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| 5:31
| That's The Pretenders, Brass In Pocket. That songs like a time capsule for Buzz. It is an oldie, a nugget 'cause you dug it. The whole station is like a time capsule. |
| 5:32
| Buzz would find that if he listened to the station. It's like a bunch of little time capsules in one big time capsule. The station is a time machine. |
| 5:33
| The song is actually Brass In Pocket (I'm Special). Steve's not sure if he's ever written any songs that feature parentheses in the title. Does Pete know of any off the top of his head? There might be something off Pet Fishsticks. Buzz should know this, he has a copy of that on vinyl. |
| 5:34
| So does Steve, he has about 2,000 of them. Pete says the song is The Herpes Song (Chanks for the Memories). It's nice that Pete had to quickly say the title even though Steve had remembered it. Let's spin that one, nothing like a song about oozing sores early in the morning. |
| 5:35
| Buzz sees Pet Fishsticks every time he goes into the closet to get a coat. Steve thinks he should throw it out, it's not going to be worth any money unless there's a tragic warehouse fire. |
| 5:36
| And here's Pete with the CD, it's nice of him to get off the Murphy bed and come into the studio. Lately it sounds like Pete is working from a bed in his studio, just pressing all the buttons. |
| 5:37
| We're probably only a few months away from Pete selling his condo in Rogers Park and moving in to the studio next door. He's already got the percolator but Buzz has noticed he might have added food as well. That's a little more convenient to him. |
| 5:38
| He could probably use a handheld shower in the men's bathroom because there's a drain on the floor. Steve witnessed a security check on this floor this morning. A guy came out from the bank of freight elevators, checked all the locked doors and then tapped on the unlocked bathroom doors. It seems like you'd want to go in to the unlocked bathrooms, that's where your perp might be hiding. |
| 5:39
| Alright Steve's going to play The Herpes song for a minute or so. He's pretty sure it's safe for the air but he'll have to listen carefully. Of course that goes against his basic philosophy of break time while you play a song. |
| 5:40
| Steve thinks the song is safe for air but he doesn't want to hear it. And he's lost Buzz. He's just over there trimming his nails. The song seems stupid but at the time, before AIDS, herpes was a big deal. |
| 5:41
| You can buy Pet Fishsticks on vinyl at Dahl.com. There also might be an option to burn it on to CD. And for a very reasonable $5 Steve will autograph it. Does Buzz want to bring his copy in for an autograph? |
| 5:42
| Steve would even personalize the autograph although he doesn't recommend it. Personalizing Buzz's would be good though because then it shows that it's Buzz's own copy of it. Steve has 2,000 copies of the EP and even he'd be interested in buying that. |
| 5:43
| Steve put Pet Fishsticks out some time in the 80s. It was his first attempt to write songs that weren't parodies. He remembers having trouble coming up with 4 songs for the EP but he did. That's how Steve works though. He makes a deal to put out an EP and then tell him how many songs it needs to be. If it's 4 he writes 4 songs. It's not like he has 4 songs that he wants to put on an EP |
| 5:44
| That might be a function of doing a radio show. You tell him how long his show is and he does a show for that amount of time. |
| 5:51
| This is Tina's last day in case Buzz forgot. He was shocked to learn she was leaving. For years Buzz has tried to engineer a flesh rampage, this would be his last day to do it. He might want to wait until her day is over for human resources purposes. |
| 5:52
| Tina's exit is not the clean break that Steve usually likes. She's still going to be working for WBBM-AM so Steve can only take her office keys away, not her building pass too. Someone can't be dead to you if they're still walking around. |
| 5:53
| So it's not the pinsweeper maneuver Steve's looking for. He likes to take away the keys, the building pass and then turn the high-powered hose on them. Steve didn't fire Tina either, she resigned. |
| 5:54
| Tina still has the same building pass that everyone else is so she could still get into the office. Maybe Steve should start locking the door because otherwise how does her leaving make things different? She won't be doing any less work. That's a joke...kind of. |
| 5:55
| The other day Steve went into the office to talk to them and Tina was just sitting there showing Stephanie a text message. She knew he caught him so she pretended like she was showing Stephanie that her phone didn't work or something. |
| 5:56
| So maybe Steve should lock the office door. Otherwise Tina can just come in and spray paint "you suck" on the wall. Although when Tina resigned she said she had nothing bad to say about Steve. He told her that he had a couple of weeks to change that. |
| 5:57
| It would be nice to have someone leave and not join up with the club of people who all hate Steve. He's not sure if she'll be going to those meetings at the tapas restaurant. |
| 5:58
| They need something to talk about over tapas so they talk about Steve. If someone gets an olive with a pit in it they say "this olive is like Steve because working for him is the pits" then they all raise their glasses in agreement. It has a very medieval feeling to Buzz. |
| 5:59
