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| 5:31
| This mariachi music is probably reminding Buzz of his Saturday night. "Where's my tequila?!" |
| 5:32
| Sammy Hagar sold off his interest in Cabo Wabo tequila but Steve's working on his own brand, Tequila Mockingbird. It's tequila for the literati. Steve doesn't know how to make tequila and he probably shouldn't be around it either. He doesn't trust anyone else to taste it though. |
| 5:33
| Steve's become a bit of an Anglophile because he likes The Tudors on Showtime. It's taking Buzz a few moments to figure out what an Anglophile is. Steve doesn't like little kids does he?! |
| 5:34
| Steve's not really an Anglophile though because last night Masterpiece Theatre came on and he didn't watch it. If he really was an Anglophile he would have been very excited to watch Anne of Green Gables. |
| 5:35
| When Steve and Pat took their romantic European vacation they went to London. A lot of people tell you to stay up all day when you arrive in London and then go to sleep at night but Steve doesn't believe in that. As a result Steve couldn't check in to the hotel until later, so they had to wander around London all day. |
| 5:36
| They went to the Tower of London while wandering around, that's where Henry VIII kept Anne Boleyn. Steve knows all about Henry VIII's wives because of that song. |
| 5:37
| Steve wasn't too impressed with the Crown Jewels either but as it turns out that's how they did it. It was just in a little box but they had to make it portable. It's occurred to Steve while watching The Tudors that he was an idiot when he was in London because he didn't care about any of this stuff. |
| 5:38
| The guy who plays Henry VIII has a sneer like Elvis and he gets laid all the time. He's much better looking than the real Henry VIII though. |
| 5:39
| Steve has a Tudors marathon over the weekend and got all caught up. He was so caught up, through On Demand, that he actually watched the new episode that was on Showtime last night. |
| 5:40
| Steve was really disappointed that he didn't have a new Tudors episode to watch. Then he had to watch Monk which is kind of a lame show. That's very frustrating for Buzz. |
| 5:41
| Steve has some business he has to conduct, he's calling down to Adam's office. Adam has been squiring the new intern, Lucy, around the office. When Buzz came in today they were huddled in Adam's office, in the dark. When did Adam take possession of her? |
| 5:42
| Normally the intern reports to Stephanie but she's out of town this week. Maybe the intern should report to Steve this week. |
| 5:43
| Every Friday Adam backs up Steve's computer and he's kind of a bitch about it. He's actually in there before Buzz leaves the studio, that's how quick he is. Adam says he's trying to be efficient and do it before he forgets. To Steve it has the feel of Adam thinking Steve's an idiot. He needs to get it done before Steve goes out to the strip clubs or whatever it is he does on a Friday afternoon. |
| 5:44
| Mr. Efficient left the hard drive in the studio, he must have been really upended by this intern. And of course all of Steve's information was left in the studio over the weekend. Did anyone lock this up over the weekend? Who would have a key? Probably a lot of people. |
| 5:45
| Pete has a key, he would probably lock up the studio. Pete has the opportunity to ride to work with Adam everyday but he'd rather be on the train with the homeless people. |
| 5:46
| Just this morning a very drunk person got on at Loyola and asked Pete where the Belmont stop was. He told him they were going in the right direction. Was it Ryan Dempster? Lou Piniella? When Steve got off the train downtown the guy was still in his car, passed out. Pete would miss that kind of interaction if he rode with Adam. |
| 5:47
| Steve's glad to have the hard drive back up though. Just last night he noticed that he threw his computer onto the couch where he was going to be sitting. The couch is soft but the computer probably doesn't like being thrown. |
| 5:48
| We have some Cinco de Mayo stuff planned for today, because it's Cinco de Mayo. There's not a lot Steve can do today except eat, because he's an alcoholic. Eating is not a bad way to spend Cinco de Mayo though. |
| 5:49
| Steve has a list of party suggestions for today. Buzz shouldn't get his hopes up with this menu, we're probably not getting any of it. All we get is Frijole Joe in the studio next door with some Mexican girl. |
| 5:50
| Would Buzz mind if Steve took a hit of his cough syrup with a hint of Codeine? It really suppresses the cough and makes the show much more interesting. That's when Buzz becomes a serpent. |
| 5:51
| The first menu item is aguas frescas with water, fruit and sugar. They're often served on the street from clear barrels. They're the drink of choice in most cantinas, if you're not going to get hammered. Would Buzz like to know how to make it? |
| 5:52
| Take fresh fruit such as pineapple, cantaloupe, strawberries or any other fruit, water and granulated sugar. Blend to a thin consistency and then add sugar to taste. It's hard to believe those guys on the streets have blenders. Does Joe know how they do that? He does not, thanks for the help. |
| 5:53
| You could probably mix some vodka in that right? Buzz is wondering if it would work with tequila. Papaya and tequila sounds like a ticket to Hurl City. Joe has mixed a watermelon aqua fresca with vodka. That sounds very fresca, which means fresh. Steve's working in more Spanish this year because the Spanish stations are the only ones higher in the ratings. El Pistolero is going down! |
