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| 5:31
| Oh black betty, ramalama, whatever the hell that means. Buzz is pretty sure it's bamalama but we'll find out soon. Steve has all but given up his dream of being the next Casey Kasem. |
| 5:32
| First of all, why would he want to be the next Casey Kasem? Plus it seems like Ryan Seacrest has that all wrapped up. Black Betty is one song that Steve knows nothing about and he'd like to know more. |
| 5:33
| Black Betty was a song by American 1970s rock band Ram Jam. Buzz has a feeling that is is ramalama. Black Betty is a 20th century African-American work song often credits to Huddie "Lead Belly" Ledbetter. |
| 5:34
| Some claim Lead Belly's version is one of his many adaptations of earlier folk material, in this case an 18th century marching cadence about a flint-lock rifle. So it's white guys stealing from a black guy who stole from white guys. It's a reverse Oreo. |
| 5:35
| Another reason Steve can't become the next Casey Kasem is because he can't read. Although sometimes Casey messes up and we have some of those tapes if Pete could bring one over to Pete's computer. |
| 5:36
| The song was an instant hit with listeners while at the same time the cause of a boycott by the NAACP and the Congress of Racial Equality. They claimed it insulted black women. Buzz thought Led Zeppelin covered that song too. |
| 5:37
| In Lead Belly's version of the song, Black Betty is characterized as a woman with a child. Mark has posted Lead Belly's lyrics that say "bam-ba-lam" in an effort to prove Buzz right. |
| 5:38
| Steve needs to find out some more information from Mark but in the meantime Buzz needs to point out that Steve was the victim of a literary hoax. Yesterday they were talking about the Pied Piper and who he led out of town. |
| 5:39
| Someone said rats, someone said snakes but Steve said it was kids. However when the people of the town didn't pay the piper, he torched the kids. But Mark didn't post that. You have to think he knew that and was just messing with Steve. |
| 5:40
| Buzz decided he wanted to read that poem to Piper last night which is where he learned about the hoax. Steve was right but everyone mocked him. |
| 5:41
| Mark Czerniec is on the phone. He has now posted the Ram Jam lyrics of Black Betty which are also "bam-ba-lam". It should be ramalama since they're called Ram Jam. That would have been some nice subliminal advertising. |
| 5:42
| Mark doesn't even know what happened, he heard Buzz talking about Led Zeppelin and thought his name came up so he was looking for that information. |
| 5:43
| Mark is looking at his blog from yesterday and he doesn't remember posting anything about the Pied Piper. He can go through his blog again though. |
| 5:44
| Steve is going to accuse Buzz of blaming Mark for something he didn't even do. It wasn't the wrong info, just incomplete info. Maybe Mark's having a blackout, he doesn't remember any of this. It was while Chef Hans was on. |
| 5:45
| Is Mark on Ambien? Because when Steve is on it he sends out all of these crazy emails late and night and doesn't remember them the next day. On Mark's blog he has "skirt steak", then "Carl Buddig" . Steve thinks Mark took it out once he realized he was wrong. Steve wants the full resources of the news department behind this. |
| 5:46
| Maybe Steve Googled it, it's in his search history. Let's go back and enjoy what a wonderful show it was. There's also Fontano's subs, plus Buehrle's no-hitter, Dodgers perfect games and Jack Morris for his blog. |
| 5:47
| Mark doesn't have Pied Piper but he does have Steve Baskerville and his kid Aaron. Mark only wants to be blamed for the things he did which is fair enough. That's all any of us ask for. But thanks to Buzz for looking out for Steve. He knows Steve is sensitive about his education. Buzz never lords his incomplete bachelor's degree over Steve. |
| 5:48
| Let's just forget about all of that and enjoy the fine Casey Kasem/dog dying tape which in and of itself is a masterpiece. |
| 5:56
| Steve's guessing that Casey Kasem is a little difficult to work with. Before we get to Brendan's continuing gavel-to-gavel coverage of the R. Kelly trial Steve just wanted to let Buzz know that there is a place in New York called Pied Piper travel. |
| 5:57
| Pied Piper has been organizing gay groups on luxury cruise ships since 1990, not that Steve has to tell Buzz that. |
| 5:58
| They have escorted over 300 gay groups and more than 3,000 gays and lesbians. Most of their gay group cruises were on the most famous, gay-friendly, luxury line the Queen Elizabeth 2. That's good to know. |
| 5:59
| In addition to the comprehensive cruise schedule they also offer other gay-friendly cruise ships. All cruises include a Welcome Aboard cocktail party, private top-to-bottom escorted tours of the QE2 and a Captain's cocktail and gala welcome. |
| 6:00
