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| 5:29
| Apparently Steve's ears cleaned themselves out over the weekend because his headphones were too loud for him. The same thing happened to Buzz. |
| 5:30
| It's possible Pete and Jim were in the studio playing Steve and Buzz. He can't prove it and of course Pete and Jim will deny it. Pete will stick a pillow under his shirt and play "Tubby" and Jim will play "Joe Cool". That's what Pete and Jim call them, Tubby and Joe Cool. |
| 5:31
| Just so Pete knows, Steve is back to hating the Cubs. He hates the White Sox so he also has to hate the Cubs. The Sox had a horrible weekend, they lost the series to the Rockies, a team Steve and Buzz could beat. |
| 5:32
| Steve didn't go to any of the games, somehow he was tricked out of all of his Father's Day weekend tickets. Pete was happy to see Nick Swisher and Bobby Jenks sporting the blue facial hair, for prostate cancer. |
| 5:33
| It's not even a manly blue! Plus does Steve need to be reminded about prostate cancer? Steve doesn't mind being reminded about breast cancer because he can't get that. Buzz points out that he can get it. Steve's dad is always telling him that he's at risk for prostate cancer. |
| 5:34
| Then Steve's trying to check himself for prostate cancer, which is weird. At some point he doesn't know what he's checking himself for. |
| 5:35
| Swisher and Jenks have good intentions with the blue facial hair but maybe they should focus on winning. |
| 5:36
| The Sox are still in first place but Steve doesn't care about that. He watched every game and they were just irritating. He was up in Michigan watching the games, The Little Guys just installed a new DirecTV system. |
| 5:37
| The guy who installed DirecTV laid the cable right across the roof which Steve was not happy with. That guy has since quit so Steve used Ed's "Happy Father's day" email |
| 5:38
| Steve had to call DirecTV which is like calling the post office. It takes 2 hours to talk to someone, who's then reading from a script. They tell you to stand in front of your TV, take your pants off and turn around 6 times. Then get into your car, go to Dairy Queen and get a Brazier Burger. |
| 5:39
| What's this Steve is seeing on the cover of the Sun-Times? It's Obama at a speech and the headline is "Act like a man (and turn off Sportscenter)" It's a message to dads although Steve doesn't think he should be lumped in there. He did turn off Sportscenter in his office though. TURN IT OFF! |
| 5:40
| Oprah gave the commencement speech at Stanford over the weekend. Buzz was at the Walgreen's yesterday and as he was leaving his eye was caught by the latest issue of The Globe. Buzz thinks Steve needs to pick this issue up. |
| 5:41
| Thanks for picking up the copy Buzz! He doesn't do show work on a Sunday. He'd rather have someone here pick it up and then say he saw it in the hallway. Buzz would rather just think that those magazines don't exist. |
| 5:42
| The main story was about George Bush doing coke in the White House and that's why we're at war with Iraq. Then there was something about Oprah eating herself to death. She's on that cleanse but there's almost a week missing from the blog she's been doing. |
| 5:43
| It might take a while to get a copy this morning. In the future, if Buzz picks that up we'll reimburse him. He didn't think it was appropriate to buy the magazine but it's OK for him to bring it up in front of a few hundred thousand listeners. |
| 5:44
| Oprah's on a cleanse for 3 weeks. The first week of her blog has all 7 days accounted for. In week 2 there are only 4 days and in week 3 there are only 2 days. So maybe that's what they're talking about in The Globe. |
| 5:45
| Thursday is the last day for week 3 although she's been lax in updating this thing so there could be another entry coming. On Thursday of week 3 she writes that she's only a few more days away from a crisp Chardonay. Maybe she's an alcoholic? Imagine how much she can ring from that on her show. |
| 5:46
| Oprah has missed wine the most during her 21-day cleanse. She has a lot of things to toast in life. There was a toast with the crew after the last show of the season and her and her Veganista Cleanse Team took a sip. |
| 5:47
| The week was harder without Tal, that's the chef that this Kathy Freston woman lent her. She prepared breakfast for the cleanse team before the show. Steve doesn't see her cooking anything. |
| 5:48
| She brought in gluten-free waffles and Morningstar vegetable sausage that Tal had left in her freezer. So she turned on the toaster and the microwave. |
| 5:49
| There are some unaccounted for days so maybe The Globe is on to something. We have a few interns here so one of them can go pick it up whenever the newsstand opens. Brendan has returned from the Trial of the Century but Steve's not talking to Buzz about that right now. |
| 5:55
| Is that a drop from Oprah's Stanford speech? Steve has the entire text but if Pete has the whole thing he could just play it. Steve hates reading, it's for losers. |
| 5:56
| Pete only has a few highlights he saw over the weekend. Did he see them while he was watching Oxygen? Does Buzz want to hear any of this? It's kind of a long speech. |
| 5:57
| Buzz likes Stanford because his favorite hat ever was a red Stanford baseball hat. He also likes Ty Willingham from his time at Notre Dame. Is that because he lost at Notre Dame? |
| 5:58