| Ed attends those meetings but he wouldn't raise his glass. Although it still seems sort of disloyal since Steve still pays Ed. Buzz thinks he's just desperate for any social contact. |
| 6:00
| Steve's been trying to convince Ed to join an escort club similar to Emperor's Club. And for anyone else out there looking to become a whoremonger, Steve recommends going right to the provider. |
| 6:01
| As we learned yesterday Eliot Spitzer could have saved about $300 an hour if he'd went straight to Kristen instead of going through Emperor's. Plus cutting them out increases your chances of not being caught. A provider is not going to turn herself into the authorities. |
| 6:02
| Even if she were to get busted the odds of her ratting you out would be low. She's not running a multi-million dollar ring. She appears to have some integrity on a personal level. She's been treating like a tramp by the press. Personally Steve doesn't find what she does abhorrent. They showed her brother on TV, it seems like she's done well for herself in terms of where she could be at. Her brother seems like a complete idiot and a douchebag. |
| 6:03
| It has to be even worse for Eliot Spitzer now that Kristen or Ashley is well-known. It's bad enough that all of this stuff got out there and his wife knows about it but now she can see the woman and see that she's a hot little 22-year-old. |
| 6:04
| All of this could have been prevented if he would have gone right to the provider. Because what kind of VIP service was The Emperor's Club really providing him? They were always hassling him about the money and then he gets busted. |
| 6:05
| Steve would like to mention to Buzz that his friend Chris Wood seems a little out of it lately. Has Buzz talked to him recently? Steve gets emails from Chris from time-to-time. Chris might be trying to jump from Buzz right to Steve. |
| 6:06
| Steve wouldn't let that happen although Buzz probably wouldn't care. Chris seems like a bit of a handful. It seems like Chris is there for Buzz's protection but then it's Chris who gets drunk and needs to be driven home. |
| 6:07
| At 5:30 last night Chris sent Steve an email with a link to Ashley Duprè's website, as if he'd just found out about it. Maybe he's been asleep for a couple of days but the rest of the country seems acutely aware of it. |
| 6:08
| News with Buzz |
| 6:09
| This will be the last weekend that Eliot Spitzer is governor of New York. No details about what he'll do for that last weekend. Maybe he'll start an online dating service. |
| 6:10
| Meanwhile Ashley Duprè is receiving criticism from the press. People are accusing her of using this scandal to boost her singing career. |
| 6:11
| A critic for Us Weekly admits that Ashley can sing. We heard it yesterday, it didn't sound bad. |
| 6:12
| Buzz is cueing Steve but he has no CD in here yet. Steve thinks Pete and Jim might both be on meth and they're getting it from Adam. Buzz didn't think so up until now. |
| 6:13
| The song Buzz has on his CD is the same one we played yesterday. Buzz just thought they all sounded the same. Steve calls down to the newsroom. Can Jim put the pipe down first? |
| 6:14
| Steve has the song from yesterday and it's the same one Buzz has. It's the song that Jim also grabbed off her MySpace page today. But according to the story Buzz has she has a new song. |
| 6:15
| There is a new song available for download on another site but you have to pay for it. The New York Times seems to be confused between the whore website, which was taken down, and then MySpace page which is still up. |
| 6:16
| It's also being reported that Duprè is a former teen gymnast who once played Sandy in a high school production of Grease. Gymnast? That means she's a spinner. |
| 6:17
| As the Clinton campaign distances itself from Geraldine Ferraro Barack Obama is attempting to distance himself from his former pastor, Reverend Jeremiah Wright. He was a bullfrog right? |
| 6:18
| Government officials say a chemical used to give butter flavor to popcorn could damage the lungs and airways of lab mice. |
| 6:19
| What's the chemical? Is it the butter dust like the workers at the popcorn factories were inhaling or is it the liquid that comes out of the fountain. All Buzz has is something called diacetyl |
| 6:20
| It must be the liquid stuff right? Steve loves that stuff. Sometimes he wishes the concession stand at the movie theater would fill his popcorn halfway up and then let him put butter in the bottom part. Then they'd fill up the rest of the popcorn and he'd put butter on the top. |
| 6:21
| Buzz thinks they would accommodate Steve on that one. Otherwise he thought of just buying two halves of a popcorn. |
| 6:22
| A major shake-up in the Chicago Police Department saw the replacement of 22 of the 25 police commanders. |
| 6:23
| That Jody Weis guy has a weird head. He's got a weird brow but it seems like that's just holding him back from being handsome. That must be frustrating to look and the mirror and know you're almost handsome. |
| 6:24
| As expected the charges were dropped against a Tinley Park mother accused of child endangerment. She left her sleeping daughter in a car while her other children got out to donate money to a Salvation Army kettle. |
| 6:25
| She must have given the cop some lip or something and that's why she got arrested. She pulled up, she locked the door, put the flashers on and then got out. And then she's busted. |
| 6:26
