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| 5:32
| Steve was going to say this theme playing now is his least favorite but they he saw Buzz bopping along to it. It seems distorted to Steve though, can Pete delete it from the machine? |
| 5:33
| Pete didn't really notice that it was distorted. Is he even listening in there? No one's listening, Brendan and Mary are out in the hall talking about the Cubs and Pete's probably in his studio listening to stuff he recorded at Pitchfork. |
| 5:34
| Steve prefers the themes where it sounds like the sun is rising over Lake Michigan. Hopefully the sun is rising over the lake, if it's not we're in for a long day. |
| 5:35
| It seemed a little cool today to Steve. Buzz noticed it was cooler yesterday, it felt like it never got above 76º. It didn't feel that way to Steve at the Sox game, he thought it was about 1000º |
| 5:36
| They built U.S. Cellular in the wrong direction. It should also be facing downtown so you could see the skyline past the bleachers. Instead the park is facing the projects so you get to see that. Although those are kind of gone. |
| 5:37
| Bridgeport is gentrifying, someday soon they'll have a bar with hot chicks like up by Wrigley Field. In the meantime there Jimbo's with some Southside monstrosities. There are 80-year-old men in that bar that are better looking than the women. Steve doesn't like Jimbo's because it's an old man bar and if he ever decides to take a drink again it'll be at an old man bar. It's not a great old man bar because there's too much chatter.
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| 5:38
| That Wrigleyville though, they have the good bars up there. Steve has to imagine that there will be more bars around U.S. Cellular since that whole area is gentrifying. Although Steve drove through there on the Fourth of July and it was like being in Baghdad. |
| 5:39
| Steve likes this new schedule because he can go to more Sox games. Steve went to night games when he worked afternoons but he always got there late. Now he can arrive early and eat too much food. Yesterday Steve had a salad and pasta with cream sauce and giant chunks of pork. Nothing like pasta with cream sauce to cool you off on a hot summer day. |
| 5:40
| Steve took Terry Armour's mom to the game yesterday. They had a good time but she hasn't been to a game since Terry passed away. So it was emotional but also fun. And she's a huge White Sox fan. You can see why Terry was so affable and funny, he got it from his mom. Janet's sister Judy and her family were also sitting right behind Steve. |
| 5:41
| In the 4th or 5th inning Steve and Terry's mom went out into a courtyard that has commemorative bricks in it. They went to look for the one with Terry's name on it but couldn't find it. So Steve went into the White Sox office and wanted to look at their list of names. They didn't have it on the list but then the community relations expert, Christine, came by. |
| 5:42
| The best possible person came by to help Steve out because he didn't want it to end that way. Christine told Steve and Terry's mom that they were preparing a special brick for Terry and there was going to be a memorial service for him in September. |
| 5:43
| Then they went back to watching the Sox game, which ended up being very exciting. The Sox won, the Twins lost and the Cubs also won. That Reed Johnson hit a grand slam right? |
| 5:44
| Steve's still holding out for a Crosstown World Series. He knows there will be deaths during it, stabbings on the L, cars overturned and set on fire, it'll be very exciting. After the Sox won the World Series in 2005 it was a little bit of a letdown, like the day after Christmas. The only way to top that is a Crosstown World Series. Steve won't get into who he thinks should win though. |
| 5:45
| Chicago baseball fans deserve a Crosstown World Series. We're the most passionate baseball fans, forget about New York. Steve was just in L.A. where everyone gets to the Dodgers game around the 3rd inning, knocks around a beach ball, has a Dodger Dog and then goes home. |
| 5:46
| Those Dodger Dogs aren't even that good, they're just 12 inch Oscar Mayer dogs like the kind you cut up for little kids. Plus they're 12 inches long so it looks like everyone is making a porno. They do have great parking at Dodger Stadium though. It's so vast that they should have a tram, driven by former Dodger players. |
| 5:47
| If it was cooler yesterday Steve didn't notice at the Sox game, there was no breeze at all. Steve had that bad sweat stain on the back of his shirt, it looked like he wet his pants but it was his shirt. |
| 5:48
| When Steve was leaving he met a mother/son team. The son said "Dude you were so funny at 5:30 yesterday" and Steve couldn't remember one thing he said. He accepted the compliment anyway though. It happened right as Steve was parting ways with Janet's sister so he said "Well I have to go listen to how funny I am" |
| 5:49
| Steve is still fascinated by the whole Drew Peterson thing from yesterday. Fox 32 did some research on the legality of the husband and wife talking to the press. Yesterday Joel Brodsky said that it was illegal for them to talk about it and they would be arrested. |
| 5:50
| According to Steve's sources within the ISP (Illinois State Police) they were wearing a wire. They couple also had permission from the Illinois State Police to talk to the press. |
| 5:51