| Well we're out looking for The Globe that Buzz was talking about. Hopefully it's the one currently on newsstands. Buzz sends people on a lot of wild goose chases though. |
| 5:59
| Alright on to Oprah's commencement. When you give speeches can you just read them? From time to time people want Steve to give speeches and he's uncomfortable with it. It's not necessarily always a home crowd. How do you do it so it doesn't look like you're reading? |
| 6:00
| Steve did that Comcast Sports Awards, which was produced by that Mike Liederman who used to do sports in Chicago. He was a huge pain but he's a nice guy. But these Comcast Awards are the only thing he does during the year so he made a lot of phone calls to Steve. |
| 6:01
| Steve was supposed to have teleprompters on either side of the podium, like the president uses. Instead he had a 60 inch TV out in the audience. Steve didn't use it and he made a lot of mistakes about which presenter was coming out next. |
| 6:02
| There was a lot of chit-chat before the event but Steve didn't get anything he wanted. He was supposed to have a really long scroll that was going to unfurl but it was just a piece of window shade rolled up. But he made a big deal about getting the prop department on it. |
| 6:03
| Gayle's daughter, Kirby Bumpus, was in the Stanford '08 graduating class. Oprah hadn't been allowed on campus while Kirby had been going to school there. She wanted people to get to know her for who she was and not for knowing Oprah. It's always about Oprah. |
| 6:04
| When Kirby first came to campus with her mom someone stopped her and said "Oh my God, is that Gayle King?!" Kirby said it was her mom, which the person took to mean she knew Oprah. |
| 6:05
| This speech probably didn't make Kirby feel too weird. There's probably a couple of thousands kids who are graduating right? And she must be up near the front since she's a B. |
| 6:06
| Oprah is so proud of Kirby Cakes, that's what she calls her because that's how well she knows her. And Oprah loves cake. And she's so proud of Gayle and Kirby's mom for raising their daughter. |
| 6:07
| Oprah was so happy to be at Stanford, she loves saying Stanford. She never graduated though, she was one credit shy and decided to forget about it because she was already on TV at the time. The graduates must be thinking how bright the future looks. |
| 6:08
| Oprah was the only anchor on a 10 pm news that had an 11 pm curfew. Her dad told her to be home by 10:30. Her dad still didn't know how far she could get without her degree. |
| 6:09
| In 1987 Oprah was invited back to Tennessee State to deliver their commencement. By that time she had a nationally syndicated TV show, had started her own studio and had just been nominated for an Oscar. Her dad still didn't know what she'd do without that degree so she did the course work, handed in her final paper and graduated. Steve's sure she did a lot of course work. So this is just some weird thing about her dad? Happy Father's day too! |
| 6:10
| One of the best compliments Oprah ever received was from a reporter. He had interviewed her when she first came to town and years later told her that she hadn't changed, she'd just become more of herself. Steve has to stop reading this, he's going to be sick. |
| 6:11
| And yet according to The Globe Oprah is eating herself to death. Maybe Steve should keep reading this. Maybe Steve should get some sort of graduation march playing. What's that called? Is it Graduation March? |
| 6:12
| Steve should probably buy this, it'll sound much better playing under Oprah's speech. Steve should get a degree just for reading this thing. |
| 6:13
| Caller Matt says the music Steve is looking for is called Pomp & Circumstance. That's what it's called here. Does it have lyrics? If not maybe Steve will pen some. Steve didn't really graduate from anything and when his kid's didn't he wasn't really paying attention. Why can't they haul him up there and thank him for paying for everything? That's what he yelled several times before being removed. |
| 6:14
| Matt won a gift certificate to Ben Pao, does he like Asian food? Matt is actually going to Jamaica and the resort he's staying at is supposed to have a great Japanese place. That's that fake thing they do at all-inclusive resorts where they say the restaurants have great food but it's the same crappy food at the buffet. |
| 6:15
| This Japanese place will make Matt wear a jacket, that's also part of it. It's the same guy serving you drinks at the pool that's serving you Japanese food. And they tell you to make reservations so you think it's hard to get into. |
| 6:16
| They'll have an Asian place, a steakhouse. Steve's going to try to guess the other restaurants. They've got Japanese, a steak house, probably Italian and maybe Mexican? There's no Mexican because it's Jamaica. Matt was told there were 6 or 7 restaurants. It's the same 4 waiters working at 8 restaurants. It's all goat too, goat lasagna, goat stir fry, goat ribeye. |
| 6:17
| Steve didn't mean to ruin Matt's vacation but those all-inclusives are a bit of a scam. It does seem to work when they make you put the jacket on though. Buzz has always had a good time when he goes to Jamaica. |
| 6:18
| The Italian restaurant has some great Italian food, but it's made by Jamaicans. And the steaks are made by Jamaicans as well, or Mexicans if you're in Mexico. Buzz also loves goat, of course he does. It's like a greasy, rank version of pork. |
| 6:19
