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| 5:30
| Steve's pretty sure that Rock of Ages by Def Leppard is over. It's so hard to tell and he never wants it to end. |
| 5:31
| Good morning everyone! Steve has had a very enjoyable half hour since he got here at 5 am. That's when he puts the finishing touches on the show prep. Steve was watching ABC 7's coverage of the downstate Indiana earthquake. |
| 5:32
| Steve didn't feel it, he was in his car driving. Buzz didn't feel it either. Since ABC knows nothing they're just talking to viewers who felt it. Usually when you're getting those kind of calls the people are giving out way too much information about what they were doing at the time. |
| 5:33
| Buzz was very disappointed that he didn't feel the earthquake since he's never been in one. He was in the shower at the time it hit. Maybe he was washing between his legs and that's why he didn't feel it. |
| 5:34
| Pete also felt the earthquake, isn't that right? Pete? Are we interrupting him watching TV at his little dinette set? It's like a 50s sitcom in there. Pete was just entranced by all the viewer calls about the earthquake. |
| 5:35
| Once again, way too much info from these people. Steve doesn't care what anyone has to say but if they want to get that Richter guy to call in and talk about the logarithmic nature of his scale that would be fine. |
| 5:36
| Dick Johnson is assuring us that we're all safe. Buzz is hearing reports about pictures falling off the wall. Maybe a nice seascape painting, purchased at a Starving Artist sale fell down and then a woman also knocked over a glass of milk that she had just previous poured for herself. |
| 5:37
| They were taking a bunch of calls from the Michigan City area of Indiana which they must think is closer to downstate Indiana? |
| 5:38
| Was it cool in the building when the earthquake shook? Was it like Pete was surfing? He was sitting at his computer when the building started shaking. He should call NBC with that story. |
| 5:39
| Steve wants to know why they're saying New Madrid with a long A sound instead of New Muhdrid. It's Madrid, like Spain. This is why everyone thinks we're rubes and we get reality TV shows. |
| 5:40
| Caller Eddie has been watching the TV coverage of the earthquake all morning. Steve likes what we're doing here, taking detailed calls about the detailed calls on TV. |
| 5:41
| Caller Karen wanted to let Steve know that the epicenter of that earthquake is very close to where Terry Armour's in-laws are from. Karen also has relatives down there and she'll be emailing them to see if they're OK. They probably are but they might have to pick up some new dinner plates at the Wal-Mart. |
| 5:42
| That's down in White County right? Steve remembers that because Terry was black and he had to go to White County to visit the family. He was probably the only black guy down there. |
| 5:43
| Some of Terry's in-laws from White County were at his funeral and they seemed shocked by the proceedings. They'd probably never seen that many black people in one room. And they were probably shocked that Terry had black friends. |
| 5:44
| David from The Little Guys is on the phone. He couldn't sleep this morning so he was actually awake when the quake hit. Steve pictures David having a waterbed and sloshing around on it. |
| 5:45
| So is David going to go to the store this morning and push all the TVs on the floor that haven't been selling. Then he can claim earthquake damage. Or they could have an Earthquake Sale. |
| 5:46
| We have reports that the quake shook cities from Memphis to Chicago and Indianapolis to St. Louis. David can't believe Glenwood wasn't mentioned. |
| 5:47
| David will think about the Steve Dahl Earthquake sale. Mention the quake and get 5.4% off your purchase. You have to have a really good story about the earthquake though. Maybe your parakeet feel to the bottom of it's cage? |
| 5:54
| That's one of the calls Steve was talking about although it was a parrot not a parakeet. The woman thought there was something wrong with her bed because it started shaking? What would be wrong with your bed that would cause it to shake? |
| 5:55
| Steve was just watching CBS and they had a great call come in. There are high schools that put together better newscasts than CBS. |
| 5:56
| CBS is talking to someone woman who works in their newsroom and her husband just bought earthquake insurance. The anchors get sucked right into it. |
| 5:57
| Steve likes that this woman's husband just barks out orders to her and she follows. "Get some earthquake insurance bitch!" |
| 5:58
| They might look at the earthquake insurance angle for this story today. What angle? The one about people buying insurance for something that doesn't do any damage? |
| 5:59
| This woman is the managing editor of the newsroom which might be the problem at CBS. Steve should call Joe Ahern and let him know he's pinpointed the problem. |
| 6:00
| Then they tell her it's going to be a busy day in the newsroom. Why would this day be any busier? Are they going to be talking to Drew Peterson to see how the earthquake effected him?! |
| 6:01
