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| 5:31
| Live from Chicago, Illinois it's the Steve Dahl Show. It's a delightful Wednesday broadcast, that's Buzz Kilman and his 1,001 Strings with our theme song today. 1,001 strings and yet no strings attached. Buzz and his strings were recorded in hi-fidelity stereo. |
| 5:32
| Steve would like to know why people are awake at 5:30 in the morning. On his way into work he can never tell if people are still awake because they're just going home or if they just got up and are heading into work like Steve. |
| 5:33
| Steve got into a race with a gentleman in a pick-up truck and he didn't even start it. He was going up the First Ave. ramp onto the Stevenson behind a slow car. And the guy in the pick-up truck was also behind a slow car. |
| 5:34
| Sure, Steve might have crossed over some solid lines when he got up to the expressway but he wasn't doing that to get into the guy's face. He just wanted to get on the expressway and get going. |
| 5:35
| But he got on ahead of that guy who wanted to be in the left lane where Steve was. So for the entire time he kept trying to go faster than Steve. Eventually he realized they were going too fast and slowed it down. But then the guy in the truck went flying by him. |
| 5:36
| So of course Steve had to go flying by him and that was the last he saw of him. But he wasn't trying to race that guy, he was just annoyed with the slow moving car on the on-ramp. |
| 5:37
| The segment where Steve asks you why you're awake was inspired by an email he got yesterday. A young lady was enjoying the music we play at the beginning of the show. Buzz calls it filler music but it could also be one of the intro themes. It wasn't filler today though. |
| 5:38
| The woman has listened to Steve since she was 11 and loves the intro music at the beginning of the show. A tragic thing has happened to Steve, he can't see his computer screen. Cleaning his own glasses might have been a mistake but maybe this is just one of those days when he can't see. Does that happen, can you just go blind for a day? |
| 5:39
| The woman missed the old show open when we went to mornings but she loves the new intro music. That's from Michelle who calls herself Mickey. So this email made Steve wonder what on earth a girl named Mickey is doing up at 5:30 am. |
| 5:40
| Steve knows why he's up this early. Sometimes when he leaves in the morning he runs into a retired neighbor who's up walking his dog. When you're retired you can do whatever you want. Steve almost ran him over though because he wasn't expecting anyone in his neighborhood to be awake at 4:30. Unless it's a cat burglar and they deserve to be run over. |
| 5:41
| Caller Patrick is up early going into work. He boards the train in Highland, Indiana to come downtown. Patrick showers at night, wakes up at 5:15 and is at the train station by 5:30. |
| 5:42
| Patrick can't listen on the train because he doesn't have a radio, just an mp3 player. Those mp3 players are killing radio. Shouldn't the radio industry have a few leg breakers to get radios on mp3 players? |
| 5:43
| The train Patrick takes empties right into the Prudential Building where there's a delightful CInnabon. Patrick doesn't know how they can sell food on that pedway since it smells like homeless guys. |
| 5:44
| It doesn't smell in Millennium Station, just further down the pedway. Steve's always afraid to go into the pedway because he thinks it's for pedophiles. |
| 5:45
| You can buy an iPod accessory that's an FM tuner and it works pretty well. People from CBS radio should be out on the street handing those out to people. |
| 5:46
| Caller Christine is awake this early because she's going to teach a spinning class. That's hard to do right? Christine works at a corporate fitness center so she tells people what to do. She's always threatening to increase tension on the bikes if people don't keep working. |
| 5:47
| So if Steve were in Christine's class and he wasn't spinning hard enough, what happens, before he has his heart attack? Does he get embarrassed in front of the whole class? |
| 5:48
| We don't have any sort of corporate fitness center in the building and CBS doesn't care about your well-being. There is a gym across the street, that's where Steve and Buzz power lift together. "IT'S ALL YOU BRO!" |
| 5:49
| After the spinning class Christine goes to her other job as a wellness counselor. So Steve could come to her if he was having problems and couldn't stop eating ice cream? Then they could go get ice cream together. Could Steve drag Christine into that dark hole where he lives? |
| 5:50
| Steve would like someone like Christine in this building though, just to tell her what he ate. Christine probably has a nice butt from all that spinning right? |
| 5:51
| Caller Kyle isn't up early, he's up late and hoping to get to bed. He trades currencies on the London session and that opens at 1 am. Technically it's a job he could do from bed. There's nothing like watching Andy Griffith at 4:30 in the morning while trading Euros. |
| 5:52
