 |
 |
|
| 5:31
| From the teeming metropolis of Chicago, Illinois it's the Steve Dahl Show. This theme does have a "teeming" feel to it. Steve hates to interrupt it. |
| 5:32
| Good morning everybody, get up and go to work, work hard and make lots of money. Or don't. Steve has found some of these themes he uses hard to talk over than others. |
| 5:33
| There's one that's perfect and easy to talk over, would Buzz like to go through them? it's actually this first one that Steve likes. It has a typewriter feel to it, like that old Jerry Lewis bit with the typewriter. |
| 5:34
| No traffic, no weather and very inconsistent news, that's our promise to you. One of these themes sounds like a Burt Bachrach song. It probably is. |
| 5:35
| Maybe Steve should just leave things as they are. Sometimes he overthinks it, like with all the remixes of Peanut Butter Jelly Time. Buzz thinks it's OK to tinker sometimes. |
| 5:36
| Isn't Tinker the name of Jim's dog? It's either Tinkers or Evers or Chance. Steve calls down to the newsroom. His dog's name is Chance although his uncle calls him Tinkers, which is funnier. Jim's uncle is funnier than he is. |
| 5:37
| Jim has a beagle although it's not a purebred right? It only cost him $150 so it's probably not a purebred. It also doesn't look like most beagles, probably because it's not all beagle. |
| 5:38
| Sometimes they say that dogs look like their owners but Jim sort of looks like a beagle. And often times Steve will walk into the newsroom and see Buzz grabbing Jim by his ears. |
| 5:39
| There is a woman on CNN right now and she either has a sore or some sort of mark on her lip. It's very distracting though. Would that be a dealbreaker in a bar? |
| 5:40
| Pete says her name is Alina Cho and it's a birthmark. He knows his newsmistresses. That birthmark needs to be dealt with, it looks like she has a leech on her face. |
| 5:41
| She probably kept the birthmark to prove that she wasn't just on TV because she's cute. But based on what Steve just heard she's only on TV because she's cute. She was just rambling about how rich people spend more than everyone else. |
| 5:42
| They're talking about gold cufflinks and how rich people are buying them now because the price of gold will go up. At some point the price will probably go down but they don't care, they're rich. |
| 5:43
| Todd Cavanah wears cufflinks everyday. Sometimes he rolls his sleeves up to make it look like he's working hard. Buzz has never noticed that but he's only seen him a few times. That's probably because he leaves at 10:01 everyday. |
| 5:44
| Todd's getting ready to go on vacation but Steve can't remember where he's going. All he knows is he flies to Miami, then flies to St. Martin then takes a boat to the hotel. Steve doesn't know what he's getting away from, other than where he should play a Steve Miller Band song or telling Eddie & Jobo to shut up. |
| 5:45
| Todd was asking Steve if he wanted to have the Hungry Hound back on the show. He's been thinking about it but the guy is sort of a dandy. He's a high-maintenance metrosexual. |
| 5:46
| Steve will never forget the time the guy was blowing his nose in the studio while the food he brought was sitting out. He might as well just pull down his pants and drop a deuce. At least the germs would be contained. |
| 5:47
| Every year Steve Dolinsky does a pig roast, he brings the swine, you bring the wine. He also has some connection to a company that sells these boxes for roasting pigs. |
| 5:48
| He sent Todd an email because they're both downtown metrosexuals. This might be a privileged email but Steve's going to read it as soon as he can find it. |
| 5:49
| The Hungry Hound seems unnaturally drawn to pig roasts though. It might just be a way to talk about these pig roasting boxes. |
| 5:50
| He had the pig roast last Friday and he was filming it for an ABC segment. He's roasting the pig but asking people to bring a side. Why not just got to a Lutheran potluck dinner? |
| 5:51
| The pig was supposed to be ready by 6 pm and he was going to start clearing people out at 8 pm because he was on the air that night. That's actually the perfect time for a party for Steve. |
| 5:52
| Steve opted out of that one but he might go to the Swine and Wine dinner that's coming up later. And he wouldn't mind having the guy back in the studio, they just need to work out the nose blowing thing. Steve asked him to stop blowing his nose both on and off the air. Plus he had flan with him, it couldn't have been worse. |
| 5:58
| Someone suggested to Steve via email that Joe Bee should have King Bee as his song for Blue Monday. Buzz thinks that might sound a tad too eccentric. |
| 5:59
