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| 5:32
| Good morning everyone, it's the Steve Dahl Show, as you can tell by that delightful music. And we have a delightful show for you today which will start as soon as the scripts arrive. Steve and Buzz get their scripts from the West Coast, some how they survived the writer's strike. |
| 5:33
| Of course that song was REO Speedwagon's Keep on Loving You, a power ballad written by Kevin Cronin. If features lead guitar work by Gary Richrath |
| 5:34
| Steve often questions the validity of some of the songs we play on Jack FM, usually in his meetings with Todd Cavanah. Steve can't wait for his meeting with Todd today, he's been on a much-needed vacation, the second one in the time Steve has been on Jack. |
| 5:35
| Todd will probably talk about how the tried to learn to like rum on his vacation but really he prefers wine. Then he'll talk about all the emails in his inbox, it's jammed up. It's probably mostly penis enlargement emails, that's what Steve mostly gets. |
| 5:36
| He's tried many of those potions and methods and none of them work. He's wearing a weight right now and it's not working at all. He's also wearing shorts which is awkward. He's just saying it's a growth or maybe a broken bone. |
| 5:37
| Steve likes REO Speedwagon though, they have a Chicago connection, Kevin Cronin is from Oak Lawn. Steve recently saw Kevin on that Wayne Brady show where you have to remember song lyrics. |
| 5:38
| Kevin won some money but he had to donate it to a charity because he's a celebrity. Why do celebrities always have to do that? Kevin can't use that money? |
| 5:39
| When Steve won The Weakest Link he got $8,000 and had to donate it all. He got a thank you note but it wasn't nice enough for $8,000. Plus he incurred expenses going out there. |
| 5:40
| There was a time when Buzz was part of a right-wing political organization. Steve wishes he knew Buzz back then. This was in the 60s when it wasn't very popular to be a Republican. |
| 5:41
| The group was very vocal and there are advantages to that. Where the chicks all pent-up and hot? Because there's something to be said for that. Hippy chicks will do anyone, sometimes you want a pent-up chick who wants to be whipped. |
| 5:42
| Buzz was working for the Miami Daily News as a copy boy and every week they'd deduct $5 to donate to UNICEF or something associated with the UN. Buzz only made $200 a week so that was pretty generous. |
| 5:43
| Then the organization showed Buzz a film strip detailing where his donated money was going. They told him they were using it to buy little kids milk but according to the film the money was being diverted to the UN defense division and being used for strafing runs in Katanga. |
| 5:44
| As Republicans you'd think this group would be hawkish but really they opposed the UN because it was a worldwide government. |
| 5:45
| Steve has something here from Literacy Chicago and as you know Steve thinks literacy is for losers. Literacy Chicago is celebrating their 40th anniversary and are happy Steve is a contributor. He's pretty sure he's not though, that's a lie. |
| 5:46
| Steve needs to get his Reading is for Losers campaign up and running. He'll buy people TVs. For $100 a month you purchase school supplies for Literacy Chicago. $100! Steve doesn't even spend that much in his office. |
| 5:47
| For $200 you can buy multiple books for an entire classroom. Steve would hope so! This is a scam! |
| 5:54
| We begin another day of reportage from Brendan Greeley at the Cook County courthouse. Brendan is there already, he's really taking this thing seriously. Steve couldn't help but notice that this is affecting his relationship with Matt Dahl. |
| 5:55
| Matt is all bent out of shape that Brendan is down at the courthouse everyday. It also seems like Matt doesn't know what's going on with this show which hurts. |
| 5:56
| Buzz doesn't understand how Brendan's reporting affects the podcast, don't they do that at noon? Brendan is taking it very seriously and yet there are no new notes or sketches on Dahl.com. |
| 5:57
| Buzz got an email yesterday congratulating him for acquiring a Greeley. Steve's still not sure if he's going to part with it though. |
| 5:58
| Brendan has new notes but he doesn't have a scanner. Matt does but he probably won't let him use it because he's mad at him. They did a podcast yesterday and Matt spent the first hour questioning Brendan like he was a hostile witness. |
| 5:59
| They're doing the podcast today as well but Matt also has to work, he's a waitress at Muvico in Rosemont. That theater is surprisingly empty, maybe because people can't figure out how to get there. |
| 6:00
| Some of the hostility could be coming from the fact that Brendan is gainfully employed on this show. Brendan has paid his dues on this show though, he's been here for 7 years. |
| 6:01
