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| 5:30
| Isn't this delightful music Buzz? It's very soothing. Good morning everyone from the 5th tallest building in Chicago and the 11th tallest in the world. That's what Steve's talking about! |
| 5:31
| That's impressive but Steve would like to be in the top 5 of the world. Would it kill us to be in the Sears Tower? Maybe, it seems to be on a lot of terrorist lists. Prudential 2 is the building we're in, it's attached to the original Prudential building in a weird, haphazard way. |
| 5:32
| It makes for a weird layout of the building and a very slipshod security staff. Steve does like being in Prudential 2 though, we have better windows. He does miss the Plaza Club over in the original Prudential Building though. |
| 5:33
| That club closed and Steve thought it was because they didn't charge enough. $500 up front and $150 a month is not enough. And Steve felt most of the members would have paid more. |
| 5:34
| That club was great though, there was a pub on the first floor and the restaurant on the second floor. If you went there they called you Mr. Dahl or whatever your last name is. And you couldn't pay with cash. If you took someone to lunch they handed the club member the bill and he signed his name. |
| 5:35
| Then a new group bought Prudential Plaza and jacked up the rent on the Plaza Club. Steve's membership was transferred to the club in the Aon Building but it's not the same. |
| 5:36
| A new club can't open up there because they don't have an elevator going from the first to second floor. Because of the American's With Disabilities Act any new entity would have to put in an elevator which would cost a ton of money. |
| 5:37
| Steve's not usually one to spearhead anything but he'd like to see that club come back. It's never going to be anything else though. But it was perfect for Steve. He could park here, work here and then have a business lunch here. It's like he's in a terrarium. |
| 5:38
| It was a great place to crank out a pre-show lunch before the afternoon show too. Schedule the lunch for 12:30 and say you have to leave at 1. Or you could schedule it for noon if it's someone really important. |
| 5:39
| Maybe instead of putting an elevator in up there they could hire someone really strong to carry people with disabilities up the escalator. How about wasted Bears draft pick Stan Thomas? |
| 5:40
| Steve has eaten in the Mid-America Club in the Aon Building and it's good. He was there last year for the Fourth of July fireworks and they had their own mini-Taste of Chicago. But Steve doesn't work in that building so he feels like an interloper going over there. |
| 5:41
| A new club would have to put in an elevator though right? |
| 5:42
| It was perfect for Steve though. He'd go there with the Hollander Brothers, they'd call him Mr. Dahl at the club, then he'd have to take the bill and sign for it because that's how the club worked. |
| 5:43
| Someone Steve knows was trying to open a restaurant up there and he might have had a piece of it but it was too expensive. |
| 5:44
| Buzz is wondering if that space could be put to any other use. Steve wouldn't mind seeing a strip club up there. An elevator might help if there's a lapdance accident. |
| 5:45
| Or they could just put in one of those stair lifts, like on The Farmer's Daughter. Buzz can't remember who the farmer's daughter was. It was Inga Stevens. For Steve and Buzz, she was it. |
| 5:46
| That was the first girl Steve can remember where he knew he had to get that, whatever it was. Then she killed herself. Even though Steve was only 8 at the time he thought he could have been able to save her. |
| 5:47
| Buzz always remembers hearing about these women and how they'd get divorced. He couldn't imagine who would divorce Jane Russell, or Joey Heatherton. |
| 5:48
| Joey Heatherton's husband exposed himself in public. Where did he get off doing that when he had Joey Heatherton at home? Steve remembers when she was on the Mike Wallace show for a week, he was raw. |
| 5:55
| That hotel that was on fire yesterday in Lockport was not the bed & breakfast Steve imagined it was. Turns out it was a transient hotel, above a sports bar. |
| 5:56
| That's still handy for nailing chicks though. At some point if a chick wants to be nailed she won't be looking around at your accommodations. It's better than the alley right? |
| 5:57
| They showed a few of the transients and one of them was a musician. He said he might have lost a few guitars in the fire. Every town has a hotel like that though, it's depressing. |