| Fox sent Tara Williams over to interview Drew and he was quite affable with her, telling her she got more than anyone else did. Steve's pretty sure that's the second time he's used affable today so he apologizes. |
| 5:52
| It seems like if you want to talk to Drew you need to send your cutest reporter and Tara Williams is the cutest reporter at Fox. |
| 5:57
| Alright, here's the latest on Drew Peterson. Being the conscientious broadcaster that he is, Steve scours the internet for stuff to talk about before he goes to bed. He doesn't want to haul his fat ass out of bed and have nothing to talk about the next morning. |
| 5:58
| Drew says that the two friends who worked with the police to secretly record him only did so to profit from the relationship. He also says those recordings would only bolster his claim that he has nothing to do with the death of his third wife or the disappearance of his fourth wife. |
| 5:59
| Len Wawczak and Paula Stark wore a wire for the Illinois State Police for 6 months ending in June. Steve talked to his sources in the ISP and they confirmed that was true. See, Steve even checked sources! |
| 6:00
| The Tribune cleverly cites the Joliet Herald News in this article, that's really the Sun-Times News Group. Steve has to say that the Sun-Times has really been bringing it lately. |
| 6:01
| Wawczak and Stark did not provide detailed information about their recordings but did say that Peterson made damning about both cases. |
| 6:02
| They did sort of give details but nothing specific about how they were wired up. Who wired them up? Was Stark's microphone below her breasts, above them, near the crotch? There's probably where a Drew Peterson would gravitate towards. |
| 6:03
| They did say that Peterson-in apparently unrecorded conversations-mocked police for their initial investigation into Savio's death and also regretted not having her cremated. So that wasn't recorded? It seemed like it was based on the Sun-Times article. Steve will trust the Tribune over the Sun-Times, the Sun-Times would make stuff up if they needed to. |
| 6:04
| Buzz doesn't remember anything in the Sun-Times yesterday about those statements not being recorded. They're awesome statements but it was completely misleading. That's what the Sun-Times does. "We make it awesome" is their slogan. |
| 6:05
| Neither Wawczak nor Stark could be reached for comment on Wednesday. That's making Steve think the Sun-Times floated them a little cash. Based on the photo Steve has seen of them and the sparse nature of their dining room it wouldn't take much. On Fox last night they said that Wawczak and Stark had declared bankruptcy 7 times between the two of them. That's just not right. |
| 6:06
| All of this brought out Sharon Bychowski, she was on Fox last night saying that the police have Drew now. She was putting up a sign in Wawczak and Stark's lawn. |
| 6:07
| Steve heard from Sharon Bychowski a few weeks ago, or at least she called management. She was complaining that Steve was calling her a cow but that wasn't him, it was Drew. He went with the Kevin Matthews defense. |
| 6:08
| No one really bought the "It was Drew" defense but Steve spoke to him and asked him to knock it off. Steve doesn't need a sign in his front yard! |
| 6:09
| Authorities would not confirm that Wawczak and Stark were used to record Peterson but according to Steve's sources they did wear wires. |
| 6:10
| ISP Captain Ken Kaupas would not get into specifics about the case but is confident that it's moving forward. Police say all the time that they don't get to pick their witnesses, they just play the hand they're dealt. It sounds like Wawczak and Stark are loose cannons. That's probably why they went to the Sun-Times with there story for a few hundred dollars. |
| 6:11
| Peterson said he felt numb when he learned that his friends allegedly cooperated with police but he should have seen it coming. He thinks they were jealous of another former friend, Roc Mims, who sold his story to the National Enquirer. |
| 6:12
| Drew said "Lenny's out of work. Paula's not working. Both of these people are trying to capitalize on Drew Peterson's grief." Great use of third person there. |
| 6:13
| After Drew appeared on the Today show he brought Wawczak and Stark souvenir hats and t-shirts. Stark had Drew sign them and then sold them on eBay. On several occasions the couple brought friends over to Drew's house and had them sign autographs and take pictures. That seems sort of weird. |
| 6:14
| Drew is confident that any taped conversations will support his claim that he's innocent. Steve's not saying Drew did anything but if he did he's probably smart enough to not talk about it with anyone. He's a former cop, he knows how things work. |
| 6:15
| Now here's a sweet quote from The Broad Man. "Let me kill somebody, then plan to get arrested, tried and acquitted, so that when the body is discovered, I can't be prosecuted. Yeah, that's a plan of a criminal mastermind—move over, Lex Luthor." How great is that? Lex Luthor! |
| 6:16
| Sharon Bychowski, one of Drew's sharpest critics and the woman who's garage door Drew was messing with, said she met with Wawczak and Stark about a week ago. That garage door thing has been the ironic highlight of this entire thing so far. It seems like something Lex Luthor would do too just to annoy you. |
| 6:17
| Wawczak and Stark told Bychowski that they had been wearing a wire and revealed photos of a handgun that Drew gave them to stash. That's probably why Bychowski gave them the sign for their yard. |
| 6:18
