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| 5:30
| Steve apologizes for the dead air, he can't keep track of all the stupid songs and when they end. Steve could write a song that repeats the same 20 seconds over and over again like You've Got Another Thing Comin' . |
| 5:31
| Steve shouldn't blame the song, he was down the hall watching the sunrise like the gay loser he is. Then he started hugging himself and making out with himself and then he did himself on someone's desk, from behind. His days in Cirque de Soleil have finally paid off. |
| 5:32
| Steve wasn't doing that of course, he was just sitting cross-legged on a desk doing his yoga and then his tai chi. Steve did take one tai chi class but it seemed like the teacher was only there to hit up on chicks so he never went back. |
| 5:33
| Buzz always sees the elderly Asian community out in full force in the summer in all the parks. There are usually groups of about 20 people. |
| 5:34
| It's cloudy now but for a moment the sunrise was very beautiful. It seemed like that song was fading out for about a minute and 20 seconds. We don't have a countdown timer for that last song because it's played by Penny in the studio downstairs. |
| 5:35
| Buzz could have sworn he just heard Penny say hello. She can't talk on the air because the microphones down there were disconnected. What if there's an emergency and Steve and Buzz need to broadcast their magic from downstairs? |
| 5:36
| Penny might be playing hard to get though. She could still be mad at him after she ratted him out to Todd. Then Todd ratted her out to Steve and he talked about it on the air. |
| 5:37
| At the end of the show Steve plays the first Jack song from his studio before they take over downstairs. Sometimes Steve forgets he's playing the song and turns it off, or something else gets played from the studio. That happened once when Ed and Adam were in there out-geeking each other after the show. Penny screamed into the mic because something was bleeding onto the air. |
| 5:38
| Luckily Todd Cavanah didn't hear that though. Steve and Todd went to the Sox game last night. They had a good time but every time a song came on the PA Todd could identify it. |
| 5:39
| It was Carlton Fisk night at U.S. Cellular, they were welcoming him back and taking a page from the Blackhawks book. The only song Todd didn't know was the song they played during the Carlton Fisk highlight reel. Todd might have just been pretending he didn't know because he thought Steve was angling for a tearful playing of it where he'd leave the mic on and sob. |
| 5:40
| Howard Stern did the same thing when John Lennon died. He played Imagine, left the mic on and started sobbing. It might have been fake crying though. As far as Steve knows they weren't friends. |
| 5:41
| Steve and Garry did go to New York for the John Lennon vigil, Harry Chapin was on their flight. |
| 5:42
| Steve did not have a hot dog last night because every time he does he wakes up in the middle of the night with really bad heartburn. |
| 5:43
| Buzz was wondering what the source of the falling out with the Sox and Fisk was all about. Someone will have to remind Steve of the details because he can't remember them. |
| 5:44
| Basically he was forced out because the Sox thought they needed a younger catcher. And Fisk was having trouble throwing out base stealers which his a problem if you're a catcher. And the kind of guy Fisk is, he's never going to want to stop playing. |
| 5:45
| After he retired he became an ambassador for the Red Sox since he's probably most well known for that home run in the 1975 World Series. |
| 5:46
| Last night Bo Jackson and Ron Kittle road out onto the field on Harleys followed by Carlton on his Harley. Some of the Indians players who were checking out the ceremonies sort of had a look on their face like they were wondering what the motorcycles were all about. |
| 5:47
| In Fisk's last season they had a ceremony to honor him. It was also the same year as the 75th anniversary of Harley Davidson so they gave him a bike, presented by Bo Jackson. Steve bought him a commemorative helmet. |
| 5:53
| We got a lot of calls during the break from people saying Fisk wanted to retire but that's not what Steve remembers. But maybe he was wrong. half the show is us being corrected. |
| 5:54
| Alright it's time for the web poll. Yesterday's question was "Do you have a crush on Tom Skilling?" 86% of the people said yes and some of them were probably men. Steve has a feeling that if you're with Tommy, no matter what sex you are, you find him mesmerizing. |
| 5:55
| Today's web poll is "Do you want to be baptized in Vegan Land like Oprah?" Huh? Whatever it means Steve probably doesn't want to be. |
| 5:56
| This is from Oprah's blog, which she probably doesn't actually write. Steve writes his everyday, yesterday he wrote it whilst walking. First of all, Steve was running late because he spent a lot of time talking to Matt, trying to keep him and Brendan together. |
| 5:57
| They've got the webcast with over 18,000 subscribers and Steve was just trying to keep him encouraged. Matt's a bit of a mope though and he uses that with Janet. Then she lets him bring the dog to the house. |
