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| 5:30
| Ah yes, what a lovely day. Is it a lovely day? Buzz says it's not. OK then good morning, what crappy day it is. A crappy day to Steve's friend across the console our counsole as some people say. And a crappy day to everyone out in radio land. |
| 5:31
| Steve didn't really notice the crummy weather but he hasn't been outside. He did have to drive 55 all the way in because he got behind a state police car. It was a K-9 unit so Steve wasn't sure if he could pass him. Does the K-9 unit pull people over or are they just looking for bombs and drugs? |
| 5:32
| Buzz is pretty sure they don't have any rules about that, if they want to pull you over they'll pull you over. Buzz was once pulled over by a paddy wagon and the guy was hopping mad. He did fly right past him though. |
| 5:33
| Buzz is a crazy driver, no wonder he rarely gets to use the car except on weekends to drunk drive. You'd think his bad driving during the week would make it so he can't use the car on the weekends but it's not like that. |
| 5:34
| So a crappy good morning to you out there in radio land. Steve had some other thing he was going to say based on what they were just talking about but now he can't remember. Buzz reminds Steve today is the anniversary of the Martin Luther King assassination. |
| 5:35
| Martin Luther King's son put on a little weight. You want your Martin Luther King III to look like Martin Luther King Jr. and not Rerun, don't you? If you're Martin Luther King III and you're on Martin Luther King Drive do you pretend it's named after you? |
| 5:36
| Sometimes the street name says Martin Luther King Jr. Drive and sometimes it doesn't. Buzz feels it's a family name so he might think of it as his. Steve imagines if he ever has a street named after him his family will think it's theirs. |
| 5:37
| Is Steve seeing Jesse Jackson on CLTV at the hotel where King was shot? It's not back-in-the-day Jesse so it must be recent. Steve watches a lot of CLTV, maybe they should try to work out some sort of cross-promotion. |
| 5:38
| Steve should call Lee Abrams, he's working for the Tribune now. Steve finally had to email Lee because he was getting sick of seeing all the articles about Lee where it said he gave Steve his first job in a major radio market and also came up with Disco Demolition. |
| 5:39
| The articles also said Abrams gave Stern his first job on a major market radio station. First of all Steve had a job before Howard in a major market in California. Steve didn't really mention any of this in his email, he just said "Let's do lunch." It'll probably come up during the lunch though. |
| 5:40
| Steve's already got Mike Veeck out there saying Disco Demolition was his idea. And whenever Steve is identified with Disco Demolition it's usually someone calling him a homophobe. So he's got the short end of that stick. |
| 5:41
| So maybe Steve will float his CLTV idea by Lee Abrams. Buzz is wondering if he can also get Amy Rutledge's phone number for him. That's the bug-eyed reporter on CLTV that Buzz loves. |
| 5:42
| She might not be that bug-eyed on TV though. Just like how the camera ads ten pounds it might add about a half inch of bug-outedness. |
| 5:43
| OK this is from our broadcast partner CLTV, Jesse Jackson talking about Martin Luther King. All Steve has to do is say "broadcast partner" and then they can run ads for the show. |
| 5:44
| Jesse says that the events of the day King was killed play in the back of his head everyday. Steve has to say that if he were at someone's assassination he'd never forget it, especially on the anniversary. Jesse says "they killed him" although we don't know that James Earl Ray didn't act alone. |
| 5:45
| He sort of seemed like an idiot though and they found him in London even though he seemed underfunded. It's great of Jesse to head down to Memphis and give some interviews at the hotel where King was shot. Buzz thinks he just happened to be in the area. |
| 5:46
| People will wear black armbands and share readings, poems and songs in honor of King. Is that going to be at the hotel? It's not a Courtyard by Marriott. They'll be enjoying the breakfast buffet as well. Jesse will have the eggs over easy just like Martin Luther King liked them. It's also how he liked his white women and kudos to hi. |
| 5:47
| There's also some Drew Peterson stuff on here. Two of his former love interests testified in front of a grand jury. That makes Drew sound like a stud. |
| 5:48
| The motel down in Memphis where King was killed is now the National Civil Rights Museum. It's not a Courtyard by Marriott as Steve had previously thought. |
| 5:51
| Steve is now in the process of going through his computer and locating a bunch of missing songs on iTunes. His computer crashed and he spent more money recovering the hard drive than the computer cost. |
| 5:52
| A bunch of song are missing and over the last 2 months every song Steve has wanted to play has been one that's missing. There were a bunch of files on Steve's hard drive so some how Ed and Adam got together, perhaps in an Indian sweat lodge, and decided which files to recover. |
| 5:53
| Alright time for the web poll. Yesterday's web poll was "who is hotter?" and the options are Katie Lee Joel and Jessica Seinfeld. Jerry Seinfeld of course rolled his Fiat when the breaks failed and swerved to avoid an intersection. Some how he comes out a hero. He gets all the brakes! |