| So according to this article it seems like they didn't record any of the good stuff. That's probably why the state police said it was OK for Wawczak and Stark to talk to the press. |
| 6:25
| That was Drew talking to Tara Williams from Fox. She is pretty cute although sometimes Steve thinks Amy Freeze is cute. That's more in a weird way like he'd like to knock the smile off her face. |
| 6:26
| Drew and Joel, riding another wave, will be on Today and The Early Show this morning. Just when you think it can't get any better! |
| 6:27
| Steve knows there's a missing girl and he hopes they find her but in the meantime he's going to enjoy Drew and Joel. |
| 6:28
| When Buzz was on vacation in Jamaica he couldn't help but look for Stacy. He kept seeing women who sort of looked like her. There are a lot of mousy blond women running around in the world. |
| 6:29
| Steve read something last night, maybe in the Sun-Times, about Wawczak and Stark declaring bankruptcy. Maybe Steve will just read this article he has though. |
| 6:30
| Paula Stark stood on a neighbor's stoop yesterday smoking and watching photographers and reporters stake out her home down the street. That's always a good look. |
| 6:31
| Stark's phone rang repeatedly yesterday with calls from TV news producers. She hasn't eaten since Tuesday morning and Wawczak gone, possibly fishing with a friend to avoid the media. Isn't this when you want to be around? You don't want to miss your 15 minutes. |
| 6:32
| Drew says Stark and Wawczak are bitter because he refused to lend them a large sum of money about a month ago. That's the last time he saw them. They wanted to cash in on his misery and were sniffing around for money long before that according to Drew. |
| 6:33
| After Drew returned from New York for a Today show appearance he autographed a baseball cap for the couple. Stark's mother put it on eBay with a starting price of $10,000. That's a very reasonable price. |
| 6:34
| Drew also says he caught Paula in her bedroom taking pictures. Now he has more friends taking advantage of his anguish. Sounds like Drew got a thesaurus for Father's Day. |
| 6:35
| Before this Drew said he was free with his money, once lending Stark $400. Stark denied borrowing that money and said she and her husband often had to pay for Drew's children on outings. Her mom did put the cap on eBay but they had planned to donate the money for the search efforts to find Stacy. Ebay later shut the auction down. Shut it down! |
| 6:36
| Stark was holed up in her neighbor's basement watching Joel Brodsky on TV. Stark and her neighbor were not interested in that so they flipped to an episode of Home Improvement. You'd think you would be interest if you were in this situation but you can't beat a good episode of Home Improvement. |
| 6:37
| In a statement released by Drew's publicist, Joel Brodsky said that Wawczak broke the law if their claims about wearing a wire were true. If you're a lawyer this is the kind of stuff you say. |
| 6:38
| Peterson has questioned Wawczak's character saying he often arrested his friend for drunk and disorderly. Sometimes Steve wishes he'd never moved out of Bolingbrook. |
| 6:39
| The best thing for Steve is that Drew and Joel will be on TV twice today. How great is that? |
| 6:40
| Alright time for the web poll. Yesterday's question was "Do you have a tattoo that you regret?" 22% of the people said they did. We talked to several women yesterday who had tattoos and they didn't regret them. Steve received pictures of all of those tattoos which was interesting to see. |
| 6:41
| Then some guy sent Steve a photo of a girl with a big tattoo on her back and she was naked. Steve got excited because it thought it was a listener but it was form some amateur porn site. Steve can find those photos himself. Don't do that to him though, especially with all this Drew Peterson stuff going on, he's too emotional. |
| 6:42
| Today's web poll question is "What kind of nap do you prefer?" The options are planned, emergency, habitual or none. Nap's aren't just for grandpa's any more Buzz. Buzz is his own grandpa. Ironically Steve will become a grandpa before Buzz. Steve could be a grandpa and doesn't even know it. If he is he appreciates the discretion. |
| 6:43
| Sleep-deprived Americans are increasingly turning to the power nap or the afternoon siesta to restore alertness and enhance performance. Spa patrons are shelling out big money to nap. |
| 6:44
| Kohler Waters Spa in Burr Ridge offers a 60-minute massage with a 15-minute restorative nap service for $150. Yelo, a New York City spa will open a Chicago location in the next couple of years. They're going to charge people to sleep? Although hotels do the same thing. |
| 6:45
| Some sleep scientists say napping can have a negative affect on nighttime sleeping and make you groggy. Other researchers say a nap can relax, rejuvenate and improve your health. |
| 6:46
| Whenever Steve naps it's usually for 15 to 30 minutes max. He feels much better when he wakes up from the nap although he does have trouble sleeping at night. |
| 6:47
| Steve's going to take a break but he'd like to hear about people's napping habits. When the show is over at 10 am the allure of the nap is very strong. Our own Brendan has napped at the Union League Club. |
| 6:53
| Live read: Townstone Financial |
| 6:54
| Today's read is about David, who is a very successful mortgage broker. Here we go, David tooting his own horn for 60 seconds. David went undercover to 2 Federally chartered and one state chartered banks to size up the competition. He was probably dressed in disguise as a Hasidic Jew. |
