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| 5:31
| Goooooooooood morning everyone! Steve gets a lot of emails about the music he uses at the beginning of the show. It's different everyday, that's how we roll. |
| 5:32
| Plus why would Steve tell a listener what the music is? He'd be giving away a trade secret. No he won't tell you the name of that song Eric! Nor will he tell you Spike O'Dell! |
| 5:33
| Steve has to say he likes the Sammy Hagar version of Van Halen the best. Buzz likes David Lee Roth for some weird reason. He just likes that lounge singer thing that David Lee Roth was doing for a short time. Why doesn't he just go check out Louis Prima? Or he could go see Ron Hawking do his lounge singer show at the old Jenny Jones theater. |
| 5:34
| If Buzz were to attempt to get into Steve's office right now he'd find it locked. Steve had to put the office on lockdown. As Buzz probably knows, Tina left us for smaller and worser things a few weeks ago. Steve doesn't wish her any ill will though. But if you leave you're usually dead to Steve. |
| 5:35
| One thing that came out of Tina leaving is that Steve found out that The Parthenon had great gyros. He might go over there today and get some since he'll be in the neighborhood. Buzz thought Steve was touting something else from The Parthenon when he was talking about it last week. It was the chicken, which Buzz had. It's all coming back to him now. |
| 5:36
| Last week Tina was leaving at the same time that Steve did. She said "see, I'm here all morning so you don't have to lock your office." Steve was sort of just kidding about locking the door but he said "I had to wait until you left so I could go." Then Tina got mad at him. Even though Tina isn't in Steve's employ she still says the wrong things. |
| 5:37
| Then Tina launched into a show in the elevator about how bad the weather was. Buzz loves the elevator shows. She was wondering aloud why we live here. Steve knows why he lives here, because he made a buttload of money and he actually likes the weather. |
| 5:38
| What's the big hubbub about the weather anyway? It's like this every spring, cold, then warm, then cold. It was 60º yesterday and it's supposed to be in the 30s today. |
| 5:39
| That traffic reporter on WBBM told drivers to steer with both hands on the wheel. Where is this guy? If he's in the building Steve needs to have a word with him. |
| 5:40
| Although based on Steve's driving today everyone is driving pretty crazy out there. Steve doesn't think he's a bad or crazy driver, he's more like a road monitor. You know in those TV commercials where they say "professional driver do not attempt", Steve's the professional driver. |
| 5:41
| On Friday Steve brought in a bunch of cookies from the local bakery. Steve's been frequenting the bakery, and not just for the high school girls. He was going to dinner at his neighbor's house so he brought a cake and accidentally bought a dozen of his favorite cookies. That was a mistake as he learned later. |
| 5:42
| Steve brought the cookies in and everyone was welcome to have one. Steve had one, he gave one to Buzz and Mary had one. It took Mary all morning to eat her cookie. She started on the chocolate eyes and worked from there. |
| 5:43
| But Steve went to get a cookie yesterday and there were only 2 1/4 left. That 1/4 is what really bothered Steve. Just take the whole thing! Steve would never just eat part of the cookie. |
| 5:44
| Steve's going to run through the rest of the staff to see if anyone else had one. Pete did not have one although he's welcome to one. But he wouldn't leave just a quarter of the cookie would he? Brendan didn't have one either. |
| 5:45
| Steve calls up to the office but Stephanie is not in. Hopefully she's getting Steve something tasty. Steve calls down to the newsroom. Jim did not have a cookie either. He doesn't even go up to the office and we like it that way. We don't need Jim up there in his too-tight t-shirt lording his knowledge of...his extensive knowledge of TV shows over everyone. |
| 5:46
| Jim is certainly welcome to a cookie as well. If he did eat one he wouldn't leave the whole thing would he? He'd power the entire cookie down, they're really good. Steve loves those cookies which is why he brought the box in. He didn't want to eat all of them. |
| 5:47
| Actually Steve might have eaten 2 cookies before he came in so we started with 10 and then went down to 7. But still someone else ate those other cookies. |
| 5:48
| Steve calls down to Adam's office. He didn't even know the cookies where here. We don't need Adam up in the office either, he acts like he owns the place, bossing everyone around. How are those travel mugs selling by the way? |
| 5:49
| The mugs are actually selling very well. There were a lot of orders made before the mugs even came in. Steve noticed they're being shipped out in huge boxes though. You could ship a baby in that box! Whatever money Steve is making on the mugs he's losing in bubble wrap. It might have been Tina who ordered those big boxes. |
| 5:50
| Steve calls back up to the office. He wants to get to the bottom of this. Stephanie only had one cookie as well and it was a full cookie. |
| 5:51