| Alright it is time now for the web poll, brought to you by Four Winds Casino. Steve plans on attending the casino soon. Do you attend a casino? He'll be attending a gambling session there very soon. |
| 6:00
| Friday's web poll question was "How do you like your potatoes?" 33% of people said mashed. Steve went with scallops, different strokes for different folks. |
| 6:01
| Fried followed at 28% then boiled at 24%. Boiled?! C'mon people, that's prison food! Baked potato only registered 8% of the vote, what happened there? Buzz feels that the baked potato has fallen out of favor because of how long it takes to cook. There's also the butter/sour cream factor. |
| 6:02
| Scalloped potatoes came in last at 4% although Steve can't figure out why. Scalloped potatoes have everything you could want on a potato! |
| 6:03
| Today's web poll question is "Which is your favorite candy bar?" and the options are Milky Way, Snickers and Mars. Steve likes a good Mars bar and he also likes Snickers. |
| 6:04
| The Milky Way is missing something, it's like a Snickers bar that couldn't get it together. The Milky Way is missing the peanuts and it's hard to have one once you've had a Snickers. |
| 6:05
| Buzz likes a 3 Musketeers as well. Steve would rather go 3 Musketeers than Milky Way. A 3 Musketeers says "you know what, you're just going to go straight nougat" |
| 6:06
| Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway and Mars Inc. are close to acquiring Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co., The deal would remake the global confectionary landscape. |
| 6:07
| In 2005 Wrigley purchased Kraft's candy assets, including Altoids and LifeSavers. You'd think those two candies would compete but really they're in bed together. |
| 6:08
| This sale would end Wrigley's independence. It was founded in the 19th century by William Wrigley Jr. He peddled soap and then baking powder in Chicago and would give people packages of chewing gum to entice buyers. That worked out well for him! Jesus! |
| 6:09
| By 1920 Wrigley was making 9 billion sticks of gum a year and had become the world's largest advertiser of a single product. |
| 6:10
| Steve wouldn't be surprised if Warren Buffett is working out a deal to buy the naming rights to Wrigley Field. He might be doing all this just for that reason. They have a nickname for him but Steve can't remember it. |
| 6:11
| Caller Craig has some bad news for Steve. They might have stopped making the Mars bar and now call it the Snickers with Almonds. Craig is a Twix man himself. Twix! That's the same as a Kit Kat isn't it? |
| 6:12
| Twix has a cookie and caramel while Kit Kat is a little more foofy with the wafer. A Twix has more substance. Steve feels the Twix is just a glorified cookie. If he wants that he can buy one from the Girl Scouts in his neighborhood. |
| 6:13
| Why did they change the Mars bar to the Snickers with Almond? What's wrong with Mars? Steve doesn't like it any more now. Maybe the whole deal is going down because Warren Buffett couldn't get a Mars bar. His nickname might be the Oracle of Nebraska. |
| 6:14
| Caller Joe wanted to let Steve know that Warren Buffett's nickname is the Oracle of Omaha. Oracle of Nebraska, that's not even an alliteration. |
| 6:15
| So the Wrigley Building will keep it's name right? Although they could call it the Buffett Building, that's some alliteration. right there. |
| 6:22
| The Mars bar was changed to the Snickers with Almonds in 2002 so where has Steve been? |
| 6:23
| You can still get the Mars bar in the UK though, that's where they were first made. It was first made in Slough in the UK in 1932. It was a sweeter version of the American Milky Way. |
| 6:24
| A different bar with the same name was manufactured in the U.S. until 2002. So the one Steve would get from the UK would not be the same as the one here. Steve's not going to do that though. |
| 6:25
| Steve has probably had a Snickers with Almonds and thought it tasted just like a Mars bar. |
| 6:26
| Steve will occasionally power down a Snickers bar if he's in a hotel room. He only eats them if they're in the fridge though. |
| 6:27
| Of course we got those candy bars shipped to us a few months ago, the Baby Ruth's and Butterfingers. Please don't send those again. |
| 6:28
| Buzz still has a box in his office, don't let Steve in there. He had to throw his out because he couldn't stop eating them. There was no place to hide them that Steve couldn't find them, he's like one of those pigs that can find truffles. |
| 6:29
| On Saturday night Buzz was searching the house for a half hour looking for chocolate, there's usually some stashed away. There wasn't any this time, that's the trick. |
| 6:30