| 6:55
| Standby for The Early Show, they're about to have Drew and Joel on. Steve's also getting some breaking news here, Len Wawczak is claiming that he is the blogger known Ashley. Steve needs Mark on the phone stat! |
| 6:56
| Coming up on the CBS 2 news though, Zwecker has some info about a new Rocky Horror Picture Show. Buzz has been trying to see that movie since it came out but it's a piece of crap. |
| 6:57
| Mark Czerniec is on the phone. A couple of weeks ago Steve was reading from this Ashley blog, she was communicating with Drew. This one made Mark's heart stop. |
| 6:58
| In the blog this person was posting conversations they were having with Drew. Len Wawczak is claiming that it was him. Wasn't there a bunch of romantic-type stuff on there? |
| 6:59
| There's a post on the blog today that everyone should watch channel 2 today at 6:53 am where the blogger will come forward and reveal their identity. Mark had theorized that Drew might be talking to a dude. |
| 7:00
| Paula Stark is going to be on Good Morning America at 7 am today while Drew and Joel will be on Today and The Early Show. That's too much to keep track of. Can't they spread it out a bit? |
| 7:01
| So this Wawczak guy was posing as a woman that Drew was hitting on online. That's uncool and sneaky. At the very least Wawczak has violated some guy codes. |
| 7:02
| That just seems creepy. Plus Wawczak tried to borrow money from Drew while this was all going on?! |
| 7:03
| Steve sees here that Drew was flip with a CBS reporter as he was leaving his house yesterday. When asked about the newest developments by a female reporter Drew replied "God you're hot" Who was that? Does Pete have it? It's probably not something that ended up on the air. Which reporter was it? Mark hopes it's Kristen Hartman. |
| 7:04
| What a crazy world we live in. And this Wawczak guy is really Ashley the blogger? That's just wrong dude. |
| 7:05
| Steve can't keep track of everything that's going on here. For a time there was something new everyday and Steve was on his game. But there was a lull over the summer before all of this. The cast of characters is much larger also. |
| 7:06
| And Drew and Joel are already in New York to be on TV! Plus you've got Paula Stark on another channel, they're covering all three networks. |
| 7:07
| Steve would like someone to ask Len Wawczak why he pretended to be this Ashley woman. Was he trying to show everyone that Drew as a pig? He married a 17-year-old woman, duh! |
| 7:08
| OK let's get back to napping. Steve's afraid to start something up again, who knows what could happen. Drew could end up shirtless on the Today show showing Matt Lauer his abs. |
| 7:09
| Matt Lauer is on vacation so they have David Gregory hosting. Is that the pretty boy? Pete? This sounds very gay and Pete's silence isn't helping. |
| 7:10
| OK, back to napping. There are three kinds of naps. Planned napping involves taking a nap before you're tired. Emergency napping is when you're so tired you have to stop your activities and take a nap. Habitual napping is when you take a nap at the same time everyday. Young children might fall asleep at the same time everyday. |
| 7:11
| Steve thinks he's a combination of planned and habitual napping. Buzz will take a nap if he knows he's going to be out late that night. Sometimes it doesn't happen though and he just lays in bed for 90 minutes. Is that so he doesn't have to do anything around the house? |
| 7:12
| Here are some tips for good napping. Short naps are recommended, usually between 20 and 30 minutes. These short naps provide significant improvements in alertness and performance without leaving you feeling groggy. Steve hates that, it's like someone whacked you in the head with a 2 x 4. |
| 7:13
| Caller Dan is unfortunately a habitual napper but he has had to pull over into a rest stop for an emergency nap. Dan used to work in the Sears Tower and he belongs to the Metro Club as part of his employment. |
| 7:14
| Dan didn't workout at the club's gym but he did use The Cocoon which is a perfect nap room. It has a bed, an alarm clock and that's it. Steve belongs to the Mid-America Club, does he have reciprocal membership at the Metro Club? |
| 7:15
| Buzz is wondering if Dan sleeps with all of this clothes on or not. OK Ashley! Dan actually gets to the club, showers up and sleeps naked. AH! There's only one bed in the room right? Steve wouldn't be able to nap if he knew the dude in the bed next to him was naked. They change the sheets after each nap so it's all good. |
| 7:16
| They're doing renovations at the Mid-America Club and Steve's going to recommend a nap room. |
| 7:17
| Steve's trying to get Brendan to take him to the Union League Club. Brendan's step-father belongs to the club and they have a napping room there. Steve would feel uncomfortable trying to nap near Brendan though. |
| 7:24
| OK that was Drew talking to some reporter from channel 2. Mark Czerniec thought it was Kristen Hartman, she's hot. Maybe it was a producer. |
| 7:25
| Can we hear that again? How awesome is Drew? Steve hopes he didn't kill anyone. If he didn't there's a place for him on this show. |
| 7:26
| Steve and Buzz need to work on exonerating Drew. There's no statute of limitations on murder though so the police can keep dragging this out. Steve really wants to go to the Cayman Islands to dive, he could write it off and say he's going there to clear a man's name. |
