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| 5:30
| Is it cool, uncool or do we not care that it's sunny when the show starts? Buzz was asked about this last month. He didn't think he'd ever see daylight on his way to work and suddenly he is. |
| 5:31
| Can Steve just say that he hates The Stray Cats? Does Pete happen to have his classic Stray Cat Strangle handy? There's no time like the present to get some hate out there. |
| 5:32
| Steve ended up liking Brian Setzer in the later years when he had his Orchestra but if he wants to listen to Carl Perkins he'll just grab some Carl Perkins. Steve went Sun Records on Buzz, he probably wasn't expecting that. |
| 5:33
| Alright let's play this song because there's no time like the present. Then we can continue on with a discussion of the sun. Are you for or against the sun rising, Galileo? |
| 5:34
| Song: Stray Cat Strangle, Steve Dahl |
| 5:37
| There ya go, that's the Stray Cat Strangle. Steve's not sure when it's from though. Buzz doesn't think he's ever heard it. |
| 5:38
| Steve doesn't mind the sun coming up this early. It makes it seem like less of a sacrifice to get up at 3:45 |
| 5:39
| Steve was thinking about that when he stopped at the Dunkin' Donuts to get an apple fritter. Steve gets the feeling that his girl at Dunkin' Donuts wishes they were from the same country and in an arranged marriage. |
| 5:40
| Steve felt good with the sun coming up when he walked into the Dunkin' Donuts. He felt like a hard working laborer, even though he doesn't work that hard. He felt like a construction worker or a contractor. |
| 5:41
| We didn't really generate any calls on the topic of the sunrise. The only call Steve remembers being screened out there was about Steve's presence at Jack-sponsored concerts, where they hand out the empty beer cups. |
| 5:42
| Why would Steve go to a concert and hand out empty beer cups while standing next to the inflatable Jack. Maybe they were wondering why Big Steve wasn't there. Who is there then? |
| 5:43
| Steve calls down to Adam's office. He's got two phones down there because he's super important. The other one is actually the contest line but Steve thought it wasn't plugged in. |
| 5:44
| When Jack goes to a concert, what do they do? Usually they just hand things out and the Jack inflatable is there with the Jack Hummers. Nothing says "Let's leave a big carbon footprint" like a couple of Hummers. Why not at least fake it and get a few hybrids. |
| 5:45
| They probably got the Hummers when it was still cool to have them. Now they can't get rid of them because they get 6 miles to the gallon. Jack can have the Big Steve inflatable if they want to use it. Why didn't they think of that before though? |
| 5:46
| Adam thinks that maybe they didn't think of it because they were too busy handing out beer cups. Is Adam turning on Jill now? He doesn't need her as a mentor any more. |
| 5:47
| Adam heard that Jack has to give one of their Hummers to B96. They should give both of them away. It's called The B, not B96. Todd just got some research back on The B but Steve doesn't really care about it. Isn't he supposed to beat B96? |
| 5:48
| They're getting new vehicles but one of the Hummers goes to B96. They're trying to figure out where they're going to put all their stuff in the new car. By stuff does he mean the empty beer cups? Who even saves those souvenir cups? |
| 5:49
| Steve understands that Pete collects the souvenir cups, is that right? Pete wouldn't say he collects them. It's a sad day when Adam plays along better than Pete does. |
| 5:50
| Now that Pete thinks about it, he does have some of those cups but not Jack ones. He does have a few "commemorative" cups from various ballparks he went to. He does have some Jack t-shirts that he got from Steve the engineer. |
| 5:51
| Steve the engineer gave Steve a Jack t-shirt but it was a 4X. Steve wears 2X. He wouldn't wear a Jack t-shirt when he went out or even at the gym. He doesn't even have this Jack bag from the Christmas party. |
| 5:52
| Buzz still has that bag, he uses it at the gym. It's a little long for the locker though. Pete's wondering if that's the CBS Radio bag or the one that says Jack FM? So what have we learned here? Nothing right? |
| 5:53
| Apparently they're upping the ante with the Jack cups because they put coupons in for free White Castle. But they hand those out at Cubs games. Who's going to bring an empty cup into a Cubs game? Do they even let you do that? |
| 5:54
| Plus how much is a White Castle burger? Buzz has seen them at Walgreens, he's not sure if they're frozen though. Steve's guessing they leave that place frozen and not at room temperature. Although they have plenty of drugs at Walgreens to combat whatever a room temperature burger might give you. |
| 5:55
| The box has instructions for preparing the burger frozen or not frozen. They aren't cooking the burgers at Walgreens though. Buzz saw them in the refrigerator case but it wasn't frozen. |
| 5:56
| It seems like they should be frozen in the interest of safety. Buzz was surprised to find them there but Walgreens is a dreamy place. They have drugs and snacks, it doesn't get better than that. |
| 6:01
| Steve wasn't trying to give Buzz a hard time about the White Castle burgers. Was there only one box in the refrigerator case? It has the feeling of someone taking it from the freezer then putting it back in the fridge because they didn't want them. |
| 6:02
