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| 5:29
| Ah yes, good morning everyone. Of course that was the fine group from Ireland, U2, or You As Well as Steve likes to say. They pose the musical question "What more in the name of love?" |
| 5:30
| It's not really about love though, it's about murder and assassination. That Bono is quite the activist. He wears the rose-colored sunglasses but he doesn't see the world through them. He's out there helping kids in Africa with AIDS, wearing the sunglasses. AIDS and shades. |
| 5:31
| Maybe he could take the shades off when he's talking to the little kids riddled with AIDS. Maybe the glasses make it easier to look at the kid. The sores just look like acne scars through them. |
| 5:32
| Steve has never been to Africa and based on what he's seen he doesn't want to go. He likes going places on the beach with restaurants that serve seafood. They have some great dancing over there, as President Bush has shown us. |
| 5:33
| What day is it, Thursday? Steve's not complaining but he can't keep track of what day it is. Do other people who wake up early in the morning experience the same thing? |
| 5:34
| Yesterday Steve was asked about something he did that day although he thought he did it the day before. Everyday feels like two days to him because he wakes up early. Steve doesn't mind though, that's the showbiz in him. He and Buzz are like Siegfried and Roy with their big cats. |
| 5:35
| Of course Steve and Buzz both saw cougars on the way in today. Now that the cougar has been shot everyone is seeing them. Steve saw one at Barnelli's Pasta Bowl last night, ordering some spaghetti and meatballs. |
| 5:36
| He also saw one in the lobby today and one last night doing the news. This cougar was covering the story of Alan Krashefsky being cornered in an alley in Roscoe Village and shot. It must be disappointing for the Krashefsky family and the Polish community at large that he'll never get above the 4 o'clock news. It's called the Pierogi Ceiling and it does exist. |
| 5:37
| So the Pope is in the U.S., like Steve gives a rats ass. Why do reporters have to talk to people who went to Washington to try to get a glimpse of him? Steve's been working on his Pope Benedict impersonation. He had the last Pope down but for this one he's going with more of an Arte Johnson on Laugh-In. |
| 5:38
| President Bush gave the Pope a birthday cake although it looked like a wedding cake. Maybe they're getting married? That would be a big breakthrough, President Bush marrying the Pope. Steve knows about wedding cakes because he was shown various styles of wedding cakes for over a year. |
| 5:39
| So far we're not getting any calls from people who wake up early and feel like everyday is actually two days. Steve and Buzz have a different schedule than most people who get up early because they're off at 10 am. Plus radio is a different mind set. |
| 5:40
| Steve and Buzz have a sweet job in the morning but in the afternoon it seems like they're unemployed schlubs. Steve sits home all day watching TV and all the commercials are targeted at people who are unemployed. |
| 5:41
| After the show the only thing Steve has to figure out is when to work out and when to write his blog. To him those are the two worst things he has to do. And it only takes him 5 minutes to write the blog. |
| 5:42
| Steve walks faster than he runs but he doesn't call what he does running. There are women in the neighborhood who walk faster than he run/walks and they seem embarrassed when they have to pass him. |
| 5:43
| Caller Bob is from Woodstock. Steve doesn't remember him but those were 3 long days and it's hard to remember everything. Bob works for Com Ed and he feels the same way that Steve does waking up early. As we learned from Drew Peterson last Friday it's OK for Bob to beat his wife because he works for the power company. As a cop it's harder for Drew to do it. |
| 5:44
| Bob can't believe Drew is still walking around. By that he means Drew should have a Segway right? Wouldn't it be funny to see Drew riding to Buffalo Wild WIngs on a Segway? |
| 5:45
| So Bob works for Com Ed, is he a lineman for the county? Bob's the guy who's the first person on the scene when the power goes out. So he's the guy who pulls up, puts the cones out and the flags and then goes to 7-11 for a hot dog and some coffee? |
| 5:46
| Bob starts at midnight and usually does a 10 day run, sometimes with double-shifts. So by Wednesday it feels like he's been there for a week. He must pull some sweet overtime, which is then passed along to the consumer. Bob is one of those consumers though, he doesn't get a discount. |
| 5:47
| There were a lot of power outages last night because of the wind. Steve's power went out but luckily he has the generator. That enables him to sell electricity to his neighbors at exorbitant prices. He gouges the old people next to him because they're on respirators. |
| 5:51
| There's Drew from Larry King last week. As a cop he can't beat his wife. But if you work for the power company you can do it with impunity. They actually encourage it. When you're leaving work your co-workers might ask you if you're going home to beat your wife. If you say no they're going to make fun of you. |
