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| 5:32
| Alright, welcome to the downtown Jack studios, home of Jack and Steve and Buzz. They're the only two living people on the air which is probably good. You don't need any smart-ass DJs before or after the show. |
| 5:33
| Any DJs that you run into and disgruntled with, you can bad mouth them all you want because they're on a different station. There's a couple of them down the hall that Steve and Buzz can abuse all they want. They're on a format where they can't say anything about it because they have to be happy ass. |
| 5:34
| Of course before the show we had China Grove from The Doobie Brothers. That album, The Captain and Me, always reminds Steve of an earthquake. The Doobie Brothers are standing on an unfinished highway overpass but it's not half missing because of a quake. Years later though there would be similar photos of that overpass. Is Jack that prescient? You never know with him. |
| 5:35
| China Grove was written by original Doobie Brothers singer Tom Johnston. He was replaced by Michael McDonald after falling ill. So what happened to Tom? Steve thought he was back in the band, they did a Soundstage and couple of years ago. |
| 5:36
| Michael McDonald is so prominent in that band. It was one of those situations where the Doobie Brothers brought Michael McDonald into the band and then stole all his good songs. The same thing happened in Fleetwood Mac with Lindsay Buckingham. It's done all the time, that's why Buzz is here. |
| 5:37
| What about Tom though, he gets used, abused and then reclaimed? Something tells Steve that at this hour there is a Doobie Brothers fan who has been up all night and knows everything there is to know about the Doobie Brothers. |
| 5:38
| Steve's looking for information about Johnston's illness. On the eve of a 1975 tour Tom Johnston fell ill and was unable to go on the road. The band had to hire Michael McDonald who quickly took over the band. Johnston eventually returned but left because of a diminished influence in 1977. He's back with the band now though, the two main guys are and they play Ribfest in Naperville. |
| 5:39
| Johnston had a peptic ulcer, that'll hurt. A lot of guys collapse before a big tour. Elvis died before a big tour! There's a lot of tour prep, rehearsals, worrying about where to stay, worrying about where to get drugs. That was Aerosmith's top priority. Fortunately for them they had a Learjet that they sent back to Boston to fly heroin back to them. You have to think that'll cut into their profit margin but you need the heroin to do the show. These are the tough decisions you have to make on the road. Maybe they should have been more resourceful about finding heroin locally, it's not that hard to find. |
| 5:40
| Does Buzz want to hear more about Tom Johnston? He'd feel much better if he knew where the guy was now. Steve's positive he saw Johnston and that other long haired guy at Soundstage. |
| 5:41
| No one has called in who knows about the Doobie Brothers. Is that a good thing or a bad thing? Either it's an indication that Steve shouldn't be talking about this or no one has been up all night and can answer Doobie Brothers questions. |
| 5:42
| Johnston says he didn't leave the band because of McDonald but because he was toast. He recuperated for 2 years, released 2 albums and then didn't do a whole lot until he reunited with the Doobie Brothers in 1997. So Buzz doesn't have to worry about him at all, he's back with the band playing summer festivals. |
| 5:43
| Caller Tim in Valpo has some Doobie information. He saw them a couple of years ago and they were hyping a new album. At one point the band brought either their kids or their grandkids on stage to play with them. |
| 5:44
| Was that some sort of popcorn festival in Valpo? It was actually the Border County Fair, they have some good acts usually. Steve believes him. This year he saw Blues Traveler and Collective Soul. |
| 5:45
| What kind of food do they have at the Border County Fair? Corn dogs? Mini donuts? Tim doesn't eat food at the fair, he's not into all that fried stuff. So he just walks around? He'd enjoy the fair more if he was walking around with a corn dog slathered in mustard. |
| 5:46
| The smell of carnies is what drives Tim away from the food. He shouldn't get that close to the carnies. He definitely shouldn't go on the rides, they put those things together in the dead of night and that's when they leave. |
| 5:47
| Tim couldn't wait to get off the phone with Steve. Maybe it's cool to not like carnival food. As a guy who has ambitions to drive down to Springfield and have a Cozy Dog at the birthplace of the corn dog, Steve doesn't want to hear that kind of talk. |
| 5:48
| Caller Linda is tired, she was up late last night and she wakes up at 4:30. She's not a napper either and she has insomnia. What does Linda do? Steve's thinking of starting up a segment called The Worst Job in the World, not that he's saying Linda has a bad job. |
| 5:49
| Right now there's probably someone going to clean toilets or something. Steve thinks he'd rather clean up after pigs or other animals rather than humans. There's a certain sense of familiarity with humans. |
| 5:50
| Linda has a desk job in finance. Does she work for David Hochberg? Linda lives in Elgin, didn't something bad just happen there? Something bad probably happens in Elgin everyday. |
| 5:51
| Does Linda ever hit the Elgin casinos? She's not much of a winner at gambling and the people aren't much to look at. Steve would like to see more of a dress code at those casinos. They don't care who comes in or what they're wearing, they just want their money. But then Steve shows up in his tuxedo and looks totally out of place. |
| 5:52
| Linda was calling in to let Steve know that Tom Johnson and his daughter were on that Rock the Cradle show. Joe Walsh's daughter was also on that show but the winner was the kid of Crosby, Stills and Nash. They all had a kid together? Was Young in on it because Buzz frowns on that? |
