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| 5:32
| Steve forgot how we do the start of the show, apologies to Buzz. It's important to do it right isn't it? Buzz thinks so. How can Steve forget in two weeks? He actually forgot in a week. Anything over a week is iffy. |
| 5:33
| Does this theme kick in at all or can Steve just start talking? When Buzz was at the resort in Jamaica they played Gershwin over breakfast every morning. There he goes, lording his rich guy status over everyone. |
| 5:34
| On the way in today Steve was thinking about how he couldn't remember how to do all of this. He couldn't sleep last night for the same reason. |
| 5:35
| For the last two weeks Steve was getting a chuckle out of Buzz not knowing we had two weeks off. He didn't protest taking two weeks off though. Steve doesn't like taking two weeks off but in the past that's how he did it because of the ratings. |
| 5:36
| All of that has changed and now Steve will have it down to a week. He's got a whole vacation schedule planned out for next year that needs Buzz's approval. You have to plan this far in advance if you want to go anywhere these days. |
| 5:37
| Buzz has already booked a trip for next year and that's what he does. He's assuming it's the same time we always have off in the summer, it's standard. Is it the last week of June and the first week of July going to the 5th? That's when Buzz scheduled his trip, it's almost like he saw Steve's schedule. |
| 5:38
| Christmas for this year is already in place so forget about that but next year Steve has a week in March penciled in. He gets 5 weeks but Buzz only gets 4. Although he ends up getting 5 weeks anyway. |
| 5:39
| Buzz always books next year's trip while he's on his current trip, everyone knows it but he denies it. This year he did stop by the You Come Back desk and was informed that he could save $3,000 on next year's trip if he booked now. That's impossible, are they going to pay Buzz to come to Jamaica? |
| 5:40
| So we've got a week in March, a week at the end of June, then Buzz's week that he always wants in August, a week in November and then a week in December. Steve decided he couldn't go 6 months without a vacation again. |
| 5:41
| Steve's just kidding Buzz though but everyone knows he books while he's on vacation. He gets in that mood around here and he's walking around in a straw hat and a Speedo. Some come back mon! |
| 5:42
| Steve never learned to speak like the Jamaican because he finds them to be an annoying lot. They're deceitful, backstabbing, lying, frightening people. That's probably because he spent his time isolated in a beach house with a rogue gardner and a cook who kept taking his grocery money and only bringing back sardines. |
| 5:43
| It just seems like one day they could be serving you a drink and the next day they could be serving you in a chop salad. Buzz doesn't think Steve should blame Jamaica for his bad time, he was the one isolated in a beach house. |
| 5:44
| Steve spent a week in Jamaica at an all-inclusive resort right after he'd stopped drinking. For starters everyone else was hammered the whole time and then for some reason Steve was isolated at a villa outside the resort. The gardner woke up at 4 am everyday to hack away at the bushes with a machete and the cook stole his grocery money. |
| 5:45
| Steve just had a hard time getting comfortable at a resort where there's a guy at the pool selling blow and pot. It drove Steve crazy the entire week until he finally succumb to the pot. Then he ended up hiding out in the bath tub. |
| 5:46
| Also during that trip Laura Witek got sunstroke and had to be medivacked. Steve was at a hospital that looked like it was from World War II where a woman called him fat. Turns out that was a compliment in Jamaica. But there were people just dying in the hallways because they didn't have money so it was depressing. |
| 5:47
| Steve also went to a jerk chicken stand being serviced by prostitutes. They would take customers out back by the stream. Steve only had the chicken though, nothing else. |
| 5:53
| There ya go, that's The Slim One, making radio fun. She used to come on after Steve and Garry on Saturdays. She was always shocked by their lack of discipline. She came in ready to rock ya and didn't appreciate that Steve and Garry were ruining that station. |
| 5:54
| They didn't run that station into the ground or maybe they did. Over the years Steve might have inadvertently run a few stations into the ground because he's the only successful thing on there. Although after that they went to WLS and that sort of got run into the ground but only because Larry Lujack went to mornings and Steve and Garry left. |
| 5:55
| Steve's around when bad stuff happens. It boils down to him not letting them run him into the ground like they're trying to run the rest of the station into the ground. Steve and Garry had to work Saturdays as punishment for something. |
| 5:56
| When they left The Loop they went to WLS FM where Steve took less money so Garry could make more. He'll never do that again. Plus they had to work an extra day. The Loop got driven into the ground but that was after Steve and Garry left. |
| 5:57
| Steve says we ran WCKG into the ground but really it was that Grover guy. Steve heard 5 minutes of his tape and knew they shouldn't hire him but no one listened. The guys who decided to hire Grover and David Lee Roth are all gone now but they're somewhere else still making money. They should have been driven out of the business for behavior like that. |
| 5:58
| Meanwhile Steve and Buzz are left holding the bag, looking like they ran the station into the ground. Really they propped it up for a year and a half. That's radio though, it's a tough business, just as Mike North. |
| 5:59
