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| 5:29
| Good morning Buzz Kilman! Just a few more moments until the Steve Dahl Show begins. We're all very excited about it, everyday, whether we want to or not. |
| 5:30
| Good morning everyone from the Prudential Building, the new one not the old one with the little porthole windows and the giant spike on top. It's the Steve Dahl Show with lovable newsman/bluesman Buzz Kilman. What a delightful way to start the morning with that delightful interlude and before that a rockin' tune. |
| 5:31
| Steve felt that the 10-11 am hour after the show yesterday was a little dance-heavy. Todd faked Steve out by starting the hour with some Tom Petty. |
| 5:32
| Todd thinks Steve just turns it off after Tom Petty then he gets distracted because the girl down the hall on Fresh has the monitors in the hallway turned up super loud. Buzz says she's a rocker. |
| 5:33
| Usually you don't find girls who mark their territory, it's not an attractive quality. Steve had to mark his territory by turning it down but then she turned it up again. Steve almost had to rip the speaker wires out of the wall. |
| 5:34
| Buzz didn't think Steve was around for any of this, it's after the show. Buzz is the one who's not here, he's the only one who gets to leave at 10. He's like Aerosmith, he does the show and then gets in the limo and leaves. |
| 5:35
| Steve's the one who has to stay here and listen to ideas like him going to a show store and doing a celebrity shoe-fitting. |
| 5:36
| That girl on Fresh FM has also hassled the boys and by that Steve doesn't mean his nuts. Steve calls down to the newsroom. That girl cranks up the volume in the kitchen too. It's always but we don't want to hear it that loud. It's music to have your period by. |
| 5:37
| Every morning that woman comes in right before 10 and cranks the volume up. She needs to make sure they're still playing only 100 songs. Then it gets turned back down by unnamed parties. Jim should come get Steve the next time that happens. |
| 5:38
| Come get Steve and then sit back and enjoy the magic as Steve picks up the popcorn machine in there and throws it across the kitchen. Why is Steve lifting weights if not for something cool like picking up a 150 pound popcorn machine and throwing it across the kitchen. No one uses it either, it's custom-made for a meltdown. |
| 5:39
| Jim's pretty sure that she just goes in there to fill her water up and that's when she cranks it. It's a back-and-forth chess match. It's not that the radio is off, it's just at a reasonable level. The woman also yelled at Pete but it was Jim's fault because he turned the volume down. They really need to come and get Steve when this happens. This is where he comes in handy. These are the behind-the-scenes moments that Steve lives for. |
| 5:40
| Pete was in the kitchen and she came in like a bat out of hell demanding to know who turned the volume down. Did Pete cower? Did he wet the floor? She actually grabbed his head and jammed it into the knob. |
| 5:41
| Let's go through this step-by-step since we're here until 10. Pete goes into the kitchen a little after 10. Steve's going to paint a picture for everyone. Steve and Buzz and Pete and Mary and Jim and Brendan are on the 10th floor. Stephanie is too but she comes and goes. She's like a rainbow. So we're on the 10 floor where WCKG used to be before we ran it into the ground. WCKG was replaced by Fresh FM which sounds like a douche, It should be sponsored by Massengill. Is it a light day or a heavy day? |
| 5:42
| Steve's studio on the 10th floor is referred to as The Dahl Studio. So we can do whatever we want with it, we can leave our empty cups and newspapers around. It's what a firehouse probably looks like when they get a call. Down the hall there's Douche FM and they used to just have guys in there pushing buttons. Now they have "personalities" with pleasant voices. Although that woman doesn't really have a pleasant voice. |
| 5:43
| As far as Steve can tell she has nothing to offer but a bad attitude. Steve would love to shake that out of her, at least without touching her. He doesn't want to end up in sensitivity training. Steve can't be any more sensitive than he is already. Who cries for the starving people of the world? Who comes in with a photo book of Rwanda and makes Buzz look at it? |
| 5:44
| So Pete's in the kitchen cleaning his percolator, or perculator as he calls it. Pete's washing it out because otherwise it'll be funky for the next broadcast. So Pete's in there washing up in his apron and and high-heels. Sometimes he's cleaning up a mess left by a salesperson from Fresh FM. |
| 5:45
| Steve thinks that sometimes that mess is left by Buzz but he'll have to consult the security tapes to be sure. Pete doesn't mind cleaning up after Buzz. We all do it. Although Buzz did clean up his papers from yesterday off the floor. This morning Steve just had to throw out Hans' water bottle. |
| 5:46
| Steve saw Hans at the Hawks game yesterday. He had actual seats which he probably isn't used to. Hans kept bringing Steve all the giveaways, like the Tony Esposito mask on a stick. Steve came in and didn't take the mask but then Mike Dahl got mad and told him to get one. He knew it would be a great photo-op and he was right. |
| 5:47
