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| 5:33
| What if Steve goes with Paul Steve to announce the start of the show? If you're keeping score at home we're live from Prudential 2, the one that looks like the building in Metropolis. |
| 5:34
| The building has a big spike on top so if God had some receipts or orders he could put it on top of the building. When Buzz worked at a newspaper they had those spikes and you'd put your story on there, you were spiking it. That didn't mean adding vodka to your OJ. |
| 5:35
| It was very old school, you had a hole in your story. That hole never showed up in the print edition, some how it got adjusted. |
| 5:36
| Steve still wants Cliff to announce the start of the show but he won't. Paul Steve isn't bad though. Paul's into cars, how is Buzz's Grand Prix doing? Paul calls it the Grand Pricks whenever he's out at the Road America track. The corn dogs out there are to die for. |
| 5:37
| Does Buzz's twanger haul? It must right? Does he have any gigs this weekend where he'll be doing some drunk driving? Buzz is alone this weekend, with the car but no gig. He's not really alone though, he still has his kid with him. That's called babysitting. |
| 5:38
| As a guy it's incumbent upon you to always call it babysitting to your wife. Buzz will be subcontracting the babysitting for two hours. To a hot young thing? Be careful World According to Garp! He actually goes with the boy next door just to be on the safe side. |
| 5:39
| Does Buzz stick to his normal weekend schedule even when he's babysitting the kid? Friday is nightclubbing right? Then a movie and Mexican food on Saturday? Buzz won't eat alone however Piper isn't old enough for the Mexican restaurant. Paul Steve didn't know there was an age limit. |
| 5:40
| From the sound of it it seems like we should be preparing for Buzz to be completely thrown off on Monday. What else goes on during the weekend, maybe some online porn? |
| 5:41
| Speaking of that Buzz completely forgot to go check out Lisa Guerrero online. She posed in Playboy at some point and it could have been full frontal. It's hard to remember if it's full frontal because of the recent trend in complete deforestation. It might have just been topless, unfurling the full poontang probably costs extra. |
| 5:42
| Topless isn't bad though, you can still do a lot of that if you have access to it. Paul's going to turn things over to Steve now because he knows that he also saw the article in the paper about self-breast examines. |
| 5:43
| So welcome to the Steve Dahl Show on Wednesday, Hump Day. And right now somewhere in the world someone is humping. You don't want to think of the guys doing it, only the girls. Hopefully they're thinking about being with Paul Steve or Buzz. |
| 5:44
| So now let's turn it over to The Man, one of the great innovators of radio, an inductee into the Broadcasting Hall of Fame which doesn't even exist. The building has gone into receivership. |
| 5:45
| Voting just ended yesterday for that Broadcast Hall of Fame. Bob Sirott did a nice editorial about how people should vote for Steve. Although Steve told Paul that he doesn't really care if he gets in. He doesn't want to make the speech because what do you say really? |
| 5:46
| Thanks Paul Steve! It's nice to have an announcer isn't it? And he and Buzz get along famously. With that mellifluous voice you just sort of ride along, it's very soothing. |
| 5:47
| Buzz is somewhat distracted by a photo of Lisa Guerrero exposing her right breast. It's on Mark's private show blog. |
| 5:48
| Yesterday Steve was talking to Pat Boyle and he mentioned that he liked Erin Andrews, who was covering the Home Run Derby. Then Pat just went off on her and Lisa Guerrero. |
| 5:49
| It seems like guys in sportscasting are really threatened by women in the industry. At some point an attractive woman is going to pass by Pat, who's just a pencil-neck geek. But all the guys get on their high horse and are really offended by it. What would you rather see, a shirtless Pat Boyle doing chin-ups or a topless girl? |
| 5:50
| Today Steve was thumbing through the paper and he saw the headline "Breast self exams may not save lives." Buzz saw this story on the news yesterday and he couldn't understand what they were trying to say. It's clear that people need more than just a self-exam, they should also go to the doctor, but you shouldn't discourage self exams. |
| 5:51
| It can't hurt to do a self exam because some women have found something that they've gone to the doctor about. It seemed to Buzz that even the women reporting the story had trouble with it. |
| 5:52
| A new study says that self breast exams may actually do nothing to cut down your risk of death from cancer. Except for the women who actually find a lump during an exam. |
| 5:53
| Researchers looked over two studies from China and Russia and found that twice as many biopsies are dangerous because they create their own set of health hazards. China and Russia?! |
| 6:02
| That was some pretty nice stuff Bob Sirott said about Steve yesterday. It's also hot that Marion Brooks agreed with him. Maybe she can console Steve when he loses. |
| 6:03
| There's a book about Howard Stern that seems pretty well researched. There's a part about how one of Howard's friends used to send him tapes of Steve's show when he was in college. He was also on W4 in Detroit after Steve left for Chicago. Howard will never admit any of that but that's all part of the thing he does. He could at least send Steve a million or something. |
| 6:04
