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| 5:31
| Steve doesn't know how the transition from David Bowie to the theme music went because he couldn't hear anything. Buzz was just sitting in the studio with the microphone which turns the speakers off. |
| 5:32
| Buzz had to be prepared to do something but he didn't have to do anything. Steve felt like he was drowning because the speakers went off and his headphones weren't plugged in. |
| 5:33
| It was funny to see Buzz just sitting there with the mic light on. If he had heard something going wrong on the air he would have stepped in. So he's going for more of an XRT feel? It has worked for them for a while now. |
| 5:34
| Buzz is always hearing about the downfall of XRT. Every time someone leaves or is quit there's a lot of negative talk. Some say the death knell was them moving downtown to the NBC Building. |
| 5:35
| It's not like being in that building will change what kind of music they play. It's not like the owners of the Prudential come in and tell Steve what he can and can't play. Really they don't want to move down here because of how much it'll cost for parking. |
| 5:37
| Steve would rather come downtown to work than go to Belmont and Cicero to work. But that's how they keep it real right? |
| 5:38
| A lot of the XRT people complain that they don't make enough money but they don't do anything. Frank E. Lee has been there for 30 years, all he does is come on and say "XRT" between songs or talk about featured artist of the day David Bowie. |
| 5:39
| Buzz is a fan of all the XRT guys. He likes when a J can make it seem cool to listen to the radio. Buzz liked Bobby Skafish but he's gone now. He's considered a sell-out because he works at The Drive. |
| 5:40
| He actually left XRT for The Loop and then when he lost his job there he couldn't go back because they thought he was a sell-out. XRT put him on weekends to rehab his image but it didn't take and now he's doing afternoons at The Drive which is also a cake job. |
| 5:41
| The XRT people think they're so cool but they play the same commercials we do. They might not play that one where Roseanne talks about that condo development in Vegas. What kind of comedy act is sponsored by a time share condo? |
| 5:42
| There was a time when people actually cared about Roseanne and Tom Arnold. Then it turned out Tom was selling info about them to the National Enquirer so he could get money for coke. |
| 5:43
| Buzz hasn't heard much from Tom Arnold lately. Steve saw him on Chicago Tribune Live last week, he's supposedly a sports fan. He did start that Best Damn Sports Show Ever but he was so crazy that they kicked him off his own show. |
| 5:44
| Steve was once kicked off his own show after Garry quit. Garry, his blushing bride and Jim DeCastro talked about it over a pizza on a Sunday night. Then Jim called Steve and said "Garry's quitting becuase you're a drunk" He was actually drunk during the call. Of course he was, it was a Sunday and he'd been watching football all day. |
| 5:45
| But Steve bounced back with another show and he and Garry reconciled. Garry now works at Jimmy John's, serving up those fine sandwiches. There's one it's called The Godfather or something like that. |
| 5:46
| Jim kid seems to know what the Italian sandwich is called at Jimmy John's. He likes that place becuase it's named after him, that's what he tells everyone anyway. |
| 5:47
| Steve calls down to the newsroom. There are two Italian subs at Jimmy John's, The Vito and the Italian Night Club. The only difference is smoked ham on the Italian Night Club. It's supposedly bigger too. Is that an optical illusion? Does the ham make it look bigger? Because if so that's something Steve might try. |
| 5:48
| When Jim is doing the show log when Steve's talking to him does he make himself look funnier? And if so is it at Steve's expense? |
| 5:49
| As Steve blogged about today he got a meatball sub at a place by his house. This guy who owns the place has been telling him to come in so Steve finally went there. He hollows the bread out and then puts the meatballs in the groove. |
| 5:50
| The problem with most meatball subs is that when you bite down there's always a chance that a meatball will shoot out the other end. This hollowed out bread fixes that problem. Steve got two sandwiches and the guy probably thought he was getting one for Janet |
| 5:51
| But last night Janet was helping her friend make spinach pies for Greek Easter and she didn't get back until later. She didn't have a spinach pie for Steve either. |
| 5:52
| So Steve basically had 2 loaves of bread yesterday, plus the Cinnabon. It was a zero sum gain for him. He might have another one today although they don't open until 6:30 which seems late for a train station. |
| 5:53
| Steve calls up to the office. Yesterday when Stephanie was at Cinnabon they were open at 6:30 but there were nothing ready. She needs to ask for a manager, but after she gets his food. |
| 5:57
| Live read: Gladstone Homes |
| 5:58
| Buzz had his day in court yesterday for a speeding ticket, it was dismissed. The police officer didn't show up. It was the kind of ticket that you could just mail in and that's what they were hoping he'd do. Instead he fought the law and won. |
| 5:59