| The photo is up on Dahl.com now, Steve's holding his mask backwards. His story is that he knew people would want to see both the front and back of the mask. He knew Buzz would be wondering what the back of that mask looked like. By the way, Steve has an article in the Tribune today about airline miles, that's the blog for today. |
| 5:48
| So Pete's washing out the percolator and the music in there is just background. There are speakers throughout the floor hooked up to Fresh FM. They were disconnected in the hallway by the kitchen but not the one in the kitchen. That's because it's distracting to people working. Jim thinks it's pretty loud in there so he had turned it down. So Jim actually set Pete up and in a classic passive-aggressive move went back to his office to watch everything. |
| 5:49
| Then the girl comes in and unloads on Pete. Steve just heard Adam laugh on that one. He's The Judge from The Natural sitting in there with his lights off. As a boy he was afraid of the dark. It couldn't be more depressing at 5:30 am. |
| 5:50
| Let's take a break and come back and finish this. The longer we stretch it out the better the odds that woman hears about it. Why don't Pete and Jim come and get Steve for this? It's so what he's built for. He's like the goon on a hockey team. |
| 5:51
| Speaking of which Buzz finally saw the Adam Burish fight, a listener sent a link to Steve who forwarded it to Buzz. It was the perfect punch right? |
| 5:52
| Steve heard something about the fight as he was driving home, Troy Murray was saying he complained Sunday about them replaying the fight on the scoreboard. He said that nobody likes a hockey fight more than he was but he thought it was disrespectful to show a guy from a visiting team getting knocked out. Steve thought he had a good point, but man! That guy went down. |
| 6:00
| Live read: Hawk Ford |
| 6:01
| Matt Dahl has a Ford, an Escape. He has a hybrid because he's keepin' it green. When he was on vacation from his unemployment last week, something Steve's boys seem to be able to do. |
| 6:02
| Steve went out to start his car for him a few times and has to say, that car is nice. It's quiet too, Steve was very impressed with it, he almost took it for a spin. He really went to start it to make sure it would work when Matt got home, he didn't need him lingering there with the dog and a car that won't start |
| 6:03
| Steve takes Ogden a lot to go to the United Center and there is an underpass before Western Ave. there are so many potholes that it is like driving off-road,. You can go outside of it, so Steve does that and then cuts back in. There are a lot of Hispanic kids around there in supped up cars that like to race and you can send them back in there with the potholes. They hit the brakes so hard their brake lights catch on fire. |
| 6:04
| Just to recap, we are on the same floor as Fresh FM. It was WCKG but we ran it into the ground. We got to keep our studio so we share the floor with the Fresh studio. There is a girl that is on and she likes to crank the music in the hallway and in the kitchen. In the studio, she can crank it as much as she wants. |
| 6:05
| Pete likes a lot of the music Fresh plays because it's the music they would play at the end of Grey's Anatomy while the skinny Asian chick is crying because the black guy left her. You know Steve doesn't agree with interracial dating and he wishes Barack Obama had touched on that issue. Then again, he is the product of it, and he made it work for him because he has the white grandmother who is afraid of black guys. |
| 6:06
| Barack's grandma loves him of course but he has to call before stopping by her house. She would call the police but recognize him because of his big ears, which means he has to be something else. Genetically, 100% African American doesn't equal big ears. Pete thinks that the ears aren't usually the big feature as far as stereotypes go. |
| 6:07
| Why doesn't Pete take a backseat? What the hell is he doing? That isn't even our topic. Our topic is the girl down the hall who turns the music up too loud. Steve knows what he is talking about but is that something he needs to think about before he eats his breakfast burrito? Now it's going to have to be cut up for him, he can just grab a burrito now and start eating it. |
| 6:08
| Ok, so that girl down the hall. She has only been here a few weeks and she turns the music up to "keep people away" loud. Steve turned it down but it took everything he had not to rip the speaker wires out. |
| 6:09
| The 10th floor is already littered with things he has done like that. He has gotten better since certain people aren't on the show anymore, yet there are holes here and there that were put there by him. |
| 6:10
| Jim goes into the kitchen to turn the music down and then very passive aggressively goes back to his computer to watch in the screen as everything goes down. Pete comes down there to clean his percolator and then he hears this shrill voice "Can you not turn this off?!" |
| 6:11
| He didn't know what she was talking about at first until he noticed she was standing by the volume knob. Then she just cranked it up again and Pete stood there, head hanging, as he had been scolded. |
| 6:12
| She must go in there at her first break. What is she getting in there? Jim thinks it was just a water fill up but Pete says she only turned the volume up and walked away. |