| Buzz ended up having half a peanut butter and jelly sandwich just to get rid of his craving. Steve did some peanut butter and honey on Saturday prior to a youth soccer game. |
| 6:31
| Steve didn't play in the game, he just watched his niece play. It was fun but he's still uncomfortable with adults yelling at girls to do stuff. |
| 6:32
| Steve is starting back up on his diet today though, he's cutting out the Cinnabon's for starters. He's been on a roll lately, a cinnamon roll, but he only gained a few pounds. |
| 6:33
| Factoring in the Cinnabon and all the White Sox buffets over the last few weeks Steve took that as a sign that he should get back on the diet. |
| 6:34
| And there are several diet food companies who are advertisers so Steve has that available to him. He's also thinking about not eating until lunch. |
| 6:35
| Buzz advises against that. If you don't eat breakfast your body starts going into starvation mode and you metabolize differently. Steve just doesn't know what to have for breakfast, it seems like there are no healthy options. |
| 6:36
| Buzz has toast with jam and a health shake every morning. He likes the toast but the shake is a pain. He's not craving it and it takes longer to make. But he likes to keep that metabolism going. What kind of jam does Buzz like? There's a jam Steve has had, it's like crack. There seems to be a lot of fruit in it. |
| 6:37
| Steve will have to find somewhere that sells a health shake or something. He was going Jamba Juice for a while but those things are ridiculous too! He's going to the Sox game today, he thought that would be his big meal but that's probably not a good idea. |
| 6:38
| Maybe Steve will start alternating between those two diet companies. He could really go for a Cinnabon though. They just opened 8 minutes ago, the first batch of rolls has probably just dropped. |
| 6:39
| Steve really had his diet together for the last 3 or 4 years when he was on in afternoons. It's really easy to maintain a diet on that schedule. Being on in mornings, Steve feels like he wants to reward himself for getting up early. Then he has the entire rest of the day to eat. |
| 6:40
| Steve still fits in all his clothes but he's starting to push the envelope on what the stitching can handle. His pants could explode at any moment leaving him in his underpants. |
| 6:41
| Sister Marianne, Steve's own personal nun, is on the phone. She had gastric bypass surgery last summer and it's the best thing she ever did for her health. She's lost a little over 100 pounds so far and she feels fabulous. |
| 6:42
| Some of the old cravings has started to come back but the minute she was out of the hospital her diabetes were gone. Steve saw something about that on 60 Minutes. |
| 6:43
| Marianne didn't have the lapband, she had the other one which her doctor said was the gold standard. Is she still funny, because Steve was worried about that. He also doesn't appreciate having 100 pounds less of his own personal nun. |
| 6:44
| It took Marianne a while to convince her community that she should have the surgery but other nuns have done it. She had to convince her general officer and that took a while. |
| 6:45
| General officer, is that like the mother superior? Do they not call them that any more? "General officer jumped the gun" wouldn't have been as good of a Beatles lyric. |
| 6:46
| Are there a lot of fat nuns out there? If you don't have to look good for guys you might not try as hard. The nuns probably don't do much right? They just sit around watching Sound of Music and Flying Nun reruns right? |
| 6:47
| Marianne doesn't think Steve could lose his sense of humor though. Some people do look different after the surgery though. She was at a nun function over the weekend and someone she's know for 30 years didn't even recognize her. Could Sister Marianne hook Buzz up with his own nun? They could double date. |
| 6:48
| If Sister Marianne could fast track Steve he'd go Catholic. He'd only want to attend 1 class though. He really misses the Catholic dogma, lately they've been going to some happy-ass church, it's too positive. |
| 6:49
| She might not be able to fast track him if she had to ask permission for to get the gastric bypass. Although the church probably had to pay for that so it could still work. |
| 6:50
| Steve will ask her all about it when he and Buzz go on their double date. You can tell nuns stuff and then can't tell anyone else right? Or is that just for priests? |
| 6:56
| That jam Steve was talking about is called Simply Fruit, it's a Smucker's product. Steve is very immersed in the Smucker's website right now, he's checking out their natural peanut butter selections. |