| 5:52
| Live read: Sport Clips |
| 5:53
| If you need a haircut head to one of Sport Clips 27 locations in the area. They have TVs and hot towel massages. |
| 5:54
| You can also register for a chance to win a trip to any sporting even in the country and 2 tickets to the event. |
| 5:55
| Caller Mike loves listening in the mornings. Steve had his first morning encounter with a human in the elevator today. He's pretty sure the guy was a lawyer. MIke's wondering if he was dressed like a cougar. |
| 5:56
| Steve did see a cougar in the parking garage this morning and another one at Dunkin' Donuts getting coffee and bear claws. He was wondering why they're not called cougar claws. |
| 5:57
| Steve was hoping the lawyer wouldn't hold the door for him because he didn't want to talk. But he did so Steve got in and said "Well I guess we're gonna have a long day" to which the lawyer replied "Are we?" C'mon! Steve doesn't want to argue with the guy. So he clammed up. |
| 5:58
| Mike feels the same way Steve does about the length of the week since he changed his hours and moved further from his job. Every Thursday it feels like Friday. |
| 5:59
| Mike has a side story for Steve. Last week a listener emailed Steve to complain that Brendan never lets her through when she calls in. She had called previously to talk about wine and Mike was also on hold at the same time. |
| 6:00
| Mark Czerniec ended up calling in with the information Steve was looking for but Brendan couldn't have been nicer to Mike when he told him that they already had the info. |
| 6:01
| Caller Melissa is from Gary although she's actually heading home from O'Hare where she dropped her husband off. She drove her husband all the way to O'Hare from Gary? |
| 6:02
| Melissa just wanted to make sure she actually saw him walking into the airport so she knows she has 5 days to herself. |
| 6:03
| Melissa works overnights and she's constantly asking her kids what day it is. She works overnight and then sleeps all day so she can't keep track of what day it is. |
| 6:04
| All of these callers make Steve and Buzz seem like slackers. They work for 4 1/2 hours and then go home and pretend they're unemployed. |
| 6:05
| Melissa is an overnight stocker at a 24-hour Wal-Mart and they get some really interesting customers, especially now that the weather is getting warmer. A lot of kids like to come in and hang out since there's nothing better to do. They really like to take the bikes off the bike racks and ride them around the store. |
| 6:06
| Can Melissa go to the gun department and grab something to shoot those kids with? All of the guns are locked up at 10 pm every night so she doesn't have access. |
| 6:07
| If Steve had Melissa's job he'd open up a box of Cheez-Its and grab a handful every time he passed by it. He'd look very snappy in that blue vest too, with his orange fingers. |
| 6:08
| The overnight people don't have to wear the vests and they can wear jeans because it's a dirty job. |
| 6:09
| They do turn off the air conditioning overnight, even during the summer so it gets pretty uncomfortable in there. There is a section of the store that sells fans but they're trying to be green so they turn those off. |
| 6:10
| Caller Jennifer used to work overnights at Wal-Mart and it got pretty bad in the winter because they'd also turn the heat off. No wonder why everything is so cheap there, people are being killed overnight. |
| 6:11
| Jennifer always felt bad for her crew during the summer because of how hot it was but she just told them to grab a fan and bring it to where they were working. |
| 6:12
| She still works for Wal-Mart but now she's there during the day and they have the air conditioning on. She works in the liquor section too so she's in the cooler a lot. |
| 6:13
| Jennifer's Wal-Mart has a Dunkin' Donuts, not a snack bar. So she always stops there for some coffee in the morning. |
| 6:14
| Steve's only been a Wal-Mart a few times. There's just too much stuff there and it gets overwhelming and he wants to buy everything. |
| 6:15
| It's sort of like going to Sam's Club and buying way too much beef jerky just because it's there. |
| 6:16
| Well Wal-Mart is something to think about for Buzz in the afternoons. He already has the khakis on, all he needs is a "Hello My Name is Buzz" name tag and a smiley face button. |
| 6:23
| Live read: Hawk Ford |
| 6:24
| Steve sort of feels guilty after all those callers because he doesn't work an 8 hour day. If you count show prep it's about 4 hours and 45 minutes. |
| 6:25
| He could throw on an extra hour for the commute too. Maybe he should starting counting all his prep time and driving time and see if he can get it up to 8 hours. |
| 6:26
| A guy who works at Com Ed called and as we learned from Drew Peterson last week it's OK to beat your wife if you work for the power company but not if you're a cop. |
| 6:27
| Can Steve hear that clip again, it might be his favorite Drew Peterson quote of all-time. Then he's got Jimmy Webb's Wichita Lineman all cued up and ready to go. |
