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| 5:31
| Is the song over? It's over, did Buzz know that? Buzz actually thought there was another song. Tom Petty was the other song. |
| 5:32
| It's Steve's fault, he was focused on the air conditioning situation. Everyday Steve comes into the studio and it's too hot for him. That's because he operates at a high temperature because of all the stimulants he's on. They're mostly natural, except the methedrine. He's down to one pipe of methedrine a day though. Buzz suggests methedrine lozenges. They come in lozenges now? |
| 5:33
| Everyday Steve comes into the studio and accidentally turns the temperature in the studio up. Then flames come out of the heat register. In the building that Steve and Buzz are in, the Prudential, cold air is pumped in all the time. So if you want it warmer you have to turn up the thermostat. It's quite an efficient heating system and if you turn it up too high you end up in the burn unit. |
| 5:34
| Steve apologizes for he lapse between the final Jack song and the theme. Should he start things over? |
| 5:35
| Is this the theme that Steve likes? When it comes right down to it Steve can't tell the difference between most of these themes but this is the one he likes, labeled "Open 1" |
| 5:36
| Pete recalls from yesterday that Steve was toying with making Open 1 permanent. Steve wasn't toying with it, he said he wanted to use this one everyday. Pete probably just doesn't want to be locked in. There are 16 themes, let's keep them rotating. |
| 5:37
| Pete will make note of the permanent theme. It seemed like even today Pete was on the verge of going with a different theme. |
| 5:38
| Steve might need to haul Pete in after the show. He's been meaning to haul him in anyway but not for anything bad really. Pete's like an undercover agent and sometimes you have to bring him in to remind him that he's a cop and not a drug dealer. |
| 5:39
| Buzz is reminded of the Al Pacino movie Cruisin' where he infiltrates the gay underground. That's a possibility with Pete, he's hanging out with a lot of theater people lately. Pete's not even really a Cubs fan, he was sent to infiltrate Jim and Brendan who have been selling show secrets to other shows locally and nationally. |
| 5:40
| Jim and Brendan are both wearing wires like Lenny Wawczak and Paula Stark. That Paula Stark is funky wearing those nurses shoes and hanging out in that parking lot. Of course look what she settled for, the brilliant legal mind of Lenny Wawczak. |
| 5:41
| Can Steve hear the Drew tape again where he talks about Paula Stark? People keep emailing Steve demanding to know how he can take Drew's side. First of all Drew hasn't been found guilty of anything. Plus you have to appreciate how Drew and Joel have the press eating out of the palm of their hands. |
| 5:42
| Steve's not sure what changed with Drew, maybe it's that new publicist of his. Of course you wouldn't think the publicist would release a press release with misspelled words but they're all over Drew's statement about his relationship with Len Wawczak. |
| 5:43
| Steve reads Drew's statement again. First off they have "offense" spelled wrong. Drew first met Len while picking him up for various legal offenses in Bolingbrook. |
| 5:44
| Drew was friendly with Len and Paula, who he would see while patrolling the neighborhood. In that time they never came to his house and he never went to their house. |
| 5:45
| After Stacy left many of Drew's police officer friends abandoned him. Len and Paula lent Drew their minivan when his car was seized and also invited him over to hide out from the media. |
| 5:46
| Wawczak and Stark also began coming over to Drew's house more frequently to engage him in conversation. Looking back Drew now knows they were there to record the conversations. Wawczak and Stark also began to get closer and closer to Drew's children. |
| 5:47
| Wawczak and Stark were never Drew's close friends and we know now that they're also people who took advantage of Drew's children. See what he did there, suddenly Drew isn't the only victim, it's also the kids. |
| 5:48
| Drew agrees with Steve, there should have been some spell checks in this. He's going to take off an hour and a half of billable time from that publicist of his. That would be Glen Selig, not relation to Bud Selig of the MIlwaukee Brewers, who lost to the Cubs last night. |
| 5:49
| Steve got a new iPhone a couple of weeks ago. Well he didn't get it, Stephanie and Vicki waited in line for it. Buzz is still seeing lines at the Apple Store, it looks like a high tech soup kitchen. You can get your iPhone shoved in a loaf of bread. |
| 5:50
| There's a Major League Baseball application for the iPhone that allows you to follow along with a game and also play highlights from YouTube. That's one of the reasons that the beginning of the show was delayed, Steve was looking for a cord to try to hook his phone up and play the highlights on the air. |
| 5:51
| The Cubs beat the Brewers 6-4 last night while the Sox got their asses kicked 7-0. That Sox game was so boring that Steve started watching the Cubs game which was way more exciting. |
| 5:52
| At some point in a Sox game like last night's, Hawk and DJ completely check out. You can actually hear them packing their stuff up. Did Pete happen to see the beginning of that Sox game? Hawk and DJ need to start dressing better. They got to them at the beginning of the game and Hawk is wearing a Hawaiian shirt with a Comcast sweater vest over it, it's not a good look. It's not like they don't know they're going to be on TV. |
| 5:53
| Did Pete happen to catch any of Sportsnite from 6-7 last night? Why didn't they just call it Cubs pre-game? It was a half hour of Cubs pre-game! Pete's pretty sure that the Sox pre-game was on Mojo. |
| 5:54