| 5:58
| Steve's under the impression that Frijole Joe has a lovely senorita in the studio with him. Dare Steve say she is Mexican? Right after Steve started on mornings he called some people Mexican, because they were in fact Mexican. |
| 5:59
| Everyday Todd Cavanah comes into Steve's office, usually to model his clothing or on Monday's to recap his weekend. Those days are called Todd Cavanah: A Man and His Wine Bag. |
| 6:00
| Todd claims he brings his own wine to restaurants because the stuff they serve isn't as good. Steve thinks it's because he's cheap. He also doesn't understand why restaurants let him bring his own wine in, even if they're charging a cork fee. |
| 6:01
| Todd came in one day and said "Do you think you should call people 'Mexican'?" If they're Mexican, why not? Mexican people want to be called Mexican, they don't want to be lumped in with all Hispanics. There are some countries in Latin America that don't get along. For example you wont see any Puerto Ricans at a Cinco de Mayo parade. If someone was French, you'd call them French right? |
| 6:02
| Joe has a young lady here, Jeanette Dominguez, who's going to speak Spanish. Steve's favorite part is when Joe has to translate because he thinks Steve doesn't know what's being said. Jeanette isn't a very Hispanic-sounding name, it sounds French. How about Juanita? |
| 6:03
| Usually if Steve's in Mexico he's speaking Spanish by the end of the week. Then he comes back and hits up Pilsen for some lunch. Is it too late to participate in that Passion Play? Steve's always wanted to drag that cross down the street but he'd probably get hit by a car. Then all you'd see on the news was his tennis shoe, like that guy on Cottage Grove. Was the show dirty before or after the guy got hit by the car? |
| 6:04
| Buzz prefers to call her Jeanette. Cinco de Mayo is also about the French after all. Steve's accusing Buzz of being a Francophile. |
| 6:05
| The next item on Steve's menu is a quesadilla. It's made with potatoes and 16 pounds of chorizo. Steve's got your chorizo right here! Right Juanita? Steve knows enough in Spanish to get what he needs. |
| 6:06
| Don't we usually use lard in the Mexican recipes Buzz? Everything tastes better in lard, it should be more readily available. |
| 6:07
| Maybe people can just look up the recipes themselves. Does Steve look like Rick Bayless? Steve sees Rick almost everyday working out at the gym across the street. He's a pretty nice guy. |
| 6:08
| He was on that Top Chef: Chicago and Steve asked him about Padma Lakshmi who was, or maybe still is, married to Salman Rushdie. Steve said she was hot but Rick said she is and she knows it. Mark Czerniec is really hot for her. |
| 6:09
| Buzz can't seem to walk today, what's his deal? Buzz fell asleep in the recliner last night which happens often. He wasn't in full recline but his feet were up. |
| 6:10
| Buzz woke up at 1:30 and got up to go to bed. He stood up and there was a hideous pain in his left thigh. He went down to the ground, as did the coffee he was holding in his hand. |
| 6:11
| Buzz tried to lift his leg and he couldn't so he thought he'd broken his leg in some horrible accident. He stayed there for 5 minutes trying to move because he couldn't stay there all night. |
| 6:12
| He finally got himself up on the couch and realized he couldn't bend his leg but he could walk if he kept it completely straight. The slightest bend would probably drop him to the ground though. |
| 6:13
| Buzz isn't sure who he should see about this or what he should take so he just wrapped his leg in an Ace bandage. Steve has a few things Buzz can take up in the office, or Dahlgreen's as he likes to call it. |
| 6:14
| Steve's often thought we should have an on-staff massage therapist. Buzz's wife is a massage therapist, did she take a look at it last night? Buzz did wake her up and she did a few things to it and said "It's probably not good" Steve's wondering if maybe it's a Charlie horse. |
| 6:15
| So Buzz isn't sure what else he should do about his leg. How about an on-air amputation on Cinco de Mayo? Maybe Buzz needs his leg stretched out, all the way up to his head? Why is Steve talking with a lisp? |
| 6:16
| Caller Anthony is a doctor, he's called in a few times. Anthony is an internist, the last time he called in was about Britney Spears possibly being bipolar. |
| 6:17
| Anthony is wondering if Buzz's knee is red and swollen or tender at the joint? Buzz hasn't had time to look at the knee but the pain is above the joint. So there's no fluid collection? Steve's thinking amputation. |
| 6:18
| Steve said it was a Charlie horse in jest but Anthony thinks it could be something like that. Steve was thinking maybe we should get one of those big syringes, like at the Kentucky Derby. We might have to put Buzz down. Did Buzz see the size of that needle at the Derby? It was huge, it looked like something out of The Three Stooges. |
| 6:19
| Anthony feels like he's failed Buzz but he can probably point him in the right direction. Buzz should probably go see a rheumatologist. Steve has the gout himself and it's pretty painful. Steve needs to watch his meat and he always did. There's a lot of talk on The Tudors about the gout. They always call it the gout too, not just gout. |
| 6:20