| If Brendan can't find a scanner Steve will buy him one because we need his sketches. Steve also wants to buy him watercolors or maybe some magic markers. That would be Brendan you'd hear squeaking in the courtroom. He should be careful to not get charged with contempt of court. |
| 6:02
| Yesterday someone from the Tribune had their media credentials stripped. He was conducting an interview with someone in the courtroom. It wasn't a juror, just someone who came to watch the trial. |
| 6:03
| The Tribune blog for this trial has been really good. Steve's favorite blogger is Stacy St. Clair. Brendan actually knows her, she's helping him through this whole thing. |
| 6:04
| She did mention one juror who tried to get out of duty by saying his son had told him the age of consent was puberty and that made sense to him. Didn't Steve talk about that yesterday? Maybe that guy is listening to the show? |
| 6:05
| Stacy is a listener of the show, Brendan should tell her she's doing a good job. Steve also learned in the blog that the smell coming from the bathroom as urine. Apparently someone plugged in the new Wrigley Field Glade Plug-In. |
| 6:06
| Brendan was in court yesterday for 3 jurors. One guy was a doctor who said he sees too many patients in a week and he couldn't serve on the jury. The judge let him go and said he knew the guy was a doctor right away because he couldn't read his handwriting. |
| 6:09
| Brendan was also in there for the Asian man who couldn't speak English. Don't you have to be a citizen to be on a jury? How do you get to be a citizen if you don't speak English? Maybe he was just faking it to get out of jury duty. |
| 6:10
| The guy is a cook in a restaurant so the judge asked him what sort of food he makes. Was he placing an order for some Chinese food? There was some laughter in the courtroom after that guy left, even R. Kelly smiled. He's probably writing a song about it right now. |
| 6:11
| In between that guy and the next juror the judge had to deal with a separate trial so those people came into the R. Kelly courtroom because it was going to be very quick. |
| 6:12
| Monday the defense accused the prosecution of dismissing all the black jurors. Then yesterday the defense was dismissing all the white jurors, which the judge pointed out. Then R. Kelly's attorney Ed Genson said "I see no color." If Steve were the judge he would have said something but judges probably can't do that. |
| 6:13
| The next juror who came in had a previous conviction back in the early 80s for not wearing a motorcycle helmet in California. The judge said that was a geographical conviction so it didn't matter. Steve read about that guy too, he was only grunting and the judge had to ask him to speak up and say yes or no. |
| 6:14
| The guy said his wife is ill and he's the primary caretaker, plus he's being laid off in June. Steve got all of this from Brendan's reporting and he remembers it. Steve wouldn't be surprised if Brendan is called back to Iowa to receive an honorary doctorate for his coverage of this trial. |
| 6:22
| Live read: The Little Guys |
| 6:23
| Steve just got a letter, which he was expecting, and it also ties in with Brendan getting an honorary degree from Iowa for his work on this R. Kelly trial. |
| 6:24
| Steve's not sure if all the reporting that he's remembered is Brendan, it could be the woman from the Red Eye or Stacy St. Clair. They should watch out though because Brendan is a grinder. |
| 6:25
| The Trusteeship Committee of Columbia College had determined that Steve's name will not be brought up again to continue his term. This is a slap in the face! |
| 6:26
| Steve's only been to one meeting, it's a shakedown. They don't care if you go to meetings, they just want you to donate money. Bill Kurtis is a trustee and he probably never goes to meetings but he donates the $5,000 a year and they're happy. |
| 6:27
| Steve offered to donate a lot of money over a period of 10 years but no one got back to him. It was going to be 20 times what he would donate in a year though. But then he got a dunning letter asking him where his $5,000 donation was. |
| 6:28
| One guy on the board rents the school his HD camera and writes up an invoice for it for $5,000. Steve offered to teach a class but he never hard back on that either. |
| 6:29
| Steve only went to a meeting but it was 100 people who all think they're really smart. He had a headache after he left, it was all stupid team-building exercises and stuff like that. |
| 6:30
| Steve likes what they do at Columbia though because anyone can go there and you get to stay if you can keep up. And ironically he was going to donate more money than they wanted from him over 10 years. |
| 6:31
| Steve is going to miss the weekly emails he got from Columbia where they didn't even know how to hide all the recipients of the email. So every week he got an email with 200 addresses on it and then the email. Just click "Hide Recipients" that's all you have to do. Even Buzz knows how to do that! |