| 5:54
| Jerry's in town next weekend so if you're out on the streets keep your eyes open in case he's driving around in one of his 40 vintage Porsches. He's at the Chicago Theater, maybe he could crash through ABC studios. Hopefully Ravi Baichwal will be there. Although he handled the last car crash quite well. |
| 5:55
| 87% of the people said that Katie Lee Joel was hotter. And kudos to Billy, how does he keep doing it? It's the piano, he can play anything on that thing. He sits at the bar, they put bread in his car and say "man, what are you doing here?" It got him Christy Brinkley but then he traded her in for a new model. |
| 5:56
| Then he's got that musical with his music that he probably didn't have to do that much work for. And he looks like the Jim Cramer guy. |
| 5:57
| Today's web poll question is "Will you be attending Vampire Weekend?" Buzz doesn't know what it is but it sounds up his alley. Maybe there should be a third option for the web poll, "what is it?" |
| 5:58
| This article is by Jim DeRogatis, the short, pimply music critic for Sun-Times who hates everything because he's a frustrated musician. |
| 5:59
| Does anyone remember The Official Preppy Handbook, Jim DeRogatis asks? It was a satirical overview of old-school, deep-pocket, upperclass WASP society, packaged as a reference guide. |
| 6:00
| If only Vampire Weekend had existed when the book was compiled. Is Vampire Weekend a band or a festival? It seems like it's a festival based on the question. |
| 6:01
| Steve doesn't keep up on all the festivals but he can always count on great Lollapalooza coverage from Pete and Jim. They'll just sit there at the radio booth table at Lollapalooza, not talking because they're trying to be cool in front of the black intern kid who's now a producer for Fresh FM. Although it doesn't seem like there's much to do. |
| 6:02
| Vampire weekend came together in early 2006. So are they a band or a festival? Pete says they're a band. Steve won't be attending the show then. Although it's sold out. |
| 6:03
| Steve's guessing Jim DeRogatis doesn't like them because the shows sold out. Does Pete remember when he and Steve went on a date to the Arcade Fire show? They saw Jim DeRogatis. |
| 6:04
| Jim does not have a good look, he's very short, like one of those midgets you rent for parties and they put those tall costumes on. He also speaks with a bit of a lisp. |
| 6:05
| It seems like Jim DeRogatis' problems with Vampire Weekend are only lyrical and musical. That's pretty much everything. Pete likes them though but they are preppy. They've also been compared to Graceland-era Paul Simon. |
| 6:06
| Steve actually does know the band, he saw them on SNL. They must be good if Jim DeRogatis hates them. Everything he likes is bad. Even the guys in the bands he likes don't like their own music. |
| 6:07
| Maybe the web poll should be changed to "Will you be attending the Vampire Weekend show?" Not that it really matters though, it's not like we're sending this on to the government. |
| 6:08
| Vampire Weekend has sold out Metro so will Pete be dumping them? He'll probably giving them one more CD or a move up to a bigger venue. If they sell out The Riv he'll probably drop them. |
| 6:09
| Jim DeRogatis probably doesn't like them because they aren't short and don't have acne. It seems like Pete is more of a music fan than Jim DeRogatis is. |
| 6:10
| Steve has heard stories of Jim being at Lollapalooza and missing entire acts because he's at the buffet. Pete was just talking about Lollapalooza today because a partial line-up was released. Steve was just getting to that. |
| 6:11
| First some samples of Vampire Weekend music though. There's your Paul Simon right there. It sounds fine to Steve. Pete will not be attending the Vampire Weekend show tonight. Is Pete going to the Cubs game today? |
| 6:12
| Pete will not be at the Cubs game. Our own Stephanie was there yesterday and she was sending Pete pictures from her good seats. It was very Ed Silha-like. |
| 6:13
| Steve went to Sport Clips yesterday and he told Stephanie to leave the address of the one he was going to in his car. She left the address and street name but not the town. So Steve calls her and in the background he hears the crowd and the crack of the bat. |
| 6:14
| Stephanie said the town might be Lombard so Steve tried to input all that in his GPS and it wouldn't let him find it. It might have been Steve's fault but he called Stephanie back and harassed her for being a traitor. Steve thought she was a Sox fan! She seems like a Sox fan when she's using Steve's seats! |
| 6:15
| Pete was at the game yesterday along with Brendan and AJ from down the hall. That's the guy Pete and Jim were afraid of at Lollapalooza last year. They were intimidated by the fact that he was sitting at the table wearing headphones and were trying to be cool that they provided the worst coverage of Lollapalooza that anyone has ever heard. |
| 6:16
| Steve calls down to the newsroom. Pete and JIm's coverage sent the show into a tailspin that Steve doesn't think we've ever recovered from. Jim thought they recovered fine later in that broadcast but really Steve just let them off the hook.They just went on their merry way after the show to see Wild Stupid Pony or whatever they're called. Jim doesn't know that band. They were wearing pony heads. How can Jim not remember this crap?! |
| 6:17