| Anthony thinks that people who have the gout are a little overdramatic. Is Anthony calling Steve a lying wimp? He's not going to get a spin of the wheel now. |
| 6:21
| Anthony wouldn't feel right taking a spin anyway because he feels like he's failed the show. Buzz will never take someone's advice, at least at first blush. He might do what Anthony recommends but not give him credit for it. |
| 6:22
| As a guy who has a lot of trouble with his legs, can Steve throw something else out there? Maybe Buzz is having some trouble with his IT band? He does a lot of running, it could be that. Is this just a way for Buzz to get out of running? |
| 6:29
| It's Cinco de Mayo, time for more details on Steve's imaginary Cinco de Mayo. So far we've had the aguas frescas and the quesadilla, now it's time for a churro. Steve's got your churro right here! |
| 6:30
| A churro is a strip of fried dough, typically covered in sugar or cinnamon or dipped in chocolate. It's actually an import from Spain and is often served with hot chocolate or cafè de olla. That's a coffee with sugar and caramel in it. Joe doesn't know how to translate though. |
| 6:31
| Alright, here's one more call even though Buzz never takes advice from anyone. |
| 6:32
| Caller Terri is trying to diagnose Buzz's problem. For those just joining us, Buzz woke up around 1:30 this morning in his chair. He fell asleep around 11 pm with a cup of coffee in his hand, which seems like a bad choice that late. |
| 6:33
| Buzz got up from the chair, still holding the coffee, and immediately fell to the ground with a pain in his left thigh, about 6 inches above his knee. |
| 6:34
| Terri is pretty sure it's not a quadricep tear because it's a very strong muscle. If Buzz was lying back in a chair he could have pinched a nerve in his spine. Is he having lower back pain? Buzz knows it's not that either. Terri's never going to get satisfaction here. People could call in all day diagnosing Buzz and he won't agree with any of them. |
| 6:35
| Steve's had to carry Buzz down to the news room 2 times today already. He won't do it fireman style either, he has to be carried like a groom carries a bride. Then Buzz makes a big deal about crossing the threshold. |
| 6:36
| No matter what it is, Terri recommends that he R.I.C.E. it. That means rest, ice, compression, elevation. When Buzz gets home the little lady, who's not so little, will take a look at it. |
| 6:37
| Can't Buzz ice it in the studio now? He doesn't think he has time for that right now. Plus he has a gas bag in the studio. Someone can get Buzz an ice pack, or maybe a Segway for going to and from the newsroom. |
| 6:38
| Terri thinks it's funny that Buzz says he has no time to ice his leg, he's just sitting there. Steve can't have a guy with an iced groin in the studio, you can't do comedy with an iced groin. |
| 6:39
| Terri will give Brendan her office number and Buzz can come in and see her. What about Steve, he's got pain too?! Buzz is hoping he'll go home and Aimee will straighten him out. |
| 6:40
| Mary's sister is a physical therapist, she came in once when Steve was having some problems and helped him out. Steve will come out and visit Terri's office and then they can go over by Johnny's. |
| 6:41
| Live read: National City |
| 6:42
| Steve loves points and National City offers a lot of ways to get points. |
| 6:43
| Steve's looking at a website about reptilian and alien abductions and encounters. It's a collection of stories from the clients of kinesiologist. |
| 6:44
| A woman came to have her leg healed, it was weak and had a lump in it from a car accident. Muscle testing indicated that the injury was emotional. After testing a list of emotions her body indicated that they were the kind that could have come from an alien abduction. |
| 6:45
| So maybe Buzz was abducted by aliens last night? It's something he's always wanted to have happen and he slept right through it! |
| 6:46
| The woman mentioned he had been abducted which maid it easier to work with. As in she's crazy?! |
| 6:47
| Men and robots in dark covering abducted this woman and her boyfriend and carried them inside their ship. She said the aliens looked like preying mantis. |
| 6:48
| Did Buzz see Iron Man over the weekend? He did and it was awesome. Steve agrees. The thing that was most surprising to Buzz was that Jon Favreau directed it. Buzz knows him mainly from Made but he's directed a few big movies like Elf and another one that Steve can't remember. |
| 6:49
| Iron Man seems like Favreau's biggest undertaking so far and it was a great, big-budget action movie. A lot of it was Robert Downey Jr. and Gwenyth Paltrow though. |
| 6:50
| Should Steve leave Joe and Jeanette on in Pete's studio? Normally he wouldn't mind having other people laughing but they're not laughing over there. |
| 6:51
| Steve's trying to look up other movies that Jon Favreau has directed but Jim's clogging up the lines with info, he has something to say. Jim is of course a film student. |
| 6:52
| Jim has some info about Jon Favreau, he directed Zathura which was a big budget special effects movie. He also did Elf, which was big and probably why he got to do Iron Man. |
| 6:53
| He also played the chauffeur in Iron Man and he played it straight. Robert Downey Jr. reminded Jim of Vince Vaughn in Swingers with a lot of money. He was perfect for the role and obviously they're going to make another one. They set all that up in the first movie. |
| 6:54