| 6:28
| Steve might just play the clip and then go right into the song, he'll make it sound really professional. Those are famous last words. It could go wrong and Steve could come on and be mad as a wet hen. |
| 6:29
| And it did go wrong, what the hell was that song? It says it's Wichita Lineman but it's not. |
| 6:30
| Song: Wichita Lineman, Jimmy Webb |
| 6:34
| When Steve was in the hallway during that song, doing wind sprints as he's want to do, he saw a cougar. And by cougar he doesn't mean a middle-aged lady who finds him attractive. A cougar to Steve would be in her 80s anyway. Steve saw the cougar by the coffee machine so Buzz should be careful. |
| 6:35
| Caller Pat is just getting off work he's an overnight stocker at a grocery store. Does he keep a box of snacks open that he works all night long? That's what Steve would do. Pat will just say he's a really big fan, he goes about 3 bills. Steve would slice himself off a piece some ham at the deli and eat that then maybe rearrange the tomatoes and have an apple. He'd start up that rain forest in the produce section whenever he wanted to also. |
| 6:36
| Has Pat ever worked on Saturday night at the grocery store? That's fat girl night. Pat does work on Saturday nights. Has he ever hooked up with one of the shoppers? By the way, Steve doesn't consider 300 pounds to be fat. It just means they're successful. |
| 6:37
| Because those girls always have great stuff in their carts and they'd probably make something for you when they bring you home. You could be having pizza rolls before, during and after. |
| 6:38
| Pat was calling about a new drinking game he's heard the kids are playing. Someone tapes two 40 ouncers to each hand so you can't get them off. Buzz calls that Saturday night. It makes it tough to drive that way though. |
| 6:39
| You have to drink both 40 ouncers before you can use your hands to undo your zipper and go to the bathroom. They call the game Edward 40 Hands. |
| 6:40
| Pat should think about fat girl night at the grocery store though. If Steve were single he'd definitely be at the grocery store on Saturdays. Is there anything Pat needs in his cart? |
| 6:41
| Pat doesn't seem to get the Saturday night concept. He doesn't need anything in his cart, he just has to walk up to some woman who's shopping and make her feel special. Next thing he knows she's roasting a chicken and taking her clothes off. |
| 6:42
| Pat might not believe Steve about Saturday nights even though he confirmed what he says. It's an untapped hot bed of good food and unbridled sex. When Buzz first heard about this concept he thought it would make a great documentary. Everything would be in slo-mo, showing people lumbering down the aisles. |
| 6:43
| Caller Pat wanted to let Steve know that they're holding a lineman competition in Indianapolis this weekend. It's like a lumberjack competition but for linemen. Steve likes Indianapolis, they have that great steakhouse St. Elmo's right downtown. |
| 6:51
| Live read: Townstone Financial |
| 6:52
| Neil's a cop and he's divorced. He probably took the job home with him and maybe he was nailing a broad on the side. |
| 6:53
| Caller Sue is on her way to work, she works for Walsh Construction as a carpenter/laborer. That's hot! Sue has a pink hard hat, pink belt and pink hammer. Steve has a pink hammer too! |
| 6:54
| A long time ago Sue was listening to Steve and he was doing a show at a bakery in the Stickney area. It was around Easter and she came in and he served her. |
| 6:55
| Was Steve drunk at the time? He probably was and Sue was too. Steve does have a connection a bakery in Berwyn called Fingerhut. The owner used to send Steve and Garry stuff when they were together. |
| 6:56
| The bakery sold psychedelic twist bread and the guy would always send it to them. Somehow that bread was tied into Garry meeting his wife so he got the guy in the divorce. Garry was much better at getting things in the divorce because he maintained relationships. |
| 6:57
| Is Sue sure it wasn't Garry behind the counter? She sure it was him because he had a Hawaiian shirt on. This must be some secret nightlife that Buzz didn't know about. It sounds like Steve's final flame-out. He might have gone in there drunk and demanded the guy make up with him and then tried to sell people pinafores behind the counter. |
| 6:58
| Sue was wondering if Steve has ever eaten at Al's Steakhouse in LaGrange. Did Stev do something to Sue at Al's as well? |
| 6:59
| Steve really doesn't remember that but it sounds like he was there, Sue has details. It's entirely possible Steve stopped by there when he was drunk since it's on the way home. |
| 7:00
| If Steve takes that Berwyn route home there are several old man bars he could have stopped at before reaching the bakery. |
| 7:01
| Caller Dan was calling in about St. Elmo's Steakhouse. He got a job in Indy in the early 80s and that was the first place his boss took him. It has a great old school Chicago feel to it, or a New York steakhouse. |
| 7:02