| She made a good point last night, when she goes to the supermarket she straps her kid back into the car, loads in the groceries and takes the car back. Every mom does that. |
| 6:27
| A town in Argentina is living in fear after several sightings of a "creepy gnome" that locals claim stalk the streets after dark. In Chicago we call him Billy Dec. |
| 6:28
| The little person wears a pointy hat and has a distinctive sideways walk. He was caught on tape by a terrified group of youngsters. |
| 6:34
| On the tape Pete just played it says her name is "Treffly Coyne", is that her name? Buzz heard that name yesterday but he thought it was a nickname. Pete only goes by nicknames. |
| 6:35
| It's Ellen "Treffly" Coyne. Steve likes Treffly though. He husband's a bit of a short-round though. He says he's going to get the law changed or something. He should just tell the old lady to stop lipping off and be glad she's not in jail. |
| 6:36
| There's one piece of Drew Peterson news that Buzz forgot to mention. Friends and family of Stacy Peterson are calling for a boycott of Tailgater's, the local tavern that Drew frequents. |
| 6:37
| Sandy Bychowski is leading the charge. How does Drew get her to move out of that neighborhood? |
| 6:38
| Going back to the newscast, the whore's MySpace page was shutdown briefly yesterday so Buzz was right. And that popcorn story, diacetyl, along with acetoin are compounds that give butter it's characteristic taste. |
| 6:39
| Margarines or other similar oil-based products add diacetyl and acetoin to the final product for taste. The US National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health suggests that diacetyl, when used in butter flavoring, may be hazardous when heated and inhaled over a long period of time. |
| 6:40
| A specialist at Denver's National Jewish Medical and Research Center warned federal agencies that consumers are in danger of suffering from the fatal popcorn lung disease. The only case known to date is a man who ate at least two bags of butter microwave popcorn daily for 10 years. Is that stuff in the spray butter too? |
| 6:41
| Can Mark Czerniec just call in? Because Steve's going to the movies tomorrow and he'd like to know if there's a danger in that motor oil stuff passing for butter. Buzz wonders what's prompting Steve to go to the movies. It's just something to do, he's seeing that movie about the President being shot. Buzz saw that, Vantage Point, it was very good. |
| 6:42
| Mark Czerniec is on the phone. The danger is when you inhale the powdered butter in microwave popcorn. Has Mark ever seen Steve eat popcorn? Mark doesn't like anything that he can't pronounce, he just puts olive oil on popcorn. OK Nature Boy. Mark's an Italianist. |
| 6:43
| Mary says you can put olive oil on popcorn. Steve's not sure why you would though. Can you pump spray olive oil? Steve just set himself up for a Popeye joke. |
| 6:44
| Caller Christina has a popcorn butter tip for Steve. She suggests using a straw to help you disperse butter throughout the popcorn container. She prefers soft pretzels at the movies though. |
| 6:45
| Christina doesn't dip her pretzel in the fake cheese either. So she's just looking for the pretzel part. Buzz is wondering if that's a soft pretzel or a crunchy one. |
| 6:46
| They're soft pretzels but they're probably about a thousand calories. Steve's going to recommend Auntie Anne's pretzels. Christina lives in the city, there aren't too many of those. But that's good because she doesn't want to be tempted by them. |
| 6:47
| LIve read: Seattle Sutton |
| 6:55
| Lately Steve's been using the reheat function on his microwave. He's not sure if it's something new but it's a fairly new microwave. |
| 6:56
| You put your food in and hit reheat and then it starts sensing what's in there. Somehow it knows what food you're reheating. |
| 6:57
| As it's sensing, and maybe cooking, you can go do what you want. Then a number pops up on the screen and tells you how much time you have left. |
| 6:58
| Then the food comes out and it's cooked just the way you want it. Buzz's microwave is fairly new but he does not have a reheat option. |
| 6:59
| Steve can see how the fumes from microwave popcorn can kill people though. Whenever someone cooks it up on this floor the scent permeates the entire office. |
| 7:00
| Buzz took all the microwave popcorn out of the house because he hates the smell. The babysitters always heat up the popcorn. As soon as you leave the house, they're heating it up. |
| 7:01
| Buzz doesn't like coming home from the Mexican restaurant, after having a few tequila shots and smelling that popcorn. He's got a bag of cheese Oke Doke popcorn, that should be enough. |
| 7:02
| Caller John is in Schererville. He's the second Schererville caller this week. The show is all the rage down there. |
| 7:03
| Actually John isn't supposed to be listening to the show, his wife banned him. She decided Steve's too much of an influence after John shipped his luggage to Hawaii. Steve never actually shipped his luggage to Hawaii because it was too expensive. John needs to listen to all the shows. And he needs to set things straight for Steve. |
| 7:04
| John has some info about the reheat function. It causes steam to come out of your food and then the microwave senses that and determines a cook time. That's pretty advanced technology. |
| 7:05
| How about a spin of the prize wheel so Steve can redeem himself with John's wife. John doesn't want a spin, he already won the big prize recently. Steve can see why John's wife doesn't like him. |