| Steve also saw in the paper that Miller is moving to Chicago, along with Coors. They're apparently together now. They did get $18 million in tax incentives to move here which won't help with the budget shortfall. |
| 6:05
| They also are investing some of their own money here, plus there will be more jobs to come from it. Does that mean when they do Miller Lite commercials they'll say "Chicago, Illinois"? They'll probably still brew it in Milwaukee so maybe not. |
| 6:06
| Alright Steve's just going to read this and be done with it. The Howard Stern book is Howard Stern, King of All Media: The Unauthorized Biography. It was written by Paul Colford. In the book he says that Howard listened to tapes of Steve and Garry sent by a friend of the chief engineer at WCCC in Hartford. |
| 6:07
| Can't someone at least throw Steve a bone there? He'd be willing to do what Howard does for a quarter of a billion. |
| 6:08
| The only satisfaction Steve gets is that Howard is now on satellite radio and no one talks about him. So he's making all that money but considering his ego it's probably driving him nuts that no one is talking about him. |
| 6:09
| Caller Mike is holding a copy of the Howard Stern book. In the index it says Steve is mentioned 15 times. Right now he's looking at the top of page 60. It says that at W4 Howard ended up being on against Steve, a man who's tastes he had studied. |
| 6:10
| Eventually Howard moved to mornings on W4 and Steve and Garry were being syndicated back there. Steve remembers that he and Garry did this promotion for the release of Caddyshack with several different radio stations. |
| 6:11
| Each station had to do some sort of golf related stunt so Steve got a big 3-foot long sausage and used it as a golf club. The whole time Howard was making fun of Steve and Garry for being syndicated, saying it wasn't local radio. There's even an interview of him saying it. |
| 6:12
| That's fine though, Steve doesn't need as much money as Howard has. It would be nothing but trouble, he'd be flying whores in from all over the world, he'd probably have his own cocaine farm in Columbia and maybe a distillery. |
| 6:13
| Mike only bought the book so he'd have proof to his friends that Steve came before Howard. No one believes Steve when he says it though. But Howard was in New York so he got all the media coverage. |
| 6:14
| People in New York are nuts. Last night during that All-Star parade someone was holding up a copy of the New York newspaper that took what Jonathan Papelbon said about Mariano Rivera, took it out of context and then put "Papelbum" on the back page. He was also being booed along that parade, while he was riding with his pregnant wife and also at the game. |
| 6:15
| It's New York though, they just say or do whatever they want. Papelbon didn't say anything bad about Rivera, he was totally respectful of him. |
| 6:16
| If you're just joining us chances are you missed the end of the All-Star game. Steve has to say that Carlos Marmol and Ryan Dempster really distinguished themselves last night. The White Sox players did not. Carlos Quentin went 0-3. |
| 6:17
| The game lasted 4 hours and 50 minutes and the American League won 4-3 in the 15th. Michael Young sacrificed in Justin Morneau. Steve did not see the end of it, it's too late for him. |
| 6:18
| It turns out that Steve really just likes the Home Run Derby and the introductions. He watched a little of the game and he got bored. They had all the Hall of Famers out there, including Ryno. Pete had to laugh when he saw Ryno because of what Steve says about him. |
| 6:19
| Ryno doesn't look like a coffee table when he has his hat on though. Jim pointed out to Pete that it was an adjustable hat, all the Hall of Famers had adjustable hats. Steve gets the feeling that only Pete and Jim care about fitted hats. All of Steve's hats are adjustable. Steve can see Jim spending hours getting the brim of his fitted hat bent just so and also sleeping on his mitt that he's rubbed down with linseed oil. Steve noticed during the Home Run Derby that Jim sort of looks like Ryan Braun, if Jim worked out a bit. |
| 6:20
| It was good to see Ryno and Ernie Banks out on the field. Ernie gave the pre-game pep talk to the NL team and George Brett did it for the AL. That George Brett does a lot of tanning, as does Dennis Eckersley. |
| 6:21
| Steve just learned recently that Ichiro always speaks to the media through a translator even though he can speak English. After speaking to the media he gives his team a pep talk that's usually profane. |
| 6:22
| Everyone is usually blown away that Ichiro can speak English. He also apparently speaks English when he gets to first base. Steve wouldn't mind having Ichiro on mic. |
| 6:23
| Steve thought it was weird that during the introductions all of the third basemen decided to chew gum. Mike Schmidt was chewing gum, to keep from crying, as was Wade Boggs. |
| 6:31
| That's Mike Schmidt going crybaby. All sports crying stems from that incident, like Brett Favre. |
| 6:32
| Steve has to apologize to Pete, Mary, Brendan and Jim for not including Carlos Zambrano when he listed all the Cubs pitchers who played yesterday. Geovanny Soto however did not do that great. He made two throws to second to throw out runners and they both didn't get there on time. |
| 6:33
| Steve missed a lot of the game because he went out for a walk. As he said earlier he only likes the Derby and the introductions. He did like seeing Girardi catching in the bullpen. |
| 6:34
| Steve likes Joe Girardi, he's a local boy. Steve's boys were all taught in school by Joe's sister-in-law who's hot as hell. Pete noticed yesterday during that All-Star parade that Mr. Cub was with a very attractive younger woman. Pete wasn't sure if it was his wife or his daughter. |