| So you can see why Steve had to lock the office down. If it's not Tina then it's people from WBBM-AM coming in to eat Steve's food. |
| 5:52
| Steve keeps forgetting that the office door is locked though. He leaves the office and then forgets something and when he comes back in he forgets it's locked. Then he goes to the bathroom and when he comes back he forgets it's locked. Steve would really like to get a keycard reader for the office. |
| 5:53
| He doesn't mean to sound like Humphrey Bogart in The Caine Mutiny here but if you're going to take a cookie just eat the whole thing! The same thing happened in the office with half a bear claw too but Steve ate that. Then he got sick or made himself sick. |
| 5:54
| So we're on lockdown although Buzz hardly noticed. That's because he never comes up to the office. He's welcome to come up and hang out though, maybe talk about ideas for the show. Buzz could pitch him on his News Cavalcade idea. |
| 5:58
| Steve would like to say that he's just kidding about all that but he's really not. He spent a half hour yesterday quizzing everyone about the cookies. He really is like Humphrey Bogart in The Caine Mutiny. Steve's a leader though, you have to be like that. |
| 5:59
| Caller Rick points out last night's Two and a Half Men, which featured the little kid eating half a bear claw. Steve likes that show but he didn't see all of it last night. He also likes that Big Bang Theory although it wasn't that funny last night. |
| 6:00
| Even in your own house you shouldn't leave half of something. Steve's boys are big on eating down to the bottom of a potato chip bag but not finishing it off so they don't have to throw it out. |
| 6:01
| Tyrone's checking in with some traffic. It's an action-packed show so far Buzz. We're having trouble reaching Tyrone. He might be out of range, maybe he's down at the hotel fire in Lockport. |
| 6:02
| Alright Tyrone is here and he is down in Lockport. That's Tyrone's feed that CNN is using. He went to Best Buy and got a camera and then strapped it to the bottom of the choptater with some bungee cord. |
| 6:03
| The fire is at the Towpath Inn which sounds very white. It actually sounds Native American but then the name was stolen by white people. The Dreams Sports Bar is also connected to the building. |
| 6:04
| Tyrone is wondering if the fire started in the hotel or the bar. He's always interested in the point-of-origin of a fire. If it weren't for his criminal record he would have become a fire fighter. A word of advice, don't steal a car and then kill someone. It'll stay with you for the rest of your life. |
| 6:05
| So if you had plans to go to the Dreams Sports Bar, make other arrangements because it's on fi-yah! The building is pancaking in on itself which just makes Tyrone hungry for pancakes. |
| 6:06
| The Dreams Sports Bar, is that like Field of Dreams? Tyrone heard Steve talking about that Smithe Brothers commercials yesterday, where live black men come out of the ivy and the wall at Wrigley Field. |
| 6:07
| First of all you can't come through a wall like that. You can come through corn because you can walk through it. And you can't come through if you're still alive. |
| 6:08
| Steve doesn't even know if they had sprinklers in that hotel, it might be an old historic hotel and they don't have to have them. |
| 6:09
| Call Steve old fashioned but he prefers to say in a hotel with sprinklers. And if they did have sprinklers they should get their money back. The whole point of sprinklers is to put out fires. |
| 6:10
| Well historic Lockport might have gotten a little less historic with this fire. |
| 6:18
| Caller Billy is in Lockport. The Towpath Inn is sort of a low-end hotel, it's actually above the sports bar. So it's the kind of place you take chicks that you meet in the sports bar and nail them. |
| 6:19
| They just remodeled Dreams Sports Bar though and put in plasma TVs so it was actually a good place. But the hotel is not a high-end bed and breakfast or anything. |
| 6:20
| Steve's sorry Billy lost his sports bar. Did he know they make those TVs out of human plasma? |
| 6:21
| There's a lot of noise in the background on Billy's phone, what's going on out there. Billy has called before, he's an electrician at O'Hare. Steve thought he said obstetrician at O'Hare. |
| 6:22
| Steve has mentioned how impressed he is with the lighting in the parking garage. There's a light bulb every 2 inches. |
| 6:23
| Buzz is seeing that commuter trains coming into downtown from the Northern Suburbs were halted after a pedestrian was hit near Clybourn. It's a commuter nightmare this morning! |
| 6:24
| That's a Metra train, not an L train. So there's no actual stop there, other than stopping because the person was hit. Why do the trains have to stop? The person has already been hit? |
| 6:25
| Steve is 53 years old and he's never been hit by a train. He's never even come close to it. And Buzz is 63 and he's probably never come close. |
| 6:26
| Buzz actually did come close, him and his friends used to do crazy things with trains as kids. Was he on heroin, trainspotting? |
| 6:27
| Steve never wanted to take on any trains. Even if they put a penny on the track them got far away from it because they were told it would derail the train. |