| 6:57
| They've got a cranked lid that they sell so you can mix the oil in with the natural peanut butter. Steve is never good at mixing the natural peanut butter, he gets the oil everywhere. |
| 6:58
| Buzz likes to see the kids around here keeping peanut butter at their desks. Steve did not know we could keep peanut butter here. Jim has some in the newsroom actually. Does Buzz ever stick his finger in there and give it a wet willy? |
| 6:59
| Steve calls down to the weather center. Jim's holding some Jif creamy. Is he 5 years old? That's peanut butter for 5-year-olds. He needs to try some Skippy super chunky, that's a man's peanut butter. |
| 7:00
| Jim likes all kinds of peanut butter, as does Steve but he prefers Skippy. Jif and peanut butter have too much sugar added, for little kids. Jim doesn't mind the sugar, it gets him awake in the morning. Then he crashes around 10:30. That's what happened to Steve last week after the Cinnabon. |
| 7:01
| Is Buzz ready for some news because Steve's ready for him. Actually Steve has a call to take that he didn't see. |
| 7:02
| Caller Nancy is down in Hobart, Indiana, rockin' the 219. Hobart sticks out in Buzz's head becuase of the story, many years ago, about a many in Hobart who committed suicide by hitting himself in the head with a hammer 57 times. |
| 7:03
| Nancy was on Weight Watchers for a while and she loves peanut butter. Unfortunately one tablespoon is a ton of points. |
| 7:04
| Nancy is recommending a powdered peanut butter. It's definitely not as good as the regular stuff but it has 80% less fat than regular peanut butter. |
| 7:05
| Of course it has less fat because there's no oil in it. They just take that oil and sell it to you in a different container. Steve would probably buy this powder and then add the peanut oil back to it. |
| 7:06
| Steve will give it a try though, he's going to order some up right now. Nancy is a school teacher, does she ever steal peanut butter from her kids? |
| 7:07
| At Nancy's school they're actually not allowed to bring unhealthy food to school. Is peanut butter unhealthy? They also can't have birthday parties any more with cupcakes. |
| 7:08
| Nancy actually just tells her parents to write "sugar free" on the cupcake container with a marker. That's given Steve a great idea! |
| 7:09
| Steve calls up to the office. Can Stephanie write "sugar free" on all of the Cinnabon containers she brings in? |
| 7:10
| Caller Dan is recommending PB Loco. Is that the name of a DJ in California? It's actually a line of flavored peanut butter. |
| 7:11
| Steve's looking at the website right now, it's peanut butter for adults. It's also a cafe and there are franchise opportunities. |
| 7:12
| Some of these peanut butters sound like bad idea. Cookie dough and peanut butter? It's like Elvis has his own peanut butter company. The craziest Elvis ever got was the peanut butter and banana. He did fry them and put the Fluff on there too. |
| 7:13
| Caller Cheryl was eating some fake peanut butter called Better 'n Peanut Butter because she also had a peanut butter issue. |
| 7:14
| It's peanut butter but it has less fat and calories. And they have this at Trader Joe's? Steve will try some if he can get to it before he sees other peanut butter. |
| 7:15
| Buzz doesn't understand how someone who likes peanut butter can settle for anything less than peanut butter. Not all of us have the self-control that Buzz does. |
| 7:16
| A couple of weeks ago a woman Steve knows brought in some Blondies and Buzz didn't have any because there was peanut butter in them. He wasn't eating peanut butter that day. |
| 7:17
| Then the woman said she would make Buzz some Blondies without peanut butter. Steve told her not to bother because she's just chasing her tail trying to please him. |
| 7:18
| Steve has never seen anyone with the will power that Buzz has with food. There's a lot of junk that comes through here and Steve puts his mouth on all of it. |
| 7:19
| Steve could very easily take one bite of something and tell you how it is but he eats all of it. |
| 7:20
| Caller Harv is from Gilman, that's on the way to Champaign-Urbana right? There used to be a restaurant down there that was sort of like a roadhouse. |
| 7:21
| Harv was thinking it was the Red Door but that's still open. This placed closed, it was Something Wheel with Rusty Wagner on the keyboard. You could never tell if Rusty was a man or a woman. |
| 7:22
| Steve and Garry used to stop there for dinner on the way to and from Champaign-Urbana when they did gigs down there. |
| 7:23
| Harv's daughter came home from school one day requesting a peanut butter and bologna sandwich. Harv has had one and it's actually pretty good. |