| Sometimes around this time in the morning you'll find Kyle driving really fast getting some aggression out after losing some money. He wasn't driving a pick-up truck this morning was he? |
| 5:53
| Kyle works for himself although he used to work for a Wall Street firm. The real money is in trading for yourself, not financial planning/advising for other people. |
| 6:00
| This portion of the show is brought to you by Bank of America. Nice, that's big time right there. Buzz thought they recently inquired some huge thing like Countrywide. Sure we talked to the guy who trades currency but Buzz is confusing Steve with Len Walter. |
| 6:01
| Unless it affects Steve personally he doesn't pay attention to that kind of stuff. Steve's pretty sure Buzz is right but someone can call in and correct them or confirm it if they know. |
| 6:02
| Steve tries to live in a cashless society but if he needs cash he likes to be able to go to the ATM and get $500. |
| 6:03
| Some ATMs will only give you $300, even if your limit is higher than that. Buzz thought his limit was high but it's not $500. All he has to do is call his bank to up the limit. |
| 6:04
| Buzz is out there partying still though. Steve's big excitement is just going to the ATM and getting $500. Then he puts it in his wallet for 2 weeks. |
| 6:05
| Does Buzz want to do some news or should we do the web poll? Buzz always likes to do the web poll first but Steve just wants to recognize that Buzz has a newscast ready to go. He's Johnny-on-the-spot. |
| 6:06
| OK, yesterday's web poll question was "Should Steve start flying out of Rockford International Airport?" His answer was no. Buzz couldn't remember the news story about Rockford yesterday. |
| 6:07
| He went home and told Aimee that they did some Rockford stuff on the show and apparently the airport is closing. That resulted in a lot of panic because apparently a lot of people in Aimee's family fly out of Rockford. They're not closing though, just getting a new carrier. |
| 6:08
| It's a pretty nice airport though, Steve has driven by it and thought "what a waste!" Who built this thing?! It's the same thing with DuPage Airport. It's a complete waste but there it is, Dennis Hastert International. |
| 6:09
| Today's web poll question is "How many eggs do you eat in a week?" This question might be about Buzz since he eats about 5 eggs a week, usually the fake Egg Beater eggs. He mixes it up in a drink like Rocky. |
| 6:10
| Middle aged men who ate 7 or more eggs per week had an increased risk of an early death. Men with diabetes who eat any eggs at all increased their risk of death as well. |
| 6:11
| This new study adds to an ever-growing body of evidence, much of it contradictory, about how safe eggs are to eat. That's the best kind of evidence! |
| 6:12
| Men without diabetes could eat up to six eggs a week with no extra risk of death. That's what Buzz does, just keep it under 7. |
| 6:13
| Steve eats no eggs, at least not on purpose. Although he does have eggs if he eats them in that breakfast burrito with the chorizo. Is there a study about that? Steve could be dead by 9:30. |
| 6:14
| Steve doesn't like eggs by themselves, he prefers something else in there to dress it up. But he wouldn't start dry-heaving eating just eggs. Although now he wants one of those burritos. |
| 6:15
| Back during afternoons at WCKG, before we ran it into the ground, Steve had to come down early to do something on Fox. So he got a hotel room at the Fairmont so he could take a nap before the show. He had a breakfast burrito there that was great. But then he started getting the breakfast burrito at the other place he normally goes to. |
| 6:16
| Yesterday Steve decided he wanted the burrito from the Fairmont because it seemed healthier. It was just eggs, salsa and avocado, although he ordered bacon and shoved it in there. Steve always orders bacon in a hotel room, it's the only bad thing he can do in there. He just lays on the bed and puts the bacon on his arm. |
| 6:17
| But the burrito that was brought back was not the one they had before, there was no avocado. And it cost him $22. He didn't shove the bacon in it either and he only ate half. There was nothing he could do about it because he wasn't in the hotel. He wouldn't mind being on their room service though. |
| 6:18
| So that was Steve's attempt at a healthy choice for breakfast, because of the avocado. Although avocado is sort of a fake healthy. It's not the worst thing for you though. Although at home Steve eats the avocado and bacon sandwich on buttered English muffin. |
| 6:19
| So Steve might go back to the $4 burrito because $22 seems a bit pricey for a burrito he doesn't even want. Why would they change something that was good? It's probably some smart-alecky chef who got yelled at by Gordon Ramsay or something. |
| 6:20
| Does Buzz ever watch that Hell's Kitchen show? Steve liked it the first week but then it got to be too much. You can't yell at people that much. He's surprised someone hasn't stabbed him yet. They all have knifes. |
| 6:21
| Buzz blames Simon Cowell for Gordon Ramsay's behavior. Hell's Kitchen is on right after American Idol. Yesterday Ramsay kicked off the cutest girl on the show because she was wearing make-up. |