| Pete thinks he's talking about Sparklehorse. It seems like a grown man could be arrested for seeing that band. All they wanted were the free tickets they got from Steve, after that they just cared about looking cool in front of AJ. And now they're not afraid of him and they're all friends. AJ can't be that black, he took a job at Le Douche. He's sitting down there listening to Alanis Morissette records all day. |
| 6:18
| So Pete and Brendan went to the Cubs yesterday but Jim bailed because he's been sick all week. He's going on Saturday and he's trying to recover. Brendan thought it was a weak excuse. Then the Cubs won and Wood got his first save. This is as fascinating as the Lollapalooza coverage. Oh the stories they tell about the Cubs games! |
| 6:19
| Pete loves Jim but he's a bit of a misanthrope. They were down 2-0 in the first inning and that would have sent Jim into a tailspin. Meanwhile Brendan is still very optimistic about everything. |
| 6:20
| After the game Pete and Brendan went to the new Harry Caray's which used to be Hi-Tops. It was really nice and they saw Ronnie Woo-Woo. They got a picture with him as well. |
| 6:28
| That's Ravi Baichwal doing the news while a van crashes through the front window of ABC 7 studios. He was a consummate pro through it all because he didn't swear. |
| 6:29
| Even though he's from Canada Steve likes him. He'd like to think that if a car ever burst through this studio that would be Steve's response. |
| 6:30
| The other night when Steve was leaving the Hawks game and racing a guy in a Camaro going 100 mph he didn't care if he died. It's not like he's depressed or anything, he just didn't want the guy to beat him. |
| 6:31
| Caller Tom from Geneva although he's in Northbrook. Although it says he's in Buffalo Grove. That's where he was when he called in. |
| 6:32
| Maybe Brendan should start asking where people are, not where they're from. Steve just wants to give shout-outs to different towns. It's not like he's tracking where everyone is though. Maybe we should have a big board that tracks all the callers though. |
| 6:33
| Wherever Tom is is cool with him. Just so Steve gets the timeline, Tom is from Geneva and he's in Northbrook now but when he called in he was in Buffalo Grove. So Brendan should start asking people where they are. Although it's hard to know how long you're going to be on hold. |
| 6:34
| Tom has some info about iTunes. They just started a new policy where they'll let you redownload songs you already downloaded. Steve's pretty sure the files he's looking for are ones he took off a CD. |
| 6:35
| Steve doesn't really blame Ed or Adam for the problem but if he was one of them he would have grabbed the bull by the horns and just found all those files. |
| 6:36
| Adam's in the studio every Friday backing up Steve's computer but maybe he thinks the iTunes is too personal. What if he were to discover that Steve had Queen's entire catalog on his computer? |
| 6:37
| Live read: Hawthorne Race Course |
| 6:38
| Caller Rob is in Antioch. Is that where he is or where he's from? Rob's sticking with Antioch. Don't let Steve shake you. No matter how much he asks where you are just stick to where you're from. |
| 6:39
| Rob had a comment about Jim DeRogatis. Steve was reading Jim's article about Vampire Weekend who Jim doesn't like because they're beyond MySpace. |
| 6:40
| Rob was watching a Cribs episode with some guy who's in a heavy metal band from Chicago. They're going through his house and showing all his gold records and everything he has. In one room he's got his blown up album review from Jim DeRogatis. |
| 6:41
| The review says that the band can't write a song and will never be successful. Rob can't remember the name of the band but they're somewhat recent. |
| 6:42
| Caller Jules has some info about the heavy metal band. Jules was Buzz's dad's nickname. |
| 6:43
| The band on Cribs was Disturbed although Jules isn't really a fan. He's heard the lead singer is kind of a jerk. You sort of have to be if you're a lead singer. |
| 6:44
| Steve's giving Jules a spin of the wheel and he gave one to Rob too. Steve's trying not to give a spin to everyone though. |
| 6:45
| It seems like Mary and Todd are ganging up on Steve to get him to stop spinning the prize wheel as much. It's weird because whenever there's a suggestion like that Steve gets an email from a listener saying the exact same thing they did. |
| 6:46
| They both say that getting to talk to Steve should be enough of a prize for most people. Of course Steve appreciates that. They also think that it seems like people call in with the same info over and over just to win. |
| 6:47
| Another thing that Mary and Todd might not like is that Steve can't remember if he's spun the wheel or what number the person picked. Buzz likes it because he can read his little thing over the music. |
| 6:48
| Steve has the email from that listener. It says that in order to make the show run a little smoother maybe he shouldn't spin the wheel for everyone. It also says that talking to the legends, Steve and Buzz should be prize enough. Does Buzz feel different now that he's mentioned? |
| 6:49
| If Buzz is going to give away the restaurant gift certificates he needs to change up the options a bit. Buzz is only going with what he has which are 4 restaurants. He has a lot of concerts on here as well. |
| 6:50
| Steve calls down to Adam's office. We've got 4 concerts and 4 restaurants, he needs to fill up the wheel more. Although the concerts might need to get a certain number of mentions. |