| They were setting it up with that black guy, the one in the Air Force. When Steve says "the black guy" he doesn't know who it is. Jim wasn't sure if he was talking about Terrence Howard or Samuel L. Jackson. He wasn't in the movie until after the credits, which were very long. Steve heard about that scene at the end of the credits if he stuck around. Jim was also in the theater with all the other nerds. |
| 6:55
| Terrence Howard plays James Rhodes, who eventually becomes War Machine if Jim could go nerd for a little longer. Eventually Tony Stark becomes an alcoholic and James Rhodes steps up. They stayed trued to the comic book although they changed Vietnam to Afghanistan for the movie. |
| 6:56
| Steve doesn't usually care about comic book movies but he liked the first Batman movie with Christian Bale. He also saw the trailer for the new Batman movie which looks fantastic. |
| 6:57
| You can see how playing the Joker could take all the life out of you if you're Heath Ledger. What he's doing in that movie seems depraved and crazy. Jack Nicholson said he tried to warn him about that part. And of course Cesar Romero tried to warn Jack Nicholson before he played Joker. |
| 7:03
| Alright Frijole Joe is here with Jeanette, who's going to speak Spanish to Steve. He'll try to translate it. |
| 7:04
| The next menu item for Steve's Cinco de Mayo party is guacamole, which Jeanette says with a W-sound. Steve wants the last 15 years of his life back when his boys hassled him for the way he pronounced guacamole. |
| 7:05
| Steve wouldn't be opposed to going out to lunch with the entire staff for Cinco de Mayo today. Staff lunches are probably much easier to do than staff dinners. |
| 7:06
| Live read: Pro Flowers |
| 7:07
| Saying this is your last chance to honor your mother or wife doesn't sound good. It sounds like someone is dying. Mother's Day is the biggest flower day of the year and Steve knows that because he owns a flower shop. |
| 7:08
| Steve's one of those guys who's married but is actually gay. He's on the down low, like that guy in the Standing in the Closet videos. |
| 7:09
| R. Kelly's going to walk now because all the women in the trial are in their 40s. They're not going to make sympathetic witnesses. It's still good to see him come to trial with his hair braided so it looks like a Michigan Wolverines helmet. |
| 7:10
| Buzz is a Michigan fan, would it kill him to sport the maize and blue beads in his hair?! |
| 7:11
| Before the news Steve understands that Buzz has a Cesar Romero story. Back in the Cesar Romero was sort of like that guy in the Dos Equis commercials, he was the most interesting guy in the world. |
| 7:12
| Buzz was working at a newspaper in Florida and one day Cesar Romero came into the newsroom. He was tall, well-dressed, he really looked like a movie star. This story doesn't end with Buzz and Cesar at the Fontainebleau does it? |
| 7:13
| So Buzz goes down for lunch and he was friendly with the woman who worked in the cafeteria line. She was Hispanic, in her 40s, Romero's target audience really. |
| 7:14
| Buzz tells the woman that he's upstairs and she nearly fainted. Buzz asked her what it would be worth to this woman if he could bring Cesar down there. Buzz didn't even try to take advantage, he just got free lunch for a week. |
| 7:15
| So Buzz goes back up to the newsroom, waits for Cesar to leave and asks him if he'd mind meeting his woman, Mrs. Rodriguez, down in the cafeteria. He was glad to do it and followed Buzz down to the cafeteria. |
| 7:16
| Buzz went in first to see if she was still there, he wanted to make sure the woman got to see his full interest. Then Cesar walked in, everyone looked at him and he said "Hello Mrs. Rodriguez!" Then he walked over and said hello, gave her a hug and then left. |
| 7:17
| It's amazing how much easier things are if you're just nice. This woman just appreciated who Cesar Romero was. People always ask Steve if he gets sick of people always saying hello to him, why would he it's great! |
| 7:18
| News with Buzz |
| 7:19
| Gas prices in Chicago are well above the national average. Buzz always says that Steve bashes Hillary but this gas plan of her's is cockamamie. |
| 7:20
| Buzz has some audio of Hillary, talking to people in Indiana, trying to use some Indy 500 metaphors. To Buzz it seems like it's the same thing as John Kerry saying he was reporting for duty. |
| 7:21
| PETA has weighed in on the euthanizing of Eight Belles at the Kentucky Derby. Are they saying it wasn't humane enough? They didn't even wait until the trainer got there to do it though. |
| 7:22
| PETA wants Eight Belles' jockey suspended and is also scolding Hillary Clinton for attending the race and betting on Eight Belles. They equate horse racing with attending a dog fight. Is it really that bad? |
| 7:23
| Barack Obama is bouncing back from the flap over his former pastor. He has regained his double digit lead over Hillary in a national poll. Not if you count Michigan and Florida though. Barack wasn't even on the ballot in those states! It drives Steve nuts when people just make stuff up like that and no one says anything. |
| 7:24
| Oprah Winfrey may have left Jeremiah Wright's church because she was uncomfortable with some of the incendiary things he said in his sermons. |
| 7:25
| That church seems like it's a good place to network and that's not really being reported. It seems like most people join up just to network. Steve usually falls asleep in church, he never knows what they're saying. A preacher saying that the government created AIDS might keep him interested. |
