guideline saying it creates a public risk and shouldn't have been retroactive. These are the same people who won't let dying people use marijuana to ease their pain a little bit. |
| 6:05
| Attorney General Michael Mukasey said in a speech last month that these offenders are violent criminals who are likely to repeat their crimes. Violent offenders? They're just stealing silverware so they can sell it and get high! |
| 6:06
| Did Buzz see that video of the Starbucks robbery? A guy and a girl went in and took the tip jar and then an employee chased after them. Then the two suspects ran him over with their truck and he died. How much can be in a tip jar?! They probably just wanted to get high. |
| 6:07
| Outgoing deputy attorney general Craig Morford said the government owes it to inner-city residents not to weaken crack laws. People can't sit on their porch, kids can't play outside, they're all imprisoned in their homes. Steve can see the point of that though. |
| 6:08
| California has a weird situation because of the medicinal marijuana thing. That sort of flies in the face of the federal laws. |
| 6:09
| Why would you want to ease the suffering of people dying or going through chemo? They get nausea from the chemo and the pot settles them down. |
| 6:10
| If you had gram of crack how long would it last you? It seems like a gram of powder would last longer. It seems more fun too. The crack seems wasteful. Although you could still spill the powder. Shag carpet was your worst nightmare. |
| 6:11
| It just seems like the crack on the tinfoil, with the glass tube is more wasteful. What they need to do is just legalize everything. They should have places for people to go do it. How about a place to do drugs and play miniature golf? |
| 6:12
| It seems like all sentencing should be up to the judge and jury since each case is different. We don't do things like that any more, we just have blanket laws. Buzz loves when we take a stand like this. Good morning and welcome to Drug Talk. |
| 6:20
| Caller Tom is another one of our former crackhead listeners. We haven't talked to him before though. It's OK for Steve to say that right? Once you're a an addict you always are but Tom is clean and sober. |
| 6:21
| Can Steve get a price breakdown on the crack? How long has Tom been clean for? He's at 7 months right now, he's turned the corner. Crack is a tough one to get off and once |
| 6:22
| A 8 ball of powder is about $100 these days. The pricing has come down that much? Coke is actually cheaper than weed. That must make it hard for a guy to stay out. |
| 6:23
| How can Steve stay out at those prices? Why wasn't he alerted to the new pricing? Buzz should have told him that gas is on the way up and coke is going way down. |
| 6:24
| Your average crack dealer doesn't want to sell you 3 1/2 grams of rock. They want to sell you $20 of rock. With one rock you get 2 or maybe 3 hits. So crack can be pricier. You go by the size of the rock, not the weight. |
| 6:25
| Buzz is wondering how crack compares to meth. Tom has never done it but he heard it's a different kind of high. Tom might have done meth on accident in the 80s and he was up for 3 days straight. Crack is more euphoric. |
| 6:26
| That's the thing about drugs, it feels so good when you're doing it. There are no casual crack users. Tom tried to quit about a year ago and he was going to only do it once-in-a-while and keep going to meetings but that didn't work. |
| 6:27
| Steve appreciates Tom being honest about all this. He doesn't think they need stiffer penalties, they need to help the addicts better. Throwing you in prison for 5 years isn't going to help you get off drugs. You can still get drugs in prison anyway. |
| 6:28
| It doesn't seem like crack is something you want to mess around with. $100 for an 8 ball though? It has to be $100 a gram. Buzz should know this, he's a newsman. The price of drugs rarely goes down. |
| 6:29
| Steve's been told that Adam knows all about the pricing. That's an interesting development in Steve's life and probably not a good one. How was that Hawks game last night? They had great seats. |
| 6:30
| As far as Adam knows the price is about double of what the caller said. Still, $200 is low. The price has come down. Buzz doesn't understand how the price of coke can just magically go down 33% |
| 6:31
| It's supply-and-demand, Steve's guessing less people are doing it. Buzz might have to go undercover and make a purchase. |
| 6:32
| How's Adam coming on those bobbleheads? He's got a few vendors he's talking to. Someone sent Steve a link to a website for bobbleheads. There's an initial set-up fee and then the cost is about $5 a piece for 1,000 bobbleheads. Adam didn't want to stock that many. |
| 6:33