| OK , we now go to Brendan Greeley live from 26th and California. He was able to get into the courtroom yesterday. The day before he got to see the video, is it R. Kelly's masterpiece? |
| 6:01
| Yesterday they had various relatives of the girl in the video saying it was her, along with the girl's best friend who said it was her. Maybe they're not best friends any more though. |
| 6:02
| So far the prosecution has put people up there who say the girl in the video is their friend or relative. |
| 6:03
| The defense is contending that the whole thing is an attempt to shakedown R. Kelly. The girl's aunt is Sparkle, who had an album produced by R. It didn't do well. |
| 6:04
| According to Phil Rogers, who's coverage is nowhere near as good as Brendan's because he's not even showing up-said there are reports that Jim DeRogatis showed the tape to friends after he turned it over to the police. |
| 6:05
| Steve has heard that he showed it to someone to determine if he should turn it in. But based on what Phil Rogers is saying, a copy must have been made. And really who would turn that tape over and not make a copy? |
| 6:06
| Jim DeRogatis sort of looks like one of those Little People that you can rent for a little kid's birthday party. So basically those were the people who testified yesterday. |
| 6:07
| They also had an investigator and they were asking him to identify R. Kelly's residence. He got the tape and then was able to ascertain that it was made in R. Kelly's crib. |
| 6:08
| There's a basketball court in the crib with a mural of someone playing basketball against the Tasmanian Devil. Maybe it's Jim DeRogatis, not the Tasmanian Devil. |
| 6:09
| They started to establish the possibility of someone making the video to frame R. They asked the girl's friend, Punky, if she knew about movies where they superimpose a head on someone else's body. |
| 6:10
| So they're showing Punky a picture of a guy who has a mole now. Is she a dermatologist? She's actually a stylist but a lot of cancer is discovered by stylists and massage therapists. |
| 6:11
| Steve would say that 6 years is more than enough time to have a mole added. Punky said that one of the first times she met R. Kelly was at a gym were he played basketball. |
| 6:12
| They were playing shirts and skins and Punky was asked if she could identify R by his body but she couldn't. Can't you grow a mole though? What if he spent too much time in the sun? |
| 6:13
| Steve's sure by the time this trial is over we'll know everything we need to know about moles. The defense will probably bring in experts who say that the mole is and old mole. They'll probably have to do a biopsy on it. |
| 6:14
| Caller Bill was surfing channels last night and a teaser came on for the CBS 2 news. It said that the judge cracked down on three members of the media including one who gave donuts to his employees. |
| 6:15
| Bill was tuning in for the Drew Peterson coverage, how great was that? Plus Steve's dream of a low-speed chase came true as they followed Drew from his house to the police station. |
| 6:16
| That's not even accurate reporting, Brendan was only warned. One woman was kicked out for drawing too detailed of a sketch for jurors and another guy from the Tribune was kicked out for conducting an interview while court was in session. |
| 6:17
| Brendan wasn't kicked out, plus Sheriff Tom Dart called in and said everything was OK. Steve talked to a few guys who work at U.S. Cellular that are also deputies, one of them said that he was just about ready to grab a donut when they were taken away. |
| 6:18
| Brendan is in court today for sure because he won the lottery. He's hoping for more action and fireworks today. They're really off to a rollicking start. The prosecution usually does that and then the defense comes in and belabors everything, picking it apart and making it not fun any more. |
| 6:19
| Steve has a great slogan for Sam Adam Jr., who's doing most of the lawyering for R, "If it's not a zit, you must acquit." |
| 6:27
| That's Jay Levine talking about Donutgate, although his info is bad. C'mon Jay! He's on a bad station but at least do some research! He's probably mad they fired his wife but what can you do? |
| 6:28
| Maybe he doesn't mind that they fired his wife. It cuts down on the office flirting if the old ball and chain is hanging around the office too. |
| 6:29
| Steve doesn't like CBS news anyway because it's a bunch of people sitting around a card table. He does like that new anchor Anne State though. What happened to Diann Burns though? Was she executed or something? We've all heard of the CBS chopping block. |
| 6:30
| Live read: Hawk Ford |
| 6:31
| Alright time for the web poll. Yesterday's question was...wasn't it about credit cards? Buzz thought that was the day before. Yesterday's question was "Is Supernanny a good place to get parenting tips?" 60% of the people said no. Does that mean they watch but don't get tips or that they don't watch? |