| 5:58
| Steve spent an inordinate amount of time yesterday researching a means by which Brendan could call Matt on the phone, while he's covering the R. Kelly trial, and still do the webcast. |
| 5:59
| Matt doesn't have a land line though so it's been hard to get that going. Steve said he'd pay for one because he thinks everyone should have one. What if there's an emergency? |
| 6:00
| Then Steve called Steven Wright, the engineer, and asked him to research this new method he found. A lot of the times Steve orders things even if they don't work. |
| 6:01
| Do we want to get back into this Fisk thing, or as Vicki the intern calls him, Fitz. Apparently Vicki is not a Sox fan. We need more Sox fans around here, right now it's just Steve and Stephanie and Buzz, who's only a Sox fan because he enjoys the outlaw status. |
| 6:02
| Buzz is a Sox fan because he hates the Cubs and their whole culture. He is up in that area so it's all around him. He's also a fireman at that house near Wrigley and he takes his job very seriously. |
| 6:03
| Caller Brian golfed with Fisk a few years ago. Someone in the group asked him about the whole retirement thing and he said that a few days after he got that motorcycle he was cut from the team, in Cleveland, without warning. That's sort of what Steve said isn't it? |
| 6:04
| Buzz is wondering who was the person who decided to cut Fisk. It would have to be the GM at the time right? And who was the GM? Buzz says he's a Sox fan but then he asks a question he doesn't know, trying to bring you down to his level. Steve knows the GM was Ron Schueler though. |
| 6:05
| Alright, on June 24, 1993, Fisk played his 2,226 and final ML game, surpassing Bob Boone's record for most games caught. He reluctantly retires with 3,999 total bases, the most ever for a catcher. |
| 6:06
| The Sox refused to let Fisk in the lockerroom with the rest of the team after the made it into the playoffs. When his number was retired in 1997 he requested that Reinsdorf and Schueler not be there. When he went into the Hall of Fame he was wearing a Red Sox cap on his plaque. |
| 6:07
| Oprah is undergoing a 21-day vegan cleanse. She'll give up caffeine, sugar, alcohol, gluten and animal products. Sounds fun! |
| 6:08
| Steve knows that his Oprah sounds like his Bill Kurtis but she's the black, female Bill Kurtis. |
| 6:09
| Maybe Oprah did write this blog herself because it's rambling and self-serving. Oprah had steel-cut oatmeal for breakfast on her first day. What is steel-cut oatmeal? They always have that in hotels, why does anyone care how oatmeal is cut?! |
| 6:10
| It's easy for Oprah to eat all this stuff because she has her own chef. Anyone could be on a diet if they had a chef. A chef will know how to make something that's healthy but tastes good. |
| 6:11
| Who starts a diet on a Sunday anyway? Start it on a Monday, that's your first day of the week. Oprah and 3 employees at Harpo Studios are participating in the diet. Shouldn't it be "three friends and I" not "me and three friends"? Oprah always puts herself first. |
| 6:12
| The blog is very short for Monday, maybe she's starting to realize it's a bad idea. The next blog entry will probably just say "Hungry" |
| 6:13
| Tuesday's blog is longer. Her morning started with an egg-less quiche. What is that, just a crust? All of these menu items are so out of reach for the average person. |
| 6:14
| Strawberry rhubarb wheat-free crepes are probably great but who's going to make that for themselves? And it's not like you can just go to Lou Mitchell's and order that. |
| 6:15
| Mark Czerniec is on the phone, he's a steal cut oats fan. Oats come in a long grain, football shaped like rice but longer. If you take that and cut it with steel you have steal or pinhead cut, Mark's favorite. |
| 6:16
| If you take those steel cut oats and partially cook, roll out and dehydrate them, you get the oats that come in those cardboard canisters. You also lose a lot of the flavor. |
| 6:17
| Steel cut oats take about 40 minutes to cut but they also fill the house with their nutty aroma. They're also better for you . |
| 6:18
| The Czerniec's buy 50 pound bags of Bob's Redmill oatmeal. 50 pounds?! Is that for their horse? |
| 6:26
| Alright black to Oprah's 21 day cleanse. She's blogging the whole thing in case you want to keep track of it. She's only up to Tuesday and according to Steve's calculations it's Friday. She must have fallen off already. |
| 6:27
| Steve's going to read from day 3's blog and then play a video from her website about the diet. On the same page as that though is a video about the Mandalay Bay catfish sloppy joe. |
| 6:28
| Day 3 started with an egg-less quiche which was actually OK. The caramelized onions made it almost tasty. Steve doesn't know what an egg-less quiche is. Isn't the whole point of a quiche to have eggs? |
| 6:29
| For lunch she had lentil soup, lettuce leaves and shredded cucumber. Steve would not want to be in her office after that lunch. |
| 6:30