| 5:53
| Last night Buzz had a discussion about dudes and threeways with Aimee. Buzz still maintains that guys don't that but Aimee pointed him to an episode of Entourage where Turtle and Johnny Drama are in a threeway with a girl. |
| 5:54
| Steve doesn't want to set off a round of phone calls from guys who says they've been in threeways with a dude and a girl. We're very close to that happening with Buzz bringing this up again. |
| 5:55
| Kenny Loggins kid won Rock the Cradle. Kenny Loggins seems like the kind of guy who would be in a threeway with another dude. In The Unimaginable Life Kenny Loggins mentions he did a lot of Peruvian Marching powder when he was with Messina. Steve's pretty sure that means cocaine. |
| 6:02
| News with Buzz |
| 6:03
| An earthquake hit Los Angeles yesterday afternoon causing buildings downtown to sway. Was it like in a cartoon when buildings sway to music? City councilman Dennis Zine was in the middle of a debate when the earthquake hit. |
| 6:04
| Steve listening to WBBM-AM yesterday and they had the same Dennis Zine audio that Buzz has. Steve wanted to jot down a note to grab that but he forgot. Buzz's version was actually better than WBBM's though. |
| 6:05
| One thing Steve has noticed when listening to the WBBM-AM webstream is that they have different commercials online and on the air. Steve knows it has something to do with AFTRA and the voiceover actors but they're selling the webstream ad to some weird companies. Every other one is about recovering from heroin addiction. |
| 6:06
| It's very jarring to hear that coming out of the news. The rest of the ads are for a lot of fly-by-night scams like magic pennies and WBBM dreamcatchers. |
| 6:07
| Massachusetts is one signature away from recognizing out-of-state same sex marriages. Homo be there, like ya mo be there. Hopefully Steve can pay off on this theme. |
| 6:08
| Delta will begin charging passengers to check their luggage. It's getting to the point where it'll be cheaper to Fed Ex your luggage. Steve doesn't even bring luggage, he buys all of his clothing at his destination and then just leaves it there. |
| 6:09
| Brett Favre has faxed his reinstatement papers to the NFL. Fax? Shouldn't it be a PDF or something? Faxing seems outdate but that's Brett. He probably has a giant fax machine at his place in Mississippi. Or maybe he went looking for a Kinko's but couldn't find it because it's not Fed Ex/Kinko's. |
| 6:10
| With high gas prices some in Washington are calling for more offshore drilling. A former Energy Secretary says that won't bring gas prices down any time soon. |
| 6:11
| Police officers confiscated a gun that actor Jerry Lewis had in his canyon bag. Wait that's carry-on bag. Canyon bag? Lewis was flying from Las Vegas to Detroit when the gun was discovered. LADY! You want to be strapped when you're going to Detroit. |
| 6:12
| Lewis' manager says the gun is a hollowed out stage prop that Jerry sometimes twirls on stage. It's just like the chopsticks he puts in his mouth when he pretends he's Asian. Steve's not interested in the MDA telethon because the MDA people have taken it over and it's just a bunch of sad stories. You can't make fun of Jerry any more. |
| 6:13
| During the MDA telethon they also don't ad corporate sponsor donations to the final tally. Steve would be more inclined to donate if they showed a huge tally. It's like they're keeping two sets of books and it makes it so Steve doesn't want to donate. |
| 6:14
| The body of a priest who disappeared in April after floating out to sea suspended by helium balloons has been found. |
| 6:15
| Drew Peterson could learn today if he'll face a weapons charge in a Will County court. Prosecutors claim that police seized an illegal assault rifle with a barrel shorter than the law allowed. That's the only barrel of Drew's that's shorter! |
| 6:16
| The daughters of a woman attacked and robbed on the Northwest side say their mother had sulfuric acid thrown in her face. There's video of these girls walking down the street and they don't seem to care about what they just did. Steve thinks they pinched the acid from their high school. |
| 6:17
| The daughters say their mom has been the target of recent threats but they don't have an explanation for the attack. You'd think someone would know why it happened unless they're just mean girls. |
| 6:18
| You have to be careful what you do, there are cameras everywhere. That's how it should be to keep everyone downtown in line. Buzz doesn't even mind the cameras, he actually likes having them. |
| 6:19
| While Mayor Daley and state senator James Meeks have agreed on many issues, the mayor is not backing the reverend's call for CPS students to ditch the first day of school. That guy is a state senator?! |
| 6:20
| Finally, Shia LeBeouf is apparently not to blame for the accident that led to his arrest for alleged drunk driving. A sheriff's spokesman tells TMZ that the actor was not at fault and it was the other driver who ran a red light. Was LeBeouf drunk driving though? Buzz isn't seeing that, it still says alleged drunk driving. Buzz will be investigating this as the morning goes on, bringing in updates as they break. |
| 6:28
| Whoa, what the hell was that Pete? It sounds like it was Joel Brodsky and Len Wawczak, two brilliant legal minds on one show. It was that Mike & Juliet show. Joel and Len were on satellite feeds in different locations. |
| 6:29
| There was a little bit of an argument, did they both know they'd be on the show together? They all knew they were going to be on the same show. |
| 6:30
| Lilia Chacon was also on for her analysis of the entire case. She believes that Len and Paula have a case, otherwise they'd be in jail for illegally taping Drew or talking about it to the press. |
| 6:31
| Lilia believes that prosecutors need Len which is why they haven't charged him with anything. They probably want him out there to agitate Drew but it seems like the other way around. |
| 6:32