| They were still calling it Sportsnite though. There was nothing to let Sox fans know that if they're irritated by the half hour of Cubs coverage they should switch over to Mojo. Steve's very close to firing Pat Boyle because of all this Cubs coverage. It's like the Cubs are standing there with their pants around their ankles! |
| 5:55
| Steve finally switched over to Mojo just before the Sox game started. Mark Schanowski was doing some stuff about the Sox to lead into the game, he talked to Mark Buehrle. But then he couldn't help himself and did a story about Geovanny Soto. At that point the only people watching Mojo are Sox fans! |
| 6:02
| Caller Bill was wondering if Steve caught the replay of Soriano's home run from last night? A kid snagged the ball with his mit in one hand and hung onto his slice of pizza with the other hand. That's awesome. |
| 6:03
| Steve would like to think that as a Little Leaguer he could have played baseball and eaten pizza at the same time. He should have just applied himself a little more. |
| 6:04
| It looks like that Prince Fielder has been eating and playing baseball at the same time, he's a big boy. There was a play last night where Fielder was rounding third and the Cubs could have thrown him out but they decided to spare Geovanny Soto's life and throw it to third instead. |
| 6:05
| Prince Fielder must weigh 400 pounds. There was another play where he fielded a ball at first, fell down and had to shovel it to Sabathia, who was covering first. Poor Mark DeRosa was almost crushed. |
| 6:06
| Steve ended up watching that entire Cubs game last night because the Sox game was so boring. The Sox just popped up ball after ball and Hawk and DJ completely checked out. They were shopping online during the game. |
| 6:07
| Alright Steve has his iPhone hooked up and he can play highlights from last night's game. The audio is no worse than most of the stuff Pete sends down the line. |
| 6:08
| There's also an iPhone application for AOL Radio so you can stream this show through your phone while you're on the train or walking or whatever. Yesterday while Steve was out running he streamed the Mother Jacker and then some WBBM-AM. |
| 6:09
| It's getting really tough for STeve to watch the news on TV in the afternoon. It's the exact same stories with different people. Instead of Ron Magers it's Alan Krashefsky. Instead of Bob Sirott it's Warner Saunders. |
| 6:10
| Steve can stream the show from his iPhone right now, he thinks that's pretty awesome. And since he can play baseball highlights he doesn't even need Pat Boyle any more. He's boycotting Pat after last night's Sportsnite incident. |
| 6:11
| Buzz didn't think it was up to Pat Boyle to choose who they cover on Sportsnite. Pat and Mark are both sports guys though, they're probably not from Chicago but they had a dream to one day come to Chicago and be Cubs fans. Pat's from Detroit, why would he be a Cubs fan? |
| 6:12
| News with Buzz |
| 6:13
| John McCain has had a spot removed from his face. He had suffered from skin cancer in the past but this was a routine procedure done at a doctor's office in Phoenix. Yesterday they were acting like McCain had had his nose removed. Steve was expecting to see a man with no nose like Lee Marvin in Cat Ballou. Why do we even need to know this? The doctor should keep it to him or herself. |
| 6:14
| Less than two weeks before the Olympics, Beijing's skies are so murky that city officials are considering emergency measures. Already in place are factory shutdowns and restrictions on traffic. |
| 6:15
| What's with the Olympic committee? They're not sure about giving Chicago the Olympics but they'll give it to Beijing, a city so polluted that many athletes aren't even competing in the games because of how bad the air is?! |
| 6:16
| The price of gas has dropped in the last several days. Consequently pray gatherings will be held at St. Louis gas stations to thank God for lower gas prices. People with gather to buy gas, pray and sing We Shall Overcome with a new verse about lower gas prices. What time is that going on because Steve might drive down there and honk his horn through the entire thing. |
| 6:17
| Richard Branson unveiled a new futuristic aircraft that will shuttle passengers to the edge of space. How much will that set someone back? $200,000. How about a hit of X instead, it's cheaper and probably more fun. It seems a little shaky, NASA has trouble getting people up into space, what's Branson going to do? He looks like Mick Jagger. |
| 6:18
| Reverend James Meeks is encouraging Chicago Public School students to skip the first day of school. Meeks wants students to register in suburban schools to show the funding disparities. |
| 6:19
| CPS officials says it's a bad idea because state funding is based on attendance. A lot of emphasis is put on first day attendance so Meeks' protest could actually hurt students. It also seems wrong for Meeks to use students in his protest. |
| 6:20
| Why doesn't Meeks go out and protest, or maybe talk to Dell and have them donate computers to schools? |
| 6:21
| Virginia governor Tim Kane has told reporters that he is in the running to be Barack Obama's running mate. Among other possibilities is Joe Biden, who gives Steve the willies. |
| 6:22
| Michigan State Police will interview Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick. That comes after allegations that the mayor pushed a sheriff's deputy delivering him a subpoena. |
| 6:23
| The woman accused of setting a deadly fire in Wrigleyville will spend the rest of her life in a mental hospital. The woman said she started the fire in the doorway of an apartment building to keep warm. The fire spread to the rest of the building and 4 people were killed. Didn't she start the fire with a dollar bill that one of the building resident's had given her? |
| 6:24