| 6:35
| Steve might see Mr. Cub today because he's going for his golf lesson. He's seen Ernie at the course before so Steve will ask him. He might have to guy code it though but he'll ask if he can tell Pete Zimmerman. |
| 6:36
| Ernie probably heard what Pete did to Catman so he'll want to keep the info from Pete. Catman still hasn't spoken to Pete and it's been over 2 weeks. You might recall that Pete and Catman were out after the Friday Cubs at Sox game. |
| 6:37
| Catman was working a lady when Pete pointed out several Chicago Cubs. They came over to the table and Catman lost the lady to Sean Marshall. That's bad wingsmanship right there. Pete just got starry-eyed and it wasn't even marquee Cub players. Steve might understand if it was Woodie or Derrek Lee. |
| 6:38
| Pete has since learned his lesson though, is this a bar that maybe that woman frequents? The girl was actually from out-of-town which is perfect for Catman. He didn't even get a phone number from her. Zippy! |
| 6:39
| If it were Steve he would break up with Pete or at least not talk to him for a year. This sort of behavior would require that an offering be made, maybe something turned over to him. |
| 6:40
| Steve has to think that the best thing about being a Cub is you can go across the street from Wrigley and get laid. If you're a White Sock you can leave the park, maybe go to the Grandstand and get a t-shirt or check out some monstrosities at Jimbo's. |
| 6:41
| Caller Dan is up in Norridge. Is that where Gacy lived? He was in Norwood Park. There are two things Dan wanted to talk to Steve about. First of all Carlton Fisk wasn't at the All-Star game representing catchers. |
| 6:42
| Maybe he couldn't make it? They had Gary Carter and Yogi Berra representing the catchers. At one point Yogi started to get weepy but of course Fox cut away for crowd reaction. Steve doesn't want to see idiot New Yorkers cheering, he wants to see Yogi! |
| 6:43
| The other thing Dan wanted to talk about was how pompous all the Yankees look. Steve actually likes the Yankees. Dan wouldn't want to be Derek Jeter? Even Ozzie said he wants to be Derek Jeter. Just last year Jeter had a couple of ladies at his place and when they left he didn't even validate their parking. |
| 6:44
| Dan also thought it looked like George Steinbrenner was taped to that golf cart. Didn't he have a stroke or something? He tried to stand up but his wife, who might be a trophy wife, made him sit down. Dan bleeds blue so he he doesn't really care. |
| 6:45
| Maybe Dan's only seen the Yankees when they came to Wrigley that one time, where they made a big-ass deal about it. When they come to The Cell it's like they're the Rolling Stones. |
| 6:46
| That's why Dan doesn't like the Yankees, they're the creme de la creme, all handpicked. He likes every other team except the Yankees and the Mets. So he just doesn't like New York then. Did he have a bad experience there? Did a prostitute steal his watch or something? |
| 6:47
| Steve's going to give Dan a spin of the wheel, hopefully it'll cheer him up a bit. Dan should be happy, the Cubs had 8 players in the All-Star game, they're in first place, 19 games above .500! |
| 6:48
| Dan's hoping that the Sox keep playing well too, he'd love to face them in the World Series. They would have the home field advantage though. The Sox are clinging to a 1 1/2 game lead |
| 6:54
| See even Ozzie wants to be Jeter. Steve could see Buzz not validating parking either since he doesn't do airport pick-ups. |
| 6:55
| Live read: The Little Guys |
| 6:56
| Should Steve take this phone call? He doesn't normally like to give out his secret locations in New Buffalo but he's feeling like a giver today. He can give and he can take. |
| 6:57
| Caller Susan is on her way up to Petosky, Michigan. They left at 5:30 and they're getting hungry right now. The restaurant doesn't necessarily have to be in New Buffalo. |
| 6:58
| Steve can recommend a place in New Buffalo, right on Main. It's called Michigan Thyme. Steve recommends the blueberry pancakes with bacon. He likes to go blueberries in Michigan because they're indigenous. They also have a machine that will make your bacon extra crispy. |
| 6:59
| Steve has also perfected a method for buttering pancakes, after years of trial and error. Steve used to take one of those Land O' Lakes tubs and butter the bottom two, sandwiching it together. |
| 7:00
| After that though you run out of butter so you need to open another one. Instead, butter the first one and eat that, then butter the second one and eat that and then the third. |
| 7:01
| Steve is really hungry, he hasn't had his breakfast yet but it's on the way. Susan is also hungry, she was up at 4 am today. She was thinking about Steve while showering today, if he can get up this early so can she. |
| 7:02
| Susan wishes Steve could come with on their trip, he could golf with her husband. That might be awkward, Steve in the backseat of their car. His clubs might not fit, they have a Honda Accord. |
| 7:03
| Steve doesn't have clubs yet, he's just borrowing three of them from his instructor. He's waiting for his instructor to tell him to buy a set of clubs and so far he hasn't. It seems like they're both waiting to see if this golfing thing really sticks. |
| 7:04
| Alright Steve has the web poll but maybe he should do news first. Is Buzz ready for that? Steve doesn't have all of Buzz's audio so he doesn't want that to color his decision. Let's go with the news. |
| 7:05
| News with Buzz |
| 7:06