| 5:58
| Buzz is aware of many high profile transient hotels in Chicago like the St. Julian (named after him) and the Mark Twain. The Towpath Inn is in historic Lockport and there are a lot of trendy restaurants there. So Steve thought it was a bed and breakfast. |
| 5:59
| The Red Cross gave all the transients debit cards to buy whatever they need. It's nice that they get something. |
| 6:00
| Steve would rather be in prison than stay in a bed and breakfast though. At least in prison you get your own toilet. |
| 6:01
| Steve apologizes to Buzz for missing their anniversary. It was yesterday but Buzz forgot. Steve was worried that Buzz would be at home all mopey. It's actually a double anniversary becuase Buzz started with Steve in Chicago on April 1st and then Buzz and Wendy joined the show on WCKG on April 1st. |
| 6:02
| Wendy isn't here to remind Steve about the anniversary. That was 1 of her 2 jobs. The other one was doing the dolphin impersonation although she never backed off the mic enough. |
| 6:03
| Caller Greg wanted to let Steve know that the towpath was where the horses would tow barges. Steve thought it was t-o-e. But it's still not a nice hotel. |
| 6:04
| Even though someone died in the fire someone from the Lockport Historical Society said "thank God the structure is still intact." At least wait a few days before saying that. |
| 6:05
| According to Buzz's Wikipedia entry his first day in Chicago was April 1st, 1980 and his first day with Steve was in 2002. That's 6 years! |
| 6:06
| Yesterday when Steve did the web poll about getting rid of weeds he thought it was too much of a farm report. Turns out we have at least one farmer who listens and he even knows to call it weed abatement. |
| 6:07
| Would this farmer let Steve drive his tractor? He feels he'd make an excellent farmer, he's just obsessive-compulsive enough to do it. He likes the tight routine, he likes the nature of having a field and plowing it. There's no money in it but Steve could do it. Go out to the barn throw one into the livestock to take the pressure off, rail against God when there's a drought or flooding, he could do it all. Buzz can imagine Steve in detail on the farm. |
| 6:08
| When Steve was a kid he worked on an alfalfa farm and he loved it. He loved the order of everything. Buzz spent some time milking cows as a kid. Usually he and his friends just squirted each other with the udders. |
| 6:09
| The farmer who listens says he was birthing some baby sheep when Steve was doing his impersonation of Drew's mom. Does Steve do an impersonation of Drew's mom? That might have been wen Drew's parents were talking to reporters and asking for copies of the photos they were taking. They should have just flipped them off. |
| 6:10
| Yesterday during Steve's post-show meeting with Todd Cavanah he brought down a Butterfinger candy bar but it is now labeled as The Finger. Todd said they were changing their name but Steve thought it was for April Fool's Day. |
| 6:11
| Steve's pretty sure that Butterfinger is a pretty popular candy, Nestle wouldn't just change the name to The Finger. |
| 6:12
| Then Steve went to the Butterfinger website and there's a video announcement about the name change. People think butterfinger means someone who is clumsy so they changed the name to The Finger. |
| 6:13
| It's a good April Fool's prank but they might have done it too late. Plus they should have sent it to Steve and Buzz, not Eddie and Jobo. Because they, along with Todd, probably thought it was real. |
| 6:14
| Buzz is wondering how many of these candy bars were sent out. Steve should have saved his from yesterday. |
| 6:15
| Steve hates when he's watching a video online and it just stops on him. There's some Ed Silha-speak in this video, "EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY!" Maybe he's the mastermind behind it. |
| 6:16
| Buzz would love to have a box of bars that say The Finger on them. He'd love to have a few around the house just to give out to people. |
| 6:17
| Eddie and Jobo got a box and Todd brought Steve three. And you know what happens to a box of candy around here. When Buzz got those Baby Ruth and Butterfinger boxes they were gone in seconds. |
| 6:18
| One of the women who Buzz gave a box to made this big deal about returning it to Steve. It's just a radio bit, he doesn't really care. He can afford candy bars. |
| 6:19