| What's that guy thinking? Radio is an ebb and flow business. Sometimes when it's down you have to take the short money and then renegotiate in a couple of years. Luckily he's got Jeff Schwartz advising him. Jeff and Mike both have issues with CBS so that's a bad combination. It's synergy! |
| 6:00
| It occurred to Steve that he's been working for CBS, in this building, for 12 years. There's no cake though, he's still got 3 years left. It's the 7th right? Because Steve's watch says it's the 6th. So does Buzz's watch! It's lucky that they're both here, they're about 12 hours off. So there's no cake today but Steve doesn't need one. He lost 3 pounds over the hiatus which is hard to do. |
| 6:01
| When Jeff Schwartz was last at WCKG he quit while Steve was on vacation. He called to tell him that he was quitting and then he put him on hold to take another call. It took a long time so Steve turned on the radio and there was Jeff on ESPN, his new station. |
| 6:02
| If Steve was Mike North he would have sucked it up and taken the money. Sometimes you have to, radio goes up and down. Steve and Buzz are like lobsters, there's a market value. Lobsters don't set their own price! |
| 6:03
| Caller Lenny wanted to let Steve know that his watch didn't roll forward because June only has 30 days. He must have a 30 day watch, as does Buzz. Buzz has heard of a new perpetual calendar watch that will keep you updated through the next century. |
| 6:04
| Steve has a mechanical watch though, what does Buzz have an electronic watch? Steve can't stand hearing this entire conversation back through Lenny's phone, he has to terminate this conversation. Buzz has never heard the term electronic watch. Is that something that gets plugged in? |
| 6:05
| Steve's a little cranky today because his Green Room was violated. Someone used the toilet and didn't even clean up after themselves. Plus someone turned down the air conditioner. |
| 6:06
| Steve would ask Pete or Jim but they'd just deny it. It's probably one of the engineers anyway, they all have keys. None of them should have keys though. Stephen the engineer has a key to Steve's office which he uses to le† himself in even when Steve is there! |
| 6:07
| It could be any of the engineers, they all like going in there and pretending they're Steve sitting on the throne. It could be that bald engineer too. It wasn't Pete right? He'd never admit it anyway. He's like Ed Gein in his studio, collection flakes of Steve's skin and making a suit out of it. |
| 6:08
| OK time for the web poll. The last web poll from two weeks ago was "How will you spend your summer vacation?" Home sweet home was the winner. All during the hiatus the news was report about people not going on vacation because gas was too expensive. Is there any real news, other than that tomatoes might give you salmonella? |
| 6:09
| It might not be the tomatoes anyway, it could be cilantro or any number of salsa ingredients. Steve wouldn't mind getting salmonella, it would be a great way to diet. |
| 6:10
| Today's web poll question is "Should men wear capri pants?" and we all know what he answer to this is. Although when Steve was in LA recently he saw a lot of guys wearing capri pants and they were with hot women. |
| 6:11
| Who would have thought that in two weeks Steve would forget how to read? He never really had it mastered in the first place. This article is written in the first person just so everyone knows that Steve's not thinking of wearing capri pants. |
| 6:12
| Whoever wrote this leaves his apartment on the weekend with a basic checklist. Is his fly up? Do his socks match? On a recent Saturday he added "Does this polo shirt match these baby blue capri pants?" |
| 6:13
| He didn't enter this experiment lightly. Should he wear shoes or sandals? Socks? Tucked or untucked? |
| 6:14
| European designer Sonja de Lennart created the capri pant in the late 1940s, for women. In recent runway shows men have been wearing capri pants. Buzz has seen them in Chicago. |
| 6:15
| Steve used to rock the clamdiggers as a kid but those weren't as long as capri pants. And now those are probably just long shorts, like cargo shorts. Steve has the cargo shorts on right now but he has no cargo. That's what's stopping Buzz from wearing them. Steve's cargo pockets keep getting caught on chairs. |
| 6:16
| Steve thinks he just felt an earthquake. Or was that Buzz pounding on the table? Mary and Brendan also felt it. Steve's going earthquake, just to be the first to say it. Remember how big that last one was? |
| 6:17
| When you're wearing capri pants you're supposed to stick to slip-on sneakers or boat shoes and you're not supposed to wear socks. This reporter went untucked and bared his hairy ankles. Why does he keep mentioning hairy ankles? Doesn't everyone have hair on their ankles? |
| 6:18
| Ed Farmer, voice of the White Sox is on the phone. Buzz is guessing that Ed doesn't have hair on his ankles. He actually doesn't from the years of putting tape on his ankles. |
| 6:19
| What's Ed doing up this early? He's just up and around, the team isn't going to Kansas City until tonight. That was a pretty good homestand the Sox just had, they went 8-2. |
| 6:20
| Ed was looking for Steve at the game yesterday but he wasn't there. Steve has not been out for golf lessons in a couple of weeks but he did go to Cog Hill to practice. That golf is maddening, Steve forgot everything he learned already. |
| 6:21
| Ed's not sure he's retained anything he's learned from golf. Steve finally started to remember everything as he was getting to the end of his bucket of balls. He still has that problem where he whiffs at every other ball. |
| 6:22
| Then Steve looks back to make sure no one saw and of course everyone saw. Ed just laughs when he messes up but Steve usually swears and then slams the club into the ground. |
| 6:23