| Finally, Nike has pulled ads that some bloggers have called anti-gay. Controversy arose last week over billboards that show one basketball player dunking over an opponent. The opponent's face is right near the other player's groin and the billboard reads "that ain't right" It's being called homophobic and offensive to African-Americans. |
| 6:25
| That's ridiculous. The point of the billboard is that it's not right that someone is dunking on you like that. Maybe it's different if you like a groin to the face. How is it racist though? |
| 6:33
| Steve has The Gawker blog post about that Nike ad. There's a guy dunking and the opponent's head is sort of in between the other guy's legs. It's not a graphic ad because "That Ain't Right" is covering most of what's going on. |
| 6:34
| Is The Gawker a gay website? If so Steve would like to read it with a lisp. Pete says it's just a gossip website. He said that in Steve's headphones instead of on the air. Is that because of Pete's homophobia. Buzz thinks maybe Pete didn't want Steve to stop lisping. |
| 6:35
| Pete said enough to make Steve stop lisping. Is Pete really gay? Is he just dating that girl to get to the roommate? It's cool if he is. |
| 6:36
| Buzz was recently catching up on episodes of Swingtown and in one there's a threeway with two guys and a girl. Aimee noticed that Buzz was struggling with that but she didn't get what the big deal was, it's still a threeway. Buzz had to explain that it's not the same to guys. There's no way you can be in a threeway with another dude and a girl and not be gay or at least bi. |
| 6:37
| There are some dudes who would do a threeway with a guy and a girl and wouldn't think that they're gay. |
| 6:38
| Nike's new ad campaign for the Hyperdunk shoes features basketball players being dunked on in the worst way possible. The dunker dangles from the rim with his junk dangling in the face of the dunkee. |
| 6:39
| Nike has plastered the ads near NYC's most famous streetball meccas. The roll-out coincides with a big foofaraw this week over whether the ad industry his being blatantly homophobic. |
| 6:40
| This blog is written in a way that Steve doesn't get and he doesn't want to read it anyway. The blog post isn't up-in-arms like Steve thought it would be and he can't read it with a lisp. |
| 6:41
| The blog does go on to say that a strict interpretation of the ad is that Nike is fomenting and supporting homophobia in the black community. AIDS rates are higher in the black community and homophobia is therefore more deadly. That's a lot to read into an ad. |
| 6:42
| Caller John heard about a Snickers ad that was just pulled over the weekend. In the ad Mr. T is featured shooting Snickers from a machine gun at a runner. The runner doesn't look like a "runner" type and the ad is being called homophobic. It just sounds funny to Steve. How is that homophobic? Is the runner mincing or something? |
| 6:43
| Steve has seen another Mr. T ad where he's in a tank, it must be an entire series of ads. Buzz still doesn't understand the homophobic aspect of this ad, you've got Mr. T, a runner and a Gatling gun, where's the homophobia? |
| 6:44
| Steve has found the Mr. T ad, it's from Great Britain. The runner is actually speed walking, which is an Olympic sport. That speed walking does look kind of gay but it's a real sport. |
| 6:45
| Mr. T is in a Snickers van, Snickers bars around his neck and firing this machine gun at the speed walker. He calls the speed walker less than a man. That doesn't mean you're gay, it just means you're wimpy. |
| 6:46
| This ad seems fine to Steve. If you're gay you shouldn't be this sensitive, being gay is totally acceptable these days. If you want to get married then people get to make fun of you. And Steve's totally fine with gay marriage. |
| 6:47
| Another TV ad was pulled last month, two guys were kissing in an ad for Heinz Deli Mayo. That seems more gay than the Snickers ad. |
| 6:48
| In the ad a British kid is being sent off to school by his mom, who happens to be a macho New York deli worker. Then the father in the family kisses the mother goodbye. |
| 6:49
| That doesn't seem gay to Steve at all. What he takes from the ad is that the mayo is so good you'll think your mom is actually a deli worker. |
| 6:50
| Plus if Steve is gay, which he is, he'd want more guys kissing on TV that just makes it more and more acceptable. |
| 6:51
| Alright time for the web poll. Actually Steve needs to take a break but before that he'll give the results of yesterday's web poll "Which would you rather play?" 72% of the people chose baseball while 28% chose football. |
| 6:52
| Steve went with baseball, he'd rather play that any time. Football seems more exciting to Buzz but maybe that's because he's not very good at baseball. |
| 6:53
| Steve would rather be a professional baseball player, you're on the road a lot, sometimes for 4 days in the same city where all sorts of hook ups can take place. There's also more time in baseball to sit around. |
| 6:54
| Football is harder and it hurts more. If Steve was good at both baseball and football he'd choose to play baseball like that Jeff Samardzija did. Your career lasts longer in baseball usually. |
| 7:00
| Live read: PAC Perfect |
| 7:01
| Steve calls up to the office, Jordan the intern is also using PAC Perfect. Steve's getting some crosstalk on this line, standby Jordan. Steve hasn't seen the engineer around here in a month! |
| 7:02
| Jordan has been using PAC Perfect for a couple of weeks and she likes it. As far as Steve knows Jordan doesn't have any unsightly large pores or blackheads. He can't say for sure because he's not allowed, by law, to be near the interns. |
| 7:03
| On How I Met Your Mother a Devil's Threeway is the name for a threeway with two dudes and a girl. Did Buzz tell Aimee that while they were watching Swingtown the other night? |
| 7:04