| Buzz doesn't remember, he was just dumbfounded that they were there. They do look nice, they come in a brick like a kilo. Should Steve get some and they have enjoy them in the office? |
| 6:03
| Alright so Adam doesn't know about the vehicles, Buzz's gym bag says CBS Radio and Jack FM. There's a photo on Dahl.com. If you type in "Jack bag" it's the second photo. That doesn't sound like something we should even say. |
| 6:04
| We've also determined that Pete has a collection of souvenir cups from various ballparks. Pete's just fronting now because instead of watching one of the greatest comebacks in Cubs history on Friday he was at the Sex and the City movie with Stephanie. |
| 6:05
| It's nice that he went to see that with her though. Did he yawn and then put his arm around her? Pete had to hetero up. |
| 6:06
| Steve calls down to the news room. Jim has a nice collection of 4 Jack glasses, for the guests. It's funny to think of Jim serving people drinks in a nice frosty Jack glass. Nothing frosts up like plastic. |
| 6:08
| Jim also has a set of 4 Carolina Mudcats glasses but the lettering is coming off of those. Steve would be glad to stay in Gary and get some Railcats souvenir cups the next time he goes to New Buffalo. Jim looks forward to that, as does Jim. |
| 6:09
| So Pete saw Sex and the City over the weekend and it was pretty good. Steve will wait until it's out on video, he doesn't want to cry in public. They made a big deal about how it made more money than Indiana Jones, but that's already been out for 11 days. |
| 6:10
| Steve watched the show though, his favorite part was when that Samantha woman got naked and had sex. There isn't any of that in the movie though but she does have a promiscuous nudity. |
| 6:11
| There was also some male nudity, like in Forgetting Sarah Marshall. Steve really wishes they hadn't done that in that movie. It's a comedy, he doesn't need to see that guy's hog. |
| 6:12
| Jason Segel was on Ellen talking about how his girlfriend broke up with him while he was nude. That's fine but did they have to actually show it? You would have the same effect if you just showed him holding a towel up. |
| 6:13
| Alright time for our continuing, gavel-to-gavel coverage of the R. Kelly trial. We're in week three of the trial and day 7 of testimony. We're finally supposed to hear testimony about the three-way, finally. Although they've been promising it for a week. |
| 6:14
| Brendan's looking forward to it because the last couple of days has been video experts, it's like Revenge of the Nerds in there. Steve also heard that a mole did show up in one of the stills from the video. |
| 6:15
| The guy who the defense flew up from Atlanta wouldn't give his Social Security number which the judge wasn't happy about. Steve also learned that the Phillies hat he wears is actually code for marijuana. It's Philly Blunt. |
| 6:16
| The defense argued that the guy had the right to not give his Social Security but the judge said they'd have a real problem if he didn't. More and more Steve is liking this judge. |
| 6:17
| The guy from Atlanta is the father of the threesome woman's baby. Her current boyfriend will testify that she's funny and opinionated. Steve would have a hard time dating a woman who was with R. Kelly. |
| 6:23
| Alright time for the web poll, not brought to you by anyone today. We do have an opening so call the sales department if you're interested. |
| 6:24
| Steve does have something he needs to take up with the sales department, although it's not really their fault. Back when Steve was on WCKG, before we ran it into the ground, he had a meeting with the guy from LA Tan. |
| 6:25
| The LA Tan guy likes to advertise to younger listeners and he though Steve's listeners were older. That's not necessarily true, our listeners are multigenerational. We raise listeners like Bill Kurtis raises grass fed beef. We rarely eat our listeners though. |
| 6:26
| On the way in today Steve heard an ad for LA Tan on WBBM-AM. Now that is very old. What is tanning going to do, cover up the age spots? So Steve has to talk to our sales manager Ryan Lieberman, or Powder because he's so pale. Hopefully he didn't turn LA Tan down because he's afraid of the sun. He's like the Visible Man, you can see his aorta. |
| 6:27
| You know who should be the spokesman, Drew Peterson. He bought all those tanning minutes but now he's no longer seeing that girl. You'd think it would be awkward to go back to the tanning salon where the girl works but not for Drew. |
| 6:28
| Over the weekend state police seized the bath tub where Kathleen Savio was found dead. When Buzz read the article they said they took "fixtures" but he didn't know that could mean the entire tub. |
| 6:29
| Buzz doesn't think it's that big of a deal that they took the bath tub. They're probably just trying to scare Drew. |
| 6:30
| The tub was removed with the cooperation of the family currently living in that house. You'd hope so, you can't just go in and take someone's tub without some cooperation. They were probably glad to get rid of it after learning what happened there. |
| 6:31
| Buzz doesn't see a bath tub being that big a deal. It's probably been cleaned right? The family was compensated for the tub. Maybe they upgraded to a jacuzzi tub. |
| 6:32
| sometimes Drew would be in the tub with Kathleen and he'd cut one and say "He, we got a jacuzzi!" Kathleen didn't find that funny. She didn't have the same sense of humor that Stacy does. Stacy likes all those jokes like Dutch ovens. |
| 6:33