| 6:28
| Caller Kathy wanted to let Steve know that there's a Metra stop at Clybourn, it's the North Line to Kenosha. People run across the tracks all the time trying to catch the train. Kathy has done it herself. Young lady! |
| 6:29
| Kathy takes that train in, how long is it going to be delayed now? Steve and Buzz don't know that kind of stuff. She's lucky they even reported this story. Sometimes they miss stuff like this. |
| 6:30
| Kathy might have to drive in now. She likes to take the train though although she knows Steve doesn't like public transportation. It's not like Steve doesn't like it, it's just not convenient for him. Although he does enjoy seeing into people's backyards. |
| 6:31
| Driving gives Kathy and hour and a half of listening time with the show. Kathy doesn't have a radio that she can bring on the train. Steve wishes they'd put radios on iPods. |
| 6:32
| Kathy works at UIC and the other day the campus shuttle had the show on. Steve's a former Flame so he's not surprised. |
| 6:33
| Kathy teaches anthropology at UIC. Steve and Buzz love that! They're always digging in Steve's backyard for arrowheads but they never find anything. That's actually archeology, Kathy just watches monkeys. Monkeys smoking cigarettes? Monkeys playing piano? That monkey is a great piano player, too bad he's a chain smoker. |
| 6:34
| Buzz is wondering if Kathy has seen the video online of the elephant painting a picture of an elephant. Buzz is taken in by every hoax video on the internet though. There's no way an elephant can paint a picture of an elephant. |
| 6:35
| Kathy doesn't think that's possible but Buzz watched all 8 minutes. There's no way it can be faked. Doesn't he remember the other video he was taken in by with the two rednecks chasing the guy in the sports car? |
| 6:36
| Elephants can't paint pictures of elephants. Steve's tried to get his dogs to make him dinner and they wouldn't do it. And Buzz watched all 8 minutes of this video? |
| 6:36
| Steve can make fun of Buzz all he wants but he thought anthropology was digging up arrowheads. Kathy says it can be. Archeology is a subdiscipline of anthropology. |
| 6:37
| But Steve thought it was just digging up arrowheads so he doesn't think that counts. But he'd love to come across an arrowhead. The area he lives in was a Potawatomi reservation. It was an old casino too, Steve's found some chips made of stone. |
| 6:38
| Steve's looking at the video of the elephant, it said it was rescued from an abusive treatment in Burma. How abusive can it be, they taught the elephant to paint. What else can elephants do other than paint though? |
| 6:39
| Buzz's name is already in the comment section on YouTube, someone posted that Buzz was right. That's a fast return. |
| 6:40
| Steve's having trouble getting this video going but the latest comment, from 2 minutes ago from FergusMac says "Look! It's an elephant painting another elephant! Buzz was right!" Look at him, influencing pop culture. |
| 6:41
| This elephant does seem to be painting on an easel. And the easel is right in the open, it doesn't seem like you'd be able to fake something. |
| 6:42
| Caller Phil and his girlfriend were in Thailand last year and saw an elephant painting an elephant and a flower. So he's just cranking out the same picture over and over? |
| 6:43
| There's a guy with the elephant who next to it's tusk and they both thought he was giving instructions or cues. Steve can't tell if someone else is there because the video keeps stopping on him. |
| 6:44
| It doesn't seem like this elephant has tusks. Was the guy Phil saw next to the tusk or the trunk? In Steve's mind only guy elephants have tusks. |
| 6:52
| Steve has view the entire elephant video and it's remarkable. But he's seen another video that he'll get to in a minute. |
| 6:53
| Live read: Townstone Financial |
| 6:54
| Didn't Steve talk to David about mentioning his radio show? And yet he always tries to sneak that past him. Why doesn't Steve handle the radio and David handle the loans? |
| 6:55
| It just seems messy for Steve to mention the radio show. It's not like Steve talks about other loan guys. Although that would be career suicide. |
| 6:56
| David did just have a kid and he seems thrown off by that so maybe Steve should cut him some slack. He's really playing up the baby stuff though. For all his bravado |
| 6:57
| OK so back to the elephant painting video. After watching it Steve has discovered that there is no wide shot of the elephant painting. There's no edit in the video but there's no wide shot while the elephant is painting. |
| 6:58
| Steve will now submit to Buzz another elephant painting video which might be disappointing. In this video there's a wide shot for the entire time and there is a guy's hand on the elephant's trunk moving it around. |
| 6:59
| This is not the original video Buzz saw. In the one he saw there's too much shown of the trunk for someone's hand to be guiding it. Elephants can't paint other elephants Buzz! |
| 7:00
| Steve finds it hard to reconcile the fact that Buzz doesn't think a hockey fight is real but he thinks that an elephant can paint a picture of another elephant. That seems unfair to Steve. |