| George Bush made an appearance in front of the press yesterday to bolster our confidence in the economy. Feel better? He's recommending another stimulus package even though the first one didn't work. It only worked for Wal-Mart and other places where people buy stuff that they need. |
| 7:07
| The American League defeated the National League in the All-Star game last night. It ended in 15 innings with a score of 2-1. That's not right, it was 4-3. Buzz was referring to the longest All-Star game ever in Anaheim which ended with a 2-1 score. The NL hasn't won since 1996. The AL is just flat-out better. |
| 7:08
| New video has surfaced of a Canadian teenager being detained at Guantanamo. In the video the teen is seen crying and possibly muttering "Kill me" |
| 7:09
| A California man is at large today after he allegedly stabbed his girlfriend to death with a sword, in front of her 4 children. The woman's 9-year-old daughter dialed 911 and we have that tape now. |
| 7:10
| Thanks for that little shot of sunshine Buzz! How about a little warning? Buzz just wanted to bring it all home. |
| 7:11
| The California Parole Board has denied compassionate release for convicted murderer and Charles Manson follower Susan Atkins. She is dying and confined to a hospital bed. So why does she want to leave the prison? |
| 7:12
| Scientists are warning that the Gulf of Mexico's dead zone is growing larger. The dead zone, not the movie, is an area of the Gulf full of algae that cuts off all oxygen killing any animals and plants. |
| 7:13
| Rolling Stone Ronnie Wood's wife Jo is threatening to leave him over rumors that he's holed up in a castle in Ireland with a 20-year-old cocktail waitress. |
| 7:14
| The Dark Knight will premiere at Navy Pier tonight. At what point to Steve and Buzz get their invite to this? What are they, chopped liver? That girl who runs the Imax theater loves us, maybe she's listening. |
| 7:15
| The movie is garnering rave reviews and there's also talk of a posthumous Oscar for Heath Ledger as The Joker. If that Imax woman calls Steve will go over there, he'd like an aisle seat. |
| 7:16
| It seems like a highly orchestrated event to Buzz they might not be able to get in. If this woman's the manager she can just kick someone out. Maybe Steve could take the seat that was reserved for Heath Ledger. |
| 7:17
| Authorities believe they have apprehended the so-called Groucho Bandit. He has committed 9 bank robberies on the Northside over the last 6 months. He was apprehended at The Other Side, a bar he had frequented. What happened to bartender/drinker confidentiality? |
| 7:18
| Chicago police superintendent Jody Weis was on the hot seat yesterday, answering questions from the City Council. Weis' testimony was interrupted three times by people shouting from the gallery. |
| 7:19
| It's not like Jody Weis and the police tell people to go out and shoot people. All they can do is try to stop it. |
| 7:20
| Police are investigating claims by Drew Peterson's former friend Rick Mims (Mimsy) that the former Bolingbrook officer had a folding gun that was missed by authorities during searches of his house. |
| 7:21
| Buzz isn't sure what the legal ramifications of this folding gun are or what a folding gun is. It seems like if someone has a search warrant all they can do is find what they can find. You can't turn it in , that would be incriminating yourself. |
| 7:22
| Finally at the Brookfield Zoo there was a stingray massacre. Steve has done something similar to this at home with an aquarium. 16 sting rays died after a temperature malfunction in their tank. Owners of the exhibit are blaming a power fluctuation but Com Ed reported no problems. |
| 7:23
| The guy from the company who sold them the exhibit or built it for them came in from San Diego, just to make sure the sting rays were dead and then blame Com Ed. |
| 7:24
| It seems like you should have a fail safe though. Steve bought some fish for an aquarium and then left the bag in the tank so that the water temperatures would be the same. |
| 7:25
| Steve might have become impatient so he put the fish in before the temperature was right. It seemed to be getting too high so he put some ice cubes in the tank and it killed all the fish. |
| 7:32
| Drew didn't mind when Mimsy called him a womanizer. He could have called him a ladies man but at least it gets it out there. Buzz thinks it's an unnecessary negative to use. |
| 7:33
| Who was that talking to Mimsy? It was from The Early Show, Pete's pretty sure it's Hannah Storm. |
| 7:34
| Live read: The Little Guys |
| 7:35
| Alright it's time for the web poll, hopefully it meets Buzz's approval. Yesterday's question was "Have you ever chessboxed?" |
| 7:36
| Today's question is "Do you have a CTA shirt?" Are you tired of that CTA transit map tie you bought on transitchicago.com? Is your Don't Be Jack hat looking worse for the wear? What is that? Is that a Jack FM thing? |
| 7:37
| Steve should probably get Jim on the phone, he's our CTA clothing expert. He likes to flaunt his use of public transportation via his wardrobe. Jim says Don't Be Jack is a series of PSAs on the L and buses with stuff like "Don't be like Jack, don't litter" So Jack is negative? It's not even good subliminal advertising. |
| 7:38
| Does Jim have a "One L of a Ride" t-shirt? He doesn't, nor does he have the transit tie although he wants one. |
| 7:39
| This is from Kira Kyles' column, Brendan met her covering the R. Kelly trial. Brothers Nick and Justin Miles started "That's My Stop" business as a fluke. They both wanted t-shirts featuring the Rockwell sign. Steve thinks about that all the time, he wants a shirt with his Stevenson exit on it. How cool would that be, the green sign on a very tight t-shirt two sizes too small. |