| Next they take a call from a woman who was out walking her dog and didn't feel the earthquake. Her neighbor felt it though. This is an interesting angle, talking to people who didn't feel the earthquake. |
| 6:02
| They trying to give this woman the heave-ho although she does seem interesting. Maybe she could call this show? |
| 6:03
| All of the TV stations keep showing footage from the top of the Sears Tower, just so that everyone can see that the city is still intact. |
| 6:04
| The next call is much more serious which is what CBS is looking for. She remembers after 9/11 when the fighter jets were flying overhead so she was worried this could be terrorism. Right now she's just sharing her deepest, darkest fears. |
| 6:05
| WGN had an earthquake expert on, he said that although the quake was felt as far away as Georgia the 5 people who got flat tires on the Edens after hitting a hole is probably unrelated. Meanwhile on WBBM-AM Pat Cassidy pointed out that this is the anniversary of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake but that's probably just a coincidence. That's good quake coverage right there. |
| 6:06
| What's the point of all this? Why do we have to know about people experiencing the earthquake? |
| 6:07
| Their next call is from a guy who was sitting in his recliner when the quake hit. Sometimes he moves around in his chair and does the shaking himself but this time it wasn't him. Can we just enjoy that again? |
| 6:08
| This guy is actually in a hotel and he was sitting in a recliner. Imagine how dirty that thing is. At a hotel a recliner is just a sex chair. |
| 6:09
| The final call they take is from a woman who was in a dead sleep when the quake hit. She has a king sized mattress and it started shake. It was probably the first time in a while for that. Then she noticed her ceiling fan moving. |
| 6:10
| CBS is also going with the other pronunciation of New Madrid, which makes us sound like rubes. |
| 6:11
| Caller Diane is in Whiting, Indiana. She has a Tempurpedic, as does Buzz, and she thought her husband was getting into bed when she felt the earthquake. She thought the bed didn't work properly because you're not supposed to feel someone else getting into bed. |
| 6:12
| Buzz's daughter was very disappointed when they got the Tempurpedic because she can't bounce on it. Diane's son was excited to jump on it and not knock over the glass of water she'd put on the other side. |
| 6:13
| Live read: Gladstone Homes |
| 6:20
| That's some of NBC's handiwork right there. A woman got up to go to the bathroom and she was sitting on the toilet when the quake hit. She thought there was a creature in there. |
| 6:21
| Live read: Hawk Ford |
| 6:22
| Chef Hans is calling in with an earthquake story. The reason he moved to Chicago was because he doesn't like earthquakes. |
| 6:23
| Hans was in LA, working at the Century Plaza Hotel in the 70s when a quake hit. The hotel was the first earthquake proof hotel, it had rubber in the foundation. He must have been there early because that quake hit at 6 am. |
| 6:24
| The hotel was having a big breakfast banquet and he had Eggs Benedict to make. Then the quake hit, the garbage cans fell over and all the water came out of the pool. |
| 6:25
| That night Hans slept in a doorway in his house and then he told his wife they were moving to Chicago. Hans was back in San Francisco when that quake hit in 1989 too. Chet Coppock called that one the Shake at the Stick. |
| 6:26
| Today's quake was nothing though, it's not even worth talking about. Steve remembers the one from the early 70s, it lasted over a minute. |
| 6:27
| So even Hans knows that this quake wasn't a big deal. He doesn't want to hear people complaining about this one because he's been in way worse. |
| 6:28
| Steve remembers listening to Lohman and Barkley and their earthquake coverage. They were also an emergency station so they had a generator and were on the air. |
| 6:29
| They did a lot of character voices so they were broadcasting from a closet with the 30 other characters on their show. It was really funny and very reassuring. That might have been when Steve realized he wanted to be in radio. |
| 6:30
| Patrick Bertoletti is on the phone. Those CBS calls reminded him of the time he called into CBS over the summer and he was drunk. He was talking to Randy Salerno and he blurted out that he was nursing one. |
| 6:31
| Patrick was in the oyster competition last weekend and he ate 35 dozen and won. He was disappointed though because he thought he could eat more. Patrick was really out of it during the competition, he might have overdosed on the aphrodisiac that's in there. |
| 6:32
| Steve saw Patrick on CNN after the competition, they're now just referring to him as Deep Dish. Steve and Buzz knew it would catch on, it just took some time. Patrick was fighting it for a long time too because he doesn't like deep dish pizza. It doesn't matter though. |
| 6:33
| Patrick's next competition is deep-friend asparagus in Stockton, California. That's the asparagus capitol of the world. Why do they deep-fry them though, it seems like it would be better to steam them. |
| 6:34
