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| 5:29
| The Steve Dahl Show begins momentarily on Jack. |
| 5:30
| And good morning Buzz Kilman, how are you this wonderful day? Buzz is eagerly awaiting the arrival of this storm. Steve's sick of all this storm crap. |
| 5:31
| Steve woke up all throughout the night trying to decide if he should set his alarm clock back a half hour. He was told as recently as the 10 pm news that it would start snowing at 1 am. |
| 5:32
| Buzz's cab driver assures him that the snow is coming. It's further complicated by the fact that Steve is supposed to go to L.A. this weekend to visit his parents. |
| 5:33
| He doesn't want to get stuck at the airport if the weather turns bad. But it's a reward ticket so it's hard to change it. Steve also thought he'd be able to see Pat while he's out there but he's on vacation, even though he's unemployed. |
| 5:34
| Steve would have never thought that Pat would be on vacation when he went out there. But it is really hard to change the rewards tickets, you have to actually call India. Steve's been trying that trick where you hang up and keep calling back until you get someone who's not from India but it hasn't worked. |
| 5:35
| It can't be that much cheaper to outsource your customer service to India. They all seem like they're trying very hard but Steve can't understand them. So Steve's excuse for Pat Dahl why he had to come this weekend is that the ticket is hard to change. |
| 5:36
| Steve is supposed to go to dinner with his family on Saturday but the place his brother suggested doesn't take reservations. |
| 5:37
| As Buzz knows reservations are very important to Steve. Yesterday though Steve was notified that his parents wanted to just do carry-out Chinese food on Saturday. |
| 5:38
| Another reason Steve doesn't want to go out to L.A. is because Drew Hayes is also going to be there. So now he wants to have lunch. |
| 5:39
| Drew went out to L.A. with Garry Meier a few years ago, they might have actually shared a room. And it's always been Drew's dream to reunite Steve and Garry. |
| 5:40
| The snow warning has been downgraded to an advisory but it still might be a warning for Cook County. The traffic guy on WBBM said he had his fingers crossed that it wouldn't snow. |
| 5:41
| Finger crossing on Easter weekend? That seems disrespectful. That's all it's going to take to hold off the snow? |
| 5:42
| Buzz was watching the news last night and they were showing footage of what it could like after the storm hits. They were showing huge snow drifts and blowers moving snow around. |
| 5:43
| All night Steve was concerned that he needed to set his alarm a half hour early. He needed to be here for the people! |
| 5:44
| Caller Matt has a trick for those customer service numbers. It's going to be something that's worth getting up early for. |
| 5:45
| When Matt calls any customer service line he chooses the Spanish option. Either they send you to a bilingual person in the U.S. or they send you down to Mexico. When that happens you just tell them you wanted English and 90% of the time they send you to someone in the U.S. |
| 5:47
| Steve should probably pay off more for Matt. Maybe he will if that tip actually works. He probably could talk to the person in Spanish if necessary though. You have to think anyone doing that job can also speak English though. |
| 5:53
| We've got the web poll coming up but Steve needs to make a quick call to the United customer service line. Buzz has never heard the voice of the recording but it's annoyingly nice. |
| 5:54
| So that's the guy on the United recording. He'll try a million ways to get the information he needs. You can keep saying "I don't know" too. |
| 5:55
| Sometimes the guy doesn't understand what you're saying though. Buzz has noticed how much they try to personalize these recorded voices. |
| 5:56
| They probably want it so that you prefer the voice recording to the guy in India. Buzz enjoys the voice of the OnStar woman. And at Northwestern hospital they have the nicest woman in the world making elevator announcements. |
| 5:57
| OK so maybe Steve calls the United guy late at night to give him flight numbers. He doesn't want to bother him today though, he's going to be really busy. |
| 5:58
| Live read: Hawk Ford |
| 5:59
| News or web poll? Steve knows that Buzz prefers the web poll first but he still likes to ask. He could say news and Steve would do the news. |
| 6:00
| There are already excessive delays at O'Hare. Due to the weather flights are being delayed on average of 423 minutes. That doesn't seem like a lot until you divide by 60. |
| 6:01
| Steve's going to do the math on that because he has the computer know-how. Flights are being delayed on average of over 6 hours. That's a lot. Even an hour seems like a lot to Buzz. |
| 6:02