| 7:01
| Steve is looking at Buzz's video again and they're not showing enough of the trunk. It is amazing that an elephant can hold a paint brush though, he'll give him that. |
| 7:02
| Buzz doesn't know what kind of assistance this elephant is getting off-camera but even with that he's still amazed. It's amazing that the elephant is even standing at the easel for that long. |
| 7:03
| Buzz feels the only way to really get to the bottom of this is to attend an elephant painting show. So they'll have to go to Thailand. Buzz can attend the elephant show and Steve will do an exposè on the sex slave trade. |
| 7:04
| Steve is trying to debunk this elephant video. Buzz doesn't think you can debunk a video with another video. But it's a close-up debunked with a wide shot. Buzz doesn't think it's the same because they're two different videos. |
| 7:05
| If Buzz were in New York he could be taken by several Three Card Monty games. Everyone has a different style but it's basically the same game. He could probably even do that on the Metra train, he's heard people run Three Card Monty on there. |
| 7:06
| Steve has played Three Card Monty. They let you win the first few times but if you try to walk away the muscle steps in and tells you to go back. Apparently you can't just walk away and Steve's the type who would walk away with his winnings. |
| 7:07
| Caller Rich is on the treadmill right now, staring at the painting he won while attending Ringling Brothers Circus. It was painted by an elephant and he witnessed the entire thing. |
| 7:08
| It's not a painting of an elephant though, or any other kind of shape. Steve doesn't doubt that an elephant could hold a brush and wave it on a canvas. But it can't paint an actual elephant. Ringling Brothers wouldn't run that scam by people. |
| 7:09
| Steve wouldn't mind seeing a picture of the painting but Rich needs to have all his clothes on in it. He's not looking for one of those Craigslist photos. |
| 7:10
| Has Buzz seen the trailer for that Mark David Chapman movie? Steve's pretty sure it's called Chapter 27 and the guy playing Chapman looks exactly like Steve did in the late 70s. |
| 7:11
| Whoever that guy is could play Steve in the Disco Demolition movie, if someone were making it. He did have to bulk up for the roll which hurts a bit. |
| 7:12
| Jared Leto is playing Mark David Chapman. He could go right from the Chapter 27 set to the Disco Demolition set. |
| 7:13
| Caller Vicki is an English teacher and they teach a book called Water for Elephants. It's about an elephant at a circus who won't perform tricks and is abused. |
| 7:14
| Turns out the elephant was trained in Poland and only responds to Polish commands. So another circus worker who is Polish gets the elephant to do tricks. She won't tell Steve and Buzz the end of the book because she knows they're big readers. |
| 7:15
| But it's not a true story is it? Vicki and Buzz need to go somewhere and share their fake elephant stories. How is that helpful Brendan? Steve thought if maybe the story was true then Buzz would be on to something. Reading is for losers, Vicki knows that doesn't she?! |
| 7:21
| Caller Amy is a zookeeper at Brookfield Zoo. She doesn't work with elephants, she works with gorillas. So does Buzz. She has an elephant painting and both gorillas and elephants are known to paint. |
| 7:22
| Only some gorillas and elephants have the desire to paint but they don't do shapes, it's mostly abstract. The elephant who painted Amy's picture was able to choose her own colors though. |
| 7:23
| None of the gorillas that Amy works with are painters though. Does she like hairy men because she works with gorillas? Is that none of Steve's business? |
| 7:24
| Steve hasn't been to the Brookfield Zoo in a while, he should get out there. The last time he was there he read a kid's story at Christmas. It is Steve's zoo of choice because of the parking. |
| 7:25
| Amy sounded like a sexy zookeeper. It's all happening at the zoo. |
| 7:26
| Alright web poll or news? We've already done some news this morning with the elephants, the pancaking Lockport hotel and the pedestrian hit by the train. |
| 7:27
| Let's do the web poll then. Yesterday's question was "Are you attending opening day at Wrigley Field?" Did Pete end up going to the game? Pete did go with Jim. Steve should probably get him on the phone too. |
| 7:28
| Pete and Jim hung out at Yak-Zies and then went to the game right before it started. Were they throwing their weight around at the bar because we did a remote from their last year? Did they have the wings? It was so crowded that they couldn't get anything. |
| 7:29
| It sounds like Jim blew his voice out a bit. He was yelling a lot after that Fukudome home run. They don't like Brendan any more, they didn't invite him? They did invite Brendan but he had to do the webcast. They told him they were going up there but weren't sure if they were going to the game. |
| 7:30
| Pete was supposed to go to the game with Catman but he never showed up. He probably found a chick and ended up watching the game upside-down. That was a pretty exciting 9th inning though. Seems like that Fukudome guy was worth the money. |
