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| 5:31
| What a delightful, summery feel to this song. It has a 70s feel to Buzz. This reminds Steve that last week while he was looking for a movie to watch on cable they were playing that Blob song that Burt Bachrach did. |
| 5:32
| When Buzz had his own midday show at WCKG he went through a Blob period. He was playing the Burt Bachrach song a lot, he even had a Blob Fest. Some cable channel was having their own Blob Fest. Does Buzz want to bring that back? |
| 5:33
| Buzz actually thought Steve was going to talk about Swingtown, which he finally watched. He has to say it's Must See TV. Steve watched one episode and he didn't mind. He likes any TV show where people are doing blow. |
| 5:34
| In the last episode Buzz saw Harry Reams showed up for a fundraiser. From Deep Throat? Buzz likes it because it deals with the real issues that would arise from that situation. What happens to your little family when you start swinging? |
| 5:35
| Swinging is probably great at first though. Buzz feels that Janet, the anal, oppressed housewives is going to be the one you want to party with. She just had her first taste of pot brownies. |
| 5:36
| Steve liked Swingtown but he never knows when it's on. Also it's hard to watch TV shows in the summer. Every time he turns on the TV American Gladiators is on and he can't watch that, not without Mike Adamle. He's the only one who can make sense of it all. |
| 5:37
| Steve has been watching a lot of HGTV lately because they have those home makeover shows. Buzz didn't think Steve looked any different today. He watched Curb Appeal which is about making your house looking better from the outside. |
| 5:38
| There's also a show where a couple gives a guy their budget and then he has this computer program that shows what their renovated house would look like. There's one couple who's living in their parent's basement because the town has really good schools. |
| 5:39
| Miraculously, the renovation always comes in right at their budget. There's no way you can renovate a kitchen for $30,000 though, Steve doesn't care what this guy says. These people don't have any taste either so they'll never do the renovation. They live in their parent's basement! Steve says that with all due respect to his son who's living in his basement with his wife. |
| 5:40
| So that's what Steve watched last night, along with some news. He doesn't really need to watch the news at 10 though because he has it all memorized from watching all day. |
| 5:41
| They're not showing anything good on the news anyway. Last night WGN was showing footage of a hail storm in North Carolina from Sunday! Buzz was riveted by Ginger Zee last night. |
| 5:42
| Steve did see Ginger Zee last night. She was in serious Storm Watch mode. Steve does like Ginger Zee but all he needs to see from the weather is the radar. Any average person can figure out what the radar means. Ginger Zee should just stand there in a bathing suit next to the radar and keep her yapper shut. |
| 5:43
| Last night Steve watched Curb Appeal, 2 episodes of Hidden Potential and House Hunters. He lost interest in House Hunters because it was about two knuckleheads from Iowa who were also living in their parent's basement. The houses were all depressing too because they're in the middle of nowhere and they're funky. Also Steve couldn't reconcile what he was seeing with all the recent flooding. Those houses might not even be there any more. |
| 5:44
| Steve did see some story that Michelle Gielan did on Fox last night. She used to do weekends but then filled in for Nancy Pender when she was out having a baby. When Nancy Pender came back that Byron Harlan guy collapsed on the set because he was so happy she was back. That's how much he hated working with her. |
| 5:45
| It was a story about a guy who lost his class ring in Germany but he was from Frankfort, Illinois. When you're doing a story about Germany and the guy is from Frankfort you have to stipulate where you are. Plus the guy who found a ring and the guy who lost the ring both had earrings. What are the odds? Who cares anyway, it's just a high school class ring! |
| 5:46
| Fox and WGN can't fill their hour newscasts, that's why Steve is seeing video of hail from North Carolina ruining the Fourth of July. Steve couldn't follow any of this ring story. |
| 5:47
| He did see a nice piece Larry Yellin did about gangs in Chicago getting guns from the Crossroads in Mississippi. There are about 10 gun shops in the area. He also tied it in with Robert Johnson and that's Steve's favorite kind of blues, Delta. |
| 5:48
| Steve likes the HGTV shows because they're all in HD and usually feature attractive women either hosting or looking for a house. Steve wants to pitch HGTV on a show where one guy fixes up your house and he fixes up your wife. By the time Steve is done with your wife she won't want to live with you. |
| 5:56
| It wasn't really Harry Reams on Swingtown, he's probably 90 now if he's still alive. Steve doesn't really know because he doesn't follow the lives of porn stars. He's pretty sure Linda Lovelace is dead. |
| 5:57
| Steve didn't see the episode. Everyone on the show went to go see Deep Throat and of course they had different reactions. Buzz hasn't seen the movie in a while but it seemed funny. |
| 5:58
| Steve remembers seeing it with two dudes, it was one of the weirdest things he's ever done. Buzz also saw it with two dudes although it wasn't that weird at the time because people didn't have VCRs. Steve saw it at the Pussycat Theater which is now some sort of art house theater. You couldn't get that place clean enough for Steve to go in. |
| 5:59
| Harry Reams is still alive, he's 60. He was born Herbert Streicher to a Jewish family in New York. After a brief stint in the Marine Corps he started acting in off-Broadway theater. |
| 6:00
| After years of alcohol and drug abuse he began his recovery. He later married and converted to Christianity. So now he's thumping bibles. Outside of organized religion he meditates, prays and offers gratitude to God. So much for having a big hog. |
| 6:01
| Steve's favorite scene in Deep Throat was at the car wash. The whole time he was watching it he was wondering why this stuff wasn't happening to him. He lived in Southern California! |