| 7:27
| Steve's done with nap talk but there's still a guy on hold who wanted to talk about. Mike in Mt. Prospect takes a 2 hour nap on Sundays and it recharges him for the week. |
| 7:28
| Steve was just talking to Jim kid about napping during the break, he takes a half hour nap everyday. That's all Steve does in an afternoon. Maybe he should say hi to Mike, he's started up nap talk again. |
| 7:29
| Caller Mike turns the TV on and sleeps on and off for about 2 hours every Sunday. he only sleeps about 5 hours a night so this recharges him. |
| 7:30
| Steve is thinking about a Steve Dahl Show Cocoon in the office. There's a meeting space up there where no one ever has meetings, that could be where all the sleep drawers go. |
| 7:31
| Steve gets concerned about people on the show falling asleep on their way home. Mary gets up at 1:30 every morning, doesn't nap and says that sometimes she pulls into a store parking lot and a half hour later she wakes up from a nap. |
| 7:32
| Did Brendan forget about screen clearing because now we're back into nap talk. Does Steve need to bring an intern back up here to answer phones now that Brendan is Mr. Court Reporter? |
| 7:33
| Steve calls down to the news room. Jim naps everyday around the same time. He comes home from work, walks the dogs, eats lunch and then naps. He's a Junior Buzz Kilman in the making, Mr. Routinized. It's probably the same sandwich for lunch everyday, two slices of turkey, same drink. |
| 7:34
| Steve has trouble falling asleep at night if he takes a nap but Jim says he doesn't. Steve's the kind of person where if he can't fall asleep he gets more and more panicked and then he can't fall asleep. Usually playing guitar helps Steve fall asleep because his own music is so boring. |
| 7:35
| OK, Steve doesn't know where to go now, channel 7 or channel 5. Paula Stark is on Good Morning America, he'll go there. Stark says that her and her husband decided to wear a wire because of what happened to Wawczak's father. |
| 7:36
| Wawczak's father owned a convenience store and was shot by a burglar. A witness called the police and the guy was captured. That's totally different than wearing a wire though. |
| 7:37
| Now they go to some guy named Joe but they don't say who he is. Buzz heard it, Steve just has to go rewind a bit. |
| 7:38
| Joe is a reporter, nice instincts Buzz. They're so honed. Is this Joe Hosey from the Sun-Times? It doesn't seem like he should be on TV talking about this, where's the objectivity? |
| 7:39
| And Joe's got a speech impediment. C'mon Joey! You can't go on TV with a speech impediment, this is why you're only in print. He's got a bad look going with this striped shirt. He looks like a Middle Eastern guy who just came home from a night club. |
| 7:40
| Steve would just like to point out that Stark and Hosey aren't even in New York, they're in Chicago. They didn't even get a free trip to New York. They're just in front of some bookcase with stupid books in it. |
| 7:41
| Buzz is very disappointed with Joe Hosey's look. A black and white striped shirt with khakis, even Steve knows that's a bad look. The shirt's probably tucked in too. Plus he's go the speech impediment, which Buzz was hoping Steve would ignore. Steve can't do that though, it's up to him to keep people with speech impediments off the air. |
| 7:42
| OK, Drew is on NBC right now, Steve needs to switch over to that and start recording then we can go back to it. There's just way too much going on right now. |
| 7:43
| Paula says she's not scared of Drew because she's hiding out in a neighbor's basement. Drew can't figure out where that is? |
| 7:44
| OK, now on to Drew and Joel on NBC. Pete is telling Steve that they're not on NBC yet, they're coming up on CBS. How is Steve supposed to keep track of all of this? |
| 7:45
| Steve has noticed a change in Drew's tanning after he broke up with that tanning parlor girl. He's got more of the raccoon eyes look since then. |
| 7:46
| OK, now on to Drew and Joel on CBS. |
| 7:47
| Steve hopes this is where Joel Brodsky drops in the eBay stuff, they're talking about Stark and Wawczak trying to make money off of Drew. This is the perfect time to drop the eBay. |
| 7:48
| Drew does in fact drop eBay down, how awesome is that! That was so well-played, Steve got goosebumps from it. It was like a grand slam or a hole-in-one. |
| 7:56
| Live read: Woodfield Nissan |
| 7:57
| It's Thursday which mean's today's Taco Bell segment is the lunch with Steve. So call in and tell Steve what you're going to have at Taco Bell and he'll have it too.. It's like having lunch together but separately. |
| 7:58
| Caller Margie wanted to let Steve know which reporter Drew said "God you're hot" to. It's Susanne LeMignon. She is pretty hot. |
| 7:59
| Margie thinks Steve is pretty hot, she met him when she was in college in 1979, she can't believe she's talking to him now. |
| 8:00
| Steve wants to run something by Margie, a hypothetical. Let's say you're out in the producer area and you hear a Brendan Greeley screening calls. He says "Yeah, uh huh" and then hangs up. |
| 8:01
| Then Brendan tells Steve that a Fresh FM sales guy spotted Drew Peterson signing into the building. Turns out Drew and Joel are in the Green Room. |
| 8:02
| Steve will talk to them but the last time they were on the show Steve had a hellacious day. Buzz of course left at 10:05 and left Steve to deal with it. They might not want to even be on the air, they said they just wanted to wave through the window. |