| Buzz was so tempted to ask Matt where he's going in Jamaica. He has a vested interest in the country although he goes to the same hotel and stays in the same room every year. It's so unlike Buzz to have a routine like that. |
| 6:20
| Buzz's room has a small patio and you can go out there every morning and look out onto the ocean and see nothing but water and an island. They give it to Buzz every year but he usually has to fight for it. Does he pitch a fit right in the lobby? |
| 6:21
| Caller Matt is back on the line, he's going to the Grand Lido in Negrill. That's where Buzz stayed after leaving the resort with no TV. The NYPD Blue series finale was on and he had to see it. |
| 6:22
| So at least Matt knows they have a TV which he can watch while puking his guts out after eating too much goat. Matt actually heard that he's better off ordering from room service. Who told him that? He has really bought in lock, stock and barrel with this thing. |
| 6:23
| Matt's actually getting married in Jamaica next Saturday so it's the perfect storm for him. This is his first wedding but he got out of the big one. He was pushing for Vegas but they went with Jamaica. |
| 6:24
| Matt is from Chicago, his wife is from St. Louis so they picked Jamaica. That's perfect, it's about halfway in between both places. They've got about 18 people coming down. All the girls will be coming back with braids in their hair that they got on the beach. |
| 6:25
| Matt's fiance told him the wedding will be off if he shows up with a braid in his hair like Michael from The Office. Or the guy in the Lane Bryant shooting. |
| 6:31
| Steve's going to read a little more of this Oprah speech and then we have to move on to other stuff. Steve can always go back to it from time to time since Buzz finds it so inspirational. |
| 6:32
| We did search the newsstands and found an issue of The Globe but it's not the one Buzz was talking about. Depending on where you go it could be the last issue or the new issue. In the future Buzz should feel free to pick up the magazine and not send us on a wild goose chase. |
| 6:33
| The Globe that Steve has features a story about Obama being abandoned by his mom, he's hiding it from the country. The Examiner has something about Oprah packing on the pounds after Obama told her they're through. |
| 6:34
| Steve has feeling that the newsstands downtown are more current than the ones out in the neighborhoods. Buzz can get back to that Walgreen's today and buy The Globe. We can send someone to get it for him although Steve thinks he can pull it off. He should grab a New York Times and The Globe, it's the yin and yang of journalism. |
| 6:35
| Alright Tyrone's going to check in with a traffic report. For some reason Steve's machine is still set to lockerroom, that's left over from the Townstone live read on Friday. Was someone messing around with Steve's stuff? And by someone he means Pete and Jim. |
| 6:36
| 95th street is shut down near the Tri-State. Two tractor trailers, an SUV and a car are tangled in a traffic mess. That doesn't seem that bad. Tyrone thought we weren't going to rely on Mark Czerniec for traffic any more. |
| 6:37
| That's not a big deal at all, it's on 95th street Hickory Hills! That's not a big deal right Pete? Pete's from The Hick as Tyrone calls it. This accident is by the mini golf course right? How close is that to the Saber Room? |
| 6:38
| Has Pete ever been to the Saber Room for a graduation party or something like that? Pete's been there but he's more of a Lexington House guy. Tyrone's in a wedding band and they've played there. It's fun to be at white people's weddings and watch them trying to dance to Earth, Wind and Fire. |
| 6:39
| Caller Ryan needs to speak up, Tyrone can't hear him over the choptater. If you're heading westbound on 95th street, turn on Ridgeland and go around the traffic. |
| 6:40
| Would that be accurate information Pete? It doesn't seem like he's from Hickory Hills, it seems like he'd be from Lombard or somewhere like that. |
| 6:41
| Pete was wondering how Tyrone felt about the R. Kelly verdict. He's not talking to no one about that today. Actually, Steve's not talking about it but Tyrone might later. |
| 6:42
| Steve's irritated by the whole thing. Now he wants to walk around with his bag of porn and nothing should happen to him. Buzz sees it as a triumph of the jury system. |
| 6:43
| Steve doesn't want to see that big headed, mopey moron walking around. He seems like a big idiot. He's famous for songs that don't even rhyme! |
| 6:44
| Where were we. Oh yeah, Pete was asking Tyrone about R. Kelly. Where does it say that Pete makes Tyrone jump through hoops? He's got R. Kelly in the back of the choptater now, that girl better be 17! |
| 6:45
| That's the hair braider actually. Can we enjoy some of that song now? Even Tyrone thinks R's an idiot. |
| 6:46
| What are the odds that someone else would have a Lincoln Log room or whatever that's called? How does that happen, they have a tape of someone in your house and it's not you? |
| 6:47
| It's a good thing R. Kelly had that mole shaped like a caterpillar. R and Tyrone are on the way to IHOP but it'll be hard to land on their pointy roof. |
| 6:48
| That was an uneventful traffic report. 95th street is blocked off so go around it. Tyrone does like the way 95th goes into Archer right by the forest preserve. Has Pete ever been in there with a guy? Or even a girl? |
| 6:49
| How does R. Kelly change his voice in Hair Braider? Is that something that would be on Steve's machine? |
| 6:50