| 7:40
| The brothers couldn't find the shirts they wanted to they began producing them last fall with the help of friends. Now at Thatsmystop.com you can choose your stop, color and size. They're getting a lot of orders from Chicagoans not living here any more. |
| 7:41
| Jim does not have one of these t-shirts but he has seen other transit shirts from a different company. He got one for Steve with the Sox/35th shirt and it is cool. It ties in to baseball, as does Jim's Addison shirt. Jim's not sure why these guys had trouble finding the Rockwell shirt though, that other company came before them. |
| 7:42
| When Jim saw the web poll he went to find this article and when he typed in "Transit t-shirt" the original site was the first thing to come up. Jim also sees that guy selling his stuff at street fairs so you'd think someone would have seen it. Standby, Steve needs to call up to the office. |
| 7:43
| Stephanie also has one of the original L-stop t-shirts, from Midway. Why are these guys getting an article written about them? Brendan might need to speak to Kira and set her straight, she didn't do her research. |
| 7:44
| Looking for a more subtle way to show your CTA allegiance? How about shoes with the CTA map on the sole? What's the point of that, you can't even see it? |
| 7:45
| Shoe boutique Leaders 1354 has designed blue and red Reebok Reverse Jam sneakers with the maps on the bottom. Only 150 pairs of the sneakers have been produced. |
| 7:46
| Steve thinks this is a cry for help from Kira Kyles to Brendan. This is the Red Eye though, that's the kind of crap they report on. Pete, Jim and Stephanie all have CTA-related t-shirts. |
| 7:47
| It seems like New York sort of invented all those transit t-shirts though. But if you take the L it's a culture. Doesn't Pete have the CTA map condom? "Check out my Purple Line!" |
| 7:48
| When Pete was last in New York he was shocked to find people handing out free condoms with the subway maps on them. They're always way ahead of us in New York. Here we are selling dopey sneakers with a transit map and they're giving away condoms with transit maps. |
| 7:54
| Alright it's Bob and Ron time. Ironically only a week after touting how responsible they were, how they always showed up on time and only missed one day in the 12 years they've been on, Ron is late. He's in transit. |
| 7:55
| Bob is here, making him the responsible one. However Ron is Steve's favorite of the two. Is Bob moving up that list now? He's at least jockeying for position with Ron. It's unfortunate that it comes only a week after Steve touted their punctuality. |
| 7:56
| Ron is on the phone, in transit from Colorado. He's moving his girlfriend from Colorado. Didn't this happen last year? Ron moved his girlfriend but all of her stuff was still in Colorado. So she had to decide if she wanted to actually move here stuff here. |
| 7:57
| Ron rented U-Haul for his girlfriend's stuff and he's hauling his Jetta behind it. Of all the stuff of her's that he's bringing back, what is the best? Besides the crystals and hand drums she's got a really nice acoustic guitar. |
| 7:58
| It seems like all of that stuff could have been cleaned out in one weekend hippy garage sale. Steve doesn't want it cluttering up what he can only imagine is Ron's immaculate apartment. |
| 7:59
| So is Ron driving now or is he calling from a dirty motel? They've actually stopped to eat at a Cracker Barrel. Is Bob in charge of the music selection or did they discuss it together? |
| 8:00
| Live read: Townstone Financial |
| 8:01
| Bob and Ron should feel free to join in at any time here, he knows they're both holders of prime mortgages. The mortgage crisis has really effected them. |
| 8:02
| Alright it's time for the Eight O'Clock Taco Bell. Steve really wanted Taco Bell last night watching the All-Star Game. Today it's time for another story Outside the Bun. |
| 8:03
| Today's story is from Jerry, who never thought outside the bun before Steve started talking about Taco Bell. Now it's all he thinks about. He's also struck up a relationship with his local Taco Bell manager and has even told him about Steve's involvement with the restaurant. Could Steve call this manager for the next Manager Monday? |
| 8:04
| If you'd like to send your story in, email Tacos@dahl.com. That's a good story, it's outside the bun even within the normal Border Stories. It's a friendship forged over ground beef and crispy corn shells. |
| 8:05
| We can probably arrange to call that manager, although Steve's pretty sure that talking to him is some sort of reward for doing well. Go figure! It seems like it should be a punishment. |
| 8:06
| Alright now back to the EInstein Convention. What's Ron's 20? He's just inside Nebraska so they haven't made it very far. The little woman is sleeping, it's all Ron. He just looks like a terrorist driving across the country with a U-Haul full of explosives and a hostage who's passed out. |
| 8:07
| Steve saw some fine anti-terrorism work in action yesterday. He took his boat out and went by the Al Jardine Water Reclamation plant, named after Beach Boy Al Jardine. They have buoys about 50 feet away so you can't go in there. But it seems like you could still get something done from 50 feet away. Also you can just go in between the buoys. |
| 8:08
| Steve went over to check out the Playpen but there was nothing going on because it's a Tuesday. He's just scouting it for a possible weekend hangout with Pete. Of course Pete will be pointing out all the Cub player's boats and maybe some Bears too. It's too bad Cedric Benson isn't with the team any more, Pete would like to see his party boat. |