| 6:02
| You can't really eat at an adult theater so what else do you do? Steve and his friends probably laughed at things in the movie because it was uncomfortable. Steve can't remember when it came out but he would have been at least 18. Steve wouldn't have gone to the theater if he was underage. |
| 6:03
| The movie was a breakthrough porno, it was the first one with mass distribution. As Buzz was watching Swingtown with his wife he pointed out that the movie started to get everyone talking about that particular sex act. Buzz imagines that it improved a lot of people's sex life. It didn't improve Steve's, he drove home from the theater with two dudes. One guy was sitting in the middle so Steve was reaching between his legs to shift gears. |
| 6:04
| Alright time for the web poll. Yesterday's question was about men wearing capri pants. The answer is no, they shouldn't wear capris. Today's web poll question is "Do you like room service?" Does anyone not like room service? |
| 6:05
| When Steve went out to L.A. he based his entire trip on having club sandwiches from room service. Steve doesn't normally eat club sandwiches because they always fall apart. Even when they restaurant gives you the sandwich they're admitting that it's hard to keep together becuase they have to put a toothpick in it. |
| 6:06
| When Steve has a club sandwich there's also some salting that goes on. Even though the sandwich has bacon he also needs to salt the turkey and avocado. Then he sort of ends up eating the sandwich like David Hasselhoff ate that burger in his hotel room. |
| 6:07
| Steve's pretty sure he doesn't want to talk to any male callers who want to reminisce about scenes in 70s pornos. He doesn't want to talk to Bill in New Lennox about the pool table scene in Behind the Green Door. |
| 6:08
| Steve orders his club sandwich with butter instead of mayo and he's recommending that people try that. He gets it with a Coke, the big size they have at hotels. So yes, Steve likes room service. |
| 6:09
| This article is from Seamus Toomey in the Sun-Times. It's an interview with a room service attendant at the Ritz-Carlton. They've served 1 million people. How do you keep track of that? |
| 6:10
| Some celebrities stay at the Ritz-Carlton in Chicago and they use an alias. Whenever Steve's in Hawaii he goes by Mac Adamia. The people at room service usually know who the person is but they go along with it anyway. That's interesting to know. |
| 6:11
| Some celebrities want special food for their pets, one even wanted a room service attendant to hand-feed caviar to her dog. Steve doesn't think pets should be allowed at hotels but some celebrities can't be separated from their pet. |
| 6:12
| Steve had a meeting with Todd Cavanah in his office yesterday. Todd went to Montana with his girlfriend and they have a small dog. The dog is small enough to fit in one of those bags and Todd was telling Steve how he snuck it past security so he didn't have to pay the $100. This is the guy that's leading us?! |
| 6:13
| One Ritz-Carlton guest wanted a ton of whip cream. That was Steve actually. The hotel provided 2 buckets of whip cream which came back empty. The average cost of breakfast starts around $30 and goes up to $60 if you want breakfast meat. |
| 6:14
| NBA teams also stay at the hotel. Some players try to eat normally and others don't. Room service attendants will often suggest something else if the player has a game that day. |
| 6:15
| Room service attendants receive 18% of the bill which Steve did not know. He always tips because they give you that bill to sign. |
| 6:16
| Steve has never had a club sandwich outside of a hotel. He also enjoys the burgers on the Night Owl menu. Buzz spent several nights in Jamaica looking for a burger and couldn't find one. He finally made up for those misspent nights at home last night. |
| 6:17
| The first burger had that white look that Buzz last saw in the airport in Tokyo. He will always eat half of a terrible burger just because he likes the ketchup. Why not just chug a bottle of ketchup? Steve would think that Jamaica and good burgers are mutually exclusive. You'd think there would be some expatriate in Jamaica who still makes a good burger. |
| 6:18
| Buzz did not go to Margaritaville but they probably wouldn't have had a good burger. That's probably the most obvious place to get a good burger in Jamaica and Buzz didn't go there?! Is it too commercial for him? |
| 6:24
| Steve didn't get any food when he went to the Dodgers game with his dad and Pat Dahl and Pat's African-American friend Shareef. Steve had to tell his dad that Pat's friend was black, just in case. He's just old enough that he might say something that's benign but inappropriate. But he was cool and now he can't stop talking about how great Shareef is. |
| 6:25
| Steve did have some wings at the Dodgers game but that's it and it was an all-you-can-eat section. Steve sent an email to the White Sox because the Scout Seats don't have wings, nor do they have onion rings. We're closer to Buffalo than they are in L.A.! |
| 6:26
| So Steve only had the wings and then he came back to his hotel and could have gone several directions with the room service. He could have double-down on the club sandwich, or had a burger but he was there before the Nite Owl menu kicks in so he got crazy and had some homestyle lasagna. It's funny when the Four Seasons goes homestyle on you. |
| 6:27
| Steve couldn't have been happier as he drifted off to sleep. The next day he took a meeting so he could write off the trip. For breakfast he went to the coffee shop in the hotel and had granola and yogurt. |
| 6:28
| He met there with Bob Teitel about the Disco Demolition movie. Bob had yogurt which he put granola and fruit on. Steve had the same but he'd never tried that before. So he had three delightful gastronomic experiences in L.A. |
| 6:29
| What else is Steve going to do out in L.A.? He certainly could do a lot worse if he put his mind to it but he might as well enjoy his hotel room service. |
| 6:30
| Steve was going to go with the turkey and gravy but he thought that might be a bit too heavy. If you're ever at the Four Seasons in L.A. try the lasagna, it's great. |
| 6:31