| 6:22
| She was a room service chef too, maybe Steve should hire her to work on the show. How great would it be to have craft services here? The first breakfast burrito Steve had was on the set of Grandview, U.S.A. Leave it to Hollywood to come up with something like that. |
| 6:23
| And it doesn't matter how large or small your part is on the movie, you can have as many breakfast burritos as you want. Steve has always had great breakfast sandwiches on movie sets. |
| 6:24
| Steve had a great breakfast sandwich on the set of Let's Go to Prison which he sat in a trailer and ate while listening to Jimmy Mac's Star Wars radio special. Then Steve was cut out of the movie by Bob Odenkirk. |
| 6:25
| Steve's been working with Bob for a while on the Disco Demolition movie. His last three movies haven't done too well at the box office so the Disco Demolition movie is slow going. Buzz refuses to give up that dream though. |
| 6:26
| It did take 20 years to get Leatherheads made so you never know. Although that didn't do too well over the weekend either. Buzz has been reading online customer reviews of that movie and people like it. |
| 6:27
| When Steve saw it there were a lot of other people laughing at stuff that wasn't funny. And it's not like Steve is a snob about comedy, he wants to laugh. A lot of people in the theater were drinking because he was at that Muvico Theater. |
| 6:28
| Steve took it as a learning experience because he was able to see what went wrong with it. The problem is that it was three different movies. It's George Clooney trying to be Cary Grant, then it's him trying to prove he can do a period comedy like that Coen Brothers movie he was in, O' Brother How Art Thou, and then it was some sort of Buster Keaton-type comedy. |
| 6:29
| Yesterday Buzz was talking about the online conversations he was seeing about how George Clooney isn't really a movie star because he can't open a movie by himself. Mark Czerniec immediately posted box office figures for Clooney's movies and they made millions. But those are all ensembles. |
| 6:30
| If Buzz and Mark want to argue about this online they should feel free. Although Mark is now saying Buzz might have a point. That's a lot coming from Mark. |
| 6:31
| Steve would like the Disco Demolition movie to happen but it's been 6 years now. He's the only one who's put his own money into it too. If it does get made they should get that guy who played Mark David Chapman in that new movie to play Steve. |
| 6:37
| Caller Brad lives in Union, Illinois. Where is that? It's a town just past Huntley, where Steve goes every weekend to visit the outlet malls. |
| 6:38
| Brad wanted to let Steve know that Jared Leto plays Mark David Chapman and he had to gain 62 pounds to play the role. It got a bad review in Rolling Stone. All Steve knows is he looks like a Disco Demolition-era Steve Dahl. |
| 6:39
| They wanted Jack Black to play Steve but the movie has taken so long to make that he's in his 50s now. One guy they suggested for the roll, which really insulted Steve, was a guy named Jared Fogler. He's in Balls of Fury and he's just a big fat slob with curly hair. |
| 6:40
| Steve rented Balls of Fury on On Demand and it was really stupid. That just made Steve want to write his own movie and then hit Buzz up for money to produce it. |
| 6:41
| It seems like Steve's just better off not making the movie at all. Although if it's done right it could be really good. Of course when Steve was meeting at CAA to cast the movie someone suggested Will Smith for the part. |
| 6:42
| Jeff Garlin said he'd do it but he doesn't want to ask Bob Odenkirk to step down. No one wants to do it except Steve but no one will let him do it. Bob cut Steve out of his movie, he's dead to him. And he was doing him a favor too! |
| 6:43
| It's not like Steve wanted to sit there all day eating breakfast sandwiches, on his way to Mike Dahl's graduation, just to get cut from the movie. |
| 6:44
| People in Hollywood waste so much money making movies. Most of them have no clue except guys like Bob Teitel. And Steve likes Bob Odenkirk too but he sort of become a Hollywood ass. |
| 6:45
| Caller Lynn was watching The Biggest Loser last night and the really hot female trainer, Jillian, was wearing a Disco Sucks t-shirt. Maybe Steve should send her a Disco Still Sucks t-shirt. |
| 6:52
| Jared Leto gained the equivalent of a small child to look like Steve. Not really Steve but Mark David Chapman in the early 80s. Buzz doesn't think it's fat, it's just husky. |
| 6:53
| Jared Leto is also the lead singer of the band 30 Seconds to Mars. Leto says he doesn't do a lot of movies because he's picky and now his band is having success. He recently talked about it with Sirius Satellite Radio. |
| 6:54
| When asked if he felt lethargic after gaining the weight he said he did and couldn't wait to lose the weight. He doesn't eat meat so he had to have a Domino's pizza every night. Steve hates this kid. |
| 6:55