| 6:32
| Today's web poll question is "Do you have a crush on Tom Skilling?" This is from Chicago Magazine, headline The Cult of Tom. |
| 6:33
| Tom is a cute, nerdy meteorologist says fan Diana Ortega-Ehreth. Sometimes she makes her husband put their daughter to bed so she can watch Tom Skilling. |
| 6:34
| The weatherman who looks like the Muppets Professor Honeydew is approaching his 30th anniversary in Chicago. Is that a compliment? |
| 6:35
| Skilling knows about his fans, which WGN calls Skillheads. Rob Feder says Chicagoans take their weather very seriously which is why Tom is so popular. |
| 6:36
| Tom is an Aurora native who attended UW-Madison. His younger brother Jeffrey went to prison in the Enron scandal. Tom says he owes all of his popularity to the weather, people have an attachment to that mass of air pressing on the planet. |
| 6:37
| This is kind of a lame article, whatever. There's no mention of Steve or the fine impersonation he's been doing of Tommy lo these 30 years. |
| 6:38
| Tommy thought he'd check in and say hi. He's been up all night with fans having a weather orgy. Whenever Buzz hears that he can't believe it, Tommy doesn't seem like the type. |
| 6:39
| The ladies always want Tommy to whip out the older weather vane. He always asks if they want that in Celsius or Fahrenheit. |
| 6:40
| Tommy gives full credit to the Stever for elevating him to celebrity status over the years. There was a special for Tommy's 25th anniversary where Steve and Tommy were on stage together. |
| 6:41
| Steve did the impersonation for Tommy who of course laughed his ass off. Buzz is so lucky to be working with someone so talented. |
| 6:42
| That's a great little piece in Chicago Magazine. And just to show that it's not the Tribune promoting it's own people they talked to Rob Feder. They didn't need to bring Tommy's brother into it. That hurts but on the other hand it makes Tommy the best son. |
| 6:43
| We're going to see a high of 63º today but we're looking at even better weather for the weekend. It's 46º right now on the lakefront but it feels like 43º. |
| 6:44
| Does Buzz want a 5-day forecast? Even though he doesn't use his barbecue he'd like to know what the weather will be like for barbecuing. |
| 6:45
| Well that's all for Tommy, make sure to thank Steve for him thought. That fella from Chicago Magazine really wasted Tommy's time with a long interview that ended up being a very short article. |
| 6:46
| If Tommy doesn't talk to Buzz before the weekend, he'd like to wish him a happy Memorial Day weekend. Have fun sitting in your house staring at that Webster grill you'll never use. |
| 6:47
| Why get it dirty now? Based on some of the kitchen disasters Tommy has heard about Buzz probably shouldn't fire up his grill. As it turns out mac & cheese is more exotic that Buzz had previously thought it was. |
| 6:48
| On NBC's weather they show photos people have sent in of weather, animals and plants. Tommy's going to start showing pictures of people's genitals that he gets sent to him. It'll be called Tommy's Hoo-Ha Club. So far he hasn't found anyone to sign off on it. |
| 6:49
| The old radio adage is that it's easier to ask for forgiveness than it is to ask for permission, You can't do that at WGN though. They'd fire Tommy and replace him with Jim Ramsay. |
| 6:55
| When Steve Sanders interviewed Steve at the Park West for that Tom Skilling special he asked why the Tommy Skillethead impersonation worked while so many didn't. |
| 6:56
| Steve let that slide because it was 2 against 1 but what did he mean? Which impersonations didn't work? |
| 6:57
| Live read: Townstone Financial |
| 6:58
| We now go live to Brendan Greeley at 26th and California. Yesterday's witnesses included the alleged girl in the video's friend, identifying the girl as her friend. |
| 6:59
| They also talked to Derrek Lee's stylist in Time Magazine, he agreed with Steve's assessment that cornrows were a bad look for court. |
| 7:00
| Steve has the feeling that if Cedric Benson wasn't wearing the cornrows or whatever they are, he wouldn't have been harassed by those police officers. |
| 7:01
| Does Benson do the cornrows or the Bob Marley dreadlocks? Dreadlocks are a cousin of the cornrows anyway. |
| 7:02
| If R. Kelly does go to jail he'd probably be the hairbraider, not the one getting braided. |
| 7:03
| Haj Gueye, a Chicago fashion consultant who's clients include Bernie Mac and Derrek Lee says he would have advised Kelly to wear more closely-cropped hair and more muted colors like blue or black. |
| 7:04
| The Bernie Mac or Derrek Lee look would have been good for R to go with for court. Gueye said it's not a good idea for Kelly to promote a certain image that very few people can relate to. |
| 7:05
| Steve knows that too from his limited time in court. He's never been in this much trouble though. |
| 7:06