| Steve prefers a meat sauce when he's eating pasta. Is that what Buzz gets from Gene & Georgetti? That's the free tub of sauce he gets every week. He doesn't even have to go get it either, Aimee picks it up for him. |
| 6:32
| Tony from Gene & Georgetti has entered into this sauce agreement with Buzz and there's no way to get out of it. When it first started Buzz asked Tony how much a tub of sauce would cost and he said $5 and it hasn't changed since then. |
| 6:33
| Tony doesn't really care about giving Buzz the sauce but he and Steve both think it's funny. He literally gets a tub of sauce from Gene & Georgetti every week. Tony could charge him $20 and he'd still pay for it. There's no way out of it now. |
| 6:34
| There was a brief period when Buzz was getting the wrong sauce and he finally had to go down there and investigate. Turns out they were giving him a tomato sauce stock without any meat in it. Buzz made someone at the restaurant taste it because he couldn't figure out why it was different. That might be Steve's new favorite thing, Buzz not even know why the sauce was different, just that it was different. |
| 6:35
| News with Buzz |
| 6:36
| The G8 summit has agreed to set a global target of cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 50% by 2050. Is that going to be enough? Can't someone who actually knows what they're talking about just tell everyone if global warming is real or not? |
| 6:37
| The NTSB is investigating an incident aboard Barack Obama's plane that caused an emergency landing in St. Louis. Pilots said that the plane's controls felt sluggish and an emergency slide deployed during the middle of the flight. |
| 6:38
| A woman traveling with her 4 children was stranded at Sky Harbor Airport in Phoenix after being kicked off of a flight. That's the best name for an airport. The woman admits that her kids were out of control but the airline prevented them from boarding their connecting flight. You know your kids are bad when you're even admitting they were bad. |
| 6:39
| Steve saw an airline story on MSNBC. And by the way, he doesn't want to take a survey about improving MSNBC's website. That's an internal problem for them to deal with. He just want to get to the story. |
| 6:40
| A man from Georgetown, Guyana who was flying in first class got so mad when he saw passenger's from coach getting off the plane first that he pulled open an emergency exit and slid down the chute. |
| 6:41
| So this is a story about the chute opening up on the outside of the plane. Obama had to make his planned economic speech to a bunch of reporters in St. Louis in front of a funky curtain back drop. |
| 6:42
| Then Steve saw something about John McCain getting kissed on stage but it might not have been his wife. That guy is starting to look more and more like a groundhog. |
| 6:43
| More people were gored on the second day of the Running of the Bulls in Pamplona. Did Buzz see any of that footage on TV yesterday? If he ever watches it he'd see that he doesn't want to be involved with it. |
| 6:44
| There are always drunk people running in front of you, falling and tripping you and then you get gored. You wouldn't want to get gored just because of someone in front of you. |
| 6:45
| A friend of Alex Rodriguez said his wife went on a $100,000 spending spree in Paris to punish him for his relationship with Madonna. |
| 6:46
| There's speculation that Madonna may have a few tricks up her sleeve in regards to the A-Rod situation. There's speculation that Madonna and her husband Guy Ritchie have been planning to divorce for some time. |
| 6:47
| Sources speculate that the pair will use publicity from the divorce to boost ticket sales for her upcoming tour. Why would Guy Ritchie go along with it though? It seems cold-hearted. Guy Ritchie hasn't done much lately and all of his movies are hard to understand anyway. Remember that one with Brad Pitt? You can't understand a word he's saying. |
| 6:48
| Hurricane Bertha is now a very dangerous storm but it's still more than a 1,000 miles Southeast of Bermuda. |
| 6:49
| Did Buzz say that A-Rod's wife spent $100,000 on her spending spree? That's nothing to A-Rod. There isn't a credit card in existence that can hurt A-Rod. |
| 6:50
| Our own Stephanie once saw A-Rod at a Sox game wearing stone washed jeans. Steve calls up to the office. Stephanie was at the game using Steve's tickets and there was a rain delay. |
| 6:51
| The visitor's lockerroom is right by the buffet area and A-Rod came out wearing high-waisted stone washed jeans. They almost looked like baseball pants that were jeans. |
| 6:57
| Alright we're in the middle of a Buzz Kilman News Jam, let's get back to them. |
| 6:58
| Speculation is running rampant that Iran is beginning chemical warfare testing after they purchased wild monkeys from a dealer in Tanzania. |
| 6:59
| Hundreds of Chicago police officers, along with Mayor Daley and Governor Blagojevich paid their last respects to officer Richard Francis, killed in the line of duty last week. |
| 7:00
| Daley had a great quote about good and evil but Buzz couldn't find it. We have tapes of everything, where did Pete look? Pete wasn't sure what Buzz was looking when he came in. |
| 7:01
| There's just more of a quote about the line of good and evil, where does Buzz get his audio from? NBC cut off the beginning of the quote, that's another reason to not watch that channel. |
| 7:02
| Do we want to hear about Pete's wedding in New York? Maybe he should collect himself first, this is like talking to Mel Tillis or Porky Pig. |
| 7:03
| Amy Jacobson is suing CBS-owned WBBM-Channel 2 after they aired a tape of her at the home of Craig Stebic. After being fired Jacobson said she was unable to find work in Chicago or elsewhere and her and her husband were forced to sell their house and move to a two bedroom apartment. Maybe David Hochberg can help her with a new mortgage. |
| 7:04
| Live read: Townstone Financial |
| 7:05
| David Hochberg is on the war path this week because there's another loan company that was trying to do what he did in his live reads. Steve only read one of them and it was the day before the hiatus. David didn't even hear it but Jeff Schwartz probably did. |
| 7:06
| Steve had recorded a bunch of live reads for this other company that had to all be redone and this is all while Steve is on vacation. Steve finally got him down to this live read here. |