| Today's web poll question is "Would you buy Kevin Federline's fitness DVD?" Steve would buy a DVD just to make fun of him, it's probably a wealth of material. The former back-up dancer and ex-husband of Britney Spears wants to get back into shape after piling on the pounds. |
| 7:04
| Stephen the engineer is here after all. Those engineers have it knocked, they get so much vacation time. |
| 7:05
| Federline plans to get back to looking ripped and sexy again after letting it all go. Watch him fly this year! He's hoping to release the fitness DVD in January of '09. Is he just making stuff up and then people are reporting it? Wouldn't you want to put it out in December of '08 so it can be a Christmas gift? Steve doesn't see Federline being a marketing genius. |
| 7:06
| Federline, who recently won custody of his children from Britney Spears, admits he has packed on the pounds since the birth of his children. Steve was the same way, he weighed about 170 pounds before Pat Dahl was born. |
| 7:07
| Federline is just the latest in a line of celebrities to release home fitness videos. In 2005 U.S. talk show host Oprah Winfrey released a DVD and book. It says "U.S. talk show host" because this article is from China Daily. By the way Steve is translating this article from Mandarin, because of the upcoming Beijing Olympics. |
| 7:08
| Steve has learned to speak Chinese which makes ordering food in Chinatown a breeze. Steve loves Chinatown, it's like going on vacation in your own town. When are Steve and Buzz going to take Piper to Chinatown? She actually learned Chinese in school. |
| 7:09
| Steve and Buzz got those sweet t-shirts from the fire house in Chinatown, it has a dragon on the back. Right now all of Steve's coolest t-shirts are either from the Chicago Fire Department or the Chicago Police Department. The best one is the homicide shirt that says "Our day begins when your's ends" |
| 7:10
| Supermodel Heidi Klum published a book featuring exercise routines and Carmen Electra released a DVD showing how to get into shape performing stripteases and pole dancing. Really?! |
| 7:11
| It seems like Federline's fitness DVD is more of a pipe dream. If he wanted something out by January he'd have to have a deal in place. |
| 7:12
| Federline probably realizes that if he starts making money then he won't be getting any money from Britney Spears. She probably still has to pay him alimony. What a loser! |
| 7:13
| Kids are a pain, Britney made a shrewd move giving custody to Federline. Now she just has to visit them and can do whatever she wants to. She looks good now too, Steve just saw her at an awards show with Jim Carrey and Jenny McCarthy. |
| 7:14
| It seems like it's only a matter of time before Federline goes bad and Britney knows that. Then she gets the kids back and Jeffrey Leving represents Federline. |
| 7:15
| When Federline goes bad it'll be big because the guy is a complete moron. All Britney watchers will tell you that the beginning of her trouble was when she got involved with Kevin Federline. |
| 7:16
| The tailspin started when Britney was dumped by Justin Timberlake. Why does everyone always end up marrying these idiot back-up dancers? That's probably because back-up dancers are pliant and in shape. |
| 7:17
| For a time Steve tried to be a back-up dancer but the tryouts were not pretty. |
| 7:24
| Live read: Gladstone Homes |
| 7:25
| Who does Steve talk to about getting Ogden Avenue changed to Walter Payton Avenue? Who's Ogden? He's already got a slip named after him anyway. |
| 7:26
| That probably needs to be done on a state level and Blago is most likely not going to take Steve's call. |
| 7:27
| Ben Gay is here with sports, buenos dias Buzz! We were just talking about Ben, he heard some of it on the way in. They were talking about the Nike ad and whether it's offensive. Steve wanted to read the article from The Gawker with a lisp but wasn't sure if it was a gay website. |
| 7:28
| Ben doesn't find that ad offensive at all, he'd pay good money to have a black man's groin in his face. He might even pay that AJ fella down the hall . |
| 7:29
| Last night Kevin Slowey pitched a six hitter as the Twins beat the White Sox 7-0. Ben feels like we should start with the Cubs since the Sox lost. Right? Brendan wrote this for Ben and started with the Sox to be mean spirited. |
| 7:30
| It seems like you should start with the winning team or if they both win the game that was more exciting. The Cubs won but you probably know that. Ben is a Cubs fan, as are most gay men. There, that's payback to Brendan. |
| 7:31
| Brendan lives with 10 guys and he still doesn't know what he is. The only contact he has with women is when he's hammered, it might be time for him to break on through to the other side. |
| 7:32
| The Twins and White Sox play 6 more times this year, 3 this week at the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome. |
| 7:33
| The Sox will send Clayton Richard to the mound tonight against Glen Perkins. Ozzie will sit Nick Swisher tonight. Ben has an idea of where Ozzie can sit Nick Swisher. |
| 7:34
| Ben just wanted to let Buzz that he'd be up for that 2 guy threeway that his wife mentioned. |
| 7:35
| Last night Derrek Lee doubled with one out in the 9th sending Alfonso Soriano home. The Cubs won 6-4 and took a 2 game lead in the NL Central. Those Brewers players are very handsome though. There are no handsome players on the Cubs except Derrek Lee and he doesn't play gump. |
| 7:36
| Carlos Zambrano will face Ben Sheets (which is where Ben would like to get him) tonight in the second game of the 4 game series. Kerry Wood threw a baseball last night but manager Lou Piniella said the pitcher is not close to coming back from a blister on his pitching hand. That does sound very painful. |
| 7:37