| 6:51
| The biggest problem was when the sales department got a hold of it and started selling the prize wheel. |
| 6:56
| Steve knows that was Greg Kot and Jim DeRogatis on some show but he doesn't know what it is. They were actually on Conan. Conan! How big does Steve have to be to get on Conan or Letterman? They're just on public radio! |
| 6:57
| Conan was here and Steve wasn't even on his show! And half of his material was stolen from Steve since his writers are all from Chicago! He stole Gay Lincoln and Pimpbot 2000. Although Pimpbot was Devon, which Kevin Matthews did. But Kev stole Devon from Steve as Blackie the Elf. |
| 6:58
| So back to that listener email. He thinks the show would go smoother if not everyone got a spin of the wheel. He was the one who called the other day about the Towpath Inn. |
| 6:59
| Song: Sister Golden Hair, America |
| 7:03
| That's one of Steve's all-time favorite songs. A couple of years ago Gerry Beckley was in town filming an episode of Soundstage. Steve was involved in that show's resurgence with his good friend Joe Thomas until they had a falling out. |
| 7:04
| That's a lesson Steve still hasn't learned, you can't have friends in showbiz that you work with. Those are the only people talk to though. Basically everyone is in showbiz for themselves. A friend is somebody who would do anyone for you and someone in showbiz is not something who would do anything for you. |
| 7:05
| Steve and Joe didn't see eye to eye over the size and scope of Soundstage. Steve wanted it to be small and intimate but Joe had bigger ideas that involved fake gilded balconies. So Steve didn't want to be involved in it any more. |
| 7:06
| Steve and Joe were still friends though and when Gerry was in town Joe wanted to bring him in. Although that just reminded Steve about their falling out because Steve's on-air duet with Gerry on Sister Golden Hair became very complicated. |
| 7:07
| Maybe it was Gerry who made it complicated but it seemed like it was Joe. Steve was told that he was going to play the slide guitar part of the song and he nailed the intro but pooched the second part. Had Steve been singing or playing rhythm guitar it probably would have been fine but instead he sat there for a minute and a half thinking about it. |
| 7:08
| Do we want to hear the screw-up? Steve's pretty sure he instructed Pete to remix the screw-up right out of there but he's not sure if he did. Pete has not remixed it either, probably because he also enjoys hearing Steve fail. It's like the opposite of The Natural, everyone wants to see Steve fail, not just Darren McGavin. |
| 7:09
| Pete feels that if Steve hadn't messed that part up Steve would never talk about it again. Steve would talk about it but maybe Pete wouldn't want to. |
| 7:10
| Let's just hear the whole song so at least people can hear the parts that Steve didn't mess up. He nails the first part although he thinks that Pete mixed him down. He probably cared more about Gerry than Steve. |
| 7:11
| Steve should be singing with Gerry at the beginning but Joe probably didn't want him to. That's just his own only-child selfishness. |
| 7:12
| Live read: Seattle Sutton |
| 7:13
| Alright let's go back to the song and listen to Steve screw it up. Has Pete gone back to the beginning? Why would he do that? Pete thought we could go through it once without stopping it. Maybe on his show. This isn't a bowling alley, we don't rerack things. Buzz thought it had been magically fixed. So did Steve! |
| 7:20
| When Steve heard the intro of Sister Golden Hair again it made him realize that Pete has the skill to re-edit that song and eradicate any trace of Steve's mistake. No matter how charming Pete pretends it is! |
| 7:21
| At least can we have two versions so Steve can occasionally play the mistake-free version? Then he'll rewrite history and the mistake will have never happened. |
| 7:22
| Pete has it at the point where now Steve wants to start he song over. Everyone here really has Steve figured out don't they? They lead him around like a circus animal. Buzz thinks it's for Steve's own benefit. |
| 7:23
| Everyone does it except for Brendan, it seems like he's the only one on Steve's side. But Pete does it and Mary and Jim. Stephanie's sitting at a Cubs game while Steve's looking for the city where the Sport Clips he's going to is located. |
| 7:24
| Someone from the show should have accompanied Steve to Sport Clips and the sales guy should have been there as well. Because the entire marketing staff of Sport Clips was there. But Steve was all alone, out in the big scary world. And no one even told him he looked good. When does the hurting stop Buzz? |
| 7:25
| OK, start it up again. See, Steve nails that intro. He should have been singing with Gerry. |
| 7:26
| Alright turn it off Pete. TURN IT OFF! Steve wants that fixed and he wants it fixed now! Steve's going to come into Pete's studio and add vocals to the song too! |
| 7:27
| Steve always wanted a bromance with Gerry Beckley and it seemed like Joe Thomas did too. Joe got his way though because he's an only child. They always get their way. |
| 7:28
| Pete can put that in the archive with a special secret code. He knows he can fix it too. Pete hopes he can. Even Buzz could do it although he'd have to put it on tape and cut it up with a razor blade. |
| 7:29