| If you order 504 bobbleheads the price is $6 a piece. Steve thinks we could move 504 bobbleheads. He'll make Buzz buy 10 of them. Or he'll just make everyone on the staff sell 100 each, like Girl Scout Cookies. |
| 6:34
| We probably don't need to zero in on the exact price of an ounce of cocaine. Somewhere in the city a drug dealer has woken up, turned on his radio and is aghast at what he's hearing. It doesn't matter to Steve though. That would be a shocking new development but a lot of things happen. It's supply and demand. Just with Steve out the supply goes up. The Jack Daniels people are hanging by a thread because Steve it out, they're just about ready to close up shop. |
| 6:35
| Live read: Hawthorne Racecourse |
| 6:36
| Steve is slated to go to Hawthorne tomorrow with Todd Cavanah but he might have to rethink that after his encounter with him last night. Steve will get to that later but he might have to school Todd in the manly art of drinking. |
| 6:37
| Caller Mark has some info on 8 ball pricing. It depends on the grade of cocaine but it's still very low. Is Buzz going to get back in at these prices? He has a kid and a wife, it just wasn't in the budget. |
| 6:38
| Turns out Adam was right, that's interesting. Adam's on the streets though, he's in promotions. He was on the street team. He's Adam, he's A-Dog. Buzz knows what he's talking about. |
| 6:44
| That's some Geraldo Rivera from the 80s, when crack was a problem. The war on drugs took care of all of that though. |
| 6:45
| Live read: Townstone Financial |
| 6:46
| News with Buzz |
| 6:47
| Witnesses in New York say they heard an explosion in Times Square this morning around 3:30 AM. No one knows what it was but there was a small explosion near a military recruiting station. |
| 6:48
| Meanwhile another Russian bomber has buzzed a U.S. aircraft carrier. Oh brother. DId Maverick have to go up and take care of that? |
| 6:49
| The 38-year old Sheboygan woman who vanished from O'Hare last week was located in Chicago. Steve didn't know they found her. He doesn't have to look any more? |
| 6:50
| Sumei Hu said she doesn't want to return home to her family at this time. Duh! Hu called her family yesterday afternoon which allowed Chicago police to track down her location. They did not divulge that information though. |
| 6:51
| For whatever reason she doesn't want to return to her husband right now. Probably because he's a dork. The guy drives down here every day from Sheboygan to look for her then drives back home. There are a million hotels in this city, get a room! He's spending half his day driving, that's not a good search. |
| 6:52
| Can't this guy do the math? He's a dork, he lives in Sheboygan and after 5 years the woman leaves. She wants her green card now, she's eligible for it. He's lucky that he was with her for 5 years. |
| 6:53
| There are no kids involved though, it's just the guy's sisters sitting around making flyers. Has Buzz heard the guy talk? Does Pete have any tape of that? |
| 6:54
| Maybe she's with Drew Peterson. He got himself a Chinese broad. Buzz happened to be at the Disney Magnet School yesterday, he looked up at a picture on the wall and thought it was Drew Peterson. It was a picture of Walt Disney. |
| 6:55
| Howard Dean has raised the possibility of allowing another vote in Florida and Michigan for Democratic primaries. Of course Hillary won Florida. |
| 6:56
| Meanwhile Hillary and Barack view the idea of a joint ticket in different ways. Hillary believes she should be on top of the ticket but Barack says it's still premature to be talking about it. |
| 6:57
| Rush Limbaugh was on CNN yesterday making comments about Hillary being on top. It's such an easy joke but for some reason when he says it it's more important? He's just an idiot like Steve and Buzz are. |
| 6:58
| A potential salmonella contamination has promoted Quaker Oats to recall Aunt Jemima pancake mix. The Kilman family is running Aunt Jemima out at the household. If Steve wants pancakes he'll have someone else make them for him. |
| 6:59
| Forbes magazine put Warren Buffett on the top of it's list of richest Americans. He bumped Bill Gates down to third. |
| 7:00
| Patrick Swayze has pancreatic cancer. His representative said he's responding well to the treatment but survival rates for that cancer are very low. Buzz saw somewhere that he only had 5 weeks to live but his doctor said that wasn't true. |
| 7:01
| Steve's been hoping for a Road House 2 for quite some time. Buzz feels that's Swayze's best work. Up until Road House he'd never seen someone rip another guy's throat out of his neck. |
| 7:02
| The mayor of a small town in France is asking citizens not to die due to overcrowding in the town's cemetery. What will he do if someone dies? That seems unenforceable. |
