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| 5:30
| Yes good morning everyone, from the fifth tallest building in Chicago and the 11th tallest in the world, it's the Steve Dahl Show. 11th tallest isn't bad but it's not in the top 10. |
| 5:31
| If you were in Phoenix though, 11th tallest building would be really impressive. What do they have? Maybe something in the top 50? But 11th tallest, that's impressive. Would you like some guacamole? |
| 5:32
| Steve still doesn't know how to get reparations for his proper guacamole pronunciation. For as long as Steve's kids have been able to speak they've made fun of Steve for his pronunciation of guacamole, with a W sound. |
| 5:33
| Steve orders guacamole and for the entire time it takes for the guacamole to arrive the boys make fun of him. Then every time someone went for the guacamole they said "I'm going to have some guacamole" with Steve's W pronunciation. |
| 5:34
| Steve's pronunciation is the correct one though and he didn't say it to be pretentious. There was a time when Steve used the Hawaiian pronunciation for ukulele just to prove he could play it. But he has since dropped that. Buzz has seen Steve solo on ukulele, he has the right to his pronunciation. |
| 5:35
| Steve pronounced guacamole that way because he grew up in Southern California where you end up learning a lot of Spanish. It took Pat Dahl moving out to L.A. to prove to the boys that Steve's pronunciation was correct. He'd still like his reparations though. |
| 5:36
| Steve's advice to people, don't have kids. It's worse than having a dog. Although Steve is a little worried about his dogs today. He has to let them out every morning because he's alone this week. |
| 5:37
| Steve's dog Mabel is being a little difficult this week. She's the older dog and for some reason in the morning she won't come downstairs in the morning so they can go out in the yard. |
| 5:38
| Steve had to pretend he was going to feed Mabel so she'd come down and luckily she's just dumb enough to believe him. Dogs wait all day to be fed and then they just wolf it down, so fast that they're on the verge of hurling. |
| 5:39
| After Steve let the dogs out he noticed that Mabel's water dish was empty. So he filled it back up but now he's worried she'll go somewhere in the house. Normally she's pretty good about holding it though. Even if the dogs do go they go near a door, at least to prove they made an effort. |
| 5:40
| Steve has a question for everyone. He was invited to have dinner at the neighbor's house across the street. The wife has cancer and on Tuesday Steve went to visit her just to say hello. He brought flowers and a movie for her. |
| 5:41
| Then they invited Steve to dinner on Wednesday. He declined because he said he was going to the Blackhawks game. Then he learned they were in Columbus. Steve had to call them to clear up the confusion because their son works for the Tribune sports section. |
| 5:42
| So the dinner was rescheduled for Thursday night. During the discussion on Tuesday the topic of wine came up, they both like wine. Steve thought he should bring something but he doesn't know anything about wine. |
| 5:43
| The only thing Steve knows about wine is when he was on WMVP doing mornings, he was broadcasting from Florida. During one show he drank three bottles of cheap, warm Chardonay in the closet of his patio. It was so cheap that his car dealer gave him a case of it as a Christmas present. |
| 5:44
| That was also the show where Bruce Wolf and Greg Solk spent the entire time telling Steve the show sounded weird. He was on the patio and it sounded weird. Steve couldn't believe that's all they were going to say for the entire show. |
| 5:45
| The neighbor was talking about how they'd been to France to visit their daughter who's studying there. Steve told them about his romantic trip to Paris with Pat Dahl. They had to eat at an Italian restaurant becuase Pat doesn't like French food. |
| 5:46
| Then the wife said that they also had to eat at an Italian restaurant in France because her husband needed his Pinot Grigio. Steve assumes that's an Italian wine and he wants to bring some but he wants to make sure he's getting the right thing. |
| 5:47
| So maybe someone could call in and tell Steve about Pinot Grigio. Mark is probably looking it up too but Steve needs some human contact. Not that Mark isn't human but he'll lord his knowledge over Steve. |
| 5:51
| Steve hates people that like wine. Buzz was just going to say he's developed a wine habit recently. He's not a snob about it, it's a cheap wine that you could drink forever without denting your budget. Is it from Trader Joe's? |
| 5:52
| Actually it's a Mondavi. Does it come in gallons? Buzz drinks two glasses before dinner and then right as he's starting to eat he's loaded. Then by the time dinner is over it's all passed and mixed together. Sometimes you're asleep by then. |
| 5:53
| Steve doesn't drink any more but being home all week he would have smoked some of the pot if he had any. Bob and Ron didn't leave any yesterday, apparently they didn't take Steve's hint. Buzz thinks they might be on a fixed budget. |