| 6:13
| Steve thinks it's a weird thing where she is marking her territory, you don't see girls mark their territory. That was Pete's first interaction with her and it was like a prison rape. Jim didn't even come to his aide, he just went in there and turned it down again. |
| 6:14
| Why doesn't anyone come to get Steve when this happens? It usually happens a little later but they can just text him. He may come over in his Pilates pants but he can kick ass. |
| 6:15
| Actually, Steve has just gone back to wearing regular shorts for Pilates, they have a mesh liner and quite honestly, its not like there is a big rush for anything to come out of his pants. Flop is not a word that gets used when talking about him |
| 6:16
| Steve is sorry that Jim and Pete have to deal with that girl though. Jim doesn't think they are the only ones irritated by it. Has anyone actually said to her that it was too loud? It has all just been a passive aggressive match. |
| 6:17
| It is funny that they're being terrorized by girl music and she always has a sour puss on her face when Steve walks by. It's not like that music is making her happy. Steve thinks it's a look, maybe it's just her face. He is kinda scared too but he is ready to confront his fears. |
| 6:24
| Steve thinks that Peanut Butter Jelly Time is catching on. Last night at the Hawks game while Steve was parking someone in the lot yelled it to him. |
| 6:25
| Pat Boyle sent Steve an email while he was running yesterday to tell him that he had the incorrect time for the beginning of the Tony Esposito festivities last night. |
| 6:26
| Tony said last night was the highlight of his life. Buzz doesn't understand how the legendary players of the Blackhawks could become so estranged. It seems like sometimes things didn't end well. They retire the jersey and then that's it. |
| 6:27
| Steve didn't think they'd be able to top the Bobby Hull/Stan Mikita tribute which was awesome. But it's John McDonough, a guy who got 3 million Cubs fans into Wrigley even if the team was losing. |
| 6:28
| But McDonough did top it, he flew Tony's brother Phil in. Phil was standing on the ice behind Tony and he didn't even see him. Then Phil walked up with the old goalie mask and Tony put it on. Then the Hawks won with a shutout which was appropriate. |
| 6:29
| Live read: The Little Guys |
| 6:30
| Time for the web poll. Yesterday's question was "who kicks more ass?" and the majority of the people think it's Sara Amato. |
| 6:31
| Today's question is "have you ever taken a cleansing cocktail?" What is a cleansing cocktail you might ask? Steve thinks he knows what it is. Buzz does too because he's married to a woman who's into holistic medicine. Buzz also read the article about it. |
| 6:32
| Steve has a question for Buzz. He said that last night Aimee had a couples massage. Is she massaging them both at the same time, one hand for each or is it one after the other? |
| 6:33
| It's one after the other which Steve doesn't get. It's not really romantic is it? It's more of a convenience thing. Both people were home so they scheduled an appointment. Is there a discount for that? |
| 6:34
| There are hotels that offer couples massages but both people are being massaged at the same time. Steve can see how that would be romantic. But does it turn into a 4-way or something? |
| 6:35
| Therapist Dale Teminga recommends cleansing cocktails, it's a good way to clean your pipers for Spring. |
| 6:36
| Steve knows it's the first day of Spring because when he was driving down Ogden, to Lake, the sun was directly west of him. Talk about your solstice. |
| 6:37
| Mark Czerniec is saying it's the equinox. He's Mr. Astronomer. Whatever it is the sun was due west. |
| 6:38
| That must be the Equinox which Steve knows because he made a joke about the Styx album in his blog. |
| 6:39
| Mark Czerniec, Junior Astrologer, is on the phone. It's not Astrology it's Astronomy. Steve could really go for a pastrami right now. |
| 6:40
| The Equinox is in spring and fall, it means equal parts light and dark during the day. The Solstice is in the summer and winter. That's when the day is longest or shortest. |
| 6:41
| And of course the longest day was D-Day. They were going for a day with the most sunlight. Mark Czerniec says that's not true. Really? |
| 6:42
| Also another correction from Mark, it's weaponry not weapontry. Steve knows it's weaponry, he says weapontry as a joke. There's a tape he has of a security guard at the John Hancock saying weapontry. Does Mark really think Steve is that dumb? |
| 6:43
| Pete's not familiar with that tape. Steve might need to play it more if Mark really thinks Steve doesn't know that. |
| 6:44
| It's supposed to snow all day tomorrow and Steve is supposed to fly to LA. It's going to be warm though isn't it? It would be nice if they could tell you the day before if your flight will be canceled. Although Steve has always wanted to sleep on an airport cot. |
| 6:45
| You know Mark really does think Steve thinks it's "weapontry". Pete didn't have any luck finding that drop. |
| 6:52
| That was a drop from Breaking Bad which is a great show. Steve has caught up with all those episodes so if Buzz wants to talk about them now he can ask without fear of spoiling him. |