| 8:03
| Drew and Joel are coming off that sweet CBS interview, they totally rocked that thing. So Steve's question to Margie is, would she object to Steve having them on the show? |
| 8:04
| Margie's fine with it since Drew is everywhere today. Steve has a few other things he needs to do before talking to Drew. He was just let into the enclave without Steve's permission. |
| 8:05
| Alright it's time for the Eight O'Clock Taco Bell. Steve has his Taco Pal on the line, it's Barry. Barry wants to hear Drew! |
| 8:06
| Barry's having the classic Mexican pizza. Has Steve had that? It's two tortillas with beans and beef, melted cheese, tomato and black olives. Then Barry will have the Cheesy Potatoes and Mountain Dew. Steve keeps forgetting to try that stuff. |
| 8:07
| It's supposed to have way more caffeine than coffee and Brendan swears by it. It got him through college. |
| 8:08
| There's too much happening today. Drew and Joel have another thing to get to, maybe they should just come down here and say hi. We've also got Rob Elgas on the phone. |
| 8:09
| Alright, standby Rob, Steve and Buzz need to enjoy the weirdness. Joel and Drew can come in and say hi, Steve won't ask any questions. |
| 8:10
| Steve has to say that Joel and Drew nailed that last interview. Steve liked how they double teamed the financial problems of Stark and Wawczak. Drew is presenting Steve with the actual bandana he covered his face with when this all started. |
| 8:11
| That's exactly what Buzz wanted and now Steve has the bandana. We just have to make sure they don't try to steal Mary, that's Steve's biggest concern at the moment. |
| 8:12
| OK, back to Rob Elgas. Rob can't believe Drew and Joel just showed up to say hello. Steve thinks we've remained pretty objective, innocent until proven guilty unless you're the Sun-Times. |
| 8:13
| Drew is quite handsome, Steve can see why the ladies fall for him. Steve is actually disappointed that Drew didn't ask him out to lunch. Mary might actually be going out to lunch with him. |
| 8:14
| Kim Vadis had Drew and Joel right outside their hotel room this morning, just after the Today interview. 30 seconds later the other networks show up at NBC Tower thinking Drew is there. |
| 8:15
| Rob was at the Sox game yesterday in the Jim Beam club, he has to recommend that to everyone. It's a great time. |
| 8:16
| OK, that was an action-packed half hour. Now Steve has Drew's bandana sitting over here. Interesting. |
| 8:24
| We've got news to do but Steve's having an Egg McMuffin for some sustenance. Would Buzz like to see the bandana again? It's autographed "To Steve from Drew Peterson" it's very simple. |
| 8:25
| Drew and Joel jut stopped by and everyone around here was quite taken by them. |
| 8:26
| News with Buzz |
| 8:27
| Former astronaut and moonwalker Dr. Edgar MItchell says aliens do exist. When Buzz says "moonwalker" he's not talking about the dance, the guy walked on the moon. |
| 8:28
| Mitchell, quoted in an Australian paper, says aliens have visited Earth and met with government officials, who covered it up. |
| 8:29
| John McCain cancelled yesterday's trip to New Orleans because of bad weather. He was expected to meet with Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal who's a possible VP candidate. Jindal however says he's not interested in the post. Sounds like a good reason to cancel the trip. |
| 8:30
| Barack Obama will be in Berlin today making the only speech of his current trip. He's going for the JFK thing right? Ich bin ein Berliner! |
| 8:31
| The FCC has tentatively approved the merger of Sirius and XM. Siriusly? How does that affect us? All it does is prevent Sirius and XM from going out of business. |
| 8:32
| Denver is spending more than $18 million on police gear for next month's Democratic National Convention. They won't tell anyone what is on that list of items but they have assured the ACLU that it does not include hi-tech slime shooters to immobilize suspects of sound wave generators that cause severe stomach cramps. Why not? Both things seem awesome. |
| 8:33
| Syndicated columnist Robert Novak was allegedly involved in a hit-and-run yesterday in Washington. According to witnesses Novak hit a pedestrian on a bike at a cross walk in his Corvette. |
| 8:34
| Another bicyclist followed Novak's car and blocked him from getting away. Novak told police that he didn't know he hit a pedestrian but the witness disagrees. |
| 8:35
| Dale Leo Bishop was executed in Mississippi last night. His final meal consisted of a pineapple supreme pizza, cherries and cream ice cream and root beer. |
| 8:36
| John Edwards was caught visiting his mistress and their love child at 2:40 am yesterday in LA. That's according to the National Enquirer. Shouldn't this story have been at the top of the news after the alien stuff? |
| 8:37
| Batman star Christian Bale argued with his sister after she asked him for 100,000 pounds to help raise her children. Christian's mom also made disparaging remarks about the actor's model wife. That's the alleged cause of the incident between Bale and his mom and sister. Sounds about right to Steve. |
| 8:38
| The list of potential buyers for the Cubs and Wrigley Field has been narrowed to groups offering $1 billion or more. So Steve and Buzz are out with their bid of $300,000? |
| 8:39
| Standby, we've got some more Drew Peterson coming up. Apparently Drew and Joel had to go over to Fox. Drew and Joel really have it down now after stumbling and bumbling at the beginning. |