| Can Pete play that again? It always takes so long for Pete to find these tapes, how far away is it? Does he have to call China to have them send it down the line again? |
| 6:33
| This Mike guys says Drew's life is like Jerry Springer. He's the one who has Drew on, his show is like Jerry Springer only without the fighting. |
| 6:34
| Joel's trying to discredit Len Wawczak with the bankruptcy accusations but that seems unnecessary. He's pre-discredited already. |
| 6:35
| Len never said he didn't file for bankruptcy or have some problems there. Joel Brodsky went Jerry Springer on himself. Joel's move serves Drew though because it gets everyone off point. |
| 6:36
| Plus then it allows Mike to say that Drew's story is Springer-esque, and not their show. Mike & Juliet is just top-notch journalism. |
| 6:37
| Does Pete have more of this? We might have to hear the whole thing. Joel turned the tied and put Lenny on the run. The host of the show turned on Lenny. Apparently Juliet was quite taken with Drew. |
| 6:38
| Len tells Joel to go chain himself to a desk again which seems to be referencing some past incident that Buzz is unaware of. |
| 6:39
| Mike & Juliet is the show that's going to replace Regis & Kelly when Regis has the big one. Mike's attitude is not very Regis-esque at all. Regis would have said something self-effacing to the Jerry Springer comment. |
| 6:40
| Well can Pete put that whole thing on tape then? There's a lot of it but Steve doesn't think he'll ever tire of listening to it. |
| 6:41
| What's Pete doing in that studio? It sounds like he's doing a news report or something. Is that the Lollapalooza News? Pete is not going to Lollapalooza because it's so expensive and it'll be really hot. Did Pete also realize that he's 40 years old? |
| 6:42
| Last year Pete and Jim had press credentials to Lollapalooza. They didn't get them this year because they did the worst reporting ever from Lollapalooza. |
| 6:43
| AJ from The Fresh FM was with Pete and Jim at Lollapalooza. Steve had to comfort AJ yesterday because he was despondent when he heard that Ponderosa was closing. Turns out those restaurants are franchised so they're not closing. |
| 6:44
| AJ was just started at WCKG when Pete and Jim were covering Lollapalooza. They're both in their 40s but are huge music fans, as is Bob Brenly. Steve's guessing that Bob Brenly gets into the VIP tent at Lollapalooza, hanging out with the guy from Alice in Chains. Perry Farrel right? He's in Jane's Addiction actually. Pete knew that but he decided to just let Steve hang there. |
| 6:45
| Pete and Jim kid were sitting at a table and AJ was sitting there listening to them. He was working in the promotions department so his job was to hand out magnets and empty beer cups to concertgoers. |
| 6:46
| Pete and Jim were doing reports from Lollapalooza but the fact that a black guy was sitting there listening to them made them completely clam up. They were trying to be cool but it wasn't working. AJ was sitting there with his headphones on very loudly and they were hearing that. |
| 6:47
| Then Steve brought up the headphone feedback and it all ended. Steve shouldn't have brought up the technical problem but then the boys started crying and we had to call an ambulance. |
| 6:48
| Pete would prefer to forget that day so he's not going back. Maybe he should just get back on the saddle. He's pretty sure Jim is going though. Pete can't go back into the gen pop of Lollapalooza after being there as a member of the press. |
| 6:49
| All three of Steve's boys are going to Lollapalooza. Somehow they got out of going to Detroit for Janet's dad's birthday. That's their excuse, they're going to Lollapalooza. Janet said they bought the tickets before the trip was planned. If Steve was sitting on tickets they'd probably be null and void. Those tickets would go to Pete probably. |
| 6:50
| Pete says Jim is going to see Radiohead but he's not sure about the rest of the festival. Steve calls down to the newsroom. Have Pete and Jim broken up because they used to do this kind of stuff together all the time. Jim probably still blames Pete for the bad broadcast, as well he should. Pete took the top dog position and then completely collapsed under the pressure of having a black guy sitting there watching them. |
| 6:51
| Jim's still deciding if he's going to go, he hasn't bought tickets yet. They don't usually sell out the three day passes so he still has time. Jim and his fiance haven't decided if they're going yet. The women are changing Pete and Jim, it's like Yoko and Linda Eastman have come between them. |
| 6:52
| Jim's fiance actually wants to go more than he does because she wants to see Radiohead. Jim thinks it'll be a riot at Radiohead so will it really be worth it? The good news is that Ed Silha is going if Jim needs a ride. Jim was surprised when Ed started dropping some band names on him. Pete reminds everyone that Ed used to manage a band so he has a foot in the door of the music industry. |
| 6:53
| Steve could have gotten Pete and Jim press passes but they need to remind him. Jim didn't think we could get press passes but all you need is radio station letterhead. Steve could have gotten press passes for his boys but he's irritated with them. They can go with their regular tickets while Steve suffers in Detroit. |
| 6:54
| The boys bought the Lollapalooza tickets long before Janet's dad was even born so they get out of going to Detroit. Steve hasn't seen their tickets yet, all he saw was that Matt is overdrawn in his checking account. Steve was told that they were putting money in Matt's account. Then why is Matt going to Lollapalooza? |
| 6:55
| No one seems to listen to Steve though. If he's overdrawn he should stop spending money. Janet says he's trying to impress a girl he's dating. If he's impressing the girl with Steve's money then he expects to get laid! |
| 6:59
| Live read: Gladstone Homes |
| 7:00
| That's that Perry guy from Jane's Addiction. What's his last name? Pete has he schpilkies but he was trying to say Farrell. It might be allergies, Steve's throat was closing up on him and then he popped a Zyrtec and he's wide open. |