| Alright time for the web poll. Steve has to look up yesterday's web poll because he can never remember. He always knows what's going on during the show but not on yesterday's show. That's a survival method probably. If you're doing a show everyday you can't be comparing it to the previous day. |
| 6:03
| It's sort of like on Tuesday when Todd told Steve that he and Buzz were really funny on Monday and that they should have them out doing remotes every week. Aren't they funny everyday? |
| 6:04
| Todd might not be used to having shows on his stations that people are laughing at. Maybe they're laughing at Eddie & Jobo but only because of their appearance. |
| 6:05
| Yesterday's web poll question was "have you ever taken a cleansing cocktail?" Steve has not but Buzz would be part of the 5% of people who have. But not because of his wife, he had to do it once as a kid because he was sick. His wife is hippy-dippy but not that much. |
| 6:06
| Today's web poll question is "are you having ham for Easter?" |
| 6:07
| Steve is not waiting at the airport for 6 hours for his flight. He wouldn't wait at the airport for 6 hours for Jesus. And Jesus wouldn't mind either, he'd probably understand and forgive you. |
| 6:08
| Steve does have a ham in his possession. He's by himself this weekend because Janet is enjoying another European vacation while Steve stays here and works. She wants them to get out of their comfort zone. When does Steve get to do that? |
| 6:09
| Steve's got a 7 pounder at home, it's a Honeybaked. He'll probably do Easter because he loves Honeybaked Ham. |
| 6:10
| Buzz is wondering if ham is a traditional Easter food. There's another one for the list Pete. Buzz had no idea that ham was traditional Easter food. Next thing you know Steve's going to tell him that lamb is too! Buzz is still reeling from finding out that the pretzels at the movie theaters are soft. What does Buzz have on Easter, Mexican food? Easter isn't a culinary event in Buzz's life. Maybe Steve should have The Kilman's over for ham. |
| 6:11
| Piper will probably demand pancakes and then the family will go see a movie. Buzz will probably have a hot dog, the traditional Easter hot dog. Did Buzz really not know that ham was a traditional Easter food? |
| 6:13
| The way turkey is a Thanksgiving food, ham is an Easter food. Although some people eat lambs. If Steve were going lamb he'd get gyros. The Greeks are very big on that. They have to kill the lamb so it can't talk about what they did to it. It's the silence of the lambs. |
| 6:14
| Those gyros we had last week for Tina's last day were really good. Tina's Greek and Polish so we sent out for some gyros and kolaches. It seems like she's more Polish though. |
| 6:15
| Tina quit and she has nothing bad to say about Steve but she's still in the building. Steve calls up to the office to make sure Stephanie has locked the office door. He loves calling his staff on the phone. |
| 6:16
| If Steve could speak frankly to Stephanie, he has to say that she's been way more productive this week with Tina gone. She needs to lock that office door because Tina will come by and just start talking. |
| 6:17
| When Tina was here they would sit in the office back to back IMing each other. They could just turn around and talk to each other but they'd rather IM. Then to make it really special they text. |
| 6:22
| Tina's been IMing people on the staff this morning. We need to take her off of our Five. She should be focusing on the news, there's a blizzard coming. What if Felicia Middlebrooks accidentally read a text message instead of the news? |
| 6:23
| We need to cut ties with Tina, she broke up with us that's what you do. What happens when Pete breaks up with a girl? They wash up on the shores of Lake MIchigan a few months later after the thaw. |
| 6:24
| Steve's just kidding about the Buzz not knowing stuff, but listeners enjoy it. Steve was talking to a guy at the gym yesterday who said his favorite part of the show is Buzz not knowing stuff. |
| 6:25
| For a long time Buzz lived alone so he was on a need-to-know basis. Buzz always talked about his holiday plans, they involved a can of chili usually. Around Easter Buzz's mom always sent him his favorite dish, Ham Surprise. It's sort sort of casserole with deviled ham and vinegar. You have to breathe right when you eat it or you could gag. |
| 6:26
| So Buzz should know that people like it when he doesn't know stuff. The guy at the gym said his favorite one was the jalapeño poppers. They've been around for 20 years! |
| 6:27
| Live read: The Little Guys |
| 6:28
| Sony finally won a format war with the Blu-Ray. You'd think they would learn their lesson with the BetaMax but then they sort of lost out with the mp3 players. |
| 6:29
| They were very successful with the Walkman but the mp3 player they had never really took off. Buzz still uses a cassette player to record his gigs. He loves that cassette hiss! |
| 6:30
| So the web poll today is "are you having ham on Easter?" Ham is a versatile dish for home cooks who want to experiment with flavor. Steve will make Buzz a copy of this article in case he wants to try anything out at home. |