| 6:32
| Steve also gave them a great slogan, "Get in the Loop" but they went with "Create...Change". Someone else went with the "Get in the Loop" slogan. |
| 6:33
| There wasn't any creating going on in the meeting either, it was just people sitting around trying to decide what kind of food to serve in the dorms. |
| 6:34
| Steve's going to demand his $5,000 back and he's also going to point out that his friend on the board is running a scam renting them that HD camera. It's not even a state-of-the-art camera. |
| 6:35
| Some more troubling news, this from ABC, where Oprah's show The Big Give was not renewed. Imagine the yelling that went on in that meeting. |
| 6:36
| A rep for Oprah said she got the message out there in one season and didn't want to renew. Yeah, right! It was a lame show. They gave people money and then judged them on how they used that money to be charitable. |
| 6:37
| Then Chris Rock's wife would judge you along with Tony Gonzalez from the Kansas City Chiefs. It was like being on acid. |
| 6:38
| Also not renewed are Cashmere Mafia, Men in Trees and the Women's Murder Club. Men in Trees? Pete! Steve is so sorry. Pete is blaming ABC for moving Men in Trees around. That's because ABC was ashamed of it and Pete should be too for watching it. |
| 6:39
| Eli Stone is returning, as is Dirty Sexy Money, Grey's Anatomy and Ugly Betty. This is like Pete's top 10 favorite shows list. Ugly Betty is moving production to New York. |
| 6:40
| Steve has seen 10 minutes of Ugly Betty and he gets the bit, she's ugly but all the guys want her right? She looks like she's 12, that's the kind of girl R. Kelly should be going after. Someone who's legal but looks young. Just get her some braces! |
| 6:41
| Scrubs is moving to ABC for it's final season although NBC is acting like this was the final season. On The Simpsons last week Homer's mom came back, again. He said she comes and goes and comes and goes and she's not funny, like that show Scrubs. |
| 6:42
| Ashton Kutcher is producing an unnamed show for ABC as well. He's going to want to get into the production side because he can't carry a show or a movie. Steve just saw that What Happens in Vegas, it wasn't good. |
| 6:43
| Steve's not the type to walk out on a movie but he would have walked out of this movie. He likes Cameron Diaz though but it was still not good. Maybe it would have been better if he'd seen it on a plane. |
| 6:44
| Dennis Miller is in it as a judge, he's pretty funny. He and Steve are in a special section of SAG for actors who play judges. Buzz is in a special section for actors who perform scenes in elevators. |
| 6:45
| Steve's only options were the Ashton Kutcher movie and Speed Racer, which he didn't think he'd want to see. Buzz is seeing that this afternoon with Piper. It also throws Steve that one of the Wachowski Brothers wants to become a woman or something. Does Steve has to know that? Can't he just wear a dress at home? |
| 6:46
| If you want to tape your hoo-hoo between your legs, that's fine but Steve doesn't need to know about it. Why do we have to know everything about anyone? |
| 6:47
| And speaking of confused sexuality a lesbian who looks like a man got kicked out of a bar for going into the woman's bathroom. She sued the bar and got $35,000. The woman was dressed like a man so it's completely reasonable to kick her out if you think she's a man. |
| 6:53
| Steve has a photo of that woman who got kicked out of the bar and she does look like a man. Although she got kicked out while she was on the toilet, which Steve had never read in the year since he first heard about this. Steve has to side with the woman now. |
| 6:54
| We now go live to our court reporter, Brendan M. Greeley, live at 26th and California for the People vs R. Kelly. And we are versing him right now. |
| 6:55
| Buzz is pretty sure the Trapped in the Closet series has created an entire musical genre among the kids. Buzz's daughter often walks around the house singing something that sounds like Trapped in the Closet. So it has no discernible melody? It is informative though. |
| 6:56
| It's almost like an opera. Brendan says it's a hip-hopera, he beat Steve to that one because he's on his game right now. |
| 6:57
| It was Brendan's fine coverage yesterday that informed Steve so much. He's in there with Kira Kyle from the Red Eye, who used to be on Stan and Terry's show, and Stacy St. Clair from the Tribune. |
| 6:58
| Stacy is a fan of the show, as is the guy blogging about the trial for the Sun-Times. He said he was jealous that Steve was checking out Stacy's blog and not his. |
| 6:59
| There's a photo of one potential juror with an Impeach Bush messenger bag. Based on what Steve was reading, between the lines, the guy seems to be gay. He told the judge that he knows a gay judge and a gay prosecutor. |
| 7:00