| Buzz was doing 33 over which is not good. Steve will have to look it up again but he thought 25 over was reckless driving. Our own Mary appeared before a magistrate on Tuesday going 104 in a 35. Something was worked out and she is free but under supervision. |
| 6:00
| She also has to attend an online traffic school but otherwise she's free. Buzz got a ticket from a Chicago cop and at the time he mentioned how uninterested the guy was in his violation. There was no stern talking-to, now attitude. |
| 6:01
| Buzz has a spotless driving record and he intended on keeping it that way. Of course Buzz bring in evidence, like the windshield from his car clearly show there's a defect or the speedometer. Buzz has to be pleased with the outcome then. |
| 6:02
| It seems like a bit of a flaw that the police officer has to show up so they can prosecute a speeding ticket. Steve's glad he got off but it seems like an inefficient set up. Sometimes justice is inefficient. |
| 6:03
| Did someone just hit the dump button? All the lights went on and there are buttons stationed around the studio complex so it could have been hit on accident. |
| 6:04
| If you got a ticket from one of those cameras no cop has to show up right? It seems like they should come up with a system that doesn't require the cop to show up. |
| 6:05
| Driving 40 mph or more in excess of the applicable maximum is a Class A misdemeanor. Mary was knocked down to 30 over and the judge recognized her but not until afterwards. |
| 6:06
| Steve likes to put that out there before b ut sometimes it doesn't always work out in his favor. Buzz is always reluctant to identify himself, he doesn't want to slit his own throat. Steve feels that at this point he and Buzz are revered so it's OK. |
| 6:07
| Buzz has certainly been in situations where it seems like the police officer is trying to help him out. The one that comes to mind for Steve is when Buzz was driving around in his new car and he couldn't figure out how to work the defroster. |
| 6:08
| So he's just driving around like Mr. Magoo with his head sticking out of the window. The kid's car seat was in the back and he had an incredible story about needing to get home so he and his family could leave for Mexico. |
| 6:09
| Buzz actually didn't have the window's fog up until after the cop let him go. That's when he drove home with his head out the window. After being pulled over Buzz did miss up the forward alphabet. |
| 6:10
| Even sober Steve has to be singing when he's saying the alphabet. There's also a lot of pressure in that situation, chances are you're also standing on one foot. |
| 6:11
| You always hear about people having to say the alphabet backwards but they can't actually make you do that. What probably happens is the person is drunk and tries to do the alphabet backwards which is why they're arrested. |
| 6:12
| Caller Tim is a police officer. To answer Buzz's question, the police officer could have been on vacation or just forgot to show up. An officer only has one court date per month for all his tickets. |
| 6:13
| Also speed isn't really a factor in reckless driving. You could be out on an empty Stevenson doing 50 over and it wouldn't be reckless driving. |
| 6:14
| Steve fell asleep during the news last night, which he switched to after the Sox were breaking his heart, and he thought there was some great new tasing video out there. Is he imagining that? |
| 6:15
| Pete confirms there is a new taser video. Steve thought that the video came from a taser-mounted camera, which is something he's never heard about. |
| 6:21
| That's the taser video Steve was talking about but there's no screaming or anything. The camera seems very close though, like it's mounted on the taser. |
| 6:22
| An Oxford, Ohio police officer tasered a man outside of a bar near Miami University. The 24-year-old is in critical condition. |
| 6:23
| The man in the video is shown rolling on the ground with his mouth wide open in pain. You can't really see that much but it's still cool to have a camera on the taser. |
| 6:24
| Steve likes the concept of a taser-mounted camera but they'll need to work on the video and the audio. How exactly was he critically injured? |
| 6:25
| It's probably better to be tasered than shot but maybe they use the taser more liberally because it's not a gun. Steve likes seeing people get tasered |
| 6:26
| 24-year-old Kevin Piskura became unresponsive after being shocked and is now in critical condition at University Hospital in Cincinnati. His roommate, Steven G. Smith, was being thrown out of a bar when he began fighting with employees. Always a good idea. |
| 6:27
| Piskura then joined in and began fighting with a police officer when he was tasered. Also a good idea. |
| 6:28
| If you attack a police officer you can be shot for that so tasing seems likes a reasonable option. They really frown on attacking police officers, as well they should. |
| 6:29
| Live read: Hawk Ford |
| 6:30
| Caller Russ is a cop in Westchester. There's only one taser setting, on or off. This guy probably hit is head or something after the tasing. Russ has been tased and he didn't fall into a coma or anything. |
| 6:31
| Russ was tasered in a training class which most police departments require. It was the longest 5 seconds of his life and he'd never do it again. Some people came back to be recertified and were tased again though. |