| 6:53
| It was actually The Wire that Buzz had a question about. Steve has not watched any of the last season, he's going to marathon it. But Buzz will talk about Breaking Bad too. |
| 6:54
| That's a great show. The dad from Malcolm in the Middle is on it, he should get an Emmy. And the guy he cooks with should get a best supporting actor. |
| 6:55
| Pete had no luck with the "weapontry" drop-in. It sounds like a less-than-enthusiastic search on Pete's part. He actually checked the database, had Jim check and then went into the archiving room. |
| 6:56
| Steve doesn't understand how that can be lost, it was a key drop-in from the Steve and Garry years. Pete can picture in his mind an old reel-to-reel tape in a box that has "weapontry" on the back. Maybe that's just wishful thinking. It's not Pete's fault though, it's his mentor the former archivist. |
| 6:57
| Live read: Townstone Financial |
| 6:58
| Caller John has had a couples massage, it was a gift from his wife for Valentine's Day. It was him, his wife and two young women massaging them. John's probably thinking a 4-way is coming out of this. |
| 6:59
| It was hot at first but 5 minutes into it John forgot his wife was there and then he just fell asleep. |
| 7:00
| OK back to the web poll. Singer Beyonce knows is credited with kicking off the latest cleansing fad when she used grade B maple syrup to drop 20 pounds for her role in Dreamgirls. |
| 7:01
| Doctors don't recommend cleansing for weightloss but it's a good way to detoxify. |
| 7:02
| First timers not consulting with a health professional should go with the prepackaged body cleansers found at health food stores. |
| 7:03
| The Master Cleanse diet recommends a 10 day fast only consuming syrup, lemon juice in water with a little cayenne pepper and laxative tea. Isn't that what people are fed at Gitmo? |
| 7:04
| There are two camps of cleansing diet. One group who are willing to suffer some mild intestinal discomfort to flush their system and the other group who thinks they are nuts. Steve's in the latter group. |
| 7:05
| Buzz has heard that Mae West did daily cleansing. It's probably not recommended. She never looked that healthy to Steve but back in the day a little bigger was normal. |
| 7:06
| Steve knows some people who have tried a cleansing diet. There are some people who believe in it strongly. In a recent issue of Men's Health Buzz read that their health expert is not in favor of cleansing. |
| 7:07
| It seems like you should just drink water. Steve does like maple syrup but he'd want pancakes with it. That's probably not good for cleansing though. |
| 7:08
| News with Buzz |
| 7:09
| The festivities to mark the 5 year anniversary of the war in Iraq are winding down. President Bush, in a TV address, still believes he mad the right decision. |
| 7:10
| Thousands took to the streets of downtown Chicago to protest the war. It began at Federal Plaza and ended up Michigan Avenue in the Gold Coast. Did they stop at the Cheesecake Factory? Protestors, party of 500. |
| 7:11
| Osama bin Laden warned of severe reaction after European publications reprinted the cartoon of Muhammad. The message was posted on a militant website that has carried previous Al Qaeda statements. It bore their media wing's logo. They have a media wing logo? Is it like that one sticker of the guy going to the bathroom on another logo? |
| 7:12
| The nightclub owner in the Great White concert fire was released from prison yesterday. He received mixed reactions from relatives of victims. |
| 7:13
| A $1 million offer to the call girl hired by former governor Eliot Spitzer has been rescinded by Girls Gone Wild owner Joe Francis. But he might be the one who loses out after Ashley Duprè's lawyer said she appeared in Girls Gone WIld when she was 17. Steve didn't see that coming. |
| 7:14
| Hillary Clinton spent the night in the White House when her husband had oral sex with Monica Lewinsky according to records released by the National Archives. Why would anyone care about that? |
| 7:15
| Being voted Unsexiest Woman Alive has been a hard pill to swallow for Sarah Jessica Parker. And who votes that? Buzz isn't sure how the voting actually works. |
| 7:16
| Steve can see both sides of this argument. It was a poll in Maxim which she has called "brutal". It also affected her husband Matthew Broderick. |
| 7:17
| It does seem kind of mean. Buzz always found her funny and talented but she does sort of look like a horse. |
| 7:18
| Earlier Steve was talking about the logo of the guy going to the bathroom on something else. Mary said the guy is Calvin of Calvin & Hobbes but Steve didn't think that was possible. |
| 7:19
| Steve's seen that logo since he was a kid, long before Calvin & Hobbes. But then he looked at it and it is Calvin. Steve saw that on some guy's truck, there were two of them and it seemed like a bit much. |
| 7:20
| Throughout America's 224 year history we've had many channels of discourse. In recent years a new form of expression has emerged, the Peeing Calvin decal. |
| 7:21
| How did Buzz miss these things? There are a lot of revelations that Buzz experiences that the rest of us already know about. Steve can't think of any off the top of his head, can anyone else? |
| 7:22
| Pete remembers Buzz discovering jalapeño poppers recently. The rest of us already knew about them and he's just discovering them. |