| Why would you want to impeach Bush now anyway, his term is almost over. Don't people get that if you impeach Bush you get Cheney who's even worse? He'll declare Martial Law right away. |
| 7:01
| Another juror was asked about the age of consent and he said it's muddy with age and it's different if people are in love. Steve's favorite juror is still the guy who said that puberty should be the age of consent. He got that from listening to this show. |
| 7:02
| Based on what Steve has been reading if you want to get out of jury duty just pause when they ask you if can give the person a fair trial. Most people don't have time to serve on jury duty although Mike Dahl was looking forward to it. He seemed to think he'd still be paid at work. |
| 7:03
| Brendan has a plan in place to have donuts delivered to the deputies by our intern Vicki. Steve did finally learn her name. You never know if the interns are going to catch on. |
| 7:04
| Brendan also won the lottery for the opening arguments so he'll be in there when that starts. One more thing Brendan wanted to mention is the softer side of R. Kelly. Lately you only hear about the other side. |
| 7:05
| R. Kelly was leaving the courtroom with his legal team to go into the room where they do jury selection. R. Kelly helped his lawyer up and move some chairs so he could easily get into the next room. He doesn't take the Rascal to the other room. |
| 7:06
| It doesn't seem like R. Kelly's a bad guy but allegedly he likes to get his freak on. If Brendan talks to him he should recommend finding a 17-year-old girl and putting braces on her. |
| 7:07
| Someone from the entourage should have stepped in and found R. Kelly a girl who just looked young, if in fact that is really him on the tape. |
| 7:08
| Nuevos Rancheros with Buzz |
| 7:09
| The death toll from the earthquake in China is now over 14,000 and many believe it will continue to climb. That China doesn't seem like a great place to have the Olympics. Lightning doesn't strike the same place twice but earthquakes do. |
| 7:10
| Just tell that to the people of Myanmar, who are about to be hit by a tropical depression. Steve was just thinking they could throw rice up into the storm and that way you can transport the aid with the storm. |
| 7:11
| Despite the mathematical odds against her, Hillary Clinton has no plans to drop out of the race. She got the people in the stupidest state to vote for her! She's almost playing the opposite race card, she's touting her victories in mostly white states. West Virginia, that's where Deliverance was filmed. |
| 7:12
| A bar in Marietta, Georgia is selling a t-shirt that portrays Barack Obama as a monkey. That does seem pretty racist. The guy selling the t-shirt doesn't sound like a cracker or anything. He's more worried about the monkey's resemblance to Curios George, he might get sued. |
| 7:13
| Yesterday George Bush said he stopped playing golf out of respect for families of people who have died in Iraq. |
| 7:14
| Steve has a photo of that t-shirt, it's clearly racist. It's just a monkey eating a banana. You can do a funny one with all the candidates drawn as cartoons but this is just a monkey. It probably seemed like a good idea on a Saturday night. |
| 7:15
| A new survey is shedding some light on where the rudest drivers are in this country. Steve was going to say New York but it's actually Miami. That actually makes sense because it's all old people and young people who are coked up. |
| 7:16
| In all of Steve's travels he's found Boston drivers to be the worst because they don't yield. It's their colonial spirit, don't tread on me. |
| 7:17
| And finally some good news, the Vatican has given a thumbs up to aliens. The Jesuit director of the Vatican's observatory says that belief in aliens does not conflict with belief in God. |
| 7:18
| Air traffic controllers in Eastern England said a UFO landed at their airport and then took off but wanted their names withheld from a report because they thought they'd lose their jobs. That's just one of many reports released by the British government. |
| 7:19
| A Chicago woman and amputee is pleading with the person who stole her handicap-accessible van. That's pretty low. Steve and Buzz steal vans but not from handicapped people. |
| 7:20
| A Will County judge is going to let Drew Peterson's son take ownership of his guns. Who cares?! Drew was going to get his guns back but then his FOID card was taken away. |
| 7:21
| Chicago alderman who opposed the ban on foie gras are working to have it repealed. When the ban passed two years ago Mayor Daley said it was the stupidest law ever passed in the city. And they've passed a lot of stupid law in this city. |
| 7:22
| Steve has a girl on hold, she's 24, and she wants to talk about the New Kids. Steve will talk to her after the break. |
| 7:23
| Steve's going to run some cartoon characters by Buzz and their candidate counterpart. How about Carl Carlson from The Simpsons as Barack Obama? Cotton Hill from King of the Hill as John McCain? |