| 8:40
| Who's this girl on Fox now? She's reading a list of things that Wawczak and Stark think Drew is guilty of. It's kind of hot actually, Drew seems to be liking it too. That's Tara Williams talking to Drew, they probably brought her in as bait. |
| 8:41
| Steve feels that Drew and Joel have been buoyed by their appearance on this show. That's because Steve and Buzz have remained neutral, they believed in the Constitution. |
| 8:42
| Who is Mike Barres to say that Drew's craving the media? If he thinks that then don't put Drew on TV! |
| 8:43
| Drew doesn't put any stock in anything from the legal mind of Lenny Wawczak. He is killing today, comedically! |
| 8:44
| That Tara Williams is a hot little thing. Fox is leaving out the fact that everything Wawczak and Stark told the Sun-Times is not on tape. That seems like a key fact. |
| 8:45
| This is the kind of in-depth coverage that Steve and Buzz are offering throughout this entire case. |
| 8:53
| The Tribune had a key fact in their coverage of this new Drew Peterson stuff. That's why Steve has chosen them as his go to news source. |
| 8:54
| That fact being that everything Stark and the genius legal mind of Lenny Wawczak told the Sun-Times was not on tape. That seems like a key fact. |
| 8:55
| Alright it's Peanut Butter Jelly time but Drewapalooza rolls on with another caller. Steve didn't know it was Joel's birthday today, he would have wished him a happy birthday. |
| 8:56
| Caller Rich lives right across the street from Drew and he's really irritated with the media. Everyone knows that, even the media. |
| 8:57
| Rich is wondering when The Commodore will come down to Bolingbrook and stop by his house. Rich is of course referring to Steve being made commodore of the Bolingbrook yacht club. |
| 8:58
| Steve used to refer to Bolingbrook as Bolingbrook by the Sea because it sounds more majestic. There is a point where you're on Bouton road and you can see Bolingbrook. It would look very majestic if it was next to the sea. |
| 8:59
| So someone formed the Bolingbrook Yacht Club, started holding Corn Field Regattas and made Steve an honorary commodore. |
| 9:00
| Rich does think that it's rotten what's going in his neighborhood. Drew is innocent until proven guilty so at this point there's no reason for the media to still be camping out there. |
| 9:01
| Rich has a friend in Tokyo who saw him on TV, this is how far this story has reached. People love a good missing wife story. |
| 9:02
| The thing that's irritating Steve about the Drew Peterson stuff, at least on a state level, is that they're trying to make hearsay admissible in court. What about the Constitution? You have the right to confront your accuser! |
| 9:03
| According to Rich's legal counsel that would only come into play if you're convicted. So it would probably pertain more to sentencing? |
| 9:04
| Alright, let's get to Peanut. We've got a lot going on today though, it's Drewapalooza, the gift that keeps on giving. |
| 9:05
| Devin Hester is holding out and not showing to camp. Steve gets where he's coming from but everyday he sits out of camp he loses money. |
| 9:06
| Even if he gets paid for just being a return guy he should be making more money. Buzz can't believe this wasn't just dealt with by management. |
| 9:07
| There were negotiations going on between Hester's agent and the Bears. The Bears want to get this done, they don't want Hester out on the field proving his worth has a wide receiver and having to pay him even more. |
| 9:08
| Hopefully they get this worked out because Devin Hester is the highlight of every game. He changes every game that he's in too. Buzz likes the teams that refuse to recognize how good Hester is. |
| 9:09
| There was story last year about how the Bears tried to change Hester's number from 23 to something a wide receiver would wear. But Hester had just spent a ton of money on a gold 23 necklace. Pat's confident that something will be worked out, Jerry Angelo always keeps the players that should be kept. |
| 9:10
| The Cubs and Sox both won yesterday, each team scored 10 runs. It was a drama-filled game on the South Side but a great way to spend your afternoon. |
| 9:11
| Yesterday after the game Josh Mora was interviewing Carlos Quentin. Toby Hall came up behind Quentin and got him with the shaving cream pie. Quentin was not happy about that. Act like you belong Toby! |
| 9:12
| Josh was being told in his earpiece to drag the interview out because Toby was on his way with the shaving cream. When Steve saw Josh in the press room after the game he'd already changed his story. |
| 9:13
| Steve has a press pass but he was rousted from the press room yesterday. Some guy thought Steve was just some fan who didn't belong there. |
| 9:14
| So Josh had changed his story when Steve saw him, he was acting like he knew nothing about it. He was probably scared after seeing Quentin's reaction. Josh didn't even know when the show was on either. |
| 9:15
| So the Sox were down 8-7 when Carlos Quentin hit a three-run home run. It sounded like Hawk was going to have the big one in that call. He came out of his spikes. |
| 9:16
| The Sox are now 2 1/2 games up on the Twins and embarking on a big road trip after today's off. They're going to be in Detroit and then Minnesota in the next week. Most likely one of these three teams will be out of the race after the week. |
| 9:17