| 7:23
| Originally the decals appeared as a salvo in the Ford-Chevy debate. But Calvin urinating on a rival brand has expanded to disapproval of a dazzling array of offenders. |
| 7:24
| So it's Calvin from Calvin & Hobbes although Steve remembers the same logo as a kid. Maybe it was a different guy in the decal. Or maybe the Calvin & Hobbes guy stole Calvin from those decals. |
| 7:25
| Caller Darrell has another classic Buzzment. A few weeks ago Buzz couldn't remember what goes on at a Chuck E. Cheese. Then Steve welcomed him to our planet. |
| 7:26
| How great is it that when the rest of us are sick of something Buzz is just finding out about it? Up until 6 years ago Buzz didn't need to know about Chuck E. Cheese though. Now he has something new to look forward to. |
| 7:27
| Here's another one. Only recently Buzz discovered that pretzels at movie theaters are soft. |
| 7:28
| Steve reads here that the guy who created Calvin & Hobbes and United Press Syndicate are trying to stop people from making those decals. |
| 7:35
| A couple of things here. Steve shows Buzz the peeing boy logo which he still doesn't remember from his childhood. Steve remembers the kid with the backwards hat on. |
| 7:36
| The kid looks exactly like Calvin of Calvin & Hobbes though. It was usually the kid peeing on a Chevy, Ford or Mopar logo. |
| 7:37
| The logo for Al Qaeda's media wing looks like a scary, creepy funnel cake. Whoever did that logo really nailed it. It's the scariest funnel cake ever. |
| 7:38
| You think they have that logo on t-shirts and hats, maybe a nice hoodie? You can't stop commerce. |
| 7:39
| Live read: Joebees |
| 7:40
| Buzz is not on the bee pollen yet but he did get his shipment of pills. The UPS guy accused him of getting Oxycotin or Viagra through the mail though. He shook the package and could hear the capsules. That seems inappropriate for a UPS guy. |
| 7:41
| Buzz needs to get on the bee pollen though, it's good stuff. It feels good when you take it, that's all Joe Bee is saying. |
| 7:42
| Does Buzz want to see the stinger again? It seems like it's getting bigger but Joe's not sure. |
| 7:43
| It's always good to hear from that little fellar isn't it? |
| 7:44
| So Drew Peterson got his cars back, Steve saw him walking to the police impound to get them. |
| 7:45
| He had his son with him too, the one who's a cop in Oak Park. He's got two cars so someone needs to drive the other one. Steve's guessing that Drew drove the Denali and the son drove Stacy's car. He doesn't want the bad memories. |
| 7:46
| Buzz is wondering if any pranks were pulled on the car, maybe some sugar in the gas tanks. The state police wouldn't do that. |
| 7:47
| This article says Drew was told by a judge that he could have his car back by 9 am Tuesday. But this article is from today. He did get his car back on Tuesday though. |
| 7:48
| Steve has to say that doing mornings, the weeks really fly by. So it was on Tuesday. Drew attempted to shake the hand of a state police officer but he was snubbed. |
| 7:49
| Peterson's son drove off in the Grand Prix, as suspected. Drew looked in the back of the Denali before getting in. He was probably make sure they didn't put a blue barrel in there to frame him. |
| 7:50
| Drew's sure they wired up the car but they didn't gas and wash it. Buzz doesn't think you can expect the state police to gas and wash your car if they've seized it. |
| 7:51
| Car wheels go flat if they're just sitting there for a while. The ride is a little rough at the beginning, like when Fred Flintstone drove his car and had those stone tablets for tires. It's an uneven and rocky ride which also describes Drew's first 4 marriages. |
| 7:58
| Say what you will but Drew is still a jokester. Throughout all of this he has remained a jokester. |
| 7:59
| There was a caller on hold who said they saw Drew out last night but he hung up. Drew's wondering what's up with Brendan's voice. That's fake right? He must have to carry his you-know-whats in a wheelbarrow. |
| 8:00
| If the caller hung up then it must not be true. He said Drew was spotted in Plainfield. It's not illegal to go out is it? The caller said he was at Gunther's. Tailgaters is being boycotted. That's not relaxing. |
| 8:01
| Drew's former friend Rick Mims, or Mimsy, was called in by authorities to identify a gun Drew allegedly still has. You know who you never hear from any more, that fella who says he helped Drew carry the blue barrel. What happened to him? |
| 8:02
| The guy was at Starbuck's with Drew and then Drew left. He left his phone with the guy and then a call from Stacy came in. |
| 8:03
| Mims stayed at Peterson's house in the days after Stacy's disappearance. Using multiple search warrants police seized several guns from Drew's house as well as electronic devices and the cars. |
| 8:04
| Police apparently missed at least one gun which Mims says Drew later showed to him. Mims alerted police to that gun a few weeks ago. They recovered another gun and then showed it to Mims who identified it as the gun Drew showed him. |
| 8:05
| It's time for the Eight O'Clock Taco Bell. Today is where a listener calls in and tells Steve what they'll be getting from Taco Bell for lunch. Steve will order the same thing because he's craving some Taco Bell. |