| 7:24
| You can make some funny shirts although they would be copyright violations. |
| 7:31
| All these years Steve has been giving away trips to Hawaii but it turns out what people really want are New Kids tickets. It's been mostly girls except for one guy who wants them for his girlfriend, they've been going through a rough patch. The guy said he'd do anything for the tickets but Steve doesn't want him to do anything, he wants the girlfriend to do anything. That's gonna be a worse rough patch too. |
| 7:32
| Caller Jennifer is in Burbank, Illinois. Steve doesn't have New Kids tickets to give away right now. At first he thought it was stupid to give them away but then he realized how popular they were with girls in their 20s and 30s. |
| 7:33
| Steve is still trying to figure out how many tickets he has to give away. If you heard him talking to Jill from promotions you'd know that she has no clue. She didn't even know who Steve was when he called. He might have given away more tickets than he had to offer so it could cost him money. |
| 7:34
| Jennifer is a teacher and last summer she went to a seminar where Steve was the topic of conversation. They said were talking about how he was intelligent. |
| 7:35
| Steve really wishes he had tickets to give Jennifer. He needs to get more of them but Jill won't even return his calls. She's probably too busy taking cigarette breaks. |
| 7:36
| Live read: Fresh Diet |
| 7:37
| Caller Jim is in Antioch. Jim? Did Jim just call Steve Kev? This isn't Jim, it's Brian. Stephanie hadn't screened that call yet and thank God because if she had Steve would have to fire her. |
| 7:38
| He doesn't want to fire her either, especially after he just sent her and her friend to Aruba for a vacation and the friend said she'd be Steve's slave. She's black and didn't want Steve to take it the wrong way and he didn't. |
| 7:39
| Caller Jim remembers Steve taking his boys to see New Kids on the Block. He was happy because there were so many girls there. The boys never looked happier. |
| 7:40
| Steve doesn't recall any of that. He might have just said that to make the whole thing seem more hetero. |
| 7:41
| It seems like Jim doesn't like the way Steve is tarnishing his memory. Maybe it did happen, Steve doesn't remember anything. |
| 7:42
| Caller Brian is back on the line and he did say Kev but he was talking to his buddy. So he wasn't referring to Kevin Matthews? He's not off the air, just in Grand Rapids. He wanted to take things slower and it doesn't get any slower than Grand Rapids. |
| 7:43
| Brian is on his way down to the courthouse to bring Brendan a care package. Brendan might know Brian, he's Matt and Brendan's biggest fan. |
| 7:44
| Brian's bringing Brendan a Jack FM reporters t-shirt. Buzz is wondering where you get something like that. You get it in the crazy basement where Brian has the Brendan made of cottage cheese. |
| 7:45
| Brian has sent Matt and Brendan some great t-shirts, like the Chicago Police Homicide shirt. Now Steve's jealous, he wants one of those. |
| 7:46
| Brian also has a Drew Peterson shirt he made for Steve. Steve doesn't want homemade stuff, he just wants Chicago Police issued shirts. The homemade shirts will make it look like Steve has a boyfriend. |
| 7:47
| It's nice that he's bringing Brendan the shirt but he shouldn't wear it in court, he'll get kicked out. He could wear it after hours, when he's kicking back at PJ Clarke's. |
| 7:48
| Brian doesn't want to say where he works, just that Chicago Police are the best in the country. Steve can agree with that even though that new guy has the beady eyes. Buzz is wondering what the on-the-street opinion is of Jody Weis. |
| 7:49
| People like him, it seems like he's making the right changes. Steve's not kidding about the Chicago Police Department, he's always been a big fan. He's a fan of all police departments, he doesn't want to be patrolling the streets. |
| 7:50
| Brendan could wear the t-shirt on Friday when he's at the courthouse doing paperwork and filing stories for Reuters. Brendan did have to identify himself to the judge yesterday which was surprising. |
| 7:51
| Brendan stated his name for the record and the judge said something about his voice. He could tell he was on the radio. Brendan didn't say he worked for the Steve Dahl Show. |
| 7:52
| It's like Brendan is breaking up with Steve! First Matt and now Steve! He's not even dropping his name on Judge Gaughan. And he just said he works for Jack FM?! |
| 7:53
| Brian was wondering if Steve is going to put Brendan's sketches on eBay. He'll have to compete with Buzz, he wants one too. He could be bought off for a t-shirt though. |
| 7:54
| Steve saw Matt's Homicide shirt and he was wondering where he got it from. Do you have to kill someone to get that? |
| 7:55