| Don't make Steve come in there and seize the computer Pete! God knows what else he has stored on there. And once he takes it there will be no more secrets. |
| 7:30
| Buzz thinks it'll be fixed and the bad memory will be cleansed. Steve hopes so and he hopes it happens by 7:45. |
| 7:31
| Live read: Joebees |
| 7:32
| Joe Bee is here. Isn't it time for Steve to take his bee pollen? Take it ya fat jerk! Joe's just trying to fit in with the rest of Steve's staff. |
| 7:33
| Joe Bee can't believe there isn't a statue to Steve somewhere in this city, made of Italian beef. Buzz is glad to know he's a listener. |
| 7:34
| News with Buzz |
| 7:35
| It's Martin Luther King day. Didn't we already have that? It's actually the anniversary of his assassination but Blago has declared this a day to honor him. Doesn't he know there's already a day to honor him? |
| 7:36
| The night before he died he gave his famous I've Been to the Mountaintop speech. Is that the same as the I Have a Dream speech? |
| 7:37
| Naomi Campbell has been released from jail pending an investigation after she was pulled off a flight at Heathrow airport. She got into a fight with police officers after discovering that one of her three carry-on bags was missing. Was she on something or is she just a bitch? |
| 7:38
| Hillary Clinton showed off her lighter side on The Tonight Show last night. Steve would like to just say, before we get too far away from this, that he's received a mean email about his guitar work on Sister Golden Hair. |
| 7:39
| Steve is going to point him out by name just so he can be ostracized by the musical community. Michael Wurth says that Steve didn't play the first guitar part very confidently either. That's just mean. He's an ex-musician so he's probably just bitter the he had to take a "straight" job. |
| 7:40
| Air America talk show host Randi Rhodes was suspended after making comments about Hillary Clinton and Geraldine Ferraro. Steve thought Air America went bankrupt. |
| 7:41
| Rhodes calls both of them whores. You can't do that! Where was this at a Starbuck's or something? |
| 7:42
| Driver's who normally take the Edens Expressway are advised to take alternate routes even though IDOT's Marissa Kollias says there are no alternate routes |
| 7:43
| Bond has been set at $5 million for each of the 5 people charged in the first shooting death in Naperville in 3 years. |
| 7:44
| Tyrone's checking in to let Buzz know that he's got a service with his choptater, picking up good-looking North Shore women and taking them downtown. It's free but if you want to tip Tyrone that's fine. |
| 7:45
| All you have to do to get a ride is be in your backyard waiting and then take your shirt off. Tyrone has room for one more, he'll be looking for ya. Tyrone's just trying to help. If he's taking 4 ladies downtown that's 4 less cars on the Edens. |
| 7:46
| Tyrone will take you home too and he serves complimentary beverages. Who knows what will happen. They've already flashed him. |
| 7:47
| A fight broke out at an anti-violence rally at George Washington High School on the Southeast Side. |
| 7:48
| Drew Peterson's second wife and a former fiance both testified in front of a grand jury yesterday. He'll be addressing that later during an Ask Drew segment. |
| 7:49
| Can Steve share another hate letter? This is from someone who has sent letters before so Steve won't say their name. He thought he had this person banned though. Steve doesn't want any criticism, even if it's constructive. He's earned that right hasn't he? |
| 7:50
| This emailer has been listening for 30 years and has noticed that recently, to kill dead air, Steve has started making a clucking sound to fill the dead air. Clucking?! Like a chicken? |
| 7:51
| The emailer says that Steve makes clucking noise with his tongue on the roof of his mouth. Buzz has noticed that but Steve has an array of sound effects he uses. |
| 7:52
| Steve was looking for his place in an article about Brant Miller or G-Reg or Sport Clips. Which one is it? This person doesn't even remember. Steve does do that but is it really that offensive? |
| 7:53
| Maybe Steve should start clucking like a chicken though. He's going to call down to the weather center and while the phone's ringing he's going to cluck. How's that? |
| 7:54
| The emailer does redeem themselves by saying people should relisten to the podcast in the afternoon. Steve won't ban them but is this necessary? Steve's in the mood to hear Do You Think I'm Poultry if Pete could get that ready. |
| 7:58
| Steve didn't mean to interrupt the news with hate mail but it's news to him that people hate him. Not really though. To be successful in radio you really need about 6 people in 100 to like you. |
| 7:59
| Steve's waiting 5 seconds until it's exactly 8 am. |
| 8:00
| Alright it's time for the Eight O'Clock Taco Bell. Since it's Friday it's time for the Weekend Kick-off. Steve is starving and he's really glad these Cheesy Beefy Melts are here. |
| 8:01
| Song: Do You Think I'm Poultry, Steve Dahl |
| 8:04
| There ya go, another one from the hit factory. That song was actually recorded in Steve's home in Bolingbrook, back in the day. |
| 8:05
| And speaking of Bolingbrook, time for some Ask Drew as soon as he gets here. Drew has brought in the Joliet Herald because they always have juicier articles about Drew. That's because it's local. |
| 8:06
| Prosecutors paraded Drew's ex-lovers before the grand jury yesterday. That makes Drew sound like a stud. |
| 8:07