| 7:07
| For the last two weeks Steve was talking to David and every time he called he'd apologize for interrupting his vacation. Why doesn't he stop calling then? And the whole time Jeff Schwartz is stoking the fires. |
| 7:08
| Steve feels that Amy Jacobson and her husband might have overbought on their house. Her husband has a really weird name too, Steve will have to look it up. What line of work is he in? It's obviously not very good if he can't keep the house on his own. |
| 7:09
| She's claiming in the suit that channel 2 that leaked details that were on the suit but not aired. It gave them grounds to justifiably air the tape. She does have a good lawyer, that Kathleen Zellner. Buzz liked Amy on and off the air and he hates to see her unemployed. |
| 7:10
| For some reason every time Steve scrolls down on the Sun-Times website it scrolls back up to the top. It must be on their end, they've been having some weird things happening on their site lately. Jacobson's husband's name is Jaime Anglada. They might have overbought on the house if one little bump in the road causes them to sell the house. |
| 7:11
| On year after WBBM aired a tape of Amy Jacobson in a bikini that derailed her career in Chicago she's fighting back. Any TV news station calling another station disreputable is the pot calling the kettle black. When Randy Salerno died Joe Ahern set himself up in a studio with three cameras to give tearful remembrances of a guy who worked there for 6 months. |
| 7:12
| On Monday Jacobson filed a lawsuit against channel 2 for airing a tape of her at Craig Stebic's house. The tape led to her termination at NBC. Why didn't she sue channel 5? Buzz doesn't think she has any grounds for that but there seems to be a case against channel 2. |
| 7:13
| In the year since she was fired she hasn't found work in or out of the market because of how she was depicted in the story. She wasn't even able to find a job outside of broadcasting. |
| 7:14
| The loss of income forced Jacobson and her family to sell their North Side home and move to a cramped two bedroom apartment across the street. Steve can tell you this, you don't want to sell your house and move across the street to a cramped apartment. You can see your old, uncramped house the whole time. |
| 7:15
| Jacobson waited until the very last minute to file the suit in hopes that she could find a job. She would only have a year to file a suit. The suit, filed in Cook County, claims defamation, invasion of privacy and intentional infliction of emotional distress. |
| 7:16
| The suit names Joe Ahern, Carol Fowler, reporter Mike Puccinelli and anchor Rob Johnson. Rob's probably wondering what he did! He just reads what's on the prompter and worries about how his hair looks. |
| 7:17
| Channel 2 said in a statement that they stand by their reporting and that Jacobson's suit has no merits. They also look forward to defending themselves in court. No one looks forward to going to court. |
| 7:18
| Finally, actors in the Chicago production of Jersey Boys are being ordered to stop smoking on stage in order to comply with the city's smoking ban. |
| 7:26
| Going back to that Amy Jacobson story, Steve's remembering some things about what happened. Sources told the Tribune last year that part of the reason she was fired was because she decided to brief police on her interaction with Stebic. That made her part of the story. |
| 7:27
| Steve still wishes Amy the best of luck, she's got a good lawyer. For a while Steve was fantasizing that Ed Genson, from the R. Kelly trial, would be his lawyer. But he lost interest in that after the closing arguments. Sure R. Kelly won but the prosecution did a bad job. |
| 7:28
| Now Steve's fantasy lawyer is Kathleen Zellner. He likes that Betty Page look she has. So if Steve's in trouble, like if he were to stab his estranged wife as she was coming out of Walker Brothers, he'd go with Zellner. |
| 7:29
| Steve saw a story about a prisoner in Indiana who stole his lawyer's car and escaped. The lawyer was driving a Ford Escape, the car put the idea into his head! |
| 7:30
| Ben Gay is here with sports. Buzz didn't even know he was scheduled to be here today, it's been so long since he saw him. |
| 7:31
| Steve and Buzz were gone for two weeks. Ben waited and waited for Buzz at the pride parade and he never showed up. Ben stood there on Halsted getting hit on all day, waiting for Buzz. He was in a mesh tank top and Hooters shorts. |
| 7:32
| The Cubs are back home to face Dusty Baker's Cincinnati Reds tonight. He's been here already hasn't he? People at the sports desk are telling Ben that he has. The sports desk is really just a bean bag chair where Ben likes catch some Z's. One Z he wouldn't mind catching is Big Z. See, Buzz thinks Ginger Zee. |
| 7:33
| Tonight also marks Marty Brennamen's return to Wrigley Field after comments he made earlier in the year about Cubs fans. We've got that tape if Buzz wants to hear it again. |
| 7:36
| Ben might have come out of character during that tape. It was Steve popping his head into the studio. He gets so passionate about the tapes he plays. |
| 7:37
| Marty Brennamen and that other Reds broadcaster sound like yahoos. You can't say stuff like that. Ben hopes they get paid back tonight by the fans. Hopefully they'll go up to the booth with pitchforks and throw them out of the park. |
| 7:38
| Brennamen doesn't even know what he's talking about. He talks about the Cubs fans being the worst in baseball but says he can't speak to the Yankees and Red Sox fans. |
| 7:39
| The White Sox are at Kansas City to open a three game set. Jose Contreras takes the mound against Kyle Davies. Ben's trying to be more like John Miller with his overpronunciation of Hispanic names. |
| 7:40
| Jermaine Dye ranks second in All-Star fan voting for the final player, behind Tampa Bay's Evan Longoria. You can vote up to 25 times but every time you vote you have to enter an authentication code. What's the point of even having one of those if you can still vote 25 points? Ben voted 7 times but got tired of typing in numbers. |
| 7:41
| A California man says Kansas City Chiefs tight end Tony Gonzalez saved him from choking to death. Gonzalez came up behind the man at Capone's in San Diego. What Ben wouldn't give for that!