| 7:06
| John had to explain to his wife once the gift certificates started coming in. So they won $1200 in gift certificates and his wife still doesn't like Steve? |
| 7:07
| It's not fair that John's wife banned him from listening to Steve though. He did the research and decided shipping luggage was too expensive and he said that on the air. |
| 7:08
| Somehow Steve hung up on that last caller. Steve needs to get something straightened out with Brendan. When he's screening callers Steve needs to know the topic before knowing where the person lives. |
| 7:09
| Because now Steve's looking for another call but all he sees is Dean from Lake in the Hills. It's not like Steve was asking to talk to a guy from Lake in the Hills. Although he does like to say "how are things in Lake in the Hills?" But the topic is more important. |
| 7:10
| The order of the call screener window is name, location and topic and Brendan gets caught up in that. If he wants to go back and fill in location after topic, that's fine. |
| 7:11
| Didn't Steve give Brendan a guest pass for his V.I.P. lockerroom this past week? Yesterday they just barely avoided Steve and Brendan nudity. He walked in and the guy at the desk said his guest had just left. So they were about 3 minutes apart. He might have been trying to confirm that Brendan was his guest though. |
| 7:12
| Steve isn't nude for very long though. Although sometimes if he's trying to get his clothing on too quickly it actually takes longer. |
| 7:13
| Caller Dean wanted to let Steve know that his show is required listening in his household because of all the tips he gets. One example of things Steve learned is when you're out on the town always be carrying 20s for tipping purposes. |
| 7:15
| If that last knucklehead would have just listened he would know that Steve didn't ship his luggage because it was too expensive. What's another tip Dean learned from Steve? |
| 7:16
| Dean knows the importance of parking although Steve doesn't usually give specifics for parking at sporting events. There was one time that he went to the United Center and was told by security that he had to move his car because he was in Mr. Wirtz's space. That's what you want to aspire to. |
| 7:17
| Parking is key and tipping is key as well. Tipping takes all the questions out of everything. So many people stiff on the tips but if you just establish that you're a reasonable person everything goes better. |
| 7:18
| Dean won some tickets to Steve Miller Band at the Rosemont Theater. Steve hasn't been there for a while so he doesn't have the parking situation wired. The last time he went he did scout the location out beforehand. Sometimes he scouts out the airports to check out the parking and baggage check situations. |
| 7:19
| Then you go to FlightStats.com and back up the scouting with information about security check wait times. That's deep recon but you don't want to wait in line, you don't want to look like a schmuck and you don't want to miss your flight. Steve's insane but it gives him something to do. |
| 7:20
| Caller Hector just bought a house a year ago and the microwave oven has an ice cream softening feature. You can put the whole pint in there and it almost turns it into a soft serve. |
| 7:21
| Hector loves the morning show but he misses Steve and Buzz in the afternoons. Steve doesn't like hearing that. He hates to think about that giant audience that's being left to a bunch of other shows that don't deserve it. |
| 7:22
| Hector should just go podcast in the afternoons. Everyday Steve asks Todd about finding out how they can include everything in the podcast. Todd usually just gives a fake answer that he'll look into it and then asks how his ass looks in his jeans. |
| 7:23
| Steve appreciates what Hector's saying but some people want Steve to take a poll and see how many people can actually listen in the mornings. What is Steve supposed to do with that? It was hard enough just getting to the mornings when WCKG was taken down. And that's a take down that included Steve's own son. |
| 7:24
| But it drives Steve nuts that he gave up that audience to idiots like Dan McNeil and Roe Conn. |
| 7:25
| Live read: Sport Clips |
| 7:26
| Sport Clips will be out at Navy Pier on Monday raising money for St. Baldrick's. Steve isn't going to get his head shaved, he's just going to donate money. It vanity but Steve doesn't want to go around having to explain why he shaved his head. |
| 7:27
| Plus Steve's own view of charity is that it should be done and not talked about. Buzz doesn't want to look at Steve's shaved head. Plus there's that artist rendering of Steve with a shaved head where he looks like a big toe. |
| 7:28
| Ed didn't do Steve any favors with that rendering, he didn't even try to match his skin color. He's only hurting the kids. |
| 7:32
| Steve might buy the Blu Ray of American Gangster this weekend, he hasn't seen it yet. Buzz thinks he'll love it, it's right up his alley. Thanks for noticing Steve's alley Buzz. |
| 7:33
| Live read: Walter E. Smithe |
| 7:34
| Has Buzz seen the new Walter E. Smithe commercials? It's the three brothers in some sort of Jib-Jab deal doing the Irish jig. |
| 7:35
| They have some good furniture at Walter E. Smithe as Buzz knows. He sits on one of their couches everyday. It's the most comfortable couch in the history of the world right? |
| 7:36