| 7:03
| SuMei Hu, 38 from Sheboygan, vanished on February 26th at O'Hare. This is from the Sheboygan Press, it's a local angle. Much of his is going to be what Buzz already reported but Steve's looking for some little local angle. |
| 7:04
| Hu's disappearance set off a search by her husband Steven Frasch and his family. Probably because the cops new she just ran off. |
| 7:05
| Chicago police sergeant Jeffrey Peraino is calling her disappearance a "voluntary absence." She called family members yesterday afternoon and police tracked her down but wouldn't say where she was in Chicago. |
| 7:06
| In an email sent by Frasch's sister Sharon Romenesko, family members asked the media to respect their privacy. Now they want privacy? But yesterday Steve had to see her and her fat sisters sitting around a table making fliers?! There's no tragedy here, the woman just ran off. |
| 7:07
| Romenesko said Chung (Hu's nickname) is very embarrassed but the family believes she intends to return home. Her nickname is Chung? No wonder she left. |
| 7:08
| Romenesko said her and her family thanked everyone for their prayers and support. Steve did not pray and he didn't really support the husband. |
| 7:09
| This article says the couple has been married since 2005 but the other day Steve read 5 years. The family might be fudging the numbers. |
| 7:10
| Caller Murray has a movie idea for Steve, it's called Steven Hears a Hu. She's calling from Chinatown and she's not coming home. Frasch was probably waiting at the wrong customs hall, there are 2 of them. Plus it's Sheboygan, no wonder she wanted to blow out of there. |
| 7:11
| Caller Curt wanted to add a new twist to the Patrick Swayze story. Jeff Healey, the guy who played the band leader in Road House, just died of cancer a few days ago. Is that irony or coincidence? |
| 7:12
| Curt's been listening to Steve since he was at NIU in 1978. He remembers Steve doing a story about a guy named Owen who drove his charger through someone's house. He remembers Steve saying "Imagine you're on the toilet in the middle of a crucial turd and Owen drives through your house." |
| 7:13
| Curt was at Point East with Steve and he also saw him at Hi-Tops when Michael Jordan was playing on the Sox. Steve, Laura and Bruce Wolf signed a hat for him. |
| 7:14
| Caller George thought Steve's impersonation of the lady from Wisconsin sounded like the lady from Tinley Park. A lot of Steve's impersonations are multi-purpose. George wanted to let Steve know that Patrick Swayze was in town in the fall filming a TV series here. It's gonna be on the CW or the U or the B or one of those channels. |
| 7:15
| That caller had a weird attitude. He started off hassling Steve about his impersonation of the lady from Wisconsin. He did throw in some yah hey dere's and criminy's. Brendan, bump that guy down to $50. |
| 7:20
| When Steve was out in the hall during the break he heard Brendan ask a caller "and how do you know Beau Swayze?" You hear a lot of things out there, we need to figure out a way to record Brendan's call screening. |
| 7:21
| Apparently some caller knows Patrick Swayze's cousin Beau, who lives in Fox Lake. Steve borderline doesn't care about Patrick Swayze but he doesn't want to see someone suffer. |
| 7:22
| Caller John worked with Swayze's cousin for a few months. Was it at a road house or dance hall? Oddly enough it was at a golf academy. Dirty Golfing? |
| 7:23
| Buzz remembers Road House was playing backstage at one of Steve's gigs. It was at North Beach. Steve didn't want to go onstage, he wanted to finish the movie. John agrees with Buzz, that throat-ripping scene is the best. And that Kelly Lynch was pretty hot. John and Buzz need to find some sort of Road House messageboard to talk about all this stuff. |
| 7:24
| Live read: Johnsonville Brats |
| 7:25
| Live read: Hawthorne Racecourse |
| 7:26
| So last night was Radio Icon night at the Hawks game. Steve was scanning the crowd, he didn't see Buzz. He must have had really good seats, Steve didn't see him sitting with the kids from the show. |
| 7:27
| Quite honestly, Buzz didn't know that tickets were available to him. That's the story he's going with? That's fine, Buzz is a genius. |
| 7:28
| Steve mentioned to Buzz that he'd take him to game sometime so he figured tickets were tight for last night. So he's blaming Steve? That's Being Buzz Kilman. |
| 7:29
| Everyone just figured Buzz would say no anyway and no one wants to be rejected. Steve was going to take Todd Cavanah but instead he took Janet. Probably a good idea. |
| 7:30