| 5:54
| Steve wants to bring some wine to the neighbors house tonight but he wants to make sure it's the right kind. Although he's not sure if it's appropriate to bring wine since the wife is being treated for cancer. |
| 5:55
| There's a general perception in Steve's family that he's an idiot and does inappropriate things. So he likes to have evidence that he does know how to act appropriately. |
| 5:56
| If Bob and Ron had left some pot Steve could have brought that. It's medicinal now. Although Buzz has been seeing stories about the pot places being raided in California. |
| 5:57
| Pat Dahl has a prescription for pot out in L.A., because he has anxiety. When he went to the distribution center they were handing out samples of pot peanut brittle. No wonder they're raiding those places! |
| 5:58
| Steve has two calls on the phone plus Mark Czerniec. Buzz thinks he should get over the Mark Czerniec hump first. Steve can hear it in Mark's voice, he's getting read to lord something over him. |
| 5:59
| When the show was in Cabo a few years ago, out to dinner, Steve ordered a bottle. He likes to order because it makes him feel like he's part of everything. He usually just orders the second most expensive bottle on the list, that's what Homer Simpson does. |
| 6:00
| Mark took a drink of the wine and then said "this isn't bad for a Cab" Mark doesn't remember the story that way. One of Steve's boys was ordering a steak and Mark said that the Cabernet Steve ordered would go good with it. |
| 6:01
| Mark usually doesn't like to drink when he's out to dinner with Steve. He likes to stay sharp and on Steve's level. |
| 6:02
| So Pinot Grigio is Italian. Pinot means pine but it's not a wine made of pine trees. The grapes cluster so close together that it looks like a pine cone. Grigio means gray in Italian. Pinot Noir is another wine and noir in French is black. Steve knows that because of film noir. |
| 6:03
| Steve's not sure what they're making for dinner though so he doesn't know what wine to pair it with. Maybe Steve should just pick up some cupcakes at Jewel. He'll bring 3 and then keep 3 at home for himself. |
| 6:04
| Live read: Fresh Diet |
| 6:05
| Steve's Fresh Diet dinner last night was pork meatballs, they're great. He would order those at a restaurant. There's also broccoli, cauliflower and barley, which Steve sprays with his butter spray. |
| 6:06
| Steve's not sure if that butter spray is good for you, but it tastes good. The only bad thing about it is that it comes in a pump. When you're spraying it on a plate and holding the bottle down the pump doesn't stay primed. |
| 6:07
| It seems like a design flaw. If Steve has the bottle held upright, like if he were going to spray buzz, it comes out fine. But you wouldn't hold your food upright and spray it. |
| 6:08
| There are no calories in it and it says 5 sprays is a serving for food topping and 1 spray is for cooking. Why not just go with 15 sprays, there are no calories. There's a piece of corn on the bottle, maybe it's just for corn? |
| 6:09
| Caller Pete is on his way to work, he's a chef at Harrah's. He's in Burr Ridge so on his route is that bikini club. Pete has never stopped there but Steve did once, after a trip to Harrah's. |
| 6:10
| Steve actually got kicked out of that place. There are women dancing there in bikinis but you can't touch them. Steve kept touching the dancer just because it's impossible not to and he was warned three times before being thrown out. You can't not touch them though! He wasn't doing it in a bad way, just to make some connection. |
| 6:11
| Pete's favorite food is cupcakes and his wife likes them too. Sometimes he'll make some cupcakes for her. Does he ever make her sit on a cupcake, does that get him off as a chef? There's a JC Penney commercial where a woman is stepping on a cake and it seems hot. You know if they could they'd show her sitting on the cake. |
| 6:12
| There's a great place called Kirsten's in Burr Ridge for cupcakes. It's right near where the Bobak's used to be but now it's something else. |
| 6:13
| Pete has won a gift certificate for The Fifth Floor Pizzeria which you have to assume is on the fifth floor of some building. Hopefully they have an elevator. It's a Lettuce Entertain You restaurant so it has to be good. |
| 6:14
| Steve was in that bikini club with $15,000 he had won at the casino and he still got kicked out. He was the only guy in there too, who would have known? It was two in the afternoon and he was pretty hammered. And he might have had to go coach a Little League game later that day. |
| 6:15
| But Steve got the game and he's pretty sure the team won. That was year Steve coached two teams for Matt and Pat. Matt's team was good but Pat's wasn't. |
| 6:16
| The only reason Steve coached Pat's team is because if he didn't, all the kids from their town wouldn't have a team to play on. Steve didn't really get to draft any players because all the other coaches are almost professional youth coaches. So they spent all year scheming and plotting which players to draft. And Steve got all the kids from his town. |