| For dinner she had asparagus "cream" soup, portobello mushrooms, white beans and spinach and sweet potato chips. More beans?! Steadman is probably not liking that. And she's stronger than him so you know she can Dutch oven him. |
| 6:31
| She stopped by one of her favorite restaurants for a business meeting but she was so full that she only ordered water. The smell of filets and steak Dianne wafted all around her but she had no problem resisting. Steak Dianne, is she at a restaurant in the 50s? |
| 6:32
| Oprah's housekeeper, who occasionally cooks, had made a beautiful turkey meatloaf but she didn't know about the cleanse so she gave it to the doorman. |
| 6:33
| How does Oprah's housekeeper just occasionally cook? She's got so many people working for her, she probably can't even keep track. She probably doesn't even wipe her own butt. And with all these beans that's probably a 3-4 person job. |
| 6:34
| OK, time for the Oprah video. Steve is so sick of Oprah. He can't tell if her producer is fat or pregnant. If she's pregnant she probably shouldn't be cleansing. |
| 6:35
| It's easy to do all this when you have a private jet parked at Midway and own all of Santa Barbara and Maui. Steve's just jealous though, Buzz knows that. |
| 6:36
| Oprah says a prayer before eating that ends with "Thank you, all that is God." What the hell kind of Unitarian crap is that? |
| 6:37
| Live read: Seattle Sutton |
| 6:38
| If you want someone to cook healthy meals for you, call Seattle Sutton. You still get meat but it's mostly turkey and chicken. |
| 6:39
| Caller Robert's son has a wheat, gluten and egg allergy and he's guessing that Oprah's diet tastes horrible. |
| 6:40
| They're hoping that one day he works through it and builds up an immunity. He can eat meat so it's not a vegan diet. |
| 6:41
| That seems like a serious allergy but a lot of parents probably make up peanut allergies for their kids. And now Steve can't get peanuts on an airplane. |
| 6:42
| Steve's going to take a break and then say hello to Patrick Bertoletti. He's been on hold for 45 minutes and there's something about that that delights Steve. |
| 6:49
| It looks like it's going to rain today but all the forecasts just say it'll be the cloudy. What's the point of a forecast if they're never right? Sometimes they are but anyone could be right some of the time. |
| 6:50
| Steve has been watching the weather for several days because he's flying today. By that he means he actually grew wings and he's going to try them out today from the top of a building. He seems to be molting but he still feels good about it so you might see him soaring through the Loop today. |
| 6:51
| Steve is hoping they're wrong about today and right about Monday when it's not supposed to rain according to the forecast. When Steve flies back the day before a show he gets concerned about flight delays. As it stands he's supposed to be home around 8 which is past his bedtime. |
| 6:52
| If Steve could digress for a moment-and isn't the show just a series of digressions-there's a building that faces Grant Park, maybe the Blue Cross Blue Shield building, that always has stuff spelled out in the windows like "Go Bears" |
| 6:53
| Yesterday there was one of those corporate fun runs/get laid afterwards in Grant Park. Today the building said "Go BCBS" and Steve didn't know what that meant. He assumes it had something to do with the run though but if anyone knows, call in. |
| 6:54
| Live read: Hawk Ford |
| 6:55
| Alright Deep Dish is on the phone. Patrick says that yesterday's run was the Chase Bank run. That's not BCBS though but a lot of people are calling so someone must know. The phones are ringing off the hook, not literally though because we don't have phones with bells in them. |
| 6:56
| There was a phone that was ringing around here that scared everyone half to death. One of the phones got swapped out and the ringer was on. It sounded like some horrible emergency going on. Usually phones don't ring at radio stations, there's just a light that flashes. |
| 6:57
| Caller Mike is from Wheaton but currently he's driving on the Eisenhower. Has he passed the Maywood Strangler that used to be the Hillside Strangler? George Ryan made a big deal about getting right of the Hillside Strangler but all they did was move it to Maywood. Maybe by the time he gets out of prison it'll be all fixed. |
| 6:58
| Cream of Wheaton is this weekend and once again Steve will miss it. It's long been his dream to go to Cream of Wheaton, the t-shirts are probably sweet. Maybe next year Steve and Buzz should get on the festival circus. It's a bummer to play a festival though because it's usually a lot of people who don't know who you are, chowing down corn dogs. |
| 6:59
| BCBS means Blue Cross Blue Shield and it was spelled out on their building. They must have had a team in that race, the JP Morgan Chase Corporate Challenge. That seems like a waste of money. Steve would prefer his premium go down. |
| 7:00
| Cream of Wheaton is not this weekend, it's actually June 7th. Mike was just going along with Steve, which he really appreciates. So many times people don't go along with him. |
| 7:01