| Kathleen's death was initially ruled an accident. But after a second autopsy it's been ruled a homicide. |
| 6:34
| Alright on to the web poll. Friday's question was "Do you use the web to heal your broken heart?" 57% of the people said yes. Steve's not sure if they're using it for dating or advice though. |
| 6:35
| Today's web poll question is "Do you dress like a North Shore man?" This is from the pages of North Shore magazine, which Steve's not allowed to get. When Steve and Janet first moved here they were looking for houses in the North Shore and they were told by the realtor that the area wasn't for "People like them" |
| 6:36
| When he moved to the town he currently lives in now a guy wrote a column in the local paper about how Steve doesn't belong there either. And yet because he's white no one cares. |
| 6:37
| The North Shore man is not into guyliner, doesn't believe in fauxhawks and would rather wear a garbage bag than put on skinny jeans. Lance Lawson and Jim Wetzel are the brains behind Jake Outposts. |
| 6:38
| Buzz is wondering what the boundaries of the North Shore are. He's definitely not in it, it's anything north of Evanston. Some people in Evanston think they're North Shore but it's still too urban there. Your percentage of ethnics has population has to be down in the single digits percentages before Steve considers you North Shore. Buzz feels better about that but he's not sure why. |
| 6:39
| The realtor really said that the North Shore wasn't the place for people like Steve. What people is she talking about? Who else is like Steve? He'd been on the air for a while but not that long, maybe he looked like he didn't have the money to buy the house. Maybe she was talking about radio people, it seems to be a class. |
| 6:40
| Does Buzz want to hear about any of this? It all seems gay to Steve. Apparently the North Shore man is gay. How about a blue button down with subtle orange contrast stitching? That rocks! Bro! |
| 6:41
| North Shore customers are embracing the designer jean trend which is also gay. Men realize that paying for more expensive jeans with a better fit are worth the price. |
| 6:42
| These are Mark Shale clothes and Steve likes those guys but he's not paying $172 for jeans. So far Steve is describing what Todd Cavanah will be wearing today. He's putting it all on in his cedar-lined closet right now. |
| 6:43
| Do guys want to know that they're ratcheting up the chic-factor? Of course Steve is the guy who just decided to wear a belt because his pants were falling down. You can't see it because he doesn't tuck in his shirt. |
| 6:44
| Steve did just invest in some new Polo pants and shirts though. Up until now Steve's been running some pretty cheap pants through his life, around $17 a pair. He couldn't figure out why they kept ripping. |
| 6:45
| Steve sees that they want you to wear Cole Hahn sunglasses. Steve has a Cole Hahn belt. Who's North Shore?! |
| 6:46
| Steve can't read about this any more. They have a pair of red pants that are $600. That's a great investment if Steve wants to be a clown at kid's birthday parties. |
| 6:52
| Alright we've got news coming up although Steve would like to wait until 7 to start it. Brendan's on the line and that sort of counts as news. |
| 6:53
| Brendan's over at the court house and Matt Dahl was bitching about that in the hot tub over the weekend. It was more directed at Steve for stealing his partner. Steve told him to be more resourceful. |
| 6:54
| Steve told Matt to do the webcast later, after he leaves the court house. Matt said Brendan wouldn't want to because he'd be too tired. Brendan says he'd do it though. |
| 6:55
| Steve is buying Matt some equipment for Brendan to call in on, it'll make it sound better. So that will buy him a few weeks. Sometimes Matt reminds Steve of a young, pain-in-the-ass version of himself. Ultimately that pays off though. |
| 6:56
| Matt and Brendan were doing their show at noon but they've had to do it later because of the trial. Matt is also a person who looks for any excuse to get out of doing something, which Steve gave him a lecture on. Matt quit his movie theater job the day before Memorial Day, and the summer blockbuster season, began. |
| 6:57
| Brendan expects that the trial will really start moving now, this is the first full week of testimony. There's probably not much right? Brendan should keep doing the show though. |
| 6:58
| Matt also complained that he didn't know when Brendan's lunch break was. Sometimes he'd be out when Brendan was on lunch. So stay home then! Steve has a broadband computer card, he also offered that to Matt so he could actually go down to the court house and broadcast. |
| 6:59
| But then Steve doesn't hear from Matt for 2 days. He'll probably save up another week's worth of bitching for Steve. Matt doesn't need a press pass to broadcast from down there and there aren't many other radio stations down there. |
| 7:00
| Steve keeps reading about how podcasting is the future of radio and he has all of these ideas for Matt. Matt has ideas too but he also wakes up at noon everyday. It's hard to get something done if you wake up at noon unless you're in a band. |
| 7:01
| Has Brendan had breakfast yet? Steve made the mistake of getting an apple fritter this morning but now he's starving. He's so hungry he's going to eat his leg. We'll be covering that of course. |
| 7:02
| Brendan's going for a bacon, egg and cheese sandwich, Steve could really go for one of those. How good is bacon? On Saturday Mike Dahl came out to have his car serviced. |