| 8:09
| So Bob and Ron put their heads together on the song today? They had a conference call last night, it was all business. Steve would like to change the song to track 7. Bob was probably sending out Moby Grape's Omaha to Ron since he's in Nebraska. |
| 8:10
| Has Matt Dahl contacted Bob and Ron because he's been trying to? They have talked to him and they're getting ready to walk. That's good because they have a bit of a meltdown at the house over the weekend. |
| 8:11
| Steve likes Matt's dog, he just doesn't like Matt bringing the dog when he knows Steve doesn't want it there. And Matt plays on Janet's emotions to get the dog out there. Steve bought him off with the Fresh Diet because he eats poorly. |
| 8:12
| Quite frankly Steve was ready to leave and never come back. He doesn't need Matt's dog coming out and working his dogs up. He's just trying to sit around the pool and relax. |
| 8:13
| Matt's working from 9-5 for Mr. Skin now so that dog can't be alone all day. Even Matt seemed uncomfortable by what was going on on Sunday so he's on board with the dog walking. |
| 8:14
| On this date in 1966 Cream was formed, that's Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker. They were the first band Buzz ever saw in concert and the first band he hated. They are an easy band to hate, they're overrated. As is Eric Clapton to this day. |
| 8:15
| It sounds like Ron's girlfriend just woke up although you can't understand her because of the duct tape on her mouth. Bob and Ron are trading off on the rock history, like Eric & Kathy. Bob gets to do two because he's in studio. Ron's in Colorado coming back with all the macrame pot holders. |
| 8:16
| It's also Geezer Butler's birthday this week, he was of course in Black Sabbath. Ron had a chance to meet Geezer when he was running his coffee shop at Water Tower Place. |
| 8:17
| Ron saw a group of guys wearing black and knew it had to be a band. He didn't think it would be Geezer Butler though. They wanted to know where people ate around there so he recommended California Pizza Kitchen, where all rockers eat lunch. |
| 8:18
| This wasn't the coffee shop Ron owned right? This was when he was running the Gloria Jeans at Water Tower, which he ran into the ground. Then he opened his own place that he ran into the ground? It's a rare breed that can't succeed with a coffee shop. It's Ron and Spike Manton. |
| 8:19
| This week is also the birthday of Artemis Pyle of Lynyrd Skynyrd. Today's song is something even Mayor Daley would agree with. |
| 8:20
| Song: Saturday Night Special, Lynyrd Skynyrd |
| 8:26
| How are things going on the journey Ron? Did he give the girlfriend some more knock-out drops? She's back to sleep now and they're moving again. |
| 8:27
| Ron picked a great time for a road trip. It probably would have been cheaper to just ship this stuff back, plus he has to take off 3 days of work. All those dogs are just sitting at home crossing their legs because they have to go to the bathroom. |
| 8:33
| LIve read: The Little Guys |
| 8:34
| The Little Guys have good deals already but the tent sales are ridiculous. They just have stuff they want to get rid of, they want to turn it. |
| 8:35
| OK, Steve has some emails to read. They started out as emails and then the copies of the emails were mailed to Steve four times. He didn't know what to do with it so he might not have responded. |
| 8:36
| Four middle aged stay-at-home moms have found their calling and it's bowling. They want to join a league, they'll pay the dues but they were hoping Steve would sponsor their team and buy shirts and bowling balls. |
| 8:37
| That's where Steve lost interest, the bowling balls. If you're into bowling shouldn't you have a bowling ball? And don't they have balls at all bowling alleys anyway? |
| 8:38
| Steve was pulled back into it by what's coming up. The Team will be called Double D and the Other Four because the emailer and another woman on the team both wear DD bras. That's big right? Steve needs to call our bra expert. |
| 8:39
| Steve calls up to the office but Stephanie is not there, she's bringing Pete a tape. Steve would ask Vicki but she's an intern, that could end up in court. Stephanie is a paid employee, she knows the drill. |
| 8:40
| Pete is not prepared to receive a tape, it's for the newsroom. Has Buzz sent everyone on a wild goose chase? Steve wants something and no one even looks at him but Stephanie is probably on Steve's boat traveling to Traverse City to get Buzz something. He saw an interesting piece on a pine tree, he'd love the audio! It probably won't be what he was talking about though. |
| 8:41
| Steve got this from Penny, who's right below Steve and Buzz. He doesn't mean that stature wise, she's physically in a studio right below Steve and Buzz, womanning the controls. Penny says Steph is a DD. Apparently they talk about this stuff. Penny said Steve can call her if he wants. |
| 8:42
| We haven't talked to Penny in a while, maybe Steve should call her. Penny and Steph do talk about bra sizes, all girls do. It started from Steve always talking about Stephanie's "ample bosom" Does Steve say that? Stephanie is OK with it right? She wouldn't sue Steve anyway, her mom would never let her because she loves Steve. |
| 8:43
| Steve would ask Penny what size she is but it seems like she would be the type to sue. She almost seems like she's union. Penny doesn't mind saying she's also a DD. Do they ever trade bras? |
| 8:44
| Steve hasn't seen Penny in the morning lately. He has been coming in a little later. Since he started putting product in his hair it's taking an extra couple of minutes. |