| 7:26
| A witness in R. Kelly's trial will testify that she was involved with the singer and an underage girl. The criminal trial is set to start on May 9th, this Friday. |
| 7:27
| Cedric Benson fully intends to fight charges of boating while intoxicated and resisting arrest, stemming from an incident over the weekend in Texas. Police had to pepper spray Benson to subdue him. In Texas it's chili pepper spray though. |
| 7:28
| We're going to talk to Pat Boyle about the Cedric Benson stuff, does Buzz want to save this for later? |
| 7:29
| It is now illegal to market products using drug slang, like the Blow Energy Drink. Does that mean they're going to take Coke off the shelves too? |
| 7:37
| Happy Cinco de Mayo everybody! We've got Frijole Joe and Juanita in the next room and Steve has a menu for his Cinco de Mayo party. Next up is a michelada. Steve yo no tomo alcohol, ello es un baracho. |
| 7:38
| Michelada is a concoction of beer, lime and spicy seasoning. It sort of like a tomato beer without tomato. Steve has no idea what a tomato beer is. It's just tomato juice with beer. |
| 7:39
| Steve's been seeing a lot of ads for beer with salt and lime in it, that's a michelada. The tomato beer is very good for a hangover, like the Bloody Mary. |
| 7:40
| When Steve was in Mexico City he had a shot that was tomato juice and vodka. At the bar there was a hole in the ceiling where Pancho Villa had shot up the ceiling. |
| 7:41
| The bullfighters used to drink a shot that had real bulls blood in it before their matches though. |
| 7:42
| Alright Pat Boyle is on the phone, how do you say peanut butter in Spanish? It's crema de cacahuate, who knew it would be that awesome? |
| 7:43
| On the phone is Crema de Cacahuate, Pablo Boyle. Pat's doing much better than our favorite Bears running back, Cedric Benson. Just to start off, Steve has a 26 foot boat and he could barely fit 10 people on it. |
| 7:44
| Cedric Benson has a 30 foot boat and he had 15 people on it. So right there you're going to get stopped every time for a safety inspection. There's no way he has 15 life jackets either. He's a millionaire, he should have a bigger boat! |
| 7:45
| It's very possible that Cedric passed the field sobriety test. When you hear him talk it sounds like he's on something. Plus his mom was with him, how wild could that party be? |
| 7:46
| If you have 15 people on the boat you have to have 15 life jackets, otherwise they'll write you a ticket. The detailed description of the story is that it was 37 feet long so it got bigger overnight. |
| 7:47
| It doesn't say what kind of boat it is though. Steve got online last night and started looking at boats, that was a mistake. The thing Steve wants the most is an integrated roll bar for water sports and fishing but it's a $6,000 upgrade. That's when Steve shut it all down. |
| 7:48
| Pat thought that Cedric Benson's mugshot had a Gary Busey feel to it. Steve has not had a chance to read the paper yet so he hasn't seen it. Buzz thinks it's a weird reference, does he mean Nick Nolte? |
| 7:49
| Gary Busey always seems very upbeat in his mugshots so Pat must be thinking of Nolte. |
| 7:50
| Now it's a 37 foot yacht. It was a funky-looking late he was on too, there was no shrubbery anywhere. You have to think the authorities are combing a lake like that. Does Pat mean the Lower Colorado River Authority? |
| 7:51
| Steve's demanding to know how the boat got bigger overnight. Everything he's Googled says it's a 30 footer. The Modest Bee, which Steve regards as the paper of record, is still listing a 30 footer. |
| 7:52
| Steve's just impressed Cedric Benson resisted arrest. Normally he goes right down whenever he's touched. So maybe he'll be coming back to Chicago with a new attitude. |
| 7:58
| Alright we've got Crema de Cacahuate on the phone. Both the Trib and the Sun-Times are |
| 7:59
| Now on to baseball, both teams had a rough weekend. The Cubs lost 2 of 3 to the Cardinals and they're moving on to Cincinnati. They'll be fine once they get some 5 way chili in them. |
| 8:00
| The big story with the Cubs is Soriano, every ball hit to him in left field is an adventure. Why don't they put that Reed Johnson guy in? Probably becuase they're paying Soriano so much money. |
| 8:01
| The Sox lost 3 in over the weekend in Toronto, they haven't won since last weekend and they're not hitting well at all. They did get a bad call in that game yesterday but it's not an excuse. |
| 8:02
| Ozzie went off before the game but he wasn't around any cameras or tapes. Steve was hoping The Grobber was up in Toronto over the weekend. |
| 8:03
| Steve has the text of the Ozzie tirade, which is Lee Elia-esque. He's sick of people in Chicago making line-ups and how people in Chicago forget so easily. |
| 8:04
| A few weeks ago they were the darlings of the league and now they're horse-bleep. And the Cubs are the bleeping best team in the city and they haven't won a World Series in 100 years. |
| 8:05
| Ozzie can't believe the Cubs celebrated the anniversary of the Lee Elia rant but it seems like he's laying the groundwork for a future for his kids with this rant. |
| 8:06
| Alright it's time for the Eight O'Clock Taco Bell. It's Manager Monday and on the phone is Marcus, manager of the Taco Bell next to Wrigley Field. They're open at 10 am. |
| 8:07
| Steve's been getting into the Gordita Supreme lately, Marcus things it's a lovely choice. Steve loves that Gordita bread. |