| Ed is hearing that Madonna is now dating A-Rod. Well both of them are getting divorces but who knows if it's to be together? A-Rod's wife is now being connected to Lenny Kravitz. |
| 6:24
| Buzz is surprised that Ed is up on his story but he has the latest on it. According to A-Rod's former trainer and the godfather of two of his kids, A-Rod is completely entranced by Madonna. He only listens to her music in the car and when a Madonna video comes on the TV he stops what he's doing. |
| 6:25
| The Brewers got C.C. Sabathia but Ed has to think if they fall out of contention before they deadline they'll trade him. He's a free agent after his year, as is Ben Sheets. |
| 6:26
| Steve's wondering what happens when Paul Konerko comes back. Ed asked Ozzie the same question yesterday but he didn't get why he was asking it. Ed's guessing the Sox could trade Uribe when Konerko comes back. The Sox really like Uribe though. |
| 6:27
| Steve doesn't get why the Sox like Uribe so much. Steve likes Nick Swisher at first base and he likes Brian Anderson in center. If Steve were the White Sox-and he hates to say this-he'd make Konerko the DH. Where does that put Jim Thome though? |
| 6:28
| Steve loves Jim Thome but he's been noticing that he's having trouble catching up to the fastball. For what they're charging Steve needs to see championship baseball. |
| 6:29
| Steve really just wants to seem championship baseball and Juan Uribe out of town. He does like Nick Swisher at first base though, he gives the whole infield some pop. He also calls his arms thunder and lightning. |
| 6:30
| Ed's going to go out and play some golf today. Steve's not sure if he actually wants to play a round of golf with anyone, he likes the solitary aspect of just hitting the ball. |
| 6:31
| Ed reminds Steve to call Bill Miller from Majestic, he wants to outfit him. In golf clothing? Steve definitely doesn't want one of those camo Sox jerseys, that didn't work out. |
| 6:32
| Those uniforms were a bust. You get used to throwing to a guy in white with black pinstripes and then you've got a guy in camo. That game on Friday was one of the worst Steve has ever seen. |
| 6:33
| It'd be nice if we could go into the All-Star break with both teams being in first place. Minnesota is going to have to start losing though but they're finally going on a road trip, first to Boston. |
| 6:34
| That game on Friday was brutal and they had the stupid camo jerseys on. Steve wants to see guys in baseball uniforms, not guys in hunting gear. |
| 6:40
| That's Jermaine Dye or JD as he's called in White Sox circles. You can still vote him into the All-Star game. That's not to start is it? Pete says he'd just be an alternate, like Crede and Quentin. |
| 6:41
| There are a lot of Cubs in the All-Star game, almost too many. If the Cubs don't get home field in the World Series they only have themselves to blame. That's too many players though, even Pete must think that. |
| 6:42
| The Cubs have Alfonso Soriano, Kosuke Fukudome and Geovanny Soto all starting and then Voodie, Ryan Dempster, Carlos Zambrano and Aramis Ramirez. Steve enjoyed seeing Voodie blow that save on Saturday although afterwards Tony LaRussa said he was still a great pitcher. So there has to be some solace in that. |
| 6:43
| And how about that sweep? Which sweep? The show was off for both sweeps. That week after the Cubs swept the Sox at Wrigley was very long for Steve. |
| 6:44
| The sweeps were good for both Cubs and Sox fans because everyone got to feel good and bad. And there were some sweet fights at the Sox game. There's one on YouTube but unfortunately it's Sox fans on Sox fans. |
| 6:45
| It was a pretty sweet beating though, they were bitch-kicking this guy while he was down. You still don't like to see that, you'd prefer to see Sox fans on Cubs fans or Sox fans on umps. |
| 6:46
| Pete went to the Friday game at The Cell thanks to Steve's tickets. It was Pete, Brendan, Stephanie and Adam. Pete and Brendan didn't have a good time but at least Stephanie did. Steve's not sure what Adam is a fan of though. |
| 6:47
| Originally it was supposed to be Jim going but he couldn't make it because of marital commitments. When Steve approved the dispersing of the tickets Jim was part of the group. Adam is actually supposed to be banned after he improperly asked Steve for some tickets earlier in the year. |
| 6:48
| Adam asked Steve for some tickets but then didn't want them because it was supposed to rain. So Steve had to eat the tickets. Adam was going to pay for them though which isn't how we do it here, Steve just gives people tickets. Then he sold Adam tickets to another game! |
| 6:49
| Steve calls down to the newsroom. Jim couldn't make the game because he was hanging out with his fiance. Is he whipped already? What the hell is that?! They actually went on an architecture tour of the Chicago river. What is that?! Just a guy on a boat pointing out buildings and not knowing the architect? Then telling you to look out for the Dave Matthews Band tour bus. |
| 6:50
| Steve has to let Jim go, he doesn't even know what else to say to him. But Adam is supposed to be on ticket probation and that includes Bears, Hawks and White Sox. |
| 6:57
| It'd be nice to have at least one White Sox player starting the All-Star game. There are 7 Cubs on the team! Even after the Sox won the World Series they didn't have 7 players! |
| 6:58
| The starters get voted in by the fans but everyone else gets picked by the managers or the players. They're just sucking up to Cubs fans! Jermaine Dye definitely deserves to be an All-Star. |
| 6:59
| It's really tough if you're in the American League because the Yankees and Red Sox players always make the team. Steve is so sick of both of those teams. ESPN is like their Comcast Sportsnet. We don't all live in New York or New England! |