| Brendan did want to add that Jay Levine was in court yesterday. Brendan might want to tell him how wrong he was about Donutgate though. |
| 7:07
| Brendan did not get kicked out of court for bringing in donuts. Brendan did overhear him talking to a guy at the BBC about how he belongs to several golf clubs in Great Britain. Jay might have lost it. |
| 7:08
| Brendan didn't give donuts to the judge's staff either, he gave them to sheriff's deputies. This is just another reason not to watch CBS, in addition to every newscast looking like a bunch of people gathered around a card table in someone's basement. |
| 7:09
| Steve's pretty sure that Brendan was going to try to get himself a breakfast treat with bacon in it. Hopefully he gets what he's looking for but Steve would also like to know what they're serving. |
| 7:10
| Brendan was going to get a Fontano's sub for lunch but Steve's not sure if he actually got it. What did he have for breakfast though? That Roach Coach guy kept bugging out, maybe because Brendan keeps calling it a Roach Coach. |
| 7:11
| Well let's just get Brendan back on the line and see what he had for lunch. Brendan had a Fontano's sub yesterday but it wasn't a full menu. He got the Italian cold cuts. |
| 7:12
| Brendan is standing next to the catering truck now and he can ask Roberto what he's got. They have a bacon, egg and cheese sandwich which sounds great. There's your bacon! |
| 7:13
| There's also a chorizo and egg burrito that sounds great. Steve knows that Brendan had his heart set on bacon though so he should get that. |
| 7:14
| Brendan's going to go with Mountain Dew, that's his drink of choice. That's like mother's milk to him. If he has enough of that he can spin off the earth. |
| 7:15
| Steve has still never had Mountain Dew. It came out after he was a kid so it's not in his soda drinking repertoire. He's going to try one today though. |
| 7:16
| There's some car honking it's horn in the background, is that Jay Levine coming at Brendan? That's some shoddy news gathering Jay did. That makes our newsroom look like the Washington Post. |
| 7:17
| Part of Steve wants Brendan to grab something from the truck and give it to R. Do you think he stops for breakfast everyday at IHOP or something? |
| 7:18
| Steve heard he was spotted at Walker Brothers pouring syrup on pancakes very suggestively. His lawyers made him stop though, it's not a good look. |
| 7:19
| Stephanie is now bringing in a Mountain Dew but no sandwich. They have diet as well but Steve will just go regular. |
| 7:20
| It tastes alright but Steve can't identify what it tastes like. It's no fruit he's ever had. Steve once asked Brendan to describe how it tastes and he said it was sweet. Now he can see why he had trouble. |
| 7:21
| Steve's still waiting for the Dew to kick in though. He could go for a sandwich too, is Buzz in? They've been up all morning and they're going to be covering this trial, they need some sustenance. |
| 7:22
| The Dew is having new effect on Buzz but he drinks a lot of caffeine so it has no effect on him. |
| 7:23
| As it turns out Steve and Buzz might actually be morning people. Buzz hates to admit that though because he's always been a night person. You sort of become a night person when you're doing afternoons. |
| 7:24
| Although there were times when Steve and Buzz were doing mornings but were still night people. Steve could be out all night but he'd always come home and get into bed, even if it was for 15 minutes. |
| 7:25
| Then he'd come in and do the show while laying on newspapers. Around 8 am he'd have someone go get the Reuben sandwich for him. |
| 7:31
| Live read: National City |
| 7:32
| News with Buzz |
| 7:33
| Our top story is Drew Peterson. Drew is free after being briefly jailed yesterday. Free at last! Drew is of course the main suspect in the disappearance of his wife. That's what they say anyway. Drew has a reward out for her safe return, it's $25,000. Drew wanted to do $5,000 but Brodsky wouldn't let him. |
| 7:34
| Drew was charged with a felony because one of the barrels of a gun seized from his home was too short. Drew doesn't appreciate people saying his barrel is too short. Joel Brodsky is saying that the gun charge is complete mumbo jumbo. It seems like some sort of harassment. |
| 7:35
| Steve's stepping out of the Drew character for a moment to say it's not harassment. The only short-barreled weapon you can have like that is one issued to you by the police department. The police are saying it's not their gun. |
| 7:36
| You have that gun issued to you when you're on the SWAT team and you give it back when you're not on the SWAT team. Buzz heard on the news last night that it is the weapon that Drew was issued. |
| 7:37
| Buzz wishes we had the audio but the only people who have it is NBC and that tape is not available to us. Steve's just going to read what he has here, it's Charles Pelkie a spokesman for the state's attorney's office. |