| 7:24
| Pretty good or really good? Harv has had worse at a restaurant. A peanut butter and friend bologna might work for Steve. How does Buzz feel about this? Is this a road he doesn't want to travel down? |
| 7:25
| Steve didn't know the station reached all the way down to Gilman. Harv is actually at work listening on the web. What does Harv do? |
| 7:26
| Harv works at a sod farm, best in the area. Steve could use some sod, can Harv hook him up? Maybe a few rolls fall off the truck or something? |
| 7:27
| Steve's neighbor has Kentucky blue grass, Steve wouldn't mind some of that. |
| 7:34
| That's The Office, Michael Scott getting gum stuck in his hair. Then Dwight rubbed peanut butter in there to get it out. |
| 7:35
| Dwight ended up rubbing peanut butter all over his head which was horrifying to Buzz. He wasn't aware of a tradition of peanut butter shampoos. |
| 7:36
| You can put peanut butter in your hair to get gum out but you only put it where the gum is. |
| 7:37
| We're getting a lot of peanut butter calls now, can we just finish up Peanut Butter Talk? Buzz does have some news and we will get to that. The thing that's upsetting Steve right now is that truck driver who ran into the CTA station stole his look. |
| 7:38
| That's a joke, has Buzz seen the guy? Buzz didn't think of Steve when he saw the guy. He probably should have at least pulled his pants up after the crash. |
| 7:39
| It seems like his pants are actually undone. Ironically you can use your girth to keep your pants on because they become so tight. That actually happened to Steve on the way back from Ireland. |
| 7:40
| After spending a week in his hotel room eating ice cream he was able to keep his pants on just by zipping up the zipper. Although at some point the zipper started to go as well. |
| 7:41
| Steve had to fix his pants with that little kit they give you on airplanes. That was also the trip where Steve got a massage and the woman told him he was quite fat. |
| 7:42
| Live read: Joebees |
| 7:43
| Joe Bee likes peanut butter, he has some whenever he's buzzing a picnic. Buzz actually just got a Joebees t-shirt. |
| 7:45
| This is a very high-end t-shirt Joe Bee has here. He want the picture of himself to be a little bigger but Buzz likes the subtlety. |
| 7:46
| The first 5 people that order Joe Bees today and mention the Steve Dahl show get a free t-shirt with a 6 month supply. |
| 7:47
| It's time for Steve to take his Joebees, he's still doubling down. He's thinking about tripling down actually. You can't overdose on bee pollen can you? |
| 7:55
| Live read: Townstone Financial |
| 7:56
| Caller Kim is recommending a peanut butter and pickle sandwich. That's just crazy. Is Kim pregnant? |
| 7:57
| Caller Greg has seen the look that the truck driver from the Chinatown Massacre is sporting. He's seen it a few times actually, it's quite upsetting. |
| 7:58
| The guy is walking out of Stroger in an ill-fitting t-shirt and it appears as if his pants are undone. It also seems like he's in now hurry to get those pants done up. |
| 7:59
| Greg has seen a lot of truck drivers come in to make deliveries where he works, they keep the pants undone while driving long distances because it's more comfortable. |
| 8:00
| Sometimes guys will get out of their truck and forget their pants are undone. It didn't look like this guy's pants were going to fall down though. |
| 8:01
| The guy had to leave Stroger because he didn't have insurance. Do you need insurance to go to Stroger, isn't that the point? |
| 8:02
| Why doesn't it surprise Steve that unbuttoned pants are a common look for truck drivers? If someone did a study of truck accidents and undone pants they'd find a correlation. That's a sloppy truck driver right there. If your pants are unbuttoned what do you care? The moment you unbutton your pants but keep wearing them you've thrown in the towel. Take it from a guy who's pants are uncomfortable right now. |
| 8:03
| Alright it's time for the Eight O'Clock Taco Bell. It's Manager Monday and on the phone is Diyuma, manager of the Taco Bell in Wood Dale. Where is Wood Dale exactly? |
| 8:04
| Wood dale. is near Bensenville and this restaurant is on Irving Park. Steve knows where that is. |
| 8:05
| Is Buzz ready to news it up? There's a guy on hold, Phil, who's a truck driver. Steve's not going to talk to him but we'll give him something nice. He wears stretch pants when he drivers to avoid the pants falling down. |
| 8:06
| Caller Phil loves the Taco Bell, that's why he has to wear the stretch pants. Steve's going to need him to go back to buttoned pants. |
| 8:07
| If the department of transportation did a study they'd see that there's a correlation between undone pants and truck accidents. |