| 7:01
| Buzz wonders what that Zyrtec does. Well there are hallucinations and it's a sexual aid, it does a lot of things. It's just an allergy pill. |
| 7:02
| OK, a few things. First of all Shia LeBeouf was charged by police because he had alcohol on his breath. The accident he was in was caused by someone else though. |
| 7:03
| Steve can't find anything about Joel Brodsky chaining himself to a desk but he'll keep looking for it. Steve still has the web poll to do as well. |
| 7:04
| Steve was just going through the show log from last year's Lollapalooza broadcast and it's really not as bad as he remembers it. Steve should probably get Knucklehead Jr. back on the phone as well. |
| 7:05
| Pete appreciates Stephanie, who did the log that day, being gentle. It's not that gentle, Steve just said that to lull Pete and Jim in. Pete didn't want to leave that day, that was the problem, he's nuts. Pete showed Mary how to do everything in his studio for that day, including how mess with Steve when things are going well. That's Steve's own paranoia there. |
| 7:06
| Buzz was excited before the Lollapalooza show because they'd be talking to Pete and Jim. That's a rare moment of pre-show excitement for Buzz Kilman, usually he dreads everything. He probably thought he'd have to work less but he had to work more because they had the two idiots at Lollapalooza sitting at a table with AJ. |
| 7:07
| Steve skips ahead 10 minutes in the log because there was nothing going on. He might have to read all of it, it doesn't make sense otherwise. Pete did a show intro for that day, something special for Lollapalooza. Huge waste of time, Steve thought so then and he thinks so now. |
| 7:08
| Pete remembers it was tough to hear because the bands were loud. Then there was AJ's disapproving glare. It sounds like this is going swimmingly. Even the reading of this is wrecking Steve's show today. |
| 7:09
| Pete brought a bag of fruit to Lollapalooza, it was a dirty shopping bag as Buzz might recall. We couldn't get Pete out of the studio, he didn't want to leave. All that pain is coming back to Pete now, he remembers walking out with his fruit. Steve apologizes but Mary's the one making him read this. Mary might have some issues with the way Pete treated her that day when he didn't trust her with the controls. That's part of the reason he wouldn't leave, Pete did trust Mary. |
| 7:10
| Mary couldn't stop highlighting stuff in the log, it was printed out before Steve even took his last break. She was laughing so hard at what a jerk Pete was on that day that Steve couldn't even understand her. Pete's been with Steve for 12 years and Lollapalooza was the only time Pete had been out of the studio. Pete's studio is a black hole though. Steve had his guitar in there from when he jammed with Tony Joe White and he can't get it out. He keeps asking people to get it but it doesn't come out. |
| 7:11
| Steve's going to stop now because this is turning into a Lollapalooza undertow. Pete and Jim are both being dragged in. It doesn't get any better though. Jim feels they hit bottom around 3:30. That's when Brendan was elevated to street reporter. Pete and Jim are better off back at the studio with their helmets on waiting for the short bus to pick them up at 10:05. |
| 7:12
| Steve really could drag Pete and Jim right back into this Lollapalooza thing. Pete more than Jim would be dragged down. Pete literally had a dirty shopping bag with fruit in it. That might have also given him a problem while being searched. |
| 7:13
| Alright it's time for the web poll. Yesterday's question was "Would you buy a Kevin Federline fitness DVD?" You have to be happy that we live in a world where 97% of the people said no. |
| 7:14
| Today's web poll question is "Who started the trucker hat trend?" The options are Justin Timberlake, Ashton Kutcher or Pat Dahl. |
| 7:15
| According to Justin, he was wearing trucker hats before Ashton. That seems like an unnecessary thing to get yourself involved in. Pat Dahl was wearing them before both of them because Steve had a honking collection of trucker hats from the 70s. |
| 7:16
| Timberlake maintains that he and friend Trace Ayala were wearing trucker hats when they were 17. The singer doesn't try to be a trendsetter, he doesn't walk out of his house hoping that people think what he's wearing is cool. He doesn't have to worry about that though. |
| 7:17
| Justin will be part of the Fashion Rocks show along with Solange, Kid Rock and Beyonce among others. Steve saw that Kid Rock was recently boating with Pam Anderson. |
| 7:18
| If Steve were with Pam Anderson he wouldn't be boating or doing anything else to remind her of Tommy Lee. Buzz thought he saw that Pam Anderson was living with Tommy Lee again. But now she's boating with Kid Rock? He doesn't know what to think. |
| 7:19
| Are trucker hats still popular? Steve always sees kids wearing them, even in restaurants which bothers him. If you're in a restaurant take off your baseball hat. |
| 7:20
| When Steve had lunch with Jeff Joniak and Tom Thayer recently Tom was asked to take his hat off. He was cool with it becuase he's a gentleman. And it was a cool hat, like something Sinatra would wear. |
| 7:21
| Steve was having lunch yesterday and some kid had his hat on. He was with his parents and his grandparents too and no one made him take it off. So Steve took it off for him the ate some of his popcorn shrimp. |
| 7:22
| Steve got a massage yesterday at the Kohler Spa in Burr Ridge. That's Kohler as in the toilets and faucets. Steve was hoping for a happy ending but he figured with the Kohler name that wouldn't be happening. |
| 7:23
| They do have something at Kohler called a Gentleman's Bath. Steve was hoping that involves the girl getting into the tub with you but probably not. If Steve had it his way he'd be washed like a circus elephant everyday. He hasn't showered yet today and it's really bothering him. He's hoping the interns will be giving him a sponge bath. Steve keeps saying that and everyone just laughs. |