| The asparagus is actually really good because they deep-fry them and put Parmesan cheese on them. When Steve was a kid his family rented a houseboat in the Stockton area, there are a lot of rivers and lakes that are connected. Steve and his brother went and picked asparagus, they were fantastic. |
| 6:35
| The first crop of asparagus were just picked so the stalks are about the size of a silver dollar and they're really good and tender. Everyone thinks the thinner asparagus are better because they're young but it's the other way around. |
| 6:36
| How does Patrick ride out an earthquake? Buzz is seeing footage from St. Louis and there is some damage. A piece of concrete fell off a building right onto the street. OH MY GOD! |
| 6:37
| Patrick remembers an earthquake a few years ago that originated in Utica. Steve thought he was going to say uterus and he doesn't have a uterus. Patrick new that one wasn't a major quake because only 5 of his Pez dispensers were knocked down. |
| 6:38
| Steve's looking at the schedule for the Asparagus Festival and Joan Jett will be appearing on Saturday. Maybe a Pat Bertoletti hooks up with a Joan Jett? He does like older ladies. It's disturbing for Buzz to think of Joan Jett as an older lady but she's a cougar to Patrick. Plus she's a vegetarian and this is an asparagus eating contest. He'll have asparagus on the breath and in the urinary tract. She is not talking to meat. |
| 6:40
| Of course Steve has that fine audio of Joan Jett telling people not to eat turkey on Thanksgiving. It's an important message. Patrick should tell her he agrees with her stance on not eating tortured birds. |
| 6:41
| We still have a week to figure out how Patrick can get Joan Jett. When he returns though Steve and Buzz are going to want to hear that he nailed Joan Jett. And they'll need photos too but he should try to keep himself out of it as much as he can. |
| 6:42
| Steve wouldn't mind going to the Asparagus Festival because he loves asparagus. He could go as a mentor and help Patrick get Joan Jett. |
| 6:47
| Steve's got some more earthquake coverage and of course Buzz will have an in-depth report with the news. |
| 6:48
| It's a pretty minor earthquake, it only lasted for a few seconds. Although it's the second largest earthquake in this area since the 60s. |
| 6:49
| Here's a great report from Joanie Lum though, she's keeping it real on CBS. It wasn't a big earthquake but if the towels on the towel rack are moving you would have noticed. Steve can't believe the minutia with this story. |
| 6:50
| There are also reports of a chandelier fell down in a mobil home. That right there is news, a chandelier in a mobil home. |
| 6:51
| They're talking to some woman in West Salem and they're reporting structural damage at the local school. Is she just getting that from some guy in the local coffee shop? |
| 6:52
| The ceiling of a mobil home can't support the weight of a chandelier so of course it's going to fall down. Maybe it was just a light fixture, like a little wagon wheel with some lights on it. |
| 6:53
| The next woman is down in Chicago, right by CBS studios, and she's working on her medical degree. Is that necessary, do we need to hear that? She's burning the candle at both ends. If you light a candle at both ends where does it go? What kind of holder do you put it in? |
| 6:54
| WBBM.com is not working due to heavy traffic. It seems like the whole point of that website would be for people to go to it when there's a major story. The good news is that Dahl.com is still up and running. There's a nice blog there, Chef Hans' chicken recipe and some fetching photos of Steve. |
| 6:55
| Joanie Lum is reporting from a Citgo in Bolingbrook. She was probably on Drew Peterson duty when they ran her over to the Citgo. |
| 6:56
| Joanie is talking to a Citgo customer who was in the shower when the quake hit and the towels on the towel rack started moving. Were Buzz towels moving as well? Or does he have frosted glass and couldn't see out? |
| 6:57
| Buzz wanted frosted glass in his shower so he can feel like he has some privacy. That's a good move by Buzz, he's got a daughter and he doesn't need her walking in and seeing the monster. The guy doing Buzz's bathroom told him to go with clear glass because it would make the shower feel roomier and he was right. |
| 6:58
| Steve is always amazed with stories like this when there's a lack of information. They instead focus on all these little details that don't mean anything, like what happened to the Citgo employees who were working overnight when the quake hit. |
| 6:59
| Joanie Lum has been on the earthquake beat for a while. She did a story a few years ago about a seismologist who predicted a massive earthquake from the New Madrid fault. Joanie Lum is of course from the Lum Family who operated Lum's hot dogs. That was a good hot dog wasn't it? It was Steve's first introduction to the prevalence of the steamed bun. |
| 7:00
| This anchor on CBS is acting like he's presiding over an airplane crash but that's what they do. He does sum everything up which Steve needs Buzz to do more of in his news. He keeps saying the quake epicenter was New Salem but it's West Salem. |