| Peterson's second wife, Vicki Connolly, refused to comment on her testimony. Former fiance Kyle Piry said she was unable to discuss what she told the grand jury. That's because it's illegal. |
| 8:08
| Attorney Joel Brodsky doesn't think Connolly or Piry are relevant to the case and quipped "when are they going to bring in Drew's prom date?" Joel's a good quipper. |
| 8:09
| They may just bring in Drew's prom date which was also his first wife, Carol Brown. |
| 8:10
| Brown's husband Dave Brown said his wife had not be summoned. He probably doesn't like being reminded of all this. You have to be jealous after you see how handsome Drew is, what a jokester he is. |
| 8:11
| Piry and Peterson were engaged for a few months in the early 80s. Piry broke it off and accused Drew of stalking her and writing her tickets for frivolous things like having bald tires. |
| 8:12
| Bald tires can be dangerous! Drew's just doing his job, he was sworn to protect the people of Bolingbrook. |
| 8:13
| Connolly married Drew in 1982 after he split up with Kyle Piry. They stayed together for 10 years during which time Connolly says she suffered physical abuse and threats from Drew. |
| 8:14
| She reportedly tolerated Drew's extramarital affairs but they divorced when he took up with Kathleen Savio. |
| 8:15
| Peterson has dismissed Connolly's allegations and says that she's just mad that he cheated on her. |
| 8:16
| Brodsky also questioned the negative comments saying that Connolly and Piry are just an ex-wife and a jilted girlfriend. Isn't Joel the best? He takes care of him. |
| 8:24
| It does seem strange to Buzz that Drew is almost preparing for a trial. He doesn't recall another situation like that. He's a realist. In the meantime what happens to Craig Stebic? He did get his car back but it was his wife's car. Do the do that just to torture him? |
| 8:25
| Live read: Fresh Diet |
| 8:26
| Alright should Drew take some calls? He has advice for the lovelorn. Drew didn't want to just jump into the broadcast earlier but as a police officer he is a realist. |
| 8:27
| Drew knows that the prosecution is going to have to do something to justify all the time spent on this investigation. |
| 8:28
| It makes Drew look like more of a man to say he's ready for whatever is coming. Stebic's just walking around all mopey. He doesn't know who to keep himself in the public eye either. He's not keeping it real but then he copies Drew and says he wants his stuff back. |
| 8:29
| Drew's just hoping no one thinks he copied Craig Stebic with the above-ground pool. Everyone saw Craig's pool before Drew's pool. Drew's is nicer anyway. If Amy Jacobson had come to swim at Drew's house she would have been afforded the privacy she needed to enjoy the pool in peace. |
| 8:30
| Caller Pam is from Mokena. Pam doesn't need advice for the lovelorn but two weeks ago her daughter was at Sandals in Jamaica and Stacy was not there. So Drew can cross that off his list? |
| 8:31
| There are several Sandals down there so Stacy could have been at a different one. Pam's daughter was at the Sandals in Montego Bay. Buzz knows there are two there, one for partying and one that's more for families. He's guessing Pam's daughter was at the party Sandals. No need to cast aspersions Buzz. |
| 8:32
| Is Pam hot? It's not like he can get into any more trouble for messing around with a married broad. |
| 8:33
| Caller Rod is in Lockport. Of course they just had that hotel fire where the Dreams Sports Bar burned down. It's an ideal situation to have a hotel above a sports bar. |
| 8:34
| Rod is wondering if Drew gets excited thinking that his next wife hasn't even been born yet. Well that's a smart-ass comment. |
| 8:35
| If Drew were still a cop he'd figure out a way to arrest Rod. He'd follow him around in Lockport until he got into Bolingbrook. |
| 8:36
| Caller Tim saw Drew at Leo's in Romeoville, it looked like he was having a good time. He's just trying to forget his sorrows. |
| 8:37
| Drew had the girls lined up to give him a nightgown dance and he had a bouncer standing next to him. It sounds like Tim is jealous. What can he say, chicks dig an outlaw? |
| 8:38
| That's that lingerie bar out in Romeoville. Drew's trying to talk but Tim keeps interrupting him. |
| 8:39
| Drew was trying to go back to that caller but instead he got Pat Boyles. He's a big fan of Comcast Sportsnet though. |
| 8:40
| Let's take one more call since that last one was aborted. He was all ready to go back to that guy. He was mouthing off anyway. If Drew had pulled him over he'd probably get tased. |
| 8:41
| Caller Craig was wondering if Drew had a good time up in the Wisconsin Dells last weekend. He loves the water parks but a lot of people were coming up to talk to him. |
| 8:42
| Craig was wondering if Drew's going to have his own line of swimsuits now. Everyone's a smart-ass today. They're just jealous. How many broads has Craig nailed?! |
| 8:50
| Guess what time it is Buzz? It's Peanut Butter Jelly Time! Pat Boyle is on the phone. Before the sports Steve needs to take a detour. |
| 8:51
| Live read: Townstone Financial |
| 8:52
| David can mention his radio show on another station but Steve really wishes he wouldn't. It's just an irritation for Steve. |
| 8:53
| Buzz saw David's column in the Sun-Times today. It's actually just an advertisement but it's next to Feder's column. Buzz always reads Feder just to find out if he still has a job. |
| 8:54