| 7:03
| The phone was ringing all morning which made Janet think someone had died. It was just Mike and to him having his car serviced is the same as someone dying. Steve was in a rare convivial mood and asked Mike and his girlfriend if they wanted to go get lunch. |
| 7:04
| Of course they'd already had breakfast so they went to a local bar where Steve used to drink. He ordered a bacon Swiss burger but there as no bacon on it. Steve had to get out of there anyway because the guys in the bar were saying weird things. |
| 7:05
| Steve walked in and the guy just told him to sit wherever, then he went back to talking to the guys in there. They were saying stuff like "The only thing I hate more than Polacks are Serbians" Steve had no idea if they were being serious but he had to get out of there. Plus there was no bacon on his burger! |
| 7:06
| So much for that bonding moment. He couldn't sit there eating a semi-satisfying burger and then they start talking about Polish people and Serbians. It's not like there's some war between Poland and Serbia so Steve had no idea what they were talking about. |
| 7:07
| News with Buzz |
| 7:08
| Senator Ted Kennedy will undergo surgery at Duke University today to remove a brain tumor found last month. It was initially said to be inoperable. |
| 7:09
| Meanwhile, Rev. Michael Pfleger says the last few days have been the most painful of his life. He told parishioners at St. Sabina yesterday that he was sorry for mocking Hillary Clinton in a sermon last week. |
| 7:10
| He has been getting some pretty threatening hate mail, over 3,000 pieces. Steve gets that much, you don't hear him complaining about it. Steve thought Pfleger's impersonation of Hillary was right on anyway. |
| 7:11
| Steve still thinks it's a set-up, this works for Obama. Buzz isn't so sure but he knows it fits into Steve's geopolitical theocratic conspiracy theories. It puts all the heat on a white guy and allows Obama to leave that church. Steve likes what he called Steve's theory though. |
| 7:12
| Hillary Clinton won Puerto Rico and it only strengthened her convictions that she can win the nomination. Buzz thinks Steve hates HIllary but he doesn't. He's just fascinated by |
| 7:13
| The DNC decided to seat delegates in Michigan and Florida but each vote would only be worth half. Obama and Clinton both agreed they wouldn't recognize those votes. Apparently that doesn't count though. |
| 7:14
| French fashion designer Yves Saint-Laurant is dead. Steve thought it was a girl but it's a guy. He's an influential designer who's clothing ranges from pantsuits, like the one Steve is wearing, to see-through blouses like Buzz has on. |
| 7:15
| City investigators are looking into the cause of a crane collapse in New York last week. They believe that a weld broke on the turntable of the crane. The same thing happened on Deadliest Catch. Steve can't say which episode it was because he watched an entire season in marathon form over the weekend. |
| 7:16
| It's the most dangerous job in the world but probably because there are only 15 boats out there. It made Steve want to go to Joe's and get some crab though. It would be hard for Steve to be a crab fisherman and not eat crab every night. |
| 7:17
| Why did Steve say that thing about the crabs? It was the weld that broke, which happened on Deadliest Catch. The ophelia crab season begins tomorrow night, those are the ones they do in the winter. Buzz knows Ophelia, the David Bromberg song. Steve can't believe Buzz just laid a David Bromberg on him. Of course he's the guy who wrote Mr. Bojangles. Steve's pretty sure he did. Maybe he didn't. Steve can't believe this is happening. |
| 7:18
| The space shuttle docked with the ISS this morning and NASA sent them a nice wake-up call. What happened to the music on these wake-up calls? It used to be good stuff. |
| 7:19
| NASA also released new photos from the Phoenix Mars lander. Has Buzz seen any of those? They're awesome. |
| 7:20
| Tatum O'Neal was arrested in New York last night for allegedly attempting to buy crack and cocaine. She asked police if they knew who she was and then begged them to just forget about it. |
| 7:21
| There was a massive fire at Universal Studios yesterday but it didn't stop the MTV Movie Awards from airing. Transformers won best picture, Ellen Page best actress and Johnny Depp won best actor and best villain. |
| 7:22 | Steve tried to watch the MTV Movie Awards but his brain started coming out of his ears. He did see Rainn Wilson which was pretty funny. He was with Megan Fox, from Transformers, she didn't really go along with the joke very well though. |
| 7:23
| They gave away the award for Best Screen Kiss but as soon as the girl who won started talking Steve had to turn it off. |
| 7:27
| Steve can identify one guy in that drops as Seth Rogen but who's the other guy? It's James Franco who's most well known for playing James Dean in a biopic. He'll have to be more specific. He was also in Freaks & Geeks. Can Pete be more current? |
| 7:28
| Was he in 40 Year Old Virgin or Knocked Up? He's going to be in the Pineapple Express which they were promoting. MTV is already catching flak for their presentation because they were pretending to smoke week. How can they be catching flak, it happened 8 hours ago! |
| 7:29
| Has MTV ever watched their own network? All of the songs on there are about smoking weed! |
| 7:30