| Dan became a regular and asked the waiter about the sauce on their shrimp cocktail. They make process their own horse radish and he brought out the jar which you could see the fumes coming off of. |
| 7:03
| A friend of Kevin's was going to Indiana for a covered bridge tour and he recommended St. Elmo's. Covered bridge tour? Is this Kevin's gay friend? Or was this when Bridges of Madison County came out and he was trying to meet chicks? |
| 7:04
| Kevin's friend accused him of trying to kill his wife because she had the cocktail sauce and almost passed out from the horse radish. So it's a wife thing. |
| 7:05
| Kevin also has an Ed Farmer story. He came up with the Cleveland Indians and he was banned from every smorgasbord in Tucson because he couldn't stop eating. They called him Eatin' Ed Farmer. |
| 7:06
| Caller Darlene loves listening to the show in the morning. Darlene's brother used to own an Italian restaurant in Berwyn and he had a deal with the Fingerhut bakery. Did Steve used to deliver stuff to the restaurant since apparently he used to work there. |
| 7:07
| Darlene's brother's restaurant was the one that blew up if Steve remembers that. Was it an accidental blow-up? They were never able to determine if it was an accident. Let's keep it that way, Steve doesn't want his car blowing up today. |
| 7:08
| The explosion happened the day after Valentine's day though. What are the odds that an Italian restaurant would accidentally blow up. Did Steve do it? Did he used to be an arsonist too? |
| 7:09
| Alright time for the web poll. Everyday Steve has to look up the previous day's web poll. Steve's influenza has almost worked it's way through him. Now instead of getting emails lauding him for coming in when he was sick he's being admonished for exposing people to his sickness. |
| 7:10
| No one else around Steve has gotten sick yet and he tried to stay away from people. There was none of the light kissing and jocularity that normally goes on around here when he was sick. |
| 7:11
| Steve also got an email from a woman who said yesterday's web poll "Do you like Persian food?" should have had an "I don't know" option. That's someone who's taking the poll very seriously. |
| 7:12
| Steve has to say he does like the Mediterranean food. He goes into the Whole Foods near his house and gets pita chips and tabouli and plans to blow up the Sears Tower. What kind of country do we live in where we catch people plotting to blow up the Sears Tower and can't even convict them? |
| 7:13
| Today's web poll question is "Do you FriendFeed?" What is FriendFeed Buzz might ask? It's tearing down the walls between Facebook, YouTube, Flickr and more. |
| 7:14
| Silicon Valley is buzzing about the seven-month-old startup. Why can't Steve and Buzz ever think of something like this? Are Ed and Adam keeping them down? |
| 7:15
| Much of the hullabaloo comes from how the founders of FriendFeed are addressing the growing online issue of the Balkanization of the web. Balkanization? Don't make Steve look up words for his own web poll! |
| 7:16
| Steve assumes it has something to do with the Balkans. Those were all broken up right? It means the breaking up of something into smaller, hostile groups. So it's pretty much what Steve said. It's MySpace people fighting with Facebook people. |
| 7:17
| Facebook, MySpace, Flickr and YouTube are all walled off from each other like separate digital worlds. To keep track of all your friends you have to log in and out of all these services. |
| 7:18
| FriendFeed is an attempt to break down those walls. The service allows subscribers to pull together on one page everything their friends and colleagues are doing on more than 30 websites. |
| 7:19
| FriendFeed uses people you know to allow you to search for valuable info like movie recommendations or news items. Steve doesn't care what his friends think about movies. First of all he doesn't have any friends but would he really care if Pete enjoyed Leatherheads? |
| 7:20
| Pete doesn't have a Facebook or MySpace page but if he did Steve would be one of his friends. Steve doesn't go to those sites unless he's trying to meet underage girls. It's always a bummer when a cop shows up though. |
| 7:21
| A FriendFeed subscriber can see a stream of items from other friends like a news item about the Cubs (that is Pete), photos of a trip to Costa Rica (Buzz) or a blog post about bug-eating bats (Brendan) |
| 7:22
| There are too many people on the internet with too many opinions. Not everyone's opinion is valuable. Buzz has a lot of friends but some of them are idiots and he doesn't really want movie recommendations from them. |
| 7:23
| You know who's very big on reviews, Mark Czerniec. He reviews everything he does and posts it on his blog. As you can imagine he's a very tough critic. |
| 7:24
| Steve has a MySpace profile. Actually he has two of them but he has no idea how to get to them. And Steve's trainer's roommate is always trying to be Steve's friend but he can't figure out how to log in to his page. |
| 7:25
| Steve does go to YouTube though. Lately he's been watching that video of the woman who's getting divorced. |