| 6:31
| A survey done last year by the National Pork Board, which Steve longs to be on, found that 60% of the people who celebrate Easter in the U.S. eat ham. How great would the National Pork Board business card be? |
| 6:32
| The Easter holiday has roots in Pagan tradition. That's what the Christians did for all their holidays. They took a Pagan tradition and threw Jesus in there. Easter couldn't be more Pagan, it's all about fertility with the eggs and the rabbits. Rabbits don't even lay eggs! |
| 6:33
| Then the Christians threw in a crucifixion and zombification. Then you have 1 of the 2 days that most people go to church. If you go to church on Christmas and Easter all they do is bitch at you for only coming twice a year. |
| 6:34
| Can't Steve just drop a C-note in the basket and be done with it? The Catholics don't use the baskets actually, they have a fry basket at the end of a pole. The Catholics don't trust you, they have someone watching the entire step of the process. |
| 6:35
| The Catholics need the money, that's for sure. They have mounting legal fees. Some of those priests should just go Spitzer then. They can't find someone of age who looks young? What about Adam? He'd be some great arm candy for a priest. Happy Easter everyone! |
| 6:36
| In the days before cold storage, pigs were slaughtered during the fall harvest. They were cured over the winter and ready by Easter. So they did smoke hams. |
| 6:37
| Although ham is a traditional Easter food many people didn't learn culinary expertise about it from their parents. Buzz didn't even know people ate ham on Easter! |
| 6:38
| Some hams come already cooked so they only need to be warmed. Steve doesn't know what he's going to do with his Honeybaked if he doesn't go to L.A. He might prefer his cooked ham to be cold. |
| 6:39
| Would Buzz like to see Steve's ham? He can have Stephanie bring it down. She can probably hear the show but Steve feels he needs to make a call where he says "bring down my ham." |
| 6:40
| Buzz is wondering how the ham came to be here at the station. Steve had his people get it for him as a back-up plan in case he didn't go to L.A. Steve will be by himself on Sunday, Mike is going to his girlfriend's house and Matt Dahl is working. He got a job as a waiter at a restaurant. |
| 6:41
| Stephanie is here with the ham, can she show it to Mr. Kilman? It's Steve's back-up ham. Homer Simpson has one too, you have to have one. Buzz thinks the ham looks delicious. |
| 6:42
| It's spiral-cut so it just all peels off. Buzz would love to see how that all works. She should probably wash her hands before she takes it apart. By the way Steve needs his feet washed. Or was that last night? |
| 6:43
| Plus the ham has that sweet Honeybaked crust. They might put it on with a blow torch. Can Buzz smell that ham? It smells like Easter! Nothing in the world smells like that. |
| 6:44
| Buzz has never seen a spiral-cut ham. The Honeybaked Ham guy invented that method. Buzz has never seen this? It's like Steve has a special friend in Buzz and he can show him new things. It's like Buzz at home with the 6-year-old, everything is new to her. |
| 6:45
| Steve's not going to have any ham left is Buzz has to keep sampling it. Steve won't eat 7 pounds of ham though so Buzz can have some. Maybe Stephanie should heat some up for Buzz just so he knows what warm ham is like. |
| 6:46
| How does Stephanie like her ham? Usually she likes it hot with some mayo and onions? Mayo and onions?! |
| 6:52
| Buzz sampled the warm ham and it was also very good. You can't put mayo and onions on it though. You know Stephanie was backpedaling on that onion stuff. She said it was her favorite food. That's probably why she's not currently dating anyone. She's a cute girl but those onions are going to drive people away. |
| 6:53
| LIve read: Sport Clips |
| 6:54
| Alright back to the ham. We have learned so far that 60% of American's have ham on Easter. Buzz just learned today that a lot of people have ham for Easter. It's another classic Buzzism. |
| 6:55
| As it turns out people eat ham on Easter because the pig was slaughtered in the fall, cured over the winter and ready for Easter. |
| 6:56
| Unless a ham is labeled "fresh ham" or "fresh leg" it needs to be cooked. When you have to cook the ham you want to bypass a mistake made by novice cooks. |
| 6:57
| Some people throw it in the oven and leave it there all day until it smells good. But a lot of times the people forgot to take the wrapper off. A ham should be cooked for about 15-18 minutes per pound at about 380º |
| 6:58
| Some cooks use various glazes and chutneys, sometimes to the same ham, for variety. If you have a family with diverse tastes it's a great way to celebrate. |
| 6:59