| Steve would always tell Buzz that before it was in the paper so he doesn't need to read Feder. Unless he's interested in what's going on with suburban radio people or which traffic reporters just had babies. |
| 8:55
| Can someone get David on the line? Of course he think this will be a payoff for the commercial but the mention of his show is an irritation for Steve and he can't see a good reason for it. |
| 8:56
| How is Pat fixed for his mortgage? He went with an ARM because they're thinking of moving to the suburbs. |
| 8:57
| So the Sox, Cubs and Bulls all won which is all good. Steve some how ended up watching the Predators at Blues game which left him shocked and appalled. He was watching a hockey game not even in this city. |
| 8:58
| The Hawks are not officially eliminated after the Blues lost. They still have one more home game tonight and they deserve some recognition for the season. They had a lot of rookies on the team and hockey is relevant in Chicago again. |
| 8:59
| It's definitely relevant if we're all watching the Nashville/St. Louis game in low-def. Steve was on the Nashville feed but it was irritating because they wanted to win of course. They shouldn't even have hockey in that town! |
| 9:00
| Steve also rewatched the entire Red Wings game from Wednesday night as well because it was rebroadcast on Comcast yesterday. How weird is that? |
| 9:01
| Plus Steve freaked out everyone in his office because he got an email from the Hawks saying he should have received an invoice for his playoff tickets. He hadn't received the invoice yet so he hassled everyone in his office and everyone left in the Blackhawks office at 5 pm. |
| 9:02
| Steve spent a lot of that time emailing a guy who is no longer with the team which just heightened everything. But it was all a moot point. |
| 9:03
| Now Steve will turn his attention to the White Sox. Both teams got their first victories of the season yesterday. Steve watched some of the Cubs game while getting his haircut at Sport Clips. That was very enjoyable. |
| 9:04
| Steve would have liked a Sport Clips when his boys were younger because it was really hard to get them to get a haircut. It would not be hard to get them to go to Sport Clips. Steve went to the Sport Clips in Lombard and he got the full MVP package. Although you can add more towel time if you'd like. |
| 9:05
| Luckily Steve was able to get to Lombard yesterday though. He's calling up to the office. What's that insane clucking that Buzz is hearing? |
| 9:06
| Yesterday Steve had to call Stephanie because she left the address for Sport Clips but not the town. Usually the town is a key part of the address. Stephanie thought he didn't need the town because they'd already talked about him going to Lombard. |
| 9:07
| If Steve wants to walk around forgetting stuff people have told him he wouldn't need Stephanie. He could save the money on her salary and save the irritation of having to call her while she's at the Cubs game. And she's a so-called Sox fan! |
| 9:08
| There was no remorse either, she was busy! You could hear her chugging a beer too, between the crack of the bat and the cheer of the crowd. |
| 9:09
| Steve will remember this next time he's got extra tickets to a Sox game. For a while Steve was rudderless! He was just driving around in a circle. |
| 9:10
| Lou Piniella was a little testy before the game when reporters questioned him moving Soriano back to the leadoff spot. It worked OK because he had a couple of RBIs. |
| 9:11
| After the game some people wondered if Lou should move Fukudome to the #2 spot. It's only the third game right? |
| 9:12
| Yesterday Steve was listening to some of the Sox post-game and Chris Ronge was indulging the callers and letting them imagine what the 2009 season would be like. What are these idiots talking about?! |
| 9:13
| If it gets to that point you probably have to turn it off. Of course that's sports radio, it's like watching flies have sex. Those call-in shows are nuts but that was just in the afternoon. The ones at night are even worse because the callers are hammered. |
| 9:14
| Pat did get to listen to Ed Farmer and Steve Stone for an extended period of time and he really loves that. They're both pitchers so they're really able to analyze everything a pitcher is going to do. |
| 9:15
| Farmio is with the program too although it could have gone bad. But you learn a lot listening to those two. |
| 9:16
| Steve was getting a lot of shout-outs on ESPN 1000 yesterday, Dan McNeil was talking about running into him. That was here Dan told Steve to keep an eye out for #88, he's pretty good. Dan said it was his friend doing that. |
| 9:17
| Speaking of the Sox, did Steve catch this headline "Hawk attacks 'A-Rod' on school tour of Fenway." It was an actual hawk, not the Red Sox mascot. What is there mascot, a talking sock or something? |
| 9:18
| Of course Yankees fans are taking his as a bad omen because the girl's name is Alexa Rodriguez. Yeah that makes sense. |
| 9:25
| Alright this is kind of a violation of the 20 minute rule but still worth an explanation. |
| 9:26
| David Hochberg is on the phone. Can he stop putting his radio show in the copy? He can put it on the website but if it's in the copy it goes against all of Steve's instincts. |
| 9:27
| The reason David didn't call earlier is because he was feeding the baby. Not breast feeding though, he's not like that guy who was on Oprah. |
| 9:28
