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| 5:32
| Good morning Buzz, how are you this morning? Buzz is fabulous. Steve's crabby because he didn't stop and get an apple fritter. Steve has to lose weight and he's on two diets. |
| 5:33
| Fresh Diet and Seattle Sutton are both sponsors but Steve can't decide which one to eat so he doesn't eat either of them. He's got a fridge full of diet food but yesterday on his way home he stopped for a gyro. |
| 5:34
| Steve thought he'd have his big meal at lunch but no matter when you eat a gyro something bad will happen. He had a heart attack and he's been in intensive care since yesterday! |
| 5:35
| Steve had an apple fritter, a gyro, two spoonfuls of peanut butter, a Coke and two Dilly bars yesterday and he expects to lose weight. He was going to stop at McDonalds today for an Egg McMuffin because as it turns out it's very balanced. |
| 5:36
| The McDonalds by Steve was not open though. So he needs to find a 24-hour McDonalds. There's one on King Drive and there's the Rock & Roll McDonalds but that's out of his way. Plus there's a danger of Steve going up there and getting caught up in the nightlife. |
| 5:37
| He'd run into R. Kelly, out partying and then they'd head back to the log cabin room at his house. Has Buzz seen any photos of that? It was apparently during R. Kelly's Abe Lincoln phase. |
| 5:38
| For some reason Steve can't get his browser working. He hasn't seen the entire room but it's not a square shape. Has Buzz seen the commercials for Four Winds casino? They have a log cabin motif and that's what R's room looks like. |
| 5:39
| Steve's not sure what shape the room is, it's like two slanted walls and then one back wall. Would that be a trapezoid? The room has all these different wood surfaces, maybe R. got a deal on them. |
| 5:40
| Then he's got a slate floor where he sets up with the ladies. Steve's sort of disappointed in himself for not having a log cabin room. It seems like something everyone in showbiz should have. At this point though it would probably be hard for Steve to talk the wife into getting a log cabin room, based on what happen in the one in R's house. |
| 5:41
| We now go live to Brendan at 26th and California. It's a good day, at least for him. He was in court for the threesome testimony yesterday and there are a lot of details. |
| 5:42
| First she walked into court right past Brendan but he only saw her booty. He thought she looked alright and it turns out she does, even while pregnant. And Brendan would hit that, as would Steve. It seems like you have to have a Federal gun beef or a felony extortion conviction in your past, present or future. She likes bad boys. |
| 5:43
| That was something the defense brought up in their questioning of the witness. The prosecution started with questions about how she met R. Kelly. It was during the shoot for his Home Alone video in Alpharetta, Georgia. |
| 5:44
| People keep referring to the Home Alone and Steve has no idea what that is. Does it have anything to do with the movie Home Alone. |
| 5:45
| She went to the shoot with a friend was an aspiring singer. Then someone who said he was R's cousin, Blackie, asked her if she wanted to meet "Rob" That's of course R. Kelly. |
| 5:46
| So Blackie brought her to Kelly's trailer and after talking for a few minutes they had sex. She hung out in his trailer all day while he was shooting the video. He came back later to check on her and asked her if her mom would let her come to Chicago. That's very polite. |
| 5:47
| There was a point when Van Allen was crying on the stand. Steve feels like Brendan is going to get all of this out right now, but it's only quarter to 6. Steve knows he's all jacked up from the testimony, he was probably out grinding last night. Then he called his cousin Whitey to get him some action. |
| 5:53
| That's a drop from The L-Word, Steve's always glad to know someone has his back with that show. |
| 5:54
| Steve has a photo of the log cabin room. Two walls are log cabin and then it's more cedar near the hot tub. One wall looks like polished river rock and the floor is slate. Who wouldn't give it up in that room? |
| 5:55
| Steve's interested in finding out what these people were on when they did this stuff. That kind of stuff doesn't just happen, unless it's a brave new world out there. |
| 5:56
| It's a different generation now, kids just like to hook up. They don't need to be induced to hook up which means we're winning the war on drugs. |
| 5:57
| Alright we've got Brendan back on the line. Steve's going to tell Buzz a little bit more about the log cabin room. That's where prosecutor's believe Kelly had sex with his goddaughter. |
| 5:58
| Lisa Van Allen testified that she had or attempted threesome sex with her and her goddaughter who was underage. Some called the room the hot tub room and some called it the Colorado room. |
| 5:59
| The best friend of the girl who appears in the video called it the sauna room. Is there a sauna? A sauna is not the same as a hot tub. Saunas are a dry heat. After the friend gave that testimony R whispered something to his attorney. He was probably mad that she was calling it the sauna room. If you put all that work into the room you don't want it mislabeled. |