| 6:17
| Steve was able to draft kids for Matt's team and they did better. Steve wasn't supposed to keep stats for the team but he did anyway. Kids want to know how they're doing. |
| 6:18
| That was also the year that Steve was arrested at a game and when Janet got him paired up with another dad. She just told this guy Steve needed help coaching so he was stuck with him for 12 weeks. |
| 6:24
| Caller Lanette has the same problem with spray butter that Steve does. When you tilt it down to spray it you lose some of butter coming out. |
| 6:25
| If you tilt it down the pump is no longer primed. But if you're holding your food up then the kids are spraying each other. |
| 6:26
| Lanette's family used the spray on Easter when they had waffles and you can stand those up and get the butter into every hole. Hey hey hey! Corn works too because you can stand that up. |
| 6:27
| Steve might just go back to regular butter though. It won't make any difference, he weighs 305 pounds. Lanette imagines that the spray can't be good for you. It tastes like butter but there are no calories, how is that possible? |
| 6:28
| Steve's looking at the bottle and after some normal-sounding ingredients like soy and cream it starts getting into the stuff he can't pronounce. |
| 6:29
| Live read: Hawk Ford |
| 6:30
| Maybe Hawk Ford is where Buzz gets his Mustang. Those Mustangs look sweet. Steve will buy Buzz a Ford Mustang, buy him a Ford Mustang, buy him a Ford Mustang, if he just gives Steve some of his love. That's a blues song isn't it? |
| 6:31
| Buzz has never heard that song. It wasn't a come on by the way. It sounds like Led Zeppelin to Buzz. Steve's going to look it up because he has 3 1/2 hours to kill. You gotta love the iTunes. What did DJs do before iTunes? |
| 6:32
| Steve has looked up "Ford Mustang" on iTunes and found some weird French song. It's kind of cool though. There are several versions of it. Maybe Steve doesn't know what he's talking about. |
| 6:33
| It might be a Donovan song and Steve's pretty sure we've been through this before. This has a deja vu feel to it. Usually Mark Czerniec has the info but he hasn't called in for any knowledge lording. |
| 6:34
| Steve found the song, it's Donovan. It still has a Led Zeppelin feel to Buzz. This song was way before Led Zeppelin. It's called Hey Gyp (Dig the Slowness). Whoa! That's one high cowboy there. Hail Atlantis! |
| 6:35
| According to iTunes Steve has downloaded the song already. He wouldn't mind hearing the entire thing actually. If he plays it a second time he's now down to 50¢ a spin. |
| 6:36
| When Steve's computer crashed some of the files were recovered and put on the new computer. But not all of the iTunes songs made it over. His computer thinks he has them but Steve needs to physically locate them and he doesn't have time to do that on the air. |
| 6:37
| There's a part of Steve that wants to make The Judge (Adam) locate all of Steve's iTunes music. He's probably too busy fingering out new ways for Steve to spend money. Adam wants half a million to make a DVD. And the bobbleheads are going to be silver because Adam likes to do it right. |
| 6:38
| Steve calls down to The Judge. He's sitting in his office but one lamp on. You know why he keeps the lights off? As a kid he was afraid of the dark. It's a prevarication Mr. Hobbs, a canard. |
| 6:39
| There's no way for Adam to find all the missing songs at once, it's something he has to do on a song-by-song basis. Steve will just have to buy it again but then his cost per spin goes back up to 99¢. |
| 6:40
| Does Buzz still want to hear this thing? It's become a tortured process for Steve and he assumes everyone else too. |
| 6:41
| Steve still blames Adam and Ed, they were in charge of the computer recovery. They don't seem too concerned about getting his songs back though. |
| 6:42
| Song: Hey Gyp (Dig the Slowness), Donovan |
| 6:44
| There might be an LSD reference in there somewhere, with the sugar cube and the trip. That's probably how you get a song called Hey Gyp about loving your shirt. It's a good song though. |
| 6:50
| Live read: Townstone Financial |
| 6:51
| Alright time for the web poll. Yesterday's question was "have you ever been to Crobar?" 80% of the people said yes which is surprising to Buzz. And the "yes" option is red again. Isn't it supposed to be green? |
| 6:52
| Sometimes it's red and sometimes it's green. Ed seems really unstable lately. It might be the lack of poontang. We'll have to fix that. |
| 6:53
| Buzz is wondering what the results of this web poll reflect. Is that our audience? Steve doesn't care what it reflects, he just wants the yes in green and the no in red. |
| 6:54
| Today's web poll question is "could you live in 350 square feet?" This is from yesterday's Red Eye. |
| 6:55
| Cramped quarters can have big financial and environmental payoffs. Steve gets the financial aspect but not the environmental aspect. |
| 6:56
| When Gareth and Tara Dawson moved into their Buena Park three years ago it was a nightmare. Gareth? What kind of name is that? |