| 6:32
| The guy teaching the class actually took a taser for 15 seconds and he said it wasn't that bad. You can buy a civilian model that actually tases for longer than the police model. If you tase someone and then call the cops the company will replace it. |
| 6:33
| A taser purchase requires a background check so that means Buzz is out. He's got a long rap sheet. Steve probably shouldn't get one either because at some point he'd use it when he shouldn't use it. If he would have had one at the Sox game on Tuesday he would have tasered a Yankees fan. |
| 6:34
| Alright time for the web poll, and not a moment too soon. Yesterday's web poll featured a photo of a naked guy covering his genitals with his hands. Today's question is "Do you have the guys to start your own business?" |
| 6:35
| Buzz has started his own business but it didn't work out well. Was it the "importing" company that he started in Florida? |
| 6:36
| Buzz actually once tried to start a magazine. It was something he liked to work on but he didn't want to run the place. The whole thing brings back a lot of unpleasant memories and Buzz doesn't want to say what it was about. Was it porn? |
| 6:37
| Buzz got into it with the guy who was running High Times in New York and right in the middle of everything he blew his brains out playing Russian Roulette. |
| 6:38
| It was a news magazine with weird, satirical stories that were usually true. It sounds like the news Buzz does now so the magazine didn't really fail, he just took it to a new medium. |
| 6:39
| No matter how often you wash your dog it still stinks. Then it hits you that you: dog cologne! We've all had ideas for a new gizmo or service. But before you decide to spend all your money on a new business figure out if your great idea truly translates into a money-making venture. |
| 6:40
| Steve was watching CBS Sunday Morning last week which is kind of snooty. That's Pete's favorite show, he has a CBS Sunday Morning hat. Buzz had one as well but he lost it. Then he ordered a new one and they'd changed the style. |
| 6:41
| Buzz prefers the structured hat and they have switched to an unstructured hat. Steve prefers the unstructured hat so maybe he should get one and taunt Buzz. |
| 6:42
| CBS Sunday Morning is a good show but it has that air of CBS snootiness, like 60 Minutes. Bill Geist does some of the wackier stories for CBS Sunday Morning. Pete should feel free to join in on this conversation since it's his favorite show. |
| 6:43
| Bill Geist used to work for the Suburban Tribune and he did a story about Steve, they went shopping for Hawaii shirts at K-Mart. |
| 6:44
| Geist was talking to a guy who was making Pope cologne based on some old recipe he found from Pope Pius. The cologne guy was hilarious though. |
| 6:45
| There's a big flaw in the concept because the whole point of cologne is to attract women which the Pope isn't interested in doing. The guy knew it was a dumb idea though. |
| 6:52
| Steve was expecting some audio from CBS Sunday Morning but instead he got The Office. The one day Steve talks about Pete's stupid little show he doesn't have the audio? |
| 6:53
| Steve thinks he summed it up nicely. Basically the guy has an idea for a cologne that makes you smell like Pope Pius X or whatever which doesn't seem like a good idea. |
| 6:54
| Live read: Townstone Financial |
| 6:55
| OK back to the web poll. According to Forbes there are 6 questions to ask yourself about your idea. The first one is, will people pay more for your product/service than it cost to make? |
| 6:56
| Next question, is there a viable market for your product or service? Once again, with the Pope cologne, he's not known for attracting chicks. Maybe if you want to attract altar boys it would work. |
| 6:57
| On the flipside be wary of trying to grab a small slice of a massive pie. Steve has to think that doggie cologne wouldn't sell, just give your dog a bath! Instead of aiming to capture 1% or 2% of a global market aim to capture 25% to 40% of a niche market. |
| 6:58
| Buzz once considered going into business with that amp idea he had but decided not to. He can now reveal what that product was. It was a stand to put your amp on, made of wood, that glides. Buzz figured anyone who had an amp would buy one. |
| 6:59
| The more Buzz thought about it the more he realized he didn't want to deal with marketing them or going to Memphis to meet some guy who would manufacture them. |
| 7:00
| A lot of amp cases come part and can be wheeled but they're not nice furniture. Just so Buzz knows Steve started up his own company selling these amp carts, they've got deals to sell them in Guitar Center and at Sam Ash. |
| 7:01
| The Pope's Cologne is a classic Old World cologne made from the private formula of Pope Pius IX. |
| 7:02
| News with Buzz |
| 7:03
| Five people were found dead in a house on the Southside yesterday afternoon. No motive is known for the crime and police do not believe a killer is on the loose. |
| 7:04
| Buzz isn't sure what that means exactly. Are they saying the person was also shot in the incident? They're saying it could have been a party so they know who was there but if he's not locked up he's still on the loose. |