| 7:00
| Live read: Gladstone Homes |
| 7:01
| We were doing the web poll and then Ed Farmer called in. The question was about guy's wearing capri pants and they really shouldn't. If you go to YouTube there are actually some great White Sox fan fights including a great one called Cubs/Sox Chick Brawl. |
| 7:02
| Caller Joe is glad Steve and Buzz are back. They deserve a vacation but he's glad to hear them live. So is Steve! He's never missed a Steve Dahl Show in all his years. |
| 7:03
| Joe was watching the Wimbledon Finals yesterday and noticed that Raphael Nadal was wearing capris. Are those capris are or they just long shorts? Because Steve's wearing long shorts now. |
| 7:04
| Nadal's shorts are more form fitting but Steve's going to give him the clamdigger exception. He is from Australia. Buzz wants to know the difference between capris and clamdiggers. |
| 7:05
| Capris stop around the middle of the calf but clamdiggers go right past the knees. Steve doesn't think he's wearing clamdiggers though, he's got cargo shorts on and no cargo. |
| 7:06
| Joe has noticed that Nadal is constantly unbunching his underwear while playing. That's why Steve doesn't wear underwear when he plays tennis. |
| 7:07
| Steve's not sure he can talk about this any more but has he satisfied Joe? His call was as topical as today's headlines. |
| 7:08
| News with Buzz |
| 7:09
| A female suicide bomber was in action in Baghdad today and at least 9 people are dead. A dozen more were wounded at a market in Northern Iraq. Al Qaeda has been favoring female suicide bombers because it's easier for women to get through security. |
| 7:10
| U.S. Health Inspectors will spend more time inspecting produce coming from Mexico for salmonella contamination. That includes tomatoes, cilantro, serrano and jalapeño peppers and scallions. |
| 7:11
| How are they going to trace that? And shouldn't those trucks be inspected anyway? If Steve and Buzz tried to drive back from Mexico with a truckload of tomatoes it would all be taken away. |
| 7:12
| John McCain will promise to balance the budget before the end of his first term. Part of his plan includes cutting wasteful spending and restructuring programs like Social Security. |
| 7:13
| As discussed earlier in the show, Alex Rodriguez's wife will divorce him in a Miami court today. And Buzz also reported that A-Rod's former trainer said the Yankee goes into a trance whenever one of her videos comes on. That's probably also his former friend too right? Because your current friend wouldn't say that. |
| 7:14
| Fox News Channel gained attention last week for showing doctored photos of two New York Times reporters. The reporters had previously written bad reviews of the network. |
| 7:15
| It wasn't shown as part of the news though, it was on a personality-based show. They still didn't say it was doctored though. It's not like they showed it all day long though. |
| 7:16
| It's believed that over 3 million people left the Taste of Chicago with full stomachs, or full of hot lead as some people said. There were some shootings connected to the Taste but not on festival grounds. |
| 7:17
| There was one right here at Michigan and Randolph, that's where we are. Steve was down here for the fireworks, there were a lot of punks. |
| 7:18
| Steve erroneously reported earlier that we had an earthquake but there was no earthquake. Penny felt it downstairs too. Steve wanted to be the first one reporting the earthquake. |
| 7:19
| At the opening day of Berlin's Madam Tussaud's a visitor ripped the head of the Adolf Hitler wax statue in protest. |
| 7:20
| By the way, those shorts Raphael Nadal wears are Nike Dri-FIT longer length men's tennis shorts. |
| 7:21
| Going back to the fireworks, Steve had everyone down here and had the boat in Chicago. He couldn't see the fireworks from his slip even though the reason he got the slip was so he could see the fireworks. They had to get off the boat and stand on the bike path. No one said anything though. |
| 7:22
| They could only see the tops of the fireworks so at first Steve thought they'd get a little higher at they went along. They might want to get some fireworks that go higher though. |
| 7:23
| You'll never see ABBA again live, that's according to the Sunday Telegraph. They quoted Bjorn Ulvaeus who said they'd never appear on stage again. There's no motivation for a reunion and he'd like people to remember the band when they were young, beautiful and energetic. Plus they're making a ton off Mamma Mia. |
| 7:29
| That was a drop from the last earthquake we had. We didn't have one today though but there was one yesterday just north of Memphis. The building did shake today but Steve's been given no explanation of why. |
| 7:30
| Buzz is a little jittery today, he was rocking back and forth while doing the news. He's like one of those birds that drinks water. |
| 7:31
| Steve hasn't had any caffeine in two week so he's all jacked up today. He had a lot of trouble sleeping ove the hiatus, he was staying up until 4 am. Then last night he couldn't get to sleep which was irritating. |
| 7:32
| Live read: Gladstone Homes |
| 7:33
| Caller Mark is wondering what female suicide bombers get. The men get all the virgins but that doesn't really appeal to women. Maybe women get experienced men? |
| 7:34
| You have to think those men who are suicide bombers aren't that good in bed. They'd probably be focused on other things and really jittery. |
| 7:35
| Caller Tom is surprised Steve has trouble falling asleep, can't he listen to old Garry Meier tapes? Tom actually wanted to talk to Drew about him kissing his daughter on the hand and cheek at her 21st birthday. |
| 7:36
| Tom's daughter was having her birthday at the Bar Louie in Bolingbrook and one of her friends is obsessed with Drew. Everywhere he goes in Bolingbrook he asks if Drew is there. |