| Steve knows the woman who Buzz gave the candy bars too and he didn't even mind if she had a box. It more bugged him that Buzz put them in the kitchen and everyone else around here ran off with an entire box. |
| 6:20
| Then Jim kid had a box too. Where does he get off taking a box? And they were touted as factory fresh but every time Steve has one it breaks apart. They are in the fridge though, that could be why they're breaking up. |
| 6:21
| Buzz doesn't want to burn up his Butterfinger connection though. But it didn't even work yesterday with The Finger. Instead Eddie and Jobo got a box. Steve and Buzz don't really do April Fool's Pranks though. The other one Steve saw yesterday was on Wheel of Fortune when Pat Sajak revealed that he wore a hairpiece. |
| 6:22
| Caller Ken isn't too familiar with Eddie & Jobo but that's because he's not 6-years-old. The listeners go all the way up to 13 actually. |
| 6:23
| Ken only really knows about Eddie & Jobo from Steve talking about them. Yesterday on The U they were crawling around like dogs on station promos. They have those promos where people's dogs come on and it says what their favorite show is. |
| 6:24
| Why aren't Steve and Buzz afforded these opportunities? Steve missed that but had planned to watch The U at some point. He was involved in a tragic treadmill accident which he'll talk about after the break. |
| 6:32
| That was Warren Fryburg, talking about Steve asking listeners to send their panties in and then sniffing them on the air. |
| 6:33
| Fryburg later became a psychic for the National Enquirer and then he sadly passed away. |
| 6:34
| So Steve was on his treadmill yesterday and he doesn't even really want to do it. Then he started feeling a leg cramp and slowed the treadmill down. |
| 6:35
| Then he grabs the hand railings to support himself and he hears something snap or break. It hurt so bad that Steve couldn't even figure out how to turn the treadmill off. |
| 6:36
| Then Steve went to the couch by the TV and sat there to write his blog. He was going to turn on The U and watch King of Queens but he couldn't even get up to grab the remote. It's much better today though. |
| 6:37
| OK, back to the farmer letter. Yesterday Steve was reading the article about weed eradication and then he said he didn't think we had listeners who were farmers. |
| 6:38
| Turns out we have at least one listener who's a farmer and he emailed Steve yesterday. That's where Steve started talking about how he could be a farmer. |
| 6:39
| So this guy was assisting in the delivery of some newborn lambs while Steve was doing his impersonation of Drew Peterson's mom. |
| 6:40
| When Steve said that Drew's mom sounded more like Mike North the farmer laughed so hard that he fell back while trying to pull a breached baby from the mother. Did Steve say that about the mom or his impersonation? |
| 6:41
| So yesterday's web poll was "how do you eradicate weeds?" 50% of the people said spray, 35% said pull and 13% said flamethrower. The 13% that survived at least. |
| 6:42
| Steve's going to do the web poll but first he has to find out about that traffic problem and then take a break. |
| 6:43
| Tyrone's checking and it's bad on the Stevenson. At 83 and the Tri-State the ramp to the northbound Tri-State is blocked by a rolled over truck. Even if they uprighted it they'll just leave it there. |
| 6:44
| Tyrone used to have a white girlfriend out there so his suggestion is to get off on Kingery from 83 and then go up to Ogden. Take Ogden east to 294. That's an alternate route. |
| 6:45
| Tyrone made a lot of money on that fire footage yesterday. He's out looking around for another transient hotel that he could start a fire at. |
| 6:46
| Tyrone's also been hired to move the Ernie Banks statue out of the way. It was just a one-day thing to keep Reverend Jackson quiet. |
| 6:47
| Did they fix the spelling on that statue yet? It says "Lets Play Two" but it's supposed to be "Let's Play Two", they missed an apostrophe. |
| 6:48
| Maybe Tyrone's just taking the statue back to correct the spelling. The sculptor was very apologetic and said he'd have it fixed by opening day. Wasn't opening day on Monday? |
| 6:49
| You'd think someone at the Cubs would have caught that. The guy who runs the Cubs has a rich white guy name, you'd think he'd know grammar. |
| 6:50
| Pete says it's Crane Kenney who runs the Cubs. Tyrone can barely hear him. That is a weak guy right there. Is Pete afraid of black people, is that it? |
| 6:51
| It seems like Mike North just thought it would be a joke to call up Jesse Jackson on his show. He didn't think Jesse would pick up. |