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| 7:50
| That was Kenny Williams talking about voting for Jermaine Dye. You can vote up to 25 times but you still have to enter an authentication code. That's ridiculous! |
| 7:51
| What does Pete care though, there are 7 Cubs in the All-Star Game. Pete would still like to see Jermaine Dye in the All-Star Game. Steve doesn't believe that at all. Dye reminds Pete of the Cubs own Derrek Lee. |
| 7:52
| Live read: Gladstone Homes |
| 7:53
| At some point during our hiatus-which is what we call a vacation because we're in showbiz-Pete went to New York for a wedding. Steve got an email from a listener on Sunday who said he was looking forward to hearing a new show on Monday. |
| 7:54
| The emailer did listen to the Best of and tried to find new Matt Dahl Shows but there weren't any. That's because Matt has a 9-5 job now. He's working for Mr. Skin, Steve couldn't be prouder. Matt said the funniest thing about his job is if he's goofing off online he has to actually bring up a porno website so make it seem like he's working. |
| 7:55
| The emailer continues with questions about Pete and his girlfriend's roommate. He's also wondering how Catman is reacting to Pete's new girlfriend. Do they double date? |
| 7:56
| Pete went to New York for a wedding with his girlfriend. There were a lot of actor types in attendance. Someone might have sent Steve a video from the wedding. Did Pete's girlfriend do something at the wedding? She was the maid of honor and she gave a speech but it was a top ten list, not a song and dance like in this video. |
| 7:57
| This is from emailer Abby who found a video of some out-of-control theater geeks at a wedding. She thinks Pete needs to ditch his out-of-town girlfriend and go back to being The RP's resident music snob. Pete can work Steve's email if he wants. |
| 7:58
| Steve probably shouldn't play this video before listening to it. Pete's guessing it's not his girlfriend but she has spoke at other weddings. Does Pete want to come look at this video? |
| 7:59
| This is a guy singing a song to a girl named Amy, what a wild goose chase Steve was sent on. It's not even close to what it's supposed to be. C'mon Abby! |
| 8:00
| Pete went to the wedding and it was good. Did her roommate, the Relationship Ender, get married? Pete was walking around the station in his black suit pants and shoes on the last day of the show before the hiatus. |
| 8:01
| Did Pete drive to New York or something? Steve's trying to do the math, why did he have to wear his suit pants to work? His flight was at 1 pm but we're done at 10 am. That's 3 hours! American and United have flights to New York every hour. |
| 8:02
| Pete flew Delta which explains the problem. Pete has never had any problems with Delta out of Midway, he's recommending it if you have to go to New York. Steve disagrees. If there's one weather delay that plane is never showing up. |
| 8:03
| Delta flies out of midway every couple of hours, it's a shuttle that goes back and forth. At LaGuardia there's a separate Delta terminal, it always works out. Maybe Pete is on to something. |
| 8:04
| So Pete gets to the wedding just on time. Did he get hammered and start hugging everyone and everything in sight? Did he have to dress like one of the cast members from Cats? Was Catman there? Is Abby his nom de plume? Pete also had an interesting night out with Catman during the hiatus but we can only do one story at a time. |
| 8:05
| Steve wants to eat his Taco Bell while Pete is telling this story, is that rude? He just wants to sit back and enjoy it. |
| 8:06
| OK, now Pete can regale Steve and Buzz with stories of his life while they enjoy their Taco Bell. The reception was on the roof of a building where they had appetizers. Then they were ushered into the dining room. |
| 8:07
| When it was time for the band to introduce the bride and groom, who were on a level above them, they reached back and had microphones. The band starts playing and the bride and groom are singing I Was Made For Loving You by KISS. Wow! Did Pete start hurling at the table? |
| 8:08
| They get about halfway down the stairs and then start doing a little routine there. Did Pete wish he had a handgun at this point, at least to take his own life? Steve would have taken out the bride and groom too. |
| 8:09
| After that they got up on the stage and invited everyone else to come up and dance with them. Steve's not familiar with that KISS song, he'll have to find it. Then they start right with the dancing, no food at all. |
| 8:10
| Pete was able to escape to the bar just as the Dancing Queen choreographed routine started up. Steve has the KISS song, it sounds like disco. He actually does know it, it sounds like something we'd play on Jack right after the show. |
| 8:11
| Todd likes the dance music after the show, he thinks it sounds great. He also tried to rip American Airlines of $200 by not checking his bag. |
| 8:12
| So the whole group is doing their Dancing Queen routine and Pete got back just in time to catch the tail end. The roommate was not up there because this is a Ball State alumni thing and he went to Iowa. Steve doesn't even want to make fun of Pete, he feels bad for him. There he is sitting in his pants that he's been wearing since 3 am, his feet probably hurt from the loafers and then he has to take his girlfriend back to her apartment and try to nail her while there's another dude there. |
| 8:13
| So everyone sits down after about a half hour of dancing and they bring out the first course, some asparagus. Then there's more dancing because they're theater people. That sounds perfect for Pete since he's so outgoing. |
| 8:14
| Pete is sober during all of this. No matter how much he drank he was still sober. After the dancing they finally served the entree which was good. It was some sort of meat. |
| 8:15