| 7:01
| News with Buzz (it's what we do) |
| 7:02
| A 5.2 or 5.4 earthquake hit Southern Indiana today and it rocked people across the Midwest. Steve feels we rocked people awake this morning with our Def Leppard though. |
| 7:03
| No major damage is being reported but we did see concrete fall from a building in St. Louis. Stay tuned to the show for continuing quake coverage. If you're looking for news from WBBMAM.com the site is down due to heavy traffic. |
| 7:04
| The good news is that Dahl.com is up and running but you won't find any quake information there. You might find an excellent rosemary chicken recipe though. |
| 7:05
| Pope Benedict continues his first papal visit to the U.S. today with a stop in New York. He met with victims of clergy abuse yesterday. If you were abused by clergy would you go around on TV talking about it? |
| 7:06
| One victim said the conversation with the Pope was unscripted and free-flowing. Is he talking about the meeting with the Pope or the abuse act? |
| 7:07
| Meanwhile the leader of SNAP feels that the Pope is being mislead by U.S. bishops. Steve was thinking about SNAP yesterday and what it stands for. It's Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests. But they leave the T out of the acronym. It should be SNTAP, not SNAP. |
| 7:08
| The Pope didn't meet with anyone from SNAP although it seems like he should have. Because they're just going to get more mad about the whole thing. |
| 7:09
| Maybe in the seminary they should teach priests to leave people with a better feeling when it's over. Don't just break off all contact, maybe send a gift once a year or something. |
| 7:10
| Last night on channel 5 they kept promoting a story about why the women in the polygamist sect wear their hair in that style. Steve missed it though but Buzz saw it. |
| 7:11
| It was only one line in the story so you had to be tuning in or you'd miss it. The reason they gave-which is something Buzz used to say to Piranha Man-is the higher the hair the closer to God. |
| 7:12
| ABC is being criticized by bloggers and even Barack Obama for the debate the Democratic debate which seemed to favor Hillary Clinton. |
| 7:13
| Some guy just called in to see if Steve and Buzz had talked about the earthquake yet. That's one of our fine listeners. They've been talking about it since 5:30, it's what they do. |
| 7:14
| The Asian Longhorn Beetle is gone and tree-lovers are rejoicing. Steve actually just released 100 beetles he had in captivity so it's not gone yet. |
| 7:15
| A Japanese high school baseball team annihilated their opponent by scoring 66 runs in 2 innings. The opponent's pitcher threw 200 pitches in those two innings before his coach threw in the towel. |
| 7:16
| Brian Urlacher is threatening to quit football. Because...he signed a contract and he wants more money anyway? What's wrong with these people? The guy could be set for life in this town. He's an idiot. Steve's not just saying that because of his lack of condom sense. |
| 7:17
| And now he wants to be traded? Or he might just quit. We shouldn't know any of this. Although Steve wouldn't mind knowing how Urlacher rode out the quake this morning. Buzz would limited his questions to stuff about the earthquake, that's what we do. |
| 7:18
| The Berwyn Car Spike is not selling. The sculpture of cars pierced by a giant metal spike, made famous by Wayne's World, is for sale on eBay for $50,000 although it'll cost $100,000 to ship it. Steve looked into buying it and leaving it but they're putting a Walgreen's on that site. Why not build the Walgreens around the spike? |
| 7:19
| Steve also thought of buying it and putting it in his backyard as a cell tower. It's art so his neighbors couldn't stop him. |
| 7:20
| Cook County Forest Preserve officials have suspended their search for another cougar. Steve saw a cougar today on his way in down on Lower Wacker. It's a homeless cougar and it was pushing a shopping cart. |
| 7:21
| In a final cat note a Michigan man will stand trial for sodomizing and killing a cat. |
| 7:22
| Live read: Fresh Diet |
| 7:30
| That's Daley, talking about the cougar. That fence they had the cougar cornered against was 4 feet tall which the animal could have easily jumped over. They had to shoot it but their mistake was not covering the body up right away. They were treating it more like they were big game hunters, kneeling next to it and taking photos. |
| 7:31
| People like cats so they see a dead cougar and they're not happy about that. But they had to kill it, you don't need that thing wandering around the neighborhood. |
| 7:32
| Live read: Joebees |
| 7:33
| The hive sustained no damage from the quake today. Hives are built to sustain damage, it's the honeycomb shape. R. Buckminster Fuller knew about the honeycombs, that's why he build those geodesic domes. |
| 7:34
| Joe thinks his stinger is going to keep getting bigger and it might become bigger than him. |
| 7:35
| It's time for Steve to take his bee pollen. He had the influenza last week and maybe pneumonia. All this week Steve hasn't been able to stay awake, even at the office. Yesterday he fell asleep and started snoring during a post-show meeting with Todd Cavanah. |