| Steve actually fell asleep on one of their couches yesterday, during a meeting. Although that was more due to the fact that the night before Steve didn't get to sleep until 1 am. The good news is that Steve got to sleep at midnight last night. He's blaming the time change. |
| 7:37
| Time for today's web poll. Steve can never remember the web poll because it seems like everyday is actually two days. There's the day where he gets up and does the show and then there's the day after the show is over. So the web poll questions run together. |
| 7:38
| Yesterday's question was "has oversleeping ever cost you your job?" The predominant answer was no. And earlier in the week one web poll had about a million responses which Steve took as a compliment. Ed explained that was a pollsitter but Steve couldn't figure out why someone would do that. |
| 7:39
| Then Steve got a somewhat disturbing email about pollsitters. The guy said the pollsitter's main motivation is to get Ed's panties in a bunch. It seems like Ed's panties are in a bunch as soon as he wakes up. |
| 7:40
| The emailer said that Steve's impersonation of Ed (which is a caricature), his bio on Dahl.com and his pompous photo make Ed seem like a tool. This emailer also seems like a tool though. This might be computer guy on computer guy action though. Ed is a useful tool. |
| 7:41
| The emailer set his computer up to vote for each category 3,200 times in the web poll. Then he accuses Ed of adding votes to the "loaded" category on the hot dog topping poll. |
| 7:42
| Then he says that Ed probably kisses his computer good night before he goes to bed. It seems like this guy is the one doing that though. He's the one sitting at his computer voting for a web poll. |
| 7:43
| Steve's going to have to get Ed on the phone though. This is why he hates the internet. This emailer is nuts compared to Ed. Ed's going to get laid off of this. |
| 7:44
| Computer Greg might just be jealous that he's not Steve's computer bitch. It's never going to happen either when he acts like this. |
| 7:45
| Ed is on the phone. He's not steaming, he's just amused. Why would Ed load the Dahl.com poll? Is there a way to ban this guy from the site? |
| 7:46
| Steve would like to read Ed's Dahl.com bio which, along with the photo of him in a Cubs jersey, set this emailer off. Born in Chicago and raised in Naperville a young Ed Silha grew up listening to Steve. What's wrong with that? |
| 7:47
| In 1996 Ed was more than happy to work for Steve and utilize his talents. It's very hard to read this in Ed's voice. But it's not annoying, even with the voice. |
| 7:48
| Ed has become accustomed to hearing Steve's impersonation of him although he doesn't think his voice is that high-pitched. Ed can be found following Chicago sports teams around American, you may have spotted him and his hair highlights at Cubs road games. |
| 7:49
| This was written by Tina, who is she to criticize his highlights? She could use some quite frankly. |
| 7:50
| Ed is a connoisseur of wine, scotch, bourbon and rye and he can be found at high-end Chicago bars talking to anyone who will listen. This thing couldn't be more self-effacing. |
| 7:51
| Steve took down the messageboard, he could take down the web poll, he could take down the entire site. He doesn't want to write a blog everyday. His favorite day is Friday because he doesn't have to write one for two days. |
| 7:52
| Steve will forward this guy's email along to Ed but he might not be able to do anything with it. Computer Greg seems like a real jag. Ed might be annoying but at least he's doing stuff for Steve. |
| 7:53
| Is there a chance that Computer Greg is actually Adam writing under a nome de plume? Computer guys are always fighting plus Ed refuses to recognize Adam as a computer guy. It's like they're in different boxing weight classes. Ed doesn't view Adam as a bona fide computer guy. |
| 7:57
| Live read: Paulina Meat Market |
| 7:58
| Steve's gonna go up and get him some corned beef from Paulina Meat Market after the show. They have all the stuff you need too like the cabbage. And they have a parking lot which is key. |
| 7:59
| So it's Tina's last day today, she would be Lucy of Lucy and Ethel. She's not leaving in a snit either, she presented separate, personalized letters of resignation to Steve and Mary. Come on into the studio Tina. |
| 8:00
| Tina actually looked up online the procedures to write letters of resignation. Steve didn't read his at first because he doesn't usually leave anything. But then he realized something was happening. |
| 8:01
| Tina will still be here because she works at WBBM-AM. That's why Steve's going to start locking the office door. Not that she'd steal anything but there has to be some punishment for her leaving. |
| 8:02
| Ron told Mary to do an exit interview with Tina but she's still going to be around. Usually those involve taking all of your keys and building passes and leaving you with a cardboard box with your pencil holder in it. |
| 8:03
| Tina will have access to all 3 floors although Mary instructed Tom to bar her access to the door by Steve's office. She could just go around through WBBM-AM so apparently Steve will have to change the locks too. |
| 8:04
| Otherwise Tina can just get in and eat Steve's potato chips and then leave the bag open, or cut a bear claw and leave the other dirty half that she touched in the box. |
| 8:05
| So we ordered some food up for TIna since she's Polish and Greek. Although Steve doesn't think Tina's actually Greek, that's just a front to hide the Polish side. |