| 6:52
| And now they've got an Ernie Banks statue at Wrigley Field. That's good though because the only statues they had before that were of dead white broadcasters. |
| 6:59
| Guess who's on the phone Buzz? It's Joe Walsh! He finally found Steve. Steve will never guess where Joe is so he should just tell him. It can't be California because it would be 5 am there. |
| 7:00
| Joe's in Holland, in The Hague. Is he on trial for something? Eagles are doing a show in Rotterdam tomorrow and Joe has the day off. |
| 7:01
| Joe hasn't talked to Steve in a while so happy birthday. Steve and Joe share the same birthday. Joe usually isn't up early enough in the morning to call Steve but he can do it now. |
| 7:02
| Steve's been meaning to call Joe for a while. He saw him on The Grammy's and he thought he looked really good. And they won a Grammy for How Long.Joe's not sure what that song is about but it's fun to play. |
| 7:03
| Steve also saw that Joe's daughter Lucy is going to be on that MTV show Rock the Cradle. Joe was supposed to be on the show with her and he saw the other parents and told her he couldn't. Other parents include Dee Snider and Kenny Loggins. |
| 7:04
| It would probably be easy to run amok in Amsterdam but Joe's not basing himself out of there is he? Rotterdam is a great place to get heroin but Joe knows better now. He and Steve are way past that. |
| 7:05
| Eagles are coming to Chicago on September 27th, it's penciled in. It's a Saturday so Steve can come. |
| 7:07
| Eagles weren't supposed to work this year, it came down through the chain-of-command that they'd take a year off to learn the new songs. So Joe got a band together and decided to work on a solo album. |
| 7:08
| So he got all of that together and then guess what, Eagles are working this year. Turns out there weren't that many new songs to learn and the album sold really well so they'd be crazy not to tour. |
| 7:09
| As Steve witnessed when he saw Eagles in Paris, they can go to any city in the world and make money. They were also supposed to take a year off to spend time with their families but after a while everyone decided it would be better to just go on tour. |
| 7:10
| Is Joe still working out on the road? He runs, it's really good for you. Luckily he crawled around for 15 years so his knees are still good. If he was an athlete he wouldn't be able to run any more. |
| 7:11
| Joe runs about 5 miles a day. As long as you get your heart rate up and sweat it's good though. Plus it looks cool when you get back to the hotel lobby and you're all sweaty. |
| 7:12
| Joe remembers that Steve used to sweat just standing there. Waking up would cause him to sweat, that was bad. Steve and Joe have worked through all of that, that's all you can do. This is right around Joe's sobriety anniversary isn't it? It was 14 years in February. Steve's coming up on 13 on June 24th but who's counting? |
| 7:13
| Steve's proud of himself and Joe, who would have thought? Joe thinks they're a couple of great guys. If anyone out there was wondering, they're great guys. They're like the best. They're the kind of guys you'd want to invite over. |
| 7:14
| Now though, not before. Before you'd come over and you'd end up cleaning the carpet. They'd still be there too, they never left. Steve's specialty was leaving 30 times. He kept coming back because he thought of something or forgot his keys. |
| 7:15
| Joe's off today and then a London show and then the fly home. The band doesn't have their own plane but it's a charter. They don't ride around like Led Zeppelin did in their movie though. |
| 7:16
| So they don't have to deal with the baggage check at Heathrow or anything? Because their whole system crashed and they lost about 40,000 bags. |
| 7:17
| That's Joe Walsh, calling from Holland. That is one cool guy although you can probably tell that. |
| 7:18
| Steve took Matt Dahl to see Eagles at the Allstate a few years ago and when they let Joe do his stuff, it's so good. He's a rock star. |
| 7:19
| All Joe has done is play guitar since he was 10 years old. There was one time when Joe was trying to learn a guitar part on a Beatles song. |
| 7:20
| So he worked and worked at it and finally got it. Then years later he was working with Ringo Starr on something and he told Joe that it was actually two people playing guitar on that part. |
| 7:28
| That's the Stone Pony, he can appreciate the guitar runs of a Joe Walsh. You know why, because he's The Pony. |
| 7:29
| Song: How Long, Eagles |
| 7:32