| 7:05
| They said on the news that the house was known as an after hours club, how is that even possible? How does Steve make his house an after hours club? |
| 7:06
| It's like people are shooting other people just so they can get in with all the other shootings. It's a crazy, like the hula hoop or phone booth stuffing. |
| 7:07
| At least 6 people, including ABC 7's Cheryl Burton, were injured last night when a man believed to be mentally ill hit several people. She was recovering at home last night after the attack. Maybe Steve should go home and help her recover. |
| 7:08
| Steve would even be willing to escort Cheryl to and from work, he's free after 10 am. All he has to do is meet with Todd Cavanah and hear how is day is. It was pointed out to Todd that he and Mary were wearing the same jeans yesterday and he didn't seem to care. |
| 7:09
| That Todd has quite a social life, it seems like he's doing almost too much. It seems like whenever he's home though he makes chili. Well he says he had chili, you can't be making chili from scratch every night can you? It's probably some vegetarian chili he gets at Fox & Obel. |
| 7:10
| Steve is more concerned about Cheryl Burton though. He can meet her at her place after the show and they can read the paper. Then he can escort her to work and stand outside the studio window. It would be late when he brought her back home so he'd probably have to stay over. |
| 7:11
| The highlight of Steve's Super Bowl trip 2 years ago was when he saw Cheryl Burton. He said hi to her and then she came up to him and gave him a kiss. She was looking fine too, wearing these jeans that laced up in the front |
| 7:12
| Hillary Clinton is claiming she's had more people vote for her than Obama. Technically that's true if you count the people in Michigan and Florida. |
| 7:13
| Didn't the Democrats and Hillary agree that those votes wouldn't be counted? And now she's changed her mind. Do we really want a President who is that indecisive. |
| 7:14
| A newspaper that endorsed Clinton is now chastising her for running a dirty campaign. It specifically refers to the new ad that features Osama bin Laden, calling it something torn out of the Karl Rove playbook. |
| 7:15
| The man who sold a guy to the Virginia Tech shooter will visit that campus today. He's traveling around to lecture to help make it easier to get firearms to protect themselves, especially on college campuses. He'll talk to Tech Students for Concealed Carry-on Campus. Sounds like a nice little trip. |
| 7:16
| Sam's Club will limit sales of various white rices due to recent supply and demand trends. There's a rice shortage and the move follows that of Costco who have seen a raise in the sale of rice. Steve's gotten caught up in that, he's been ordering Chinese food and throwing out everything but the rice and then saving it. |
| 7:17
| Authorities have confirmed that phone calls made about alleged sexual abuse at the Texas polygamist compound came from Colorado Springs. It seems like they would have tried to figure out where the call came from before the raid. |
| 7:18
| Prosecutors are calling for a third trial against 6 Florida men accusing of plotting to blow up the Sears Tower and other Federal buildings. At the time of the 2006 arrest it was considered a break through in the fight on terrorism. And yet we can't convict them? Steve doesn't like that they keep showing video of the Sears Tower, it just seems like you're putting the idea out there for other people. |
| 7:19
| Programs teaching U.S. students to practice abstinence have been shown to not work at all but the Bush administration continues to support them. Meanwhile Democrats are attempting to cut funding for them. It's called hormones! |
| 7:20
| More charges have been filed against a Burlington County police officer who was recently charged with sexually assaulting 3 underage girls. He's also been charged with animal cruelty after allegedly engaging in sex acts with cows. They must have some really sexy cows in Wisconsin, it seems like there's always some dude getting in trouble for nailing one. |
| 7:27
| Who would punch Cheryl Burton? You'd have to be crazy. Buzz was right in that area when everything went down. Thank God he wasn't injured or that he wasn't there to save Cheryl. Because then he'd be her favorite. |
| 7:28
| They've had a lot of trouble at ABC since they put in that State Street studio. They had the car drive through the window and then there's that guy, who seems mildly retarded, always wearing weird zoot suits outside the studio. |
| 7:29
| The intercom system is being tested right now in Steve's ear. Or is Pete trying to tell him something? It seems like an inopportune time to test the intercom. |
| 7:30
| Pete says the guys name if Vinnie and Jerry Taft always references him. He seems mildly retarded but that's OK, a lot of people could say that about Steve. Pete's pretty sure he's not though because Neil Steinberg did a column about him a few years ago. |
| 7:31
| According to Neil he was normal but it doesn't seem like it. So you've got that troublemaker, the car driving through the window and now this guy attacking Cheryl Burton. It is bringing attention to ABC so maybe it's all part of their plan. Buzz will tune in tonight just to see Cheryl. |