| 7:36
| Steve knows someone who's been sick with this for 6 weeks but he blew through it in a week. Although that person is someone who's always sick. |
| 7:37
| Some people revel in their illness, they almost incubate it. They get their illness Christmas presents. |
| 7:38
| Alright time for the web poll. Yesterday's web poll was "Do you FriendFeed?" Steve found something even crazier than FriendFeed called Twitter. If you don't communicate with your friends Twitter does it for you. That's the last thing Buzz would want. |
| 7:39
| Of course yesterday Steve found Mark Czerniec's FriendFeed page and he had a review of the New Madrid Spanish restaurant in Racine. Perhaps that was a foreshadowing of today's earthquake? |
| 7:40
| Steve doesn't need Twitter or FriendFeed but the kids like to stay in touch. Steve doesn't even need IM any more. |
| 7:41
| The person who emailed Steve about Twitter said it would be a great way to keep in touch with the staff of the show. Is that something he really needs? |
| 7:42
| Today's web poll question is "Would you take lessons fro a Life Coach?" Have you noticed that the order of your life is effected by the clutter around you? This might be directed at Pete. |
| 7:43
| We had a closet organizer company in here about working on Pete's studio. After they saw it they broke down crying. Steve doesn't have enough air time to trade them for a overhaul of Pete's studio. |
| 7:44
| This article is written by Sheri Fisher who's a life coach. One of her clients is a single mother of 2. Clara had always been a neat-nick but when he marriage started having trouble the clutter all around her started building up. |
| 7:45
| Someone is going to coach this woman out of the clutter? Just tell her to clean up her house and throw out her junk. Steve could be a life coach. Pete, clean up your studio and throw out your junk! |
| 7:46
| Do you need a coach to tell you to clean your bedroom up? No wonder her husband left, this woman is a lazy idiot. |
| 7:47
| You can't think of how to clean your bedroom on your own? How much does it cost to have a life coach? It seems like quite a scam. |
| 7:48
| Some people just like being told what to do. Maybe she should have listened to her husband more when they were married. |
| 7:49
| Steve hired some organizers to come in and go through some of his stuff and look for some prints that he'd be given by Tony Fitzpatrick. |
| 7:50
| They cleaned everything up and found the prints and then spilled coffee on them. And they sent him a bill too which Steve accidentally paid. |
| 7:51
| Are people really this stupid that they need this kind of coaching? It seems like it. |
| 7:52
| Sheri Fisher is a life coach in Colorado and her practice focuses on professional and individual coaching. What other kinds are there? |
| 7:53
| We've got some calls coming in about life coaches. Steve's going to have to answer no to the web poll. |
| 7:58
| Alright Buzz, it's time to eat your taco. It's the Eight O'Clock Taco Bell and Steve is starving. |
| 7:59
| The last few days Steve has been getting Cinnabon and it didn't come today. He was starting to get mad about it and then his tacos arrived and everything was fine. |
| 8:00
| Caller Dave has two friends who hired life coaches. They pay $263 an hour to be told to clean their room or kitchen or organize their closet. They're worse off now than they were before. |
| 8:01
| The life coach doesn't help do anything, they just ask you what you think you should be doing and then they tell you to do that. |
| 8:02
| One of Dave's friend owns an ad agency and the other one owns a bridal salon that's failing. So they're worse off than they were before because everything they do has to go through the life coach. |
| 8:03
| Life coaches seem ridiculous. Now that Buzz has heard more detail about life coaches it seems even more ridiculous. |
| 8:04
| It's life self-help books. Do people really think they'll be able to read a book that will help them? It's insane. |
| 8:05
| Live read: Woodfield Nissan |
| 8:06
| Steve's looking at the website of a life coach but it's a dude. If it were a hot chick it might be more understandable. |
| 8:07
| This website is called MattChurch.com. Matt is obsessed with personal leadership. Good for you. |
| 8:08
| Everything Matt does is based on lighting up everyone around him and making sure they do the best they can. Not everyone can succeed, not everyone can be a winner. We need to have some losers. |
| 8:10
| Steve has found a video of Matt Church on his website. This sounds more like a bad stand-up routine. There's nothing that can be learned in a big group that gives you an edge on anything. |
| 8:11
| Steve might hire this guy for a post-show session, how great would that be? If Steve had hired this guy when Tina was here he might have been able to help her. |
| 8:12
| Does Buzz want to hear any more of this guy? It seems like it's all going to be this happy-ass crap. |
| 8:13
| This is just a bad stand-up routine. Steve's going to try to get him booked for next week after the show. We need a coach. |
| 8:20