| Caller Tony points out that most crab fishermen probably don't eat crab because it's like eating your own paycheck. It's probably hard to keep the butter fresh too. |
| 7:31
| It seemed like they were mostly eating Spam so it wouldn't be the seafood bonanza Steve signed on for. |
| 7:32
| Tony also wanted to let Steve know that James Franco was in all three Spider-Man movies. That doesn't help unless he was Spider-Man or the girl. |
| 7:33
| Today could be the day that jurors in the R. Kelly trial finally hear testimony from a woman who claims she had sex with R and the victim at the same time. |
| 7:34
| And of course we'll have continuing coverage of the trial with our court reporter/only guy who thinks he's not guilty, Brendan. |
| 7:35
| A man lost control of his motorcycle on Lake Shore Drive last night and was killed. And now we'll see nothing but wall-to-wall coverage of motorcycle crashes after this. |
| 7:36
| Earlier in the newscast Buzz mentioned David Bromberg. Steve thought he wrote Mr. Bojangles but that was Jerry Jeff Walker. David Bromberg is a folk guy and Buzz says he lives here. |
| 7:37
| Steve doesn't dispute that but this is where a Ron Lewis comes in handy. He's currently not available though. Bromberg does a song called Ophelia and the ophelia crab season starts tonight on...Steve can't remember the name of the show now. How can he forget that? It's World's Deadliest Catch. It seems stupid that Steve can't remember that. |
| 7:38
| Alright Ron Lewis is on the phone. Jerry Jeff Walker wrote Mr. Bojangles but David Bromberg's version is the most famous. That just shows how out of it Ron is. What about Nitty-Gritty Dirt Band? What about Sammy Davis Jr? |
| 7:39
| Has Ron ever had him over for a concert? He actually lives in Delaware now. That's the crazy Steve was looking for. Ron knows he lives in Delaware and thinks his version of Mr. Bojangles is the most well-know. Maybe in Evanston! |
| 7:40
| Steve has the David Bromberg song but he can't listen to the whole thing. He needs to fast-forward to the part where Bromberg talks about the meaning behind the song. |
| 7:41
| It's a pretty interesting story although that's not the most popular version of the song. Steve worked at a station that used to play it though. |
| 7:48
| That's full metal crazy acoustic Ron Lewis right there. He might not even know what he's talking about. It's from his Sunday morning folk show on WNUR. |
| 7:49
| Steve knows that college kids like to sleep in on Sundays but it doesn't seem like a grown man should have a show on Northwestern's radio station. |
| 7:50
| Live read: Townstone Financial |
| 7:51
| Mary got an email from her dad, who listens to the show and watches TV. We don't if people multitask. It starts off "Hi Angel" which Steve assumes is directed at Mary. He can call Steve Angel though. |
| 7:52
| Her dad was watching Fox and Mancow was on. He was ranting about how Obama is a closet Muslim and there's a video coming out with Michelle Obama going on a racist tirade. |
| 7:53
| Mancow then said that he arranged, through Cardinal Bernadin, to meet with the Pope. Steve would love to hear that if Pete can find it. |
| 7:54
| Pete actually has it handy. Is it long enough for Steve to pop open a Red Bull? You can tell in their voices that they don't want to talk to Mancow but they have to. |
| 7:55
| Can Pete burn this on to CD? Steve's going to need pinpoint accuracy. They pronounced his name wrong, that's a good start. They also called him "nationally syndicated" He is on all over the country but it's not the standard 80% that advertisers require. Louisville, Kentucky and Chico, California don't count. |
| 7:56
| Well Steve's looking forward to that but it'll probably take a few minutes. It's probably ont a short segment, Mancow is a talker. |
| 7:57
| Let's go live now to Brendan Greeley at 26th and California. We're supposed to hear testimony from the Atlanta woman. The defense is going to claim she was in it for the money. |
| 7:58
| It's too bad they won't be showing video on that but Brendan should take very detailed notes of her testimony. Then he should call Steve on his way home and talk dirty to him in that deep voice. |
| 7:59
| Brendan's on standby for today so hopefully he can get in there and get a good seat. R. Kelly has been walking right by him everyday. Brendan's a fan but he's not letting that get in the way. |
| 8:00
| Brendan likes being in there to see the softer side of R. Kelly. He also gets to see Ed Genson come into the courtroom on his scooter, do a lap and then come back in. He's not sure why he does that though. |
| 8:01
| But R did get up and get Genson's cane for him last week, it was the softer side. The jury was not present for that so it's not courtroom theatrics. |
| 8:02
| Alright, it's time now for the Eight O'Clock Taco Bell. It's Manager Monday and on the phone is Demaris, manager of the Taco Bell in St. Charles. St. Charles is about 3 mood swings from downtown for Steve so the Taco Bell would be a good place to fortify himself if he's ever out there. |
| 8:03
| They've got the Why Pay More menu at Taco Bell now. It's more than just a dollar menu, it's 79¢, 89¢ and 99¢. You can get a lot of food off that menu. |
| 8:04
| Demaris will be getting an autographed photo of Steve. During this next break a photo will be brought in and signed and then it'll be sent to Demaris. She'll probably throw it in the garbage. |
| 8:05
| Demaris seems like she really enjoys managing Taco Bell and giving people a good value. |
| 8:06