| If Brian gets down there soon he can meet the new intern Vicki who will be handing out donuts. She actually just arrived. If you show a badge, you get a donut, that's what Steve says. |
| 7:56
| Those homemade t-shirts creep Steve out but it's the thought that counts. He doesn't want a Drew shirt, it'll attract attention. Steve is starting to get a nice collection of fire department t-shirt. |
| 7:57
| What else is going on down there Brendan? They're going to start handing out donuts now. Brendan should show them a photo of Steve so they remember him in case he's ever down there. |
| 7:58
| Nothing else is going on right now, ABC just pulled up and they're the first TV crew here. 8 jurors have been selected and Brendan saw 3 potential jurors who were dismissed. |
| 8:06
| Live read: Townstone Financial |
| 8:07
| Alright it's time for the Eight O'Clock Taco Bell. It being Wednesday it's time for a Story Outside the Bun. |
| 8:08
| Steve dressed that up with an echo. Today's story is from Monica, we don't need her last name. A last name puts a lot of pressure on Steve to not do anything wrong. |
| 8:09
| Monica hopes Steve is doing well and in good spirits when he reads this. Monica doesn't fall into Steve's typical listening demographic, she's 27, female and Latina. |
| 8:10
| That's typical for Steve. If you're a listener you're in his demographic. Monica loves listening in the mornings, Steve and Buzz crack her up. |
| 8:11
| Whenever Monica gets into work her and her boss talk about the show. She checks the website often and was shocked to see the New Kids poll. |
| 8:12
| Steve and Buzz need to get the New Kids to do another show and hang with them. It'll be ridiculous, like salmon going up that spawning ladder. Kudos to those guys for reuniting when all of their fans are of age. |
| 8:13
| Monica was never a big New Kids fan but she wants to go see them anyway. She also says Steve will have many more listeners if he's giving away New Kids tickets. |
| 8:14
| Steve doesn't have any New Kids tickets to give away because Jill won't call him back. And there's no one else to talk to down there. Jack isn't even real! |
| 8:15
| Monica often visits the Taco Bell on 35th and Wolf, they are very fast there. Steve's been there, they just throw the food in your car as you drive by. |
| 8:23
| Live read: National City |
| 8:24
| We now go back to our courthouse reporter Brendan. Apparently the donut thing did not go over too well. |
| 8:25
| Is it because the deputies thought they were being mocked? It wasn't the deputies, why doesn't Brendan tell the story. Steve is still stinging from being lectured by Mary. She told him not to turn this into a circus. Steve doesn't even want to go on. |
| 8:26
| Brendan got his first reprimand and he could lose his credentials if it happens again. He and Vicki were handing out donuts to anyone with a badge. Steve thought we were supposed to honor our police and firemen. |
| 8:27
| Most of the deputies thought they shouldn't take donuts because they were on duty but the guy who just called in did take one. One of the guys in charge asked Brendan to come over because he had to talk to him. He didn't have a good look on his face. |
| 8:28
| So Steve should cancel the Jimmy John's orders then? Buzz feels this is a case where a high-ranking officer is throwing a wet blanket on anything. Maybe the guy is on a diet? |
| 8:29
| The guy didn't suggest that Brendan had bad motives did he? He didn't mention anything about the donut stereotype, he was just concerned that Brendan was distracting his deputies. |
| 8:30
| Brendan seems chastened by this, as is Steve. He got an earful from Mary out there. Steve just thought it would be a nice gesture but he was picturing a media village. You put the donuts on a table, people grab some, no distractions. |
| 8:31
| In other news one of R's lawyers, Mark Martin, just walked up the courthouse steps. Mark Martin, is that the guy who advertises on TV? That's Erik A. Martin. |
| 8:32
| Maybe we should take a break so Brendan can regroup. It didn't help that we sent a hot little intern over to deliver the donuts. She has a flower in her hair and she's showing some cleavage. Steve would have sent Adam over. |
| 8:33
| Steve still doesn't get why Adam doesn't have to do stuff. He doesn't do anything around here as far as Steve can tell. He's spent 4 days pricing out donut machines that Steve already knew would cost $5,000. |
| 8:34
| Steve gets nothing out of this because there are no donuts coming back with Vicki. Plus he got yelled and he'll probably get yelled at again. |
| 8:35
| Caller "Al" is a Cook County Deputy. Technically they're not supposed to eat in public or even chew gum. Again Steve was picturing a media village and deputies would come there during their break. |
| 8:36
| Alright Brendan, try to recover from that. Steve needs to get in touch with Domino's and make sure those pizzas don't arrive. |
| 8:37