| Steve hopes everyone was able to listen to our earthquake coverage this morning. It was stellar and will probably win awards. They covered the bad coverage of the earthquake and you might want to download the podcast and check it out. |
| 8:21
| CBS took a lot of bad phone calls from people who felt the earthquake, like the woman sitting on the toilet when it started to shake. She thought there was a creature in there. While Pete grabs that tape Steve has a call to take. |
| 8:22
| Caller Amber thought that life coach sounded like Stewie from Family Guy. Steve needs to go back to that for a second. |
| 8:23
| Does Pete have any Stewie Griffin handy? Steve knows he asked for something else but he'll have to be flexible. Buzz thought the guy sounded Australian. |
| 8:24
| Pete might need a life coach to get himself organized. Amber is life coaching him now, can he cut her a check for $263? |
| 8:25
| Amber is on her way to Wheaton for work. Has she ever been to Cream of Wheaton? It might sound like Steve is saying untoward but Cream of Wheaton is their annual festival. |
| 8:27
| Caller Joe was heading through Milwaukee last night from the UP and he stopped to fuel up. Why was he heading back from the UP? Steve's very curious today. |
| 8:28
| Joe is a truck driver and he took peanut butter and cooking oil up there and was heading back. How much does it cost for Joe to fuel up? |
| 8:29
| Joe put 55 gallons in his tank and that cost him over $200. He was at a gas station in Racine and saw a business card for someone named Verne Dahl. He was wondering if there was any relation. |
| 8:30
| Verne's card identifies him as a collector of various things including gas station memorabilia. Steve does like gas station memorabilia but he's not aware of any relation. |
| 8:31
| Dahl is a pretty common name as it turns out. When Steve's grandfather game to this country he changed the family name from Anderson to Dahl because Anderson was such a common name. |
| 8:32
| There are a lot of people named Dahl. On that wall of season ticket holders there are 2 other Dahl's other than Steve plus a Dahlberg and a Dahlstram. There's also a Dahmer but he's not in the all-you-can-eat section. |
| 8:33
| Caller Marty heard that Governor Blagojevich wants to level the farm that was over the epicenter of the quake and put up a monument to the quake. This call deserves a spin of the wheel, that's a professional grade joke. It was so good that Steve should have just stolen it. |
| 8:34
| Pete has some Stewie Griffin to compare to that Australian life coach. It's pretty close. He also has the earthquake caller who was on the toilet when it hit. |
| 8:35
| Does Pete have any other calls or should we just stop with that one? It doesn't seem like it's going to get any better than that. |
| 8:36
| Robin Meade was covering the quake on CNN, and she had a call from someone who felt the quake. Robin was acting like it was the end of the world while viewing the footage of the concrete falling in St. Louis. |
| 8:37
| When did Headline News turn into a Robin Meade blabfest where she's always wearing dresses that are too tight for her? One of those buttons could pop off and take out Rafer Weigel's eye. |
| 8:38
| Rafer, Tim Weigel's son, is on CNN now. There's too much chit-chat on that Headline News though. Rafer is really moving around from the acting to the news. |
| 8:39
| He was on Jenny McCarthy's sitcom but CNN is probably a step-up from that. It's cute that Buzz thinks CNN is the news though. |
| 8:40
| So this woman called into CNN with a report on the quake. Although it was still too dark out to notice any damage to the house. The dishes moved and the cats were upset though. |
| 8:41
| If you're just joining us, earlier this morning the state of Illinois endured a 10-15 earthquake registering 5.2 or 5.4 on the Richter scale. It shook us to our very core. |
| 8:42
| The quake was centered near West Salem, Illinois on the New Madrid fault. At this time we have a damage report, there were some scared kitties and dishes moved around. |
| 8:43
| Also there's a woman who keeps a flashlight by her bed-hopefully for purposes of illumination only-and she was on the pot or commode when the quake hit. She thought there was a creature in the toilet. |
| 8:44
| Buzz wouldn't be surprised if creatures were released from the earth after the quake. It could be happening right now, like that movie Tremors. |
| 8:45
| All communication with downstate Illinois is cut off so we don't know if that is happening, although we have chosen to not communicate with them. |
| 8:46
| In all actuality nothing happened during the earthquake. The only thing that happened were a lot of bad calls with no information about the quake because there is no information to give. |
| 8:47
| Can we hear the woman on the toilet again? Pete doesn't have it cued up any more. Did he put it away? The guy who never puts anything away puts this tape away. |
| 8:48
| Pete will need to put this tape on Steve's machine because he'll want to play it everyday for the rest of his life. |
| 8:49