| According to Janet Mike and his girlfriend ran in that thing last night. Mike's girlfriend is a runner so now he's Mr. 5K. |
| 7:02
| Last year, before WCKG became The Douche, Mike called in to the Matt Dahl Show from the race. This year Steve didn't even know Mike was in it. |
| 7:03
| Sometimes Steve likes to overthink things. He's been going through his iTunes, getting rid of all the songs that aren't there any more following the crash and recovery of his hard drive. |
| 7:04
| He came across a song called Deep Dish by Ani DiFranco. She seems like someone Pete would like until she started selling out 1,600-seat auditoriums. Secretly Pete wishes this show wasn't successful. It's not really about deep dish pizza, she just mentions it once at the beginning. |
| 7:05
| So last weekend Patrick compete in the gyro competition which for some reason was in Houston. They have a big festival so that's probably enough to get a competition going. |
| 7:06
| Patrick ate twelve 12 ounce gyros. Normally they're very greasy but Patrick didn't taste any of it. Joey Chestnut ate 10 gyros which means The Dish Man, The Dish Rag won. |
| 7:07
| It probably didn't change his rankings but he did return home with a sweet gyro belt. |
| 7:08
| Patrick is still #2 according to the IFOCE rankings. He needs to take him down once more and then the rankings might change. The next big competition is Nathan's. If he wins that he'd have to be #1, it's like the Super Bowl of competitive eating. |
| 7:09
| Steve will be at Nathan's, front and center on the Fourth of July. Patrick will need to come up with some good sausage puns for his appearance. Why not let Steve handle that? Patrick is a bit of a loose cannon. "Are you talking to meat" was good but a bit avant garde. If Buzz is delighting in something it's not mass appeal. |
| 7:10
| Buzz doesn't reject things that are popular like Pete, he just likes some things that are weird and fringy. Pete wants to keep people down, based on some thing that happened to him in his past. |
| 7:11
| Next weekend is a pizza contest in Maryland, which makes no sense. What's the deal with these eating people? The pizza contest should be here! |
| 7:12
| Steve can not get Jill, our marketing director, to put together some sort of eating competition. She's a bit of an eater herself, you think she'd be on board. Steve was there when her and her mother ate 20 gallons of guacamole in Mexico, turned green and then passed out. |
| 7:13
| We should have some sort of pizza or Italian beef competition in Chicago but Steve's entreaties go unanswered. Instead we just give away Stevie Nicks tickets. |
| 7:14
| Patrick was wondering if Steve would like to come to a strawberry shortcake competition in Long Island on Father's Day. Patrick can't convince his own dad to come and compete with him. Steve doesn't want anyone thinking he's Patrick's dad. |
| 7:15
| Steve doesn't want to have the same thing happen with strawberry shortcake that he experienced at the Big Texan. His boys were so disappointed that they had a fat dad who couldn't finish the steak. |
| 7:22
| Steve didn't even listen to the clip of him at the Big Texan, he can't bear it. It has to be really bad to have a fat, stupid dad and then he can't eat a big steak. It has to be disappointing and Steve feels bad that he let them down. |
| 7:23
| He needs to go back there and make it right. But what if he goes back and fails? Steve doesn't think he will fail, he's figure out the way to do it and finish the whole thing. |
| 7:24
| Steve didn't have any strategy going in because he didn't think he needed one. At the time he probably weighed 340 pounds, he figured he could eat a 72 ounce steak, a shrimp cocktail and a salad. |
| 7:25
| He should have saved the shrimp and salad for the end because at some point the meat is so dry. It seems weird to go back to Amarillo just to eat that steak though. |
| 7:26
| Live read: National City |
| 7:27
| Alright we now go live to Brendan Greeley at 26th and California. R. Kelly's trial is not in session today but there is a hearing regarding Jim DeRogatis and how he got the tape. |
| 7:28
| Yesterday we thought that Jim would be appearing in court but based on what Steve read it's just a hearing to see if Jim needs to be subpoenaed. That's not as exciting as him appearing but it could be just a matter of time. |
| 7:29
| Yesterday a woman was fined and thrown in jail for yelling "Free R. Kelly" in the building. The judge said she was trying to influence the jury. |
| 7:30
| Sparkle testified yesterday and there was a lot of drama. Her and Ed Genson got into it, the back and forth was better than any courtroom drama Brendan has seen in a movie. |
| 7:31
| Genson was accusing Sparkle of being financially motivated. Apparently she had a platinum album but has never been paid for it. Steve can see how that would make someone bitter but she said that wasn't the case. |
| 7:32
| She said she saw the tape and knew it was her niece and R. Kelly in the video. He asked her how she could be sure and how she knew it wasn't doctored. |
| 7:33
| Sparkle actually introduced the girl to R. Kelly and said that might have been a mistake. |