| 8:06
| TIna ends up getting assigned to a lot of sports stories at the Sun-Times and she doesn't know a lot about sports. Steve's caught her reading books like "Football for Dummies" but at least she's doing research. She probably knows more than a lot of sports reporters do. |
| 8:07
| So we got Tina several other For Dummies books including Fly Fishing for Dummies, Soccer for Dummies although it doesn't seem like you need a book for that, Tennis for Dummies, Camping for Dummies that's more outdoor stuff. |
| 8:08
| Steve's personal favorite is Pilates for Dummies with him right on the cover. So good luck to Tina at the Sun-Times. Steve makes fun of her but if he didn't like her she wouldn't have been here this long. |
| 8:09
| But Steve does not want Tina coming into his office. He's going to lock the office and install a camera, he doesn't need her coming in and turning down the temperature of the fridge. |
| 8:10
| There was a Coke explosion in the fridge and Tina didn't know what to do so she turned it down. The reason the Coke exploded was because there was only one in there so the fridge was working overtime to chill that one can. |
| 8:11
| Tina says she has nothing bad to say about Steve but maybe she will if she's away for a little time. Did we give her Ali's phone number, she might still want to join the club of people who hate Steve. Joe Kraslen's the vice president and Dan Falato is Sergeant at Arms. |
| 8:12
| If Tina joins quick enough she might be able to put that first tapas dinner on the corporate card before Steve has time to cancel it. |
| 8:13
| Alright time for today's web poll. The question is "who is the best recruiter?" The options are Pete Carroll, Nick Saban, Charlie Weis and Ron Zook. |
| 8:14
| Pete Carroll doesn't want to sound like a jerk but he thinks other college coaches are lazy. |
| 8:15
| Two months ago the SEC proposed legislation-which most coaches agreed with-prohibiting head coaches from making off-campus visits during spring evaluations. It kicks in next month from April 15th to May 31st. |
| 8:16
| The change was made to help coaches avoid "bumping" incidents when coaches aren't allowed to talk to recruits. But if a coach goes to a high school to watch tape of a player and the player innocently walks into the coach's office at the same time, that's a bona fide coincidence. That's the second time Steve's used bona fide today. |
| 8:22
| Time for the Eight O'Clock Taco Bell. It's time for the Taco Weekend Kickoff although today Steve and Buzz are eating the Cheesy Beefy Melt. |
| 8:23
| Caller Ken has some food info for Steve. Ken's Irish and his grandmother was born in Ireland. He's been eating corned beef. cabbage and potatoes all his life. |
| 8:24
| Just for the heck of it Ken put a piece of beef in a crock pot, fat side down, onions on the bottom and then potatoes and cabbage on top. Steve's accidentally dialed into the Food Network here. |
| 8:25
| Put some chicken brother in there, leave it overnight on low and the next day you have the best corned beef ever. Let's do it! |
| 8:26
| The Paulina Meat Market has really good cuts of corned beef so imagine how good that'll be overnight in a crockpot. |
| 8:27
| It's Peanut Butter Jelly Time. Pete worked on the theme song but it's still not short enough. It's getting closer though. This is classic passive-aggressive Pete Zimmerman here. |
| 8:28
| Pete put several options on the machine, Steve was looking for something about 10 seconds. Those are on there but Steve has to scroll up for the shorter ones. How would Steve know that? |
| 8:29
| Steve doesn't need those other options on there, just the short one. People say Steve makes things too complicated but really it's Pete. |
| 8:30
| We're in the middle of March Madness right now. We've got the conference tournaments going on right now. It doesn't seem fair that Illinois can have a really crummy season and then still have a chance to win the Big Ten Tournament. |
| 8:31
| Then that one kid from Illinois got up on the scorers table after it was over. He must have thought they were back in St. Louis making it into the NCAA Finals. It's Penn State and you're in Indianapolis. |
| 8:32
| What the hell happened to that Illinois basketball program? Is it that all those guys left early? That's part of it but also they had that guy on Indiana committed to playing there. He's probably the best player in the NCAA right now. |
| 8:33
| He got lured to Indiana by Kelvin Sampson and that really hurt the program. This will be the first time in 9 years where Illinois won't make the Big Dance. |
| 8:34
| Meanwhile Northwestern can't do anything right. They had a 13-point lead at the half and still lost. Pat gets that they'll never be a Big Ten powerhouse but they need to make the Big Dance one of these years. |
| 8:35
| They might want to just scrap the basketball program all together up there. It doesn't seem like basketball and getting good grades at Northwestern go together. |
| 8:36
| It seems much easier for Northwestern to recruit 2 or 3 really good players and make a run at the Big Ten title. Easier than getting 11 guys on each side of the ball for football. |
| 8:37
| If Steve were a basketball player he wouldn't go to Northwestern. But if he's a football player who maybe won't make it to the NFL he'd go to Northwestern because he wants to do something else. |
| 8:38