| 8:08
| Buzz was wondering what kind of pants he's wearing. Are they Laura Petrie-style stretch pants? Steve has the Pilates pants, they're more like that. |
| 8:09
| News with Buzz |
| 8:10
| Taxpayer rebates will start being distributed today. The first ones will be those with direct deposit. |
| 8:11
| Controversial pastor Jeremiah Wright did not back down last night while addressing an NAACP meeting. If Steve's Barack Obama he changes churches at this point. |
| 8:12
| The acquittal of three police officers in the shooting of Sean Bell has left many people unhappy, including Al Sharpton. He's threatened to shutdown New York City. |
| 8:13
| The White House Correspondents dinner was held last night. It was hosted by Craig Ferguson and attended by Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner, Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz and Jenny McCarthy. Pam Anderson was also there and Buzz has heard some link to Mitt Romney. He is Mormon, maybe he's thinking of going with another wife. |
| 8:14
| Just before the Olympics begin in Beijing the Chinese government is working to contain a virus in an Eastern province of the country. It sounds like it's going to be a lot of fun over there. |
| 8:15
| Violence was down over the weekend but that didn't stop Mayor Daley from making statements about the gun industry. |
| 8:16
| Daley told reporters that the gun industry owns this country, lock, stock and barrel. Steve likes that although he might not have known what he was saying. |
| 8:17
| Steve likes watching that Jody Weis guy, it looks like he had no idea what he was getting into and he wants out. Or maybe that's just his look. |
| 8:18
| The trucker driver in Friday's accident at a CTA Red Line stop has only been charged with negligent driving at this point. He wouldn't give a urine sample although he did take a breathalyzer test. |
| 8:19
| Amy Winehouse was in jail over the weekend and got released Sunday morning. That was just in time to see her name on a list of Britain's top-earning musicians. |
| 8:27
| There's some of that great comedy from the White House Correspondents dinner. |
| 8:28
| Can Buzz do a weather report? The National Weather Service has issued a freeze warming for the Chicago area. Temperatures are expected to plunge in the outlying areas and it could kill plants and crops. And people too right? That makes it sound more exciting. |
| 8:29
| Is it going to rain too? Because Steve is looking west and it doesn't look good. He's supposed to go the Sox game too, he's not sitting in the rain though. |
| 8:30
| Pat Boyle is on the phone. Are the Sox going to play today? On Friday they got 2 batters in and then the rain delay started. DJ said "alright that's it for us" like he knew something no one else did. |
| 8:31
| He probably shouldn't be saying that, they don't want viewers tuning out. Steve can still go down there today and have the buffet although he's trying to stay away from that. |
| 8:32
| It's supposed to be raining between 11 and 1 but after that it looks like it's going to clear up. Steve doesn't want to be sitting on a wet seat though. |
| 8:33
| Steve doesn't like his plans to be up in the air like this. The good thing about football or hockey is that you know there's going to be a game regardless of the weather. |
| 8:34
| With baseball you never know plus Steve doesn't drink. If you drink you don't mind a rain delay. |
| 8:35
| Live read: Woodfield Nissan |
| 8:36
| What happened to people complaining about gas being $3 a gallon? Pretty soon it'll be $4 a gallon! We didn't hold the line at $2 a gallon, that was the problem. |
| 8:37
| Steve watched the NFL draft extensively and he doesn't know what to make of it. The thing about the draft is that you can never tell until a few years later. But everyone acts like they do know what will happen that day. |
| 8:38
| Tom Brady was a 6th round pick! And most of the Bears that have impacted the team were taken after the 4th round. |
| 8:39
| Steve doesn't know what to say about this guy they got from Vanderbilt, he doesn't look bad-ass. It doesn't seem like he blocked very hard but he's over 300 pounds. So maybe everyone else he was playing was smaller. |
| 8:40
| There are questions about his toughness and his ability to run block out of the gate. We'll still probably see him in the starting line-up by the 4th game of the season. |
| 8:41
| Jerry Angelo wanted this guy from Vanderbilt because of his character. Although they later drafted a guy who was busted with pot and X. He'll probably end up being the better player. |
| 8:42