| A protective pad has helped eased the pain that Kerry Wood has felt in his finger but he can't use that pad during the game. Ben should have just read ahead in the article a little bit. |
| 7:38
| You'll have to excuse Ben, he's been up all night working at Comcast. They only pay Ben $50 to come here. He's only here to get in Jim Kid's pants anyway he's ripe for the picking now that he's engaged. He has to spend everyday going to Crate & Barrel pretending to care about salad spinners. What Jim doesn't know is that Ben has all of that kitchen stuff. |
| 7:39
| Ben Gordon is still negotiating a new deal with the Bulls but he's open to playing in Europe. That's just a negotiating ploy but Gordon is from London. |
| 7:40
| Brendan is saying that it's Luol Deng who's from London but Ben begs to differ. Ben saw it just last night on Comcast. |
| 7:41
| Brendan apologizes, Ben was right. Ben Gordon was born in London to Jamaican parents. |
| 7:49
| Live read: Townstone Financial |
| 7:50
| That was the scene from Swingtown where the two dude threeway was proposed. As long as there's no dude touching it doesn't seem like that big of a deal to Steve. |
| 7:51
| It's different for Buzz because he's like a Tasmanian devil in bed. Steve gets where Buzz is coming from though, he doesn't want to look into his eyes when he's naked. |
| 7:52
| Steve also wouldn't want to see Buzz walking out of the bedroom to get a glass of water afterwards. Buzz comes back with a towel and both hands free. Get back on the waterbed Buzz, get under the Velour! |
| 7:53
| Three Cubs fans are accused of beating a Sox fan so badly that he lost his right eye. The incident occurred in Gurnee at the Sesame Street-themed birthday of a 2-year-old. That Sesame Street brings out the worst in people. |
| 7:54
| Police say the men were drinking alcohol at the July 19th party. There's a surprise, alcohol. It doesn't say what happened. though. The Sox fan must have said or done something. Steve's been around Cubs fans, he works with them and he's never just been kicked in the head. |
| 7:55
| Who knows though, it's been a while since Steve was at a Sesame Street birthday party. Steve remembers his boys were into Sesame Street. Steve actually took Pat Dahl backstage at a Sesame Street concert to meet Big Bird. Pat was scared of big bird, started crying and got mad at Steve. |
| 7:56
| Steve's boys were also afraid of fireworks which made going to a Sox game very challenging. Every time there was a home run the boys all ran for cover. |
| 7:57
| Steve's going to switch to a different version of this story from the Northwest Herald. An alcohol-fueled argument started about baseball at the birthday party and ended with a White Sox fan losing his right eye. Three Cubs fans are facing felony charges. |
| 7:58
| A hearing is scheduled for two men, Jaroslaw “Jerry” Czapla, 31, of Huntley, and Boguslaw “Bob” Czapla, 37, of Elmwood Park. 33-year-old Maciej “Mike” Trojnar is still at large and there is a warrant for his arrest. The bad news is that police know his name. |
| 7:59
| These guys must be new to the country with names like that and apparently they really took a liking to the Cubs. |
| 8:00
| The men attacked Robert Steele at Jerry Czapla's house at 10900 Cape Cod Lane. How picturesque. |
| 8:01
| Steele and his fiance went to the Abby Cadabby-Sesame Street-theme party. Abby Cadabby? What does that mean? The men were drinking vodka and beer, a deadly combination and started taunting Steele with claims that Sox fans had missing teeth. So these guys come to America from a country that probably has a poor dental plan and they're going to make fun of Sox fans? |
| 8:02
| Steve's going to take a break from this article for the Eight O'Clock Taco Bell. It's Taco Tuesday which means Steve and Buzz have tacos in front of them. |
| 8:03
| Steve's going to let Buzz eat his taco while he gets back to this article. He still doesn't know what Abby Cadabby is and no one has called in about it. Is it a character, like abracadabra or something? |
| 8:04
| Wait a second, Abby Cadabby is the newest character on Sesame Street. She's three years old and loves magic. Abby is a witch, so Sesame Street is dabbling in witchcraft. It already seems Satanic that they're animating socks. |
| 8:05
| OK, back to the article. Buzz wants to know which country these guys are from. With the Czapla it seems like they might be Czechs or maybe Polish, some sort of Eastern European country. |
| 8:06
| Whatever country they're from, these guys have a lot of nerve talking about Sox fans with missing teeth. Europe is known for having bad teeth. |
| 8:07
| Steele's fiance April Bieze said they were going to leave but the three men convinced them they were just joking around. The taunts escalated and turned more personal though. |
| 8:08
| Czapla punched Steele and the pair began to struggle before the other two men helped knock Steele to the garage floor. There's nothing like a good party in the garage, sounds like a great time up in Gurnee. |
| 8:09
| Buzz thinks maybe they took the fight into the garage to get away from the kids. It has the feel of a party based out of the garage and then the keg spills over onto the lawn. |
| 8:10
| Steve doesn't understand how people always remember exactly what happened in a fight like this. Maybe Steele's fiance filled him in on it. |
| 8:11
| Steele will need to be fitted for a glass eye (HEY MAN!) and could require additional surgeries. He should get a glass eye with a Sox logo on it since he lost his eye defending the Sox. Shouldn't a White Sox player come visit him in the hospital? |
| 8:12
| Steele says he doesn't look into any mirrors that he passes by. He could miss several months of work as well. He probably looks sweet with that eye patch though, Steve would just go with that. |
| 8:13