| 8:08
| They probably get a lot of Cubs fans up at that Taco Bell, both before and after the game. Especially after the game when they've got all that beer in them. Marcus is a Cubs fan but you sort of have to be working up there. |
| 8:09
| Of course there's no Taco Bell near U.S. Cellular, there's just Jimbo's. Marcus put down a nice Manager Monday for us. He's already in there working, getting ready for a nice 10 am Chalupa drop. That's up in Buzz's neighborhood, he might have to stop in and see Marcus in action. |
| 8:10
| Live read: Townstone Financial |
| 8:18
| They might be trying to "young up" the Sox broadcast a bit and Hawk isn't going willingly. You've got Len Kaspar and Bob Brenly talking to Eddie Vedder but Hawk prefers Lawrence Welk. |
| 8:19
| DJ isn't the best person to young up the broadcast and he's doing it in an irritating way. |
| 8:20
| Alright time for another Cinco de Mayo menu item. Next up is atolè de fresa, a dessert soup. That sounds funny in English. |
| 8:21
| And how about some gorditas? That means fat little cakes in Spanish. They're also made with arena. |
| 8:22
| Some people put pork rinds in gordita shells and fry them and then top them with salsa or cheese. That sounds great. Are they fried in lard? |
| 8:23
| Gordita is also an endearing term for a chubby little woman. Steve has asked Buzz repeatedly to stop calling him that but he won't. It's inappropriate! |
| 8:24
| By the way, a boat becomes a yacht after 32 feet. So his representation probably demanded that someone upgrade it to 37 foot. |
| 8:25
| If you've got a yacht, hire someone to drive it, at least until you're out of the jurisdiction of the Lower Colorado River Authority. |
| 8:26
| 15 people is still a lot for a 37 foot boat. Steve could probably fit 6 comfortable on his 26 footer. |
| 8:27
| Live read: Pro Flowers |
| 8:28
| Alright time for the web poll. Friday's web poll was "Should the CTA switch to a solar-powered waste collection system?" Remember they had the solar-powered waste collection basket at a station but it was underground so they had to plug it in. |
| 8:29
| Steve thinks they should have solar-powered trains and if it's clouding then people don't have to go to work. |
| 8:30
| Today's web poll question is "Did MC Hammer pants inspire you to get into fashion?" Steve knows Buzz's answer, he's wearing his Zubaz pants today. |
| 8:31
| Pete Wentz has a new partnership, and it's not with Ashley Simpson. Is Pete Wentz the guy in Fall Out Boy? He's being sued for allegedly beating a fan at Schubas. We should live in a world where you heckle someone all night and then get beat. |
| 8:32
| Is Pete Wentz still with Ashlee Simpson? Brendan says he is, they're getting married. Pete probably knows to but he doesn't want to say it because Fall Out Boy is too popular now. |
| 8:33
| Once a band is on SNL they've jumped the shark for Pete. Fall Out Boy has jumped the Pete. Steve just learned this weekend where the term jump the shark comes from. There was an episode of Happy Days where Fonzie actually jumped over a shark on his motorcycle. To Steve that show jumped the shark in the first episode. |
| 8:34
| Pete Wentz has a fashion line that began when he started making stuff in his parent's basement. People asked him where he got the clothes but they were one-of-a-kind. |
| 8:35
| Now his clothing line, Clandestine, is the antithesis of one-of-a-kind clothing. Is it not selling out if you call something the antithesis? |
| 8:36
| It says Wentz is a bona fide celebrity now. Really? Just becuase of Fall Out Boy? It seems like he's most famous for nailing Ashlee Simpson. Other than that he's just the idiot in Fall Out Boy wearing the stupid hat. |
| 8:37
| Wentz says Clandestine isn't a typical celebrity clothing line, he's not hoarding his name out. Did he mean whoring his name out? The reporter didn't make note of that, maybe she was so overcome just talking to Pete Wentz. |
| 8:38
| Wentz mentions Karl Lagerfeld's gloves and the clothing on the HBO miniseries John Adams as inspiration for his clothing. John Adams?! That was just on a month ago! They're just dressing like they did in colonial times. |
| 8:39
| Wentz also said that growing up in the 80s, in John Hughes country in the North Suburbs, inspired the way he dressed. He also said he's been into fashion since MC Hammer pants. |
| 8:40
| What does any of that have to do with his clothing? His hat might be on too tight or something. |
| 8:41
| Wentz opened up a store on Newport Avenue which Pete says is near Halsted and Belmont. It also has a unisex salon and the Bat Heart Bar, scheduled to open in June. |
| 8:42
| The term unisex is important to Wentz. |
| 8:43
| Is that Joe laughing over there? Can he take the microphone out of his nose if he's going to laugh? This isn't bad for Joe, it's only taken him 3 hours and 13 minutes to get on Steve's nerves. |
| 8:44
| Buzz is wondering if we're all aware that Pete Wentz is from Chicago. It was in all the stories last week about him being sued. |
| 8:45
| Basically Pete Wentz doesn't want fashion used against people. If you're a size 4 people want to know why you're not a size 2. Does that mean all of Wentz's clothing is size 20? |
| 8:46
| Steve's guessing Pete Wentz doesn't have any clothing in his size though. It's all just hooded sweatshirts anyway. |
| 8:47
| Say what you will about Pete Wentz but he has a store here, unlike Jim Belushi. Jim might hear this and open up a store though. |