| After that there was more dancing and then a costume change by the bride and groom. What?! The groom put on a white suit and the bride changed her dress. They did the same entrance, coming down the stairs singing Pour Some Sugar on Me as they went to cut the cake. That's another Jack song. |
| 8:16
| And then the dancing continues until about 1 am. At this point Pete has been up for 24 hours but of course everyone wants to go out. What about the hetero roommate? |
| 8:17
| The roommate brought a date so he was fine. But every time Pete comes to New York the guy says something disparaging about him right? He's suggested Propecia and fish oil pills to him. |
| 8:18
| On Monday morning Pete got up and went out for a run. When he came back to his girlfriend's place she was sitting on the couch reading the paper and the roommate was walking around shirtless. |
| 8:19
| Steve would pop for a hotel room if he were Pete, just to get his girlfriend out of the clutches of her roommate. He's in a shoebox apartment trying to nail her while the roommate is sitting in the next room laughing because he can hear it's not happening. |
| 8:25
| Live read: McCracken Financial |
| 8:26
| Live read: Gladstone Homes |
| 8:27
| On Friday Steve will be at Smith & Wollensky for a roundtable moderated by Dan Bernstein. It'll be Steve, Eddie & Jobo, Lin Brehmer, Pat Cassidy and Ramblin' Ray. It's about the relationship between radio and sports. |
| 8:28
| It's Friday from 11 am to 1 pm and you can make reservations at Smith & Wollensky. It's a lunch thing, there's nothing Steve likes more than people eating while he's talking. There are too many people at this thing, Steve could do 3 hours with just Dan Bernstein. |
| 8:29
| Caller Gary is glad to have Steve and Buzz back. Gary's brother got married on Long Island about 17 years ago and it was very similar to what Pete went through. The thing with the singing seems like something unique to the theater people though. |
| 8:30
| Pete forgot to mention that the bride and groom also got up on stage and sang You Shook Me All Night Long with the band. Did they do any Meatloaf? That sounds horrible, then Pete has to go back to the shoebox apartment where the roommate presses his ear up to the wall to listen to Pete and his girlfriend. And of course they're talking about him after he leaves. |
| 8:31
| They did the whole song? And they didn't change the lyrics at all? The band started playing the song and then the bride and groom decided they'd take over. |
| 8:32
| Caller Dan has also been to an East Coast wedding, there's lots of dancing interspersed with eating. You never sit down for very long. |
| 8:33
| The way we do things in Chicago is very civilized. You have appetizers and dinner which gives you plenty of time to figure out how to get out of having to dance. |
| 8:34
| At most Chicago weddings they close the bar for dinner. So right before dinner what do you do, you go to the bar and double down on the drinks. So imagine a table of Chicagoans at a wedding in New Jersey. After they double down a waitress comes by 2 minutes later to take drink orders and looks at the table like they're a bunch of knuckleheads. |
| 8:35
| Steve's going to New York with Pete this weekend and they're going to straighten out this roommate. Get a hotel room for Chrissakes! There was actually some discussion between Pete and his girlfriend about staying at the hotel with the rest of the wedding party. |
| 8:36
| How many more signals does Pete need? He almost deserves for something like this to happen. Next time he goes to New York he should bring a crack whore up to the apartment for the roommate and then leave and go to a hotel. |
| 8:37
| Steve does not like the outlook he's seeing in his crystal ball. It's a heartbroken Pete in prison for murder. That can't happen, the show needs him. |
| 8:38
| The roommate didn't even bring his lady back to the apartment, God knows what's going on his his room. Has Pete scanned Amy's room for a camera? It could be in that nice teddy bear the roommate gave her. |
| 8:39
| The girl who sent the email, Abby, says the video she sent wasn't from the wedding Pete went to but his seems worse. She still stands by the fact that Pete needs to drop the out-of-town girlfriend. |
| 8:40
| Pete's girlfriend is originally from Chicago though, she's just on loan to the New York theater community. If you can make it there you can make it anywhere. Is she trying to make it in New York? |
| 8:41
| Pete's pretty sure she is although she is still very close to her family in Chicago. Way to know your girlfriend Pete! We can't lose him to New York anyway, it's better that the roommate is there to break it up. |
| 8:42
| Pete has 4 more weddings with his fiance on the horizon and they're all over the globe. He should do himself a favor and get a hotel room next time. He's Pete Zimmerman! |
| 8:43
| It was a lovely wedding though. When the Catman gets married he comes down the stairs just like this other bride and groom but he's with another lady. Then he does her right there on the table. |
| 8:49
| Do we want to talk to Mike who's ex-girlfriend cheated on him with her roommate? Is that going to help Pete? We could at least find out what happened to Mike. Maybe Pete could get some tips on how to cut it off in advance. Steve doesn't want to cast any aspersions, it just seems like a recipe for disaster. You're a half a bottle of Chardonay away from things going bad. |
| 8:50
| Caller Mike is feeling pain for Pete right now as he's driving. Mike is still hurting, this is what we're trying to protect Pete from. Mike lived in Detroit and his girlfriend lived in a townhouse with a guy and a girl. |
| 8:51
| The girl moved out so it was just Mike's girlfriend and this guy. Guys are all the same, you can't leave them with a girl like that. You might be able to trust the girl but you can't trust a guy. A guy will use any means necessary, that's what guys are wired for. |