| 6:57
| The Dawsons have a 350 square food, three-room studio. It has a kitchen, sitting room, living area, bathroom and closet that they've turned into a space for their dog. |
| 6:58
| Their apartment works for them with clothing stored in IKEA closets and baskets for towel and winter gear underneath their queen-sized bed. Why not just go back to college and live in a dorm? Who would want to admit that they live like this? They're actually posing in a photo. |
| 6:59
| The condo cost $96,000 in September of 2005. Where is Buena Park? Isn't that pricey real estate? After making the purchase they had money left to redo the bathroom and customize their place with stainless-steel appliances. Stainless-steel E-Z-Bake oven maybe! |
| 7:00
| 350 square feet, that's like the size of Steve's studio. Would you want to live in there? That's like the size of a hotel room. They're moving to a 700 square foot place in the West Loop soon. That's not much bigger is it? That's the size of a junior suite. |
| 7:01
| Buzz remembers his first place when he got to Chicago, it was about 350 square feet. But that's all you needed back then. A place to sleep and a place to get high, that's it. |
| 7:02
| Caller Mark wanted to let Steve know that Buena Park is north near Uptown. It's a nice place to live and he has 1,000 square feet. |
| 7:03
| Who would want to live in 350 square feet and who would want to admit it? The guy is dressed like Jim kid and Pete. When is Tara going to realize what a loser Gareth is? |
| 7:04
| News with Buzz |
| 7:05
| American may have to cancel more flights today as they check their planes for wiring problems. That's probably a good idea. Better to cancel flights than have them crash. |
| 7:06
| Steve's pretty sure those planes that were grounded are the ones that have no forms of entertainment at all. The only thing you can do is sit there and try to look up the flight attendants skirt when she's in the jump seat. |
| 7:07
| The shuttle Endeavour landed safely in Florida last night and Buzz has some audio. It sounds like the beginning of Back in the U.S.S.R. |
| 7:08
| Former New York governor Eliot Spitzer has been identified as a client of another high-priced escort service. Records show he was a client of Wicked Models. Are they still up-and-running? Steve is trying to get to their website and it's not there any more. |
| 7:09
| Actress Mia Farrow is trying to bring attention to the genocide in Darfur during the opening ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics. She'll be broadcasting from Darfur during the opening ceremonies. |
| 7:10
| Huh? What does Darfur have to do with China? Steve didn't know they were involved, is Mia Farrow just making that up because she saw Hotel Rwanda. Why is China involved in Darfur, what's their interest? |
| 7:11
| It's been tried before but no one has been able to pry the unreleased Guns 'n Roses album Chinese Democracy from Axl Rose's hands. Dr. Pepper has come up with a challenge to Axl. If he releases the album in 2008 the company will give a free can of the soda to everyone in America excluding former Guns members Slash and Buckethead. Huh? |
| 7:12
| Axl responded on the band's website that he's happy to have the support of Dr. Pepper but it didn't prompt him to release the album early. For some reason Steve thought Buzz was talking about actual Democracy in China. |
| 7:13
| Axl has burned through $13 million recording this album. It probably doesn't sound good after this many years. Their last album came out in 1991, that's 17 years! |
| 7:14
| He's never going to release that album though, he's officially gone Brian Wilson. And the album has to be worse every time he goes back to do it over. Brendan is anxiously awaiting it though. |
| 7:15
| Buzz is wondering if Brendan knows the word on the street about the album. Does he really think Brendan knows the word on the street? Axl has been talking about releasing the album every year since 2000. It's never going to happen. |
| 7:16
| Steve has the feeling that a lot of the great Guns songs were co-written by Slash. He must have had something to do with it. Then he was replaced by Buckethead. |
| 7:17
| Axl could have just kept the $13 million and stayed at home doing nothing. Or he could have bought a recording studio for $1 million. |
| 7:18
| A jury has found a Texas man guilty by reason of insanity for attempting to microwave his 2-month old daughter. The man says he was called by God to move from Arkansas to Galveston, Texas where the incident occurred in a hotel room. Steve heard that he also tried to keep her in the freezer and somewhere else but he can't remember where. |
| 7:19
| Stacy Peterson's sister said yesterday that no one will find her alive. They won't rest until her body is recovered and brought home though. They're preparing to launch a new search as the weather warms up. |
| 7:20