| 7:31
| Steve watched the Sox game and most of the Cubs game. The Sox impressed Steve by never giving up. They showed more hustle yesterday than they did all last year. And they got some bad calls from the umps. The kind of bad calls that make you want instant replay in baseball. |
| 7:32
| Alright today's web poll question is "how do you eradicate weeds?" The options are spray, pull or flame thrower. Of course Steve has a flame thrower that he'll be using. |
| 7:33
| Like people developing resistance to certain medicines and vaccines if they take them too much some crops are beginning to develop resistance to herbicides and other sprays. Steve feels like Orien Samuelson here. Pork bellies are up! |
| 7:34
| This really is a farm report. No wonder Mary told Steve to do this in his farm reporter voice. We don't have any farmers listening do we? |
| 7:35
| Has Buzz seen that commercial for a farm supply store commercial? It's not Farm and Fleet but it's something else. There's a guy in the commercial and you just see his boots and his clothing and he's talking about being rugged and all that stuff. Then they show the guy and he's on a lawn tractor. It's not even a real tractor! |
| 7:36
| It would cost hundreds of millions of dollars to identify, research and test a new herbicide and most companies are unwilling to do this. This article isn't interesting at all. |
| 7:37
| It seems like farmers should be using something more powerful than Round-Up though. Why can't they go back to DDT? It has an old school ring to it. |
| 7:38
| Steve's using a flame thrower for his weeds or the Mexican guys who take care of his lawn. |
| 7:39
| News with Buzz |
| 7:40
| Top oil company bosses will be in the spotlight on Capitol Hill as congress probes them on gas prices. What are they going to do? They'll get probed and then what? |
| 7:41
| Independent truck drivers are expecting to go on strike today over the rising cost of diesel fuel. Gas is $10 a gallon in Europe, seems like we should keep our yapper shut. |
| 7:42
| Barack Obama's Chicago church held a prayer service for their former pastor Jeremiah Wright. Who even cares about this? You go to church and the pastor says some crazy stuff. |
| 7:43
| Meanwhile Hillary Clinton is having trouble paying bills. Jim Phillips of Showtyme Exhibit wasn't paid by the Clinton campaign in February after setting up an event in Ohio. |
| 7:44
| Didn't she raise the most money ever in a day or something? And now she's broke? She had to loan herself some of her own money which is something Steve would not. |
| 7:45
| Diann Burns, Chicago's highest paid anchor, was part of the largest newsroom purge in the city's history. 18 people were let go including Burns, Mark Malone, Mary Ann Childers and several behind-the-scenes people. |
| 7:46
| You know who's a jerk, that Joe Ahern guy at CBS. He's been at CBS for years and he can't seem to make it successful. But he just keeps blaming everyone else. He's the one who hired Diann Burns! |
| 7:47
| He had some great quotes in Phil Rosenthal's column. CBS has to rethink how they do business according to Ahern. What he needs to do is fire himself. |
| 7:48
| Diann Burns left ABC and they just slotted Cheryl Burton in and they're still popular. It's because they spend money to make the news look good. CBS isn't popular because they're sitting around in a tiny desk that looks like a card table. |
| 7:49
| Steve hates Joe Ahern. Back when he and Garry were doing Greetings for Graceland Joe was the sales manager at ABC. He refused to air the special even though it wasn't his station. He refused to sell ads for it. |
| 7:50
| Then the GM, who apparently thinks he takes orders from the sales manager, told Steve he had to edit the special. By the time the special aired Joe was the GM and it was around the same time that they won the Emmy for it. |
| 7:51
| Then Joe is just acting like nothing happened and they were great friends. That's when Steve has to break bad on you. He might have mentioned it in his acceptance speech which is why he was blackballed from the industry. |
| 7:57
| Live read: Joebees |
| 7:58
| This live read has a script it says to read it in the bee voice. That's Joe Bee, he's here with Buzz. |
| 7:59
| Bees sometimes fly commercial and there are passengers hacking and coughing for the whole flight. Steve's being dragged around his own bit here. |
| 8:00
| Back to Buzz in the newsroom. |
| 8:01
| A fire in Lockport at the Towpath Inn has led to service cancellations on the Metra Heritage Quarter line. Metra is urging passengers to seek alternate means of transportation. |
| 8:02
| Steve loves when they add that, as if people couldn't figure it out for themselves. Are people just going to stand at the station waiting for the next train? |
| 8:03
| Roger Ebert is going back to work. In a letter to readers published in the Sun--Times Ebert said he'd begin writing movie reviews again after his Overlooked Film Festival in April. |
| 8:04
| Ebert does use a computerized voice to speak sometimes. He probably has fun choosing the different voices, they have a lot of them on the Macs. Steve can play a few samples for Buzz. |
| 8:05