| Dick Johnson is saying that the only damage being reported was in Louisville. Buzz has been saying St. Louis. This is the kind of team coverage we need Buzz! |
| 8:50
| Then a woman calls in to say that she was watching Andy Griffith around 4:30 am when the quake hit. Dick Johnson admonishes her for not having NBC on. |
| 8:51
| This woman is from Matteson and Dick Johnson did not like they way Zoraida pronounced it. And people think Steve is crazy? He waits 90 seconds and then goes back to the pronunciation. |
| 8:52
| This woman was sleeping on the couch when the quake hit. This is the second couple Steve has heard about during the quake where people were sleeping in separate places. |
| 8:53
| Caller Barb has never called in before but she's listened since Steve came to Chicago. Barb and her husband were in bed together this morning and the quake woke them up. |
| 8:54
| They figured since they were awake they'd have a little morning delight. Later in the morning Barb's husband called and said they might have made the earth move. |
| 8:55
| Buzz might find this hard to believe but WGN had old people calling in this morning and they were freaking out about the quake. We'll learn about that from caller Mike after the break. |
| 9:01
| It was pointed out by our news director, Buzz, that the African-American point-of-view of the quake has been lacking in our coverage. So there's a drop of the African-American point of view. |
| 9:01
| Caller Mike was listening to WGN this morning and old people were calling in to talk about quake experiences. Mike said to his boss, who was also listening, that while Wally Phillips is dead the people who killed him are still alive and listening to WGN. |
| 9:02
| Mike felt the quake because he was downstate doing survey work. When they got in the car his boss put on WGN because he's in his 60s. About 5 or 10 minutes later they Steve and Johnnie started taking calls about it. |
| 9:03
| Steve and Johnnie are the best, they're still old school WGN and they were freaked out. They're a married couple too, how freaky is that? |
| 9:04
| Mike imagines that Steve and Johnnie's coverage is similar to the radio coverage in New Jersey after the Orson Welles War of the World broadcast. |
| 9:05
| Everyone listening to WGN at 4:30 is old and they were all terrified and Steve and Johnnie were terrified. Then someone called in and called the New Madrid a predictor fault. Shouldn't these people be calling Art Bell? |
| 9:06
| Steve's sure that Spike also rocked the coverage but it wouldn't be anything like Steve and Johnnie. They're old school WGN and every caller is old and scared and the whole thing is horrible and terrifying. |
| 9:07
| Steve thinks our best call was Chef Hans who was in the Silmar Quake in the 70s in L.A. He was working at the Century Plaza, preparing Eggs Benedict for 200. The bernaise sauce sloshed out of the pan and burned him. |
| 9:08
| Steve was in that quake too and it was a 7 on the Richter. That scale is based on an algorithm so a 7 is astronomically bigger than a 5.2. Steve remembers being very scared when it hit. There was a transformer right outside his bedroom window that blew up. |
| 9:09
| And after the quake Steve turned on Lohman and Barkley and they were covering the quake and in a closet with the 30 characters they did. It was really funny and reassuring. |
| 9:10
| Live read: Townstone Financial |
| 9:18
| Can Steve heard the woman on the toilet one more time? Buzz doesn't mind right? Because it's so good. |
| 9:19
| You know what Steve picked up from hearing that tape again? She's using her bedside flashlight to see what time it is meaning that her clock is not illuminated. |
| 9:20
| We know the woman's name and what town she's in it probably wouldn't be too hard to find an address and |
| 9:21
| The difference between a 5.0 quake and a 7.0 quake is equivalent to 1,000. So the quake Steve was in was a thousand times more powerful than the one today. It's not like rating chicks on a 1-10 scale. |
| 9:22
| News with Buzz |
| 9:23
| The top story today is the earthquake. Chicago police and fire officials are reporting no damage or injuries but emergency services did receive over 100 calls from startled citizens. More people probably called radio and TV stations than called emergency. |
| 9:24
| 100,000 quakes hit the earth every year and only about 100 cause damage. The only damage caused today was to the credibility of our local media. |
| 9:25
| Pope Benedict is in New York City today. Did he have Eggs Benedict for breakfast? The Pope sounds like a cross between Schultz from Hogan's Heroes and Arte Johnson on Laugh-In. It's too bad he doesn't sound like Clink because Steve does a great impersonation of him. The Pope sounds like a mumbling Nazi. |
| 9:26
| Some residents aren't happy with the Pope's visit because of all the streets that are being blocked off. Steve was in New York when the UN General Assembly was meeting and they probably have the same security for this. You couldn't get anywhere. |
| 9:27
| Steve has some Arte Johnson if Buzz would like to hear it. Buzz actually thought this was the Pope talking. Does Pete have any Pope audio on hand? Did he just roll his eyes in there? How much does Steve want him to do today? Who even knows who Arte Johnson is other than the two old men sitting in the studio?! |