| That's Eagles or The Eagles, it can go both ways. It sounds hipper to to say Eagles though. That was a John David Souther song, he co-wrote New Kid in Town. |
| 7:33
| Live read: Fresh Diet |
| 7:34
| Steve still hasn't done the web poll yet and we've got news to do as well. Steve always likes to give Buzz a choice though because he doesn't want to be disrespectful to Buzz and his news gathering organization. Jim has brought in 10 different CDs today. |
| 7:35
| It's always nice to visit with Jim, the mopiest guy around. If Pete sucks the life out of you then Jim sucks the universe out of you. You have to wonder how Jim got a girlfriend if he's so mopey. |
| 7:36
| Pete doesn't think he's that mopey. He's always got a smile at least so Steve will just say Jim sucks the life out of you. Steve tries to interact with Jim and cheer him up but it doesn't change anything. |
| 7:37
| Jim's not even depressed though, it's just how he is. Pete thinks that maybe Jim studying under Dan Falato's tutelage could be the cause of this. |
| 7:38
| Steve calls down to the newsroom. There were a lot of rules that Dan Falato had around here, like that you couldn't go into the studio or talk to Steve. It's not like that any more though. |
| 7:39
| Jim needs to be broken from some of those habits though. For some reason he's scared to go into the studio and he cops that attitude when he comes in. Then Steve feels like he's getting arrested or a root canal. |
| 7:40
| Another rule Dan had was to not walk in front of the studio window. Instead you had to do this complicated duck and crawl which was actually more distracting. It's like when roadies come out to fix something. |
| 7:41
| On to the web poll. Today's question is "Are you part of a ticket share?" and the options are yes or no as you can imagine. |
| 7:42
| This article is from Crain's Chicago although Steve feels it's more slanted towards the Cubs. This stuff probably goes on with White Sox fans too. |
| 7:43
| People in a ticket share get together in bars or conference rooms with color-coded schedules to determine which games they want. Don't the Cubs do that for you? Seems like a waste of time. |
| 7:44
| Steve just does all that by himself and he doesn't just choose all the Yankees games or something. He'll take one of those games and then someone else will get one. Turns out you can't go to every game. |
| 7:45
| It doesn't seem like an article needs to be written about ticket shares though. One of the photos in this article is of some Cubs fans in a basement. One guy is wearing a "No Lights at Wrigley" t-shirt. That ship has sailed dude. |
| 7:46
| The other photo is at least of a Sox fan, staring at his Jim Thome bobblehead. Steve got one of those last year, they sent it to him for fan appreciation, and the arm was broken off. |
| 7:47
| Then this year he got an AJ bobblehead and his arm is broken off too. They've got idiots wrapping things up at The Cell and Steve's not talking about the guys in the bullpen last year. |
| 7:48
| The Sox fan looks smarter because he's standing in front of law books. Some Sox fans can read, see! |
| 7:49
| It doesn't seem that hard to divide up tickets though. It shouldn't be that big of a deal because every series has 3 games at least and they play rivals several times throughout the year. |
| 7:50
| Of course Steve is the guy who wanted to tell the people who buy his tickets what games they're going to the day before. |
| 7:51
| It seems like a ticket share is something that Pete, Jim and Brendan should get involved in. Although there's a waiting list for Cubs season tickets which Jim has put himself on. Is it like the Bozo Show, he'll have tickets in 15 years? |
| 7:52
| There's still plenty of room on the Southside if anyone is interested. There's parking, better food, windows on the Stadium Club and urinals instead of troughs. |
| 8:00
| So if you have 5 people in your ticket share group you'd go to 16 games which is actually a good amount. |
| 8:01
| Steve goes to half the games and then sells the other tickets to 4 other people. And he tries to be fair, he doesn't just give people all the April and Devil Rays games. |
| 8:02
| The way they've got the tickets now you can actually email them to people although you can't do that with parking passes yet. |
| 8:03
| Steve's got hook ups in the White Sox parking lot and those same guys also work at Blackhawks and Bears game. Parking is very important to Steve as Buzz knows. |
| 8:04