| 8:06
| Brendan doesn't need to be too picky, just put someone on hold. No need to fill out the complete dossier. |
| 8:07
| Caller Mike will be getting three soft tacos, a bean burrito and a Mountain Dew at Taco Bell today. |
| 8:08
| Tensions on Pheasant Chase Court are escalating. Not Escalade, Drew has a Denali. That's an SUV joke Buzz. |
| 8:09
| Sharon Bychowski fears for her life. She's like that Kravitz broad on Bewitched. What are the odds that a 17-year old girl and this old broad are going to be best friends? Not good! |
| 8:10
| Drew is still in the house next to Bychowski and that's why she's scared. Maybe she should stop putting all those signs up. It's not calming Drew down to see those. |
| 8:11
| Plus they have nice flagstone in their backyard which makes him mad. Why do they have flagstone and he doesn't? Maybe if they brought him some casseroles he wouldn't be as mad. |
| 8:12
| Drew has been named a suspect in the disappearance of his wife Stacy. Do they have to put that in every article? The investigation also led to the reopening of the investigation into the death of Drew's third wife, who fell in the bath tub and drowned. The bathroom is the most dangerous room in the house. |
| 8:13
| Sharon's trepidation was caused by the recent discovery that Drew can open and close her garage door. Does he do it with his mind? |
| 8:14
| Buzz doesn't remember an explanation of how the garage door remote got into Drew's car. Why don't we read on? Drew found 3 garage door openers in his Denali when he recovered it on Tuesday. |
| 8:15
| Drew didn't know the opener was for Bychowski's garage until he pressed one of the buttons. His heart must have soared. |
| 8:16
| Bychowski said she gave Stacy the garage door opener so she could store some stuff in there for a garage sale. |
| 8:17
| Bychowski's son Roy Taylor doesn't believe Drew's story about the garage door opener. He says he saw Peterson look at their house and then press the button. Just when you think this story can't get any weirder it does. |
| 8:18
| Taylor called the police who asked Drew to surrender the opener. He doesn't have to, it's his. It was in his car and it coincidentally opens the garage door of his busybody neighbor. |
| 8:19
| The best kind of garage door opener to have is the kind that generates a new code every time you open or close it. Then it sends the new code to your opener so you can use it the next time. |
| 8:20
| They need to put all of this behind them with a nice block party. They could get a Moonwalk, Drew's 10 foot tall blender and a bags game. Each side could feature a picture of Bychowski and the hole could be here big mouth. That wouldn't really alleviate the problem though. |
| 8:28
| With friends like Rick Mims who needs enemies right Buzz? |
| 8:29
| Live read: Woodfield Nissan |
| 8:30
| Song: Bolingbrookville, Steve Dahl |
| 8:34
| Alright it's Peanut Butter Jelly Time. Pat Boyle gave Steve some bad info yesterday about the start time for the Tony Esposito festivities. |
| 8:35
| Pat said everything started at 7:00 but it didn't start until 7:30. Pat sent Steve and email waving him off the wrong time but he couldn't do that for all the listeners. |
| 8:36
| Tony's tribute was shorter than Mikita and Hull's but he's only one guy. And then Khabibulin had a shutout. That's a goalie's dream. |
| 8:37
| That was the most complete team effort Pat has seen from the Hawks in a while. They shutdown Washington's phenom right from the beginning. That Ovechkin is ugly. Like really ugly. He won't be getting any endorsement deals. |
| 8:38
| Steve's seeing some pictures where he looks OK and others where he doesn't. He doesn't look good in the hockey helmet. He sort of has a caveman look. |
| 8:39
| Steve doesn't know what Dale Tallon said to the team but it worked. They're 7 points out and have 8 games left to play. |
| 8:40
| They're back in Chicago for two matinees including Easter Sunday. The puck will be pastel colored, we're all looking forward to it. |
| 8:41
| The NCAA Tournament starts this morning around 11 am. This is the first time since 1999 that no Illinois teams have been in the tournament. |
| 8:42
| How long have they been calling it The Big Dance? Steve thinks that maybe Chet Coppock came up with that. He might say he did at least. He was one of the pioneers of sports talk radio. |
| 8:43
| Steve saw Chet at the Hawks game last night. Chet didn't recognize him which was a nice moment. |
| 8:44
| But when Chet started out no one was doing sports talk radio. There was no WFAN or anything. Although Chet also claims he was the basis of the Ron Burgundy character. |
| 8:45
| That seems a bit misguided since everyone has said the character was based on Bill Kurtis. He was even in the movie. |
| 8:46
| Talk about a mismanaged career though. But Steve has to give him Big Dance even though he didn't recognize him last night. |
| 8:47
| Pat heard that Chet was engaged again. Steve's not following his dating life but he wishes him the best. Chet was looking pretty good last night though. When he got beat up in the parking lot of the Allstate Arena after a Wolves game he didn't look too good. |
| 8:48
| It was actually after a DePaul game. Why do we punch our sportscasters? Remember that Bill Simonson guy who got beat up at Jimbo's after a Sox game? And then he went on TV to talk about it. That doesn't add to your credibility as a sportscaster, it diminishes it. |