| Buzz feels that Stephen Hawking has set the standard for computerized talking voices. Steve thinks he might be using the "Fred" voice. |
| 8:06
| So those are some of the voices but Roger probably has more on his computer. You can probably buy better sounding voices but these are what came with Steve's computer. |
| 8:07
| It's time for the Eight O'Clock Taco Bell. Steve and Buzz are having original tacos with mild sauce. |
| 8:08
| Steve's sauce packet says "Ah, we meet again" These sauce packets are so clever. Buzz's is slightly more radical, it says "Will you marry me?" |
| 8:09
| Steve and Buzz should have a taco-eating contest. Buzz feels he could match Steve. They should have Patrick Bertoletti in just so they don't look like pigs. |
| 8:16
| How was that taco Buzz? Buzz almost forgot it was Tuesday and was about to open his fruit granola bar when he realized what day it was. |
| 8:17
| Pat Boyle is coming up in a bit. Steve noticed yesterday that the Sox game was not in HD yesterday. It was in enhanced widescreen though. |
| 8:18
| Hawk said they were having some technical problems. Mercy! Pete doesn't happen to have that does he? He's looking for something else right now. He's cueing up the Fukudome home run and he's completely disinterested. |
| 8:19
| For a while during the game they had the HD logo up on the Sox game but if you switched over to the Cubs game you'd know it wasn't in HD. It looked like the Cubs were playing in Steve's living room. |
| 8:20
| The Indians have a seating area right behind home plate and those seats must cost a fortune. Every time Steve watches a Sox game at Cleveland there's some guy behind the plate waving on his cellphone. Can't you just enjoy the game? Who cares if your friend at home can see you waving? |
| 8:21
| Hawk probably didn't care about the HD, he was mad about other stuff going on in the game. Buzz was getting a lot of emails from people he sort of knows, all excited about Fukudome. Why are they emailing Buzz? |
| 8:22
| He did have a good game but it's only one game. Steve is the more well-known Sox fan though while most people don't know who Buzz roots for. |
| 8:23
| Buzz has some deep anti-Cub hate though and he wouldn't be swayed. Don't people who email him know that though? Steve didn't get a single email about Fukudome yesterday. Was it Pete and Jim and Brendan sending the emails? |
| 8:24
| The only reason Buzz brings it up is because all these people were talking about how it was some sports performance phenomenon. Let's talk to Peanut Butter and see if he has anything to say about it. |
| 8:25
| Steve did get emails from Pat Boyle though, so there Buzz! And they were sort of about Fukudome. Steve emailed him about the HD issue with the Sox game. Does Steve get some sort of discount for that? |
| 8:26
| Steve was able to make out that guy behind home plate in Cleveland on his cellphone. People shouldn't be able to take cellphones into games. If they can't have instant replay to change those bad calls the Sox got then they shouldn't let people bring phones in. |
| 8:27
| It was a bad day on both sides of towns yesterday, a lot of drama in both games. And the blood-alcohol content was probably ratcheted up in the Cubs game because of the rain delay. |
| 8:28
| They had the ceremony before the game for the Ernie Banks statue. Several baseball legends joined Ernie on field including Hank Aaron, Billy Williams, Fergie Jenkins and Jesse Jackson. |
| 8:29
| How did Jesse Jackson get down there? The Tribune are fraidy-cats so they probably just invited Jackson in. |
| 8:30
| Then you've got Wayne Messmer having to introduce himself singing the National Anthem. Steve was wondering yesterday if he was supposed to put his hand on his heart while he was at home. |
| 8:31
| But it seems weird that Jesse was at the game. Maybe he just wanted free tickets to opening day? |
| 8:32
| Caller Russ wanted to let Steve know that Jesse Jackson, along with Mike North, spearheaded the effort to get the Ernie Banks statue put up. Mike North?! |
| 8:33
| Russ didn't want a spin of the prize wheel because he won the bonus prize in January. We don't care about that. But Russ has won the bonus prize again. |
| 8:34
| Steve got an email over the weekend from a woman who had just won a gift certificate on Thursday. She said she wasn't complaining but she hadn't got her prize yet. It's 2 days later! |
| 8:35
| So apparently Jesse Jackson was behind the statue. Does Steve have to change his blog though because he put in there that he doesn't know why Jesse was there. |
| 8:36
| Now in tomorrow's blog Steve can explain what Jesse was doing there. So that's his blog for tomorrow. |
| 8:37
| Steve still remembers something about the Cubs not letting Ernie wear Cubs hats when he was out doing stuff. It looked weird when he put the Cubs hat on yesterday. |
| 8:38
| Zambrano had a great outing for the Cubs yesterday although he came out early with cramping in his arm. |
| 8:39
| Pat's not sure what his deal is though but he's had this cramping issue before because he gets dehydrated. Apparently he doesn't like water. That's sort of important if you're a professional athlete. Maybe they could make him a nice iced tea or lemonade? |