| Well kudos to R. Kelly. He went to Ruth's Chris and then the Grand Luxe to celebrate. Both places in the same night? That's a lot of food. |
| 6:51
| R. Kelly uses a vocoder to make his voice like that. It must be pretty easy to get one of those if Steve doesn't have it. |
| 6:52
| Caller Bruce says the vocoder is a software package you can get but they call it a Wa-Wa Machine. |
| 6:53
| Maybe there's some sort of software update for Steve's machine. We haven't had anything updated around here for 12 years but the previous engineer is gone so maybe we can get something new. |
| 7:01
| Steve has a YouTube tape of a guy talking about the Vocoder, would Buzz like to hear that? |
| 7:02
| Steve doesn't really need a Vocoder because he can just do the voice himself. It'll save him some money. |
| 7:03
| Did someone drop off some news audio? It's coming in right now, apparently Jim just dropped it off at the front desk. It wasn't late breaking so Steve will have to find out what happened. |
| 7:04
| Steve calls down to the newsroom. Jim just dropped the ball and totally forgot about it. This isn't very fun, Jim sounds suicidal. Is Adam getting ready to shoot him or something? |
| 7:05
| Buzz thinks Jim has a lot going on because this was the first weekend he was engaged. There's a lot of overwhelming planning and suggesting going on. It'll be going on for the next year too so Jim should get ready for it. |
| 7:06
| Jim's going to start looking for places to have the reception. How about the Saber Room? That might be a bit far from DePaul where they're having the wedding. Jim and Danielle went there but it's not free to have the wedding there. |
| 7:07
| Steve suggests Cafe Brauer at Lincoln Park but it's too small. Steve doesn't go to weddings that are that big so don't invite him. It's just too impersonal. What about the gymnasium at DePaul? That's something to think about, everyone takes their shoes off and plays dodgeball. |
| 7:08
| Steve's advice to Jim is take himself out of the process right now. He's doing his best. He told Pete that all he really cares about is a good late night snack at the banquet hall. That seems to be what the buy the groom off with because Pat Dahl was really excited about the McDonald's cheeseburgers they served at his wedding. That's idiotic because there's so much money being spent and Pat only cares about a 20¢ item marked up to $5 |
| 7:09
| At Jim's brother's wedding the hotel got them hot dogs and charged them $5 a person. Pat Dahl got married at The Lodge in Oak Brook which is part of McDonald's. They charge you $100 per burger and you can't get them yourself. |
| 7:10
| Jim's been amazed at all the fees they have for weddings. Steve was the only person sober at the wedding so he was seeing it all. The photo booth guy needs a tip?! He's just sitting there drinking! He should be paying Steve! |
| 7:11
| If you put wedding in front of anything it's an instant 200% mark up. Wedding cake, wedding dance floor! What about chair covers? Jim's best course of action is to knock his fiance up. Then it'll be a wedding of shame and no one will come. Knock her up and then go to Vegas! |
| 7:12
| Jim seemed little crabby but he has a lot on his plate now. He went from having a hot girlfriend to dealing with two families and paying for stuff like chair covers. But they bought him off with some late-night food. |
| 7:13
| At Pat's wedding they had McDonald's cheeseburgers and shot glasses with chocolate shakes in them and it was about $20 a person! |
| 7:14
| Buzz got White Castle at his wedding but the reception was at Moretti's so it was relatively inexpensive. What was it, $1500? Steve can still see Buzz being incredulous about that. |
| 7:15
| It was about $20,000 which Buzz was probably looking to push off on to Aimee's dad. That tradition where the bride's parents pay for the wedding has gone away. |
| 7:16
| Because of the age difference though, Buzz probably just paid for it all himself. That $20,000 but him silence. Now who wants some White Castle? |
| 7:23
| Alright before we get to the news we've got Pat Boyle on the phone. The last time we heard from Pat he was whispering at his in-laws house. Pat has to drop the family, they're bring him down. |
| 7:24
| Pat thought we were going to news so he was caught off-guard. Maybe it was a mistake to forego the news then. Do we need to come back to him? |
| 7:25
| Pat is ready to go now. He's back from the in-laws house, where he had to whisper through his sports on Friday. |
| 7:26
| Steve watched some golf this weekend because he just took golf lessons. He's not all in yet though, he won't be there until he can hit the ball every time at the range. |
| 7:27
| Steve did go to the driving range with Matt yesterday. There were a lot of dads and sons there though since it was Father's Day. A lot of guys probably got new clubs. |
| 7:28
| That was some exciting golf yesterday though, the whole thing came down to Tiger's last shot where he tied it up. It sounds boring and it sort of was at some point. It was on later in the day so Steve watched more of the final round than he'd wanted to. |
| 7:29
| At about the time Steve would get bored playing golf, he got bored watching golf. Pat thinks the PGA will start doing more tournaments in primetime, the ratings were probably huge yesterday. |
| 7:30
| Rocco Mediate and Tiger will have an 18-hole playoff today. Rocco's just excited to be in that situation, you gotta like that. That's start here around 11 am on ESPN and then the final 9 holes will be on NBC. |