| Buzz was very confused watching the sports on NBC last night because they had their score but it was reversed from the actual score in the game. Buzz needs to get off that NBC bandwagon. If he wants sports he should watch Sportsnite. |
| 8:39
| Steve has been watching NBC more and more lately, just to understand what Buzz is talking about. There was a newscast this week that had Paula Faris and Ginger Zee. That's not bad. |
| 8:40
| The Bulls and Steve's Hawks are in action tonight. Pat's not sure why he keeps calling them Steve's Hawks. The other day Ryan Chevarini said he thought the Blackhawks were probably out of it. That didn't seem like a nice thing to say and he didn't say it to Savard. |
| 8:41
| Also this week after the sports Ryan Chevarini took time to thank Linda Yu for the Jersey Boys tickets she gave him. Steve thought he was making a joke about jerseys but then he realized what he said. It was the best show he's ever seen. Somehow the show had transformed into 190 North. |
| 8:42
| Pete saw that too because they were watching the same news. Steve emailed Pete because they were talking to the principal of a school where there was a shooting. The teacher had a full mustache, like a Terry Armour mustache. It wasn't just some hair, it was a mustache. It was very disconcerting. |
| 8:43
| Billy Crystal played in the Yankees spring training game yesterday. He struck out but everyone made a big deal about it because he made contact. Steve didn't think it was that big of a deal. |
| 8:44
| Pat actually thought it was OK. The guy just turned 60 today and he's facing a Major League pitcher. At one point he was ahead in the count and he fouled a ball off by three feet. |
| 8:45
| Steve feels he could put together a better at-bat than Billy Crystal. Buzz can make some calls and arrange that. What about Farmio, he can still bring it right? Ed would definitely hit Steve if he were pitching too him. He's too crazy to take the mound. |
| 8:46
| Steve just wasn't impressed with the at-bat. He got lucky and got out ahead of that first pitch. Then those last two strikes weren't even strikes. Pat's just saying it was impressive. He's seen 25-year-olds have at-bats like that. Steve's just saying he could put together a better at-bat. |
| 8:47
| Pat's got some audio of Billy Crystal talking about his at-bat, the one that didn't impress Steve. Pat forgot to mention Robin Williams was also there. It's a lisping Robin WIlliams too. |
| 8:48
| Steve's not saying Billy Crystal isn't funny either. Once the Pirates pitcher saw Billy foul off that first pitch he started to bring it with the cutters. |
| 8:49
| Steve thinks he could make contact with a 90 mph pitch but he'd have to do a lot of practicing. It seems like Billy Crystal did a lot of practicing too. It's not easy to do though. Michael Jordan had trouble with it and he has good hand-eye coordination. |
| 8:53
| That's Keith Olberman talking about Billy Crystal. Those last two pitchers weren't fastballs, they were cutters. Steve thinks he could put together a better at-bat against that pitcher. |
| 8:54
| Live read: Woodfield Nissan |
| 8:55
| Steve needs to make a call up to the office. He wants to know why Stephanie put so many onions on his gyros. They're her favorite food but not Steve's. |
| 8:56
| There's a huge pile of onions in the kitchen. Steve told her he wanted lots of meat but there wasn't enough on there. We might need to have a class on what Steve likes, not what Stephanie likes. |
| 8:57
| Stephanie is never going to get a guy eating that many onions. Just for her own good she needs to go easy on the onions. |
| 8:58
| How's everything going up there? Buzz is wondering if it'll be a struggle for Stephanie without Tina around. It'll definitely be quieter. Stephanie will have to do more work though. |
| 8:59
| Steve can never tell which one is working and which one isn't. Usually they're both sitting there, backs to each other, IMing and text messaging. Steve's just kidding, they both do work up there. Tina's a bit of a talker though. |
| 9:00
| Steve's just saying, ease off the onions. Guys aren't going to like a girl loading up on onions. There she is on a date in her most seductive outfit, everything's going well and then she loads up on the onions. |
| 9:01
| We got Tina kolaches and gyros today because it's her last day. It seems like a somewhat inappropriate celebration for Tina since she's not really leaving. It might just be a precursor to taking Tina's keys away and locking up the office. |
| 9:02
| News with Buzz |
| 9:03
| President Bush stumbled through a speech about the stumbling economy. That has to be fantastic. |
| 9:04
| The woman at the center of the scandal that brought down New York Governor Eliot Spitzer has been identified as Ashley Duprè. She didn't take him down though. |
| 9:05
| Us Weekly editor-at-large Ian Drew says that Duprè is not a bad singer. Does Buzz want to hear any more of her songs before Steve put this stuff away? |
| 9:06
| It's too bad she's out of business. It would be hot to pay her $700 to sing that nude. She can probably multi-task. |
| 9:07
| Spitzer always talked about saving money and yet he could have saved $300 if he went right to Ashley's provider website instead of going through the service. It doesn't matter though, he won't be governor after Monday. |
| 9:08
| Barack Obama's camp is attempting to distance themselves from remarks made by a preacher at his Chicago. |
| 9:09