| 8:40
| Kosuke Fukudome stole the show though going 3-3 with a game-tying home run in the 9th inning. It was short-lived though because Howry came in in the 10th and gave up the game-winning run. |
| 8:41
| Mark Buehrle did not have a great outing for the Sox either. He came out after giving up 7 runs. That error by Cabrera seemed to mess Buehrle up. |
| 8:42
| Jim Thome did hit two home runs though. Why do they boo Jim Thome in Cleveland? It's not like he was a money-grubbing ass or anything. He's one of the nicest guys in baseball. |
| 8:43
| Thome left Cleveland because they wouldn't give them a fair contract. It was a totally fair contract for his skill level. It's not like we boo Frank Thomas when he comes here and he was a money-grubbing ass. |
| 8:44
| The Sox had a few bad calls though yesterday, like the Crede play at home plate. He was clearly safe though and when he was called out he jumped up and went nuts. It's good to see him get some emotion. |
| 8:45
| There were three controversial calls in the game yesterday. There's really no recourse for a bad call. The umps can get together and make the final decision but they usually only do that in the playoffs. |
| 8:46
| There was that interference call which the umps were right on. Hawk didn't think so, he went nuts when that happened. |
| 8:47
| At the time Steve agreed with Hawk but after seeing the replay it's clear that it was interference. |
| 8:48
| Ozzie should have gone nuts after that first bad call though. Because if he doesn't that just sets the tone for the next bad call. |
| 8:49
| If Ozzie goes nuts then maybe a close call goes Ozzie's way the next time. Unless he knows the umpiring crew and knows they're going to keep taking it out on him. |
| 8:50
| Steve was just glad to see that the Sox had a better attitude than they did last year. They never gave up yesterday. Neither did the Cubs but they played that way all last year. |
| 8:51
| Why do guys at baseball games still call the umps Blue? They don't wear blue, they wear black. Maybe they wear the blue in the summer? |
| 8:59
| Steve had another question for Pat, can we get him back on? They were both exciting games yesterday. If both teams can play like that it'll be a good year. |
| 9:00
| The Sox just didn't care from the get-go last year which is really irritating if you have season tickets. Steve did feel bad for Woody though, giving up those 3 runs. He'll probably get it together though. |
| 9:01
| Pat Boyle is back on the phone. Steve had a question about the Hawks big announcement, what's it going to be. Will we get in trouble if we mention it? |
| 9:02
| It's a broadcast announcement, maybe Steve can fill in the blanks. Is it about every home game being on TV? There was a mention in the Trib today so Pat doesn't feel like he's letting the cat out of the bag. |
| 9:03
| Steve thought the TV thing was a done deal. They were still trying to figure out which games were on which station. Not all of them will be on Comcast. Steve doesn't want Pat to get in trouble so he'll find the Trib article. |
| 9:04
| According to Teddy Greenstein's column some games will be on WGN but most of them will be on Comcast. With the WGN games though they'll be shown all across the country. |
| 9:05
| We just did the news so we're probably not ready to reload on that just yet. Tyrone's got some traffic though. |
| 9:06
| Tyrone's already been on once today but he didn't know there was gonna be a fi-yah at a hotel in Lockport. |
| 9:07
| The hotel pancaked in on itself which is good for a bed and breakfast. It was a 5 alarm fire which is like the hottest kind of chili. |
| 9:08
| Tyrone has a special report which he's going to read right from the paper. It's hard to read and fly though. |
| 9:09
| Last year's repatching o the Edens was only a temporary headache for drivers. But starting Friday, depending on the weather, lane closures could begin as they resurface the entire expressway. |
| 9:10
| This is going to inconvenience a lot of white people and white people don't like to be inconvenienced. |
| 9:11
| Drivers may not see people working while they ride on the Edens as work is done overnight. It would be irritating to drive by and see some guy sitting in his truck drinking his coffee. |
| 9:12
| The main reason the lanes will be closed is for the safety of workers. |
| 9:13
| Tyrone hasn't been up on the Edens in a while. If you're black you can only take the Edens if you're a Chicago Bear or a Chicago Bull. Otherwise it's just for white people. |
| 9:14
| As Tyrone understands it the entire right lane will be closed but they're doing that to avoid too many bottlenecks. Why don't they just hire more people to work on the Edens? |
| 9:15
| Edens driver's will be more inconvenienced than Dan Ryan drivers because there aren't as many alternate side streets into the city. |
| 9:16
| Metra will not add more trains to the North Line, North Central Line or Milwaukee Line so Edens drivers won't be able to take the train either. |
| 9:17
| Why would you want to do that when you're broke? Add more trains, add more customers. |
| 9:18