| Good parking can make an event for Steve. And bad parking or inopportune parking could ruin it for him. Maybe it's wrong to think like that but he grew up out west where there was always ample parking. That's why people moved west. |
| 8:05
| Live read: Townstone Financial |
| 8:06
| News with Buzz |
| 8:07
| International Olympic Committee scientists have determined that Beijing's air will not effect athletes who compete for less than an hour. How did Beijing get the Olympics? |
| 8:08
| A Jamaican man was arrested at Orlando's airport after security found supplies in his bag to make pipe bombs. |
| 8:09
| A torn and tattered parachute found last month did not belong to hijacker D.B. Cooper. |
| 8:10
| The gay community is criticizing Jay Leno for comments he made last night to actor Ryan Philippe. Talking to the actor he asked him to give him his "gayest look" while talking about his time as a gay character on a soap opera. |
| 8:11
| It didn't sound that bad to Steve. Some are wondering how people would feel if he'd asked a black man to give him his "blackest look" |
| 8:12
| Meanwhile John McCain made an appearance on Letterman last night, coming out during the monologue. |
| 8:13
| Activists, politicians and Simeon High School students gathered downtown to demand an end to gun violence. Guns are illegal, don't people know that? |
| 8:14
| The Oregon man making headlines for carrying a baby is bringing his story to Oprah. How did this happen again? The guy said that he got a sex change but kept his internal female reproductive organs. |
| 8:15
| When the guy's wife found out she couldn't get pregnant he got himself artificially inseminated. When you get turned into a guy is there an organ donor program for that? |
| 8:16
| Oprah will probably start crying and some how related to the entire story. |
| 8:17
| 9 third grade students in Waycross, Georgia have been suspended after a plot to attack their teacher was uncovered. |
| 8:25
| It's time for the Eight O'Clock Taco Bell. Today Steve and Buzz are introducing a new contest. Buzz isn't eligible though. |
| 8:26
| Wednesday will be Border Stories day. If you'd like to win a taco everyday for a year, and who wouldn't, email Steve with your best Taco Bell story or adventure. |
| 8:27
| If Steve reads your story you'll be qualified to win a taco everyday for a year. And the winning stories will be immortalized in a plaque at the restaurant where the person had the adventure. |
| 8:28
| Bob and Ron are here, they're hungry now. Bob was just thinking about the Bell Beefer, it was taco meat on a bun. Steve remembers it too. They should bring it back. |
| 8:29
| Bob is very sore, he just moved every single record he owns to his new apartment, which is directly upstairs from his old apartment. Rough estimates put it at 83 milk crates full of records. |
| 8:30
| Steve's neighbor across the street is really into vinyl. When Steve was there for dinner Witchi-Tai-To came on by Brewer & Shipley. Steve had to point out that there aren't many places you go for dinner where you hear that song. And not many dinner guests would know the song. |
| 8:31
| The guy is looking to get rid of his record collection though. The problem is how do Bob and Ron get the records without being on Steve's street? |
| 8:32
| All last week Janet was out of town and Steve should have been experimenting with the pot. But Bob and Ron didn't bring him any. |
| 8:33
| They were in on Wednesday, that's when they should have brought it in. And Brendan would have picked it up for Steve, he can take the hit. |
| 8:34
| It's Mick Ralphs birthday this week, he was in Mott the Hoople. It's also Leon Russell's birthday this week. He got famous on the Joe Cocker tour and he didn't say a word. |
| 8:35
| Who has the hottest missing wife, Drew or Craig Stebic? That would be a good poll question. For Steve's money Lisa Stebic is hotter. Stacy still seems like a teenager, it seems wrong. Craig Stebic is back in court to get his guns back. Everyone wants their guns back. |
| 8:36
| By the way, Bob and Ron are schtrapped, they have to be. So be careful Buzz. Pistol packin' potheads. It goes back to the Quicksilver days for Bob. |
| 8:37
| Bob just made a reference so obscure that even Ron didn't get it right away. Apparently the band Quicksilver Messenger Service dressed like cowboys. A lot of the San Fran hippies had that look. |
| 8:38
| Did Buzz ever go with that look? He lived in The Haight, he's a real hippy. Bob and Ron are just poser hippies. |
| 8:39
| It's also Ronnie Lane's birthday this week, he was in Small Faces and Faces. Today's song is from the Ooh La La record which was cool because it became a hand puppet. |