| 8:49
| And now he's in Grand Rapids where all great Chicago broadcasters end up. It's what we all aspire to. That's right! |
| 8:50
| Don't they guesstimate something like a $1 billion in lost productivity from people doing their brackets and following games? And now CBS is streaming all the games live on their website. So small to medium-sized companies are worried that their systems will crash. |
| 8:51
| What are people doing with the rest of their days after the games are over? There is an abundance of free porn available on the internet which always amazes Steve. |
| 8:52
| If Steve were a pornographer he'd be worried right now. There's a lot of porn out there and it's usually 3 or 4 minute clips. Porn needs to go HD, that's the only way they're going to compete. |
| 8:53
| Kerry Wood, just when he was about to be named closer, goes down with some back problems. Lou Piniella says not to worry about it though. |
| 8:54
| It seems like if your back hurts and you're a pitcher it is a serious problem. Steve would like to see Kerry Wood do well though. |
| 8:55
| And Juan Uribe was put on unconditional waivers. The question is whether or not they can claim him back. A team can't say they put a guy on waivers. Teams have 72 hours to claim him. Pat doesn't think the Sox will just let him go without getting anything. |
| 8:56
| Ed Farmer explained the waiver process to Steve last year and he had a working knowledge of it which is now escaping him. Steve's pretty sure that almost everyone is on waivers of some kind. |
| 8:57
| Maybe someone will call in with a a sweet explanation. Steve thought Farmio gave him a great explanation but it's all escaping him now. The main thing is that Steve doesn't like Juan Uribe, or anyone even accused of murdering an Italian sailor in the Dominican Republic. |
| 9:03
| Caller Tim has a concise explanation of the waivers process. After the trade deadline if you wanted to move a player they had to clear waivers. Almost every player is put on waivers to gauge interest. |
| 9:04
| Teams can pull a guy off waivers if they won't want to give him up. But if you're another team and your rival claims the guy you can block that. That was a concise explanation on a bad connection. |
| 9:05
| Steve has something that Pat sent over during the break. There are waivers for all occasions. They put Uribe on waivers. Somebody could claim him and a trade could be arranged. |
| 9:06
| The Sox could also rescind the waiver request or they could do nothing and let the claiming team get the player and pick-up his contract. Steve's guessing the Sox are hoping for option 3. That's good to know when you're hanging out at Jimbo's. |
| 9:07
| Steve remembers talking about this last year. Everyone made a big deal after the trade deadline because there was big player on the waiver wire. Ed called in and said that guys are always put on waivers, it's no big deal. It might have been Podsednik and the Cubs were going to claim him. Now he's in the minors. It doesn't matter with a Major League Hottie on his arm. |
| 9:08
| That Adam Archuleta also has a hot girlfriend. So waive him and keep her, maybe build the new Honey Bears team around her. Adam Archuleta's not much of a looker either. |
| 9:09
| Pat refuses to break bad on anyone's look. He wouldn't even admit that the guy from the Capitals was ugly. |
| 9:10
| Steve's looking at a photo of Archuleta's girlfriend, she's a looker. And suddenly he doesn't look as bad standing next to her. He might just be ugly looking when he's missing a tackle. |
| 9:11
| Finally, the Red Sox almost boycotted their trip to Japan to open the season because their coaches and trainers were not getting the same $40,000 bonuses as the players. |
| 9:12
| It's not like anyone has to pay for those trips though, everything is included. It's amazing they even get a bonus to go to Japan. The players make millions, they're going on an all-expenses paid trip and they still get a bonus? |
| 9:13
| Although the players also get an $85 a day meal allowance which seems excessive if you're A-Rod making $22 million a year. |
| 9:21
| Live read: The Little Guys |
| 9:22
| Buzz will get a Blu-Ray player eventually but he's not in any hurry. He's backed up on his movie watching. Every time he watches a movie thought he knows it can look better. He can't believe it though. |
| 9:23
| Just to finish up on Adam Archuleta, he's well-known for his workouts, as are Steve and Buzz. He uses the evo method developed by Jay Schroeder. Buzz is thinking of Rick Schroeder. |
| 9:24
| Adam and his girlfriend, Playboy playmate Jennifer Walcott, are expecting their first child in April. Archuleta is sometimes called Arch Deluxe, after the discontinued McDonald's sandwich. |
| 9:25
| News with Buzz |
| 9:26
| Yesterday was the 5 year anniversary of the war in Iraq. Festivities are winding down after protests across the country. President Bush addressed the nation saying he made the right decision and he'd do it again. |
| 9:27
| Vice President Cheney made a surprise visit to Afghanistan today. How 'bout that?! Last night he gave a TV interview on the Iraq war. |
| 9:28
| Does Buzz know who he was talking to? Pete? No one knows. Maybe Jim knows. Steve calls down to the newsroom. |