| Buzz has never had a Honeybaked Ham until now. The spiral slicing is awesome. Buzz could see how one person could casually eat a spiral sliced ham. It's so easy to just take a piece off. |
| 7:00
| Steve will have to look for some information about the Honeybaked Ham guy but he invented the spiral slicer method. He had a problem selling that idea to people so he just started up his own company. |
| 7:01
| Caller Rick saw a special about the Honeybaked Ham guy on the Discovery Channel. The patent on the slicer wore off so other companies were able to do it. Steve might have seen that on the Food Network, they take everything one step beyond because they have to. |
| 7:02
| Rick's picking his ham up tomorrow and his wife told them to ask how to cut the bone out. If you do it the right way you get more meat out of the whole thing. |
| 7:03
| Steve's going to take a few calls then a break and then the news. When is that snow coming by the way? |
| 7:04
| Steve spent all night waking up and changing his alarm clock back and forth because he thought he'd need extra time to drive in. Eventually the dogs just got sick of it and left the room. They're trying to sleep here! |
| 7:05
| Caller Betty works for Honeybaked Ham in Crystal Lake. They're going to be glazing up hams all weekend. So they do it on-site? That would be a great job for Steve. |
| 7:06
| People ask for extra glaze all the time but you can't physically do that. You can only put so much on. If you put another layer on the previous layer just melts off. |
| 7:07
| Caller George loves Ham Talk. And he doesn't want to be too WGNish but he's west of Elgin and it's snowing like a banshee. |
| 7:08
| Finally! All last night on the news they were talking about how much snow there was going to be. When Steve opened the garage door this morning he actually tricked himself into thinking there was snow on the ground. |
| 7:09
| When George gets a Honeybaked Ham he asks for extra glaze on the side. Then he just dips his ham right into there. And the reason Steve likes cold ham is because it's firmer. |
| 7:10
| George serves his ham with baked bean with honey, brown sugar and hot sauce. That way you get the hot and the sweet together. Does Steve smoke pot before eating this? |
| 7:11
| Then save the ham bone for bean soup. Steve's just going to have the ham and maybe a green bean casserole. Steve likes the glaze idea and he likes beans. He doesn't really like hot stuff though. |
| 7:12
| Caller Brent is the same way with hot stuff that Steve is. He sweats just eating yellow mustard. |
| 7:13
| Brent has a suggestion for a glaze for Steve, it involves Coke and grand marnier. That alcohol burns off during cooking right? Because Steve can't get involved in something like that. |
| 7:14
| Of course Ham Talk was brought to you by Honeybaked Ham. It's good to have them in the fold. |
| 7:15
| It's also good for Steve to have one of their hams in the fridge. He might have Stephanie bring some more ham down for him. |
| 7:16
| Stephanie is all sweatered up today but he wouldn't mind a little more cleavage during the ham serving. Is that inappropriate? Steve only means it as a compliment. |
| 7:17
| So far Stephanie hasn't filed any actions against Steve and she's been here for 3 or 4 years. She could be building a case and she would have a pretty good one. The final straw could be Steve tying it all in with Easter. |
| 7:18
| Next thing you know Steve's sharing a cell with that Stuart Levine guy. Has Buzz heard any of the tapes of that guy talking about everything he's going to do? |
| 7:19
| They're good quality tapes too. It's not like those mafia tapes where the quality is poor and they're talking in code. |
| 7:23
| Steve the engineer was in the studio trying to get Buzz to try some vodka or something. He was wearing some vodka t-shirt and he asked Steve if he liked vodka. Does he like vodka? "Hello my name is Steve!" |
| 7:24
| Hasn't he read Steve's bio? It says "Renowned alcoholic Steve Dahl". Steve the engineer heard that Buzz only drank tequila. He will drink something else if there's no tequila around. |
| 7:25
| Apparently someone down on the 9th floor makes their own vodka? Do they work for B96? or The B? Every time Steve sees Todd the name of B96 has shortened. Pretty soon it's just going to be Buh. |
| 7:26
| Live read: Joebees |
| 7:27
| Joe Bee has a honeycomb down in Steve's office now. Can we do a quick stinger check? Joe likes to show it to Buzz. There's nothing wrong with that. |
| 7:28
| Has Buzz ever seen Ulee's Gold? How great is that movie? It's an entire bee movie and it's not animated. |
| 7:29
| What about Tupelo Honey, does Buzz like that song? Buzz hasn't taken the bee pollen yet, it takes him a while to work things into his schedule. |
| 7:30
| Change is not Buzz's fortè. All of his moves are glacially slow. The pills are out of their packaging but they have to make the move to a certain shelf so he'll take them everyday. Does the bottle of Joebees go right next to Uncle Buzzy's fiber? |