| 7:34
| Sparkle met R. Kelly while she wa recording with Billy Ocean, Mr. Caribbean Queen. Didn't he also do Electric Avenue? Or was that Eddy Grant? |
| 7:35
| Buzz thought Caribbean Queen was Steve's nickname for Billy Ocean. A silence has fallen over the crowd. |
| 7:36
| We'll get to more of the trial but first Steve has a question for Brendan. Yesterday he called in to the Matt Dahl Show and Steve is going to play some of that, then the question. |
| 7:37
| Steve's question for Brendan is, was he fully reclined in his car when talking to Matt. He was in his car and he sounds reclined. This makes his work here seem fast-paced. |
| 7:38
| Brendan never mentioned a pizza truck to Steve, was he holding out? Maybe Brendan only talks breakfast with Steve. |
| 7:39
| Brendan did mention Fontano's subs which Matt knows because they're in Hinsdale. Try to be more like a suburban white kid. It's not their only location, or their original location. |
| 7:40
| Brendan will be up at Matt's place today to do their show since it's only one hearing this morning. Hopefully Jim DeRogatis has to appear and hopefully he's led off in handcuffs. |
| 7:47
| Steve was right, Eddy Grant did Electric Avenue. That was confirmed by Todd Cavanah via text message. He knows his music, although he claimed not to know the song they used during the Carlton Fisk video tribute last night. |
| 7:48
| Todd probably didn't want to tell Steve what it was because it's not on the Jack playlist. Steve would want to play it and he could play it but Todd generally discourages that. |
| 7:49
| Live read: Woodfield Nissan |
| 7:50
| News with Buzz |
| 7:51
| Parts of the west are recovering today from a string of tornados. They featured some video of one tornado on the news last night, Buzz was amazed. |
| 7:52
| Tommy Skillethead is checking in, he'd like to invite Buzz to come storm chasing with him in his T-Bird. |
| 7:53
| John McCain has rejected the endorsement of Texas minister John Hagee. Hagee has made comments about Jews which McCain said are indefensible. |
| 7:54
| John McCain needs to get some sun and he needs to see a chiropractor about his slouch. He looks like a dottering old man. LIke if you were going to the store you wouldn't want him to drive you. |
| 7:55
| Barack Obama was in Florida making his pitch to the Jewish community. He also had some tough talk about the Middle East. |
| 7:56
| Over three dozen mothers have won a victory in a Texas court over the state's seizure of their children. Mother's at a West Texas polygamist cult will have their children returned to them. |
| 7:57
| The more Steve sees these women the hotter they become. It seems like they'd basically do whatever you told them to do. You can see why the guys collect them. |
| 7:58
| There must be something in man's nature that makes them want to have multiple wives who do whatever you tell them to. You have to back those guys on that, but not on the incest or molestation. |
| 7:59
| They run amok though because you probably have to get the girls when they're young to brainwash them. |
| 8:00
| The FBI's counter-terrorism is too understaffed and poorly organized to protect the U.S. from another attack. That's according to an agent testifying in front of Congress. That's good to hear. |
| 8:01
| According to Dirk, the German guy who interviewed Steve about Disco Demolition last week, all of the terrorist groups are unorganized and their members are idiots. |
| 8:02
| Dirk really knew a lot about Disco Demolition, he wasn't coming in on the homophobia/racism angle. Steve wasn't being racist or homophobic, he just thought disco was stupid. |
| 8:03
| So those sleeper cells couldn't even keep it together to be a sleeper for 18 years. They're just crazy, that's it. |
| 8:04
| Of course Steve still has to go take off his pants and shoes whenever he goes through airport security. They say that 1.36 million people will be at Chicago airports this weekend. But they never say how many they have on a normal weekend. |
| 8:05
| For the first time in 20 years the Fox Network finished first in the ratings, beating out ABC, CBS and NBC. |
| 8:06
| The Sun-Times is reporting that the Daley's were sent a letter about their late son. The letter also detailed a threat to torch the mayor's Michigan home. |
| 8:07
| It's believed the letter was in response to the cougar killing by Chicago Police. Police believe the person sent another letter to the Brookfield Zoo in 2003. |
| 8:08
| 7 city of Chicago building inspectors were among 15 arrested on Federal bribery charges. That Patrick Fitzgerald is making it really difficult to get anything done in this city. Does he know that? You can't get a ticket fixed or anything else done. Doesn't he have to live here too? |
| 8:09
| Fitzgerald says the defendants allegedly paid or received bribes regarding construction permits. Duh! It's Chicago! |
| 8:10
| One of Drew Peterson's sons is getting possession of 8 of his guns. A Will County judge ruled that police should hand the guns over to Steven Peterson. They still haven't sorted out the whole thing with that one gun though. |
| 8:11