| Steele could face months of physical therapy and he can't drive or climb ladders for work. He's been told that he'll be able to do pretty much everything except fly an airplane. So he rebounds from the mirror stuff with that. |
| 8:14
| It seems like even after the guy recovers it would still be hard to climb a ladder. With only one eye you have no depth perception. Steve does not like being on ladders, he can never see the rungs over his stomach. |
| 8:22
| Alright Buzz Kilman is currently preparing himself for another Buzz Kilman News-a-rama. We're all looking forward to it of course. |
| 8:23
| Steve happens to know that Buzz is being tantalized by a headline he keeps seeing on the cover of the National Enquirer that's sitting in the hallway. As a cookie to dangle, not that Buzz needs one, we'll be hearing all about Oprah's vacation with a new man after the news. Of course Steve and Buzz feel for Steadman but they don't respect him. |
| 8:24
| News with Buzz |
| 8:25
| President Bush has signed the death warrant for a U.S. soldier convicted of rape and murder in the mid 80s. Bush was in the Air National Guard during Vietnam so now he know what it's like to kill another soldier. |
| 8:26
| General David Petraeus is touting progress in Iraq and says that U.S. and Iraqi forces now have control over most of the country. |
| 8:27
| Pakistani intelligence says that a U.S. missile strike has killed a top Al Qaeda official, Abu Kabala. Steve had that for dinner last night, it was delicious but had a bit of a chemical flavor to it. |
| 8:28
| The government's budget deficit will surge pass a half a billion dollars next year. That's according to gloomy economic forecasts. |
| 8:29
| Robert Novak has been diagnosed with a brain tumor. The 77-year-old columnist has been hospitalized in Boston. Is Novak from Boston too? |
| 8:30
| Green Bay Packers GM Ted Thompson spoke to the media yesterday about the ongoing Brett Favre saga. If Steve's the Packers GM he brings Brett Favre back into the fold. |
| 8:31
| This just in Buzz, Bennigan's is closing. At least 3 manager of area Bennigan's are saying that the restaurant chain is closing this morning. Steve and Buzz have got to go get some potato skins! |
| 8:32
| The managers told WGN this morning that they received phone calls from their superiors that their stores would be closing down effective immediately. EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY! |
| 8:33
| This comes as the Food Marketing Institute says that American's are eating out far less this year than they have in year's past. You have to think even Bennigan's gets caught up in that. Plus the place is straight from the 70s. |
| 8:34
| American's are also buying less groceries or lower quality groceries. There has also been an increase in the sale of Spam. Spam isn't that bad, there are plenty of ways to make it good. |
| 8:35
| Can Steve read something that makes the closing of Bennigan's even more sad? This is from September of 1989. Michael and Juanita Jordan were introduced to each other at a Chicago Bennigan's in 1984. That has to be the one right here on Michigan. |
| 8:36
| Buzz can see Jordan stepping in and saving Bennigan's. Probably not, he couldn't even save his marriage. He's probably more focused on that fancy restaurant of his, 160 Blue. |
| 8:37
| Jordan proposed to Juanita at Nick's Fishmarket 6 months after they met. She said yes but they decided to postpone the wedding for at least a year. The couple were later married in Las Vegas. |
| 8:38
| Chicago's production of Jersey Boys will remain smoke free. The City Council needs to stop meeting about this, it makes us look ridiculous. |
| 8:39
| They have prop cigarettes, can't they just use those? How much do they smoke in this play anyway? Steve calls up to the office, Stephanie just saw Jersey Boys on Sunday. |
| 8:40
| Stephanie laughed through the entire performance of Sherrybaby thinking of Steve singing it. She should have had Steve sing it and saved herself some money. |
| 8:41
| How do these guys in Jersey Boys not pass out singing that crap? Buzz always talks about the one-man plays he wants to produce with Steve, how about Jersey Boy? |
| 8:42
| There's also the Elvis Presley one-man play about the last 90 minutes of his life. Steve remembers an Anna Nicole Smith play but he doesn't remember the details. |
| 8:43
| Can Steve go back to the Spam thing for a second? The headline is "Spam sales on the rise, common sense at an all-time low" This isn't from The Onion but it sounds like it. |
| 8:44
| This is from Generation X Finance. 12 ounces of Spam costs $2.62 which translates to $3.49 a pound. At the reporter's local grocery store split bone-in chicken breasts are $2.49 a pound, a boneless ham is $2.39 a pound, ground chicken breast is $3.49 a pound. Pork chops are $2.79 a pound. |
| 8:45
| Meanwhile Spam is low-quality meat and all of that stuff is high quality. Steve would much rather eat any of that stuff than Spam. This is an urban legend that has been exposed. |
| 8:46
| Reverend James Meeks is urging Chicago Public School students to skip the first day of school and register at suburban schools. There are several things wrong with this idea. First of all state funding is based on attendance and a lot of importance is placed on first day attendance. |
| 8:47
| Second, you can't register at a school in the suburbs if you don't live out there. Steve also doesn't get why guys like Meeks make these threats about all of these city students coming out to the suburbs. It implies that it would be scary for suburban people to see that. |
| 8:48
| It's like when that Willy Barrows guy was saying he was going to bring people up from the Southside to go window shopping downtown. It's not like people from the Southside aren't welcome downtown or something. If Steve were a black person he'd be offended by that. |
| 8:56