| 8:45
| So that's two DDs on the show, maybe we should start our own bowling team? Ed Silha is quite the bowler, he almost went pro. He could probably be the instructor. He's like Bill Murray in Kingpin. |
| 8:46
| OK so back to the bowling league. Steve feels that asking him to buy the balls is overreaching. It's also condescending to assume Steve doesn't know what DD means. |
| 8:47
| It seems like if you can't afford a bowling ball you shouldn't get into bowling. Plus if Steve sponsors their team then everyone will want him to do something. What if something bad happens during a game? What if an errant bowling ball hits someone? What if one of those DDs hits someone in the head. |
| 8:48
| This girl was also asking if Steve could send her a Steve Dahl sweatshirt for her sobriety anniversary. She's really asking for a lot here. The sweatshirts are on sale for $60 but Steve can't just give them away. It's show business. |
| 8:49
| This woman had Steve at the bowling shirts but not the balls. Can't you just use the ball at the alley? It can't make that much of a difference. |
| 8:50
| Steve did notice that he had the audacity to sell items on Dahl.com that still have the WCKG logo on them? Ed decided to discount the items but Steve would have doubled the price and sold them as collector's items. |
| 8:51
| Steve doesn't like saying no to people but this woman asked for too much. She lost him at bowling ball. How much are bowling balls? Aren't they expensive? |
| 8:52
| Caller Susan says that Jessica Simpson is a DD. Buzz begs to differ, he's seen the ample bosoms we have around the station and they seem bigger than Jessica's. Let's call Tony Romo and find out. |
| 9:00
| In a 2004 interview Jessica Simpson's dad Joe joked about her DD breasts saying "you can't cover those suckers up!" Jessica more recently denied being embarrassed by those comments. You should be embarrassed though. And a dad should never joke about his daughter's breasts. Steve doesn't have daughters but he wouldn't even joke about a daughter-in-law's breasts. |
| 9:01
| News with Buzz |
| 9:02
| President Bush is set to meet with the president of...this is an African nation that Buzz has never heard of, Burkina Faso. Steve's heard of it, that was Dave McBride's go to funny country name for his Dave's Raves. |
| 9:03
| Those Raves were a mistake. Steve started airing them around 6 every night, he remembered hearing them when Dave was on Murphy in the Morning. Then Steve started airing the previous day's Rave at the beginning of the next show, it was very Lujackian. |
| 9:04
| Eventually all Dave did was spend his time researching his Raves. They were very well-researched but he used to be in at 8 am researching the Rave. |
| 9:05
| Steve created a monster and he has since stopped creating monsters. It was probably a mistake on Steve's part to have someone else start and end his show. Dave later tried to use that in contract negotiations, he was asking for $450,000! |
| 9:06
| At that point Steve had to let him go, you can't be that crazy. Dave later took all his Rave scripts, put them in a binder and presented it to Kevin Matthews. Kevin actually turned it over to Steve because he thought it was weird. |
| 9:07
| Dave was a good news man but he thought he was going to be the next Garry Meier. Little did he know that would come true. He does have a job now in Florida though. |
| 9:08
| At some point all Dave was doing was researching The Rave and emailing listeners his chili recipe. He denied doing that although Steve could see through the studio window onto his computer. It's like how Wendy would always deny she was online shopping during the show. |
| 9:09
| Buzz once accidentally vacationed with Dave McBride in Mexico. They happened to be at the same resort during the same week. There are a lot of similarities between Buzz and Dave but Steve doesn't mean that in a bad way. |
| 9:10
| OK so back to Burkina Faso. If we had some Raves in the computer Pete could probably put together a nice Burkina Faso montage. Buzz will have to take his word for it. |
| 9:11
| In this article Buzz has they're interchanging Zimbabwe with Burkina Faso. Are they close to each other? Burkina Faso's president is in the U.S. to talk about surging inflation in Zimbabwe. So the price of a mud hut is higher than it used to be? |
| 9:12
| Washington is sending an envoy to Geneva to talk about Iran's nuclear capabilities. |
| 9:13
| A poll of likely voters shows Barack Obama with a slight lead over John McCain. However Joe Lieberman thinks voters should be asking which candidate they would prefer to have as Commander-in-Chief. |
| 9:14
| Lieberman's also trying to bring back that whole "flip-flop" smear campaign like they did for John Kerry. This is where it all stops making sense. This is where John Kerry actually serving in Vietnam gets used against him. |
| 9:15
| A medicinal mouth spray with the same properties as marijuana is being tested by the FDA. It could be used as a possible treatment for patients with Alzheimer's. |
| 9:16
| A prayer vigil will be held to day in remembrance of a 9-year-old girl found stabbed to death on the South Side yesterday. |
| 9:17
| A Burbank woman who died Thursday will be buried a second time today. Relatives of the woman say that the funeral home in Stickney accidentally buried the wrong body on Saturday. That seems like a big mistake. |
| 9:18
| Hundreds of pounds of garbage have washed ashore in Michigan. Buzz recently became aware of he dangers of plastic bags to Western Civilization. There's a plastic bag crisis. |
| 9:19