| Ron Lewis was there and he has a beard so at least we had a bearded staff member in attendance. It's a disquieting look though. Ron was at Buzz's house the other day, he got to see it up close and personal. It's Ron's tax season beard, it makes it seem like he's really busy. |
| 7:31
| Steve got there around 7 and went to his seats. More people than usual were talking to Steve so they knew what was going on. Then the Blackhawks people came and got him. It was sort of like being led off to your execution. When Steve's in his seat the worst thing that can happen is the camera catches him eating a brat with mustard on his face. |
| 7:32
| So they take Steve into the bowels of the United Center, right next to the Hawks lockerroom. John McDonough is there and his second-in-command Jay and they were rappin' for a bit. Then they did the presentation of the sweater. There are pictures of that but Steve doesn't have them. Then he had to put it on to go out on the ice. They're not really sweaters any more but they probably used to be. |
| 7:33
| Steve asked the marketing guy if he should leave his shirt on underneath. Some people do, some don't. Steve took it off to go with the cleaner look. Of course he put it on backwards. The Indian goes on the front. That was unsettling to Steve, already he's started to mess up. They probably thought they were thwarting an attempt at madcapped behavior by Steve. |
| 7:34
| Then after that a guy comes out of the lockerroom to tell you what you're going to do. He's very dispassionate about it because he does that every night. To him Steve was just another puck dropper. |
| 7:35
| It seemed fairly simple, you go out there and look at the camera and drop the puck. What could go wrong? Can Steve take a break and then come back and finish? |
| 7:40
| So Steve's in the back of the lockerroom when the Hawks are coming out. Seabrook stands at the door as they're leaving and calls every player by their nickname, then pounds them on their helmet. It's a nickname Rolodex, it was awesome. Those guys are all crazy. They're just regular-sized guys but they're all nuts. |
| 7:41
| Then Savard comes up behind Steve and calls him Stevie. They talked about the game and Steve got to see his line-up car. Then Steve has to go past the team on the bench to go out on the ice. |
| 7:42
| As Steve is saying hi to Josh Mora he tripped on the carpeting in the bench area. He didn't go down but of course Josh had to say something. Then Steve's trying to go out as the players are coming in off the ice. As you can imagine there's not a lot of space there. Steve might have made a little contact with Dustin Byfuglien. |
| 7:43
| Steve's been to all the Radio Icon Nights and everyone has been booed so he was prepared for it. It's only 15 seconds and Steve's been booed before at Hawks games. |
| 7:44
| They did introduce Steve as a Blackhawks season ticket holder. Steve has to say that he thought the crowd was predominantly cheering but there were some boos. |
| 7:45
| So Steve goes out there on the carpet, shakes hands with the two captains, hold the puck up at the camera and then drop it when the photographer nods. |
| 7:46
| Patrick Sharp is the captain for the Hawks and Chris Pronger for the Ducks. Pronger is huge. Steve goes to shake his hand first because he's the visiting team. He had his gloves on and kind of rolled his eyes a bit but then took it off. |
| 7:47
| Then he shook Sharp's hand, posed and dropped the puck. Everything's good right? He's in, he's out, people cheered. Then he wheels to go around and the carpet starts moving on him. He's carpet surfing. |
| 7:48
| The ice had just been Zambonied, it's a little slippery, maybe still wet. Steve recovered and then Pronger said "hey take it easy" jokingly. But with each step the carpet kept moving. |
| 7:49
| Steve feels that his Pilates training allowed him to maintain his balance and ride it out. He just wanted to leave after that but he had to wait for the anthem. Then he talked to Adam Burish for a little bit. They're all very jumpy before the game because they know a lot of crazy stuff is going to happen. |
| 7:50
| Then Steve put his shirt back on and went back to his seat. It went pretty well although there's a part of Steve that wishes the carpet didn't move on him. |
| 7:51
| WIth 5 minutes to go in the first period Steve met Todd Cavanah went up to the Jack FM box to meet some advertisers. Steve missed part of a fight but that's alright. |
| 7:52
| Steve likes Todd but on the way up he was telling him about how he had 3 mango margaritas at dinner. Steve has to put his foot down on that. He'll spot you 1, maybe you ordered it by mistake, but 3? If he's going to give Pete a hard time for drinking out of a bar straw he can't let Todd go on the mango margaritas. |
| 7:53