| 7:38
| We don't have that audio because there was a VCR malfunction. Is that the VCR Pete finally threw out this morning after Buzz has been hassling him about it all morning? Buzz has been out in the hall railing about NBC the whole morning. |
| 7:39
| Bolingbrook is saying the weapon isn't theirs so that makes it illegal for Drew to own. Steve would like to get the facts straight becuase it's preventing him from doing his Drew voice. |
| 7:40
| Now Steve gets why Buzz was frustrated for not having NBC news. It did cause Pete to actually throw out a VCR for the first time in 11 years. Normally he keeps them around for parts even though you can't really switch parts out like that. |
| 7:41
| Pete also fell asleep on the train today and didn't wake up until he got to U.S. Cellular. That's God wanting Pete to be a Sox fan. 7 in a row baby! |
| 7:42
| Pete woke up and thought he was dreaming. Steve would not want to be at 35th and the Dan Ryan at that time of the morning. That's when all of your criminals are done criminating and heading home and all the gangs are returning to Chinatown. |
| 7:43
| Drew's bond was set at $75,000 and his son paid the 10% to bail him out. Charles Pelkie says the gun was never owned by Bolingbrook so they filed the charge. |
| 7:44
| Drew didn't let the charges get him down though, he made a joke as he was coming out of court. He just saved a bundle on his car insurance. Drew is hoping to become a spokesperson for Geico. |
| 7:45
| Drew would like to have Gary Busey as the celebrity spokesperson who recounts his story on the commercial though. |
| 7:46
| Has Buzz gotten a load of what that Sharon Bycowski broad did in her yard? Drew calls her Bycowski because she's a cow. |
| 7:47
| They've got Stacy's garden in her yard, like one of those memorials that those fat chicks put up in high school when a classmate dies. |
| 7:48
| There's some footage of Drew going to his mailbox and he's got a gift basket that someone sent him. In back of him there's a hubbub around the garden. |
| 7:49
| If Drew ever came into some money from a book deal or whatever, the first thing he'd do is buy Bycowski's house and knock it down. He'd put up a nice play yard for the kids or maybe an actual in-ground pool. |
| 7:50
| Caller Mike wanted to let Steve know that he's right about the weapon. If you're on the SWAT team you can have an altered weapon and a lot of guys buy their own weapons. |
| 7:51
| However when you're no longer on the team you have to give that weapon back. But Buzz's point is that this weapon was confiscated while Drew was still on the SWAT team. |
| 7:52
| Mike is police officer but he's not on SWAT yet, he needs a few more wives for that. Wait until he gets on SWAT, the women will be coming at him like spawning salmon. |
| 8:00
| That was a report from live in front of Drew's house when he hit the panic button on his car. The lights were flashing, the horn was honking, it was quite amusing. |
| 8:01
| Steve believes he's read everything available on this gun thing and it's very confusing to him. Buzz feels we're being deliberately mislead by authorities. Steve has something that says the Bolingbrook police department never issued Drew this weapon when he was on the SWAT team. |
| 8:02
| Although apparently you can buy your own weapon when you're on the SWAT team. When you leave the team you're supposed to give it back, so the question is whether or not Drew was still on SWAT when the weapons were confiscated. |
| 8:03
| There's a lot of contradictory evidence out there but then again that's the legal system. Joel Brodsky says it's pretty clear cut that Drew is innocent, the state's attorneys office says it's pretty clear that he is guilty. |
| 8:04
| Either way, Steve's just glad Drew is back in the media spotlight. He's making jokes, he's hitting the panic button on his car when reporters are in front of his house. |
| 8:05
| They've got Drew on CLTV right now, look how handsome he is in that booking photo. |
| 8:06
| They're showing a photo of Kathleen Savio in a fur coat that Buzz has never seen before. They always show that frumpy photo of her but that was probably after Drew left. The broads always get depressed when he leaves them. |
| 8:07
| Drew feels that Joel does not say FOID correctly. He says IFOID, he always gets nervous on TV. Drew tells him not to though. |
| 8:08
| They also show Stacy's garden at Sharon Bycowski's house. It's a distraction, can Buzz see that? |
| 8:09
| Alright it's time for the Eight O'Clock Taco Bell. Today is Lunch Date with Steve. |
| 8:10
| On the phone is Monica, who just yesterday won the Taco for a Day contest just yesterday. Today she's having two chicken chalupa's and a hard shell beef taco. |
| 8:11
| Steve was first introduced to Monica because she wanted New Kids tickets. She even offered to give Steve a sponge bath for the tickets. |
| 8:12