| 7:33
| FriendFeed sounds like something Jeffrey Dahmer would have done. Actually that is something he did. |
| 7:34
| Live read: Woodfield Nissan |
| 7:35
| Standby for a second Buzz. Mark Czerniec FriendFeeds. Just like Steve said, he reviews everything he does. Mark puts his shoes on, he reviews it. |
| 7:36
| Steve does have a link to the show's MySpace page though. Should he post a link to Mark's FriendFeed page? |
| 7:37
| Steve has opinions about everything too but he doesn't document them after 10 am when the show is over. |
| 7:38
| Mark has a review of a new Spanish restaurant in Racine called Olde Madrid. Would Buzz like to hear about that? |
| 7:39
| Mark (and probably his wife too) have enjoyed tapas and paella over the years at Don Quijote in Milwaukee and Cafe Ba Ba Reeba and Emilio's in Chicago. They were excited when a new Spanish placed open on Racine's Historic 6th Street, a dynamic little strip of food and culture. |
| 7:40
| During two Saturday night visits they found the restaurant packed and people wearing upscale casual attire. The cozy wooden tables in the restaurant are coated with polyurethane. Didn't Buzz date her? |
| 7:41
| The preference of Wisconsin diners to drape their bulky winter coats over their chairs adds to the snugness of the restaurant. Mark recommends using the coat rack up front. |
| 7:42
| Customers are welcomed with a small basket of baguette slices and a serving of bland roasted red pepper hummus. Here's where he starts to break bad, it's classic Czerniec. The break is a weak point also, it has no crust, body or flavor. Now he's taking down the free bread. |
| 7:43
| The break is what you might get at a church spaghetti dinner but he's not sure if it's something that's authentic to Spain. Did Mark just take down Spain? He suggests someone running out to Panera or Pick 'n Save for some La Brea baguettes. |
| 7:44
| Is La Brea a brand or a style? Apparently it's the preference in the Czerniec household. That's good for Buzz to know in case he's ever invited to dinner at their house and wants to bring bread. He doesn't need a bad review about the bread he brought. |
| 7:50
| Live read: Joebees |
| 7:51
| Steve's a little troubled by his iced tea from Starbucks today. Really he's just like Mark Czerniec only he doesn't write his opinions down. His iced tea came with a domed lid, to accommodate whip cream. |
| 7:52
| Steve prefers the flat lids that seals the tea in. This dome seems like it could spill everywhere and it looks like a sippy cup. |
| 7:53
| Steve calls up to the office. Stephanie went to the Starbucks in the building and they were out of the flat lids. How does that even happen? |
| 7:54
| Steve is finding that he doesn't need as much coffee and Red Bull as he used to because he's getting used to waking up early. |
| 7:55
| Steve needs a Taco Pal for the Eight O'Clock Taco Bell which is coming up. It Thursday which means it's a lunch date with Steve. |
| 7:56
| Alright back to Mark Czerniec's review of the Olde Madrid restaurant in Racine, Wisconsin. Mark did not like the bread, it was too bland. |
| 7:57
| The paella was not what they had hoped for and on the recommendation of their waitress they went with the Marisco Tradicionale. It was billed as shrimp, squid, scallops, cod and octopus in a garlic chili broth. |
| 7:58
| It arrived piping hot in the traditional serving dish. Rather than a fragrant bed of stock-simmered rice atop a crust bottom this paella was more like oily fried rice with sad vegetables and seafood. It sounds like they didn't like the paella. |
| 7:59
| The entire dish had three unremarkable shrimp. It's funny to think of Mark picking through and counting shrimp. There was squid and maybe octopus but also five beige bivalves that they took for clams but the server identified as mussels. |
| 8:00
| Mark says he would rather pay twice the price of the paella for better ingredients, properly prepared. You know what he needs to do for that? Move out of Racine! |
| 8:01
| This sounds like the worst meal Mark has ever had although he hasn't said that yet. Buzz assumed there would be a happy ending after the complaint about the bread, like we'd be in for a surprise. |
| 8:02
| One dish they did love was the Bullfighter Beef Skewer for $6.99. $6.99?! You can't even park for that much down here. |
| 8:03
| Alright time for the Eight O'Clock Taco Bell. Ed is Steve's Taco Pal, all day today. He's having a Cheesy Beefy Melt even though it's not on the menu any more. He had one made specially for him last week. He's also getting the Club Chalupa. |
| 8:04
| To drink Ed will get the Cherry Pepsi which is the closest thing he can get to a Dr. Pepper. |
| 8:05
| Alright Pat Boyle is on the phone. We've got another thing to do before getting to the news, which Steve has been promising for 2 hours. Let's do the news and Pat can hang on. Otherwise Steve feels he'll have an uprising on his hands. |
| 8:06
| News with Buzz |
| 8:07
| Thousands of Catholics attended mass said by Pope Benedict today at the Washington Nationals new ballpark. He's still apologizing for pedophile priests. |