| 7:37
| Drew was there that night so the friend went to go talk to him and then brought him over. He talked to her for a bit and then kissed her hand and asked if she wanted to come to Burrito Loco with them. |
| 7:38
| She declined and then he kissed her on the cheek. Right before we left for hiatus we got some mail from Drew. He sent the t-shirt he was wearing in a Sun-Times photo last month which said "It's not my job to blow sunshine up your a--" He also sent a note that said "You had more fun with this than I did" |
| 7:39
| Buzz wants to know what Drew's friends look like. Tom's daughter and her friends were pretty freaked out so they don't really remember much. |
| 7:40
| When Steve lived in Bolingbrook the city hall and the police department were in a double wide trailer. Now they've got a Bar Louie! Steve missed all the good stuff. |
| 7:41
| Caller Rhonna was listening to Steve's story about the fireworks. Next year he needs to position himself along the wall in Monroe Harbor so the fireworks go off right above his head. |
| 7:42
| If they would just let Steve join the Chicago Yacht Club all of his problems would be solved. The last time he was there they thought he was applying for the bus boy job but he was there for a TV interview. |
| 7:43
| They actually had to move the barge on Thursday night because of the weather so under normal circumstances Steve probably would have been able to see. He's just going to go with that then. |
| 7:44
| One cool think that Steve did see on Thursday was a Coast Guard helicopter landing at their station. |
| 7:50
| Steve has some information about how God rewards a female suicide bomber. 9th century scholar Al-Tabarani argued that women will be reunited with their husbands in the next world. |
| 7:51
| If a woman had several husbands she can pick the best one to be with as their eternal spouse. Women may not get virgins but religious commentaries argue that paradise will make them beautiful, happy and without jealousy. |
| 7:52
| Because they worshipped Allah in life this will make them superior to the virgins who only exist in heaven. Apparently they have an entire layer of virgins up there. They're just fake though, they're inflatables. Has Buzz ever seen Lars and the Real Girl? He needs to check that out, it's about a guy with a blow-up doll. It's more complicated than that but Steve doesn't want to spoil it. |
| 7:53
| Steve just saw Adam in the hallway and he had breakfast and it wasn't for him. He can smell it and he's thinking that he might have to go and take it. Steve calls down to Adam's office. |
| 7:54
| That is not Adam's breakfast, he just got some cereal. Who's breakfast is it then? What kind of cereal is Adam eating? Should Steve still confiscate it? What happen to the omelets Adam always gets, did he have his cholesterol checked out? |
| 7:55
| That's actually AJ's food, it's barbecue chicken. Try not to stereotype yourself black guy! Don't we normally share food with AJ? When Steve was getting those Cinnabon's he'd always give one to AJ. |
| 7:56
| Steve did just get some Starbucks although they had to close 400 stores just while we were off. That's probably because we weren't around to drink it. |
| 7:57
| Lars & the Real Girl stars Ryan Gosling as Lars Lindstrom an shy man living in a small town. He purchase a sex doll online and proceeds to introduce her to his brother and sister-in-law as his girlfriend. It's really good and it's On Demand. |
| 7:58
| Last Thursday Steve had a column in the Tribune about premium seating at movie theaters, specifically mentioning that Muvico place. He basically gave them a 700 word advertisement so when he went to see Hancock on Saturday he was dreading it because he thought everyone would be gushing over it. |
| 7:59
| No one said anything to Steve on Saturday though, even the two managers he knows. So Steve went from dreading it to being mad because it seemed like no one read the article. |
| 8:00
| Then about halfway through Hancock the fire alarm went off and they had to clear the theater. Steve immediately had the valet get his car because who knows when they'd give the all clear or if they'd start the movie up exactly where they left off. |
| 8:01
| Steve's recommending the first hour of the movie though and not just because he likes Charlize Theron. He was mad they had to leave but at least they'd already had their free popcorn. |
| 8:02
| Steve also turned a Pakistani guy onto his trick of putting a straw on the butter spigot and getting all of your popcorn buttered. When Steve left the guy he was hooking his straw up to the butter dispenser. |
| 8:03
| Steve still has no idea what happened though and there was nothing in the paper about it. You'd think the evacuation of an entire theater complex would make the paper but it was just stories about high gas prices and all the garbage at the Taste. |
| 8:04
| Steve's not going to go and see the rest of the movie now so he has to wait until it comes on DVD. He could probably just go to the movies an hour late though. Mike Dahl couldn't believe Steve didn't get his money back. |
| 8:05
| Steve would still like to know what happened, he could probably call out to Rosemont and find out. Buzz thought Steve wanted to know what happened in the movie. |
| 8:06
| Caller Mike wanted to let Steve know that Lou Canellis did a whole thing last night about the Muvico Theater, it seems like he just got it all from Steve's article. It was a typical Lou Canellis hack job on 190 North. He was casually dressed walking around the theater. That guy's a tool! |
| 8:07
| Caller Kathy is out in Brookfield. Actually she's downtown but things were good in Brookfield when she left. The zoo's still there right? No animals have escaped? |
| 8:08