| They also have some promotional materials, like a Stacy Peterson bumper sticker. To make it even more fun, if you're seen with a Stacy bumper sticker on your car on the weekend you could be stopped and given a "Where's Stacy?" t-shirt. So they've got a Stacy Peterson prize patrol going out? Nice! Shouldn't they be looking for Stacy and not bumper stickers? |
| 7:21
| Meanwhile Drew is currently vacationing at a water park in Wisconsin. Is that in The Dells? |
| 7:22
| Herb Peterson, inventor of the Egg McMuffin died on Tuesday at his home in California. Peterson came up with the idea in 1972 as McDonald's signature breakfast item. |
| 7:24
| At the age of 93 actor Richard WIdmark has passed away. He made his debut in the 1947 film Kiss of Death. |
| 7:25
| Buzz has a tribute to Richard Widmark although he doesn't have it yet. Widmark sort of invented the crazed, over-the-top psychopath killer. Buzz will debut the tribute as soon as he gets the tape. It's not Jim's fault though, Buzz didn't tell him what he wanted. |
| 7:26
| Buzz thinks Richard Widmark was one of the greatest. Obviously he is, Buzz is doing a tribute to him, or having other people do it. A considerable amount of man hours have already been expended. Buzz was struck by the news just prior to nap time. God forbid he go get the DVD himself. Buzz is more of an empresario in this tribute, he's the idea man. Meanwhile everyone else is scouring the city for the Kiss of Death DVD. Buzz actually has the movie but it's in storage in his building. |
| 7:27
| He called Mary who called Stephanie to find the movie. And Pete and Jim were involved. That's Being Buzz Kilman! He sends all these people to find the movie when he has it all along. But he needs to take a nap. |
| 7:28
| And Steve's probably going to get billed for his, cab fares and the cost of the movie. All so Buzz could take a nap! |
| 7:29
| Steve calls down to the newsroom to see how the tribute is coming along. Jim was awaiting some editing instructions from Buzz. Steve imagines that's where he really shines. |
| 7:30
| Steve can see Buzz sitting there, asking Jim to shave a few frames off here, maybe colorize it even though it's on the radio. Is there any way Jim can CGI Buzz into the background of the scene? |
| 7:36
| Good news Buzz, we have the tribute ready. Apparently young Jim was a little concerned. You know he's a film fan. |
| 7:37
| The chain of command as Steve sees it is that Buzz emails Mary who then calls Jim. Mary doesn't buy DVDs but she figured Jim does. But then Jim sort of went into a tizzy because he didn't know what Buzz wanted. |
| 7:38
| Jim was probably remembering the Charlton Heston tribute that Buzz had him put together a few years ago. It was supposed to be a career-retrospective but Buzz lost interest after Soylent Green. He doesn't agree with his stance on guns anyway! |
| 7:39
| Buzz doesn't remember why he was doing the Charlton Heston tribute. Jim thought it was because Heston announced he had Alzheimer's. Buzz remembers it now, the tagline was "we remember because he can't." It was very high concept. |
| 7:40
| Steve calls down to the weather center. He doesn't want to accidentally dial The Judge again. One more smart-aleck comment from Adam and he is out the window. It's like he's running the place! |
| 7:41
| Adam can't be bothered now anyway, he's trying to order Steve Dahl bobbleheads made out of a very expensive kind of Swiss cheese. |
| 7:42
| Well Steve has the tribute ready to play. Buzz feels Steve will know this scene. It the one they've been playing in all the news coverage but without the audio. You need to have that audio though. Steve will let Jim go so he can kick back and enjoy his work. |
| 7:43
| Steve plays the Richard Widmark tribute. You can't play that audio on the news! It'll scare kids! Steve does have to say that it was worth all the effort though. |
| 7:44
| Buzz would like to thank the entire team for putting this together, even though the movie was in his basement storage locker the whole time. He can't go down and look for it, there might be rodents. Buzz needed his nap anyway. |
| 7:45
| Steve has actually been trying not to nap in the afternoons. Everyday feels like two days now because there's the show and then there's going home and being there in the afternoon. So it's like a 14 day week although Steve's not complaining. |
| 7:46
| He's actually getting a lot done in the afternoons though. Yesterday the air conditioning guy came buy. All Steve had to do was make it until 2 when the guy was supposed to show up. But because Steve had the afternoon free he was able to sit down with the guy and go through everything. And he's coming back today with another guy to work some the air conditioner. |
| 7:47
| Steve's very excited about it though. As Buzz knows heating and air conditioning are very important to him. On that hour when everyone is supposed to turn off all their lights and appliances, Steve is turning everything on. |
| 7:48
| What is the point of that anyway? All it proves is that we can sit in the dark for an hour. Then what do you do? Just sit there in the dark? |
| 7:49