| OK, time now for that Oprah article. Buzz never though Oprah would betray Steadman but here we are. There's also an article about Pam Anderson protesting chicken abuse down under. They're chickens, they can't feel anything! |
| 8:57
| How about the real reason between Drew and Justin's split? Drew would be Drew Barrymore and Justin would be the guy in the Apple vs. PC commercials. Steve doesn't care about that. |
| 8:58
| How about President Brolin saying he was trying to help a friend? That would be Josh Brolin who's playing President Bush in a new movie. He was just in a bar fight in Louisiana. |
| 8:59
| Buzz just saw Josh Brolin in Goonies over the weekend. Brolin is appearing in Oliver Stone's W. Why do we want to see a movie about George W. Bush? We just spent the last 8 years watching that. |
| 9:00
| One movie Steve is interested in is something from one of the Zucker brothers that's a parody of Michael Moore. If it hasn't been cast yet Steve would like to put himself in the running for the lead role. |
| 9:01
| Steve feels that he looks like a more handsome version of Michael Moore with a more well-rounded sense of humor. Steve doesn't have any representation but Buzz thinks Mike Dahl would be a great agent. |
| 9:02
| Mike would make a great agent but until he gets his Hollywood contacts Steve would probably have to go with CMA. It's CAA actually, CMA is the Country Music Awards. No wonder why Steve isn't getting any representation, he's calling the Country Music Awards to get an agent. |
| 9:03
| David Zucker has called on Hollywood's tiny but tightly knit Republican A-list crowd to help him make a broad yet right-leaning political satire titled An American Carol. Steve doesn't want it to be a political movie, he just wants it to make fun of Michael More. |
| 9:04
| Zucker has suggested a September 12th release date to coincide with the 7th anniversary of the September 11th attacks. Well that doesn't seem very funny. |
| 9:05
| Steve still looking for this Oprah article. In the meantime how about Rachel Ray spending thousands for chemo for her cat? Steve doesn't care about that. |
| 9:06
| How about Jennifer Anniston spending thousands of dollars a day on clothing to impress fiance John Mayer. They're engaged? Steve did not know that. Brendan dropped the ball on this. |
| 9:07
| John & Kate Plus 8 is a total scam according to the Enquirer. The parents of 8 children actually have a nanny, a maid and a personal chef. Well maybe they do now, their show was a huge success. |
| 9:08
| This Oprah article is buried very deep in here. OJ's plan to dump his current girlfriend backfired when she refused to end it. Was he going to killer her and that didn't work out? |
| 9:09
| It seems like if OJ wants to dump you then you just go along with it. OJ and his girlfriend went to visit her family in Minnesota. The plan was to leave the sister in Minnesota with her brother, who wanted the relationship to end. |
| 9:10
| Heather Locklear has bolted from rehab after completely only half of the recommended 30-day stay. |
| 9:11
| Kevin Farley is playing the Michael Moore character in that David Zucker movie. That's good casting but Steve thinks he'd be better. He doesn't want to be in some political movie though. Can't you just make fun of Michael Moore? |
| 9:12
| OK, Heather Locklear has been partying since a young age and her friends are urging her to take her addictions seriously. |
| 9:13
| Steve rehabbed himself and he could certainly help Heather. He wouldn't do it just to nail her although after it's all over she might want to. He can't promise he'd be anything like Tommy Lee. He's a grower but not that much. |
| 9:21
| Live read: Windy City Limo |
| 9:22
| Steve is still looking for that Oprah article. In the meantime Buzz has a statement from a Bennigan's official in Maryland. He says their company is not closing. |
| 9:23
| That isn't the official word from the company though, they're based in Texas. Steve doesn't really care, he hasn't been to a Bennigan's in about 20 years. |
| 9:24
| CBS 2 has learned that Bennigan's restaurants closed this morning and that all restaurant doors are locked. It sounds like this is something Brendan needs to go check out. |
| 9:25
| During the break Mary came in to suggest Brendan come in and do celebrity news. Steve has been doing celebrity news! Mary seemed to be implying that Steve was doing old man celebrity news. |
| 9:26
| Steve took offense to that and he said we'll do Brendan tomorrow. And by that Steve doesn't mean he and Buzz will do Brendan because Brendan's not into that. |
| 9:27
| Mary's the one who suggested Steve read from the Enquirer, it was a total set-up. |
| 9:28
| OK, here's the Oprah article. Steadman has stormed out on Oprah in a jealous rage after she ditched him to go on vacation with another man. On Oprah insider can't believe she would do this to him since they've been through so much. |
| 9:29
| Brendan is over at the Bennigan's on Michigan and South Water, that was fast. The Bennigan's is not open and there are two signs that say "Closed for business as of Tuesday July 29th, 2008". Whoa! No more potato skins! |
| 9:30
| Steve's pretty sure Bennigan's invented the potato skin. There's a sad sign that offers Bennigan's breakfast starting at 8 am. Maybe Steve and Buzz could have saved Bennigan's had they eaten breakfast there. Steve eats a very big breakfast. |
| 9:31
| The only question is if it's a national shutdown. Maybe it's just this market and Florida? Some of the TV stations are starting to show up now. Is that because Brendan is on the scene? He does hip celebrity reporting, not old man reporting. |
| 9:32
| Brendan went to open the door and someone from a radio station thought he worked there and wanted to interview him. He should have done it, feel free in the future. He shows up for work and his store is closed, his keys no longer work and they just took delivery of 4 crates of potatoes that they were going to skin and load with cheese, sour cream and chives. Then he works in a show mention. |