| Kathy went to see Hancock on the 4th of July at Yorktown and before the movie started the strobe lights went off and the entire complex had to be evacuated. That's weird isn't it? Two premium theaters showing the same movie and both were evacuated? |
| 8:09
| Kathy went in to see the rest of the movie and she really liked it, Steve needs to go back. He'd rather have a screener copy but they think he's going to make bootlegs of them. |
| 8:10
| Live read: Townstone Financial |
| 8:11
| Buzz is of course blissfully unaware of this but right before the hiatus there was a problem with another company who was sort of doing David's thing in the live reads. |
| 8:12
| Steve knew David wouldn't be happy with that. He told him to let it go but he wouldn't. Buzz likes the attitude. Nobody knows though because it happened at 5:30 in the morning 2 weeks ago. |
| 8:13
| David didn't even hear it, he was alerted to it by someone else. Then on the Friday before Steve's 2 week vacation he has to deal with that. And you know Jeff Schwartz put him up to it, he's his advisor. |
| 8:14
| Alright it's time for the Eight O'Clock Taco Bell. It's Manager Monday although we don't have a manager. Steve could play a manager but that seems fraught with problems. He'll just tell Buzz about the new Queso Crunch Wrap. |
| 8:22
| That's Lou Canellis reporting on Muvico, he's a nose passing for a man. Pat Boyle's on the phone, Lou's one of his colleagues now. |
| 8:23
| Steve has no idea what he started with Peanut Butter Jelly Time, people are constantly calling Pat Peanut Butter. He's being introduced as Peanut Butter. Steve knew what he was starting that's why he keeps playing for it. |
| 8:24
| It's not the worst thing to be known though is it? Take it from Steve, a guy who was dreading going to the movie because of that article he'd written and then no one even read it. |
| 8:25
| Steve still doesn't know what happened, maybe the news department can get on his. Buzz wouldn't be surprised if calls are being made already. |
| 8:26
| Pat took some time off last week after the Crosstown Classic circus. One sweep for each team was probably good right? It was a long week after that sweep at Wrigley for Steve though, you don't want to start your week off like that. |
| 8:27
| Steve had the press pass for the games at The Cell so he went to all those post-game press conferences. Ozzie kept looking at Steve like he knew him but couldn't figure it out. |
| 8:28
| Steve doesn't like going into the lockerroom because he doesn't need to see Jermaine Dye naked. He just stayed for the manager press conferences. He didn't see his White Sox crush, Carlos Quentin though. |
| 8:29
| Carlos is very soft spoken. Steve keeps expecting him to have a really thick accent but he went to Stanford. |
| 8:30
| Steve did enjoy Nick Swisher introducing himself as Judge Dirty during one of the days of the Crosstown. He refers to himself in the third person of course. He was also high-fiving a poster of himself. |
| 8:31
| Nick saw a poster of himself in the stadium so he took it and put it in his locker. Then someone brought it out for the press conference. |
| 8:32
| Well both teams are in first place now with the Cubs with a 3 1/2 game lead over the Brewers and the Cardinals. And of course the Brewers just acquired C.C. Sabathia from Cleveland. |
| 8:33
| The Cubs also have 7 players on the NL All-Star roster which Steve still feels is too many. They were swept in the first round of the playoffs last year! The Sox have the lowest team ERA in all of baseball and they don't have any pitchers in the All-Star Game! |
| 8:34
| And then there's A-Rod who's wife is divorcing him. She actually filed this morning in Florida. The filing comes just days after A-Rod was linked to Madonna. |
| 8:35
| Cynthia Rodriguez later visited the Paris home of rocker Lenny Kravitz, who said she came to France to escape the media frenzy. Can you really call him a rocker? Kravitz denied that anything improper had happened. Women come visit Steve at his place in France all the time just for a pep talk. |
| 8:36
| Madonna is denying the affair and and is not planning a divorce from her husband Guy Ritchie. |
| 8:37
| Of course A-Rod's trainer is saying that A-Rod is in a trance every time one of Madonna's video comes on TV. |
| 8:38
| You'd think A-Rod could do better than Madonna. Maybe it'd be different if it was 20 years ago. |
| 8:39
| We've got some severe weather coming through the area. Should Steve just tell Buzz about this or would he rather hear it from an expert. Buzz would prefer an expert. |
| 8:40
| Tommy Skillethead is checking in with some weather. We had that great weather over the holiday weekend but now we're going to pay the price. That's not how weather works though. |
| 8:41
| National Weather Service indicates a severe thunderstorm capable of producing damaging winds in excess of 60 mph. It will be near Geneva and Batavia by 8:40 am. They're already a minute into that, hopefully they're enjoying it. |
| 8:42
| Pat was looking for a forecast for January 1st when the Red Wings play the Blackhawks at Wrigley Field. It's going to be very cold, they won't have any problem keeping the ice frozen. |
| 8:43
| That's happening then because Steve missed it. It was reported in Detroit and Minneapolis papers but it will be officially announced at the Blackhawks convention next weekend. |
| 8:44
| Why Wrigley? Why not Soldier Field? January is probably the only time when you can go to Wrigley and it doesn't smell like urine. |
| 8:45
| There was concern at Soldier Field that there might be playoff football next January so they didn't want to risk messing up the field. That's funny. |
| 8:46
| The Hawks signed Brian Campbell last week, Steve has to like that. He's going to miss Rene Bourque though. James Wisniewski tore his ACL training so he'll miss the start of the season. |