| Steve's sick of all this Green stuff anywhere, it came out of nowhere too. There's a hockey game the night of this thing, Steve wants to watch that. This seems like the perfect time for a crime spree though, everyone's lights will be out. |
| 7:50
| Earth Hour is an international event, sponsored by an Australian environmental lobby and the Sydney Herald. It's in Australia! |
| 7:51
| People are being asked to turn off lights and non-essential appliances. Does the TV get grandfathered in? Steve feels it's an essential appliance. |
| 7:52
| Well apparently we're participating in this thing in Chicago and at the Prudential Building. This is probably where Adam will turn the lights on in his office. |
| 7:53
| The whole thing is fake. They've got poster boards in the building lobby to show they're participating but this building couldn't waste more electricity. |
| 7:54
| Live read: Woodfield Nissan |
| 8:01
| Live read: The Little Guys |
| 8:02
| Caller Mike has been listening since the WLS days. Mike's wife works in the building, in the largest law firm in the world. |
| 8:03
| MIke's wife has been with the firm for 15 years and they asked her and other employees to come in on Saturday night and turn off all the lights in their office. Sounds like a party! |
| 8:04
| Mike can't believe they're paying all of these lawyers to come in on a Saturday night just to turn the lights off. His wife refused to do it though. |
| 8:05
| Mike is with Steve, he's turning all his lights on. Steve might even go with the generator too. It's not efficient energy and it's polluting with the engine. He might turn all of his cars on too and just let them run. |
| 8:06
| Mike's wife works for Baker McKenzie but they're in the old Prudential building, the one with the windows that look like portholes on a cruise ship. |
| 8:07
| She's not in Prudential 2 though, the fifth tallest building in the city, 11th tallest in the world. |
| 8:08
| There's another big firm in Prudential 2 and Steve's always glad that he's not getting off on that floor. The only reason he'd be off on that floor is if something bad happened or if he had a good idea for an intellectual property lawyer. |
| 8:09
| Steve saw Dennis Hastert ambling into the building a few weeks ago going to that firm. He's a lobbyist or something. |
| 8:10
| And of course Dan Webb is representing that Kwame Kilpatrick guy. He did get George Ryan only 6 years in prison. If you're George Ryan you have to be happy it wasn't more. And you're in a prison close to your house. |
| 8:11
| Buzz thought he represented Conrad Black as well. Is that another research project he'd like someone to embark on? Steve's looking at the Winston & Strawn website, they probably don't list the wins and losses right? |
| 8:12
| Caller Lady Jane is a candlemaker. Is she a hippy too? She sees turning the lights off at 8 on Saturday as a good marketing campaign. Steve will take a candle from Lady Jane. Does she smell like patchouli oil? |
| 8:13
| Steve tried to get pot from Bob and Ron, he couldn't have dropped any more hints yesterday. He still ate a lot yesterday and he didn't even have the munchies. |
| 8:14
| Steve knows that Buzz is trying to talk to him but his mic is off. He's missed the last 4 or 5 statements. |
| 8:15
| Steve has to interrupt this call for a bulletin coming in. Wally Phillips has passed away at the age of 83. Steve ended up going to Wally Phillips retirement event. |
| 8:16
| Steve certainly made fun of Wally over the years. When Steve first got here everyone was listening to Wally. Adults and kids! It was Squaresville. Fred Winston was the hippest guy around. |
| 8:17
| There was an advertising guy who bet Steve a dinner at Chez Paul that he couldn't beat Fred WInston in the ratings. That's the restaurant featured in Ferris Bueller and Blues Brothers. He did but Steve never got the dinner. |
| 8:18
| So everyone was listening to Wally and all you had to do was get on and point out how lame he was to the kids. Wally actually helped Steve because he talked about what a jerk he was. That just made kids want to listen to Steve more. |
| 8:19
| Steve was just trying to make a living. Off the field he respected Wally. No matter how lame he said it was it's still hard to do. And Wally did it for a totally different generation. |
| 8:20
| Buzz thinks it's safe to say that no one will ever be as popular as Wally was, at least locally. He had 50% of the audience when Steve got here. |
| 8:21
| Nobody at WGN has ever achieved what Wally achieved either. So Wally Phillips is dead at the age of 83. Steve might have to go Oh, Wally after the break. He and Steve completely made up though. Steve has some funny stories about Wally. |
| 8:22
| There was one time when Steve and Garry appeared on Jay Levine's late-night weekend show. He taped it during the week, everyone sat around in bean bag chairs. |
| 8:23
| Wally was in the same building as the studio, possibly also on Jay's show and they ended up in the elevator together. Maybe Steve and Garry were doing their own show and Wally was on Jay's show. |
| 8:24
| Wally carried this safe around, it had the name of a B-movie actress in it and for 30 years people would call in and try to guess who it was. Everyday people were guessing, it was the easiest running radio bit ever. |