| Monica said she wasn't Steve's typical demographic because she's 27 and Hispanic. Monica would be surprised of the array of people who listen to Steve. |
| 8:13
| Monica's also going to the Sox game tonight so she'll see him there. Let the sponge baths begin! |
| 8:14
| Alright back to Buzz in the newsroom. |
| 8:15
| Jurors listened to more testimony in yesterday's R. Kelly trial yesterday. Witness Sima Jameson was able to identify her friend as being the one in the video from a haircut they had both gotten. She said her friend was about 13 or 14 at the time the video was made. |
| 8:16
| And Phil Rogers reported yesterday there's speculation that Jim DeRogatis showed the tape to friends after he handed it in to police. |
| 8:17
| There was a pretrial motion about the Sun-Times and their involvement, along with Jim DeRogatis, or DeRogoatis as Brendan just said. It's that a kind of cheese? |
| 8:18
| DeRogatis will have to answer to all of that tomorrow in front of the judge. That's pretty scary. Hopefully Jim has some lawyers. |
| 8:19
| The judge did say that there's nothing in the first amendment that protects against child pornography. Brendan also heard that Jim showed the tape to Sparkle, the girl's aunt. |
| 8:20
| So maybe he was going to do a story on it then? Because if he made a copy and showed it to someone that would be distribution of child pornography. |
| 8:21
| The trial will not start up again until Tuesday so R. Kelly won't be there tomorrow. You have to think the judge isn't going to take this lightly though. |
| 8:22
| Some other testimony Brendan didn't cover yesterday was from the uncle of the girl allegedly in the tape. He wasn't what the prosecution was hoping he'd be. |
| 8:23
| Is he really her uncle or is it more of a godfather situation, like Buzz and that one girl he used to date? |
| 8:24
| The uncle is the same guy who was arrested in February for crack possession. That's not good. In the questioning of the uncle his arrest came up. |
| 8:25
| He had said in his arrest that the crack was in his hat but it was actually rolled up in a lottery ticket. So that makes him a liar? It's not like he wouldn't be able to identify his niece in that video. |
| 8:26
| Sparkle is also related to the uncle and R produced her album. That album was not a commercial success so the defense is claiming they just want payback for that. |
| 8:34
| Steve turned off Buzz's microphone and he didn't realize we were back. He was having a discussion about something that could not go on the air. |
| 8:35
| Steve wasn't sure what was going on but when he sees a red light goes on he turns it off until he can figure out what was happening. |
| 8:36
| Live read: Fresh Diet |
| 8:37
| This is the testimony from the uncle. He said he can't remember who was present when the tape was played or if he was even in the room. |
| 8:38
| That's when Ed Genson asked him how he can know if his niece was in the tape if he doesn't even remember who was in the room or if he was in the room. |
| 8:39
| Then the uncle said that he thought he was the one on trial. Genson said he just wanted the truth to which the uncle replied he would tell him if he knew it. That does seem shaky. |
| 8:40
| American Idol's 7th season ended last night and David Cook was the winner. Cook is a 25-year-old bartender. Steve's embarrassed to say he watched all 2 hours of that thing last night. |
| 8:41
| George Michael was on and then did a tribute to Wham and some of his solo. Buzz is sorry he missed it. |
| 8:42
| Steve likes that Paula Abdul but she seems like a bit of narcissist. She stands up and dances way too much. |
| 8:43
| Pink Floyd has been tapped for the 2008 Swedish Polar Music Prize. Huh? |
| 8:44
| In a final music footnote the man behind the Boy Band craze, Lou Pearlman, was sentenced to 25 years for conspiracy and money laundering charges. |
| 8:45
| The Szechwan leg of the Olympic torch relay was postponed because of earthquake clean-up. That's the spicy leg of the relay right? |
| 8:46
| Senator Ted Kennedy is resting at home after being released from the hospital yesterday. They had some video on his boat, but it was just sitting there with limp sails. It would have looked better if the sails had some wind in them. |
| 8:47
| Buzz saw a long shot of Kennedy in his sailing gear, waddling to the boat. He waddled before the tumor but usually he was in a suit in Washington and the footage was short. |
| 8:48
| That does seem sort of mean Buzz. Steve can only wonder what Buzz says about him behind his back. |
| 8:49
| Earl Berry was executed in Mississippi last night. His last meal was barbecue pork chops, barbecue pork sausages, salad heavy on onions, mashed potatoes and gravy, pecan pie and juice. It's too bad he lead a life of crime, he could have dated our own Stephanie who also loves onions. |
| 8:50
| At least 11 people accused of witchcraft have been burned to death in Kenya. |
| 8:51