| 8:40
| Song: Ooh La La, Faces |
| 8:44
| There's a good use of that song in Rushmore, it's a good song. |
| 8:49
| Live read: Joebees |
| 8:50
| Alright Pat Boyle is on the phone. Steve's being told that Pat was at a bar the other night and the bartender gave him Peanut Butter Jelly shots? |
| 8:51
| Pat was sitting there and the bartender sent over 3 shots. He doesn't even know what they're made of but they did taste like a peanut butter and jelly. |
| 8:52
| The guy said he would have played Peanut Butter Jelly Time if it was in the jukebox. We can send him a copy, where's this bar at? Or was it a bar he wasn't supposed to be at? |
| 8:53
| Yesterday Pat mentioned Dutchie Caray and Steve didn't want to talk about it. But then he felt wimpy for making Buzz and Pat stop talking about it. |
| 8:54
| So today Steve made it his Thought for the Day which was "I think that John Caponera would have made a way better Dutchie Caray than he did a Harry Caray in those AT&T commercials." |
| 8:55
| Steve felt like a wuss not talking about that. But Buzz first asked him about it during the news and Steve said they probably shouldn't talk about it. |
| 8:57
| Buzz only asked Steve because there was mutiny in the ranks from Pete and Jim. They were right to ask though because if they didn't Steve would have yelled at them. He could go either way on any given day. |
| 8:58
| Dutchie was at the opening of the new Harry Caray's in Wrigleyville that used to be Hi-Tops. Harry would have never left Wrigleyville if his restaurant was up there. |
| 8:59
| Dutchie said she was in California for a month and didn't know about the ad. How do you not know about that? |
| 9:00
| Steve has some video of Dutchie from yesterday talking to Ana Belaval. Steve should probably give her a second chance. |
| 9:01
| The first time Steve met Ana was when Frijole Joe brought her in, unannounced, during Burrito Quest. Joe was touting her as the hottest Mexican girl ever. |
| 9:02
| She was very attractive though but not the hottest ever. Plus Burrito Quest was going bad because Joe had brought in Guatemalan chicken instead of burritos. And Ana's husband was here. It was the perfect storm. |
| 9:03
| So Steve would like to rescind any vitriol towards Ana. She was set-up unfairly by Frijole Joe. Buzz remembers one day he had to practically escort Joe out of here because Steve was so mad at him. |
| 9:04
| Joe is about 20% away from being a valuable member of the show, like a Bob and Ron. But that last 20% is very dangerous. |
| 9:05
| Steve likes Joe although he feels that Big Steve has been wholly mismanaged and maybe sexually assaulted by him. |
| 9:06
| Caller Tim wanted to let Steve know that the Peanut Butter Jelly shot is Frangelico and Chambourd. |
| 9:07
| Pat thought Tim was his bartender from Saturday, he sounds just like him and that's what his name was. Is Steve the only one on acid here? |
| 9:08
| Is Tim a truck driver? The only reason Steve asks is because he wanted to know about those drivers going really slow on the Stevenson yesterday. They came up three across and slow down to 5 mph because they're protesting rising fuel costs. |
| 9:09
| Everyone else is paying a lot for gas too though. Steve's glad he wasn't there for that though. |
| 9:10
| Comcast has 12 hours of live programming today from the Cubs game all the way to the Hawks post-game and Sportsnite. |
| 9:11
| Steve just wanted to complain to Pat after that Jurko guy got shown on camera, got a shout-out, got the call letters mentioned by Eddie Olczyk. Steve didn't even get shown on his Radio Icon Night! |
| 9:12
| Does Eddie hate Steve or something? Because he couldn't say more about how good of a broadcaster he is. Although back in the day Steve used to make fun of him because when he was a kid his dad made him shoot hundreds of pucks in the garage. |
| 9:20
| This is going to be a combo Meat Talk/Peanut Butter Jelly Time. Steve has that Dutchie Caray audio to play. |
| 9:21
| Dutchie is not happy about the Harry ads but Steve's guessing she's more upset about not getting any money from it. |
| 9:22
| The weirdest thing is who owns the estate then. Apparently it's not Dutchie though. |
| 9:23
| On the phone is Lou Cella who's the sculptor that did the Ernie Banks statue at Wrigley Field. He's a sculptor, not a writer! |
| 9:24
| Lou's been getting calls all day from the media but since he listens to Steve and Buzz he figured he'd call this show. |
| 9:25