| 8 days after he was done filming the movie he fasted for 10 days and then got right back on the road with his band. 10 days of fasting?! Sometimes Steve can't even go from breakfast to lunch. |
| 6:56
| What he did is just a fast gain and quick loss though. Steve still has stuff on him from when he was 10 years old. |
| 6:57
| That Dan Fogler kid is obnoxious, irritating and has curly hair. They should have just done it with Jack Black, where's he at these days? He needs to make a comeback. |
| 6:58
| Buzz thinks he made a big mistake with Nacho Libre. The other day Steve's trainer was telling him about how funny that movie was, even after he watched it a second time. That movie was not funny, other than his tight pants. |
| 6:59
| It seemed like the movie that was going to put Jack Black in the same league as Will Ferrell. Is Jack Black too old to play Steve when he was 24? Those Hollywood people are nuts, they'd probably say he was too old. |
| 7:00
| Steve feels bad because the guy who came to Steve with the idea of doing a movie was Jim Zulevic, who passed away. Steve would like to finish it just for him. |
| 7:01
| Caller Sheila thought Rainn Wilson has a little resemblance to Steve. That's just insulting! He is really funny though. Just a few minutes ago Buzz was thinking that John Krasinksi, with a little weight put on, would also work. There ya go! |
| 7:02
| In the casting meetings everyone was just pitching actors who were fat, except that guy who pitched Will Smith. Will Smith?! Who says that?! |
| 7:03
| News with Buzz |
| 7:04
| Protestors continue to converge in San Francisco as the Olympic Torch Relay gets closer to the city. The torch will go through the famed Embarcadero which Buzz doesn't even know how to pronounce. What is that, a street? Steve's pretty sure it's the Wharf area. He only knows Castro Street in San Francisco from when he lived there. |
| 7:05
| Caller Anthony wanted to let Steve know that you can't get rid of fat cells once you make them, so people still have them left over from when they were 10. So Jared Leto made himself a whole bunch of fat cells which are going to want to fill up every chance they get. Steve's going to start sending him a pizza everyday. |
| 7:06
| That'll be Steve's pitch to Jared to get him to do the movie. He's already got the fat cells. And Steve made the world a safer place for Jared and his band to rock in. He wouldn't be wearing that purple eyeliner if it wasn't for Steve. |
| 7:07
| Caller Rich has some info about Jack Black has two movies coming out. One is an animated movie and the other is a war spoof with Robert Downey Jr. as a black man. He can't remember the names of either of them though. That's Kung-Fu Panda and Tropic Thunder. |
| 7:08
| American Airlines has canceled more flights as they continue to inspect wiring bundles on MD-80 airplanes. That's probably good if you're flying right? |
| 7:09
| General David Petraeus will spend more time on Capitol Hill today. So far it's been a wonderful chance for Hillary and Barack to give campaign speeches all afternoon. |
| 7:10
| McCain got to do some speechifyin' too though so it worked out for everyone. Buzz was impressed with what the General said, he wasn't putting a spin on it it was just the facts. |
| 7:11
| The Tennessee Lady Vols captured their second straight National Championship, beating Stanford. |
| 7:12
| By the way the Embarcadero is the Eastern waterfront road in San Francisco. Buzz imagines it's very picturesque. They've already got signs up on the Golden Gate Bridge. |
| 7:13
| Steve just doesn't get it. It seems like most of these people are just professional protestors. Steve doesn't have the time to get a sheet and some spray paint and hang a sign on the Golden Gate Bridge. Buzz thought that most of them were Asian protestors. |
| 7:14
| He gets the thing about the monks being captured but it seems like most of the protestors are just kids with messenger bags who would irritate you if they sat next to you. |
| 7:15
| The treatment of circus elephants is up for debate in the Chicago city council. So they figured out how to stop kids from killing each other and they've moved on to the elephants? |
| 7:16
| The city council spent 4 hours hearing testimony about the mistreatment of circus elephants. Some believe that children seeing cruelty to animals leads to violent behavior. |
| 7:17
| They have video of those city council meetings online, Steve can try to look for it. Buzz had Jim rooting around for it but he's not sure what he found. |
| 7:18
| A McHenry County school principal has been charged with having sexual contact with a 16-year old girl in a motel near Milwaukee. The man met two sisters, age 15 and 16, on an internet chat room. Did the sisters turn him in then? |
| 7:19
| Steve has some calls on hold for after the break about San Francisco and some more stuff about that principal. |
| 7:26
| That's Richard Gere right there, talking about Tibet. |
| 7:27
| Caller Joe was just in San Francisco and as they went over the Golden Gate the traffic slowed down. At first they thought there were some construction workers on the bridge but really it was guys climbing up the bridge. |