| 7:32
| Meanwhile Brant Miller stands out side the NBC studio window everyday and nothing happens to him. He's just standing there smelling pansies and acting like they just magically grew there. Someone planted them though. |
| 7:33
| Yesterday Steve claimed, as Joe Bee, that pansies don't give off a scent. But Bruce Wolf was saying how he stopped to smell them. He always thinks he's the smartest person in the room but he doesn't know that pansies don't smell? |
| 7:34
| Pete plays the Brant Miller/Bruce Wolf audio. Buzz has to stop watching that news. First off, Brant Miller seems like the smartest guy there although it was his cameraman who told him they'd been planted and didn't just spring up. |
| 7:35
| Warner might be the smarted person there actually. There was a point last week where Bruce was riffing on something and Warner told him to shut up. The whole thing is ridiculous, Buzz has to stop watching it. |
| 7:36
| Buzz feels that Allison Rosati is becoming something. She's transcending her status as an anchorwoman. She appeals to everyone, except Steve. It's not that Steve doesn't like her, it's just nutball city over there. |
| 7:37
| Caller David has some info about Vinnie, who hangs out in front of the ABC studios. Vinnie is legally blind which would explain his bad taste in suits. David has seen a few that look nice and wonder where he got them from. |
| 7:38
| David has actually talked to Vinnie and been invited over to his house to try a suit on. Steve feels the whole news window thing is distracting. Can't we just see the news with a fake city of Chicago backdrop behind it? |
| 7:39
| ABC needs to stop sending Jerry Taft out there to talk to the guy though. He used to napalm villages in Vietnam and now he's talking to this guy? What kind of world are we living in?! |
| 7:40
| Steve does find himself drawn to NBC but only for the weird exchanges all the anchors have. It's funny to watch Bruce try to dial himself down. |
| 7:41
| Bruce has started identifying any impersonations he's going to do, he's trying to make it more mass appeal. Bruce can be very funny and Steve likes him but if he could just dial it down a little bit. He always has to be the smartest guy in the room no matter what the cost. |
| 7:42
| Caller Adam wanted to let Steve know about a video he found on YouTube of Tracy Butler crashing a moped. Pete says it's about a year old but it still sounds good. |
| 7:50
| Live read: Woodfield Nissan |
| 7:51
| There is construction on both expressways going north from the city which seems like a mistake. The Edens is under construction and so is 294. |
| 7:52
| Steve was on 294 going south the other day and it's all construction zone so he has to go 45. But it's dangerous to go that slow. He doesn't want another speeding ticket but you can't go that slow. |
| 7:53
| Mark Czerniec would probably want Buzz to point out that the police officer fiddling around with the cows is in New Jersey, not Wisconsin. |
| 7:54
| Steve has looked at this Tracy Butler video before. He doesn't remember that but apparently it was during the afternoon show. Did Steve see it live and then talk about it, is that how Pete remembers it? |
| 7:55
| Pete thought that it happened in the morning and Steve saw it and then replayed it in the afternoons. |
| 7:56
| Mark has more information about that police officer with the cow. Mark is based out of Racine which has become a hub for news gathering. CNN is up there, MSNBC and of course Steve has someone up there as well. |
| 7:57
| Live read: Pro Flowers |
| 7:58
| Mother's Day is still 2 weeks ago, not one week as Steve previously said. Steve has already made arrangements for Mother's Day. It took him 30 years to learn about the Mother's Day trap. |
| 7:59
| Janet always said she didn't care about Mother's Day but she does. That's why the boys don't care about it so it's left to Steve. |
| 8:00
| Buzz's mom passed away but does he flower-up the mother-in-law? That might take the sting off having a son-in-law who's the same age as she is. |
| 8:01
| Steve's mother-in-law wasn't his biggest supporter early on but as the years went on he might have become her favorite. They bonded over grapefruit juice and vodka in Florida. That fresh grapefruit juice can take a lot of vodka. |
| 8:02
| Buzz became lifelong friends with Lonnie Brooks after getting him a bottle of Courvoisier back stage at at show at Poplar Creek. |
| 8:03
| A man was stabbed and seriously wounded outside of a CTA Red Line station in Rogers Park early this morning. Chicago is becoming the most violent city in the world. Do we need to get Curtis Sliwa here to organize something? |
| 8:04
| Buzz is pretty sure we have Guardian Angels but they don't seem to be doing a good job. |
| 8:05
| This all happened at the Morse station where Pete gets on the train everyday. It happened right after he got on the train, he must have just missed it. Did Pete stab anyone this morning? Because it's pretty clear that Pete does have a dark side. |
| 8:06
| The man was taken to St. Francis Hospital in Evanston where he underwent surgery this morning. The two assailants ran off after the attack and are still at large. Pete's sure that wasn't him and Catman? Pete can't speak for Catman because he doesn't know his whereabouts early this morning. |