| 6:00
| The defense argued that the girl only looks like the witness's friend and that the hot tub room only looked like one in R. Kelly's house. |
| 6:01
| It's entirely possible that this Van Allen woman and her friends staged the entire video, like the moon landing. They probably got a soundstage in Atlanta and recreated the Colorado room. It's like that OJ Simpson movie, Capricorn One. |
| 6:02
| If the moon landing was fake then why does Steve have Velcro on his shoes? And why does Steve have Velcro on his shoes, he's a grown man! |
| 6:03
| The prosecution had an expert talking about the knots on the wood in the Colorado room and he said it would be very hard to fake it. They don't seem smart enough to fake it. |
| 6:04
| The Sun-Times has a chance to tour the house when it was for sale. It seemed like a playground for adults with a basketball court, a shark tank, a lap pool and the log cabin room in the basement. It sounds just like Steve's office. |
| 6:05
| Again it's entirely possible that the whole thing was recreated on a soundstage in Atlanta. The Federal gun beef that Van Allen's fiance is facing was brought up yesterday. The defense will probably start up on that today. |
| 6:06
| Actually today is a nontrial day, Jim DeRogatis will be in court probably testifying. That's not how you want to start your day off, he must be very tight today. Everyone has been saying he'll plead the fifth. |
| 6:07
| Buzz needs to get himself a log cabin room at his place though. |
| 6:08
| Mark's asking Steve is Brendan meant that DeRogatis was going to plead the second today. The right to bear arms? Is that a joke for all the Constitutional law scholars in the audience? |
| 6:09
| Mark meant the first, freedom of the press. Then he told Steve that the fifth amendment was the right to not incriminate yourself. Steve knows that! He knew what the second was, he knows all of them. |
| 6:10
| He'll probably plead the first and then plead the fifth. That's probably how he orders value meals, a #1 and a #5. And Biggie Size it bitch! |
| 6:11
| One of the only things R. Kelly has going for him is the girl who everyone says is in the video is herself saying she's not the one in the video. She wants nothing to do with it. |
| 6:12
| Steve should probably get Brendan back on the line because he has some inside information for him. It's not explosive but it's interesting. He got an email from someone he'll call an anonymous source but also bona fide. It's not a tape or anything. |
| 6:13
| The guy is a cop. If Brendan passes this along to his friends in the press Steve wants credit or the show mentioned. According to the officer R. Kelly has camp set up in Douglas Park. |
| 6:14
| It's a very bizarre scene, they've got a brown tent, a tour bus and they're playing music R. Kelly music very loudly. Everyday he leaves that bus for the courthouse with his entourage. |
| 6:15
| Going to court is almost like shooting a video for him. And if you're doing that you need to base yourself out of a tour bus and you need your entourage. Brendan likes thinking about R. Kelly surrounded by his own music. |
| 6:16
| Douglas Park is a public park, can you just set up there like that? Maybe he has a permit or something. You can't take that tour bus to prison with you though. Brendan hopes that's a long way from happening. |
| 6:17
| Brendan might want to check the park out although he doesn't want to lose his place in court. He could probably go over there later and pretend he's playing soccer. |
| 6:24
| As Buzz knows, Oprah's been fasting. Actually he didn't know that. We've been chronicling it, remember? She was challenged to fast as part of a vegan cleanse. |
| 6:25
| Steve got caught up in some witchcraft while looking for a fasting method to lose weight. Steve did find a fast that he tried and he did lose weight. But then you put it all back on with the next two meals after the fast. |
| 6:26
| Then the guy wanted Steve to call him and talk to him about how the fast was going. Steve doesn't want to call someone and talk about his fast. |
| 6:29
| So Oprah's got this blog and she's cataloging her fast. She's only up to day 4 of week 1. She hit a wall that day and literally had to stand in her closet. She's standin' in the closet. |
| 6:30
| Steve is a fan of standing in the closet. Actually he likes to lay down in his closet with the lights off. It sounds like Oprah does too, Steve suggests they do it together some time. Steve feels that he has what Oprah needs. |
| 6:31
| Oprah had done two shows back-to-back with no break. OH MY GOD! This is where Steve steps in and tells her how he does a show everyday. |
| 6:32
| After the two shows Oprah had to take photos in the hallway with people, and their sister and the whole group and then one more and then sign stuff. She's getting crabby because she's hungry. Steve's been there. He's very close to getting himself a chorizo breakfast burrito right now. |
| 6:33