| 7:28
| None of them were Asian either, not from what Joe saw. Steve imagines that the Asian people out there are just happy with the sweet Chinatown they have in San Francisco. |
| 7:29
| It's cute that Buzz thinks the protestors are Asian though. He's probably think it's people like that guy standing in front of the tank in Tiananmen Square. |
| 7:30
| Out on the West Coast it's an entirely different class of troublemakers. They're professional protestors. |
| 7:31
| Steve would like to talk more about that principal but first he's got a song he'd like to play. |
| 7:32
| Song: All Summer Long, Kid Rock |
| 7:34
| Steve has to stop that song. He was talking to Todd Cavanah yesterday and he said he was putting a new Kid Rock song in the rotation but wasn't going to tell him anything about it. |
| 7:35
| Steve's trying to encourage Todd to play some newer stuff but that song is just him ripping off Warren Zevon with some Bob Seger lyrics. Steve thought it was just going to be a sample of Werewolves of London where he did a few new things to it. But no, it's just a rip off. |
| 7:36
| What conclusions can we draw from that song? Steve knows he doesn't want to hear it. If we want to hear Werewolves of London, let's just play that. Or we could play Bob Seger's Night Moves. The song is basically the concept of Night Moves with the music of Werewolves of London and then throwing in a little Sweet Home Alabama. |
| 7:37
| Song: Werewolves of London, Warren Zevon |
| 7:40
| One of the biggest disappointments of Steve's life is when he was in London, on his romantic vacation with Pat Dahl, and they passed by Lee Ho Fook's. Steve wanted to go in and get a big dish of beef chow mein but Pat said he didn't like Chinese food. |
| 7:41
| Buzz might be a better travel companion for Pat because all he wanted to eat in Europe was burgers and Italian food. |
| 7:42
| Steve doesn't want to be mean but he'd like to compare the two songs. They sound exactly alike. Is it just a tribute that Kid Rock is doing? If it's the same key Steve's going to have Pete cut them together. |
| 7:43
| Live read: Joebees |
| 7:51
| Well apparently Kid Rock does know that he used Werewolves of London in that song. That's a relief actually. Maybe we should play it again. |
| 7:52
| Kid Rock's friend made a beat out of Werewolves of London and he used it even though he was making a rap record at the time. |
| 7:53
| Kid Rock loves old-school hip-hop and classic rock and he decided to take the mash-up idea one step further. So he took that beat and Sweet Home Alabama and wrote lyrics over it. That's called being half a songwriter. |
| 7:54
| When Kid Rock did his first record in 1989 he contacted Jim Croce's widow about using one of his songs but they wouldn't let him. Now Warren Zevon's son says he loves it and the guys who control the Lynyrd Skynyrd music also love it. |
| 7:55
| He also believes that Take the Money and Run and Sweet Home Alabama share a song progression that a lot of great songs are built off of. |
| 7:56
| Steve likes Kid Rock but he's an idiot. He actually thinks he has a philosophy about what he's doing here. But now he wants to hear that song again. |
| 7:57
| Song: All Summer Long, Kid Rock |
| 8:01
| That's from Kid Rock's album Rock & Roll Jesus which is upsetting Buzz because that was going to be the name of his next album. |
| 8:02
| Here's what Steve is having trouble with. Now that he knows that Kid Rock got permission to use those other songs, he likes All Summer Long. It's a tribute to the chord progression. |
| 8:03
| Is that all you have to do to be a multimillionaire, put everyone else's ideas together and then sing over it? Steve did lose a little respect for Kid Rock, and Tommy Lee, when they had a slap fight at the MTV Awards. |
| 8:04
| Live read: Townstone Financial |
| 8:05
| Alright we have a lot going on here today. Bob and Ron are coming up and we're also going to say hi to Billy Pierce, former White Sox pitcher. He's got a new book out and Steve's mentioned in there. Also Steve still wants to read that story about the principal. |
| 8:06
| But before we do that it's time for the Eight O'Clock Taco Bell. And of course it's Border Story. If your story is chosen you could win a taco a day for an entire year. |
| 8:07
| Today's story is from Gwen and it takes place on her wedding day. After the ceremony she was hungry something fierce. She asked the driver of their party bus to stop at Taco Bell. |
| 8:08
| There are some photos of Gwen in her dress, going into a Taco Bell. Then another photo of the bridesmaids getting fountain drinks. |
| 8:09
| If you have photos of your story definitely send them along in your email. Because Buzz was having trouble picturing a bride at Taco Bell. But then he had a photo. |
| 8:10
| Steve's alarm went off this morning so he got up and got dressed and started to get into the shower. |
| 8:11
| Then Janet asked him what he was doing. He said he was taking a shower and going to work, what else would he be doing? However it was midnight, not 4 am. |
| 8:12