| 8:52
| Mike can say he's not still hurting but he is. Pete also has a story about going out with Catman. We can save this for tomorrow, it doesn't have to be the Pete Zimmerman Show. |
| 8:53
| Catman is basically what all guys are just without the pretense. He'd tell Pete that he shouldn't leave his girlfriend alone with him. He'd tell him that he's going to walk around shirtless. |
| 8:54
| Catman has actually done the move where he goes into the bathroom and comes out with his pants off. It's worked fairly well for him. Either you're going to jail or going to the bedroom. |
| 8:55
| So this is the Friday of the Cubs/Sox game at The Cell. Pete went with Adam, Stephanie and Brendan. It was supposed to be Jim because Adam is banned from all games. Jim couldn't go because he went on an architectural tour with his fiance. We've lost Jim. He didn't even think something was wrong with it. |
| 8:56
| So after the game Pete checked in with Catman. He was watching the game at a bar in Old Town. He was waist deep in tail! Catman was sitting at a table with two girls, of course. |
| 8:57
| Catman was working a very attractive girl from out of town which is perfect for him. It's like a prostitute because she leaves but he doesn't have to pay for her. |
| 8:58
| It seemed like things were going well for Catman with this girl. Pete's talking to the other girl when he notices that Sean Marshall, from the Cubs, is in the bar. Then he sees Daryle Ward and Eric Patterson. Pete didn't sleep with the Cubs did he? |
| 8:59
| Eric Patterson should have been at home because he was already in the middle of an awful week on the field. Pete happens to point out that Sean Marshall is there and the girl Catman is talking to goes over and talks to him. |
| 9:00
| Next thing you know they're all sitting at a table with Sean Marshall and this girl has lost interest in Catman. He was very upset with Pete. What kind of wingman is he?! |
| 9:01
| Catman is staring right through Pete, he wouldn't even talk to him. He had things locked in with this girl. Then he says he's going to the bathroom and about a half hour later Pete realizes he's been ditched. |
| 9:02
| Pete left but not before calling Brendan to let him know that the Cubs were hanging out there. Catman said he came back to the bar later to do a sweep and see if the Cubs were still there. Instead he just finds Brendan hanging out. |
| 9:03
| Catman is finally starting to talk to Pete now. This girl was hot right? And he was locked in. Pete has never seen him that mad but it's kind of unthinkable what he did. |
| 9:10
| On Friday Steve's going to be on The Score for a roundtable discussion moderated by Dan Bernstein. Eddie & Jobo will be there along with Pat Cassidy, Lin Brehmer and Ramblin' Ray. |
| 9:11
| They'll be talking about the relationship between radio and sports. Steve's not sure what that relationship is but it's probably why they're having the roundtable. It'll be at Smith & Wollensky from 11 am to 1 pm. |
| 9:12
| It's all CBS radio people, almost too many radio people. Steve assumed they'd just stop with him. |
| 9:13
| Apparently during the course of the show some kid who went missing from Oswego was found, dazed but OK. If you live in Oswego you're going to want to be dazed. |
| 9:14
| Steve didn't see anything about it on the news last night. He went missing at 8:30 so an hour and a half isn't enough time for the 10 pm news to report it. |
| 9:15
| They also arrested the guy who allegedly stabbed his wife in Lincolnshire. He may have set his house on fire too. |
| 9:16
| Based on the photo of the guy that Buzz has seen he doesn't look like a murder. Steve hates that Walker Brothers is being dragged into this though. Yesterday they said she was coming from there but now they're saying it happened there. Thank God it's safe to walk the streets of Lincolnshire, where Steve's international offices are. Ron Lewis can now go back to sending Steve emails about the iPhone. |
| 9:17
| Ron doesn't have an iPhone but he has iPhone envy. So he sends Steve emails about all the problems with iPhones and all the conversions Steve will have to do. Steve doesn't care, Stephanie will do all of that for him. |
| 9:18
| Buzz gets a lot of email from Ron as well. Steve saw he was CCed on an email with an article about the CBOE sponsoring the Blackhawks. Two things that Buzz could care less about. |
| 9:19
| There are two seats between the benches at Hawks games that will be auctioned off. That must go to charity right? The CBOE also has seats at Wrigley Field. |
| 9:20
| That new iPhone comes out on Friday, Stephanie's supposed to pick one up. Steve calls up to the office. Stephanie isn't there but she's probably getting an iPhone for Steve. |
| 9:21
| News with Buzz |
| 9:22
| Iraq's prime minister wants a timetable for troop withdrawal from his country. It's the first time the prime minister has asked for a timetable which is opposed to President Bush. |
| 9:23 | Meanwhile, John McCain is not sure what to make of comments made by Bill Clinton at the Aspen Ideas Festival. Clinton said a POW can go years before something triggers bad memories. |
| 9:24
| Police found 6 charred bodies on the streets of Tijuana bringing the total to 14 over the weekend. |
| 9:25
| A new federal study shows that O'Hare has the worst on-time departure rate for the country. Steve could have figured that out without a study. Didn't Midway do really well though? |
| 9:26
| The world's richest countries have issued a communique calling for a decrease in green house gas emissions by 2050. Critics say that cutting emissions in half by 2050 would be waiting too long. Lucky for Steve and Buzz they'll be dead by then. |
| 9:27