| 8:47
| Anything else Buzz wants to know about sports? What about that Dara Torres? She's 41 and she qualified for the Olympics for swimming and set all kinds of records. |
| 8:48
| Pat doesn't really pay that much attention to the Olympics but he does know about this story. Is that something you want to say as a sportscaster? Even Steve wouldn't say that. |
| 8:49
| She just had a kid last year too and Steve's pretty sure it was out-of-wedlock. Yesterday they showed her sister, who was hot, her mom who was hot and her dad but there was no husband. |
| 8:50
| Torres is Jewish on her father's side. She converted to Judaism before marrying her second husband, Israeli surgeon Itzhak Sha...shi...Steve can't say this word. She was inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 2005. So now it's her and Sandy Koufax. |
| 8:51
| During the hiatus Steve went to L.A. to see the Sox play the Dodgers. Steve went to Stub Hub and got some sweet tickets behind the plate. They were next to the guy who played Arliss who's a complete idiot. He was saying things like "Hey AJ, you're keeping my fantasy team alive" or "He Buehrle, what's the shortest game you've ever pitched in?" Who says stuff like that?! |
| 8:52
| And he left before the game was over. It was a short game, only about 2 hours and everyone at Dodgers games shows up late and leaves early. They get there in the 5th, toss the beach ball around a bit, do the wave and then leave in the 7th. |
| 8:53
| Steve did get up to the press box with Pat and his dad. His dad might have actually been impressed with him for that. He didn't even have a press pass which is impressive. Plus Ed and Steve Stone knew him and Brooks Boyer was also up there. |
| 8:54
| The key to getting up there is to act like you belong, like you don't have a press pass because you don't need one. It helps to know media buzz words like "visiting radio booth" |
| 8:55
| They also saw Steve Garvey which was sort of awkward. Steve's dad started asking Steve Garvey about his dad. But Garvey answered him. It was already on thin ice because Garvey was acting like he knew Steve. Everything went fine though. |
| 9:02
| That was Kerry Sayers shrieking after Brian Anderson got some shaving cream in the face. They should use whip cream, it seems like shaving cream would burn. Plus you've already got Kerry there with the whip cream. |
| 9:03
| That was on the Saturday of the Crosstown right? Steve has to apologize because all the days are running together. He forgot that the first Crosstown was also during the hiatus. We were off for a long time. |
| 9:04
| Steve saw something over the weekend where Kerry was hugged, and really violated, by a player but he can't remember when it was. Steve likes Kerry's interviews though. |
| 9:05
| Live read: Fresh Diet |
| 9:06
| Caller Will wanted to let Steve know that way back in the 90s there was a Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue featuring Dara Torres. |
| 9:07
| That was actually from 1994 and it seems creepy that Will remembers it. You're not supposed to refer to old Swimsuit Issues like that, why not just go down to city hall and register, it's just a matter of time. |
| 9:08
| Caller Tom saw the Kerry Sayers hugging incident, it was from the Brian Anderson tape. He got hit in the face with a second pie at the end of the interview. She mentioned something about getting shaving cream on her and he just lunged at her. |
| 9:09
| They say that Brian Anderson had an immature attitude but he's gotten more mature. Steve can see what they're saying though. He saw Brian on opening day in 2006 sitting in the lobby of the White Sox offices in his uniform talking to some chick. It was a half hour before the game. |
| 9:10
| In the documents filed by A-Rod's wife today she says she has exhausted every effort to salvage the marriage. She says he's emotionally abandoned his wife leaving her with no choice but to divorce him. |
| 9:11
| She also says the marriage is irretrievably broken because of A-Rod's extramarital affairs and other marital misconduct. |
| 9:12
| She's asking for alimony and also their $12 million 6 bedroom estate in Coral Gables, Florida. $12 million and you only get 6 bedrooms? |
| 9:13
| There was a pre-nup signed before the marriage but it seems like all of that goes out the window once kids are involved. It's definitely what keeps Buzz in line. The whole Kilman fortune is on the line! |
| 9:14
| That storm really hit us, just like Tommy Skillethead predicted. There goes the boating trip for this afternoon. |
| 9:15
| Alright well good luck to everyone involved with the whole A-Rod thing. Do we really care though? Is it just because it's A-Rod? Steve would care more of Jim Thome was linked to Madonna. |
| 9:16
| If that were the case he'd probably go to Jim's house for an intervention. Although earlier today he did say he'd like to keep Nick Swisher at first and put Paul Konerko in the DH. |
| 9:17
| Steve doesn't really want Konerko going back to first base though. The Sox have been doing fine without Konerko though. |
| 9:23
| Steve saw Jeremy Piven at the Cubs/Sox game too. It's hard not to see him because he's one of those guys who sits in the front and stands up and turns around. It's the Jim Thompson move. |
| 9:24
| Steve knows his agent and he was doing the same thing. They were being somewhat overshadowed by Tyrus Thomas, who seemed like a nice enough kid. |
| 9:25
| At one game there was a group of about 10 women, maybe in their 40s, who were extremely hot and well-endowed. It was fun to watch because they got completely hammered. Even the ump was checking them out. |
| 9:26
| This guy sitting behind Steve got drunk and started breaking bad on them. They weren't in front of him so they weren't obscuring his view but the kept yelling at them to sit down. |