| Buzz thinks you could admire Todd's audacity though. This was coming on the heels of yesterday's post-show meeting that Steve had with Todd. Most of the meeting was about Todd asking what he should wear to the game. |
| 7:54
| You can't be walking around at a Hawks game talking about margaritas. Then he said he had one at the game and it wasn't as good. Steve can't be walking around with a guy drinking a margarita, people will think they're a couple. |
| 7:55
| Steve was back in his seat by the start of the 2nd period, missing the video of himself that aired during the intermission. During the second intermission the guy from Ministry, Steve can't remember his name, and Rick Nielsen shot the puck. |
| 7:56
| It was a fun night for Steve. He's not sure if someone else had a different view of it. If they do they can call in. Steve's taking it as mostly cheers during the puck drop and then turning the slipping on the carpet into a funny bit. |
| 7:57
| Because everything else was great. Steve got to talk to Savvy, he got a signed stick from Adam Burish sent over during the game. So falling would have been bad. |
| 7:58
| And the Hawks played great, they shut out the Ducks. Steve and Pat Boyle couldn't have been more wrong about that rookie goalie either. Although the Hawks played really well for him. |
| 7:59
| Buzz feels the no booing thing is huge. That's what Steve thought and his family and co-workers confirmed it. The season ticket holder mention really helped. |
| 8:00
| Caller Julio wanted to let Steve know that Al Jourgensen is the lead singer of Ministry. That guy invented Industrial music and he's a big Blackhawks fan. Steve thought he heard that Ministry wrote a new Blackhawks song. |
| 8:01
| Caller Paul wanted to back up what Steve said. He heard the puck drop on the radio, there were definitely a lot of cheers. Steve didn't know you could hear it on the radio, maybe Pete could track that down. |
| 8:02
| Steve got a nice shout-out on the post-game on The Score from Jesse Rogers, that was a nice capper to the evening. The season ticket holder thing helped a lot. Steve knew that was key. |
| 8:03
| Live read: Sport Clips |
| 8:04
| Sport Clips is a new advertiser, it sounds like a great place to get your haircut. They actually sell sports memorabilia at the stores! The live copy doesn't list the location though. Steve likes that Jaime guy, the sales guy, he brings in a lot of business. But he needs to write up some copy for this thing. |
| 8:05
| There are lot of locations though, just go to the website. Based on what Steve is seeing it's all hot girls at Sports Clips. Maybe they can't mention that in the copy. |
| 8:06
| There are 33 locations in Chicago. Does Buzz want to meet at the Fullerton location? They should both get hockey haircuts. |
| 8:07
| Time for the Eight O'Clock Taco Bell. This is the day when you call in and tell Steve what you're going to have for lunch. Steve actually had some Taco Bell last night. |
| 8:08
| Pat Dahl came back from the hockey game with his friend Matt Lynch and they picked up some Taco Bell. Steve had a Chalupa Supreme and a Meximelt. He would have eaten more but that's all there was. |
| 8:09
| Brendan is involved in the longest screening process ever. You can't be too careful, unless Steve's chalupa vamping. It's Steve's fault, he's supposed to ask for the caller earlier. |
| 8:10
| Caller Mark will be getting 3 tacos and a Mountain Dew at Taco Bell today. Mountain Dew and Taco Bell go really well together. |
| 8:11
| Caller Jason got the MVP at his local Sport Clips yesterday, it was worth the $20. That's it? Steve and Buzz are going today, they're getting hockey haircuts so they look good in their helmets. |
| 8:12
| Pete was at the hockey game last night and he stayed until the end. Jim was there as well, Steve's going to get him on the line too. |
| 8:13
| Now Jim just takes the L home right? Jim actually has a car so he just drove. Jim has a car? He takes Western Avenue all the way down to Madison and then parks at a lot west of the stadium. |
| 8:14
| Steve's not sure how it is at Wrigley but at the United Center and The Cell everyone comes in the same way. So if you go a different way there's no one around. He's going to let Jim go now because he found a way home. |
| 8:15
| Pete got a ride home from Ron Lewis, Steve's accountant. First of all, does Pete have The Score audio? He actually didn't tape it. Does he just not care about Steve any more? |
| 8:16
| Did Ron want to come in and see Pete's place? He was going to leave after the first period and take the train or a cab but he waited it out. Pete did not here the shout-out on The Score after the game because Ron offered Ed a ride home too. |
| 8:17