| Lou grew up in Chicago as a Cubs fan but he has since become a Sox fan as well. |
| 9:26
| Lou works for a studio that did the Michael Jordan statue as well as the statues at U.S. Cellular. Before the Ernie Banks statue Lou's favorite statue was the Carlton Fisk one he did at U.S. Cellular. |
| 9:27
| How's that Steve Dahl statue coming for his 30th anniversary? No one has commissioned it yet but it has to happen. |
| 9:28
| The statue has already been fixed, the apostrophe was added this morning. Although channel 2 had a crew there so they were able to get pictures of all of it. |
| 9:29
| Is this Ernie Banks statue outside or does Steve have to go in and see it? Because Wrigley Field smells like urine. The whole places smells. How do they sell any food there? |
| 9:30
| The Ernie statue is in front of the park, right on Clark to the left of the marquee. The Harry statue is on the other side right near the new Harry Caray's. How did the Jack Brickhouse end up on Michigan Avenue? Steve keeps walking into it. |
| 9:31
| Steve will commission Lou to sculpt a statue of him. How much is that going to cost, $2500? That's all Steve can afford. What about a statue in butter? Can he do $2500 in butter? |
| 9:32
| Later this summer the Sox are unveiling the Harold Baines statue. That must be weird for him, he's coaching first base, his number was retired twice and now he's got a statue? |
| 9:33
| Lou won the bonus prize, he went with #14. Steve will definitely need a statue, it can be out of tin or something. Not meat though, Hans is going to do that one. |
| 9:34
| Caller Tony is worried that if Steve ever gets a statue it'll say Stev Dahl instead of Steve. Maybe that happens if Hans sculpts it out of meat. |
| 9:35
| Steve's just teasing Hans, as is Tony. He's part of Chicago folklore now. |
| 9:36
| Hans is meeting Fukudome on Sunday, he'll do his best to get an autograph for Steve. Can he get that in Japanese? |
| 9:37
| The big announcement yesterday is that the Blackhawks will air all 82 of their games next season, home and away. |
| 9:38
| Buzz is wondering if Pat's aware of the Moises Alou statement. They're scheduled to talk about that coming up. |
| 9:39
| Moises is now saying that he wouldn't have caught the ball that Bartman touched. It only took him 5 1/2 years to make the comment. |
| 9:40
| That's some maturity from Alou since the night it happened he threw a temper-tantrum and the wheels came off. |
| 9:41
| Steve doesn't want to forget that Pat Loony is really the guy who was grabbing from the bar. And yet he's off scot free. |
| 9:42
| Alou obviously could have caught that ball but it's nice that he's saying he couldn't have. He could have done it a little sooner though. |
| 9:43
| Hans wanted to tell Pat that he had some coaches from the Red Wings at the restaurant last night. |
| 9:44
| One of the coaches said that Jonathan Toews will be better than Sedelburg. So Pat can use that on Comcast if he wants. |
| 9:45
| Yesterday James Wisniewski decided to mess around with Jonathan Toews car. Toews wasn't too happy about it and when he came to find Wisniewski he was talking to reporters |
| 9:46
| Wisniewski ran off, got into his car and then Toews threw a water bottle at the car. He was a little miffed. |
| 9:47
| Last night Wisniewski was at the Bulls game and the Comcast crew let him run the cameras for a while. |
| 9:48
| Steve has the audio of the Wisniewski prank. He can see how Toews would be annoyed but it's pretty funny. Steve loves how all hockey players have the Canadian accent even if they're not Canadian. |
| 9:56
| That's Dale Tallon talking about televising Blackhawks home games. That Dale Tallon is a great guy. Steve had a great time sitting between him and Doug Wilson at Smith & Wollensky. |
| 9:57
| Dale Tallon has done a hell of a job building this team. He drafted Toews and Kane, that would be enough. |
| 9:58
| The Hawks didn't get any help from Nashville last night, they rallied to win. If they win one more they're done. But they're playing Nashville on Friday so it could come down to that. |
| 9:59
| Steve's sort of new to hockey so he's having trouble following the point system. It's a little more complicated than the "games behind" in baseball. |
| 10:00
| Hans has a cake for Steve and Buzz. It was supposed to say "Happy Anniversary Steve and Buzz" but instead it says "Happy Birthday Stev." |
| 10:01
| We've got one final clip from Pat. Barack Obama was in Altoona, Pennsylvania and he took some time off to bowl. He bowled a whopping 37. Why did he do that? |