| How's it coming on that CD Pete? This is like the longest CD burning ever. We should probably take a break before playing it. People will stay tuned in. |
| 8:07
| Mancow has some sort of deal with Fox so he's always on. They probably view him as a Howard Beale-type, the Mad Prophet of the airwaves. Of course he's not on the air in Chicago which is why he's available. |
| 8:15
| Alright it's time now for the Mancow CD. They're off to a bad start when they mispronounce his last name. Steve would correct them right away. He corrected them but it wasn't assertive. |
| 8:16
| Mancow starts off saying he makes an hour trek to a church in Indiana every week. Steve doesn't even know where to start with this. |
| 8:17
| Mancow says that Christianity doesn't preach hate and that he studied to be a minister. What does that even mean? Is Mancow's church any more mainstream? The only different is that Obama's church is primarily black. |
| 8:18
| According to Mancow, Cardinal Bernadin has come out against Father Pfleger. Bernadin is dead although if he were alive he'd probably be against it. |
| 8:19
| The Fox people want to know the vibe from Mancow's listeners. They don't even know he's not on here. They don't know that Cardinal Bernadin is dead either. |
| 8:20
| Do they want to know the vibe in Chico, California? Is it possible they don't know he's on in Chicago? |
| 8:21
| Mancow claims that on the very set he's on right now at Fox an Obama supporter said that he hopes someone shoots and kills him. Maybe someone just hates Mancow? |
| 8:22
| According to Mancow's sources Hillary is still in the race because there's a tape of Michelle Obama going on a racist rant. Steve can't follow any of this. Then he's mixed in a death threat. That's probably just someone who hates Mancow. |
| 8:23
| Then Mike Barnes asks him how this plays out. Why do they even ask him anything? Sure Mike left a cake national gig to come back here and fail but he' still smarter than Mancow. |
| 8:24
| Mancow says he's talking to cab drivers in Chicago and they think Obama is a Muslim. He also will be meeting with the Pope because Cardinal Bernadin set it up. |
| 8:25
| The Pope has the power to raise Bernadin from the dead so it's entirely possible he's telling the truth. |
| 8:26
| Mancow's going to meet with the Pope and then he'll report back to the Fox people. What kind of reaction is he getting? Pete says they look scared. Up to that point you can just go along but then it goes to full tilt crazy. Pete says it gets better. |
| 8:27
| Mike Barnes at least asks Mancow how people can hear his show. It's online and on 45 stations, it's the fastest growing show in America. |
| 8:28
| Jan Jeffcoat is more interested in the Pope meeting. Mancow worked that out locally, with Cardinal Bernadin. He's also been invited by the Israeli government to spend 10 days there. We're not done yet though. |
| 8:29
| Mancow says that Obama's church supports Farakhan because he helps the poor. That's like saying Hitler's OK because he gave us the Volkswagen. He will be in Israel in November, if it's still there. He's not sure what the Iranians will do. |
| 8:30
| Jan and Mike know he's crazy right? There's going to be a post show meeting after all this. How does that happen? Who books something like that? That's what Jan and Mike will say, at 9, in an office right across the street. |
| 8:31
| Alright it's Peanut Butter Jelly Time with Pat Boyle. That's a tough act for him to follow but he does have a Mancow story. |
| 8:32
| Back in '97 Pat was between jobs. At the time he had the same agent as Mancow. He suggested that Pat go on Mancow's show and do sports. Sounds like a match made in heaven. |
| 8:33
| Pat didn't know much about him so he listened for a few days. He didn't think he could go on with him because it would be career suicide. But he was 27 and needed a job. |
| 8:34
| Pat decided he couldn't use his real name if he ever wanted to work in Chicago again. So he goes to Shadow Traffic where all of his minions are working as well. Is that because Shadow pays all of them? |
| 8:35
| Pat lasted two very long days with Mancow, it was not a high point in his career. He needed a job but not that bad. |
| 8:36
| Alright so what's going on. Let's start with Ozzie, he's fed up with the offense and any fan should be. In the last 3 games of the Tampa series they scored a total of 4 runs. |
| 8:37
| The defining moment was yesterday in the 5th inning. There were 2 on and no outs and Konerko, Dye and Thome all popped out. After the game Ozzie went off and he's expecting some changes. If Kenny doesn't do anything he's going to make a lot of changes to the line-up. |
| 8:38
| Ozzie's saying you can blame him or Greg Walker for what's going on. What does he went Kenny to do? He could bring Josh Fields up. Pat didn't know why Carlos Quentin was sitting yesterday when the Sox have an off day today. He's the only guy in the line-up who's hitting. |
| 8:39
| Steve didn't watch Saturday or Sundays games. He saw the end of Friday and that was enough for him. You could tell it was going nowhere. He did watch a little on Saturday because he couldn't believe the place was full because of a concert. |
| 8:40
| And the first hour of that game wasn't on TV because of the 5:10 start time and the Fox/MLB blackout. It's the best story in baseball and Tampa won't move the start time because of a concert. |
| 8:41
| Today Kenny Williams said that it's not a good idea for Ozzie to throw him under the bus because he's always had his back. And Ozzie has protected a lot of his guys, almost to a fault. |