| 7:24
| Steve was in the middle of taking his shower this morning when the water just turned off. He couldn't go into the basement to check if there was a water main break because he's got Pat and Rachael living down there. They're like a multigenerational European family. |
| 7:25
| For some reason the sprinkler system started up at 4 in the morning and that co-ops all the water pressure. There's a separate pump for the sprinkler in the basement to prevent that but it's noisy. |
| 7:31
| Live read: PAC Perfect |
| 7:32
| Steve apologizes to Buzz for his hair not having product in it. That's because he didn't shower this morning. More money more problems. If Steve wasn't so lazy that he couldn't water his own lawn then he could have taken a shower today. |
| 7:33
| Steve's plan for after the show-following the post-show meeting where Todd Cavanah tells him about all the cool stuff he does-he'll be walking along the lake. Steve will shower in the club across the street, then go to his golf lesson and then come home and write his blog. |
| 7:34
| Later tonight Steve will be coming back downtown with Janet and Pat and his wife to see Matt's band Pet Lions play at Subterranean. Steve is really hoping that Matt's band goes on right at 8:30. He does have a room booked downtown just in case but Steve would rather go home. He likes the routine of waking up and showering at home and he can't go two days without the routine. He's not Pete Zimmerman though, he can leave the studio without a bag of fruit. |
| 7:35
| That's sort of a lot to do in one day. Steve's trying to live each day like it's his last or like he's on vacation. They're sort of the same but in Steve's head he's trying to think like he's on vacation. He still has to work everyday but he's done at 10 so he has the entire day and he's trying to do more stuff. |
| 7:36
| It's not very relatable for Steve to say that he's living everyday like he's on vacation so in public he's saying that he's living each day like it's his last. This isn't a foreign concept to Buzz, he has lived everyday like he's on vacation. The radio job is enjoyable though, it fits into living everyday like you're on vacation. It's not like you're out doing heavy lifting or something. |
| 7:37
| Steve and Buzz have cake lives, why not live them to the fullest? For example yesterday Steve went to that spa and then came home and watched the White Sox lose. The Cubs won and for the second night in a row Steve ended up watching more of that game because it was exciting. |
| 7:38
| Both the Sox and the Cubs are playing for first place but the atmosphere at the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome is depressing. Meanwhile people are going nuts up in Milwaukee. Just the name Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome tells you it's not going to be exciting. Plus the Sox lost so it's irritating. |
| 7:39
| Steve was watching Sportsnite before the Sox game since it was on Comcast and the Cubs were on WGN. Steve complained yesterday that on Monday the Sportsnite was really just Cubs pre-game. Last night they pretended that it was Sportsnite and it was all balanced. |
| 7:40
| So they started Sportsnite with the Sox and then did 25 minutes on the Cubs, including Ryne Sandberg and his Peoria Chiefs playing at Wrigley Field. Steve's pretty sure the game was called in the 9th because of rain and it was tied but he doesn't know and he doesn't care. Steve does like Ryno lately for some reason. Something changed about him but he still looks like a coffee table when he takes his hat off? |
| 7:41
| Is Buzz ready for the news because Steve has his audio? Buzz is quite ready but he just likes to have the audio in the studio just in case. Bob and Ron are here, Steve can go to them instead. |
| 7:42
| Bob has begun walking Matt's dog Walter. He's a great dog, Bob thinks Steve owes him an apology. Something had to be done because Matt kept bringing the dog over every Sunday. |
| 7:43
| Last Sunday Steve came back from Michigan and Matt and the dog were there. Janet is apparently in cahoots with Matt because she phoned ahead to tell him to put Walter in his cage. Matt didn't even bother doing that, he was just sitting in the hot tub with Pat relaxing after a long weekend. |
| 7:44
| Matt just lets the dog roam around the backyard, going in the pool, pooping in the yard. It's like it's a spa fro Matt and his dog. |
| 7:45
| Matt was trying to minimize the problems solved by Bob walking his dog. He said the scheduling wasn't working. It's just an attempt to get the dog back out to the house. |
| 7:46
| Steve doesn't care if Walter's a good dog, he wants to know what happens on the weekend. It just occurred to Steve that Bob isn't available on the weekends. Steve's serious about this, the next time that dog comes out to the house unannounced Steve is leaving his family. He's going to pack his bags, get into his car and leave. |
| 7:47
| Bob boards dogs on the weekend so he can watch Walter any time. Bob doesn't have much going on during the weekend unlike Ron who has to drive out to Colorado to drive his latest Phish Head girlfriend back to Chicago. |
| 7:48
| Steve knows that Matt is trying to keep the dog at home and Steve does like Walter. He just can't have three dogs out at the house. Has Bob noticed that Walter snaps at everyone? He does the exact opposite thing that a dog should do. |
| 7:49
| Bob brought his dog, Einstein, to meet Walter and there was snapping going on for 45 minutes. Bob has never seen anything like that but his dog didn't take it as aggressions. Most dogs would though. |
| 7:50
| Steve needs Bob on the weekends though. Every Sunday Matt comes out there and the day is ruined. Everything that Steve doesn't want to happen happens and it ruins his day. Bob can bill Steve directly, whatever it takes. |
| 7:51