| It would just be easier to for Steve if the other radio show wasn't mentioned. Because it's written so Steve can't get around it. |
| 9:29
| Steve did notice in the copy that David says if the woman had called before it was too late he could have helped her, although maybe not. That sounds like a depressed David Hochberg, does he have postpartum depression? |
| 9:30
| David's been up all night breast feeing, he's lost some of his bravado. We need 100 cc's of testosterone, stat! |
| 9:31
| Caller Larry heard that Nashville is the only hockey town where the players have more teeth than the fans. |
| 9:32
| Caller Mark wanted to let Steve know that the Red Sox mascot is Wally the Green Monster. It's not Ribbie and Rhubarb. Now the White Sox have some other thing that you really want to avoid. |
| 9:33
| Mark's favorite mascots are the sausages at Miller Park, you can't beat that. Steve knows that kids like that stuff but it's weird at Hawks games when you have Tommy the Hawk coming up to everyone. |
| 9:34
| Matt and Brendan did a nice little hunk on their podcast yesterday about Kevin Garnett saying he got hit with a t-shirt from Benny the Bull. |
| 9:35
| News with Buzz |
| 9:36
| Civil rights leaders are remembering the anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. |
| 9:37
| Meanwhile 50 years ago today the peace sign was invented. Can that be invented? Probably. |
| 9:38
| A gun enthusiast who threatened to recreate the Virginia Tech massacre is now in police custody in Florida. |
| 9:39
| Jimmy Carter made no official announcement about who he'd like to see in the White House next year because he's a superdelegate. He did say that his children and grandchildren are all pro-Obama. |
| 9:40
| Nicholas Cage is insisting he's not a dog thief. He won damages and apology from Kathleen Turner after she claimed in her autobiography that he once stole a chihuahua from her. |
| 9:41
| Barack Obama's church has been inundated with threatening calls and emails after video of Jeremiah Wright appeared on TV and the internet. Their new pastor is saying enough is enough. He sounds a little bit more low key than the other fella. |
| 9:42
| A Texas woman is facing animal cruelty charges after allegedly hanging her pit bull from a tree. The dog had been ordered into quarantine for chasing and biting children. |
| 9:43
| Meanwhile here in Chicago a woman bit the nose of a pit bull after it latched on to her own dog. What does a pit bull do after you bite it's nose? Buzz imagines it goes squealing off. |
| 9:44
| A Colorado man was arrested after he crashed a memorial service, grabbed the breast of the sister of the deceased and show the deceased's mother pornographic pictures. He was just trying to help with the grieving process. |
| 9:45
| That pit bull woman who bit the dog might have been in Minneapolis. It's still part of the Midwest bureau though. Buzz is always interested in pit bull stories. Up until now he didn't think there was way to stop a pit bull, they seem indestructible. Is Buzz imagining human versus pit bull fights? Because Steve is. |
| 9:46
| And from the Entertainment Bureau, Buzz Kilman and the Blues Rocket Scientists will be at the Harlem Avenue Lounge tonight. |
| 9:51
| That woman with the pit bull was in Minneapolis and her dog is a lab. If you love our dog at some point some instinct is going to kick in. Unless you have a gun or a 2 x 4, what else can you do but bite the pit bull? |
| 9:52
| Live read: Hawthorne Race Course |
| 9:53
| Just a couple of more things. First of all the White Sox mascot is Southpaw but as Ed Farmer has pointed out he's not actually a lefty. Steve's not sure he's noticed that but as a lefty he's been persecuted all his life. |
| 9:54
| Just try peeling potatoes or using scissors as a lefty. Scissors are the worst because you have to hold them upside down. |
| 9:55
| Buzz didn't know that scissors don't work the same for lefties. Steve will now demonstrate how to use scissors as a lefty. The grip is the same but the pressure on the blade is different. Now that Steve is doing it, maybe he's the only one who holds it upside down. He might just be an idiot because he always put his thumb through the big part and one finger through the small part. |
| 9:56
| Caller Gayle has problem with ice scream scoops as a lefty. Steve probably uses that upside-down too. Because the scissors he has here work fine either way. |
| 9:57
| Steve knows he's used scissors that are tough to use as a lefty. Do we have any other scissors around here that don't make Steve look like a moron? |
| 9:58
| Gayle saw the premiere of Rock the Cradle last night that featured Joe Walsh's daughter Lucy. When Joe called in on Wednesday he said he felt bad that he wasn't going to be on the show with her. |
| 9:59
| Now that Steve has seen it he thinks Joe made the right choice. He can't be sitting there next to a bloated Eddie Money or a Bobby Brown. They all seemed out of it. She seemed upset about it so she went ahead and sang a Don Henley song. |
| 10:00
| The show is very weird though. Belinda Carlisle is a judge on the show. She gave Dee Snider's kid a 5 out of 10 because she didn't think he did a great job on Zeppelin's Rock & Roll. |
| 10:01
| Then Dee Snider got mad at her because he had to reach out to Led Zeppelin just so they could perform that song. Of course that's a complete lie, you can perform any song you want once it's been recorded. All you'd have to do is play the standard BMI/ASCAP fee. |