| 8:48
| Buzz is wondering if all this means we'll get to see Jamie Lynn Spears around town. Pete Wentz is actually marrying Ashlee Simpson. Do we get to see her and Jessica around town? Does he spend a lot of time here? |
| 8:49
| Pete says that Wentz and Ashlee have been spotted at Underground and other hot spots. Brendan says he spends time here and he's a die-hard Cubs fan. That explains a lot, no wonder Steve doesn't like him. |
| 8:57
| Pete Wentz went to North Shore Country Day School, that's $50,000 a year in tuition. If you spend that much on tuition and your kid says he's going to be a musician you're probably bummed out. But he did alright as a musician and a fashion designer. |
| 8:58
| Caller Sven, it's not Swedish Independence Day. Maybe he could call back when we have some lutefisk in the studio? Sven wants no part of this bit, he has a vision. |
| 8:59
| Sven was dying during the Pete Wentz stuff, his 11-year-old daughter is a huge fan of Fall Out Boy. She went down to that store with a neighbor girl and her mom and bought 3 t-shirts for $90. |
| 9:00
| Was there a clandestine message on any of the t-shirts? It's a $4 t-shirt until Pete Wentz slaps his name and secret message on it. |
| 9:01
| There was one t-shirt she got that says "Sexy" although it's hard to see it unless you're really looking. An 11-year-old can't be wearing something like that. Should Steve stage a burglary and get that shirt out of Sven's house? |
| 9:02
| Sven's wife took their daughter to a Fall Out Boy show last year but he wasn't happy about it. That guy throws around a lot of f-bombs on stage. It seems like Fall Out Boy shows are MILF city though. |
| 9:03
| Buzz has the same arguments with his daughter and she's only 6. It's hard to keep kids away from this stuff though but 11 does seem very young. Steve's guessing Pete Wentz's target audience isn't 11-year-olds though. |
| 9:04
| Sven has some tickets to see Buzz this weekend at Nick's in Bucktown. If Steve knew where that was he'd go to the show. There's no parking in Bucktown anyway so Steve can't go. |
| 9:05
| Alright it's Cinco de Mayo, time for another menu item for the imaginary Cinco de Mayo party. Steve wouldn't be opposed to getting some Mexican food today but so far no one has taken him up on it, other than Frijole Joe. |
| 9:06
| The last thing Steve needs to to be out to lunch with Frijole Joe, who's staring at him over a plate of chilequiles. |
| 9:07
| The next menu item is skirt steak for tequilas. Throw some skirt steak, some tequila, some lime, some cumin. |
| 9:08
| And of course there are margaritas. Steve used to make a good margarita, he probably still does. He used to make them with real lime juice, fresh squeezed. |
| 9:09
| Buzz is wondering where he got this lime juice from. Can you get limes in a store? This has to go on the list of things Buzz doesn't know. You can get limes everywhere, they're right next to the lemons. Did Buzz think those were just unripened limes? |
| 9:10
| Buzz is used to life in Florida, where he was able to pick a fresh lime right off a tree. That's how it was in California with lemons, limes, mangoes and avocados, or aguacates. |
| 9:11
| Why does Steve see Buzz coming home with a big bag of limes tonight. You can buy them in the stores again! Steve would buy some limes and squeeze them for margaritas. His recipe was 1 1/2 ounces of tequila, 1 ounce of lime juice and a half ounce of triple sec. Hell yeah! |
| 9:12
| And salt on the rim of the glass as well. Steve and Juanita are going to head down to Cabo this afternoon, or to her hometown of Aguas Calientes. They have a party all week for the Feast of San Marcos. |
| 9:13
| Steve likes a good feast. When he was over in Spain the running of the bulls was going on. That's the fest of San Fermin. It's not just a running of the bulls and partying, it has meaning. It's not just drunk idiots from America. |
| 9:14
| It's a celebration of the founding of the city. Steve didn't go over there and mess it up, he just paid to be on a balcony and have pan caliente. Then Steve saw a girl get gored right below him. She ended up on Letterman where they showed the video. |
| 9:15
| All the bulls had cleared this girl and then one went back and was playing hacky sack with a person, on it's horns. But that whole festival kicks off the bullfighting season and they bless the bulls. It didn't stop people from making t-shirts for the running of the bulls though so they must not be that irritated. |
| 9:16
| They have those running of the bulls all over Spain though. There's one town where people run down a hill and the bulls chase them. That one isn't as popular but it seems more dangerous. |
| 9:17
| This is not about Spain though, we're talking Mexico. They don't really celebrate Cinco de Mayo in Mexico though, it's like St. Patrick's day here. The big holiday down in Mexico is Mexican Independence day. |
| 9:18
| Cinco de Mayo is just a celebration of an ill-equipped Mexican army. They beat the French but they're not that hard to beat. All they had to do was put on a sombrero and they all probably ran away. |
| 9:19
| Happy Cinco de Mayo though, we've got Frijole Joe and Juanita, do they have any plans after the show? Most of the big festivities took place over the weekend like the parade on Cermak and Marshall, near Girabaldi Square. They have one of those in Chicago? It's on 26th St.. |
| 9:20