| This week in Rock History we celebrate the birthday of Pink Floyd's Richard Wright. They're going to be playing some Floyd today. Also this week marks the anniversary of the death of Mama Cass. She died of a heart attack, not by choking on a ham sandwich. A ham sandwich is not going to take down Mama Cass, she could eat that thing in one bite. |
| 7:51
| There was a ham sandwich on the nightstand when she was found but that's just her standby ham sandwich. Years later Keith Moon would die in that same exact London flat. Is that a tourist destination now? |
| 7:52
| It's also Jerry Garcia's birthday this week. How long ago did he die? They're still making his Cherry Garcia ice cream, it's a top seller. Steve likes Cherry Garcia but there aren't as many cherries as there used to be. Bob likes it alright. Ron has never seen Bob eat any sort of fruit or vegetable though. Bob likes a good cantaloupe but probably because you can make a bong out of it. What can't you make a bong out of though? |
| 8:00
| Live read: Woodfield Nissan |
| 8:01
| That's a drop from Generation Kill, which Buzz still hasn't seen. He's waiting for the first episode to be rerun. He's going to love it though. It's not really being talked about and maybe not that many people are watching because they don't want to see a TV show about a war that's still going on. |
| 8:02
| There aren't really any political viewpoints on the show, it's just about what's happening in Iraq. Is everything OK with Bob and Ron in Pete's studio? Is it too much to ask for them to not cough? Bob tried to get all the way to the floor to cough but the mics still picked it up. |
| 8:03
| Alright it's time for the Eight O'Clock Taco Bell. Taco Bell is selling the new Chicken Jalapeño Melt or the Fajita Steak Melt. Steve had the Fajita Steak Melt yesterday, it's really good. It's just like having a fajita but without the sizzling platter. |
| 8:04
| That platter is overkill anyway. Steve doesn't need to go to the burn unit after eating his fajita. The Fajita Steak Melt is all wrapped up in a tortilla and ready to go. |
| 8:05
| OK, back to Bob and Ron. So far we've marked Mama Cass' death, Jerry Garcia's birth and also the birth of Richard Wright from Pink Floyd. Most people only know David Gilmour. This song is Wright's chance to shine. That's called a solo Bob. |
| 8:06
| Today's song is Have a Cigar with vocals by Roy Harper. He wasn't even in Pink Floyd. Steve didn't know that, he sounds just like Roger Waters. Harper was also the subject of the Led Zeppelin song Hats Off to Roy Harper. |
| 8:07
| Song: Have a Cigar, Pink Floyd |
| 8:13
| That's the long version of Have a Cigar. What's with Pink Floyd, why can't they just end a song? Why do they have to throw some phone call at the end? Maybe they want to be on the radio doing wacky phone bits. |
| 8:14
| Bob and Ron are off to walk the dogs today. They're hoping it won't be another hot, steamy day. It looks like it's going to be just like yesterday. |
| 8:15
| It looks like it'll be hot this weekend for Lollapalooza. Do a Bob and Ron go to that or are they above it? Ron goes but it's actually below Bob, too expensive. |
| 8:16
| Pete is also not going because it's too expensive. Steve knows how much Pete makes, he should be able to afford Lollapalooza tickets. He doesn't know how much Pete spends though so maybe he's spending more than he makes. |
| 8:17
| Pete could always just do what Matt does which is have Steve cover his checking account overdrafts. He just has to make sure that Janet sees the overdraft. Pete also has the corporate credit card but good luck explaining that Lollapalooza charge to Ron Lewis. |
| 8:18
| Of course Brendan's corporate card had to be confiscated after it was discovered that he was using it to pay his cable bill. Brendan thought Steve would just be able to write that off. He can't write it off if it's Brendan's cable bill! |
| 8:19
| Steve knows where all of Pete's money's going, he's flying around the country to visit his girlfriend or go to her friend's weddings. |
| 8:26
| Live read: Townstone Financial |
| 8:27
| News with Buzz |
| 8:28
| It's the day after a moderate earthquake in Los Angeles, centered in Chino Hills. Buzz's tape of the earthquake reminds Steve of the Carlton Maloney tape. Can we wear that? Maloney was some geek who used to tape plane takeoffs and landings and happened to be there when one crashed. |
| 8:29
| The House has drafted a resolution apologizing to African-Americans for Jim Crow Laws. And the found of the Black Holocaust Museum has passed away. |
| 8:30
| We had a guy call earlier who was in the same division that's being featured on Generation Kill. He couldn't stay on but maybe he can call back. |
| 8:31
| Fox News commentator Bill O'Reilly got into a yelling match with former White House press secretary Scott McClellan. McClellan alleges that the White House gave talking points to friendly Fox News journalists. |
| 8:32
| McClellan later admitted that he made an error in his statement. These guys needs to get a life. |
| 8:33
| A pair of scientists in Houston say they have found a way to kill the AIDS virus. They've found a part of the virus that does not change which they believe could be it's Achilles' heal. |
| 8:34
| Internet service providers are working on preventing a major flaw that could allow scam artists to direct users to |
| 8:35
| President Bush is challenging Congress to ease up on offshore drilling bans in order to lower gas prices. Former Energy Secretary Frederico Piña says it won't change the price for quite some time. Is there really enough oil? Let's drill up Alaska, that place sucks. |
| 8:36
| Steve wants to know where his blood for oil is. People protested the war and didn't want to spill blood for oil. Steve was all for the war, where's his oil. |
| 8:37
| Did Buzz see that EPA report about Lake Michigan? It was not a glowing recommendation to swim in there. One guy said he would not let his kids swim in the lake and that's the Chicago side. |
| 8:38