| 7:31
| Jay Mariotti called Tiger the Athlete of the Century even though we're only 8 years in. That seems a bit premature. |
| 7:32
| The Cubs won yesterday, Steve hates them. It's only because he also hates the Sox right now. He'll have an interesting love-hate this weekend for the Crosstown series. |
| 7:33
| Ted Lilly had some control problems but he took care of his old team. He gave up one hit and had a lot of run support. The Cubs were up 5-0 when Aramis Ramirez hit a 2-run home run in the 7th. Lou couldn't really remember what happened in the 7th though, he thought they scored 3 but they scored 4. |
| 7:34
| Steve's with Lou on that one, when he goes to a game he doesn't remember everything that happened. That's what the box score is for. Lou is wearing a uniform in a dugout though. |
| 7:35
| The Cubs play in the final Hall of Fame game in Cooperstown today, that whole thing seems ridiculous. They're playing on a Little League field, for free and the game doesn't even count. Cooperstown! Why is it there? Can't they just lie and say baseball was invented in New York City? |
| 7:36
| Steve's never been to Cooperstown and Buzz has only driven by it. Pat's never been either, they have to move it somewhere closer. How do you eve get there? It's not convenient from anywhere. Pat doesn't even know what the closest airport is. |
| 7:37
| It's somewhere in the middle of New York but Steve doesn't know how anything on the East coast works. He'll probably see it if they ever put the museum on the back of a flatbed. |
| 7:38
| Steve's being told that you fly to Albany and take a bus to Cooperstown, that's how Jim did it. That sounds like fun, he really knows how to live. By bus? That's depressing. |
| 7:39
| Steve calls down to the weather center. Jim should have clarified, he meant that the Cubs were doing that. It's also depressing that the Cubs have to get in a bus for 2 hours but there's really nowhere else to fly. |
| 7:40
| Jim has been to Cooperstown though but he drove through Toronto and then to Cooperstown. It's a nice place, it's very quaint. Jim stayed at a lovely bed and breakfast that served him fresh blueberry muffins. |
| 7:41
| Did he stay at the Cooperstown Bed & Breakfast? The Rose & Thistle? The Landmark Inn? Jim doesn't remember, the trip was in high school. What about the White House Inn? That sounds familiar to Jim. |
| 7:42
| Jim was sitting in the living room of the bed and breakfast watching baseball on their TV with the family in their wood paneled. It's a very picturesque town but the main street is all baseball card stores and places to get hats. It's a Les Grobstein wet dream. |
| 7:43
| Jim thinks it was the White House Inn, they had fresh blueberry muffins. It was very nice though, at least the rooms were. Did they stay in the Birch Room? The Green Room? Jim needs to come down here and look at these rooms. Steve demands to know what room Jim stayed in with his family. |
| 7:44
| Bed and breakfasts are creepy but it's probably better than any hotel in the area. Those most be Dave Savini specials. Jim's down in the studio, he thinks it was the Blue Room that they stayed in. |
| 7:45
| OK Jim is back in the office now. There's a nice review of the White House Inn by Ed Fayet. It's run by Ed and Marjorie Landers, they create the perfect retreat for those visiting Cooperstown. |
| 7:46
| It seems like the Sox should be resting today instead of playing golf. The game almost had an exciting ending yesterday, the Sox had the bases loaded in the bottom of the nice and Matt Halladay almost dropped a fly ball. |
| 7:47
| The Sox are killing Steve. It's like they're on some sort of offensive diet and then go nuts for a week. They still lead the Twins by 4 1/2 games but this kind of baseball isn't going to get the job done. It's better than last year but the Tigers are starting to make a move. |
| 7:48
| Pat is golfing at the White Sox charity outing today. Why wasn't Steve invited? Pat's not sure who he's paired up with. Couldn't they use Pat as a celebrity? Then the other golfers would be mad that they weren't paired up with a player, or at least Kerry Sayers. |
| 7:56
| That seemed a bit unnecessary from Hawk. He got mad that Carlos Quentin got thrown out of the game yesterday for slamming his bat on the ground. Hawk said it was bull, pure bull. Then he said the ump was bull. |
| 7:57
| Quentin was not thrown out of the game though, the ump just said he was going to fine him. What is that, $10? Pete thought Hawk said "pure bull" not "you're bull" |
| 7:58
| We can enjoy that again though. DJ starts off saying there probably aren't many 3-2 home runs hit any more. That's exactly the problem with Sox broadcasts. Steve likes Hawk and DJ but they say stuff like that instead of actually telling you how many 3-2 home runs are hit. |
| 7:59
| Len and Bob would have the number of 3-2 home runs it. Pete thinks Santo would say something like DJ but Pat Hughes would then go and look it up. Hawk and DJ need to get a statistician up in their booth. |
| 8:00
| Everything in the Hawk and DJ broadcast is them wondering about things, like Yaz's lifetime batting average. Steve's wondering too because he's driving around. Then he has to look this stuff up himself. |
| 8:01
| Hawk did say "Pure bull" but he also refers to the ump by his first name. It's like having two Ron Santos up in the Sox booth. They're on TV so they can get away with it because most viewers can see what's happening. |
| 8:02