| Ed's a talker and he talked the entire ride to his place. Steve hassles Pete about accepting rides but Ed is a $5 cab ride away. Yesterday Ed was outside the studio talking to Chef Hans for a half hour. Steve almost went out there and taped their mouths shut. |
| 8:18
| But Ed was doing all the talking so when he left the car it was total silence. Ed knows his hockey though. He's Slavic, they know hockey and bowling. And here's Aunt Blabbypants on the phone right now. |
| 8:19
| Ed didn't know he was supposed to be quiet in the car. Ron wants a good conversation though but Pete doesn't mind silence. Ron picked up the conversation once Ed left, he hit all of Pete's hot buttons. |
| 8:20
| Is Pete sure that Ron didn't want to come up to see his place. That's the closest he's going to come to showbiz, Pete and Ed. |
| 8:21
| Steve's glad everyone had a good time. He loves when Ed calls in to get all serious. |
| 8:22
| It's always good when you can get Ed all worked up like that. Any time you can get his voice up like that it's good. |
| 8:23
| And Ron drove by Terry's old place? Did he slow down and say something in Hebrew? It's almost like Ron's own Ghost Line tour. |
| 8:24
| See what Buzz misses? He could have been right on that route, he's the stop before Pete Zimmerman. Ron would have probably slowed down in front of the building where Steve owns a condo that Matt lives in. He'd tell him all about how the building owners went bankrupt and Steve had a problem with his deeded parking space. |
| 8:31
| The commercial computer is messing up again. Buzz should feel free to pause and leave some dead air. The computer was not working yesterday although the engineers got warnings about it on Tuesday. No one checked into it though. |
| 8:32
| Yesterday Steve was just happy that it was 10 and the show was over so he didn't even get mad about it. The only thing Todd cared about yesterday was a sloppy segue he heard. So if Todd hears that or some other pause he'll get the problem fixed. |
| 8:33
| There was a pause between commercial and rejoin which Todd said you could drive a truck through. So if Buzz wants to pause for a second that could get things fixed. |
| 8:34
| It has the feel of the whole system breaking down again like yesterday. It's deteriorating. |
| 8:35
| Alright it's Peanut Butter Jelly Time. Steve and Pat couldn't have been more wrong about that Corey Crawford kid. Yesterday they were both unhappy that Savard was starting a rookie at goal. He had a shutout, on Steve Dahl Radio Icon night. |
| 8:36
| That was not shown on Comcast, it happens during commercial breaks. Steve was happy to be wrong about it though, you couldn't have scripted a better night. Pat did see Steve fall, they've got an in-house feed of the United Center at Comcast. That's great, so now the video of Steve almost slipping will become a blooper they show at the Comcast Christmas party. |
| 8:37
| The Hawks have another big game coming up on Friday, it's Bobby Hull/Stan Mikita night. They're now 4 points out of the playoffs and that's totally realistic. |
| 8:38
| Comcast will have the full ceremony for Friday's game, it's about a half hour. They showed Bobby Hull on the screen last night, he got a huge ovation. Good for him and good for the Hawks that all this is going on. |
| 8:39
| Steve was there at the beginning of the season and even since then things have completely changed with that team and the fans in Chicago. John McDonough and Rocky have really turned it around. |
| 8:40
| There are usually 5 games on in the Comcast newsroom and everyone was glued to the Hawks game, that's something Pat hasn't seen in a while. Were they also glued to Steve almost slipping on the ice? |
| 8:41
| Comcast had Savard mic'ed up last night and they played some of that after the game. |
| 8:42
| Kudos to him for sticking to his guns and starting the rookie goalie even though everyone else said it was a bad idea. |
| 8:43
| The Cavs come to the United Center tonight and Ben Wallace says he wants to get booed. Steve would say that too. He did sort of say it. |
| 8:44
| The Bulls are going for 2 straight wins for the first time all season. That's bad. Didn't that happen to the Bears too? And the Sox had some trouble stringing a few wins together. |
| 8:45
| Lou finally got fed up with the way the Cubs are playing, even though they're just exhibition games. |
| 8:46
| Has Steve caught any Nick Swisher on various TV stations? Steve saw him on Comcast last night, it was an awesome interview. He just really likes what he does, Pat think he'll really fit in on the Southside. |
| 8:53
| Live read: Super Cycle Show |
| 8:54
| Once again, that Jaime guy brings in a lot of sales for the station but he's going to need a spellchecker or something. We don't have the time to do it. |