| 9:29
| Jim doesn't know either, it's just some woman. Is she hot? If he's in Afghanistan any woman must look a little hotter. Jim says she's showing a little leg on the video he has. |
| 9:30
| There was a caller on hold to tell Steve who the woman was but there was a bad connection. It was Martha Raddatz though. |
| 9:31
| A Philadelphia cheesesteak stand owner has been cleared of discrimination charges after he posted a sign in his restaurant asking people to order in English. That whole thing was ridiculous right? We can all agree on that? |
| 9:32
| If you go to a Mexican restaurant and order a taco you have to order in Spanish right? And if you order a cheesesteak there's no other way to say it but in English? |
| 9:33
| Two sisters selling a corn flake shaped like Illinois say eBay has canceled their listing. Ebay told them the listing was in violation of their food policy but now it's back up. |
| 9:34
| Other related items have popped up on eBay including corn flakes shaped like Hawaii, a chip shaped like Florida and Illinois corn flake paraphernalia. Steve found a Cheeto shaped like Buzz yesterday but he was just going to give it to him. |
| 9:35
| That corn flake is now up over $1000. Sometimes that online casino buys stuff like this and puts it in their museum. |
| 9:36
| It didn't really look like Illinois, not enough to spend $1000 on at least. For that Steve's going to need more detail. |
| 9:37
| A Catholic priest served his time for molesting three boys but he's still locked up after it was decided he is still a danger to the public. He might be the first member of the clergy in Illinois or the country to be locked in a mental health facility for child molestation. |
| 9:38
| From Indiana a carnival worker accused of kissing one girl and licking the face of another girl has been sentenced to prison. A carnival worker? Steve is shocked! They're the salt of the earth! |
| 9:39
| It's the first day of Spring but the Chicago area is bracing for a winter storm tonight and tomorrow. It's 45º right now but it's supposed to be 35º tomorrow. |
| 9:40
| It's still not time for Steve to break out his summer deck shoes though. He needs to see a 60º reading before he can wear those. If he does it too early then his feet get wet and cold. |
| 9:41
| Live read: Sport Clips |
| 9:42
| Steve got the massage from a Sport Clips girl on Monday at the remote broadcast but not the hot towel. You can't have a hot towel on your face when you're talking. |
| 9:43
| There are some photos of Steve getting the massage on Dahl.com, he's really cracking that girl up. Laughter is the best aphrodisiac. There has to be some reason that Woody Allen gets laid. |
| 9:50
| Live read: Woodfield Nissan |
| 9:51
| A tornado siren went off in Downers Grove which resulted in some upset citizens. The siren went off at 1 am for an entire hour. |
| 9:52
| If Steve lived in Downers Grove and he siren went off for an hour he wouldn't even know what to do. He'd be beside himself. |
| 9:53
| Some TV stations do the emergency warning early in the morning and one night Buzz accidentally left the TV on. That woke Aimee up and she went to investigate. Buzz probably thought it was finally the aliens coming for him. |
| 9:54
| By the time everyone was awake trying to figure out what it was it stopped. It was so nice to be able to go back to bed though. |
| 9:55
| And that was just for a few minutes. Imagine the siren going off for an entire hour. Authorities finally pulled the plug on the siren. You wouldn't think it would take that long to find the power source would you? |
| 9:56
| A lot of phone calls came in to the police department. Repairs to the siren will be made later today. They probably had to figure out why it was going off and if it was a malfunction or a real warning before they pulled the plug though. |
| 9:57
| Steve could get the siren off sooner than an hour though, especially having to wake up at 4 am. |
| 9:58
| Steve has a shot gun in the house right? But no ammunition, he's afraid of what would happen. Someone in his family would shoot him, as sure as he's sitting here. One of these days, with his afternoon's free, Steve's going to buy some guns. He wants to be a gun collector like everyone else. In Steve's mind he's going to get one of those gun safes with some kind of hunting scene painted on the front and only he can get in. Of course then it's useless if someone comes to his house to burglarize it. |
| 9:59
| Buzz always thinks he should get a gun just in case someone should break in. They usually let you off if you shoot someone who's breaking in right? Steve can see Buzz being made an example of. |
| 10:00
| Steve just wants to go to Bass Pro Shops and buy a gun. Every time he talks about this he gets a million suggestions from people and then he gets confused and doesn't do anything. Buzz thinks that's for the best. |
| 10:01
| If Steve had a gun he'd probably start shooting rabbits and squirrels and then he'd get arrested. You can't even trap squirrels, you have to call a professional. They don't care about rats though. Steve thinks squirrels are also rodents. it's looks discrimination. |
| 10:02
| Steve had to call a rodent guy to his house and he looked and talked like Carl Spackler in Caddyshack. |