| 8:42
| 23 of the next 32 Sox games are at home so we'll see what happens then. Overall they're still doing pretty well but that was depressing this weekend. The best Steve can look for as a Sox fan is for the Cubs to start losing. |
| 8:43
| The Cubs are ridiculous, they win every game. They were down by a thousand and the came back. This last week was the first 7-0 homestand for the Cubs since 1970. |
| 8:44
| Steve is not going to the game tonight. It's so hard to know which games are going to be the best to go to. You never know when some of these teams come out of nowhere. |
| 8:45
| Steve sold the Rays tickets but now it turns out that those are the games you want to see. Steve doesn't have a crystal ball though and he can't go to 81 games. That's too much food. |
| 8:46
| Steve doesn't know what the Sox can do at this point, short of bringing up Josh Fields. On the Northside the Cubs have benefited from bringing up guys from the minors. |
| 8:47
| Maybe it's time to send a few guys down to Charlotte. It's very beautiful this time of year, Konerko will love it. And Nick Swisher needs to get his bat off his shoulder and lose all the facial hair. |
| 8:48
| On the other hand the Cubs are...Steve doesn't even know. This is the first time since 1908 that they've had the best record to start June. That seems like something of an omen. Soriano got it down yesterday and Edmonds had a couple RBIs. |
| 8:49
| Lou Piniella doesn't even remember what happens during the game. But if he doesn't talk about the good things then he doesn't talk about the bad things either, the guy's the greatest. |
| 8:50
| The most memorable win of the season happened on Friday while Pete was enjoying the Sex and the City movie. Pat was there, at the game, not seeing Sex and the City. |
| 8:51
| Pete's just following in Steve's footprints, missing memorable Cubs games. Don't lay this on Steve. He didn't miss those games last year because he was watching some girl movie. Pete thinks maybe Steve was renting The Notebook during one of those games. |
| 8:52
| Bobby Hull was in the booth on Friday when Mark DeRosa hit the game winning home run. Apparently he's a Cubs fan? That's cute. He doesn't still live here does he? |
| 8:53
| Buzz is wondering about Mark Prior's surgery. Is he just trying to get Pat started? Once again Mark Prior's season is over before it even began. How does he keep getting work? He probably needs money for the surgery though. |
| 8:54
| Everyone from the show went out to see Mary's Second City show on Friday and then to dinner. Their table wasn't ready at Toppo Giggio so they went to O'Brien's to have a drink. |
| 8:55
| They had the Sox game on and they kept showing Hawk and then a guy in the crowd proposing. It was actually Hawk's son, proposing to his girlfriend. Apparently Hawk got a little choked up. |
| 8:56
| Hawk's son told him when he was going to propose so that they'd know to get it on TV. |
| 8:57
| They kept showing Hawk's son and his girlfriend making out. There was some considerable boobage on the girl too. Mercy! Hawk did get choked up. There's a game going on! |
| 8:58
| Hawk did go on to talk about Yaz after that. Did Yaz's son also propose in a similar way? Get a hold of yourself Hawk! That was embarrassing. That's the kind of thing your wife tells you and you only half-listen to. Hawk went wife on us! No wonder that team can't hit, they're a bunch of nancies! |
| 9:05
| That was Bobby Hull, Tony Esposito and Stan Mikita singing the 7th Inning Stretch on Friday. It was a little misguided. |
| 9:06
| Steve didn't see Hawk's son propose to his girlfriend but he heard from one of his son's that she was wearing a top that looked hot so Steve assumes it was inappropriate. |
| 9:07
| Ron Zook did the 7th Inning Stretch yesterday and Steve heard it was bad. Pete didn't think so but he'll grab the tape. |
| 9:08
| Live read: Rick Levin & Associates |
| 9:09
| Pete needs two minutes for that Ron Zook audio. 2 minutes?! It sounded like he had it at his fingertips. We'll need to hear it though, Steve was told it was bad. Steve's pretty sure that's from a musical standpoint, not a hating the Illini standpoint. Mary has no ax to grind with them. |
| 9:10
| Steve's looking at CNN right now where Sanjay Gupta was just holding a plastic brain and demonstrating how he'd perform the surgery on Ted Kennedy. |
| 9:11
| Pete is almost there, 1 out in the 7th. Steve thought Pete cataloged all of these and made mixtapes of them. Everyone says Zook is a great recruiter but not a good game coach. |
| 9:12
| That sounded bad. Zook was a few octaves too high. But Pete didn't see anything wrong with that? He probably went to go see Sex and the City again and missed it. |
| 9:13
| Being at Sex and the City was like being in an Oprah audience. It's probably a good place to meet the ladies. Steve and Buzz are actually taking in a matinee today. Buzz would be afraid that the movie would put the women in bad a mindset though. Steve's pretty sure it doesn't have a bad outcome, it's not like a slasher film. |
| 9:14
| Alright let's go to our courtroom reporter, Brendan Greeley. The threesome witness did arrive at court today but Brendan only saw her from behind. |
| 9:15
| He was distracted by her fiance who escorted her into court wearing a green suit. It was flashy, like the kind a player would wear to the NBA draft. |
| 9:16