| While in the closet Steve started hitting the hall. Steve pounds on walls sometimes. He did that last night actually. Janet was outside talking to someone and the dog got out. Steve told the dog to come back in but he was ignored. |
| 6:34
| For some reason when the dogs ignore Steve it sends him into a primal rage. Janet could have stopped talking to the person and grabbed the dog, since Steve was in his underpants and couldn't go out there. |
| 6:35
| Oprah then sat down and took some conscious breaths in silence to restore her soul. Steve hates talk like that. She drank some lemon water and then had a delicious quinoa salad and pasta with soy chicken. |
| 6:36
| During week 1 on Friday Oprah arrived in Vegas. She's staying in a four-bedroom villa, high rolling it. Steve likes how she acts like she's not always high rolling. She's worth a billion dollars! |
| 6:37
| Oprah had a busy day, she was previously in Telluride interviewing Tom Cruise. His chef prepared ribs and chicken for lunch. Isn't that a bit racist? She had salad and corn with a kale salad. Tom's mom made chocolate brownies with marshmallow filling but she couldn't have any. |
| 6:38
| The suite was very fancy, it had an electronic device to flush the toilet and a bar with cosmo glasses. Her assistant is on the cleanse with her. She's not a very good assistant if she didn't phone ahead to Tom Cruise and tell him about the cleanse. It must have killed Tom Cruise's mom, she worked so hard on those brownies. |
| 6:39
| The assistant thought a cosmo would taste great so Oprah made two without alcohol. How do you even do that? It's just sparkling water and a dash of cranberry and lime. They drank them and thought about their consciousness. |
| 6:40
| After that they went to see Cher and Tina Turner rehearse. Normally Oprah would be hangin' with Tina, drinking champagne. Instead she came back and got a massage. And at the masseuse. Kathy Freston, author of the cleanse book, says it's OK to slip on this clean, you are leaning into a clean and conscious diet. |
| 6:41
| On Saturday Tal, the chef, Fed-Exed food to Vegas. They had eggless omelets and lasagna for the plane ride home. Steve's pretty sure you can get all of that in Vegas. |
| 6:42
| This is the first time Oprah has been to Vegas without having wine or champagne. The rest of the cleanse team was begging for a reprieve though, they wanted a glass of wine after rehearsal. |
| 6:43
| Oprah told them to go ahead and have some wine and not worry about it. They should lean into it. That's just what Kathy Freston said. Oprah's very good at saying everything she's told verbatim to other people. |
| 6:44
| Apparently Oprah begins her week on Sundays. She took off her pj's only once to take a bubble bath and then get a massage. That's how much people spend their Sundays. She returned to bed to read the paper and reread the final chapters of A New Earth. That sounds exactly like what Steve did last Sunday! |
| 6:45
| Buzz is wondering where Steadman is throughout all of this. Is he just lounging in the hotel room smoking a cigar? Maybe he's busy lecturing people on how to be successful. Step one, get Oprah as your girlfriend. Step two, keep her as your girlfriend. |
| 6:46
| Caller Ryan has some info about Oprah's jet. She doesn't have a Falcon, she has a Global Express, which is bigger. A Global Express can pretty much get you anywhere in the world, nonstop. |
| 6:47
| About how much would that run you because Steve and Buzz are in the market for a jet. Ryan's never bought one but they're around $50 million. Plus you have to pay for fuel. It's OK though because Oprah is saving money not buying meat. |
| 6:48
| Steve doesn't understand how someone can be tired after spending the weekend in Telluride and Vegas. Steve would never want to stop doing stuff like that. |
| 6:49
| Steve has to get himself a jet. At this point his only chance for a jet is through Oprah. He feels that if she meets him, she'll realize he's just what she needs. Oprah and Steadman are on the cover of The Enquirer, Buzz has never seen this kind of dirt. |
| 6:54
| We're trying to locate the National Enquirer. During the break Steve asked Buzz where the Enquirer was. He turned back and pointed up and towards Steve and said "I read it up there" |
| 6:55
| What is "up there"? Buzz says he saw it on a table with tabloids. Maybe it's an old issue. We're like a doctor's office, we have a lot of old magazines around here like Jack & Jill. |
| 6:56
| Live read: Townstone Financial |
| 6:57
| Alright Brendan is on the phone, he's live at Douglas Park. Earlier in the show Steve gave Brendan a tip he got from a trusted Chicago police officer. He said that R and his entourage have been setting up at Douglas Park and leaving for court from there. |
| 6:58
| It's not a court day but R. Kelly will probably be there anyway. Steve would want to be there to see Jim DeRogatis squirm, especially if he's been ripping you. |
| 6:59
| Right now he's just hanging out in the park although that probably doesn't look good. First people will think he's a cop and then when they realize he's not a cop things could go bad. Or people will think he's there to buy crack. Brendan actually grabbed a basketball out of his car so he's standing there in a suit holding it. People will probably think he's an NBA scout. |