| 8:25
| At the beginning of the elevator ride Steve introduced himself and Wally said "Oh, that's too bad." It made for a very awkward elevator ride. Steve and Garry just stood there staring at each other, wide-eyed. It seemed like the elevator ride took forever. |
| 8:29
| Steve was wrong about Ferris Bueller, that was not at Chez Paul. Steve calls down to the traffic center. Jim says the restaurant in Ferris Bueller was Chez Quis, like Shakeys. Steve's still counting that, it's just a John Hughes send-up of Chez Paul. |
| 8:30
| As Steve mentioned before the break Wally Phillips died either today or yesterday at the age of 83. |
| 8:31
| And Dan Webb was not Conrad Black's attorney. But he is Kwame Kilpatrick's lawyer. He's also a fan of the show. Dan Webb, not Kwame Kilpatrick. |
| 8:32
| Now it says Wally Phillips was 82 but the Tribune said 83. Is he going to be 81 next? |
| 8:33
| Song: Oh, Wally, Steve Dahl |
| 8:36
| When you hear a song like that you wonder what the person was on when they wrote it. Steve knows what he was on. That was quite a concept. |
| 8:37
| Does Buzz want to hear some Wallbanger? Steve's got some archives of him. |
| 8:38
| That was Wally talking to a supposed bank robber. It could have been fake though, Wally did a lot of fake calls. One thing he used to do was call a woman and tell her that the banquet hall she booked for her wedding wasn't available and they would have to cancel. |
| 8:39
| How about Wally celebrating Goof-Off Day with a series of candid phone calls? When Steve hears this it sort of reminds him of the manic Garry Meier that was on WCKG. |
| 8:40
| The first call he takes on Goof-Off Day is from a guy who just woke up and doesn't really have any ideas for Goof-Off Day. Great first call to put through! Was that Brendan's dad screening calls for Wally? |
| 8:41
| Then Wally asks the guy to tell him about himself. Steve and Buzz need to do more of that. Suddenly Wally doesn't look so bad when you compare him to a lot of the crap on the radio. |
| 8:42
| There you go, this first caller with no ideas just graduated from college. And this is in 1984. |
| 8:43
| So this is the kind of listener who's left. He just graduated from college, he works at a gas station and he wants to get some sun in his backyard when it's 32º out. |
| 8:44
| Wally still had a lot of listeners left in 1984 though so Steve doesn't really feel guilty about taking some of them away. |
| 8:45
| It's time for the Eight O'Clock Taco Bell. Caller Barry is Steve's lunch date today. Barry sounds like the guy who called Wally Phillips in 1984. What can Barry tell us about himself? |
| 8:46
| Barry is having a soft taco fresca and a Cheesy Beefy Melt. He'll either have a Pibb Extra or a Mountain Dew depending on what he feels like. What is Pibb Extra? They've just renamed Mr. Pibb which is probably a good idea. Mr. Pibb doesn't sound great next to Dr. Pepper. He doesn't even have a degree! |
| 8:52
| The episode of King of Queens that drop came from was just on the other day. Steve meant to tell Pete what it was but he forgot. |
| 8:53
| Steve actually did tell Pete about it last week but he didn't know what it was, only that they referenced something that he talks about occasionally. Well Pete still gets credit, that was pretty vague. That's what Steve means by living 2 days everyday. |
| 8:54
| Steve's favorite part of the day is when King of Queens is on WCIU. He's pretty happy with the rotation they've got there, he doesn't tape the other King of Queens reruns. |
| 8:55
| In general Steve doesn't TiVo reruns, it's more like catch-as-catch-can. But there are still a lot of episodes of Seinfeld that he's never seen. |
| 8:56
| Live read: Joebees |
| 8:57
| With a name like Buzz he should think about becoming a bee. Does Buzz have a stinger? Isn't his wife 40 years younger than him? He has to have a stinger to pull something like that off. |
| 8:58
| Joe heard Steve mention he's not napping any more, it's because of the bee pollen. He doesn't need naps any more. |
| 8:59
| Does Buzz want to hear some more Wally Phillips? It's kind of fun. Steve has to go back to the beginning with this caller Wally was talking to. |
| 9:00
| It's Goof-Off Day and Wally is taking calls with ideas of what to do on Goof-Off Day. |
| 9:01
| Mike is 23 and he's working at a gas station in Wilmette. He sounds like he's 63 though. And this is 1984! |
| 9:02
| Wally asks a female listener to go over to the gas station and wish Mike a happy birthday. He says Mike is a good-looking guy but how does he know? |
| 9:03
| You see why Steve had to make fun of this right? It sounds like Wally is working this next female caller. He is the Wallbanger! |
| 9:04
| Is Buzz taking notes? Call people up and give them $100 for a charity. Here people call the show and we give them $100. |
| 9:05
| Back then you used to be able to just call people on the air and talk to them. Now we have to call the person in advance and tell them we're putting them on the air. |