| Chicago beaches are open today, so they can quickly close again. |
| 8:12
| Alright it's time for the Eight O'Clock Taco Bell. Steve and Buzz are kicking off the weekend with a couple of Big Taste Tacos. |
| 8:13
| Guess how much it costs? Buzz is going to say $1.49 but it's actually 99¢ on the Why Pay More Menu. |
| 8:14
| Caller Gus loves the morning show but his ride to work inevitably ends with Steve and Buzz eating Taco Bell. All he has is a granola bar. |
| 8:15
| Gus drives a straight truck for his job and he always runs across 24-hour Taco Bells. What is a straight truck? |
| 8:16
| That's a truck where the cab can't disconnect from the back. It harder to drive those, you hit something almost every time. |
| 8:23
| Steve might be having a second item from the Taco Bell Why Pay More Menu. A Cheesy Roll-Up was put in front of him, what can he do? |
| 8:24
| Steve just moved into some bigger pants so now he has that arrogance going for him. They're falling off him and he keeps forgetting it's because they're 2 inches bigger. |
| 8:25
| Live read: Townstone Financial |
| 8:26
| Covering the R. Kelly trial from 26th and California is Brendan Greeley. There trial is recessed today but there is a hearing regarding Jim DeRogatis. |
| 8:27
| According to Prefix.com, whatever that is, Jim is a famous music crt ic. Brendan says that no one in court knows who he is though. They couldn't even pronounce his name. |
| 8:28
| The guy who's covering the trial for Slate.com is doing a really good job. He's a good writer and he's funny and he has a very detailed description of the video. It's hardcore but funny. |
| 8:29
| We need to break away from Brendan for a moment because Tyrone's checking in with some traffic. |
| 8:30
| Tyrone didn't want to interrupt the trial coverage, he's been following all of it. He's currently negotiating with Kelly's people about flying him to court next week. |
| 8:31
| Tyrone does not know how to hit the cough button without turning off the choptater. It sounds like he's falling from the sky. We don't need that kind of fear, then we'd be covering Tyrone |
| 8:32
| So Tyrone's been pitching R. Kelly on coming in on the choptater. Brendan thinks it would be cool. He could just land that thing on California and he'd go right up the pathway. Watch out for the drinking fountain though. |
| 8:33
| So they're talking about that right now, it might be cool, it might look cool. His lawyer is telling him not to attract too much attention but if you can afford to ride in a choptater why would you do something like they say he's doing? That was Tyrone's pitch but then they threw him out. |
| 8:34
| Right now all lanes on the inbound Bishop Ford are blocked near 130th. They had a bad crash out there. R. Kelly was not in the crash because he doesn't have to come into court that day. |
| 8:35
| He probably doesn't even come in that way does he? He's probably on 57 right? Does he come in from the north or the south Brendan? Does Brendan know his north from his south? |
| 8:36
| He comes down California from the east. California is a north-south street though. Tyrone might do some sort of escape from Cook County jail with the choptater, that would be good for the ratings. |
| 8:37
| Terry Sullivan calls it the Cook County Hilton. Then he realized what he said and took it back. He changed it to the jail. John McCain was at the Hanoi Hilton and that was no HIlton though. |
| 8:38
| Tyrone was there for a few days but he drove everyone crazy with his harmonica playing. They couldn't take it and then let him go. |
| 8:40
| Alright where were we...Jim DeRogatis was the first person who wrote an article about rumors of R. Kelly and underage girls way back in 2000. |
| 8:41
| He also received the copy of the sex tape and handed it over the police. Now the question is whether or not he has tainted the jury. So that's not a child pornography charge. |
| 8:42
| The Sun-Times plans to fight the subpoena, sighting reporter's privilege. The DeRogatis subpoena is in regards to the defense's contention that the tape isn't real. |
| 8:43
| Brendan has not had breakfast but the truck is present. Steve has gotten emails from several people in the catering truck business and roach coach is an acceptable term for the catering truck. |
| 8:44
| Steve would really like for Jim DeRogatis to be in court today. Is there anyone with a camera outside the courthouse who could get him arriving? |
| 8:45
| Buzz saw R. Kelly's booking photo on NBC last night and it looked like he didn't have corn rows. Why is Buzz watching NBC still? |
| 8:46
| Brendan has some more details about that mural in R. Kelly's old house that features someone playing basketball against the Tasmania Devil. Steve needs to take a break, talking about this R. Kelly trial always make him have to use the bathroom. |
| 8:52
| Live read: Paulina Meat Market |
| 8:53
| Even if you don't know what you're doing this weekend, you'll want to go to the Paulina Meat Market and get some meat for grilling. |
| 8:54