| A mouse attempting to fly to Atlanta from Des Moines delayed a flight for 6 hours as crew members attempted to locate it. |
| 9:10
| Paris Hilton is looking for a new best friend. MTV has greenlit a new show with the title Paris Hilton's New Best Friend. Competitors will take part in a series of challenges to test their loyalty and endurance. |
| 9:11
| Live read: Joebees |
| 9:12
| It's Friday, Joe Bee has plans for the weekend. Weekends are the best times for pollinating. |
| 9:13
| Can Buzz tell that Joe's wearing green antennae today? It's for St. Patrick's day. He pollinated a shamrock once, it was awesome. |
| 9:14
| It's always good to hear form that little bee isn't it? Is Buzz still in the newsroom? |
| 9:15
| Starting next month students at Elgin high schools will be subjected to random metal detector tests in class. |
| 9:16
| Tony Peraica's son Marco (Polo!) has begun serving a 30 day jail sentence for DUI. |
| 9:17
| Steve heard this kid Marco has a bit of an arrest record. Buzz will also be happy to know he's a musician. It's that industrial kind of music. |
| 9:18
| A new development in the case of the woman stuck to the toilet seat. The sheriff is looking into charges against her boyfriend. Steve finally figured out how she got fused to the toilet seat. |
| 9:19
| They said she had infections on her legs from the seat, sort of like bed sores. The sores healed around the toilet seat. Has Buzz seen the boyfriend yet? They're describe the girlfriend as being petite although yesterday Steve thought she was fat. |
| 9:20
| The London Daily Mail is claiming that Nicole Kidman has had so much botox that she looks like a bat. |
| 9:28
| That's Larry King right there, apparently doing some price shopping with Kristen's pimp. That's not the one who got arrested though. |
| 9:29
| Live read: Townstone Financial |
| 9:30
| Suddenly Steve has to start referring to David Hochberg as "our guy" in these live reads? When did that happen? Steve will have to talk to him about that on Monday. |
| 9:31
| Alright, Ben Gay is here with some sports. Buzz loves his summery look. He's going with shorts and tank tops today. Unfortunately they don't make Roman sandals for men any more. |
| 9:32
| Ben understands that Buzz will be at Phil Stefani's fine Riva Restaurant on Monday. That's a great date restaurant. Usually it's both the first and last date for Ben, he tends to be a little aggressive at dinner. It's his unadulterated testosterone. He's an animal. |
| 9:33
| Ben doesn't really date actually but he's been there with his parents and sister. Ben will want to settle down one day though, probably when he's 70. |
| 9:34
| There's going to be a complimentary Irish breakfast on Monday and $5 parking. The Larkin & Moran Brothers are going to be there too. |
| 9:35
| Ben has done everyone in that band. They get so drunk that they can't even tell he's a dude. Then they pass him around like spinach dip at a football party. |
| 9:36
| And now if Buzz would like Ben can do some sports. |
| 9:37
| The Bulls are a half game out of the 8th spot in the playoffs which is just wrong. Thabo Sefolosha has an injured ankle but he's making himself available tonight. Really?! That's fantastic. |
| 9:38
| The Red Baron, Rick Sutcliffe, has been diagnosed with a treatable form of colon cancer. What's the greatest city in the world Buzz? Not San Diego, Chicago. |
| 9:39
| The Sox had their only day off of spring training yesterday, except for John Denks who pitched at their minor league camp. |
| 9:40
| Mitch Williams went on a Philadelphia radio station yesterday to explain why he'd been banned from his daughter's basketball games after a profanity-laced tirade against a ref. |
| 9:41
| Williams blamed bad officiating for the incident so he's not owning up to it. He also denied calling the female ref a whore. |
| 9:48
| Live read: Woodfield Nissan |
| 9:49
| David Wexler from The Little Guys is on the phone. As a guy who goes to Cubs Fantasy Camp every year-doing it the right way with all the other middle-aged men-does he get jealous when a Billy Crystal rolls up to Spring Training. David pays for camp but Billy Crystal probably paid too. |
| 9:50
| Tomorrow at The Little Guys they're hosting a Hitachi Road Show, they'll be showing off the thinnest TV available. It's an inch and a half deep. |
| 9:51
| David might be a little jaded because he sees a lot of new technology but this thing is really cool. |
| 9:52
| The TV's come in silver and black and white. He's talking about the color of the frame right? Because it would be silly to have a black and white LCD in HD. |
| 9:53
| Put Buzz down for 4 of those for the house, one for every room. Buzz is really excited about the Blu Ray thing too. Should they just pull the truck up to his house? |
| 9:54
| Steve's looking at the Hitachi Road Show truck, it's just a living room on wheels where you can check out the TV> |
| 9:55
| David wanted to mention that he's on the Steve Dahl gas plan which involves filling your tank when it's half empty. That way it's only about $25 or $30 and it doesn't seem that bad. |
| 9:56
| Don't forget Steve and Buzz will be at Phil Stefani's Riva Restaurant at Navy Pier on Monday. |
| 9:57
| They'll be doing the whole show there, there's going to be a complimentary Irish breakfast, prizes, the Larkin & Moran Brothers and some girls from Sport Clips. |
| 9:58
| Steve might not leave his dressing room if they're giving him massages and hot towel treatment. |