| 8:07
| That Morse station is the worst, it smells like feet. Pete feels they should just blow the whole thing up and start over. Was that all part of the recon when Pete bought his condo? Did his real estate agent take him on a tour of L station before he moved in? |
| 8:08
| There was actually a security breach in Pete's building the other day. Someone walked into an occupied apartment early in the morning and then quickly left when the person called the police. |
| 8:09
| The perp was gone by the time the police arrived. So Pete was back in his place in his pajamas when they arrived? It was actually a woman who entered the apartment. All of the sudden it doesn't sound as bad. Mike Dahl is looking for a condo, Pete was hoping he would move up there. |
| 8:10
| Steve finds that area very inconvenient to get to so if Mike never wants to see his parents again he should move up there. |
| 8:11
| What's that whistling sound, is Pete watching Andy Griffith? It's actually his phone. That's his phone?! No wonder he doesn't get laid! That's the jingle for Illinois tourism which Pete thought was cool. Is that just to be quirky? Who was calling him? Was it Catman? |
| 8:12
| Steve couldn't see Mike moving up to Rogers Park, he needs to be closer to the action. There are two gay bars and a leather shop by Pete's apartment. Is Pete sure there's something he doesn't want to tell us? |
| 8:13
| Caller Jason just remembered a story Pete once told about how he accidentally went into the wrong apartment and fell asleep in there. |
| 8:14
| Pete was staying with friends in Washington, DC and he decided to pack it in for the night because he was pretty drunk. His friends were going to stay out so they told Pete where the key was. What time did he pack it in if they were going to keep going out? |
| 8:15
| So Pete wanders back to the complex and he's getting angry because he can't find the key. He tries the door though and it's open. So he finds the couch and crashes on it. |
| 8:16
| A few hours later Pete wakes up and has his wits about him a little more. He starts to notice that it doesn't look like the house he was staying at. Then he got up and looked for his luggage where he'd left it in the kitchen. |
| 8:17
| No one found Pete in the house so he just left and went 2 houses down to the right place where he found the key. That story could have turned out a lot worse or a lot better. He could have been in a house with two young Georgetown co-eds. |
| 8:18
| Also on that trip Pete's friend went home with a girl and he left his wallet at her house. He couldn't remember where the house was so they drove around in a cab trying to remember where it was. |
| 8:19
| A month later the wallet was mailed back to him. Did it also come with a positive paternity test? That's another fine story about Pete and his knucklehead friends, who Steve's going to say drink too much. |
| 8:26
| It's time for the Eight O'Clock Taco Bell. Steve's Taco Pal today is a dude, Terry. Today he's having the Chicken Fiesta Border Bowl. Steve has never heard of that, what is it? |
| 8:27
| It's got chicken, rice, beans and it's all in a black bowl. Steve's going to try that then. Terry is also having a Chicken Chalupa with tomato instead of sour cream. |
| 8:28
| Terry loves Steve being on in the mornings. Steve appreciates that because it seems like people are always pulling him aside and telling him that they want him back on afternoons. |
| 8:29
| Terry would like to see Jack rebroadcast the show in the afternoons but that probably won't happen. He still listens to Jack all day anyway. |
| 8:30
| Steve always tells those people to listen to the podcast. He gets emails everyday from podcast listeners. And everyday Steve reminds Todd to look into getting more stuff included on the podcast. |
| 8:31
| Because of licensing issues we can't include a lot of the other audio like drops and music. But if more and more people are going to be listening to podcasts it seems like Steve's show should be a close representation of what he does on the air. |
| 8:32
| Steve's going to get Pat Boyle on the phone but he also wants to check out that Chicken Fiesta Bowl. |
| 8:33
| Suddenly Steve can't get onto Taco Bell's website. He's going to take full credit for crashing their site. Steve has never had a problem getting on there until now, just after he talked about going there. |
| 8:34
| Last night Steve and Pat were exchanging emails. Pat was at Comcast getting ready for Sportsnite, which was actually bounced when they picked up the Cubs game. |
| 8:35
| The Cubs won an exciting game in 10 innings. They were down going into the 9th then they took the lead. Then Woody blew another save when Scotty Pods tied it up. Then the Cubs won it in the 10th. |
| 8:36
| Steve turned Comcast off after the Sox game, that was a very poor showing. And the Yankees don't even have A-Rod! |
| 8:37
| The Cubs got the 10,000th win in franchise history last night, they're the second team to do that. The Sox as close but they also started 25 years after the Cubs did. |
| 8:38
| Steve still can't get onto the Taco Bell website, that's how popular he and Buzz are. |
| 8:39