| 9:06
| Steve has to say on behalf of Wally Phillips that this audio clip is edited to take out news, traffic and commercials. So he's not just repeating the same joke over and over. Once again, Wally Phillips is dead at the age of 82. |
| 9:07
| Wally is trying to find a guy named Green because he sees signs on the expressway on-ramps that say "Wait for Green" and Wally does and Green never comes. |
| 9:08
| The guy Wally calls doesn't get the joke at first. Wally's going over the heads of his listeners. But then Mr. Green just starts rolling with it. |
| 9:09
| Maybe Steve didn't get Wally, it's possible. He might have missed the whole thing Wally was doing. It's genius! |
| 9:10
| Then Wally tells Mrs. Green that he's from the Pot O' Gold Radio Program. You definitely can't call and misrepresent yourself. |
| 9:11
| Steve never called people out of the blue like this, it seemed to easy. But he knows that Buzz worked with someone who did it. |
| 9:12
| Buzz used to do it when he was in Florida. He remembers calling animal control and getting a half hour explanation of how to store you dog in a freezer. |
| 9:13
| This is before three-way calling too. Wally came up with three-way calling. Maybe Steve just didn't get it! |
| 9:20
| "Should have kept the afterbirth and thrown away the baby" that's what Wally once said about Steve. Steve's not sure where that's from but it was some interview or public appearance that was taped. |
| 9:21
| Does Buzz want to go back to The Banger? Wally passed away and Steve and Buzz are enjoying some vintage Wally. He might have been a genius. "Throw away the afterbirth and keep the baby" was a pretty good insult too. You don't say that on WGN, it's pretty hardcore. |
| 9:22
| Wally was a genius! Steve was young and stupid, he didn't recognize it. This is a revelation! |
| 9:23
| In this clip Wally is calling a woman in Atlanta, he's got her brother on the phone. He's going to tell the woman that he ran into her brother and he said his sister would let him and his family stay at her place while he was there on business. |
| 9:24
| Wally calls identifying himself as Al Cheathem, traveling salesman Genius! Wally is talking to the sister's father-in-law. The old man is a goldmine. |
| 9:25
| What makes it freakier is when Wally says it's him, his wife, 7 kids and a great dane. |
| 9:26
| Another caller has a relative in Atlanta as well. So Wally's cold-calling Atlanta on this day. |
| 9:27
| Steve's glad he made up with Wally. Now that he's listening to this stuff he realizes Wally is a genius! |
| 9:28
| The people calling up are idiots and Wally's doing the best he can with it. The callers are raging idiots but Wally's just working for himself. And you can tell he's doing that. |
| 9:29
| The second Atlanta call doesn't work out quite as well, the woman doesn't answer. You think Wally blows up off the air about that? It's Goof-Off Day but he's not goofing around. |
| 9:30
| The next caller Wally talks to is a woman working at a Remax office in Arlington Heights. |
| 9:31
| Steve imagines you don't want to get yelled at by Wally. He has to keep that edge off the air but imagine off the air. |
| 9:32
| Steve can say whatever he wants and he's still off his rocker on the air. |
| 9:33
| Buzz is fascinated by the fact that Wally married the same woman 3 times. He'd like to know how that happened. |
| 9:34
| Steve remembers that that woman was in a pretty bad car accident a few years back. He's not sure if they were married at the time or if that caused them to remarry. |
| 9:35
| Wally really sounds like Garry Meier here. It has a Garry Meier feel to it. Buzz can hear it too. |
| 9:36
| Wally's got another bad number this woman gave him. The person is not home at 9:45 in the morning. He probably went nuts off the air. |
| 9:38
| Of course when you get the call in the morning and someone is saying "I'm sorry to be bothering you" you think someone is dead. |
| 9:39
| In this call Wally is still trying to get a place to stay, this time in Lexington, Kentucky. |
| 9:40
| Wally has tapped into March Madness here because the basketball tournament is going on down there. |
| 9:41
| It's such a benign call too, it doesn't even seem mean. The guy was a genius! |
| 9:42
| There's just a few more minutes so Steve is going to play the rest of it. |
| 9:44
| Wally says he has 8 kids and a great dane. He slips that one in at the very end. |
| 9:49
| Wally was a genius! He's got this woman on the ropes and then he finishes her off. Turns out his wife has her "moods" and they're unpredictable. |
| 9:50
| The man was a genius, Steve just didn't understand it. Apologies. |
| 9:51
| Live read: Woodfield Nissan |
| 9:57
| That was Wally at a press conference comparing Steve to Hitler. So Hitler and afterbirth. |
| 9:58
| Wally passed away yesterday in Florida. Steve and Buzz have been enjoying some of his fine work. Turns out Wally was a genius and he was only hampered by his audience. It's clear he was doing that for himself but his audience bought into it. |
| 9:59
| Live read: Hawthorne Racecourse |