| Steve doesn't care if a football player smokes pot. He doesn't really want him to be a pothead though. |
| 8:43
| Why didn't the Bears take Mendenhall? He only had last year as his break-out season. There are some questions about whether he's the kind of guy who can run between the tackles or take a hit. |
| 8:44
| The Bears did take another running back, Matt Forte. He was actually second in the country in rushing yards. He's from Oregon right? It's a green jersey and they did take someone from Oregon. He's from Tulane which is also a green jersey. Is there any yellow on there? |
| 8:45
| What Pat took away from the weekend is that it seems like the Bears are replacing certain guys on the depth chart, like Cedric Benson. What Steve took away from the weekend is that he thought that running back was from Oregon and he didn't know Mendenhall was gone by the time the Bears had their second pick. |
| 8:46
| The first piece of audio Pat has is Jerry Angelo saying that drafting Cedric Benson might have been a mistake. He's not a featured running back in the NFL. |
| 8:47
| Well that's great. Does Steve get any of his money back from the last few years? You can tell just by hearing Cedric talk that he doesn't have the drive. |
| 8:48
| The problem is that creepy combine. Guys just watch football players running around with their shirts off. |
| 8:49
| if the draft is sort of a crapshoot anyway maybe they should rethink the combine. There's a lot of stuff they do there that you don't do in a football game. |
| 8:50
| That Jake Long guy did bench a ton of weight and he did 37 reps. You probably do want a guy who can lift a lot though. |
| 8:51
| Pat is glad that Angelo is admitting that maybe Cedric won't work out so they're maybe trying to move on from him. |
| 9:00
| That's a nice Peanut Butter Jelly Time mention on the Cubs game sometime last week. There's a lot of peanut butter talk today, it's all the rage. |
| 9:01
| Well hopefully that guy the Bears got is meaner than he seems. Although really you just want him to be good. Although mean and good seems to go hand in hand. |
| 9:02
| Vanderbilt is in Nashville, Hunter Hillenmeyer also went there. They call it the Harvard of the South but they always say something is the Harvard of wherever. That's how you get their parents to pony up $35,000 a year. |
| 9:03
| They took two guys from Vanderbilt, two guys from Michigan and two guys from Oregon. They had 12 picks all together which is a lot. |
| 9:04
| The Bears are expecting for at least the first 6 picks to be making contributions right away. It was fun to watch and they got the picks down to 10 minutes per pick so it went much faster. |
| 9:05
| Steve enjoyed last year's draft when they kept showing Brady Quinn not being picked. |
| 9:06
| The Cubs had a bit of a rough weekend, they lost 2 of 3 and wasted a good start by Ted Lilly yesterday. They're still in first place though. |
| 9:07
| The White Sox took 2 of 3 from Baltimore but still have 1 left, weather permitting. Steve's seeing that the rain might turn to snow. Pat is never going to lose this cough he has. Do you get sick from the cold? Isn't that something people just think but it's not true. |
| 9:08
| A new Roger Clemens story came out over the weekend. Star Magazine is saying that he had a 10 year relationship with country singer Mindy McCreedy that began when she was 15. No wonder they call him The Rocket. |
| 9:09
| Clemens' people have acknowledged they know each other but said the relationship wasn't sexual. His wife also knew about it and knew it wasn't a sexual relationship. |
| 9:10
| Steve does have to say kudos to The Rocket, everything was going great until he got caught. Mindy is looking to stage a career comeback now also. |
| 9:11
| Tomorrow is the 25 year anniversary of the Lee Elia rant. Steve's going to feature that tomorrow because he wants to get The Grobber on. He's the one who brought Steve the tape, which he made famous. |
| 9:12
| Steve can't believe Jerry Angelo admitted that Cedric Benson sucks. There should be some sort of Sucky Running Back rebate. Pat's biggest problem is that they didn't have a better back-up last year. |
| 9:13
| Steve saw Devin Hester and Jerry Azumah at the Sox game the other day. They have a show called 23 on 23 but it's because Devin and Jerry both wore #23. Does anyone remember what number Azumah wore? |
| 9:14
| Ever since Steve said Hawk and DJ need to talk more about what's going on in the stadium and less about themselves, or Rocky Calavito, they started doing that. |
| 9:22
| Len and Bob were talking bats last week as well but they might have been making fun of Hawk and DJ. Steve's pretty sure Len is a listener and even if he's not Steve's going to say he is. |