| Steves been watching Ellen lately and she's celebrating some sort of milestone. Then there are the Cubs who just got 10,000 wins. So Steve decided to try to figure out how many shows he's done. |
| 8:40
| Let's say 365 days a year, minus 100 days for weekends so that's 265. Then a couple of weeks vacation so that's 250. |
| 8:41
| Is Steve hearing some construction at the Boyle household? It's sort of bad timing but he is having some work done. They've got a deck on the roof that they're redoing. |
| 8:42
| Steve usually takes more than 2 weeks off a year so it's more like 225 days of shows per year. Steve's figuring he's done about 6,750 shows. He thought that would make him feel better than it does. |
| 8:43
| Can we make that the official count as of now? Steve could just go ahead and bump it up to 7,000 that way we can start the celebration today. |
| 8:44
| If Steve is saying he does 233 shows per year we're already at 7,000. Let's pick a day and celebrate, how about Friday? Steve's going to cook the books to make sure Friday is the 7,000th show. |
| 8:45
| Live read: Woodfield Nissan |
| 8:53
| Alright lets get back to Peanut Butter on the phone. He just went up to his deck to talk to the construction workers, it was driving him a little nuts. The guy knew he was on with Steve so he stopped. |
| 8:54
| Caller Kirk is out in Wheaton and he has been to Cream of Wheaton, it's fantastic. Would Kirk invite Steve over to go to it? |
| 8:55
| Kirk things that a more impressive stat for Steve is that he does 5 hours per day while Ellen only does 1. That has to be 30,000 broadcast hours. |
| 8:56
| Caller Dave is in Barrington, where everyone has 5 acres and a mule. Dave is correcting Steve's math. If he takes 3 weeks off for vacation that's 15 days but he was only giving himself 2 weeks. |
| 8:57
| Dave knows Steve is a White Sox fan but how about those Cubs? They are ridiculous so far. |
| 8:58
| Steve's going to work on the math when he gets home today but it's fair to say that he's closing in on 7,000. If he sat down and really thought about it he could probably remember every show like it was yesterday. The was that one on February 22nd, 1978 where Dick Buttkick broke his leg. |
| 8:59
| Speaking of milestones, next week is the 25th anniversary of Lee Elia's famous rant. The Tribune had a little section about Lee Elia rant and the one there is the same as the edited one Steve always played. |
| 9:00
| Les Grobstein is the one who got that tape and brought it in to Steve and Garry. Les has always maintained the master copy though. Does Pete have a longer version of it? |
| 9:01
| Steve was thinking we should have Les Grobstein on next week to commemorate the anniversary. Les and Mark Giangreco were the only people there. Steve's not sure what Mark did with it but Steve played the hell out of it. |
| 9:02
| Earlier Steve was taking credit for crashing the Taco Bell website but it turns out he wasn't online. But he will take credit for popularizing the Lee Elia rant. He can't imagine Mark got the chance to play that tape very often. |
| 9:03
| At that time Mark was working for Chet Coppock in his Boyquarium. And now Mark has his own Boyquarium. |
| 9:04
| The Cubs won in exciting fashion last night. Aramis hit a 2-run home run to give them the lead in the 9th. How about the crowd in Colorado for the Cubs? It sounds like they're playing at Wrigley. It's not like the Rockies are a bad team either, they were in the World Series last year. And now they're trying to trademark Rocktober. |
| 9:05
| Meanwhile the White Sox are collapsing under the pressure of playing the Yankees, who were a .500 team when they came to town. Has Pat noticed how tight Joe Girardi's pants are? They might be sprayed on. |
| 9:06
| Hawk and DJ got into some bat talk again last night. Steve loves bat talk as well as talk of the various people Hawk and DJ have faced in their careers. There's a game going on being played by people who are still alive! |
| 9:07
| Hawk has come up with a great new nickname though, The Silent Assassin for Javier Vazquez. During Cubs games they show a lot of people in the crowd and Len and Bob will talk about it. Steve would like more of that from Hawk and DJ. There was a black cat on the field on Tuesday, they should mention that. |
| 9:08
| The other night they came back from a break on the Cubs game and there was a guy holding a sign that was spelled incorrectly. Bob made a comment about the guy missing too many days of school. If it were Hawk he would just say how Yaz wasn't a good speller, couldn't even spell his own name. |
| 9:09
| The other night Nick Swisher checked his swing and it actually broke his bat. So Hawk was asked if he'd ever seen that before and he had, only once, it was Jim Rice. The DJ tells a story about trying to break his bat on home plate and jamming up his wrist. |
| 9:10
| It just looked to Steve like the ball hit he bat in the right place to break it on that Swisher swing. He wasn't really paying attention though because the Yankees fans were distracting. They all had adult ADD. |
| 9:11
| Before the game Ozzie was talking about Derek Jeter and Ozzie called him the perfect man. |
| 9:12
| Ozzie says if he had a daughter he'd introduce her to Derek although it seems like he'd rather be his wingman. |
| 9:13