| 8:55
| Steve believes we're ready to go if Buzz is ready with the news. |
| 8:56
| News with Buzz |
| 8:57
| Things are getting back to normal after an early morning explosion in Times Square in New York. |
| 8:58
| U.S. Homeland Security says the blast at a military recruiting center does not show any link to terrorism. Of course it does. First of all, it's a bomb so that's terrorism. Then it's a military recruiting center and we're at war against terrorism. Do they think it was just an act of vandalism? |
| 8:59
| A man seen riding his bike erratically near the scene is now being sought. See, bicycle, that's terrorism. |
| 9:00
| Florida may still play an important role in deciding the nominee for Democratic candidate for president. Howard Dean is discussing the possibility of allowing Florida and Michigan to stage another primary. |
| 9:01
| Meanwhile Hillary Clinton addressed a potential Clinton/Obama or Obama/Clinton ticket. She's probably thinking more along the lines of Clinton/Obama. Then they can do a campaign ad where she answers the phone and he answers the extension. |
| 9:02
| The Obama's are expected to take in an a Broadway show tonight, attending the opening of the all-black production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. |
| 9:03
| Sumei Hu, or Chung, the Sheboygan woman who disappeared at O'Hare last week was located in Chicago yesterday. Why do they call her Chung? That seems derogatory. |
| 9:04
| The price of oil has reached a record high and gas is selling for over $5 a gallon in California. Remember last week when Bush was surprised that gas might be $4 a gallon? |
| 9:05
| Meanwhile a Hoboken, New Jersey S.W.A.T. unit has been disbanded after photos of them with Hooters waitresses in Alabama surfaced. The team was returning from the Gulf Coast where they were aiding Katrina victims. |
| 9:06
| Opening statements began at 9 am today in the Tony Rezko trial. |
| 9:07
| Steve still doesn't get why Blago can't get back the $1 million for that Pilgrim Baptist Church. And then yesterday Bruce DuMont was on TV whining about the $7 million Blago promised him for his Broadcast Museum that he never got. |
| 9:08
| For some reason the empty museum doesn't have the same weight as the burned out church for Steve. |
| 9:09
| Bond has been sent for a Wilmette doctor who allegedly sexually assaulted a teenage girl and gave her drugs. Did Buzz see the booking photo of the guy? He's all bug-eyed. |
| 9:10
| Finally the search is underway for two women caught on car wash surveillance video restraining a girl and blasting her with a high-powered hose as punishment. |
| 9:11
| The founder of the Museum of Broadcast Communications says the building remains unfinished because money promised from the governor never came through. He's just trying to jump on the Pilgrim bandwagon. |
| 9:12
| Bruce DuMont says he never asked for the money but was offered it by the governor. He was all mopey,almost crying. It was pathetic. |
| 9:13
| Buzz feels the Broadcast Museum is a heavy burden for Bruce. It's his dream. They had one at the Cultural Center across the street until they moved. He raised a lot of money for a new building but not enough. |
| 9:14
| Steve has the video from channel 7's website. Hasn't Blago broken millions of promises? He promised not to raise taxes and he did. If you count each individual in Illinois that's millions of promises. |
| 9:15
| If Steve were the governor he'd probably make a lot of these promises. Maybe Blago's at a party, he promises some money to Bruce. He probably just wanted to get away from him. Blago originally promised DuMont $8 million but later staffers said it would probably be more like $3 million. |
| 9:16
| $3 million, that's still not bad. Steve and Buzz could probably get a museum up-and-running for half a million and then pocket $2.5 million. What kind of museum would they have? |
| 9:17
| Steve can play the rest of it if Buzz wants. He's heard enough. The governor is all heart though. All heart and all hair. |
| 9:25
| It seems like Bush would know that people are predicting $4 a gallon gas. It's already happening in California. |
| 9:26
| It just seems like the guy in charge of fiscally stimulating our economy should be a little ahead of the curve on that one. |
| 9:27
| Live read: Fresh Diet |
| 9:28
| Steve met the Fresh Diet guys last night, they came up from Florida and had never been to a hockey game. They liked it and they're going to check it out when they get back. Buzz didn't know they had hockey in Florida. |
| 9:29
| The diet's been working for Steve. Even if you go off it you still know how to eat right. |
| 9:30
| Someone accidentally sent pastries over today. That's a challenge for The Stever, if he can refer to himself in the third person. |