| Girabaldi Square in Mexico City is where all these mariachi bands audition for people who are getting married. You could actually hire a band right there if you need one in a pinch. |
| 9:21
| It was awesome to walk around and see so many mariachi bands in one place. Is Steve exaggerating with the bands? It seemed like there were 500 but Juanita says it's more like 100-200. |
| 9:22
| Steve wonders how they make so much money but then he tries to hire one and they want $1200 an hour. Can't you just peel off the best 3 guys? |
| 9:23
| Buzz remembers a mariachi band that used to work up and down Lincoln Avenue. They'd come into Raul's and Buzz would often leave with them after a few tequilas. That's the place where the owner, Raul, used to chase his wife around with a broom. |
| 9:24
| Now Raul's is gone and it's been replaced by a bar called McGee's. Raul used to come out to your table with a bottle of tequila and drink it with you, but never charged you. |
| 9:30
| Do we really need a Grey's Anatomy drop for Cinco de Mayo? That's not the attitude we want for today is it? |
| 9:31
| Live read: Pro Flowers |
| 9:32
| Is it El Dia de Madres? In Mexico it's always on the 10th of May, el diez de Mayo. That would be easier to keep track of if it was on the same day. |
| 9:33
| So Mother's Day is this Sunday, Sabado. Sabado Gigante!!!!!!!!! That's a show on Telemundo, which has great game shows as well. |
| 9:34
| There's a show on that channel where they have a woman's body part on screen and they make you guess what it is. |
| 9:35
| There was also another game show, something about an orca, where people were swimming in an electrified swimming pool to win money. |
| 9:36
| Caller Veronica wanted to let Steve know that the show he's talking about was called El Juego de la Orca. People were swimming in a pool that could be electrified but they didn't care. Buzz knows the movie Orca, with Richard Harris. At some point he gets eaten by the whale. |
| 9:37
| There was an even crazier show in Mexico that involved a greased pole people had to climb up. Steve likes it already, that show might have to make a comeback in this country. How do you say greased poll in Spanish? It's Tugo con Grasa with your hosts Steve Dahl and Buzz Kilman. |
| 9:38
| Where did Veronica live in Mexico? She was in Cuernavaca where they have corn ice cream. Muy delicioso! Mike Dahl did an exchange in Cuernavaca, he had a good time down there. Steve doesn't really remember, he left in a bus and then he came back. Steve's like a dog, he doesn't have a good sense of time any more. |
| 9:39
| Veronica should feel free to speak Spanish with Juanita if there's anything else she wants to add. Is she enjoying our Cinco de Mayo celebration today? |
| 9:40
| Veronica and Juanita speak to each other in Spanish. Steve's pretty sure they're talking about him and Buzz. Juanita, invite Veronica out to lunch! This might be off the air stuff though. Steve doesn't understand everything they're saying but it might be a fast track to divorce court. |
| 9:41
| It's hot when they were talking to each other like that. Caliente! Hace mucho calor! |
| 9:42
| Alright, how about some tamales with cheese for the Steve Dahl Cinco de Mayo party? This is a Rick Bayless recipe, Steve could probably grab him from the gym and make him come over to cook these for us, at gun point. |
| 9:43
| Rick Bayless has done a lot for the Mexican community. He's from Texas so he's probably more Mexican than Joe is. |
| 9:44
| Steve's more Mexican than Joe is actually. Joe probably isn't Mexican, it's just face paint, like C. Thomas Howell in that one movie where he pretends to be black guy to get into Harvard. |
| 9:45
| It's called Soul Man, although Buzz isn't familiar with. When Steve was working on Grandview U.S.A. the rumor was that C. Thomas Howell was nailing Jamie Lee Curtis. |
| 9:52
| OK Soul Man is a 1986 film with C. Thomas Howell and Orca is a 1977 film with Richard Harris. |
| 9:53
| Harris plays a crusty sea captain offered a large sum of money to capture a killer whale. He and his crew attempt to capture a male but accidentally get a female, who then attempts to mortally wound herself on the props of the boat. |
| 9:54
| Then the male whale spends the rest of the movie hunting down Richard Harris and eventually gets him. Thanks for ruining it Buzz! |
| 9:55
| Mark did his best not to spoil Orca for Steve although earlier in the show, when Steve was talking about The Tudors, Mark put up a bunch of historical information that's probably going to spoil it. |
| 9:56
| The best part of The Tudors for Steve is that he doesn't know any of these historical facts. Although most people probably do know this stuff so it's not really Mark's fault. |
| 9:57
| Buzz is recommending BBC America to Steve, they're just about to fire up that Robin Hood show again. Part of the reason Steve's interested in The Tudors is because of his trip to London. Although when he was there he didn't know who any of these people were. He was yelling that to the Beefeater's but he thought they were dressed that way because of the gin bottle. |
| 9:58
| Live read: Triton College |
| 9:59
| How about some hot chocolate for Cinco de Mayo? It's chocolate with hot milk and then frothed with a molenillo. What's that? It's that thing you rub between your hands to mix everything together. |
| 10:00
| Buzz is wondering if we could have Juanita come in everyday, he's very comforted by her voice. Steve's fine with that, at least until we take down WPPN. |