| Finally Pat has some Ron Turner audio, he's the genius of the Bears offense. The Bears have the 14th pick in the draft and they're expected to take an offensive lineman. |
| 9:14
| We'll see what happens. The Bears have had some good drafts in the last few years. They seem to do much better at positions like offensive tackle as opposed to something like QB or running back. |
| 9:15
| Steve has seen some video of the scouting combine, it seems sort of homoerotic. They get all these college guys together and make them run shirtless and then measure them. |
| 9:16
| There's a chance that Rashard Mendenhall will be available when the Bears pick so if he is then they have to figure out what to do. |
| 9:24
| Live read: Joebees |
| 9:25
| Joe Bee is here and he's looking good. That's because his entire thorax is full of bee pollen. |
| 9:26
| Joe's going to hit some pear blossoms today. There are probably a lot of opportunities for him given the time of year. |
| 9:27
| It's time for Steve to take his bee pollen, he's still doubling down. So far so good, he hasn't started buzzing or sprouted wings. |
| 9:28
| If you order now and are one of the first 5 you'll get a Joebees t-shirt. Joe's wearing one now but it's very tiny. |
| 9:29
| Live read: Fresh Diet |
| 9:30
| The other day Steve was talking about befriending the neighborhood dogs. He asked Bob and Ron for some tips although he knows how to properly approach a dog. He lived with a pack of wolves so he knows all that stuff. |
| 9:31
| The dog was scared at first but then rolled over and was submissive. It was sad when Steve left but couldn't go because it was behind an electric fence. |
| 9:32
| Steve said he wanted to befriend all of the dogs in his neighborhood because some of them do bark at him and it doesn't seem friendly. Steve doesn't have any problems but if the dog had the guts to cross the electric fence it would probably come at him. |
| 9:33
| Bob and Ron suggested that Steve bring treats along with him to get the other dogs to like him. But then he got this email. |
| 9:34
| A listener suggests that feeing other people's dogs might be a bad idea. He doesn't know their diet or what they can and can't have so he might get in trouble with the owner. |
| 9:35
| News with Buzz |
| 9:36
| Hillary Clinton is claiming a lead in the primaries and has the votes to back it up. She's including the 2.3 million who voted for her in Michigan and Florida. |
| 9:37
| Steve's not taking sides here-although Buzz accused him of saying something mean about Hillary everyday-but she already agreed that Michigan and Florida wouldn't count. She was the only name on the ballot anyway. |
| 9:38
| It's sort of genius though because she's going to make everything about these votes now. So Buzz should note that. |
| 9:39
| Just so Steve can say he's made fun of everyone in the race, and this might be Republican trickery, someone is running Obama attack ads that might somehow feature Osama bin Laden. |
| 9:40
| The ad features Jeremiah Wright and the comes out of that and accuses him of being too extreme. John McCain denounced the ad but the Republicans in that state didn't listen to him. |
| 9:41
| Sure it's bad for Obama but on the other hand, do you want a President who can't get his own party to do what he asks them to? |
| 9:42
| Congress will take a closer look at boot camps aimed at troubled teens. |
| 9;43
| The man who sold a guy to the Virginia Tech shooter is visiting that campus today. He's lecturing in favor of students being allowed to carry concealed weapons. |
| 9:44
| He also claims he sold a gun to the NIU shooter so there's the connection. You'd think he'd want to just stay out of that. |
| 9:52
| Steve's starting to get the hate mail from the dog people. Dogs and cyclists, those are the hot buttons. |
| 9:53
| This first emailer has a dog that's allergic to wheat, which is found in most dog treats. In all of Steve's years he's never come across a dog that's allergic to wheat. |
| 9:54
| Dogs live to eat your table scraps. Steve has never had to be anything but indiscriminate about what he gives his dog. If you wanted something that had a wheat allergy or a peanut allergy, you'd get a kid. |
| 9:55
| Here's another one from Sarah, a serious dog owner/lover. Steve is too, he has 2 dogs and he's serious about them and he loves them. He's no different than Sarah other than that he minds his own business to a certain extent. |
| 9:56
| Steve was just going to throw some treats to a neighborhood dog, it's not like he threatened to kill anyone. |
| 9:57
| Sarah's doberman has food allergies and she has given special treats to all of her neighbors. Finally she says that Steve has no right to pet or feed dogs. Yes he does. Hopefully his dogs don't hear about that. |
| 9:58
| Steve's going to come up with a questionnaire to pass out to his neighbors to find out what their dogs are allergic to. Then he'll wear a series of fanny packs spread across his torso each containing different snacks for different dogs. |
| 9:59
| It sounds like their owners are projecting these food allergies on their pets. It seems far-fetched, no pun intended. |
| 10:00
| Buzz remembers his mom projecting stuff on him when he was a kid. She'd say things like he was good at math so he was going to be an architect. Buzz was horrible at math. |