| The first of this year's layered budget has passed the Illinois House. House Republican Leader Tom Cross says the budget won't pay for anything because it won't pass. |
| 8:52
| There's nothing going on anywhere in this state. Steve knows a state employee, he can't use his state-issued car because they don't want to pay for gas and he can't go to his office because it's closed. But as long as we have Open Road tolling everything is fine right? Sometimes it does feel like that when you're driving through it. |
| 8:58
| That's some more tape from in front of Drew's house, he also set off his car panic button for the CNN reporter. He warmed it up for the local Fox guy but the way they mix the audio it didn't come through as nice. |
| 8:59
| Then when Greta Van Susternanananaananan went to a broad in front of Drew's house and you were able to hear the car horn much better. |
| 9:00
| This panic button gag was the next logical step, comedically, from Drew making Sharon's garage door go up and down. There was no footage of the garage door though. |
| 9:01
| Live read: Woodfield Nissan |
| 9:02
| Alright it's Peanut Butter Jelly Time with Pat Boyle. Before we get to that though Steve wanted to mention, for his own benefit, that he wrote something that's in the Tribune today. |
| 9:03
| It's on page 2 of the At Play section, You Need a Map to Figure Out GPS, Google Maps. Steve should have sent them the Google Maps image of Lou leaving Wrigley Field. |
| 9:04
| Does that map route take you by Gibson's on the way home for Mr. Piniella? Steve though the Tribune would have that though. |
| 9:05
| If you go online Steve is no longer being called the Vice Advisor. He wouldn't mind losing that title in the paper either because he's run out of vices. |
| 9:06
| It's a thing the Tribune does, they've got The Fixer and the Vice Advisor. At Play also has a list of the top 99 things to do this summer. Steve's going to try to do all of them. |
| 9:07
| Treat yourself to an ice cream sundae at Gaiety's in Lansing, or the Brown Cow on Madison. You could probably just go to Gertie's down on Archer but it's not authorized by the Tribune road map. |
| 9:08
| There's some Asian guy on the cover for a story about United charging people for checking luggage. Steve really wishes they wouldn't do that, it's going to cause more idiots to carry on luggage. |
| 9:09
| If you can't afford $15 to check your bag you shouldn't be flying. Maybe check into Greyhound? |
| 9:10
| Buzz saw this reporter last night and knew exactly what Steve's reaction was going to be. The price of airline tickets could be much higher. |
| 9:11
| They should charge people for carry-on luggage, not checked luggage. |
| 9:12
| The other day Pat was on talking about the majesty of sport and Steve made fun of him. But sports are great and Steve said all that in his blog the other day. |
| 9:13
| Steve put a link to Vin Scully's call of a Sandy Koufax no-hitter in his blog. Vin was the best. He was also wrong about Jack Morris no-hitting the Sox and losing, it was some other guy. |
| 9:14
| Steve corrected all of that in his blog although he was right on about the Pied Piper, even though Hans tried to lead him astray. |
| 9:15
| Steve can't get to his blog archives because today it's a link to his Tribune article. |
| 9:16
| Alright let's talk Cubs for a little bit. The Peanut Butter shout-outs continue on Cubs broadcast, it's a two parter. Len and Bob don't do bat talk but they do have food talk, which is way more relatable. Most people eat, not a lot of people bat. |
| 9:17
| Pat interacts with Len and Bob because he's on Sportsnite. But it's a two part mention so it's confusing. Luckily confusion is our specialty so it's OK. Len is talking about he dessert cart and he says he's not a fan of peanut butter. That has to hurt a Pat Boyle. |
| 9:18
| Last night Pat was doing a live interview before the game and they were wrapping up. You can tell Len is a listener of the show because he told Pat that while he doesn't like Len he is a fan of his. That's quality right there, that's what we're paying for. |
| 9:19
| Steve met Len while he was hosting the Comcast Awards. Len said he was a listener and he seems like a good guy. Len and Bob have a great rapport and they had some big shoes to fill. |
| 9:20
| For everything Steve says he still likes Hawk and DJ, he can't help himself. Ed Farmer and Steve Stone are something special though. Steve left the game early on Tuesday and got a mention by Ed and Steve which was pretty cool. |
| 9:21
| Steve's being mentioned on both team broadcasts which is good. We have to get our advertising any way we can because it seems like CBS is spending all their money on commercials for The Douche. |
| 9:22
| The Cubs lost 5-3 last night and they haven't won a road series since April in Pittsburgh. And they're playing Pittsburgh again this weekend. |
| 9:23