| 7:00
| He probably doesn't want to be seen stalking R. Kelly though. Steve still thinks it's a good, otherwise this guy wouldn't have sent it to him. He is interested to see what kind of bus he's driving. |
| 7:01
| It seems like a place he'd base himself out of. He probably shows up around 9 am, maybe gets his hair braided again. Steve still thinks it's a bad look. Is it some sort of social statement about slavery or something? |
| 7:02
| The braids do not look good, it's what white girls get when they go to Jamaica. Maybe it looks OK at Sandals but not at the airport while you're waiting to claim your bags. |
| 7:03
| So Brendan's chasing down the story. Steve didn't mean to pull Brendan from his post although he doesn't have much to do right now. |
| 7:04
| Steve has an article about the Enquirer article. We can't find the actual magazine that Buzz says was "up there" Maybe someone stole out periodicals. Everyone has a key to the studio it seems. |
| 7:05
| Every program director and their assistant has a key to the studio. All the engineers have them as well as keys to Steve's office. They all have the master keys. Yesterday Steve wanted to meet with Steven Wright and he let himself into the office with his master key. At least knock when Steve is there! So Steve's going to blame him for taking the Enquirer since he has a master key. |
| 7:06
| Too many people have keys to Steve's studio but he doesn't even have one. The other day he left his building pass in the studio, which is a nightmare in itself. If you don't have your pass you can't get back up here to retrieve it. When he finally did get up there, the studio was locked. |
| 7:07
| For some reason the assistant to the Douche program director has a master key. Buzz doesn't think that guy, Dell, is an assistant. Is he another one of those guys who did one favor for Buzz once and he thinks he's the best? |
| 7:08
| No one has found the Enquirer yet. In the future Buzz should scoop up any sort of source material like that. So far Steve's favorite part has been when Buzz said he read the magazine "up there" |
| 7:09
| Steven Wright is outside the studio now. Maybe he found that issue of the Enquirer in Todd's office, which he probably has a key to. Does Steve need to hook up a car battery to his door handle? |
| 7:10
| News with Buzz |
| 7:11
| The end could be near for Hillary Clinton. Some believe she could drop as early as today. The last two primaries are today but Obama might not have the votes to fully lock up the nomination. |
| 7:12
| Campaign staffers were told they could fly to Hillary's event in New York today but they'd have to pay their own way home. Meanwhile Bill Clinton has responded to an article in Vanity Fair that called him "sleazy", "dishonest", "slimy" and a "scumbag". |
| 7:13
| Clinton denounced Todd Purdum's lengthy 9,500 word article for citing several anonymous sources and repeating old attacks. Steve saw Purdum on The Situation Room yesterday. That's just the news but it's called something different. |
| 7:14
| Purdum said that Clinton has not been the same since his heart surgery, he's been very crabby. In the past Bill would have "Summer storms" where he'd be crabby but it would blow over quickly and he'd be back to being jovial. Now he's just always crabby. |
| 7:15
| Purdum also said that according to some Clinton staffers they were going to have an intervention with Bill because he was trying to nail too many chicks on the campaign trail. He didn't have any proof though, that's just what he was told. |
| 7:16
| It has to be hard to have an intervention with Bill about that. Plus, Steve doesn't want his Bill Clinton on the campaign trail just sitting in a hotel room eating microwave popcorn. |
| 7:17
| Steve has the cover of that Enquirer Buzz was talking about. Is Steven gone now? Someone remind Steve to not mention his name on the air. He hears it and comes right to the studio, he's like a dog. |
| 7:18
| The headline says "Oprah's Outrage: Steadman's $10 million Tell-All Book" Steadman caught Oprah in bed with another woman. Shouldn't it just be a woman? It's not another woman unless Steadman is a woman. Maybe he's caught her in bed with other women? |
| 7:19
| The book also reveals fights Oprah has had with Obama's wife and the pregnancy they kept a secret. Steadman wouldn't do that for $10 million would he? |
| 7:20
| Early in the relationship Steadman was confused when he walked in on Oprah and Gayle in bed together. But we already know all this. When they get together they're like two teenagers having a sleepover. |
| 7:21
| Oprah has already said that her and Gayle are like lesbians that don't have sex. Steve gets the feeling that a lot of lesbians don't have sex. Girls don't like sex. Next time Buzz should snatch up the source material, he has Steve's permission. |
| 7:22
| Ted Kennedy's surgery to remove a tumor was successful. He woke up afterwards and said he felt like a million bucks. Steve took that to mean he didn't feel great because what's $1 million to a Kennedy? |