| Meanwhile the Cubs bats finally came alive. Derrek Lee hit his first home run in almost a month, Ted Lilly gave up 3 runs and had an RBI single and Reed Johnson hit a grand slam. |
| 9:18
| How's Pat's summer concert tour going? Friday was Public Enemy and then last night was Coldplay. Pat doesn't just care about sports, he also likes to rock. |
| 9:19
| Pat saw Adam Burish at the concert last night, he's very excited for next year and the whole team is. You don't see many things turn around like this in one year. |
| 9:20
| Steve made Pat go out of order with the sports but this is radio, we're more free form. We're not in suits and gelled hair reading off teleprompters. |
| 9:28
| That's Ron Santo from last night's Cubs game. He said he was going to relax if the Cubs could score 2 more runs and then they scored 4. He didn't sound very relaxed but he probably calmed down a bit after that. |
| 9:29
| Ron gets very worked up during Cubs games because he's passionate. It's good to listen to though. |
| 9:30
| Live read: Woodfield Nissan |
| 9:31
| Alright time to open the Mailbag. The first emailer has met Steve several times and it's always good to talk to him. This is one of the letters that Steve writes to himself. |
| 9:32
| Standby, Tara Williams is on TV right now. She's being featured everywhere because Drew will talk to her. |
| 9:33
| How do you file for bankruptcy 5 times in 9 years? Joel is saying that Paula Stark has filed 5 times. Don't you have to wait for 7 years? |
| 9:34
| This girl on Fox needs to read up a bit more on this story. Everything did happen very fast though. Suddenly it's just all over the TV. |
| 9:35
| Event his Tara Williams girl is just telling Drew what everyone else thinks he did. |
| 9:36
| This whole thing is crazy but we love a good missing wife story. Tara's asking Drew about why he jokes around sometimes. |
| 9:37
| Drew says he does it because he's nervous, then Mike Barres asks why he's nervous. Thanks for stopping by Sherlock Holmes. What a tool this guy is. He's not just a tool, he's a tool shed. |
| 9:38
| Drew said he's nervous because he's on national TV but it's only local. He made a really bad choice leaving GMA for this. It's just local and very few people are watching. |
| 9:39
| Mike tried to slip one by Drew and ask him if he killed his wife. Drew also told Fox that he's ready for anything these days, including an arrest. Maybe Drew meant that different when he said that to Tara. |
| 9:40
| Someone needs to put together Drew's greatest hits, the garage door, the Geico thing. Steve Drew's scarf, he dropped it off earlier today. Steve is a pair of jeans and an NYFD hat away from having a Drew Peterson costume. |
| 9:41
| According to Paula Stark Drew told her that if the cops do come for him he'd walk out with a gun hoping to be shot. Drew denies that but he does have a plan if he ever gets arrested. |
| 9:42
| It's gotten to the tipping point now and the media is being shown as the fools that they are. Drew and Joel have been involved enough where they know what to wait for and then they slam them. |
| 9:43
| Drew says that if these recordings were made they would clear him of any wrongdoing. That is a ludicrous statement unless Lenny is on there saying he committed a murder. |
| 9:44
| Just so you know Mike Barres and Nancy Liu are going to wait and see what happens. Mike is interested in seeing what Tara has coming up later. OK, cool. What a tool. |
| 9:45
| STeve was doing the Mailbag but we have to stop. Honestly nothing is going to to the Drew Peterson stuff for Steve. |
| 9:46
| It's ironic to Buzz that on the day we learn about the existence of aliens it's overshadowed by a local story about Drew Peterson. Buzz might have to call local media outlets and put them on to it. |
| 9:53
| Alright we've got an open Mailbag but first Buzz has a very important story about aliens really existing. We should get this out to the people. Former NASA astronaut Dr. Edgar Mitchell, a veteran of the Apollo 14 moon mission, has stunningly claimed that aliens exist. |
| 9:54
| Mitchell goes on to say that aliens have visited Earth but it's been covered up for 6 decades. Sources at NASA who have had contact with aliens describe their appearance as "little people who look strange to us." He also chillingly said that their technology is vastly superior to ours and if they were hostile we would be gone. |
| 9:55
| Many was the night when Steve would be in his backyard yearning to be abducted. It never happened, then he went back into his house that was supposedly haunted and looked for ghosts. Maybe they didn't show themselves because Steve was drunk. |
| 9:56
| Buzz doesn't know for sure but here's a guy who's a doctor, who walked on the moon, confirming all of our suspicions. He's not just your run-of-the-mill nutjob with tinfoil on his head. |
| 9:57
| Steve's sorry that this story was overshadowed by the Drew Peterson stuff. It does seem far-fetched to think that there's no intelligent life in the universe except us. |
| 9:58
| How does Buzz feel about the X-Files movie? He's looking forward to it but he still hasn't seen Batman. He hasn't seen Hellboy either so it's hard to get excited about anything. |
| 9:59
| Steve has some more information about Edgar Mitchell. When he was on the moon he conducted private ESP experiments with friends on Earth. Sorry Buzz, doesn't seem like this is going to happen. |
| 10:00
| Mitchell also claims that a teenage remote healer who lives in Vancouver and goes by the name Adam Dreamhealer healed him of cancer at a distance. That could happen! |