| Steve knows you don't want to run over one in your boat, it'll get tangled up in the propeller. Apparently plastic bags are also killing animals all over the place. Buzz will find the numbers about how many plastic bags there are and how easy it would be to switch to paper. |
| 9:27
| Live read: McCracken Financial |
| 9:28
| Steve would recommend buying a house if you can, otherwise you're just throwing money down the toilet. And that toilet goes right to your landlord. |
| 9:29
| Alright it's time for Meat Talk with Chef Hans. Hans has brought another Swissman with him, his nephew Marcus. He's a pilot for Lufthansa. He flew in from Frankfort on Sunday and has been enjoying some nice weather. |
| 9:30
| It's about a 9 hours flight from Frankfort, where they're based out of. Pilots get to nap on those flights right? There are 3 relief pilots so everyone gets to sleep on a small bunk. It's probably too small to slip a girl in right? |
| 9:31
| Has Hans ever told his nephew the story about the two Pan-Am flight attendants? |
| 9:32
| Steve saw Hans at Smith & Wollensky on Friday for The Score Radio Roundtable. He was hoping Hans would end up on the air but he was very busy. That food was going by Steve for two hours and he was so hungry. After the show he went with the lemon pepper chicken breast. |
| 9:33
| Steve was not the only celeb at Smith's on Friday. Kosuke Fukudome and his family sat at the chef's table that night. He said through a translator that it was the best steak he's ever had. |
| 9:34
| We've got Troy Murray on the phone now, we probably shouldn't keep him waiting. Troy wants to know what a "trunslator" is. Troy's just lucky that Hans isn't his radio partner. |
| 9:35
| Steve hasn't talked to Troy in a while but since he's started going to Hawks games he's been listening to Troy after the game. He's learned a lot just in those game recaps. |
| 9:36
| Troy can't wait for next season, the signing of Brian Campbell just shows that players want to come to Chicago to play hockey. There's a big buzz in the Chicagoland area that Troy hasn't felt in a while. |
| 9:37
| Hans reminds Steve and Buzz that Troy has a Stanley Cup ring, does anyone know what team it was with? Troy's last year in the NHL, 1996 is when he won with Colorado. This is the point where Hans takes over the interview, Steve's just going to step back. |
| 9:38
| The Blackhawks Convention will be this weekend and tickets sold out very quickly. A lot of current and former players will be there. It's gonna be 90º this weekend, what better time to start thinking about hockey. |
| 9:39
| Steve's been to a few of those sports conventions and it's a good time. Everyone's there to get autographs and the reception will probably be even better after the way last season went. |
| 9:40
| The Hawks have a lot of young players, like Jonathan Toews and Patrick Kane, to build the team around. Those guys are still very young, they can't even come back here and have a beer. |
| 9:41
| Steve likes that Adam Burish guy too, he's a tough nut. Last year he knocked a guy out in a fight! |
| 9:42
| Steve really does learn a lot in those post-games with Troy and Jesse Rogers. Steve's favorite part of the broadcast is when Troy and congratulate each other for a fine broadcast. |
| 9:43
| Hans brought Steve some passes for the convention, he's going to try to make it. If Steve needs any more Pete Hassen told Hans he could have anything he wanted. Steve did see that passes are still available. |
| 9:44
| Hans thinks that they're still available for people like Steve and Buzz in the media. The Hawks website says they're still available. It's not just Steve and Buzz, it's everyone. That's wonderful because Hans thinks that sometimes the real fans get shut out. John McDonough probably wouldn't want Hans saying that. |
| 9:45
| It's like that everywhere because of all the autograph hounds. That happened to Steve at the Bears convention. All day long guys were coming up asking him to autograph stuff. Then at the end of the day he saw them all at tables organizing their autographs. |
| 9:46
| If Hans gets an autograph he gives it to charity. And if he gets a ticket he would give someone else the ticket. That's how real fans should act. You can always tell who's an autograph seeker because they're all dorks. Grown men shouldn't be waiting in hotel lobbies, those are reserved for hot women who want to have sex with players. |
| 9:47
| Hans has seen the autograph seekers, they are dorks. They have big glasses and are sometimes ugly looking. |
| 9:55
| Steve's going to have to take Buzz to a Hawks game next year. The games do go late but they're pretty regulated. Each period is 20 minutes and there aren't too many stops in play. Then you have 2 intermissions and you're out of there. |
| 9:56
| As you can imagine Steve has his own escape route from the United Center but Buzz would have to arrange for his own vehicle to get him out of there. Steve would drive Buzz home if he didn't have to get up so early the next day. |
| 9:57
| Steve thinks Buzz would like the game though. Would Buzz get a Blackhawks sweater? They can probably send one over but Steve doesn't want Buzz wearing it to the game with him. |
| 9:58
| Steve sees other radio people at Hawks games with their names on the back of jerseys, that's just not right. |
| 9:59
| Can Buzz read a brief paragraph from that plastic bag study that Mark Czerniec posted? That's fine but Steve does have to say that Mark is an environmental alarmist. |
| 10:00
| Every year American's throw away roughly 100 billion plastic bags. It's the equivalent of dumping 12 million barrels of oil. |