| 7:23
| He was also awake during the entire surgery which Steve would not want to do. They have to keep you awake though so they can ask you questions and make sure they haven't hit the wrong thing. If they asked Steve his multiplication tables he wouldn't know them anyway. |
| 7:23
| Steve's just glad that every TV stations has a brain model. Can't they just say the surgery was a success? Steve doesn't need to see how they do it., he wants more R. Kelly coverage. It all started with Sanjay Gupta on CNN, he probably had a brain model in his trunk. |
| 7:30
| There ya go, Alan Krashefsky, brain surgeon. Steve doesn't want to hear that, he wants more photos of R. Kelly's log cabin room. |
| 7:31
| Alright now back to the news. |
| 7:32
| Kurt Cobain's ashes are missing, Courtney Love has misplaced them. Steve is shocked by that. She probably snorted them or cooked them in a spoon. |
| 7:33
| The majority of Kurt's ashes have been spread around but she kept some of them. She also thinks she knows who stole them. |
| 7:34
| Bo Diddley has passed away. He's being remembered by the likes of Keith Richards and Phil Specter. It's too bad he didn't die earlier yesterday, we could have done a nice Bo Diddley tribute on Blue Monday. |
| 7:35
| Steve interviewed Bo a few years ago but we can't find the tape. Steve has archives coming out the wazoo but it's nothing he wants. |
| 7:36
| Pete still hasn't found it, the only thing he has is a song Steve did for Bo's appearance at Guitar Center. In conjunction with that appearance Bo was in the studio. |
| 7:37
| Steve's previous archivist was here when he interviewed Bo Diddley, you'd think that would at least be archived. Steve was let down an archiving rabbit hole by Ed Silha yesterday. |
| 7:38
| Apparently Steve has two archives and we didn't find them anywhere. Then people started questioning whether Steve actually interviewed him. Mary's final ruling was that he didn't interview Bo Diddley because Pete couldn't find his autograph on his studio wall. |
| 7:39
| Steve wouldn't make this up though, he's not Kevin Matthews! Pete was here when it happened! There are 5 people looking for it and no one could find it. |
| 7:40
| Part of Steve doesn't care but part of him doesn't like being accused of making it up. Pete's scouring the studio wall while he could have been looking through tapes. |
| 7:41
| The prosecution has rested it's case in the child pornography trial of singer R. Kelly. Yesterday Lisa Van Allen (Van Awesome!) told jurors about three sexual encounters she had with R. Kelly. |
| 7:42
| Kelly taped two of those three encounters and always carried around a duffel bag full of porn. |
| 7:43
| Can Steve read an email he got from a listener? Emailer Karen recalls, badly, an interview Steve did with Bo Diddley a few years ago. She remembers Steve giving Bo adequate time to express what he had to say. Does this sound made up? |
| 7:44
| Did Pete call the former archivist? They're actually not on speaking terms since Pete wasn't invited to his wedding. Ed was his best man though, probably so he'd pay for everything. |
| 7:45
| There are 30 years of tapes to go through, is it out at the blind guy's house? Steve has a blind guy doing his archives which is probably a good thing. |
| 7:46
| So Steve did interview Bo Diddley and it was apparently meaningful. The best part about Bo was that leg kick he did on stage. Steve's going to incorporate that move into his next live performance. |
| 7:47
| So we're done looking for that Pete? There are 30 years of tapes to look through but Pete was here when it happened! He looked on the wall, Bo's name isn't up there. Steve doesn't even want people to sign the wall! It's gonna cost him money when he leaves, he won't get his security deposit back. |
| 7:48
| The most amazing part is Pete trying to make people think he didn't interview Bo Diddley. Pete was questioning himself, he can't believe that he would forget Bo Diddley being here. |
| 7:49
| Pete has been here for almost as long as Steve. There's only a month when Pete wasn't here, maybe that's when Bo Diddley came in. |
| 7:50
| It's unacceptable to Steve though, he spent tens of thousands of dollars on archivists and he can't find the Bo Diddley interview! Is Steve going to have to hire more blind archivists? And then Steve is accused of making the whole thing up, just because Pete can't remember it. |
| 7:51
| Live read: Fresh Diet |
| 7:56
| Alright we've got Brendan coming up along with some Taco Bell and Buzz still has news to finish. Steve got sidetracked trying to find his Bo Diddley interview. |
| 7:57
| Tavern on the Green has agreed to settle with several employees who accused them of harassment. Steve has eaten there and was mistreated. Not as bad as these people though. |
| 7:58
| Rev. Michael Pfleger says that he did not know his sermon at Trinity Church was being recorded. Everything is recorded these days, doesn't he know that? |
| 7:59
| Steve's favorite part of the video is the guy in the choir going nuts during Pfleger's rant. He's loving it. |