| Alright it's time for the Eight O'Clock Taco Bell and it's Manager Monday. We've talked to Tom from Fox Lake several times. Talking to Steve is some sort of reward for managers so Tom must sell a lot of tacos. |
| 8:03
| Tom's Taco Bell is not underwater and it's not close to that. The water is supposed to be receding. |
| 8:04
| The good news for anyone out there who has to repair flood damaged homes is that they can get all that stuff off the Why Pay More Menu. You can use those half pound burritos as sandbags but you might be too tempted to eat one. |
| 8:05
| Steve thinks we'll be talking to Tom again very soon, it seems like he sells a lot of tacos. Talking to Steve is some sort of reward but it seems like it should be a punishment. |
| 8:06
| News with Buzz |
| 8:07
| Residents of flood damaged homes in Cedar Rapids are losing their patience as police officers are refusing to let them see their homes. Chicago had it's own bad weather and Com-Ed officials are making headway in attempts to return power to about 5,000 homes. |
| 8:08
| There was flooding in Des Moines and Steve was looking on the news to see if The Nadas were sandbagging. Then he remembered they're always sandbagging, they're musicians. |
| 8:09
| President Bush is wrapping up his final trip as President to Europe. He's ramping up attempts to find Osama bin Laden before his term ends, enlisting the help of British special forces. |
| 8:10
| And according to what Buzz saw in The Globe over the weekend the Iraq invasion was the result of Bush using cocaine. It almost wrecked his marriage too. |
| 8:11
| California will resume marriages for gay couples today. Steve and Buzz have that 12:30 flight today, Buzz didn't forget did he? |
| 8:12
| Presumptive Democratic nominee Barack Obama thinks father's should be there for their children. At Chicago's Apostolic Church of God he said that any full can be a father. |
| 8:13
| R. Kelly kept a low profile during his trial but after the not guilty verdict he went to the Grand Luxe on Friday and Ruth's Chris on Saturday. The Grand Luxe is on Michigan right? |
| 8:14
| He spent Father's Day with his kids, Steve assumes those are his own kids. Is he happily married? Maybe not right after the tape came out. |
| 8:15
| Disgraced Royal butler Paul Berrell has plumbed new depths of now saying he bedded Princess Diana. He was on call for sex with her 24 hours a day. |
| 8:16
| A Missouri woman charged in connection with a MySpace suicide will be arraigned in Federal Court in L.A. today. |
| 8:17
| Snoop Dogg's wife was arrested early Saturday for driving under the influence, it's believed to be alcohol. Steve saw her on Snoop Dogg's reality show. |
| 8:18
| Pulitzer Prize winning play August: Osage County won 5 Tony's last night. It was written by Chicago playwright Tracy Letts and Buzz's neighbor, Deanna Dunagan won for Best Leading Actress in a Play. |
| 8:19
| Will Buzz get to see the Tony award? Is she one of the neighbors that still talks to him? |
| 8:20
| Snoop's show was called Fatherhood and it was stupid. He makes everyone else's shows great, he should only be a second guy. He's like the black Garry Meier. Snoop's show seemed staged probably because you can't show what really happens to him. |
| 8:21
| Chicago's street art scene has lost one of it's own. Brendan "Solve" Scanlon" was stabbed early Sunday morning in Logan Square. |
| 8:22
| A college student who branded her lover with a scalding iron after he didn't call her after they slept together was sentence to 5 years in prison. |
| 8:23
| A Bronx man is devastated after his dog was swept up and killed by a city street cleaner. Witnesses say the cleaner came speeding down the street, swerved to avoid a speed bump and swept up the man's Boston terrier, Ginger. |
| 8:31
| We haven't done the web poll yet but before we do that Steve would like to get back to Oprah's speech at Stanford. |
| 8:32
| A year after graduation Oprah was given the chance to co-anchor the nightly news in Baltimore. That's where she met Gayle, she was an intern at the same station. |
| 8:33
| Oprah was 22 and making $22,000 a year. They both used to say how great it would be when she was 40 and making $40,000. Thankfully that didn't happen. Here she pauses for laughter since she's a billionaire. |
| 8:34
| In Baltimore they tried to change Oprah's name to Susie. They said no one would remember Oprah. |
| 8:35
| Steve's music just quit on him. Does Buzz think the listeners care about that? He's not really sure what the listeners think. He doesn't want to think about that right? |
| 8:36
| This Pomp and Circumstance that Steve downloaded is from something called Audio Tools. There's some pretty funny stuff on here that Steve would like to play. |
| 8:37
| This guy on the Audio Tools CD has a speech impediment. It's a CD to test out your audio system. |
| 8:38
| Why would you tell this guy to record a CD like this if he has a speech impediment? You're going to broadcast this on a PA? |
| 8:39
| OK back to Oprah. They were trying to change her name and they didn't like the way she looked. This was back in 1976 when your boss could do that. |
| 8:40
| They sent Oprah to a salon to get her a perm and then her hair fell out and she had to shave her head. |
| 8:41
| It was so hard for Oprah to go and report on other people's tragedies, knowing she should be lending a hand and not just observing. That's why Buzz doesn't like to do the hard hitting stuff. |
| 8:42