| Janet woke up because Steve hit the snooze instead of turning his alarm off. He looked at his watch, it said midnight but he still didn't believe it. He accidentally set the second alarm on his alarm clock which is set to the default 12 am. |
| 8:13
| It was actually a bonus though because Steve still had 4 hours to sleep. Buzz loves waking up at 2 am and knowing he still has 2 hours to sleep. |
| 8:14
| When Steve gets home he's going to set both alarms to 4 am. Although the worst thing that could happen is Steve gets here 4 hours early. Then he'd be really prepared for the show. Buzz would love doing that show with Steve. |
| 8:22
| On the phone is Billy Pierce former White Sock. Billy hasn't seen Steve since that softball game a few years ago. |
| 8:23
| Billy has co-authored a book with Lew Freedman called Then Ozzie Said to Harold: The Best Chicago White Sox Stories Ever Told |
| 8:24
| The book also comes with an audio CD featuring some play-by-play from the 1957 World Series that Billy played in. It's from the first game, which they won. |
| 8:25
| Before 2005 that was the most excitement we'd had in Chicago baseball for a long time. 2005 really took the pressure off of Steve from Disco Demolition. And Steve gets a shout-out in the book. |
| 8:26
| Whenever you see any footage of the Go-Go Sox it seems like everyone on the team had a fun time. |
| 8:27
| Billy's going to be signing his book today at Border's at 151 N. State at 12:30. It's great reading for any White Sox fan or Chicago baseball fan. |
| 8:28
| How does Billy feel about the White Sox team so far? He wasn't happy with the first 2 games but then they've won 5 in a row after that. It seems like the acquisitions that Ken Williams made are all fitting in with the team. |
| 8:29
| If the Sox get decent pitching they're going to win. If they need a lefty can they still call Billy? |
| 8:30
| Buzz was going to chime in with his Nellie Fox memories but it was very brief. The first ball game Buzz ever went to was a White Sox at Washington Senators game. The only thing he remembers for sure was Nellie Fox. |
| 8:31
| It appeared to a 7-year old Buzz that Nellie had a baseball in his mouth and he kept asking his dad about it. It was tobacco of course. Billy Pierce was probably playing in that game too. |
| 8:32
| Steve likes all the baseball old timers because they've got the great stories. Steve would be bitter if he were an old timer just knowing how much money guys make now. Back then you could truly say you were playing for the love of the game. |
| 8:33
| Bob and Ron are here. Do they have to say hello even after Steve has already said hello? Do they have to rerack it like that? Steve wouldn't mind hearing some of the play-by-play from that 1957 World Series if Steve has it. |
| 8:34
| It sounds like Mel Allen calling that game and they were playing against Steve's Dodgers. Although can he call them his Dodgers if he was only 5 at the time? |
| 8:35
| Bob was wondering if those Dodger Dogs are as good as everyone says they are. It's just a foot long hot dog. Steve hasn't been to a game there in a long time but he remembers them being good. |
| 8:36
| These are the kind of questions Bob and Ron have on a Wake and Bake Wednesday. Do they have any other questions about the concessions at a stadium Steve hasn't been to in over 30 years? |
| 8:37
| They run a pretty good dog out at the Sox games though. The other day at the game the guy who runs the restaurant told Steve he was going to bring him out a 3 foot long sausage. Steve doesn't want to see that. If he's holding that thing he's going to end up on TV. |
| 8:38
| Steve has a feeling he'll see that thing eventually. Then Ed Farmer will mention it on the air, while talking about Steve's Scout Seats. Does Ed have to keep saying "Scout seats"? It's ruining Steve's everyman image. |
| 8:39
| The women sitting behind Steve paid $100 more for their tickets than Steve did. That's because he locked his ticket prices in a few years ago. That has to be killing the White Sox although Steve doesn't drink at the games. |
| 8:40
| Steve doesn't need people to know where he's sitting at the games. He doesn't want to be noticed, he's not Jim Thompson. |
| 8:48
| Live read: Seattle Sutton |
| 8:49
| Alright back to Bob and Ron in the Music Loft. This week we celebrate Lonesome Dave's birthday, he was in Savoy Brown but more people probably know him from Foghat. |
| 8:50
| When Steve was in a band in high school they covered Savoy Brown songs. Their theory was that since they couldn't write songs they'd cover songs that no one knew and would think were original. It usually worked although they also played Stones songs. |
| 8:51
| This week marks the anniversary of the release of the first Grateful Dead album. If you're a record collector be looking for the gold Warner Brothers logo. If you find a mono copy it's worth even more. |
| 8:52
| Also this week is the anniversary of Paul McCartney stopping by the studio to play celery on the Beach Boys song Vegetables. |
| 8:53
| Song: Vegetables, The Beach Boys |
| 8:56