| 8:00
| Pfleger is killing this guy. It's like Father Pfleger: King of Comedy. |
| 8:01
| The man who designed the Pringles can has passed away. Lawrence Baur was so proud of his creation that he was buried in one. His children honored his wish by putting some of his cremated remains in a Pringles can and burying those. |
| 8:02
| If they really wanted to honor his wishes they should have had his ashes pressed into a stackable chip. |
| 8:03
| To Steve the real genius is the guy who invented the stackable chip. Buzz thought Baur also invented the chips. |
| 8:04
| It seems like Baur just thought of sticking the chips in a tennis ball canister. Otherwise he would be credited with inventing the chips as well. |
| 8:05
| According to the patent Pringles were invented by Alexander Liepa of Montgomery, Ohio. Sci-fi author Gene Wolfe invented the machine that cooks them. |
| 8:06
| It seems like Liepa and Wolfe are the geniuses. Baur just says "Hey, let's put them in a tennis ball canister lined with foil!" |
| 8:07
| It's time for the Eight O'Clock Taco Bell. It's Taco Tuesday but Steve and Buzz will be enjoying burritos from the Why Pay More Menu. It's only 89¢! They're also having a Fruitista Freeze, it's quite delicious. |
| 8:15
| When we last left Brendan he was at Douglas Park waiting for R. Kelly to show up. |
| 8:16
| Before Brendan was talking about the testimony of Lisa Van Allen so he can continue that now. Lisa mentioned several encounters she had with R, including at a Swissotel in Atlanta. He's not Swiss! |
| 8:17
| She admitted stealing R's Rolex watch while at the hotel. Did he just not notice that his watch was gone? |
| 8:18
| This was before the video was filmed on the basketball court in his Lakeview home. He set up a futon and a tripod but she started crying. |
| 8:19
| He can't film her crying! So he shut down production that day. But then after that they filmed another threesome |
| 8:20
| One of Brendan's favorite things was Van Allen's job on the tour. He would pick out of the crowd during the big finale of the show and they'd have simulated sex on a bed onstage. |
| 8:21
| Steve would not want to be Jim DeRogatis today. Well he wouldn't want to be him ever but especially today. |
| 8:22
| They're going to want to know where he got tape, what he did with it and who he showed it to. It could be a child pornography charge and if he lies, he's in the slammer. |
| 8:23
| Everyone is speculating that he'll plead the first and the fifth. Probably a little first while talking about the tape and then the fifth for what he did once he realized what it was. |
| 8:24
| Van Allen's current fiance will not testify. He's the guy in the green suit with the AK-47 charge. He would only help the prosecution |
| 8:25
| Her former boyfriend is the guy in the Phillies hat, he's probably going to testify that she said she was going to make a fake tape to blackmail R. Kelly. |
| 8:26
| That guy did have some extortion charges though. |
| 8:27
| Live read: McCracken Financial |
| 8:28
| Steve has still not done the web poll. Buzz wonders how that could happen. We've had a lot going on. |
| 8:29
| Yesterday's web poll question was "Do you dress like a North Shore man?" 98% of the people said no. |
| 8:30
| Today's question is "Should pitchers wear helmets?" Christy Collins' vision of the future of baseball has every infielder wearing a helmut. |
| 8:31
| A long held culture of toughness in sports is slowly giving way to thinking about safety. |
| 8:32
| Steve saw something on Sportsnite last night about how the hotel that the White Sox stayed in in Tampa is supposedly haunted. Nick Swisher is apparently afraid to sleep there by himself. |
| 8:33
| The first time he slept there he slept with the lights on. The second time he slept on someone's floor and the third time he slept at the back-up catcher's house. |
| 8:34
| Major League GM's decided last off-season to require 1st and 3rd base coaches to wear helmets following the death of minor league coach Mike Coolbaugh. |
| 8:35
| Requiring a pitcher to wear a helmet could completely change his game but you have to weigh that against safety. Baseball is still the most safest sport for high school athletes. |
| 8:36
| Who allows people to study this kind of crap? Is it the government funding the research? |
| 8:37
| Steve walks by Little League games everyday where the dad is pitching. It's not tee ball either. What the hell is going on? Steve knows it's boring when kids pitch because they're wild but you have to let them do it. |
| 8:38
| Steve's not sure how old these kids are. He can't look at a young boy and tell how old he is, which is probably good. Unfortunately Buzz can but that's because he has a young child. Buzz now has boys calling the house actually. Not for him though, for Piper. |
| 8:39
| Steve didn't even like in tee ball when the coaches would pitch. It seems defeating to put the ball on the tee after you can't hit the one pitched by the dad. |
| 8:40
| Steve played baseball from tee ball all the way up to Major League Baseball and he never had anyone's dad pitching to him. And now they want kids to wear helmets and face guards? Why not just sit at home and play a video game? |