| The Sox have won 7 in a row, that was something last night. The offense finally came alive. Thome had his second home run in as many games, the muffins must be helping. |
| 9:24
| Everyone on the team is back in Steve's good graces including Dirty Thirty. He and Dave Kaplan are going to dye their hair pink if the Sox win 10 in a row. |
| 9:25
| Swisher really loves the pink, it sounds like this is just an excuse for him to dye his hair pink. |
| 9:26
| There was crisis at the Boyle household last night. Pat was working and his wife had DVRed American Idol. She got the kids to bed, had some dinner and was getting ready to watch the finale. |
| 9:27
| Pat came home and said "Hey, your guy won" and she said "I wouldn't know" Her guy was David Cook, the Boyle's live in an anti-Archuleta home. He doesn't like Adam, she doesn't like David. |
| 9:28
| She wouldn't know because on the last 3 minutes if Idol, just as Seacrest was about to say the person's name the screen freezes, like The Sopranos. Pat is guessing this happened to a lot of people who didn't put some extra time on the end of their DVR recording. Was that on purpose? It seems like a huge misstep. |
| 9:29
| Steve has the audio of the end of Idol in the studio, he can recreate exactly what went on in the Boyle household. Pat's wondering how many people got burned by this. |
| 9:30
| Our new intern, Jordan, said that happened to her. Mike Dahl is also checking in, he said it happened to him too. Steve watched it because he has no life. |
| 9:31
| It seems like Fox purposely made run long to ramp up ratings on the local news. You'd think they would contact the DVR people about that though. |
| 9:32
| Steve has DirectTV and he noticed last night that there was no HD channel for WCIU. He might have deleted it though. |
| 9:39
| That's Vin Scully calling the last out of Sandy Koufax's perfect game. How great was he? 4 no-hitters in 4 years and one of them was a perfect game. |
| 9:40
| Vin is still doing Dodgers games but he's backed off considerably. Still though, he's been around forever. He was doing games for them in Brooklyn! |
| 9:41
| Live read: Woodfield Nissan |
| 9:42
| Caller Rob is out in Fox River Grove. Rob has Dish. Steve doesn't have Dish so he doesn't really care but we'll give Rob something nice. Steve only cares about himself and we all know that so let's not operate under any false pretenses. |
| 9:43
| Cedric Benson showed up at OTAs yesterday and talked to the media. He said he's sticking with his story and the truth will come out. That's not something you want to say is it? |
| 9:44
| He is an idiot though so maybe he misspoke. He also responded to Jerry Angelo's comments that Cedric put himself in the position to get arrested. Does Jerry mean he was partying with white women? |
| 9:45
| Steve will be at the Sox game tonight when they welcome back Carlton Fisk. Ron Kittle told Steve what was going to happen and it sounds awesome. He's not going to tell anyone though. |
| 9:46
| Part of Steve wishes he didn't know but Kittle has a big mouth, he's a bit of a yapper. |
| 9:54
| Can Pete replay that drop, Steve missed it? A lot has to go on during the breaks now that there are only two per hour. |
| 9:55
| Jan Jeffcoat was talking to Joel Brodsky and at the end of the call she said "See you later man" which seems completely inappropriate. |
| 9:56
| Before we get to Brendan, Steve's going to open up the Mailbag, brought to you by 7-Up. Steve needs to turn Brendan off because it's too windy. Can he get a phone with a windscreen? |
| 9:57
| This just in, someone spotted Steve at El Ranchero in New Buffalo on Saturday night. She wasn't sure if they should approach Steve and bother him while he was at dinner. So she's wondering what the preferred method is to say hello to Steve in public. Buzz of course knows that the preferred method is to slip him a note with a list of things you're willing to do on his way to the bathroom. That wasn't Steve on Saturday so first you should make sure it's him. |
| 9:58
| Steve gives off a lot of verbal cues though so pay attention to those. And don't pay any attention to anything Janet does. She'll let anyone pull up a chair and sit down. |
| 9:59
| Alright we now go live to Brendan Greeley at 26th and California for the People vs. Robert Kelly. Brendan is on the list for today so he's going back for more. Will they be picking up with the uncle who seems to have a bit of a crack problem and a memory problem? |
| 10:00
| Was Brendan convinced by the testimony given yesterday that the girl in the tape is their relative? Or is Brendan not supposed to share his opinion? |
| 10:01
| Brendan did get himself some breakfast, he went with the bacon, egg and cheese sandwich and it was great. |
| 10:02
| Unfortunately it's been hard to do the Matt Dahl Show podcast because of the trial coverage. Matt has it set up to take a phone call so Brendan will try to do it during the lunch break. |