| 7:31
| What a delightful young bee that Joe Bee is. |
| 7:32
| Alright it's Peanut Butter Jelly Time. We're having Pat Boyle on a little earlier today because he has to catch a flight to Florida. |
| 7:33
| Steve can't wait to get the flight number and track it for him. Buzz is wondering what's going on in Florida. Pat was just down there at Disney World. Maybe Ma and Pa Boyle have retired to Florida? |
| 7:34
| Pat's parents have not retired yet but they are renting a place in Florida for a month so that's why he's going down there. They're on Sanibel Island. Buzz is recommending the Muddy Duck. |
| 7:35
| That's not on Sanibel Island actually but Pat has been there. Know your islands Buzz! Steve has never been to any of those islands. People always talk about the island and all the seashells. What does Steve care about seashells? |
| 7:36
| Steve can go ahead and check Pat's flight for him. He doesn't want to give out the flight number though, he'll be mobbed at the airport. He can just give O'Hare delays. Steve doesn't see him getting out today. |
| 7:37
| O'Hare has issued a ground delay program affecting flights arriving today. What about departing? Flights are being delayed 203 minutes on average which is down from 423. |
| 7:38
| Pat is actually flying out of Midway. Midway?! That's weak! Not really, there's nothing wrong with Midway. And now they've got a great food court. Let's not besmirch the O'Hare food court though, especially in the United terminal. |
| 7:39
| Pat's flying Southwest out of Midway, they're in the 40s for the boarding group. 40s! That is weak. Although he's got kids so he usually gets to the front of the line. |
| 7:40
| Steve never lets anyone go ahead of him, even if they're in a wheelchair or something. They should have worked out more otherwise their muscles wouldn't have atrophied. |
| 7:41
| Pat bought flights for the 4-year-old and the 1-year-old on this trip. Buzz can't believe that. Of course he only buys one ticket for himself, Aimee and Piper. They sit in one seat, it's like a turducken. |
| 7:42
| So Pat will fire up the DVD player for the 4-year-old, the 1-year-old goes to sleep and he can order up some cocktails. How did people survive without those DVD players on trips? |
| 7:43
| You mean how did Steve survive without them? They key is to pull of the side of the road and give out some beatings if they start acting up. That was the good thing about minivans, you could really get to the back seat easily. |
| 7:44
| Could Pat get the flight number from his wife? Steve likes to check people's flights, he's a busybody like that. |
| 7:45
| Steve won't give it out of the air though because he'll be mobbed by Chicago sports fans at the airport. Steve caught a little of Pat and Josh Mora last night. |
| 7:46
| He can see why Pat has so much information, all they do is talk about sports all day. They know what Chris Duhon has for breakfast everyday! |
| 7:47
| Steve needs to know how he did with his brackets. Notre Dame won, Steve got that one wrong. Kansas played and won, Steve got that one right. USC lost, Steve had that wrong. That was one of the mild upsets. |
| 7:48
| Wisconsin beat Cal-State Fullerton. Steve can't read these things, these brackets are a nightmare. Sadly Steve had USC beating Wisconsin in the next round, that's not good. |
| 7:49
| Michigan State beat Temple, Steve had that one right. He had Kentucky over Marquette, that was wrong. Stanford beat Cornell, Steve had that one wrong. |
| 7:50
| Duke and Belmont was the game of the day. Belmont almost pulled off the upset but they didn't. Horseshoes and hand grenades. Steve can't really get into it until it gets to the Elite 8 or maybe the Sweet 16. The Snore 64 is not for him. |
| 7:51
| Pat's going to be gone all next week. Didn't he just take a vacation? Pat took two days off to go to Disney World but that was not a vacation. |
| 7:52
| Steve has tapes to play, let's go through them in order. Lou Piniella is going to pitch Kerry Wood on back-to-back days to see how he does. Lou has a lot of pitching decisions to make though. |
| 7:53
| Barring a "Cubby occurrence" Lou thinks he has everything pretty much in order though. Steve saw Kerry Wood on Comcast last night, he was mad that people were making a big deal out of the back spasm. It's a big deal when his last few years were checkered with injury. |
| 7:54
| Juan Uribe is still with the Sox because Danny Richar has a busted rib. So they probably have to keep Uribe around. But they still have Alexei Ramirez and Pablo Ozuna. |
| 8:01
| Live read: Fresh Diet |
| 8:02
| Joining Steve and Buzz in-studio right now is Kevin Pang from the Tribune. Buzz might remember him from the Fish Taco campaign. |
| 8:03
| Also here is Katie Hamilton from the Tribune. The Sun-Times had a contest where you could win $1,000 if you sent in a video making fun of Sam Zell for selling the naming rights to Wrigley Field. |
| 8:04