| 8:41
| Caller Pete managers a league of 7-8 year olds. The reason they have coach pitch is so kids don't stand there taking 4 bad pitches and taking walks all day. But it's unfair to the batter who faces the dad, his release point is so much higher. |
| 8:42
| Steve was at a Little League game, with Ed Farmer, where a coach told his team to take every single pitch. So it was just walks all day long. |
| 8:43
| Steve's favorite baseball story is when he was coaching a team. There was one kid that you'd probably pick last for your team. |
| 8:44
| Every week the kid's dad said his son wanted to pitch. So over the course the season Steve worked with this kid on his pitching. He put him in during the last game and he pitched really well. |
| 8:45
| Then after the game the dad came up to Steve and said "See, I told you so. I don't know why he wasn't pitching all year" |
| 8:51
| That's Ozzie, back when he was in a good mood. Steve doesn't care if he's in a bad mood though. He wants his team to play better. |
| 8:52
| The Sox are still in first place though. Maybe that's why people are saying he shouldn't go so crazy. Who knows? |
| 8:53
| What Steve does know is that the Cubs never lose a game. The Sox only have a half game lead in first but it used to be more. The Cubs have a 3 1/2 game lead. |
| 8:54
| Last night Buzz was forced to watch hockey, as was Steve. Steve didn't mind it actually. Buzz waited an hour and a half for someone to score just so the news would come on. |
| 8:55
| Caller Curt is a lifelong Sox fan but when he heard Steve talking about that haunted hotel he thought about something. Ozzie should get video of that guy in the Penguins game last night. He took a puck in the face, it wasn't deflected, and he got right back up. |
| 8:56
| Steve was trying to watch the game which was somewhat exciting. He watched up to the first overtime though because he was mad that they didn't do the shoot-out after the first one. |
| 8:57
| How great would a shootout have been last night? Instead they have a full 20 minute overtime period. Steve had to turn it off and go to bed. |
| 8:58
| Buzz didn't watch the entire game because he's not a hockey fan. However he can see how being there at the game would make him a fan. |
| 8:59
| During regular season games they have a 5 minute overtime. After that each team sends out three players and they go one-on-one against the goalie. It's unbelievably exciting. |
| 9:00
| A shootout would have had Buzz hooked for life. He would have been in the studio today asking Steve if he's ever heard of one, telling him about how it doesn't involve guns but it's so exciting. |
| 9:01
| Hockey is just nonstop action. Something happens on one end and then something crazy happens on the other end and they go there. |
| 9:02
| Caller Mike has some info about coaches wearing helmets. MIke Coolbaugh was killed after being hit with a foul ball to the neck. So even if he was wearing a helmet it wouldn't have protected him. |
| 9:03
| Steve doesn't think the batters should be allowed to wear all those gloves and knee pads and elbow pads. One glove, that's it. |
| 9:04
| MIke has won tickets to see Eagles this September. Steve wants that prize! How does he get those tickets?! |
| 9:05
| One of the teams in the Stanley Cup isn't shaving until they win. Steve can't remember if it's Detroit or Pittsburgh. |
| 9:06
| Caller John says it's Detroit. Some of the guys like it but some of the guys can't wait to shave. There's a lot of facial hair in hockey, the stubble makes you look tougher. |
| 9:07
| Live read: Rick Levin |
| 9:15
| Alright we've got Brendan coming up in a bit but first, Steve is disappointed in himself. |
| 9:16
| Everyday he writes the blog in the afternoon and then spends some time trying to come up with a clever Thought for the Day. |
| 9:17
| Steve had one for today that he thought was good but then he left a word out. And he proofread it but sometimes it's hard to proofread yourself. |
| 9:18
| The Thought for the Day today was "I developing a side dish consisting of Tater Tots filled with either powdered or crack cocaine, but I'm not sure whether to call them Tatum Tots or Tatum Toots." |
| 9:19
| It's supposed to be "I am" and Steve read that 10 times and didn't see anything wrong. Then he gets an email from Bob Casey that says "Maybe you should spend more time on your grammar and less time on tator tots" But he spelled Tater wrong! |
| 9:20
| 10,000 people get that email and this one guy complains?! What else does Steve have to do? All of this stuff is free to listeners and yet this guy has to complain? Screw you Bob Casey! Steve's going to have Ed ban him. |
| 9:21
| Ed Silha is on the phone. He says there are 6,500 legit email addresses that get the Thought for the Day. He couldn't have just lied? He cut the total in half! It doesn't seem like it's even worth it. How many people read the blog? |
| 9:22
| Alright we now go live to Brendan Greeley, standin' in front of the courthouse. He's waiting for Jim DeRogatis to walk in. It's more of a wobble isn't it, or at least an amble. |