| 9:27
| Then every time someone came up to bat he said they were going to hit a home run. Then when someone did hit a home run he tried to take credit for predicting it. |
| 9:28
| Steve might have been looking at them too much because Matt Dahl told Steve and the ump to get a room with the girls. Why doesn't Matt mind his own business? |
| 9:29
| Live read: McCracken Financial |
| 9:30
| It was unfortunate that the guy behind Steve was heckling these women though. One of them talked to Steve in the buffet line. Steve always has to ask the guy at the carving station for another piece of prime rib. |
| 9:31
| Steve usually just tells the guy he'll be back for another slice anyway so why not just get it out of the way? Steve would prefer one thicker slice though. |
| 9:32
| Steve went to a lot of games over the hiatus. It was playoff atmosphere in Chicago for a week or so. Buzz was hanging on every one of those games, he couldn't believe the Cubs swept the Sox that first weekend. |
| 9:33
| It was bad enough in that first game when Ramirez won the game on a walkoff home run. Then Contreras gives up a ton of runs in the Saturday game and then they lost on Sunday. |
| 9:34
| Steve carried that around with him all week. But when he went to L.A. on the Tuesday after it seemed like the Sox could have cared less. Why would they, it's just three games! |
| 9:35
| During one of the games in L.A. the Sox pitching coach Don Cooper got mad about something in the game. He threw his pitch counter which caused him to pull his hamstring. |
| 9:36
| Then Hawk and DJ were watching the Sox players watch the incident on the camera in the dugout. They were sort of doing a play-by-play and DJ just lost it. |
| 9:37
| Caller John heard Steve talking about the attractive women at the Sox game. He might be interested in the Bristol Renaissance Faire then. Steve has tried to avoid Renaissance Faires for his entire life, so far so good. The women who work at the concessions stands wear low-cut Edwardian-style dresses with their boobs pushed out. You're encouraged to stare at them and stick tips in between their boobs. Maybe Steve has wrongly boycotted these things! |
| 9:38
| Steve has heard that people who work at those things have orgies afterwards. He recently became an Anglophile after watching The Tudors so maybe he should check the place out of authenticity. |
| 9:39
| They've got some jousting as well along with belly dancing, even though that's not Renaissance. It was the same time period, just a different continent. They're trying to expand. |
| 9:40
| John goes twice a year and he sees a lot of women out there wearing chain mail with now bra underneath. John's wife dresses up in a corset with her boobs hanging out although he doesn't dress up. He doesn't think that's weird, when he's leaving the house? |
| 9:48
| Was that the tape where Hawk and DJ lose it? Steve missed the beginning but Pete might have found something better. That's pretty good for his first try and Steve just old him about it. Plus it's a week old. |
| 9:49
| That's relaxed, vacation Steve talking. Don't press your luck though Pete. Buzz has already booked his next vacation though. You save $3,000 if you do it while you're on the current vacation. |
| 9:50
| Pete just has the raw tape that he's going to play now. As opposed to something more polished that he was going to present? The crowd noise is once again too loud, was that on WCIU? Steve had to turn Pete off because the tape kept going after it peaked. Pete never knows if he should keep going. |
| 9:51
| That was actually on Comcast but the crowd noise is still a bit too loud. Pete still did a good job finding that though. That's vacation Steve talking, along with a little pre-vacation Steve mixed in. The levels will continue to change until the next vacation. |
| 9:52
| Steve was one of the Cubs/Sox games at The Cell and he was sitting in right field. A group of attractive women all went over to the ledge and one of them actually jumped into the Cubs bullpen. |
| 9:53
| Andy couldn't figure out what was going down and he was wondering if Steve saw anything from his vantage point. Steve always hears commotion coming from the outfield but he can never tell what was going on. The Cubs probably didn't give her back, at least until after the game is over. |
| 9:54
| That's like an angel dropping from heaven. They probably took her to the lock-up at The Cell. If Steve's a Cub though he wouldn't want to relinquish her. |
| 9:55
| Andy's been a longtime listener but he hasn't called in in about 20 years. The last time he called in he won Roller Derby tickets. The prizes just keep getting better. |
| 9:56
| Any headlines we need to know about? Buzz neglected to mention earlier that it's the first day of the Running of the Bulls. Thirteen people have been hospitalized with injuries ranging from collapse lungs and punctured spleens to broken bones. |
| 9:57
| Steve was in Pamplona a few years ago but he did not run with the bulls, why would he want to do that. He was on a balcony and saw a bull pass by a girl. Then the bull actually came back to gore her. Then they just hose down the cobblestone. |
| 9:58
| One of Buzz's goals has been to go to Pamplona and run with the bulls. Over the years that's become less and less of a priority though. Steve thinks it's worth the trip to see it but not to run in it. THere are a lot of drunk people running ahead of you. Steve did have some delightful pastries made by the host family that rented out their balcony. |
| 9:59
| Pat Dahl stepped out in front of a bus doing about 40 mph and Steve pulled him out of the street just in time. Pat would probably admit that Steve saved his life there. It would have been bad if Steve returned home with Pat in a coffin. |