| Alright time for the web poll. Today's question is "Which are you most likely to download to your iPod?" By the way, Steve's blog today is a nice iTunes mix of songs R. Kelly should cover. |
| 8:38
| HBO was right, it's not TV. If it were it would be cheaper. HBO has announced it will make its shows available on iTunes but at a higher price. Sex and the City, coming just in time for the film release, will be available for $1.99, the standard fee. Flight of the Conchords and The Wire will also cost $1.99. |
| 8:39
| However shows like Rome and Deadwood will cost $1 more. It's only a dollar, E Online! If you can't afford that you shouldn't have an iPod. |
| 8:40
| Also, new episodes of HBO shows will not be available for download until after the entire season is over. As far as Steve can tell only Flight of the Conchords is still on the air. |
| 8:41
| Speaking of Sex and the City, Walter E. Smithe is introducing their new Smithe and the City campaign. |
| 8:42
| Buzz really thought that donut idea was going to be good. We shouldn't have sent the intern with her flower in the hair. How can Steve make that decision at 5:30? |
| 8:43
| They need to start showing more furniture in Walter E. Smithe ads though. Steve likes when the brothers are referred to as the oldest, middle or youngest. |
| 8:44
| These guys are crazy. They'll be bartending at Rock-It Bar and grill. They can't get enough of themselves. |
| 8:45
| Billy Dec and the Smithe Brothers, the mind boggles. The first 100 people in attendance receive a free Smithopolitan. |
| 8:46
| Steve thinks they should be wearing dresses and he's disappointed that they're not. |
| 8:47
| Buzz owes the Smithe Brothers an eternal debt of gratitude for making him the most comfortable couch in the world. They fall into the category of people who do one thing for Buzz and are talked about by him all the time. |
| 8:48
| Alright lets get back to Brendan at the R. Kelly trial. He was just talking to Stacy St. Clair and he told her Steve loves her blog. |
| 8:49
| She said if Brendan would have had his credentials taken away the rest of the reporters would have banded together to help him. |
| 8:50
| Brendan has to interrupt himself because Mr. Robert Kelly is pulling up in the same car he's been in all week. If it was Steve he would drive a different car everyday. |
| 8:51
| Steve read in Stacy St. Clair's blog that there were similar complaints in the Brown's Chicken case over the racial make-up of the jury. |
| 8:52
| The defendant in that case was Hispanic and his attorneys were saying that too many Hispanic jurors were being dismissed. After the complaint a Hispanic woman ended up on the jury and she was the sole person who voted against the death penalty. |
| 8:53
| Steve's impressed that Brendan has already earned the respect of his colleagues after only a few days. That means he's doing a good job. |
| 8:54
| Once again, R. Kelly should get 6 months just for that Trapped in the Closet song. |
| 9:02
| LIve read: Woodfield Nissan |
| 9:03
| Alright Bob and Ron are here. It's always dangerous to ask Bob and Ron what's happening. He doesn't really care. He's just looking for a one-word answer like "nothing" |
| 9:04
| Steve was wondering how the weather effects dog walking. He also got an email from the owner of Bodie the dog who appreciates the shout-out Bob gave him. |
| 9:05
| Bob and Ron do take weather into account when they're walking dogs. So they take a jacket and if it's too warm they take it off? |
| 9:06
| Ron always keeps a raincoat in his trunk. Aren't you supposed to keep those in your wallet? It seems more likely that you'd be near your wallet than your trunk. |
| 9:07
| Bob and Ron keep their women in a trunk, just like Pete. Pete also keeps jumper cables and condoms in his wallet. |
| 9:08
| If it's raining, what do Bob and Ron care if they get wet? That's just a free shower for them, or maybe the only shower for Bob. |
| 9:09
| This week we celebrate Stevie Wonder's birthday, as well as Jack Bruce from Cream. He's not as well know for his Falstaff Beer commercials, which Bob and Ron have with them. |
| 9:10
| Buzz is suddenly reminded why he never liked Cream. Steve didn't like them either, turns out they were just a jingle band. |
| 9:11
| We also celebrate the birthday of Magic Dick from the J. Geils Band. Steve doesn't want to play J. Geils Band or Cream today. |
| 9:12
| Steve will play J. Geils, it's not a bad song they've selected for today. |
| 9:13
| Steve played the wrong song but Bob and Ron corrected him on the air. Is everyone correcting him today? Steve doesn't want to play J. Geils after all. How about some Stevie Wonder? |
| 9:14
| Song: Boogie on Reggae Woman, Stevie Wonder |
| 9:19
| That's Stevie Wonder and today is his birthday. He was born in 1950 so he is...Bob doesn't know. He's 58. Steve's a math wiz. |
| 9:20