| Katie is a Tribune intern which the Sun-Times didn't know at the time. They have since congratulated her for her pluckiness in punking them. |
| 8:05
| There's a section in the Tribune's website where you can enter your own name and it will appear on the Wrigley Field marquee. |
| 8:06
| Ed sent Buzz something similar in which his name was incorporated onto an underground garage wall as the name of a serial killer. Yeah, that's totally the same! |
| 8:07
| Steve's article yesterday was the 4th most emailed from the Tribune website by the way. Although there was a mistake in there that was his fault. |
| 8:08
| So Kevin approached Katie to appear in the video. They needed a girl who was in her 20s and cute and looks like she could go to a Cubs game. And she is a Cubs fan. They also needed someone at the people at the Sun-Times didn't know. |
| 8:09
| Kevin has to say that he has a lot of friends at the Sun-Times, this is nothing personal. It's just two newspapers having some fun. |
| 8:10
| Some people are commenting that the Tribune hired outside videographers to do the video. By the way, why does the Tribune let people comment on all the articles? They need to turn that stuff off. |
| 8:11
| These weren't the website comments, they were just on blogs. Steve would still like the comments shut off, at least for his article. They're always negative. |
| 8:12
| All of the video work was done in house and the band is made up of Tribune staffers. |
| 8:13
| And Pete has the video, he can play it from his studio. Steve knows they have to get going, they're going to be on CBS. They were on WGN this morning doing a live performance of the song. There's a little too much dancing no that show for Steve. On ABC you don't see Ron Magers dancing do you? |
| 8:14
| Song: We're Not Gonna Change It, The Chicago Tribune Band |
| 8:17
| You can see the video on Tribune.com, it features a lot of people dancing around. The video shows the people dancing in front of a lot of the things at the park that have already been whored out to advertisers. |
| 8:18
| If Steve's Wrigley gum he would buy the naming rights and be everyone's hero. |
| 8:23
| That's a drop of the guy from the Sun-Times with a very relatable British accent. That's how Steve wants his news, from a British guy. |
| 8:24
| Yeah so Steve's article was in the top 5 most emailed articles yesterday. He did have that small mistake but he got to put a clarification in there today. |
| 8:25
| The great thing about doing a radio show is if you make a mistake you can usually fix it that day or at worst the following Monday. |
| 8:26
| Wrigley should step up and buy the naming rights. They're a billion dollar company so they can swing it and when they do they'll be beloved. |
| 8:27
| Plus how much free advertising have they got over the years. They could amortize the cost of buying the rights over all those years and it would be worth it. |
| 8:28
| It's time for the Eight O'Clock Taco Bell. It's the Weekend Kick-off which means Steve and Buzz are having original tacos today. |
| 8:29
| Steve's checking his flights to L.A. and they're canceling flights all around it but so far not his. It doesn't look that bad out there either. Buzz thinks it's just a brief respite. |
| 8:30
| The end of the Eight O'Clock Taco Bell would mean news time. It seems like an inopportune time though since Buzz is still eating his taco. Actually he's done with his taco because he eats it in 4 bites. |
| 8:31
| News with Buzz |
| 8:32
| Already 100 United airline flights have been canceled today because of the winter storm bearing down on the area. |
| 8:33
| Barack Obama's campaign wants an investigation into a breach of the candidate's passport file. |
| 8:34
| John Murtha has endorsed Hillary Clinton for President. He believes she can end this war. That would be the war she helped start right? Steve's Ron Paul all the way, Buzz knows that. |
| 8:35
| Congress is investigating the electrocution deaths of U.S. troops in Iraq over the last few months. The latest was a soldier electrocuted when a water pump short circuited and sent a deadly charge through the pipes. |
| 8:36
| Eliot Spitzer is on the road to heal the wounds from his sexual dalliances. He has reportedly gone into therapy to determine whether or not he's addicted to sex. |
| 8:37
| A Michigan woman is dead after a Spotted Eagle Ray jumped out of the water in Florida and smacked her in the face. |
| 8:38
| Pope Benedict's Easter Sunday plans include two masses. Doesn't he also serve Eggs Benedict? |
| 8:39
| A Staten Island pizzeria is angering Catholics for serving a Passion of the Crust pizza this weekend. Didn't the Catholics also not like Passion of the Christ? |
| 8:40
| Crestwood police are being sued by the Tinley Park woman arrested for leaving her child in a car. "Treffly" Coyne's 9-year-old daughter is now completely disillusioned with police officers. That's the real tragedy. |
| 8:41