| Hey guys, can Steve get you some more acid? Steve's pretty sure that song was recorded around the time when Brian owned a health food store on Sunset. |
| 8:57
| Alright, Bob and Ron. Far out man. Far freakin' out. Steve would like to do some news now but it looks like Buzz isn't ready. |
| 8:58
| Steve could read the story about the principal in McHenry. The headline is misleading because it only mentions one teen but there were two girls with him. |
| 8:59
| Buzz was surprised to see Lauren Jiggets doing a stand-up in front of the principal's school, last night. The kids didn't go to that school and the principal obviously wasn't going to be there. They always do that though. |
| 9:00
| Daniel Markofski of Richmond remained in custody Tuesday after police caught him in a motel room outside of Milwaukee with two teenage sisters age 15 and 16. That's too young, even in Wisconsin. |
| 9:01
| School Superintendent Dan Oest said Markofski did not report to school on Monday or Tuesday and is suspended with pay. They just do that for legal reasons. |
| 9:02
| Buzz is pretty sure that the guy almost slipped through this whole thing but then someone from the school happened to be up in the area over the weekend and learned of it. Maybe that's later in the article. |
| 9:03
| A closed door school board meeting is scheduled for Wednesday at Nippersink School in Richmond. Oest said that Markofski passed a background check before he was hired and there have been no complaints about him. |
| 9:04
| The teenage sisters are from the Milwaukee area and the 16-year-old met Markofski through a telephone chat line. Steve didn't know those things worked. |
| 9:05
| Markofski has been charged with performing oral sex on the 16-year-old girl and exposing them to pornographic material. |
| 9:06
| It's unclear how long Markofski and the girl have been talking but he had taken her to the same motel before. A Glendale police officer knocked out the hotel room door early Saturday after smelling marijuana. |
| 9:07
| Markofski answered the door in a shirt and his boxers, which is how Buzz answers his door on the weekends, and there was a pornographic movie playing on the TV. |
| 9:08
| The girls said they had wanted to watch Alvin & the Chipmunks but that Markofski put the porno on instead. You can't be in a hotel room with two teenage girls in your underwear, with the marijuana smell. |
| 9:15
| That's a drop from Miss Guided which Pete recommends if you're looking for something new. Steve watched it and he thought it was a girl's show so it's right in Pete's wheelhouse. |
| 9:16
| Any TV show from a girl's perspective is a girl's show and any show from a guy's perspective is a guy's show. But it's OK if Pete likes Miss Guided, he's got a sensitive side that the ladies find attractive. He works that, he's almost like a bearded 70s guy. He's sort of like Kenny Loggins. |
| 9:17
| Steve's pretty sure it works for Pete though. What's the body count up there? That's how he gets the girls up to his place, the promise of watching some episodes of Miss Guided. Then it's like American Psycho and Pete is throwing a chainsaw at you down a staircase. |
| 9:18
| Chef Hans is here for Meat Talk. He never wants to say guten morgen with Steve, he always wants to say guten tag. Guten morgen is good morning though and it's the morning. |
| 9:19
| When Chef Hans had his first job, in the early 70s, he worked at a French restaurant. The owner was sort of cheap and he didn't want to put "Chef Hans" on his chef's jacket, so he just put CH. |
| 9:20
| When Hans first met Dennis Hull he asked him what CH meant. Was it Cement Head? Or was he also named Charlton Heston? |
| 9:21
| Hans has brought Buzz a Swiss Air calendar, since Buzz used Hans' Swiss Air hook-up to fly to Switzerland, then he left as soon as he could and went to France. |
| 9:22
| Hans also has a gift for Stev. it's an autographed baseball signed by Fukudome. Hans actually just covered up the second E with some tape although it fooled Steve for a second. |
| 9:23
| Hans met Fukudome and he's a great guy. They made a deal, Hans is going to teach him English and Fukudome is going to teach him how to cook. That might be Hans' best constructed joke ever. |
| 9:25
| This might sound borderline gay but Steve's going to say it anyway. He was watching Chicago Tribune Live and they had Savard, John McDonough, Dale Tallon and Jonathan Toews on. Steve really likes Dale Tallon and watching the show yesterday made him realize he needs to hang out with him more. |
| 9:26
| Steve wants to have a bromance with Dale, that's what he's saying. Steve doesn't play golf so that could be a dealbreaker. He doesn't want to end up as Dale Tallon's golf widow. |
| 9:27
| Troy Murray would also love to be on the show sometime, he's a big fan and he's probably listening now. |
| 9:28
| Steve likes Troy, those guys do a good job on the games. He'll probably hold off on more hockey talk until the Fall or maybe around the time of the fan convention. Steve saw several Blackhawks at the Sox game on Monday and they were having a good time. |
| 9:29