| Oprah goes on in the speech for several more pages about herself. That's what she'll do for the rest of her life though. |
| 8:43
| Oprah would report on a fire and then go back and give the victim's blankets. She couldn't sleep at night because of all the stories she had to report. |
| 8:44
| Sometimes Oprah tried to sound like Barbara Walters, more elegant. But it didn't work and she would sometimes mispronounce words. |
| 8:45
| Why does Steve have the feeling that this history was doctored. He's guessing she didn't want to go out and cover all these stories if she was only making $22,000 a year. |
| 8:46
| When Oprah first came to Chicago her talk show was like Jerry Springer, doesn't anyone remember that? |
| 8:47
| Alright that's enough of this for now. Steve's got a headache and he wasn't even there. |
| 8:48
| Live read: Townstone Financial |
| 8:56
| Steve can finish up Oprah's commencement speech tomorrow. It's all pretty choice and it's all drivel. |
| 8:57
| Of the three graduations Steve had to go to the best commencement he saw was Bill Geiss. He used to write for the suburban Tribune and he's on the CBS Sunday Morning show now. |
| 8:58
| His speech was really funny but Steve's seen some bad ones. He's not sure why the students at Northwestern were complaining about Daley, the person who spoke at Pat's graduation was really boring. |
| 8:59
| That thing with Daley was very offensive to Buzz. Most of those kids up there are asses. He's the mayor of Chicago, one of the biggest cities in the country! What are any of them other than students?! As a citizen of Chicago Buzz was very offended. That's why Steve and Buzz went up there and gave a few students a blanket party. |
| 9:00
| Alright time for the web poll. Friday's question was "Will you wear Lindsay Lohan's new leggings?" 90% of the people said no, that doesn't bode well for her. Today's web poll...actually Steve's going to digress again because he can. Hopefully he can find this email quickly. |
| 9:01
| Emailer Al is annoyed by the paper crumpling during the web poll, especially on the podcast. That's only going to encourage Steve to do it more. There's another funny one about Steve's hair, someone accused him of having a comb over. |
| 9:02
| It was from someone who doesn't really listen to the show but just happened to find the website. If you don't listen to the show why would you even care? Plus Steve doesn't have a comb over! Maybe someone saw him with the corn rows and didn't understand. |
| 9:03
| Here's an email where a listener is offering up herself and her sister. That's interesting. There's also something from Bobby Skafish, he just saw an article in Mojo about Disco Demolition with the Paul Natkin photos. Then Bobby and his wife rented I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With and there was Steve. |
| 9:04
| Steve found the email. The person hasn't listened since Steve switched to Jack. So right there that disqualifies you. They heard the show is still good but then they went to Dahl.com and saw Steve's comb over. That hurts! It's not a comb over! |
| 9:05
| Alright time for today's web poll, hopefully this paper crumpling isn't too much. Today's question is "Should a woman who's 6 months pregnant date?" This is an article about Bridget Moynahan, Tom Brady's ex-girlfriend. |
| 9:06
| Tom knocked her up and left and then he knocked Giselle Bundchen up so he's got two bastard kids now. Mary is saying that Giselle isn't pregnant. Was she pregnant? Mary keeps up on all this stuff but Steve does not. |
| 9:07
| Giselle was never pregnant but there was a rumor that she was. You'd think Tom would have been able to make all of that work for him. |
| 9:08
| OK, Bridget Moynahan returned from the hospital with her son Jack and cried. It wasn't postpartum depression, just and overwhelming anxiety about raising a child. There's a photo of Bridget in lingerie next to a crib, that's sort of a mixed message. |
| 9:09
| Moynahan had dated Tom Brady for 3 years but in February of 2007 she was 3 months pregnant and no longer dating him. Attaboy! |
| 9:10
| Everyone knows that Brady had moved on with supermodel Giselle Panties in a Bundchen. Moynahan is raising her son on her own but Tom does spend time with him. |
| 9:11
| Moynahan felt terrified to go it alone though. She could have called Steve or Buzz, they were available. |
| 9:12
| Moynahan's friends and family rallied behind her. Her I, Robot co-star Will Smith was a great support to her. He picked up the phone to make sure she was alright. |
| 9:13
| Moynahan enjoyed her pregnancy. The weight she put on was all baby but she felt good and sexy. |
| 9:14
| 6 months into her pregnancy she started dating which is today's web poll question. She says she'd love to have another kid but she'd prefer to raise it with someone else. That would be hard for the other guy with the constant reminder of Tom Brady always there. |
| 9:15
| Moynahan is dating now but it's nothing serious. That's not what you want to hear if you're the guy she's dating right now. |
| 9:16
| These days her priority is her son. They swim together daily and music classes are just around the corner. She's introduced Jack to her favorites like Eddie Vedder, Frank Sinatra and Crosby, Stills and Nash. Just their music, no the actual people. Frank Sinatra's dead so that wouldn't work. |
| 9:17
| Ed Silha says he'd date Moynahan, in case she hears this on the podcast. That's totally doable. |
| 9:18