| 8:08
| Steve was molested by a priest but he liked it. It was quite enjoyable and informative and he made a friend for life. Why is the Pope even talking about this, we kind of forgot about it and he hasn't said anything valuable. It seems like people want money and blood, not an apology. |
| 8:09
| Yesterday after the Pope's speech at the White House Bush told him it was awesome. Of all the things you could say to the Pope, he says awesome. He probably doesn't even know what the word means. |
| 8:10
| Another mistrial was reached in the case of 7 people accused of plotting to blow up the Sears Tower. They shouldn't keep showing the Sears Tower with this story, it's just giving people ideas. |
| 8:11
| The Supreme Court has upheld Tennessee's use of lethal injection and effectively ended the moratorium on lethal injection in other states. |
| 8:12
| NIU held their Huskies for Hoakies vigil last night on the 1 year anniversary of the Virginia Tech shooting. When did we start doing all this stuff? Steve hasn't forgotten about Virginia Tech, it was horrible. |
| 8:13
| But does he need to see people's names being read off and then middle-aged women laying down on the street holding their handbag? When did this whole world become a Hallmark store? |
| 8:14
| Is there another cougar around town? That's the question being asked today. Steve has seen 6 cougars already today. One of them came in the studio during the break looking for Fresh FM. |
| 8:15
| Police in Skokie searched a lagoon by helicopter looking for a cougar but did not find anything. |
| 8:16
| Yesterday on the news they were doing a helicopter shot of the lake. As they were pulling away they had a shot of a guy and his dog and the dog was pooping in the lake. It's clear he was just doing that so he wouldn't have to pick it up. How does Steve get that guy prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law? |
| 8:17
| Members of a Texas polygamist sect are back in court attempting to get their children back. Steve has started to think there might be something wrong with these women. Buzz has noticed the unibrows but to Steve it seems like they're not all there. They are in a cult though. |
| 8:18
| Does Pete have any audio of those women available? Yesterday Buzz was wondering if there was an on-site beauty parlor where the women got their haircut, maybe they're also performing a procedure to add the unibrow. |
| 8:19
| While Pete looks for that Buzz can tell us that the Earth is constantly giving off a hum that is imperceptible to the human ear. Scientists studying it have no discovered actual tunes in that hum. No one knows where the hum comes from though |
| 8:20
| Pete has the audio, it's from Larry King. These women aren't dumb, they're just brainwashed probably. |
| 8:21
| Who is Larry King to question someone being married multiple times at once? That's a bonus right there, 3 of those women and Larry King. |
| 8:22
| Aren't these people not supposed to watch TV? The reason they keep them in unibrows is probably so they can't run off and become TV anchors. |
| 8:30
| Alright Pat Boyle is on the phone. He got into some trouble the other day for not mentioning that his wife's birthday was also on Tuesday. He shouldn't have said he forgot, he should have just told her Steve is unstable and he wasn't sure if he should mention it. |
| 8:31
| So Pat's wife also turned 23 right? Is he still in trouble now? Pat is saying it wasn't a big deal but that's not what we hear. |
| 8:32
| So Alfonso Soriano is on the 15-day DL so that's 2 weeks without him. It's still a weird fluke injury. The Cubs are going for the sweep against the Reds today. |
| 8:33
| The Sox beat Baltimore as well last night, Jim Thome had a big home run in the first inning, the day after his 1-game suspension. And Jose Contreras looked like the Jose Contreras we used to know. |
| 8:34
| Steve also had a chance to hear Hawk talk about baseball bats and crabcakes last night. AJ broke a bat and Hawk lamented about how much it would cost to replace it. |
| 8:35
| Then Hawk complained about the size of the crabcake he got at the game. Then he was telling DJ about some other places he'd be going to get a better crabcake. |
| 8:36
| It's hard to make out what Hawk is saying because the crowd noise is very loud. Pat noticed that the audio sounded weird last night but the game wasn't on Comcast. |
| 8:37
| Is Pete recording the Sox game on a different setting? It seems like the Sox game should be on a high quality device. Is that only for Cubs games? |
| 8:38
| Pete records the Cubs and Sox games at home but he's using the same VCRs that he uses down here. |
| 8:39
| Maybe there's some sort of issue with the way they mix the surround sound down to mono. Does Pete have mono up at his house? |
| 8:40
| Pat has to back Steve up because the audio didn't sound right on the game last night. Mary's husband also watched the game and he didn't like the sound either. |
| 8:41
| Caller Vince thinks that maybe Pete has the simulated surround setting going on his TV. Sometimes that will drown out the announcers and make the crowd noise louder. |