| This is where Brendan could really use some markers or colored pencils. Brendan's sketches of R. Kelly are no worse than the Tribune person. Steve didn't mean it that way and he realizes that Buzz has a collection of Greeley's in his possession. |
| 9:17
| Brendan is really stepping up with this trial coverage. It's very big for him, he's got two outlets on his podcast and on this show, plus R. Kelly is one of his favorite artists. |
| 9:18
| Buzz is worried that Brendan will leave us. Steve wouldn't hold him back if something better came along. He'd either offer him more or let him go. Steve doesn't hold people back, despite what Buzz has heard. |
| 9:19
| Chances are Brendan will get tired of being out there and want to come back here and sit out there answering phones. |
| 9:20
| Steve was on a walk yesterday and came across some little girls running a lemonade stand. He chronicled all of that in his blog today. |
| 9:21
| Steve also ran into the guy who comes around their neighborhood sharpening knives. This might actually be the guy's son and he comes around every few years. Steve took a photo of him but then realized he should also take a photo of the lemonade stand. |
| 9:22
| But then Steve thought it was weird for him to whip out his iPhone and take a picture of some little girls at a lemonade stand. |
| 9:23
| Steve was very tortured over what he should do but by the time he got back there the stand was dismantled. |
| 9:24
| Steve also came across some little kids throwing rocks into a storm drain. Their mom was embarrassed and asked if Steve wanted to throw some rocks. He didn't want to but he wouldn't mind doing it today. |
| 9:25
| Then he went home and made some pork chops. Just when you think the day can't get any better, you get pork chops. And they're the good old school pork chops with all the fat on them. |
| 9:31
| Live read: McCracken Financial Solutions |
| 9:32
| Caller Mitch has a pork chop tip, but Steve already used it. He got his pork chops from the French market in town. Mitch has the booth right next to the guy Steve got his chops from. Mitch sells Italian ice. |
| 9:33
| Steve might have to stop by then. Mitch has grilled up some pork chops in his stand on the griddle he uses for crepes. |
| 9:34
| Mitch recommends the mango ice but Steve prefers lemonade. That's your base flavor, off of which all other flavors come from. He does like mango though. |
| 9:35
| News with Buzz |
| 9:36
| Ted Kennedy is currently undergoing surgery at Duke University. And the surgery is being performed by the lacrosse team. |
| 9:37
| Senator Hillary Clinton won Sunday's Puerto Rico primary and she feels it bolsters her claim to the superdelegates that she should be the nominee. |
| 9:38
| Despite Obama's sizable lead in delegates he has nothing but good things to say about the Clintons. Hillary does lead the popular vote if you count Michigan and Florida. |
| 9:39
| Once again, Steve doesn't hate Hillary but her and Obama agreed not to seat those delegates. When she talks about the popular vote does she put an asterisk next to it? |
| 9:40
| Rev. Michael Pfleger has apologized for mocking Hillary Clinton in a sermon last week. He says he's received more than 3,000 hate emails, some of which are very extreme. |
| 9:41
| President Bush posthumously honored a soldier with the Medal of Honor. He recounted the story of how the soldier died throwing himself on a grenade to protect his fellow soldiers. |
| 9:42
| That seems like the right thing to do. Steve's biggest decision today was whether or not to get an apple fritter. That's not meritorious at all. |
| 9:43
| Tatum O'Neal was arrested last night for allegedly trying to buy cocaine and crack. Do you need both of those? Isn't one just a form of the other? |
| 9:44
| Britain's Prince William could chase drug runners at sea or aid in humanitarian efforts during his 2 month stint with the Navy. |
| 9:45
| Joel Brodsky says his client Drew Peterson has received dozens, if not more, death threats. That pales in comparison to Pfleger's 3,000 though. |
| 9:46
| Brodsky is only counting the very specific threats from people who say they know where he is. They threats increase whenever Drew is back on TV. |
| 9:47
| Tatum O'Neal told arresting officers that she was buying drugs to research for a new film role. It still doesn't seem like you'd need crack and cocaine though. |
| 9:54
| Tatum O'Neal was recently on Rescue Me as the wife of one of those guys. |
| 9:55
| Steve has something to correct from earlier in the show. Steve was watching Deadliest Catch over the weekend and he said the new ophelia crab season starts today. |
| 9:56
| Turns out they're not called ophelia, it's opelia. Buzz was wrong about the song name too it was Delia, not Ophelia. That's great. |
| 9:57
| And now going back to Tatum O'Neal, we have a narcotics officer on the line. The hair on the back of Steve's neck is standing up though. |
| 9:58
| Caller Eric can explain the difference between crack and cocaine. Crack can be smoked or injected and it's more prevalent in the inner cities. Cocaine can be snorted only and it's found in more upscale areas. Crack is more potent though because it's a mix of different things. |
| 9:59
| Steve knows all of that so what's the difference? Would you ever do both at the same time? If you're an addict you would. If you're doing crack it's something you have to do behind closed doors. |
| 10:00
| Steve feels bad for Tatum O'Neal. He feels bad for anyone that's addicted to something. |