| English prime minister Gordon Brown and fellow world leaders have sparked outrage after it was revealed that they enjoyed a 6 course lunch at the G8 where world hunger is on the docket. |
| 9:28
| The U.S. military's "Don't ask, don't tell" policy will get a hearing today that would repeal the policy. |
| 9:29
| Just for the record, Midway was 5th in arrivals and 27th in departures in that report. Steve has noticed that whenever there's bad weather Midway is still cranking out flights. Plus they've got the good food court. |
| 9:30
| When Steve first came to Chicago he took flying lessons at Midway, the place was like a ghost town. Now it's thriving. It seems like a more fun airport to Buzz. Midway does have the meanest traffic cops though. |
| 9:31
| This year's Fourth of July parade in Beverly Farms, Massachusetts featured a parade float with girls pretending to be pregnant. It was in reference to the pregnancy pact in nearby Gloucester. Who knocked all those girls up? Did they ever say that? |
| 9:32
| Authorities say they don't know what happened to a shipment of fish toxin sent to a Lake in the Hills man. Upon his arrest police confiscated a shipment he'd already received but don't know what happened to another shipment. |
| 9:33
| As Steve said in his Thought for the Day he wanted the part of the pufferfish that makes it puff out. Authorities found other materials that the man could have made poison out of, including Risin. |
| 9:34
| The guy had an insurance policy on his wife that she didn't know about and there was a rider in there about acts of terrorism. |
| 9:35
| Can't they torture the guy to find out where the other toxin is? It's an act of terrorism, send him to Guantanamo. |
| 9:36
| Ringo Starr was in Chicago yesterday for his 68th birthday. He was outside the Hard Rock Cafe at noon, flashing the peace sound. Why is he here? It's just to sell tickets for his show this weekend right? |
| 9:37
| The story was all over the news yesterday. There was some sort of worldwide movement where at the same time yesterday everyone would flash the peace sign. Steve saw that Colin Hay guy in the background at the Hard Rock yesterday, he's in the All-Star band. |
| 9:38
| Buzz was just watching Help! with Piper the other day, trying to explain who the Beatles were. She now likes the Beatles but that movie doesn't hold up. A Hard Day's Night does hold up which is what Buzz was trying to tell Piper. |
| 9:45
| That's from Walk Hard, which Steve found to be enjoyable but not as good as he thought it would be. Steve watched it at home where his tolerance level usually goes up. |
| 9:46
| The whole concept is funny to Buzz though. Had Steve seen it in the theater he would have felt gyped. We do get to see The Beatles in the movie, Steve can't remember who plays who but he's pretty sure Jack Black is Paul. |
| 9:47
| It's funny but there's probably a funnier version somewhere. It was most likely reworked for more mass appeal. Steve can bring it in if Buzz wants to see it. Actually he might have brought it in already. |
| 9:48
| Pete has Walk Hard and Buzz can rent it once he returns Babel. That's a 7¢/per day fee, he knows that right? Buzz might be returning Babel without seeing it. It seems like a movie he should see but he's not going to. That movie seemed a lot like Crash to Steve and he'd already seen that. |
| 9:49
| Steve finally got an explanation for why the movie theater was evacuated on Saturday when he was seeing Hancock. A smoke detector went off in one of the kitchens. Steve just split because he knew it would take a while for everyone to get back inside. |
| 9:50
| Steve feels someone should make him whole by sending him a screener copy of Hancock. The studios are afraid Steve's going to make bootleg copies of the movies for some reason. That is how he put himself through college, bootlegging movies and prostitution. |
| 9:51
| Steve likes what he saw from the first half of the movie but there's no way he was going to go back in. Once he's been evacuated he can't go back in. |
| 9:52
| There was nothing in any paper about the evacuation. You'd think if an entire theater complex is evacuated there would at least be something in the Daily Herald. |
| 9:53
| And of course this was right after Steve wrote an entire article about this Muvico Theater in Rosemont. He went in worried that everyone there would know about the article but no one knew about it. |
| 9:54
| Of course Steve's article was buried in the At Play section because they had a guide to fireworks. If you want to see fireworks drive through Bridgeport. Everyone in Bridgeport has a professional show at their house. It was like being in Baghdad. |
| 9:55
| Buzz somehow managed not to see any fireworks but he was in Jamaica where they don't have Independence Day. They do celebrate it but Buzz still managed to miss the fireworks. |
| 9:56
| Steve used to be into the fireworks until he had some near-disasters at the house, during the drinking days. Drinking and fireworks don't go together although it's usually funny. |
| 9:57
| Steve once bought a 2 foot square piece of plywood with 16 rockets mounted on it. When you light the fuse they went off sequentially. Steve was trying to be safe so he put the board on the wall that separates the pool from the spa. It seemed completely stable when Steve set it down there plus it was in the water. Once the fireworks started going off the board started wobbling and shooting at people. |
| 9:58
| It wasn't shooting at people but it was shooting at everyone's houses. It felt like it was going on for about an hour. |
| 9:59
| There was another time, maybe in the same year, when Steve got a big rocket that didn't go off. He was going to stick his head over it to investigate but Pat Dahl had the good sense to kick it into the pool before he could. |
| 10:00
| You always hear about people doing that, like that guy at his bachelor party, but it never works. |