| Patrick Kane, The Kaner, was living with Scotty Bowman's son Stan this season. His parents didn't want him living on his own because he was only 18. It's a good idea. |
| 9:30
| Patrick Kane had to buy everyone on the team a bottle of wine after his first goal but he wasn't old enough to buy it so his dad had to do it. |
| 9:31
| Wine is very big even with the guys these days. It's very hip. Our own Todd Cavanah has a wine bag for when he brings wine to a restaurant. It's a very expensive Cole Haan bag too. |
| 9:32
| He has another carrier for stemware if the restaurant doesn't have the right glasses. Steve doesn't get why a restaurant would let you bring wine in, isn't that their biggest moneymaker? |
| 9:33
| Even if you have a cheap bottle of Merlot you can still charge $9 a glass for it. That's a nice profit. Steve's guessing that Todd isn't bringing cheap Merlot when he goes out. |
| 9:34
| Older wines don't sell as well any more because people are saying that there's a 65%-70% chance that when you open it it won't be good. So people don't collect wine as much as they used to. |
| 9:35
| Don't they have better ways to cork the wine so it doesn't go bad? In Europe they actually seal wine bottles more like a can of soda because they run out of cork. A lot of people don't know but cork comes from Spain and Portugal and it's harvested underwater. Steve thought cork came from a tree. Is Hans thinking of sponges maybe? Because Steve finds underwater cork hard to believe. |
| 9:36
| Hans has been wrong before but we're all wrong. Steve and Buzz have been wrong 100 times today, it's nothing to be ashamed of. Steve's going to look up cork on Wikipedia. |
| 9:37
| Cork material is a prime material of generic cork tissue, harvested primarily from the cork oak tree. It does say it comes from Portugal but nothing about underwater. |
| 9:38
| Did Hans serve any Sox players after their big game? He did not but next week Dusty Baker is coming into town. Tusty! Hans is going to send Steve's boys to a Cubs game but they'll have to start going to Sox games first. By boys he means Pete, Brendan and Jim. Steve doesn't care if they only go to Cubs games. Hans goes to both but he's neutral. |
| 9:39
| Steve took Pete to a Sox game and they had a good time though. Although Pete kept score the whole time so he wouldn't have to talk to Steve. He also probably wanted to lord his baseball knowledge over Steve. He knows how to keep score too though. |
| 9:40
| Hans was wondering, after a winter of watching hockey, if Steve went on the edge of his seat at the Sox game. Steve always went in the bathroom. |
| 9:41
| Steve didn't watch the game any differently on Monday but it was a very exciting game. And the Sox won. |
| 9:42
| Hans is hoping for a Subway Series someday. It could happen right? Plus imagine all the names Hans could drop if that happened. |
| 9:50
| Ron from Bob and Ron forgot to mention something and Steve's mentioning it now because he's a nice guy. Ron's in a band, David Singer and the Sweet Science, and they'll be at Subterranean on Saturday. So avoid that area. |
| 9:51
| Steve felt bad busting Hans on the cork thing but he might have been thinking of sponge or coral coming from underwater. |
| 9:52
| Imagine Chef and Fukudome trying to talk to each other. It's like the Yalta Conference! |
| 9:53
| It sounded weird but Steve likes Dale Tallon and he wants to hang out with him. He doesn't golf though. Maybe he should just take it up. He's been golfing and he can do it. Sometimes he's good and sometimes he sucks. It's after those times that he sucks where he stops going for a while. |
| 9:54
| If someone could just take Steve out and give him some lessons, he can remember stuff people tell him. He has a tendency to hit everything like it's baseball and so far that hasn't served him well in tennis. |
| 9:55
| Steve should probably just take it up, it might be something good to do in the afternoons. |
| 9:56
| Steve thought Dave Kaplan did a good job on Chicago Tribune Live with all those Hawks guys though. He didn't have Dave's email so he emailed his wife Mindy who works for Lou Malnati's. She gave Steve Dave's email and he sent something to him. |
| 9:57
| Anything going on in the news? Buzz has some Richard Gere talking about Tibet and China, he wouldn't mind hearing that. |
| 9:58
| Steve's sure that whatever is going on in Tibet is horrible but he doesn't know what it is. What's happening over there. He does know that you can't get good Tibetan take-out anywhere. And they're imprisoning people and not letting them speak. But do we have to put out the Olympic torch with a fire extinguisher? |
| 9:59
| Maybe having the Olympic games will help China see the importance of commerce, Western ways, marketability. They're not just going to change their ways because of what Richard Gere says. |
| 10:00
| And in India a baby girl was born with two faces, both of which are fully functional. She's being hailed as a God over there. |
| 10:01
| This might sound stupid but Steve saw that Darjeeling Limited a few weeks ago and it made him want to go to India. That'll probably pass but it looked like Mexico but without tacos. |