| Just a reminder, the woman was parked in a fire lane in front of a Wal-Mart at night. She should just be happy that this whole thing is over and she wasn't charged. Steve can see why maybe she was arrested, she has a bit of an attitude. |
| 8:42
| And finally a good piece of news out of Tinley Park. A woman there is selling a potato chip on eBay shaped like the state of Illinois.. |
| 8:43
| She's hoping that money from the chip sale will help her pay for an operation for her ferret, who has an adrenal condition. Would someone really pay for that operation? |
| 8:44
| Does Buzz know what Steve's talking about with that Tinley Park mom though? It just seems like maybe she shouldn't be on TV. Plus she's not as hot as she was last week. Maybe familiarity breeds contempt. And could she have married a shorter guy? |
| 8:50
| That's the little fellar that Treffly Coyne is married to. Is he calling for firings in Crestwood? Steve doesn't think it's a good idea when people call for other people to be fired. |
| 8:51
| Treffly's husband wants their jobs but he doesn't want to do them, he just wants them out. It seems like the arresting officer probably will be fired. Turns out he was on disability from the Chicago police department and working for Crestwood. |
| 8:52
| Live read: Woodfield Nissan |
| 8:53
| Live read: Townstone Financial |
| 8:54
| Caller Karen was wondering if Jim kid is the same same as Jimmy Kid, who was guitarist for a band called Pin-Ups. That was back in the 70s so it's probably not the same person. What kind of loser would be in a band in the 70's and then still working here? |
| 8:55
| Steve's pretty sure Jim wasn't in a band back in the 70's. Brendan told Karen that maybe it was Jim's dad. Is he doing his own show out there? |
| 8:56
| The lead guitarist for the band had a hook. Every good song needs a hook but Steve's not sure if that applies to guitar players. That had to be his picking hand right? You can just put the pick right in the hook. |
| 8:57
| Steve calls down to the weather center. Jim was not in Pin-Ups, nor was his dad as far as he knows. His dad is named Jim but he doesn't have a hook and he doesn't play guitar. He plays drums. |
| 8:58
| The hooked guy was not Jimmy Kid, that was a different guy. Was Karen a groupie for the band? Does she have a kid from one of them and she's looking to find out who the father is? |
| 8:59
| Well good luck to Karen finding her long lost band. She's a former groupie just looking for her band. It's always a bummer when you lose your band. |
| 9:00
| Good luck to everyone then, it would be a nice reunion for The Pin-Ups. But there's no reason to dredge up stuff from the 70s right? That's what Buzz is hoping. |
| 9:01
| We'd be fielding calls all day for Buzz, people dredging stuff up from the 70s. Buzz is seeing that Miami just got named the cleanest city in the country. |
| 9:02
| The study was based on quality of air, drinking water and what each city spends on garbage collection. |
| 9:03
| Well as Steve said, good luck to that woman finding her band with the hooked guitarist. High hook me! . |
| 9:04
| Caller Tom was wondering of Joe Bee was jealous of the size of the sting ray's stinger, the one that killed that Michigan woman. |
| 9:05
| Steve's checking his flight to L.A., he's supposed to go out there to see his parents. He really doesn't want to deal with the weather, nothing against his parents. |
| 9:06
| Steve sort of wants to just stay home and have a nice Honeybaked Ham for Easter, maybe hide some Easter eggs for himself. Buzz suggests hiding the eggs the night before, after the takes the Ambien. That way he'll forget where he hid them. |
| 9:15
| Steve calls down to the newsroom. He didn't mean to besmirch Jim earlier when he said it would be depressing for someone in his 50's to be doing his job. |
| 9:16
| It would be depressing if Jim was doing that in his 50's though. Although if Jim was 50 that means he could have been in a rockin' 70s band. He would have probably nailed that caller. |
| 9:17
| Live read: The Little Guys |
| 9:18
| David from The Little Guys is on the phone. It's Sony Days and all the Blu-Ray players are priced to move. It sounds so seedy to Buzz when David says that. |
| 9:19
| The Little Guys also have some of those converter boxes, the ones you have to get if you don't have a digital TV. Some people are getting coupons from the government if they can't afford the converter box. |
| 9:20
| What kind of government pays for people to watch TV? Probably the same government that made billions selling those frequencies to TV stations. |
| 9:21
| They like to serve all needs at The Little Guys, like the old ladies in the neighborhood on a fix income. |
| 9:22
| Buzz has been noticing that new HD channels are being added to his cable all the time. Is the ultimate goal to have everything in HD? |
| 9:23
| That's what they're going for but who knows if the original broadcast signal will look any better in HD. |