| Do Bob and Ron want to give any shout-outs to the dogs they walk? Do they know any dogs named Wrigley? Because every Cubs fan with a dog names it Wrigley. |
| 9:21
| If Bob and Ron want to do Steve a favor they could bring him some beef jerky from the Paulina Meat Market. He has a stash but he's going through about a half pound a week. |
| 9:29
| Live read: Triton College |
| 9:30
| Alright it's Wednesday and time for Meat Talk with Chef Hans. Steve and Buzz haven't really spoken about their lunch last Thursday with Bill Kurtis. |
| 9:31
| Steve was lured there under the false pretense of valet parking. There was a guy in front in a suit and Hans claimed he was the valet. Steve bet him $100 that it wasn't and he won. |
| 9:32
| It was fine though because Steve drove around the block and found a spot. He happened to have two quarters on him for the meter too. |
| 9:33
| He did a nice parallel parking job considering he wasn't driving his car and he doesn't parallel park very often. |
| 9:34
| Steve got into the restaurant and was greeted by Buzz standing at the bar, looking good in a sportcoat, and Charlie Trotter, who was really excited to meet him. |
| 9:35
| Hans wanted to take Steve and Buzz to the kitchen which is cute because they don't really care about the kitchen. Hans likes to base himself out of there though. |
| 9:36
| On the way to the kitchen they passed by Bill Kurtis who was sporting his rancher look, not his bush jacket look. He's like a kid on Halloween with the outfits. |
| 9:37
| Bill was talking to someone from the Pritzker family. Generally speaking Steve does like Bill. Buzz introduced himself to Bill who then introduced him to someone else as Bruce Kilman. |
| 9:38
| Buzz corrected him and then a few hours and hundreds of people later it was just Buzz and Bill in a room. Bill was at a table with all of his books and he offered to autograph one to Buzz and he remembered his name. He probably confused Buzz and Bruce Wolf briefly. |
| 9:39
| They had some great appetizers as the lunch like quail legs. You just pop those things in your mouth. All of the other chefs love Hans though, Charlie Trotter couldn't get enough of him. |
| 9:40
| Buzz is wondering if we can call Hans the Dean of Chicago Chefs? Hans doesn't care what you call him, just don't call him late for dinner. That's one of Buzz's jokes, he's being ripped off left and right. |
| 9:41
| Buzz is really claiming that as his joke? If that's true then he was being ripped off even when Steve was young, living in California. He heard that joke all the time with no attribution. |
| 9:42
| So after the appetizers they were told to go outside where a trolley took them to Charlie's house. Of course Hans knew where it was and how much it cost. At first Buzz thought they were going to Bill's house. He couldn't figure out why there were pictures of food all over the wall. |
| 9:43
| Steve has to say the Tallgrass Beef was very tasty but Charlie was putting his own twist on the various dishes. That didn't hurt. |
| 9:44
| He made these mini burgers with bleu cheese on them, Steve had a few hundred of those. He realized that if he sat in the kitchen on a couch in there people would just bring him food. |
| 9:45
| Steve got to meet Dutchie but he's met her before. He met a lot of those people before, he was mostly there just to meet Charlie. He goes where Hans goes too. |
| 9:46
| Buzz had an opportunity to talk to Mr. McCaskey but he didn't take it. Everything he thought about saying was negative. |
| 9:47
| Bill told Hans he was going to drop off a few sides of beef for Hans so they could have tasting. That seemed like a false promise to Steve, he was just trying to get rid of Hans so he could ask one of the Pritzker's for more grant money. |
| 9:48
| Bill was holding court up on the roof making proclamations like Evita. Or maybe Donna is Evita. He was saying things like corn is the new tobacco although at first Steve thought he said pork is the new tobacco. |
| 9:49
| Then Bill made his cow joke about how the cows on his ranch only have one day. Cows that get fed corn often die prematurely too. Based on the rising cost of corn we might have to go with more grass fed beef. |
| 9:50
| Then Steve has to drop Hans off back at the restaurant which is not on his way. And every street downtown was blocked off. He would pass a street and Hans would say "you should have turned there." Hans will make a great wife some day with those backseat directions. |
| 9:51
| Now Hans wants to go to Charlie Trotter's with Steve for dinner. Bill signed his book "To Bill, love the documentaries, Steve Dahl" |
| 9:52
| Should we have Bill read something from the cookbook? He'll need to switch to his music first. |
| 9:57
| That's that My Boys show which Pete always grabs drops from. They reference a lot of local things even though they film in LA. |
| 9:58
| Live read: The Little Guys |
| 9:59
| Steve is going to hold off on the Bill Kurtis stuff until tomorrow. |