| 9:33
| Brendan's looking at celebrities Steve has never even heard of out in the hall. Who was that girl he was looking at? Right now she's just some model but she'll be famous if she's on Celebrity Tuna. Her name is Alyssa or Denise or something. Alyssa seems like a popular name for hot women. |
| 9:34
| If anyone else tries to interview Brendan he should pretend he worked there. Right now two old ladies just rolled up to eat at Bennigan's. What radio station was trying to interview Brendan? It was WGN, he squandered a huge opportunity. |
| 9:35
| Brendan could have given an emotional testimony about how much he was looking forward to frying up some mushrooms for the customers. It was the chips and salsa that brought down Bennigan's, you can't give unlimited chips and salsa. WGN would have never figured it out. |
| 9:36
| Are the old ladies still at Bennigan's? Were they looking for Steve to give them more antiquated celebrity news? Brendan should go talk to the customers and give them the bad news. Buzz wants to hear the heartbreak when they find out they won't be getting the Southwest Samplers they came downtown for. |
| 9:37
| Steve needs to step up his training with Brendan. Someone might be a little too full of themselves after the R. Kelly coverage. He's a court reporter now. |
| 9:38
| Brendan is approaching the old ladies, he had to chase them across the street. Steve doesn't want to interview them, he just wants to hear Brendan talk to them. Someone told one woman that Bennigan's was closed and she didn't believe them so she went to check it out. |
| 9:39
| This woman sounds angry. What she wants to know is who gets all the food that was distributed to the restaurant. Where's the food going? Are homeless people going to be eating boneless buffalo wings and Guinness glazed popcorn shrimp? They better be! Brendan will get some photos of the closed Bennigan's. He should sketch R. Kelly in Bennigan's. |
| 9:40
| That woman makes a good point, where's the food going to go? WHere do the Broccoli Bites go? Will homeless people eat them and get subsequent gas? Will the homeless people create their own dutch ovens in their refrigerator boxes? |
| 9:41
| It's upsetting when you lose a Bennigan's but we still don't know if it's nationwide. If they're going to close them here they might as well close them everywhere because the place seems pointless. The only time Steve has been there is to use the bathroom. |
| 9:42
| There's a Bennigan's near O'Hare off Cumberland where Buzz and Aimee had lunch. It was a particularly emotional moment but Buzz can't remember what happened. Every time he goes by there he mentions it's their Bennigan's. |
| 9:43
| Caller Mary lives in Dallas and she streams the show, except she can't get him in the shower. Steve can fix that in a second, he has enough frequent flyer miles to get to Dallas by 3 pm. |
| 9:44
| Mary was listening to the news while she was in the shower and they confirmed that Bennigan's would be closing as well as their other restaurant Ponderosa. OH MY GOD! What a couple of loser restaurant chains. |
| 9:45
| Mary misses Steve and Buzz but at least she gets to stream the show. Her and her husband just moved back to Chicago after 11 years away, were here for 7 months and then moved to Dallas. |
| 9:46
| Steve's got that photo of the girl from Celebrity Tuna Brendan was looking at. She's some model and she's very hot but she's not a celebrity. She will be a celebrity the moment she gets out of a car the wrong way without any underwear on. |
| 9:52
| Good news Buzz, you can still go to Bennigan's MySpace page that features Fergus Dargle, their mascot. Does Fergus offer any condolences? He's just dancing. |
| 9:53
| So all Bennigan's are closed including the one near O'Hare where some sort of emotional event took place for Buzz. He can't remember what it was though. When he was there did he have John's Bacon Burger? It seems like something he'd have in a time of crisis, the bacon is comforting. |
| 9:54
| Should Steve get back to his old man celebrity news? Steve has read ahead in this Oprah article. A couple of weeks ago Oprah was spotted on a boat with Tyler Perry. According to this he's a distinguished playwright. |
| 9:55
| Tyler Perry is that guy who's in all those plays and movies dressed like an old woman. That seems to be something that black comedians like to do, dress up as women or play multiple roles in movies. Eddie Murphy does it, Martin Lawrence does it, the Wayans brothers do it. |
| 9:56
| Steve saw Norbit and he actually thought it was pretty funny. It's been cited as one of the reasons Eddie Murphy didn't win an Oscar for his role in Dreamgirls. Well Steve liked Norbit but he's kind of an idiot. |
| 9:57
| So Oprah's on this boat with Tyler Perry. Steve's already outraged about that and he and Oprah aren't even dating...yet. Steve feels he could get clearance to date Oprah although lately even the Oprah faithful have been turning on her. |
| 9:58
| Another Oprah insider says that she's gaining weight on daily basis and is a biscuit shy from reaching a new plateau. |
| 9:59
| Buzz saw a documentary over the weekend called Shame. It was about a Pakistani woman who was sentenced by a tribal council to be raped in public by several people. Did he see this on the Disney Channel? Nick at Nite? |
| 10:00
| The woman stood up to the system, brought these people to justice and is now listed as one of the most influential people in the world. She started her own school with the $5000 she got from the Pakistani prime minster. |
| 10:01
| Compare that to all the money Oprah spent in African to open up her school. Oprah's school has marble countertops though. You can't learn on formica, everyone knows that. |