| 9:31
| The pastries are from the Vienna Bakery in Lincoln Park. |
| 9:32
| Steve saw Chef Hans at the Hawks game last night and of course he had to remind him about almost slipping on the carpet. Someone needs to warn Steve if the carpet's a little slippery. |
| 9:33
| Steve rode it out though and he really thinks the Pilates training helped with that. His core is strengthened and he has better balance. |
| 9:34
| Falling down was not an option. Because everything else was going well. He warmed Chris Pronger right up, he talked to Patrick Sharp and Savvy. If Steve had fallen he'd still be there now crying. The Ice Girls would have had to come out with shovels and pick him up. |
| 9:35
| Steve was sitting next to a guy last night who felt compelled to yell "SHOOT IT!" every time someone had the puck. He was also yelling "SKATE" a lot, like he's a Pee Wee coach. |
| 9:36
| Steve's pretty sure that the hockey players know to shoot and skate and also to check. Even Steve knows that and he's never played hockey. |
| 9:37
| Steve was already irritated with the guy because he didn't wait for a stop in play to go back to his seat. There are ushers with stop signs and you're supposed to wait as a courtesy. |
| 9:38
| The guy was a big lummox who spent every intermission talking on his cellphone. So he just barrels past the stop sign and you can imagine how much Steve likes that. He decided he shouldn't do anything since it was his puck drop night. |
| 9:39
| Then someone yells at the guy after he barrels through and he turns around and acts like he didn't know to wait. Why else are 100 people standing there waiting by this little black guy. |
| 9:40
| Steve probably took the right course of action right? Did the guy have to yell "SHOOT IT" and "SKATE" the whole time though? It was really loud and he was as close to Steve as Buzz is now. |
| 9:41
| Steve's pretty sure that everyone at the game gets the point of hockey, shooting and skating. |
| 9:42
| Caller Dave has three sons who play hockey. There's always a parent who yells "FIRE IT!" at every game. Then when they do the father-son game the guy can't skate at all. |
| 9:43
| Steve can't skate either, but he's not yelling "FIRE IT!" at every game. Those guys on the ice, they know to shoot the puck. They're the best players around. |
| 9:44
| Steve's not saying people shouldn't get into the game though. But this guy yelled "SHOOT IT" 500 times. |
| 9:50
| That's Chef Hans on Fox Business Channel yesterday. It must be available because Pete has the audio. It just started coming on Comcast a couple of months ago. |
| 9:51
| Can Pete play that one more time? Steve would just like to savor it a bit. Hans was talking about the high price of commodities and their effect on food costs. |
| 9:52
| Hans also pointed out that the rising cost of gas makes it so less people want to go out. Steve's guessing that if you're going to S & W you don't care about fuel costs. |
| 9:53
| They actually kept going back to Hans every hour. Pete would rate it an A-, Hans looked good but he didn't throw in any random Steve Dahl mentions as he promised. |
| 9:54
| You gotta like the Chef. Hans came by during the game and reminded Steve that he almost fell. Hans was acting like it would be news to Steve. He's the 300 pound guy, he knows that he almost fell. Then he had to alert Steve's entire family in case they didn't know. |
| 9:55
| Steve did find out that Savard wasn't coming to his Chef's table so he laid that on him. Steve didn't do it to be mean though, he figured he should tell Hans early so he could work through it. Steve would never been mean to Hans. |
| 9:56
| Steve will go to that dinner though, he was invited by Stan Mikita. He's not sure what he should do though because it's at 5:30. Steve works out in the afternoon down here so he's not sure if he should go back home. |
| 9:57
| Don't forget Steve and Buzz will be broadcasting at Phil Stefani's Riva at Navy Pier on St. Patrick's day. That's real St. Patrick's day, not the Catholic holiday. |
| 9:58
| Stop by for a free Irish breakfast, music from the Larkin & Moran Brothers and green Bud beer. Budweiser is actually the number 1 beer in Ireland. |
| 9:59
| There's also an early bird parking special for Steve Dahl listeners, $5 from 5 am to noon. |
| 10:00
| Steve hasn't done a morning remote in a really long time. Maybe 13 or 14 years. He's not sure what the difference is other than that it's early in the morning. Buzz can't remember his last morning remote but he remembers his first. It was with Steve at the Carnegie Theater. |
| 10:01
| People have a different energy in the morning and you get a different kind of drunk too. |