| 8:42
| Pete has Steve's entire system that was in his old office so he knows exactly what Vince is talking about. |
| 8:43
| So Pat got a ticket for running a red light? He was caught by one of those red light cameras, which also caught Buzz. |
| 8:44
| Pat's wife was actually able to watch video of him blowing the red light from multiple angles. That's probably enough of the gratuitous wife mentions from Pat today. |
| 8:45
| Pat was driving home late one night and he knew he got nailed by the cameras because all the flashes go off. Then 2 weeks later they got the ticket although he didn't know there would be a video. Plus he was in the car with a transvestite prostitute, picking his nose right? |
| 8:46
| Buzz was zipping along down Western behind some very slow people and after finally getting a stretch with no cars and not too many lights he punched it and got up to 53 mph. He pulled up to a traffic light and then a cop pulled him over. |
| 8:47
| The cop had radars and lasers and videos proving that Buzz was speeding.It seemed like he didn't have to do any work and he seemed very disinterested in Buzz's ticket. But the police officer had a print-out of what Buzz was doing in his car? |
| 8:48
| Buzz isn't sure what he had but he was remarkably disinterested in the whole thing. So Buzz is looking for a lecture or something? He'd just like some sort of reaction, anything. |
| 8:49
| Buzz is fighting the ticket though because he doesn't want the violation on his impeccable record. He probably won't win though but we'll see what happens. |
| 8:50
| Buzz seems completely aware of everything that's going on when he's driving though. He doesn't even know what the cop was using. Maybe it was a plate of spaghetti and the meatballs knew how fast he was going. |
| 8:55
| More bat talk with Hawk and DJ. That was from Wednesday's game which Pete recorded on the machine. The game was on a different channel so it must have been WCIU. |
| 8:56
| How long has it been since Buzz got a ticket? Because they've had lasers and radar guns for a while. Buzz is probably just used to be chased by the police. |
| 8:57
| Buzz knows there's some new-fangled technology that nabbed him. It wasn't just a guy with a radar gun who was set up in that area. Did they have a device mounted somewhere? |
| 8:58
| Steve was going to say if Buzz didn't know there were radar guns and lasers it would be another example of something he didn't know. Like how he didn't know the pretzels at the movie theaters were soft. |
| 8:59
| Steve remembers when they first introduced radar guns in L.A. someone sued saying it was an invasion of privacy and actually won the case. Then Broderick Crawford got a ticket and it was a huge deal and he had to make a public apology. For a speeding ticket! |
| 9:00
| One of the first speed traps was near Steve's house and his dad would complain about it every time they drove by. He said it was an invasion of privacy. |
| 9:01
| Caller Phil lives in Rolling Meadows and they just put in one of those intersection cameras. There are two companies who maintain the cameras and receive the photos. |
| 9:02
| There's a laser that goes across the intersection and takes a photo of any car that goes through that. Steve is sort of familiar with this because Janet is on the village board. |
| 9:03
| The companies that maintain these cameras don't charge money but they send you a million photos. It's up to each town's police department to sort through them. |
| 9:04
| Steve wasn't trying to give Buzz a hard time, he just thought it was funny that he didn't know there were radars and lasers. He did know about that though. |
| 9:05
| Our own Mary will be appearing in front of a magistrate on Monday for going 46 over. We may not see her after Monday. Steve thought he was a bad ass for going 30 over. |
| 9:06
| Buzz has has cops pull him over and he knows that they think they've really got someone here. He's got the black Grand Prix with the tinted windows and the weird license plate cover. But then they get to the car and they see Buzz with the kid in the back seat. |
| 9:07
| Song: Radar Gun, The Bottle Rockets |
| 9:08
| That's the best song written about a radar gun. Todd Cavanah suggested Radar Love or I Can't Drive 55 but those are on the Jack playlist. Steve thought Johnny B really ran Radar Love into the ground. |
| 9:09
| Buzz did Radar Love with his band but he didn't remember Johnny ever doing it. Steve remembers it, he used to play it and then bang on stuff like a monkey. Of course this can go right into Money For Nothing by Dire Straits, which Steve would gladly play. Plus it's on the Jack playlist. |
| 9:10
| Although this song had to be edited recently because there's a derogatory term in there. Steve didn't think it was that big of a deal because the term is used within the context of a story that Mark Knopfler overheard. |
| 9:11
| Song: Money for Nothing, Dire Straits |
| 9:18
| Steve has another note for Todd Cavanah, that song was not edited. It's about Mötley Crüe. In the Heroin Diaries by Nikki Sixx he talks about Dire Straits and Money for Nothing being about Mötley Crüe. |