| Buzz is wondering if you can have sex when you're 6 months pregnant. It seems wrong It just says she was dating but were it to come to that it would seem wrong, especially with Tom Brady's evil seed in her. |
| 9:19
| It might seem wrong but a Bridget Moynahan can probably make it seem right. |
| 9:25
| Live read: McCracken Financial |
| 9:26
| Alright so the R. Kelly trial is over and Brendan is back to his mundane work-a-day life answering phones. He's like a grounded superhero. |
| 9:27
| Brendan is hoping some other musician will be accused of committing a sex crime. It wasn't R. Kelly on the tape though and it wasn't his Lincoln Log Room. |
| 9:28
| It was a very emotional scene in court on Friday though. On Thursday they had the closing arguments. The prosecution went up there and showed the video and went through pointing out all the crimes committed. |
| 9:29
| Then Sam Adams Jr. gave his closing remarks where he tried to rhyme told and mole. John Kass stole Steve's "If there's not a mole then it's not his pole" line which he blogged about today. |
| 9:30
| John Kass is the worst kind of thief. Like Kevin Matthews he plays dumb and pretends he doesn't listen or wasn't paying attention so it was just an accident that he stole your idea. |
| 9:31
| On Friday Brendan was in court and Judge Gaughan was taking care of some other unrelated cases. |
| 9:32
| Matt and Brendan did their webcast on Friday and Steve called in to talk about Matt's dog. As it turns out, Steve's dogs are just as bad as Matt's. |
| 9:33
| Steve's banning all dogs from the house until they can get some sort of intervention in there, maybe that dog whisperer guy. |
| 9:34
| So Brendan gets the call that the verdict is in and a lot of the reporters thought it would be a guilty verdict. |
| 9:35
| The judge told everyone in court that they had to stay put and if someone tried to leave and be the first to report the verdict they'd be put in jail. |
| 9:36
| There were noticeable gasps as the verdicts were being read. They were probably from the judge. The jury saw the tape right? |
| 9:37
| Brendan saw that entire tape and there was no time when he poured a bottle fo water on the girl right? Steve's been referring to that for 6 years but he never reads it anywhere. |
| 9:38
| The final count was read and then the judge had to meet with the jury for some instructions. R. Kelly stood up and there were tears in his eyes and he began hugging everyone. |
| 9:39
| Buzz is wondering how this effects any charges against Jim DeRogatis. Why does Buzz want to take it out on him? The only thing he's guilty of is sending over a poor quality tape. |
| 9:40
| A lot of the jurors said that the tape quality had a lot to do with it. Plus they never had a victim in court so they didn't really know what she looked like. |
| 9:41
| Steve was very disappointed that she was found not guilty. Buzz is only happy because he thinks it's |
| 9:42
| Caller Rodney is going to clear up this bottled water thing. Dave Chappelle did something on his show with the bottle of water. Rodney also has some info about that vocoder sound on Hair Braider. |
| 9:43
| That sound actually comes from a pitch corrector, which you can use on your computer. It's for people who can't sing well and when you make it out you get that sound. Cher also used it. |
| 9:44
| One final thing Brendan wanted to add about the trial coverage. There was a German girl there for the entire time covering the trial for Stern Magazine. She was taking notes the whole time, looking very serious. |
| 9:45
| But after the verdict was read Brendan saw her running through the streets with an R. Kelly shirt on. So it was all a scam? |
| 9:46
| Brendan covered the entire trial and he would have had a hard time saying he was guilty, just because he couldn't tell if it was that girl in the video. Steve would have set guilty no matter what. He's been in worse hotels, he can wait people out. |
| 9:47
| What about the guy who went nuts over a cheeseburger? The jury was sequestered and they were at a restaurant. It was taking too long to get this guy his burger and beers so he went nuts on the waiter. |
| 9:48
| The deputies on duty took him outside to calm him down. When he threw his arms over his head one deputy actually stepped back. That night the male jurors were supposed to share rooms but he got his own. |
| 9:49
| The next day Gaughan admonished him for his outburst. He said he was feeling claustrophobic and didn't mean to intimidate any jurors. He was allowed to stay even though the prosecution wanted him gone. |
| 9:50
| They didn't say what restaurant it was but it was probably something at the hotel. It was just a little late drama at the trial. |
| 9:51
| Steve doesn't like when the jurors give interviews right after the verdict is read. If they're going to do that then why don't they just show them deliberating? |
| 9:52
| Steve has a good example of the vocoder sound, other than Hair Braider which is a pretty good example. |
| 9:59
| Hopefully R. went to church Sunday with the kids, the whole family. |
| 10:00
| That's about it today unless Buzz has any other late breaking news? Today is the day that Elian Gonzalez becomes a Communist. He got his card from Castro today, they're supposedly very close. That's not creepy at all. |
| 10:01
| Should Steve be saying what songs are coming up on Jack FM? They're all right in front of him. We've got ZZ Top first. It seems like there's more than an hour of music, does Todd cut them down and speed them up like at a strip club? |