| Alright Brendan had to go because he has to get into court. Steve always thought that the delay in the trial was good lawyering but there were a lot of delays because the prosecutor had a baby, then the judge fell off a ladder and then R. Kelly had his appendix out. |
| 8:55
| Steve has a list of 5 things you didn't know about R. Kelly from the Tribune. First of all he loves doing a Marlon Brando impersonation from The Godfather. He sticks a ball in his mouth to get the voice right. |
| 8:56
| Is it really an impression if you have to use a prop? Buzz can only say that Marlon also put something in his mouth to get that voice. |
| 8:57
| Kelly also really likes Space Jam, which Buzz has never seen. Shame on you! Kelly's popularity soared after he released I Believe I Can Fly, that movie's theme. |
| 8:58
| The movie characters were immortalized in a series of murals on the walls of Kelly's basketball court. The centerpiece is R. Kelly playing basketball against the Tasmanian Devil with Michael Jordan as the ref. |
| 8:59
| R. Kelly also forces his hangers on around the studio into games of basketball whenever he's recording. |
| 9:00
| Simha Jameson gave Kelly some unsolicited advice when, after seeing a photo of his back, said his mole could be cancerous. Kelly grimaced and then laughed, the first time he did that during testimony. Kelly also enjoys a good after-hours prayer session, and who doesn't? |
| 9:01
| Does Buzz want to do some news? Is he ready for it? Buzz wasn't expecting to do news but he could be ready after a break. |
| 9:02
| It's not really break time but luckily we have a very special guest who's interested in promoting his cookbook. |
| 9:03
| That worked out perfectly, just as Bill and Buzz planned it. Tubby came to Buzz asking for news, he didn't have it and now they have to go to Bill and his cookbook. |
| 9:04
| Bill can't remember where he left off in the book but really you could just keep reading this thing over and over again. |
| 9:05
| Cows naturally eat grass which is why they have 4 stomachs. If you go to the farm at U of I in Champaign-Urbana, you can see a cow with a glass stomach. Buzz of course has a glass jaw from his years as a Golden Gloves boxer in Florida. |
| 9:06
| When they say cows are chewing cud it's actually regurgitated grass. However they can digest grass with their 4 stomachs, unlike dogs. When a dog wants to puke it eats grass. |
| 9:07
| Dogs have to puke when they eat something they shouldn't eat and that happens a lot because dogs are stupid and will eat anything that smells good to them. |
| 9:08
| Bill started the Tallgrass Beef company when words like organic and natural were new to most people. Bill's beef is grass fed and grass finished. Much of your corn fed beef is only finished with corn. |
| 9:09
| Would Buzz like a leather vest like Bill has? It was sewn by Bill's longtime live-in lover, woman, mentor, torturer, Donna. It's buckskin. What is Buzz's suitcoat size? |
| 9:10
| Bill is a conservationist. At the Charlie Trotter event he said corn is the new tobacco. Don't try to smoke it though. People tried to smoke cornsilk though, it didn't work. |
| 9:11
| Bill did that down on the farm in Kansas. He had a very Huck Finn existence although he didn't know a runaway slave, or two drifters. He didn't have a Becky in his life or a Tom Sawyer, he did all the painting himself. That's noting like Huck Finn at all really. |
| 9:13
| As conservationist Bill wanted to bring sustainability to his ranch. Raising grass fed beef was the best way to do that. The cattle fertilize next year's grasses, which means they poop where they eat. That's not a strong marketing angle though. |
| 9:14
| Has Buzz ever been out to Bill's place in Mettawa? By the time Bill gets out there he's exhausted, why do they have to have a place that far away? And an English garden too! They're not even British. |
| 9:15
| They don't have any cows but a few of the neighbors aren't anything to look at. The cows are all in Kansas. |
| 9:16
| There was no market for grass fed beef when Bill first started. Ranchers could sell them to friends but not in the open market. Corn fed cattle took over the market. |
| 9:17
| Corn ferments in a cow's digestive track which produces gas and if it can't belch it away fast enough it suffocates. Then comes acidosis and diarrhea. Do you want a cow with diarrhea? |
| 9:18
| How about a recipe from the book? Splatterdabs like pancakes without milk and eggs. They're easy to cook while on the trail. Bill could give the recipe but what's the point? |
| 9:19
| Bill has to say he's lost interest in reading his own book. Splatterdabs became popular on the trail because they were filling and didn't require milk and eggs to make. |
| 9:20
| If you didn't have syrup you could use fruit, sugar, cinnamon or jam. Buzz really didn't see Space Jam? |
| 9:27
| Live read: Woodfield Nissan |
| 9:28
| News with Buzz |
| 9:29
| The tornado that slammed Windsor, Colorado was over a mile in width at it's base. And we have some fine footage of it with the great narration. |
| 9:30
| John McCain is in good health and has shown no signs of the skin cancer he had in 2002. He turns 72 in August and would be the oldest person elected to his first term as president. |