| 9:23
| Live read: Woodfield Nissan |
| 9:24
| Steve saw that someone got killed in Rogers Park of the weekend, that has to send property values skyrocketing. |
| 9:25
| They found a guy face down on the street, dead. He might have been a gang member but they're not sure. Is Pete a gang member? Did he have to pick an affiliation after moving up there? |
| 9:26
| Just a few hours before that kid was shot they was a walk against violence. Seems like it didn't work though. |
| 9:27
| It's probably no big deal, people are murdered on Steve's street all the time. Pete feels that Steve is just noticing stuff going on in Rogers Park because Pete lives there. There are murders in Lakeview and Uptown all the time too. |
| 9:28
| Now Pete is dissing Buzz's neighborhood? We can't say exactly where he lives though because he's a target. Buzz is a vigilante, putting stickers on people's cars if they're illegally parked. |
| 9:29
| Buzz once offered to come up to Rogers Park and go to breakfast with Pete. Steve doesn't want to lose Buzz up there though, we don't need to find him lying on the sidewalk. |
| 9:30
| 26-year old Willie Bloomingburg was shot dead while standing in the street on the 2000 block of West Birchwood. Is this a Jewish gang? |
| 9:31
| Pete might want to think about some body armour? Where was he at 8:10 pm on Saturday? Pete was watching the White House Correspondents dinner on C-SPAN. Steve was at home watching the Sox game. |
| 9:32
| Those dinners are usually pretty funny although the President is funny any time he cracks a joke. Plus Bush has nothing to lose at this point. He could go down as the funniest President but he'll have the worst approval rating. |
| 9:33
| Pam Anderson was there but not with Mitt Romney. Bush made a joke about them being one of the many strange couples at the event. |
| 9:34
| The Jonas Brothers were also there. Are those the kids who decided not to have sex until they're married? The place went nuts when they arrived but no one said anything about Colin Powell. |
| 9:35
| Does Pete have any other highlights from the event that he's culled? Steve's just disappointed to find out that Mitt Romney and Pam Anderson aren't together. |
| 9:36
| How was Craig Ferguson, was he funny? Steve prefers watching him over Conan, he can't take Conan mugging to the camera the whole time. |
| 9:37
| Apparently Pam Anderson was wearing a very provocative dress but is that really news? It would be more surprising if she showed up dressed like one of those polygamist women. |
| 9:38
| Anderson was a guest of New York mayor Michael Bloomberg. She wore a short skirt and a see-thru top even though it's a formal event. |
| 9:39
| Buzz is such a fan of Pam Anderson but then he backs off whenever she gets married. He was so disappointed that she married Kid Rock and Rick Solomon. |
| 9:40
| The after party, hosted by Michael Bloomberg, Anderson was in attendance as well as stars of The Hills and Katie Couric. Should all these people be together like that? |
| 9:41
| Couric left the after party to head to the hotel bar with colleagues Steve Kroft and Dave Price. Wasn't price that guy who was a weatherman in Chicago. He didn't hit that did he? |
| 9:49
| That wasn't a congruent joke Bush was telling. After Gore let office he won a Nobel Peace Prize and an Oscar but Bush said he might win Publisher's Clearing House. Gore wasn't President though. |
| 9:50
| Steve would have gone with something about the recount or hanging chads. Yet they never call him to write for the dinner. |
| 9:51
| Live read: Fresh Diet |
| 9:52
| News with Buzz |
| 9:53
| A Sea World dolphin is dead after colliding with another dolphin during a show. Sharkie was a 30-year-old dolphin that had performed this trick many times. You can actually see video of the accident online, it's like a dolphin snuff film. |
| 9:54
| Steve's having trouble finding the video now. Maybe they took it down? Buzz is inclined to not watch the video because he likes dolphins. He'll watch a fake dolphin die in a movie though. |
| 9:55
| There's no video of the actual accident on the website. Buzz was mislead by Drudge but it's not the first time that happened. It won't be the last time either. |
| 9:56
| Buzz says he doesn't want to watch it but he probably would have anyway on his computer when he got home. |
| 9:57
| Does Jeremiah Wright know he's completely running everything for Barack Obama, one of his parishioners? |
| 9:58
| Obama could be the first African-American nominee for President at the very least. Steve would like to know more about Wright's house that cost $1.5 million. He got $10 million though, is the rest of it walking around money? |