| What happens is that the other municipalities along the lake get overflow and dump their waste into the lake. Then they try to blame it on the seagulls. What about that Deep Tunnel, wasn't it supposed to prevent this? |
| 8:39
| In order for Steve to have his boat in Chicago he has to have his macerator shut down. That's something that grinds up the waste from your boat's head before you dump it into the lake. Ironically that's what Chicago and all of the towns along the lake do anyway. |
| 8:40
| Cheech and Chong are planning to reunite. They figured a comedy tour would be the most fun and the least hassle. Marin thinks dope humor is still funny today. Details of the Hey, What's That Smell Tour will be announced today in L.A. |
| 8:41
| Earlier in the show Pete played a drop from that Mike & Juliet show that featured Drew Peterson, Lenny Wawczak and Joel Brodsky. There's another lawyer on with Drew and Joel but he doesn't say much. Steve has the entire thing now. |
| 8:42
| Steve likes how this Mike guy, of a show called Mike & Juliet, acts like he's above all this. Later he takes offense when Joel says the show is like Jerry Springer. Drew doesn't talk about if he's sleeping with Paula Stark, he says it's not relevant. None of this is relevant, the only thing that matters is what Wawczak and Stark got on tape. |
| 8:43
| Len and Paula didn't record Drew because he had an affair with her. According to the brilliant legal mind of Lenny Wawczak they were trying to the right thing. According to Drew it's because they're trying to make money. |
| 8:44
| Joel says that Drew hardly knows Len and Paula and wasn't that friendly with them until October after Stacy disappeared. |
| 8:45
| At this point we need to hear Drew from last week saying he doesn't want to say what happened between him and Paula. It didn't just come out of nowhere. |
| 8:46
| Mike and Juliet are both pretending to be investigative reporters but they don't know what they're investigating. You can really hear them grasping at straws. |
| 8:47
| The whole thing is stupid but they're trying to make it seem important. Juliet's trying to go Nancy Grace on them. |
| 8:48
| At one point the phone rings. Mike says it's probably Len Wawczak. Steve would have said it was Paula but his comedic mind works differently than Mike's does. |
| 8:49
| Mike seems to be buying in the initial Sun-Times report which is that Len and Paula got everything on tape. This is the end of civilization and Steve and Buzz are witnessing it. |
| 8:50
| Steve can see why Joel's partner doesn't talk much, he sounds kind of dopey. Drew doesn't want him as a mouthpiece. |
| 8:58
| Steve's going to ask Pete to stop this tape so he can set it up. Anything that's longer than 25 seconds Steve's going to set up |
| 8:59
| Carlton Maloney was some geek who used to go on flights and record what was going on before takeoff. He knew all the pilot terms and he knew about planes but he's just some aviation nerd, not a pilot. |
| 9:00
| In 1982 he hit a bingo when a DC-10 crashed in Melaga, Spain. 50 people died so it's not that funny. There are some great lines from Maloney though in the tape. |
| 9:01
| Steve plays the Carlton Maloney tape. |
| 9:04
| It is a chilling tape. Steve thinks we need "Hup ho got a problem" and "I am survived" on the machine in the studio for when there's a problem. |
| 9:05
| Carlton knew there was something wrong when the plane didn't get out of the V1 position. He also has a speech impediment. It doesn't get any better than that. |
| 9:06
| Carlton tries to go Hindenburg with his report of the crash. Is Buzz familiar with the time that Steve took down the Hindenburg guy? Wally Phillips used to have the guy on his show every year. |
| 9:07
| If you listen to the original acetate of the Hindenburg disaster you can hear the reporter come out of the "Oh the humanity" stuff to yell at his engineer to "put the needle on" to keep recording the acetate. Buzz thinks that's just professionalism but Steve thinks it's fakery. |
| 9:08
| Steve didn't really come out and accuse the guy of anything but he hung up on him anyway. Steve felt sort of bad about messing with history like that. Does Pete have that handy? |
| 9:09
| We've still got the rest of that Drew Peterson stuff but Steve thinks it could take at least an hour to decant all of it. Maybe we should save the rest for tomorrow, Steve can't imagine anything else happening with Drew this week. |
| 9:10
| Herb Morrison was the reporter at the Hindenburg disaster. He had been assigned by WLS to cover the Hindenburg. That's how Steve got him on the show, he was on WLS at the time. The tape seems completely fake to Steve but it always gets billed as the most dramatic radio moment ever. Buzz thinks it would be appropriate if it was fake but that's just contempt for his own industry speaking. |
| 9:11
| Steve doesn't know if it's fake but Morrison definitely comes out of character to yell at his engineer. It's a pretty sweet legacy for Morrison to have. What Steve did was bad, the guy ended up hanging up him. He might have called Wally Phillips right after it though. |
| 9:12
| Do we have the Herb Morrison interview in the archives? Theoretically we should because Steve has paid archivists tens of thousands of dollars to have this stuff at his fingertips. We can never find anything though. |
| 9:13
| Pete has Herb on the phone but we should probably hear the original Hindenburg recording first. In the meantime Steve's going to take some calls. |
| 9:14
| Caller Pat is in Hanna, Indiana. Is that really a town or did Brendan just hear Hammond wrong? Hanna is a real town, it's straight south of New Buffalo about 25 miles. |
| 9:15
| Ever since Steve started playing the Carlton Maloney tape Pat has been saying "I am survived" whenever he has a rough party weekend. Whenever he sees something on fire he says it's "In fire" or "On flames" It's a classic tape, why does Steve go away from the classics? |
| 9:16
| Caller Kelly's wife took her kids to the waterpark in Yorkville and spotted Drew. Kelly's glad his wife isn't 18 or he might have lost her to Drew. |