| 9:24
| Buzz still has an old TV in his backroom though. Here we go, Mr. Government Coupon with his big brick of government cheese and a tuner. |
| 9:25
| Earlier that woman called in wondering if our own Jim Kid was the same person as Jimmy Kid, a guitar player for a band called Pin-Ups. |
| 9:26
| Steve has something about a guitar player from Chicago named Jimi Kidd but based on the photo he does not have a hook. |
| 9:27
| There's a CD on Amazon from Paul Gilbert and Jimi Kidd called Raw Blues Power. |
| 9:28
| Paul Gilbert writes on Amazon that Jimi Kidd was his uncle and a legend of his youth. He played a great guitar in a variety of rock and blues bands. |
| 9:29
| Gilbert lived in a farm house in Pennsylvania so he rarely saw his uncle Jimi. When he was 10 Jimi taught him how to mute guitar strings with his right hand. Maybe that's what the hook was for? |
| 9:30
| He also taught him how to use a fuzz-tone and how to control feedback. This kid doesn't seem very smart. How do you use a fuzz-tone? Plug it in! |
| 9:31
| Alright there's some video on Tribune.com about Drew Peterson. Apparently he has something to say and Steve would like to play that now. |
| 9:32
| Drew thinks he's being harassed by his neighbor, Sandy Bychowski. In the video Drew is starring out the back window at Bychowski's grill with the Stacy poster on it. It's a very pensive look. |
| 9:33
| The weirdest thing about that story is that during the course of the interview Drew has two different umbrellas. At first it's something that could be a Bears or U of I umbrella. Then for the somber part of the interview he switched to a black umbrella. |
| 9:34
| The mother and stepfather of Drew Peterson appeared before a grand jury this week. Albert and Betty Morphey, of Burr Ridge, would not discuss what, if anything, they told the grand jury. You're not supposed to tell anyone. |
| 9:35
| Al Morphey called the press "vultures" They're behind Drew 100%. Drew's the one with the broken heart, does anyone report on that? |
| 9:36
| Every time there's an article about Drew they mention that he's a suspect in Stacy's disappearance and the death of Kathleen Savio. |
| 9:37
| Bath tubs can be dangerous, everyone knows that. You get yourself a nice oval bath tub, maybe some shelves around it to put candles on for love making sessions. |
| 9:38
| Drew always said they should get those sand paper grips on the bottom of the tub. But Kathleen didn't like the way they felt on her butt. |
| 9:39
| Drew did like it though, he likes to exfoliate, Buzz knows that. |
| 9:40
| OK back to the Drew article. While his stepfather and mother wouldn't talk about the grand jury, they did display some of the showmanship that Drew has come to be known for. |
| 9:41
| Not only is Drew a jokester, he's also a showman. While leaving Drew's stepfather gave the media a sarcastic wave. Then his mother asked for 10 copies of each photo that was taken. |
| 9:42
| So they're still harassing Drew and his family. At least he's got his Denali back. So he doesn't have to go to Buffalo Wild Wings or Ted's Montana Grill in the rental minivan. |
| 9:43
| Those minivans make it hard to pick-up women. Although some women are into it. |
| 9:44
| The only thing going wrong for Drew right now is that neighbor of his. But he did have some fun with her garage door this weekend. |
| 9:52
| Drew can pose all he wants but his hot 23-year-old wife blew out of town with another dude. It's time for him to get back to the manliness clinic. |
| 9:53
| That doesn't mean Drew couldn't still pound Steve. HI-YAH! |
| 9:54
| Live read: Woodfield Nissan |
| 9:55
| Steve's got some copy here and it mentions the Nissan Rouge which Steve has been changing it to Rogue. He's pretty sure the car isn't called Rouge. |
| 9:56
| Rouge is of course a red powder women use to color their cheeks. A rogue is a dishonest or unprincipled man. |
| 9:57
| Steve's been tracking his flight this morning and for a while he was checking the wrong one. But both the flights are still on time. |
| 9:58
| Steve didn't get any sleep last night, he was up all night worrying about if he should set the alarm for a half hour earlier. |
| 9:59
| Now they're guesstimating that we're going to get about 5 inches of snow today. That's nothing! |
| 10:00
| Drew Hayes is out in L.A. this weekend too which makes Steve not want to go out there. Now that he knows he's been telling people that he and Steve are going on vacation together. |
| 10:01
| Everyone on all three CBS floors in the building know about it. Todd Cavanah came in yesterday and asked Steve if he was going on vacation with Drew. |
| 10:02
| Steve's not sure what Drew has planned though. The last thing he needs is a call from the hotel lobby from Drew. |
| 10:03
| Well you'll just have to tune in Monday to see if Steve got to L.A. or not. He does have a 7 pound ham, minus a few slices, as a back-up in case he doesn't go. |