| 9:28
| Arte Johnson and the Pope sound exactly the same. Maybe Arte Johnson is the Pope? Have you heard about him doing anything lately? |
| 9:29
| The raid on a polygamist compound in Texas two weeks ago may have been set off by a false phone tip called in to police. |
| 9:30
| And the men in the sect are still at the compound which Steve doesn't get at all. Imagine having 6 wives and then having all of them taken away from you? That has to be tough. |
| 9:31
| Those women seem hot with their high hair and those voices. It's that crazy subservient sound that is appealing to many men. |
| 9:32
| Passover begins on Saturday at sundown which is right around when Buzz will be heading to the Mexican restaurant. |
| 9:33
| The New York Mets fan who fell to his death from a stadium escalator may have been fooling around when it happened. He may have been standing on the railing when he plunged to his death. |
| 9:34
| His wife is denying he was standing on the railing. Didn't we hear that he was sliding down the railing? They turn those things off after the game anyway because most people are too drunk to walk on them. |
| 9:35
| The family of Kathleen Savio is planning to sue Drew Peterson for wrongful death as soon as they can. |
| 9:36
| Sun-Times sports reporter Mike Mulligan is suggesting the Bears look towards middle linebackers in the draft if any of the rumors about Brian Urlacher being traded or retiring are true. |
| 9:37
| He's going to make everyone here hate him, they're just whipping up ill-will. It's bad enough he wants more money but then he threatens to quit. |
| 9:38
| When Urlacher has his first bad game everyone will be asking if he quit right then. Why would he want to put that on himself? The only thing he should have put on himself was a condom. |
| 9:39
| Are condoms more expensive in Lake Forest? Is there a condom tax Steve doesn't know about? |
| 9:40
| Lou Piniella said Thursday that seeing 15 baseballs fly onto a field after an opponents home run was something he'd never seen before. After Reds player Adam Dunn hit a home run onto Sheffield 15 balls flew on to the field. |
| 9:41
| Steve threw a baseball back onto the field from Sheffield. Buzz is very impressed with this tradition and he only just learned about it. Steve was up there broadcasting during the 1998 home run chase. Someone hit a ball and Steve threw it back in and people cheered. It felt good. |
| 9:42
| Pete likes seeing a ball come back into the park if it's hit onto Sheffield or Waveland. It's impressive that Steve was able to make that throw. The Cubs started it but other teams are copying it. |
| 9:43
| Pete hesitates to bring this up but the Reds broadcaster, Marty Brennaman was very upset by this display and went on a two minute rant about how bad Cubs fans are. Does Pete have that available? Let's enjoy it. |
| 9:44
| Marty is Thom Brennaman dad. Thom is also a jerk. He's one of those broadcasters who sounds much older than he actually is. Steve also doesn't like how he spells his name. |
| 9:45
| Who's the color guy with Marty? He's trying to make it OK but Marty won't have any of it. The Reds are gone but they'll be back. If Steve's a Cubs fan he won't forget this. |
| 9:46
| Marty feels that the Cubs won't win the division because at the end of the day they're still the Cubs. The Reds aren't exactly a great team though. They haven't been good since Lou Piniella was their manager. |
| 9:47
| Where does Marty Brennaman get off saying that? Steve's not even a Cubs fan and he's angry. What are they going to do Pete? Lynching? |
| 9:48
| Caller Mike wanted to let Steve know that good ole' country boy Jeff Brantley is the color guy with Marty. They all have the Southern accent in Cincinnata even though it's still in Ohio! It's not like it's Arkansas. |
| 9:49
| Live read: Sport Clips |
| 9:53
| Just to clarify, that audio of Lou Piniella is from yesterday? The incident with the baseballs and Marty's comments were on Wednesday so Lou made the comment yesterday. |
| 9:54
| What difference does it make if they're throwing baseballs on the field? They throw cups down there all the time, at least baseball are easier to clean up. |
| 9:55
| Live read: Woodfield Nissan |
| 9:56
| If you're just joining us the entire region was shook to it's core by an earthquake of little consequence. It took up a lot of broadcast time this morning with people calling in to talk about their experiences. |
| 9:57
| The best one being Margie who called in to say she was on the toilet when the quake hit. She thought there was a creature in her toilet. |
| 9:58
| Steve remembers working at a station in L.A. that was in a Quonset hut. He was the first person to get there in the morning and he found a sewer rat in the toilet. He didn't actually find it until he had sat down on it. Then he jumped up, slammed the lid down and found anything heavy he could to keep the lid down. |
| 9:59
| Well that's it for Steve and Buzz, have a great weekend and if you experience any aftershocks save your phone calls until Monday. |