| 9:17
| Kelly's wife said that every time Drew walked by people would stop and their mouths would be agape. Drew was there with another gentleman and his kids. It was not the brilliant legal mind of Lenny Wawczak or former friend Rick Mims. |
| 9:18
| Alright Pete has the original Hindenburg tape to play. |
| 9:20
| In hindsight Morrison did say "get this started, get this started." But still how do you go from that to having to go inside and not being able to talk because it's the worst thing you've ever seen. |
| 9:21
| Maybe Steve was a little hard on the guy. But he keeps saying he can't talk any more but he keeps talking. Steve gave him a rough ride during the 18 minute phone call. No wonder the guy is dead. |
| 9:27
| Live read: Triton College |
| 9:28
| That's the brilliant legal mind of Lenny Wawczak right there from last night. Lilia Chacon was interviewing him, she's really dragging it out. |
| 9:29
| Steve's not so sure he wants to hear himself being mean to an old man. He basically accuses the guy of faking the Hindenburg broadcast, which Pete has cued up. It's actually pretty early in the interview but Steve continues to beat the guy down. |
| 9:30
| An interesting side note is that at the moment of the explosion, when Morrison yells "It burst into flames" the blast caused the recorder to bounce on the disc. That created deep grooves until the engineer is able to lift the lathe from the disc and put it back down. So the actual disc reflects the force of the explosions. |
| 9:31
| Maybe we should hear just a little bit of it. The guy is just an old man, Steve feels really bad about this. He would have rather been in porn than do this. |
| 9:32
| Steve did give the guy a way out but then he got ornery with him. Steve was pussyfooting around him, he was trying to go easy. |
| 9:33
| The guy seems a little senile to Buzz and he's also defense. That's like blood in the water to Steve. The guy won't even cop to the fact that he's in control one second and then yelling "Oh the humanity" the next moment. |
| 9:34
| Can Pete go ahead to when Morrison hangs up? It's probably just more of the same thing right? Steve never outright accuses him of fakery though. |
| 9:35
| While Pete looks for that Steve's going to talk to Hans who's on the phone from God knows where. He's actually at the Smith & Wollensky in Boston. He's meeting with other Smith chefs to work on some new menu items. |
| 9:36
| The Smith's in Boston is in an old armory, it's absolutely gorgeous. Steve has never been that one but if he goes he should call Hans, they'd put out the red carpet for him. |
| 9:37
| Hans went to the Red Sox game last night and he was stunned. There was a no hitter through the 9th inning. Hans got to go behind the Green Monster and was able to write "Dahl.com" on there. He vandalized the Green Monster?! |
| 9:38
| While Hans was behind the wall the Angels were taking batting practice and all the balls were hitting the wall. Did Hans think he was back at the Battle of the Bulge? |
| 9:39
| Hans hasn't seen much of Boston because it's hard work coming up with a new menu. They do get to do a lot of eating though. |
| 9:40
| There's one more thing Hans has to say to Buzz. Friday is Swiss National Day and there will be an all-day event in Daley Plaza with yodeling and alphorn playing. |
| 9:41
| You can go and put your business card in for a chance to win a free trip to Zurich on Swiss Air. Maybe Buzz wants to go to Paris again via Switzerland. |
| 9:42
| A few years ago there was a football pool and Hans was gracious enough to donate 2 tickets on Swiss air to the winner. Buzz won and used those tickets to get him almost to Paris. He couldn't get out of Switzerland fast enough. |
| 9:43
| If Hans could get Steve to Switzerland he'd actually stay there, he wouldn't leave like Buzz did. |
| 9:44
| Steve's going to take a break and then we can hear Herb Morrison hanging up on him. Steve gave the guy every opportunity to come out of this looking good but he didn't take it. |
| 9:45
| Now that Steve is thinking about it he's pretty sure Morrison was warned beforehand about talking to Steve. So he went into the call on the defensive. |
| 9:46
| When Steve was being nice to him it probably threw him off and he kept being more defensive and then it just deteriorated. |
| 9:54
| Steve was just cruising through the show, trying to end things and then Pete has to bring up the White Sox. Was that necessary Pete? Ozzie was pretty funny in that tape but if Steve's Brian Anderson or DeWayne Wise he's not feeling good. |
| 9:55
| Brian Anderson did go into that game and he hit a home run. He also made a bad throw which caused the inning to go on long enough to give the Twins the lead. |
| 9:56
| Steve watched a lot of the Cubs game last night because the atmosphere at Miller Park is like the playoffs. It's not just because of the Sausage Races either. You can hear that sound of the crowd, you can hear the excitement. Plus Len and Bob are very good broadcasters. Steve likes Hawk and DJ but c'mon guys. |
| 9:57
| The Cubs games have been more fun to watch this week. It's the atmosphere of the games, the quality of the games and the broadcasters are good. Pete had trouble watching those games in Arizona last week because that park is pretty dark with the dome closed. That's because it's 130º in Arizona. |
| 9:58
| Alright does Pete have that old man hanging up on Steve? He'd just like to say that he wanted to know how the guy was able to switch between two different modes during the crash. Steve has been in broadcasting long enough to know that it's possible to have two different mindsets. |
| 9:59
| The guy had been warned about talking to Steve before he got on the phone so he was naturally defensive. |
| 10:00
| Steve actually hung up on Herb Morrison. The guy was a jerk though, he was told that Steve had an agenda even though he didn't. Steve had heard that Herb took the train back from New Jersey but that wasn't the case and it made Herb defensive. |