| 9:31
| The new Indiana Jones movie is getting thumbs down by the Communist Party in Russia. They're calling for it to be banned in the country. Steve thought they weren't Communists over there any more. |
| 9:32
| Buzz remembers a partial reconciliation but he feels that it's only a matter of time before they return. They probably don't have the kind of projectors that can play the movie in Russia, this is just an excuse. |
| 9:33
| Maryland's governor is reluctantly moving ahead with a lift on the moratorium of the death penalty. |
| 9:34
| Death row inmate Samuel David Crowe had his sentence commuted hours before he was to die. He did however have his last meal. |
| 9:35
| Steve would get himself a Bloomin' Onion with BBQ sauce. Over the years Buzz has been forced to rethink is last meal should he be on death row. For years he waffled but it would have to be a burger. |
| 9:36
| Steve would also go with that dish that's fried chicken that you add noodles and gravy to. He doesn't know what it's called though. Chances are he'll be executed in the south where they'll know what it's called. |
| 9:37
| For dessert he'd have to go with strawberry shortcake with ice cream, which you have to have on there. That ice cream is key but people often mock Steve for putting it on there. You need vanilla and a good one where you can see the flecks of vanilla bean. |
| 9:38
| Alright we've got Brendan on the line, they just finished up the Jim DeRogatis portion of the hearing. Jim was not there but some how R. Kelly slipped in under Brendan's radar. |
| 9:39
| The defense has filed a motion requesting that the state file charges against Jim DeRogatis. If the state is going to call it child pornography and then DeRogatis showed it to other people then it's distributing child pornography. |
| 9:40
| Then they can accuse him of tainting witnesses and scaring him into admitting that. It can't be that hard to scare Jim DeRogatis either. |
| 9:41
| That's going to make for a long Memorial Day weekend for Jim DeRogatis though. It'll be hard to enjoy a burger on Monday. |
| 9:42
| So that's pretty much it for the week right? R is still in the courtroom but it seems like it's rapping up, no pun intended. |
| 9:49
| That's Ryan Adams leaving a message for Jim DeRogatis. Jim released that tape right? That's what Pete understands. |
| 9:50
| What's what he understands? Is that what Pete will say in court when Jim hauls him and Steve in? He might be in the mood to take someone down after today. |
| 9:51
| Steve and Pete saw Jim DeRogatis at Arcade Fire, he was lecturing someone about music. He looks like a greasy troll, like something from Narnia. It's not a good look. Steve's mic keeps falling off the stand, he might need to go lounger singer. |
| 9:52
| There are a lot of dwarves in Narnia and some of them are misshapen. The main dwarf in that movie is played by an actor who's enjoying a spectacular career. Steve has seen him in other things. |
| 9:53
| He's a really good actor and is playing characters that don't have to be dwarves. |
| 9:54
| Steve calls down to the newsroom where nothing is happening. Steve's putting together the menu for his last meal and he has the chicken, which no one has called in about. It sounds fantastic to Jim though. |
| 9:55
| Steve was looking for the other item on his menu. It was the Bloomin' Onion with BBQ sauce. Buzz isn't really sure what that is but he doesn't see how Steve can go with that and fried chicken before execution. What does Steve care, he doesn't have to clean it up. That's what they get for killing him. |
| 9:56
| The only call Steve sees on hold is someone wondering where Buzz gets his Mexican food. Buzz doesn't really want to tell anyone because he likes that modicum of privacy. |
| 9:57
| Steve asks Jim what he's doing this weekend. He's going to North Carolina for a wedding, not his though. What happens to Chance? Danielle's parents are watching his dog and her dog. Steve came home last night from the Sox game and he was mad that it was there. The dog goes crazy when it sees Steve but it was pointed out that it goes crazy because it likes him. Then that won Steve over and then went out and lifted their legs by a tree. |
| 9:58
| Steve doesn't think any of these answers are going to be correct. It's not country fried steak though. Plus he's talking into a mic that's 5 feet from where he usually sits. |
| 9:59
| Caller Jeremy thinks Steve is talking about chicken and dumplings. Dumplings sort of are a noodle and it's really good. You've got flower, grease, gravy and fried chicken, you can't go wrong. |
| 10:00
| Jeremy knows Steve in a weird, strange way. Way back in the day on the cable show there was sea monkey girl on his last show. Steve doesn't even remember the cable show. |
| 10:01
| On the last show Steve had a family on and one girl did a sea monkey routine. Jeremy is married to that girl. He can understand if Steve doesn't remember, this was in the pre-rehab days. |
| 10:02
| First of all Steve never went to rehab, so don't insult him. He did it all on his own. Second, don't bring up new stuff like this. |