| 9:23
| Brendan has enjoyed seeing R. Kelly everyday because he's a fan. He better get it while he can, the next time he sees him could be through Plexiglass. |
| 9:24
| Brendan really likes seeing the softer side of R. Kelly too. Yesterday Ed Genson objected to one of Kelly's albums being viewed by the jury. They were using a photo on the album just to identify him but Genson though the lyrics inside could sway the jury. |
| 9:25
| Then Ed actually read some of the tawdry lyrics in court, just like Bill Kurtis. Everyone was laughing, including R. He had to cover his face actually. |
| 9:26
| Steve wants to know where R. Kelly gets off being this God-fearing community activist with all of these other songs and the bag full of porn. Buzz thinks that Christianity and porn aren't necessarily mutually exclusive. |
| 9:27
| Brendan is surprised that DeRogatis hasn't shown up yet since court starts at 10 am. If Steve was him he'd be there getting a feel for the place, waiting in court. |
| 9:28
| Buzz is wondering if maybe he got scared and ran off. We'll see him in a low-speed chase in a Bronco. |
| 9:29
| Steve and Buzz were talking about the men in Lisa Van Allen's life earlier. The guy in the green suit is her fiance and he has a gun charge. |
| 9:30
| The father of her child is the guy in the Phillies hat and he has an extortion charge. He also refused to give his Social Security number at first. |
| 9:31
| During questioning yesterday Van Allen was asked by Sam Adams why she was attracted to men who . Everyone started laughing including Van Allen. Then Adams asked her if she thought that was funny. He totally set her up for that. |
| 9:32
| Caller CJ has been into the log cabin room at R. Kelly's house but not in a sordid way. It was during a open house and he's a neighbor. It sounds like he's a nosy neighbor. |
| 9:33
| The room looks like the Wyoming room at the Sybaris. There are windows building into the log cabin wall with fake scenes on the outside. It must be some place he has a fond memory of. |
| 9:34
| There's also a bar at the other end of the basketball court. Behind the bar, painted on the wall sitting in bleachers are various Loony Toons characters. Steve has the same thing only it's Disney characters. So what? |
| 9:35
| Steve has seen the rainforest room at R. Kelly's house in Olympia Fields. The contractor who worked on it was going to do some work at Steve's house and was showing him examples. The Colorado room is sort of like R's Jungle Room. |
| 9:36
| Caller Vince has also been to R. Kelly's house, he's a realtor. There's a lot of nosey people out there. |
| 9:37
| R. Kelly has a doorbell outside his bedroom along with one of those metal shutters that people put on store fronts. |
| 9:38
| When Steve was at Graceland to film Greetings from Graceland they weren't doing tours at the time. They did sell postcards of the various room in the house. |
| 9:39
| Steve and Garry used those photos in the special. When they opened the place up to tours Priscilla had completely changed the decor of all of these rooms. |
| 9:40
| Apparently Priscilla did not want to be associated with that white trashedness. She was probably 14 when she was there but even then she knew the rooms didn't look right. |
| 9:48
| That's a drop from Greetings from Graceland. Steve was so hungover that day and yet he won an Emmy. He felt as bad as he sounded. |
| 9:49
| Buzz actually thought it was Pat Dahl. Steve was crazy hungover, like Gary-gets-mad hungover. But he still won the Emmy. |
| 9:50
| Steve's getting a lot of people who have been to the R. Kelly house which seems inappropriate. As a minor celebrity Steve is starting to feel like he can never have an open house. |
| 9:51
| Alright let's get one more report from Brendan. There's been no report of Jim DeRogatis yet. He might want to get his fat ass down there. |
| 9:52
| There's some commotion on Brendan's end now, R. Kelly is showing up and some fans are yelling. He's got his normal entourage including the videographer. |
| 9:53
| You have to think there's some bad blood between R. Kelly and Jim DeRogatis. |
| 9:54
| Is there a chance DeRogatis snuck by Brendan? Maybe he got there early to have some lunch in the cafeteria. Right now he's probably doing the Belushi routine from Animal House. |
| 9:55
| If he doesn't show up soon someone is going to swear out something for him. It's very intimidating in that area though with the prison and the razor wire fence. |
| 9:56
| Steve was there once to film a movie role and it still gave him the willies. You want to send your kids on a field trip, send them there. |
| 9:57
| DeRogatis only has 3 minutes to get into court now. Brendan's pretty sure he didn't sneak by. He knows what he looks like right? Like one of those Little People costumes that you get for a kids birthday. |
| 9:58
| Buzz just wants to play this Dick Cheney joke, he's under a lot of fire for it. He was asked about his family tree. Robert Byrd immediately went nuts from his hospital bed. |
| 9:59
| This is probably payback for Robert Byrd endorsing Obama right? |