| 9:19
| It might have been about guys in an appliance store in New York watching MTV and making fun of the guys they're seeing. It's entirely possible that Mötley Crüe was on TV at the time. And they'd be easy to make fun of. |
| 9:20
| Live read: The Little Guys |
| 9:28
| Buzz only heard a snippet of that drop in. Could Pete play it again. Pete? Is Steve interrupting something that he's doing over there? It's usually customary to talk to the host of the show. |
| 9:29
| This is what it was like when Steve and Pete went to the Sox game. Pete was busy keeping score and he barely spoke. If this keeps up Pete is going to remove the scorecard and ticket from their place on his fridge. |
| 9:30
| Steve's just kidding, they had a good time and Pete talked. Pete was hoping he'd be able to go to another game with him this year. Right now Mike is working Steve really hard for tickets. |
| 9:31
| Mike does this thing where he asks you for something but then says how he shouldn't be asking and how guilty he feels about it. There are rumors that Pat might be moving back here so Mike is already putting himself up front for the tickets. |
| 9:32
| Pete was wondering if Mike has ever read the Prodigal Son? Steve knows that's a Bible story, doesn't it end badly? Steve will consult his reverend, Jeremiah Wright, about it. |
| 9:33
| Big Steve was at the post office the other night for Tax Day. Frijole Joe can't be stopped and you can't even really hope to contain him. He has Big Steve and he's to giving him back and he might also be sexually assaulting the inflatable. |
| 9:34
| And Joe's just walking around with a sign that says Jack FM, which does know good if he doesn't also include the frequency. Joe claims he's a |
| 9:35
| Caller Stacy lives in Gilbert and she met Steve at the Bandito Barney's broadcast. She has some info about The Prodigal Son. |
| 9:36
| A father has two sons. One of them leaves to make it on his own. When he returns the father throws a huge feast for him with lamb and fatted calf. The younger son gets jealous because he stayed by his father's side all that time. |
| 9:37
| The moral of the story is that he's grateful that his son came home after leaving but he also tries to tell his younger son that he's glad that he stayed. That sounds like a dumb story. |
| 9:38
| Jesus tells the story of a man with two sons. The younger demands his share of his inheritance while his father is still living. He goes off to a distant country where he "wastes his substance with riotous living" That sounds like MIke at U of I or Matt everyday. |
| 9:39
| The younger son returns home, determined to throw himself on his father's mercy. He is instead greeted with open arms and then a celebration in honor of his return. |
| 9:40
| The older brother becomes jealous of the favored treatment. He is told by his father "Son, thou art ever with me, and all that I have is thine. It was meet that we should make merry, and be glad: for this thy brother was dead, and is alive again; and was lost, and is found." Steve wouldn't be happy if he sat through an entire homily for that, there's no payoff. The lesson seems to be go off and party and then come home and you're fine. |
| 9:41
| Live read: Woodfield Nissan |
| 9:42
| Frijole Joe, the Mexican, is on the phone. Que paso? Que paso means what happened, which could work here. When Steve was growing up in L.A. he and his friends used to say que paso. |
| 9:43
| A recent highlight for Steve was when he was at the Sox game and a Hispanic kid sitting next to him passed him his hot dog and said "Hey ese, here's your hot dog." |
| 9:44
| Joe was at the post office on Tuesday night and he had a sign that said 104.3 but it was destroyed by the wind. There isn't as much coverage of Tax Day now that you can file online. Everyone hates Tax Day, is that really something we want to be associated with? |
| 9:45
| Apparently the point of the Prodigal Son is that God is like the father who welcomes you back from the sinful life. So let's start sinning! |
| 9:50
| Live read: Gladstone Homes |
| 9:51
| News with Buzz |
| 9:52
| As we speak thousands are gathered at the new Washington Nationals stadium where Pope Benedict will say mass. Turns out the hosts are shaped like baseballs with the stitching detail on them. |
| 9:53
| The Pope chided Americans for the moral breakdown in this country. Why doesn't he mind his own business? What about the moral breakdown of priests? |
| 9:54
| When Steve was a young boy he was molested by a priest and he loved it. He told him to call his friends too. But that's just him. |
| 9:55
| Members of a Texas polygamist sect are in court today attempting to get their kids back. Can we hear the tape of them on Larry King again? Does Pete have that handy? |
| 9:56
| Those women seem like they're from a different planet although Steve is digging the dresses and the haircuts. |
| 9:57
| This is three separate women right? They sound hot too and that's wrong. Larry has been married several times and to women much younger than him. |