| Seems like they'd be better off just shutting down the Edens for a month and getting it done quicker. White people can take a month off of work can't they? |
| 9:19
| It doesn't seem like they really planned this thing out did they? It says the resurfacing will return the Edens to a state of good repair for the next 10 years. This is the biggest scam ever. |
| 9:20
| That's Tyrone's special report on the Edens. He's calling it White Man's Burden. |
| 9:28
| That was a great special report that Tyrone put together there. |
| 9:30
| Live read: Seattle Sutton |
| 9:31
| Did Buzz have his Seattle Sutton food yet? |
| 9:32
| News with Buzz |
| 9:33
| A big night at the Holy Trinity Church where they gave a welcome to former Reverend Jeremiah Wright. Leon Finney, formerly of Leon's Ribs, was one of the speakers. |
| 9:34
| Is Leon not affiliated with Leon's Ribs any more? Buzz didn't even know they were still open. Steve still sees Leon's Ribs but maybe he sold it? |
| 9:35
| Do the people at this church realize that this kind of stuff isn't helping Obama? Buzz thinks that ultimately they choose their church over their President. Even if he could be the first black President? |
| 9:36
| President Bush is being urged to boycott the opening ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics. |
| 9:37
| The head of the International Racing Federation has been caught in a sex scandal. Photos were released of Max Mosley with prostitutes, dressed as a Nazi and recreated concentration camp scenes. |
| 9:38
| Chelsea Clinton is on the campaign trail again and once again she was asked about Monica Lewinsky. Now everyone is going to ask her about it. |
| 9:39
| Meanwhile Bill is telling everyone to chill out, it'll be fine. No need to bring up The Big Lewinsky again. He stooped pretty low with her, he's probably nailed much hotter women since then. Now he's on his Bill Clinton solo tour. |
| 9:40
| And don't think he wasn't breaking bad on everyone just to get kicked off the campaign trail. That way he can go off on his own. |
| 9:41
| Good news, you no longer have to administer mouth-to-mouth during CPR. Rapid presses to the chest works just as well without mouth-to-mouth according to the American Heart Association. |
| 9:42
| A lot of people probably don't get CPR because people don't want to do mouth-to-mouth. It's not like you can get anything from it. Buzz doesn't think he'd do it for a person he didn't know. |
| 9:43
| Actually he probably would. That's because Buzz is a hero. As someone who knows CPR should Steve stop doing mouth-to-mouth then? |
| 9:44
| The Museum of Hoaxes website has posted a list of the top 100 April Fool's pranks. |
| 9:45
| The Russian doomsday cult holed up in a cave say that credit cards and barcodes are the work of satan. |
| 9:46
| Is there a chance that the Museum of Hoaxes website is a hoax? Buzz remembers his first April Fool's prank when he was 5 years old. |
| 9:53
| The Museum of Hoaxes is not a hoax but it's hard to navigate because a lot of people are visiting it on April Fool's Day. |
| 9:54
| Some radio stations do really elaborate April Fool's pranks but Steve doesn't want to get involved in that. |
| 9:55
| Buzz remembers when he first got here, on The Loop, he had Matt Bisbee put together a nonexistent parade. It actually took them days to put the whole thing together and then Buzz commented on it. |
| 9:56
| Steve sees that as being Matt Bisbee's idea and Buzz was talked into it. Buzz does enjoy hoaxes and fake things though. We know, we've heard his news. |
| 9:57
| Buzz apologizes, he never got into the Stuart Levine/Purple Hotel stuff. He was partying all day with dudes. Where are the women at?! |
| 9:58
| Buzz is guessing there were other people at the hotel but he might not be prepared to give that up. He still has to go home doesn't he? |
| 9:59
| Back to the painting elephant stuff, listener Leela sent Steve a link to Snopes and they're pretty good at debunking stuff. According to them they are trained to move the paint brush in a certain way based on the trainer touching their ear or giving them a signal. |
| 10:00
| That's still pretty impressive though. For a while Buzz couldn't believe that an elephant could conceptualize itself holding a flower. So he was ready to have his world turned upside-down. |
| 10:01
| Tyrone's checking in again, they're workin' him like a dog today. Outbound on the Stevenson at 1st Avenue the two left lanes are shutdown because of a diesel spill. So if you want some cheap diesel, that's where it's at. |
| 10:02
| Caller Charlotte has some CPR info. You're supposed to give 30 chest compressions for every 2 breathes. But if you don't do the breathes it's the same 30 compressions, fast and hard. Steve's talking about CPR, he doesn't know what Charlotte is talking about. |
| 10:03
| What happens if you're not doing the breathes, when do you stop? Or do you just keep doing the chest compressions. |
| 10:04
| Caller Tom is an EMT. When doing CPR you keep doing compressions until someone shows up with a defibrillator. So you just keep pushing on, in the words of REO Speedwagon. |
| 10:05
| Caller Jennifer was told that almost everyone throws up when you're doing chest compressions. So that's another reason to not do the mouth-to-mouth. |
